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3) E9E ASTORIA, OREGON: FRIDAY DEC. '2. 1SSI The Oregon Short Line. ISSUED EVERY MORNING. i Monday Kxcc-Kcdi. J. P. HALLORAN & COMPANY, ruuLissHuus A"i l'norKiirrons. AzUirvia linU4inj, (?o- direct. Terms of Subscriptien: iorved by Carrier, per week..........i Cents Jent by moll, four month"........ .........?' X) Sont hv rrnil. one yoar... .......... 9 05 Freo of Postaxo to Subscriber. - Advertisements inserted by the year at :be rate of cl 50 per square per month. transient advertising, by tho doy or week, dfty cents ier suuoro for each insertion. THECITY. rilK DAILV A4TOKXAX ICill bt Witt ly mailafUcctit amonVh.fncof postage Read' art who cimVtnplatr absence from the ctty can r,arc Thk Astouiax folloir them, Daily r Wkkkiyv fdition t ar.y pot-o$ice with out aiUlitUhial crprnxc. Add:xttes may lye cnowjfd a often an tlertrtA. Tsivc ortirrn at thf nnmtlna room. The Berwickshire crossed out to sea yestorday. Mrs. Southworth'.s novels at Adler's. The Sunday law has passed tho Territorial legislature. Scott's novels at Adler's bookstore. The Orday brought down the bark Diana yesterday. Gibbon's Home at Adler's Col. Geo. Wolcott, the head of tho Oregon Short Lino surveyinjr corps, tells the Idaho Statesman that thero arc many who fear that the coming of tho railroad will bo delayed by tuu nolin" operations near Grander. The company haro decided that time is oi more importance just now than a few j miles of track, and will build around the hill, fully expecting to lay the track to Soda Spriugs before cold weathor shuts down operations. That the work is being pushed la ehown by the fact that Col. Wolcott now has two corps in the field, locating each from two to six miles a day. One of these parties is on Little Wood river working that way and the other be tween Boise and Old's Ferry, to which place the line is to be located tlm win ter. Whether or not tho hort line will be built to Baker City depends on j the progress tho Yiliard liues make when the short line taps Snako river. Colonel Wolcwtt states that tho old Hudnut survey will be followed in a general way, but mo exactly, as more practicable routes are found in some places for abort distance. The order of the company to tho aervcyors are to lose no timo in getting through, and from other sources comes news that neither men nor money will bo spared to put a railroad within ton miles, and this before 188.". The bark Anglo Norman w, taken up stream yesterday. Samuel Lover's novels at Adler's. The .British barks Diana and Lin dores Abbey are coining down tho river to-day. Mary J. Holmes' novels at Adler's. Tho American nhip Adolph Ohrig sailed from New York for the Colum bia last Wednesday. All of Ouida'.s novels at Adler's. M. C. George was admitted to practice in the United States supreme court last Wednesday. Mayno Reid's novels at Adler's. Speculation ha3 been rifo for sovcral j l-SS--. .jFree to Everybody! Wilson & Fisnuii u ceks in Aibina and among the row- dents of Holladav's addition to know . the mcanhi" of certain tram-actions of i ij:.m.kr ix the Oregon Railway and Navigation ' company. It is claimed, saya "' - -g p -vr a. kt&-js-z. 0f TH Vindicator. tSiat iurehas-s of ail the Mur by postal card If at a dbtancc). and adult . . . . .. i T.inniTPATIVf? OILS POM. On ' l--'" um oe presented wiui a Doautiiully availablu lots and blocks of tho addi-1 JiU l""""- - Uli- LUA1' U1 ' illustrated copy of a New Hook entitled tion and Albina have been made or I ! A Beautiful Book for the Asking i ' Hy pplyliiKP-:n-iii:dlvat the nearest oSicc SISEK 3IAM FACTUKINf! CO.. I XL Winter 1881. PAINTS AND OILS. are being negotiated for. The rond j that at present is being built from j Sheet, Round, and Square Prepared '. Eastern Oregon, and which mtiat ef: necessity