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VOL. XIX.--NO. 21.
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rfies. Wo will'not hereafter deviate from
tins rule.
Local and News Brevities.
THE weather is still doubtful.
CAPT. J. J. Gilbert- will not com
mence work till the first of June.
THE clam-canning establishment at
Arcadia, is doing a prosperous busi
ness.
MR. John Cunningham, the oracle
on such topics, says the fruit was
' not injured by the late frost.
THE people of Tumwater find it
uphill business to keep the gold ex
citement above low-water mark.
TROY Dye, the man who planned
the murder cf Tullis, near Sacramen
to, has become a raving maniac.
THE people of Oregon City alone,
have subscribed $25,000 in aid of
the Springfield and Oregon City
railroad.
THE steamer Dakota arrived at the
estside wharf at 9 o'clock Satur
day morning. She left Sunday
morning at 3 o'clock.
VEGETABLE raisers in this vicinity
aro vigorously at work preparing
their lands for early, and we hope,
abundant crops.
APRIL has, BO far, nearly kept
pace with March in its vaiiety of
wcathei, having successively brought
us rain, snow, hail, frost aud sleet,
with a tolerable amount of sunshine.
THE Oregon Steam Navigation
Company have in contemplation
the shortening of the time now re
quired to make the trip between
Portland and Walla-walla. It is
thought that the time can be re
duced twenty-four hours.
THE upper bridge at Tumwater
has been undergoing a thorough
overhauling and repairing, und is
now in a safe condition for the
heaviest loads. Mr. Hugh Cornell
had charge of the work, and he has
aoquitted himself in a most commend
able manner.
THE Portland papers are begin
ning to admit that among passen
gers who come to Astoria, many
" take the road to Puget Sound."
So they do not all settle in Oregon,
full well, that we have, in
many respects, superior inducements
to offer them.
THE Garlinville Democrat of March
15th, contains the official report
rendered by the Board of Supervis
ors in reference to the expenses in
curred by Daniel Delany in coming
to this place to arrest the supposed
G. H. Holliday. The whole thing
foots up just $975, and the officials of
Macaupin county are not disposed
to pay it without further explanation
from Mr. Delany.
THE Union Academy Club beat the
Olympia boys at the match game of
bap® ball, on the Public Square,
this morning, by a score of 15 to 14.
On the 9th inning a tie of 13
to 13, showing that the clubs were
quite evenly matched. The next
inning, to deoide the game, resulted
in a triumph of the East Olympians,
but by BO small a score that numer
ous contests will doubtless result for
I the championship.
PORTLAND people are afflicted with
a good deal of Bickness.
CHERUY-trees are putting on their
cheerful garments of white.
Mn. M. Z. Goodell, of Montesano
is in town, on a business visit.
OPEN temperance meetings are
still largely attended in Portland.
FOR days together, our wharves
have been thronged by Chineßo fish*
ermen.
THE birds are improvident. They
are seriously disturbing the cheiry
blossoms. ■
WE had made up our mind to say
" more hew goods," but that does
not express it.
THE last man arrested on suspicion
of having murdered Mrs. Hager is
Louis Graichen.
MEATS and brendstuffs are still go
ing up in price throughout England.
Let our farmers look ready for mar
kets.
VIOLET and blue are the favorite
shades; in July and August, the fa
vorite shade will doubtless be the
shade of a tree.
THE man who cannot afford to buy
his wife a new calico dress every
month, at present prices, deserves a
curtain lecture every night.
THE first number of a new paper,
to be called the " North Pacific Rural
Prens," will be issued at Portland on
the sth inst., under the editorial con
trol of W. W. Baker.
THE murderers' carnival is not yet
ended. A family of four persons
was recently cut to pieces by an axe
in the hands of some unknown per
son near San Jose, California. '
IT may be interesting to our
theutre-going friends to know that
the star actress, Hose Eylinge, will
perform in this city on Monday, the
2lßt inst.
THERE is to be a meeting of the
Pilot Commissioners of the Colum
bia river and bar at Kalama, on the
15th of April, for the transaction of
important business.
Ma. Losh Harker returned, last
night, from a brief visit to the At
lantic States, well satisfied to make
this blooming, free-and-easy country,
his future home.
MR. E. N. Ouimette has returned
from a flying visit to Portland and
reports business in that city usually
brisk in the wholesalo line, but very
dull in the retail trade.
THE " White Stocking Croquet
Club" has been organized by the lit
erary young ladies of Portland. We
thought white stockings were not so
much worn now-a-days.
