The Vancouver independent. (Vancouver, W.T. [Wash.]) 1875-1910, 1880-04-15
BRIEF MENTION.

Dick Stegert sold the first fresh home
grown vegetables of the season.
The thunder of an April shower awoke
the echoes of the hills on Saturday last.
A small pox patient in East Portland puts
people hereabouts on the lookout for the
pest.
Many Vancouver men and boys have gone
down to the fisheries within the last ten
days.
j. L. G. Durgan is announced by tele-
graphic postal report as the new postmaster
at Washougal.
Judge Sells, Of Canyon City, Ogn., was in
called at this Office
Rev. d. n. Utter, who has many &C.
quaintances here, has left the Sound and re-
moved to Kansas City.
j. w. Boyer has been elected foreman of
Gen. Allen engine Co. No. 3, il place OF ?.
Maloney, who resigned.
The survey of the narrow gauge railroad
from Portland is said to be completed, and
the right OF way obtained.
Anton Young commenced wrestling with
the rheumatism few days ago. 1t threw
him, and he is rot up yet.
Mr. L. ID. Brown, late of Parker's Land
ing, will on May lst take possession of the
st. Charles hotel, Portland.
Mrs Lowe, the test medium who was re-
Gently visiting in these parts, has met with
great success at Olympia and Seattle.
The annual rise of the Columbia has COM
menced in dead earnest, and the water has
now risen nearly seven feet at this point.
The machinery for S. w. Browns lumber
mill arrived on Saturday night and it will
be set up ready for work in a day or two.
The seals have made their appearance in
the river at this point, which is an indica-
ton that the salmon have commenced run
ming.
There are none of the Astoria canneries at
work-that is to say doing anything at put
ting up fish. There are no fish in the river
to speak Of
DR.. Randolph Smith will lecture in Brant's
hall one evening next week, on Thursday or
Friday evening" upon Diphtheria, its causes
remedies etc.
The workmen on the plank road across the
river expect to finish their labors on Satur-
day night, when the big bridge will be COM
pleted and ready for travel.
Some of the old boys have been trouting
recently, and the piscatorial sergeant brought
home twenty that weighed II pounds. He
is still the boss with the rod
DR.. Wallis new lot of cigars are PRO
nounced just A | for the price, and are be-
coming the favorite smoking article. They
are certainly superior article.
Mr.. W. W. Newlin Of Olympia, who was
recently appointed receiver Of the land Office
at Vancouver, will remove to this place this
week and assume the duties of his Office.
II. A. Moss, late clerk on the Cascades
boat. was last week married to Miss Olive
NJ Lusher at the Dalles. The many frienls
of both persons in this city wish them joy.
We saw a new beer bottling establishment
in operation yesterday and although the
outfit employed was small and the building
rather open to the weather, it may grow in
time.
1t is probable that Mr.. J. j. Owen, editor
of the San Jose .Rrrcaiy will visit Nancol-
yer before he returns to California, and de
liver a lecture. Ii he does so it will be well
worth hearing
The only things we have read of yet that
are worse than the l3-l5-l4 puzzle are the
forts ma lie by some members OF the Legislature
to substantiate and excuse their position on
the revenue law.
Three hundred barrels of lime We're
brought from Kalama to Vancouver direct
last week, by the Veto, and it was landed in
as good order as though it had passed
through Portland.
Mrs. J. w. Cochran OF this city will de-
liver lecture on Lewis river next week, rs
elsewhere announced, which we know will
be well worth hearing, and the people there
should all turn out to hear her.
The farmers are very busy condemning
law that requires them to assess themselves
at considerable expense, and which also
-compels them to pay an assessor 80 per day
for the privilege of doing thus.
John Mcguire stopped in this city on
Monday, on his return from the Dalles, and
they gave two excellent performances in Oak
Grove Theatre, but the houses were not as
full as the excellence of the entertainment
deserved.
The Catholic Sentinel gratefully acknowl
edges the sum OF SIG from Right Rev. Il.
Junger, Bishop of Nesqually, being the sub
scription of three persons toward the Irish
famine fund. This amount makes nearly
500 from Vancouver
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