Washington standard. [volume] (Olympia, Wash. Territory) 1860-1921, 1879-09-19
WHOLE NO. $50

MORE bark from the logging
camps.
The Lewis County Fair begins
next Wednesday.
A sAvANr says Eve had blue eyes
We always said so.
BAsE-ballists are giving all their
spare time to diligent practice.
DIR. Dean Clark has returned from
his lecturing tour on the Sound.
The sweetest belle of Olympis.
The one which tells US that the old
speckled cow has come.
A SPLENDID time 10 replace leaky
roofs; shingles are cheap and carpen-
ter's are anxious for work.
New arrivals want to know whatx
we have done with our mosquitoes
and ague. We never had any.
A DRAB shawl was left in Tacoma,
Hall last Sunday, which the owner
can have by calling at this Office.
By actual count, about an even
dozen of vegetable pedlers are daily
threading the streets Of Olympia.
Now that many farmers have Sc
cured their grain crop, they have re-
sumed the work of hauling hay into
town.
The steamer Wilson G. Hunt re-
Gently brought over an excursion
party of several hundred people to
to Seattle.
LET our people exercise little
patience and they will soon be per-
mitted to tread upon several more
new sidewalks.
The steamer Messenger brought up
the freight of the Alaska, Tuesday,
and was consequently detained till
late in the evening.
HARD times are not throught OF
in San Francisco, while costly pre-
paEations are being made for the A ]. zss 2 =. ]
ception Of Gen. Grant.
The actual cost of "wear and
tear" of track for each extra trip ON
our local railroad, to be made daily
after the first prox. is seven dollars
Iris an observable fact that small
sized velocipedes are out upon the
streets much earlier, now, since the
schools commenced, than previous
ly.
ANOTHER delegation of emigrants
arrived from California, Tuesday
to look after the advantages offered
by the productive hills and valleys
of our Territory.
DIR. Dean Clark, who has so often
helped to keep our Blue Ribbon
League "in good Spirits," says he
hopes we will not allow it call to 60
to pot" in his absence.
The nestlings that have been so
long chirping under our eyes have
at last, brood by brood, attained the
estate of swallowhood and gone to-
carve out a fortune for themselves.
BLAINE and Tilden will be the
next candidates for the Presidency.
That is The opinion of the ExpERl-
MEsr; but you are not compelled to
place any faith in the prediction. it
you don't want to.
SEVERAL wagon loads of sight
seers went out to McAllister's Lake,
this morning, to spend the dsy in
various amusements, boating, fish
ing and eating lunch, the latter be-
ing the chief pastime.
In view of the rapid increase Of
population and the improving busi-
ness outlook along the upper Sound
country, there is some talk OF .
third steamer being put on the
route between this place and Seattle.
The Blue Ribbon League are psr-
fecting arrangements for course Of
lectures to be delivered during the
session of the Legislature. The first
of these will be delivered by Rev. j.
r. Thompson, on Monday evening,
October 18th.
The relative merits of Q local op-
ton or civil damage law regulating
the sale of intoxicating liquors. will
be the subject of discussion at the
League next Monday evening, with