, 1880-02-19
PUGET SOUND ARGUS.
OFFICIAL PAPER or PORT TOWNSEND.
BRIEF LOCAL ITEMS.

FINE nights for moonlight sleighing.
WAsHINGToS's Birthday next Sunday.
LAY in your winters supply OF fire.
wood.
MORGAN meats tmeetsl his customers
with a smiling face.
SEVERAL child1en on the hill have been
reported with the whooping' 'cough.
DISTRICT court will meet in this city on
Monday next. See docket elsewhere.
READ our new "ad." Of confscated ar
ticles for sale, by the customs authorities.
PROBATE court session-adiourned term
at The Office of Judge Kuhn. next Mon
day.
CAPT. d. r. Gr'ffi.hi. Ii. new 70 T.
mander of the Dakota, is proving qu. c
popular.
Mr.. LANDEs displays neat sign at the
corner of the new custom house building
II you have hides. furs or wool 10 sell,
give him call.
TAXPAYERS will do well 10 possess
themselves of the Information contained
in Sheriff Mil!er's advertisement in this
issue OF the ARGUS.
"All is not gold that glitters"-neither
IS Morgan's meat, but it's valuable Tor all
that.
The handsome schooner Eudora, re-
Gently OF san Froncisco, will hereafter
grace our harbor when not on duty tor
plotting or in the sealing business. She
carries 73 tons and Is commanded BY
Capt. N. Il. Oliver one of our most
trusty pilots. She combines beauty OF
mC,el, carrying capacity ana seaworthi.
ness. We understand that Capt. Olive
is pant owner of her, and that he vii
make her profitable.
ARRIvED.-rhe sloop Quickstep and
schooner Carrie Hayden arrived this week
fom the islands. vita full cargocs fo'
Messrs. Waterman & Katz. The fOrmc"
had 6 tons of bacon and hams, 8 boxeH
eggs, 10 bales Of hides and skins, and ~
tons Of wheat and oats; the latter had 10
tons of grain and deck load OF hay.
From the steady stream OF goods going
out and the produce coming In, enc won q
hardly imagine that these were dull time.
INsTALLED.-The following officers oI
Jefferson lodge. 1. o. G.. T., were in
stalled for the pr "ent quarter. by DR.. n.
ID. Hill, G.. W. G. r.: ii. Parrish, W.
G. r.; Mrs. A. Haned, W. V. t.; r..
Biles, w. Sec.; Mrs. A. Kinds, Treas
ID. e. Parish, Chaplain; A. A. PummeI
Jr., Marshal; Miss X. Morgan. ]. G.;
John stockand. o. G.; Jas. StockanG, f
s.; Miss A. Van Bokkelcn, A. S.; F
Lotus, d. NJ; Miss X. Hill, r. II. S.
Miss ). Trenholm, l.. Ii. s.
The Pacific Mail S. s. Co.'S. steamer
City OF Chester. Il. Poleman, commander
sailed from San Francisco Oh Tuesday.
Feb. 10th, at noon, having Oh board 93
passengers, % bags mails, 8 pks treasure.
AMI 200 tons mdse. 10th and llth had
heavy INV gales and rough sea. 18th, wea-
ther modeafing, with light southerly
winds, 18th aud l4th. heavy sw gales ana
very rough sea and swell until arriving III
the Straits. 18th, at 1l:30 a. NJ, met thc
steamer Dakota. Passengers tor thc
Sound: E. w. Spencer, E. w. Guzlel
and wife, G.. W. Manville, A. j. Wallace,
o. w. Anderson, J II Thomas, Jas Ir-
vine, Miss Carson, Newark, r Brown,
FM Gray. Miss Brown. Mrs. Page, + !.
Palmer, L w Gordon, Chatham wifi,
and 2 children, j Stadarns, Thos LaIond,
J Bolindecker. WIN Young, Z Fl Ross. }
Harrison. 4 e Hadley and wife, G N
Coles, j Saladay, r Ferguson. G Zaidle
N Schnamp. A Lichtblau. II Smith, j
Knadles. W johnson. NJ Williams. Jas ),
Candy, L A Moore, L ID Reynolds, j Il
Baxer, II j Hawkins, A Harfeald, w W
Elliott, w Abbott, c Hartman, j o No
bray F w Gibson, John McKane, II =
Alurdock, W Dillon. W Marshall, A Mel
sou, G d Neill, A Sherman. j J Frazer.
JD Hill, Thos Heating, L Schneider, /
s Broshan. Il Douglass, E A Wright, )
Eel, A Erskine, j A Cowen, Wm Ham
ilton, Z Hawke, B W Erans, md twu
Chinese. Mdse. for Port Townsend, Ii
tons; Seaste, II tons; Tacoma, 8 tons;
Olympia, 4 tons.