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The state rights democrat. [volume] (Albany, Linn County, Oregon) 1865-1900, 1873-10-31
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from the text "And when they had sung d
hymn, they vent into the Mount Of Olives."l
What song sang the twelve with the Savior,
When finished the Sacrament wine?
We're they bowed and subaued IA behavior,
Or bold as made bold with sign7
Were the hairy breasts strong and defiant
Were the naked arms bfawny and strongg
Wete the bearded lips lifted reliant
Thrhst forth and full sturdy with songg
What sang theyf What sweet song OF Zloh.
With Christ in their midst like q crown,
Whilo here sat Saint Peter. the lion;
Ahd thefe, like lamb, with head down.
Sat Saint John, with his slllen and raven
Rich hair on his shoulders, and eyes
Lifting up to their faces unshaven,
Like o sensitive child In surprise.
Was the song as strong fishermen swinging
Their nets full OF hope to the sea2
Or low, Ike the ripple wave, singing
Sea songs on their loved Galilee2
Were they sad with foreshadows Of sorrows,
Like the birds that sing low when the breozs
Is tip-toe with a tale OF to-morrows-
OF earthquakes and singing OF sees9
Ali soft was their song as the waves aro
That fall in low musical means;
And sad. should say. as she winds arJ
That blow by the white gravestones.
The state rights democrat. [volume] (Albany, Linn County, Oregon) 1865-1900, 1873-10-31

Is YoUR NoTE Coon "A Boston
lawyer on School Street, was called
on short time ago by q boy, who
inquired if he had any waste paper to
sell. The Lawyer had a crisp, keen
way of asking questions, and is, more
over, a methodical man. So pulling
out drawer, he exhibited his stock
Of waste paper.
"Will you give me twenty-five cents
for that?'
The boy looked at the paper doubt
ingly moment, and offered fifteen.
"Done, said the lawyer, and the
paper was quickly transferred to the
bag by the boy, whose eyes sparkled
as he lifted the weighty mass.
Not till it was safely slowed away
did he announce that he had no mon
ey.
"No money! How do you expect To
buy paper without money!
Not prepared to state exactly his
plan of operations, the boy made nc
reply.
"Do you consider your note good2'
asked the lawyer.
"Yes, SIR"
Every well; If you say your notes
good, I'd just as soon have it as the
money; but if it isn't good I don't
want it."
The boy affirmed that be consider
ed it good; wlicreupon the lawyer
wrote a note for fifteen cents, which
the boy signed legibly, and, lifting
the bag Of papers, trudged off.
Soon after dinner the little fellow
reappeared, and, producing the mon
ey, announced that he had come to
pay his note.
"Well," said tho lawyer, "this is
the first time / ever knew a note 10
be taken up the day it was given. A
boy who will do that is entitled TO
note and money too" and giving him
both, sent him on his way with a smil-
ing face and happy heart,
The state rights democrat. [volume] (Albany, Linn County, Oregon) 1865-1900, 1873-10-31

II is impossible as yet to estimate
the momentum of the great upheaval,
or to clearly point out the direction
which it may take. 1t is one of the
most remarkable facts connected with
this revolt of the people that it is vol
untary. If parties grow from seeds of
conviction terminating in the general
consciousness, the Farmers movement,
as it is called, is very piufnising de-
velopment. 1t has not been forced by
any hot-.house expedient. 1t has ap-
peared all at once, not in one town
ship. gonnty or State but all over the
Mississippi valley, and in the Gulf
States, 1t is growing, too, not alone
in the numbers of its adherents, but it
is expanding in its views and purposes,
The leaders are for most part new
men in public life, but they are rapid
ly acquiring the knowledge in which
they were deficient, and now no Ion
ger address their appeals to the tar
ihers as a class, but to all classes in
terested in securing thorough re-
formation of the politics OF the ma
tion.
In its deeper analyses this move
ment reveals reaotionary spirit-a
force Of universal conviction in the
public mind that the character of the
government has been changed, and
changed not in the interests Of the
great body of the people. 1t seeks to
restore to them the balauBe Of power
lost during the fierce struggles Of the
last fifteen years. 1t means protest
against assumption of unwarranted
power by those appointed TO execute
the laws; means warfare aginst con-
oentration of power in the hands Of a
few: it manitests hostility to the rule
OF riggs it strives to break the power
and prevent the undue ascendency of
great financial corporations; it fights
against the growth OF corporation aris-
tocraoies; it aims to secure a return to
the preoedents of the purer days of
therepublic, thereby arresting the now
too plainly maifested tendency to cen
tralization-perhaps imperialism. But
as yet the principles have been an
formulated, and its political ideas are
uncrystalized. 1t is not however, a
blind exhibition of force. The fuRda-
metal doctrines are plain enough in
their manifestation. There isno room
for mistaking the purposes ofthe great
body OF the people, They are max
ing war upon abuses which have grown
up in the government, and which
threaten to become integral elements
instead of accidental excrescenses.
The people are running no tilt against
windmills. They realize the power
that is to be arrayed against them, and
are preparing for struggle in which
all old party distinctions will be for
gotten; and which willterminate only
when they have succeeded, or the lib
critics of the people are destroyed.
The state rights democrat. [volume] (Albany, Linn County, Oregon) 1865-1900, 1873-10-31
ONE WOMAN MURDERS HER FRIEND
FOR HER MONEY AND JEWELRY.

