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Ci tApn3 VOL. XXVII, NO. 44. ASTORIA, OREGON, TUESDAY, FEBRUARY , 1887. PRICE JBIVE CENTS: L BUSINESS CARDS. J. E, liA. FOKCK. DENTIST. Kooms 11 and 12 Odd Fellows Building:. ASTORIA, --- - OREGON. JAJt. A. I.. FIJITOX. I'll yslclaii and Surgeon. OHW on Cass street, thwa floors south or tdd Fellow's building, ivienhon'c No. 41. P. Til O EN. PHYSTCTAN AND SUROEOX, Residence, Upper Astoria, Nillson House. fAY TFTTLiK, HI. J. MlMAN AND SURGEON 1 1 t.-c Kooms Pythian Building. UmruKNCK-On Cedar Street, luck of -. Murj's Hosnital. . SIt. O. It. F.STF.S. PHYSICIAN AND SURGEON. H'Kicr. : fiem Building, up stairs, Astoria, Oicgon. Hit. FKNK PAWF.. PHYSICIAN AND SURGEON , Opposite Telegraph Office, Astoria, Oregon. G ELO F. PARKER, SURVEYOR OF CLATSOP COUNTY AND Eac-Clty Surveyor of Astoria Office : N. E. cornnr Cass and Astor streets, Room No. 8 Up StalrH. Robt, Collier, Deputy, D R. AL.FKEO KIXNEY, Office at Kinney's Cannery. Will only attend patients at his office, and may bo found there at any hour. E.c- HOLDEN, Notary Public, Commissioner of Deeds For Washington Territory, Auctioneer, Seal Estate and Insurance Agent. Office, at Holden's Auction Booms, Chena- mus street, Astoria. Oiegon. C B. THOMSON, E. COOVKRT. THOMSON & CO OVERT, Attorneys at Law and Notaries Public. Special attention gi en to collections and examining titles. Office Kooms 4 and 5, over City Book Stoie. GEO. V. DOKKIS, GEO. SOLAN U .01KD & DOKKIS, ATTORNEYS AT LAW. onsee in Kinney's Block, opposite City Hall, Astoria, Oregon. O VT. KULTOX. O. C. FULTON FUI.TOK BROTHERS, ATTORNEYS AT LAW. Kooms 5 and 6. Odd Fellows Building. J. A. BOW'IiBY, Attorney and Counsellor at Lavr Office on Chenamus Street, Astoria, Oregon P. 1. WLSTOX attorney; at law. Itooms No. ll and 12, Fj thlan Castle Build ing. CI B. WATSON, Jm Atty.at Law and Deputy Dist. Atty. All business before the U. S. Land Office a specialty. ASTOKIA, - - OKKC.OX. T T. BAKIX, ATTORNEY AT LAW, Oregon crrr, - - - - okec.ox. Havlug an experience I nine years as Register of the Land Office at Oregon City, Oregon, I am now ready to attend to Land Business for settlers and claimants before any District, or the General, Land Office on reasonable terms. Advice and information, if desired, ghen ' by mail. A K. SHAW. DENTIST. Rooms In Allen's Building, up stairs, cor ner Cass and Squemoqua streets, Astoria Oregon. A. SMITH. DENTIST. Rooms 1 and 2 Pythian C. H. Cooper's Store. Bmld-ing over THOS. MAIRS, FasMonaWe Tailor A Good Fit Guaranteed. CHARGES MODERATE Agent for the Celebrated Household Sew In? Machine. Shop opposite C. H. Cooper's H. TRADE 7 MARK. rm UR ibaolulelu J-We from ujSaics, Emetics unit 1'oison SAFE. g far Hi SURE. OtS. AT DHCCniSTS AM) HEALtHS. T1IS CHAKLEM A. WM.U1 K CO.. UiLTlSOUE. HO. mmmm ! ft (feres Eisnatts,lTnralEi3, rill K 24 I B I hprI Brt.Uw.eU., ftc 1 U I I IfllS PltlCK, FIFTY (JKNTo. TUB tlUELES A.TO0ELEU CO., OALTiaOnE, HO. Jares Femftle Complaints. A Great Kidney lemefly. t SOLD BY ALL DRUGGISTS. Boat Building. 