, 1877-02-17
LOCAL NEWS.

LOCAL NEWS.
''SPorTED FEVER. About Port
Townsend, this disease VIII ,ch is also
known as cerebro-spinal meningitis,
is raging almost as bad as at La
Conner. At the later pltce there
were some six or seven deaths in a
fortnight and then the thing stopped
as suddenly as il came. Now we
learn that a lille son of William
koi Ter, of Port LuG 'ow, died with
it on Sunday. We noticed sim;la:
visitation of a Ike disorder at Coos
Bay, several years ago. Seven VIC
tins were seized with a disease
which produced delirium and all
died without Iperieocing any relief
from the medical aid afforded. There
has not been q single case there
since
HoM1CIDE.-Two men got into a
fight at Eenton about six o'clock
last Sunday night, one of them ,hav-
ing knife. A by.stander named
Baxter, undertook to part them
when he received several gashes in
the abdomen from which he died on
the following day. The perpetratof
of the dreadful deed broke the knife
in two and threw 1t away, but it was
soon found again. The man, whose
name is Thompson, was caught and
brought here for examination before
Justice Selye, who com mmisted him
for the acton of the next Grand
Jury.
DEPARTURES. number of YES
sells left Sound ports on Saturday,
but mostly anchored at Port Towns
end to avoid the heavy gale which
prevailed in the Straits on that night
and Sunday mo ming. Among them
we may mention barkentine Joseph
Perkins. from Gamble to Honolulu:
bark 'Cassandra Adams, from Sea-
beck fo: San Francisco and bark
Osmyn from this place. The schoon-
er Ida Snhnarer sliled from Port
Ludlow and went direct to sea. The
gale appears to have been fully as
violent at La Conner as any other
part of the Sourd.
RsPAIEED.-The steamtug Poli5-
kofsky. Capt. John Libby, has near
ly completed her repai s az Pors
Madison and will probably be ready
to resume towing ope. cations by Sat
urday next, when she will have sew
eral vessels awaiting her at that
point. She has had new tubes and
fire boxes in her boilers and new
decks; and when she next turns over
hee wheels, the smiling Polly" will
look about es gay as any ;u3boat on
the Sound.
C:TY OF PANAMA This steamer
will be due here from San Francis
CO to-day. Hec passerSe:s IS for Sound
ports are the folio wing: Port Toscn-
sead-J. Dinkelspeil. Seattle R.
Low and wife. Mrs. Dinsmore and
2 children, K. R. Euck, Mrs. Loung
and child, N. W. Lane and wife
and child, ard 18 oilers in the SEER
age. Olympia--N. McAlpine and R.
Strahl. Iacoma.--Ieo persons in
the steerage.
Nor QUlTE.-Last Sunday night
while walking up Yesler's wharf in
the darkness, Michael Gleason, bar
keeper on the North Pacific, got one
leg down a hole in the wharf and
barked his shin. The promptness
with which mister Mike"(a las A.
Brown Esq, calls him) organized a
prayer-meeting, exceeded the speed
of fire company at general alarm.
GEAND JUEY.--In consequence of
the homicide at Eenton and other
causes that have accrued since the
adjournment of the Grand Jury, we
learn that District Attorney White
will move for The issuance of another
venire for Grand Jurors this morn
ing.
Pest HoUsE-One hundred dollars
has been appropriated out of the
City Treasury for the purpose of
building new pest house. At pre-
sent there are no smallpox patients
to occupy such edifice.
MARINE.-Bark General Cobb, from
San Francisco has arrived at Sea-
beck. Ship Shirly is ready to sail
from Tacoma and will go to sea in
q day. or two.