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About The Daily Astorian. (Astoria, Or.) 1876-1883 | View Entire Issue (Feb. 14, 1879)
"jv i$5? ' (' t g?xs aila steiim. ASTORIA. OREGON: r. c. ibeijAXi. ..Ertltor. FRIDAY FltKKUAKY 14, 1870 St. Valentine. This is St. Valentine's tiny. All in the niornm? hetiiiM: And J a maid at your window, To be your Valentine. If the old Roman priest after ward called St. Valentine had known the uses to which his name would be put in later and more peaceable ascs he would probably have remained in heathenism, in stead of becoming a zealot arid having his brains b-ien out with j a stuffed club. All this happened In the third century, when Christi anity was beginning to burn with a feeble flame amid the almost uni versal darkness of a pagan era. The old saint is said to have been of affectionate temperament, and he would doubtless have made a good lover of Shakespcean or modern times, sighing like a fumaec and inditing ballads to his mistress eyebrow. rj lie was brained, how- ever, as narrated, and customs, wise and otherwise, have grown up and twined with perennial green ness about his memory. In one instance the good has lived after a true man has gone. How the day happened to become an annual ob servance no one knows, but it is presumed that heearry monte, not being able to g-3l their half-chris-tian followers out of the old obscr- vances, chanycrt ihe oki noman 11 1 1 T 11 festival calM the Lupcrcaha to jmHiucls 'pjie atcst ftn .ltulr St. Valentine's day, by which North Pacific is in the San Fran-na-me it has since smelt as sweet, j t.sco .jolirnai 0f Commerce. Did Til 1 Lhe old leslival wa in J ebnuuy. ' just the season when stern winter begins to yield to the tender ad vances of spring. Hence that im agined appropriateness of the time j which in after ages connected it with the pairing of birds, that be gins about the middle of February. Our own ancestry in England end Scotland have observed some very funny customs within the last centuries. Atone time valen tines were fashionable among the nobility, and, while still selected . $foy lot, it becomes the duty of a gentleman to present to the lady who fell to ills lot a handsome present. Pieces of jewelry costing thousands of dollars were not un usual, though smarter things, as gloves, were more common. A gos&ippy old gentleman named Pepsy. whose private diary has come to afford groat interest and amusement to our times, tells how he sent his wife silk stockings and garters for her valentine. Ana one year, no says, tits own i vife chanced to be his valentine, and grumble that it will cost him five pounds. The drollest valentines of those old times in England, consisted of the rib of a small animal wrap od in white satin ribbon, which was tied in true lover's knots in sev- oral place. ral This elegant and surest ve inn. was snt to a bach elor, and accompanied with verses: j . Go comuicte t'lis lovelv si;ii! liasU thee awa-v to IlKavui's .slirine. Aiul ul'ii lo lMr voire; No more ilhiMW sh.uks )ur.sue, Tohipinis tiiis iiivr thee oltie, Make but a rudr.itt clsoice." So far, it is uncertain whether or not the lines refer to the pleasures of eating auggetive (to modern minds) by a rib. 33ut tlicy go on to explain: "Till Adam Ind a jiartnor given. Much as fair Eden bloomed Hkis heaven 11: blis was ineomplcte; No social friend the.se joys to share. Guve the gay scene a vacant air; 4,She ctiine "t was all l-cplete!' which leaver nothing to' be desired. Those were the days of charms, and of course the rural maidens had a sure and infallible charm for foretelling the future husband. On the eve of St. Valentine's day, the anxious d.imsel prepared for steep by pinning to her pillow five bay leaves, one at each corner .and one iti the middle (which must have beon delightful to sleep o:i by the way), u blic dreamed ot Iter sweet - lieart, she was sure to marry him oeiore tne ena 01 tlie year. JLJut i;, oaiu o.uu u., an, m.u nuiwii;, iW pn r clml oni rnl....4.1,,i wou.v uu. .... uiu .v. n tuat j tO make It a Cad SUre5 tllintr. liinrL w ,tr xtsiJc r tl m-nofoct I !i iJlHi.fa f m(mi.,... 