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-t) e ir . i ' --, a, - ; . - - - -. l- - -. - TJi t .zfe-t&s. -x nrm, a -- V vfc- HHIHHiMHHBHIHV- v? Vol. xvni. Astoria, Oregon, Saturday Morning, December 23, 1882. to. 71, '- mmlfl tffkti. Me SOUTH AMERICAN LIFE- The editor of the Palouse Oa zttle publishes a letter recently re ceiven from two young men of that place who went to Buenos Ayrcs last summer. The' say: Vre arrived in Buenos Ayres on the 1st of September, after a very pleasant ocean voyage of forty two days. From there we went by mil and boat to San Nicholas, a small city in the province of Buenos Ajres, wheie we met with a Mi. Crawford, a pioneer of this country, who volunteered to ac company us in our "travels, and his company was very acceptable lrom the fact that he could talk Spanish and we could not. We started from San Nicholas by stage over as fine a country as one would care to see. Stage riding here is very exciting. We started with eight horses hitched to the stage (horses being saddled instead of harnessed) by a rope or chain fastened to a cinch ring and only two lines, both on the lead horses. It takes two men to run such an outfit, one to drive and the other to whip. We started at a run, with the "engineer" apply ing his whip at every jump, keep ing up the gait for three leagues, when one of the horses dropped dead and another was caught from off the grass and put in his place, and on we went to Kosario, the the NcwTork of the Argentine Re public, and from there to San Javier, a small village on the banks of a river bearing the same name, and arm of the great river Parana, navigable to this point. Here we find plenty of timber, something we did not see in the lower provinces, except occasion ally an amboo tree. The trees here are the algaroba and cobrat cha, both fine timber for making wagons and furniture, and the man-de-y, which makes the finest fence posts in the world; once put in the ground the' never need re setting. A few were taken up here a short time since which were planted over a hundred years ago, and found in as good condition as when first placed in the ground. We find no saw mills here. In their stead the whip saw is used. Houses are generally made of brick, still there is timber here for all purposes if they only had machinery to woik it up; but the country is new as yet, and until the California colony came here it was inabited by Indians, El Padre, the priest being the only white man in the place; but Mooro and his handful of followers not only run them out of the country and killed many of them, but caused them and the goucli to have a horror of the gringo, as they called the foreigners. They are very different from our Indians. Here all they care for is to steal; there they want blood. The soil of Argentine is not spotted as it is on the Pacific coast, but the same all over, a rich black sandy soil that will grow anything you plant. Corn, wheat, oats, barley and all kinds of fruits and vegetables do well with the excep tion of apples, which do not grow as well as they do in Oregon and Washington. Nowhere on the Pacific coast can you find oranges half j so good the natives almost live on them. " There is very little farming done here, but what is done is well paid for. Com brings $1 and wheat $2 per bushel, but even then people do not care to farm, while cattle pay fifty per cent per annum, and are no trouble or ex pense. They don't have to put up hay for winter as the grass is green all the year round. We arrived here during the dryest season of the year and found the grass as green as in the spring, and people who have lived here for years say they never saw it dry. -A- g"ng is exempt from tax for five years. AIcLane, the manager of the-California colony who came here seventeen years ago, says he has paid but one tax in that time. He is quite an old man, but says tour is the place for him, and that it beats any part of California for climate. Two years ago the mercury indicated as high as one hundred and five, and the people haven't got over talking