r 3) ASTORIA, OREGON: WEDNESDAY. .....MARCH 17. 188G Raspberries; $L2o a basket: small basket The flowers that blooin in the spring, tra la, are having a rough old time of it these days. The ltate arrived in nfc nine yester day morning; the Oregon leaves at seven this morning. A fine now stove has been put up in the Sheriff's office and other prep aration mado for a hard winter. Carpet on cejlinfjs is the proper ca per in swelldom this spring. Ion ain't tony unless your ceiling is car peted. E. C. Holden will have a special auction sale of household furniture at the residence of Mrs. Curtis next Friday. It is believed that Gov. Squire of Washington territory is "solid" with the administration and will not be re moved. St. Patrick's day will be celebrated in Portland to-day by a procession and an oration by Tno. M. Gearin, at New Market theater. Jacob Kreez, mate of the Fanny Dutard was found drowned in San Diego bay last Wednesday. He had been murdered and thrown into the water. The 2Gth of next month will be the sixty-seventh anniversary of the foniiding of the L O. O. F. Beaver Lodge No. 35, of this city, will cele brate the day by a ball and, probably, a parade. Some geographies say Yankton is the capital of Dakota. It is just as easy for the youngsters to learn that Bismarck is Dakota? capital city, and the latter statement ha3 the advantage of being correct Chas. Benson came down from Brookfield last Monday in damaged condition and is at the hospital. He says two men garroted him Sunday night, at that place and still shows the effects of the injuries. Hermann Wise, who returned from San Francisco yesterday, advertises the gift of a five dollar hat to the suc cessful guesser of a conundrum. Read it and hand in your answer to the Liverpool and New York Outfit company. First officer McDonald, who brought the Gov. Goodwin from Shanghai, owing to the sickness of Capt. Norton, yesterday accompanied the widow and the remains as far as Oak Point, returning to the city yes terday afternoon. A man named Daniel Brass was drowned yesterday morning near the Columbia Canning Co.'s property. He was intoxicated and had been quarreling on a scow with his com panions. He started to go ashore but stumbled into the water. He was speedily taken out and medical aid summoned, but resuscitation was impossible. This is funny weather: thunder and lightning and hail and rain and snow and slush, nnd choked pipes. Seems as though the wholo thing is a mistake in direction, and the pres ent invoice of weather was missent. Like enough the Floridians or tLe Dakotans are having a nice little con signment of our regular weather now and the wrong lot has been sent us. This Chinese and anti-Chinese bus iness has been a Godsend to the Portland dailies, and they have played it for all it was worth. They are carrying it a little too far though. Had it not been for the insane rival ry of the Chronicle and Call in 1878 Kearney would not have been heard of and California wouldn't have lost $150,000,000 worth of property in 1879 and 18S0. A traveler passed through Elko, Nov., last Wednesday, bound for Chi cago from San Francisco, with a first class limited ticket which cost him only $450. The scalpers had bought it to speculate on, but had not suc ceeded in Belling it, and the last day to travel on it had arrived, and the last boat was almost ready to start They wanted $10, then $9, $8, and finally, just before the gang plank was drawn up, ho offered $4.50, which was accepted, and ho rushed aboard. While A. G. Spexarth was silting in the back part of his store at 9:30 last evening a young fellow came in and appeared to bo looking at the goods in the showcase. Suddenly he dashed out when the proprietor ! ruBhed after him crying "Stop thief I" Several citizens joined in the pursuit and when he was about opposite the Congregational church H. F. Prael grabbed and held him till an officer arrived. Four revolvers were found on him, three of which Mr. Spexarth identified as his property. He was locked up. When asked his name he at first said it was Curtis, but after waid said it was "John Smith." The thieves seem to have a special grudge against Spexarth, as this is the fourth time