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The state rights democrat. [volume] (Albany, Linn County, Oregon) 1865-1900, 1875-01-22
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IMPORTANT SWAMP LAND DECISION.
The Mercury, in alluding to the
Swamp Land decision which we pub
lish on our first page to-day, says
In November, 1871, in communica-
ton to the Department Of the Inte-
rior, Governor Grover announced
that, "In relation to all the swamp
and overAowed lands in Oregon, not
reserved, sold or disposed of by tho
United States on March 18th, 1860,
the position of the State is, that by
virtue Of the acts of Congress recited
facts of Sept. 2S, 1850 and March
-, 1861, a complete grant and in
defeasible title were vested in the
State" The right to these lands had
been wholly neglected for eleven
years by the State authorities, and
had been wholly ignored by the
General Land Office, both in the pre-
emption and sales of the public lands
in this State. lsd. i
The assertion of this title brought
upon the Governors head a storm Of
invective and abuse from the Radical
press of the State, and particularly
from those papers which were in the
interest Of railroad corporations
holding land grants from the gener-
al government by acts Of Congress
subsequent to the swamp land acts;
these corporations preferring to take
the swamp lands under their grants
rather than to go to the foothills
and mountains to make out the COM
pliment of lands not secured in the
valleys.
T Attorney General Williams came
from Washington, at the bidding of
these corporations, with copies of the
Governors letters to the Commits
sioner Of the General Laud Office
which he read to the people, as he
stumped the State, denouncing this
claim of title as groundless and as
an infamous attempt to swindle
somebody. He asserted everywhere
that the position was not law, and
that the claim would never be allow
ed. The Commissioner of the Cen
eral Land Office, (Drummond), fol-
lowing in the wake Of q corrupt
Attorney General, declared that the
State had forfeited its right to these
lands and that the State had no
right except what his Office should
choose to recognize in the segrega-
ton. But the Executive held firmly
to his ground. Cases went into the
courts involving the whole subject.
The courts sustained the right of the
Statel The Supreme Court in an
elaborately considered case, at De-
cember term, 1873, decided that the
swamp land act of Oregon of 1860,
was q present grant-a grant IN pre-
senti--that the State had q right to
claim and to dispose Of the swamp
lands wherever found, as the lawful
owner and that no right thereto
had been forfeited. In the decision
Of the Secretary of the Interior
which we publish to-day, every posi-
ton which has been taken by the
Governor, and every point ruled up
on by our Supreme Court, as far as
they are involved, have been dis
tinctly affirmed, and the Commits
sioner of the General Land Office
(Drummond) oyerruled.
This grant is worth q million dol
lars to the State Of Oregon.
The state rights democrat. [volume] (Albany, Linn County, Oregon) 1865-1900, 1875-01-22

THE CoMINa CoSeREss,rAN. "A Phil
adelphia stripping stole S7OO from
his father and presented it to an
orphan asylum.
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The state rights democrat. [volume] (Albany, Linn County, Oregon) 1865-1900, 1875-01-22

A CLASSIC MoKE.-A couple Of
members of the darkey conference
we're passing down the Avenue,
when one trod on the indigestible
portion of pear, and as his number
elevens went up the rest Of his being
was correspondingly lowered. Xxi
yah, Brudder Jones, is you fallin'
from grace" chuckled his companion.
"Not prezacly, Deacon; Use settin'
on de ragged edge OBJ dis pear"
The state rights democrat. [volume] (Albany, Linn County, Oregon) 1865-1900, 1875-01-22
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.al2q.l Iaali
SPECIAL NOTICE.
SOMETHING NEW
NOTICE TO CREDITORS.
Estate of Edward =. Parrish.

NOTICE is HEREBY GIVEN THAT BY
~ order of the County Court of Linn County,
Oregon, made at the December term, thereof,
ministrator of the above named estate. Thtre-
fore, all persons having claims against the es@
tate Of Edward Is. Parrish, deceased, are noii-
fed to present the same, duly verified to the
undersigned, at Albany, Linn County, Oregon,
or at his residence about four miles from Alba
ny, near KnoX's Butte, within the time and in
the manner provided by law. II gfffl4
Dated, Jan, 18th, 1875 Il W. ~
S. B. KNOX, Administrator.
GEO. r. HELM, Atty for the Estate.
n2aW1
The state rights democrat. [volume] (Albany, Linn County, Oregon) 1865-1900, 1875-01-22

A GAY DEcEIvER.-The editor of
the Lexingson (Mo.,) Register is
willing to admit that benjamin
Franklin occasionally stumbled upon
the truth" 1t is the toleration
shown by country editors toward
such desperate villains as Franklin
that makes us willing to bequeath
our memory to posterity.
The state rights democrat. [volume] (Albany, Linn County, Oregon) 1865-1900, 1875-01-22
NOTICE.

