, 1888-11-15

will be ready for educational work
by July.i i
A telephone line is being put up
from Olympia to Gray's Harbor. 1t
will pay good interest on the in
vestmeat. 1t will be the only means
of rapid communication for the
places reached from Olympia.
The entire list of congressman In
New York city are Tammany men,
which Is largely accounted for by the
fact that the organization has not
been properly taken care of in the
postoffice and custom house.
Mr. Bueey, president of the Terri
torial Horticultural Association,
thinks that the climate of Puget
Sound is more favorable for fruit
growing than that Of the Willamette
Valley. Less liable to frosts
Mrs Lucy A. Switzer, of eastern
Washington, obtained from the an
nual convention of the National
Woman's Christian Temperance I'm
ion. at New York, an appropriation
of $4,000 for work in Washington,
Idaho, Montana; Wyoming and New
Mexico.
The greatest national debt among
the nations of the globe is borne by
! France 1t is about SC, ,250.000,000.
4 Russia comes next with S3,600,G0O,-
600; then England with S3,560,0OO,-
COO; Austro- Hungary, with g, 1885,
600, 900; Italy, with S2,225, ,000,000;
Spain. with 1,207, 100000 and Prus--
sia, with S1,00O,000,000. London
Standard
Tim Campbell, the Dogberry of the
house of representatives, has been
defeated for re election by the Tam
many managers. He will be greatly
missed in the resorts of Washington.
Campbell is the man who met the re-
fusai of President Cleveland to grant
some favor because it would be I'M
constitutional with the remark. "Oh,
come off. now, Mr.. President; the
constitution ought not to stand be-
tween friends"
7 Postmaster General Dickinson is
another man badly hurt. He has
been absolutely certain of the presi-
, dents election, and leased his
Washington residence for three
years. Up to the very last moment
be insisted that Michigan would go
democratic, and when the returns
showed republican gains in the north
ern part of the state. he wired his
headquarters t. keep up their cour-
age, Tor the northern peninsula
would redeem his promise,
The author of that oft-repeated
quotation, Last but rot least" little
dreamed of its application to the de-
velopment Of the last, vitally inn
portant town sites oh American soil,
yet he last and coming great city of
the west, is this peninsular city of
Astoria on the Columbia. 1t is lit
orally In its water surroundings and
! its natural location, the New York
city of the west and the city of As
toria presents a similarity in ships
ping import, with its nearness to the
sea, with that of Americas great city,
New York.-Astoria Pioneer.
Tie Singapore Free Press of the
10Th ult. sayss Captains of the in,
coming steamers from China report
the prevalence of the most remarka-
bic weather in the China sea- The
weather is described as a monoto-
nous calm, the sea being covered
with thick, tilmy slime, with fish
mostly all on the top of the water.
Coming events cast their shadows
before" and this strange calm may
be the forefunner of such storms as
occurred last Year and the year be-
fore, which about this time of the
year swallowed up the Wasp and the
Unebi Kan.
The Erie. tPa-) district now repre-
sented by VIM. L. Scott has gone re.
publican, although that gentleman
was confident his successor would be
a democrat. He would have been
beaten himself il he had been a can
didate, and says the tariff men sub
scribed S35, 600 for that especial pur-
pose. One reason he gave for not &C
ceptihg domination Is that he
would have been compelled to fight
those with their own weapons, and
did not want tho voters In the dis
trict corrupted. Scott is ttiore broken
up than any Of the democratic lead
ers by the defeat, for not only was he
confident of winning. but he had
been the Presidents nearest friend
and largely responsible for the tariff
reform message of 1887. He was the
onl y one 0 t the democratic leaders In
the house who was permitted TO read
the document before it was sent to
congress.
| A Suns Washington special says:
Speculation as to Harrison's cabinet
is the main consideration of present
Importance. Regarding the probabil-
ity of Harrison calling Blaine to the
head of the cabinet there is great di
yer sity of opinion among Republi
cans here; but the almost unanimous
wish and hope is that Blaine may be
let severely alone. Even his admirers
say the new administration would
have better chance without Blaine
than with him. Fully dozen cabi-
net states have deem promulgated
here to-day. Taken together they
contain pretty nearly every Republi-
can name of prominence in the
country. Perhaps the only one of
the names that is certain to be found
in the final list is the name of Col.
John G. New of Indiana, who is re-
garded rs the coming secretary of
the treasury. Almost without doubt
Harrison will put some Indiana man
in the cabinet; and Col. New is the
first and only man anyone thinks Of
His long and large experience in the
treasury suggests the appropriateness
of placing him at the head OF the de-
partment John Sherman is also