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(u t v . - - i 4 9 Vol 3. Astoria, Oregon, Thursday Morning, November 22, 1877. ffo. 145. z'fl i glie Daila QsHttKbrn. ISSUED EVERY MORNING, "" (Monday Excepted), '. C. IItEI,ANI : : PUBI.TSIIER. Astorian Building, Cass Street. Terms of Subscription : terved by Carrier, per week. ...."25 Cent- ent by mall, four months ..S3 00 "Seat by mail, cne year. 9 00 Free of Postage to Subscribers. tt53" Advertisements inserted by the year at the rate of Si "0 per square per month. Transient advcrlii-inj:, by the day or week, fifty cents per square for each insertion. To City Subscribers. There are such frequent chanjres isi the rci denceof our city patrons that we .-hall feol obliged to any who make ach changes if they will report the same to this cilice. Otherwise wo shall not be rcbuoniUo for failures of the 'carrier to deliver the paper promptly and regularly to them. Bead J. Strauss" new 'ad. sir-Holidays goods in great variety it Loeb's. Everybody is rushing to J. Strauss new grocerv store. xrGoshen cream cheese at Lar- sens. The best in the world. .!. Strauss sells the nicest, and cheapest goods in town. best ".lust received 'iTiOO lbs. fresh Cnli ii'ornia hams, and for sale at 15 cents per abound, cash, at B. Alexander & Co's. Fully LVi per cent, saved by buying ail J. Strauss new grocery store. 38TThat Wife of Mine, and other new hvolfk for sale at the Bee Hive. J. Stkatss will pay he highest cash prices for fresh es and butler. jE2-YaRes, statuettes, and fancy goods at Loch's equal to any in tiie tate. Sii 40. You can buy the best roal ail in patent faucet cans, at J. Strauss. TE..It you have a -broken baby wagon take it to Henry Gallou's wagon shop and have it repaired at once. He does jjroud work and warrants it. r Something for lnuudrys to look at Chemical Olive soap. 80 cents a box, at -J. Strauss". SSam Harris' portrait will appear in the next issue of the Police Gazette, with a biographical sketch of his im mense person. Just received fresh .Berlin, Wis- jconsin, cultivated cranberries, at J. Strauss'. .eS2 ewspaper advertising promotes trade, for in the dullest times advertisers secure by far the largest share of what is beins done. -- -G- Sugar cured bacon at prices that defy competition; also, Chicago sugar uired hams .and breakfast bacon, the best in the world, at J. Stkatss". SiT-Says an exchange: "An- family man who :-:ty he 5- to pour to tuki a m:vs paper tliould lit indicted for obtainitig a lainily under lhl-e preten-o." ....Salem patent bakers Hour. Impe rial, Magnolia and Albany Hour, very cheap for cash, at J. Stkauss". Oregon, the queen s ate of the north Aveht hold in her right Land long life and unusual health, and in her left greftt wealth and power, and invites the indus trious irom all parts of tho world to come ind partakoof them. ...Avery large stock of can goods, such as table and pie. fruit, jelly, jam. honey, tomatoes, corn, beans, sugar pea oysters, corn beef, condensed milk, etc.'. at prices to suit the times at J. Stkauss" The people of Oregon are not burned up lour months- in Mimmer and trozen or Miovred in six month in winter, nor mil lions of property swept away in anight by overwhelming floods and devastating hur ricanes, as they Irequontly are m the astern and wotern states of the union. They do not live in fear of bping carried to untimely graves m hundieds by the hummer fevers that prevail in the South ern states nor of bem overwhelmed by earthquakes that visit California every two or three years, nor yet by its floods every fifth or tenth year, not dried up by its drouths every third or fourth year. The summer diseases so destructive to human, life among children in the Atlantic -states are almoct unjsnpwn.in Oregon. , THE ITY. JSTjcDailv Astorian will he sent, by mail at 2T carts a iccck. free of postage. Read er who contemplate absence from thteily can have The Astoria- follow thcan. Daily "Weekly w -Sunday to any post-office with out additional expense. Addresses may be changed as cflcn as desired. Leave erdcrs at the count fco room. The now shoe shop at upper Astoria is in full blast. The new boiler for the Katxta was "being jvat in place yesterday. Tire bar has been so extremely rough the past twenty days that only two vessels, besides steamers, have been able lo proceed to sea. Lieut S. 1L Jones, at present sta ttened nt Fort Townsend, expects to re turn to Fort Stevens by the return of the Calif uraia from Sitka, The chamber of commerce has been tendered rooms over the telegraph ollice. in the Gem building, ami will meet there this evening, at the courtesy of Mr. VTil- helm. The schooner Fannie Bell went into the Wallicut for a cargo of