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insertion.
Around the City.
The Portland went to sea yesterday.
This weather is hard on outdoor plants
and flowers.
' This kind of weather makes the wood
business lively.
Astoria is the best town on the coast
for local items.
Correct Astori a time is a mooted ques
tion these days.
A large fleet of minor rivor craft is
moored along the dock.
,' Jordan &Bozorth have a fine display
of crockery and glassware.
Harry Stap'.eton and wife, of Salem,
are in the city, visiting friends.
'Several minor casualties, the result of
slippery sidewalks, aro reported.
The legal fraternity are well repre
sented in the circuit court this week.
t The Nellie Boyd troupe are on the Ore
gon and will appear to-morrow evening.
The Chas. Cotesworth has a 'charter of
70s, to load wheat on her return voyage.
The Oregon is due to-morrow; the Co
lumbia sails for San Francisco next
Friday.
The firm of J. Hess & Co. have dis
solved. A. il. Johnson will continue the
business.
Scarlet fever and measles still linger
and causes considerable trouble among
the little folks.
Diving in sixteen feet of water while
repairing the Astoria Gasb'ght Co.'s tank
is.cold work this weather.-
The cargo of the TillieE. Slarbuck, now
discharging at the O. R. & N. dock, is
coming out in good condition.
In the police court yesterday Frpnk
Valero and Louis Sanguinetti each for
fejted $15 on a charge of vagrancy.
Considerable improvement is going on
tft the Upper Astoria school house. Parti
tions, planking, new fence, sidewalk, etc.
v There are "tons of Oregon butter" ly
ing in Portland, and yet good sale is
found for butter imported from Illinois
creameries.
yalentines have begun to arrive. The
day is fast becoming a season for send
ing anonymous insults in cheap imita
tion of "a joke."
One Sea side man rolls logs into
branches to rid the land of them; his
neighbor, tor the same reason, rolls them
out and burns them.
In the circuit court yesterday Antoine
Bang, Nat. Jones and Thos. Larson wer6
admitted to the rights and privileges of
American citizenship.
The Washington Territory Board of
Pilot Commissioners met yesterday at
Ilwaco, W. T., and adjourned to meet on
Saturday, the 26th inst.
The Baptist, Presbyterian and M. E.
congregations unite in another service to
be held in the Presbyterian church at
seVen o'clock this evening.
Any of our weekly subscribers who have
not yet secured their receipts for '8i can
have them signed by calling at the office
any time they are in the city.
In the circuit court yesterday, Thos.
Talzan, convicted of manslaughter, was
sentenced by Judge Bennett to the peni
tentiary for a term of ten years.
The Portland board of trade at its last
meeting passed resolutions compliment
ing Viliard. They also indorsed the Oy s
terville and Gray's harbor railroad.
L W. Case, assignee of the T. Bailey
estate, is now paying the declared divi
dends to claimants. Those having claims
can get the percentage allowed to-day.
Yesterday the wind blew keen from the
east, and when, the sun went down, the
stars that oversprinkle all tho heavens
seemed to twinkle in the icy air of night.
The usual annual remembrances in
the way of almanacs are arriving. The
New York Tribune sends us the best one,
though the Baltimore Sun is not far be
hind. An unusually largo numbsr of public
documents are received at this office. If
we knew but one-tenth of what they con
tain we would be even wor82 off than at
present.
The Chas. CotesworUi began discharg
ing yesterday. She has tiro-brick, salt
and tin plate. Of the last she has 12,
500 boxes, of which 9,650 are consigned
to Astoria.
The work of driving piles for the new
mill of the Astoria Box Factory was
temporarily suspended yesterday, owing
to the pile driver having a hole knocked
in the bottom.
Annie Gilbert, the little sister of Mrs.
A. V. Allen, while crossing the slippery
street yesterday morning, fell, breaking
hir right arm in two places. Dr. Fulton
set the injured member.
