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ASTORIA, OREGON:
. C. IBELAXD .Editor.
THURSDAY - Sept. 6, IS
Unfortunate Ronmania.
A comical intermezzo in the "bloody
drama of the eastern Avar is presented
"by the attitude and "behavior of Ro
mania. Placed, as its ill luck would
have it, in the very centre of all the
conflicting interests and passions that
rage around it, the position of this
little country reminds one of the cele
brated rope dancer Blondin, crossing
the Niagara falls. Jammed in be
tween Turkey against which it has re
volted, Russia, its big ally whose
friendly grip at times bears upon it
with an alarming resemblance to a
pair of manacles, and Austria, the pol
icy of which power is still unfathom
able, and which alternately smiles and
scowls upon its lilliputian neighbor
the situation of Roumania is indeed
far from comfortable, and its states
men and diplomatists, if it has any,
are called upon to display a consider
able amount of subterfuge, cleverness
and dissimulation.
At the beginning of the war, prince
Charles of Hohenzollern, the Domni
tor, seems to have indulged in very
Ambitious dreams as to the future of
his realm. It appears from informa
tion which reaches us from a responsi
ble diplomatic quarter in Vienna that
a combination was proposed hy Russia
in accordance with which, at the close
of the war, Roumania was to be pio
moted to the rank of a kingdom, and
to receive as a reward for its active
cooperation with Russia possession of
the trans-Danubian province of Bul
garia. This proposition, backed by
Germany, met with a most decided
opposition on the part of Jie Austrian
government, which naturally did not
care to see a new Slavo-Moldo-Walla-chian
kingdom arise on the Austro
Hungarian borders. Accordingly the
idcaLwas-dropned, neither of the im
plicated parties being sufficiently in
terested in its realization. Thereupon
the Roumanian government, seeing
that no other advantage w;is to be
derived by it from Russian "friend
ship" except the blessings of a mili
tary occupation, began cautiously and
with great hesitation to execute a
change of front, keeping one eye ben
evolently and submissively fixed on
St. Petersburg, but winking with the
other eye in a knowing way in the
direction of Vienna.
Put a second bitter disappointment
awaited the astute Roumanian diplo
matist. Acting upon the supposition
that a little scandal about Russia might
not be entirely disagreeable to the
Aiist.rin.ns. the Roumanian Charge
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d'AJFaircs at Vienna was directed to
represent in a most cautious way to
the Austrian government that Rouma
nia was reluctantly yielding to supe
rior force, and that she was ready to
act upon any suggestion the Imperial
Austrian government might be inclined
to give as to further proceedings.
The manner in which (his diplomatic
communication was made to and re
ceived by Count Andrassy is illustrated
by an anecdote which is now current
in the highest social circles of Vienna,
and which is too good not to be true.
In the first days of July the Rouma
nian Charge d'Affaires made his ap.
pearance at Count Andrassy's office
with a voluminous file of official docu
ments under his arm. Vt'ith an astute
and suggestive smile he informed the
Magyar Count (as Andrassy is nick
named at Vienna) that he was empow
ered bv his sovernment neither to
read nor to leave a copy of those docu
ments, but simply to "forget" them in
his arm-chair. Having said this the
Roumanian diplomist took his leave,
actually "forgetting" the aforesaid
documents. Returning the next day,
he asked Count Andrassy if he had
taken advantage of his culpable absence
of mind.
"No, indeed," replied the impene
trable Count; I, too, forgot all about
it. But yesterday, after your visit,
the Secretary of the Russian Embassy
came to see me, and as I was for the
moment engaged I gave him your pa
pers to look over. Ho pronounced
fhnm fnhp. hiilv nntfirtaininffl" The
face of the Roumanian Talleyrand
may be easily imagined, for these fatal
documents contained nothing more
nor less than reports from Roumanian
officials about the reluctance with
which the presence of the Russian
troops in the principalities was tolera
ted by the population!
Thus with all its astute and farsee
ing policy poor Roumauia runs a great
risk of sharing the fate of all who play
a double game. If Turkey is crushed
by Russia Roumania will find itself in
imminent danger of being stifled by
the surrounding Salvonian races, tend
ing to unite. If Russia is defeated
the small principality will fall back
into its past insignificance, with the
far from comfortable prospects of a
possible Turkish revenge in the future.
