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TIIC WIRES ARK DOWN.
Last evening at 1:30 Ilia wira went
dovni between Knappa and Oak
Point, and could not be reached by
the linemen m lima to 1)2 repaired
last night, consequently no part of our
ires report was received, and The
Astokian this morning appears with
out any telegraphic despatches.
Hound to Sre the Elephant.
Some j cars ago a New England vil
lage was thrown into great commotion
by the news that an elephant was to be
exhibited in a neighboring town. The
village was not large enough to induce
the exhibitor to make any stay there,
but his road lay through it
The exhibition had been advertised
for Monday, and Saturday night had
come, with no tidings of tho elephant.
Sunday moruiug. The "sound of the
church-going bell' summoned the
people. Pardon Adams had begun
the "long prayer," and the con
gregation stood, devoutly atten
tive to all appearance. But Dr.
Dobson's iew, near an open window,
commanded a view of tho highway,
and Dr. Dobson's eyes were fixed up
on the prospect. A cloud of dust
arose then -slowly above tho hill op
posite the window tho head of tho
huge beast came in sight. Tho eager
doctor forgot the time and place, and
bhoutiug, "The elephant's coming!"
went out like n dart, followed by tho
rest ot the congregation. What Par
son Adams did is not told. Wide
Awake.
The Great Man's Last Ila'tle.
Webster's last da s were given up
to a fight of his powerful constitution
;igaiust the inevitable. The last time
he walked from his bed to his window
he called out to his servaut, "I want
juu to moor my little yacht down
there where I can see it from my win
dow." "Yes, sir." "Then I want jou
to hoist the flag at the masthead, and
even night I want you to hang tho
old lamp up in the rigging. When I
go down I want to go down with my
colors ll ing and my lamp burning."
That was one of Webstcr'p last
utterances. Jiev. Dr. Cuyler.
X Plausible Explanation.
Wire -This is a stupid blunder tho
printer makes in the account of our
silver wedding.
Husband -What is it, my dear?
It reads that wo had spent together
ttventy-fivo j ears of "marred" happi
hoks, instead or "married" happiness.
How do you explain such a stupid
error?
Tho only way I am explain it is by
taking it for granted that the printer
who M't it up i- a married man him-R-ir.
Mrs. Theodore Til Ion is a sad and
lonely woman with silver-streaked
hair, u care-worn faco and stooped
figure, who frequents Lincoln park in
Chicago with her grandchildren.
Evry pleasant morning in the year
she goes Jo tho pleasure ground, but
is seldom recognized and is never seen
speaking to anyone. She lives with
hor married daughter, who contributes
to tho family income by water-color
paintings, many ot which are lovely
in conception nud treatment.
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BIG CLOTHING STORE
JAILED IN A CASTLE
A Yantee SHpjer's Fate in tie
Land of lie MitnigM Snn.
FED ON HIS OWK HAED TAOK.
The Trouble Which Grew Out of the
Seizure of the "Mattie T. Djer"
By a Uustoms Oolloo or.
Advice3 were received yesterday
from Captain Mockler, who for the
first time since tho seizure of his ves
sel, tho Mattie T. Dyer, tells his own
story of tho affair. Captain Mockler
and his vessel are well known in this
city. None of his friends believe that
he was ever engaged in illegal sealing
and his arrest was a surprise to them.
From Captain Mockler's statement it
appears that tho Mattie T. Dyer put
into Oonalaska voluntarily, and was not
run down by the revenue cutters or
by tho customs officers. She arrived
at Oonalaska on June 17th. On tho
following day she was seized by a cus
toms collector named Lick Emmons.
Captain Mockler states that ho was
asked no questions concerning tho
vessel and 1ub protests wero utterly
disregarded. Tho officers discovered
seventy-seven sealskins in tho schoon
or, and they claimed that they had
been captured in tho Behrinjr sea.
Captain Mockler denied tho charge
and offered to prove that the skins
from their condition and kind could
not have been taken in the closed sea.
Tho customs officer refused to take
his testimony in tho case.
Tho Mattie T. Dyer was taken to
Sitka. Thero sho was beached in
such a manner that her timbers wero
badly sprung and sho was otberwiao
damaged.
The fato which befel Captain Mock
ler, his officers and crew was novel.
They wero taken from the ship, man
acled and escortod to iianinda castle,
a neglected remnant of the Russian
possessions, about whoso gloomy
walls the natives have a score of
ghostly legends. Into this old prison
tho prosaic Yankee skipper was taken
with bis crow. They remained thore
for ovor two weekB without onco soo
iug tho light of day.
