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Show Villi TEIlllaTOKIESS. I The Olvmpia Debating Club l.as iizzlcd. Cause: too much learning; got in advance of the age. There is a probability that the Wind River routo from Virginia City Montana, to the Union l'anhc Kail-road Kail-road will be opened at an early date. The farmers in tho Upper Fayette Valley, Idaho Territory, arc two weeks ahead of sowing lime hist year, with a large increase of uerc- Helena merchandise bhipmeuts this year from Eastern and Western markets, it is estimated, will exceed by more than one third the shipments of 1672-3. Tho cash deposits in thu Helena banks were probably never greater than at present. In the burglar-prooi safes of a single ono of them there is .j-10,000 currency deposits. Work ia progressing rapidly on the first section of the Seattle and YValla Walla Railroad. Tho pile-driver Hercules is lumy on tho mud-flats, and twenty-three men arc at work trading the road. A fisherman recently landed on the wharf at Vancouver a monster sturgeon, stur-geon, measuring ten feet and four inches m circumference, and weighing weigh-ing nearly 7U0 pounds. |