, 1881-11-26
THE LOCAL LINE.
Upon Which is Hung the Minor
Events Of the Day.
Fer the Especial Bcneat Of the Statesman
Rcaders.


Honest tea is the best policy.
Thanks to D. f. Ditcher for a large, fal
Thanksgiving turkey.
Geo. Shellenburge, of Butte City, Montana,
is in the city.
The fact of the district court adjournins
will be a heavy financial blow to our attor.
reys.
There is full sermon in the "Brief His.
tory" paragraph written by our Olympus COZ.
respondent
The half-baked ''hOod" of the Portland
Standard, will be pretty well cooked before
we get through with him.
Notwithstanding all the remedies printed
for small. .pox preventatives, people will stick
In the good old medic:nc-gm
Dr. Jones, of Spokane Falls, t-lcsrams To
Capt. Andrews that Steve Whitman and
family are in no danger OF the smallpox.
The Vigilant Hook & Ladder ball. on
Thanksgiving evs, was well attended and
everything went of in fine style.
The Ist Cavalry band will give one af
their incompatible concerts next Tuesday Y
evening in the new court room.
Myrtle green will be the fashionable color
for ladies dresses this winter. Deep blue
will he the fashionable color for the faces Of
ii t mrn who have TO pay for th,m.
A donation party entered the residence of
the Rev J. ID. Pierce ON Tuesday evening
and left no end of good things.
The Bible, Webster's dictionary, and a
good newspaper these tit men for this life
and the next" So says Rev Mr.. Talmagr.
Ouce again Mrs. VIM Kirkman will please
accept our thinks for her annual Thanks
giving present Of a magnificent turkey, which
was evidently the flower OF the flock.
The editor Of the Nc Prce Ne'cs has been
presented with an easy chair. Adm,ring
friends had noticed that the nail keg which
had done service so long was getting riekety.
The Seattle papers report that quack has
.'Iit ont from that ba'iwicR: the same thing
will occur here when we receive the fIll
uarticullrs of that abortion care. So far
only en,le aperient has been administered
to some Of these medical gentry; the catha-
tc is yet to come.
Mr.. &. W. Eassctt, Of Washtuckna Springs
has arrived in town via the Mullan road he
reports the health Of the country as very
good. and no eases of the prevailing epidemic
exist anywhere along the road.
French Chrisinger, one of the hvest hotel
clerks in the interior, nTw has charge OF tine
b ,oks in the Columbia hot.'l, and Is turning
things aronnd generally in appls-pie order.
He will make business boom around there
or we are mistaken III the man.
Our thanks are due 10 Gur friends Ed.
Williams and George Reed for sundry bot.
ties of the finest imported wines winch was
used in a spirit of thankfulnessa at our Thanks
GIVING dinuer.s
We understand that arrangements are
bang made TO place an opera before the peo-
"a L., 10 "a
90 ior the benefit # the Baptist church.
rrof. donaldson will haze charge of 1t which
is guarantee of IFS success.
Dr. Sr.arIins states that an iron bark was
stuck on st. Helen's bar the other day rs he
came by, with no immediate prospect uf get
tinc of. A steamer and dred3er were try
me- 10 remove tho bottom of the river IN
order to Get the YES sci over the l-ar.-Pod-
ht.iEyrHoF.
Then you think yon could leave your
bautiiul home and share humble cot IN the
far west with the man you ovcd:" eyes, L
would leave them all without q panS. u,
Harold, you have made me 81 happy" "aii
riaht. tlei. ! have 4 friend Who IS going to
do that sort Of thing, and III mention 1t to
him" #
Flank Hart. who carries the mail IRON
WalIa Walla to within two aud a halt niles
OF DAYTON. says that the Dayton people con-
siicr tlcy have the eprI.mie fully under
cautrol and that fresh cases are boc'ming
searerr every day. Frank will not bring
an, thing from Dayton until all danger Is
over.
I'm expedition to Alaska 10 examine the
I physical features of that territory rs pre-
posed Ly Gen. Nelsoh A. Miles, eomhnander
! Of tine department of the Columbia. L'tnt.
. Sehwa,sa IS spoken OF as the man to take
rrarr. Of the cspe.lition, the cost of which
ioots up to S6S, 800. 1t is intended to ask
. Congress to appropriate that amount tor this
purpoac
! Il is reported oil the streets that the
county commissioners have granted the ne"
court ho,se on Tuesday night next TO pub
he mi, rtainmcIt gotten up for private Fnr'
poses. 1t seems to us that this move Will
only rnl in erantil the houseto every party
that comes along which is not right. Pab'
he meetings IN which the entire city ol
county is interested may properly he held
there, hut the ilea of allowing private soci'
{ les 10 use it seems 10 us to be triiie Out
of the way. The court house is t,O hne
iuildins to be used for every purpose.
Our friend OF the Watchman was inter
viewed last week and We presume by those
doctors t:) who attended on that poor little
caili who had its fingers crushed and who
died on their hands. Things have come &c
pretty piss in,ircd if newspapers are t. hs
b1iiiosc1 by these scrubs mt" s"ppress'i'l
news. THIS pap:r isicamping on their y, ~
and is in the enemy's camp every day a WIZ
lie pretty evident when the full particulars o
that abortion case is published.
Joe Cam, a Chinaman, lived IL years M
st. Louis, AMI became apparently jealous
Christian. lie was member OF a church,
missionary among the Chinese residents, ah'
pet # the M,tho.lists. who patrohi1ed mn
extensively as lauudryman. A few day
ago he announced that he was going to Chin'