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About The daily morning Astorian. (Astoria, Or.) 1883-1899 | View Entire Issue (Dec. 16, 1885)
fzj Wm ga Movam ASTOKIA. OREGON: WEDNESDAY DECEMBER Hi. 1SS5 -!.Tujge' Dawne, of Alaska, was in Montreal last Saturday. He is supposed to have taken passage at Halifax for England. A detective is on his track. Vaxdekbilt's physician says the millionaire died of overwork? Poor fellow! all he got was his board and clothes, just like any of uj. Shrouds have no poekets. The present . English cabinet has unanimously -refused to re ceive or make overtures for an alliance with the Parnellites. This makes it a deferred matter and calls for a continuance on Parnell's part of the policy that has made possible his present success. Miss Alice Fletcher, the stu dent of Indian household customs, says that among the Sioux, -when one family borrows a kettle from another, it is expected that when the kettle is returned a small por tion of the food that has been cooked in it will be left in the bot tom. The language has a par ticular word to designate this rem nant. "Should this custom be disregarded by any one, that person should never be able to borrow again, as the owner must always know what was cooked in her kettle." A white woman, on one occasion, returned a scoured kettle, intending to leach a lesson in cleanliness; but her act became the talk of the camp as a fresh ex ample of the meanness of the whites. The Philadelphia lress of the 14th suggests that the discussion of the Chinese question, which the united Pacific coast delegation will press upon congress, be ac companied by an inquiry regarding the desirability of the United States continuing its present liberal policy towards immigrants of all nations. It is stated that 20,000,000 of acres of public lands available for settlement remain undisposed of in Dakota. In four or five 3'ears this remnant "will be absorbed. While there are claimed to be special objections against Chinese immigrants awhich do not weigh against those of other nntinnf1irTp". "r. will Vw wrll if nn n- . . ! , ,, f , , efiort to exclude the former leads to serious consideration of the whole subject of immigration, Gen. Newton, chief engineer of the United States army, super intending the work at Hell Gate, says: "The importance of the sug gestions recently made by Tilden, regarding the present need of harbor defenses on the Atlantic and Pacific coasts can not be over estimated. As I have before said, persons are greatly in error who imagine that by diplomatic de lays war" may be aoided until proper preparations for defenses can be made. The modern system is to make war sudden, sharp and decisive, and to make the 1p alen party pay the expenses. Our important posts should be protect ed by guns of the greatest power, mounted on reversible turrets and steel armored casemated batteries. The monster guns now made can pierce an iron-clad two miles dis tant. The destructive power of guns is increasing beyond the buoyant power of ships, so that vessels can no longer carry armor upon thefn sufficient to resist pen etration. "Wo have the advantage on landj that we can make our, batteries of whatever material constructed, sufficiently thick to resist the most powerful guns that can be built. If the weight of guns progresses in the near future as much as in the past, we will be using guns on land which cannot be utilized on board ship. It will take ten to twelve years to put our coast in an ade quate state of defense." The gen eral thinks our harbor mines and torpedo system entirely inadequate against recent improvements in the art of cduutermining and re sisting and'removing