Washington standard. [volume] (Olympia, Wash. Territory) 1860-1921, 1879-08-29

Mr.. A. O. Damon is pronounced
to be out of danger.
The clothes that are paid for be
come the wearer best.
STILL they come, is all we have te
chronicle in the emigrant line.
The Territorial University is adver
tised to open on Monday, the arst Of
September.
SEVEN dollars is the price charged
for transporting a ton of wheat from
Wallula to Astoria.
BosToN is sweet place, in one re-
spect. It makes over five thousand
tons of candy every year.
The new kiln of brick at the Seat
CO Penitentialy, the first ever burned
there, turns out to be very fine.
THE total coal product of the
world foots up to about two hundred
and ninety million tons annually.
The most splendid fellow that
ever cnrled a moustache," is what
the Albany girl says of her average
lover.
EXCHANGES speak as if the Conk-
lin-Sprague scandal is destined to
eclipse that of Beecher and Mrs.
Tilton.
AFFAIRs at Memphis are evidently
at stand-still. New cases of yell
low fever are reported, but physi-
cians are of the opinion that they
can now control the disease.
Mn. =. NJ. Patterson is erecting a
larger hotel, at Kalama, than the one
recently destroyed by fire. We are
glad to note such items of enterprise
in this Art of our Territory.
OLYNaA is again without a profess
siona: 'ssmejum.' The steamum
tookum downum Soundum to field
ems newum. DR.. Snow, the assas-
sin of Lindley Murray, accompanied
the wild child Of nature.
The butter and eggs now brought
in from the country ought to satisfy
the most fastidious epicure. The
butter is of the finest quality, and
the eggs are the product of hens
that fully understand their business.
IT may not be generally known
that there is a capital place to 60
snipins along the shore line in front
of this office. All that is needed is
a dark night, somebody to hold the
bag and a fellow with a long stick
to shoe the game.
We hear of the first case of rust
in wheat in this county. A farmer
on Lincoln Creek had a field of
Spring wheat which, up to a late
date, looked fair and promising, but
within a few days past, has been
pronounced failure from rust.
The Freedman's Relief Associa-
ton, of Kansas, has, so far, aided
about four thousand destitute COL
ored people, and now politicians are
waiting to see how those new resi-.
dents OF the state will recompense
their helpers at the next election.
To write the shortest grammatical
| sentence, containing all the letters
of the alphabet, is a favorite pas
time at teachers institutes. We
heard a woman talking in rather
short sentences to her husband, the
other evening, and judging from
their weighty import and her tone
of voice, we think they must have
contained most of the letters of the
alphabet.
The following list of State cleo
tions for the year 1879 will be found
convenient for general reference, and
is worth preserving: CAL, Sept. 3
State and Judicial officers, four Con
gressmen and Legislature; Maine
Sept. 8, State officers and Legisla
ture; Ohio and Iowa, October, 7
State officers in part and Legislature
Maryland, Massachusetts, Minneso
ia, Mississippi, New Jersey, New
York, Pennsylvania, Virginia, Wis
consin, November 3. Governors arr
to he elected in all the States namet
except Mississippi, New Jersey
Pennsylvania and Wisconsin.