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The Daily Astorian. [volume] (Astoria, Or.) 1876-1883, 1881-07-22

Mrs. Riley, the fore lady Il Pitts
Suit House. will be few dlX at the
Occident hotel. Ladies' arr Dyitcd 10
call ON her pertaining Ia dfesS-making.
The lower part of a gold c3F pl1g
was lost somewhere on the street be-
tween Mr.. SOvieS and Capt. BFbwnS
residence Yesterday. The lcit@T j. ).
are scratched on the inside. The finder
will be literally rewarded by leaving
the same nj this Office.
WARRANTED deeds at THE ASToEIAN
Office.
Buy a copy Of The WEEKLY As-
ToEIAN to-day.
Max. Wagncr's San Francisco Ma
tional brewery beer can't be beat.
p. Wilhelm. Boss saloon. opposite
the Clarendon hotel, Portland. Oregon.
The finest quality of harness oil *
kept at the harness shop, for sale 10y =.
Gray.
Ice cream at RoScocS oyster and re-
freShment saloon in Occideni hotel
block.
-Zephyrs i'm all ColorS and Shades at
six cents an ounce, AT the California
store. pOSt-Otlice corner.
Mr.. John Rogers of the Central Mar
ket, has made arrangements la keep 81
the finest fresh fish, ETC.. in their season.
The best Carriers Cape Ann oil
clothing. rubber boots. etc. sold at san
Francisco wholesale prices AT the San
Francisco clothing store.
-Caramels, Molasses Chewing Pep
permint, COcOamt D'Ttalia. COcOanut
Ice. Butter Scotch, and a LOT Of good
things at the Astoria Candy Factory.
opposite the bell tower.
The New Testament authorized
edition revised, for twenty-five cents AT
Charles Stevens and Sons City Book
store.
To celebrate jOyOuSly on the coming
ith. 20 10 the Astoria Candy Factory
and get some of the fine mixture made
for This occasion. Opposite the bell
| tower.
j. IL. ID. Gray Is now selling Wheat.
Bran and Feed of all kinds at reduced
rates, and has also fine lot of Ash and
Vine Maple Wood on hand for sale.
Charles Gratle has always on hand
/ No. xxx Premium Ale and first pre-
mium Lager Beer from the Albany
| brewery, San Francisco. at his saloon
on the Roadway.
Capt. J. ii. ID. GRAY Is now prepared
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Cold SnapS.


We're havin' some pretty wintrish
weather." said old Daddy Wotherspoon
to Uncle Sammy Honniwell, as the two
gentlemen met near the City Hall.
Fright for ard weather for the season.
"Jist SO jist So" conceded Uncle
Sammy. Reminds me of the fall of
1881. 1t commenced long the fore part
of November, and froze stiff till March.
Good, smart weather, too. 1 remember
that it was so cold in Brooklyn that
hot fire."
Daddy Wotherspoon looked at him
and braced himself. eyes, yes," said
he, "I mind it well. That's the fall the
milk froze in the COWS. But the cold
season was in 1927. It commenced in
the middle of October and ran through
to April. All the oil froze in the lamps,
and we didn't have light until spring
set in"
Gay, ay," responded Uncle Sammy,
growing rigid. s'It's Just like yesterday
to me. I walked 14O miles due east
from Sandy Hook, on the ice, and slid
back, owing to the convexity of the
earth, you know. 1t was down hill
comm this way. But that wasn't as
cold as the winter of 1921. That season
commenced in September, and the mer-
curry didn't rise degree till May. Don't
you remember now we used to breathe
hard, let it freeze, cut q hole in it,
and crawl in for shelter? You haven't
forgotten that ?"
"Not l." said Daddy Wotherspoon,
after a short pause. "That's the win
ter we used to give the horses melted
lead to drink, and keep hot fire under
| 'em SO it wouldn't harden till they got it
| down. But that was nothin' to the spell
of 1917. We begun to feel it in the lat
ter part of August, and she doomed
stiddy till the Both of June. I got
through the whole spell by living in an
ice-house. It was too cold to go out
doors, and I jist camped in an ice
| house. You remember that season of
| 1877. That's the winter we wore un-
| dershirts of sand-paper to keep up a
friction"
"Well, I should say did," retorted
Uncle Sammy. "What remember
| 1917? Deed do. That was the spell
when it took steam grindstone four
days to light match. Ay, ay! But
do YOU know was uncomfortably warm
that winter ?"
Chow SOP" demanded Daddy Woth-
erspoon, breathing hard.
Runnin' around yonr ice-house to
find out where you got in. 1t was an
awful spell, though. How long did it
last? From August till the 30th OF
June? guess you're right. But you
mind the snap Of 1918, don't you? 1t
commenced ON the LIST of July, and went
around and Tapped over a week. That
year the smoke froze in the chimneys
and we had to blast it out with dyna.
mite. / think that was the worst we
ever had. All the clocks froze up 80 We
didn't know the time for year, an6
when men used to set fire to their build
in's SOS to raise the rent. Yes, indeed
I got $1,000 month for four burnin
buildin's. There was heap of sufferin
that winter, because we lived on alco.
hol and phosphorus, till the alcoho
. froze, and then we eat the brimstout
I ends of matches and jumped around til
they caught fire. Say, you"
But Daddy Wotherspoon had fled
The statistics we're too much for him.
] Brooklyn Eagle.
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HOUSE,

