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Astoria, Oregon, Saturday Morftig, January 18, 1879.
Vol. vin.
No. 15.
IF W
Telegraphic News.
WLspalcIics
Bulled Down
torinn.
for The As-
SNOW STORM IN NEW YORK.
JUDGES
GREEN AND
CONFIRMED.
HOYT
COL. "WELCKER'S DISABILITIES
REMOVED.
ARGUMENT IN FAVOR OF OPEN
ING THE UMATILLA RES
ERVATION. TWO MILLIONS AND A HALF
FOR THE MISSISSIPPI.
OVER THREE AND A HALF MIL
LIONS FOR LEVEES.
SITTING BtfLLS FORCES ON
AMERICAN SOIL.
THEY
MUST DO
SOON,
SOMETHING.
RUNNERS WAITING TO CARRY
THE NEWS TO MARY.
New York, Jan. 16. A snow storm
which set in early last night, contin
ues, and gives promise of enduring,
Washington, Jan. 16. The senate
has confirmed Roger S. Green as chief
justice of the supreme court of Wash
ington territory; John P. Hoyt, asso
ciate justice of the supreme court of
Washington territory.
Grover today introduced a bill to
remove the political disabilities of
Win. T. Welcker, of California, in
.curred by-reason -of- participation-in
the rebellion.
Mitchell to-day made an argument
before the senate committee on indian
affairs in advocacy of the bill to open
the Umatilla reservation to settlement
by removing the indians. He opposed
Commissioner Hoyt's proposition for
their removal.
In the house to-day Gibson gavo
notice he would, if he had an oppor
tunity, offer as a substitute an amend
ment appropriating $2,500,000 for
the improvement of the Mississippi
from the head passes of that river to
the mouth of the Illinois river. The
house went into committee of the
whole on the bill organizing the
Mississippi river improvement com
mission, and providing for the im
provement of that river and the pro
tection of its alluvial lands. An ap
propriation of $250,000 is made for
the payment of salaries, and the com
mittee which reported the bill has an
amendment added. A sedtion appro
priating $3,S71,000 for strengthening
the Mississippi levees.
Yankton, Jan. 16. A Cheyenne
agency special says: Last night run
ners from the hostile camp held a
council with the agent at which coun
cil they talked very independently,
saying that it makes their hearts bad
to see their friends here derived of
their guns and horses. On Satin day
they held a council with the com
mander of the post, Col. Wood, at
which council they were very msek
and said that all they wanted was to
come in and they would give up their
guns and ponies. They must do some
thing soon, as the buffalo are moving
and they will have to follow them.
Ere this the entire hostile camp of
not less than 25,000 people are on
American soil and working south.
The runners will remain here at Red
Shirt's camp twelve days to hear from
Washington.
35-It is a fact long since established,
savs the Helena Herald, that the mer
chant who liberallv patronizes the ad
vertising columns of the press, sells his
wares cheaper than the one whose name
is seldom or ever seen. The reason is
patent, for by thus advertising, his sales
are tripplcd and a Jess proportionate
profit makes him the greatest gamer.
Pacific Coast Jfews.
Boiled Down for ThctAstorfan.
HEAVY SNOW STORM IN'TDAHO.
SCARCITY OF HAY AND GRAIN
STOCK MUST DIE.
THE LEGISLATIVE DEAD-LOCK
INDIGNANT pffe&IANS.
SCHOONER
INDUSTRT
DERED.
FOUN-
Silver City, Jan. 16. Heavy snow
storms and unprecedented cold weath
er create considerable alarm among
stock men, who have reason to fear
that a large number of cattle will per
ish before milder weather sets in.
Boise City, Jan, 15. The heaviest
snow storm is provailing which wo
have experienced for four years. Hay
and grain is scarce and a great deal of
stock "will die.
Boise City, Jan. 15. The legisla
ture is still in statu quo. The council
perfected a temporary organization on
the second day of the session, and to
day proceeded to a permanent organi
zation. The council stands 7 republi
cans and 6 democrats. The members
of the assembly stand 12 republicans
and 12 democrats. Two members are
absent and will not be present, so lti
takes 14 for a quorum. The demo
crats formed by taking in two out
siders who claim seats, and ask to be
recognized, which the council refuses.
