, 1877-03-17

chapel on Sunday last, amounted to
$3.50. .Halibut fishing is in full
blast now, three boats being occu-
pied at it and another nearly ready
to launch Every trip of the Pana-
ma and Dakota, these fish are ship
ped in ice to San Francisco, while
large quantities are sent to Portland
via Tacoma, by the North Pacific. =.
Edmondson, the Port Townsend
butcher, recently slaughtered six
sheep whose aggregate weight was
654 pounds; they were cross be-
tween the Southdown and Cotswold.
-. Capt. Gilbert, of the schooner
Winifred, states that canoe con-
tanning six Indians recently capsized
off Cape Beale and four OF them
were drowned. They were on their
way from Port Discovery to Ucluet
Sound. =. Grand jury report that
bonds of the Sheriff and Probate
Judge are defective and recomme nd
they be required to give new ones.
GONG BELow.-Our merchants
are laying in their spring stock of
goods at San Francisco, whittier,
". P. Boyd went two weeks ago.
Jacob Franenthal Esq. leaves Victo-
ria on the Panama to-day for the
same purpose and tits quite proba-
BILE that the resident managing
partner of Schwabacher Bros-Bai-
ley Gatzert, Esq.,-made some ex-
tensive purchases while he was in
California metropolis. Beyond doubt
the dry-goods stores of Seattle will
contain the handsomest samples and
choicest varieties of goods, in few
weeks, that they have held since
our city emerged from the swaddling
clothes of q "one-horse town."
LUDLOW ITEMs.-The new three
masted schooner now nearly ready
for launching at Port Ludlow is to
be called the Hueneme and will be
in the trade between the
Sound and the California coast. :.
The Forest Queen arrived on the 7th
with the sails and rigging for the
new schooner and the following pas
sengers: Mrs. Henry Hall, Mr..
Fisher and wife, Mr.. Starkweather
and wife, A. A. Cox, Jas. Phinney,
P. MCGOWAN, VIM. MCGOWAN, Ed
ward Higgins and Eli Packard. She
also brought eighty tons of freight
for the Port Ludlow Mill Company
and five tons for Olympia. She will
sail again about the 18th or 10Th.
The COUNTY PooR.---During the
past week the County Commission
ers let to the lowest bidder a con-
tract for keeping the county poor at
rs cents per day with lease of $500
per year for the county farm. The
contract for construction of the pro-
posed workhouse on the farm, was
let to Harmon. Walker & Co. for
81 400 in county scrip. A contract
for medical attendance and medicine
for the INDECENT sick was let to. the
Doctors Bagley for $500 per annum.
The other bids were $40 by DIR. G..
V. Calhoun and 81, 500 by DR.. John
Baker.
Slow WoRK.-Up to noon yester-
day only three cars of coal had been
received here by the railroad from
the Renton mine. Consequently
the Modoc fills up very slowly, but
we hope to see things move along a
little better when things get fairly
to work on the railroad Everything
being new, of course, things do not
work with the precision and accu-
racy of an old established and well
ordered concern. But we look for
Mr.. Colman's good judgment to
bring order out of chaos in a day OF
so.
PERsoNALs.-Hon. Frank Clark, oi
Steilacoom, has been casting his
sylphlike shadow on our sidewalks
for the past three days. We had a
call from Mr.. L. Samuel. publisher
of the West Shore, yesterday morn
ing. Hereports business of all kinds
improving in Portland. =. 81. E.
Levy has gone to Victoria where he
will remain some weeks. j. r.
Robbins, who was taken violently
ill on the night of the fire, was well
enough yesterday to be out on the
streets again.