, 1877-12-15

TOWN AND COUNTRY.
From Daily Of Saturday:
PLUMAIER FRUIT DIHER.-Mr. W.
S. Plummer, patentee and manufac-
turer of the Plummer fruit dryer,
Portland, Oregon, is now at the Oc-
cidental Hotel exhibiting samples of
fruits and vegetables put up by his
process. The samples on exhibition
are remarkable both for color, flavor,
and condition of the fruit. He is
engaged in explaining the process
to all who desire, and is also taking
orders for the dryers. His process
OF preparing potatoes is very salts
factory, and our farmers could do
much better by sending their pota-
toes to market at $50 per ton, than
by shipping to San Francisco at
present prices. Nr. Plummer re-
Gently shipped some dried potatoes
to London as an experiment, and
now finds that he cannot supply the
demand for them. One bushel of
green potatoes will net thirteen
pounds; cost of preparing each
bushel, about ten cents; cost OF can
ming each bushel, about seventeen
and one-half cents; potatoes at
thirty-five cents per bushel.
Recapitulation:-
Potatoes, DOC
Cost Of labor, ........... .10c
Cost of canning, Ike
6s1zc
Potatoes sold at forty English
shillings per hundred weight
amount to about ten cents per
pound, our money, Or
Pei bushel. ........S1 80
Less cost Of producing -. 62I
s 67H
Or sixty-seven and half cents per
bushel after being paid for, pota-
toes. labor and cans. You will re-
ceive extra pay for the cases in Eng
land that will quite pay the freight
and charges.
WANTED His MoNEY.--H was
passenger on one Of the Starr steam
ers from Tacoma to Seattle, Wednes
day evening, and he rushed out of
his state room, yelling that he had
been robbed. He pranced about
awhile and then he informed the
crowd that five hundred dollas in
gold had been ''took from his coat
pocket" He was not, as was Shake
speare, of the opinion that she who
steals my pnrse steals trash,'' so he
kept on bowling. Meantime search
was Instituted for the money, and
it was soon found in the fellows
state room, between two mattresses
in his bunk, where he had slowed it
''for keeps He looked as though
he wanted to crawl into knot hole
and pull the whole in after him.
-Iacoma Herald.
GAs.-There is the odor az of es-
Gaping gas in all Of the buildings in
this city using gas. This odor is
not so perceptible to the occupants
of the rooms as to customers who
come from the opens air. Some ofour
merchants have been so we'll satisfi-
ed that gas was escaping in their
rooms as to employ workmen to ex-
anime their meters and pipes. No
leaks have been discovered, and the
matter still remains a mystery.
LOST. - Early pedestrians this
morning saw the top of hat stick
ing out of the mud in the middle of
the street. A number OF persons
stopped and looked at the hat, but
10 effort was made to recover the
body supposed to be underneath
The hat has not been identified, but
we will probably learn who the lost
man is by waiting and seeing who is
missing.
LEcrURE.-I. NJ. Hall, Esq, will
deliver d lecture before the First
Spiritual Association, of Seattle, at
Reinig's Hall, tomorrow Sunday
afternoon at 2 o'clock-Subject-''A
Relic Of Barbarism."
WANT STEAM. - The settlers in
Clallam county are going to petition
the Postmaster General for steam on
the Neah Bay mail route. All agree
that if there was steam communica-
ton between Port Townsend and
Neah Bay, the county would settle
up by men who would develop its
agricul tural wealth. There are peti-
tions in all the post offices on the
route, asking the Postmaster Gen
eral for steam mail service the next
contract. At present the mail is car
ried in sail boat, which is very un-
satisfactory.
Coop PAssAGE.-The bark Cam
den, Capt. Robinson, owned by the
Puget Mill Co., has made five round
trips from Port Gamble to Honolulu,
during the past year, as follows:
Left Dec. IS, '76, returned Feb. 6
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