1TANY YEARS EXPERIENCE IN 1TX building boats on the Columbia rher and hunureds of huo uojls 01 my miiia make my guaranteet for good w ork. Head quarters at the old Astoria Iron Works building. Will build boats at any point on the Columbia rier where my services may be required. wsi. ilUUIS. -A.GENC3T- Wm.T.ColBman&Co. OFaSAN FRANCISCO. Flavel's Wharf and Warehouse, Astoria, Oregon. Cannery Supplies nt Lowest Prices. Storage and Insurance at Current Kate. Banking Department Drafts on the leading Cities of the W01U JOHN F. McGOVERN, Agent. It. IE. Coleman, Accountant. Ship Chandlers, HEAVY AND SHELF E Paints, Oils, and Varnish. LOGGERS' SUPPLIES. PBOVISIONS AND MILL FEED AGENTS FOll SALEM PATENT ROLLER MILLS, Portland Roller Mills, Capitol Flour and FAIRBANKS' SCALES. ASTORIA. OREGON. -THE- DIAMOND PALACE! GUSTAY HASSEN, Prop'r. A Large and Well Selected Stock of Fine Biamonfls i Jewelry At Extremely Low Prices. All Goods Bought at This Kstablkhtnpnl Warranted Genuine. Watcli and Clock Repairing A SPECIALTY. Comer Cass and Squemoqua Streets. Elmore, Sanborn & Co. COMMISSION MERCHANTS, Fire Insurance AGENTS. Itepresentlng the Largest and Most ltelia ule fire Insurance Companies. All Business promptlyjand accurately tran RholIOD! WHson & Fisher FJaYelsWbarlr - Astoria OregoD. The Grand Old Ocean. The sea occupies three-fifths of the surface of the earth. At the depth of about 3,500 feet waves are not felt. The temperature is the same varying only a trifle from the ice of the pole to the burning sun of the equator. A mile down the water has a pressure of over a ton to the square inch. If a box six feet deep was filled with sea water and allowed to evapo rato under the sun, there would be two inches of salt left on the bottom. Taking the average depth of the ocean to be three miles, there would be a layer of pure salt 230 feet truck on the bed of the Atlantic. The water is colder at the bottom than at the surface. In the many bays on the coast of Norway the water often freezes at the bottom before it does above. Waves are very de ceptive. To look at them in a storm one would think the water traveled. The water stays in the same place, but the motion goes on. Sometimes in storms these waves are forty feet high, and travel fifty miles an hour more than twice as fast as the swiftest steamer. The distance from val ley to valley is generally fifteen times the height, hence a wave five feet will extend over seventy-five feet of water. The force of the sea dashing on Bell Rock is said to be seventeen tons for each square yard. Evaporation is a wonderful power in drawing the water from the sea. Every ear a layer of the entire sea, fourteen feet thick, is taken up into the clouds. The winds bear their burden into the land, and the water comes down in rain upon the fields, to flow back at last through rivers. The depth of the sea presents an interesting problem. If the Atlantic was lowered 6,564 feet, the distance from shore to shore would, be half f as great; or 1,500 miles. If low ered a little more than three miles, say 10,680 feet, there would be a road of dry land from Newfound land to Ireland. This is the plain on which the great Atlantic cables were laid. The Mediterranean is comparatively shallow. A drying up of 660 feet would leave three different seas, and Africa would be joined with Italy. The British channel is more like a pond, which accounts for its choppy waves. It has been found difficult to get the correct soundings of the Atlantic. A midshipman of the navy overcame the difficulty, and shot weighing thirty pounds car ries down the lines. A hole is bored through the sinker, through which a rod of iron is passed, mov ing easily back and forth. In the end of thee bar a cup is dug out, and the inside coated with lard. The bar is