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ASTOBIA. OBEGON:
TUESDAY SEPTEMBER 18. 1883.
John P. Irish, editor of the S. Fm
Alta, lias declined a congressional
nomination. Sensible man. Why
should lie want to step down into
congress!
The opposition to Powderly is en
deavoring to make Mm commit him
self in the present political contest
A series of questions have been sent
to him. He is accused of having an
eye to the commissionership of the
department of labor if Cleveland is
elected.
ALosfDOji preacher placarded the
city with notices that he would
preach in Spurgeon's tabernacle on
the subject: ",-;-:--?-!-." There
was a large congregation, to whom he
announced the text, "Stand thou still
awhile," and then said his subject was
"The Pauses of Life."
JonN McCune, the largest single
oil producer in the world, landed at
Castle Garden less than twenty-five
years ago with scarcely a dollar in his
pocket He drifted into the oil comr
try, became an oil-well driller, and his
estate is now worth 310,000,000.
There is no chance for a poor man in
this country.
The postmaster at Carthage, O., is
in a quandary. He is at a loss to know
whether he had better pay the assess
ment made on him or resign. The
Carthage postoffico pays 'the munifi
cent sum of 375 per annum, and the
committee have notified the post
master that he has been assessed 3100
for campaign purposes.
The Chinese are peculiarly nerve
less people. An observer in China
notices that the Chinaman is able to
sleep anywhere, upon a brick for a
pillow or upon a bed of stalks. "It
would be easy to raise in China an
array of 1,000,000 men nay of 10,000,
000 tested by competitive examina
tion as to their capacity to go to sleep
across three wheelbarrows, head
downward like a spider, their mouths
wide open, and a fly inside."
Miss Emma Pelch, of Danvers,
Mass., was taken ill some months ago,
and from the fact that her mother
died from cancer, she became pos
sessed with the idea that her sickness
was from the same cause. Her phy
sicians could find no indication of
cancer, but she claimed that she had
one, and located it She refused food
saying it distressed her. At her desire
after she died, an autopsy was held,
and no cancer could be found. It
was decided that her disease was
purely sympathetic.
Great Goneness.
Ilwaco. Sept. 16, '8a
The turbulent waves beat a solemn
requium upon the sandy shores of
north beach; gone are the cloudless
days, gone are the bright-eyed maid
ens, whose merry laugh floated on
the summer air like chimes of silver
bells, gone are tho mirth and glad
ness, the fairy figures, the happy life
of youth and beauty. The pale moon
shines on . the scenes of departed
pleasures with a radiance that suits
well the melancholy scene. Here be
neath this nodding evergreen love's
old, old story was told anew the
heart-beats quickening to the lisping
words of cupid; here, too, proudest
hopes were smothered with a word.
Beside yon decaying stump, glisten
ing in the moonlight, lies a mass of
broken crockery reminders of former
usefulness; near this winding path
reposing in pathetic solitude is a tiny
boot, well worn and the buttons gone
the arched instep tells of its own
er's pride; it perhaps has peeped from
the drapery of a wedding gown and
parried its lovely wearer o'er the pol
ished floor, impelled by strains of
sweet music. Its mission has been
performed, and now with the dew
glistening upon its shapely form, dis
carded in this lonesome place it rests,
a forgotten and nseloss thing. The
sadness of departed glory has full
sway; the moon, now sinking in the
trreat beyond, sheds a parting ray on
the goneness that everywhere is seen.
Not Goxe.
Don't Experiment.
Yon cannot afford to waste time in
experimenting when your lungs are in
danger. Consumption always, seems, at
first, only a cold. Do not permit any
dealer to Impose upon you with some
cheap imitation of Dr. King's New Dis
covery for Consumption, Coughs and
Colds, hut be sure you get the genuine.
Because he can make more profit lie may
tell you he has something just as good,
or just the same. Don't be deceived,
but insist upon getting Dr. King's New
Discovery, which is guaranteed to give
relief in all Throat Lung and Chest af
fections. Trial bottles free at .Jno. C
Dement's Drug Store, Large bottles Si
D. L. Beck & Sons are selling Crock
ery and Glassware cheaper than ever
before known on the Columbia river.
