The state rights democrat. [volume] (Albany, Linn County, Oregon) 1865-1900, 1873-02-28

forward. and confessed to hav-
Ing committed the robbery. Who
will prate about total depravity any
more after THIS?
Rev. S. Bowers and wife and Asa
McCully seeded, from the Tempe
rance Hoodlums last week, and now
Mrs. Duniway says she "beat both
bowers and the ace."
The fool-killer is sadly neglecting
Walla Walla. They have just organ
lied an association up there which
has for its sole purpose the breaking
down of secret Societies.
w. b. Lemon and Clara J. Lemon
got divorced in Virginia New on the
14th. It seems that although they
went in Lemons they soured on each
other and came out squeezed.
James Scott, student at the Ter
ritorial University, Semitic, Washing
ton Territory, was found dead in bis
bed last week. 1t ia believd that his
death resulted from an epileptic fit.
Indian Superintendent Odeneal
won't go out to assist the Peace
Commissioners in their powwow
with that eminently respectable and
excessively high-toned Captain Jack
Modoc.
Oregon is estimated TO contain
about G1 900, 900 acres of land, OF
which the Government had surveyed
UP to June 30, 1872, ouly 10. .140, ,281
acres, or q little over one-sixth OF the
entire area.
The horses OF Sacramento are
rapidly being laid out by the ep;zoo-
tic. The orthodox joke there now
is 10 ask the owner OF sick horse
where is he going to drive to, and be
answers, "Oh, Yuba Daml'
It is said that Colonel W. w.
Chapman, President OF the Portland
Dalles and Salt Lake Railroad Com
pany, is preparing to put the bonds
of the company on the market. An
other step in the right direction.
Nelson Allen, of Visalia (Cal. }
stepred in between two fghtepgers
in order to quell the row. and for
thus constituting himself Peace
Commission he has to pay the doc
tor for extracting q bullet from his
forehead.
There have been 20 murders in
San Francisco in q years. OF the
murderers, II we're executed By the
officers of the law and two commit
ted suicide in the jail-one OF these,
G.. w. Colmer, on the day he was tc
have been executed.
An actress has been teaching ac-
centation to the school children in
Carson city, and now every young
one in town says "the nobul juke'
and "beeyoutiful skeey," and the
old folks can't get their months
Strengthened out.
A Methodist preacher OF Portland
is in n lawsuit with the officers of hi'
church. They have locked him out
of the church, but he says that b,
aid OF the Lord and the Sheriff he il
bound to go in there and preach, il
it takes all summer.
In recent breach of promise trial
in Idaho. lady witness defined
"courtship" to be looking at eacl
| other, taking hold of each other.
hauds and all that kind of thing
/ Our devil says little hugging il
included up this way.
A Wyoming woman, being obliged
to sit on q jury, took her baby along
and the baby set up such racket
that the Judge was glad to ex
cuse the shrewd juror. Legal query
Has the Judge right to remove The
court Crier. in the discharge Of hel
proper duty?
Sixty Warm Spring Indians were q
short time ago uniformed in soldie,
blue at the Dalles, to go as scouts
against the Modocs. Now they are
not wanted, and they have gone home
in their "natty blue" They put on
more scollops than pullet with her
FIRST young chick.
A Portland scoundrel was in the
habit of chasing young girls after
night. He chased the wrong mans
sister the other night. and now the
doctor thinks he can save one eye
and piece of his left ear. But bis
nose will never again be an ornament
to his physiognomy.
| In Sacramento, two or three days
ago, three young Hoodlums seized
hold of three young girls in the street
and tried to force them into O seclu.
ded place, undoubtedly with the in.
tention of outraging them. Those
boys are candidates for Congress and
Credit Mobilier business.
Oregon is to be again afflicted
with Sam. Clark. He is coming
bopoa from, Woch;n ofon in fay dovc