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Washington standard. [volume] (Olympia, Wash. Territory) 1860-1921, 1872-12-28
WASHINGTON TERRITORY, SATURDAY MORNING. DECEMBER @ 1872
Growth Of Olympia and Tumwatsrr IN 1879

Growth Of Olympia and Tumwater in 1879.
We copy from the Pacific Tribune the
following excellent article, showing
the progress made by this place and
Tumwater, in the erection of new build
ings, the past year:
From time to time we have atirded
to the improvements in progress in our
midst and vicinity, without detailing in
any instance the growth of Olympia for
a stated period. This we propose to do
now. We have been at some pains to
procure complete list of oil the build
ings erected in Olympia during the year
1872, with the names of the proprietors
or builders, and exhibit the result in
the table below. This showing is in
the highest degree gratifying, and can
not fail to surprise some of our citizens,
who have not realized the rate at which
our city has grown. Here is the list:
Washington standard. [volume] (Olympia, Wash. Territory) 1860-1921, 1872-12-28

While number of the above build
ings cost three or four thousand dollars
each, the average cost of all is about
one thousand dollars each; thus making
the entire sum expended in improve
ments during the year not far from
$50, 1000. Several Of the buildings emu
merated are yet in course of erection,
but will be nearly or quite finished be-
fore the close of the year.
To the foregoing we append list Of
the buildings erected during the same
period in the thriving town Of
Washington standard. [volume] (Olympia, Wash. Territory) 1860-1921, 1872-12-28

True ENOUGH. Many q man is rich
without money. Thousands Of mem
with nothing in their pockets-thous-
ands without even pocket--are rich.
A man born with sound constitution,
q good stomach, good heart, good
limbs, and a pretty good head-piece, is
rich. Good bones are better than gold,
good muscles than silver. and nerves
that fash fire and carry energy to every
function are better than houses and
land. It is better than an estate to have
the right kind of father and mother.
Good breeds and bad breeds exist among.
men as among herds and horses.
Washington standard. [volume] (Olympia, Wash. Territory) 1860-1921, 1872-12-28

SNIpE ON ToAsT.-I had some snipe on
toast in Harrisburg. saw on bill of
fare: Snipe on Toast, sixty cents. /"
Snipe on toast would be almost too
hearty food to feed people who have
been floating on raft three weeks feed
ing on boot-less. Says to the waiter:
"Give me snipe on toast By and by
he came in and put down some toast,
and I kept on reading. I sat there an
hour. Then rang the gong. The
waiter entered, and says I, "Where in
thunder is my meat?"
Says he, "It has been on the table
an hour"
Says T." ct didn't order plain toast;
wanted snipe on it,"
Says he, "There is snipe on it,"
Then drew up close to the table,
and I saw little black speck on the
toast, and I says, "You'll swear that is
a snipe?"
Says he, Yes"
Says I, "You. would make good
linen buyer, you would"
Says he, "It is snipe on toast, any
how"
Says I, How did it get on it?"
Says he, "That snipe is all right, il
is full sized one, two."
Says l, II am glad of it. am glad
you told me that's full-sized snipe, fol
do you know, young man, when I sat
out there reading I saw black speck
ou that toast, but I took it for o fly;
and I'm glad to be informed it is q
snipe. Now you can take that snipe
away and bring me turkey on toast
and darn it, I want full-sized turkey,
too"
amt hankering after snipe since
that episode. Icould have blown that
snipe through putty blower easy.
Snipe on toast may be game, but it is
mean game.
Cider and stewed snipes is about
right.
Washington standard. [volume] (Olympia, Wash. Territory) 1860-1921, 1872-12-28

How IT WoRks.-Speaking Of the
new temperance billiard" room estab-
lished by the Good Templars at In.
Grande, the Se.tinel says: The temper,
ance saloon has been running two
weeks in full blast. The proprietors
have dubbed it " The Tank." /" Whether
it is exclusively water tank we are un-
able to say. Fifteen ball pool, auction.
pitch, seven-up, and the fashionable
game Of monte, are indulged in nightly
hy the temperance boys.
Washington standard. [volume] (Olympia, Wash. Territory) 1860-1921, 1872-12-28

