The state rights democrat. [volume] (Albany, Linn County, Oregon) 1865-1900, 1874-01-16
PACIFIC COASTERS.
Mt. Hood is smoking again.
Pannle are almoet starving IN DEN

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! California has 149 Oranges. Orr
s gon has S6.
p Phantom dances are all the rage
d Ogden, Utah.
A son of President Tyler died i
: frisco last Saturday.
s The Columbia boats only run
9 far as the Dalles as yet.
t There are three hundred men winter
l ing in the Yakima mines.
The Democratic State Centra
: Committee meets next Thursday.
: A row with pistols broke up q Ne
, yada Justices court last Monday.
: Antoine Huckler is on trial il
: frisco for the murder Of his mother
Rev. G. A. Huntington is the new
Indian Agent of Washington Terri
tory.
The Sheriff of Cheyenne county
Nebraska, is in jail on a charge o1
murder.
A Salem fellow has won horse at
rattle. He now wants to throw for
: a haystack.
Neveda hunters say that bereaved
grizzly is not a healthy animal to
sympathize with.
Mrs. Showers Of Portland. fell last
week and broke one of her limbs.
Pather heavy Showers.
Harrisburg has 131 pupils enrolled
in her public schools, the andregular
attendance numbers 95.
Robert Watson is increasing the
capacity of his cannery above Astoria
for 5000 cases this season.
Two men in Dayton, W. t., had a
fight last week. One of them came
out of the row minus one eye.
Messrs. E. X. Patterson, of Oyster
vile, and N. T. Nudge are preparing
to start a ship yard at Astoria.
Leoris Fafa, of Yreka, blew the
top of his head off beause his liquor
ran out and he couldn't get more.
Spud Murphy, confirmed bum
mer, well known to the Portland po-
lice, is rusticating in the Astoria jail.
A Vancouver murderer is likely to
pull hemp shortly. His name is
Hardagin. That's indeed Hardagin.
A number of Missionary Saints de-
parted from Salt Lake last week for
Europe, to catch fresh lambs for lions
fold.
Doc. Barnes Of Lewiston, had his
feet so badly frozen that both OF them
were amputated at the ankles to save
his life.
There were thirty-eight marriage
licenses issued by the County Clerk
of Washington county during the
year 1878.
II. N. Hill, of Junction, gives no.
tice to all officers of Oranges in Lane
county to meet in Eugene City on the
Goth inst.
In Nevada when a lady declines an
offer to see her home the young man
asks leave to sit on the fence and see
her pass by.
1t is generally reported that rich
strike has been made in the Emma
Mine, which shows a great amount of
valuable ore.
A Port Townsend man, con the
shady side of fifty years, was recent
ly bilked out of $500 by a "frail and
fair woman.
A Douglas county man was last
week attacked by cougar, and after
q bloody fight he succeeded in killing
it with q knife.
The taxpayers of Wasco county
pay 339 cents on an average for each
beef animal as taxes, and A cents
head on sheep.
The Oldest inhabitant of Coos
county diedt last week Her name
was Polly and she was the greasiest
old squaw in the land.
A first class Touring mill is very
much needed in Corvallis. Chop
feed is now shipped there from Salem
and flour from Albany.
Larmie beer is so thin that o man
drank seventeen gallons the other
day, and never offered to whip his
wife nor mother-in-law.
The scarlet rash is what's the mat
ter with children at La Grande.
Crash" is also what ails some of the
hoodlums about Albany.
The exports from Salt Lake City
in December last were 1857, ,791
pounds, namely, 1,24O,OOO bullion
and $50, 900 pounds lead. !
A man named Gosa, living u few
miles below Portland, has been ar
rested on charge of incest on the
person of his step-daughter.
Mr.. Fhckinger, of Corvallis, has
invented q new curvilinear punch.
Another fellow up there got curve
line punGh under the left ear.
The United Brethren received 6
converts from one family, named
Grabb, in Washington county, last