Washington standard. [volume] (Olympia, Wash. Territory) 1860-1921, 1879-03-28
HIeH tides.


HIaH tides.
An Oregon paper advertises one
thousand acres Of pasture land on a
two hundred and seventy-six acre
farm.
THE chief of the Signal Service at
Washington gives late encouraging
intimations that signal Office will
soon be established at Seattle or
Port Townsend.
The Russian plague has broken
out anew at Wetleinka, and Gen.
Melikoff has issued orders to have q
large number Of houses burned in
the infected districts.
MANY leading journals are serious
ly questioning the policy OF those
papers that are publishing the court
proceedings of the Oliver Cameron
breach of promise case. The ques-
ton has but one side to us. We
deem them utterly unfit to appear
in the columns Of a respectable
newspaper.
THE farmers of the Nootsack river
country are determined to raise ten
times more produce this year than
last. This is saying a good deal,
but it is not impossible, since much
land has been cleared in that region,
during the past Fall and Winter.
What are the farmers Of our own
county doing?
THERE is some show Of philosophy
in the opinion advanced by an obser-
want individual, that the crows rem
der us valuable service, in making
way with much Of the garbage, ac-
cumulating in our back yards and
alley-ways, which might otherwise be
left to decay and thus engender
miasmatic diseases.
RAIN commenced falling late on
Saturday afternoon, and the storm
continued with little interruption all
day Sunday, through the whole Of
last night and until about noon to-
day. Sidewalks and vacantlots have
presented the appearance of NINA
ture floods, while the cutters have
aped the roaring of angry rivers.
A PROJECT is on foot to arrange q
monster excursion from Washington
to San Francisco, about the first of
August, next, to meet General
Grant on his return from the Orient.
1t is understood that the whole affair
smacks a good deal Of political ag-
grAndizement and that its prominent
movers have considerable Grant on
the brain.
TIE city Of Albany, Oregon, has
settled with Mr.. J. I. Willaby by
paying him 81. 800. 1t viii be re-
membered that Willaby, fell into
a ditch and broke his collar bone.
Some Olympia sidewalks afford
splendid opportunities for breaking
collar bones, but whether the owner
of the fractured bone would get
81 500 is another question.
HoLocAusTs appear to be the or
der Of the day on the high se@ as
we'll as on the land. The British
steamer Bolirar, Captain Doherty.
running between Liverpool and st.
Thomas, recently collidsd with the
Hatien steamer Michael, causing the
latter vessel to sink, by which means
sixty persons were drowned.
A WRITER in Nature announces the
invention of o new telegraph ma
chine by which the writer at one
end Of the line is enabled to repro
duce his words and the forms of the
letters composing them. at the other
end, however distant. E. A. Cow
per is the inventor, and the appara-
tus is soon to be laid before the
British Society Of Engineers.
Nor long since. we advised the
farmers Of Thurston county to raise
a reasonable quantity Of potatoes
along with their other crops. 1t
seems now, that the door Of a new
market has been opened for this
branch Of industry. Mr.. T. G. VIII
son, of Seattle, is putting up one
hundred barrels Of Puget Sound po-
tatoes for Honolulu. This shipment
poas ma n first venture by the bark