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

All the men Of brains do not live in
that State,in which we fully agree with
Mr. Seymour
BExJ. @. BooART, treasurer of the
Produce Exchange in New York, was
short SSl, 900, and rather than take his
chances before New York courts, killed
himself and went before the higher
court beyond.
OH father Taylor, the celebrated
sailors preacher, used to say: "The
way for man to be eloquent is to get
himself chuck full of his subject, and
then knock out the bung and let his
ideas flow naturally"
Catholic dioeeses in this country in
crease rapidly. During the reign of
Plus TX. thirty new dioceses were erect
cd in the United States. There are
now sixty-ono dioceses, AT the open,
ing of the century there was only one.
IL Texas tho Presbyterian women
are preaching, as the new book of dis.
cipline provides, that nothing shall be
called an offense or admitted as an ac-
cusation which cannot be proved to be
such from Scripture, as interpre cd in
a. l.. Al.
THERE are 100000 bushels of
grain stored in the elevators at Chicago
and no room for any more. Tho rail
roads refuse to take grain for that city
for want of places to unload, and the
consequence is there is a blockade until
the Atlantic cities tap Chicago.
THE monument recently erected to
the memory of Gen. Wool, ut Troy, \.
", is composed of one stone seventy
Eve feet high and weighing 800, 1000. It
was taken from quarry on Fox Isl
and, in Maine, and is said to be the
largest store quarried in 5000 years
Two ex-convicts, Marshall and Ross,
recently pardoned out of the peniten-
tiary, have been depredatsng about Sa-
lem, and the other night, in attempting
to rob Mr. David Swartz, Marshall was
shot and shortly afterwards died. Ross
was also captured aud is now in Jail,
and viii probably be returned to the
"Hotel De Bash" at the February
term of Court
a NEGRO with the title of Squire
Darlington, near Charlotte, Va, be-
lieved that boys ought to be obedient
to their parents, and as his wasn't he
took him out, stripped him, Tooled
him fearfully and finished the job by
breaking the boys spinal coisu... h.
tween the shoulders and head. The
boy died at once, and the esquire"
went to Jail. .
MARY FRANCES HoyEY, of Lyons, y.
Y, lost her reason because her lover
died, and resolved to commit suicide
She loved her father 50 well that she
did not like to leave him behind, 30
went into the store where he was sit
ting, placed the muzzlc of her pistol ai
fectionately behind his ear, shot, kissed
the old gentleman when be was dead,
and then went up stairs and shot her
SELF
MR. James Hsnilton informs us,
says the Roseburg Plaindealer, that the
contracts for the 'cribs" and stone for
the breakwater and improvement at
Coos Bay have been let, and the con
tractors are already at their work Mr.
Merchant, who has the contract for the
cribs, proposes erecting them at Marsh
field, and float them to the point where
they are to be loaded with rock and
sunk. The government engineers are
already in the field and the work will
be hurried up to completion.
A SELECT party in st. Louis last
week, composed Of Judges, Aldermen
and other roughs, were entertained
with a fight between a Siberian blood
hound, about the size Of a four-year-old
calf, and Celtic prize fighter. For
while it was nip and tuck between
them, until finally in the third or
fourth round the dog got his grinders
into the mans shoulder and tore it as
if it had gone through sausage mill,
which reused the ire of the Celt, who
grasped the Siberian by the jaws, threw
him to the ground and kicked the life
out of him
TIE Seattle Latelligencer says: can
Oregon journal says that Seattle papers
are busily engaged in getting mp a
boom for the Skagit mines. This
statement doesn't exactly represent the
facts The boom is already in active
operation, requires no help from the pa
pers of Seattle, and will speedily aston
ish our friends of the Willamette Val
ley metropolis, who by it will probably
lose thousand men now idly winter
ing in their city The thing is begin