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The Daily Astorian. [volume] (Astoria, Or.) 1876-1883, 1881-04-14
Common Council Proceedings.


Council met in regular session April
18th, 1881, with Mayer d. C. Ireland
presiding.
COuncllmen present-Baker, Hahn,
Headington, Spexarth and Wright.
Absent-Sture.
Officers in attendance-R. II. Card
well, auditor and clerk and W. J.
Barry, chief Of police, c. W. Fulton,
city attorney.
The minutes of the last regular
meeting read and approved.
PETITIONS.
From fruit and vegetable dealers IN
the city, asking the council to pass an
ordinance requiring peddlers Of fruit
and vegetables t. pay a license OF ten
dollars per quarter, was read and on
motion referred TO the committee on
health and police.
From Arndt & Ferchen, asking the
council 10 Tay them the difference he
tween the face and market value Of
warrants received by them for work
on the city jail, amounting to SIG 20,
was read and on motion referred to
the committe on ways and means.
REPORTS or COMMITTEES.
Report Of committee on streets and
public ways on the petition Of property
owners on West-eighth street, asking
that the improvements at the foot OF
said street remain as they now are,
was read and report adopted, and
petition land on the table.
REPORTS OF OFFICERS.
Report Of Aug. Miller, city sexton
for the month Of March, 1881, was
read and on motion ordered received
and placed on file.
Report Of Peter Rmcy police Judge,
for the month ot March 1881, wa:
read aud on motion ordered received
and placed ON file.
Report Of Thomas Logan superin-
tendent of streets, for the month oi
March 1881, was read and ordered re,
ceived and placed nn file.
Report Of w. +. Dement, city treas.
urer, for the quarter ending March
81, 1881, was read and on motion re,
ferred 10 committee on ways and
means.
ORDINANCES.
An ordinance t. prohibit the carry
ing Of carcasses Of dead animals
The Daily Astorian. [volume] (Astoria, Or.) 1876-1883, 1881-04-14

Booth & Cos canDery started up
yesterday with about COO FISH to begin
with.
The Daily Astorian. [volume] (Astoria, Or.) 1876-1883, 1881-04-14

Once in a while We do hear some
thing of a railway to Yaquina bay; but
not so frequently as formerly.
The Daily Astorian. [volume] (Astoria, Or.) 1876-1883, 1881-04-14

The STANDARD learns that the tend
who writes the head lines IN the Port
Oxford paper Is fed on raw meat So
that he can throw the proper amount
of gore and wind INTO his captions.
He takes the cake, bakery, baker aud
bakers daughter.
The Daily Astorian. [volume] (Astoria, Or.) 1876-1883, 1881-04-14

-Our neighbor Benjamin Franklin
is putting in fine assorted lot Of wall
naners.
The Daily Astorian. [volume] (Astoria, Or.) 1876-1883, 1881-04-14

Mr.. X. V. Chadd Of the Yakima
Record returned by steamer Oregon
yesterday.
The Daily Astorian. [volume] (Astoria, Or.) 1876-1883, 1881-04-14

LOST. A coral necklSseT3hd cross
between the pOst-Office abd Mrs. J.
Rodgers.
The Daily Astorian. [volume] (Astoria, Or.) 1876-1883, 1881-04-14

A Big Lot of Beer ariIfed by
steamship Oregon yesterday ,E5t Max
Wagner's. Call around and see him,
boys.
The Daily Astorian. [volume] (Astoria, Or.) 1876-1883, 1881-04-14

Mai. Thomas Chairman, one OF
the pioneer merchants of Oregon, re-
turned from a business "trip to the bay
yesterday. His home in Oregon city
is one Of the attractive places IN this
favored land. He is mayor of that
city
The Daily Astorian. [volume] (Astoria, Or.) 1876-1883, 1881-04-14

