Washington standard. [volume] (Olympia, Wash. Territory) 1860-1921, 1882-07-28
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200 900.
Georgia has $500 fsh-ponds
stocked with carp.
A certain breed of Texas hogs
have solid hoofs.
The Grand Army" is said to be
10J 600 strong.
\ museum of Confederate relics
is to established at R,leigh, North
Carolina.
The wages of farm laborers in the
South have increased Ii per cent.
siuce 1879.
The estimated wealth of the cot
taSeis at Elberon has been placed
at S123 900, 900.
A herd of buffalo fourteen miles
in length was seen recently near
Glendive, NJ. T.
Mississippi. with a population of
l ,l3l 900, has but 9,2O9 foreign
born citizens.
Three States now have stringent
piohibitory liquor laws Maine, Kan
sas aud Iowa.
Theie is one COW to every twelve
people in the United States, and a
horse to every four.
The negroes in the second North
CAROLINE district have fallen out
with the white Republicans aud two
candidates are nominated for Con-
9ress, a negro aud q white man.
Mrs. Emily Thornton Charles is
editing and publishing a paper at
Washington City, called the National
Peteran, which bears the motto
-" Justice to Soldiers, Equality to
Women"
Marshall Field. of Chicago, Ill.,,
is the heaviest tax payer in Spokane
county. By this years ssessment
roll he pays taxes on IL, 100 acres, or
$40 ,3O5. The land lies in the south
and eastern past of the county.
The success of Barnes, the reviv.
alist, in converting Kentucky turf
men, is attributed to his belief that
there are horses in heaven. A true
Kentuckian would utterly scorn
heaven without race.course attach
meut.
A band of counterfeiters at st.
Louis has been arrested. Their
names are VIM. Hall alias Winles.
W. b. Perry alias Weaver, alias
Feeny, Ben Southern alias Bennett
Clark, alias Bennett, alias Bassett,
Mollie Hall alias Newton, and VIM.
Anderson.
The Postoffice Department has
decided that box renters are not re-
quired by p. l.. & F., to substitute
new locks to postoffice boxes, nor to
repair the old ones damaged by The
ordinary use Of them, nor to furnish
new keys to them when they lose
the old ones. Where postmasters
rent boxes and collec; the rent they
should Keep them in proper order
for use.
Sawdust from Leathem & Smiths
mill, Sturgeon bay, Wis, supplies
fuel to the steam barge Smith, for
her trip between that port and Chi.
cago. The dust is taken from the
circular to the bin, which is located
ut the edge of the wharf, and run
into the hold of the craft by means
of spout, thus saving handling, etc.
Ii this new venture proves success.
full, as there is no doubt it will,
great saving in time and expense is
expected.
A second Democratic Congression-
al caucus discussion favored opposi-
ton OF reduction on perfumery, pat
ent medicines, etc., advising SUBJ
stantial reductions as directly ben
citing the people and to discuss fully
and put the parties on record. eau.
Gus also determined to support Beck's
amendment that all taxes and Gus
.oms imposed by the United States
under present laws for collection of
duties OF imports from foreign coun-
tries shall be subject to discount
of 10 per centum after January /,
1883, and to additional discount of
10 per centum after July l. 1883.
Miss Annie Fernside, a Telegram
compositor, who is "pleasuring" in
Santa Barbara county. CAL, thinks
there is no place like Oregon. She
writes: " People here can't raise even
Il moderately successful garden on
account of the intrusion Of birds,
uuails. rabbits, etc. They 60 into
ecstacies over potato patch that
looks to an Oregonian as though it
was in the last stages Of sad decline.
1t is too windy and dry for fruit of
any kind except apricots, and they are
unfit to eat. This last fact explains
perhaps, why they grow here. Thore
is cherry tree containing as many
cherries as we could bny 10 Portland
for 25 cts, and in order to save them
from the ravayes of the birds, the
owner bought one dollar and thirty
cents woItL of mosquito bar and
stretched it over the tree. The baf-
fed birds wheel and scream and
scold about it in great focks from
morning till night.