CO ar &&' ASTORIA. OREGON, WEDNESDAY, DECEMBER 2, 1885. PRICE. JBIVE CENTS. VOL. XXIV, NO. 131. II rl 1 I iroi I Hifc jnl WT IT IF 11 nil BUSQTESS CARDS. TR. A. L. und J. A. FULTON' Physicians and Surgeon. Will give prompt attention to all call-.. n om any part of the city or country. , Office over Allen's Store, comer Cass and , uemoqua streets, Aitorla, Oregon. IB. FRAXK PAGK. OMie. UooniC, oyer D. A. MclntoslK store. I t FFICK IIOUBS :-9 to 11 A. M. ;-2 to 5 P. M. Residence, opposite thcJolmnsen building pvR. ESTF.S. PHYSICIAN" AND SKl'.GEOX. Ofku'K : (Jem Dul'din. up stmrs, Astoiia, reKon . 1,1 XI. COOVKRT, Attorney ntLanttud Sotarj I'ublic COLLECTIONS SOI.IOITKO. Office with C. It. City Book Store. Thomson, mom " ox-r OFO. A. DOKttlS. IJKO. oi.m ROLAM X DOKRIS. ATTORNEYS AT LAW. Office lu Kinney's Blork, Hail, Astoria. Oregon. pposlte Cit '. W. FU1.TOX. O. C. KUI.TOV. FITI.TOX BKOTHERS. ATTORNEYS AT LAW. Rooms 5 and 6. Odd Fellows Building. i1 BIiO F. PARKER. SURVEYOR OF Clatsop County and City of Astoria Office :-N. E. -comer Cass and Astor streets. Room No. B r q. A.BOWJLBY. attorney and Counsellor nt Jjaw, Office on Cheuamus Street. Astoria. Oregon. WISTOS, . ATTOItN'EY AT LAW. Rooms No. II and 12. Pythian Castle Build ing. J AY TUTiXE. 21. 1. PHYSICIAN AND SURGEON Office Booms 1, 2, and 8. Pythian Bulld ng. EEsnKNOB-On Cedar Street, back ol St. Mary's Hospital. F P. HICK6. A. K. SHAW HICKS & SHAW, DENTISTS. Rooms In Allen's Building, up stairs, cor ner Cass and Squemoqua streets. A-stoiia Oregon. T K. SPEDDFA', NOTARY PUBLIC, Searcheror Titles, Abstracter ntu Conveyancer. Office on Cass Street. 3 doors south of As torlan office, Astoria, Oregon. BANKING AND INSURAHCE ! I. W. CASE, Broker, Banker, and Insur ance Agent, ASTORIA, - OBEfiOX. OFriCE nOURS : From 9 o'clock A. M. until 3 o'clock 1. M. AHEAD OF ALL COMPETITORS! Capitol Flour, Manufactured by tho Full Roller ffoeTsw, by the Salem (Or.) Capitol Flour Mills Co.. LIMITFD The only flour that has taken First Prize three years In successlou at the PORTJLAXD MECHANIC'S FA I It. Also at State Fair. ( )ne trial is sufficient to convince of Its supe riority. See that the r, oi d CAPITOL is on each sack GEORGE SHIEL, 8 Stark St., Portland Agent. WILSON & FISHER. Astoria Agents. HAVE YOU Anytlig to Si? IN TIIE MATTER OF Rags. Bottles, Old Metal, or Junk of Any Sort, k Will give you the best price for It. Dp You Want to Buy SHIP MATERIAL. From a Belaying Pin to a Hawser; from Block to an Anchor. You Can Get what You Want at F0AED& STOKES. Headquarters iquuter Street. at building, east end Water FOaRD STOKES TRADE V7 MARK'. mmi'Mmr HW02s iVllfa 4? v J7 I - Absolutely Free from Opiates, Emetics and Poison SAFE. SURE. W HCtS. PROMPT AT WBUOOIbTS A.ND SEAIXC5. HIE CHARLES A. VQGELER CO..BALTIMCRE, fc'.D bolo i'roprletont. TUTTS PILL TORPID BOWELS, DISORDERED LIVER, and MALARIA. From these sources arise threc-lbirrihs of tho diseases of the huinnn race. These symptoms indicate their existence: Xjosa of Appetite, Bowels costive, Kick Headache, fullness after eat ing, aversion to cxcitionof body or mind, Eructation of food, Irritabil ity or temper,IiO-splrIts, A feeling before tho eyes, highly colored Urlne,COXSTlPATIOW,anddemand tho use ofuremody that acts directly on the Liver. AsaXivcrrnertlcIneTUTT'S PlLiTtS have no equaL Thciractlonon the Kidneys and Skin ia nlso prompt; removing allimpuiitlcs through theso three scavengers of tho s stem," producing appetite, sound digestion, tegular stools, a clear skin and a vig orous body. TUTX'S PILLS cause no nausea or grlplnjr nor interfere TVlLb dally wosk and are a perfect ANTIDOTE. TO MALARIA. Sold every where2.3. Oiface41 .MnrravSuN V. TUTTSHAIE0Y GratHair oe Wiiiskecs changed in. stantly toaGtossr Blick byasmglo application of this Die. Sold by Drug skts,orscntby express on receipt of Si. Office, 44 Murrav Street, New York. ruirs hactal or tziizh assess ?sss. Hardware and Slip dandier VAN DUSEK & CD.. PEAI.r.BS IN Hardware and Ship Chandlery Pure Oil, Bright Varnish, Binacle Oil, Cotton Canvas. Hemp Sail Twine. Cotton Sail Twine. Laid Oil, Wrought Iron Spikes. Galvanized Cut Nails, Agricultural Implements Seii I xi ic SlaeJiIiics, fIul utid Oils. Kriteerfct. rto. ASTOE HOUSE. Ul-ST Dollar a Day Hotel in the North West Mrs. Sophia Ooggett, Proprietor. Special Attention Paid to the Comfort of Guests. Corner Olney mid Jefferson Streets. ASTORIA, OREGON RATES, ONE DOLLAR A DAY. PARKER HOUSE. 1V3f. Al.r.Kft. Prop"!. First Class in Every Respect. Frc Coach to lli House. C V. KXOWI.RS. L. U. IIKOWX. St. Charles Hotel, (European Plan.) BROWN & KNOWLES - Proprietors First Cuas in "Every ItEiPErT. Good Restaurant Connected with the House Fire-proof Brick Bnildinc. lffl Room. In the Center of tie City. Cor. Front and Morrison SL.. Portland. Or G. A. STINSON & CO., BLACKSMITHING. At Capt. Rogers old stand, corner of Ca.s auu lAJiui: ourcuj. Ship aud Cannery work, Ilorbeshoeluj.'. Wagons made ana repaired, uooa wprif guaranteed. ' MUTILATING COIN. MODE OF COUNTERFEITING. Gold Pieces N'ot Counterfeited So 3uch as Silver Coins Inter esting; Account. Of the many different ways of swindling practiced nowadays upon the public there is probably no one thing so dangerous as counterfeiting. Of late this has been carried on quite extensively in different parts of New England, and in a number of in stances the principals have been ar rested w itli all their paraphernalia, convicted and sentenced to penal in stitutions for various periods. Think ing that the general public would be interested in knowing how some of the "queer" is coined and circulated, a Traveller representative started out with that end in view, and had tho good fortune to fall in with a Govern ment official connected with the Secret Service Department, who has had many years' experience in ap pichendfng counterfeiters. When the writer announced his mission the oilicial readily gave his consent to bo interviewed, and said : "Counterfeiting is practiced more extensively than' is generally known. In my official capacity my work has been almost entirely confined to un earthing counterfeiting places. It is almost impossible for me to say to what extent paper money is counter feited, but I know that coin of every denomination is counterfeited. Strange as it may seem, but one counterfeit $20 gold piece has ever been discovered, and that was dated 1850. It was made as follews: A GESI'IKE DOUBLE EAGLE Was sawed in two, one side being left thicker than the other. As much gold as possible was then scooped out of the thick side, and a mixture of platinum and some other metal substituted, to bring it up to the standard weight. It is what is known as a ' filled coin,' and is worth from $7 to $3. A $10 gold piece filled in the same way is worth from $3 to $4.50. There are quite a number of $10 counterfeits. The dates of those filled or counterfeited are 1841-4719-55-61-73-79 and 80. The one con sidered the most dangerous is dated 1847. The first counterfeit half-eagle, or five-dollar gold piece, that the Secret Service discovered was issued in 1850, and no less than twenty-two have appeared since then, some of them "being absolutely worthless, while others are worth from $2.70 to $4.G3 each. The ones dated 1882 are the most skillfully executed counter feits known. Gold pieces are not counterfeited so much as silver