torpedoes. The term "visionary" has come to be a synonym for impracticable schemes. The "visionary" man is one whose dreams are not realized. Yet the world could not easily dis pense with the men and women who dream dreams and see visions. No one is more necessary to the so-called practical man than the idealist. Those who hastily and flippantly disparage, the idealist forget that the greatest practical achievements of the age first ex isted only as dreams. The loco motive, the steamboat, the tele graph, the telephone, were once intangible dreams. They were seen in visions before they could be embodied in realities. What more imposing triumph of me chanical skill than the Brooklyn bridge? Yet it was while cross ing in a ferry-boat that the great engineer saw an image of that bridge swinging in the air. It is not in having visions that the error lies, for the man who has not intellectual and moral vision goes through life as blind as a mole. The difficulty with many visionary men is that they have not energy or faith or skill enough to realize their own dreams. It is in com" paratively few men that we meet that union of imaginative power, practical sagacity, and personal force that makes them capable of incarnating their own visions. Of all the plans for regulating the succession to the presidency in the case of the death, resigna tion or inabilit' of the persons designated by the constitution, that of Senator Hoar seems most to commend itself to conservative citizens. His bill, which was passed by the senate last year, but which was not voted on by the house, vests the succession in .such members of the president's cabinet as are eligible to the presidential office under the constitution, be ginning with the secretary of state. The chief merit of the bill is that it provides a number of successors in accord with the general policy of the head of the administration, thus minimizfng, as far a possi ble, possible political dangers growing out of physical accident. The act of 1702, by which the suc cession is regulated at present, provides only two successors in case of the death of the president :ind vice-president, viz.: the pres- ident of the senate and speaker of . . , uie nouse, ana more may occur cases when neither of these officers is in existence. The Hoar bill, on the other hand, provides seven possible successors, whose places generally speaking, are always filled. The interests of public tranquility wili undoubt edly bo better subserved by the Hoar bill than by the act of 1792. Under that act cases may occur, as for instance in the present con juncture, when the death of the president and that of his probable successor would in each case in volve temporary changes of polit ical control in the executive office, while under tho Hoar bill such a change would be under ordinary circumstances an utter impossibil ity. There should be no difficulty in securing tho passage of Senator Hoar's bill early in the present session of congress. It passed in the senate last year, and there should be no opposition to it on the part of the majority in the house this year. Closing Out Sale! On Account of Sickness in Family I WILL CLOSE OUT MY ENTIRE STOCK MILLINERY AND FAKCY GOODS AT COST! Come and Secure CHEAP GOODS1 Mrs. A. MALCOLM. WM. EDGAR, Dealer In Cigars, Tobacco and Cigarettes Meerschaum and Brier Pipes, GENUINE ENGLISH CUTLERY Rvo!vrs and Cartridge. CORNIR MAIN AND OKENAHUS STS. A GRAND MUSICAL AND LITERARY EXTJERTA1 531 EST I AKn the Far Taiiicil ami Celebrated Mrs. JABLEY'S WAXWORKS Never before seen in Astoria! Will be Gi en ami Exhibited at ODD FELLOW'S HALL Friday, Pec. 18, at S o'clock, For the Benefit of Y. M. C. A. Tickets