come through Ea.t Portland, j GENIUS REWARDED, OK THK Rubber Packing. Istorj of the Serai Machine. ' it is mid, U have its terminus Rime-: pK&vlsl0SSi ilILJj PEEI)i where in this city, and not across tho j 4 "Wo understand that there are six sailors at the hospital, with scurvy from the C. S. Hurlburt. Schiller's works at Adler's. Tho various railroad lines of the 0. R. & N. Co. completed and build ing, aggregate G9G miles. Chas. Read's novels at Adler's. The now form of horso disease known as "pink-eye," has made its appoaranco on this coast. Have you seen those cards at Adler's. Renublican organs have bejun the work of nominating candidates for 1884: Blaine and Foster aro fa vorites in Illinois. All of Mark Twain's works at Ad ler's The Stoinvora cloared for sea yes lerday. She has 20,325 ctls. wheat from Portland, and 13,081 from As toria; worth 8G4,08G. Another of tliose fine A. ft. Chase organs at tho City Book Store. Tho Nez Perce News says that the Potlach gold fever has subsided gone tho way of the Moscow and Camas prairie excitements. Frank Fabre has oysters in every style. Stew and pan roasts a specialty v Tho British ship Oimara, 1353 tons, Simpson master, arrived in Wednesday night and was towed up yesterday, 141 days from Wilmington. Max. Wagner's San Francisco Na tional brewery beer can't be beat. At last comes a correct definition of bric-a-brac. It is ''anything in the crockery line which is absolutely use- leas, set upon the mantel-piece where it wHI be in tho way." Macaulay's History of England, complete, at Adler's book store. Eastern papers are publishing editorials on "How to live on 810 a week." 'Tis singular how tliose East ern"journalist8 will obtrude their pri vate affairs upon the public. American party names, "Half- breeds," "Know Nothings," and the like, have always been a wonder to foreigners, but when a party calls itself the " Winterthurcrkandwerksbursch envorwaatsgrupp," as a party in Switzerland does, it fairly takes one's breath away. Serious Exclmngt. The tunnel at the Mullen Pass, on tho Northern Pacific railroad, of which frequent mention has lately been mado, will be 3,800 feet, or over three-fifths of a mile long, with an up grade the whole distance of 106 feet to the mile from the east to tho west end. Its dimensions will bo 16 feet wide with a height of 20 feet. The formation is of hard granite and will make its own arch. Laugh and Grow Fat. What a blearing to be a good laugh er! A rare gift and one to be prized and cherished. Some laush periodi cally, like tho ebb and flow of tho tide, and cynically like tho snapping of a stick, some laugh as Cassius smiled, as though they scorned themselves that could bo brought to laugh at any thing. Csrlyle says, "No man who has once heartily and wholly laughed can be altogether irreclahnably bad. How much lies in laughter, the cipher key wherewith wo decipher tho wholo man! Somo men wear an everlasting barren simper; in the smiles of others lies a cold glitter , as of ice. The few est are ablo to laugh, what can be called laughing but produce husky cachinuations, as if they were laugh ing through wool, of none such comes good. The man who cannot laugh is not only fit for treasons, stratagems and spoils, but his whole life is nlready a treason and a stratagem." "0 glorious laughter," says tho cordial wit, Jerrold, "that which makes man truly philosophic con queror of himself and care? Have you ever considered what man would be, destitute of the ennobling faculty of laughtor. What synovia is to the joints, laughter is to tho face of man, oiling and lubricating it. Let materi alists talk as gingerly and acutely as thejr will, they must find confusion in laughter. Man may take a triumph ant stand upon Ins broad grins, for ho looks around the world, and his soul, sweetly tickled