Washington standard. [volume] (Olympia, Wash. Territory) 1860-1921, 1881-06-10
TUM L. WATER.
News Breyities.

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Ireland appears to be upon the
brink of civil war.
Discourasing crop reports coma
from Great Britain.
uood potter's clay has been found
two miles from Lewiston.
Garfield will attend the Atlanta
exposition next November.
Ingersoll and Butler are amono
the lawyers retained by Brady.
i There are no new developments in
the Senatorial fight at Albany.
Bishop, the mind.reader is Great
ing much excitement in England.
| According to the recent census
the population of London is 3,8l4,
ST..
Large numbers of immigrants
from Finland are arriving Coos Bay.
Oregon.
| Losses to Iowa farmers this wear
from poor seed will amount to So
600, 900.
Bell has been declared Governor
ct New Hampshire by less than 40.
900 majority.
DIR. Watts will be the Fourth.of-
July orator at the State fair grounds,
Salem, Oregon.
Mac Veagh does not think any of
the star route frauds can be tried
until September.
A hail storm in the vicinity of New
York on the I'd inst. did great dam
age to fruit and grain.
-Four negroes were killed at Low
moor, Va, on the Sd, by an ex-
plosion of dynamite.
The feeling between the people
and the constabulary is growing
very bitter in Ireland.
The oil mill near Waitsburg, has
now stopped operations because of
the scarcity OF castor beans.
1t is not likely that the State of
Pennsylvania will be able to obtain
William Penn's bones from Eng.
land.
Conkling will take part in the con-
test for Speaker of the next House,
working against any Administration
candidate.
Samples of flour or other DOW
dered substances are declared un-
mailable except under certain strict
packing regulations.
The lumber cut upon the Wiscon-
sin shore of lake Superior has in
creased from 4 1000, 900 feet in 1874
to over p, 100000 feet in 1881.
The ship Victoria from Amsterdam
January 10Th for San Francisco, has
been totally lost in the Pacific. Her
crew has been landed at Montevidio.
The first vessel built by the Hall
Brothers at Port Blakely was
launched Saturday. She was named
the Mary Smith and will be schooner
rugged.
One of the officials guilty of ir-
regularity in the purchase Of tire asury
department supplies says that per-
sons high in authority are respon-
sible for all he has done.
Crops in the Umpqua valley, Ore
gon, are said to be suffering for
want of rain, and locusts and cater
pillars are making the farmers stu
alton still more aggravating.
Crops on San Juan island never
looked better than at present. There
are thousand of acres of good ag-
ricultural land in San Juan county,
easily cleared, rich and productive,
awaiting settlement.
There is serious talk of coilition
between Democrats and Green
hackers to get possession of the
next House OF Representatives. The
Greenbackers will be given the Lion 8
share of the Offices.
MIR. Benjamin is meeting with sue
cess in raising the engine at Tacoma.
Every tide he gets it from 6 to 10
inches nearer the surface. If his
chains all hold, be will probably
have it on the track in two weeks
more.
General Sprague recently stated
to gentleman in New Tacoma that
the Cascade division of the Northern
Pacific Railroad would be completed
aid running by the first day Of De-
cember, 1SS2-1S months and little
more from now.