The state rights democrat. [volume] (Albany, Linn County, Oregon) 1865-1900, 1873-09-12
HOME AND ABROAD.

Wheat, w cents,
Butter, % cents.
santiam ditch nearyin town.
Money has commenced to Jingle.
County Fair commences on the 23d
inst. & ta
Don't forget to attend the entertain
ment tonight. rr. J,ttst
Wheat is coming into this city in
immense quantities.
Prof. P. H. Farrell Of Lebanon,
smoIe on us last Monday. M
Bob. Head, of the Benton Democrat,
called on us last Wednesday.
Dr. Carter Of Elk City, Yaquina
Bay, gave ns call yesterday.
/ Col. Nesmlth, our coming Congress
man, calledupon us yesterday.
1t only takes three dolIars-three
bushels of wheat-to get this paper for
one year. 4AgEa
A. Wheeler, of the enterprising firm
Of A. Wheeler & Co., of Shedd, was in
town last Monday. i' 3'
That field of oats that Judge Baber
has been Dragging about averaged sixty
bushels to the acre.
John Briggs has been making some
improvements on his sky-light. Harry
Cooley was the chief architect.
Sam, Tillard, living about five miles
east of this city, raised 55 bushels OF
wheat on one acre Of his farm this year.
1t is thought that there were 200, 900
bushels of wheat sold in this market
last Friday and Saturday at 81 bush
ell.
Henry Myers, who was run over by
the fire-engine short time ago, is not
likely to recover from the effects of the
accident.
The Oregon Conference of the NJ e.
Church has appointed Rev. Isaiah
Wilson to take charge of the congrega-
tion at this city. Aa e@isi4l.
The Albany Brass Band rendered
their services gratuitously to Mrs. Mart
Taylor to play at the Pacific Opera
House this evening. at l
A public examination of teachers
will be held at the School House in
this city on Saturday, Sept. 81, begin
ming at 8 o'clock A. M.
Madame Rumor is circulating upon
our streets the report that one of the
leading carpenters of this city is about
to commit matrimony.
Anew mercantile firm has opened
out at Halsey under the name of
Thompson & Higley. They are both
good men aud will of course do we'll.
There were more plug hats and bald
heads exhibited in our city during the
Holiday convention this week than
we have ever seen collected together
before.
Charley Barnes, who was so badly
demoralized week or two ago by his
team running of, is again out on our
streets, though he still carries his bro
ken arm in tin box.
w. r. Blain left this city yesterday
for Oakland, California, for the purpose
of entering theological college at that
place. He expects to graduate in about
three years and then enter the minis
try.
Owing to the publication of the pro-
ceedings of the two State Conventions,
communication concerning the San
tam Canal, and other important mat
ter, was crowded out of this issue, but
will appear next week.
Messrs.. L. BIain, L. Fox, L. Kline,
L. Senders, and N. Baum, merchants
of this city, have been in San Francisco
for the past two weeks engaged in pur-
chasing mammoth stocks'of goods for
this market. LS
Our grain dealers last Friday and
Saturday contracted for hundreds of
bushels Of wheat tnar 'Isstli1 standing I
in the field, the price given wasinvari-
ably 81 per bushel. This is pretty good
evidence that the wheat market will
remain firm at about the present price.
The Register is out as a semi-week-
ly, just half as-big as the former week
ly. Rev, j. W. Van Cleve, who for the
past year has been its editor, retires,
leaving Coll. to play a "lone hand"
May good fortune go with the retiring
editor, and prosperity attend the new
semi-weekly. ar
Among the newspaporial fraternity
present at the Radical State Conven-
ton yesterday we noticed Bros. Scott
of the Bulletin, II i'll of the Oregonian,
Crandallof the Statesman, Ireland of
the AStorian, Turner, late of the jack
sonville Sentinel Carter of the Corval-
lis Gazette, and Clarke of the Farmer.
REDUCED RATEs,-We have been
shown letter from the general freight
agent on the o. u G. r. r. to w w.
Parrish, Secretary of the Linn County
Agricultural Association, in which he
says that allstock and articles intend
ed for exhibition at our coming county
fair will be fogv arded to this city at
full tariff rates, but will be returned
free of charge upon the presentation,
to the railroad agent at this city of
certificate, signed by the Secretary of
the Association, that such stock or ar
ticles have been on exhibition and have
not changed owners. r47
REEDS PANORAMA of the Pacific
coast will exhibit at Albany during
the Linn County Fair, The writer
had the pleasure Of witnessing this
panorama at Salem a short time ago,
and can truly say that it is the finest
exhibition of the kind which has ever
been in Oregon The scenes are paint