Washington standard. [volume] (Olympia, Wash. Territory) 1860-1921, 1870-07-02
GATHERINGS BY The WAYSfDE.

sidewalks or street lamps.
The King of Sweden intends to make
journey around the world
Two hundred negroes are said to be
studying for the Priesthood.
Thirty per cent of the population of
France can neither read nor write.
The famous Red Stocking Base. Ball
Club has been beaten at Cincinnati.
"A carload of green peas, from Cali
fornia is the latest novelty in Chicago.
A negro census taker has been ap-
pointed in the Eight Ward, New York.
A large shipment of goats has been
made from near Antioch, to San Francisco
-Four hundred new post offices were
opened in the United States on the LIST
inst.
The Spiritists Of Los Angeles, Cal,
have formed society under the laws Of
the State.
The total valuation of property in Or
egon, for 1870, is not quite twenty-seven
millions.
OF the British poets, Byron is the
most popular in Germany, and Tom Moore
in France.
Ship Island, Miss, is about to be
abandoned by the Government as mill
tary post.
The Philadelphia City Council has
appropriated $4,000 for the public baths
in that city.
--Twothrds of the expert pickpockets
in New York City arc girls under twenty
years of age.
The public institutions in London
suspended business on hearing of the
death of Dickens.
The Salt Lake Telegraph advises the
people Of Utah to raise cattle for the San
Francisco market.
1T is reported that ex- President John
son is about to so to Europe, intending to
be absent six months.
The next meeting of the Grand Lodge
Of Good Templars of the United States
will be held at Vallejo.
A large number of merchants, with
their families, will soon leave London for a
visit to San Francisco.
1T is said that King Victor Emanuel
is the only Catholic Monarch in favor of
the infallibility dogma.
Philadelphia averages eighteen mar
riages, forty deaths and forty.eight births
a day throughout the year.
The number Of working women in
Paris is three hundred thousand, who
average thirty cents day.
Cyrus W. Field reports 50 submarine
telegraph cables now in operation, with a
total length Of %, 900 miles.
jenny Lind is so embarrassed in her
pccuniary affairs that she thinks of open
ing a singing school in Paris.
The President has appointed JAS. i.
Delford, (colored) of Indiana, Associate
Justice of the Supreme Court.
The National Typographical Union
has elected a woman rs secretary Of that
organization for the current year.
A Miss Garrison is reading temper.
ance lectures, singing hymns, etc, in the
liquor saloons and public resorts at Gilroy,
Cal
The Democratic State Convention met
at Charleston, West Virginia, on the Sth
inst, and nominated John j. jacobs for
Governor.
One great cause Of rheumatism and
neuralgia affections in this country is said
to be the evaporation from stoves aud
cooking utensils.
General Rust, formerly member of
Congress from Arkansas, aftcrward
Brigadier General in the confederate army,
died on the 9Th ult.
"A number billiard tables, which were
sent to Victoria for use during the flush
Fraser river times, have been recently
sent back to San Francisco for sale.
Miss Rye, who brought seventy poor
English girls to Canada last October, has
found good homes for all of them, and is
going back to England for hundred more.
-Episcopalians are more numerous in
New York than in any other State in the
Union. Pennsylvania comes next, with
$4,000 communicates, and Connecticut
next with 10000.
Vanderbilt is said to be distributing his
property to his heirs. After the manner
OF JOhn jacob Astor, he has lately trans
ferred $5,OOO,000 to one of his children
for the nominal consideration of 81.
On the adjournment of the Iowa Leg.
islature, the enthusiastic members of the
House presented Miss Mary Il. Spencer,
Engrossing Clerk, with an elegant silver
tea-set, aud her little speech on the occa-
sion was received with . q fury oecheers."
The weather telegraphs of Europe
now predict the condition Of the weather
from England to Sicily far many hours
beforehand, with perfect regularity. The
losses thus avertcd may be calculated at
high figure. The Paris aud London pa
pers publish the kilograms as carefully as
they do Quotations on Change
The wcnch, Mrs. Senator Revels, ia q