s An old fellow who is noted, up
town, for his suffering, as we'll as for
his shrcwdness in making bargain
stopped at grocery and inquired:
How m-m-many t-t-turkeys have
you g-g-got?'
Eight, sir replied the grocer.
"T-t-tough or t-t-tender?
"Some are tender, and some tough, u
was the reply.
81 k-keep b-boarders," said the new
customer. "P-pick out the f-f-four
t-t-toug hest ones, if you p-p-please."
The delighted grocer very willingly
complied with the unusual request, and
said in his politest tones:
"These are the tough ones, SIR"
Upon which the purchaser coolly put
his hand upon the remaining four, and
exclaimed:
I'll t-t-take M-M-these :"
Washington standard. [volume] (Olympia, Wash. Territory) 1860-1921, 1872-12-28
TUMWATER.

We are informed that the average cost
of these buildings is about $1,000 each.
Thus upwards of S1O0, 900 have been
expended in Olympia and Tumwater in
the past year in the erection of los
buildings. The ensuing year will no
doubt show a much larger growth. The
warmest friends of these two towns (ere
long to be united in one corporation)
have no cause to complain of their pro-
gress. If they do proportionately as
we'll next year, they will manage to ex-
ist thereafter without q railroad ter
minus. should the fates decree that we
are not to possess that boon.
Washington standard. [volume] (Olympia, Wash. Territory) 1860-1921, 1872-12-28
hurt him-now. He's paast being

iui. il'n now. hes paast Deing
hurt" VI a-
That may be-" said old Brown,
"but the influence of these kenos must
be bad as rule. I can understand
how young fellows can become fasci-
mated with it, and by winning pot
once or twice o week be led on to vast
ing thousands of dollars a year. When
I won that pot myself I was quite in
terested, said the old gentleman, blush
ing like girl, "and thought I was
going to make my fortune ut once.
see now the mistake-keno don't pay.
But bless me! four o'clock! my son
John will think I've been murdered.
They left the room, and Bob walked
down the street with him. At the door
they met couple of policemen.
"What are they here fory" whispered
old Brown.
To protect the players" said Bob.
"What! isn't the game of keno con-
trary to law?"
Yes," said the young man, " but
the law is contrary to the practice, and
though every faro bank, keno shop,
lottery Office and gambling house in
the city is well known to the authorities,
there is not one from the Mayor down,
who interferes with them. Now and
then On example is made of some poor
devil of gambler, but gambling in
Philadelphia is altogether as safe q
business as that of selling stocks"
When old Brown got home he found
that his son John had been to all the
station houses in the city looking for
him, and the family greatly worried.
They asked him where he had been,
and he said he had been buying pots.
He would give no other satisfaction,
and they still think that the old gentle
man was on a fearful old jamboree.
When he went to bed he dreamed all
night of mile long rows of figures all
covered with buttons, excepting 60,
which never would get filed, and that
Bob kept saying to him" Old man,
it's hard case."
Washington standard. [volume] (Olympia, Wash. Territory) 1860-1921, 1872-12-28

@ Attorney General Williams has
decided, in answer to communication
from the Postmaster General, that post
once officials have no right to open
or detaln letters or other matter trans
mitted by mail, though they may know
that they contain obscene matter. The
Attorney-General adds that postmasters
have no more right to open letters, 9th
er than those addressed to themselves
than any other citizen of the United
States.
Washington standard. [volume] (Olympia, Wash. Territory) 1860-1921, 1872-12-28
GATHERINGS BY THE wAYsIDE.

An English woman is running for
Parliament.
The Boston COLISEUM building was
recently sold at auction for $1O5, 900.
A beautiful woman, says Fontelle, is
the purSatorv of the purse and the par
adise of the eye.
You may depend upon it, that he is
n good man whose intimate friends are
all good.-Larater.
BY recent law in New Hampshire n
woman divorced from her husband can
again assume her maiden name.
Patience on on monument has no
reference to doctors patients. You
will find them under monument.
"Keep 'em alive, keep 'em alive, said
IN old physician to his young brother
practitioner; :" dead men pay no bills. "
The pleasantest things in this world
IRE pleasant thoughts; and the greatest
nrt in life is to have rs many as possi-
bic.
Astoria is in the same latitude as
Quebec, Canada, and has winter tenn
perature 30 degrees warmer than that
place.
Mrs. Samuel Colt made $500, 900 pro-
fit out of revolvers last year. She has
II lovely daughter who will inherit $S,-
OOO, 900.
The incensed citizens of San Fran
cisco swear they will burn any hall in
which Mrs. Fair is allowed to lecture in
that city.
The money was recently collected at
Karamazoo, Michigan, upon note that
had passed through the Chicago fire
and was nothing but ashes, yet had
been preserved intact between two
sheets of cotton batting.
Z" In London no man thinks of black
ing his own boots!" said a naughty
Briton once to the late Mr.. Lincoln,
whom he found polishing his calfskin
CATERS. "Whose boots does he black ?"
quietly responded Uncle Abe.
Rhode Island now disposes of petty
offenders by exiling them from the
State. The process is prompt and in
expensive. The victim is merely taken
to the Courthouse door and kicked by
the Sheriff. He alights either in Con-
necticut or the ocean.
Washington standard. [volume] (Olympia, Wash. Territory) 1860-1921, 1872-12-28

