The state rights democrat. [volume] (Albany, Linn County, Oregon) 1865-1900, 1874-09-18
PACIFIC coAsrEs
oakland has a new town pump.

. erected at Weston.
The property in Douglas county il
l assessed at $3,829,803.
, The Salem Record will hereafter ap
: pear as morning paper.
More salmon canneries on the Lower
Columbia are talked of.
The amount Of taxable property in
Jackson county is s1,994, ,853. .
} 7. Hatch, of Salem, has. been ap-
pointed policeman at Oregon City.
A Lodge of the Order OF Odd Eel
lows will be organized at Hillsboro
soon.
The corner stone of the new Baptist
church was laid at the Dalles last
week.
Jacksonville has five schools in OPP
Grafton, which speaks well for place
Of its size.
There are only four paupers in the
Marion county poorhouse, one woman
and three men.
E. W. Rhea, of Lane county, raised
a little crop Of 10000 bushels OF
wheat ttis year.
Douglas county has two shepherd
dogs valued at $3.50 and 1900 ours
valued at 10000.
The harvest in Eastern Oregon is
entirely over. The yield in that sec
ton is less than last year,
Mr.. Tatman had his collar bone
badly broken last week, caused by
his horse falling with him.
The machinery for the Alden Fruit
Drying Company at Salem has been
shipped from Troy, N. Y,
The Salem people are to enjoy
concert given by the choir of the NJ.
Z. Church and Prot. Plummer.
The M. L. Church Society at Salem
is in debt $4,000, and has but little
extra funds on hand to pay with.
1t was with her little hatchet that
Mrs. Myers OF Lafayette cuta slice off
the cranium Of her divorced husband
Or, i. L. Rowland has been duly
installed as pastor Of the@ehristian
Church at Salem for the coming year.
The boys of the Times office, at
Jacksonville, gorged themselves last
week with a thirty-nne- pound water
melon.
Hop.pickiug has commenced in
Lane county. Quite large number
Of Indians and young hoodlums are
employed.
A Salem photographer offers a !
special premium for the handsomest
baby on the State Fair ground on the
afternoon Of the 18th.
The Assessor of Wasco county had
put the 0. s. N. Co. down for $685..
OOO; but the Equalization. Board re-
duced it to $273 500.
The Masonic fraternity OF Jackson.
vile have concluded to build two
story brick edifice, and will commence
operations before long.
The fog%histlo at the Dungeness
light, distance of some twenty miles,
was plainly heard at Port Townsend
last Saturday morning.
The payment of the claim of the
Pacific Bridge Company for the con-
'tuction of the Springfield bridge
caves Lane county about $1,000 in
lebt.
Syl. G, Simpson, Esq, has turned
'ver to DR.. i. L. Rowland, Superin.
endent of Public Instruction, the
'apers and books belonging to that
,llice.
Next Sabbath at the Congregation
i Church, Forest Grove, at IL A. NJ,
Rev. e. Walker will preach the thirty !
eventh anniversary of his labors in !
he ministry on this coast
Some dastardly scoundrel entered c
he field OF John Johnson on the Big |
4uckiamute Tuesday of last week, t
nd destroyed about ninety sacks of i
rain that was stacked therein. q
The first meeting of the Willamette c
ALLEY and Coast Railroad Company, Il
Or the election OF Directors, will be Z
ED at the Court House in the city Of d
corvallis, on the 17th day of October. a
The Institute for the Blind at Salem c
'ill be opened for the reception of 0
upils on the 2lst inst All pupils Ii
esiring to attend during the term are q
recently requested to be present el
on that day, C
A party Of prospeotors who have
cen prospecting in the Blue Noun az
Inns, and over as far as tho Snake d'
yer country, returned lately, and re- OF
ort the discovery of gold in several o.
laces, but not in paying quantities, &C
Oregon flour shipped from this port ro
0 the Kidkeser last year is now be- th
g used on that vessel as ship stores. St
has beenIhe rounds to England and ha
ustralia, passing through the tropics Ia
veral times, and is yet sweet and A
ire. Je
The County Court Of jackson as
unity, at its session last week, made be
q following lew. State fay "A mills. 90