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The state rights democrat. [volume] (Albany, Linn County, Oregon) 1865-1900, 1881-07-29
a weaD To oUa sIRsCRIsERs.

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shape, and, to place the paper upon a
sound financial basis, where ii viii be
better able to serve its patrons and do
Justice 10 the community in which il is
published. We cannot do thia without
the assistance Of those who take the pa
per. We do not wish it to be under
stood that we are asking any gifts oreon-
tribntions, or doing any begging. We
simply mean that we want You To pay
up your subscription promptly. The
amount is small, yon say, aud it will
not make much difference il we do not
get it at once. We admit the amount
il small. But at least one thousand
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hundred and mors, are owing uS OF
subscription. We have been issuing
the paper under the present firm for
something over four months. At three
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per month, this would be exactly one
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US is small, but taken with the other
i
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work, cash for press work, cash for
bookkeeper, cash for bread and butter,
cash for everything that goes toward
keeping things moving along and fnrn'
ishing live newspaper, aud you only
owe us little, AMI We would like TO
have you think it over, aud you viii
see how badly We neel that little. We
don't mean to complain. We have
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obliged. But if you would all pay us
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stop it. We 10 not claim to be able
to furnish you the best paper
in the state, but We are trying
TO DO the best we can towards Civ
ing yon all the county news, and as
much other interesting reading matter
as we can crqwd into thirty two col.
umns. We are trying our level best
to make the DEMOCRAT a live, repre-.
sentative paper, and to advocate in ita
columns the best interests Of the county
and state, and the party whose princi-
Plies we believe ate right We are
both Young men, and We have not had
all the experience ia the world, and we
make many mistake% but We do be-
lieve in the cause We are working for,
we do believe in the futura of this sec.
ton, and a-e devoting all our energy
toward 'leveloping.it. These mattess
are of interest tn you all, and we ask
you TO promptly eome forward and
show your interest by paying us the
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in our work. Pardon us this long
winded article, bnt it does seem to take
good deal Of talk to impress the mat
ter on the minds of some Of onr sub
scribers.
The state rights democrat. [volume] (Albany, Linn County, Oregon) 1865-1900, 1881-07-29

GRANT now, and GraRt twenty
months ago when he crossed the con.
tinent sped hy one long cheer. is Il good
deal like the difference between the
blazing FIRE works and the blackened
frames and singe,l tubes to be seen 10y
daylight the next day. The third-term
rocket has come down as other rocket,
Il
The state rights democrat. [volume] (Albany, Linn County, Oregon) 1865-1900, 1881-07-29

IT rs stated that the yield of the
wheat crop just harvested in Australia
will show q large falling off as compared
with the previous crop. The average
yield in one or two of the most import
ant wheat growing districts will not be
over, il is estimated, ten to eleven
bushels per acre. In 1878 the exports
from ali the Australian eolonit were
The state rights democrat. [volume] (Albany, Linn County, Oregon) 1865-1900, 1881-07-29

The precarious condition Of The Presi-
dent has knocked the bottom out 0f the
markets, and affects the price Of wool as
much ~ anything else. The pool in this
city will not get as good figures as was sK-
pected. but they can't always expect 20 hit
Il exactly right. If the wool had been
pOoiesin and throws IN slsos.saFkstteh .Iase
sooner the owners would ss-ely hs,ere-
allied over 30 cents PER pound.
The state rights democrat. [volume] (Albany, Linn County, Oregon) 1865-1900, 1881-07-29

The Portland RepuJiican Of last Sat
urday boiled over with wrath at US
for unintentionalIy crediting two oi
its articles to another paper Of thai
city, and In It's issue of last Tuesday
evening we notice an entire column
of local matter, embracing nine diff
fersnt Items, taken bodily. from the
issue of the Standard Of the same day,
and no sign Of a credit Riyalr1D This
nlxs like i case OF IS .
The state rights democrat. [volume] (Albany, Linn County, Oregon) 1865-1900, 1881-07-29

4 GREAT hue and cry has been
raised BY the newspapers of the Union
IN relation. q The star-roate frauds re
Gently discovered, but neither Brady
nor Dorsey has vet been inaicted, and
We confidently expect that neither will
ever be caused to make due amends te
the law for their transgression Their
help has been too valuable to the Re
publican party.
The state rights democrat. [volume] (Albany, Linn County, Oregon) 1865-1900, 1881-07-29

