The Vancouver independent. (Vancouver, W.T. [Wash.]) 1875-1910, 1878-07-25
BRIEF MENTION,

The new apple crop is finding its way into
our markets.
Whittier shipped several tons of wool to
Portland last week
McCarty is doing much repairing on his
buildings this month.
More than the usual number of strangers
in town for the last week.
Book peddlers are getting plenty since
cheap fares are established.
Col. Culver Grover stopped in Vancouver
last Friday, on his way east.
The Board of County Commissioners will
meet in few days in this city.
The early peaches are ripe in Vancouver
orchards. Ahead of the usual time.
james Davidson has left San Francisco
going to Providence, Rhode Island.
Col. L. c. Mason's groom went up to Wala
Walla yesterday morning, on orders.
Look out for the eclipse of the sun next
Monday July 20 from TO o'clock p.
We hear it rumorcd that Hiram Cochran
will soon come back to Vancouver to reside.
The steamer Vancouver Sock four fat men
and seven hogs to Portland Friday, Il heavy
load.
The shipments of army supplies to the
Eastern country have subsidized Tor the last
ten days.
Miss Agnes Ebert has gone to the seaside
near Ilwac0, with the Wcinhard family, OF
Portland.
Portland mechanics have been over here
this week, looking for jobs ON proposed new
buildings
This is the best salmon week yet for Van
couver fishermen, one boat taking 80 fish
Monday night
The steamer Emma Hayward is now on the
ways at the bone yard in Portland, being
generally overhauled.
BY request we publish the call for the Ter
ritorial convention that is to meet in this city
on the 9th of October.
Two ladies from Carthage, Mo, have just
opened dressmaking establishment in this
city. See advertisement
Jacob Hansen, of Salem, Ogn., is coming
up this way soon, in sailboat, to take
sketches of Columbia river scenery.
Adding insult to injury-a stranger coming
into our den and asking change for hundred
dollar grcenback. He was fired out.
The East Portland Register has been
turned into the Sunday Morning Call, and the
first number is Il credit to the publishers.
Samuel Robinson, representing the print
ers furnishing house of Miller ~ Richards,
San Francisco, paid Vancouver visit yester-
day.
J. r. Wheat, Of Olympia, S. F. Gum, Of
"San Francisco" and l.. IL. Whitehousc, OF
Kaama, looked in upon Vancouver last Sat
urday.
During the times of such flush immigration
from San Francisco into Portland, 1t VIII he
well for our citizens to keep doors and win
dows well secured.
Col. Grover who has been taking an active
part in the Indian war, has been ordered
East to do recruiting service. lie lett on
Tuesdays steamer.
1t is expected that the Constitutional Con
yention will adjourn this week, and that Judge
g. II. Steward and W. Byron Daniels will re
turn home about saturday.
On Tuesday jury, selected by the l. 5.
Court went up to the Cascades on the CITY Oh
Salem, to view and condemn q. :. y. Co.
lands for the U. 5. canal Improvement.
Fruit raising pays a man in Oregon City
this season sold so worth OF cherries from
one tree. 4 Vancouver man three years ago
sold so worth of peaches from one tree.
In another column we publish Il communi-
cation touching ON politics, from CowllZ
county, which is written by Il responsible
person, who is responsible FOR what he says.
Our garden produced very innocent ap-
pcarng white cucumber the other day, very
pretty TO look upon, but it brought ON an at
tack Of the collywobbles Just as easily rs the
old fashioned kind
L.
has resigned the management Of the East
Portland paper into the hands of Beard and
Barnes, two well known Portland typos. We
expect TO hear from Doris again soon, up
the Oregon river.
Father p Mans, $. j., commenced the
spiritual retreat for the Sisters of the Holy
Name in Portland last week, having CON
cluded his labors in Vancouver. About the
last of the month he will deliver public
lecture in Portland.
f. O. Larkns and 7. X Strobe, of San
Francisco, strobe into our Office the other
day, to see if II Territorial print shop looked
rs natural ms their own in the golden state.
They say they were enjoying highly their va
cation, rs many others from below were doing.
hand organ brought an able bodied man
into Vancouver Monday afternoon which
fitted here and there during the evening OF
its brief butterfly existence in this burg. IL
was not very well rewarded with shekels, al
though the man had not been here before
for over 200 years.
Father Mackn, Of Astoria, gentleman
well known to many in Vancouver who has
been in the ministry Of the Catholic Church
on the Columbia for - years, is about To
leave for visit TO Europe. An address and
n gold headed cane were presented TO him at
Astoria Il few days since.
The wild warblers Of the wilowy william
cite were out again Saturday night, and
waited wantonly one Of th66 most winsome
walls into our west window, Then whispcrin Z
words whose whirl went whittier the wood
bine windeth whlcd away the wee sma hours
in wakeiulncss. Whoop-la,