The state rights democrat. [volume] (Albany, Linn County, Oregon) 1865-1900, 1875-02-05

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ANOTHER PRINTER IN LUcK.-Our
readers will remember wandering
iour printer who few years ago turn-
ed up in Oregon as partner with Mr..
Ouivey in establishing the Corvallis
Democrat. His name was Jas. A.
Miller, and he dropped out of sight
and memory in very few weeks after
the first issue of that paper. We re-
member of meeting him once afterward
in Portland clothed in flannel shirt
and ducking breeches, and he informed
us that he had been trying to make
hash by chopping cord-wood for low
er-Columbia forester; then again,
about two years ago, he was for few
months associated with our young
friend Charley Mosher, in the publica-
tion of the Roseburg Plaindealer.
But his rowing restless disposition cul-
tivated by doing years of "traElping,l
impelled him to pack up his carpet
sack and light out into the wide, wide
world; and the next we hear Of him
is by the reception of copy of the
Athens (Ohio) Journal, of which he is
senior publisher and editor, and which
informs the world that our tramp is
just about to start on hurried trip to
his childhood home "away down in
Maine," where he goes for the purpose
of coming in at the settlement of his
fathers estate, having been bequeath
ed a large amount of earthly treasure.
Such windfalls seldom occur to any of
the craft, but it is all the more appre
ciated when the luck does come. After
an Ishmaelitic wandering from the
ice-clad hills of Maine to the confines
of the Sunny South, from the rock
bound shores of the Atlantic to the |
slumbering waves of the Pacific, often
with only the sky for canopy and the
bosom of Mother Earth whereon to
repose his weary limbs; at times far
from the confines of civilization, with
savages and wild beasts seemingly
anxious for his society, 1t would be no
wonder if, after this great change has
taken place, he would feel considerably |
elevated. We also learn from private
sources that Miller has married rich
Buckeye widow, which will, We trust,
add much to his happiness.
WOULDN'T COMMUTE We are proud
to say that we last week found one
stern champion of justice in Salem
who wouldn't favor Gerrand's commu-
tation under any circumstances. He
is a small boy-perhaps might be class
ed among the ranks Of the ge'eas
hoodlum-but nevertheless he sticks
to principle and will not be swayed
from the path of rectitude by the clam
ors of free lovers, the banging of Cos
pellers or the appeals Of susceptible
lawyers. When he heard of the con-
mutation of the murderer's sentence |
the hot blood of a Jetfries or Robes
pierre coursed through his veins and
his indignant breast heaved with vio-
lent emotions ofoutraged justice. TAX
ing his little sister by the. hand and
leading her hurriedly out to the stable,
he suddenly whipped out rope from
his pocket, adjusted moose around her
neck, put the line over o beam and
promptly yanked her off her feet.
After suspending her thus for fey
seconds he happened to think that he
hadn't secured her dying confession
for the paper, and he let her down,
almost choked to death, and while sol
emnly abjuring her to confess to theft,
arson, MURDER ETC., the father sudden
lyappeared on the scene andinterrupt- |
ed the course of justice blythe inaugu-
ration'of lynch law in the shape of a
vigorous spanking, That oppressed |
and down-trodden youthful vindicator
of the law walked off on his ear,
mournfully murmuring, while holding
his hand on the outraged part of his
person, "How sharper than serpents |
tooth it is to haye spankin dadW
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