Seattle daily post-intelligencer. [volume] (Seattle, W.T. [Wash.]) 1881-1888, 1883-06-20

RAspberries are now ripe and enter
inc the market.
Barkentine Malay is coming to the
Sound for load OF lumber to take for
eign-
Mr.. Jas A. Carey. the insurance agent,
has removed his Office into the Yesler-
Leary Block.
The new high school Of Portland will
cost $<5,< 100. as which price the contract
for it construction has bean Is:-
J. @. Scarry i nov In sharRs Of Q
locating party Of engineers On the Sc
attic Green River branch Of the North
srn Pacific Railroad.
The new Jennsr mansion has no So
ID probably the largest Nov that is ID
approaching completion is shows Of to
great advantage
J. C. Mann, Esq. . heavy property
holder OF New Tacoma, and proprietor
OF tso business blocks On Pacific av-
eune. is spending q few days with
friends In Seattle
Anew and raised sidewalk il building
down the Yesler wharf, ths hight of
which Is six inches or foot above the
door OF the private warehouses near the
center Of the wharf.
The oath day Of June L. considered q
holiday among the Scandinavians, and
the society In this city intend ceiebrat-
ing it with an excursion and picnic at
Alki Point on sunday next.
The ladies Of Trinity Guild viii hold
an adjourned meeting in the Episcopal
Church this evening al 7.30, for the pur-
pose of eiecting officers and heads of
committees for the ensuing year.
Rev. 2. G. Strange, pastor Of the
Presbyterian Church, will return this
evening. The members of the oon9re-
CATION will meet at his house. Zone OF
the Phinney houses, ON Ninth street.,
about $50 O'Clock.
Miss Nollie Hall left for Portland
this morning, to be present at the we'd
ding of lady friend, on the 9th inst.
On her return she will accept position
az cashier in one of the leading mer
camille establishments in Seattle.
| Col. WE. Prosser and Mr.. Charles
Prosch we're elected, on Monday even
ing last, delegates to the Episcopal
| Convocation at Vancouver to represent
Trinity Church of this city. The Con-
vocation will meet on Thursday of next
week.
l The three-masted schooner Dora
Bluhm, in the Wells line, arrived Mon
day evening, from San Francisco,
bringing merchandise for our city,
which she was yesterday discharging
| upon Yesler's wharf. She will take q
cargo of lumber from Port Blakely.
The following officers were elected by
the Oregon Firsmen's Association TO
serve the ensuing year: President. F.
g. Abell, Portland: Vice President,
Geo. w. Belt, Independence; Treasurer,
Secretary and Statistician, Major f. Z.
Hodgkin. The next tournament Will
meet In Albany, on the third Wednes-
day in july.
| The work on Spring street has bean
completed. and the job 10 one Of the
BEST yet done within the limits The
sidewalks are raised above the street
several inches and thereby was effected
an improvement of no small order. A
few inches more added TO the hight Of
the walks would have been q further
improvement, however.
Two beautiful shad we're seined in
the bay here by Peter Valentine 4 Co.
yesterday; one Of a pound and half
weight, and the other of two and half.
With two exceptions these were the
only Ash Of that species yet caught in
these waters, and the other two we're
smaller flsh caught last year. The SEED
planted in the Sacramento river vas ev-
identity not wasted, and its fruit (if We
may 90 speak of fish, viii soon be found
in every bay from San Diego to Sitka-
Jacob E. Ridgvay has contracted
with Lieutenant Gorringe for the con-
struction of an iron ship 245 feet long,
g fest beam, and 25 feet depth of hold.
snd TO have a carrying capacity Of 800
tons. She will be built at the yard of
the American Shipbuilding COMPANY,
of Philadelphia, of which Lieutenant
Gorringe is manager. and. when CON-
pleted, she viii be the largest iron sail
ing vessel ever built in the United
States She will Be commanded by
Captain b. Townsend. and will BE- en-
ployed in the California trade.
The Washington street. improvement
has 30 far progressed rather slowly, but
there are indications nov that it viii in
future Be more rapidly pushed. A
track viii be laid from South Second
street 70 Ninth. oars put on, and the cut
and all made IN that way. This viii Be
the first york Of that kind done on our
streets bat, oooe introduced, ve can
promise is viii not be the last by any
rneanA Prom Ninth street on to Thir-
teenth the sidewalks have Just been laid
On Washington. though their laying
prior 20 grading the street looks like q
p'ece OF hl-adyised Temporary economy