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About The daily morning Astorian. (Astoria, Or.) 1883-1899 | View Entire Issue (Jan. 12, 1888)
T .--) ...uuyium u gaUtj gsforian. ASTORIA. OREGON: THURSDAY- JANUARY 12. 18S8 OUR DISPIRITED SHIP-OWNERS The most dispirited class of busi ness men to be met with to-day are American otrners of vessel property, and of vessels engaged in foreign trade particularly. "If I can manage to get free from the vessels now on my hands I will never put another dollar into that kind of property again," said a ship owner to the writer recently. "I used to have some pride in helping to keep the American flag on the seas, but it's all gone; the government don't deserve it On the contrary, they seem to care little whether or not the American flag floats upon the high seas and in all ports." Wo suppose a great majority of ship owners are in the same frame of mind, and while it is almost impossible for them to dispose of their ships without too great a sacrifice, they can and do refrain from putting out fresh money in this direction, either in tho way of enlarging their enterprises, or replac ing lost and condemned vessels to any great extent. There is no one reason for this; the whole situation is unsat isfactory. The 1 aws having to do with tho ocean-carrying trade are moss grown and ill adapted to the competi tive needs of the day. There is a lack of energy and gumption among our national law-makers whenever this subject comes up for discussion. Re medial legislation falls clumsily short of its object, as, for instance, the ad vance wages prohibition supposed to have been secured in the Dinglcy bill. It i3 a dead-letter, and tho same bur den exists now as before. The treasury is overflowing, and yet a useless and needless tonnage tax is exacted, and insuch a blundering way as to bring both the state and treas ury departments into foreign compli cations. One might continue pointing out the burdens more or less severe that weight down this class of invest inents, for the list is a long one. If this country, with its 12,000 miles of coast line, is to have a merchant marine at all commensurate with its rank as a power, a very different spir it must be shown in congress in tho immediate future. Legislation of the tho puttying and patching typo must give way to comprehensive measures, else we must be content with rail roads alone and allow England to be the mistress of the seas in even great er degree than now. And among the most important measures demanded there are two which are pressing to the front; mail communication with foreign ports must be vastly improved, and consuls must bo paid salaries and be allowed to pirato vessel-owners no longer. Trade not only follows tho flag which tho mail steamer flies, but it is a serious detriment, to vessel-owners and merchants both, to be forced to the delay of such round about trans mission of tho mails as now occur It is disgraceful, for example, that this country should have no direct com munication with so important a port at Buenos Ayres. Nearly all our mail to that port comes and goes via Eng land or France, and so with many other ports of importance. Tho En glish government supports with glad alacrity any movement of its mer chants to push foreign trade, while in this country the reverse is true. The consular service has been improved of late, but human nature is the same and under the fee system it is a duty of the consul to gouge the captain as much as possible. Congress should afford relief in both these directions must do so, indeed if any improve ment is to bo brought about SrKiNGnn, chairman of the commit tee oa territories, says: "It is very probable that enabling acts will be passed for some of tho territories that is, we may pass an act enabling some of the territories to adopt state constitutions and construct the ma chinery of a state government, pre paratory to recognition as states. The admission of a new state is a very im portant matter, and cannot be done by mere application or on an arith metical basis. Somehow an impres sion has been abroad that a territory must have a certain population to qualify it for admission. There is no custom about it The admission of a new stats is entirely a matter of legis lative discretion. It is within the power of congress to erect "No Man's Land" into a state, and admit it to the "Union. The state of Illinois was admitted when she had less than 40,- 000 people. Dakota has over -100,000. Congress, in its discretion, may ex clude Dakota and may admit "No Man's Land." The new clerk of tho courts of Chester county, Penn., is Mrs. Re becca P. Neilds the first woman who ever held that office in the county. Shiloh's Cough ana Consumption Cure is sold by us on guarantee. It cures consumption, Sold by W. E. Dement INSURANCE FOB WOMEN. Undesirable Risks Seldom Sought After. Chicago Herald. "We don't care about insuring wo men," said the agent of an insurance company the other day. "We take women in the company, but we never seek them, and at most we only in sure them for S2500. Some compa nies refuse to insure them at all. Let us hope that none of us will be so uugaliaut as to say that they are not as valuable as a man," and the old gentleman bowed with great suaveness; "but there are other rea sons which compel us to be cautious. The expectancy of life is not so great with them. The liability which they are under of beariDg children makes the risk in insuring. I have no doubt that the decision of insurance com panies is based on mortuary statistics, though I know that the popular im pression is that a greater number of women live to exceeding old age than men. It is true that men are more liable from the nature of their lives to be killed accidentally, and it is also true that their vices cause much physical degeneration. .But, on the other hand, women are subject to many complaints Inci dent to their sex which make them bad investments from the standpoint of an insurance agent. I am not among those who assert that they will not insure women because they do not wish to have anv business dealings with them. I have heard it said that they were not prompt in keeping up their policies, but that has not oeen my experience. It is even said that the examining agents can not trust a woman to tell the truth about herself that sho will neither confess to her diseases nor her ace and that she is inaccurato in her statements about her ancestors. Per sonally I would believe a man aB quickly as a woman. However I have heard that objection seriously urged. "In England, though a woman can not insure herself, yet a husband can insure her annuity, if she has one. The inference is that if he has a good reason for killing her off he will, but if he only gets her insurance at the termination of an annuity, which is more valuable to him than the insur ance, why it is probable that he will allow her to live on. The women of Great Britain should be thankful. It is not only possible but easy, I sup pose you know, to insure a dog or a horse, You remember Tennyson's line, 'Something better than his dog, a little dearer than his horse'. I'm afraid that life insurance companies don't go even that far. Of course it seems hard when a widow is working for her children that she cannot in sure herself for them a good round sum. It is not that her life is not valuable it is simply uncertain. She is more apt to break down than a man would bo under the same cir cumstances. And so it stands and will stand for n good while to come, I fear. How He Got His Start. The people in Ohio know Jeptba H. Wade much better than he is known elesewhere. He lives in one of the finest houses iu Cleveland, and occasionally runs over to New York. He was there recently at tho Fifth Avenue hotel. Worth 8,000,000 or S10,000,000, he enjoys tho good things of this life with all the zest of a luxury loving expert. He can re member very well, for it is not bo many years ago, when he had not money enough to pay his board bills. A poverty stricken portrait painter, with no particular special talent to recommend his work, Jcptha H. Wade wandered about the we3t, picking up a precarious livelihood here and there, until he was well on toward forty years of age. He paint ed a picture one day for a telegraph operator in the early period of the system, and for his pay wa3 taught the use of the instruments. Then he was hired by the company, and began to earn S50 a month. He held some stock in two or three short lines of telegraph when the Western Unioii was formed out of all tho united lines, and he had gathered in some money out of his speculations in laud. He was a valuable man and he was soon in the directory of the great company, and finally became its pres ident. While president of the West ern Union he was the chief promotor of the overland line of telegraph to the California coast Ho made his fortune in tbat venture. Ho visited California in tho summer of 18G0, made arrangements to absorb the California state telegraph lines and used tho latter organization to con struct the overland line