Secure your supply of Groceries for
the winter before D. L. Beck & Sons
get closed out.
D.Ij.Beck &Sons are going to quit
business in Astoria and are just slaugh
tering prices on goods.
The latest style of Gents Boots and
fahoesat P. J. Goodman's.
A fine cup of coffee, at tho Telephone
Restaurant
The best Oysters in any style,
4heTelephono Restaurant.
at
SEWS A5D SETTS.
The sensational pre3S is the result of a
misconception of what constitutes news.
Charles Dudley "Warner says it has grown
nP by giving notoriety to mean persons
and mean events. That is a perfect defi
nition of sensational journalism. Take
one day's "news" in one of onr local or er
gans: A hysterical woman who pretends
to enter heaven in a trance, an elope
ment, an interrupted bigamy, an actual
bigamy, an adultery, another elopement,
an abduction and seduction case, a case
of marital infidelity, and a dime-novel
biography of a "bandit chief," all tricked
out in turgid and polysyllabic composi
tion and under lickerish lines of displav
headings, take up seven-eighths of the
first page. If necessary to mention any
of it es "news," it all should have been
put in one-eighth of the space. But it is
elaborated, padded, bloated into undue
proportions, and told in a style intended
to attract by its snggestiveness. Of such
is sensational journalism wherever prac
ticed. Its excuse is that it finds readers.
If the haunts of vice in its most hideous
form were compelled to plead they could
make the same excuse, that they have
patrons. But if the tastes of the com
munity shall finally fall to the level of
those who demand feculent sensational
ism in the press, its practices will soon
decline to the level of the patrons of vice.
The press has great power. But power
is retained only by nsing it wisely. When
a newspaper has the power to compel a
business man to patronizo it, becaus3 if
refused it can attack and ruin his busi
ness, and it uses that power, it distinctly
ranks itself with the thief, tho burglar
and tho pickpocket. These would not
stoal the property of others if it were
voluntarily surrendered on demand.
But its owners resist such n demand and
so tho thieves steal. A business man in
this city recently bad such an experience
with one of our sensational newspapers,
and he frankly says that next time a de
mand for patronage is made he will ac
cede to it or quit business, for this ex
perience cost mm between three thous
and and five thousand dollars to savo his
business from ruin, in consequence of
sensational publications mado about him
in tho paper which had unsuccessfully
solicitedins advertising patronage. If n
member of tho Stock, Produce or Mer
chants' Exchange were guilty of black
mailing like that, ho would bo expelled.
Then why should it be tolerated in a
newspaper which must depend upon mer
cantile patronago for its support V
In another direction the habit of sen
sationalism is working a debauchery in
journalism. Tho tendency is strong to
ward treating every person and every
event in the corrupted style that is used
in giving notoriety to mean persons and
mean events. Depth and elevation are
banished, and tho fashion is flippancy
and the style superficial. Virtuous wom
en and modest, who become properly
the subjects of IcRitimato notice in the
press, by roason of participation in edu
cational, religious or other movements,
are usually introduced to tho reader bv
some young squirt's comment upon their
abundance or tneir laci; ot animal
charms." His ideas of contour and com
plexion are either fired or dissatisfied,
and bis paper demands that tho conclu
sions of his lascivious physical survey
shall bo set forth in a way to excite tho
derision or set running tho slaver of
rheumy rakes or ambitious young men
who earnestly aspire to be blackguards.
This downward tendency of sectionalism
levels all ranks of conduct to the plane
of the mean, to tho ground floor of un
govemed passion, of lives that aro void
of a high motive, and whero pare thoughts
aro unthinkable. It is useless to arguo
that all this is necessary to warn people
of the consequences of vice. It allures
and is no warning. As well might ono
say that the hideous realisms of Zola
have a purer moral tendency than the
poems of Jean Ingelow or tho novels of
Scott and Dickens.
The common sense of all thoughtful
people is in arms against the theory, and
tho fears and solicitude of every parent
war against it.
