The Daily Astorian. (Astoria, Or.) 1876-1883, February 16, 1881, Image 2

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Newspaper Page Textm c ASTORIA. OREGON: 17JSDXKSDAY FEB. 10. lbSl 9.C. IKELAM Editor. Crumb or Comfort. By examining our telegraphic dispatencs this inortiiiisr. our Hind ers will noticr that we liavo the same old story to tull in reference :to the action of congress with re gard to the improvement of the (Columbia river bar. Every creek and mud flat of the United State, discernible by the aid of u magui--.-fying glass, has its appropriation for imprevement: but nothing is allowed absolutely nothing for the Columbia river bar. We have, however, a crumb of comfort to "offer our friends in Astoria on this seemingly negligent or hostile at titude of congress and the engi neer department, and it is this: This is not a defeat merely of the Astoria Chambur of Commerce, but it is also a defeat of the Port land Board of Trade and the San 'Francisco Chamber of Commerce, fcoth of which have lately joined us in an earnest demand that the eatrauce to the Columbia river be iroproTed. Now, what is to be done? NVe give it as a suggestion that the city of Astoria should, conjointly with Portland, undertake the tern porary improvement of the bar by -direct tax. We suggest this, al though not particularly advocat ing it. We should be pleased to have The opinions, br letter or otherwise, of our tax-payers, whose pockets are touched by the difficulties now 'xisting The New York Times prints an inteview with Senator Miiler, who speaks of monetary affairs m San Francisco as follews: "It makes u great difference whether the city is irawing two or three millions a wonth in dividends, as San Fran cisco used to de, or paying out a .eaillion in assessments with no re turns. The failure of the Corn stock, however, has had one good effect. It has resulted in almost abolishing stock gambling, which has ruined so many California ns. There is no longer anything like Ihe stock market in the old sense, -and people are not dealing in stocks as recklessly as they used to. We think we have got to bedrock .and that from this time we shall go on a surer basis. Our financial .methods will be improved by the decadence of stock gambling. Of course if a new mineral zone is found on the Comstock stocks will advance and gambling will be great, but at present there is noth ing to indicate any such discov ery. It is to agriculture that California must lowk primarily for her prosperity as a state, and Tvhen I left San Francisco her ag ricultural interests were flourish- The seventeen-year locusts, ac cording to Prof. Riley, will abound "in portions of the United States next June. It seems there are two breeds of these periodical locusts, one appearing once in seventeen years and the other once in thirteen years. Both broods will appear this year, but not in the same localities. The professor says the thirteen-year brood will probably be seen in southern Illinois, in all of Missouri except the northwest corner, in Louisiana, Arkansas, Indian terri tor', Kentucky, Tennessee, Mis sissippi, Alabama, Georgia, North Carolina, South Carolina. The two kinds of locusts differ very lit tle in appearance. The earliest appearance of the seventeen-year locust in this country, so far as the records go, was in 1G34, at Ply mouth, Massachusetts, and they have not failed to appear once in -seventeen yea re since. No men tion is made that Nebraska will be -visited by these winged pests, and we hope the professor has made mo mistake on this point. They have had their share of this kind of infliction in former years, and de serves to be given the jro-b' on this occasion. Abaut Taxing Wheat. The San Francisco Examiner. of January 30th. wants the legis lature to exempt from taxation all the wheat in the state. It says: "In tliis condition of things it is of very great importance that the legislature should immediately take steps to relieve the farmers from this burden. The remedy is simple. All that is necessary is to exempt the product of the year's crop from