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ASTORIA OREGON
ISSUED EVERY MOBBING,
(Monday Excepted).
C. IRELUiD : : Pl'BHSHER.
Adorian Building, Cans Street.
D.
terms of Subscriptien:
terved by Carrier, per week 25 tent
"Sent by mail, four months S3 00
Sent by mail, cno year 'J 00
Froo of Postage to .uwcribors.
oT Advertisements inserted by the year at.
"the rate of SI ."it) por square jvr month. :
Transient advertising, by the day or week,
-fifty cents por square for ouch insertion.
THE CITY.
t3927icDAiE.Y AstokiaN tr ill he fait by
tnttil at, " cent a month, free of potnuc Head
er who ctKlcmplatcabcncc from the city can
in re Tub Astoria.: follow tticsn. Daiia"
Weekly cdiLionxio ami pot-itficcwilh-otit
additional expense. Address man be
auinucd ox often as desired. Leave orders at
the anuilina room.
- -House-flies and mosquitoes were
-Gcen flying about in places at Astoria
."yesterday.
The Nehalem valley mail carrier
"reports six inches of snow on the Fish
liawk mountains.
The weather at Astoria yesterda'
reminded one of April days more than
the days of a rigorous winter.
The -steamer EdiUj will make a
"special trip to Broukfield to-day, car
rying Mr. and Mrs. J. G. Megler
-liome.
The Parisians have introduced
"square umbrellas. They'll be just as
4ad as the other kindnever, round
when, it rains.
We are pleased to note the fact
that the farming community about
Astoria come to town as regularly as
visual, notwithstanding the freeze.
Capt. Reed lias secured a very
"favorable charter for his vessel, he
.Storm King, now hi this port. He will
sail for Callao, via Burrard inlet, with
4i cargo of lumber.
The British-ship Allegiance am
oved safely m port yesterday, and lias
sustained no injuries, in consequence
of her little unpleasantness, near the
head of Sand island.
It will be seen by reference totlie
-edvertising columns to-day, that -the
new schooner Iionora, Capt. Thomson,
will sail for Tillamook, on or about
the loth. E. S. Larsen, agent.
Capt. J. G. Hustler is troubled
with a fearful cold. He cays he has
Laid it ever since the Oregon went up
the river, and wishes the steamer
would come back and take it away.
Unless you call at Dement's drug
store occasionally you can scarcely im
agine what fine things there are in the
toilet line at Astoria. He has the
nicost lot of brushes, etc. , m the state.
The'barkentine Free Trade, which
was picked up derelict in Puget Sound
some time ego by the barkentine Win.
H. Gawloy, and towed into Port Mad
ison, has been condemned, and will
he sold.
A novel importation was entered
tn the manifest of the steamer San
Vicente which arrived at San Francis
co December 31st She had a quanti
ty of sea water consigned to Wood
ward's Garden 8.
Rev. J. T. Wolfe will preach in
the Congregational church of this city
January 12th, morning and evening.
Morning subject, " Co-partnership
with God." Evening subject, "Were
i u?u . 1 4i ,
days better than these
the former
clavs."
reieiveu. rrom paying wie loreum-stcam
1 1 c , 1 r
- - - -
corporation license, was laid over until
the next term.
The steamer Da3Tton
Cpt Kol-
jogg, made
the throinrh win from
lJy.l,r'l 4-,-v T.ilinin ;inl LhmL- rifh
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the mails yesterday, connecting witli
the Northern Pacific railroad for all
points on Puget sound. Astoria
expects to hear from .Portland by
.steamboat to-morrow.
-The application of Capt. J. H. D. T , 1 , v if advertisement thftt ereate. a certain res-
11 r ,, r state normal school replies with much I pensive feehmr of sympathy m the
Gray, as agent of the llwaco Steam J Epint Hlld effecfc Jn Lhe Pacific to the 1 reader. We all like to be solicited, ana
Navigation company at Astoria, to the critiekm. of Rev. Mr. Willey of Santa ; IMj Z
Onimrv Ooiirt of Clatson eonnt.Vtn be r"s cliaririlJL' him With teaching 1 "VjJ f. , ot, .lc ih.r better eh:inii for
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Spirit tff the Befigious Press.
THE EDUCATION QUESTION.
The San Francisco Monitor calls
attention to the views expressed by
the Protestant Episcopal Bishop of
Melbourne in opposition to secular
education, and says theyure substan
tially the same as those expressed 03'
Rev. Dr. Piatt in his recent remark
labe discourse on the public school
scandal. The Monitor says: "We
are "lad to find the Episcopalian
church joining hands with us on this
important question, nor has it been
without important results, as the re
cent issue in Victoria shows."
