r l?D r CrTO.V tns, -IF. 'Wdlar, JHEGON feed"; foi 3ii Ter ming, As- I C, and ncan P IN roria hall Pins. ild- Irug- )N aer Mt gatljj icrati. ASTORIA, OREGON: SUNDAY JANUARYS, 1S& AN AMERICAN SONG OF THE SIIIRT. It is not to a poet but to a profes sor that we owe an American version of the pathetic stanzas with which so many years ago Thomas Hood roused the conscience of England to the dreadful condition of the poor seamstresses of Londen: 1n poverty, hunger and dirt, Sewing at once with a double thread A shroud as well as a shirt." In a letter recently published on the profits insured by the existing tariff to certain manufacturers at Willimantic, Prof. Sumner has made a clear and vigorous statement of the amount and pressure of the taxation imposed, in the interest not of the public revenue at all, but of these Willimantic manufacturers, upon ev en' poor and industrious woman in the United States. This tax is levied, like the tax of death, with impartial hand at the proud portals of the rich and at the humble doorway of the poor. But, unlike tho tax of death, it presses with peculiar weight upon the feeblest and the most needy. "From the cradle to the grave," Prof. Sumner truly says, ''every individual from the beggar to the millionaire, must have thread," and a tax on thread comes therefore almost as di rectly and inevitably out of the earn ings of every man, woman and child in the community as would a tax on air or a tax on daylight But upon no persons in the community does such a tax press so cruelly as upon women who are compelled to support themselves by needlework. It is the custom of the employers of women in our towns and cities to impose upon them the purchase of all tho thread which they use. Now. if there bs any class of laborers in these United States who can put forward a righteous claim to protection, this csrtaiuly is the class. And how does it protect these poor and helpless women ': In order that the managers of the Willimantic Mills may aston ish visitors by the "perfection and elegance' of tho appointments of their factories, and at the same time pay dividends of 20 per cent to their stockholders and water their stock in addition once in every three or four j ears, this sjstem compels every one of thee toilirg, ill-paid women to contribute of her hard won earnings day after day to the Willmantic manufacturers tho differ ence between three cents, for which she could buy in Canada every spool of thread she uses, and five cents, the price which our existing tariff laws force her to pay in the United States for every spool of thread she uses! If she uses six spools of thread a week shem ust pay a tribute of twelve cents a week towards the 20 per cent divi dends and the watered stock of the Willmantic company! And what does this tribute of twelve cents rep resent? An eastern working-woman who earns one dollar by ten hours' work and how many working-women earn so much? -earns one cent in six minutes. If such a woman lived and -worked in Canada she would earn the price of tJ spool of thread in eighteen minutes. Living under the "protection" of our own beneficent laws she must work for twelve minutes more to earn the price of this spool ol thread in New York or Boston or Philadelphia. So that to pay her tribute of twelve cents a week to the Willimantic mill owners every working woman in the United States who uses six spools of thread i week must labor with weary eyes and hands an hour and twelve minutes more each week than would be necessary did she live under the British flag in the Dominion of Cana da. Well muy Professor Sumner exclaim: "When we consider what this means to the women whose lives are run ning away in the minutes spent in that way, it arouses all the honest indignation and love of justice of which a man is capable. The linen company do not like to have the truth pointed out, but a man who sees the truth and would not preach it would