Seattle daily post-intelligencer. [volume] (Seattle, W.T. [Wash.]) 1881-1888, 1883-08-18


The Dakota may be looked for Sun
day evening.
The latest addition TO the local bar Is
20 be found in the person OF Jonn I'm
derveod, 20 be found IN the Office VI j..
J. McGilyra-
H. T. Levy, of this city. shipped los
barrels of salmon 10 San Francisco by
the Elder, and Will ship 100 barrels 70
Honolulu direct BY the Madras
There - band Of Is head Of saddle
horses veil broke, and some Light match
teams, unbroke, q. the Dudley place,
six miles south of Seattle, for sale. Wiu
be there today only.
Another large soov load Of lumber
vas tovsd 20 Seattle from Milton yes
terday. In addition 70 the lumber fur
nished by our local mills, this city
draws largely upon the cat Of the large
mill across the bay.
We are requested By Rev. Sanusl
Greene to state that there IL room at
Hooghton 70: every one desiring 70 At
tend the Congregational Association
Forty or 6fsy more persons can Be- ac-
commodsted, and the people would be
pleased to have the opportunity OF car
ing for them-
The subscription for the reception
and celebration reached $3.50 jester
day, and il 10 thought the entire amount
deslrsd VII Be subscribed today. Sew
eral sections of the city have not a. YET
been visited, bat the COMMITTEES Will en-
deavor to give all thoss Who fed dis
posed a chance to sign the list.
The heaviest fall of rain that has oc-
CURED dnrinR the last three months Was
that Of yesterday morning. II amount
cd almost TO a drepchIng. The temper
allure was lowered twenty degrees, the
atmosphere purified, the dust laid. and
much Of he smoke dispeilsd. That
rain was genuine blessing.
The progress of the old Central
schoolhouse up Front street Is slower
than those having ii in hand anticipat-
cd. The building il heavy, too heavy
for the tackle employed, which breaks
continually under tse strain upon 1t. Is
mas not gone more than a hundred
yards 0uring the past week, and has q
hundred yet to go, though all down hill
from this on.
Messrs. Garfield, Whittlessy. and
others, under the gulss of articles OF ia
corporation as railroad company, last
week 50 uattsd upon the mud fats in
front of the town of Whatcom. An in
junction restraining them was issued by
Judge Greene at the town of Puyallup
last Sunday, which j. G. Haines, Esq,
the day following took down to serve.
These hats have become immensely val
liable of late. and have been looked
upon with covetous eyes by many per
sons.
The Rev. Bishop Warren, of the Meth
odist Episcopal church, will preach in
the u. L. CHURCH Of Seattle on Sunday,
Aug. 18th. both morning and evening, at
the usual hours. A reception will be
given the Bishop at the church on Sat
urday evening at eight O'Clock. Mem
bers and friends of the church are cor
daily invited to attend. The reception
oommittee consists of Rufus Willard,
ND, George Kinnear, Esq, Judge
Lewis, President Powell, II. Z. Park
hurst, Sarah Baxter, and Prof. Matte
l.. Hansee.
Mr. A. Harker, Formerly purser and
captain of the steamer Aida, that IA
vorits of the traveller of by-gone days,
has returned to this city after an alb
ssnce of several years. During that
tine he has been resident of Spokane
county, where he has toiled and accu-
mulated to some purpose. He is half
owner of big blacksmith shop, has an
addition TO the town of Davenport. is a
stock owner, etc. Mr.. Harker looks as
young and handsome as when in the
'70s he daily mashed the girls in the
towns on the route of the Aida.
Every day for q week or 80 past the
Chronicle here has headed the Victoria
dispatch as special to that paper. 1t is
in no sense of the word special. to that
paper, but On the contrary comes along
TO the Posr-INTELLIGKNcER, and goes TO
q paper in Tacoma, two papers in Port
land and one in San Francisco. II the
telegraph company should put in bill
for those dispatches as specials our
neighbor would set up loud squeal no
doubt. Other dispatches are put in the
same paper similarly marked that are
clipped from exchanges, q notable one
being that from Los Angeles in yestsr-
days issue, which was loaded, marked
special and its date raised. Our neigh
Dor should not descend to suoh dirty
work.