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About Tri-weekly Astorian. (Astoria, Or.) 1873-1874 | View Entire Issue (Oct. 21, 1873)
M .!!.,, .,.. wmiHH'lipnl. '$ a - Yol. 1. Astoria, Oregon, Tuesday Morndtg, Oct: 21, 1873. No. 49. L v.-mm-.- -, , j j -.--r t-t .--t - .p ' "1 W J l.f - "- - - - - . , . ,- a - t -w JwKb iTfc . -fc TRI-WEMLTjLSTOMlS 1 THE ASTOEIAF. I'UBLISIIKD KVKRY TUESDAY, THURSDAY AXD SATURDAY, Monitor Building, Astoria, Oregon. I. C.IREIjAXD Proprietor Kubscriptiou Kates: One Copy one year. One Copy six months ri! o) One Cwjjy three months 1 50 tk& Single In umber, Ten Cents. ul i Advertising Rates: One Insertion persquaro, 10 lines or less...S2 .")0 Knch additional Insertion, pers-iuaro 2 00 Yearly adv'ts icr month, per square 1 50 Agents- L. P. tf'isimt. 20 and 21 New Merchants Ex change, i authoii.cd to act as Agent for the j Asto u i vy m ban r raneisco. Any friend who feels an interest in tho pros perity of this region, is authori.ed to act ns Agent for this paper, in procuring subscribers. CITY INTELLIGENCE. One lot sold in Knappton last week for 1,000. Pilot Eric Johnson is now employed on the steam tug Astoria. TVe hope the Fireman's Ball evening will be largely attended. this The tug Merrimac is up to Portland having repairs made to her propeller shaft. Parties wishing Canary bird seed will call at J. W. Gearhart's store. He has a large quantity. Case lias some very nice meerschaum pipes. They are genuine, and when col ored are the best. Thirteen hundred dollar's worth of leather was shipped from the Hemlock tannery last Saturday. Col. P. E. Spedden, who has been absent for a week at Oregon City and Portland, returned la-t evening. Mr. H. S. Gile, of Pacific county, is a member of the Olympia House of Repre sentatives, and is at the Capital. Residents may now prepare to receive craw-fish. The next rain will certainly produce a good crop, it is asserted. A raft of 30,000 feat of lumber was towed over from Knappton by the Varuna Sunday, for the farmer's wharf. Capt. Flavel has just laid in a very extensive stock of ship chandlery. Twi light says he can fill any order now from a needle to an anchor. One hundred and seventy-eight cords of stave bolts are on wharves in Astoria for shipment to Honolulu by the barkentine Jane A Ealkinburg. Prank Faber's coffee is a renowned article. Call at the Central Market, Port land, and give him all the way from The Tongue Point cannery will be built. We understand that a wharf of 300 feet frontage will be commenced soon uj tiiu uuuuuuLuis oi uic esuiuuslimeill. -We understand that the remains of Mr. Jams, lost overboard from the Per- j potuaa few days since, came ashore and! were decently buried at Clatsop, last Sun- , day. The schooner H. L. Tiernan came off the sands in fair style with a fine breeze, at high water Sunday morning, and we are pleased to hear that she is not badly injured. The steamship John L. Stephens, schooner Margaret Crockard, and barks Rival and Windward, and schooner Su Ierior, have all gone to sea, bound for 5an Francisco. We invite attenton to the new adver tisements Sam M. Smith, druggist, to day. Sam lias a splendid stock of good in hi1 line, and when you go to Portland givchim a call. . Morrison, Clay & Co., proprietors of the Star Line Pacific Coast Packets, are now sending vessels regularly to Oregon. I John MeCraken & Co. Portland, are agentfc. See advertisement. Speaking of school books a friend at our elbow don't take any stock in any more. He has part of a lot on hand yet that cost him- cash years ago. Out of S47 worth of one assortment he eot SJ8: aud for the remainder will get probably one and a half cents, a pound at a paper ! mju. ; a bit to ten dollars. ' Pacific coast. It n kept by Mr. S. N. Ar- c,ases Wl11 he arranged for Tuesday and ! rigoni, the verv nrinwiK croml liMtXi.', Thursday evenings, with a' class for small- On the fourth page to-day we present valuable statistics of the wheat and flour trade of Oregon. -VanDusenhas jusfop?neda superb assortment of dress goods, plaids, hoscry, etc., which he is anxious the ladies of toria should inspect. As- W. H. Gn-vy, esq., has placed us un der obligations for a conv of bis T7i,rnrv i of Oregon. It is a large, well printed oook, on a very interesting subject. Capt. C. Crosbv,of Turn TVater, who ' ?,flll? 9l".eS.n a!ld California Railroad to ( colliding formic, acetic, proprionic, buty is temporarily sojourning in Astoria, re- ' IhSsc -eosote ceived a sever paralytic shock yesterday. Tacoma, and besides this, there would be an str.ychniue. At any rate, it is said Ilis friends are hopeful, however, that it tllc Sreat . Columbia and "VVallamet to I tlmt tobacco cntains all these things except may not prove serious. empty thoir boats of precious freight into ' strychnine, and Cincinnati whiskey con- j her warehouses. WeshalJ have something tuins tobacco. e 11 -i x i . i - from a small boat m Baker's bay lfet Several hides wnro. ot. nvophonrfl