Seattle daily post-intelligencer. [volume] (Seattle, W.T. [Wash.]) 1881-1888, 1883-10-09
BREyIrIEs.

The Hayward brought in few more
Cinnamon last night.
Steamship Willamette. loaded With
coal, went to sea yesterday.
A letter is at this Office for Henry F.
Swanson" Will Henry call and get it!
The Front street water main is being
extended to Capt. Gilmore's new build
ing.
A beautiful little stationary engine is
| lying at the railroad wharf, consigned
to G. Hanford.
Steamship Dakota, with fair freight
and passenger lists, left on Sunday last
| for San Francisco.
Lively runaway downMill street about
Pm. yesterday. Team stopped at
wharf. No damage.
A very artistic sign was painted on
the window of NJ. A. keily's drug store
yesterday afternoon.
Donovan & Meany, the architects,
have dissolved partnership, Mr.. Meany
stepping out of the business.
Rainy and dark last night. Mud get
ting deep on some streets. Bad time for
pushing street improvements and for
building.
Another clerk has been added to the
force in the Seattle posteffice and mat
ters there move more smoothly than
thay did last week.
For lack of room at her own wharf, in
use by other boats, the North Pacific
put up alongside the Yesler wharf yes,
terday afternoon.
The rainfall of Sunday night last was
one of the HEAVIEST of the season, turn
Tag dry streets into mudholes of the
most pronounced character.
The regular meeting of the Guild of
Trinity Church, will be held at the Rec
tory on Wednesday, at 3 O'Clock Z. Nj.
A foil attendance Is requested.
Pref. Nitschke is in town, and will
stay few weeks. A good opportunity
to get faithful and thorough work doRs
ir piano tuning, regulating. etc.
Capt. Wall has been relieved from the
command of the steamship San Pedro.
Judging by the collisions encountered
while under him, he was dear master
to the owners.
Steamer Gypsy came into port from
Bellingham Bay yesterday morning,
bringing LEO tons sandstone to be used
| ia the foundation of the new Catholic
school building.
Ground was broken yesterday for the
construction of building on the corner
| of Pike and Front streets, to be used as
meat market. No better uptown
stand can be found.
Lawyers Lewis and Strive went down
to Port Townsend Saturday and return
ed yesterday, their trip being connected
with the affairs of those interested i'll
the Port Discovery sawmill.
Messrs. Collins, Ferguson and Butler
took advantage of the opportunity af-
fOrded by One-day recess to spend
Sunday with their constituents and
friends of the middle Sound.
There were two cases up in the police
court yesterday; one of assault and
battery, the other of drunk and disOr-
derby. They we're fined SIS and costs,
and $l2 80 and costs respectively.
The Maison DOre garden was packed
to repletion last evening with an evil
IDENTIFY satisfied audience. The reporter
counted 300 passing out at the close of
the performance. 1t is pleasant place
to while away an evening.
| uo run hIlu CduUy otduu WulOu IOI
merly stood on the site of the Opera
House, still ODstructs the streets in its
slow progress toward its new resting
place. Some people wonder whether
the old shanty Is worth all this trouble.
James Stewart is anxious to hear
from William Stewart, his brother, who
is supposed to be somewhere on Puget
Sound. The lost brother is requested
to call upon or write to James Stewart
at the New England Hotel in this city.
| With this issue the DAILY Posi- IN
TELLIGENCER begins its fifth volume.
Though mere infant in years, it Is the
Oldest paper in the city-a rather re-
markable statement to make in SO old,
populous and wealthy a city as Seattle.
When the w. X. Merwin re-enters the
SnOhOmish river trade her former days
of arrival and departure will be reversed,
she leaving here on Monday, Wednes-
day, and Friday, and returning the al
ternate days. She will be out again by
or before the close of the week.
The construction of new houses goes
on without sign of cessation, and one
thing is noticeable about it and that is
that the houses under way are generally
large, fine aud costly, far above the av-
erage. In fact, two of the business
blocks and two of the residences are the
four largest houses of their kind in the
city.