, 1880-03-18
PUGET SOUND ARGUS.
OFFICIAL pap3a or PORT TOWNSEND.
BRIEF LOCAL ITEMS.


ming to make themselves "Smelt."
SIMPLE dict makes healthy Children"
Feed them on Morgan's steak and see.
"Promise little and do much" Eat
MorgAu's steak and be happy.
THE public aucjion Of Col. G.. o. Hal
lerS furniture aud effects at COupeville
will take place on Tuesday, 23d inst.
Mr.. I. j. Weeks, of Sun Juan, will
conduct servleps in the Presbyterian
church at this place on Sunday next.
"WLY is Il focus like stock farm: 1t is
a place where the rays meet (meat).'
Plenty of it at Morgan's. Il
Mr.. 5. Waterman, of this place, goes to
San Francisco on the Chester. All orders
entrusted to him will be carefully attended
to.
THE charges made NJ ainst DR.. Willard
Superintendent of the Hospital tor Insane,
were thrown overheard, rs too trivial to
uenlllu an lhVcslISh'lol.
L THIS Is the time to prevent the approach
OF typhoid and diphtheria by examining
your sewers and drains. IAN ounce OF
prevention, etc.
Nix. G. W. Holt, OF this pace left here
on Tuesday last for DungeneSs, for The
purpose of removing the fog bell at that
place to the lighthouse just erected at
Point no.Point.
TIE stea mer Alex Duncan left this
place for Portland, Oregon, with full
freight list, consisting in part ofone thous-
aud barrels ol lime from san Juan, aud
45O0 gallons Of fish OIL
THE wreck of the bark Dillarrce, on the
Columbia river bar was solely the fault Of
vessel and not of the bar, so the Portland
papers say. Tie passage Of the bar is en-
tirely safe, ouly the coniounded vessef
Didn't see ii. ..s
MIR. Hammond requests Us to's'ate that
the Home Mutual Insurance Company Of
san Frauci}CO, through its agent, Nj.
rhos. Phillips, ct this place, hns prompt
" made full and satisfactory. payment OF
insurance on his house rcctlttly burned.
The steamship Dakota arrived here Oh
Monday torcnoon. Aiarge proportion OF
the passengers consisted of miners on
their way to the Skngir gold fields, but
considering that there is eight feet Of snow
in Rnby creek, according to reliable re-
port we thuk ir rather early tor prospect
ing.
We understood some timo ago that an
arrangement lad been entered into by
our merchants, for the closing Of their
stores ut a reasonable hour in the evening
Whether such IL resolution was ever
adopted or not we cannot say, but we do
know thar business houses are kept open
here until 8 p. NJ, daily. thing mhcard
of in any other town north of San Fran
cisco.
SINCE our account of the collision be-
tween the Oregon and the Gcrinana We
learn that Capt. Stratton, of the Port
Angeles lighthouse. first discovered the
Oregon and went to her assistance, and
had made her distressed condition known
to Capt Munroe, of the Dispatch, before
the arrival OF the WOcott upon the scene.
The Dispatch was attempting to tow the
Oregon to a port of safety when relieved
by the Wolcott. we like to see credit
given where credit is due.
SAN Francisco AND TIE CHINESE
Tie latest advices from San Francisco i'll
torn us that 800 U. $. troops have been
masscd in and near the city, aud an al-
ditlonal force of 900 men Is Ell route. The
workingmen are considerably eXclred over
the movement. and many assert that the
authorities are trying to force them into n
quarrel, The capit nli,ts are using every
effort to preserve peace and protect lives
and property, but the hoodIum element
seems to throw every obstruction in the
way OF peaceable settlement of this
question, so that time only can tell what
the result will be.
UNITED STATES COMMISSIONER the
last term OF the U. 5. District Court held
IN this town, His Honor Chief Justice
Greene appointed James G. Swan, Esq.
u. 5. Commissioner for the Third .Iudici1I
District Of Washington Territory, to re-
side in Clallam county, but with the right
to hold Il Commissioners Court in any
part OF the Third Judicial District in which
he may be called on to serve. This ap.
pointment has special reference to the
lower portion of the sound, and will ell
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