coins, for the reason that gold counterfeit coins are made from dies, and not cast. The manufacturers of the 'queer' must buy the cold, which re quires, of course, considerable capital, and the machinery is not only expen sive, but of such large proportions as to rander it liable to detection. In manufacturing counterfeit silver dol lars, most any ingenious mechanic can do that after a little experience. Tho recent capture and conviction of a gang of counterfeiters in New Hampshire illustrates how few things are required in COINING THE ' QUEER.' "The articles found in the house whore the counterfeiters made their spurious mone)', were plaster of paris molds of genuine coin, britannia, block tin, lead and a silver wash. The men engaged in manufacturing these counterfeit silver pieces stole the lead pipe and bought in the neighborhood old britannia teapots, from which they got their metal, and the block tin they purchased in Bos ton. The writer" was permitted to examine twenty or twenty-five of these molds and dies for manufactur ing different coins of the "United States, and they were found to be fiue pieces of workmanship. Dur ing the past year new counterfeit sil ver pieces were discovered almost everj- other month. In a leather bag were about two hundred or three hundted silver dollars in the rough, that is, before they had been finished up and -made ready for the mar ket. They were made in New Kn eland. Anumber of others that had been finished, "were shown, and it was almost impossible to distinguish the difference between the genuine and the spurious coin, so finely were the latter finished. They are detected by their general appearance and their weight The weight test is the most accurate and reliable, especially with gold coin. The Treasury has a set of maximum and minimum weights, which distinguish the weight of all coins. For 'example, the maximum of a twenty-dollar gold piece is 516 grains, and the minimum olu.412 grains. The difference is exactly one-half of 1 per cent., the amount allowed by law. A GREAT DEAL OF COIN Becomes light from natural causes, and when they come into the hands of the National Treasury they are sent to the mint and recoined, the Government bearing the loss. As a general thing nothing smaller than a ten-dollar gold piece is ever filled, though the smaller coins are plugged, which is, perhaps, the most common. A new process, however, has taken the place of plugging, to a great ex tent, and is called 'sweating Some photographers are credited"with doing this kind of thing. The modus oper andi of this new process is to take a number of gold or silver pieces and suspend them in some acid for a few moments and then withdraw them. By usinz fresh coin a considerable quantityof metal &J obtained without reducing me weigut ui uie piece io any great extent and they are then passed off again oa the public. Some times as much asjfifty cents in vahie is taken from a $agold piece, and as much as eighty cents has been knorn to have been taken from a double eagle. Another Jway of tampering with double eaglet is to remove their rough edges andremill them. Be tween fifty and eighty cents can be obtained in thisway from a single coin, and the difference is not percep tible to the naked eve." Boston Traveller M ? A Xebife Bec4. There was a crowded temperance lecture at Marysville the other day, and the audience jwas very much af fected jit the speaker's pathetic ac count of how a Jfaithful wife had borne the abuse and ill-treatment of a drunken brute fpr years, and had reclaimed him on h)er death-bed. As the audience was wiping its eyes and sniffling vigorously, a sad-faced man in a fatigued looking ulster, arose