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The Daily Astorian. [volume] (Astoria, Or.) 1876-1883, 1882-01-01
Should Be Admitted.

Ii would be but a matter of
justice to admit Washington into
the Union at this session of Con-
gress. Our sister Territory is great
in all that goes to make State; in
population, extent, resources, posi-
tion, and prospects. 1t has a hun
dred thousand people; has naviga-
BILE waters and mineral deposits of
great value; is well situated for
manufacture and export; has a
fertile soil and mild climate, aud
asks for a State form of Govern
ment feeling that it would be an
advantage in a business way. Ne.
vada, SCARED and scanned by bar
rem wastes, desert tract of
desolation, came into the Union
seventeen years ago with a great
deal less than half the present
population of Washington. 1t
came in as a party measure, to
give Lincoln three more elec-
toral votes, and on any other
ground than that of political ne
cessity had no business to set itself
up for State. Washington by
reason of its advantages has plea
for admission that it may still
further foster its prosperity and
help develop its rich resources by
a judicious and economical system
of home government.
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THE days and dats OF 81 are IN
the past, and the sn OF 81 is
shining brightly IN te heavens.
Hope and memory arc the rising
and setting stars that glitter on the
verge of every New var horizon.
To some the New Ye< is full OF
glad promise, and tt. bells ring a
paean of victory; tolthegrs It's but
the forging of anctler link IN the
chain of adverse o;-.Nmstance, and
the midnight toll is but the chroni-
Gle OF defeat. For others whose
names are forever stricken from
the muster rolls of duty, and who
are content to slip down the back
entry of time to an oblivion OF
musty forgetfulness, the clash and
clamor of hundred steeples that
announce the New Years birth, is
of neither note nor consequence.
To the active workers of the world
it is matter Of congratulation that
they live to see another New
Years day and of good intent to
so live that should they happily
welcome its successor, it may be
indeed "a happy New Year"
The Daily Astorian. [volume] (Astoria, Or.) 1876-1883, 1882-01-01
Who, Though Dead, Yet Speaketil.

THE following is the peroration
Of eulogy on Garfield, delivered
by Senator Hoar in Washington
last Friday: The honors paid to
Garfield are the portents of Il bet
ter age and a better generation
against vulgar heroisms of the
past. Go through their mausol-
Gums and under their triumphal
arches and see how the names in
scribed there shrink and shrivel
compared with that of this Chris
tan soldier, whose chiefest virtues
after all are of the freside and
family circle, and of dying bed.
Here the hero of America becomes
the hero of humanity. Let us not
boast at the funeral of our dead.
Such a temper would be doubly
odious in the presence of such ex-
pressions of hearty sympathy from
governments of every form; but
we should be unfaithful to our
selves if in asking for this man a
place In the worlds gallery of
illustrious names, we did not de-
clare that we offer him as an ex-
ample Of the products of freedom.
Is not that country worth dying
for whose peasantry are of such a
strain, and is not constitution
worth standing by, under whose
forms freedom calls such men to
her high place? Is not the uuion
worth saving which gives all of us
the property of countrymen in
such fame?
The Daily Astorian. [volume] (Astoria, Or.) 1876-1883, 1882-01-01
School Tax District No. Slipper
Astoria.

SSCUOOL TAXES FOR THIS DISTRICT
= are HOW due and payable at the Office OF
the undersigned. WM. il. ADAIR,
Clerk of District No. 8.
Astoria, Dec. = 1881. dim
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1862
Harper's Weekly.
ILLUSTRATED.

HdIpcl-'s U,eGIsly stands at the head Of
American Illustrated weekly journals. BY
its bipartisan position in politics. its admir-
short stories. sketches. and poems. contrib
uted BY the foremost artists and authors Of
the day. it carries instruction and entertain
ment TO thousands Of American homes.
Ii will always be the aim Of the publishers
TO make Hdl1)er's 'FGchig the most popular
world
The Daily Astorian. [volume] (Astoria, Or.) 1876-1883, 1882-01-01