made fast to the line, and -a sling holds the shot on. When the bar, which extends be low the ball, touches the earth, the sling unhooks and the shot slides off. The lard in the end of the bar holds some of the sand, or whatever may be on the bottom, and a drop shuts over the cup to keep the water from washing the sand out. When the ground is reached, a shock is felt as if an electric current had passed through the line. The Ocean Wave. WHAT SENATOB NELSON THINKS OF AMXOCIt'S POROUS PLASTERS. Senate Chamber, Albaxy, N. Y.,) April 4, 1885. ) On the 27th of February, 1883. I waB taken -with a violent pain in the region of the kidneys. I suffered such agony that I could hardly stand up. As soon as possible I applied two Allcock's Porous Plasters, one over each kidney, and laid down. In an hour, to my surprise and de light, the pain had vanished and I was well. I wore the plasters for a day or two as a precaution, and then removed them. I have been using Alujock's. Porous Plasters in my family for the last ten years, and have always found them the quick est and best external remedy for coldn, strains and rheumatic affec tions. From my experience I be lieve they are the best plasters in the world. Henry O. Nelson. The reduction debt for January 515,687. of the public amounts to y, . nrn.Oc Blood Elixir is tho TAASV T oniy Bi0od Remedy guaranteed. It is a positive euro for Ulcers, Eruptions, or Syphilitic Pois oning. It purifies the wholo system, and banishes all Rheumatic and Neu ralgic pains. "We guarantee it. J. W. Conn. Betrayed By a Pake Marriage. On the lSth of January, says the Corvallis Gazette, Marshal Pygall received a letter from Miss Mabel Burton, of Newport, Jasper coun ty, Iowa, asking him to look for one Alvin Meservey, and if he found him to notify her immedi ately, as she wanted him on a charge of seduction. Marshal Py gall, upon inquiry, ascertained that Meservey was working for Frank Fisher, near town, and im mediately advised the girl of the fact, and advising her to send him a warrant. Instead of so doing the girl put the warrant in her pocket and came "after her de ceiver, intending to 'make him ful fill his pledges or have him pros ecuted. She arrived here on Monday, onl to find that Me servey had left for 'Frisco by the Santa Maria, which sailed on the 27th ulr., having been warned by his friends that the giil he had wronged so cruelly was on his trail. The girl's story is that Meservey won her confidence and after deluding her into a mock marriage, accomplished her ruin and then skipped out for parts un known. She is an orphan and was engaged in teaching school at the time that Meservey accomplished her ruin. When she reached here her means were exhausted, and as she was in no condition to support herself, she was given 50 by the county to pay her expenses back to her home, for which place she left on Wednesday. Before she left she told Marshall Pygall it was her intention, after the birth of her child, to continue her search after Meservey and compel him to marry her. iiuelileii's Arnica Salve Tun Rest Sat.vk i n the world for Cut., Brm-es,Sores,Ulcprs,SaltRIicuin, Feer Sores, Tetter, Chapped. Hands, Chilblains. Corns, and all Skin Erup tions, and posilholysQures Piles, or no pay required. It is guaranteed to gi e perfect satislaetion, or money refunded, rrice 23 cents per box. For sale by Y E. Dement &. Co. New York, Feb. 19. The Tribunes Ottawa special says it is learned that Lucius P. Tuttle, passenger and freight manager of the Canadian Pacific railroad, is in New York completing arrange ments for the purchase of the fast est steamship of the Cijnard line. 