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g355ff9555H?pw 'j -'-v-r iE., . ..-jiTj. -JTAHa dk " . -JTWI . BtmHBiBHXni Vol. Astoria, Oregon, Saturday Morning, October 6, 1877. 3. No.' 105. " "' -'; - ' '' 1--I-. . .J ,- - . T7. . . I'. L.,.V.VI llifcMP.'P H.tLI,,C3 -Ci- J gUs anij QsXQxxvm ISSUED EVERY MORNING, (Monthly Kxceptodl, i. V. IRZlXi.mn : : X'UISZjI.S2Z?:ZI. Aitorian JJitiiditig, CVmw Siroci. Tams of Subscription : ?enrod by Cariicr, per week 25 Coni ot by mail, four montb- - $3 'Ml Sent by mail, cne ycsir. - v y W l'lu of lo-tage to .Sub-ciibois. Will do Ur. Capt. Tobey has deci cided tluit the splendid new .ship Santa Clara, which he is in command of. shall-! go to Portland. Di-K and Dj:w-Hi:ois. The potaloe shower due this fall came bountifully. In fart it has n't let up yet. and Xasby says he cannot tell when it will.it is un common wet. ASTORIA FIRS DEPARTMENT. tW Advertisements insert cl by the year at J : .1C raic i i jut titnru ji mnui. Transient adveiti-ins:. b the day or week fifty cent? per siu:ti e for each insei Lion. To City Subscribers. Tli ore arc such frequent clumpc3 in the resi dence of ourcitv nations that we s-Iinll fool vbiixod to any wJiu make such clningc if they will ioKrt the same to thisotlice. Otherwise we ohall not bo rejon-ibb for failures of the canier to deliver the paper promptly and icjpilarly to them. 1Ji:ady ron Si:a. The Palawan. Riv t Indus, and Candida. Dee Days. A man might easily im agine that it was dog-days at Astoria, to see the number and grade of canines at large minus tag and collar. Who pars tiieuog-iax. any now; aim wnai s the matter with the law 1K5AXK. Pilot Snow, who is um plmtieally one f tho bet pilots on the river, brought the Eskbank safe into port from the land of sand bars yester day. .Safe von CoLi'.Mr.iA CorxTY Yes terday Judge Dean Blanchard, of Col umbia county, purchased a line Hall's safe of Y. C. 1 1 olden & Co.. of this city, for the use of that county. Peaches. We are indebted to Mr. llassell, of the Tracy & llas-ell farm, on Young's river, for a line lot of peaches, grown iijion their farm, from a tree that has yielded fruit every season for twenty-one years past. C.ooi) Templar. This order is de serving of much commendation, both sexes working indefatigably to add to the number of their lodge. Evidently they are in earnest ami are doitig much good work. We notice that committee to investigate the respectability of names proposed are certainly on the aleit and do their duties most systenmtieally. Jts a labor deserving of encouragement and aid fronmill goea citizens. One Thing Needful. Why is it that some body does not start a spelling school or something of the kind, both amusing and instructive, to entrap young men who come here prospecting, and anxious to locate'? Many a gentlemen has visiteoVthis place within the past two months wno is worthy of all encourage i ment, but finding the community, social- ly speaking, offering no inducements to ! pass a pleasant evening, has drifted up to Portland to meet more disappoint ment, and finally go home with the idea (that Oregonians do not oiler much en couragement to the stranger. n. J. II. 1). (J1IAY FKEI.r.FEIICIIEX.. C.r.TKKNCHAKI)..- Chief Engineer ..1st Ast Engineer ..lid Asst Engineer BOARD OF DELEGATES.--Kcgular meet ing second Thursday in each month. The Walla Walla Railroad. Officers. P. J. Taylor, President; Ed. D. Curtis, Secretary: Brenham Van Dusen. Treasurer. Delegates. Chas. S. Wright. Wm. Chance. I. W. Case. Astoria Enylnc Co. No. 1. V. J. Taylor. G. W. Fulton. Bren ham Van Dusen. Alert Uoel: and Lad der Co. Xo. 1. C. 1 1. Stockton. .J. Supre nant. X. Clinton, Rescue Enable Co.Xo. ASTORIA EXGIXE COMPAXY Xo. 1. Hcgular meeting second Tuesday in each mouth. The Future of Oregon. Officers. A. VanDusen. President: II. X. Carnahan, Secretary: C. A. Mc Cuire.Treasurer ; John Burke. Foreman : Peter Wilhelm. Istasst. Foreman ; Henry Miller, -d asst. Foreman. ALERT HOOK AXD LADDER CO. Xo.l llctmlar meeting second Monday in each month. Officers. Frank J. Taylor, Presi dent: J. O. Bo.orth, Secretary; 15. Van Dusen, Treasurer; A. P. Anderson.Fore man; Ed D. Curtis. Istasst. Foreman; J. W. Gearhart. Jd asst. Foreman. Bkj.l liixni:i:s. The bell ringers ar rived in Astoria yesterday, and notwith standing the inclemency of the weather -paraded the streets and gave us a tune.' They were bovines. headed for Warren & McGuire's slaughter yaul. and came ion a scow from Clatsop, t . Xj:w Comi:u. Dr. F. P. Hicks, dent ist, arrived in our city day before yesler cay.and proceeded to business yesteiday. 