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-7T2ivJ' - .. 3) Wxt gmltj gtftoi&m. ASTORIA, OREGON: SATURDAY... ..-.APRIL 19. l4 ISSUED EVERY MORNING. i Monday excepted) J. F. HAL.LOP.AN & COMPANY, PUBLISH F.ltS ANI PROPRIIToRS, ASTORIAN nUJLDINO. - - f ASS "TREK T Terms of Subscription. Servd by Carrier, per we-t i-Scts. Sent by M.iil. per month tfuets. " " one ye ir . .... feT.oo Free of posture to Mib-. ribers. S""AdvcrtIsemi-2t-. inserted uytbeye.tr at the rate ot32 p'r suiuue per month. Tran slent advertising llfty cents per square, each Insertion. JOTTINGS ABOUND TOWN. The Fiery Cross has arrived out. Republican primary this afternoon. Politics, new potatoes, and strawber ries, the last a little tart The Stale arrived in yesterday: the Oregon saile for San Francisco. The Easter music will be repeated in Grace church to-morrow mormiug. There is an important message at the telegraph office for Harry McNeeve. Tom Gardiner, the veteran newspaper manager, is going to run an evening j;r per in Victoria. The Highland Light, cleared for Ant werp yesterday with J,a73 bushels wheat worth $55,200. J. H. Haverly'e great comedy company appear at Occidental hall next Saturday night in "Our Strategists." Reserved seats at the New York Novelty Store. The schooner Challenger, of Eureka, lumber laden at "Westport, went to sea yesterday. She carries 4O0 M to San Francisco, for which she gets $5 per SI. A. N. Hamilton, long time editor of the Salt Lake, Utah, Tribune, was among our callers yesterday. He may go into the news paper business in Portland. He is a clever gentleman atid will be heard from somewhere. Odd Fell own' Social. Next Saturday, the 2Gtb inst., will be the sixty-fifth anniversary of the establish ment of the Independent Order of Odd Fellows, and Beaver Lodge No. 35, of this oity, propose to celebrato it by a social to which all members in good standing and sojourning brothers are cordially invited. Among the outlines of the programme may bo mentioned the observance of the ritual of the order, some excellent sing ing, and refreshments served in the rooms in the southwest corner of the building. Intadprs Arretted. About 12 o'clock last night, just previ ous to the sailing of the steamer Oregon for San Francisco, U. S. Marshall Sin nott boarded her and arrested five Chi namen on a charge of introducing Chi nese prostitutes into the United States. Eleven women who were also aboard (be ing the persons complained of) were taken in charge to be held as witnesses. They were brought from Victoria on the laBt steamer, and their appearance and man ner denote that they are a new importa tion from the celestial empire. This is the first case of this kind that has arisen here since the passage of the restriction law, and tne result will be looked forward to with considerable interest. The wo men cost $11,000. Standard, IS. Contract Let. The contract for building n steamer for the Astoria Transportation company has been let to Mr. Steffin of this city. She will be built under the supervision of J. H. Howlet, from whose drafts the models have been prepared here and which were yesterday shipped to Astoria. "Work will ba commenced at once. The craft will be schooner rigged, so as to be propelled by either sail or steam. She will be 123 feet long, 23 feet beam and 7 feet G inches depth of hold. The machinery is now being built at the Willamette Iron works and the boilers will be ready in about two weeks. The contract calls for the completion of the boat by July 2. The Eropeller will be so arranged" that it can e disconnected from the engine and al lowed to revolve freely when the boat is under sail. She is intended for the coast ing trade and will ply between Graj-'s Harbor and other ports on the coast and this oity. Oregonian, IS. Make It a Precedent. Among the first bills passed by the present lower house of congress wa3 thpt declaring the unearned part of the land grant to the Oregon Central railway for feited and restored to the publio domain. The bill is now before the senate and ought to be the regular order for a day this week. We need hardly say that the action of the house on this bill is in ac cord with public opinion, and that the senate will do a popular thing by passing it quickly, regardless of what the courts may possibly do hereafter in the premi ses. The