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About Tri-weekly Astorian. (Astoria, Or.) 1873-1874 | View Entire Issue (Aug. 28, 1873)
(0 "TW.j-'.rAi iw.u-J'""'M1' , .il.lv.. , i.ni--y...)rwni"aL' n-i'"juj'-'.' , j f m i i j'.i..'-'.hu--u-,i jjjfc4'jLJii,y : . jMLjU!H-"N,iaEjB311 W1" - -i ? tti ." ?i Yol. L Astoria, Oregon, Thursday Morning, August 28, 1873. No. 26, a n fun wv w k n T : ASIUMIAIN. Hi iiDIUJClliilii PUBLISIICD EVERY TUESDAY, THURSDAY AXD SATURDAY, Monitor Building, Astoria, Oregon. . CIRlSIaAXl) Proprietor Subscription Kates: Ono Copy one year. nn One Copy six month" i Ono Copy three month oU f&T Single dumber, Ten Cents. "W Ad vei Using' Kaies: Ono Inser'ion persquarc, 10 lines or less Each additional Insertion, j.er square .. Yearly adr'ts per month, per sauaro S2 o0 2 00 , 150 Agents: L. P. Fihj:r. 20 and 21 3s ow Merchant" Ex change is authorized to act as Agent for the Astoriiv in San Francicco. Any friend who feels an interest in the pros perity' of this region, is authorized to act as Agent for 'his paper, in procuring subscribers. CITY INTELLIGENCE. The bark Edward James sailed for Melbourne from this port on Tuesday. The Forward crossed out on thc&aineday. Ths schooner Kate I. Ilerron from Tillamook last Tuesday, brought a full cargo of an excellent quality of cedar lumb er. Messrs C. E. Jackins & Co., burned out in the recent Portland lire, are rees tablishing their stoves and tin-ware trade in this city. The steamer Annie Stewart took the place o( the Dixie Thompson in the Port land line last Tuesday. The Dixie will undergo repairs. The sloop Hector leaves herefor Port land to-day, with a cargo of first class helmlock tan bark, "which will be sold to the highest bidder on reaching there. "Wm. Harrington has shown us a very fine specimen of coal croppings which he found on a recent hunting expe dition in the vicinity of Tongue Point. If this paper should fail to reach any of our city subscribers regularly the mat ter will be corrected on information of the fact at this office. A change has been made in the carrier. The decision of Judge Deady in the Falkinburg salvage case gives the crew of the tug boat Astoria a share in the sal vage "We understand that the counsel for the defense will appeal the case. In consequence of the arrival of Mr. Church, with the celebrated Prima Donna, Laura Anna Stevenson, the concert pre viously announced to be given by the la dies of this city, this evening, has been postponed until Tuesday evening next. Prof. Le Compt, of the Geological de partment of the California Universary, tdtuated at Oakland, was in this city tak ing notes a few dajs ago. He spent ?omc time among the fossil hills surround ing Astoria we understand. James Cook and son contractors on the street work in this city, put a blast in fossil hill Tuesday, but it didn't go off when it does shatter tilings there, another mine of rare marine shells will be laid open for public inspection. As soon as Capt. Flavel completes his large pile driver, work will be earnestly resumed on his wharf improvements in this city .. The new driver will workup gome larger piles than usually go into.the construction of wharves." Buoys now mark the spot for the As toria Farmers. Qqmpany's. wharf and warehouse. The material is being collect ed together for the work, and the Secreta ry advertises in. another column or,aealed proposals for the. construction. This all looks like business. l " The boilers and machinery -of thojjtr Mary Bell wltych have been undergoing re- - pairs, are now completed. She took the Qrient toJKnappton yesterday to .complete her cargo, for San Frapcisco. The brig h&s on board 160 (long) tonB of rairoad iron.irom tnus port. W. L. McEwan Esq.", andjf&mily, rs turned from a ft fth.irrg froljp'np tjjp Kl&SrJ limine river yesterday, where theyycaugljt. three hundred .bcaufyful trout in three df ys tire samples Uft- with us were excellent Mr; McEwftn. tmttQBaBMaik norti afeiMetk ferks'ifci iswifciHiMf iritfo. Tiwr finest toolmakers on the Pacific coast, so- licits orders from this vicinity, vertisement. See ad- The sch. Louisa Morrison from San Francisco arrived in Shoalwater Bay on the 22d, 17 days out. Her cargo was con signed to Crellen & Co. There is really nothing in the tele graphic dispatches the past two days worth reprinting. The telegraph is ah expensive luxury for metropolitan dailies to sustain. "Wm. B. "Wilshirc, esq., agent for the Pacific Branch of Hall's Patent Safe Com pany, was in this city on Tuesday, and succeeded in selling several of the safes. The safes actual ry recommend themselves. Yesterday the collection of grain and grasses on exhibition in our office attract ed the notice of several parties here at tending the County Court, among them TV". Lair Hill of tho Orogonian, and H. Y. Thompson, esq., of Portland. "We shall be pleased to have others call. Dr. Kinsey is opening a superior quality of goods in his line at the Astoria drugstore, including all the plasters made by the