Bones of Mammoth have been
found in the Cold springs region east
of Yakima. Although somewhat
crhmbled away aud diminished in size,
the hip bones Of this gigantic animal
measures in circumference neary Y two
feet.
The Daily Astorian. [volume] (Astoria, Or.) 1876-1883, 1881-04-14


accommodation to FishSfyEI
Friend fishermen. GeIy6ur vae
tables at Max Wasuers./ )
A Big Lot of Beer ariffed by
steamship Oregon yesterday ,Eat Max
wagner's. Call around and SEP him,
boys.
LOST. A coral necklase~3nd cross
between the post-office abd Mrs. J.
Rodgers.
The boat stoves made by VI. &.
Crosby, with friedrich bottoms, are
superior 10 all others in this market.
Ice cream at Roscoes oyster and
refreshment saloon on Main street.
Since Pfunder has put his Blood
Purifier on the market, people have
stopped using all kinds Of watery
"Sarsaparillas" and "Whiskey Bit
ters." 1t gets away with them all.
Miss Lizzie Norris has arrived
and is ready to receive limited num-
Der of pupils for tuition on the piano.
Call at the 0ccident for a few days or
on F. G. Norris, ASTORIAS Office.
-Fire-brick and fre-clay in lots to
suit at NJ. C. Crosby's.
DIR. Casper recommends Kendall's
SPAWN Cure in the highest terms and
thousands of eminent physicians do
the same. See advertisement.
Salmon bellies, at retail, at War
ren & EatOn's.
p. Wilhelm, Boss saloon, opposite
the Clarendon hotel, Portland, Oregon.
"A good cook wanted at Sand
island. Sixty dollars per month.
Apply at Badollet & Co.'S cannery,
upper Astoria.
Max. Wagner's San Francisco
National brewery beer can't be beat.
For the best Beer in Astoria,
call for the Columbia BrelceTy Beer,
acknowledged to be superior to all
Others.
Mr.. John Rogers, of the Central
Market, has made arrangements 10
keepan the finest fresh fish, ETC., in
their season.
Have WistaT's balSam of wild cherry
always at hand. Ii cures coughs, colds,
bronchitis, whOOping cough, Group, in
fiuenZa, consumption, and all throat and
lung complaints. 30 cents and 81 bot
tie.
....Cireuit Court Blanks. Ionnty
The Salt Lake herald. [volume] (Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1870-1909, 1881-06-25
French-ItaIiau Matters.

New York, Worlds London:
Advices from Rome report there is deep
and widespread anti-French feeling
throughout the country. The riots in
Marseilles have sngered even those public
men and journals which plesded for
peace during the Tunis excitement.
Radicals go the length Of demanding,
and Sepretis, premier, js being driven to-
wards policy al which the French will
be prompt to take offence. The failure of
the Italian attempt to secure a foothold
in Tripoli (under cover of an expedition
for exploring ancient sites) has greatly
disappointed the people, and merchants
in the southern PORTS already complain
that the coup in Tunis is taking the valu-
able trade OF North Africa to Marseilles.
Italy, however, has too mach to think Of
at home to venture upon an aggressive
policy at present. Besides the loan of
$3.50, 600, 600 required for the resumption
of specie payments, money is badly
needed for the army, and the people are
clamoring for reduction of the fran
chise.
It was announced on the Paris bourse
that the French government will not
allow the specie payments loan TO be
offered there unit Italy has formally
consented to accept a war party at Rome;
but should the loan b. taken up in Lon
don, Vienna and New York, Signor
Crispi and his associates will be embol-
dened to continue their clamor.
The Salt Lake herald. [volume] (Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1870-1909, 1881-06-25
Cri.icisrng Auditor French.

