The state rights democrat. [volume] (Albany, Linn County, Oregon) 1865-1900, 1872-07-19
NEWS or THE WEEK.
Cleaned From the telegraph.
Friday, July 10.

Friday, July 12.
An anti Greeley Convention is
called to meet at Louisville, KY, Sept.
8. Senator Bayard, of Delaware, is
at che head of the movement. 1t will
doubtless be a weak affair.
Hon. Augustus ScbeIl has been
chose IN Secretary and Treasurer of the
National Democratic Committee.
The Chicago Times editorially an
nounced its adherence of its former
position, and declares hat it will not
support Greeley, though it will work
for the Liberal State ticket, and use
similar exertions for Congressional
representation.
The Chicago Tribune halls the result
as a proud triumph of love OF country
over partisan prejudices and personal
preferences, and declares it a final
blow to the opposition.
The nomination of Greeley and
| Brown is received at Louisville. Ky,
by Democrats with general satisfac-
ton.
The Democrats Of st. Louis had an
immense ratification tonight, and a
salute Of 100 guns was fred. Frank
Blair said the Democrats had signal
lied themselves by the noblest sacrifice
ever made. The acts Of Grant had
justified predictions made by the
speaker in 1868. lie was followed by
Colonel II. w. Hatch, a Confederate
officer.
A national salute was fred at
Springfield, Ills, in honor Of the NOM
nations, and an i%mpromptu ratification
meeting here tonight, and was adj
dressed by Senator Trumbull and
others.
An enthusiastic meeting was held
in New Orleans, with a torchligbt pro-
cession, music and addresses.
One hundred guns we're fred at
Leavenwortb in honor of the nomi-
nations. A large ratification is in
progress.
The n. Y. Times of to-day says by
the action at Baltimore, Greeley be
comes the Democratic candidate, and
that as such he should receive no Re
publican votes.
According to a Washington special
dispatch Mr.. Summer yesterday prom
Used the Committee OF Liberal Repub.
licans 10 give active aid to the Greeley
ticket during the campaign.
Ex-Vice President Breckinridge,
who was in town yesterday, expressed
himself in favor of Greeley.
Isabella Beecher Hooker, Susan
B. Anthony and Laura De Force
Gordon, in attendance on the Conyen-
ton. hoping to obtain from the Demo.
cratic party a broader recognition OF
their right to vote than was given by
the Republican Convention at Phila.
delphia, are very much disappointed
by the utter rejection of their claims
aud declare their intention of working
for the Philadelphia platform and
nominees.
Saturday. July IL.
Patrick Morrison of Buffalo will be
hanged for killing his mother.
! Six men killed by a railroad accident
in New York.
the cotton caterpillers are devasta.
ting the south.
a dispatch from Alden announces
the arrival there of Stanley, the New
York Herah correspondent, and says
he starts for London TO day in com.
pany with a son of DIR. Livingstone,
bearing letters for the great explorer
to the English government, as well as
, for the family and friend of Livingston
, Stanley SAYS when he left the interior
of Africa The Doctor was unwell, but
had determined to proceed with his
explorations, and will not return unit!
he discovers the sources OF the Nile
Sunday, Jniy IA.
|. A crazy man killed his stepmother
with a knife at Rochester, n. Y.
Ex-senator Doolittle this morning
attended n Democratic meeting a,
Raleigh, North Carolina.
Carl Schurz will speak at several
points in North Carolina, before Au.
gust.
Senator Bayard sails for Europe
to-day for his health. In a letter
July 18th, he expresses his intention
of supporting the Greeley ticket.
The National Liberal Republican
Committee met yesterday n New
York and elected Ethan Allen al
permanent Chairman and Jasper W
Johnson, of Oregon, as one of THE Sec
retaries. A resolution passed recon-
mending a union of Liberal Republi
cans and Democrats in selecting State
candidates. Carl Schurz and B. Graft
Brown were present. Some of the
Committee will visit Chappaqua to
day.
Local politicians are very bus,
organizing campaign clubs in the diff
. ferent wards OF New York City
Henry Wilson has gone to Long
Branch on a visit to the president
BY the explosion of the steam boiler
of a threshing machine at Freeburg
Illinois, on Friday, three men were
killed and nine wounded.
A boy was last night shot dead by
a Memphis policeman for bathing il
the river within the city limits.
Gen. Sherman and Lieut.. Freddy
Grant were most egregiously snnbbee
by the people and nobility Throughout
Germany.
A man was hanged at Newcastle
Delaware, yesterday, for rape.
r The public schools of Patterson
| New Jersey, have been closed on &C
/. count of the prevalence of smallpo,
in the city:
Monday, July IS.
The President has pardoned S. +
Sherman, convicted of causing tn