JWKf"' X C31 xfhc gaity gtffovuun ASTORIA, OREGON: SUUXDAY -MARCH 24. 1S59. ISSUED EVERY MORNING. (Monday excepted.)) J. P. HALLORAN & COMPANY. Publishers and Proprietors, AsTouiAXBuir.nixo, - - Cass Street. Terms of Subscription. Served b v Carrier, per w eek 15 cts Sent by Mail, per month... 18 cts one j car " Free of postage to subscribers. The astoriax guarantees to Its adver tisers the largest circulation of any newspa per published on the Columbia river. To-morrow night. At Boss' opera house. Fred'k Warde in "Virginias." The Seattle land office takes in be tween S5,000 and 86,000 every day. Yesterday's showers and breezes were welcome for the general health of the city. Reserved seats at the New York Novelty Store for to-morrow night's performance. Two thousand dollars worth of fishing boats were destroyed by a recent gale at Martinez, Cal. A few months ago Swan Island, was bonght by a snydicate for 890, 000. The price now is S150.000. The Otterspool, from New Castle, has about as large a cargo of coal as ever arrived in this port 2,750 tons. James B. Stephens, known through out the northwest a3 Uncle Jimmy Stephens, died in East Portland last Friday night. It takes a book of 1,000 pages to hold the laws passed by the last leg islature. It will take a much smaller volume to hold thoso which will be enforced or will stand the test of the supremo court. A young man up at St. Helena won 87,500 in a lottery last week and has tened to Salem to see his girl. He couldn't wait for the train to stop, but jumped, falling and breaking an arm and a rib or two. Fred'k Warde, the great tragedian, will appear to-morrow night in "Vir ginias." Reserved seats at the New York Novelty Store for that and Tues day night's performance when he and his excellent company appear in "Belphegor the Mountebank." Eastern folks are fattening up this Lent on Columbia river sturgeon. Sturgeon beats nothing all to pieces, but in about a week wc will have the Chinook salmon that is as far ahead of sturgeon as clam is ahead of a chunk of soap wrapped in ashes. The Manzanita, with tho naval commission aboard started for Fort land yesterday morning. Tho result of their trip is a foregone conclusion. Their recommendation will be that the navy yard be located at Port Orchard, 112 miles south west of Seattle. The Ovide Mnsin Concert company bought 85,500 worth of property in Spokane Falls last Monday, and gave a concert there that evening. They didn't get here in time yesterday to buy any real estate, but they gave a very good performance at Ross' opera house last evening. Tlio Astoria Guide, a publication for the information of the traveling public and Astorians in general, will make its appearance in a few days. It will contain time tables of all the different steamers large and small leaving and arriving here, and much other information of a like nature. The syndicate who bought the Holladay property, including the Sea side property, went to (Jiutsop yester day on the Occident returning last evening. They went to Portland last night on the Telephone. In re sponse to a question as to their inten tions one of the party volunteered the information that there appeared to be "considerable opportunity for improvement down there." Yesterday afternoon two of Sher man & Ward's express horses started from the Telephone dock, with their respective wagons attached and went sailing down Water street at a great rate: one was soon stepped: the other kept ou his mad career till he got to the O. K. & N. dock, where he col lided with a heavy track, springing the axle of the wagon he was drawing but doing no further damage. Another victim of Adams L Co., the swindling employment agency of Portland, turned np yesterday in the sbapeof an honest young English man who was sent down here by those tricksters with a card to 'J. B. Brown." They represented that there waB a man of that uame in Astoria in the grocery business, and that they had the agency to furnish mm a clerk They seem to have roped in Boveral strangers on their employment racket. and should be brought to task it there is a law to reach their case. Sailing orders have been sent to the United States steamship