The Volumes of the Weekly begin with the
first Number for january OF each year.
When no time is mentioned. il will be I'M
derstoOd that the subscriber wishes TO com
mence with the Number next after the re-
ceipt of order.
The last Twelve Annual VOLUMES OF HAIR
PER's WEEKLY. in neat cloth binding. will
be sent by mail, postage paid, or 10y express.
free of expense provided the freight does
not exceed one dollar per Y0lume). for s. %
each.
Bloth Cases for each volume. suitable for
binding. will be sent by mail, postpaid, on
receipt of 81 90 each.
Remittanccs should he made by Post Of
fee Money Order or Draft. 10 avoid chance
OF loss.
Newspapers GTC not 10 copy this advertise
mCa lCithOld the cypress order al HARPER
4 BROTHERS. Address:
HARPER & BROTHERS,
New York
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Notice,

rEyHE PARTNERSHIP HERETOFOREcx cx-
Il isting between c. +. JackinS and John
4. Montgomery under the firIh name OF
,Jackins & Montgomery. has bcen this day
dissolved by mutual consent. John A.
Montgomery will collect and settle ;il ac-
counts OF said firm.
CHAS. Z. JACkINS.
.JNO. 4. MONTGOMERY.
Astoria, Ogn, Dee. 9, 1881. d-30d
The Daily Astorian. [volume] (Astoria, Or.) 1876-1883, 1882-01-01
School Tax Notice.

VyO THE TAN PAYERS OF SCHOOL,
Il District No. l, ClatSep county, Oregon !:
You are hereby notified that the assessment
roll for the school tax in district No. for the
year 1881, is completed and will be in my
hands at my Office ut Brown & Co.'S dock for
the next sixty days from date hereof. Pay
your taxes in time and save costs.
JIG. HUSTLER,
Clerk of School District No. /.
Astoria, Oregon, Dee. IL, 1881.
The Daily Astorian. [volume] (Astoria, Or.) 1876-1883, 1882-01-01
Teachers Examination.

TsJIIE EXAMINATION OF TEACHERS
= for the ith Quarter OF 1881. will be held
al the School House on Main Street. in AStO-
ria on Thursday ana Friday, December 29th
and 3Gtl,. 1881. commencing ai 10 O'Clock A. NJ.
of each day. W. w. PARKER.
County School Supt.
The Daily Astorian. [volume] (Astoria, Or.) 1876-1883, 1882-01-01
The compliments of the Season.

Tn Historian wishes its friends
and patrons. in all sincerity, "a
HAPPY New Year. D Having taken
no holiday on Christmas, we feel
that / would be sighting the sea-
son . work tomorrow, so shall in
COMMON with all others doing
busihesshere, take a holiday to.
mdrrow.
The Daily Astorian. [volume] (Astoria, Or.) 1876-1883, 1882-01-01
New Year NOtes.


The celebration OF New Years
day is one of the Oldest as we'll as
most universal customs on record.
Its formal celebration was insti-
tuted by the old Romin reformer,
Numa Pompilius, who, in 7l3 B. c.
dedicated the day to Janus. On
that day the Romans SSacrifced to
thAAdouble-faaed> go5a cake of
new sifted meal, salt, incense and
wines. Mechanics began some
thing new in their trade and liter
ary men and artists also COM
mencpd some hew work. On that
day, too, the consuls took office.
From this custom. no doubt, flowed
the installing OF mayors, council
men and other potentates and dig
nitaries on that day. During the
time of the emperors two white
bulls were sacrificed to Jupiter
Capitolinus ON New Years day.
The Romans-the genuine old
gold Romans-laid aside all old
grudges, were. as polite as they
knew how to their friends, even
though they'd not call on them,
and We're particularly careful not
to say any words of bad omens,
and the plenitude of such words
II .he vernacular of that day best
inq lcates their effort to be polite as
faras language is concerned. The
custom of making New Years
presents is about extinct in this
day and gencration-iI never did
take well on this coast; but in
olden times, chroniclers inform us,
it was carried to an amazing ex-
tent. The origin of it is ascribed
- Titus Tatius, king of the
lbines. On one occasion Titus
was presented with some branches
cut in grove consecrated to
Strena, the goddess of STRENGTH,
and, considering it favorable
omen, he ordained that the custom
should continue for all time. He
must have been one of those men
''who, though dead. yet rule our
spirits from their urns." The
American of the day observes New
Years as best suits himself. A
careful abstinence from business
and a rowing circuit Of 'calls''
usually takes up his time, ending
sometimes in a s'call'' on flush or
straight, when the other fellow has
a. fHh hand and rakes in the ante
and aceruing assets. One of the
best ways of celebrating New
Years day is that in vogue among
our heather eo-laborers, the Chi
nese, who pay all their debts on
that day, and If they can't do that
give up all they have to their
creditors without the civilized pro-
cess of going through bankruptcy.
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HARPER'S PERIODICALS.
Per Wear:

