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About The Daily Astorian. (Astoria, Or.) 1876-1883 | View Entire Issue (Sept. 16, 1877)
)- ''iMM'i . mwjw wu yummuwuaSJg V U P I fLlTrr.DS' Sept. 1G, 1S77 AWT Z-l Jtf&z Sails stonmx o ASTORIA, OREGON: f. C. IKEIiAXI Editor. Oysters in Court. The United States supreme couit has been discussing oysters. To be more strictly legal in expressions, it has been sitting on oysters. At cer tain seasons of the year, this is prefer able to eating oysters. In the case alluded to an order has issued from the bench, not for oysters, as -we have seen, but to confirm the decree of a Virginia court in re oysters. The matter is all, one would ordinarily saj', in a nut-shell; but of course, this simile does not apply here, for eviden tly, it is not in a nut- shell the shell eing different. What the Virginia court has decided is a question of state rights as to oj-sters, namely: whether the state of Virginia can constitutioii &y prohibit the citizens of other slates from planting the bivalve in any stream in the state where the tide ebbs and flows. The state court says un doubtedly it can, and by its decision no one can hereafter cherish and cnl tivate oysters in the river Ware, the. particular stream in question, with out being in danger of running into contempt or being run into by enraged citizen oystermen. This decision has been approved by the supreme court at Washington, and a long wrangle thus comes to an en between oystermen living in different states, but on the saiiie waters. The Jerseymeii will no longer trouble the New Yorker, and Connecticut will not impose upon the Long Islander. The case as between the oystermen is settled, ail but i&e oyster itself. That will ie re oixaiod at the next sitting of the court. The Rational board of trade urges congress to take measures for as oembling an international monetary (Convention "to establish, if possible, a permanent valuation letween gold and silver. " Such a convention might da good service by bringing light to ' bear on a subject that has been much befogged. But it would require a greater power than the assembled wis dom of mankind to create a permanent valuation between things that from day to day fluctuate in value. The juesoJtttion of tlie board of trade is val uable, however, as showing the gen eral need of enlightenment on the sil vw question. Xfcws and Kuies. Five more deaths from yellow fever aic reported in Jacksonville, Florida. The New Orleans Times says Randall's election as speaker, unless lie is unequivocally plodded to the Texas Pacific, would be a calamity to the south. Lrigiiam Young's base ingratitude is shown in the fact that notwithstand ing liis jrosperity he left his mother living at the age of 98 years, in pen ury and want, in Martinsville, Inda. The doctors of Portland are pub lishing the quacks. They have a col umn in the Bee devoted to the pur pose. Dr. Paul M. Brennen is put in the list along with the other quacks. News from the war in the east re port heavy slaughters of the Turks be fore Plevna, but the' stick to their work neither' running away nor asking for quarter. The Russians lost 7,000 men, killed and wounded, and the lioumanians 3,000. The report of A. D. I-Towcomb, special agent of the department of jus tice detailed to investigate, under di rection of the secretary of the intericv, the desert land frauds in California, was made to the secretary, about ten days since. In csnse inence Secretary Shurz has addressed a letter to the general land ofHce. directing him to suspend all entries made in theViealia knd district until investigation