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About The Daily Astorian. (Astoria, Or.) 1876-1883 | View Entire Issue (Jan. 22, 1879)
- ."r t 4-,.rfj. 3) ASTORIA OREGON ISSUED EVERY MORI-TING, (Monday Excepted), I. C. IStSZ.AXX : : PlTtLISHEB. turiait Building, Cass Street. Terms of Subscription : fcervec. by Carrier, per tvcolc 25 Conte Bent by mail, four months - 5 Sent by mail, cno year 8 &' Free of Postage to Subcribcrs. KST Advertisements inserted by the year nt the rato of Si 3J per square per immtk. Transient advert i-uns, by the day or wool:, fifty cents per nure for each iRcrtion. THE OIT1. CSF-iFncDAUA Astokiax unU Jc ami hy xmrilafiZ cents a morih. free of portage. Head er who contemplate aJutcncc from the ctin can have The Asiokiak ftHbtu than, Daha ) Wekkia & tioiis to any pail-ofice oilh oiti adaUwpr expense. jlUire.os may lie rnanym axofbsi a desired. Leave orders at ifie atunltnu room. The mail boat from Portland got j "yesterday at four o'clock r. m. Capt. Jus. Williams will be pre pared to run the Tanzy-point fishery at fulHdast. We understand that the old xteamer Gnssie Telfair is about to re cieve nc.v boilers. Walla Walla, Palouse, Pendleton, etc. , papers came to hand last night The first this year. Frank R. "Wilson is in the -city, and will take your ordr for the best as machine in therorld. The weather is so quiet at Astoria that the smoke curls directly heaven wards from the factory smoke stacks. Steam arsis raised in Wm. Hume's n ew Astoria cannery yesterday. They will be making cans now in a few days. - Badollet & Co. begin making cans "tins week. Mr. Leien'weber, superin tendent, is oft for Portland to-day on business. The British ship Strathearn, .vhich. was taken to Portland the latter part of last year, came back again yesterday, partly laden for sea. A fire on the beach just below the city limits night before last des troyed a building near the oil works which has been used as a mess house. The fire was'accidental. The steamship California arrived from Sitka yesterday. She has made an excellent trip, and accounts on this voyage for some of the time lost by the bad weather of November and December. J. R. HcClerkhi'of Grays river brought in a fine lot of beaver skins yesterday, and one white mink skin. This is the first white mink pelt we have ever seen. It makes a beautiful -fur. The 'Oregonian of yesterday in vforms its readers that the steamship Geo. W. Elder sailed from San Fran cisco for Portland on the 18th. The "steamers ot this line usually beat the dispatches from two to four days. A sailor row occurred on board the Strathern coming down the river yesterday. Pilot Johnson called f jr a policeman to stop the men from going ashore, but they didn't seem to want to go badly when the ship -struck the dock. Mr. F. S. Bates write&--to his at torneys in this city from -fit Helens, Messrs. Robb & Fulton, that he had been tried on the ''charged preferred against him, and honorably acquitted. It was probably aiatt&mpt to black mail him. ' The celestials beat the police yes terday by-giving little boys fire-crack-era to fire -off within the limits of the $sre. JJohn is bloody generous lion '-Home hoccasions when e can't elp iimself and wants to slsow off,'" said an British sea captain who discovered the trick. People who assist the kindling of fires with kerosene are advised to commit to memory the following from 'Punch: . A ladv named Mary Magui-ah ' Had trouble in lighting her fi-ah; The wood being green, She used kerosene KPause. Then continue solemnly) SheJias gone where the fuel isdry-ah Change of Schedule. Mr. L. A. Loomis called upon us yesterday, en route to Portland Tor six months past the people -along the line have been endeavoring to get a change of schedule en the Olympia route, via Oysterville and Chehalis from this city. Mr. -Loomis lias re received instructions, as contractor over that rtute, to ctf?ry the mail on