But, as a final argument, the protes
ter is pointed to success. Sensational
journalism succeeds. Yes, sometimes it
does. It makes money, occasionally, but,
analyzed, its prosperity is based on black
mail. "Wo afhrm without fear of success
ful contradiction, that there is not now,
and never has been in this country, a
sensational journal that was not a black
mailer. The two things go together al
ways and everywhere. Show us tho
columns of a newspaper and we can tell
you tho history of its counting room,
bo, it is a question whether what is
called success in these instances, is what
should be called success. If a man to
morrow succeeds in robbing tho Bank of
California, or the sub-treasury, getting
criminal possession of all the millions in
either place, is he excused from punish
ment, banqueted at tho clubs and de
clared by resolution in public meetings
as a credit to the state? He has as much
right to bo as sensational and blackmail
ing journalism baa to bo called a success.
Alta.
Coffee and cake, ten cents, at the
Central Restaurant
Fine Parlor Organ.
For sale at a bargain : cash, or on the
installment plan, at the New York Nov
elty Store.
Covers for school and cony books,
blotters, slate pencils, rulers. He., given
away to all purchasers of school books
at Griffin & Reed's.
ltOKX.
In Astoria, Sept. 17, '88, to the wife of
C. 1,. Woole, a daughter $ lbs.
NEW TO-DAY.
Notice.
US. LAND OFFICE AT OKEtiOX CITY,
Oregon, Sept. 12, 18&J.
Complaint having been entered at tins office
by Charles W. Lee against Patrick Ilalloran
for abandoning his Homestead Entry No.
GQ51, dated Aug. 10, 18S5, upon the NE Hot
section 33, in township 7N. range 4 W, In
Columbia county, Oregon, with a iev to
the cancellation of said entry, the said par
ties are hereby summoned to appear before
the County clerk ol Columbia county, at bt.
Helens, Oregon, on the 25th day of October,
18S3, at 10 o'clock A. M., to respond and fur
nish testimony concerning said alleged
abandonment. And on the testimony men
submitted a hearing will be had at this offlce
on Nov. 26, 1S88, at 10 o'clock a. jr.
W. T. BDRNEY,
dGw Register.
Bare Chance.
Selling Off at Cost and Less.
As we arc going to close up business in
Astoria, now is the time for you to buy
goods cheap, especially Crockery and (itass
Ware, which we arc selling leis than jou
will ever be able to get them again.
Call Early and Socuro Your
Pick of the Bargains.
D. L. BECK & SONS,
CIKCXIT COUBT PB0CEEDI5GS.
Sept. 17. Taylor, F. J., J.
Circuit court for September term
opened yesterday morning. Hon. F. J.
Taylor, judge, T. A. McBride, district
attorney, C. J. Trenchard, clerk, and "W.
6. Boss, sheriff.
T. G. Boelling and H. A. Smidt ap
pointed bailiffs.
A. B. McMillan excused until 19th; C.
"W. Loughery and E. C. Jeffers excused
for term; E. D. Brock, Wm. Bock ex
cused for day.
The following is the grand jury: B.
Gallagher, H. C. Harrison, J. G. Boss, S.
T. McKean, G. "W. Carl, Thos. Grange,
Theo. Christian; swern: B. Gallagher,
foreman.
Eva "Wallman, vs. Joe. Brown; dis
missed. Eva Wallman vs. Geo. Smith; ditto.
J. H. Reddington vs. C. T. Thomes;
continued for term.
Win. H. Warren vs. F. H. Worslev;
continued for term.
Fleckenstein & Mayer vs. Frazsrand
Harrison; continued for service.
Wilson & Fisher vs. G. G. Smith et at;
continued for service.
Arndt & Ferchen vs. same; continued.
Mary C. Berkman vs. Alfred Berkman;
demurrer overruled.
Amelia Johnson vs. N. J. Johnson;
passed for the present.
Klosterman & Co. vs. J. L. Laeelich;
motion to dismiss complaint.
Jos. Taylor vs. W. G. Ross; demurrer to
complaint.
Jacobs &. Easton vs. J. O. Bozorth;
judgment on vacation.
C. J. Curtis vs. Gure Brandt; settled
and dismissed.
Geo. Willoughby vs. Thos. Bramel: de
murrer to complaint overruled; answer
uieu.