4. ' .1. . CL 1 ,1 . II .u utt;, .aviwu.. miiM i uiaic, a matjow warcrvosseis nraiv- rKKD .-a iishimr-iiont sail, which boil an cir hard, take out the yolk, ! in"-17 lw can easily come up the ! X the owner can have on proof of property. ' and Hll hs place with .,alt. Just j Colum )ia and Willamette tc f the T&t M Uvi before goine; to bed, she must eat well b tilt wharves at Portland." i 2-Ktf Wm.B.ROSS. Aroald n't insure her a v.viddream, j convince any intelligent ponon I , ,. "tSSTSSfiTSS !H2 .ilere sureiy could be no virtue -m j that the above was written with place on short notice, at rwonnble rates, apfaarms. " a view to wjure the trade of Ore-1 ! . UcwSh? City. A Malicious Falsehood, Tlie True California Style or Injuring Oregon by Grots 3Iisrcprcscntalions, and daring Untruth is Shown as Follow. The Journal of Commerce Indulges in Villainous Falsehoods. Portland Daily Stsmlartl. It has always been the custom of Californians, since the days of 9, to ridicule our state and peo ple whenever an opportunity was afforded, and to maliciously libel our resources, climate, commercial advantage etc., at all times and places. This has gone on from ! year to year, yet prosperity has at tended its, and by slow degrees we have grown to that importance in ! the commercial world from whence the willful misrepresentations of the "tar heads1' the sunburned and drouth plagued adventurers of "Golden California." cannot haul us down and we smile at their dis comfiture. The fart that the pat ronage of the north Pacific which has poured millions of dollars an nually into their coffers, will soon be transferred to the east, via the Northern Pacific railroad, goes far to add malice to their desperation, yet we rejoice that the time is drawing near when the manacles of tribute we have been paying them for so many years will be broken. The will be compelled to look to some other country to furnish them California" wheat, salmon, lumber, etc., as Oregon products will then he known in the ,iurknte nr , Wm-ld Orccmn know lllJlt . li. Murrav, the publisher, was the author, we would pass it unnoticed, as we would feel convinced that it was through ignorance and not a desire to injure the Columbia river bar that it was so written. At all events the following appears in the i annual review of his paper: uThe greatest part of the lower Colum bia is obstructed by shoals and is lands. The ship channels are tor tuous and narrow. There are usu ally two channels through the bar but they are always shifting, and there is sometimes only one. The bar is without doubt the most dan gerous in the world, but the pilot service is good, masters of vessels knowing the dangers are careful, and fewer disasters occur than one would imagine under the circum stances. Surveys of the channels are made twice even year, and the channel buoys moved and replaced in accordance with them. The buovs are numerous and close to gether, and mark out a lane as it were through which to pass. It is a first-class place to study the laws of changes of the channel, if it would stick to any raw and not commit unexpected eccentricities. The entrance to the Columbia is five miles wide between the near est points of Cape Hancock ana rt. Adams, ana tins passage is obstructed by shoals which lie two or three miles outside the line 2 ohiing the points, anil arc contin- wiry shifling and ehanging the ui channels. For this reason no defi nite sailing directions can ever be riven, the only thing lo do on ar riving there being to wait ior the j pilot or tug. During bad weather. and especially in winter, the sea breaks