The state rights democrat. [volume] (Albany, Linn County, Oregon) 1865-1900, 1878-11-01

is still at Salem, lying dangerously sick
with fever.
Wild waterfowl fairly swarm in the
small lakes and marahy prairiea of the
Sound country.
The trial Of Capt. Il. Baugbman, for
killing Patrick whalen, takes place at
Pendleton this week,
There are 100000 feet of logs in
the skagit waiting favorable opPortu-
nifty to be sent TO market.
Walter s. Moss is no longer connect
cd with the Salem Mercury. Wilbur
Cornell is the sole proprietor.
The two eanneries on tho Umpqua
are running day and night with scar
city Of men to complete the work.
The Hen,issr says that G. w. Teal,
of Dallas, has absconded with n lot of
money belonging TO his partners.
Mr. Blackmore, Of Astoria, has put
up 100 barrels Of salt salmon and four
tons of smoked salmon on Bear river.
Large quantities Of wheat is daily
arriving at Astoria direct from the Co
lumbia basin, east Of the Cascade
Mountains.
II is proposed TO erect cannery at
scottsburg by next year. Mr.. j. Nc
Cahey has proposed to advance 81 900
for the enterprise.
Clackamas county was awarded first
premium on pears, grapes, plums, quin-
ces, beans, rutabagos, mangels, wurtzel,
carrots, broom. corn, potatoes, etc.
A howitzer which was being fired on
tho Olympia dock in honor of the arri.
val Of Hon. Thos. II Brents, jumped
overheard from the effects of mighty
effort.
Olympia fishermen catch salmon
with hook and line from the city docks
and by trolling the bay. There are
more and finer salmon in the bay this
season than ever before.
The Dalles had very disastrous fire
last Sabbath which reduced five busi-
ness houses and one dwelling to ashes.
II. j. Waldron, one of the prominent
citizens, died from overexertion in en-
deavoring to save property.
a squall struck the house of Mr.
Upton, near Roseburg, last week, and
took nearly all the roof from his house,
tore up the floor of his kitchen, turned
over the stove, cleared the table, and
did other things too numerous to men
ton.
The Olympia, Seattle and WallA
Walla Postmasters have each recently
been given an increase Of salary. The
Olympia P. NJ is to get 100 during
the present year. and the Seattle p. NJ.
81 800, and the Walla Walla p. NJ.
S2,IOo.
The Walla Walla fair shows a bal
ance on the wrong side of the book
The fair of 1877 paid all expenses and
left balance of $500 in the treasury.
Tho fair Of 1878 absorbed the balance
of the previous year and left the society
S306 in debt.
The Bedrock Democrat says: d" We
have in this Office an egg that was laid
by hen belonging TO the editor that
measures 81 inches around the long
way and 81 inches around the short
way" Whether this measurment re-
fers to the egg, the hen or the editor,
does not appear.
Mr.. Ira Burton, who has been living
for number of years near the mouth
of the Salmon river about 20 miles
from Salem, has lost out Of family Of
eight children, six of them within the
last ten days, of that terrible scouge,
diphtheria. The family were in an
utterly destitute condition and lived
about fifty miles from any doctor.
They make what is called the "new
process" -four at Boise City. The man
ufacturer claims that by this process
all the nutritive and tissue making prop
critics Of the wheat are preserved, and
bread made from it is sweet and whole
some and retains its freshness much
longer than that made from -four by
the old process.
The focks and herds of young cattle
in the vicinity of Muck precinct, Pierce
county, are so harassed by wild ami
mails, that the farmers have organized
themselves into a protective union, as a
last resort, fixing cash bounty of $40
for panther or bear killed by mem
Der Of the union. Corresponding pri-
ces are fixed for smaller animals trouble
some to grain.
The Yamhill Reporter says that at
one time not many years ago, three
families in west Chehalem furnished
the district school there thirty children.
These children were all brothers, sis
ters and cousins. Three sisters were
the mothers of them all. The fathers
were named Jacob Haynes, David
Ramsey and Levi Hagey, and our
Uncle Andy Shuck here in town was
to the whole crowd of
youngsters, blood relative to nearly