Washington standard. [volume] (Olympia, Wash. Territory) 1860-1921, 1879-03-14
A posToFFIcE has been established
at Carrollton, in Cowlitz county,
with Isaac Newton for postmaster.


at Carrollton, in Cowlitz county,
with Isaac Newton for postmaster.
A soJoURNER says Olympia goes
ahead of any other town of its size
on the coast for church privileges
and church-goers. This compliment
is worth publishing.
The new ship on the stocks at
Seabeck, is 210 feet in length, 43
feet beam and II feet depth of hold.
She will have but one deck and
carry 1 400, 900 of lumber.
AT a late session of the Dairyman's
Association, New York; it was decid-
ed that, on an average, three acres
of pasture land are required for the
keeping of a milch cow in good con-
dition.
GLAcKAMAs county, Oregon, offers
a reward of $500, for the apprehen-
sion and conviction of the person or
persons who murdered Mrs. Hager
on the 21st of February. Here is o
chance for our Washington Terri
tory detectives.
HENRY WARD BEEcHER has SAC, 900
lawsuit on hand. His publishers
have sued him for that sum, which
they claim to have advanced him for
his Z" Life of Christ" Preachers of
the gospel are not entirely exempt
from the sordid cares of this world.
The Portland Board of Trade re-
Gently held an enthusiastic meeting
for the purpose of considering
memorial to President Hayes on the
subject of modifying the treaty with
China. 1t strikes us that this looks
more like legitimate business than
hanging and shooting efigies.
TIE reported fright, existing
among settlers in Eastern Oregon
and Washington, on account Of an
ticipated Indian hostilities, is not all
q myth. The people of Pilot Rock,
Umatilla county, are building fort
~ by q 100 feet in size, for the
protection of their families in case
of emergency. The people in the
sparsely settled districts of the Yak
ina county are resorting to various
effective precautions.
TEE visit of Macoupin County,
ILL.,, official to our shores. may, after
all, rebound to the welfare of our
Territory, if not to its classics capital.
Late CarIinville papers give graphic
accounts of Mr.. Delany's report of
his recent trip to this city. It would
be a novel sequel to the whole af-
fair, should the gaudy showing of
Mr.. Delaney cause an immigration
current to set in from that region
towards this part Of the coast. The
thing is neither impossible nor i'm
probable. Should settlers conclude
to come, however, from that vicin-
ity, we earnestly advise them, by all
means, to come prepared to tell by
what names their neighbors used to
call them.
The latest means to effect a COM
promise with conscience that has
come to our knowledge, has been
perpetrated by an ingenious young
lady of this place. She has made
the mechanism Of the family clock
her special study, and rigged a con-
trivance which always stops the
hands at five minutes to eleven at
night. In daytime the clock be-
haves decoriously, and up to five min
utes to eleven every night, it points
accurately to every hour till the
magic number is reached, and then
ticks away with steadily monotony,
till helped over the obstruction
placed by fairy device upon its move
ments. Adolphus may prolong his
chess game till twelve, one or two,
and the staid old monitor never ticks
out an exaspirating " check" and
the demure damsel, when questioned
by parents can without a fragrant
violation of truth say "He left at
five minutes to eleven, by the clock"
1t worked like charm for while,
but as the "Tapping at the gar
den gate" was finally attributed to
its true source, so the strange antics
OF the clock were traced to their pro-
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