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: c "- - ,5 J5rft. : tartan Vol xviii. Astoria, Oregon, Wednesday Morning, December 20, 1881 No. 68. She Dado 3l WHY THE DE LONG EXPEDI TION FAILED. The Carson, Nev.5 Appeal of the l?th says: Senator Jones, who is in Carson, gives an account of DeLongs Arctic expe dition, which lie got from Capt. Newbaum, in San Francisco. Newbautn is a Russian, who has been for many years in the scr Tice of the Alaska Fur company. He was the last man from whom the DeLong party received pro visions. He says: "DeLong left my station, almost at the northern point of Alaska, and I furnished him, at the order of the Alaska Fur company, witli sledges, dogs and provisions. He took 27 dogs and one Indian. I account for the loss of the part' on the theory that they killed the dogs. I do not believe that DeLong know anything about the undertaking that he was grappling with, and was ignorant of the means by which a trip could be made in that region. I see by his diary that there was but one dog left a few days prior to his death. He must have killed the dogs without knowing their tremendous value, and when the dogs are gone there is absolutely no hope left. The dogs could not have died or been lost they were killed. The scent of these animals is remark able, and they will detect provis ions, no matter wherever they may be. When men in these regions kill Polar bears, and have more meat than they can keep, they cache the meat, and it sometimes lies hidden in the ice for years, until discovered by dogs. The ice is full of these places. If you meet an Indian in that region and kill his dog ho lies down and dies, considering that the better part of him is gone. Another great over sight was the neglect to take the t. rijrkt kind of -guns. ' T "offered De- Long a fowling piece made ex pressly to use in the Arctic seas and calculated to stand the cli mate. He refused it because he said he wanted a gun that would kill bears. I explained that he needed guns for birds and not for bears, but he would not listen to me and took Remington rifles, the weight of which 'hampered him and were of no use. He must have seen fowls flying over his head all the time and yet could i.ot kill them. The diary says, the Indian, after drawing the sledge all day, would go out at night and get birds and he kept the party alive for two weeks. Anywhere you cut a hole through the ice and flash a light down the fish will swarm, but they had no fishing tackle. All their chances were thrown away through ignorance. I am not saj'ing a word against DeLong. I liked him personally, but he was not the man to com mand an Arctic expedition. The North Pole, in my opinion, can be reached only by following up the warm current that flows to the pule, and beyond there is an open sea. Put men in such an expedition who have been raised in the north ern part of Alaska and who know all about the region, and there is a strong chance of success. ''Cockroach Tea." A Philadelphia medical journal has received a communication from a Louisiana physician, asking if there is any virtue in tea made from lat female cockroaches, brandy and sugar. The following formula of a preparation used by old women nurses in the south was also furnished: "One dozen fat female cockroaches, put into a pint ! boiling water (after being bruised); let stand a couple of hours, then strain well; add two tablespoonfuls of brandy and 3j of crushed sugar; stir till thoroughly dissolved. Two tablespoonfuls every hour." The professor of materia medica in Jefferson college said last night that he presumed .cockroaches were not entirely unknown in the Medical practice in this city, and "oockroach tea" may be used with good effect in some cases, although; owmg to the public prejudice fftiiMttne insect, it would not bt a popular