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Astoria, Oregon, Thursday Morning, Sept. 25, 1873.
No. 38.
Vol. 1.
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CITY INTEIililGEXCE.
Assessor Chance reports two hundred
and ninety-nine collections of poll taxes in
tGlatbop county 299.
A peck of potatos to the hill is an or
dinary average of the crop in portions of
Clatsop county this year.
The next regular meeting of the city
Council will he held on the evening of the
.first Tuesday in October.
It is reported that Ben Holladay is
fiiaving a tug boat constructed at Coos bay
for ute on the Columbia river.
The Etta May is still at "Westport.
.She is to be rigged as a schooner by
.Messrs. Stevens & Howe, owners and
.builders. "
.
E. D. Towle, agent of Reed Pan
orama, in a letter from Puget Sound, in
forms us that he still contemplates visiting
Astoria before going East.
-Mr. H. S. Shutter is taking advan
tage of the beautiful weather (or home
tiling else that is beautiful), as he is now
producing some prize photographs.
Capt James T. Gray of the steamer
Carrie, plying between Portland and Van
couver, has been on a visit to his relatives
:ind friends in this city for several days
natt.
After discharging the Northern Paci
Jc Railroad Company's frieghtat Kalama
-and a steamboat load or two for Portland,
:the steamship Idaho resumed her voyage
inland.
The schooner Eoagli and Ready,
Capt. Rafield, is engaged in bringing lum
ber from Knappton for Astoria and Skip
4inon improvements being made by Capt,
IRichard Hobson,
Col. James Taylor left for the Wal
2am et valley on a business trip Tuesday
xnorning. Mr. A. S. Mercer is also in
-the valley. Both gentlemen will truly
represent Astoria.
Piling will soonlaegin for anewdoek
to be constructed by "W.99L Twilight, near
he foot of Jefferson street. The wharf
wilf beorty feet by fifty. 'Capt. Havel's
aiew .driver wilFdo the work.
"We understand that Charles Parker
is going to Bay View fishery to take
charge of the neat little steamer Oneatta,
recently purchased by 3Ir. R. D. Hume
f that place.
The schooner Three Sisters arrived in
Shoalwater bay from San Prancisco Sep
tember 14th with a cargo of merchandise
for the Shoalwater bay Oyster Company,
and depaitcd on the lith.
"We would specially ask the attention
of ladies to the card of Misses Morrison
and Spedden in another column. They
are now well prepared to accommodate
patrons with almost any style of millinery
goods. Patronize home industries first.
Coagars in the vicinity of Knappton
are so tame that they walk right into the
sheep fold and make a mess of the stock
at any hour of the night. Mr. J. B.
Knapp has lost several head of fine sheep
and goats the past week by such animals.
Cant. Gilinan informs us that the
Clara Louise was not compelled to anchor
on account of low stage of water coming
down from Columbia City last Priday,
but in consequence of winds against which
the steamer Maria "Wilkens had not pow
er to propel.
"We noticed large invoices of new
goods landed by the Ajax last Tuesday
and yesterday for Messrs I. "W. Case, and
a Van Dusen of this city. Judging from
the Amount of goods these houses are
constantly receiving, we infer that it pays
them to advertise.
Arrival of tlic Ajax
The North Pacific Transportation Com
pany's steamship Ajax, which arrived here
from San Prancisco on Tuesday, brought
1S3 passengers, as follews:
Gen R H K VHiitely, U S A; Capt J
Paunce, U S R M; SI Kibell, TJ S R B;
Capt J IV "White, TJSRM; E L Hastings,
J Strauss, S Prohman, P Goldsmith, E A
Hawlov and wife, SND Martin and dau,
RevSDoe, PJMartin, "WBcal,LPBrj-ant,
JLevv, PJHart, GPTerrill, Di G"WBrown
GSHonelc, JWheeler, MissMEWoodruff,
Mrs C D Polger and two ch, "W "W Miller,
Mrs HMeyer, MrsMShoemaker, LBiSTash
wie ana two en, sii oenoiiuiu wiu unu uu,
"W Keefe, J JLowry, Jlvenran, LG Adair
and wife, A Dougherty, B Brenner, "W
Pierpont wife and two dau, S Seller, "Wm
Currier, NBScott and wife, MissEGiltner,
Miss E Ramsdalc, J M Adair and wife,
G H Paddock, H A Close, A B Hinkley,
Mrs William, J N Puller, CE Johnson,
G Haywood, H B Tingle wfe and ch, E
Godfrey, wfe and five ch, I A Gallick and
wife, Miss E Campbell, MissE Lake, LH
Patterson and wife, P M Barton, Mrs H
Brown and 2 ch, and 100 others.
