Wit gaJUt fljsforiim.
ASTORIA, OREGON:
I'llI DAY DECEMHKK 2S, 1ES3
ISSUED EVERY MORNING.
(Monday excepted;
J. F. HALLORAN & COMPANY,
ruBMSHHit.s am niorniirrOH-S
ASTOHXAX BUILDINO. - - CASS STREET
Terra ofSubscrlptloa.
Served J)v Carrier, per week J.lcts.
.ent by Mall, per month (Wets.
one yew .. ... ...7.oo
1'ree of postage Jo subscribers.
CSAilvertlseinenIs inserted It v the ear at
tbi rate of.$2 per squati' per month. Tran
sient advertising lifiv cents per square, each
teitertlon.
Around the City.
The brig Orient was sighted outside
yesterday afternoon.
John Adair, Jr., is in the city on a visit
from northern waters. " .
Sugar is cheap: that is it is cheaper
limn it was a mouth ago.
Foard & Stokes are moving to iheir
now quarters in the Welch block.
LimiI evening's clevor entertainment
"X 11 be repented at Liberty hall to-night.
There is a man in Skaaiokwa whose
aboes are TyC inches long and r4 inches
vrido.
The O. 11. & N. Co.'.s new office? are
iMtirly finished. The dock is the- finest
0:1 the coast.
The Iwx-sheet for "Among the Jlreak-
enf' will be opan at li. F. Stevens A: Co.'s
this evening.
The llonitu with Pilot Whss on the
bridge, arrived in with a load of combus
tibles yesterday morning.
The regular quarterly examination for
teachers begins at Snpt. Sloop's office at
nine o'clock this morning.
There will be a meeting of the Wash
ington Territory board of pilot commis
sioners at Ilwaco, Jan. Lr, 1884.
The new $.15,000 school house is receiv
ing the finishing touches. School begins
at nine o'clock next Wednesday morning.
A Seattle manufacturer advertises
"pure candy at 10 cents a pound."' As
pure sugar costs 12 conts. the inquiry is
whore does the profit come in.
CapL Bartlett, of the Ice Kiwi, was up
from Baker's bay yesterday, and retorts
jfit so secure was his anchorage that he
scarcely felt last Wednesday's gale.
The Olvmnia DniUi Critic annenred lust
Monday Messrs. Black & Dunham are
the pWltliabers. W. H. Roberts, the
Olympi Ort'jjiinian correspondent is the
editor.
Oass stn-H han broken loose again. It
has btnm fully tLiree weeks since this
street was last torn up. and we had be
gun to feel lotiftsomc. It's water pipe
this time.
A young lady is pttiuting a picture of a
frog which she exists to present to a
young jwpular bachelor. It is so sug
gestive of leap year that the intended
victim will probably jump out of the way.
The weather tried hard to !e?vt itself
yesterday, and did pretty well tU about
three in t4ie afternoon, when it bud hab
its nrnvr.fl inn TrinMi ftir it H ' r-l-J
in a manner shocking to behold. But j
t hore was no wind. '
The Stale came down from the sr:-: fa
east yesterday: the passoiigors report
passing the dead body of a man below
the mouth of the Yillnmotte: tlx Sate
lenves out at 8 o'clock this naornint;. The
Cahn..Ha is due- from San Franciica to
day. Thos?cond cute-tainnifut of the As
toria Social club was a decided success,
ihe elegant, rooms at Pythian Caslle bc
iug filled last evening with a party of
lnai and gentlemen who thoroughly
lPKsL;bt-'liia. TI n! imtert-iin-
nient wiii L . r..vUary 10th, 1WS4. j
Eldctsic Fine AvARsi. Ben Vorsley I
was busy yesterday with his construc
tion corps putting up the wires for the
new electric fire alarm. The wire is now
laid from Rescue No. li's engine house to
tho West Shore Mills, and bpek as far as
the northwest corner of Cass and Che
namus streets. From there it will run by
the most direct route to the city limits.
One box will be placed at J. C. Trnllin
ger's, another in the vicinity of Cass
street, n third at or ncarlTs engine house,
a fourth at Ike Foster's corner, a fifth at
Johansen's. A district box will be placed
a little further east to connect with the
main line. The alarm will be in opera
tion in about thirty days.
