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1. C. IRELAND EDITOR
SATURDAY .May 6, 1S7G.
Divers have recovered another
sum of $5,000 gold from the wreck of
the Schiller, making an aggregate of
$290,000 saved of the $3G0,000 shipped
on the vessel.
News from Mexico intimate the
dissolution of the government, and
its best generals are dissatisfied with
the campaign, as it has thus far been
a failure. The Minister of "War
blames the President for meddling
with military affairs. Money is scarce
and provisions rising.
A. A. Colin, the old attorney for
the Central Pacific Railroad Com
pany, against whom the Company
are now waging an infernal war,
will be assisted in the management
of the suit by Ben P. Butler, of Mas
sachusetts. Butler is expected in
July, on a fee of $20,000, and for.llyit
sum will make things livety for that
soulless monopoly and band of cheat
ing manipulators in the golden State.
Late advices from Ilayti state
that although President Dominico
has fled from Port au Prince, and
Gen. Canal has been invited to as
sume provisional control of the re
public, the revolution cannot be con
sidered at an end. Dominico, dur
ing his flight from Port au Prince,
while being escorted by the French
consul, a son of Mons. Plassier Tierre
stepped up to him and said : You
shall not escape ; for I shall avenge
the blood of my father whom you
massacred on the 3d of May,.S7o,
and presenting a revolver, shot him
dead on the spot. His body was
then thrown out on a dung heap and
left un buried for 36 hours.
A correspondent ofa New York
paper tells of a recent interview with
Santa Anna. The oldest of living
soldiers is thus described : " Tie is
an old man of eighty years, very de
crepit, yet in full command of his
faculties ; has a good head and face,
not unlike Humboldt in old age, with
broad temples and an abrupt, square
nose and, at one time good eyes,
lie had little to say, but oyer the
sofa a'here Santa Anna sat was the
picture of a beautiful woman in her
fullness of youth and loveliness.
.This was his wife when both led the
fortunes of Mexico. As we passed
out the court our attention was called
to the figure of a woman of fifty in
the window opposite, in a plain dress
and devoid of any interesting attri
bute. This was she whose picture
had so interested us, Mrs. Gen. Santa
Anna."
An interesting debate in the
House on Thursday, concerning re
lief of the country from the threat
ened scarcity of fractional currency,
provoked considerable acrimony.
Blain, Kelly and Garfield took ear
nest part in the discussion. Kelly
thought we were getting along well
enough. We got some Nevada doc
tors to pin-sic us by depleting the
treasury of a couple of millions of
gold every year. AY hat has been
said of the first project of this kind
now comes to be true, that whenever
it was done the people would be with
out currencjr ; that fools would be
made to believe that because it look
ed white and bright it was valuable;
that is was money. It was not silver
it was not money according to the
standard dollar. Nobody will allege
that it is money. It is a token j it is
not a legal tender for more than live
dollars. It is a token coin, debased
so that it is not exportable, and yet
it is in danger of being exported.
Because it is made of a floating com
modity I shall object to any extraor
dinary legislation onthesubjecr.'Our
legislation ought to be good for a fort
night at a time. We have submitted
the question to Providence, and lam
'willing to give Providence a month to
knock away. By that -time it will
conclude that we have not a good
thing in undertaking to bull the silver
market by making fractional change
for the people.
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Telegraphic News.
Continuation of Press Dispatches
The National Demofcmtic
Convention at St. Louis.
Thn r-Animiffpn nn t.p5insnnrf.si-
tion for the National Democratic !
Convention has received replies from
thirty railroads that they will make
half fare rates to all persons in any
way connected with the convention.
It is expected that all the main roads
will acquiesce in the arrangement.
Mrs. C. P. Marsh Steps
Down and out.
A summons was sent out on the
4th for Mrs. C. P. Marsh, but the
Marshal was unable to find that lady
and returned the summons non est.
Progress of Investigations.
A Few who were Un
dergo inof Tortures
on Thursday.
Dispatches of Thursday speak of
Morton, Blair, Roddy & Brooks, Rob
eson, Davenport, Baring Bros., Jay
Cooke, -McCulloch & Co., Schenck,
Blain, Farwell. Babcock and his
father-in-law,- Miss Sweet, 'the pub
lic printer, and a host of others,
who are undergoing the tortures of
Congressional investigation (?) We
have not yet heard of any one con
victed, and all such dispatches are
becoming monotonous in the ex
treme. - --
Prof. Elliott opposed to the
Annexation of Alaska.
