Washington standard. [volume] (Olympia, Wash. Territory) 1860-1921, 1874-03-07
GATHERINGS BY THE WAYsIDE.

I tioii "Aeh thc f"thfve"tT at 0clLtlc.
Victoria Woodruff is on her way to
the Pacific Coast on a lecturing tour.
The total tax in Cowlitz countyis SD
Cos 81, of which 81 100 is delinquent.
Iowa has begun n new Capitol build
/ ing at Dcs Moines, to cost $1,000 900
or S,0O0,0CO
There are three feet of snow in the
foothills of the Blue Mountains back
of Walla Walla.
/ Up in the Yakima or Squak mines,
the snow recently tell to the depth of
Is inches in "a hours.
A Havana letter says it is proposed
by the Spanish authorities to draft into
the army all Migrants.
The Walla Walla and Columbia Riv-
er Railroad will be completed to the
Touchet i'll n few days.
Two hundred head of cattle were re-
Gently sold in Walla Walla valley at an
average price of $40 a head.
A single bridge company in Balti-
moro built nearly ten and half miles
of iron structures last year.
Tin bustles, holding a gallon of Wills
ky, can be purchased by Buffalo ladies'
who want to smuggle Canada liquor.
In South Carolina during the past
year 2GS,523 acres Of land have been
forfeited for non-payment of taxes.
A rich old lady in New Haven, Conn.
keeps her hens in the parlor, and feeds
them on jelly cake and English wal
nuts.
A New York paper says that bald
headed man will marry three times to
any other man once, all things being
even.
Red Oak, Iowa, is ovcrrun with rats,
and the authorities offer two cents for
the tail of every one of tho vermin
caught.
c. V. B. Recder. of Santa Clara,
CAL, has applied for II patent for a
railroad car that carries its own track
with it i'll the form of endless chain.
Rev. II. X. Hines reports seven new
churches in process of erection ut the
chief centre Of population within the
bounds Of the Walla Walla district.
The Olympia Postotlcc sends the
mails to nearly thirty different Offices
in separate mail bags, besides sending
many sacks that each enclose mail for
several Offices.
1t is thought that the if proposed
Indian reservation in the Northern por-
ton of Washington Territory be final
! ~ established, there Will be y military
post established somewhere onthc Spo-
kane.
L. S. Marshal Kearnoy has received
instructions from the authorities at
Washington to have the Territorial
Penitentiary on McNeal's Island, oppo-
site Steilacoom, fitted up for the recep-
ton of prisoners.
Among the curiosities at Fort Yuma,
Arizona, isa gigantic "pyairi~ schoon-
er" of 10000 pourAts capacity. Said
vessel is drawn 10y fourteen mules, the
smallest of which is fifteen kalrIs high,
and weighs I $50 pounds.
The dinaer-bell once owned BY the
mother of George Washington was re-
Gently sold at auction. 1t bears date
1867, weighs six pounds, and is said
to have a &C sweet silvery sound" as DO
dinnerbells in general.
A few days ago one of Brigham
Young's daughters, who had aban-
doned the Mormon faith, managed to
clude his espionage, and escaped on
the Eastern bound train. Her inten-
ton is to lecture against Mormouism
in the East.
Visiting cards for this season are of
the finest unglazed Bristol board, and
a little larger than formerly. Some are
in delicate tints. The shape is more
oblong than square. The London
styles for gentlemen are very small
those for ladies very large.
Two ladies were;elected Notaries Pub
lie for Salt Lake City by the joint ses-
sion OF the Legislative Assembly. They
were Miss Joan NJ. Campbell and Miss
Georgia Snow, and the announcement
of their election was received with
great applause by those present.
p. D. Forbes, of Tacoma, is con-
structing and finishing steamboat
model for Messrs. E. A. and l.. NJ.
Starr. She is to have side-wheels, to
be elegant in finish, and staunch and
sea-worthy in every respect. She is
for the Tacoma and Semiahmoo trade.
Louisiana, which before the war was
behind some of the other States in the
production of cotton, now surpasses ev
cry other State. Its clop this year will
be 1, 200, 600 bales of the 1900, 900
bales raised in oil the south. To do
this the State has largely abandoned
the cultivation of sugar.
The huge clipper Three Brothers left
San Francisco for Havre, Oct. 25th,
with cargo of 81 1888 centals of wheat,
valued at $199 900, arrived off Fal-
mouth on the 9th ult, making the trip
in 10S days. The average passage is