, 1883-04-19
OFFICIAL PAPER or PORT TOWNSEND.
Rs M,lNMTz zGA
; slSsis "a y .SSll'g,.,g.gTN
azssssaSss
From Wednesdays Dnily.


Ago" Due notice of time and place will
be given soon'
The boiler for the steamer Fannie was
brought up on the Elder. Its little
bigger than two-gallon kettle, but not
much.
Mr.. j. M. Hammond, jr., has purchas
ed the handsome carriage team of Mr..
James Sally,and has obtained valuable
prize.
The Port Discover mill starts up next
Monday, the 23d, havin; been shut
down four weeks for repairs and improve
ments.
The army of the Sandwich Islands
consists of exactly sixty men, of whom
about twenty-five are commissioned ofti-
GERS, twenty-five more are sick and the
rest are out on furlough. America is
safe for time, at least,
We noticed unpacking at the store OF
Messrs. Waterman & Katz 4 lot Of new
and latest styleI of dress goods, with
trimmings to match, laces, embrorderies,
hats, ties, ruchings, ribbons and many
other fancy goods.
The steamer Hope returned last night
from Anacortes, having made her first
round trip under the new semi-weekiy
mail schedule Whatw with steamer com
munications from this place ard from
Seattle, Whatcom county people are get
ting about the same thing as daily
boa.
ARRIVED: American ship Commodore,
Capt. Sawyer, from San Frar cisco;
Am ,rcan ship Two Brothers, pt.Hay-
den, 26 days from Yokohama, Japan.
SAILED. American ship Yosemite, {,
la len with coal from New Tacoma for
San Francisco.
Susan B. Anthony is on her ear. She
wants the name OF the Pullman cars
changed to Pull man n'and-woman or Pull
irrespective-of-sex cars, thinking that as
woman has to'pay as much as a man
to travel on the cars, she has right to
have her name stuck on. Go it, Susan,
anything to keep your name be-ore an
indifferent public.
A ridiculous circumstance was brought
to light at one Of the distilleries recent
ly. A billy goat mounted whisky bar
rel on the platform in front of the ware
house, on which a tnx-paid revenue
stamp valued at $3,79O had just been
p lsted, and ate it Off The distiller had
to forward to Washington his warehouse
receipt with an affidavit, asking for a
duplicate stamp, with the Endorsement
upon It, BILLY goat ate it off"
The Port Townsend ARGUS, published
by Hon. Allen Weir, is live paper, pro-
gressive and independent; and of course
all right on the woman question. Mr..
Weir has no fears lest his sensible wife
should incite him to domestic discord"
by exercising her rights at the ballot
box, nor is there any danger that Mrs.
Weir, who is going out with her children
to spend the summer on homestead
ranch, to hold the domestic fort while
her husband is battling with types in the
city, will neglect her family" for any Of
the enoluments of politics. .--New Moth
Icest.
Mr.. H. A. w. Tabor served thirty days
as United States Senator from Colorado.
1t is reported that he expended liberal
amount to secure the seat. Some put
itat $4,000, and others as high as $780,
OOO. Whatever it might have been, Mr..
Tabor "shelled OUT without grumbling.
He married new wife while Senator,
having been divorced from the old, and
that aided greatly to his happiness.
Being very wealthy man, he has aspi-
rations still, and it is said his next move
will be to erect hotel in Denver at a
cost of over $1,000,000. Who knows but
tlis will pave the way for him to future
to future political hunors?
Mr.. Stewart Campbell was severely in
lured yesterday at Port Blakely, under
the following circumstances: He was
tallying piles AMI timber into ship at
Blakely, when one Of the timbers turn
ed over on him and jammed his leg,
bruising it in q most shocking manner,
and tearing the flesh completely off from
about Eve inches above the knee to be-
low the anclc. Mr.. Campbell was taken
to Seattle, and placed in the Sisters
Hospital there. We do not know
whether he is in any danger Of losing