taxation' The Sacra mento Bee replies: It can't be done. The constitu tion declares that all property shall be taxed in proportion to its value and that the legislature shall have no power to pass a special law for the assessment or collection of taxes or extending the time for tke collection of taxes, or exempting property from Taxation. That ought to settle the case. And we are sure it will settle it when, if ever, it shall come before the Su preme-court. The constitution was' made to prevent just such special legislation as the Examiner pro poses. If wheat must be exempt from taxation so must be horses and houses, dry goods ami money and all other property. The con stitution was made on purpose, to prevent any property from being exempt from taxes. The farmers insisted upon this. They even went so far, for fear something should escape, as to provide for double arid in manv cases treble! .... - .., , iu.ii Jiirreenieiii. 1101 in Men in uc.ti 111 taxation. Wheat in store will lie! . . taxed on the first Monday in March, Jaiiyiiniiatic.il of butter, either as the money loaned on it will be tax ed, and the note given for the payment of the money will be taxed, and all upon the same tLty"! The Bee made this clear before the election, but as a rule the farmers assured us that it could not be. And perhaps they may have been right. The Northeast Passage. M. Struve publishes in the St. Petersburg Novoe Vreniya a let ter on the subject of future water way between the Pacific and Arc tic oceans. Fie thinks that Eu rope and Siberia may be connect ed by a surer route than that indicated by Professor Nordensk jold. and that a way may be open ed by which Siberian products may reach the Pacific. He pro poses a scheme for connecting the Obi river with the sea at a point U the west of Nova Zembla, and the connection of the Obi by a canal with the Petchora and Yeni sei rivers, thus making a direct waterway between Irkutsk and the ports of the White sea. Con nection, too, could be made be tween the Yenisei and the river system of eastern Siberia, and it would then be possible to reach Nelokan, only 130 miles from Aiane, on the Pacific. M. Struve argues this plan forcibly and at length. Meanwhile, Professor Nordenskjold is having a vessel built at the mouth of the Lena river, in eastern Siberia, and will set out in 1S82 on another voyage of discovery in the Arctic seas. Foetal Decision. The postoffice department was recently informed of the loss of a sum of money which was being transported in a registered mail package to Helens, Montana, and asked if the contractor of the coach route where the loss occurred was not responsible for it. The .post master general rendered a decis ion on the subject, in which be says that the report of the inspec tor for this department who made an investigation would indicate that the loss was accidental and without fault of the contractor, but weie it otherwise and it could be shown that the loss was at tributable to negligence or even fraud of the contractor, it is not perceived that any right of action would thereby accure to this de partment, nor does the loss of mail matter without fault on the part of a contractor constitute ground ()f forfeiture as agreed upon. Tlu facts as presented do not afford this department the means of re pairing the loss referred to. There is good authority for the assertion that Gould has purchased the Montreal Telegraph company. With this purchase and a system now organizing for Mexico, he is autocrat of the wires of the continent. COMMERCIAL The Baltimore Gazette says: The south is on the highway to orosneritv, sure euouirh. Six mil lion bales of cotton is the estimate for this year's crop, which is almost a million in advance of last year, and more than a million greater than the crop of 1879. Several days ago tin: Grand Canon Coal company struck oil at a depth of 1,445 feet, near Canon city. Boring had to be stopped until a pump could be put in. The well now yields from live to eirht barrels ot oil per day. and it is thought that by boring it deeper it will yield a greatly increasing volume. The quinine production of the world is estimated at from :?o0,000 to 200,000 pounds per year, :us fol fel fol eows: Germany, otiAiUU; Italy, 45,000; France, 85.000; England, 27,000; America. 