Washington standard. [volume] (Olympia, Wash. Territory) 1860-1921, 1872-02-24
GATHERINGS BY THE WAysJnE.

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! GATHERINGS BY THE WAZsIDE.
peer Lodge is now the capital Of Mon.
tana.
Vancouver is laying down iron water
mains.
brigham Iouny's health is ranidly
falling.
Connecticut has canary bird that
waltzns.
A Horticultural Society has been
organized at Victoria.
- Peanut parties" are Il fashionable
dissipation in Georgia.
Over six billion pins are used in the
United States each year.
-E-gs are retailing a. twenty cents per
dozen at Albany Oregon.
Women edit five daily and fourteen
weekly papers in Germany.
An old lady of seventy is the chaplain
Of the Kansas State Prison.
Small rox is still on the increase in
New York city aud Brooklyn.
Ten million gallons of schnarps"
arc annually made in Sclicdam.
The Concrcgationalists have two hum
drcd places of worship in London.
--Onc-thirl Of the present senior class
in Yale will study for the ministry.
The corner stone of the new City Hall
at San Francisco, was laid last Thursday
The next meeting Of the Evangelical
Alliance is to be held in New York in 1878
Tho cclorcd people have dancing
club i'll Portland, numbering some thirty.
The city council Of Springfield, H.,
elected Mrs s. j. Williams, city physician
There are two hundred and seventy
one members Of the Portland Tire Depart
ment.
There are about 700 hands employed
on the Northern Pacific Railroad in this
Territory.
Some of the Base ball Clubs are said
to contemplate an Eruption into England
next season.
A check for 1921 from Honckonc.
completes the circuit of the worlds charity
for Chicago.
The latest style Of wedding cards have
the ages OF the contracting parties engraved
in one corner.
The Episcopaians in Ireland have
gained u membership Of 1906! in the
last ten years.
Beck, of Kentucky, has introduced
bill to allow half custom duties to be pail
in grccnbacks.
--Onc hundred and sixty dead Chinese
have been cxhumed at Victoria for cxpor
tation to China.
The statistics of the Ohio State Con.
vcnton show that there are 20,62G Bap.
fists in the State.
Tho President has appointed Say!cs
J. Bowen, OK Mayor of Washington, Min
istcr to Ecuador.
California Governor receives the larg
est salary of any Executive in the Union,
and spends more.
The people at Greeley, Colorado, elect
their postmaster by ballot and then get the
President to appoint him.
During the year 1871 eighteen min.
listers Of the Baptist church declared in
favor of open communion.
The journcymen plastcrcrs of Portland
have declared for eight hours as days
work, after the lst OF April next.
There has been quite revival in the
Congregational Church in Washington
city. Its present membership is $50.
Tho much-talkcd.of union between
the Bapt,ts and Congrc, ,ationalsts of
England seems likely to be consummated.
The number of ministers in all branch
es of the Lutheran church in America is
2,l75, gain Of 100 during the past year
Montana is experiencing the severes.
Territory. Wood in many localities is $50
a cord.
1t is reported that morc than 5000
head of cattle have persisted in the cold
and snow, on the Laramie Plains in Wy.
oming.
Ben. Holiday, Jr, has purchased
property in Oregon City upon which he
proposes to erect large barrel and tub
factory.
Mrs. Sarah J. Hale is still, in her
8ith year, at work on the Lalys Book,
with which she has been associated during
half of her life.
Tho Northern Pacific Railroad Com
pany now has 575 miles of finished track.
Contracts are let for the construction of
G35 more, to be finished by the close Of
1872.
In the late municipal election at Salt
Lake, the whole Mormon ticket was elected.
Under woman suffrage crowd of Mormon
women. and girls voted in the early part Of
the day
"A World special from Tallahassee,
Fla, says Gov. Reed has been impeachcd
aud that Day, of Florida, Qaepublican) has