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ASTORIA, OREGON:
SUNDAY
..JANUARY 30, 1687
SUICIDES.
Tiieke were three suicides in
San Francisco so far last "week.
San Francisco has the distinction
of producing more suicides than
any other city in the United States.
This may be considered as merely
an example of San Francisco's su
periority, but there 'is a special
reason for pre-eminence in this
particular. There is still a wide
spread idea that if a person who
has failed. elsewhere can raise the
price of a ticket to this coast his
fortune is assnred. This is sup
posed to be a region to which the
ordinary laws of supply and de
mand have not reached. When a
man lands in San Francisco, buoy
ant with the confident expectation
of a. revolution in his worldly af
fairs, and finds the same inhospit
able streets, thesame cruel alterna
tive between work and starvation
from which he has fled across the
continent, the disillusion is com
plete and crushing. There is no
time for a gradual awakening
the'victim drops atonce from fairy
land to the hardest kind of earth.
Saa' Franoisoo has been overrun
with penniless eastern people re
duced to a despondency that seems
to-leave no room for hope. As
the influx of invalids generally
gives health resorts a high death
rate, the steady drift of social
wrecks gives that city a high rate
of suicides.
Suicide is often a foolish and
worse than useless thing. Of
course, people of intelligence will
not agree with the unthinking as
sertion, so often made, that all
self destruction is cowardly. Not
to speak of the cases in which na
tional sentiment has made suicide,
under certain circumstances, a
point of honor, as among the Ro
mans and Japanese, so many
men of undoubted courage have
chosen that method of leaving the
world that we should need a new
definition of cowardice before 'we
could apply such a term to them.
The simple truth is, that in this,
as in everything else, we must
consider each case on its own
merits.
One benefit of suicide which is
often overlooked, is that it fre
quently plays the same part as
drunkenness in promoting the sur
vival of the fittest. The ardent
young man, who, after shooting at
the girl who has had the good taste
to reject him, ends by shooting
himself, could put himself to no
better use. The wealthy idiot
who throws away his fortune, and
himself after it, could make no
improvement in his conduct, ex
cept by jumping into the bay a
little sooner. The world can easily
spare such people. Indiscriminate
suicide is no more to be recom
mended than indiscriminate mat
rimony, but, like the drama, self
removal should be reformed, not
abolished. "San Francisco is an
excellent field for this reform. As
Beecher remarked of Brooklyn,
'There are lots of people who
ought to kill themselves, but few
of the right kind do." However
much the individual is to be pitied
who finds life too hard to live,
there can be no question that San
Francisco has nor suffered as a
whole by the tendency of the dis
couraged to take the dark leap.
"While brave men sometimes kill
themselves, it is oftenest the weak
who desert from the battle. And
every weak spirit lost to any com
munity is a gain in strength. This
is the practical view. The relig
ious aspect of the question of self
slaughter must be left to the de
cision of each human creature who
has a life to keep or throw away.
If the legislature will pass a
bill granting a bounty for killing
seals and sea lions off the mouth
of the Columbia river and in the
stream, a bounty of 2.50 for each
seal and $5 for eaeh sea lion it will
-do about as sensible and requisite
a deed as any proposition that has
jet oome before it.
Seductive as may be the idea
of regulating all work and wages
which is offered by the scheme of
a universal union of all workers J
for wages, the gift cannot be ac
cepted without also accepting the
burdens it would impose. On the
one side are individual liberty,
competition and suffering, with
social progress; on the other are
the merging of the individual in
the mass, deliverance from strug
gles and anxiety, but at the same
time, the arrest of all social devel
opment, and of all ambition and
hope for improvement in the fu
ture. A Galveston woman compos
itor, who belonged to the Printers'
Union, marred a non-union com
positor not loasr ago, and then
tried to get him to join the order.
out ne refused, ana the union
voted a boycott, in which the wife
participated, having left her hus
band and begun proceedings for a
divorce.
Thebe are only two editors in
the legislature and each of them
illustrates by his actions what a
monumental mistake he made in
going there.
Bspid Beating of the Heart.
"Whenever you feel an uneasiness
in the region of the heart, a slight
pain in the shoulder, arm, or under
the shoulder-blade, or when you find
yourself short of breath when ex
ercising, or your heart has periods
of of beating fast, you have heart
disease, and should take Db. Flint's
Heabt Bemedy. At druggists, $1.50.
Descriptive treatises with eaoh bot
tle; or address J. J. Mack & Co., S. F.
