The state rights democrat. [volume] (Albany, Linn County, Oregon) 1865-1900, 1879-09-26

great Indiana statesman, is now In
California.
FoR the lack Of capital the Daity
Capital, OF Salem has ceased TO exist.
It Is not missed.
HARVEST is about over now, and
our farmers are praying for rain 50
that they can put in fall grain.
LINN COUNTY will bo all right next
year-our farmers are making ar
angements TO put 10 large quantities
Of fall wheat.
LATEST advlces from Africa state
that the Zulu king Cetewayo off for
the mountains, but the English cap.
tured him after a chase of sevoral
days.
GEN. JoE LANE, the "ATarion Of
the Mexican War; spent last Sab
bath In this city. lie Is sllll halo and
hearty and bids fair to live several
years yet.
TIE Oregon Farmer Is the name Of
a new paper, devoted to agriculture,
which has just been started at Port
land by w. L. Eppinger. II conduct
cd in a right manner II will certainly
prove a success.
THE Greenbaek organ at Salem,
The Rising Star, never arrived at n
very high attitude In the journalistic
heavens. After getting out very
few numbers the Stars luster dim
med and It vanished.
TIE LOuispile Courier journal re-
marks that Prof. Conkling says that
Il was the ''greatest effort of his life"
10 keep from dernolIshing sprague
With his umbrella when that person
called him son OF n somethIng-or-
other.
THE Democrats OF Washington
county, Mlss.. nominated negro for
tho Legislature. Other counties will
follow tho example. That looks very
, much like bull.dozlng. Why don't
Republican papers tell their readers
of this.
DURING the ilrst week Of the new
season only Il, 200 quarters home
! grown wheat we sold In the United
Kingdom. against 1884, 900 quarters
> for the same period during 1873.
{ this Is a straw as showing something
Of bad English harvest. .
A YAzoo, Miss, negro woman at
tempted to iill . glass bottle with
powder while smoking q pipe. Re
sult-no bottle and not mitch woman.
SAIL in, Scott this gives another OPP
porlunity for You TO tell your readers
Of another spot being added to the
tail OF the bloody shirt.
MAJ. J. L. SMITH, the Greenback
candidatefor Governor Of Maine, gets
his military rank by serving during
the late war on the staff of Gen. But
Ter OF the Maine militia In the dan
gerous business Of superlntending the
enrolment OF the state militia for
draft purposes, aud IS a ''lecherops
bOndholder."
i A FRENCH letter says Wheat
looks very bad; it Is yellow, sickly,
stunted, and the fields present very
numeieus bald patches. The vines
do not look hopeful. There VIII be a
serious dimInution OF fruit. Farmers
are clearly making up their minds
that they will have topart with every
head Of stock, the consequence of n
certain deficiency 20 be expected in
provender.
A DISPATCH from last Tuesday re-
ports new wheat threshed 30 far un-
satisfactory In yield and quality, and
deficient even in districts where 1t
was expected TO be favorable. In
several departments new wheat fetch
ed from three to four francs per quin-
tai less than old, some of it requiring
several months drying before 1t can
be miIled.
THE United States consul at Man
chester, Eng, says that the failure Of
crops is much more serious than gen
orally supposed abroad. The demand
In England for meats and grain will
be enormous. Business Is greatly de-
pressed. Last year more than s0,-
900 persons were maintained at Man
chester by the public. The coming
winter VIII probably witness stIll
greater destitution.
CoBBIN, the would-be extermInator
Of the whole Isrealite tribe, is a BROTH
er-In-Iaw to Grant, the Republican
candidate for a third term. Grant
Issued an order against the Jews
once prohibiting their trading In the
army, and It may be that the Chief
Of the Manhattan Beach thought he