Washington standard. [volume] (Olympia, Wash. Territory) 1860-1921, 1879-02-08
Our Postoffice is nearing its tran.

ing their grain fields.
THERE are hopeful indications tha
Spring will soon be upon us in a
its essentials if not in name.
JUDGE Wingard, our former towns
man, and now of Walla Walla,
just recovering from q severe spel
of illness.
MIR. Javan Hall, an old citizens O
Lewis county, has been paying ou
town a visit. We are ever glad t.
see old friends.
MEssRs. CASTOR & Mcintosh ar.
preparing to commence cutting
timber on new claim. They are
now engaged in erecting the neces.
sary cabins, laying out roadways, etc.
The logging business is improving.
The Transcript understands that
there is going to be another oyster
company. A second company has
long been doing good business here
and only needs to be duly incorpor-
ated to take its place as an Olympia
fixture.
The newspapers of the country
are making all sorts of random
guesses" about the population OF
the United States at the completion
of the coming census for 1880. We
venture to put the grand total at
fifty millions.
MANY Walla Walla county farmers
were in high glee, last year, over
their large wheat crop, and pur-
posely burned their straw stacks to
get them out of the way. Now they
are skinning dead cattle, which a
little chopped straw fwould have
brought through the Winter.
HORSES are dying in some parts of
Oregon .as if attacked by a new
and fatal disease. Should the case
amount to anything like the horse
epidemic that ravaged the country
a few years ago, it would be we'll for
everybody owning these valuable
animals to ke'seasonable precau-
tions.
AFTER enduring severe mental
ordeal over the question. an Eastern
leader of fashion has at last decided
that white kid gloves may be con-
sistently worn, even in deep mourn
ing, at an evening party. The value
of this information to the world can
not be reckoned in dollars and cents,
and will doubtless pass into history
as one of the great achievements of
the century in which we live.
IHE complications relative to the
headlight still continue. On dit,
that the new fixture is onl y a mill
light and was never intended for q
locomotive; besides, one who should
be an expert in such matters, pro-
nounces it a secondhand article,
whether intended for the one pur-
pose or the other. Wonder il the
San Francisco sharpers have really
cheated our ladies?
Tue Postmaster General has au-
thorized the carrying OF the mails
three times week, on the route be.
tween Port Townsend and Port Dis
covery, instead of only once as here
tofore. The onward progress of
mail facilities in fast growing coun-
try like our own eeldom retrogrades,
and We are always glad to record any
improvement in this direction. This
change is an encouraging omen to
our friends at Port Townsend.
AN incident took place in st. Louis,
recently, that shows hopefully how
the old prejudices which have, for
centuries. vexed the world, are gradu-
ally giving waxbefore the march Of
modern liberality. The Globe-Demo-
craf. of that city says: "The
Share Emeth Jewish congregation
lately invited the Second Baptist
Church to hold services in their
Synagogue. The cordial invitation
has been accepted, and now, for the
first time in the history of the world,
it can be said that the Sacrament of
the Lords Supper has been held in
o Synagogue of the Jews"