Washington standard. [volume] (Olympia, Wash. Territory) 1860-1921, 1870-08-20

Montreal is to have paper to advo-
cate annexation to the United States.
President Grant paid S32 900 for his
Long Branch cottage, with fwvatnre.
A church fair at New Orleans adver-
tises /" the coolest champaign punches"
Chick Scin Hong is the first Chinese
convert to Methodism in San Francisco.
In Western village COW of remark.
able trotting powers is training for race.
Black and gold maroon and light blue
are the most fashionable contrasts of color
this season.
Black bears are reported to be very
numerous and troublesome in Western
Wisconsin.
1t is reported that the Turkish Gov
eminent has contracted with Americans for
200 cannons.
"A one armed girl in Wisconsin does
all the house.work, washing included, for
large family.
A young gentleman, respectfully
connected in Lake county, Indiana, has
eloped with his aunt.
-IIildebrand, the Missouri outlaw, is
reported to be quietly engaged as farmer,
near Oak Bluffs, Ark.
A potato-peelng machine has been
invented in Europe which peels twelve
bushels Of potatoes per hour.
"A shower of lively little frogs an inch
long, fell recently in Union county, Ore
gon, during thunder storm.
A Mrs. Chamberlain delivered the
grafton at Lakeville, Dekota county, Min.
nesota on the Fourth of July.
Two women of the woman's rights
persuasion, have started saloon at Wells
vile, Ohio. 1t is obtaining big run of
custom.
The original Declaration Of Indepen-
dence, now in the patent office at Wash
ington, is nearly illesiblc from the fading
of the ink.
Mrs. Anna Cora Mowatt Richie, the
American authoress and actress, died at
London, England, in the 50th year of her
age, on the 10Th of last month
Mons. Papan, of the French Human
itarian Society, is hunting up location in
in Southwestern Missouri, for colony of
1000 French families.
There is good prospect of having
two colored members in the House of Rep
resentatives, one from North Carolina and
one from South Carolina.
The bark Berkshire ran into and sunk,
recently, on the east coast of England an
American vessel whose name could not be
ascertained. All on board were lost.
Weston, the pedestrian, is to walk
400 miles in five consecutive days, includ-
ing 112 miles in one day, to begin on No
vember 9TH, at the Empire Rink, in New
York.
AT Fort Washington, Nd, is a SOL
der in the SD year of his age, who has
seen sixty-ivc years of service in the Uni
ted States army and he proposes to re-
enlist.
The St. Crispans of North Adams,
Mass, have shown their malice by attack
ing, with volleys of stones, an American
employed to teach the Chinese our Ian.
guage.
The French republicans in San Fran.
cisco have subscribed 81 900 to the SAM.
tary Fund, which is directed to be equally
divided between the French and Prussian
soldiers.
An American woman named Lucy
Foster, has been graduated at the College
OF France, in the medical department.
which entities her to practice 10 any part
of France.
William H. Seward contemplates
visiting China. The Car of Russia has
rendered him the use of the palace of the
Imperial Legation at Pekin for residence
while there.
1t has been noticed at all the fashion.
able resorts this summer, says an Eastern
paper, that the ladies' toilets are much
more simple than they have been for many
previous years.
A young lady in Cass county, Indi-
ana, challenges any man in the State to a
plowing-match with her. She proposes a
two-horse team, each competitor to drive
the horses and hold the pillow.
"A new organization has been stortcd
in England, called the " Free Church of
England" 1t is modelled after the nlan
Of the Episcopal Church in the United
States, and claims to have for its special
object a move against Romauism and
Ritualism, which is regarded as very near
kin.
The Rev. Robert Collyer of Chicago
preached in the Unitarian Church in Wash.
ington. He created great sensation bv
denouncing Vice President Colfax SAVING
that the Vice President was hypocrite for
attacking polygamy in Utah while he
.sly,mpathized with adultery in New York.
This was in allusion to the Richardson af.
fair, ="