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The Daily Astorian. [volume] (Astoria, Or.) 1876-1883, 1883-10-31

A SPECIAL from Winnipeg says:
The Canadian Pacific is unable to
get across the Selkirk range of the
Rocky mountains and work has
been suspended for this year.
The Daily Astorian. [volume] (Astoria, Or.) 1876-1883, 1883-10-31
Delinquent City Taxes.

NOTICE Is HEREBY GIVEN THAT !.
~ the undersigned. Chief of Police. have
been furnished with a warrant from the
City Council requiring me 10 collect the tax
es assessed for the year 1883. and now delin-
quent upon the list and make return OF The
same Within sixty days. All parties so in
debted will therefore please take notice and
govern themselves accordingly.
c. w. L0UGHERY.
Chief OF Police.
Astoria, Oregon, October 18th, 1883.
The Daily Astorian. [volume] (Astoria, Or.) 1876-1883, 1883-10-31

THE Georgia law of the rebel.
lion, granting divorces to loyal
Southern women whose husbands
were in the Union service, has just
been repealed.
The Daily Astorian. [volume] (Astoria, Or.) 1876-1883, 1883-10-31
ALL KINDS OF f.
West-Eighth Street Assessment.

NOTICE hereby
on the nth day Of October iS for the
street, Astoria recorded by John NJ Shivey
south side the south side of Cedar street the manner
the Common Council OF said city the d day October 1883 and
2ih following described
payable City
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Notice

NOTICE is HEREBY GIVEN THATTHE
4N undersigned has been appointed the as
sgnee Of the firm of A. NJ. johnson and Co.
and all persons having claims against said
firm are notified to present the same duly
Verlhed 10 me at my Office IN Astoria. Ore
gOn. within three months from this date.
October 18th, 1888.
dew A. W. BERRY.
The Daily Astorian. [volume] (Astoria, Or.) 1876-1883, 1883-10-31

A SPECIAL from Boston says bet
ting is one hundred to ninety
against Buffers election next
Tuesday.
The Daily Astorian. [volume] (Astoria, Or.) 1876-1883, 1883-10-31

The Gar has decided to grant
Russia more freedom and such re-
forms as are suited to the spirit OF
the people.
The Daily Astorian. [volume] (Astoria, Or.) 1876-1883, 1883-10-31
Stockholders Notice,

NOTICE is HEREBY GIVEN THAT THE
~ annual meeting OF the stockholders of
the Washington Packing Co. viii be held on
Wednesday. Nov. Z, 1888. al 10 O'Clock. A. ~.
at their cannery near Astoria, for the pur-
pose of electing five directors, and to trans
act such other business as may legally come
before them.
Attest J w GEARHART
tRAN n NOLBEKG. Pres.
Sec'y,
Astoria, Oct. C, 1883. 6-sOd
The Daily Astorian. [volume] (Astoria, Or.) 1876-1883, 1883-10-31

The number of land Offices
throughout the country is being
reduced.
The Daily Astorian. [volume] (Astoria, Or.) 1876-1883, 1883-10-31

BISMARCK is devising a scheme
to prevent further immigration
from Germany.
The Daily Astorian. [volume] (Astoria, Or.) 1876-1883, 1883-10-31
A FARM TO LET.

OF 100 ACRES, ON YOUNG'S BAY. AND
OadjOining this city, on which is house.
good spring, and about thirty acres cleared
smooth, suitable for gardening, 6airying or
poultry raising. j. TAYLOR.
The Daily Astorian. [volume] (Astoria, Or.) 1876-1883, 1883-10-31

TENHE STORE LATELY OCCUPIED By A.
n NJ. johnson & Co. Apply at the store of
Prael Bros or to CS. GUNDERSDN.
The Daily Astorian. [volume] (Astoria, Or.) 1876-1883, 1883-10-31

THERE were seven accidents on
the Central Pacific lines in Cali
fornia last Thursday.
The Daily Astorian. [volume] (Astoria, Or.) 1876-1883, 1883-10-31
Dissolution of Partnership.

fGNHE PARTNERSHIP HERETOFORE
IA existing between Wong Pont, Wong
See Gum and Wong Ing Gum, I'm Storekcep-
ing business, is hereby dissolved by mutual
consent. Wong Ing Gum has bought the in
tereStS of the other partners, who are going
10 China. and he VIII continue business at
the old stand. Wong Ing Gum will pay ali
of The debts OF the firm and collect all ac-
counts due il. WONG PONT.
WONG SEE GUM,
WONG ING GUN.
The Daily Astorian. [volume] (Astoria, Or.) 1876-1883, 1883-10-31
For Rent.
For Rent.