with tne greatest fury clean across the entrance, and sailing vessels have hud ofi" it for weeks waiting: for a chance to enter. Those vess(5sls inside connot iret out at such times. This bar is prob- ablv one of ihe wildest of nature s scenes durum a southeast nile. and the hardiest mariner will not care to est its power. The currents here are verv stronif. moreover, and do their share in making the bail sea which prevails at such times. In addition to other incon veniences the locality is a bad one for fosrs. The Willamette is navigable for j ocean steamers and small vessels . to For land, the principal city of Uifffo i, 113 miles from thesea. All j3.iuii.ow comes me cviuencc A.T . il ? .1 . iur uie ueiennani, wjhcji wni luiiy , ... s gon, and -without any foundation whatever, in fact: TESTIMONY OF MARINERS. Capt Maginn, when president of the New York board of pilots, was instructed to report his opinion as to the merits of the entrance to the Columbia river compared to the entrance to New York. He says: There is deep "water on the bar, it having four and one half fath oms without the addition of the tide, which is six feet. The bar, in the Columbia is about a half mile across, while that of New York is three-quarters. The channel of the bar at the mouth of the Columbia is about 6.U00 feet and shoals gradually, while the channel of the bar at Sandy Hook is about GOO feet and shoals rapidly; the channel across the bar is straight at the Columbia; that at New York is crooked. In accessibility to the sea the Columbia river is the best. as it is immediately at sea, and " steady, while tlie winds at New York are entirely variable and cannot Idc calculated upon by the mariner for any time. The mouth or the Columbia is free from ice and great heat, The San Francisco Commercial herald, quoting from Tins Astoki - Her ax in lS7d, says: "The bar at the mouth of tlie Columbia river, Ore gon, has been made the ground of very unjust and unreasonable dis crimination of rates of insurance on vessels bound into the river. The number of casualties that have occurred there is fewer than at any otherbarred river known to commerce." OPINION OP GOVERNMENT OFFICIALS AND 5IASTBUS OF VBSSELS. The commissioner of the general j land oGico- at Washington, in his! annual rfinnrf tr pnn(rrnc; eiivc;' "13 v the use of a steam tuir in crossing the Columbia bar the en - trance to tne naroor is rendered as safe as that of the Golden Gate or Straits of Fuca." Capt. G-. W. Harris, of the Uni-! ted States-revenue service, says:j "IheccpHnig .of the bar at the mouth of 'the Columbia river, with . the ordinary precautions, is as safe I as the entrance to any bay or har bor in the United States." Capt. Hughes, master of the British ship Montgomery Castle, 1,300 tons burden, says: 'There is no more risk in entering and leaving the Columbia river, than there is in coming into or leaving anv port or harbor I have visited." vt i. -ri t ci i i VUpL. U. XliVUUS, UL LIIC JI1USI1 ship La Escocesa, says: "J con sider a vessel is as safe, with the use of a steam tug and pilot, in entering the Columbia river and going over the bar as going into any harbor in ordinary weather." Capt. George White says: "It is absurd to say that the Colutmbia river is a very dangerous entrance." Capt. Francis Connor, now com manding the steamship Oregon, has crossed the bar more than fif- 1 teen hundred times during the last fourteen years without a serious accident. :NTSW AUVEllTISEMKXTS. WS NOTICE. NOTICE IS IIEUEBY GIVEN. THAT IVolils, ITisrcro & Co,s Impress . Xbr Sa.n Fr:xnciseo Will heareaftor Close Every Saturday Eyenir.g, AT 7 O'CLOCK ! tl-if A. VAX DUSEX. AjronL Fishermen's Electing. PURSUANT TO A BESOLCTiON pa.sj.vd at a mcetinp of Columbia ner IKher- ianu, nem in uu cuy m .wuuuw fvenmg; hist, a meeting v.'ill beheld in Astoria on HOLIDAY, HARGH 4th, AT LIBERTY