Washington standard. [volume] (Olympia, Wash. Territory) 1860-1921, 1879-01-18
FUEL-vESDERs are driving q good

FUEL-vENDERs are driving q good
business.
Mas. DR.. Lou. Patterson has gone
to Seattle on a professional tour.
Snow is a foot deep in the Black
Hills, few miles from this place.
The Blue Ribbon League is max
ing havoc among the saloons of Ore
gon.
DoN'T make rash weather predic-
tions and then lay heavy wagers that
you are right.
A MILITARY examination was held
at the Territorial University on Sat-
urday last.
PRoF. Wells, of the firm of Hicks
& Wells, New Tacoma, is paying
our city brief business visit.
A GREAT many of the snow-fakes
that came down the other day would
have covered the area of foot.
The next term of the District
Court in Seattle will undertake to
dispose of an eighteen thousand dol
lar lawsuit.
Our late rain-storm extended as
far east as Wallula and was gener-
ally prevalent throughout the Sound
country and Oregon.
The steamer Dakota will not come
to Olympia, this time, the Zephyr
having been engaged to bring up
her freight and passengers.
Ayers almanac for 1879 has the
figure of man, instead of woman,
to adorn the title-page, and his
name is Old Cure-all.
SNIp1Na" parties can find good
fields of operation without going out
of our town; an advantage not pos
sessed by all fun-loving cliques.
ANOTHER bank has gone the way
of all things FRAUDULENT. The Indian
apolis bank suspended on Monday,
under the weight of 5000 900 in de-
posits.
A New York lady has the effront-
cry to complain of drygoods dealer
for immodestly displaying women's
under garments in his show win
dows. Shocking!
WOMEN in the Atlantic States who
are working for the right of suffrage,
complain that they are making no
progress. Let them emigrate to
the Puget Sound country.
The specie resumption act is slow
ly manifesting it's influence. The
San Francisco bankers have notified
brokers that, hereafter, they will
make no discrimination between
gold and greenbacks.
A RECENT English edition of Long
fellow has, for its frontispiece, a
picture of what purports to be the
1" Residence of Longfellow at Wash
ington." The editor has reference,
of course, to the old historic man
sion at Cambridge.
A mEETING of the creditors of the
Port Madison Mill Co. was held in
San Francisco, on the 10th inst. It is
thought that a compromise will be
effected by which MIR. Meigs will re-
sumo business and discharge his
Indebtedness in annual instalments.
FRED. GERE has left the dramatic
profession and is now ingaged in
catching the aeeting shadow, B"
with Mr.. Buchtei, of Portland. If
this is too stilty to be understood,
he is simply takin' pictur's" in the
the leading Photographic gallery of
Oregon.
We are pleased to observe that
Mr.. Barnes is recovering from the
injuries inflicted by a pet dog sever
al days ago. A few apparently in
significant scratches threatened at
one time serious consequences to the
eye-sight, but it is thought all dan
ger is now passed.
" ENJOY life." This is beautiful
sentiment, all will be ready to ad-
NIT, and it is shrewdly taken as the
heading of patent medicine adver-
tisement. The fashion of turning
their ads upside down is getting toe
Did to catch people, SO the doctors