Syrup orFigs.
Manufactured only by the California
Fig Syrup Co. San Francisco Cal. is
Natures Own True. Laxative. This
pleasant liquid truit remedy may be
had of W. E. Dement & Co, at fifty cents
or one dollar per bottle. It is the moat
pleasant, prompt and enective remedy
known, to
the Liver,
nown. to cleanse the system : to act on.
the JLiver, iudneys aud lioweis centiy
yet thorouc
et thoroughly to dispel Headachs,
Colds and Fevers; to oure Constipation,
Indigestion and kindred ills.
That Hacking Cougn can be so
quickly cured
on
We
guarantee it Sold by W. E. Dement.
Good For One Week.
The Columbia Transportation Com-
Eany will sell round trip tickets in
unches of five, good for a trip to Port
land and return from January 30th to
February 4th. The tickets will be
good to and insluding Sunday February
6th. The round trip tickets will cost
32 each.
Shiloh's Cure
will immediately
relieve Croup, Whooping Cough, and
Bronchitis. Sold
IUJ 1 . JC. UCUlKllltfX, jV
All the patent medicines advertised
in this paper, together with the choicest
Eerfumery, and toilet articles, etc-can
e bought at the lowest prices, at J. W.
Conn's drug store, opposite Occident
hotel, Astoria.
Croup, Whooping Cough and Bron
chitis Immediately relieved by Shilob's
Cure, SoIdbyW.E. Dement.
The only perfect remedy for habitual
constipation, dyspepsia and kindred
ills, is the famous liquid fruit remedy
Syrup of figs. It strengthens as well as
cleanses the System, it is easily taken
and perfectly harmless. For sale by
W. is, Dement & uo.
NEW TO-DAY.
Red Fir Wood, Dry.
A A CORDS SEASONED FIKWOODFOK
V7 sale at $4 per cord.
H. B, TAKKEB.
Notice
IS HEREBY GIVEN THAT THERE IS
money In tho county treasury to pay
outstanding county orders presented and
endorsed by the county treasurer up to and
including the 1st day of August, 1S31. and
those of fund "B," up to and Including Oct.
18th, 188G.
I. BERGMAN.
Co, Treasurer.
Astoria, Ogn., Jan'y 3lst, 1887.
Sheriff's Sale.
NOTICE IS HEREBY GIVEN THAT BY
virtue of the written request and com
mand of Wra. Loeb endorsed upon a certi
fied copy of a certain chattle mortgage given
by John Johnson and Sarah Johuson to
sxJd Wm, Loeb. dated December 5th. 1885.
commanding me to levy upon and sell the
persjnal property in said mortgage des
cribed, I did on-tne 2Sth day of Jau'y, 1887
levy upon all the right, title and interest of
the said John Johnson and Sarah Johnson
or either of tnem in and to one certain fish
ing boat now at yte Columbia Canning
Company's cannery in Astoria, Or., more
particularly described as follows : One ash
ing boat 25 feet long, 7 feet 3 Inches beam,
painted lead color and numbered 41, to
gether with sails, spars, an -nor oars and
rowlocks complete, and I shall on the 4tn
day of February, 1887, at the hour of 2
o'clock p.m., of said day, at the Colombia
Canning Company's cannery in Astoila,
Oregon, pro ceed to sell tba sumo, at public
auction, to the highest bidder for cash In
band, to satisfy the sum of -lx hundred and
forty-eight dollars and twenty-nine cents
with interest thereon, together with the
costs and expenses of sale.
W. G. ROSS,
snerin.
By T, G. BOELLTNG, Dep'ty.
As tor
la, J a
Tau'y. 29th, 1887.
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Ho, for The Opera!
During the Emma Abbott Opera week.
Commencing January 30th, and coBtlnulng
until reoury otn.
THE.O. B. & N. CO.
will sell Excursion Tickets to parties c or
more to Portland and return at the ex
tremely low rate of
82.00.
Tickets good to return until Monday,
Feb, 7th. E. A NOYES,
Agent,
F, E, 8HUTE, Ticket Ag't.
ST 000 TO L0AN ON CITY PROP
7 MISSELLAPOPE.
THOS. O.TRULLXFeEB, Agent,
MUESAY & CO,,
GROCERS
And Dealers in
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Special Attention Given to Filling
Of Ordors.
A FULL. LINE CARRIED
And Supples furnished at Satis
factory Terms.