The 12 republican members meet in the
supreme court library room and ad
journed from day to day for want of
a quorum. Thus matters stood at the
third day, at a dead look.
Silver City, Jan. 16. There is
much indignation in con&equence of
the existing dead-lock in the Idaho
legislature, occurring in consequence
of the parties being so evenly divided.
The feeling is general that the mem
bers should go to work and strive to
do something for the territory, instead
of fritting away time in party squab
bles, in which nothing of any conse
quence is to be gained.
Victoria, Jan. 15. The schooner
Industry foundered off Discovery Is
land with a cargo of coal on board,
early on Monday morning.
General Information
A new street railway track has
been tried successfully in England.
The rail is a flat plate regularly
pierced with holes, into which fit
protuberances on the wheels.
Twenty-five mill girls have
been caught at Manchester, N. H.,
stealing wood from the Concord
railroad, with which to heat their
rooms, which were near the station.
An immense gate or vau.lt is
being made in the cemetery of
Fere la Chaise, in Paris, in which
to place the remains of all the for
gotten combatants of the war of
1S70.
Cattle and hogs are dying at a
fearful rate in Iowa, the former
from smut in the cornstalks, and
the latter from cholera. Hundreds
of farmers have lost every hog they
possessed.
A resident of Cuttingville, Vt.,
saw what he took to be a burglar
in his room at night, and jumping
out of bed throttled with an iron
grasp the big bass viol which stood
in the corner.
A St. Louis lady has a hus
band who snores. She keeps a
clothes pin under her pillow, and
when his snores awake her she
places it gently on his nose and
then sleeps in peace.
At the university of Cambridge,
England, mechanical workshops
have been fitted up with machin
ery for the construction of instru
ments and apparatus to be em
ployed in philosophical research.
"When the
savings
bank of an
H3
Indiana town suspenatiL the first
caller for her twenty-Hie per cent
was an old colored woman whom
the town had supportejljfor a year,
she having S700 on deposit there.
A woman got drunk while cook
ing a,t Portsmouth," and fell
head foremost into a tub of water
near the stove Her head was
drowned and the remainder of her
burned to death, her clothes taking
fire. i"
Miss Mary W Underbill, of
Oyster bay L. I., who recently in
herited a fortune 010,000,000,
addressed 200 invitations to her
wedding on the 13th'1?nst. The
next day she was taken ill and
died. 'Jit
The last day of "November
shrouded London in genuine
London fog. Vehicular traffic
was rendered difficulty and the
London steamboat company was
compelled to entirely stop its river
traffic. t
A Boston woman hs'been sent
to jail four months forassaulting
her child by desertingil on a door
step and a Montreal 'wan has been
fined 812 3Q for carrying into a
stable a lighted candl.not enclosed
in a lantern if
A packago in a basket was left
on the doorstep of a certain New
port woman, who, having no desire
to adopt a foundling,, took the
basket to the police station, and
there found that it Contained a
twenty pound turkeyvj
In Belgium, if a caoiUdate dies
between the day of hfffnomination
and the day of his election, his
name still remains on the list and
must be voted for. At Ste. Marie,
in Luxembourg, a dead man has
thus been elected to ?the commu
nal council
The St. PaulDjspjPlts rfa
younoffnan who Bought for $10,
from a rival, a quit-claim to a girl's
affection, paid $5 on acoount, and
got credit for the remainder;
pawned his overoaat for 5 to buy
her a present with, stole the over
coat and was sent to jail.
A preacher in Kentucky, the
other Sunday becoming exaspera
ted, paused in his discourse to say:
"Ladies and gentlemen, if you will
give me your close attention, I
will keep a lookout on the door,
and if anything worse than a man
enters, I will warn you in time to
make your escape."
They boast up in New Hamp
shire of an ex-teacher, a lady, who
is a good English, Frenoji and
Latin scholar, who is now engaged
in tree culture. She was recently
seen felling trees and chopping
them up into four-foot lengths. In
all of her operations she refuses
the help of the robuster sex.
How hard the times are is abun
dantly shown by the immense num
ber of chattel mortsraires sriven
everywhere. In one small town
in Freeborn county, Minn., eighty
nine of these obligations have been
registered, and tho Albert Lea En
terprise estimates that 2,50Q have
been given this fall in the county.
A beautiful girl in Iowa named
Jemima recently committed suicide
because she could find no Jiniinu-
tiyo for her name ending in "ie.
