The state rights democrat. [volume] (Albany, Linn County, Oregon) 1865-1900, 1884-04-25
NEWS IN nRIES.

The Iowa House has passed bill 70
prevent gambling in grain on margins.
II IL again proposed to unite the
Mediterranean and Red seas by rail-
road.
The largest schooner aAoat has been
launched at North Weymouth, Mass
length of keel, 100 feet, carrying four
masts and having . tonnage Of goo
tons.
London has twenty y-sight dailies, 524
~eeklies and over 600 monthly maya.
zines.
A New York stock broker owes
SS50,ooo, and has 81 TO pay with.
Official reports at Washington for
six years and seven months, ending last
December.sbow that 47s, ,3oS Canadians
have settled in the United States.
The total cut Of logs in the head
waters Of the Mississippi this season is
estimated at si7 900, 900 feet. making 9
stock in hand of 55s, 800. 900 feet.
More than 350A00 skunk skins were
used In this country last season, each
valued at City cents 10 sl.2o.
Tennessee has 500, 900 dogs. AT 81
. month, for food alone IL $3, 600. COO a
year, not to speak Of the damage they
infiict upon the sheep Industry.
Mr. Parncll denies that he has pur.
chased bis mothers property at Borden.
town, N. J.
Mr. Gladstone is guarded by de-
tsctive.
Cremation is gaining ground in Eng.
land.
China has ordered ten more Gatling
guns from the factory at Hartford, CT,
to be delivered in sixty days.
The California bog becomes wild, L.
hunted and trapped bear fashion and If
eornered will 6ght like q tiger. The
ranchnsn kill one when they want
pork.
There are IL 100000 horses in the
United States, or one to every Eve pet
SONS.
Over 10000. 600 cent pieces were
coined last year 10 the United statea
A woman has just died at Belfast,
ireland, who worked e. . man lz5orer
at the dock-yard thero for thirty years.
Nebraska ranchmen are accused Of
persecuting settlers in the northern part
of that State.
A new bleaching process has been in.
vented by paraffine soap. which will, II
is claimed. revolulionize the bleaching
business Of the world.
There are 2o9 known varieties oi
cherries, 60 Of spricots, 2s9 ofpeacbes,
1857 OF pears, and e97 of plum-.
Grand Trunk Railway employers
threaten to strike on account Of propos-
ed reduction Of wages. Business in
Canada is slack and dell.
Nihilist are being arrested by hun
dreds in Russia. Tho centre of popu-
lation will soon be in Siberia.
Sections will be given to horticulture
and Pomology at the Worlds Exposi.
ton in New Orleans.
Ireland is being rapidly depopulAted
Jay Gould has an incoms of 80 Z
minute.
NJ. de Lesseps slept l07 out Of th,
l30 hours recently occupied in . sci
voyage.
Canada threatens to exclude Ameri
can cattle from her ports.
The official statement that last year
there were over 400 cases Of triohinosi
with &C deaths, in Ermsleben in Prus
sian saxony, all caused by the flesh o
a single dog. eaten Taw, is q pretty com
meptary on the German fears Of Amer.
loan pork.
Four million three hundred and fort
thousand boxes ofs'sardines" were pack
ed in Lubec. Me-, last year.
One of che plans to make Paris
seaport is to convert the River Sein
into a canal ninety .oight feet wide. Th
cost of dredging, etc., is estimated Q
2o,0o0,o00.
| Ten Atlantic cables have been laid
and the two now being laid by the Ber
nett MAckay Company make the fu
dozen.
The terrible and riotous scenes enact
ed at Cincinnati have gained it th'
name of tho "Paris Of America"
Henry Barnes, Eve year old boy !
Springfield, Ohio, recently died ter
rible death from the effects Of eOtin
1.-the peel Of half an orange.
The last wife of the Sultan Of Moro
eco is the thousandth. Six hundre
still live.
A Georgia lady has entered suit f