Thetis, at the Mare island navy yard, to proceed to Sitka, touching at such places as the commanding officer may deem neces sary. When she arrives at Sitka and communicates with the oivil author ties, she will, it the situation is quiet and her presence there is not required, continue on northward, and devote her attention particularly to the whaling fleet and other commercial interests of the United States, in the waters about Bearing straits and the Arctio ocean. The Columbia county court has located the routo of the road through Columbia county from Olney to Washington Co., provided for in the recent bill appropriating 89,000 to Clatsop, 84,000 to Columbia, and S2, 000 to Washington countios. The Columbia county authorities will use the 81,000 in improving the road now leaving the Clatsop line near the north bank ot the Nehalem river and going by the way of Mist, Pittsburg and Vernonio, it being the route that will acommodate most settlers and the cheapest to bridge. Talking about the Cascade tunnel, it is said that the bed ot the railroad track in the tunnel, orcinally a hard clsy substance, is swelling up from the bottom, which is springy, and is giving the railroad people consider able trouble. To overcome the dif ficulty the tunnel is to be arched at the top and at the bottom like a gigan tic sewer. To this end the Northern Pacific company is said to have so cured a very large tract of clay land at Pasco, where an extensive brick yard is to be established and 15,000, 000 of brick made nt once, to begin the work. The United States fish commis sion has expended 8110,000 during the past year on this coast in con structing hatcheries, collecting eggs for distribution, etc. The superin tendent, Livingston Stone, reports that 1,500,000 salmon eggs were taken from the McCloud-river hatchery. The greater number of these were hatched and placed in the streams again. During the past season 10,500,000 salmon were also obtained from the Willamette river, near Ore gon City. Out of 5,000,000 of these 93 per cent, were hatched and the fish put into the Clackamas river. A car-load of whitefish eggs was recent ly received from the great lakes, which will be distributed in the Columbia river and its tributaries. PERSONAL MENTION. Judge Shaw, of Salem, is in the city. Sam'l Elmore has returned from Portland. J. E. Sibley came up from Hobson ville yesterday. Kelsey Hudson came up from Cali fornia on yesterday's steamer. ueo. w. uume and son came from San Francisco yesterday. up A. J. Megler returned on yester day's steamer from a pleasant visit to San Francisco. Jacob S. Taber, of San Francisco, formerly president of the board of trade, is in the city. Rob't Don came up from San Fran cisco yesterday. He goes to Qray'a harbor to put machinery in the Cos mopolis. Nelson Bennett, H. Y. Thompson, S. E. and C. X.L. Larrabee and A. M. Woolfolk came down from Portland yesterday and went to Clatsop. Mr. Laws arrived on tho Oregon yesterday: he goes on the Idaho on the 26th, and will superintend opera tions at Pyramid Harbor Canning Co. this season. F. H. Poindexter, and son Theo dore, arrived yesterday. They go to their cannery, (Ohilcat Packing Co.) by way of the Idaho, starting next Wednesday. One Way of Doing. "How is it that yon get on so well with your husband?" was asked by one lady of another, who had mar ried a man notorious for his temper. "I feed tho brute," she whispered, with a little laugh. "Isn't it an aes thetic truth, but it is truth, that most every man can be won through his stomach. Look nt Adam. If he hadn't had a stomach that craved the tempting fruit that Evo held up be fore him, where would we be now. Send your husband to advertise for a kitchen girl, and he invariably puts in the words, ''Must be a good cook." "Did you have a good time, during your visit, dear?" you ask when he returns home. "Naw, that sister-in law of mine can't cook fit for a pig," he growls. You are going to a picnic. "Be sure to have plenty, and everything good," says your husband peering into the lunch basket. How many husbands do you sup pose have been won by smart women for their daughters, by appealing to the stomachs of the young men? We