The state rights democrat. [volume] (Albany, Linn County, Oregon) 1865-1900, 1894-11-09
THURSDAY

THANKSGIVING CoMINa.-President
Cleveland gets ahead of Gov Pennoyer
this year and appoints Thanksgiving on
the fifth Thursday OF November. What
will Sylvester do? Here is the procla-
nation. The American people should
gratefully reader thanksgiving and
praise to the supreme ruler OF the uni
verse, who has watched over them with
klndness and fostering care during the
wear that has passed they should also
with humility and faith supplicate the
father of all mercy for continued bless
ings according to their needs, and they
should, by deeds Of charity, seek the
favor OF the giver OF every good and per-
feet gift.
Therefore, 1 Grover Cleveland, presi-
| dent Of the United Sta es, do hereby APP
point and set apart Thursday, the Goth
day OF November, as a day OF thanks
giving and prayer to be kept and OBJ
served by all the people of the land.
An OREGON TYPE WRITER Matthias
Jensen, of Astoria, has just finished the
model OF a new typewriting machine
The invention is made on nearly the
same principle as the old Remington,
with rollers to earTs and hold the paper
and an inkstrap to ink the types. 1t is
operated by an ordinary penholder, held
in the ordinary way, and the characters
representing the types are marked on q
plate so closely together that a "poin-
ter" to which the penholder is joined,
can be conveniently placed in any letter
by the simple otion Of the fingers. while
the hand itself is at rest on flxed plate.
The pointer" is so connected to type
whe BY means OF springs and levers,
hat when laced sp. roximately near 10
any character on the plate a correspond
ing type on the wheel will be in proper
position to be accurately copied on The
paper by slight downward pressure on
the penholder. The machine is a rare
combination of strength. simplicity and
lightn.ss, and the il vrutor says can be
sold at a profit Tor $40. 1t will weigh
less than eight pounds and is not more
than one-quarter the size Of an ordinary
typswriting machine.
THE SURVEYING FARTY.,-The party OF
surveyors engaged in making survey Of
the Willamette river preliminary TO ex-
tensiye improvements are now working
a short distance abovs Corvallis. The
government has appropriated Sl3, 900 for
this work. and doubtless they will man
age to consume the bulk OF it, IL not ALL
AT the rate they are going It will take
all winter 10 get to Portland. The dis
tance by river to Portland from this city
is l76 miles.-Eugene Register. The
survey is considerable Of farce, as the
river men know completely jest where
improvements are needed to make the
river navigable, and instead of the survey
the Improvements should have been
made at once.
A WRErcHED SroRY.-The Corvallis
Times tells the following actual exper-
fence: There is $3.50 mortgage on a
certain Corvallis home and it falls due in
February. The Indebtedness was incur.
worthless sou Tbs money went through
his hands for whiskey, caTousals and es-
capades that kept his mother in q state
OF constant worry and anxiety. Two
years ago he Strengthened up and mar
ried one OF the fairest young girls in the
county, but soon lapssd back into his
shameless habits By and by the vaga- |
bond became a father and six months |
ago be skipped cut. leaving wife and |
child to the care OF the world, and his |
old mother 10 worry and fret over the |
debt HE wretched career had created. |
Where he is now, nobody knows, and I
few care. II there is no hell there il |
need Tor one, a place into |
which, headlong, this curse upon his |
family might be pitched.
SToPPkD Hrs PAPER.- An old sub
scriber came to this Office few days ago
and with some i'll humor stopped his |
paper" because the East oregonian ad- |
vocated the repeal OF all laws for the col |
lection Of debts. II Is hardly necessary TO |
say that this subscriber is q money-.ender |
and looks upon the repeal Of the collection |
laws as a diseontinuapce of the special |
privileges which they give him.-Pen-
dle,on g o. 1t does make person sort Of |
mad to see paper advocate so untenable |
a proposition continually; but the sensible |
man Is not going to jump out OF his boots |
every time be sees an item taht doecn't |
suit him.
The Pendleton E o at least 10 original.
Here is what it says about recent event:
The express company which was robbed |
some time ago at The Dallee viii get all /
Of its money back and the robbers viii |
be punished, but the people who are
robbed daily by the express company
will not recover one cent OF their money |
and not one of the guilty will be brought
to justice.
B S Pague said the weather would be
clear yesterday and i. rained. then he
said 1t would probably rain today, and it
has been clear and delightful weather.
A little ingenuity will enable person to
tell what the weather is going TO be from
Mr. Pagues forecasts