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0) he 'A&tox&tin. Vol. XIV. Astoria, Oregon, Saturday Morning. March 5, 1881. So. 54: GENERAL EASTERN SEWS. WV XAII. AVI TKt.HOKAI'H. Mormons llimlins J Homr. I Ninv York, March 3. Tliej World's cit of Mexico correspon dent says: The Mormons, who .,t,o,- u..M'ar rliftimiltios with ,,W,,a,w... -I the new jtseime about to be in . au-u rated at home, arelicre again, endeavoring to procure lniwls for a lare colony of saints. & far the Mexican government has taken no action in tJie mutter, Imic may when conirressjissemhles. .tnollirr M-urr Slorm In lUc Wl. Cmicauo. March 3. The worst storm of the season be-au yester day, and still continue throughout "Wisconsin, Iowa and Illinois, in terdicting traflic in cities and blockading, already almost impass able, the railroads. Trains on jiearlv all roads have been sus pended until the storm ceases, of which there is no present sign. Xrike iu llir ! ini..vl:tnln 'o:il Krslon. Piri-sitL'Ki: , March '). The miners of Connellsville in the Coke region, struck yesterday for an advance of five cents per wagon for mining coal and ten cents for drawing coke. The strike is quite extensive, affecting several thou sand men. Nearly all of the works have supcmled. Tin loik Walk. Nkw Vokk, March o. At G:1G j 11 ., Pane-hot finished his -iOOth mile, the best record in any coun try. GENERAL FOREIGN NEWS. . KV Mll. N1 TKl.KOKU'll. Fearful lsiusliter. London, March ). It is now said that of the troops engaged in Colley's fight, 330, only G2 return en unhurt. The Crack Miol. London, March 3. 1 )r. Carver, American, and Mr. Scott, English marksmen, compete at Westmins ter for 'G00, the match beginning on the 9th inst., aiid lasting ten days. - A "Well-Traveled Card. The Ottawa Illinois, . Journal of the 12th instant contains the fol lowing account of a postal card's travels which had been twice around the werld: "4t hcar. post marks as follews: Ottawa, July 13, lSSO;. and 1. C. P. R. P. O.,' .Tuh 13th; San Francisco, -July ISth: Yokohama, August 21st. lioHglcong, August 3tth: Bombay. September 25th; Calcutta. Sep tember 2Hth, Sea P. O., October 3d; Alexandria, October 13th; .ondon, October 20tli. 1 1 was then sent back over the route it came as follews: Yokohama,! )ecember Sth; Sun Francisco, December 27th. From here the mailing clerks seemed to think its mission was not yet complete, and it was sent direct to New York, passing Otta wa, probably, and reached New York January S, 1SS1; Cork, Jan uary 17th; Dublin, January 21st; Ottawa, Canada (uiissent), January 31st, and finally readied home Februory 3d, having traveled 30, 000 miles for onlv four cents, making the time in 205 days." Although the clerks iu the San Francisco postoffice are, on the whole, unusually sharp in the detection of such erroneous trans missions, it appears from the fore going that the postal card in ques tion passed through San Francisco twice. Lawyers briefs printed in style, at The Astoxiax office. fine For the best Beer in Astoria, call for the Columbia llrewery liter, acknowledged to be superior to all others. If you want a good big oyster stew in style, call around to Tom Smiths, next door to P. H. Fox, Main treet Astoria, Oregon. Open at all kours. THE CENSUS. Some "Wonderful Predictions - Wnat 1900 "Will Show. VKfeiuctm C4HT. IiTh CwNHh-nid. Before tin recent census was taken. General Walker estimated the imputation at 4y00,000 which f-lL, O An imn el.rt .f itc -M...I IW..O -"1" W. .. ". . ........... nuinlor. His error in calculation was owing entirely to the unex pected increase in the southern states. Had the per cent of in-' crease in tlie south been no great er from 1S70 to 1SSO, General WalkerV figures would have beon well nigh accurate. Tltc increase in the south has been larger than anybody expected, but it is partly owing, as now known, to the de fective census of 1S70. Succes sive investigations in South Caro lina have sliown the accuracy of the June enumeration, and it is probable that the census of 1S80. as a wlaJe, is the most accurate that has ever been taken. Having all the figure