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w (fee &il &irimg ASTORIA. OREGON: I. C. IRELANI Editor. SATURDAY M ahcji 1, 1879 Xr. Lamar and Stanley Mathews Insuring Life. If a physician should advertise in the newspapers that he "vvas pre pared to prevent the introduction of contagious or infectious diseases into the United States in return for a moderate fee, he -would im mediately be set down as a charla tan of the most impudent stripe. If five or ten physicians should ask from congress an allowance of fifty thousand dollars a year, in re turn for their services in suppres sing or regulating the ravages of the yellow fever or Asiatic cholera, wherever these dreaded plagues should make their appearance, they would be hooted out of the lobby as lunatics, and ostracized as quacks by the entire medical faculty. The epidemic of last summer, and the impatient folly of that class of persons who look to government for relief from ills which heaven inflicts, have inspired two bills that are now before congress. One is Mr. Lamar's bill to establish a department of health. The other is Mr. Stanley Mathews' bill to prevent the introduction of contagious or infectious diseases into the United States, and to es tablish a bureau of public health. The two measures are very much alike, and equally deserve atten tion. A department or bureau of health, with all that the name im plies, might be a very desirable thing. If it were in the power of congress, or of a constitutional convention, or of any gathering of pnblic spirited citizens, to confer upon a body of medical men. full authority to arrest at the frontier any epidemic that might threaten to invade our households, together with ample jurisdiction in all cases pulmonary turberculosis, diptheria, or t3rphoid fever, and discretionary powers wherever the measles, the cerebro-spinal meningitis, or the several varieties of infant colic are prevalent, nobody would object to legislating on the subject from now to the first of April. If a simple majority vote were all that was necessary to prevent the introduction into the United States of contagious or infectious diseases, we should be aniens: the first to urge the passage of a law to that effect. But, unfortunately, the science of government has not reached that perfection. Congress is powerless to control the angel of death by legislative enactment; a,nd the legislator who proclaims the contrary is a simpleton. The fallacy which underlies propositions of the character of Mr. Lamar's and Mr. Matthews' is the old fallacy that a man with an official title and drawing a monthly salary from the treasury can do that which the same man in private life cannot do. It is a slight modification of the ancient superstition that the King's toucli was a specific for certain maladies. As fast as a medical knowledge is extended and enlightened we shall have new safeguards against pestilence. All the bills which Mr. Lamar and Mr. Matthews can draught, and all the votes which can be recorded, will not hasten the process. Mr. Lamar's measure will proba bly be the first to be disposed of. Mathews1 bill makes the health de partment a bureau of the treasury, with a director-general and a board of seven members, the amounts of whose salaries are modestly left in blank, to be determined by the collective wisdom of congress. Otherwise the two measures are nearly identical. The possibility of another pesti lence like that which visited the south last summer is bad enough, without entailing upon the countiy the evils of red tape, official old fogyism, and political jobber', for which either of these absurd bills opens the door. The Game of Chess. Astoria has been playing the part of pawn in the great game of chess between Portland and the balance of the country, but she has started for the king row, and has a prospect of reaching it. When she does, she will be as good as a queen. From jmrties in the valler we learn that the prospects