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About The Daily Astorian. (Astoria, Or.) 1876-1883 | View Entire Issue (April 12, 1879)
(3) glxs gvxiltj st0jcimx. ASTORIA OltEGON ISSUED EVERY MORNING, (Monday Excepted). E. C. EREEjAXD : : PUBLISHER. Axturian JjuUdiiu Cass Street. Terms of Subscription : berved by Carrier, per week ..25 Cent? Sent by mail, tour months . ...stt 00 Sent hy uiail, cno year .- 1) 00 Free of Poswico to Sub?sribors. CS Advertisements inserted by the year at the rate of Si 50 nor square per month. Transient adverti'sin?, by the day or week, fifty cents per sauare for cuch insertion. THE CITY. Tun T)ati;v ast'Uuax iWU he atrJ. by miiiloi7rrcni. a month, frccof jioxtarjc. Rean ts iphnmnttmplalcaUiriicc from the cltu can have TitK ASTOKiAr follow them. Dailv or Wkkkia' editions to any wl-ofice wilh itl additional rpcn-sc. Addrcsc may he vwnutd ax ofUv ns nwfrai. Tmivc orders at Mm counting room. All is quiet in the Police Court. - m Do not be alarmed; there va1 be a 5re alarm to-day- -Capt Thatcher has returned to the r on nis own nooK. rity The "Rejuildic arrived at San Fnvn visco fifty-one hours from Abtoriu Mr. T. BfiTiey Is floing some cood work adjacent to his jxroperty on West ninth street. The Welch-hill water works are in splendid condition for the approaching tong dry spell. Quinn Brothers lots, on West-ninth street, are about as nice hill property as ?herc is in the citv. Mr. R. B- Ilume, the original owner f Buy View, came up on the Eider, cirri ving yesterday. Mrs. KclJy returned home from visit to Portland last evening, brim with lier many line things. her :in' No man in Asteiin. wears more ele gant button-bouquets than Mr. C. 11. ISain. Beautiful flowers, grown at home. It is Colton who says that 'men will wrangle for religion write for it, fight for it, die for it; anything but live for it." Mr. A. .1. Megler is a happy man ; lie left by the Elder yesterday to carry the news to his better half, who is visi Ling in Portland. The man who has learned to hold a baby, in long-clothes, gracefully, and to ciuingc them, has truly initiated himself into the lasting affections of all appreci ative mothers. - Captain Bolles was obliged to remain below on this trip of the Elder, in conse quence of the death of his mother. The teamcr came up in command of Captain Pohleman. Messrs. I. V. Case, J. Q. A, Bowlby and (J. Keed were jeJeeted by Beaver lodge Xo.:ft representatives to he Grand lodge, r. o. o. f., which meets a Albany next month. -- Times are improving everywhere. Money is getting plentier, and capital ists seeking remunerative inwstments .tor it every where but at Astoria, and we ""may be happy vet" Somebody pJaoad xi beautifial flower Vpon our table yesterday. It brought to mind the saying of that old philosopher; "March is a xleeentive month-; hut April will lilae everything." Mrs. Joseph Hume and two children came up on the Elder. They were met at the steamer by Mr. Hume, .and soon proceeded to Knappton by the steamer Quickstep, which was in waiting lor them. C. A- Cook & Co., newspaper adver tising agents. 114 Bearhorn street, Chi cago, will please take notice t&at we are not in the commission business, nor act ing broker for the Britannic or any other rtumpa&y. Papers from San Francisco by the Elder j esterday were chiefly duplicates of what came "by the Idaho. We had one only of later date on file. We have to thank the Merchants' exchange for this favor, we suppose. Mr. John Williamson, on the hill, lias reduced the tangled wild wood to a handsome farm, it does one good to ee the improvements which he has made, lie speaks from experience now, and nays it is worth 400 00 an acre to do sucii work. A 'snide' agent for a magazine col lected about $100, in Kahuna last month from green subscribers. Of course they have never received a copy of the maga zine. It is astonishing, the number of fools there are in the world who persist in being humbugged. ....Next Sunday (the 13th inst.), be ing Easter Sunday the services will be as follows in Grace church. Early ser vice 7 a. m. Kegular morning service 11 J BHH-h, l-Vl-lIUI .lyv, . "'v "' all are cordialh invited to attend. Mm- ; ., 1 : i.. i r day evening services are changed from 7 o'clock to VA o'clock. A clock is about the only thing in the world that manages to go on all