, 1878-05-31
CONDENSED ITEMS.

. Thr examination uf ". :. Niggiu. at
seattle. u..u'trl in hi- aoIuillal.
Thr pnpulitinn NJ seattle has increased
iT2 luriuS the past year. It nov reaches
3.GS3.
/ Can't T.. a. Johnson. register of the
land oill s., AZ wala Walla. has bccn re-
moved from ollicr.
The work ot rebuilding the Bishop scott
Gnmmor School buiding In Portland.
has been commenced.
! The Congregational Association OF Ore
gon aud Washington Territory will meet
in Oregon City OH the 10th OF June.
The Talbot coal mine property, offered
AZ Shcriii's sale. was bid in by Dexter
| Horton 4 Co, the execution creditors tor
1928. being the amount oil their judgment
with accrued interest.
/ Russian papers compute the entire cost
Incurred hv the war on the part ot Russia
at $50 000. 600 roubles, 1851 900. 600. Rus
sia 5 indifference to expenses is character
iStic ofa country that has no money to-
speak of and not very goo,i credit.
According TO the 'Courier's" returns of
the convention election, the members
elect are: w A George. s NJ. Gilmore,
Edward Eldridgc, G ii Larrabee, B
DenniSon. s w Wait, l. b Andrews, o
p Lacy. Frank Henry, e II Stewart. A s.
Abernethy. ID b Hanna. G M Bradshaw.
II B Emery and j V O'Dell-eight Re-
publicans and seven Democrats.
KING COUNTY AssEssMENTs.-M f.
Bryan, deputy assessor, has furnished Us
the following tootings Of the county as
Spsslnent for the 1878: Value of improve
ments. 1852. 100; value of land and town
lots $943.O34; value Of personal property,
$700.0lG. Total, $2,I95, l59. Last year
the returns footed up little under So
100000. but the total was considerably
raised by the County Commissioners. .-In-
telligencer."
The Oregonian" says: Gen. Howard
has received u letter from Mr.. A. j. Cain.
of Dayton, w. r., which states that Sun
day or Big Thunder, head chief of the Pa
louse Indians, came to that town few
days ago and informed him that Chief
Moses has no intention of commencing an
outbreak, and that the reports to that et-
feet have been gotten up by renegade III
dians and unpriucipaled white men who
| aSs0ciate WIN tnem.
The Dayton papers are noticing the
Improvements being made by the woolen
company OF that place. the factory turning
out large quantities OF excellent woolen
goods. and the demand being such that
the facilities for manufacturing have to b.
increased. The factory Is great benefit
to the people east of the mountains, situat-
ell in the midst of country where the
raw staple il largely raised and also where
there is a large home demand for the
manufactured articles. The same could
be said for Puget Sound were there mills
for manufacturing.
Quick Trips On the 18th inst, there
arrived in San Francisco. the ship Western
Shore and bark Forest Queen. five and
-halfdays respectively from Seattle and
Port Ludlow. The same day the Shirley
arrived eight days from Tacoma; North
west, seven DAYS from Port Madison; Sam
oset, thirteen days from Tacoma; Victor
nine days from Port Gamble; North Star.
ten a = from Seattle; Levi Stevens. eight
Idays from Departure bay, and Frithioi
twelve days from Port Gamble. On th,
18th the arrival of the Coqnimbo was r.-
ported eight days from Port Madison. the
Dublin. nine days from Seabeck and the
Penang, ten days from Departure Bay,
The Boston "Transcript" says: Ship
builders from the British Provinces are
purchasing the spars recently brought
to this port from Oregon" Ignorance is
bliss, It is said, and so we perhaps can ex-
cuse the eastern press from giving credit
to Oregon for the products Of Puget
Sound, although 1t IL about time that
prominent newspaper editors knew better
The press OF Oregon steal the credit of this
Territory at every opportunity, bat it is
time the whole business was stopped. II
Is Oregon pine lumber, Oregon coal. Ore.
gon salmon, Oregon hops and Oregon
wheat. when In tact one-ha fof the salmon
are packed on the Washington si,le OF
the Columbia river, the Oregon pine is
Puget Sound fir, and of this and coal our
shiomcnts are twenty to one Of Oregon.
STYLE.-Oregon has IT'S style; Wash
ington Territory has ITS style; and, from
the following paragraph from the Owy-
hee Avalanche. :" we should judge that
Idaho had IT'S style. Speaking of CO.
Temporary the Avalanche uses this
language: "You mise rable, degraded
whelp: there isn't vim enough left In your
lcompositiOn to thrash lOllse, and Ii can
not be expected that members of the pro.
fession you so basely and ignOminiOusly
represent will descend TO that level Of filth
and putrescence so cOngenial 10 one whose
canine instincts are thus revealed so clear
Ily." That fellow ought to lock horns
with the great reform" ID. p, II he
wishes, in his language. to seek the
''etern@l fitness Of things"
WILL NOT CONFESS. .--"Mabel Claire, ~
says the Burlington "Hawkeye." writes
w. the following tlattering inquiry: "Ar
you the author OF that tender little ballad.
Darling. Kiss My Eyelids Down p {"
We! We write such stuff rs that kiss
our eyeli,ls down." Mabel, chou art be-
side tiiyseli; much reading hath made thee
mad. Darling, kiss our eyelids down"
Now isn't that q nice thing TO accuse us
Of saying? Are we that devoid ofintelli-
genoe? Mabel don't you trouble our eye
lids when you have fancy to perform any
operations of that deieate and tender ma
ture. We have u large, comfortable.
rOOmy, flexible cash jast below our nose