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The Daily Astorian. [volume] (Astoria, Or.) 1876-1883, 1881-05-12

Special convocatiOn of Saints John
r. A. Chapter No. il, this Thursday
evening, at 7:3O sharp. Work in the
NJ. Z. NJ. degree.
The Daily Astorian. [volume] (Astoria, Or.) 1876-1883, 1881-05-12

Another half crazy being threat
ened to put an end to the existence of
an Astoria man of business day before
yesterday, without cause or proySca-
ton; and actually applied TO the
chef of police for weapon. There
is a place for all such persons; and the
sooner they are cared for the better it
will be. This sort of thing is becom-
ing monotonous, and arrests should be
promptly made to bring the thing 10 a
focus. We beg to refer the matter to
District Attorney Caples for attention.
The Daily Astorian. [volume] (Astoria, Or.) 1876-1883, 1881-05-12

Thomas Klegg, an old man, was
adjudged insane yesterday and will be
taken to East Portland this morning.
The Daily Astorian. [volume] (Astoria, Or.) 1876-1883, 1881-05-12

A commercial paper Is about to
be established in Portland by men Of
ability, Messrs. Swanwick and War
den.
The Daily Astorian. [volume] (Astoria, Or.) 1876-1883, 1881-05-12

The Merom was not out of the
channel when she grounded on the
hogs shack, and If only took twenty
tons TO lighter her of. She was
drawing twenty-one feet eight inches.
The Daily Astorian. [volume] (Astoria, Or.) 1876-1883, 1881-05-12

The schooner Alpha, Capt. Starr,
is in port.
The Daily Astorian. [volume] (Astoria, Or.) 1876-1883, 1881-05-12

The pilot commissioners were in
session yesterday, but the result Of
their deliberations were not made
public
The Daily Astorian. [volume] (Astoria, Or.) 1876-1883, 1881-05-12

Just received at Carl Adlers, a
full assortment of Sewing Machine
Needles of all makes and sizes: to be
sold at reduced rates.
The Daily Astorian. [volume] (Astoria, Or.) 1876-1883, 1881-05-12

Reason is progressive, instinct
stationary. Five thousand years have
added no improvement to the hive of
the bee, nor to the house Of the
beaysr.
The Daily Astorian. [volume] (Astoria, Or.) 1876-1883, 1881-05-12
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The Daily Astorian. [volume] (Astoria, Or.) 1876-1883, 1881-05-12
Furnished Rooms to Let
ORre~ To Rent.

At Mrs. Munson's lodging house.
The Daily Astorian. [volume] (Astoria, Or.) 1876-1883, 1881-05-12

MIR. John Williamson is Offering
q lot Of home made brick fer sale.
The Daily Astorian. [volume] (Astoria, Or.) 1876-1883, 1881-05-12

ASTORIA, OREGON:
THURSDAY......-.... ..... NAY II, 1881
The Daily Astorian. [volume] (Astoria, Or.) 1876-1883, 1881-05-12

Free Of Postage to Subscriber.
The Daily Astorian. [volume] (Astoria, Or.) 1876-1883, 1881-05-12

Gill Il Clinton dad a first class job
of pile driving for Dir. hawes. The
rows are straight to the line.
The Daily Astorian. [volume] (Astoria, Or.) 1876-1883, 1881-05-12

The schooner Rebccca left San
Francisco Cor South Bend mills, Shoal-
water bay. on Tuesday.
The Daily Astorian. [volume] (Astoria, Or.) 1876-1883, 1881-05-12

Ladies should call Al Sam Grays
and inspect his stock of g-nu;ne
whalebone whips. etc.
The Daily Astorian. [volume] (Astoria, Or.) 1876-1883, 1881-05-12

Mrs Olsen. of Garibaidi, IL IA the
city. She caGe a passenger by the
Alpha.
The Daily Astorian. [volume] (Astoria, Or.) 1876-1883, 1881-05-12

A fine lot Of French candies Just
/ received AT Adler's.
The Daily Astorian. [volume] (Astoria, Or.) 1876-1883, 1881-05-12

DIR. j. Welch will be IN Astoria
May oath, to practice his profession
for a few weeks. He will have rooms
at the Occident.
The Daily Astorian. [volume] (Astoria, Or.) 1876-1883, 1881-05-12

Mr.. John Rogers, of the Central
Market, has made arrangements to
keep all the finest fresh fish, etc, in
their season.
The Daily Astorian. [volume] (Astoria, Or.) 1876-1883, 1881-05-12

Important to Mariners.

