Seattle daily post-intelligencer. [volume] (Seattle, W.T. [Wash.]) 1881-1888, 1884-07-17
BREtfrIRs.

New hay is coming to town quite
| freely.
The Queen of the Pacific is at the coal
dock.
Lime is selling on the Yesler wharf at
xl.25 a barrel. Cheap enough.
w. X. Andrews, of Cheney, is visiting
parents and friends in Seattle.
Messrs. Stacy and Leary we're passen-
gers by yesterdays tram for Tacoma.
A job at clearing land and cutting
cord wood is offered by q. b. Bigicy IN
another column.
To Purser O'Connor of the steamship
| Wilmington, our thanks are due Tor late
papsrs and other courtesies.
Three ocean steamers were n: the
wharves simultaneously yesterday, dis
charging or taking IN cargo.
Steamer Wilmington, Capt. Black
burn, will sail for san Francisco at 10
o'clock next Sunday forenoon.
The fonndriss are getting good deal
Of work these days making furnaces for
The hop growers Of the back country.
1t is understood that Gen. NJ. ID. Leg
gett, OK Commissioner of Patents, con-
templates an early visit TO Puget Sound.
At the lati election in Port Townsend
q. NJ. Braos nav was chosen Mayor. re-
oeiving l7o votes To l53 votes for Il. {.
Hill.
Toe train leaving here for Tacoma
yesterday afternoon was crowded with
passengers for points along the line Of
the road.
The WEEKLY Posi- INTELLIaENcER will
come from the press this morning, fresh
and full of matters of value and interest
to the general public.
At the election in Port Townsend Ia (
Monday 335 votes were cast, 80 being by
women, the vote being much the largest
ever cast in the town.
Tie circus people were unable TO take
all their truck with them 81 Victoria.
Several big Wa IONS were left behind,
aud now ornament the Ocean Dock.
Elk Gov. Langford, of Montana, is at
present examining the National Banks
of Oregon aud Washington. lie was At
Eltensbufg and Yakima City hast week.
The Yakima Signal kindly remarks /.
" The Seattle Posi- INrELLIoENcERg grows
even better rs II grows older. IL Is per
haps the best paper ever published III a
Territory"
The Hon. VIM. Stanley, British Con-
sui at san Francisco, came up from San
Francisco ON the Queen of tue Pacific.
and got OF at Victoria. lie will visit
the Sound before returning.
The rails, bolts and other material of
the kind tor the street railway came TO
hand ON the steamship Wilmington,
aud will be put 10 use Immediately ON
the route land out for the road.
A large number Of the San Francisco
employees of the Oregon improvement
Company have been discharged recently
and the pay of those remaining IN the
employ has been materially reduced.
The schooner John q. North has al
most completed loading lumber at Stet-
son Il Posts wharf. Ike La Gironde il
lying at the same wharf, and will take
ON cargo of lamber as quickly as pos
slble.
Steamer Washington resumed her
place on the Whatcom route yesterday
morning after ten days of repairing.
The W. X. Merwin, which temporarily
relis we'd the Washington, has gone to
Port Gamble.
Candidates for CITY offices may as well
content themselves IN peace. 1he new
CoIncil cannot legally act upon their
applications until the 9th of September.
Until then the present incumbents Will
hold und.sturbed.
Martin Johnsoa, filer OF the Port
Blakely mill. yesterday babe his many
friends farewell, as he was starting to
visit the home of his youth after aa alb
senee Of Is years. he goes To far-off
Finland, but will retarn, AS he thinks
Puget Sound better land than that of
his birth.
IL is now generally conceded that the
schooner Premier Is lost. Ii is over ls0
days since she left Newcastle, N. s. W.,
for Eureka. She Was fine, strong ves-
sci, and must have met with extraordi
nariiy bad weather TO have caused her
mishap. The Premier was three
masted schooner, built by Hall Brothers
at Port Ludlow.
Justice Cam states that he IL becom-
ing tired of public life, and will not be
u candidate before the new Council for
reelection rs Police Justice. some
time during August he will go TO Salem.
Or. for the purpose of disposing of bis
property ia that city, after which he
will return Co Seattle and enter upon the
practice of Law.
II. L. nhballs. Jr., d. II. Han and l..
b. Hastings, yousg men born and raised
IN Port Townsend, were elected. the
other day. members of the City Council.
they going II at the tep of the poll. An
amusing feature OF the election there
was the defeat for the Council of III. l..
tihbails, the father, by IA. L. nb6aiIs,
| the son.
Candidates for the various city Offices
are becoming rs thick rs hair on she
back OF due, figuratively speaking.
The City freasarer's billet seeaas TO be
songht after By the largest nzmher,
while those of Clerk and street Com
missioner have their full share Of appss-
eanls by gentlemen DESTROYS Of SERVING
their city. Some OF the newly elected
conncilmen declare they will have the
button holes in their coats sexed an 10
preveet their being torn ont IL eanai-
dates continue 90 come forward.
| Eshelmsn. Lleweilyn L Co. have is
sued . valuable map Of the city and vi
entity. IL covers - miles square, aud
takes IN everything from the mist.lie n
The Sound IA front of the CITY east 10
the spoquaimie River, LAks Washing
ton frum end TO end. unson, Gre n ara
Samsrntsh Lakes, Duwami~h. Bisck ana
4 Cedar Rivera the three railroads ali sha