Seattle daily post-intelligencer. [volume] (Seattle, W.T. [Wash.]) 1881-1888, 1883-02-08

DIR. Anna L. Potts is doing Port
Townsend at present.

bE- ailiAa L. Il ots- - OoiuS W
Townsend at present
A machinist is wanted IN sav mill
for further concerning which see ID
DR.. Minor is taking tip south, being
nov IN tennessee and likely 10 50 as far
~ FfsrlIs.
Todly. Feb. 9Th, is one of the DAYS SCI
by Prof. Virgins for the coming OF 4
great storm
A new moon is making its appearance,
and with il change ia the weather Is
anticipated.
Steamship Dakota will sail for San
Francisco at p. %. tonorroG, from TIE
dock of the railroad company.
The ANIMAL meeting Of the Puget
Sound Commercial Company will be
held at Port Gamble Oh the 3Uth inst.
Il WAS a shade warmer Yesterday than
the day before. and the gathering
clouds indicated change in the wealth
sr.
The local consumption Of coal must
have been unprecsdentedly great during
the recent cold snap, probably forty
tons a day.
The telephone poles on the streets
give Seattle a city appearance III
marked distinction with that OF neigh
boring towns.
The4rgHs says the schooner Lottie has
been brought from Scow Bay to Port
Townsend. and is now being fitted up
for tie sealing business.
The steamer Messenger lost one trip
this week on account of the cold, the
ICE being so thick in Olympia harbor
that sne was unable to break her way
out.
A new coal vein, l. feet thick. has
been discovered up the Skagit river, and
Is said To be the best find of coal yet
| made IL that vicinity. The vein Is thor
Ouehly bituminous.
TIE mail got down the Columbia and
over the country Yesterday all right,
and arrived here last night. Ii was an
Eastern mail. and there was something
III IL for almost every body.
Day before yesterday was in church
parlance Shrove tuesday, yesterday was
Ash Wednes lay, and, those days being
past, wa are now fairlyentered upon the
annual forty-day season of Lent.
The scarcity Of wood. or rather the
difficulty of getting it, is acting as An
Induceinent TO cause change In the
furnaces of MANY of the steamers in
these waters, from wood 10 coal burners.
The census is again being taken. for
the frat time since 1880. A Territorial
census usually amounts to but little. AS
one of a satisfactory character has
never yet been taken. Let the officers
make an extra effort this year, and see
II they cannot give better report for
themselves and their work than ever be
fore.
The les in SnohOmish river has locked
mp that stream all the past week. Be
tween slush ice and the top ice frozen
from bank to bank il ID III places two
fest thick. slsn cross II on foot. The
steamer Nellie Is fAetened IN there, to
stay An indefinite period. Rev. j. X.
Thompson came from there yesterday,
,he trip nccessltatlug walk on his part
of thirteen miles. to Mukilteo, whence
he came here per City of Quincy.
The North Pacific is again on the
route To Victoria, to stay. We suppose,
until the coming of summer. Ste makes
the run in better time by an hour than
Aiit WV. H. DtfbiA, ana lpai SiNtNl -
good deal in these days. We are in
hopes the Company will bnild or buy
another steamer for that route, boat
larger, finer and faster than the North
Pacific. Such ii vessel will be greatly
needed during the heavy travel of the
coming season.
The steamship WaIa Walla arrived
on Tuesday evening from San Francis
co. and had the Tacoma not encounter
ed disaster she would probably have ar
rived yesterday or today. The Tacoma
started from San Francisco day after
the Walia Walla on the previous trip of
the latter ship. She arrived here day
after. Both took in oargoes of coal, and
the Tacoma again sailed a day after
~ the time of the wreck the Walla
Walla was hundred miles to the
southland, and got into Frisco day af
ter. The Tacoma possibly was trying
10 overhaul the Walla Walla, and III the
effort Rugged the shore too closely,
cruising her loss by trying to save fsw
miles distance.
The Bapiists of Walla Walla have by
no manner of means been lavish in
their generosity to their pastor, the
Rev. ID. j. Pierce. In a recently pub
ilshed letter he tells the world that dur
ing his twoyears' residence there he has
neither asked nor received $50 from the
people for his support. During that
time be has spent 5000 III groceries, dry
goods, etc, but has drawn every dollar
of the money FROM eastern sources.
While he has built up strong church
there the church has done almost ALSO
iutely nothing for him. 1t is not sur
prislng the congregation resist the effort
To draw their pastor away, an effort
by the Baptist Church in this
olty.
A complaint comes TO Us from the
lower Sound of tho failure about once a
month of our DsILy to arrive on the day
of Its Issue. The patron may rest MS
snred the paper never fails to 60 when
We can make it. In an establishment of
this kind there are endless vegations.
delays and triaing mishaps, any one of
which occurring at the last moment ID
apt to throw US out Of the possibility of
catching boat leaving here at the
hours of or > III the morning. If the
down Sound boat never went earlier
than 4, the paper never would fail to 20
on her. Our readers abroad sbould not
fail TO note this, however, that no paper.
no matter where printed, can be relied
upon To arrive at Its destination with
unfaliing regularity, and that every
other paper they get is occasionally
day behind, as well as the Posr-INrEI.Lr-
GRNCER.