Oregon Central is that corpor ation which was organized nearly a soore of years ago to construct a railway from McAfinnville, in the Willamette vallley, to Astoria, near the mouth of the Colum bia. The route is difficult, and the grant was made liberal on this account suffl cint, as was believed, to pay all the con struction expenses and leave a surplus, for most of the land is covered by a dense growth of the best timber on the Pacific coast, whioh, with a railway, could be cut into timber and brought into the market at a low cost. This timber land is easily worth $10 per acre. The grant covers over 3.000.000 acres, only an insignificant part of whioh has been earned. It was forfeitable more than ten years ago, in all of which time the comnany has done no work. What parts of it are not cov ered by timber are small valleys of the very best agricultural lands, and all the unearned parts have for years been closed against settlers, though thousands are aager to make homes upon them and add to the annual production of the state and to the volume of its taxable proper ty, in tne long nss ox iorieuame grants there is not another that might bo se lected by the senate than this one as an unassailable precedent. If the act of forfeiture against the Oregon Central will not pass muster in the federal courts, then there is no use in trying it against any other railway grantees. S. F. Chron icle, 15. Interesting to the Ladies. Grand opening on Tuesday and Wed nesd iv. April 22 and 23. J. Pilqeb's Leadmtr Suit. Cloak and Dress Goods House, of Portland., has op- enra a permanent orancn at AUiers Crystal Palace, occupying part of this well known store. A full and lanre as sortment of Hew Styles and Fashion able garments tor Ladies and Children, in xvru-uiuuo ouiis, viuuks, it raps, Dolmans, Paletots, etc, will be always in stock. In the Order department a complete line of Samples will be shown, compris ing all the latest novelties in Dress goods, Silks, Satins, Velvets. Cloths, tc to select from. Orders will be taken and made to measure by Mrs. Pilger, ior any garment aesireci, or soia oy tne yard in any nuantity. Low prices will rule, our aim being to elve the Ladies of Astoria eaual fa cilities with those of San Francisco or Portland. J. Pilgeb. J53 First and Morrison streets. Portland, and Crystal Palace, Astoria. Xxo L Stock, Manager, Astoria DBEADFUL ACCIDENT AT BASIEB. A Toun? Man Named James Johotton Shot and Instantly Killed. James Johnston, a young man well known and universally liked was shot dead in Kanier last Thursday night. Re ports as to how it happened are conflict ing, but as near as can hb made out it eeems that he, with his two older brothers, Johu and George, who are car penters and boat-builders at Ranier, have bsen lately building a boat, the j Wildwood, for Shoalwatcr bay and had taken her up to Portland to have hor ma chinery put in. They were not expected home until yesterday, but arrived down at a late hour Thursday night. James, the youngest, aged about 20, immediately upon landing, went up to the house that the brothers usually occupy; it stands by itself, about a hundred yards from the mill, and was occupied in the absence of I the Johnston brothers by a cousin of the east. Those two men had been at work all day and had gone to bed, but were awakened by a noise in the kitchen. They immediately came to the conclu sion that it was a burglar and reached for thoir guns. As the unfortunate young man opened the door of the room in which they were sleeping, they both let fly, the contents of one gun striking him in the temple and carrying away the whole upper part of his head. He ex pired almost instantly. The Johnston brothers are well known on the lower Columbia and the expres sion of sorrow and sympathy OTerthe catastrophe is universal. The'fFtWtoood went to Portland yesterday morning for a coffin and th,e funeral will take place this afternoon. ECHOES FROM ALL POINTS. Oregon Improvement stock is down to 20. Kaiser Wilhelm and the Empress Au gusta are ill. It is rumored that Seattle is to have a British vice consul, all same Astoria. Indiana Democrats formally announce JUcuonaiu as their presidential candi date. John Parrott's will in San Francisco, bequeaths $5,0C0,000, mostly to hia wiaow. Victoria, it. C, is intensely excited over an alleged