The state rights democrat. [volume] (Albany, Linn County, Oregon) 1865-1900, 1872-09-13
HOME AND ABROAD
Harvest Is about over.
Afternoons terribly hot

cred q success.
Wheat is still being Brought int
town in large quantities.
Fall apples are now in the market -
Quality indifferent.
Times lively IN town since farmers
finished harvest.
Everybody Is getting ready to attent
the County Fair.
Considerate farmers are In no hurry
to sell their wheat.
The hay crop has been remarkably
light in this county.
George Weller Is still doing good
work repairing side and cross-walks.
Gen. L. L. Applegate gave us n briel
call last Thursday.
The people of Lebanon are In ear
nest in regard to the construction of Il
brancn, railroad to Tangent.
What Is most likely to become n
fair-haired woman? Why, n fair
haired little girl, to be sure.
Davenport has girl who spells back
wards. I'VE never thought backwards
was hard word to spell before.1
a writer in the jacksonville Times
says Jackson county will give Greeley
and Brown four hundred majority.
Judge Powell returned home from a
protracted stay in the mountains last
Saturday, looking hale and hearty.
\ California .beligerent school mann
! peeled II committeeman's snout the
other day for meddling with her school.
We are glad to state that Hon. n. Fl.
Cranor Is still improving in heath,
and that he is able to occupy his seat
in the Legislature. 9u
Chas. Mealey has determined to
change his business, and will for sixty
days continue TO sell his entire stock OF
furniture at cost.
y young man who recently took un-
to himself a wife, says he didn't find
1t half so hard to get married as he did
to get the furniture.
The following notice may be seen on
a blacksmith's shop In this country:
"No horses shod on sunday, except
sickness and death"
The time to possess your soul In
patience is when your hat blows Off in
the street and your eyes are too full oi
dirt TO see which way 1t goes.
Some helpless sort of person in
Pittsburgh advertiscs for Zone or two
steady girls to help on pantaloons."
Mrs. Shoddy puckered up her mouth
genteclly, aud told gentleman friend
that one of her lovely daughters was n
"bluenet" and the other "bronzc."
Our delinquent subscri bers will bear
in mind that comet is approaching
this earth ut the velocity of 10 miles n
second. Better squar, your accounts.
We've heard of secret which was
so big that it required all the women
in town to keep it and then they could
not do so without The help of their
husbands.
Rev. 5. G. Irvine has so far recovered
He is still compelled to use his crutch
and staff but hopes soon to be able to
dispense with their aid.
We were compelled to publish the
communication of our excellent Leba-
non correspondent in condensed
form for want of room In our colomns.
We hope to hear from him Il gain.
General Hancock forbids mining
expeditions into the regions of the
Black Hills. First, because the gold
there heiongs to the Indians, and
secondly, because there Is no gold there.
: a Grass Valley Justice of the Peace
is n brick. lie refused to marry a
couple, and while the would-be bride
groom was hunting for preacher to
preform the ceremony. the justice
eloped with the girl.
ALBANY has four hundred dwelling
houses, and two thousand four hun
dred inhabitants, all standing with
their gable ends to the streets" So IL
was printed In school geography not
long ago.
joaquin Miller is to lecture in New
England next fall. BY way of an
advertisement he has deserted and
been divorced from his wife, has got
engaged to a Scotch peercss. and wears
shirt with pink boa-constrictors
writhfng on green ground.
A sentimental editor says: at Is
comforting to know that one eye
watches fondly for our coming, and
looks brighter when we come" A
contemporary is grieved to learn that
his 'brother Of the quill has a wife
with one eye"
Our young friend DIR. George W.
Price has gone to Walla Walla. lie
designs entering into the practice oi
his profession at some point in the
Walla Walla country. We take pleas
ure in commenting him to the favor
able regard of the people of that region.
We notice that the reports of the
Coronor's jury, in the case of the death
of Harrison Daniels, as telegraphed to
the Salem paper states that five Of the
jurymeD signed the verdict and the
sixth refused. 1t is well enough to
state that the ''sixth" man referred to
has been and expects againto be q
railroad employe.
THE FAIR GROUNDS.
On last Wednesday in company with
A. Hackleman, President of the Linn
County Agricultural Society, Mr..
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