A Don Tbaxsactiou. In Justice Bush
wilor's court yesterday, William Kelley
was tried for the larceuj' of a dog from
Jas. Cook. It appears that Cook sent tho
dog to Kelley from Astoria, in tba care of
ono Roberts some time ago. with instruc
tions to deliver it to one Sophie Smith.
Kolley, instead of doing this, however,
kept the canine, and about a month
afterwards sold it to Jake Brenner for
$20. Cook arrived in town a few days
ago, and learning what disposition had
been made of the animal, had Kelley
arrested for stealing it. Kelley claimed
that tho dog had been sent to him as a
present, but Judge Bushwiler seemed in
clined to doubt his statement, and fined
him 2Ti. sending him to jail for twelve
days in default of payment Cook now
signifies his intention of entering suit
against Brenner for the recoverv of his
terrier. Standard, 27.
Police Couet. The benches in the
court room yesterday afternoon were
filled, and when the judge unrolled a
weighty legal volume, F. D. Winton
arose and said that in reference to the
two prisoners, Munson and Sawmiller-,
the city had 110 jurisdiction. Police
Officer Steabb had arrested them and
they had previously been arraigned on a
charge of taking a prisoner away from
au officer, but according to the law as
laid down by the city attorney such
action constitutes a state offense and does
not come under the jurisdiction of crim
inal procedure. Tho aforesaid gentlemen
were told that their road to freedom was
. unobstructed, and as tho deputy district
attorney did not apprehend them, they
arose and went hence. The cases of
Robert Wihlgren and John Wiseman,
charged with keeping bawdv houses,
were continued till to-day. Max Curtis
plead not guiltj' to a charge of drunken
ness preferred against him, but the ar
resting policeman's story was so strongly
against the plea that the judge imposed a
fine of $10.
Heavy Weatheb in El Paso. The
wind-turned loose down in El Paso the
other day, just the same as in Astoria
last Wednesday. The next morning the
Herald local turned loose, thusly:
4Friday was devil's day in this city,
and tho devil was surely delighted. The
winds blow a hurricane and sand filled
the air. Old Boreas manipulated the
emereaiinrotue ana smote the .dSoJian
harp with a fortv-horse nower steam
thresher. Tho wind fiends howled worse
than our city council when tho flood
gate? 01 elonaence are let loose, or a
cinp-jr jethig of famishing coyotes.
Tbetold a round of high wassail in our
sandy streets, and wailed and mourned
like legions of damned spirits riding tho
furious blasts oa side-saddles of red-hot
iron. Hell hath no furv like ono of these
cyclones. Amanunay bo perfectly justi-
iicu air a wearing av seen weainer as we
had on Friday. But this remark will not
apply .to oar bishop, even if the sand
did drift over the top of his four-foot
lence.
JVoiicc ef jfccmeval.
' Foard & Stokes have removed
old stand m Welch BroV hi
mey wiu oe nappy 10 :
2IA5IFESTATI0XS OF 3IINI).
'fan You Summon Spirit", from the Va.tj"
Deep."
With many others The Astoeian's thea
trical reporter sat on x cushioned fa
tetdl at Liberty hall last evening and saw
the clever doings of C. H. and Orilla
Read. Without anj particular reference
to the performance which was good of
the kind, it started a train of thought
in the aforesaid reporter's mind.
It a grand causeway could bo construc
ted between the earth and the far off un
known country called "the Better Land,"
what shoals of peojde would be forever
traveling up and down on tours of in
spection. Human nature, lacking such a
bridge, insists on a fruitless search after
means of communication with the super
natural. For good or for evil, for selfish
or for unselfish reasons, myriads of men
and women find an awful fascination
in trying to solve the great nystery.
One man investigates because he is an
unboliever in immortality and wishes to
believe. Another that he may become a
medium and make monej. A third be
cause ho longs to speak with a much
loved daughter or wife who has gone be
fore. And so it goes on. And so year
after year, clairvoyants, fortune, tellers,
spiritual mediums, all find clients and
followers in all places. That thess peo
ple die and suffer misfortunes, poverty
and disease themselves which tiioy are
totally unable to avert does not discon
cert tin peopl- who dock to them, be
lieving in their ability to forewarn and
forearm others against coming diffi
culties and sorrow. There is no estima
ting the influence physical, mental and
moral, exerted by some of those sooth
sayers. Speaking some time ago of one
of his patients, a woman of highly sensi
tive imaginative organization, a physi
cian said: "She is dying by inches, from
tho effecLsof a single interview with a
clairvoyant."' The individual whom she
consulted went into a trance and in the
midst of horrible contortions and spasms
told her that he saw a snake writh
ing and twisting in her stomach.
