, 1877-10-06
CONSTITUTION BURNED.

steamship Constitution, W. B. Sea-
bury commanding, had caught fire
while entering San Francisco har-
Dor, and her cargo nearly destroyed.
The Constitution left Victoria for
San Francisco last Monday, carry
ing .bout 40 passengers and S67 900
in / easure. Probably no lives we're
lost. Following is the dispatch as
it appears on Jack Levy's bulletin
board:
SAN FRANCIsCo, Oct. 4, $50 Z. NJ.
Crawford Il Harrington, Seattle:
Constitution arrived here to-day on
fire. Merchandise proba oly of little
value. VIM. CoRBETT.
1NroLERABLE GUsH. = Nothing
could possibly be more intensely
nauseating to intelligent readers
than such sickening and oft-repeated
doses of fulsome gush and toadyism
as is exhibited by certain newspaper
reporters in putting and lauding 20
the skies G. .ss of persons conspic-
uous only for their utter worthless
ness and vulgar self-conceit. The
annexed paragraph from late num-
ber of the n. Y. Herald, is a fair
specimen of the elegant idiocy to
which we refer, and which is so fre-
quently INDUCED in by some of our
contemporaries, wherein is shown
the eager willingness to crook the
pregnant hinges of the knee that
thrift mifht follow fawning:" Per-
sonal Intelligence, New York Herald.
Insert sure tomorrow. Mr.,
Esq, who in September last welded
the second lovely daughter of Hon.
Mr.. Peter Smith, Esq, of Littleton,
KY, is stopping at the ELEGANT res
idence in New York city of Mrs.
Jones. the elegant bijou and CHARM
ING Leader, of bon ton SOCIETY, whose
father the late Hon. Mr.. Peter
Smith, Esq. was ,reU known as a
distinguished merchant in the seat
of Chimpanzee, n. J. The Joneses
are en- passant famous people for
their chic. ELEGANCE and BON TON.
Mrs. Jones welcomes her elegant and
BON TON sister and her no less
elegant husband to her RESI-
DENCE, where she is the ieader of
the BON TON in New YORK. Please
insert this IN to-morrou's Personal
Intelligence of the Herald, sure, as
it man be TOO LATE, in which event
you may PUBLISH it any way, and
send three married copies to Mrs.
Jones, No. 129 E. street" This
is no exaggeration.
CURfoUs.-We have just heard Of
man to whom happened little ac-
cident, with quite curious result.
A short time ago he struck a match,
when a piece of the head of it flew
off and into his eye, burning, in
flaming, and swelling it badly, and
while in this condition he asserts
that he was able to see with it in the
dark as we'll as he could in the day
light with his well eye. He says he
could see mice running about the
room, though it was as dark as the
4" basement of the bottomless pit" to
his well eve.
SHOOTING AFFKAY-Nexs reached
here this afteroon OF a shooting af-
fray which occurred near Steele's
Landing on White river. The shoot
ing was done by John Morse, OF this
city. We did not learn the name of
his victim. 1t seems they had some
discussion about money matters,
which eliminated in Morse's shoot
ing the other through the kidneys,
after which he made his escape.
The wounded man is not expected
to live.
OREGON STATE FAIR EXCURSION -
During the continuance of the Ore
gon State Fair, the n. P. R. R. will
sell excursion tickets, good for ten
days, from Victoria, Seattle, Ia
coma, Tenino. and on board P. S.
S. N. Co.'S steamers to Salem, Ore
gon, and return at the following
rates;
From Victoria and Return. SIS rs
From Seattle and Hsturn. 10 Is
From Tacoma and Return. 975
From Tenino and Return. ...... s75
Tickets may be had of W. II.
Humphrey, this city.
5d3t
Down and Mcdonald were liber-
ated from the county Jail yesterday
afternoon by Sheriff Wyckoff, they
having both served out their SEN
tences.