can be had. Astoria Correspondence, Mrs. C. S. Woodworth, on her late Astoria visit, wrote several interesting letters to the press of Salem and Portland, from which we extract as follews: The Standard: Everybody seems to be busily employed, and to one re cently from the capital, the amount of business done and the progress visible everywhere, are quite a novelty. The old and new buildings, water lots, gi a ling, pile driving, give a some what chaotic apjearance, -which the energy of property holders is, how ever, bringing into good shape and condition. The Mercury: To one who has not seen Astoria for nearly twenty-one years, the changes are simply marvel ous. Then the quiet harbor, skirted with green hills that sloped nearly to the water's edge, and uxon which were perched here and there a cottage, gave no hint or promise of its present im portance or proportions. Notwith standing the closing of the canneries, life and activity are visible in every other department of business. There is "water, water every where," and as the city (the business part and much besides) is literally built on piles, ne cessitating the use of an unlimited amount of lumber, the saw milk ap pears to le a mpst desirable "bonan za," and the licaYjT "thud" of the pile driver :uid the nailing down of xlaiiks are heard throughout the livelong da'. Lots arc being rapidly covered with buildings and new roadways made,but how the corners of these watery lots can be found, must sometimes be puz zling even to an experienced surveyor. The coming and going of the two lines of steamships, the vessels at anchor, and the smaller craft bound for differ ent points keep up a lively appearance on the wharves. Would you believe that in a place whose name is always coupled with lish, there is not a fish market ? And it appears to be more scarce than any other article of food. The Custom-house is really an honor to the place, being built of stone, occupying a whole block and enclosed with a nice fence. Crace church is attractive, with its dark finish and stained glass chancel window; the Ro man Catholics have an edifice far up on a hill; the Baptists are erecting a neat place of worship, and the foun dation of a new city hall is being hud. "How much is such a lot as that worth ?" I inquired, pointing to a piece of water where niles were being driven for a building. "About S1200," was the reply, and that too, for the width of a good sized building only. Grading streets back on the hills, building houses, tilling up lots, with the ordinary traffic make busy scenes and John Chinaman is everywhere. Some very pretty homes, surrounded with almost perennial verdure nestle among the hills, but generally an air of newness pervades the place. Col. Taylor is removing his old house to make room for a more pretentious residence; Mrs. Warren is building a handsome house and mairy arc adding to and improving their homes. Mr. Frank SI. Bewiej' is at present in market, a fact that will be appreciated by his young lady friends of (y)our city, as well as by his customers lure. There's no place like home, to be sure, and the old song of "Farmer John" comes to mind: "The best part of a journey is going home;" and a brief absence will certainly make the city of spires seem more attractive than ever; but your correspondent wishes that some of this busy stir might be transferred thither, while only a mem ory of it can le taken, and a remem brance of the ever flowing, ever ebb ing tide of this grandest of rivens, as it rolls and is lost into the near ocean beyond. All honor be to the mayor and city council of this city for doing all in