A ALLTHE BOOK ACCOUNTS AND NOTES
n belonging to the firm OF r, G. Hill q Son,
late druggists 10 Albany will be found after
this date with the undersigned, at the Clerks
Office in the Court House, IN this city, Any
and all persons indebted TO said frm will
please call before January lst, 1875, and settle
and thereby save Gusts.
r. @. HILL 4 SON.
Bye, A. HILL.
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The state rights democrat. [volume] (Albany, Linn County, Oregon) 1865-1900, 1875-01-22

PRoLIFIo SARPIENTs. "A snake with
seventy-one young ones was killed,
recently, ON Alcova river, Ga, by a
Newton county negro. That niger
probably expressed himself some
thing like Ben. Simpson is said to
have done just after the last fall
elections He thought "the faster
you killed off the id copperheads
the more of 'em you had to fghtp'
The state rights democrat. [volume] (Albany, Linn County, Oregon) 1865-1900, 1875-01-22

cold Massachusetts ~ there she
standsp D. Bebster. Not 50, Dam
iel. She Is fat on her back, and the
Democratic party a-sitting on her.
The state rights democrat. [volume] (Albany, Linn County, Oregon) 1865-1900, 1875-01-22
A MILL SITE FOR SALE.

A VALUABLE MILL SITE, SUITABLE FOR
n either grist or saw mill or both, situated
X mile below the Wiley Creek bridge, and
about \ mile from the toll gate In sweet Home
Valley, Linn county, can be had very cheap.
n2lWB fH sweet Home.
The state rights democrat. [volume] (Albany, Linn County, Oregon) 1865-1900, 1875-01-22

DISSOT.UTTON N0T1CE

NOTICE is HEREBY GIVEN THATTHE
IN mercantile firm OF Sam, Lew sam. -salia|
and Henry Seller, carried on al Harrisbnr1
Oregon, under the firm name OF Levy, SelieeTs
q Co., Is dissolved-Sam. Levy having retired
from the same. After Jan. LIST, 1876, the lbus-
ness will be conducted at the old stand under
the finn name Of S. q H. Seller, who viii -eoi,
lect all accounts due the late firin and assn,1S
all liabilities Of the same.
SAM. SELLER,
zoe HENRY SELLER,
HARRISBURG, Dec. 20, 1871. n2iwi.
The state rights democrat. [volume] (Albany, Linn County, Oregon) 1865-1900, 1875-01-22

AN ExpLoRER.--A Vermonter, went
South recently to pick up odds
and ends, and wrote home an ac-
count of marvellous cave he had
explored /; it now seems, he had
walked into the mouth of a colored
member Of the Mississippi Legisla,
ture, while the eminent law-maker
was enjoying drunken snooze.
The state rights democrat. [volume] (Albany, Linn County, Oregon) 1865-1900, 1875-01-22
NOTICE.

A UsTIN MORRISON, FORMERLY OF Nc
n Donough County, Illinois, can hear some
thing TO his advantage by addressing Lock
Box 10 Albany, Linn County, oregon.
yl0n2itf
The state rights democrat. [volume] (Albany, Linn County, Oregon) 1865-1900, 1875-01-22