New York dates of the 7th gives
the following horrible murder case :
The facts developed in the Williams
burg murder case appear to be as fol-
lowsi Miss Hamill, whose charred
remains were found with cord about
her neck was q most intimate friend
OF Mrs. Morrigon, who, it is believed,
murdered her for the sake of her
money and jewelry. Miss Hamill
and Mrs. Morrigon were school-mates
in the Ursuline convent at Moorisan,
ia, New York, and were inseparable
companions, Their intimacy CON
tinued after they left the convent, and
Miss Hamill was a constant visitor at
the house of Mr.. Morrigon, and on
the occasion always took some valu-
able token as a gift to her friend. On
last Tuesday afternoon Miss Hamill
appeared at the door Of Mrs. Morri-
gon's house and asked admittance.--.
She was dressed in black silk, wore a
handsome pair of diamond earrings,
with brooch and massive chatelaine
gold chain. She was admitted and
passed up stairs to Mrs, Morrigon's
apartments, and from that hour the
unfortunate lady was never seen until
her charred aud muulated remains
were found amid the wreck of the
half burned house, James Hamilt.
one Of the brothers of the murdered
woman, said that his sister was 10
affiuent circumstances, was owner of
houses in East Tenth Street, New
York, always had large amount of
money in her possession. Her income
from her houses is stated to be about
$4,000 a month. Her rents were gen.
orally collected on the first of the
month. Tuesday was the second day
of the month. 1t is not at all unlikely
that Miss Hamill had large sum of
money in her purse when assailed by
violent hands. The gold walsh chain
and jewelry of Miss Hamil are still
missing Late last evening Mrs.
Morrigon made a full confession
The police refused to give the report
ers any information in regard to it,
and it was asccrtained that she muir
dered Miss Hamill on Tuesday night
by strangling her with clothes-lihe.
This she did in the absence of her
husband, and fearing he would return
in time to find the dead body, slowed
it away between the bedtick and the
Stats. When Morrigon returned
home that night, she induced him to
remain out Of the'room, and on Thurs
day night, for the purpose of destroy
ing the evidence of her guilt, she set
fire to the place. Miss Hamill after
completing her education, took the
veil, and was known as Sister Angus
tn. AT the expiration Of four years
she was in some way released from
her vows. On Monday she had re.
ceived letter from Sister Augusta,
belonging to some order in Pittsburg,
containing souvenir, and inviting her
to 60 out there on visit. When she
left the house on Tuesday she re-
marked that she was going to Tenth
Street to collect some rents and would
then proceed to Pittsburg. 1t is
presumed she went to bid her friend,
Mrs. MorFigon, good bye before she
started for tho West. The husband
of Mrs. Morrigon is believed to be
guiltlsss.
The state rights democrat. [volume] (Albany, Linn County, Oregon) 1865-1900, 1873-10-31


The cholera at Greenville has de-
veloped q few cases of monstrous de-
pravity, one of which ] will relate
without mentioning names. An old
gentleman, probably nearly seventy
years Of age, who lived mile or two
in the country, and is noted for his
recklessness and utter defiance Of the
laws Of God, came into town one day,
and, passing down the street, cried
out that he intended to spread the
cholera overthe town. He then went
to an undertaken and wanted to know
if he could make him q coffin and
what he would charge. The reply
was that if he wanted it before his
death he would charge him $25, but
if after.he would only charge $14.
He told him to proceed with the mat
ter, but to be sure to make it out Of
two.inoh plank, and leave it open at
both ends, so that il the devil comes
in at one end be could escape at the
other. That night he was stricken
down with cholera, and by morning
was a corpse.
The state rights democrat. [volume] (Albany, Linn County, Oregon) 1865-1900, 1873-10-31

