Washington standard. [volume] (Olympia, Wash. Territory) 1860-1921, 1879-04-25
TEN days more in which TO eaf

TEN days more in which to eaf
oysters.
IT is thought that frosts are Loo.
ing their hold.
DR Dean Clarke will lecture IN
this place the first two Sundays IN
May.
FRED Guyot is to occupy the Post
Office stand for the sale Of jewslEy
and notions.
PORTLAND is disgraced by an ex
tortioner who follows tho business Of
hack driver.
The Quick-step is the suggestive
name Of new steamer that plies ON
the lower Columbia river.
Mr.. Ouimette's establishment ably
sustains the reputation it has always
enjoyed of keeping up with the latest
styles.
Was it the ring of the masonis
trowel we heard, on the foundation
of that new brick store, or are we
doomed to disappointment
IT is getting along about the time
when fashionable clergyman are vos
ed leave Of absence by idolizing
congregati tons for the benefit of their
health.
A STREET FIGHT occurred at Tum-
water lately between two citizens,
an incident which seems inseparably
connected with the state Of morals
peculiar to mining districts.
AL possible means are resorted
to in Portland to provide for the
wants of the destitute passengers
brought up from the wrecked steam
ship Great Republic.
The New North,Oest is about to
change its management. From and
after May LIST, it viii be published
under the firm name of the Duaiway
Publishing Company.
Judson and Dobrin. and Dennison
and Ostrandar are announced as new
law. firms, and to the advertisements
Of the former we refer all who may
be in want Of legal advice
DR Chalfaut acknowledges that he
killed Josiah Bacas = hisrooEn -
| the Baldwin Hotel, but alleges thst
be did it entirely through accident
He tells straightforward story and
has good many sympathizsu.
Mn. A. Kuhn has returned from
California, and we understand he il
soon to open q grocery-stors in
Tumwater. Thus, one by one, nom
residents are finding out that there II
no place like home.
THE Seattle papers call attention.
to the fact that the managers Of the
o. T.. Railroad are wearing out tho
rails by use of locomotive of twics
ths weight it should be. Every
years increased wear amounts TO
more than the cost OF an engine OF
proper size.
LEADING colored men at the South.
and astute politicians in their way.
have written letters to their friends
in Boston, stating that enough Of
their people will leave the South TO-
reduce their representation in Con-
gress at the next apportionment. by
fifteen, il not more.
TIE individual who tampers with
the bolts OF the freight cars may
consider it " nuts" for him to annoy
the company, but soon be will bs
found out. and then q fine fat head
will be put on him and he viii be
screwed up tighter than the cover Of
q powder-msgazihe.
The Albany Democrat says that .
warm reception is in store for the
reporter Of this paper. il he ever
visits that city. for intimating that
the Albany girls play at lsap-frog.
All right; we don't care . cent. We
have never kissed the blarnsy stons,
nor do we propose to do il by proxy
Mn r. d. Hume offers toput three
million salmon into the Columbia
river annually. for ten years. at ~
600 per year. Then hs is just the
man TO come over here and stock our
streams putting into the Sound.