The state rights democrat. [volume] (Albany, Linn County, Oregon) 1865-1900, 1872-03-22
NEWS OF THE WEEK.
Cleaned From the Telegraph.
Thursdav, March II,

Thursday, March IL.
Prince Friedrich Charles, OF Prussia,
lays claim to the Throne of SPAN.
Prince of Wales and wife are in
Paris.
A building to cover so acres is to
be erected at Philadelphia for the
Centennial Celebration.
Pennsylvania delegates to the Ma.
tional Radical Convention are instruct
ed for Grant and Colfax.
A young man named John Wallace
was shot and killed by Mr.. Harvey in
Saline City, Kansas, last night.
A dispatch says there is trouble in
the Richmond Postoflice, growing out
of the t%yrannical disposition shown by
the postmistress there Miss Van Lcw),
to her subordinates.
A Washington dispatch says: Re-
calcitrant Republicans decided yes
terday to send a Senator probably
Tipton). to Cincinnati, to confer with
leading liberal Republicans. Sumner,
Trumbull, Schurz, Fenton and Upton
have had repeated conferences, and
agreed not TO abide by the action of
the Philadelphia Convention fit nom
mates Grant, but to look to Cincinnati
for a candidate. Sumner is under
stood to favor Davies.
Friday, March IS.
The French army is reduced to
100000 men
According to advices received from
Spain, a crisis is at hand. King
Amadeus is concentrating his army
around Madrid, disarmingt the National
Guard, and preparing to defend his
throne.
Victor Emanuel will review the
Italian troops stationed in and around
Rome some time during the present
month. The review will take place
in the presence of the King and Queen
Of Denmark and General Won Moltke.
The Radical majority in New Hamp-
shire is about 1900.
President Grant is fcasting the Jap
anese Embassy at Washington.
One Of the jurors in the Mayor Hall
Gaze died in New York yesterday.
The ship Denmark, the largest clip.
per ship in the world, was lost near
Bermuda Island a short time ago.
Gov. Yarmouth, of Louisiana, in an
expression of his views on Louisiana
politics, says the Administration party
in that State is confined to Collector
Casey and his adherents, who are
holding federal Offices. and that the
retention in Office of Packard disgust
ed Longstreet so he was obliged to
resign. These federal officials are en-
gagged in all sorts of corrupt schemes.
Opposition to Grant will increase all
over the South unless he changes his
course. If the Cincinnati Convention
act wisely, its nominees will receive
the support of Louisiana.
Saturday, March 10.
A delegation of Chippewa Indian
chiefs paid their respects to the Presi-
dent, at Washington, yesterday.
The Radical State Convention of
Rhode Island was held yesterday and
n full ticket nominated.
Trumbull and Chandler came near
having 4 rough.and-tumble fight in
the L. 5. Senate yesterday.
A man and woman were run over
and the former Instantly killed by a
train on the Baltimore & Ohio Rail
road last night, near GAINESVILLE, o.
They had teen sitting on the track
talking.
y revolt in the Missouri Peniten-
tiary, Mt Jefferson City, was discover.
ed and frustrated yesterday, without
serious result,
a UeraLfs Washington dispatch
SAYS an an,i-Gran, Convention is to be
held at Parkersburg, West Virginia,
on the 18th of April. The movement,
is understood TO be in the interest OF
Judge Chase. A declaration of prin,
ciples has aeen agreed upon by the or.
c~anizers. they designate the party
name of the democrat Republican
party.
Mr.. Greeley, in his paper to-day
says it was only wien Grant turned
his back on himself BY removing those
whom he at first appointed to office
from this State, and whoLn the Tribune
approved, and filling their places with
factions, that any trouble was created
Or dissatisfaction expressed.
Sunday, March ~.
The Fenians are making prepara-
tons for a grand demonstration
throughout Ireland in favor ofgeneral
amnesty, on St. Patrick's Day.
Harvard c.hna1 hnpca NJ f'har1ac.
town, Mass, was burned this afternoon.
Loss. $4,000. AT the time the build
ing took fire there were $40 children
in it, but by the presence of mind of
the teachers all escaped. Some we're
considerably injured, but nom severely.
The late Radical State Printer of
West Virginia has defrauded the State
Treasury of S15,000.
Senator Upton, of Nebraska, arriv-
ed in Chicago last evening to consult
with the leaders of the liberal move
ment with regard to the May conven-
ton. In an interview with Garfield,
of Ohio, and Dawes, ofMassachusetts,
leading Republican members of the
House, who were known to be in SYM
pathy with the anti-Grant movement
in the Republican party, he says
Trumbull is his first choice for the
Presidency.
1t is asserted that Senator Sumner
is to be President of the Liberal Re-
publican Convention at Cincinnati.
Monday, March 10.
A majority of the Massachusetts
Legislative Committee have reported
a resolution amending the constitu'