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"gp-'",!ir -M- ' (?) '&& &&VQ &$&8XilXVL ASTORIA. OREGON: 0. C. IKEIiAXI Editor. SATURDAY Sept. 29, 1877 Practical Amusements. The scores achieved at Creedmoor are beyond all recorded precedent. Our American riflemen walked away with the best British teams. .Regarded simply as friendly competitions in athletic games, the annual contests at Creedmoor are worthy of high praise, for they have founded a pleasant jas time, well conducted in the main, and promising to permanently add one more to our popular open air festivi ties. The emulation in this sport is a generous one, the public excitement is usually tempered with decorum and rarely does it happen that bad feeling is engendered. But popular amusement is the least of the advantages furnished by Creed moor. Far more important are its practical uses. Creedmoor and the similar rifle ranges which it has caused io spring up are fast educating the country in a most important element of national defence. Until the past half-dozen years America has been be hind other civilized nations in the art of scientific shooting. She lias, it is true, invented many of the arms of precision, and during the civil war she possessed a few companies of profess ional sharpshooters. But these last left little mark on the conduct of the war, while after the war, so far from more attention being given to military education, there was a reaction of in difference to it. On the frontiers, practice with the rifle has always been a necessity; but in the cities and the well settled states the art of marksmanship had until lately been neglected. Not to speak of comparison to the Swiss, renowned as marksmen for fully five hundred years, our countrymen were, as a whole, falling behind the yeomanry of England, whose new-born zeal for rifle practice was fast making them as famous for skill with that weapon as their ancestry had been for skill with the bow. The "nation of shopkeep ers" became almost a nation of sharp shooters tinder the scare of invasion which it got from Napoleon III. To the cry of ''Riflemen, form!" repeated both in prose and verse, rifle clubs sprang up all over Great Britain and Ireland, whose best shots assembled yearly in competition at Wimbledon. The effect of this movement was striking. Not; only did the standard of merit steadily rise in the British rifle clubs, but the meeting at Wim bledon soon attracted more attention than the contests at Frankfort, at Swetz, at Bremen, at Vienna, and at .Lucerne. The musketry schools of Hvthe and Fleetivoml n.iill .l,o w i"-'i'- ular progress in skill with arms. At length the cry for an American Wim bledon arose on this side of the water, and Creedmoor was the answer. The eagerness for rifle practice spread like wildfire, so that before the end of a year the Creedmoor riflemen, br con quering the Irish, then champions of Wimbledon, became themselves the world's champions a position which 1 they have ever since held against re iwknfkrl o?TVvfe - 1cl wl 41. v... .1 ' jitu. iu.iw i.w uionJVi-u LUC1II, aim which, thanks to their exploits of the 14th, they hold to-day. During the past four years progress in marksmanship has been snreadin" far and wide through the country. The skill exhibited at Creedmoor is only the selected token of general apt itude for marksmanship tihich has been developed and improved by the fortunate mania for rifle practice. The number of ranges that have been started in various parts of the country snows tJiat t his modern zeai for the art of marksmanship has taken a firm hold of our arms bearing population. The love of life, the desire for health and paMttn ior woalili, arc three of the ?tionre-t laws thnt operate in Uu brea-t oi the human family. AVheivv.