Washington standard. [volume] (Olympia, Wash. Territory) 1860-1921, 1881-12-09
News BreyitieS.

II. IiIIleuelu, Oh HIS recent WISH
to Dayton, vaccinated over 100 per-
sons.
The Michigan Fire Relief Com
mlssionerS want $500 to carry
the suffer, rs over till next Nav.
1t is proposed in Boston to cele-
blate, on the 18th of January next,
the cant"unlal anniversary of Daniel
| Webster'5 birth
Governor Roberts of Texas de-
clares that the civilization capahlc
of Republican local aelf-governmcit
begins and ends with The plow."
The Union Pacific will put in a
side track on every five mile of their
road. This is to prevent the long
dclaTs Of trains waiting 10 pass.
Peter McCaskill died at New Ia
coma last week Of smallpox. He
was II native of Cape Breton, Nova
Scotia, where his parents now re-
side.
Six hogs, weighing in the aggre-
gate 1000 pounds dressed, we've
brought into Vancouver a few days
since. Tl!e largest one weighed IA
pounds.
Reports from railroad companies
i'll all portions of the country, Snow
that the next year is to be remark
able busy AMI active one in railroad
construction.
Ordnance Sergeant James Bridges,
who died at Walla Walla garrison
last week, had been in the army Il
years, had fought in the Mexican
war and was 60 years old.
The silver and plated-ware used
at the White House has been placed
in the hands of a silversmith to be
put in order. One of the items is
the gold plating of 800 silver spoons.
In the case of Yocum at Urbana,
o., against the Pittsburg, Cincinnati
and st. Louis Railway, for SAT 900
damages for loss of cattle, the jury
returned a verdict for the full
amount.
A train on the Northern Pacific
was twice INSTRUCTED by buflaloes
some days ago near the border line
between Montana and Dakota, and
was forced to come almost 10 a
standstill..
Mr.. Locke {" Nasby'), who has
recently returned from a tour of
ireland, declares that the squalor,
misery and helplessness of the poor
people of Ireland exceed the power
of words to describe.
The patents issued in America to
women for the year ending July,
1880, numbered seventy, ten more
than the average. Most of the in
ventions of women have TO do with
household appliances.
The new furniture and carpets
that have been purchased for the
White House were selected by Mrs.
Garfield on the occasion of her visit
to New York few weeks before the
late President was shot.
The amount thus far raised for the
Garfield monument at Cleveland is
$50, 900. 1t is not probable that
this amount will be greatly exceeded.
The design is to erect the monument
over the remains at the cemetery.
A marble quarry has been discov-
cred in Spokan county. Practical
judges promo unce the specimens
shown to be of excellent quality.
The quarry is of vast extent. Capt.
Pease, of the steamer Willard, and
MIR. Thorne, claim the discovery.
1t is learned from the records of
the county court of Chicago, that
Augustus H. Parker, a cousin of the
assassin. Guiteau, WAS sent some
years ago to the Elsin insane asy-
lum, where he died. A curious fact
in this connection is that Guiteau
himself Appeared as witness of the
mans insanity.
The London Times, in n compare
tive article upon the foreign trade of
American and Great Britain, estim-
ates tho money and trade loss to
America through the decline of her
shipping at ZIG, 1000, 900 yearly, and
considers that an increase of the
severity of American competition
with European agriculture is GER
tain.
The Presbyterian Synod, composed
of delegates from Presbyteries in
the adjoining parts of Tennessee,
Alabama, and Mississippi, admitted
negro for several years, but in the
recent session the question of ex-
Guiding him was raised, and O
majority voted to turn him out.
This action was based solely on his
color.
A. C. Cook, who was given a
hundred thousand pennies for exer-
cising his pugilistic skill upon q
wicked Ohio man, who wished
Guitteau had killed Garfield, is to
experience some more of the re-
wards of virtue. An effort is making
to secure him the honorable and
lucrative post of Doorkeeper of Con-
gress.
Last year there were 1894 per-
sons in Boston who paid taxes on
over 81 100000 worth of property,
and OF those 203 were women.
From this it will be seen that about
fifteen per cent. of the tax payers
of Boston who pay on over $780,
600 are women, and it is estimated
that there are about 5000 female
taxpayers at the Hub.
William Waldorf Astor spoilt the
boys in the New York district which
he lately canva ssed in the homo of