mine in that wonderfully rich district
1t lies in good shape for working and
cannot fail to be a fortune to its
owners.
The married ladies of Nevada City
gave paper cambria fancy dress
party on January 1st. No other
kind of material for dresses and mask
but paper cambria was used. Some
of the boys say it was a rather thin
affair.
Rev. Jno. F. Damon breaches on
alternate sabbatls at Settle and
Port Madison, and on Christmas day
he was presented with a neat resi-
dence in each one of these places
Bro. Damon has surely found his Pyth.
las on the Sound.
And now a Junction city preacher
is accused Of trequenting saloons and
gambling dens. Like Beecher, he
will soon lie perched 'on the ragged
edge of despair" and will be forgiven
by his congregation and retained as
the shepherd of his flock.
A man by the name of Johr
Patterson, formerly OF Red Wing
MINI, was murdered in the woods
near Bismark on the 9th inst, and
the citizens of that town offer re
ward of $500 for the apprehension
and conviction of the murderer.
The Dalles Mountaineer editor
must have been mad when be got
his patent outside for the second
week in January and found it filled
with nothing but Thanksgiving poe
try and stories-matter that was
printed three months before in all
the papers of the Union.
A Laramie man, with Bible il
his pocket, rushed into a saloon tc
help quell a row, and just as he got
inside, pistol ball fattened itsel
against the thick covering of the holy
book. The Independent thinks this
furnishes a reason why every mar
should carry Bible in his pocket.
The snowfall at Georgetown, Col.
during the winters of III, '72, 73, and
IA is thus reported by W. II. Cook
From October l, 1871, to June l
1872, 55 feet; from November l, 1872
to June l, 1873 only 55 inches, o.
which 40 inches fell subseqent tc
March l; during October, November
and December, 1873, SO inches; during
January. February, March, April an(
May, 1874. 1875 inches. 81
"A. J. Wilson, of Nevada, courtet
onegirl long while and then switched
off suddenly and married another
This first love dailv practices on hin
with a pistol, as he passes her door
and she thinks she will "fetch" hin
after while. He is thinking of EN-
I,igrating by the time she gets sufficient
ly expert to be able to shoot within
an angle of As degrees of his Gran
ium. ......
Recently little daughter of a Mr.
Hessian of Stanislaus county was re
turning home from school on horse
back when she got lost in the fog
She wandered around all night and
about daylight the next morning
came to neighbor's house. Though
she had been in the saddle about
eleven hours, through one Of the
darkest nights ever witnessed, she did
The state rights democrat. [volume] (Albany, Linn County, Oregon) 1865-1900, 1875-01-22

The President has signed the bill
providing for resumption of specie
payments in 1879.
The state rights democrat. [volume] (Albany, Linn County, Oregon) 1865-1900, 1875-01-22
EXHIBIT

Of the Finances of the City of
Albany, Oregon, for the Official
Year of 1874.
The state rights democrat. [volume] (Albany, Linn County, Oregon) 1865-1900, 1875-01-22

NEWSPAPER ENTERPIsE.-The pas
sionate blood of the first Cain still
dances hotly in the veins Of his
descendant, Kaine, of the Milwaukee
Sentinel, as witness the following
"Striped hose is again becoming
popular. This is reliable statement
"a mud-puddle has been formed
on the crossing opposite the Office
The state rights democrat. [volume] (Albany, Linn County, Oregon) 1865-1900, 1875-01-22
NOTICE OF FINAI sITTInnlrNT

gVNHE UNDERSIGNED ADMINISTRATOR
- de bonis non ut the Estate OF Thomas
boggs, deceased, hereby gives notice, thai no
has Med his dnal account In the matter of a IA
Estate, and all persons interested, are herrbv
notified to appear before Hon. II NJ Tau,i,s
County Judge Of Linn County. Oregon, on
Friday, Me oh day Of Feb, 1875.
a the hour Of II O'Clock a. N. OF said d.v. 10
show cause N any, why said final nccpunf and
accompanying yuuchers should not Ia aiIovrej
In settlement Of said Estate.
Puplshcd BY oRier Of Hon. H. N Tan5v
county Judge o. Linn County. Oregon.
D. FRoArAN. Admr Dc bonis non.
The state rights democrat. [volume] (Albany, Linn County, Oregon) 1865-1900, 1875-01-22
A ADvERTIsEMENTs. D
THE OF b II
BROOM FACTORY,

W. p. BELDING, THE GENTr,EDtsw
this city, has Just returned from Californin aI u
is again engaged in the old business nj b1, ah9 9
stand in the Metzler building, near FosteVos 1so
MILL. V1fln Inte-N
The state rights democrat. [volume] (Albany, Linn County, Oregon) 1865-1900, 1875-01-22
STATE rREAsURER's OFFIcE,
Salem, Oregon, Jan, q, 1876

