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p 0tmn No. 32. Astoria, Oregon, Sunday Morning, May 6, L883. Vol. xix. fr 1 BY MAIL AND TELEGRAPH. Wreck of Ifae Grappler. Nanaimo, B. C. May .4. Yes terday the steamer Alexander left Johnson & Co.'s wharf for Uclataw camp, and after whistling several times sighted a canoe with two people, who were found to be Captain Jaggers, of the wrecked steamer, and a Uclataw chief. The captain reported that all hands that were saved were safely housed in Indian villages, where they had received every kindness and atten tion at the hands of the Indians, who had provided them with the best of food at their command, twenty-one whites, two Indians and thirteen Chinamen being the list of the survivors. The bodies of two white men, one lashed to a plank by a strip of his shirt, and the other lashed to an empt' bar rel, were recovered from the water and the remains were enclosed in a rough box, made by their com panions. It is feared that all the missing are lost seventy in all twenty whites, two Indians and forty-eight Chinamen. Sydney Franklin, the pilot was never seen after leaving the steamer. Only two men and Captain Jaggers were saved. After McAllister left Jaggers remained upon the burning steamer until driven off by the flames, and was eventually picked up insensible on the beach by Hiraman an his company. Capt. Jaggers and his survivors made a thorough search up and down the shores and the rapids for any who might be living, but the search was futile. Two met, after being on the bottom of a boat ten hours, were drifted ashore, and were subse quently taken by the Indians to the logging camp. At S:30 Monday morning the burning hulk of the ill-fated stea mer was seen drifting down with the tide from Seymour Narrows, and half an hour later sunk be neath the waves in thirty fathoms of water, at about .the same spot where she became unmanageable, but-not before the Salmon river Indians had boarded her and passed an iron box into their canoe. The Indians report her hull burned to the water's edge, and as thin as a wafer. The description given by the survivors, of the poor wretches struggling in the water, and the shrieks of the dying and wounded were most heartrending. Many were clinging around the vessel by ropes, which were eventualy burnt off, into the water. One of those close, seeing a comrade striking out for the shore, pitifully called to him to tell his poor mother, giving his address as An Indian Victoria, that he was dying: On arrival of the Alexander, at Cape Mudge, Captain Morrison lowered his boats and landed a re ceiver of wrecks, who superinten ded the embarkation of the survi vors, and who sent the two dead bodies on board. He also thanked the Indians for their kindness, and promised to report to the de partment their opportune assist ance, and that he would strongly recommend some remuneration for their gallant services, and that he would see that they were paid for their food and labor. He also di rected the Indians to continue searching for any survivors or bodies which might float ashoro promising a suitable reward for so doing. He also explained that all property they might have recover ed must be handed over to him, and he would see that they re ceived a proper salvage. With the assistance of the chief, Mr. Peck recovered $170.50 in half melted silver coinage, taken from the box which they had, at the risk of their lives, secured from the sinking ship. All hands thanked the Indians again for their kindness, and Cap- tin Morrison calling the roll, the steamer left for Nanaimo, where she arrived this morning. Every body speaks in glowing andenthu , siastic terms of Capt. McAllister, who, with unrivaled coolness and - steady perseverance, bad suc . 