Roumania is but a leaf in the storm,
caught by the whirlwind and borne
away irresistibly, despite all its des
perate efforts to control its own course.
-Professor David Swing does not
believe in boys furtively playing cards
in the woodshed, or behind locked
doors, but thinks that the father of
the family should put up a card table
in the sitting room and take a hand at
whist with th em. 'Each home should
have its games as regularly as its food
or sleep."
One Boston Bob has been tattoo
ing about a hundred of the ingenuous
youth of Philadelphia at a charge of
twenty-five cents a head or rather an
arm. As the artist chewed tobacco,
and had an ulcerated mouth, and
mixed his colors with saliva, the con
sequence was that almost all his cus
tomers were inoculated more or less
severely with a painful and loathsome
disease.
NEW ADVERTISEMENTS.
The Oregoman never credits an
item from this paper without some
contemptible slur. It steals daily
without credit. But when its writers
know full well that it is apt to be de
tected, then it savs the Astorian
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"claims" that it has gathered its data
from reliable sources. This despica
bleness, upon the part of that fraud
upon journalism in Oregon, is begin
ning to be noticed.
CANDY FACTORY,
THE UNDERSIGNED TAKE PLEASURE TO
.vrTT-NCE TO THEIll PATRONS AND
dealers in general that they have
lately largely increased their fac
tory and are now prepared to fur
nish as goqd an assortment in their
line as any house on the coast.
Special inducements to cash custo
mers.
ALISKY A IIEGEL.E,
I O. Hon 64. 10.- First Street.
Factory n Aider Street, between First
uml Second Street, Portland, Oregon.
MISCELLANEOUS.
BAKBOUES
IRISH IXAX THREADS
ANP
SALMON JSrETTWlXES.
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I. W. CASE,
WJwlesale and Retail
Barbour Brothers,
119 Pine street, San Francisco.
Kenry Boyle. Manager. d.w.tf
DEALER US'
Assorted Merchandise
Every Description.
of
W. E- DEMENT,
DRUGGIST.
ASTORIA. - - - OREGON.
Carries a full Assortment of
Drugs, Patent Medicines,
PAINTS, OIL AND GLASS.
Prescriptions filledjwith care Day or Night.
i&r Manufacturer of Fishermen's "Relief.
i-A sure preventative of Chapped Hands, anil
I euro for Fish Wounds.
rtSTDomont's Florida Water, price 50 conts.
Xotes and Comments.
The order of chivalry which con
to ?nc flio cTVArvfpsfr. number of Jews is
the order of the Cross of Christ, of
Portugal.
Orioles, "blue-birds, cat-birds,
wrens and swallows, hitherto not
known in the neighborhood of Vir
ginia. Nov., have made their appear
ance there this summer.
A bottle has been picked up on
the beach at Australia which is proven
from documents contained in it to
have been floating over thirty-five
years. The data having been verified,
so it is no hoax.
Matt Carpenter thinks lie can
break the Michigan liquor law, and
will be retained to make the attempt
by the Detroit saloon-keepers. . It
ouaht not to cost 'muck unless lie has
an -unusual thirst.
A Scotch reprobate gives it out
that !RIr. Barnum has arranged to bring
Mr. Gladstone out to this country to
"ive "public exhibitions in the art of
wood-chopping. He had better bring
the trees to be chopped.
Eitzpatrick, the Montreal volun
teer who bayoneted and killed a rough
who tried to take his rifle from him
while he was on guard on the 12th of
July, has been presented by the officers
of his regiment with $100.
A young lady at Yassar needlessly
set foot upon the cast-off ulster of a
banana as she was tripping down the
reat staircase, and reached the bot
tom in such a heterogeneous condition
that for a while she didn't know if she
was a Yassar or a peel.
It is difficult for a man who has
carried a letter, given him by his wife
to post, about in his pocket for six
The Xew York Sun has a strong
and just article on the practice grow
ing amomg army officers of simply
signing only their surnames to tele
grams. It is, as the Sun justly says,
an aping of the manners of the Eur
opean aristocracy and should not be
tolerated by the de facto secretary of
war. The Sun does not set forth that
the practice is evidence of a desire to
erect a fraudulent military aristoc
racy on the ruins of the American re
public, and that the sentinels on the
watch towers of freedom should at
once sound the tocsin of alarm. That
ho we er, is the fact. The Sun is alto
gether too lenient in simply calling
the practice "conduct unbecoming an
officer and a gentleman," for which
the only punishment is dismissal.