TELECtEAPH dispatches.
Tlie Price of Gold.
Portland, Sept. 24. Gold in Kew
York to-day, 112.; Portland Legal
Tender rates, S7& buying, and SS
selling.
The heaviest treasure that has been
brought to Oregon for years at one ship
ment, came in on the Ajax last Tuesday.
"Wells, Fargo & Co. brought about a
quarter of a million dollars, and we un
stand there were large amounts on the
ships account, and in the hands of pas
sen srers.
HOTEL ARRIVALS.
Occident, Astoria, Sept 24.
C. N. Terry Salem, E. Rea Preeport,
J P Saunders, M P Miller, Port Stevens,
H Ebright Portland, Maj P G Smith Cape,
W H Lenniger, A S Bralley, P J Martin
J Strauss, S Seller, "W Currier, Portland,
L C Brandt. TJ S A, A R McCall, J B
Forsyth Salem, Mrs Folger and children,
L B Nash and family, Little Rock, Ark.,
G G Hoyle, USA, Capt John Faunce,
USQMs S I Kimbell, G T Gerritt, Wash
ington City, D. C, Dr Snarling, A V Al
ien, uape, u Xiougnery xuiupjm, wing
Oysterville, H Stoop, " Seaside" House,
J D Coughlin, San Francisco, JohnWood
Knappton, Gen "W "W Miller H G Struve
Olympia, Geo H Johnson str Ajax, E A
Hawley and wife Portland, J S Coulhart,
Centralia, Wis., H J Stevenson and fam
ily, Portland.
The North Pacific Transportation
Company's steamer Ajax, drawing sixteen
feet, came in Tuesday when there was but
fifteen feet of water on the hog's-bnek, (at
four o'clock p. m.), and as a consequence
wa- compelled to remain here over night
and until noon on "Wednesday waiting for
tides before proceeding on her voyage in
The Privateer has had a pretty rough
time of it, getting up to Portland and
back having grounded ten times in all,
six times going up and four coming down.
Capt. Cox is very grievously concerned
about his ill luck but it is no more than
must be expected to result from the pres
ent suicidil way of sending out wheat from
Oregon.
But three or four persons in Portland
out of hundreds were able to write the fol fel fol
eowing: correctlv. It is to be eriven ver
bally to the person writing. Mr. Sitton,
At Skidmore's Drug Store, T)r. Parker and
one other gentleman are said to have writ
ten it cerrectly: " Tis an agreeable sight
to perceive the unparalleled embarrass
ment of a harassed peddler attempting to
gauge the sj'inmetry of a peeled onion
which a Sibyl has stabbed with a poniard
regardless of the innuendoes of the lilies of
of the cornelian hue.
The schooner Hera,
Francisco, reached her
the 20th.
hence for San
destination on
. The ladies of Astoria will give anoth
er parlor entertainment at Spiritual Hall
to-morrow evening.
F. Ferrell has a fine
is offering for sale at very
rates. See advertisement.
tract of land he
reasonable
FIXA37CIAX TROUBLE.
Washington, Sept. 20. President
Grant arrived in Washington this
afternoon, and had a conference with
Secretary Richardson and determin
ed that the Treasury should come to
the rescue of the New York market
to-morrow, by purchasing largely of
bonds and depositing a portion of the
Treasury balance in National Banks
on desposit, in ordor to stop the panic.