medicine. The use of the cockroach as a diuretic in some cases is almost universal in Rus sia, and is very general now in European medical practice as a cure for Bright's disease. To what extent it may be used in Philadel phia is not known. Physicians would not care to have it known that they prescribe so detested an insect in their practice, and few druggists will acknowledge that they keep it in stock. Its medical properties are in many respects the same us those of cantharides, and when prescribed are in the shape of pills, made with the pow der of the dried insect, or the "cockroach tea" of the southern "grannies." A Record reporter who visited several of the leading drug stores in the city yesterday and asked whether powdered coackroaches were kept in their stock, was told that they did not sell it, but that a prescription con taining the active principle, batti den, can be easily prepared by dryiug half-a-dozen of the animals and powdering them, so as to make a pill, and a solution can and oc casionally is prepared by soaking fat female cockroaches in whisky. The professor of materia medica in Jefferson college saj's that the cockroach is no more offensive than the cantharides, which are of the same class of animals, and their smell is, if anything, less digust ing than the much used Spanish fly. Several physicians who were interviewed yesterday on the sub ject said that in their opinion it was only a matter of time when cockroaches, or the active princi ple, will be in as common use in this country as they are in Russia or central Europe. Thiladelplda Record. A Miserable Town on the Mis sissippi. '"Arkansasis noVuhlike 'the rest of the wretched little towns aleng: the lower river. First, there is a high levee about thirty feet up, to reach which you have to climb up a slippery pine board incline, where a footing can be only ob tained by carefully picking ones way up line of cleats nailed and worn. There is a long warehouse at the top. This is well built and clean. That is because it is owned by the steamboat interests. The town is made up of one street, flanked by small, cheap, dirty -looking houses. A tall, broad-shouldered citizen, dead drunk, lay flat on his face in the middlo of the street. Numerous mules, wearing high-horned Mexican saddles, were hitched up and down the street, generally in front of some saloon. No horses were seen. The mules were poor and ungrootned, with their tails so thickty sttiddcd with burrs that nothing but amputation of the former would ever jjet rid of the latter. There were perhaps thirty or forty men in the street corn-crackers and negroes. I walked through the street, and from one end of the town to the other there was not to be seen the first trace of anything indicating one symptom of modern civiliza tion. There was not a flower on the entire street. Not a house was painted. The fences were falling down; everywhere there was suoh a spirit of decay quite in keeping with the morose, sneaking, loung ing groups that hung aboit the saloons. Back of the town was a flat, God-forsaken country, cut up by muddy, red clay roads. No one would imagine from the poverty stricken look ot the village and the wretched attire of the slack figured victims of melancholia ranged along the street, that the country round about is one of the richest in the natural advantages of any place in the world. Here, upon the banks of the river, just beyond the village many thou sands of bales of cotton are lying. At a short distance above the vil lage is a huge mill for the reduc tion of cotton seed into oil. From the superintendent of this mill I learned that cotton seed produces enough oil to pay the entire ex penses of the cotton crop, leaving the cotton clear profit. In this rich bottom it is possible for planter to clear 0 from every acre he