Her ill-health dates from this in
tervicw, and from being n healthy person
she has become a confirmed invalid. She
fancies she feels distinctly the motions of
this reptile. She is constantly nauseated
and has become dangerously nervous.
Neither arguments nor raillery affect her
belief in the least. This man succeeded
in one interview in making her have faith
in him. What many a good man might
have failed to command from her after
working for yetrs. he compassed in one
fatal half hour. The power of such men
and his confreres is due in a great meas
ure to the influence of a stronger will
over a weaker one. Many of them have
a certain measure of dramatic talents by
the help of which they cm make impossi
bilities seem possible. Among these in
our memory is a pretty little woman who
goes into trances and calls herself a clair
voyant, although she admits quite frankly
that she does not know what she is.
Years ago. when a little child, she recol
lects clasping her arms around a swing
and looking dreamily into space until it
seemed to her as if her soul was dissev
ered from her body and she had visions.
They were not of her own future, but of
the future of others, and when she
awakened from this dream or trance
oulv the latter part of the closing chapter
was remembered. Her father, a stern,
old Puritan, was at a loss to know how to
eiorcise this devil, for whippings and
punDflShutei.ts were of iio avail. She
97. J evvry opportunity to ietf this
p-mvr. As'.sJh " w older, however, and
won1 to seuo.l. the B'.'i' r .Vfr shamed
her out of what th-.-y called '"Vi eh uon
acus?." At eightef 11, having a hwirt like
other women, she foil in love, inarried
and becanip the mother of ti little
children. With busy hands and a happy
life the old pernicious tendency towards
dreams ami virions wits well nigh
forgotten. No trance warned her of
the approach of that unrt'.enting
visitor, death! He came as t- tii most
ordinary mortals. unexpect -J il unan
nounced. On a'rajatjk,niiit'k- t.o stood
on the irch of ber little boast, with fcer
baby crowing in her arias, four men ap
I proached with a horrible burden, the in
animate form of her husband mangled
by machinery. Then came sickness, pov
erty, debt, and despair. Her children
were looking at her with hungry eyes.
She grew wild and unlike herself and
was beset anew by visions and dreams.
She saw visions of the future happiness
of her friends and neighbors, until final
ly she told a credulous woman one day
her fortune. Then another cam e and an
other, and presently tho desolate widow
became known asaclain03Tant a woman
with a power to divine the future. She
went to sleep with rigid muscles and star
ing eyes and saw people's lives unrolled
before hor as an immense panorama. Sho
tom ner visitors how mends professing
to love them, really were implacable ene
mies. Sho told of comins sickness, of
good fortune for those who invested
money in such and such a manner. And
all this was given forth with such burn
ing and rapid intensity that she never
failed to convince. It is not too much
to say that whole lives have been ordered
ana altered upon this woman's words.
Friends have been separated and brought
together; wives and husbands have been
rendered happy or miserable; monev
made or lost; residences changed; busf-1
ness put aside; joanieys taken from ono
part of the country to another. The
woman herself, meanwhile, made money,
cuuraa-u uei cuuunia, Hft up uer son 111
a lucrative business, and owned her first
little home for rest and recreation. Bat
while she had been busy averting the mis
fortunes of others, had she kept her own
sky free from clouds? Ah, no! The light
of her life went out. Her beautiful, ac
complished, cherished daughter died.
Neither trance, nor vision, nor spell, nor
dream warned her, and yet it was no ill
ness, but an accident which, could it
havo been foreseen, might easily have
been prevented. Tho girl went to ride,
the horse took fright, and sho died of in
ternal injuries. If spirits come to her
mother and tell hor of the destinv of
others, are they not cruel devils which
hover around and leave her powerless to
protect her own?
All there is to it is that sho is r. highly
strung, overwrought woman, who needs
treatment by a competent specialist in
her own case. She calls tho people who
come to see her. appropriately enough,
"her patients." One lady lias been to see
beronce a week for eleven years. She
limits herself to three trances" a day and
she charges $5 for each trance. 'Then
she tells fortunes by cards, and, in one
way and another makes from $lf to $20
a da3 Even her own sorrowful experi
ences, which she relates quite unre
servedly and pathetically, do not deter
tho people who consult her from return
ing again and again. Reason is not the
strong point with those who find it possi
ble to believe in divinations. They will
believe implicitly a lortune-teller who
says: "Unless you take the greatest care
a terrible sickness will overtake yon."
