The state rights democrat. [volume] (Albany, Linn County, Oregon) 1865-1900, 1877-06-29
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building home for sick dogs
The postmaster Of New Orleans Il
Il brother-ln law of Ben Butler.
Mrs, Alice Oates Is In Boston.
Oates and beans arc once more inscp-
arabic.
Grace Greenwood advises all wor-
thy women to keep away from Wash
inston.
london has $500, 900 people, c,cre
hcing 9a8,0OO more males thnn fe-
males,
Seven thousand copies Of General
pleasapton's hook on blue glass have
been sold. ,
1t is believed that the presents to
the Pope this year will amount to at
least $20,000,0 900,
Tho Stephen a. Douglas monu-
ment will bo completed in Illinois at
a cost Of 100000.
Thnty-flve thousand persons have
Joined the army of cold water drink
ers in Philadelphia,
George Francis Train finds Boston
ocorroded with the midnight livery
of unutterable gloom"
Mrs. Van Colt says: "Often, often,
even NOW, the devil comes to me and
tampts me toevil thoughts"
Judge Underwood, of Atlanta, Gap
always wears his hat while over
wopd ; that is, on the bench.
Bishop NackinnOn took lately from
Nova Scotia to Rome proofs Of 1000
conversions to Roman Catholicism.
An Iowa man put SIT, 900 in rag
bag nfor safe keeling" A peddler
came along and his wife sold the
rags.
A sister of Patrick Henry Is bnri'
ed near Bowling Green, Ky. The
grave is almost unmarked and un-
known.
The Turkish divers at poti are de-
stroylng tho Russian torpedoes al
most as iilst as they can he put In po'
sition.
Bret Harris Is In Washington. Just
wait, and you'll hear some rorrrspon-
dent remarslng that hc had llart.e
reception.
A shirt dealer advertiscs Il bosom
warranted to wenr longer than any |
shirt. But who wants bosom
longer than Il shla.
The Prince OF Wales rode on the
bnx OF the Duke of Somerset's coach
the other day. Policemen cleared
the way, least he should turn
SumCrSet.
At banquet In Ohln, Senator
Thurman closed speech as fOllows
"And now we have captured the Presl-
dency for Ohio. ! will not say how
We captured It,"
4 New Haven man has invented n
water bed for invalids, which is moth
ing more than rubber mattress,
which on being lsHAtcd, can he float
ed ON lake or river.
Miss Mildred c, lee, daughter OF
the late Robert L. Lee, was present
ed gorgeous pyramid Of flowers on
the liih, at the hands Of committee
of the "Army Of Northern Virgin
ia" II
The Chicago Tribune states, for the
benefit OF St. Louis ladies, that n new
kind OF cotton plant has been diaeoy-
cred in Egypt, aAd that it prOduces
twice as much az any other ordinary
kind.
Pillow wants few sheets from {
Washington to give hima comforter {
N y. Herald. That's what we
call spreading 1t on prctty Tick, and !
bolstcring a Pillow more thln there \
is any necessity for
Captain Burton reports the dIscov- :
cry Of seven ancient cities on the Z
Red sea which were "bullt on the
sites Of the gold mines once worked d
by the Copts, the Perslans and the
Romans" Captain burton intends :
to begin the work OF mining at these i
places In November .
An English woman, who was born g
without arms, has just had twins n
She wears her wedding ring on her Y
oe, and does all the huusework with b
ier feet with O dexterlly that Is sur y
,rising. How she Will manage to p
lurse her twin babies Is n problem \
ret to be solved. e.
The Boltimors man who hanged q
himself because his wife devoted so n
much time to DECORATING her first
husbands grave, has his revenge. IL
Tho woman has two graves to deco p
ate now, and no time 10 look for y
bird husband. ii
A son Of General Robert Il. Lee VI
las commenced suit In one Of the
ourts of Virginia, for the recovery
# the Arlington estate, wrongfully
AIKEN by Secretary Stanton during Z,
no war, and the splendid grove and m
avn in front Of tho darlington ~
Iome," used as a cemetery, now K
ontaing thousands of graves. "
A traveller in Italy cautions intend ir
ng tourists against bringing any bag ~ ~
age which does not close perfectly. ~
{ ther Is the slightest suspicion that =
ny one might by possibility get the Il
oint Of a finger in'o tho package, y
'the traveller has to lug it into the Il,
nrrlage with him. I nm In this ,e Lc
"ay cursed with leather bag and 81
at box, OF which new hate the "
cry sight" ~ H.
The Empress Of Germany and 4 4
Princess Bismarck are two plain, vi
omcly bodies. The first Is not un- g.
requently driving out In n cali by
- Iunaa. Aka pAn~nI r.n.t, ~, a s,..,.,