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The state rights democrat. [volume] (Albany, Linn County, Oregon) 1865-1900, 1873-02-07

A RETIRED EDIToR.-Last Sun
days Portland Herald contained the
announcement of Col. B. B. Taylor's
withdrawal from the editorial manage
ment OF that paper. Colonel Taylor,
although but few n1onths connected
with Oregon journalism, had gained
the universal esteem of his brethren
ofsthe quill and pastepot," and we
cannot bnt look upon his retirement
with regret. Wherever he may go
he will bear with him our good
wishes.
The state rights democrat. [volume] (Albany, Linn County, Oregon) 1865-1900, 1873-02-07

VIcE-PREsIDENT CoLFAx and
Senator Paterson, of New Hamp-
shire, were the last victims on the
tack of The Credit Mobilier inyes-
tigation. Their squirming when the
iron entered their souls, was like that
of an earth-worm impaled on a fish
hook, and would be amusing were it
less painful.
The state rights democrat. [volume] (Albany, Linn County, Oregon) 1865-1900, 1873-02-07

A NIppER NIPpED.-Hon. (9 S. C.
Pomeroy, who twice succeeded in
purchasing seat in the u. S. Senate
from Kansas, has just been nipped in
bis third attempt to buy up the
Kansas Legislature for that purpose,
and is now under bonds of $40, 900 to
answer before the next grand jury for
the crime of bribery. OF course he is
a canting, puritanieal, hyprocritical
"trooly loil'' SON of gun!
The state rights democrat. [volume] (Albany, Linn County, Oregon) 1865-1900, 1873-02-07

AN aunt OF the late Horace Gree
ley, Mrs. Dwinell, is now living in the
town of Gaines, Orleans county, N.
\. Some years ago, Mr.. Greeley
was to deliver the address at the
County Fair, and he, being anxious
that his relatives family should hear
bis remarks. proceeded to his aunt's
farm. apd pulling off his coat, helped
TO husk lot of corn, at which all
bands on the premises were working.
The neialbors, also, Joined with the
distinguished editor, and that. corn
was buskHd in time to allow all hands
so attend the tair and bear Dir, Gree
ley's address.
The state rights democrat. [volume] (Albany, Linn County, Oregon) 1865-1900, 1873-02-07

ANN CAMPBELL recently died at
the extraordinary age of 130, at Ken
yon, Canada. Ann was born in the
parish of Bracadale, in Skye, Scotland,
in 1742, exactly three years before
the hopes of Prince Charlie were ex-
tinguished on Culloden Moor.
The state rights democrat. [volume] (Albany, Linn County, Oregon) 1865-1900, 1873-02-07

BUFFALO BILL" has resigned his
seat in the Nebraska Legislature and
gone back to his squaw and hali-breed
children. He says a Nebraska Legis-
lature is too rough for his sensitive
nature to mingle with.
The state rights democrat. [volume] (Albany, Linn County, Oregon) 1865-1900, 1873-02-07

1t is said that there is town on
the Northern Pacific Railroad. which
has but 10 houses, and yet contains
81 saloons and other places of busi-.
ness. They ought to call that place
Bum City.
The state rights democrat. [volume] (Albany, Linn County, Oregon) 1865-1900, 1873-02-07

THE friends of poor drunken Dick
Yates. of Illinois, are beseiging the
President to appoint him Governor
of some Territory. Send him to the
Territory of the District of Columbia
he will have distinguished company
in his Bachannal carousels there.
The state rights democrat. [volume] (Albany, Linn County, Oregon) 1865-1900, 1873-02-07
Two Indians nnt into

Two Indians got into drunken
row at Napa City on the 14th, and
one of them, after using up his an
tagonist by beating him with bot
tie, laid down on him and amused
himself by placidly chewing off the
thumb of the defeated man. This
is regarded as an Indian summary
proceeding.
The state rights democrat. [volume] (Albany, Linn County, Oregon) 1865-1900, 1873-02-07
WEEKLY PRICES CURRENT.