-r lill- ean be mo.-t l.ioionjreu, health biM Meuivd. .,r! ,v.,t!, mn,ft.,Jl :...J .1.. "V.V .-.iui .iii..i..-iui-iii) .ivjui iii. tueit: ii c vine in einigrnuoii ami HiHi;:tiion IS :1s , .-tire to flow the needle mo-iN to thei north h il. It is the tnowinsr know Qtlza all thi-. is ti ue ot Oregon that i emi i uai an liji- is uiii'oi Oregon inatu emi mr it io aunici o niucu punuv a tuition aufl to jo nmiy fivrmer. nnpim., lonrtets and Crtiutnlbts to come und enjoy jiuid protit by them. The Salmon Crop. The salmon season closed some time since, and though small lots will un doubtedly continue to come forward, yet the bulk of the catch has been dis posed of by the canners, and what is yet to come on the market will not materially alter the figures given be low. During the past fall and winter large contracts were made for future delivery at prices ranging from $1 30 $1 50 per dozen 1-lb tins, and before the season opened nearly one-half of the prospective catch had been thus disposed of. The Columbia river has been the chief source of supply of late years, though the Sacramento, Rogue and Frazer rivers have this year swelled the amount considerably and will become more important in the future. Owing to reckless fishing in the past or other causes, the catch on the Columbia was a partial failure causing the total supply to fall consid erably short of the estimates made early in the year. This partial failure and a successful strike among the fish ermen which advanced the price per fish from 2530c to 50c, 75c and even $1 at the close, made the season to the canners generally an unprofitable one, and the number of canneries and boats which this year was larger than ever before, will be somewhat reduced another season, while several who had embarked in the business have been obliged to wind up their affairs. The causes which were so unfavorable to a successful season on the Columbia produced higher prices for the goods, and speculators bought heavily, run ning 1-lb tins up to 1 80, but the leading markets being well supplied, these rates could not be maintained, and gradually fell off till at this writ ing 1-lb tins cannot be quoted over $1 72 for exrwrt, though many hold ers are firm in the belief that lusher rates must prevail owing to short stocks and refuse to sell at current rates, some even holding out for $2. Annexed are the receipts at San Fran cisco from the opening of the season to September 20th: FROM COLUMBIA KIVEIt: Consignees. Cases. M.I Kinnev 37,4:12 Cutting Packing Co : 2(V--2 GW Hume 2T&) Corbitt & Macleay '20fli Scotch Ier & Gibbs 20.2.18 C Adolph Low & Co 19jfi25 Allen & Lewis 14.7C4 J Clement 12,0.ril Dodce, Sweeney & Co 10,249 W ICLeveredge 10.290 Wm T Coleman & Co X,l0tf KB Irwin & Co JUKSO Amnion, Caspari & Co 4,0C; Kodgers, Meyer & Co 2jm W Corbitt 2,-i(H .las Laidlaw 1,000 W (in a diamond) 1,200 S Wangenlieim & Co 1.37 Various 8 Order 7,298 Total 2 FKO.U VICTOllIA. Consignee. Bhls. Uf bhls. Wp2T Caxcs 4,oor 1,519 1,000 400 380 2T0 1,54:; 50 :i 9 Gilbert Clements , Kodger. Mover & Co. . FinleyJ)urnam& Bro- die,London Scotch ler Gibbs WW Montague aCo.. . Ansjlo-California Bnk Order 200 IllW WiiiK II C'oubrough, ,lr... !'1"- CnghilUC hilUCo. Richardson & Field.. 1(H) 99 299 Total 100 9,187 FIIOM KOKVE niVKU. R Dlluino Lynde a I lough 500 FKOM SACItAMKXTO MVKK. Emerson. Coville & Co (estimated) 5.297 12,000 FKOM KKL ItlVEIt. II L. Tones 17( Searles &. Stone 177 Total ;;;; l ;;;;; The shipments for the same period were : Tn Bhls. Ilfhhl. Pints. rars Liverpool . (19,180 London Australia New Zealand.. New York China .Japan lVnang Honolulu Valparaiso C;Ulau .Java Hamburg Panama Mexico CentralAmerica Africa Pacific Islands. 