discovery of gold twenty miles north or the city. The first fast overland mail train on the C. P. R. R., arrived at San Francisco last Thursday, 130 hours from New York. Hatch & Barclay of San Francisco, well known in Astoria are reported unable to meet their liabilities and will make an assignment. United States Marshall Corbett last Thursday, at Reno, Nevada, sold the Ne vada and Uregon Railroad to satisfy mortgage. Maran, of New York, bought it for about the face of the bonds and expenses. They will reorganize the com pany and complete the road. The city of Junin, Peru, was attacked last week by 10J0 rebels. The prefect of the city with 2J0 men opposed them, and they retired. After their departure the perfect seized two citizens, Vera and Ju rado, whom he accused of intrigues with the rebels, and both were shot. Jurado, the prjfeot killed with his own hand. This action causes great excitement in the interior, as both victims were well known, and are believed to have been in nocent of political design. A New York special says: The opinion growd that Jay Gould and his associates will get control of the Oregon and Trans continental in June, and then of the Oregon Navigation and the Northern Pa cific The feeling of many of the stock holders of the three companies is so much against the new management that they want Villard to resume direction of them, but he says he would not take it again under any circumstances, and he sails for Europa next month. He returns in August for hia family, and will go back with them for two years. Villard will permanently leave the house in Madison avenue in May. His friends say he has no property outside of a few personal thing?, all his holdings of stock and lands having been disposed of at very low figures. In the United States senate last Thurs day, Senator Slater, according to notice given some days since, on presenting a bill to forfeit "the unearned land grant of the Northern Pacific Railway com pany, addressed the senate on his motion to refer the bill to the committee. He reviewed the history of the laud policy of the government, and severely oriti oised the course of the land department reading from the testimony of an em ployo of that department to show that doubts were resolT&d in favor of railroad corporations and against settlers, and referring specifically to the Northern Pa cific railroad. Slater said that in the life limit of its grant that road had earned 10,000,000 acres, and since the term of the grant expired had earned 30,000,000 more. Congress had been most liberal to that road. No corpora tion had been more enriched by a gov ernment. In round numbers the cor poration had already received over $11, 003,000 from the sale of lands. In round numbers it had earned lands to the amount of 40,000,030, which at the lowest estimate will realize $100,000,000, and its coal lands on Puget sound were so valuable that it would not sell them at any price. The com pany was not entitled to any lenienoy. It was simply entitled to the letter of the law and no more. Slater said his bill sought only to forfeit lands adjacent to to uncompleted portion of the road, not being able to satisfy himself that any other portion of the lands were now with in reach of the congressional legislation. He moved reference of the bill to the committee on publio lands. Dolph asked that tha bill lie on the table a few days, to which Slater assented. Chosen Friends. There will be an important meeting of Occident Council Chosen Friends on Monday evening, April 21st, on which o-casion Bro. M. P. Light, Deputy Grand Councellor of California, will be present and address the Council. All mrmbers are requested to attend; also sojourning members cordially invited. By order of C. C. C. Bbown, Recorder. Caught Ob the Fly. Messrs. Betancue & Button, of the Flying Studio, have moved to their new gallery on Squemoqua street, three doors east of the bank. They use the new style, instantaneous dry plates ex clusively. The process is truly won derful. Little ones who could never re main still an Instant are taken accur ately by this process actually "caught ou the fly." The negatives once taken are as permanent as the old-fashioned sort, and far superior artistically. The sittingis done in less time than one could snap his finger. No one could re move the cloth generally