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m fflie & Jr JP Jv Ji JUl' Ii 1' Vol. xiv. Astoria, Oregon, Friday Morning, February 18, 1881. So. 41. C.ENUIUL EASTERN SEWS. BV AII. A.ND TKI.IWIUPH. auiarr i ire. ! Nkw York, Feb. 16. The heavv ice, over twenty iuohes 1 thick, in the bays and harbors about Lohjt island has done much damage. Wlwrves have been swept away and vessels injured. Fatally Itiirnrd 1)aniklonvillk, Conn., Feb. 16. Three children were fatally burned to-day by pouring keroseiio oh a fire. Their mother wju sori ously injured in tiring to Mive them. mii:iHj at I'hIih, III. Ouisa, Feb. lfi. Smallpox, wJiidi j prevails, here at an epidemic ex tent, has caused complete stagna tion of business. There are to day twenty-i cases of smallpox and varioloid in Cuba and ius vicimtx'. Six deaths liuvt- already occurred and somr of the ick aie very low. smallpox lncreiisin:; at Chiraso. Chicac.o, Feb. 16. Smallpox is increasing here quite fast. Yester day's reports showed eleven new cases, while there were only six teen during the whole of last week. Cr.nul Opinion or the Cumins Imposi tion. New York, Fb. 10. Gen. Grant said to the international commission to-day, that the expo sition of ISSo xvould be a great success, and subscribers would re . ; i10i. !,..;, ;,,vctmnN: uriili wive back th.-ir uncstnieiits with , -pi . i . -ii t .. i premium. l lie attendance win ue Ifertim h,r,-cr than .; i . Tlii Onium Trade. In a letti'r written by "W. il Pethick, secretary of the United States commi.sinn to China, to tuei commissionur.s, he ay&: "Thi total j quantity of foreign opium import- j Aft tltiritiff tlir fiitr 1 0 rikTirtlir.fi o ' . , , . figure never attained before, name-1 Iv, 82,050 picuU, (11,073,333 bounds-over 5.000 tis). renre - ,nr;.,.r .. v.j r :ti: r.ai: r.i r tn,.lc or about $51,000,000, and this "anted, during the severe frost, to L (ttlrovcd himself. The lie formed v.-ry nearly ne-half of theU skatin- one da.v 1,e hud J worked out a double trniredv. whole foiviu,, import tmde. The! ,,on(i " former occasions, with her -Uewarv of Apeinie w.ms amount imported hys Mead.lv in- j """ daughter. But hernias. The darkest ,luy- creased from 52,000 picuU in 1S64 I ttir fd. 'd - they should wSJJv - to S-2,000 pie.uls in 14579. In 1S:S j lt rf4in, Jtt """ t' 'r-1 The motive which led Marie the import whs 1 1.00(1 picuK (one l,fH'"- Nxt ornin? the b"e!sjn.i., of Uniiiii, Ui put an end to pieul, 133 i.niii.U) more than the j.cll'r little mistreS wl' j herself was p-culiar ami orijriunl. 1rev.os ver. This will slum i' ' . w,.re both f.mnd , nMwn tlt, sii.i1kk, &he .ui0,,tca. tint the use of foreign opu.m is ,h" &U by the fumes of-jsiiie itwil!r ; ir. 1)iMiiiIms, t...,i;i,. ,.i 1 ,.,,:Ji,. iL1.p,..ii,r in f'lwrooiil. A iHite was fHinl on I t ., . c ., , steaom Jiii.J ni tion mciejisnig in ( ; litrkei tlKj strangeness of tlmt ... . . . . . . ; iL.. t-m.. ;.. i. iv. ..i.... :.:... ,.r .1... " rtuna. To this to be aihlcMi the, amount consumed in Ifoiijrkonjr, and the amount exported thence for the, use or Chinese in California, Australia and elsewhere; and esti mating 21, ill!) piculs as sjiuggled from Hongkong into (hina, the customs authorities state that 