The state rights democrat. [volume] (Albany, Linn County, Oregon) 1865-1900, 1874-12-04
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Idaho.
A new anti-Mormon paper is to be
started at Ogden. N
The O. S. S. Co.'S warehouse at
Oregon City is filled with wheat.
A horrible case of rape is now be-
ing brought to light in the Portland
court.
A number of immigrants have
located in Forest Grove within the
last few weeks.
Ex.Member Of Congress Slater is
dangerously i'll with pneumonia at bis
residence in LaGrande.
The farmers iii the Umpqua are
shipping wheat to San Francisco via
Scottsburg and Gardiner.
Ann Eliza says the only good
advice Brigham ever gave her was to
be economical and virtuous.
Rich & Wilson's mule train, with
10000 pounds, left Corinne for
Bozeman on the 31st'gltimo'
At an auction sale at Fort Boise,
John Levy purchased two mules, and
pretty good ones, too, for SO.
The highest tides known. at that
place for several years prevailed at
Astoria on Monday and Tuesday
last.
Boys coastlng down a hill at Silver
City, Idaho, ran into Chinaman and
injured him so tnat he died the next
day.
A Vancouver man has invented a
new kind of ironing board, which is
claimed to be good thing for house
wives.
The Hillsboro Park Association
met on Tuesday last, and an ASSESS
ment of so per cent, was levied upon
the capital stock.
The Directors of the Washington
County Agricultural Society will
meet at Hillsboro on the 1st proximo
for the transaction of business.
Mr. Nudge, OF Clatsop county, has
just gathered second crop of Bart
lett pears from his trees this year.
They are about as good as the first.
81. Williams, of Hillsboro, fell six
teen feet from the roof he was shingl-
ing, Saturday last, injuring the small
of his back and producing partial
paralysis of the lower extremities.
The Jacksonville Times says;
"Ben Holladay and wife passed
through town the other night in their
own conveyance, but drawn by the
Stage Company's horses. Conse.
quence-Stage late, no mails and
everybody disgusted, as usual"
The Jacksonville Sentinel says
"Prospecting for cinnabar is the
exciting pastime of the loose-footed
in this region. Rich lodges are snp-
posed to be near here as much rich
float ore is pickedup by miners, The
existence of some lepges is demon
strated"
John Moore, son of E. M. Moore Of
Roseburg, had his leg broken last
Thursday for the fourth time in the
last twelve months. He was at
tempting to catch a ball which an
other boy was throwing, and in some
manner he threw his weight on his
fractured limb, and it gave way.
The Coos County Record of the
Goth inst. says: The Western Shore
made the trip down to San Francisco
in three days, arriving there the day
after the Eastport. She was saluted
by the shipping in the harbor on her
entrance, and received much praise
from the captains who saw her,
Rev. G. w. Grannis has been
assigned to the pastorate of the
Methodist Church in Walla Walia.
Mr. Grannis was transferred from the
Arkansas Conference by Bishop
Merrill, and IS a young man of good
abilities, He arrived in Portland by
the last steamer, and proceeded at
once to Walla Walla.
The Yamhill Courier says the
Yamhill River is very high, aud the
current is so high as so threaten the
safety of all the bridges over the
stream, The new bridge on the
Sheridan and Amity road, which was
bull t little over a year ago at a
ccst of over $4,000, was destroyed by
the raging torrent, and rapidlyIaccum.
mulating driItwood torebodes other
disasters.
The School Directors of Woody
District, Washington County, sold
ten head of cattle, said to be the
property of delinquent taxpayer
named Davis, to satisfy the lien, and
the purchaser Immediately shot and
butohered them upon the place. IT.
afterwards leaked out that they were
the property of another persen, and
Directors expect to be called upon
to defend their action in Court.
The Register notices Thanksgiving
ceremonies at Vancouver thus; The