wood and came out on Thursday minus boat minus wood. The supposition is that the schooner is lost. o- Cnpt Merrhnan, inspector of the thirteenth light-house district, left the city yesterday for Portland to complete iw arrangements for the removal of the office from this collections district to that of the Wallamet. Prof. 1L C. Kay has been secured to furnish the music for grand dress ball given by ltescuc Engine company Xo. 1 on Thanksgiving night, at Liberty hall in this city. lie has a fine orchestra band. all of whom will be present. A new sign has developed itself in Astoria recently. When you see a man with saw dust oiLhis hat, and a scrawl upon brown paper sticking to the .skirts of his nether garment, it is a sign that he has been to the opera. - The Altii of 14th and i.rith inst. con tains a statement from dipt. Walker and a reply to it fiom Capt. A. M.Simpson, respecting the Hazard affair of the 4th, inst. on the Columbia river bar. We have not read either statement, therefore can give no opinion upon the matter. The Pcnshaw got ont yesterday, and the Wighton and Earl Granville might have gone to sea only for the penurious ness of the masters. Pilot owners here would be fools to take ships to sea from Astoria ior the love of it." The sweet ness of the Portland board of trade has not stimulated such generosity in the breast of any Astorian. ou bet. Yesterday as Ned was carving a beef steer into steaks on the blocks at Warren & McG uire's we chanced to pass, and he called our attention to it. The steer was one of those grass fed critters from Cow litz county, and the quality of the meat may be judged when v.e state one fact in this connection, that the kidneys weighed forty pounds. Talk about your Chicago beef and Cincinnati pork, Ilo'goway! Pig-caue we can beat it. Ileligious Services. EniTox Asteuiat: We beg leave to make the following announcement through your celumns: The First Baptist church of Astoria desire to see a greater interest taken in religious matters here and have there fore determined to make greater efforts in this direction. We cheerfully offer our assistance to the extent of our ability for a good work, and we now wish to most earnestly invite and solicit the assitance of all christians of o-very name, um us i iie meetings are for no particular society, but for every body we wish to extend a most coi dial invitation to all, regardless of be liefs or profession, to attend. The meetings will commence this evening at the "Baptist church at 7 o'clock, and will be continued every evening at this- hour indefinitely. Further announcements will be made as occasion requires Yours most obedient, ix. J. BuiiCHfiTT. In -Boston the yuestion, of classical education in the free schools ia -under discussion. Mayor Prince, Charles Francis Adams, Oliver Wendell Holmes, and many others, publish a remoitance against the entire public being, taxed for the exclusive benefit of thfc- few. "THE FAITHFUL CELESTIAL." 3Iysterious Workings in Wells, Tavgo 4c Co's Office in San Francisco. Messengers and Agents Dismiss ed from Service on Suspicion. The Guilty One Detected at Last, and Missing Let ters, Checks, Drafts? etc, found in Crest Confusien: For several months xast complaint has from time to time been lodged in the office at San Francisco by the bus iness snen of that city that letters con taining checks, drafts, money and val uables carried by Wells, Fargo & Co's express failed to reach the parties ad dressed. At first but little attention was paid to the complaints, as they were few and were considered to be of that order which is frequently made as an evasion for prompt remittance, but they began to come in faster and thicker, until notice was necessary, and then the compan' managers took it up, and endeavored to find out what was the cause of it all. They suspi cioned various parties in their employ, and some were discharged from the service, still the mystery was unex plained. Letters were missed from all points of the compass, until finally "a good little" Chinese boy was suspi cioned, and traps -set fos him which were sprung and fastened the facts ip on him of purloining the letters. He had about 1,000 letters in his possess ion when he was caught, all of which he had opened, and rifled of their con tents, where the letters contained money John took care of it, but the checks, drafts, postal remittances, etc., were placed back in envelopes, some times the right ones, in the right places, but in most instances so badly mixed that the work of an expert was required to segregate them. We hear of a few letters from Astoria that pas- seil through the faithful celestial's hands, but so far as known nobody in this city h;is lost any