all know that a man may be cajoled into doing almost anything after a good dinner, while a hungry man is ns cross as two sticks. Now, because this is tho cose, my dear girl, about to marry, try to make tho most of it. Remember, that when your hus band comes through the rain and storm, after a dull day of business if he finds you looking like a picture, with some bright house dress on, and a knot of flowers or ribbons at your throat, and you give him a delicious and dainty supper, after which you make him lie down to rest on the sofa before a bright fire, he never in the world will say: "Uuess I'll have to go down town to-night and see a fellow." He will appreciate all you do for him if he loves you. A man is a queer animal with many very human traits. And he mast be pam pered, just a little, it you would keep him all to yourself. Evening Wis consin. Fred'k Warde as "Virslnlns." Not to have seen Fred Warde in his great impersonation of Virginias is to have missed one of the finest expositions ot true dramatic art which the stage of to-day affords. Evidently such was the opinion ot many others, since the New Park theater last night held an audience which for numbers and enthusiam surpassed any previous audience of the week, and well were they repaid for their presence, lor they were re galed with a dramatio feast whose memory will long linger with them. Yesterday's Oregonian. Objects to the Habits of the Hooslers, President IHarrison thinks ot abolishing hand shaking at his recep tions. He does not mind a common dry shake, but the habit of the hoos iers who call is to spit in their hands before Ithey grab his. This keeps him wiping tobacco jaice on his pants, and it is unpleasant. Alta. . Just Received Direct from the East; a large shipment of Wall Paper and Ceiling Decorations. B. F. Allej?, The "Improved" Matchless Gas Burn er, at J. A, Montgomery's. "Detroit" Water closets at J. A. Mont gomery's. Stoves, cheaper than ever at J. A. Montgomery's. Don't go to Portland when you want a Water closet, or some Sewer pipe. Try J. A. Montgomery. advice to mothers. Mrs. Winslow's Sootiiino Strup should always be used for children teething. It soothes tho child, EOf tens the gums, allays all. pain, cures wind chollc, and is the best remedy for diar-rucca.Twenty-five cents a bottle. Coffee and cake, Central Restaurant ten cents, at the flo to Jeffs lor Oysters. Tender, Juicy Steali at -Jeff's. PECULIARITY OF WASHINGTON. The Disappointed Office-Seeker and What Became of Him. The inauguration is over, and the great mas3 of people has disappeared. The only strangers left behind are those who are looking for an office. They have come and are going to remain until they are rewarded with an appointment, or until their last penny is gone. There is no class of persons who can live longer on small capital than the office seeker. He has been out for n long time, and has become acquainted with the ways of the world, or in other words he is used to "roughing it." The averace office seeker, whether he is after a foreign mission or a laborer's place in one of the departments, puis on a bold front when he starts in search of a situation. In the first place he thinks a suit of broadcloth is necessary, or he takes the next best, or the best he can get. Linen from the laundry must be worn and this is an item of ad ditional expense. Clean collars and cuffs are donned each day, and to complete his presentable appearance an additional nickel is squandered on a bootblack. In all the applicant finds it rather expensive business, but then he expects soon to be re warded and all will be right Days, weeks and months pass by and yet he has not even succeeded in getting some one "fired'' to make a vacancy for himself. His hotel, bill must be paid, and eoon he finds that financial emharrasment is sure to follow. He must leave his hotel and secuao more economical quarters. Ex penses in every direction must be curtailed. His laundry bill must be lessened. Then he wears a collar two or three days and turns his cuffs to get double wear out of them. His current expenses have been cut more than fifty per cent. He still con tinues to hang about the public