The customs collector devised a
novel means of feeding his prisoners.
Before the ship was taken to Sitka all
her stores of hardtack wero removed,
including tho sovenly-sovou skins and a
half-bottlo of claret, which tho bibulous
inspector seized in the name of the
United States in trust for himself. On
these provisions tho crow of tho Mat
tic T. Dyer wore fod. In llm way tho
collector was saved tho expense of
furnishing propor food to his prisoners.
After remaining in confinement for
two weeks, tho United States revenue
cutter Hear, whicb liad 'arrived at
Ounalaskn, was asked by tho enstoms
collector to take charge of the prison
ers and ship. Tho cutter officers re
fused to do so, aud intimatod that the
seiznro had been premature.
The inspector commenced to feel
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that he had been unduly hasty in his
action. He sought Captain Mockler
and offered to allow him his liberty
OTr?"hi ahin Tvrnvii?v1 ill nt lift "WOnld
not hold either the government or the
inspector responsible tor tue aeten-
tion ot tno vessel ana men. uapmm
Mockler refused this offer. The cus
toms officer then sent his prisoner to
Sitka. There a preliminary hearing
was held. Captain Mockler proved
that the skins on the Mattie T.
Dyer had not been captured in the
Behring sea but in the Pacific The
preliminary hearing resulted in his
being discharged from custody.
When he tried to get his schooner
out ho discovered that in running her
ashore tho customs inspector had
damaged her badly. He was forced
to lay out a considerable sum of
money in repairing her. Of the seventy-seven
skins which ho originally
had only seventy-three were returned
to him. Ho finally put to sea, and
within tho past few days arrived at
Port Townsend. Ho declares his in
tention of commencing a suit against
the government to recover damages
for the false detention of his vessel
and injury done to it, tho f also impris
onment of himself and crew, and the
theft or loss of four sealskins.
Tho collector, Dick Emmona, has
beeu ousted from his position, pre
sumably for his action in the case.
San Francisco Chronicle.
Tartey Lmjt.
There died last week in San Fran
cisco, says tho New York World, an
old man who a generation ago was
known in New York as "Turkey
Levy." His name was Aaron Levy,
and in anti-bellum times he kept a
saloon on Chatham street near Bax
ter. Tho great attraction of Levy's
place was a big cago on a raised plat
form, in which were confined three
solemn turkeys. An" old chap with a
cracked violin would begin to play a
tuno and tho turkeys would
dance, beginning with slow and
stately measure, gradually becoming
more animated as tho fiddler fiddled
faster, and eventually ending with a
ludicrously wild and frenziod motion,
which created intense surprise and
amusement Old Levy kept his se
cret until one night a party of inquisi
tive toughs upset the cage and found
underneath a charcoal furnace. The
bottom of tho cago was of metal, and
when the old man fiddled he kept time
with his foot. This put a bellows in
operation, the firo burned bright, tho
metal began to got hot, and tho tur
ko) s began to dance. "Taricoy Lovy"
has"nover had a successor.
Grover Cleveland's next-door neigh
bors at Marion havo felt it uoccssary
to put ont a placard on which aro in
scribed tho werds: "Next door is tho
place."
Safety Prom a I'eiUIentUl Scourge.
Protection from tho illsisic, not a iwli-
lusl ae nt which merely checks tho iurox
vms, U tho crand desideratum wherever
tho endemic icounje of malaria prevails.
Quinine doe nbt .iffonl i Ills pro tec ion. The
chief reason uhv Hostetter'a Stomach (tit
ters lia won such Immense -popularity Is,
tnu It prepares tho ys:em to resist iho
malarial pest. This it does by br.irlni' and
toning tho physical orsaulsm; reRuLitiiiK
aud prometlui: an equal flow and dlstnlm
tion or tho animal tlulds, and establishing
d gestlon ou n sound basis. No. only is
fever and ajpio prevented, but tho worst
types of tho disease are conquered by It.
Such Is llm only conclulon to be drawn
from the overwhelming evidence In Its
favor. It is equally efficacious in dyspepsia,
constipation, liver complaint, ueneral do
bllity and rheumatic complaint, and U a
reliable diuretic and nervine.
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AN ELECTIUC RAILROAD.
