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PJ s t ailjj Ijtftafcm ASTORIA, OREGON: TUESDAY:, .MARCH 11. 1 ISSUED EVEEY MORNING. (Monday excepted) JvF. HALLiOBAN & COMPANY, PUBLISIIKKS AND ritOPKIETOBS, ASTOBIAN BUILDING. - - UASSTKEET a v Term of Subscription. Served by C irner. per week Sotit by 31 lil. ptr month.. ...-..., .r one ygar ............. Free of postage to ut -ribers. 15cti. . 6i)cts. -S7.W iSf Advertisements inserted by the ye;ir at the rate of ?2 per square per month. Tran sient advertising fifty cents per square, each Insertion. Around the City. Allen .&. Peterson are building a fish trap at Fort Canby. T. Albright forfeited $10 in the police court yesterday on a charge of abusive language. Eer. Donald Boss will preach in the Presbyterian church at half-past seven ibis evening. A caucus is denned to be a plaoe where thirty or forty men-get together and vote ES'one man tells them to. 'Bera'ar convocation of St. John Chap ter No. 14, R. A. M., at Masonic hall this Tuesday evening, at 7:30 p. M. Yesterday was a singular day as regards weather; all smiles and tears; the tears being slightly in the majority. The funeral of the late Chas. Cham berlain took place from his mother's residence yesterday afternoon. "" The Oen. Banning arrived in Sunday afternoon with cedar from Cosmopolis. She is now loading at Portland. There will be a social under the auspices of the Congregational church at the resi dence of fa Barker this evening. The British bark City of Carlisle, 823, Couche, master, 209 days from Greenook, is reported outside with pilot on board. The case of Capt. Flavel et al. vs. the Queen of (he Pacific, has been set for trial in1 Judge Deady's court oa the 12th of April. The Scandinavian congregation have their new church building nearly com pleted, making the eighth church in As toria. m thirty-three -Chinamen are busy at Collinsvilie making 2.00 J,000 cans for the Sacramento river canneries the coming season. The British ship Eskdalc, 22G days from Liverpool, arrived in Sunday even ing. She has a large cargo of tin plate and aalt for Astoria. A little more life is being infused into the logging business, more particularly across the river where several new camps are being started on the upper Nasel and Willapah. A burning chimney at Capt. Hustler's residence last evening lit up the land scape and called out the fire department and a large crowd of spectators. No dam-age-to the premises. A squall from the south at two o'clock yesterday morning broke a boom of logd athe West Shore mills, scattering along the beach. Fortunately, the greater por tion of them can be recovered. Eugene Griffin, whose resemblance to a party who is supacted of having stalen some property at Williamsport sometime ago caused his arrest last Saturday even ing, was honorably discharged yesterday, it being evident that it was a case of mistaken identity, and that Griffin knew nothing about it. Naw Bake, From Samuel Elmore, Ae toria agent for Wm. T. Coleman & Co., it is learned that a general banking and commercial business will in future be carried on by that well known house in this city. Complete arrangements have bean effected in relation to foreign and domestic correspondence, agencies, etc., and4the usual facilities for drafts, bills of exchange, etc., afforded by banking estab lishments. Alterations will be made in the Chenamus street front of the ware house, where the bank will be fitted up and permanently located, and on the Ontgon, which is due to-morrow, will ar rive ilr. Goddis, the gentleman who will act as accountant. The capital will be furnished by Wm. T. Coleman and other prominent San Franciscans, and the in tention is to make the institution a permanent business in this city. Salmon Poisoning D003. It has been frequently stated that the magnificent, finely flavored Chinook salmon, which so tickles the palate of every true Oregonian, would poison dogs and cause their death in a few hours. By some people this statement is looked upon as a popular superstition that has no foundation; while others ar6 so firm in the belief of its truth as to refuse to eat this delicious fish themselves. An old fisherman ex plained the whole matter to an Oregonian reporter yesterday as follews: Dogs who eat salmon unless trained, as the In dians' dogs are will nndoubtedly poison themselves and die. The reason of this is found in the thick black blood that lies along the backbone of the fish. This. being removed, ps it always iB when the fish is cleaned, the