The Daily Astorian. [volume] (Astoria, Or.) 1876-1883, 1882-05-20
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exhibit Of Waila Walia county,W. 7.
There gere 500, ,35S Is in the treasur-
ers hands. The total receipts were
So SOS 10; disbursements $50, $50 60.
! The Waila Walla Union says that
the parties who have the contract for
furnishing the North Pacific With
blasting powder are abont to erect a
powder mandatory somewhere on
Lake Pen d'Orielle.
! Thomas McAnjrew II Bear Greek,
jackson county: raised shout $1,000
pounds Of potatoes On two acres of
bottom land last year, most Of which
be found no trouble in disposing If at
e cent pound.
! The Ashland Tidings says: Ii is
generally believed that this years
peach crop in this neighborhood has
been ruined.
Yesterday furnished ,ha heaviest
sand storm that we have ever expert
eDcci since oar residence i'll this val
lev. The wind came from the north
west. and was laden with whole Sec
tions and townships OF Stanislaus and
MERGED land, and picking up IN its
course acre after acre OF Fresno c0un-
ty soil, it continued its course down
the valley, an almost solid volume Of
sufFccating and binding sand and
dust. There was enough sell went
south 10 make high land of the swamps
Of Kern. Fresno ca. Erpos;tc,', Sth
iast.
Great preparations are making Tor
the annual reunion of the army of the
Potomac at Detroit. June l4th AMI
18th. General Grant wiIl nc present:
also General Sheridan. exPresident
Hayes and others.
The following ominoue Motifs is
posted in . Texas saw-mill "Doant
munky with the haz aaw when in
Imcshun"
\ Western paper announces that
lupon the occasion OF 4 rocent boiler
explosion in the neighhprhood ''be-
tween three and four men were killed. !"
4 silver cake basket full OF twenty
dollar gold pieces was among the pres
ents az wedding in Providence. K.
IT,, last week
The Puget Foundry at Seattle will
soon turn out three large 12wheel
logging cats. The wheels are very
wide and the fanges nine inches apart
The cars are intended 10 run On
, wooden rails 8z8 inches aud road
8 foot gGage.
Seattle is 10 have now city hal!
built Of brick at :, cost of Sc 600.
To a poeiess the heartless Chicago
Tribune writes: sit viii hr imposzi-
bic TO print your poem abo u: the
: roses true and the vio!ets blue that
, bloom i'll the grassy dell, aud the lit
p tie birds that sweetest words OF love
t in their chirpings tell. We have {
large limo Of dell and blcohird poetry
:, on hand this spring that was carried
over from last year.
Kansas claims iormer citizen in
. President Arthur. He went 20 Loay
Ienworth in 1857 intending to locate,
/ bought some town lots and lived in
Kansas about mouth. Then he re-
e turned to The more settled lie d
New York.
The New York Star wants Tai
- mage 10 tel! where Emersan has gahe
The question reminds that sheet tha
Father Taylor. the Did sietholils
: preacher Il Boston. once said 'Scn'
u Emerson II he'll! Why, ha acni,
alter the ci,nste ami turn th- tid,. d
o emigFsi.a 'hat way"
K Fear Vi ;'ting arrested il, e,'nHec'i.'
with 'he murder of Lord Frederic
- CaYenii.h and Burke Is nsw so gen
n eral ia IgeiaDd Jht I'll l.,,s,u,r
! travelling Un;side ni their districts at
applying to the police fos passport,
oi Many emigrants leaving the Sonth {
'' Ireland for America resort to th
same course.
The war department has iss"a
an order setting forth the sehome {
= competition ior prizes intsndea I
Is raise the standard If marksmqnahip {
'h both officers and men.
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!. Geo. w. Hume and wife are d
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