The state rights democrat. [volume] (Albany, Linn County, Oregon) 1865-1900, 1872-10-25

Eugene is happy because the State
University is theirs. Why should
they be?
Petaluma, California, and vicinity
were shaken up by On earthquakeon
the 21st.
Gov. Grover has vetoed the bill
repeating the Portland Metropolitan
Police law.
Seventeen of the convicts in the
Penitentiary were sent up from Jack
son county.
1t is said that in some portions of
Polk county cattle are suffering for
want of food.
Parties are being arrested in
Washington Territory for violation
OF the game law.
The Supreme Court adjourned last
Tuesday to meet again on the first
Monday in January.
The citizens of Roseburg are max
ing preparations for a jubilee when
the railroad reaches them.
Senator Corbett will leave Port
land for Washington Immediately
after the Presidential election.
One man shot and killed another
supposing that he was shooting at
deer near Vancouver last week.
The Northern Pacific Railroad
company are now carrying freight
from Portland to Puget Sound.
Ex-senator Williams has purchas-
ed $G5 900 residence in Washing
ton and had the deed made out to
his wife.
Some dastarsily wretch has been
wouuding his neighbors horses in
Polk county by shooting them with
shotgun.
A man named Brothers was adj
judged insane by the authorities Of
Multnomah county last week and
sent to the Asylum.
The Attorneys for the Canyon City
mail robbers, now in Jail at Portland,
awaiting sentence, have fled q mo-
ton for new trinl.
The Supreme Court has decided
the case of the 1toseburg and Cole
Valley Wagon Load and the same
has been orderetl opened for travel.
VIM. Miller OF Lane county whose
cattle were stampeeded by the Indi-
ans near Klamath Lake some time
ago has recovered part OF the stock.
Two boys near Salem amused
themselves one day last week snap
ping pistols at each other. One of
the parties wo.s shot through the neck.
The wife of Jack Grant, late Rep
resentative from Polk county, has
shct and trapped 35s squirrels the
last year. What lady can discount
that score?
A young man named Thos. Kene-
dy was found dead by the roadside,
near Champooeag, on the Goth inst.
His skull was found fractured and
foul murder is suspected.
The Mercury pronouncest the speech
Of Mr.. 0nstien of the House on sheep
raising tire "most elegant speech of
the session." The Honorable gen.
tleman had an inspiring theme.
The silliest farce enacted by the
Legislature is the appropriation of
money to induce emigration and the
appointment of Mrs. DR.. Mary p.
Sawtelle as commissioner of emigra-
ton.
II. B. Myers and E. Cooper, of
Salem, were both severely injured on
last Monday by being thrown from a
wagon in which they were riding. It
is feared that Mr.. Myers Will not re-
cover.
A sixteen-year-old girl died at the
residence of her brother-in-law, op-
posite Beuna Vista, recently under
suspicious circumstances. Her sick
ness, death, and burial were kept
secret from the neighbors.
In Union county, last week, one
China woman knocked another down,
tied her, saturated d her clothes with
coal oil and set them on fire. The
poor wretch was burned to death and
the murderess is in Jail awaiting trial
for her crime.
Two little boys, aged .13 and 10,
were found on the streets of the
Dalles few days ago, ragged and
hungry. Their names are Andrew
and Guy Reeder. They say that
their home is, on Butter Creek. that