The state rights democrat. [volume] (Albany, Linn County, Oregon) 1865-1900, 1872-03-01


A paper is to be started at Fort
Crook, Pitt River.
A California town is organizing a
female brass band.
Eugene is to erect q number Of
brick buildings this year.
Portland has $50 counterfeit green
backs; look out for 'em.
Ed. Granior, OF Oregon, suicided
in San Francisco last week.
The Portland papers are throwing
themselves on conundrums.
The prisoners in the Idaho peni-
Tertiary have escaped again.
East Portland has 314 school chill
dren and Holidays Avenue.
A cattle firm in Montana lost $780,
600 worth of stock last winter.
The railroad track has been laid to
Cottage Grove, Douglas county.
A bill is before the California Leg
~islature to legalize cock-fghting.
The Oregonian establishment has
been moved into its own building.
In Portland they are playing the
Lancashire Lass" Alas! poor girl.
The Modoc Indians in Langel VAL
ley threaten war against the whites.
The Monmouth Democratic Club,
over in Polk, numbers 104 members.
The snowfall in the Banner dis
trict, Idaho, this winter, was thirty
feet.
III. l.. Savage, of Marion county
had 40 sheep killed by dogs last
week.
The Herald grows enthusiastic
over a Portland lather who is born
poet"
Last Saturday, at Dutch Flat, Cal.
700 kegs Of powder were fired at one
blast.
The Salem ladies gave a Leap Year
Ball at the Chemeketa Hotel last
night.
Two Walla Walla sbeep-raisers
last week lost 50. 1000 by "buckingt the
tiger"
Joaquin Miller will receive $4,000
for delivering q course of lectures in
Boston.
There were 500 people present al
q Good Templar Sociable in Salem
last week.
Three hundred delegates attended
the Temperance Convention at Salem
last week.
A drunk man in Portland fell into
a ditch while singing 'tput me in my
little bed"
Geo. Miller, of Portland, pulled a
kettle of boiling water over himself
and will die.
The capture of a rat" is the prin.
cipal subject of interest in last weeks
Corvallis Gazette.
Charley Ward was dangerously
shot by one McAllister at Walla
Wall, last Saturday.
Thos. Gale has retired from the
Roseburg Ensign, leavingh his brother,
Henry Gale. proprietor.
A Portland woman, in afit, jumped
from q second story window. She
regained her reason and appetite.
Portland is growing yirtuous and
her local papers cry aloud against
obscene and indecent publications.
Dusky maidens of the forest prom.
enade the streets of Eugene dressed
in finest silk and high-heeled CATERS.
Last Monday one Chinaman was
killed and two badly hurt by o rail.
road accident 5 miles south of Eu.
gene.
A white fawn, weighing loo
pounds, was killed by a hunter {
short time since, near Sucker Creek
Idaho.
The Germans of San Francisco will
declare in favor of Carl Schurz ant
the independent Republicans agains
Grant.
A horse and dray backed off tn,
wharf into the riverat East Portland
last Tuesday, and she never smole n.
more"
Portland has got plank road on tn,
brain, and it is expected that one vii
be built to the top of Mt. Hoo
shortly.
The School fund of Walla Walla
lately distributed to the several dis
tricts, amounted in the aggregate t
$11,172.
The County Commissioners hnv
refused to grant Licenses for the sal
of spirituous liquors in Olympia
That's a settler.
The Temperance Convention re
solved to ask the Legislature to pas
a law that citizens over the age of 2
years, of both sexes, shall decide up
on granting liquor license in eac
precinct. This squints towards won