'oseded in saving so many lives. . Where Birds Eat The Dead. "The Towers of Silence" are five in number and stand within an inclosure measuring about eighty thousand square yards. There are also within the inclosure a house of prayer for persons attending a funeral, a temple in which the sacred fire is kept always burning and from which its rays, escaping through apertures in the wall, fall upon the towers, and a well law and well cared for garden. In the garden is an excellent model of a tower, which is explained to visit ors by the attendants. The corpse of a deceased Parsee, clothed in white, is carried up the hill on an open bier covered with white cloth; the male relatives and friends all clothed in white following in pairs, each pair holding a handker chief between them. Some pray ers having been said in the rest- house, the bier is again taken up and the body conveyed to one of thn (nwprR. These towers are round, massive-looking buildings with white plastered walls, the circumference of the largest of them being 27G feet and the bight of the wall twenty-five feet. At a distance of three feet from the "round there is a door in the wall, through which the corpse bearers push the body, and then, entering themselves, place it in its appointed place. The interior of each tower which is open to the sky, is covered, at a bight of twenty-five feet from the ground, with a circular flooring, which slopes downward on all sides to the center, and contains numerous open grooves or receptacles for dead bodies. The outer ling of this flooring is set apart for the bodies of men, a second ring for those of women and the third or inmost ring for those, of children. At regular distances, radiating channels inter sect tiiese rings. The body hav ing been deposited in its place, the bearers retire, and immediately a swarm of vultures, which birds of prey may always be seen sitting in dozens on the tops of the walls, swoop down and strip the bodies of every particle of flesh in less than two hours. After a few days, the corpse-bearers return, and, collecting the bones, which are then perfectly dried, place them in the central wall, forty-five feet wide, where they remain to be decomposed by the air and rain. The moisture runs off into the ground through filters of charcoal and sand, and leaves nothing of tli human bodv in the inside of the tower but the dry, crumbling bones. Bombay Correspondence Philadelphia Press. dusky women, when the service was over, start in an emulative race for the mainland, their dark, sinewy arms plying the flashing paddle as the white canoe cut swiftlv the placid waters of the Sound until with laughing banter the prows touched the shore and they rejoined the bucks, who were idly awaiting them. 'A Sort o'Ezpectm' Look." A Xew Hampshire countryman last summer used to do a good deal of observant sauntering around about a house where boarded some city ladies. One of them, not very young, but of rath er attractive appearance, came in for much staring, shrewd rather than impudent. Once it came in his way to do her a service by which he discovered her name and also the prefix Miss before it. "Well, I be hanged," he replied, "ef I hain't puzzled over that a bit. I wouldn't ask, fur I kind o1 made up my mind long ago I could most always tell. Somethin' about you didn't look married, 'n' then agin somethin' did." "What was it did?" she asked. "Well, a sort a look es ef you bed about settled it: wus contented, V done fur, cn' didn't ask nothin' o' no man!" "Is that look so unusual?" "Well, 3'esj hereabouts 'tis; but I've seen thet look afore in women from down your way (Boston.) I used to s'posc them es hed it wus al ways married, but seems not. Well, all I bev to say is 'taint nat ural! A woman ought always to bev a sort of expectin' look about her till she's hitched. It helps i her market. It does, no mis take." Miss Lizzie Marcellus, chief equestrienne of Dan Rice's Great Show, met with a very severe ac cident at Cadiz, Ohio, on the Fourth of July last. It appears the lady was executing a verv difficult piece of ring horse manship, when some of the boys exploded a firecracker, causing her horse to leap from the ring and throw heron her bead and shoulders, inflictimr very severe injuries. It was thought she would be laid up for a long time, but the use ot at. Jacobs Oil for two davs complete ly restored her to health and duty. Chaltanooga(Tenn.) Daily Times CriiFfPis? Sill v '. iif: z urrtin f li illlBSB8piiB -tt-, rw. jMivjrHif.vo-'.tr-, iw -x' LRMMnElklli A.M. JOHXSOX. C. H. STICEELS. A. M. JOHNSON & Co., Dealers In 8Mb CMlery and Groceries CROCKERY & CLASS WARE. Also Wholesale Dealers la " Paints Oils, Tarnislies, Glass, Putiy. Artfefo' OH and "Water Color.