THE most manifest change in the
weather is a lowering of the temper
ature to the extent that calls into
agreeable requisition the use of*over
coats and crackling fires.
THE Sunday Schools of Seattle are
talking of uniting for a grand May
day excursion. It is high time for
our Sunday Schools to be up and
doing in this pleasant work.
According to late Portland papers,
there is to be a large immigration,
during the Summer, to Oregon
" and Washington Territory." It
used to be all Oregon and no Wash
ington.
WHEN will ferveut lovers learn to
adjust the parlor light so their spas
modic billing and cooing will not be
reproduced on the front window cur
tains in shapely defined shadows
that can bo seen across the street ?
QUITE an exciting scene transpired
at the Methodist church, last even
ing, a few minutes before the com
mencement of service. One of tho
large' chandeliers, containing six
burners, together with their globes
and chimneys, fell with a crash t®
the floor. The ignited oil spread in
all directions, and but for the timely
efforts 01 the few who w<?re in the
church at the time, a general con
flagration would have ensued.
OLYMPIA, WASHINGTON TERRITORY. FRIDAY, APRIL 11, 1879.
MR. T. G. Lowe returned, by the
cars, last evening, from a business
trip to San Francisco.
PARISIAN bonnet-makers now trim
their work with lizards, flies, minia
ture mice, birds and snakes.
A NEW steamer is now building in
Baltimore to take the place of ifee
ShubricJc, as lighthouse tender.
AN exchange exultantly remarks
that Little Rhody is solid for 1880.
She isn't large enough to divide;
and if she did, it would take a good
many of her halves to make one
whole.
THE foolish man foldeth his hands
and Baith, " There is no trade, why
should I advertise ?" But the wise
man is not so. He whoopeth it up
in the newspaper and draweth cus
tomers from afar off.
IT may be of interest to every
body to know that Wells, Fargo &
Co., have made a reduction of from
twenty to fifty per cent, on all pack
ages passing through their office.
On all small packages, twenty-fiwv
cents will be charged. A
WHILE dry-goods are at thqir pwj
ent ebb-tide prices, gentlemen wffr
do well to bear in mind that now is
a good time to make their lady
friends tony high-priced birth-day
presents. It is all well enough, only
such pleasant anniversaries do not
come too often.
TRICHINA has again appeared in
pork, and it is hoped by some mod
ern philanthropists that this will
settle the Chinese question in an
unexpected manner. John's partial
ity for pork is well known, and this
would be a " means" with which
nobody could find fault.
THAT was rather hard on calico,
when a lady lriend, and one of our
leaders of fashion, declared that if
rival merchants continued to in
crease the number yards of that
article for a dollar, a calico dress
would soon get to be something not
to be proud of, especially, when a
lady could say that her dress cost
only four bits.
THERE is a prospect that Indian
Territory, heretofore sacred to the
tread of the southwestern aborigin
als, will be thrown open to indis
criminate settlement. It is thought
that a vigorous effort will be made
to procure the passage of a bill,
during the present session of Con
gress, to legalize the taking of land
claims by emigrants.
THE depression in commerce and
agriculture is now so serious a thing
in England, that prominent mem
bers of Parliament are taking the
matter in hand. Let them call their
troops home from Afghaniston and
the Zulu country, mind their legiti
mate home offaip, and they will have
no occasion to deplore the hard times
that now threaten them.
NEGROES aA leaving northern
Louisiana by the thousand.
MADAM Bonaparte died in Balti
more on Friday, the 4th inst.
ROMAN & Co, publishers and book
sellers, San Francisco, have made an
assignment to their creditors.
A LODGE of Odd Fellows is lo be
instituted at Ellensburg, Kittitass
valley, on Tuesday next, by Mr. John
M. Swan, Grand Master of that Or
der.
OUR town is full of eager-eyed
strangers, admiring our beautiful
surroundings.
THE opening of drygoods boxes re
minds one of the prosperous days
that were.
THE colored clergymen, teachers
and social directors -of Louisiana,
have issued a call for a convention to
be held in New Orleans on the 17th
of April, for the purpose of consid
ering the condition of their race in
that State. The movement, it is
thought, has something to do with
the recent large exodus of colored
people from the South.
mPKiL showers.
BAIN, hail and sleet.
vnBETTE says bis hats are going
off like hot cakes.
A NEW gold excitement has sprung
u{|at Salmon Falls.
FEBT building birds are halting
between two opinions.