Yesterday the Shubrck shifted the
automatic buoy to the entrance Of the
North channel. The following is the
magnetic bearings of objects promi-
nent:
Cape Hancock light, NE by T..
Point adams light, + /. 5.
Tillamook rock, 81 5.
The buoy lies in fifteen fathoms Of
water. distant two and three-quarter
miles from the bar
The Daily Astorian. [volume] (Astoria, Or.) 1876-1883, 1881-05-12

HIGHER GRADE
The Daily Astorian. [volume] (Astoria, Or.) 1876-1883, 1881-05-12

- / ST Nicholas Balm "f Gilead
4 oil, for sore "r chapped hands.
The Daily Astorian. [volume] (Astoria, Or.) 1876-1883, 1881-05-12

--keelars auction was running in
full blast last evening. 1t will be held
again tomorrow at > and at Z o'clock
The Daily Astorian. [volume] (Astoria, Or.) 1876-1883, 1881-05-12

As they were leaving church ne
thoughtfully sand, won't you take
cold p Certainly" and she took
hold Of his arm.
The Daily Astorian. [volume] (Astoria, Or.) 1876-1883, 1881-05-12

Ice cream at Roscoes oyster and
refrcShment saloon OH Main street.
The Rock Island Argus. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1877-1885, 1881-08-06
JUDGE CLIFFORD AND THE ELECTORAL
COMMISSION
Hartford Times.

The unwritten history of the electora
commission would no doubt surprise thu
public--much as the public has seen of tho
iniquities of Republican leaders in cennec
ton with the great steal of the presidency
by carefully plotted scheme of false count
ing and'throwing out in handling the Lou
isiana and Florida returns. Governor Til
den was fairly and very decisively elected
president-and the Republicans know it
know it now and knew it then-and yet
they approved that great crime of their
party leaders. Church members here in
Connecticut approved it in a chuckling
way which indicated an appreciation of a
"smart thing" What would have been
the measure of their holy horror and viz
tuous indignation had the case been re
versedf-what language would have ex-
pressed it. had the Democrats done that
thing, and Republican president been
counted out? Would their newspapers
have contained type big enough to utter
their virtuous denunciation of such crime
Public meetings serm0ns-town meetings
stump speeches-everything would
have been invoked to swell the
horror of the unparalleled sin.
And they would have done right in SO de-
nouncing it; the democrats have never
shown sufficient energy in the exposure
and denunciation Of that monumental
crime.
Judge Clifford, of Maine, one Of the su
preme court judges, in private converse
ton last August, revealed some Of the un
written history ofthe electoral commission.
He wrote a complete and detailed history
of the electoral commission, of which he
was a member, and his purpose was that it
sheuld be published after his death unless
his wife, who was custodian of the manu-
script, should decide otherwise. The judge
thought it's publication would create SEN
sation throughout the country. II what
the writer was told by him, last summer, is
a sample of his narration, he may have
been right in that opinion. The commits
sion which looked so fair, was a singular
body. Judge Cliffords account will be
looked for by the public with interest.
The Rock Island Argus. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1877-1885, 1881-08-06
WHO rs LAPHAMs

Elbridge Gerry Lapha1n was born al
Pennington, n. T., Oct. 10, 1914. His
early life was spent on a farm, and his
early education was such as could be
gained at the winter public schools. In
this manner he gained common school
education, and was subsequently admitted
to the Canandaigua Academy, where he
completed his studies. Leaving the Acad
envy, he studied civil engineering, and was
afterward appointed civil engineer on the
Michigan Southern Railroad Relinqu1sh-
ing this employment, he studied law, and
was admitted TO the bar in 1874. Mr..
Lapham soon after settled in Canandaigua,
where he has since resided. In 1867 he
was a member of the constitutional con
vention of New York
He was nominated and elected by ma
jority as representative to the forty-fourth
congress He was reelected to the forty
fifth, forty sixth and forty seventh con-
crosses.
Mr. Lapham was classmate at Canaan
daigua Academy Of the late Stephen A.
Douglas. The academy was at that time
one Of the leading educational institutions
in the State, and young Lapham and Doug
las were regarded by the faculty and fellow
students as the smartest scholars in the in
stitution In debate they were regarded
as rivals, and always were pitted against
each other Mr.. Lapham occupied seat
at the head of the table in the boarding de
pertinent, and Douglas sat at his right
hand. Mr.. Lapham was compelled to leave
the school for several weeks, and on his
return found Mr.. Douglas occupying the
feat at the head of the table. Mr.. Lapham
demanded his seat and Mr.. Douglas insist
ed on the right tie retain it. The faculty
finally decided that the two young men
should argue the case before the scholars.
who would sit as jury. The contestants
accepted the situation and made elaborate
speeches. The jury decided that Douglas
was entitled to the seat. Mr.. Laphan, in
relating this anecdote, used to say: This
was Stephen A. Douglas first idea of
souatter sovereignty"
The Rock Island Argus. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1877-1885, 1881-08-06

