Oregon Republican. [volume] (Dallas, Or.) 1870-1872, 1872-05-04
State Items.
[Gleanings from State Exchanged


Only two persons in the county Jail
at Salem.
Rev. P. s. knight has decided that
Adam was not the first man.
Two men we're tried for murder iu
Clackamas county this week.
G. Fl. james has retired from the
Gazette. Carter is now Chief.
The State Sunday School Convention,
will be held at Albany, May 2sth.
Stage for the Ochoco valley leaves
the Dalles every Monday morning.
The West Side road will probably be
completed to the Yamhill river by the
first of July.
Robert Fulford, actor, and Miss An
ME Pixley, actress, were married at
Portland Msy 3O,h.
b. G. Whitehouse at Portland sells
coupon railroad tickets for all the pria-
cipal cities at the East.
Thirty seven cases on the Lane Cir
cult Court docket last week. Only three
divorce suits, for wonder.
Abram Rand, convicted of forgery in
Lene county, has been turned over to
Bill Wadkinds' care tor three years.
The Corvallis city election and the
Yamhill County Republican Convention
will take place on Monday, May 9th.
The irst number of the Daily Mer-
cary gets up TO about boiling heat be-
cause Salem people have to pay so much
taxes.
The occupants of two carriages we're
thrown ont, while attending the funeral
of Mrs. 4. b. Hill, in Portland, no one
seriously hurt.
A Salem minister was to preach last
night on the subject of Life Insurance.
There are fellows around here preaching
about that all the time.
The following named postmasters
were recently appointed: john w, Nc
Grew. Perrydale, Polk county; Allen
ID. Wolcott, Port Oxford, Curry Coun-
ty.
The following persons will graduate
at the willamette University this year :
Hubbard Bryant, Dora z Simpson and
Eva Wheeler. They passed the fnal
examination satisfactorily
Governor Grover has appointed Com.
missioner of Deeds, for Oregon, J. III.
H. Woodward. to reside in Louisville,
Kentucky, and Oren d. Bragdon, to re-
side in New Orleans, Louisiana.
Messrs. Shutz, WIN. Mitchell and "
VI Hand have been elected BY Columbia
Lodge No 5. |. O. D. r. az representa-
tives to the Grand Lodge. TO be held at
Salem, on the 10th of May next.
Mart " Brown, acted chaplain to
Chinese funeral in Portland recently.
Mart was away from home and it Il sup
posed that be forgot himself, and
thought that he was Chinaman instead
OF Democrat.
General jasper J...W. johnson, Esq
ex.editor OF the Lafayette. and McMin-
Vile Courier, has gone Fast to attend
The Cincinnati Convention. Ills friends
are in mourning, for fear he will lose
himself
Al Croasman. has been advertising
himself in novel way. He hires
"cheap boys" to get the religious COM
munity of Salem to pray for him. lie
cant pass himself off as the " wicked
est man in Oregon.
Crandall, and the Rev Sweeney don't
hitch. Crandall likes the dimes for ad
rertisiDg,and Sweeney, like good many
others, thinks he should..be advertised
free.-It don't cost anything to run
a newspaper, Craodall, you had better
advertise him free.
The survey of the St. Helens bar
has been completed A photographic
survey will soon be made, commencing
at the mouth of the Willamette and ex,
tending up toward Portland. An addi.
tioual survey is contemplated, embracing
the entire scope OF the channel, to com
mence three miles above the mouth of
the Willamette aud reaching to Port
land
From the Oregonion "An Indiana
paper says that Jacob Moore, a citizen
of Clay county, aged 105 years, will
start this spring for Oregon to visit his
relatives Despite his extreme age, he
is still hale and hearty. If the old gen>
tleman should come, we can safely
predict hearty welcome to him - for
he will be the oldest living man who
has yet visited our State"