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53- r8i5(Ft1!i?Mi5';?riKj ,WJ?'-?-!ir4 0 -? iWKSlamAmtimimmimimUBtm m tottfriiriw Astoria, Oregon, Tuesday Morning, May 24, 1881. No. 20. Vol. xv. Hauo THE COMING ERA. FUTURE OF ELECTRIC 1XVEX- IMAGINATION PICTURING FORTH THE 31ARVEL0U.S THINGS ELECTRICITY IS TO DO POR US IN AGES TO COME. London Standard. Professor Perry, recently print ed a most alluring picture of the future of electricity. Telegraphs, telephones, pohtophones, micro phones and electric pens are the mere beginning of the science, and will, by the time we are too old to use them, be regarded with much the same respectful interest that Stephonsons rocket is viewed by a modern engineer, or Costers Spiegel onzer Bedhoudeis, by a member of the topographical union. By-and-by we shall not only correspond, talk, send our portraits and manifold by olec tricitv, but have our houses lighted and heated, our railway trains and train-cars propelled, and our machinery driven by the same om nipotent agent. If needs be every weavers shuttle, every vil lage blacksmiths bellows, every milliners sewing machine, and every advanced baby cradle will be driven, blown or rocked by That Yrllt rower Of whose future development, by by the coining race Mr. Perry has almost as sanguine a hope as had Lord Lytton after a less scientific fashion. Coal gas, at which Sir Walter Scott jeered, and for a be lief in which Dr. Chalmers was considered by his shrewd country men to be not altogether sound, is, we are told, doomed as a lighting aent. In a few years it will sub serve the humble office of a gener ator of electricity by setting steam engines in motion, or by being consumed in a voltaic cell. But as power can be transmitted by electricity, there is, as Sir "William Thomson once suggested, nothing to prevent us from importing our force from America, just as at present we import beef, wheat, canned salmon and wooden nut megs. In the falls of Niagara there is energy enough to generate sufficient electricity to light and heat all London, drive all the ma chinery in Birmingham or Man chester, and. send a score of flying Scotchman with easy swiftness from one end of the kingdom to the other. Transmitted energy will be consigned to us from the Amazon and the Amoor, from the smoke-enveloped foss of the Iljom mel Sayka, or the TBBibllns Waters or Hie TrolHinlii. In the future we are to drink, build our houses, plow our fields and manure them, sail our yachts, propel our steamers and trains, print our books, and perhaps write them by the aid of electricity. Men will then have subdued the forces of nature, and the lord of creation will relapse into manual idleness, or dream away life in one long afternoon, until he dies of an overdose of electricity, and is buried in an electric-dug grave, or cre mated by a touch of his bereaved families private Perry-Ayrton ma chine. That this and a great deal more will come to pass, is evident to all who can read, within the lines of Professor Perrys dis course. Sydney Smith, who, like Southey, had a limited appreci ation of science, considered that from electncitj' and M. P.s we ex pected too much. In the Siemens electric railway the propelling force is alone sent with the cars, but not the machine for generat ing that force. A generator of electricity is driven by a large stationery engine somewhere in the vicinity of the railway. A motor on a carriage receives elec trie energy by the conducting rails, and converts this into me chanical work to drive the car riage. The introduction of Electric Railways Is merely a question of capital, and the exercisingf much exist ing plant. But as soon as this is resolved on there will be economy effected, for as no heavy locomo tives