The state rights democrat. [volume] (Albany, Linn County, Oregon) 1865-1900, 1888-03-30
CURRENT EVENTS.

There ia prospect that the NJ E Churcl
North and South viii be united.
Tha Mechanics fair at Portland this yea
viii open Oct. 4th, aud will run twenty day
instead OF fourteen ~ heretofore.
They do net catch stseIhond salmon now
but they aro receiying some ilne trout ii
Portland as big ~ steelhead salmon. Babe.
A school teacher In Buffalo, ID. T.,whese
vile was one Of his pupils, had occasion IA
punish her one day. The next day the
school house door bore the following In.
scrlptlon "schooI closed for one week,
owing 10 the Illness OF the school teacher
The teacher may hare been master In the
school house, but At home he seems to have
struck disastrous domestic blizzard.
Friends may desert an editor, rivals may
Gscorn him, and he may fall TO get an Office,
bot as long ~ hIs scissors do not break and
the reaches do not cat up his paste, hope
turns ita golden light upon him, and his fu.
ture has trade dellar silver lining which
sorrow cannot cerrode, are the opinions of
the editer Of the Tdahs Free Pyess.
MIss Halle Parrish Is TO 60 70 Grand Ra.
paks Michigan, In about three weeks TO viaIs
an aged aunt, who Is quite wealthy. Miss
Parrish goes on the invitation 81 her aunt.
She will be gone all summer rideffs II
Miss Parrish could have some OF the rich
aunt's money and usc II for tho cultivation
OF her voice with European masters she
would make ono OF the most delightfai sing.
ers In the world.
II one graia Of wheat is pat on one square
OF the chess. beard, two on tho second, four on
the third, ETC., u would require merely for
the last sqaare 3, ,02s. .lg4 million tons, or ~
much as teS, 600. 900 Of the largest ahipS
could carry. on more than the freight-earry-
ing capacity ef al the shipping from Noah 70
now added 10 al the railroad oars, carts and
wagons eyer made. In short. this total amount
OF grains woald be 4, $40 b76. 1884, log. 3s3. eco.
MArisn county pot Ia the Geld fall pro-
hibltion ticket. A correspondent Of Marion
county paper wonders &c the fact that there
wore ouly sixteen delegates 10 the eonven-
slon In Lima county. which gave thousand
majority for prohibition In November. and
siKty IN Marion county, which gave ssverai
hundred against IL
Mr. Geo RowelI, Of New Yerk. who IL
authority Ga such matters. In "a address be-
fore the American Newspaper Pnhllshars'
A@@eNeAetous ~ Anat4nap9stsp PtoTe0 tn1k I'VE
newspapers issue mere than ono,aeyenth Of
the total edition Of al the daily papers psint.
sd. The number Of daily newspapers 10 the
United States now numbers about fourteen
hundred. consequently che i've which were
referred 70 must each sell an average edition
two handrsd times greater than the average
Of the others.
Upon request 10 awe his opinion Ia ref
eFencs 70 tho new Sc. 1000 Court House 70
be ballk &c Corvallis, Mr. Wilson Bump wrote
~ fellows 90 the Newport Nelos "Ay opin-
ion -, that we should have good solid Jail,
put the present County Court in il with
bali dossn lawyers then no would not need q
Court Housa.. Bush coaId keep bis ollies Ia
aodes' Rnn shop Ssrioaaly, II We arc 10 have
Ceuvt House cheaper one will do aud We
will elect honest men 10 serve 10 t.
They tell down East Of poor fellow who
owned remarkably fat hog, and who also
owed rich man. The hog was about all
the property the poor debtor had worth
levying on, and the law exempted mans
only pig. One day the creditor meeting the
debtor said 'Yeu need another pig let
me send you q nice little one The poor
man was astoulshed. why, owe YOU for
the hog I've got now he stammered New
er mind you need another one, and I'll
send H. and he did. and the little pig was
put In the pen by the side of the fat enc. In
less than an hour the Comstahic came and
attached the fat hog and took II away, and
thus the law and the rich man were satisfied.