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, -"-matr 7"';im-y- W r A.-.h.-J" Eire ghtilg Q$$xnxu ASTORIA, OREGON: "WEDNESDAY ilARCn 28, 1853 Extortion. The San Francisco Chronicle is doing good work in ventilating the present outrageous system of court clerk fees in California. It publishes itemized bills rendered litigants and the statements of prominent attorneys reiauve inereio. it looks like a swindle on the part of officials, and if it cannot be reached by criminal process the evil can at least be stopped. The Chronicle gives one instance wherein an at torney says: "If you will promise not to pub lish my name I will tell you an instance of how exorbitant and unjust the charges in the circuit court are. Some time ago I had a case there and desired to obtain copies of the testimony. I had made arrangements to have it copied at a cost of $25. "When I asked for the original in the clerk's office, I was refused on the ground that the copying was one of the perquisities of that office. I then aked what the cost would be, and, to my utter astonishment, was told that it would exceed $300. 1 protested vigorously, and by dint of pleading hard I succeeded in getting it reduced to $200. Again, why should the courts here be allowed to charge double fees? Living expenses here are no higher than elsewhere and half that amount would be ample compen sation. But please don't mention my name, for it would expose me to great trouble. The circuit conrt of the United States, you must know, are a law unto them selves, from which there is prac tically no appeal. It takes five 3'ears to push a matter through the supreme court, and but very few and only the richest litigants care to undertake an appeal to that tribunal. It is a matter that cries loudly for reform. Informal publicity is given to the fact that a movement is on foot in Hongkong to organize a regular steamer service between that place and northwestern ports of the Pacific coast. It is also stated that the venture is purely experimental, and that final action would depend largely upon the success attending the return of the first steamer from the proposed route. "With a view of testing its opportunities for the direct ship ment of merchandise between the ports above named, the steanier C. T. Hook was sent out from Hongkong with a miscellaneous cargo of Chinese goods and a large number of coolie laborers for the Canadian Pacific railroad. On the return of the steamer to the home port the advisability of establishing a line of steamers was considered, and it was finally concluded to establish a new route bj' the sail ing of monthly steamers. The route has been considerably changed from that originally con templated, with the object of securing an available return of freights, and so much of the course as applied to the direct route from Hongkong to Victoria has been recently altered so as to embrace a stoppage at Portland on the re turn voyage; thence to San Fran cisco, where those wishing to visit their country would be taken back, and those coming from China, and having the proper certificates, would be landed from that port. The vessel would next visit the Sandwich Islands, making Hono lulu the last outside stopping place, and then sailiug for Hongkong. It is published that the Canadian Government has outdone the United States in making land grants and conferring other bene fits upon its Pacific road. The Canadian Pacific railray company is one of the richest corporations in the world. It started out with a grant of 756 miles of road built and in operation; another grant of 25,000,000 acres of land, said to be worth on the average $5 per acre, and a government guarantee of the clear gift of 25,000,000, to be paid by installments, so much upon the completion of each section of twenty miles. Its charter exempts tba road, equipment and capital stock from taxes forever, and it has free right of way, with all the materials for construction and equipment free from duty. The whole mileage