Seattle daily post-intelligencer. [volume] (Seattle, W.T. [Wash.]) 1881-1888, 1883-12-28

tefday morning.
J. n. Oolman ID in San Fransisos. o.
private business.
Wsdnssday1 night vaa an unusuaily
Quiet one upon the streeeA
Omeer Manning. Who was unvell for
. day or 20, II again on bis beas.
Tho county officers are nov fairly
installed In their new boildinR. jua a.
II there never had been IRE.
Judge Hoyt and wife, OF Olympia,
have gone East. and Mi1 Lizzie Ferry,
Of this city, accompanied them.
A pleasant little tea party vas en-
loved by the friends Of Miss Nellie
Powell, at her residence last evening.
A small slide occurred on the COlum-
bia and Puget Sound Railroad yestef-
day morning, but resulted IN no dam
age further than few hours deten-
ten Of the train.
The new engine for the coal read has
bean landed and will b placed on the
road in q day or -, when u will keep
the miners very busy TO furnish full
freight for the read.
Governor William A. Newell has ap-
pointed his son william A. Newell, Dr.,
q his private secretary. The Governor,
Mrs. Newell and William A. Newell, Dr.,
we're in Seattle yesterday.
Governor Ferry, Who has been con
fined 20 his home for several days past
by a severe spell Of sickness, IL much
improved and will be able 70 resume
his legal duties in few days.
Mr.. William Hewitt, Of Laconner,
Who cold his hotel TO Paul Poison last
week, 10 at present in tho city. Mr..
Hewitt ID undetermined ~ to his future
business aud place Of residence.
The Yesler savmill has been shut
down all the week, while undergoing.
cleaning up, repairs and changes. An
immense new fywheel will be put in,
among other things. Lumber cutting
will be resumed next week.
The committees of the w. C. T. q.
will meet at O'Clock this Friday after
noon, in the lecture room OF the n. T..
Church. The Union will meet, a. usual,
at 81 O'Clock. All members are re-
qusstsd 10 attend tho last meeting in
1893.
The directors and citizens Of School
District No. 81, adjoining Seattle ON the
northwest, have dstermined TO build a
new school house ON the DR.. smith
land, and they advertise through the
medium Of 0ur columns for bids for its
construction.
Clarence n. White, for some time a
surveyor with Whitw0rth d Thompson,
has gone 70 Spokane Falls, there to
work on the Chronicle. Clarence 10 =
popular young fellow, and his many
friends win Be pleased TO learn OF this
new departure.
The wrecked steamship Victoria wa
sold at auction ct the San Francisco
Merchants Exchanee, for $500, and the
cargo for tllO. The articles saved
from tho wreck we're sold on Broadway
wharf for ESQ, John Birmingham
being the purchaser.
A. A. Hovey, the recently appointed
Assistant Superintendent Of the North
ern Pacific teleGraphio system, having
charge Of all wires west OF Helena
spent q few hours In the city yesterday
He expresses the greatest dissatisfac.
ton with the condition Of the wires
under his control.
The ship General Mcclellan, 15&;
tons, built at ThOmast0wn, Me-, By
Samuel Watts, in the year 1862, anC
owned at San Francisco by John koeen
field, has recently been sold at New
York for $4,000, TO Thomas w. Der
tram and others. She IL loading nov
at that port for Antwerp.
The Olympia COURIER says: 9Th,
seattle Posi- often al
lows the private animoeities of its edi
tor or owner to color its references {,
individuals" II asked, Mrs. A. 3
Ouuiway, Mr.. 3. w. Hall and a host o
others would say tho same thing abou
tho editor or owner Of the Courier.
Meade Post, Of the Grand Army o
the Republic, Was organized at Yakim'
City ONE evening last week, by ColOus
IW.F. Pr0sser, with fifteen members
TIE election Of officers resulted in th
choice Of Comrade Charles II. H0lton
Commander Robert Dunn, ]. v. Com
mander; A. j. Lewis, Chaplain ]. q
Clark, n. D., Surgeon Adam Duncan
Qusrtermaster ID. w. Stair, Adiutant
Moses N. Adams, Officer Of the Day
II. H. Tucker, Officer Of the Guard; I
| 3. Burke, Sergeant Major, and Ed. Ed
wards, Q. n. Sergeant.
| A result of the too low grade of Com
,norcial street was seen yesterday morn
ing, while the men were pumping GU
the basement of the Colman brio
building. Oyer and over again has th
basement Of this building been hoode
With dirty wator-an event that w0ul
not have happened had tho buildin
been, as IL should have bean, four fe<
higher. The cellars OF ell the olde
\ q ~
flooded, while none Of the new build
ings put mp on \ higher grade are
affected.