Washington standard. [volume] (Olympia, Wash. Territory) 1860-1921, 1879-08-01
LET the swallows rear their young.

TIE price Of hops is slowly COM
ing up. :.
Nh. J. T. Wills has n new milk
car; it is Pullman" car.
If you sweep your own door-steps
you will have little time to criticise
those OF your neighbors. Il
A SLIGHT increase in the demand for
tenement houses encourages the
hearts of desponding property own
ers.
Miss Ella Clark left en- the train.
yesterday IL morning, for an extended
visit through Oregon and the upper
country.
REV. j. r. Thompson reports that
the mountains are still covered with
pa,chcs of snow, in some places five
feet deep.
DURING the present hot weather, it
viii! be well for teamsters to reud the
doings of Mr.. Bergh's Society for
the prevention of cruelty to animals.
PORTLAND papers are warning the
people of the Sound country to be-
beware of bogus priest, who trav-
els as Professor Leonard, from Cork.
Mr.. Whitelaw Reid, editor of the
New York Tribune is in San Fran
cisco and may be expected to visit
this part of the coast to go trout fish
ing.
A CARRIER pigeon was liberated at
Columbus, Ohio, at half-past FIVE
o'clock, On Monday morning, last,
and arrived at New York in seven-
teen hours and forty-five minutes
thereafter.
WHILE the Portland papers are ia
ecstaces over the unprecedentea
amount of building now going MI HI
that city, they fail to fsSih th6
heavy business failures which are al
most 1aily announced in their col
umns.
The last news from the Skagit
gold mines is TO the effect that, in
about a month, the miners will know
whether gold can be found there in
paying quantities or not. This is
not very definite, but it serves to
keep the subject before the people.
Mrs. Warbass has renovated and
reftted her house on Washington
street, and with the changes made,
it will become an exceedingly COM
fo, table residence. She will begin
housekeeping in few days, and
then be sat home" to the many
friends who are delighted at her re-
turn.
The ice-cream and peaches and
cream served at the Delmonico, rival
in exquisite flavor nectar, from the
lips of Beauty. At least that is what
our reporter says about it, but how
he should know is beyond our COM
prehension. Everybody can try the
peaches, however, and imagine the
joys of OSCILLATION.
If anybody will point out to us, SC
that we can see it, the genuine
pleasure there is in going on pic
mic down the Bay, in open boat
landing on the beach and endurin G
the sweltering interim while the tide
takes long run-out, then return tc
town clear gone with WEAKNESS and
exhaustion, we will call him q dis
cerning fellow.
The steamship City Of Cheste,
brought up the usual amount O
freight for our merchants. The fol
lowing are the names of the consign
ers:
Barker & Dickinson, c. b. Bagley, G. r
1alcott, d. j. Chambers, Il. Ii. Davis. G
W. French. G. Rosenthal, j. e. Horr, Joh,
Lee, Louis Bettman, NJ. Dobrin & Son, $
q. Ward, $. Bettman, Transcript, w
Wright, w. 7. Penitentiary.
|
The Courier learns from q private
letter that, on the 9th of July tn
corpse of man was found on tn
beach about fifteen miles north o
Gray's Harder. Among other arti
| cles found on him were number o
3 teaspoons marked "Steamer GreO
, Republic" and navy, shooter
Colts patent, on the back strap Q
: which was marked, "P. NJ. S. S
t Great Republic" The body wa
s found by al Indian and buried, nea