CORRECTED WEEKLY By r. c. HARPER co.
Following are the prices paid fos produce. and
the prices at which other articles are selling in
this market:
WHEAT--White, p bushel 80.
OATS-59 busheI, 40 cts.
P0TAT0ES-Ts bushei. s so.
ONIONS-59 bushe1, 81 al SO.
FL0UR-19 bb1. So. so.
BEANS-White, % b, 4l15 cts.
DRIED FRUIT-Apples, u fb, 81 cents;
Peaches, y 70. 16s cts.; Plums, p ib, 1sc;
Cnrrsnts. ~ D., I0c.
BUTTER-p b, fresh roll 156e25c.
EGGS--59 dozen. 20 cts.
CHICKENS-19 dozen. 5000.
SUGAR-Crnsbed, % 10, is cts.; Island, q
fb, Sl1@13 cts; San Francisco Refined,
p n, 131 cts.
TEA-youne Hyson, u h, 81 so; Japan
y ID. 7ocG1sl 90; Black, p fb, 75cG9$l so
COFFEE-j3 ID. 23Gt25 cents.
SALT-59 fb, IiGt24 cts.
SYKUP-Heavy Golden, - keg, So so.
Ex. Heavy Golden, y gall. 81 rs.
BACoN-Hams, Oregon, p fb, IS; Eastern,
Poets; Shoulders, 10 cts.
LARD--p fb, 124 cts.
oIL--Devoe's Kerosene, p gallon, IS cts.,
p can. 5 gall, 10 90 Linseed Oil, raw, y
gall, 81 rs; Linseed Oil, boiled, y gall,
81 371.
The state rights democrat. [volume] (Albany, Linn County, Oregon) 1865-1900, 1873-02-07

Gov. Geary of Pennsylvania, on
leaving official life, will, it is stated,
enter into a partnership with a
wealthy resident of Carlisle, in the
Indian Agency business, along with
the Hon. james Harlan.
The state rights democrat. [volume] (Albany, Linn County, Oregon) 1865-1900, 1873-02-07

THE Monumental Association Of
Georgia has issued an appeal for funds
to erect a monument to the Confeder-
ate dead.
The state rights democrat. [volume] (Albany, Linn County, Oregon) 1865-1900, 1873-02-07

THE Unitarian Church in Washing
ton City is busted up because the
pastor persisted in preaching politics.
Good.
The state rights democrat. [volume] (Albany, Linn County, Oregon) 1865-1900, 1873-02-07

THE National Woman Suffrage AS
socialion-Susan B. Anthony, Presi-
dent-will meet in Washington on
the 10th inst.
The state rights democrat. [volume] (Albany, Linn County, Oregon) 1865-1900, 1873-02-07

AN Illinois man has immortalized
himself by inventing a new style of
button-hole. 1t will last through a
whole Legislative term.
The state rights democrat. [volume] (Albany, Linn County, Oregon) 1865-1900, 1873-02-07

A small girl in Dubuque Qowa),
whose religious nature has been some
what pampered, prays for her ''daiIy
gingerbread and gets it.
The state rights democrat. [volume] (Albany, Linn County, Oregon) 1865-1900, 1873-02-07

VIRGINIANs project recumbent
statue of Gen. Lee on sarcophagus-
the whole to be made of Vermont
marble,
The state rights democrat. [volume] (Albany, Linn County, Oregon) 1865-1900, 1873-02-07

OF the whole number of citizens
entitled by law to vote in November
last, 9, 3,579,79S voted for Grant. 2,s42,-
426 for Greeley, 29,40S for O'Conor,
5,60S for Black, and the balance. es-
timated at 1,I42,760 voters, mostly
Democrats, stayed away from the
polls.
The state rights democrat. [volume] (Albany, Linn County, Oregon) 1865-1900, 1873-02-07

