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Washington standard. [volume] (Olympia, Wash. Territory) 1860-1921, 1879-05-02

IT is thought that the defalcation
of Mr.. Cassebohm, who recently
committed suicide in San Francisco,
will not exceed $4,000, an amount
for which it is supposed his bonds
men are fully responsible. s
Washington standard. [volume] (Olympia, Wash. Territory) 1860-1921, 1879-05-02

The bark Lizzie Marshall, now ashore
near Dnnginess, is likely to prove total
wreck. The tugs Tacoma, GoIiah and Blake
~ made an attempt. last Sunday, to pull
her off, but without success. At low tide
she is high and dry.
Washington standard. [volume] (Olympia, Wash. Territory) 1860-1921, 1879-05-02

A PROJECT is on foot to establish
small advertising daily newspaper in
Seattle. to be supported entirely by
it's advertising patronage and circu-
lated to all who want it free of
charge.
Washington standard. [volume] (Olympia, Wash. Territory) 1860-1921, 1879-05-02

The Australian colonies, which
have grown up to their present inn
portance within the memory of mid
dle-aged men, now control q COM
mercial business which reaches the
enormous sum OF $377 900 900.
Washington standard. [volume] (Olympia, Wash. Territory) 1860-1921, 1879-05-02

JOSEPH Leighton, logger. was found
dead in his bed at Cathcart's saloon, in
snohomish City, last Sunday. Deceased
was a sober, industrious man. He had
been on the Sound for several years and
was highly respected by all who knew
hi
Washington standard. [volume] (Olympia, Wash. Territory) 1860-1921, 1879-05-02

The good people of Seattle are de-
ploring the fact that opium dens are
on the increase in that city.
Washington standard. [volume] (Olympia, Wash. Territory) 1860-1921, 1879-05-02

FIFTY new members were added to the
Seamens Friend Society, at Seattle, last
Sunday, by the payment of one dollar
each. N% :"
Washington standard. [volume] (Olympia, Wash. Territory) 1860-1921, 1879-05-02


A COUNTY Teachers Institute is to
be held in Tacoma Hall, on Thurs
day, the 9Th inst, at 2 Pm. The
following programme has been pre-
pared:
Music and Prayer.
Remarks by the President.
Grammar, Mrs. Hale.
Geography, Mrs. White.
Mental Arithmetic, Mr.. Clark.
EvNENlNa, Z O'CLOCK.
Music.
Spelling, Prof. Eldridge.
FRIDAY, 8 O'CLOCK.
School Government. Mrs. Cass.
Botomy, Miss Field.
2o'CLocK.
Music.
History.
Arithmetic, Mr.. Hiram Allen and Miss
Brown.
The exercises will be open to the
public and the school law makes it
the duty of all teachers in the county
to attend the Institute. By the
courtesy of the o. T. R. R., teach
ers attending the Institute will be
carried at half fare.
Washington standard. [volume] (Olympia, Wash. Territory) 1860-1921, 1879-05-02

n GUM-cHEwNG is eschewed by SEN
sible girls.
Washington standard. [volume] (Olympia, Wash. Territory) 1860-1921, 1879-05-02
The Historian SAYS that steamers