81 Never, upon any account, en-
dorse a note for friend, unless he gives
you ample security, or you can afford
to pay it should your friend fail to.
More men have been ruined by endors-
ing for others than in any other way.
Many of the best business men, now-a-
days, refuse to endorse for any one, and
this is by far the best plan.
Washington standard. [volume] (Olympia, Wash. Territory) 1860-1921, 1872-12-28

@ The Titusville Press says Stanley
will make q sensation when he lectures,
dressed in suit of clothes made by a
Ujiii tailor, consisting Of twine string
wound around his big toe and straw
hat.
Washington standard. [volume] (Olympia, Wash. Territory) 1860-1921, 1872-12-28

E Some of the young fellows in
Philadelphia have pockets made in the
sleeves of their overcoats, wherein a
lady may keep her hand warm when
walking arm in arm with them.
Washington standard. [volume] (Olympia, Wash. Territory) 1860-1921, 1872-12-28

81 The Marquis of Butte is the prin-
cipal owner of the new line of steamers
from Cardiff to New York. Will his
sailors be Butte Jacks?
Washington standard. [volume] (Olympia, Wash. Territory) 1860-1921, 1872-12-28

x The "Come Home Husband
Club" recently formed By the ladies Of
Hannibal, is said to be about four feet
long and to- have brush st the end
of It.. -
Washington standard. [volume] (Olympia, Wash. Territory) 1860-1921, 1872-12-28

SO Ayonng man who proposed toa
handsome but heartless creature the
other evening, says her answer suggest-
very popular poem-the haautifalA
no. afs44
Washington standard. [volume] (Olympia, Wash. Territory) 1860-1921, 1872-12-28
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New Orleans Republican. [volume] (New Orleans, La) 1867-1878, 1872-04-26

Plows st that day are still stubbornly re-
sisted BY hundreds and thousands of our
Southern planters and farmers
Our special aim and object, in c0nnec-
ton with this and all similar associations,
should be to eradicate all this fossilism, to
open wide the door for all improvements, to
pkeep the people constantly in remembrance
man may talk as satisfactorily in New Or
leans with his friend in Liverpool as though
he sat in the adjoining chair.
Stir continually the recollection in the
minds of the masses Of what this wonder
full people has done and is doing, day by
day aud hour by hour
This must and will arouse them from
their lethsrgy, and drive them to put on the
new alInor of progress.
A wide field Of usefulness is Just being
opened here, long familiar elsewhere, in the
manufacture of manures for farm use.
The value Of these manures in fertilizing
your lands, and the improvement to the air
we breathe by their removal, is nolonger in
doubt.
The verdict of every city in the land has
been rendered long since. You are not yet
fully alive ito their value. A few years
hence the demand must largely exceed the
The higher lands of easy access to the
city, as on the jackson railroad, are destined
in few years to great change, through
the aid Of artificial means and proper Gull
ture.
The cultivation OF fruit, now in its in
fancy, when once properly inaugurated,
will wean many Of you from cotton and
sugar,
The future of onr State is mainly de-
pendent upon these new developments in
the departments of mechanics and agricul
ture. and what we see before us to-day in
spires new hopes that the work goes stead
ily on,
New Orleans Republican. [volume] (New Orleans, La) 1867-1878, 1872-04-26
No. 90.
AN ACT