money by it, but failure to get goods ordered by let ters in the usual way may be explain ed by this statement. It is one of the unprecedented incidents in the past history and experience of this great express company to deliver all pack ages promptly, and serves further tol illustrate that the ways of the heathen chinee are peculiar. J. G. Whittier will be seventy years old in December. It is a pleas ure to say a word in recognition of his honored life, passed in all good and kindly ways; may he live long to en joy ihe sincere regard of his country people. It is said in reference to Mi. Whittier's habits of literary composi tion, that he writes- only when the mood seizes him, and then writes nip idly, his first draft suffering little alternation. He is a tali and slender person, and has a fine face, lighted by dark and piercing eyes. He lives in. Ameshury, and .visits much in Boston, and has never been further from homev than Washington.. A decision of much interest to the gambling fraternity has just been made in 2Jew York. A stranger was recently enticed into a gambling den hi that city and fleeced, and the dis tricb attorney, finding by experience that conviction on the charge of swind ling was almost impossible, indicted the men for larceny. It was . conten ded thatthere.could be no -larceny in the case, as the victim gave, up his money voluntarily, but the judge charged for conviction and the jury brought in a verdict of jruiiiy. TheJ. case was promptly taken to the court of appeals, which, has now confirmed the decision of the lower court. News by telegraph, were very un interesting last night. r-The San Francisco Bulletin says: Twenty years hence nearly all the breadstuffs for export from the United States will be produced in the country west of the Bocky mountains. Within a quarter of a century there will pro bably be ten states on this side of the Rocky mountains. These states will include an area of the most important mineral, wheat and lumber production. Every large and fertile valley will be made accessible by railroad, and every great belt of mines will be reached in the same way. It has taken twenty- five years to get the leverage of a. great industrial empire; but it is attained at last. Quietly but surely our huge nation al debt is being reduced. Secretary Sherman is represented as feeling great ly elated by the progress of the reduc tion. The dept was diminished by over $4,000,000 during the month of October. For the four months since June 30th, the decrease has been near ly $13,000,000; and for the eight months since secretary Sherman lu.s been at the head of the treasury depart ment it has been $45,000,000. He hopes by the 1st, of January to show a decrease of over $60,000,000, or 3 per cent, of the entire public debt, which will bo in ten months a larger decrease than has been made in any one year in the history of the govern ment. The modus operandi of converting grajjes into rasins at Folsom is thus explained by the Folsom Telegraph: ''The grapes are brought by the Sacra mento valley railroad cars alongside the establishment and are taken to the first floor where they are assorted and dipped into a composition of chemicals, which cuts the tough pelli cle of the skin, by which evaporation i3 more easily affected: they are put in driers, where a heat is kept up from 140 to 100 degrees, and in the manner before described are taken out at the top, when they are put for a short time in a steam box, which makes the stems flexible and enables them to be packed in layers without breaking the bundles. They are then packed in G, 12i and 25-pound boxes, nailed up and sent to the .store house. The loose rasins are packed up in paper boxes made expressly for that purpose. The French laborer probably gets more for his wages than any other. His food is cheaper and more noursh ing. His boullion is the liquid essence of beef at a penny per bowl. His bread at the restaurant is thrown in without any charge, and is the best bread in the world. His hot coffee and milk is peddled about the streets in the morning at a sou per cup. 1ft is coffee, not slops. His half bottle of claret is thrown in at a meal costing twelve cents. For a few cents he may enjoy an evening's amusement at one of the many minor theatres3 with his coffee free. Sixpence pays for a nicely cushioned seat at the theatre. What a take off on Astoria. Ed Iso gallery goods, no peanuts, pipe smoke, drunkenness, yelling or howling. The Jardm des Biantes, the vast galleries and museums of the Louvre, Hotel Ciuny, Palace of the Luxembourg, and Yersaillies are free for him to en ter Art and science hold out to him their choicest treasures at small cost,..! or no cost at