Seattle daily post-intelligencer. [volume] (Seattle, W.T. [Wash.]) 1881-1888, 1883-11-29
BREyITuEs.

Cheap ducks today at the new Cali |
fornia Market, corner Front aud Seneca |
streets.
Two drunks at the Police Court yes-
terdav we're reprimanded by his Honor
and dismissed.
W. ID. Wood. of the Post building
has two blocks 10 clear. payment for
which will be made IN lots.
Religious services will be held at
1929 today III Trinity Church by the
rector, Rev. George Ii. Watson.
The Arlington bill of fare tells pretty
plainly what good dinner they are
going TO have at that house today.
Among visitors to our town yesterday
we're Mr. James Hughes, of Stellacoom,
and Major Sewall, Of WILDLY Island.
DIR. Hinkle, the eminent surgeon, has
arrived and is at the Arlington attend
ing 10 calls for his professional services.
Conundrum sociable at the N. +.
Parsonage Friday evening, Nov. 18th.
Put on your thinking cap, come and
guess.
Pickering K Co. make number OF
announcements In the current issue,
which are Of more than ordinary inter
est TO ths local reader.
The only firs,-class passengers on one
train from st. Paul last week were r..
ID. Joy, ID. A. Joy, j. Il. Hall and wife,
and Miss J. L. Hall, all for Seattle.
Snohomish and other rivers have
been rising rapidly dvring the last two
or three days, under the pressure
brought upon them by melting sno"
and heavy falls of RAIN.
Among the generous donations To the
proposed Episcopal Hospital III Seattle
not heretofore mentioned IN these col
nrnns. il one of 700 feet OF lumber by
Captain T.. l.. Marshall, of the Milton
sawnil.
Eight grain laden ships are at Baker g
bay, awaiting q chance to cross out over
the Columbia river bar and get on to
their destination. Several OF these
vessels have already had long and costly
detentions.
Boulsn i; Moore's band attracted
much attention on the streets yester
day afternoon. They rendered sere.
| made to each of the newspaper offices,
much to the delight of the reporters
and devils"
Ida VI. Feaster, Of Portland. is suing
| for divorce from John l.. Feaster, OF
| Victoria, on the ground Of desertion.
John +. Feaster is the writing master
known in every town III Oregon, Wash
ington and British Columbia.
A man walked off the railroad track
last night, and fell into the Sound be
low. Ii was not deep enough there t.
1 I L.. I.,,t l.a kx.lt h.. k1
knew how all the same. He was finally
picked up by man III boat.
| Thanksgiving will be generally Oh
served here today. There will be ser
vices in the churches. Banks and stores
| will close, and business be generally sus
pended. The newspapers will also take
a rest. each daily missing an issue.
The track where the locomotive Bedit
was wrecked was sufficiently cleared t.
allow the running of tfains yesterda,
morning. The ruined engine, however
still lies a mass of shattered strength
Ii was viewed by many people yester
day.
A crossing was put down yesterda,
over Mill street, fr9m tho Coleman
building to the Yesler- Leary building
crossing was certainly needed there
but to put crossing down on top of
plank road would seem absurd in
place loss muddy than Seattle is thi
| winter.
Bogus iive-dollar gold pieces have be
come disagreeabiy common III loca
trade. One firm have had two passet
upon them. These conRterfeits are .
some base metal principally, their rim
upon the counter being like that o
lead, but their faces being as honest, il
both shape and color. rs any coin made
On Tuesday the wind down the cas-
side blew with considerable violence
The boats all experienced more or les
trouble in facing it. The steamer "
X. Merwin lost an anchor III couse
quence of the storm. The Idaho wa
detained several hours and the Wei
come also.
The change, often rumored and a
often contradicted, of the Twenty
first Emitted States Infantry fror
Washington Territory to Dakot
and the great lakes beyond. il agai
denied from headquarters. The OK
change was contemplated, but wa
given up for want of money availabl
tor transportation purposes.
Over Mt Victoria they had it colder b
far than We did here, the snow in tow
falling four inches deep and fiftee
inches deep III the country back O
town. The telephone wires gaze Wa
under the weight OF ZOE and suo Y an
were Frustrated in all directions. Sleigh
ing was enjoyed by hundreds. and for
day or two oar northern friends had con
siderable winter. Ii has since moderated
} Steamer Washington brought up a
unusually large freight yesterday, con
sisting of wheat, potatoes, apples, pou
try and other produce. While takin
on this stuff at Oak Harbor the tide lei
, her. and for nearly a dozen hours sh
WAS stuck on the mud of that port, pre-
venting her arrival here until neari
noon. Passengers by her report III
inches of snow at Whatcom and IL n
the Nooksack river, with cold far belo,
the freezing point.
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