JDr. Hamilton of Boseburis in the city
visiting his son, the gentlemanly tele
graph operator at this place. The doctor
reports the railroad now in operation 99
miles south of Roseburg.
The schooner Gen. Banning arrived in
from Gray's harbor yesterday afternoon
with freight and passengers. She goes
to" Portland to-day, and will leave on her
return trip about the 20th.
The.Port of Entry Times, Port Town
Bend's new paper, is received. Deacon
Parkinson, an old Nevadan, is running
it-and is as spicy as in the old days when
delinquent assessment ads. assayed 900
ne.
The O. B. & Co., will as soon as practi
cable put on a steamer to run Irom Port
land to Ilwaco direct in six hours. The
best time ever made in northern waters
will be recorded on the Columbia next
summer.
The Shoalwater Bay oysters are coming
in great numbers on the Miles. They
Were never finer nor fatter.
. 2fo. One's are diligently rehearsing for
their entertainment. It will be worth
attending.
Cant. Scott of the Fleetwood, will soon
beeih the building of his new boat. The
next thins in order after his new boat is
finished is to get the mail contract and
deliver it the mail at one o'clock in
the afternoon.
It is terribly discouraging to a sea cap
tain and a marine reporter to have the
aforesaid a. c. spend two hours writing a
report for the m. r. and then drop the
hole business on anebb tide as he starts
for shore in the gig.
Arndt t Ferchenand the Astoria Iron
works are busy on cannery work. Every
year more and more machinery is used
3D the salmon fishery. The first thing wo
kaow CapL W6st, or Jensen, will invent
a machine to catch the fish.
.. The trial of the three Leahy brothers
mba in progress all day yesterday. The
flefense brought up several witnesses, a
'shorthand reporter, J. G. Hume, taking
'.testimony. Considerable interest is man
ifested in the trial, which will bo resumed
at nine o'clock this morning.
', We got our first view of Pons last
anight. He was hero last in 1812. Asto
ri&h&s grown considerably since then.
In 1812 Pons had one tail. Now it has
two. Pons is a vagabond of the skies
-.and clows in the southwest, just in the
. frail of the gun. With a good field glass
the runaway star that has sprung a leak
may be clearly seen.
TILLABD'S TISIOIfS TASISFIED.
"Eaclneers'
Underestimates
Graro."
Ills Financial
The Eastern papers are full of Viliard
and his downfall. A clever Now York
correspondent writing to the Philadel
phia Press, under date of January GthJ
says: Among the cormorants of "Wall
street Viliard was a rare bird. People
could not understand him. He was gen
erous to a degree that made them sus
picious. They could not but think that
in his large and liberal way of dealing
there was some deep scheme of personal
gain at the expeuss of others. When he
entered Wall street, Jay Gould said: "I
will give him two years to get out." A
little more than two years and Gould's
prophecy is fulfilled. He is out of the
street, out of all the great companies he
controlled and out of the fortune he
amassed with such wonderful rapidity.
Three mouths ago he was leading across
the continent a train of distinguished
men governors, senators, noblemen,
bankers, artists, journalists who had
come from many states and nations to do
him honor. No monarch ever made such
a royal procress as ho made last August.
He returned to New York to fight for his
very existence as a financier and railway
manager a losing fight from the first,
because it was against the resistless
downward tendency of the wholo stock
market and in opposition to the shrink
age which is operating in the entire bus
iness world. How he struggled on from
day to day with a desperate calmness,
keeping a cheerful manner in the midst
of the greatest distress, and all the time
getting more hopelessl' entangled, would
make a dramatic story if it could be told.
For a time the newspapers called him
the lion of Wall street, and the street
itself praised him because he had jumped
into a torrent of disaster, when nobody
else dared, and was trying to stem it. But
when ho was swept away he was de
nounced as a swindler and a charlatan,
deserving of a state's prison sentence.
Nothing was too bad to be said of him.