be the most contemptible coward." Is this the best '"protection" that American votere can award to Amer ican women? The sewing women, the saleswomen, servants, teachers, washerwomen, and the laborers' wive3 and daughters, scattered in garrets, tenements -and cottages, struggling often with pov erty and misery, and enduring a di minution of their comfort and well being to pay the taxes which go to keep .up the mill. "The Willimantic. mill started in 1854 under a 23 per cent tariff, turns out between 5,000,000 and 0,000,000 dozen spools per annum, the en hanced cost of which to the consum ers is not less than $1,000,000. The consumers would no doubt make a good bargain if they should hire the whole establisliment at present rates of wages and profits to stand still, provided that thread might be bought hero as cheaply as in Canada. "The Willimantic mill is, therefore, very much what Yale College would be if it were supported by taxes on sewing women and laborers and ware owned by a joint stock company which ran it to make money. The public treasury gets a revenue from thread of $65,000 or $70,000 per an Inum, being for 1883 78 per cent on tho cost The consumers of thread pay as much tax to tho "Willimantic company in twenty days as they pay to the public treasury in a year. mm m NO CAUSE FOE COMPLAINT. There is an undertone of uneasi ness throughout the state. While Oregon never does nor never need know what "hard times" are, yet the present scarcity of money and general dullness is of near kinship. Especially is this the case in the interior and among those who have obligations to meet Prom the comments of the journals it would seem to be general In Eastern Oregon the complaint partakes of the nature of a surprise. The line of completed railroad brings results that though partially fore seen, are unpleasant when they do appear. Competition finds merchants unprepared for the new order of things, and the inevitable adjustment of modes and values makes trouble. In the Willamette valley mortgages seem to be in trouble; in Portland the real estate boom has subsided, and the O. & T. deal has hurt a good many. In our own section of the state no one is out anything, and, on the whole, we of Astoria are to be congratulated. . Selfishly speaking, Astoria is bet ter off than any other section of the state. The building of the Northern Pacific railroad cost us relatively less than any other portion of the north west; our gain will be relatively more. It gives us all the benefits of competi tion; it; gives us prompt and easy communication; it insures jus a thou sand, comforts and conveniences hitherto unsupplied; it opens to us the markets of the east. We have no wheat to hold, nor market to stock; the grain crop of the northwest will seek the sea by way of the Columbia; the completion of the fourth line of transcontinental railway will in no way interfere with Astoria's commerce. It will, on the other hand be of great and growing benefit to us in. disposing of our great crop, our staple production, salmon. Up to the close of the last fishing season the Columbia salmon canners were under disadvantage in the American market Sacramento ship pers were able to place their pack along the line of the Central Pacific; to reach the Mississippi valley the Columbia shipper had to first send his salmon to New York. Tho com pletion of the N. P. E. B., changes this by creating a new market for the disposal of the Columbia river pack. Already three agents of Astoria salmon-canning establishments are taking orders and establishing trade on the line of tho N. P., and the sales effect ed where a dealer can buy from 100 to 500 cases as he needs will be an important item in the sales of '84. As to railroad progress in Mexico, the Jxovr Orleans Times-Democrat sajs: "The English were twenty years in building 263 miles of rail road from Vera Cruz to the capital. The Americans have built 2,500 miles