The state rights democrat. [volume] (Albany, Linn County, Oregon) 1865-1900, 1878-11-29
PEN ann SCISSORS.

1
August Belmont is in favor of re.
sumption. What cussed bondholder
isn'tl
IT costs Sl4,O0o,o0o year to run
our navy, including Grants travelling
expenses.
THIRTY horses roasted alive in u liv-
cry stable fire at Peoria, Ills, last
week. And yet Ben. Butler escapes.
But there is hotter climate for his sort.
WHATEVER may be the difference Of
opinion among Democrats, says the
Detroit Free Press, the vote, ut the
late election shows that the vast major
ity of the party is unwilling to indorse
a paper currency which is irredeema-
bic.
ONE of the Senators of France, a
prominent follower of Gambetta,
named Jacolin, has been compelled to
resign. He was detected cheating at
cards. What would become of the
U. S. Senate if such rule should be
enforcedl
Fifty Democratic members of Con-
gress, from Northern States, will re-
port for duty in the Forty-sixth Ma
tional Assembly. There is nothing
sectional about the Democratic party.
1t is as broad as the sweep of the Con-
stitution itself.
THE gross earnings of all the rail
roads in the United States for 1877
were S472, ,9O9, ,272-a decrease of
$24, ,34S.6s7 from 1876, and the small
lest gross earnings since 1862, when
there were $4,000 miles less of rail
road. The net earnings for 1877,
however, were only Sl5,476,055, less
than in lS76--a fact due to economy.
y THREATENING war cloud hangs
over Europe, Russia and England. 1t
appears that they hSve not settled
their differences and the great treaty
made last summer simply amounts to
nothing. The Russian people are
clamorous for war and it is not improb-
able that more blood viii yet be shed
over the balance of power question.
TEACH your boys that in farmers
something more than muscle and ply
sical endurance is required that, in
deed, agriculture is science or art
that should be conducted according to
clearly-defned laws and we'll estab-
lished principles, and successful in pro-
portion to the intelligence that directs
it.
MAKE your farm so valuable by con-
slant improvement, skillful culture,
good fruit, ornamental shrubbery and
pleasant surroundings that no money
will tempt you to leave. We think it
should be the settled purpose of every
yeung man to put down his stakes for
life, to make permanent home which |
he viii never wish to part with till he
is called to the better land.
THE New Orleans Times claims that |
the channel produced by the Eads jet
ties is now almost as good as the en-
trance to New York harbor. The |
largest vessels pass through it with
ease. The same paper remarks that
ocean freights bave been so greatly re
duced in consequence that the saving
on cotton alone from the port Of New
Orleans the past season was 81 ,G0O,-
600.
The Republicans can thank their
stars, the Cleveland Piaindealer thinks,
that there was such a thing as a Ma
ional Greenback party, or they would
nave been buried so deep that the noise
If a million cannon would not awaken
hem. The Greenback men are the
men who brought about Republican
iuccess in New Jersey, Pennsylvania
md Connecticut.
Captain w. III. Boyle, Lieutenants
jornman and Shofner, and sixty SOL
Iiers of the twenty-frst Infantry went
Up the river last Tuesday morning,
heir mission being to arrest band of
indians who have left the Umatilla
Agent Cornoyer and in
erpreter Mclean went with the
roops. This seems to indicate that
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