The men whom he had helped to make
millions led the outcry against him, and
even some of his oldest friends were car
ried away by the clamor and began to
suspect that there was something crooked
in his operations. Thev had seen so
many corporations wrecked and the
wreckers retire safely with millions that
they could hardly believe that Viliard
had not enriched himself from the spoils
of the companies ho managed. Now that
they have learned the truth, and see that
he has ruined himself in mistaken but
honest efforts to sustain the corporate
properties in his control, they are
ashamed of their distrust.
THE CAUSE OF HIS FAILUBE.
Villard's weakness, which led to his
fall, was overconfidence. He trusted too
much in his own wisdom and took advice
too little from others. As his.prosperity
increased he withdrew more and more
from the counsels of his old friends. He
was exceedingly secretive and in his later
operations did not confide even in his
vice presidents or tho directors of his
companies. He made important con
tracts and borrowed millions without
calling a board meeting. The bears in
Wall street who were engaged in assail
ing his stocks knew more of his opera
tions, through their spies, than did his
immediate associates. "Ho employed half
a dozen different brokers in order that
no oue concarn should have much knowl
edge of his affairs. By nature a pro
jector and an optimist, he persisted in be
lieving that the tide would turn in his
favor. If he had possessed a higher form
of financial genius ho would have fore
seen last spring that the periodical epoch
of business depression and shrinkage in
values which comes about once in ten
years could not bo very far off and would
have prepared for a storm. He lacked
this foresight and his craft was caught in
the tempest with all sails set. Then in
stead of running before the galo he held
on in its teeth.
BECKLKSS HASTE.
In the execution of his scheme, Viliard
was impetuous and extravagant. He
made haste without regard to cost and
disbursed money with a lavish Jiand. A
million more or less seemed to be of small
account with him. Ho onco said in a
speech in Oregon that his was a "benevo
lent monopoly." It was, indeed, benevo
lent to the bankers who made heavy com
missions on its loans to the contractors
who built its lines and to tho great num
bers of people who were taken into its
service. All were treated with a royal
generosity. When Viliard set out to
build for'his lines in Portland, a city of
0,000 inhabitants, depots and other ter
minal facilities more costly than those
of tho Pennsylvania railroad in Phila
delphia or the Central in New York, he
seemed to have lost his head, but oven
then his prestige was so great and his
temper so masterful that none of tho
many prudent men in his boards opposed
him. It was a mystery to tho general
public how men like Frederick Billings,
J. Pierpont Morgan, August Belmont, J.
W. Ellis, R. G. Rolston, Robert Ames
and J. C. Bullitt could have sat at the
Northern Pacific directors' table without
putting on tho brakes until a floating
debt of nearly fifteen millions had been
piled upon that company a mystery,
too, that Endicott and Halilwell,
cautious Boston capitalists as they
were, and Fabbri, too, of the
houss of Drexel, Morgan & Co., and
Adams, of Winslow, Lanier fc Co., should
have been in the Oregon and Transcon
tinental board without knowing upon
what a perilous courso of speculation it
was launched. Those on the insido knew
how magnetic and masterful Viliard was;
how ho bore down all opposition and in
spired everybody around nim with nis
confidenca and his rosy views of the
future. Directors who shook their heads
and whispered together as thoy ap
proached the board room would vote ayo
to all th6 president's propositions as soon
as they got inside. At one time he al
most ceased to consult them in advance.
He would announce that he had done
such and such things and ask for their
approval as a mere formal matter to go
on the records.
SEVEKTX MILLIONS GONE.
It is silly to attribute to Henry Viliard
the decline in the stock market which
has wiped 70,033,030 out of the selling
value of the securities of his former com
panies, but people hold him responsible,
just as they did Jay Cooke for the panic
of 1873. The general decline in the stock
market began a year ago and has affe ted
all stocks, some to a much greater degree
than the "ex-Villards." A cautious, sav
ing, prudent policy would, perhaps, hove
kept Northern Pacific preferred from go
ing below 70 and held Transcontinental
up to 50, but that would have been the
best that could have been accomplished.
