, 1876-12-23

THE GRAB-Box.-John Jameson
is filing up his grab-box for the
youngsters on Christmas day. There
is an awful mystery hanging around
that revolving glass case.
Soc1ABLE.-The social gathering
of the Congregational Church will
be held at the residence of Mrs. DIR.
Weed, this Tuesday evening. All
are invited to attend.
The OPERA Tonight we are GO
ing to have the sparkling gem of
''La Grande Duchesse de Gerol-
stein." This piece hinges upon the
freaks of an eccentric young German
Duchess, whose father died and left
her an old sword and lot of debts.
She sees very handsome private
soldier called Fritz and falls in love
with him, To equalize their incon-
gruous positions, she appoints him
a general and takes away the COM
mand Of her army from General
Boum. He becomes outrageous and
conspires with Prince Paul, Baron
Puck and Baron Grog, to overthrow
the new favorite. Prince Paul, be-
ing discarded suitor of the Ouch
ess, readily accedes to their plans
and they send off and get peasant
girl named Wanda, whom Fritz had
formerly loved. She comes and
Fritz marries her. Fired by revenge,
the Duchess tears off his epaulets
and reduces him to acommon soldier.
The piece contains many gems of
light sparkling music, especially the
"Sabre Song" at the close of the first
act; the baritone song "Piff!- Paff!!
Pouff!!!" by General Boum; and the
"Can Can" at the close of the second
act, where the Duchess comes in
and kicks her heels with the con-
spirators. George Evans, the popu-
lar composer whose name is a house
hold word in every musical family,
is conductor and musical director
of the troupe. .
CITY CLERK. There was quite a
breeze made in the Common Coun-
Gil, last week, in an attempt 20 oust
Irving Ballard from the clerkship,
by declaring his Office vacant for
the reason that he was elected at a
special session of the Board. A
vote was then taken for new clerk
and Mr.. Ballard reelected. The
faults found with the books could
as we'll have been found with any of
his predecessors books, since Mr..
w. R. Andrews. who was the last
Clerk that kept them in double en-
try. If wrongs exist, why were
they not made public before?
FELL OVERHEARD. On Sunday
night, after the North Pacific got in
from Tacoma, a boat containing
three men started to go to a ship in
the harbor. By some mishap the
boat became capsized and Capt.
Starr undertook to fish them out,
He got overheard himself, and as
the night was extremely cold, he
suffered intensely after being res
cued. The men for whose sake he
risked his life were all drunk, and
went off without even thanking him
for his mistaken magnanimity.
APPLE-TREE CovE.-A party of
three sportsmen-Dan Richards, w.
H. Sinclair and young man named
Murray, visited the cove on Satur-
day and got home on Monday night.
They killed AZ mallard and canvas
back ducks, and saw deer which
were too wild to let them approach
within shot. Near the cove is a
small lake full of beautiful trout and
any man who goes there will have a
glorious weeks sport.
LAID UP.--Steamer Annie Stew
art was moored abreast of Bullene's
foundry on Sunday and the Aida
took her place IN the up-Sound trade.
The Aida has the Annie Stewards
officers--Capt. Browner in the pilot
house and Purser Harker in the Of
fee.
ANT1ERs.--We spoke of Neah Bay
as splendid place for elk-hunting,
last week. At DR.. Calhoun's Office
may be seen pair of elk horns from
that very locality. We have seen
larger antlers, but none that were
more evenly matched.
To THE AFFLICTED.---We call the
attention of those who are suffering
from hemorroids, to the advertise
ment Of the Wightman process, in
this issue. Numbers of our citizens
can testify to its efficacy.