Seattle daily post-intelligencer. [volume] (Seattle, W.T. [Wash.]) 1881-1888, 1883-01-03
nlILI POST IAfELLIGEHCER.
Ice formed on the Sound near shore

Ice formed on the Sound near shore
ON New Years morning.
John Sullivan has large room to let
in his block ON Front street. See him
about it.
A Qiri or woman can get one of the
be3t family situations IN the town BY
applying at this Office.
The Oregon improvement Co. earned
the Qrees sum Of 1876, GHS in October,
and the net sum OF $685. 56.
Anderson d Co. will open new
saloon, to be called sour Home" IN the
basement of the Marshall block today.
The married daughter of Hon. A.
Bunster, of Victoria, died at her home
in Oakland, CAL, Dec. 30, OF typhoid
fever.
Durinc the year 1882 $795,01 were
shipped through the medium OF Wells,
Farco q Co., at Victoria, to the United
States and beyond.
Mails in the Keotenay (B. Co. district
are taking two months rest through
the depths of the winter. None will be
carried until some time next month.
The steamship Wilmington will sail
Before going she will call in at fesler's
wharf, and will take all passengers Of
fering.
Customs collections at the port Of
Victoria during the last half OF 1852
reached the unprecedented and extra
ordinary figure of $4l6,952-$1l9,lS8
greater than for the corresponding
quarter of 1881.
Captain Meyer, of the steamship Will
lamette, shot white seal the other day
from the deck Of his vessel, while lying
at the coal wharf. The seal was asleep
upOu the surface of the water, and after
beinp shot foated around for time,
and then sunk out of sight:
Some gentlemen are in Seattle at
present representing the Vancouver
Nursery. They announce, through the
PosT-INTELLIaKNcER, that they will
make a canvass of the city during the
next few DAYS, calling on all those who
have homes that need identifying with
ornamental shrubbery.
A very neat thing, and new one here,
by the way, is to get ones name put on
ones books bv Mr.. Anthony, the book
binder. He does il in the neatsst posi-
bic style; giving almost any letter
wished, and printing it clearly, cloanly
and beautifully. Prayer.bo0ks, bibles,
albums, diaries, ETC., are all 80 marked.
A birthday or holiday book present will
mot be complete hereafter without the
recipients name thereon.
The New Year issue Of the Oysgonian
vas number If which that great pa
Der may well be proud. Il was an sx-
traordinary paper. the superior Of which
never was seem ON the coast. In its
preparation was involved an enormous
labor, the matter being drawn from all
parts Of Oregon, Washington, and Ida
ho, with care worthy that journal and
the occasion. Thirty thousand copies
were published, and 1t would be fine
thing for this country IL the number
had been three hundred thousand.
For some time past report has been
current that j. G. Haines, Esq, one Of
the leading attorneys Of this city, in
tended soon to remove to Portland, and
there engage in the practice of his pro-
feosi0n. A reporter of this journal
called upon Mr.. Haines and asked that
gentleman ii there was any truth in the
report. Mr.. Haines replied: "The ru-
NOR probably sprung from the fact that
received what / consider a splendid
Offer to 60 to Portland, which consid-
cred seriously for time, but for the
present, at least, have no idea of leav-
ing the Sound"