The daily intelligencer. [volume] (Seattle, Wash. Territory [i.e. Wash.]) 1876-1881, 1881-09-18
EDITORIAL NOTES.

E.d4 AississipIa Ieittes, whlcn Aase
cost the country Ave million dollars.
are again attacked as ..iiufes. He has
claimed for his je,ty channel in the
South pass 81 the month II the Mis.is>
sipi giTer. that the de;i5 is nowhere
less than thirty feet that i; 10 600 feet
wide and that i, IS 10 reality mag.
ni6cea, natural channel" 4 British
steamer struck ground ia tie ehsnnel
at the sea end Of the jc.ties aud the
masters Of several English vessels cer-
tify that the pavigsble chaonel. il =
stead Of being about 800 feet side. is
at points spparently not more than 100
fee, wide. and tbat just above Crane
Island they believe il 10 be impossible
for two vessels drawing twenty three
feet Of water % pass each other with.
out Gne or both takiog the ground.
The TALES, private residence 10 New
York will be one how 10 process OF
erection ., Ssvsn.y.for rth street and
Fifth avenue. II will be six stories in
hight. with a basement, q cellar, and a
sabcsllsr. making nine stories between
roof and foundation. To balance the
hight above the earb, 100 feet, there
will be breadth Of 80 feet and Q
depth of 1s5 fess. The depth below
the curb Is rs feet. The COS. IL estima.
ted at $4,000. ID. D. Mills new
building will contain nine stories.
There is no limit 10 Law to the hight
or the depth TO which buildings may
extend, but the thickness of the walls
msst 10 such -. 10 secure adsqasts
strength. TAefe lisa practical limit 70
the depth Of buildings 10 this city. A
very deep cellar will in time ga her
drainage from Dsigbboring sewers.
Nevertheless cavernous excavations of
twenty five fret depth are common.
That is the depth of the concrete foun.
dation Of the Aston estate building now
in process of erection at Broad way and
Prince streets, New York.
John Wilkes. Booth should have
been hanged. bns the gsllows was
cheated by Boston Gorbett. who, in
disobedience OF orders, shot the assas,
sin. Sergeant Mason. foolishly emulous
of initiating corbett. has attempted to
shoot c harles jules Guiteau. This in
cidsnt should cause those who have
charge of the Washington Jail to take
more precautions Agsins. the assassina,
ton Of the assassin. He should Ger.
tsinly be hanged IL the President dies.
aud will be. under the forms OF law.
A woman at st Joseph. Missouri for
got her baby daring fire in the house.
so anxious was she to save the furni-
ture. The child persisted aud the wo-
man is insane. This is worse than the
woman who threw her baby out of a
second-story window and carefully car
ried down stairs the washbowl.
Doctors fees should not always be
paid. A pretty woman at Rising Sun.
Indiana, was i'll. and doctor promised
TO cure her ii she would elope with
him. She promised. was cured. ard
they skipped.
Jere Black is so successful in exs
onsrating everybody from the respon-
sibility for the Rebellion. except the
men who fought to put it down, that
theirs 10 great demand for the publ
cation OF Lewis Cass' papers on that
period y is claimed that they wete
suppressed or destroyed by persons Of
Southern sympathies into whose ban.is
they fell.
vanderbilss residences on Fifth AVE-
uue. New York. will be the cos,liest in
the Unicn. ths outlay being sons~ here
from two 10 three millions. e.
The British Board OF Trade rettfIs
for the mouth of june and the frat half
ofthis year have been issued. The. to-
tai export Of iron and steel for the half
year. was about $50. 900 lsss than the
arst half Of $50. bat 500. 900 tons more
than in 1879. Taking the export Of
the mouth Of jane only. there Is .
slight increase on last year, and the
export for the month is almost doable
that OF June, 1879. tte ~