before him, with the per cent Gf increase to each state, General "Walker es timates that the population iu 1S90 will be about 04,000,000, an in crease of nearly 1,500,000 a vear for the next ton years. That is every year of the next decade we will have added to the population about as many people as now live in the suite of Virginia- The only piece of guess work in the estimate is the number of foreign emigrants who will arrire. This is the fluc tuating feature of our population. If tlie number of emigrants could be determined with reasonable ac curacy, it would be possible to tell within a verv mall per cent what the population will be in 1S90 and 1900 that is. if war and pestilence are avoided. By far the most accurate esti mate of future population ever made in this country or any other, was made by a man named Wat on in 1815. As his predictions were published that year, there can be no doubt of the genuine ness of his "guesses."' He pre dicted that the population iu 1S80 would be 50,450,000. Of course he did not "calculate" for the war, and hence he missed the mark some 5,000,000. To sIhiw, how ever, that it was the war which nut u atson oil tlie track, it is only necessary to compare the fig ares of these remarkable predic tions with tlie actual result. The piopheetes were made iu 1815, and here is the striking manner iu which successive censuses have. shown their accuracy: W Yaw of Mmm Vfir. Irr4erai 1 .fttljH .yjim 10W 12.Ml6.jKM 12K.O0l ISt 17.o.J( 17.1iXW l. 2Ji.lW.Wt 3.1S.1.O00 WH . . JU.41X.0tK) -1,7.0I Here we find that in 1S15 -Mr. Watson predicted within about :)00,000 of what the population of the United States would be in LS00, or forty-five years after the recor-.ing of his prophecy! As General Walker savs in speaking of this t-iatter, it almost staggers ercdulity. -'That a man, a mere human being," says General alker, -'should be able to predict fifty years iu advance the number of inhabitants in a rapidly growing country within a fraction of one per cent, seems wonderful, almost beyond belief." Had the war not intei vened, it is believed that Watson's predic tions would have held good in 1 70 and in 18S0. But in 1870 he was ahead of the census nearly 4,000,000 and in 1880 nearly 5,000 000. The losses of the war, direct aud contingent, we can never knowf but Watson's figures, almost abso lutely accurate up to tlie war period, would show it to affect us the present year to the extent of nearly 5,000,000. That is. had there been no war the present! population of tlie United States would lit- about 55,000,000. Watson predicted tlwt the popu lation in 1900 would reach 10U,- ihOO,000, but General Walker docs not believe it will be over SO.0O0,- 000. The question of present population and future growth will be discussed in coneress in connec tion with tlie apportionment bills now under consideration. At each successive apportionment tlie basis of representation lias been en larged, until at present the impu tation of each congressional dis trict is alout 131,000, or was in 1ST0. In order not to have the iiouse of representatives too targe, the basis will be increased to from 100,000 to 170,000 population in each district. The tendency seems to be to increase rather than di minish tin: house membership; although the present liousc. com- ,-kc.I of SM members, is large and unwieldy, 250 would be a body of much more convenient size, and, in truth, would be more active in the dispatch of public business. But no state likes to be cut down in her membership, while all pre fer an increase, so that the ques tion of fixing the relative number of representatives to each state is very complicated, and will lead to a long wrangle. There is even a possibility that the apportionment ma' not be made during the pres ent congress. . Atmospheric Extremes. The winter iu Iowa, has been represented as fearfully severe trains snowed in to the depth of sixteen feet, and remainiuir im movable, with their passengers, for two weeks on the prairie: and all the other thousands of winter discomfort-, have been reported, telegraphed and journalized. And now