with the knowl edge, tells him that ho alono of all creatures laughs. Imagine, it you can, a laughing fish! Let man, then, send a loud 'ha! ha!' through the uni verse, and be reverently grateful for tho privilege." Major Rees, of Walla Walla, haa introduced in the Territorial Legisla ture a bill requiring each incorporated city and town in the Territory to bo comprised in one school district, under one board of directors; and further requiring each city or town in which the enumeration of school children is five hundred or upward, to adopt the graded system of teaching. Edward Himes, of tho Liverpool Mercury, is willing to risk his reputa tion as a public man if the worst case of small pox cannot be cured in three days simply by the use of cream of tartar dissolved in one pint of hot water, drank at intervals. There are so very few public men now-a-days with reputations worth losing, that for far-off Edward's sake we hope the remedy is a suro one. Chas. Stovcus and Son have a stock of mouldings and moulders tools which can be bought cheap lor cash to close out that branch of tho busmcs-s. river to South Portland, as has been ! the nnnonnced intention of the cor-! poratinu building it. The right of way lias been asked and the .same J granted through Second street, in East Port laud, as far a. Jefferson j street, whicn is just opposite the wa ter works, and work has begun in filling up the property purchased last year. It is said by the knowing ones, however, that this is all a blind in order to purchase the property cheap that agents are at work for below, without creating a boom and run ning the same up to a fancy figure. J It is known that the work of filling in South Portland is being carried on in about as small a way as pos sible in order to make a showing, and not as a gigantic corporation, Such as the O. R. & N. Co. could and would do it if there was any intention on its part to make its depots then. It is also said by residents of Holla day's addition that Mr. John W. Shaver, avIio owns tho warehouse and considerable frontage on the river bo low the O. & C. R. R. depot, has negotiated for the sale of his property to tho O. R. & N. Co., and that ho has gone to British Columbia to get the signatures of somo prospective heirs to the property, to tho deeds, and that when ho returns tho transfer will be mado. It has been reported, too, that the O. R. Sr N. Co. havo made a conditional bargain for prop erty in Holladay's addition, agreeing to purchase from Mrs. Proebstel a body of laud she owns there, paying for it a largo sum, if an adjoining piece of property belonging to J. H. McMilleu can be secured also. Since the Oregon and California railroad has passed into the control of the O. R. & N. Co., it is to their interest to keep their depots and terminal stations near together and tho chances are great that when the road from Tho Dalles is completed it will turn down the river instead of up, and that the passenger and freight stations will bo in Holla day's addition instead of South Port land. Of course no one knows that all this is so, but residents at Albina and Holladay's addition aro all alert and the talk of the railroad center being there is common. They may all be mistaken, but where there is so much smoke there is general!' some fire nnd if tho result is not as antici pated, and tho road to be terminated there, then there is somo other scheme on foot to iuake something out of tho property in that part of East Portland. Containing a handsome and costlv sled en gtavta? frontispiece ; also, 2? finely engraved 1 , v.mxicu.iiuu oounuin an eiaoorate ome - piip- Qtrn n y; crrn ' JIILd gold .nthoftrapbed cover. Xo charpc (rAKDK.i SEED, OR Abb Shr.D. ; whatever 1 made lor this handsome book. which can b olu:incd only by application :i: me nrancii nr.n uoorcitinic Pince1 oi lite Which wll! lie e.xcb;tiij?ed for country pro- . :;,r,P XTT.iiif.iirinf. i'.. I at lowest pr!e;. . dure or sold Jorncr OlieiiaiuiLS and Hamilton Strret.