The state rights democrat. [volume] (Albany, Linn County, Oregon) 1865-1900, 1873-02-14
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Michigans saw mills ore insured
for SIC, 600, 900.
Rabbits are dull sale in Kansas at
nickle apiece.
The Cubans annually smoke l ,400,-
100000 cigars.
Seven million hogs will grunt their
last this winter.
There are 500 women postmasters
in the United States.
Over 500 widows of Revolutionary
pensioners still live.
A New York bookstore has a
SO, 900 Bible for sale.
A lazy compositor in st. Louis is
called the beautiful Slow"
A New Hampshire lady has just
died from the scratch of kitten.
The New Hampshire Supreme
Court DEGREES that dogs are nuisauces.
Kansas has shipped more cattle
East than any Western State this
year.
The average monthly yield OF the
Pennsylvania oil wells is 50, QUO bar
rels.
The Mormons have their powder
mills. cartridge factory, and large
arsenal.
LISTS oratorio of the "Christ,"
just finished, has made its appearance
IN Pesth.
San Francisco is ahead as regards
the number of female type-setters
employed.
Advertising is the ladder by which
men climb up to fortune if they keep
their hold.
A lady is preparing to occupy the
pulpit of one of the orthodox churches
of Salt Lake.
The heathen Chinee is taking the
place of the colored laborer on the
Texas railroads.
Erie county, Pa. with population
of 65 900, pays $50 .000 a year to sup
port its paupers.
The two States now suffering most
severely from smallpox are Kentucky
and Massachusetts,.
It is So fine fo- Rhode Island
man to call another liar without be-
ing able to prove it.
Ten thousand Cinnamon are at
work on the Texas Pacific railroad in
Upsh4r county, Texas.
The Marquis of Waterloo has
denied the report that he intends to
become Roman Catholic.
A New Jersey Catholic priest has
insured his life for $50 900, the
benefit to accrue to the Church.
There are 4s2 Protestant clergy
men in Hesse Cassel, but the highest
salary that any one gets is 5000.
The negro population of the
country is 4. .S35 JIG, having gained
about 400, 600, during the war period.
In New Haven a lawyer recently
obtained an injunction to prevent his
next-door neighbor having 'wake.
Chicago capitalists have bought
800 acres of land in Jackson county,
Wis, to be converted into a cranberry
marsh.
Lake Superiorites pronounce the
late cold spell as the most severe
ever experienced in that hyperborean
region.
It is estimated that the various |
mission and tract societies of the
United States disburse annually s1O,-
OU0,000.
The Patent Office is more than
self-supporting, the fees during the
past year exceeding the expenditures
by SIT 400.
The Mayor of Oldham, England,
and his family were recently mobbed
for not attending church when the
pious roughs thought they should.
Mules at work in the coal shaft of
the Leavenworth mine, seven hundred
feet under ground, and never seeing
the light of day, have fallen victims
to the epizootic.
The center of gravity of the popula-
ton of the United States, according
to Prof. Hilgard, is located at Viii
mington, Clinton county, o., As miles |
northeast from Cincinnati.
The epizoo is an universal traveller.
just now it is visiting Manitoba, in
the frozen North, and at the same
time it is announced to be present in
Cuba. The epizoo is no respecter of |
localities, or of horses.
Illinois has produced another
beautiful blonde clergywoman in the
person of the Rev. Miss Jennie Tracy,
aged sweet sixteen, who is turning
the hearts and heads of sinners in
the town of Elgin.
The Rev. Mr.. Maron, in his prayer
in the Indiana Senate lately, thanked
God for the presence of this body of
legislators, the tallest and the heavi-
est, the handsomest and the wisest,
and the purest ever convened in the
State.
Services-appear to be of intermin-
able length in some of the London
churches. Anadvertisementrecently
announced that at Saint Jamses'
Church, "on Sunday afternoon next,
service will commence at half. past 3,
and continue till further notice"
South Carolina has a clergyman
named Thomas, who, when visited
by the Ku-klux the other night, took