will be required, there will be saving in the weight of steel rails, in the cost of bridges, and in the wear and tear- of permanent have its own driving and breaking machine, the energy at present wnqtpil in stonniar a train will be -- ii c simply given back to the genera tor. The problem of lighting and heating houses by electricity is practically solved. When people generally avail themselves of that solution, smoke and soot and dirt, and dangers from fires in cities, will desert our murky atmosphere, while the same engine that warms the merchants office will light his warehouse, enable him to corres pond with his agents by word or letter, order dinner, synchroniso his clocks, receive the portrait of a suspicious visitor to his country house, call the police, ami blow thft fonr.horn which is to warn off .j the rocks the crew of his home ward-bound ship. iSor need its use stop there. In time tho ad vancement of Electricity III Penetrate Even the darkness of the vestries. The citizen who tumbles into his electricallv warmed bed with the snow a foot deep on the ground will wake up in the morning to toast his toes at the electric stove and see dry streets and the beadle trundling home the parish Gramme. Already Edward Bright in ten minutes de-electrifies in a vacuum his hirsute bobbins of yarn, instead of, as formerly, allowing nature to do so in half a year during which his capital must lie fallow in the factory, fchelford Bidwell produc es pictures of distant stationary objects in shaded lines on paper by electro-chemical decomposition; and Mr. Perry, by taking a hint from Mr. Punch, is by no means certain that very soon an aged couple at home may not bo able to sec on their drawing-room wall an imagine of their grand children playing Badminton in India, and of learning from the telephone how they arc enjoying the game. All this, of course, must seem to be in the far distance. Still, we must remember that sci ence is moving rapidly, that every year sees fresh students and busy brains intent on improving the handiwork of their predecessors. It seems like yesterday since Oer sted was vainly endeavoring to ex plain to the Danish Queen Dow ager, who died last month, The rirtt CHItnnierlnz Of the electric telegraphs Yet the telephone already threatens to supersede the telegraph. Men still living can remember Sir John Barrow warning his friend George Stephenson not to hurt a good cause by talking foolishly about being able to run a locomotive more than five miles an hour, or of carrying over a few hundred pas sengers in tho course of a year. But already coal-driven engines are likely, within another fifty years, to be entirely eclipsed by electric ones. The chances are that telegraphs will by that time be as obsolete as semaphores, beacon fires and smoke signals, and that the heliograph will bo only exam amined in museums as an inter esting step in the development of the photophone. The Bacons, Newton, Boyle, Watt, Faraday, Oersted, Joule and Thomson pointed the way to Stephenson, Cooke, WhcaLstone, Gramme, Ed ison, Graham, Bell and Hughes. The wonders of to-day may be only the curiosities of the future. Photography is, for instance, so familiar to us that when the actual discoverer of that art passed away, a few j'ears ago, his death was barely noticed, simply because few could imagine that a discovery, seemingly so old, had been the work of Men of Our Generation. Posterity, which has dorm nothing for us, is to receive a mighty legacy, which it will be expected to transmit without decrease to the generation yet unborn. Theirs will be a happy lot, and one might well wish to live long enough to witness the wonderful century, of which some of us may see the dawn, but the end of which none of us