The state rights democrat. [volume] (Albany, Linn County, Oregon) 1865-1900, 1875-02-12
HOME AND ABROAD.


New Moon.
! job work crowding.
Numerous buildings talked of
Our new office is being plasterod.
st. Johns Lodge tomorrow night
Next Sunday is st. Valentines Day.
Thurston Hackleman is improving
See notice of Home Manufacturing
Co.
Hang up your skates; the freeze is
over.
Gate fiirtations Coming on to- be
heard"
10. Liggett is canvassing for the
Democrat.
Get your "honey-comb" ready for
the Anniversary Ball.
Carothers & Co. will make more soda
water than anybody this summer.
Prof Foshay has some of the heart
smashingest valentines we ever did
see.
We last week saw specimen of
quartz from the jackson county mines
which is said to have assayed $3.50 to
the ton.
Monty Monteith fell down while rum
ming the other day and damaged the
cap of his knee so that he is laid up
for few days.
Now is the time for newspaper, fell
lows to dive down in their scrap book
and find out who invented Valentines
Day and what for.
Jim Harris last Monday butchered
the fattest beef we ever saw. The fat-
ty deposits We're thicker than carpet
bagger's conscience.
A fellow says he is red hot at us
about recent item in the Democrat
He can get cooled down or go to
heaven in a hand basket-just as it
suits him.
Some terrific typographical blunders
appeared in our columns last week,
which was owing mainly to scarcity
of help and in haste to make connec-
ton with the mails.
While at Salem the latter part of
last week we tried skating-everybody
else was doing it, you know. But find
ing we hadn't got the skates on our
right end, we just quit
Our large and constantly increasing
circulation makes the Democrat most
desirable advertising medium. Clever
merchants and business men would do
well to remember this.
Easter Sunday comes on apace, and
the hens are growing pale in their
exertions to supply the market with
eggs. A hen who would lay colored
eggs would command ii premium.
1t is singular coincidence that
everybody we owe wants us to settle
up and most of those who owe us don't
say anything about it, Lemme see:
Why is this thus, and if 50 wherefore
Alta union meeting of the religions
denominations of this city, held in
the NJ. t. Chapel last Sabbath night,
collection of S4050 was taken up to
aid in the circulation of the Scriptures.
We amt Granger and cau't tell
lie, but we would say that those peo-
pie who owe us various sums-from
three dollars up--would he received at
this office with much show Of hospi
tality just now.
That Harrisburg rooster who was
assassinated over the head with u salt
sack full of oats the other night, while
leaving Il certain house, is informed
that we don't know his name. II we
did we wouldn't make mention of the
affair.
Our young lady compositor, Miss
Halbrook, and our pressman, Mr..
John Spangler, have both been unable
to work for the past week because of
illness, hence the last issue OF our pa
per was little late in getting in the
malls, and this may share the same
fute. Such mishaps are unavoidable,
We hear Of nice joke on one ot
our farmer friends out in the enuntry.
He started out duck bunting i few
days ago, and in twenty -four shots sue
ceeded in cripping one duck. He hap
pened to think then that the game
law was in effect, so he stopped his
work of slaughter and went home; re-
solving to abide by the new law.
A FLUNKY's MUTTON EXPOSED
A hotel waiter the other day under
took to perpetrate fraud on the poet
of the DEMOCRAT. He gave our Pc
gasus a slice of the original old "Daryb
Ram" and called it "lamb chops
breaded;" and here is how our ready
muse annihilated that fraudful hotel
man:
Mary had an old white sheep,
II was by man beheadcd;
'rgas brought 10 this desplsed hotel.
And here as "lamb chops Dreaded"
SWEET HOME ITEMS -Robt. II.
Gilliland sends us the following items
from Sweet Home Valley.
| J. Walton and Tbos. Settle have