, 1877-02-09
PACIFIC SLOPE NEWS.

The climate Of Western Washing.
ton consists Of two seasons, the dry
and the rainy. 1t is not unseason-
able for the months called winter to
he mild without ice or snow, the
grass meanwhile growing. In Feb
Tuary genial weather may occur sue
ceeded by q wintry March or late
April. In July and August the
maximum temperature for short
period may rise above 80 degrees,
with cool nights. The rainy season
NAV commence late in October and
continue till April, even iaGer, and it
is exceptional if one or more of the
winter months is not in the main
mild and fair. The summers or the
dry season are unsurpassed. Days
may be hot, but the nights are col
and refreshing. In the winter
months (say OJGober to April, rains
prevail. Falling weather IN each "A
hours is not disappointment, yet
many days Of sunshine brighten the
winters of Western Washington.
ORA wiu;er,,p ;nt OF Puget Sound,
five at most were sufficiently severe
to necessitate the housing or feeding
of stock. 1t is wiser to prepare for
winter-and stock r ,ers adopt such
precaution-still there is seldom to
exceed Z to 10 days of freezing
weather sufficiently intense to make
ice capable of bearing a mans
weight. The average yearly rain
fall in the Puget Sound BASIN is Az
inches. At Cape Flattery, mouth Oh
Strait of Fuca, l30 inches.-Extracl
from speech delivered by Hon.
Elwood Evans at the Centennial.
The Coroner of San Francisco at
tended to 800 cases during the
year 1876. OF those, ~ were OF sui.
cides, 20 murders, and justitiable
homicides. The remainder were Of
violent deaths of various kinds. Ol
the ~ suicides, the methods employ
ed to accomplish destruction we're
varied and numerous. Twenty ive
.ushered themselves into eternity
with pistol bullets, Z jumped over
board into the bay, 2 threw them
selves from high windows,2 hung
themselver, l cut the arteries of hls
arm, l threw himself beneath the
wheels of locomotive, 4 cut :hel,
throats, and the remaining 81 swal-
lowed.poison. or the 26 murders,
II have been avenged, nor have any
arrests been made ior them. There
we're 13S deaths during the year in
which the names Of the deceased
persons we're not discovered.
The San Francisco Chamber ol
Commerce recently passed resolu-
tion In favor of maintaining single
gold standard, and adverse to the
unlimited silver" The resolution
adopted by this influential body is
to the effect that the interest of COM
merce aud the prosperity of the
country will be subseryed by main
tanning gold coin as the sole standard
Of values in all transactions above
the sum Of 50.
Rev. Joseph Rowell, pastor of the
Mariners Church at San Francisco,
says that his church offers practical
illustration of our Sayior's prayer,
that they all may be one;" for, in
our church, he says, are representa-
tiyes OF not less than fifteen evangeI-
lcal denominations, beside Roman
Catholics and Universalists; and all
goes on with, perfect harmony.
Sufficient rain has fallen in Los
Angeles county, CAL, to enable far
mers to plow new land. The price
OF sheep has advanced from so cents
head to 81.
Twenty one Pueblo Indians, from
Santa Fe, New Mexic, have been set
to work ON the large Palo Prteta
ranch, Kern county, Cal.
Sixty-seven sacks of watermelon
seeds, each sack weighing 100 lbs,
were brought last week from Sacra-
mento to Chinese firm in San
francisco. The Chinese prize wa
termelon seed very highly for some
reason unknown to white folks.