The Historian says that steamers
very often pass each way over Col
umbia river bar during the night
time. We confess that we never
heard such statement before, but
We have often known steamers, ar
irving off the bar at night, to wait
till morning before attempting to
cross. 1t would have cost but
few hours delay outside to secured
safe entrance, but the paramount in
terests Of competition required the
great ship to heave ahead, and so
she heaved, and that's the end of the
whole matter. 1t would do very
we'll for the papers of Portland and
Astoria to spirit away all blame from
the truly responsible parties if they
could only make Puget Saunders be-
lieve the story. In the first place,
it is desperate undertaking for
large steamer to enter the Columbia
under ordinary circumstances in the
night time, and in the second place,
there appears to be a good deal of
crookedness among those who I'M
wind the red tape.
The seal fishery business at Cape
Flattery is steadily growing in i'm
portance, some halt dozen vessels
being now engaged in that industry.
The Indians however, are more sue
cesslal than the white men, often
realizing eight or ten dollars per day
each from this pursuit. The fishing
grounds are from twenty to forty
miles from the Cape, and at this sea-
son of the year, in locality, not al
ways safe from sudden storms. The
seals are taken while sleeping on the
buTldCo vi buO WdUCI. AuC 1AOiuho
approach as noiselessly as possible,
and when within fifteen or twenty
yards, throw their spears with stout
line attached, and if successful in
striking their game, have little diff
Guilty in hauling it inand dispatching
the animal with clubs. The white
men who engage in seal hunting, use
rifles entirely in taking them. While
this method is very successful, SO
far as single seal is concerned, it
has the objection of awaking oil
the game within hearing of the gun.
Government should see we'll to it
that these harmless creatures are not
killed in so great numbers, as to
cause their utter humiliation.
Washington standard. [volume] (Olympia, Wash. Territory) 1860-1921, 1879-05-02

Postal cards have performed q
good service in their time, but the
indications are that they are likely
to be superseded and driven into
the shade by something better. The
Postmaster-G General, was authorized
by the last Congress, to furnish to
the postmasters throughout the
Union, " stamped letter-sheet envel-
opes," to be sold as stamped envel-
opes are now sold. This is quite a
novel device and will meet q want
long felt by letter writers and business
men. The letter-sheet envelope, as
its name indicates, consists of neat
combination Of an envelope ready
stamped aud u sheet to contain the
written message. After writing his
communication, the correspondent
has only to fold the sheet within the
envelope to which it is appended,
seal and drop the same into the Of
fee. 1t is thought that this arrange
ment will Immediately take the place
of the postal card now in use for
business lette is, and it is estimated
by those conversant with postal al.
fairs, that one-half of all the letters
now passing through the mails, may
be written on this letter-sheet envel-
ope. Old men are now living who
used to pay twenty-five cents for
every letter they sent, whether re-
lative to business, socia! concerns or
death, and to such individuals, our
present improved postal system must
appear very near perfection.
->~
"OUT OF BONDAGE. The Eastern
press allude in glowing terms to the
marked success of the Hyers Sisters
operate company in this stirring
drama. 1t is full of fun, frolic and
melody-the essentials to please our
people. The acting is the real, gen.
uine plantation life before the war,
and the refined manners which came
after'the conflict, with the superior
advantages for culture which have
made them conspicuous ornaments
in their chosen profession. The
piece represents this transition from
darkness to light in livid colors.
The journals of this coast appear to
be equally favorably impressed with
their talented efforts. Anna Flyers
has been ikened, by competent crit
les, to Nilsson, Lucca and Kellogg,
while Louise is pronounced verita-
BILE Topsy, wild, frolicsome and
active as q kitten. Wallace King,
tenor, j. w. Luca, the basso, Misses
Mayo and Waters, and Miss Brown,
the pianist, are all excellent in their
respective parts, while Kersands is
consideded the drollest of African
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Washington standard. [volume] (Olympia, Wash. Territory) 1860-1921, 1879-05-02

NNHIS company is prepared to execute all
Il orders &c hauling merchandise, lum-
part of ths city U OF Si sh ' Il Is @ seH
supplied with heavy trucks and such fa-
cilities as will enable it, in speedy and ex-
peditious manner to move heavy castings,
iron safes, &C., at short notice, and upon
reasonable terms.
Drays can be obtained at any hour of
the day or night, and without extra
charge.
Teams sent to the country on short no.
tice, and upon the most reasonable terms.
Among the many good things possessed
by the Olympia Dray and Truck Com
pany, is their
The New York herald. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1840-1920, 1879-01-30