Postage Free 10 all subscribers la The Uni
tod StGtcS or Canada.
The Daily Astorian. [volume] (Astoria, Or.) 1876-1883, 1882-01-01

IHEADQUARTERS DEPARTMENT OF
Z Il the Columbia, Vancouver Barracks, W.
T.. Nov. 20, 1881.
Written proposals will be received by the
undersigned. at Vancouver Barracks. w. T.,
until March 3lst. 1852, for the right of eXclu-
sive selning on the Fort Stevens. Point
Adams) Military Reservation. during the
next fishing season. The right 20 reject any
or all bids. as may be deemed best, is re-
served by the undersigned.
o. ID. GREEN.
Mai and Asst Agt. General, Breyet Briga-
dicr General L. :. Army. diff
The Daily Astorian. [volume] (Astoria, Or.) 1876-1883, 1882-01-01
TAILORING.
and REPAIRING
NEAT, CHEAP AND QUICK, BY
GEORGE E.OyF'TT.
Main Street. opposite y. Loeh's.
SheriTs Notice.

TlHE STATE. COUNTY, AND STATE
A. School Taxes for the year 1881. are now
due and can he paid at my Office at the Court
House A. n. TWOMBLY,
d6wtr Sheriff and Tax Collector
The Daily Astorian. [volume] (Astoria, Or.) 1876-1883, 1882-01-01
Notice to Cannerymen.

ENOR THIRTY DAYS FROM THIS date
IL l will contract to make fish boxes Of sat
isfactory quality in any quantity at the fol-
lowing prices boxes in the shuck 12ls cents
each nailed boxes 141s cents each, deliv-
cred at the West Shore Mills.
j. TRULLINGER.
Astoria, Dec. 10, 1881. dim
The Daily Astorian. [volume] (Astoria, Or.) 1876-1883, 1882-01-01
Piles +! Piles +! Piles !
A Sure Cure Found at Last
No 9ne Need Suffer!

a sure Cure for Blind. Bleeding. Itching
and Ulceratct Piles has been discovered by
DR.. Williams. tan Indian Remedy. called
DIR. Williams Indian Ointment. 4 single
box has cured the worst chrome eases of p
or 30 years standing. No one need suffer
five minutes after applying this wonderful
soothing medicine. Lotions, Instruments aud
eec.uaries do more harm than good. VIII
liam's Ointment absOrbS the tumors, allays
the intense itching. (pariicularly at night af-
ter getting warm in bedD. acts as a poultice.
gives instant relief, and is prepared only for
Piles, Itching Of the private parts, and for
nothing else.
Read what the Hon. j. NJ. Cofflnburry of
Cleveland says about DIR. Williams Indian
Pile Ointment have used scores of Pile
Cures, and it affords me pleasure to say that
| have never found anything which gave
such immediate and permanent relief as DIR.
Williams Indian Ointment.
For sale by all druggists o: mailed oil re-
ccipt of price. 81 90.
HENRY & CO. Props.
Cleveland, o.
Hodge. Davis & Co.. Wholesale Agents,
Portland, Oregon.
The Iola register. [volume] (Iola, Allen County, Kansas) 1875-1902, 1882-04-28

sea, and remained some time. They
subsequently returned to their old quar-
tiers. Nearly fifteen months had now
elapsed since the wreck of the Trinity
1t was . welcome sight when, on tho
18th of January, 1882, the United States
man-of-war steamer Marion hove in
sight. The seamen stood on rocks and
waved their blankets till at last they
were seen and signaled to. On the 18th
the men were taken on board in two
cutters. and the Marion steamed for
Clinton Bay, eighteen miles distant,
where the four men previously spoken
of were encamped. These, too, were
taken on board. and the whole party
were clothed in navy costumes to re-
place their own tattered garments. The
Marion steamed for the Cape of Good
Hope, and, after a passage of thirty
three days, reached Cape Town, where
the American Consul took charge of the
shipwrecked mariners.-Boston Special
to Chicago Tribune.
The Iola register. [volume] (Iola, Allen County, Kansas) 1875-1902, 1882-04-28
SCHOOL AND CHURCH.