to be built by the ' company is less than 2,400 miles. The astern h&lf of it -will not cost more than $15,000 a mile, or $18, 000,000. The western half, includ ing passage through two ranges of mountains, may cost an average of $35,000 a mile or $42,000,000 a total probable cost of $60,000,000, of which the government pays $25,000,000, leaving for the com pany but $35,000,000, which 7, 000,000 acres of their land grant from Winnipeg westward will pay. They will then have left their en tire capital stock and 18,000,000 acres of land for the construction of connections and branches and equipments, and for the creation of connecting lines of steamships from Montreal to Europe. In a learned discussion the supreme court of the United States says that the federal goy ernment has no power to keep a state from repudiationg its debts or violating its contracts. In the abstract the decision is a sound one, but the application will have the unfortunate effect of justifying the dishonesty of shortsighted commonwealths. Pointers. "With the marriage of David Davis an united party of one disap pears from American politics. Vermont has been a state of the American union ninety-two years. She was the first new State ad mitted into the union, March -i, 1791. The JPost thinks so long as nearly all the law-makers in the United States ride freo over most of the railroads, the besom of reform will still have work to do. The Philadelphia JPress lays down a rule for the use of the postal card. It says the card should never be used except to convey information that may be shouted across the street. John B. Gough has already lec tured 8,450 times to S,500,000 people, and to reach whom he has been obliged to travel 448,000 miles. He is nov 05 years old and in the forty-first of his caieer as a lecturer. A Jersey paper says Robeson will present a melancholy sight as he walks alone on the Jersey coast watching for the fragments of the ship of state, which he is certain will go to wreck now that he has been discharged from the crew. When it comes to a choice be tween starvation at home and a seven-by-nine office on the frontier, an ex-congressman accepts the latter with thanks, and it is astonishing to see the facility with which a great man will adapt him self to a small place. Two propositions go to the vo ters of Ohio to be decided at the next fall election. The first au thorizes the general assembly to provide for levying special taxes or assessments on the liquor traffic. The second forever prohibits the manufacture and traffic in intoxicat ing liquors in the state. Once more the mysterious mounds of the Mississippi river bottom are being used as places of refuge by the people. They must have been built largely for that very purpose as a place of safety for both living and dead and are curiously servicable to the very men of our civilization who almost ruin themselves making levees, which last but a day. "They say" that the president's idiosyncracy is the cut of his trous ers; that he had a tailor on from New York to cut him a pair and was so pleased with the immacu late fit of them that he made the man cut eight pairs before he left; also, that the material was first laid down on the floor, and then the president was laid down on it, and, when one side was cut, the tailor deftly flopped him over as if he had been a griddle-cake, and cut the other side; which is un questionably one of the biggist tarradiddles ever told, even in "Washington. The Philadelphia JPre6s wants the work of publishing the pension lists hurried up. Just why the publication of the pension lists should be delayed till congress as sembles next winter is not appar ent. If there is any use of their publication at all it is that frauds may be detected. The people are a good deal more likely to detect the frauds than any congress, and the sooner the lists are published and in the hands of the people the sooner the frauds will be detected, if there are any. As the money for the publication