used and re place it quick enough for this lightning process. Their work Is already appre ciated by the public, for their gallery Is crowded with people waiting their turn to cIl in front of the camera. Call and see them at their new California gal lery. The Patent Lamp Filler. The most useful household Invention of the age. Call and see It. Also, extra good Coal Oil forsale in quantities from a pint to a barrel. Jobdan & Bozorth. For s Neat Fitting Boot Or Shoe, go to P. J. Goodmans, on Cha 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. Old Scrofulous Sores and Bad Ulcers rem .vedoy the OREGON BLOOD PURIFIER. THE DEHOCBATIC STATE CONTENTION. Further Beport or Its Proceeding The Platfora, Committees, Etc Following is the platform adopted by the Democratio state convention at The Dalles, April 17th: The Democracy of the state of Oregon, in council assembled, declare: First That we favor the forfeiture of all unearned railroad and ;vagon road grants and the opening of the land to settlement and occupancy by those en titled to the benefits of the various land laws of the United States. Second That we are in favor of the passage by congress of laws made in the interest of tho people, regulating inter state commerce, and'also state laws, con trolling and regulating fares and freights upon all transportation lines, and pre venting discrimination in favor of or against persons or places. Third That we look with alarm upon the unauthorized assumption of power and jurisdiction of United States courts in interfering with officers collecting the revenue of the state of Oregon. Fourth That we nre in favor of the laotianta tax law. nnd believe the pnn ciplc of taxation enunciated therein is correct and ought to be sustained. Fifth That we favor the passage of such laws in relation to the assessment and collection of tares as will make the assessment and taxation of property equal and uniform throughout the state, and demand the strict enforcement of such laws when enacted. Sixth That the power conferred by the federal constitution upon congress to enact tariff laws was given for ;the sole and exclusive purpose of deriving reve nues for the suppoitjof nucu government, and thst the cnucliug of any tariff law tor any other purpose, such as taxation of one class of people, is as entirely un warranted by the constitution as it is re pugnant to justice and inimical to the general welfare, and we therefore favor a tariff for revenuo, limited to the necessi ties of government economically admin istered, and a gradual but persistant re duction of the existing protective duties. Seventh That the improvement of our coast harbors, the Columbia river and its tributaries, is of vital importance to the commerce of the whole state of Oregon, and we earnestly ask that an adequate appropriation be made by our present congress to begin the work of tho Colum bia river bar improvement, already too long neglected. We also ask such appro priation for the Cascade locks as will in sure their speedy completion; also, we ask of our representatives in congress a united effort to secure a liberal appropri ation for the improvement and continua tion of the work of improving the har bors of Yaquinc bay, Coos bay nnd the Coquille river. Eighth That we favor the abolition of tho prison contract system, and the pres ent coolio trade conducted on this coast, as degrading to tho wage workers of the country. Ninth That for the purpose of pre venting growing frauds in our elections, and to preserve the fruits of the ballot box, we favor the passage of a registry law. Tenth Thut we are in favor of more efficient mechanics' lien laws. John Adair, Jr., was elected aa the Clatsop county member of the state cen tral committed. Judge Bennet was nominated for cir cuit judge in the fifth judicial district, and W. B. Dillard, of St. Helens, for dis trict attorney. Tilden and Hendricks wero deolared to be tho unanimous choice of the Democ racy of Oregon for president and rice president, and the convention adjourned sine ii. Steamer.Dajs for April. From San Fran. From Astoria. State 4,Oregon 6 Columbia SjState 10 Oregon 12Columbia 14 State 16!Oregon 18 Columbia 20IState 23 Oregon 24Colunibia 26 Stat 23IOregon 30 Columbia, May... 21Stato, May. 4 ' s s Stop That Couch By going to J.E. Thomas's 'and getting a bottle