Governor Crittenden, of Missouri,
torcibly says that parsimony toward edu-
cation is iberality toward crime.
The veteran African missionary, DR..
Moffat,' who has passed his eighty-fifth
year, is now living in secluded retreat
in Kent, England.
They tell of a church pew in Roch-
ester that was recently advertised as
commanding beautiful view Of the
entire congregation"
The religious revival in Kentucky
has been so thorough and general that
the fashionable young women use note
paper bearing the legend, Praise the
Lord. Northumberland.
The Ladies' Society of the Emmanuel
Baptist Church at Chicago, has estab-
lished two industrial schools to prepare
clothing for poor children. One is at
the church and the other at the Taber-
nacle Mission. Chicago Herald.
1t is stated that the revision of the
old Testament is finished, with the ex-
ception of Ecclesiastes and the Songs of
Solomon. The second revision will take
the whole of 1882, and the finished work
will be published in 1888.
The Rev. DIR. James 8. Chadwick,
pastor of the Simpson Methodist Episco-
pal Church, Brooklyn, for the last three
years, was presented with q horn OF
plenty, containing $500, by the members
Of his church few evenings ago. He
has accepted the pastorate of the Gen.
trail Methodist Church in New York, and
his successor in Brooklyn is the Rev.
Henry Baker, of st. Paurs Methodist
Church, Newark.
The Baptist Home Mission Society
expects to get $780, 900 this year on &C.
count of its being the jubilee, or the
fiftieth anniversary of its existence. In
niversary of the First Church of Chicago,
which was organized by missionary of
that society. The First Presbyterian
Church is the oldest in Chicago, having
been established by the Rev. Jeremiah
Porter, then army chaplain at Fort
Dearborn.
"A century ago it was customary for
men to sit at the pew doors in church
armed with guns in order to keep out
intruding Indians. The extent to which
this old custom has gone out of fashion
is indicated by the fact that ten little In
dian boys have been received by bap-
tism into the Presbyterian Church at
Carlisle, Pa. They are from Captain
Pratt's training school for Indians at
that place. Thirty-five Indians in all
have thus made profession of Christian
faith at Carlisle.
One of the most astounding things
in the religious world is the extraordi-
nary growth of the Methodist Episcopal
Church, since the opening of the present
year. The Methodist has been keeping
a careful account of the conversions re-
ported by all the churches which consent
to send their reports. Thus far 1924 of
the churches have reported that 1862
persons have been converted since the LIST
of January. This is the more wonder
full in view of the fact that there are
1856 Methodist churches and that the
total number of additions to them dur
ing 1881 was only 25,S92.-Chicago
NeUS.
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Clever Crows.

have not said any. thing abont the
crows, which are feature of Yezo, and
one which the colonists would willingly
them, and in many places they break the
silence of the silent land with a Babel
of noisy discords. They are every
where and have attained degree of
most objectionable impertinence min
gled with cunning and sagacity which
almost put them on level with man in
some circumstances. Five of them were
so impudent as to alight on two of my
horses, and so be ferried across the
Yurapugawa. In the inn-garden at Mort
l saw dog eating a piece of carrion in
the presence of several of these covetous
birds. They evidently said good deal
to each other on the subject, and now
and then one or two of them tried to pull
the meat away from him, which he re-
sented. At last big strong crow sue
ceeded in tearing off apiece, with which
he returned to the pine where the others
were congregated, and after much earn
est speech they all surrounded the dog,
and the leading bird dexterously dropped
the small piece of meat within reach of
his mouh, when he Immediately snapped
at it. letting 60 the big piece unwisely
for a second, on which two Of.the crows
flew away with it to the pine, and with
much fluttering and hilarity they all ate,
or rather gorged it, the deceived dog
looking vacant and bewildered for a
moment, after which he sat under the
tree and barked at them namely.
ILL Al I,
dog holding piece of meat in like man
ner in the presence of three crows. which
also vainly tried to tear it from him, and
after consultation they separated, two
going as near as they dared to the meat,
while the third gave the tail a bite sharp
enough to make the dog turn round
with squeal, on which the other vii
lians seized the meat. and the three fed
triumphantly upon it on the top of
wall. In many places they are so ag-
gressive as to destroy crops, unless they
are protected by netting. They as
semble on the sore backs of horses, and
pick them into holes, and are mis-
chievous in many ways. They are very
late on going to roost, and are early
astir in the morning, and are so bold
that they often came "with many a
stately flirt and futter'' into the ver-
andah where l was sitting. I never
watched an assemblage of them for any
length of time without being convinced
that there was Nestor among them
to lead their movements. Along the
sea-shore they are very amusing, for
they stake the air. in the evening,
seated on sand-banks facing the wind
with their mouths open. They are
threatening to devour the settlers, and
crusade is just now being waged
against them, but their name is Legion.
l-Unbeaten Tracks in Japan.
The Iola register. [volume] (Iola, Allen County, Kansas) 1875-1902, 1882-04-28
American Nerves.