'the total importation of opium into China would, therefore, appear to have amounted in 1870 to 104,H70 piculs, (13.095,000 pounds over (J,000 tons.) This single article, opium, equals in value all the other goods brought to China from foreign countries. Jts vnlue is greater than all the tea sent out of China, or all the silk. For the 265,000,000 pounds of tea China sends abroad she is given 11,000, 000 pounds of opium, and still has '$5,000,000 to pay for this opium i.i other goods, the opium being worth nearly $51,000,000, and the tea $40,000,000. These figure establish quite enough for tt purpo-"', which is to show that the black stream of pollution which has so long flown out of India into China has been incieaiing in vol ume and spreading its baneful in fluence wider and wider. If thi stream be not checked, the woild may soon despise China as a na tion of opium-smokers, eveu as Judah was reviled by the prophot for her abominations Suicidal Mania. Suicides arc annuallv Iwicouungj more common, not ill Amorica only, but nil over the civilized world. During the last two years there Imve been special causes at work failures, in trade, agricul tural depressions, and commercial leases which have tended to drive men to suicide in ever-increasing numbers. .Men are everywhere becoming more ueary of the burden of life, Antltorities on sanitation and vital statistics tell us tliat, of late years, life, the average human life, has been t:sderably prolonged by greater attention to the means of preserving health; yet, concurrent with this improvement, theie is a greater impatience of life itself, and a greater desire to escape its burden. Women are ! prone to com mit suicide than men, ami exten sive investigation on the subject shows that the tendency to suicide increases with age more strongly amongst the unmarried and wid- owed than amongst the married of both sexes. From an interesting article on the subject in the Contemporaiy Review wo extract as follews: The following advertisement ap peared in Le Petit Parisien last menth: -'Suicidal. A young man, to whom life is a burden, has re solved to put an. end to himself, but wishes to accomplish his death advantageous manner fo I l iKKsblim:. lie uiacus. uiuiciuir, ua-. ... -it n . i u, t !., L,(,rffttt at . dis, ()S!1, .l . . ,. j.r.su.. W,w. Cu..... ifclliu, would wisn to uurubi mm with an enterprise the issue of which would be necessarily fatal. This offer is very serious. Write ! to the initials K. K. V., 48, Poste , ....,; Restanfc, Anvers." There is no punihme.nt in the French ctde for i attempt at suicide, i h is "ot mmY mont sint:0 tho ' F,ench l,alers rePorted thp case of a bonL' " Marseilles, who " " "" .--.. w..? .., ""-j : ' 0, ,.oi ii us gu nil together yesterday. 