The state rights democrat. [volume] (Albany, Linn County, Oregon) 1865-1900, 1872-02-09

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tracted q policeman and her ravisher
was taken in custody. He ought to
be hung.
Capt. L. N. English, Of Silver
Creek, Marion county, is a soldier of
1872, is aged 81, and is the father
Of 81 children.
A young teamster ut White Pine
has jrst been discovered to be a girl
who ran away from home because
her dad licked her.
A San franciscan made q sure
thing on suicide last week by setting
his clothes on fire and then shooting
himself through the head.
David Mathew, the engineer who
ran the first railroad locomotive in
the United States, is now working at
the Portland Iron Works.
Bro. Hand. Of the Mountainrer, has
been starring it at the Dalles as u
French ballad singer. He also plays
the "Black Crook we believe.
Portland boasts n dray horse who
unfastens his stable door with his
teeth and absolutely won't work If
ter his regular ten hours are up.
Washington Territory has another
carpet-bag Governor, from Kansas,
named Leggit. He ought to be
made to leg-it back home again.
Peter Wild, On old citizen of VAL
lejo, has been gathered to his faith
crs. His estate, 800 900 worth,
will be gathered to his daughters.
A son OF David Lindrey, of Salem,
fell into n mill race last Friday.
When taken out he was apparently
dead, but was eventually restored.
A cutting ARRAY between n. i.
Long and j. G. Apperson, at Coles
Valley, Douglas county. resulted in
the serious wounding of the latter.
Mr.. Dyer, of Salem, has been mp
pointed to the Klamath Indian Agen-
cy. He was only n few days ago
removed from the Grand Ronde agen.
cy.
Montana wants an invoice of good
faithful servant girls, without any
Western imprudencc." and u "gen-
eral appearance of don't-care-ative.
ness"
Jennie Bennett, of San Francisco,
lost SIS, 600 last week in stock spec.
%ulat,on. and attempted to laudanum
herself out Of the world, but was
saved.
A Portlander bearing the singular
cognomen of John Smith, interview
ed the courts several dollars worth
last week, for MASKING q chair over
his wifcs head.
Chas. A. Montgomery. brakeman
on the construction train, was last
Friday killed neal Eugene by the
cars running over him and cutting
his body in two.
Passengers on the Pacific r. r.
are snow bound aud suffering for food
living on crackers and fish alone.
Seven passenger trains are snow
bound in one place.
The California Legislature has
passed IA bill granting a pension Of
one hundred dollars n month te
James w. Marshall, the d;scoverer
of gold in that State.
The friends of the Los Angeles
doctor who was tarred aud feathered
proposed to rctaliate by doing the
same pleasant service for the perpe.
traitors of that outrage.
A man who has several months re.
sided in Oregon City, was last week
arrested by n Sheriff from Wisconsin
and taken back TO that State to an
swer to the charge Of murder.
Stockton has an able bodied stree,
beggar, who threatens to whip those
who deny him aims. We have al,
ways thought that this was the only
way to make begging successful.
The gamblers in San Francisco
have really been brought to grief by
the persistent and vigorous attempts
made there to enforce the laws.
Every gambling house is closed.
A frail woman of Portland became
tired of life because her Teller
wouldn't r~eciprocate her tender of.
fections. and but for n stomach-pumr
would have morphined herself tc
death.
A boa constructor swallowed a fawn
which was tied to a bed-post, a
Mexico City, and as his snakeshir
couldn't break the cord before dis.
covered, he died by the sword of the
fawn's keeper.
Beriah Brown, editor of the Seat.
tie Dispatch, has indubitable proof
that two of our Presidents were for.
eign from Geo. Washington having
been born in England and Andrew
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