their power to prevent the exhi bition of the immoral show which has of late been tolerated in several places up the valley- If they failed it was from no fault of theirs that the youth of the place were exposed to the cor rupting influences of that most base and evil exhibition, which is the dread of all pure minded and conscientious parents. The Portland Bee : There is enough of busy life here, to say notliing of the beautiful hills, the ever-changing skies, and the "mighty Columbia roll ing on to the sea," to interest and at tract even the casual visitor. Last night, September 10, the rolling and dashing of the surf on the bar could be heard during the night, but a visit to the "busy wharves" this morning shows a calm after the storm, and a beautiful rainbow spanning the mouth of the river from shore, suggested the old couplet "A rainbow in the morn ing, sailors take warning," which we heard repeated by a lady about to take passage for Fort Canby. Looking about we see everywhere busy life hi all its departments, from the merchant to the celestial, and re ceiving no response to the question, "What keeps Astoria up now that the fishing season is over" conclude that it is simply enterprise in its purest form, for, lacking the agricultural in terests, which in so great a measure sustains the valley towns, nothing but a most sanguine belief hi Astoria's important future could induce this continued and rapid improvement of the wasto and watery places where the business part now stands. Should the query "What lack we yet ?"' be put by an Astorian to a so journer here, the answer would be, "A roadway to upper-town," and while its necessity would be speedily and tacitly acknowledged, from the outlay it would require, it is doubtless hi the far future. FOREIGN EXPORTS. To Liverpool, per Lochinvar. Sept. 1. Values. Whcat-23.200 ctls- S-i'J.WJO 00 To Honolulu perilattie Macleay, Sept, I. Flour, JW2 barrels S 1,2n5 ny Case Goods, 105 cases... bol 'Ja Potatoes, 152 sacks .. 20-J 00 Hams, 2100 lbs .. 3S1 00 Salmon, 3S3 bbls .. 3.3S0 00 SJ cases ."yJO 00 Miscellaneous mdc 2,815 82 S.7S5 07 To Honolulu per Falkinburjr, Sept. 2: Flour, 50 bbls $ :i00 00 Salmon, 123 bbl3 1,012 00 110 nkgs S1 0.) " & cases 220 00 Lumber, spars and bolts 2,0-12 52 Oats fnd limn tM3 08 Miscellaneous mdse 75H 00 5.S12 55 To Vjetoriit and Xaniamo per str Cal ifornia. September Sth: Flour. 1V,2 bbls S 8,770 50 Wheat, 112 centals 1.&IJ 71 Bran, ileal and Mid dlings, 35,710 lr.s f.fO OS Miscellaneous mdse..... 5,0S) IS 10,082 50 To Queenstown. per Kiuclune. Sept. 11. heat 28,)i ctls- -10,503 71 Churcn Directory. First Congrfgatiox.ii. Church. Rer. F Cransr. services at 11 a. m., and 1 v. v. Sunday bchool after morning services." Soaks free. Rev. A. G. Daniels will preach at the usual hours this a. :n. First Presbyterian Church. Organized May 5th, IS i. Supply expected from tho Hoard of Domestic Missions. Sunday school every Sunday at one o'clock v. m., at upper As toria school house. Grick(Ei'I.stoial) Church. Be v. T. A. IJy land, Rector. Services at 11 a. m., and Y v. v. Sunday school at 0 o'clock a. m. Cii.U'xr. ok tub Holy Innocent". Services (upper Astoria) alternate Sundays, at 3 o'clock i. 2i.. by the ltcv. T. A. Ilyland. Sunday school every Sunday atO o'clock .a. Star o thk Ska Church. Kov. Father Macken Pastor. Services at li o'clock a. m. Sunday school at 3 o'clock r. m. First Bvitist Church.-Kov. J. G. Burchett. Pastor. Services at 11 . m., and V. v. zt. Sunday school immediately after morning services. y.Services in the Court-house. All arc requested to be present morning and even ing. PnooiiKi vk Lyceum. Children's Lvecum hold at Lilwrty ha!! at 2 o'clock p. i under the auspices of the society. 