can survive. Yet the men of those days may, after all, be a thought-racked, care-worn race. They may be saved much manual toil, though before they can regu they will bo a people of short lives and weary braios. But per haps by that time in electricity will be found the alchemists elixir of life, or those fountains of perpetual youth for which Ponce de Leon sought in vain. "Sour Beans" Walla-walla Statesman llih. The case of Taylor vs. the. Oregon Railway and Navigation company,, which occupied the court for the past two days, was finally jriven to the jurr, and a verdict of ten thousand dollars for tho plaintiff. The suit was brought rn wfiovor an alleged violation of a contract of 21,000. Taylor having on his part agreed to feed the men working on the Hue. The defense brought up a score of- wit nesses, who unanimously testified to fough grub and sour beans. A corps of engineers said that sour beans rested heavily on their stomachs, and they did n't enjoy their dinners worth a cent. The plaintiffs were of different temper ment, the bean instead of being sour were decidedly sweet, and that Taylors corps of cooks were aufait. The meals though plain were fit for a king. The jury, whom wo have good reason to be lieve were epicures gravely con sidered the bean question, then the contract, more beans, more con tract, and finally, after contracting the beau question for three hours, decided to give the plaintiff 10, 000. The defendant made motion for a new trial. Pexavxaa Bit tars. Cinch onxKabr. Tin Count Cinchon was the Spanish Vlceroj in Pent In 1630. The Counters. Ills wife, was prostrated by an intermit tent fewr. from which she was frml by tin ue otthe nntive remedy, the Peru vian bark. or. as it was called in the language of the country, 'Quinquina.' Grateful for her recovery, on her return to Europe in lt2, she introduced the remedv in Spain, where it was known under "various names, until Liiinteii called it Cinchona, in honor of the lady who had brought them that which was more precious than the gold of the Ineas. To this day. after a lapse of two hun dred and fifty years, science has given us nothing to take its place. It rflVctu allv cures a morbid appetite for .stimu lants, by restoring the natural tone of the stomach. It attacks excessive love of Honor as it does a fever, and destroys both alike. The powerful tunic virtue i of the Cinchona is preserved in the Peruvian Hitters, which an' as effect he ruriitict tiinlnrinl foeir linbiv ns thev were in the days of the olcl Spanish Vicerov.s. We guarantee the ingredi- onl; nf tluj liltfprs In lw nlKOllItcH pure, and of the hot known, quality. iV inai wiiiaiihiy ynii wi.ii.uii: ! me best bitter in the world. -The proof of the pudding is in the eating." aud we williiurlv abide this test. For sale by all druggist-, grocers and liquor dealers, t Order it. j The Sew School Book. Mesrs. Chas.Stcvens & Son have a full supplv of text books lately adopted by the state, and which must be introduced m the public schools by or before Oeto ber 1st. 1KS1. The following ooks are offered at in troductory price or exchange: Monticf us Elementary Geography. Monticlhs Comprehensive Geography. Sills Grammar. Brooks Primary, Elementary, Writ ten and Higher Arithmetics. The following will be sold at intro ductory rates, but not on exchange: Watsons Childs Snellen Watsons Youths Speller. Montieths Easy Lesson in Popular Science. Lytes Book Keeping. estlakes Common School Literature. City Book Stokk, Astoria, Oregon. Mother! Mother 1! Slothnr ! ! ! SAN FRANCISCO CLOTHING STORE. I THE NEWS! T i2ruiaitssai3&8istsisxc.i3iuiiiiauiausiutiaiiuiauis9UKiiismissumuu4UMi EL( :OME TO ALL ! THE FISHING SEASON HAS OPENED AND SO HAS TliE POPULAR SAN FRANCISCO BUSINESS