Seattle daily post-intelligencer. [volume] (Seattle, W.T. [Wash.]) 1881-1888, 1883-01-09
nAnY POST UfELLIGsICER

Miss Mary Ponfius, Of this city: = nov
attending 81. AIMS Convent In Victoria.
The Onera House Hotel viii probably
ba thrown open to the public ON Mon
day next.
The Messenger brought 100 head OF
sheep from Olympia to this port Gay %
fore yesterday.
Rev. Mr.. Utter, the Unitarian minis
ter. formerly of Olympia, IL now IN
charge of q church in Kansas City.
Can't. j. @. Parker, of the Messenger,
has slightly improved in health. but Ii
still unable TO resume his duties on the
steamer.
S.P.Brooks,a young attorney Of prom
ice has formed partnership with Z. 5.
Osborne under the firm name OF Os-
borne d Brooks.
The buildings ON Front street, dam
aged by the late fire, have been repaired
and now a coat of paint will make them
look a. we'll as ever.
A street railway il in contemplation
at Viotoria. II our people do not move
in the matter very soon that city will
have street cars before Seattle.
Mr.. L. Levin, representing Salomon,
Wise q Cohn, cigar manufacturers Of
San Francisco, is again doing the
sound. Today no goes TO Snohemish
City.
The schooner Hueneme arrived yes
terday and is now discharging freight
on Yeslcr's wharf. Her list Of con-
signees was published in these columns
the other day.
Miss Clara Livingstone, of Port Blake
II, IL at present visiting friends in So
attic. Her sister, Miss Josie, il sOjourn-
inc in San Francisco, and ID expected
home about the middle Of February.
The school census published by us a.
for King county was really for the city
Of Seattle instead. While 1877 children
is very fair number for tho city. it il
almost 1900 short of the right number
for the county.
j. G. Scurry and JAS. Snow have
formed copartnership and will soon
open an engineering and surveying Of
fee in Sullivan's blosk. They are both
practical men and will no doubt find all
the work they can well attend to.
Everett d Crossin, recently from Ne
vada, Successors to j. Muntx, ~ lessee
of the Halstead House in New Tacoma,
have begun TO renovate and improve
the house. They say that, having kept
first class hotel in Nevada, they will
do no less in their new location.
The new hose carriage recently pur-
chased by the city has arrived. II ID
Just the thing for muddy streets, a. the
wheels are six feet In diameter, and will
hold the hose we'll up out Of the mud
With the new engine, new hose and new
carriage, second fire company, when
organized, will have fine equipment.
j. H. McMillen, of East Portland, has
presented to Miss Dora McCord valu-
able town lot in that city. She was u
have been married to Constant 1cMil.
len, his son, who was killed by q mys
FERROUS elevator accident not long ago
Miss MCCOrd, seven or eight years ago
lived here, and will be remembered az q
yiolinist and elooutionist Of some prom
ise.
OF the 3ll oonvicts received into the
Oregon psnitentiary during two years
ITS wero between the ages Of 20 and 30
and liz between the ages Of 30 and 40
The greatest number Of any ono profes
sion was Of cooks, of whom there were
He OlOBUu JuIul1uCo II, lNOW IOIk ~
Great Britain 81, China -. Larceny
204; granddaughter. 10; murder. 70; forg
cry, II; robbery, II; burglary, 70; coun
terfeiting, 4. Multn0mat o0unty fur
nished IA; Marion, 81; Clatsop, "a
Wasco, %; and Umatilla, "a.
The Coxad mentioned in the telegram
following is, We suppose, the fast indi-
vidual OF that name who was here q few
years ago and took In tho boys ON run-
ming: deputy Sheriff Pinneo, father
Of Miss Piuneo, the we'll known equss-
trienne, Ii after one John p. C0zad,
who recently shot and fatally wounded
man In Cozad, Nebraska. COzad ID
the terror Of faro banks everywhere
having broken several, and IL reputed
to be worth 100000. He won 5000
from q Denver bank in three dealt"
The Seattle postoffice has more than
doubled its business during the past
twenty-one months, a. will be evident
from an inspection of the figures in the
table following, indicating sales of
stamps, Wrappers, envelopes and cards,
but not including box rents, or money
order or registry fees:
QuARrxR ENDING. AMOUNT.