An amendment offered by MIR. Clymer appro-
priating s125, 900 to pay land grant railroads 80
per cent. OF what the Quartermaster General
finds justly due them, was agreed to.
Mr.. Regan offered a substitute to the Inter
State Commerce Bill. 1t provides that one man
should not be charged more than another for
the same service; that no drawbacks or rebates
should be allowed; that the people should not
be deprived of the benefit of the competition by
passing of freights between competing rail
roads. That the people of localities should
be protected by partial restrictions on the
power of corporations, and that more shall
not be charged for q shorter distance
than for long distance over the same line.
Mr.. Rice inquired whether the gentleman
(Reagsn) believed Congress had power to oblge
the New York Central Railroad Company, in
any way, to modify charges for freight received
by it at Buffalo, either by railroad or steamboat
to be carried within the State of New York.
Mr.. Reagan replied that it WAS the origin and
destination of freight that fixed the nature OF
the commerce. If freight was shipped from
one State to another, it was Interstate com
merce, whether it went over one or more rail-
roads.
The bill went over. When it next comes up,
one or two days will be allowed for debate.
Mr.. Kelley, in Committee of the Whole made
aspeech i'll opposition to the Funding Bill, and
MIR. Crittenden announced an amendment re-
pealing all acts imposing a tax on the capi-
tai and deposits of savings banks national
banks, State banks, and private bankers, pro-
viding that the tax on the circulating notes OF
national banks issued on bonds authorized by
this act shall not exceed one-half of per cent,
and providing, further that the total amount
of silver dollars of 41214 grains, authorized
under the act of February 2S, 1878, shall not
exceed 800. 100000.
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IRELAND.
Ina. ortaut Events Occurring In that Un-
fortunate Country During thu Past Week.

Iu,. ortaut Events Occurring In that On.
fortunate Country During the Past Week.
TROOP of dragons, a company of infantry
and large force of police surrounded the plat
form to prevent the meeting of Kanturk. Al
though large number of people were present,
no attempt was made to hold the meeting.
A cablegram from Cork says: A party Of men
have visited the house of q man named Dan
els and shot him, inficting dangerous wounds.
The affair is believed to be connected with Fen
ianism.
A LONDON dispatch says: Parnel openly ex-
presses his intention of taking his seat in the
House of Commons at the opening of the ses-
sion, and, IN fact, of adopting the policy of
pleading the Queens proclamation against
The Queens wishes, in spite Of the warning
already conveyed to the traverses that they will
absent themselves from Dublin at their peril.
Very little public interest is felt in the trial. as
everybody feels convinced that it cannot possibly
result in conviction. 1t is even stated that
nine of the jurors are known to be determined
TO render a verdict of acquittal, be the evi-
dence or charges what they may.
The Court room at the trial of the Traversers,
on the 9Th inst, in Dublin, was crowded with
spectators. Mr.. Parnell was conspicuous for
his absence.
Last Tuesday night some people near Clare
morris dug ditch across the road to prevent
the passage of a process server, who, with a
police escort, was going to serve writes of eject
ment In the fight that followed four persons
are believed to have been fatally bayoneted,
and several others received slight injuries.
At the weekly meeting of the Land League
Davitt counseled the branch leagues to give
the authorities no pretext for the suppression
of their meetings.
Postmaster Gene1 al Fawcett, in a speech at
Manchester, intimated that there was no reason,
for assuming that the House of Lords would
| reject the Irish land bill.
| Many of the Liberal papers in England are
opposed to coercion, and it is rumored that
Bright and Chamberlain, of the Cabinet, are
displeased at the turn affairs have taken.
A competent military observer has reported
that there is no immediate danger of an up
! rising in Ireland.
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A Horrible Accident,

