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0) fltje IlEtifJ li&tM&ttn. Vol. xiv. Astoria, Oregon, Tuesday Morning, March 1; 188 1. No. 50. GENERAL EASTERN NEWS' BV MAIL ANU TKi.HUKAI'H. His Death Kate i rw Vrk. Kiiw Yokk, Feb. :J7. Dcntl Mitoa the first of .fKtiuary, 6,34$. an enormous increase. .llUll'illlOllilll. Nicw Vi:k, Feb. Mercurv nmxmiiees tltc ;. The marrinsre in March of Whitekw li4d, eiJi ior ol the Tribune, xik'i Tennk Mitts, dmurutcr of D. O. Milk, of the bank of California. Children Kiu-ncil Im llcalh. Si'KAXTox, I 'a., Feb- 2i. rJ'he Catholic orphanage, Hyde ParkjSeranton, was, burned curly t iiiffht. Fifteen children were tak en out dead; two xrc mUciug. On to Wasliiuuloii. Maxm'iki.I", Ohio, Feb. "2.- -The president-elect will leave Mentor to-morrow (Monthly) at 1 i: m., and go by the Lake Shore roud to Ashtabula in a special train arrang ed by the Pennsylvania company, and from Ashtabula via the Penn sylvania company's lines through "Warren, Voungstown, and Pitts burg to "Washington, passing Pittsburg about ?:50 r. m., and reaching Washington early Tues day morning. . PACIFIC COAST NEWS. ISV MAIL AMI TKMWJKAI'H. Ilird. Sax Fkan:o, Feb. G. Wil liam Sahlein, one of the founders of the firm of Levi Stnm&s & Co., died to-day, aged sixty-one. I'irr mill Loss oj Life. Sax FrrAXriM-o, Feb. G. The hay and grain warehouse of Moore & McLaren burned early this morn ins:. Loss $20,000. Two employes slent in the establishment. One perished and the other was badly injured. ICun OtrrstinI Killed. Dalles, Feb. 2 . A man named Michael Doyle was run over hist evening by the cars and instantly killed at O&ilo. Doyle was asleep on the track and it is supposed was in an intoxicated condition. The train passed directly over his body, most horribly mangling it. Deceased wa married, aged about 40 years. He was in tlie employ of the Oregon Hallway and Navi gation company. WASHINGTON CITY NEWS. i:v XAil. miii.i.hi:kaiii. i'ofal Chniisrs. Washington, Feb. :17. Estab lished Mendori, Spokan county, AV. T., Chester I). Ide, jost muster. Postmasters f Mwiitted Barclay & Jones, Jjuttevillc, Marion county, Oregon; Aionzo F. Austin, Sitka, Alaska. Tlir President Asked In I'jO'iIun Hie .lltisscl loiish .Murderers. Wasiiix;tox, Feb. 'i. Sen ators Farley and Booth and repre sentatives Berry called on Presi dent Hayes yesterday and laid be fore him the petition signed by upwards of o0,000 citizens of Cali fornia praying that, the Mussel slough prisoners be pardoned. The president suggested that the pe tition should be filed in the attor ney general's ofilce, but promised that lie will pass upon the case be fore his term of office expires. Iinpoilnnt Mal'stim. Washington, Feb. 20. The excess of exports of merchandise over imports for the twelve months ending January 31st was 210.001, 752; twelve months endingJanuary J1, 18S0, 237,452,100. It is esti mated by treasury officials that re duction of the public debt for February will be about ten millions. Deposit of national banks received at the treasury department to-day for retirement of circulation, 2, S2G.720; total to date, 1:13,802,990. The Revere national bank of Bos ton gave notice to day that it bad deposited 100,000 U. S.C percent, bonds, series 581, to obtain ad- ditional circulation. THOMAS HARDY. Greatest of Living English Novelists. The Nn Yrk Times. Now that George Eliot is dead, some of ike English critics are trvinp to determine, to tlteir own satisfaction, who is the greatest of ilie surviving British novelists. Their opinions differ, of course; but several of tliem agree that Thomas Hardy deserves the tailor. although Ik is the youngest of living writers of fiction, and one whose reputation has leeu very recently made. lUrdy, a native of a village rn Dorsetshire, is but forty years of age he was born .June 2, 1840 and was educated at divers schools without any t'lKMnrnt of becoming an author, lie was designed, indeed, by his father for architecture, ami was articled at sixteen in the country town to an architect of sonic local renown. He received at the same time careful instruction in the classics, and after serving his ap prenticeship went to Ixmdon, where he advocated the