Emperor or DICTATOR explained Wall
street operations, and slowly but sure
ly tended to that subject which is the
beginning and end of Woodhullism-
free,love. Only occasionally did the
audience exhibit any emotion, but,
when they did, they were uproarious,
and the shrill Kisses were fairly
drowned in the thunderous cheering
and stamping. Thus, when Victoria
expressed her readiness to oblige any
gentleman present troubled with car
buncle by opening the dangerous PIN
pie with jack-knife; when she said
she could hold in a knapsack all the
virtue, male and famale, contained in
the room; when she launched forth
her choicest billingsgate upon the
Young Mems Christian Association
societies, the applause was tremen-
dous. The attack upon the would-be
disorganizers of the Association, or
usurpers OF her power, she treated to
something very choice, so choice, in
fact, that it need not be reproduced.
The biggest hit, however, was when
she challenged any one in the room,
gentleman or lady, to confront her
with the assurance that he or she (the
consronter, of course,) was pure. The
strangest part of it wss that, although
several OF the most ardent disciples of
Woodruff are young, and rejoice in
the title "Miss,' and the WoodhulPs
challenge was general, not one of them
took it up.
The only new thing advanced by
the Woodruff at this last Convention
was that the parent has no individual
claim upon the child. OF course she
maintained her views of the marriage
relation, saying of married life; "Of
all the monstrous propositions, this is
the most monstrous. As theory, it
is absurd enough; but as a practice it
issimply revolving infernalism. Even
the condition Of prostitutes, of which
there is so much pretended commiser-
alton is to be preferred to this"
The sentiment of the Convention
was very generally and heartily in
support of Woodruff aud her theories,
One Randolph brought down the
house by speech, just before the ad-
journment, in which he declared that
he might sink or swim, go to heaven
or hell, be damned or saved, it matter
ed not hell might be frozen over five
feet thick, and the whole world be
skating upon its surface before he
would shrink from supporting the no.
BILE woman who was leading on the
good work of social reform.--DeS
Moines Register.
The state rights democrat. [volume] (Albany, Linn County, Oregon) 1865-1900, 1873-10-31

At private party recently held in
Detroit, boy thoughtlossly drew a
chair away from a corpulent gentle
man who was about to seat himself,
thereby letting him down on the floor
ina very unpleasant manner. A mer-
ry laugh greeted the unfortunate VIC
tim when the "joke" was discovered
which, however, was soon changed
into a murmur Of regret, for it was
soon found that the gentleman was
unable to rise. He was assisted into
an adjoining room, where physician,
who was one Of the guests, ascertain
ed that tho force Of the fall had Gre
ated rupture the effect Of which will
be felt through life,
The state rights democrat. [volume] (Albany, Linn County, Oregon) 1865-1900, 1873-10-31

The BIsHoP AND THE CoLLIERs. The
Birmingham Morning NelOs says that
u story, in which the Bishop Of Lich-
field is the prominent figure, is just
now circulating Wolverhampton. 1t
is TO the effect that while walking in
the Black country, q short time ago,
his lOrdship saw number of miners
seated on the ground, and went to-
wards them with the object Of saying
q "word in season." He asked them
what they were doing, and was told
by one Of the men that they had been
"loyin'." The Bishop evincod some
astonishment, and asked for an ex-
PLANTATION. "Why. yer see," said
one OF the men, tone Of us fun
(found) kettle, and we been try
ing who can tell the biggest lie to ha'
it," His lordship was shocked, and
proceeded to read the men lecture,
telling them, among other things,
that be had always been taught that
lying was an awful oiTense, and that,
in fact, 50 strongly had this been im-
pressed upon him that be had never
told q lie in the whole course Of his
life. His lordship had barely finish
ed when one Of the men, who had
previously remained silent, exclaim-
cd, "Gie the governor the kettle; gle
the governor the kettle"
The state rights democrat. [volume] (Albany, Linn County, Oregon) 1865-1900, 1873-10-31

You're LADIES. tisnot your dress,
your shawl, or your. pretty fingers,
that attract men Of sense. 1t is the
true loveliness Of your nature that
wins and continues 10 retain the af-
lection Of the heart. Young ladies
sadly miss IL who labor to improve
the outward looks, while they bestou
not thought on the mind. Fools
may be won by gowgaws and showy
dresses, but the wise and substantial
are never caught thus. Let modssty
be your dress,
The state rights democrat. [volume] (Albany, Linn County, Oregon) 1865-1900, 1873-10-31

A QUESTION SETTLED. "A colored
debating society in Trenton, Tenn,
has just debated the question, (which
10 the most profit to nan--money or
education ?" One Of the debators
argued that if it had not been for cd
ucation, the world would not have
been half SO large as it is. This
clincher was met, however, by the
argument that "If it wasn't for money,
how you gwine to ride on dc kyary y
II was at once decided in favor Of
money.
The state rights democrat. [volume] (Albany, Linn County, Oregon) 1865-1900, 1873-10-31

An Iowa young man, arraigned
for assaulting and battering his
sweetheart with a kiss, was discharg.
cd because the girl was 80 won
drously lovely that the Judge said be
had TO cling TO the arms OF his chair
to keep from kissing her himself. y
The state rights democrat. [volume] (Albany, Linn County, Oregon) 1865-1900, 1873-10-31
toosn AND LEwD SPIRITS.