an attempt has been made to get some of his stock without the usual formality of making a coin transfer. PERSONAL. Hon. Sol. Hirsch came down from Portland yesterday afternoon. Girl Wanted. In a small family; must be good cook; noxhlldren in family. Inquire at this otflk. Cheese 10 cents per Pound. Fine Clatsop County at Carnahan & Co.'s reduced to 10 cts per pound. Guar anteed to be of the very best Tickets For the Musical and Literary entertain ment to be given by the Ladies of the M. E. Church next Tuesday evening may be had at Griffin & Reed's, W. E. De ment & Co.'s, J. V. Conn's, and C. H. Cooper's. Bargains Cohen's. in Jersey Jackets at I. Ladies' Cohen's. fine wear a specialty at I. THE POETLAUD MASS MEETING. What is Eeportod to Have Been Said and Bone There. Poktland, Mar. 10. The public meeting called by Mayor Gates was held in the court house this after noon. An immense throng filled the building, the hallway and the yard. The workingmen were present in such force that they captured the meeting and elected Sylvester Pen noyer chairman. They then pro ceeded to pass strong resolutions in dorsing the board of trade, a resolu tion dejrica'ig any and all lawless acts, and called on the authorities to rundown and punish all offenders. They also endorsed the action of the recent congress in boycotting the Or egonian, pronounced the presence of Chinese in the state an unmixed evil and promised to use all lawful means in their power to try to elevate white labor above heathen. At this juncture a portion of the convention not liking the complexion of affairs withdrew to the judge's of fice to the number of forty and held another meeting in which none of the major meeting participated. There were nearly 2,000 people in the main building. BA.D BIiOOD AT FT. WOBTH. Fobt, Worth, Texas, Mar. 1G. The hotels that board non-strikers are being boycotted. Butchers re fuse to sell them meat. Poison was thrown into the watertank of one of the hotels yesterday. A woman and two children who partook of the water are in a critical condition. AIiIj FBEIGHT TBAFFIO 8T0PPED. St. Louis, Mar. 16. No freight is moving in the Missouri Pacific yards. An attempt was made this morning to start one train bnt the firemen left the engine. There is no disturbance of any kind. LOXDON xotes. Loxdon, Mar. 16. Chamberlain and Trevelyan have resigned from Gladstone's cabinet. He has, how ever, refused to accept their resigna tion. fc A snowstorm is raging throughout England. The sari of Chichester died to-day. HOW'S THIS FOR RED TAPE? Not many weeks ago a clerk belong ing to the navy department came out of his room with a bundle of official papers in his hand. He was about to walk down stairs, because the elevat or man had received instructions from the state department not to al low any of the navy department clerks to ride, when he lost his grip on the bundle and it fell down some three stories. A messenger belong ing to the state department quickly seized the bundle and carried it in and laid it upon the desk of one of the chiefs of division. In the mean time the clerk hurried down stairs and walked into the room of the au gust state official, and demanded the bundle of papers. He was crushed with the retort that if he had any communication to make it must be through the proper channels, to wit: In writing to the chief of his division, who would in turn transmit it with the proper in dorsement to the division chief of the state department This was the be ginning of the correspondence. One would have thought the matter would have ended there, but it didn't The next three weeks were full of strife. The correspondence grew and grew, until near the end of the fourth week it drew in the secretary of state and the secretary of the navy. These two gentlemen made short work of the matter, and the papers were returned with all due formality. Here were four weeks wasted by worse than foolish red tape. The papers were the vouchers necessary in the settle ment of some important pay accounts, whioh were thuB delayed one month by the action of this pompous old ass in the sacred department of state. What the Dickens Is a "Forelady?'' Mrs. Mary Shogrin, Litt'a reliable forelady, has