Washington standard. [volume] (Olympia, Wash. Territory) 1860-1921, 1879-08-29
LOOK our for oysters next Monday.
The late rains have done wonders
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for the potato crop.
| SLAB wood from Tumwater is max.
ing its appearance once more.
| The dairy business is greatly neg.
lected in the Walla-walla Valley.
| LELAND Stanford, of San Francis.
co, is President of nine railroads.
| Ir is yet to be seen what damage
to grain has been caused by the
rains.
THE water mains on Main street
are undergoing a long needed re.
pairing.
ExpEcTANr school children are
looking sorrowful, but there is no
help for them.
VIZ hear that there is to be new
organization of the Methodist Sun
day School in this place.
The Alaska will leave Victoria on
Sunday; time enough yet to be
reached by outgoing passengers.
The business of shipping cattle
and sheep from Olympia to Victoria
is said to be increasing.
DoNT dream about what you would
like to do, but 60 and do it, and
dream afterwards of fame.
Now is the time when district
school directors are busily engaged
in fitting up the old school-house.
IT is thought that the critical point
in the season for forest fires is past,
and loggers are taking long breath
once more.
UpoN the adjournment of the Con-
ference, in Portland, our Methodist
brethren are looking forward to an
auspiclous year.
SINCE the passage of the quinine
act, that article has gone up from
$3 80 to 81 90 per ounce. Let ague
patients go slow.
FoRD & Co. continue to sell cloth
ing at less than the cost of manufac-
ture. A broad statement, but go
and see if it is not true.
WE hear that the present will be
the last trip of the steamship alaska
to the Sound, and that the Dakota
but will put upon the route as hereto
fore.
A RATHER hish-toned Indian mar
riage has just been concluded in Puy-
aliup, between James Lewis, the
interpreter, and daughter of old
Kitsap. No cards.
The report published of the death
of Mrs. Sartoris, daughter of Gen
eral Grant, is declared unfounded.
The mistake arose from the death
of Mrs. E. T. Sartoris, formerly
Adelaide Kemble.
The depression in England has
now assumed such grave aspect
that thousands of the well-to-do mid
die classes are leaving the cities and
fleeing into the country to practice
the virtue of economy.
A RELIABLE statistician finds, from
careful calculation, that the saloons
and other drinking places in the
United States, out-number, ten to
one, all other business houses and
shops of any one kind.
AT some of the harbors on Lake
Erie, it is discovered that the water
is foot below the average level.
In the absence of any such thing as
tides in the lake, the phenomenon
is not easily accounted for by scien-
fists.
The NJ. E. Conference which re-
Gently convened in Portland have re-
solved to Christianize the Chinaman.
We apprehond they will find it a
more difficult task than they thought
il would be and one that will be bar
rem of good results.
The steamer Zephyr brought up,
on recent trip, four elegant pieces
of marble, for tomb-stones. Three of
these 60 to the Odd Fellows Gene
tary and the other one to the Olym-
pia Cemetary. The time is fast ap-
preaching when this place and the
surrounding country will afford Q
good business for marble and stone
cutting establishment.