Any observant person might make the
same remark, but without avail. It is
the imperious positiveness which com
mands their clients and their plausibility.
Something is due also to their general
cleverness and their occasionally shrewd
guesswork. They are students, and suc
cessful students too. of the weaknesses
of human nature, which are so pitifully
revealed to them.' As one said, when
misfortunes visited her: "I believe m
neither God nor mnn' And ko thev rro
on making miserable wrecks of their
lives and tho lives of others. What Mo
phistophclian laughter thev must give
waj' to as they send a man off to intfesti-
gaie a nune in aicxjco or uoioor
give some poor woman xait
creant husband t AVieir
alwavs safe. What a
moderately large
at least ono
female as?
A MASTERPIECE OF'IXFLATIOX.
From Hrlnrlfh II Heard to Henry Villard.
The Greatest Railroad HI on Ont
On Ecord.
A former largo holder of Oregon Trans
continental stock, whom Mr. Villard's
friendship is said to have cost $iX),000,
says:
"When Heinrich Hilgard was a New
York reporter he is said to have been al
most communistic in his democracy.
Nothing pleased him more than to lie
able to puncture the epidermis of a mill
ionaire. When his salary reached SjOa
week he felt himself as good as a prince.
Once in a while a board bill would em
barrass him. but he did not let iuch mai -ters
trouble liim.
"Some years after the war he returned
to Germany. About the same time the
panic occurred, and the bottom fell out
of all railroad securities. The foreign
holders of Kansas Pacific stocks and
bonds wero in despair. Their property
had become valueless, and they were
helpless. Mr. Hilgard appeared as a de
liverer. Ho sought these persons out and
told them that ho possessed information
and an idea which would restore their
property to its former value. To such
good effect did he tcik that they appoint
ed him their agent. He came" to Amer
ica again and succeeded so well that whin
he sold tho roud to Jay Gould he made
$300,000 out of the operation. This was
his start. He then came to Oregon and
soon controlled the phenomenal Oregon
Railway and Navigation Company. From
this a new company was evolved "and the
new oiupany had a now president with a
new name. He became Henry Villard.
This company has stood the most re
markable stock-watering on record.
"Mr. Villard invented tho blind pool.
He called upon all his friends to enter.
Having blind confidence, we did. We
subscribed 31,000,000. He was our
trustee. The Oregon and Transconti
nental Company was formed. It has
been the receptacle for the loads which
Mr. Villard and others accumulated in
their speculations. If the deal was profit
able it was Villard's, if unprofitable the
company's. Into it he emptied his Rail
way and Navigation, stock around 1."j0.
Of courso the compatry could not stand
this.
"The heaviest losers are his friends,
those who had confidence in him. Mr.
Billings has lost hundreds of thousands.
D. O. Mills, Geo. M.PulIniau, Horace Por
ter, A. H. Barnej-, B. P. Cheney. W. K.
VauderbUt, C. B. Wright havo all lost.
They are among the worst hurt and can
stand it. Somo of the others cannot.
"Mr. Villard has scarce an' of the
stock of anj" of these companies left. His
name appears on the Northern Pacific
books for a small amount bought for tho
occasion, but most of this has since been
sold. He has not lost."
"Five years ago he had hard work to
pay his office rent in the Continental
building. To-day he is worth ten mil
lions. He has a 1 wo-million-dollar house,
and a two-milliou-dollar claim against
tho Oregon and Transcontinental com
pany among other things. A little while
ago he transferred a half million dollars
in government bonds to his wife. I con
sider it the most gigantic piece of rail
road inflating ever accomplished. It's a
masterpiece."'
W11EI1E SOMZ OP THK MOSEY IS.