The Northern Pacifies and allied stocks
were almost the last to yield, and when
thev went down their fall attracted more
attention than that of any other securi
ties.
The losses of the Viliard management
cannot fairly be measured by comparing
the present value of stocks with those
prevailing a year ago. What he is re
sponsible for is a nart of the floating
debt of Northern Pacific to be funded in
the second mortgaged loan and a part of
the debt of Oregon and Transcontinental.
Probably four or five millions might have
been saved to the construction account
of the Northern Pacific if a year longer
had been taken to complete tho road and
close economv practiced; but by uniting
its tracks in 18S3 instead of 1881 tho com
pany saved itself from embarrassing at
tacks in congress nnon the land grant
along its main line. Attacks will bo
made, but thev will bo directed only
aoainst the unfinished portions of the
Cascade branch and against the holding
out of market of tho grant along the oo-
lumhia river, where the Oregon .Railway
ana navigation iompay ua aiinuiijaicu
tho Northern Pacific in tho building of a
Toad where there is no present use and
onlv a xtrv remote future nso for a
second line. Of the 10,003,000 of dent
found by the investigating committee to
be owing by the Oregon and Transconti-
nental Company it is impossible to learn
how much was contracted with abortive
efforts to "holdup the market'' and in
laying high interest and commissions on
oans to tide over emergencies. Perhaps
five millions should bo set down to this
account.
A close friend of Viliard saidyesterday:
"Tho underestimates of engineers have
been his financial grave. With all tho
care he could exercise the cost of c ery
thing he undertook considerably outran
the fcgures made in advance by his engi
neers. His plans for raising money had
to be used on what the engineers told
him the works would C03t. Afterwards
there always came demands for money
and still more."
AS TO YILLABD HIMSELF.
In Mr. Viliard personally, his financial
condition and his prospectSj a great deal
more interest centres than is usually ac
corded to the fallen monarchs of Wall
street. He is a generous, big-hearted
man, who was always helping other peo-
Ele in his days of prospsrity. Hundreds
ave made comfortablo fortunes throuph
his aid. He carried forward in his ad
vance his whole following of the Kansas
Pacific Railroad management and a great
many others who havo come into his
later enterprises. He liked to see others
prosper and took risks and spent money
to help them.
His charities were lavish, though upver
paraded in the newspapers. He had no
fondness for notoriety. When his por
trait was published in one of the illus
trated papers tho photograph from which
it was mrtdo was obtained in San Fran
cisco. None could be found in Now York
and ho refused to sit for one. The facts
upon which the biographical sketches
that have appeared were based were got
from him by the hardest work, and only
by the intercession of his wife, who in
sisted that ho should leave some record
of his career for his children. Ho is de
voted to his family and all his time out
side of his business hours is spent in his
home circle. Such a man lias many
friends in adversity. He is not going to
give up as many havo prophesied, and
rust in some corner of Europe, but will
mako for himself a new business career.
I hear that ho is going to take hold
actively of tho Edison Electric Light
Company, in wfcich he is a director. Like
Jay Cooke, he will make a second for
tune. He is only 50 years old, and with
a strong constitution and temperate
habits has a good deal of lifo before him
yet.
The Appropriation BUI.
In the senate on December 17th, 18S3,
Mr. Dolph asked, and, by unanimous
consent, obtained leave to bring in the
following bill, which was read twice and
ordered to lie on the table:
Making appropriation for the improve
ment of the mouth of the Columbia
river, in the State of Oregon and Terri
tory of Washington.
Be it enacted by the Senate and House
of Representatives of the United States
in Congress assembled, That the sum of
five hundred thousand dollars be, and the
Bame is hereby appropriated out of any
money in the treasury not otherwise
appropriated, to be expended under the
direction of tho secretary of war for the
improvement of the mouth of the Colum
bia river, in the Stato of Oregon and
Territory of Washington, in accordance
with the plan submitted in the report of
the majority of the board of examiners
for the permanent improvement of the
mouth of the Columbia river made to the
secretary of war October 13th, 18S2.
