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e-c a-"-"- TTi. .. - -r S -)"- -' i. 6 She gaUg gtetafatt. ASTORIA, OREGON: ISDAY .MAY 11. 1690 SIX PAGES. HERE AND THEEE. Hapless Anna Dickinson, who ckred $25,000 in ono season, and $163,003 in ten, has little or none of itlelt. The pope is so ascetic in bis mode of living that he is said to spend less than $1,000 a year on his immediate vr&sts. There are G'Q.S men employed on the railroads of this country. The average carniups of each man is $243 per annum. The tomato which was pronounced by the first English subject who tasted one not mauy years ago as "not altogether nasty," has at last con qaered England. The state entomologist of New York has on his desk at Albany a jelly glass containing hundreds of qaeer little Hies, a kind which rarely infest dwelling houses. The insects appear during the winter, are liveliest when it is coldest, and disappear in April. A registered packago was recently Mailed iu Washington, D. C, plainly addressed to Orlando, Orange county, Florida. It went from Washington to San Francisco, thence to Ogden, Utah, after which it went to New Or leans, ai " from there to Jacksonville sad then Orlando. A Sault y ', Marie young man fell ib love wil a girl, but her mother objected. O o night last week the yoang niau took the girl and her aotber to a show, but got the seats widely apart. Whilo the play was in progress the lovers supped out and were married before the curtain dropped. A wealthy Georgia man died re cently, and after the last sad rites, the family made a search for the will, bat could not find it Finallay some oae suggested that the body should be exhumed. This was done, and in the inside pocket of the grave coat ike will was fouud. The careful citi sen had put it there for safe keeping Ira the event of a European out break Great Britain would be able to rsead to sea at a moment's notice forty-four modern battleships and belted craisers to cope, in case of necessity, with France's twenty-three, Russia's fifteen, Germany's twelve or Italy's tea, so that no possible combination of aay two of the great powers would place'England at a disadvantage. Isaac Pitman, the inventor of pho nography, still presides over the pho Betic institute at Bath, England, where he has resided uninterruptedly for aaore than half a century. He is risirag 7S, yet he supervises a corre 5poadence of 30,000 letters a year, be sides editing the Phonetic Journal sad compiling the numerous books which he annually publishes. A woman dressed in mourning called at a Montreal police station ssd requested that she be given her sob's picture. When told that there was none there, she answered that it was iu the rogues' gallery. "He was oece accused of picking pockets," said the visitor, "but was discharged. This picture was taken at that time. I have none, except one showing him as a child, and now he is dead." Anna C Brackett, who had been searching into the subject, says that previous to the time of Kichard IL (1377-1399) all the Euglish women who rode at all, rode like men. Rich ard married Anne, of Bohemia, the eldest daughter of Charles IV., em peror of Germany, and it is to her that we owe the introduction of the sidesaddle. It is stated that she was deformed and, therefore, could not ride with ease on the usual saddle. At an amateur theatrical perform ance given by the ladies of Burling ton's (Iowa) "four hundred'' recently, the costumes furnished by a traveling Bft&aager were attached at the close of the entertainment Many of the ladies had donned their costumes at home, but the sheriff would not allow j ue costumes to Do taken irom tne theater, and the ladies had to go boaae clothed in "mantles of blushes sad what knick-knacks of nttire could be picked up.1 Candidates in New York. Xew York has a law that compels candidates for office to make a sworn report of their campaign expenses. Httker this keeps tho expenses down very low, or else some of the expenses are of swell a character that the candi dates -would rather commit erjury than reveal them. In Lockiorr, New York, it cost the candidates in the last aMuudpal election just about S320 to get elected; at all events that is what .the sworn statements filed in the eoRsty clerks office in accordance with Ue provisions of the Soxton corrupt nracbee bill savs. The Republican can OHHKClor -mayor xim unver, neaus ine - m- y-i- , i ., ilSt Tltll $90 OUt Of hlS pOCket He de- Sealed the Democratic candidate who put mp just S27 to be elected. Some candidates swore that they did not kaow that they were running, and others pnt up from 25 cents to $10. It T the cheapest election held there in years. 