the bet ter when its affairs are wound up. There re some men, however, who have very carefuHy studied that peculiarity of the c;lock, and transferred it to some extent to their own business arrangements. They have a happy faculty of being worth nothing when their creditors be come clamorous and demand a settle ment, but the very moment their affairs are wound up, away they go. cheerfully iA ever, on tick, on tick, on tick, Patent Outsidcs. Some time ago Carlos White made us ! a proposition to print us a patent out side for The Weekky Astorian for 18 cents per quire. We declined, but, just to give him some show in the world, offered to take a quarto for our Sunday Astoiuax. This he declined, for good and sufficient reasons, fully set forth in the following letters. We pity any publisher who is compelled to pay a cent for any patent outside r inside. The correspondence will be self-ex plana tory : Sax Fkaxcisco, April 7, 1S7& 1. C. Ii:i:i.am: In reply lo yours of March -Htli, would .say that I cannot af ford to do one cent better than 1 offered. 1 formerly was foolish enough to sink several tnousaml hard-eavned dollars. I never got any thanks for it. and in the future must leave others to do work be low cost. If 1 cannot make money in business I will quit. Yours, fcc, Carlos Wiiitv.. Astoria. April lltli, 1S79. Friknp Wiiiti:: Your hi'ad is pe fp.etlv level on liiMt. nnint: this thimr of working for the love if it, and getting no thanks, has caused many failures in our line, of business: that is the reason why I quit it. I found that I could never pay printers to -say nothing of paper bills, so long as 1 advertised for the general public on the 'thank you' plan, patent t.ntsides, insides, etc, etc." .lust think -f 4 1 riir- x.iliimiic mi o lifiiont ilwiln fir ;ontslHC was i.q.,fioS4o6 00 per month, ami c!uatins the compositors out of work besides. Give us your hand, Car los; if 1 cannot make money in business "I will quit" also, Yours &c B. C. Ireland. Advertising in the Public Schools A country reader asks: "How can we abolish the system of advertising in the "public schools?" We answer: By simply abolishing it. The practice of using the public school as a medium for advertising show3, appears to us to be, to put it mildly, open to objec tion. It frequently Invppens that the children come home bringing the bills of some sort of an exhibition that has been recommended to them in the school room, with "special rates' for the scholars, and of course look, to parents for the means to patronize the performance thus indorsed. It some times happens that parents do not look upon these exhibition, in the same favorable light, and more fre quently with a great majority of them the funds to gratify the desire thus unnecessarily raised could be applied to more necessary purpose. How the agent of these concerns gain access to the schools we cannot say. Certainly they should not be permitted to enter them without the consent of the su perinteadent or school board, .and it would seem that permits from these authorities for this purpose sho.ild not be granted iaeonsiderately. They are jiever permitted in Astoria. A magnificent stock of jewelry it Adler's. Mr. Frank Jewett has chanced his base from Naselle river to South Bend. He has finished up logging find will be employed in the future in the mill. Books and stationery of variety, the best, at Adler's. every There are dozens guttering in health for want of occupation to one who is crippled by overwork. J0h, while you feel 'tis hard to toil. And sweat the long day through. "Remember 'tis harder still To have no work to do. Call at Adler's and secure a cro quet set. Cheaper than ever. There is a kind of logic by which the most cheerful man can be proven to be morally the worst. The murderers who expiate their crimes on the gallows have taken life, and perhaps had, during the leisure which the jail afforded, strange compunctions of con science. The cheerful man. however, is one who takes life easily, and has no compunctions whatever. Boat sponges, wholesale and retail at Dements drug store, Astoria. Five thousand just received. Oil city Berric ode to spring: What a beautiful time is spring. When the woodchuck begins to ing, And the bumblebee and ehicadee Carry their heads around in a sling, When the black and tickling ants Crawl up the young man's pants. A nd the straddlebug and mosquito hug", While the spiders engage in a dance, And the birds get drunk on dew. And offers the robin a chew, While the owl blinks and the sparow winks ! A f ,o .; ftl,n ,mr l,ot-vo ?"'" " '" " l,,v ".