Friday, while being conveyed to the tug Varuna, en route from Unity to Portland. Unity is in want of a wharf. Seven hundred and twenty feet (120 fathom), of a new ten inch hawser was placed on board the steam tug Astoria last week. It is a big rope and would make a lawyer, a butcher, a printer, or any other man" sweat freely, to haul it in on a warm daw Capt. Flavel is pushing the work on his new wharf and warehouse, which will be a magnificient improvement when com pleted. The structure will be so support ed, and braced, and bound together,- that damage will not be inflicted to it easily by the heaviest ship or steamers. Several vessel in this port and Shoal water bay have been fined by the U. S. Treasury Department 50 for not surrend ering their coasting licenses within three days after their expirr.tion. One vessel was fined 20 for not having the name properly painted. The Grand Lodge I. O. O. F., re solved that Grand Secretary Ridgely pro cure visiting cards for the sisters of Rebek ali, the same to be printed in a neat man ner, similar to cards of brothers, and to be furnished as other visiting cards. It was decided not to change the terms of subordinates irom-six-to-twelve months. Rev. Isaac Dillon, D. D., editor of the Pacific Christian Advocate, recently paid Astoria a visit, and of course' called at this office. Of the Astokiax he says: " A brief call at the office resulted in the conviction that 13io. Ireland was in the high way of success with his spicy and valuable tri-weekly newspaper. It is rightly named; for the paper is devoted al most exclusively to the material, intellect ual, and moral interests of Astoria, and the county. The people of that reg:on, we are glad to my, seem to appreciate Bro. Ireland's efforts, and all the better portion of the citizens are subscribers, or ought to be." Concerning the " Occident Hotel" of this city, Mr. Dillon say Board and lodging at this hotel c ; . but 2 per day, aiufbatlis of all kinds are furnished frou of additional co-t. We I were made entirely welcome by the "en- ' t einnn v wt A frjend nt Qhl has qg fln elegant meorschauir, pipe, with a piece of chemois with which to cover it and the rolloxvinir stanzas u. a d&i "" C When laborious day is uver At close of setting sun, A little gleam of rest, jn store " Sols" daily course near run; Tis sottthing to ones self, to sit And in a cloud of smoke. Muse on events a they flit, Enjoy the passingjoko. There's heap of comfort in a " Puff," Either from paper or the pipe Although at times, some nasty stuff- Creep into " bowls," and into typo. But D. C, do you. my dear old friend, Accept this pipe from me, 1 know you never will intend, lo write what should not be. Or if norhaps, some little thing May be rough on some other, 2Co trouble heart-ache, may it bring Lut in one way, and out the other, Like your Pipe. Scliool Books. Xow is tho time to buy School books to conform with the now law. for first introduction there is a discount of JW per cent, from retail prices, as follews: Pacific Coast ltctail. introductory. J irst Header 21 Second ltcadcr ;Hi Third Header 7" Fourth ltcader :....... 1 00 lifth Header- 12o Speller-., Do Hopkins' Manual of Amer ican Idea, tin plac of fcixth"leader, 1 50 -.3 1 S j h. 100 All of which may now bo found in Astoria, at tho store of 1. V. CASE. vc-icod Chenainus street,5 " We made our wav at once to tho Op- ! Masonic Hall in this city, on the evening a trial for a lunch i cident, one of the verv h(!t hono. mm tl j ot the-first Tuesday in .November. This -Kj r s i .- The Cornelius paper, from which we copied a few lines on the 9th, relative to the Oregon Central Eail- road, rises -to explain, and says that , it is the particular friend.of this Asto- ria branch Bail road. It adds: -Since the bunting of the gtKorfh- ; ern i"acihc bubble, we can't see why As- j . -, ' "" WUJIll uui . toria cannot receive the attention recently ne na always done his sums in potatoes I bestowed upon Tacoma. The building of! and turnips. I the Astoria branch to connect at Corne- Tn,n -nn ? n, . 0. .-..,. , lius; the extension of the Oregon Centeral I . lt liabeen fomitI tht Cincinnati whis ! Railroad to Eosebur?, and the completion i kev contains ammonia, pyridine, picoline. "'"i"1" lJ u" lIs suojecu we nave I sufficient reasons for savin cr that theiniurv ; donc the railroad intcrlfe of Orton bv the delunct Herald and the Oregonian, are and that confidence is fast being restored' oy no means latai to Oregon's prosperity, in Germany as to the resources of Orfipmn and the solvency of investment in these securities. The steam tog Astoria returned from whale fishing excursion Sun day evening on the bar. When about 200 yards above the red buoy, the man employed heaving the lead, struck something three times when going about ten knots an hour with the Windward in tow, which proved to be a large whale. The propeller afterwards struck it, when the mon ster rolled up in a bloody pool, show