Washington standard. [volume] (Olympia, Wash. Territory) 1860-1921, 1879-04-18
The cpmet is coming.

The @met is coming.
WLDlilies are turning purple.
SIX cEeap tenement houses could
be rentH Immediately.
The back of the Southern Pacific
Railroad is laid 1872 miles east Of
TIE ninth volume of the En-
cyclopsaia Britannica is now ready
for delivery.
The Two Sitka murderers, Kot-ko-
wat, and Okh-ho-ncs, are now on
trial in Portland.
That will be a happy day for out
siders when Oregon papers wear out
the harbor Of refuge question.
The Victoria Colonist is positive
that work on the railroad in British
COLUMBIA will commence this year.
The ate stormy weather seems to
have gone for good, but in SO doing
it has left few mementoes with
some of our citizens, in the shape
of bad colds, etc.
Our reporter has been out nightly
with Aeld-glass trying to fix the
situation of Brorsen's comet. In
consequence of inclement weather,
howevef. he has as yet been unable
to como u.
Mn. Len Turner took a small army
of men to his Mud Bay logging
camp. It's morning, to begin opera
tions olan extensive scale. There
must money in the numbering
busines somewhere.
"SEns there, it is showing r. ex-
claimedA J little six-year-old- young
lady. othis place, as the driving
wind sx3pt the cherry blossoms from
the tree A poet once made a simi-
lar all2bn and the whole world
praised Im for il.
j I1fesnsils tssalsss =. kha
various trading points in the vicini-
ty of Olympia say that they can buy
goods at lower wholesale prices in
this oity than in either Portland or
San Francisco. Let our Chehalis
friends make note of this.
An old drygoods dealer, who has
had q life experience in the business,
says that the more goods sold in
Olympia, the better will be the
chances for selling more. We be.
lieve the point is well taken, and
his philosophy entirely sound.
TrE following are among the lat
est postal changes for this Territory.
Established: At Stark's Prairie,
Pacific county, Mrs. P. Starks,
postmistress; at Sterling, Whatcom
county, Frank Scott, postmaster.
Postmasters appointed: George. W.
Rigney. Steilacoom City. Pierre
county.
The Baltimore Euery Saturday says
a capitalist may get up a corner"
on grain, but "there is no way in
getting a corner on pretty girls"
Perhaps not; but there is way of
getting a pretty girl into a corner,
after the old folks have retired, and
the gas turned down, that makes a
young man forget all the q corners"
in this world.
MEMPHIS, Tennessee, is truly an
afflicted city. First came the yell
low fever which carried off many
hundreds of its citizens. Following
on the heels of the plague, came a
hopeless bankruptcy which cause.-the
city to relinquish its charter. Final
ly, terrible storm devastated the
city and it's surroundings to the ex-
tent of more than hundred thous-
and dollars. Many of the people in
town and country are in deplorable
condition.
Mr.. Wells, of the clam-canning
establishment is in town and informs
us that he has more orders from
abroad for his goods than he can ell
with his present facilities. Our CLAIMS
being one of our inexhanstible re-
sources, it would seem that this bus
iness ought to fully justify the outlay
of large amount capital to place it
On n firm basis Once so established.