The man who deliberately signs his
surname only to a dispatch should be
torn to pieces by wild buffaloes, though
exception might be made in favor of
the young and thoughtless who have
been led into this vice by the example
of their superiors, and not by deliber
ate villainy, and also of officers who
are in a hurry. Reduce the army to
two men icith wooden legs.
BOOTS,. SHOES,
Am)
SLIPPSB.S,
A COMPLETE ASSORTMENT,
COMPRISING OYER
SIXTY CASES,
OP THE BJiST QUALITY AT LOW
EST POSSIBLE RATES.
W- CASE,
T OUIS HAGEN,
Squemocqha street, next door to the
Episcopal church.
Cabinet Ulukcr and Unlcr alter
ftfi, Will tako orders for all kiu-oof NEW
FURNITURK, and ropairing promptly and
neatly done, at low prices.
lap ailjarriap Slop.
Squemocqha street botweon Washington and
Polk streets.
ASTORTA OREGON
If ESItY G AJMiOlT, Proprietor.
milE PROPRIEToTuttUNGS WITH HIM
JL an experience of 23 years jn tins business
and having constructed vehicles of all dis
cription from
A. BiiRjyy of J25 rounds Weight
TO
An 8,500 'Pound Wagon,
Is nronared to eu'arantoo satisfaction to any
who may patronize him. Ho will uso nono
but the best materials, and will make wagons
and carriages cquau to any shoi in tho country.
xjsrPersons in wjmt of wurk will savo money
by finding this shop.
BS-BIacksmithing and ship work promptly
attended to. '
Of
PIKE & SMITH,
The rapid sign writers are now prepared to do
House and Sign Painting,
GLASS GILDING, CARRIAGE PAINTING,
GRAINING, KALSOMLMING, BAR
TOP POLISHING,
And all work pertaining to the line.
Having had many years experience in our
business we solicit a share of the public pat
ronage. Shop in Parker house, Astoria.
WEST SHORE MILLS,
STEELE'S
PAIN ERADICATOR,
The Most Wpnderlul Discovery
the Age I -The
World Movch, and Tnlcss wo Pro
gress mv so Backward. Nothing
Itoiniilus Stationary.
Put up in larco bottles, and for salo by
druu"ist5 and dealers. If you happen to oo
inTlocality whcrQ STEELE'S PAIN ERAD1
CATUH cannot ha obtained, send to tho near
est wholesale druggist, or tho Agonts,
CRANE & BRIGHAM,
ui.nU0nln TYrinTfrisfR- Snn Francisco.
nSTFor sale iri Astoria by It. F. Caufield
1 IV T llnmJnf
UliU II -l xviuiviw
uoitx.
At South Bend, Pacific county, W. T., Aug.
19th, to the wife of Charles Brown, a son 11
pound'1;.
NEW ADVERTISEMENTS.
A'
TTENTIOX FIREMEX.
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A regular meeting o
nnmnnnv D. OI ASlOrUl. W
Recorder's office on Thursday
at 714 1. nu me usual lines
upon" absentees.
uy oruer m
J. C. Trulltn
G. F. Parker, Secretary
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scue engine
1 at the
;th, 1877.
nposed
r, President,
Jta
WHITEHALL FERRY
-and
EXPRESS KOAT.
BETWEEN ASTORIA AND UP
PER ASTORIA.
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r..-.., tit. i,..lli tlint tliov li:ivi pst.'inlislieu
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Whitehall rerrv uoat uciwecu jiumia
Foot of
C0NC0MLY
Stroot
ROADWAY,
Astoria, Oregon
J. C. TRULLINGER, - - Proprietor.
of tho abovo .Mul
ls novr prepared to fill all order?, largo and
small, for overy kind of
BUILDING LUMBER
On satisfactory terms.
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weeks, to make her believe that its
tardy transmission is due to Sir.
Haye's had taste in making an ex
Confederate Postmaster-general.
The Michigan State Millers' asso
ciation have assessed each run of stone
in each flour mill in the state $3 to
fight the Cochran process suits, 2 to
he mid to the National association,
the balance to be retained to fight any
suit which may be brought to IVIicliigan.
