Washington standard. [volume] (Olympia, Wash. Territory) 1860-1921, 1879-05-30
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MIR. w. S. Spear is still very low
with an attack of paralysis.
CLAM-BAKEs are in fashion among
our friends down the Sound.
WILLIAM Lloyd Garrison died in
New York on the night of the 24th
inst.
WEsTpoRr, on the Columbia river
is to have a dry-dock, built by East
ern capital.
THERE is a growing impression
among our business men that adver-
tising pays.
ACCORDING to some astronomers OF
no,e, spots upon the sun arc the cause
6f the backwarkness of the season.
READ Messrs. Toklas Goldstein' g
announcement of new goods, just
received, under the head of "Busi-
ness Notices."
ALL hope is given up in regard to
Judge Marsh. He is supposed either
to have perished on shore or to have
found watery grave.
KEEP your eye on the double COL
umn advertisements of the ExpER-
IAENT. Their figures are as change
alee as the colors of the chameleon.
PIERCE county is a good place for
hunters. The Commissioners are
peging bounty of IS for bear, wolf
anR cougar scalps, and 81 so for
wildcats.
PoRTLAND papers announce that
the Oregon Steam Navigation Com
pahy and Northern Pacific Railroad
are periecting arrangements for q
grsud excursion to Puget, Sound to
cosae off on the 25th Of June.
AsALMoN was caught on the Co.
laathiA the other day, weighing 70
pounds. It was four feet long and
two feet nine inches in circumfer-
ence. It is said to have been the
largest salmon ever caught in that
river.
w. H. CLARK seems to be fully
aware that crockery is fragile COM
modify. Acting on this principle,
be is soon to receive another invoice
of crockery and glassware to COM
plete the large assortment already
on hand.
The steamer Zephyr brought up
last night, freight from the City Of
Chester, for the following parties:
c Rosin, G B H, G R T, D Tuite,
D (Diamond). Fred Guyot, G w o.
born, J G Horr, L B, S L, ] c, S G
W, S w, T N Ford & Co, T & G.,
Transcript, T G Lowe, w & We, r
F. -.s.
One of the most interesting fea-
lures of the EXPERIMENT to the ladies,
is its advertisements. One lady in
forms us that she has saved the sub
scription price at least ten times, by
careful perusal of its business an
nouncements. We do not believe
there is single subscriber but who
has saved all it has cost them,
through the same means.
ACCORDING to the Portland Daily
Bee, Mount Hood has been starting
up its fireworks again. A column of
black smoke was seen to issue from
the crater on the southwest side.
If this phenomenon has anything to
do with the perihelion of the four
large planets now approaching that
position, then it may be that our
Mount Rainier will be similarly af-
fected.
The Seattle Intelligencer is now
published under entirely different
auspices from what it ever has been
before. A few months ago, Mr..
Hanford traded Mr.. Beriah Brown q
farm on White river for his interest
in the paper. thus becoming its sole
proprietor. On the first of May,
Mr.. Thomas Prosch bought a half
interest from Hanford, and on the
9Th of the same month, Mr.. s. L.
Crawford purchased the remaining
interest, and the paper is now con.
Quoted by them. We wish tho new
firm success, as Tom is an esteemed
friend and Sam o " graduate" of this
Office,