Year: 1878

the locomotive.


"Ir looks like rain" is an ex-
pressiou that has become fully
s,ereotyped during the day.


COOP sound FIR wood is now selling
in town at So so per cord. A good
time to complete the Winters store.
RussrA has recently purchased
four large steamers now in process
of fconstruction by American builders.
The public debt of Oregon is over
six hundred thousand dollars; not so
nice to be full grown State after
all.


ANOTHER platform car has been
housed to be used especially as a
Winter, or rough-weather freight
car.


The North Pacific and Aida have
taken the place OF the Annie Ste,caH
and Otter on the lower Sound steam
boat route.


Our Tumwater friends are taking
steps to reorgarize their Lodge of
Good Templars on Tuesday, the 5th
of the coming month.
A FELT horseshoe is one of the
lates inventions, and yet it does not
prevent the horses shoe from being
sometimes seriously felt.
The lovers of the truly bea utiful
should rise early enough these fine
mornings and see the sun come up
from behind old Rainier.
WHAT is the matter with the Seat
co Coal Company? A large demand
| exists in town and there is no adequ-
ate supply to respond to it.
EMINENT electricians give it as
their opinion that the principal
cities of the world will be electrically
lighted within the next Eve years. 3
IT will be welcome announce
mens to the travelling public that the
town authorities have commenced
once more to gravel the upper part
| of Main Street.


ACCORDING to the New York Herald,
the indications of business prosperity
in that city bespsak correspond
ingly happy outlook throughout the
whole country.


BETTING on the coming election is
rampant. Hats, full suits Of clothes
and oyster suppers, with all the la
test variations thrown in, are the
principal considerations.
A SMALL docket as yet awaits the
next term of court in this place.
As rule, most kinds of feuds are
lost sight of and forgotten during a
lively political campaign.
Wlru the wind veering from the
north toward the west, and much
humidity in the air, there is hope
full prospect that the late first grip
OF Jack Frost has been broken.


IT was long ago predicted that
Washington Street would become
the principal thoroughfare in Olym-
pia. The outlook, at present, is
certainly not antagonistic to the pre-
diction.


SOME of the farmers in this county,
who live in exposed localities, are
taking the precaution to protect their
| flocks from the prospective incursions
| of panthers during the tedious Win
ter months that are to come.
COMMISSIONER Williamson, of the
| General Land Office, puts forth the
some~ hat paradoxical statement that
the alleged hard times of the past
two or three years have been de-
cided benefit, rather than detriment,
to the country.


THERE is u renewed desire among
everybody directly or indirectly in
teres.ed to have the highway leading
from town TO the cemeteries put in q
substantial and abiding condition
before the rains and frosts Of Winter
render such work impracticable.
Soxx idea Of the desirable make
up Of our streets might be conveyed
to stranger by the fact that not
withsianding the incessant rains up
to several days ago, our principal
throughiares are now comparatively