20 40 no 2S,414 8,!i(2 S.M 427 j:; ir,o 2il 400 ion 10 500 .S(5 20 Si() 1X0 111 191 71 100 100 lf.7 4:;u 15S0 Total 4SJS 1-21) 117.71)1 FitOM COI.UMIIIA. HIVKi:. Per Isie of linte ! cSvo-Snov ! J3rfrih 'mv I ' "" " Total RV?,7X - Xi" lilVilM V OllilSlU CXV ri'K ,. .:,........-,. .......i-.t It? ' ' tlb IV) 1- t in',v: ....:i Pound, ' Sn- r,ia - J$i l.CWt.120 J Juno ''O'lOi July 'iwjm August 1.744.740 - t . . Totl ?.S2720 ( ascs. ;ji:(.ih) ll.(KK) .i4.47.") The annual exports from Oregon repre sent an avernge of three hundred and eighteen dollars, gold, to every voter. Abundance of good and cheap govern ment, railroad, and private lands in Ore gon. No land monopolies, as in Califor nia. Variety of timber in Oregon of ex ceptional excellence for industrial purpo ses. Oregon has great mineral resources, especially coal, iron, lead, gold and silver. Fine natural water system, vast water power. Oregon waters abound with fish. The inhabitants of northwest and western Oregon, including twelve coun ties of the State, and embracing the great valley of the Wallainet and its "forks," enjo3T seven months of spring, summer and autumn weather tha tare almost equal to southern or eastern Oregon for bright and cheerful weather and a bracing and healthy atmosphere. The Gve winter months, from November to March, bring a bountiful rain that produces, in due season, unfailing crops. These rains re tard, but tcarcely prevent, labor outside, in any department, and of 150 days of winter, at least a third of them are dry and bright. Eastern Oregon The Astorian is doing more'for the interests of Eastern Oregon than any other paper in the State. If you have a friend or a relative in that section of this country, send him the pa per on trial. Only one dollar for four months. NEW ADVERTISEMENTS. Joinn J The Astorinn has a lolUJ&iJ larger circulation on the Columbia erinanSall other state papers combin For Tillamook. 2f 1 IE STEAMtfll AVil ched from Astoria to Till a- monk in days, lor freight or passage apply at Astoria to W.S. KINNEY. ftVRETEK. undersigned is familiar with the Norwegian, Swedish and other um oilers his semees to the puo erpreter in suits at law. contracts, ich foreigners and citizens from Europe who cannot speak Eng- , are interested. CHARLES HARRISON, Astoria. Tf OR SALE. Tffio undersigned wishes to sell lots 3 and -KWock ll'J, Sliivelv's Astoria ; one good dwelling house hard finished, a large well containing water enough to supply ships, sittuftcd inside of the Fanners' warehouse, so-MlIed, fronting on the Columbia river. FoKfurtlieJrparticulars inquire at the Asto-ni-ifcc oM4c or to the owner on the place. V .Us. McCANN. September 28, 1S77. 2SMin CXAREXDOX MOTET.. PORTLAND OREGON. Zieber & Knowles, Prop'rs. Situated opposite all the Railroad and -Steamship Offices. Street Cars pass the House every five Minutes Free Coach to and from the Home. Pacific Coast Steamship Co- For San. Francisco Direct, STEAMSHIP h h ANC0N. Mmm DEBNEY Commander. Will Leave Astoria for San Francisco, on Friday Morning, Sept. 28. ISTT. Freight ami Passage cheaper than any Other Line. For freight or passage apply to J. G. HUSTLER. Agent Astoria. NEW GOODS! NEW PRICES! GEORGE W. CORNART, Is constantly receiving the finest assortment OF BLANK ROOKS. STATIONERY. OFFICE FIXTURES AND NOTIONS. ALL THE LATEST PUBLICATIONS OF SHEET MUSIC AND MUSICAL TXSTItOIEXTS. Agent for Sherman ife Hyde's Pianos and Organs r-old on Installments. ALSO FIXK IMI'OllTKn AND DOMESTIC CIGARS km TOBACCO, CONSTANTLY OX HAND. North side of Chenamus street, between Cass and Mam - - - Astokia. Oi:ix;o TYESSOLUTION. The co-partnership heretofore existing under the linn name of Classen & Daviseourt, Astoria, Oregon, is bv mutual consent dis solved. ThCMiiulersigned will continue the business as heretofore, at the Astoria Reor Hall, and settle all bills. J'. DA VISCOU ItT. Astoria. Orejr)nt Sept. 17. 