The Vancouver independent. (Vancouver, W.T. [Wash.]) 1875-1910, 1879-10-09
BRIEF MENTION.
The dust is laid once more.


U. s. District Court opens one week from
next Monday.
Toussant Brothers have their tinshop
open for business.
Gen. U. S. Grant sails from San Francisco
for Portland to-day.
All the fresh Oysters consumed in Van
couver come from Olympia.
The little steam yacht Luella made Van
couver a visit on Sunday last.
We have not heard of any ground lately
that is too dry for fall blowing.
The boys in blue have frequent ire drills
since the last blaze at the garrison.
Work on the road to Portland is tempo
rarily suspended owing to bad weather.
The crop of house flies is getting beauti-
fully short, which pleaseth Betsey Jane.
Mrs. A. j. Wiley of Washougal has left
the hospital in Portland, and gone home.
Most of the wheat coming into Vancouver
now goes to the Touring mill instead of Port
land.
Patrick Buckley writes frcm the Lumm
Reservation that his health is improving
slightly.
The Vancouver Fire Department keeps up
its practice, and its apparatus is all in fight
ing trim.
Some of J. C. Masons goods that were
attached are to be sold to-day to satisfy the
execution.
There is talk of a dryer being put up in
Vancouver, to help dispose of the surplus
potatoe crop.
Portland banks received on Tuesday
$3.50, 600 coin from San Francisco, to be paid
out for wheat
NJ. r. Hathaway, Esq, of Union Ridge,
made Vancouver one of his seml-occaslonal
calls yesterday.
The wet weather made the Territorial fair
partial failure, and there was no attendance
from this point.
Cameron is about to remove his store to
the Cascades locks, where he will be the
only storekeeper
NJ. Whittier is going his pile on the Van
couver Mills flour, and the -four seems to be
as good as the pile.
c. 7. Stiles of Pataha City, w. r., ar
rived down on Saturday. and visited old til
licums in Vancouver.
The wild geese are beginning to fill the
lakes, and certain old heads are beginning
to polish up their muskets.
The farmers who tie up their harness with
buckskin strings would do better to so to
Jake Whittier for a new set.
The steamer Trareier is carrying very
large amount of wheat into Portland, from
farms along the Columbia river.
George Tooley went to the Salem fair with
his family on Thursday last. He knows
whether it rained or was pleasant.
A few Chinese laborers employed in this
pulled up their stakes and gone to Portland.
Five onions which were brought in to us
by Eugene White weighed seven and halt
pounds One weighed nearly two pounds.
The fall display of drummers has COM
menced to arrive, but there are few among
them VINO may be described as "too nice for
anything.
Carpenters are now engaged in putting on
the roof OF Maxon's new building and piec
ing ont the roof of the Odd Fellows building
adjoining.
The water main on Main Street opposite
Hazards store, which comes 10 the surface
since the grading was DONE is being sunk to
its proper level.
The Vancouver FIGURING Mills are well
filled up with wheat, which they are turn
ing into flour at the rate of $50 bushels daily
for each run OF stones kept going.
The social of the Methodist Church peo-
pie at the house OF j. q. Blake last evening
was a very pleasant affair, and the attend
ance was very full. The collection was big
ger than new ovcrcoat.
Mrs Bright, sister-in-law of the great
English Reformer, John Bright was the
guest of General Howard this week. The
band of the Dist Infantry ser tied the dis
tinguished lady during her st.J.
Capt j. d. Biles of the Oregon Steamship
Company has returned from visit to San
Francisco. Capt. Bies was one of the per-
sonal friends of Gen. Grant when he was in
Oregon and his visit to the bay city was
more for the purpose of meeting his old time
associate than anything else. Gen. Grant
recognized Mr.. Biles at sight, and inquired
about his many friends in Oregon.