New York, 24.-The Times on Au-
ditor French: Nothing is said officially
as yet about the results of his visit to the
Pacific Coast, but while in San Fran
cisco he saw fit to make a report to the
president Of the Central Pacific Rail
road, in which he gave assurances that
he should deem it his "duty, at an early
day, !, communicate with the attorney
general of The United States with view
to the dIscontinuance Of proceedings iG-
stituted against your company in the cir
cult court OF the United States for the
southern di.trict Of New York" Thi:
was very xtrsOrd nary proceeding and
tits reported that the government is by
no n. cans satisfied with French's course.
Whatever bis conclusions might be-, and
whatever occasion he may lave found
for changing his mind, be should have
reported the results ofhis investigation tC
the government first, and RETAINED from
giving assurance to corporation against
which the government has had occasion
to bring suit for the enforcement Of it:
rights,
The Salt Lake herald. [volume] (Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1870-1909, 1881-06-25
TELEGRAPHIC
GBUEF MADDEN.
He Talks Back go ConkIing
Aud the ex-Senators wilt.
H0mesick Legislators.

New York, 23.-IEmes' Albany. There
was an exciting scene in the DelaVan
House tonight. Senator Madden met
Conkling in the upper halls and extended
his hand, which Conkling refused to &C
cept. A bitter war Of words followed.
Madden answered in. severe terms the
sarcastic language of Conkling. The
trouble srose because of certain stric-
lures by Madden upon Conkling for re-
signing, which have been published.
After some angry boy play, CoDkling,
who was humping the floor with his
cane and striking his gray beard with
his free hand, eyed Madden keenly and
then attempted to reprove him for his
criticisms, and particularly for having
said he (Conklipg) was Ihere button-hol.
ing members and soliciting their votes
Senator Madden blurte6 out, Pm not
30 polite as some men and perhaps spoke
too bluntly. I go cross lots instead of
going round. You don'tsuppose meant
you were twisting buttons off mems coats
do your" The ex-senator listened; PlAtt
wilted; Madden, bold as lion, did not
wait to be INVITED but kept on: "You
know what words mean. You came
back here seeking vindication. To say
you were buttcn-holing men here may
not have been accurately true, but you
are here seeking Tindication. l spoke OF
you in public as man clear through. If
you think spoke of you Extensively it is
a great mistake all the way through"
"out would not have said such thing
Of you," protested Conkling; and then he
turned to go. Il tell you the truth when
l speak," said Senator Madden, ''snd
that is more than some men have done.
You know, yourself, that fourteen long
years ago you told me I was the only
man who dared tell you the truth clear
through and I believe its true now" The
ex-senator held out his hand hesitatingly.
Madden, who is not an unforgiving man,
took it. "Good nightw and the senator
bowed dramatically and joined Platt
In spite of the efforts Of the stalwarts
and Administration leaders to keep mem
beEs here, and almost Immediately after
solemn declaration had been made on
both sides of a determination to stay here
and fight the battle out, an irresistible
desire to go home seems to have seized
the legislature. Democrats and repub-
licsns have tonight been pairing and 60
ing home, and it looks as though the at
tendance would be greatly reduced to-
morrow.
The Salt Lake herald. [volume] (Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1870-1909, 1881-06-25
Foreign Malls.

Washington, M.-The superintendent
Of foreign mails gave notice that on and
after July lst next, correspondence from
the United States for the United States
of. Colombis, which has declared ad-
hesion to the Paris convention of the
Universal Postal Union, will be subject
TO the postal charges and treatment APP
plicable to correspondence exchanged by
mail with other postal union countries.
Mails for the United States of Colombia
are made at and discharged from New
York and San Francisco postofices, and
correspondence for Colo mbia posted at
other United States postofices should be
forwarded either to New York or San
Francisco. as may be most expeditions.
The Salt Lake herald. [volume] (Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1870-1909, 1881-06-25

Corner Michigan Avenue and .Jscksoh
Street, Chicago, His. leo /
The Salt Lake herald. [volume] (Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1870-1909, 1881-06-25
Fatalities.

