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The state rights democrat. [volume] (Albany, Linn County, Oregon) 1865-1900, 1891-10-02

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The state rights democrat. [volume] (Albany, Linn County, Oregon) 1865-1900, 1891-10-02

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The state rights democrat. [volume] (Albany, Linn County, Oregon) 1865-1900, 1891-10-02
sHERlFrs NOTICE OF TAX SALE

NOTICE IN hereby given that by virtue
OF warrant for the collection OF delin
quent taxes on tho aaseameht OF 1890 for
the county OF Linn and state of Oregon.
duly issued by the County Clerk of said
county, which warrant IN now In my hands
attac he'd 10 the list of unpaid and deiin
quent taxes for the year $500, in said Linn
county, aud not having been abIo aftor
dillgent search TO find any paraonal prop
orty within said county out OF which 70
make tho taxes hereinafter mentioned.
have levied upon the mortgages des
eribed IN tho list hereinafter sot forth ~
the property OF the person whose name
u set opposite each described mortgage mn
tho sasnc appears assessed On said delln
quent tax roll, and will on
Saturday. The I,ih dag OF October. 1905.
at the door of the county court house, In
Albany. Linn oou nty Oregon, ut tho hour
Of | o'clock p m Of said day. soil atpubiic
auction 10 tho highest bidder for cash In
hand on tho day Of sale, ali tho horoin
after described Mortgages 10 pay aud
satisfy tbs tax assessed against the owner
OF such mortgage, In said Linn county, for
tho year 1901, together with accruip q
costs aud expenses, which list In ~ follows
AMT or TA1 ms.
The Londonderry sifter. (South Londonderry, Vt.) 1883-19??, 1891-11-13

A pretty and interesting experiment,
which may be new to some, Is that by
which the growth of an oak plant can
be watched from its earliest stage.
Cut a circular piece Of card to tit tie
top of a hyacinth glass, so US to rest
upon the ledge and exclude the air.
Pierce O. hole through the center of the
card and pass through tia strong thread.
having a small piece of wood tied to
one end, which, resting transversoly on
the card, prevents its being drawn
through.
To the other end Of the thread ut.
tach an acorn, and, having half filed
the glass with water suspend la acorn
at a short distance FROM til. >ariace.
The glass must be kept iii :. warm
room. In n few days the steam which
has generated in the glass will hang
from the acorn in a large drop. Soon
the acorn will burst, and the root will
protrude and thrust itself into the
water; in a few days more a stem, will
shoot out at the other end, and rising
upward will press against the card, in
which hole must be made to allow II
to pass through.
From this stem small leaves will soon
sprout, and in the course of few
weeks the experimenter will be reward
ed by having sturdy little oak plant
several inches in height. Youths Com
panion.
The Londonderry sifter. (South Londonderry, Vt.) 1883-19??, 1891-11-13
Worlds Fair Notes.

Paraguay has decided to participate
in the Exposition. Barbados, French
Guiana, Ceylon and Corea have also
joined the list,
The upholsterers of Philadelphia
have applied for $4,000 square feet
of space in the Manufactures Build
ing, for a collective exhibit from their
several establishments.
The District of Columbia has de-
cided to ask Congress for an appro-
priation of $4,000 to enable it to
make creditable exhibit at the Fair.
Day and night shifts of men are
now worked ON all the Exposition
buildings.
The Department of Electricity is
making an effort to secure complete
collection of historical electrical APP
paratus, in order TO show the progress
of the science from early times.
Mexico has made Worlds Fair
appropriation of $4,000. This is
only preliminary, however, and it is
fully expected that the whole of the
$3.50, 900, which were asked for, and
perhaps more, will be voted.
Three women have been appointed
in Dutch Guiana to collect display
for the women's department, and in
Mexico and quite number of other
countries provisions for women's dis
plays are being made.
The women physicians, pharmacists
and dentists CT Illinois intend to pre-
pare an exhibit to be made in the H.
linois State building.
The Daughters of the American
Revolution have been granted 5000
square feet for an exhibit in the
Woman's Building. The organiza-
ton, of which Mrs. President Har-
rison is president, has ,000members.
The Londonderry sifter. (South Londonderry, Vt.) 1883-19??, 1891-11-13

This isn't Medina; what are you
getting off here for?
81 know it hain't Medina" replied
the young man as he came forward a
few steps, "but We will stop off here
and take the next train"
"But | thought you wanted me to
do you favor"
81 do, You jest keep right on that
train and git out of the State of Ohio
as soon as you can, and if | ever ketch
you within fifty miles of my house after
Pm married I'll thump you all over
the countyw
The Londonderry sifter. (South Londonderry, Vt.) 1883-19??, 1891-11-13
Inhaling Tar Fumes.

