The state rights democrat. [volume] (Albany, Linn County, Oregon) 1865-1900, 1873-08-15
PACIFIC COASTERS.

: Fine crops Of sweet potatoes ar
. growing in Jackson county.
Residences are in demand Of Pen
} dleton. No vacant houses in tn
t town.
/ Prof. W. S. McFadden was admit
t ted to the bar by the Supreme Gour
last week.
Circuit Court for olatsop count.
convened last Tuesday. Twsnt.
cases on the docket.
The coal shipped from Coos Ba,
} since the 18th ult., amounts to 2lOO(
tons, and lumber, 100000.
/ Junction City has an elegant Pies
{ byterian Church building. Rev. j
H. D. Henderson is the pastor.
A large excursion party, headed By
Rev. P. S. Knight, left Salem for tht
Calapooia mountains last Tuesday.
i Wasco county in So, 344. 70 in debt
The annual expenditures for the pas
year were s94, ,773. 20; total receipts
the same.
The Sheriff of Jackson county has
collected $4,000 of the county tax
and reports only q few hundred dol.
lars delinquent.
A concert is to be given in Port
land on the 10Th inst, for the bene-
fit of the sufferers, which will be the
finest ever had in Oregon.
We learn that a challenge has been
sent to B. Underwood to meet Rev.
7. F. Campbell, of Monmouth, at
Eugene in public debate.
The sale of the material of the
old Portland Herald, which was an
nounced for last Saturday, has been
postponed until the 2Sth inst.
The County Court of Clackamas
county appointed Hon. G 2. Beattis
to the pOsitic;1l Of County Treasurer,
II place OF 7. j. McCarver, resigned.
Frank Wilson, a lad aged IA years,
was thrown from q horse in East
Portland on Tuesday evening, and
sustained serious if not fatal injuries.
The assessed value Of property
within the city limits of Salem
amounts to 81, ,2O3, ,25O. The tax for
city purposes for the present year is
81, ,219.50.
Messrs. Magers and Calvert, of
Salem, last Thursday caught from the
Abiqua 229 trout, fine large ones, all
in one day, besides doing their own
cooking.
A meeting of the citizens Of Walla
Wall has been called to take united
action in the Seattle and Walla
Walla Railroad movement. 1t will
meet on the 23d inst.
A meeting of the Board of United
States Engineers is to be held at
Astoria, Monday, to take into consid-
Grafton number of lighthouse ap-
pointments which are to be made.
Fifty fiery, untamed mules have
been purchased for duty on the street
railways at Salt Lake. This isn't as
the public would like it, but viewed
newspaporially. it is cheese for re-
porters.
John Cummons, living near Bear
Creek, in Jackson county, slipped
from load of hay down to the man
ger below, some twelve or fourteen
feet, on Tuesday last, breaking both
bones of the lower third Of his leg.
All the members of Portland En-
gine Co. No. 4 we're photographed in
front of the ruins of their engine
house last Saturday, as a memento of
that fire which, would spare nothing,
no matter Of what material, which it
found in its course.
There is no longer room to doubt
the fact that work is soon to COM
mence at Oswego. The company
have advertised for contracts to re-
move buildings, and also they desire
to employ several experienced miners
to work.
One night last week one Of the Jail
birds Eugene-Conolly out
of Jail. He only flew about twenty
miles before the Sheriff overhauled
him. He now plays checkers with
his nose through the CRATES of an
iron cell. "n
Lafayette young men, while calling
on their fair ones, don't particularly |
appreciate a young sister, in an adj
joining room, about IL A. M, singing
"Put me in my little bed" They