The state rights democrat. [volume] (Albany, Linn County, Oregon) 1865-1900, 1874-07-31
PACIFIC coAsrrns.
Montana election next Monday.
Grant frog In thn Snnnd ,rnnds


sion at Sacramento.
A State Medical Society will |
formed in Salem Sept. 2.
j. NJ. Johns is erecting a lare
warehouse on the river in Salem.
An opposition boat now runs b,
tween the Cascades and the Dalles.
Salem has been visited by a lad
lecturer who doesn't believe in a bel
Brigham Young has made his vii
giving his wife's relations ten childre
apiece.
Salem is proud of an 1S-year ol
squaw who is the mother of fiv
crlcket-eaters.
The Washington County Fair vii
commence September 2Sth and cor
tinue five days.
Chas Meston, little 2-year older
was last Tuesday drowned at Port
land while in bathing.
Edward Jackson, lad of Fores
Grove, ran a rake tooth clear through
his foot few days ago.
Olympia mourns the scarcity o
perfumery. The onion crop is evi
IDENTIFY failure over there.
John Smith has turned out blk
He lives in Marion county now, and
refused to pay harvest hands.
Walla Walla struts because they
have a four-legged chicken up there.
How's that for quadrupod?
Salem had a high-toned Chinese
funeral last Tuesday, In which one
Toy Sing furnished the corpse.
Nine divorces in San Francisco in
one day last week. That burg better
look out for Chicago fires now.
The Portland Museum has two pet
rattlesnakes in a box. We don't
want AIRY rattle out of that box.
Some California chap is writing
about "the Science of grasshoppers."
He had better explain their agility.
William Baker, living few miles
southwest of Corvallis, caught large
black bear, in rail trap, last week.
Two Portland youths, less than Ia
years Of age, killed panther in the
Cascade mountains, east Of that city
last week.
A Mormon the other day traded a
span of mules for a girl. He now
says he will take his mules back and
ask no questions.
Salem has a preacher who weighs
200 lbs to a fraction. And the tele-
graph tells us that "Beecher weighs
more than ever" Singular coinci-
lence.
Two suicides at frisco Sunday.
)ne of the victims had been accused
If "nest-hiding" with a lovely young
and couldn't stand the dis |
race.
Aaron Beck, of Bloomfield, Cal,
'rutally cowhided Mrs. Pickle, aud
low he is in soak himself until he
ays the lady damages Tor his beastly
onduct.
Judge Tolman's little girl, who bad
er leg amputaed recently, is fast
ocovering, much TO the joy of the
ereaved family and many treinds Of
ne Judge.
Nez. says the Salemites made more
lss over the arrival of his four fine
Orses than they did over his return
ON Washington, aud says the reason
obvious.
A Spaniard named Moreno, who a
w weeks ago outraged Mrs, Ed I
dge, at .Aneheim, Cal, was last Sun. {
ny killed by an officer who was try :
g to arrest him.
Charles Wait, of Elko, went out
lick hunting, and leaned on his gun
rest. The doctors think they can :
axe him cork ear in the place of
Z one blown off.
Mills Seminary, in California, has $
fire brigade composed of school ;
rls. Of course they throw cold p
lter on the young sparks there :"
out-don't it? Il
The baseball clubs that came down u
Corvallis from Long Tom, last c, C.
turday, brought their rations and q
mp equipment and "bivouaced up ~ q,
the tented field" A
On Wednesday night of last week W ",
, saw mill of Harris and Stone, near pl
Fort Hoskins, in Benton county se
$ burned to the ground, Loss, tn
out 81 ,0Q0 no insurance. II
rruckee, New, has its first photo 4,
ipber, and he has been shot at be- M M
se he wouldn't take picture by an m
Up light of a miner who was going Ss Sc
ny early in the morning. IN IN
!, N, Wilkins, of Corvallis, who A' AA'
been such a fruitful source for sac. ali ali
mt" items, fell off a load OF. hay s9 sS
Saturday, striking on his head Se Se
iuilicting serious injury. -
\ gentleman just up from Yaquina
! North Roach for several davs ,r1