, 1877-12-22
TOWN AND COUNTRY.
From Daily Of SATURDAY..

Fro~ Daily Of Saturday:
BURGLARS CAPTURED.--The Port
Standard gives theaccount of the cap
ture of youthful band of burglars
who have been operating extensivel,
In that city of late. About a weel
ago, Captain Belcher arrested, OF
suspicion, a yonng, innocent looking
fellow, named Richard Marble, whose
parents reside near Corvallis, and are
said to be in easy circumstances
Marple is an intelligent man, aged
perhaps 20 years. He was taken te
the city Jail, and search of his per
son disclosed large number of skel
eton keys, which were suspicious
load for an innocent youth to carry
he was unwilling to account fol
their possession and denied any
knowledge of recent burglaries and
of those who committed them
Finally becoming convinced thai
longer secrecy was useless, and sup
posing the officers were fully inform
ed of everything concerning him
and his conduct he burst into tears
confessed his connection with mum.
erous larcenies and disclosed the
names OF those who were engaged
with him as also the places where
the goods were concealed and the
persons to whom the goods were
sometimes sold. In consequence OF
this information, a nest of burglars
and their principal rendezvous have
been broken up.
WHILE We are enjoying the most
delightful. dry, sunshiny weather at
Seattle, our British Columbia neigh
bors are feeling the rigors of a hy-
perborean winter, as witness the fol-
lowing from the Colonist of the 10Th
inst: I" The first snow fell about
three o'clock yesterday morning.
The ground was whitened by tie
fall, which continued till 4 O'Clock,
when the wind chopped round to
the southeast, and the snow disap-
peared before daylight.
BECOMING INTERESTED. Since the
early completion of a railroad from
Seattle to Eastern Washington is as
sured. the people in Northern Idaho
and Eastern Oregon are looking to
Seattle as the future outlet for their
grain products. All they ask of us
is to work together with them in the
building of this railroad. The ex-
tracts from newspapers rep, esenting
these sections, which we publish on
our editorial page, will be found in
teresting.
D1PHTHER1A has been very bad for
some time past on the Snohomish
river. Those sick at Lowell are
now recovering, but Mr.. Hulbert's
family are suffering from this dread
disease, which SO frequently battles
the skill of the physician. Their
youngest daughter is not expected
to recover.
SOME of our country readers do
net yet seem to fully understand
that all lands heretofore held for
railroad purposes north of King
county have reverted to the govern
ment, yet such is the case. Bills are
now pending in Congress which if
passed will restore the unearned
lands north of Tacoma.
We notice in the "Only newspa-
per receiving dispatches in WASH
ington Territory" kilograms dated
three days behind its issue of this
As it does not say that
its dispatches are received by tele-
graph. probably these came by the
grapevine line (?)
STOCKHOLDERS MEETING.-An ad-
vertisement in another column an
nounces that the regular annual
meeting of stockholders of the S. &
W. Railroad will be held at Secreta-
~ Scott's Office on Monday Jan
14th, 1878, at 7 P. NJ, for the election
of new Board of Trustees, and the
of other business.
Mr.. iDAvID LINDSEY will open a
shop for the repair of watches, clocks
and jewelry, on Cherry street, next
week. Mr.. Lindsey has the reputa-
tion of being able of giving entire
in his work, having thor
learned his trade.
FREE LIUNCH.--Fred Gasch, opens
the Fountain Beer Hall tonight
with a grand free lunch. Fred
knows how to do the honors on such
an occasion, and those who visit his
hall will be sure of good, hearty
treatment.
LECTURE. Il. M. Hall, Esq, will
deliver a lecture before the First
Spiritual Association CT Seattle, at
Hall, tomorrow Sunday
at two o'clock. Subject
"Pontius Plate"
THE public schools will close on
Friday next for the usual holiday
vacation; werat the schoolboy pitch
eth his hat in the air, and commenc-
eth to plan campaigns against the
local orchards.