1 a T"k.rkv-kJif Isnwlj1n4-"k - Seized Seal Skins. The Alaska Commercial company's lewer $. Paul brought down from Ottalaskal91 seal skins consigned to Uaited States Marshal Porter, of Aiacka, who is now in San Francisco. Thete skins are part of the number wmmi. on the sealing vessels James tr.Stff&K, JuanitOy Pathfinder, Min nie, Lily and Black Diamond, by Um revenue cutter Richard Rush lMtMUmer. The akiBS are to bo sold at auction at Sea Francisco. They are valued atfrott $12 to $15 apiece, making the ahipeaent valued at somewhere in the Mickborhood of $2,500. There were in all about $20,000 werth t skins seized, and these are expected to be shipped on one of the several sailing vessels that bring sup plies to the Alaskan canneries and re ten to San Francisco with supplies. Tfcc Ctaarer er aa AUn Bell Ctese fcr. the stillness of the night, could saercriy startle the ordinary individual t mm detrtmnc noises inc nervous m- Bet once the nerves are uracea and the jgitem tavlgoratcii wttu iiostetters 1Mb Btttert. this abnormal sensitive- tsaecc4edbya tranquility not to be 4 fcy trivial causes. Jnipariea ai i k a (ntile owe of nerve -weakness I VBMttwal maul atooffi, and a vigorous ewBleCUteactleaex the stomach is one C the surest mesas of invigorating and aalnisc Uc nerves. Insomnia, or sleepless mk, a farmer nervous disease, is unques ttsasMvaeneftted br sedatives, when it is rwirequeat occurrence, uunis removal is more effectually L Ka the Bitten. Tills medicine is ly f masoteas zer malaria, rueu- paHon. liver complaint, and kMaeys and bladder. TffAX HACKING COUGH can be fcvSbiioirsCurc. we aaMeveii it J.CDeMent. THE WAR'S FIRST GUN. It fas Hot He Fauns "Slot Heart Ronnitleforli," ToLit iita jr.i.v irno was there. How lite Star of the West Was Driven From Fort Sumter and the Secret Leaked Ont. In the smoking room of the Astor house the other evening two grizzled Grand Army men sat chatting with a middle-aged Virginian. Their talk drifted to the stirring events of the spring of 18G1, in which all three had taken part, says the New York Sun. The Virginian mentioned that, at the tune, he was serving under Beaure gard at Charleston. "By the way," broke iu the elder of the two union veterans, "to-morrow will be the anniversary of the firing of the first gun of the war. Did you happen to see the flash of that famous shot?" "Yes," replied the ex-rebel, "I was only a youngster then, but I remem ber the scene as distinctly as if it were yesterday. On the night of April 10, twenty-nine years ago, I was with that battalion of artillerists who slept ex pectantly behind the low sand hills of Morris island just opposite Fort Sumter. We were aroused about two hours before daylight next morning to take part in the bombardment for which we had been getting ready during many weary weeks. We" had been told that it would begin at 3 o'clock in the morning, and that the signal would be the firing of a shell from a mortar battery upon James island, on the south side of the harbor, midway between our posi tion and the city. When the hour came we were all in our places, peer ing auxiously and impatiently across the placid and starlit waters, now at the dim outlines of the fort, now in the direction of the wooded shore of James island, whence the signal shot was to come. I do not know what caused the delay, but we had to wait fully an hour, every minute of which seemed to us an age, be fore any sound broke the stillness of the night, except the monotonous roll of the surf upon the beach be fore us. At last, about 4 o'clock, when the first signs of the coming dawn could be discerned in the east ern sky, and when most of us had come to the conclusion that the performance was to be indefi nitely postponed, we were suddenly relieved by the welcome flash of the mortar and the dull boom which served as the long roll for the chain of batteries which encircled the doomed fort Thousands of eyes followed the lighted fuse which marked the curved flight of that first shell until it burst in a little round cloud of pearl-gray smoke high above the parapet upon which Major Anderson and his men were , silent watchers. Then, iu a mo-, ment. the quiet scene was at an end. The whole harbor seemed suddenly to j wake up. Battery after battery opened j fire. Killed siege cannon were a novelty at that time, and we had none; but the range was short, and shells, round shot and red shot were rained upon the fort with a rapidity which, in a few hours, rendered