-' VSTOKIA. OKKUON. For Rent. The Singer Manufacturing Co. Principal Oflltv, ."! "nion Square. XEW YOltK. THE SINGER TltK n" "IT: "T-HSEWITO MACHINE. xntiirui 11UW.I, Ti' undrrsijnu'd re-p etfully notifies the ronnerl v condncted bv Mr. ArriKor.l. K for J,U";K ' ,,;u ". oeen appomieu rem on rcasmtame icrnis. The largest stock of goods ever brought to Astoria is now exhibited at THE LEADING Dry Goods I Clothing House li.rtl'ELUIIER. Police. A Koat picked up near the Farmers wharf on theti-'.th of November. Owner can have, tin same by paying charges. Inquire at Central hotel. C'hnlrc Valley Fruit. Capt. J. II. I). Gray has just received a choice lot of pears and apples, fre-di from the orchards of Polk and Marion counties, which will lie sold m lot suit purchasers. airt'til for the NEW IMPROVED SINGER,' He 1 now prepared to offer these unrivalled Sfwliij; Jbtchmes on such terms as cannot fj:ll to meet the wants ol everybody In need of thi iiidmwnsablu articlo of Household furniture, liberal discount made on cash sale. To those desiring it I will sell on the Instalment plan. Fhe dollars a mouth. 17 cent a clay, ties than it costs a smoker for clears), will soon purchase your wife a .ShiRer. The Best Sewing Machine Ever Put Together. ts to Old Sewing Machines taken in exchange. I Attachments. Needle, Cotton. Oil. etc., al- Slwrnian tiros. Cxprr Will receive orders at the store of 1. W. Case for upper Astoria or any other part of the city. Leave your orders on the slate and they will bo promptly at tended to. ways on hand. Call and examine the Singer I jeum:.ttac:uno:ma tne vanetv oi worx li j can perform at E. C. IfOLDE-N'ri. .IKl'tll OIICl .1IU1I. v l'i'o Itono Publico. M. D. Kant, Merchant Tailor, has just engaged the services of a competent cutter and tailor and will guarantee all garments to suit in style and fit. Frc-sh oystprs In every .style nt -Mis Arrlgoni's. Dickens' store. novels at Adler's be'd: Owing to the stormy weather, tho daily express between here and San Francisco failed to cennect: but instead we have filled our ease with a choice lot of creams and other candies of our own make, at the Astoria Candy Factory. Celluloid goods at Adler's. Fresh lard, of their own manufac ture, at Warren & Eaton's. Hot. cold, and shower JJaths atjtlie Occident hair dressing saloon, twenty five cents. J. W. Conn has removed to the old stand of Warren and Eaton, opposite tiie Occident You can subscribe at AdlerV for anj- periodical published in Europe or America. His subscription agency em braces an countries. P. J. Goodman, on Chenamus trect', has just received the latent and most fashionable stylo of gnts an I Indies boots, shoes, etc. MAGMcS C. OROSBT, Dealer In HARDWARE, IRON, STEEL, Iron Pipe and Fittings,' Pluto ana Steam Iters Goods and Tools, SHEET LEAD? STRIP LEAD, SHEET IRON TIN AND COPPER, Fresh arrivals by every Steamer, conse quently I get the Eastern Novelties. STRICTLY 03STE FB.IOE and that ALWAYS THE LOWEST. wr- i iiiT -.WT-l I I l The City UoolcStore ha ouetfithl-t tiou one of tiie fmet selection of holiday goods ever opened, ('all and examine! for yourselves. Julius Halbsgutli. teacher or vocal and instrumental music, piano and; organ tuner. Orders left at Adler's book store promptly attended to. A splendid lot of Knstorn Ojsters just arrived by the State of California at Tom Smith's Oyster Saloon, Main trect. Mr. John Rogers of the Central Mar ket, has made arrangements to keep all the finest fresh fish, etc., in their season --Anything and everything in tho line of books and stationery at Adlnr'i. lwok and variety store. " Whins. ettrry-comlH, brushes: new stock; first