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Fayette County herald. [volume] (Washington [Washington Court House], Fayette County, O. [Ohio]) 1860-1???, 1879-05-08

Wood Mountain, NV. Ter, Letter to Chicago
Tribune
An Indian account of the death of Gus
ter will not, think, prove uninteresting.
The Indians say that after the general
stampede Custer tried to rally his men
around him. He waved his pistol in the
air and shot off twice to attract his men.
Two or three gathered around him, but
as the Indians still continued to advance,
one of the soldiers tried to run away, and
Custer fred at him and killed him, and
then seeing the case was quite hopeless,
the Indians gathering around from all
parts, turned his revolver on himself,
preferring to die by his own hand. The
Indians say that they think this man was
Custer, as he was chief; but they are
not certain of the fact. Observation-Disclosures
took soldier prisoner; but he was not
allowed to live long, as he was killed at a
dance that followed the fight. The Ind
| ians here all agree on the thing-that the
number of Indians killed in the fight was
thirty-six; they gave their names.
Fayette County herald. [volume] (Washington [Washington Court House], Fayette County, O. [Ohio]) 1860-1???, 1879-05-08

Another Account Of the Death Of Gus.
ter.
Washington standard. [volume] (Olympia, Wash. Territory) 1860-1921, 1879-06-20

The North PoLE.-The Call says
1t. belong hopes to get away from
San Francisco in the Bennett Arctic
expedition by the Goth. He ex-
presses himself as being somewhat
in doubt as to the passage through
Behring's straits of Prof. Norden-
skiold in the Vega. He hopes that
the cablegrams to that effect are cor
rect, but fears they are not. Cap
tain Barker, a resident of San Fran
cisco, who was wrecked on East
Cape, in the fall of 1875, and re-
manned among the natives during
the winter, says that in February Of
each year the ice moves to the north
ward from the shore. Taking this
view Lieutenant belong thinks that
Nordeuskjold may have succeeded
in getting out as reported. The
Navy Department has not as yet des-
ignated any vessel as convoy to the
expedition, but it is probable that
the alaska will he selected for that
purpose.
Washington standard. [volume] (Olympia, Wash. Territory) 1860-1921, 1879-06-20

STEAMERS are steadily encroaching
on the business of sailing vessels in
all parts of the world. Wonderful
advances are being made, each year,
in the building and running of ocean
going steam craft. It is stated that
iron steamers can now be built and
run for one-half what it cost five
years ago. The necessary amount
of coal has been reduced to about
one ton to each hundred tons OF
burden. Slowly but surely sailing
vessels are being called off from the
shorter routes.
Washington standard. [volume] (Olympia, Wash. Territory) 1860-1921, 1879-06-20

We are very glad to know that the
good work OF crawling the streets
is SO vigorously prosecuted, for it
is consoling to think that, as the
years come aud go, and every other
part of town is covered with gravel
ten feet deep, our good city fathers
will be under the sheer necessity of
giving us few droppings down this
way to preserve proper grade.
Washington standard. [volume] (Olympia, Wash. Territory) 1860-1921, 1879-06-20

A SPLENDID job of graveling has
been done on Main Street, above the
high bridge, and there is occasion
enough for q similar work in q good
many places between that point and
the cemeteries.
Washington standard. [volume] (Olympia, Wash. Territory) 1860-1921, 1879-06-20

THERE is good speakers stand in
the public square, and somebody
suggests that il be utilized in some
way on the Fourth, even if the small
boys have it all their own way.
Washington standard. [volume] (Olympia, Wash. Territory) 1860-1921, 1879-06-20
No Starving.