3Ir. Hicks is a wide awake, skillful op orator, and proposes to keep pace with the times. His name was enrolled upon the list-of Daily Astorian subscrib ers before he liad been in the city 24 tliours. XirvvExGixasllorsi:. There has been a deal of talk about a new engine house i for Rescue company's .steamer. Yester day the boys took the matter in hand for Making Room. Yesterday onr wor thy city treasurer, uncle David lngalls. was engaged in cutting down a beauti ful pear tree, a tree that has flourished for years on Cass street, and been admir- i ed by visitors to this city nearly every autumn, when they have observed blos soms, and growing fruit, and ripening fruit, and fruit that was ripe, all at the same time upon its branches. When re monstrance was proposed against its des truction the argument to offset it was that fruit is abundant and cheap,while land for building purposes is scarce and high.' How true to life: it reminded us of the fate of Horace Greeley, and very many other good men in America who have been rooted out, and life destroyed in their prime just as that pear tree was destroyed yesterday. RESCUE EXGTXE COVPAXY Xo.2. Kegu'ar meeting first Thursday in each month. Offickks. J. D. Merriman. Presi dent; G. F. Parker, Secretary: E. R. II awes. Treasurer : L. D. Coffman, Fore man : J. R. Sheppard. 1st asst. Foreman ; P. Trullinger, 2d asst. Foreman. ...J thev c; Adlei's House Innoc will ( fore receiv trade. CITY ITEMS. ant it. They do? Well ittle of everything at t door to the Wnite hevjdTvv lll.Tt !l joGre nox t JMlQX iht 1 well trf liurenanr UlJUV alljaike it. What? Adler's eiga I Smokers and dealers examine Adler s stock be- ig elsewhere. 25.000 just steamer for the wholesale Oris Hotels. It is admitted by com mercial travelers that our hotels are worthy of home commendation. They -all testify that at the Ocei lentj they can themselves, and even if it does look like i obtain everything necessary to the com- ."a squatter's shanty, it is a pretty good temporary home for the machine. Gen. Bell, city attorney, left for Albany yes terday to secure the title to the lot pur chased lor the new engine-house, and after a while Rescue company will be in a better fix, muchly. Dull. Owning to continual ill health of Count Yon Bismark's dog it was do- .cided after mature deliberation to send him to Ausralia. A large concourse of admiring ariends assembled at the Counts residence last evening to discuss the subject- 'Bull appeared to be per-' fectly aware or what was going on and exerting himself for the occasion .scratched his left ear meditatively, with nil the grace he was capable of as suming. To console the Count 'for the absence of Iris chum, the Captain of the Sea Waif has concluded to bestow upon the Count thecare, welfare and compan ionship of a beautiful setter. At present the Counts quite jubilant over the ex change, but we think he will regret it, and sadly miss the musical rattle of Bull's collar, during flea time, which ex tends to some twelve months in the year at Astoria to the discomfiture of the aforesaid animal. Up in a Balloon. Johnny Mish, living on Wall sfer.eet in this city is in trouble to-day, in consequence of a dis tressing incident which proved fatal to his pet cat yesterday. Job n y's brother was the happy owner of half a dozen beef bladders, nicely dried and inflated, and stowed away in the house loft. Yes terday Johnny and his pet were plaj ing together in the loft, and tire little tellow attached the cord that held the bladders to the cat, as he sat by a window open ing on to the kitchen roof. Puss did n't enjoy the joke, ajid escaped through the window and ran up the roof, when a gust of wind bore her "heavenward in the direction of the Cape. When last seen the curious galloon was moving in the ..direction of Alaska. Johnny would like to get pussibaek again, but he ETat. fort of man. A more genial host than Charlie Wright would be difficult to find, and it is universally acknowledged that "Aleck," as Mr. A. J.Megler is faniiliary known, is ever ready to render the sojurn of the traveler pleasant Spacious par lors, luxuriently furnished, with music artistically rendered every evening, adds much to the tranquility of the guests visits. It is an established fact Mr. Hill man is both capable and courteous in at tending to the inner wants of man kind, over the mahogany. All the clerks and attendants appear to exert themselves to render the stay of the guest 'pleasant and none of them can leave the Occident without pleasant remembrances. Ox ms Tkack. We have omitted to mention a little financial transaction which occurred to Hugh McCarty on the l."th ult in San Francisco, because we did not wish to throw obstacles in the way. Hugh is sometimes a little fast, all the swell-heads about Sternberger's cannery couldn't begin with his swell, when he took the notion, and as he went below to spend the winter (and his money at the same time) the supposition is that the latter was well spent, perhaps in -wisely, before winter set in. At all events on the day above mentioned I lugh presented himself at the business oflice of Bancroft & Co., where he represented that he was agent for a big concern in Astoria and wanted r00,000 labels as a starter. He held I. W. Case's cheeks on Donahoe & Co. for $-",000. and as the banks had closed, and he was a stranger, referred to Mr. W. B.Bancroft, whom he had met in Astoria, and wished to draw 500 on a J,000 check, and would call on Monday and lift the check, and pay the 3500 