Hiss Bunnell opened the Spring
anil Summer term of a district school
infWest Olympia, Monday.
THE steamer North Pacific came
upj Sunday, and took away a large
number of sheep for Victoria.
THE steamer Blakely paid this har
baia flying visit Monday night, in the
interest of our logging camps.
PHBINO the greater part of the
wMjk, the sun has been playing hide
ani-seek among the flying clouds.
The steamer Capital, performed ef
ficient service, last Monday, in bring
ing a large quantity of freight from
th«Westside wharf.
ACCORDING to the Salem Mercury,
tlMpw is an effort in thai city to have
Pr*f. Qatch removed from the Pres
idency of Willamette University, and
Refr. Mr. Tower substituted.
MB. Urban E. Hicks, of the Port
land Evening Telegram was in town
thj| week and made us a friendly call
014 Olympians will remember Mr.
Hups as one of our old-time citizens.
(ItJiTK a hard frost, accompanied
wi|kt ice of considerable thickness,
visAed us Monday night. Whether
ausbf the smaller fruits, now in blos
sop, are injured, remains to be seen,
t fb fishing season has commenced
at pe lower Columbia, and business
>n oat line is said to be starting out
in fjpively manner, a fact worthy of
tbdperious attention of our Sound
are out, containing pre
mium list, programme and general
regulations of the nineteenth annual
fair of the Oregon State. The time
for the fair has not yet been decided
upon by the officers.
THE editor of the Oregonian tells
his gentle Annie that he thinks his
overcoat will last till the springtime
cometh. We have lost ours alto
gether. Somebody gently lifted it
off the pin in the ball, and we have
not seen it since.
MESSRS. L. Quitsch and William
Gholson left last Monday for the
KittitaßS where their quartz ledge is
situated. They expect to do a good
deal of work there during the Sum
mer, and we wish them all possible
good fortune. We believe they go,
this time, by way of The Dslles.
A GOOD deal is being written and
said about the harbor of refuge about
to be established on this coast.
Port Orford, Cape Foul weather, the
mouth of the Columbia and Cape
Flatteiy are all represented by their
admirers as desirable points. For
location and the amount of money
required to be expended, Port Or
, ford appears to have the advantage.
EAST Portland thieves are in the
habit of stealing the doors, windows
and even chimneys from unoccupied
houses. When Oregon produces a
man who can deliberately steal a
populous county including the court
house, from the State of Illinois, and
bring the whole to this coast, we will
acknowledge her as a peer of the
realm. Stealing chimneys is not to
be compared with what we can do
over here.
ME. W. H. Dodge, of Portland,
representing the extensive* fkursery
of H. W. Prettyman, recently ship
ped to Sboalwater Bay, six thousand
of the celebrated Silver Prune set
tings, the fruit of which excels the
ordinary kinds in every respect. We
have examined, side by side, dried
specimens of the Silver Prune and
common varieties, and unhesitating
ly pronounce the former far
ior to the latter. This is a good item
to read in connection with our leader
of thie issue.
WILD strawberries are in blossom
on the prairies.
THE people of Seattle are having
new asparagus on their tables.
THE moon is near her full, and yet
lanterns are very useful at night.
STAPLE dry-goods at the lowest
figure, can be bad at Ouimette's *
HENS have commenced business in
earnest and eggs are a drug in the
market.
ONE of the most plentiful literary
commodities, about these days, is
Spring poetry.
The discussion of the sew State
constitution is the leading topic in
San Francisco.
THE Skagit river which was very
much swollen during the late rains,
has fallen three feet.
THE people of Seattle are doing a
good work in holding open temper
ance meetings.
THE army appropriation bill has
passed the House and shoulder
strappers are happy.
As usual, court brings into our
town a great many old and familiar
faces, but none the worse for wear.
" Too much paper collar and too
little young man," is what down-
Sound girls call vain, senseless fel
lows.
MB. H. H. Snow has been ap
pointed Postmaster at Benton, King
county, and J. B. Eastman, Post
master at Tumwater.
IT is thought that Snohomish
county will produce fifty thousand
bushels of wheat this year. .A little
better than the hop business in
Puyallup, isn't it ?
JONES eays the lidies on his street
do not carry their dresses in their
hands any longer; they let them
draggle—calico going now at twenty
two y««ds to the dollar.
GILMORE'S big bear, on the line of
the railroad, near Tenino, does not
increase business so much as the
company had anticipated it would
do.
