Washington standard. [volume] (Olympia, Wash. Territory) 1860-1921, 1881-09-16
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lHS L ItSDf tcTidu SuutCu dG NEW
Tacoma.
Maine, Vermont, Florida, Missis-
sippi and Arkansas are the only
States brewing no beer.
The new Roman Catholic church
III East Portland is one of the larg-
est church buildings in Oregon.
Twenty five persons have been re-
ceived into The membership of
the Presbyterian church at Seattle
during the past year.
The Columbia Chronicle says that
5l4 bushels of wheat were threshed
from ten acres, and 107 from two
acres. machine measure-Over fifty
bushels TO the acre.
The Spokane Chronicle says that
the o. K. d n. Co. estimate that
they aie making preparations to
move about $4,000 bushels of wheat
from there this season. This is an
i'll tease of 35 per cent. over last
year.
The extreme drought is beginning
to ba seriously felt i'll the neighbor-
hood of Columbus, o, and sparks
from the locomotives hay destroy ed
miles of fencing and done consider
able damage to grass and other
crops.
The contract for the erection of
the new NJ E Church at Astoria was
let Sept. 9Th, at 81, $50, according to
plans and specifications furnished by
the Church Extension Society. 1t
will be ready for occupancy by De-
cember LIST.
Ira D. Sankey left New York on
the 10th on the city Of Berlin.
! Moody will leave by the Quebec in
a fortnight and join him in England,
where they propose to hold series
of revival meetings, extending into
Scotland and later into Ireland.
A gale approximating a hurricane
swept over Wilmington, N. c., on the
10th, the wind blowing 60 miles an
hour. Serious arprehensions are
felt for the rice crop now harvestin :,
and large number of planters went
to the signal Office seeking inform
alton.
Az Arizona paper says that the
recent washouts on the Southern Pa
ciic railroad in that Territory dam
aged the road to The extent of 81,
OO0. 900 aud that for q distance OF
eighty miles west of Tucson its re-
construction is coming to more than
the original cost.
Lister & Co.. of New Tacoma, have
contract for overhauling the re-
venue cutter Olirer WolcOH The
repairs to this vessel will consist OF
a new smokestack and thorough
! overbauling of her machinery. Work
will be commenced at an early day
1t must be completed in forty days.
Sergeant Mason, of Battery B. ID
artillery, when relieving the guard
at The jail at Washington on the 18th,
shot at Guiteau through the window
of his cell and came near killing him.
The ball grazed his head and was
imbedded in the cell wall. Mason
was promptly arrested, taken to the
arsenal and incarcerated.
An effort is making to hold con.
vention of manufacturers, the object
of which is to urge on Congress the
appointment of a committee to revise
the present tariff in the interest Of
manufacturing industry. The exc
cutive committee having the matter
in charge includes many of the fore.
most men in the country, the West
being we'll represented.
The clergy of the Baptist Associa.
ton of Puget Sound ana British
Columbia are named and reside as
below stated: Steilacoom-R. Wes-
ton: Puyallup-J. Wichser; Seattle
j. A. With, r. S. Greene and j.
P. Ludlow; Centerville-W. E. M.
James; Olympia-F. Campbell; Vic
toria-J. Beaver; Mount Vernon
Geo. Taylor and B. N. L. Davis.
The Charleston Is. c. Neps and
Courier says that of the POP slavers
that entered that port during the
last four years prior to the abolition
of the slave trade, no less than So
were from Rhode Island and thew
landed s, 23S slaves. A contributor
to the Lowell Mail says that New
port and Bristol, r. l., merchants
engaged in the trade, but kept the
matter dark because they did not
wish others 10 share their immense
profits and because the business was
unlawful and unpopular.
Van Doran of White river began
last week picking his hops. He will
have heavy yield, and as usual will
command the highest price in
the market. Throughout the entire
valley the fields will do we'll and the
farmers are jubilant over the pros
poets of good prices. The prospects
Tor good crop IN the fuyaIlup are
also fattering. The most Of the
farmers say that the yield will be
much heavier than that of last year,
and the quality better. One large
hop grower says his crop will be the
largest and best he has gathered for
ten years. Van Ogle has sixty acres
of old hop vines and fourteen acres
planted this year. He is confident
the yield will average $500 pounds
per acre on the old ground. Not
more than a couple of tons will be
gathered from the new vines, but
the quality is A 1.
IT is understood that Mr.. G. B.
WIights intends giving not alone the
money for the Memorial Church in
New Tacoma, but money for school
and hospital as we'll. For the church
he proposes to give ten thousand