The state rights democrat. [volume] (Albany, Linn County, Oregon) 1865-1900, 1874-05-08
PACIFIC COAsTERs.
Wool is worth 25 cents per /,

in Coos and Curry counties.
re Quite atornado swept oyer the
ID of Portland on last Monday.
0. La Grande is building up Iva
Of Notwithstanding the late fire.
There was a heavy thunder sto,
in San Francisco on last Monday.
\. A May day picnic on grand sc.
l. is held to-day at Willamette Fork
The Salem mills have shut do,.
3 for the want of something to grin
The crusade fever is breaking !,
IS in the towns of Washington Territ
}. ry.
The South Salem M. E. Supd,
!; School will have picnic on the Isl
inst.
Roseburg proposes to celebrate Il
!. coming Fourth of July on gran
. scale,
Over six thousand sheep perishe
. in Southern Oregon during the pa
winter.
Late frosts have damaged the fru
prospects in some localities in Pol
county.
The first boat, since the river ope
ed, left Cello for Lewiston on Ia,
Tuesday.
-Four packtrains passed .throupI
La Grande last week en- route \
camps in Baker county.
The corner stone of the BIN
Mountain UniVerity at La Grand,
will be laid on the 18th inst.
General jeff G. Davis was sere.
naded at the Occidental Hotel Il
Portland, the other evening.
There will be about three times tia
number Of cattle in Wallowa VALLEY
this year than there were last.
P. Burke languishes in the Port
land Jail for excising, with bis teeth,
portion of the ear of A. Williams
A sou of Mr.. Harvey J.. A[eacham
of La Grande, had his arm broken
last week by falling off play-horso
The Salem papers report the pres
enee of the Kansas murderess, Kate
Bender, in that city recently. Doubt.
full. IN
News from the Stickeen mines, re.
ceived through correspondence ii
the California papers, is not very fiat.
terine.
A. Lane, of Springfield, Lane couu.
ty, has received from the Patent
Office caveat for animproved rotary
engine.
Sommer &c Baer, of La Grande.
shipped to Portland last week fifteen
thousand pounds of hams, shoulders
md sides.
Ihe Ne'os reports many emigraDtS
pouring into Coos county from steam
'rs and sailing vessels arrlying at En-.
lire City.
The coons have started out on an
Independent movement about Van
ouyer and hen roosts suffer cores.
ondirgly.
The Democratic County Conven-
on OF Jackson county will be held
n the 18th inst, The primaries meet
'-morrow.
A band of Mongolians are mining
n the Columbia at the mouth Of
0hn Day river They make from one
TWO dollars per day to the hand.
A man named Bait, residing in
eFvals, Marion county, attempted "
ilclde few days ago. He cut his
roat and fired pistol ball into his
'ad but still lives.
The Eugene Journal reports a Re. N
'olican " speech from Llsh Applegate
that place on last Friday. No
ner instance Of the kind is expected
occur during the canvass.
Iho case of Oscar Clark, charged
tn incest, wastried at the last term
the Umatilla Circuit Court. The
'e was submitted to the jury which
agreed and were discharged.
Inc farmers about Vancouver OBJ.
to having their children sleep
&c IN a bed, They propose to
ca their offspring early to resist
encFoaohments Of middle men.
: IS reported that Washington
nty will follow the example of
nglas in nominating county tick
Iaere ,. is talk Of the straight,out
'0olloans and regular Democrats
ng
he Coos Bay Oregon Coal Com
y recently Incorporated in San
nclsco' !, will commence operations
He'r lands Sn Isthmps slough in
: under the supervision Of DR..
ry
m Ward, a logger, working. ii
? near EastpOrt, had his leg
zen :, last Thursday, caused by. tho
:, flying out from andep the log,
y he was endeavoriag TO rolIinto
water
y' the Pendleton zfis,ms. The
: !. on Lower Willow creek look
nae' and are in such state Of
ardness fhat u