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Washington standard. [volume] (Olympia, Wash. Territory) 1860-1921, 1878-12-07

IT may be remembered by some of
our readers, that recent advices from
Washington accused the Secretary
of War of promoting young men to
certain clerksbips in the army in
contravention of law. These clerks
belong to what is known as the
General Service Force." persons
who have been regularly enlisted
into the army though mono of them
are commissioned officers. The Sec
rotary being DESTROYS Of filing va
cancies in various clerical Offices,
ventured to make q single nomin-
alton from tho force alluded to, and
the question will come before the
Senate and be made q test case.
This statement clears the Secretary
of the charges that have been made
against him.
Washington standard. [volume] (Olympia, Wash. Territory) 1860-1921, 1878-12-07

A LONG letter 10 going the rounds
d the Oregon prss. purporsing to
have bssn written By . tourist from
Washington. and giving IN account
Of Tie Puget SQUAD country. The
Oregon editors ~ in Ne blaadest
manner possible. 1--WE give nor
readers the following extracts, " etc. /,
thus publishing Il seems. just what
they thiSk might turn the tide Of
imrsiB grafton .~ay from this Terri
tory, and cause il to set in al its
force towards their own Landed
State. The Oregonians ought to
b satisfied with taking to them
selves the full credit Of our valuable
exports smuggled into their com
mercial reports, without trying TO
wrsst the text Of letter-writsrs until
ii appears In their columns, like the
handle OF . jug. al on one side. and
the handle. too. invariably turned
towards that " fairest country the sun
ever shown upon" Webfoot-land.
When . tourist praises our Terri
tory. why don't the Oregon Journal
lists publish their letters verbatim ct
llerafim; or rather, why do they
publish them at all?
Washington standard. [volume] (Olympia, Wash. Territory) 1860-1921, 1878-12-07

A NEW islsnd has been discovered
in the Polar regions by Norwegian
explorer named Johannessen. The
island is situated in longitude 66
degrees east, and n degrees, Is
minutes north. It 10 about ten
miles long and very fiat and low.
No snow was found upon it but a
great many birds. A scanty. vege-
tation was found growing upon the
island, composed principally of the
usual arctic moses and grasses.
The highest part of the island does
not exceed one hundred feet. It
seems, upon examination, that this
land does not appear on any of the
latest charts.
Washington standard. [volume] (Olympia, Wash. Territory) 1860-1921, 1878-12-07
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Washington standard. [volume] (Olympia, Wash. Territory) 1860-1921, 1878-12-07

MODERN CHuLAsx.-Tbe teachings
of the late 4" Prophetic Conference
in New York were the subject Of
discourse in the Methodist church Of
this city, by William Roberts, pas
tor, on last Sabbath evening. The
same subject. will be resumed next
Sunday evening, with a..preparatory
morning service.
Washington standard. [volume] (Olympia, Wash. Territory) 1860-1921, 1878-12-07

Mn. r. s. White informs us tina,
. large seal was shot aud killed
yesterday, near the Hartman ranch
q few miles below this place. The
animal was found in . slough nea,
the house, and was shot seven times
before being killed. The carcas,
weighing upwards Of $50 pound,
and yielded . large quantity of ex.
cellent oil.
Washington standard. [volume] (Olympia, Wash. Territory) 1860-1921, 1878-12-07

ADAM and Eve are said to have
been the only couple that truly
loved at FIRST sight and married. A
story comes all the way from San
Francisco, to the effect that two in
nocents saw each other on Sunday
evening for the first time in their
natural lives, loved, popped, yessed,
and got married on the following
Tuesday evening. That's the kind
of barnacles they were.
Washington standard. [volume] (Olympia, Wash. Territory) 1860-1921, 1878-12-07

The ruling wages for coasting sea-
men has been fixed by San Francis
CO ship-owners at $35 per month,
the result Of o strike among the sail
ors.
Washington standard. [volume] (Olympia, Wash. Territory) 1860-1921, 1878-12-07
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Washington standard. [volume] (Olympia, Wash. Territory) 1860-1921, 1878-12-07

