The state rights democrat. [volume] (Albany, Linn County, Oregon) 1865-1900, 1872-03-15
NEWS OF the WEEK.
Cleaned From the Telegraph.
Thursday, March 2.

Withdrawn from his case. lie has
been arrested and was conveyed to
Newgate this morning.
A Washington dispatch says the
Government tonight gave q grand
reception to the Japanese Embassy at
Masonic Temple. Fourteen hundred
persons were present, including
Nessrs. Colfax, Blaine, Fish, the
Judges Of the Supreme Court and
many others. The President did not
attend.
Three Justices Of Castleton, Staten
Island, were fined $3.50 each yestcr-
day, for crimes in Office. Other jus.
tices were fined $40 each, and the
County Clerk was fined $40 for being
drunk at the town election. Some of
the above are to be tried for perjury.
While a man was being buried at
Tarrytown, Pa, yesterday, he was
discovered to be alive, was taken from
the coffin and is now getting better.
There is n great excitement at
Sioux City ovc the reported discov-
cry of immensely rich gold fields in
the Black Hills, Dakota Territory.
a company has been formed at Sioux
City, with SlO0,G0O capital, TO organ
izc an expedition, which il is expected
will leave for the gold region about
the LIST of May. Everybody here
fully believes that the richest mines
in the world arc situated in the Black
Hills.
Two Chicago girls, aged 16 years,
are under arrest for highway robbery,
having garroted and robbed, of mon
ey and jewelry. on Sunday last Cath
crime Burns. The young exponents
of woman's rights held her up and
went through her in regular footpad
style, aud threatened her with death
if she sqnealed.
The Democrats of Troy, n. Y,
yesterday elected their city ticket By
one thousand majority.
Several persons froze to death in
New York yesterday.
Hon. Thomas NJ. Brown, a distin-
guishcd attorney of New Albany, In
diana, returning home from his Office
las; evening, suddenly fell on the
pavement and expired almost imme.
diately.
Yesterday evening Colonel Lothian,
q prominent lawyer of Paris, Tcnnes-
see, was shot and instantly killed in
4 difficulty at Henry Station, Tennes-
see.
Letters from Fortress Monroe say
the storm on Sunday was the most
severe for fifteen years. The wind at
tanned the velocity offs miles an hour.
At Norfolk the storm caused the u 8
pension of business.
A Raleigh, North Carolina, dispatch
says intelligence is received of the
killing Of Henry Berry Lowery, chief
of the outlaws, by his brother Stephen
Lowery, one of the gang. Stephen
confesses to the deed, and reports in
person to the authorities at Roanoke.
Saturday, March 8.
Another Atlantic cable is to be laid
between England and America.
A special from Melbourne reports
that the British sloop-ofwar Rosario,
Commander Palmer, has recently
shellcd and destroyed several villages
inhabited by the murderers of Bishop
Patterson.
Germany had heavy shocks ofearth-
quake yesterday.
The trial of Major Hall, of New
York, slowly progresses.
Over 100000 worth of steamboats,
and cargoes were burned at Cincin-
natl yesterday.
Mrs. A. p. Barker spoke at Cooper
Institute, New York, last evening in
opposition to the free love doctrines
of her sister, Woodruff. She said she
believed her sister insane. She de-
nounced Tilton's, biography of the
Woodruff a series of SANDERS on her
family.
Albert Harvey (colored) was ar
rested at Lima, Ohio, yesterday, for
the murder of his wife at indianapolis,
nine years ago.
G. w. Purdy, at Newbury, N. Y.
yesterday, during a fit of insanity, at
tempted to kill bis mother and two
sisters, manning them with fire shov-
ell and cutting them with a razor.
Greeley, in to-day's Tribune, says
the following in his note declining to
have his name affixed to the call for
the Philadelphia Convention:
"FRIEND CHANDLER: Please not
attach my name to the call for the
National Convention. / stayed away
from your meeting on purpose to keep
a positions of independence. If we
have trustworthy assurances ofreform
at the White House, all right; but I'm
not inclined to help our Leets and
Stockings to another half million of
plumber. Yours,
HORACE GREELEY"
Sunday, March 10.
Congress has passed a bill allowing
800 bounty to soldiers, their widows
and orphans, who were mustered out
of the service. prior to the 9th day of
August.
It is reported that the President
has intimated to United States Attor-
ney Bates, of Utah, that his resigna-
ton would be accepted, but that
Bates friends urge him to decline and
await his removal, SO that the reasons
may be made public.
The house of Captain James Bry-
ant, of Machiasport, Maine, was burn
ed this morning. The captain, his
wife and two granddaughter were
burned to death.
The Medical Commission find
O'Connor, the assailant of the Queen,