The state rights democrat. [volume] (Albany, Linn County, Oregon) 1865-1900, 1872-01-26


either.
A bill has been introduced into the
California Legislature making adul-
terry punishable by 5 years imprison-
ment.
A Portlander who is appropriately
named Green came near smothering
by inhaling escaping gas from q
tube.
A pocket knife was the INCEST am
bition of o Eugene thief, and he
gets a months board at the county's
expense.
Laura De Force Gordon has gone
to Washington as the representative
Of the California Woman's Rights AS
ISOLATION.
Lee Lung, a heathen Chinee, last
week escaped from the P~enitentiary,
but was nipped at Oregon City and
sent back.
On Jan. 18th, at Los Angeles, the
wind blew down several houses--and
yet Los Angeles is the mildest climate
in the world!
People of Wyoming don't know
whether to call their female Judge n
%justiss of the peace or u justice Of
the p~eacess.
A new Territory is going to be
carved out and called Ojibway. For
goodness sake, call it Smi.h-or any
thing but Ojibway.
On Dec. 23rd u band OF Mexican
desperadoes foully murdered a man
and his wife and child pear San
Diego, California.
Campbell, the Dalles and Portland
mail carrier. safely arrived at the
Dalles last Tuesday. having been on
the route Is days.
A panther was caught in the Cow
litz river and hauled on board II
steamboat with u boat hook and
brought to Portland.
A woman sued n San Francisco pa
per for $4,000 damages for SANDER.
and got one cent? She wasn't SO
badly damaged after all.
The Corvallis Gazette calls on the
Radicals of Oregon to organize
Yes. hurry up; it's about time for
stealing to commence again.
\ man named Thompson, in going
from Portland to the Dalles, had one
one OF his feet so badly frozen that
amputation will be necessary.
j. S. Boyer, who has been appoint
ed Receiver at the Walla Wa!la Land
Office, takes the place of Anderson
Cox, who desired to be relieved.
A 9-year old boy has gained fame
in Portland by stealing money from
4 till in n store. Portland againnt
the world for all sorts of cussedmess.
4 base wretch who was treasurer
of n Petaluma (Cal.) concert for n
poor widow. sloped with the money
realized. Catch him and hang him.
4 California paper estimates the
area to be planted in wheat this year
l ZOO, 900 acres, which, ut seventeen
bushels IN acre, would yield q, $685.
600.
b. T. Dowell, J. Fl. Mitchell and
other Oregonians were of the party
who were delayed about two weeks
in the snow drifts on the Union Pa
cific railroad.
Portland ladies wear diamond
powder in their hair and on their
eyebrows, which we suppose make
them "glittering generalities," or
words to that effect.
DIR. Trask of San Francisco, has
sued Laura d. Fair for So .040for med
ical services. She swears he didn't
give her SIS worth Of physic, and he
swears she's another.
Rev. John +. Damon has resigned
the pastorate of the Plymouth Con-
gregationl Church of Seattle, and
will hereafter labor n missionary at
large fer Washington Territory.
New mines have been discovered
in the southwest corner of Idaho, in
which there are veins of solid miner
al from ten to sixty feet wide, avera-
ging from 500 to $3.50 per ton.
A Polk county man thought he
was going to die, but the doctor con
WINGED him he wasn't. and He got up
and found that he could lick the cold
woman" and was all hunky dory.
An aged negress, the mother of 81
children, died in the Insane Asylum,
at Portland, last week. She vas the
I former slave of Col. Ford, of Polk
county, when he lived In Missouri.
r. II. Sullivan has been sent to
the Oregon ~penitentiary for beingab-
sent-minded. He forgot his own
name, and wrote some other mans
name at the bottom Of a ohock for
5000.
The Oregonian announces the name
of Ex-Congressman Henderson for
denomination. subject to the Radieal