, 1882-12-15
From Tuesdays Daily.

From luesnNy Uhiiys
Snow.
THERE was little splitting" of snow
among our rain today.
The Nanaimo coal mine is flooded
with water causing much delay to ship
ping.
Go to Barthrop's for picture mould
ings, bracket work, etc. See card else
where.
SCHOOLS in Olympia are closed till
after the holidays, on account of the
prevalence of diphtheria.
ASEATrIE exchange warns everybody
against a tall, square shouldered, oily
tongued blk named Curtis.
Mr.. Thos. Drummond has gone to
Dungeness to do the finishing plaster
work on A. u. Davis new house.
SUCH weather rs we are now having
suggests that perhaps Oregon's share
was labelled wrong and sent here by
mistake.
CITY Taxes 4! Go right straight and
pay up, and then you'll escape the ten
per cent penalty. Read what the City
Treasurer says elsewhere.
WE have received from our friend, L.
G. VanEpps, of Olympia, spicy holiday
publication entitled: olympia Christ
neas Bells. It's use is to advertise his
large stock of holiday goods.
CURIOSITY Donald McLnnes, jr, of
Sequim, recently killed fat COW for
beef, and found that she had an unborn
calf with two heads. Had the animals
life been spared the little munstrosity
might have turned out a prize for Bar
mum.
The Northern Pacific has declared a
dividend Of Ill per cent. on preferred
stock, payable January 18th, in obhga-
tions of the company bearing 6 per cent.
interest and having FIVE years to run.
Transfer books close December 9th.
AN exchange learns that B. N. L..
Davis, the Skagit hop grower, who raised
1900 lbs. of hops on nineteen acres of
land this year, finally sold his crop for
$1.05 per pound, realizing about $44,-
900 therefor instead of the $4,000 hewas
credited with some weeks ago. Who
says it don't pay to raise hops!
A CONTEST has been before the land
officers at Olympia, between Charles By
water and the representatives of persons
in the East. Bywater clames tract of
land near Seattle as preemption and
the eastern parties have attempted to
locate a piece of Porterfield scrip on the
tract. Thus far the rulings of the local
officers have gone to show that the pre-
emption claimant has the bOtter case.
AND now comes the much abused
cockroach and establishes his claim to
priority. A bed OF these fellows has
been discovered in Colorado, in a STRAIT
um of pre-Adamite fossils. The cock
roach is an omniprescnt cuss-that is,
in boarding houses and on steamboats,
where he takes possessioe with an air of
proprietOrship and tenacity of purpose
worthy of better cause. No power on
earth Cal. oust him where once he takes
a pre-emption. He has the constitution
of mule and the stomach of buzzard
Hesbears about the same relation to in
sects that the goat does to animals. He
will make a meal off of anything from a
hunk Of rotten cheese to lady's spring
bonnet He used to be despised, but
now, since his right of priority is thus
authenticated, we take off our hat to him
in carefully simulated reverence. 1t is
probable that the pre-Adamite fossils re-
ferred to consisted of an eating house
where the boarders were rash enough to
contend for exclusive possession, and
the determination of the reaches to hang
on like "grim death" was turned to a
CHASTITY reality.