Last Erenins's Performance.
The large audience that gathered to
see the gifted Langrisho last evening
were not disappointed. As "John Unit"
ho made a decided hit, and the one bit of
acting in his soliloquy after the making
of his will stamps him as an actor of un
common merit. Tho after-piece was in
a lighter vein and convulsed tho audience
with laughter.
From here the troupe go to Salem,
where they will doubtless draw large
audiences. Should Mr. Langrisho return
to Astoria he will fill the Occidental by
the announcement.
Wasts Chinese Labobebs. Loni Mon,
a sleek looking Chinamen, is in the city
as agent of Sisson fc Crocker, railroad
contractors of California, to procure
Chinese laborers. Ho wishes to engage a
large number to work on the Oregon
branch of tho Central Pacific About
3000 men are now at work on this line,
and it is desired to push it forward to a
connection with tho O. & C. as speedily
as possible. There is also an application
here for Chinamen to work on the Eureka
and Humboldt road, and it is probable
that tho greater number of unemployed
Chinese here will soon take their depart
ure for California. Oregonian, 14.
It Wouldn't Go. "See here, sir!"
exclaimed an irate individual, rushing
into a toy store yesterday morning and
unwrapping a curious looking contri
vance on wheels, with a key to it.
"Here is that 'great novelty,' tho
'Keely Motor toy," you sold me for my
boy at New Year's, and I want you to
take it back."
"Did you wind it up?" asked the clerk,
blandly.
"Wind it up? Well, I should say so. I
wound at it for two hours, and' might
have gone on winding to eternity. It
won't go."
"No, of course not," answered tho clerk;
"that is whv it is called the "Keely Motor
toy." "
"SIGIT.VO MUKC LVIUES!"
for Dr. Pierce's "Favorite Prescription"
is a prompt and ceraain remedy for the
Buini'ul disorders peculiar to your sex.
y all druggists.
FIuo Dress Goods.
A splendid l:ne of ladles dress goods is
being displa3'edat the Empirestore.
Pianos to Rent
On easv terms at Adler's music store.
At tlio Empire Store
You will find the finest laces and em
broideries, of richest quality.
"W1TA.T! do you think that
JEFF OF THE CHOP HOUSE
gives you a meal for nothing and a trlass
of something to drink? "Not much!"
but he gives abetter meal and more of
it than any place in town for 2Ti cent.
He buys bv the wholesale and pays
cash. "That settles it."
For n Hi eat 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.
Hosiery, Hosiory, Hosiery I
The. latest novelties in ladies and
childrens hosiery at Prael Bros',
L'c IMmuilttH Coazh Balaam.
W. W. Batterton, Columbia. Mo., says i
"I cannot say too much for Dimmitt's
Cough Balsam, for it always cures my
cnildren of croup and mvself and family
of coughs and colds.' At W. E. De
ment & Co.'s.
The delicious Crescent Creamery But
ter for sale at Wyatt & Thompson's.
Roscoe Dixon's new eating house
is now open. Everything has been fit-
fowl tin in fircf-nlncc ctiln otwl ytu11
known reputation as a caterer assures
au wno like good things to eat, that at
nis pjace mey can ue accommodated.
Shlloh's Vitallzer is what you need
for Constipation. Loss of Armetite. Diz
ziness and all symptoms of Dyspepsia.
Price 10 and 75 cents per bottle. Sold
by W. E. Dement,
Important Case Decided.
Tho great railroad case of B. B. Brou
son against the Oregonian Railroad Com
pany, limited, of Dundee, Scotland, and
others, was finally decided by the
supremo court yesterday. Tho court af
firms the decision made by Judge Boise,
of the Yamhill circuit court, in every
particular, and requires that the Ore
gonian Company, of Dundee.be called
on to pay tho judement first, and if it
can't be collected off that company, then
the Oregon Railroad Companv, limited,
of Portland, Oregan, is to be" called on
to pay: and if this company can't pay,
then Ellis G. Hughe3, Esq., must pav,
and in case of his default, the plaintiffs
can call upon Joseph Gaston for pay
ment. The sum for which the judgment
is rendered is upwards of 60.000, and
some two or three hundred persons are
interested in a dividend.