of radroad on Mexican territory within five years. The Central Com pany alone has constructed 1,400 miles at different points, and the Mexican National about 900 miles. The subsidy granted these companies will average $11,000 in round num bers per mile. It results then that the present administration has paid these two companies the enormous sum for 2,000 miles of road of $22, 000,000. It is probable that more than 1,000 miles of road have been built by Mexican and other compan ies during the same period, and -which enjoy the same or even greater sub sidies. To the above sum must be added $11,000,000 mora This total of $33,000,000 has in a great measure been paid? in cash." mm n The force of contrast ha9 been sel dom greater in the history of the world than in the present case of Mr. Villard's altered fortunes. But 119 days ago he was at the head of three gre.it railway corporations, the host of an assemblage selected from two continents, the central figure in the driving of the last spike in the Northern Pacific railroad; the man that had achieved that result, and had caused the Atlantic and North Pacific to be connected by a railway; the acknowledged manipulator of millions, -with the prestige of success and in the flush of triumph. Last Friday, -worn and -weary he lays down the last semblance of leadership, and if the telegraph tells truly, is bereft of fortune as -well as power. "But yesterday the -word of Caesar might have stood against the world; now, none so poor to do him reverence.'' It is a striking commentary on the transitory nature of man in his best estate. Every newspaper man knows there is no other such delicate and sensi tive commodity as news. There is nothing else that depends so largely lor value upon the source whence it emanates. There is nothing which comes before the public on which -the "label" is so carefully scrutinized. Newspapers have characters as vari ous as tne individuals wno conduct and control them. It is just as true now as it was in the morning of the Christian era, that "men do not gather grapes of thorns or figs of thistles." The character of the news not only depends upon the Jabel the name of the journal in which, it ap pears but upon, the character lor truth and veracity of the persons who furnish it. EianxEEEK eightx-foub is the presidential year, but what is of greater importance, perhaps, is that it is also leap year, when every young, middle-aged and old lady in the country has the inalienable right to propose to whom she pleases. This is one of the immemorial privileges of the sex. Its origin is lost in tne mists of matrimonial antiquity, but its observance is wide as the bound aries of civilization iteelf. Captain Eads, replying to the over tures of the Galveston City Council, undertakes to give thirty feet of water at Galveston bar, twenty feet guaran teed inside of two years, for a total consideration of $7,500,000, the pay ment to be made as water is obtained upon the same plan as was pursued in deepening the south pass at the mouth of the Mississippi For a further expense of $100,000 a yearly depth of thirty feet will be main tained for twenty years. Apteb putting in Villard's hands $150,000 in coin for the Green Biver branch, Seattle justly complains that in the new Northern Pacific maps that enterprising city -is totally ig nored. Northern Pacipic earnings foctho third week of December increased $83,270. Manitoba earnings "for the same time decreased S20.350. Anil railroad work on the Baker City branch has been stopped. The Oregon & California extension goes on. Br John BooersF' when spoken in the right tone of voice, is "consider ed an oath in Vermont IIEI). In Astoria. Jan. 5, 1884, of typhoid fe ver. B. G. Cabaniss, son of Dr. T. T. and E. G. Cabaniss, aged 20 years, 11 months and 12 days. California papers please copy. Stockholders' Meeting. mHERE WILL BE A STOCKHOLDERS' JL meollng of the Point Adams