returned and is on duty. Oregbnian, 1G. To Housekeepers. Attention is called to our advertis luent in another column giving a par tial list of the goods to be found lit our stock. We aim to carry the best assort ment to be found In Astoria, and cash or short time buyers will find it to their ad vantage to make their purchases from us. t.oous delivered tree or charge to any part of the city. D. L. Bkck & Sons. All the patent medicines adYeitised lu this 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 OcMdcnt hctel, Astoria. Parties wishing spars or Piling of any size or length can be supplied by leav ing orders with J. II. D.Gray. New goods ! New goods 1 At the As toria tailor's Tnos. Maihs. See the fine stock of Slippers at 1. Cohen's. Gent's furnishing goeds: a fine stock of clothing, hats, etc., at I. Cohen's. Crow, The Leading Photographer, guarantees as good work as can be had in the state. Pictures taken in any kind of weather with the Instantaneous Process. Goods at your own prices at the Crys tal Palace. House to Rent, Inquire of I. W. Case. For a Neat Fitting Beet Or Shoe, go to P. J. Goodmans, on Che namus street, next door to L W. Case. All goods of the best make and guaran teed quality. A full stock; new goods constantly arriving. Custom work. Shiloh's Cough ana Consumption Cure Is sold by us on guarantee. It cures consumption. Sold by W. E. De ment. To the United States Restaurant for the best oysters. Private rooms. SPARKS FROX THE "WIRES. Eastern railroad men think the present cutting of rates will soon cease. The government is going to ask why American pork is kept out of Germany and Austria. Senator Miller's remains, in charge of five senators and seven representa tives, will arrive in San Francisco next Friday. Archbishop Corrigan, of New York has received an official letter from Bcme, in which, it is stated, there is a passage ordering him to discoun tenance Catholics from belonging to the Knights of Labor. G. W. Williams, who was appointed by Arthur minister to Hayti, and whose instructions have continuously been refused to him by the present administration, has sued the govern ment for his salary of $7,500 a year. It is said in New York that tin plate has gone up in price about 50 cents per box, on account of heavy shipments which had been made to the Columbia river canneries; that it was cleaned out of the market, and that a new stock was on the .wrecked steamer Oregon, and therefore that market is out of tin. The rumor lacks confirmation. The anti-coolie agitation is report ed to be the leading topic among Chinese residents of San Francisco, and weekly editions of their own newspapers are eagerly looked for. Four Chinese papers published last week contained full accounts of do ings all over the coast, and editori als on the probable effects of the la bors of the Sacramento convention, The different editors are very busy preparing exhaustive accounts of the proceedings of the Sacramento con vention, with editorial comments thereon for their next issue. The general opinion among them appears to be that the agitation will be short lived, and that theBurlingame treaty will not be abrogated. Continued complaint is made in Central and South America regard ing the poor facilities as to mail com munication with the United States. It is said that people never know nowadays when to expect mails at Panama. Sometimes they are sent from New York by a British tramp steamer by way of Jamaica, while others come via New Orleans, on the littlo steamer Lucy Miller, which makes a trip once a month. Very frequently letters from New York have been forty days en route to Pan ama. Local papers at Panama, both Spanish and English, express the most contemptuous opinions of the government of the United States, and ono of them says that it scarcely seems possible that so great and pro gressive a nation should show so lit tle regard to the commercial necessi ties of two continents. In a London special to the Now York Herald of the loth, James O'Kelly says: It is now conceded that nothing can be done without a disso lution of parliament An intelligent member of the tory party says: "I will vote for home rule, and so will thirty other