The state rights democrat. [volume] (Albany, Linn County, Oregon) 1865-1900, 1874-02-27

uDity?" His audience said they were
not certain, but thought he was.
A man buried at Denver eighty-oue
years ago was dug mp the other day
and found TO be petrifed, and
grandchild has made arrangements to
exhibit the stone at ten cents per
head.
Sixmen announce themselves, in
the Bedrock Democrat, as candidates
for the office of Sheriff Of Baker
county. That's right, gentlemen
give the printer show as you go
along.
The farmer of Oregon gets $40 per
ton for his wheat, and the carriers get
ajout S25 per ton for the same But
the ships are not owned in the State
hence 0regon's loss is s25 per ton on
wheat.
Herman Winkerman, of Nevada,
suicided, having property worth $780,
000 With that much money we
could get along without perpetrating
such foolish and disastrous trick up
on ourself.
Virginia City clearinghouse keep
ers are a much abused class. A
sanguinary boarder on Thursday last
threatened to shoot the top off his
landlords head, because the man OF
grub dunned him.
G. w. Ballard, of Benton county,
was caught in the act Of brutally
beating his wife and was adjudged
insane and sent to the asylum. There
are many other cusses of that sort
who ought to be treated likewise.
Henry Forgy, of the Forks Of
Santlam, has dried $4,000 pounds of
fruit during the past season with an
average of 1,478 pounds per week.
Henry Follis, another farmer of the
same Deighborhood, has dried 5000
pounds.
A few days ago one of Brigham
Young's daughters, who had abandon
ed the Mormon faith, managed to
elude his espionage, and escaped on
the Eastern bound train. Her inten-
tion is to lecture against Mormonism
in the East.
The Portland, Dalles & Salt Lake
Railroad, as contemplated, is to be a
narrow guage road, extending from
Kelton, on the Central Pacific, to
Portland, Oregon, a distance of seven
hundred miles, and will cost some
81. 100000.
The hoodl1m element of Jefferson
diverted itself a few nights since by
stealing six crosscut saws and two
mauls, and distributing them around
in the timber within a circuit of a
mile and half, where they were
found hanging in trees.
Our friend John Miller Murphy, in
an editorial in his Olympia Standard,
asks. "What shall we do
to be saved?" John, we would advise
you to get somebody to pickle you
down in brine as the most effective
way to have the thing done.
A riproaring statesman, making
speech in the California Legislature
last week, closed a peroration against
a bill in the following crushing strains:
~ "eAN Wv "tAbH1ANbNhf NY ebtl
The jaws that bite, the claws that catch;
Beware the jub-jub bird, and shun
The frumious Bandersnatch" |"
There are many horses dying in
Grand Ronde valley of epizooty,
especially in the vicinity of Union.
Mr.. VIM. Hutchinson, living near
Union. has lost three or four of his
best horses, and a Mr.. Peebler has
ost ten or twelve, while others are
on the sick list.
Last Saturday NJ. J. Gilkey and
DR.. G, 4. Cleveland met in the streets
Of WatsonVille, Cal, and when only
,wo feet apart each drew a pistol AND
ired simultaneously. Both fell dead
without uttering a groan. A bitter
'eud had long existed between them,
and thus it ended.
An inhuman fend at. Red Bluff, last
Wednesday, dragged his wife out of
,hildbed by the feet, she having been
delivered of twins only about twelve
hours previous, and kicked his daugh-
.er, two years old, with intent to kill
Ter. The brute's name is suppressed,
put he will be dealt with according to
lis crime.
A Teutonic mender of soles in Gil |
oy had vacant building to rent, and
son of Hibernia applied for the salre,
IS he said, for barber shop" A
months rent was paid in advance, and
he "barber" appeared next morning
With a wagon full of bottles, glasses,
ounter, and in fact, a complete bar
DOM SCI. After wordy warfare the
stonished "barbcr" was dismissed |
vith his money and a parting salpta.
ion of"Mein Gottl You dinks you
have me sure, don't it,"
The San Francisco papers tell about
young woman who is known as "the