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Vol. xx.
Astoria, Oregon, Sunday Morning, November 4, 1883
No. 30.
THE PIONEERS.
The two hundred Oregon pion
eers, the youngest of them a settler
of 1S54, who have just arrived in
New York on an excursion, could
tell some wonderful stories ol pro
gress, heroism and trial. Turning
their faces toward the setting sun
in the days when the star of cm
pire shone but very dimly in the
west, they have lived to see stately
cities grow up where they corraled
their wagon trains on a pathless
prairie, to see railroad tracks along
their old trail, art and culture
where they fought with painted
savages, and populous industry
where they found a wilderness.
More honor should be paid to
them than to haughty lord or be
wigged justice from across the At
lantic. They are the men who
have planted new stars in our flag,
sown the seeds of civilization, re
finement and liberty, and watched
and guarded their work till the
perfiaps, the magnitude of their
work through the danger, privation
and discomfort, they toiled on, and
the whole. land has shared in their
reward. K&cark Kcvx.
Several instances of applying
the mad stone to poisonous snake
bites have been reported by the
newspapers recently, and the
testimony of tho patients is that
in every case the stone has ab
sorbed the poison. It is a popu
lar belief in the south and the
west that a person who possesses
one of these stones is armed
against all venomous creatures;
but the savants agree that the
madstone is nothing more than
the concretion found in the stom
ach of the deer, and that it has no
medical properties whatever. Prof.
Holmes, the Atlanta Covslitulioji
says, dissected one the size df a
hen's egg, and found its nucleus
to be a perfect white oak acorn.
It was covered by four layers of
phosphates and carbonate of lime
and iron and some silex. There
were two impressions, apparently
made by the teeth of the deer be
fore swallowing the nut. Acorns
are a favorite food of Carolina
deer. In another specimen Prof.
Holmes found the nucleus to be a
bullet.
E. J. Smith, the count3r coroner,
says the Tucson (Arizona) Citizen,
has four gold fish hooks that he
unearthed in the South American
placers. He was mining in a
river bed near the city of Call, in
the state of Cauca, United States
of Columbia, in 18GG, when he
pulled up a small tree by the roots
and there in the sand lay an even
baker's dozen of regularly shaped
gold fish hooks of the ordinary
size. They are not bent in the
Limerick fashion. "Without doubt
they are the work of prehistoric
Indians, governed by the Incas.
"When Mr. Smith returned to San
Francisco he gave some away, lost
others, and now has only four left.
He has been repeatedly asked to
put his price on these, but refuses
to do so. The other da' he re
fused an offer of $20 for one. It
was sucli trifles as these that ex
cited the avarice of Pizarro and
other vandals, who tore down bet
ter governments than have ever
ocoupied the same territory since.
The first section of the bill to
regulate the sale of liquors in
"Washington Territory reads. "The
board of county commissioners of
each county may grant license for
the sale of malrj spirituous and
vinous liquors, if deemed expedi
ent upon application by petition
of thirty-of the resident freehold
ers of the town, village or pre
cinct where the sale ol such
liquors is proposed to take place,
setting forth that the applicant
is a man of respectable character
and standing, and is a resident of
this territory, and praying that
license may be issued to him, such
application to be filed tn the
office of the county auditor, and
upon the payment into the county
treasury of such sum as the board
may require, not less than 500
for each license, and upon the
compliance of the provisions of
this act.
"I see you are growing a mus
tache, George," said she as she
caressed the lappel of his coat.
"Ye-es.1' stammered George,
blushing furiously. I I am try
incr to cultivate one. "Don't it
feel funny on your lip?" she ask
ed. "Well, no," he laughed, re.
gaining his composure; "it seems
to be quite natural." "I wonder
how a mustache would feci on my
lip," she said, with a far-away,
absent look in her eves. "You
needn't wonder long, then," said
George, as he bent down. "Oh,
you forward thing!" sheexclimed;
"I've got a mind to make you
take that back again." And he
did.