HOUSE WITH ) ROOMS, HARD FIN.
HI ished. lot and Stable. Enquire Of
BOZORTH & JOHNS.
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BORN.

In Astoria, Oct. 80, 1885, to the wife of
/. j. Arvold, a son.
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NEW TO-DAY
NOTICE.
FOUND.
FOR SALE CHEAP

A CHECK. OWNER CAN HAVE SAME
IA by proving property and paying the
charges. Apply 10 JEFF.
The Daily Astorian. [volume] (Astoria, Or.) 1876-1883, 1883-10-31
ASTORIA, OREGON:

WEDNESDAY DAY...............-.ocToBER 81. 1888
The Daily Astorian. [volume] (Astoria, Or.) 1876-1883, 1883-10-31

A LDERBROOK PROPERTY IN LOTS
htO suit purchasers for cash or on the in
Stalment plan. BOZOKTH g. JOHNS.
Washington standard. [volume] (Olympia, Wash. Territory) 1860-1921, 1883-07-13

limbs more and more unnecessary.
will reduce them III time to a compar-
atively rudimentary condition. Final
ly, the readiness of our ancestors,
and OF our savage contemporaries, to
fight with one another is no longer
profitable, but absolutely pernicious.
in the struggle for civilized existence.
There is no necessity nowadays for
frequent personal combats and strug
giles OF life and death. On the con-
trary, man who is violent and pug
nacious will, as a general rule, be
more often imprisoned or slain in the
prime of life than his mere pacific
neighbors, and will therefore leave
fewer children to inherit his fighting
spirit. Thus the constant process Of
elimination of combative men will
continue, without any compromising
advantage in the struggle for exist.
ence arising as heretofore from success
as warrior. The man of the future,
therefore, will not only be toothless,
but baldheaded and incapable of ex-
tended locomotion with his imper
fectly developed feet, but he will
also be particularly averse to engag-
ing in personal confict-a love Of
peace at any price, Nineteenth Cen
tury,
Washington standard. [volume] (Olympia, Wash. Territory) 1860-1921, 1883-07-13

not he contemplated the young man
| drew a derringer and sent ball
through the Captains brain. killing
him instantly.
Gentlemen said the quiet man,
beginning to talk ere the smoke
lifted, Il had more than one reason
for committing this deed; l was in
suited. as you saw, and was in
danger. as you know; but. worse of
all. that man murdered my father. /
did not contemplate killing him. but,
as l said, l would have granted par
don for his insulting taunts. From
the first, though, / contemplated his
arrest, which / should have accom-
plished had he not attempted to take
my life. | am sorry that l have
caused such confusion, and l hope
that you will all, as l know God will,
forgive me-
He walked away, gracefully bow
ing to some one who hurried to the
scene of the tragedy The boat was
soon landed. The Captains acquaint-
ance took charge Of the body and
went ashore. We were soon on our
way again, and but for certain little
influences that hung around no one
would have known that tragedy
had been enacted. Our band of
music, common steamboat feature
in those days, struck up lively air,
and the only suggestive remembrance
of the Captains death was the wet
carpet where boy had nopped away
the blood.
1T was late at night when reached
my landing. Alone l made my way
to tie nearest house, where after
my business was known, / was kind
ly received. Next day 1 attended
church and was at once escorted to
the pulpit. behind which some half
dosen preachers were seated. A
we'll known minister arose and said
that two preachers from New Orleans
had arrived, Brothers Jackson (my
self and Mableson, and that Brother
Mableson would first address the
congregation. The gentleman arose,
and imagine my surprise when 1
recognized in the preacher the quiet
young gentleman who had killed the
Captain. He delivered an eloquent,
powerful sermon, and after services
approached me and, extending his
hand, said:
"'You must excuse me for not
making myself known to you. 1 |
kept my identity under a cloak of |
caution. When / boarded the boat l |
recognized my fathers murderer,
and thought that if I revealed my
identity my plans might be frustrated. |
AS said, only intended to follow |
and arrest him at the next town, but |
you see how it:resulted.'
"Years have passed since then, |
years of intimate acquaintance be-
tween the quiet young man and me.
Some time ago, after a successful
life, closed his eyes in death. He !
smiled with sublime willingness, and
went without a groan. 1 never knew
truer or kinder hearted man"
Washington standard. [volume] (Olympia, Wash. Territory) 1860-1921, 1883-07-13
FEMALE FANCIIs.

