Seattle daily post-intelligencer. [volume] (Seattle, W.T. [Wash.]) 1881-1888, 1882-07-18

LOCAL.

Mr.. Reed, the Mill street nurseryman,
is about to build n greenhouse - fee'
vide and 1C0 feet long.
DIR. Eggars has sold his block, in
OLYMPIA, to Ed. Steiner and G. b. Mann,
and will soon 90 back to Germany.
The engagement is announced OF
Lieut.. J. s. Mills, U. 8. A., and Miss
P1ddook. daughter Of Bishop Paddock
The family Of J. J. Me0ilvra have e.
turued from their country homo on tne
M. and are now living In Seattle
again.
Thu eost Of removing the Skagit river
lam r. esiimatsd at 10000. which is
1ore nooey than the farmers In that
vicinity c.n False.
For the district Of Willamette, Ore
CON, the values of the imports for the
month OF May. 1852, were $S,zl2; value
Of exports, $26l, SIS.
Cherries are spoken Of by the Stand
ard a. being plentiful in Olympia. here
they were plentiful q month ago, but are
nov nearly all gone.
The first of the iron steam colliers
built at Philadelphia for the Contra
Pacific Railroad Company WAS named
the Tacoma. Her launching took place
July LIST.
The steamers Western Slope and Il.
r. Rithet had race last week from
Victoria to New Westminster. the Rithet
getting away from the Slope to the ex-
tent of % minutes.
r. 8. Oakley, for q time engaged in
the real estate business in Seattle, was
married in Monticello, New York, June
9Th, tho bride being Miss Sarah Y.
Rossa, of tho last named piac>.
From sprinkling with sea water the
streets of the lower part OF town are be-
coming strongly impreRnated with salt,
which shows plainly whore not broken
BY the tramp Of horses and cutting OF
wheels.
Those Interested will please take no
tice of tho sailing from San Francisco
of the schooner American Boy on Satur-
day next, for this port. She will fur
nish chance TO get up big freights at
low rates.
Owing 10 tho failure Of Prosecuting
Attor aey Evans to fill the necessary
brief in time, In accordance with 3D.
uroms Court rules, the case against
CaUt. Geo. d. Hill, Treasurer of King
county, will not bs tried at this term OF
that body.
Kellogg & Anderson, of the City Drug
Store, have dissolved partnership; DIR.
Anderson quitting the business, and Mr..
Kellogg continuing 1t alone. MI. hei-
loQQ is an accomplished druggist. knows
this local trade thoroughly, and should
mako great success OF the business.
The sail vessels at Tacoma arc the IL.
&. Gregory, Iroquois, Jonathan Bourne,
of Boston, Pleiades, of Portland. Maine,
Lizzie Williams and Aureola; two be-
inc wheat ships, two coal carriers. and
four lumber drOghers. Their nation.
slities are American, Spanish and
French.
Il il said that the Dakota will be sent
20 Alaska next month instead OF the
Idaho; the latter the latter taking the
place of the former on tho route to the
Sound. An excursion north to Alaska
on the Dakota will be luxurious way Of
spending the first three weeks Of the
dry, dusty, smoky month of August.
A Clarke county boy, named Alexan-
der Stevenson, WAS shot last Thursday
BIZ another boy with pistol. The 9TH
or 10y was fo0ling with the weapon, it
went Of Internationally. the bullet pass
Ing through Stevenson's arm. Moral
boys shouldn't fool with pistols. and
when they do other boys should dig out.
The smoke from the forest fires, We'd
nesday, became almost sitting, and Oh
iects across the bay could scarcely be
discerned from the dark paN which had
settled down over us. Cinders from the
forest fell several hours INCREASINGLY, re-
mjnding one Of the fate of ancient Cit
ioe which were swallowed up by falling
ashes; and had we lived in a less fav-
ored region, whore eruptiOns and cy-
clones, and tornadoes and floods, are
common, We might have felt some anx-
iety to don the ascension robes in time
90 get q fair start for New Jerusalem.
The smoke still remains, to some extent,
but the barnt binders have ceased fall
inG.-Olympia Standard.
A terrible FIRE prevails in tho words
north of town. It is said to have swept
over several hundred acres, and Is now
close up to the outskirts. among which
cinders are dropp ng in large quantities
and the smoke Is almost sufocating.
Its said to b I'VE started near the Odd
Fellows' Cemetery, to have swept over
tho Kiunear land. and to be now favag-
ing the Mercer and Denny lands. Con-
siderable cordwood has been burned
At might tho sky is lit up by the flames
- though q town we're ablaze. The
wood Of every tres and every sound log
In the neighborhood Of Seattle is valu-
able, and TO go it ruthlessly destroyed
In this way IN shocking.
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