THE BIBLE-JN THE SCJIOOIS.
The New York Witness notices
with rerret the unsuccessful eiibrfc
lately made in Chicago to secure the
repeal of the ordinance excluding the
Bible and all religious instruction
from the public schools, and says:
""Chicago, also, by Iier court of .jus
tice, under a partisan d wige, j ustinea
the murder of the leading defender
of the Bible in the schools at his own
door by a furious partisan of the
church-of Rome. Till Chicago aven
ges the foul murder and effaces the
terrible blot of that partisan trial, she
must expect great trouble."
f AN FRANCISCO MONOPOLIES. 1
The Pacific Evangel administers a
cutting reproof to the monopolies in
Sun Ifamcisco. which, it savs, are do
ing their best to destroy it: "For gas
awl water the people are paying imo
the pockets of grasping monopolists
millions that might be saved; uid our
rulers seem determined to give no re
lief. These oppressions cannot go on
much longer. We would not be much
surprised if, in the final redress for
persistent wrongs, the men who have
perpetrated them under the forms of
law would be .compelled to yield up
every dime of their ill-gotten wealth."
the ritpss and chime.
The Pacific Christian Advocate
severely censures the habit of the sec
ular press in giving the details of
crime, and we heartily approve of its
suggestion that "it would be quite as
e:isy to till our daily papers with moral
and religious successes." It antici
pates the objection that the supply
inu-t be made to meet the demand,
and that a paper filled with the re
cords of reform societies and revival
movements would not. pay, and insists
that the press is largely responsible for
the taste it supplies, and that it should
first create a taste for good food, and
then furnish it.
OUR EMPTY CHURCHES.
The Occident, in a notice of Rev.
Mr. Hemphill's sermon on "Our
Empty Churches and how to Fill
Them," is impressed with the idea that
the increasing neglect of the evangeli
cal churches, on the. part of the peo
ple, cannot ue on account of any pref
erence for what is called a more lib-
oral or rational t3rpe of religion, since
unitarianisui and universalisin flourish
even less in this community than or
thodoxy, and the Catholic churches
are the best filled. Its conclusion is
that the mass of the. people will go
where their tastes are gratified to
"the theaters, beer gardens, sand
lots," etc.
THE POINT OF DANGER.
Bishop Huntington in the New York
Churchman says that the point of
danger for the church of to-day is not
from without, but from within: "The
world is not assailing and persecuting
the church from without. That would
be iv some respects a safer and more
wholesome condition. The world is
inside. Mammon has taken a pew,
perhaps several of them, pays for
them, gets elected to the vestry, makes
himself necessary to the paj'ing of the
rector's salary and the interest on the
church debt, sings in the oigan-loft,
dulses the tunes and the performers,
I dines the parson or dictates to him as
j suit the fancy, and looks complacent
ly around every Sunday -morning on
this submissive establishment."
NO SINGING ON SUNDAY.
The Christian Imiwn (U. W.Beecher,
editor), congratulates the songstress,
Miss Minnie Houck on her successful
resistance to the demand of her em
ployer, Mr. Mapleson. that she should
do soiiio singing on Sunday, and is of
opinion that her forgytfulness or neg- j
lect to state distinctly when she made
her engagement with Mr. M. that un-1
der no circumstances would she exer- ;
cise her musical gifts on the Lord's
day did not make it allowable for him
to call upon her for Sunday service.
M-k should have known the Sundav
r, ,
wetter.
3IEIIESY-I1UNTING.
I illilUX&tll
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in one or Ins lectures, ana
ixuumir
certain skeptical scientists.
He chums that his lecture was strong-
j in "ifuuMuiiu 10 aixiui&ui iim ma.-
tuniuisin. and tdiat 111 aeclarmir tnei
UcictbW Uxioy, Tynddl, utc, to be
pme-muuled. honesL and blameless
, . lit 1 ..:
ju ue." in. wi imlv snvmu- what was
true, and he sees no reason why he
, should -slimder rood inen merely be-I
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cause of a difference of opinion."
1NGEIISOLL AND BUUNS.
r
j-ue iew xorK juv&ni!Ciisc is pamea
in. XT T-r w- i i
and shocked Uiat Ool.ilimersoll sliould
have declared Robert Burns to 'have
been the greatest of the British .poets,
and finds the reason df it "in thetpas
sages he quotes from the Scottish
bard passages which hit off the follies
Of the clergy, and the short-comings
of .professors, and the hard arid dry
dogmatism of the day;" but his chief
ground for glorifying Burns is that
Burns preferred the 'tavern to the
church, and drinking to praying.