of Jroys Cough Balsam. J T WILL CUKE TOU. ICooius fo Ient At Mrs. Curran's. "near Uie Congrega tional cuurcu. One ThuUNaud Dollar Worth of County Ordwrs wanted. Ap ply to ' Mosks Rogers. Boats Tor Sale. Jiw Leather has two fine boats for sale at the boat shop, one block west of Hansen Bros.' mill. Buj your Lime of Gray at Portland prices. Fine lres Goods. A splendid l.ne of ladies dress goods is Iwlng displayed at the Empire store. At the Empire Store You wljl find the finest laces and em broideries, of richest quality. "JEFF" At enormous expense has Just secured the services of Professor Ellis one of the best white cooks in the state; and Jeff proposes to excell any of his for mer efforts in the culinary art. Italian and French dishes a specialty. Just Received. A larife stock of Srtft nnri sMfT TTntc in all the latest styles, at Mcintosh's Fur- m-mtug .siore. Corsets and Underwear. All the latest makes and styles of cor sets and ladies underwear at Prael Bros.' Empire store. Hosiery, Hosiery Hosiery I The. latest novelties In ladles and childrens hosiery at Prael Bros'. Something Fine. Just received at T. G. Rawllngs' a large stock of cigars, Cigarettes, and the choicest brands or tobacco. Have Wlstart balsam of wild cherry always at hand. It oures coughs, colds, bronchitis, whooping cough, croup, In fluenza, consumption, and all throat and lung complaints. 90 cents andl a bot tle. Roscoe Dixon's new eating house Is now open. Everything has been fit ted up In first-class style, and hi-, well known reputation as a caterer assures all who like good things to eat, that at his place they can be accommodated. Jeff says he gives two meals to any other restaurant man's one and can prove it Dlmmltt's Cough Balsam cures Croup Sbiloh's Cough ana Consumption Cure Is sold by us on guarantee, it cures consumption. Sold by W. E. De ment. All the patent medicines advertised in-thls paper, together with the choicest perfumery, and toilet articles, etc-can be bought at the lowest prices, at J. W. Conn's drug store, opposite Oclderi he tel, Astoria. Oatarrh cured, health and sweet hre&th jutcurwl hv Mhilvha nfi-r4i Vo.-.. edy. Price B0 centl Masai Injector free. A.1 Mk UB WJ IT Mt, iWIKlUl PACIFIC COAST SALMON. Though well on in April nothing, com paratively speaking, has been done in the way of catching salmon on the Columbia this season. A few canneries are canning a few fish. It will probably be thirty days before full activity is manifested. A similar state of affairs exists in outside salmon fisheries. The pack for '83 was as follews: Columbia river, cases 629,400 Sacramento river lGO.OuO Rogue river 16,000 Coquille river 7t0C0 Eel river 15,000 Frazsr river 175,000 Other riverain British Columbia 68,000 Alaska 36,000 Total 1,106,400 This is double the quantity packed four years previously. The total pack in Cal ifornia, Oregon, British Columbia and Alaska for the past seven years has been as follews: 1877.es 604,800 1878 638,000 1831, cs 911,100 1882 994800 1833 1,106,400 1879 539,600 1880 679,500 The total pack of canned salmon on the Columbia river alone since 1SC6 has been as follews: 1866, cs 4,000 1875, cs 375,000 1867 18,000,1876 450003 1868 28,0001877 4C0OO0 1869 100,000 1878 460 000 1870 150,000 1879 480000 ion zuj,uuu xoau R5OCO0 1872 250,0001881 550 000 1874 250,000 1882 550 000 1874 S50,0001883 629,400 The sources of demand for the canned salmon of California, Oregon, British Columbia and Alaska are New York, Boston, Philadelphia, Portland, Chicago, St. Louis, London, Liverpool, Sydney, Melbourne, Auckland, Honolulu, Tahiti, etc. New York has been a good customer from the start. London did nut come in so early, but that and other English cities have taken large quantities of lato yeara. Australia was still later to avail herself of the advantages of this trade. Some years ago nearly all the salmon canned on the Columbia river was sent to San Francisco for a market. During the past ten yoars Oregon has been shipping a portion of the pack direct to Europa, and has at last monopolized mort of the European trade. The shipments from the Columbia river last season were appor tioned as follews: - To England direct, cases 283,630 To New York direct by sea 56,970 To the east direct by rail 25,533 To San Francisco by sea 270,174 Total oxportsl833 641,307 The shipments