Men prematurely bald, old, unable
to carry their liquor" and anxious be-
yond their face years, are getting con-
spicuously common in America. The
slow sententious Yankee of the stage is
cool individual who offers the suspicious
stranger cigar-light stuck in the muz-
zle of a revolver is happily confined to
Deadwood Creek or Gouge Eye Gulch.
The women are more lovely than ever;
their faces are the faces of angels CHS
eled in marble; but the pallor is I'M
healthy, and the loneliness of the Amer
lean girl is, to great extent, incipient
disease. 1t is, like their beauty, part of
that nervousness which is affecting their
race. Their minds are untroubled by
the cares of housekeeping, for most of
them live in hotels or in boarding.
houses. In Europe they contract daz-
zling marriages. But they soon fade;
and while the English matron, and even
her sister of Canada, who leads much
the same kind of life, is still in her
prime, the once beautiful Americaine
is often a lean hysterical haunter of
health resorts. The future is not a
pleasant prospect. As men of leisure
depart from the busy multitude. it is
difficult to see what they are to do with
their money. There is limit to the
number of greenbacks which people can
spend on house. and even
a modest fortune is cumbersome
to carry about in diamonds
and watch-chains. They can, of course,
always go to Paris; but Tuileries Amer
lean, as this hybrid Gaul used to be
called in NapOleonic days, ceases to be
an American, while, if he stays at home,
it is hard to see how the rich average
republican is to spend his money in any
other way than that which has produced,
and is increasing, the nervousness of his
race. Competitive examinations, which
will, in time, add their worry to the end
less voting and electing of the present
time, are calculated to intensity the
trouble. But for long the evil will not
be much noticed. The country will be
fertilized by a continuous stream of
fresh-faced. simple-lived emigrants from
"used up Europe" These will mingle
with the humber natives, and, since the
true-born Yankee of New England and
the ''fust family Americans of the
South are notorious for the fewness of
their children, will keep up the popula-
ton of the United States. Meantime,
the learned folks. without the fear of
patriotic papers before their eyes, will
affirm that the European is not natural
lied in the New World. At best he is a
nervous edition of the gallant from
whence he sprang, and were it not for
the new blood that is ever recruiting his
jaded life, would dwindle away and be-
come extinct. World.
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FARM AND PRESIDE.

The demand for farm productions
should be carefully studied, like the de-
mand for the product of looms and ma
chine shops.-Chscago Journal.
About 100000 bushels of leached
ashes were imported direct from Canada
last year by Connecticut parties for fer
tilizers, at cost of seventeen cents per
bushel.
The Golden Wax Bean is nearly or
quite as tender and delicious, and more
productive than the Black Wax or Butter
Bean. Both kinds are almost stringless,
ripen early and are very tender.-N y
Examiner.
Light, brown biscuit for tea are
made of one pint Of Graham flour. one
pint Of sour cream, one teaspOOnful OF
bicarbonate of soda; roll them out rs for
any biscuit, and bake in moderate oven.
IN. Y. Post.
1t is immaterial Mt what time veg.
etables are transplantcd, provided they
are not too large and the ground is warm
and mellow; but they should never be
transplantcd in rain-storm, when the
ground is puddly. If transplanted when
1t is warm and mellow root action begins
at once.-DenUer Tribune.
Mutton Pie.-Take the mutton chops
from the forequarter, season highly with
pepper and salt, and put into a baking
dish with alternate layers of apples,
pared and sliced, and a little sprinkling
of chopped onion. Put a crust Of not
very rich pastry over the top. and bake
for twenty or thirty minutes in a hot
oven.-Country Gentleman.
"A correspondent of the Northwestern
Farmer and Dairynaan says: Iprocured
a half-hogshead, filled it with rain water,
and put into it one-quarter pound of am
mOnia and One-quarter pound Of nitre.
When the strawberry plants were BIOS
soming gave them sprinkle of the
solution at evening, twice week, until
the fruit was nearly full size. The re-
suit was double the amount of fruit.
Nervousness in horse is the effect
of bad training as well us of the natural
dispositions; restless, apprehensive and
nervous animal may be permanently
spoiled by a very little improper treat
ment when young and may never be
cured. Patience and perfect gentleness
in every way may in time remove the
trouble. Such horses are usually thin,
when they become quieted will soon i'm
prove in condition. Give half an ounce
of bromide of potassium in the feed daily
for time. This will allay the nervous
ness, but must be helped by quiet and
gentle treatment. Y Times.