1 have taken your daughter with me to a lM'tler world." Seeing that the daughter was fourteen years of age. it was rather hard of the bonne not t,o have asked her con sent before can-yin"1 out this des perate measure of revenge. Nor is it in France only that passion thus vents itself in the most dreadful crimes. A married woman at Mellenberge, in Jlse Cassel, last year had received an order, through the police, to bring her child, an infant of eight months old, to the public vaccinator, in order that it might lie vaccinated. She refused. Another order was sent to her, admonishing her that she would render herself liable to fine and imprisonment if she. neg lected it. "The child and 1 will both die together rather than 1 shall have it vaccinated," said she. And she kept her word. Two days after the lifeless btxlies of both were found in the Fulda. She had muidered her -child and taken her own life by drowning rather than obey the order. Few have adopted a more origi nal remedy fr unrequited love than Carl llasn. of Mecklenburg. He had been from home for some time, and, on his return, found his j brother engaged to his Judy-lore. She would have nothing to do with Carl, "f will put an end to my self,' said he at length to her, if you treat me thus." She laughed, telling him, as she tripped off, that she did not believe he had the courage to put an end to himself. The mctliod in adopted whs at once terrible and grotesque. He prepared a slow match, tied himself nrinly and securely tw a young.' Iiorse on the farm, ami then put the lighted match securely into the horse's ear. The poor animal, maddened with pain, rushed vio lently ami frantically about the farm, diagging the unfortunate Carl after him. It must have been a terrible spectacle. At length, frenzied with the torture of the lighted match, the horse dashed into the adjoining river, where the water was deep and the current nipid. Both horse and man were found drowned there. I suppose the weight of the unhappy man had prevented the horse saving himself by swiming. But so it was. Both of them perished in the Warnow. The Italian papers of Novem ber last report a tragedy that was recently enacted in Rome, some what similar to that of Romeo and Juliet, but in low life, in which two suicides resulted from inordi nate grief. Moretti, a tailor by trade, was sent to prison on a charge of fraud. His sweetheart canon upon inc poiice-oincer to aK . . l u t , ... . . . Ihv lonir Moretti was ltkclv to be c? " .", " jriri'b mother, who did not favor the r i wr i m ... i .. .i . match) th(J polJc(..omcer rei)1Je(J that, in all probability, Moretti would be imprisoned foi many years. Overwhelmed with grief, and driven thereby to despair, the poor girl put an end" to herself by poison. A few days after Moretti was discharged from custody, the accusation made against him hav ing been proved false. lie return ed home to find his ailiauced bride J rilKf. i,-roi,p,l :.r tho n-ht i... adopted by Uarl llas-a. Marie i?K'iz va a retailer of s-ansaijca in the Kranttnarkt. She was an orphan, hut an orphan of portiMi toti (liinnKt. Xor did she, like the fat boy in Pickwick, rejoice- in her superiority to the ret of mankind in mx. In hort he was ahnormally fat. 1 1 mijrht have been constitutional. It might have been tlicbaiiMige. Hut, whatever it wjus, he Ut her life became Baiitinu' ami his- philosopy wert equally unknown u- her. Her sister was the only relative she had in Brunn. Marie left her native town, telling her sister that she had got ierviee in the Kaiser-, stadt, in Vienna. But this was only a pretence. A few days after her departure her sister yt a letter, from Marie through