The Vancouver independent. (Vancouver, W.T. [Wash.]) 1875-1910, 1878-02-21
BRIEF MENTION,

Fruit trees are budding.
People are getting their gardens ready for
planting.
Big Eastern mails reached this town on
Tuesday.
The Government advertises for flour in to-
days paper.
). w. Brown is very busy these days, tax
ing out trees and filling orders at the nursery.
The Vancouver brought over about $50
tons of supplies and stores for the Post this
week.
Rev. A. L. Lindsey, of Portland, who Wis
ITS Vancouver to-day, gave us pleasant call
this Morning.
The oldest webfooters now admit that the
rains this winter are as unusually wet as they
are numerous.
Bring on your job Printing-we can show
some good specimens of work done in this
office this month.
The passage of the silver bill does not af-
feet business in Vancouver. We still take
all we can get of it.
Isaac Thomas, engineer of the steamer
Vancouver has returned from months alb
sence to San Francisco.
St. Patrick's day, March II, will come on
Sunday this year. and the day following will
be celebrated in it's stead.
Father C'sary, of the Port Townsend Cath
Ole church, who was in Vancouver for few
days. returned home last week.
A heavy fog hung over the land and water
this morning, so thick that the Cascade boat
made her appearance an hour behind time.
Although the County Treasurer is not
obliged to send notice to delinquent tax pay
ers he has done so, entirely for their benefit.
Helm Kulper, Esq, of Chelatchie, has sold
his farm. He has purchased Mrs Trips
cottage home and will move to Vancouver.
At M. j. Maxon's they have added choice
assortment of dry goods to their stock OF
hardware and groceries. Call and see them.
Thunder on Sunday, and it rolled along
the Columbia as naturally as though it came
every day, instead of three or four times a
year.
The duck hunters are beginning to let up
on pursuit of the feathery multitude, and
the ducks breathe easier since Joe Brant
went into business.
A furlough for four months, with permits
sion to go beyond the sea, is granted to Sar-
8cttuO N'tDISc NcdllllHt, II, -lSt
Infantry, to take effect upon his re-enlist-
ment.
st. Valentine is accused of great partiality
in Vancouver, for having sent more of the
deliberately ornamented variety of epistles to
Burkes butcher shop than any other place
in town.
The steamer Vancouver brought over from
Portland yesterday small stationary steam
engine, fly wheel and pulleys, for Young
brewery.
We have not heard of any one getting W
at 3 o'clock A. NJ. last Sunday in Vancouver
to look at the eclipse of the moon. Sundas
maps are too precious to be disturbed by any
such foolishness.
Thomas Monaghan, who runs an extensive
wood yard above the Cascades near Wind
river, was down few days since, obtaining
various supplies and doing some business al
the Land Office.
Il. Wolf yesterday transplanted a cherry
tree, twenty feet high and five inches diane
ter, on Main street in front of his shop
What a popular rendesvouz for the boys il
summer time it will make.
The East Portland Land Register, pub
lished by ID. II. Stearns has made its ap.
pearance. 1t is credtable sheet, and the
community in that growing town ought to
give it hearty support, as it deserves.
While all Oregon and the Sound people
are bowling about the depth of the mud,
wondering how long it will last, the people
of Vancouver pursue the even tenor of their
way on top of the gravel, and save their souls
from the stain of webfoot oaths