in the center of the hall, and said in a melancholy tone : j "The incident related by the tal ented speaker is certainly very inter esting, but a case recently came under my notice that illustrates even in a greater degree the heroism and self-sacrifioe on the part of woman noble woman!" I " Will the gentleman oblige by re lating his experience?" urged the lecturer. "Well, I am not used to public speaking," observed the thin man, "but I will do my .best." " Go on, go on," khouted the sym pathetic listeners, t "The episode to which I refer," said the man with the called-in over coat, " relates to the' heroic act of Mrs. Maria K. Diffenhtimer, of Windy Gulch, Wyoming. Learning that a lonely widow woman living about fifteen miles out in the forest, was stricken down by the fell hand of disease, sue resolved, aitnougn. tne snow was twenty-svenJeet deep on the ground, and .'a fearful 'storm raged at the time;? to take to the poor creature in herhour of need, the only succor that TVuld assuage her agony." "God bless her!" sobbed several persons. , "Strong men miners, hunters inured to exposure f and hardship, shrank from aceomtoanvine her: no 6ne volunteered. -Iwwas almost cer tain death to brave the -trackless for est on that bitter night ; but the noble woman never faltered. There was a Erecious human life hanging in the atance, and she would go alone." " What man would have done so?" cried one of the female vice-presi dents. "For two daj'S and three nights that devoted woman toiled on through the blinding tempest. With both feet and one nand frozen, she tottered through the gigantic snow druts, un til at length she managed to crawl to the cabin of the lonely invalid. She had barely strength left, as she fell exhausted upon the floor, to hand to tho yet lingering sufferer the price less boon she had brought." "And what was it?" shouted the entire audience, as the emotion choked narrator paused to dash away a tear. '"It was, my friends," said the thin man, reaching under'his seat for a valise "it was a box of Skaggs' Oriental Cathartic Pill3" (and he scattered a handful of circulars) " which I would now like to furnish you ail with, at the low price of two bits per box.. None 'genuine without the maker's name upon the " ' As his remains were not called for in three days, he was buried at the expense of the corporation. (Derrick Dodd, in the San Franciscan. Scoll's Emuhiea ei Pure oil IJtrrOIl with IIjpepko$pMtcx. 1 a cure for Marasmus In Children. Wm. Faur, of Brooklyn, L. I., says: uOn the recommendation of iny physi cian. Dr. Wm. Vyse, I have given my lKy who was dangerously1 HI of Maras mus, vonr Emulsion, with excellent ef fect, ami ho Is at present as hah and ht'arthy as can bo wished.' A gentleman who did not trust to his memory, wrote in his memoran dum bookj "Must be married when I get to town." Kudonlnir FreMlssorytXotri. AVheu you have a note endorsed by a responsible business man, the banks will honor it TVhen yon find public men, boards of health and physicians in hospitals, endorsing the new med ical discovery, Bed Star Cough Cure, this is sure proof that it is, as they say, prompt and efficacious, aud contains no poisons or narcotics. Croun. Whooplnz Couch and Bron chitls immediately relieved by Shilnh's Cure. SojdbyW.E.-iJemom. -. SPECL4JL NOTICE! O. R. & N. CO. EXCURSION! Tickets to Portland and Return For $2 50. 