A word Ia the wise is sufficient. We all
know the sad results OF bronchial affections. OF
coughs. Of colds. and of whooping cough
These may be cured with WIsTARs BAIsAM u
OF WILD CHERRY. Thousands OF tcstimoni-
nls tell us OF the cures Il has Performed.
The state rights democrat. [volume] (Albany, Linn County, Oregon) 1865-1900, 1873-02-07

A Maine breach of promise suit, II
years years old, has at last been ter
minated; by the death of both parties
fn Il
The state rights democrat. [volume] (Albany, Linn County, Oregon) 1865-1900, 1873-02-07

TUX revised code of laws for Mis-
sissippi makes it penitentiary of
fence to sell adulterated liquors.
The state rights democrat. [volume] (Albany, Linn County, Oregon) 1865-1900, 1873-02-07

One day, when Mrs. Partington
heard the minister say there would be
a nave in the new church, she observ-
ed that "she knew who the part, was.n
The state rights democrat. [volume] (Albany, Linn County, Oregon) 1865-1900, 1873-02-07

A preacher is Mayor of Macon,
Georgia.
The state rights democrat. [volume] (Albany, Linn County, Oregon) 1865-1900, 1873-02-07

OVER one.half of the negro
(Kellogg) Legislature of Louisiana
can ueither read nor write.
The state rights democrat. [volume] (Albany, Linn County, Oregon) 1865-1900, 1873-02-07

MRs. MARY q. MAST is Register of
Deeds of Leavenworth county, Kan
sas.
The state rights democrat. [volume] (Albany, Linn County, Oregon) 1865-1900, 1873-02-07

THIRTEEN organized sets OF lobby
lists were in Washington recently,
each representing scheme for canal
systems from the West to the sea-
board. These plans involve in the
aggregate the expenditure of s229,-
100000, and it is stated that others
are vet fo come
The state rights democrat. [volume] (Albany, Linn County, Oregon) 1865-1900, 1873-02-07
HEMORRHOIDS.

n. cARoTHERs l. cos "PILE PILLS
AMI OINTMENT have now become one of
the standard preparations of the days is pre-
pared and recommended for Piles oaiy (whether
chronic or recent). Sufferers may depead upon
it, that this remedy will give thea permanent
relief from this troublesome and damaging COM
plant.
Sent postpaid to any.addrcss (within the uni
ted States) upon receipt of price, 81 so.
A. CAR0THERS & CO.,
n40y1 Albany, Linn Co., Oregon.
The state rights democrat. [volume] (Albany, Linn County, Oregon) 1865-1900, 1873-02-07

"Subscriptions received for all the popular
Newspapers and Magazines which will be de-
Hyered In any part OF the city. n25w4.
The state rights democrat. [volume] (Albany, Linn County, Oregon) 1865-1900, 1873-02-07

ADVERTIsEMENTS.
The state rights democrat. [volume] (Albany, Linn County, Oregon) 1865-1900, 1873-02-07

FRIDAY........... FEBRUARY !. 1873.
The Robesonian. [volume] (Lumberton, N.C.) 1870-current, 1873-02-05
Borrowers i'm New York.

1t would seem as if the city had been
districted by borrowers, each district
having its infesters. The leading hotels,
or rather their patrons, are laid under
contributions by these financial pests,
who take their position at stated hours,
and ply their trade .preseveringly from
season to season. These are the fellows
who, having exhausted the metropolitan
mine, are following the stronger lode
They are better acquainted with the
arrivals in town than the drummers
themselves. They scan the registers as
antiquarians would mouldering inscrip-
ton, and greet with fulsome hattery and
cordial hand-shaking every provincialist
they have ever encountered. Their ac-
cidents are chronic, their misfortunes
unvarying. They have always lost their
pocket book or left it at home; they have
been suddenly called out of town, or have
received dispatch requiring immediate
answer They have failed to receive al
expected remittance; their wife is yer,
ill, or their child has just died; the,
must have money or so mad (It ma
be related here that they rarely go hal
so made as the credulous creatures d
The Robesonian. [volume] (Lumberton, N.C.) 1870-current, 1873-02-05
How a Prominent Business
Man WesattO Ruin.

