The state rights democrat. [volume] (Albany, Linn County, Oregon) 1865-1900, 1881-02-11
PACIFIC CoAsTERs.


ing.
Irish Land Loagueism has struck
Portland.
Oregon grouse are game TO the
lsst.--TJoke.
Marion county Circuit Court meets
next Monday.
Great loss Of cattle on the Upper
Payette, Idaho.
Only two weeks till Oregon spring
poetry. Goody!
Tho Columbia is falling and Port
landers arc happy.
Tho tax levy Of Portland for 1881
amounts to s52,31s.
Portland has stringent vagrant
law which Albany ought 10 copy.
Stock has suffered very little in
Ochoco and Crooked River valleys.
Indians say the weather in the
Northwest Is tho coldest ever known.
Jno. w. Dwinelle, prominent
Frisco lawyer, was drowned last
week.
The Governor OF Idaho has issued
n message against Mormonism in that
Territory.
Apples are so cheap In Benton
county that the winter winds scorn TO
blow them of the trees.
The food ut Drains caused fourteen
families TO leave their homes and
caused damages Of at least 81 900.
The Irish ladies or San Francisco
have organized the "Fanny Parncll
Branch" of the Irish Land League.
The Roseburg Star knows bogus
doctor even In a dark night-whcili.
er he sIings little pills or podophlyn!
a Vallejo (Cal. man tho other day
caught wasp by tho rudder, and IN
q few hours afterward died OF the
lockjaw.
The Goldendale Ga=efte Of Feb. Sd,
says Hay In Goldendaic IS scarce
at 220 per ton, and at Tho Dalles, so
Is the price.
Gen. Joseph Lane is suffering con-
siderable from the effects Of a gunshot
wound received years ago during the
Indian wars OF this State.
Up TO tho 1st inst. no jurors had
been selected in the Kalloch ease, for
killing DeYoung, although something
over 1s0 had been called.
Chaplain S,ubbs published a card
in the Oregonia,l 10 the effect that he
will not marry divorced people and
thus countenance adultery.
Portland has n dog with TWO tails.
This is somewhat similar 10 the Re-
publican party down there with Ifs
caudle appendage Of Scott and Mitch
ell.
Cattle are in a deplorable condition
in the Yakima country, hundreds ol
them starving TO death. Any mum
Der of cattle can be bought foT 81 PEI
head.
The Pacific Coast Press Association
start on their excursion from San
Francisco to Lower California on the
sth proximo, and alas! We can't be
thar
While the funeral of Mr.. Jerry
Luckcy, of Eugene, was in procession
to tho cemetery, the hearsc was drawn
into deep water and was saved Will
difficulty.
The recent California rain storms
extended throughout the whole State
The Sacramento, San Joaquin, anC
other valleys, were literally flooded
and much damage done.
Claude Thayer (son OF the Go7era
or, and w. III. Holmes have organ
lied themselves into law firm at Sa
lem. We wish the talented youn:
span all possible success.
The Salem Statesman lights ont
Postal Agent Simpson like hawl
onto June-bug about tho Irregular
ty OF the mails. There certainly i
gross neglect somewhere.
The Oregon Woman Suffrage As
sociation held its annual meeting il
Portland this week. The attendance
, wasn't large ana consequently tn
, suffragers didn't make much "furss.
The crop of autumn leaves ans
: dead bugs and spiders is all washe
: away by the flood, and the sprinI
| poet will have to rely on toad-stool
t and eager" for themes for his muse
An enterprising editor in Havan
don't have much chance for thinking
about "scoops." A Havana edito
q was fined $500 there for announcing