about it yet. The nights are not sultry here as they are in the eastern states, but it has its drawbacks as well as other countries. In the swamps the mosquitoes prod a fellow as he passes through them. Once during the past seven teen years the locust have de stroyed the crops and even eaten all the leaves from the trees. We started with one of the colo nists from San Javier to look at the camp as they call it here nine leagues away. We traveled for seven days over the most beautiful country it has ever been my pleasure to see, just rolling enough to please the eye of an Oregonian, covered with grass two feet high, and so thick that the ground cannot be seen. Small streams of water and groves of timber here and there, and small lakes on which fowl of every de scription swarm. I saw more deer in one day's travel than in all my life before. Land is offered for sale a mile square for 400, or a league for 2,000. There are G,400 acres in a league. Spanish miies are longer than ours, and they calcu late a league will support six thousand head of cattle. Our trip having cost us some $200 more than we expected, we are consequently short of money, and not being acquainted with the Spanish language, we are more or less embarrassed, but we are grad ually picking up the lingo of the people, and traveling over the country as best we can. Wages are so low that an American would starve to death trying to work, and a man without capital can do nothing here. One must have money enough to buy a league of land. They will give time on part of the purchase money; then a little start in cattle and he is all right. If he hasn't got that there's no use for him in this country. If you or any of our friends at home feel foolish enough to advauce us money enough to secure a league oi land, I am satisfied that in five years we can prove it to be a paying investment. A Tribute to Dr. Whitman. In the course of un article "What Dr. Whitman did for Ore gon," the editor of the Willamette Fanner pays the following tribute to the character of the pioneer missienary: Whitman was no boaster and p never claimed superior credit for his acts. He was intensely Ameri can and a genuine patiiot. All his life is a picture of self sacrifice and self abnegation. It does seem as if no man or woman should be found to wish to di&par age his memory, or fail to accord him due praise for his tremendous effort to secure American suprem acy on the Columbia. It is useless to argue whether a treaty could have been compassed to transfer this region to Great Britain. All we claim is that British supremacy was sought to be established by bringing over an emigration to create a majority of British sub jects here," and that Gov. Simpson was in Washington, trying to show that there was no value to this country; that no roads could bo made to it, and that it was already peopled with British subjects. This Avas the case that Whitman met. He heard the boasts of British subjects, and he made that mid-winter journey to warn the administration at Washington of all the facts, and piloted safely across the largo emigration that settled the question of supremacy, to which ho was a good angel as well as a guide. It was enough for Whitman's memory to have won the love, respect and grati tude of the early pioneers that he piloted across those unknown -wilds. It is too much at this late day, that he should be accused of making that emigration pay him for his services when there is full evidence that he rendered such serrice freely and without charge. The local editor of the Butte Miner vociferously calls upon the teachers and parents to "take steps to stay the pernicious prac tice" of boys kissing the girls. He says that at this season "people are more or less affected by colds and affections of the throat, and disease may be communicated by close contact, and inhaling of the breath of a diseased larnyx and membrane." G'way chile! what are you giving us? What are the boys here for but to take chances? And who's going to be bluffed off by a sore throat when a pair of rosy