The history of tho case is briefly this:
When the owners of the old Dayton and
Sheridan Narrow Gauge road found thev
could carry it no longer, they disposed of
the same to the Scotch banker, William
Reid and his then attorney, Ellis G.
Hughes, who were or claimed to be, act
ing for capitalists in Dundee, Scotland;
and before turning over tho propertv the
former owners tried to secure p ivnient of
nil the then outstanding debts. Reid
and Hughes bought in about G0,
003 of the debts, but refused to
pay about 43,000 of debts, known as
"freight scrip," held mostly by farmers
in Yamhill and Polk counties. After
offering to sell their claims for 59 cents
on tho dollar tho farmers concluded to
"pool their issues" against the Scotch,
and placed all their claims in tho hands
of Mr. Branson for collection, and their
confidence in him seems to have been
well placed, for he has prosecuted their
interests with great fidehtv and coura".
r.Bronson had some difficulty in getting
lawyers 10 iaKO up me case against the
rich corporations, and one of the ablest
law firms of Portland declined his busi
ness as impossiblo to collect. Mr. Bran
son then laid his case before ex-Senator
James K. Kelly, who commenced pro
ceedings thereon nearly three vears ago.
Tho case has been tried twice before
Senaca Smith as referee, now the judge
of this circuit, twice beforo Judge Boise,
of the Yamhill circuit, and twice before
the Supreme court of Oregon. Standard,
15.
nOTEL ARBIVALS.
PAEKEB HOUSE.
S T Harrison, Skip F M Sweot,Bay View
HC Harrison do NMcCullum, SF
PSMcGowan,Ch'n'kJ Smith, Cath
F Finlay, Ft Canby JH Whitcomb,
G Fleming do Willanah
W Burk, do
C M Carothers, do
E C Crow, Knappa
J W Crow, do
Jj A Gates, Cath
H Stone, Ilwaco
R Stone, do
P Patterson, Canbv
C E Green, Oystervillc.
OCCIDENT.
C W Fulton, city J G Megler & wf,
a. btapieton & wi,
Salem
G T Durham, Port
J Kamm, do
E F Hair, do
T Fairfowl, do
Brook
J Broson, city
S Hamilton. Roseb'g
T H Foss, J Days
G Wilson. Port
J West, Wcstport
C Brosse, Port
E McKee, do
M McFarland, Knap J A Mcintosh, Knap
S Wingate &wf Clat J Bove, S F
J M Munroe, J D W Morrison, J D
C Ward, Clatsop J H Safely Port .
NOConnor, Fishsrton
'Fnir Girl Graduates."
whos? sedentary lives increase those
troubles peculiar to women, should use
Dr. Pierce's "Favorite Preacriitiou,'"
which is an unfailing remedy. .Sold by
druggists.
Oh. I Say!
Have you seen the new Archer pat
ent barber Chairs, recently imported
from Rochester, X. Y.. by Mr. Ileilborn
for Joe G. Charters V They are without
a doubt the three finest chairs of the
kind in this state. For the finest work
in the tousorial Hue call at Charters'
oppoite Hume's store, corner of Olney
and Squemoqua streets.
IVotiee.
DinneV afJ EFF'S-'CIIOP HOUSE
every day from 4 :30 to S o'clock. The
best 25-cent meal in town : soup, fish,
seven kinds of meats vegetables, pie,
pudding, etc. A glass ot S. F. Beer.
French Claret, tea or cofftv included.
All who have tried him say Jeff is the
"RSS."
Cor.scLs ami Underwear.
All the latest makes and styles of cor
sets and ladies underwear at I'rael
Bros.' Empire store.