Mr. V. on the 17th, moved into his
wonderful New York palace. This tri
umph of architecture has been described
at length in Tnc AsroniAJi. It is mod
elled both in its exterior and interior
after a Roman palace, and consists really
of six houses. Mr. V. himself occupying
one entire wing, which is soparated
from the other by an enclosed
court. In height it is four
stories above tho basement. The
drawing-room?, occupying the front of
t jo house, are furnished jnSght woods
richly carved, with an aliuy1uXce of rich
tipsstries. Tho diuinr:-,oni TajftKoHfU.-
tirely in curved jfood. The Tiall is of
yJlow taarble. the floor beinr? in mosrJc
Trrthe ceiling in a vaulted arch, or
miner ssnra oi arcnes, nil in maroie ana
designed by St Gaudiens. It alone will
cost $00,000 when completed. Tho music
room, at the extremity of tho hall, is tho
most costly room in the mansion. It
occupies two stories, and is a miniature
theatre. The gallery for tho musicians
is after a gallery in the Fontainebloau
palace. It will probably bo two 3'oars
before the finishing touches can be put
on this room and the decorations are ex
pected to cost $75,000. None of the work
has been done by contract, so that the
exact expense has been unknown, but it
is stated by the architects that the struc
ture finished would cost fully a million
dollars unfurnished. Over nine hundred
thousand dollars had been expended
somo time ago. High wages have been
paid for the most skilled workmen, the
Italian artists some of thorn demanding,
it is reported, $10,000 before coming to
this country.
For three weeks, furniture of tho most
sumptuous kind had been arriving.
Heinricb. has stated that the interior
decorations and furnishing of his house
would cost nearly a million dollars.
Marcott & Co., of Paris, have manufac
tured the furniture. There are sets of
chairs which cost $500 apiece, on whoso
backs arc oil paintings of real merit.
It has cost ;S0,OQ0 to put this furniture
in place alone.
The main floor of the new house is not
3et completed. Workmen will be em
ployed on it all winter. Six artists
brought from Italy for the work are
decorating the music room and main
halt The labor is of the finest nature,
and the best of sculptors are employed on
the marblo work. Fifteen inferior work
men are doingtho less important work.
Heretofore Hileard has lived nfc his
Dobbs Ferry house, stopping at hotels
when remaining in town. The Dobbs
Ferry place cost him nearly a half mil
lion. The ground alone is worth 5.500
an acre. The decoration of one room,
mi. . j 1? f '
aone in gold, cost $50,twu. There he
lived in elegant style, keeping a stable of
twenty horses, and entertaining in a bo
coming manner. There was always a
retinue of servants about tho place, but
most of them have now been brought to
the new palace, the housekeeper being
left in charge at Dobbs Ferry. It is un
derstood that in the summer, when not
at the watering places, he will occupv
this country seat.
Cakadian Pacific. "Writing of the
prospects of the Canadian Pacific, tho
Victoria Post gives tho following facts:
"The road is to run from Montreal to
Port Moody, just above Victoria, in
British Columbia. The distance is 2SG9
miles from ship to ship. That is about
425 miles less than the distance by way
of the C. P. and U. P. and Chicago from
San Francisco to New York. This dis
tance is divided into five sections, as fol
lows: First from Montreal to Callender,
in Ontario, 815 miles; second from Cal
lender to Port Arthur. C50 miles: third
from Port Arthur to Winnepeg, 435 miles:
fourth from "Wianepeg to summit of
the Rocky Mountains, 122G miles; fifth
from summit of the Kocky Mountains to
Port Moodv, 213 miles, which makes up the
total of 2SG9 miles of the main trunk from
ship to ship. The company's resources
to build and equip the road are: First
the gift of 213 miles of the road from
Port Moody eastwari, which the domin
ion government has xund itself to con
63 miles; third t
of 435 miles at
6 eastern end
ine, which, was
traded by
nion, and is now
tion.
vera! gifts foot
miles.
1543 are of the
these 643 miles,
impanyto build
rhich they,have
HOTEL ARM 7ALS.
OCCIDENT.
R J Morrison & wf WO Owen,Jr,Stev's
Ulatsop A W bouthard.balem
SB Smith. do
MrsHMWetherbeo
Mrs W B Starke-,
Port
WH Adams, do
C Wr Hanson, do
& son, Eagle Cliff
A D Wass, Bonita
J O Wilson. Parker
W H Gray, Klask
1 JJybee, do
It (Jnabot, Ilwaco
J Henry, Brookfield AF Collier. ICnappa
J Furrey, Clifton
PAEKEB HOUSE.
J F Tubman. J M Bloomfield, Port
Highland Light J C Keanus.
D C Rycknian Hon Benj Simpson.
Knappa Portland
A Sutherland, do H C Harrison,
B F Coffey.
do
do
do
do
Lewis River
P M Linguist.
J F Bender.