dogs may eat the re mainder of the salmon without harm. Ortganian, 10. - Hmiobt Bepeated. The telegraph item in this paper a few days ago, in re gard to the Great .Eastern, calls to mind the object for which this great "folly" was twill. In 1871, as all old settlers know, the Northern Pacific Bailroad had designated Olympia as its western terminus, and hopes ran high of its early completion. Portland, Ale., was to be the eastern output of this great lystem, embracing a line of steamships running from China direct to Olympia, and .the. freight from them to be taken over the Northern Pacific to Portland, Me., and the Great Eastern was to run from there to Liverpool, the harbor at Portland, Me., being the only one on theAtlantic coast where she could be handled in safety. A marble hotel was commenced there (a la Portland, Ogn.) but when the great .financial crash of 1873 came,' work was stopped on it, and after standing,! an unfinished state for a number of years it was purchased by the government for a custom house and postpffioe. Thus we see history repeats Itielfj.anU the bright dreams of the peo ple on both Atlantic and Pacific coasts fadeaway, leaving nothing but the stern reality o. a railroad run by the princi pal magnates of the country in the interest of their pocket-books. Olym pia Critic. r. r Situwtiuu l.auled. A young man of considerable experi ence wants a situation.as clei k or book keeper. Satisfaction guaranteed- Ad dress F. II. Elliott, Astoria Postoffice. Notice. r2ow if your opportunity to buy goods ftfc-efctre'ine low figures. Call and .see me. - C. P. Moffit. - JTJ .Haps! Maps!! H:ip!!! "Mr. Carr, the one armed map man is now In the city and will canvass the place for Cram's unrivaled family Hiaps Ol me u. o. aim uuiiu. xjici,) family should have one. Children can learn more on this map than in any book vim can purchase. We hope that Mr. C" will place one in every house Tioid. Pncesreduced. Extra Quality of Coal Oil By the gallon, five gallon can or case, id '"be.rousd at the Crockery store of Jorfraftiiocorth. AX nOUB IX POMPEII. Damascus, Jerusalem, Tyre, Borne, Carthage, Pompeii and Athens are cities that to the student of history and the imaginative of even- clime are rich in itory, remembrance and absorbing inter est. To all of these save one the litera ture of every ago has contributed its ad miratien: to thfi Htpk nr.fl fnrtnnes of the ' inW;tqnt.i f,a homo nn! a of ! Minir h.. r tn..! n iiiinf I ear, has always been given the profound e t attention. But one city stands pre eminent in history and singularity the auried city at the base of Vesuvius, Pom peii. It was to hear the story of that city's doom and discovery that a large audience filled the Presbyterian church last niht. The lecturer, T. L. Eliot, of Portland, is a stranger to many of us. His pleasant voice, pure English, gifted imagination and easy converse have won the plaudits of his hearers, and to the interest of his theme was added the beauty of his de livery, strong, terse, explanatory and vivid. Shorn of all but the most meager out lines the subject of last evening's dis course was as follews: While yet tha sands of the Colosseum at Borne were wet with the blood of the first Christian martyrs there grew on the slopes of Mt. Vesuvius a cluster of villas and villages, groves and gardens, bowers of ease, dw;lt in by Romans sated with civic pleasure or worn out by enervation and debauch. At some distance below on the plain were the cities of Herculaneum and Pompeii. In the year 79, A. D., came a convulsion of nature, 2.00J feet of Mt. Vesuvius' summit toppled and fell; great masses of scoriae, asues, cinders and dust, great torrents of boiling water, great rivers of lava, burst without premonitory warning from within and whelmed these hap ess cities beneath sixty feet of accumulated debris, effectually entombing and her metically sealing the cities and tho who remained. Everything was ssalei up so quickly, every avenue of escape was closed so instantaneously by tnis fiery rain of molten soil, that life as carried on in that day in citie3 was shut oif in the very act of full existence. The occur rence of course occasioned sorrow, com ment, regret, search, hope, sad memory, lessened grief, dulled remembrance, and, in a century or so, entire oblivion. Nations were born at tjo coit of count less million lives, waxed great, filled the earth with their fame and died; Mahomet arose and changed the history of the world; Borne herself waxed impotent ana died; Constantinople