A sad state of heathenism seems
to exist in the lumber region of
eastern Texas. The people live
in rude huts in the greatest filth
and squalor, are ignorant and bru
tish in all respects, and have for
their only recreation weekly
"dances," at which the scraping of
old fiddles and the dances them
selves are only accompaniments to
wild excesses and shameless de
bauchery. In one section the mill-
owners recentiv started a school
for their own children and offered
its advantages free to all those liv
ing in the woods, but the offer was
universally refused, sending chil
dren to school "would spoil
them."
An insider in Oregon Transcon
tinental savs: "All these rumors
and false statements of Oregon
Transcontinental have grown out
of the fact that the company is
an abnormal organization. it
builds railroads but it does not
own the roads it has built. The
company has assets, but the peo
ple can't sec assets, and in a period
of depression they are more sus
picious of Oregon Transconti
nental than they would be of a
railroad whose property they could
see.
Among the exhibits at the for
eign exhibition at Boston, are sets
of terra-cotta ware marked "free,"
meaning that no duties were to be
charged upon them, A visitor was
recently detected taking away a
piece, and he innocently asserted
that he thought the mark author
ized him to take one. An account
of stock was immediately made,
and as a score of similar articles are
missing, it is thought that other
visitors have made the same mis
take. John Quincy Adams received
a salary from the United States
government for sixty-nine years,
and the sum total must have
amounted to half a million. At
the close of his presidential term
he had fifty-two years of office
holding, and his salary had aggre
gated 425,000; still, he had
seventeen years of congress after
this, and died at the capital at a
congressional session.
The Philadelphia JYetftf ex
plains the difference between a
"newspaper man" and a "journal
ist." It says: "A 'newspaper
man' is one who has been writing;
editorials for eighteen or twenty
years A 'journalist' is one who
began police reporting about a
week ag:o."
An oyster will Jive to the age
of twenty-six years. That is, in
the sea, he will. In the restau
rant the chances are decidedly
against him. Sometimes he lasts
a long time in the restaurant; oh,
a very long time. But he does
not live nearly so long as he lasts.
It is stated that a Texas hen sat
for three days on a nest full of hail
stones before she discovered that
they were not eggs. The funniest
part of the story is that she didn't
hatch out an iceberg or two. But
perhaps the Texas liar was not en
joying good health.
J. P. Blanchard. of Canemah,
Oregon, gathers this year 2000
pounds of grapes from a vine 20
years old; it is 44 inches in cir
cumference near the ground.
In the great sea of humanity it
is the frothy wave that makes the
loudest roar. 1
The Pall Mall Gazette, contain
ing a statement that the authori
ties have been anonymously in
formed that an attempt will be
made to destroy the train on which
the Duke and Duchess of Con-
naught are to travel to Dover from
London on their way to India,
caused a great sensation.
A man named Poolrowski has
been arrested at Dirichan, charged
with, and confessing to being sent
by the Nihilists to murder Bis
marck. 'Poolrowski said he was a
Russian actor, and that the Nihil
ists provided him with money to
travel to Dantzic.
The key of a safe in a railroad
office at Joliet, 111., was lost, and
there being no honest locksmith in
town of sufficient skill, a well
known bank burglar was employed
to pick the lock.
Tunnel No. 1, on the California
and Oregon railroad, is completed,
and trains are now running through
it a distance from Redding of four
teen miles.
It is reported the first secretary
of the Chinese legation has stated
that war between China and
France is now certain.
AbsoIuteJy Pure.
This nowdcr never varies. A marvel o
purity, strength and whslesomeness. More
economical than the ordinary kinds, and
cannot be sold In competition with the mul
titude ol low test short weight, alum or
nhosnhate nowders. Soldonluin cans, Rov-
ai. Baking Powdeb Co.. IOC Wall-st. N. Y.