ing that it had been badly cut. Here may be another chance for Coroner Pattei son's jury of Oysterville. It costs $19 10 a ton (or about 58 cents per bushel), for tho-Walla Walla farmer to get his wheat to Portland. Canals are wanted at the Dalles and Cascades of tho Columbia and when the country is more pop ulous they must be built no matter how many Railroads may be con structed. Tho Columbia rtyor is the Erie Canal for Eastern Orogon and Washington. . Astoria exhibits signs of great improvement in all directions. The streets, sidewalks, wharves, and buil dings generally aro receiving atten tion, and the probability is that more houses will be erectod the coming year than for several years past. Tho Episcopal, Congregational, and Roman Catholic Churches, all have the appearance of prosperity, each having a stated pastor. .Strange to say, this oldest town m Oregon and tho first to greet the eyes of stran- 4Yfk lt OO t"li"kXr r 4-"v 4- I -v I 1a .. 1-.! .. 1 ! no Methodist society in it. Advocate. Mr. Frank Terman, graduate of Prof. Charles Cardinell's Dancing Academy, Portland", will open a dancing school at er pupils Saturday afternoons, and a Soi- 1VC Saturday evenings. Particulars wec -Mr J-has reeived-nis nibtrm froin a vor-y competent teacher, an s next uctions and we hope he may succeed in cettincr un a school here. -rThere are more miles of railroad in the United States than in all the nations of Europe combined. Our completed line would reach 70,178 miles, with an -additional 4o,000 in process of building. In all Europe there is less than 03,000 miles of rail road. When wo consider that in 1S4S wo had between five and six thousand miles of completed road, we can form an idea of the progress we have made in the building of rail--roads during the past twenty-five years. The amount of money or its equivalent, expended on the railroads of the United States amounts to the enormous sum of $-3,436,008, 749. It is estimated that 400,000.000 of capi tal is annually absorbed by railroad investments. " Is it -any wonder that an interest so powerful as this is be ginning to be felt as one of the con trolling influences of the land, A young New Yorker has obtain- , ed 27 different card photographs of future wives who are in store for him. i obtained from as many different ' sorceresses. There is nothing left for : him now but to join the Mormons, - I Current literature most in vogue ' Price currents. f anscEixAxcous items. A Candidate for the civil service re- , y s? up examination m disgust, i x ,h f n ; i T . 3 1C of wheat could be bought for ten dollars if 3 ' Z?JJlZ Editors are not always the poor devils many people suppose them to be. Note the following " inventory of stock" on an ! Arizonia editor's table: Two invitations to act as second in a duel, another to attend an Indian hunting raid, a pair of bearskin hunting pantaloons presented by an old hunter, three-pound nugget of silver, a free pass on a stage-route, two lottery tick ets, three Apache scalps, a call to act as postmaster and justice of the peace, seven dollar' worth of faro-checks, and a notice of foreclosure of a mortgage on his print ing materials." The chemical value of the alkali region in the Western territories is exciting con siderable attention, and instead of being unp;oductive,as was once supposed, it in likly to contribute to the national treasury on account of the natural deposits of car bonate soda, alum, sulphur, alsphalta and other minerals. The commissioner of the land office decides that these lands are more valuable than merely arable tracts,, and-ought not to be granted away except under the act of Congress which applies to mining lands. The small tools used by watchmakers and engravrs, are now hardened by means of sealingwax. The article is made white hot and thrust into sealing-wax, allowed to remain a. moment, and then withdrawn and thrust into another place ; and this treatment is continued until the steel ia cold, and will no more enter the wax. The hardness thus attained is extreme, and comparable to that of the diamond; in fact, steel hardened in this way maybe used for baring or engraving steel, hardened by other processos, the tool being previously moistened with oil of turpentine. Prof. TV. B, Carpenter shows in an ossnv int. rmiiii.wi w. iA i?,.;i :-. loses annually by evaporation at least eight ieet ot water, wmo estimate It as hard life; but it is often made a great much as twenty three feet and regains this deal harder and rougher than need be. by the inflow from the ocean; that tho j To tell the young here how plainly farm Caspian has been brought down from sea I ers lived -and dressed fifty years avo. and. covering a large part ot Northern Aia by the excess of evaporation over supply from rain and rivers, and is kept at its present size and level by the fact that evaporation takes off all the water which its rain and river supply of the Black Sea is nearly all taken up by evaporation, leaving