Seattle daily post-intelligencer. [volume] (Seattle, W.T. [Wash.]) 1881-1888, 1883-06-30

Don't spare the butcher and fee the
DOCTOR.
A Catholic church il soon to be built
In Snohomish City.
Mr.. X. d. AttridRe,of Port Ludlow, has
been in the city the past few days.
The skating rink will open tonight at
the new pavilion on the corner of Front
and Seneca streets.
George Edwards and Mrs. VIM. Rule
we're passengers from Tacoma ON the
outgoing Geo. w. Elder.
John McRes W. the merchant, logger,
botel proprietor and townsite owner Of
Union City, was in the city yesterday.
Several thousand old papers for sale
at this office, suitable for shelving. pat
terms, putting under carpets, wrapping
up goods, etc.
The recent increase in the number of
cigar stands in town has been especially
marked. and ia one Of the best indics-
tons of good times.
A pavilion of 5OxlO0 feet has been
constructed ON the corner of Seneca and
Front streets, in which the Fourth Of
July ball will be given.
The trains for Renton, on Sunday,
will leave the depot in &C wn at 3 and 10lS
in the morning, and those returning
will leave Renton at and 6 In the after
noon.
A very neat thing 10 their way are the
new township maps Of Scurry i Snow,
which are invaluable to real estate men
and land seekers, and which they sell at
very low rates.
There is much complaint in town at
the lack of water, the supply being
hardly sufficient for domestic purposes,
70 say nothing Of watering gardens and
sprinkIing streets. Some families have
not drop all the afternoon.
Mr.. Piper has opened An loo cream
saloon next to his store, in which he
also sells berries. A q confectioner
Piper can't be beat, and the prediction
is safe one that he will have fine run
of castom during the Toe cream season.
The Courtwright & Hawkins Minstrel
Troupe left for Victoria yesterday morn.
ing. They had huge h0usefull here,
and gave unbounded satisfaction. They
will return, when they give their second
performance, in Yssler's Hall, on Mon
day evening next.
The freight taken by the steamship
Geo. w. Elder yesterday consisted of
357 empty beer kegs, 4 iron wheels, 8
bales wool, 296 sacks coal, 72l packages
barrel material, cases cigars, 800 bun
dies lath. 326 hides, IL packages house
hOld goods, 8 packages merchandise,
case hardware, and 3 packages w. +. 4
Co.'s express matter.
Mr.. Seymour, Of Tombstone, Arizona,
came up on the last trip of the Geo. w
Elder, and returned on the same ship
Mr.. Seymour, in 1857 and 1853 was q
jeweler in business at StsilacOOm, and
this is his first visit to the country in al
most twenty-five years. He is the "a
ther of Mrs. Il. d. Pitt, of this city, anC
the object Of his visit was simply to SCI
her.
Ballard 4 Sox, Front street hardware
dealers, have evidently jumped into 9
big business. They hit it fortunately
in locating when and where they did
and have already gathered together {
trade in their line Of which any housl
in the city might we'll be pleased. Theil
new ad. shows up their stock advantage
ously.
Waddell 4 Miles are doing a big bust
mess in stoves. They have sold as high
as twenty in day, while their average
stock on hand for year past has In
cluded TOO stoves. They keep larg'
number in the store, and have thre'
warehouses besides. Their importa
tons are made principally from st
Louis.
Capt. w. H. Ellis's new steamer, tn,
Willie, is approaching completion a
rapidly as the machinists ON board car
make her. Two or three weeks will ye
be required, however, in which to enc
their work. She will he put at work Oh
the route from Whatcom to NoOksack
making two trips week up the river
in connection with the Idaho and Wash
ington from here.
The Rev. A. Mcdonald. the pioneer
Baptist missionary to Manitoba, who
for nine years had charge Of the Baptis
mission church in Winnipeg. during tn,
last year engaged in general mission
work in Manitoba and the Northwest
and for the past few months supply fO
the Brandon Baptist Church, has had {
call to the passionate of the Baptis
Church in the city of Victoria, British
Columbia, but declines the acceptance
choosing to give his time and energies
to mission work in the Prairie Province
STANDARD.