King of tlie Blood
Is not a "cure aU," It Is a blood-purifier and
tonic1 Impurity ol the blood poisons thesvs
tem, deranges the circulation, and thus in
duces many disorders, known by different
names to distinguish them according to ef
fects, but being really branches or phases of
that great generic disorder. Impurity or
Itlood. Such are Dyrcnia, UiUlougncsn,
Liver ComvilalnL OmsUmUrm. iVcmiw Dis
order. Headaclic, Backache, General Weak
liest, Heart Disease, Dropty. Kidney DUcatc,
rue, uncumawm, Laiarrn, scrotum, SKin
Ac. Kin's of the Itlood, prevents and
cures these by attacking the eaiwe. Impurity
oi me uioou. uuemisisana pnysicians agree
in calling it "the most genuine and efficient
preparation for the purpose." Sold by Drug
gists, 31 per bottle. See testimonials, direc
tions. &c, in pamphlet, "Treat Ise on Diseases
ot th Blood." wrapped around each bottle.
D. RANSOM, SON & Co.. Props
Buffalo. N. Y.
W. E. DEMENT & CO.
ASTORIA, - - - OKEGON
Carry In Stock,
DRUGS, CHEMICALS, TOILET'
and
FANGY ARTICLES.
Prescriptions carefully Compounded
THE LATEST STYLES
WALL 'PAPER
AT
B. i. FRANKLIN'S,
NEXT DOOR TO ASTORIA?? OFFICE.
A very large Stock from -which to select.
Wiudow curtains made to order.
J"My patent Trimmer to cut Wall Paper
will be lound convenient to my patrons.
L. K. (x. SMITH,
Importer and wholesale dealer Iu
Clzars aad Tobaccos, Smekera' Articles.
I'laylaz Cards, Cutlery, Sta
. tie aery. Etc
The largest and finest stock of MEER
SCHAUMand AMBER GOODS In the city.
Particular attention paid to orders from
the country,
TnKO.BRACKER, Manager.
Chcnamus Street, Astoria. Oregon.
A FARM TO LET.
OF 100 ACRES. ON YOUNG'S BAY. AND
nrilntninc ttiiQ ttv nn irhloli I, 9 Unia
good spring, and about thirty acres cleared
smooth, suitable for gardening, dairying or
POWDER
poultry raising. J. tax
BANKING ANDJHSURANCE.
r. w. cass,
BROKER. BANKER
INSURANCE AGEHT
ASTOK1A,
OREGON
OFFICE IlOUItS:
FKOM 9 O'CLOCK A. M. UNTIL 3
O'CLOCK P. 3L
Hue Mutual mnm Go.,
OF CALIFORNIA.
J. IT. Homarrojf
Ciias. R. Stoi:v.........
Gko. L. Stohv.. ...
President
.............Seererary
,Ageat for O ".u
Capital paid up lu U, S. goldj
coin .. $ SOO ( 00
I. V. CASE, Agent.
Chcnamus street, Astoria, Oregon.
$67,000,000 CAPITAL.
LIVERPOOL AND LOON AND
GLOBE,
NORTH BRITISH AND MERCAN
TILE OF LONDON AND
EDINBURGH
OLD CONNECTICUT OF II ART
FORD, AND
COllALERCIAL OF CALIFORNIA
FIRE INSURANCE COMPANIES.
Representing a capital of WJ7.000.000.
A. VAN DUSEN. Agent,
NORTHERN PACIFIC EXPRESS
COMPANY
Are Now Ready For Business.
OS-Office with Bozorth & Johns.
E. A. NO YES,
Ast.
3. ARNDT & FERCHEN,
ASTORIA. - OREGON.
The Pioneer Machine Shop
Boiler Shop j.
All kinds or
ENGINE, GAHHSEY,
AND
STEAMBOAT WOES
Promptly attended to.
A specialty made of repairing
CANNERY DIES,
FOOT OF LAFAYETTE STREET.
