The state rights democrat. [volume] (Albany, Linn County, Oregon) 1865-1900, 1875-01-08
HOME AND ABROAD.

II week Of prayer and invoicing.
Finest winter weather ever known.
New city dads meet next Tuesday
d evening.
Business lively before His Honor,
! Recorder Baker.
: Hope Grange officers were installed
e last Saturday afternoon.
: The new DEMOCRAT building is the
! observed of all observers.
{ Jas. Sherrell is manufacturing his
patent cultivator at Harrisburg.
Many of the ladies of our city were
busy receiving calls during New Years
! day
They say that gold garter clasps will
be fashionable. However, its none Of
! cur dolns.
Be careful how you tread on the tail
OF our DEVILS coat after we get into our
new office.
Mrs. VIM. Van Vactor is the proud
/ mother. 1t is Of the female gender,
oVA dgnu p6ISudsiOu,
I, Ex-senator Hoult of Harrisburg,
and Capt. Carlyle of Corvallis, dropped
in upon us during the week.
We have heard of wood thief and
will publish the first two letters of his
name if his cussediess continues.
w. r. Canon has been awarded the
contract of carrying the mail between
the Albany post-otilce and the railroad
depot.
/ Our talented young friend, Thurston
Hackleman, is lying very low with
typhoid fever at his fathers residence
in this city.
Lots Of new buildings going up
throughout the city. Albany is the
most prosperous town on the North.
west coast.
If you would enjoy long life and
good digestion call and pay what you
owe us, also year in advance on this
riproarious sheet.
As an indication of the enterprise of
our city we will just mention that AL
bany has two breweries, six saloons
and four churches.
Mayor Brown last Monday admins
tered the iron-clad oath to his successor,
Mayor Froman, and has now retired
to the quiet shades of the sanctum
sanctorum.
One of our jours. says nothing is so
trying to the feelings of an enthusiasts
tic young man as to be compelled to
tie pretty girls bonnet on with her
mother looking on.
EVcrybody has bad cold, ourselb
abog the rest; and as our dose has de-
baded host oh our addiction this week
you bust excuse us If the baper doesp'd |
abpear berry libely. Echew!
Just five thousand eight hundrt d
and seventy-flve years ago to-day the
world was flushed and the flrst rest
taken. (WTe will give another deeoc-
tion from our chronological diamhea
mex week.
Our elegant young merchant citizen,
Sig Fox, gave sumptuous supper to a
dozen couple Of his friends at the st.
Charles Oh New YEARS. Eve, on which
neeation ~ rnLvrthiued bis gnestsfignt
royalty. Long may he waver.
RFof Warren and his wife and sister
entertained their friends most hospit-
ably at their elegant residence last
friday night 1t was eminentIY an
"old folks party and was the most
enjoyable Of that sort of gatherings,
lie MasicaI Review, published by Z
sherman q Hyde, San Francisco,
comes at the remarkable low figure of
81 per year, which makes it the cheap
est musical periodical in the world.
Everybody can surely take a copy.
1t cheers usto know that our "swear- !
ing otfn sermon In last weeks paper !
did melttle good We have heard
of one feller who after reading the ar
tiele, larruped hiswife and Joined the
Church, resolving to lead
better and purer life.
There are 100000 bushels Of wheat
yet III sttre at Harrisburg. When the
great Mckenzie and Albany Canal Is
made we will have all the wheat of /
that county stored in this city, which |
will insure Its early shipment and a Q
much greater profit to the producer, ,
a married friend of ours who has /
just read in yesterdays Granger the /
article entitled "The Wife's Power" /
says he wishes he hadn't seen that
piece-it calls up 50 many painful
recollections and makes him instinct
iyely clap both hands on his ambrosial !
locks, as a protection.
An Albany young man,-(the son of
a widow l-who fever did anything /.
but loaf around saloons and play |,
Pedro" and billiards, leaving bis pa
lent mamma to split wood and go to !
market, got married the other day,
md now mourafully sings: "What is 8
nome without nlother.p
THOSE AGRICULTURAL WORKS. -
Tbe stockholders meeting held at Sa- j
em last Tuesday, resulted in nothing /
angible, there not being : m ajority of n
tock represented upon which ASSESS .
nents were paid up. The law requir- /
ng that each stoekholder shall pay all n
which have been levied, q
'efore he shall be entitled to vote. AL
hough no business could he legally
transacted, a vote was taken upon the y
hree questions which had been adyer- Y
ised to come up, with the following Ia
esult: In favor Of moving the Office q
f the Company from Salem to Albany, y
II; against removal, 50; In favor Of N
1creasing capital stock, 120, against I'll