Seattle daily post-intelligencer. [volume] (Seattle, W.T. [Wash.]) 1881-1888, 1884-03-27

Judge Greene is nov holding court at
Chambers.
Remember the citizens meeting at
Yesler's Hall tonight.
The funeral Of the late Mrs. A. Slorah
YESTERDAY vas largely attended.
D.. b. Wards condition WAS slightly
improved .ast evening. and his chances
for recovery are mucn better.
Geo. 1. Ford. of this city, has gone to
/ Tacoma and ;here entered the employ
Inens of the Tacoma Mill Company.
CAPTAIN Vim Spriuc. a pioneer Vic
torian. died 1t hls home IN Victoria last
/ the .tsv. he wa a native OF Russia.
and IS years of a G.
A rev building has been erected At
Port Gan biz for the use OF the clerks
and employ ees IN The store, 10 De Known
"a the New York House.
/ &c. pentland 5 moved from WAT
+ com to 81 .l.ie. and with his wife hts
+ taken no NJ rs,iiencs At tue house OF
/ Mis- Shannon. corner OF lnlrd and
/ Spring streets.
I L. Russell tho only culprit IN the Po-
/ lice Court Yesterday III" rniRg. had been
( drunk. disords rlv and fighting, and was
arrested by Officer Lind. He WAS sent
/ & jail for four days.
Oae hundred and twenty thousand
shingles wer" landed upon the fesler
/ wharf last Tuesday. from SnohpmIsa
river: 60.JD0 b. ulat by the Nellie, and
$500 by the w. X. Merwin.
The Gas Company. for some unknown
reason. re fnse, pr neslects TO light up
town et-eets ordered lit by the Council,
and residents along said streets are not
pleas At their insctlOn IN the matter.
VII. L!ewtllyn, for two years past
IN charge If III. Port Townsend teie-
graph oilce. IL 10 come here AID take
the ON OF the i'Ucet Sound Company
Mr.. nurrnan will succeed Mr.. Llewel-
lyn at Port Townsend.
The Geo T.. Starr has been placed on
the Olympia route IN place of the Wei
come, where she will run until the An
die Stewart ~ az an Ready for service
This change Is gratifying, as our mails
arrive early enough III the evening u he
Distributed tue same night.
Hay. rs imported from California. is
very prcttity done up commodity. The
tales in siZe are not mole than one
, thr,. ~ large a. those of hay produced
, at home, while they are very nearly a.
heavy. Ihsv are fastened up with
wires having loops III the ends, through
, which nails are driven into the hay.
March this year, like March last year
has been more like Nay than March tn,
; rainf Ill being a matter of an inch only
the wind next to nothing, while the SUI
has shone brightly every d.v, and thu
weather has been warm and delightful
February and January we're almost A
bright and beautiful as March has been
II will hardly pay to improve Mi!
street unless the owners OF propert,
, along that thoroughfars enter into
|. compact to exclude from tenancy there
|, in Chinese and other obiectiOnabi
!. characters. This done and ths i'm
provernept IN ,de. and Mill street wOul,
ut once become the most impor:au
!, street leading back froru the bay. no
, excepting even the famous jackson
i, street, WITH its future cabls line stree
. railroad. Let the improvement and tn
n exclusion go together by all means.
: A man from White River tells us tina
IS the people there express general sympa
~ thy with the movement looking to Ian
% grant forfeiture, and are eager for tn
u suCh vi n pctitlO
l. asking that blessing at the hands G
n Congress. Every man and woma
o would sign, were the opportunity pr.
" sented Petitions should he sent
If the town committee To all parts of th
10 county. They slolld also be placed o
20 ali the steamers summing out of this ha
n Dor, and as many thousands Of sigma
y lures obtained rs possible.
The steamships State of Californl
and Queen OF the Pacific had trial
"A speed on the Suut. era California G IA
" last week. They left San Pedro IL
= same day. TIE State made the run
W san Francisco in % hours and 10 mil
IS utes: tae Qleeu in % hours and ) mil
~ utes. II has long been n mOOted que
n tiun as To which Is The fastest vessel
10 the two. 4 question now decided in fav,
DR. or the Queen, according to those c
IN board of n-r. The decision is one, no,
n ev,r t1at those ~ ard the State wi
D. eEGravar to have reversed on the FIR
u pracilc .Die OCCASION.