, 1880-01-22
PUGET SOUND ARGUS.
OFFICIAL PAPER OF PORT TOWNSEND.
BRIEF LOCAL ITEMS.

shop
MAJ. Morris has been away on visit
to Victoria.
The new advertisement for S. W. Levy
will appear soon.
EGGS have been selling as low as 80
cents per dozen.
THE time for another session of district
court will soon be here.
On Monday the revenue cutter Wolcott
''coaled up'' at Union wharf.
BoRN.-In this city. on the 10Th inst,
to the wife OF j. f. Sheehan, son.
No teams have been over the road TO
Port Discovery since the snow storm,
THE late snow and rains have caused
the hill to cave away in several places.
The schooners Mary Parker and Letitia
arrived on Sunday last, from Victoria.
BUSINESS is dull, but the ARGUS job of
flee continues to scoop EN- in" right
lively.
A LARGE shed connected with the Hoko
caunery was broken in BY the recent
snow.
ONE of our local tonsoria artists varies
Il familiar adage by saying that "Ihe
early bird lays the egg
SPRING is coming. At least there ar;
premonitory symptoms, Notwithstanding
the "late unpleasantness.' y
Mr.. Holcomb is getting new bills OF!
fare printed for his restaurant. His Gus
tom is increasing with steady growth.
PETITIONS for the reappointment OF
Governor Ferry are being circulated aud
literally signed all over the lower Sound
counties. ..a
MoRGAN's chief concern now adays is to
keep his shop supplied with meat. His
customers buy so much that they KEEP
his stock low. =
WE learn that Capt. Peter Mackie' has
retired from the command of the steamer
City OF Chester, and that Capt. Polemal
will succeed him.
Dir. Grose, our newly established bar
ber, is doing business in style. His sign
will be found in front of the rooms torn-
erly occupied by the Office saloon.
PRESIDENT Minor. Of the Puget Sound
Telegraph Co., las used extraordinary
diligence to get the line in order again
since the severe storms Of this month.
WHEN you send u communication TO II
newspaper always tell the editor he neeu
not publish it if he does mt want to. He
is always grateful for such kind pcrms
sion.
THOSE who read the advertisement OF
the Chicago prairie Farmer inserted
in our columns to-day. will fiud some
thing of interest to m-especially il
they are farmers.
The steamer Favorite went to Neal
Bay this week instead of the Dispatch.
She LETT this place OH Sunday. Among
the passengers were: Judge Swan, for
Neah Bay, and G. +. Clapp for Dnnge-
ness.
WE are gratiied to learn that Dir. Fred
Reese, of this place, has been appointed
3d assistant light keeper at Dungeness.
Fred is a competent, industrious and
steady young man. He will prove
faithful keeper. Mr.. Kingsland, the for
mer incumbent, has resigned his position
and gone to San Francisco.
ON Monday the steamship California
arrived from Portland and departed again
for Alaska. She was about week behind
her usual time. Bad weather on the Col
umbia river Is assigned as cause OF de-
tention. AS her contract calls for mails
from Port Townsend TO Alaska, the qncs-
tion naturally arises as to her right to be
detained iu the Columbia river.
RENOVATION Monday Last Mr.. H.
Landes moved into his new office in the
lower part of the Custom House building
where he will be found in the future when
not at the store of S. w. Levy. He all
thorizes us to inform the public that his
agency for Mr. Levy will in no wise affect
his other and regular business.
To CAPITULATE.-The latest news
from the seat OF war indicate that hoStili-
ties between the military authorities ut
Fort Townsend and some of the civil
forces at this place (at least one Of the