Washington standard. [volume] (Olympia, Wash. Territory) 1860-1921, 1874-12-05
Gatherings by the Wayside.

A granddaughter of President Tyler
is giving public readings in Atlanta.
The last Partisan rumor threatens the
ladies with revival of the big bonnets
of 1884. =
The last time Massachusetts, gave a
Democratic majority, before this year,
was in 1889.
The total vote of Boise City, Idaho,
for Delegate to Congress was $50,
against 4,5OO ten years ago.
London Free Masons intend to have
a grand time at the coming reception Of
the Prince of Wales as their grand Mas.
ter.
Specimens of the sugar beet raised
near Dayton, W. t., indicate that the
vegetable can be grown there success
fully.
Somebody neatly says that the ladies
having worn all sorts of flowers and
fruits in their hats, have now turn-up
on one side.
Burlington has built the largest ice
house north of st. Louis. There will
be 700 tons of ice slowed away in it for
next Summer.
No less than forty -eight members OF
the Vermont House of Representatives
declare that they have q; no preference"
for any creed.
Syracuse University, New York, has
been made the recipient of a gift of $751;
600, the donor of which wishes to re-
main unknown.
The fair recently given by the Sisters
of Charity at Vancouver proved very
successful. After paying all expenses
81 900 was cleared.
A New Orleans paper offers the sem
timent thus: George Washington
First in war, first in peace, and last in
getting monument"
There are 29G postmasters who re-
ceive equal or greater salaries than the
Governors of their respective States.
Of these, nineteen are in Connecticut.
The young folks of Red Bluff have o
game called " Feeding the Rabbit" in
which girl and young man take in
their mouths the end of string and
chew them until the mouths come in
contact.
Fame docs not always bequeath
wealth. A Nephew of Daniel Webster
is a rag-picker in Troy, N. Y, and a
niece of the late Senator Seward is liv-
ing in very INDECENT circumstances in
New Orleans. .t ..
| The election returns in Arizona gave
G. G. Bean, Delegate to Congress, q ma
jority of $50 over Hiram Stevens. who
was supposed to have been elected.
the news causes great excitement. Both
parties are Independent candidates.
Seven of the Williams family in the
Forty-fourth Congress! A good year for
that family, but poor for Buffers. Ben,
and Roderick of Tennessee and the
Pennsylvania Butler, all go out in
March. Neither will the Washburp
group reappear. '.. .
New York has the largest number OF
clubs of any other city of the United
States. Boston comes next, followed
by Philadelphia. The richest club in
the country is said to be the Union of
New York. The next richest is the
Harmonic, Hebrew club occupying q
magnificent building cup town" in
Gotham.
Several persons intimately acquainted
with the parties in the Beecher-Tilton
case say they have every reason to be-
lieve that no decision will ever be rem
dered in any of the suits; that Beecher's
friends are strong enough to have TIL
toms suit deferred SO long that all in
terest in it must be lost, and that it will
be given up in despair of reaching any
definite result.
General Dix, in recent letter to
friend, says: "The tidal wave which
has swept over the country has over
| whelmed us. It is useless to speculate
as to the causes; they are very obvious
to us here. In the present state of our
political affairs it is useless to look for
ward to the future. We con tell within
another year whether there is any
chance for us in 1876"
! A Boston correspondent of the Yes
tern Christian Adrocate says: "The
longest pastorags in New England, if
not in America, or anywhere in any age,
was probably that of DR.. Samuel Mott,
of Franklin, Conn.,, brother of DIR.
Eiphalet Mott, late President of Union
College. He was settled in Franklin,
in 1882. and died in 1862, the period Of
his ministry being seventy years.
A Marion county man who came to
Oregon in 1919, says Gov. Douglas, of
| the Hudson Bay Company, always pro-
nounce the name of Willamette I" Walla-
meek" There, now, Messrs. peady
and Strong is o fine opening for you
to argue the point of spelling the rivers
name with Gov. Douglas. The general
impression is in regard to spelling the
Willamette is that Judge Deadly is right
and the one hundred thousand people
in Oregon are wrong.
The Christiansbusg Va Messenger
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