modern Gothic sc1koI, and added to his knowledge and experience under the well-known Arthur Bloomfield. His first attempt of a literary kind was in the direct line of his pro fession, being an assay on colored brick and terra-cotta architecture, which received (1SG3) the prize and medal of the Institute of Architects. He then decided to become an art critic, and fitted himself for the calling by further studies, though he published noth ing, general literature appealing to him mere and more. After hesitating several years between architecture and authorship, and steadily inclining to the latter, he put forward when he was thirty one, ins nrst novei. it was as much censured as praised, but he was naturally so influenced by the praise that he determined definately upon his vocation. The year following he put forth a rural story, "Under the Greenwood Tree" and within a twelvemonth appeared "A Pair of Blue Eyes," rboth of them beinir well received. It was not, liowever, until he had produced, six years ago, "Far From tlie Maddening Crowd," that his reputation became national or transatlantic. It was published, like its predecessors, anonymously, ami was attributed to various au thors, to George Eliot among oiImts. Since then he lias occu pied a foremost place among Eng lish writers of fiction, though he has ikU equaled t hat effort by any subsequent work. Hardy is tin reverse of a sensationalist. His scenes and characters are quiet, but closely and skillfully drawn. It is evident that he has observed carefully, and he is generally con sidered truthful to life and nature. Persons that like high-colored, sharply-contrasted, melodramatic plots ami situations do not enjoy Hardy, wit is very dull to them. Charles Reade ranks himself, as may be inferred, as the greatest of English novelists, and did so loii"- before the death of Thackeray, ( Dickens or George Ehot. He cannot understand, it is said, how Hardy has gained so much fame. Have istar's balsam of wild cherrv always at hand. It cures coughs, colds, hronehitts, whooping cough, croup, in tinenza. consumption, and all throat and 'ung complaints. :a) cents ami $1 a lxit th Mr. John Rogers, of the Central Market, has made arrangements to keep all the finest fresh fish, etc, in their season. For the Genuine J. H. Cutter old Bourbon, and the best of wines, liquors, and San Francisco beer call at the Gem opposu? the bell tower, and see Campbell. Fresh leaf lard at Warren and Eaton's. Salmon bellies, at retail, at War ren & Eaton's. jmm ,r u-i-JLMttL. "itflrST nnftffctiah-i.i.-ttiii-iiii' ' Mind Reading by a Girl of Eleven Years. Tlie erformancc of a Boston jrirl, ajed eleven vears. whose hus- band, if site ever gets one, is to be commiserated, are thus related by the Herald, of that city: She Imd dark hair and eves, and a decided ly nervous tenieramcnt. She was blindfohlcd, and a thimble was placed on tlie tot) of an upright piano on the other end of the room from where she stood. The gen tleman of the Iiouse awl one of the children tlien placed their hands on her shoulders, ami fixing their minds on the thimble, site was told to proceed. Turning squarely around, she walked directly to the piano, felt her way till the corner was readied,- then lifting her hand as high as site could reach, she placed her liand on the thimble. The performance caused surprise, and elicited a round of applause. The child was taken to the other side of the room and blindfolded again, the work being securely done. This time the thimble was placed on the piano stool, much lower than before. The same per sons placed tneir nanus on tlie child's shoulders, and again she turned squarely around and walked straight to where the stool was standing. As slur approached it she put out Iter hands, reaching nrt up as before, but down, and felt her way cautiously. In this attitude she walked un to the stool, and, while in the act of pass ing her hand over the top, jarred the stool and knocked the thimble on the floor. The third tune the thimble was placed in a qjflerent part of tlie room, on the hinge of a folding door, about five feet from the floor. It was in a place not easily discovered by a person with his eves open. The