The state rights democrat. [volume] (Albany, Linn County, Oregon) 1865-1900, 1873-07-04
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To Yreka bank.
| The Walla Walla peach crop has
been frosted out.
The State University ediice ID
looming skyward.
Gov. Grover will deliver the ora
ton at Portland to-day. 44ts
The Corvallis and Yaquina Bay
wagon road is finished.
Rev. w. r. Stewart will make the
eagle screech at Salem to day.
Utah is to have prodigiohs grain
CROP The wife crop is also forward.
Croquet and accompanying silver
plated garters are the rage at Eu-
gene. a
The Gazette of last week contains n
glowing account of q cock fight in
Corvallis.
d. Lower, merchant Of Portland,
died in that city Of smallpox last
Saturday. @
There is not o woman in the Oregon
Penitentiary-and yet Mrs. Duniway
clamors for larger "spere" for them
A Port Townsend cat scratched a
box of matches. The London &
Globe Insurance Company lose $780,
900.
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The Frisco sewers are all to be
flushed. Now il our readers know
what FLUSHED" means they are even
wiser than we.
The Dalles last week sent two stu
dents TO the State Penitentiary--one
for four years and the other for n
two years term.
At the Jefferson celebration to-day
Mart. v. Brown is Orator, @. B.
Roland Reader of Declaration, aud
Jesse Parrish Marshal.
An oak tree at Forest Grove was
shivered by lightning last week.
Many houses escaped injury by being
too far away for the tree TO fall upon.
Miss Minnie Lockwood. of San
Francisco, couldn't finish herself
with poison because meddlesome
doctor planted u stomach pump into
her mouth.
A couple of Walla WalIa "shiyeree-
ers' carried off a lot of pigeon shot
in their legs and the newly welded
couple weren't bothered any more
that night.
George Mnlligan, of Lane coun-
ty, now at Ochoco. writes discourag-
ingly about the new mines, and ad-
yises his friends not TO be in hurry
about starting.
California is cultivating fish. It
has made such an outrageous failure
in the Chinese business that it ought
to quit trying to improve any other
sort of species.
A Dutchman named Greener was
greener'n anybody at Virginia, Ne
vada. He stepped of OF q running
train. and viii have TO be supplied
with two wooden legs.
The editor of the Salt Lake Irib-
une says he heard young girl say to
companion recently: my opinion
is, that a Mormon is a little better
than Gentile-if anything"
A sensitive San Francisco belle
habitually carries n whalebone switch
TO whale beauin' young gentlemen.
and they say it only heigbtens the
previous switchery of her manner.
Rev. Mr.. Eaton, Congregational
preacher of the Dalles, has caused q
futter in the religious world by
preaching sermon in favor of dane
ing aud other healthy ammusements.
Defiance, a California horse, is the
fastest PAGER in the world, having
made at Oakland the other day the
remarkable time of a mile in 2:16,
beating Dan. Vorhees. New York
horse.
The Pioneers" of Portland last
Saturday went to Salem to play the
College Base Ball Club Of the latter
place. The "Pioneers" returned to
the metropolis next day without any
laurels to speak of. W
That veteran patriot Gen. Joseph
Lane, CRATES at Myrtle Greek, Doug
las county, to-day. TO hear him
would be almost like standing face to
face with the sages Of the nation who
have long since fallen asleep.
A Dalles husband was last week
made happy, after the birth of a
child, by his wife saying to him:
Remember, now, dear, you are q
father" He said he thought SO be-
fore, but that chinched the matter.
An animal known as the Fatonay,
or Armadillo, has been discovered
near Vancouver. It will answer for
our national bird after to-day-theG
eagle won't be fit for anything but a
barn-yard fowl to slosh around home
with.
Marsh French of the Dalles has
just returned from the Ochoco mines
and says that none of the miners