CARDS. TAT TUTtHE, at. 3. PHYSICIAN AND SURGEON. OmcRj-Over the "White House Store. Residkxck Next door to Mrs. Hanson's boarding bouse, Chenauius street, Astori Oregon. I Q. A. BO.WLBY. ATTORNEY AT LAW. Chenamus Street. - ASTORIA. OBEGOi r vr. FUivrox. ATTORNEY AT LAW, ASTORIA - - - OREGON Office over Pajje & Allen's store, Ca& street Tp V. HOLDKX.J NOTARY PUBLIC, AUCTIONEER, COMMISSION AND SURANCK AGENT. IN-. :... j CLOTHING- STORE i ; Opened the largest and best I z selected stock of : fi 3T i mm Letters From the People. Columbia City Xntea. Columbia City, Hay il Levy Leland delivered a tem perance lecture here last night to an attentive audience. With not a saloon in town, every person present voted not to support a license to retail liquors. Several new houses are going up in town. Council & Peabody arc running tho Columbia city mill to its fullest capacity. The town is prospering. Wish we could induce capital ists to develop the coal and iron mines here. A number of ledges for ten miles west of here, pros pected last summer by Gen. Ten natt aud Profs. Hillvard aud East- vvickj would pay well and make Columbia city rank among the mineral towns of the coast. The Northern Pacific railroad company are locating the line of railroad from Portlaad to Kalama on the Oregon side, with a view of building the road this summer. When this link is completed to Columbia city and Astoria the system would be nearer perfect. All the produce of Oregon and j commerce of the seas will then find their destination with more profit to the producer than now. The coal, iron and timber adjacent to the railroad in Columbia and Clatsop counties would soon pay for all outlays. The most of eastern Oregon must be supplied with fuel aud timber from this lower country. Another important work is the improvement of the mouth of the Columbia, which should be done by the state of Oregon and private subscriptions, if the government will not do it. I will give one hundre d dollars towards it. l Letter From Kedcue. Astoria Oregon, May 22. Parties Jiving in the neighbor hood of the blaze Saturday, thought water was a Iens: time coming, but if the trouble to get water is con-1 sidered, the time was very short. When No. 2's were coming down ; to Tub Astorian corner, Engineor Worsley opened the trap there and reported no water; then he ran and opened the ono at the Occi dent corner, but before he had time to leok the engine was there, suction down, hose attached, stretched and set, when no water was discovered. Then wo took up and carried tho suction, and dragged the engine with four hundred feet of hose attached, to Case's' stops, where two men had to hold the basket to keep it from sucking air or mud. Had the tide beea two inches lower, we would have had to pick up entirely and go three or four blocks to deeper water; whereas, if there was a tank that would fill by the tide, and remain full during low water under the streets, at The Astorian corner, we could have had water in one third of the timo, and been better prepared to work. We are always ready and wil ling but do not send us six or eight blocks for water and expect us to get back in no time. Rescue. Are you disturbed at night and broken of vour rest by a sick child sufferinj; and crying with tite excruciating pain of cutting teeth '. If so, go at once and get a bottle of Mrs. Window's Soothing Symp, it will relieve the poor littlv suf ferer immediately depend upon it; there is no mistake about it. There is not a mother on earth who has ever iicil it. wIki will unt. ti'll vim at nnee that it will regulate the bowels, and jive rest to the moiher, and relief ami jr health to the child. operating like magic. It U perfectly safe to use in all ease, and pleasant to the taste, and is the pre scription of one ol the oldest and bel -AND- A. VAN DUSEN. NOTARY PUBLIC. Chenamus Street, near Occident Hotel. ASTORIA. OREGON. Agent "Wells, Fargo & Co. p r. hicks. KNTIST, ASTORIA, - - - - OREGON. Rooms In Allen's building up stairs, eornr of Cass and Sqeinocqhe streets. TK. 31. 