The state rights democrat. [volume] (Albany, Linn County, Oregon) 1865-1900, 1872-06-07
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Depot, Sabbath evenings.
Our saloons are said TO now serve up
"Greeley smashes."
Mixed drinks now bear the title of
"Dolly Warden fluid"
It's so ~dog-gone hot that our locals
have nearly all collapsed.
Carothers & Co. furnish bottled soda
to all the saloons in Salem.
Fourth of July will be the next ag-
ony, since the election is over.
The great Japanese performing
troupe will be in our city in a few days.
Senator Strahan and Prof. Moreland,
of Corvallis, called upon us yesterday.
Great preparations are being made
for the celebration OF the Fourth at
Albany.
s. Montgomery, of this city, is pro-
prietor Of a new gray trotting mare
which he has named "Dolly Warden"
Naomi, the daughter OF Enoch, was
$50 years odd when she married. There
is hope for some of you old ladies after
all.
The Christian church, of Scio, had a
revival and protraetea meeting last
week. Some ten persons united with
the church.
Lebanon Precinct, heretofore the
Radical stronghold in Linn, only
gave 6 or S majority for the Ground
Hogs this time.
Richard Miller, an old citizen Of this
county, died at the residence of his
son-in-law, in Franklin Butte precinct,
Oh Sunday last.
4 South Carolina negro draws the
plough, while his wife holds it and
drives. With a long switch she speeds
the ploughman smartIy.
3. W. Crooks, one OF the most su-
perior architects in the city, is erecting
an elegant residcnceforL L. c. Burkhart,
Esq, just east Of this city.
Brownsville Precinct gave Capt.
Humphrey the mitten by Hyotes. That
Precinct made the largest Democratic
gain of any in the county.
Smiggles, who IS, perhaps too criti-
cal. says there are a good many mod
ern preachers who would burn quite as
well as TIE old msrtyrs-they are SO
dry.
A Salem Lothario stayed, with his
charmer, at a friends, until the moon
went down, when he started for a lam
tern, and fetched up" in q mill
pond.
A. d. Shelby, now of Portland, but
formerly of this city, will shortly re-
move to Salt Lake City. May good
fortune attend him in the city of the
Saints.
AZ three-years old consoIed his moth
er, watching by the death-bed OF his
little sister by remarking, "Jfamma
don'tyery! If Nellie wants to die, let
her die."
We make Z politest salaam to that
~appreciative friend who the other
morning deposited a large and elegant
bouquet of fragrant roses on our sane
tum table.
a proud father lately explained to a
school teacher as follows: "yYhat ac-
counts for John being SIGH a bad schol-
ar is that he's my sun by my wife's
first husband.u
The State Sunday School Conven-
ton which held forth in this city last
week is about the first Convention held
this year that didn't nominate a Pres
idential ticket.
The season has now arrived for news
papers to perpetrate that shining new
joke upon defeated candidates about
their long faces and the advanced
price of shaving.
The use ofa single bottle of Halls
Vegetable Sicilian Hair Remover is
sufficient to show its efficacy in. restor-
ing the natural color of the hair and
cleaning the scalp.
A Chicago congregation suddenly
pricked up its ears when the minister
said: II have land to selI,u bat dozed
off again when he added: 1.-THE beau
tiful land on high.p
A Lancaster, Pa, man recently tied
his dog to the e a end of a car while
he Went to see a man for a moment
merely. When last heard from the
log was in Illinois, and in very poor
health.
Our friend John Irving, Esq, puts
on lots of scollops now. Its a Dolly
Varden'-that is, a girl, and was ush-
cred into this world on the day upon
which Ben. Holiday elected Joe VII
son TO Congress.