-., Vaiut and Halso- uiine liruslies. Constantly on hand a full and choice stock of Staple and Fancy Groceries Only tho Brst kept- si. ,. ,...1. ,,r fnnm-nr anil CSlaHM Wnre U the Iarj:ejt and most Complete St tk ver opvned in Astoria. Consisting of Tea and Dinner Sots, Toilet ScCj. Glass. Fruit, and Water Sots. Bar Fixtures. A.e MUJ55. l'onles. Jtusuc iJOuies uouieia, tum bler Len.onade Cups, &c , &c. Everything .sold at Lowest Living Kates. Qualify Guaranteed. An Examination will more than repay you. WILLIAM HOWE DEALER IN Doors, Windows, Blinds, Transoms, Lumber. All kinds of OFOXt Ij MEUMATIf Nsurnlaia. Sciatica. Lumbaqo, Backache, Soreness of the Chest, Gout, Quinsy, Sore Throat, Swell ings and Sprains, Burns and Scafds, General Bodily Pains, Tcoth, Ear and Headache, Frosted Feet and Ears, and all other Pains and Aches. Ko Preparation on erth equals Sr. Jacoss Oil u a safe, sure, simple and cheap External Btmedy. A trial entails but the co-jparatiTely triflinj; outlav of 50 Cent, and eTery one suffer ing with pain can haTo cheap and paitire Froof of its claims. Directions In Eleven Languages. EOLD BY ALLDBUGGIST8 AND DEALEES IN MEDIOLNE. A. VOGKE1VER & CO., Baltimore, ZZd., V. S. A. 0A LUMBER, , GLASS, Boat Materia!, Etc. W. E. DEMENT & CO. ASTORIA, - - - OREGON Carry in Stock, DRUGS, CHEMICALS, TOILET and FANCY ARTICLES. Prescriptions carefully Compounded, ISK1EK2& AND jjigg i , j.agja mKSSKBmm Rr tggEgjg acket Work A SPECIALTY. I Boats of all Kinds Made to Order, j ....... " " "" .......- 5 Orders from a distance promptly attended to, and satisfaction guaranteed In all cases .------"-'---- '-"- SYMPTOMS OF WORKS. The countenance Is pale and leaden colored, with occasional flushes of a cir cumscribed spot on one or both cheeks; the eyes become dull; the pupils dilate; an azure .semicircle runs along the lower eye-lid ; the nose is irritated, swells, and sometimes bleeds ; n swelling or the upper lip; occasional headache, with humming or throbbing of the ears; an unusual se cretion of yallva; slimy or furred tongue; brcatn very loui.parucuiarij- u um muiu ins; appetite variable, sometimes vora cious, with a gnawing sensation of the stomach; at others, entirely gone; fleeting nalu in the stomach ; occasional nausea and vomiting; violent pains throughout the abdomen; bowels irregular, at times co-,tive; .stools idlmy, not unfrequently tinged with blood : belly swollen and hard; uri nc turbid ; replratlon occasionally d.fll cult and accompanied by hiccough ; cough sometimes ary ana coiivuimvc;uuj "" LOEB & CO., JODBEKS IN WINES. LIQUORS, AND CIGAKS. AGENTS FOtt THE Best San Francisco Houses and Eastern Distilleries. Tumblers Decanters, and All Kinds of Saloon Supplies. j-All goods sold at San Francisco Prices. MAIN STREET. Opposite Parker House. Astoria, Oregon. x-$br ' S. ARNDT & EEECHEN, ASTORIA. - OREGON. The Pioneer Machine Shop BLACKSMITH SHOP AND Boiler Shop All kinds of ENGINE, CANNERY, K2CO STEAMBOAT WORK Promptly attended to. A specialty made of repairing CANNERY DIES, FOOT OF LAFAYETTE STREET. BUSINESS CARDS. T C. HOLD EX, NOTAHY PUBLIC, AUCTIONEER, COMMISSION AND IN SURANCE AGENT. r ELO P. PAKKEK, SURVEYOR OF Clatsop Coanty,and City of Astoria Office :-Chenamus street, Y. M. 0. A. hall Room No. 8. disturbed sleep, with grinding of the teeth ; einner variaine, um-gcnurau jmiiuit Whenever the nbovo symptoms arc TCT . WISTOX, Attorney and Counselor