, 1881-11-18
NEWS ITEMS.

ing about a >upcrahuntance Of mud.
WINTER OVEESIOES-for Ladies, Gents
Misses and Children. at the
SAN FRANCISCO STORE.
II. G. Strive, Esq, and family have
jus, returned from a trip TO California.
THE smallpox at New Tacoma has
caused travel on the SQUAD to cease
almost.
THE Dispatch broke her propeller COM
ing from Neah Bay last trip, and ha-
been delayed ever since.
IT is a significant fact that most of tile
newspapers in Washington Territory are
III favor of woman suffrage.
TIE largest stock OF Gents Furnishing
goods-you can tind a
SAN FRANCISCO STORE.
THE Seattle ''POst.Inte!ligencer'' prom
iSes to enlarge and otherwise improve in
the near future. Sounds prosperous.
CAPT. j. 5. Lawson, of the L. S Geo
detic survey, paid his many Port Town
send friends welcome visit this week.
TIE Pilot bill. the woman suffrage act
and the Sunday law were slaughtered in
the Council after passing the lower house.
WINTER GLOVES-tor Ladies and Gents,
at GROSS BROS.
REV. l.. \. Banks, of Vancouver. has
retired from the editorial management Of
the Censor" OyerwOrk is the cause as
signed.
THE Palouse Gazette" is to be an
illustrated paper after the first OF January.
Bro. Hopkins is ''chOck full of enter
prise.
EASTERN Washington is having sur
felt OF sneak thieves, and the "Watch-
man" clamors for the introduction of open
air necktie parties.
NEWS FOR THE LADIES.-ReceiVcd
Another fine assortment of Dolmans and
listers, ut the
SAN FRANCISCO STORE.
GAIT. Curtis BrOwnfield came to town
on Monday to renew the papers of the
steamer J. b. Libby, running from Seattle
u othOiilc anu way pOIlS.
THERE is movement at Washington
for the admission OF Dakota as state,
but it is doubtful whether the democrats
will allow it rs Tonga Utah remains out.
A BILL for the regulation of the prac-
tice OF medicine and surgery has passed
the Legislature. It was conceived under
good Intentions, end we hope may work
well.
You can find fine and lalge stock of
Ladies' Underwear, at GROSS Bros. =
Nix. Henry Willard has intimated that
the Northern Pacific will be finished in
time to ride by train from New York to
Portland, via the North Pacific, on the
lst day OF Oct. 1888.
On Monday, while coming from Taco
ma to Seattle, the steamer Otter expert
enced such heavy wind and sea that she
had TO turn round bow to it, and her pas
scngers put OH life preseryers.
MEssRs. Andrew Abernethy and Chas,
M. Robertson, well known i'll this and
Clalam counties, have just returned from
Frazer river, B. c., where they have been
employed all summer alta salmon cannery.
They report lively times and large sea-
sons work over there.
On where did you get that splendid
cOat?" ''Why at GROSS Bros They have
plenty more, and are selling them cheap
too"
ADVIcEs from Manzanillo report the
of the bark j. b. Bell She went ashore
on that date in the heavy gale reported by
telegraph, and both vessel and cargo are
total loss. She was owned by Charles
Knudsen and others of San Francisco,
and was valued at $l2, 900 and insured for
$4,000.
THE Portland Board of Trade has tleci-
ded 60 send Hon. d. p. Thompson, Mayor
OF that city, to Washington. 10 aid Ore
gon's Congressman and Senators i'll secur-
ing an appropriation to deepen the chan
mel of the Columbia river. There is en-
terprise in such a move, and our friends
are proving themselves keenly alive to
their commercial necessities.
THE largest stock of FlannelS ever
brought to Port Townsend-you can find
at GROSS BROS.
AN exchange very appropriately re-
marks that newspapers are always paid
for in advance. If the subscribers do not
so pay for them, the publisher must. for
dealers i'm paper, ink, &c, and hired help,
must have THEIR pay. Our patrons are
hereby reminded that the few dollars due
us from some or them would be accepta-
bic between this and the first OF the new
year.
IF You want such an article as n fine
buggy robe at reasonable cost, call at
Gross Bros.
Mr.. c. f. Clapp, the stirring merchant
of Dungeness. has sold out his saloon bus
iness which will hereafter be conducted by
Mr.. Joseph ioresman. Mr.. G. took IA load
of produce up the Sound last week Oh the
schooner Letitia. He has enlarged and
extended his stock of general merchan-
disc until it now comprises an assortment
of almost every conceivable kind of mer-
chandise needed in any community. AS
he buys everything in the shape of farm
produce, the residents of Clalam have lit