offices and more and more does he begin to realize that a "public office is a private snap." CASTLES IN THE AIB. He then builds castles high tin the air. Thinks what he could do with the salary ot the office for which he is an applicant. In his mind he could sport diamonds and build houses. Failing to secure an early appoint ment he becomes miserable. His money is fast going, and what to do he does not know. His ex penses must be further les sened and he invests in a few celluloid collars and cuffs. Then he dispenses with linen shirts and wears flannel, They do not have to go to the laundry so often. With his flannel shirt, celluloid collars and cuffs and a necktie he presents, almost as good an appearance as he did when he stopped at the hotel, paid big laundry bills, and indulged in an every-day bootblack. He oan now black his boots as well as any colored boy in town. Jb many ho begins to give up hopes of securinghis appoint ment and desires to go home, but he knows how his friends will tantalize him, and that he could not stand. He waits awhile longer, and by-and-by the position which he desires to fill becomes vacant. Then he watches the newspapers for his appointment He watches in vain, for after several days the name of another individual appears, and then the unfortunate is greatly dis appointed, but he manages to brace up and urges his name for another position. He is equally sure of get ting this one. He meets friends, tells them his story and they give him en couraging news. Then he has reason to rejoice, and they take a drinic to gether. Day after day he wastes his time in a saloon. He is soon christened "colonel"' or "majah," and as long as his money lasts he is good fellow. The other office slips from him, and it is not long before he be comes a vagrant in attempting to drown his disappointments in rum. His bQard.bill get3 large, and he is told to look out for another boarding house. He fails to take the hint, and gets the "grand bounce." fBOMBAD TO WORSE. He next appears at the pawn shops and puts up what spare articles of clothing heha3. Each deal of this kind affords him another opportunity of getting drunk. He goes from bad to worse, and his name finally aDnears on the register ot "invited guests" at tne ponce station. He next appears at the station as "a drunk," and is locked up over night. He has now lost all hope of bettering himself, and is unable to solve the difficult prob lem. "What shall I do?" he asks himself. "Shall I tramp home? No! I would be disgraced." Day after day he spends in this condition. He becomes despondent and determines to end his troubles forever. He per haps choses drowning as the most painless death. The body is recov ered and placed in the morgue, where other poor and unfortnnate victims are placed. The sharp knife of the coroner is brought into service, and the disfigured remains are either in terred in Potter's field or sent home to his relatives for a decent burial. Thus there is one candidate out of the way, and room 13 made for anoth er applicant. A War Song. A ninth-ward schoolboy, adminis tered a thrashing to a playmate, and as a punishment for his pugnacity his teacher required him to "write it up" and read the composition before the school. The youth has in him thn making of a great poet, as his effusion shows. Two hours of solitary con finement evolved the follewing: When I was a-walking around one day I met Robert Jones; Before I said a word to him hs began a- firing stones. Do yon suppose Fd stand a-doing noth ing on tho ground, While he was slinging rooks and stones and every thing around? So I just goes up to him and batted him in the eye, And then the little coward hollered and ha began to cry. He told the teacher what I'd done and she made me write it np; And thats the reason I think Bobby is a sneakin little pup. From the Binghamlon Republican. TelephoneLodKlng House. Best Beds in town. Rooms per night 80 and 25 cts per week Sl.30. New and clean. Private entrance. Meals Cooued to Order. Private rooms for ladies and families: at Contral Restaurant, next to Foard & Stokes'. Ludlow's Ladies' 83.00 Fine Shees: also Flexible Hand turned French Kids, ai