at Law. 83-Offlce in Pythian Building. Booms 11, 12 ASTORIA, - - - OREGON. MAGNUS C. CROSBY, Dealer In U:npcr varlalne, but whenever ti: found to exist. DIl. C. 3IcLAXES TEItMIFUGE will certainly effect a cure. " In buving Vermifuge be sure you cr.t the genuine DK. C. McLANK'S VLK3II L'UCi:, manufactured by ricming Uras., 2 Wood Street, Pittsburgh, Pa- The mir'ttct is full of counterfeits, ou will be'nsht if it has the signature of Mctn ins Itros. and C. McLaiic. If your storekeeper does not liavo the Aiti. nlmu rnnnrt In US. .! ii ji lhrce cent stamp for 4 hand some advertising cards. FLEMING BROS., Pittsburgh, Pa. Preaching Women. to Indian There was a curious practice among the Indians on Puget Sound in the early days. It was the lecture or sermon that, at stated periods, was delivered ex clusively to the Indian women. An important member of the tribe, the big chief or the medi cine man, would select a promon tory or island remote from the mainland, aiid uaddlc himself there solitary and alone, on a fine day. Soon all the squaws would be seen following him, paddling vigorously toward the common point. No buclcs were among them; they all remained on the mainland. The preacher, instructor, exhorter, or whatever he was, often stood in the water up to his knees for a full hour or more while he delivered "his discourse; but the squaws and Indian maidens gath ered as close around him as their eauoes would permit, so as to catch every word that fell from his lips. Savonarola was never more in earnest than this dusky preacher: his face and action . showed he realized the im portance of his work. He was supposed to be instructing the women as to their proper duties in their savage life; but whatever he said they were eager to hear it all. There was no noise save the occa sional chafing of one canoe against another as they moved with the slight swell of the water. It was Ian exciting spectacle-to . see the P Troyal ttvss j 1 : &&& i wm i ?3K?jiSa&j?;SaWft HABUW ARE, IS, STEEL, iron Pipe and Fittings, PLTJMBEKS AND STEAM FITTER0 Goods and Tools, SHEET LEAD STRIP LEAD SHEET IRON TIH AHD COPPER, ASTORIA IRON WORKS. Bkxtox Stkeet, Near Pakkkr House, ASTORIA. - OREGON. TAY TUTTIiE. 31- . PHYSICIAN AND SUKGEON Office Rooms 1, 2, and S. Pythian Build ing. Residence Over J. E. Thomas' Drug Store. TCT P. MICKS, PENTIST, ASTORIA, - - - OREGOK Absolutely Pure, This powder neer varies. A marvel of nuritv. strength and ulnlesomeness. More economical than the ordinary, kinds, and noimnl Iia cnlrl In nin noti 1 1 nil with t III mul titude of low test short weight, alum or phosphate powders, soiaoniyin earn, uoi ai. Baking Powdf.u Co.. tw Wall-st. . . ifflSTETTElfr H W CELEBRATED iX THE LATEST STYLES WALL "PAPER AT B. B. FRANKLIK'S, NEXT DOOR TO ASTOWAN OFFICE. A very large Stock from which to select. 'Window curtains made to order. JSr-My patent Trimmer to cut Wall Paper will he found convenient to m patrons. FOARD & STOKES, FINE GROCERIES AND- PROVISIONS. ANCHOES, ROPE AND COBDAGE. HARNESS AT SAH FRAHGISCO PRICES. A Full Line of House Furnishing Goods. o AT THE O. K. &. X. DOC1C. Stoves, Tin Ware and House Furnishing Goods. JOBBING IN SHEET IRON, TIN, COP PER PLUMBING and STEAM FITTING Done with neatness and dispatch. None Dut first class workmen employed. A large asortment ofi SCALE? Constantly on hand HANSEN BROS. EAYE REMOVED! From their old quarters to their NEW SHOP AND PACTOKY NKAK KINNEY'S CAN NEKY. GENERAL MACHINISTS AND BOILER MAKERS. LAfflaDuIAEfflEMIES Boiler Work, Steamboat Work and Cannery Work a spe cialty. Of all Descriptions made to Order at Short Aotlre. A. D. "Wass. Prcsedent. J. G. Hustlkr, Secretary, I. W. Case, Treasurer. 3ohk For.Superintendent. A. V. Allen, (SUCCESSOR TO PAOK & ALLEJf.) Wholesale nd retail dealer In PtovislosBg "Rooms in Allen's building up stalls, corner of Cass and Sqemocqhe stret i. T Q.A.BOWLBY, ATTORNEY AT LAW, Chenamus Street, - - ASTORIAOBEGOg; " - ' WM. EDGAR, Dealer ia Cigars, Tobacco and Cigarettes Meerschaum and Brier Pipes, GENUINE ENGLISH CUTLERY Revolvers ancT Cartridges. GENERAL STEAMSHIP AGENCY. Bills of Exchange on any Part bi Europe. 