blindfolded child, with the hands of the other persons on her shoulders, walked straight to the spot, and, after feel ing on both sides of the door for a few moments, passed her hand along up the edge until she struck the thimble, which fell to the floor. She declined to perforin any more, -aying slie was tired. When asked how site knew where the thimble was, she said she could not tell. It was impossible for her to see, and no one susectcd for a moment tlutt she was playing a trick. It seemed to be a clear case of "mind-reading." the exhi bition Wing the same in kind, if not in degree, as those given by Brown a few vears . Patent Outsides. Oakland Tunes. .Many country newspajK-rs are in part made in San Francisco. The first and fourth pares are printed in that city, ami contain several columns of advertisements for which the paper receives no com pensation. Tlie publishers of the patent outsVles, as sucksheets are termed, send tlie same thinpr to many of the smaller towns, so that the first and fourth img-es of many of the papers that reach us are identical. A paper published in San Lcandru comes to us with a special plea in favor of the system, which would not have been written had its publisher given more study to some feature of the business in which he is engaged. Ihe rsan Leandro Seminal says that many country newspapeis could not live if it were not for the "system of patent outsides, and we will call its attention to the facts revealed by its own columns. Its first and fourth pages contain a little over five columns of selected reading matter, which, according; to the measurement of print- ers, would be alxnit twelve' . rrz thousand. A man would jt it up j r "i"01,? WJ Corurlr. B,?."k-; .V"""' 1 Court Blanks. Justice Court Blanks.: in a day and a half, at a cost of iShippim: Bkmks. MiscellanetHt: Blanks, j i .i c ,i ii lc , -. lccu.s.3iunj:a!;es, etc., for Suleat TiikI less than five dollars. If the en-! Astoui ax office. 1 tincl man followed a irood policy I he would give one or two boys a chance to learn the trade, in which case tlie cost of putting into type tliose few columns would be nomi nal, r or the hke of two or three dollars worth of tyje setting, at tlie outside limit, he giving to the patent outside man an amount of advertising space worth several hundred dollars, ami depriving himself of any cliauce to secure a dollars worth of business from tlmt city. It would not cost him ten dollars a month extra to give his readers as good a iijer, made entirely at Itonte, and lie would prolwtbiy obtain San Francisco business that would more than off set that expenditure. His alarm about the bill to prevent the pub lication of legal advertisements in such papers is not well founded; its passage would be one of the best things that has everhappeued to him. Fresh smelt at Warren A: Eatons. P. Wilhehn, Boss saloon, opposite the Clarendon hotl, Portland, Oregon. A nice lot of eastern oysters at Jloscoes, arrived yesterday bv steamer Columbia. Call around. Von will find them first class. If you want a good big oyster stew in style, call around to- Tom Smiths, next door to P. H. Fox, 3Iain street Astoria, Oregon. Open at all h jurs. Lxwj'ers briefs printed in stvlu. at Thk Astokian oifiee. fine Have yon a lame horse? Call for Kendall's" Spavin Cure. Bead the ad vertisement. --Have ydn ever heard a business m-ni -ax thai advertising did not kiv l.ua V t'?'Advertisements are the quiet -olKtor-j w!h never intrude, but who never fail to make theniselve knowu. and are eeii and rrinemltered despite the will of the reader wlio coukl ne: fofcge4. them if he would. HrWlw wants to know about the 2fU State whero tlie esporl.s equal ic. vnhie $t7-- ier head of the entire rwJt'.H tion. -end SI V) to D. C. Ireland tor Thk Astokian. the only Oregon paper, pub li-beil wholly in the intcrert of Oregon. .-To discriminate between wlini i- news ami what N advertising in at: it-m is often a ditlieult task for a pui Usher. Newsiniier.s. to le on the safe -ide. must charge when tlie item brings !H'ikm to others. Such is but jn-tiee. and in eompIiaiK-e with the law of bus--a.