the following schedule: '" Lcavc'Oy-ucn Hie on Wednesdays at -i o'clock Arrive at Obipi Sstjrdays by 7 o'clock Loire Oytervie Mondays and Fridays at AniSJt Airia by 7 o'elock i-r H.,same Wc 'AoriM Todays and Saturdays at A?riSt dJirviMe Wy 7 o'clock p. M., same days. This schedule will give perfect satis faction. It is the same as was the schedule on that route previous to the last letting of the contract, and as it has taken six months to get -it cor rected from the errors made at the last publication of biddings, we hope that clerks in the Poet-oflice depart ment at Washington will use a little more care in future, avoiding mistakes of this kind. The clerk who sends these instrnctions to Mr. Loomis has placed the matter right, but the clerk who sent what w;is supposed to be a duplicate to the ostmasters at Astoria and Oysterviile has made a stupid blunder by writing the word Thursday where-lie should have written the word Wednesday, and vice versa, but as our postmasters are disposed to carry out the sjririt of their instructions, they will not necessarily be compelled to carry out the letter because of a blun der in Washington. Judge Briscoe, of Oysterville, has also received in structions to'Jrt the mail carrier have the mail whenever needed to assure dispatch in this direction, as it often occurs that the schedule time cannot be made along the beach at high tide. We congratulate the people of Pacific county on these rectified errors of the past. . The cash basis has been adopted' by B. Hamburger. See new ads to day. Cash is the only correct jrrinci- I pie of trade. "No trust, no bust, no hell;" should be the motto of more men than Dr. Mary Walker and Hen Reward Beecher. We applaud Mr. Hamburger's resolution. There are eome rough characters about Astoria, "One of whom, who has been spotted ;is a bad man for some time past by different persons, was sent up under the vagrant law yesterday, much to the relief of Mr. Nic. Wyman, who begins to believe that he has nourished a viper. : ' 'There is one crib less at -&s- toria," said a passer by on Chenamus street ' yesterday. Our reporter fol lowed the fellow, and ascertained that he referred to the -ballast hopper at the Farmers' dock, nd that was the only legitimate loakilitem which he picked up all day long. Oh, how we 04ke return of ithose happy days of '77 in Astoria. The British barkHannah Landles, now loading at the Earmers warehouse in this city, is a new vessel as well as one of the handsomest vessels afloat. This -is her second cargo since her launch. She will carry 2000 long tons of wheat on nineteen feet draft. Capt. Gregg is justly.proud of her, as she was built under his supervision from the laying of her keel. The Dallas Itemizer dishes up a dish" for traveling humbugs. It says: "We have had enough of the peripa tetic dead-beats who infest the small towns of the state, and Mvisli to in form the fraternity that hereafter their requestsfir notices, etc., will not re ceive any attention at our hands, un less coin accompanies their order, Frank Wilton and Mart. Taylor in cluded." J "Oregon" was mentioned in the house of representatives on the 20th. The way it come about was this: They were discussin' the cypher business, and the resolution recites "that cer tain alleged telegrams in cipher have been publised, indicating that attempts were made after the presidential elec tion of 1870 to influence, b' money or other fraudulent methods, the vote of electors or the action of canvassing officers, in the states- of Florida, South Carolina .and Oregon. Freights and Charters. With eight exceptions every vessel 'in the port of Astoria (and the rivers also), is chartered. Some are load ing and some waiting for cargo. Only a few are on demurrage. It is esti mated that there is a sufficiency of tonnage in port to carry off the entire surplus for export. Persons who have the best means of knowing say there are less than 