A few hours afterwards came a
letter beginning, 'Dear, darling
Minimi;" bit it was too late,
and she was borne to the grave by
eight companions, named respect
ively, Abbie, Bessie, Carrie, Dollie,
Ettie, Florrie, Georgie, and Hattio.
1 The organ in the Madison Ave
nue Methodist Episcopal church at
Baltimore, suddenly stopped last
Sunday while the organist was
playing, and on investigation the
colored bellows-blower, a man of
70 years, was found struck dead by
heart disease. His body was car
ried home to the old mother of 108
years, and the aunt of 106, with
whom the youth had lived.
;SMf a person orders his paper dis
continued , he niusfc first pay lili arrear
ages, or the publisher macontmuu to
send it until it is made, and collect the
whole amount, whether the- paper is
taken from the office or not.
BANKING AND INSURANCE.
T "IV. CASEX
ASTORIA, OREGON.
BROKER AND BANKER
DEPOSITS RECEIVED IN COIN OK cur
rency subject to eheck-at sight.
K3"Sight checks issued on Portland, availa
ble in any part of Oregon and "Washington
territory.
fiSTSight checks issued on San Francisco,
available in any part of the State of Cali
fornia. ctB-Sight checks issued on New York city,
available in any part of she Eastern States.
C3"Approved bills discounted. Loans.made.
on available security. Collections made
promptly.
$67,000,000 CAPITAL.
LIVERPOOL ATS'D LONDON AND
GLOBE,
NORTH BRITISH AND MERCAN
TILE OF LONDON AND
EDINBURGH.
OLD CONNECTICUT OP HART
FORD, AND
COMMERCIAL OF CALlFOPyNlA
FIRE INSURANCE COMPANIES,
Representing a capital of SG7.O0O.OOO.
A. VAN DUSEN. Agent.
Em Ittial Insurance Co.,
OF CALIFORNIA,
J. F. Houghton.. .Presiden
Chas. It. Stokv Secretary
HAMII.TOX Boyd, r ..0 ,. n.i
Gko. L. Story, j Agents for Oregon
Offick Northeast corner of Stark and First
streets, Portland, Oregon.
Net Cash received for Fire Prem
iums In 1877 ,... $335,511 04
Assets, Jan. 1,1878, $57S,0G5 S5
Liabilities
Lasses xnpaid. .,. ..3.638 37
Dividends " 1,937 00 i5,n95 37
Surplus for Property Holders $572,470 4"?
Losses paid in Oregon in six yar&.$H4,51G 72
I. XV. C VSR, Agent,
3-2Ctf Astoria. Oregon.
IHSCEUiANEOTJS.
W. E. DEMENT,
DBUGQIST.
ASTORIA, - - - - OREGON,
Carries a full Assortment of
Drugs, Patent Medicines,
PAINTS, OIL AND GLASS.
Prescriptions filled with care Day or NFghtt
CSS" Manufacturer of Fishormen's "Relief.
A sure preventative of Chapped Hands, and
euro for Fish Wounds.
UfttTICE CAtTIo:.
FTlIIE UNDERSIGNED HEREBY OAIT
J tions everybody and gives notice that lie
will not be responsible for any debts con
tracted by any other person than himself, for
or on his account, without his wiltten older,
after this date.
Also that all moneys due the undersigned
on current accounts must be settled and paid
within ten days, otherwise they will b pt
in the hands of an attorney for collection.
II. R.TARKER,
Astoria, Oregon, Jan. i, 1S7S. l-2w
CIIARCOAIi! C'lIARCOAl!
THE UNDERSIGNED. WELL KNOWN
to the Columbia rivercanncrymen, wishes
to say that he is now prepared to deliver
promptly, to order within 14 days, charcoals
of the best quality in quantities fiom o00 to
21,000 bushels at the lowest living rates, to
any point on the river between Itainier and
Astoria. PETER JOHN.
tj-17 Cathlamet, W. T.
JUST REGEfVED.
BOILED CIDER;
PLUM PUDDING, IN CANS;
CODFISH BALLS, IN CANS;
PORK AND BEANS, IN CANS;
EASTERN CRANBERRIES;
ZANTE CURRANTS;
PRESH CITRON;
ORANGES AND LIMES,
tho finest ever bought in tho market:
CRYSTAL DRIPS, GAXLON CANS:
NEW ORLEANS MOLASSES.