D Sutherland.
Geo H Beck.
Canvon Citv
II D Newbury, do
A Waltman, city
A Miller, Kalnni
FM Sweet. B'y View
A Davis, city.
Shrink. Shrank. Shrank.
My father bought an undershirt
Of bright and flaming red
'All wool, Fm ready to assert,
Fleece dyed," the merchant said.
"Your size is thirty-eight I think;
A forty you .should get,
Since all wool goods are bound to hhriuk
A trifle when they're wet.
That fchirt two weeks my father wore
Two washings, that was all
From fort down to thirty-four
It shrank liko a leaf in fall.
I wore it then a day or two,
But when 'twas washed ugiiiu
Mv wife said, "Now 'twill oulv do
For little brother Ben."
A fortnight Ben squee::ed into it.
At last he said it hurt.
We 1 ut it on our babe the fit
Was good as env shirt.
Wo ne'er will wash it more while yet
We see its flickerinir lieht.
For if again that shirr, is wet
"Twill vanish from our sight.
Card of ThanLi.
Editoii AsToniAs: I
Permit us through the columns of Tui: j
Astouian to return our sincere thanks to I
tho kind friends who so bountifully re- j
memlered us with presents on Christmas I
day. They wero arcepted in the most
grateful spirit. Sistkss of CiiAnnrv.
Dr. Pierce's "Pellets' little Itverpills
(sugar-coated) speedilly correct all dis
orders of the liver, stomach and bowels.
By druggists.
Press Notices.
"Dr. Read's entertainment is one of
the most unique and complete I have
ever seen. I can heartily commend his
expose' to the public, as worthy in every
respect their attention ami patronage."
IIEV..J. J. IIaicuis.
North San .Juan.
"I can assure you from what I wit
nessed labt evening, that your commun
ity will be highly entertained ami prof
ited by a similar exhibition."
Rkv. .1. A. Bklwki:,
Richland.
"The 3laterializations of Katie King,
as well as the Physical Manifestations,
as given by Dr. Chas. II. Head, is a most
wonderful and pleasing entertainment
By ali means go and see his excosi
tion." Rf.v. Y. II.Pascoi:,
I.ockford.
Oyster in Uvory S!y!
And coffee at Mrs. Lovett's.
AVn.1T! do you think that
JEFX OF THE CI2J3 . OUSK
gives you a meal for iiothiugaud a glass
of sonuthiiic to drink:' "Not much!
but he gives a better meal and more of
it than any pbee in town for i" cents.
He buys by I he wholivNulf and pays
cash. "That settles it"
,
Just the ttiug tor balls ami parties, a
complete oriViestra, with dance music,
figures for eaHingdnnci-s, etc, complete.
To those desirous of having dunces, and
not otherwise provided with musicJt Is
invaluable. Call at the New York Nov
elty store and examine it.
Hot Custom Work. Rout mil! SJio s.
Can be had at I. J. Arvold.'s, next to
Citv liook Store. Ladies and' gentlemen
call there for tne finest titling boots and
shoes, and Invest prices. Perfect (it
guaranteed.
Forthe Holidays.
ou wiii tyl at .1. W. Conn's the best
assortme:W the city of Kogers Bro's.
Plated waP. eoiibisting of Castors, IJut
ter dishe-i Pi'cklo Castors, Derry Dishes,
Napkin Kings, Knives. Forks and
Spoons. Spoons and Forks are all the
best, marked XI I: also the best assort
ment of Dnssing Cases, Odor Oases,
Gents' Sets, laney Brushes and Mirrors,
and all the leading brands of Toilet
Soaps, Perfuuery and toilet articles of
all kinds. Examine my stock before
purchasing elsewhere; opposite Occi
dent Hotel.
IV'otlce.
Dinner ol-J EFFCIIOP HOUSE
every day trom 4i?0to8 o'clock. The
best25-cjnt meal in town: soup, fish,
seven kinds of meats, vegetables, pie,
pudding, etc. A glass of S. F. Beer,
French Claret, tea or coffee included.
All who have tried him sav.JefTis the
-BOSS."
Hosiery. Hosiery, Hosiery I
Tim latest novelties in ladies and
childrens hosiery at Pracl Bros'.
FornlYcat Fitting Boot
Or Shoe, go to P. J. Goodmans, on Che
namus street, next door to I. "W. Case.