has been appropriated there seems to be no good reason why the work should not be completed as speed ily as possible. Here is a picture of affairs in Chicago, drawn by the Tribune of that city. It goes ahead of an' delineation ever made by an un friendly hand: This city swarms with the bacteria of social disease. It is a carbuncle of corruption. Our municipal administration is the menstruum through which the parasites of ruin are propagated. Their alliance with the thieves, prostitutes, gamblers and iucbiiate makers stimulates the fester. Un der their regime Chicago is becom ing every day more of a physical and moral sewer. We arc ruined by bad men because the wise amonjr us are not wise enough to see that the most important thing they can attend to is the politics that is to determine whether or not the community to which they intrust their lives, their property and their children, shall be ruled by the whisky saloon, the gamb ling hell and the bagnio. NEW TO-DAY AMA I. L. POTTS, I. D, WILL LECTURE AT LIBERTY HALL, ON' THIS Wednesday Evening. March 28th, OX TIIK i:r.iin and .ciMon System nm! their IHscascs. Thursday Evening. March 29th, Foitil and DIscstliin. Wbr.t fo Hat and Htnv to Kat it. Effects Or Atroiio! au:l Xarcolio, Ijsncjl3. Ac. Friday Evening. March 30th. Tlie Clrrulntioit or tin' Ifloort, Heart, L:iti. Litrr, Suin, etc j 4urrs of Jinny E'revalrnt anil rnf.il iH- rasrc, and How to Avoid TLrm. Saturday Evening, March 31st, The Doctor will Lecture on LOVE, COURTSHIP AND MARRIAGE. Commencing this nfternoon. Dr. Potts will deliver four consecutive Lectures to Indies. Afternoon Lectures commence at J4 o'clock : evening Lectures at S o'clock. This afternoon's lecture ami this evening's lecture free. See prWs, of course. Tickets and single admission in to-morrow s Asto kia Doctors Totts and narrison cm be con sulted at the Occident Hotel free if charge. Hours from 9 a. M. to l i. si. Ladies en trance on Chenamus street. ,T. C. HARRISON, ltusiness Manager. FOR GRAY'S HARBOR. The I. S. N. Gos Steamer GEN. MILES "Will leave Astoi ia for Grays Harbor, on Friday. April Gill. To Let. miIE2ND AND 3RD FLOORS, 2ND FJN JL Ishcd in rooms : 3rd all in one, 43 x CO feet, unfinished. Also a space of ground nded and cupped, about Jx 43 tevt, froiit intr on Olney .street. Lease given to respon sible parties for j ears. IxcaUon most desir able for a Restaurant and Iodgiug House. For further particulars impure of RART1IS MEYERS. Astoria, Oregon, December 2S. 1882. Q f(( TO --VN IN SUMS to suit, J)u.UUU on real estate security. Apply to liOZORTH &.IOMNS. Dissolution of Partnership. THIS IS TO GIVE NOTICE THAT I AM no longer connected Anh tlie New England restaurant, having sold all mv interest to Edward Young, who will pay all debts and collect all debts. I have no further resiwnsihillty in the business. .lOHXOKTIG. Astoria, Oregon, March 23d. .lwk FOE, SALE. NHEX SHARES CANNERY STOCK Jl terms private. Also, Lot 1. Block 10, jVIcClure's Asu with improvements thereon. Also three good farms within easv distance of Astoria terms easy. Lots in "MiClure's, Shlvely's and Adaird Astoria, and three blocks in Alderbrook firteen acres tide laud on Young's Bay. Also, a good jHiymg busi ness In Ahtoria. tf BOZORTII& JOHNS. FIRST GRAND AT EMPIRE STOHS PRIOR TO STOCK TAKIHG. We offer SPECIAL INDUCEMENTS in our line of Dress Goods, Silks, Velvets, Plushes, Cashmeres and Arnmrcs. Laces. Hosiery, Corsets, Cloaks, Dolmans, Etc., etc. A FINE ASSORTMENT OF FLANNEL COMFORTERS, Blankets, Etc. . Stock Complete in Every Branch. Fraol Brotkors. Look Here ! ! MY &00D 1AIDL0RDS Arc going to improve my premises ami 1 MUST iMVB BOOM i For such improvement and for spring stock. ETEltY VARIETY Or' Olioice Fancy Uoods, SILVERWARE Books. Stationery Etc.. Of excellent quality at reduced prices at S Bazaar and Fancy Emporium. ASTORIA SAIL LOFT. A. M. JOHNSON & CO.. PROPR'S. HAVING CONSIDERAP.LY INCREASED our facilities lormccung thedemand of increase in boats tills year we would