Washington standard. [volume] (Olympia, Wash. Territory) 1860-1921, 1874-11-28
Gatherings by the Wayside.

A Chinese Young mems Christian AS
ISOLATION has been incorporated in San
Francisco.
1t is reported that money is being
raised in San Francisco to build u large
Touring mill at Astoria.
Walla-walla has been treated to a
snow-storm already, which is only an
earnest of what they may expect in the
future.
The Dayton Wooden Mills are run
ming night and day to supply the de-
rnand for its fabrics. This looks like
business.
Germany has just launched her
seventh first class iron-clad, and tine
eighth. now being constructed, is to be
afoat in April.
Two Montana men claim to have dis
covered an inexhaustible ledge of pure
white marble, not far from Deer Lodge,
and easy Of access.
More polygamous marriages are now
taking place in Utah than at any time
since the days of the Reformation and
DlOOu AtOncmenC.
There is an old Democrat, named
Davis, in Washington, who was seen to
smile on the morning of the 4th, for the
first time in fourteen years.
A Colorado exchange says: The
Canon City girls don't take kindly to
Croquet. They say it is too high toned
for them. Leap-froy is their best hold.
The determination of the Secretary of
the Treasury to employ not more than
one person of any family, is likely to
break up the close relationship between
clerks.
The Omaha Herald, states that there
are at least 5000 people living in the
eleven counties on the western border
of Nebraska, who will have to be fed by
charity or starve.
It is said to take three thousand
pounds of roses to produce one pound
of the otto of rose. Hence the high
cost of the perfume in. Turkey, from
whence it comes.
If, as Chicago paper says, speaking
of the Grant Honore wedding, each of
the brides garments is poem in itself,
what Joy it must be to metre in her
idyll moments Of corset is.
It is stated that new paper is to be
started at Washington City. 1t will be
representative journal Of Democratic
ideas, and will be backed by John Nor
rissey and the White League.
1t is stated that Attorney General
Williams will retire from the Cabinet at
the beginning Of the next session Of
Congress and that his name will he sent
to the Senate for the mission to St.
Petersburg.
Some of the candidates for office in
Connecticut will be subjected to pro-
longed ordeal. Nominations for State
officers ana for Congress will be made
in December and January, although the
election will not take place until April.
Every State, except one, that has a
representative in Grants Cabinet, has
repudiated Gnntism and Grants Ad-
ministration. That exception is Iowa.
The wave has just reached the State
and borne down and Administration
candidate for Congress. One year that
State will wheel into line.
Which is Grant ?" said q six-footed
Texan, when the Presidents party was
in the Indian Territory. The Chief
Magistrate was pointed out to him.
He then took look at Sheridan, Au-
CUR, Babcock. and the rest, and ex-
claimed: "Gim me S. and I'll clean
out the whole party"
The triumphant election of General
Banks of Massachusetts to Congress is
all the more significant from the facS
that it was effected in the face of an ex-
travagant and wasteful expenditure of
about 5000 day of the public funds
for period covering some weeks, paid
to men placed on the pay-rolls of the
Charleston Navy-Yard to vote for Gooch,
the Grant candidate.
The Indian census dwindles yearly,
yet the Indian budget proportionately
increases. As the Indians die off it
costs more and more to get on with the
remnant of the tribes. The Indian ex-
denditures under the five years of
Grants Administration surpassed the
Indian expenditures during the ten
years of Democratic administration,
from 1851 to 1860, by over $1,000
The defeat of Governor Dix, who was
two years ago elected by over $1,000
majority, and the election of the Demo-
cratic candidate by over 10000 ma
jority in the State, tell the story Of the
change in public sentiment and the up
rising against official incompetency and
corruption that have taken place in the
Empire State in the two brief years that
have elapsed since the reelection of
President Grant.
Some wealthy gentlemen of San
Francisco have been talking of sub
scription of 800, 900 TO the erection Of
q bronze monument of S. F. B. Morse,
the inventor Of the recording telegraph,
in San Francisco. DR.. Horatio Stone
has made fine design for such mon
ument, the bronze portion of it to be "a
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