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I am prepared to make up Suits cheaper than the cheapest. Give me a call and be roivunced that I mean what I say. J. E ROSS. Corner Squemoqua and Hamilton streets, east of C. II. Cooper's. B. F. ALLEN PKACTICAT. GRAINER and PAINTER. SIGNP.a.INTING. AND GLASS SHOW CARDS, lJLJX AXD JRECORATIVK Paper Hanging. Frescoing, Etc. Shop on Cass St., net to Stlnson's Black smith shop. Astoria, Oregon, VirginiaCiffar anfl ToUacco Store J. W. BOTTOM, Proprietor, Water Street, Tno Doors .East of Olnej. Fine Cigars, Tobaccos and SmoVers Articles, Sold at Lowest Market Rates. FRUITS. CANDIES, NOTIONS.&c O. H. Stockton. Pioneer Painter and Paper Hanger. Ofllee on Main. Three doors south of Squemoqua Street. House Paintipg, Graining, Fres coing, etc. E. C. HOLDEN. Aoclioneer aort ConMofl Apt Established 1874. Dealer in New and Second-hand Furniture and Bedding. Will conduct Auction Sales of Land, Stock, or Household Goods in the country. Will appraise and purchase Second-hand Furniture. Consignments Solicited, Quick Sales and prompt Cash returns guaranteed. Astoria agent tor Daily and Weekly Ore gonian. Carnahaii & Co. SUCCESSORS TO I. "W. CASE, raiTORTERS AND WHOLESALE AND RETAIL DEALERS IN GENERAL MffiCHAMSE, Corner Chenamus and Cass streets. ASTCRIA OREGON ARBOUR' Jrish Flax HAVE NO GRAND PRIX f!k GRAND CROSS of the LEGION D'HONNEUR. THEY HAVE BEEN AWARDED HIGHER PRIZES AT ITIE VARIOUS THAX THE GOODS OF ANY OTHER THREAD MANUFACTURERS IN THE Quality can Always be Depended on ! Emeriencefl fielei Use no Other ! HENRY DOYLE & CO., , 517 and 519 Market Street, SAN FRANCISCO, AGEKTS FOR .PACIFIC COAST. Seine Twinesj Eope and Netting Constantly on Hand. The New Model Range CAN BE HAD IN ASTORLV, ONLY OF E, R. HA WES, Agent. Call and Evamine It ; You Wiil be Pleased. E. It. Haw es Is also Agent for the Buck Patent Cooking Stove, AND OTTIER FIRST CLASS STOVES. Furnace Work, Steam Fittings, Etc., a Specialty. A Full Stock on Hand. Strike It Rich BUY your Groceries 1 Provisions -OF- Foard & Stokes Their largely increasing trade enahles them to sell at the very lowest margin of proflt while giving you goods that are of first class quality. Goods Delivered All Over the City. The Highest Price raid for Junk. B Mt la Colli TransDortation FOR PORTLAND! Through Freight on Fast Timei THE NEW STEAMER TELEPHONE- Which has been specially built for tho comfort of passengers will leave Wilson & Fisher's Dock every Monday, Wednesday and Friday at 6 A.M. arriving at Portland at 1 ?Mt Returning leaves Portland every Tuesday and Thursday at 6 A. M. arriving at Astoria at 1 Pv& yAn additional trip -will be made on Sunday of Each. WeeK, leaving Foxtkad at 9 O'clock Sunday Morning. Passengers b? this route connect atsslaxos for Bound ports. 17. B. SCOTT, President! Threads EQUAL! PARIS, 1878, AXD "WORLD. 5H5 ASTORIA Yard. Keep Constantly on hand. . Fir Wood, Red and Yellow, HEMLOCK "WOOD. ALDER "WOOD, SPRUCE LIMBS, MAPLE LIMBS, SPLIT ASH "WOOD. ASH LIMBS. AND CRABAPPLB Any desired length from four foot to eight inches long. Leave orders with Frank L. Parker or at the yards. Telephone 36. l Wood m any jftC ffc,'fr-rSl--g SJ& .W'.Hi. Mfcuvs .