The state rights democrat. [volume] (Albany, Linn County, Oregon) 1865-1900, 1874-12-11
HOME AND ABROAD.

hIGCllOii SUNtF.
Damp and foggy.
on year in city politics.
We have the agricultural works.
Cassino parties are all the rage now.
Cheap goods at s. =. Young's. Look
at his ad.
The colo'd troop fitnobIy at our city
election.
Everybody Is getting ready for tie
holidays.
The oldest Western settler-the eve
ming sun.
Our river has been "on bust'' for a
few weeks.
Toys Of all descriptions at Tlleston
and Scott's.
Joe. Teal has been in our city for the
past few days.
The new winter hats for the ladies
are. already felt.
The newly elected officers now tread
the earth iike thing Of life. vi
The election is so near 'alf-an-'alf
that nobody can fire. national slute.
Hon. ]. H. Hackleman is lying sick
with erysipelas at his residence in Sa-
lem.
Henry Merrill, an old resident of this
city has been in town during the past
week.
The Granger came out for the first
time under the new management yes
terday.$ fi f5 ffRN
J. i. Harris and his California bride
will probably arrive home by the next
steamer
Joe. Webber's new barber shop is
the neatestlittle apartment of the kind
in the State.
All who owe DIR. Gray can read his
illustrated rebus which appears in an
other column.
Merrick is putting up new build
ing next door to Murray's Hotel to be
used by himself as saloon.
Mrs. Luper and Mrs. Montgomery
started for trip to Astoria last Tues
day for the benefit of their health.
1.-THE one thing needful for the per-
feet enjoyment of love is confidence"
It's the same with hash and sausage.
The w. r. IT. Co.'S. boats now land
at c. d. Simpsons wharf, and the
Hoiladay line has rented Beach y
Monteith's wharf.
Miss Nettie Cottle, of San Jose, CAL,
arrived by last steamer and will spend
the winter in this city with her rela-
tives, the Parkers.
New Year calling cards. Who wants
them? We have the handsomest cut
and cards for that kind of work ever
brought to this city.
Joaquin Miller has written about IA
Storm in Venice" tits supposed out
here that Minnie Myrtle Miller caught
up with him at that place. '7.
Mcfarland advertises in to-day's
paper thatfrom this time until further
notice he will sell a choice lot of stoves
and ranges at cost for cash.
Chas. Church has commenced the
erection of a building near Fosters
mill for the purpose of engaging IN the
manufacture of flour sacks.
We acknowledge a call from S. Allen
Thrall, of Salem, who is up through
the valley on a drumming tour for
Holbert's candy manufactory,
We've got the agricultural works at
last. The little job that the Salem
boys put up didn't have the desired
effect upon the verdant (?) directors
from this county.
Newhouse's wood boat broke loose
from its moorings at the foot of Ferry
street last Tuesday night and fioated
down the river. We hear it was
caught down near Springhill and tied
up.
A gentleman at one of our city
boarding-houses was asked one morn
ing at the breakfast table what kind Of
vegetables he liked best. He said he
wasn't tsure but thought he 'liked bread
best.n
lowing to circumstances over which
we have no CONTROL the DEMOCRAT
rooster is not paraded in our columns
this week. This damp, foggy weather
has a very deleterious effect on his
plumage.
I Dave Froman is elected Mayor, and
five other Republicans have got away
with offices. Well, we don't 60 much
on city elections anyway. We go al
our money on State elections-some'
thing like that of Massachusetts, fol
! instance.
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