conservatives. We feel that hostility towards Ireland was a great blunder. The result will be that it will close the house of lords and disestablish the church, and we want to save the union." These views represent a growing feeling among the reasonable element of the tory party. The change in the tem- Eer of the parties in the house toward ome rule is due to the profonnd change in the constitutional elements of the house of commons itself. The new parliament is essentially an as sembly of workingmen, in the sense that its members attend seriously to their business. Postmaster Pearson, of New York, states that by the steamer Oregon, which sailed from Liverpool on the 6th, and Queenstown on the 7th inst, there were dispatched oya bags of mail. Of these about 113 were closed bags, containing 260 bags of letter mail for the United States and Cana da, the balance being male up of about 470 bags of newspaper mail. Of 66 heavy registered mails, esti mated as containing about 2,400 let ters and packages dispatched by the Oregon, only a portion of the French, Italian, Swedish and Bussian mail, ninety-four pieces in all, was received, the British and German registered mail being all lost The British, German, Swiss, Swedish, Belgian, Portuguese, and Cape Town money order lists, from London, Berlin, Basle, Malmo, Antwerp, Lisbon and Cape Town respectively, and French money order advices, were all lost, the Italian only being saved. Dupli cate lists will be called for immedi- atrly, and these will probably at once j be forwarded. Keynote to Health. Health Is wealth. Wealth means In dependence. The keynote is Dr. Bosan kois Cough and Lung syrup, the best Cough Syrup m the world. Cures Coughs, Colds, Pains In the Chest, Bron chitis and Primary consumption. One dose gives relief In every case. Take no other. Price 50 cents and 1.00. Samples free. Sold by .1 . W . Conn. Catarrh cured, health and sweet breath secured by Shiloh's Catarrh Rem edy. Prlwe 00 cents, Masai Injector free For sale by W. E. Dement Sleepless Nights made miserable by that terrible cough. Shiloh's Cure is the remedy for you. Sold by W. E. De ment & Co. The Most Agreeable As well as the most effective method of dispelling Headache, Colds and Fevers or cleansing the System is by taking a few dotes of the pleasant California liquid fruit remedy Syrup of Figs. GOc and SI bottles for sale by Y. E. Dement &Co. "Hackmetack." a lastine I zrant perfume. Price 25 aim 30 cents. Coal. Hay ami Straw, Tacoma Coal $6 per ton, delivered. Choice Hay from $9 to $12 per ton. Cow Ilav and Straw S7 to $10 per ton For sale by J. H. D. Quay. Fer Bent. The fine hall, 80x25, lately occuj a svmnasium. next to Telephone tied as aloon. j Apply to JXFF. EASTERN NOTES. The efforts to recover the bodies of the buried Nanticoke miners have finally been abandoned as likely to endanger too much the lives of the rescuers. In searching the pension rolls of New York state recently it was found that over five hundred fraudulent claims were on the books. They have been dropped. There will be an exhibition of live fish and all apparatus of fish catch ing and fish culture iu Chicago in April, under the charge of the Ameri can Fisheries society. A court in Mayville, Tenn., has the credit of having lately sent to jail for two years a destitute white woman for stealing a quart of buttermilk, as a wind-up to a term in which six murderers went free. Teaching the doctrine of Mormon ism, or persuading any person or persons to espouse it. in Mis sissippi,, has been made a crime, punishable by a fine of $500 and im prisonment, by a bill passed last week. Gen. Stone has issued a card "to the wealthiest 200 men and women in New York and Brooklyn," in which he says that the pedestal of the Bar tholdi statue will be completed by the 15th of April, and makes an ap peal for 15,000, the cost of placing the figure in position. Vehicles overturned on the high way by the wind, schools dismissed on account of extreme cold, ten inches of ice in the rivers and farmers frozen to death in their fields, are some of the features of the storm that recently raged throughout the state of Pennsylvania, says the Phila delphia Record. There are probably