Washington standard. [volume] (Olympia, Wash. Territory) 1860-1921, 1876-09-02
FROM THE DAILY OF TUESDAY.

THERE are 200 Christian churches with
100000 worshipers, in Madagascar.
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FROM THE DAILY OF TUESDAY.
THE subject Of the following sketch has
been mentioned several times in our columns
OF late. lie will arrive In Olympia, Il fs<x.
pected, next Thursday and remain for sewers
al days The following appears in q recent
letter to the New York Graphic: "Arthur
Macarthur, judge Of the supreme court of
the District of Columbia, gave me an account
of Pike last summer. Said he: II heard of
Albert Pike as being an Indian, or Texan
ranger, or something. He came to our court,
and stood up there like Moses or some pa
triarch. His long gray hair in ringlets fell
down his back and shoulders He stood
between six and seven feet high, and stout in
proportion, weighing, should think, three
hundred pounds. A look of the frontiers.
man, the poet and the lawyer seemed mixed
in his face, with type of something heather
and antique. He had big bandana hand
kerchicf in his fist, clenched into little ball.
Ever and anon he drew this across his nose,
and then seized it in his fist again. And
then he rolled off law and learning, solemn
and right on the line of his argument, as
practical as could be; but his illustrations
and quotations were rare and unusual.
was astonished' Albert Pike is man his
tory has stepped over. There is no man in
the world of so many sides to his character,
and so plain withal. He was born at New.
buryport, Mass, son of q shoemaker. A
willful, poetical spirit took him to Mexico,
and he returned in a pack train as mules
driver from Chihuahua to Fort Smith. Set.
thing down 10 printing Office at Little Rock,
he became an editor, lawyer, and chief OF
the Wing party, which he led with unflincl,s
ing consistency through perpetual minority
down to the civil war, fighting meantime in
the Mexican war, and doing the governs
ment business of the Cherokees. He became
rich and celebrated. Quarrelling with Jeffer-
son Davis soon after the rebellion began, he
withdrew from the contest, and at the close
was poor. He removed to Washington
about 1867, aud opened . law office with
Robert johnson, ex-senator, the nephew of
Vicc~President johnson. His home is at
Alexandria, where, with vivacious and in.
telligent daughter, Pike spends his time in
large library, containing perhaps 5000 vol.
umes, elegantly rebound, the collection of q
lifetime. His taste for books extends to their
covering, and he has passion for elegant
printing in common and co;ered ink, all his
own volumes on Masonry and Hindoo philoso.
ply being produced in this way by his amateur
disciples. Fine swords, dueling pistols
which he has used on the field, q collection
of elaborate pipes, which he smokes pretty
much all the time, and strange things Of
vertu, are parts of his surroundings. His
poems have been collected and re>i.sued
within the past two years, and he has writ>
ten series of books on Masonry, which,
queerly enough, having carried him from his
apparently trivial theme back to medieval
Jewish and finally Sanscrit Masonry, as he
believes. Not being a Mason, I am only
aware that, either as poet or scholar,
Pike has traced the germs of Masonry bes
yond the vestibule Of history. He IL San.
scrit scholar, and has composed some alb.
struse treatise, now undergoing publication
in London, which is spoken OF With expec-
fancy by his friends. *
An illustration of how false reports grQ
is found in the story that was going =
rounds yesterday about Chinaman havj r.
died in town of smallpox. We called On
both Drs. Waughop and Steele, yesterday,
and they both assured me that the China.
man reported sick with smallpox had no
symptoms of the disease and that they knew
Of no case in town or vicinity. We saw
the supposed dead Celestial engaged at his.
ordinary work yesterday and he certainly
had no appearance of serious illness much
less of recent death.
The Historian says: The story that Sit>
ting Bull is Westpointer is disputed by an I
officer at Fort Candy, who personally knsw
the character COMPOUNDED with Sitting Ball
in the West Point yarn. That individual
went to the happy hunting grounds an.
avenged, long 1880
THE King county Democratic Convention,
held at Seattle, last Saturday, elected Messrs.
Freeman, Knowlton, Emery, Collins, Raisin
and hurry, Delegates to the Territorial Con.
vention, and expressed. q preference for
VIM. Pickering for Joint Councilman.
JOHN BuLaER, q son of Marten Dulger. So.
perintendent Of the Pacific Mail Steamship
Co., at San Francisco, arrived by the Dakota.
He is on o brief visit to the Sound for
amusement and recreation.
A CONTEST between Messra McCay and
Douglass for tract of valuable land o. San
Juan Island was before the land officers the
greater part Of last week and is still n pro-.
gress.
ZONE heavy grading is going forward c.
Main Street, fronting Mr.. Sylvester's plac
and the Masonic Hall, which will improv
the looks of that part Of town materially.
LosT.-A Good Templar pin, in the shaj 4
Of q shield containing the cmblems Of tho
Order. A liberal reward will be paid III
finder upon leaving it at this Office.
THE excursionists to Mt. Rainier, cons
ing of George Blankenship, saml Woodru
James Ferry and Geo. Talcott, returned l.3a
good health yesterday.
VAL WLDMAN was indicted by the Kiafy'
County grand jury for running lottery an4a
in due tine will be tried therefor.
BoRN.-To the wife of C. H. Hanford. Of
Seattle, Aug. %, 1876, q daughter.