Seattle daily post-intelligencer. [volume] (Seattle, W.T. [Wash.]) 1881-1888, 1883-08-01

BgEvETIEA.
Geo. W. Lo9rie, formerly Of UtaAlady,
has removed to Skanokava, On Coluu-
bia river.
The ship Henry Failing arrived last
night, and viii load Seattle coal for San
Francisco.
The First National Bank vin be
moved today and Wells. Fargo j. Co.'S
Express Office tomorrow.
CasteIlo's circus has been doing fine
business in Portland, and viii probably
do a. well here this week.
J. T. McComb, purser Of the steamer
Empire, has again placed as under the
usual obligations for favorA
Maurice Il. Grown, late commercial
reporter for tbs San Francisco Journal
Of Commerce, Is at present visiting Sc
attic.
Misses Annie Harmon and Emma
Collins left by the Elder yesterday 20
spend year at school IN the San Jose
convent.
Henry Miller returned to California
Yesterday to attend school for couple
Of years more, after which he viii spend
a year at Ann Arbor, Michigan
The steam schooner Dolphin. during
recent cruise OF the ports of Esqui-
malt and Victoria. picked mp i've an
chors and great length of chain.
Rev. Father Bouchard, 8. j., il in Vic
toria lecturing, and will next come over
TO the Sound. He makes one of these
northern coast tours each summer.
Ship Challenger, Capt. E. II. Thomp-
son arrived yesterday from San Pedro,
after a voyage of q days. She will load
coal here and return, saking cargo OF
about 2400 tons.
VIM. Sloman, general agent of Dan.
CastelIo's New Colossal Nickel Plate
Circus, is at present in this city. billing
the town for the performances Of Friday
and Saturday next.
IL. Hatch of Portland has sold one
of the steamers he has been advertising
for sale; but has another yet left on his
hands, which he will dispose of at a
bargain to some one wanting.
It's a brig this time that the Ledger
has to carry 800, 1000 feet of lumber.
Next it will be sloop. and then perhaps
a rowboat Verify the craft sailing to
ana ITOfQ bQo boIuuihoA pOks oiC WoAAACA"
fRl carriers.
A piledriver has been engaged for
the past few days in tearing away the
old Marshall wharf to make room for q
more commodious and substantial struc-
ture now being built by the Oregon In
provement Company.
The gravel ballast thrown ont by the
ship Elizabeth will prove sufficient in
quantity to cover lower Mill street a
foot deep, and is as good as an insur-
apce against mud on that thorOughfare
during the coming winter.
The steamship Bonita having COM
pIeted her first northern trip-to Seattle,
Nanaimo, Wrangel, ,Ounalaska and
other ports-and returned to San Fran
cisco, has again set sail for the north,
this time bound for Astoria.
N. Il. Lundblad, for tventy-one years
a resident of San Juan Island, has Just
iold his farm to Norwegian named
Void, for $4,000. Mr.. Lundbiad will 90
back to Sweden, which country he left
when a boy, forty years ago-in 1S43.
John b. Allen. United States Prose-
cutting Attorney for Washington Terri
tory, and G. N. Bradshaw, Prosecuting
Attorney for the Third judicial District,
were in Seattle yesterday, and both start
for their respective homes this morning.
The Commercial Hotel of Victoria
was burglarized to the extent of &l50
last Sunday. Suspicion points to two
men who came over to the Sound On the
Geo. w. Elder, one Of whom was an
employee in the house and the other q
guest.
Capt. Ed. Still ha Q become the owner
of the steamer Hornet, having bought
the little tug from E. L. Wiley, her
builder. With her Capt. Still will job
about the two Tacomas. She came to
Seattle yesterday to undergo her annual
inspection.
w. r. Saunders, Mrs. w. Il. Saunders
vnd 2 children, Miss Susie Saunders, G.
Wantler, T. 8. Bacon, John Carson,
Mathew Scofeld, Charles O'Donnell,
Samuel Christopher and w. II. Burnett
came on the Empire as passengers from
San Francisco.
The Professionals Orphan Home in
Victoria has been in existence eleven
years, during which time il has cared
for ~ children, 80 of whom were placed
out. II has been the recipient Of ohari-
table contributions to tho extent Of SIS,
81 during the period stated.
Quite an excitement was created yes
terday afternoon by one of the prison
ers in the county Jail setting fire to his
bed clothing. No loss resulted there
from, except the destruction Of the said
blankets and the loss of some time in
running back and forth to the jail.
Mrs. VIM. Campbell, while In at of
temporary insanity, ont her throat With
a razor yesterday morning. At Last &C
counts the poor woman was in fair
way to recover. She has large family
of little children and kind husband.
who is doing all in his power to restore
her to health.
Seattle FIRE engine No. IL now housed
in a temporary structure on Second
street. The old engine house on Colum-
bia street has been torn down and
hauled away to make room for the brick
building to be constructed on the site
at once by Messrs. Carkeek and Nicho-
las, who have been awarded the con-
tract.
T. Lyle, who has been proprietor of a
little variety store on Front street for
three or four years past, is preparing 70
sell out to a gentleman named A. r.
Brake. 1t is hoped Mr.. B. will exhibit
more enterprising spirit than his pre-
deoessor has done. The store 10 located
in good stand, and with proper man.
agement, a handsome business can Be
built mp there.
The Empire from this port proceeded
10 New Tacoma, and thence goes to De-
parture Bay, where she will take the
iirst load of coal from the new mine Of
the East Wellington Coal Company. On
her next voyage up she will bring new
and powerful locomotive for the same
mine, built expressly, By the Baldwin
Locomotive Works The road has now
twenty large cars and one locomotive,
and other cars are to follow.
Capt. H. F. Beecher has completed
the charter of the steamer Eliza Ander-
son for one year, and viii at oncs put