The state rights democrat. [volume] (Albany, Linn County, Oregon) 1865-1900, 1873-04-18

watching, the hammer is seen to be
drawn slowly back and the bell rung.
The gay ganboliers don't understand
it, and when the bell rings it takes
two of them to stand up.
The Sheriff at Olympia is adver-
tiseing two printing presses for sale
for delinquent taxes Of the year 1872.
And yet some people think printers
are equal in wealth to bloated bond
holders.
A Douglas county convict Of the
Penitentiary writes home to his
friends big puff for the State Hotel
under Mr.. Watkins able management.
but he says he don't banker after it
.anyway--it is too confning.
A Portland lady patriotically pre-.
sented her liege lord, yesterday, with
a trio Of cherubs-two boys and q
girl--weighing respectively, IL, 10S,
and A bounds. The last one was
just thrown in for good measure.
The citizens Of Portland held q
mass meeting last Monday and passed
resolutions in respect to the memory
Of the slain Pence Commissioners
and Indignantly denouncing the Gov
ernmenfs cowardly Indian policy.
The Pioche Record is going to en-
large. The pressure Of murders and
shooting scrapes on it's local columns
necessitates either an enlargement OF
else the printing of nothing but
bloody news, and it chooses to en-
large.
A contribution was gotten up by
the people Of nm Arizona town TO raise
money for Sabbath school books, but
before the books were received a ma
jority Of the contributioners Of the
fund voted TO start joint stock
whisky mill" with it.
Mrs. Gen. Candy lies perfectly
prostrated at her honse in Portland
and refuses TO take nourishment.
Her grief is most pitiable and heart
rendipg and it is feared that she will
hardly survive the shock OF her noble
hero husbands brutal murder.
An Idaho Judge referred some
cases to his son to take testimony
and reduce the same TO writing.
Since then the lawyers who are COM
PEELED TO read the testimony through,
ask the Judge to commute their pen
atty to imprisonment for life.
James Crawford. OF the Vivian
mill, on the Carson river, Nevada,
was recently treated TO free ride by
getting entangled in the machinery
Of the mill and being whirled round
Il shaft about forty or fifty times.
Strange to say he was lot seriously
injured.
About 50 Indians OF the Warm
Springs Reservations, the same who
fought the Snakes under the orders
OF General Crook, are now with the
troops under the command of General
Gillem. These are brave and expert.
enced indians, and are expected to
do good s.rvice.
An Idaho wedding is thus descrip.
ed by an exchange: when the
ceremony that made them one was
performed, the happy couple retired
TO their camp, par.ook of O supper
Of slap jacks aud coffee, after which
the wagon bed was improvised into q
bridal chamber-and-all went a:
gay as q marriage bell.
| 4 Montana man, on suicide intent
threw hemself from an oyerhangine
rock a distance of 40 feet to th,
sand below. He struck on his head
bounced over on his feet, gave al
Indian yell, said he was too good 1
man to die, and went back TO Helena
and licked Chinaman.
j. Quinn, of Portland, was invol.
unfairly persuaded by the iudicia
authorities to contribute TO the pub
lie exchequer the munifcient sum O
fifty dollars because he became ex
cessively affectionate upon the partner
of his domestic hearth while caress
ing her with his horny hand.
A Vallejo man didn't think gian
powder had so muck strength q.
folks thought, SO he exploded a little
When he saw the floor of the house
60 to interview the roof and found
himself sailing over tho front yare
fence, he began to think there wa
some strength in that powder, afte
all.
On the 10th, as John Taylor wa.
walking in the woods in the vicinity
of Bartlett Springs. accompanied b,
his dog, panther sprang upon tn.
dog and tore him to pieces. While
the panther was thus employed Mr.
Taylor suddenly remembered press
ing engagement and sauntered toward
home.
Its name was Buck, and it was til,
first boy baby bornin Maricopa coun
tv Arizona IT, weiphed 12 ponnds oy