r.j. uuuiimms. CMltaGryftrPiicber'sCastoria CONDENSED DISPATCHES. "Corporal" Tanner has been nomin ated 03 commissioner of pensions, The tug Mogul of Tacoma, has been sold to Port Townsend parties for 822,000. The Scranton, Penn., coal mines have been shut down, and 2,000 men are out of employment. Severol excited boomers are on the borders of the Oklahoma territory, and the situation is critical. C. P. Huntington says the Southern Pacific will do no railroad building north of the Columbia at present. Stanley Matthews, one of the justices of the supreme court of the United States, died in Washington last Friday night Dr. Knanne. late German consul at Samoa, is blamed by his govern ment for all the recent trouble in that quarter. Bismarck says that what he did was unauthorized. Off Flattery banks last Mondav afternoon, a black whale towed the fishing schooner G. H. White five miles, when, the cable becoming dis entangled, ho disappeared. President Harrison has issued a proclamation, warning all persons, unless those authorized by the secre tary of the treasury, under pain of arrest, fine and imprisonment, from killing any otter, mink, martin, sable or fur seal within the limits of Alaska, or tho waters thereof. An English sloop of 200 tons burden was blown over to Port Town send from Victoria by the storm, and requested permission to obtain fish ing bait The acting collector re fused, as the British authorities have not allowed American fishermen on the Atlantic coast to have bait at their ports. This is the first instance of a fishery retaliation on the Pacific coast. Who Is Your Best Friend? Your stomach of course. Why? Be cause if it is out of order you are one of the most miserable creatures liv ing. Give it a fair, honorable chance and see it it is not the best friend you have in the end. Don't smoke in the morning. Don't drink in the morn ing. If you must smoke and drink wait until your stomach is through with breakfast You can drink more and smoke more in tho evening and it will tell on you less. If your food ferments and does not digest right, if you are tronbled with Heartburn, Dizziness of the head, coming up of the food after eating, Biliousness, In digestion, or any other trouble of the stomach, you had best use Green's August Flower, as no person can use it without immediate relief. William Probable Reason. "Now, children," said the teacher. I will ask you a few questions in the lesson we have just been over. (Jan you tell me, William why the boy stood on the burning deck? "I don't Jknow ma'am'' said Wil liam, hesitating, "unless " "Unless what?" "Unless he had a pat hand and didn't want to let it go." . Their Business Boomiii. Frobably no one thing has caused such a general revival of trade at J. W. Conn's Drug Store as his giving away to their customers of so many free trial bottles of Dr. King's New Discovery for Consumption. Their trade is simply enormous in this very valuable article from the fact that it always cures and never disappoints. Coughs, Colds, Asthma, Bronchitis, Croup, and all throat and hmg diseases quickly cured. You can test it before buying by getting a trial bottle free, large size SI. Every bottle warranted. The latest style of .Gents' Boots And Shoes at P. J. Goodsiam's. All tne patent medicines advertised iu this paper, together with the choicest perfumery, and toilet articles, etc can be bought Et the lowest prices, at J. W. Conn's drim store, opposite OcMeiit hotel, Astoria. Electric Paste Stove- polish at J. A. Montgomery's. Wholesale and Retail ! ! Clothing, Furnishing Goods, Hats, Trunks, Valises, etc. To the Trade. I take pleasure in informing the trade that I have received in the last 20 days, nearly 200 CASES Of staple and choice goods, which I ofler at a very close margin to CASH BUYERS. It is my desire to attract to As toria some of 'the Gray's Harbor and Shoalwater Bay and Columbia River jobbing trade, which now goes to San Francisco and Port land; and knowing that I must quote extremely low prices to es tablish business relations with you, I hereby extend a cordial invita tion to you to examine my big stock and prices. I Am Anxious to Please. HERMAN WISE, The Reliable CLOTHING, HATS, MNISHIffi GOODS, BOOTS, SHOES. ...