The Victoria Woodruff wing of the
society of American Spiritualists have
been holding their annual national
convention at Chicago, the present
week. The attendance was quite
large From Iowa only one delegate
was reported, Mr.. or Mrs. or miscel-
laneous w. ]. Shaw, who credited
him or herself to Iowa Falls. The
Iri6une's report Of the meeting says
the status of the members of the con-
vention was to be put as below the
middlings. 1t was composed mainly
of old women, while the men who
were present had very much the ap-
pearance of old women too, There
were young women there; some few
girls, apparently about sixteen years OF
age; but it was noticeable that none of
these were good looking, the vast ma
jority having their features marred by
strawberry blazes SCARED by scalds,
or kerosene accidents, or pitted with
small-pox-a TACT which suggested the
idea that spiritualism of the Wood
hull sort is dernier resort for shelved
virgins, or those untortunates to whom
nature has denied even modicum of
the charms of the sex, who may, in
fact, be epitomized under the express
sive term of "sexual scarecrows.n
The majority, however, were old men
and women, some of them in their
dotage, with their filmy eyes, which
peered through spectacles at the speak
er, Frightening up occasionally as the
thin lips of the Woodhull quivered
under a more than lcentious allu-
sion to more than usual prurient
subject.
Mrs. Woodruff was present, and as
President Of the society, made the an
nual address. The zri6ame says the
speaker came before the audience with
much of dramatic effect. Her atti-
tude was striking, not to say menac-
ing. Her body she poised lightly up
on her right leg, the left thrown for
ward, her right arm was held tight
across her chest, la Tom Sayers,
while the lett was flung carelessly be-
hind her back, after the manner in
vogue with the "fancy," who, toward
the close of "mill, " feels that he has
a soft thing, and can indulge in little
brillianey and effect for the benefit of
those outside the ropes. Her position
taken she began, Areport ofherspeech
is spared the printer and the public.
1t was TRADE against everything
outside of the Spiritualistic pale; it
knocked religion out of time, tloored
the clergy, showed up the hiddnn hor-
The state rights democrat. [volume] (Albany, Linn County, Oregon) 1865-1900, 1873-10-31

Many true heart that would have
come back like dove TO the ark, af-
ter its first transgresaion, has been
frightened beyond recall by the saw
age charity Of an unforgiving spirit,
The state rights democrat. [volume] (Albany, Linn County, Oregon) 1865-1900, 1873-10-31

A man is a fool if he be engaged
with an i'll that be cannot remedy,
or if he endures one that he can
He must bear the gout, but there Is
no occasion to let a fly tickle his
nose,
The state rights democrat. [volume] (Albany, Linn County, Oregon) 1865-1900, 1873-10-31

A man with but one idea in his
head is sure to exaggorate that to top
heaviness, and thus he loses bis
equilibrium.
The state rights democrat. [volume] (Albany, Linn County, Oregon) 1865-1900, 1873-10-31

Appropriate slang for burglars
"Giye US arrest"
The state rights democrat. [volume] (Albany, Linn County, Oregon) 1865-1900, 1873-10-31

Business notices u the Local Columns. "a
cents per lins, each Insertion.
For legal and transient advertisements 81 ID
per square Of IL lines, fol the hrsE inserticn,
and u 90 per square fOf each subsequent 3.
sertiOn.
The state rights democrat. [volume] (Albany, Linn County, Oregon) 1865-1900, 1873-10-31

A sweet straining honey.
Alexandria gazette. [volume] (Alexandria, D.C.) 1834-1974, 1873-12-15

