, 1881-11-12
THE NEWS SEND-OFE
Given the Local Happenings or
the Day by Reporters for
THE Statesman"

The high schools Of Minnesota receive S.O0
yearly from the state.
DIR. Corcoran has returned and finds any
amount Of horses waiting to be attended To-
The front OF Tiger Engine House has re-
ceived coat Of paint, adding much to ,.s
appearance.
What rifles country postmistress is to
have letter come to the Office written in
Fr+nch.
George Magann has returned home for the
winter from Pen d'Oreille. He looks as hand
some ever.
Hon. B. l.. Sharpstsin and wife are ex-
pected home f.cm Olympia on SATURDAY.
morning next.
The county commissioners are nearly
through with their session and probably this
Will be the last day.
Like sensible men the County Commis.
soners have cut down the fees of the doctors
o It Hall Vi lnci uciuduuS-
November term Of the U. s. district court
for WalIa Walla will commence on Monday
next. The docket is pretty large
Herman Metzger. Esq, accompanied by
his sister, are off on visit to Portland and
Will remain until Christmas.
1t is reported that the Rev. l.. NJ. Wells
is about to leave this city. We sincerely
hope that such is not the case.
Hon. J. NJ. Cornwall has so far recovered
his health that he returned to the Legislative
halls OIL Wednesday evenings train.
A young lady in Keokuk who is soon to
be married, is six feet four inches in height.
She will be a wife who can be looked up to-
Some rascal burgled W. s. MeCalleys
room on Wednesday night and carried off
his go-to meeting clothes. boots and revolver
There have been thirteen deaths so ia,
this year from not knowing it was loaded,
and several old shot guns yet TO hear from.
The are putting in their big lieks on the
pile driver. Dion keefe is experimenting
the job so that We may now expect less
trouble from high water.
Sixty two dollars and fifty cents is great
deal Of money for the country to pay for the
privilege of allowing three doctors TO exam
Inc man in the pest house through 4 tele-
scope.
Pile driving is going on by the OPP .ra House
and it sends chill through the human Fame
TO see the men up to their middle working in
water.
A. Reeves Ayres is the first one to start
moving into the new Court House.
grand exodns from the old familiar place will
commence ON Monday next.
4 piece of zinc placed on the live Goals in
hot stove viii, 1t is said, efiectualiy clean
out a stovepipe, the vapors produced carry
ing off SCOT by chemical decomposition.
The SEATTLE Chronicle makes note Of a
little three-Gara monte game over in that
section recently, in which man named
Wilson. from Kansas, was relieved OF Sl0S0.
The experiment of electing women super
intrmients of schools in Iowa has re. .ulted
successfully. Under their administration
the schools have improved and the expenses
have been reduced.
Mr. Comfy. who was sent to the Hawaiian
Islands for the benefit of his health, by Mr..
Hayes. four years ago, desires another term.
The salary is $500, and the duties consist
IN T, ceipting for 1t.
| \ license was issued at Union during the
week to Mr. Charles Phillips of Walla Walla
and Miss Nellie Rochfellow of the toll gate
on the Meacham road, granting to them the
privilege Of unitlus their hands in matrl-
| muuy-
! The game law was defea' by the men,
! bars from Columbia and Whitman counties.
! It is a poor policy for neighboring counties
/ 10 act adversely TO the interests OF one adIon-
! ing. Game cannot be preserved without
joint effort by all neighbaring counties.
! d. ]. Schnebly, Esq, is in the city after a
! long absence in kittitass valley. We are
| pleased to hear Of the increase IN his Hoeks
and herds in that portion of Yakima county.
Nr. is enjoying remarkably good health,
MI cannot speak too highly Of the purity oil
/ The climate over there.
! That little game to break mp the STATES
H,N Is turning ont like the fellows story he
tod about his fight. "Yes," he said. ''you
see | and Bill had boss fight. ! pulled
/ Bill dowu OH top Ot me and held him there
till | told lin to get oil, and You bet 1 licked
h.m god I'm g,,ing to give him some more
some day. Is my eye much black ,?
! Another hundred dollars is to be added to
the already large bill put in for examining
that alleged small pox patient which makes
for nurs a., hack hire and doctors no less
| than Sa6.. 80 Oar citiz-ns are getting IN
tcrestrd in this business, especially a. the
hIl against the city is Yet to be put IN. A
mea,ly patient is bonanza to halt-starved
doctors.
After missing for two succeeding days
hr overland m al arrived on Tuesday night
The roads in the mountains on the toll roads
are 90 bad that the editor OF the East Or'go'
a;ua says that if all the alalt population ol
Cmatiila county were to turn out AMI try to
destroy them they could not make them any
worse
The following tonching tombstone inserip'
ton appeared III recent number OF the
Chicago Mars. ...-. .
Here Lies
l. Little Tommy Jones,
Aged wears and 5 months.
II he had bought his little sister Is cents worth
Of "A 'dy instead
investing his money in a
Toy Pistol, ~,
lie would he playing mumblety peg IN thf
back yard with Johnny fitz-
gibbons to-day.
We hope tO meet him where there are no iife-
works. - -T-.-
ASSESSMENT WoRK.-Inquiriss are con
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