, 1881-07-22
NEWS ITEMS.

MTNNEsOrA's wheat crop will be o.
100000 bushels this year.
Mrs. Abraham Lincoln is pronounced
beyond recovery by her physicians.
MESSES. Long & Birmingham are turn
ing out $50 pounds of cheese 4 Gay at
theiI White river dairy.
MG. c. B. Piummer, the clocutionist,
was at last accounts, in the State of Kan
SIS, giving entertainments as he Travelled.
/ IT is cow said that the long talked of
consolidation of the Central Pacific and
Union Pacific roads is about TO be consum-
mated.
REV. C. y. Huntington. of Olympia,
Intends to locate permanently in Califor-
MIA. and the Congregational Church there
is without Il pastor.
BANNER Lodge, |. o. G. 7. was organ
lied ut New Tacoma with twenty-one
charter members, last week, by y. 5. Por-
ter, Installing officer.
Boston is going ahead with her pro-
ject for worlds fair in 1885. II. NJ.
Pul,ificr, OF the Herald is 10 be the
chairman of The executive committee.
AN American girl. who is now attend
ing the physiological lectures of Professor
/ VirchOw. is the first female student ever
admitted Into the University OF Berlin.
Rev. J. Il. Thompson. of Olympia, has
returned from attendance at the P-esby-
terrain General assembly i'll the East. He
expressed EimsciI much pleased with the
/ trip.
REV. lanes Agnew, at o"e time pastor
of the Presbyterian Church at this place,
is keeping store at Centerville OH the n.
/ p. Il. K. line, between Tenino and ka-
lama.
! THE Victoria "COlOnist" reports new
CariboO diggings, near the forks of the
Quesnelle river, where from two TO five
ounces of gold have been taken to the
bucket OF dirt.
Mr.. a. 4. Hawley, travelling agent of
the Rural Spirit" of Portland, is on n
visit to the Sound. He proposes to write
letters, from the principal points, descrip-
tive of the country.
THE grain product of the United States
has doubled within the past ten years ae-
cording to the figuring of the Agricultural
Department. Corn increased l33 per
cent; wheat 70 per cent.
HARRY C. Lord, the young and po. u
lar steamboat engineer, was recently
united in marriage to Miss Abbie 5.
ioughton, recently of Goldendale but
formerly of Port Gamble.
Two prisoners, Charley Lold and Wes-
ley Stevens, escaped from the penitentiary
Offered for their reeapture. They were
reeaptured last Saturday near Tacoma.
THE fact that for every official vacancy
there are from three to forty applicants,
indicates that there are plenty OF patriotic
citizens in the country who are willing to
serve The ''dear people" in most any Ca
pacity,
Mr.. Hallenbaek, the revivalist, held his
farewell netting at Seattle on Tuesday.
We learn that he goes to San Francisco,
via Portland. He was invited to Port
Townsend, also to Olympia. His success
has been remarkable.
PRoF. A. T. Burnell, recently of the
Alden Academy on Fidalgo Island, has
accepted the position of teacher on the
Indiah reservation ut Skokoinish. Prof.
Burnell is an instructor of marked ability,
and will carry very high recommenda-
tions to his new field of labor.
SECRETARY Hunt proposes 10 present to
the next Congress report On the press
ing need OF the navy for proper vessels,
aud for that purpose he appointed an ad-
visory board of officers to consult, recon-
cile opinions, and to unite in recon-
mending such as Congress would likely
approve.
A statement of failures on the Pacific
Coast, prepared by Dunn q Co., shows
that in Oregon there were, the past year,
80 failures, the liabilities of which were
SlOZ.OlS anu lIo iSoclS Soisoo1. III Our
territory there were IL failures, with Ii
ability OF 500, 400, and assets TO meet the
same $24, $50.
THE monetary conference has adjourn
ed till next spring, and the feeling is gen
eral that the bimetallic theory, supported
by the United States and France-which
means nothing more than that silver shall
be received at the minis and coined Oh the
same terms as goodwill be successfully
established.
THE demand for laborers in Eastern
Washington appears TO have bad infiu-
ence upon Uncle Sans Soldiers at Walla
Walla. Desertions are frequent, and the
reason assigned is that the ruling high
wages are so much greater than soldiers
pay, that they are escaping whenever OPP
portunify offers Courier"
IN the recent city election at Seattle,
Hon. L. p. Smith was reelected mayor,
without opposition. J. II. McGraw was
elected marshal, and John keenan, and
Thomas Clancy councilmen from the 1st
ward, w. A. Jennings, j. Collins aud
Charles Mcdonald ID ward, and Moses
Keeser and n. Densmore id ward.
n..o, and Son Imam ora no