Washington standard. [volume] (Olympia, Wash. Territory) 1860-1921, 1872-02-03

sent 5000 to Chicago Relief Fund.
Dexter is said to have trotted mile
in 2:l4, at private trial, recently.
Gov r. Dennis, Democrat, has been
elected United States Senator from Mary
land.
Tho National Labor Party expect %.
900 delegates to attend the Columbus Con-
| vention.
The smallpox prevails to such an ex-
tent in many parts of England as to excite
great alarm.
Secretary Robson, of the Navy De-
partment, has married Mrs. A. NJ. Lick, of
Washington.
In the United States there are $780,
OH persons over ten years of age who
cannot read and write.
-" The Dying Prince Hat" is among
the latest and funniest conceits of the Gin.
cinnati hat manufacturers.
Five thousand girls of Grand Rapids,
Michigan, bought copies of book teach.
ing the science Of Irritation.
An Illinois young woman cut four
loads of wood per day in order to raise
money to get " them turs."
james Gordon Bennett Jr., is spoken
of as the successor Of James Fisk, as Col.
onel of the Nineth Regiment.
"A white man named Robert Smith
and two colored men persisted from cold on
Frazier river not long since.
Tho Kentucky Senate has, by vote
of 20 to 10, passed the bill allowing colorcd
persons to testify in the Courts.
The ninth census reports give an az.
gregate of s9,2Gl,775,12l as the true
value of the farms Of the United States.
Girls are admitted to membership in
the Adelphian Literary Debating Society,
in Corvallis. Some of them hold office.
In one spot in burning Chicago eight
thousand stoves fused, and gunpowder is
being rcsortcd to in order to rend them
asunder.
A. A. Williams, Chief Engineer Of
the Portland Fire department, recommends
the Common Council of that city to intro.
duce the fire alarm telegraph system.
Tho largest single shipment of flour ever
sent from San Francisco to China. was
made on the 10Th. 1t consisted of 1912
tons, and was taken in the ship llafchlcss.
Chicago, within the next two years,
will want for building purposes alone, $780,
600 tons of iron She will need, during
the same time, S36,000,000 worth of lum-
Der.
The new Penitentiary at Salem will
require five miles of pipes to heat it and
supply it with water. 1t is expected to be
ready for occupancy about the first Of
April.
The Northern Pacific Railroad Com
pany has just closed contract with the
locomotive establishment of Baird & Co.,
of Philadelphia for fifty 6rst-class engines
for the road.
British ship builders have large lob
by at Washington charged to prevent, at
any cost, any legislation that will make it
possible for iron ships to be profitably built
in this country.
Clara Logan, who is connected with
the editorial staff of the Capital, has gone
West to give her lectures on "English
Hearts and Homes" which was received
with great favor in Washington.
Tho Central Pacific Company's losses
in California by recent storms were not less
than one million dollars, and were probably
much more. Other losses we're also large,
but corresponding benefits were very great.
Mrs Stephen A. Douglas Williams is
the leader Of society at Fort Leavcnwor,h,
where her present husband is in command,
and Mrs Dunn. a daughter of Senator
Morrill,, aids her in making frontier life en-.
durable.
Madame Regina Dial Gin, famous
surgeon Of Austria, having performed one
hundred and City successful operations in
the City Hospital at Trieste, was rewarded
by the municipal authorities with letter
of thanks and purse Of gold.
The New Orleans National RepybH
can says that Piuchback, the negro Lieu
tenant Governor of Louisiana, was par
doned out of the city workhouse by Gen.
eral Butler on condition of enlistiug in the
Federal army.
| The idea is advanced in France of
ceding to the Rothschilds and other bank
iers the monopoly of the tobacco trade in
that country for period of thirty years,
in consideration Of their Immediately fur
nishing funds to pay the German war in
demnity.
"A lady stepped on ex-senator Dolit.
ties feet, while getting into Wabash ave-
nue. stage. She blushingly begged the
gentleman's pardon, whercupon he said :
Miss, for bright sunny smile like that,
| am perfectly willing you should dance
the Boston dip on my favorite corns."
1t seems that the idea Of treating the
Grand Duke Alexis to buffalo hu.t on
the plains originated with the Indian chief
! Spotted Tail The chief invited Alexis,
through Gen. Sheridan, and asked for ten
days notice, SO that he might prepare his
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