It is but a few years since, says the
Chicago Journal, that the house Of Ben
nett, Pieters & Co., wholesale lie quor
dealers and proprietors ofthe "Red Jacket
Bitters," stood high among our best
known, most enterprising and responsible
firms. In almost every paper Of the
country their advertisements were to be
seen. Mr.. Pieters was a man Of fine
abilities, and besides being shrewd and
successful in business, he was possessed
Of superior scholarly attainments. His
home was among the most elegant and
refined in the city adorned in the most
chaste and beautiful manner, and grace
fully presided oI er by his WIFE an estima-
bic and accomplished lady. While inthe
full tide Of prosperity, with wealth pour
ing in upon him, Pieters fell. He could
not resist the temptation offered by the
Demon concealed soaeash the rosy hue
of the wine cup, and his imagination was
heightened and his brain exhilarated by
the sparkling champagne OF his own bit
ters. The high reputation Of his firm
began to feel the effects of his downward
course, and finally came the carsh. Pietcrs
was ruined; he struggled vainly for a
time, but the power ofthe fend with which
he had so long tampered was too great:
and nerveless, and unresistingly he was
hurried to the consummation of his ca
reer. His elegant home soon followed
his business house; rich and valuable
presents made to his family were swal
lowed up in the general ruin, or went te
crafty still more his unceasing thirst fo1
drink, until at last he and they were
homeless and well-nigh friendless. A
few months since he enlisted in tn,
United States service as private soldier
and is now with his regiment somewher
on the great Plains Of the West. Hi
broken-hearted wife has filed a petition 70
, a legal separation from him, alleging tina
she has been reduced to utter povert
f and misery through her husbands Low
of intoxicating drink, The story Of he
misfortunes is indeed heartrending, an
E if anything were yet needed to urge 0
the friends of temperance and reform
would be found in the terrible fate
Pieters and his innocent family.
The Robesonian. [volume] (Lumberton, N.C.) 1870-current, 1873-02-05
Remarkable VefisicatiOH
A. L >

The Fort Wayne Sentinezrelate
following as well authenticated fa
y gentleman of high social pos
in this county has son engag
a clerk in large mercantile ho,
Omaha. A few weeks ago the father re-
ceived letter from the son to the effect
that he had been robbed Of $1,000 be-
longing to his employer, while return
ing from collecting trip into the coun-
try. The father was naturally troubled
by the intelligence, and he lay awake
for some time thi liking of the unfortun-
ate occurrence. At last he fell asleep,
and, as it seemed to him, he was sitting
by table in bed chamber of the
Hotel, in Omaha, listening to the con.
versation of two young men who were
recalling the particulars of a robbery in
which they had been concerned, while
they counted over the proceeds of the
same with an exultant air,
Learning the number of the room he
descended the stairs, consulted she regis
ter, fixing their names in memory, to
gether with the date under which the,
were written, and then awoke. He i'm
mediately wrote letter to his son, re
questing Lin to call at the - Hote1
The Robesonian. [volume] (Lumberton, N.C.) 1870-current, 1873-02-05
we Shall Meet Again.
(From George D. Prentice.

(From George u. Prenuce.)
The fat of nature is incxorable. There
is no appeal for relief from the great
law which dooms us to dust. We
flourish and fade as the leaves Of the
forest. and the flowers that bloom and
wither in day have no Trailer hold
upon life than the mightiest monarch
that ever shook the earth with his foot
steps, Generations Of men will appear
and disappear as the grass, and the mul-
titude that throng the earth to-day will
disappear as the footsteps on the shore
Men seldom think Of the great event of
death until the shadow falls across
their pathway, hiding from their eyes
the faces OF loved ores, whose living
slnile was the sunlight of existence
Death is the antagonist of life, and the
cold thought Of the tomb is the skele-
ton of all feasts. We do not want to go
through the dark valley, although its
dark passage may lead to paradise; we
don't want to lie down in the grave,
even with princes for bed-fellows.-
In the beautiful drama of Ion, the hope
of immortality, 50 eloquently uttered
by the death devoted Greek, finds
deep response in every thoughtful
soul. When about to yield his young
existence as sacrifice to hate, his
Clemantha asks if they should meet
again, to which he replies; | have asked
that dreadful question of the hills that
look eternal, of the clear streams that
flow forever, of the stars among whose
fields of azure my spirit has walked IL
glory. All were dumb; but as gazt
upon, thy living face, I feel confident
that thcre is something in the love tha
nantes through it's beauty that canno
wholly perish. We shall meet again
Clemantha.
The Robesonian. [volume] (Lumberton, N.C.) 1870-current, 1873-02-05
after lending them.