A Bold Russian Scheme of Great Jlng
uitnde. London Iron gives the following
particulars of a project tho succe33 of
which would doubtless he followed by
similar enterprise?. "The boldest
electrical project 3 et suggested is one
which is under consideration in Eus
Bia for a lino from St. Petersburg
northeast to Archangel, on tho "White
sea, a distance of over 300 miles. It
is proposed "to furnish the electric
current from a scries of generating
stations distributed along the line,
and the cost of the uudertnking, in
cluding rolling stock, is estimited nt
only about 3,000 per mile. Arch
angel, tho proposed northern ter
minus, lies in 61 degrees north
latitude, closo to tho Arctic circle.
It is far above the latitude of the
northern shoro of Hudson bay, and
almost as far north as the narrowest
part of Behring's straits, the sugges
tion of crossing which by a railway
has been assumed by many to bo im
practicable. It may be that electricity
will furnish tho solution of the diffi
culty of operating railways in ex
tremely cold regions which attends
tho use of steam. Evidently an elec
tric railway can be bnilt of any desired
length if power-generating stations
are supplied at proper intervals, and
hence it becomes only a question of
obtaining sufficient traffic to warrant
tho cost of construction and opera
tion. Tho electric locomotive has no
steam or water pipes to freeze and
burst in the intenso and long contin
ued cold of a far northern winter, nud
electricity, by which trains can be
lighted, will doubtless ere long be sue
cessfully applied to the purposes of
heatiug also. Should tho remarkable
enterpriso of an electric railway to tho
"White sea bo actually carried into ex
ecution, it will not be hard to believe
that a similar line may bo pushed
through Alaska to meet at Behring's
straits an extension of the Russian
railway system through Siberia, aud
complete "a continuous railway lino
unitiug AmericvAsia aud Europe."
Porrnattuo Hrel.
"All run down nt tho heel" tells a
pitiful talo generally. It calls to mind a
person who has had money, friends and
position one who has seen all these
disappear and with the loss of the
three, ha3 also been forsaken by prido
and ambition. And in the shiftless
rambling through life tho heel that
was formerly brought down fair and
square has learned to topple to one
side nntil ambition, brain and h,eel
aro nil about a the same angle. A
throb of pity goes out to this one "run
down at tho heel." "When an elegantly
dressed woman steps into her carriage
and displays a heel run down to one
Bide and several buttons gone from
tho shoe, ono wonders how her shoes
would look if prosperity shonld take
wing3with her. If, with plenty of
monoy and magnificent toilet?, prido
gots "run down at the heel," what cau
be orpected of the poor unfortunate
to whom tho term is generally applied ?
Orchid jewels arc the adornment of
tho gilded children of fashion. Ono
cannot get a perfect spray ot the fan
tastic blossoms under $90, and the per
fect flowers aro worth double -that
sum for tho enamel alone, every jeni
adding its vnlno U) tho price of the
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jIti Occident Hotel Building.
BICYCLES FOR BUSINESS.
A Club orXewark Men Who Use the Wheel
Not For Pleasure Alone.
There is probably no city ot its
size in tho United States where tho
bicycle is used as much around town
for practical business purposes as in
Newark. The city is not so big and
crowded as Brooklyn or New York,
and it is quite convenient for mer
chant drummers, law clerks, brokers
and other folks who have to cover a
deal ot pavements in the course of a
day's business to stride their steel
and rubber horses and roll swiftly
from office to office or from end to end
of tho town at no expense of cab or
car fare, and with much saving of
timo and effort. On any of the busi
ness streets there, dozens of business
men can bo seen any day speeding by
on low safety wheels. The highways
leading to Boseville and the Oranges
aro much frequented by bicyclers,
many of whom do not wear the flannel
shirts and knickerbockers of the rider
for pleasure, and carry small sample
cases strapped to their machines or
slung from their shoulders.
Newark's city ordinances governing
the use of bicycles in the streeta were
until lately quite as liberal as those of
other large Ncvr Jersey towns. The
metropolitan character of Newark
naturally mado the uso of the bicycle
proportionately greater thau else
where under tho same laws, and the
same reasons made tho bicycle more
of a nuisance in the streets. That is
why the police of Newark have beeu
very active recently in keeping bi
cycles strictly within the letter of the
law, and from this has arisen a novel
association of bicyclers in that town,
the first of tho kind in the country. It
isn't a club, it has no club house and
its members wear no badge or uni
form. It is purely a business organi
zation, chiefly of business men, and
its chief object is to look out for the
interest of all bicyclers in Newark, to
keep the city authorities stirred up in
the matter of maintaining the streets
and roads in good repair and to in
fluence city legislation in the interest
ot bicyclers.
