Washington standard. [volume] (Olympia, Wash. Territory) 1860-1921, 1882-06-16


--.lan.c. Watson Webb. the veteran
Journal. of New York. celebrated his
eig-tie.h birthday IA lew days ago.
/, i, -.i that puren Caroline. OF
saxon. :. ,ui;Urin fru;. fatigue caused
b. oycr--Xs.tiun IN her .tchen.
Growing icmiuinitv. think of that'
REV. John T. Huntington, writing
on he temperance question in the
.io.yjc2,4 tturch ii.c,",C. has given
new exprc.,ion 10 the saving of old
Fletcher If oaltom: Let Inc make
the ballads ot Nation. aii | care no.
who makes It's laws Mr. Huntington
eavs: let nue. make :. Nation S-amuse-
.ncntS AMI care not who makes its
rum
When the late Or. Bellows visited
General iItlirck To prepare the way for
the sanitary Commission, ia!i"ck said.
Il hate phiiantIlr"pists. Instantly Dr.
Bellows answered: "AMd we hate Gen
erals. - ;han catching himself up with
the tact which never failed him, be
added ''Of coarse You mean bogus
pli:an,lroi,i-l,, Geaeral. and | mean
bogus trn"rai3.'
One of the most delightful of the
Ciii\airAus English gentlemen of the
old .rilrpl. Gen. James MacDonald,
died recently. lie was a Crimcan hero.
and ~ man who never spoke 4 word
against man or w1rlan. lie was as
7crupul0u>ly careful OF giving pain ~
he wa, brave His heavy locks were
early turned 10 snow. and though he
was ALWAYS in the midst of danger. il is
said that The Russians refused to shoot
ut him because they thought he was
High Priest
The death is announced ot Rev.
Simeon Parmclec, ID. d.. Ut Uswego.
n. I. DR. Parmclce WAS lUp years and
II days old IL the time of his death
He was native OF Massachusetts, but
his boyho0d home was Pittsford. VI.
= He WAS educated Tor the ministry under
the tuition of Rev. LcnIucl Eayncs. u
famous colurcd preacher OF an adjOin-
ing town. He had AS cassmate Rev.
john lngerSoil, father of Col. Robert
Il. lngersOll Father Parmelce voted
ut twenty Presidential elections. and
preached over lO.00D sermons.
Charles Howard. believed to be all
. ALulIi''tu, tIil ItNiiiH Il ubHfti aiIjSt-,
has been sentenced by 4 London Judge
To five years penal Scrvituie. Howard
has been engaged in u long series of
swind!in% operations in Eng land. and
was well known us the Count Iiooy-
ario. .'Non Howard" "Col. Stew
art. .'Col. ErSkinc." ''CJl. Stanhopa"
AMI "lirut. Maur" The enterprise
which finally brought him to grief WAS
au attempt which he made 10 obtain
sum of money from the Duke of Mont
rose by fraudulent pretenscs.
A correspondent of the lTom;n's
Jo'W:: H. says Women are ~ dis
,inctlv recognized rs the guardians of
the public parity ~ are the clergy of
the public morals. Yet when Young
man comes among us whose only dis
tinciion is that lie has written thin
volume of very mediocre verse. and
that he makes himself something very
like u bu.loOn for nOtoricty and money,
women OF high social position receive
him ut their houses and invite guests to
meet him; in spite of the fact that if
they were to read aloud 10 the COM
pany his poem OF 'Charnidcs.' not II
woman would remain in the room until
the end. In the vicious period of the
English. Georges Byron was hauished
from society. Moore was obliged to
purify his poems. for less oiicnses
against common dccency than have
boon committed by Oscar Wilde"