1). JKXXIXfJS. - THYSICIAN AND SURGEON. Graduate University of Virginia, i68 Physician to Bay View hospital, Baltbrinrt City, lSO-IO. Office In Page & Allen's building, up stairs, Astoria. Gents Furnishing Goods, BOOTS AND SHOES, TRUNKS AND VALISES, HATS AND CAPS, AND THE BEST- CARTER'S CAPE ANN female physicians and nurses in the. Luiteu stales. ow every wiiere. oents a bottle. Burnett Coeoainc Hair. for Io4 of Cuicaoo, Oct. 11, 1880. Three years ago my hair was coming out very fast, and I was nearly bald. I wsis also troubled with daudruu. I begau using Burnett's cocoaine. and my hair immedi ately stopped coming out, and has con stantly been getting thicker. My head is now entirely free from dandruff. 3ly wife has used the cocoaine with equally gratifying results. P. T. Piatt, with F. SlcVeagh & Co. Burnett's extracts are the purest fruit flavors. Have Wistar's balsam of wild cherry always at hand. It cures coughs, colds, bronchitis, whooping cough, croup, in fluenza, consumption, ami all throat aud lung complaints. .i0 cents and Si a bot tle. Fire-brick and fire-clay in lota U suit at M. C. Crosby 3. Ice cream nt Roscoes oyster and refreshment saloon on Main street. : 1 RUBBER BOOTS, ETC., WHICH WILL KK HOLD AT SAN FRANCISCO WHOLESALE PRICES. REMEMBER THIS IS NO HUMBUG. HAVING MADE ARUANQEMENTS IN NEW YORK AND SAN FRAN CISCO FOR THE PURCHASE OF ALL 11T GOODS, 5LY FACILITIES FOR BUYING ARE SUCH AS TO ENABLE ME TO Undersell all Others. I Defy Competition. T A. MclXTOHII. MERCHANT TAILOR, Occident Hotel Building. ASTORIA .-- OREGON Q H. TJAIN & CO., DEALER IX Doom, Windows, Blinds, Trim NGSiM, liumber. Etc. All kinds of Oak Lumber, Glass, Boat Ma terial, etc. Steam IUI11 near Weston hotel. Cor. Gen evlve and Astor streets. UHIiEN'IIATtT &. HCHOEXE. Occident Hotel Hair Dressing Saloon ASTOKIA - OREGON. Dot, Cold, Shower, Ktenm and Salphnr BATHS. r-Speclal attention jdven to ladles' fui5 children's hair cutting. Private Entrance (or IhIIm. A splendid large front room to let suitable for an ottice, opposite the bell tower. Apply to A. Campbell. Blocks tf paper, useful oil the desk of accountants, put up to order and for sale at Tun Astokian' office. For a lirst-class oyster stew, fry, pan-roast or fancy roast, go to Roscoo's on Mam street, opposite N. Loeb's. Families supplied by tho hundred or tho sack, opened or in tho shell. Sons of the Albany Beer! RcsicclfuHy Dedicated to and Sold by CHAS. CRATTKE. - - - - ASTORIA. Facts and Figures ! WIIXIAM FRY. PRACTICAL BOOT AXD S1IOK MAKER. CiiEVAMt's Stkket, opposite Adleri Book store, - ASTOKiA, Obkoox. -Perfect ats gnamnteed. All work warranted. Giwi utt a trial. All orders promptly niled. HiTM W. L.3TCAM2. Astoria. J. A. BROWN Portland. BROIT.V Jk. IcCAB, STEVEDORES AND RIGGERS. Astoria office At E. C. Holdeu'a Auction store. Portland oflleeM B street. 13-tf To-Night. To-Night. GRAND BALL. AT MUSIC HALL, THIS EVENING. GREAT SURPRISE AT THE San Francisco Store! HERE ARE PRICES OF GOODS THAT WILL SURPRISE ALL. CLOTHING DEPARTMENT. Max. Waener'a San Francisco ways.Audiaseach carriage will late all their mechanical appliances INational brewery beer can't ba..beat. Good evening kind frlcuds, just listen to me. And when you have heard me. I'm sure you'll aRree. I will gtre you a story, and .sins it out clear And the name or my ang b the ALBANY BEEIL Vim iviii flu. I it nil miiful in this cltvor "0111. And the way that they make it fias never hern