Washington standard. [volume] (Olympia, Wash. Territory) 1860-1921, 1879-03-28
Who has seen the new moon ?

VINO has seen the new moon?
IT was a wet new moon, this time.
CAPITAL punishment has been re-
stored in Switzerland.
A CIGAR store in Portland is to be
lighted by an electrical machine.
TIE gravel crossings, put down q
few months ago, are rendering good
service.
"LrrTIE drops of water, little
grains of sand," but especially the
former.
PERIHE1oS-pestilence believers are
claiming the late Hungarian foods rs
their testimony.
AT last accounts, the editor of this
paper was still marching on through
the wilds of Oregon.
IT was seventy-eight years ago,
that the first trading vessel visited
this northwestern coast.
The Presbyterian churches of Ore
gon are rejoicing over large access
sions to their membership.
SINCE Dennis Kearney received his
pommeling, his admirers have pro-
vided a body-guard for HIM.
SENATOR Booth has been appointed
one of the regents of the Smithson-
ian Institution in place of ex-Sena-
tor Sargent.
FARMERS in Northern California ara
busily engaged in putting in Spring
crops, with every prospect of an
harvest.
The authorities at New York are
enforcing rigid rules against vessels
arriving from Mediterranean ports.
This is as it should be.
The Albany, Oregon. Democrat
says the girls Of that city play leap
frog. Naughty man. Perhaps the
Democrat man has been Tilted by
some of them.
IT costs SO much, now, to take
anthacite coal from the English
mines, that Lehigh coal is brought
into profitable competition with it
upon the continent.
The man who committed suicide
in Whatcom county, last week, was
III. B. Stewart. He was about forty
five years of age, and leaves o wife
and four small children.
The Chinaman, Yea, who got in
to difficulty at the Olympic Hotel,
on Sunday, has been removed from
the Jail to a Chinese house to be ta-
ken care fby his countrymen.
NEW inventions always attract a
good deal of attention, and so it has
been with the new logging car now
lying on Second street wharf. Every
lumberman has to take o look at it.
A HERD of two thousand five humid
red buffalo, having been driven away
from their grazing fields by Indians,
attempted to cross the Missouri riv-
er on the ice, a few days ago, and
were all drowned.
The following late postal changes
are announced for this Territory.
Postmaster at Plumb Station, Thurs
ton county, w. T., e. B. Plumb;
Postmaster at Fall City, King coun-
ty, We T., James Taylor.
The school in District No. / closes
on Friday, of this week. Unless
there are some changes in the pro-
posed arrangement, there will be no
vacation, but the new term will COM
mence on Monday next.
CONSIDERING the protracted incle-
ment weather, Olympia is blessed
with rather more than its usual share
of good health, Physicians, like o
good many business men, are hope
fully looking for better times.
PRINTERS. like housewives, have
no holidays on account of rainy
weather. Hungry men must be fed,
and daily paper must surfeit the
eager multitude with news items, at
whatever cost they are procured.
The mild temperature that accom-
panies the rain, is proving very fay-
orable to the young fruit buds.
Since no frost can come till dry cold
niohts once more ensue fr7,if ra;s