and all tne glitter ing gorgeousues3 of the oast arose; the history of western Europe began; Eng land and France were heard of; the cru sades were undertaken; the Saxon and Norman, the Plantagenet and Lancas trine in turn held sway; Columbus was born and dreamed and gave a new world to the old; the splendors of modern his tory begin to bj recorded; Shakespaaro and Galileo, and Kepler and Newton shed light; the American colonies were founded; the Declaration of Iniepani ence was signed; the B volution-ary war was in progress in short seventeen hun dred 3-ears of peace and war; of struggles and strife; of what we on this little cos mic spack call "iiie," had elapsed when the c.ty that on that hot September af ternoon in 79 had beau covered by the sittings of the volcano was "discovered." Its site had been forgotten, its history had been lost; its very name and all re membr ince of it had passed from human record for sixteen hundred years, ani to the astonished gaza of this hurrying clamoring threo-for-a-dollar ago is ex uibitad tae inner life and private daily actions of the Boman of A. 1). 79. Probably, as Mr. Eliot aptly said last night, if some fatal cataclysm of nature should result in such a convulsion of Saddle Mountain that that hump-backed peak should vomit forth lava and ashes and cover Astoria with a deposit seventy feet high making a uniform plain of light gray ashy soil where now our little daily lives are rounded or ang.ed, that in the summer of 3,8&, A. D., if the forgot ten site and center of the salmon indus try were exhumed, we in our ashy cere ments struck lifeless at our desks, and ia our dining rooms, and quailing our beverages, and counting our gold, and cutting off the coupons of our government bonds, or rearrang.ng our diumonds, o- any other cubtomary or usual action of our Astoria life, would occasion consider- ao.e curiosity no me aemzeus oi mis lit tle planet in the aforesaid year of 3,8l4 or thereabouts. So it is with us of to day. We take the evening train from Borne (those of us who have coin or credit enough to get there) cross the Camp3na, aud alight at Jfompen. Here we find just bow these ancient rompenans lived; we see just what was going on, on that September afternoon when a section of the day of judgment struck and blasted them. We see Hic ham in the kitchen, the chicken on the spit, the loaves of bread in the oven, the cook peeling the onions, the butcher weighing the steak (twenty obolii a pound) the school boy at his task, the urtist at his easel, the bride at her toilet. Everything is there, ani one has as goou an idea of life in Pompeii in '79 as he would of Portland in 1831, by going on board the Fleetwood to-morrow morning and visiting that singular yet interesting inland city. Mr. Eliot was there: (in Pompeii) he saw all this, and it was next to going there to hear a man tell of what he saw that could do it so well. According to Mr. Eliot these Pompeiians were a baa lot, a tough crowd, it seems they used to have a mayor and council in Pompeii and used to get off some ungodly gags concerning the mayor and councilman from the 23rd ward. They had no news papers in Pompeii, and so when they had any street improvement or twelve o'clock ordinance or "the loike o that" they used to write the whole business on the doors of the barber shops and on the street corners and other places. The day before everything went to eternal smash, these profane Pomi eiians had a municipal election, where there wore four candidates for mayor, each one pledged different ways, and the boya were evidently in poor trim to meet their death with anything lute aecency; lor, according to all accounts it had been pretty hot at the polls, and if Cains Persillycuss hadn't rung in twenty or thirty of the boys from the Via Ba silica just as the polls closed, it is now pretty certain that Aurelius Com modus would have had the nomination of the next Pompeiian city attorney and chief of nolice. Since hearing Mr. Eliot's lecture it seems to us that the destruction of Pompeii on the night that tne success ful candidates got away with the mu nicipal election, was a prbtty good joke on the whole out tit or newiy eiectea officers. Mr. Eliot's vivid description of the manners and customs of these far-off people was listened to with the most rapt attention. His style of conveying infor mation is more an easy conversation than a didactic discourse. "Sealed as you would seal a can of salmon," said he, "this city is now opened eighteen centu ries after its