The state rights democrat. [volume] (Albany, Linn County, Oregon) 1865-1900, 1873-02-21
HOME AND ABnoAD.

w. A. Mcpherson, Esq, paid US n
visit during the week.
It's 1o-pound girl, and Capt. Shields
is the proud father. Factl
DIR. pmmmer wants some white
tailed deer. Sec ad. elsewhere.
Our Jefferson agent, +. l.. Cranfill,
ESQ, paid US pleasant and substantial
visit during the week.
J. z. Grouse and Henry Myer will ac-
cept our thanks for supply of wines
of an excellent brand.
w. r. Privett, City Recorder of Cor
wallis, and agent for this paper at that
place, called on us last Saturday.
Never turn around In the street to
see what another girl wears; you will
find her doing the same thing.
AIRS. James Fl. Fosters .of this city, Is
Linn county's Vice President of tho
Oregon Woman Suffrage Society.
If your neighbours hens are trouble
some, and steal across the way, don't
let your angry passions rise; fix a place
for 'em to lay.
Tomorrow will be the 141st anniver-
sary of the birth OF him who was "first
In war, first In peace and first In the
hearts of his countrymen."
Mrs. Faircloth, of Mitchell county,
Ga, Is III years old, and can still skin
q eat, split kindling wood and knit
stockings with Mnsard heels, with
one eye open.
The citizens of Albany were greatly
surprised upon arising from their
couches last Sabbath morning, to find
n mantle of snow covering the earth.-
1t soon skedooflled.
Agassiz says that any full grown
man can live for ten days by chewing
ut pair of boots, and yet there are
men who win erowl il they don't have
q mince pie every meal.
All right, DR.. Bayley and gentlemen
of Corvallis Library Association: In
consideration of your youth and impc-
cuniosity you shall have the DEMO
cRAT for your library, free.
1t is estimated that enough property
and machinery 20 to waste with many
farmers every year to pay all the taxes
on the farm. or course this doesn't
apply To the farmers OF Linn.
Bring on your envelopes and have
your name printed on them so the
postmaster won't have TO open your
love letters, when they mIscarry. i'm
or,lcr TO find out who 10 return them
to.
Leavenworth, Kansas. has gate
over which fourteen couples have
swung and popped the question, and,
strange TO relate, its hinges are sound,
and IL does not sag m inch from its
level.
Our new press is Just buzzing through
the Job work. We are now doing as
neat printing rs any house this side of
San Francisco. Bring on your posters,
circulars, cards, envelopes, bill-hcads,
letter heads. labels, etc.
y Paris girl has just received pres
ent OF Si0, 900 for voiuuta rily nursing n
bachelor who was down with the
smallpox; and of course now our AL
bany girls will commence hoping that
all our bachelors may be tackle. with
that playful disease.
Think OF It, we Albaniaus. For n
two and half dollar piece yon can
tell your grandmother In New Zealand
the sex of the baby In five minute y
after it's born, through the medium
Of the Western Union Telegraph lines.
Gus. Wheeler will send the news for
you.
He got two valentines, and they
were gushing; but II the court knows
herself and she thinks she do VIC are
/ married and c"n't reply to them with
safety, so the senders OF the illusions
will have to let their disappointment
eat into their buzzums like n canker-
worm.
1t may be offering too much, but II
certain gentleman who frequently
visits this Office will shut the door after
him when he retircs we will publish
his obituary notice free of charge when
the Modocs raise his char" This is
not intended rs much for local item
as hint to that gentleman.
| \ certain young man of this city
swears vengeance upon a dog la con-
temptible little puppy!l who belongs
to the young lady whom he goes to
see. He says he has to get a new pair
of pants after every call he makes up
on his DulceuA He says that ske-
poodle is just ripe for dog heaven.
Letters received from people in the
Eastern States, by citizens of Linn
county. state that large numbers will
start for Oregon in the Spring, the Sc
verify of the winters there having be-
come longer unbearable. Letters from
Iowa inform US that this has been the
severest winter ever known in that
State.
The "Kiss Quadrille" is the latest
thing in Washington bathrooms. Al
the command u la main, each gentle
man kisses his partner. Here i'm AL.
bany the youngsters don't advertise
the kissing business in that way but
our devil assures us that those Wash
ington City folks don't have any pei
centage over our boys in the quantity
or quality of the kisses on ball occa-
sions
Chicago capitalists haye bought g..
900 acres of land in Jackson county
Wis. to be converted into a cranberry