ASTORIA IRON WORKS.
Bkxtok Street, Near Parker IIousk,
ASTORIA. - OREGON.
GENERAL MACHINISTS AND
BOILER MAKERS.
LAM MAMMIES
BoilerWork, Steamboat Work
and Cannery Work a spe
cialty. Of all Descriptions made to Order
at Short Notice.
A. D. "Wass. President.
.1. G. IIustlkk, Secretary,
I. W. Case, Treasurer.
Joirx Fox.Supcrintcndent,
C. H. BAD? &
DEALERS IX
Doors, Windows, Blinds, Transoms
Turning, Bracket Work.
JSI2.03P Worls.
A specialty, and all work guaranteed.
Oak, Ash, Bay, and Walnut lumber; Ore
gon and Port Orford Cedar.
All kinds of boat material on hand.
C II.BAIX & CO.
Astoria Oil Works.
J. IL DEFORCE. Proprietor, P.O.Box 2W,
Astoria, Oregon.
Manufacturer and Dealer m
FISH OIL and SKID GREAS.
Loggers will And my Skid Grease to be
good and cheap.
T?jSLIXC:O.X:KrG-,
Cleaning Repairing.
NEAT, CIIEAP AND QUICK. BY
GEORGE XOVETT,
Main Street, opposite N. Loeb's.
A. MaeBetli,
MERCHANT TAIL0E,
No. 4. First St., Portland. Oregon.
Clothing made at reasonable prices,
and satisfaction guaranteed.
BLACKSMITH -sgfty
SH0PP
ANU - "
BUSINESS CARDS.
J R. THOMSON.
Attorney and Counselor at Law.
Room No. C, over White House,
ASTORIA, OREGON.
.7.
SAT. HUDSO.V.
Attorney at Liaiv, anil .Votary
Public.
Odd Fellows Building, Astoria, Oregon,
C. VT. FUI.TOX. c. c fultox.
Furroac b KoxnsRS.
ATTORNEYS AT LAW.
Rooms 5 and C, Odd Fellows Building.
J .A. BO'.VIiBY.
ATTORNEY AT LAW,
Chenumws treet, - - ASTORIA, OREGON
Q K. 31 rA CHIC AX,
Attorney ntiLa-vr.
Room -1, White House.
q j. corns,
ATTT AT LAW.
Notary Public. Commissioner of Deeds for
uniuornia, isew lorK and wasnnigton 'icr
rltorv. .
Rooms 3 and 4, Odd Fellows Building, As
torla. Orecon.
N. II -Claims at Washington. D. C, and
collections a specialty.
Astoria Ascnt
Hamburg-Magdeburg
and German-American
FIRE INSURANCE COMPANIES.
NOTARY PUBLIC,
AUCTIONEER, COMMISSION AND IN
SURANCE AGENT.
Q.KLO K. IMRKKR.
SURVEYOR OF
Clatsop County, and City of Astoria
Offlce :-Chenamus street, Y. M. C. A. hall
Room No. 8.
JQK. X. C. I! OATH AX.
Physician and Surgeon.
Rooms a and 10, Odd Fellows Building.
ASTORIA, OREGON.
JAY TUTTIiE. 31. 1.
PHYSICIAN AND SURGEON
Office Rooms 1,2, and 3. Pythian Build-in-.
Rksidkxck Over J. E. Thomas' Drug
Store.
V. HICKS,
nENTIST,
ASTORIA, ...
OREGON
Hnntrm in Alton's hiiHilinfr nn etnlrs onmoi
of Cass and Sqemocqbestret .
JR. ,F. U. LaFOltCE,
ii?:vtist,
Room H.Odd Fellows Building, Astoria, Or.
Gas administered for painless extraction
of teetlu
MUSIC.
PROF. T. F. I?EGYF,K.
Graduate of Heidelberg University.
Piano Tcnclicr.