CUMBERLAND CoAL.-A letter from Cum.
berland says all the coal companies have stopped
shipping coal by canal except to fill orders given
some time ago. As the season for canal navi-
CATION has nearly closed, and 10 fact may close
any day, it is scarcely probable that the ship
ments thisyear will come up to hose of last
year. The decrease for the season, which end
ed on the 9th instant, as compared with that
of 1872 was 40, 727 tons and % cwt. As dur
ing the week which ended the 9Th inst, but
2,375 tons we're shipped, and as but one or two
weeks remain for navigation, it will be seen
that it is improbable that the decrease meD-
toned can be materially affected. A large
number Of new boats were placed on the canal
last summer, and upon this fact. proba bly,,
President German based his prediction that
the shipments for 1873 would far exceed those
of any previous year This prediction would
doubtless have been fulfilled if he had used due
diligence in keeping the canal open. Navilga-
ton has been suspended for weeks at time
during the past summer, and this of course ac-
counts for the decreased tonnage. - Washington
Star.
Alexandria gazette. [volume] (Alexandria, D.C.) 1834-1974, 1873-12-15

A Cool PROPOSITION, The Stanton Viz.
ginian, a republican paper, coolly advises a
Conservative legislature to cultive friendly re-
lations'' with the federal administration "by
generously eecting republican successor to
Senator Lewis; for, says that Journal, I'VE
have reason to state Of our own knowledge, that
the President is disposed to be on friendly
terms with our people, and if the Conservative
party is wise it will go shape it's course as to
give encouragement to this sentiment. We
regard this as decidedly the most refreshing
suggestion Of this refreshing age. Maj. Yost,
tue editor of the Virgiuiau, is capital fellow,
with very level head, but he could hardly
have expected to catch anybody with such
chaf.-Lpnchbarg Republican.
Alexandria gazette. [volume] (Alexandria, D.C.) 1834-1974, 1873-12-15

PAY OF MEMBERS OF CONGRESS. The pro-
position to reduce the salaries of Congressman
to SIS, 900 per year, with allowances for mileage
and postage, is substantially to allow the COM
pensation of Congressman to remain as It is. =
Cincinnati Commercial.
Exactly. And what is the use of the pother
about repeating the grab2 The grab was the
taking of pay for past session Of Congress;
That being taken, or grabbed, is ended and
there is no remedy for it. There is no dis
gorgiDg. So the talk about repeating the grab
is nonsense.
The question now is: Is the salary of $500
per aonum for a member of Congress too
much? II it is, reduce it. But in that case
do not dishonesty reipstate it by restoring per.
quisites-the frank and mileage-that will
all. Let Congress be hooest, and not under
the bypocritical pretence of repeating the sal
airy grab" play the ''thimble-rig" upon the
people. -Rich. Dispatch.
Alexandria gazette. [volume] (Alexandria, D.C.) 1834-1974, 1873-12-15

EX-Gov. SEYMOUR has written letter on
the finances to gentleman in Wisconsin. He
thinks 1.-THE panic has come to stay awhile;"
attributes it to ruinous speculation on too
small capital; thinks We have too many rail-
roads, and are too extravagant, and sums up as
follows ''The future is full Of uncertainty.
look for troubled times. By and by it will
clear up and you and your contemporaries will
gather in the fruits of the tolls the schemes
and speculatioDs of this lay, Increased popu-
lation and production will in time float off the
stranded ventures of the day. may not live
to see this, but you and others of your years
will reap the benefit of this state of things. l
cannot say am sorry the crash has come. Ii
will do much mischief now; it would do more
if put oil"
Alexandria gazette. [volume] (Alexandria, D.C.) 1834-1974, 1873-12-15

Memorial services in memory of the delegates
to the Evangelical Alliance who were lost on
board the Vile du Havre, were held in the
Madison Square Church, on Sunday, N. Y. The
church was densely packed with large con-
gregatiop, consisting for the most part Of ladies.
There were present on the platform the Rev.
DR.. Philip Scharf, Rev. DR.. Howard Crosby,
Bishop James. and the Rev. Drs. Tying, Muir
raw. and Prime
Alexandria gazette. [volume] (Alexandria, D.C.) 1834-1974, 1873-12-15
court

Prot. Agassiz died in Boston, yesterday. He
was born May %, 1907, aud was, consequently,
&c years OF age at the time Of his death. He
was Of French descent, his family having been
among the Huguenots who we're driven from
France By the revocation of the edict of Nantes.
From 1916 the biography of Agassiz belongs to
the United States. To the autumn OF that
year he arrived at Boston from Paris, and has
been employed insciepti6c researches ever
70 sipca
Alexandria gazette. [volume] (Alexandria, D.C.) 1834-1974, 1873-12-15

1t is stated that David A. Gage, city treasu-
rer, of Chicago, is short in his accounts to an
amount which will reach nearly or quite $780,
600. A, portion of this amount is locked up in
the suspended Second National and the Manu-
facturers' National Banks. 1t is said that Gage
will be able to secure the city from any ulti-
mate lnss