Packing Co. at their office, at Upper Astoria, on Thursday. Januan 17th, at 10 o'clock a. m. By order of the Board of Directors. W. T. CHUTTER. .5-l wk Secrt'tarj. Annual Meeting. ANNUAL MEETING OF THE STOCK holders of tho British America Packing Company ill be held at the residence of G. Holmes, in Upper Astona, January 18th, 1834. By order of the board of director.. B. YOUNG. President. Annual Meeting. ANNUAL MEETING OF THE STOCK holders of the British America Packing Company, Skeena, will be held at the resi dence of G. Holmes, in Upper Astoria. Jan uary 20th. 18M. Bv order of the board of directors. GUST HOLMES, President. Notice. THERE WILL BE A SPECIAL MEETING of the Astoria bocial Club at the rooms of Hook and ladder Co. No. 1, Tuesday evening. January Sth, at 8 o'clock. All members are requested to be present. By order of M. C. CROSB V. C. W. STONE. President. Secretary. CLOSING OUT Auction Sale -ox- MONDAY; JANUARY At 1 :30 and 7 P. 3F.. at Carl Adieu's Old Store. DEALERS, ATTENTION ! The special attention of Traders in Toys, Notions, Fancy Goods and Cigars is called to this auction announcement. I am instructed by Mr. Carl Adler to take possession of all the stock remaining in his old store on Saturday morning next, and close it out at public endue, positively WITHOUT AXV KKSEB E, HIXDKANCK OK INTKBFKn-EJ.CE OX HIS PART. The salcwill commence at half-past one o'clock on Saturday afternoon, and be con tinued in the eenfng and so on until all Is sold. The goods (for which lie cannot possibly find room in his new store) consists in part of Fancy and Plain" Stationery. Books, Albums, Picture Frames. Chromos, Ebony Brackets, ifall rockets. Tojs, Faucv Glass ware, Jenelrv. CIocus, etc Also, Twenty Thousand DOMESTIC CIUAKS; Lamps, Counters aud Shehing. E. C. HOIBE-V. Auc'r. The A 1 Fast Sailing Schooner "GEN. BANNING," IK tous register, will leae Astoria, on. or about JANUARY 10th, 181, FOE Cray's Harbor. All freight now in Astoria, or that may be shipped by the O. K. & N. Co., care of the steamer "General Miles," for Gra 's Harbor, prior to the date of hailing, will go forward without delay. For further luf onnation op ply to J. H.D.GBAY, Astoria, Oregon. Steamer TOM MORRIS. THIS STEW and Favorite Beat IS NOW READY FOE BUSINESS AND can be chartered for excursions, special nHfM of, of TterinnilA rutju A mhamI steamboating business transacted. T- rtT? r T TVr xr . . uiwlujimj, miuier. NOTICE TO PILOTS. NOTICE IS HEREBY GIVEN TO ALL whom it may concern that there will be a meetinz of tne Washington Territory Board of Pilot Commissioners for Columbia Riyer and Bar, held at Ilwaco. W. T., on the 15th day ot January. A. D. 16S4, at 10 o'clock A. 31. Done by order of the Board. C. A. REED, Secretary. December25th,18S3. dtt-wlt HHHHHHBfKHH You Are Sure AT TILE Furniture Leading OP ASTOEIA. CHAS. KEILBORN. F XT B, N I T XT R E FOR Hall, Office, library Parlor, Chamber . . -..and DSNING ROOM, in WALNtfi, 'CHERRY, ASH, AND MAPLE. We are without a doubt showing tli Largest and Host Complete line of CHAMBER. SI" ITS in this city, unequaled in Design, Work manship and Finish. CARPETS. We Carry an IMMENSE STOCK OF CARPETS of AH Designs and Colors in Body, Roxlmry, and Tapestry Brussels, Three Plys. Extra Supers aud Ingrains. FOSTER'S THE Billiard Parlors Are not excelled by any north of San Francisco. Nothing but the best dispensed, convenience for the com fort of guests. Imported Wines, Liquors and Cigars. The Most Complete Establishment in Astoria. AT THE ENTRANCE TO THE 0. S. & N. DOCK. SAINT WrsrTi HOSPITAL, ASTORIA, OKEGC THIS INSTITUTION, UNDElt CAKE OF the Sisters of Chanty, Is now ready for t he reception of patients. Private rooms for the accommodation of any desiring them. Patients admitted at all homs.day or night. No physician has exclusive right, even patient is free" to and has the privilege of eniploj Ing any physician they prefer. United States 21arliie Seamen who pay Hospital Dues, are enn tied to Free care and attendance at this Hos pital during sickness. Fennlts must be ob tained tor United States Marines at tho Cus torn Ilonse. SISTERS OF" ClIAKIT I Peruvian! " J'' J--X3LA BITTERS !j I Wilmerding & Co., San Francisco. Loeb &Co., Agents,' Astoria. Stockholders' Meeting. THE STOCKHOLDERS OF THE GARI baldi Packing Co. will hold a meeting at the hail of Astoria Longshoremen No. 1, in Astoria, on the 8th day of January. 