celebrated Novelty Plaster Works of Lowell, Mass., one trial of .which is a sufficient guarantee of their merits. He also has a fine lot of all kinds of perfum ery and notions. Buyers should call at Dr. Kinsey's and look at this stock. The lung protector's are particularly nice. The celebrated Prima Donna, Laura Anna Stevenson, is to appear at the Spirit ual Hall in this city this evening. The Portland press assert that her equal as a vocalist has never yet been heard before a Portland audience. She has for years been a great favorite in Canadian cities. She deserves a crowded house, and we hope she will have one here; let our citizens i-how their appreciation of merit by greet ing Miss Stevenson this evening. The Bulletin of the 26th says: " The schooner Mila Bend, Capt. Paul Corno, about which so much conjecturing has been indulged recently, as to the date of her launching, etc., happily surprised the Astonans by sailing into their harbor last Monday evening. She made the run from Tillamook to the Columbia River Bar, forty-five miles,in three hours and a half." For information we should like to ask where the Bulletin obtained its news? No person about here has Ik en surprised by the sudden appearance ot the Mila Bend. To Investors. Tho Northern Pacific Railroad Company has now built, equipped and put in operation, nearly 517 miles of its main line of road through an oxcollent coun try and along what is known as tho Valley Koute to tho Pacific. Tho finished portions already enjoy a largo and fast increasing traffic. The sections approaching completion connect tho chain of Lakes with tho navigation of tho Upper Missouri and Columbia rivers with Puget Sound, secure at onco a largo and profitable business and entitle tho Company to about 10,400,000 acres of excellent average land in fee simple. With these accomplished results, tho Com pany offers, and is now rapidly selling, its First Morgago Bonds, fir completing tho construction and equipment of its road across the Continent After cartful investigation, wo recommend theso bonds as a well secured and unusually profitable investment. Thoy have 30 years to run; principal and interest aro payable in gold; the interest (sovon and throe-tenths per cent) is oiual now to about ! per cent in currency. Tho coupon and registered bonds can bo exchangod for each Dthcr, at the pleasure of tho holder. Gold chocks for tho somi-arinual interest on tho registered bonds aro mailed to tho post office address of tho owner. Theso securities have tho following elomonts of strength and safety: They aro tho obliga tion of a strong corporation ; they aro also a mortgage on the Road, its right of way, equip ments and franchises, and a first lean on its not earnings. In addition to this usually suf-" ficient security, there is pledged for tho pay raont of tho principal and intorest a Grant of Land, averaging atfout 24.000 Acres per Milo for the entire length of tho Koad. At the average price per aero at which othor Land Grants have thus far been sold, this real estate security will yield more than 8101,000 per mile -morp than throo times tho possible is sue of bonds Tho Cqnipany-has already begun tho pro cess of redeeming and cancelling its first mort gage b mds, as they aro now being receivod, at 1.10 in payment and oxchango for tho Com pany's lands. JAY COOKE & CO., Philadelphia, Now York & Washington, financial Agents N. P. K. R..CCV. Come tq the Fountain. Ono of tfrp most at tractive establishments in Portland," is Iho drug and perfumery store of our old friend isaniuel M. Smith, corpcr of Ash and .First streets. Mr. Smith was for many years sonior partner of tho firm of Smith &' Drv"s. And,' besides boing a thoroughly practical druggist and chemist is, withal, as gonial & gentleman as OVCr graSDOd a hand in frinnrth"n TIi Btoro is fitted un and Ptoekod in a. taa?nifiwnf Banner with every thine, usually found in. r. e;Qju.plotp stock of drugs,' chemicals, porfam-J npe, etc, juutftno teapiro par oxcoljence jf Mtent,n immonBo affair, a mcmum.on.t;ered, i. raarble.and silver to tho health of-the mjiHji, iii4UMW UUU 1(1-11,13 IK(I))tUS. AFCUW U thirsty. Itihas deliveries, ohojppo.site iiw. &;c&& aceomsao.o;Rto a. rush,. JLt.i) rtecke with Kineeaeea. Cob'stoki. Yihv.sitz4r' a&J. 4!fferefct kixds of syrups. The eeelKr ' irM w ike meetperfect i-bb, a4-Ar-'& tt fUi 'n -lim-in Tii I liVn'T 1 A ii ' The croakers who predicted dis aster to the crops in the spring must go into their holes. The wheat crop is ripening in excellent condition, everywhere, and promises a large yield. Spring wTheat promises to be also excellent, the late weather hav ing been of the most favorable kind for grain. In short, the farms never looked better. TheOregonian has come out in favor of a telegraph line to Astoria. "We tell the people that a line here would pay from the start, and it would not cost so much as the Dalles line. The whole business of Oregon is interested in a line to Astoria. The shipping interest alone would support