A shocking accident occurred on the line of
the Sioux City and Omaha Division of the Chi
cago, st Paul, Minneapolis and Omaha Rail-
road, Iowa, by which six men were killed out
right and seventh lost leg. The men were
engaged in . cut north Of Bancroft, shoveling
snow. The working train, anticipating the
coming Of the southbound passenger train, had
sidetracked, and the men, eleven in all, had
stepped from the track to allow the passenger
train to pass. Some trouble in getting through
had been experienced the day before, and the
engineer approached the cut. which is long
one, and on the curve put on steam and rushed
in. The train consisted of locomotive and
tender, two box cars, and one passenger car.
The train, with the exception Of the latter car,
passed the men in safety, but the steps to the
passenger coach caught them and moved them
down liks grass iunder the wheels. Only four
escaped without serious injury. The names Of
the killed are Charles Meyers, Thomas Brough-
man, A. P. Swanson, J. A. Herman, Olney An
derson, and John Erickson. The name of the
wounded man is John Adelan. The men all
lived at Oakland, Neb., to which point the
bodies were conveysd.
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He Outprayed EN-.

At Atchison, Kas., the women crusa-
ders visited hquor-saloon, and tried by
praying to induce the proprietor of the
saloon to close his place. The proprietor
invited the ladies to seats, and asked
them to pray, and then offered himself
the following prayer:
almighty Creator in heaven! Thou
who hast made the heaven and earth,
and created man in Thine own image as
ruler of this earth! Whilst animals are
living on grass and water, Thou didst
teach Thy servant Noah to make wine,
and thou didst not punish him for max
ing Incorporate use of it. At the we'd
ding of Cana, Thine only Son, Jesus
Christ, transformed water into wine when
the juice of the grape was exhausted,
that the enjoyment of the guests might
not be disturbed The great reformer,
Martin Luther, said: "He who does
not love wine, woman and song, remains
q fool all his life long" And all the
great men upon this earth have been
drinking of the wine Thou hast given Thy
children upon this earth. Oh Lord! we
pray Thee, have pity upon these women
here who are not grateful for Thy gifts,
who want to make Thy children like the
beasts of the field and to compel them tc
drink water like an OK, while they dress
extravagantly and lead their husbands by
other extravagances not tending to our
well-being, to bankruptcy, depriving
them of all pleasures of this world, yea
driving them to suicide.
go Lord! have mercy upon these Ia
dies; look upon them; they wear not even
the color of the face which Thou hast
given them, but they are shining against
Thee, and, not content with nature,
paint their faces. O Lord! Thou canst
also perceive that their figure is not as
Thou he st made it; but they wear humps
upon their backs like camels; Thou seest,
o Lord, that their head dress consists Of
false hair, and when they open their
mouths Thou seest their false teeth. 0
Lord! these women want men who will
! patiently accept all this without using
| the power Thou hast given to man that
| all women shall be subject to man. They
will not bear the burdens of married life,
and obey Thy commands to multiply and
replenish the earth, but they are toe
lazy to raise their children; and o Lord
Thou knowest the crimes they commit, O
Lord! have mercy upon them and take
them back unto Thy bosom, take folly
out of their hearts, give them common
sense, that they may see their own fool
ishness, and grant that they may become
good and worthy citizens of our beloved
City of Atchison. o Lord! we thank
Thee for all the blessings bestowed upor
us, and ask thee to deliver us from al
evils, especially hypocritical women, and
Thine shall be the praise for ever an6
ever. Amen"
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Are Your Closets Ventilated?

