Seattle daily post-intelligencer. [volume] (Seattle, W.T. [Wash.]) 1881-1888, 1883-01-04

w n scott Il Co. offer for sale shin-
s,ss and timothy hay, the latter At tio
per ton.
The steamer Idaho brought from the
lower Sound 70 passengers 70 TINS Guy
yesterday. ,v r,
Puruer varney, of the Geo. w: Elder,
haa laid as under obligations Tor tne
usual favoB.
IA. Wainwright, ESQ.,, has gone on
. t,ur ~ business into the Columbia
river country.
w. Byron Daniels and Rosina A. Jag
~ Vancouver, are to be married on
the 18th inst.
The General Harney, Captain Lloyd,
In loading a cargo of hay and apples al
CoupeyiIie for New Westminster.
A. Walters, postmaster Of Tacoma,
.ovro down On the Messenger yesterday,
and vii return on the Geo. 4. Starr
today.
IA. 0iIliland, of LacODuer, was pre-
aantsd an elegantly embroidered ma
comic reQalia on Christmas by his
friends Of the Order.
A frstclass shoemaker is wanted at
Coupeyille. There Is splendid bust
ness that can Ia built up IN that line
for whoever locates there.
The steamer Lily wilr be hauled out
en- the Mitchell ways ten days hence,
when q new boiler, now engine and new
machinery will be put in her.
Only about $1,000 out of 100000, or
tam per cent. Of the county tax, want do
linouent with the expiration OF looZ.
This is cleaning it up very closely.
Mr.. BausrIe of the Tacoma Furniture
Factory has gone TO San francisco 70
buy machinery for door ana SASH iao-
tory to be put up in New Tacoma.
Ga the End Of January n letters we're
,s0istered in the Seattle postOffice, ~
money orders issued, and $5~ OF money
ordars paid. Il was one OF the biggest
da,G work ever done in the office.
The logging Arm Of Eaton d Forces
Ear. at Holmes Harb0r, WILDLY Island,
viii renew operations in a few days. A
M. Cation Ia building road three miles
north Of their place and will establish
logging camp.
i'm. Buckley has taken charge OF the
Northern Pacific Railroad Company q
affairs IN this Territory, Oregon, Idaho
and Western Montana, having relieved
Gen. j. w. 6prague yesterday. Gen.
SpraQue will leave for California next
Tuesday.
The holiday week trip of the steamer
from San Francisco was, in the number
Of passengers, the lightest of tho year.
Ghe brought from the city only LIB pas
esnrors. Of whom were for Port Town
aend. 10 for Olympia, u for Tacoma, ~
for Viotoria and 68 for Seattle.
w. d. Humphrey is no longer ticket
agent for the Pacific Coast Steamship
1omnany. He continues, however, 10
reprcueut the o. Il. d N. Company.
Tickets for the steamship company will
hereafter be sold by the immediate em-
ployees Of the company IN their own
ofice.
Later reports place the loss by the
burning Of the Tacoma mill machine
ehop 6 about &c, 10, instead OF double
and treble that sum a. before reported.
Much Of tho stun burned consisted OF
machines and tools that's only par
TALLY destroyed. There was no insur'
amos. Ohas. Hanson, the principal pro.
psietor Of the mill, viii arrive IN few
days from San Francisco.
Every regular physician and every
druggist in the city IL earnestly request.
"a % be present at Masonic Hall next
Thursday evening, promptly, at half
past seven. Subject for investigation
snd discussion: 'sThe decimal system
Of writing prescriptions" The now
method will Be explained and illustrat.
Cd, and IL IL important that tho physi
CLANS and druggists Of this city be pres