another atmospheric wonder is reported from New Vork. The climate there appears to have taken a snap judgment on the peo ple. The thermometer was stand ing at fourty-ibur degrees, like a self-willed colt that takes the bit in his teeth and runs whither he pleases, the quicksilver dropped to four degrees, a fall of forty degrees within twenty-four hours. We have never experienced a similar atmospheric wonder in this coun try. New Vtrk appear? to have now got i? share of tlie remark able weather of this remarkable winter, and has but little to boast of over her sister of the north west. Ir i hoped that the ex tremes of cold and unfriendly weather which have swept all over the continent, especially leyond the great chain of the once-termed Rocky mountains, have not been experienced in equal extremes and proportion in the Arctic. 1. J. Goodman, on Chenamu street, has just reccivea the latest and most fashionable style of nents and Indies boots, shoos, etc. Jhn Itogers 1ms just received at the Central market a large invoice of coal oil. aseorteds brand, and for side at reduced rates. He also keeps a general assortment of groceries. liq- 1 1 1 rC 4 "il M WW k 1 J rrt J Mini j rmi k. taWcs of t nauty, which he offers al small profit for cash Have Wistar's balsam of wild cherrv always at hand. It cures coughs, colds. bronchitis, whooping cough, croup, in fluenza, consumption, ami all throat and lung complaints. hi cents and 51 a bot tle. For the Genuine J. H. Cutter old Bourhou, and the best of wines. liquors, aim San rrancisco beer call at the (Jem opposite the belt tower. and see Campbell. -Cannerymen would gam much by leaving us their orders for incidental printing now,u be done leisurely dur ing tlie winter months saving time and money, and avoiding the risks of a spruig rush of work. Salmon bellies, at retail, at War ren & Euton's. Have von a iame horse! Call for Kendall's Spavin Cure. Read the ad- vertbemont IIorp Induration. Iu something written we have an indistinct recollection of having mde reference to a genoral dtspusitioii among boys iu their teens, as well as buys of iiiaturer years, to enlighten ami bless the world with their pro found knowledge of the horse and his history. Our looks and newspapers are full of tiiis kind of literature, ami it varies iu style from the production of tlie child at school, commencing with: The horse has four leys ami a tail; up to the eloquent tribute of the scholar when he qtuttes from .leb: That his neck is clothed with thunder and the glory of his nostrils is terrible. He smelieth the battle afar oil', the thunder of the captains and the shouting. Hot ween these two ex tremes of the child at his first sehoof couiMitioii, and the professional literature, we have even' sradeof pre tention, and each professing to have mastered the whole subject. As we approach the eloe of this nineteenth century, we begin to look for some thing better in this department of knowledge from those whp assume to instruct. " And it is to be found in Kendalls Treatise on the horse, sent by mail to any person for twenty-live ln.or,. ImSfe. C. i . land. Astoria, Oregon. cents, iKstage paid. Annh tit The iJy a recent postal decision men can actually make money by getting their bills and statements of accounts printed. Statements of accounts and bills of sale when made out on paper iiaviug pnnieu neauuigs, can be sent by mail for one cent, it the envelope is left unsealed; whereas, if it is made out on imprinted paper, it will cost three cents. Thus by patronizing The Astoki.vx two cents can be saved on every bill or statement that is .sent out throittJ the mail. Max. Wagner's San Francisco National brewery beer can't be beat. P. Wilhehn, Boss saloon, opposite the Clarendon hotel, Portland, Oregon. A nice lot of eastern oysters a: Hoscous, arrived yesterday by steamer Columbia. Call around. You will find them first class. Bath tubs, water closets, sinks and hot water apparatus, furnished hotels and private residences, at lowest rates and shortest notice, by Magnus C. Crosby, at the little tin shop "round the corner." BANKING AND