, 1876-10-14
Weekly Puget Sound Dispatch.
SATURDAY. OCTOBER a. 1876,
Local News.

WHEAT.-The schooner Winged RAJ
Ger Capt. Morgan, arrived from the
Swinomish to-day with cargo of wheat
consigned TO Sshwabacher Bros. The
grain Is yeIy beautiful, the berry being
as plump as apple seeds.
PICToRIALs-J. L. Jameson has the
thanks Of ttis Office for a full supply
Of Eastern rictoriais, including Har-
pers Weekly which reproduces the pic
ture that caused the arrest cf Boss
Tweed on charge OF being compru.
chico, or child>stealer.
AGA1N.-Another new lamp-post has
been put up. this time at the corner of
Front and Cherry streets; and the aver
age inebriato invokes Divine benisons
upon the Common Council This re-
mark does not apply to any man who
goes home sober enough TO pronounce
the name of our morning contemporary.
LIFE MEMBERS. Many of our lead
ing citizens are joining the Fire De-
partment. Last Monday night, on pay
ment Of S25 each. the following gentle-
men We're elected as honorary members
of the company: W. A. Jennings, A.
4. Denny, II. L. Yesler anu Thomas
Clancy. The company now numbers
z mem' ers.
STEAMBOAT News. The Zephyr had
lot Of passengers for up-Sound ports
this morning and Uncie Robbins smile
was 'childlike and bland" The Dis
patch has been taking in freight for
Port Discovery all day. White river
folks went home on the Otter this after
noon. Purser Harker. of the Aida,
has our thanks for late papers. Repairs
. the Fanny Lake are about compile
THE NOBLE RED MAN. About fif-
n, J. den with sons and daUgh-
ters of the forest arrived here from
Port Orchard this afternoon. Having
sold their bladders-of dcs-fsl oil l.
they bombarded every grocery in town
for crackers and molasses. We gazed
with awe upon those clam ,devouTInc
Pocahontases and wondered If any las
civious Boston" had dared to breathe
syllables of passionate alteration into
their Sunburnt ears.
THE NORTH PAC1Flc.-This steamer
arrived from Victoria about eight
O'Clock last evening and shortly after
s.iled for Olympia. She is in good order
and offcered by very obliging gentle
man, chief among whom is her captain
Charles T. Clancy In few days she
will run no farther than this place,
where she Il transfer mails and up
Sound passengers to the Annie Stew
art. The latter Is still ling ri Rulenes
foundry. receiving final repairs to her
engines and pumps.
Who ATE THEM.-Two young gen
tlemen of this city went into beer
hall, last night, and drank six bottles
of Bremen beer, after which they
dispatched the landlord to Piper's
for two l.lates CT fried oysters. On
returning, he could not find those
two hungry gentlemen, they having
retired -uEdeR the table. So two of
his other customers ate the oysters,
which the first party had paid for.
One of the victims remarks that he
never did like Orsturs, nOhOw."
TOM MERRY. From the Oregon
State Fair,we learn that Seattie's favor
ite nag has again gone to the front at
Salem, having b aten Rosa Mansfield,
Scamperdown and Emma Mccormick.
The two mares were bred in Kentucky,
while Scamperlown is. like his con-
queror, son of "the enchanted horse.
the never-beaten Norfolk, owned by
Tneadore Winters of California. The
e time was l so 1-2--1 80 Ill 80 l-2:
not as fast as he has done before but
from the Oregonian's report we infer
that be was not 'put up" and could
have gone much faster had he been
called upon. This is the third race he
has won in the past fortnight
OPIUM SMoKING.-The growing
prevalence of this vice in all Pacific
coast towns, almost surpasses belief.
If it were confined to the Chinese
alone, it would be bad enough but
when we see the youth of our own
race becoming addicted to it, we feel
like making an effort to stop it. A
few days ago, a young man of thirty
summers, told us that he averaged
two pipes of opium per day, adding
further, that many of his acqualntan-
ces smoked it three times a dav. In
San francisco, there is municipal
ordinance against it and penalty of
twenty dollars for each violation. A
similar provision will have to be set
In force here or the youth of our city
will be ruined by it, in body and in
mind. Some of these days, one of
the opium dens will catch fire from
lamp upset by some stupefed Chi
naman and away goes half the town.
SOUND PAssENGERs.--The steamship
City OF Panama sailed from San Fran
cisco yesterday and will be here about
Friday night or Saturday. She brings