re spectfully call the attention or CANNERY MEN And all others needing sails, to this fact. Prices Same as Last Year, WORK STILL BETTER. Drilling; and Best Quality of Rope en Hand. Our Work has Gi en Satisfaction for Eight Years. And shall bo made to do so while n arc in the business. Wilson & Fisher, SHIP CHANDLERS. DEALERS IN Iron, Steel, Coal, Anchors, Chains, TAR, PITCH, OAKUM, WROUGHT AND COT GALVANIZED SPSEES, iVrtJN. Copper ZVnils ami IScirra. Shelf Eardware, Paints and Oils Rubber and Hemp Packing of all Kinds. PROVISIONS, FLOUR A3iT 3III.L. rCKZ. Agents for Salem Flouring Mills. Corner Chenamus and Hamilton Street? ASTORIA, OIIKOON. (MID CLEARANCE SALE! to make room for more ij QM I A. VAN DUSEH & CO. "Will sell at cost their entire stock of HATS AND CAPS .VXD BOOTS AND SHOES. These goods mast be disposed of as we are soon to receh e another large lot of Hardware and Ship Chandlery And must have room to store it. CROCKBM! BROCIBRI! Just received at A. M. JOHNSON & GO'S Another largo shipment of GrocbersTt Consisting of , Dinner and Tea Scl, Class Scl, Water Sets. Toilet Set, Xtar Glasses and nottlcsofalt Kind C'Ir.ar LIsIitcrs, Tabic Cutlery. Plain and Plated Castors, Ornamental Hand Lampi, Patent Sc -extinguishing I.amp4 Hunicrs, LaUastcc Lamp Chlmm-js, nil h!zc, Lamp Heducers, Lamp Shade, pa- pcr and porcelain and illuminator lienn Pots, and Flower Zot. Stone Jzm, all Sizes. CROCKERY Of all kinds and descriptions. It will pay you to call and examine. The largest stock of CP.OCKEIIY in town , DK.VI.EIt IX Hay, Oats, Straw. Lime, Brick, Cement and Sand Wood Delivered to Order, Draying, Teaming and Express Business. Horses and Carriages for Hire. SEALER I WINES, LIQUORS AND CIGARS. FIRST CLASS Notice. ON AND AFTER THIS DATE THE price ol board at my hotel will ba raised twenty per cent n. B. PAKKEK. Astoria, Marca 23tli, 1S53. lwk MTURE'S REMEDY. Liver, Kidney, and Skin Diseases.. Malaria, Dyspepsia, Biliousness. PaiDS in tlie Back and Loins, Pimples and Blotches on the Skin, Whether llereiUtiry. Or Cutset by Wcakn-, or Exesios Can Only be Cured by the Use o Largest Sale and Most Satisfaction Of any Medic ine on the Coast. Sold by all Dnglaij and Medicine Dealers. $I.OO per Rottle C. fop $3.00. HILL'S VARIBTIES. GEO. HILL. --- PROPRIETOR WAl.TKK PARKS, - STAGE MANAGER Engagement of an entire MISS HELENA R1CHMAN. T!m German Xtghtingalc. MISS SUSIE LEE, Soitj; ant' Daice Artist. itfiSS TtllNKlE WILLIAMS. Serio-cmiic Queen. MISS KITTY FRANKLIN. Soubrette. Alo 3m. GEO. HENDERSON, Ethiopian Comedian. Together with a new Under the management of n:OE. CHARLES RICKARD3. AH the Old Favorites Retained. Open all w Year Performance Every Night Entire Change of Programme Kutv Night, Comprising SONC3, DANCES A8D ACTS. We give the Best Variety Entertainment la the West. The tlnate I? crowd?! nightly, and all who hare wittseed tlie entertainment pro nounce it to be c;t:l to any gt en cl-ewhere. Mr. llll! as a caterer for the public's aittUM'inettS- .m not b .w.Ied. Au uodv wishing to peml n piea-ctui evening and see siwrKling xlt mid laws;- without u! garity.MMiuht tmpro-.e t!u? opportunity and come. The company comprises the following well Known Artist: 3Iiss KAjfNis? "WAirorc. A! 1SS 3IA3I1K (iOOUKICK. Jin. "Waltxk Pakks. JIk. Ciias. Baw:ous. Mi:. V.'jr. Moiitov. All of which will appear nightly in their dif, ferent hpeciaUics. Open air concert every evening ; perform ance commencing at 8; entrance to theatre on Ronton street ; private boxes on Chena mus street. New Stars in Hailil Succession ! Hardware aiifl Slip CMIer A. VAN DUSEf! & GO.. IIPALKUS IX Hardware and Ship Chandlery, Pure Oil, Bright Varnish, Binnacle Oil. Cotton Canvas. Kemp Sail Twine, Cotton Sail Twine. Lard Oil, Wrought iron Spikes. Galvanized Cut Nails. Agricultural Implements, ScirsHjc 31ucliiucs. Paints antl Oits. ftroccrirs. etc. .9. &"Sfr &JL &o. 40 12-Piy SALMON TWINE ! COM MB LfAB LIKES, SEINE TWSES. A Full Stock Now on Hand, HENRY DOYLE & GO., 511 2Inrliet Street. San