The state rights democrat. [volume] (Albany, Linn County, Oregon) 1865-1900, 1884-09-12
GENERAL NEWS.

Client service. The British navy.
comprises 23s vessels. France has
25s, Germany has eIghty-sIx ard
Russia has 370.
San Fancisso has regular Dig COM
inlssioners who 'adludIcate upon ar
rivals brought 10 the pound. Re-
spectacle looking dogs are given one
more chance, and Of tho $50 captured
In July, 20s were released.
For the lack. Of pasiurage, s223
cattle and 425 horses lately died IN a
single Mexican provinces within two
weeks. A severe drought 10 scourg-
Ing that country.
a few years ago what Is now the
great onion tract OF Chester, IN Orange
County. N. Y, was worthless piece
Of land. To-day IL would nrlng read
ily $1,000 an acre. List season on
these meadows 10000 bushels Of
onions were grown, which were sold
for moro than sl25 900. This sea
sons crop WILL bs even larger. There
are no other equally large onion tracts
in the country.
The ostrich farming enthusiasts
having tried CalIfornIa and Florida,
have now concluded te begin all over
again In Mexico. The government
has granted the promoters OF the
scheme 20, 900 acres ofland and $500
apiece for the first 200 birds Import
od. On these conditions II looks az
though the promoters would make
money, even II the ostrIches died az
soon ~ imported.
No liquor has been sold for tho
last SIX years In one OF the wealthiest
and most prosperous counties of Texas,
and consequently the Jail is empty.
France Is fighting China TO extort
an indemnity Of SIS 900, 900 for losses
directly due to I,s own wrongful acts.
A Key West turtle on sale at
Washington marker, New York, last
week. weighed $50 pounds.
Mexico IL suffering from a shor'
corn crop.
A CaIifornIa farmer, o. w. Flecker,
farming the Scott ranch, killed squIr-
rel from whose mouth he took 39I ksT-
neIs! OF rs fias and large wheat as
ever seen, their actual weight being
two ounces less two drams. Eight
such mouthfuls are about equal 10 n
pound. Here Is a lesson TO the far
mer who has thousand squirrels on
his farm.
A firm in Cleveland. Ohio, lately
sent a despatch by telegraph 10 Chi
csgo ordering the sale Of zoo, 900 BUSH
els of wheat TO be delivered In Fet-
ruary and May. The despatch deliv.
cred la Chicago ordered the sale o.
20, 200 bushels OF wheat and $4,000
bushels Of corn. The Ohio partie.
havebroug1t suit TO recover damages.
The defence ofthe telegraph company
Is that the plaintiffs are not dealer,
la grain but gamblers, that the mes
sage was for the purpose Of effcctinf
an Illegal wager and the entire tran
sactIon was for Illegal purposes
The decision OF the court will bt
awaited with interest.
The rate of taxation In some o
the principal cities in 1888 was a
follows. Boston, Sl4.50 on 500; Bal
tlmore, $I6.s7t (; PhiIadelphia, $ls.-
90; New York. s2O.S2 Cincinnati
$2O.3I; Chicago, $34.l0.
A terrific powder explosion occur
red In the government powder factor.
at Kasau, Russia on the l4th inst.
which completely demolished tn
bulldog, killing ten persons an'
badly injuring forty others
: England receives daily an averag
Of fifty TO sixty tons of eggs from
north Italy. On one day the presen
season, the aggregate Of 120 tons
representing 2, ,0o0, 900 eggs was land
r ed at Hsrwich from this source, an
sent on to London by the Great East
, ern Railway.
Paris annually consumes about 80,
000, 900 pounds Of butter.
: Even oranges are now subject
adulteration, some Ingenious rasci
a having invented way of chanEin
ordinary fruit into blood oranges b
the introduction Of coloring mat
ter.
: The State experimental farm
y Ohio will have an exhibit at I'll
New Orleans Exposition, one itel
of which will be 100 varieties
Z wheat.
Secondhand splint cigar lighte
ara gathered up, the burned end CT
nfY, then put up IL packages and sol
again.
A new device r destroying weet
: haS bnen tested on the Chicag'
9 Burlingior & Quincy in Iowa. Tt
: device IL -imply shaft, the widi
{ of n car. to which Il attached nnmal