ON Monday, last, a gold watch
worth four hundred dollars was pre
sented to Capt. H. G. Morse, of the
steamer Dakota, by the citizens of
Seattle and Port Townsend.
A CITIZEN from Lewis county in
forms us that the liquor-selling ele
ment at Chehalis station is not so
froward as it was. Long-continued
litigation has not only rebuked but
seriously crippled it.
THE Daily Bee designates Tum
water as being located in " Mason
county," W. T., while the Daily
Standard corrects the mistake by
placing that little city in "
county." Where is the school-mas
ter?
THE present cold weather, is re
garded by farmers as rather advan
tageous than otherwise, so long as
the nights are thick and cloudy.
Vegetation is coming on slowly
but prosperously, and farmers much
prefer having the warm weather
come in a similar manner.
COFFEE drinkers will regret to hear
that a serious disease threatens the
welfare of this valuable plant. The
disease is known as " phylloxera,"
and has broken out among the coffee
plantations of Brazil. In a little
less than two years, nearly half a
million plants have been destroyed
in the province of Rio Janerio,
valued at about $90,000.
VINELAND, New Jersey, is a model
town in a good many respects. It
has about ten thousand inhabitants
and employs but one officer in any
way connected with the duties of
a constable, he supporting himself
by his own labor. The publio ex
penditure for the poor during the
year 1878 was only four dollars.
The people, as it is said of them,
do not " even drink beer." Let the
people of Olympia ponder these
things.
WHOLE SO. 956.
MORE weather.
THE weather is Wderating.
BEAD our M» apvertisements. jw*.
THE basket-willow grove has djs>
appeared.
A FINE stock of parasols can be
seen at Ouimette's.
BROSSEN'S comet is now visible \rf
the aid of telescopes.
THE narrow-gauge railroad favor
still rages in Oregon.
A WEATHER prediction is soon to
be issued from this offioe.
THE new grass en the public square
is very attractive to street cows.
BABY carriages are once more ft
common sight on onr sidewalks.
BRITISH Columbia wants to witb*
draw from the Dominion of Canada.
CHEAT emergencies are usefel in
preparing us for renewed undertak
ings.
* DN. Steele is putting up an addi
tion to his already spacious resid
ence.
To bear the hum ef business,
come to the foot of Washington
street. *
SEAL are reported to he very des
tructive fish in the Bay at
Astoria.
THE Catholic clergy of Quebec
have begun a .crusade against fast
dancing. '
THE fire department of Olympic
are going to elect a Chief Engineer
next Monday.
THE petals of fruit hossoms are
beginning to fall in mimic snow
beneath the trees. ,
THE phosporscent tight, aa used
for clock dials, has been successfully
applied to watches.
In largest steel rail mill in the
United States is to be erected at
Baldwin, near Harrisborg, Pa.
- A* economical family ef three M
persons near Wilmington, Del.,
live well on twenty cents a day.
THE steamer Dakota recently beat
the Great Republic tttelve miles be
tween Columbia and Meadocino.
SEATTLE is exulting over the pros
pect of better times. Tenement
houses are in good demand there.
THE weather was so rough Oft
Monday, that steamers bound from
Port Townsend to Victoria could not
cross the strait^.
A HEW sidewalk is to be bnilt on
the east side of Washington street,
from Fifth to Sixth street, along tho
property of T. M. Reed.
TOKLAS & GOLDSTEIN hav# been
fairly besieged the past week' by
customers. The result of low prices
and judicious advertising.
LOADS of new lumber dropped here
and there about town, are quite good
evidences that building improve*
meats are still in progress.
THE London Spectator does not
believe that Edgar Allan Poe was a
poet. So the Edenburg Review did
not believe Byron was a poet.
A TZUXF or professional burglar
entered the Carlton House at night,
but made good his escape on the ap
pearance of a couple of boarders.
THE Keely motor has started
again, and stock in that enterprise
has taken an upward movement.
Keeley does not want Edison to win
all the laurels.
AUSTRALIA, the largest island on
the globe contains and area of 3,-
000,000 square miles an a popula
tion of 2,500,000, which is steadily
increasing.
PBOV. Tice, in his weather predic
tions, for this month, accords a des
ignated degree of influence to the
planet Vulcan, whose existence, as
yet, is but conjectural.
SEVERAL of our citisens, who have
recently returned from San Fseneie
oo, represent that city as extremely
dull. Crop prospects are good
en&ugh but everybody are wrangling
over the new constitution.