the whole interior, excepting the bomb-proof casements, a mess of burning ruins. The war had, indeed, begun at last "But that mortar shell from James island was not what you just now called it, 'the first gun of the war,' though it is surprising how many well-informed people, both north and south, believe that it was. Perhaps Whittier's vorse, The shot heard 'round the world, may have helped the spread of this strange mistake, but every one who has carefully read about the opening of the war ought to remember that the first gun was, in fact, fired some lime before the bombardment of Fort Sumter." Seeing that his Grand Army friends were interested as well as a little puzzled by his assertion, the Virginian centinued: "The first gun of tho war was, of course, the shot which drovo back tho steamer Star of the West when she tried to enter Charleston harbor with supplies for the little garrison of regulars shut up in Fort Sumter. But, as far as I know, tho true story of how that shot came to be fired, has never been told. I held a position which gave me an inside view of what was goiugon, aud I well remember the elation of General Ripley, who was in immediate command of our works at the harbor, at the lucky circumstance J which enabled us to preveut reher from reaching Major Anderson and his men. "It was long before the completion of the batteries which were to batter down Fort Sumter with their con centrated fire, that a detachment of 1 j pupils of the state military academy , 1)1 OUUIII VXUUllUil, llttUilllJ W1UAU i!3 MlIO cifndel cadets, were sent tn man n mnii nlnnht Afnrrla ialnml - . . ... .- close to the beach, and facing the harbor entrance. This work had been hastily thrown up so as to command the main ship canal, and the cadets, while laboring to strengthen the po sition, got some good lessons in prac tical military engineering. I am not sure that this was not the main object for which they were sent to Morris island. To them at all events, the outing was a welcome kind of picnic, with a patriotic flavor, for though they were longing for a real scrimmage of some sort, there seemed to be no im mediate prospect that their enthusi asm in that direction would be grati fied. Their battery was anything but a formidable one, either in its of fensive or defensive features; but most people on both sides of Mason and Dixon's line were still clinging to the belief that something would yet turn up to avert the clash of arms, and no body thought that there was any special reason for haste in putting the finishing touches to the little sand fort. "There had, so far, been no serious interruption of travel or of mail and telegraphic communication between the North and the South; but the Star of the West expedition had been planned as a surprise, and the utmost care was taken in "Washington to keep not only its destination and purpose, bnt even its very existence, a profound secret These precautions were suc cessful, at least until after the steamer had sailed. In fact the Star of the West must have passed Gape Hatteras before anybody in the South knew that she was coming. Just how we got wind of the expedition just in the nick of time has never, I believe, been told in the war histories. There was at the time an eccentric journalist con nected with the staff of one of the lead ing New York dailies. He strongly sympathized with the South, and had been occasionally writing for the Char leston Mercury not for pay, but to give vent to his feelings. He some how learned about the plan to pro- vision Fort Sumter, and sent the news by mail to the Mercury. The import ant tidings contained in his letter were received in the afternoon and imme diately communicated to our head quarter. The officers in command of the batteries which flanked the harbor entrance on either side were at once notified to be on the alert, and the Star of the West crossed the bar at dawn next morning, only to find her passage to Fort Sumpter disputed by the cadet artillerists of Morris island. The first shot of the war was fired across her bow. This was a kind of reception she had not bargained for, and to the disgust of the expectant garrison of the besieged fort, who were . watching the scene from the parapet, she turned Tight around, took to her heels and an hour later had be come a mere speck on the ocean hor izon. One of the cadet officers after ward told me that they all felt greatly relieved at the quick departure of the steamer, as by some blunder the young gunners had been left very short of ammunition and had actually only half a dozen