plants. With this enormous profit possible, there is nowhere the slightest sign of wealth or even ordinary comfort. The amount of construction work on the Northern Pacific railroad for the year 1882 is stated b' Vice President Oakes as follew: Three Jiundred and twenty miles furnished in Yellowstone valley, 25 on the Wisconsin division and 125 up the valley of Clark's fork of the Columbia, in Idaho and Montana, making in all 470 miles. In addition there has been 200 miles graded. The gap between the two ends of the track in Mon tana is now 2S0 miles, nearly all being in the old settled portion of the territory, between Bozeman and' Missoula, where the gold mines attracted considerable popu lation as early as 18G2. The present end of the track of the road building west is Livingston, a new town at the head of the Yellowstone valley. The total mileage of the finished main line now operated by the company is 154G miles. So far advanced is the work of the uncompleted section that the opening of the entire line to the Pacific coast is regarded as certain to take place next summer. POWDER Absolutely Pure. Tills powder never varies. A man el of purity, strength and holesomeness. Mora economical than the ord nary Kinds, and cannot be sold incomp titinn with the mul titude of low test, short weijjhr, alum or phosphate powders. Sold only in can. KOVAL BAKING l'OWDKK CO.. W Wall-M., N.Y. I" CEUIMTED lA Sitters TlntnnmliA" finf ctnminn i1 . .l. Hfo-princip'e o- whatever you may choose to call tho rci r it power which battles against thocausciofdi case and death, is tho grand safeguard of health, it is tho garrison of the human fortress, and when it waxes weak, tho true policy is to throw in reinforcemen ts. In ntfior irnrnQ. trlinn enr.li an nma.A.i. .. commence a course of llostetter's Bitters. rorsaio dv uruggisis ana ueaicrs. to whom apply for llostetter's Almanac for 1S33. Barbour's No. 40 I2-Ply SALMON TWINE! CORK Ml) LEAD LINES, SEINE TWINES. A Full Stock Now on Hand. HENRY DOYLE & CO., Sll Market Street. San Fraaelace Solo ARPiitsfor tho Pacific Coast TAILORIKQ. Cleaning Repairing. NEAT. CHEAP AND QUICK, BT CSEJtQB JjOTETT, Main Street, opposite N. Loeb's, ROYAl W (royal cs'r.5 B IpSi rHir- THsflssI 'JarM-jBJwEeK i&s4ie&. tBb3 BBBsssBMhaJlZCSjH SJ.?JSbS1BBBw!1s wmm jC V .JBBPjIBBBBBBBBBBvjBHBt r?r csJlJjlSSV9S9SMJSSSSe !K9M9SHKpSSBBV. CERMHllEBY for. RHEUMATISM, HeureJgia, Sciatica, Lumbago, Backache, Soreness of the Chest, Gout, Quinsy, Sore Throat, Swell' ings end Sprains, Burns and Scalds, General Bodily Pains, Tooth, Ear and Headache, Frosted Feet and Ears, and all other Pains and Aches. Ho Preparation on carta eqaali St. Jacobs Oil m fe, sure, simple and cheap External Beaedy. A trial entail but the cwpanUiTely trifling outlay of 60 Ceats, and rery one inher ing with pain can baro cheap asd poriUro proof of itaclaiaa. Direction In Etb LaagaagM. E0LDBYALLD1UQQIST8AJPDEALEE3 Of MEDIOUE. A. VOtTElTCR. Jr. CCk I w - - ... .- w.f 1 BtOHwiere, M., XT, S. A. De world owes me only what I kin aim. It owes me room to pass to and fro, space fur a grave, an' sich a funeral as de ole woman kin pa' fur an' keep de bin full o' ta ters. De man who pauses at each stage of his career for the world to applaud or condemn will become a foot ball for all men to kick. Ex peck no lriendship to las' beyond de moment when you want help. Expeck no sympathy to endure longer dan it takes fur tears to dry. Brudder. Qardntr-- ' SYMPTOMS OF WORMS. The countenance is pale and leaden colored, with occasional flushes of a cir cumscribed spot on ono or both checks ; the eyes become dull; the pupils dilate; an azure semicircle runs along the lower eye-lid ; the nose is irritated, swells, and sometimes bleeds ; a swelling of the upper lip; occasional headache, with humming or throbbing of the