Washington standard. [volume] (Olympia, Wash. Territory) 1860-1921, 1881-07-15
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its crop prospect.
There were several sunstrokes in
New York on the 18th inst.
Gustave Won Alvensteben, q dis.
tinguished German general, is dead.
King Kalakaua, of the Sandwich
Islands, arrived at London on The
7th.
Thermometer 102 at Cincinnati on
the 18th. Thirteen sunstrokes. most.
ly fatal.
The Star route defense will be
that there is no legal wrong in the
contracts.
Justice Clifford of the U. 8. Su-
preme Court is dangerously il at
Cornish, Me.
Long and Birmingham are turning
out $50 pounds of cheese O day ct
their White river dairy.
-Four persons were killed and
several wounded by lightning, which
struck burn at Dratur, N. c., on the
9th.
No rain since June 3Oth at Louis
vile, Ky, aud everything dried up;
heat the past three days reached 1Ol
deg.
Forty one Salem ladies mounted
on "milk white steeds" appeared in
parade on July 18th at the State Fair
grounds.
An unsuccessful attempt was made
on the 10th, at Virginia City, New,
to blow up Pat Langan's Pacific
Brewery.
c. B. Plummer, the elocutionist,
was at last accounts, in the State of
Kansas, giving entertainments as he
travelled.
Yearling cattle are said to be dying
in large numbers in Wallowa Valley,
Union county, Oregon, from some
/ unknown cause.
D. o. Mills gives $4,000 to the
University of California to endow
the chair of intellectual and moral
philosophy and civil policy.
A. o. BENJAMIN has finished his
contract of taking the wrecked en-
CINE, tender and fiat cars from the
sand and water at Tacoma.
a gypsy camp has been recently
located near Baker City, making
plenty of money out of gudgcors
who wanted their fortunes told.
Chinese merchants at Victoria iu-
tend applying to the courts to re-
strain the government from impos-
ing tax on coolie immigrants.
The Indian woman stabbed on the
4th inst. by Indian doctor Jack,
died at Seattle on the 9Th. Jack is
now in Jail on charge of murder.
AIRS. Conkling is reported to have
expressed the hope that her husband
may he defeated. She says that
'ubl:c life is but a series of vsxa-
tions.
There are in England 800 SIS pro-
fessional paupsrs-about one in
twenty-five of the population. Yet
England is the richest country in the
world.
A report put in circulation that ex-
Senator Conkling has written letter
retiring from the canvass of Senator
ship is denied on excellent authority.
1t is said that he will never retire.
Congressman Coates of North
Carolina says that the Democracy
are divided on the temperance
question as we'll as The Republicans,
and that politics will be badly mixed
| over there.
The news market must have been
extremely dull when the fact that
Gen. Grant had to show his tongue
at quarantine to be passed to New
Orleans, was telegraphed over the
country.
Nine hundred Mormon converts
from Europe passed through Omaha
on the 18th, enroute to Utah. They
occupied sixteen passenger coaches
and required eight freight cars for
baggage.
Those who have been charmed
with the gay conversationalist and
witty poet, John G.. SAKE, will re-
greet to learn that his mind has been
clouded by the recent death of his
only daughter.
The Democratic county conven-
ton ct Cleveland on the 9th, adopted
strong resolution declaring Garfield
the constitutional President, and the
attempt on his life a heinous crime,
and rejoicing in his improved con-
dition, and recommending laws to
cover such cases.
Washington Territory is divided
into twenty-five counties, no one of
which is smaller than the State of
Massachusetts, while there are sew
eral, each of which are larger than
the State of New York. Plenty of
room and fine variable climate for
selection OF homes for the immigrant.
AT the Seattle municipal election,
last Monday, five of the seven for.