1AJI AGENT FOK TIE FOLLOWING well known and commodious steamship lined, STATE LINE, EED STAR, WHITE STAR. HAMBURG-AMERICAN, DOMINION LINB, NATIONAL, and AMERICAN LINB. B0Z0ETH & JOHNS. Real Estate Dealers. Cleaning Repairing. NEAT, CilEAr AND QUICK. BY GEORGE LOVETTt Main Street, opposite N. Loeb'. Dressmaking. Plain and Fancy Sewing. Glass and Plated Ware, TROPICAL AND DOMESTIC FRUITS AND VEGETABLES. ToRethpr with Wines, LiqtiorsJobaccoXigars Prepaid tickets to or from any European port. . . For full Information as to rates of far, sadlnjc days. etc. apply to CLATSOP MILL COMPANY Successors or GEO. TV. HUME SAW MILL. . STOMACH 8ITTE&S Thero has never been an instnnco in which 4lS etnvlSni tniMMnf anil nntt.rAnrila t-iifwl. icino has failed to ward off tht complaint. WUCU UWVUUU1J w a iiuiuuiuu aiuuahuia- doned all the officinal specifics, and now pre scribe this harmless TeceUblC; tonic for chills ana lever, asweii as uynpepua anu nervous affections, Hostetter's Bitters is the speciGc you need, For sale by all Druggists and Dealers A general agency business transacted Have Columbia Citv, Aldprbroolc, Astuiia and Scasldo property for sale. " ASTORIA SAiT LOFL A. hi. JOHNSON & CO., TROPR'S. KAVING CONSIDER ABLY INCREASED our facilities lermectim: the demand of liiArnnco in linnti llili vnr Wft Would T- specuuny can me am-uutui ui CANNERY MEN And all others needing sails, to this fact. Prices Same as Last Year, WORK STILL BETTER. Drilling and Best Quality of Rope on Hand. senora reisti Uy, Our "Work lias Given Satisfaction for Eight Years, And shall bo made to do so while we are In j the business. Suits xnado in tfco best Stylo and Guaranteed to7it Mrs. T. S. JeweU. ROOMS OVER MR. E. S. WARREN'S.l SEVILLE & 00. Pacific Net and Twine Co. Sax FitASCisco, April Hth,lS83. DcAit Slits; . For general convenience, we have sent a supply of If o. 30, 12- ply Genuine Scotcli Wilmon iSct Torino, to the care of A. M. JOI1NSOX & CO., Astoria, which will be sold at low enough figures to make it an object for all net menders to use it for repairs, in place of the more costly No. 40, 12- ply. Fishermen who have heretofore nsed this grade of twine for repairs, claim that the durability of the patch is equal to the balance of the net, after the latter has had a few weeks use. We think it will he money in j-our pocket to try it. For prices and samples apply to A. M. JOHNSON & CO., Astoria. Neyllle & Co. Sole Agents, I San Francis co. 31 and California St. (-"""""-" Wilson & Fisher, SHIP CHANDLERS. DKALEKS IN Iron, Steel, Coal, Anchors, Chains, TAR, PITCH, OAKUM, WROUGHT AND CUT GALVANIZED SPIKES, Nails. Copper Nails ami Burrs, Shelf Hardware, Paints and Oils Rubber and Hemp Packing of all Kinds. PROVISIONS. FiOUll ANI JIIIX FEI. Agents for Salem Flouring Mills. Corner Chenamus and Hamilton Streets ASTOIUA, OKEGON. MANUFACTURERS 9 DEALERS -IN LUMBER, SALMON BOXES, TRAYS, ETC. Office and Mill cor.xEn of west 9th and watbb sts HE. 23. L St 3K ES , DEALER IX Hay, Oats, Straw. Lime, Brick, Cement and Sand Wood Delivered to Order, Graying, Teaming and Express Business. Horses ana Carriages for Hire. DEALER IX WINES, LIQUORS AND CIGARS. F1KST CIjASS LOOK HERE ! We respectfully Inform the public that we 111 always keep on hand the best quality or Fresh, and Cured Meats ALSO Choice Family Groceries, Fresh Fruits, Vegetables, Crockery and Glass-ware. Ships, Hotels and Boarding Houses sup piled on liberal terms. A share ot the public patronage is respect fuuy solicited. & TH0MPS0N. FIRST QUALITY LUMBER. THE WBSTPORT MILL COMPANY IS IN THE FIELD AND PROPOSES TO remain. "We will take orders for lumber from 100 to 60o 3L, at the mill or delivered. We also manufacture lath and shingles of Al quality. Flooring a Specialty. Address all orders "WESTPOKT JIILLCO. g. C, BB20TBK, Spt.