A few of the state papers are agitatine
the election of county officers the coming
fall. Good opinions have been given on
both sides of the question, but it is highly
probable that the present incumbents will
continue in office until next year. 1t may
not be the case with all the papers who ad
vocate an election, but it certainly is true
with regard to many of them, that theil
motives in urging an election are not t.
abide by the laws or constitution of I'LL
nois but to make way for candidates OF
their own 1t can easily be imagined that
in republican county where the present
county treasurer does not patroniZe a Civ
en- republican newspaper with his tax sales
and other printing, that on that account
the republican organ which fails to secure
such patronage is anxious to remove the
incumbent and name a successor who will
be more friendly.
Such worldly considerations have their
effect even upon republican organs and
causes them to urge an election, while the
favored organs are as confident that the
present officials hold over until 1882.
The Rock Island Argus. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1877-1885, 1881-08-06

the supreIne bench, running for Mil1er's
vacant congressional seal and then the
speakdrship, renewing the practice of law,
renewing his grip on the Republican party
as leader by securing southern influence
these are some of the employments
which have been mapped out for Mr..
Conkling in number of recent horoscopes
of his future.-I PHILADELPHIA Chronicle Her
aid, Dem.
Every day and every additional column
in the newspapers of the South adds its
testimony to the largely recognized fact
that the carpet bag governments of those
States, backed up as they were by the
Federal government and the whole Repub-
lican party, did more to ALLEVIATE the people
of that section from the rest of the Repub-
lies children than the horrors and hatred
of the four years of war.-Nor7-istosa Reg
sster, Dem
Whether or not Roscoe Conkling is
dead, politically, depends upon his own in
clination in that regard If he concludes
TO abstain altogether from politics and de-
vote himself to the practice of law, and
stands by that decision, he may be POLITICAL
" dead If the time comes, however,
when he concludes to re-enter active polit
ical life, it will be found that he is very
much alive. Moreover it may as well be
set down as a fact that the Republican
party will not win-another victory in the
State of New York for ten years to come
without his active effort in its behalf If
he is dead his party may as well prepare
for Manchester Union, Rep.
The Rock Island Argus. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1877-1885, 1881-08-06

David Davis, of Illinois, announces his
purpose to retire from public life at the enc
of his Senatorial term. lie viii live al
Bloomington and attend to private bust
ness.
Prince Bismarck once said to friend
ssIn politics I act as do out snipe shoot
ings / put my foot on one stone and dc
not take it off till see my way to another
When have found that, firmly step onto
the new stone and Ieavs the old one be.
hind, and so on until ! am out of the
marsh"
Ex-senator Conkling has one official
privilege left. He may send and receive
public documents free OF postage until
December 1st Assistant Attorney Geners1
Freeman has decided that senator who
has resigned is entitled, under the act OF
March 3, 1879, to the same privilege as
one whose term has expired
The Greenbackers are planning to hold
On extensive jubilee at Muscatine, Iowa, al
an early date, lasting four days. The in
tention is to commence on some Saturday
yet to be appointed Hon. Jesse Harper
will crate on the first day; the Revs. De
La Matyr and p p. ingalls, will preach
funeral sermons on Sunday and other lights
will hold forth on the remaining two days.
-ODsdta Bee. Rep.
There win be lot of picturesque mate
rial for new party on the outside of poll
tics presently. There are Butler, Forney,
Sickles, Mullett and Conkling already out,
and David Davis threatens to join them.
Then there are Gorham and Tuthill, who
would go If there was anything to be made
by it. 1t would be great pleasure to all
these persons if they could be in a party
so small that all of them would be visible
to the public eye all the time, and it would
be great pleasure to both the old parties
to know they were there. Neao York
Tribune.
May we be permitted to again rise 20 in
qure where, when and how the admins
tration of President Garfield entered upon
the great work of reform mentioned so
frequently of late by press and preacher?
-CiaciaaafS Enquirer, Dem.
Charley Foster is trying his hand as a
political mixer IN the Ohio campaign, and
making desperate effort to satisfy at
once both the whiskey and water crowd
There is a fair chance that he viii find out
in the end that he has pleased neither.
ST. Loatis Republican,, Dem
Editing newspaper. taking q seat on
The Rock Island Argus. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1877-1885, 1881-08-06
SATURDAY, August 6. 1851