GENERAL STEAMSHIP AGENCY.
Bills of Exchange on any
Part ol Europe.
T AM AGENT FOR TIE FOLLOWING
X well known and commodious steamship
ines.
STATE LINE. RED STAR.
WHITE STAR.
HAMBURG-AMERICAN.
DOMINION LINE.
NATIONAL, and AMERICAN LINE.
Prepaid tickets to or from any European
port.
For full information as to rates of fare,
saWnx days; etc, apply to
1. tt.UA&fc.
OKO. P. WIIRKLEI
W. L. KOIJU.
Notary Public.
WHEELER & R0BB.
GENERAL
Seal Estate I Insurance Apts.
Wo have Tory desirable property in As
toria and Upper Astoria for safe. Also, line
farms throughout the count'.
ViMl'lUM .lUJIUlCU aMIU turni.-
tions made.
We represent the
Royal. Norwich Union anil Lanca
shire Insurance Co.
With a combined capital of 836,000,000.
THE
Travelers Lite and Accident Insur
ance Co, of Hartford, and the Man
hattan JjiTe Insurance Co.,
of New York.
We are acents for the Daily and Weekly
liorlhiccxl r'otv, and the Oregon Vidclte.
All business entrusted to our care will re
ceive prompt attention.
ATTENTION SOLDIERS !
$101,000,000 Appropriated in
1883 Tor 1'cxisions.
AN ACT to relieve soldiers from the charse
of desertion and grant all such soldiers their
full dues, and to grant soldiers marked as
DESfciUKKS nonoraoie uiscuarge papers.
AN ACT to extend the arrears of the pen
sion act and continue it In force so far as
widows and children are concerned. AN
ACT allowing pay for horses and equipments
lost in service, etc Nearly ever' person la
entitled to an increase.
Pensions, Bounties, Land. Claims
and Patent attended to.
For particulars call or address
C. J. CU11TIS.
Attorney and Counselor at Law, Solicitor of
Claims and Tatents.
Rooms 3 and 4 Odd Fellows building, As
toria, Oregon.
FURNISHED ROOMS TO LET.
AT MRS. GEO. rflLLER'3, NEXT DOOR
to Veton Hotal.
CARL ADLER S
REVOLUTION
Is herewith declared. From and after tho 1st of November all News
papers and Periodicals will be sold at the following prices:
5 Cents Each..
Fireside Companion, N. Y. Weekly Ledger, Saturday Night,
Arm Chair, Family Story Paper, Boys of New York, Weeks Doings,
Texas Sifttngs, S. F. Chronicle, Call, Oregonian, News and AstoeulH",
etc., etc.
8 Cts., 3 for 25 Cts., 13 for $1.00.
Police Gazette, Police News, Illustrated Times, Puck, "Wasp, and
Judge, Harper's Bazaar and Weekly, Leslie's Weekly and Chimnef
Corner, Argonaut, and many others.
I 'have printed tickets for those papers to make exact change.
Back numbers always on hand.
2 c fiprn cj Leslie's Popular Monthly,
O 'Ueiilfc. Young Ladies Journal, etc.
80 CeiltS. Harper's Monthly, etc.
Having made arrangements with all publishers I am enabled t
give the public a benefit of the above named reductions 1 have als
REDUCED the price for Subscriptions, which will be as follows:
Harper's Weekly, per vear $3.75 not $4 00
" Bazaar ' 3.75 " 4.00
" Monthly ' r. 3.50 " 4.09'
All three for ... 10.00 " 12.00
Leslie's Weekly, per year 3.75 " 4.00
Leslie's Chimney Corner, per year 3.75 " 4.00
" Popular Monthly " i. 2.85 " 3.00
Fireside Companion f 2.75 " 3.00
New York Ledger 2.75 " 3.0t
Saturday Night .. . : 2.75 w 3.00
Family Story Paper 2.75 " 3.00
Arm Chair. 2.75 " 3.00
S. F. Argonaut 3.75 " 4.00
Puck
And all others too numerous to mention at the same rates. Now is
your time to subscribe for the coming ear. Remember Carl AdlerV
c..i - : -vt T4 l
kjuiui ipuuii itts iupuu
ABLER STILL HOLDS THE FORT !