Notice is hereby given, that the An
nuaI Meeting of the Stockholders OF
the Capital Gold aud Silver Mining
Company Willie held atthe Company 8
Office In Salem, Oregon. eH Tuesday,
the llih day of August, 1881 at
o'clock la the afternoon.
v. X HYDE, Secretary.
The state rights democrat. [volume] (Albany, Linn County, Oregon) 1865-1900, 1881-07-29

WHgN old Sammy Tilden unearthed
the canal frauds in New York City, the
Iipgleaders, among whom was. Boss
Tweed, were prosecuted, convicted and
sent to the penitentiary, although they
were amongthe most faithful Democrat
ic workers in the State. Postmaster
James has now shown up the enormous
star route frauds, but just as Mcyeagh
was ready to tegin twisting the screws
Of justice he is politely told to bold of
for awhile, and Brady and Dorsey are
given a chance to get away. They will
The state rights democrat. [volume] (Albany, Linn County, Oregon) 1865-1900, 1881-07-29

GGIrEAr must be a full -fledged Re
publican. He still hopes the President
will die, bat says, however, that il his
act has had 'the effect of restoring har-
mony in the Republican party, he feels
that his mission has been sufficiently
successful. Such devotion to PARTY Is
rarely seen.
The state rights democrat. [volume] (Albany, Linn County, Oregon) 1865-1900, 1881-07-29

LAsr Saturday tho President was
taken very much worse, and fears
were entertained that he would not
recover, but We are glad to say that
he is now better aud getting along
well.
The state rights democrat. [volume] (Albany, Linn County, Oregon) 1865-1900, 1881-07-29

By majority vote of the Portland
City Couacil the legality of ballot No.
200 was referred to Chief Justice Lord,
but that gentleman refuses TO serve as
arbitrator, and what is to he dune next
Is what bothers Mr.. Simon.
The state rights democrat. [volume] (Albany, Linn County, Oregon) 1865-1900, 1881-07-29

The last star-route fraud unearthed
by the department is the route from
Vinita, Ind. Terry, to Las Veges, n.
II, 725 miles long, on which two or
three letters a trip We're carried at u
cost of SG4,539 annually. With the
proof of this before him Brady raised
the pay to Slj0,591.
The state rights democrat. [volume] (Albany, Linn County, Oregon) 1865-1900, 1881-07-29

OHlo's valuation is said TO have in,
creased only ST., ,oo0,o00 in ten years.
IN Siaw Of the factthat half Of the state
has been holding otiiee during that per,
ioi. the story may be considered lie.
The state rights democrat. [volume] (Albany, Linn County, Oregon) 1865-1900, 1881-07-29

Mart. v. Brown, former proprietor of
this paper, Is now at Lower Soda Springs.
and il gradually wasting away with con-
sumption. His left lung is now entirely
useless, and an sbscess Is forming on the
right lung, and when il breaks he viii
probably pass away. His time 10 very
short for this world, and he Is fully aware
Of his condition, but does not seem TO dread
the GnaI end. His wife is nearly worn out
with weary watching, but feels very thank.
ful 10 those kind friends who have Gwen
her assistance in this her hour Of need.
The state rights democrat. [volume] (Albany, Linn County, Oregon) 1865-1900, 1881-07-29

Tnn Lord doesn't propose to meddlo
in the least with Portland politics, and
he shows his good sense hy arriving
at that decision.
The state rights democrat. [volume] (Albany, Linn County, Oregon) 1865-1900, 1881-07-29

BRApN aud dorsey and all the mem.
bers Of their gang, have no occasion for
fear. Gen. Garfield viii stand by them;
OF, il be should fail, Mr.. Blaine will be
their certain protector.
The state rights democrat. [volume] (Albany, Linn County, Oregon) 1865-1900, 1881-07-29

The annual ssasion ct Colausbia Conferences
Of the Methodist Episcopal Charch. sSath,
will convene at Corvallis on Thursday, Au-
gust 25th. Bishop Ii. h. kAyanaDgh, Of
Louisville. Kentucky, presiding.
The state rights democrat. [volume] (Albany, Linn County, Oregon) 1865-1900, 1881-07-29

HESRy A. WISE, of Virginia, is said
to have been the author of the phrase ,
'sI'he office seeks the man not the man
the Office" Add his name to the list
OF American authors of fiction.
The state rights democrat. [volume] (Albany, Linn County, Oregon) 1865-1900, 1881-07-29

