The state rights democrat. [volume] (Albany, Linn County, Oregon) 1865-1900, 1872-03-22

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An Idaho woman has gone on q
pleasure trip, her fare being paid
by n person not usually supposed to
foot the expenses of the family.
Mrs. M. M. Miller, "Joaquin's"
wife, has r~epudiated the female roos-
ter movement and Mrs. Duniway
shows much wrathiness thereat.
Polk county Democracy offer q
banner to Che precinct of that coun-
ty which shows tho greatest Demo-
cratic gain at the June election.
A Dakota girl used sealing wax
as n substitute for chewing gum, and
the Venetian-red it contained drew q
Venetian-blind owe her young life.
A mother and her babe were
thrown from n carriage, ut San Fran
cisco, last Monday, 30 violently MS to
kill the infant in its mothers arms.
A dispute in regard to what was
trumps was settled in Nevada, by one
gentleman turning up n spade, and
violently shifting his opponent there
with.
The Vallejo Recorder publishes n
list Of unmarried and eligible men in
that town. In justice to the girls We
may state that the eligible parties
arc not thereby exposed to unusual
risks.
Montgomery & Hallet will employ,
this summer, about two thousand
hands on the line of the northern
Pacific Railroad, from klama TO the
Sound.
A Nevada journal offers this in
ducement: "All subscribers paying
in advance will be entitled TO q first
class obituary notice in case OF
death"
A petition for the pardon of Nor
ris Graves. recently convicted Of
forgery in Salem, and sentenced to
the Penitentiary for two years, is in
circulation.
A Puget Sound farmer last year
raised 400 bushels OF potatoes and
an Olympia paper hoists its rooster
(iguratively speaking) ove the IN
! parallelcd event.
Geo. Engstorm happened to be
| standing under n falling tree at Cuff
fey's Cove, Cal, last week. and the
funeral was thinly attended because
he was &c stranger.
A cougar crouched for n spring on
n Douglas county boy. when he walk
ed up and kicked it square in the
snout. It uttsred q yell and fled to
it's native inng,es.
The celebration OF st. Patrick's
Day, in Portland, was the grandest
and most imposing ever witnessed in
that city. Hon. Geo. X. She'll was
the orator OF the day.
Mrs. Duniway threatens SANDER
ing newspapers with suits for DANA
ges. OF course she will exempt us
her bosom friend-from the conse-
quenccs Of that threat.
A boy who claims to be the first
born Of white parents west of the
Rocky Mountains is inficting Port
land with lectures on what he knows
about, early Oregon"
The Radical State Convention was
only distinguishable from other sim
liar bodies by the unusual number
Of persons in attendance who wore
No. 5 hats and No. 16 boots.
The annual death rate in Oregon
is only l to every 209 inhabitants.
In the New England States it is / in
GS, in the Southern States / in 20,
while in England it is / in 46.
DIR. Mcdowell, of Marion county,
announces himself us the Temperance
and Woman Suffrage candidate for
Congress, and offers to sell his pho
tograph, cabinet size. for fifty centsa
copy.
They have discovered quartz Gin
Angels" up in Calaveras county,
Cal, which, of course, r~efutes for
ever the long-cherished theory that
angels r purely ethereal in their
composition.
A San Francisco man named KEEL
ly attempted to murder another man
for marrying a woman with whom
he kelly had formerly been ac-
quainfed. That uas q terrible Of
fence, surely!
A divorce suit in Montana has just
been put off by the Judge till the
next term of court, much to the in
dignation of the wife who had made
arrangements to marry another VIC
tim Immediately. .
The first woman voter in Wyoming
is said to have been n lady of seventy,
who voted on her way home from the
grocery, going to the polls with a
pitcher of molasses in one hand and
the bal1ot in the other