, 1876-11-18

SURPRISE PARTY.-It being the
birth day of our friend M. R. Mad
docks, Esq, on Monday night, a
party of ladies and gentlemen gave
them a surprise in the shape of a
ghost party. Mrs. J. S. Hill and
Mrs. Gatzert, were among the chief
originators of the affair which went
off delightfully."-. There was dancing
and every other sort of fun, winding
up with a supper fit for Lucu1lus
himself, after which dancing was
kept up till 2, when the party broke
up with expressions of congratula-
tions for their affable host and host
ess, wishing them many pleasant
returns Of the day. We we're busy
as usual and couldn't get away; if
we had been there, we should have
given three cheers for Mr.. and Mrs.
Maddocks and three more for their
great ancestor-old Matthew Mad
docks who invented arithmetic and
algebra. So we should.
STEAMBOAT ITEMS. - The Eliza
Anderson arrived from Victoria on
Monday night, after our forms had
gone to press. She went up to
Olympia for a load of cattle and will
leave for Victoria this morning at 5
o'clock. The Tacoma came down
from Tacoma yesterday and goes
down Sound for a tow at daylight.
Propeller Teaser left Semiahmoo on
Sunday night and reached here early
on Tuesday. She brings no news of
Steamers Nellie and
Fanny Lake arrived from Snohom-
ish last night. Would it not be well
if these boats would run upon alter
nate days and give the Snohomish
people the advantage of daily COM
with Seattle? The An
ME Stewart did not get in till after
midnight, in consequence of having
come from Olympia.
CARIcATURE. "A laughable cal
toon on the Presidential game, is to
be seen in Jamieson's jewelry win
dow. 1t represents Hayes and Til
den playing poker and they have
shown down their hands on the
table e--Florida, South Carolina, and
Louisiana. The bayonet sticks ont
of Hayes pocket and the bowie
knife out of Tilden's, but Uncle
Sammy has an ace over which he is
as much as to say "Had
'em therew It was designed by W.
s. Jameson and drawn by Mart Nc
elaine.
CIv1L1zAT1oN.--Keenan, our home
whose shop is on Craw-
ford & Harrington's wharf. has cut
a tombstone bearing the inscription.
''Thomas Stolyer, ex-Chief Puyal-
lup Tribe, died Oct. "a, 1876. aged
so years. He rests in peace" This
is by no means a novelty among In
dams about the missions. A large
grave inscribed "Sacred to
the memory Of Legs, q Makah In
dian," can be seen at Neah Bay.
CONTRACTS LET.-The first two
contracts on the proposed Puyallup
Valley Railroad have been let, for
work just out of Tacoma. Messrs.
Meeker & Mann have the contract
for the work and will employ the
Indians on the reservation through
which it passes for some four miles.
It will be the first railroad in Ameri-
ca ever built with Siwash labor.
Nor WORTH Ir.-The htelhgemcer
devoted half column yesterday to
a notice of o confidence man who
beat G.. P. Boyce, of Duval Pre-
cinct, out of a black horse. We
should suppose the columns of the
leading daily were more valuable, as
all that the notice contained, could
have been said in thirteen lines.
The MA1Ls.-Too great care lcan-
not be taken by Brother Prosch's
deputies in handling the mails that
come from Victoria. Aman day before
yesterday, got letter from his sister
in that city, saying she had the
smallpox. He read the letter through
and then broke out with the vario-
loid.
COUNTY COMMISSIONERS. - The
Board are still at work on county
matters and as Auditor Booth is
busy entering up their orders, he
has deputized Mr.. Raisin with the
recording work in the Office. Raisin
is good penman and a very accu-
rate copyist.