lips are rolling themselves up like cherries in autumn, and with a take-it-if-you-dare blossom on their coral curves, challenging masculine humanity to osculation? Boy, you're green! Ex. The late Thurlow Weed is said to have left a fortune of $1,000, 000 to $2,000,000, which he did not, says theSt. Louis Republican make in his vocation of journal ism; it is the product of a dead-open-and-shut transaction in whisky. When, during the war, the whisky tax was 60 cents a gal lon, Mr. Weed's friend Seward informed him that it bad been de termined at a cabinet meeting to recommend an increase to $2 a gallon and Mr. Weed turned this piece of contraband informa tion to good account by forming a combination which bought up all the whisky it could reach, and selling it at a profit of $1 a gallon. Accomplished horsemen and veterinarians freely use St. Jacobs Oil for stock. A tannery has been established nearn Ferndale, on the Nooksack, by an experienced workman, W. R. Bauman, who has already turned out some fine samples of buckskin and furs that command the highest market price. POWDER Absolutely Pure. This powder nccr varies. A marvel of purity, strength and vrholesonipness. More economical than the ordinary kinds, and cannot te sold in competition with the mul titude of low test, short weight, alum or nhospliate powders. Sold only In can. Roval Baking Powdfji Co.. h Wall-st.t X. V. King of the Blood Is not a "cure all," It is a blood-purifier and tonic. Jmpunty of the blood poisons the s s tem, deranges the circulation, and thus in duces manv disorders, known bv different names to distinguish them according to ef fects, but being really branches or phases of that great generic disorder, lmjmrlty et Bleed. Such are Dyspepsia, lUlliousness, Liter Complaint, Constipation, Kemnts Dls ordersTHeadaclie, Backache, General Weak ness. Heart Disease, Drops. Kidney Disease, Piles, Rheumatism, Catarrh, Scrofula, Skin Disorders, Pimples. Ulcers. SicclUnas, fcc, dc. King ef the Blaad prevents and cures these by attacking the cause. Impurity of the blood. Chemists and physicians agree In calling it "the most genuine and efficient of the Blood." wrapped around each bottle. T)1caco u. KAltbU.M, SON & Co.. Fro ..Frop9 '.K.Y. Buffalo HEADQUARTERS Foster's Emptrium. Mist Cwiiplete Stock in Astute JY ov elides of all Kinds Fruits Bath Farelgaaad Domestic Wines-and Liquors Of Superior Brand. FOSTER'S CORNER, O R ft X BOCK The Itev.Geo. n. Thayer, of Bour bon, Ind., says: "Both myself and wife oweour lives toSniLon's Coxstjxptiox Cube." SoMbyW. K.Deaeot. pOYAi I 0 l m i.ltJllBKBiBBBBBBJt Tii iW- irlBlBMrriBlBBMBBBBBBMF flKCBjlBaHBHBBV54HKDBBBBK MlHEQY FOR RHEUMATISM, Hturtlgia, Sciatic, Lumbago, Backachi, Soramsi of the Chest, Gout, Quins, Son Throat, Swell ings and Sprains, Burns and Scalds, General-Bodily Pains, Tooth, Ear and Headache, Frosted Feet and Ears, and all ether Pains and Aches. No Preparation oa etrth eqnala St. Jacobs Oil m sfe, sure, simple aad cheap External Bwscdy. A trial eataik trat tho conpaxmUTely trlflior oatUy of M Ccats, asd arory one iuffer fnf With pain can bare cheap and poatire proof of ita rlttma. Direction is Stares LaBgnafft. 80LDBT1LLDEUQQI8TS1DDEALE13 II MEDIOTJTE. A. VOGEUER dc CO., . BaitUTe,XL, V. 8. A. A steam sawmill and shingle factory has been established at Ferndale, principally to supply local demand on the Nooksack river for lumber and shingles, but of sufficient capacity to supply some of the ordinary outside de mand. SYMPTOMS OF WORMS. The countenance is pale and leaden colored, -with occasional flushes of a cir cumrilHHl spot ou one or both cheeks; the eyes become dull; the pupils dilate; an azure semicircle runs along the lower e c-lid ; the nose is irritated, swells, and sometimes bleeds; a swelling of the upper lip; occasional iieadache, with humming or throbbing of the ears; an unusual se cretion of saliva; slimy or furred tongue; breat h very foul, particularly In tho morn ing; apatite ariable, sometimes vora cious, with a gnawing xensatiou of the stomach ; at others, entirely gone ; fleeting pains in the stomach ; occasional nausea and vomiting; ioleut pains throughout the abdomen; bowels irregular, at times cotic; stools slimy, not unfrcqnently t inged with blood : belly swollen and hard ; urine turbid ; respiration occasionally diffi cult and accompanied by hiccough ; cough sometimes dry and convulsive; uneasy and dNturbcd sleep, with grinding of the teeth ; tc mper variable, but generally irritable. Wliouover tho above symptoms are found to exist, 1R. C. McLANE'S VERMIFUGE will certainly effect a cure. In buying Vermifugo be sure yon k the genuine DR. C. McLANE'S VEItMI rUGK, manufactured by Flominjr Bros., l'l Wood Street, Pittsburgh, Pa. The market is full of counterfeits. Yon will be right if it has the signature of Flem ing llros. and C. McLant. If jour storekeeper does not hac the genuine, please report to us. Send us a three cent stamp for 4 hand some nd ertKlug cards. FLEXING BROS., Pittsburgh, Pa. Health is Wealth. Dr. E. C. West's Xene and Brain Treat ment: a specific for listeria. Dizziness, Convulsions, Nenous Iieadache, Mental De pression, Loss of Memory. Spermatorrhoea, Impotency, luvoluntary Emissions, Prema ture Old Age, caused by a er-exertion, self abuse, or oer-Indu!gence, which leads to misery, decay and death. .One box will cure recent cases. E.iehbo contain1; one months treatment. One dollar a box, or six boxes for ne dollars ; sent by mall prepaid on re ceipt of price. We guarantee six boxes to cure any case. With each onler rcceh ed bv us for six boxes, accompanied lth fl e dol lars, we will send the purcliaser our written guarantee to return the money if the treat ment does not effect a cure. Guarantees is sued' only by W. E. Dement, dmggist, As toria, Oregon. Orders by mail at regul.tr prices. I. W. CASE, IMPORTKR AND WIIOLESALK AND KB TAIL DEALER IN GENERAL MERCHANDISE ''orner Cheuamus and Cam streets. ASTORIA - - - OREGON Barbour's No. 40 I2-Ply SALMON TWINE ! COM AND LEAD LINES. SEINE TWINES. A Full Stock Now on Hand. HENRY DOYLE & CO., Sll Market Street, Mm Traaelse Sele Agimts for the Facile Coast Sblloh's Catarrh Remedy a posi tive cure lor uawrrn, uiptrterin ana Carter Xotttfc. Seld by W. CDeaeat. ROSCOPS FIRST CLASS Oyster Saloon. 6p CHEN'AMUS SfRCET, ASTORIA. THE UXDEKSIOXKH IS PLEAHE1 TO announce to the public that he has op ened a FIRST CLASS 3E3ett;lxi.8; .Souse, And funiKhes In firt-lass stjie OYSTKil. HOT COl'FEK TEA, ETC. AT TI1K Ladies' and Gent's Oyster Saloon, CHKNAMXJS STKEET. Please tnve nn a call. i;ut;(JE;wixo., proprietor A. M..f0ll!t!O3. C. II. STICKKr.8 A. M. JOHNSON & Co., Dealers in SMp Hlery and Groceries, CROCKERY 4b CLASS WARE. AKo "Wholoale Dealers in PaiulH, Oils. Yarnihc$, Glass, Putty. Artists Oil ana Water Colors, Palut aad Kalso- miac Brushes. Constant! on hand a f nil and choice stock of Staple and Fancy Crocerics Oaly the Best kept. Our stock of Crockery and Glaus Ware is the LaraeHt and most Complete Stock ccr opened in AMoria. Consisting of Tea and Dinner Sets, Toilet Sets. Glass. Fruit, and Water Sets. Bar Fixtures. Ale Mugs. Ponies ltnstlc Bottles Gohlets, Tum bler Lemonade Cups, &c, &.c. . E erythim; sold at Low est Living Kates Qualify Guaranteed. An Examination will more than repay jou. WILLIAM EDGAR, Corner Mtia and Chenaraus Straetf, ASTOKIA OREGON DK1LFK IS CIGARS AND TOBACCO. The Celebrated JOSEPH RODCERS Jb SONS GENUINE ENGLISH CUTLERY AND THE GENUINE WOSTENHOLM and other Ensliab. Cutlery. STATIONERY! FAIRCHILD'S GOLD PENS Genuine Meershaum Pipei, etc. A fine stock of Watehe and Jewelry, Maaale aa4 Breeeh Jjeaalaa; Shot Gaas an4 KifleR, KevalTevalatla,&r; and Aatmnaitloa MARINE GliAMSFJ ALSO A KINK Assortment of fine SPECTACLES and EYE GIASSKi. B. B. FRANKLIN, UNDERTAKER, Corner Cass and Squeraoqhe streets, ASTORIA, - - OREGON DRAI.KU IX WALL PAPER AND WINDOW SHADES AM) . UNDERTAKERS GOODS. A. V. Allen, stircCnR TO I'AOB & ALLEN.) Whole tie and retail dealer In raterM, Ortttefjr. Glass and Plated .Ware, TROPICAL AND DOMESTIC FRUITS AND VEGETABLES. Together with Wines, LiquofsJobacco.Cigars J.E. TM9MA9, DRUGGIST -AND- PHARMACIST, Kinnej 's Building , opposite D. K. Warren's ASTORIA, OREGON. Drags and Chemicals. HOMEOPATHIC. REMEDIES. Tti et ant Fancy Articles. T Prescriptions carefully compouBded ataUhwrs. &mt. c " -yi oSM " 3&&0M3S - o ii -5 maaa UUTTTT A TUT TTmaTT. i -DEALER IX- Doors, Windows, Blinds, Transoms, Lumber. All kinds of OAK LUMBER, GLASS, Boat Material, Etc. j Boats of all TOnrtw ACada to Ordar. 