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ASTOHIA, OREGON:
WEDN ESDAY.
.MARCH 20. 1839.
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The Astoriax guarantees to its adver
tisers the largest circulation of any newspa
per published on the Columbia river.
New potatoes, of Oregon
arc in the market.
raising,
E. C. .Tellers is going to build a res
idence on Ins place.
Days and nights are about equal:
Bim rises, (:U.5; sun sets, 0:1.5.
Every boat on tho lower Columbia
is busy and all are making money.
No more express matter on the
night boats; its all day business
ngain.
The Idaho came in from Nanaimo
yesterday, with 500 tons coal for the
bunkers.
Fred'k AVardo will appear at Ross'
opera houso nest Monday night in
"Virginius."
Mrs. John Koss of Picloti, Nova
Scotia, died on the 27th of February,
aged about uj years.
"Spring begins to-day," say tho al
manacs for date March 20th. Spring
began hero last Christmas.
John F. Swift has taken the oalh
of oflice as minister to Japan. The
place is worth 810,000 a year.
A yonng man wearing corsets was
a prominent object of observation at
the theater last Monday night
In the police court yesterday,
Auoipii Strauss, convicted ot selling
jewelry without a license, was fined
S2j.
The sealing schooner is about pro
visioned, amr Capt. Olscn with his
crew of ten men expect to get away
auout Saturday.
There will bo an interesting social
at Rescue Ilall to-morrow evening
under the auspices of the ladies of
tho M. E. church.
Sam Jones, the evangelist. Bays that
praying is a good deal like sending a
telegraph message, lou can t send
it when the wire is down.
Henry Kindred was struck by a
heavy piece of falling timber at Port
land last Monday and badly bruised,
lie was taken to St. Vincent's hospi
tal. Major W. A. Jones, of the U. S. en
gineer department wants to have tho
Portland dredger repaired and dredge
the river between Portland and deep
water.
John P. "Ward ha? knocked off ono
of the persimmons, having been nom
inated for appraiser of merchandise
for the district of Willamette and
Washington.
Capt Dan Graham of tho Escort
No. 2, was fonrtcen miles to sea yes
terday and could just mako out tho
topsails of tho Otttr.ipool about thirty
miles offshore.
Gov. Waterman ot California has
refused 83,000,000 for his Stonewall
gold mine: ten years ago tho writer
was offered a third interest in that
mine for S250: such is life.
It is said that there arc forty-seven
men who want to bo United States
marshal of Oregon. Then there are
just 47 who will be sold; tho ono who
gets tho office being sold worst of all
Tho appearance here of the Ovide
Musin company, next Saturday af
fords a rare treat to tho lovers of fine
music. Tho performers are all artists
of national reputation and ndvertiso
a fine performance.
Chief engineer Thomas Dunn of
the steatner Coos Ban was drowned
last Wednesday at Fort Bragg, while
attempting to go on board tho ship
rrom tlio wuarr. 1 tio body was ro
covered shortly after.
Sherman & Ward lost a valuable
horse yesterday at Smith's point
Tho animal was driven into tho water
somo ways to bo washed off, but kept
going and drowned beforo he could
bo rescued. Ho was valued at 8175.
Lewis & Dryden's railroad guide
for .March, is the urst publication
that has como to hand with railroad
maps up to tho times. Tho Astoria
& South Coast railway and tho 11
waco & Shoalwater bay railway are
correctly delineated.
Tho sister of W. H. Egbert, of
Clinton, New Jersey, was killed in a
recent railroad accident When last
heard from he was in Washington
territory. His address is wanted by
M. D. Egbert, secretary Washington
press association, Walla Walla
Washington nnd Oregon papers
please copy.
Tho Oregon Fruit Growers' Union
has been formed at Portland. The
capital stock is S5,000. The aim of
the union is to promote tho fruit in
terest of the state; to provide places
for tho sale and shipment of fruit,
and to employ ail means to create a
greater demandfor Oregon fruit than
has hitnerto existed.
Talk about newspaper reporter's!
"gall;" the Sunday Budget says that J
a few days ago JohnB. Allen received
from a Sound newspaper a request
that ho furnish it at onco the names
of all persons who had applied
through him for the various federal
offices in tho torritory, and at the
same time "to indicato thoso whom
he had either recommended or in
tended to recommend," for the places
asked.