STATE TREASURER's OFFICEA :.
Salem, Oregon, Jan. q, 1851
Notice is hereby given that there are funds
on hand applicable 10 the payment Of the fol
lowing warrants, drawn on the State Treasurer
since September l4th, A. ID. 1874, to-witf Nos
96 24 2i5 1884, 1885, 1885, 246, 247 2iS, 249, $50, 25l
252 255 254 255 256 PSI, 25S 49, 260 28i 262, 26S
2US, go, 2S0 23 1884, 1885, 286, ISL . 2S9, 282, 29O
29l 3l8 $685. 307 $685. 309 3l0 3ll 312, 3l3, 3l4 3l5
3l6 3I7 32O 32l 822 3O4, $685. 323 325 327 270, 32S
s3I 1885, 3s 1885, SS9 3s 343 8s5, 3l6, 34S, S5l, 352
1853, 354, 35S, 1861, $40, 1855.
Also warrants Nos $685. 646, 1906, POSI-, 366, 1858,
800, $40, SS S74, $685. 81, 372, drawn previous to
Sept IA, 1874. 'AH- ''L i
Interest will not be allowed on the above
warrants after this date.
Salem, Jan. q, 1875. 5.-24w4.
The state rights democrat. [volume] (Albany, Linn County, Oregon) 1865-1900, 1875-01-22

GUsHING.-We remember that q
New York paper in 1860 called the
new Republican party the "party Of
gush," The name was eminently
applicable. 1t gushed into power
during the war, has gushed through
nearly all of the States of the Union
since, and last fall completely gushed
out, leaving only here and there a
blubber where it disappeared under
the great political tidal wave of 1874.
The state rights democrat. [volume] (Albany, Linn County, Oregon) 1865-1900, 1875-01-22
NEW ADVERTISEMENTS

Ayers Cherry PectOral-the worlds great
-emedy for Colds, Coughs an Consumption.
The state rights democrat. [volume] (Albany, Linn County, Oregon) 1865-1900, 1875-01-22

"A Repository of Fashion, Pleasure, and In
struction."
The state rights democrat. [volume] (Albany, Linn County, Oregon) 1865-1900, 1875-01-22


Balance in City Treasury at the close of
the onlciai year lSI4...-...............s 3l5 10
--
Outstanding ORDERS ms near as can be
ascertained .....................$l l50 00
NJ. a. BAKER, City Recorder.
Albany, Jan. 10, 1910
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o. s. s. co.

ENRoM AND AFTER DATE UNTIL FUR
u ther notice, freight from Portland to Alba
ny Will be one dollar per ton. All down freight
Wall be delivered at Portland or Astoria free of
charge or wharfage at reduced rates. Boats
VIII leave Albany for Corvallis or Portland
every day. For further Information apply NJ
BEACH & M0NTEITH, Agents.
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The daily Argus. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1873-1877, 1875-05-03

in NV periuring myself to shield you from
the consequence Of our mutual sin. You
were then to me all / had in the world.
Home, family, friends, were buried in a
grave so deep that l never could.
hope to reach them even in imagination.
You promised to be all these,-and
what was one sin more upon the head Of
q fallen woman like me? had already
eaten the bitter bread of poverty and felt
the gnawing tooth of actual want, until to
be the mistress of John G. New was
distinction. l enjoyed it, and to retain
it would have signed anything
L did sign a paper generating you from
having criminalintimacy with me. Had you
asked me to commit suicide for you then,
John G. New, l believe I would gladly
have made the sacrifice. No sooner did
I comply with your wishes than you broke
your pledges--your solemn promises you
Hunp me aside into the gutter like an
unciean thing. You severed the guilty
connection between us, and stood forth as
a deacon in the Christian chapel. upon
whom a poor fallen woman dare not so
much as lay her finger. If, maddened by
this treatment, proposed to take a
woman's revenge, you knew, even then,
how to silence me by threat so horrible
shat dared not even utter woman feeble
complaint. | write this now to bid you
farewell. You are now treasurer of the
United States, Kistler is in the penitentiary,
and I am-what hardly dare to think.
Nevertheless, | have no feeling of revenge
no luminosity stirs my pulses. Oul
paths in future are widely divergent. ]
do not care to see them again run parallel
forgive you, John G. New, and may your
future be as great blessing to you as my
guilty past is curse to your friend,
NELLIE DE Loss.
The daily Argus. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1873-1877, 1875-05-03
r. sohool directors.