Savannah, 23.-John Middleton and
wife, Just married, were drowned, the
bodies were found locked in each others
arms.
Antioch, Ind, % Strikers from the
Wabash Railroad insugurated riot and
tried to force open q saloon. The saloon
keeper fred into the crowd IS the door
was forced and fatally wounded one,
hurting several.
The Salt Lake herald. [volume] (Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1870-1909, 1881-06-25
Crime.

st Peters burg, pa Montenegrin
officer went to Winter Palace yesterday
and demanded an audience with the prin'
cess OF Montenegro. Being refused. he
stabbed the officer on duty. A Russian
officer thea shot the Montenegrin. dead.
The Salt Lake herald. [volume] (Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1870-1909, 1881-06-25
MONETARY AND STOCKS
Nav York. Lune a. 1881.

Nav York, June a, 1881.
Money 3, 4; gov'ts, quiet; stocks
closed barely steady; w. o., 1856;
Quicksilver, 10; Pacific. 521[; Mariposs,
1IA; w. Fargo, 1873; N. Y. Cen.
trail, 146; Erie, 46; Panama, off'd 285;
Union Pacific, 1921; bonds, 1914;
Central Pacific lOl; bonds JIG; Sutro,
~.
The Salt Lake herald. [volume] (Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1870-1909, 1881-06-25
Albany RaIloting.

Albany, 24.-First vote: Wheeler, Is;
Potter, A; Conkling, ID; rest scattering.
Second vote: Depew, As; Herman. As;
Plat, q; Lspham, 3; Cornell, 7; Crow
ley, 5; Hoskins, 4; Tremsine, l. Ad-
journed.
The Salt Lake herald. [volume] (Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1870-1909, 1881-06-25
rhe Comet.

Chicago, 23.-Reports from several
points in this and other states say the
comet was plainly seen this morning.
1t was also seen in England.
Southern standard. (McMinnville, Tenn.) 1879-current, 1881-01-08
How He Put Up the Stove.

A SHORT time ago an English emil
grant family arrived in -, and
being destitute of everything, few
kind-hearted people gave them sundry
articles 20 help them to go to house
keeping, and among other things
stove. The donor forgot, however, TO
send along the necessary pipe. The
day being very cold, the first thing
which the father of the wandering flock
turned his attention to was the making
of fire. With grateful eyes he sur,
veyed the stove the first he had ever
SEEM and then glancing at the stove
pipe hole ip the chimney, which was
about two fest from the ceiling, VOL
dered how the smoke could get up and
out of that small hole. His eyes soon
rested upon some hooks in the ceiling,
which former tenant had used for dry
ing apples thereon, and he naturally
came to the conclusion that they we've
intended to hang the stove upon. There
was no time to be lost, and so with the
aid of chairs and table, and good deal
of exertion, the able-bodied man lifted
the stove up so that the stove-pipe hole,
which happened to be at the side of the
stove, rested nicely in the hole in the
chimney, while his better half lashed it
TO the aforementioned hooks with rope
which came around their scanty lug
gage. After everything was secure the
patient housewife fastened to prepare
some wood wherewith to make fire,
while the perspiring father was design
ing in his perplexed mind some kind of
q scaffold whereon his wife could stand
to cook the frugal meal. But his ideas
were overthroWn by the sudden appear
lnce of the donor Of the stove, bearing
the forgotten pipe. An explanation was
in order, and after hearty laugh, the
bewildered Englishman was thoroughly
initiated into the mysteries Of the Amer
ican way of putting up stoves Chatham
tOnt.) Tribune.
Southern standard. (McMinnville, Tenn.) 1879-current, 1881-01-08
LATE NEWS ITEMS.

