The state rights democrat. [volume] (Albany, Linn County, Oregon) 1865-1900, 1874-08-07

Jewelry made Of fish scales adorn
Astoria bellies.

: Portland crusaders have been vi,
:, iting Oregon City.
e A saw log lib feet long was CT
e near Salem few days ago.
e The Iaqnina railroad fever is un,
: bated in interested localities.
s Two Salem nimrods gathered in
A forty-tonr grouse in one day, recen,
Iy.
The Dalles paper says that tow
5 has too many hoodums for a small
place.
Sixty Corvallisites "nooned on tb
seashore" at Yaquina last Monday
Bosh!
The Fanny Morgan Phelps Troup,
were received at Tacoma by an over
flowing house.
The down train on Tuesday morn
ing made beef of somebody's COW
near Canemab.
Salem is becoming notorious as the
headquarters for crime and criminals
Of various kinds.
The Annual Fair of the Walla
Walla Agricultural Society will begin
September 18th.
The Walla Walla skating rink has
been converted into a warehouse.
Hopeful conversion.
There were nine steamers and two
sailing vessels at the Seattle warves
last Monday afternoon.
During last week several loads of
grain passed through the town of
Union for Camp Harney.
The whole nun Der of votes polled
at the Boise City election Oh Satur-
day, July 25th, was 215.
There will be one hundred thou
sand pounds Of hops raised in the
Puyallpp Valley this year.
Green apples, from Walla Wala,
raised this season, are selling at Pen
dleton for five cents per pound.
Ann Eliza, Brighams seventeenth
wife, joined the Methodist Church at
Salt Lake City on the 2Gth inst.
A female sheep drover crossed the
Santiam with drove of sheep last
week, bound for Eastern Oregon.
The land Office Of the Northern
Pacific Railroad Company has been
removed from Kalama to Tacoma.
There is an eiehteen,year old girl
near Stayton, Marion County, that
weighs 33S pounds in her night gown.
Dallas Enoampment I. G. r. G.
claims to be the banner Encampment
Of the State. 1t is thriving organ
ization,
An insurance man Is making
liagram of Salem for the guidance
'f the Companies doing business in
hat city.
The ladies of Astoria are circulat-
ng a petition for signatures asking
he Legislature to pass a "local op.
ion" law,
Twelve hundred bushels of wheat
we're threshcd out by one machine
'oar Salem in less than three hours
asst Monday.
The last issue of the Salem Mercury
ontains the Governors official pro-
lamatlon, declaring the result of the
ate election.
Mr., David Fanst, while working
N his house near Salem, last We'd
esday, fell from ladder and was
everely injured.
Mr.. Sanford, who lives south of
'endleton, has lately sold 800 head
I sheep to Messrs. Frazier s. Curtis,
Or SO SO per head.
The farmers of Eastern Oregon are
nsily engaged harvesting, The !.
heat will hardly average us well as &,
lst years crop did. i.
Dallas claims to have the prettiest J
own site in the State and Sllverton
ispules it, and twenty other places =
lain The same thing, 4
Dried apples are quoted at 14@16 .
ents per pound in the La Grande :
'arkct wheat SO cts per bushel; oats Il
cts, and wool "a cts, .
A joint stock company has been "
rmed in the village of Stayton and ="
Icinity Tor the purpose OF building :"
Touring mill at that place. =
1t is reported currently that Mr.,
.olladay intends sending some of =
IS fine horses to the Fair grounds at :
lllSboro to be put in training. y !,
The Seattle Coal Company, with -
Ieir increased facilities, are now "
1livering coal in that place at the " y,
lie OF elgnty tons and upwards daily. y
The house of Mr. Drury Stayton, ~
the village of Slayton, on tho San. ',
sm River Marion County, was to. " "
lily destroyed by fire on Saturday u
st. "
In the match game of base ball =.
Salem between Capital aud Tiger !,
ngine Companies, resulted in VIC >,
ry lor the latter, as we predicted. i,
gerl
Gerraud says that ho sleeps much y,
ttern since the execution of his ~