'Friends of Pro""X"s, J. Korter, conductor. nf-Sumlay evening lecture by Mrs. C. M. Stowe, will lecture at s p. m., at Liberty hall. HI All I? 1 52 . In Portland. Sept. 12th, (lust Holmes and Mrs. Mury Holmes, both of Astoria. NEW ADVERTISEMENTS. AnQPliMnn 3 The Astoreaw has a nU VBrilSingi l larger circulation on the Columbia river i.i.m all other state papers combined. E. C. HOL3 AUGTIONESWand COMMISSION AGENT Cllir:jfUS ST. ASTORIA. OKCSOX. ConfiKH'nJTap respectful! solicited, bills col- Ice and returns promptly made. !ar Kales lxy. S:it::rtlay, a ncrmissio fc. V. K1G11T. i(KE. & 3IrGUIKK Uo. J. Q.A. 1J0WLDY A. VAN 1)1 bEN. J.W.GEA1U1ART. T.. C. I5CIjIEX. Auctioneer. TATS SALS, A tiA sc at 2 o'clock F. Al., T fS. Sept. iStSi. ByprV ofJ.G.O .d'-iinfafrator of the estate ked. Lot 5. block 30 in 01- noy's At nccount whom it may In liloek l.'rfl r lots .'. 4 concern 5. 10. it Olney's Al ; lot 7 in block 10G, :,LTEX, Auctioneer. GERaIAXLA BEEH HALL AXD BOTTLE BEER DEPOT, Chenamus Stbkkt. Astocia. The public aro invited io call and leave their orders. Splendid Lager 5 cent a glass. Froe Lunch every night. AVAL BuOK & Co.,Pronriotors. Oregon Steamship Company 1?qv San Fraxcisco 3ireet, Carrying the (Jmted States Mailo and Welis, Fargo & Co's Express. Passive, Cn!:En..S7 .TO Steerage.. ?3 Freight, per Ton &2 The Al Iron steamship, Geo. W. Elder, COXXOIv Commander. Will leavo IV. T. & L. Co.'s dock Astoria for above iKrt on TUESDAY, Sept. IS 1ST7. For Freight or Passage, apply at tho oEcc of tho W. T. & Locks company. C. P. UPSHUR, Agent. Jm CterUM tLjjJEjx. lWtiTfr CTftCf?fe yaw ivti'i f l. ilr. iiiA1k 'Mill lliiMR'k. J KtoJh. Lf E. ctik NEW ADVERTISEMENTS. LIBERTY HALL. filOHDAY, September 1?th, TAE SEW SEXSATIOX HAS AMOVED. CROSBIE & SCOTT'S REA7 GOBBEDY COMPANY. KOMICAL KROSBIE. DON'T FAIL TO SEE HIM AND HAVE A GOOD LAUGH. CSTThe most complete Comedy Com pany on this coast. T OUIS HAGEN, Squemocqha street, next door to the Lpiscopal church. Calz2ct 3Inkcr ami Uncrae:i' iM3U Will take orders for all kin-sof NEW FUKNITITKK, and repairing promptly aad neatly done, at low prices. STEW TAU.021 SltOP. f& TAILOR. -9X tJl T j s&: Benton street, (opposite the j&slitllH Custon House). Gents suits made to order in latest stvles and warranted to lit. "Clothes cleaned and repaired. Oregon City Brewery Depot, 51. SiOESEXi & lillO. Proprietors,. On the roadAvay. opposito 0. S. N. wharf. ASTOEIA, OREGON. Besides the eolobrated Oregon City Boor, will keep constantly on hand all kinds of tho finest Wines, Liquors and Cigars, at whole sale and retail. Orders promptly fdled and satisfaction guar anteed. Beer livo cents a glass and a good free lunch. BITS' K3?E BUT T2IE SEW SZ.WUB MACHIKE, m m Bisi m In the y j For sale at the CITY BOOK STORE. J. H. D. G-BAY, "Wholesale and retail de:der in. floor, feed, oats, hay ST25A1V, VOOI5. etc., Also wholesale dealer in 8toa!water Bay 0YSTER8, Received fresh from the bed four times a week. On the wharf foot of Benton street, Astoria, Oregon. CABBY FACTOBT. THE UXDEUSIOXKI) TAK3 rLKASURE TO an:i'ouck to Tiirait tatuoxs and IJ5AT.KKS IN GEXJCKAh THAT THKV IIAVK IVTKLY UVi:r.EIiVIXCltASEDTHKin FAC TOKY AM) A1SE XOW I'KEl'AKKO TO YUll- x1sii as good an assortment in tkeui link as any 1iousr on tiik coast. Special inducksients to cash custo- MKKS. P. O. Kox &!. I0 First Street. Factory on Alslcr Slrccl, Ijctirccii First an:l Sccoud Street, Portlaurt, Orcp;os. Geeat Eedtjctiois" IX 9 9 a d AT THE PSONEEK i.00T(gSH0K Corner of Cass and Squemocqha