it. Give her another jog up, Brother Hill. St. Helen's Hall and the Bishop Scott Grammar School, Portland, will open for the Christmas term Mondaj', September 1st. The corps of teachers at St. Helen's Hall will remain the same as last year. At the Grammar School the Rev. D'Estang Jennings will take the place of Senior Master, and Wm. B. Barker, of the "Universi ty of Pennsylvania the place of Ju nior Master. On the last trip of the steamship John L. Stephens to this port from San Francisco on crossing the bar she encountered a -vhale just as she was rounding the outside spit, and there not being water enough for his whaleship to make the turn from where lay he came in so close that the starbord wheel of the steamship struck him a pretty heavy blow, the stunning effect of which was sensiblr felt on board. "Whale- are seen fre quently on the bar, but seldom met. The society of Oregon Pioneers, the office of which is in this city, have received files of the Oregon Spectator the first newspaper printed on the Pacific coast, at Oregon city, by John Fleming deceased, to be placed in their library. The book is now a very interesting volume, and the value of it will be increasing with time. Mr. A. Yan Dusen has given us an opportunityof perusing its pages. The first number was issu ed February oth, 184G. Mr. Fleming was printer, "W. G. V Vault Editor, and the "Oregon Printing Associa tion" were owners. Even at that date the editor speaks of " old settlers in Oregon,-" and modestly suggests that some such persons ought to write an article for the Spectator giving "an account of the climate, soil and productions of Oregon, particularly describing the location of the country, its extent and all other particulars that would be of interest to the peo ple of the United States." "We were shown yesterday a speci men of the fossil ammonite, found in this city by Mr. Wm. L. McEwan, a student attending the Bishop Scott Grammar School. The ammonite is now a very rare specimen indeed. This one corresponds with that de scribed by writers descriptive of the original unknown Egyptian god Amun. The shell belongs to the tribe of the nautilus and cuttle-fish, of which there were many species, but all are now extinct, having existed only in the secondary period, or age of, reptiles in geology, when they were,- exceedingly numerous. Dana ipforms us that they, differ from the nautilus in havipg the margins of the scepter very- much plaited, and the siph'urjcle.dorsal :this is so aa-pr,oven by the specimen before usfc They are. also called serpent-stone and cor QUrmmonis. The specimen was found in the bank at the rear of Mr. Jforor's .residence. It is quite, a, rare R&.Yftluable Quripsify.. Mr. McEwan ipUnda.plac.ingt it 4n: the. cabinet of. th Bwbop tfe-jammir:j.SchP9lr. TELEMH MATCHES. Portland, August 27. Gold in 2Tew York to-day, 116; Portland Legal Tender rates, 85V buying, and S6 selling. San Francisco, August 26. The in dependent anti-monopoly mass meet ing at Piatt's Hall was very largely attended. The gallery was filled with ladies. M. M. Estes delivered a care fully and ably prepared speech on the political issues of the day, and receiv ed frequent and hearty applause. Win. P. Sprague, on board the Rev enue cutter Oliver Wolcott, struck Henry Quinton with a capstan bar, fracturing his skull. He lies in a ctitical condition at the hospital. Sprague was arrested. t Belfast, (Me.), August 25. A re lief committee has been organized to distribute such supplies as may be furnished to the sufferers by the fire of the 24th, which destroyed 150 frame buildings, an aggregate loss of $500, 000. Generous offers from Port land and Bangor have been received. Mayor Marshall accepts with grati tude whatever pecuniary aid may be offered. This is the second confla gration for Belfast. New York, August 26. Some one who affects to know, gives this stoiy in connection with the Goodrich murder, the interest in which has been revived by the recent action of the police authorities. Kate Stod dard, when she was known by her true name of Betsy King, went to school where there were four Span iards. One of them was called ftos coe. She was attached to the young man, and before she disappeared from her parents' abode she was re garded as his betrothed. She is said to have renewed this acquaintance afterwards in New York, and this, too, when Goodrich appeared on the scene. This Roscoe is probably the one to whom Lucette Myers points as the one who killed Goodrich for rob bing him of the affections of Kate Stoddard. Indianapolis, August 25. To mor row's papers will state authoritatively that Senator Morton's back pay was put into the United States Treasury some time since. Halifax, August 26. A severe storm, accompanied by'thunder, passed over this city Saturday night and Sunday morning. The gale was the heaviest for many years. Several small yachts were smashed at their anchorage. Tho frigate Powhattan dragged her anchors and drifted to the ordnance wharf, where she was