, 1878-03-13
ITEMS or INTEREST

Louisiana rAlSeu thlT'y-t"V WllloH
oranges last year.
No two farmers agree as to how an ice
house should be built.
A waod saw agitate} tliagonally is
good for torpid liver.
Florida hotels are now serving shad,
green peas and tomatoes
Only ten States generous enough to
support boards of health.
Eeling through the ice isl popular
sport down East just now.
The senate confirmed the nomination o.
Adolph Dombrosky receiver 0t public
moneys at Shasta, California.
The new Pope is chosen. His name
was Cardinal Joachim Pecci, but by his
election to the Papacy he is Pope Leo
XIII. He is GO years lid and must have
been An excellent man to gain this great
distinction.
A young man of Brooklyn has made
himself cross eyed for life by watching
the tip of his nosr, threatened with AN er-
ruption ot sore boils. He evidently he
leivod that watched spot never bois.
Take VAIN ming.
The largest oyster on record in the
United States WIS one taken from the
beds Mobile in 1880. 1t measured three
feet and one inch in length, and twenty
three aud half inches in breadth across
its widest pnrt.
Gambetta's recent visit to Rome was
to see If there were any hopes oi detac :
ing Italy from her close relationship with
Germany, He was CORDIALLY received,
but for all business purposes found hlm-
in the Land of Macchiayeli.
George p. GORDON, the inventor of
the Gordon press, whose death at Nor
folk has been announced, was born ir
Salem New Humpshlre,in 1910. His Fa
nous press was patented in 1881. His
remains were sent to Brooklyn, New
York for interment. He leaves large
estate
BY advertisement in this issue Col
Larrabce announces that he will address
his constituents, in the third Judicial Dis
trict, commencing at SnOhomlsd City
on the sixteenth inst, and terminating at
Seattle on April sixth, on the subject ei
the speedy organization OF State gov
ernment.-Dispatch.
On Wednesday, January twenty-ninth,
all France began drawing ut the ballot
box army service. When the drawing
Tor the first district of the city ot Paris
came on, the name oil Bonaparte was call.
ed, and Prince Joachim Murat presented
himself rs relative in place of the ex-
Prince Imperial, who, being the eldest
son of widow, was, on that account ex
cused.
A convention at Walla Walla last
Thursday nominated Judge S. G. Win
gard for delegate to the constitutional
convention; Col. George as district dele
gate; Judge Guicha-d as delegate fol
Walla Walla county, and James Ewsrt
of Whitman, as delegate for Columbia.
Whitman and Stevens The nominations
were made by consultaton of Republicans
ano Democrats.
Accounts from Callao of the effects Of
the tidal wave say the alarm is indescrib-
able and the damage incalculable. The
sea is covered with floating debris, and
immense waves thirty and forty feet high
break over the mole and along the whole
coast line, spreading havoc and destruc-
ton arouud them. 10 Iquique the earth
quake shock was terrific; 1t lasted one
minute and thirty seconds. The main
shock was followed during the night by
forty minor shocks.
When Dom Pedro returned to Brazil
after two years absence, it was to end
that one of his Cabinet had been carrying
things with a high hand selling offices
after the Belknnp style, that is, by en-
ploying female help, on commission, to
secure him purchasers Tor his official
favors. Suspicion rested against Others
in the same body, and as il was hard for
the Emperor, in the conflict Of stories, to