Washington standard. [volume] (Olympia, Wash. Territory) 1860-1921, 1873-02-01
GATHERINGS BY the wAYSICE.

-four I'd per parrel at Nalia W ala.
California is suffering from the cpl
zootic.
American apples are $40 bushel in
Australia.
Eggs down to 20 cents per dozen in
Portland.
Stuffed humming birds are to perch
on new bonnets.
A fire alarm telegraph apparatus has
arrived at Portland.
A law suit about dozen eggs now
progresses in California.
The loss by the late Portland fire
will almost reach $500, 600.
A Jacksonville paper advocates the
raising of alfalfa for sheep.
One hundred and sixty-four thousand
emigrants left Liverpool in 1872.
Bismark is a member of one hundred
and fOrty-one different societies.
The Portland police are not allowed
to smoke or take drink when on duty.
Three Vermont Hotels have lady
clerks, and they clerk to the satisfaction
of the public.
1mperialists expect speedy restora-
ton of the French Empire, with the
Empress as regent.
Gen. Juan Cortina is the next polit-
ical bandit who is expected to organize
revolution in Mexico.
: The bill to incorporate Loomis's Aeri-
al Telegraph Company only awaits the
signature of the Present to become a
law.
Joaquin Miller has given Grace
Greenwood pair of earrings made of
rattlesMkc's rattlcs, ornamented with
gold.
J California expects an average yield
of 400 pounds of castor oil to the acre.
There's crop to stick in any ones
craw!
Rev. Thos. Pearne 1ntlian) informs
the Jacksonville Times that many of
the klamath Indians show signs of re-
pentance.
. 1t is stated that the salmon fisheries
OF Alaska, if freely developed, would
be one of the richest possessions in the
United States.
Governor Caldwell of North Carolina
has pardoned Kinchy Ann Edwards,
the only white woman ever in the Raj
eigh Penitentiary.
' The women of Columbus, Ga, have
, discarded silks and satins, and are
wearing the plaids and checks manu-
, featured in that city.
General Hartranft, it is understood,
| 60 &l,o .,,&r Is u.
into the various governmental depart
ments at Harrisburg.
The Arizona folks threatened to
mob q man because he married the
only school marin they had in the Ter
ritory and thus stopped the school.
Miss Emily Faithful recently visited
: the Soldiers Home in Milwaukee. She
, was greeted with "God save the
Queen, and three cheers forthe British
Army.
The name Arizona seems to have been
derived from the two words arid and
zone, and was named by the Jesuite
Fathers, who visited that country years
ago, Ardzone
J The Postmaster General advertises for
bids for the manufacture of 1883 ,O0O,-
600 Of postage stamps for the use of
the people of the United States during
the next four years.
1t is thought in Salt Lake City that
Brigham Young will never pass another
Summer above ground. When he dies
81 widows will mourn his loss, and III
children be fatherless.
! a Montana Indian agent accounts
for his deficiency by declaring that he
furnished the Indians 2S5 600 pounds
of family soap, $500 worth of postage
stamps and barrel of ink.
The coal company at Seattle is now
taking out one hundred and thirty
tons of coal daily. At this rate there
would be about $25 900 month brought
into the Territory by this one mine.
Tittusville, Pa, is feeling unusually
happy because King William of Prussia
has presented the st. Paul's Reformed
Church in that city with French can
non, weighing 1900 lbs, to be cast in
to bell.
Sidney Rigdon, who is reputed to
have been the author of the Mormon
Bible and who at one time ranked
next to Joe Smith in the Church of the
Latter-day Saints, was stricken with
J paralysis at his home in Allegany coun-
ty, New York.
The religious papers are full of re-
ports of REVEALS in various sections of
the country. This news appears to
come from all the denominations, and
the aggregate number of conversions
during the present Winter must be al
ready quite large. ..
According to the Herald and Presby-
ter, the hymn-singing Presbyterians
are more numerous and more greatly
prospered than those who discard vocal
and instrumental music, the former
numl,ar;nUE TAG minister's in the JJnitad