Seattle daily post-intelligencer. [volume] (Seattle, W.T. [Wash.]) 1881-1888, 1883-08-15

BREvTTIks.
Twenty buildings are in course of con-
struction at Port Townsend at this
time.
Densmore 4 johnson are having a |
nev delivery wagon built BY Mr.. Wm-
Beatty.
House moving has been rendered a
hundred per cent. easier by the grading
Of the streets
The CASTILLO circus has completed It's
tour of this regisn, and DOW has its face
turned south,
Another band Is to be organized soon
by q number Of Ssattle's young men Of
enterprise ard means.
Yesterday vas bit clearer than for
some time past, and people generally
felt brighter IN con sequence.
A school teacher il wanted in the Du
vanish district. TO whom good wages
and long term will be given.
Mr.. J. @. Scarry, Of this city, has gone
east OF the Cascades, 10 take charge OF
Q Northern Pacific surveying party.
Alder, Briggs and wife, of Port Town
send. celebrated the 6ftieth anniversary
OF their Wedding on the 18th instant.
The water mains of the Spring Hill
Co. we're extended on Front street as
far as Kellogg & Williamson's foundry.
Wallace, the Yreka operator who
struck with the other operators, il IN
Portland working at the carpenter
trade.
tie town now has three theaters in
regular evening blast, one being the
Mason Dore, ons the Bijou, and the
other the Chinese theater.
north esd Of town Is to be sold at auc-
ton on the sth Of september. 1t ought
to bring big lot Of money.
There ID to be another small cigar
stand. Il 10 to be in the front of Dixon
4 Co.'S barber shop. This makes about
the twelfth one of these diminutive
warehouses of luxury.
The steamer Zephyr was launched
from the Mitchell ways yesterday, after
extensive and complete ovsrhaulinR and
repairs. She il clean and bright and
prepared for the winters work in good
shape.
The company to do business under
the name: of the National Iron Works
il composed Of young men with extend
cd experience and also with that push
and enterprise which will win them sure
success.
N. w. Hand was arrested Monday for
disturbing the peace on Sunday last.
He was fined Is and costs by Justice
Vrooman and placed under bonds Of
500 to keep the peace. Mr.. s. F. Hos
kinson was the complainant.
The Chinese opere was attended by
about the same sort of an audience a.
that upon Monday evening. The play
must have ressmblsd our comedy, as
the Chinese part of the audience would
laugh and cheer heartily at different
intervals.
The Calender minstrels will arrive
here SO as to play on the evenings Of
Monday and Tuesday next. The COM
papy will here End their stay on the
North Pacific coast, they leaving this
city on the steamer for San Francisco
on the ed inst.
The Columbia street graders are now
excavating at the Intersection Of Fifth
street, and carrying the earth up the
hill TO the big fll between Seventh and
Eighth. Three yoke Of oxen to pillow.
six teams and wagons to carry the
earth, and thirty men are worked.
Ministers and delegates to the Con-
gregational Association at HouRhton
viii take convevanoe at the Third
Street Market AZ Z and 10 a. nj. Thurs-
day, the 10th inst. 1t is quite essential
that number sufficient to load the first
express at Z a. M. be on hand. The az.
press makes direct oonneotion With the
steamer Evril ON Lake Washington.
The steamer Idaho took ont from bara
Last Sunday nioht not far from 25O nss.
senoers. about the biuoest lot shs has
vet had In garry II 10 fa 70 aav that
she carries naayiv or nnite OOn M aan'
GERS mar veal. These evan AZ the Inv
rate Of 70 cents each. brine ber a hama.
sone income. To add 70 which are
several bundled meals and beds At the
same prioe each. and q larOa freioht
Some steamboat oppositions ara made
to nav handsomalv. and this of tha
Idaho ia one Of the humber. WV
Th. ~ -..;a.,.. =. ~ y. u.
Naught has been delayed by inability to
get lumber. The brick and stone foun-
dalton - complete, and the extent Of
1t may be inferred when 1t ia stated that
it cost over $4,000. This building in It's
greatest width will be " feet, and in its
greatest length lO6 feet. II will be two
full stories, basement and attic, or
equivalent in hight and space 10 three
story house. Above the front entrance
will be tower, reaching nearly a hun
cred feet above ground. In cost and el-
eganoe ttis house will have no superior
In the Territory.
II the various local vatsr commando
v;II on IN Tia tronhIa ~ tal;no ns -.
Wii Tor them free OF charge inform the
Raonc wnen tne WAFER 10 20 oe snot on.
me MOP Ill wateE vas enNieIy snot
on the nrss - 1oufs OF tois week, com
mencin9 Monoay morning ana ter
mlnasin9 Iuesoay morning. Inc pat
Ions We're nos warned OF sucn snutun8
on, ana were Ronefaily saxen UMPIRE
pafed, some OF tnen without 2 0nale
oockes OF wafer on nano, ana 70 go ~
hours without water, covering wasnaay
at that, was household a9gravataon OF
no small moment.
No im,rovarap. q, .nv ~ IN. o.h.r