Washington standard. [volume] (Olympia, Wash. Territory) 1860-1921, 1877-01-13
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Walla Walla county is out Of debt,
after spending nearly $1,000 on the
court house.
InNew York, the professional price
of dressing a dolls hair in the lat
est style is fifty cents.
Seven ladies are attending the
course of medical lectures at the
Willamette University.
Mr.. Abadie, of Walla Walla, had
made 400 gallons of white wine and
$50 of red wine last season.
Tilden's majority of 800, 900 votes
is as naught by the side of Hayes
maj ority of five returning boards.
Hayes got 10000 fewer votes in
Ohio than Grant did in 1872. Ye
loaves and fishes, what intimidation
is this
Kentucky put up 10000 votes for
Tilden. Let us try and forget the
immensely and Darkness of her
lotteries.
1t is better to say once "Our Fa-
ther' slowly, reverently, than many
long prayers, uttered with the lips in
deed, but not with the heart, while
the thoughts go straying about the
four corners of the earth.
Says the Philadelphia Times:
"When the Republicans are brought
face to face with the cases of Oregon
and Louisiana, both at once, they
are compelled to to exclaim with the
old colored deacon: No system of
theology can stan SIGH questions as
dem.
A couple were married at Stockton
the other day At each door of the
church stood young gentleman
having in his hand a basket filled
with slices of cake wrapped in white
paper and tied with white ribbon.
As the congregation passed out, each
person received piece of the cake.
The only marmalade factory in this
country is at Jacksonville, Fla. This
establishment works up about three
thousand oranges and ten barrels of
sugar per day; and turns out some
fifteen thousand pounds of MARINA
lade every week, but is capable of
increasing the amount to five tons or
more. The proprietors own an
orangey of 5000, 900 trees.
Senator Conkling is indignant at
military interference in South Caro-
lima. He remarked to a brother
Senator the other day: "The logical
result of such conduct is that before
long regulor soldiers will punch our
own tickets before we can getinto the
Senate chamber. Yes-and if OBJ
jections are made the Grants and
Rogers will punch the heads of the
Directing Senators.
The appropriations made by Con-
gress for Oregon, for the year 1877,
aggregate S664, 700. OF this amount
500, 900 is to be expended on the
canal at the Cascades, and about $15,-
600 upon the Snake river, which is of
little Importance as compared to many
of the rivers tributary to Puget
Sound, for the improvement of which
the Government has refused to make
any appropriation.
The Boston Herald, on challenge,
gives these representative and illus
trative names of Massachusetts, Re-
publicans who believe that Gov. Til
den has been fairly elected President:
Estes Lowe, Clement Hugh Hill,
Willard P. Philips, James Russell
Lowell, James Freeman Clarke,
Martin Brimmer, William E. Per-
kins, John D. Long, John E. San
ford and Alexander H. Bullock.
The following extract from a pub
lished letter, relative to Puget Sound,
is q fact: "And so long as we have
the non-producing numbering popu-
lation, the farmers market will be at
home. These agricultural lands are
more fertile, the country more
healthy, the climate more congenial,
and the commercial and manufactur-
ing advantages greater than are to be
found in any other unsettled portion
of the United States. It is easier for
a poor man to obtain a farm here
than on the prairies of Minnesota,
Iowa or Kansas.
Sir Francis Head, speaking of the
pleasures of the chase, gives an an
ecdote of a hard arguer in favor Of
fox-hunting, in these words: Said
the naughty countess of to an
aged huntsman, who, cap in hand had
humbly invited her ladyship to do
him the honor to come and see his
hounds I dislike everything belong
ing to hunting-it is so cruel, cruel,
replied the old man, with apparent
astonishment. why, my lady, it
can't possibly be cruel, for'-logical-
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