Washington standard. [volume] (Olympia, Wash. Territory) 1860-1921, 1870-08-27
GATHERINGS by THE WAYsIDE.

Oil wells lately discovered in Wyo-
ming Territory are yielding we'll
"A practical man wants to make Ia
ger beer vaul. Of Mammoth Carve.
Senator Conklins is laboring to have
W. II. Seward nominated for Governor of
New York.
About $4,000 has been raised to-
ward the Stonewall jackson monument
fuud
! The Indian agencies arc to be again
placed under the control Of the Interior
Department.
Orders have been received at St. lou.
+ is to purchase $4,000 tons of hay for the
French army.
Two Cinnamon have been received as
members Of the First Congregational
Church of Oakland
1t is said that trichina have been
discovered in the flesh of deer shot in their
native wilds in Oregon.
A S40O pair of pups arrived in Port
land from England the other day, sent to
an Engishman Of that city.
Brick tea is common Russian Lever-
age. 1t is made Of the dust of Il plant
pressed in the form of bricks.
The Editorial Party now visiting this
coast numbers 2l-l7 gentlemen and 4.
ladies-connccted with the press.
1t has cost sGS, 900 for flower pots
Irvine and repairing the green house be-
longing to the White House, last year.
A novelty for shoes is the metallic
heel, which is screwed on. and can be
transferred from one pair of shoes to anoh-
err.
The mail will soon be carried by rail
road from Portland to Aurora, Oregon,
and thence connect with the stage for Sac
ramento.
Paper napkins for table use have Just
been introduced. They answer every pur
pose for one using Three of them cost
enc cent.
The California Farmer, after careful
summing up, says the harvest of 1870 is
the best crop of cereals ever raised in
California.
within the past thirty years ten thous-
and persons have been killed by lightning
Only one hundred and forty-three of these
persons arc females.
A severe hailstorm visi cd Terrc
llautc, Indiana. on Monday evening. The
hai'stoncs are reported to have been six
inches in circumference.
A disease has appeared among the
cattle Of California which is pronounced
dangerous to human life. 1t has also de-
veloped itself in hogs.
The Prohbitionists of Massachusetts
have decided, in convention to organize an
Independent political party and have nom
mated Wendell Phillips for Governor.
In one day, lately. six tons of ripe Fl rs
were thrown into the bay at San Francisco.
the supply being so much in excess of the
demand. They will not bear, when ripe
long shipment.
JEFF Standifcr, well known hunter
and miner in Idaho aud Montana. and
twelve comrades, were recently murdered
BY Indians while prospecting in the Wind
river mountains
The Mormons have turned their a,tcn.
ton to the production Of gloves that rival
those of Paris in dclicacy aud workman.
ship. The gloves are made from genuine
kid, raised in the vicinity of Sal, Lake.
1t is rumorcd in San Francisco that
fllhustering expedition is being fitted out
there to capture and plumber the French
colonies Of Tahiti and new CALEDONIA The
French colony there is preparing for the
emergency.
The impending war is affecting British
commerce severely. There are already
twenty steamers laii up at SInlcrl1ni
which have been in the habi, of trad n.
between that harbor ani other North ter
man ports.
There are said 10 he 2.l22 envy
stores aud hon>e, in san Frsnci>c,. an
$50 900 men and women wiilin. 10 work
aud unable To- get IL The Bay City /,
passing through 4 season of very grea,
financial distress, and her population j.
rapidly depicting.
Illinois papers speak quite dc~r7r.
incly Of the crop prospects 81 thsi e..
The intense heat and the scani Ia
rain have caused the grain to shrink 3D..
berry. Wheat promises TO be E..h rs
aud inferior in quality; hay will tie scare
aud high and potatoes will be short GRIP
A little insect just large enlu.h to
be diseerned by the naked eye. i. annoy
In the people 10 the agricultural districts
Of Southern Illinois. Ii makes il, appear
anee in the middle Of the day. and Ike the
air enters every opening and pervades al
space. 1t Is constantly wriggling like
,adpole, and bites with the energy of n flea
IL covers the clothing worms into the hair.
spreads into the v;c,ual- in dwellings. AMI
there i no escape from it. One may brush
and fight and scratch all day. aud for every
one DESTROYED hundred will come to its
funeral i, is certainly one Of the plaques
of Egypt.
IL Flour was selling in San Francisco