The following is an abstract OF decisions
recently made in relation to the school law
bv Hon. 8. M. Etter, Superintendent OF
Public Instruction:
Tn the case of tie vote in an election
for school directors, judges OF the election
must decide which Of the candidates is
elected by drawing lots on the day Of the
election. Any other proceeding in such
case. as voting over again, is void, and it is
held that in such a case, when the polls
are again opened that the whole election
is void, and that special election must be
called.
An election for school purposes can only
be adjourned when good reason appears
before voting begins. If single vote has
been cast, the election must proceed, and
the polls kept open the length of time
specified in the notice given of the election.
A school trustee is eligible to be elected
q school director, and if candidate, need
not resign his Office as trustee or may de-
cline to qualify as director.
School directors may allow the temper
ary use of school building for singing
school, but will be liable for any damage
to the building or for the value of any fuel
which belongs to the district and which
may be used.
Township trustees are not, in conse-
quence of holding that office, disqualified
for being surety for school money loaned
If township trustee is "a responsible
surety" as required by section 81 of the
school law, he may legally become secur'
ity on a note for school money. The SUI
perintendent, however, states that he does
anal 0rRo nd
would not encourage the taking of such.
In relation to the loans of school money
made under our state law very strong
opinion was given, Of which the salient
points are as follows: Section 81 of the
law provides that ''the interest of school
money shall be payable half yearly in ad-
vance" Section 81 declares that IF de-
fault is made in the payment of interest
due upon money loaned by =
township treasurers, or in the payment OF
the principal, interest at the rate of IL
per cent. per annum shall he charged. I"
Default is made when interest is not paid
six months after the money is loaned fol-
the six months following. Il follows that
it is not only irregular to allow inter
est on the school funds to run
two or three years unpaid, las il
Tue CdS6 III WulCu tuO uCCl6lOu u
made but it is positive violation Of
the plainest provisions of the law. If the
school trustees will not see to it that the
town treasurer performs his duty as the
legal custodian of the school funds any citi
zen interested may demand that the trus
tees do their duty under section "a. anC
action may be brought against the towI
treasurer for failure TO perform his duty
BY neglect of school trustees to enforc,
the law large sums are annually lost to tn,
school fund.
In another case decided it appears that
a teacher was hired to keep school for fv
months, but at the end of three month
the school house was burned down and tn
directors refused to pay the teacher 70
the unexpired term. The superintcn
dent holds the teacher should be paid 70
che full term contracted for.
The daily Argus. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1873-1877, 1875-05-03

D@D Daily Subscribers to the Argus, scho
do not receive their papers regularly and
promptly, are requested 70 report at the
business office. &.
The daily Argus. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1873-1877, 1875-05-03
MOFFAT'S LIFE PILLS
and
PHOENIX BITTERS.

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and now used throughout North
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Liver, Blood or Skin, Indiges-
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Thousands of certificates are
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ed by these invaluable Medicines.
They regulate the System and
put all the functions of the body
In a healthy condition.
B Sold by Druggists everywhere.
]. P. MILLS, Sole Proprietor,
So Liberty Street, New York. =
The daily Argus. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1873-1877, 1875-05-03
HIS WORKS FOLLOW HIM.
An Open letter from Miss Nellie De
Loss to the new Republican Treasurer
of the United States.

The following letter from Nellie De Loss,
the alleged blackmailer of Hon John q.
New, of Indianapolis, has been published.
The newspaper article referred to in the
letter was statement of the scandal, in
which the woman's side only was given :
INDIANAPOLIS, April 10, lS75-Hon.
John G. New, Treasurer of the United
States-Dear SIR Il have just perused
an article in the E1 Paso I'LL J journal,
relating to you, the Rev. Mr.. Kistler, and
myself. You know as well as / that it is
absolutely true. You know-you cannot but
Temember-the woeful history that ended
The daily Argus. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1873-1877, 1875-05-03
OBSTACLES TO MARRIAGE.

HAPPY RELIEF FOR YOU'VE MEN from the effects
of Errors and Abuses in early life. Manhood re.
stored. Impediments to Marriage removed. New
method of treatment. New and remarkable rene
dies. Books and Circulars sent free, in sealed q
gelopes.
Ninth Street, Philadelphia, Pa.,--an Institution
having high reputation for honorable conduc
and professional skiIl. 1-gd&w3m
The daily Argus. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1873-1877, 1875-05-03
Land Buyers Excursion.

The first grand excursion of the season
from Joliet, Ills, to Leavenworth, Kan
sas,over the c. r, /, & P. r. R., will leave
Joliet May Itch, 1875, at IL o'clock M.
Leave Rock Island at 6.33 P, NJ, same day.
Fare for the round trip from Rock Island
to Leavenworth and return $500. Re-
turn tickets good for 20 days on any regu-
lar train. Tickets for sale by A. NJ. Guild,
proprietor Rock Island House.
P. w. WILCOX, Manager.
Joliet, Ills. lO-deod3w