streets. ASTOKIA, OEEGON. FOU THE NEXT THLPuTY DAYS I WILL SELL ALL AlY LAKGE STOCK OE Mens7, Boys1, Ladies', Miss es and Children's BOOTS AND SHOES At a considerable reduction from previous prices, many kinds AT COST! G. J SRU5TH, Prop. ms& 72 r c jls 5ai3? Rr-Zl AUCTION SALES. B, S. vYOKSLET. AUCTION & COMMISSION MERCHANT. Ofncc, on Main street opposito Washineto Market. Trom 7 to 9 o'clock P. 2,1. Regular Sales Day, Snfnrfltty. at 10 G'ClooIc A. 32. Will purchase and sell real estate, merchan dise, furniture, etc. Consignments respectfully oliaitod. Diagrams and terms to be had on application to the Auctioneer. Br b. V.'OKbLEY HOTELS AXD RESTAURANTS. UNION HOUSE. Cor. Squemocqha and Lafayette Streets,. ASTORIA, OREGON. THIS HOUSE HAVING BEEN" newly re-painted and furnished throughout is now open to the accommoda tion ot tiie public. 2" The hoibe heing in new hands now can guanintee success. Board and IimIkIks i:er "Teelr $r (JO SJyard per Wee& ".".. 4 0 MPvS. M. E. TUKXER, Proprietress. Private Lodging House Mrs. J. W. AJUMS0N, Proprietress. CIIEXAjIUS ST., ASTORIA. Ciioice Rooms (furnisbed) to let bjr tho Montti, Day or Week, at reasonable prices. nSTThis is a new, hard finished house, in quiet locality, on tho 2d block belor the Cut-tom-house; it is all newlj furnished, sad baa been built rat and mouse proof. Apply at tho small houne next door. Xone but respectable persons need apply. QCCIDENT HOTEL, A. J. MEGLER, C. S. WRIGHT, Proprietors. Astoria, Oregon. Tho Proprietors are happy to announce th the abovo Hotel has been Repainted and Refurnished, Adding greatly to tho comfort of its guosw AND IS NOW THE BEST HOTEL NORTH OF SAN FRANCISCO. R.Il. CARD WELL. C.H.PSKIN Parker Souse Hotel, Corner Main and Coneomly streets, ASTORIA, OREGON. Caril-wcll & Perltiss, Proprietors. rpiUS IS TnE LARGEST HOTEL Df AS X toria. now and new furniture, furnished in first clas3 style. Tho tablo will bo supplied with tho best tho market affords. AccomoUntions to suit ther times, from Si 25 to S2o0 per day. Steamers and sail boats leave" tho wbarre and slips near the Hotel, daily for Fort Ste vons, Fort Canby, Skipanon, Fort Clntsep Sea Side, Ocean Roach, Knappton, Chinook, Unity, Oj'stoi villo and other places of resort in this vicinity. ftyThcro aro now fivo largo salmon can neries in Astoria, which employ over 12v0 per sons in the various branches of the business, making Astoria as it now is, a point of interest to visitors, independent of its cool inrigor&tin summer climate. CALIFORNIA RESTAURANT. WATER STREET ROADWAY. Opposito Oregon Stonm Navigation Company'! Wharf ASTORIA OREGON Tho abovo new Restaurant will bo opea from and after to-morrow, Sunday. January 7th, lb7o, D. JJUSAN1C11 i CO. Proprietors. gwgfMteM1'MiTgH .; tit" Wir"' A. EOISOW. W A THTT ?-r A T.' V If VTI JEWELER. ( ALam istreot, i'arkersiJuiUUng. w Astoria, JSJtB-. HAS JUST P.ECEIVED A FI2,'E As sortment of Jewolry of the latest styles, also a fino sssortment of Gold and Silror Watches, which will be sold at lowest prices, and warranted from two to ten years. Jfc5"PartieuIar attention paid to repairing. storJa Brewery Sa!oona And Bottled Beer Depot I MAIN STREET, ASTORIA. R UBOLPJI BARTH, MICHAEL MYERS, Proprietor- TheBest (Duality Lager Beer, FIVECENTS A GLASS. &S The patronajro of tho public is respect fully solicited. Orders for Lager, or Bottled Beer, in any quantity, promptly filled. 8S Free Lunch day and nisht. "ItJIL DSSEBRASDUS. " Lime, Brick, Sand Plaster ai Marl Dust AS CHEAP AS CAN BE LAIDID II ASTORIA. Can be had in any quantity at my wharf. KSTAqent for sale of San Juan Lime. PETER RUNEY, Astoria. H -'r