The state rights democrat. [volume] (Albany, Linn County, Oregon) 1865-1900, 1884-11-07
NEWS Is BaIEv.

/ tSst etNgiso Poun"S W e"oe"o ~HN
l7,760 barrels Of apples. Last season
during the corresponding week the OK
ports Of butter we're l53,S48 pounds
cheese 3l2,704 pounds and apples sos
barrels.
In 1880 there were eighteen clerks
In the general land Office. Nov there
are 367.
IL is estimated that the wool clip oi
this year will amount 70 SOC, 0,000, ,O0C
pounds, aud he worth ss5, 900, 900.
one-soventh Of the population oI
Kentucky il colo:ed.
In 1880 there were 1887, ,235 oolored
persons in the United States over 81
years Of age, Of whom 2,l47,900 could
not write, or 1871 per cent. There are
now probably $500, 900. as the colored
population increases by births seven per
cent faster than does the whites from
birth and immigration.
Utah has now 10000 sua!l farms
averaging twenty-five acres, aud the
whole must be irrigated. There IN but
one large farm in the Territory and that
Is owned by company.
A local paper of Dakota Is rssponsi-
BILE for the following: A Dakota farm
er in 1881 planted q IiUgle grain Of
Spring wheat, and from II grew twenty.
one stalks. each bearing full bead Of
wheat. yielding 10 all $50 grains Of
wheat 7G0 Of these were planted the
next year, producing one-Gfth Of q
bushel Of splendid wheat. This was
planted last Spring. yielding seventeen
bushels, making 1920 pounds Of wheat
from one grain in three years.
Cape Cod cranbcrries are the beat and
most proliSo this year.
The richest farmer Of Wisconsin, 10
William Miller. His estate " valued
at 81 100000.
A Yasualboro farmer. Who picked
eighty bushels Of apples from four
greening trees in lis orchard. thinks
this Is good apple year.
A Jersey COW owned by II. Q. Fslch,
Of Bradford, Il. H., gsve 100 pounds
Of milk during the month OF Janr, fed
upon grass alone.
A foek Of valuable lamts belonging
TO ID. o. Gill, Of fCharlestown, N. IL.
lately got on 10 tho railroad track, anC
twenty Of them were killed hy passini
freight engine.
| Bea,s are plenty in some sections o
New hampshire this Fall. A fartnel
in Landau, n. r., lately lost younI
heifsr, which is supposed to have beer
killed by them.
| A Stewartstown, n. H., farmer late
ly harvested 1000 bushels Of potAtoei
from . fiVe-acrs field, an average Of 40t
bushels TO the scre.
| A thief lately stole an 'eight-year-olt
1000 pound bay horse with star II
forehead, from s. A. Ambrose Of Bos.
cawen Plain, n. II.
The hog cholera Is spreading in east
ern Pennsylvania. A handful Of un
leached wood ashes fed in swill two Of
three timss week is said to be p,e
ventive Of the disease.
It is said that one Of the best use
that can be made Of old tin cans is t,
melt the solder from them by throwing
them on the fire. and theu,afte cooling
wrap :hs tin around the roots Of smal
fruit trees. placing the lower end il
the soil. This will protecs the treei
from being girdled by mice.
There is q man near Danbury, CT.
40 inhuman that be has worn of th,
right legs of three head of cattle BY
tying their heads down to their feel
and turning them loose in the pasture
When rain eame the rope slipped uE
nearly to the knee aud down, causing
the legs to drop of.
The number Of persons who hav,
emigrated from Germany this year or
to the FIRST Of September is 1885, al
against ll9,201 during the correspond.
ing period of last year.
| Sunday theatricals are tolerated b,
law in Eve of the principal cities Of tn,
United States. They are San Francis
co, Cincinnati, st. Louis, New Orlean
and Chicago.
The Druid Hill Park at Baltimer
has the only Eskimo dogs in this couu
try, couple Of pups only excepted
They are two in number, all that re
mains of team of seven, and wer
brought by Surgeon Ames Of the Greel
relief expedition.
The Willism and Mary College {
Virginia, the oldest In the conntry ex
cept Harvard, had only one student I
the beginning of the present scho'
year and closed it's doors. Among i
graduates were Washington, Randolph
Tyler, Breckenridge and Gen. S,ott.