- .Occident Hotel Building. Gun 2 CASUS OF GXsOTHXN''. 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. ITou will save mazi&y ly yous goods of Ui Sole Agent for Astoria, of the celebrated CHRISTY HATS. The Str. Telephone Fast Time Between Portland and Astoria. I.i:.VVE PORTLAND : Foot of Alder Street Drill . except Tuesday. :it .7:X) a.m. LEAVE ASTORIA : Wilson & Fislicr's Dock. Daily, except Tuesday, at.- 8 :00 p. m, To My Patrons. It is a source of pride to me to be 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 lisnment; not only do I claim pre cedence in Astoria, but I may justly claim to equal any of the large clothing stores in Portland; and you will award me the "cake" please, when it comes to "low prices"! You will find in my store, Garments from the cheapest to the finest, and finished in a man ner taxing the ingenuity of the leadinrr American tailors. I will say no more. Please call at your leisure and let me astonish you! Dealer in 'v. Pi COOPER TILLAMOOK, Shoalwater Bay and Gray's Harbor The P. & C. S. S. Co.'s Steamer "ALLIANCE," Will sail from PORTLAND as follews: GRAY'S HARBOR Thursday, October 4. 11, 18 and 25. November 1, 8. 15, 22 and 29, December c, 13. 20 and 27. SHOALWATER BAY October 4 and 18. November 1, 15 and 29. December 13 and 27. TILLAMOOK Monday October 1. 15 and 29. November 12 and 20. December 10 and 21. Steamer leaves Portland, from loot ot C street at 8 P. M. on above dates. Astoria 6 A. M. the following morning. The Company reserves lhe right to change time and place of sailing. F. R. STRONG. President. C.P. UPSHUR. Agent Astoria. Astoria Iron Works. Concomly St., Foot ot Jackson, Astoria. Or General Machinists and Boiler Makers. Land and Marine Engines BOILER WORK, Steamboat Work and Cannery Work A SPECIALTY, Castings of all Descriptions Made to Order at Short Notice. Jorur Fox.. President, and Sunt, A. L. Fox, Vice President J. G. Hustler -..Sec. and Treas. GEO. U'LEAy, BAM. FREEMAK. McLean & Freeman. BLACKSMITHS. Special Attention paid to all Ship and Steam boat Repairing. HORSESHOEING. Logging Camp 'Work a Specialty. All kinds of Blacksmlthlng done to order. Shop, comer Jefferson and Olney streets, Astoria, Oregon. A Fine and Well Selected Stock OF Watches, Jewelry,Clocks, etc. -AT- H. EESTROM'S Jewelry Establishment. All goods warranted, as guaranteed. Opposite Crow's gallery, Astoria, Oregon, E. G. Lewis, Timber Land Broker, Cruiser AND ESTIMATOR. Locator of Government and State Lands. Timber bought and sold on Commission. Taxes paid and Lands protected from tres pass. Operates in Washington, Oregon, and California. Correspondence solicited. Astoria, Oregon. VlrginlaCigar anfl Toliacco Store J. W. BOTTOM, Proprietor, Water Street, Two Doors East of Olney, Fln Cigars, Tobaccos and Smokers Articles, Sold at Lowest Market Rates. rRurra, candies notionb.&o purchasing f Morgan & Sherman. GROCERS And Dealers In m Special Attention Given to Filling Of Orders. A FULL LINE CARRIED And Supplies furnished at Satis factory Terms. Purchases delivered In any part of the city. Office and Warehouse In Hume's New Building on Water Street. P. O. Box 153. Telephone No. 37. ASTORIA, OREGOIV. Theo. Bracket". Wholesale and Retail Dealer in CIGARS, TOBACCO, MEERSCHAUM. Wood and Olay Pipes, Playing Oards, CUTLERY AND NOTIONS. This being a branch of the Jlosenfeld, Smith Company, Importers and Whole sale Dealers in Portland, I can sell to the Trade and other customers at Portland and San Francisco rates. Magee, Argand and Acorn Stoves i Ranges, Cooking and Heating, EVERYONE FOLLY WARRANTED. WATER CLOSETS, PHIMBI5G GOODS, PUMPS, SIXES, AND BATII TUBS. JNO. A. MONTGOMERY, CHENAMOS STREET. To Canners. Jensen's Patented Can Capping Machine. Will Cap and Crimp 05 CASS per HISUTE. It has proved to Reduce the Leakage more than 50 per cent, less than hand capped. Price, S600. Orders complied with by The Jensen Can-Filling Machine Oo. DEALER IN Wall Paper and Oil Paintings SPECIALTY, Sign Writer, Grainer and Ornamental Painter. Cor. Cass and Jefferson Sts.. Astoria, Or. Net Floats IN LOTS TO SUIT AND OF THE BEST QUALITY, At WILSON & FISHER'S Cannery Sill