ears; an unusual se cretion of saliva; slimy or furred tongue; breath very foul, particularly In the morn Ins; appetite variable, sometimes vora cious, with a inlawing sensation of tho stomach ; at others, entirely gone; fleeting pains In the stomach; occasional nausea and vomiting; violent pains throughout the alKlomen; bowels irregular, at times cotivi; stools .slimy, not unfrequently tinged with blood : belly swollen and hard ; urine turbid ;replratlon occasionally difll cult and accompanied by hiccough ; cough sometimes dry and convulsive; uneasy and disturbed sleep, with grinding of the teeth ; temper variable, but generally irritable. Whenever the alovo symptoms aro found to exist, DR. C. XcLANE'S VERMIFUGE will certainly effect a cure. In buying Vermifuge be suro you set the genuino DR. C. MctANE'S VEttMI FUGE, manufactured by Fleming Urn., 21 Wood Street Pittsburgh, Pa. The mirlict Is full of counterfeit. You will be riuht If it has the signature of Flem ing Uros. and C.McLnne. If your storekeeper does not luv.e the genuine, please report to us. Send in u three cent stamp for 4 hnnd somc advertising cards. FLE31IXG BROS., Pittsburgh, Pa. BEAUTIFUL HOLIDAY GOODS! J.W.COM,SDRU& STORE. The thicsl assortment of Plated Castors, Spoon Holders. Uerry dishes, Goblets, Card Receivers, Napkin Rings, Rutter Dishes, Cake Baskets, Jewelry Cases, Mucs, Pickcl Castor. Etc Etc Grand display or Ladies' and Gent's Dressing Cases, Odor Cases, Vases, All sizes and styles. Toilet Sets, Brushes and Mirrors, in endless variety. Perfumery. Fancy Soaps and Toilet arti cles of all kinds at the very lowest prices. Opposite Occident Hotel, Astoria LOEB & CO., JOBBERS IN WINES. LIQXJORS, AND CIGARS. AGENTS FOR THE Mt San Francisco Houses and Castsrn Distilleries. HTAll goods sold at 8n Franciva Prices. MAIN STREET. Oppottts Parker Hosst, Astoria, Oregon. ROSCOE'S FIRST- CLASS Oyster Saloon. dIKNAMU.S STKEET, ASTORIA rPHK UNDEKSIKXED IS PLEASED TO JL announce to the public that he has op ened u FIHST CLASS JE2&,Xx& SCouse , And furnishes in first-class stylo OYSTEItS. HOT COFFER TEA, ETC. AT T1IK Ladies' and Gent's Oyster Saloon, CnKNAMUS STREET. Please give me a call. i:OSCOK:niXON, Proprietor A. M. .IOIIX-jOX. O. H.8TICKEI.S A. M. JOHNSON & Co., Dealers in Slip Chasfllery ai Groceries, CROCKERY &. CLASS WARE. Also "Wholesale Dealers in Palnfo, Oils, Varnifthcs, CSIasN, Putt j. Artists' Oil and Water Colors. I'aint and Kal.so mine Brushes. Constantly on hand a full and choice stock ot Staple and Fancy Groceries Oaly tho Best kept. Our stock of Crockery and CalaMS Ware U the Largest and mo-t Complete Stock ever opened in Astoria. Consisting of Tea and Dinner Sets. Toilet Sets. UIau, Fmit, :md Water Sets. Bar Fixtures. Ale Mugs. Ponies, Rustfu Bottles Goblets, Tum blers Lemonade Cups, &c "tc. Everything sold at Lowest Living Rates. Quality Guaranteed. An Examination will more than repay you. WILLIAM EDGAR, Corner Main and Chenaxnui Streets, ASTORIA OREGON DKAI.KR IB CIGARS AND TOBACCO. Tho Celebrated JOSEPH RODCERS & SONS GENUINE ENGLISH CUTLERY AND THE GENUINE W0STENH0LM ard other Ensluh Cutlery. STATIOWERTl FAIRCHILD'S GOLD PENS Genuine Meershaum FipM, etc. A fine stock of WteKelTa74;relry,:MaMde'aaMl Breeca IieadiHjr Sat ! aa4 Rifles, .Revolvers, Pitela, and Ammnaitiea MARINE ALSO A FESJ5 Assortment of line SifCTACLES and EYE GLASSES. B. B. FRANKLIN, UNDERTAKER, Comer Cass and Squemoqtm streets, ASTOKIA. ... - OREGON DRAf.KR IS , WALL PAPER AND WINDOW SHADES AND UNDERTAKERS GOODS. A. V. Allen, (.SVU2KSSOR TO PARE it ALLEN.) Vliotea!e and retail itealer in droserteSf Orttforjr. Glass and Plated Ware, TKOl'lCAL AND DOMESTIC FRUITS AND VEGETABLES. Together with Wines, LiquorsJobacco.Cigar J.E. TU9MA9, DRUGGIST -AND- PMRMMST, Kinney' Building, opposite D.K. Warren's ASTORIA, OREGON. Drugs and Chemicals. A FINE LINE OP HOMEOPATHIC REMEDYS. Tol et and Fancy Articlis. W Prescriptions carefully compounded ataUhvors. 