Washington standard. [volume] (Olympia, Wash. Territory) 1860-1921, 1872-06-29
GATHERINGS BY THE wAYsIDE.


Carpenter cocktails.
Sunset Cox is dobater.
The Grand Duke Alexis says Grant is
scnseless.
-Longstrect, the Southern renegade, is
for Grant.
Fernando Wood is the Che .terfeld
Of Congress.
Oregon City Seminary is the largest
free School in Oregon-3OO pupils and
five teachers.
John G. SAKE, Jr., son Of the poet,
is in Portland.
Gold has been discovered in the Lake
Superior region.
Emigration from Italy to this coun.
try is increasing.
There are said to be fifty.ou thousand
Cinnamon. in Cuba.
-Walla Walla county has a property
valuation Of s6,OOO,OO0.
Moonlight excursions by steamboat
are the rage at Portland.
The American Bible Society issued l ;.
LUZ I'LL Bibles last year.
Niagara Falls will be the fashionable
watering-place this season.
Ten counties in Iowa have ladies for
superintendent Of schools.
Vivian, one Of the greatest actors OF
the age, is to appear in Portland soon.
-" Fan him with your boot" has now
superseded the phrase "Put head on
him"
"A hotel is about to be established at
Vinceunes, Ind., to be run exclusively by
women.
Horace Greeley is hated by Grant
and Butler worse than any Democrat in
the world.
California harvest has begun. 1t is
said to be the largest ever gathered on the
Pacific coast.
Twenty. nine women in this country
are inventors, who have had patents is.
sued to them.
"A company has been organized in San
Francisco to import French girls as do.
nestle servants.
The greatest joke of the age is the
resolution Of Grants ofiice-holders in favor
of civil service reform.
San Francisco has just witnessed the
the consecretion Of new Chinese temple,
with seventy gods in it.
The gallant Confederate veteran, Gen
j. Il. Hood, is as earnest as Beauregard
in his support of Greeley.
1t is said Greeley once charged Ger.
rift Smith $500 for inserting speech in
the Tribune. Gerritt is for Grant.
The New York Tribune says: "The
omens are significant. the opposition has
the desperation of assured defeat"
Six persons a day is fair average of
people daily crushed under the wheels of
vehicles in tile cowded city of London.
Thirty Republican journals in Penn
sylvania pertinaciously refuse to endorse
Hartcraft, the Radical nominee for Gov
| ernor.
Voorhees,, of Indiana, was foiled Of
election as delegate at large to the Balti-
more Convention. He was cleaned out by
Greeley men.
A writer, describing the exodus from
Eden says: The devil drove woman out of
Paradise, but he could not drive paradise
out of woman
George W. Schuyler, late Republi-
can State Treasurer of New York, heads a
call Of ninety-one Republican citizens OF
Ithaca, in favor Of Greeley.
Half the depositors in the Massa.
chusetts savings banks arc women, and S..
900, 900 is the sum total of the amount
deposited by these delightful darlings.
With Grant the Galena tanner, and
Wilson, the Natick cobbler. in the lead,
the Republicans will view the political sit
uation through pair of leather spectacles.
Miss Anna Dickinson is understood
to be preparing lecture on Horace Gree
ley, which she proposes to deliver through
the country during the Presidential cam
paign.
The second wife of Professor Morse
is a dumb lady. She survives her distin-
guished husband, and is the mother of sew
eral children, all Of whom possess the hear
ing faculty.
Preparations ere being made for a
survey Of the North Pacific Ocean, Con-
grees having appropriated $4,000 for
that purpose. Commander Skerrett will
have charge of the expedition.
The next Congress of 292 Represent.
atives gains for New England one member
the middle States seven the western
twenty-six the Southern States seven
teen, and the Pacific States one.
In Rome they have perambulatiug
steam kitchen for the cooking for the poor.
1t will cook for fifteen persons dinner in
less than an hour and half, aud at the
very modest price Of sou plate.
"A queer old gentleman is living at the
Astor House, New York, who registered
his name on the books OF the hotel the
first day it was opened, and has been there
a.