The state rights democrat. [volume] (Albany, Linn County, Oregon) 1865-1900, 1874-10-30

the Herald has made it the subject OF
comment in bis paper
Morrel's Minstrel Troupe are on
their way overland to San Francisco,
and are giving performances at tho
different towns en- route.
The Virtue teu.stamp mill in East
ern Oregon has recently turned out a
bar of $4,000 from a run of ten days
upon very ordinary rock.
Mrs. Parter of Idaho City has fall
len heir to property valued at mill
ION dollars. The estate consists of
eighty acres in East St Louis.
The Washington Territory Wom-
ans Sutfeage Association held a
meeting in Olympia on the 9th inst.
and elected full set Of officers.
Mr.. Jacob Hoover, of Sleilacoom,
has received the Democratic nomina.
lion for Joint Councilman inthe coun.
ties of Pierce, Mason aud Chehalis.
Tie tax levy in Yamhill county the
present year amounts to 224 mills.
The county indebtedness is between
twelve and thirteen Thousand dollars.
The ladies of Baker City held n
Fair at that place last week for the
benefit of the Sisters school, and
were encouraged with balance, after
paying all expenses, of $50.
The Daily Agalanche, published at
Silver City, Owyhee County, Idaho
Territory, is regularly mailed to sub,
scribers at the rate of $50 per year.
In the newspaper world this is high,
The Baker City Democrat is much
excited over the late Democratic vic.
tories in the East, and prefaces the
news with display head and rooster
with ruffled feathers in the act of
growing
The Salem Record says that a gen.
tleman who recently arrived in that
city from Connecticut paid SS5 ex.
pressage on $50 pounds of clothing
between the two places, How is that
for high?
Mr.. August Mall aud the new mail
contractor between Port Townsend
and Port Discovery are making tour
of the willamette Valley, with a view
Of purchasing horses with which to
stock the route.
Thomas Stratton lately found the
jaw bone of whale of gigantic pro-
portions at point on Tatosh Island,
one hundred feet above the water lev
ell of the Straits of Fuca. 1t is now
Nv IOrJ townsend.
John Denny, the individual who
stole o valuable meerschaum pipe
from Mr.. Stone of Salem, and was
arrested in Portland and sent back
for trial, was to have had his exami.
nation on Saturday.
Judge Alanson Smith Of Boise City
recently delivered the address before
the Ada County Agricultural Society,
and the officers and members were so
well pleased with the effort that they
desire its publication.
Several quartz lodes that pros
pect very handsomely have recently
heen discovered in the mountains near
Baker City and the Democrat thinks
Baker will become the centre Of vast
quartz mining country.
We regret to learn that Paul Gle
ford, Of Kings Valley. Benton county,
is completely paralyzed from The waiS,
down. His attending physician in.
forms the Benton Democrat that he
has hopes of his recovery,
Young America Engine Company,
No. |. Of Corvallis, is announced to
give grand ballon the 2)th proximo,
and the lovers of the mazy dance in
that quarter are upon the liptoe OF
expectancy in consequence.
The Moo,idiaecr says the fee bill
that passed both Houses reduces the
fees OF CLERKS aud Sherilf's full 10 per
vent, aud adds that those officers in
Wasco County will not now afford
the incumhents a decent living,
Both political parties in Northern
Idaho have declared uuequivocany
they adherence To the pet idea Of an.
nexatlon 10 Washington Territory
from which they were originally sew
cred, and tho papers are jubilant
Frank, alias Web Shipley, was ar.
rested in Baker County last week for
stealing two horses from a gentleman
named Osborne, lie is said to he a
noted character and should 20 to the
Pcniten,iary an general principals.
A spirited troiling race came off at
the Salem Fair Grounds on Thursday,
between J. H. Miller's gray horse
tSwachammerN and c. Nj, Walkers /
bay mare "Fleetfool,r tor a purse oil
sa5. sSwachammer" won in two I
straight heats, Time, S:42, 1885,
Mr. Geosge Helmstock, living few I
miles southwest OF McAiinnville, met