are cheering gible to for some thin ta li the o grow out Of railroad agaitation. Albany is coming to the point, and her solid men propose to deal with j the subject in a systematic manner. It has been reported, from reliable sources, that the Yaquina bay road will be constructed upon the uni form gauge, and connect with Albany. The Albany people will also favor .the project of a road to Astoria upon the uniform gauge. "We are not far enough enlightened upon the subject to give details or data, but of one thing we are quite pesitive: If the managers of the Oregon Central do not go to work prett' soon their land grant will be forfeited, andanarow gauge begun over the route. The people are waking up, and Astori- ans will soon be placed in position to make somebody an offer. Fog" Signals at Sea. A practical and certain method of avoiding collisions in foggy weather is a problem which has always excited the attention of sea-faring men. The New York Sun publishes an interesting ar ticle, explaining a system of fog signals, devised by Captain "W. B. Barker, of that city. The thirty two points of the compass are di vided into eight parts, 'each of which is known by a combination of long and short sounds, as fol fel fol eows: From north to northeast, one short sound; northeast to east, two short sounds iii rapid succes sion; east to southeast, three short sounds in rapid succession; south east to south, four short sounds in rapid succession; south to south west, one long blast on whistle or horn; southweast to west, two long blasts; west to northwest, one short blast followed by a long blast and another short blast; northwest to north, one long blast followed by a short blast and one long blast. The present law compels the masters of sailing vessels to sound a horn once every five minutes while under weigh in a fog. Steamships must blow their whistles. On board the former class of vessels it is customary to give a man a two hour watch with the fog horn. In the s-stem pro posed by Captain Barker this man may be instructed to sound at regular intervals on the fog horn the signal which corresponds to the course the helmsman is steer ing. If the course of the vessel is northeast by east, east northeast, east by north, or due east, two short blasts would be given, which would embrace the four points from northeast to east. A steam ships's whistle would indicate her course to an approaching vessel. "With the use of this system the master of a vessel hearing a foo horn or steam whistle blowing a certain signal, ma' know at once from which quarter a vessel is ap-1 proaching him, and lay his course accordingly. The following is an illustration of the working of the system. ZL Z IT O o y 3 3 S" o J :.rr- " H: v A hejivy fog prevails, with light breezes from the southward. The lookout on the steamship hears" a fog horn faintly to leeward, blow ing two long blasts in rapid suc cession. It comes from the brig. He knows at once that it is a sail ing vessel, steering west by south, and must therefore be from the east by north. He so ' reports. The captain now knows that there is a vessel on his starboard bow under sail. He knows as well as if he saw the vessel that her port quarter is toward him. The rule of the road is plain: If to your starboard red appears. It is your duty to keep clear; To act as judgment says is proper, To port, or starboard, back, or stop her. The helm is put aport, and the steamship surges to the right in the direction of E F, and blows two short blasts with her whistle the signal of a northeast-by-east course. The lookout in the brig which is to leeward of the steamship, when he first heard her single blast report her making a northerly course. Afterward he hears two blasts,, and knows that she has changed it to allow the brig to holdv her course, I K. Therefore,- lonj before the- two vessels have sighted each other their courses have been changed enough to give each other a wide berth. Supposing that