financial affairs on the Pacific coast,
there is something deeply and sub
stantially consoling in the thought
that, from San Diego, California, to
the Straits of Fuca on the North,
and from the tide water Of the ocean
to the Nevada and Cascade range of
mountains on the East, there cannot
be found a single agricultural dis
trict of any very great extent, where
there is a prospect of anything like
a total failure of the staple crops.
Unfavorable circumstances of local
influence are common to all coun-
tries, and this coast, doubtless, has
it's share of them. It were, indeed,
matter of wonder if any country
extending through sixteen degrees
of latitude, and half as many de-
grees of longitude, should not be
noted for some diversity in its eli
matte relations. We have, in all
this vast area, nothing to compare
with the grasshopper plague of the
prairies, or the wheat winter-killing
frosts of the Northeastern States.
All things considered, nature smiles
upon us, throughout the entire year,
in her kindliest mood, and her di.
vinely appointed laws should not be
held amendable for the so-called
hard times, mainly attributable to
the commercial jealousies of great
rival interests and the political dis
turbances of the day.
Notwithstanding the mineral and
timber resources of this coast, it
cannot be denied that our agricul-
tural products constitute the great
mainstay of our present and future
prosperity. During few days past,
we have carefully read and collated
the crop prospect reports CLEANED
from about thirty counties, in Cali
fornia, and from all but three or
four of these counties, comes the
cheering news that the yield of fruits,
vegetables and cereals, will he album
dant. In some portions of the State,
as the result of a natural course of
events, there is an observable falling
off in some products, while the pre-
dominance of others will fully, and
often more than, make up the deficit.
In northern Oregon and Washing
ton Territory, ultimate results can
not be SO definitely predicted for the
reason that our harvests will be later.
The end is near enough, however,
and the good time plainly enough
looming into view, to safely predi-
cate fair return to the husbandman.
We have been ali the more par
ticular in discussing these things,
that incoming settlers may properly
judge our country and not draw un-
favorable conclusions on account Of
a temporary business depression.
Our northwestern coast is yet in the
exuberance of it's growth. Lavish
as some of its productions already
are, we have but yet, as it were, ex-
amined the out-croppings of its vast
and various resources.
To our friends in the east, then,
we say, come and see for yourselves.
Be not dismayed by the nihilistic cry
of hard times. Capital is unequally
distributed in all lands, and 81 is it
here. But the husbandman is the
true sovereign of the soil, and no
illicit, financial panic can rob him of
the fruits of his honest labor. Our
munifcent government grants him
perpetual feoff, and here it is
his privilege to make and beautify a
home.
Washington standard. [volume] (Olympia, Wash. Territory) 1860-1921, 1879-06-20
A Pointed Rebuke.

IA ASSU~"Ss
Whenever we hear we'll dressed
and we'll fed individual crying up
hard times, we put him down as an
imposter and q cheat. Such man,
whether he knows it or not, is only
plotting against the we'll being Of
society, and his presence can we'll be
dispensed with in every community.
When we see Cinnamon come here
and, by their own unaided muscle,
clear up and bring under state OF
the highest and most profitable cul-
tivation, uninviting portions of our
timber lands, we feel that they are
Justly rebuking the hundreds OF list
less white men by whom they are SO
roundly abused. Many of the finest
vegetables found in our markets, OF
peddled from house to house about
the streets, are raised by we'll
behaved, unassuming, industrious
Cinnamon, who landed on our
wharves with only bamboo stick
and q bundle of old clothes. Should
We ask any one Of the scores OF idle
men on our streets why these things
are so. we should undoubtedly be
answered by a TRADE OF abuse.
We are still firm on the original
Chinese question, but we cannot
deny that they are teaching whole
some lessons of industry and good
citizenship, to a large element that
swells the population of our Sound
country. We are asserting only
what everybody knows to be a
fact, when we say that, until
the arrival of our Chinese gardeners,
all our earliest small fruits and vege-
tables came by steamer from San
Francisco, for which we paid exor-
bitant prices. Now, through the
native tact and indomitable energy
of Cinnamon, these fruits and vege-
tables are raised from our own soil
and brought to our doors, weeks
earlier than ever they were produced
by white men. 1t is needless to ask
If the climate or soil has been mira
culously changed for the the better.
Both soil and climate are just what
they were ages ago. Well directed
muscle and determination have alone
affected the seemingly wonderful
change.
It is a common expression among
our better class of farmers that they
are, year by year, finding out that
there is much less waste land bor-
dering on the Sound than they sup.
posed. A Chinaman with only his
hands to work with, will, in single
year, transform into an earthly para
disc, a ranch that has been run over,
vacated and cursed by indolent
white men. We may be drawing
some harsh conclusions, but they are
just and truthful, as the slightest
observation will show. Hundreds
of men, from Olympia to Port
Townsend, are waiting and starving
for something to turn up, when, if
they would get pillow, or, China
men-iike, only spade, and turn up
the rich soil of our valleys, they
would find the bonanzas that they
have been looking for, through q
term of years. No country in the
known world affords better facilities
for farming or gardening than West
ern Washington, while those dis
tricts Immediately bordering the
Sound, are specially adapted to all
the northern fruits.
Now let us have more work and
less abuse of the country. God
knew what lie was about when he
made all lands, and stands in no
need of the comments of willful
reyilers.
Washington standard. [volume] (Olympia, Wash. Territory) 1860-1921, 1879-06-20