40,000 tons available for shipment at this time, probably not more than 33,000 to 35,000 tons. Our list shows twenty grain vessels on the way to this port our report is as accurate as any that can be made, from records of the leading commercial "journals of the universe, but we are free to admit that we do not believe that seven of that number of vessels are now ac tually headed in this direction. If to the three vessels .coming from 2ew York and Philadelphia there be add ed four from other ports all together, it will be aboutrigh. The season is practically closed, and our grain shipments-have fallen off fully 25 per cent from last season. This is partly owing to the home demands for wheat for seed in newly opened localities, j and partly to diminished crops in the Wallamet valley. There is a prospect of the coasting vessels coining back into their old channels, from which they have been driven by the presence of so Jare an increase in the steam fleet. Mr. G. W. Hume's fine schooner Hera, one of the best carriers afloat, we don't care where you go to find it, is on the berth in San JFrancisco for Astoria. She is under charter.to.load here for Australia, or Honolulu Following are the latest transac tions reported in San Francisco by mail: Ship James JNesmith, 1736 tons, wheat to Liverpool or Havre, 1 12s ('d; Cerk, U. K., 1 los; Continent -?2 British ship Wallacetown, 1625 tons, wheat to Cork, U. K., owners account British Bhip Blengfell, 1210 tons, wheat to Cork, U. K.; 1 17s 6d. British ship County of .Kinross, 164L tons, wheat to Liverpool, 1 12s 6d; Havre or Cork, 1 15s. Ship'Eureka 1202 tons, "wheat to Liverpool, 1 lis 6d; U. IC, 1 14s; Continents 19s. Post-Ofllcc Regulations. Postmaster Chance, Astorias Nasby, has just reeeivedthe following instruc tions, and-as Uncle Sam is to abom inably poor to pay for advertising, wo -cheerfully comply with a request to give theso rules and regulations an insertion' for the benefit of the public: Jlttlc and Regulations (not) issued by author ity of the P. O. J). Inquire fifteen times a day what time the mail closes. Ask the postmaster if your .letter will be sure to go. And, "Why in thunder" your paper didn't come! Always say, "Is that all," when the postmaster bauds you your mail. Ask the postmaster the price of three cent stamps, aud whyyour folks don't write to you. And if he is sure there is no letter L for you. By so doing .-you facilitate the duties of a,pestmastw' The-Goos-bay News comes to this riffice over the roughest roads in Ore gon, and yet it is so neatly printed, folded aud wrapped, that it comes as Ibright as a dollar every time. Mrs. -J. E. JBenedict, sister to Col. Dickinson,-former proprietor of the Knappton mills, arrived in the city last evening eturouie tosSan Ean cisco from her home on Puget sound. Mrs. Benedict -3vas very highly es teemed, and her friends will-be pleased to hear of her generalgood health and prosperity. There is a good deal cfjust com plaint about the round about way in which the mone3T-order business has to be done betv.een British Columbia and Puget sound. The law-is so ab surdly framed that, in order to comply with the requirements, a-money-order issued from the Victoria post office, , and made payable at any point on the Uound must pass through the office at Portland, beforcreaehing its destina tion. - ....Mr. G. Neimeyer, the prince of merchant tailors in Oregon, arrived at Astoria yesterday, and will Iremai for a few days to take orders for suits of clothing. As Mr. Xeimeyer's work recommends itself, it is not necessary ,. o frt cnoni- with resnectto the quab- lly. Hemaybesceiiat.the.OccideiiL AROUND THE CITY. Tour complexion is sallow, and skin yellow, your liver is affected. Obtain from your druggist a "oottle of Plunder's Oregon Blood Purifier. Keep your blood pure and A'our health must be god. the erreat purifier is Plunder's Oregon ITiood'Puiifier. All Astoria drugghas