Washington standard. [volume] (Olympia, Wash. Territory) 1860-1921, 1879-09-26

CRIME is increasing in Memphis.
LABOR is honor, honor is power.
A 100000 fire in Portland, las,
night.
TIE school in district No. 1 is
rapidly filling up.
The fair at Seattle is opening with
good prospect of success.
READ, and learn for yoorself; that
is to say, read the daily papers OF
your towo.
CHOLERA infantum is prevailing to
some extent in many of the smaller
towns in Willamette valley.
SUNDAY evenings are growing long
er and the oil mysteriously disap-
pears from the parlor lamp.
A PICTURE of placid contentment:
the recumbent COWS chewing their
cud in The public square.
JONES SAYS he never stammered but
once in his life, and that was when
he popped the question to Mrs. J.
IT is thought that the cool wealth
er is having the effect to lessen the
ravages of the yellow fever in Men,
phis.
"LAKE Union Suburb" is what the
Seattle papers delight to call one Of
the remote but growing quarters of
that city.
THERE will be ample opportunity
at the lectures, this week, for anxious
hearts to find out their atinities.
JUDAH P. DAWES, a prominent auc-
ton and commission merchant, of
Victoria, dropped dead on one of the
streets of that city, last Saturday.
Mrs. WINNIE F. THOMAS, according
to the Klickitat Sentinel, delivered
a lecture on "Common Sense" ut
Goldendale, on the 17th inst.
OLYMPIA pups are looking up.
The steamer Zephyr, on her last
trip, took one of our likely ours
down to the United States Peniten-
tiary on McNeil's Island, to do duly
as a guard.
The somewhat mixed up matter
concerning the reported loss of the
steamer Aler. Duncan is at last
cleard up by the agent at Portland:
EUREKA, CAL, Sept. q, 1879.
q. j. Hatch: Broke one shaft. VIII not
be in Portland, before the 9Th oI OctoDer'
Notify agents on Sound. CARROLL.
WORD comes that Jesse Chapman,
eldest son of Mr.. H. L. Chapman late
of this place, died, recently, in Ne
vada, where he was engaged with his
father in running quartz mill.
Diphtheria was the cause of his
death.
A TELEGRAM was received at this
place, Saturday, announcing the
death of Mr.. Henry Saunders, at Sill
yer City, Idaho. Mr.. Saunders was
we'll and favorably known by most Of
our citizens. having grown up from
boy-hood among us and mingled in
timately with the young people OF
OLYMPIA. He learned the printing
business here, and distinguished him
self as young man of industrious
habits, marked ability and integrity
of character. About four years age
he went to California and thence tt
Silver City, where, in the beginning
of a useful career, he was suddenly
overtaken by the grim messenger o.
death.
Mr.. w. G. Myer, of Jackson
county, Oregon, is in town, with BIZ
band of horses, and their fine points
are attracting a good deal OF atten
ton. Conspicuous among his valu
able animals may be noted a tiv'
year old bay mare whose weight OK
ceeds fourteen hundred pounds;
gray stallion only two years DID, o
about the same weight, a number o
tvo-year-olds of lesser merit, and
beautiful Shetland pony. Mr.. Mye
is on his way to the King count.
Fair, and promises, on his return t
stop at this place and give our peo
pie further display OF such OF HI
stock as he may have with him
Our farmers may congratulate them