The latest advices from the head
quarters of ladies' fashions, contains
this remarkable sentence: "There
seems to be no prescribed limit to
the hight to which skirts may be
lifted when walking" We suppose
the hight of the " limit" to which
madam alludes, differs according to
the stature of the lady, and hence it
is not prescribed. How do the
brethren of the press understand it?
Will not the " Diamond Dust" man
of the Portland Standard give us the
results of his observation?
Washington standard. [volume] (Olympia, Wash. Territory) 1860-1921, 1879-06-20

ADvIcEs from Washington an
nounce that the Department of the
Interior has accepted the map of the
amended route of the Northern Pa
ciic Railroad through this Territory.
The result of this action will be to
relieve several millions of acres of
good land, heretofore withdrawn
from sale for the benefit of that rail-
road. The news of this order will
doubtless cause large business at
land offices as soon as an official an
nOuncement is made. But to avoid
all unnecessary rush we will state
that we are informed by the Register
Of the land Office here that, at least,
thirty days notice will be given of
such restoration. In the meantime,
parties will gain nothing by making
premature and ill-timed inquiries.
MesEy? Yes, money will do any
thing. 1t will make youth and
beauty love an ugly man. Fact.
Washington standard. [volume] (Olympia, Wash. Territory) 1860-1921, 1879-06-20

Mr.. j. r. Barr furnishes us with
the following particulars Of a sad
casualty which took place at Pray's
Lake, on Thursday evening, the 18th
inst. He and Mr.. Vic Verin were
in boat pursuing a deer which had
taken to the water. Mr.. Barr was
rowing, and his companion was in
the act of drawing a musket, loaded
with buckshot, from beneath the
thwarts, when it was accidentally
discharged, the contents of the gun
lodging in the abdomen of the I'M
fortunate man. Mr.. Verin died in
about ten minutes. The accident
happened about nine o'clock, p. NJ,
and Messrs, Crosby, Davis and Hawk
who were camping in the neighbor-
hood, took charge of the remains
while Mr.. Barr came into town to
summon the Coroner. That officer
and his jury went out this morning
to hold an inquest over the remains.
when they will be brought to the
city for interment. Mr.. Verin was
about 43 years old, and came to the
Sound about year ago from Cali
fornia. For some time, lie was en-
gineer on the steamer Old Settler, and
has also been in the employ of Kratz
& Bonner, Tumwater.
Washington standard. [volume] (Olympia, Wash. Territory) 1860-1921, 1879-06-20

HARD times" is myth. The
country was never fuller of money
and all kinds of produce. only these
good things are not divided accord
ing to the ideas of approved croak-
ers.
Washington standard. [volume] (Olympia, Wash. Territory) 1860-1921, 1879-06-20

A PEN WORTH RECOMMENDING. -
We have been favored with sam
pies of the celebrated Spencerian
Double Elastic Steel Pens, and after
trying them feel justified in highly
commencing them to our readers.
They are made of the best steel,
and by the most expert workmen in
Europe, and have national reputa-
ton for certain desirable qualities
which no other pens seem to have
attained in so great perfection,
among which are uniform evenness
of point, durability, fexibility, and
quill action. It is thus quite nat
ural that the Spencerian should be
preferred and used by professional
penmen, in business colleges, count
ing-1ooms, Government offices, pub
lie schools, and largely throughout
the country. Indeed, so popular
have they become, that of the /" Num-
Der One" alone, as many as eight
millions are sold annually. The
Spencerian Pens may be had, as O
rule, from any dealer; but when
not thus obtainable, the proprietors,
Messrs. Ivison, Brakeman, Taylor &
Co., the well-known publishers, 1873
& 140 Grand Street, New York, will
send for trial, samples of each of
tho twenty numbers on receipt of
twenty-five cents.
Washington standard. [volume] (Olympia, Wash. Territory) 1860-1921, 1879-06-20

ToKLAs g. Goldstein received an
other large supply of Summer goods
this week, brought up by the City Of
Chester.
Washington standard. [volume] (Olympia, Wash. Territory) 1860-1921, 1879-06-20

ACCORDING to the late meeting OF
the Board of Pacific Coast Engineers,
in San Francisco, Trinidad is ahead
of all other places for the harbor Oh
refuge.
Washington standard. [volume] (Olympia, Wash. Territory) 1860-1921, 1879-06-20

CR1ckErs are proving troublesome
to farmers in Nevada. They have
taken upon themselves the habits OF
Kansas grasshoppers in destroying
the grain crops.
Washington standard. [volume] (Olympia, Wash. Territory) 1860-1921, 1879-06-20
The High.tOned Blk.

