The daily intelligencer. [volume] (Seattle, Wash. Territory [i.e. Wash.]) 1876-1881, 1880-05-11
LOCAL PARAGRAPHS.

Francisco.
Col W C Squire sgain takes his de-
parture this evening.
The Grand Lodge of Odd Fellows for
Oregon will meet in Portland On the.
18th inst.
Hall & Paulson have int Oh board
the bark Lizzie WilIiams 200 bed-teafs
for shipment TO San Francisco
Among the passengers on the upward
bound steamer Of this evening will be
Captain Harding, who. by way of
Portland, Is of for San Francisco.
The New Market Tbestricnl Com
pany, under Chas Lindsey will be
here on the 18th, and entertain sour
people on the. evenings Of the 18th,
Goth and 21st.
The Minstrel perfornance Of Gstnr-
day night next will BE- good. People
are coming on specially chartered boats
from Gamble. Madison and Blakely, tn
witness it,.
Miss Lizzie Ferry came down on the
Messenger yesterday to spend few
days in our city. Mrs Trencbard is
here from Astoria. visiting her sister,
Mrs Wadleigh..
Tie genial Clark Ferguson, of Sno-
homish City. is at present doing Seattle.
Mr. Ferguson is one Of the most pleasant
and clever gentlemen within the circle
of our acquaintance.
Hops are selling in San Francisco At
from $3 to 81 274 per hundred weight.
and potatoes at from 80 to 60 cents for
old and 81 50@2 for new
Forty tons Of mail matter were re-
ceived at San Francisco. one day not
long since. from the East. Abont the
same time 600 bags mail matter went
East from that city iu single day.
Ex-Governor Newell, Of New Jersey,
recently appointed Governor of Wssh-
ington Territory. vii! not. leave his
home at Bordentown fs the Pacific
coast for several weeks, having i,npor-
tant private business to transact.
The indications are good that the
North Pacific will enter victori. har-
Dor on the Oath with big lot Of PEG
Pile on board, About forty at. Port
Townsend contemplate going. twenty
five at Port Gamble besides those frem
Seattle and Portlerd efasri~f 'sat
A private telegram from Delegate
Brents and Col. Prorser. dated May 9Th,
to Il G Stuart. Esq. of Olympia, aays
that he was confirmed as Receiver of
the Land Office there the day before.
His appointment WAS announced about
three months ago, and has remsis,ed on
the Senate calendar, Enacted upon. ever
since.
The Victoria iStand.ud says that
steamboat fares over. there have gone
MP. For some time past the Western
Slope has been carrying passengers
from Victoria to Yale for 81 80 The
advanced price is $50 to New Vest
minister and IS from tnere to Yale
Skagit bound miners will bear this in
mind.
On Thursday. the Sd of June.
steambo excursion, and picnic will
be enjoyed by the Methodist Episcopal
Sunday School. Children Of the school
will 90 free, but adults will be charged
fifty cents for the Eropud trip. II will
be public to all, aud all are invited TO
60. The proceeds will be devo.ed to
the purchase of Sunday School library
We learn that Charles A White, e E.
has returned from the mountains, where
he has been looking for a new rou'e
throughsthe QAscAdss for the Northern
Pacific, and has found the Pierson Pass
. good and fessible route, eight hun
dred feet lower tlsp tbs, Cowlitz. He
pronounces II the nt'ss route f"rnngh
the mountains. So the OLYMPIC Ifai1-
script says -.
The Gsash Lodge x Odd Fellows u
Washington Territory will convene in
Vancouver today. II 10 70 be hoped
that this body will otsagain act as
though Ashalhed Of rs record. but will
permit ths psbIias.lon Of thsa sss,s
through the presy % the ifrfH N9 a Az
'he last Two ssssl9os tpesopiooeeaaoga
ana annual s'asassscs were ksps ssom
the pubic. ga hs.s.sasoa .sxssssos5 i
The bArretohctsry' hss Nhst appears
to the average locker oh "a sI0lrhsnse
supply 1t bolts. sThs whasf b cosered
all over.with tliems and the ,duartity
cannot b expresaed shest OF msny hun.
drsd cords. The prSpArssl stan 10 also
there in immense Quantity and. ~ the
rate the establishment 't,rns it ont. it
will not be msny days before fairs