Washington standard. [volume] (Olympia, Wash. Territory) 1860-1921, 1878-12-14

ascendant.
An umbrella. like q motion TO ad-
journ, is now in or,ler-
VINO Mrs. once to take kiss has
Mr.. thing he should not Miss.
MRs. Casterbottle is the keeper OF
boarding house in Portland.
A HEAVY earthquake shock was
felt yesterday over a large portion Of
California.
TaE steamer Zepdyr, since her rem
novation, arrives at about 3 o'clock,
equaling the best time of the Messen-
ger.
The De Young brothers, of the
San Francisco Chronicle are under
going the ordeal of another libel
prosecution.
SOMETHING in the line of o coal
bunker is to be built at the depot;
or rather covered bin for storing
the article.
TaE great American-Chinese COM
bat in San Francisco is slowly but
surely assuming more and more
alarming phases.
CAPT. Parker left Seattle for Port
Townsend last Thursday, to secure
renewal of the Messengers papers.
"Gill" is now veritable captain,
aud bears his honors we'll.
The Mexican Minister of Public
Justice has announced that his
government is about to nominate a
commission to inaugurate special
exhibition to be strictly confined to
Mexican and American products.
Mr.. Douglass Young, formerly
employed in the store of the Chill
berg brothers here, has gone to Seat
tlS where he has been engaged as
oQ1rkaeper by the firm of Hall &
p pm sxtsnaiy taEpit2Ea dealers,
The guards Of the steamer Messen-
ger have been extended two feet on
each side, adding very materially to
the convenience for handling freight,
and serving the purpose of fender
against accident to her upper works.
IT is now generally conceded by
old settlers that our "hard Winter"
report in the Fall was only a scare.
Let it be so, we will take incessant
rain every time, and let others take
frozen mercury and skating, if they
choose.
Mr.. Andrews, of Seattle, has
named Yakima City as the capital of
the State of Washington. Ry what
authority he assumes to thus ar
bitrarily dispose of the matter, does
not appear "on the face Of the re-
turns"
AN Eastern journal in summing
up the details Of late article. con-
eludes that the chief cause of diph-
iberia in large cities is found in the
communication between sleeping
rooms and the sewer mains. But,
Ike many other discoveries it fails
TO assign any means for abating the
terrible evil.
A source Of getting amazingly rich
in a short time is the buying up of
tnde dollars in China and shipping
them to New York by the way Of the
S,ez Canal. Politial experts think
tley can see the color" of q private
understanding in this matter be-
tween Secretary Sherman and the
seculators.
A LONG disputed question has been
dfcially settled ut last. For some
tine, the point has been variously
Ygued as to whether q steam pile
diver should be included in that
cass of steamers whose owners are
} obliged to take ont licenses, pay
Hospital dues, etc. A recent letter
. fDm the Inspector General of steam
bats. Washington. sets the matter
} o rest BY declaring that a steam
: cnft. used for pile-driving only, is
! ir no way subject to the laws Of the
J United States regulating license and
: tle payment Of hospital dues. This
, decision in quite opportune 10 q
7 largely represented industry upon
. par Sound, and We congrz.siste
! Hose parties who are interested on
D lbe favorable manner in which the
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