AT Hamburger, Fremont County,
Iowa, on New Years eve, Miss Lulu Wood,
daughter of a prominent merchant, and her
friend and guest, Miss Kate Campbell,
daughter Of Col. Campbell, Of St. Joseph,
Mo-, were dressing for a ball, when Miss
Woods dress came in contact with the hot
stove and instantly burst into a flame. She
started to run, and in passing Miss Campbell
the fir communicated to her dress. A sery-
ant rushed in and threw blanket over Miss
Wood, eXtinguishing her burning attire be-
fore she had received any serious injuries.
Miss Campbell, however, was by this time
literally enveloped in flames, and before as
sistance reached her was so badly burned
that she died the following day.
ABE ROTHsCHILD, on trial at Jeffer-
son, Tex, for the murder Of Bessie Moore,
or "Diamond Bessie" was found not guilty.
There was great excitement in the Court
room at the announcement of the verdict,
which was probably based upon the theory
advanced by ROthschild's attorney, that the
girl committed suicide, inasmuch as the dead
body could not have remained exposed for
nearly fifteen days without showing greater
signs of decomposition.
AT OTIS, Laporte County, Ind, on
New Years eve, Henry Augustine, aged 10,
attempted the murder OF the entire family
Of his uncle, James Augustine. He first
shot his uncle, then his aunt, both of whom
were aroused from sleep by their nephew
entering their room. The two sons, both
young men, ran down stairs upon hearing
the firing, and were met by their cousin
who shot one Of them dead and fired at, but
missed, the other. The assassin then fed
from the house, but returned and
expressed great contrition fol
what he had done, at the same time surren-
dering his revolver to his surviving cousin.
Before his arrest could be effected, howev-
er, he again absented himself. Mr.. Angus
tine is likely to recover, but his wife wi |
die. 1t is said that the young assassin was
actuated by revenge for some wrong, real OIL
faneied, in the settlement of his fathers es.
tate, and it is believed he had previously at
tempted to poison the family.
AN old colored woman named
Slaughter, reported to have turned cen.
fury, and her son, aged about sixty, per.
ished from exposure during the recent cold
spell, about six miles west OF Boonville,
Mo-, where they owned small farm. Bot
were infirm. There was plenty OF provisions
in the house, and q pile OF wood outside, but
not cut.
Mrs. CICERO BROWN, of Norcross
Ca, was tanning the fire with her apron
when her clothing ignited and she wa
5 burned to death. The unfortunate lad,
: was young agd Of high social standing. shl
) had been married only year.
Southern standard. (McMinnville, Tenn.) 1879-current, 1881-01-08
Chalk Your Hat"

THE cant phrase, "Chalk your hat"
which is still current in many parts of
the Union, is said to have had its origin
in literal illustration of the words.
"Admiral" Reside was an owner of
various stage coaches in the days before
railroads. He spent much of his time
in Washington, where he lived, indeed,
for several years. At the annual ad-
journmeht of Congress he would pass
his friends of the House and Senate -
he was well acquainted with all the
prominent politicians of his era-over
any stage line he controlled. He would
say to an Ohioan or Kentuckian: 81
suppose you're going back to Cincinnati
or Louisville, and I'll pass you through
my stage" When ne was asked /:
"How?' he would reply "Give me
your hat" He would take the hat,
make a cabalistic chalk mark on it inn
possible to counterfeit, and return it
with the remark: "That will serve
your turn; my agents will recognize
that anywhere, and won't receive cent
from a man whose hat is so marked. "
Reside was right. All his agents knew
the sign at once. The thing became so
common that some fellows tried to imi-
tate it, but they were invariably detect
ed and compelled to leave the stage or
paw their fare In the South and West
i'Challk your hat still stands for what
The East styles dead-heading.-N. Z.
Times.
Southern standard. (McMinnville, Tenn.) 1879-current, 1881-01-08
Queer Doings in Prussia.