the steamship, being to windward of the brig, does not hear her fog-horn and continues to blow one short blast, indicating that she is holding her northerly course, Gr H. Then the master of the brig, who does hear the steamship which is to wind ward, comes about, the brig takes the direction C D, and the blast on the fog horn is changed from two long blasts, indicating a west-by-south course, to three short blasts, indicating a south-course. If the steamship gets near enough to the brig to hear the signal, the lookout knows at once that the brig is sailing almost a right angles to the steamer, and that there is, therefore, no chance of a meeting. In the case of the Pommerina collision it was testified that the fog horn on the bark was distinctly heard for a considerable period before the two vessels met. Had the signal for a south-south-west course been given by the bark, that being her course, the helm of the ' steamship would, under the rule, have been put aport, and a collision avoided. The Grand Lodge of the An cient Order of United "Working men recently held an annual ses sion at San Jose, and the Grand Master Workman's report shows an increase of 2,200 in the mem bership during the past six months, and of thirty -six in the number of lodges. He also urges attention to the fact that one-fourth of the deaths in the order have resulted from the use of intoxicating liquors, and very properly suggests that m the admission- of members inquiry should be directed to their habits of intimacy" with this destroyer. During the discussion in the senate, recently, a most notable incident of the proceedings, and one without parallel in the history of the senate, was the occupancy of the presiding officer's chair by a colored man (Bruce of Mississippi), and the incident was of course especially noticeable by reason of the nature of the subject under discussion. The Indianapolis papers are wasting space giving sketches of the Indiana legislature. The strik ing sameness about these sketches o is that the subjects never did any thing in particular, and about two thirds of them were born in Ohio. NEW ADVERTISEMENTS. I. -W. CASE, IMPORTED AND WHOLFSALE AND RE TAIL DEALER IX mSML lERCHAMSE, Corner Chenamus and Cass streets. ASTORIA - - - OREGON. WJtiAT Is All This Blow li Alirat ! I HAVE JUST RETURNED FROM THE EAST AND WILL SELL MY GOODS AS And am not going to say anything about it. A Square Deal Guaranteed At the comer oC Main and Squemoqhc sts., ASTORIA, - OREGON. MRS. J. KELLY, Lately of Portland, lias set up a Millinery and Fancy Goods STORE IN ASTORIA. All kinds of Xi&ce, Fringe. Velvets, and Ircss Trimmings. AH kinds of EMBROIDERY TUCKINGS. A nice assortment of Woolen and Cotton Canvases and Zephyrs, Silks, Ruchings, and Corsets. A large variety of 1JIESS BUTTONS, "" " Of the latest style. Also of NECKTIES AND BOWS. Come one and all, and examine my stock of jjouus. iu.i uoor 10 tiiu ASTUitiAr umce. TT)OCTOIt HATCH, Successfully treats all Chronic Diseases. A2STD DISEASES OF "WOMEN AND CHILDREN. Cancer cured by a new and painless method. Ofllce Chenamus street, corner of Main street, Astoria. TVt. J. W. OLIVER, UOXEOPATIIIST, Office. In Shuster's Daguerrean build ing. Entrance Second door above that of the D.VIIA ASTOltlAX. Cass strict Residence on Jefferson street, corner of Dunn. B. F. SEN'XISOX. F. .T. TAYLOIt DENNISON & TAYLOK, ATTORXEYS AT LAW. astorta, Oregon. Office Up stairs in Parker's building, corner Chenamus and Benton streets. O. F. HELL. A. MEACJIEX. IJELVLi & MEACHEX, Attorneys at Law and Notaries Public. Commissioner of Deeds for California and asmngton Torritory. Astoria, Oregon. Office Comer of Suuemoeqhe and Cjuss streets, up stairs, over E. S. Larson's .store. J. Y. KOItU. C. XT. FULTON. ROISB fc FTOLTOIV, Attorney s-at-Law, Collecting and Real Estate Agents. Booms Nos. l and 2, Dr. Welch's new build ng. bqncmocqlia street. Astoria. Tp D. WIKTOS", ATTORNEY AT LAW. Office in City Hall Building. ASTORIA, OREGON. D R. F.