Tho association calls itself the Busi
ness Men's Cycle club and accepts
any reputable bicycler or tricycler as a
member, but is particularly anxious
to enroll business men. The idea is to
collect a great lot of names of men of
business, prominence and influence, so
that when the club asks tho city law
makers to grant somo new privilego to
wheelers, or abolish somo ordinance
restricting bicyclers, or to mend
somo bad piece of pavement, or to
open a now street, or to grade a road,'
the reqnest will have the backing of a
lot of men whose names will carry
weight with tho city government,
Business men who use bicycles there
are joining tho movement in consider
able numbers, and the members have
already begun a campaign upon all
tho business men ot their acquaint
ance, dilating upon the health and
pleasure to bo had in bicycling, and
urging them to buy wheels and learn
to ride, and then to join the associa
tion. Tho clnb proposes to wago a
heavy war upon bad roads for a radius
of ten miles sironnd Newark. Nero
York 81111.
Ail I!n- li.tii-nt niiM.ruii-. :i.lTrtisou
in this imjm r, tugetliiTWitliiliu i-hoiceut
m-rfiinii'ry, ami toilet artichs etc can
lie bought at I hi- Urn vt pi ices r.t .1. V.
Conn's drug ston npposiU Occident
liiiti-i, Astoria.
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A SHREWD EDITOB.
He Found a War to Get Ont of a Jail in the
West.
Unfortunately tho names in this
story have to be suppressed, but the
absolute correctness of tho statements
can be relied upon.
A Chicago man, who is engaged in
several things, hold3 a patent on a
system of jail construction, which is
now pretty generally used. It is
that arrangement in wliich a complete
structure of boilor-iron is built within
the brick walls of tho jail building
proper a house within a house. An
other Chicago man figures in the story.
This later went "West somo years ago,
and in a newspaper which ho estab
lished ho assailed tho commissioners
of tho county in which he was editor,
intimating that they were" following
in the footsteps of tho old boodler
crowd of Cook county. The honest
granger commissioners did not like
this intimation, and the progressive
young editor from Chicago "was put
behind tho bars on the charge of
criminal libel. Is it any wonder that
a man bent upon reforming the offi
cials of his country, meeting with
such a reward, should yearn for re
venge? Now, he happened to know
that tho identical jail in which he
pined had been erected on the plan
patented by his Chicago friend. The
sheriff showed up as a soft mark.
Tho young editor by quizzing him
ascertained that the commissioners
had constructed the bastile on their
own account, and that the patentee
was receiving no royalty. Tho pat
entee was informed of "the state of
tilings, and in a few dajs the attorney
of the patentee was on the ground.
The county officials were overwhelmed
with legal documents giving notice of
suits for infringements of patent,
non-payment of royalty and other
uncomfortable proceedings. The offi
cials settled quickly. The incarcerated
editor "was editing all tho time," and
called attention again to the low
moral tone of tho county commission
ers in using patented articles with
out payinp for them. The libel suits
were dismissed. The officials did'nt
know, after this sort of surprise, what
the editor would spring on them next,
and they let him go free. Chicago
Tribune.
Swift Torpedo Boats.
Tho French sea-going torpedo boat
Coureur is credited with a speed of
2G.2 knots in Lloyd's register of the
warships of tho world. Sho was
launched in 18S8, is li7 feet long. 14.6
feet beam and 0 feet draught. Her
engines indicated 1,550 horso power.
Tho torpedo boat Adler, of the Rus
sian navy, is credited with the greatest
speed, 2G.55 knots, while the two sister
ships have only a speed of 21 knots.
Tho Spanish torpedo boat Ariete has
a speed of 26 knots.
Kotice.
GOD'S BLESSING TO HUMANITY
So Says an Oregon Pioneer Ninety
Years 01:!.
Fokkst Guovk. Or., March 19. 1
have used the OREGON KIDNEY
TEA and obtained immediato relief.
It is God's blessing to humanity. I take
pleasure in recommending it to the
afllicted. I am now nearly ninety years
o'd, eamc to Oregon in 1842 in the em
ploy of tho Hudson's Bay Company,
and since 1 began using the OREGON
KIDNEY TEA I enjoy good health.
DAVID MUNROE.
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THE TEST NEARLY FATAL.
Johnstone, lie MM-Reaier, Nar
rowly Escajes Bishop's Fate.
PE0STEATED AND DELIRIOUS.
Saved by the Most Careful Attention
Theory of the Cause of the
Attack.
According to Manager Gooding,
Wednesday night's exhibition in Chi
cago camo very near proving fatal to
Johnstone, the mind-reader.
