The state rights democrat. [volume] (Albany, Linn County, Oregon) 1865-1900, 1872-07-12

Joe Short of Silver City, is to be
married to o California heiress worth
$50 900. Joe won't be "Short' any
longer, though tho bride will.
Two prisoners confined in the Jail
at Oregon City, walked out and away
last Sunday night. It is supposed
they had "pals' on the outside.
A frisco gent was dragged from
his bridal couch on u charge OF per-
jury, and now languishes in jail while
his bride mourns her peculiarly sad
fate.
A young lady of Marion county
has disappeared with n gay gambo-
lier OF Portland, and her parents are
in agony about it. She is one-half
of twins.
A San Francisco tailor killed his
wife and attempted TO cook his own
goose on the 4th. He will probably
figure prominently ut a neck-tie par
ty shortly.
Portland urchins amuse themselves
and electrify their parents by climb
ing church spires, and the undertake
ers down there are enlarging their
establishments.
Dent, the treasurer Of Lane coun-
ty, is o the champion needle swal-
lower-one having just come out at
his right shoulder which be swallow.
ed two years ago.
A Nevada girl was so anxious TO
know who was making the music ur-
der her window the other night that
she fell out of the window and SO
scared her serenader that he fled and
left her to her fate.
Edith O'Gorman, the escaped nun,
created great sympathy by her lee
lures and piteous storiesin San Fran
cisco, until she got on q spree last
week. Her occupatian is o gone.
Chas. Dolson. of Salt Lake, pub
lished Oliver Obey as a thief and his
wife as a common prostitute. and had
a culiender made out OF his body by
six pistol shots from Obey. He died.
Chicken thieves have broken loose
near Lafayette. A Dir. Price lost
every "hoof' from his chickenry in
one night. The fellows didn't steal
them-they just took them without
Price.
j. K. p. Weatherford, T. C. Alex
ander, Miss Rosa Jacobs, John b.
Elgin and A. j. Locke, received the
degree of b. S. at the Commence
ment exercises of Corvallis College
last month.
A man took o walk with q young
lady at Sacramento, one night lns.
week. and when they arrived at the
levee he pushed her over the bank
and she sunk TO rise no more. The
villain escaped.
During the fire at Canyon City,
last week, c. q. Castle, the newly
elected County Treasurer. dropped
dead by rupturing some of his inter.
nal organs in attempting to carry
heavy articles away from, the fire.
The vote of Oregon, in our first
State election in 1858. was 10, 09G.
IN June 1850, it was Is, 1G1. In
june 1872. it was 2 $3.50, thus indi.
eating that the population of Oregon
hasjust about doubled in twelve years,
Last Saturday morning. at Salem
two convicts at the Penitentiar,
named Goodey and Sheppard, at
tempted to escape. Goodey wa,
shot and killed and Sheppard hid il
a sewer, but was tracked up by q dog
and secured.
In a little disagreement between
two Frisco brokers, zone of then
put out his hand and the other laid
down on the sidewalk. Then the
first mentioned rubbed his foo,
against the others head, and then
some friends interfered."
i A young lady of San Francisco,
who had taken advantage Of Leap
Year and popped the question to hsi
lover, astonished the wedding guests
on the 4th by refusing to marry him
after she was led before the altar.
She said she was in fun. The badly
sniped would-be bridegroom drap-
ped q tear, cussed a few lines and
fed the house.
Nevada has q miniature Dead Sea.
1t lies in an oval basin, one hundred
and fifty feet below the surface oil
the plain, the banks shelving down
with as much symmetry as if fash.
IicL'ed by art. The water of the lake
ia in originated with soluble substan-
ces. MI, silly borax, soda and salt to a
degree thA,t renders it almost ropy
with slime. .,nd SO dense that q per-
son a float on it without effort
Tb;s laka bas NO disable outlet, but
being of great depth is probably fed