West Shoro Packing Co. vs. C. H. Hines;
default.
Same vs. N. Davich; default.
Morris Wiso vs. Chas. Williams; non
suit on motion of plaintiff.
J. E. Neilaon vs. F. Neilson; default.
Bunneman fc Martinoni vs. L. Serra;
demurrer overruled bv consent.
J. P. Dickinson vs. T. J. Campbell; de
fault and decree.
H. Oliverson vs. Ellen Lovett; default
and judgment.
Bunneman & Noland vs. Max Wagnei;
mandate ordered entered.
Nelson & Farrar vs. H. N. Warren;
umenuea complaint nied.
City of Astoria vs. W. W. Parker; on
motion dismissed at plaintiff's cast.
Annie Hill vs. Wm. Hill; order for pub
lication. Chas. Korpela vs. Jno. Orah; order for
puDiicauon.
Thompson & Ross vs. Wm. Beaslev.
Mary C. Belknap vs. A. Berkman; mo
tion to strike out parts of complaint
argueu.
AFTEEN'OON SESSION.
Jno. W. Halstrom admitted as a citizen.
Jacob Anderson, John Palmer, Martin
Jackson and Andrew Manulua applied
but were not admitted.
North Shoro Packing Co. vs. Nick Da-
vicu; deiamt and judgment.
North Shore Packing Co. vs. C. H,
Hines; default and judgment.
KlnQtflTmnTl .fr fV XTQ -T I. Tlrartmritl.
motion to strike off the file argued and
submitted.
City of Astoria va. Wm. G. Ross and
Marx acnlussel; demurrer argued and
submitted.
G. W. Nutter vs. B. Gallagher; time al
lowed io me objections.
Adjourned to 10 A. M. September 18th
Fisli SIlid Oil.
And machine oil for sale.
J.11.DkForof
Astoria, Oregon.
AOVICKTO 31 OTHERS.
Mrs. Window's Soothin-o Syrup
should always be used for children
teething. It soothes the child, softens
the gums, allays all pain, cures wind
unuiic, aim is me uesi remeuy ioruiar-rhrea.Twenty-fivc
cents a bottle.
Orepn State Fair !
THE 28th-
Annual State Fair ill be held on the Fair
grounds near baiem, commencing on the
17TH OF SEPTEMBER,
And continuing one week. Cash
Premiums to the amount of
1 5? O O O
Will be awarded for
Agricultural, mechanical nnd stock exhib
its, works of art and fancy ork and for tri
als of speed.
The premiums offered have been increased
In many cases, and new classes have been
added. No entry fee charged in divisions
.i.ji., .uanuij.
A magnificent field of horses entered, and
there will be splendid contests of running
and trotting each day.
The different transportation companies
win mase iioerai reductions in laies anti
freights.
-pecial attention Is called to the premiums
onerea iorcou-iy cxiuniisoi grains, grasses
and fruits.
Entries will be received in the secretary's
ouice in oaiem, oeginmng six days Deiore
thefaie, and on the fare grounds from Fri
day before tho fair. Persons desiring to ex
hibit in divisions J. K. 0, 1', and 6. are re
quested to make their entries on Friday and
Saturday before the fair If possible. All en
tries close on Monday, September 17th, at
7 JO r. m.
-l'KICKS OF ADMISSION :-
Coupon ticket for men (six days) .S2 50
Coupon ticket for women (six daj s) si 00
Day ticket for men. ....... ... . 60c
Day ticket for women . 25c
Tickets to grand stand at race track
for males over 12 years ilo
Ladles to the grand stand free.
Those desiring to purchase booths will ap
ply to the sesretary.
ES-Send to the secretary at Salem for a
premium list,
J. T. OREGG,
Secretary.
JOB PRINTING.
Neat, Quick And Cheap at The
ASTORIAN JOB OFFICE
F.H.SURPRENANT&CO.,
SUCCESSORS TO
J. O. H.OSS
County Coroner.
s
First .Class Undertaking
ESTABLISHMENT.
New Styles, Caskets and funeral material.
Next to ASTOiUAN office.
a
Carnalian & Go.