-w, And the coon noes off on a sure rVndthe coon goes off on a spree. Along with the chipmunk and flea, The odorous skunk gets thundering drunk And tries to make love to the bee. Wall-receivers, brackets, and a splendid lot of picture-frames, at Ad fcr, almost at your own price. - -To make room for a large invoice of baby carriages on the way, Adlerhas reduced the prices considerably on what he has now. Shipping Notes. From the Oregonian we learn that the Corrientes, Capt. John Jones, goes to Liverpool direct. Her cargo is valued at $45,000 and consists of 15, 331 sacks of flour, $35,700; and 4,005 sacks of wheat, $10,200. She is char tered and loaded by Balfour & Guthrie. The Scawfell, Capt. John Evans, is also for Liverpool direct. She is load ed by the Oregon flour mills. Her cargo is valued at $30,0GS, and con sists of 16.302 sacks of wheat. The fine American ship Valley Forge, Capt. Jacob T. Woodberry, is to leave for Astoria to-morrow. She will tjike away 2,000 tons of wheat; her port of destination is Qneenstown for orders. These vessels will cross the bar with all possible dispatch. The Mattie Macleay, consigned to Messrs. Corbitt & Macleay, was to leave the Sandwich islands for this port n the 1st of this month, and is expected here is about two weeks. JCailroad Time. Will the Astoria Chamber of Com merce be kind enough to petition Col. Black, Superintendent Northern Pa cific railroad at Tacoma, to keep the correct time. Most people traveling over that road keep Portland time, and often at Tacoma they get up in the morning and consult their watches and find they have plenty of time for breakfast before the train starts. They go in to the dining-room and just as they take their seats at the table the bell rings and the conductor calls out all aboard, and off they go. The river boats from Astoria frequently arrive at Kahuna at 11 :20, (advertised leav ing time for trains), and find the train has been gone seven, ten and fifteen minutes, thus compelling passengers and mail to wait until the next day. We do not see the object of running on Xew Jersey time in Washington territory and Oregon, unless it is a natural desire to discommode the traveling public as much as possible. Tkavelekv Bofc InsorsolPs Oratory. An Indiana correspondent says: "We heard the lecture of bold, auda cious Bob Ingersoll on "Some of the Mistakes of Moses," and with wonder, listened, at those awfully bright and fearfully beautiful invectives fell in golden toneo from the gifted orator's lips. With words as bitter as worm wood, as withering as the simoon of the desert, and as fierce a3 the breath of a volcano, he denounced whatever to him seemed unreasonableor unjust. And then, again, while speaking of the love of home, of family and of freedom, his voice would conie to us as soft and sweet as if borne among the flowers and wafted to our ears -on the breath of spring, awakening the most tender and yet the most strong emo tions of the mind. Pervading every word, diffused in every syllable, was a mysterious something that might be called pathetic action, that held the mind a captive. There is no use talk ing; you must hear him to know what he says and how he says it." When to Kill Pern and Oak Grubs. The true time, when all vegetable life is very tender, is when the sun and moon are both in the sign Leo, which rules the heart, and in what is called "the dark of the moon." Occasionally this occurs in both the months of July and August, but rarely except in Ai -gust. Should new moon occur in July on the 14th day, then for two hours before new moon both sun and moon are in Leo. If new moon occurs on the 25th day, then four hours be fore new moon; if on the 2Gth, then six hours before new moon; if on the 27th, then eight hours before new moon; if on the 28th, ten hours before new moon; if on the 29th, twelve hours before new moon; if on the 30th, fourteen hours before new moon; if on the 31st, sirteen hour6 before full moon. Jf new moon occurs August 1st, then eighteen hours, and so on through August until the 23d, on which day the sun leaves