INSURANCE. BANKING ANDJNSURAHCE. I. W CASE, BROKER, BANKER' INSURAHGE ACENT. ASTORIA, - . - - OREGON OFFICE HOURS: FROM S O'CLOCK A. 31. UNTIL 4 O'CLOCK P. 31. " Co., OF CALIFORNIA. J. K. IbK'UllTON CM . K. STORV Oho. L aToicv President .. Seetv try .Agent tor ("j Ciita! iaW up in I o4m .......... nold . . (rtow W C'ASIL Agent, treet. Astoria. Oregon. Chtfithniu- 67.000,000 CAPITAL. LIVERPOOL AND LOVTX)N AND GLOBE, NORTH BPvITISlI AND 3IKKCAN- TILE OF LONDON AND EDINBURGH. OLD CONNECTICUT OF HART FORD, AND C03I3IERCHL OF CALIFORNIA FIRE INSURANCE COMPANIES. Representing a capital of JsO7.O0O.OU0. A. VAN Dl'h'EN, Agent. .MISCELLANEOUS. PIKE & STOCKTON. HCOXXSE, SIC5-1T AMI 1 - CARRIACE PA1NTERS,- PAPER HANGING AND WALL COLORING A SPKCIALTV. GLAZING PROMPTLY ATTENDED TO. urShop next door to Astoriau OiUee, m ShnstersDUllding. SODA WATER, Mineral Water, Ginger Ale, ',rMl!,? 'y'-'---- AppnrattiM for Making. oIIns. and Dispensing. (nniplete Outht5. 3Iaterials and Supplies. EstabliaheiNS years. Illustrated ..imI Prieed -3)-tiittr.iiE fVttri1inif. otif t.i -inv -riHrf-;rriri!itJMritliIi. -1 Se,,d four inidjrm g ' FoMge'M.SSe.'SSKSffi ,iO!lt 31 ATTii !.. ror the first insertion, and St OOner snttire 1 Fin.: Avenue .sth i- 27ih sts.. rw ork. tor eaahsutweuuent hiwrtion will U eluded! ySr-A good advorUscr particularly pit his how-wuilovs into the Hews Mirr. Cir-Most people ;'take a look at the advertisements."' If they rend those of other people, why will they not see voitr.? rirls costs loss to print advertisement- than to send out salesmen. A PmhI advertisement is seen and read by mre people in one day. than most sales men call on in a year. lfAn advertisement tells its own storj. It makes no mistakes, as a solici tor itiiKht do. ami states exactly what the merchant wants to say, neither more nor less. Advertisements are honest and faithful servants. ??-"Do hogs pay" asks an agricul tural correspondent. We know ot some tnst don't. Tltey subscribe for a mpcr. read it for a few years for nothing, and then send it back to the publisher with tin-1. M.'s inscription, 'refused.'" Swell hos as that pay nothing to anybody, if they can help if. " Goods speak for themselves," ml it is only after they are bought that tiie enii do o. An object in adverti-s-! i- to induce people to buy them and le-t them. If sooils sjMjak for them-m-Ivcs. a good advertisement may also sjwak for the goods. JCrSjtmie men can see things only rctroiH'ctivel. Instead of looking for ward to what the might do the only look baek to what they might have done. Tlicy learn from experience, after it has iHttiiiie a little late in the day. Such men are the non-advertisers. "Book fiirniers were once despised b- the self called "pra?ticai" farmers, but when the latter saw the former's crops, they changed their minds. JfO- -l miii rlriinrr a rmruf kmiifrlt biisiiu-s-i without advertising. No doubt you are doing well enough for your pres- eiit mills. but do you fprget the panics, the exciting elections, the times of war or fil.n7 nr inv of tlirviA nnnv or pestilence, or am ot those man causes which create dull terms of bust- itess ? These must be calculated for and discounted if you would bridge them over. One must make more than he netN's, to make a fortune, and advert is- ingis a powerful auxiliary in money - iStrNo man should deprive his wife and family of a good local paper. They do not get out from home to learn the news as does the husband and father, and the paper serves to relieve the other wise lonely house of his absence. It Is the worst iKisSiblc enconomy to deprive the family of a pleasure so easily and cheaply procured. And yet there ure those who say that they are too poor to take a paper: but they "are notto poor to spend twenty times the price of a paper everyday for whisky and tobacco. MORE TRUTH THAN POSTRV. Printing in black, Printing in white. Printing in colors, Of sombre or bright. Printing for merchants, And land-agents, too ; Printing for any "Who've printing to do ; Printing for bankers, Clerks, auctioneers, Printing for druggists. For dealers in wares. Printing for drapers I For