The state rights democrat. [volume] (Albany, Linn County, Oregon) 1865-1900, 1875-04-23

John Smith has gone crazy.
Australia beats OREGON tor rain

g ed again.
9 There is not sack OF flour to be
Y had in Tillamook county.
Q Several PortIanders have struck
! rich mines in Southern Oregon.
A Portland little girls ear was
kicked off by horse last Tuesday
Mrs, Nesbitt was thrown from a
, wagon, near Salem, and fatally injured
/ last week.
+, We understand some man is bring
! ing 10000 head ofTexan cattle INTO
Eastern Oregon.
Coos county must be newspaper
: bonanza. A fourth one is to be iissued
out there soon.
Almanacs are ten cents piece in
} Nevada but Nevada always was a
high-priced place.
A beast named D. A. Clowinger,
! OF Columbia county, is iu jail for rape
on his own daughter.
Geo. J. Buys, editor Of the Eugene
Guard, has been elected Recorder Of
Eugene City. He wears his honors
modestly.
There are several counties in Idaho
Territory that comprise more space
than some of the smaller Eastern and
Southern States
disappointment in love and strong
drink is why Henry Hush's voice is
forever hushed and he sleeps in the
San Jose graveyard.
AS soon as the trial is over Beecher
threatens to make tour of California
and Oregon. Good Lord, send us the
grasshoppers instead.
A Virginia City hoodIum is in iail
for trying to smoke out a meeting
by cramming the church chimney
with sticks and rubbish,
The Masonic fraternity of Oregon
gave larger donation to the Kansas
grasshopper sufferers than any other
Masons Of a like number.
Portland butchers go to spelling
- 3
schools and lay on the meat block of
orlhograpby such eminent scholars as
professors and preachers.
Hon. II. H. Gilfry went down On
fantasy at Salem spelling school last
week He says it was right but the
giver out "didn'tknow it.p
A Nevada woman who married a
grass.widower, left him the next day
and said she didn't blame his first
wife for getting divorce. la
Many OF the solicitors for funds for
the grasshopper sufferers, throughout
the West, have just begun to wear
diamond pins 1t is said that grass
hoppers will not eat diamonds.
Deacon Smith, Of Utah, went to the
barn and hung himself with a log
chain because his wife playfully kicked
his hat off and enthusiastically OK.
claimed; "Tbat's the kind of d close.
pin I arl"
Buena Vista debating societies are
wrestling with the terrible question:
Resolued, "That when a wicked man
dies he goes TO hell" Unless he is a
Sioux City man. then he goes to the
Black Hills.
Here's sentence in which some of {
The words tioored the best spoilers of i
Portland' 1T was sadlto perceive the !
embarrassment of the harrassed ped. d
iler gauging the symmetry off peel
I'd pear or potato" !
A Seattle piohpocket struck tho 6
wrong man last week He went {
through an emigrant's pocket for So, Q
'ut the emigrant felt The money 90 a
orth, and quietly presented a pistol 8,
o the pickpoeket's head, when the 8
money was generously refunded in d g,
iffy. >
"A Montana editor hemoans tho Il Il
alamities Of 1874 il, the following 9,
Ouohing strains; "First, that Beeoher n n
usiness; then the grasshoppers, then !,
he democratic victories, and now an q
icreased tax on whiskey. What is Il
hi1poor country coming toH' h
Tho Nevada Transcript has ssome. 4
mes thought that some people man in
est good deal Of selfshness in their IL
forts to save their souls, What az
YER becomes Of the rest of mankind sa
they feel secure they are happy, e,
ven # they should by their actions u .,
rowd others out" " "
Last Sunday a man named Doty, re- q
ding near Jacksonville, fell on ss, se,
woman named johnson Ss Esl
ld beat her until she was iusensible q a,
ID when her sons interfered he shot 70, 70,
9th of them so that they are not ex. y
acted to 1.-Two. II the facts are as m ns
a.ed he ought to be hanged. n n
WHEN girl crops her front hair q.
I'd pulls il down over her forehead 81 81
e a Mexican mustang, and then ties a,
piece OF red velvet around her neck, Ga
ho can wonder at the number .of Ns
lie young men that throw away their po'
nbition and pass sleepless nights in iSs