liave it now. Mr. A. IT. Sale authorizes us to offer a reward of $10 00 for evidence which will load to the arrest and con viction, of the person or persons who took his boat ".Josephine" from the old mill landing on Yonims lmv and left it on the tide land above "Richardson's place. The act was committed on or about January 11th. or 12th, 1879. ....The City Book Store stock is ele gantly stocked with a superb lot of goods purchased by Capt. B. F. Stevens while in San Francisco. Call and bee these goods. P. J. Goodman, on Main street, has just received the latest and .most fash ionable style of gent and ladies'boots, :hoes. etc. Call and see stereoscopic view of Cascade canal, and photographic copy of 187S chart of the Columbia river bar, at II. S. Shuster's art gallery. Photog raphy is truly a science. Peter Kuney 1 still in the market with all kinds oi building materials in hi lino. Has just w-oived 100.000 lath, 2.000 bushels of sand, ami a large stock of first quality of brick at his warehouse foot of Benton street. ...Fresh oysters in every style at SchnieoTs'. See advertisement. Fresh fruits and vegetables at Bailey's. Get your baskets filled for a little money at Bailey's. . . . Wood of all kinds, and a splendid lot of pitch wood, at Gray's wharf, for sale in'lots to suit purchasers. Mr. J. Stewart, stone and marble cutter of Astoria will guarantee satis faction to all ordering w'ork of him, and will do a better job for less money than any outside workman. His work in the cemetery here should be sufficient recom lneiulatfon. Before you let -jour con tracts for work of this kind it "would bo well to call upon Mr. "Stewart. sew invoice ot those Medallion Ranges at Magnus C. Crosbj 's. Call at Mrs. "Derby's when you wish any article in the millinery line. Trimmed hats selling at' cost. Fresh oysters in every style and at all hours affile Pioneer restaurant. Shipmasters wishing to secure seamen can have their wants supplied by calling it the Chicago hoti&e, Main street. IjOPGIXG House Persons requiring furnished or unfurnished rooms can be accommodated at reasonable rites at Mrs. Munson's Chenamus st., Astoria. BUSINESS CARDS. J. V. OLIVEU, II03IEO P ATIEISX, TTaving permanently located in Astoria, tenders liis services to the citizens'Of this place. Office. For the present at his residence in Col. Taylor's house. Cedar street. O. F. BEIX. A. SrEACHDN.: BEI.li & TEACIIEX, ' Attongs at Law and Notaries Pub fie' CnmmissuHwr.-of'EUiods for California nnd Washington Territory. Astoria, Oregon. Offich Comer of Srpiemocqhe and Cass streets, up stairs, over E.S. Larsen's store. J. W. KOBE. C. W. FULTOX. Attorney s-at-Lmu, Collecting and Real Estate Agents. Uooms Nos. larrti 2, T)r.""Welch'snew bulki ng, Squemoeqha street. Astoria. F. D. WINTON, ATTORNEY 'AT LAW. Office in City Hall Building. ASTORIA. OREGON. "TK. IV. I. BAKER. (Late Strrgeon U. S. Arnvj.) Office Comer Chenamus and'-Main sts. over "White House store. Brown's building D U. I.M. SEVERN. Graduate University f Pennsylvania. PHYSICIAN AND KUIltiEON. EXAMINING SURGEON OF PENSIONS. Ollicc Larsen's building. Odlrc Hours. 8 a. a:, to 10 a.m. and G p m. to 8 i. M. At night can be found at Tur pin House. Astoria, Oregon. -TVR. F.'CRAXG, PHYSICIAN AND SURQEON, AST0RI&, OREGON. Office Room .no. 7 over C. L. Parker's store. Opposite Dement's drug store. B. F. DKXJf IKOJf. F. J. TAYLOR DENNISON & TAYLOR, A T T O It "X IS Y S A T J, AYV. ASTORIA. ORF.GOX. Office Up stairs in Tarker's building, comer Chenamus and Benton streets. OTTO DLT5KK. WATCHMAKER AND .JEWELER. V1IS REMOVED TO Main -street, Tarker's building, ASTORIA, - - - - OREGON. T STEWAIiT, Stone and 'Marble Cutter, ASTORIA. - - - - - OREGON. All kinds of buildinprwoTk. and monumen tal work attended to promptly and to order. Satisfactionenarantced. FRO .11 A SVPPKRKR. 