RELIGION PURE AND UNDEFILED.
A writer in the Independent finds
authority in the New Testament for
defining religion to be purity of heart
and benevolence of life, and sajrs:
"This is religion. One might go to
church a year .and never dream of at..
It is the lack of it in the world which
makes a gifted and-generous manlike
Robert Ingersoll pi-oclaim the gospel
of unbelief. Is it-strange that the
most generous men, the greatest wo
men, should rise in revolt against the
selfish thing doled from so man' pul
pits, filtered through so many artificial
strata of society, as religion? No mat
ter by what name you call the revolt;
no matter how extravagant many of
its utterarrccs may be, they are not
against reliirion pure and undefiled,
but the laclfof it."
-Supervisors Elected.
The commissioners court for Clatsop
county appointed supervisors last week
as follews: F. C. Reed, upper town;
J. Leabry, Klaskanine; S. G. Spear,
Clifton; D. E. Pease, Skipanen: W.
J. Loomis, Sea-side; D. Heckard,
Lewis and Clarke.
No news of the departure of .the
Idaho, or any other steamship, from
San Francisco for Astoria yesterday
was received either here or in Port
land. Consequently, probably none
saileS.
Somebody telegraphed from Port
land yesterday that four river pilots
were wanted m that city. What was
wanted of them in case they were
there, docs not seem plain, with the
Oregon surrounded with twelve feet
of ice at Willow bar.
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The subject of Uev.-Mr. "Wolfe's
discourse this evening, at the Congre
gregational church, invites the atten
dance of a numerous audience. In his
hands there can be no doubt but that
it will be productive of much that will
afford attentive aftertheught: "Were,
the former days better than these
days?"
The celestial denizens of the
second ward were furiously, inclined
yesterday, but from the way "broken
china" flew 'about it was nearly all a
war of words, though one or two of
the Johns came out of the melee with
broken noses and a sort of gothic tem
ple over their .eyes. -The trouble be
hju! because a white man refused to be
knocked down by a chinaman while
the latter stole his wood pile.
We understand that a gang of
youngsters whose tender yeara would
perhaps save them from prosecution
for larceny, have been making a prac
tice of stealing wheat from the -Farmers
warehouse, in open day-time.
The question is: what have they
done with the stolen wheat! If any
person of mature years has been
guilt7 of recokiug this wheat, and the
fact can be established, such person
should be punished to the extreme
limits of law.
CUU11CII DUIECTOIIY.
M E. Church. Servicer held in tho Congrc-
pilioiml. Kc. T. J. Wolfe, Pastor, at 11
-O'clock A. M.
Str of thk Ska Cmmm. Rov. Vainer
M. Orth l'Mstor. Service lit ll o'clock a.
It. Ctttcliim instruct ions at 3 o'clock r. m.
CiurKLot thk Hoi.y Inxocknt. Uppor As
toria, 1'ov. U. Parker, l'attor. JHvinc ser
vice :" 1: a- Vou are cordially invitud
to attend.
GKrr. Briscoe u.) Cni'Rrn.-Rev. 0. Parker.
P:ilor. IUvine crv-co3 at'il a. 11., ami 7
v. v. Sunday school at '1 o'clock r. a.
Divine yorvices at 7 r. u. every Friday.
Pkhpuytkihan CurucH.Kev. 12. N. Con-
dit imstorin charge. Services co:uluetd
ing at 7 ::W o'clock.
jr$-Thcre is a quiet conrtesy and
mnriiMtf. 11nobtr.11s1vene.ss anoui a wise
USllt
P !,. The familiar aovertiseinents
, of local papers often cover nese points
j wilh "reattunijnmty
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A-t I I1U 1.1 C au.io ...w ...ow.wv-
K B",TATi. ta tSJe"
i n,;, (w.-r-erci tlal uieelianical denait-
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mi:if$nf nieironoiuuii im-. 0evv1.11 init-
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lions more sh-u- wi wi.o..-i h.u
been entered for settlement at the var
ious land offices this year than in 187G
ami 1877, and still the western movement
continues in force. And this is the only
. it- ,r flu. lnhor troubles. Lot the
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unemployed come and becomeprouucers
inste.iu.or.coiiiumci.
i'i wie unit over mi sum- m .niuxu en..?,
everv Sabbath at 11 o'clock a. ai. and-7
v i" -Sabbath school at in o'clock 51.
Vntvpivmccthits every Wednesday even
Praise Electing Among the
Flowers.
The flowers of many climates,
That bloom all seasons through,
Metin a stately garcien,
Bright with morning dew.