At the present time some OF the orgasr
of the republican party are raising the CT.
that England will soon become protectiv,
tariff country. This is simply trick OF
their part to divert attention away from
the subject in this country. They thinl
that such statement carries conviction
that free trade is delusion and protective
tariff the greatest political blessing.
As before stated there is no truth in tho
report that England win change her rev
enue laws, but even If such was the exact
state of affairs, the conclusion would not
necessarily follow as desired by the repub
licans. There may be time when Eng
land win desire such an expensive luxury
as the United States have been enjoy,
ing for several years. When the poll,
tician and rich manufactures control
the legislation of England they may i'm
pose many unjust laws upon them, and the
protective tariff imposition may be among
the number.
Such combinations have resulted in the
tariff in this country and England may IL
the future be subjected to the same draw
backs.
AS a proof that the English Government
will not change its policy. it is only neces-
sary to state that the statistics of trade
prove that there is no occasion for a
change, as reports are very fiattering to
their present system.
The English free traders are reviving
their famous organization which was last
utilized in 1850, when Lord Derby and Mr..
Disraeli were reported to have seriously
considered a return to protection.
The preliminary and effective
work Of this association has
been to gather Information and thus de-
fend the economic faith from the attacks
Of the protectionists and the reciprocitari-
ans. These figures are of interest as show
ing the immense expansion of trade and
accumulation of profits under the system
inaugurated by Peel in 1916. In 1916 the
exports of British products amounted to
f2 Is. Sd. per head of the population; in
1880 the amount was E6 9s. sd. This last
figure has only been exceeded five times in
the last twenty years, and that was at
time when the foreign tariffs were quite as
oppressive as they now are; the gain last
year was very notable, and for the first
half of the present year that gain has been
more than maintained. In the matter of
the income tax the value of property as
sessed has risen from 1885, 654, al in 1851
to f57S. 046, 297 in 1879; fact which may
be commended to the economists who in
sist that the English have for some years
past been living on their capital and accu-
mulated profits. The poor have been far
ing no worse than the rich, for the Stats
tics of the savings banks show that since
E41 $40, 475 to EFT, 721, 0s4
The Rock Island Argus. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1877-1885, 1881-08-06

There is not that unity and harmony
within the republican ranks that is neces-
sary for party succass.
! In speaking Of the Robertson reform
business, the Peoria Transcript remarks:
Under the administration of Collector
Robertson rigid system of reform is to
be inaugurated in the New York custom
house. Goodl'
To which the Galesburg Register re-
spends in the following truthful language:
The pith of the above sentence is, that
change is to be made in the manner Of
The Rock Island Argus. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1877-1885, 1881-08-06

conducting the business of the New Yof1
custom houee About two years ago til
friends Of Co1kling and General Gram
were turned out, and the friends OF Presf
dent Hayes and George William Curt,
were put IN, and q rigid system OF reform
and civil service were introduced Rigid
in the middle of the term of office, Mr.
Hayes political and civil service reform
ers are to be turned out, and another
Change is to be made It is easy, there
fore, to predict that the change viii MOI
be reform" and in the interest af ar
''honest civil service"
The Rock Island Argus. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1877-1885, 1881-08-06

The Democratic mayor of Cincinnati is
wedding out the police force of that city.
Because he removed several ward politici
ans from the force he is-bitterly denounced
by the Republican organs. They desire
theoretical reform, and any one who at
tempts to practice such reform measures
will incur their everlasting enmity. II
should be remembered that Bristow was
removed from Grants cabinet because he
dared to investigate the whiskey ring
frauds
The Rock Island Argus. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1877-1885, 1881-08-06
Chancery Notice.
STATE OF ILLINOIS,
Rock ISLAND COUNTY.

STATE OF ILLINOIS,
Rock ISLAND COUNTY
In the Circuit Court to the September term, 1881
John o. Smith, se. Mary A. smth.-Is Chaneery.
Affieavit of the non residence Of Mary A. Smith
the above defer dant, having been fled in the
Clerks once of the Circuit Court OF said County
notice lie therefore hereby given to the sad non-
resident defendant that the compais ant, died bic
bilIuf eomplaint in said Court, on the chat Gerry
side thereof, en- the 2snd day OF July. 1871. and
that theEeapon Summons issued outof said Court
wherein said cult Is now pending. retufnable on
the first Monday In the month OF september next.
rs Ii by law required. Now, nnless you. the said
nonresident defendant above narned. shall per
sonaly be and appear before said circnit Court. on
the first day of the next term thereof TO be holden
the Court House, in and for the said county. on
the first Monday In the month Of Sep ember ne 1t,
and plead, answer or denaur TO the said complain
ante bill Of complaint the same and the matters
and things therein chs. ged and stated viii pc ta
ken confessed and decfae entered against you
according 20 the prayer Of said bill
L. +. HARRISON, clerk 4
Z Rock Island Ills. July Ind. 1881.
y. y. oonBEr, Comps sol. 7-s7a4w
The Rock Island Argus. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1877-1885, 1881-08-06
The Peoria Journal draws q moral from
the following altered facts.

