Washington standard. [volume] (Olympia, Wash. Territory) 1860-1921, 1879-05-30
Wool of the present years clip is

coming IN.
MRS. Benz. Stretch, of Snohomish
City, is on q visit to relatives and
friends in this place.
The new Odd Fellows Temple at
Albany, Oregon, was dedicated on
Wednesday, the 2lst.
IT is reported that Jay Gould is
negotiating for the purchase of the
Oregon Central Railroad.
EARLY cherries are putting of their
greenness and assuming the faint
semblance of warmer hue.
IT has been splendid weather for
working out doors the past few
days-cool, dry and pleasant.
If anybody finds part of a ladies'
cloth basque, they will confer ia
vor by leaving it at Mr.. Horr's store.
The attempt to establish beer gar
dens at Boston, proves failure.
The temperance sentiment is too
strong.
The Commissioners of Jefferson
county have given the contract for
public printing to the Port Townsend
ArguS.
CATERpILLARs are reported to be
troubling the farmers of White
river valley. Now is the time to
look after these creatures.
Mrs. Duniway kills three birds
with one stone. When she goes out
upon the wing, she lectures, con-
vases and collects old bills.
If joaquin Miller wants to be ap-
preciated, now that he has come
among people who know him, let
him put off his eccentricities.
A COLONY of Germans from Sono-
ma county, CAL, are looking for a
location in this Territory. They say
they are tired of Chinese and dry
weather.
The United States steamer James
io,cn, which has been ordered to
Sitka, carries 14O mon and IL guns.
She goes provisioned for stay of
four months.
IT is enough to make detected
business man swell with hopeful
emotions to visit Tumwater and note
the activity displayed by her 60
ahead citizens.
The proprietors of the American
Speaking Telephone Company, have
brought suit against parties in San
Francisco for unlawfully using their
instruments.
PORTLAND merchants have formed
themselves into protective union,
fer the purpose of guarding against
the impositions practiced by unscru-
pulous dealers.
Goss & Sawyer, the Bath ship
builders have one-half the stock sub
bscribed for q dry-dock ON the Col
umbia river. 1t will probably be
built This season.
AND still the new goods are ccm-
ing. The schooner Reporter sailed
from San Francisco on the Goth
inst, for Puget Sound, bringing
goods for Olympia merchants.
The first annual meeting of the
California Press Association will be
held in San Francisco, on July 10th.
A grand banquet at the Palace Hotel
has been arranged for the occasion.
IT will do, now, for young lovers
to settle in Italy when they elope.
The Chamber of Deputies has passed
a bill making the performance of a
civil marriage, before the religious
ceremony, obligatory.
Mr.. Lutte Davis, of Lewis county,
accompanied by Judge Pearson, left
by the Zephyr, this morning, for the
White river, to spend month or
two in explorations of the Cascade
mountains. May they return with
pockets full of rocks" D., M
"SrIcK to your profession and
never have anything to do with poll
tics. The great mistake of my life
was that I left the bar to 60 into
politics." This is the sound advice
given by the late Gen. Dix to o
young man, and we commend the
good counsel to the young men of
all times and places.