The President is fully determinined
to meet the emergency at once and
expresses his determination to use
every power of the Treasury to the
extent of the 16,000,000 balance and
44,000,000 reserve. There is a gen
eral feeling of confidence, to-night,
that the trouble is over, contracts
were made for money at 7 per cent.,
gold interest.
New York, Sept. 20. Twenty-eight
million four hundred and sixty-three
thousand dollars in bonds have been !
accepted at 9 to 11 . All offers of
bonds under 11 i are accepted by the
Government.
Philadelphia, Sept. 20. The ex
citement over the failures has abat
ed and matters are beginning to as
sume some shape. Although the
stock market was somewhat feverish
to'-day, affairs on the street were
more settled, owing, no doubt, to the
promise of the Secretary of the Treas
ury to make use of the $44,000,000 re
serve fund, if necessary. Several
failures and suspensions are announcr
ed in St. Louis, Chicago, Iowa, and
Indiana.
Our friends will.please bear in mind,
that advertisements, communications and
other matters, intended for the A-siraRiAN
in order to insure insertion, Should reach
the office early the day previous to publi
cation. Our fellow townsman-Joseph-G. Meg
ler, who is on a trip to the Atlantic States
to make purchases for the fishery at Jim
Crow Point, writes on a postal card that
he was iu Chicago on the 10th and vould
reach New York the following Fridaj-.
Mr. Chapman, one of the department
surveyor at work at present in this vicin
ity and who xras for several years engaged
in similar pursuits on Puget Sound, we ! Town lots ;
understand sfvs that he .Has iound more
Friend J. "W. Munson we owe you
one. That Sturgeon with a tag to our ad
dress, weighed nearly two hundred pounds.
He was properly dissected however and
divided around amongst friends who are
partial to "Sea bass." "We shouldn't
have felt hurt in the least; only, a small
boy was sent down to the dock to get " a
string offish" brought up to us from the
Cape with your compliments, and in his
zeal to earn that bit we had promised on
his return with the fish, his left shoulder
was dislocated and the right hip thrown
out of joint. He is now threatened with
Cerebro-Spinal-Menmgitis or something
of the soit, and we feel very bad about it.
i The British i,hip Middlesex, Capt.
Massev, from this port last-month with
wheat for Europe, was spoken August 2S,
in latitude IS 30 north, longitude 124
30 west.
Mr. John Berthold met with a serious
accident last "Wednesday, while engaged
with Mr. Turner's Thresher, at the Graves'
farm, in Linn county. His left hand was
caught in the machinery and terribly
crushed.
Come to the Fountain. Ono of tho most at
tractive establishments in Portland is m tho
drug and norfumery stons of our old fiiend
Samuel M. Smith, corner of Ash and Hrst
streets. Mr. Smith was for many years senior
partner of tho firm of Smith & Davis. And,
besides being a thoroughly practical druggist
and chemist is, withal, as genial a gontloman
as over grasped a hand in fiiend.-hip. II is
store is fitted up and stocked in a magnificent
manner with everything usually found in a
complete stock of drugs, chemicals, perfum
eries, etc, But tho feature par excellence is
tho soda fountain, ono of the famous Arctu.
patont, an immense affair, a monumentreared
in marble and silver to tho health of. tho
thirsty. It has deliveries, on opposite side5,
and can accommodate a rush. It is stocked
with Kissengen, Congress, Vichy, Seltzer and
different kinds of syrups. The cooling appar
atus is tho most perfect in use, and tho pro
duct of that fountain a draught that surpasses
"tho nectar of tho gods.'
Tbe abstract of the assessment roll of
Clakop county, for the year 1S73, shows
the following facts and figures:
No, Value.