A man stood by one of the boiling
caldrons of tar used by the Broadway
PAYERS, He was thin, cadaverous and
of hectic cheek. Every now and then
he visibly choked with the rising fumes
of the tar. People looked at him curl
ously. He finally coughed rather more
violently than before, when workman
gruftiy suggested that he might move
AWAY If he did not like it. But he
didn't move for an hour.
That fellow comes here every day
to smell that tar" said boss. He's
got the consumption, and somebody
told him that the fumes of this tar are
good for it. He has inhaled about
twenty barrels now, and If he sticks to
II until Broadway is paved he'll be a
well man or dead don't know
which. New York Herald
The Londonderry sifter. (South Londonderry, Vt.) 1883-19??, 1891-11-13
Had tho Gold In Her shoes.

Three women were on Main street
horse car and We're about to change at
State street, when one of them sudden,
ly stopped down aud picked up some,
thing A policeman and one or two
other men were on the platform, but
they paid no particular attention to the
women.
She had spied five dollar gold piece
lying on the platform, and with consid,
cradle deSterity had picked up the
coin, lifted her dress and placed the
money in her shoe without detection.
When she seated herself in the other
car she told her companions OF her
good luck. They would not believe
her, and she started to prove it, but
could not reach the money. I'm not
going to take off my shoe here" said
she, but ~ quick as we get on board
the Rosedale will show you the gold
piece. bridgeport Conn., Post
The Londonderry sifter. (South Londonderry, Vt.) 1883-19??, 1891-11-13

The meaning of the evil eye, the
"Ophthalmos baskanos" of the Greeks,
the 'fascinare" of the Romans, was
probably far more than vulgar super
stition. We find traces of it in almost
every country, notably to this day
among the canny Scots who inhabit the
western isles of the sea, of "Ulva dark
and Colonsay," of Skye and the Heb
rides; and among the Turks, who dis
trust the evil eye of the stranger. But
in old classical days the power seems
chiefly to have been used for the pur-
pose of grievously affecting the live
stock of disagreeable neighbors.
So we find to this day in Ireland,
parts of Scotland and the west of Eng
land, where this belief is still prevalent.
Certainly, in some form or other, mes.
meric fascination by the eye has always
been known; but that any one person,
with no matter how evil an eye, should
be able to charm frightened animals to
any extent or number is ridiculous, and
not seriously to be entertained for a
moment. Chambers Journal.
The Londonderry sifter. (South Londonderry, Vt.) 1883-19??, 1891-11-13
Feelings of "A Coynrd
Oh, it's awful to be a coward !

Oh, it's awful to be coward
have wondered, if a man struck
ME, could return the blowa believe
not. believe should sneak off like
a whipped cur,
Luckily for me, up to now | think
have hidden the fact of my being Il
coward from all. | don't fancy that
even my most intimate friends have
the slightest idea Of my cowardly ma.
ture.
| dare say my stalwart form and
rather stern looking countemance have
saved Inc from many blow, for I've
mixed with ''all sorts and conditions Of
men" in my time, for outwartiiy | look
an ugly customer" to tackle. but
could they glance beneath the surface
and see my craven heart fancy |
should come rather badly OF. : IA
Coward" in London Tit Bits.
The Londonderry sifter. (South Londonderry, Vt.) 1883-19??, 1891-11-13
Sitter John. Editor.
Some Statistics OF the Liquor Tramc,
Catholic Review:

