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?&S 2S 'ft? ?83&y SSa- 0B?4 y-T TOM VOL. XXV, NO. 41 ASTORIA, OREGON, THURSDAY, FEBRUARY 18, J88G. PRICE, MYE CENTS. vries&m&z&Tmi&MM ' jgfrjwgjm 0) 2 . . -' v " tyi i& I VJ a R f&ggsssy JSilSJSfjmgmgy aifat ib . h HCSIXESS CARDS. C. R. THOilSO.", K. K. COOVmT, Tuoai$85 & coovert, Attorneys at lar and Notaries Palilic. Special attention given to coliecliuns and examining titles. Office Rooms 4 and "i, oer City Book Store. c. i u. 3IAKTIX. v. ::., Architect and Civil Engineer. Ofuck llodin 0, KMijilit-) ol Jliiii Building. Xi:K. A. I,, and .J. A. PUlTtfX. 5hj iri:ins ami Sur-oiss. Wi'l yhe jromut attention to alt wttts. . in any part of the city i country. i,ief o or AJienS tre. wiiht Css xh1 ti iiioiiua Mn'cjs, AJtria. Otrgon. l"t .t'lil.oni No. 41. k. ;'ka. k. iwa ;. i l'li;,iinn natl HarRJ'On. (-Hue. UoomC. oer 1. A. Mcintosh s More. 1 1 ii r Horns :-9 to 11 .. t. ;- Slo.r v. in. :;-M(lence. oppositerflie.lulmnsi'ii building - t ': :-jr ' J?. i- rm'SiciAS asd .suuatt u KiiK i:.tm i, 2. al t Pythian :. 1 1 Jti sii.r.vrF On CVdai Mtwt. Imck M .M:ir"s Hospital. ) .. 1J. V.STES PHYSICIAN AND Sl'lICKON. ui-km-k: (inn Building, luWahs.Asloiia, lczou. D It. aIjKKEI kixxf. Office at Kinney's Cannery. Will only attend patient-, at In- office, ami niav be found tliere at any hum. - I'M. A. DOKUIS, noiaxi XUF.A3i it BOi:K5S. ATTORNEYS AT LAW. Ol'Jt-e In Kinney's Bloc!;, ippolte t'it Mail, AM oi la, Oregon. . w.fui.to:.-. o.-.hi.thn ATTOUXKYS AT LAW. 'toniiu Ji and G. Odd Fellow-, ltaitout ; i:$.0 F. I'AItSLr.tt V.T SURVEYOR OF CLATSOP C0UN1 Y AKI Ex-City Surveyor of Astoria OHlce : N. I!, corner Cass anil AsirMr-cl--, 1:00111X0.8 Upstairs. CI. A. KOWIjSJY. Vitwrttoy ainS ConneIIor t Imw, t '.We mi Ciieaanui Street. Astoria. Oiegnn. F. I. WISTO.N, ATTORNEY AT LAW. Rooms Vo. !1 and 11!. IMIiUih C.is:le liuild inKj jW E. KA.Y310'I, CIVIL ENtllXEKK, CITY SUKVBYtHS. OlMce in City Hall, Astoiln. Oregon. 1:. HIIAW. DENTIST. Rooms in Allen's lSuiUIing, up stalra. cor ner Cass and Squeiuoqua streets. Atnria Oregon. T k. sir.iir.v, NOTARY PUBLIC. Searcher of Titles, Abstracter and 4o:ji'eyaacor. Ofllce on Ciss Street 3 rtooi sjatli of As torian otllce, Astori 1, Oregon. Gencial Agency of w 3f. C. ADAIR, Rral Estate, Insurance ::! 3Iiu'y BROKER- Valuable Pioperties for Pale or Lease in Uper Astoiia. Accounts Adjusted, and Rook Keeping done on Sliort Notice. Office with Col. bpedden. cor. Jefferson and Cass .slieets, Astoiia, Oie.uon. iL, V olIMj -5 Wholesale and Retail Dealer in fPb MILLEEED. Gl5nd Plated Wai-eJ TKOPiCAl. AXU DOMr.Sllr 1 FRUITS AND VEGErABLE.j Together wit, ' Wines, Uquors,Tobacco,Oic rsi To Rent. . A FIXE SUITE OF ROOMS IN THE ODD Fellows' Building. Apply to . A. J. ilEGLER. j Money to Loan ON APPROVED SECURITY. COUNTY Orders bought Apply at the office of F. D. WINTON. S--v5i FffiSNfete SIl-.-j jtoiy ssSKssn rwtr RRFflT mm mm gggg Cures t4 ? ESXpM RHEUMATISM. sl t! figlna Neuralgia. ii:-feaHlie. lfcrirts.t-ljc, Toctliarlio, Npraus. Krt:c etc.. etc. ttlcc,liftj' .-. At Urusi tsasd Dealer?. THE CHftRL!S A. VCCCLE3 CO., SoSs Prop' 2JALT11. vLS, MAETXro, U. S. A. & l&s 'fiaWftlN!!! fj iv C i a. U.1 I.- jusr. vrhat its namB implies ; Purely Vegetable "Compound, thai acts directly upon the Iver j curing the many diseases incidenno that lm. portant organ, and pcvjshtirjg the nu merous ailm;ts tKarisc from te deranged or io:prtaction, such as Dyspepsi fjSy.dice, Bilioiisnes Cosmreneslvpiaria, Sick-Tiearlache, Rheuftjayctc. It is therefore s 3-uisragAr"Toliavc Goo&Eealti :he iiver must be kept in order." DE. BaOTOSD'3 IIVZE INYIGOEATOR. nvlcorates tlie Liver, EegulatestlieBow sls; Strcngtlicns the System, Purifies Ihc Blood , Asict 5 D'f r stion, Prevents Fevers. Is a Household 2ccd. An Invaluable ratnily ilcdicine for common complaints C2. SAOTOHD'3 HVEB Dr7IG0SAT02. At experience of Forty years, andThov, lands (f Ttg'imnniais prove its Merit. FOit vi. r.v AT.Ti DHATxrj iX3iED:crsns Fr f 11 ssformvicn trrul yonr nddrcss for 1CX t..Tir; -ek fn t!se J.