The state rights democrat. [volume] (Albany, Linn County, Oregon) 1865-1900, 1872-05-03
NEWS OF THE WEEK.
Cleaned From the Telegraph.
Friday. April rs.

Friday, April 70.
1t is confidently believed that Chas.
Frances Adams will be nominated for
President ut the Liberal Republican
Convention which meets at Cincinnati
next Wednesday.
The World, yesterday, came out in
q leader warmly endorsing the propo-
sition to nominate Adams, declaring
the belief that he will secure the en-
tire Democratic vote.
The gathering at Cincinnati has
already commenced, and all the ho-
tells and many boarding houses are al
ready engaged to their full capacity.
The press of the country il already
largely represented, and by the end
Of this week many State delegations
will be on the ground.
One thousand Missouri politicians
are announced to leave st. Louis on
Monday, and the delegation from that
State, which will be the most numer-
Gus of any, has secured the entire St.
Johns Hotel for their accommoda-
ton.
Halls Arctic Expedition were at
Greenland at last account.
An effort is being made to secure
the removal of Attorney General
Williams, who is now Ell route for
Oregon to make stump speeches in
behalf Of the Radical ticket.
A Communist woman in Paris has
just been sentenced to death on the
scaffold.
1t IL believed that the impending
struggle between the Government
and the Charlists in Spain will be- sc.
we're 1t is estimated that 10000 in
surgents arc now in the field.
1t is understood hat the Demo.
cratic National Convention will be
held at St. Louis, on the Fourth oil
July, although neither the time nor
place are formally fixed.
A mob of seventy or one hundred
armed men, some masked, stopped an
Eastern bound train on the Missouri,
Kansas and Texas Railroad, at Gum
City, Cass county, Missouri, this even.
ing, and murdered J. K Give, j. G
Stevenson and ). +. Dutro. Steven
son was presiding Judge Of the Coun.
ty Court when the recent bond ex.
element was raised. Give was an
attorney implicated in the case. Du
tro "a killed simply because he wa.
in company with the others. The
mob threatened to kill any who here
after Unidentified them in the Court OF
elsewhere. They said they had JUS
commenced their work of murder.
The chair in which John Adam,
sat when he signed the Declaration
of independence, will be sent TO Gin
%cinnati for the use Of the presiding
officer of the Liberal Convention.
Saturday, April ~.
Harrisburg, Pa, had a 100000 fire
yesterday.
Ex-Chief Justice 4. J. Walker, o.
the Supreme Court of Alabama and
the eminent Commander of knight.
Templars of the State, died to-day
Carlos has crossed the frontier and
is now in Spain at the head of 10000
men.
The same journals say a perfect un
derstanding exists between the Car.
lists and Republicans. The former
are to draw troops into the open coun
try, whilst Republicans are to rise
against the Government on the Ist o.
May, in all parts of Spain.
Only two Isabellists General havs
joined the instruction.
The eruption of Vesuvius is at it.
greatest height. New craters have
formed and streams of lava are pour
ing down the mountain sides in diff
erent directions.
The World editorially says if tn,
Cincinnati Convention should prov,
wise enough and high toned enough
TO nominate Charles Francis Adams
the Democratic party will endors
that eminent statesman with spon
taneous hearty plaudits and universe
acciamations.
Antioch and other cities of Syri
|, have just been destroyed by an earth
quake.
A report has reached Kansas Cit,
that Judge Forsyth, another Count,
Justice, was shot and his body hun:
to a tree. Great excitement prevail
throughout the country. Fears ar
felt that others will be murdered
The perpetrators of these murder
claim that they have 1000 member
, in their organization.
Lydia Sherman, of New Haven
Conn, has just been sentenced to i'm
prisonment tor life for poisoning he
husband.
Gen Sickles and wife have. sale
i. for Europe.
:. Our Government is likely to BAG
down on the Alabama question.
Sunday, April 20.
The Cincinnati Convention is tn
absorbing topic in all political pape
circles, and the interest extends in
great degree to the people generally
Tie opinloas OF leaders of the libel
al movement, as to the result of tn
Convention, differ as widely as thei
differences for candidates. Their
seems to be, however, almost entir
unanimity among Democrats ths
Charles Francis Adams nominate
will insure the defeat of the nom
nee of the Philadelphia Conventio
< by as large a majority as was eve
: given to a Presidential candidate.
Z. b. Watson is appointed Regis
ter of the Land Office at Linkton, Or
egon.
The eruption of Mount Vesuviu
continues with dreadful violence
!, Lava streams have already reache'