All goods of the best make and guaran
teed quality. A full stock: new goods
constantly arriving. Custom work.
For Toys and Woreltics
Goto Chas. A. May's Holiday Empori
um, one door east of Rescue No. 2's En
gine House. A full line of goods. Pri
ces as low as the lowest.
New Year's is Coming:.
And if you want to make your wife,
daughter, sister, or some one else's sis
ter a line present can at jirs. 1. z. .Jew
ett's and see her elegant stock of fancy
joods.
Furnished Rooms to ISent.
Applj to Mrs. nenry, in Carruthers'
building, over G. W. Hume's store.
At the Empire Store
You will find the finest laces and em
broideries, of richest quality.
Fine Dress Goods.
A splendid line of ladles dress goods is
being displaj'edat the Empirestore.
Corsets and Underwear.
All the latest makes and styles of cor
sets and ladies underwear at rrael
Bros.' Empire store.
The grip of pneumonia may be ward
ed off with H axe's Hoxev of Hoke
IIOUSD and Tai
Pike's Toothache Drops cure in
one minutfc
All the patent-medicines advertised
In this paper, together wjth the choicest
Eerfuraery, and toilet articles, etcucan
e bought at the lowest prices, at J. W.
uonn's drug stoiv, opposite ufmen
betel. Astoria.
Why will you cougn when Shiloh's
Cure will give immediate relief. Price
10cts50ctsandSl. Sold by W.EDc-
ment. (
Physicians attest: 'Cldex's Liquid
iSEEF is particularly uerui in Dtpuie
Dancing School.
Prof. Naef has organized a dancing
class for ladles and children only at
Pytian Hall on Saturday afternoon
from 2 to 5. tuition, Sl.50 per month.
Parties can join at any time.
Gents' class on Saturday evening from
8 to 11. tuition, S3 per month.
Arevou made miserable by Indi
gestion, Constipation, Dizziness. Loss of
appetiti, Yellow Skin? ShiloU's Vital
izer is a positive cure. For sale by W.
K. Dament
aini.ou's Cuke will immediately
ivheve Croup, whooping cough and
lironrhitis. Sold by W. E. Dement
Shiloh's Catarrh JRemedy a poai
live cure for Catarrh, Diptheria and
Canker Mouth. Sold by W. E. Dement
Koseoe Dixon's new eating house
i now open. Everything has been fit
ted up In first-class style, and his well
known reputation as a caterer assures
all who like good things to eat that at
his p!at:e they can lie accommodated.
Tin Kev.tien !i. Thayer, of Bour
bon, ItuU says: "Both myself and wife
owe our lives toSinr.oH's CoxsirinnT.w
Ci-uk." Sold by w. E. Dement
A Nasal Injector free with euch
lnitth- of Shiloh's Catarrh Ksmedv
Vrh-a ".n emits. Sold bv W. E. Dement
Tin Peruvian syrup nas curwl thou
sands who wrrr .-uiTfrlng from dyspep
sia. d"bilit, liwr complaint, boils, hu
mots, temuli :otnpIaints, etc. Pamph
lets free to any address. Seth W.Fowi
& Son Hoston.
DRDAN&BOZORTH
' Holiday Goois Just Receivefl,
roairuisiscj
Rogers Bros.' Platedware,
Bisque Figures,
Fine Majolica,
Japanese Goods,
Willow and Rattan Goods,
Green River Cutlery.
lF.CORATEI
China Dinner ant Tea Sets,
And a Full Line of
Crockery f Glassware.
ALSO
First-class COAL OIL a Specialty.
JORDAN g BOZORTH,
Ccr. Chenamus and Genevieve Sts.
Astoria, Nov. 22nd, 1SS3.
0. W. LEICK,
PRACTICAL
ARCHITECT! DRAUGTSMAN
(Oflice over White House Store),
IS NOW HEAD X TO FURNISH PI,A.NS
and SS'KOIFICATIONS or all des
criptions of
..BU1LDINCS, Etc.
A School nf Draughting will be opened on
JANUARY Cd - next, at 7 p. K.. to which a
limited number of pupils will be admitted.
W15I. EDGAR,
Dealer In
Cigars, Tobacco and Cigarettes
Meerschaum and Brier Pipes,
GENUINE ENGLISH CUTLERY
Revolvers and Cartridges.
BOAT BUILDING,
r; m. leathers
Has reopened his boat shon. over Arndt &
Fercheu's, foot of Lr.KayettR street, and Is
prepared to turn out
FIKST-CLASS BOATS.
