Washington standard. [volume] (Olympia, Wash. Territory) 1860-1921, 1879-06-20

SEA-BArHINa is coming into fashion.
M1LLEr Tilley has returned home,
to spend vacation.
CENrERv1LLE, Lewis county, cele-
brates the glorious Fourth.
FOURTH of July orators have be-
gun to study their pieces.
The new Presbyterian church, at
Seattle, was dedicated last Sunday.
RoBBlNG birds nests is one of the
besetting sins of Olympia's small
sized hoodlums.
GENTLEMEN are now necessitated to
carry shoe-buttoners in their pockets;
not for their own use.
A LARGE number of persons went
out to the Fair Grounds, to. day, to
witness the baseball contest.
NEARLY one thousand Chinese ar
rived at San Francisco, direct from
Hong Kong, on Sunday, last.
ONE of the first articles in the
business mans creed, is an abiding
faith in the efficacy of advertising.
For the benefit of mankind gen.
orally, We will state that, while we
hear of hard times in all other
places, Olympia still Aourishes.
IF you want to see yourself as 9TH
ers see you go and buy one of those
magnificent looking-glasses just re-
ceived at the City of Olympia Store.
OuL farmers in this neighborhood
are cutting and putting up their
clover hay. In many fields, the
yield has been far above the aver
age.
SOMEBODY will get a broken limb
and the town made responsible for
the mischief, if the sidewalks along
the upper part Of Main street are
not repaired.
AMONG all the advertised remedies
for drunkenness, nothing has been
found to compare with total absti-
nence, and this method occasions no
doetor's bills,
LAWRENCE Otis Hall, the great de-
faulting clerk of the San Francisco
bank, has just had his trial in that
city and found guilty Of deliberately
stealing about $24, 900.
ONE thing that can be said in
favor of the two new drygoods
stores is, the fact they do not go
back on the people by relapsing into
old fashioned high prices.
Mr.. Jasper White, late of Tum.
water, has purchased the residence
and farm of Mr.. William w. Plumb,
and removed thither. Mr.. Plumb
comes to live in Tumwater.
The steamer Messenger brought up
the delegates that went down to the
Grand Lodges of the Odd Fellows
and Good Templars, the former at
Seattle, the latter at Port Townsend.
MEssRs. G.. G. Merriam, Spring
field, Mass. have just issued a new
edition of Webster's Unabridged
Dictionary, containing a supple
ment of nearly fifty pages, making
an addition of about ffty-five hum
dred new words not found in any
o:her dictionary.
One young man has already un-
bosomed himself so much as to own
that our article on cigarettes smok-
ing touched the right spot in his
case, and proposes to indulge no
longer in perpetiating a slow but
sure suicide. May others come for
ward and do likewise.
Mr.. Geo. Gelbaugh, of Tum-
water, is making fair headway with
his new grist-mill.. The frame is up,
and q large force of carpenters
busily at work, enclosing the build
ing and preparing for the ma
chinery. Soon the rumbling of ac-
tive operations will be heard.
The municipal election in Port
land, Monday, resulted in the tri-
umph of tho Republican ticket for
Mayor and majority Of the Coun-
ciimen, and of the Democrats
for members of the police force.
Thompson is Mayor elect, by ma
jority of 46 over Judge Strong, in a
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