Catholic Review;
But few people have an adequate
conception of the magnitude of the
liquor traffic of the United States, or
of the vast amount expended yearly
in the consumption of Intoxicating
beverages. 1t seems incredible that
the aggregate sum paid by consumers
should exceed the total cost of bread
and meat required by our whole pop
ulation of sixty or sixty-tive millions,
yet such is the fact and the official
census is the authority for the state
ment. According to the statistics
collected by the Government officials
no less than nine hundred millions of
dollars go into the tills of the dealers
in all kinds of alcoholic drinks every
year, while the bakers and the butch
ers receive but eight hundred and
eight millions or ninety-two millions
less than is paid to the liquor trade.
A further comparison of the CEN
sus returns is no less suggestive.
Thus we find that the liquor dealer
outstrips the dry goods merchant, the
clothier and the boot and shoe maker
in the race, and comes out ahead with
difference of two hundred and fifty
seven million of dollars in his favor
over all these.
AS to the matter of education it is
hardly deserving of mention, for the
liquor interests exceeds it in the pro-
portion of over ten to one-that is,
the drinking public pays to the bar
keeper ten dollars to every one that
is paid to the school teacher.
But still more astounding is the
comparison between the expenditures
for spiritual and spirituous dispensa-
tions. Thus it appears that the total
salaries of the clergy of all denomi-
nations is less than twenty millions
of dollars, or at the rate of one dol
lar to every fifty-ive which goes into
the pockets of the liquor dealer.
The Londonderry sifter. (South Londonderry, Vt.) 1883-19??, 1891-11-13
THE oeLlTERATlNa FleNp.

Randiwork of an Ever Present Charao-
ter In Every Public Highway,
The obliterating fiend, like the poor
Is always witt, u.s.
We do not, OF course, mean the pos
tai authorities of the Russian empire,
who obliterate in all publications enter
ing the kingdom every description of
matter obnoxious TO the car and his
nation.
We refer to the man or the boy
(most frequently the latter who the
moment his eye catches the sight OF
printing is seized with an Irresistible de.
sire to change the meaning originally
intended.
On private property may often be
seen the legend, mo bills allowed
here" but after passing visit of the
fiend the warning to the bill sticker as
sumes the form of caution to the
medical profession regarding an i'm.
aginary patient, for does it not read,
mo pills allowed herep
And, again, the familiar placard, mo
smoking allowed" usually exhibited in
public buildings, appears, after the
first word has been erased, as well
come invitation to indulge in Whit.
But we know better, SO we just smile
and say he's been at it again. When
he has occasion to travel by rail the
confinement seems imprisonment to
him, and to enliven the tedium he
forthwith sets his ingenuity a-going.
Staring him In the face is the rail
way company's beseeching apx.sd that
passengers are requested not to put
their feet on the seats, and it is not
long till he finds comfort in removing
the Objectionable little word mot"
Quite on par with this is the auda-
cious notice to be seen In one of the
Glasgow and Southwestern railway car
rlages running out of Glasgow, on
which appeared, Passengers are par
ticularly requested to put their feet on
the cushions and eat the carriages"
Needless to add, the company asked
the public to forbear putting their feet
on the cushions or seats of the carriages.
The name of the neigbboring line af-
fords tempting morsel to the habitual
obliterator, as witness the heading in
their coaches changed from Gale.
DOMAIN railway" to ALE on a railway"
The fiend, be he ever so clever with his
pencil or knife, seldom succeeds in hay
ing his work passed off as genuine, al
though there is one case in which a
poor foreigner is said to have suffered.
A Frenchman, newly arrived in the
metropolis, found himself on a particu-
larly wet morning compelled to patron
ize one of the circle trains of the Metro.
politan railway in order to pay visit.
He was about to alight at his station
when, looking above the carriage door,
he was struck with what appeared to
him to be the friendly interest the CON-
wany took in its passengers. He read
and reread the words, "Wait till the
rain stops" and passed his destination |
several times before attempting to dis
regard the warning and venture out,
never for moment imagining that the
erasing of the letter 1T" had been the !
cause of making him lose his time
London Tit Bits.
The Londonderry sifter. (South Londonderry, Vt.) 1883-19??, 1891-11-13
CURIOUS CoRoNERS' VERplCTS.