113,000; India, 12,350. Efforts are being made to acclimatize the cinchona in Italy. Its sue-eoi-sJul culture in India and Ceylon trueourages the belief that it will grow wherever the soil is dry, the rainfall large and the climate temperate. All the prominent butter dealers and commission merchants in South Water street, Chicago, have signed ... , ... .n .i .i butter or Us real name. This ac tion became necessary, as some firms doing the largest export trade in butter in the country, lime found that reports of adulter ation and fraudulent butter were having a marked injurious effect upon their foreign trade. The total liabilities of the coffee trade failures now amount 'to more than 85,000,000. All the houses that have gone down were rich and strong six months ago. They got terrioly squeezed in their attempts to squeeze the public. Legitimate business cannot be conducted suc cessfully on i lie methods of the stock gamblers, and it would be a blesed good thing for the country i." the wheat syndicate, pork syndi cate, sugar syndicate and all the rest, endeavoring to make, corners to rob the people, should meet a like fate. Thy would obtain ho public sympathy, and would de serve none. Clncajro Grocer. IIEI. On John Days river, February 14th, 1SS1, ilary A. Dennis, aged 74 years. NEW TO-DAY. WAR IN Ili:ULAKKD WITHOUT FL'RTIIKK .OTICK And no terms of perwe until every man in Astoria ha a new 523-LV tiir fit 1nf!i.w rm-ik" w - XADK BY JIEA.VY. Look at the iiiiro . Punt to order from rants. Genuine Frvnrh Caiiuerc Suits froii ..... 5SC0 12 50 25 00 The finest line of samples on the coast to kvt from. F.J.MEAXY. Merchant Tailor. Parker lfoue. Astoria Dissolution Notice. milE PARTNEltSHIPHERETOFORE EX X Utint: between the uiulerxi'iieti u ihi lay dissolved by mutual consent. All debts due the late firm will be paid to A. Cinder. woo itatoneauinonziMi to ceiier: anrt receipt for the same. ,. CINDER. .I.J. RILEY. Astoria, Feb. lb, isst. Assignee's Auction Sale. On Monday, February 21st, 1881. I am in-tmeted to sell at Public Auction tliat TWO-STORY FRAME Ul'HJMNIS 2IV50. on Water street, adjoining Hume's lumber yard, andaow occupied as a Chinese tore bv Oiiau Yee Cec & To. The fnillilni" must be removed from the lot on which It is Minuted on or before the first day of March ncxi. irnjisi;an. roue on me premises, at U A. M. E. C. IIOLDEX. Auctioneer. SODA WATER, "SKIT Sparkling Wines and Carbonated Beverages. AppuratUH for Making. UottHiitr. anil DispeiiMlus Complete Outfit. Materials and Supplies. Established 1 jeans. Illustrated and talced Catalogue sent toxux uddresoii application :d onr orders direct to JOII.V .ViATTIIKWM. First Aicuut. Uah & i7lh Sts.. New York. 3u-d.tw.lni Wilson & Fjsiiev tiKAI.KILs IN LUimiCATJNG OILS, COAL OIL, PAINTS AND OILS. Sheet, Round, and Square Prepared Rubber Packing. PROVISIONS, MILL FEED, GAKDKN SEED, GRASS SEED. Which will be exchanged for couutry pro duce or sold at lowest prices. Corner Clienawim and Hamilton Streets ASTORIA. OREGON. & aK5 wm MISCELLANEOUS G. W. HUME Wholesale and Retail Dealer r- GROCERIES, PROVISIONS, LUMBER. ETC.. ETC., ETC., TIN PLATE BLOCK TIN, PIG LEAD, SEAMING COPPER3, SOLDERING COPPERS, SALMON TWINE, COTTON TWINE, NET LINES, MANILLA ROPE, , SAIL CLOTII, ANCHORS, OAKS, FLOATS, MAULS, HANDLES, MURIATIC ACID, LACQUER, VARNISH, TERPENTINE, BENZINE, COAL OIL, GUM BOOTS, RICE. ETC., ETC., IN QUANTITIES TO SUIT. ASTORIA. - - OBE;Oa. MRS. DERBY la SELLING HER ENTIRE STOCK OK MILLINERY GOODS -a.T COST. afc Or. Warner's Health CORSET 'rife. s-trtH oidy he purchased m viSJ v Astoria at jjgj&j .11 KS. DEKBY'K. fV'iVii -3IH.' Hall Huildins.cor i"'Jri I iter of Msiu and Squenuxthe vL-t r streets. Barbour's IRISH FLJX THREADS Salmon Net Twine. Cotton Seine Twine, Cork and Lead Lines, Cotton Netting, all sizes. Seines Made to Order, Flax and Cotton Twine, Fishing Tackle, etc. barbourTrothers, 511 Market Street. ioa KranelKca HENRY DOYLE & Co.. Manners. Chas. Stevens & Son, CITY BOOK hTOHE. BROWN'S BUILDING ophite the BELL, TOWER, In room late!) occupied by ISchmeer'.s Confectionery, Largest and Best Assortment Of novelties In the stationary line usually found in a flrst-claxs book store, consisting of HOOKS, FINE STATIONERY, GOLD l'EN GOODS. ALBUMS. CIIKOMOS. FRAMES, STEREOSCOPES. DIARIES. All of which will be sold at pnees which DEFY COMPETITION. 