Leo. Thus if new moon occurs August 23d, as it does occasionally, there will be nearly three days in August which are the last three days before new moon. An' time between July 23d and August 23d, the time occupied by the transit of the sun through the sign Leo, vege table is tender and more likely to die from injuries. During this period, when it is t4tlie dark of the moon" it is still more tender, even if the moon is not in Leo, but is very tender indeed when sun and moon are both in Leo, and dark of the moon. On the 12th and 13th of December lat eleven vessels left Astoria for Eu rope. There were several pools M put up on the time they would make. The City of Perth is tbe first of the fleet re ported arrived. Site reached Coik in 115 days. The Buffalo Express believes that Sam "Wilkeson's demand for damages ajrainst Mr. Beecher is higher than a kite. AROUND THE:.C1TY. Fresh oysters in every style at Schmeers'. See advertisement. Fresh fruits and vegetables at Bailey's. Oysters served in everv stvle at the Walla Walla Restaurant .New invoice ot those Medallion Banges at Magnus C. Crosbj's. P. J. Goodman, on Main street, has "ust received the latest and most fash ionable style of gent and ladies boots, rhoes, etc. Mr. .f. Stewart, stone and marble cutter of Astoria will guarantee satis faction to all ordering work of him, and will do a better job for less money than any outside workman. II is wortf in the cemetery here should be sufficient recom nicndation. Before you let your con tracts for work of this kind it "would be well to call upon Mr. Stewart. Get your baskets filled for a little money at Bailey's. Five thousand yards Embroideries from f cents upwards, at Hamburger's. Buy your domestic goods at Ham burger's. You can do better than at any other house. The proprietor of the Chicago house.whom everybody knows as a popu lar caterer, has "fixed" his hotel un in splended style. It is all newly painted and furnished, and is one" of the most attractive places on Main street. Call areund: every luxury of the season at the Chicago house. Parties in want of good Cedar Shingles will do well to apply to II. C. Comegys, Kalama, W. T. The cheapest ever offered is Ham burger's Embroidery. Freh oysters in every style and at all hours atthe Pioneer restaurant. Twelve yards Chinese Grass Cloth. :fi inches wide, for one dollar at Ham burger's. A new lot of full bound blank, and receipt books, specially for use in can neries, at the Citv Boo"k store. The Weekly Astorlua. One of the best papers published on the Pacific coast, is mailed to subscri bers every Friday, postage paid to any part of the United States, at the follow ing rates, in advance: One Year $: 00 Four Months 100 Single Copy 10 c& A limited number of small adver tisements will be inserted at the usual rates. Apply at the office, or address B. C. Ikkt,axi, Publisher. Fasli ion able Dress-Making. Iics M. J. Kkilky havimr made ar rangements with Miss E. C Benedict to do euttmir and fittmii in her shop, and feeling fully competent to offer herself as a first-class trimmer, would be pleas ed to have the ladies of Astoria give her a call, as she will hold herself responsi- able for all work done, terms reason aide. Next door to The Astoriax ofliee. Miss E. C. Benedict wishes to inform the Ladies, that she will still continue instructing all those who wish to learn Mrs. C. K. Rinker's system of Dress-cutting, having taken rooms with 3Iiss M. J. Kelley. The Bc8t Family Sewing machine is the New Ameri can, sold in Astoria by Chas. Stevens & Son at the City Book store. It is a light running self-threading machine, in fact it is the only sewing machine which has a self-threading shuttle and self-setting needle. It never breaks the thread: never skins stitches: is the lightest run ning, anil is in every respect the best family sewing machine. Chas. Stevens & Sou, agents, Astoria, Oregon. lODGira Rouse Persons requiring furnished or unfurnished rooms can be accommodated at reasonable rates at Mrs. Muuson's Chenamus st., Astoria. C. H. Bainfc Co. will, from this date, discount ten xier cent, for cash, on former prices on sales of mould ings, sash and doors. Best Salem flour is sold in this city at S5 50 per barrel by Warren & McGuire. .... See late specimens lightning pro cess of photographs, at H. S. Shuster's Art