The state rights democrat. [volume] (Albany, Linn County, Oregon) 1865-1900, 1881-04-22

ton county.
Sheep shearlng has begun in Jack
son county.
The salmon catch thus far nj
Astoria Is light.
Eplzootio has reached tho stage
horses Mt Roseburg.
The Corvallis Gasette, with Jobprcss,
Is offered for sale.
Seal fishing on tho West coast Of
Vancouver Island Is failure.
Everything Is favorable for mn inn
monse crop IN the Palouse country.
One Of Hume's fishermen caught a
52-pound salmon at Astoria on Satur-
day.
A mineral spring has been dis
covered OH Asa Gates farm, In Happy
valley.
The Dayton Chronicle has entered
upon tho fourth year Of its useful
career.
Mr.. s. Hannah was sunstruck last
week at Union while working In his
garden.
| A rack @train'of so mules passed
through CoIfax last week bound for
Camp Spsisan.
Twenty-three immigrants from
Tennessee arrived nc Corvallis ON
Tuesdays train.
Mr.. s. J.. Stages, Of Yamhill eoun-
fly, recently brought to McMinnviIIe
a six pound cauIiAower.
The Astoriaa has enlarged, and We
cordially congratulate it on this
evidence OF its prosperity.
Encouraging prospects come from
the Ochoco miRes. Parties there
are negotiating for 10.stamp mill.
Over seven thousand tons Of coal
were shipped over the Seattle rail-
road for the first two weeks Of April.
Baker City Is cursed with opium
joints, and the young men OF the
place incline towards the vice OF
smoking.
Col. w. w. Gift, a well known
pioneer citizen, turfnan and politi-
clan, died at Martinez, California, on
tho 18th.
The rainfall was heavy, especially
In the central and southern parts o:
California on the 18th, where II was
most needed.
Ireland says: "The As,oriaa has
laid aside all petty Jealousles and Is Tor
oregon-Portland included. Don't
you forget It,"
Americans and Nsxieans had n
small border war at III Pas on the
nth, In which one or two were
killed on each side.
John Rurick, tho insane gang boss
at Ainsworth, was given morphine,
while in the stage, and died before
he reached Colfax.
The body of Swearingen, murderer
and suicide, was taken from the
morgne at Chico, Cal, on the 10th,
rand buried in the Potler's field.
| G. c. Nelson, banker Of Usage
Mission, n. M., has disappeared and
1t Is believed that ne has taken a
large amount of money belonging TO
others.
Henry Gee and some farm hands
near Bellevue, Yamhillcounty, killed
Gs rattlesnakes, in one den, last week.
Some Of the "varmInts" had as high
as twelve ratiles.
w. +. Spencer WAS arrested by a
mob on Hangman creek for threaten
ing to kill a dog, and lie retaliated
fby having four of the self-constituted
constables locked up.
w. w. Holcomb, Goldendale, has
been arrested and fined for abstract
ing from the minntes of the City
Council the proceedings appertaining
TO hfs expulsion as City Recorder.
Saturday night Jim Devin, alias
Jones, an escaped convict from Cali
fornia, where reward Ct 81, 400 is
offered, was lynched near Las Vegas
for an attempt to murder section
hand.
The Bodfordshire FROM San Fran
cisco Oct. 18th, 1880, for Queenstown,
was spoken Off Cape Horn, Jan. 7st,
but has not been heard from since,
and fears for her safety are naturally
entertained.
/ One of the small houses of the
power works at Siege, near Berkeley,
CAL, on the 18th, In which was
carried on the manufacture OF blast-
ing caps, blew up killing one China
man who was at work there.
Easter was celebrated in the
churches of San Francisco with usual
pcmp. There was unusual fine deco
ration in all the churches, but it
rained hard all day, preventing the
accompanying display of fashions by
the ladies'.
One hundred and ninety excursions
lists from Boston and other portions
of New England left on the 18th, foI
a journey of 5000 miles across the