The Vancouver independent. (Vancouver, W.T. [Wash.]) 1875-1910, 1879-02-06
BRIEF MENTION,
Last Sunday was "Candlemas day."

Last sunday was Candlemas day..
More houses are wanted in Vancouver.
N. H. Bloomfield, of Kaama paid our
city visit on Friday last.
Mrs. G. w. Durgin returned home from
San Francisco on Wednesday.
Wolf will have his new stock of goods on
the shelves the last of this week.
j. d. Whittier has returned home from the
Sandwich Islands, arriving up on the Idaho.
Oscar Harrison has been appointed to
position in the commssary department at
Fort Vancouver.
Washington's birthday is close at hand,
but we have not heard of any proposed cele-
bration in this city.
We are compelled by lack of space and
type to leave out several communications and
other matter to-day.
Mr.. G. Olsen, of La Center, who was
bruised by IA heavy fall not long since, is
now recovering rapidly
A letter for Samuel Robinson remains un-
called for in the office of Wells, Fargo &
Co. s Express, Vancouver.
The residence of the Muckel Brothers,
well known in Vancouver, was destroyed by
fire at st. Helens on Monday
Mccormick is on the war path with a new
history of the world, and his friends can do
worse than to purchase the book of him.
w. B. Daniels returned on Tuesday from
a trip to the Dalles. His mother went up
with him, and will visit there for a time.
Mondays Oregonians only reached here
on the steamer Vancouver, much to the dis
gust of its numerous readers for the delay.
The Tacoma Times, the organ of Col.
Pickett, has gone down and suspended.
This is hard winter on the newspapers of
this coast.
The Chief Quartermaster of the Depart
ment will employ an interpreter for the In
dian prisoners of war, now in confinement
at Fort Vancouver.
The wife of John Eddings, Esq, last night
was given spoonful of ammonia in place of
some medicine in a similar bottle. She has
suffered very severely from it,
We have the privilege of congratulating
w. b. Patterson, a brother print" upon
the accession of a son in his family May
their shadows never grow less.
NJ. G. Henslec, who has purchased the
Durgn lots opposite II. II. Gridley's resi-
dence, is going to build, and work will soon
be commenced on his new dwelling
comes to us deliberately illustrated with
photographic views of Victoria, B. G. This
journal is steadily growing in merit.
The father of Capt. Jas. T. Gray and A.
w. Gray was recently quite seriously
bruised by having log rolled over him
while ut work on his farm near Astoria
Happy the farmer about these days, who
has "a little farm well titled, little wife
III 4 III
with valuable stock and feed enough to last
them all winter.
When a stranger calls upon you and rep
resents himself to be the agent of any news
paper, be certain that his credentials are
good before you pay him any money. A
word to the wise ought to be sufficient.
II any editor in these parts is weary of
life let him send for the Portland agent of
Johnson's Encyclopedia That man would
"'chin" We disconsolate to death in two hours.
and would be willing to keep at it six hours
but what he would do it.
The Portland Bee says that the 18th In
fantry is said to be the regiment that will
soon replace the 2lst in this department,
During the war the first named regiment
made gallant record, and formed part of
"Shermans bummers' from Atlanta to the
sea.
The East Portland "Call'' says that the
railroad employees, with their characteristic
generosity, are subscribing literally towards
purse to be presented Mrs. Carman, as she,
as well as the young lady stopping with her,
lost everything they possessed by the fire in
which her husband persisted.
A friend has furnished us review of the
able lecture Of Hon. w. IL. Smallwood on
1.-THE life and services of Thomas Paine.
which appears in another column, and al
though we are not an admirer of Thomas
Paine's religious views by any means, we
are willing to give him his dues as revou-
tionary patriot and statesman, whose
vices for his country in trying times should
mot be blotted out on account of those views.
LOCAL.