but a moderate amount to flow out into the Med- iterranean; and that ot this last great eea the rain. and river supply makes good less ! than one-third of the amount taken up bv evaporation, the test coming from the At lantic by way of the current flowing through the straits of Gibralter. Prof; Carpenter shows also that the depths of the Mediterranean are stagnant, and that their turbidity and deficiency of oxygen cause a total absence of life. The LondonVthenacum states that a .' new edition of Mr. Prescott's works, edited by Mr. Poster Kirke, the historian of Charles the Bold. i in tb nrfs. nnrl thnt in the press, and that benor bonzales de la Rosa, a learned Pe- ! --. j .. .... ....... ruvian, who is preparing editions of some important Spanish manuscripts for the pros, has made an interesting discovery respecting one of Mr. Prescott's principal authorities in his " Conquest of Peru." Hardly any author is more frequently quo ted in that work than Sarmiento." whom Mr. Prescott supposed to be a writer who had himself been long in Peru, a,nd j an eye-witness ot the scenes Jie qespnqpd, Senor de la Eoa is able to prove that tfou inJinuscriPfc 'm quetfou is really the second 1art of thc 'Chronicle pf Peru," by ieza (lciIjUOn (hitherto supposed to be lost); ""7 ", t 1- U"V dent of the Council of the Indies, who wh never in America in his life; and that the document i merely endorsed as havinr been sent to him. ' " The Chicago Tribune says: Jf railway travelers. -woshinJke to, know the kind of cattle railroads entrust their lives to they should read the testimony taken at the investigation of the Muir disaster. The brakeman .who was sent back to flag the ap proaching freight train, and who told , the conductor afterward that he had gone a mile, testifies that he does not know how u- a mile is. He thinks it is about eighty or ninty rods. His ideas of longitudinal measure also em braced the idea that a yard contains about eighty feet. It was this brut ish creature's refusal to go far enougli back that caused he destruction of life. Men are an egotistical race! How do we know but the birds and the insects aTe worth as much as we are? Perhaps they, in their turn, are egotists. Perhaps the blue-birds think the universe was made for them, and men are a part of the ar rangement for tliei? comfort. Xo doubt our blue-birds here believe that we, their human neighbors, have our Thief send in furnishing them a cigar-box 'to nest in, TIiq butterflies speculate as to why God made men; men are of no use to buN terflies! Mosquitoes see things plain er: clearly, men were created as food for mosquitoes. Rut then comes- to them the puzzle: why are men allows ed sometimes to kill mosquitoes? A, wise lot wo all a.re iblue-.bi.rds and mosquitoes and nient Osoah Webster used a spread his favorite idea of the spelling re form by traveling about from print ing ofiico to. printing office and hand ing printed slips containing the word "theater," "center," etc., to pur suade people to spell as he did. This, was before the ravenous demand of the grent-American jpeople for' dif tionaries furnished him with a more effective propaganda than a peri patetic one. Parents may blame themselves that they areforvaken, and that their children make a foolish choice in business. Farm life Biifters, perhaps, a many and as sad losses as any other. It is a lough hard life compared with many other livings, though, indeed, almost any honest life is a ,-, , wiiuii uiey seeino&eoi tni'ir own age m other line of life working not 'nearly so hard, but having much more money at their command, to think that they will be contented to delve, and to be out off from any share oi what others have, would be very unwise, and .sure to end in disappoint ment. The times chancre, and we must change with them. The modes of lifo fifty years ago are no more a rule for us than their modes of travel or rates of postage. Entering into the feelings of children, giv ing them advantages of education, making the home pleasant and attractive, and pur- Filing a large and liberal policy towait them in regard to their settlement in life, making them junior partners in the con, cern, will do much towaid keeping them from wandering, or prepare then.1, if they n"1 gto choose wi-ely, and to look back lovingly and 3'earningly to their ok nest. Til... 11. . 4. 1. . ? I n me luwjflL comic isong (ins f jiugie ior I iU refrain recalling the punning chorus of "I taw Esau kissing JCate." Thus it runi "Say o, Sue, Saucy Sue, Never leave me to sigh so, Sue ; If you love me, Sauoy Sue. ' .-: Wouldn't it be better for 3011 to.say.so Sue A Scnvnton household is en'joy- ln an $ Pf peace. The. lady of the house put her tongue to a "flat iron to see if j,t was lwn ;W Cash on hand" in the Portland City treasury Sebtember 30th, amounted to 33,679 fi4. It is astonishing how few people in j Wall utreet have a " Wall eye." A Chinaman madethe befit but ter exhibited'at the Seattle fair.