Washington standard. [volume] (Olympia, Wash. Territory) 1860-1921, 1879-09-19
SoMBER mornings, brilliant after

SoMBER mornings, brilliant after
Moons.
BASE ball players are in honorable
repute.
WArEMELoNs failed to get up an
excitement this year.
LATE roses are adding their charms
to our flower gardens.
PoTAro bugs are hulrying up,
knowing that their time is short.
The new steamer Susie was
launched, at Seattle, last week.
The lighthouse tender Shubrick is
making tour of the Sound ports.
A LONG run-out, at ebb tide, re-
veals the extent of our valuable oys-
ter beds.
The berry season has closed and
the solemn Indian matron is seeking
other pursuits.
PUMPKINS and squashes are brought
to town by the wagon load and speak
in still small voice CT Thanksgiving
preparations.
MoRS1Na fogs are beginning to OBJ
stroct navigation on the Sound which
accounts for the frequent blasts of
the stesm whistle.
Miss Georsiana Thompson, who
has been confined to her home for
some weeks, with sprained ancle,
ia'able to walk with crutches.
II would become many man to
remember that, while we are bound
to be honest, we are required by no
system Of morality to become rich.
EXTENSIVE preparations are making
in San Francisco, for the reception
OF Gen. Grant, now on the way from
China, by the steamship City Of To-
bio.
The store building on the corner
Of Main and Fourth streets now un-
sserYeirg. extensixe repairs. will
soon rank among the finest business
stands in town.
JONES prides himself upon the SUI
perior knowledge of his brindle COW.
He says she always knows when Sat-
urday comes, and regularly rushes
down town on that day, to eat hay
and chopped feed out of the farmers
wagons.
AS announced by Messrs. Woodruff
g. Van Epps, the school book ex-
change business has been closed,
for this part of the Territory, and
henceforth, loving parents will have
10 pay full price for the new series
and let the small fry retain their old
books in the bargain.
The report Of the President and
Secretary of the Portland Board of
Trade occupies nearly full page of
the city papers. The document COM
prises an exhaustive review of the
commerce of Oregon for the year
ending August 1st, 1879, and is
worthy of being preserved for future
WITH the tobacco, hop and pota-
to crop combined, the farmers of
Puyallup valley are hoping to retrieve
their fortunes this year. They
find that there is more safety in
plurality of crops than to centre all
their mcne- and labor in single
enterprise. The wise husbandman
carefully adapts his different lands
to what they will best produce.
The last pronunciamento issued
by the Harbor of Refuge Commits
sion was a big thing. 1t was done
up in seventeen packages, each
firmly bound in red tape, and when
opened and translated the message
stated that it would be some time
before the decision of the Commis-
sion would be made known to the
public. Only this, and nothing
more.
EVIDENCES go to show that the
wreck of the Norwegian bark Colum-
bia was caused by being struck BY
some unknown sea-monster. The
crew felt tremendous shock, and
Immediately afterwards, the water in
the vicinity of the ship was stained a
blood color. The ship sunk in 80
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