Seattle daily post-intelligencer. [volume] (Seattle, W.T. [Wash.]) 1881-1888, 1885-10-28
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W.D. scott, Eho has ben IN Ssv
Y0rk darinR the PAS; yesr, arrived home
yesterday.
John b. Denny Is progressing ansly
IN his az states 81 tbs NllaTsite
I diversity.
II. steamer Nellie broazht 10 twenty
p4s.engers yesterday from Snohomish
and gay ports
Mrs. Roberts, mother Of Mrs John
-altsr, u st@iiseo5n, died ~ tast
pl tee ta4t Sunday, aged - ye2rs-
SD. Frazer sud Henry ssplaimAn, OF
Black Diamond. EeFe received into the
seattle General HosUltA yesterday.
The rain fell yesterday generously,
aud umbrellas, ruooers and OH caotns
xers called into general reqalsit'on-
The steamer Washington brought
IA rteen deer from G1smes Island.
rnsy were consigned to the Northwest
Frut Company.
A slreiabls will be given at the resl-
d-nee Of Mrs. j. W. George, on Fourth
street. next Friday night, 10 which the
public are invited.
While oarelsssly handling pistol
last sunday. John HBltt, a Portland
BOY shot his brother George 10 the stom-
sch. The wound II dangerous one.
A bouquet Of cabbage lesves-of curly
edges and variegsted eolors- was sent
t. this Office yesterday BY friead At
Colby. IL was q curiosity and quite AT
tracsige.
The Puget Sound Hide Depot pre-
sents busy appearance at present;
Eight men are occupied in polling and
drying wool, saiting and curing hides,
aud getting the material ready Tor snip
menE.
George Blankenship. late editor and
publisher OF the Adams County Record,
Of Ritzville. W. T., is With friends and
relatives III this city. he Is nov foot
loose. and ia looking for new business
location AMI venture.
Henry Oberiy of Philadelphia, before
a magistrate, brought tine charge shat
his landlord and bis wife killed. dressed
and stewed a dsR and served the delec-
table mess TO the boarders for dinner.
TIE landlord was arrested.
Mrs. Vim Cook and her two children
we're burned to death at Petersburg, "a,
while attempting to klndie are with
kerosene. third child was also PROB
ably fatally burned. The mother and
Two children we're buried IN one CONN.
The Washington Transportation
Company's steamer Daisy Is at fesler's
wharf undergoing repairs. A new
smokestack is to be placed in her. be-
sides her guards, and upper works are
to be repaired. The boiler and en-
CINE are also receiving attention.
A severe northeast gale last week GOV.
cred the Connecticut oyster beds with
sand and smothered the bivalves, caus-
inc a loss Of several hundred thousand
dollars. Millions Of star fish were also
killed by the grinding action OF the
shells.
At Port Jervis, N. Y, youRg man OF
" married q lady of 80. On their re-
turn the couple we're met by ten indig-
nant grandchildren, who. with several
hundred of their friends, tried to force
the bride to give up her new found love,
but the old woman was not to be intim-
Idated.
The revense cutter Oliver Woicott
brought Collector Beecher and ln-
spec,or Whittlssey from Port Townsend
last evening. They are attending the
| trial of the case of the United States Va.
Captain Thomas Wright for carrying
dangerous explosives on the steamer
Eliza Anderson without authority.
The Oregon Pacific Railroad is to be
extended from Corvallis to ALBANY, a
| distance OF tsenty miles. The road
| will then have a length of ninety miles,
aud will reach from Yaquina Bay to
the heart of the Willamette valley. The
company has the ambition of making
its road the western section of trans
continental line.
| Since the middle Of June stringent
Sunday law has been in force in Austro-
Hungary, aud the good results are al
ready seen. The law forb,ds all but
necessary work ON the Lords day. and,
since its enforcement, the churches have
all been better attended, and the day
generally observed as day of rest. The
Monday edition Of toe Vienna papers are
now no longer published.
The young ladies wac were passen-
gers GA the Nonantum to Australis,
and who arrived in San Francisco on
their return, about ten days ago, have
separated. Miss Bertha Piper Is a passen-
ger on the Qleen of the Pacific, which is
expected to arrive here tonight or tomor-
row. Miss Olive Snyder will spend some
time visiting friends in San Francisco
before returning. as will also Miss Laura
/ Auams of Victoria