, 1878-06-21
PUGET SOUND ARGUS.
LOCAL N EW 5.


STRAWBERRY festivals are all the rage.
CRops in Clalam are reported in a fine
condition.
STRAWBERRIES have been selling as low
As 1917 cents pound.
THERE ARE tour logging camps running
at present on WILDLY Island.
MEssRs. Waterman & Katz have on
hand a fine assortment OF furniture.
The steam-tug Mastick went to Port
Angeles on Tuesday, after boom Of logs.
WE are indebted to Purser Wafer, OF
the Panama, and Agent Tibbals, for ia.
yors.
FISHING for bass these cool nights Is
still kept up by n crowd of eager sports
men who crowd Union Wharf.
AUoTIoN.-On Wednesday next. at 2
p. NJ, All auction sale will take place at
the "Clinger Place The Property to
be sold consists of nine milch cows.
SINCE the propretoIs Of the Central
Hotel succeeded so admirably with their
patent well, the prospect Is that much
boring will be done, rs Others are anxious
to enjoy similar benefits.
We arc having all our buttons sewn oh
good and strong, aid our button-holes
lined with cast iron-preparatory to pas
sing through the ordeal Of the coming
election campaign.
MR. +. A. BARTLETT. Of Dungeness,
states that the people Of that section in
tend celebrating the coming Fourth Of
July in a manner fully up to their usual
energetic way.
OURyoung friend Dan Hill is curiosity
A lew days ago, while he WAS out hunt
inc, fine 20O.lb deer of the male per-
slmsion stopped to examine him-the
buck got shot and brought home.
THE schooner Mist arrived from Dun
geuess on Tuesday OF this week, bringing
up few passengers, among whom were
Messrs. +. A. Bartlett and VIM. +. Allen
She went to Port Gamble after load oI
lumber for arties in Dungeness.
IT is expected that the Episcopal straw
berry festival OH Thursday evening next
will be a pleasant affair. An extensive
and highly entertaining programme la:
been prepared, and no doubt will be car.
ried out in good style, as those identified
with the movement know no such word as
tail. Time, 2. NJ.
Mr.. CHOIR desires us to state that par
ties receiving letters of inquiry from East
ern residents, and not wishing to be BOTH
cred with answering them, may write the
address and all necessary information on
a postal card and send the same to him al
Seattle. He promises toattend to answer
Ing all such queries promptly
THE steamship Panama brought up Oh
her last trip 81 cabin and So steerage pas
sengers. names published last week. ~
pkgs. mail, pkg. treasure and 5'lsG pkgs
merchandise $40 tons. Mdse. for Port
Townsnd, 8O4 pkgs-35 tons; for Seattle
l346 pkgs-92 tons; for Tacoma, 237 pkgs'
10 tons; for Olympia, 346 pkgs.-l2
tons. Her passage up was very rough
She went as far up as Seattle, and lmme-
diatcly returned, going to NaEaimo Tor
coal
Mr.. CHoIR's muse ran away with him in
describing Port Townsend. Listen: "'Tis
the lovely month Of June. Fragrant the
air with roses sweet perfume, waited upon
the gossanier wings OF the baImy zephyrs.
Vertant the sod that inyitDgy tempts to a
listless lounge, with no dread OF serpent's S
sting the fears to rack; stranger here
the vile mosquito, while that sum OF evils,
the wicked flea, his antic tornents does
not iuflict; while round this pence har-
monious system swells the soul Of heaven
ly grandeur, beset on every hand by the
sentinels of subimity, the snow-crowned
tops o. the Coast and Cascade mountains,
that crop out from long, rolling mass OF
dark eyergreens. Were fleeting life
to warn me that could only have one last
fond look OF earth. choose would this
IL A 1.,. NAT
to know the rest they must come to the
office and read 1t from the book; It's too
affecting Tor us to write just now. 1t is
about the mIrrored waters blue" and
the tidy craft that bespeck the highway
ofthe world,r and the "swelling cadence
OF the song Of the boatman," and earth's
iairest creatures, and-and-we collapse.