SENATOR GROVER remarked to ns
when he was here last Saturday that
there would be little difficulty in get
ting an additional appropriation for the
Improvement of the bar at Yaquina
Bay, provided work ON The Oregon Pa
ciic Rsilroa1 was opened up Every
thing has been against rs back there.
Appropriations must originate in The
Honse, and TINS far the Pacific Coast has
never had a memb r of the committee.
This, taken into confederation with the
fact that Oregon only has one Repre-
sentative, while other states have many,
show nisinlx that 1t il ';p bill business
,1riatia,e ,Us ,4aJ
The state rights democrat. [volume] (Albany, Linn County, Oregon) 1865-1900, 1881-07-29

DIR. ROGERS VEGETABLE WORM
SYRUP instantly destroys worms and re-
moves the seeretIons which cause them
The state rights democrat. [volume] (Albany, Linn County, Oregon) 1865-1900, 1881-07-29
PATRONIZE HOME MERCHANTS.
O. H. M M TIA q u H.
OF LEBANON,

Can sell you all goods in the line
of General Merchandis 10 just as
cheap as you can go way IRON
home and buy them. He carries a
large and varied assortment of all
goods, is well prepared ito exhibit
them, and you can ma Re just as
good selections by pu1fhasing of
him.
Frostburg mining journal. [volume] (Frostburg, Md.) 1871-1913, 1881-07-09

the Constitution. The mere matter
of an important appointment against
the wishes of the other wing is the
nominal sum Of his administrative
offense. This is not a sufficient plea.
Causes far deeper than this, it IL
feared, have made him n martyr to
conservative republication. But be
what they nay, there has come up
from the country vast expression OF
horror and indignation at the great
crime Of the year, and ofsymrathy with
the wounded President. Words OF love
and good cheer from all sections have
reached his couch of tuffering.
Whether surviving or dying, he has
lived long enough to learn that ne IS
the centre of more outspoken frater-
nifty than the century has elsewhere
witnessed. North, south, east
and west, have together knelt at his
eide, wept over lis suffering and
prayed for recovery. Here all are
one in unity of feeling and hope. and
here at last is the common pledge
that individual liberty shall not perish
from the earth
Frostburg mining journal. [volume] (Frostburg, Md.) 1871-1913, 1881-07-09

never saw q coal mine until they
were dumped out Of the lox cars at
the sulphur ball mines of Clearfeld
county. Practical miners are not
made in day, and 1 would as soon
expect to see a majority of your 60
called practical miners sit down and
undermine fall of coal and cut it
properly, as to see an angel in the
editorial chair of the Osceola Reusilie's
office, or, looking in o the face of a jack
ass, expect to see the image of God.
A majority of your miners are practi-
cal coal smashers, who don't know
sulphur ball from piece of coal
they can drill hole, charge it with
powder and blast coal eulphur and
slate down in one heap, and then don't
know tho difference of one from the
other; all is filled up and palmed off
on the consumers as pure mineral
slack. The few practical miners that
you have in your region are there I'M
der circumstances which they cannot
control. 1t is the wrong place to
look for ten thousand intelligent mi
ners to be found of their own free
will in a penal colony.
The Cow and Heifer Association is
not Maryland institution, like the
slate and sulphur society, of Osceola,
CT which l am informed you are pres
ident, both being Pennsylvania or
CARNATIONS, and being strong be-
lever in the superiority Of Cumber-
land coal, am ineligible to member
slip.
In conclusion let me state to the
sulphur-streaked editor Of the Osceo-
la Reueile that I have come to stay
and be can have rough and tumble.
or fair stand-up, the ridiculous or
the sublime. Asking no favors and
despising his scorn, am.
THOMAS BROWN.
P. S.-Tom Browns funeral is post
poned until further notice.
Frostburg mining journal. [volume] (Frostburg, Md.) 1871-1913, 1881-07-09