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If you are a misc Me sufferer with Constipation, ly-.tjp.la and miloasness. seek rJicf at once in Simmons Liver ResuLu t h does not require continual dosing. n:i I cois but a trine. It will cure j ou. If you wake up in the r'-j-ning with a bitter, bad taste in your m ut'i. TAKE Simmons Liver Regulator. It cor recti the Bilious Stomach, sweetens the Breath, and cleanses the Furred Tongue. Children often need some safe Cathar tic and ionic to avert approaching sickness. Simmons Liver Regulator will relieve Colic. Head ache, Sick Stomach. Indigestion, Dysentery, and the Complaints incident to Childhood. At any time you feel your system needs cleansing, toning, regulating without violent purging, or stimulating without intoxi cating, take Simons liver Hfiplak PREPARED BY J.H.ZEIUN& C0.,Phitadelphia,P. PBICE, 81,00. MARKETS. WYATT & THOMPSON DEALERS IN FRESH AND CURED MEATS, CHOICE GBOCEB.IES, PROVISIONS, ' Crockery and Glassware. TVrm Keed.Eto, STAR MARKET. WHERRY klOOKPANYi Fresh and Cured Uleats. . Vegetablo, i FRUITS, BUTTER, and EGGS. OPPOSITE OCCIDENT HOTEL, CUEXAaiUg Street. Asterla, Off. Washington Market. SlalH Street, Astoria, eregea. BERGMAX A CO. PROPRIETORS RESPECTFULLY XX tion of the out CALL THE ATTEN- ubllc to tbe fact that the above Market wQl always be supplied with a FULL VARIETY AND BEST QUALITY FRESH AND CURED MEATS 1 I Which will be sold at lowest rates, whole sale and retail. tySpeclal attention given to supplying .ships. B. B. Franklin, M Mertaier anil CaMneMaier, SQUEMOQUA STREET, NKXT TO TUB ABTOBIAN BUILDINO. ryjui work done In a skillful manner oa short notice at reasonable rates. ' WILL Faster AND EASIER Than any oth er axe made. Hundreds of woodmen tes tify to Its supe riority. ItgVM Dep mid Hertr Stleki. CABNAHAN CO Anats Arteria. Price, $1.59. Nicely Furnished Rooms, 1T1TH OE WITHOUT BOARD: AT Jl Hrs. S. T. McKeaa's, Caas street, three doors south of-A3TOKIAK office. ' )' nurLiur 4 cut I AXE i rtrnmnnium.' J J.C.Trullinger BARBOUR'S: Irish Flax NAVE NO 2S2& JMT GRAND PRIZE PARIS 1878. THET HAYB BEEN AWARDED HIGHER PRIZES AT THE VARIOUS International Expositions 7 THAN THE GOODS THREAD MANUFACTURERS IN THE WORLD. (ualily can Always ExneriencBfl FistoM Use i Otter ! HENRY DOYLE & CO., 517 and 519 Market Street, - - - SAN FRANCISCO. AGEXT8 FOU PACIFIC COAST. Seine Twines, Rope and The Telephone Saloon. The Finest Establishment of the Kind in Astoria. Especially fitted up for tha Comfort and Convenience of ' those who enjoy a Social Glas. The iSest of Wines and Liquors, The Choicest Cigars. Everything New and First-Class. R. t. JEFFREY. Prop'r. Magnus C. Crosby Dealer in HARD! ABE, IRON, STEEL, Iron Pipe and Fittings, STOVES, TINWARE AND HOUSE FURNISHING GOODS SHEET LEAD STRIP LEAD SHEET IRON, TIxl AND Copper. ia Con TnoMbi FOR PORTLAND! Through Freight on Fast Time ! : THE NEW STEAMER -TELEPHONE Which has been specially hmlt for the comfort of passengers will leave Wilson & Fisher's Dock every Monday, Wednesday and Friday at 6 A.M. arriving at Portland at 1 P.M. Beturnins leaves Portland every Tuesday and Thursday at 6 A. M. arriving at Astoria at 1 P. M. yAn additional trip will be made on Saiiday ef Eaeh Wee, leaving Portlan d at Tlclc suay JHaraiajr. for SoHd ports. Threads EQUAL ! etRiW ttrp OF ANY OTHER be Depended on ! Netting Constantly on Hand. The Gem Saloon. The Popular Resort for Astorians. For the Finest of Wines and Liquors Go to THE GEM SAI.OON. CAMPBELL. - I'ROPBIETOit ALEX. J. H. D. GKAY. Wholesale and retail dealerln GROCERIES, FLOUR, AND FEED Hay, Oats, Straw, Wood, Etc. LIME, SAND AND CEMENT. General Storage and Wha fage on reason able terras. Foot of Benton street, Astoria. Oregon. WM. EDGAR, Dealer lu Cigars, Tobacco and Cigarettes Meerschaum and Brier Pipes, GENUINE ENGLISH CUTLERY Revolvers and Cartridges. CORNER MAIN AND CHENAMUS ST" Passengers bj this route connect at Kalama u. B.auuxx, rresiaeni Goiii -- -a s. 7- J