, 1878-04-06
TOWN AND COUNTRY.
From the Daily Of sa.urda

evening the Capt. JACK Crawford
Combination presented the thrilling
drama founded on the Mountain
Meadows massacre, entitled Across
the Palms." to very fair audience.
The acting was true to life, and the
characters we'll sustained. Capt.
Jack is fine specimen of the from
tiersman, and shows wonderful skill
in the use of firearms. Fred Gere.
as Bill Williams, delineated perfect
ly the mountain man, accustomed to
the solitude of nature, and strang-
er to "book larnin." Miss Rena, as
Betty. sustained her reputation as a
star. The play was a pleasing change
from the ordinary bills presented.
To night the company will appear
in "On the Trail" q piece written
expressly for Capt. Jack by Mr..
Fred. G.. Maeder.
A HEArHKN "GoD. The Colonist
says the steamer Otter on her last
trip north brought down to Victoria
from Fort Simpson q very old and
wonderful figure representing q
winged bear with a child on each
wing and another on the body. On
the top of the head is a small shelf,
on which originally rested the ash.
es of the chief in honor of whom
the figure was erected. From what
we could learn the figure must be
quite 200 years old, if not older, the
wood being all roughly carved. The
figure was brought down to be fo--
warded to Lord Dufferin.
DEcAMPED.-A party who, for
several weeks past, has rented the
Post-ofice beer saloon on Mill street,
belonging to- Frank Gutenberg
where, by the way, he lid not sue
ceed in realizing a very lare bonan-
za-quietly clocked up last evening
and decamped on the steamer Aida,
for pastures new, leaving Messrs.
Picht & Mehlhorn, Gutenberg,
and other creditors, to mourn his
untimely going off to the tune of a
couple of hundred of the dollars of
our daddies. And sich is life in the
Far West.
New INDUSTRY. Mr.. W. Fields,
q gentleman from California, has ar
rived at PcA Townsend with the
apparatus for starting frst-class
cheese factory, to be started at
Chimacum, and which will be under
way about the first of April. Mr..
Fields has a thorough knowledge of
the business and the reputation of
being one of the best cheese manu-
facturers on the cost, and there is
no reason to doubt that this enter
prise will prove decided success.
NEWS has reached here of the safe
arrival at Honolulu Of the bark
Edward James--67 days tr0.4- .he Co.
lumbia river. She is the We. al
bort the safe OF which 50 much
as she was SO long
ovel aue, ana was known 10 nave
been on the coast during the.preva-
1ence OF the severe gales some weeks
since. No cause is assigned for her
long passage.
Mr.. F. H. LAMB. Superintendent
OF this division of the W. U.
Telegraph Co., has telephone in
perfect operation at Portland, the
distance between the two extremities
of the line being about half mile.
Conversation can be maintained be-
tween persons at each end of the
line with perfect. ease, every word
bein transmitted quite distinctly.
CLOSE CALL.--Yesterday the little
daughter of DIR. Lane was playing
by the engine room of the Mill
street feed mill, when the sawdust
cart was backed to the spot. After
she was discovered the wheel of the
cart touched her before the horse
could be stepped. Another instant
and she would have been crushed.
PASSING by the meat market of
VIM. Baunton this morning. we OBJ
served that gentleman shoulder an
immense side of beef, weighing 800
pounds, carry 1t into the shop, and
hang it ON hook. It was o pretty
heavy and awkward load. but he got
away with it.
By A private letter from Stella
ceem the Argus learns of an attempt
ed elopement of a daughter of
prominent citizen of that place with
a young shoemaker. 1t was frus-
trated by the &c cruel parient" by
the iudicious exhibition of young
arsenal.
A NEW building is to be erected at
the garrison at Fort Townsend, COX
so, to be as mess rooms and kitchens
for the two companies who are sta
toned there. The foundation is to
be of stone.
A TELEGRAM to Jack Levy from
Victoria, states that the sale of the
Lady Lampson has been postponed
until Saturday, April 9th, awaiting
the arrival of the Dakota.
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