Francisco. Sole Agnnls for tlio Pacific Coast ASK FOH- TTnion India Rubber Co's Pure Tarn Gum CRACK PROOF RUBBER BOOTS. BSOKK OF IMITATIONS ! KcMirctho Boots are stamped CRACK PROOF an the heels, and have the PURE GUM SPRINGS on the foot and instep, which prevent ttietr erackinjj.or breaking. Yc are now making them with RUDDER AND ASDESTOS Soles which will make them last more than twice as lonj; as any Rubber boots mad. FOR SALE BY ALL DEALERS. ALL KINDS RUBBER BELTING. PACK ING, IIOSK. SPRINGS. CLOTHING, BOOTS AND S1IOP.S. Etc. COODYEAR RUBBER CO. R. 11. PEASE. .lr. I Agent. S. M. RUNYON, f &an Erancisco. Brewery Beer Saloon. The Best Bepr 5 cts a Glass. Hot Luncli.cvcry Day from 10 to 12 A. M Tlie best of Liquors and Clears on hand. A deservedly jtopular place of social resort. GEO. IIILLER. LEATHERS BROS. BOAT BHIX.3i:itS. Up Stairs Over Armlt & Ferchen's Shop. Call and examine the work we are doing and see the wood we arc using, before mak ing a trade elsewhere. FIRST -CLASS WORK A SPECIALTY. Notice. STATE AND COUNTY TAXES FOR THE year 18S2arc now due and can bo paid at my office at the Court House, d-wtl A. M, TWOMBLY, Sheriff. mgiiMiijaatasMqaiKau wuaib mp Lis (m a && gssc&E'&j OF White, and Black - Ma m. j wa S Will be held at the California Store, on Thursday, March,29th9 '83 Laces now opened ew Hoo T Y 322121: as 01 The Best Store in the City to get your Money's Worth. Albums. Antoprsplianil Photograph all Sizes and Prices. r,oou; from a Dime Novel to "Webser's Unabridged ; Gents' Jewelry and Cutlery ; "Writing Desks of all izes ; Mark Tv ain's Scrap Books ; Bibles, Prayer Books and Hymnals, Also the Key to Heaven. Opera an Al.xnne Glasses ; Draughting Instruments from 10 cents to 30.00 a set Blank Books, And every thing j on couid want in our line. Examine our goods and prices before goln elsewhere. IJ. F. STEVENS &, Co., City Book Store. r "'jf- atq ' " Upsj TEU ap4Ij to the Captain, or to THE NEW A EDLL STOCK ALWAYS ON HAND. a5. JE-8L- .CLjSw WV JE2jiS3 Two doors east of Occident Hotel, riviSTing (SrCCESSOP. TO JACKINS & MONTGOMERY.) PLUMBING, GAS FITTING, AND CANNERY WORK Attended to Promptly on Reasonable Terms. CXZaAKL'S STKEI'T. Xext to C. Jj. Parker's Store. .j&SQS, CHAS. HEILBORN, irANTJFACTURER OF FURNITUBB Ss BEDDING AND DEALER IN Carpets, Oil Cloth, Wall Paper, Mirrors, Window Shades, Lacs Curtains, Picture Frames and Mouldings WINDOW CORNICES AND CURTAIN POLES Complete in every branch. MARTIN OLSEN DEALER IN BSfiP FURNITURE Ss BEDDING Corner Islain and aaaot;a Streets. Astoria, Oreson. WiHDOW SHADES AND TRIMMINGS; WALL PAPER ETC A Complete Stock. PRICES AS GEEAP AS QUALITY WILL AFFORD. AXT, KINDS OF FUK5ITUKE KEPAIIiE AIKD VARNISHED. J. H. D. Gi Wholesale and retail dealer In. ALL KTXDS OF FEED, Hay, Oats, Straw, WoGd, Etc. General storage and Wharfage on reason able terms. Foot ol Benton street. Astoria Oregon. Oil! UGQOtt Sale Spanish, and Wash JL 9 JlUL and on Exhibition. ew IT flTOPT?. X JL.V JLmAm STEADIER CLARA PARKER, Eben P. Parker, Master. For TOWING, FREIGHT orCHAR II. B. PARKER. 0DEL RANGE CAN BE HAD IN AS TORIA ONLY OF E, IL HAWE3, AGENT CALL AND EXAMINE IT, YOU WILL BE PlEASED. E. R. IIAWES is also agent for the Bitk latent CooMi Stove And otlier first-class stoves. Fornaco "WorIrt Steam Pit tings, etc., a specialty. ASTORIA, OREGON. ntj DEALER XS Tin, Sheet Iron and Copper Ware. A General Assortment of HOUSEHOLD GOODS. Agents for Magee Stoves and Eanges The Best in the market. Pnimblng goods of all kinds on hand. Job work done In a workmanlike manner. 0C302ff. Plumbing and Gas Fitting. T-ORIlEA BROS. Plumbers, Gas, and Steam Fitters, JoLTriag Promptly Attended to- A Full Supply of. GAS FIXTURES, COCKS, "STEAM: FIT TINGS, ETC., ALWAYS ON HAND. All Work Guaranteed. Charges Moderate. Chenamus street, opposite Dement's Drug Store, Astoria, Oregon. For Sale or Rent. AnOUSE AND LOT IN" WILLIAMSPORT. Will be sold chpap for cash. Fsr par ticulars inquire at Oregon Meat Market, of ml lm - GEORGE tf ANZ,