Fifty Cets: Tor -ale at City Boolc more. DOLLS. DOLLS. A DOLL FESTIVAL! SATURDAY, DKL'tIRCK 10, 1SS5 In tho nc" building comer Fquemoqim and Main streets, opposite ILlrcbboff"s Bakery. By the Ladies of Grace Church. BOI-LS! Of all Sires and Qualities and with all Vari eties or loiiets. Also A Christmas Tree! OGLIS. DOLLS. GRAND CONCERT AND MASQUERADE BALL! AT ROSS' OPERA HOUSE JANUARY 1st. 1886, BY GUSHING POST CORNET BAND. Concert From S to 9 O'claelt. DA.VCIXG BEGINS at O O'CLOCK Nicely Furnished Rooms, WITH OR WITHOUT IiOAHD. AT llri. S. T. McKcan's, Cufi -treot, three doors out1i of Asioriax office. Finest Selection f Jewslry ia Solid Goli aua Silver. Most Suitable Holiday Presents! Offered at Very Low rigures. i-The Onalllj or Evcrj Article Gu&r&nteitl. Astoria Wood Yard, Near Trulllnser's Mill. niRD MB SOFT WOOD! Having just put In a First Class Sawing Machine. We can furnish Sawed VYood Very Reasonable! We sell a CORD and tlcHvcraCORD! PEANK L. PAEKER, And I.S. GRAGG, ... Agents. 1880. HARPER'S WEEKLY. ILLUSTRATED. HAKr"ii's "Weekly lias now, lor more than twenty vcars. maintained its nosition as the leading illustrated weekly newspaper in America. With a constant inerrase of literary ana artlsuc resources. It ? able to offer for the cnulnc vear attractions un- cqualed by any prevlon? volume, embraclng two cap tal illustrated serial stories, one bv MrlnojiASHAitm, among the format of nvm writers ot action, ana tue other by Sir WalteuBksant. one of tho most rapldlv riiinc of Emrdsh nevelists: urauhlc illustra tions of unuual interest to readr rs in all sec tions oi tho country; entertaining short stories, mostly i'lustrated, by the best writ ers, and Important papers by high autuorl lies on the chief topics of the day. very one who desires a tiustwortbv polit ical, an entertaining and instruc lve'famllx Journal, entirely free from objectionable features In either let'er pre-s or 11. nitrations. suouia suDscnue to iiAitrEK's vekklv. HABPEE'S PEEI0DI0ALS. X-er Year: HARPER'S WEEKLY $ 4 00 HARPER'S MAGAZINE ... . 4 00 HARPER'S BAZAlt 4 0J HARPER'S YOUNG PEOPLE 2 03 liAJllK-ii FRANKLIN SQUAUELl- BR VRY, One War (52 Numbers) 10 00 rosicgejrec lo all sabtcricrs in the United Stata or Canada. The volumes of the Weekly beain with tne urt number lor Jaiiuarv of each year When no time Is specified it'wid be undir-st-od that the subscriber uKhes to com mence with the number next after receipt oi the order. Bound vo'umes or IIaiu'eh's Weekly fox three years back, in neat cloth blndluj-, will be sent by mall, postage paid, or bv eipres. free of ex peiibe (provided the freight does not exceed $1 per volume) for 7 per volume. Cloth cases for each olume. suitable for oin'iing, win be sent bv mall, postpaid on receipt of Si eacn. Remittances should be made by Post-ohlea moneyoideror draft, to avoid chance of loss. ITewmaat rs are. nnt in rami thl adrrrHiA. ment unUwut the express nnlcr of Uajipeu &BUOTUEKS. Address HARPER : BROTHERS. New York -r-swt&- Notice. THE STOCKHOLDERS OP THE PACIFIC Union Packing Co. are hereby notified thtt the regular annual mcotingof said com pany will be held at the company's office lu Astoria. Oregon, on the 22ad day of Decem ber, 1S85, at one o'clock p. ar.. for the pur pose of electing a board of Directors for the ensuing year and the transacting of such other business as may come Derore,tne meet ing. By order of the President. J. R. GILSTRAP, , Secretary. Astoria, Or., Dec. I2tn, HS5. " rm 00K STOI ) Come and See Us, Awaits Torn Inspection. Plush Goods, Christmas Cards. Toys, Fancy Goods, etc. At Price that will Astozlsh yen. You will flat! Jt to yuar nrtvaniaj-c To Pay Us a Visit. GRIFF1H" & REEB. w