as far east ns Salt Lake. The Western Union com pany constructed westward to Salt Lake, where tho lines wero joined in the latter part of 1861. The first news dispatch received over the com pleted lino announced the killing of General E. D. Baker, at the Ball's Bluff disaster. Soon after tho over land line was completed, President Wade undertook for his company the gigantiu task of building a telegraph from California northward through Oregon. Washington territory, Brit ish Columbia, Alaska, and" across Behring straits to Siberia, in Russia, and so on across the continent of Asia to a junction with the telegraph systems of Europe. Great progress b.8d been made in carrying out this project, when the successful laying of the Atlantic cable put an end to it as an enterprise promising any profit X Souud tcgal Opinion. E. Bainbridge Munday Esq.,. County Atty., Clay Co., Tex. says: "Have used Electric Biters with most happy results. My brother also was very low with Ma larial Eever and Jaundice, but was cured by timely use of this medicine. Am satisfied Electric Bitters saved his life." Mr. D. I. Wilcoxson, of Horse Cave, Ky., addsaliketestimonj, saying: He positively believes he would have died, had it not been for Electric Bitters. This great remedy will ward off, as well as cure all Malarial Diseases, and for all Kidney, Liver and Stomach Dis orders stands unequaled. Price COc.-and $1. at W. E. Dement & Co.'s FURNISHED BY FINCH. Dr. Bnrchnrd's Words ' Rnm. Eemanisra and Rebellion." A. Owen Crozier, of this city, a for mer associate of the late JohnB. Finch, while in Chicago attending the recent national conference of the prohibition party, dined with Mrs. Finch, widow of the dead temperance .leader. "We had a very pleasant time, ai r. Crozier said yesterday to a Democrat reporter, "recalling anecdotes and traits of character iu the life of Mr. Finch. I will give you an incident to show the keen political mind which he possessed, and his quickness to catch an expression that might have some influence on the political situa tion. I sometimes hesitate to men tion this for fear it may bo misunder stood. During the campaign of 18&i, Mr. Finch as chairman of the nation al prohibition committee established his headquarters at the Fifth Avenue hotel, New York city. Just before the close of the campaign, when the delegation of ministers, with Dr. Bur chard as their spokesman, called up on Mr. Blaine in the parlors of that hotel, Mr. Finch, out of curiosity, the reception being of a semi-publio na ture, stepped to the doors of the pal lors and listened to the speeches. When Dr. Burchard gave forth that now celebrated expression "Rum, Romanism and Rebellion" Mr. Pinch's quick ear caught it, and as he expressed it, he "involuntarily took out his note book and pencil," and wrote it down. Dan Manning, the Democratic manager, was standing just behind Mr. Finch, also listening intently, and when he saw Finch write in his note book, as if thinking aloud he exclaimed: "'Then he did say itf "'Yes,'" said Finch, smiling and turning to Manning, 'certainly he said it. I heard him say it' " 'Then give me that!' cried Man ning, and reaching over and tearing the leaf from Finch's note book, ha was gono in an instant to the tele graph office. Tho effect of those three R's i3 well known. There was not time for the Republicans to defend or rleny, and they were used everywhere. Finch did not intend to have them get into Democratic hands. It was his custom to take down in his noto book anything like that which he thought he might wish to use. His quickness in catching what he wanted for use is seen by this incident." Grand Rapids Democrat. Bedrock Prices for Casii. J. D. Smith, Postmaster, Dallas, hereby announces to the public that ho i3 prepared to do a general post office business. I am offering postage stamps at prices that can't be beat and as for quality, they will last as long and go as far as those sold in the East. I might add that these postage stamps are of the same pattern and design as those used by president Cleveland on his love letters to his wife during his recent campaign against the cita del of her affections. These stamps are very popular having immense sales in New York and Chicago, where they are all the rage. In pri ces I will not be undersold by any bodyin fact I.defy competition. I have made arrangements with the manufacturers to receive all the lat est designs in postal cards as they are turned out from the factory. Trial samples on hand at one cent each. Am propared to send