Washington standard. [volume] (Olympia, Wash. Territory) 1860-1921, 1879-11-07


Is The city of Walla-walla is to have
anew directory.
The diphtheria is reported to have
broken out in t,Ie Oregon Peniten-
itiary.
ANOTHER v1crxAMr. Joe Lamon' $
little boy disd on Friday night, Of
diphtheria.
/ The name of a firm in Victoria,
Stahlschmidt 4 Ward, contains six
teen letters only three of which are
vowels.
+ A PARTY of Nimrods and Izaak
Waltons are enjoying protracted
hunting and fishing season along
the Upper Deschutes.
| The melancholy days have come,
for poultry, but as rule, tough old
roostels and gobblers are exempt
from the nervousness prevailing in
their respective circles.
The steamer Isabel has been float
ed of the rock upon which she struck
in Victoria harbor and brought safe
Fly TO the wharf. She is' found TO be
only slightly damaged, if at.ali.
From almost every quarter of the
East, word comes that Winter is ap-
(proaching in right good earnest.
We are perfectly willing to forego
tie pleasures of ice and snow and
rest content with our green fields.
We believe not until the present
reign OF .liph.heria, have the ears
of our people been SO often panied
BY the sad and measured tolling of
fthe funeral bell. Seven children
lhaxe been snatched away in about
7 tSh days. W
! The man who mixes up the sauce
for the Portland Standard, after in
domitable research, has made the bril-
liant discovery that it requires only
the prefix or, to make all editors
creditors. What is to be done with
the fellow, we have not. as yet,
learned.
The steamer California, on her last
trip from Sitka, brings some encour-
aging news relative 70 the additional
discovery Of the precious metals in
that Territory. Everything tends
to show that there will be a great
rush to those distant gold-felds in
the Spring.
Alexander the Great built costly
mausoleum for his defunct horse,
Bucephalus, and named q city in
honor of the noble animal, but the
Macedonian general, although hea-
then, was far from being sacriligious.
And now come the owners of a fast
horse in California who have done the
next best thing to defy their dar-
ling pc. by christening him I" St. Ju-
lian." Like Bucephalus, his name
will doubtless appear in revised edi-
tions Of the encyclopedias to be read
and pondered over by future horse
fanciers.
/ SoxE idea of the growing business
between the Sound ports and San
Francisco eau be CLEANED from the
following freight list of the steamer
China on her last trip to the Bay
City: 14.0OO sacks Of grain, con-
sisting Of wheat and oats; 1890
cases Of canned salmon; 8 barrels of
salmon; 40 barrels of. porter; 400
tons Of barrels and staves; $50 bales
of hops: so tons Of water.pipe, and
20 tons of miscellaneous articles too
numerous and scattering to mention.
The general verdict is, that the COM
merce Of our Sound is steadily grow
ing.
| An article is going the rounds Of
Of the press relative to the so.called
quarts mine Of the Swauk. Who
ever Is the informant is badly mis-
taken. No quartz mines have ever
been prospected or worked ON the
Swauk. that place is celebrated for
its gold placer.mines whore they get
ont Jumps Of solid gold that weigh
from one.fcurth to three-quartsrs Of
. pound, with some that weigh fully
q pound. The person who wrote up
the article probably got the name
Swauk exchanged for Pesbastin.
which is only fourteen miles distant.
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