Year: 1879

One by one, the mills of the lower
Sound are starting into operation.


TYPHOID fever is raging to some
extent in Portland and vicinity.


IFyou are conscious OF being right,
keep straight ahead; turn neither to
the right nor the left.


The Hutchinson Family gave o
concert in Salem, Tuesday, for the
benefit of the poor of that city.


HARVEST will be over, shortly, and
then our business men may look for
more people from the country to
parade our streets.


A FOREIGN market for all kinds of
produce is what the Pacific coast
stands most in need of for the next
twelve months to come.


A FEW more cisterns of a capacity
equal to that now undergoing repairs,
would pc a substantial safeguard to
our city in almost any emergency.


WArERMELoNs have appeared in
town, but we fear them not. They
cannot staff the slightest Fremont
tory symptoms of the asue, SO much
dreaded in confirmed melon collie
towns.


The steamer Vide Vest brought
down full load of new wheat from
Walla- Walla to Portland, on Mon
day last. This evidences that the
ball has been set in motion pretty
vigorously.


REV. David Thomas and wife have
united themselves with the Presby-
terian denomination, and been as
signed to the new charge at Ellens-
burg, in Klickitat county. They
will depart in about ten days for
their new field of labor.


As THE time for the California
election draws near, those business
men who imagine they can see which
way the scales are going to turn ale
already beginning to make investi-
ments, and those who ought to know,
assert that the stringency of the
times in the larger California towns
has reached its lowest ebb.


A GREAT mystery has lately been
A discerning chap asserts
that since there are now four thou
sand postmistresses in the United
States, that fact, alone, sufficiently
explains the detention and miscarry-
ing of postal cards. This is pretty
rough on lady incumbents, but then
we suppose the fellow is right.


SAN Francisco papers state that,
Notwithstanding all the efforts to
bring about retrenchment in public
affairs, unwarranted amounts are be-
ing expended in fitting up the May
or's office in the west wing of the
New City Hall. One piece of de-
coration alone will cost fifteen hun
dred dollars. The general charac-
ter of the work now in progress, par
takes more of the palatial style than
anything else, and must involve the
expenditure of several hundred
thousand dollars.


The Portland papers rather cour-
teously advise letter-writers from
abroad to write the street and num-
ber upon the mail matter sent to that
city after the first of October so the
carriers will not be inconveniced by
defective addresses. The suggestion
is a good one and we follow suit by
reminding our correspondents that
on and after January 1890, they will
save our carriers good deal of vexa-
ton by including the street and
number in the address upon the let
ters sent to our ambitious city.


A LETTER from Mr.. Titus, formerly
of this place, does not use the Ian
guage of au enthusiast in comment
ing upon the grasshopper district.
He is working in n sash and door
factory at Dayton, at 81 per day,
and says he is contented; but that
there are hundreds of tradssmen
who would be glad to get one-fourth
that rate of daily wages, who find
nothing to do. The true situation
will be better understood in the
Fall, When the swallows home