Washington standard. [volume] (Olympia, Wash. Territory) 1860-1921, 1879-10-03
Mr.. j. Fl. Long of Lewis county,

MIR. y. Il. Long OF Lewis county,
is in town.
THEE is some complaint of potato
rot in Clalam county.
GEN. Grant will arrive in Port
land about the goth of October.
The Presbytery of Puget Sound
met in Seattle Wednesday.
The late Judah P. Davis, of Vic
toria, was insured for $11 500.
SEVEN white men, while hunting
in Texas, were murdered by Indians.
CAPT. Ballard, after brief visit to
Portland. is again at the wheel of the
ia vorite steamer Zephyr.
"The last rose of Summer" has no
Specification in Olympia. In this
country we say, the last rose of
Autumn.
A DISPATCH received from Susa n
vile, CAL, states that the entire bus
iness portion of Alturas, Modoc
county, was burned Monday night
last.
TIE work of emancipation is in
hopeful progress at Havana, Cuba;
six thousand slaves having been re-
Gently set at liberty by their former
masters.
IT must be admitted that we are
enjoying our usual Fair" weather,
but that it is fair weather will scarce
ly be claimed by the most conserva-
tive of our pioneer residents.
Col. Haller has been relieved from
the command of Fort Townsend and
will remain on leave of absence un-
till assigned to regiment, this be-
ing only a two.company post.
GsN. O. o. Howard, commander |
of the Department of the Columbia.
arrived from his visit down Sound
last evening, and left by the train
this morning for his headquarters Ut |
Vancouver. .
The London newspapers tell of q
belle who paid $25 to have the
initials of her lovers name tattooed
on her arm, and later having quar-
relied with him, was Offering $500 for
a means of obliteration.
CAPT. B. B. Tuttle, route agent
between Portland and Astoria, has
received the appointment of local
agent of railway mail service in
Oregon and Washington, to reside at
Portland.
THERE appears to be something
covert in the remark of the Philadel-
phia Progress, that at the religious
Summer towns they allow no bar
rooms, but you can get an excellent
brand of soda water at the drug
stores"
PERsoNAL.-Messrs II. w. Gushing
of the Portland Standard, and A. E.
Raleigh, of the Bee, paid us friend
ly call this week. They belong
to the baseball club from that city
entered for the tournament at the
Faif.
PORTALS OF DEATH.'-Our neighbor, the
ENPERIMENr, calls the entrance to the Co.
lumbia river the Portals of Death" ".This
knocks all the romance out of The Gate
way of the Columbia" as it is termed by
Portland papers. s.-Olympia Transcript
Quite true, and Washington Territory is
the Hades ; beyond' and Oregon the Elysi-
Where ignorance is bliss It's folly
to be wise.
The Wall-walla Statesman says:
1t is grand sight to see the enor-
nous amount of wheat continually
being unloaded at the depot. Never
before in our history has there been
so much brought to town as this year.
Last week it came in so fast that the
railroad company could not carry it
all away by three hundred tons.
They shipped AL tons to Wallula
every day.
The election of officers by the
Blue Ribbon League, Monday night,
resulted in the retentionsof the for
mer incumbents and a selection to fill
vacancies that have occurred during
term. The list now stands: Presi-
dent, j. M. Murphy; Vice Presi-
dents, J. A. Silsby and N. P. Corey;
Secretary j. H. Munson; Assistant
Secretary, Mrs. E. B. Henry; Treas
urer, Miss Mary Mills; Editors, Mrs.