Gallery. For good tobaccos, fine cigars, no tions, candies, etc., go to Foster's variety store, on the roadway, oppo site the O. S. N. Co.'s wharf. Baby carriages from 7 00 up wards at Adler's. Baby carriages of the best styles, and at low prices, at Loeb's. Warren & McGuire have the early r'so potatoes for seed. Farmers, please remember this. -- Single copies of the Weekly Asteria: neatly done up, with Stamps to pre-pay postage afiixed. for sale at thu office. Scud a copy to your friends in other parU of the world. Price, 10 cent a copy. IXODES- SATiB TAtW FOIl CASH. 1 Xjarge Steam Uoilcr; 4'i by 1R feet. One T.arrc Retert: Two Portable Fersfii: 1.000 Fire ISrirk; Eastern Oak Boat Iminbcr; 2.0L0 lbs. Xow Cotton Hop; Two IIc Presses. J STOMA FISHERY. I'lXK lfAIKflXtt TjAXD for SATiE AT GOVEKXXEXT 1K1CES. PERFECT TITLE. The homestead claim of Hayden Gearhart, on Lewis and Clark's river, containing I CO Acres of which is creek bottom in , one body balance good up iaua. i xaquiru ui E. R. SPDXEK. AMUSEMENTS. GRAND OPENING OF Hill's Hew Variety Tkatre, Containing six NEW AND ELEGANT BOXES, SITTING ROOMS, ETC. The Decorations of the New Theatre wer executed by Mr. F. Holt. NEW AND ELABORATE SCENERY. Tainted by Mr. "Win. "West. Architect aud Imilder Mr. Kemble. On and after this date will be given n First Class Entertainment, Which for Refinement and Novelty cannot be equalled on this coast. Our Per formance Commences with our First Part of Male and Female GRAND OLIO, Consisting of Singing, Dancing, Acrobatic Feats, Negro Sketches, Trapeze Performers, Pantomimists and Jugglers. HOUSE CROWDED NIGHTLY To soe our Refined and Tncqualled enter tainment. New Acts. New Sonjr's and com plete change of Programme twice a week. JEO. HILL. Proprietor. Entrance to Roxes and Circle on Chena nms Street. Performance to comment at eight o'clock precise. HOTELS AND RESTAURANTS. pARKER HOUSE, .ASTORIA, OREGON, n. R. PARKKU. ----- Proprietor. THIS TTOTF.L is the l:irget. most comforr nble and best kept hotel hi the city. Ta supplied with the best of sprim: water, hot and cold baths. barbershop, and a first-chiis saloon with best of liquors and cigars, and fine billiard table. Free coach to and from the house : charges reasonable. SI 00 to 230 per day, according to room occupied. CORNER C AND FIRST STREETS, PORTLAND. OREGON. P.XORTOX, - - - - Proprietor. (Formerly of the Portland Hotel.) THTSHOrSE IS A FIRE-PROOF BRICK, Just mushed and newly furnished, witk the best of spnnsrbeds. Tkkms Per week From P5 to ?G for board and lodging. Per davSl 00. Single mcal 25 cents. Lodging 25 to r0 cents. C2?Free coach to and from the House. Private Boarding House. MRS. QUINN - - PROPRIETOR. "Will accommodate day boarders or accom modate any with board and lodging. Prices reasonable. In Tngalls' buihMnr, Jefferson street, opposite Wells, Fargo & Co'i Express office. A. J. MEGLER. C. S. "WEIGHF. OCCI3EIT HOTIX. MEGLER & WRIGHT. Proprietow. Astoria, Oregon. THE PROPRIETORS ARE HAPrY 10 announce that the above hotel has beea repainted and refurnished, adding greatly to the comfort of its guests and is now the Dt hotel north of San Francisco. npuitri' jeouse, D. L. TURPIN - Proprietou MAIN STREET. Between Squeinncqhe and Jefferson, Am'okia, Oregon. Board and lodging per week ? m Board ner dav..,. 1 eo Single Meal 3S Tnc table will t supplied at all times witti the best the market affords. W AIiI.A ITATjTjA RESTAURANT. THEO. BROEMSER, - - PRor-BiKTOR. T Fresh oysters, and other dell eaeics of 'the season, served in every style. Opposite the Telegraph office, Squemoqb street. Astoria. Oregon. KiTMEALS AT ALL HOURS-RW. J. STEWART, Stone and Marble Cutter, ASTORIA. - - - OREOON. All kinds of building work, and monumeu tul work attended to promptly and to order. Satisfaction guaranteed. MAGNUS C. CROSBY. DKALEll IX Stoves, Tinware, and House Furnishing Goods.. Hardware, Brass Goods, Lead and Iron Pipe, Pipe Fittings, Engineers Supplies, Sheet Lead, Iron, Copper. Brass, and Zinc. (IX THE ASTOKIAX EUILDIXG) HAS JUST RECEIVED A LOT OF KEV goods, consisting of MEN'S AKD BOYS GALE AND KIP BOOTf Buckle and Congress Gaiters, I Women, Misses and Children's I J Which will be sold at the yerv lowestpricea. I , pEO. liOVETT, j TAILOR. CLEANING and REPAIRING PROMPTLY ATTENDED TO. Beaton itrt, opposite Pot-offlce, Jbtoti r? r.