The Vancouver independent. (Vancouver, W.T. [Wash.]) 1875-1910, 1880-05-20
BRIEF MENTION.

Picnics will soon begin to blossom
The Columbia is slightly on the rise
A drouth of five days has prevailed.
Very quiet pay day season this month
The strawberry crop looks very promis-
ang.
The clearing of the public park will be
finished this week.
ParkeFs Landing people will have 4th
of July celebration.
The supply of eggs in Vancouveris hardly
equal to the demand.
Many Portland visitors took n spin through
Vancouver on Sunday.
N. H. Bloomfield returned home from
Goldendale on Friday
Moonlight nights and keeping late hours
arc the fashion this week.
We acknowledge an editorial call from
Mrs. Duniway this week.
There is an unusual bloom of wild straw
berries everywhere this year.
The Cascade range seems as white with
snow as it did in mid winter.
Pulsky has acquired since payday an
.eight-line Egyptian ornameuted eye.
Busbee, the blind phrenologist, has at last
landed i'll the Multnomah county poor house.
We know of several young men who are
to be married very soon. Leap year fetches
them.
r. w. Downing will complete the carpen-
ter work on Mr.. Denny's new house this
week.
Patrick O'Leary has sold house and two
lots on It'll street near Main to II. {. Funk,
for $1,000.
The steamer Lurline will leave Albany
next Tuesday on an excursion to Astoria
and return.
The Grand Lodge of Odd Fellows of Wash.
ington Territory will meet again next year
in Vancouver.
Delegate Brents has introducela bill in
Congress to annul the odious revenue law Of
this Territory.
Davidson, the Portland photographer, was
skirmishing for orders and sheliels III Van
couver yesterday.
Drying roads enables the farmers to bring
lin the last of this years hoop-pole crop from
the back districts.
The Vancouver fishermen are tesing out
plenty of salmon now, mostly large speci-
mems of this finest of all fish
w. w. Newln, the new Register of the
Vancouver Land Office, is expected to take
possession about the first of JUNG.
BY reference to the marriage notices You
can see the surprise wills Knight has per-
petrated for his friends in Vancouver.
Jacob Proebstel, Esq, of Fourth Plain,
left yesterday morning on trip to the up
per country, where he wiz visit his sons.
The road through the woods between this
place and Portland is described as being
rougher than 'the rocky road to Dublin"
The Oregon City folks are coming over to
Vancouver with an excursion boat on Mon
day, May 81, to celebrate Decoration Day.
The fruit prospects of Clarke county are
booming for big crop in all kinds except
peaches, of which there will be less than the
average.
Mr.. N. F. Bolton last Sunday found a
watch in the road. The owner can have the
same upon paying for this notice and prov
ing property.
An impression is gaining ground that there
are too many dogs in town. About 400 Of
them could be spared and not missed by
the public generally.
Ex-Governor Newell, recently appointed
governor of Washington Territory will not
leave his home tor the Pacific tor several
weeks, having important private business to
transact.
Mr.. A. w. Gray, who recently resigned
his position on the steamer Tancoaver, and
who is now in the employment of the steam
ship company in Portland, paid this city a
flying visit on Tuesday last.
Judging by the news as published in
Idaho papers the melting of the SHOWS in
the mountains of the upper Snake river has
only commenced. The Boise basin was not
yet clear Of snow Oh the Sth Of May.
At La Grande, Oregon, forty men have
been indicted by the grand jury for gam
bling, but they can't raise petit jury be.
fore which to try them, as there are no
more citizens left eligible to BIO drawn on a
jury. Smart grand jury up there.
M1l1narv