-vr nml it1 diseases.' t( 'jusror.D IH:A3 ST.. sew toku cc5 HAGAN'5 Magnolia Balm is a secret aid to beauty. Many a lady owes her fresh ness to it, who would rather not tell; 7L.x&you cant tell. FOR Man and Beast. Mustang Liniment is older than most men, and used more and more every year. Si 1 HH IbhCSI TORPID BOWELS. DISORDERED LIVER, and MALARIA. rrom t lieso sources arise three-fourths of tlie diseases cf the human race. These symptoms imlicato their existence: Xioas of Appetite, Boircls costive, Sick Headache, fullness after eat iiifj,RVersioii to exertion of body or mtnil, Eructation of food, IrritabiN ity of temper, Iiowspirits, A feeling of liavln s neglected some duty.DIx xijiess,FlutterlngntUicircjvrt,Dots Jjcforo the eyes, Iilphly colored Uilnc,COXSTXPATIOX,ana demand the use ofarcmedy thntactsdirccOyon the Liver. AsaLivcrmedicineTOTT'S VIIiLS liavo 110 equal. Their action on tho Kidneys and t-kin is also prompt; removing all Impurities through tbeso three seavengera of the systn,,, proihicing appetite, sound digestion, leprular stools, a clear slcin and a vig orous hody. TCTT'S PlXitS cause no nausea 01 griping nor interfere "With ilally work and are a perfect ANTIDOTE. TO MALARIA. fcoldererrvhcre2j:. OlHce 44 ilurraySt.X Y. TOTTSilliiOYE G RAT HATE OTl 'Win BirPT.a rTi?T,ovl in. Btantly to a Gtossr Ulack by a single application of this Dte. Sold by Drug. asts,or sent by express on receipt of $L Office, 44 ilurray Street, New York. nmireAi,o?tnErgiiEssgZ3gBS3. Imperial Pekin Duck Eggs: $1 XA PER DOZEN. FOR SALE BY LUU D.J.1NGALLS, Cbadwell. JsS'lOT.:ti02Ss m$?&mgs mmSW Hq Bnud RATTLESNAKE OIL. Tlie Life of Rattlesnake Town and it? Lesson. The land of Tiadahton, Pa., once the property of the Six Nations, 1r.it eii.ee the year 1784 owned and con tiolled by the State of Pennsylvania, and now known as the Pine Creek Kegion, was for many years after its acquisition by Pennsylvania the cen ter of a thriving industry and com mercial prosperity. It was fishing for rattlesnakes, extracting the oil from their slimy carcasses, and mar keting the same. The Pine Creek region was the very hotbed of rattle snakes, and the locality produced them by the million. The mountains which lift their heads a thousand feet or more abovu Tiadaghton or Pine Creek, were pe culiarly adapted to the cultivation and propagation of these reptiles. The business of lumbering was also carried on at the same time, and the timber and lumber rafts which at every freshet were borne upon the waters of the Tiadaghton to the west branch of the Susquehanna, and thence to the Chesapeake Bay, wero generally loaded with huge cans or barrols of rattlesnake oil, extracted by 1 he native Pine Creekers, in their rude but economical way, by lassoo injr, skinning, and hanging the rep tiles up by their tails upon poles in long rows in the sun, with wooden tro.iajis underneath to catch and re cc:w the oleaginous substances. Kvcry snake farmer had his hotbed J oruen, to which he would repair year ly in June, July and August and har vest the crop. The product of this harvest (rattle snake oil), was either sold for cash to the lumbermen or shipped on com mission, or bartered for whisky. Thero were rattlesnake kings, auto crats, and monopolists in the anako farming business then, as there are now in the petroleum, railroad, and mining industry. Complaints were then made in relation to discrimina tion in freights and corners in rattle snake oil, as there are now in petro leum, corn, wheat, oats, pork, butter, lard, cheese, and oleomargarine. Rattlesnake Tom, or Snakey Tom, a wily and scheming old monopolist, bondholder, and rattlesnake stock jobber, early in the development of the