A first class American watch, well
kept, will last thirty years, or some
times even longer, beforo the works
wear out, but tho average life of an
ordinary low priced American watch
of the same grade, is seven years. The
length of lifo for n watch depends
largely on the number of its jewels.
Tho rnngo of prices for American
watches runs from S5 to Sim h
costliest being a split second minute
register timing watch. In the United
States about 3,500 watches are manu
factured every day.
NEGLECTED RESOURCES.
It is sort o' humiliating for one
who is a zealons-advocato of Clatsop
county and a firm believer in Clatsop
county's resources, to make the
ronnds of Astoria's stores looking for
fresh butter only to hoar that "tho
California steamer isn't in yet."
As it it should mako n bit of dif
ference to an Astorian wanting but
ter if tho California steamer never
got in.
But it does, and California butter
is sold in large quantities in tho city,
not because of its quality, for it is
never first rate, and often fifth rate.
but it is sometimes the only butter
ono can get
Wo have a cbmato that is tho ideal
for a dairy climate, land crowiuc
sweet nutritious crass, nlentv of
money can bo made at the business.
and yet butter is imported from Cal
ifornia, inferior every way to butter
that can be made right here.
or is mis an. utatsop county, in
place of importing butter from Chi
cago and Wisconsin nnd Iowa, ought
to oo sending ontter tuero.
When Iowa, Illinois and Wisconsin
aro three feet under snow and the
rivers of these states, arc, some of
meni irozen solid to tao bottom, wo
have clear sky, warm sun and green
fields.
Fresh grass butter would meet
with ready salo sis mouths in the
year in those states where ono ha3 to
work hard seven months in tho year
to live through tho other five.
The writer was raised in north
eastern Iowa where he had to feed
stock hay and fodder from November
1st to April 1st. A piece of fresh
butter there in the wintertime was a
luxury.
Wo of Clatsop county ought to be
sending fresh butter back there six
months in the year at a handsome
profit instead of buying oleomarga
rine from Iowa "creameries," and
waiting "for the steamer to come in
from California."
AVo have great natural reseurces:
uneqnaled soil and climate, a section
that is preeminently a dairy country
and in this one item of butter alone
there is big money for the thrifty and
enterprising.
AVho is Your Best Friend?
Yourstomach of course. Why? Be
cause if it is out of order you are ono
ot the most miserable creatures liv
ing. Give it a fair, honorable chance
and see if it is not the best friend vou
have in the end. Don't smoke in the
morning. Don't drink iu tho morn
ing. It you must smoke and drink
wait until your stomach is through
with breakfast You can drink more
and smoke more in the evening and
it will tell on you less. If your food
ferments and does not digest right,
if you are troubled with Heartburn,
Dizziness of the head, coming up of
the food after eating. Biliousness. In
digestion, or any other troublo of the
stomach, you had best use Green's
August Flower, as no person can use
it without immediate relief.
Chinamen in Alaska Canneries.
San Francisco, March la Over
twenty vessels have cleared for the
Alaska salmon canneries ho far this
season, and more nro to follow. Each
ot tho vessels leaving this port takes
fromJ75 to 150 Chinamen to work in
tho canneries. The Chinese live like
so many cattle on the voyage north.
Instead of being confined to the hold
rude houses are built on deck, simi
lar to thoso used for transporting
nogs to tuo Hawaiian islands. On
their arrival at Alaska they live in
about the same manner. A person
who is familiar with tho workings of
the Alaska canneries estimates that
there nro fully 800 Chinese doing
work in,the canneries.
A Happy Woman
"The happiest woman like the happi
est nations have no history." savs that
wonderful writer, George Eliot, but no
woman can bo liapny wno is sunering
from the irregularities and "weak
ncsscs" so common to the sex. Dr.
Pierce's Favorito Prescription will
soothe nervous troubles and restore
health and vigor onco more. The roses
will bloom atraia on those faded cheeks.
It is a positive cure for the most com
plicated and obstinate cases or prolap
sus, weak back, "female weakness,"
antcversion. retroversion, "oearing-
down" sensations, chronic congestion,
liuiammation and ulceration, lnnamma
tion, pain and tenderness, and kindred
ailments.
A Doorstep Dialogue.
A woman called at a houso on Cass
avenue, and asked the lady if she
could sell her somo paints.
i am not an artist, and do not use
any paints," said tne lady.
"But this is paint for the complex
ion," answered the woman.
"I do not paint my face," said the
lady, preparing to close the door.
