The Vancouver independent. (Vancouver, W.T. [Wash.]) 1875-1910, 1881-01-20
BRIEF MENTION.

There is q call from the Whittier estate for
settlement of accounts.
Much drift wood has been passing down
the Columbia for a week.
DR.. r. S. Davis, the La Center druggist,
is putting up new building.
Travel is dull this week. and but few per-
sons have visited Vancouver.
The Terpschorean Club will give another
one of their social hops this evening.
Mrs. NJ. j. Hayden has gone TO Southern
California to see her mother, who is i'll.
For few days the wicked have stood in
slippery places-the righteous sat down.
Mr.. w. II. Smallwood has been appointed
clerk of the Probate Court at Goldendale.
The West Shore for january is an excellent
number, a good one to send to friends in the
east.
The upper country mails have been re-
ceived here very irregularly for u month or
more.
Miss Mary L. Shindler, an occasional Wis.
itor to Vancouver, was married In Portland
last week.
Cook & Son have shipped a considerable
quantity of fruit to San Francisco from
this place.
Robt. NJ Reid of Lewis river came over
on Friday, and put in a full days business
In Vancouver
The ''raw recruits" have been unusually
melodious this week, and quiet down as the
funds get low.
Wait Lancaster came up over the tele-
graph line from Lewis river on Sunday, to
repair damages
Arthur Haine has been appointed Deputy
ChariH and 10 ocsi.tiDr, IN fbn pollpntiOu n
delinquent taxes.
Considerable iron for the Northern Pa
cifc r. r. has passed up the river this week,
and there is more to follow.
The first Walla Walla mail received here
in six days came down on Monday, and it
was eight days on the route.
There is a colony being talked of in Smith
county, Kansas, to settle about the mouth
of Lewis river and st. Helons.
The roads in the country are now about
as bad as they can be, the bottom thereof
having gone down the usual winter distance
The organization Of post of the g. \. R.
in this city has woke up our Goldendale
neighbors, and now they want q. y. H.
post
The Willamette river rose about II feet at
Portland last week. The rise of the Column
bia here was about eight feet in the same
time.
While on trip to Victoria few days
ago Mr. Patrick Buckley met Dr. Mclean,
former resident of Vancouver, looking hale
and hearty.
The work on the church at 4th Plain has
been commenced, the laying Of the founda-
tions now going on. 1t is situated near the
ol-house.
Ellsworth Post, G.. A. r., meet again on
Saturday at 1880 P. NJ, at Eldings Hail.
Every comrade will consider himself re-
cruiting officer.
On Sunday the Columbia at Vancouver
reached the June high water mark of 1873,
and was almost upon the first floor of the
government dock
The man who predicted mild, pleasant
winter. should become 50 Disguised as to go
hang himself, that he may never make such
q fool of himself again.
Udney j. Hamilton, a young man who
was born at the Cascades, died there of con
sumption a few days ago, in his 2lst year.
He was general favorite.
There is man in town who is so impru-
dent as to predict another closing OF the
river at Vancouver this month by the ice.
He is a cold blooded wretch.
The pontoon belonging to the Stark street
ferry in Portland has become attached to
Clarke county soil, having been anchored
near ID. r. Fales' place in the Columbia.
j. N Fordyce, agent of the 0. r. & n.
Co. at the Dalles, recently lost four children
in one week by scarlet fever Such afilic-
ton draws sympathy from complete stran-
gers.
A correspondent wants to know ''if we
want something occasionally to ill mp with. :"
Of course We do, but ''yaller legged" chick
ems take preference over all other oontribu-
tions.
Captain Bailey, OF the steamer Trareier,
who was 80 severely injured short time
since by being struck in the face by an iron
chain, has so far recovered as to appear on
the streets.
There is a petition circulating on Lewis
river praying for the building of draw
bridge at La Center. 1t is certainly needed
very much, and would be good thing for
that thriving little town.
The telegraph lines have been down for
over week, this country being deprived of
all news from the outside world, and if we
don't find out pretty soon the latest cabinet
rumor, shall perish miserably.
Mr.. Tom Merton brought in from Fourth
Plain on Tuesday eight dressed hogs that
turned the scales at S36 pounds, and not one
went under 200. Tom don't allow one hog
70 get bigger than another on his place.
II there is anything in the old superstition
that the weather of the first twelve days in
January 10 an index of the weather of the
twelve months of the year ensuing, the
weather for next October and November
will be of the wettest kind