All the patent medicines advertised
in this paper, together with the choicest
perfumery, and toilet articles, etc can
be bought at the lowest prices, at J. W.
Conn's drug store, opjosite Oi'Milen
lictel, Astoria.
That Hacking Cousin eau be so
qwicklv cured bv Shiloh's Cure. We
guarantee it. Sold by W. E. Dement.
Croup, Whooping Cough and IJnm
chitis immediately relieved by Shi?oh'
Cun,. Sold by W. K. Dement.
Have Wistar's balsam or wild cherry
always at hand. It etires coughs, colds,
bronchitis, whooping cough, croup, in
fluenza, consumption, and all throat and
lung complaints. 30 cents aud.Sl a 1mm
tle. Will you suffer with Dy.spepia anu"
Liver Complaint '.' Shiluh's " italizcr i
guarantee! to cure you. Sold by V. E.
Dement
Sleepless Nights, made miserable
by that terrible cough. ShUnlfs Cure is
the remedy tor you. Sold by W. YL De
ment Brace up the whole system with Kin:
of the Blood. See Advertisement.
Wilson & Fisher,
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FRESH CANDY
ATTIIE
ASTORIA CANDY FACTORY
Patror.lzo ITome Manufacture,
AU my CANDIKS are of the
FiNE-T QUALITY,
A full assortment
of
NUTS, FOREIGN FRUITS,
JOH.Y P. CliASSEX.
ETC.
IT WILL PAY
TO
Low Prices Still!
lESJEH&ZHS 3VC DB 2 IFL.
I
WILL NOT BE
UNDERSOLD!
FIVE CENTS EACH.
Fireside Companion. X. Y. Weekly
LfrtceV, Saturday Night, Arm Chair,
family Story Paper. Boys of New York
Week's Doings, Texas Sittings, S. F.
Chroniee. Call, Oregonian, JS'ews, and
Astoi:ia.x, etc.. etc.
8 Cts.. 3 for 25 Cts., 13for$1.
Police Gazette, Police News, Illns-tratt-d
Times. Pack. Wasp, and Judge,
Harper's Bazar and Weekly, Leslies
Weekly and Chimney Corner, Argonaut
ami many others.
1 have printed tickets for those pa-
Eew to make exact change. Back num
ers always on hand.
OR OCIITO Leslies Popular Monthly.
LJ ULniO. Young Ladles' Journal, eti
etc
30 CLHTS.
Harper's Monthly, etc.
etc.,
Having made arrangements with all
publishers 1 am enabled to give the
jmlilu a benefit of the ilmve nam d re
ductions. I have also Reduced he
price for Subscription-, which will
be as follews:
Ilarper's "WVeRly, peryear.S 3 7- not$t Ou
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3 75 ' 4 00
3 50 " 4 00
10 00 " 2 00
3 75 ' 4 00
3 75 - 4 00
2 85 " 3 00
1! 75 " 3 00
2 75 " 3 00
2 75 " 3 00
2 75 " 3 00
2 75 3 00
3 75 "4 00
Monthly
All thre for "
Leslie's Weekly. "
Leslie's Chimney
Corner
Leslie's Popular
Monthly,
Fireside Companion,
New York Ledger.
atunlav Night.
Family Storv i'api-r,
Arm Unair, "
S. i. Ar-'onaut. "
And all others too numerous to mention
at the same rates. Now is your I ime to
ul)scribe for the new year. Remem-Im-i
CARL ADLER'S
SUBSCRIPTION HEWS DEPOT.
Crystal Palace
CARL ADLER,
PROPRIETOR.
Drugs and Chemicals
A"
J. E. THOMAS
Prescriptions carefully compounded
Day or Night.
A. M. JOIl.WSON. C. J. JORNSON.
Astoria Sail Loft.
ilANUFACTUUERS OF
SAILS. TENTS, AWNINGS,
TARPAULINS,
And everything else pertaining to our
Business.
Lowes tPrice and Best "Work
For your Jroney,
At the Old Stand.