more theaters painted white in Philadelphia than in any other city in the world. The idea was started by Haverly, who thought that white was a lucky color. It is also said that actors prefer to play in a theater painted white. It things go on in this way Philadelphia will soon be known as the white citv. N. T. Tribune. Mail Carrying In the Far East. Captaiu William S. Humphrey, who conveys the mail from Monhegan to Boothbay, Massachusetts, started from Monhegan on Tuesday morning with the thermometer 15 degrees bo low zero aud the vapor so thiok that it was impossible to Bee, in his boat with one man. They had proceeded nearly half way to Boothbay, when, in reefing the mainsail, the man with him was knocked into the water and rescued with the greatest difficulty, making it necessary to return to port. On Wednesday, with the mercury and vapor the same, ho again at tempted to reach Boothbay, when his bowsprit and jib were carried away by the gale. On Thursday his main sail was torn to ribbons by the wind. On Friday ho had proceeded quite a distance when he was knocked down by the sea and his boat nearly filled with water. On Saturday he arrived in Boothbay, having hired a vessel to take him there. Eastern Exchange. - Wide Awalce Druggists. Messrs. W. E. Dement & Co. arc al ways alive to their business, and spare nopains to secure the best of every article in their line. Tliev have .secured the agen ey for the celebrated Dr. King's New Discovery for Consumption. The only certain cure known for Consumption, Coughs, Colds, Hoarseness, Asthma, Hay Fever, Bronchitis, or any affection uf. the Throat and Lungs. Sold on a positive guarantee. Trial Bottles free. Regular size S1.00. Syrup ofFJgt.. Manufactured only by the California Fig Syrup Co. San Francisco Cal. is Natures Own True Laxative. This pleasant liquid fruit remedy may be had of W. E. Dement & Co. at fifty cents or one dollar per bottle. It is the moat pleasant, prompt and effective remedy Known, to cleanse the system; to acton, the Liver, Kidncvs and Bowels gently vet thoroughly to dispel Headachs, Colds and Fevers; to cure Conatipatiou, Indigestion and kindred ills. Shiloh's Vltalizer is what you need for Cen: zmeas an Price 10 and 75 cents per by w. is. Dement. Will vou suffer with Dyspepsia and Liver Com nplai L'cltO lamtv bmiou's vitaiizor i: yuaranteed to cure you Sold by W. E. Dement & Co. PRICES OP BOXES, For the Season : At the Mills Delivered by Wagon.. 12K Cents 13 Cents XIJMBjEJiEt.. 8 reet I'lauk. Delivered . Hoube Bill Lumber. Rough, Del'd... Flooring and Rustic, lit Class, " .. 2ud " ..S 8.00 .. 9.00 .. 16 00 .. 12.00 OTHER LUMBER At proportionate prices. :ul delivered, and no f uuuy business. J. C. TBULLINGER, Proprietor. E. EKSTROM, PRACTICAL WATCHSAKEB. Shop next to L. I. Johnson's cigar store. ALL "WORK "WARRANTED ! VircinlaCiEar anfl Toliacco Store J. W. BOTTOM, Proprietor, Water Street, Two Doors East of Olney. Fine Cigars, Tobaccos and Smokers Articles, Sold at Lowest Market Rates. FRUITS. CANDHJS,NOTIONS.&c. Imperial Pekin Duck Eggs: (ht Kf PKR DOZEN. FOR 8ALB BY tp.v D. J. 1HQALL3. SUftdwsll. West Sta lis, SOCIAL RUIN. 9 ought is more bitter than of ftrtl own gradual fall from a social position. Ruin is simple enough. A violent shock; a cruel turn of faith; a ca tastrophe once for all. Be it so. We submit, and all i3 over. You are ruined; it is well; you are dead? No; you are still living. On the morrow you know it well. By what? By the pricking of a pin. Yon der passer-by omits to recognize you; the tradesman's bills rain down upon you ; and yonder is one of your enemies, who is smiling. Perhaps he is thinking of Arnal's last pun; but it is all the same. The pun would not have appeared to him so inimitable but for your ruin. You read your own sudden insignifi cance even in the looks of indiffer ence. Friends who had used to dine at your table, become of opin ion that three courses were an ex travagance. Your faults are patent to the eyes of everybody; ingrati tude having nothing more to expect, Eroclaims itself openly; every idiot as foreseen your misfortune. The malignant pull you to pieces; the more malignant profess to pity. And then come a hundred paltry