Washington standard. [volume] (Olympia, Wash. Territory) 1860-1921, 1873-02-08
GATHERINGS BY THE WAYsIDE.

was q woman.
Memphis bellies drink cod liver oil
to induce plumpness.
The female suffrage bill was killed
in the Nevada Legislature.
More than $4,000 Italians were rem
derd houseless by the late foods.
Prince William Lunalilo has been
made King of the Sandwich Islands.
Russia is vexed with a great emigra-
ton movement of families to the United
States.
American school girls in Rome are
accused of flirting with handsome Car
dinals.
Telegraphing is to be taught as y
branch in the public schools in Los
Angeles.
Two hundred and forty million feet
of lumber were shipped from Puget
Sound last year.
Californians are picking ripe water
melons, when it is cool enough to go
out on shady afternoons.
1t is stated that we'll known divine
in San Francisco made 500, 900 last
yearspeculating in stocks.
Over one-half of the members of the
Kellogg Legislature Of Louisiana can
neither read nor write.
Mrs. G.. S. Leach, the we'll known
vocalist, died recently. The deceased
was sister of Bret Harte.
I w. p. G. Stebbins, Superintendent
of the new mint, died in San Francisco
lately, after brief illness.
Memphis has a negro preacher who
calls himself Henry Ward Beecher No.
2, and he draws full houses.
A. H. Stephens is to be sent to Con-
gress from the Eighth Georgia District,
in which there is a vacancy.
Hereafter the expenses of unsucess-
full contestants for seats in the Nation
al Legislature will not be paid by Con-
gress.
1t is stated on official authority of an
Assessor of one ward in New York, that
three thousand negro men have white
wives.
Oregon has postmistress-the Pres
ident has appointed Miss jeanette Coo
ley to that position at Chetco post-office
Curry county.
The next Senate will have fifty Re-
publicans and twenty-four opposition
Democrats, Liberal Republicans and
Conservatives.
Seventy-six per cent. of the weather
predictions for 1872, made by the sig.
nal service of the War Department,
proved to be correct.
A woman twenty-three years of age
and the survivor of ten husbands, was
burned to death at La Sale, ILL.,, on
the night of January Sd.
The motive power of the grist mill
at Prairie City, Grant, county Oregon,
is water from hot spring, which pre-
vents any stoppage from freeze up.
Horace Greeley's memory will, it is
said, be honored by the establishment
of professorship of journalism at Cor.
nell University, to be called by his
name.
At the late National Unitarian Associ
alton, a speaker expressed the belief
that the failure of their church in Wash
ington City was owing to the preach
ing of politics.
A preacher at Burlington, Iowa. says
he does not want Mason, Odd Fellow
nor Democrat in his church. He
probably wants to wrestle with the
Devil all by himself.
Japan is pressing claim against
the United States for $4,000 which
she says was paid in excess of our
claim against her for damages to com.
MERGE some years ago.
The resignation of George A. Edes,
Collector of Customs for the port Of
Sitka, has been accepted by the author.
tiles at Washington, and Wiley Chap.
man, of Salem, Oregon, has been ap.
pointed to fill the vacancy.
A London paper says that the Tory
party will cordially support the claims
of women, themselves householders
and posessors of property, to the cleo.
toral franchise, believing that the right
to vote should be given with regard to
property and not to sex.
Since the adoption of the National
Banking system, two thosuand and
sixty-one national banks have been Or
gained. Twenty-one of these have
failed, and ninety-six gone into volun.
tary liquidation, leaving nineteen hun.
bred and forty-four banks in existence
on November LIST, 1872.
The House having decided that the
first session of the Forty-third Congress
shall not commence until the first Mon
day in December next, it remains to be
seen whether the President will convene
an extra session of the Senate on the 4th
Of March next. The only thing to he
done will be the confirmation of any
new Cabinet officers who may be ap-
pointed on that day.
In the Senate OF Massachusetts, bill
has been introduced annexing to Bos-
ton the towns of West Roxbury, Brook