money all over the world with promptness and dis patch, or a registered letter, or a money order. Postal notes that dis count all interest-drawing notes, bus iness notes or memoranda notes, for sale at the remarkably low price of three cents each. Just think of it! This is a branch of the business I look closely aftor, and charge all comers the same price. My prices are marked in plain figures. As soon as stamps get soiled and dirty they are swept out of tho office, thus keeping up the stock fresh and clean. During my business career of low prices in this city I flatter myself that I have corralled nearly all the trado in my line of this vicinity. Thanking my numerous patrons for their past favors, and asking tor a continuance of their highly esteemed trade, I re main, yours for low prices. J. D. Smith, Postmaster Any case of Croup can be easily treat ed and cured by using "The Child's Cmmh Syrup." Full directions with each package, which can only be pur chased at Demcnt's drug store. NEW TO-DAY. Proposals for City Printing. NOTICE is hereby given that sealed proposals will be received at the office of the Auditor and Police Judge until Monday, January 23d, 18SS, for all City Printing. Bids must state tho price per square for each insertion, and size of type pro posed to be used. The Common Council reserves the right to reject any and all bids. By order of the Common Council. Attest : T. S. J ewf.tt. Auditor and Police Judge. Astoria, Oregon, January 12th. 1883. Cedar Street Improvement Notice. NOTICE is hereby given that the Common Council of the City of Astoria propose to order the improvement of that portion of Cedar street, in the City of Astoria, Clatsop county, Oregon, as laid out and recorded by J. M. Shively, from the east side of West Sixth street to the east side of Salmon street, by re placing all missing piles with new ones, and replacing all defective stringers with new and sound ones, and replank ing the same with new and sound fir planks four inches in thickness, to a width of thirty feet through the center thereof, said improvement to be made to the established grade of said street, and unless a remonstiance signed by the owners of two-thirds of the property fronting on said portion of said street be filed with the Auditor and Police Judge within ten days of the final pub lication of this notice, to wit: on or be fore Tuesday, February 7th, 1888, the Common Council will order said im provement to be made. By order of the Common Council. Attest : T. S. Jewett, Auditor and Police Judge. Astoria, Oregon, January 12th, 1888. WHOLESALE AND RETAIL DEALER IN Fine Groceries, Provisions end Mill Feed. o Crockery, Glass Plated Ware. o The Largest and finest assortment of Fresh. Fruits and TTegetables. Received fresh every Steamer. THE LARGEST mnm raiiii oi School and miscellaneous Books, And Fine Stationery in Astoria. musical Instruments and lotions. "Agents for the celebrated DOMESTIC SEWING MACHINES and Pacific Coast Charts and Tide Tables. atlt-JMI.lM'llliaUM'WllJlia'llJiiJMiaiUJUWMfaBWUUIMUIJLlJIWBIFlJfMJll. FIRE BRICK DKAI.Kl: IX Hay, Oats, and straw, Lime, Bricl Cement, Sana and Plaster Wood Delivered to Order. Drajinp, Teaming and Kxpress Business. TEH apply to the Captain, or to FISH GROCERIES AT LOWEST PRICES IN ANY PART OF THE CiTY, Fruits and Vegetables In Season. Everything Warranted as Represented. Comer Clicnainus and Benton Streets. The New Model Bange CAN BE HAD IN B .& 3 rMfflhrfaire S3 BB JSmMtStBT a Agent. Call and Examine It ; You Wiil be ricssed. E. R. Ilawes Is also Agent for the Buck Patent Oooking Stove, AND OTHER FIRST CLASS STOVES. Furnace Work, Steam Fittings, Etc., UNEN GILL NETTING A SPECIALTY. ESTABLISHED 1842. The' Oldest and Largest Manufacturers of IN THE UNITED STATES. Salmon Pise Seines. SalmonJPonnfl. Nets. Salmon Gill Nets. 3-Fish Nettings or all kinds supplied at the shortest possible notice, and at the lowest rates. All made from our Shephard Gold Rffiedal Twines. Guaranteed to ho the strongest and most PACIFIC COAST FISHERIES. This TWINE is manufactured only by ourselves, directly from the raw material, and "costs no more in NETTINGS than the cheaper grades. Send for samples; also for our illustrated j. aniiucipiiiii iiuu jjonuon. 