MRs. r. NJ. Tilley and her daugh-
tor May returned by the DAKOTA,
yesterday. from Gan Francisco, where
they have been spending . few
weeks in visiting their friends.
Washington standard. [volume] (Olympia, Wash. Territory) 1860-1921, 1878-12-07

YOUNG men should not be too in
qusitive nowadays. If q young
lady is making something nice, il
may be a neck-tie; a handkerchief
that she is hem stitching or even a
shirt; that is, a shirt that her mother
has made and which she is now fuss
ing up for her lover. So don't be
too inquisitive, young man.
Washington standard. [volume] (Olympia, Wash. Territory) 1860-1921, 1878-12-07

TnE" Prssidsntis mesaags" bsaru
. stirling similarity 10 al its pre-.
dsesssors. and occupies over siz
columns In The city dailiss.
Washington standard. [volume] (Olympia, Wash. Territory) 1860-1921, 1878-12-07

TIE Willamette Valley and Coast
Railroad" ID one Of the new things
in Oregon. The valley terminus Of
the road 10 10 Be located at Corvallis.
Washington standard. [volume] (Olympia, Wash. Territory) 1860-1921, 1878-12-07

0ooe fr OF alder wood. four fest il
lsagth. isow sold ct 8 80 per eosd
ssOve-vood and bark u sold for q
psr cord.
Washington standard. [volume] (Olympia, Wash. Territory) 1860-1921, 1878-12-07

Su0 the defeat of Ben. Bukler
- - eoas into IL butAae ana
.ehoees kusinew.
Washington standard. [volume] (Olympia, Wash. Territory) 1860-1921, 1878-12-07

Mr.. Whites dancing school meets
this Winter every Saturday evening,
in Tacoma Hall. The instructions
this week will be in the waltz and
polka quadrilles, closing with . de-
lightful soiree, in which scholars
and the public generally will par
ticipate.
Washington standard. [volume] (Olympia, Wash. Territory) 1860-1921, 1878-12-07

,,ores of their bodies, volatile par
,;cles of life-producing agency are
,iOntinually introducing themselves
and thus, the sustaining process II
c,rried on so long as the subject Is
.,raced in the avocation which re-
ouires his presence in an atmosphere
io,ded with the volatilized atoms in
question. This is certainly worthy
the attention of medical men and
analvtical chemists. The great DIFF
tculty in dealing with consumption
!. owing to lis andemonssrative pro-
cress; its almost unperceived but
sure aud fatal inroads upon the ply
steal economy of the system. 1t is
to be hoped that a method OF treat
mept will be devised for thoroughly
testing the new theory, to which at
tention has been called.
HAVE YOU heard the sand-papei
Joke. Well, it WAS Oh this wise:
4 young lady Of our acquaintance
conceived, some time ago, strange
infatuation for visiting q certain well
known bookstore in this city, all
through, and on account of, as the
sequal shows. the polite attentions
of spruce young man, who is, by
the way, the junior partner of the
firm. After her frequent and Oft
repeated inquiries for perforated pa
, per, cardboard, envelopes, etc., had
become glaringly threadbare, she
was left in a desperate strait to
know what else to ask for, since,
to visit the store she must. Wom-
anly invention soon came to her re-
lief. Being about to make one of
those holiday gimcracks technically
ycleped " scratch-my back" and
thinking, as reasonable matter of
course, that anything in the paper
line was accounted stationery, she
brushed up courage, entered the store
once more and asked her charmer
for "toilet sand-paper." It is un-
necessary to add that the young lady
was referred to q hardware estab-
lishment; but before leaving the
presence of her dear inamorato,
however, she learned from a lady
friend that the spruce young mer-
chant--O horrors! was-a married
man! Sensation.
Washington standard. [volume] (Olympia, Wash. Territory) 1860-1921, 1878-12-07

The city Of New York pays her
police force 5000, 600 annually.
and yet the body of A. T. Stewart
could not rest in peace. inclosed in
q triple burial case. hermetically
eealsd and deposited ten feet bslow
the surface Of the ground.
Washington standard. [volume] (Olympia, Wash. Territory) 1860-1921, 1878-12-07