Acres of land 50,65034 8199,793
231,407
Merchandise and imp'lts
Clmrcli Xoticcs,
Grace Church, (Prot. Episcopal) Hev. T A
IT viand ltoctor. Divine sorvices every fcunday
at 10 a m and? r m; Sunday School at 1 i m
Congregational Church, Rev A W Tenny
Pator, Divine services every Sunday at 10)4
a MandT i m; Prayer Meeting every Thurs
day evening, Sunday School meets at 12 m
Beaver Lodge Hot 35, I. O. O. P.
Lfce. Meet every -Liiursuay evoning.
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ViiMiWuvn itTAfnhMLj
XUIIULUIU, rtlllVllVO,
etc..
ovwl lnnrl in two townshins here, than the ' .burn
;n tvu-n Jiine rpp.witlv snrx'pvwl nvcr i Horaes and mules ISO
there, and is confident irom what he has t Sheep and goats :... 1,301
seen mat mis i&ii ivgiuu u- superior w , .n " X
the Sound for Agricultural purpose.
Capt. John Eaunce, dow in this city
Hosts
2S9
Gross value all property
Indebtedness '. 274,1140
231,848
37,805
7,S05
3,931
40,0S4
9S0
902,734
Fsr- t lX o'clock, in the Udd v el low's
5riiaii"Corncrof Cass and Jefferson
"'t'fuuv streets, Astoiia, Members of tho
Order are invited to attend. By older, .N. U,
Temple liOiljre IVo. 7 A. F. & A. M.
Regular Communications first and third Q
Saturdays in each month, at7 o'clockQT
.. .. tUn. Roll in Acfnrin. Airinlinr5 v
on a tour of inspection in the b nited j Exemptions 53,S94 32S,140
States Revenue Marine, Ja well known to
all by reputation, beinfln '
"old salt" of
n,nfvt wnter. as well asan "oiawar
hor-e,5' haying servodWnn officer through
the Florida war. His attention is special
ly called to the necessity ot esiiiDinin
Total taxable property .".'..574,594
The Oregonian of Saturday says the
force of men employed on making out the
assessment rolls for Multnomah County
- ji- -i r t-Ti ninn jimvi .
lite-savin cr stations u -" j-awmv y" m , , . -r -r, -, mu ,
'"' ..t ; . , i . i . . ;nns1 Tat. T-lin ' o-nt flnwn tn T. HYulnv nvftnimr. M hR to
ih which amy nc nas oeuu iusiuw. vj .- 0- .... -, - - Q- - ., -
Secretory of the Treasury, in connection tol valuation embiacingname uprto that
aocrcuiry ui uiu ,V5JUnn. frmorKn lettcr.aboveall debt,vctc.:amountsto
of tho Order in good standing are invited to at
tend. By ordei of tho W. M.
A "Western paper tells us that a
favorite, hotel is to be kept 'this sea
son by the widow of Mr. , who
died last summer on a new and im
proved plan-
, j
?ttA- strange- and fatal disease is.
verprevalent at Kelton,T producin
A London dispatch of the 19th.
says: "The steamer Arctic brought
to Dundee ten members of the Polaris
expedition. -All are in excellent
health. Three others were transfer
red by the Eavenscraig to the whaler
Intrepid, which is expected to arrive
in Dundee in two or three weeks.
After the separation from Tyson and
his companions, the Polaris was fi
nally abandoned in a sinking condi
tion by Captain Buddington and the
remainder of the expedition. The
party lived in Long Boat Cove, where
they built timber houses which they
covered with sails. Winter passed
without any notable event except the
breaking out of the scurvy, which
however, wTas unattended by severe
symptoms. Plentiful supplies of wal
rus liver for food were obtained from
the natives, and to this diet is attrib
uted the mildness of the disease."
X young man in Galveston Texas,
by birth a German of noble family,
but who had gradually grown so poor
as to have become a helper in the
kitchen of an inferior hotel, was re
pp.ntlv convicted of stealing. lie
begged that he might be sent to the
penitentiary, where he would be
taught a trade by which he might
earn his living, which was accord
ingly done.