-ss. ami without this discrimination a newsmjHT will fail, financially. Z-. wealthy Pittsburg merchant lreM1ed as havint; aid: I always eel happy when 1 am advertising, for then I know, that waking or sleeping. I have a strong.tlioHiih silent orator work ing fur inc:oite wlio never tires, nevei -leeps. never makes mistakes mihI who is eerlaiu to enter the lKHiseboWs irotti '.vhieh. if at all. ia trade must come." Ve desire it to le ditiint'v iiiaierstiMNl that tiiose who send us ad vettiseiia'iits from abroad, must aemi tin- r:ih with theahertisenients.if they would have tlHMii apjKmr. We have munlHTs of advertisements sent lis from stransers saving. IMease insert ami send bill. This we cannot do ; tiw cash Hm-t aceoinpany the copy ami the order Pfr-A ciiuiiipr.iry vs: A nowi-v.-r imI .i ii.'Wsj,:iiH.r editor that -jile tton't talk mImcu and sHiietnues cb.i-c are rniher ir eHKenis. TJie men ami ::isins tlntl an editor m.m,.. tinars fi-els it a duty to defend at a ri.sk ': makiiig enemies of aiKKlk-r elass. are isften the vt first t- show iusratHiKle. T1k editor wla exnvts to receive much rhurity or gratitude will xmui fiml out hi- mistake: but he should go ahead ami sy ami ibt what lie conscientiously thinks right without regard to frowns wr sjnile.s. JB-The free lands of the wefct aro iH'iug taken up ami .settled this ear to a degree most gratifying, in the" face of the over-crowded mechanical depart meiit.s of metropolitan life. Several mil liiiis more acres of homesteads have been entered for settlement at the var ious land otlh-es this yr.w than in. the IMit year, and still the western movement continues iu force. Ami this i the only lolution of the KJor troubles. Let th) unemployed come and Income producers instead of cnuMtnieiS. X-Xii see how life "eta coined at our mint, so that the world oiehow ! wears the stamp of the die cut intomr Warts. Ue know how a piece of t:Kd fortune brightens the air: now some im )endin evil puts the ed;je of a spiritual i-el ipse upon the sun: how .suddenly ill T'irtune iu business will seem to make t!ie Aery sjriiis of beauty bankrupt; 1mw the sickness of a dear friend tunu nature pallid; how the death of one whom we love will convert all the trees to cypres.se ami the music of the uni verse leconics a rcqu'um : bat how can you exiK-ct your city to prosper if you do not patronize the local pref". Ilofr ran yoi succeed as a inerchuiiL or a mechanic, and not advertise? Horse Kilitcation. In something written we have an indistinct recollection of having made reference to a "eiiural disposition - i iLT: i ..tt i mo imys m iiioir icons, as uu s i foovs ol nmturor years, to enh"hten and bless the world with their pro found knowledge of the horse and his history. Our books and newspapers are full of this kind of literature, and it varies in style from the production of the child at school, commencing with: Th horse lias four les and a tail: up to the eloquent tribute of the scholar when he quotes from Jeb: That his neck is clothed with thunder and the glory of his nostrils is terrible. He smelleth the buttle afar off, the thunder of the captains and the shouting. Between these two ex tremes of the child at his first school coniiositiou, and the professional literature, we have even grade of pre tention, and each professing to have mastered the whole subject. As we approach the close of this nineteenth century, we begin to look for some thing better m this department of k'nowledge from those who assume to instruct. ' And it is to be found in Kendalls Treatise on the horse, sent by mail to any person for twenty-five cents, postage paid. Apply to Ihe Astokian office, or address D. C. Ire land, Astoria. Oregon. i3TTliere is not now any better news liK.'r. nor one more consistently de voted to the building up of the country than Thk A-toiuax. At the price of Two Dollar per year it is the cheapest, as well a the leM. With your aid and encouragement we shall be able to make further improvements to enhance its field of H.