, 1882-08-11
From Mondays Daily.

CIRCUS!!!
WARM weather again makes farmers
smile.
Mr.. A. L. BLAKE, Inspector Of customs
at Whatcom, is in town.
HARRY TIBBALs' new dwelling house is
rapidly nearinTcompletion.
ANDREW BooUIro is rebuilding his
dwelling house. 1t looks neat and tasty.
By Seattle paper we learn that Nelse
Babcock, an old Puget Sound logger, is
dead.
The dedication of the new Catholic
church yesterday was THE sensation of
the day.
JUDGE WINGARD and brother passed
through here Saturday on their way to
Victoria.
Mr. and Mrs. Geo. Gerrish and Mr.. S.
Brooks, of Sequim, have been spendinga
few days in town.
We learn that Mr. John Carroll and
Miss Nettie McCisick, of Dungeness,
were married at that place on the Both
ult.
The Seattle Daily Chronicle has been
changed to a morning paper 1t is thrift
ty, go-ahead journal, and deserves sue
cess.
Mr.. r. COOPER, of Port Discovery, is in
town under medical treatment for an
affection of the head which threatens to
injure his hearing.
Mr.. LANDEs has on hand one of the
finest fur seal skins we ever had the pleas
ure of seeing. 1t was purchased from
the Neah Bay Indians.
J. NJ E. Atkinson, OF Newcastle, form
erly of Port Diecovery, has gone to San
Francisco on the steamer Umatilla, on Il
two weeks leave of absence.
IT perhaps is not generally known that
Port Townsend contains resident who
was a schoolmate of General w. S. Han
cock. Read what Schoolmate" says.
In last weeks Mail Mr.. J. A. Gililand,
of LaConner, announces his farewell to
the democratic party, and intention Of
affiliating with republicans hereafter.
A RECENT decision of the p. o. depart
ment is that it is illegal for rubber
stamps to be used in cancelling stamps
on letters, for the reason that indelible
ink cannot he used with them.
WEsTMAN's circus arrived today on the
steamer Favorlte. They have set up
tent alongside of the Good Templar Hall
and will open at s this evening. Go and
see the performance of Jim McCue's eel
ebrated trick horses.
Mr.. HASTINGS, our photo artist, was
utilizing old Soils rays for some of his
fine work enlarging pictures Saturday
His showing is really meritorious, and if
people had to 90 to New York to get it
done they would appreciate it.
IT seems that ]. ]. didn't 90 to Alaska
after all The Dakota was so top heavy
when she left here that it was thought
unsafe to take him on board unless he
was slowed with the freight in the hold.
He objected to this, and so stayed at
home
The enterprising" soap peddler who
recently enriched some of Port Town
sends citizens by sundry greenbacks
found in his packages Of soap and de-
pleted the pockets of many others who
invested but didn't find any greenbacks
was fired" out of Seattle by Mayor
Struve.
LATE dispatches state that Gen. U. s.
Grant and w. II. Prescott, the latter Of
Chili-Peruvian fame. have been nomina
ted by President Arthur to negotiate a
commercial treaty with Mexico. The
selection. as far as Grant is concerned, is
perhaps the best that could have been
made.
SOME OF the Seattle spectators have
been trying to play smart by jumping the
water frontage of certain lots there.
Hearing Of it, Mr.. James went up last
week TO see about some Of his property
in north Seattle. He warns all persons
through the papers there not to trespass
on said property.
Is our published report Of the proceed
ings Of the republican territorial central