class goods, cheap for cash S. Okay. -Xuas Xf-w Year's, and hirtlMtay card", the llneM, ever in tl'ecilv, attlfe Citv Hook .Store. j Stoves, Tin Ware ant) House Furnishing Goods. Do not fail to get my prices and examine goods before purchasing. a H. COOPER, I X L Store , near Parlier Souse, Astoria. The Boss Coffee and Tea Pot S7 Tho question whether a charter party made by a broker in tlio homo port of the vessel was binding on the owner without his actual assent, was considered by tho United States cir cuit court, at Philadelphia, on Oc tober 25th. Judge McKenna, in the opinion, said: It is essential to tho validity of any charter made by a broker at the homo port of a vessel, ostensibly in her behalf, and accepted by her master, that it should be rati fied by the managing owner. Mero silence on his part will not operate as a ratification. And it was alike es sential to the efficacy of such ratifica tion that the person who assumed to act for the vessel shonld make a full disclosure and a correct statement of all the facts touching the charter within his knowledge to the managing owner. Capt. Baughman tells tho Lewis ton Teller that upwards of 2,0fH) tons of grain are awaiting rail transporta tion at Texas, and ho estimates that over 12,000 tons are lying at differ ent points along the river bank. It is variously estimated that from 75,000 to 100,000 tons aro yet to be hauled to the line of tho steamer for ship ment in case the roads are good and navigation keeps upeu long enough. In case tho Grango City railroad be complotcd within tho ensuing ten days, it will require three months steady work for this road with its fa cilities to remove all the grain that will be in readiness for transportation to Portland, if tho roads are such that it can bo hauled to Snako river and find steamboat transportation to Texas Landing, and in case there can bo as surance given that a fair price will be realized by the producer for his wheat and flax," there will be more than double the grain raised next year than was tho present, and this will again be doubled the followitig year, if prices are fair ami transportation ample. -Solid silver and silver-plated goods at Adler's. -Scotch butter. Russian apricot ami lots more of thoe celebrated candies and sweet meats Just received at Adler's, fresh from the factory. The New Testament authorized edition revised, for twenty-five cents at Charles Stevens and .Sous Citj IJook store. Kor the genuine J. II. Cutler old lSourbon. ami tho best of v.-iius, liquors and .Sail Franeisco beer, call at the Gem. opposite the bcl! tower, and . Caini-lirtll. Warren & Eaton have mowd to tin corner of Hamilton and Chenamus street, in the building formerly m.-cu- putl hy Trenchant te Lp.4inr. A- a mild, but effectual laxative, as a .-afo but sure tonic, b.ood purifier and udnernl streimthener, uso King of the Dlood. .See advertisement. Fifty-eight pupils upper Astoria school. attend the Solid go!d and gold-plated warn at Adler's. In tho police court yesterday n soiled dove paid 5 for drunkenness, a Chinaman paid $30 fino for keeping an opium joint,and two white men put up S30 for the forbidden act of smok ing therein. The latest style In fancy stationery at Adler's. ThoO.R.&N. Co. A Chicago dispatch of tho oOth tilt., says: "The Oregon "Railway nnd Navigation company iiss got out a new map showing the road complotcd, that under construction, and I ho- lines pro jected and connection. The company is now making a survey for the con struction of a line from Portland to Kalamn, which is expected to be com pleted by . J.