back again. The cashier happened to be out, and it is well he was, as it gave the firm time to ascertain that the check was a forgery. Hugh smclled a mouse, and now lie is out. but the San Francisco police have his photo, and are on his track. We sljall not probably gaze upon Hugh's 7x9 phiz ii Astoria any more, mudh to the sorrow ,pf his numerous .creditors here, Peter Runey is still in the market with all kinds of "building materials in his line, lias just received 100.000 lath, 2,000 bushels of sand, ami a large stock of first quality of brick at his warehouse foot of Benton street. The ''Dance of Life,' an answer to the Dance of Death, by Mrs. J. M. Bowers. For sale at the City Book Store. We have on hand (50 pair of Mis sion Woolen mills Blankets which we offer for less than factory prices. War ranted all wool atB. Hamburgers. The largest and latest styles of dress goods and waterproofs can only be found at B. Hamburger's. Don't fail to inspect them and depend upon it, prices extremely low. See advertisement. Persons requiring furnished rooms can be accommodated at Mrs. Munson's new lodging house. Board and lodging by the day or week at the Astoria Beer Hall. Main street, Astoria. Peter Daviscourt, pro prietor. Persons wishing the services of Dr. J. Welch, Dentist, will bear in mind that business will necessitate his tempo rary absence from the city for a time af ter a lew days. Have you seen the Bismarc stove ? Xo ? Then call tit once to-day, upon L. P. Richman & Co. Fresh oysters in every style at Schmeer's. TheSunny Hearth' is what you want for your private office. Call on L. P. Richman & Co. and see it. Beautiful stove. ...Mrs. Dr. Burr, Homeopathic phy sician, has removed to her new residence four doors from Liberty hall. White wire goods in every style, at L. P. Richman & Co's. Dr. B. R.Freeland has located per manent Iv in Astoria for the practice of dentistry. Oflice in Shuster's building, on Cass street, next door to The Asto niAX oflice. .Photographs! The latest styles taken at Shuster's new gallery, Cass st., next to the Astorian office. g$ For clean towels, sharp razors, and an easy shave, go to Gillespie atPAR kkr House Baths. Hair cutting, shnm pooning, and dyeing. fiSTLittle Yan has reestablished himself at the old cornpr, refreshed by his late journey to tho Atlantic states, and will as formerly attend to all orders in hk line as general jobber. From the Dalles Mountaineer. From the Walla Walla papers we learn that Dr. Baker, proprietor of the Walla Walla and Columbia river rail road, has raised the price of freight five cents per bushel on that road. This seems to have angered some of the business men of Walla Walla, and on Monday four of them R. Gnich ard, H. P. Isaacs, E. P. Jesse, and G. W. Calvin were here en route for Portland to consult with the directors of the Oregon Steam Navigation com pany for the purpose of trying to in duce tnat company to ouiiit tnem a road from Walla Walla to the Colum bia river. AYe have long held to the opinion that the Oregon Steam Navigation company was the proper part' to con struct and own the railroad from Wal la Walla to the Columbia river for the reason that they could manage it bet tor and run it cheaper than any other company, and we are not surprised now, that the business men of that country, finding that the Dr. Baker railroad is inadequate to their present wants that they apply to the Oregon Steam Navigation company. "We be lieve the Oregon Steam Navigation company can . bring the grain from Walla Walla to the river for two dol lars x)er ton; for, if they can carry it from Wallula to Portland a distance of over two hundred miles, and han dle it nine time for six dollars per ton, they certainly can carry it thirty miles for two dollars per ton. Everything the Oregon Steam Nav igation company undertakes to do now-a-Jays is successful, for the rea son that they have got through exper imenting, and the men in their em ploy are practical and not theoretical. Should the company conclude to build this piece of road w;e are satisfied from what we know they already have done, that they could and would carry grain from Walla to Portland for eight dollars per ton. This alone would have been a saving to the pro ducer this year of at least $150,000. Of all the monopolies, this one of the Columbia river is the most honor able and reasonable in all its dealings, and we are not surprised that the peo ple of Walla Walla are appealing to them for assistance in their hour of humiliation their one-horse railroad and Dr. Btiker. From the San Francisco Chronicle. The display of wheat, wool, dried fruit, canned salmon and other pro ducts which Oregon made in the Cen tennial Exhibition at Philadelphia last year, is beginning to handsomely re munerate her citizens for the care which they devoted to that occasion. It has attracted to that State at large number of emigrants from the east and from Europe. In addition to these, many who are themselves large ly interested in the enterprises which require heavy capital, or others who represent