thickness of their coal. Either part
of the seam yields inferior coal, or
the mine engineers lack the skill to
take it out. Possibly a competent
Mine Inspector would be able to rem
edy this wasteful system of mining.
With all these facts before our
eyes, Tom Brown, we "still have the
presumption to repeat the confident
assertion that "the Clearfeld region
will be able to supply millions upon
millions of tons, long after the Cum
berland region is worked out and
dried up!"
You say your coal is composed of
"pure vegetable material" Now,
Tom, we would con6dentially inform
you, that in this region. all the vege-
table material found lying around
loose, is utilized by the farmers for
manure. Ours is purely mineral coal,
and we are sorry to believe that ma
ture put you eff with poor article of
vegetable material"
Our coal yields seventy,ive per
cent. of pure carbon, while your
| lack shale turns out about seventy
five per cent. of vegetable muck or
swamp peat. Of course, we have to
make reasonable allowance for your
coal, owing to the fact that it is To-
Gated away off at the tail end or
rugged edge of the coal measures,
while we are in the heart of the reg
ular carboniferous basin.
One more correction, Tom, and
we'll give you clear for the present.
You say that our coal is at the bot
tom measures, and if we don't find
coal In our geological survey, we
may, if we go deep enough, find
chalk Now. Tom Brown. how dare
you go back on Lyell, Dana, Rogers.
Lesley, and all those other fellows ?
How dare you, we ask, knock the
stuffing out of the whole geological
system in that sort of style? We
had always supposed that the chalk
belongs away up in the cretsceous
measures, far above the carbonifer-
GUS formations; but here comes Tom
Brown, Mine Inspector for "Allegany'
and Garrett counties, Md, with the
assurance that if we bore down far
enough through the conglomerate,
sub carboniferous, Devonian and Lii
lurian we shall find chalk where we
and the biologists had located gneiss
and granite.
Our advice to you now, Tom, is
that you resign your commission and
join the newly organized Cow and
Heifer Association" of "My Mary
land"
Frostburg mining journal. [volume] (Frostburg, Md.) 1871-1913, 1881-07-09

The Baltimore Gazette and the Bal
timore american must both employ
uron their respective editorial stat
lineal descendants of that ancient
Thracian philosopher who continually
laughed at the follies of men, and
who have in an eminent degree, the
hap y faculty of turning everything
INTO ridicule. We copy below one of
the latest specimens from the Ameri-
can, touching Governor Hamlltons ad-
dress to the students of the Agricul-
tural College, on Tuesday last
Governor Hamilton to the students OF
the Maryland Agricultural College,
"Rome had its Ciucinnatus, the United
States its Washington, and Maryland
We'll have small farm up her. in WASH
ington county myself" -Westminste Id
gocatv.
Frostburg mining journal. [volume] (Frostburg, Md.) 1871-1913, 1881-07-09

to office whose interests are to serve
the monied powers and staff their own
pockets at our expense. 1t is an old
saying that burned children dread
fire." and surely we have had exper-
fence enough in the past to make US
more careful in the future. Whether
you be republican or democrat throw
off this "old party" prejudices, and let
US join hands at the ballot box, where
with one mighty effort we are bound
to accomplish what we have SO Icing
and earnestly desired-healthy and
unbiased legislation.
FREE THINKER.
Frostburg mining journal. [volume] (Frostburg, Md.) 1871-1913, 1881-07-09
SOME dissatisfaction is abroad

SOME dissatisfaction is abroad
among the teachers. The school
commissioners, it seems, have levied
upon their wages for funds to build
new school-houses, and upon their la
Dor to lengthen the scholastic year.
Besides they must go deep in their
pockets to keep the houses clean, etc
The next thing in just as reasonable
order is to require the teachers to
pay for the fuel. All after having
their salaries determined by doubt
full rule of new arithmetic-"aver-
age attendance"
The teachers are very irrational.
They should have learned by this
time that whenever a big affair wants
to economist on a large scale the
money and labor of those who work
are the first resources sought, and
these are taxed with all they can
bear.
The system is enc, however, which
will ultimately lower the service and
saddle upon the people a horde of
mere time.killers.
Frostburg mining journal. [volume] (Frostburg, Md.) 1871-1913, 1881-07-09
THE DUTY OF LABOR.

