The state rights democrat. [volume] (Albany, Linn County, Oregon) 1865-1900, 1872-05-17

Salem wants a library.

Hillsboro wants O town library.
Wild strawberries are ripening.
Wool worth 60 cents at Eugene.
Rev. Thos. Condor is recovering.
Elk city, Yaquina, has n pill ven
dor.
Salemites talk of bridging Mill
creek.
Eugene is to have 6 three-story
hotel.
Japanese jugglers are coming to
Oregon.
Mining prospects Of Utah are still
improving.
Three men went crazy ct Portland
last week.
Portland RAIDS jabilated last Mon
day night.
J. b. Lee has been elected mayor
Of Corvallis.
The Dalles is inflicted with but
three lawyers.
Lafayette is infested with swarms
of canary birds.
California crops arc almost ready
to be harvested.
California is shipping blooded
sheep to Japan.
"Jud." Boyakin has started q pa
per in Boise City.
Caterpillars are demolishing Polk
county orchards.
Cars will be running to the Yam
hill river by July.
The Mountauaeer wants opposition
on the Columbia river.
A 81 pound salmon was caught at
Oregon City last week.
The Grand Lodge of Odd Fellows
meets on the 21st. inst.
Democratic primaries Of Portland
were held last evening.
Mrs. Skaggs. of Douglas county,
oaeu suuuehiy ihSt "eeh.
A German colony will shortly To-
cate near Olympia W. T.
Jack Frost has blasted oil the cher
ry hopes Of Portlanders.
Mart Taylor and family are do
lighting the West Siders.
Travelling time from Dalles TO Kel-
ton is three and u half days.
The Salem Deaf and Dumb Asy-
lum will open September LIST.
A regular mail is now carried be-
tween this valley and Ochoco.
Portland has the walking-beam,
back-ac,ion churn on the brain.
A .'Steam Paddy" has been set at
work on the Westside Railroad.
VIM. Wells. of Marion, will raise
10000 pounds of hops this year.
E. C. Mason of Goose Lake. has
been appointed a Notary Public.
Railroad completed to Estes sta
ton, forty miles beyond Eugene.
Frost has killed all the peaches
and plums on the Tualitan Plains.
The Mckenzie road over the Cas-
cades will soon be open for travel.
Portland merchants amuse them
selves on dull days by killing rats.
A Salem man returns a set Of wool
cards. after having them fifteen years.
j. j. Harlow, first officer Of the
bark Windward, died at Portland last
week.
Couch Lake, at the north end Of
Portland, is no more. A tunnel did
for it.
Frank Pixley, Of San Francisco,
will stump California for Greeley aud
Brown.
On the % inst, at Walla Walla,
the thermometer stood at 930 in the
shade.
A boy named Fleishman acciden-
tally shot himself last week, near
Gervais.
DR.. Renfrew, an old citizen Of Lane
county, has been sent to the Insane
Asylum.
A sign has been put upon n Salem
foundry four feet wide and forty-two
feet long.
Kraker beat McCleary in the cham
pion match billiard game ct frisco
last week.
Total snow fall at Forest City,
Montana, last winter was twenty
seven feet.
A recently discovered silver ledge
on Goose Lake yields ore that assays
$65 per ton.
Salem is endeavoring to purchase
a town clock to be put on the new
Court House.
San Francisco policemen now mr.
rest festive cusses for patronizing the
chicken Kinks.
The Albany has taken the place
of the Fannie Patton, the latter un-
dergoing repairs.
The Waldron Troupe will play at
Salem during the Legislative session
and the State Fair.
The Radical candidate for consta-