The Dalles daily chronicle. [volume] (The Dalles, Or.) 1890-1948, 1891-07-31
LOCAL RREvITIEs.

Mr. w. b. Hayden a prominent mer-
chant of Centerville, Wash, is in the
city.
What is the difference between sill
yer king and gold bug? Will some
body answer.
Messrs P. P. Underwood and j. r.
Underhill of Boyd, paid the CHNoNICLE
office welcome visit today.
Mr.. and Mrs J. H. Sherar are now on
the way to Boston. A private commun-
ication to the editor informs us that
they were at Billings, Mont, on the 2Sth
inst, where they were delayed on ac-
count of wash out
DIR. Henry T. Helmbold, the famous
patent medicine ''buchu'' man, who is
said to have piled up fortune OF ten
millions is at present an inmate of the
insane asylum at Trenton, N. j., and is
pronounced by his physicians to be
hopelessly insane.
A body of anarchists are said to exist
in the neighborhood of Glenwood, Wash.
Lately a settler refused to join their
secret order and few days ago he dis
covered that his newly stacked hay had
been profusely. sprinkled with Paris
green.
There are eight coal beavers at the
shops, every man of whom is as mad as
wet hen. They were taken up the
track yesterday to shovel sand at $3.50
o'clock and had to walk back, without
supper, a distance of nearly ten miles.
They did not arrive here till half past
ten O'Clock last night. Hinc lilac lac
rimGe.
Salem has a curiosity in the shape of
man who does not want office. His
name is T. B. Wait and having been ap-
, pointed as gate keeper for the state fair,
without his knowledge, here is what he
has to say about it: sit having been
published that was appointed gate
keeper for the state fair, / wish to
say that / was never an applicant, and
now most respectfully decline in favor
of Governor Pennoyer or Ex-Governor
Moody"
We caAnot truthfully say that the ex-
cursion last night was success, that is,
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faction of those who participated in it.
Many of the young people wanted to
dance, and it was announced that they
would be accommodated in this respect,
yet there was no accommodation, or at
least none that they themselves thought
adequate. How many were on board we
know not but we judge there were suffi-
80 l.fk
DaIles about 9 clock and returned lit
tie after twelve.
At the meeting held at Silver Lake,
Pa, a few days ago in honor of the
memory of the late Hon. Sam Randall,
Governor Campbell Of Ohio was present
and is reported to have announced that
Hon. Jerry Simpson (Sockless jerry
and Senator PETER would both canvass
Ohio, during the present campaign, in
the interest of the democratic ticket.
He said, ''The alliance party is very
strong with us now, (meaning in Ohio
and they are hand in hand with the
democrats. They will nominate no
ticket this year.
The Irish as a class are not particu-
larly distinguished for pun making but
one of them got off pun in Graham's
restaurant the other day that was neat
enough to be put on record. The con-
versation between Graham and the
Irishman somehow turned on girls elop-
ing with their sweethearts in order to
get married, when the Irishmen said,
seriously; "Do you know Graham if
were keeping a restaurant, like you, ]
., could stop this tendency in every girl
that is fed in my shop. Tell me how
you. would do it "said Graham. why
said Pat I'd feed them on c4ntaioupe
and then they cant-elope."
The Oregon Bridge company which
has 1.-The contract for laying the supply
pipe from the new reservoir.to ,Mesplie's
has now thirty six men engaged in max
ing the excavation The company COM
: tmenced at the receiving bason and has
now completed as far as the fume, a
distance of nearly mile. Possibly the
deepest excavation. on the whole route
has already been made. Some of that
completed is eleven feet below the sur.
face. This depth was. necessary to Sc.
cure suitable grade for the pipe. It il
perhaps we'll known that the company
doing the work brought no men with
them, and all of the thirty-s employees
were picked up in The Dalles. For this
admirable foresight the thanks iof the
community is due to the water com.
mission,
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