The state rights democrat. [volume] (Albany, Linn County, Oregon) 1865-1900, 1872-10-18
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A ROMANCE OF A WATERING PLACE.

A correspondent of tho Boston
ITaueIer, at Newport, overheard the
following conversation:
"No, Hsrry, dear, we must part. I
think it is awful cruel in pa, but you
know he never encouraged you. He
says you are nice enough, but that q
young man nowadays mus! be able to
support wife in the style to which
she has been accustomed, and that
you know you could not do, dear.
So I must gi~e you up. That Gus.
Evans I fairly hate, with his little
swapping. eyes, and his bristly ugly
little moustache-ugb! but he has u
lovely pony ph@ton, which is all at
my service, and diamond big as IA
walnut on bis shirt-bosoln, and pa
says he has lots Of money, and owns
real estate and railroad stocks, and ]
don't know what else, and he says I
must be civil to him and marry him
if he asks me; and know he will,
for the other night he got right to the
point and just ready to ask the all
important question, when Pa drop
ped in to look for his paper, and that
ended it for the time.
"But don't you love Ine?" the
young manly fellow at her side asked,
with twinge and a tremor in his
voice; ''you know you have given
me cause for thinking SO and hoping"
"Why, yes, of course I do, How
silly! Love you! You know I love
you, and it is too bad that l can't
have my way, ana marry you instead
OF Gus. Pa might support US as we'll
as not, but he won't, and you know
l never can exist without the con-
forts l have always had. Imust have
my dresses and my diamonds, my
horses and my parties, and move in
the same circle of society as do now,
and these things you know You could
never give nee. No, Harry, dear. 7
shall always love you, and you won't
be vexed, win you; but it is better
that we should part, and you won't
try to see me much, will you, till
after I'm married."
"Vexed. On, no? not st you. But
let US go in, and then I'll say good
bye to you and my hopes together"
His voice was hard, and he strove
to be cool and unconcerned, bit it
trembled little, and his face was
very white as they passed me. But
her smile was as sweet and self-satis-
| fed, and her eye as clear, as though
she had not wrecked young mans
happiness and thrown him aside for
brainless jumping jack with money,
as though her life was not to be a
yapid, tiresome round OF fashionable
emptiness, with none OF love or use
! fulness 10 sweeten It.
from the Moore County fTen.l Pionecr.l
a TREMENDOUS SNAKE STORY.
On Saturday night, a few weeks
since, MIR. George w. Bryom brought
to town two small snakes, resembling
somewhat the famous viper OF Egypt.
Snakes are not such uncommon ap-
pearances as to elicit any particular
comment or notice on our part. But
there are peculiar circumstances sur
rounding the finding OF these serpen-
tine specimens OF animated nature
which certainly require special notice
In saving log at Lands Mill, these
serpents were found in small hol-
low, just large enough to contain
them, with solid mass Of wood sur
rounding them, it being one foot to
the nearest surface of the log. 1t
would be hard to believe the state
ment of a stranger as to these facts,
but George Bryom's veracity is un:
doubted, even if it were not confirmed
by the testimony of Captain Lands,
and if our friend Byron was in the
habit of imbiping "old Lincoln" very
freely, and had not produced the
snakes, we might deem him victim
of that terrible visitation of Provi-
dence known as "delirium tremens.
But as he is sober man, and has
brought up the serpents, which may
be seen at DIR. Salmon's drug store,
We are compelled to believe his story.
Moreover, such things have been
known before. Naturalists record in
stances of reptiles, snakes and frogs,
having been found in solid logs, and
even in solid rocks. This is the first
case of the kind with which we have
met fully verified by the testimony of
men whose reputation for truth and
veracity is unimpeachable. We leave
scientific men to account for these
facts. which seem to be out of the or