The state rights democrat. [volume] (Albany, Linn County, Oregon) 1865-1900, 1875-02-26
HOME AND ABROAD.

Tho postofico at Muddy Station IS dis
continued. AA
II is enough for ono thing 1T time t
happen, especially twins.
/. If there's, /, place. for everything,
wherc is the place for boil7 Y l
Love without money is something lik,
patent lsuhet boots without s5los.
Thanks to Major Herrcn for a batch 0
new subscribers from Sweet Home.
All the jurors dawn for the next tern
of court are airrners with ono exception.
Joseph Lame tells us that a large aroa O
land is beirg sown to wheat about Halsey
A Minnesota girl h,ls caused her fathel
to be arrested and fined Sl2.2O for spanking
her. 8attFN ~
Major J. II. IIoiren and Billy Brown
were down from Green Horn to tho 22G
EaH.
We viii move tho headquarters Of this
riproarious sheet into our new building in
few days. 6a
Nose sternbors is happy. It's a boy Of
the female persuasion, and arrived in this
city last Saturday.
Methodist revival meeting nightly
crowded, and a large accession to tho
church Is expected.
Uncle Jerry briggs is over from Seattle
on visit and looks as hale and hearty as
ho used to when he was ''We5footer.p
Hon. ]. b. Congle, NJ. W. Grand Master
of Masons for Oregon, paid an official visit
to the two Lodges of this city last Monday
night. f't'{fN sNAs FBf
That dance wasn't busted worth acent,
and consequently tho sons and daughters
fBclial enjoyed themselves with hilarious
muchnoss. sY
Whow! That valentine Of ours which
came this week is tho observed Of all
obserSers. We arc having it framed to
adorn the walls of our new sanctum.
Capt. Martin, of Salem, has in his jewel
ry establishment an attractive curiosity in
the way Of a clock run by elecirieity--the
first one ever introduced into Oregon.
The Methodists of this city, have been
holding a series Of interesting revival
meetings for the past two weeks, and
several conversions of young people have
resulted therelrom. elsM
IL. j.. C.s'Averill, our old Democratic
friend Of Brownsville, called Tuesday, and
reports farmers in his vicinage plowing
and sowing with much alacrity, and a
greater breadth of ground being put in
than ever before. sa.a
S. M. w. Hlndinan writes us from Camp
Polk, just over the eastern side Of the sum
NIT of the Cascade Mountains, on the w.
Wa c, NJ. Road, that the coldest winter
weather there was 32o below zero--on Jan.
l4th- A few cattlc are dying there, but the
majority looking toleably we'll.
Now this valentine business is becoming
just a little stale. Tho various incumbents
and attaches of this Office receive no less
than 20 or 30 Of these amatory epistlcs
daily and II the thing is kept up much
longer we will bo compelled to employ a
valentine reader and expoundor Let upl
Quite q lively little. skirmish took
place on our streets last Tuesday between
our Marshal and man who had thrown
himself outside of too much Unk Weed
Remedy. Dick sailed in on his man and
tried to take him TO tho jug, but he soon
found out 1t was like the old fable Of the
pheasant catching the owl, and ho had to
ha1l Off and recruit his forces. Finally,
with the assistance of three men, he per-
suaded the gontleman to take up his
quarters in tho calaboosc.
There's many slip, etc. Last week
threo of our Albany youngsters had part
hers engagcd for the 22d Ball. but the
revival caught the young ladies',
iiid they joined the church last Sunday
night; and when Monday night came tho
young gents left their fine clothes on the
bedroom nails and went to bed at nine
o'clock without having any dancing to
speak Of From the language which they
ire said to have used when they learned Of
he bust up of their Terpsichorean enjoy
nent, it is fair to suppose that a good
healthy, abfe.bodied Methodist revival
xotldnt be bad thing to infict on those
hrec young gents at an early date. ,.1
LITERARY NoTicE. Sani'l II. Wells
Illustrated Annuat Of Phtenology and
for 1875 is on our table,
md we are now busily engaged in find
Ifg out what kind Of bumps we have
nd It so how many and wherefofe the
,hys arc thnswlsely N the abstract
70 the proportions Of one toi
tx of the latitudlnarlan etymoloRy.
)r. Wells thinks 1t was so when the
astreturns were made. vt, y !
The Ltustrqted Hoayehold Ma9dsthe
ir February is full Of goodies in the !
teraEy line, and is the cheapest peril
dical afoat OH tile sea Of magazine
ON. Only 81 a year. w
That supplement OF the San Franz
lsco Examiner, containing 1l2 pages
( closely printed matter is dpnbtless
iteDsely interesting and soul-absorb-
lg, but we havn't time 10 deyour the
ories sertatinI. They bear the thrill
lg dtIe Of "DelInquent Tax List Of
an Francisco City and County" and
70 written by that renowned author, Z
/. Austin, Tax Collector They are
ar-extracting and heart busting mar
ltives.
Godeys Ladg's Book for March Is a
,mplete and geoFgeous No OF that
npress Of the fashion.
GoRsEous. Geo. Weller has lcas-
and upholstered Tally's billiard
NJ In the most gorgeous and invit-
g nianneb and will hereafter dis
,nse 'liquidalp decoctlons there. He
IS II divided Into several distinctive
,art11ents, Including reception ana