The state rights democrat. [volume] (Albany, Linn County, Oregon) 1865-1900, 1884-02-29
MEMS ~ BRIEF.

house strawberries At &8 TO $40 per
quart, hothouse grapes at 81 TO s5 per
pouad. Sour strawberries grown Ia the
open air will soon arrive from Flsrida.
! The president Of tho Society Of Pub
| lie Analysis in Engiand recently bought
500 samples Of milk in London, and
found 203 Of them either skinned or
waisred. HaI
Paris has 19l 800 dwellings holding
800, 900 rich people, 472,000 others
holding 800, 600 workmsn and poor
people. About 20o, 900 tive In u, 1853
tenement-houses.
The monument Of Washington .
msther, begun near Fredericksburg,
Va, In Jaokson's administrator, Is not
only still unfinished but badly cbipped
by relic tends. Congress IL now asked
to complste the long neglected work.
Members Of lhe Texas senate arc in
receipt of letters threatening that IL free
grass Ia interfsred with by the legislA-
turc, all the waters in the State Of Texas,
enclosed in pastures, will be poisoned.
The letters create q sensation, in view
Of the mysterious disease that is sweep
ing OF numbers Of cattle in certain sec.
tions Of the State. -a.
Lois Lyman Of Cabot cas- discounted
tho patch.work quilt craze. She made
a clothes-line 100 feet long from the
combings Of her hair. She began tho
industry In 1929 and made 100 feet OF
the cord, which the family used for years
as clothes.linea. She Is dead now.
Il is stated that in 1875, when Will
liam b. Astor died, he had 72O houses
on bis rent roll. The present number
Of Assor houses exceeds 1900, the whole
estate being valued at about $50, ,000,-
600, producing an income Of s3,000,-
600 year.
The Supreme Court Of Iowa decides
that wife. deserted by her husband,
without her fault, and left with no
means Of providing for her family Of
young children, has authority to sell
the personal property Of her husband to
obtain money.
Chicago elevators are overcro wded
with grain, the receipts averaging | ,000,
600 bushels week
Ia Kansas, in some districts, the
ground has been frszen to depth of
twen.y-eight inches.
Canned tomatoes, 10 the number Of
,943,57o cases, or 70,645, 800 cans,
were packed in 1883. tho largest pack
every made.
They propose to impose a tax upon
bachelors in Wyoming Territory.
The total number Of immigrants for
the year 1883 in.o the United States
was 300, 1856 the largest proportion of
which came from Germany.
The New Brunswick lottery Is to be
closed this month, it having become
frightened at th" efforts boins taken by
the authorities to suppress it, Many
have lost 4 great deal Of money in it,
the originators being tho only ones who
have made anything.
An actress has been recognized 10 q
variety troupe in South Carolina as q
nun who escaped from an OAtario con
vent some time since.
Twelve landlords own ons-quarter of
the whole acreage Of Scotland nine
tenths Of Scotland belongs to 100 per.
sons, end 100000 Scotchmsn spend
their lives earning rent for these 100.
The rag trade reaches about $50, ,0e0,-
| 600 year, and there are 1000 rag
picksrs in New York city alone.
The Canadian Pacific Railway is in
financial difficulty, aud requires S22,-
! 000,00 FROM the Canadian Govern
4 ment to complete the road.
/. There is movement on foot to hold
the next years Worlds Medical Con-
gress in Philadelphia.
i n The costs of law are exempll6ed In
the Cesnola libel suit at Ssw Ysrk,
estimated To reach $4,000. Better to
keep away from the courts.
/ The State Of Maine has reduced taxes
fully fifty per cent by the enforcement,
of the principles of prohibition.
In the Euglish markets Australian
wheat completes in oheapness with the
California grain.
! "A boy has recently recovered ver-
4 diet against the New York Central
Railroad for SIC, 800 for the loss Of a
foot. 1aaai ioe @
i The Farmers Mutual Fire Insurance
Company of Montpelier, VT, with q
note capital of $l66 900, has suspended
because Of heavy losses. It had over
| $40, 100000 of risks out last August,
! lwith,a surplus capital of $l4l7. This
) is the third comparatively recent failure
Of a mutual FIRE company in the State.
! Tho number Of divorces in Rhode
Island has become so large, that the
governor of that State has recommend
\ ed legislation requiring all evidence tc
) be taken in public aa ta