industry secured valuable fran chises, which ultimately made him the Jay Gould or Standard Oil Com pany of that region, and for years lie monopolized the catching of the snakes, extraction of the oil, and the marketing of the same. He was usu ally dressed in rattlesnake skins from head to foot while skulking about in search of some fearless poacher who had invaded his premises or tres passed upon his snakedom. To see him gliding along stealthily and sinu ously over the rocks and mountain sides a thousand feet above the wa ters of the Tiadaghton, wearing moc casins made of the skins of the yel low and black rattlesnakes, his breeches, vest, coat, and chapeau of the same material, each garment fes tooned and trimmed with rattles taken from the snakes, with a sash of snake skins encircling his waist and over his shoulders, after the manner of a modern brigadier, and carrying a strong oaken rod in his hand, to which was attached a linen lasso, he certainly made the impression upon the natives that he was a monarch in his profession and a terror to all evil doers in the rattlesnake farming business. His ranch, or shipping yard, was about a mile below where Marsh Creek empties its waters into the Tiadaghton, while his plantations or snakerie3 were on tho east and west sides of the stream, and covered an area of several thousand acres, the best adapted to the natural and arti ficial propagation of rattlesnakes of any territory in northern Pennsyl vania. Originally this large tract was owned by some fifteen or twenty snake farmers, who became involved in contracting for more oil than they could deliver, and were cut short. Tom discounted their paper and ad vanced them whisky. Not wishing to do without that necessary article in their busines, they pledged their snakeries to Tom for an advance. When thev least expected it Tom en tered up a Pennsylvania tight note against them and closed their con cerns. There were no preferred cred itors in those davs, nor receivers ap pointed, so Tom had absolute control of their effects and wrested their snakeries from them. They were, however, wedded to their business, and could not, or would not, pursue an' other vocation, and became the tenants of Tom, working the snake ries on shares. To prevent these tenants from diverting the products from their legitimate channel and selling to a rival monopolist whose plantation was located some eighteen or twenty miles below upon the Tia daghton, was the reason that such an unwearied vigilance was required by Rattlesnake Tom. In June the business was most brisk. Then the snakes came forth of their own accord in the greatest numbers, and were lassoed by the snakers. What suakes were not attracted by tlie genial rays of the sun from their dens were shaken from their rocky beds by the thousand by the violent claps of thunder which occurred in this month. The tendency then was toward over-production, and made the month of June a busy season at tlie snakeries. During this month Rattlesnake Tom never undressed himself, and scarcely slept an hour "ut of the twenty-four, having his headquarters in the saddle. More definitely speaking, he tried to diffuse himself over his valuable snakedom and be at every point where businexi was most brisk at one and the same time, keeping his vigilant eye upon his crafty and dishonest tenantry. In July the work would get down n a reasonable working basis, but during the latter part of dog days, when thj snakes were blind, business won! i revive again, and sometimes keej active until the middle of Septemb . Rattlesnake Tom owned a lin ji boats which plied between life: Fir;, ping dock and Northumberhi'j. touching at Jersey Shore, Wiliiam port, Muncy, and intermediate point -These, of course, were craft suiul for the trade. When the bus'n was brisk thev were kept busy ti-. porting whisky into tho camp.' those employed