"Well, it would look better if you
did," retorted tho other as she turned
to go. Detroit Free Press.
Tcmlcr, Juicy Steak at Jeff's.
CMlilroiiCryforPitclier'sCastorig
PRENTICE MULFOBD'S
Good Advice on Business Matters. Why
'Men do not Succeed.
To a man overwhelmed with busi
ness: You'll excuse me, I trust for
saying'so, but I don't see tho sense or
any use in your being "overwhelmed
with business." You should not let
any thing overwhelm you. You're
the worse off for being overwhelmed
by any thing. The fact is, more than
half you do and expend your time
and struggle on isn't business at nil.
Yon'll stand and talk with a man for
half an hour, when neither ot you
havo anything to say, and when
you'ro through, you'll suddenly recol
lect you're late for your train or your
interviews with somebody else. Then
you rush off in a hurry. You carry
hurry with you. You infect every
body with it you meet. You enrry
on your interviews in a hurry, think
ing all the time of the next thing
you've got to do. You leave the busi
ness concerned in that interview
about halt done because you were
hot nble to fix or center your mind
wholly on it You leave business
with tags and loose ends. You are
always in a fret aud worry because of
the consequence of your hurried state
of mind and you call all this "busi
ness." You havo "forty things" to think of
and do at onco. Yon shouldn't have
forty things to do nt once. You
should have only ono thing to do nt
once. That's business. You mislay
things. Yon forget things. Yon
tuck important papers away in un
important and obscure rat holes,
hardly conscious of what you re do
ing. (You loso minutes, hours and
strength in looking for them. You
call that business. All your mistakes
and worries you dignify by tho name
of business. You get in a hurry nnd
forget where you've laid your hat,
and you call the hunting of that hat
"business." Well, it is business, but
it's the wrong kind of business. You
get your thread in a tangle instead of
a properly wound ball nnd you call
the tangle business. You carry a
tangle nround with you in your head
and call it business. Yon carry
your tangle to bed with you. You
think it over and over. The samo
old tangle'all night, instead of sleep
ing as you should to get strength for
to-morrow, and you call that "busi
ness." Real business is making a
business of sleep when the time
comes to sleep and not going to work
when you should go to sleep. You'vo
no more business carrying jour work
to bedwith you then a wood sawyer
has to carry his saw and buck to bed
with him.
You're a worry and n pressure nnd
a nuisance at times to your friends
and those who are trying to bo your
friends in always talking nbout the
load yon have to carry in your busi
ness, xne less ofa load business is
to a man the better he does business.
If you'ro a horse jockey and it's a
pleasure for you to sell horses, you'll
sell horses nnd possibly sell the peo
ple you sell them to. lint if it's a
load and a worry and an annoyance
for you to sell horses, then you won t
sell many. The more a man loves his
work the less of a load it is to him
and tho better he succeeds in his
work. The thing that's best done is
the thing or act that gives most
pleasure in the doing. A live sales
man loves to sell goods. A dead
salesman who looks like a funeral
when he's selling goods and mourns
while selling them that he must sell
them won't sell many goods. Your
idea of "business" for tho last ten
years has been the borrowing of S10,
000 from anybody who was simple
enough to lend it to you to "start the
business." You will then in three
years' time spend 83,000 on yourself,
lose the other $7,000 nnd wind up
with nothing.
iou had no idea of doing any ono a
wrong or deceiving any one. But
when you got the money you cheated
yourself into tho delusion that your
own expenses were a very necessary
part of tuo Dusiness and you were
tempted to enlarge tho expenses.
You're always in this wny chasing a
phantom and gotting out of ono busi
ness into another. Your real business
is that of losing othor people's money.
Your real business is that of cheating
other people into your own delusions.
You are tho most dangerous of all
swindlers becauso you are really
honest and a believer in your own
swindle. You seo "millions in it,"
nnd magnetize other people into seo
ing your shadowy millions. You
bavo considerable ability as a talker,
a reasoner, a prevailer. You aro tho
man that can mako others seo a gold
mino iu n hill of barren rock. You
are a man who can cover iu imagina
tion n mud flat or sand wasto with a
full built town and mako corner lots
worth thousands before the stakes
aro driven and while the frogs aro
concerting upon them.
