The state rights democrat. [volume] (Albany, Linn County, Oregon) 1865-1900, 1872-10-18
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Open mir religious meetings are
being held at Portland.
San Jose was severely shaken by
an earthquake last Sunday.
On an average sixteen vessels ar
rive at Coos Bay every week.
An Independent Firo Company is
about being organized at Portland.
The farmers of Union county have
organizedRn Agricultural Society.
The Virtue quartz ledge in Baker
county is yielding better than ever.
A three-inch snowfall occurred at
Salt Lake on the night Of September
23d.
Two ladies were admitted to the
bar of Salt Lako City on Saturday
last.
J. T.. Murphy has been chosen
pastor of tho Christian church ut Mon
mouth.
A frost killed oil the tender vines
near Yreka on the night OF Septcm-
Der 23d.
Il. q. Mulky, formerly connected
with the Corvallis Domocrat, has gone
TO Nevada to reside.
An unusual amount of California
fruit has been shipped for the Eas-
tern market this season.
A lady preacher named Catherine
Shertz IL exhorting sinners TO repen-
tance in Jackson county.
/ The winged calf, exhibited at the
State Fair. has been purchased for
the San Francisco Circus.
There were 30 vessels in San Fran
Disco harbor last Monday engaged
to load with wheat for Liverpool.
Charlie Belt, son Of DIR. Belt, Of
Salem, was thrown from horse and
had an arm broken one day last week.
Over l 200 patents for land clai-
mants have been received at the Land
Office at Olympia during the past
month.
4 man named Ryan fell from
wagon load OF hay, near East Port
land one day last week and broke
his neck.
The white section hands along the
line of the o. & G. Il. II. have been
discharged and Cinnamon hired in
their places.
A youth named A1cLaire horse
whipped another named Simpson at
Sheridan the other day. for which
he was fined SIS.
A man named Brady stabbed an-
other, it is thought fatally, at Van
couver last Thursday. Jealousy was
the melting cause.
The library of tho Willamette
University contains 1000 volumes,
oil frst-class works, and some OF
them very valuable.
Major Roberts has let tho contract
for clearing the channel of the upper
Columbia to J. B. Montgomery for
tue sum Of SIS, 900.
Irs. Lane, the mother of Laura d.
Fair, upon hearing of the acquittal
of her daughter, attempted suicide
by taking laudanum.
Thirteen marriage licenses were
issued from tho Office of the clerk of
Multnomah county during the first
two weeks of this month.
The Southern Methodists lad n
meeting at Tillamook the latter part
of September, which resulted in
twenty-nine accessions TO the church.
The body of an aged man was
found near tho road leading from
Portland to Hillsboro recently. He
is supposed to haze starved to death.
81. Mccormick is going to publish
a Directory of Oregon, for which
J. NJ. Murphy, formerly local repor-
ter for the Herald, is collecting sta
tistics.
Mrs. Duniway and n number more
females OF discontented turn OF
mind met at the Opera House in
Salem last Monday and resolved to
60 for Grant.
A narrow gauge locomotive and o
number of cars and trucks have been
shipped to Walla Walla to be placed
on the Columbia River and Walla
Walla Railroad.
A new, fatal disease, combining
symptoms of cholara morbus and
fux, has appeared among children
in Minorsville, Utah, proving fatal in
nearly every case.
Rev. G.. D. B. Miller and wife, of
Boise City, will soon start as Miss
ionaries to Japan, in which case the
Episcopal Church at Boise City will
be without Rector.
A party Of young men destroyed
Chinese camp near Oregon City on
last Friday. The act is regarded