instantaneous sepulture." He spoke of its inner life, the picturds, statuary, private chambers, baths, dress, ornaments, mode of life, amusements, recreations, punishments, of ail that goes to make up life, and graphically callod the attention of the audience to the fact that things in 79 are startingiy like things in 1834. From the cradle to the grave we who live in this age of gas, glass, glare and dazzle, who travel by steam and talk by electricity; who ransack earth, air and ocean, and are only limited by life, eat and drmK ana taiK ana aci in our nine every-day lives just as those people who dwelt in fancied security on the plain at Vesuvius' base eighteen centu ries ago. "One touch of nature makes the whole world kin," and when Mr. Eliot spoke of the mother mutely facing inevitable death, and the shrinking girl who hid her head in that mother'srobt, an answering thrill of sympathetic in terest in the audience showed bow alike poor human nature is in "the 'first and nineteenth centuries. At the close of his eloquent peroration which formed fitting conclusion to a fine discoaraa, Mr. Eliot was tendered a unanimous vote of thanks and the audience dispersed. STATE AXD TERRITORIAL XEWS. An .$8,000 hotel will be built at Wood ard's landing this spring. All the trap men at Ilwaco are busy in cettiue ready to commence nsaing promptly on Apsil 1st. . According to the .Port Tpwnsend Times it., t. .!...;. lt.i.". AttnA t'afavn firof IUO UJlACilimO .O-lUJUp IUHTOU mviu uu. tnrougu two large Douiueih. Bloxam. convicted in Portland of the murder of Wm. 'isher, was last Satur day sentenced to imprisonment for life. The Chinese force on Cedar river ex tension were paid $48,000 by Paymaster Thielsen of the railway company, $35,O0J of which will go to China. When o member of the common conn cil of Tacoma xo3e on his throne and said: "In my head we owe $3fi'J)," he was told "there are lots of things in your head that are just right." Writing from Sheridan to the Lafay ette, Oregon Register, a correspondent says: The wheat crop looks splendid, and if no bad luck befalls the crop the farmers will oowe out all right this fall. It is said that the last cold blizzard in southern Oregon killed thousands Of robins and bme-jays, wnich usually win ter in tuat latitude with safety. Tne birds have had no such experience sinca loo'J. .While very little ia heard just now about the Oiynipia and Gruy's harbo railroad, there is said to be an under cur rent at work, the final developments of wuich will more than equal the antici potions of tne most sanguine ones. The Pomeroy Independent is in a quan dary as to who is suiool superintendent of Washington county. Miss-Newkirk, the superintendent, has lately been mar ried and the Independent wants to know who holds the oinue, herself or her hus band. A party writing from the Coaur d'Alene under dute of February 12th, to a rela tive in Portland, says: "I am in tne Cceur d'Alene, after a long and hard struggle. This is the coming mining camp. There is hardly standing room nere now. Wood is $12 per cord, al though it is plentiful within one hun dred yards oj town. Snow is about five feet deep, and tbo thermometer 22 de grees. Plenty of cold and suffering here and on the road getting here. We had to cross plenty of snow say from twelve to fifteen feet deep, and had blizzards all the way for forty miles. We had to cross the highest mountains and deepest declivities any man e'ver saw. Some are bald and others covered with timber. 1 pulled a toboggan nearly all the way, and sometimes had to carry it where the mountains were sideling. I came near freezing my hands trying to help others." The trial of Patrick Keefe for killing William Morton at Sitka was concludea in the United States court Saturday, tbo jury, after being out half an hour, re turning a verdict of manslaughter. William Morton, the victim of Keefe, ac companied Kane on two of his Arctic exploring expeditions, and was the leader of the sledge party wnich had a view of the open polar sea. In speaking of the tne company, Kane says: "Two of these, Morton and Brooks, were my associates m the expedition, gallant and trust worthy men as ever shared the fortune or claimed the gratitude of a commander." in his account of Morton's visit to tne shore of the open polar sea, Kane says: "Having climoed up the chlf several hundred feet he fastened to his walking pole the Grinnell nag of the Antartio ex pedition, which has now followed me two polar voyages. This llag had been saved irom the wreck of