When you aro talking business you
don't talk to the center, tho pith, the
rulo of tho thing. You don't aim at
any bull's-eye. You hum nnd haw,
and talk all around tho board, and all
round what you've got to say or to
propose, becauso you'ro afraid to say
it. You never know oxactly what you
want yourself. Of conrao yon enn't
then mako others know what yon
want You always want to get n lit
tle more out of a man than what yon
say you want That's one reason why
so many times you get nothing nt all.
You lose too much time in feeling
aronnd and taking soundings. Wheu
tho main channel is marked and
buoyed out straight before, nnd that
channel is the talking straight out of
what yon want to do to tho other man
if he'll do it, well and good, if he
won't, ho won't, and there's an end of
it More real business can be done
iu five minutes than you do some
times in five hours.
You'd get along and do well if you
didn't carry your brains as loosely as
you do your papers in your uat.
Your brains, like your papers, are al
ways flying away when you take your
hat off. You're a cyclone, you are
plenty ot force, wind, which could,
properly applied, sail a ship or run a
wind mill, but the way you let it on
tears things all to pieces including
yourself. Prent ice Muiford in San
Francisco Chronicle.
PERSONAL MENTION.
Wm.Hoyt, Ainslio Houghton and
Al. Zettennan go on the Bessie But
ter. Mrs. Dan Graham is a passenger on
the quarantined Columbia in San
Francisco bay.
Gen. John Gibbon, U. S. A, and a
portion of his staff were at Fort Stev
ens and Cape Hancock last Sunday.
Tlio Verdict Unanimous.
W. D. Suit, Druggist. Bippus, Ind.,
testifies: "1 can recommend Electric
Bitters as tho very best remedy. Every
bottle sold has given relief in every case.
One man took six bottles, and was cured
of Rheumatism of 10 years' standing."
Ohio, affirms: "The best selling medi
cine l nave ever Handled in my 20 years'
experience, is Electric Bitters." Thou
sands of others have added their testi
mony, so that the verdict is unanimous
that Electric Bitters do cure diseases of
tho Liver, Kidneys or Blood. Only a
half dollar a hottleat J. W. Conn's Drug
Store.
Ludlow's Ladies' S3.00 Fino Shoes;
also Flexible Hand turned French Kids,
at 1. J. Goodman's.
Steals Cooked to Order.
Private rooms for ladies aud families:
at Central Restaurant, next to Foard &
Stokes'.
TeleplioneliOilKlnc House.
Best Deds in town. Rooms per night
CO and 25 cts., per week 51 .50. New and
clean. Private entrance.
IVcinhard's Beer.
And Free Lunch at the Telephone Sa
loon, 5 cents.
Go io Jeff's lor Oysters.
Combines the juice of the Blue Figs of
California, so laxative and nutritious,
with the medicinal virtues of plants
known to be most beneficial to the
human system, forming the ONLY PER
FECT REMEDY to act gently yet
promptly on the
KIDNEYS, LIVER AND BOWELS
AND TO
Cleanse the System Effectually,
SO THAT
PURE BLOOD,
REFRESHING SLEEP,
HEALTH and STRENGTH
Naturally follow. Every one is using it
-Jid all are delighted with it. Ask your
druggist for SYRUP OF FIGS. Manu
factured only by the
CALIFORNIA FIG SYRUP CO.,
San Francisco, Cal.
Louisvills, Kv. New Yokic, N. V
SyftprfxlQg
flllulohdlii dllll Hold!! i I
I IIUIUv&IiU &&BIU9 HI ft W a. fell H H a 1
Clothing, Furnishing Goods, Hats,
Trunks, Valises, etc.
To the Trade.
1 take pleasure in informing the
trade that I have received in the
lust 20 days nearly
200 CASES
Of staple and olioicc goods,
which
1 offer at a very close margin
CASH BUYERS.
to
cedence in Astoria, but I may
It is my desire to attract to As- justly claim to equal any of the
toria some ot the Gray's Harbor large clothing stores in Portland;
and Shoalwater Bay and Columbia and you will award me the "cake"
River jobbing trade, which now please, wlion it comes to "low
goes to San Francisco and Port- prices"! You will find in my store,
land; and knowing that 1 must Garments from the cheapest to
quote extremely low prices to es- the finest, and finished in a man
tablish business relations with you, ner taxing the ingenuity of the
I hereby extend a cordial invita- leading American tailors. I will
tion to you to examine my big say no more. Please call at your
stock and prices. leisure and let me astonish yon!
B Am Anxious to Please-
HERMAN
Tho Hcliahlo Dcalor in
CLOTHING, HATS, EDRHISHM GOODS, BOOTS, SHOES.
