Year: 1879

T8Y your lock after turning the
key.


WHEN man is in liquor he is apt
to lick her.


The United States District Court
convened at Steilacoom Monday.


THERE is to be no revival effort of
the united churches this season.


RAIN, snow and sunshine have con-
spired to fill the weather programme
of the week.


The Territorial University has one
hundred and thirty-two scholars in
attendance.


PEDDLERs are taking our town.
Just as if we had any money, SO
soon after the holidays!


CAPT. Starr intends to build new
steamer early in the spring, for SER
vice on the lower Sound route.


A SHIPMENT of oysters left by the
Monday morning train, for Portland, =,
the first since the ice blockade.


The wood and bark business is
one of the important interests of
Olympia at the present time.


A REVIVAL in the oyster business is
looked for by the company, now
that shipping facilities are once
more in order.


WITH all the dreariness of the
season, there is an unmistakable
comfort in being able to see green
valleys and hills as soon as the snow
has melted.


IT should be borne in mind that
the interim between two extremes of
temperature is a very critical time in
the general health of those who are
constitutioually subject to any all
ment.


WONDER how the dead Merchant
Prince of New York will rise from
his grave on the resurrection morn,
when he has neither grave nor
body? Paul evidently.did not an
ticipate such dilemma.


THE Improved Order of Red Men
in Oregon, is made up of white men;
a facetious individual in this place
says an improved red man in this
Territory is a dead Indian.


SINCE receiving its new layer of
gravel, Fourth street, from its in
tersection with Main to the East
Olympia Bridge, issecond to none in
our city. Olympia is essentially the
city of good streets and sidewalks.


UNTIL we receive further returns,
Pierce county is entitled to the
championship for the good order
and law-abiding conduct of her citi-
zens. The District court convened
in Steilacoom Monday, but there are
only thirteen cases on tho calendar
and about half of these merely con-
firmations of sale.


The ultimate result of the week
of prayer, in many places, will, un-
doubtedly be continuation of even
ing meetings, for some time to come.
For many years, since the founding
of the Evangelical Alliance, many
of the most fruitful revivals, the
world over, have owed their immedi-
ate inception to the New Year week
of prayer.


The little boy and girl, Rufus and
May, children of the late Harry and
Carrie Clark, took their departure
by the Saturday morning train for
Baltimore, Nd, where they have
relatives living. The young travel
ers have long journey before them,
but arrangements have been made
for them to be under the charge OF
careful protectors.


ApRopos to the great prayer and re-
vival meetings that are now engag-
ing the attention of Christians, both
east and west, it may be stated that
in the city of Cincinnati, three opera
houses, four theaters and seven
dance halls are open every evening.


OCEANS" of mail-bags flooded the
Post-office Monday evening, the first
except one containing letters, that
has been received since the ice
blockade. Everybody was made
happy by being the recipient of /,