the United States sloop-of-war Peacock when sho she stranded of? the Columbia river, and bad accompanied Wilkes in his southern dis covery of an Antartic continent. It was now its strange destaiy to fioat over the highest northern land, not only of Ameri ca, but the globe. It must have been an imposing sight as he stood at the termi nation of his journey looking out at the great waste ot waters before him." It is sad to think that a man with such a gioriouB record should in bis old age die at the hand of a rum-crazed divo-keeper. The Jim and Women of the TnentUth Century. Four o'clock and the children come bounding out of school and down Ben ton street; some joyous with the remem brance of childish triumphs, others de pressed with some juvenile grief, all with that eager disregard that is character istic of childhood. They form a juvenile grand army of the republic and carry with them all the potency of promise. We who are thirty, and fortv. aud fif tv years old, and who liva in this afternoon oi the nineteenth century can only real ize that those merry, rosy cheeked boys and girls are the men and women of the twentieth century. The big world or the little world will be theirs to run as best they can; they come and go now unher alded and unnoticed, but about the time that we shall begin to write nineteen in stead of the familiar eighteen in the roll of centuries they will step to the front and grasp the scepter ana wear the pur ple. That twentieth century many of us are not to see; the sun that swings down to the western horizon of this nineteenth century in these later eighties and nine ties will gild the eastern buu. oi an other and an unknown sea on whose sur face will be borne the barks of these youthful voyagers. What sail they make, what lunds they see, what islands they discover forms a question ps problemati cal us the same question was a century ago. Perhaps beyond the sunset of the present century, on the illimitable area of the coming contury, when these boys and girls shall assume charge of the helm, lie discoveries so rich in compari son to ours that oould we in the future become aware of them, we would now, ourselves, feel but as children picking tip shells on the shore of the great ocean of knowledge and truth': KnlshU of PjtfaiM. The Grand Lodgaof Washington Ter ritory organized at Taooma on February 27, 1881. Eleven lodges were represented, and forty-two delegates were present. There are lodges in existence in forty- four states and territories, the District of Columbia, the Provinces of Ontario, New jjiiuiowiuii, nxauiiooa ana ajniisnuoium bia, as well as the Sandwich Islands. There are thirty-seven crand lodges. about 2'iOjBubordinate lodges and a total memoersuip at this date of not less than 150,000, while the rate of increase is esti mated at from 20,000 to 25,000 annually. Astoria division No. 1, uniform rank, having obtained the desired number of members, have ordered their uniforms and will be instituted on or about April lTith, Grand Chancellor Neweomb. G. K- of B. and S., and Post Chancellors Mis ner and Alstead, of Portland, are mem bers of this division. Npecial Notice. Mr. N". Loeb has instructed mo to dis pose of his entire-stock of Clothing, Furnishing goods, Boots and S noes, etc., at cost, without reserve. C. P. Moffit. MEFt- At enormous expense has just secured the services of Pkofessou Ellis one of the best white cooks in the state; and Jeff propos.sto excell any of his for mer efforts in the culinary art. Italian and French dishes a specialty. Sick Headache, Pain In the Back and Limbs, Biliousness, Blotches. Bolls and Plmnles entirely cured by Wm. Plun der's Oregon Blood Purifier, Use Dimmltt'8 Coueh Balsam for Chest. Throat, and Lungg, at W. X. De msntfcCo.'s. HERE, THERE AXD ELSEWHERE. Floods in Louisiana and Mississippi re peat on a smaller scale the disasters of the Ohio valley. - About $30.000,C0 of Boston capital are invested in the Mexican Central railway, the last rail of the main line of which was laid on the 8th inst., thus making n continuous linp, U2 miles long, from the United States border at El Paso to the City of Mexico. The two ends meet at Fresmillo. The work has been done in four years, at a cost of $30,030,0jO. Concerning the Lasl er affair the New York Times of tLe 9th says: "It is ex- gcted in Berl.n, apparently, that the erman capital w.ll bj m ide too hot to ho.d Sargent, and that he will ba w.th druwu wuilo under nrw'. x tliis improb able event shoalu really happon, wu may be sure that the