the post. "lean no longer endure it," wrote the poor girl. 4 Wherever L go, whatever 1 do, 1 am aiway laughed at on account of my cor pulence (7V?.vV). No!nly thinks of me except as an object of ridicule. I cannot udure it any longer dear Llretchen. My bmly will Ik found in tlie Danube." And so it whs. iichi- Kiiteterncn burg. There is something pMthei it in the fate of poor Marie SjK'iz, and vet, if . wre to write eri- mlv lKut it, tle reader wonld'. ,,, ,,, ... . . -- """ ; Corner Chenanm and Uamiltou Streets probably only Jawgh, ao an iin- ASTORIA. OREGON. mannerly world in Brunn laughed poor Marie out of existence. That suicides are annually in creasing in number, in greater pro portion than the poulation of the United States, appears to be prov ed by the statistical tables recently published. The population, Ikjw- ever, is increasing so last m ttie states that it is not easy to form accurate comparisons. One would think it ought not to be so that is in a country of promise, where food and labor are abundant, the suicidal frenzy ought to be dimin ishing annually instead of increasing- The Peruvian svrun lias cunI tlmu- saudp wjio were suffering from dypei siu, debility. Jher complaint, boils, hu mors, female couuilaints, etc. Pamph lets free to any address, both . r ov. le Ar Sons. Ronton. Tub Astoria job pre-sos will tit von out with your winter supplies of lettor heads, bill -heads, cards, envelops, etc.. etc., at astonLihiiiidy low rates, and m exouiMtu stvle. Call and see samples of work done for others. MISCELLANEOUS. Machinist Wanted. A ITLY AT THIS OFFICE. Wanted. 1 ffiC FOUNDS RA OF alt kinds, 0JJJ clean and dry. at the Umbrella shop. 3Ialn street, bj J. JOPLIN. 580 Reward. TWENTV DOLLARS WILL P.K PAID for the recovery of each of the bodies of four Chinamen drowned in Columbia river near Dnxiklleld on Wednesday last, while "illll" fmin i'llhir ntt'l: tn JlrruiVficl.l rn was twenij-one years or ac. and luwt on seven dollars in silver. The second was nis person ai me nine a cneck oi saw anil twenty-three years old and liad a piMol and seven dollars in siher. Thethirdwas twenty four j earmold and had three twent) dollars old pieces, a twenty -five cent piece, and a silver watclu The fourth wa twent -eight years old and had l. in sold. The above rewarus win !e imlil d tlie onnersieneil. L'UX I HUNG & CO.. OrCIlIX LUNG. Portland. Oreson. AstorLi, Oregon. i7.dw 1 in soda .ii, Msr Sp.irklins Wines ami Carbonated Reenigis. Apparatus for .faklnsr. ItottHn, and IMHpcn.sInjr. Complete Outfits, Materials and supplies. Kstabluhed 4s years. Uliistnited and Priced Cafcdogue sent to any address on application. Send ymir orders' direct to .JOII.V MATTHKW'K. First Aenue. 2Cth& 27th Sis.. New York. SO-dtw.lni WAR IS li:CI.AItF.I W1TIIOVT Fl'KTIIKH .VOTIfK Mid no trmi of xwv until 11' a. fiery man in.vsiona nx x ncu a v suit !" elotheo HIAIH'. UV MKAXY Ijok at Ih- pnees . Paat loonier fnmi Pants. Genuine French Caowre Sails fn.j ..... 1." 3 W lite fimM lint of vhjvI,., ,H4 uV ,K,t to M-iwl fniH. P.. I. MEANY. i Vfirham Taibir. i'rirkcr IIihix-. Atona ! THE ASTORIA. Photograph GhUlery c.ati sizx nioTouuAPiis, i o. IVr Dozen. CAIG.VKTSIK rHOTOC; KATIIS . on It Dozen. I-iSwiI rate. for families. DRESS MAKING. .Mlts. F W. ILLSLKY. - MAINSsTICEET. la l taie ltaiUmc. ael door to Mw.IHrhy'' Is mm prepanNi to do FIRST CLASS DRESS MAKING .vi PLAIN SEWING OF ALL KINDS. I.