HALL. To make arrangements to opj o?e the license liiw -.iand jit the last legislature, and all . tobe present. Bv order ol the meeting, KSEiTroKo'. Tishennen on he river aro cordially invited Commit top. Astoria, Oregon.Jfeb. 12, 1875. d.twtd QipiLEii. kj Ships Can got OUt Of the SCa into tXAWM nucuu ur oiifo. the harbor at once with safotv.l itiyirc Hour.. a. m. i io a.m. and or The winds at the mouth of the s p. m. Atiiigiiteanivfoimdat Tur ,,!,. put IIiue. Astokia. Onw,o. Columbia are marked regular and ; BUSINESS CARDS. B F. DEXNISO F.J. TAYLOR DENNISON & TAYLOlt, ATTORNEYS AT IAW. ASTOKTA. OREGON". Office Up stairs in Parker's building, corner Chenanms and Benton streets. O. F. BULL. A- MEACJIEX. Attorneys at Law and Notaries Public. Commiionor of Deeds for California and Washington Territory. Astorin, Oreson. nppirn-Corner of Snueii'oenh and Cass streets, up stairs, over E. S. Larson's store. j. w. kobb. " fultoa-. Atiorneys-at-Law. Collecting and Real Estate Agents. IJoom Nos. l ami 2. Dr. Weleh's new bui'.d njr, Sipieinoeqlia stteet. Astoria. F. D. WIInTOK", ATTORNEY AT LAW. Office in City Hall Building. ASTORIA. OREGON. Dn. I. 31. SEVERN. Graduate I'nivcrsity f Pennsylvania. P2lYStVlsZi AND Sl'IMSKOX. n mmnr-ni. nr nrPiflon nil. F. CRAXG, PHYS5CJAW AKD SSJREGW, AST0U1A, OREGON. OfHce-TIoom rstj. 7 over C- L. Parker's store. Opposite lament's drug store. J)- ' w- olivek, 1 koizeopayetest. Having peinvnentlv loeated in Astoria, tenders his services to the citizens of this jl:M-e. Ohpick. For the undent at residence corner of Main and Jefferson street?. otto wsrareER. WATCHMAKER AND JEWELER. IH.S XTI'MOVKO TO T.Iain street, P:rkers buildmc ASTOIUA. - - - - OXCSGOX. T STEWAKT. 9? Stone and Marble Cutter, ASTORIA. ----- OREGON. u khutor buiWmswork. anH nionumen- " wrk aiiewioti to pioiniHiy aim to order. lQ - 20 - ovett, CLEANING ail KE!I7trffi PROMPTLY ATTENDED TO- ; BentoR street, opposite Post -office. Astoria. Q GRAY. "Manufacturer of HARNESS, SADDLES, BRIDLES, Avinrs, ETC. nc-Oars leathered, ami leather for sale. Astoria Steam Laundry. J. T. BOKCIinilS Propiictor. Astoria. Oregon. To rnbbiiij; or scrubbing, and no thrashing your '..tht. too pieces, ami elotlu'MneiuIeil. Buttons sewed -on Hf'Sent work at reasonable nnces. Give us a call. TTb'GII jST001 CARPENTER AND JOINER, AND OEXKRAL JOBBER ASTORIA, OREGON. fiariTcnes built to onlor, and sntisfnction next dour to the Episcopal church. J. II. D. GRAY, Wholesale and retail dealer 111. OYSTERS, by the SACK, Kay, Oats, Straw, Wood, Etc. fleneral storage and Wharfage on reason able terms. Ordinar.cG Wo. 311, AX OTjDINWN'Cn to provide for special ctM,n"S.lor the city in the matter of the last will of Cjrus Olney, dceeacd. W HKK s. It i averted that Cym Inev. ,a,'? t'.i0,,ora depaed. loft a will under which it i clamed the eitv has Inrmi nosuni- i,ry inti0re'tw: nn 'li iH 'iertod on tho other 'Mil ifllB! laim ui.u -Biu Mipp0cu will ii invalid And that no rishtH accrued to tho city thereunder, and ft i deirubIo to havo more ceitatn ad vico about the matior. A wc the ciiit of A ttaria does 01 da in csfcllmcsr SiKn1wh!t,.J-,11- B- Gv. John Ilnhn unti t. . Sbivoly arc hereby cunstitutod and jipiKHoiod aeeuts ior tho citv and are au tboncd and omroworod and tiireetud on be naltot the city and in its name, to employ and enter into written contact with K. U. Minttiick. attorney-at-law, tc' investigate tho acN and tho law relative to the will of tho Into Cvru Olney. and to the mlit? and' inter ctprtliecitv of A toria thereunder, and to ftirmh hw wntton oj.inion thereo , at an -neiw to the city therefor of not exceeds- two liuiidred dollar, and further to retain him in an imp.tu n that may ario cone mine the Uaims of the city under said will ata farther tee for conducting an action or ;uit to final Snn VJITi n lA"1 ,not xcetdins (1" ono Srn0,,and fi"y