The state rights democrat. [volume] (Albany, Linn County, Oregon) 1865-1900, 1879-12-12
PEN AND SCISSORS.

PRESIDENTIAL speculations arc tho
rage now. 4
HoN, A. NJ. LAY, Congressman from
Missouri, is dead.
THE National Democratic Committee
will meet in Boston on the 23d of Feb.
ruary.
DR. MARY WALKER wears cardinal
silk suspenders. Grant wears bam-
boo sinch.
AND now Capt. Thorn, of the steam
ship California, has fallen heir to
81, 100000.
AN unknown individual rises to re-
mark that woman will never button
anything which she can pin.
TIE great Register of San Francisco
shows the fact that of i4,7Gj voters in
that city over half, or 23,09G are of
foreign birth.
DAN. Horror, the chief of Portland
landlords, has fitted up an elegant and
superb hotel in that city, and the Port
lamb papers are Dragging on it "liko all
smash.
HEREAFTER the State Fair ia TO be
held the first weeks Of July. This
should have bcon headed proposition
for all Oregon to celebrate tho Fourth
at Salem every year
THE Republicans are f,,ssing over
where they are to hold their next Ma
tional convention. They would make
the greatest boom by holding it in
Hong Kong, China.
SENATOR EDMrNps says Grant is n
man Of grip. Does ho mean that he
shakes hands with every one just be-
fore election, or that lac holds ON to all
that he lays hands on
An exchange says "Grccnlaud has no
cats" If our artic friends would like
to invest in that commodity Albany has
about 5000 that We would ise willing
TO exchange for Polar bears at par.
THE great distress in ireland has
forced England to tall about help But
British policy toward Ireland is an inn
Peachment of British civilization. II Is
al beak and talons aud no soul.
An enthusiastic Eastern Democratic
journal says Horalio Seymour could
carry New York over Grant by one
hundred thousand majority For the
/, L,rd's sake then let us Seymour!
DEMOCRATS do no. deny that Grant
is a "strong man strong in the odor
of iniquity and corruption that charac,
terized his Presidential terms. Trot
him out if You want him wallopr,ed !
CnEisTaAs entertainments are COM
ing on-the season during which the
young man with red hair stake and.
ridered collar and mn affected look OF
intelligence stands up and sings Dub
lin Bay" by special request.
SALEM has elected Democratic May
: or for the first time in twenty years,
and we presume this is why Gen. Jno.
F. Miller called the meeting of the
Democratic State Central Committee ut
that place Well, Wait, well ratify
TnE Portland Standard now gets the
latest dispatches, and there is now no
reason why Democrats should not give
1t the fullest patronage. If Democrats
were M clannish as Republicans in the
matter Of supporting their party papers
+ VIC would have lcss reason to complain
Of Republican successes.
Az opposition paper says the DEMO
Graf has enemies in it's own party. We
don't know who they are nor do we
care. Every man who has indepcnd-
encc Of thought and decision Of charac-
ter must have enemies, and we wouldn't
give a tinkcr's cuss word for man who
couldn't stand little brush from his
enemies without squealing.
CALIFORNIA legal shysters and news
papers are attempting to meddIe with
the decisions of our Oregon courts If
they will just keep their mud-hooks
out of oregon's affairs and attend to the
corruption in the courts of their own
State they will very much oblige a
people who have already sufleled too
many indignities and officious inter.
meddlings from that quarter.
DEATH OF GEN. JEFF &. DAVIS.