Washington standard. [volume] (Olympia, Wash. Territory) 1860-1921, 1872-03-16
GATHERINGS BY THE wAYsIDE.

Portland has So counterfeit green.
backs; ly9a GU; for EN-.
The Good Templar Lodge at Van
couvcr has been revived
Russia has recently organized fifteen
thousand public schools
A sweet six,eener is the fastest com .
positor in California printing office.
The Episcopal Church of Oregon is
to have an orphan asylum at Milwaukee.
A Catholic National Temperance Con.
vention was held at Baltimore, February
22d.
California editors have formed an
association under the name of Bohemian
Club
Stockton has an ble-bodied beggar
VINO threatens to whip those who deny
him aims
Cinnamon enjoy monopoly of the
vegetable peddling business of Los An
gclcs, California.
The New Chicago post Office is to be
336 feet long by 2lO wide, and is to be a
very fine cdifcc.
AT Charleston, South Carolina, they
send persons to Jail for twenty days for
sleeping in church.
The women sun'ragcrs of California
have nominated Geo. w. Julian, Of In-
diana, for President.
"A movement is on foot to build
another Crystal Pa lace in New York, at a
cost Of ohout 81 00O O0O
The Republican National Convention
will be held in Philadelphia, on the first
Wednesday Of June, 1872.
-IIorseAesh, say the Paris papers, has
been discovered by medical men to be very
beneficial in cases Of chest disease.
-Catacazy is approved in his course in
the United States by his Government, and
Secretary Fish is severely criticised.
The Germans of San Francisco will
declare in favor of Carl Schurz aud the
Independent Republicans against Grant.
A dispatch from Java reports that
heavy gales prevailed throughout that Is.
land. The Glove crop has been destroyed.
An organized band of female forgers
in Illinois, has been made the subject of
counterfeit presentmcnts by the Grand
Jury.
1t is reported that Mrs Fairs counsel
will cndeavor to procure change ofvenue
to Sonoma county for the second trial Of
this famous case.
The report of the Chicago Relief
Committee shows that the sum contributed
throughout England reaches total Of
167, 900 pounds sterling.
"A shawl manufacturer of Philadelphia
lately spun, from single pound of Amer
lean WOOL a thread forty-scven thousand
yards, or nearly twenty miles.
Mrs. Fair will be defended on her
next trial by N. Green Curtis of Sacra-
mento, who is regarded as one of the best
criminal lawyers on the coast.
The world uses 250,000,0 900 lbs. of
tea each year, and 7lS,0O0,OOO lbs OF
coffee. China furnishes nearly all the tea,
aud Brazil over ne.half Of the coffee.
A party of Spirtualists is being
organized in San Francisco for the purpose
of establishing colony in Santa Barbara
county. Ihcy Will operate vi tuc pau
of the Oneida Communists.
III. Parker, the wcll-known realcstate
agent at Wala Walla, is under 81 500
bonds to appear and answer at the next
term of the District Court on charge Of
forgery and subornation Of perjury.
The town of Meadow Lake city, in
Nevada county, once a Aourishing village
of 5000 or 4 600 people, containing fine
stores and good hotels, is entirely deserted,
not soul being left to guard its loueli-
ness.
-Walla Walla county, W. T., has a
balance in her county treasury, over all
liabilities, of twenty.eight thousand dol
lars and has always been Democratic.
Trot out your Republican county that can
match it.