The state rights democrat. [volume] (Albany, Linn County, Oregon) 1865-1900, 1872-06-28

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Sound, and perhaps extend his trip
to Sitka.
Havana contains $50 600 inhabi-
tants and has overgrown the old
walls. The streets are very narrow,
about fifteen feet wide, and the side
walks eight inches wide. The stores
and dwellings are level with the walks.
Mrs. Young, of Seattle, came near
losing her life last week by falling
from q high box on to a meat hook
projecting from the wall. The hook
penetrated the neck, tearing the
flesh in q terrible manner. She ia
likely to recover.
The two Victoria steamers, Cali
fornia and Idaho, were stranded in
the gulf of Georgia last week. The
latter was got off without material
damage, but it is thought the former
will be a total wreck. Both were
owned by Ben Holiday.
Chenoweth's majority for Prosecu-
ting Attorney Of the End Judicial
District, is 145. He run behind the
ticket everywhere but in his own
county. We regret Mr.. Fitch's de-
feat, for he is ono of the most alfa-
BILE and talented young climbs Of the
law" in Oregon.
The California and Oregon Rail-
road has been completed to Cotton
wood, about twenty-five miles this
side Of Red Bluff. When finished TO
Shasta, thirty miles beyond, it will
then be finished to about fifty-fve
miles this side of Red Bluff, when
trains will run regularly.
Hard times is what ails Puget
Sound; and the papers over there
wall dolefully about it. Why don't
they confine themselves to digging
clans and not 60 to fooling around
after chimerical railroad terminus
and other things 80 remote from
their Legitimate line of business?
A little girl, daughter of Mr.. G..
Cumming, had her left thigh broken
in two places and her right leg frac-
tured below the knee, by the upset
ting Of a wagon on which she was
riding. The accident happened
near Jacksonville and she was taken
to that city to receive medical treat
ment.
Union county has q newly elected
justice of the Peace who proposes
to take judicial notice. Of everything,
from q divorce case down to o.. muir
der. He has already granted bis
cousin a divorce from a refractory
wife, and has sentenced O fellow to
the penitentiary for stealing O mill
boiler.
Mrs. Duniway says il the Balti-
more Convention doesn't recognize
woman's claims to the ballot, they
will call n Pacific Slope Convention
and nominate a woman suffrage can
didate for President. Now let poll
ticians commence trimming their
sails for that nomination. We're in
TO it ourself.
The mock ROSTERS convention at
San Francisco last week fzzled "clean
eout." They passed resolutions de-
claring that all men and women were
born free and equal, and that all
who denied this proposition are ene-
mics and shall be punished by with
drawal of their support, etc. Them's
sentiments to a dot.
4 party of so Bostonians are now
en- route for Oregon. provided with
hunting, fishing and camping outfit
complete. They expect to hunt and
fish in our mountains during the
summer. Let 'em comet We be-
licve those Boston hunters are about
the only fellows we ever can get
away with successfully in the chase.
A couple of Salem ladies who
were walking out by moonlight saw
what they supposed to be a white
goose swimming in Mill Creek, SO
they enjoyed the fun of pelting his
.gooseship with stones. A pretty
"dornick" hitting him on the
head, he ''hollored" ont to them to
that, dog-on ye, till I git my
buds onl 'Taint fair~ o, no-guess
those girls didn't git from there much.
At the cackling hens Convention,
at San Francisco last week, Mrs.
Virgins, the President, proceeded
TO deliver an euolgy upon Madames
Clafin and Woodruff, whereupon
there was q scene; some members
lenouncing the women as unfit to be
named in o public address, and 9TH
srs upholding her. Mrs. Kingsbury,
Of Sonoma, declared that Mrs. Wood
hull represented the sentiment which
would endorse if they
Jared give utterance.