, 1881-10-28
NEWS ITEMS.

THE sum total of the Garfield fund Oh
the 10th inst, was $3.50 ,S5l.
BORN.-In Olympia, Oct. 10th, to tl,,
wife of Herbert McMicken. il son.
TIE schooner reazer is expected to &c
on duty at Cape FIattery about Jan. 1st
LEWIS county claims n gain of 100 III
population since the United States census
was taken.
THE lilies of the field ''toil not, neither
do they spin, but they have their blow
out, just tie same.
Col. Frank j. Parker, editor of the
Walla Walla IS ateslnan," has just made
a tour of the Sound.
THE Senate in executive session con-
firmed the nomination of Hannibal Han =
lin as minister to Spain.
uoPs now bring 90 cents at Puyallup
and are expected 10 soon reach % cents,
as they are now % to % cents III New
York.
IT is a notable fact that when the Leg
islature recently adjourned tor a recess,
some of the members went to the peni-
tentiary and others to the insane asylum
TIE Glen Fern. a new bark OF SlS tons
burden, consigned to Hewitt & Co., OF
Portland, was wrecked at the Columbia
Gateway, on tie 18th inst, and will
prove total loss.
TRUTH has discovered that the Amer
ems are an ingenious people. Finding
that the boxes in which American apples
were sent in such large Quantities to Eng
now pack the apples in collins, which
command a ready sale.
far been raised toward the Sires fund.
We learn the people OF Townsend and
Gamble are willing to help, and doubtless
the sum can be increased to $1,000, the
amount contemplated to be raised
acknowledgement" We heartily Sec
ond the above suggestion.
FIVE counties in Michigan suffered by
the great fire. The number of dwellings
burned was ll47. The burnt district has
an extent of about 23O0 square miles. Not
all this was devastated, but an area OF
about 900 square miles was left without a
building nor living tree standing upon
it.
In little cemetery near Steilacoom,
says the Pierce county ''News, where in
former years the bulwarks of our liberty
found rest from war and its tolls, are the
remains of commissioned and non-com-
misSioned officers and privates, some of
whom served their country long and
faithfully, doing good service esp cially
in Indian campaigns. The Inscriptions
upon the headboards which mark their
graves are nearly obliterated by time and
its storms, and ere long no trace will be
left OF the whereabouts of these buried
soldiers. Before it is too late would it
not be well for the proper military au-
thorities to provide tombstones to mark
the places where lie the remains OF those
dead heroes.
THE firm OF Bancroft & Co., of San
Francisco, possess commendable energy
in the printing of useful and valuable
books, etc., but we question the public
benefit in sending out agents, or runners,
with samples for all manner OF job work.
small packages OF paper, to compete with
local dealers and printers. This savors a
little too much of the ways OF the heathen
Chinee. There Is sufficient intelligence
and skill in 1.-THE art preservative" i'll
Washington Territory to meet all reason
able requirements in this line. Leave us
the crumbs, please.-Olympia .sTran-
script" The agent or runner visited
Port Townsend and took orders at prices
less than the cost Of the paper used. Our
merchants and business men growl fear
fully if any one sends to New York or
San Francisco for drygoods or groceries.
But when it comes to saving few cents
in printing. well, ''that's a horse OF an
other COLOR" you know.
THE death in Baltimore is announced
OF Nine. Susan Mary Bonaparte, widow
OF Jerome Napoleon Bonapartc. She
was in her seventieth year, and had been
suffering from paralysis tor six weeks.
Her two sons, Mr.. Z. j. Bonaparte and
Colonel Jerome Bonaparte, were with
hnr N hnf. ll II In Lot
Bonaparte was the daughter of BENJAMIN
Williams, 4 prominent merchant of Bal