The quarrel that has broken out between
one of the Police Commissioners and his
associates in the Board creates considerable
excitement at headquarters, which must
naturally reach the whole police force. A
discordant department will needs make q
demoralized force. We have no opinion to
express on the charges preferred by one OF
the Commissioners on the eve Of his retile-
ment from Office against Board of which
he has been an accomplishing member for
five years. But the people are more inter-
ested in discovering what becomes Of the
money appropriated for street cleaning than
in following up the personal misunder-
standings and jealousies Of the Commits
sioners and if Mayor Cooper makes an in
vestigation ofthe department it ought to take
this direction. When the streets are COW
cred with snow no attempt is made to clean
more than o few leading thoroughfares, yet
we are not aware that the cessation of the
work makes any difference in the expendi-
itures. The Mayor should order an investi-
CATION of the street cleaning expenditures,
that made by the late Commissioners Of Ac-
counts having been puerile. Let the peo-
pie know how 1t is that they pay for clean
streets and do not get them, and the want
of harmony in the Board, which is certainly
an evil, can be easily remedied by the
Mayor in his appointments to the vacant
Commission rships. It will do no harm at
the same time for tho Legislature to also
undertake through committee On investi-
CATION Of the manner in which our street
cleaning business and expenditures are
managed.
The New York herald. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1840-1920, 1879-01-30
ssFOryvaril, the Light Brigade 10

When Benjamin Franklin made his ia
nous and successful experiment with the
kite and key and ''bottled up" the light
Benjamin got ''bottled up" not quite a
century ago, blow was struck Mt the
gas stocks of the future under which
they are quivering and vibrating even
now. We have good reason to believe
that there was no understanding be-
tween b. franklin and T.. A. Edison by
which the latter was to continue the bust
ness, but there can be no doubt about the
earnestness OF Edison in proclaiming that
his candle will shine the brightest hold ont
the longest and cost less than any other in
the market. The wise men of his day
greeted the announcement of B. Frank
lin that he had captured the light
ming from passing cloud with
shouts of derisive laughter. They were
immensely tickled by the utter absurdity
of the idea. Fancy catching, holding and
releasing at will the fetterless fluid TINT
blasts the giant oak and pine and rends
mountainsl Yet how ashamed the sons
of these wise men became of the ignorance
of their fathers, and how regularly their
grandsons employ the captive lightning in
the transaction of their business SO we
believe it will be with the scoffers at the
efforts of man who has harnessed the
subtle fluid to the quadruplex telegraph
instrument, and who now carries the same
mysterious agent to the tip of the platinum
iridium burner which glows with binding
brilliancy under its influence. The truth
is that neither gas nor electric lighting
has reached tho first stage toward
perfection. Already experiments in tho
former are being made in London which
promise remarkable results. The new sys-
tenn simply insures the complete combus-
ton of regularly delivered flow Of gas
through an improved argand burner. What
an enormous quantity of illuminating mat
ter escapes unconsumod from common
gas burner is shown by the blaclsened CELL
ings of our houses and the peculiar odor
near the flame. 1t the Illuminating power
of good gas can be increased from three to
six times by improving the burners, how
absurd it is for gas companies to claim that
the possibilities of electric lighting are for
the present exhausted! Edison assures us
that they are not, and his opinion is worth
something. We say, therefore, to the gas
companies, Light up, gentlemen devote
your talents to giving MS better gas. cheaper
The New York herald. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1840-1920, 1879-01-30

prostitution in the United States. 1t is
further to be said that ii, as is alleged, some
of the great European ocean steamship lines
are on the brink of bankruptcy, a necessary
consequence of theif bankruptcy will be a
sale of their ships at great sacrifice, and
that our absurd navigation laws will pre-
vent Americans from reaping the advantage
of these great bargains. Why should an
American merchant be precluded from buy
ing ships at less than half the cost of build
ing them in any country, and thereby un-
derbidding all competitors and CIV
ing American producers the advantage
of cheap freights? But we doubt
whether the foreign steamship companies
are on the verge of bankruptcy Their
business has undoubtedly fallen off within
the last few years, in consequence of the
universal depression OF trade throughout
the world. The inability of the United
States to give full employment to their own
laborers has arrested emigration and de-
prived the steamship lines OF one source of
their profits, and the great falling off Of i'm
ports has diminished another lucrative
source of their business. But the general
business of the world will sooner or later
revive, and on it's revival there will be full
employment for all existing lines of steam
ships Before the present depression began,
and while there was an immense demand
for transportation, the facilities were sup
piled by nations which enjoyed free trade
in ships to the exclusion Of the United
States, which were handicapped and Grip
pied by our absurd navigation laws. There
could not be more conclusive argument
against our navigation laws than the fact
that while England, France and Germany
were establishing great and successful
ocean steamship lines, under the policy Of
free trade in ships, our citizens were en-
tirely shut out of this lucrative branch of
business in consequence of our absurd and
restrictive navigation laws.
The New York herald. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1840-1920, 1879-01-30

