Washington standard. [volume] (Olympia, Wash. Territory) 1860-1921, 1876-07-15

father and mother of Ed. G. Peck of the
Peck mine, and of Mrs. Geo. Banghart of
Chino Valley, accompanied by Mrs. Skinkle
and her daughter Hattie, arrived by A. and
N. NJ. stage, on Tuesday merning, from
Washington Territory. Miss Skinkle comes
from the Printing Office Of A. G. Walling,
Portland, Oregon, and being a printer has
gone to work in this Office. The compost
tors have all thrown away their spcctacles in
a vain attempt to appear young in her pres
ence. and if errors in Typography shall be de-
tected in the paper this week, the Editor
hopes the reader will excuse them, as fe>
male type setter is an innovation on all es-
tablished precedent here, and the office is in
confusion Miss Hattie took her first les
sons in Typography in this office Standard
and soon became very proficient. The
Miner is about the size of the Transcript, with
a subscription price of 500 per year. 1t
is we'll edited and printed and gives internal
evidence of material prosperity.
The Seattle Tribune announces that the
two Vanity Fair lotteries carried on by Val.
Wildman, and Joseph Farris, have been
closed, the prosecution against them being
too heavy for their owners to Withstand.
Widman says that his is closed permanently
that he will not under any circumstance re-
open it but that he intends going into another
and very different business here in Seattle.
lie also declares his intention to pursue to
the furthest extremity the keepers of other
dens, until gambling is Il thing almost I'M
known in this city. We commend him in
his good work, and wish him the most cons
pletc success. 1t will be a blessed day for
out.
REV. MIR. GIBSON, Il San Francisco divine,
after long experience, says that he is of
opinion that it is about as easy to convert a
Monaghan as TO vaccinatc one of Col. Meal
listers brass cannon, and he is forced to ad>
nit that he never knew a Chinaman master
the ten commandments who was not con-
tiTmcd thief Those who are still further ads
vanced and know the catcchism are few and
far between, being generally hung or impris-
oncd for life before getting through with it..
THE Victoria Col0nia says: The Custom
statistics of British Columbia for 1856 show
that there were collected during that period
duties aggregating *49l, 1929 being $780,
600 in excess of the amount collected in 1874.
5, and $l52, 900 in excess of the amount col
lccted in 1884 We believe We are correct
in the statement that this is the only Pro-
vince of the Dominion where there has been
an increased revenue. All the other Provin-
ccs show a marked falling off
Dr. JAMES, of Gloria, who formed one
of the party who nearly forty years cut the
rebel steamer Carolina from the American
side and sent her over Niagara Falls says that
Mcleod, who was tried at New York for the
act had NO hand in the affair. He was n
deputy sheriff at Niagara and prudently re-
manned at home when the daring deed was
perpelrated.
Mrs DIANA COLLINS died at Seattle, July
6, 1876, of heart disease. aged about sc years.
Her husband, l.. NJ. Collins, herself and
child settled on the Duwamish river in 1850,
and were, We believe. the first white family
in King county. All old settlers knew them.
Mr. Collins is reported to have died several
years ago.
THE gins to Messrs. LittlejOhn and French
piIedriver have been put up and are 46 feet
in hight These gentlemen have manifested
a good deal of enterprise in constructing so
substantial driver, and We hope business
may prove good, both for the sake of the town
their own interests.
THE horses attached to the stage running
between Port Discovery and Port Townsend
became unmanageable, last Tuesday, and
ran off, upsetting the vehicle and injurng the
passengers One of the latter, u CARPENTER
named John Hinquest, had three ribs broken,
while the driver, Mr.. Gibson, had leg
broken
Mn. JOHN FIT was drowned on the beach
of Vashon's Island on the Fourth. lie un,
dcrtook to paddle out on log to a boat an.
chored out from the shore, and it turned
over and drowned him. lie was a native of
Canada, about 40 years of age, and had
followed logging for a livelihood for some
time past
THE Zephyr, while on her way up the river
to Snohomish City, last Wednesday ran foul
of the telegraph wire, which is suspended
across TINT s. cam on high poles, and broke
it, thus suspending telegraphic communica>
ton with Victoria and the other northern
points.
In the contest among the steam fire en-.
gincs at Portland this week, the Albany
steamer carried off the prize. She threw q
stream through 200 feet of hose the distance
of 23s feet 1Ol inches, or about feet further
than any other engine.
TIE new post Office bill seems likely to re.
store the rates of third-class matter to one
cent for two ounces, the same as it was be-
fore Senator Hamlin and the Express COM
panies went into 'cahoots" to gougc the
public.
THE celebration at Chchalis is spoken of in
terms of highest praise, by those who attend
Cd Geo. N. McConaha delivered the ora
ton. Some six hundred people were present.
THE B. d. Mail reports the destruction by
fire of the barn and stable of Mr.. Caldwell,
of Nootsack. Farm implements, harness
and one horse were destroyed also.
MEssns. s. s. Montague, of the Central Pa
cific, and A. c. Mencke. of the California