Xaools at This !
All the following ttne cloth bound Hooks gilt edge. Ited Line edition, formerly $1.50 ai
75 eents. FOKiHS Dulwer Lytton. Campbell, Spencer. Hemans, Tennyson, Hood.
jHiwre. .jean mgeiow. uraoo. rope, snaKespeare. (ouisnmn, unaucer. uoieridge. uieue,
Dry en. Macaulav. Scott. Srhiller. Jlilton. KeaLs. Kirk. Wliitp. (Joss.Tlinmnsnn.Hertaflrt.
Ayton, ,Voodworth. Longfellow, Holmes. Bayard Taylor, Shelby, Itodgers. Barns, Cooper,
mi muii, miuiy iuurv.
Quixote. Oem-s Household stories, Dick
nouiiiMiu uuisoe. nuo j;oy, uie .Miasmpmnn. Daring JJeeus. r rencn r ancy xaies, la
rrivateereinan, Young Forester, 1'eterthe Whaler, and hundreds more.
LOW PRICES.
Every article of my new, fine selected stock
Aili CO.UVJETtl'IOX.
Books. Stationery, and Notions in endless variety. A fine display of Gold and Silver
Watches. Clocks and Jewelry, Jcodger Bros. Silverware, as Knives, Forks and SpooB,
Castors, Cup?, Tea Sets, etc, etc, will be sold cheaper than auywhere else.
PLVXOS AND ORGANS of the best
Installments.
MUSICAL INSTRUMENTS of everv description. Sheet Music and Music Instructors
of tb latest publications. 100 new Music Books just received from the East.
ffl"'rQ I The finest assortment of Toys, Wagons. Velocipedes, Baby CarriaxM,
IvAO . etc. etc, can only be found at Adler's well known Crystal Palace.
Enabled bv many years of emcrience I
will Milt young and oh).
I mean to do a square, honest business, giving full value for every dime received.
Follte clerks will be found in attendance and no trouble to show goods.
KK3IK3IBI31I X WILJj XOT BE UXIERSOL.l.
Th Crystal
Cari adler,
BGZ0ETH & JOHNS,
Real Estate and General Insurance
Agents.
ASTORIA,
Oregon.
WE WRITE POLICIES IN THE WEST
em. State Investment. Hambunr, Bre
men and North Germai Fire Insurance Com
panies, and represent the Travelleis' Life
and Accident of Hartford, and the New
York Life, of N.Y.
We liave tho only completeset of township
maiis in the county, and have made arrange
ments to receive applications. flJUngs. and
final proofs on Homesteads, Freemptions.
Timber Lands, etc. having all the official
uianKs tnereior. uur maps can oe exam
ined In the office, upon the payment of a
rcannahle fee.
We also have for sale city property in As
toria and additions, and farms and tide land
property.
Rents, and otlier collections made, and
loans negotiated.
BOZORTH & JOHNS.
For Sale.
FIVE HUNDRED CORDS DRY IIEM
lock Wood, which I will deliver at the
houses of customers for 1 a cord.
Draylng or all kinds done at reasonable
rates. R. R. MARION.
Follow !
ace!
4.50 5.0f
Itodney. Aesops Fables, Last Days of Pompeii.
will be sold at prices that will IBFV
makers very Lott for Cash, er oh Emt
succeeded in selecting a stock of troods which
Proprietor.
ST01& DATUM
COMMISSION MERCHANTS.
Dealers In
LTTMBEE,
HAY,
GBADJ",
POTATOES,
AND
COUNTRY PRODUCE.
Advances made on ConsignminW.