SUCCESSORS TO
T. "W". CASE,
IMPORTERS AND WHOLESALE AND
RETAIL DEALERS IN
GENERAL MERCHANDISE,
Corner Chenamus and Cass streets.
ASTCRIA OREGON
Allen & Erosel.
Handsome Wall Paper,
ARTISTIC DECORATION.
Painting, Papering. Graining, Etc.,
Done In Satisfactory Style and at
Satisfactory Trices.
Corner Jefferson and Cass Sts., Astoria, Or.
WILL
Cut Faster
AND
EASIER
Than any oth
er axe made.
Hundreds of
woodmen tes
tify to Its supe
riority. It goes
Deep nd Never
Sticks.
CARNAHAN
ft CO.,
Agents Astoria
Price, SI. SO.
City Tax Notice.
NOTICE IS HEREBY GIVEN TO AT TUE
Tax Roll of the city of Astoria, Clatsop
county, Oregon, Is now In my hands for col
lection and will remain with me for thirty
days, after which time the taxes remaining
unpaid will bo deemed delinquent, and as
such will be returned to tho Auditor.
J. G, HUSTLER.
City Treasurer ind Tax Collector.
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The Oldest and Largest Manufacturers of
IN THE UNITED STATES.
Salmon Parse Seines. SalmonPoifl Nets. Salmon Gill Nets.
ST'Eish Nettings of all kinds supplied at the smrtet possible notice, and
at tho lowest rales. All made from our
Shephard Gold Medal Twines.
Guaranteed to be the strongest and most dcsirablo twine now made especially for the
PACIFIC COAST EISHERIES.
Tins TWINE is manufactured only bv ourselves, directly from the raw material,
and costs no more in XETTINGS than the ciieaner srades.
Send for samples; also for our illustrated
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American XTet and Twine Company.
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Hay, Oats, anfl Straw, Lime, Bricfc, Cement, Sand and Plaster
Wood Delliercd to Order. Dnjlng, Teaming nd Kipresa linslnesa.
TER apply to tke Captain, or to
Seines, Pounds, Traps
-AND
FISH NETTING OF EVERY DESCRIPTION,
MADE TO ORDER OF BEST QUALITY.
Woodberry Seine Twines
AT LOWEST PRICES OF NETTING COMBINATION.
Barbour's Salmon Net Threads.
HENRY DOYLE & CO., 517 ani 519 MarM St.,
Sole Agents for the Pacific Coast.
BABY BUGGIES,
VELOCIPEDES,
WAGONS,
TOYS,
STATIONERY,
PERFUMERY,"
PICTURES,
CLOCKS,
WATCHES,
JEWELRY,
FIELD AND OPERA GLASSES,
CDTLERY,
BIRD CAGES,
BASKETS,
BASE BALL GOODS,
DRAWING INSTRUMENTS,
ARTIST MATERIAL,
Main
Vatchmaker
Jeweler.
Notice.
NOTICE IS HEREB V GIVEN THAT THE
Boai d of Enuallzation for niatsnn rmintv
mil meet on Monday. October 1st. 183S, for
inn purpose or equalizing county assess
ments iui Luc year icra,
JOS. 8INNOTT.
County Assessor.
BOOK SELLERS.
& HEED.
CAPITA!, $.T50,ono.
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THE NEW YORK
NETTINGS.
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FIRE CLAY
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Eben P. Parker,M aster.
For TOWING, FKKIGIlT orCHAR
II. B. l'AKKKIt.
Our Entire Stock !
Is Offered at a Sacrifice
Until Further Notice,
We are Roing to New York
TO PURCHASE THE
Biggest Stock of Goods
Ever brought to this market.
St., Opposite Parker
WHOLESALE AND
Groceries, Provisions end
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Crockery, Glass Plated Ware.
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Tho Largest and finest assortment of
Fresh. Fruits and Vegetables.
Received fresh every Steamer.
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ZITHERS.
BANJOS,
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Exhibition 1883.
EXPOSITIONS,
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SAN FRANCISCO.
PACIFIC COAST.
TWTWE POPE nnd NET.
SEINES, POUNDS and
lowest Factory Prices.
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