For praise and loving worship
The Lord they-came to meet;
Her box of precious ointment
The Ivose bi oke at His feet.
The Passion-flower His symbol
Wore fondly on her breast;
She spoke of self-denial
As what might please Him best.
The Morning-glories, fragile,
Like infants soon to go,
'Had dainty, toy-like trumpets,
And praised the Master so.
"Thy words.are like to honey,"
The Clover testified,
"And all who trust Thy promise
Shall in Thy love abide.5
The Lilies said, "Oh, trust Ilim:
We neither toil nor spin,
And yet nis house of beauty,
See'how we enter in."
The King-cup and her kindred
Said, "let us all be glad:
"Of hisredundant sunshine,
13ehdld how we are claa."
"And let us follow Jesus,"
The Star of Bethlehem said :
And all the. band of star-flowers
JBenb down with reverent head.
The glad Sun-flower answered
-And the little daisies bright,
And all the cousin Asters.
"We follow toward the light
"We praise llim for the mountains !'
The Alpine Hoses cried ;
"We bless Ilim for the valleys1
The Violets replied.
"We praise Ilim. said the Air plants,
"Por breath we never lack ;
"And for the rocks we praise Him,"
The Lichens answered back.
"We praise God for the water,""
"flhe salt Sea-mosses sighed;
And all II is baptized Lilies
"Amen ! amen P replied.
"And for theeool green woodlands
We praise and thanks return,"
Said Kaimias and Azalias,
And graceful feathery Fern.
"And'for the wealth of gardens.
And all the gardner thinks,"
Said Poses and Camelias,
And all the sweet breathedJPiuks.
"Hosanna in the highest P
The baby-Bluets sang,
And little trembling Harebells,
In softest,music rang,
-".The winter hath heen bitter
But sunshine follows storm,
Thanks for His loving kindness
The earth's great heart is warm."
Thus spoke the Pilgrim's May-Ilower,
iThat coiueth after snow,
The humblest and the sweetest
Of all the flowers-that blow'.
"Thank God for every weather.
The sunshine and the wet,"
Spake out the cheery Pansies,
An darling Mignonette.
Oiburn Monthly
I IMIII TTITTOI
AROU.MD THE CITY.
Call at Mrs. Derby's when you
wish any article in the millinery line.
Trimmed hats selling at cost.
You can get fresh 03'sters in every
style at the Valla Walla restaurant.
Call and see stereoscopic view of
Cascade canal, and photographic copy
of 1878 chare of the Columbia rher bar.
at If. S. Shunter's art gallery. "Photog
raphy is truly a science.
Fresh fruits and vegetables a
Dai ley's.
Get vour baskets filled for a little
money at Railey's.
...Fresh oy.sters in every style at
Schmeers. See advertisement.
New invoice or those Medallion
Raugesttt Magnus C. Crosby's.
Frch oysters in every style and
at all hours af the Pioneer restaurant.
ShipinastvTS wishing to secure
seamen can have their wants supplied
bv calling at the Chicago house, Main
street.
...Wood of all kinds, and a-ftplendid
lot of pitch wood, at Gray's whitrf. for
sale in lots to suit purchasers.
P. J. Goodman, on Main street, has
just received the latest and most fash
ionable stjle of gent and ladies boots,
shoes, etc.
IVter Runey Is still in the market
with all kinds of "building materials in
liic Imi. n itijf. ruiivi'd KMUHH) lath.
2,000 bushels ot sand, and a large stock
of first quality of brick at his warehouse
foot of Benton street.
Mr. J. Stewart, stone and marble
cutter of Astoria wiM guarantee sth
fneiion to all orderinrtwork of him, and
will do a hetter jt.b Tor Jes- money than
any outride workman. His work in the
cemetery here should besufite'oatreconi
iiifmbition. IVfure von let vr.ur con-
1 tracts for work of this kind it 'would n.
well to call upon Mr. Stewart.
Lodging House Persons requiring
furnished or unfurnished rooms can be
accommodated at reasonable rites at
Mrs. Munsor.'s Cheuamus st.. Astoria.
j2?9J.t is f r.nny that when 3-011 ask a
man to advertise he iienerallv declines
j with the statement that nobody will see
it. But if vou advertise some little caper
1 of his in the news column gratis, he gets
J indignant over the certainty that every
one.willsccit.
AUCTION SALES.
E.
C. HOLDEN,
Notaty Public for the State afVregon.
-Heal Estate Agezit and Conveyancer.
Agent 'for the JFIREMEN'S FUND INSUR
ANCE C01TFANY of San Francisco.
00MMISSI0N.AGENT and AUCTIONEER.
