, 1882-01-21
LOCAL JQTrIE0.


friends tender sympathy.
soldier was taken below last night to serve
out term Of years for desertion.
The city is thronged with country people
who are looking happy and oontensed.
All the eastern papers say tha, New Years
calls are gradually passing ont of vogue
Robt. Francis vent to ColiYlle last night.
he formerly clerked in the freight depot here
NJ Ames picked up the glittering meteor
that fell frUm the police constellation on Sat
urday.
Cod still smiles upon Us, AMI his face is
almost discenable in the lovely weather we
are having.
Have you seen Jene Jessie. He is Just
down from Montana and reports nice weather
in that region.
| The Grand Army ''camp fre" tonight at
Masonic Hall. Pork, beans and black coffee.
All friends are invited.
Mr. league, formerly day telegraph operator
at this depot, went to Whitman this morning
! to bdhc Sutrsc oi lKiat statlOE-
The last day of the week, the last day of the
month and the last day of the year all come
together again in 1887 as they did in 1881.
A number of men started this mOrning for
Sprague, on the n. p. railroad, where they
will engage in general mercantile business.
A big congregation of wagons was noticed
yesterday evening pronenading up Main street
for one Of our agricultural implement dealers.
Brick Pomeroy denies that he has failed as
reported, and writes to the n. Y. San that he
has Just risen from sick bed after six weeks
illness.
We understand that John Stahl is to close
out his wholesale liquor business. The poor
man has i'll health and the community wishes
him life like Methusela had.
Grand Army camp fire, Wednesday at s
| O'Clock P. n. Families and friends of com
rades participating. Refreshments ts-baeon,
| beans, coffee and hard bread.
After every country paper on the Pacific
coast has reviewed the report Of Gen. Miles. |
| the old fossil Of the Oreyo',idn has discovered
the document and comments on it in his last |
issue.
Property bought few years back in this |
city for almost a song is now very valuable, |
and Just rs good chances for the investment of !
capital are offered to-day As there was offered |
FIVE years ago
A man out at Weston put lot of powder in !
the bottom of his stove pipe hue, and then |
climbed up on the house and looked down the |
chimney to Zee if it was going ~ act. 1t acted |
Just at that moment
PROF. Panl Boulon will in few days startle |
the citizens Of this place with q programme
for musical entertainment, both vocal and |
Instrumental, such as has never before been |
presented to this people
Plans have been drawn in this city for a
store 40 by 100 feet for Mr.. Powell, of Waits
burg This building is 10 be erected in the
city named in the course Of the following six
months. Thus We grow.
The AsicridR complains that it sometimes |
does not receive Walla Walla paper for a
week at time. So far as the STATESMAN Is |
concerned it has more regular or Selcome
exchange than the Astorian.
The well known architect T. P. Allen, is |
gettirg up the plans and Specifications for a |
two-sto1y brick residence ON Park street next |
To Judge Whitman for our townsman Chris. |
Meyer. Let the good work go on.
The number of wagons and buggies sold in |
this city is astonishing, and any one who will |
take the pains to inquire of an agricultural |
implement dealer, will be astonished at the |
number they claim to have sold in the last |
year
The weather has not interrupted work on |
the line OF the n p railroad this winter. |
Nearly 5000 men are employed in construction |
| on that line. About fifteen miles of road Is |
graded beyond lake Pend d'Oreille. Let the
good work go on.
| A year OF two ago in this city merchants
never thought of free delivery seriously. But
now there is not business house that does not
deliver. and some of their wagons compare IA
vorably with the same kind Of vehicles used in
much more pretentious cities.
| J. s. Kinzie is hobbling around the streets
! on = pair of sticks called crutches He is
| thankful, however, for life. He is one of the
! fellows that done low and lofty tumbling on
| the treacherous seaffolding at Texas Ferry
! few days ago.
No man can dispute the fact that Walla
/ Walla IS improving in all ways. And a notice
cannot help but be taken of the amount of
wares sold to farmers by agricultural imple-
! ment dealers That is where 4 record is kept
/ Of our advancement that is indisputable.
| For charitable purpose little petition
was circulated Wednesday in this city, and as
usual was responded to promptly by the saloon
keepers, and in a manner that proved them to
be as liberal rs the most liberal and deserving
of special mention on account Of their charita-
bic dispositions.
Emil Sanderson is going TO open fish market
and general huxter shop establishment in this
city soon We are very much in need of such
place, and We bespeak for Emil grand sue
cess in this business. He will give Us fish,
eggs and butter fresh as car be procured TO
in, boy, aad do 4 favor to the community
Has our readers ever noticed that the lead
iuy newspaper Of the northwest ~ that Is
branded the Daiiy OrygOniaa, is but feeble
minded rehash Of the kilograms it contains:
Well, that is a fact. And its best written
articles have been from the pen OF patent
medicine nan, who occupies more space than
the newsy q local editor.
One of the anomalies Of our climate is that
while the glare Of the sun at nocn-day scarcely
disperses the frosts Of night, the warm chinook
wind meIts IT Ike july sun. This wind l.
the mozt pleasing feature OF the climate ana
exactly reverses the old fable Of the Sun and
Wind. and makes our territory as mid as
Southern Illinois
We were allowed to see the contents Of a
letter from Ed. Nichols to-day, dated Tomb
stone. Arizona, January lst. VIII Hubbard
is there. A man a day dead on the streets, Is
no uncommon thing The day I'd arrived