, 1882-12-22
From Saturday 5 Daily.

iuOTulnP.
Our streets and stores were thronged
to day-buyins holiday goods.
SHIP Detroit sailed from San Fran
cisco for Seattle on the nth.
COL Hawkins, the noted temperance
lecturer, is addressing Seattle audiences.
Mr.. j. N. Griffith has just returned
from an extended visit through portions
of Oregon,
THERE is complaint that wood for fuel
cannot be obtained by steamers along
the route from here to Neah Bay. Can
not somebody make a few dollars in
that business?
DR. HUNT, who has been attending
to dental business here for several days
past, will remain until next Thursday.
Those in need OF his services will govern
themselves accordingly.
The lst Assistant Post Master Gen
eral has signitied desire to have copy
of the DAILY ARGUS sent to hin-prob-
ably so that he can keep "posted" on
the wonderfully low prices ruling at
Clinger's auction store.
IT is exl ectel that large crowd Will
be in attendance on, Monday evening
to witness Humpty Dumpty's picnic.
Don't fail to secure your seat early. If
you never had good laugh before you'll
have one this time, sure.
TIM Portland Weekly Standard has
been reduced in price to $3.50 per year
If paid in advance Excepting the S. F.
Examiner, the Standard is undoubted-
ly the ablest democratic journal on the
Pacific coast AS ncwS paper it has no
superior in Oregon.
TINES CHANGES. Capt Henry Roe
der, one OF Whatcom county's pioneer
citizens is in town. The Captain recent
ly visited boyhood scenes in Ohio, after
an absence of thirty years He expresses
himself as perfectly astounded at the
marvellous development of that country
since last he saw it in years gone by.
Over the very ground where he saw
mail carriers plying their vocations on
foot, are now two giant railroads run
ming and hardly ever a train out Of sight.
Capt. Roeder came away from Ohio when
it was comparatively new country,
much the same as Washington Territory
is, now, and he is here witnessing pre-
cisely the same kind of civilization IN
folding step by step as thatwhich changed
Ohio from q wilderness TO the grand
state it is today. Ne saw much of
course, during his recent visit, that led
him back to live the scenes OF early life
anew-changed faces, changed scenery,
the joy OF meeting friends OF long ago
and above all the silent cemetery where
rest the forms Of those friends and loved
ones whose voices are hushed on earth
forever-all tending to vivify reflections
IN the mutability OF earthly things and
the stern reality of life's changing pan
Drama. How many Pacific coasters
today could duplicate this experience
were they to revisit the old homesteads,
the vine-clad hills where once they ming
led happy voices with school mates in
thoughtless gleel Capt. Roeder can re-
fleet that while he has tR some extent
denied himself the comforts OF advanced
civilization, he has materially contribut-
cd along with other enterprising pioneers
in developing Whatcom county to what
it is today. He came to Puget Sound
when canoeing it" expressed about the
only mode OF trave', when salt salmon
and spuds were staple articles OF diet;
when the war whoop OF murderous sava-
ges occasionally broke upon the stiffness
OF primitive solitude. He has watched
these things slowly disappear before the
onward march Of new order OF civiliza-
tion. He has seen the canoe supplanted
by sail vessels OF the various sizes suited
to the demands Of commerce, and these
in turn receding before the prows of
stately steam craft. Looking ahead, he
can reasonably predict that in the near
future we will be even dissatisfied Gas
they are now in the East with the slow
speed of the best railroad cars-when
we will still be longing for something
faster, something that will enable us to
get farther and do more in any given
time than has ever been done before.