all. French economy and frugality do not mean, that con stant retrenchment and self-denial which would deprive life of everything which makes it worth living foe Economy in France more than in any other country, means a utilisation of what America throws away, but it docs not .mean a ' pinching prdcess of reducing life'to a hirreHvxitence.. of bread aucater CITY ...."That Wife nd "My Adler's. Mother-in-law" fi Just see the things attheuee llivels. arefullyf.selected stock of millinery) merino underwear : lldren s stockings, and a choice lot of materia work- Call and see the new sale by M. H. Steers. liEAVE of Ausence. After a few days Mr. Sinister will be absent from Astoria until next summer. J. Olsen will receive for the holi days, the finest lot of jewelry ever of fered in Astoria, and at San Francisco e rices. Don't forget the place, Caufield's rug store, Chenamus street Wm. McCormick, dealer in fniits from the farms of Lewis river, has a choice lot of apples to-day. Corner of main and Chenamus streets. Eating apples 7." cents to $1 00; cooking r0 cents: pears 75 cents, at Bo zorth's. Call and satisfy yourself. Splendid lamps, and the best of oil at B. Alexander & Co.'s. Crockery sold at 11. Alexander & Co.'s for the next 30 days at San Fran cisco cost. Kinney's compressed corned beef and Tillamook clams at retail at E. S. Larsen'5 and Hickmott & Bailey's. Mrs. Arrigoni is furnishing good rooms with board at from $( to $f and upwards per week, according to location. Choice new sets of crockery, very unique and novel ; also the self-righting 'spittoon.' that always keeps upright, just received and selling at prices to suit the times, at J. AT. Case's. You can always get fresh oystew in every style and at all hours, day or night, at the Central Coffee Saloon, Coii eomly street, between Benton and La fayette. Thos. McFarland, proprietor. Dry goods, millinery anil notions cheap for thirty days at the Bee flive. The Dance of Life, an answer to the Dance of Death, at the Circulating Libraiy. Dr. F. P. Hicks, dentist, rooms in Dr. Welch's building, on Squeinoqlist street offers his services to the public oU Astoria. Peter Kuney is still in the markefe with all kinds of "building materials in his line. lias just received 100.000 latht 2,000 bushels of sand, and a large stock of first quality of brick at his warehouse foot of Denton street. The ''Danco of Life.' an answer to the Dance of Death, by Mrs. J. II. Bowers. For sale at the City Book Store. Single men feel like marrying when they see the Jledallion range at Magnus C. Crosby's. Board and lodging by the day or week at the Astoria Beer Hall, Main street, Astoria. Peter Daviscourt, pro prietor. ...Fresh oysters in every style at Schmeers. White wire goods in every style, at Magnus C. Crosby's. Dr. B. B. Frecland has located per manently in Astoria for the practice of dentistry. Office in Shuster's building, on Cass street, next door to The Asto-ki-VN office. 33 For clean towels, sharp razors, and an easy shave, go to Gillespie at Par ker House Batus. Hair cutting, sham pooning, and dyeing. ANOTHER VICTORY GAINED IX FA VOR OF SPECIE PAYMENTS. After this date, com will be used for cliange, and tickets dispensed with; all drinks and cigars five and ten cents, at the -Chicago House, Main street, Astoria. N. WEIMAN. Astoria, Oct. 3, 1877. COySTANlVA' ON HAND. Lupulin yeast gems, unique flower pots, troekcry and glass wire, chinaware. holiday goods &c, &c. Besides the best assortment of groceries, dried fruits and other things too numerous to mention. Sold cheap for cash. J. W. Geaiwiakt. Canary Birds. for sale at Giiles pie't?, Parker houe baths. J. Steauss is fully prepared to sell you the best of teas cheaper than vow. have ever bought on this coast, Sinr-MAHTEit's Beading fiooii.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 omce next door. J. SxitAuss has just received a large lot of Aiden dried apples, pears, plums, blackberries, raspberries and pitless cherries, which he will sell very low, to make room for more which will arrive on the steamer Chester. There is a good market in Oregon for agricultural products, owing to shori transportation to the PaciGc Ocean, and direct exportation to all parts of the world. Bailroad facilities. Navigable riven, including the creat Columbia. For 20 days only, I will sell crock- -cry, lamps, glassware, table and pocket-cutlery- at San Francisco wholesale prices, in 6rder to make room for one otT. the largest and best selected stocks of the'' saiwekiBd of goods, now ontbe way ffom.Kew-' 3ork, for J. SraAiisa, South'. sirte flfJierixmVi3 street, Astoria, Oref on. Sm Mine,a o&S cents, a v and prely saies' anuflu m. -fnr fimt gVitUU) tiBtti !TtJ n "