from San Francisco to England in 1883 were 55 ,200, besides 10, 000 cases of Frazer river salmon in tran sit, while the shipments from San Fran cisco to Australia in 1883 were 55,800 cases, besides 4,700 cases British Colum bia salmon in transit. The total ship ments to England of the pack of 1883 were about 100,000 cases leas than in the irevious year, while to tho domestic At antic cities the shipments in 1833 were 75,000 to 80,000 coses more than in 1882. WHAT! do you think that JEFF OF TnE CHOP UOUSE glve3 you a meal for nolhingand a glass of something to drink? '-Not much!" but he gives a better meal and more of it than any place In town for 25 cents. He buj-s by the wholesale and pays cash. -That settles it" Notice. Dinner ai"J EFF'iTCHOP HOUSE everyday from 4:30 to 8 o'clock. The best 25-cent meal In town; soup, fish, seven kinds of meats, vegetables, pie, pudding, etc. Tea or coffee included. AH who have, trhnl him say Jen is the BOSS.1 Use Dimmltt's Cough Balsam for Cheat, Throat and Lungs, at W. E. De ment & Co.'s. Shlloh's VitaHer h what vou need for Constipation, Loss of Appetite, Diz ziness and all sviuploms of Dyspepsia. Pripel0and75 cents per bottle. Sold by W. E. Dement Dlmmitt's Cough Balsam never fails. Try It at W. E. Dement & Co.'s. Boston Baked Beans nnd Brown Bread every Sunday at Jen's from 5 a. m. to 2 P. it. Croup, Whooping Cough and Bron eJiltis Immediately relieved bv Shlloh's Cure. Sold by W. K. Dement Gray sells Sackett Bros.' Al sawed cedar shingles. That Hacking t'ougn can be so quickly cured by Shlloli's Cure. We cuarante it. Sold ly W.K. Dement Use Dlmmltt's Cough Balsam, at W.E Dement & Co.'s. Children all like Dlmmltt's Cough Balsam. ASK FOR "THE BOSTON" RUBBER BOOT. Made of Fine Will Not Craqk. FORSALE EVE RY WHERE. Tht Gutta Percha & Rubber Mf'g Co Portland, Oregon. A. V. Allen, Wholesale and l&t&ll Dealer In Provl$loM9, MILL FEED. Glass and Plated Ware, TROPICAL AND DOMESTIC FRUITS AND VEGETABLES. Together with Wiru, Lrjuirs,Ttfcicct,Ciars Ladies of Astoria ! Your attention Is directed to the Fact that at Mrs. T. S. Jewett's FANCY fiOODS EMPORIUM, ts a I-aige audC mplete Stock of FINE OOoDS. Comprising every variety of Fancy Wear, Millinery, Ilats, Bonnets, Laotf, Embroideries, TIe, Collars, Fichus, La dles Undemear, Children's Clothes Hosiery, Glores, Zephyrs, Worsted, Etc., Of the Newest Styles, And GUARANTF.ED to be FIRST QUALITY', Stamping Done at Reasonable Bates. Dressmaking a Specialty. None but First-class Assistants Employed. Squeaioqua Street, two doors west of Cass. THE FINEST sBREAD . IS THE CITY Made from the Finest Flour AT F. B. ELBERSON'S SEASIDE BAKERY ! FANC5T CAKES AND C0HFECTI0HER.Y. Kverythlng first class and guarantoed. JACKSON'S ASTORIA Bakery! Confectionery Coffee and Ice Cream Parlors. CIIEXAItlUS STREET. SUPERIOR Bread and Cakes OF ALL KIHDS. Weddings aud Parties supplied with strictly FIRST-CLASS WORK. o-Freiich aud Aiuericaii-o CANDIES Manufactured, Wholesale and EetalL BRANCH ESTABLISHMENT, ON THE ROADWA.Y. Copper Paint. IN HALF GALLON TINS. At WILSON & FISHER'S, rA Liberal Discount to the Trade. NOTICE. rpHE COPARTNERSHIP HERETOFORE 1 exiting between the undersigned In the Astoria Restaurant Is this day dissolved by mutual consent. E. Young will continue the business, collect all debts, and p;iy all outstanding indebtedness. E. YODNO. O.BARBIKR. Witness. E. C. noLtEN. Astoria, April 11, 1884, FURNISHED ROOMS TO LET By the Xight. Day, Week or Month WITH OR WITHOUT BOARD, With use of I'arlor. Library and all the com forts of a home. Terms reasonable. Apply to MRS. E. C. HOLDEN. Cor. Main and Jefferson Sts. Oregon Paint and Varnish Works, Manufacturers of Paints, Varnish and Lacper. Any shade mixed and ground to order. G. F. PEARSOfl & Co., P.O. Box Hs. Portland. Or. Drink Milk and Grow Fat And don't forget that X. 3NT. IDftrliMica. Always Keeps Milk by the Glass, Pint, or Quart, At his Fruit Stand, on Cbeimmus street. Opposite Spexartn's Gun .store. O. r.KtXKXWKBEU. Leineuweber & Co., KttTAHI.l-tHrtn lMv. ASTORIA, - - - OREGON TAMERS AND CDRRRES, Manufacturers and Itnr-oiters of all kinds of LEATHER AND FINDINGS. Wholesale Dealers In OIL AND TALLOW. &sHIghest cash price paid for Hides and Tallow. Brewery Beer Saloon. The Best Beer 5 cts a Glass. Hot Lunch every Day from 10 to 12 A. M The best of Liquors and Cigars on hand. A deservedly popular place of social resort. GEO. HILLER. Br.Bk."ITATA." GODDARD, Master. FROM LIVERPOOL THE ABOVE VE3SEL WILL COM menco discharging at navel's Dock, on Tuesday, the I5th instant. Parties havluj: goods onboard will please take delivery as discharged, as all goods le-t on wiiarf after 5 o'cloi-k on day of dis charge will be at their rlk nnd expense. MEYEB, WILSON & CO . Consignees. BOAT BUILDING, R. M. LEATHERS Has reopened his boat shop, over Arndt Ferchen's, foot of LaFayette stmt, aad i prepared to turn out FIS8T.