rounds on hand when they opened fire. Had the commander of the Star oft he West been willing to take the chances, it is more than likely that she might have run the gauntlet unscathed. "That is the true story of the first gun of the war. The redoubt from which it was fired was at once christened 'The Star of the West Battery',' and was known by that name until three years later, when Morris island was finally evacuated by our forces." A SLICK PAIK. How a Peculiar Bridegroom and His Bride Worked a Portland Hotel. One day last week a man connected with a logging camp near Kalama came to the International with a very good looking young lady and took rooms. After supper he developed a very anxious countenance and asked landlord Lewiston if he thought the county clerk could be found at that hour. "Not for business at his office. I imagine," returned his host "His office is closed up and he lives over on Eleventh street in East Portland. But what do you want of him? Do you want to get married?" "Yes." "Well, I Buppose we can fix it up for you." Tom Lewiston accordingly was dispatched in a hack to county clerk Powell's residence and brought that official with a blank license to the hotel. This matter was arranged, and the hack next went to the resi dence of Justice Wood, who in due j time appeared and tied the nuptial Knor, iuue an eujoyauie iime iui lowed, several bottles of wine being opened at the bridegroom's order. In due course of time, however, the reserved bridegroom was called upon to liquidate the various bills he had run up for hacks, official services, wine and hotel fare. At this point he became decidedly uncommunica tive and would only vouchsafe the in formation that he had no money. In the dead of night ho stole out of the house with a small hand trunk, his bride and the consciousness of hav- mg cut a very wide swath without having given any equivalent in the coin of the realm. Oregon ia it. 3IEX AND WOMEN. M. Tisza, the Hungarian ex-premier, is said to have smoked more cigars than any other man in Europe. He smokes incessantly and is so shriveled up and withered that he looks to be seventy-five or eighty years of age, although only sixty. The richest men in the United States gained their wealth in peaceful pur suits, but the richest man in Germany is Herr Krupp, the gun-maker, whose income was over $1,250,000 last year, and all from the manufacture of war materials. Corporal Tanner says the best thing that ever happened to him was his drop out of the pension commissioner ship. He was advertised all over the country as having become a pension agent "and within a few days had over 200 cases on his list and a good many fees in his pocket Living on a claim near Rocky Ford, Colorado, is Emma Aiken and her three daughters, all of them widows. The mother is ninety years of age, the eldest daughter sixty-eight aud the youugest sixty-four. Not a man has ever been employed about the place, aud during their two year's residence they have done all their own work aud truck-gardening. In March, at one time Queen Victoria was in the south of France, the heir apparent in Germany and tho prime minister in Riviera, a con dition of things never before known in England since parliamentary government began. But, doubtless to the amazement of the air .Leicester Dedlocks. the sun continued not to set upon tho British dominions, stocks remained firm and trade suffered no conscious bereavement General Jubal Early, one of the pet cavalry leaders of the confederacy, lives well at Lynchburg on the money he receives for lending liLs name to a lottery company. He has a suite of rooms fitted up with a fino library, choice oil paintings and "handsome steel engravings, but boards around at different restaurants, paying for his meals as he goes, and running no bills. He has many friends, and when he entertains, does so with a free hand. A recent visitor offered some words of condolence to the widow of General Crook, in reply to which Mrs. Crook said: "Some years ago I met the widow of a great soldier. Her husband had just died. She was in consolable. She asked me weeping: 'How can I bear it?' I said to her: 'Bear it as a brave soldier's wife ought' How often she came tome after that and repeated the words to me; and now those same words come back to me." A fair to raise money for charitable Purposes was held not long ago at 'rince Bismarck's house in Berlin, at which the great statesman and his big hunting hound were prominent figures. The prince walked around in the plain undress of a cuirassier officer, chatted pleasantly