The WEArnER.-The barometer is above tho
mean in all the districts cast of the Rocky
Mountain regions. The two large areas of high.
est pressure one the South Atlantic coast
and the other in the Missouri Valley, are con-
nccted by narrow band over Tennessee. Rain
has fallen in the Ohio Valley and the southern
sections of the Middle Atlantic States In the
other districts partly cloudy weather has pre-
vailed. Morning fogs continue OH the Gulf
coasts. The winds have been fresh in the Middle
Atlantic and New England States and gen
orally light elsewhere The temperature has
risen slightly in the lake regions and the North
west, has been variable on the South Atlantic
and Gulf coasts and has fallen in the other dis
tricts. The prospects of favorable weather until
the end of the week are good. The Southern
rivers continue rising and floods are likely to
occur. The weather over the British Islands is
threatening, and indications point TO the APP
proach of depression from tho northwest. The
weather in New York and its vicinity to-day
Will be cool and fair. Tomorrow IL promises to
he slightly colder and partly cloudy.
The New York herald. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1840-1920, 1879-01-30

In our cable dispatches to-day we print
O. piece Of news Of especial moment to the
players and admirers of the game of polo,
lovers of sport who follow, generally with
enthusiastic attention, all the details of
great international rivalries in athletic
games. Polo players in London, it appears,
are on the lookout for worlds to conquer,
and would snap at a chance to come to New
port next summer on the slightest intima-
ton from this side that our players are at
their service; and we have no doubt that
if the coat tail of the British polo player is
in this tantalizing way conspicuously
trailed on the sward somebody will be sure
to step on it. Should match be made, the
English team would be selected from the
strongest players in English clubs, and
would not be easy to beat; but our clubs
could form On exceedingly good team So
lected in the same way. For such q
selection the time named is opportune,
as the return game OF the match between
the Westchester and Buffalo clubs is to be
played ut Newport next summer and will
American players. 1t would be possible to
select from the best men of these clubs team
worthy to contest the palm with the gentle
men from beyond the sea. Should an I'M
Outstanding be reached we should have the
finest series Of games ever played in
America, and perhaps series not surpassed
in the annals of this fine sport in other
countries. An international match would
excite new interest in the sport, and til elm
pulse would be felt in oil other sports for
all manly exercises are allied by common
sympathy and purposes. and revival in
one revives all. It is to be hoped our
American clubs will take some action on
this hint, and extend prompt and hearty
encouragement to this disposition for a
friendly trial of their mettlc.
The New York herald. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1840-1920, 1879-01-30
PERSONAL INTELLIGENCE.

