Washington standard. [volume] (Olympia, Wash. Territory) 1860-1921, 1870-09-10
GATHERINGS BY THE WAYSIDE.

"A wo0lcn mill Is 10 DC erected IN
Walla Walla valley, w. 4.
Anna Dickinson is scollins in Cali
fornia at hundred dollars scold
The farmers of Monterey county this
year have adopted the plan Of helping
each other in harvest Instead of hiring
help as Formerly.
The sugar beet factory, at San Lean
dro is nearly completed, and will be ready
to commence operations by the time the
crop is harvested.
The Ottawa City Council having
500, 900 lying idle in the Banks at Ottawa
must indeed be blessed with honest aud
economical Fathers.
-Fayc,tc McMullen, formerly Governor
Of Washington Territory. and an cx Con
fcderate, is an Independent candidatc for
Congress in the Wy,he District, Virginia.
A chap who went to live in Minnesota
has got back cursing the climate there
lie says "it's winter nine months in the
year and the b,lancc Of the time it's very
late in the fall
Three Of the oldest and most promi.
ncnt editors of the United States are in
declining health, and not expected to live
long-Horacc Greeley, James Gordon
Hcnuct and Thurlow Weed.
The renowned Washoc Tool Company
Of New York has received orders from the
prussian government for million dollars
worth of picks and spades for use in build.
iug forti6catious. The order will be filed
Immediately.
Horace Grcely prints tho New York
Tribuac, containing his high protective
tariff articles, on paper imported from
Belgium because it is cheaper by two cents
pcr pound than that manufactured in tho
United States.
"A st. Joseph City Councilman is re.
ported to have delivered the following
speech at a late meeting Of the council !:
"Mr. Mayor and gentlemen Of the council,
let US put our heads together and make Il
wooden pavement"
The German ladies Of San Francisco
held meeting in the rooms Of the San
Francisco Vercin, for the purpose Of form-
ing themselves into a committee to get up
a grand concert at the Pavilion, for the
benefit of the Prussian wounded soldiers.
The concert win be grand affair aud last
three days.
Grant has appointed follow at Wash
ington as Associate Judge Of the Supreme
Court who was never admitted to the bar,
except the whiskey bar. There is row
among the lawyers about it. But Grant
naturally thinks that if he can be Presi-
dent, any other Ieafer may be judge. This
is what the Day Book says.
The Generals engaged in the present
war are for the most part remarkable for
great nge. Marshal Mcmahon the Gener
al.in.C Chief Of the French army, is sixty.
two; Moltke, the Commander.in. Chief Of
the Prussians is seventy. All the French
Generals are old men, the youngest Of
them, Bazaiue, being over sixty.
France has, in some respects, one of
the most formidable war vessels ever con.
structed. The Dunderburg was built for
tho United States Navy, but sold to the
French Government three years ago for
$2,OOO,O0O. She is an immense ironclad
ram, displacing 1000 tons Of water and
has the largest deck surface of any war
vessel in the world. As seagoing vessel
she is a Blxnder burg. She is moored at
Brest.
"A correspondent Of the Kansas City
Times, writing from Salt Lake, under date
Of August 1O, 1870, says Of the Mormon
Temple:
""This morning examined the Taber.
nacle aud Temple-the former $50 by 250
feet, with an immense dome covering the
entire structure, and with seats for IA, 600
people in one room, without pillars. The
roof is on the principle Of truss bridge
at ono end is the organ, 40 feet high
costing $3.50, ,00O-by far the largest in the
country and / suppose in the world"