The state rights democrat. [volume] (Albany, Linn County, Oregon) 1865-1900, 1873-04-11

out there.
! The husband of Seattle woman
came home drunk and drove her out
of the house, whereupon she took
poison, but the doctor kept her from
dying. !.
Somebody last-week robbed con-
tribution box for the poor in the
Portland Catholic Church. Pluto
has no fires hot enough for that
wretch.
Salem thieves must have scarce
picking. They have got so low
down as to rob Methodist preachers.
Crandall of the Statesman now better
look out.
j. G. Ainsworth was last Monday
elected School Director in Portland,
and Bob Ladd, Clerk. Both are
Democrats.
The Jacksonville Sentinel now has
the biggest egg-7a inches in longi-
tudinal circumference. The Sentinel
cackles over its achievement in the
oolo2ic line.
A mall..child belonging to Mr..
S. Wolf, of the Dalles, was acciden-
tally run over on last Friday evening,
at that place, by coach, and almost
instantly killed.
The little steamer Oneatta, which
has for several years run on Yaquina
Bay is to be brought around into the
Willamette, to be run between Al
bany and Eugene.
The word "Wasco, is Indian for
grass. Hence Wasco county is the
grass county. Gro the nexs time you
want to cuss fellow, tell him TO go
to-Wasco county!
| DIR. G. II. Rafferty,. of East Port.
land. married. few days ago. at
Dalles, the youngest daughter oi
Captain John Smith, of Warm
Springs Reservation.
McCrae, of Bakersfield, CAL, last
Saturday shot at Bennett Biggs, and
the ball passed through Biggs and
lodged in J. p. Stillwell, killing both
men. The murderer escaped.
The report is pretty well confirmed
that Joe Teal, who is now East, has
made arrangements to put on two
large steamers between San Fran.
cisco and Portland. 'Tis well.
| That Nevada muscular Christian
Benjamin Williams. is not to have
the pleasure Of pounding the
snoot' of pious Jim Chatham in q
moral prize fight, Gs jim refuses tc
come to time.
A tug boat is under construction
at Westport. and another at Astoria.
Both are intended to DO service on
the Bar and in the River. The more
tugs we have, the better for oul
shipping interests.
| j. L. Foulds, OF Frisco. stabbed
Herman Morningrout, because the
stabbe- thought the stabbee was
about to get away with the woman
who is always at the bottom of these
Nstabbing scrapes.
There is distinguished poet in tho
Virginia Enterprise. He pathet;call,
Z alludes to California as place where
tho dissolute grasshopper settith up
on ye mullen stalk and raspeth hi
, libidinous fiddle. Next.
Austin New brags on the quaint
tNty and quality of its street fights
Any man there who hasn't blacl
, Eye. dislocated nose or "chewed'
n ear is q Pariah and is denied admit
! tance to frst-class society.
, at the election at Eugene las
r Monday Joel Ware was elected Presi
dent of the Council; III. T. Stratton
J. r. Ream and VIM. Osborne
, Councilmen; Z. J. Holland, Recor
} der; Richard Rush, Marshal.
A Napa boniface recently grated
3 quantity of mandrake and served
to his boarders for horse .radish
: Fortunately for him, those who par
took of it were too weak to put hea
on HIM, but they did a powerful sigh
: of "cussin."
!. William Miller, of Los Angeles
sentenced to State Prison for thre
j years, for crime against nature
r jumped overheard from the steame
e Pacific while en- route for San Quen
tin, and was drowned before th
s boats could reach him.
: Carson (Nev. has been experiene
!, ing one of those hurricanes for whic
that region is SO justly celebrated
This was rather an effeminate one
however, only about one-half tn
: houses being unroofed and fe'
moved into the next lot.
A boy at the Dalles called in at
I store on April LIST and asked for
"bit's" worth of candy. 1t wa
wrapped up and the boy shelled OF
J, an old bride bit. The candy ma
y Immediately set that precocious yout
IS UP in the boot and shoe businss.