Washington standard. [volume] (Olympia, Wash. Territory) 1860-1921, 1884-04-11

From gentleman living in NJ
hawk, says the Eugene JoUWdl, we
leann that the ANAL fruit, snch as
! piums, peaches, blackbcriies, exc.
are very badly winter-killed. The
General opinion Is that the fruit
/ crop of the Willamette Valley WI
be short the coming S. a.on.
Buds are bursiin! on fruit trees,
wild fiowering plants and silrubbery
aie baking into boom. Spring is
! further advanced now BIZ a mo: t.
than it was at the same time LIST
year, says the Hillsboio L,d,elen,llnt
Wheat was but little damaged ty
the freeze and will make good
crop.
"Coia" is the name of another
little town of big aspirations jast
making its importance known to the
void, and is situated ON what is
known to old settlers as Shelton's
Point, Puget Sound. This is under
stood to be the Sound terminus Of
the railroad now in progress of con-
struction from Skookum Bay to
Gray's Harbor by the Commercial
Mill Il Lumber COMPANY o. Seattle.
Writing from Sumner, to the Taco
! ma Ledger, correspondent says: Ru-
NOR mentions an improvem mt that
we do not need at all, and that is q
saloon. The people are unit
against this business, and propose
to stand shoulder to shoulder. We
have been talking temperance, and
any attempt to put saloon within
our limits will be met with the most
determined opposition. We intend
to fight for temperance as well as
talk. Let the man who proposes to
introduce this evil in our midst rest
assured that he will have hard row
to hCe.
DR.. N. G.. Blalock, of Walla
Walla, says the journal, entered
into contract, Thursday, with A.
Ii johnson, the leading butcher of
Portland, by which the Doctor binds
himself to p;ant 800 acres of the
Wasco county rancho. situated near
Blalock's landing, and deliver the
same over to MIR. johnson for the
purpose of fattening his cattle, the
corn, when turned over, TO be in
shock. DR.. Blalock has now eighty
horses at work breaking the land,
the contract specifying that the crop
must be in by May. Mr.. johnson
will use the corn to fatten drove
of 1000 steers, as many hogs, and
large band of sheep, when the
grass on the range gives out next
fall and winter.
SHERMAN's WRArH.-A friend of
his is reported to have said to him
one day, " General. if it were not
that your wife is Catholic, nothing
could keep you out of the White
House" He turned around, livid
with suppressed rage, and bringing
his old iron fist down on the desk
before him exclaimed in thunder
tones: The you say Yes,
and if it were not that my wife is a
Catholic, and has been placarded
all over the country on account of it,
would never accept ths Office either.
1t may become necessary to show
these political dudes that 1 can get
there just as well with a Catholic
wife as if she were Methodist.
If they bother me much more will
show the - whelps what I can do.
The same dumbheads and scandal
mongers called me crazy after Shiloh,
aud predicted that 1 would get used
up between Atlanta and the sea; but
| got there, - them "
CONTEMPLATING business trip to the
East. next month, and knowing z. that it
takes money TO ira rel. and as a means of
making the nee ,ssary raise. II. {. Van
Eprs offers nearly his entire stock of