Washington standard. [volume] (Olympia, Wash. Territory) 1860-1921, 1876-09-02

COLLECTOR II. A. Webster came up from
below on the Annie Stewart, yesterday morn
ing
WHArcoM county Republicans will hold
their convention September 12th.
j. AL SAwTELLE and company are playing
at Coos Bay.
FROM THE DAILY OF SUNDAY.
THE death of Hon. Micheal c. Kerr, Speak
or of the House Of Representatives, q
prominent Democrat and able statesman,
at Rock Bridge, Alum Springs, West
Virginia, on Saturday, the 10Th inst. is
q national calamity. He was man who
commanded the respect of all parties, for
his sterling integrity aud nobility of charac-
ter. His history in brief, as narrated in
the Congressional Directory, is as follows
He was born near Titusville, Crawford
County, Pennsylvania, March Is, 1897; was
chiefly self>educatated, but studied at several
academies; for time taught school; studied
law in the University of Louisville, and re-
ceived the degree of Bachelor of Laws. AT.
ter brief residence in Kentucky he settled
at New Albany, Indiana. In 1856 he was
elected for two years to the State Assembly;
in 1862 he was elected Reporter to the Su.
preme Court of the State, and published Eve
volumes; and in 1864 he was elected Rep.
resentative, from Indiana, to the Thirty-ninth
Congress, serving on the Committees on Pri.
vate Land Claims, and on Accounts. Re-
elected to the Fortieth Congress, serving on
the Committees on Elections. and Roads and
Canals. The death of Mr.. Kerr, leaves the
House without presiding officer. The
first duty in December next, on the reassem>
bling of Congress will he the election of
Speaker. The clerk will call that body to
order and preside until successor is chosen.
The following appointments were made by
the Columbia River Annual Conference at
its recent session: WaNa>acaNa District-S.
G. Havermale, Presiding Elder; Walla.wal
Ia, D. G. Strong; Waitsburg. T. Hoagland;
Dayton, A. j. :Joslyn; Colfax, NJ. s. Anderson;
Lewiston, G. w. Shaffer; Winston, s. L. Bur-
rill; Chaplain in the United States Army, j.
o. Raymor. Dalles Distrsct-H. Caldwell,
Presiding Elder; The Dalles, r. G. Haure;
Canyon City, G. w. Grannis; Klickitat, j.
G. Kukman; Simcoe Qndian Missiop) J. II.
Wilbur, Thos H. Pearne and Geo. Waters.
Grande Ronde and Boise CITY District-H. r.
Hines, Presiding Elder; LIE Grande, E.
Hays; Union, A. Eads; Summerswille, j.
w. Kuykendall; Baker City, w. T. Koontz;
Boise Circuit, G. w. Adams; Boise City, w.
s. Simpson; Idaho City Circuit, j. Nc.
Kean.
THE Mountain Rangers" will be back
tomorrow. They return without having
scaled either the mountain or the height of
their ambition, like the prodigal, and are will
ing to be forgiven. They return ragged and
sore, with modified opinion of the delights
of camp life The romance of yellow>cov-
cred literature is pretty effectually subdued
in their imaginat0ns for some time to come,
If we are to judge from the reports brought
in by q rural friend.
IT is said that young man of this place,
whose spare capital consisted of thirty odd
trade dollars, fearing further depreciation
Of that kind of currency, hastily disposed of
them at ninety cents each, and as the very
next gale which swept from the East"
brought the astounding intelligence that they
commanded five per cent. premium in New
York, he is gloomily and despondently figur.
ing up his loss by the transaction.
CALIFORNIA sends eighty Chinese boys to
the Centennial. They are students, being
educated in this country under the superin>
dendence of the Chinese educational com.
mission. If they can be educated to demand
and receive adequate compensation for their
labor, some good may be done, but we doubt
whether this national characteristic can be
eradicated by any such means.
SOME time ago Miss Catherine L. Wolf, of
New York, gave $4,000 for founding q
school for girls in Nevada, on condition that
like sum should be contributed by the citi.
zens of the State. Bishop Whitaker has sue.
ceeded in raising the required amount, and
the school will soon open at Reno.
OREGON makes q creditable showing in the
increase Of her export trade, as witness the
following figures: Total exports year ending
July 81, 1875. $3,6se, 514 Of; total exports
year ending July 81, 1876, $3.50, S44 IS; to-
tai exports two years, $11 ,O09, 1853 SO; increase
of 1875 over 1875, s., 6as, $50 a.
THE twenty.frst Annual Convention of
the Young Mems Christian Association of
the United States and Canada, met in Shafts.
bury Hall, Toronto Canada, July 18th. $50
Associations reported the total value of their
property to be $2,095. 1886.
THE Puget Sound Baptist Association will
meet at Ceaterville, Lewis county, on Fri,
day before the second Sabbath in September.
All friends of the cause are cordially invited
to attend.
ANOTHER case of smallpox has been de,
veloped in East Portland. The name of the
sufferer is Anderson. and he attended Nj
chols during his fatal attack of the same dis
ease.
Gov. Grover, of Oregon, has called Spec
ial election in the counties of Clatsop and
Columbia, to elect State Senator, in place
of Mr.. Smith, lately deceased.
HE ministers of the French Methodist
Church held their twenty-third Annual Con.
ference in the town of Auduse. in the south
of France this year.
QUITE a sensation in London journalistic
circles is caused by the appointment of a
lady as assistant editor on one of the citv
newspapers.
HE Baptists in West Virginia are gaining
ground. They now number $50 churches, 1850
ministers, 1000 members and 800 Sunday
schools.
A PROPOSITION has been submitted TO the