The state rights democrat. [volume] (Albany, Linn County, Oregon) 1865-1900, 1875-03-19
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AT Pendleton the gardens are being
plowed and early vegetables planted.
Jas. O'Meara has just issued the first
number of his Sunday Welcome in
Portland.
A brother of the famous dwarf,
Comodore Mutt, is a well known
resident OF Coos county.
S. E. Oakley, one Of the most prom
inent citizens of San Francico, poi
send himself to death last Saturday.
1t was estsmated that l 200 persons
attended a union meeting held by
several churches in Salem last Sun
day.
Sam. Young, last Friday jumped
from the Clackamas r. r. bridge. be-
low Oregon City, and drowned him
self, while in fit.
Brother Hammond is familiarly ad-
dressed by the California miners as
"Old Pard," and is in sore distress
to learn what they mean by it,
A San Francisco custom house
officer suicided last Sunday. No
hope of those Portland fellows doing
it while the appropriation holds out
Samuel w. Allen OF Nevada is be-
lieved to be the greatest herdsman
in the world. His rancho is eighty
miles long and he owns 225, 600 head
of cattle.
Oscar Bellinger, eldest son of Hon.
G. B. Bellinger, of Portland, one day
last week while out hunting accident
ally shot himself in the arm, making a
very severe flesh wound.
From the reports received a Walla
Walla paper thinks that from thirty to
fifty per cent. of cattle in Montana,
Nevada, Idaho, Eastern Oregon and
Eastern Washington, will die.
Over half the Modoc war accounts
have been audited 1861, ,OOO) and war
rants issued by the Secretary OF State
and the Treasurer is rapidly issuing
the bonds in response to the same
The Olympia Standard tells of a
rival of "Thompson's Colt" appearing
the other day in the form of an indi,
vidual who persisted in wading
through the mud to cross the bay
while $4,000 bridge spanned the in
let.
This beats the Dickens out of any
of our Oregon Office holders; Mr.. j.
Dickens, of Steilacoom, W. T., is edit
or of the Eepress, Portmaster, Swed'
ish Consul, Clerk of the Court and
Secretary of the Steilacoom Fire
Brigade with several applications to
hear from.
A recent letter from Washington to
the Eugene Journal says: "H. W.
Scott, Collector of Customs at Port
land, is here on a brief visit. Govern
er Woods expects to start West in a
few days. Ben. Simpson, Surveyor
General, Ben. Holladay, A. Bush, O.
W. Griswold, B. ]. Pengra, D. P
Thompson, Colonel Chapman, and
Philip Ritz, are here"
Mr.. William J. Stoddard, insurance
agent in San Francisco, has a horse
with six perfectly formed feet, but
only four legs. The two extra fee
grow out of the tetlocks of the two
fore legs, and though small are fully
developed. The horse, which wa
raised in Oregon, is Eve years old, styl
ish and works in single and double
harness. His extra feet cause him nj
Inconvenience.
A candle that was left burning il
the house of Mr.. Despair at Pendle
ton, one night last week, burned
down after the folks had retired AM
set the house on fire, and when MIR
Despair jumped out of bed the fam
was running up the wall of the hous
very rapidly. BY dint of hard worl
he finally succeeded in putting ou
the fire; but he burned his hands AM
otherwise injured himself SO seriousl'
that he has been confined to his room
ever since.
The keeper of saloon in San Fran
cisco, a German named Boch, has boel
convicted of selling liquor to minors
The patrons of the place were boy'
to whom he supplied a poor qualit
of diluted whiskey by the cents wortt
Some ofthem were only ten years ole
and the pennies given them by thei
parents, or begged in the street, wen
into Boch's till. They were of vas
abond class. The exposure cam
through one of the boys getting drum
and being arrested.
A Sacramento lady was telling
friend from this country of q yer
grand party she had given recent,
"We had two generals, one Judge,
popular author, and play writer
Eyes" chimed in her wicked sol
"and there was Deputy Sheriff, to-
who said he wanted to see dad, an
they went out before supper and da
hasn't got home yeti When tbs