The state rights democrat. [volume] (Albany, Linn County, Oregon) 1865-1900, 1875-12-10

Lub masquerade bhli, ~ oregon
, City, Thanksgiving, was a grand a.
sail.
Canyon City, Oregon, is to have 4
} newspaper, with Henry Gale as
: editor.
Nine hundred head of mutton
} sheep we're sold at The DAllOs last
week for $500.
Walla Walla boasts Of having with.
in hor corporated limits So pianos
and 10 organs.
II is said that fax would be by far
a more profitable crop than wheat in
many Of our counties.
The Siuslaw Postmaster thinks he
will not go to Washington this fall,
to have his appointment renewed,
A lady sold 600 pounds of butter
in Pendleton, last week, which she
had hauled a distance of 20 miles.
| W. s. James, late editor OF the de-
funct Baker City Horaid is the city
editor OF the Portland Daily Bee.
The .4siOridh's patent outside, Of
December 4th, Nays Vice President
Wilson has been i'll but has recovered.
Parties who think they are posted
say that the WinnSmueCa and Oregon
railroad will be commenced next year.
Two vessels with steel rails for
the Canadian Pacific Railway have
arrived in Victoria harbor from Eng
land.
The stages in Eastern Oregon keep
up good time. Notwithstanding the
bad roads. In Southern Oregon they
don't.
Tho time made by the celebrated
horse OSceola in the three in five race
at La Grandc lately was, l:464, 246i
and 1859.
Simpson Bros, safe was stolen at
North Bond on the night Of the Goth,
The loss is but a trihe, as no coin is
kept thOre.
George CoggRn, the well known
stage and horse man is now one Of
the landlords OF the st. Charles Ho-
tel, in Portland
The late storms blockaded all the
roads and trails in the Coos Bay
country 30 that travel by land is al
most impossible.
W, G. Hill has sold his farm, few
miisS southwest Of McMinnyillS, to
Mr., HOuck, recently from Illinois.
The price paid was $50 per acre.
The new road up the Meacham
Creek is nearly completed, excepting
the bridge over the Umatilla river,
which will take about week yet.
The principal part of Oregon Fed
sral office. holders have gonsto Wash.
ingtOn City. Ben. Simpson, II. W.
Scott, and Hon. o. N. Denny, left last
week.
Il. II. Warren, OF HillAb0ro,
Oregon, wants Samuel Graham, who
was last heard from in Washington
Territory, to write TO him the said
Warren.
A good many teams with goods
are on the way from The Dallss to
Canyon City, and it is feared they
will have 8 rough time before getting
through.
The. town Of Heppner situated on
Willow creek, in UmAtilla county,
has boen surveyed and recorded by
George stanbury, proprietor, consist
ing Of Oight blocks.
W. P. Ready, Of Salem, has issu-
ed prospectus for new paper to
bo called "Oregon Educational
Monthly" It will be devoted to the
Public School interests.
John Pennell, long known to the
church goers Of Settle, has dispensed
with the copper oolored maids Of the
clam banks, and substituted a first
class piano with white labor.
Flour is scaroe at Linkville, and
we learn, sells for 80 sack. The
roads leading to that section are very
bad, which makes it almost matter
of impossibility TO got any freight
there.
One day last week q family by the
name of Hall, attempted to cross
Williams creek, Josephine county,
which ut the time was considerable
swollen by the late storms, and when
near the middle the wagon upset,
spilling the whole lot into the creek
and drowning one Of the children.
During the storm Of last week a
tree blew down and fell on house
on the South Fork Of Coos river,
crushing it and killing two mon in
stantly; one, young man named
CathcArt, q son Of Judge Cathcart Of
Douglas county, and the other a
man named Stemengan, who has
been residing on Coos river for sOv-
eral years,
The steamer Ienino which was in
iured some time since and beaohed