-idir.o Astoria are resiKci fully -mit'd forahnre of their patronage. eo-Asenu lor P.uUrkk- Pattern-. MAGNUS C. CROSBY. ukalki: in Stoves, Tinware", and House Furnishing Goods. Hardware, Brass Goods, Lead and Iron Pipe, Pipe Fittings, Lnqmeers Supplies. Sheet Lead. Iron Gopper. Brass and Zinc. WlLSOX & FlSHEK tir.At I l:- IN LL'UKKWTINU OII-. COAL OIL, PAINTS AI OlIj. Sheet. Round, and Square Prepared Rubber Packing. PROVISIONS, MILL PEED. (tAUUKNEKD. GRASS SKED. WTtlHi v.V ! exehansed for country pro- afJ AJTX . S t?. 1 K 4m BANKING AND INSURANCE. BANKING AHJHHSURAHCL BROKER, BANKER INSURANCE AGENT. - - - OREGON ASTORIA, OFFICE HOritS: FROM 3 O'CLOCK A. M. UNTIL 4 O'CLOCK P. M. Home Mutual Insurance Co., OF CALIFORNIA, .1. V. IloconTo.N Oll.. K. STOUV t! KO. I- Stouv ...... President .. ...Secretary .Agent fur Pgon ChUMmI iHtiri up in l'. S. gold coin 5.WW0W) I IV. CASE. Agent. Clienanius street, Astoria. Oregon. 867,000,000 CAPITAL. LIVERPOOL AND LOVTH)N AND GLOBE. NORTH BRITISH AND MERCAN TILE OF LONDON AND EDINBURGH. OLD CONNECTICUT OF HART FORD, AND COMMERCIAL OF CALIFORNIA FIRE INSURANCE COMPANIES. Representing a capital of 07.0O0.0O0. A. VAN DUSEN, Agent. HOTELS AND RESTATJR.TS. A. .1. 31KOI.KK. e. ,. WUIUIIT OCCHK3iT HOTKI.. MKGLEK & WRIGHT. Proprietors. Astoria, Oregoji. rpiIK PROPRIETORS ARE HaPPY Tl X 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 Franckco. V. W. KSOWLK.S. AC Z1KKKK. CLIUKSDOS HOTKL. PORTLAND. ---. ol'.tUON Z1EBER dL KN0WLES, Proprietors. Free coach to and from the house. cB-Tiik Daily Astoria Ls on file at the Clareuijon Hotel reading room. Pioneer Restaurant Hotel. .MAIN STREET. - - ASTORIA 3Ir. . X. Arrlsont. l'roprletor rilHETRAVKLINGVui:LIC WILL FIND JL the I'ioneer tir-t class m all respects.and a share of their patronage Ls respectful! Milieitcd. SSflVmnl and todgaighy tbeday orweek. Post-office Restaurant. .MAIN STREET. - VSTORIA.. .IOSEPII .MATTHEWS. PROPlt. riHMS IS FI1WTCLASS RESTAURANT JL kept on the hunMan plan. Fresh os- tcr in eer -txle Main street, between' Cheimiuits ;tihl stiH'nioeihe. ROSCOE'S FIRST CLASS! Oy.stiM" Saloon. ("N. -t 9 J-'J MAIN STKI-.ET. VSTORI . riiiiE t mei:m(.nki i plk.vki to .L MHtHHiioi-1 tiM' Ladies' and Gentlemen of this City That he is how prepared to fiimi"h for them, hi Srst elass slle. and eer stk.; oysrs nor COFFEE. TE V. ETC. T TIIK Ladies' and Gent's Oyster Saloon, MAIN STREET. i PlitM "ive iim :i tidl. I ROCOE IHXON. Propnetor - - - - The New York Oyster Saloon Will er to tlieir eii'.toiiiers from this ate as ftdJoKs TEA. COFf EE. CHOCOLATE. Knstt'ni Ojter Always on Jfaud. And will In-kept as a first ela. Oyster Sa lnm. hi lirt ela. stjle. DANIEL GRANT. Manager. PIKE & STOCKTON, j BCOXJSE, SXG-N J " I CARRIAGE PAINTERS,- PAPER HANGING AND WALL COLORING M'K'I t.TV.- GLAZING PROMPTLY ATTENDED TO. i-Shop next door t .VMormu oilier, in Shnster'slmlMiiis. First Class Saloon. CHICAGO BREWERY DEPOT. On the !oadwa. opposite the tregin jfail wm ami NaknHiotifo's wharf. New Bagatelle Table, (The rhinee mast so.) The ehoieest brands if foreign and domestic 1VIXFS MOUOKS VVI nrAM iaw. iiliiUlA A.I t,I.AKJS. 3re.t )ticAo Beer.'Sa BUSINESS CARDS. 