German minister at Washington will, at the same time, re ceive his dismissal. There is a growing disrespect for our diplomatic service, and tho Berlin incident will give another check to a well-nigh obsolete institu tion." Ex-Governor Gibbs is in New York. He has caused himself to ba interv-.wod in regard to politics. He says: "l'here is in Oregon and elsewhere, l rind, increased confidence in Artnur. Uregun has been hitherto for Blaine. Blaine aud Lincoln would be the most papular and powerful combination. General Sherman and Lin coln would would be a good ticket, ifind that Lincoln's standing in Wasuingtauis not because ho is the sou of Abranaui. He has taken a very high position on his own merits. He attends to tne details of his office. Judge Field is unquestionably the choice of Oregon Democrats. If any Democrat can ccirry Oregon it would b him. In California he has antagonized the Kearneyites. Otherwise he is ueldin high esteem on the entire Pacific coast." PacIUc County Itocu Journal.) Jos. Brisco has sold his farm on the weather beach to Sam Harr.s for $1,000. The residence of John Stephens, on the Willap8h, was burned one day this week. Although the fire occurred'in the daytime, the flames had made such head way before discovory, that but little was saved, and his loss was heavy, including a large supply of provisions recently laid in for the season. Jos. Whealdon has a contract with the government to survey one township on the upper Nasel, and also half a town ship on the Willapah. So oon as the weather is favorable he will commence the survey, and will push it forward to early completion. The mo3t of this land is covered by good timber, and will make valuable logging claims. Afjw week3 ago Mrs. Joe McBride shot and killed a deer at her home in Bruceport. She was alone at the time and hearing the dog barking furiously, went out to ascertain tho cause, wnen she discovered that the dog had run a deer down on the tide land. Sho pro cured a rifie from the house and went as near as possible, and shot tho deer.br ng mg him down the first shot. Tae Ilwaco matrimonial market is booiiiing. M.ss Emma Graham, daughur of O. P. Graham, was recently married to Mr. J. W. Wahter of tns lifa crow. This makes two dauuters that Mr. Gra ham has furnished us nrst mates for the crew. And there ara yet several mem bers of tLe crew remaining in siuglu blessedness. Cuark-s Clark, "of Company E, 21st Infantry, was lately married tb Miss Jannie Baker, of Fort Canby. Good Enough to Quote. A road. What is a road? Only a something to travel on, a narrow strip, more or les3 iraprjved, davotad to going and coaling; over which restless human ity passes with m re or les? comfort and convenience on misssions of j.H sorts, of necessity, of pleasure, of sadness. A road is of equal desirability to transport ers of food, "to pleasure soekers, to a funeral procession. Imagine a commun ity without roads. Impossible. And why? Because such a monstrosity could not exist. After the imagination had created tho thing, it would not bo a com munity. To constitute this there must be com munion, communication, exchange of labor products, interchange of ideas. People must be in a position to meet con veniently bef ro they can beoomu a com munity of society, itoads are the means whereby they meet. The above is from the Tacoma Ledger but is such a good nrgaaisnt for the Ciat Bop road that is worthy of place as being of local application. Jack Frost. Mr. M. J. Green, P. M. at North Buffalo, Fa., states bis feet wo.e bad ly frosted and lie suffered also with pains in the head, which St. Jacobs Oil, the great pain-reliever, complete ly cured. ForaAtiat Fltliu Hoot Jr Shoe, go to P. .J. Goodmans, on Che uauius atrci't, nexl dour to I. W. Cum-. All goods of the best make and guaran teed quality. A full stuck; nw good coudtantly arriving. Custom woik. Junt lCceird. A large stock of soit and stiff lints in all the latest styles at Mcintosh:! Fur nishing store. Have W 'star balsam oi W'.M cherrj always at hand. It cures coughs, cold bronchitis, whooping cnuuli. croup, .:: tiuenza, consumption, and all throat ami lung complaints. y coitts aud.31 a bot tle. Why will you coumi when ShilohV Cure will give itiiiiu'diuie relief. I'rie lOcuSOctsiuidSl. Sold by W. E. De ment. Arn von made iniM-ranle by Indi gestion, Constipation, Dizziiu'S. Lo.v oi appetite, Yellow Skin ? ShiloVs Vital izer it a positive iire. For sale by W. EL Dement. Boston Baked Beans aud Brown Bread every Sunday at Jeffs from 3 a.m. to 2 p.m. ullackiuetuck,'f a lasting and fra grant perfume. Price 25 :md 50 cents. Sold bv W. K. Dement- A--K. FOR 41 THE BOS TON" RUBBER BOOT. Made ot Fine TtJ?