PICKLED HERRING IN KEGS.
JUMBLES, ETC., ETC.
MUSCATED RAISINS, 2-fc PACK
AGES, VERY FINE;
PIGS FEET, 1-tb AND 2-ft TINS;
CHICKENS AND TURKEYS, IN
TINS;
EASTERN AND OREGON HAMS,
bestqunlity. Also, a fine nFsortmentof
BREAKFAST BACON AND OTHER
MEATS, AT
J. XV. GEAJRIIART'S,
A RARE CHANGE.
WILL SELL ANY OK ALL OF IK
following described property, viz :
I
160 Acres, Sec. 22, T. 8, X. or K. 9 west,
southeast quarter.
Also, in Olneys Astoria
lots I, 2, 3, and 4, in Kloek T9;
Jots 3, 4. 5, and 6, in Block 169;
lots 2 and 4, in Block 128; and Lot 8,
in Block 132;
Xovth. kair or Block 8,-2 1-2 acreK.
DAVID IN'GALLS.
Astoria, Oregon, Dec. 10, 1878. 83-Gni
MISCELLANEOUS.
v- THE MOST EXTENSIVE
r A first-class Stock,
Wr S. LAESEH'S
G v Corner of CASS. anA
TVfX Squemoqha Street
? oQOREGON
Corner of CASS-1
lemoqha Stree
ASTORIA,
Iirvoicos '
M 8T00K!
HAVING JUST KECEI VED A new stock;
consisting of a spleftdid assortment of
Dress Goods, Fancy Articles
AND
Gents' fUMISMG GOODS,
Hats, Caps, Boots and Shoes,
Queensware, Jewelry, Etc., Etc
"We respectfully invite the public to call and.
inspect the same.
We have also receved a large stock of fine.
CIGARS " TOBACCO
"Which we are offering at San Francisco
wholesale prices. Arery repectfully.
A. VAN DUSEN & Co.,
Cor Cass & Jefferson sts.. - Astoria. Ocx
If You Want to Select & Suit of
c?xoa7BCX3Nra-
From the very best stock in the city call a,
A.VAWDUSEN&QOi's. :
VAN DUSEN & Co.,
Are Agents in Astoria for the SINGER anq
the- WHITE
SEWDTG MACHETES,
Large stock constantly on hand.
VAN DUSEN & CO.,
HAVE A SPLENDID STOCK
OP
Consisting of a great variety of goods iq
both ladies and gentlemen.
npo WHOr IT MAY CONCERN.
Notice is hereby given that all person1
upon
part of the Henry Marlin land claim in Clat
sop county, State of Oregon, without penuK-
sion from the undersigned ; and also troa
setting out fires upon said claim, whereby the
standing timber mav in anv wav be injuied,
VAN DUSEN & BROWN.
Per A. VaxDusex.
Astoria. Oct. 5. 1877. tf
A. L. Bancroft & Co,5
SAX FRAXCISCO.
TITATCE A SPECIALTY OF DOING ALL
ItJl kinds flue printing, such its
SALMQH LABELS.
FRUIT LABELS, ETC,
And Eugra ing and Printing by
ilTHO GRAPHY.
Anything to order will be received by W.
B. Bancroft, room 10 Occident Hotel, op
after he leaves by D. C. Ireland, Astorhiti.
oflice. 7G-U"
4852, 187K
Hardwood Lumber.
j OAK, ASH, HICKORY,
WHITEWOOD LUMBER,
Carriage t Wagon Material
A SPECIALTY.
Orders foi lumber for boat or ship work
promptly attended to. Address all orders
E. J. NORTHRUF & CO.,
Cor. First and Main streets. Portland, tlgo.
Oregon Brass Works
D st. bet. Front & First - - Portland, Ogv,
tftrUrass Castings of overv descriptlou
made to order. Cooks and Valves of ail
kinds made and repaired.
ess-Steam Whistles. Oil (ilobes, Hydraulic
npesanu ;so7.ies. ana bauoitt metal.
V .Pv New
RS-i'artiouiar attention paid to all kind-r.t
Ship Work. Cash pftjd for old Brass Coraer
Lead sud Ziny. D. M. M OOPvE, ,pt ;
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