1884, at 9 a. m. for the purpose of electing officers for the ensuing j'ear. and to transact such business as may come before the meeting. CHAS.WICKSTROM. Astoria, Dec. 21, 1883. dt to be Suited House F XT R N I T XT R E JSfeJi THE EXCHANGE. and Club Rooms xv&j ijceizi2ee:usxzjexu2acxac2t and every 9 PIANOS AND O RGANS SilALL MUSICAL INSTRUMENTS OP ALL KINDS. FINEST VIOLIN STRINGS, Piano, and Organ Instructors -CELEBRATED- & mBE M0S! -USED BY- President of United States'' . "Governor of Oregon' J Astoria Musical Society, , Mrs. J. W. Conn, of Astoria, j Ami other prominent persons. Pianos and Organs of many leading makes, w uoiesaie ana reran, includin CELEBRATED TABER ORGANS. AM) WOXDEBPUL LITTLE GIANT STECK PIANO Largest House on This Coast. GARDNER Bros., 165 First St., Portland, Oregon. Ready for Business. The Portland and Astoria STEVEDORE COMPANY Is prepared to contract with masters and consignees of essels for the Loading and Unloading of Vessels AT EITHER PORT. Promptness and satisfaction guaranteed in all cases. " FRA1VK L. Fresh. Fruits FANCY GEOCERIES. TER apply to the Captain., or to EMPIRE STORE RE-OPENING 1 Fine Goods ReducedPrices Ladies desirous of procuring Goods unequaled in Style and Pinisn will take pleasure in examining our Stock of SILKS, SATINS and DRESS GOODS. s IN THE GENTS' FURNISHING DEPARTMENT, Everything is Complete and of the best. PRAEL BROS. Jolm J9L Montgomery, (BCCCESSOr. TO .TACKfNS & MONTGOMERY.! PLUMBING, GAS FITTING, AND CANNERY WORK Attended to Promptly on Reasonable Terms. CIIEAAMUS 8TJREET, West toC L Parker Bfx. ASTORIA. THE NEW MODEL A FULX STOCK ALWAYS OK HAND. S3. 3EL. IQLATTtrXSSk Two doors east of Occident Hotel. M. OLSEX. J. OUSTAFSOX. A. J0HK8O3T. MARTIN OLSEN & CO. DEALERS IN Emf FURNITURE Sh BEDDING. Corner Main and Squemoqna Streets. Asterlm, Oreffsa WINDOW SHADES AND TRIMMINGS; WALL PAPER' ETC A Complete Stock. PRICES AS CHEAP AS QUALITY WILL AFFORD. AM, KINDS OF FURNITURE REPAIRED A1SB YABMSHED. YOTT CAN TAKE THE CAKE! And by Huj Ing it at F. B. ELBERSON'S SEASIDE BAKERY You will be sure that Itisworthtaklnfr. Eery Variety of Fine Cakes and Confectionery Special Inducements For the Holiday Trade. Candies, Christmas Tree Trim mings, Etc. The Best Quality or IFlxx Bread. Delivered every Morning SEASIDE BAKERY, F. B. FXBEUSON, Proprietor, Shiloh's Cough ana Consumption Cure is sold by us on guarantee. It cures consumption, Sold by W.E. Dement. PAEKEB. f Vegetables STEAMKB CLARA PARKER Eben P. Parker, Heater. For TOWING. rRKIQHT or CHAS DEALER iy Tin, Sheet Iron and Copper Wart. A General Assortment of HOUSEHOLD GOODS. Agents tot Magee Stoves and Ranges The Best in the market. Ptumblng goods of all kinds on hand. Jo work done in a workmanlike manner. . i RANGE CAN BS HAD IN AS TORIA ONLY OF E. M. MAWBB, AGENT CALL AND EXAMINE IT, YOU WILL BE 'PLEASED. E. R. EAWES Is also agent for tn Ml patent (Mini Store And other first-class stores. .Faraaoe Work. SUmk TU- ASTORIA, OREGON. California Exchange The best of California and Foreign Wines and Liquors Kept Constantly on Hand Domestic aad JFrelK Clears T the beat Brmata. NATIONAL BREWERY BEER. On Concomly between Benton and Lata yette streats. lm SEOKGE GOEUEK FOR TILLAMOOK. (Weather permitting.) The new Steamer L. 33. N.P.JOHANSEN, - - - Master. Will leave for TILLAMOOK, oa FOR SAILING DATES AND PABTIOU lara apply to J. G. HUSTLE. Mala street Wharf, Asteria: ALLEN Jfc.LXWlI, Portland; J. L.BTOBY TUlaaaocE K