secured. The schooner Momento, which left St. John's June 29th, is believed to he lost with seven persons all on hoard. The body of a passenger has been picked up in that harbor. Miss Biid and her party of one hundred destitute English children have arrived. Eugene Semple has been appoin ted, Democratic Committeeman for Multnomah county, in place of Dr. J. A. Chapman, resigned. A "tidal power machine" has been devised by Mr. Edward W. Mor ton. It consists of a gigantic float which by its rise and fall with the tide develops the power to move the machinery to which it is attached. Hon. Thomas Harris, ex-Mayor of Victoria, B. C. is the largest man over there, weighing 407 pounds. In company with Messrs. Marsh French and J. M. Bird, he is up in the Yaki ma valley, where he expects to buy a band of horses. He is a contractor on the Dominion railroad across the continent. The San Francisco stock market U fluctuating some. A friend here felt 3,000 better off on reading in tho Bulletin of Friday an account that Raymond and Ely had gone up to. 90K hut he couldn't account for his good luck. On finding the Oregonian of the same date he felt bet ter (if not richer), the quptafton, should have beeniOX. The News is discussing the ques tion, raised by itself, whether Mayor Failing has adopted the most correct, and practical way (of, assisting a Portland sufferers. Ye dpnpretend to know all about, tlup- nrnttersays tfce Salemtfttjesmanbl observe that Mr.iling puts; i,iif-cQfei fprtheirrelifcf.. iStNeJUtohas-iioM . w.All if .ntUdAm'mk nVwfW-Ui A XEEDEI ENTERPRISE. One of the Deeds that have been felt by our merchants for some time, is a telegraph from Portland to Astoria and Cape Disappointment. Arrival and departure of ships is a matter that always interests business men, especially merchants. With a line of telegraph between this city and Asto ria this intelligence would always be at hand . And besides this, the grow ing business and population of Clat sop county render Astoria an import ant point of general trade. A wire between this city and that point would have a very considerable amount of business to do, if indeed it would not pay from the first. And it is well known that the business of a tele graph line, in any section of the coun try, increases more rapidly for a long period after its erection than the gen eral business and population of the particular locality. Thus it is that places which furnish but little occa sion for the use of the telegraph,, when it first comes, afterwards and without any remarkable growth in other respects become points of con siderable business in telegraphing. To connect aline from Astoria with that already in existence far down the Columbia on the Washington Territory side would, we are inform ed upon what we deem pretty relia ble authority, cost not to exceed $12, 000. One estimate puts it as low as $10,000. Whether the investment of that amount of money in the enter prise would pay in direct receipts,-no one can say with absolute certainty, but the probabilities are against the proposition. The great convenience of such a line to both Portland and Astoria, and especially to the farmer should he regarded as some consider ation for the investment. Both these places could afford to contribute to aid in the accomplishment of the enterprise. Oregoniqn. A western editor, in acknowledging the gift of a peck of onions from a subscrib er says: " It is such kindness as this that bring tears to our eyes." The city council of Portland has authorized mayor Failing to expend $1,000 in the effort to ferret out the incendiaries who set fire to the city and caused so much destruction re cently. Disgusted terminus hunters are returning home with a face on them longer than a shadow of themselves They are moody, reticent and rather inclined to protanity when you talk "terminus." The new trade dollars has the valuation of three-fourths of a grain more of pure silver than the Mexican dollar, which fact will doubtless make it a preferred coin. The same as gold notes are preferred greenbacks. The corner stone of the State Capitol building' will be laid with Masonic ceremony, on the 8th day of October, at Salem. All Masons of other Jurisdictions, in good standing, are invited to be present. The oc casion will be one of great importance in the history of our State Mr. T. !Dittenhoeffer, well inown an tho state has been absent for some time, has again returned, bringing with nim a. very large stock of tobac--co, cigars, etc., for the trade MrD.. having had a great deal of experience ify this, line- of Imsfuees, will retain his' olft reputation of. being the best, tobacconist in the city,-by the present large stpclc of t&eJnBt IjrAnds.. He. h3.rente tkfrto35to6lfrty occupi ed by B&Mm Brotlij&rgwbichis filled from floofcto cgiib&with his elegant ejectoo oJk$ti6oft8 Jfis.old cus tomriigiB reminder, of his liber- aitrm?ftaija'IS?? ff9J-" mj,m:mm'fmm.w - 1 L:'L. at ngLni8ogtnerea ? mrj r oowee -Kurtici JSEL Hi JlViW i'Uii-tU tiJJ