The state rights democrat. [volume] (Albany, Linn County, Oregon) 1865-1900, 1873-06-20

ana bowie. knife, Is the ghost Of Sec
ramento. She haunts q certain
quarter and is after her runaway hus-
band and another woman.
The wife of . California music
tencher drew $4,000 in q lottery and
gave il to her husband. He took il
aud went to Germany with another
woman. The injured wife now
wants to draw s2) more to invest in q
pistol and cow-hide.
The election, Monday, in East
Portland, resulted as follows: For
Recorder, j. A. Newell, reelected;
Treasurer, w. s. Gordon; Assessor,
O. M. Barnard; Councilmen, Cyrus
Buckman. p. W.sSeverson, j. s. M.
Van Cleve, b. Pape. .. B. Stevens
and A. j. Hoyt.
The Portland gas company's collect.
or couldn't collect the bill from che
Young Mems Christian Association
last week, because the officers had
all gone to the great billiard match
at Knott & Green's Saloon. As soon
as the fall races are over they expect
to be ready for business.
The Fourth in frisco Is to be we'll
celebrated. About half OF the citi-
zens didnt like the way the other
half were getting up the thing, SO
they bolted and are arranging for an
opposition celebration. We have
heard of about everything else, but
an opposition Fourth OF July pro-
cures usl
A Portland editor has been pre-
sented with pair OF lasts upon which
to have his pedal coverings made
hereafter. He expects to get enough
boots made up to last him for q few
years aud then use the lasts for his
winters firewood. There won't be
much chilliness in his house for at
least two winters to come.
It is reported t.at the party Of
school ma ans aud journalists who
left the Yosemite not long ago was
capsized from their wagon over an
embankment near the foothills of the
Sierra Nevada. The newspaper
fellows says they expected an item
or two to turn up before they left
home with those school ma ans.
Little JOHNNY Swillem. Of Stockton.
liked homemade molasses and
thought he would Swillem while his
mother was out; but in undertaking
TO climb to the dish in the cupboard. +.
he dislodged heavy jar which laid
little johnny insensible on the floor.
His mother brought him to- by
making fanmiIl out of her soap
stick.
The editor of the Hayilah Miner
recently received present of two
eggs, one OF which measured ST inch
es around lengihwise and u inches
10 circumference; the other lacked
just one quarter of an inch OF measur-
ing 0 inches around lengthwise. The
donor told him these were by no
means the best efforts of the hen
that laid them.
A Montana man saw in the papers
an article on "Training Heifers," /"
which recommended the buckling OF
n broad strap, or belt. round the ami
mails girth at milking time. Last
week hc procured red surcingle
and tried the experiment on q frac-
tious Texan heifer. He is undecided
whether it is bruised stomach OF
the cholera-morbus.
Last week n spanish steer got loose
at Red Bluffs, knocked down three
women, collided with n two horse
team. tried to demolish switch en-.
gine. got peppered with three loads
OF buck-shot, took in few revolver
bullets, was lassoed. got knocked OF
the head with an axe, and had it.
throat cut. It then ''lit out" for thu
happy cattle grounds.
The editor OF the Oregonian and 9
correspondent are in heated dis
cussion over the question as to wha
is to constitute the best gallon O
buttermilk for which the Washing
ton County Fair of 1873 is to give {
premium of s5. So far as the dis
cussion has progressed it looks lik,
the Oregonian man will be compelled
to raise the calf by hand.
The Bozeman Courier is disgustet
with young man from the country
who made night hideous with hi
yells Saturday by endeavoring to i'm
press upon the minds of our peopl,
the fact that he belonged to compan,
G. A collision between his head
and club suddenly reduced his ad
miration of that gallant compan,
within reasonable bounds.
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THE FARMERS TMUMPH.-It ha
now come to be fully understood tha
the farmers can only protect them
selves against transportation ring
and capital combinations hy taking /,