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

Thirty-two last Monday.
Jupiter Pluvius reigneth.
Court adjourned yesterday noon.
Judge Deadly will lecture at CorYal-
lis soon.
Cheadle is putting up an addition to
his store.
Wednesday was St. Patrlck's Day in
the forenoon.
'Ror for Col. Chap. and the P. D. &
Salt Lake r. r,
VIM. Tally has first-class billiard
table for sale. See ad.
The Oregon Masons have sent $1,000
to the Kansas sufferers.
Benton county is boiling ON the sub
ject of the Yaquina Bay R. R.
Thanks to "Our Henryn for hand
some birthday remembrances.
A family Bible is said to be promi-
nent feature of an Albany saloon.
'Lish Applegate has invented a
wagon hub. To what base uses do we
come at last!
The little babe Of Prof Emery, of
Corvallis, was last week badly burned
by falling against the stove.
Measles is the appropriate name Of
a fellow who broke out of the Stockton
Jail. The Sheriff is trying to catch
him, too!
Ben. Beers, of Salem, packed 100
barrels of -four in seven hours. The
paper don't go on to state where he
packed 'em to.
Cass. H. Humphrey, ye Junior of ye
Corvallis Democrat, spent last Sab
bath in Albany and we s'pose went to
meeting with her.
A sullen man ordered his own tomb
stone while sick, but didn't die and
now refuses to pay for it. The case is
likely to get into the courts.
A Sacramento father shot six times
at a supposed burglar, and was aston
ished to hear the fellow ask: "Waz-
ger mazzer, fazzer ?-wazzer doing ?n
A new cub in our Office astonished
the boys the other day by asking
where they "kept the circular brack-
ets.n He had not learned the name of
a parenthesis.
The other day Jackson county girl
offered to let a countryman kiss her
for five cents. "I gad," exclaimed the
bucolic youth, "thGt's darn cheap, if q
feller only had the money"
The Arizona Miner says: "But for
Crook, his officers, soldiers and scouts,
Arizona would still be clark and
bloody land,n under the villaiaous
sway of red and white scamps."
An elephant is 1,277,9s6 times larger
than flea, but yet there are women
who growl at paying two shillings to
visit menagerie, and will turn a
feather bed over half day to hunt a
flea.
The hydraulic civil rights bill which
has been pending in our court during
the past week has been continued until
the next term. The jury disagreed,
eight being for conviction and four fol
acquital.
Alta young lady's party in Nevada
man was discovered scollopin2
around dressed up in female attire
and the girls very justly carried the
cuss out doors and. nearly drowned
him in a creek.
"Will The boy who threw that pep
per on the stove please come up here
and get present of nice book" saiC
a Sunday school superintendent ii
Iowa. But the boy never moved. HC
was far-seeing boy.
The Methodist revival still goes OF
with no apparent abatement in thu
religious interest or in the numbers II
attendance. New "seekers" nightly
crowd forward for prayers and mum
bers nightly profess conversion.
A Philadelphia man says that whel
his wife gets up in the morning with
jerk, and negIecting to do up her hair
goes silently about her work, she
Undertaking. n domestic row whicl
before night will shake the house t.
its foundation.
King Kalakua has arrived at his ma
tive isle, and Mrs. Kal. is putting heft.
conundrums to him about some q
those Washington City and 'Frisc
girls with whom he flirted. Uneas
rests the crown on that Kings pate
he doesn't do some responsible lying
"What do | care about the Teechel
Billion affair 2n said a weary crusader
homeward bent Hff Mrs, Billion
right, then Mr.. Meeeher is wrong, an
if Mr. Boulton is wrong, then Fran
Milton don't amount to anything any
way. What's the odds? All preach
ers are c'rupt, sii, all c'rupt"
After we got things tore down an
scattered about the floors Of our oil
Office last Saturday, the place locke
like deserted lgger-campmeeting q
Chinese temple after an earthquake
had made one campaign through i
If "order is heavens first lawn thr
old Office didn't look much like law
abiding place.
That was an iFreyerent youth wh'
to his aged parent desiring to retiI
from the retail trade and take Coz
ernment position, said: SYou In III
Postoliicel Nice old party you'd be /
the PostofIice. What would you do !
the Postofiice except stand in the doc
way with your mouth open for foil
to wet postage-stamps on yot
tongue %
Last Monday was the birthday
, the fragile quill-driver Of the DEM
!, cRAT, but as there is wise proyisic
Of law that fellow doesn't have