2L333.erican STet and Twine Company, BUSTIW. MASSACHUSETTS. STOCK OF jfH s mLx&m&&. FIRE CLAY TK43IEU m CUM PARKER bcn P. Parker, Master. For TOWING, FREIGHT orCIIAK II. IS. FAKKKlt. A! PROVISIONS ASTORIA, ONLY OF a Specialty. A Full Stock on Hand CAPITLA, S:co.000 desirable twine now made especially for the catalogue. Highest awards at Boston, d THE EMPIRE STORE Just Received Gray Blankets White " Comforters Blankets and lomforters, Also a Pull Line of the Celebrated Brownsville, Oregon, Flannels, Cassimeres, Yarns, Clothing and Under ware. All at the Lowest Prices. W. T. PARKER, manager. Consisting of 4 CAR I.UAWS of fine Artistic and Plain Furniture, Carpets, Oil Sloth, Madras-Silk LACE AND PORTIERE CURTAINS, Bade Shades, &c., Has Arrived. These goods were purchased direct from Eastern Manufacturers and shinDed before the recent advance in freight, the our customers. Call and Sec Us. INSURANCE. CAPITAL STOCK, $500,000 COLUMBIA liBIE INSURANCE CO. FRANK DEKTJM .l'resl.lent W. II. SMITH Vice-lTesitfcut JOHN A. CHILD Secretary No. 1G0 Second St., rortland, Or. I.W. Case, Agent, Astoria, Or. Elmore, Sanborn & Co. COMMISSION MERCHANTS, Eire Insurance AGENTS. Representing the Largest and Most Relia ble i ire Insurance Companies. AH Business promptlyjind accurately tran acted. Flavels Wharf, Astoria Oregon. CAPITAL STOCK - - SS00.000 THE NORTHWEST INSURANCE CO. F. E. Beach President J. McCraken . Vice President J. Loewenberg... ....... Treasurer It. P. Earhart ..Sec'y and Manager DIRECTORS, J.Loewenberg J. K. Gill, II. L. Pittock, K.K.Arnold, F.M.Warren, J. MrCrakeu, F. E. Beach, D.D.Oliphant, F. Eggert No. 33 "Washington street, Portland, Or. R. L. BOYLE, Agent. Astoria, Oregon. Omce at I. X. L. Packing Co. Deposited in Orion, $300,000 ASSETS, $55. 8Q1. 2 8 3. Koval, Norwich-Union and Lancashire Com binatlon Joint Policy. Union of San Francisco. Germania of New York. State Investment of California. Anglo-Nevada Assurance Corporation, MARINE .INSURANCE COVERED BY OUR OPES POLICIES. Elmore, Sanborn & Co Agents. d"S E" 1 m ttaa tuv j-t H lia a Wholesale and Itetail Dealer In AH Kinds or Seasoned Lumber. MOULDINGS, WINDOWS AND DOORS. OAK. ASH AND HICKORY, Blade Walnut, Alder and Maple, PORT ORFORD CEDAR, And All Kinds of Boat Material a Specialty. AM. kinds of Job Work ana Turning Hone at SHORT NOTICE. Manufacturing Steam Mills. Corner Genevieve & Astor Sts. Is one of the greatest blessings when you have it under control. If jou build your fire In one of those Magee Ranges or one of those Acorns or Argandsat John A. Mont gomery's, you win find it a pleasure to pre pare a meal, or if you get one of those Heat ers you will find them to be clean and eco nomical and an ornament to your parlor. If yo'i intend getting a range or a heater don't fail to look at his stock. You should call in see his beautifnl Ornamental Coal Vases. Have a Finely FDffl Ai L i FirPi The New YorkMovelty Store Jewelry, Watches, Clocks,Optical Goods Fine Stationery, Cutlery and Fancy Goods. Of All Descriptions. Bousht in the Best Markets and CANNOT BE UNDER SOLD by any one this side of San Francisco. Opposite Parker House, Main St., Astoria. a Large Lot of from $1.75, up. " .3.25 " 1.00 benefits thereof we propose to share with CHAS. HEILBORN. $67,000,000 Capital Liverpool & London & Globe. North British and Mercantile of London and Edinburgh. Hartford ol Connecticut, Commercial ot California Agricultural, ot Watertown, New York, London & Lancashire ot Liverpool, Kng . Fire Insurance Companies, Represent in a cap.tal of Sj7.O0O,00O. B. VAX 1USEX. Agetit. Seaside Bakery. KcsOIilk Brcatl and CAKES OF ALL KINDS, Manufacturers of Fine Candles. and Ornamental Confectionery And Ice Creams. Wholesale and Retail Dealer in Candles. JOUKSOK, BROS. The Oregon Bakery A. A. CLEVELAND, Prop'r. Good Breafl, Cate ni Pastry None but the Best Materials Used. Satisfaction Guaranteed Customers Bread delivered in any part ol the city. Astoria Iron Ms. Concomly St., Foot ot Jackson, Astoria. Or General lacMnisIs anfl Boiler lata. 4 Land and Marine Engines BOILER WORK. Steamboat Work and Cannery Work A SPECIALTY, Castings of all Descriptions Made to Order at Short Notice. , President. .. .Secretary ... Treasurer. .Superintendent, J. G. Hustler, .... I. W. Case JOHN FOX. .. . Notice. SEALED PROPOSALS WILL BE RE ccived by the undersigned at his office until Wednesday. February 1st, 1888, at 12 o'clock M.. for the construction of a bridge over O'Hanna creek where the old bridge was situated near Sea Side. Clatsop county, Oregon, on the county road from Skipanon landing to Sea Side, accordlne to plans and specifications on file in my office. Right to reject any and all bid? is hereby reserved. Jiy order of the County Court, C.J.TRENCnARD, County Cleric Astoria, Or., January 9th, 1888. Assorted Stock of r ' . Watchmaker Jeweler. -1