1877 s:-.'v f aion anfl Carriage Slioj). Squcmoc'ih.i street, between Wahlnston and i'olk street?. AST0RTA OREGON 11 EXRY ii AliliOf. Proprietor. I rpiIE PROPRIETOR IJRIXGS AVITn HIM i JL an expe: ience of 2T) years in this buinc.s and having constructed vemciea or au uis- cription from A iitifjy of 12." I'oiuids lVeiskt TO All 8.500 Pound Wnsron, T5 nvnnrpfl to mmranteo satisfaction to any who inny patronize him. Ho will uso none but the best material, and will niaKc wagons and carriages equal to any rfiop in the country. ik"tPivn;ie in wnnt of work iviil stu-e money bv findimr this shop. i'i.Rlacksmithins and ship work promptly ntt. mlcd to. -OILLS OF L APING, 'AY BILLS, b Iteceipt,, ami all kin.lJ of Commcri f.inl priJuidone at the Astorinn ofiieo. 1 CALL, EX A31LNE, OHDEE.'tS Advert ojir Ji s QEX. CA1BY, fHiciUriftit TTTew TNTEJ JL V t.2 l:inftih& licLstffat etjf.. tMe nirai oi lfsh well MISCELLANEOUS. BUT NOXE BUT THE SEW I3ITKOTEI FLORENCE SEWING MACHINE, THE BEST - - WORLD For sale at the CITY BOOK STORE. J. H. D. GRAY, "Wholesale and retail dealerjin. FLOUR, FEED, OATS, HAY, STRAW, AVOOI, etc., Abo wholesale dealer in Shoalwater Bay- OYSTERS, Received fresh from the bed four times a week. On the wharf foot of Ronton street, Astoiia, Oregon. F. S. MEADE, MERCHANT TAILOR, AXD Ibaler in dents Fine Furnishing G;OOBS, CHENAMUS ST., - - ASTORIA, OREGON PRENCH, ENGLISH ana AMERICAN CLOTHS, CASSIMERES and VESTINGS, CONSTANTLY ON HAND. ARNDT & FERCHEM, BLACKS1NIITHS AND MACHINISTS x-g- Foot of Washington Street, ?K?Ksr near Kinnej s' Fishery, tPSr ASTORIA , 0 REG ON. Ff5s HAYING SECURED AN ENGINE AND Lathe, and the best of workmanship, wo are now prepared to do ALL KIN DS OF CANNERY "WORK, ENGINE AND STEAMBOAT "WORK OP ANY DES CRIPTION. BSTTIorso-shooing, repairing, and all kinds of blacksmithing promptly attonded to at rea sonublo rates. CANDY FACTOEY. the undkitsionki take pleasure to announce to theik patkoxs and oe.m.eus in oenekal that they have lately j.akoely increased theiu fac tory and are now prepared to fur nish as ;ood an assortment ix theik line as any house on the coast, Special, inducements to cash custo mers. AlilSKY & IIF.GE1LE, P. O. ISox G4. lor First Street. Factory om Alder Street, between First and Second Street, Portland, Oregon. Astoria Brewery Saloon And Bottled Beer Depot ! MAIN STREET, ASTORIA. RUDOLPH BAJiTJT, MICHAEL MYERS, Pi'oprieiors. The Best Quality Lager Beer, FIVECENTS A GLASS. CSS" The patronajro of the puhlic is respect fully solicited. Orders for Laser, or Bottled Beer, in any quantity, promptly filled. J3 Froe Lunch day and nisht. E.s-5 MERRILL & CO., Blacksmiths and machinists. CapUROGEUS' OLD STAND f rv car fcxpres (Jlhco, ASTOiUA, - 011KUUX. All work in our line, heavy or lijrhU don o with neatness and dispatch, HORSESnOElNG, "WAGON, AND Parm Work a Speeiall'. HAVING SECURED THE SERVICES OF Mr. S. A. Gninos of Ky an experienced Farrier of 'Si j'ears in tho business, and irell known to Astoria horsemen, we are prepared to do shoeing in a manner to cure lameness or pre vent it in horses entrusted to our care. iteff"All work warranted and at reasonable rnAes. G-REAT EeDUCTION 1 3EL ICES THE PIONEER 9 oot(v:shoH TttggSEJgEiaCBJM