To appropriate money to pay the mileage
and per diem and contingent expenses OF
the General Assembly.
SECTION l. Be it enacted by the Senate
and House of Representatives of the State
of Louisiana in General Assembly con
vened, That the sum of seventy five thou
sand dollars, or so much thereof as shall be
necessary, be and the same is hereby appro-
priated out of any money in the State treas
ury to the credit of the general fund to pay
the per diem, mileage and contingent ex-
penses of the General Assembly of LOuisi-
ana; twenty-five thousand thereof to be set
apart for the use Of the Senate, and the sum
of fifty thousand thereof shall be set aside
for the use of the House of Representatives.
SEC. ?. Be it further enacted, That the
fund from whence this appropriation is
taken shall oe so reimbursed out of the first
money paid into the treasury; provided,
That nothing herein shall be SO construed
preferred by law.
Sec 5. Be it further enacted. ETC., That
this act shall take effect from and after its
passage.
lSignedl o. H. BREWSTER,
Speaker of the House of Representatives.
(Signed) P. Il. S. PINCHBACK,
Lieutenant Governor and President of the
Senate.
Approved April 90, 1872.
(Signed) H. &. WARMOTH,
Governor of the State of Louisiana.
A true copy:
j. w. FAIRFAX.
Assistant Secretary of State.
New Orleans Republican. [volume] (New Orleans, La) 1867-1878, 1872-04-26

DR.. Bowditch's notion that the more lib.
eral use Of wine and beer will diminish public
and private intemperance, has naturally at.
tracted good deal of attention. gen
tleman in Cincinnati writes to friend in
Boston "When l was young man !
lived in town where beer and cider were
the only beverages drank among the
masses, and drunkenness was more general
than have since noticed it in any town
The same gentleman tells us that Mr. Long
worth's motive for engaging in the manu-
facture OF wine was not to promote social
temperance, but to make money! fact of
which we hardly needed to be informed.
As rule the lighter beverages are used for
the sake of the small percentage of alcohol
which they contain. With this certain CON
situations are content, while others, and
those, too, of the majority, demand and will
and must have a steady increase of alcohol.
The mischief is in drinking merely for the
sake Of drinking. A great deal is said of
the nutritive character of wine and beer,
but was any man ever the worse for leayin 2
them alone ?-Nep York Tribune.
New Orleans Republican. [volume] (New Orleans, La) 1867-1878, 1872-04-26
No. go.
AN ACT

AN ACT
For the relief of James Upshaw, former
sheriff of Bienville parish.
SECTION l. Be it enacted by the Senate
and House Of Representatives of the State
of Louisiana in General Assembly con-
vened, That James Upshaw, former sheriff
of the parish of Bienyille, together with
J. II. Sheen, j. P. Webb, c. Hightower and
j. H. Burke, sureties upon the official bond
of the said James Upshaw, be and are
hereby exonerated and released from the
payment of any and all claims contracted
by him or them. either as sheriff or sureties
and claimed to be due to the State.
SEC. ,. Be it further enacted. ETC., That
James Graham, Auditor of the State, is
hereby instructed to erase the name Of
James Upshaw from the list of defaulters
SEC. 3. Be it further enacted, etc, That
this act shall take effect from and after its
passage.
(SignedI o. H. BREWSTER.
Speaker of the House of Representatives.
(Signed) p. B. S. PINCHBACK.
Lieutenant Governor and President of the
Senate.
Approved April 10, 1872.
tSigned) H. c. WARMOTH,
Governor of the State of Louisiana.
A true copy:
F. j. HERON,
Secretary Of State.
New Orleans Republican. [volume] (New Orleans, La) 1867-1878, 1872-04-26
LAWS Of THE STATE Of LOUISIANA
PUBLISHED BY AUTHORITY.
No. SO.
AN ACT
For the relief of William P. Harper.