after lending them.
A gentleman blessed with a good
memory, and cursed with frequent APP
proaches Of petitioners for call-loans, de-
clares that one of these tricksters has
been bereayed during the past six months
of offspring to the number of ninety
eight, and has become widower not less
than sixty times. Who can regard
without profoundest pity a mortal
struggling under such an accumulation
of sorrows, and not respond pecuniarily?
Like rhetorical questions are put by the
borrowers. He who answers them with
his pocket-book may charge its contents
perpetually to Profit and Loss.
New York has thousands of regular
borrowers, and volunteers are entering
the strategic army daily and hourly. The
ranks are always full to overfowing, and
masterly advances are constantly making
on the foe, who is hoodwinked by the
pretext that he is friend. The foe is
any gull or generous fellow who hates to
say no, or gives to his persecutor the
benefit of the doubt. The foe can win
little glory by resistance; his wisest
course is retreat, and he is apt to do SO
finally, though not before his porte mon
noie bears many humiliating scars
Junius Henri Browne, in acr,Jntr's
| for February.
The Robesonian. [volume] (Lumberton, N.C.) 1870-current, 1873-02-05
Selecting a Wife

We have heard Of the test being ap-
piled to servant girls, but John Starkley
was the man who applied it to the Sc
lection Of a wife. The Starkleys and
the Belknaps had been friends through
several generations. In the present
generation there was in the Starkley
family neson, and in the family of Belk-
maps FIVE daughters and it had been
arranged between the parents that the
heir of the Starklevs should take him
wife from among the daughters of Belk-
nap. John, the heir aforesaid, ct fl.e
age of FIVE and twenty, had returned
from his travels, when his father babe
him select from the daughters OF the
friendly house the one he would have
FOR wife. John was dutiful son, and
his heart was whole, and as the maidens
were all fair to look upon, he accepted
the situation, determined to master it if
possible.
John spent several evenings in the
company of the young ladies', and it
was difficult to decide which was the
most charming, though his fancy rested
most lingeringly upon the youngest
not that she was the handsomcst, but
she appeared the most sensible.
One day John was invited to dinner
and in advance Of the family he made
his way into the hall and threw broom
upon the floor directly across the pas
sage to the dining-room. BY and by
the summons sounded for the meal, and
John watched for the result. The eld-
est daughter stepped over the broom
loftily. The second went around it.
The third gave it kick from her path.
The fourth gave it an extra kick. The.
fifth-the youngest-stooped and pick
ed the broom up, and took it to the far
corner of the hall, and set it carefully
out Of the way.
And John selected the meek>cyed,
fair-haired maiden who had thus stood
the test, and he never had occasion to
regret his choice. She proved to be a
wife who looked we'll to the ways Of hel
household, aud her heart had no lack oI
, faith and love.
The Robesonian. [volume] (Lumberton, N.C.) 1870-current, 1873-02-05
A Scottish advocate, having on ce

