Seattle daily post-intelligencer. [volume] (Seattle, W.T. [Wash.]) 1881-1888, 1884-08-06

The lighthouse tsnder Shubrick vas
In our harbor yesterday.
Geo. Y. Smith has removed his Office
20 the Boyd building On Front street
The Biiou troupe vens to Victoria By
the Eliza Anderson yesterday morning.
The youngsters Of the town are all
getting ready for tbs reopeuans of
school.
Tom O'Brien, who escaped from the
city jail Aondsy, has not yet been re-
arrested.
Pat O'Brien, one Of the men arrested
for stealing at the late fire, was yester
day fined x25 and costs.
Schooner Dakota will be the next yes
sci IN the line of Chas. ID. Wells to bring
freight from San Francisco.
Mayor Leary and wife and Mr.. and
Mrs. GatZert will tomorrow 90 over
10 Victoria 20 spend a week.
A number of Insurance adiusters are
IN town, looking after the interests of
the companies represented by them.
The Burke building, lately occupied
by W. q. Q. Pitt, has been moved to
Union street, and placed between Sec
ond and THIRD.
Il is hoped that the contractors for
The ire plugs ordered by the city Will
push the work of making them as rap
Idly As possiblet
Puget Sound made cheese is the Dest
in the world. Calkins & Reddish, Front
street grocers, have Just received q
quantity from The factory IN ChImIcum
Valley.
A yoGng seal was landed upon Yes
ler's wharf yesterday afternoon from
the steamer Washington. 1t was for
Frank Haggerty of Lake Union, and
was from ID. j. Mckinney of New What
| com.
We last evening received q most
pleasant call from Mr.. l.. A. Darling
ton, city editor of the Tacoma Ledger.
Mr.. Darlington Is on a short pleasure
trip, which he proposes to extend to
| Victoria
As showing the good work done by
the fire forces last Monday. 1t may be
said that the sidewalk fronting the
burned buildings WAS not torn up,
broken or even scorched. Usually the
sidewalks about burned houses are dam
aged or destroyed.
The precinct of Colfax, in Whitman
county, has tine hsnor of being first IN
Washington Territory TO elect women
delegates to represent 1t. The Republl-
cans there, last Saturday, chose among
Others Mrs. James, Mrs. Beach and
Mrs. TrImble 10 represent them.
We received letter yesterday from
New Tacoma, which was written June
| Both, presumably mailed that day or
the next, the postmark being too Indis-
tinct for reading. Where this letter had
been traveling, or resting, fer nearly
SIX weeks, Is beyond comprehension.
Ii. l.. Yesler has begun the construc
ton of a sea wall west of Post street.
The outer row of piles were driven yes.
terday. Inside of these will be filled
slabs, sawdust, reck and earth, to be
later covered with houses. Ii would be
an excellent thing to build q like wall
along the entire city, inside of which
should be q common dump, and outside
of which nothing should be thrown to
inj9re the bay.
Last evening one particularly vivid
flash OF lightning, followed by snort
sharp clap of thunder, alarmed many
people, and impressed them with the
idea that some building had been
struck. This, however. was not the
case, as the bolt struck III the bay
about opposite the foot of Union street
Those who witnessed the phenomenon
describe il as wonderful. The surface OF
the bay was violently agitated, anu
great volumes of water were throWI
high into the air.