&.f H-ix"IdT3x Will Not Crack. FOR SALE EVERYWHERE. The Gutta Percha & Rubber Mi'g Co Portland, Oregon, 5 B s Aweisment aud Taxation. We venhire finally before our readers with a p'.an for assessment and taxation that we present as tho combined views of many who have written for the Farm er, and which we believe is entitled to the respect of all who have studied the important question of public finance. The law has always baen perfect ia the general idea but was lacking in par ticularity. The assessor is generally in structed to assess all property at its full cash value. That puts too much re sponsibility on onb man. If the law can be amended so as to provide a state board of equalization that shall lay out the work in each county, then assessors will have a specific duty to discharge and can do it with ease and dispatcn. He must be provided with assessing blanks, in which all real and personal property can be enumerated, and all in debtedness can be stated. This the tax payer fills up with great care and makes oath to. He puts down all items of in debtedness that he wishes to offset and all monies, notes or accounts due him. The assessor then puts the valuation to all propsrty proscribed by the board of equalizat.on for that county. When tne tax collector comes ruuud he has only to receipt according to the assess ment. Tne tax payer pays the full tax, receiving as sugb-est3d by Air. Jory in a lata pjper, a receipt from the tax-collector for the tax paid on indeb.edness sought to be offset, wnich shouia he maae a legal release between him and his creditor for interest due on the mon ey he is owing said creditor. This is not a complex system but is simple and can not neip out wcrz well. In this way the Stato secures taxis on all property with in its limits froai ths nolier of it The legls.at.:re waich is to meet next winter can etshy draw up such a bill ana make a specihe law thut will cover the whole fieid. When property is assessed at its fair valuation it will go forth to the world that Oregon has 300,000,000 as sessible valnas, and the world will look at us with respect. The offsetting of $30,u0J,0oO of debts will not seem such a burden as it does now. Tho t'ix levy will be livo to fiftoen mills for total taxation in any locality nnd will not seem onerous, while now taxes averago two and a half to three per cent, on aasessod values. The mortgage tax is entirely proper but does not go far enough. To make it effi cient the law should demand Such a full exhibit of money or its representations as "to g.vo no chance for evasion. Lst the taxpayer specify his credits in full and let it be a public record open for all to inspect. Tnen it will not be easy to in vaue the law, because the argus-eyed public have a rigat to inspect it. The cry will bamade, "Tni9 is inquisition." What if it i3? If you need the protection of the law then you must be willing to pay some share of the public burdens. As to exposing private business that is much to be preferred to the state losing its right ful revenue. Wj believe tbo scheme we have outlined here is very near perfection. It is a sub ject we have examined and carefully studied for years back. We are aware that the subjjet has occupied for centu ries the ablest minds of governing states men and, tnerefore, touch it with some tuing of modestv, yet we believe this scheme posses in brief the best solu tion of a great and important subject. There can be a no more important m Uter for action before tho next Oregon legis lature, nnd it should receive early and constant attention until purified and crystalized in the statutes ns the law of Oregon finance. Willamette Farmer. HOTEL ARRIVALS. OCCIDENT. Wurrell, Port W O Owen, Stevens B Smith, do A H Meraill, do F N Pendleton, do J G Megler &. wire, ASiillman, do Brookfield J W Cofran, do AH Mallory, S F C W Frush, do E J Sewell, Bait J B Most en, wf do G Abernethy, A Kur.es, do Tacoma W Mill, Bay center PABKEn HOOSK. Joe Leaney, Vancvr C F Johnson. Bostn M Mardenj Hoquim John Nelson, do .V S Jackson, .fort w Jf barker, Wpt W Kinley, do P Patterson, Ft Can do Chcs Stoll, Ys B do J O'Hara, St Helens do WL Young, Bainer do M Cardiff, Cath Wm V.ncent, P Harrity, C V Dunbar, S While. J H Moore, do Joe Edgar, do Wm Corgan, Port Hosiery, Hosiery, Hosiery I Tin- latest novelties in ladies and childrens hosiery at Prael Bros'. Bouts for