The state rights democrat. [volume] (Albany, Linn County, Oregon) 1865-1900, 1880-01-30

OSAeANNSa
DKApwOOD, Dakota, has four daily
newspapers.
THERE is strike among the cincin,
natl brewers.
TuE Car has adopted the decimal
system of coinage.
The British campaign in Afghanis-
tan is 4 severe one.
The Khediye has accepted the losig-
nation of Gen. Gordon.
The Columbia county Democrats are
organizing Club meetings.
DEMOCRATIC Clubs are now in order
Organization is the key to success
--.-srr.rsS IuuuuIacrurers lave uu.
yanced the price of nails 60 cents.
EMPEROR" NORroN fell dead in the
streets of San Francisco last Friday.
THE pneumonia season appears to be
over at BOdi, No new cases reported
lately.
PAPER money viii be put in circnla.
tiOn in Japan during the present
month.
LET our Indian policy be: "Noth-
ing for Tribe Utes, but millions for de-
Tense"
See proceedings of The Linn County
Democratic Central Committee on the
lO,al page,
w.B. CARTER, State Printer, has
gone to California for his health, which
is quite poor.
The present winter seems to have
some sort of grudge against AIcCor-
mick's almanac.
The year 1880 viii be chiefly re-
markable for the mortality of bOonls
and candidates.
The famine in the province of sile-
sia is very severe, and people are sell
ing their children for food
TuE Pope writes a fine, clear, black
hand, forming every letter distinctly
and signing himself "Leo P. P. Kill"
''put the arm chair in tho attic
II has earaed a ueeded resf
For the pair it oft supported
Now are married and gone West"
a NEVADA man improves on Ben.
franklin thus: Honesty is the best
policy, bnt don't let it interfere with
your business.
A SToUT old woman IN Detroit got
mad lately because a photographer
wouldn't let her fan herself when she
had her picture taken.
4 HORSE shoe is considered sign Of
good luck when you have about 900
pounds of good horsefesh on which to
nail it. Otherwise it works better as
old iron.
THE conduct of those Maine clergy
men makes Bob IngersoIl laugh all
over, and their honest Christian breth-
rem in other States blush for shame at
their desecration of the pulpit
LAURA with noveD-ob, if thus tale
were only true and I were the heroinel
Kate What with her prosecutions, her
misery LAura-Ah, but then, dear,
remember she docs get husband, after
all.
YIcroR HUoo is gallant; he kisses
the ladies at meeting and parting, and
he says women are forgetfuI creatures.
They say goodbye, and then come back
with: "ob, monsieur, 1 forgot to tell
you="
DURING the past year 3,145 saloons
were licensed in Chicago, and paid into
the city treasury for licenses, sIG4,O40,
to say nothing of the places where no
license was taken out and liquors sold
on the sly.
MANY man with soul fairly over
flowing with poetic genius has had it
forever shattered by discovering that
the woman he looked upon as even su-
perior to the angels above has no less
than thirteen soft corns on her feet.
A Connecticut man was brought be-
fore the court for assault and battery,
and he requested permission to pray.
This being granted he l,nelt by a win
dow, waited till all heads were bowed,
and then took sash and glass out with
him.
WEEK we first donned our borrowed
ulster, couple Of weeks ago, we felt
SO much like woman that we couldn't
keep our hands out Of our upper side
pockets, and we Rugged ourselves all
the way home. The sham was too hard
to keep up and we returned the ulster
to its owner.
THE New York Star says that sena-
tor Bayard's financial resolution Il