The death of Brigham Young is a
marked event in American history.
Few men have cut a greater figure in
the history of the country during the
last quarter of a century than he ha?.
He was a remarkable character, and
will be long remembered as the leader
of the Mormons.
The Italians are in a sweat again
over the mutterings of Vesuvius. If
the old grumbler can get up a bigger
bust than the United States have been
in of late it will have to beat even the
.memorable one of historic renown.
Our "bust" cametnear swallowing up
not a city or two, but the whole government.
above, and will leave Case's steps, foot of
C:us street, at 9 o'clock a. m.( and 3 o'clock p.
in., dailv, until further notice, for Lpper As
toria and return.
FAKE 25 CENTS EACn WAY.
Packages carefully delivered at reasonable
1" , i..i.fi...Kt.,(nn(P Tlon.
uruers may nu iciu iii wu; i"p Y'r
cmvcb,'r, pi.cr toCTjgjUjW. ggftP"-
REMOVED.
A- H- POHL, Tailor,
EAS KEMOVED HIS SHOP TO MAIN
street, between ConVomly and Cliena
liuis streets, where lie will attend to all busi
ness m his line. . . .,o.
promptly at-77-8t
nessm nis nne.
5jy-Cli:uiinj5 and repairing
tended to. (live him a call.
Great Beductiost
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THE PIONEER
"R'o or & sSoE
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Corner of Cass and Squemocqha streets.
ASTOEIA, OREGON.
FOR THE NEXT THIRTY DAYS
I WILL SELL ALL ItfY
LARGE STOCK OF
Mens', Boys', Ladies', Miss-
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es ana imiaren s
EOOTS AND SHOES
At a considerable reduction from
previous prices, many kinds
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THE MOST EXTENSIVE
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Only First-class Stock,
CAK BS FOUND AT
E. S. LAESEN'S
Corner of CASS and
Sqnemoqba Streets,
ASTORIA,
OREGON.
New Invoices
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HENRY SJQTOLINGEB,
DEALER IN
STOVES and TINWARE,
JOBBING PROMPTLY ATTENDED TO.
SlIOP On Squemocqha street, between
Main and Casa, street?, Astoria. Oregon.
B- B- Franklin,
UNDERTAKE,
YswMJS
R AND
CABINET MAKER,
Squomocqha fjtroot. nest door to Astorian
building, Astoria, Orogon.
BSrAll work done in a skillful manner, on
short notice and at reasonable prices.
GEORGE W. GORNART,
1EAI.ER IX
FIXE 1JIP0RTED
lESTlC
AND DO-
AT COST!
SMITH, Prop.
NIL DESPERAXTOUH.
Sand
QlQABS TOBACcQ
3J00KS, STATIONERY,
NEWSPAPERS, nD CAGES, YILLOW
"WARE, ETC., ETC.
SOAP, PERFUMERY, AND NOTIONS.
A FULL LINE OF MUSICAL GOODS AND
SHEET MUSIC CONSTANTLY
ON HAND.
All tlic Zieaclins Newspapers of tlie
Nation Constantly on Hand,
North side of Glienamns street, between Cass
and Main Astoria, Oregon.
Lime,
wX3LC3L
Brick,
T.BT'-fggr? a LEO
ai larMe 1st
AS CHEAP AS CAX BE
LADED II ASTORIA.
Can "be Lad in any quantity at my
wharf.
j3SS"Agent for salo of San Juan Lime.
PETER EUKEY,
, Astoria.
M.JIEY?5R'
ASTORIA BREWERY,
Ilaving all thonecessary machinery for first
class work, skill f'U Rrewcrs. and using nono
but tho best qtmlity of materials, tho Proprie
tor is propureijl to manufacture LAUbll libbtt
in any quantify, from a single bottlo to a bar
rel, and put jit up in good condition for ship
ment or immediate ue. Families and keep
ers of public Biouscs promptly ana resumny
ma i r ArPVlOR Prnnnfitor.
supplied.
M. MEYER. Proprietor.
SPELLfflO,
BOOT nd SHOE MAKER,,
JsTORIA, OREGON.
Ha3 jus ; received a splendid stocK of
LEATHER and TRUTING
Tho best
order, at the
finest of Boo ts and Shoe
in Oregon, and will now fill aj
lowest nncea. ior mu wrai.
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