Comer of Ca?s and Squemoenha streets. ASTOEIA, OREGON. FOR THE NEXT THIRTY BAYS I XJLL SELL ALL AlY LARGE STOCK OF Mens', Boys', Ladies', Miss es and Children's BOOTS ATI SHOES At- a considerable reduction from previous prices, man- kinds AT COST! G, J- SMITH, Prop. AUCTION SALES. E. C. HOLDEN, AUCTIONEER and COMMISSION AGENT CHENAMUS ST. ASTORIA. OREUOX. Consignments respectfully solicited, bills col lected and returns promptly made. Refill nr Snles 31ny. Saturday, Refer by permission to C S. WRIGHT. WARREN & AlcGUIRE Ho.v. J. Q. A. BOWLBY A. VAN DUSEN, J. W. GEAR II ART. - F.. C. HOIiDEN. Auctioneer, B, S. WOKSLEY. AUCTION & COMMISSION MERCHANT. Office, on Alain street opposito Washingto larket. S.tXKS IATCY From 7 to 9 o'clock P. AI. Regular Sales Day, Saf nrtlaj', at 10 O'ClocIc A. M. Will purchase and sell real estate, merchant dise, furniture, etc. Consignments respectfully solicited. Diagrams and terms to be had on application to the Auctioncor. R, S. WUKSLEY HOTELS AKD RESTAURANTS. UNION HOUSE. Cor. Squemocqlia and Lafa. ette Streets ASTOIUA, OREGON. rpmS HOUSE HAVING BEEN JL newly re-painted and furnished throughout is now open to the aceonunoda tion of the public. JTlie house lieinp In new hands now can guarantee satisfaction. lSonnl anl Iollnx per "Week $." (M ISoartl per Week , 4 ao 11RS. JL K TURNER, Proprietress. Private Lodging House? Mrs. J. W. MUNS0N, Proprietress. CHENAMUS ST., ASTORIA. Choice Booms (furnished.) to let by the Month, Day or Week, at reasonable prices QCCIDENT HOTEL, A. J.MEGLER.C.S. WRIGHT, Proprietor?. Astoria, Oregon. Tho Proprietors are happy to anntmnco tho tho aboTe Hotel has been Repainted and Refurnished, Adding gieajly to tho c&iafort of Ita guests AND IS NOW THE BEST HOTEINORTII OF SAN FKA3CISC0. R.H. CARD WELL. C.H.PERKLV5 Parker House Hotel, Corner Main and Concomly streets, ASTORIA, OREGON. Card-well & Perkins, Proprietors . THIS IS THE LARGEST HOTEL IN AS toria. -new and now furniture, ftirnishotJ in first cla3 style. The table will bo suppl jed with thcrbest the market aifords. Accomslutions to suit the times, from SI 23 to 52 0 per day. Stcamexa and sail boat leave the wharves and alius Bear tho Hotel, daily for Fort Ste vens Fori Canby, Skipanon, Fort Clatsop Sea bide, Ocean Reach, Knappton, Chinook. Unity, Oysterville and othor places of resort in this vicinity. xQJ-Thero are now five largo salmon can neries in Astoria, which employ over 1200 per sons in tho various branches of tho business, making Astoria as it now is, a point of interest to visitors, independent ofits cool invigorating summer climate. OYSTERS ! OYSTERS I SERVED IN EVERY STYLE AT SCimEERS GOXFJECrriOElty AND Refreshment Saloon. All kinds of French, German and American Candies constantly on hand, wholesale and retail at the lowest eash price. also Wedding cakes-made to order on short notice. The patronage of the public is respectfully solicited. CENTRAL COFFEE Concomly st., between Benton and Iifayette, ASTORIA, OREGON. THOMAS 3IFAKI.AXD. lroi. CALIFORNIA RESTAURANT. A'ATER STREET ROADWAY. Opposite Oregon Steam Navigation Company's Wharf ASTORIA OREGON Tho above new Restaurant will bo open from and after to-morrow, Sunday. January 7th, lbTd, D. RUSAN1CH Jc CO. Proi)rietors. E. C. IIOLDEX. L. LAUGHER Y. HOLDEN & LAUGHERY, rPIIOXSTJBItERS AXI FUKXI TOSE IEAIiEIt!S. At tho 7 old stand-H0LDEN?S AUCTION ROOMS on Chenamus street. All kinds of upholster v and cabinet work dono to order. Manufacturers of Lounges, Spring Beds -an: Of any sizo and quality . Picture Frames and Furniture Manufac tured or Repaired by Expbrienced Workmen. FSfiCcnd fcend Furniture touihi aadfokl. -