Purchases delirered in any part of the city.
Office and Warehouse
In name's New Building on Water Street.
P. CBox 133. Telephone No. S7.
ASTORIA, OREGON.
Frank L Parker,
Dealer in
Fancy anil Staple Oroceries.
Flour Feed Potatoes
Headquarters For
ASTORIA WOOD YARD.
FRESH CLATSOP EGGS
Can be had of i. 31. RhaiFaer lil Water
St., and "Wherry & Co.'s market opposite
Occident Hotel. 1 don't claim they are
fresh as some do who have but a few chick
ens and It takes them a month to get a
shipment, but because I Imve tho largest
Chicken ranch this side of Portland, iuu by
experienced hands, pick up the eggs every
day and brlop them to town 3 times a week.
And don't vou forget It that every egg bought
from the above parties is guaranteed by
them to be fresh. S. if. STANLEY.
NEW YORK
Headquarters For
STATIONERY.
BOOKS,
MAGAZINES,
TOTS.
JEWELRY.
SOLID GOLD
AND SILVER.
NOVELTIES OF ALL DESCRIPTIONS
CANES,
Perfumeries, Toilet ArticleB, Etc.
ALL THE
Latest Styles on Exhibition.
Agents for "Will & Flnck's Sporting Goods.
Ono Asout (dealer
yj wn.utea in everv
irn. K. AV. 'i'nasill
ft Co., OJKlato St.,
ClUUitiO.
D. L. BECK & SONS, Agents.
American News Depot
ON SALE
The latest Magazines and Illustrated
papers ot the day.
Swedish, Danish and German papers,
Books aud Dictionaries.
Lovell and Seaside Libraries, School
Books, Stationery, etc. A BALMANNO,
Cnenamus St. near Main.
NEW STUDIO.
'Mrs. Jas. A. Davidson
Has opened a studio in the Kinney Block,
Room 7, over Adler's, and will give lessons
In Landscape aud Flowers in oil, also Draw
ing, etc.
i erms 50 cts. a lesson. Hours, 8 to 12 a, m. ,
and l to or. ir.
Boat Building.
JOE LEATHERS
Is on deck aud prepared to build boats
that he will guarantee as to work and dur
ability. Keiers to all who have used boats of
his construction. All work guaranteed.
Strike It Rich!
BOY YOUR
Groceries i Provisions
-of
Foard & Stokes
Their largely increasing trade enables
them to sell at the very lowest margin
of proflt while giving you goods t
that are of first class quality.
Goods Delivered All Over the City.
The Highest PrlcG Paid for Junk,
Ganne
1 B
mmy.
Novelty Store
ISS WAR E
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Comic, Long Jokers. Fault Finders, Hit 'Em Hards,
Trade Comics. Sharp Darts.
Xe;v Laco Valentines, Gems of Love, New Sachet, Love's Arrows Cupids
.Dart.sSatin Novelty Yaler.tiiiPS and Valentine of all : 'erintions in l-:ry. variety
AT
Th
Crystal
GAEL
JUDX
AVe beg to renew our notice to the Fisheries of thi upper Pacific,
of the full preparation we have made and are making- to manufacture
good wares for their use, of every kind, except double knotted Salmon
Nets: Pounds and Traps, Gill Nets, beiue?, from sardines to porpoise.
We advise tho practicability of using
Purse Salinas Sins
For outside fishing. One can bo made verv strong and vcvv light, and
can be handled QUICK LOW IN COST. In the New England
waters are over four hundred large Purse seines for mackerel, herring
and menhaden, 200 fathoms long, 25 fathoms deep, any fish that move
in compact bodies can be takon in these seines.
We offer the
Stow Cotton Salmon Twine
with a full belief that its strength is ample for tho hardest service, ol more
durability than flax, and no more expensive. Our energies, with a Ions experi
ence in netting and o desire to send jjood wares to our patrons, wo hope will not
disapolnt anv reasonable expectations.
. " GLOUCESTER NET & TWINE CO., Gloucester.
Boston Office, 03 Commercial Street.
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Wholly ili ami
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PROVISIONS AND MILL FEED,
Crockery, Glass and Plated Ware. Teas, Coffees, Spices, &c, &c.
Fresh. California Sutter
Swiss, Holland and New Cream Cheese; Smoked Herring, Holland
.Herring, Caviar, Anchovies, Tongues and Sounds, White
Fish and Mackerel, Schrimps, Lobsters,
French Sardines and Oysters.
