The state rights democrat. [volume] (Albany, Linn County, Oregon) 1865-1900, 1872-01-19


'em!
The ladies of Portland will give n
grand leap year ball tonight. The
example of our Albany girls is being
followed by numerous other leap
ists."
The Corvallis Democrat has
Students Column" edited by the
students Of Corvallis College. 1t is
an interesting feature Of this excel
lent paper.
Pantaloons stenling is now the rage
among Portland thieves, save one,
who pants for something better, and
has stolen a chemise-if you know
what that is.
One Smith wandered into Port
land saloon and pretty waiter alb
stracted $40 from his wallet and now
the damphool goes into court and
whines for justice.
A Shoalwater Bay woman, the wife
of an invalid and mother OF twenty
six children, picked cranberries
enough last fall to pay of mort
gage on the farm.
All hope concerning the ship Live
Yankee 10 given up. She is unques-
tionably lost and all on board have
perished, not one being loft to tell the
story Of her sad fate.
The rainfall at San Francisco for
six months ending December 81, 1871,
was twenty-one inches, greater
amount than has ever been known
since the building of the city.
A robustuous Portland damsel
has immortalized herself by knocking
a ruffian down with her fist. He says
this woman movement" is becoming
ob-knock-tious. Should say so!
According to census tables just
published the number of male citi-
zens in Oregon over 81 years Of age
in 1870 was 24.608. The vote for
Congressman the same year was 49,
S33.
Mrs. Savage, of Yamhill, who
skedaddled last month with a gay
young Lothario, has returned 10 her
home, and she and her husband are
now living rs happily as two "tur-
tile" doves. Sich is life.
A religious congregation of Salem
was last Sunday night thrown into
terrible coughing commissions by
some ornery boys putting red pepper
on the stove. Those boys ought to
be peppered with birch rods.
The new court house for Marion
county will be commenced in the
spring. 1t will be 8 stories high, 80
feet long and have front of 20 feet.
II will cost 500 900 and will be the
finest building in the State.
On last Monday the snow was ff-
teen inches deep at the Dalles, with
the thermometer at thirty degrees.
At Wallula it was twenty seven de-
grees, and at Walla Walla thirty
three. There has been great loss Of
stock on the Touchet.
Campbell. the mail carrier between
Portland and the Dalles. while going
up on the 2Sth OF December, last
his horse and mail at Mitchsl's Point
and nothing has been heard of him
since. He is supposed to have per-
ished in the mountains.
A dispatch from Salt lake says
that robbers, garoters aud despera-
does OF all kinds now abound, and
neither person nor property is safe
in the streets at night. A man was
strung up last week by the neck,
nearly strangled, and then robbed.
Following will be the officers at
the next State Fair: w. j. Herren,
of Union county. Chief Marshal; A.
Luelling, of Washington county,
of Pavilion; Joseph Hamil-
ton and Jno. Barrows, of Linn coun-
ty, are superintendent of classes Z
and IL.
The next State Fair will give
premium of SIS for the first best col
lection of stock cattle owned East of
the Cascade mountains, and $50 for
the second best collection Also $65
for the first, and $40 for the second,
for the same exhibit from South of
the Calapooia mountains.
The census of 1870 returned the
of ten Territories of the
United States as follows. District of
Columbia, 131 700; New Mexico, 81, :
874; Utah, sc, 1856; Colorado, 80, ,S64,
Washington, 1885; Montana. TO-
sos; Idaho, IA, 500; Dakota, 4,1S1;
9,65S; Wyoming, 9,11s.-
Total of all classes, 442,730
A. rock, weighing one hundred
pounds, was thrown by a blast over
three hundred feet, on the railroad
near Oakland, Douglas county, crush
ing through the roof of George Smiths
dwelling house. It struck Thos.
Morrissey on the the head, killing
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