w hSlEhNTohit Nho', July ~ AOOt'
To the MINING JOURNAL:
Through the columns of your pa
per I appeal to the laboring classes of
this region-we cannot deny the pro-
gress that has been made in the last
two years, nor can it be denied that
organization has been the instrument
welded to bring about this wonder
full change. I say wonderful, for
when I look back to the past, and
view the position Of the latoring men
in this valley, miners especially, it
does seem that the hand of Providence
has been their guide. Is there man
that would willingly embrace the old
ruts of the past2 Ask any man
such question, and he would say no,
tho present is too decided an improve
ment for me ever to wish TO be under
the old-time tyranny. Again, now,
ellow.workman, is it possible that we
have got men in our midst that will
not lend helping had to advance or
sustain the very cause that they are
reaping so much benefit from? Yet
| am sorry to cay it is too true, they
can be pointed out here and there all
over the region-men that will not
assist the cause either with their
means, single good word or a wish
to bid it God speed. Fellow-work-
men, appeal to the conscience of
such men. They are receiving all the
benefits TINT the faithful workers are
receiving; yes, they are even stealing
those benefits and privileges, and they
should blush to accept what they
wouldn't help to gain or maintain.
But thank God they are few compared
to the many faithful workers to the
elevation of labor from its former de-
graded condition.
Having done so much by being
united, yet, fellow-w orkmen, there is
great deal more to do. Let US unite
in another way-let us unite in the
one thing most needful at present
the "ballot box" and there show
those usurpers what labor can do
An effort on our part will place men,
laboring men of sound judgment and
good principle, in our legislative halls;
there to enact good and just laws that
will give the laboring man, whether
he BIO miner, an outside laborer, a
railroad hand or whatever his calling
may be, his rights. All our interests
lie in one common cause. AS we earn
our bread by the sweat of brow; for
lato is noble and holy and an ordi-
nance of God, and He will help those
that help themselves. Why will We
stand by and see men elected to such
important offices, whose interests are
to serve their monied purchasers for
the past is surely an index to what
there would be in the future. So, my
fellow-workmen, let US not be gulled
hereafter by the Judas kiss of po-
litical office.seeker. Let US select
men from our own ranks, men Of trust
and worth, and by our ballot place
them where they can assist in repeal
ing bad laws and creating just and
healthy ones for the benefit of the
toiling masses.
Look at our ventilation lava
mere deception to gull the public.
Our Inspector of Mines is powerless
under euch law, although his Efforts
have been untiring. 1t is impossible
for him to better the condition until
the law is amended. How can we
expect any amendment to it or any
other law if we support and elect men !
Frostburg mining journal. [volume] (Frostburg, Md.) 1871-1913, 1881-07-09
INSPECTOR BROWNS REJoINDER.

FRosTBURG, July 2, 1881,
To the MINING JOURNAL:
have received copy of the Osce-
ola Reueille which contains an edito-
rial headed Browns Open Letter"
Now if 1 have to Judge from its bonn
bast contents | must come to the con-
clusi;n that the components parts of
this animal is made up of Garfield
coal. Whist picture for Harpsr's
WeektyI The following would be q
true representation: From the top
of the big toe to the ankle-fre-clay
and black shale mixed with sulphur
balls; from the ankle to the knee
streaks Of coal and sulphur mixed /;
from the knee to the um bi,icus-stresks
of coal with spars of slate mixed
from the latter to the stomach-shalv
coal with streaks Of sulphur running
through it; from the stomach to the
chin-snft coal mixed with sulphur
running through the sulphur
balls, the mining term for them being
nigger-heads, along with bone coal;
from the chin to the top of the head
pure mineral coal formed out of slate
better known by miners as a clay
vein.
Where is Burnam, Cushing or
Bally, that they DO not secure this
living curiosity of a Clearfsld coal
editor, who when last stirred up with
the pole by his keeper wagged his
tell and opened his jaws and beloved
forth nine million acres Of pure min
eral coal warranted free from all de-
composed vegetation. The clay vein
part Of this animal was at last touched
along with the sulphur parts of his
body with the progging rod and from
his nostrils issued forth sulphur smoke,
and standing erect upon his fre-clsy
toes he roared forth in thunder tones :
"Hold me until I attend Tom Browns
funeral" Let me inform his keeper
if holding him will enable him to at.
tend my funeral please, for the sake
of the Brown family, let him go, as
the family demurs to any such species
of the brute kingdom following
them to their narrow homes. would
advise that pair of socks be drawn
over his clay-vein ears and he be kept
locked up in his stable for fear that
some Of the mine drivers will throw
the gears upon him. If the Rcveille
publishing company want to make
money on their coal editor let them
have plat made showing the seven
veins Of coal that he has found in the
ClearGeld region, place it upon his
back, fasten it to his ears, march
him down to the New York Stock
Exchange, placarded as the seven
wonders of the world, and pile few
tons of lump coal from the Georges
Creek region in Maryland around
him, and there is no doubt strong
bull movement will set in favorable to
Clear6eld coal stock. Then call the
consumers of bituminous coal together,
twist his tail to mako him blow off
his gas and your fortune is made.
There ought to be millions in it. If
that should prove failure place him
in a caravan and exhibit him to the
public as a specimen of the seven
veins of coal found in the Clearfeld
coal basin, and if this don't prove