The daily intelligencer. [volume] (Seattle, Wash. Territory [i.e. Wash.]) 1876-1881, 1877-12-11

WASHINGTON, Dec. s.-The Postoffice
Department has completed and is now
issuing a printed advertisement in
pamphlet form inviting proposals for
carrying the mails on all routes ia the
Pacific Coast States and Territories dur
ing the term of four years commencing
the first day Of July. 1878. No sdver-
tisements will be made in newspapers,
as heretofore, bat those intending to be
bidders may procure pamphlets con-
tanning TIME schedules, forms of propo-
sails, etc, on application to the Depart
ment. or can inspec. a copy which the
law requires to be posted in each and
every postoffice within the district.
The above designated proposals will be
received until P. NJ. February I'd, and
awards announced on or before March
Goth. The routes to be let include 167
in California, 81 in Oregon, 81 in Ne
vada, 30 in Washington Territory. lls
in Utah. Arizona, New Mexico, Mon
tsna and Idaho.
NEW YORK Dec. s. According to the
New York Dramatic Neus. another d.
vorce case has come to light. Mrs.
Laurent sues for a divorce form her
husband, Henry Laurent, tenor of the
Alice Oates Opera Company. on the
grounds Ct marital infdelity. desertion
and cruelty She accuses her husband
of criminal intimacy with Alice Oates,
they having lived together publicly
and openly at New York. Long Branch
and various places throughout New
England and the west. On the other
hand, Mrs. Oates publishes card Stat
ing that she is entirely innocent of such
base accusations, and will prove them
in court to be the work of man who
has vowed to ruin her. She asks the
public to suspend judgment until the
villifer is brought to justice. Laurent
also publishes card to the same effect
and says he will show that he should be
the applicant for divorce, not Mrs Lsu-
rent.
LOUISVILLE, Dec S-A disastrous fire
broke out at 10 o'clock tonight in
Cochran & Fulton's whisky house
Four thousand one hundred barrels of
whisky are stored in the building aud
is thought will be burned up. Davis
& Hsyden's whiskey house on one side
and Jefferson Brothers large -four house
ON the other square on which these
houses are situated, are the wealthiest
in the city.
At 1880 the fire shows signs of weak
ening. The principal damage will be
Cochran 8 Fulton, whose loss will reach
100000. Insurance $275,OO0 Bre-
maker, Moore g. Co.'s paper warehouse
will be damaged considerably. The
FIRE In all other houses except Cochran
l. Fulton's, has been confined to the
roof. The Bremaker. Moore s. Co.
works are still in danger. The blocks
aggregate wealth is 100000.
At IL o'clock Jefferson's, Davis &
Hayden's, and II. w. Bxrrett's houses
are burning. The firemen don't handle
the flames with much success. A solid
stream of burning whisky is pouring
into the streets. and thence flowing into
the sewers near by. The fire is under
control and well nigh out at ll:2O.
Another alarm has just sounded from
distant part of the city. A great
blaze is tisible
The losses and insurance on the fire
last night cannot be ascertained until
Monday. The damage to all except
Cochrane & Fulton is light. Their loss
will be heavy. The prevention of the
spread Of the fire was very remarkable
and was accomplished by cutting
through heavy wall with axes and
flooding the building with water SO
as to stop even the whisky from burn
ing. The origin cannot be accounted
for.
NEW YORK, Dec. lO.-The Worlds
Washington special says; Giddings.
Of Texas. will tomorrow introduce a
bill in the House to incorporate the
Galveston and Cauargo railway, to run
from Galveston to Rio Grande City, q
distance Of SIS miles. A subsidy of
$2,l25,0O0 is asked. The company has
% years to repay. ana the road is to be
built in 10 months.