"After it was over we should have
taken a room nt the hotel," ho said,
"but instsad wo drove out to Calumet
avenue, whero we aro stopping.
"When nearly there Johnstone com
plained of awful pains around the
heart and urged mo to drive faster.
Shortly after getting him to his room
he fell over in a dead faint, and for
two hours and a half neither the doc
tor nor myself could detect any signs
of life, except that his lips were red
instead of white.
"Finally wo brought him around,
and he relapsed into a frightful de
lirium, going over again and again
the experiences of tho day."
"What causes this prostration?"
"During the test his brain is con
centrated to its fullest extent, and his
pnlso gets up so high that it cannot
be counted. Then a reaction sets in,
all tho blood rushes back to the
heart and literally stifles him.
"From tho moment he was taken
down last night until ho revived I
never for a moment stopped rubbing
nts limus ana Kneauing tno uesn over
his breast, otherwise the blood would
havo stagnated and death would havo
followed "as certainly as it did in the
case of Bishop.
" Speaking of Bishop, I will tell
you a little incident that I think is
not generally known. Bishop, as you
remember, was endeavoring to pick
out a name from the register in the
Lamb's clnb, New York, and after
four hours' continuous work, fell over
to the lloor and remained apparently
lifeless. The club members did what
they "could to restore him, but, of
course, their ignorant aid was of little
avail, and one after tho other they
departed, finally leaving Uishop and
tne steward alone together. The lat
ter notified the police shortly after
ward. "This is the story told me by Mack,
Bishop's father-in-law. I am certain
from what I have seen in Johnstone's
caso that if that man had been
intelligently treated from tho first
ho could havo been brought around
all right. His death was dne to igno
ranco aided by neglect'
ADVICE TO JIOTIIEItS.
Mns. Wixsi.ow's Soothino Synui'
should always be used tor children
teething. It hoothes the child, softens
the gums, allays all pain, cures wind
chohcandis the best remedy fordiar-rhcea.Twenty-fivn
cents a bottle.
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A Patent Boom B&ft.
Tho arrival of tha steamer "N"nvn
with a raft of logs that will cut 2,000,
000 feet of timber, and without losing
a stick on the way, is an event that
causes considerable interest in the
method of constructing the raft. It
is a recent natent owned bv tlm Vnrt
Bragg Kedwood Co., and tho Noyo
jjumoer uo., ana tins, its first trial,
proves it to be a success. The boom
is made of a number of sections linked
together. Each section is composed
of four boom sticks, each thirty-two
feet long. These sticks are united by
four timbers twelve inches sannrn nnd
four feet long, one at each end, and
tne otner two near the center of the
lonpr sticks. The two end timbers
project beyond the boom sticks suffi
ciently to allow a two-inch chain to
pass through them, thus connecting
the sections. Thn lone RKnfca nr
bolted to the timbar with two ineh
steel bolts, and each section is thus
very strong. The sections have two-and-one-half
feet draft, and about an
equal amount of freeboard if such ex-
pie&Muu may uo uppnea. zne sections
being united, they form an aquatic
corral, somewhat in the shape of a
pear, wiui tne nawser for towing
attached to the end where the stem ef:
tho near is to be found. Tho lnrra in Via
towed are dumped inside this pen and
wnue not in any otner way secured,
,the experiment ha3 shown they are
safely held in this novel mnnncr.
The Noyo had 2,000 feet of tow line.
unaer tne smiitni guidance or Cap
tain Drisko, the immense raft was
broncrht down Rnfelv in fnnr rlnvafrnm
Noyo, the tow having material enough
to load tour good size steam schooners.
S. F. News.
A Singular Incident.
Capt. John Smith, of Swampscott,
of the pleasure schooner Gertie Smith,
relates that when he was ono of the
crew of the old Swampscott Dart,
somo twenty-five years ago, that ves
sel lost her anchor off Leeds Ledge,
owing to the absence of one of its
connecting bolts. About a month
since, while out with a fishing party
at the same grounds, in " heaving up"
the captain caught on to something
pretty heavy and pulled in an extra
anchor, a close examination of which
showed it to be the one with the
missing bolt, lost from the Dart E3
above stated. Lynn Item.
A planter at Alpharetta, Ga., has an
acre of cotton, every stalk, of which is
of a deep red color, leaf, bool and
bloom. This novel crop is the pro
duct of seed derived three years ago
from two stocks of red cotton found
in. a cotton field.
Cubes Peomptlt asd Pebmahzstlt
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Rftpumatlsm, Headache, Toothache,
SPRAINS,
Kouraigla, Swellings, Yost-fclte,
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