The state rights democrat. [volume] (Albany, Linn County, Oregon) 1865-1900, 1873-07-11
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baby take place in September.
There were nine deaths from
Cholera at Cincinnati on the 9th.
Young Walworth. the parricide,
has been sentenced to imprisonment
for life.
Buffalo experienced three distinct
earthquake shocks on Sunday and
one next day.
The Pope walked in the Vatican
grounds, on the 9Th, unsupported
by attendants.
Michael Desmond, OF Boston. last
Monday shot bis young wife aud then
killed himself.
Mrs. Drew, OF Tuftonboro, New
York, was killed in her house by
lightning on the 4th.
The statue OF Ethan Allen was un-
yelled at Burlington (vt.) on the
Fourth, in the presence Of 1000
spectators.
Prof. La. Mountain OF Brooklyn,
Michigan, was instantly killed at
Ionia, on the Fourth. by falling
from balloon.
The laying OF the Atlantic cable
OF 1873 was completed ut Hearts
Content IN. F. a little before mid
night on the 4th inst.
Carl kushner, a German travelling
agent, was found in the Hudson
River Monday. He had evidently
been murdered and robbed.
The Fourth Of July was duly
celebrated by banquets ut London.
Paris, Berlins Vienna, Madrid and
other leading cities on the continent.
Half mile OF the Missouri Pacific
Railroad. near Kickapoo Station. last
Tuesday suddenly without warming
sunk into the Missouri River and dis
appeared from sight.
A terrible storm visited the sodth-
ern parts of Indiana and Illinois last
Monday, wrecking churches. residen-
ces and fences. and destroying thou
sands Of acres OF crops.
At Cincinnati, on the Fourth. there
was but one case of cholera. At
| Memphis there were thirteen. the
disease. while abating in the latter
city. is spreading in the country.
Two gentlemen, two ladies' and
boy sailing in boat mt Chippewa
on the Fourth. got in the rapids
and were carried over Niagara Falls.
The names Of the PARTIES are not
known.
The celebration on the Fourth in
New York city was the greatest
known there for years. Iu the
Eastern and Middle States the same
day was celebrated with more than
usual spirit.
The severest storm ever known in
that vicinity. visited Hannibal. Mis-
souri,, on the night OF the 4ih OF
July. 1t blew down two or three
houses. and unro"fed several others.
II was also very severe at St. Joseph.
The bark Concor,lia. from Qiebec
for Plymouth. Eneltnd. vent ashore
at Cape Anguilla on Jaue 18th, and
the Captain. First Mate aud three Of
the crew were drowned. The re-
mainder Of the crew-eleven in all
were saved.
There has been no movement in
California produce of consequence.
Wool has sold to limited extent on
arrivals. The shipment of fifty bales
OF foreign wool by clipper, aud a
like quantity by railroad ia one Of the
anomalies Of trade not easily compre-
hended.
A dispatch from Winchester. vir-
ginia, states that while n family
named Little were ut breakfast on
Saturday feud broke out. when two
sons, Oscar and Lycurgus. commenc.
ed firing at the four other sons an |
their mother. the firing being re-
turued by the other son. O-car was
wounded. captured aud sent to Jail.
Another son. named Clinton, was
wounded; also the mother. Clinton
died Saturday evening. The mother
will die.
! Young Walworth. the parricade.
upon being taken to the Toombs last
Saturday, after his sentence, re-
marked: 81 am glad did not have
to endure a long lecture. which ]
had anticipated Judge Davis would
infict upon me. thoroughly under
stand nv position. and did not de-
sire any Instructions in relation there
} to. I simply wish time to arrange
my affairs, and I shall then submit
myself to my fate with all the equan-
unity I can command" Upon being
taken to his cell. he parted cheer
fully with the Deputy Sheriff, saying
that his was a case which he
throughly understood. but did not
hlame the world for the understand
iG5.
Tha like of storms of the past
i've days has seldom. if ever. been
} seen in the State OF Ohio and Indi-
ana. Hurricanes and tornadoes with
floods of rain have followed eacl,
other in rapid succession. At Wash
ington, Indiana, the storm was ex-
ceedipgly fierce. At Port Washing.
ton, Ohio, about seventeen miles
east of Columbus, the storm of wind
and rain uprooted trees and unroofed
houses. In Richmond trees were
blown in the streets. One fell across
an express wagon, breaking both legs
OF the driver and crushing the wagon.
Passengers from Logansport say
the storm leveled trees nearly all the
way from Logansport to Richmond,
Indiana.
General prostration Of telegraph
poles is without PARALLEL in the