de tails. Nausea succeeds to grief. You have been wont to indulge in wine; you must now drink cider. Two servants, too! Why, one will be too many. It will be necessary to discharge this one, and get rid of that. Flowers in your garden are superfluous; you will plant it with potatoes. You used to make pres ents of your fruits .to friends ; you will send them henceforth to mar ket. As to the poor, it will be ab surd to think of giving anything to them. Are you not poor yourself? And then there is the painful ques tion of dress. To have to refuse a wife a new ribbon, what a torture ! To have to refuse one who has made you a gift of her beauty a trifling article ; to haggle over such matters like a miser I Perhaps she will say to you, "What, rob my garden of its flowers, and now refuse one for my bonnet I" Ah, me! to have to condemn her to shabby dresses. The family table is silent. You fancy that those around it think harshly of you. Beloved faces have become clouded. This is what is meant by failing fortunes. It is to die day by day. To be struck down is like the blast of the furnace; to decay like this is the torture of the slow fire. An overwhelming blow is a sort of Waterloo, a slow decay, a ct. Helena. BucIiIck'm Arnica Salve. The Best Salve I n the world for Cuts, Bruises, Sores.UIcers, Salt Rheum, Fever Sores. Tetter, Chapped Hands, Chilblains. Corns, and all Skin Erup tions, and positively cures Piles, or no pay required. It is guaranteed to give Ferfect satisfaction, or money refunded, rice 25 cents per box For sa lo by W E. Dement & Co. Are you made miserable by Indiges tion, Constipation, Dizziness, Loss of Appetite, Yellow Skin? Shioh's Vltal izer is a positive cure. For sale by W. E. Dement & Co. Furniture and Upholstering, Mattresses Made nnd Repaired. Paper Hanging. Carpets Sewed and Laid. Furniture Sold on Commission. Suop. corner Main and Jefferson Streets MARTIN OLSEN. BOOTS AND SEOES! Of Best Quality, and a.t LOWEST PRICES, -AT THE- SIGN OF THEJOLDEH SHOE. S. ABNDT & FERCHEN ASTORIA, - OREGON. The Pioneer Machine Shop BLACKSMITH BHO Boiler Shop All kinds ol ENGINE, CANNERY, Ann STEAMBOAT WORK Promptly attended to. Aspeclaltymadeof repairing CANNERY PIES, FOOT OF LAFAYETTE STREET. PATRONIZE HOME INDUSTRY! There Is no occasion for the most fastidi ous of our citizens to send to Portland or San Francisco for Custom Made Clothes As they can get Eetter Fits, Better Work manship, and for Less IVEoixoy By Leaving their Orders with ME ANY. He has Just received the Yum'.est Yum Yum lot of Goods evermade up In Astoria. Call and See Him aad Satisfy Tourself. P. J. MEANY, MERCHANT TAILOR. Notice to Cannerymen. TTITB ARE AGENTS FOR HENDERSON & 11 Withers for the sale of thelrthareoal and can furnish any amount desired. Please oall and we us before purchaslnc elsewhere. B0TOKTH& JOHNS. Money to Loan rX APPBOVED SECURITY COUNTY xf Orde lets bought. Apply ftttbjomee of F. D. WEITON. tSSSSSBL WF' MUSLI1T UNDERWEAR DEPARTMENT! ffE WILL MICE EL 01 LADIES' Drawers, " Chemises, Night Gowns, Corset Covers, Skirts, &c. FOR THE REMAINING DAYS OF THIS WEEK ! AXaSO All Odd Lines in Corsets :W& M SbU at Mi Mh Prices! C. H. COOPER'S The Leading Dry Goods and -AGENCY ffiT.Coleian&Co. OF SAN FRANCISCO. Havel's Wharf and Warehouse, Aatoriut Oregon. Cannery Supplies at LoTrest Prlees. Storage and Insurance at Current Rates. Banking Department DrtftB on the leading Cities of the Yorld JNO.P.McGOVEBN, Agent. m. H. Stewart, Accountant, and Agent Northern Pacific Express Co. CITY BOOK STORE. Books and Stationery! The Largest and Finest Stock in Astoria to Select From. GRIFFIN & REED. MacDonald Are now Show a Large Assortment Goods in Every Line! Which will lie Sold at Lower Figures than at any Other House IN THE CITY. . The Leading Clothing, Hat, and Gents' Furnishing Store OV ASTORIA. Clothing House in Astoria. EXCURSION TICKETS!! FROM ASTORIA TO PORTLAND AND RETURN 3ETo3 32. SO 2 ON THE "TELEPHONE." Astoria and Seaside BAKERIES, ED. JACKSON, Proprietor The beat Bread, Cakes and Pastry In the City, Ioe Creams and Ornamental Work to order Manufacturer of Fine Candles. & Mcintosh Prepared to OP s. , .ai-aLi-'i - r-4 b&rv'a? aai'Vi-T' -.. -- iou : - &zirmmn