A Los Angeles editor he's bssa
found guilty Of hbsl and ssstenesd
10 . tsrm Of ono year in the county
Jail. Rather hard on the fraternity,
isn't ite
Washington standard. [volume] (Olympia, Wash. Territory) 1860-1921, 1878-12-07

Tn bay and ssigAbosi,g ssessAs
are fall a logs and ~ haxnaclss
ere srsstias inpsuvsnsaac upua
them.
Washington standard. [volume] (Olympia, Wash. Territory) 1860-1921, 1878-12-07

II = nov gsessally eoscsdsd thai
Tie Uniasd Ssaass psisoasr vhs -
eaPsd o. Aoeday IAst. - . per-
soP4nsy buinso ell.
Washington standard. [volume] (Olympia, Wash. Territory) 1860-1921, 1878-12-07

AaaASoENExrs have been made by
the railrosd company with parties in
Portlaad for Tie disposal Of the
bonds. provided the people Of THU
county shall subscribe for ons-third
The full amount -$1S. 900. Thia
sssos 10 - the best tsrns that cau
b secured. and &c - 10 reason
Wy Ills srsaass~sst may not be
Dnmnm0Anan1 nth it'll f3sRemItv
Washington standard. [volume] (Olympia, Wash. Territory) 1860-1921, 1878-12-07

business transacted BY the District
Court the past week:
The businea. before the District Court
to-day was - follows:
Reed W. Cameron, sale Of real estate
confirmed.
Neate W.. Rowland. motion for order
TO confirm aale u real estate sustained
without prejudice and leave to amend
granted
Degarsiow vs Rowland. same order.
Hartsock VI Tyler. demurrer granted.
Miller ct nj. vs. Lewis county. appeal
dismissed.
r. Henry, Guardian, vs. 8. J. Hamilton.
demurrer sustained, leave 70 amend grant
ed.
Milroy W. Hunter. leKve 10 amend grant
ed. motion TO make more definite ss,s-
tanned.
Miller VI Hiklak. demurrer sustained,
leave to amend granted.
Gagnon vs. Wiley. judgment.
Rcsenthal vs. Korter, judgment for 81
"a IS.
Young vs. Hamilton, demurrer over
ruled.
Hunt ~ Ste, ems, judgment, $50 80.
williams W Rowe. judgment eS7s IL.
J. c. Barrett. of Lewis county. was In
dicted by the Grand Jury, "Wednesday. on
three counts, for selling liquor to minors.
Three indictments were also found
against Joseph Saunders, for similar Of
fence, Of the some county.
In the case Henry VS.. Hamilton, demur-
rer overruled.
Brown VS. steamer Zephw. exception to
libel disallowed.
Henry vs. Lewis county, judgment oil
non-suit.
The principal portion Of the week has
been occupied in hearing the cases OF Eat
bank VS.. Hamilton and Hamilton vs.
Hamilton.
Our town has, of late, been flooded
with "price list circulars" sent by
the drygoods merchants of Portland.
1t is estimated that $4,000 of these
leaflets have been taken from the
pigeon-holes in our Postof6ce since
thanksgiving. Now we are not dry
goods dealers, neither do We sell
fancy goods suitable for Christmas
and New Years gifts, but it forcibly
strikes us that if we were merchants
of any kind in this city, we would
pursue such q course as would cause
the officious Portland dealers to
have only their pains for their pay
But then when people won't adver'
tise their wares, who is to blame il
our citizens send abroad to those
houses that are advertised in hall
the papers Of the coast besides be-
ing shown up in the myriads of pam.
phlets and leaflets to which allusion
has already been made. If our bust.
ness men would take one half the
pains to inform their friends wha.
they have for the holidays and scatter
price lists as do the business men in
our neighboring cities, there would
be no sending away from home fol
the thousand-and-one articles which
can now be procured in. no other
way. That these methods of adver.
Using are profitable to the dealers
who make use Of them, is fully
evidenced by the arms-full of pack
ages that are daily received by the
ladies of this place through Wells,
Fargo & Co.'S Express and the mails.
National Republican., 1878-01-22
Sound Sense.
The 81 Inuis LumrnnI ,u,.s.