with acquaintances and now and then bought something. Princess Bismarck sold articles at the principal table, and other titled ladies presided over booths or tables in the different rooms. The Chicago Tribune has started a fund for Kate Shelley of Boone county, Iowa, who some years ago crept across a railway trestle over the Des Moines river, in a stormy night, at the risk of her life, and stopped a passenger tram from plowing through a broken bridge. The Chicaee & Northwestern road gave her $100 and half a barrel of flour atme ume, anamncouicu euieuos mou. to pay off the mortgage on her dead father's farm and support the family by teaching school, but without en tire success. All the patent medicines advertised in this paper, together with the choicest perfumery, and toilet articles etc can be bought at the lowest prices atJ.W. Conn's drag store, opposite Occident hotel, Astoria. A QUEEN'S CAPRICES. How Her Royal Signature Looks. Strolling into Bedfern's, the ladies' tailor of New York, the other day to have a glance at his latest inspiration, I happen to notice on his desk, a small rather seedy looking scrap book. And of course that proverbial feminine curiosity with which the men are always twitting us, and which (between you and me,) is really quite as much an attribute of their sex as of ours, would not let me rest until I at least tried to get a peep at its contents. "Thatr said Mr. Bedfern, "oh, its only a few of our old letters from well! look for yourself, and find out the writers." Taking advantage of this permission, I opened the book and gazed with admiration upon epistles emanating from such distinguished sources as the queens of Italy, Greece, Sweden, the empress of Russia and Germany, poor dethroned Eugenie, and a host of princesses, duchesses and lesser lights of the aristocracy. The most im portant and interesting of these letters, to an English-speaking reader, are those from memberaot the English royalty. Here is one from the Princess of Wales, headed "Marlborough House, Pall Mall, S. W. Her royal highuest the princess of "Wales, wishes to see yon about some cool summer frocks, and also, about a mantle and coat for the empress or Russia. To Mr. Reiireni." From the Qneen herself, comes the follewing: "Windsor Castle, 12th April, 1SS9. Her majesty wishes Mr. Redfern to send in her account" "Would you like to see her majesty's own signature?" asks Mr. Redrern. "Here it is, and hero is a fac-simile of it, with the royal coat of-anns, which you may make use of, it you care to." Certainly I care to, and on the principlo of always trying to get more of a good thing, and especially when it i3 to be had gratis, I manage by a few gentle insinuations, to draw forth some interesting bits of information about the queen's peculiarities and fancies. For although she may be "a right, down, regalar, royal queen," she doesn't cetise to be a Avonian, aud is therefore as liable to fads and preju dices, and queer li'.tle ways, as the rest of her sex. jlV instance, in pleasant snmmcr weatlier she likes to take her breakfast in a tent on the lawn, aud it must be served precisely at halt past eight o'clock, for Eng land's queen does not countenance lazi ness; marching up and down outside are two gorgeous looking pipers in full Highland costume, playing the bag-pipes, Then she has some simple tastes, and all a true English woman's love for out door exercises: and she is often to be seen in the lanes at Os borne, arrayed in a broad brimmed black hat, mid picking flowers like any country bred child. One of her amusements occasionally, when she is in good health and spirits, is to summon a lot of her ladies-in waiting, and attendants and forming a procession set out to inspect her sta bles which are about a mile away from the house for it seems she is very fond of horses, and it is one of her notions that all her equine belongings shall be washed with one especial kind of soap. Whether it is the "Good morn ing. Have you used " sort I did not learn. She is very observant, too, and has a really wonderful memory for details for one who has been for over fifty years burdened with snch great re sponsibility. It seems that when hhe is at her summer residences of Bal moral and Osborne, it is her custom to go around her tenants and the cottag ers, and to note just what addition to their furnishmentsor wardrobes would be more welcome. These items she keeps in mind for months, aud then at Christmas there goes to each cottage just that very thing which was most longed for. To the women and chil dren she most frequently