Recorded Results of Some Very mark
able English Jury Sittings.
Some of the coroners' verdicts in the
country of fifty and sixty years ago IRE
very curious. The following are the
rauses assigned for the death Of the
parties:
"She came to her death by strangu
lation in testimony we have sit onr
hands and seal the day above wroten. "
paul Burns came to his death by n
mule running away with wagon and
being thrown therefrom."
"By taking with his own hands an
overdose of morphine"
From causes unknown to the jury
and having no medical attendance"
Game to his death from national
causes"
"An inquisition holden upon the
body of John Brown, there lying dead
by the jurors whose names are hereto
subscribed, who upon THERE oath do
say that he came to his death in the
following manner, by falling off the
plank bridge accidental while trying to
cross the stream and was drowned"
"Said child, aged one day old, came
to her death from spasms, said child
having been found by the witness in a
trunk, under very suspicious circum-
stances"
1.-THE joueres on thare ouatho do say
that he come to his deth by old age,
as tina could not see ennything else the
matter"
Come to his death from the follow
ing causes-to wit, from some student
cause to the juorers unknown"
1.-The said deceased being an orphan,
father and mother being both dead"
From an overdose of gin admins
tered by his own hand"
Disability caused by lunacy."
"Being run over by two coal trucks
while detached from the engine"
Come to his death by tender No. 2
jumping the track, on which he was
riding, either jumping or falling off and
engine running over him which was an
accident and no fault of the engineer
of said engine"
"She come to her death by the light
en- stricken her."
From hart deseize"
Come to his death in the following
manner to wit: he was born dead"
From excessive drinking and laying
out in the SUM-"
From the hands of some person or
persons to the jury unknown and after
ward placed on the track and got run
over by incoming train"
Congestion of the brain an appli-
cote fitze."
The body was SO mangled and mutt
late that they could not tell ennything
about it, but that think it was put in
the sisterne by some unknown person
or persons"
"Diseas of the hart and applexity
fitze."
"Calded on left side by kittley of hot
water burning over on hir left side and
immegitely causing her death"
From the effect of injuries received
by her close accidental taking fire"
From exposier. "-London Tit Bits
The Londonderry sifter. (South Londonderry, Vt.) 1883-19??, 1891-11-13
Impossible to TRANSPORT Mo,ouitoes

From the method of life of the mos
quito, especially in its early stages, it is
clear that il would be next to impossi-
BILE to transport them accidentally, ex-
cept as perfect insects, from one coun-
try to another across large tracts of
ocean, and the reports that are some-
times spread of mosquitoes appearing
in hotels in England frequented by
Americans need to be received with
great caution. Probably, in most in
stances, investigation would show that
they were simply English gnats rather
more virulent than usual, which had
been propagated in some neighboring
cistern or pond. knowledge.
The Londonderry sifter. (South Londonderry, Vt.) 1883-19??, 1891-11-13
A Grewsome Bit of Office Adornmen


A novelty in Office adornment is a
deodand--a weapon with which human
life has been taken-yet such is the
ornament which decoratcs the private
Office Of Charles LIE Barber, one of the
younger criminal lawyers of this city.
The deodand is a broken handled
razor, upon the blade of which is the
blood of the victim in whose throat
the keen blade was buried again and
again. Within the neat frame which
incloses tho blood stained razor is a
photograph of an Italian man and
woman. Below the photograph is the
legend, John Aguglio, tried for mur.
der, first degree, Oyer and Terminer,
April, 1889. Verdict, not guilty"
The novel piece of bric-a-brac has
attracted attention, and it is likely that
framed deodands will soon become
common sight in the Offices of criminal
lawyers. York Telegram.
The Londonderry sifter. (South Londonderry, Vt.) 1883-19??, 1891-11-13
Wanted a Favor.

A traveller Tor a New York dry
goods house was in the smoking-car of
train on an Ohio railroad when a
horny-handed young farmer came in
for smoke and sat down beside him..
The young man felt and looked happy,
and pretty soon he remarked:
81 heard some one saying you was
from New York"
eyes"
Drummer, amt your
EYES,"
"Bin around a good deal, l 'spose p
"Well, I've been travelling for fifteen
years."
"Shoo! You must have seen heap.
Say! I've got a sort of favor to ask of
you"
"Wellw
1'm engaged to gal in the next
car. Pm goin' with her down to Me-
dina. She's the all-fredest purtiest gal
in four counties, and | know she loves
me, butt
"But what?
"4ou know Teller is allus sort O
uneasy about his gal till he marries
her. She purtends that she wouldn't
even look at the President of the Uni
ted States if he was single man, but
L dunno. You can't be sure of these
women"
''No; you can't"
"May be purtendin' to love you like
house afre and yet be plannin' to
drop you for the first better-lookin' fel-
Ter who comes along. She's in the next
car and I'd kinder like to try her.
I'm purity sure she's all right but I'd
like to know jest how she'd act if you
went in and sat down beside her. Il
know it's askin' big favor of you,
but
'Oh, Pm perfectly willing to accom-
modate YOU" interrupted the traveller,
but you must promise to abide the
consequences"
"How~
"Why, if she seems to take to me
you mustn't get mad and raise a row.
am only trying to accommodate you,
you know"
"Dye think she'll take to your
"Why, | can't say. She's sitting in
a seat alone. I'll take my grip and
walk into the car and sit right down be-
side her."
eyes"
"Then Pll speak about the weather
the scenery-ask where she is going, !
and SO on, and the chances are that in
about ten minutes we'll be talking awav
like two old friends"
"Humph! 1t took me three months
afore dared ask if her ma was wellw
Then I'll gradually lead up to the
subject of my being widower," con-
tinued the traveller. "Pll remark how
lonely / am, and how I'm thinking of
again, and how my second
wife will have sealskin sacque, dia-
nond earrings and horse and car
rage. Ifyou come in and find me
holding her hand you mustn't fly mad
md pitch into me-"
"Goin' to talk sealskin sacoue to her.
shY'
Eyes"
"And diamond earrings"
"Yes."
"And tell her she can have regular
Brussels carpet, stuffed chairs and a
hired gal?'
Certainly"
"You wait minitp'
He got up and left the car. Just
hen the whistle blew for station and
he train soon stopped. The traveller
ooked out of the window and saw the
Toung man and his girl getting off with
Is much alacrity as if there had been
collision expected. He put out his
lead and called.
The Londonderry sifter. (South Londonderry, Vt.) 1883-19??, 1891-11-13
Vermont News.