1 Q. A. BOWLBY. ATTORNEY AT LAW. CUenamtte Street. - ASTORIA. OREGON r"l IV. FULTOX. ATTORNEY AT LAW, ASTOKIA - - - OREGON Oftloe oer Page & Allen's .store. Cjsh street T AV. ROBB, ATTORNEY AT LAW, " ASTOKIA - - - - OREGON Office oter Warren & Eaton's Astoria Mar ket, ophite, the Occident Hotel. "P V. IIOIiIKX. NOTARY PUBLIC, AUCTIONEER, COMMISSION ANDEIK- SURANCK AGENT T VANDUSEN. "" NOTARY PUBLIC. Chcnamas Street, near Occident Hotel, ASTORIA. OREGON. Agent Wells, Fargo fc Co. TO I HICKS.' KNTIST, ASTORIA, ... - OREGON.. Rmuns In Allen's building up stairs, corno of Cass and Sqemocqhe streets. TK. M. I). JKX1SIXH. PHYSICIAN AND SURGEON. Graduate University of Virginia, IBM. Phihician to Ikiy View hospital, Balthnort City, ISTO-TO. Okkick In Page & Allen's building, u stain. Astoria. TAY TUTTLE, M. . PHYSICIAN AND SURGEON. Okkick Otcr the White House Store. TiKMiiKNCK Next door to Mrs. MunsoJrt Iwarding house. Chcnomus street, Astorta Oregon T C. OIK'IIAUI), rii. DENTIST. Dental KoomH Mil stv.i:' PhotogntDh Ruildin; T A. 3IeIXTOII. MERCHANT TAILOR, iOerideiit Ilot-l lluildmg. ASTORIA .-- OREGOlf Q II. B AIN tt CO.. Doom. Window m. ill man. iVu. !oms, Lnmbtr. Ktr. All kinds of Oak Lumber. Glass, Boat Ma terial, etc. Steam Mill near Weston hotel. Cor. GSi e e and Astor streets. 1 G. FAlKFOWL & SON, STEVEDORES AND RIGGERS Portland and Astoria, Oreson. Refer by perinuaion to Rotors. Meyers JkC, Allen & LesrLs.CorbittJtMaoleay, Portland. Oreson. yy:u. i'hi.k.vhart. Occident Hotel Hair Dressina Saloon ASTORIA - OREGON. lint. Cold. hwcr. strain and Milpliur KATIIS. CHetl atteiitioii given to ladies' auit liiUlreii"- hair cutting. Private Entrance for Indies 'I I.I.I AU5 I'KI Pi:rruAL i;oot ai suei: MAKER. Ciik.najii-' tkkft. opposite Adler's Book Htort - ASTOKIA. OltK(JO. I Zr lYrfeet lits uaraateed All work iwarrHHted. Oive iih h trial. All order proiHpnx niie;. J. T. B0RCHERS, . xwxwx... I Miuiuf letiirerand Paekerof fiivnnMr.Y strvpt acto.ti CAVIARi SH0KED sflLH0,. I j Cah paid for fresh 1 RT.Af'k' TT Mizvn crA-urr '-".. w. . V J ... 'i., Ul i 1111. Smoked Stursin. and smoked Salmon pi up in tins to ship to an purt ot the world. .iso. trout WW (salmon ejis) put up In cant and warranted to keep anv length or time. Depot at Rogers Central Market, corner oC Cavsand Chenamus strot-ts, Astoria. Music Lessons. T. F. CULLEN and C E. BARNES TEACHERS OF VIOLIN, PIANO, GUITAR, COR NET AND BANJO, Would like a Tew puplLs-on either of the above instnuneiita. Terms En-lit lessons for Ave dollars. tarOrders left at Stevens & Sons book, store will be. promptly attended to- IE. -. TJI3ST3XT. dealer in FA311L- HISOCKKIKS. XllI.S. .1IILJ. FEED AAI MAY Cash paid for country- produce. Small pnitits on Kuli sal-,. Astoria. Oregon, cor ner of Alain and Squein'MMbe .streets. OPILKS. The uudersM:ued is fHeintrett to a iMrce number of Spiles and Spars iJaeeon sort Hotiee.at roHMiiutlden fumisb at his Ajiplj lo mtes. C.c;.CAIMJiS, Colnutun City. ULAN K BOOKS .1KINTBDAM HOLM) 10 A.VY SIZE, '1. and ru0ll toaTjJ onJcr at i jHi. Astomas oAScb. -s ' V-