1. s. The latest Eastern and California neriodlcnli constantly on hand. CHAS. STEVENS . SON. WILLIAM EDGAR, Comer Main and Chcnamu Streets, ASTORIA OREGON. DUUE 1.1 CIGARS AND TOBACCO, AND THE GENUINE W0STENH0LM and other English Cutlery. STATIONERY! FAIRCHILD'S GOLD PENS Genuine neershanni Pipes, etc. A flue stock of Vntohe and .Tcwelrj. 3Inzzle and Breech Loading Nliot Ghdn end RIHo. Revolver. Pistol. nml Ammunition. .VARIXP. te3 GLAHSES. ALSO A F1UK Assortment or rine SPECTAl LhS and EYE GLASSES. SHIPPING TAGS THE BES-T QUALITY, WILL BE SOLD .by tho hundred, or by the box, printed or plain, to suit customers, at The Abtouuc oSe. THE DAILT AND WEEKLY 1 1 OBI A H ASTUUIA. l T)ESPCTED AND COMMENDED BY ALL FOR ITS Impartiality, Ability. Fairness and Reliability. THE PAPER FOR THE COMMERCIAL MAN, FOR THE FARMER, FOR THE MECHANIC, FOR THE MERCHANT. FOR EVERY PERSON. T CUIUS: KY MAIL. U'OKTAOE fllEK TO A I J. ""VUMMMnKIU..! DAILY. ONE COPY ONE YEAR DAILY. ONE COPY FOUR MONTHS WEEKLY. ONE COPY ONE YEAR IN ADVANCE WEEKLY. ONE COPY FOUR MONTHS istrl'iistmastep, are aiitnonzed to act as .-menu fur Tub AsrouiAX THE ASTORIAK" STEAM PRINTING HO USE U AS THE FASTEST AND IiEST PRESSES, AND TYPE OF TUh LATES'l STYLES. e- We purchase laier. Cards. Ink, and ottier material trf the luumfaeturen AT LOWKNT IJVIA'U RATES'. And can therefore afford to ilv as w- siwajs do. the best artl-k-. while enarwrtt: 03STXj3T 3fcQCC:i3:E33E..jaJ3?:EI PB.ICES. Cards, Envelopes, Circulars, Bill Heads and Letter Heads. TIIK KVERY DAY WANTS OF TOE COUNTING ROOM AND IHE WOrvK SHOP ARE SUPPLIED AT PRICES "WHICH CAN- NOT BUT GIVE SATISFACTION TO ALL. Ei. R. H AWES, 14 rl"""1 ,r Tin i Irili E. R. HAWES, TWO DOORS EAST OF OCCIDENT, MISCELLANEOUS. TBBNGH1RR & UPSHUR UKA.LKKS IN SHIP CHANDLER PROVISIONS, mow, STEEL. GOAL, Builders General HARDWARE, PAINTS. OILS, ETC. AGENCY OF THE Imperial Mills Flour and Feed. Chenamus Street, Near Olney, ASTOKIA. OKFCON ASTOKIA, OlJEOOhTj BRICK LAYER PLAIN AND ORNAMENTAL 3ETi a ssdp:e:e3.:ei:el Orders Wt at the Orridi'itt Hotel, or atmv Warehouse, foot of Benton Street, promptly attended to. T.IME. SAND, BRICK, PIASTER. LVTII, -1-1 Cement. a:id all niatcrialx In my line, furnished to order. mrsncclal attention psid to Furnace work and Rangoa. Cistern work warranted cood or no pay. E7Aent San Juan and New Tacoma Lime. FffiTHTT 3rlrpfe $9 00 . 3 00 . 2 00 . 1 00 Dealer in Cannery Supplies of all Kinds. Agent for the celebrated -MEDALLION RAKtJE, High Clowets, Low Clonc-tH. and Plain itnngex. IRON PIPES ANDF1THNGS OF ALL KINDS. Brass Goods, Hose, Etc.. Water Closets.. Bath Tubs, Etc. ALL WORK WARRANTED ASTORIA. OREGON. MISCELLANEOUS. V1BWSHBSMDJJPMS milE UNDEI131GNED OFFERS FOU J. sale on hnmi ind tn nrli.iiin.f w I New York English Lustre Black Varnish, IN BAJtliELS. Turpentine Asphelturn Varnish, IN BAltKELS. " Benzine Asphelturn Varnish. IN BAKHELS. No. 1 Turpentine., in Barrels, Brown Japan, in Barrels, No. 1 Coach, in Barrels, White Damar, in Barrels, Coach Varnishes, in Cases. '-ALSO- Silicic Alumiiiate Paint, FOP. IRON AND WOOD WORK. JAMES LAIDLAW & CO., 16 JT Front Street, Portland. ARNDT & EERCJBEN, ASTORIA. - OREGON. The Only Machine Shop And tlie best BLACKSMITH SHOP In tin city. All kinds of 15 ENGINE, JJANNEEY, STEAMBOAT WOEK Promptly attended to. A specialty made of rt painiii; CANJS'EEY DIES, MACHINE SHOP, NEAR KINNEY'S AS TORIA FISHERY j. h: d. gkat, Wholesale and retail dealer ir. ALL KINDS OF FEED, Hay, Oats, Straw, Wood, Etc. General storage and Wharfage on reason able terms, toot of Benton street. Astoria Oregon. ' 3jra' fr t AStr A- .