The state rights democrat. [volume] (Albany, Linn County, Oregon) 1865-1900, 1872-05-10

"bo ihalllod HiLl III low dayo
ThejSan Francisco Bulletin and
Post, both Independent papers with
Radical proclivities endorse Gree
ey's nomination.
The wife OF a prominent citizen Of
Salem has skeedaddled from her
husband and three children and gone
TO parts unknown.
Jacob Engle goes to the Peniten-
tiary for life for the murder ofBoone
Of Boone's ferry. on the Willamette
above Oregon City.
Mccormick was last week convict
ed, at Oregon City, of murder in the
second degree, and sentenced to i'm
prisonment for life.
Col. Jos. Teal has just received
from Pittsburg the drafts of the lock
gates that are to be used in the new
locks at Oregon City.
A prominent frisco man last week
blew his brains ont because he had
the headache. That's q sure settler
on the headache, any time.
A hen bas turned up over in Polk
who lays two eggs every day. The
rooster attends to all other business
Of that industrious family.
VIM. Chitwood, Of Table Rock,
Jackson county, was accidentally
killed by a shot fired from u revolver
in the hands of Bruce Cinnamon, last
week.
Mrs. Morris, an justice of the
Peace Of Wyoming, has become dis
gusted with official honors, thrown
up her commission and left the Ter
ritory.
On Tuesday afternoon n railroad
accident occurred at the Dalles, by
which n couple Of horses belonging
to Il. L. Whiteney, of Canyon City,
were killed.
A Frisco man got rid of a lit
tie step-daugbter last week by spread
ing strychnine on her piece of orange.
He ought to have hemp spread around
his throttle.
A gay and festive Mexican woman
over whose head Only 1l9 brief sum
mer have sped, was the belle of q
May Day Picnic at San Francisco
last Saturday.
Portland boys try how long they
can stand on the track while the To-
connective is coming. Some mother
will sigh for her darling" because
of that foolishness shortly.
The Jacksonville Times says Joe
Wilson has q cheek on him that
would put to shame a brass door
knocker, and raise a blush on the
jaw of a Government mule"
Flaxbrake wags his jaw at Jack
sonville next Saturday. He will not
come TO Portland until he has told
the people of Southern Oregon how
Grant and Holiday want them to
vote.
The Dolly Warden papers of Port
land call our papers in the provin-
cial towns Cow county-exchanges.'
We're proud of the appellation. Il
shows we have the cream of the bus
mess.
Two horses, with their young lady
riders, fell through n bridge into the
creek at East Portland last week.
Wetness is all that was the matter
with the girls when they we're fished
out by some men,.
The Ne,U Northwest says the woman
movement embraces men and wom-
en- of every shade and variety"
Should say so, when Susan B. An
thony and old Dickoy Henderson are
clasped in the same embrace.
Sharp little girls of Sacramento,
when they want n nice boquet to
carry to school, so to the proprietors
of flower gardens and piteously ask
for "a few flowers, please, to put on
my poor dead little sisters coffin"
Mrs Duniway says that if she can
have a voice in the Woman Suffrage
National Convention she will favor
stripping the woman movement oil
oil side issues, leaving it to stand, OF
fall upon its own merits. That's
right.
A Portland paper wants o jockey
club organized there to "enhance
that city's commercial prosperity and
make it more cosmopolitan in tone
and sentiment" We don't wonder
that cock-fightipg is considered ele.
waiting and refining amusement in
Portland.
The West Side says Gov. Grover
will not dare to meet Williams at the
huskings. If we knew where the
''huskings" were to be held we might
better answer that question. It will
probably be late autumn before the
corn is ripe enough to "husk," and
by that time it is possible even Ole