The st. Louis Journal says:
The gold monopolists are well pleased with
the Wisconsin Senate's silver platform, which
in effect is simply this: Put gold dollars
worth OF silver in your silver dollars, aud coin
as many of them as you like" Let us sec how
this would work. Say instead of i12l grains
the old legal.tender dollar when the bonds
were sOld-the new dollar should contain
ilG grains. Suppose in a few years gold dol
lars should become less valuable than such
silver dollars. We should then be forced to
add little gold to new gold dollar to bring
1t up 10 the silver standard Then after a
while the silver dollar would need tinker
ing again, aud we should have to put in say
i2j grains. Adding thus to one coin, and then
to the other, to keep them of exactly the same
value would lead to silver coach-whesls aud
gold grndstones. We should have in the end
silver dollars weighing a pound and gold dol,
lars weighing an ounce. The thing is ridicu.
lous. The experience of ages has shown that
the two metals are valued in about the ratio
established by our coinage laws before the in
famous trick Of 1873 dropped the silver dollar
from the statute. 1t will do no harm to re-
store the law as it stood SO long upon tbs
statute-boOks. The ratio established by that
law will be found as near the correct thing as
can be determined by any known process.
National Republican., 1878-01-22
DIED.

JONES.-At stevensville, Pa, on the 18th Of Jan.
uary, ls7s. BySps y. JoSEs, aged twenty.seyen
years, formerly OF the General Land onicc, In this
city
ouINCY.-vcry suddenly. on the 2o,h OF January,
ISIS, at go p. m, THOMAS A. QUISCY, formerly OF
lost9n, but for more than thirty years resident OF
The funeral win take place from his late residence,
l2i Finn street northwest this afternoon ut Socnck
Relatives and friends are respectfully invited Dos
ton, Portland and Baltimore papers please oopy.l
BEACH. In Alexandria, Va, on the 2o,h Of Jan.
uary, lS7s, Mrs. FERgERsON BEACH, sister OF Mrs.
Thomas =. Morgan, OF this city.
CLEMENTs.- on the 10th Of January, 1873, after q
long ana painful Illness, which he bore with Christian
forttiude, EDWARD ii. CLkMESTs, In the fortieth year
Internient at Mt. Olivet cemetery.
GODEY.-On the morning OF January q, 1873, at 4
o'clock a. D., LAURA W. eldest daughter OF the late
w. H. Cooley, of0eorgetown, D. G.
mother, No igs Congress street, wednesday 2si in.
stant, at 2:b o'clock y. Relatives and friends oi
the faplly are invited to attend.
MCHRf RfDE.-On the evening Of January 70, ISIS. oil
sSSn'HSmp'ior con S ,, ansr long md painful Hines wniSi
daughter Of William and the late Ann Mcbride, aged
eighteen years
terrain Church corner OF sixth and streets south.
west The friends and, relatives arc respectfully In
vted to attend this afternoon, at two o'clock.
NAGLF.-Tn this city, on January %, ISIS, KATE
Her funeral Will take place this afternoon at two
o'clock from her brothers. residence, corner OF Sec
ond street and Virginia avenue southeast Navy Yard
Hill The friends OF the family are respectfully In
vited to attend.
wARD.-At eight p M, on the nth Of january
1873, GEoR0IASSA WARD, In the sixtieh year OF heI
lgc after lingering illness, which she bore with
Reatiyes and friends are respectfully invited to at
tend The funeral. from her late residence No 1857
Ninth street northwest, this afternoon, at o'clock.
National Republican., 1878-01-22
DRoPoeAIs FoR ARMY WAGONS, ANBu.
L LANCES, AND HARNESS.
orARrEHMAsrrR.tinskn.Ts 6Sfitr,