gives the ma terial of a good wool gown, and for these she calls upon the house of Red- fern. Now it has been the custom of this firm to take the opportunity of clearing off all their unutilized and "passe" stock, even though it should date back more than one season. Well, the last time these stuffs were carried down for her majesty's inspec tion, she said, after examining them: "Now, 1 am quite willing, you know, to help you get rid of your old goods, to a reasonable extent But you've been sending me some of these de signs for the last four or five years, and Td re illy like to have a few new ones, once in a while, or I'm afraid I'll be giving the same patterns to the same person over and over again." Like some of us Americans, Victoria isn't above indulging in "bargains at reduced prices." EliENOB Coudet. LIckinc a Man Softly. Two men met on Sixth street, near High, tho other day and both stopped and looked hard at each other. Then ono said: "Jim, I'm going to lick yon!" "Bight off now?" "I don't believe you can do it!" "Then Til die trying. It shall be a fair fight" "Very well." Then one took out his false teeth and laid them on the fence, the other hung his hat and overcoat on a picket and the first ebserved: "Be careful of my left leg, Tom, I've had a boil there." "All right, and you look out for my right ear, as it is sore from neuralgia." At this moment a policeman hap pened along and warned them against any row, and one said: "All right, Jim Til lick yon next week!" Til be there, Tom. Good byeP PortTowiisend Leader. Ketnember the Austin house at the Seaside is open the year 'round. rflss? y&WMml3 Democratic Rally Our Standard Hearer, GOVERNOR PEXXOYER ! AND State Treasurer Webb ! WIU address Hie citizens of Astoria, at I!o Open l!nn-x. at 7 iSi o'clock. on TUESDAY. MAY r.:li. 1SW, on the Political Issues or Hi? Day. IJverjbody Is United. Keserved seats for fculie. Wm.W. Wiirnnv. S. A. Wiirintv. HUlIAIMi llAKItV, C'iII Engineer. Wherry & Harry, Real Estate AND .srKVEYIXC. TOWNSHK WOKK A SPECIALTY. Citv anil Suburban Property Sold on Coin mission. Investments Made Tor Outside Parties. i:efei:ences I. V. Case, Hanker. .Iulj:e ('. II. Pajre. orfice nit Third Street, Near Court House, - ASTOKIA, OK. (IF.r.O V. PAKKRi:. CAJU. A. II NSOX Parker & SrcCESbOI.'S TO C. L. PARKER, DEAI.KKS IX CENERAL MERCHANDISE New Goods Arriving Every Steame THIS WEEK. Dress - C3c-oac3.iS, The Old Stand - Aitorla Oregon. CMsavansjE ga S p j JUuSmN- HAIIilli hw MH S Q, DffcllaWEr 0: ' uvfiiiEin Used bv the rnited Slates Government. Kutltirse.i by llw Iw.uU r tin (Sreat Univer sities and l'ubllc Food Analysts, as the StroiO'St, I'liifM aud hum Healthful. Dr. Trice's Cream Uakins Powder doi-s not contain Annnonia. Linn or Alum. Dr. Price's Delicious l'laorinK Extracts. Vauill i. Lpiiumi, Orange. Almond, t;os. t, do not contain Poison ous Oils or CheinlcaR PRICE BAKING POWDER CO., Xu Yi.ik. Cliic.ujo. San Francisco EAST ffAHITQI in oonst'iiwitCt of llii' ili'iii.iiKl for tliosr beautiful levI lots'. Mr. J. U'arrcn li.u been induced to pl.-.l timet j sl !ot- Adjoining Warrcr.ton on ihc East. Which will lie known ami wM n East Wasrenton I THE IIAM.KOA1) runs tIuouli the Iat, which Is only 20O yards from the Warrenlon depot. lor inrllier information call once on the - ASTORIA REAL ESTATE CO. lit Eats For Sent The conveniently located ami commodious net racks known as the West Coast Packing Uo.'s, can be rented on ery reasonable terms. For further inrticulars'aimly to W. W. paukiii:. A Vote of Thanks. AT A MEETINC. OF THE C. 11. F. V. Union they unanimously tendered a vote of thanks to the committee appointed by thuChambar of Commerce to arbitrate price-, to lie paid for fih for the season ol IKK), lly order of C K. V. P. Cnlon. FKEI) WKICJIT. Sec'v. Tutt's Pills trill Favo tho dyspeptic from many days of misery, and citable lilm to cat wliatcver bo -wishes. They prevent Sick Headache. cause the food to assimilate and nour ish the body, give keen appetite, and Develop Flesh nnc polid muscle. Elcpmtly sugar coated. Price, "S cents per box. Sold Everywhere. Office 44: Murray St., K. Y ASTORIA TRANSFER CO. AND Livery Stables. conveyances of any kind, on short notice. Tnuisf erring Bassast etc., a specialty. Telephone No, li II. W. SIIEItMAN & CO. ALLEN & SIMPSON, DEALERS IN Wall Paper and Oil Paintings SPECIALTY, Sign Writer, Grainerand Ornamental Painter. Cor. Cass and Jefferson Sts.. Astoria, $75 to $250 A 310NT1I can ho innile working for ils. lprcmi lirciciiiu v. uu i.t j ui man .t nuiac ami uive their whole time to the business. Spare moments can be profitably employed also. A few vacancies In towns and cities. B.F. JOHNSON & CO., 1009 Main St., Kiclnnond, Virginia. .GiiSH, it Goods Sold Having loaded lor a Iuj term of years the corner store of Young's new huildiu on the corner of Third ami NV.