The state rights democrat. [volume] (Albany, Linn County, Oregon) 1865-1900, 1872-07-19

Mrs. Boone is the new ferryman at
Boon's ferry, above Oregon City.
Her husband was murdered q few
months ago.
Archibald Fairclough was knocked
down and robbed Of q purse OF mon
ey, on the road near Lafayette, last
Saturday.
Wallowa valley, lying directly east
OF Grand Ronde, in Eastern Oregon,
is just now attracting considerable
attention.
A sharp Portland urchin wanted
his father to give him chloroform be-
fore licking him 80 he wouldn't feel
the hurting.
The Railroad Company have dona-
ted 40 acres Of land, for campmeet-
ing purposes, near Candy, 0 miles
above Oregon City.
Thirty families have just arrived at
Portland from Michigan. They say
that many other Michiganders and
gooses are coming.
VIM. Krischper, q Jacksonville sa-
loon keeper, fell dead with a~ppoplexy
on Saturday, the 7th inst, while con-
vcrsing with a friend.
A Mormon girl has been stolen
from Salt Lake and married by a
heather Gentle who only believes in
having one wife to onct.
A party Of printers witnessed sun
rise from the summit OF MI. Hood
on the Fourth. They say the scene
was grand beyond description.
A San Francisco man last week
shot another man fatally and almost
Immediately afterwards dropped
dead himself. Heart disease.
A vessel arrived at Portland last
Tuesday with go heather Chimes,
direct from the Flowery Kingdom.
They go on the North Pacific r. r.
The ghost of a dead Chinaman
stalks about mysteriously and howls
dismally at the people near Dairy
Creek. That heather is perhaps moi
dead enough.
The Amity postmaster died las
week. and the remaining inhabitanti
Of the town r fighting over tb,
question as to who Of them shall b.
his successor.
President B. l.. Arnold, Of Andrew
College, Tennessee, has accepted til
Presidency Of the Corvallis College
and is expected to arrive hero by thu
middle of August.
A horse and buggy fell down al
embankment of GO feet, neal Sar
Francisco, last week. A man ant
woman jumped out OF the buggy jus
as it tottered for the fearful fall.
A couple of Corvallis girls VISITED
Portland last week, and at nigh
some one entered their room and re
lieved one Of them Of $50 in coin,
penknife, and o breast pin worth s12
The track on the West Side ha
been laid to q point three miles abor,
Forest Grove. The probabilities ar
that the cars will be running daily Il
the Yamhill river by September LIST
California farm hands last weel
burned a lot of hay because the,
were discharged to make way fol
Cinnamon. Three Of them wer,
caught and hanged by outraged far
mers.
The Dalles has q turkey gobblel
who does the circular work for th.
family by Matching out the youne
while the old hen struts around il
her fashionable Dolly Warden ant
does nothing.
The Enterprise, the San francisco
organ of the Labor Reform party
has hoisted the name of Greeley an6
Brown. This insures a large vott
from that element, which is strong il
California.
During a thunderstorm on las
Saturday afternoon a cloud burst be
tween Verdi and Reno, on the Cen
trail Railroad, tearing away and GOV
ering the track for nearly a quartel
of a mile.
A Portland Sunday school scholar
was asked who made the beautiful
hills that surround the city. He re
piled that he did not know, IS hi
parents had only moved in town tn,
day before from Yamhill.
Salem boasts a nice young maj
who goes about milking cows in tina
vicinity, just to oblige the girls. HI
must be filed with the milk of hu
man kindness, or else Salem has ex
traordinarily pretty girls.
A Salem lady mistook a party o
serenaders for cats fighting unde
l.
Their window, and if her water vesse
had been larger the '%'trovatores'
would have fled from there mucl
wetter than they were made by wha
she did throw upon them.