The state rights democrat. [volume] (Albany, Linn County, Oregon) 1865-1900, 1880-02-06

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LENT and Easter come unusually car
ly this year,
Or the So Anglican Churches in
London, only 2T0 have free seats.
MIonr makes right in Maine, and
the Radical Rump takes its scat.
TINS weather is like 'bunko game
you can't tell what well turn up
next.
TnE Buddhist nunneries in China
have been closed by order of tho Em-
pr.
EyERynoDy is signing the petition to
Congress for the Yaquina Bay appro-
priatiOn.
The astuto candidate don't urge his
r'eims for office, but simply says, BAR
KS is willin,"
BROOKLYN, N. Y, is in debt by the
colossal sum of forty million dollars.
Don't that Beecherl
Anti,third term clubs are now being
numerously organized among the Re,
publicans in New York.
THERE are five Sundays iz February
this year-a thing that has not occur
red for the past so years.
Throw rock up first street any day
now and you are sure to hit either
candidate or vandal COW.
A conscience is like corner lot.
Everybody would ike to have it, but
few are willing to pay the price
CANADA has Roman Catholic popu-
iatiOn of l,s46, 800, with 2s bishops,
1899 priests and l,6l7 churches.
A mans faith is ike a difficult con-
undrum Though it may not be
guessed, it should never be given up.
AcconDIso to the Biblical record the
Tower of Babel was built 2,247 years
before the advent of the Christian era.
LEAP Year has its blessings after all.
Three Portland old maids have married
themselves of since 1880 pranced into
the arena.
Joseph Allison is to run the Harris
burg Regie.o (new. paper, but we are
not advised as to its probable politics
or religion.
A hundred years ago the Moiayians
baptized the first negro convert in
Dutch Guiana. Now the mission has
1901 members.
A PoRTLASD woman the other day
got drunk and 'put head" on her hus-
band, and he now says shell hath no
furies like a woman corned"
TnE building erected by the Angli-
can Society for the promotion of Chris
tian knowledge in London, and which
cost 100000, has been opened.
The State Temperance Alliance
meets at Eugene on the 18th inst. W.
Il. Mansfield and Nat. Redpath are
the delegates from Albany Lodge. 334.
THE famous Deadhead, steepIe chase
and hurdle leaper died in New York
last week. He and U. S. G. were the
most distinguished deadheads of the
age.
THE Free VIII Baptists viii celebrate
in 1880 the centenary of the existence
If their denomination. III cir first
church was organized at New Durham,
NH.
A YOUNG man who can sit in his
sanctum and brush cobwebs from the
ceiling with his ears is just little out
Of place when he brands Gen. Lane
coward.
PHILADELPHIA churches have raised
$1,000 toward the expenses Of the
great council to be held in their city in
1880, and will raise the whole $4,000
if necessary.
The Cardinals have advised the Pope
not TO reopen the Vatican Council. It
could not, they say, be held in Rome at
present, and no other place could be
thought Of
Mrs, Elizabeth Comstock, Quaker
missionary of Michigan, says that of
the 1l5,oOo prisoners whom she has
visited 1o5,O 600 were Brought to prison
BY strong drink.
THE Russian missionaries in Japan
having succeeded in bringing over to
their faith some 5000 Japanese,a Bish-
op is to be sent to Jeddo by the st.
Petersburg Synod.
The Old Believers, a sect of Russia,
having been found guilty of putting up
a new church IN Butkof, have been
sentenced to two months imprisonment
and the church has been confscated.