The Senate Committee on ter
ritories on the 4th heard arguments
from Mitchell, in advocacy of his bill
to annex Alaska to Washington Ter
ritory as a count. Prof. Elliot, late
special agent of the Treasury De
partment in Alaska was then heard
in opposition to the bill, which he
condemned as wholly unnecessary.
The Tvur Seal Investigation
o
Closed.
The sub-committee on ways and
means, investigating the matter of
the lease and management of the fur
seal Islands on the 4th, further exam
ined Mr. Hutchinson, of the Alaska
Commercial Company, and there be
ing no other witnesses proposed by
eitner party to the controversy,
closed the testimony. They will at
their next meeting, hear argument
of counsel relative to the action of
the Treasury Department in award
ing the lease.
A Boiling L.vke. The discovery
of a boiling lake in the island of Do
minica has excited much scientific in
terest, and investigations of the phe
nomenon ;ue to be made by geologists.
It appears that a company exploring
the steep and forest-covered mountains
behind the town of Hosseau came up
on the boiling lake, about 2,500 feet
above the sea level, and two miles in
circumference. On the wind clearing
away for a moment the clouds of sulp
hurious steam with which the lake
was covered, ar mound of water w.-is seen
ten feet higher than the general level
of the surface, caused by ebulition.
The margin of the Lake consists of beds
of sulphur, and its overflow found exit
by a waterfall of great height.
A Chicago inventor proposes to
he.at cars of all kinds with red hot
shot, weighing 100 pounds each, plac-
! ed iii a box under the car, with reiris-
fprc; in fh; tinrw nf fhp riv "fi'iVrt'lvil'a
teis m tlie nooi ot tlie cai. J)ie baLs
would heat the car for four hours, and
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me furnaces for heating them eoiud be
placed at stations one hundred miles
apart. The L-on age suggests that if
the inventor would project his hot
shot at the cars as they passe! along,
he could make it warm for the passen
gers without using as many shot as by
the first plan.
Progress of the Line.
Oak Point, May 5, 1876.
Editor Astorian :
The telegraph line was completed
to this place at 6 o'clock last evening
and as soon as the proper instruments
arrive the office will be in running
order. I think it is the intention to
commence work at once on tne otner
side of the river, opposite here, and
leave the cable until another piece
arrives trom San Francisco.
Yours truly, A. S. Aberxetjiy, Jr.
NEW TO-DAY.
BUSINESS CARDS PRINTED
Very ehean, at
THE ASTORIAN Office.
AGENCY FOR THE SALE OF
the Domestic Sewing Machine, at I.
W. Case's.
DO NOT SEND AWAY
For Printing of any kind, until
you have tried THE ASTORlAN Office.
TPBESII SUPPLY OF 2 and 3 PLY
JL1 Carpets, Floor Oil Cloths, Table Oil
Cloth, Window Shades, for tale at Port
land prices by I. W. Ca?e.
CORRECT PRINCIPLES
Demand that bills be, rendered
promptly, and to do it nicely, get your Rill
paper xmi Statements printed at
THE ASTORlAN Office.
THE BEST ASSORTMENT OF
Crockery, Glass Ware, Lamps and
Lamp Chimne3s in the City at Case's.
A NICE ASSORTMENT OF.TEW
elry "Watch guards in various styles
at Case's.
MISCELLANEOUS.
Globe Hotel.
N. KOEFCED Proprietor.
Cor. Concomly and Main Sts,
ASTORIA OREGON.
rrilllS OLD AND "WELL KNOWN" STAND
JL is one of the best and mo't convenient
Hotels for Mechanics,and has excellent facili
ties for the accommodation of the traveling
public. Jn connection with the Hotel is
A First Class Restaurant,
Whero meals can bo had at all hours. There
is also a
BILLIARD AND BAR ROOM
Attached totho Hotel, where tho choicest
qualities of Wines, Liquors and Cigars may bo
obtained.
Farm for Sale.
320 Acres Partly Under Cultiva
tion, about half of tne tract
tide land.
SITUATED IX PACIFIC COUNTY,
NEAR UNITY.
