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


started for his ancestral halls, OF
the classic shores of Yamhill.
The Payette, weiser and Boise
rivers are very high, and a damaging
overflow is apprehended.
Bishop Morris, of Portland, is
traversing Eastern Oregon, preaching
at all the different points.
The Oregon State Journal saysGov
Grover raj received at Eugene by
an enthusiastic committee.
A Montana delegate to the Phil.
delphia Convention. changed his
mind, and went to Cincinnati.
The youthful base ballists got
away with their older competitors al
the Salem picnic last Saturday.
One thousand breech-loaders are
to be distributed among the citizens
in exposed districts of Montana.
Hembree and Burnett, tho two
young men held in Monmouth, on q
charge of larceny, were acquitted.
We learn hat most Of tho Oregon
Indians are anxious to vote for Gen.
Jasper j. w. Johnson for President.
Seven Lake Tahoe trout sold al
the San Francisco French Fair for
81. 500. Expensive piscatorials those.
The Montana National Bank has
been authorized to begin business
with o capital of fifty thousand dol
lars.
L.. p. Beach has been appointed
Surveyor General OF Washington
Territory. 1.-The band is still play
ing"
The corner stone OF the Sisters
Academy, ut Salem, was laid last
Tuesday with appropriate ceremo-
MES.
The youngsters OF Portland now
amuse themselves by tying dogs
across a rail, to SEQ the cars cut them
in two.
-Four Prisoners recently attempted
TO escape from tho Salem Peniten-
tiary, but were nipped in season by a
warden.
A Wasco county man has trapped
IS skunks during tho past six months.
His neighbors have moved TO another
locality.
The greatest pianist OF the world,
Miss Anna Mehlig, is coming to de.
light Portlanders with her bewitch.
ing music.
A Dalles baby swallowed n brass
watch. aud the thing run down be-
fore being digested. 1t is now q
dead issue.
Abernethy's saw mills. burned last
January at Oak Point. have been re-
built, and are almost ready to resume
operations.
Recently the ocean House. at Ya-
quina Bay was robbed Of $500, but
the thief go. ''spooney." and return,
ed the money.
twenty-five hundred acres of flax
seed were sown in Oregon this sea.
son--one.fourth OF that breadth east
of tho mountains.
The Wea Side Indignantly denoun-
e the circulated report that cater.
pillars are devastating Yamhill coun.
ty as n base SANDER.
W. b. Blackwell, late of the Sher.
man House, Chicago, has leased
Halsey's Hotel, North Portland, and
will open it July LIST.
The number of votes polled at the
Republican primaries in Portland
was in excess of the total vote cast
at the last city election.
Independent Republicans of Wash
ington Territory will hold a conven.
ton to nominate n candidate in oppo
sition to Garfelde. Go in.
It is said the appointment of Gen.
Ferry as Governor of Washington
Territory. will split the Republican
party, and defeat Garfelde.
The Democracy Of Jacksonville
will hold an old-fashioned barbecue
on the 25th inst. Several Democrat
ic speakers will be in attendance.
The Senate Committee on Com
MERGE have agreed to report an ap'
preparation of $50, 600 for the inn
provement of the upper Columbia.
A competent stone mason pronoun
ces the material now being used in
the construction of the Portland
Custom House of an unsubstantia
character.
This is the Peoples Ticket" sug
gested at q meeting of prominen
Portlanders: For State Senator, Al
Zieber; Representatives, F. Dekum
Walt. Moffett, E. D. Shattuck, r. j
Ladd; County Clerk, B. L. Norden
Sheriff, E. Corbett; Treasurer, B. G
Whitehouse.
J.. FL. Moores and wife, of Salem
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