There is nothing SO handy in house
as an abundance of large, roomy closets;
but because they are handy and extreme.
ly useful they are apt to be abused.
There are many things which, as mat
ter of course, are always put into closet,
of which the articles of outward wearing
apparel make large part. There are
always things which ought not to go
into the closet, i. e., a closet adjoining or
closely connected with living or Sleep
ing room. Of such are all soiled under
garments, the wash clothes, which
should be put into large bag for the
purpose, or a roomy basket, and then
placed in the wash-room or some other
well-aired room at some distance from
the family. Having thus excluded one
of the fertile sources of bad oders in
closets, the next point is to see that the
closets are properly ventilated. It mat
tiers not how clean the clothing in the
closet may be. Any garment after be-
less of the exhalations which arise from
the body, and thus contain an amount of
foreign-it may be hurtful- matter
which free circulation of pure air can
soon remove; but if this is excluded, as
III many CLOSE ClOSeGS, tuo eIluVld H.
creases, aud the clothes closets and ad-
Joining rooms in time possess an odor
that any acute sense of smell will readily
detect. Every closet in daily use in
which the night clothes are hung by day
and the day clothing by night, should
have an airing as well as the bed. If
the closet can be large enough to admit
Of a window-and it is in some cases
an ample provision for sunlight and the
circulation of pure air is provided in the
window, which should be left open for q
short time each day. In the case OF
small closets ventilator could be put
over the door or even in it. In many
cases such precautions for pure clothing
are not practicable, and the next-best
thing is, to see that the door of the
closet is left open for half hour or sc
each day at that time when the windows
are thrown up and the large room Ii
purified with fresh air from out of doors
In this way, first, by keeping out clothes
intended for the wash, and second, daily
changing of the air, the closets may b.
kept comparatively pure.
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Public Debt Statement

The following is the public debt statement for the
,,onth nf Decamher.
The Somerset press. [volume] (Somerset, Ohio) 1873-1977, 1881-01-13

When lobster shakes hands with you
YOU always know when he takes hold,
and are exceedingly pleased when it gets
done. They have small features, and lay
no claim to good looks. When they 10
comote they resemble small boy shut
fling off in his fathers boots. They are
backward, very. They even go ahead
backward. They occasionally have a
row like people, and in the melee lose a
member, but have the faculty of growing
out another. The process is patented
both in this country and Europe, which
accounts for not coming into general use
with the human lobster so to speak.
A lobster never comes on shore unless
he is carried by force. They are af-
fiicted with but one disease, and that is
boils. There is more real excitement in
harpooning whale or in having the
measles than there is in catching Holsters.
The fisherman provides small hen-coop,
and places in it for enticers, several dead
fish. He then rows his boat to the lob
ster ground (Which is water) and sinks
his coop to the bottom, and anchors it to
q small buoy Zone from eight to ten
years will do) and then goes home.
When he feels like it again-say in the
course of q week or so-he goes back and
pulls his poultry-house, and if he has
good success he will find the game inside
the coop.
AS an article of food the real goodness
of the lobster is in the pith. Very few
persons relish the skin, and physicians
say it is hard to digest. We therefore
take the lobster and boil it until it il
ready to eat. Nothing is better for colo
than boiled lobster. 1t will bring on {
case when cucumbers have failed. Fol
sudden case we advise them crumblet
in milk. Eaten at the right time, and il
proper quantities, lobster stands SECOND
to no fruit known.
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Cru,hinr the Poor Indian.