Leave your orders and get your work
doueatonce.
JOHNSON & CO.
- - Oregon.
Astoria,
PETER BLANKHOLM,
Dealer in
FINE CIGARS,
IMPORTED AND DOMESTIC.
THE BEST BRANDS OF TOBACCO.
SHOKEilS' ARTICLES.
Cor. Squeinoqua and Olney Streets, Astoria.
BOAT BUILDING,
R. LEATHERS
Has reopened his boat shop, over Arndt &
Ferchen's. foot of LaFayctto street, mid Ls
prepared to turn out
FIRST-CLASS BOATS.
AL.li WORK GUARANTEED.
TAILORING,
Cleaning Repairing.
NEAT, CHEAP AND QUICK. BY
GEORGE LOVETTt
Main Street, opposite N. Loeb's.
ip
A DItUGGIST
V
AND VT
Pharmacist, ?
rAST0RlA,o
v m r
A Av
ANNUAL SALE
Dry Goods ana Clothing.
FOR
I will offer my STOCK of CLOTHING at GREATLY REDUCED
PRICES in order to reduce previous to stock-taking
February 1st.
OVERCOATS,
AT POST
Enr fhta Havf 0 Dquo
rUl UIp lllfli ?U Udjo
GENTS
Furnishing Goods,
lAL yn H bUUr EK, IAL
The Leading Dry Goods and Cothing
House of
jSTTor special Dry Goods Advertisement see Dally Indcpcn.dctxt.JSl
FIRST QUALITY LUMBER.
WESTPOBTj
BULL COMPANY j
IS IN THE FIELD AND rP.OPOSES TO
remum.
We will take orders for lumber from 100
to POO M at the mil ordeliveicd.
We also manufacture lath autl shingles of
At quality.
Flooring a Specialty .
Address all orders
WESTPOItT MILL CO.
. C, Uenxek, Supt.
SOLID' GOLD
JEWELRY
Scarf Pins. Chains, Watches,
s i jcv e waja is ,
Of every description.
The finest stock of Jewelry In Astoria.
J3yAIl goods warrantedasrepresented
GUSTAV HANSEN, JEWELER.
First Annual
Clotliinfi, Hats, GeiitB' Fnrnisliinff
Begins To-day
Will Oontinui
Men's Overcoats Reduced.
'Business Suits Reduced,
Hats Reduced,
D.A.
The heading
TAILOR. CLOTHIER, HATTER and GENT'S FURNISHER
YEARLY
CLOSING
SALE
OP
M.D.KANT
BARGAINS
Men's, Tonths',
and Boys'
CL0THIN 6.
BARGAINS
IX
Farnkhlns
Goods, Etc.
Suits madp to
Order, m FL p
SfvTrt frum 5.10
upward, am! a
Neat Fit guar -
antcea at
1 31. D. KANT'S
jOT Merchant Tailor
JyJgX S
THE
.1
OVERCOATS,
FINK DRKSS SUITS.
BUSINESS SUITS.
WORKING SUITS.
Hats and Caps
-rs'wra
tte7
Astoria.
gagnus (J. CrOSby
Dealer in
HARD! ABE, IRON, STEEL,
Iron Pipe and Fittings,
Plumbers and Steam Fitters
Goods and Tools,
SHEET LEAD STRIP LEAD
SHEET IRON,
Pl-n and Copper.
Cannery anfl Fisiermens Supplies
Stoves, Tin Ware and House
Furnishing Goods.
JOBBING IN SHEET IRON, TIN. COP
PER PLUMBING and STEAM FITTING
Done with neatness and dispatch.
None out first class workmen employed.
A large assortment of
SCALES
r-onstantly on band
Clearance Sale of
at the Occident Store.
lays Only.
Youth's Overcoats Reduced,
Dress Suits Reduced,
Furnishing Goods Redued.
31 UN STREET,
I Opposite the Parker HfK5.
,
Hoods
!
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