The state rights democrat. [volume] (Albany, Linn County, Oregon) 1865-1900, 1874-01-16

missionaries in Europe 70 SEND oVeS
no more old maids. Female SAINT
over thirty years Of age he regard
as unpro6table converts.
San Bernadino has man who live
openly with two wives. He is a Dol
der man than Nipple and therefor
ought to be President OF countr.
in which Nipple is Senator.
A Marion county Woman Suffrage
Society was last Saturday organized
at Salem, with Mrs. Belle W. Cook al
President. Many other eminent pull
lets of both sexes were present.
The newest subject of gossip al
Springfield is an elopement that took
plack from there last week. An irate
parent mnde hot pursuit, but the tiy-
ing lovers managed to elude him,
A ssh Francisco paper reports the
whaling remarkably open. Two OF
three hoodlums who attend our Albany
district school think the same may he
said of the "whaling" season up this
way.
An old hermit named Mills, living
near Portland, last Tuesday fell in
the fire, in O fit, and was nearly burn
ed to death before he recovered him
self sufficiently to crawl away from
the flames.
Mr.. and Mrs. Markham, of Wash
ington county, one night last week
went off to a party, leaving the house
alone with fire in the stove. No in
surance on either house, furniture
or clothing.
Jack Knott has returned to Port
land from the Stickeen (Alasla) gold
mines and reports that they are big
thing on ice. We should say SO as
he had to go to them in Russian sleds,
hauled by dogs.
An Idaho man is searching.diligent-
ly for lost horse. He don't care so
much for the animal but there was o
pair of saddle bags on him when he
ran of, and in those saddle-bags were
$4,000 in yellow lucre.
Mrs. Lumsden, woman who is on
her death bed, afflicted with consump-
ton, has been arraigned in a San
Francisco court on charge Of biga-
my. Having two Frisco husbands
at once ought to produce that effect.
What an unhappy fate has visited
Salt Lake City. Gov. Woods is de-
livering series of lectures on the
"Origin of Religions" If it was on
the "origin of knavery" he might
give them an experimental example,
A Nevada Jail bird named Wix0m
last Saturday tried to hang himself
to the jail window by using his socks
for gallows, Unfortunately he was
cut down by the jailor before the ex-
pertinent was made q complete sue
cess.
A Nevada paper says: The many
friends of Bill Thompson will regret
to hear that he was hashed up by a
catamount the other day on Nixon's
Hill, while lying in wait to shoot a
This is always a world of
Krumbein & Gilbert, architects,
are engaged in drafting plans for a
new and elegant brick residence tobe
erected the present year by Judge
at Roseburg. 1t will be one
Of the most handsome, substantial
and costly buildings in Southern Ore
gon.
Jerry Mclaughlin, of Portland,
loved Eliza Holt, but she didn't love
Jerry, However, he insisted that
Eliza was his best Holt and that he
would kill her if she didn't consent
to become Misthress Mclaughlin.
For all of which he langrishes in
Jail.
A young man entered store in
Boise City, some time since, who
prides himself on his small feet, and
vainly essayed to get on either Nos.
IL, 12 or 10, boots. The clerk then
that he should put on
thinner pair Of stockings and try on
the box.
Ashland is quite a lively burg the
present winter. There are four liter
lry societies, viz: "The Senate" and
the young Ladies' Literary Socie-
ty, at the Academy, and Lyceum
md Mock Circuit Court, which
meets alternately each week at the
District School House.
A curiosity was dug up at North
Namhill, consisting of a petrifed hui /
nan finger with the nail perfect as
life. George Robinson and his broth
N were digging well, and at the
lepth of 36 feet they came to clam
bed, and among the petrifed clans
he finger was discovered.
Young Couch,f of Roseburg, who
ucceeded in producing an engine
working super heated steam, and
which has been the ultima thule of all
INVENTORS since steam was first used