tofd. Tliat's a secret they keep aud hold very dear. For thn whole country Ls drinking that The urewcry b large and the machinery b" fine. And every onler Is scut to you rlslU up to time. They Ret all kinds of order from far aud from near. And everv one's healthy that drinks AL BANY BEER. For every thing thcte looks m clean and to neat. And their beer b mi .sparkling, it cannot be beat. If vou are feeling bad or the blues do appear. You can drive them away bv drinking AL BANY BEER. I have an old father, who's now eishty-three. And this b the advice he rave unto me. He bpoke to me kindly with a voice bright and clear : "If you want to be healthy, drink ALBANY BEER." Since then I have done so, aud I'm hearty and sound. At the round ago of fifty I can always bo fonnd At my dally labor before tho sun does appear And each day aud night I drink ALBANY BEEP Also, on" draught, THE CELEBRATED BOCK BEER. C. GRATTKE, - - WELCOME SALOON, Roadway, opposite O. K. & N. Go's Dock. Washington Market, Main Street, - - Astoria Oregon BERQ2IAN tC BERRY RESPrCTFULLT CALL TUE ATTEN tlon cf the pablis to the ftet that th above Market will always ba supplied with a FULL VARIETY BEST QUALITY MENS AND ROYS CASIMERE SUITS FJJOM- 5 3 00 EXTRA BEST SUITS 12 00 FINE BLACK SUITS IS 00 DIAGONAL SUITS " 15 00 CASIMERE PANTS " .'. 2 50 EXTRA BEST PANTS" i 00 BOYS SUITS. ALL SORTS, FROM G 00 TOJ5 00 " 20 00 " 25 00 " 22 00 ". 4 00 " 5 50 " 12 00 dealer in FA3III.Y ;ilCERIES, N AILS, 3IIT.I. FEEI AXJ HAY Cash paid for country produce. Small profits on cash sales. Abtona, Oregon, cor ner of Main and Squemocqhn streets. I. "W. CASE, DIPORTER AND WHOLESALE AND RE TAIL DEALER IN GEEBAL MERCHAMSE Corner Cueuaiuus and Cass streets. ASTORIA - - - OREGON. FURNISHING GOODS. 60 20 90 OVERALLS FROM JUMPERS " - ALL "WOOL SOCKS CHECKER SOCKS. SIX PAIR FOR COTTON SOCKS, TUREE PAIR FOR WHITE SHIRTS FROM COLORED 'J 75 CASIMERE" " SI 50 FLANNEL - - . I 00 BLUE NAVY 2 00 FLANNEL UNDERSHIRTS AND DRAWERS FROM 1 25 COTTON FLANNEL SHIRTS AND DRAWERS GO MARINO SHIRTS AND DRAWERS 50 60 CTS. TO SI 00 1 00 25 1 00 25 1-75 I 50 3 00 1 75 2 50 225 OIL CLOTHING. LONG OIL COATS FROM 53 50 OIL JUMPERS u. 2 75 TO 4 50 3 00 Wm. Houseman of Portland BEGS LEAVE TO NOTIFY HIS friends and customors that he has opened A FISHERMAN'S CLOTHING AND FURNISHING GOODS STORE Next to G. V. Ilumo's grocery store. F. HOUSEMAN, Agent BOOTS AND SHOES. MENS CALF BOOTS FROM- S3 CO MENS KIP BOOTS . - 2 75 ELASTIC GAITERS u - 175 BUCKLE SHOES - .. 2 25 MENS SLIPPERS - - 50 BOYS BOOTS - j 125 TO 4 50 4 00 250 35 1 00 1 75 FRESH AND CURED MEATS! Whtrfi will hncnld f 1nu r(u. v)iMmi1 EndreUU. Special Rtteatloa clrra to snpplj. SanFianeUco Store Soueraocqhe agleUsi. -- .--..- - -.'- jTalla;waa Kestaurant. Astona Oreff I HAVE THIS SPRING STRAINED EVERY' NERVE AND USED MY ENTIRE ENERGY AND BEST JUDGMENT IN PLACING IN OUR AS TORIA HOUSE THE LARGEST AND MOST COMPLETE ASSORTMENT OF THE ABOVE LINE OF GOODS. CALL AND INSPECT FOR YOURSELF. YOU ARE WELCOME. I WILL GLADLY SHOW MY GOODS, NO MATTER WHETHER YOU BUY OR NOT. NEW GOODS BY EVERY STEAMER. S-DANZIGER. he strtet,. next door to Page & Allen's store, north of reson. HANSEN BROS Contractors and Builders, CORNER ASTOR AND CASS STREETS. Near Congregational Church. And are now ready to receive orders for all kinds of WOOD WORK, Contracts taken to build and repair ships, houses, boats, etc., AT LOWEST RATES. "Doors and Window Frames made to order. T. H. HATCH. r. T. BARCLAY. HATCH & BARGLAY, COMMISSION 3IERCHANTS, No. 20 California St, San Francisco, Cal. C. H. STOCKTON, SOTC333, SZQSC AMI -CARRIAGE PAINTER,- I PAPER HANGING AND WALL COLORING A SrKCIALTV. GLAZING PROMPTLY ATTENDED TO. mrShop next door to Astorian Office, in Sauster'sDulldlnr. - ?