Will bo sold cheap for cash, with or without
stock. Good house and out buildings and
orchard. For full description and further par
ticulars apply to or address
JOHN HUNTER. Unity, W. T.
r II. PAGE tfc CO.,
DEALERS IN
General Merchandise,
FABMERS WHARF,
ASTORIA OREGON.
ITS' All kinds of country produco, wanted in
exchange for goods.
W. E. DEMENT,
DRUGGIST.
CIEEXAMUS STREET, ASTORIA.
Ni;XT DOOR TO 1. W. CASE'S
DEALER IN PAINTS, OILS, YAR
nishes, 15 rushes
TRI TO Tr
vummmp-
PATENT MEDICINES,
TOILET AND FANCY ARTICLES.
Wines and Liquors Yt
or Medical
urposes.
Prescriptions Carefully Compounded.
RARE OPPORTUNITY
For Profitable Investment,
I offer for sale all my real etaro in Clatsop
County, consu-timr of mv orisirml Donation
claim, on Lewis and Clarke river, consisting
' ? hve hundred acres'? tide land meadow
, knowledged to be the best stock claim in
, ac-
the
! connt. Alo, a largo interest in tho Lpper
I J own of Astona. a portion of John Adair's do
nation claim. Enquire of the subscriber.
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i TDILLS OF LADING, WAY BILLS,
-D Eecoipts, and all kinds of Commer
cial Printing, done at tho Astorian office.
CALL, EXAMINE, ORDER.-S5&
FIELD, FLOWER AND GARDEN
seeds, Oregon and California, in full
I siipjify, fresh and nice at I. W. Case's.
MISCELLANEOUS.
Occident Hotel;
mAstoriay Oregon.
The Proprietors are happy to announce that
the above Hotel has been
Repainted and Refurnished,
Adding greatly to the comfort of its guests
AND
IS NOW THE BEST HOTEL NORTH
OF SAX FRANCISCO.
A. J. MEGLER, C. S. WRIGHT, Proprietors,
S. KINSEY,
ON THE ROADWAY, NEAR HUME
& Co's. CANNERY,
Astoria, Oregon,
DEALER IX 1 Vfc&l-'v-v
Building Materials;
OF EVERY KIND.
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Nails of All Descriptions.
DOORS AND WINDOWS, -
RUSTIC, FLOORING, BUNDS,
MOULDING, SASH, ETC.
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Wines and Liquors
BY THE EOTTLE OR THE GALLON
Custom made "boots and Shoes.
Tobacco of Fine Quality.
B37 This stock is in every respect Al, and
will be sold at the lowest prices for cash, Givo
me a call at tho new store, on tho Roadway.
S. 3CIXSEY,
Astoria, Oregon.
THE MOST EXTENSIVE
AND
sflt, Best Assorted Stock
Yb :m be found at
A ftE- S. LARSEN'S
jV Main Street,
flv Botweon Chenamus and
Ci x it? Squemoqha strocts,
4 T jSuAK ASTORIA, 0REG ox-
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PETER RUNEY,
ASTOEIA, OEEGON,
BRICK LAYER,
And Flain and
L PLASTERER,;
Orders left at the Occident Hotel
Promptly Attended to.
REFERENCES:
J. B. Kuapp, Knajtptnn ; Capt. J. Wet, Weat-
port; JL Ji. Parker, S. X. Arriijoni. llobson .(r
Warren, J. Jiatlollet it- Co. Astoria; J. W.& '.
Cook, Clifton ; Jos. Hume, Eureka: Ji. Watson
t- Co. Manhattan; J. Jj. Jlcpurn, Glenjulla;
J. G1; Meijler Co. Lrookjield, and numerous
other fur whom J have
Built Furnaces, set Ranges,
and Kettles, and
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Spread the Mort!"
During my 12 years Residcnco
in Oregon,
LIME, SAND, BE1CK, PLASTER,
LiUli, Cement, and nil materials in
my lino, furnished to order.
x5T Special attention paid to Furnace work
and Ranges. Cistern work warranted good,
or no pay. JPJBTJBK K UXKlf,
Astoria, Oregon.
Tpl. EDGAiv,
Corner Main and Chenamus Street?,
ASTORIA OKEGOX.
DKALKIl IX THE CHOICEST BRANDS OF
Tobacco and Cigars, and the
Genuine AYastenholm,
and other English Cutlery.
Fairchilds Gold Pens.
