Seattle daily post-intelligencer. [volume] (Seattle, W.T. [Wash.]) 1881-1888, 1882-06-27

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LO G A L.
Unicum at Cospers.
Masquerade skating carnival to-mor-
row nigh
The weather is now of the most desir-
able June description.
To Thomas Heaton, of Vancouver,
has been awarded patent for dc'ice
for catching fish.
Tba Messenger will not leave Tor up
Sound this morning until ~ O'CLOCK.
Tia sseamsbip walls Walls went 10
e.s vsstsrday and the Umatilla has tax
an her birth at the shutes.
Mr. pridham, Of B. G. Dun d Co.'S
Commercial Agency, il again IN thus
c;tv. where be will spend an INDEFINITE
period.
The ship Blackwell, from Hastings
a6iIIa. British Columbia, bound 70 Mel
bourne. il reported dismasted on Mel
honrne' A sfearper was sent to her as
sistance.
Johnny Corlets. q boy eight years Old,
in attempting TO leap from the w1af. .h a.
Napa TO Q boat lying aioneslos .ns
wharf, fell into the wafer ano ""'
drowned.
Dong Gong, q hightoned Chiness
nreacher. from Portland, who mas Deeh
snendiuc few days among his brethren
In this city, returned to his "epioo'
homo yesterday.
The new ship Henry Failing, loading
- Ph;ladolDhia. in the largest ship OF
Hmaricon bottom that ever entered that
,,oy4 Sha IA 1876 tons register. ana nsf
Carrying capacity 1000 tons.
Il ia said that Capt. s. w. Perciyai
has settIed the Losses occasioned by the
s;rkin0 Of a barge load OF freight AT
1nvYnnia few weeks since, the accident
co9tinU him about two thousand DOT
lars.
The schooner Champion. which has
cone north ON trading expedition, re-
nOrts seals numerous TO the hofth Vi
Fancouver's Island. On single day
the! Indians at Fort simpson sou '''
skins.
Sutherland d Co. have Just opened
large and fine stock of groceries IN the
Onera House building. Give them q
call. and aee then what they can and
viii do in the way Of goods at low
prices.
The Walls Wallans are now consider
inc the material to be used in their new
sevanfeen thousand dollar school house
Briok IA favored, but brick costs more
than lumber, and the money IN hand
viii not put up large enough house II
brick Is used.
The steamship Dakota arriveaehere o,
3o'clock Sunday morning, ana Jay al
day at Yesler's wharf discharging cargo
after which she proceeded ON lier way
mn the Sound. She brought more pas
Nm -ers and freight to this port than
10 ali the other Sound ports combined.
The farmers of Palisade, New, have
sdouted a new method of exterminat
inc Qrasshoppers. Straw Ia strewn owe
the fields in which they abound, and, US
the cool air of the evening comes, they
take shelter under the straw. At night
the straw il set on fire and countless
Rrasshoppers are burned.
Twelve fino staterooms were placed on
the upper deck Of the Dakota while IN
Ban Francisco last, some OF which have
three beds and some two, and IN the az
gregats having thirty beds. They are
among the most comfortable rooms on
the ship, and in the summer must be
chosen in preference to all others.
William Keene, lad fourteen years
old, recently hired horse in Los Angel
o.. which he rode to Santa Ana and
there cold It. Hiring horse there, he
rode to Orange and several other places,
in each of which he attempted to sell
the horse. He. was Overtakenl in the
old Santa Monica canyon and arrested.
They have had little squabble in
OLYMPIA over the exaction by the post
master of one dollar for each key taken
hy box holders. How the postmaster
ever got back bis keys without such a
deposit is more than We can imagine.
and his course was certainly not that OF
postmasters elsewhere, or that contem-
plated BY the law.
The steamship Dakota brought from
San Francisco to Victoria Is passengers
and 526 tons freight, TO Port Townsend
II passengers and 40 tons freight, to So
attic 10 passengers and 415 tons freight,
10 Tacoma 81 passengers and 93 tons
freight and to Olympia E passengers
and "a tons freight, Total, 80 passsn
gers and ll68 tons freight.
400 0oOs =. OtoII yoetcIuuy uiOukut
over another load of Cinnamon, alriv-
ing here with them three hours after her
usual time. These Cinnamon ate all
vaocinated at Port Townsend before be-
ing allowed TO leave the boat, whish job
gives the doctors thereN nice little hand
ful Of money. The Cinnamon are
bound for the scene Of railroad work
feur hundred miles east of us.
The Rive-King Concert Company
we're to play in New Tacoma last Satur
day night, and they went there for that
purpose. The people assembled, and
waited, and waited, and finally became
Tired and dispsrssd, taking back their
money at the door. The steamer, it
oeems, vas loaded down with lime, and
could not arrive in time. This is only
enc Of the many dissppointments occas-
toned BY the irregular manner in which
the U. r. 4. N. boats are run.