The state rights democrat. [volume] (Albany, Linn County, Oregon) 1865-1900, 1874-08-21

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the Third Judicial District Medical
Society will meet on Monday, August
31st, at 10 o'clock A. NJ, in College
Hall, Moor's block, Salem.
The delegates from the severalsub-
ordinate Oranges, P. s.of H, who
met in Olympia last week, organized
a District Council, and held a general
consultation upon the workings of the
Order, and the questions that affect
them in that section.
Last weeks news from Rocky Bar,
Idaho, says that Mr.. Newton, Superin.
tendent of the Pittsburgh Company,
has struck rich body of ore in the
Ada Elmore mine six feet wide. As
most of this ore pays 500 per ton it
is counted big thing.
A severe rain and thunder storm
broke over the Grand Ronde Valley
on Sunday, the 9th inst, and seemed
to expend its force in Pyle's Canyon
where it crossed the m adow of Mr..
Yowe with one foot ofwater, running
the hay which had Just been cut.
The recent arrest in San Francisco
OF the exhibitors OF the four-legged
child, was made under the provision
of the penal code, which reads as
follows: Every person exhibiting
the deformties Of another, or his own
deformities, for hire, is guilty of
misdemeanor."
AT the election held in Montana on
the Sd inst, Maginnis (Dem. was
elected delegate to Congress by over
800 majority. The vote was largely
in favor OF the approval OF the law fix
ing the capital at Helena. The Leg
lslative Assembly is Democratic by
a small majority.
The Salt Lake Tribune of the 18th
says: 1.-TWO wagon loads of Saints,
from the snaggle toothed old he fel-
low to the bouncing maiden, drew up
in front ofthe Endowment House yes
terday, and went through that law-dc.
flying Institution. We have a hot DO.
ker in store for them.n
AT the rich and extensive gold
bearing quartz mines, lately developed
on Elk Creek, in Grant county, from
a run Of three days with an eight
stamp mill, three hundred pounds of
amaIgam was cleaned up. This
when retorted, would leave about
two hundred and fifty pounds of gold.
The preliminary organization of a
Council of the "Sovereigns of Indus,
try" was effected in Olympia last
Wednesday night. This order has
for its objects the same as those of
the Patrons of Husbandry, but is com
posed of laboring classes generally,
whereas the p. OF II. only admit those
who gain livelihood by tilling the
soil.
The Tribune says: "Just because
Bro Van Eten, OF the Church off
Christ of Latter-Day Saints, got away
with the paItry sum OF $4,000, the
Mormon Church papers call HIM
scoundrel. Brigham Young swindles
the people out of ten times that
amount every month, and iscaled the
Profit of the Lord and the best man
in the kingdom.
A young man by the name of John
Hunter stole horse and saddle from
the ranch Of Thomas Angle, on Eight
Mile Greek, Wasco county, on the
18th inst. He went over to the John
Day river, where he sold the horse
and took passage on the Overland
Stage for Umatilla, where telegram
found him and he was locked I'D to
await the arrival Of Sheriff Schultz.
A distemper OF very serious form
has broken out among the horses of
Union County, and many have already
succumbed to the disease. A large |.
quantity of foam is emitted from
the nose and their throats swell.
In some cases other portions of the
body have swellod up and become a
running sore. The veterinary sur
geons confess themselves nonplussed.
The expedition of Gen. Custer in.
to the Black Hills country has revealed
wondrous scope and richness of land.
Every encroachment upon the untrod-
den regions confirms the same old
story of fertility and productiyeness
which years ago was told of Illinois,
Minnesota, Iowa, Nebraska and all the
vast region which now forms the great
States from Plymouth Rock to the
Missouri.
The following paragraph, from a
Washington county paper, will inter-
est good many people in this lati.
ude. "rhe ID Comptroller is said to
have decided that the appropriation
for the payment OF the Oregon War
Department of Oregon of 1886 is
pOta permanentspeciho appropriation,
and that the unexpeuded balance went
back into the Treasury on the SOth of
June last"
As Virginia City, Nevada, man.