1 g. apvflKatteBHelBHEeVi -w te x m e z n P : t r-s i lBam- :n v at S )I P 5 WILLIAM HOWE -DKALER IN- Doors, Windows, Blinds, Transoms, Lumber. All kinds of jS,jj6t X,X glass, fHHBP Bracket Work Boat Material, Etc. fSSIIBP a specialty. ------ j Boats of all Sinds Made to Order. -Orders from a distance promptly attended MISCELLANEOUS. ASTORIA IRON WORKS. Brnton Strket, Near Parkkr House, ASTORIA. - OREGON. GENERAL MACHINISTS AND BOILER MAKERS. MNDlMARINE ENGINES Boiler Work, Steamboat Work, an! Cannery Wtrk a specialty. fall DescrlyttoBH Made t erfter t Bkert Ketlce. A. D. Wass. President. J. (. Hustusr, Secretary. I.W. Case, Treasurer. JohxFox, Superintendent S. ARNDT & EERCBEN, ASTORIA. - OREGON. The Pioneer Machine Shop Boiler,- Shop !iiilp AU kinds of ENGINE, CANNERY, AND STEAMBOAT WOBE Promptly attended to. A specialty made of repairing CANNERY DIES, FOOT OF LAFAYETTE STREET. Wilson & Fisher, SHIP CHANDLERS. DEALERS IX Iron, Steel, Coal, Anchors, Chains, TAR, PITCH, OAKUM, WROUGHT AND COT GALVANIZED SSXKBe Nails. Cepprr Nails and Burrs, Shelf Hardware, Fainti And Oils Rubber and Hemp Packing of all Kinds. PROVISIONS. FI.OUR AND MIIJL FFTET. Agents for Salem Flouring Mills. Corner Chenamus and Hamilton Stroefe ASTORIA. OREGON. X. 'WERTHMMER. I. ATKnTHKIMKK. M. WERTHEIMER & BR0. MANUFACTURERS OF FINE Havana and Domestic Cigars Km. 518. Fr At St. Saa Fraaciseo A. Yan Dusen & Co. WOULD RESPECTFULLY CALL TftE attention of the rubllc to the fact that they are-Agents for the following sewing machines, viz : The Imprre1.8iagcrt Tke White, The CrWB And The Etdridge, Which they are selling from $35. t $5. each aa defy Crapetittoa. Persons wishing " to purchase machines should call and inspect our stock before pur chasing elsewhere, as we guarantee to giTe oerfect satisfaction w rasard Quality and pact. Z "3 JrSggS ;i to, and satisfaction guaranteed in an cases. -jg s ?gy.j s- - '-S3 BUSINESS CARDS. -CI C. HOLDER,, NOTARY PUBLIC, AUCTIONEER, COMMISSION ANI SURANCB AGENT. J O. BOIOKTM, V. 8. CemtulMlsaer, Jfetaiy PmMIc, aa Iasaraaee Aceat. Agent tor the Hamburg-Bremen Pire Ins. Co. of ilambonr, Germany, and ot the TntT elers' Life and Accident Ins. Co., of Hart ford. Conn. avOfflce over Wells, Fargo & Co'a Express Office. rj.ELO F. PARKER. PURVEYOR OF Office :-Chenama street, Y. M. C. A. haB Room No. 8. Tjl D. WIHTOW, Attorney and CounaeJer at Law. erOfflce In Pythian Building. Rooms II, 12. ASTORIA, ... - OREGON. JAY TUTTIiE, M. I. PHYSICIAN AND SURGEON Office Rooms i, 2, and 3. Pythian Build Ing. Resid en ck Over Elberson's Bakery, op posite Barth & Myers' Saloon. 4 it. Kuivrox. ai . . Physician aad Barseaa. OFFICE Over A. V. Allen's grocery store. Rooms, at the Parker House. XI P. HICKS, PENTIST, ASTORIA, - - - OREGON Rooms In Allen's building up stairs, corner of Cass and Sqemocqhe streets. T E. LaFORCE, DENTIST Deatal Keens crer Case's Here, Chenamus Street, - - Astoria, Oregon. I Q. A. BOWLBY. ATTOKNEYAT LAYi. Chenamus Street. - ASTORIA, OSEGOh G. A. STINSON & CO., BLACKSMITHING, At Capt. Rogers old stand, eorner of Cass and Court Streets. Ship and Cannery work. Horseshoeing. Wagons made and repaired. Good work guaranteed. J. H. D. GRAY, Wholesale and retail dealer in. ALL KINDS OF FEED, Hay, Oats, Straw, Wfttf, Etc General storage and Wharfate ea able terms. Foot of Benton street. Oregon. reason Astoria NEW BLACKSMITH SHOP. John Feely , OPPOSITE KIKNEY'8 CANNERY Blacksmithing, Beiltr Wtrk, and Cannery Repairs Ail Work Warraated. LEATHERS IMS. BOAT BV1XDEB0, UaBtalra ver Aratft'A Farehcs'a Hhy. Call .and examine thwerk ire an rtnr and see the wood we are seta, nalew wak ing a trado elsewhere. Fnt3T-CLA&ft-WOIK X SPtClALTT. J. .- , J