Seattle daily post-intelligencer. [volume] (Seattle, W.T. [Wash.]) 1881-1888, 1883-02-10
LOCAL RgYgfTfEs.

The wreck Of the steamship Tacoma
vas sold to Mr. St=iabsreer for 800.
Judge Hoyt has returned To the Ter
ritor!al Capital from tae National Cap
.tal
MIRA y. Laxis, of the Oriental Hotel.
90. every dollar OF her Insurance, IS
she states In 4 card eisesshere.
Ox:ag 10 Illness, Rev NJ. Damon Will
De unable to I'll his appointment for TO
morrow Sunday q. Port Blakely.
c. NJ Rasin. of this city, now return
ing from the East. was GUEST at the
Grand Hotel IN San Francisco on the
7th.
The examination of Fannie V. Bald
win, charged with assaulting Z. j. Bald
win with intent TO kill. at San Francis
co, began on the 9th inst.
The mails from the south are badly
broken into. Even from Pcrtland they
come With great irre2uiarlty. But one
Orsgot,ian has arrived III four days.
The fuasral Of the late Mrs. Mary c..
Andrews will De at the I. L. Church IL
this city at IL ain. tomorrow. Friends
Of the family are invited to attend.
The steamship Umatilla viii 90 to sea
today, and the Mississippi will take her
place at the shutes, while the bark City
Of Brooklyn will take the berth on the
opposite side of the incline.
A fine place is Port Moody for great
railroad tsrminuS-in a horn. Inc bay
has been frozen over for week, toe ice
being FIVE inches thick, and outward
communication has been eHecsCaliy cut
OF.
Among now stocks listed on the New
York Stock Exchange, last month, were
$50 0D0,0aO Canadian Pacific, ard So
00o.000 Oregon and Iranseyntinentai
oonJs of 1852. bearing 6 per cent. inter
.st, to run forty years, scared upon
pranch lines built for the Northern Pa
,itic. One of these u. & L. branch
90 - Is the road from Tacoma to Be-
attic.
oAating on Lake Union j. the com
nonest pleasure here at present. Hun
!reds visit the lake daily for the pur-
pose of witnessing and participating IN
.he sport. The lake Is frozen over. and
here are quite a nuIsber of weak spots,
one of which Is found every little while
by skater. One venturesome young
outlenau has twice gone through tie
zee, and still is no: discouraged.
The steamer Hops will be hauled out
IN Mitchell's ways next Monday. where
she Will have ii thousand dollars ex-
ended in fixing her up. Among other
r-ptirs AID improvements she will have
NO small boilers placed alongside lie
large one. With this extra heating sur
face ii Is thought she can be made 10
larry sufficient steam to drive Der along
{ y good rate of speed. Tho Hope is
useful steamer, and has performed a
2'"'n YEAR work during the past twelve
months.
The Courier eorYects Us for saying that
the new cigar factory here, of Wa CAonc,
is the first on Puget Sound, and says
Chin Che ing ran such factory here
several years ago. We remember Chin
Cheong and his factory very we'll, but
our recollection il that hIs factory WAS
very small concern, short lived ana
uof successful. Wa Chong is a more
splid individual than Chin CheoIg, and
ne intends keeping the factory gong and
n, wing all tho time. He will make Oh
CARS as permanent business, and not
as an eIpeilnel.t.
Many people in King county will re-
member James b. Kennedy, for long
tine conductor on the old Seattle and
Walla Walla railroad. Mr.. Kennedy Is
now i'll Rock Island, Illinois. 4 paper
from that place, received yesterday
states that while coupling cars on a
road at thas place, the weather being
very cold, MIR. Kennedy's glove froze
fast to the pin which he held in his
hand for an instant, SO that no WAS un.
able to free himself in time to prevent
terrible accident by having his hand so
badly mashed that the amputation of
his thumb and two or three fingers was
found necessary.