Shrewsbury Ketchup, Chill Sauce, Tobasco Sauce, CelerySalt, French and
German Mustard, Leiblg'a Ez. Beef, Sea Foam wafers,
Van Houghton's Cocoa.
Triticii, Geraea, Epicurean M, Oat Porriflp, Rolled Oats.
Oranges. Lemons, Nuts, Figs, &c &c.
Furniture and Upholstering,
Mattresses Made and Impaired.
Paper Hanging, Carpets Sowed
and Laid.
Furniture Sold on Commission.
Snoi corner Mala and Jefferson f troeH
MARTIN OLSEX.
Genuine English Porpoise Shoes Tor Gents.
Ladles Flexiblo Sole Shoes in French, Kangaroo and Donpola Kid
Boys and Youths Shoes of all Kinds, Misses and Childrens and Infant heels, and
Sprin? heels. WE IEAI, IS BOOTS A31 SHOES OKL1T.
P. J. GOODMAN.
Just Received.
1,500 Rolls Mlppr and. Decorations
Of the Latest Designs. and Shades. Also to Arrive
THIS WEEK.
50 Leather, Plush and Carpet Rockers,
In Elegant New Styles: Just tho thins for
Call and See Us. CHAS. HE3L50RN.
CITY BOOB: STORE.
A Full Line of Staple Goods now in Stock
RLANK BOOKS, SCHOOL BOOKS
Fine Stationery a Specialty.
Musical Instruments and Merchandise, Notions, etc.
AGENTS FOR
PACIFIC COAST CHARTS AND TIDE TABLES.
GRIFFIN & REED.
B,, Manager.
IWall D.-ai.r -i
r nnnn
fc"
fen
C. E. BAIN.
DOORS, WINDOWS, BRACKETS,
Mouldings, Window Frames, etc.
A Full Supply of Material. Bids Furnished :
Contract Work a Specialty.
Mill and Office on the Old Site.
l-lTll.waEMI3faMngMM3CaMgBlM
Shoes! Shoes! Shoes!
At
Fall and Winter Stock Complete
IN ALL STYLES AND GBADES.
No more need to send away for a Fine Shoe, as we have.u Full
Line of the Celebrated DRIAL& CO.'S FRENCH SHOES, and
LAIRD, SGHOBER & MITCHELL'S FINE SHOES of
which we are Sole Dealers in Astoria.
We also handle BOOTS and SHOES from all the Leading
Factories in America.
Men's Heavy Boots and shoes a Specialty.
LOWEST PRICES and SATISFACTION Guaranteed.
W. T- PASSES., Manager.
DKAIRIt XX
Hay, Oats, anfl. Straw, Lime, Brie!, Cement, Sanil anil Plaster
Wood Delirered to Order. Drnjlntr. Teaming ami Express Buftl&eui.
U--.Jfr " . P!ii " I rJl I
1'EI: aprly to tho Captain, or to
ESsta,l3lisliOc3L 1876.
Sporting and War Munitions,
Duck-shooting Powder, 50 Cents a Pound.
A Good Double Barrelled Breech Loader for $12.50
J. C.
COUNTY
Coroner's Office, Undertaklnj: ltooras next to
?rk . B0UP
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KUAfrrS'
i uus, Johnstone
J. R. LEES0N & CO.,
BOSTON,
SOLE AGENTS AND IMPORTERS.
Tie Johnstone (Scotland) ant Grain (1ft)
Prize Linen Threads
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The only Linen Threads awarded a Prize Medal
London 1851 and New Orleans Worlds Exposition 1881.
Did not exhibit at Philadelphia 1876 or Paris 1878.
First Prize Awarded Wherever Exhibited!!
References for the Scotch Salmon Not Twines:
EVERY CANNER or FISHERMAN who bought
it last season. IT GAVE UNIVERSAL SATIS
FACTION. Agents for the Pacifio Ceast:
KITTLE & CO.,
202 C8llf a St., San Francisco, Cala.
The
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STEA3IER
MU PARKER
tben P. Parker, A) 'aster.
TOWING, FREIGHT orOHAK
H. II. PAKKEH.
ROSS,
O O IE. O 350" IE3 3R.f
A
. Pirst Glass Undertaking Establishment
A FINE HEARSE,
New est style Caskets and Funeral Material,
Everything Neat and Well Arranged.
Arturian office, (B. B. Franklin's old stand.)
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