at the snakerie.s, a in taking rattlesnake oil down Williamsport or some other seaport, and banking the proceeds. Tom'd credit was A No. 1, and he was rated high in business agencies, life drafts always being honored by the liquor dealers down the river. He would occasionally suffer from dishonest sea captains, who would forge his paper, having learned in a clandestine man ner how many snake rattles Tom usually sent instead of greenbacks to represent an order for a barrel of whisky. When such a dishonesty was discovered, the whole of Tom's tenantry would suffer. An embargo for the" space of twenty-four hours was issued by Tom, and no snaker could get a drop of whisky for that space of time. This was indeed se vere and capital punishment. Tom was honest with the liquor dealers, and settled punctually every year when the rattlesnake season had closed and the books were posted. Although not skilled in the art of reading and writing and the manner of keeping books, no man could tell any better than he, learned or un learned, how many snakes it required to make a cord or how much oil could be extracted from them. By long experience he was enabled to cast his eye over a miscellaneous squirming mass of lire or ten thousand snakes and estimate the number with mathe matical precision, or he could detect any attempt on the part of his ten antry to withhold the true Simon pure snake oil and substitute for it the baser oils, such as raccoon, skunk, bear or wookchuck oil. His goods were always straight and un adulterated, monopolist oil prince though he was. The building of the Jersey Shore and Pine Creek Rail road by Magee, Sherwood, Wallace, and Vanderbilt destroyed Tom's shipping and wrecked his business just at a time when rattlesnake oil is worth from a dollar to a dollar and fifty cents per ounce. Alas ! such is the fate of some of our most profitable old-time industries ; such is the fate of individuals, States and nations. Rattlesnake Tom is no more. The march of civilization and the invasion of his territory by the locomotive, the freight, passenger, and parlor car wounded his native pride. Forlorn and disheartened, he sought his be loved mountains, and died of either htiner, chagrin or mortification. N. Y. Sun. Insect Pain. Shakespeare be trayed an ignorance of insect anatomy when he wrote, "The poor beetle that we tread upon, in corporeal suffer ance feels a pang as great as when a giant dies." Minute dissections have proven that insects, though possessed of nerves, have no well-defined or gans representing the brain, the seat of concentrated feeling, where all the nervous connections meet. They have, instead, a chain of ganglia or bundles of nerve-substance, from each of which nerves branch out to contiguous parts : so that the sensa tions are not all carried to one grand focus of acute sensibility as with us, but form in fact separate systems, any one of which might be destroyed without disturbing tlie sensations of the others. Sleeping moths may be pinned to trees without feeling pain enough to awaken them ; and it is re lated that a dragon-fly whose long abdomen an entomologist had acci dentally severed from the rest of the body, suffered so little inconvenience or loss of appetite that it at once greedily devoured two small flies. A Family Rlcasiujr. .Simmons Liver Regulator the favor ite home, remedy is entirely vegetable, and is the purest and best medicine compounded. No error to be feared in administering, no injury from exposure after takinc. no loss of time. It is the best preventative medicine, and is safe to take no matter what the sickness may prove to be, and in onliuary disease will e3ecl a snredy cure. A doctor's patients must put their tongues out and a doctor's wife must keep her tongue in. Dr. Holmes in the Atlantic. Neuralgic headache leaves at once after an application of St. Jacobs Oil DON'T