The state rights democrat. [volume] (Albany, Linn County, Oregon) 1865-1900, 1875-03-19


For ' Lebanon, on Mondays, Wednesdays ant
Fridays, at p. M.
Money order office hours, from A. NJ. to III. NJ
PHI. RAYMOND. p. NJ.
FROM THE OLD TO THE New
Last Saturday we vacated our old
quarters in Parlish's Block, where we
have for the past five years ground out
weekly grists of Democracy and made
out to pay our regular monthly rent to
an eyer kind and indulgent landlord.
And Notwithstanding the pleasant
thought that we go into newer, bright
er and more convenient quarters, we
vet part with the old familiar scenes
of our past labors with a feeling of re-
gret not unmingled with sadness.
There we have with busy hands worn
away day after day in the mechanical
uses Of the printers implements, and
there have literally burned the mid
night oil while with busy brain and
flying pen we have traced the thoughts
that made up the supply of literary
pabulum for our many patrons. What
slowly dragging hours of mental as
we'll as physical toll we have spent
within those old and now blaarkly
silent walls, none but those having the
same experimental knowledge can
know or appreciate. What emotions
of pleasure, what sensations Of pain,
what sunny hopes, what dark despond-
encies may have filed the measure of
our five years labors within those walls,
none hut the ever watchful eye of
Omniscience can ever know, and that
innate regard for simple truth which
we have ever striven to retain within
our breast, leads us to remark that it is
hardly possible that very numerous
class of persons will ever care a conti-
mental. During our "Parrish Block
years''-as we shall ever delight to
call that period Of our life to which
we now allude-we have formed and
severed many Of the dearest friend
ships of our life. While toiling there
we made the acquaintance Of some of
the noblest and best of people, and
there we have penned the painful in
memoridm of some for whom we can
never cease to mourn. There, with
1,;o offioa dOop CO naor 10 6,,rc that bio
always carefully measured words were
wont to echo to our exchange-strewn
table as we clipped or wrote-daily
studied and worked one of Linn's
brightest and most lamented men-N.
II. CRANoR; and when at last his no.
BILE form was laid to rest and his hon
est counsels were no longer heard in
our daily walks and duties, it was there
that we traced faint and fearful tri b.
ute to his great soul and manly virtues.
Five years is not long to occupy one
particular building, butso many events
have been crowded into and through
our life during that time that it seems
an age has galloped past us and left us
staring after its dimly retreating shad-
ows.
But here we are in the new office,
with its clean bright walls smiling a
welcome, and its convenient appoint
ments affording us added means of inn
proyement and progress in the journal
istic line. Here the regretful visions
Of the past and retrospective pains and
pleasures will give way to practical
thought and busy plans for the future
conduct of our business. We invite
our friends to call and see us, either il
the line of business or sociality, anC
shall ever strive to retain their friend
ship and good will by the exhibition
of that uniform and impartial eourte.
sy which is the only true road to bust
ness success,
RRoF. r. M. DAY is now running {
high career as teacher Of the art Terp
sichorean in the classic Oregon Capi
tai. He has q class of 70 or so pupils
comprising the elite, the beauty ant
the chivalry of the city, and his in
structions give the fullest satisfaction
to all interested. We have tried t
profit by some lessons from the Pro
fessor ourself, but from an unfortunate
failure te recognize the difference be
tween a heel-an-toe polka and a Mis-
souri, erow-hop we havn't yet beel
able to walk away with the blue rib
bon. But you ought to see us feathe
on to feminine gender and whir
around in the dizzy mazes of the waltz
OF course some Of you have seen a COY
undertake to walk across the Mississ
ippi on the ice. Yes? Well that bo
vine quadruped of the female persua
sion was "can-can" star in compari
son with the waltzing achievements {
this able-bndied journalist. Itmay b
POLITICALLY related that some men at
born to dance, others seek dancing, an
others have dancing shoYed onto 'em-
but as for us, give us meat for ou
New Foundland pup, and we are cor
tent.
DIED.-It now becomes our painfl
duty to chronicle the death Of Mr.
Amanda G. Hill, wife Of Andre
Hill, and daughter Of Andrew Cow
an. Mrs. Hill has been a suffer-
from pulmonary consumption f
some time, and was last fall taken
California in the hope that a change
climate would benefit her health, b.
all the efforts Of her friends in her b,
half proved futile, and she kept Q
sinking under the effect Of that drea
disease. About three weeks ago HI
l,,,slo,d br,t,erl,t bor from CaIfroru