fi-ocers. for all. Who will send in their jobs Or give us a call. Printing of pamphlets, Or bigger books, too ; j In fact there are few tilings . But what we can do. I Printing of labels. All colors we use. sirs. Especially lit for Our salmon producers. Printing by hand, Printing" by steam, Printing from type, Or from blocks by the ream Printing of placards, Printing of bills, Printing of car-notes For stores or for mills ; Prirting of forms All sorts vou can get Legal, commercial, Or houses to let. Printing done quickly. Bold, stylish or neat. At the Astokiax Office, On Cass and Fourth street. ASTOKIAX BUILDl.. CASS STREET THE WEEKLY ASTORIA!! Is TIIK- BEST PAPER FOR OREGON PRINTED IN OREGON. GALL AND GET A COPi of this week's Issue to send to some friend. ISSUED XVKRV raiDAT MORXIXO. OiTlCE IX THE ASTORIAN BUILDING, CASS STREET. U. IKKI.AD - - PUBLISHER. TKKii ok sciwrmrriox. .. 25cts "fl JJ scnwl by Carrier per month 0ne0on fniirninnt. OneCoDv.trfmnni One Copy, twelve niontlw t3J"AdTerUsements inserted toy the ear ' BUSINESS CARDS. A. BOWLBY. J.Q- ATTORNEY AT LAW. Chcaainas Street. - ASTORIA. OREGON fi AV. FUI.TOX. ATTORNEY AT LAW, ASTORIA - - - OKKGOK OtnVe over l';c & Aliens store. Chss street T IV. KOItlt. ATTORNEY AT LAW, ASTORIA .... OREGON Office over Warren & Eaton's Astoria Mar ket, opposite the Occident Hotel. E.- IIOIillKX.j NOTARY PUBLIC, AITTIONEER, COMMISSION AND IN SURANCE AGENT. A VAN DUSEN NOTARY PUBLIC. ntcmuiiHs Street, near Occident Hotel, ASTORIA. OREGON. Agent Wells. Fargo & Co. is "P P. HICKS. PENTIST, ASTORIA. - - - OREGON-, Rooms In Allen's building up stairs, corar of Cass and Sqemocqhe streets. "TK. 31. I. JEXXIXy PHYSICIAN AND SURGEON. Graduate University of Virginia. 1868. Physician to Bay View hospital, Baltimore City, lSty-'io. OKH1CK In Vasv &. Allen's buildine. iin ' stairs. Astoria. -w- - m- . .. . O PHY'SICIAN AND SURGEON OKKUK-Over the White House Store, i..ini,..., Vl ,, , ., .. . IK'inhCh Next door to 7lK. ilunsoa'il hoarding house. Clienainus street, Astori- Oregon arei, iuwiu- I C". OKCHAitJJ. ; ' nr-iiTir-r ! DENTIST, lleutal Itooins. SUtsTKK's Photograph Building T A. 3IcIXTO.SH. MERCHANT TAILOR, Occident lintel Building. ASTORIA - - - OREGOK" Q II. BAIS7 CO.. DKAI.KI IX Doors AVindowH, Blind. Traa Moni. liiinibef. JEtc. AH kinds r Oak Lumber, Glass. Boat Ma terial, etc. Steam Mill near 'A'eston hotel. Cor. Gec elveaiul Astor streets. 1 G. FaIKFOWL & SON, J r-J STEVEDORES ANO RIGGERS Portland and Astoria, Oregon. Borer br permission to Rogers. Meyers fc Co. Allen k Lewis. Corbitt & Maoleay. Portland. Oreson. -yyM. riiiiKXHART. Occident Hotel Hair Dressing Saloon 'WiUKlA - OKEGON. Hot, fold, shower, ' Steam and Hluuur BATHS. J35SleciaI attention given to ladies' aa& liildrenMiuir eitttmjr. Prhate Entrance tor ladles. wir,r,i.iii fry. ' PRACTICAL COOT ANI SHOE MAKER. m Ciiknami-s Stickkt. oppositt Adler's Booc store. - AsTOKIA. OltKOON. S55 Perfect fits guaranteed AH woric warranted. t;ive nitr a trial. AH orders umiHtly nlied. J. T. B0RCHERS, CONC03ILY STREET. ASTORIA, 3Iaiiuf.icturer and Packer of CAYIAR, SMOKEO SALMON. Cash paid hr fresh BLACK STURGEON SPAWN. Smoked Sturgeon, and smoked Salmon pot up in tins to ship to an part of the worid-. Also, trout bait (salmon egg-.) put up in cans and Yaranted to keep am length of time. Oejiot at Rogers Central Market, comer C:isand Chenamus streets. Astoria. Music Lessons. I T. F. CULLEN and C E. BARNES TEACHERS. OF VIOLIN, PIANO, GUITAR, COR NET AND BANJO, Would like a few pupils on either of; the above Instruments. Terms Eight les-.ous for five dollars. I2'Orders left at Stevens & Sons book store will be promptlyattended to- 3. jSl. QUIXIff. dealer in F.OIII.Y 6BOCRIES. a'AITLS, 1IU. FEED ARD HAY Cash paid for countrj- produce. SuialL prnnts on cash sales. Astona. Oregon. cor ner of Main and Squeinocqhe streets. QPILES. kJ Tlie undersicned is oreiiared to fnrataa ; a large number of Spiles and Spars at h! i piaee on suon nonce, at reasonaoie rates. Apply to C.G.CAPLES, . Columbia City . To-yight. To-Nighf- GRAND BALL. AT MUSIC HALL, THIS EVENING. I iK?5ts MS