The New Hampshire legislature has in
troduced a bill cutting that State into two
congressional districts. This is a sign that
they are getting ready to accept the in
evitable as shown in the last census. There
is one good thing about the old Granite
state-in numbers, her delegation may be
few, but they more than make it up in abil-
ity, as she has in the person of Edmunds,
the ablest mind in the senate and by far
the most independent. The state is so
small that he is not bothered with ques-
tions of patronage.
Edmunds, the best man of the Repub-
liean party, happens to represent Vermont,
while Rollins, small sized politician, is
the senior senator from the granite state.
1t is small State and it has small men to
represent it, if Rollins is a fair criterion
The Rock Island Argus. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1877-1885, 1881-08-06

The governors of Kansas and Wisconsin
have not taken the energetic steps to effect
the arrest Of highwaymen that has char
acterized the conduct of Governor Critten
den Of Missouri But then the former are
republicans while the latter is a democrat.
The Rock Island Argus. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1877-1885, 1881-08-06

Statistics of II .066 manufacturing estab-
lishments in New York city, with o capital
of $751;, 5s1, 74s invested, usingS 287 ,043,-
236of material, yield product of $4S5. 422,
122. The number of hands employed was
282459, to whom sos. 513. 1874 was paid in
wages.
The Rock Island Argus. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1877-1885, 1881-08-06
ChancerY NOTICE..

STATE OF ILLINOIS, $40
Rock ISLAND COUNTY,
In the Circuit Court. 10 the September term, A. d.
1881
Christine Naramore, VS.. Henry Naramore.-In
6 sChanceFy.
The above named defendant, Henry Naramors,
win take notice that the above named comp naut
Christine Naramore. las fled IN said Court her bill
of complaint against you for divorce. that the
that summons In chancery has been issued In
said cause against you returnable on the frst day
of the next term Of said Court, TO be begun and
holden at the Court House, in the city Of Rock ISL
and. I'm said county on the fret Monday of Sep
tember, A. d. 1881, at which time and place you
will appear.
Dated at Rock island. Ills JuIy n, 1881.
-R9 LEVI r. HARS0N.
STURGEON s. OLSEN. Clerk of said Court
Compl'ts Solicitors. T.a2d4v,
The Rock Island Argus. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1877-1885, 1881-08-06

Mothers and Nurses should see to 1t that the in
FAINT CT institution ~ buit up and strengthened by
proper food before the trying SUMNER MoNTHs
come, which are the most dangerous to infant life
The Rock Island Argus. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1877-1885, 1881-08-06
STOCK SPECULATION.

john A. DoDaE 9 Co., Bankers and Brokers. 10
Wall Street. New York. buy stocks on reaeon&ele
margin, and. when desired. VIII advise when and
What to buy Also Stock Privileges in which *25
! % 500 can be Erohtabls tuvested 9pportp1fties
FOR good proizfs constantly occurring. Full IN
formation on application. and Weekly Report sent
tres.
The Rock Island Argus. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1877-1885, 1881-08-06

the inventor will refer to the medical gentlemen
whose letters are attached hereto.
Extract from q letter
LYNN, MASS, March !, IL Q.
Messrs. FELLOWS & Co., 81. John, N. b.
Gents: have prescribed yenr syrup Fellows
Hypophasphftes). my practice, for some hund~
reds of patients. where its use Indicated with
quite satisfactory results.
j. A. MACARTHUR, ND.
80 South Common ST
The Rock Island Argus. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1877-1885, 1881-08-06

HaIkord Table Sauce. h0s1
ra-kEh In usae
The Rock Island Argus. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1877-1885, 1881-08-06

ELDRIDeE SIMPSON. MD, of Hudson. N. Y, writes
Il have used the Syrup of Hypopaosphites made
by MIR. Fellows, in caets of Consumption. and 9TH
or Lung and Throat diseases, with the most gratk
flying results. /"
The Rock Island Argus. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1877-1885, 1881-08-06

EDWIN CLAY, MD. or Pagwash, ". s., writes:
I know Of n better medicine for persons emf
fering from exhaustion Of tae powers of the Brain
and Nervous system, from long continued study, on
the cough following Typhoid Fever, &C., dc.