dollars, certain, and such upon. -'ntneent feo as may bo agreed hoVJf" ordi,'ance shall tako effect and ma o? and llf tcr its approval by tho l'a&jed tho Council, Jan. 20 1879 Attest: It. 11. CARD WETL. ,...? t o . Auditor and Clerk, Approved, Jan. 30, 1879 J. 1L.D. QIUY Acling Mayor. AUCTION SALES. E. C. HOLDEr IN, Notary Public for the State of Oregon. Ileal Estate Agent and Cnnvrjaiicer. Agent for the FIREMEN'S FUND INSUR ANCE COMPANY of San Francisco. COMMISSION AGEN1 and AUCTIONEER. Rents and Accounts Collected, and rv- tiirns. promptly made. Regular sales day, SATFRDATR at ii I 31. N. T,. Parties havinc: real estate, furni ture ov any other roods to dispose of either at auction or private sile shoti'd notify me soon as convenient liefor the dav of sale. -No storage charged on goods :i(' at Vur- th?n- r. c.nou.:x. ttl Aintioneer. AMUSEMENTS. Dancing r Academy, rage's building nct door to E.s. Larscn. C,Fvrs0Lon Moxirfav and Tliurc&t-r eenmes x 7 -M. .apt iv CLA-OnMoiitlavaiHl Thwrartav afternoon, ar 2 :."). Boy 0i,? On Tuesdav and Fridav evrnijijr :,j 7 .35 ATksiw Crss-Wednesday and Satunltiv at l i. m. AWdnfday eveninc for the entire school. one admitted evjt fholni's. Saturday evening StIIKKE. Term Ladies and Rents elns? per Montii $s Boys and Misses class h-t ,Uwh.'.'Z"."Z 2 no ifOMffam wmm mi HOTELS AND KESTATHIAKTS. pAKKER TI0USK, ASTOKTA, OREGON. IT. T. PABKER. PmnrJrtor. Tins HOTEL is the hirpfst. mwf comfort able ;md 1W KejK hfrfH in tle city. i suntied with the be.f of spnnt; water. lw and cold faiths, tarber shop, and J BrsJ-ela; saloon with best of liotton.nml cigars, and fine billiard table. Fiee erwh to :nd (torn the lHMise ; ehr.rges leasonahie. ? m U $258 IHr dav. according to room occupied. Astoria.. I niv n. JSTS. d. L.Tn;rrx - T'KopwnErott MAIN STKTCET. Between Squeinocqho and .Telfcnwa, Board and Intitnns; er week........ JS9 f-ionru iwr av .. .. ,, , Single Meal. ".. Tne table will le suniHd at all tfmes "Tib tlie best thenai1tet aflToids. A. .T. JtBOLKK. C. S. TTlMGIir. OCCII"KTT nGTFX, MEGLER & WR.TRUT. Proprietors. Astoria, Oregon. miTE TCtOrTiTKTOKR A TIT? happy to Jt announce that the above lotl has "been repainted and refurnished. sddle greatlv to tlie comfort of its jnii,ts nm fenow the best hotel north of San Francisco. p.VLACE LODGING HOUSE. (Alisky & TIegele's new building) Corner of Morrison and Third struets. PORTLAND. OREGON, the day. week or month. MissTLMENEFEE. Ustez. -ii riminiHu im'iiw iiioiuio. ui iiKiV. ' KESTAURA3TT, TIIE0. BBOEMSER, l'RoriiimcHs. Fresh ovstcis. and either dli- ccies f tlie seaion, served in. every style. Si&B6 Opposite the Telecmph office, bqueiiioqliu j street Astoua Oreuon. OSTMEALS AT ALL HOURSlfn. ASTORIA CAHOY FASTSHY AND OYSTER ALOO X. HAYING ENLARGED MY RTUTtE I hafnow 011 naiiif Ok-larjrt ail hest avsoitnieiitof plain wid Fitnch randies in ! town. aNo. all kinds of j CAKES. CRACKERS AND BIFCUITR. All of whwh I offer for sal at the lowest cash price. Kvnoiesue arm leutn ai SCHWEEH'S CONFECTIONERY. Opposite the bell tower. Eetail candy fioni 25 to 75 cents per pound. 0 r 1 rnsn hasirni ;uhi .iim.iv.iun ba oysters sen ed in ever style. SEAMING GLASSES, All sizes and shapes fioni I'Snte or 2C oz. DOOMS. WINDOWS, -AND- WINDOW CLASS. Sash, Weights. Etc. Address all orders CLIFFORD CGGGiNS, (Suceesbor to Jason, isoriivcr & Co P03TI.A540, OREGON. Ronot fail, if had health tur afiaul of. of knowing exactly what you'r bread L made of. "Vow allow me to tell you, ior experience t vc had I'm wire. ... yothinir4 v.nrve for the stomaeh tnan when voVr e,lst i,0A (l("r's not 1,U e Oh then l"e eareful m future, you know what's at takc. I.et me advise you (for I know now) what brand U tak;. . JLet your procer give you no other kind for this is guaranteed. You use. Ponnollv's Yea?t Powder and f good health purexmd light bread you:r HTZZZ3&S k t 0, r K
