The state rights democrat. [volume] (Albany, Linn County, Oregon) 1865-1900, 1872-01-12

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The snow is from ten to fifty feet
deep.
A lad nnmed Hugh Barr, Of Doug
las county, won't fire anymore New
Years salutes with his right hand,
because it is blown away by busted
gun.
Brigham Young is now on trial for
mur9er at Salt Lake, and was refus-
I'd bail. He is kept close prisoner
by the U. s. Marshal in his own
house.
Sharp little boys in East Portland
turn hogs out into the streets and
then get paid by the City Marshal
for catching and putting them in the
pound.
A niger cook was smothered to
death at Seattle by leaving a pan of
coal burning all night in his bed room.
He must have been healthy old
sleeper.
Thernew catholic school house TO
be built in Salem next summer, will
be 3 stories high, so feet wid& and
100 feet long, and the handsomest
structure in the city.
The Portland Bulletin has been NOV
ed into new brick building erected
for that purpose, and Of course it
now has the finest publishing estab-
lishment in the State.
Ice has disappeared from the
Columbia at the Dalles. Stock had
not suffered mitch in that vicinity,
and the snow it was thought would
be beneficial to grazing.
Californians are iubilant over the
prospect Of rich harvest next year,
owing to the recent heavy rains. The
river at Marysville was up to high
water mark on New Years.
"A Sacramento woman sued her
husband for divorce on the ground
that he was not sufficiently good-look-
ing. If men applied the same rule,
women would speedily desist.
A Portland youth says he always
comes down stairs the way he did
last week, when the father OF n beau
tiful young lady applied big boot to
him with elegance and precision.
There arc now two daily and five
weekly papers published at Olympia.
Il little village Of perhaps twelve
hundred inhabitants. Still another
IA Democratic weekly is projected.
An aged couple of G5 and and 10
years respectively. ofJackson county,
last year planted. cultivated and
harvested l GOO bushels of wheat,
800 bushels OF oats and TOO bushels
OF corn.
The prevailing penalty OF the loss
of a wager in Portland is now for
the victim 70 wheel the victor through
the city in a hapd-cart and then
dump him out in sewer OF filth. It
was done last week.
The Importance of vote" is ex-
hibited in the late California election,
where the Democrats assemblyman
in Tulnre county was elected by two
majority and the Democratic Senator
in Santa Cruz District by nine.
A white man got squaw drunk at
Eugene and melted her with jealousy
until she hacked another squaw all
to pieces with knife. Such q man
rs that ono ''can't get very much
lower down in this world-not by
land"
An arrangement has been made
whereby an English company will
lu'SsS hfe mliilou dOi4dF5 III 1hlllOI-
MIA lands. The lands are mostly of
a swampy character and lie in the
Sacramento valley. They will be
improved.
A Ayoung man named Bud Edmond
son accidentally shot Mr.. Bush. of
Lane county. while carelessly hand
ling his pistol, when drunk, the 9TH
er night. Two bullets entered the
breast of Mr.. b., and his life is now
in a critical condition.
At ball in Siskiyou county, Cal. a,
last week, n bullet fred by an OBJ
streperous dancer, which was inten-
ded for man, passed through n
woman's waterfall and went into q
mans knee. 1t was q windfall for
the man who was shot at that the
ball struck the waterfall.
There never was known so heavy O
rainfall in Califernih since the first
settlement of the country by whites
as occurred on December 10Th, and
the total rainfall for the four days
from the 18th to the 21st inclusive
was much in excess of any previous
corresponding period ever noted.
A lawyer named Spaulding has
sued the Sacramento Union for libel
in deprecating the fullness of his le-
gal ability. His Satanic majesty will
next be after somebody to mend his
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