Washington standard. [volume] (Olympia, Wash. Territory) 1860-1921, 1881-11-25
News Brevities.

Seattle is to have 800 barrel q
day flour mill in 1882.
Anti Chinese resolves were lately
passed ut the Labor Convention at
Pittsburg.
The health department of Chicago
is working night and day against
smallpox.
Losses to Gloucester, Mass. dur
ing the fishing season, 81 men and
43 vessels.
1t is reported that the Univcr-
salis's of New England have now
ITO less churches than in 1850.
The Post Office Department re-
yokes the order for redemption of
postal cards spoiled in the hands of
private parties.
Scoville's line of defense for Quit
eau will be an attempt to prove
malpractice. Guiteau continues his
antics during the trial.
The Northern Pacific company
contemplates the sale of large
tract of land 800 miles west of Bis
maick to an English land company.
The complete humiliation of the
village of Elm, canton of Glaurus,
Switzerland, appears only a ques-
ton of time and bad weather. The
summit of the peak nearest to the
village is moving.
While Guitteau was being con-
veyed from the court room to the
Jail, he was s. OF in the hand by some
unknown person, who rode up to
the side of the carriage and fired de-
iberately into it and then rode
rapidly off.
A decree has been issued at Paris
announcing the separation of the
ministries of agriculture and com
merce. 1t points as example to the
United States and other countries
which have made agriculture Il dis
tinct department.
The Nez Perez Ners says: The
railroad extension form Grange City
to Texas Ferry will positively be
completed on or before the 2lst of
November, when steamboats, will
connect Lewiston with that point
and We shall be accessible at ali sea-
sons of the year.
The Odd Fellows of Dayton have
rented a house in a suitable locality,
aud are improving it for hospital
use, in case any of the brethren who
are not provided with homes are
taken with smallpox. The build
ing will be comfortable, and the
move is q laudable one.
The reports of Guiteau's trial ex-
cite the utmost establishment among
English lawyers, that such contin-
ued violations OF decency are per-
mitted in court. Nor do Englishmen
understand how criminal is allowed
to communicate with the public
through the newspapers.
The Times strongly discou, ages
any further attempts to traverse the
Arctic sea by government expedi-
ton. Aleward offered to ambitious
whalemen will accomplish mole than
the navies of England and America.
and it can he earned with compare
lively little risk. since the attempt
will be made when an exceptionally
open Summer gives fair promise Of
success.
General Francis A. Walker, ex-
Superintendent of the Census Bur-
eau, has submitted statement to
the Secretary of the Interior con-
tanning some interesting facts con-
corning representation in the next
House. Total population of States,
1881 $40. With the number of
Representatives at the present fig
ure-293-this wom'd give one Re
preventative to every lC9, $50 of
population. On this basis, the fol-
lowing changes in representation
would ensue in the Forty eighth
Congress: Arkansas, California,
Michigan, Mississippi, South Car
DINA and West Virginia gain one
each; Minnesota and Nebraska gain
wo each; Kansas gain, three and