Seattle daily post-intelligencer. [volume] (Seattle, W.T. [Wash.]) 1881-1888, 1883-11-16

The City Marshal of New Tacoma is
in the city.
No business at the Police Court yes
terday morning.
The trial of Harry Bray. accused of
vagrancy, has been postponed until
Saturday.
The New Tacoma public school is
taught by eight teachers and attended
by AGO children.
A lost bracelet ia advertised for in
this issue. The finder will please leave
the same at this Office.
Old soldiers at Snohomish City are
talking OF Post Of the Grand Army OF
the Republic at that place.
Steamship Geo. w. Elder will leave
the wharf here at o'clock Sunday al
ternoon for San Francisco.
The Spokane Falls Chronicle, one of
our most thrifty exchanges, comes to
as enlarged and otherwise improved.
That terrible individual. John Doe,
was up before Justice Vroonan yes er-
day, charged with assault and battery.
Lot Wilbur has resigned the Office of
Postmaster of Suohomish, and j. w.
Shaver is likely to become his success
sor.
w. k. Andrews of Spokane county is
at present on the Sound and will spend
a few days in Seattle before returning
TO his home in Cheney.
One-half the steamer Lucy is offered
for sale by III. l.. Thiron, its owner.
The Lucy is propeller, built In 1883,
and one of the best OF her class.
Mr.. G. Packard, of the Snohomish
Eye, came up on the boat yesterday.
and today will go ON to the Territorial
Capital, to remain there until Monday
next.
Another foot race between Bishop
and knighton is said to be on the pro-
gram at Olympia for next Saturday. II
will be S0-yard heats. two best in three,
for $500 side.
The proposed new King County Court
House, il built according to the Com
missioner ideas, will cost $4,000, and
will be paid for by annual tax of two
mills on the dollar.
Pickering Il Co., of the Washington
Employment Bureau, now have the field
~ themselves, and are occupying it in
the most complete manner and giving
thorough satisfaction.
Mr.. L. A. Turner is in the poultry
business bigger than ever at his new
place of residence in the southern part
of town. His place now goes under the
name of Ridge Lawn Poultry Yard. y
The members of the W. G. L. q. are
requested to attend the meeting
promptly this afternoon at 3 o'clock, in
the M. Z. Church, as usual. The COM
mittees all meet at 2:30 in the same
place.
On Monday last Rev. Isaac Dillon
shot a deer on the east side of Lake
Washington which weighed, when
dressed, over go pounds. This is said
to have been the largest deer killed In
that vicinity for some time.
The new Seattle Iron Works are al.
ready doing considerable business in
town and for towns adjacent. They are
conveniently located, have men of vim
to run them, and will turn out castings
and machinery equal to the best.
The foundations of the new Academy
of the Sisters are nearing completion
They cannot fail to attract attention by
their compactness and strength /; in.
deed, it is to be doubted whether there
is finer piece of masonry in the city
There was great rush for seats al
the Saturday evening entertainment fol-
the benefit of the Hook and Ladder
Company. Two hours after the boz
sheet was opened every chair had been
engaged. There will be crowd there
surely.
An empty wagon got SO badly mired
on Washington street yesterday after
noon that two powerful horses were able
to start it only with the greatest diff
Guilty. This is sadly suggestive of the
condition of that fashionable thor
oughfare."
The woman suffrage bill has passed
both branches of the Legislature, and
with its approval by the Governor the
women of Washington will have the
privilege of voting on terms of entire
equality with the men, and in this re-
spect they will be favored beyond the
women of any of the other States Oh
Territories of the Pacific slope.
The extent to which advertising by
cards has gone of late is hardly to be
realized by those who have never invest
ed in that direction. A drug firm here has
found out, however. They got several
thousand cards of 45 different designs
at an expense to them of SIS. Their
cards were all attractive, and number
OF them very pretty.
Mr.. F. Matthias has returned from
Portland, to which city his recent visit
was the first he had made since 1862
Mr.. Matthias lived in Portland in 1850
and 1851 and also in 1856 and 1862, and
has always retained warm interest in
the place and it's people. He was great.
ly pleased with the fine appearance of
the city, its buildings, streets, business
and live people, and Though he prefers
Seattle, he is willing to admit il will
take long time to place this city fairly
alongside that in the race for supre-
macy.
Railroad delays at Portland are CON-
planned of by people from the East.
The train gets in there in the morning
just too late for passengers to catch the
boat for Kalama and train for the
Sound, compelling people bound this
way to spend twenty-four hours in that
city. Those coming ON the Saturday
morning train are Obliged to remain
forty eight hours. This, of course, is a
matter Of no aggravation whatever to
Portland. whose thrifty business men
see a point TO the delay quite agreeable
TO them.