this class, have visited there in order to ac piire a better knowledge of the State and its products and re sources by personal observation. Some of them who have passed the summer m journeying over every portion of Oregon, are now on their way home to report, and we learn that in every in stance tho opinions they express of that country are of the most flattering character. There are a few compre hensive facts which may be cited to show why these opinions are fully jus tified. At present the population of Oregon is 120,000 souls. Yet her ex ports aggregate over $15,000,000 per annum. The State can accommodate a population of 3,000,000. It con tains an expanse of rich arable lands, still uncultivated, greater than the whole area of New York. There are, besides, other resources of almost illim itable capacity - water privileges, coal fields, iron mines, gold diggings, gold quartz lodes, salmon fisheries, lumber ing and manufacturing enterpriser. Her wheat and wool, lumber and sal mon, and her green and dried fruits now constitute a commerce of extrr -ordinary magnitude for a state so sparsely settled. All these various in terests will grow into greater propor tions under the influence of augmented population. Want of railway connec tion with California and the east is the great drawback now to Oregon. Give her this and the state will fairly leap into prominence among the great pro ducing states of the Union, and emi gration will throng thither. There is a splendid future in store for Oregon, and her excellent display at the Cen tennial Exhibition litis given good im petus toward it. AXOTJ1ER VICTORY GAIXED IX FA VOR OF SPECIE PAY3IZXTS. We Coxcuit. The Dalles Moun taineer says: If the board of trade of Portland Avould concentrate its energies in obtaining appropriations for the improvement of the Columbia river removing rocks from the rapids and the building of locks and canals, it would be engaged in something, if accomplished, that would be a benefit to Portland as well as all the towns along the river. The Northern Pa cific railroad completed to the mouth of Snake river, and the Columbia river from there down properly improved, is all that we should ask for and all that we could expect to receive for the the next ten years at least. River transportation, thus improved, in our opinion, will assist in rapidly making Portland a large and populous city; but with the Northern Pacific railroad running through it, we fear its glory will soon have departed. After this date, coin will be used for change, and tickets dispensed with; all drinks and cigars five and ten cents, at the Chicago House, Main street. Astoria. N. WE1MAN. Astoria, Oct. 3, 1877. SOMETHIXG A'JSTr. For Glassware, Crockery, Powder and Shot, Gun Wads. Percussion Caps. in fact everything that is useful as well as ornamental, go to J. "NY. Gearhartr wb,o sells cheap for cash. Goods delivere4 free of x&ari'e. New Boats. While here last Sun day, says the Walla Walla Union, Capt. Baughnian informs U3 that the frame of the new light draft steamer the Oregon Steam Navigation com pany are building at Celilo, was up and that the carpenters were busy putting on the planking. He thought the new boat would be running by the IGth of October, She is intended to draw only ten inches of water, and cany 150 tons. The Captain also informed us that all the timber and material to be used in the construction of the im mense wharf boat at Wallula had been brought up the river, and that she would bs speedily pu5 together. The Oregon. Steam. Navigation Company realize $ie situation, How They Make it Pay. The Telegram says: Capt. Debney of the steamship Ancon recently informed us that the entire expense of a trip of a first-class steamer from San Francisco to this city and return is about $4,000. From this it is easily seen how the two steamship companies make it pay to run at present rates. They cany an average of 1,500 tons of freight each way, receiving $2 per ton, or $3,000 for freight only; and the passenger trade more than make up the defi ciency. Our American detectives will xro bably go out in a body and hang them selves for pure spite when they hear of the grand hit made by ope of their brethren in England. Not many' months ago, it appears, a foreign min ister in London invoked the aid of one of the smartest Scotland Yard detec tives to find a young girl who had in herited a fortune of a quarter of a mil lion. At the end of six weeks the de tective returned and gave in his resig nition. "Well," said his chief, "that'3 till right; but where s the girl?" "Oh, I found her a month ago in a dress maker's shop. " "WeM" "Well,I mar ried her yesterday, and began drawing on her quarter million to-day, tluit's all." Canary Birds. for gale, at Gilles pie's, Parker house bnths. Ship-master's Reading Rooirf Mr. Peter Wilhelm has permanently fitted up a ship-master's reading room in con nection with the Gem saloon in Astoria. The latest shipping papers and home ward and outward bound shipping lists are kept on file, Telegraph office next door,