Washington standard. [volume] (Olympia, Wash. Territory) 1860-1921, 1879-07-18

Mrs. Peckham is guest at Gen.
Milroy's during her stay here.
The weather still continues in q
critical condition for haying pur-
poses.
AN accomplished teacher of the
violin would find employment in
Olympia.
AFTER a few weeks absence, the
blackbirds are once more interview
ing our city.
The Hutchinson family will next
regale our people with the harmony
of sweet sounds.
The markets are teeming with cur
rants and raspberries offered at rea-
sonable prices.
MANY of the smaller Oregon towns
bitterly complain of the prevalence
of drunkenness.
PORTLAND people are rejoicing over
the large amount of building now
going on i'll that city.
The schooner Granger came into
port, on Saturday evening, with a
cargo of hay from WILDLY Island. !
MEssRs Allen e. Titus have set up
an improved pumping apparatus
over the new artesian we'll lately
sunk by them.
AN eliptical' stern has been
added to Etheridse's new, monde
script sailing craft, which is said to
materially increase her speed.
FIVE hours practice per day, for
twenty years, was the pr!ce paid by
Remenyi for the acquisition he has
won in his chosen profession:
To say that tons of blackberries
will be picked by the Indians along
the upper Sound country, is not at
all over-estimating the product.
To find out how many children
there are in the country, go to
Woodruff g. Van Epps' store and
see the loads of secondhand school,
books they are shipping away. u,
The frequsncysw with which~aa4sxss
ira steamer is chartered to come
here after large supplies of sheep,
clearly indicates that there must be
good backing in the country.
MASSACHUSETTS has a plan on foot
for establishing state cooking
school where girls can be taught all
the mysteries of the kitchen. If
these schools prove success and
become we'll patronized, they will
turn out more good wives than pri-
vate families now do.
ABOUT twenty persons assembled
at the Fair Grounds, Wednesday, .
while away the hours in the manual
exercise Of the axe, pick, shovel, and
last though not least, the knife and
fork. Many conveniences, at the
next fair will fully attest the eff
ciency of the work that was done.
A TELEaBM was received from Ia
coma, last Sunday, by Mr.. R. A.
Parker, announcing that is son-in-
law, Capt. Geo. Browner, was lying
seriously i'll of apoplexy, and soon
after, second dispatch brought the
news that Mr.. Browner was no more.
Mr.. and Mrs. Parker started i'm
mediately for Tacoma on the steamer
Annie SteUart, which was fortunately
in our harbor and ready to sail.
A PRIVATE letter from Lake coun-
", Mlchlgan, to gentleman IN THIS
place, asserts that no less than
carload of emigrants are ready to
embark from one town in that coun-
ty for Washington Territory, as
soon as they can get reliable in
formation in regard to the induce
ments offered to settlers. so here
is an opportunity for our Emigra-
ton Society to make itself useful.
A WALK through the broom fac
tory OF Messrs. Woodruff & Van
Epps, will convince the most care
less observer that those gentlemen
mean business. With a large stock
of material now on the way from
San Francisco and all the latest ap-
pliances for manufacturing, they can