The heightened blk is a hypo-
critic of the purest water, and often,
brandy and water; though he is
content with whisky when in the
company of those who are on true
level with him. Through long and
persistent practice, he manages to
ape, with a pretty good grace, the
follies of high life, and in his happi-
est efforts, when he excels himself
he might be taken for a brigadier,
a major, or a politician gone to seed.
Until quite recently, the gene
alogy of the heightened blk was
shrouded in mystery; through the
indomita BILE researches and labors of
Huxley, Agazzis and Darwin, how
ever, it has been ascertained with a
pretty good degree of certainty, that
he was born of bad blood, a hood
lum in his youth and a reprobate in
his maturer years. The high-toned
blk, like the ignis fatuus of grave
yards and miasmatic regions, he is
ever striving to mislead those with
whom he comes in contact. The
smell of bad whisky, rank tobacco
and cheap imitation Lubin extracts
never fail to rev" Ii his presence, even
in the darkest night. The profess
sions and callings which the high
toned blk affects to assume, embrace
the full score with one exception,
that of an honest laborer he never
works with his hands. And yet,
dissimulate as he will, he is always
in the predicament of the ass in the
lions skin. He is too lazy to work,
too stupid for politician, too great
coward for the army or navy, too
ignorant for any one of the profess
sions, and too dishonest for bust
ness man. He is SO illiterate that
he we'll knows he cannot hold his
own in the socical circle, and so gets
out of the unpleasant dilemma by
assuming the role OF popular wag
in trying to produce a laugh by his
miserable rendering of borrowed
bombast. One of the leading char
acteristics of the heightened blk, is
his wonderful faculty of making
something out of nothing, and thus
maintaining a livelihood where an
honest vagrant would starve. OF
course, he never pays his debts, and
consequently has cheek that would
make a bronze statute veil it's face.
When dunned, he is never out OF
cash, but only embarrassed by the
non-arrival of his drafts. In sup
plying his table, if, unfortunately,
he has a family, he seeks for viands
of foreign name and flavor, as be-
ing peculiarly suited to his epicurean
taste. In a word, nothing but the
best suits him, and his purchases
are made regardless of expense pro-
vided that the seller is willing to
take promises for his pay. He does
not believe in wearing paper collars;
nothing but the finest linen becomes
his patrician neck and ford COM
plexion. He is vain enough to be
proud for being considered as be-
longing to class of eaters who new
er work. To live within the pale Of
aristocracy, however rotten its foun-
6ation, is paradise to him, while
plebeianism is the black death.
Volumes might be written about the
heightened blk but enough has
been said to identify him from every
other creature in existence.
Mr.. J. r. Barr furnishes us with
tho fo1lou;nn povk;cu1oro ~ n oo1
Washington standard. [volume] (Olympia, Wash. Territory) 1860-1921, 1879-06-20

The high ground on the north
side of the Masonic Hall has once
more begun to disappear. Street
workers are carting it away to I'LL up
depressions wherever needed.
Washington standard. [volume] (Olympia, Wash. Territory) 1860-1921, 1879-06-20

We have noticed in our exchanges
a good many failures in attempts be-
ing made by town and city councils
to enact and enforce Sunday laws.
Throwing aside all technical questions
as to the legal right or wrong in
such laws, the business men of
Lewiston, Idaho, have voluntarily
subscribed their names to the fol-
lowing Sabbath Regulations:
"Be it known that we, the undersigned
merchant traders, and business men Of
yb agree with each other that we Will
close our stores and places of business. on
the first day ofthe week, commonly called
Sunday, and will not open the same, or
have them kept open at any time during
said day between the hours of 10 o'clock,
A. NJ. and 8 o'clock. P. NJ. The above agree
ment to 20 into effect on the first sunday
of June, 1879, and to continue in force I'M
til the same shall be abrogated by the re-
quest of majority of all persons or firms
who subscribe hereto. Made and entered
into the 9th day of May, 1879"
Should the sequel prove that they
have hit the nail on the head, would
not the suggestion be valuable one
for our business men to consider?
Washington standard. [volume] (Olympia, Wash. Territory) 1860-1921, 1879-06-20
The Water Supply,