-CLA3S BOATS. Altl WOIK eVAKAXTSSB. m 1884. New Spring Importations ! Embroideries! Embroideries1 - We have received from New York, per express, upwardss of 6,000 yarda of Embroideries In l Cambric, Swiss, Lawn and Nainsook, Of the Latest Deslgn.9 and from 15 to 25 per cent, cheaper than ever before. 1760 yards of Embroldaries from 2137 " " ' 1276 " " THE I XL C. H. COOPER The Leading Dry Goods and Clothing House OS" ASTORIA. Books and Having made HPECIAL AEANGEMENTfl with the management of the N. P. K. and Eastern Houses, I am now getting my STOCK, especially BOOKS aud STATIoNEBY, from the East. This enables ice to give the Pub 1c a show to buy at LOW EAST Fit PRICKS. I have Just received :t Fine Stock of STATIOtfEKY: Full aud Half bound Ledgers. Day and Cash Books. Journals, new Letter CoDy Books, all sizes; Hind's Stylozraphic Copy Books. All kinds Bill and Letter Piles, Bank Files of all descriptions ; Copy Pr.-ses, Invoice Books, Trial Balances, rocket Ledgers, Journals, and Cash Buoks. AH kinds or Orders, Drafts and Notes, ana Receipts ; also a fuli line of Bill Holders and P. O. Boxes The Latest NOVELTIES In -mall Stationery, used In every offle Being now in business connection with one 01 1 he largest E.istern PAPER FACTOR IES, I can sell any and all Kinds of PAPEE cheaper than auy other house north of S. F. I have now a Large stock of Legal Foolscap Paper, all weights ; Bill Paper, all sizes ; SO different kinds of Letter and Note Paper, Some very flue Writing Paper for the Ladles, iu LIuen and all Colors, with Envelopes tomatch- 50,990 Business Envelopes, Just Received. My Assortment of BOOKS, NOVELS, and BEADING MATTER Is well known to the Public and my store Is the ONLY ONE whern : People Can Find Fiint They Want, Watches, Clocks, and Jewelry. SOLID GOLD LADIES' and GENTLEMEN'S WATCHES In all Styles and Qualities The Celebrated Duber, Newport, and Keystone. Walthara, and Elgin Silver Watches, from 812. SO 840 OO. The Latest Styles of Gentlenv-n's Solid Gold and Quartz Chains from 81 8. upward. ALso a Full Assortment of LADIES' JEWELKY : Diamond Finger Kings. Earrings and Breastplus. Solid Gold Guard Chains, Neck Chains, Earrlncs and Breastpins, iu .-ets or single. ALarve Assortment of Plain Solid Gold Kings. Kings with Sets, such as Amo thysts, Tqpar. Cameo, tinyx. Garnets, Emeralds, Kubles. and otlur-precious stones. Solid Gold Sleeve Buttons, Collar Buttons, Studs, Scarf Pins, Locker and Chains, Em blem Pins and Charms for all Orders. Also a Complete Assortment of the Finest KOLL PLATE JEWELRY. Solid Silrer and Plated "Ware. Remember The Crystal Palace. The Leading Book Store. - - Carl Adler. Proprietor. New Goods for AN iiviivrenrsi: stock CLOTHING, HATS AMD GENTS' FURNISHING GOODS, Direct from the Manufacturers, Retailed at Being la the Manufacturing Business I am prepared to sell Clothing that will give PERFEOl SATISFACTION both in FIT and QUALITY of Goods. Perfect Fitting: Wltite Shirts, Medium and Fine Grade Underwear. Newest Styles In Scarfs and Ties. SWA. FULL STOCK OF FRENCH, ENGLISH AND AMERICAN SUITINGS.-a D. A. McINTOSH, OCCIDENT BLOCK, Most Popular Remedy Sold. For PiaplM, BletefcM, Ckreale Seres and DIsaM,Xou of Erwrgv ai-d Habitual Con stipation unequaled. Belief Giiraateed. Sold everywhere. 81. 6 bottles for 85.00. LOEB & OO. JOBBERS IN WINES.. LIQUORS, AND CIGARS. AGENTS FOE THE Best tan Franolsc Houses and Eastern DIstlHsriss. TumWsrs Daoantsrs, and Ail Kinds of Salson Supplls. WAllBoedi soU. at 8an Francisco Prices. MAIN STREET. OfsosHs rtifcir Sottt, iJCods, Ortftoo. 1884, 3c to 1 2c per yard. 1 60 to 40c per yard. 60c to $1.00 per yard. THEIXL Stationery. igaasss- Spring and Summer! OF PERUVIAN BITTERS ! Wilmerding & Co., San Francisco. Loeb & Co., Agents, Astoria. ASTORIA. j