Washington standard. [volume] (Olympia, Wash. Territory) 1860-1921, 1881-05-27
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i' was 1I OiHCluuat1 on
'ht 2st, en- rolie to Montreal.
/ ester trade of Shoalwater
Il ouh'* TO SOC, 600 year.
i ''e postal frauds on star routes
ntinG continually unearthed.
Ihe treaty between Russia and
China has been ratified at Picking.
Mahore voted with tie Republi-
cans for the confirmation of Chand-
Ter
Two million copies OF the revised
Testament have been sold in Lon
don.
Tin, silver and lead in paying
quantities have been discovered near
Iwncr.
ii New York Democrats can't get
a Democratic aid, they will vote for
ConHliug.
Two veins OF coal on the Clear
water have been discovered As miles
east of Lewiston.
Jay Gould testified in the telc-
graph case that he controls $4,000
miles of railroad.
Henry Ward Beecher adopts the
revised Testament and thinks it will
be generally adopted.
The fishermen at Astoria have
struck for GO cents pr fish. They
have been getting so cents.
A company has been formed at
Victoria to engage in the manufac-
ture and expectation of herring oil.
The impression prevailing among
scholars regarding the revised Testa-
ment is one of disappointment.
The Nortle rn Pacific Railroad
land Office will be moved from COL
fax to Cheney about the LIST of June.
OF the eight men who ran on the
four Presidential tickets OF 1860 only
one is alive to-day, Hannibal Ham
lin.
Sampson, of the M. E. Church.
Brooklyn, raised $40, 900 on Sunday
toward extinsuishlvg dept of $4O,-
900.
The Masonic Grand Lodge of
Washington Territory will meet In
Olympia on the first Wednesday in
June.
Ten thousand dollars have been
subscribed towards the construction
of Catholic Cathedral at Walla
Walla.
A fine vein of excellent coal which
will coke, and an iron mine, are
among the recent discovered of
Skagit.
The new buildings for the educa-
ton of Indians and the colored races
were dedicated at Fort Monroe ON
the 10Th.
A quarry of fine white marble is
reported near the Clearwater river.
a shcrt distance above the north and
south forks.
The Northern Pacific Railroad
Co.'S agent in San Francisco is
shipping from 200 to 800 Chinese
to Oregon every week.
1t is reported that Tilden is anxious
to he Governor, and will help to re-
elect Conkling for the latter's in
fuence in the State election.
Walla Walla expects to have gas
In the houses and streets by the LIST
OF next September. A corporation
with $4,000 is to be organized.
Edison soys he has on file appliea-
tons from more than three thousand
cities and villages in which electric
light companies are to be formed.
The army worm has made its ap-
pearance, destroying all kinds of
vegetation. Ravages of the worm
extend over the whole of northern
New York.
By a decision of Chief Justice
Greene, rendered last week, copies
of legal papers made in any other
way than with the pen are declared
contrary to law.
Neatly all children of Atlanta, Ca,
have been withdrawn from school
on account of an epidemic. Eigh-
teen physicians declare it scarlet
fever and one yellow fever.
The Moscow police are taking
precautions against the impending
attack on the Jews. Some Jewish
families have already fed, and others
are depositing their valuables in
banks.
A Washington special says: A
gentleman just arrived from Mexico
says that Grant will not receive the
concessions he desires for his latest.
railroad enterprise, and that he is.
coming home discouraged.
AT meeting in Washington on
the 22d, largely attended by prom
inent citizens and those actively
interested in benefcient organiza-
tons, constitution was adopted as
basis of an organization to be
known as tbs Red Cross Society for
sanitary and hospital work.
E. Meeker, of Puyallup, who has
been experimenting with sugar beets
in that valley for several years past,
will this year plant three acres in
stead of one, as last year, continuing
the experiment begun in 1879. T.
NJ. Alvord, of White river, will plant
ten acres for like purpose, and for
cattle feed.
Twelve cents per pound has been
offered for 1000 pounds of hops of
the incoming crop, deliverable at
at harvest time. Some
hop growers have offered to contract