Hcuts ?rnl Accounts -Collected, and re-
-turns promptly made.
Regular sales day,
SATURDATS nt 11 P. Iff.
N.75. Parties having real estate, -iurni-ture
or any othergoods to dispose of .either
at auction or private sale should notify me as
soon ;is convenient before the day of sale.
"No storage charged on goods sold at Auc
tion, r. C.nOLT)EN.
td Auctioneer.
AMUSEMENTS.
waRsxjsiris
Dancing
Academy.
Page's building next door to E.S. Larsen.
Gents Class On Monday and Thursday
evenings, at 7 :30.
Ladies-Class On Monday and Thursday
afternoons, at 2 :S0.
Bovs Class On Tuesday and Friday
evenings, at 7 :30.
MrsSKS Class Wednesday and Saturday
at'4 p. 31.
Wednoday evening for the entire .school.
None admitted except scholars.
Saturday evening S0IKKE.
Teums Ladies and gents class per
Month $r 00
Boys and Misses class per 'Month 2 5o
HOTELS AND RESTAURANTS.
TrrcfMX iioitse.
D. L. TUHPIN - - - PKOrniETOR,
MAIN STREET.
Between Squeniocqhe and Jefferson,
AsroniA, Oregox.
Board and lodging per week 36 TO
Board per day. ...7. 1 00
Single Meal 25
Tne table will be supplied. -at all times with
the best the market aifortts.
"DARKER 1I0USE,
ASTOKIA, OREGON,
IT. B. PA1JKER. - Proprietor.
THIS HOTEL is the largest, most comfort
able and best kept hotel in the city. Is
supplied with the best of spring water, hot
and cold baths, barbershop, and a first-class
sataoirwith best of liquors and cigars, and
fine billiard table. "Free coach to and frwn
the house : charges reasonable, $1 00 to 250
per day. according to room occupied.
Astoria, July 15, IST3.
QCC1DENT HOTEL,
A. J. MEGLER, C S. TITGIIT.
Proprietors.
Astoria, Oregon.
Tho Proprietors are nanny to announce tha
kthenbovo Hotel has been
RBPAINC3ED AND REEURNISHEB
Addins grcstlyto tho corafort-of ita jcuests
ANO
IS NOW THE BEST-HOTEL NORTH
OF SAN FRANCISCO. v
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RS. S. N. ARRIGONI
litis re-opened the Pioneer Restaurant on
"Main street, Astoria,
qClOR TUT- RKCEPTfONvOF RO-ABDEKB,
J? by the week, day or single meals.
rtS5Fresh oysters m every style at all hours.
P
ALACE LODGING HOUSE.
f.Alisky & Hegele's new building)
Corner of Morrison and Third streets,
PORTLAND, OREGON,
C31purni.-hed rooms in suits, or single, by
the day, week oi month.
Iiis II. MENTFEE. Lessee.
Puget Sound ''Clams,
AND
Puget Sound Oysters,
The BEST.
T,10I- SALE IN LOTS TO SUIT AT THK
JC Walla Walla Restaurant.
rssCall atul give these fish a fair trial.
"TnEO. IHiOEMSER, lrop.
JUST DECEIVED.
HOILED CIDElt;
PLtrM PUDDG, IK CANS;
CODFJS1I BALLS, IN CANS;
POKK AND DEANS, IN CANS;
E ASTEKN CR AN BERRIES;
Z A N TE CURR ANTS;
FRESH CITRON;
ORANGES AND LIMES,
the finest ever bought in the m.irket:
r-CRYSTAL DRIPS, GALLON CANS;.
NEW ORLEANS MOLASSES.
PICKLED HERRING IN KEGS.
.IUM11LES, ETC., ETC.
MCSCATED RMS1NS. 2-lb PACK
AGES. VERY FINE;
PIGS FEET, 1-lh AND 2-1h TINS;
CHICKENS AND 'TURKEYS, FJ
TINS;
EASTERN AND OREGON HAMS.
hetqnnlity. AI-o, a. fino nsortmontof
BREAKFAST BACON -AND OTHER:
..M EATS. AT
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miic rNrEi:?iONi:D hereby caf-
'X turns evervl'odv and ives notice tluithe
will not be respoM. I'e for any debts con
tracted hv anv other person than himself, for
or on Ins account, without his written ordci,
after this date.
Also that all moiievs- due the undersigned
on current accounts must be settled and paid
within ten davs. otherwise they will be put ,
in the hands of an attorney for collection.
II. 1. I'ARKER.
Astoria, Orcsoo, Jaa, 1,IS7S. A?3.
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