AIN AOA
: For the relief of William p. Harper.
SECTION l. Be it enacted by the Senate
and House of Representatives Of the State
OF Louisiana in General Assembly convened,
That the sum of seven thousand three hun
dred and fifty dollars be and the same ia
hereby appropriated out of any moneys in
the treasury not otherwise appropriated, to
pay q certificate of indebtedness issued by
the board of public works eighteenth Jan
uary, 1861, to Thomas Hunter, in settlement
of the work performed ON Bayou Pierre
river, under act Nos. 168, approved March
18, 1858, and that the State Auditor is hereby
authorized and directed to warrant upon
the State Treasurer in favor of William p.
Harper, the assignee Of said Hunter, to pay
the same. Provided, that said w. P. Har-
per give security to the Auditor of Public
Accounts on payment of said claim in Q
sufficient amount to protect the State
against the payment Of the original war
rants, said to be lost.
SEC. 2. Be it further enacted, etc., That
this act take effect from and after its pas
sage.
(Signed) o. H. BREWSTER,
Speaker Of the House of Representatives.
(Signed) P. B. s. PINCHBACK,
Lieutenant Governor and President of the
Senate.
Approved April %, 1879.
(Signed) H. C. WARMOTH.
Governor of the State Of Louisiana
A true copy:
F. j. HEBRON,
Secretary of State.
New Orleans Republican. [volume] (New Orleans, La) 1867-1878, 1872-04-26
No. l3.
AN ACT

| AN AL
To authorize the police jury Of the parish O
Red River to issue bonds for certain Dur
| poses.
SECTION l. Be it enacted by the Senat,
and House of Representatives of the Stat,
louisiana in General Assembly convened
That for the purpose of building a court
house and jail, and paying the Indebtedness
OF the parish, the police jury of the parish
of Red River are hereby authorized to Issue
the bonds of said parish, duly signed BY tn,
| president and treasurer of said police jury
| and bearing the impression of the parish
| seal.
Sec. 2. Be it further enacted, ETC.. Thar
| the bonds so issued shall not exceed il
amount the sum Of twenty thousand dollars
or so much thereof as may be necessary
and shall be of such denomination and form
as the police jury may prescribe. They
shall be made payable to bearer, one, two
three, four five, six, seven, eight, nine and
ten years after date. respectively. with cou.
pons attached. and shall bear interest at
the rate OF eight per cent, payable semi-an-
nually upon the presentation to the parish
treasurer. They may be sold under the di-
rection and control of the police iury, on
the most advantageous terms
SEC. 8. BE it further enacted. ETC., That
in order to provide fund for the payment
OF the semi-annual interest and bonds as
they become due, the police jury OF said par
ish is hereby authorized and required, with
III thirty days after the assessment roll of
said parish shall have been completed, or as
soon thereafter as possible, to determine
what rate OF taxation on the total assessed
value of all the movable and immovable
property IN said parish will be sufficient
TOR the purpose Of paying the said bonds as
they become due, and the said semi-annual
interest and said tax, as annually deter
mined and ascertained, is hereby levied
upon all movable and immOvable property
that may be annually assessed in said par
ish, and it shall be the duty of the said no
lice jury to enforce the collection OF said tax
In the same manner as the law provides or
may hereafter provide, for the collection of
all other parish taxes. Said tax, when col
lected, shall be applied exclusively to the
purposes mentioned in this act, and said
tax shall be payable in United States cur
rency.
SEC. 4. Be it further enacted, etc., That
until the final payment Of the bonds author
lied to be issued by this act, it shall be the
duty of the police jury Of said parish to
apply the proceeds of the tax, collected by
authority of this act, to the redemption Of
said bonds, in such manner as NAV be
deemed by them most advantageous to the
best interests of the parish.
SEC. D. Be it further enacted, etc., That
al expenses necessary TO carry into effect
the provisions of this act shall be be paid by
the parish; and this act shall take effect
from and after its passage.
(Signed) o. II. BREWSTER,
Speaker of the House of Representatives.
(Signed) p. B. s. PINCHBACK,
Lieutenant Governor and President Of the
Senate.
Approved March 4, 1872
(Signed) H. C. WARMOTH.
Governor OF louisiana
A true copy:
+. j. HERON,
Secretary of State.
New Orleans Republican. [volume] (New Orleans, La) 1867-1878, 1872-04-26

The New York Erening Post, heretofore
Grant paper, says of the Illinois states
man:
Governor Palmer takes the right posi-
ton. He does not promise to support the
Cincinnati movement, unless it shall be
grounded in Justice and represented BY
statesmen. Neither is be willing to sur
render to the popular cry for any one man
when such important principles are at
stake. Like many thousand of the indie
pendent and thoughtful Republicans, he
will support the candidates for President
and Vice President who shall stand upon
the best platform, and who are best quail
fled to direct the affairs of the govern
ment,