The financial crisis in New York
is said to have postponed the fruition
of narrow gauge railway schemes in
Utah for months. The banks at Salt
Lake are reported entirely unaffect
ed, though speculative mining opera
tions will he seriously crippled.
All bulbs with annual roots,
which includes nearly all the lilies,
can be taken up as soon :.s the leaves
fall .because the roots will die if the
Bulbs ore allowed to remain in tho
-round. After taking them up, let
theivrdry in the shade a few day?.
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nth
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!.creat consternation flamong parents.! A nomas xas& aiab-.ono.ruunareu.1-"
MISCEIiX,AEOrS ITEMS.
George Francis Train has an in
come of $28,000 yearly from rents
alone.
The wife of Senator Schurz is
mentioned as having inherited $170,
000 from her uncle, lately dead, in
Hamburg.
An unsuccessful attempt was
made at Buenos Ayres to assassinate
Dr. Sarmiento, President of the Ar
gentine Eepublic.
-The New York Tribune says Miss
jeilson, the actress, is the best fe
male swimmer that ever buffeted the
waves at the Branch.
A ragged and sickly looking boy,
who was taken to a Baltimore infirm
ary last weekrjproved to be a German
girl about 16 years old.
A Louisiana paper states that the
inscription "for sale," or " for rent,"
is posted on more than 6,000 houses
and stores in New Orleans.
Cullen Bryant, in "the eightieth
year of his age, is starting for a voy
age around the world. He is not
quite ready to wrap the drapery, etc.
It is officially reported that there
have been 1,755 cases of cholera in
Vienna since the outbreak of the
disease. Of this number 1,110 were
fatal.
Cerebro-spinal-meningitis is a
tough word for telegraphers to get
hold of on the wires. A Sioux City
lightning-jerker wrote it out u,Cara
bo Spencer's Menagerie"." t
The suspension of forty-nine
firms is announced in New York,
Philadelphia, Boston,. Baltimore and
"Washington, , since the'suspension . of
Jay Cooke cfe Co.v - lwl,,it
Dispatches from Frankfort, Ham
burg, Bremen and Vienna, ,sayt .that
no failures occurred in those, cities
on account of the New York pariic,
but much anxiety is expressed.
Eighty-eight women will study
.in Michigan University during 'the
next college year. Nine will take
the law course, thirty-seven the med
ical, and 42 the academic.
A western paper explains Joa
quin Miller's frenzied style by say
ing tnat ne nas naa uiree wives.
Some men die under it, and some go
crazy and write poetry.
It is said that A. T. Stewart, Cor
nelius Vanderbilt, and "William B.
Astor are each worth $100,000,000,
and that their estates are increasing
in value at the rate of $10,000,000
per annum.
When Horace Greely visited
Yosemite he picked up in the trail a
horse-shoe, and hung it on the knot
of an oak tree for whoever might
choose to use it. No one took it, and
in time the knot grew over the horse
shoe, and recently the portion of the
tree containing it was cut out and
brought to San Francisco as a me
mento of Mr. Greeley's economy.
"Recently a schooner came into
Cleveland having on board an an
chor and 15 fathoms of chain, which
became entangled with her own an
chor while lying at Put-in-Bay, in
the exact locality where Commodoro
Perry's fleet lay at anchor in Sep
tember, 1812. The anchor is of dif
ferent construction from those used
at this time and is believed to have
belonged to one of Perry's vessels.
A number of telegrams have been
received at tho Philadelphia Pos
oflico requesting the Postmaster to
withhold from delivery letters bear
ing stamps of firms sending message,
and which were addressed to ' Jay
Cooke ti- Co. The Tostmaster cp-ild
not comply with the request, as 'tho
postal regulations provide that,af4e?
a letter has passed from the , niai'i; g
office the cleliverv of it caniidf he pre-
entea or ueinyeu m Jiiejyaiiecu
stationed at this place. ,i0,000.
It resembles lever. """ -ilj cuui uib6vu.Wuc.