-1 Ninth iu this city, it becomes necessary for tue to mow my uo.-k ami fixtures from present If cation, ami to avoid a little trouble and va.sti of time as pos sible I nftVr m well sj-h-cted stock of Men's and Boy's Clothing. Genfs Furn ishing Goods, Hats, Caps. Trunks., Valises, Umbrellas, Blank ets. Quilts. Etc., I UKCtAIIDLiXS OF COST, until my removal to the new j local ion, whoro I shall continue to conduct business as I have for the past three years buying goods ftom the i manufacturers and selling them under a low expense for CAM 1 and at ONE IM11CK to all a:il:e, every day in M.e year. EXCEPT SUNDAYS AND HOLIDAYS. I. L. Osgood, Opposite Rescue Engine House, 'I ' HODS VORIHG TRACTS rliMFRUiTFlllliS Magce, Argam! and Acorn 8S C'ooKnig ami Heating, i:vki:vonm-: itliiV wakkanted IVATKIt ('I.OtKTS, PM'MUINC (iOODS, PPMiN, SINKS, AMI HIT!! TUBS. 3SToo cfc Scully, CHKN'AIIOS STKEET. OW IS Till: TI3IK! :ROSS&WTRT Ate ready to raise aud move houses. We are the boss at buildim; streets, side walks ami bulkheads. Shingling houses a ieeialr. .lack screw, hi ckinjr. rollers and cribs for rent. Shop on Fourth St., bet. Cass and :eneie;e. F.H.SURPRENANT&CO., County Coroner. Pirsl Glass Undertaking CSrAUI.ISIIMENT. New les, Caskets and funeral material N"et to asioi:i j ofllce. John G. Dement. DRUGGIST. Successor to W. E. Dement & Co. Carries Complete stocks of Drugs and Druggists' Sundries. PrerHjiiou., :rTHy Compounded. Agent tor 6I cm Salve and Norwegian Pile Cure FRESH FRUITS! I'AXBY, M'TS, ETC., Everything In Season. FordL Perrell FIKST-CLASS U:rbT Shop in the ICcar ! Net to Central Hotel, Astoria, Oregon E. P. N00NAN & CO., (Successors to) J. P. HYNES, DEALERS IN- Groceries Produce. Water Street, Astoria, Oregon. TELKI'IIOXE XO. 7. P. O. BOX 390 Notice. PIONEER AND HISTORICAL SOCIETY or Oregon. The annuil meeting of the above society will be held In this city on Momlav next, Mav 12th. at tho social hall of Rescue Engine Co. No. 2, at 2 o'clock v. m. Pioneers anil their descen Jants are ur gently rcqnested to be present, as business or importance Is to be transacted. K. Vt. MORRISON, President. E. C. HOLDEN, Secretary. 1 ETfc" 2Sn:73i IBS &?& if m Ranges. a j i emoval Sale! IIIIIIHIMIIIIIIIIIIU1IIIIIHHIHMI Regardless of Cost ! KEEN COMMISSION Insurance and Real Estate Agents OTOIXTEY TO LOAN ! ON GOOD Astoria, A FINE Children's xty lioo k Stop JTJST HSCZTBTSD. PRICES LOWER THAN EVER. Mffln Wholesale Wine House. Fine Wines, Choice Brands. I Iiavo completed arrangements for supplying any brand of "Wine in any quantity at lowest cash figures. The Trade Supplied, Families Supplied. ALL OKDEltS DELIVERED FREE IN ASTORIA. Your patronage in City or Country solioited. A. W. UTZINGER. Cosmopolitan Saloon. SEALAN0. Tim terminus of the Ilwaco and Shoahvater Bay Railroad. THE GREAT EST SUMMER RESORT OX THE NORTHWEST COAST. Lies at the head of the Ray, at deep water, and only twelve miles from the bar. The coming County Seat and Commercial Metropolis of Pacific county. Now laid ont. Lots on the market from S50, and upwards. For particulars and fuli information, call on or address B. A. SEABORC. Stockton Real AND EMPLOYMENT OFFICE. City, Suburban and Acreage Property For Sale. MAIN ST., ASTORIA, OK., V. 0. Box 511. The Law and Abstract Office OF C. R. THOMSON Ose Door east of Dkmest's drug stohe A complete set of Abstract Books for the entire County always kept posted to date. Special attention given to practice in tbe U. S. Land Office, and the examination of laud titles. ONE PRICE. Settling in this city over six years ago, where I found a very healthy climate and good natural advantages, etc., I concluded three years ago to open business in ray line on my own account, with the intention, if possible, to give no one an excuse to take or send money out of Astoria to build up any other city in preference. And as I Have Succeeded in Building up a Good Business, and am Here to Stay, 1 still invite you all to call, or send jour children, as it is well known that at my counters, A CHILD BUYS AS CHEAPLY AS THE MOST EXPERIENCED BUYER. ASORIA, OREGON. AND COOK, MERCHANTS. SECURITY. Orecon. STOCK : Carriages $$ IlTvaco, W & Welch, No curbstone brokers employed here Mrs. Mi & Mm. McKenie MILLINERY! Dressmakings Masonic Building, - Cor. Third and Main.