A Scottish advocate, having on GER
tain occasion drank rather too freely,
was called on unexpectedly to plead in
& cause in which he had been retained.
The lawyer mistook the party for whom
he was engaged, and to the great amaze
ment of the agent who had feed him,
and to the absolute horror of the poor
client, who was in court, he delivered a
long and fervent speech directly oppo-
site to the interests he had been called
upon to defend Such was his zeal,
that no whispered remonstrances, no
jostling Of the elbow, could stop him,
But, just as he was going to take his
seat, the trembling client, in brief
note. informed him that he had been
pleading for the wrong party. This in
timation, which would have disconcert-
ed most men, had very different effect
on the advocate, who, with an air of in
finite composure, resumed his Grafton
Such my lords, said he, " is the state
ment which you will probably hear from
The Robesonian. [volume] (Lumberton, N.C.) 1870-current, 1873-02-05

look at the register, and if he found the
names Of John B. Wilson and James
Frank inscribed on its pages under the
date of November, to have the parties
arrested and charged with the theft Of
$1,000. The son followed the directions,
and from letter received by the father
some time since, we learn that the said
John i. Wilson and James Frank were
arrested at the said hotel, and they con-
fessed to the felony that S4;512 of the
lost money was recovered, and that the
offenders had been sent to the peniten-
tiary.
The Robesonian. [volume] (Lumberton, N.C.) 1870-current, 1873-02-05
From the Raleigh News.
The Election Liayy--Azs Amend
EneHt Suggested.

No bill, we believe, has yet been in
troduced in the Legislature, looking to
any change or modification of the cleo
ton law.
We do not concur in any Of the sug-
gcstions on the subject contained in
Governor Caldwells message. We think
we have shown conclusively that his
objections are not we'll taken, and that
the provisions of the law which his Ex-
cellency attempted to show were unjust
and unreasonable, are founded upon
common sense, are Ia accordance with
the principle of the Republican theory
of elections, and are sustained by the
highest legal authorities.
There is one suggestion which we
would like to make to the Legislator e
on the subject, and which we would be
glad to see acted on before it adjourns.
We think the Legislature now in
session, should amend the present elec-
tion law SO as to require every voter in
the State to present his poll tax receipt
at the ballot~boz, on the day of election
before he is permitted to cast his vote
There are thousands Of persons in
North Carolina who are always found al
the polls, but never make their appear
ance on tax collection day.
The provision Of requiring all voters
to pay their poll tax before they are al
lowed to cast their ballots, has bee
adopted in Georgia, and has worke
very benefcially. The consequence i
that the State Government of Georgi
, is entirely in the hands Of represents
| tives chosen by the taxpayers, anl VIII
will take care of the interests Of thos
, by whom they are elected.
No man ought to be aNowed the pr
? ilege Of the ballot until he has paid h
. poll-tax. The principle is reasonabl
a right and just to all parties. We ha'
u no data at hand on the subject, but =
! venture the assertion that at the Ia
it election, twenty-five thousand perso
Il voted in this State who have never pa
"a dollar of taxes Of any description
The Robesonian. [volume] (Lumberton, N.C.) 1870-current, 1873-02-05
From the Norfolk Virginian.
The "ChriStian''-H

Our readers remember what a gallant
effort Fernando Wood made to bring the
"Christian Hero" 0 O. Howard, to
justice for his extraordinary abuse of
power while chief of the Freedman's Bu-
reau, and how the aforesaid "American
Havelock" Gas o. q. is sometimes called,
with cruel irony) was most artlstically
whitewashed by committee appointed
to acquit him. O. @. escaped then, but
it seems that he may yet he made to
give all account Of his stewardship, and
we sincerely trust he may. It is now
stated that General Vincent, Of the A
g. Department, has inspected Howard 5
bureau, and his report gives ample
ground for more thorough and formal
investigation than that to which we have
referred. General Vincent reports tha
many important documents, necessary to
an understanding of what had been done
where not to be found; that others wer,
carelessly thrown about; that the fnan
cial papers were in great confusion, ant
indicated questional transactions involy
ing large sums of money. But not t.
60 futher into detail it is shown by thi
inspector that Mr.. Woods charges wer
not without Foundation, and in tn
public interest we call on Congress t
take up General Vincent's report, an
renew the endeavor to bring the transat
, tons of O. 0. to the light of d"y.