STRANGE revelations concerning the
dismal superstition still prevalent in the
rural districts of West Prussia were dis
closed in the course of DR.. KotleSski's
recent trial at Stuhm for unlawful
practices" This person had acquired
a widely-spread reputation among the
peasantry as a sorcerer, Some time
ago woman afflicted by epilepsy APP
piled to him for cure. Having dag
nosed her case. ne declared that she
was possessed by four devils, conjured
into her body by female neighbor.
He then proceeded to exercise these
demons, three of whom promptly quit
ted their human tenement in obedience
to his spells. The fourth, however,
laughed his incantations to scorn. This
fiendish recalcitrance led him to the
discovery that, in order to expel the OBJ
stinate demon, it would be necessary that
the epileptic woman should swallow q
draught of the witch's blood. In order
to obtain this nostrum he betook him
self to the dwelling of the woman, by
him accused witchcraft, and beat her
until she lay senseless on the floor.
But for the interference of resolute
neighbor he would have murdered his
victim. Arraigned for this crime before
Prussian tribunal, he declared in open
court that he had done nothing more
than his duty to his patient, and that
he had not only frequently ridded
possessed persons of their fiendish in
mates by similar means, but had often
seen and spoken to devils with whom
he had thus dealt. He was sentenced
to four months imprisonment by the
tribunal of Stuhm.
Southern standard. (McMinnville, Tenn.) 1879-current, 1881-01-08
SCIENCE AND INDUSTRY.

THE Brooks Locomotive Works ut
Paterson, N. j., turn out a finished To-
connective every Wednesday and Satur-
day on an average, value about $4,000
each,
A FACTORY has been discovered at
Milwaukee from which 10000 pounds
Of oleomargarine are sent out every day,
with no marks to distinguish IL from
genuine butter.
GERBAUT finds that the small quanti-
ty of carbonic oxide arising from the
combustion of coal gas can scarcely be
detected by its effects upon animals
compelled to breathe an atmosphere
containing it.
a VERY large vacuum-pan has been
made by firm in Chicago for Cali
fOrnia sugar refinery. 1t holds 1900
gallons, yields at each "striEe" from
250 to 260 barrels of dry sugar, and has
a heating surface of 1000 square feet in
the inclosed copper coils.
AN observing ocean-steamer captain
says he knows at once whether young
woman has left her lover at one port or
expects to meet him at another. If her
lover is behind her, she cares nothing
for wind, rain, or fog, but gets tanned,
freckled, ard roughened in highly
healthful and independent fashion; but,
if her lover is waiting for her, she takes
infinite trouble with wells and other
complexion preservatives.
THE colossal crane at Woolwich, Eng
land, which has been upward of four
years in process of erection, and is the
most powerful in the world, has now as
sumed definite shape in the operation
of fixing the great girder. The immen.
sity of the work is illustrated by the
weight of the iron employed in its con-
struction, which, in the aggregate, ex-
ceeds eighteen hundred tons, while the
brass bearings alone amount to more
than three tons. When completed the
crane will be capable of lifting three or
four one-hundred-ton guns at once.
H. L. CURRIER, of Biddeford, Me-,
one of the proprietors of the Biddeford
Machine Works, is having constructed
for his own use e steam road-wagon,
which is expected to make good time on
any ordinary highway. The vehicle
looks very much like an ordinary wagon,
except that it has no shafts, and weighs
but 400 pounds. 1t is designed to run
twenty-five miles without having the fire
renewed, and will cost about $500.
Fourteen similar machines are engaged
by people in Biddeford and its vicinity
should the experimental one prove d
success.
In memoir recently published at
Christiania, Herr Sophus Tromboldt
considers that it may be accepted as Ger.
tain that the aurora boreaGs is local
phenomenon, circumscribed by very mar.
row limits, and occurring not far from
the surface of the earth. The light, he
finds, from a careful comparison of :
large number of observations, is gener.
ally white, though sometimes red OF
green; but further north than Bergen
the aurora often presents spectral col
ors. He believes, also, that there is now
evidence enough to accept the statement
that auroral displays are sometimes at
tended with sound. Some late inven
tons ought to be able to set this las
alleged fact beyond dispute.