Washington standard. [volume] (Olympia, Wash. Territory) 1860-1921, 1878-12-28

lHt iacon3 peopie are in HiSh
glee over their new coal discovery.
We want rhyme for d" Christmas"
A splendid poem spelling. all for a
rhyme.
LOOK for the sun 10 remain, day
by day. a little longer above the ho-
rizon hereafter.
Nj. jacob Smith, one OF our old
est settlers, residing on Chambers
Prairie, is reported 10 be quite i'll.
TIE probabilities are daily grow
ing stronger that the homestead bill
of Senator Booth, will become a law.
ENGLISH etiquette allows young
girls to drink three glasses of light
wine; mammas may drink six
glasses.
DURING the year just ended, there
have been more than ,16O miles of
new railroad iron laid in the United
States.
The most ungallant thing fellow
can do, nowadays, is to play mad
at his girl just before Christmas to
save his holiday presents.
THE man in the moon changed his
clothes on Monday, so he will be on
duty during holiday week with his
lamp trimmed and burning.
PonT TOWNSEND is going to have
bran-new steamboat of her own.
Capt. Kinds is now on his way from
San Francisco with the craft.
SINCE the remains OF A. 7. Stewart
were stolen from the family vault,
the grave of Cornelius Vanderbilt
has been closely watched night and
day.
SonE unpleasant forebodines are
caused in medical circles by the ap-
parent fact that leprosy is fearfully
on the increase in Europe and this
country.
The generous proprietor of the
Water Works promises that, as soon
as the business pays, he will apprise
his patrons through our columns
when the pump is going to break.
The Court House is new and its
benches are new; this is the first
term of court ever held in it, and
vet its benches are cut into illustra-
tions and illustrated with cuts, fear
fnl to behold.
News comes of the death of A. j.
Pope, OF the firm of Pope & Talbot.
The mills at Port Gamble are shut
down, and the flags of the shipping
in the harbor are flying at half-mast
in consequence.
w. H. HORTON ought to have a
small steamer of his own to ply be-
tween this place and San Francisco.
He started again this morning for the
Bay City on business connected with
the water works.
WITH the mercury standing at forty
degrees, it is no June morning af-
fair to get up now, in the shortest
and darkest mornings Of the year;
but the clock has struck seven, and
business, like time and tide, waits for
no man.
WEDNESDAY was q gala day in New
York over the first sale Of gold at
par. Brokers and money kings had
big time over the affair. making the
welkin ring with their cheers. The
demand for gold is steadily decreas-
ing, and on the notable January 1st,
1879, the Government will have
nearly $l5O, ,OOO, 600 with which to
begin the long hoped-for specie pay
ment. So the world moves.
THERE seems to be . general i'm
preston among the people Of East
ern Oregon. Washington Territory
and Idaho, that wide extended In.
dian war will break out in the Spring,
unless active measures are taken to
prevent such calamity BY our Gov
ernment. Indians cannot fight in
the Winter when there 10 no grass
for their horses; and it il thought
that all the tribes within the infected
districts are improving their time
this Winter in outstanding their re-
sources and periecting an organiza-
ton of their forces.