The state rights democrat. [volume] (Albany, Linn County, Oregon) 1865-1900, 1873-10-24

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y There is no improvement in th'
% contaeion at Memphis. There wer'
If 5 deaths at Shreveport on the 18th
: and / at Montgomery (Ala.)
e- A. colored woman, Charlotte Gil
bert. has recovered $75 from the New
York and Charleston Steamship
+ Company, for ejectins herfrom State
: room.
J, Dr. BisseI one of the recently res.
b cued Polaris crew, has testified at an
4 examination conducted by the Gov
ernment that DR.. Hall died q natural
death.
u A fire in Blackstone (R. ]. J, on the
: night Of the 18th destroyed eight
+. houses and rendered homeless thirty
S families. Loss, 100000; partly in
sured.
The Tigress, containing the Polar
, , is search expedition, is at st. Johns
IN. F,), undergoing some repairs,
She will sail for New York in about
week.
Their we're 81 deaths from yellow
fever at Memphis on the 17th and 81
on the 18th. The President Of the
Board of Health thinks the aspect
more favorable.
A rebellion has broken out in the
State of Columbia. Admiral Almy,
of the United States Navy, has landed
l50 men in the city Of Panama to
give protection to noncombatants.
George Francis Train, who arrived
only last week from Europe, having
become disgusted with the country,
politics and people, has sailed away
again, leaving, as he says, forever.
The steamer City ofMontreal, from
Liverpool on,t the 17th for New York,
took 973, 900 of sterling in gold. and
the steamer Oceanica, which also
sailed on the same day, took 9lO,-
900.
The O'Conner Don, in his address
to his conitituents at Dublin on the
18th, favored home rule, denounced
the Federal plan, and declared that
the Federal States of North America
were only kept together by force of
arms.
Mrs. Vogt, an aged German woman,
was found brutally murdered near
her house, two miles from Iowa City,
recently. Her body bore evidence
that the assassin had held her down
by the thyoat and crushed her breast
with his knees. Her husband is sus-
pected of the crime. "
The Spanish Minister of State has
presented Gen. Sickles, United States
Minister, with sword made express
ly for him at Toledo. The hilt is Or
namented with the arms of the Uni
ted States, and on the blade are in
scribed the names of the battles in
which the General was distinguished.
The New York Express declares that
the present condition of the banks of
the city is digrace, and insists upon
the necessity of an immediate resump.
tion of currency payment as the only
means of restoring confidence, and
bringing out greenbacks now hoar-
ded in safety in the Depost Company's
vaults, and in old stockings and mat
tresses.
Returns received by the Chairman I
of the Central Committee from sixty
six of the one hundred counties in
Iowa, give Carpenters majority at
II, AIT. Grants majority last year
in the same counties was $4,000.
The heavy Granger and Democratic
counties are all in, and the remain
ing counties to be heard from will y
doubtless increase Carpenters major
lty to $4,000 or 20, 900.
Gen. Leopeta,> Che deposed Gov
ernor of the State of Coahpila Mex
lco) has left Saltillo for Monelova,
where the Congress of State is in ses-
sion, which recognized DR.. Salas as
Governor. An engagement is repor-
led between Gen. Laopeta and the
oartisans of DR.. Salas, near Saltillo, .
n which Leopeta is said to have been al
defeated and retired towards Piedras
Penas, on the Rio Grande. Another
account states that the action was uot
decisive
The Ohio election returns up to the
9TH are of very unsatisfactory
character, and it is impossible to state
lefnitely who is elected Governor.
The Democratic State Committee
rom their official returns received
rom eighty-two counties and guess r
IS to the other counties, now claim u
hat Allen is elected by S6S MAORI. ,
y. The Republicans do not give up ca ca
he ship as yet, and claim that moth gu
ng but full official returns can def
ntely decide the question as to who
8 elected.
9. A. Mead, General Manager of
he Northern Pacific Railroad, states
hat it is proposed to operate the
Dad as far as jamestown this Winter.
ertainly as the road is supplied with
now fences, ETC., to that point. If
he Winter is not severe trains will he
un to Bismark, but if it is a hard v
me these will be discontinued to-
amestown is about 100 miles west Of n
fargo. Work on the road is to be v
,egun and prosecuted with vicor IN
he Spring. Commissioners have AL
'een appointed to examine and re-. ny ny
'crt upon the condition Of the road the
nd they start to-day linz linz
Ten miles above Osceola ARK on
he Mississippi River, on the l7tb IN
nst., the packet Mary E. Poe was
discovered to be on fire, The flames
aimed such headway that the boat
1as run on bar. The deck passen
ers were forced to swim to save
nelr lives, The clerks report that
lxty-hvepassengers were on board If
'hom one cabin boy, one cabin nos
enger, two females and one moio G
eek passenger are m;se;r D.S