Washington standard. [volume] (Olympia, Wash. Territory) 1860-1921, 1870-03-12
GATHERINGS BY THE WAYSlDE.

Mrs. Stowe has gone to Florida.
Chicago school, boys carry pistols
The Cambeliites control fifteen COL
'e.eS
Virginia has lost $4,000 ne sroes since
the war.
Immigration societies are being organ
lied all over Mississippi.
The new Directory of London for
1870 is volume Of 200 pages.
Roasted turkey stuffed with boiled
chestnuts, is a fashionable dish in New
York.
The door of house at Cave City, Ky,
in the late terrible hurricane, Was blow II
twenty miles.
-Kossuth is writing his autobiography,
which is to be published in six languages
simultaneously.
New York has enough outcast child
rem to make a procession, in double file,
eleven miles long.
Calcutta, although ruled by Chris
tians, contains 24l Hindoo ten pies and
Mohammedan mosques.
Imprisonment for debt has been abol-
ished in England. The law went into cf-
feet on the list Of January.
Nine hundred and ninety-two persons
were killed in the streets of London last
year by horses and vehicles.
An English enthusiast is soliciting
funds for the exploration of Mount Ararat
with a view Of recovering relies Of the
Ark
A convention of pcanut-growcrs is to
be held at Wilmington, North Carolina,
to memorialize Congress for Il protective
tariff"
An Austrian has invented torpedo
which will shatter to pieces, by simple con-
tact, the strongestand largest ironclad that
can be built.
The Nile has risen this year to a
greater hight than on any other occasion
within living memory. The damage is
about 200 900 900 francs.
In the southern part Of the province
of Naples earthquakes have been so fire..
quent lately that the inhabitants of the
rural districts are flying northward.
The planters of Mississippi arc can
vassng the feasibility of establishing cot
ton factories on the cooperative princi.
pie in the principal towns of the State.
The Kansas Legislature adopted a
memorial to Congress recommending the
removal of the National Capital to the
Fort Leavcnworth Military Reservation.
President Grant, it is said, has sub
scribed five hundred dollars towards 8
newspaper, weekly, to be owned and con
Quoted by the colored men of Washington
The Salem Oil Company have unde,
contract for the season $500 acres of fax
The seed is of the Calcutta fax. 1t pro-
duced last year twcnty-four bushels to the
acre.
1T is stated that pupil of Baron lie
big has discovered some others which
when poured upon some chemical com
pounds. produce instantancously precou,
stones of all kinds.
-IIair-cloth skirts. to take the place Of
hoops. have recently been imported There
is founcc around the bottom in round
pats on all except the front breadth, and
the upper part of the back has rolls of the
material for a quarter of a yard, in imita
ton Of the hustle
-Presbyterianism has almost quad
rupled itself in Philadelphia since 1897
The twenty-nine churches then had Bar
members. The sixty-eight churches now
have 20, ll6.
Baltimore is excited at the evil deel |,
Of bohy-.na,chers, and the negroes ar,
Mortified by the repor, that, as the supply
of dead bodie, is scarce, hcartle-s gang,
of men occasionally seize dark men in the
streets on dark nights take them int
dark rooms, aud there savagely kill them
From the Sandwich Islands.