The state rights democrat. [volume] (Albany, Linn County, Oregon) 1865-1900, 1879-09-05

THERE Is a scheme on foot to civilize
Alaska.
A CORN in tie ear is worth two on
the toe.
ESoLisn immigration to America
continues.
Tnrnr are 81 900 persons receiving
assistance at Bombay.
oSE case of yellow fever was report
ed at New Orleans OH the lst.
CENTRAL Gronon negroes are max
ing preparations TO go 10 Liberia next
fall.
Tnr number Of standard silver dol
Lara coined during August was 2,7s7,-
O50.
TmE innocent looking watermelon is
now dragging the compound cathartic
man out Of bed.
GgS. BEAuaEGAnD IL interested in
gas machine in New Orleans. It not
booE.agent bureau.
Tng higher tho tone Of the minister
the more howery the testimonial he
giyeth the quack medicine.
A TnoY burglar could not leave the
house with his booty until he had kissed
the wife of It's owner. She awoke and
he was captured.
ongooS Republicans will be for
Blaine, as they were in 1876. Grant
don't "boom" much here on account Of
his Vancouver and Portland record.
GRANT has told his hcnchmcn that
he won't be candidate for the Presi-
dency, as he believes the people are not
in favor Of third term. He is mod
est to acknowledge his defeat before
nomination.
EioHTthousand Albanians are threat
ening the seryian frontier. BY this
we don't mean our own Albany Alba
mans. They wouldn't threaten any
thing but the rust, and there isn't eight
thousand Of them anyhow
PATRICK GARvEY, one Of the crew Of
the U. s. steamer Adams, while visit
ing Vallejo, Friday night, walked OF
the yerandah Of his lodging house and
fell to the street below. lie died Sun.
day night Of his injuries.
RamsdelTs RemiGscenees says: Jas
g. Blaine is cousin of Tom Ewing
whose sister is the sister.in-law Of John
Sherman, uncle Of the wife of Senator
Don Cameron, whose sister is the wifi,
Of Wayne Meveagh, Of Pennsylvania
And now you know all about it.
q KNEW a Western Senator" says
correspondent, "of great ability and tn,
leader Of his party, who was offered
and came near accepting. the Englisl
mission, who always conveyed food tC
his mouth with knife, and who would
drink from pitcher at the hotel table.
ONLY ten foreigners are honored Will
tombs in Westminster Abbey. They
are awful particular about who is lait
at rest there But let them keep theii
, old tombs. If they'd oiIer TO let us b,
buried there to morrow we wouldn't nc
cept.-Boston Post.
THEATRICAL people somehow objec
to audiences of quick wit they wan
people of a plodding nature.-Bosto,
Post That accounts for it, and ex
plains why every wandering burlesqu
artist says Boston is the only real goo'
+ show town in this country PicayltnG
WHILE you are paying up please re
: member the printer. His bread an,
butter costs just as much as any othe
mans. We can't get people to wait o.
us for their money, and we must hav
,, ours to live on. 1t is only fair tina
! those indebted to us should treat u
fairly, as they do their other creditors
The debt statement shows a decreas
/ of the debt for August of $3,527, 1896
cash in the treasury, S243,696, ,22s
: gold certificates, sl2,12s,7oO; silve
: certificates, sS,os6,s51; currency eel
tifcates, 35,l75, 900; refunding cei
) tifcates, $780, 500; legal tenders ou
: standing, $s46, ,6Sl ,0l6 fractional GU
rency outstanding, Sl5,766,064.
s Two years ago the people of AIinn'
8 sofa, the Boston Herald alleges, by poi
ular vote, repudiated debt for whic
! she was as morally bound as the cit
!. zens of Memphis for their debt ian
n infinitely more able TO pay), and /;
: which debt the creditors offered to tai
so cents on the doIlar-yet by popul,
l vote Minnesota repudiated it all. Ar
Il Minnesota has never had any epidemi
= y On the 9th ultimo Robert Bonner
/ trotting horse, Edwin Forest, made Il
! fastest time ON record d--ona ,n;la i, -