- CRANG, PHYSICIAN AND SURQEON, ASTORIA, OREGON. Ofllce Room io. 7 over C. L. Parker's store. Opposite Dement's dnig store. OTTO UFVER, WATCHMAKER AND JEWELER. II S IJEMOVEI) TO Main streSpt, Barker's building, ASTORIA, - - - - OREGON. J. STEWART. Stone and Marble Cutter, ASTORIA, - - OREGON. All kinds of building work, and monumen tal work attended to promptly and to order. Satisfaction guaranteed,, AUCTION SALES. C. HOLDEN, Notary Public for the State of Oregon. Keal Estate Agent and Conveyancer. Agent for the FIREMEN'S FUND INSUR ANCE COMFANY of San Francisco. COMMISSION AGEN1 and AUCTIONEER. Rents and Account Collected, and rr- turns prompt!- made. Regular sales day. SATURDAYS at 2 I JI. hJ; -JL- Partj.es having real estate, liirni- nt, t-anvotl,er"0(ulJtto dispose of either it auction or nnvatp sni iinnii tmtirv soon as convenient before the dav of sale. ;? . 1UKe cuargeu o goods sob' at Auc tu;S E- C. IIOLbN. 'Hauuurri . MISCELLANEOUS. J. H. D. GRAY, Wholesale and retail dealer in. OTSTJEXS, by the SACK, Hay, Oats, Straw, Wood, Etc. .,iTr:l1 storaSe and Wharfage on reason able terms. ASTORIA CANDY FACTORY A'J OYSTER SAIOOX. HAVING ENLARGED MY STORE .,c, 1!,avew on .hand the largest and hest S. ltn,tent f ,11""" --"ill French candies in town, also, all kinds of CAKES, CRACKERS AND BISCUITS. All of which I offer for sale at the lowest cash price, wholesale and retail at SCHMEER'S CONFECTIONERY. Opposite the bell tower. Retail candy from 25 to 7." cents per pound. i-resn Jtastern and Sho:ihv:iiryi r , hav ovstfMN soi'iiii in --.,r. .,.!, . St - - w -. - v L1 j Oltll, T71L,I.IA.1I TntXER. BOOT BLACK, OCCIDENT SHAVING SALOON. Astoria. Okkoox. eailTJI MAYKESi, CRYSTAL SALOON, On the Roadway, - - astokia, Oregon. SS-TIie very best quality of wines, iquon and cigars at wholesale or retal. Q. T. Jll?il, CALEDONIA SALOON, Corner of Front and A streets. FORTLAND - - - - OREGON csrLate butcher in the Central Market. Astoria Liquor Store, AL'G. DANIELSON, Troprietor. Water st. Roadway, - Astoria, Oregox. Importer and dealer in WINES, LIQUORS, FOREIGN AND DOMESTIC CIGARS' Sole agent for the celebrated STONEWALL WHISKEY. Branch of MARX & JORGENSEN, Portland. GERMANIA BEER HALL AND BOTTLE BEEE DEPOT. Chrxasius Stkkkt. ASTGA7- Tho public aro invited to call and IcaTo their crdon. Splendid Lnger 5 cents a glnea. Fxeo Lunch every night. WM. BOCK & Co.. Proprietors. GEORGE ROSS' O Billiard Room. L. The only Billiard Room in the city whei no liquors are sold. NEW TABLE JUST PUT VI. GEORGK has a cosy place and keeps on hand tho best brand of Cigars. Also, soda, canuy. nuts. etc. Opposite Altoua Chop House. 95-tf CEO. ROSS,- Proprietor. THE ASTORIA BREWERY RUDOLPH BARTH & MICHAEL MEYER, PROPRIETORS. Corner of Ohiey ami "Water streets, ASTORIA, OREGON. Best quality of LAGER REERTt cts. per glass Choice Wines, liquors, and Cigars alwajsc on hand. osrTlie patronage of the public is respect fully solicited. Orders for Lager or Bottled" Beer in any quantity promptly tilled. r-The best lunch the season will afford furnished day and night FREE. Fishermen's Meeting. PURSUANT TO A RESOLUTION passed at a meeting of Columbia river fisher men, held in this city on Monday evening last, a meetings ill beheld in Astoria on TUESDAY, BIARCH 4th, AT LIBERTY HALL, To make arrangements to oppose the license law passed at the last legislature, and all nshpnnen on the river are cordially Invited to be present. By order of the meeting. v .i. G. ROBESON. B. A. SEABORG. Committee-. Astoria, Oregon, Feb. 12, 1ST0. d&wtd A RARE CHANCE. I WILL SELL ANY OR ALL OF THX following described property, a. : 160 Acres, See. 2i, T. 8, N. or It. 9 yveU southeast quarter. , Also, in Olneys Astoria Lots I, 2, 3, and 4, In ISIocIc T9; Lois ", 4. .", and , in Block 1G0; Lots a and .", in Block 120; and Lot 8, In Block IS!!; North hall or Block 8,-2 1-2 acres. DWID INGALLS. Astoria, Oregon, Dec lt7. 83-3m Whby . &$& Z e, J- Ml . :
