, 1879-08-14
PUGET SOUND ARGUS.
BRIEF LOCAL ITEMS.

top running orler.
OUR friend :. c. Woodruff, OF Olympia,
was In town lew days ago.
MR. VIM, Harmed. ol the Customs em.
ploy, has gone 10 Portland.
SEVERAL passengers came up from
Dungeness. on the FayOrite, yesterday.
THERE will he no services Ia the NJ. +.
church next Sunday morning. Services
a. usual In the evening, at 1880.
MR. f. ID. Smith Is back In town. hav-
ing boarded out 'that little bill'' at the
Territorial hotel Oh McSeil's Islands.
MARRiED.-At La Conner. w. r., on
the 9th inst, Mr. Samuel Calhoun to Miss
Micw, sister Of Mrs. DIR. Calhoun, OF Seat
tie.
WE learn that our friend Robert white.
Esq, Of La Conner, has purchased a
steam thresher AMI proposes to run" 1t
during the season over there.
WE learn that our friends from Victoria
contemplate another excursion to this
place, at which time game of base ball
will be played, with the 'P. Q.'s"
MR. j. +. Sheehan, OF this place, has
greatly improved the appearance OF his
residence and surroundings Oh tile hill by
judlcious repairs and whitewashing.
THE members Of Jefferson Lodge, I. o.
G.. T., will be coo,ed off with ice cream
tomorrow evening. at their mceting-at
least those who care to attend will be
treated.
THE steamer Mary Taylor last week
tOwed the bark Cassandria Adams to sea,
lumber laden from Seabeck. The vessel
had on Loard over l, 100 600 feet Of lumber
--One Of the largest cargoes that ever left
Puget Sound.
Mr.. Nichols this week offers a hundred
dollars In rewards, Ia addition to the hun
tlred dollars already offered by him, for
the arrest and conviction OF the sneak
thieves and tiespassers who are trying so
hard to iLjure him.
Nix. X. p. Shoecrait, deputy U. s.
surveyor, returned few days ago from.
the Quillyhute valley, having surveyed a
line by offsets from the Pyscht river 70
APPOINT in the Quillyhu'e settlement. He
will doubtless get u contract at once to
survey f3w townships ot land in the val
ley.
Things have certainly come to a pretty
pass when we cannot make pun oil the
words Tacoma and Renton without having
the Portland STANDARD" reproduce the
item credited to the Seattle Post. This
Thing must stop right here, or Wen depu.
tlse some one to Kick that saucy STAND
ard" fellow-'just ior luck,
SHOOTING ScRAPE. - We learn that
fight occurred at Coupeville, WILDLY ISL
and, OH Tuesday, the 18th. The combat
iants were Thos. and John 5. Robinson.
brothers, the latter slleri. of Island coun-
ty. Thos. drew knitc OH John and John,
IN self defense, drew u pistol and shot his
nssailant under the right arm. Nothing
worse than flesh wound, however, was
produced. The aim fJohn WAS evidently
hot to kill his brother but to disable his
knile arm.
na. .,i1 nf
Seattle, preached In Port Discovery on
Sunday last aud organized flourishing
Sunday School at that point. Mrs. Jack
ems Is Superintendent, with Mr. James
Campbell as ASSISTANT. Mr.. Sires Informs
that he will perhaps visit Port Discovery
once month hereafter; that the Sunday
school is entirely non-sectarian ami that
he Is pleased to notice such unanimity OF
iceiug and hearty cooperation on
the part of the people of that burg.
lie will send the school some bibles from
the depository IN Seattle; and, In the
meantime. any lesson leaves. papers
&C.. that may be donated by other Sunday
Schools or Societies will be thankfully re-
ceiVed.
SOME OF our exchanges speak Of the
ChiInacum iron ore AS being recent dis
covery. Ii has been seen and examined
time and again for years, being OIL the
farm owned and cultivated by MIR. VIM.
Bishop. The ore crops out OH the surface,
so that any passer by may SEE IL for him
self. IL has been known all the time to be
rich; but as great deal Of capital is re-