Washington standard. [volume] (Olympia, Wash. Territory) 1860-1921, 1881-06-03
News Brevities.

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On White river recent frosts have
been very destructiveG
Thus far the catch / 4 seal ha,
been very lig'': in Neah Bay.
The counc. .t the National Bank
at Walla " i, will cost 81, 400.
The present. Indebtedness of What.
com co"n y amounts to 1892. "a.
Excess of exports over imports for
the year ending April 30: $259, OOO.-
900.
The teachers will hold their annual
meeting at Walla Walla ON the Goth
of June, continuing ten days.
There will be five graduates from
the Territorial University this year,
four of whom are young ladies.
Peruvian cities, which have so
suffered from the ravages of war,
expect to be rebuilt of Puget Sound
lumber.
James Gamble has rendered his
resignation as superintendent of the
Pacific division of the Western Union
Telegraph Combany.
Texas was visited by a violent
storm on the 30th. Several build.
ings were wrecked and scarcely q
town in Taylor escaped damage.
The first electric railway now run
ming in the vicinity of Berlin is so
satisfactory that a second is projected
to run to another district of the SUBJ
urbs.
The people living on Pleasant
Bay, Lake Washington, have named
their burg Edison. There is already
town of that name in Whatcom
county.
War on American canned meats
has been started with much vigor in
Berlin. Professor Roloff says
horses which have died of disease
are canned as beef.
Spain will COLOMBO the island of
Culchi, near Porto Rico, which is
now uninhabited, and commission
ers will 60 there to fix the site for q
settlement and distribute lots.
The annual assessment of Walls
Walla shows the valuation of prop.
erty to be $1,000, $40, of which ST..
089, $50 is Of personal property. The
valuation in 1880 was 81 ,725, 40.
Andrew Lewis barn was burned
on the 26th near Plain City, O., and
four children were thereby burned to
death. The faEily were absent.
The bodies were found clinging to
each other.
A dispatch from Kansas says that
the measures taken to discourage
emigrants from going to that State
on account of the new Temperance
law have failed, and that immigra-
ton is larger than ever before.
A grandson of the late Gen. Joe
Lane, a boy OF IL or IA years of age
has been placed in the insane asylum
at East Portland. He became i'm
beetle or insane q few years since, %
the result of q severe attack of ty-
phoid fever.
A number of nominations sent to
the Senate failed to be acted upon.
The places to which these nomina-
tons were made will be filed i'm.
mediately by the President, in most
cases by recess appointment of the
same men whose names were not
acted upon.
A commission appointed in March
last by Secretary Blaine to thor
oughly examine the trichanosis
charges" made by the British consul
at Philadelphia, have fled report
declaring that American hog 10 free
from any disease which renders the
eating Of pork unsafe in . properly
cooked form.
Ten schooners are engaged in the
fur seal fishery of Cape FlAttery and
the catch 90 far has been four or Eve
thousand seals. The season will last
only three or four weeks longer, but
during that time it will be at its best,
and the catch will amount to - much
a. it has during as many months Of
the earlier part of the season.
Events Immediately attending the
closing hours of Congress have made
q breach in the cabinet which cannot
be healed except by the retirement
of Blaine and Mcvsagh. This fact
is apparent from droppings from Nc
Veagh's tongue on political matters
since he arrived at Philadslphia TO
attend the funeral Of Thos. A. Scott.
Secretary Hunt forwarded instruc-
tons to Com. Cooper, commanding
the q. 8. ship Alliance now at Nor
folk, Va, to proceed on . cruise
in search of the jeanette, between
Greenland, Iceland and the coast Of
Norway, and ~ far az the Northern
Coast Of Spitzbergen, il il is possible
to get there without endangering the
vessel.
A new town will soon be laid out
at the junction on the Touchet, seven
anc q half miles below WaitsburR.
It will be the hallway station be-
tween Dayton and Wslla Walla, and
will contain l60 acres. A ditch two
miles in length will supply the new
town with an abundance Of water for
all purposes, and give sixteen fest
head for driving machinery. Quite
. thriving little village will spring
up at this point.
Robert Lincoln, Secretary Of War,
has informed Delegate Brents that
Washington Territory has to its credit
in his department 81. $50 u. and that
| il the Governor of the Territory will
make formal requisition upon the
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