The state rights democrat. [volume] (Albany, Linn County, Oregon) 1865-1900, 1878-03-22
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eagle with club
Potatoes rctting 1t Forest Grove for
want Of 4 market.
Hon. Jno. f. Leonafds, Congress
nan from Louisiana, died last Friday.
The passage Of the silver bill over the
Presidents veto has efFectually gagged
the Oyegonian.
The first order Of the garter was
gotten up in 1913 and the garter is
still gotten up.
The San Francisco Wasp ~ fast
ranking among the chief illustrated pa
pefs in the Union.
We haven't yet found any body who
who didn't predict wet winter as long
ago as last August.
The American Enclyelopia furnished
each Of the Portland tlailies an excel
lent editorial on ssst. Patrick Day"
The town of Union this coming sum
mer win build $4,000 hall, a $4,000
school house and large brick brewery
The riots last year cost the State Of
Pennsylvania seven hundred and ten
thousand dollars, for military expense,
alone.
Robert Toombs wants to be Georgias
next Goyerner, but the Democracy
down there don't 4Hark to the
Toombs.p
On the morning Of the fail of PleY-
ma, the London Daily Teegtaph, it is
stated on authority, issued an edition Of
296,o00 copies.
1t was because he could not tell lie
that Washington confessed that he was
the father of his country, but it was
terribly humiliating.
Commodore Mutt and his other little
brother win reside in Portland here
after. He has much land and cattle
in the Palouse country.
They have giant out in Ohio He
is eleven years old, six feet seven inches
high, and weighs 22o pounds That
is the story as the Cincinnati Gazette
tells it.
A mummy recently discoYeredl in
an Egyptian tomb fell into pieces when
lifted out. For a dead-broke man he
was the eempletest specimen ever re
ported
Thei Marion county Democratic Con
vention wiz be held next Saturday.
It is probable that only delegates to the
State Convention viii be selected at
that time.
A telegram recently announced that
there were ne abreaehes in the Cabinet.
This information is rather rough on
DR.. Mary Walker A ruse to keep her
out, we presume
Ben Butler says he was once a good
boy and went to sunday-school 1t is
quite likely. The greatest refor1natory
agencies known are utterly unable TO
affect some characters
In the Maine House Of Represents
tives a bill was reported to give equal
political rights, irrespective of sex, and
granting women the right to vote in
municipal elections
A California Legislative sharp has
introduced bill ''to prohibit Saloon
keepers from selling more than one
drink to any customer in two hours. :
This must be in the interest of clock
sellers.
Since the burning of the Brooklyn
Theatre, thirty six fire escapes have
been invented Eleven of these proved
worthless, and at the testing Of each of
the others somebody was either killed
or hurt.
A witness attending Court got mad
at one of our hotels the other day when
the waiter handed him a napkin. He
said ''he reckoned he knew when to use
Handkerchief without havin' no hints
thrOwd out"
Here's Hirsm, and. Dave and Thorn-
as-all in the field with arms and ac-
ceutrements of war. Let the Republi-
can grouse who attend conventions
roOst mighty tigh-or down comes
their meat house
w. II. Watkinds, of Portland. has
leased from Superintendent Burch of the
State Penitentiary, a number of con-
victs for saddlery and harness-making.
This is the way to render our State
Prison selfsustaining.
From The Dalles Moansair,ecr we
learn that an old man named Joseph
Southwell, of Fifteen Mile creek, has
been held to answer on charge of rape,
committed on girl about IA years of
age, the sister Of SouthweiPs wife.
The Dallas Itsmiser says The In
dependent "Greenback" convention of
Polk was an ignoble failure. Men
could not be found to run for office, and
but four men nominated were present,
and two of them were nominated under
protest