The state rights democrat. [volume] (Albany, Linn County, Oregon) 1865-1900, 1873-03-21

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to Scotts, to G. G. Huntley. of ST.
$50; Dalles to Upper ochoco, Mi
chael Shea, at 81, ,202.
Va Corvallis girl tried to kindle o
fire by pouring iuto the stove pow
| der from q can. The FIRE went--dit-
| to can likewise girl. The girls
bands will get well, but she won J
kuse powder that way any more.
lSAs Frenchman employed in mill
near Truckee was pensiyely hewiDg
stick Of timber, he began absent
lmindedly to chop his left foot, and
ibid not discontinue the pastime until
he had split it up to the ankle.
Utah furnishes o pastoral item
concerning q flock OF sheep buried in
deep snow-drift for ten days, and
discovered at the end of that time by
their breath rising as cloud OF steam
through the superintendent snow.
The Lafayette Courier has lost a
pair Of compasses and advertises
them. We saw what we supposed
was them, moving along our street
the othor day, bat on overtaking the
supposed estray, found it was Bent.
Odeneali
Last Friday Jas. d. Page OF Val
leio, CAL, shot his wife whom he
believed TO be false 10 him, and then
ended his own life with the same
pistol. This tragedy occurred amid
the screams Of the miserable paren Is
ljtsic children. 4
Accompany ofsoldiers, while scouting
around Capt. Jacks camp last week,
captured "a horses and could have
killed as many Indians but for the
peace negotiations which prevented
them from firing on the poor, thiey-,
ling, numbering Los. Z
A man who applied TO recruiting
Office, in San Francisco, for enlist
ment was asked il he could "sleep on
the point of bayonet," when he
promptly replied by saying. t"that he
could try it, as he had often slept on
pint of wbiskey"
Sacramento women arm themselves
with daggers and go through lager
beer saloons after their recreant hus-
bands. When they find them they
don't say word about strawberry
marks. but just take them by the ear
and march them home.
S. J.. Simpson, author OF "The
Lost Cabin" published in the Orer-
land Monthly. and copied SO extensive
| ly at home and abroad, is seugaged upon
new novel, which will lie presented
to the public by the well-known pub
fishers, Harper Brothers.
| A little girl was burned to death at
Phoenix this week. It seems the
mother had left her alone in the
| room, in which there was fire. place,
Awhile she went to the well for u buck
et Of water, during which time the
child fell into the fire and was burned
ITO death.
Tho Mcs1innville ferryman last
week accidentally let go the rope
while crossing DIR. Watts and wife,
and that's Watts the matter-or was,
for few hundred yards down the
river, until the Doctor caught hold
Of some bushes and anchored the
boat.
A California man last week quar-
relied with his stepdaughter and then
tried to blow his own brains out.
They usually blow the stepdaughter's
brains out, and therefore he must be
kind, considerate. gentle soul and
ought to be colonized among step
daughters.
Two Visalia men having been shot
in the head and neither fatally in
jured, the Della thinks it would be
much better for people to shoot ut
the body, as it would probably be a
more fatal aim. We await with in
| terest the details of the next Visalia
shooting scrape.
Z The Corvallis Gazette goes into
Fconniptions of JOY over the prospect
of city hearse. In view of the fact
that tie Corvallis City Council have
refused TO buy hose for their fire
engine, it might be well to geta hearse
big enough to carry the whole town
to place of decent interment. -
H. w. Scott, 4. P. Dennison, j..
N. Dolph and Z. F. Russell. have
incorporated themselves under the
name of Coos Bay and Coquille
Canal and Transportation Company
capital stock, 81 $50, 900. The object
Of the company is to connect Coquille
river with Coos Bay by q canal, etc.
Bro. Upton, of the Lafayette
Courier, has bought farm adjoining
Lafayette, and says he will divide his