Sale. Joe Leathers has two fine boats for sale at the boat shop, one. block wet ol Hansen llros.' mill. Stop That Cough By going to J. E. Thomas's and getting a bottle of Lmiy's Cough Balaam. It will cure you. The WomuuV I'liysieiau. A common sense medical work for ladies only. Fully answers all ques ious which modesty prevents asking a m ile physician. G.ves causes and symptoms of a 1 d senses of the sex. with positive cure for each in pht n Ian miag, written uy ladies who have made these diseases a life study. A plain talk in delicate lansiuaue which every wo man. young and old, sh mid rea I. It is recouiiiieiitled iy many eminent Iad physician as a sale guide for the sex. ihinti5"Uiely hoi. mi ami illustnit d. Sent post imiu ftirShPO. Address the KoCHESTElt PCBLISIUSO Co., 3.', 33 and 33K- OMmrn Block. Rochester. N. Y. Itoiiee. Dinner at"J EFFVCIIOP HOUSE everyday from 4:30 to 8 o'ciock. The oest 25-eent meal in town; soup, fish, seven kinds of men's, vegetables, pie. pudding, etc. A glass ot S. F. Beer. French Claret, tea or coffee included. All who have tried him say Jeff is the "BOSS." Fine Dress f'oocls. A splendid I ne of ladles dress goods Is being displayed at the Empire store. Roscne Dixon's new eatinj; house is now open. Everyhinj; has heen fit ted up In first-chis stylr, and hi well known reputation as a caterer assures all who like good things to eat, that at his place they can he aeronunodated. Dhnmitt's Cough Bal-ani cures Croup left says he gives two meals to any other restaurant nian's one and can prove it. AH the patent, medicines advertised in this paper, together with the choici'sl perfumery, aiid'toilet articles, etc can be bought" at the lowest prices, at .). W. 'ohm's drug store, opposite Ocnden hctel, Astoria. Use Dimmitt's Cough Balsam, at W.E. Lumeiit &t o.-s. Children all like Dimmitt's Cough BaLnm. Mrs.C.F. Colter, of N. Y. City will give instruction in the Snw York sys tem of dre.-s cuttiug and basting. Les sons in cla-ses, S10. Single. 512. She also wishes to establish an agent in As toria. Can be seen nt Mrs. E. C. Holdim's. Dimmitt's Cough Balsam never falls. Try it, nt V. E. Dement & Co.'s. For Dyspepsia andLiver Complaint, you have a printed guarantee on every bottle of Slilloli'a Vitalizer. It never fails to cure. Sold by W. E. Dement. Shiloh's Catarrh Bemedy a posi tive cure for Catarrh, Diptnerla and Canker Mouth. Sold by W.E. Dement II New Spring Eiro tteries ! We have received from New York, per express, upwardss of 0,000 yards -oC Embroideries Iu Cambric, Swiss, Lawn and Nainsook, Of the Latest Designs and from 15 to 25 per cent, cheaper than ever before. 1 760 yards of Embroideries from 2137 " " 1275 " " ' " THE I XL THE I X L G. H. COOPER, The Leading Dry Goods and Clothing House OT ASTORIA. I FIRST QUALITY LUMBER. THE WESTPORT MILL COMPANY IS IN THE FIELD ANI) PROPOSES TO remain. We will take onlers for lumber from 100 to fOo M., at the mil or deliveieil. We aLso manufacture lath and shingles of A.1 quality. Flooring a Specialty . AddreNS all orders WESTPORT MILL CO. h. C, 1JEXNKK, Supt. SOLID GOLD. JEWELRY BRACELETS, Scarf Pins. Chains, Watches, SILVERWARE, Of every description. The finest stock of Jewelry in Astoria. J3TAU goods warrantedasrepresented GUSTAV HANSEN, JEWELER. NEW HA T S -RECEIVED AT McINTOSH'S Clothing and Gent's ASTOHIJL, LOEB & GO. JOBBERS IN WINES. LIQUOKS, AND CIGAE8. AGENTS FOR THE Best San Francisco Houses and Eastern Distilleries. Tumblers Decanters, and All Kinds of Saloon Supplies. -All goods sold at 8an Francisco Prices. MAIN STREET. Oppolt Patkar Bouse. Astoria. Oregon, 1884. Importations ! 3c to 1 2c per yard. 15c to 40c per yard. 50c to $1.00 per yard. Magnus G. Crosby. Dealer In EAMARE, IRON, STEEL, Iron Pipe and Fittings, STOVES, TINWARE AND HOUSE FURNISHING GOODS SHEET LEAD STRIP LEAD SHEET IRON, T133. AND Copper. Stop That Horse I From Slipping. USE THE PATENT SHOE. George McLane HAS .TTJ-T RKCKIVI-D A PATENT Horseshoe from the I atent Oflli-e. for the purpoie il preventing all elas.-esi if hors es fimnslippii'gou plank, or sttfiirnatiM, Hiir-es slim: with this 5lioe WH.1, NoT .-LIP. A trial wl I convince anyone. IkVep Ti Firf-plHH afhucrs lu m simp. Try ihe NEW SHOE flr'"rnMunrt Contracted Hoof cure a Secialty. No satisfaction no pay. GEO.McLANE. . STOCK OP- l Furnishing Store, OHECOIT. PERUVIAN B J ITERS !. Wilmerdlng & Co., San FranciSCO. . . . - T . . j i L08D OC b0f AgeiUS, A$l0Na mam es ii. r f- ( ,J t -x 7 1 ? yrg S -f' i - Jr "i-yv..-i y f -'V--'sfcy' &"ie."i,23Si-'