-etulucvs. JUNIOR G AND INSURANCE. BANKING ANDINSURANOE. X. W. CASE. BROKER, BANKER INSURANCE AGENT. - - - OREGON ASTOIIIA, OFFICE HOURS: FROM S O'CLOCK A. II. UNTIL 4 O'CLOCK P. M. Home Mutual Insurance Co., OF CALIFORNIA. J. F. IIOCOHTOX 1'IIAS. IC.Stokv Uko. L. Stoic v President ... . Secretary .Agent for 'job CaHtal jwkl coin ... up in I. S. gold 5 .JUU 000 w I. W CASIi. Agent. Ctieaamas street. Astoria. Oregon 867,000,000 CAPITAL. LIVERPOOL AND LOHON AND GLOBE. NORTH DRITISH AND MERCAN TILE OF LONDON AND EDINBURGH. OLD CONNECTICUT OF HART FORD, AND COMMERCIAL OF CALIFORNIA F1KE INSURANCE COMPANIES. Ketresotin a cai-it-d of 7.100.tJ00. A. VAN DUSKS. Agent. Wilson & Fishef iu:ai.ki:s in LUBRICATING OILS, COAL OIL, PAINTS AND OILS. Sheet, Round, and Square Prepared Rubber Packing. PROVISIONS. MILL FEED, GARDEN SEE-D. GRASS SEED. Which will le exehamied for country ) dace or sokiHt lowest priees. Corner Cheiiauius and Hamilton Streets ASTORIA. OREGON. PIKE & STOCKTON. HOUSE, SIGrlNr -CARR1ACE PAINTERS,- PAPER HANGING GING ANDJVALL A SrFef.t.TY- C0L0RING GLAZING PROMPTLY ATTENDED TO, x"Ship next door to Atorian Office, in ShMster's Imihlni?. The New York Oyster Saloon Will serve to their customers from this ate a follows : TEA. COFFEE. CHOCOLATE. Kan tern OyMen Always on Hauil. And will lie kept ;is a first class Oyster Sa- Ihb. in first class tyle. DAXIEL GKANT. Manager. To-XigM. To-Xiglit. GRAND BALL, AT MUSIC HALL, TJTIS EVEXIXG. BUSINESS CARDS. Q. A. BOWLBY. ATTOKXEY AT LAAV. CheiwmiMS Street. - ASTORIA. OREGON r xv. 'uirox. ATTORNEY AT LAW, ASTOKIA ... OltKGON Oflkf over Page & Alloa's stwe, Ca street T XV. KOltlt. ATTORNEY AT LAW, ASTOKIA - - - - OltEGON Ofltee over Warrea it Hatou' Atrm Mar-kt-t. opfNisite the Otrcak'Mt IUtfel. E- IIOMIK.V, "0TAKY rUBLIC, Al'CTIOXKKK. COMMISSION AND Sl'KANCE AGENT. IN- A VAX DUSEN. NOTARY PUBLIC. ClHMiitHHts Street, near Occident Hotel, ASTOKIA, OKEGON. AjwHt Wells. Fargo & Co. "P V. HICKS. PEXTIST, ASTOKIA. --- - OKEGON. Konms in Allen's imikliit; up stairs, come of Cas;uul Sieinocn,lie streets. rit. .11. I). ,TKXXIXS. PHYSICIAN AND SUKGEOX. Gnuhuite University of Virshiia. 186S. Iiy.sicinn to lljiy View hospital, Baltimore City. 1SOU-70. Okkick Iii Page stairs. Astoria. & Allen's building, up JAY TUTTIjE. 31. I. PHYSICIAN AND SUEGEON, Okkick Over the White House Store. Kksidknck Next door to Mrs. Munsona IxmnliiiK house. Cheiiauius street, Astoria Oreson T C. ORCHARD. DENTIST, Dental Rooms. blll.-TKIt's. I'liotoKRiult laiiltliu T A. 3IcIXTSH. 31ERCHANT TAILOR, Occident Hotel ISuiklut. ASTOKIA - - - OREGOIT C. II. BAIA" fc CO.. DKVLEK IX IJoors. AVimloWM. Rliud.s. Traa KOin.H. liumlifr, Etc. AH kinds or Oak Lumber. Glass, IUat Ma terial, etc. Steam Mill near Wotou hotel. Cor. Ga evive ami Astor .streets. 1 G. FAIRFOWL & SOX, t) STEVEDORES AND RIGGERS Portland and Astoria, Oregon. Refer bv permission to Kogers.Meyers&Co. Allen Jfc Lewis. Corbitt A'Macleay, I'ortland. Oreeon. "yni. MILEXHAKT. Occident Hotel Hair Dressing Saloon ASTOKIA OKEGOX. Hot. Cold, Miiuht, Meant and Snlpluir BATHS. S3-iH'rtal attention iven toladies'aai Inldreit's Unit cuttmjr. Iriale Eiitraio-e for Iid.es WILLLU1 FK I'ltACTICAL H BOOT A"XI SIIOK MAKEIt. ClIKNAMUS STKKKT. OptKItt AlllerS Book .store, - AsTOKIA. OKKOOX. 13- Perfect ts aiaraiiteeil All wort wHrranled. (Jive me a tnai. All orders ItrotuHlv H1h':. J. T. B0R0HERS, CONCOMLY STREET. ASTOKIA, Maimfactiirer and Packer of CAVIAR, SMOKED SALMON. l';ish paid for fresh I5LACK STCRGEON SPAWN. Smoked Sturgeon, and smoked Salmon put up in tins to .ship to anj part of the world. Also, trout Inut salmon ejr) put up in can and warranted tokicp au lensth of time. leot at Idlers fViitral Xlarker. comer Cassand ChenamiLs streets. Astoria. Music Lessons. T. F. CULLEN and C E. BARNES5 TEACHERS OF VIOLIN, PIANO, GUITAR, COR NET AND BANJO, Would like a few puplLs on either oC the above iiLstniments. Ternts Eight logons for live dollars. CSOnlers left at Stevens & Sons book More w ill be promptly attended to- Idealer Iu F.13III.Y aBOCEItKES, YAILS. Hlir.r. FEED AXI HAi Caali paid for countrj' produce. Sniail profits on cash sales, .stona, Oregon, cor ner of Main and Squemocuhe .streets. PIIES. The undersigned Ls prepared to furnish a large number of Siiiles and Span? at his place on .short notice, at reasonable rates. Apply to C. G. CAPLES. Columbia City BLANK JOCKS PRIXTED AND BOUND TO AX i al'6, and ruled to any order, at ThxAstobux oSe. I n! s