Auo vV1UCr supply
The doubt which has prevailed as
to the ability of the town to secure
an ample supply of water for all pur-
poses is nearly dissipated by the re-
suit of an experimental test made by
Mr.. Allen, of the firm of Allen l. IT,
tus, a few days ugo, for obtaining
fresh water beneath the surface stra-
tum Of salt.imrregnated earth which
forms the lower part of town border.
ing on the bay. While the main from
Tumwater answers all needs, so
far as domestic requirements are
concerned, that it is totally mad
equate to supply the cisterns for fire
purposes has been demonstrated on
more than one occasion. Nor can
this difficulty be overcome, except
by laying much larger pipe, at a
great expense, the whole distance
from the reservoir, near the Des-
chuttes Falls, or by the construction
of a reservoir of ample dimensions
at some elevated point nearer town,
and from thence conducting the sup
ply in large pipes to the cisterns or
fire-plugs. The latter plan would
probably be the cheaper, but still ex-
pensive enough to preclude any pos
sibility Of the authorities contracting
with the present company until our
population has materially augment
ed.
Mr.. Allen appears confident that
he has overcome this difficulty. He
has driven q tube we'll, at his shop,
corner of Third and Washington
streets, from which lie obtains, by
pumping, an uninterrupted flow Of
apparently pure water. This is
point from which water may be dis
tributed over the district most ex-
posed to danger from fire, from a
large elevated reservoir, at the least
possible expense. The supply seems
to be ample to furnish the town and
afford q surplus to keep reservoir
always full. None of the essentials
appear to be wanting-quantity,
quality or cheapness.
Mr.. Allen proposes, if sufficient
encouragement is extended, to con-
struct reservoir, lay mains, connect
the service-pipes, and supply water
at so reasonable profit on the cost
of the enterprise, as to preclude any
desire of consumers to drive wells,
for themselves. If the town feels
disposed to contract for IN unlimited
supply for protection from fire he
will keep reservoir or the cisterns
constantly full, at rate which he is
confident cannot fail Of proving sat-
isfactory to all concerned.
Washington standard. [volume] (Olympia, Wash. Territory) 1860-1921, 1879-06-20
How LOngl

Chow long do you temperance
people propose to fight against a
fearful odds that you can never hope
to overcome?'' This is the substance
Of q question lately propounded
to Us by one of those minus-quantity
sort of men found in every commun-
ity. The person alluded to is by no
means an open enemy to the tenn
perance cause, nor yet, does he ex-
ert an ounce of influence in favor of
the glorious reformation which is at
this moment convulsing our land.
To give his own version of what he
is, he is simply neutral; to give
our own definition, he is clearly a
nonentity, a zero in the society of
the world. After all, these Laodi-
ceans are the worst element with
which we have to deal. John tells us
in the Apocalypse thattbey found no
favor with God. $50, then, because
thou are lukewarm, and neither cold
nor hot. I will spew thee out of my
mouth" Such was the divine SEN
tence pronounced against a class of
people whose listless posterity have
never yet died out of the earth.
The man who says he is neutral
when great questions exercise the
minds of men, is far more misera-
BILE type Of the genus coward, than
he who, after the battle is set in az
raw, saves his worthless carcass by
fight. He it is whom the true SOL
der hates. In our minds eye, we
have often likened these miserable
fossils to what civil engineers call
mechanical friction; they exist only
to hamper and obstruct the machin-
cry of the world. They ride upon
cross-cut SAWS, and sit over the full
crum upon the great levers that
move the world. Like bees that
have lost their sting, they are the
veritable drones of society, and al
ways most conspicuous where they
are not wanted.
Holy Writ endorses the declara-
ton that, if they are not with us,
they are Against us, and in oil their
actions, tend but to dissipate and
scatter our resources. So intent are
these minus-quantity people in not
displeasing anybody, that they please
nobody. Happily for the welfare Of
the world, when they leave one COM
munity for another, they are never
heard of more, and when they die,
the blackness of darkness is sure to
shroud their memory. But in spite
of all these stumbling blocks, the car
of temperance is proudly moving on
ward. Like the Crusaders of the
middle ages, our valiant workers are
stormine the batteries of the enemy,
and sooner, doubtless, than we an
ticipate, the black flag will be struck,
never to be again unfurled to the
breeze of heaven.