The state rights democrat. [volume] (Albany, Linn County, Oregon) 1865-1900, 1873-09-05
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are pitched onthe margin ofa littl,
prairie on the summit Of the Calipooii
mountains, where the head waters 0
the Willamette and Umpqpa river
ripple q farewell to each other as they
start in opposite directions for race tc
their parent ocean. a
Hurting and fishing has thus fai
yielded prolific dividends. Yesterday
morning. by four o'clock at least .
dozen Of our most experienced hunters
had crept silently and stealthily off fol
the game region, each promising sol
emnly to return with many trophies Of
the chase OF. to retire from ali active
Nimrodical life And, as the shades
of evening began to throw long shad-
ows across our camp-feld, one by one
the mighty hunters staggered wearily
intocamp undertheir exhausting loads.
Doc. Gray came first, bringingagrouse;
next Andy Carothers with d digger
squirrel then Uncle Davy Gray with
two Fminners'' that he had scooped up
with his hat from a neighboring spring;
then came Billy Tweedale with a
"meader lark'' which had fallen dead
from the telegraph wire he was fol-
lowed by Coll VanCleve, bearing in
his triumphant clutcha wood-pecker
which had knocked its own brains out
bYspecking against his gun barrel
while he slept under friendly shade.
Jim Titus didn't come in till after
night. He had found cabin hard by
in which was domesticated a "dear" of
rare blood and most enticing appear
ance, and he spent the day in clrcum-
navigating the field about the cabin in
hope of "flushingp the game and talk
ing it into camp, He evidently didn't
succeed, but early this morning he was
off on the same scent, and from his
well known reputation in bagging such
game it will not be difficult for any
one to guess the sequel. Cap. Hum
phrey promises, if Titus don't get away
with the ''dear'' by tonight, to make
a raid in that direction himself.
"Though lost to sight, to memory
deaf," holds good in our cases, for we
are daily furnished by friends with
fresh papers, thrown from the cars as
they whizz past our camp. Yesterday
morning Tom. Cox the ever obliging
mail agent on the train, threw me
three packages, two ofwhich, furnished
by himself and the PlaindeaLer Office,
contained all the late California and
Eastern papers, the other package was
evidently intended for missionary or
a "cheerman'iof Republican meetin',
as it comprised a catalogue of sleight-
of-hand. and legerdemain books, two.
decks of "seven-up," q magazine enti-
tied the Missionary Herald and a price
list of "Towers Patent Adjustable
Hand Cuffs and Leg-Irons.n We will
carefully preserve these important arti-
cles and have them on hand at the
Radical State Convention next week.
Nearly everybody, save the two
corpses, have again gone.
Van. is subsisting ofFn
his wood-pecker and the undersigned.
is yet provided from flock of neigh
boring. barn pheasants. MART.
LAUGHABLE INCIDENT.
Z. 0. & G. R. r., Sept. ., 1878.
Editor Democrat:
AS the 9erth- bound train waited at
the Albany depot, DR.. Geary and Gen.
John f. Miller stood upon the depot
platfoKO engaged in earnest CONVERSE
ton for some fifteen minutes. The
scene changes. The bell rings and the
train moves off gently down the road.
The DR.. and the General each make
an apologetic bow to each other, and
start in the same direction to oyertake
the train. AS the cars are getting
pretty well under way, they, too, with
gentle dignity, quicken their speed
down the track. Faster and faster
they go. Here our sporting friends be-
gan to offer bets. 2:4O, and on, on they
go! 2;9S-faster, still faster! 2:35i For
full forty rods is this contest kept up,
the DR.. leading the General few
PAGES. The engine pufls, and in re-
spolise the two pedestrians puff. Their
legs now begin to fail, and finally stop.
The locomotive now slaekensits speed
as if to beckon them ON to an easy
victory, and they again start with re-
newed hopes. The highest speed to
which they could now attain was about
an average between dog trot and
coon gallop. But after going a few
steps further, and finding the contest
unequal they stood upon their
wind. The Dr., turning to his comrade
in defeat, says "Slrp' bat his heaying
breast prevented his uttering another
word. The General smole painting
smile, and they began to retrace their
steps to the depot. The engine, seeing.
there was no more fun in that joke,
now solemnly made its way back and
took aboard the two painting dignita-
-fes, o, how everybody laughed and
called it good jokel And so it was.
Did Mark Twain, or any other funny
man, ever see anything more laugh
lble than those two .dignifed gents,
whose ages aggregate over one hun
lred and twenty years, and whose ag-
gregate weight is over 400 lbs avoirdu-
Dois, undertaking to run down rail-
road train under full speed. Allow us
hereafter to date all funny occurrences
rom the time we saw DIR Geary and
Gen. Miller undertake to outrun the
D. g. @. r. r. train. TRAVELLER.
10 FARMERS. N
TANGENT, Aug. 81, 1878.
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