2 MMlMWWM,,M,,f1,1M,,MMt,,M,M,Mltt,W,,,1,,,',M,,,,,j efrOulers from a distance promptly attended to, and satisfaction guaranteed ia all cases. MISCELLANEOUS. ASTORIA IRON WORKS. Bkxtox Strekt, Nrar Tarxek House, ASTOPJA, - OHEGON. GENERAL MACHINISTS AND BOILER MAKERS. UNDiMARINE ENGINES Boiler Work, Steamboat Work, and Cannery Work a specialty. OASTIXO-S. fall esrrltlas Made la Order .ri atBfcart Ifatire. 'WS-..-" ' IJ T. Johk Fox, SwpertHtCHdfaC S. ARNDT & FERCHEN, ASTORIA. - OREGON. The Pioneer Machine Shop BLACKSNrlH SHOP AJCD Boiler Shop All kinds of ENGINE, CANNERY, AXD STEAMBOAT WORE Promptly attended to. A specialty made of repairing CAMOERY DIES, f COT OK LAFAYETTE STREET. Wilson & Fisher, SHIP CHANDLERS. DKAT.EK3 IN Iron, Steel, Coal, Anchors, Chains, TAR, PITCH, OAKUM, WROUGHT AND COT GALVANIZED SPIKEI, Halls, Cepprr Nails and BHrrs, Shtlf Hardware, Faints and Oils Rubber and Hemp Packing of all Kinds. PROVISIONS. FLOUR ASD MULL FK1. Agents for Salem Flouring Mills. Corner Chenamus and Hamilton Streets ASTORIA, OREGON. M. WEKTHMMEK. I. VFUTHEIH FR . M. WERTHEIMER & BR0. MANUFACnrEERS OF FINE Havana and Domestic Cigars K. 518.Fraat St. Sam Fraaeiice A. Yan Dgsen & Go. w OULD RESPECTFULLY CALL THE attention of the Public to the fact that they are Agents for the following sewing machlBea, viz : The Imprarecl Slaajer, The White, TkeCrawm Aa4 The EMxMge, Which the are selling from $MS. ta$3. each aaa defy Caataetitlaa. Peisoas wlshiBe to nurchase Machines afeeold caR aaa inspect oar stock before pur cfcarim rtuwawe, at we gaanatee to give perfect ntlalaeHea m regards quality a ad w3ggJiu.j .- . . fj rvl!BeWKKSBBewBe1emk- Jf 399BHHsai ais' x- .'J.VJJ'J-'-C.O-'l 9 AND Bracket Work A SPECIALTY. IMlMHWMtttMW! - -,' . v grssci .'CJ O'JJC ? rac BUSINESS CARDS. in C. HOLDKX.l NOTARY PUBLIC, AUCTIONEER, COMMISSION AN1 SURANCB AGENT. T O. KVZORTM, V. 8. CemmlMleaer, Netary raaMe, aa Iasaraace Aaeaf Agent lor the HamburgBreiBea Fire Iaa.Ce. of Hamburg, Germany, and ef the Trav elers' Life and Accident Ins. Co., ef Hart ford. Conn. a-Offlce oyer Wells, Fargo & Ce's Express Office. Q,ELO F. FARKEB. SURVEYOR OF Clatsap Ceaaty, aaa City arAatarta Office r-Chenamus street, Y.M.C. A. halt Room No. 8. . I1LLAB, "Witt attead tenaeef Knlaraaaad-Fortlaaa, TA T. WIST. Attorney and Countettr at Law. as-Ofilce ia Ij thian Building. Keosaa 11, 12 ASTORIA, - - - - OREGON TAY TUTTIiK. X. I. PHYSICLAN AND SURGEON Officr Rooma 1 , a, and 3. Fy thlaa Bulld lng. Rksidkxck OverElbersoa's Bakery, op posite Earth & Myers' Saloon. A Ii. FUIiTOX. M. . Phyalelaa aal Sargreaa. OFFICE Over A.V.AUea's grocery "tore. Rooms, at the Parker House. P F. HICKS, PENT3ST, ASTORIA, .... OKJCGON Rooms In Allen's building ap stairs, corner of Cass and Sqemocqbe streets. T K. LmFOMCE. DENTIST eatal is arer Caae'a Store, Chenamus Street, - - Astoria, Oregoa. I Q. A. BOWLBY. ATTORNEYAT LAW, Chenaraus Street. - ASTORIA. ORKOOh G. A. ST1NSON & CO., BLACKSMITHING, At Capr. Rogers old stand, corner of Case and Court Streets. Ship and Cannery work. Horseahoetog. Wagons made and. repaired, Good work guaranteed. NEW BLACKSMITH SHOP. John Feely, OPPOSITE KINNEY'S CANNERY Blacksmithing, Btiltr Wtrk, ind Cannery Rtptirs All Work Warraatea. LEATHERS BWS. BOAT BiriXBEmt, raStalra ver Araat A Fareaaa'a Mhaav . Call and exalBe-the work ire irtinlia and see the wood we are astag, balett Mak ing a trade elsewhere. FIRST -CLASS IfOXK A SFBCIaLTT. Ftf Slit. T OT 6. RLOCK 1. SSFfRLVB KIM, yJaa ABM j occapted by Jaatea MeGeerwtth twuutHgs aaa xm a,TWaa easy, snaj luieet,- -j- "-iP- J.O. hx -i .- iss jS 3 t r r"2f? &z 44 3-jT ss v A & ' ; - Sl- a - - ir - j?'