The state rights democrat. [volume] (Albany, Linn County, Oregon) 1865-1900, 1889-02-15

| "NN Wcunesuay evening" nays INT
Heine Is unqueslionably master Of the
king of instruments, which comes nearer
TO Initiating the human voice than any
others and his execution Is COED; his har-
monies are exquisite, and haye tendency
to warm his listeners to his work, which
is very sympathetic. Mr. Hcine feels as
much at ease lingering the highest post.
tion of his instrument as the ordinary vic.
linist does In the natural one, hence he
evoked encore after encore during the
evening. His best numbers were The
Mothers Prayer and rondo from con.
eerto, In ID, which he executed With de-
daughter, Nearer My God TO Thee was
played with much soulfulncsa"
HowI HArPESEp.-The Benton Lead.
er gives the following account Of the shoot.
Ing accident at Alsea. mentioned In the
DEMOCRAT recently "on Friday,the Ist
OF February, Otto Taylor and James Scaegs,
two young men IS and ~ years OF age,
we're hunting In the mountains near the
mouth of a stream called Lobster, twelve
miles south of Alssa, and when about two
miles from the starting place, the dogs
which were with the boys got TO fighting,
and Taylor being the nearest to them, was
In the act of parting them when Seaggs
came up, Taylor's gun was discharged, the
eat entering near the center OF Scaggs'
breast, coming out at the back of his neck
killing him Instantly
SrocK-HoLDERs MREriNo.--There will
be meeting of Stockholders OF the Al
bany Building and Loan Association, on
Friday evening at 7 o'clock, Feb. 18th,
1889, at the store OF Stewart & Sox, for the
purpose OF organizing and e.ectlng Board
of Directors for the ensuing year. A suf
fcent number OF shares having been sub.
| scribed. Il Is hoped all shareholders will
be present, and all those desiring to take
stock In the frat "serics. !" will do so at once
or at the meeting, as the first series will
then be closed. By order of Comr ittee.
A SHEpD MAN BuYs.-Yesterday Moore
& Manning sold seven acres OF land on
Asylum avenue to President Thos. Van
Scoy, of the Willamette University, and
F. NJ. Rinehart, of Linn county, the con-
sideration being $500. This seven acres
included FIVE acres formerly owned by the
Hentchel heirs and two acres from the
Jesse Moreland place which were bought
together with one acre on the north side OF
Asylum avenue In December by William
Spayd, of Michigan, he paying at the time
for this entire property only S22so lie
| still owns one acre of land with his home,
and Is ST5so ahead.-SfatemaS
An ARTISTIC WINDOW finest ar
tlstic work ever displayed in show win
dow in Albany Is hat at the Willamette
Packing Company's store. Il takes the
first premium. A rice driveway, with cube
sugar curbing. with a surrounding OF teas,
sago fountain, numerous flower beds
with blooming roses, etc, etc, ill the win.
| dow with beauty and at least imaginary
fragrance. Mueller & Garrett are display
ing great enterprise in the manner in which
they are pushing business.
ELECTRICITY. - Mr Walter Holman,
who recently resigned the management OF
the electric light works here, will 60 TO
Seattle, where he has more lucrative po.
|
ago; but has been waiting until some ono
could be obtained to take his place. Mr.
| Allen gave him a good testimonial as an
act OF appreciation for his excellent man
| agement OF the works Mr. GoH will be
associated with Mr. Allen hereafter In the
works.
WHAT ABouT.-A great many are won.
dering what all this Samoan trouble Is
about. As nearly as we can get at It It Is
this
J Malitoa,
King of Samoa,
Tamasese,
Wanted to be.
Germany also wanted him to be and in.
terfered contrary TO treaty stipulations,
hence the trouble.
RATHER DfsGRAcRPUL--For a wedding
party the gypsies yesterday behaved themselves
in very disgraceful manner. Even boy just
toddling was as drunk as a topper and the bride
couldn't walk straight. They returned TO their
camp on the Santiam, where they are said to
have sixteen bears. Living cheaply they have
accumulated quite little money. The whole
crowd intends taking steamer for San Fran
cisco.
A SPooK ScARE.-"Nervous and iimid
women and children in Eugene have been
excited for couple of weeks by reports of
mysterious parsonage seen in the fore
part of the night, principally In the west
ern part OF town. Some say II Is a man
dressed in ~omens clothing. but no relia-
bic information has been obtained. The
scare probably exists in the imaginations
of excitable people."-Eugene City GHard.
INCORPORATED CITIES Marion coun
ty has four incorporated cities, Salem, JEFF !
ferson. Silyerton and Gervais. Linn
county Is little ahead In this respect, the
following being those incorporated here:
Albany, Lebanon, Halsey, Harrisburg,
Brownsville, Scio and SodavilIe.
CELERY.-An Ashland man is going TO
raise seven acres of celery this year and
ship the same to Spokane Falls. 1t is
about time some Albany man got up
enough spunk to raise celery for the local
market.
In Two CoUNTIEs.--As will be seen by
our real estate column, a plat for Hobson's
addition to Mill City has been filed with
the recorder. 1t is proposed to do some
thing in Linn county also, and Mill City
will soon stretch out on both sides of the
Santiam. The new addition is called
South Mill City.
| WHEN.-In order to settle dispute a
subscriber wishes to know when the great
Portland fire occurred. It happened on
Saturday, the I'd day of August, 1873 1t
was an event that stirred the whole north
west. The Albany fire department was
sent for, but the FIRE was under contro! be
fore Its services were required.
AN OFFER.-Mr B Mahanna, the gen.
tleman who told the McMinnviIIe news
paper man that there isn't enough spirit in
ALBANY to stuff an old safdle I'VE are IN