i Having Consolidated BOOTS CITYB Astoria, Furniture Co., I now oP.er lu I airtt aud 31 t Coiuplrte Assortment oi Fine and Piain Furniture, Bedding, Carpets, Oil Cloth, Window Shades, Picturer5 moulding-, etc., At Portland Priceo. and Invltea Call o Everybody in "Want of Goods in My Line, Guaranteeing Satisfaction in Every Respect- OHAS. HEILBQRN. SoMIOltWlTlMIJEEAY&co" ... r-. - G-BOOERS mn nn, mm, varas, 1-in.uns autl Orjrnits or (he Rest tos autl Orjjnits or (he Rest nlceatllioKoiresf Prices. p finest stock of Jewelry In Astoria. inn The J"SAU goods -Vhrmntcd as represented. GUSTAV HANSEN, JEWELER Astoria and Seaside BAKERIES, ED. JACKSON. - Proprietor, The hest Rread, cakes and p.nviiy in tho city Ice Creamn and Ornamental "Work I to order Manufacturer of Fine Candies After Three Weeks of Hard Labor! 9 A " Tm. Has Got the TI1E ICpmAfc ABE pffiic mMj Jim ?. Can See ISIIi? ,,D ,.,, -iHj TO CALL THIS WEEK Grand, Exhibition Every Evening. Carl Adler's Crystal Palace. ATS, and SHOES I "VNBti SKa! Manager. N acific BREWERY, JOHN EOPP, . . - Proprietor. (Patronize Home Industry! We .supply &. !G00B A QUALITY -OF BEER A-. Any In tho Market. 'AT .. J!3:ASfKtABIir..A 1-KICE. TIis jYqfiIi Pao flc Brewery Beer J 13 Furs aud Unadulterated. It gtiest-eneral Satisfaction, and Is Furn hheu In Quantities to Suit. j Leave Orders With W.M. Bock, Cermania cuoon. or uiikis. tYE.NSOX, next to Foard & StoKa;. I.Iy Dflnervin An Part of the Citv. vKsavs-asamx-ooa My Husinos?- with tho And Dealers in . I " Jl Tl Tl P PIT Q 11 1" "jl 1 1 QO I L$ liiliiOI J U ILJ jJilUU i Special Attention Civento Filling Of Orders. A FULL LlftiE CARRIED And Supples furnished at Satis factory Term:. Purchases delivered in any part of the city, Office and "Warehouse j In Hume's New Building on Water Street. I P.O. Box 11 -.ASTORIA, Telephone No. S:. OK EG OX ATtoTt Most of His SPECIALLY i MM roceries Cheap for Gash Tea, Tea, Tea. CASH F. L. P. FRANK I. Hw Bi PARKER- dkaler in Hay, Oats, anil Straw, Lime, Met. Cement, Sand and Plaster . Wood Dell-ered to Order. Urajln.c, Tes-nlnj and Express BaiLtiM. IKK ;',ipl5 ty ?ho Captain, or to -TOZHZZKT j&.m MOKTT&OMHRT, DSALKK I- Tin, Sheet Iron, and Copper Ware. A general assortment of Household Goods. aqeut tor 3IAGr.C STOVES AR1) P.OES, THE BESTIXTHEMABKET. Plumbing goods of all klnd-t mi hind. Job work done In a worltnianuka manner. ' Plumbing, Cao Fitting and Cannery Work attended to promptly On Reasonable Teim. ChenaxaHS1 Street, Next to O L Parker's Stare. Astei-Ia. Oresa. Holiday -AT he New York We have now on Exhibition THE LARGEST AND MOST COMPLETE STOCK OF HOLIDAY GOODS and NOVELTIES Ever offered to the People of Astoria. Come One! The Public are Cordially invited to Call and Examine bur Carefully Selected Stock. Comprising articles for Old and l'oun alike and within tho reach of all. Heretofore Wc have Always Led in Making Prices for Our Competitors, And now We Propose to Lead Where ley Cannot Follow!! As Aiivthins nnd Everything will bo offered nt The lowest Possible lAring rflargin of Profit. NEW YORK NOVELTY STORE, Opposite the Parker House. Main Street, Astoria, Oregon. United States Restaurant On Main street is now open, and AT Q2TCB T4EZS TSS la every particular It la tad Finest fitted up And Best in the city JEFPISA G-OOCl He cannot be beat on tne coasr. Meals 25c. EOABD 20 pMtb PRIVATE B00U3 For Families OR PARTIES Pro PATS GASH, THAT SETTLES IT! AH PARKER, STEAMER CLARA PARKER Eben P. Parker,Master For TOWING, FREIGHT or CHAR- M. B. PARKF.K. fi Goods! Novelty Store! Gome All! Sapptr Partlea Furnished On. short notice OYSTERS A. Speolalty JEFF Spends His Money IN Buys by the Wholeialt and Astoria