Washington standard. [volume] (Olympia, Wash. Territory) 1860-1921, 1881-04-29
News Brevities.
A failure of English cropsis feared.

A failure of English crops is feared.
Quincy Ills, and Hannibal, Mo-,
are suffers from high water.
One hundred and fifty-four NOM
nations are pending in the U. S.
Senate.
Belva Lockwood, lady lawyer in
Washington, wants to so to Brazil as
American Minister.
Joaquin's new book "The Shad-
ows of Shasta" is highly spoken Of
by the New York press.
Philadelphia wants street cars run
ming by means of an endless cable,
like those in San Francisco.
Senator Malone was burned in
effigy in Athens, Ga, by the stu
dents of the State University.
Simon Cameron is in Washington
trying to adjust the difference be-
tween Garfield and Conkling.
An understanding has been ar
rived at between Willard and Billings
which may lead to settlement.
An order has been issued declaring
postal cards unavailable with any
thing but direction on the address
side.
The flow of gold and immigrants
from Europe to America, as shown
by telegraphic dispatches, is some
thing marvellous.
A lady who celebrated her 99th
birthday in New York, last week,
remembers distinctly when down.
town lots on Broadway sold for $25.
The Car is practically prisoner,
residing in q diminutive chateau sur
rounded by six cordons of soldiers,
never issuing outside the inner circle.
Trade at Bradford is much de-
pressed, and some firms there con-
template taking machinery to Amer
lea and manufacturing wooden on
the spot.
The river Thesis has broken down
bikes and inundated $4,000 acres
and two villages near Shenolnok,
Hamburg. Rain is falling again at
Szegedin.
Gossip says that Gov. Fremont,
of Arizona, expects to be appointed
Minister to Mexico. The why and
wherefore OF this alleged expectation
are not observable.
A sample of the mail frauds is the
contract between Mineral Park, A.
t., and Phoebe, New, by which the
conspirators swindle the Government
out of $24, 900 year.
The Porte has prohibited the i'm
portation of American pork. A
committee of Americans will ascer-
tain the value of the stock already
arrived, after which it will be de-
stroyed.
Star-routs Brady, who has been
invited to resign for postal frauds,
is one of the Malone conspirators,
and may move anti-administratic n
Republicans to refuse confirmation
to his successor.
Grier, nominated for Third Asst.
Postmaster General. is the Penn
sylvanian who cast the first vote for
Garfield in the Chicago Convention
and could not be suppressed. He
never held Office before.
Mrs. Hayes goes home from Wash
ington one of the most popular
women that ever left the White
House, and chiefly so because she
set her face like flint against the use
of intoxicating beverages.
Professor Swing, of Chicago, has
been lecturing on novel reading, and
in answer to the question, " Who
should read the novel;" says, 4" No
one very much !; everyone somewhat;
those most who dislike them"
New Jersey is going into industrial
education, the Legislature having
appropriated $4,000 to every city
and town in the State that will raise
u like sum for instruction in indus
trial, mechanical and educational
pursuits.
The great desire of the negro
visitors to Washington is to see Sec
rotary Lincoln, and they flock to him
in crowds, saying that they want to
shake hands with the son of the man
who issued the emancipation pro-
clamation.
The hub of the universe may con-
tinue 70 be Boston, but the hub of
the United States is Cincinnati Ac-
cording to General Walker, Super
intendent of Census, the computation
of the centre of population il the
Republic will place it very near the
Ohio metropolis.
The river at Omaha is 20 inches
higher than ever before. The main
streets of Council Bluff have several
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