cess from November "a to 20.
The girls of the Brandon higt
school intend to form a company fol
military drill. Guns have already
been got.
John Degarmo of Forestdale drew
load of lumber to the Brandon sta
ton the other day that measured 343t
feet.
A bad floor let 80 COWS belonging
to William Gleason of McIndoes
Falls down through recently. Sever
al legs were broken, but doctors Sc
them and none of the COWS will bt
lost.
George W. Kellogg of West Fer.
risburgh, who says that his bull-pout
fishing this fall will net him at least
$500, has been appointed keeper of
the new light at Fort Cassin, the
junction of Otter creek and Lake
Champlain.
An inmate from the soldiers home
hospital escaped the other evening
lightly clad, but Maj. Coffey, follow
ed by about rs of the old soldiers.
soon brought him to warm room
again. He will probably soon be
sent to the Brattleboro asylum for a
time.-Bennington Banner.
During next month there will be on
exhibition at the dairy department of
the agricultural college recently in
vented machine which takes the cream
from the separator and delivers butter
and buttermilk. A stream of whole
milk runs at the top while skim milk,
butter and buttermilk are taken out
at different places on the way down.
A mail vote for the Vermont diyis-
ion officers of the League of Ameri
can Wheelmen is now being taken.
Brattleboro has the largest number
OF league members of any town in the
state. 1t is expected that the Brat
tleboro hoys will cast their votes for
F. A. Hubbard for chief consul, F..
ID. Whitney for secretary and treas
urer, John G.. Norton of St. Albans
for vice consul, and J. Dana Culver
of Fair Haven for representative
Fair Haven Era.
The Springfield Republican has
this Brattleboro item: "Capt. r. W.
Hoyts report to the inspector general
OF the army on the efficiency of the
several state organizations which, were
encamped at Bennington Classics the
light battery, companies E. and |, as
very good, and the other companies
as from good to fair. He describes
the discipline in camp as very good,
while the officers and men were oh
servant of military courtesies and
obeyed cheerfully and intelligently
all orders and instructions. He also
says that the national guard is too
small"
An installment of Is men and 2OI
women was removed to Waterbury
on Tuesday, completing the transfers
which are to be made from the Yer
mont asylum to the new state ASYLUM
until that institution is enlarged. DR..
w. L. Patch, who has been the Sec
ond assistant physician at the asylum
for two years past, has made arrange
ments to leave at the end of this
month. He will be succeeded by DR..
W. N. Thompson, who temporarily
filled that position during the winter
OF l8o9-90, and who has since been
connected with the asylum at Taun-
ton, Mass.
The Londonderry sifter. (South Londonderry, Vt.) 1883-19??, 1891-11-13
A bad Place for Travellers.

1t is rarely that nybody ventures
into the interior of Bornco, because
there the head hu:.rin. natives
prowl Among them each man is re.
quired to have secured head before
he is permitted to marry. and on this
account the young galtlciuen slvaycs
are continually looking about for sor,e-
body to kill. This makes travelling
disagreeable. Washington Star.
The Londonderry sifter. (South Londonderry, Vt.) 1883-19??, 1891-11-13

Both ar and water abound in microbes.
or germs of direase, ready to infect the
debilitated system. To impart that
strength and vigor necessary to resist the
effect of these pernicious atoms, no tonic
blood-purifier equals Ayers Sarsapa-
rilla.