wAsHISoToS, January H. Is7s
Sealed proposals in tripicnie will he Tscved ut the
ton 2. C philadelphia; Penn Jerersonvllle, Int;
and Fort Leayenworth, Kansas, until Twelve o'cl0ck
M, at Washington, 12.nf p m Mt Philadelphia
li2G a. M. at Jacksonville and 1870 A. m. at Fort
places they viii be opened in the presence OF bidders
Tor furnishing ons;hnndred ti'o) six mule Army wRg.
Uns, my or Wagons for two and four horses of
mules, twenty-five l2D Ambulance Wagons, army
pattern, one hundred aud nay tEo) sets Of slxmuie
Army:Wagon Harness complete and seventytve lI5b
sets iour-mulc Ambulance Harness. complete; deliv-
cries to be made at either the Phaiephia Jefferson
Vile OF Fort ISnvenwOr depots, as mny be required
Bids VIII be made accordingly ...
Deliveries are to commence within thirty days from
date OF contract and be completed within sixty days
from date thereof The Wagons Ambuances, and
atnes 70 be IN eIac accordance with the prescribed
spech cations therefor, OF rrstclass material and
before acceptance, and all found not up TO the
quired standard to be rejected and removed ut
tractors expense within ten days a,er notice OF such
rslscton Proposals Will 10 received Tor AIRY portion
The Government the right to reject any and
Aprefcrence will be given to articles Of domestic
manufacture produced the Pacific coast to the
tent OF the supplies required for the service that
coast conditions Of price and quality being equal
Blank proposals and printed specifications, as well a.
any further INFORMATION, viii be furnished on npplica
ton. by either Of the Depot ouartermasters herein
Proposals should be addressed TO either the Depot
Quartermaster Mt Washington, Philadelphia, Jeifer-
sonyie. or Fort Deavenworih: and be Endorsed Pro-
Two or fSur horses or mules ""fmSnancess six. iS
mule Army Wagon Harness /" or "Four-m Ambu-
lance Harness." rs the case may be.
STEwART VAN yLIFT,
Acting ouartermaster General, Bvt:Msj. Gen. U. 8 A.
National Republican., 1878-01-22

States assay office In the city of New York,
and receive In return therefor the full com
mercial value of said bullion In standard sill
yer erdollars. And from and after the passage Of
this act, the said silver dollars and the stand.
ard gold coinage shall jointly be full legal
tender, each TO the extent of fifty per cent,
and no more, of all debts public and private,
except as otherwise provided by the law or
express contract.
This measure, though exceedingly sue
cinct in terms, seems TO cover the financial
question with ample length and breadth.
II may be in some respects objectionable
and will no doubt be met with as stern hos
tiity on the part of the gold-mongers rs is
arrayed against the BLAND silver bill 4; but
it strikes us as the most efficient measure
yet presented to the public mind as an
agent in behalf of early and certain resump-
tion. In that view of the case, II is the
measure of the period and the desideratum
of the hour In one sense ii is q compro-
mise, and in another the bold assertion Of
a principle which meets with great favor in
the average American mind. Its passage
will at once put gold, silver, and greenbacks
on par, and resumption will, on its passage,
become an accomplished fact. 1t at
once places gold and silver on an equal
plane, and appreciates our paper money
to more than an equality with the other
class of currency. When the coin factors of
both silver and gold combined form but
fifty per cent. of the amounts needed to
pay our obligations, public and private,
and greenbacks supply the balance, salu-
tary relief will, in our judgment, come TO
the people and the Government, and con-
traction Of paper currency and the hoard
ing of gold will cease. The dread OF n
financial convulsion under resumption will
pass by and business will assume more
healthy aspect. These are desirable ends
to be reached, and the shortest constitu-
tional road leading thereto should be
sought by the Government. If it lies in
this measure, let it take the place of all
others and be pushed forward to = statu-
tory law. lfsound in principle and practical
in adaptation as the means of escape
from the financial ills that now besct the
business interests of the country, then it is
the Eureka of the occasion. The advocate
Of silver reconciliation has no occasion to
object to it, except perhaps, to the Emit
placed upon its use in the payment of debts
for the reason that it fully recognizes the
principle of remonetizing that metal as
money. The greenbacker may have like
objection to the limit placed upon paper
money in the payment of debts but the
principle for which they contend is recog-
nized, and hence their objection would b,
based upon so slight foundation that il
could not stand
The gold-mongers and bondholders will
no doubt array themselves against thi'
measure with as relentless bittcrncssas they
have brought to bear upon the BLAND bill
for the reason that it will, if it becomes ;
law, break the back of the gold power ant
set the business interests of the countr,
free. When this shall come the people viii
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