AnJ all sorts of
STATIONER Y, NOTIONS ETC.
ASTOEIA LAUNDRY,
Cor. of Chenamus and Polk Sts.
ASTORIA OREGON.
J. T. 150RCHERS, Proprietor.
xw Washing and Ironing, Fluiting.&c.rdono
at this Laundry by clean, white labor.
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V5"J T.Rorchers stiR manufactures and has
for sale at the above plaee of business, tho
FAMOUS "CAVIAR."
VST Highest cash price" paid Fishermen for
STURGEON. SPAWN.
J. T. BORCHERS,
ASTORIA LAUNDRY.
LgL!LfiBl'-L'l3g-yi!MJif L WT
GENT'S FURNISHING GOODS.
MENDLES0N BROS.,
Having Concluded to
liema hi hi JBusin ess
AT
ASTCRJA,
HAVE LAID IN
A
SPLENDID STOCK '
OF
SPRING S UMMER
GOODS!
DESIGNED ESPECIALLY FOR
THE ASTORIA TRADE.
A complete assortinent
OF FISHERMEN'S
OUTFITTING GOODS
JUST OPENED
. ttS5Tho public in general are respectfully
invited to call at the old stand, on Co.viomly
bTUKCT, next door to l'arker House.
MGM)I.KSON JBROS.
MISCELLANEOUS.
ATTORNEY-AT-LAW,
Notary Public ami ('mssmiwoncr r
For California and Washington
Territory.
OFFICE.Caso's Building, corner Cass and
Chenamus streets, Astoria, Oregon.
Xp CHANG, M. D.
Surgeon, Etc,
ASTORIA, OREGON.
At tho solicitation of numerous friends, has
consented to practice medicine, and tenders
his services to the public. Dr. Crang brings
many ycare experience in tho practice of his
profession.
T W. ROBE,
Attorney at Law,
ASTORIA, OREGON.
sy"Offico in "Warren & McGuire's building-,
opposite Occident Hotel, Chenamus street.
Mrs. Pangbiorii,
Masonic Hall Building, Astoria,
DEALER IN
Fancy Goods, Ladies Dress and Cloak
Trimmings of the Lastest Style.
WILL ATTEND to ORDERS fop. DRESS
and Cloak making. Work trill bo done
in a satisfactory manner.
ttST Agent for the sale of Dr.Warner's Sani
tary Corsets, and also Children's Waists with
patont elastic buckles.
N
EW AND ELEGANT STOCK
-OF-
Latest Styles of Millinery Goods,
JUST TvECEIVED
BY THE LAST STEAMER,
At the Rooms of
Mrs. A. D. WASS,
(Up Stairs, Brow.n's Building,)
Cornor Main and Chenamus Streets, Astoria.
iTw'.Tliis stock consi-ts of tho latest j-tylo
Hats, for Ladies and Children; Dress Trim
mings and Fancy Goods for Ladies, which will
be sold at very low prices.
DBESSHDCLDU gm attcndctl
NEW MILLINERY STORE.
"Mrs. H. A. .Derby,
(JMte. of CLEVELAND, OHIO,)
WISHES TO ANNOUNCE TO THE PUL
lic of Astoiia and surrounding country,
thatsho has just received a full and complete
lino of
HATS, TEIMMLNGrS,.
And ail kinds of
MILLINERY GOODS!
A t the xtand recenthj occupied by Mitts Jfor
rixon on MAIN STREET, Astoria,
And will bo prepared to fill all orders for
first class goods in this lino at rea-onable prices.
ftlTNew goods will be received every month.
IETV FURNITURE STORE.
Cor. Main and Cheinocqha Sts.,
CHASSTOLL;
(Successor tc Gist & Stoll,)
ASTORIA OREGON
PARLOR SETTS,
BED-ROOM SETTSr
DINING-ROOM SETTS,
KITCHEN SETTS,
OFFICE FURNITURE, ETC.,
BS5 Of the very best quality, supplied to
order at prices that will justify the patronage
of this home institution. Persons wishing any
article in the furniture line will find it to their
advantage to give me a call, and inspect my
stock and prices before purchasing elsewhere.
CS3 Undertaker's Work promptly attended
to, at reasonable rates.
ONE HALLS FIRE PROOF SAFEr
with Combination Lock, in good or
der, for sale eheup, at I. "W. Case's-
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