The state rights democrat. [volume] (Albany, Linn County, Oregon) 1865-1900, 1880-01-09

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average-for Republican paper--and
wo wish its enterprising pioprietors
many days of prosperity.
TnR Bee claims Portland's s population
to be ee,oee Aud yet Albany, with
orly about 6,saa! of population, has
the only ladies' brass band in the Statel
Don't toot your horn so load, Mrs. Bee.
Blsuor Gil HAVEN died in Massa-
cAusetts last Sunday, Many of the
readers of the DEMocRAT will remem-
Der him as the presiding elder of the
last Methodist Conference in this State.
On the Esd ult. the snow was foot
deep in Lake county and the thermom-
eter 10 degrees below zero. 1t was
thought that more than ono-half OF the
stock of Link River Valley would per
ish.
A Roseburg paper says "dams are a
failure" If the editor of that sheet
had been around last Saturday when we
were laying stove pipe he would have
thought his sort of dams were n sue
cess
RUMoRS of the resignation of the
car of Russia are again flying around.
The old man is half insane from fear of
his life, and the sooner he steps down
and out, the better for the country
which he mis-rules.
CALoRArr the noted hangman of
England, died on the l4th of December.
He held the position of public execu-
toner for 46 years, and it is said that
he never bungled his job or "a missed a
fgger" in his occupation.
JOSEPH HEss, Of Jackson county,
was on the Goth ult accidentally killed
by man named Reeves. They were
both engaged in ehopping down the
same tree, when Reeves axe slipped
and was buried in Hess's brain.
ACCORDING to an unreliable contem-
porary, General Grant breakfasted the
other morning Off salt mackerel. The
Generals friends should warn him that
salt mackerel is "a dangerous dish to the
man who wishes to abstain from drink
ing.
THE Pcndleton OreyomiiaH of the 27th
ult. says: ave have had huge storm
snow a foot deep; thermometer Mon
day night, 90 degrees below cipher
Tuesday night, 5 degrees below. No
thawing in the cay time up to Friday
noon"
The Radical mud-batteries are doing
their best to make Dir. Tilden the next
President, by heaping their infamous
ISLANDERS upon him. ThepS1s love of
fair play in American hearts that viii
resent the indeceney of these eowarlly
blackguards.
A DELINQUENT subscriber writes us
that he viii pay up "when his ship
comes in" We've heard from that
ship. It is an old dug-out Iudian ca
noe, and was scuttled and sunk on
Soap Greek last g-killing time. You
can't play that skipper business or MS
any longer! Pay up.
LAST years peanut crop in Tennes-
see, Virginia and North Carolina is es-
timated as follows: l25,O00 bushels
for North Carolina, COO, 900 FOR Tennes.
see, and 100000 for Virginia. max
ing a total that IS an increase Of $780,
600 bushels over the yield Of 1878.
The value of the crop of 1873 at first
hands was 81 100000.
The Hartford Times says that under
Don Cameron's direction, as Chairman
Of the Republican Executive Commit
tee the ways of the Pennsylvania Re
publican school would be practiced, and
the beathen Chinee would stand agnast
in amazement before the contest could
be cIesed. Civil service reform would
go SO high up the spout that Hayes
COULDN'T see it, and Conkling, abashcd,
wouldn't try
WE have no fear, remarks the Brook
Iyn Times, from Gen. Grant as a third
term President personally, and We never
bad but we feel very sure that the ef-
feet Of such a departure from the estab
iisbcd precedents of the Republic would
exert a harmful influence upon the
American people themselves, and in fu-
ture years the mischief Of this depart
ufe might work out results we now lit
tie dream Of
WHILE riding in Union county re-
Gently, Z. A. ATcAllister, herdsman,
came upon wildcat. Unslinging his
lasso, he caught the beast fairly around
the neck. Instead of pulling back,
tie wildcat made for horse
and rider with powerful leaps. Meal
lister fed for his life with his. end of
the rope tied to the pommel Of his sad