Washington standard. [volume] (Olympia, Wash. Territory) 1860-1921, 1878-12-14

OUR estimsble citizen, DR.. G.. @.
Turner. has been for some days quite
i'll, but We hear, lately. that he is
slowly mending.
Elssr hours Of clear daylight u
about what our mechanics can de-
pend upon now. Ten days moro
and the shadows of honest men win
begin TO grow shorter at noon.
OK Monday, last, the Secretary Of
the Treasury made the 74th call for
the redemption of $40 bonds of
1865, and consols of 1865. Interest
will cease on the 9th of March next.
ONE of the best performers in the
Georgia Minstrel Company is Bob
Mack. If he is as good in his spec
ealties as "our Bob" is in his-that
of Town Marshal-he will prove q
general favorite.
TIE Indian women attending as
witness at court, employ the tedious
hours while not on duty, in knitting
stockings for their liege lords; q
most commendable trait and one
which might well be pondered by
their Boston sisters.
CONCERNING the matter about Gen.
Grant becoming king of Bulgaria,
it is not all merely report. The Phil
adelphia Ledger assumes the author
ity to say that clique of prominent
European diplomatists ore hard at
work bringing the thing about.
AN admirer of the London Times
approvingly says Of that paper that
in ten years it will be- one hundred
years old. Cannot somebody speak
as approvingly of our Daily and call
public attention to the fact that in
ninety-nine years and few months
it will be one hundred years old?
The railroad officials have caused
& to s'..lE Be paihtsd il lor6o11n 1ntlo ||l1
road" This is a move ia The night
direction, and there will be no more
provoking mistakes committed by
our people in thoughtlessy getting
into the wrong cars in the rush OF
business.
We welcome anything that will
initiate against the ravages of in
temperance. The "blue ribbon
organization has many friends and is
rapidly on the increase in this place.
The association fills an intermediate
niche which, owing to peculiar cir
cumstances, has long remained un-
filed. We wish the members God
speed.
We have received another con-
usdrum, but have concluded not to
publish it on account ofdeference N
our neighbors. It wants to know
something about why an old saw
log, since the lumber decline, is like
unto United States official, and
then something about being all COW
cred over with barnscles, or some
thing Of that effect. But we rather
think we had better not publish it.
WrH1s short time past, several
hundred Indians, without local habi-
tation and almost without name.
have pitched their tents within .
days ride Of Yakima and Kittitas
valleys, and the white settlers are
justly alarmed. When Winter fais-
" sets in and pinching want comss
Like an armed man to the wigwams
Of those whisky -besottsd rsnsgadss,
it would be simple thing for the
savages to make descent upon the
defenceless whites and massacre
them in cold blood.
An entsrprising firm in Seattle
has CAUSED our streets and door
yards to be strewn with myriads a
their business postsrs for goods a
al kinds. but there i . sound
philosophy in keeping ones moasy
at home even in . ssa6sh point
Of view. The gssatsr the pros
perty ut homs, the bsttsr Il il
for all concerned. Nothing. in int.
tends more to mako monsy +" tGAf"
among ths poorer and niddls 49,
es than the practice ofsssndhe