WORK GUARANTEED.
L. K. G. SMITH,
Importer and wholesale dealer lu
Clears ami Tobaccos, Smokers' Articles,
riajias tarun, chuctj, sta
tionery. Etc
The larecst and finest stock of MEER
SCHAUM and AMBER GOODS In the city.
particular attention paid to orders ironi
the country.
Theo. BRACKER, Manaser.
Chenamus Street. Astoria. Oregon.
NOTICE.
STATE AND COTTY TAXES A RE NOW
due and payable at my office.
A. Jf TWOMBLY,
tf Sheriff Clatsop Co.
Stockholders' Meeting.
THE STOCKHOLDERS OF THE GARI
baldi Packing Co. will hold ameeU'ig at
the hall of Astoria Longshoremen No. 1, in
Astoria, on the 8th day of January. 1SS4. at
9 a. sr. for the purpose of electing oOlcera
tor tne ensuing year, ana 10 transact sucn
uusincss as may come-oeiore me meeun
Astoria. Dec. 21,
Reaular Quarterly Exami
mnp HPfinl.An BrrAnx atii
1 TVnMiPTvj ftoclrflrs nf fmirfncr (f
on rnuay ann. oaiurai. me zam uuu
ium.. iwo noon wesi oi me uuuoiiccuurcu.'
FURNISHED
By the X.igfet,
WITH OR
With use of Parlo'
forts of a home.
AddIv to
Co
1WOTTCE IS he:
ll willamuyatth
cult Court of the St
County ol Clatsop, 1
urt hf r trust as asslg
Astoria, Oriu Sovl
TTUVE HUNDR
JL lock Wood,"
houses of custoir
Drayinz or all
Wholesale
The Leadiilfcr Dry Goods and Clothing
House of Astoria,
LARGEST STOCK - FINEST GOODS
LOWEST PRICES!
New Goods Received by Every Steamer.
To The Public. '
12 SOLID FACTS WHY YOU SHOULD BUY YOUR
Goods at Adler's.
Acting on tho Keasonahle Presumption that you do not desire to buy Inferior
Goods at Exorbitant Prices, I offer the following
FACTS for your consideration.
I always pay CASf 1, conseouently buy at BOTTOM PRICES.
I buy direct from FIRST HANDS, thereby getting my goods at COST of manufacture
1.
2.
3.
4.
6.
7.
I have lust spent StflOOO in fixing up
HOME, with Astoria Mechanics. T nope
ronage, even 11 you can TnyTn - thhT
Cisco.
I take SMALL PHOFITS and sell at LOW PRICES.
I GUARANTEE EVERYTHING I SELL.
My Guarantees arc good, for I am RESPONSIBLE, financially and otherwise.
Mine Is the LARGEST and MOST RELIABLE establishment In the city.
8 I keep the BEST SELECTED stock and the GREATEST VARIETY, which Ls a well
known fact.
9 1 am agent for OLD ESTABLISHED MAKERS-of PIANOS and ORGANS, and keep
only the BEST.
1 A I NEVER MISREPRESENT the value of an article.
U I mean to do a SQUARE. HONEST BUSINESS, giving F.ULL VALUE for every
cent I receive.
IO The foregoing constitutes 12 GOOD and sufficient REASONS why you should
he foregoing cc
patronize me.
JL-fW. patronize
I A3I AGEST FOR
DECKER BROS..
EMERSON'S,
PIANOS
ALSO
MASON & HAMLIN, ESTEY, AND CHASE ORGANS.
MY BOOKSTORE
Is the Most Complete as
Pertaining to It.
The Jewelry Department
CAX NOT BE EXCELLED. This Stock consists of DIAMONDS and SOf.II
- JEWJEfcK and SIEVE It WAKE of the latest Style and Pattern.
Remember EVERY ARTICLE in this Line is WARRANTED.
Fine Repairing a Specialty.
My Toy Bazaar
Spcalis Tor Itself.
You can find EVERYTHING you may want, at the
CRYSTAL
HMHsaa
and Retail
iny new store, which amount I spent AT
this ought to cive me a share" of your pat
- ;rtK.UtF.uPnrtIflnt or.&tn Frap-.
FISCHER,
BEHR BROS.
FOR
Yon can find Everything
PALAfJEI
ria, x e er,nu every ue