FORGET That Gray's Pioneer Wood Yard Sells and Delivers Better Wood and Larger Cords Thau Anybody I Four Foot Fir WoodS2.75 to $3.25 per Cord Cut " $&25 to Si 00 " Four Foot Vine Maple3 25 to S3.75 " " Cut " " -S3.75 to L60 " AsU and Spruce Limbs acordlnj? to Qual ity. ftOYAl B mm 1 POWDER Absolutely Pure. Tills powder never varies. A marvel of purity, strength and wholesomeness. More economical than the ordinary Linus, ami can not be sold in competition with the multi tude of low teit, short weight, alum or pbos B hate powders. Sold only in can. Royai. AKixoPowDF.it Co. 106Wall-st.. N. Y. MARKETS. STAR MARKET. WHERRY & COMPANY, Fresli and Cured Meats,? FRUITS, BUTTER, and EGGS. . OPPOSITE OCCIDENT HOTEL, CIIK.VA3IU8 Street. Astoria, Og. Washington Market. .11a In street, Astoria, Oregon. BKKfiJUX A CO. PJtOPItlKTOnS RESPECTFULLY CALL THE ATTEN tlon or the public to the fact that the above Market will always be supplied with a FULL VARIETY AND BEST QUALITY F?JSH AND CURED fflEATb 1 ! Vhich will be sold at lowest rates, whole side and retail . S2T"Si!.cIal attentlou uiven to supplying allipS. WE EDGAR, Dealer hi Cigars, Tobacco and Cigarettes Meerschaum and Brier Pipes, GENUINE ENGLISH CUTLERY Revolvers and Cartridges. CORNER MAIN AND CHENAMUS STS. MURRAY & CO., GBOCERS And Dealers in Special Attention Clvento Filling Of Orders. A FULL LIKE CARRIED And Supples furnished at Satis factory Terms. Purchases delivered In any part of tlie city. Office and Warehouse In Hume's New Building on Water Street. P. O. Boc IXj. Telephone No. 57. 1STORIA, OBEGOA. WYATT & THOMPSON. KEEP CONSTANTLY ON HAND A Full Stock of Canned Fresh Mackerel, Canned Fresh Codfish, Canned Fresh Finnan Haddies, Canned Shrimps, Canned Roast Beef, Canned Chicken, Canned Pig's Feet, Atmore's Plum Pudding, Atmore's Mince Meat, Epp's Cocoa. Ground Chocolate, A Fine Anortsent of Canned Yeget&blei, etc J. a. D. GKAY, Wholesale and retail dealer in. GROCERIES, FLOUR, AND FEED Hay, Oats, Straw, Wood, Etc. LIME, SAND AND CEMENT. General Storage and "Wharfage on reason able terms. Foot of Benton street, Astoria. OreRon. Caiery Siplies! ARBOUR Irish Flax HAVE NO tfjSD0ST.7f KTWaB3ftf f&ssESVffiX W&r-i r&fJ JFmS GRAND PRIZE PARIS 1878. THEY HAVE BEEN AWARDED HIGHER PRIZES AT THE VARIOUS International Expositions THAN ME GOODS OF ANY OTHER THREAD MANUFACTURERS IN THE WORLD. Qaulity can Always be Depended on ! EmeiiEfiu Warn Ise 10 Other ! HENRY DOYLE & CO., 5 1 7 and 5 1 9 Market Street, SAN FRANCISCO, AGEKTS FOR PACIFIC COAST. Seine TwiiieB, Rope and Netting Constantly on Hand. THE NEW MODEL FTTLI. STOCK The Telephone Saloon. The Finest Establishme nt of the Kind in Astoria. Especially Utted up for the Comfort and Convenience of those v.-ho enjoy a Social GUvs. The Best or Wines mid Liquors, Tho Choicest Chjnrs. Everything Hew and First-Class. R. Ii. JEFFREY. Prop'r. ColiiMa Transportation Coijany. FOR PORTLAND! Through Freight on Fast Time! THE NEW STEAMER TELEPHONE Which bsu been specially built for the comfort of passengers will leave Wilson S Fisher's Dock every Monday, Wednesday and Friday at 6 A.M. arriving at Portland at 1 P.M. Returning leaves Portlan d every Tuesday and Thursday at 6 A. H. arriving at Astoria at ! P. M. -An additional trip will be made on Sunday of Each Wcefc, leaving Tarttad at Uolc Safiday 3IernIK. Passangers bj this ronteeonMct at ; SaUaja tor Sound porta. u. B.scoTr.rreaiaeat, - Threads EQUAL ! ftRHMflta? ;-; RANGE CAN BE HAD IN AS TORIA ONLY OF 1. HAWB9, AGEKT CALL AND EXAMINE IT, YOU WILL BE PLEASED. E. K. HA WES Is also agent for the Boct patent (Ming Stave And other flrst-claai Stoves. Furnace "Work. Steam Fit tings, etc., a specialty ALWAYS ON HAND. Camalian & Go. SUCCESSORS TO I. "W. CASE, IMPORTERS AND WHOLESALE AND USTAIL DEALERS IN &EHEBAL M1BCHAMSS Corner Clienamus and Cass streets. AT;)HIA - - - OREGON tls jtaitsAai.