Washington standard. [volume] (Olympia, Wash. Territory) 1860-1921, 1879-01-04
TaE youngest child of Mr.. ]. B.
Allen lies very sick OF brain fever.

TaE youngest child of Mr.. j. B.
Allen lies very sick Of brain fever.
SKATING in good earnest aud hope
for hard ware merchants.
THEtwp daughters of Mr.. j. G..
Spau xecently reported to be sick,
are recovering.
MISS Ada Woodruff returned on
the Dakota from San Francisco,
where she has been spending some
months visiting friends.
The Olympia and Tenino Railroad
Company have commenced to adver-
tise their daily trains in newspaper
that is issued once week.
FIFTY cents per dozen, is the rul-
ing price of eggs throughout the
agricultural districts of Oregon.
They command 40 cents here.
In these days of roaring ffe-places
and red-hot stoves, let US look well
to our fues and see that we do not
have a midnight confagration.
LoGaEns have just had their oxen
nicely shod at a good deal of expense
and now they want the cold weather
to last long enough to pay the cost.
The cold weather and scarcity of
food is bringing the cougers and
wildcats down from the mountains
in quest Of sheep-folds and hem
roosts.
The day has been sensibly warmer
than yesterday. The morning opened
with the wind in the southeast, in
consequence Of which rain is pre-
dicted.
OK the first day of January, the
o. s. N. Company assumes control
of t1v Waiis-wallo and Wallula rails
road; that company having bought
the road Of DR.. Baker.
Mr.. G. G. Elson has received the
contract for carrying the mails be-
tween this place and Union city,
Mason county, starting in upon his
new business last Saturday.
WE understand that Mr.. Thomas
Grimalkin is making arrangements
to hold grand out-of-doors concert.
before the close Of the holidays.
The entertainment will be entirely
vocal.
OUR reporter, after wrestling man
fully with his Pegasus. rode off
grandly and gracefully as follows:
II / were p,,slshed for all the puss shed,
Indeed punished ! would be
But when you see the fun shed.
Thep would pardoned be.
WHAT q still holiday season, I"
is a common remark among our peo-
pie, and quite q consistent one it is.
Thus far, We have had to record no
case of hoodlumism, no demonstra-
ton Of intemperance, or ungainly
demeanor. Everybody is quiet,
lovely and happy.
HoPs are still little better than o
drug in the San Francisco market. at
seven to eight cents per pound.
But this is only the old story, after
all. Nothing short Of just such an
experience as the hop calamity will
teach the generality of farmers the
curse of ogerdoing a thing.
Nh. f. j. Roscoe, a prominent
citizen of Victoria, and a member of
the Dominion Parliament, commit
ted suicide. on Friday last, by shoot
ing himself with a pistol. The un-
fortunate man had lately exhibited
unmistakable signs Of approaching
insanity And had gone SO far, few
days days before his death, as TO re-
maik to an intimate friend that he
feared he was going crazy. Mr..
Roscoe leaves q wife and fve chill
dren to mourn his untimely end.
TaeeE is still hope for printers TO
gain notority. 1t is only q few
weeks ago that a California editor
was indicted for libel; that news
paper man in Ohio was lynched for
bigamy, wife-whipping and horse
stealing, and now. FRIEND Gale, an
old typo, editor and Publisher. comes
10 the front as our next Postmaster,
SO long as he behaves himself in q
becoming manner. Even appren-
ices aud iourneymen NAV look for