Occident Hotel Building.
IT J.
2 CASUS OF CXaOTHIM.
I have just received my new stock
of Spring Clothing, bought from first
hands (the manufacturers) not from the
middle-men (jobbers) this time, thereby
saving my customers one profit, which
means from $3 to $5 on each suit of
clothes.
All the new designs of goods, cut in
the very latest style.
A Good Business Suit - - - $10
Boys School Knockabout Suits only $ 3
Good Pants from $1.50 and upwards.
Ul
Sole Agent for Astoria, of the celebrated
To My Patrons.
It is :. source of pride to me to
he able to announce that I now
have beyond question, the most
complete and select stock of Men's
and Boy's CLOTHING, FURN
ISHING GOODS, HATS, CAPS,
TRUNKS, VALISES, BOOTS,
SHOES, and such other goods as
are usually kept in a FIRST
CLASS Men's Outfitting Estab
lisnmcnt: not only do I claim pre
Wl
SE.
i
Hi
HRISTY HJLTS.
TILLAMOOK,
Shoalwater Bay and Gray's Harbor
Tho P. & C. 8. S. Co.'s Steamer
"ALLIANCE,"
Will sail from PORTLAND as follews:
GRAY'S II ARBOR Thursday, October 4.
11, 18 and 25. November 1, S, 15, 22 and 29,
December c, 13, 20 and 27.
SHOALWATER BAY Octobor 4 and IS.
November 1.15 and 29. December 13 and 27.
TILLAMOOK Monday-October 1. 15 and
29. November 12 and 2G. December io and
21.
Steamer leaves rortland, from foot of C
street at 8 1. M. on above dates. Astoria U
A M. the following morning.
The Company reserves lho right to change
nine anu piaco oi sailing.
F. R. STRONO. President.
CI
UPSHUR, Agent Astoria.
(1KO. M'LKAN.
SAM. FKKKMAN.
McLean & Freeman.
BLACKSMITHS.
Special Attention paid to all Ship and Steam
boat Repairing.
HORSESHOEING.
Logging Camp Work a Specialty. All kinds
of Ulacksmithing done to order,
fchop. corner Jefferson and Olney streets,
Astoria, Oregon.
A Fine nnd Well Sclcctc-t Stock
OF
Watches, Jewelry,Clocks, etc.
AT
H. ERSTEOM'S
Jewelry Establishment.
All goods warranted, as guaranteed.
Opposite Crow's gallery, Astoria, Oregon,
BOOTS AND SHOES!
Of Eest Quality, and at
LOWEST PRICES,
AT THE
SIGH OF THEJOLDEN SHOE.
JODBCKT TTAElff.
F.H.SURPRENANT&CO.,
SUCCESSORS TO
t. o. :el o s s
County Coroner.
First Class Undertaking
ESTABLISHMENT.
New Styles.Caskets and funeral material.
Next to astokian ofttce.
g
The Str. Telephone
Fast Time Between Portland
and Astoria.
LEAVE PORTI.AND -.
Foot of Aider Street
Daily, except Tuesday. at -.7 -.00 A.M.
LEAVE ASTORIA :
Wilson & Fisher's Dock.
Daily, except Tuesday, at . 8 :00 r. ir.
Horgan & Sherman.
GROCERS
And Dealers In
Special Attontlon Given to Filling
Of Orders.
A FULL LINE CARRIED
And Supplies furnished at Satis
factory Terms.
Purchases delivered In any part of tho city.
Office and Warehouse
In Hume's New Building on Water Street.
P. O. Box 153. Telephone No. 37.
ASTORIA, oitKGionr.
Nolicc Leading Lines.
T AM PREPARED TO LEAD LINES AT
jl cents per iu.
for lead used, inclmlim-
work of leading.
Good work guaranteed.
ERIK MANULA,
At Occident Cannery.
Theo. Bracker.
Wholesale and Retail Dealer In
CIGARS, TOBACCO,
MEERSCHAUM.
Wood and Olay Pipes, Playing Oards,
CUTLERY AND NOTIONS.
This being a branch of tho t?o rnfcld
Smith Company, Importers ami Whole
sale Dealers in Portland, I can sell to the
Trade and other customers at Portland and
San Francisco rates.
FOR SALE AT A BARGAIN.
A Squaro Piano.
Enquire of
. W. CASE,
Agent,
Cannery
Suns!