General Breck, Adjutant of the Department
Of Dakota, January 8, received the following
from nges, Major Of the Fifth Infantry.
will be observed that the Indians were imper-
tinent, threatened, were surrounded and didn't
fight, we're whipped and none Of them hurt
Comparatively are hungry and peaceable and
the thermometer 20 degrees below zero.
CAMP PoPLAR RIVER, January 2,
VIA FonT BUroRT, January s.
To Breck, Assistant Adjutnnt General:
hitter my talk with the Indians on the 31st OF
December which led me to believe them to be
sincere, they, through their Chief, The Grow,
sent mo yesterday very impertinent message
that they would not move, and would fight me.
moved against them to-day, surrounded their
camp, shelled them and compelled them to sur
render, killed one, wounded two and lost no
soldiers. have now at the agency about three
hundred hostiles, and about three hundred
horses and forty guns. They threatened to
fight, but showed none They deserted their
villages. l burned up about sixty of their
lodges, which will hurt them badly. We will
start at daylight after the hostiles who have
gone to the Yanktonnais' camp, about twelve
miles distant The Yanktonnais by six of their
principal men assisted me to-day and were OF
great help, and WIN give them some ponies.
have Gall as prisoner, and will have The
Grow tomorrow.
These people are in great distress for the
want Of food, and will do what can for them.
The thermometer Is twenty degrees below zero.
ILGEs, Major Fifth Infantry.
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A wholesale and cold-blooded murder occur
red one mile south Of Otis, Ind, last week.
James Augustine and family have lived In that
place for many years, were possessed Of con-
siderable property, and generally had q good
deal Of money in the house. During the after
noon Henry Augustine, nephew Of James, ar
rived from Chicago to make them visit, and
tried vsinly to get them drunk from bottle
which proves to have contained poisoned
whisky. About II at night he got mp from his
bed, sought the bedroom Of Augustine, and
leveling revolver began firing. Mrs. Augustine
was 30 badly wounded that she died three days
after. James Augustine was shot In the breast,
and will probably die. Henry ran from the room
after firing several shots. The sons, hearing
the firing, came down, and Christian Augustine
demanded OF Henry, whom he met In the
kitchen, what II meant. Henry replied with q
bullet, which killed him instantly. He gave .
parting shot at the younger, James, which only
made q slight flesh wound, and then coolly
went to his uncle's room and demanded admis-
sion, assuring him he was all right and wanted
to help them. James, the son, got the revolver
from him, put him in the kitchen, and locked
the door. Henry escaped, barefoot and hatless,
and has not yet been captured. Lyhching will
probably follow his capture.
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LLVIth CONGRESS THIRD SESSION.
SENATE.

Congress met and resumed its labors on the
5th inst.
In the Senate, the Vice President submitted
from the Secretary of War papers showing
maintenance of the channel at South Pass,
Mississippi River, for quarter ending November
9, 1880; also from Secretary of War, indorse-
ment of recommendation by Quartermaster
General for additional appropriation of o., ,0OO,-
900 to replenish depot stock Of clothing, which
is exhausted
A resolution offered by Mr.. Butler was
adopted directing the Secretary of the Interior
to furnish information and the report Of the
Superintendent of the Census touching alleged
frauds in the enumeration of the inhabitants Of
South Carolina.
The Senate Committee on Appropriations
authorizes Mr.. Eaton to report back the Con-
sular and Diplomatic Appropriation Bill, with a
few amendments. One provides that the
Charge dAnaires at Bucharest, Roumania,
shall be also Consul General. Others reclassify
some of the Consulates. Belfast, Ireland, is
raised from fourth to third grade.
Mr. Herman introduced a bill respecting
silver coinage which provides that thJ Secretary
Of the Treasury shall hereafter coin only such
an amount of standard silver dollars as he may
find necessary to meet the demand.
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The Diet Eiend.

There is the man who has made up his
mind to keep his health good by eating
the right sort of food in proper quantities
and with the right kind of mastication.
Resolution sits upon his brow, his eyes
turn scornfully upon his fellow men and
he deliberately and with malice afore-
thought sits with superbly folded arms
in the restaurant, painfully working his
mouth, as if he were type of Samp-
sons celebrated jawbone engaged in the
duty of Staying bit of brown bread.
He becomes a nuisance to his landlady,
or his wife; he buys fish. which he eats
for his brains, and struggles in the morn
ing with harsh oatmeal and sour baked
apples, chewing, chewing, chewing,
while casting contemptuous glances
around upon the disgusted people who
are not. 80 good and are not going to be
so healthy as he is to be. He even turns
his toes out, abhors butter, and walks
ON the side of the street which is the
healthiest His children receive no
candy, and his wife only receives scold-
ing because she does not live up to the
laws of health. He becomes pale, fretful
and morose, and says of healthy man,
'He lives for his stomach" while he is
dying for his.-Ne,o York Herald.
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gad Simfe OF Affairs.

An Atlanta (Ga.) correspondent, writing un-
der date Of Sd inst, says; ''To the great relief
Of the people of Atlanta, the atmosphere is
much warmer, and the snow is all thawing.
There has been great suffering here. Fuel has
been very scarce, and unless supply of coal ar
rives by morning there will be none here upon
sale tomorrow. The yards were all empty this
afternoon, and not one of them had any invoice
Of any to be received tomorrow. The street
in front Of and in the rear Of the headquarters
of the citizens relief committee was densely
crowded with poor people all day, seeking en-
trance that they might be provided with their
allowance of fuel or rations of provisions.
Nearly all Of those applying for assistance were
colored people,