Seattle daily post-intelligencer. [volume] (Seattle, W.T. [Wash.]) 1881-1888, 1882-12-14
nAILY POST INfELLIGENCER.

A aide ON the Northern Paci6c bau.
road near Kalama, yesterday. delayed
the trains and mails for several hours
II ia reported that the steamship Da-
kota will be laid up for the winter and
her place on the route assigned TO the
Idaho.
A aeon az the General Harvey Is
launched from Mitchell's ways, the
steamer Dispatch will DO hauled out and
repaired.
Court adjourned ut Tacoma yesterday.
but will re-cOnvene on the third OF
January. Judge Greene returned home
last evening.
Real estate is selling freely in Vic
toris. G. Bossi boueht two lots there
the other day. for $3.50, and w. 7. Say
nard one for $4,000.
The Geo. w. Elder brought b91 tons
of freight tn Victoria, 81 tons to Port
Townsend. 165 to Seattle, 1A for Taco
ma, and 3S for Olympia.
Alex. Allen, the ship builder who has
been engaged Mt his trade for the past
year at Nanaimo, is home again, and
will probably remain on tho Sound.
The body of the late Captain Curtis
arrived yesterday on the steamship
Walla Walla, and both he and his de-
ceased wife will be buried together
Alta.
Tho bark Corea, of San Francisco,
finished loading oats at Utsalady last
week. She took about 10000 sacks to
be delivered at San Francisco, for $3.50
per ton.
The Directors of the Puget Sound
Shore Line Railroad Company held
meeting in this city Tuesday evening.
and, among other business. reelected
the old officers for the ensuing year.
Miss Closhier, of tho Kensingron Art
Rooms of Portland, arrived ia this city
last Tuesday night, and is ready to give
instructions in all kinds OF fancy work.
A Of The Arlington.
Mrs. 8. F, Mathews, hair dresser, wig
and toupee maker, Is at room A Of The
Arlington, ready to execute orders or
cell goods in her line ON call. She docs
all kinds Of hair work, making jewelry
speciality and guarantees to match any
sample given her.
The Enterprise reports that the Nc
Intosh place on Guemes Island. recently
purchased by +. Van Valkenburg, was
sold by that gentleman last week to
Macintosh & Reeves, bankers, Of Sc
attic, for $500. Surely there is not
much money in that kind of trading.
F.v. Andrews, agent for Oregon and
Warrington, Ia here for few DAYS in
tho interest OF the Equitable Life As
surance Society. The Equitable has
over 500, 0O0, 100 of risks. over 81. 0OO,-
00Q OF assets aud surplus Of nearly
&l0O000O0. No company is better or
safer than the Equitable.
Alste Alta says that very little now
remains of the bark Great Western.
which Was burnt some months ago at
Oakland, and subsequently sold to Mig
hell, who broke her up. As soon as abe
Ia firished he will give his whole atten-
ton to the bark Moreno. and will
break her mp ~ soon as possible.
From L. Prang & Co., Of Boston, We
have received q beautiful collection of
p1ixs Ohristmas cards, which they have
Published this season, and which are
the most elegant OF their kind We have
yet had the pleasure Of seeing. Prane's
Art works are the finest in the world,
being unequaled either in Europe or
America, which character they have
sustained steadfastiy during q dozen
years past.
Almost three hundred and fifty men
are ct work on the railroad building to
connect Seattle with the line of the
Northern Pacific; three hundred Of
whom arc employed in the Puyallup
and Stuck River Valleys, and the re-
mainder ut this end, near Renton. A
half mile Of track has already bsen laid.
with stesl rails, and il in use. The work
ID going ahead little slowly, but with
the better weather and longer days CON-
ing viii b hastened to tho end, which
will DO reached. ws hope, early in the
summer.