Washington standard. [volume] (Olympia, Wash. Territory) 1860-1921, 1879-01-18
THE Old and New Testamenfz i

The Old and New Testamenta a
one volume, can now beprinted and
bound in twelve hours.
EFFORTS have been nlade to re-
establish the mail service b water
between this place and Tacolna.
IT is said that newspapers are
sharper when filed. Won't sonne-
body try it on tie Courier and .1fdns-
criptP
The logging business continues 70
hold its own, in spite of the general
depression throughout the Sound
country.
IT is estimated that Tennessee,
Virginia and California, will furnish,
this year, about 100000 bushels
of peanuts.
The members of the Blue Ribbon
League, at Seattle, numbers 525,
but many of them are said to have
signed their names several times.
If every person attended to his
own business as assiduously as he
does to the affairs of others, there
would be less failures in the world.
On the 1st instant the mercury
stood 80 degrees below zero at st.
Paul, Minnesota, 20 below at Chi
caeo, Illinois, and IS below at Yank-
ton, Dakota.
JOHN B. COUGH declares that
churches have no right to discipline
o member for drunkenness if they
have no right to discipline such per-
son for drinking.
PRoF. Henderson has signifed q
willingness to teach night classes,
two or more evenings of each week,
if the patronage that offers is suffi-
cientto afford reasonable remuner-
alton.
A PHYSICIAN urges the wisdom of
clothing childrens feet with wooden
stockings and causing them to sleep
between blankets instead of sheets
during the prevalence of the rainy
season.
TWENTY-FIVE sales of real-estate are
reported from the Auditors office
within few days past. A sufficient
evidence that somebody has con-
fidence left in the integrity of our ag-
ricultural facilities.
: The Rochester and New York,
Buffalo, New York and Philadelphia,
and Cleveland and Erie railroads,
have all been blocked up with snow
for days, together since the advent
Of the late cold term.
The tides are again assuming the
undue proportions usual at this sea-
son of the year. Our Office resem-
bles Noah's Ark, at food-tide, al
though we havn't quito as many cats
and dogs as the patriarch had when
he went on his voyage of discovery
around the world.
HENRY WARD BEEcHER is evidently
rejoicing that he is out-growing the
great scandal of his life. At late
Friday evening prayer-meeting, he
became quite enthusiastic over the
fact that his ministerial and lecture
work was rapidly resolving itself
back again into the even tenor of its
way.
The Harmony cotton mills, of Co
hoes, n. Y, lately employing $500
hands, and turning out three
hundred thousand yards of cotton
goods a day, have reduced their
running time to three days in the
week, in order to lessen supply and
increase prices. If Olympia had
such an establishment to run one
day in the week, we should be abun-
dainty satisfied for some time to
come.
The large audience which assem-
bled in Champion Hall Sunday night,
to listen to Dean Clarke, very forci-
bly, impressed upon the mind of the
most casual observer the apothegm,
4" The blood of the martyr is the
seed of the church." There was
absolutely scarcely standing-roon
for the congregation; but every.
body patiently remained till the close
of the exercises and left well pleased
apparently. with the eloquent dis