5n not fail, if bad health vou'r afraid of, of knowing -exactly "what yon'r bread is mane of. Now allow me to tell you," for experience I've hadl'msuie. Nothings worse for the stomach than when voif r yeast powder' not pure. Oh, then be careful in future, you know what's at stake, I.et me advise you (for I know now) what brand to take. Jjet your grocer give you no other kind for this is guaranteed. You use Donnolly's Yeast Powder and of -good health pure and libt bread you're .fiiire. AUCTION SALES. E. C. HOLDEN, Notary Public for the State -of 'Xjreaov. Real Estnlc Agent ami Conveyancer. Agent for the FrilEMEN"S FUND IXSU21--ANCE COMrAN Yof San Francisco. COMMISSION AGENT-and AUCTIONEER. Kents ami Accounts Colleetcil. and ro turns 'promntlj' -made. Uegulai sales day, -SATURDAYS sit -it P. 3BL N.rB. Fartios luumg real estate. luml tare or any other goods to dispose -of either at auction or private sale should notify me as soon as convenient before the dav of sale. Xo storage charged on goods sold at Auc tion, r. cuoudes. td Auctioneer. AMUSEaiEXTS. Tfi7H'RRT 7 Dancing Academy... Page's building-next door to E. S. Larsen. Gknts Claps On Mondxy and Thursday evenings.-atTroO. Ladies Class On Monday and Thursday afternoons, at 'l :?.o. Boys Cl ss On Tuesday and Friday evenings. ntT :30. .Misses Class "Wednesday and Saturday at t v. m. "Wednesday evening for the entire -schodi. None admitted except scholars. Saturday evening SOIUKE. Terms Ladies and gents cla per Month $r eo Boys and Misses class per Month 2 50 HOTELS AlvD RESTAURANTS. A. J.'IIEOLEK. O. S. WRJGI11. JcKGLER & WRIGHT. Proprietors. Astoria, Oregon. THE PltOriJIETOlU AftE HAPPY TO announce that the above hotel has been repainted and refurnished, adding greatly to the comfort of its guests and is now the best hotel north of San Francisco. M RS. S. N. ARRIGOXI Has re-opened the Pioneer Restaurant -oa Main -street, Astoria, IOR TIIT3 RECEPTION OF COARDERS, . by the week, day or single meals. 3rFresh oysters in every style at all hours. 1DALACE LODGING IIOUSE. ( Allsky & Hegelc's new building) Corner of Morrison -and ZThird streets, TORTLAND, OREGON. .tSf"Furnished rooms in suits, or single.'by the daj', week or month. Miss H. MENEFEE, Lessee. . ,. TTAIiliA WAX.X.A 'RESTAURANT, THEO. RROEMSER, - PvROPRrETCtti Fresh oysters, and otlt6rrdeli- caeies ot tne season, served in every style. Opposite the Telegraph office, buueinoufre street, Astoria, Oregon. OS-MEALS AT ALL HOURSTPO. RSTORIA ;GANDY FACTORS. AND OYSTER SAI'Ot)S. HAYING ENLARGED MY STORE 'T have now on hand the largest and best assortment of plain and French candies it town, also, all km'ds of CAKES, CRACKERS AND 'BISCUITS, All of which 'I olfer foraleat the lowesS cash price, wholesale and retail at SCHNIEER'S CONFECTIONERY... Opposite the bell tower. Retail canity from 23 to 75 eeuts per pound. Fresh Eastern and Shoalwater bay oysterserved m every style. mUEPIS HOUSE, 1). L.TURPIN - rROrniETOR. 'MAIN STREET. Between Squemocqhe and Jefferson, Astoria, Oreqo Board anVT lodging per week J?6 50s Bonrd per-day 1 00. Single Meal 25 Tne table will be supplied at all tiiac-witfc. the besf the market affords. PARSER HOUSE,. ASTORIA, OREGON. H. B.'PtRKER, - "Proprietor. THIS'nOTEL is the largest, most comfort ablejaud best kept hotel in the city. Is supplied vwith the lest offspring' water, hot and cold baths, barbershop, and a first-elns saloon-withbestofliriMorkand cigars, ami line billiard table. 'Free coach to and from the house. : charges reasonable, SI 00 to 52 5C , per day. according to room occupied. Astoria. July 15, 1878. Tiis?e-o SclioonrvsToa nic. FjjlWO schooners, with center boards 2S JL tons each, and one ithout center board, live ton, all fully emim)etHnd n.i good or-C der, will be sold cheap for cash. Apply to WATSON BROS., 07-tf Asteria: Oregon. OPILES. " The undersisued is p' spared to fune&i a large nnmbor of Spiles and Spars at Ujit place on short notice, at reasonable rates, Applty, -CG.AJAFLES. ' 'Vo)ujahia.Gi4 rfi vm try V A