-muary 1883. They are j contompla.iui; the construction of an extension of the WaRhington territory j branch from a point" south of Tacoma to Seattle. It is the intention to complete the system of roads in Ore gon and Washington territory during the coining year. The system will comprise a mileage of 7000 miles, of which about GOO miles are to-day in oparatiou and of wliicli fifteen miles J0B3ING IN SHEET IRON, TIN, COP PER, PLUMBING and STEAM FITTING Oune with witness and dispatch. None lnl Hist elav vikinen employed. A lare a-rtmentif SCALES ('Tjnstautly oDluaml HOSPITAL. ASTORIA, - - OKKOON rjl!ll.S INSTITUTION. L'NDKK CARE OF JL the sitters r uiianty. Is now ready for tho tvcri-tlou fif patten.-,. Vrlvate room-, for the accummoilatiut. of anv(ltsirii: tneiii. I'atieiitt.-.ilinltted at all hours, day or night. No phv-Ieiaii has ecelu-lve rism. every patient nve to and has the privilege oi i'inploliiany j.lixsi.-ian the prefer. United Str.l'.K niarino Seamen who pay Hospital Dues, are euti tleil to Free care and attendance at this Hos pital during sickness. Penults must he ob tained for f niUtl Slate. Marines at the Cus- ti::j I louse. Si.vrKKS or Chakity Meteorological Register. The following is from the meteoro logical register of Fort Canby for the month of November,. 1881: Average temperature, 45.G6. Maximum temperature, 57.00, on tho 2d of month. Miirmum temperature, 29.00, dur ing night, from lGth to 17th of month. Avcrago cloudiness, (J. Number of days on which rain fell, 13. Rainfall, 7 in. 14 c. c. William S. Block. m may bk iiad ok E.RHAWES SOI.K AGF.NT. .Lw. .Vsvni for the tvl.'bratcd '- zr-nr -47 a -vBsdlt TWO D00K3 EAST OF OCCIDENT, MEDALLION RANGE, WES, ASTORIA. OREGON CHAS. HEILBORN, MANUFACTURER OF FUBNITTJRE 3? BEDDING AND DEALER IN Carpets, Oil Cloth, Wall Paper, Mirrors, Window Shades, Lace Curtains, Picture Frames and Mouldings, WINDOW CORNICES AND CURTAIN TOLES Complete hi every branch. THE COLUMBIA LA&J&J BREWERY IS SUi'l.P.lOU TO MOS1. ANU la K.VEl.LIU) BY NONK ON THIS COAST JOHN HAH3, - - FKOPKlETOli. CHEI-JAEIUS STREET, ASTORIA, OREGON. BWOWlers loft at the GEKMAXLY 1JEEU HALL wilt be promptly attended lorsu ASTORIA BREWERY. M. W3EYER Proprietor, ASTORIA, OREGON. spsciaIji jk23rro"criJOJEi3Esiia''p. REDUCTION OF WHOLESALE PRICES. All kinds of suitable birthday pres ents at Adler's. Hotel Arriveda. ouciDEirr. Jas Strang Portland; John For, J Straus city; J L Smiley Eaglo Cliff; J West, J Graham, Win West West port; G W Fonuer Walluski; II F Waller & wife Portland. fAKKKR HOUSE. . T Wwzet Chicojro; F Albrihl, D. I Grant City; .1 Prest Ilwaco; C Ander-' $7 50 PER BARKEL OF 30 GALLONS. LAEGE ORDERS IX LIKE 1'ROrORTlON. Less Quantities, SO Cents per Gallon Bottled Beer, - - - S I BO per Dozen cirSpccial attennou paid to orders from Public Houses and Families.- Washington "Market, j Main Mrect, - 11ERGMAN .C JlKRltl GEO. W. DAY. Aetoria Orcqot' t Upholsterinq and Repairfnq Furniture 1 i - Cutting down Billiard and Peel Tables. son steamer Shuprick; Fred Hyde I T E5PLCT1TLLY CALL TIIE n. tv t rr....,. ii.;.,L,. i it n; Xwtion cf tho public to tho fact City; W L Hams bkipanon; J il liei- above Market will always besuppli son Station Ogn; Z M .Brown Portlaud; more will be in operation .ithin - -- -- V pZ neV j FULL VA RIRTV 1S1OT QUALITY three months. To traneport tho Slarks poiut; li Klopko St Helens; ! 0y- - building material and rolling stock to j R 31 Wooden Nehalera valley. ; FRESH AMD CURED W1EATS ! Portland 50 or GO ships will be loaded at New York and Philadelph ia during Have you seen those illustrated Ne".Y ESPilCTlTLLY 0ALL THE ATTKN. ! ;m worK nonejiroaipuy ana warranted that the ;..--..-". upplied with u . SlioniuJ.W.Oearhart'sbulldlnc-.ontw.iift O. It. & X. Co' dock. The furniture and fixtures of a first- class dining-room are for sale, inclu- the year 1882. Tear's cards at Adler's, I Which will be acid at lowest rates, wholesale j ? and retail. Spooial attention siven tosuppb- Inquire or 2l rs. Arngoni ; Pioneer Res tir shim. taurant. 'U vli.i.-