Chicago is in love with Gcrster.
Prince Leopold of England is twenty-six.
The youngest member of victoria's privy council
is seven years old.
Lord Henry Somerset is no longer Comptroller of
tho Queens Household.
Mr. George W. Childs has forty clocks but it IL not
told that they stood SO many years on the floor.
Prince Heinrich. second son of the crown Prince Of
Germany and the future high admiral Of the German
aeet is ut Montevidco.
a. G. Sands, business manager OF the Cincinnati
Times Is dangerously i'll. Last night 1t was thought
he might die before morning
The editor of London Truth who recently saw four
teen engines playing upon the fire. wishes to
know when sorAe genius will discover real anti.
dote to fire.
The few votes that ex-senator pomcroy received in
Kansas show that he is remembered among the poll
ticians there "Old Pom" once q national rcpub.
lcan influence and now there few SO poor as to
do him honor.
Drivers of'overladcn wagons like to have people on
ferry boats pull the ropes which help the afore.
said wagons aboard and when the drivers arc going
of the boats they sing out "Gt out OF the way. you
suckcr what are you don therc.
III the high toned London restaurants tho walters
will not permit even husband and wife to have
dinner or lunch sent to them in private room In
deed. party must consist of uneven numbers.
thrccs ivcs or scvcns. before that party can DO
waited on
London T,wh:-"During the Christmas week Of
1909 party Of officials belonging to the Court Of
Henry VIII. dncd together at the village OF shene.
now called Richmond. At the end of tho feast my
host of the Star and Garter. with many salutations,
handed to them the following reckoning For brcde.
I'D. ac. 3s 4d; wyne. 10d; two leyncs motion. 3d. (;
mariboncs, Cd; powdred beef, 3D.; two capons 2s
two geese. lad; five conycs 15d.; leggo motion,
i've pounds weight 4d. six plovcrs, lsd.; SIX
pcsons 3d.; two dozen larkes. I'D; salt and sauce
6d butter and eggs, lod., wardcns and qrynces I'D
hcrbcs, ID. Spices ~. 4d houre 4d.; white cuppes
and cruscs Cd The cost Of the whole entertainment
| being "a"
The New York herald. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1840-1920, 1879-01-30

We must not misinterpret these highly
important statistics. They prove nothing
respecting the rowing tribes which subsist
by hunting or are fed by the. government.
1t is the settled tribcs-tho Choctaws,
Creeks, Cherokees, Chickasaws, &C., who
were transplanted across the Mississippi by
President Jackson that own these dwell
ings, are growing these crops and rearing
these cattle, sheep and swine. They had
made some slight progress in civilization,
or at least in agriculture, while they still
occupied lands in Georgia, Alabama and
other States cast of the Mississippi. It is
these, and not the wild, wandering savagcs,
whose condition is indicated by these truly
valuable and encouraging statistics. II we
take the mode of dress as forming the line of
division between the settled and the rowing
tribes about one-half OF the whole Indian
population in the United States is fixed in
permane nt homes in the Indian Territory.
1t appears by the table that the Indians in
the United States Excluding Alaska)
amount to $50, SG4, and that of this number
1877, 45S, or a little more than one-hali, wear
citizens clothing There are 20, Indian
houses, and supposing these to be occupied
by those who no longer wear blankets and
feathers. there are between FIVE and six
The New York herald. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1840-1920, 1879-01-30
OBITUARY.
ANTHONY pLEEcKER M'poNALD.

ANTHONY BLEECkEB NJ DONAlDs
Anthony. Blocker Mcdonald who was the oldcss
insurance underwater in this city. died yesterday.
the age of scventy-thrce For some time past he ha<
been suffering from pneumonia. His life was wholly
identified with New York. He born in William
street in March. 1906. For fifteen years he
was Secretary of the Knickerbocker Fire in-
surance Company, and in 1851 he was ap.
pointed by the Royal Insurance Company of
Liverpool its agent for this city, and continued in
that position until his death. He was for more than
fifty years a member of St Luke's Protestant Epis.
copai Church, and for forty-two years he was the
superiutentcnt OF ~. Lukes Sunday school. He
was also senior aud treasurer OF the church.
trustce of the Church of the Disciples. of the Gen.
cral Theological Seminary of the Protestant Epsco
nal Church. and also OF the Society for the
promotion OF Religion and Learning. lie
and tho Rev. DIR. Tuttlo most
snicuous In the founding 81. Lukc'a
IiosnitaI. Some years ago he was senior warden OF
81 ,iTmothy's church. In private life Mr. Mcdonald
wns greatly beloved by those with whom he
c;steI He was liberal In his donations for reli.
cious purposes and was personally active in thu
work OF intoxicating tho practical lessons of the Cos
pel At the age of twenty-five he married daughter
of the late John Low. Ono of their children died and
three others grew up. He has left widowed daughter
and "A widowed daughter-in-law and seven grand
children. In business he cautious aud clear.
sighted and was noted for the truthfulncss OF his
character.