The state rights democrat. [volume] (Albany, Linn County, Oregon) 1865-1900, 1874-02-06
PAcIric coAsrnas.
Frisco has 10 cases Of small pok.
East Portland has a public library.
Ada county, Idaho, pays 25 mills

4"" oo"h'J' AuAuoj pays ." "AniS
tax.
The Indians of Siskiyou county are
starving.
Victorians want TO know where is
Prot. Rutan, blind musician.
DR.. Plnmmer is arranging for the
erection of a telegraph wire to Asto.
ria.
} Arigon, the popular Astoria land
lord, celebrated his silver wedding last
week.
Miss Kate Rogers, a new English
star actress, has Just appeared in San
: francisco.
: Silver City is to have a regular old
fashioned Methodist revival-the first
IN her experience,
Frisco has a fire-alarm box that is
so sensitive that it goes off every time
a red-headed girl passes.
Measles is fatally raging among the
Yakima Indians, muoh to the relief of
cattle owners over there.
I Utah will turn out this season &c.,
100000 of gold and silver, and next
year will exceed California.
Colorado has 125,00O people and
clamors tumultuously to be admitted
into the sisterhood OF States.
The Baker County Democratic
Convention will be held on Monday,
Feb. 23. Primaries next Saturday.
Jefferson has scandal in which
young Miss and married man are
the chief subjects. The child is born.
The reported mineral riches and
diamond deposits Of Arizona are a
myth-bnt the internal scalping Injuns
aren't.
Salem revels in two Sbakespearian
societies = one composed entirely
of young ladies, and one of young
gentlemen.
Two muskets were last week acci-
dentally discharged at Fort Russell.
Both Of the soldiers were buried with
martial honors,
A New Mexico rancher who
owned 100000 head of sheep has just
suicided. He must have been tired
of "his mutton"
Chicken thieves now raid on Cor
wallis henroosts. Other articles lying
around loose are also shipped" by the
light fingered gentry.
Mr.. E. w. Sprague, of Coos Bay,
has gone to San Francisco in search of
tidings of his family, presumed to have
been lost ON the Elida.
The Jacksonville Sentinel, the old
est paper in Southern Oregon, has
closed its 18th volume. 1t is to be
improved and enlarged.
Sheriff Burch, of Polk county, has
done driving business at tax collect
ing this week, having taken in $4,000
in Dallas precinct alone.
A Portland debating society is ar
guing the question, "Was the murder
of Julius Caesar justifable? "A fresh,
practical question, indeed.
Gov. Ferry, of Washington Ter
ritory, celebrated bis silver wedding
this week, aud the Courier editor will
put on "biled shirt" and be thar
Mrs. Maria Jones, of Weston, Mo-,
wants to know in what part OF Oregon |
William Harrow lives, Not being
good at conundrums we give it up.
A Yamhill couple fled from the ty-
ranny of the oldfolks and were spliced
at Lafayette one day last week. They
came from tho banks of the Villa
nina.
Astoria wants tannery. Some Of
the Albany hoodlums say they would
like to send their pas tanncry down
there, They could spare it easy
enough.
Two convicts sent to the Peniten-
tiary from Clatsop county, last week,
bear tho euphoneous cognomen of
Oue-Eyed Kelly and He'll Roaring
Murphy, X.
A young Scottish noblemap, the
Right Hon. Walter C.Kerr son of a
Scottish Lord, has purchased a stock
farm near the Dalles and settled on it
"for keeps"
Mrs, Duniway last week got up asort
of concert in her own behalf in Port
land, which the papers of that place
pronounce a complete failure. Twas
ever thus, etc.
Iandoran had his right hand crush
SO badly, a iewdays ago, while mining
on Little Applegate, in Jackson coun.
ty, that it was necessary to amputate
one of his fingers.
No arrest Of the man who killed
Hen. White at Lnkville on the 18th
ult. has yet been made, John Cor
bell Is supposed to be the man who
fred the fatal shot.
Some wretch who ought to have
front seat on the Plutonian shore has
been trying to throw the passenger
trains off tho track by laying rails
aeroRs bnlnw Salau