A Kentucky girl wears spurred
boots when out walking.
There's a difference between the
affability of young girl and the
taffybility of the experienced flirt.
The Sonng Italian girl who left
her barber bridegroom to 60 back to
her parents gave him a clean cut.
Board wanted'-as the young
lady said when she came to mud
puddle in the sidewalk.
When an elderly maiden lady
adorns herself with false hair, false
teeth, paint, powder, ETC.. she is
making up for lost time.
A Kentucky widow eloped the
week after her husband died, and
now she thinks it's outrageous the
way the neighbor's talk.
The worst thing that can happen
to a girl is to have all the curl taken
out of the feathers of her new hat the
first time she wears it.
A swell young husband thinks it a
shame that his wife should kiss her
two pug dogs dozens of times day,
and then thinks it a great bore if be
asks her to kiss him twice.
1t is said that ladies whose feet,
like the hand of Providence, cover
everything, are bitterly opposed to
the short walking dresses, which they
declare to be growing shorter and
shorter.
20, dear! you've driven that hair
pin way into my head" screamed a
lady customer to the milliner. who
was was fastening a bonnet on her
head. Sorry num- replied the
woman. accidents will hairpin."
81 have very dear lover, seventeen
years old. What shall l send him
for birthday presents" Lucy-Send
him mustache cup, dear. Consult
the advertising columns of some col
lege paper. if you can not afford a
new one.
A man p-town, who occasionally
takes his better half to the theatre, is
always pointing out women who are
better dressed than she, and yet he
growls if she asks him for fifty cents
month to buy new lace rucbing
for her best silk dress.
Washington standard. [volume] (Olympia, Wash. Territory) 1860-1921, 1883-07-13
NAMES OF COUNTRIES.

The following countries, it is said,
were originally named by the Phe-
nicians, the greatest commercial peo-
pie in the world. The names, in the
Phenician language, signifed some
thing characteristic of the places
which they designate.
Europe signifies country of white
complexion; so named because the
inhabitants were of winter complex
ion than those of Asia and Africa.
Asia signifies between or in the
middle, from the fact that the geog-
raphers placed it between Europe and
Africa.
Africa signifies the land of corn or
ears. It was celebrated for its abun-
dance of corn and all sorts Of grain.
Siberia signifies thirsty or dry
very characteristic.
Spain, country of rabbits OF
comics. It was once 80 infested with
these animals that it sued Augusta
for an army to destroy them.
Italy, country Of pitch, from its
yielding great quantities Of black
pitch.
Calabria, also, for the same reason.
Gaul, modern France, signifies vel
low haired, as yellow hair character
ICES its inhabitants.
The English of Caledonia is high
hill. This was a rugged mountainous
province in Scotland.
Hibernia is utmost, or last habita-
ton; for beyond this westward the
Ph@nicians never extended their
voyages.
Britain, the country of tin, great
quantities being found on it and ad-
jacent islands. The Greeks called it
Albion, which signifies in the Ph~-
nician tongue either white or high
mountains. from the whiteness of its
shores, or the high rocks on the west
ern coast.
Corsica signifies a woody place.
Sardinia signifies the footsteps Of
men, which it resembles.
Syracuse, bad SAVIOR, so-called from
the unwholesome marsh on which it
stood.
Rhodes, serpents or dragons, which
it produced in abundance
Sicily, the country of grapes.
Scylla. the whirlpool of dsstruc
ton.
Etna signifies furnace, or dark
or smoky.
Washington standard. [volume] (Olympia, Wash. Territory) 1860-1921, 1883-07-13
BRIDGING NIAGARA.
Progress Of Construction on the New Railway
Suspension Bridge.

The work of excavating for the
piers of the new Canada Southern
railway bridge has been continued
without interruption and with fair
prospects during the week. Some of
the heaviest blasting yet made has
been done, and more rock has been
displaced than during the first two
weeks. On the other side of the river
workmen have been engaged all the
week in blasting out huge boulder
in the southern pit. It is a rock
twenty feet high, fifteen feet wide, and
eight to ten feet thick, lodged on its
end, firmly imbedded in smaller rocks.
A terrific blast was made from it on
Tuesday, throwing tons of it into the
river and sending flying pieces high
into the air, some of which landed one
thousand feet of. Indeed, it seemed
as if shower of stones were falling
on the American side, many of which
struck on the suspension bridge, and
a few on the Custom House. G. A.
Turner has thirty carpenters at work
on the wooden platforms and trestle.
work which will be needed to lay the
masonry and put up the iron and
steel work. This work is to be a
gigantic affair Of itself, and it will
take until the middle of June to COM
plete the one on this side, and until
the middle of July to complete the
one on the Canada side. It will take
nearly 100000 feet of lumber to
build each of these structures. Twen-
ty carloads of lumber have already
arrived and been unloaded on this
side. The laying of the top platform
has already begun, and workmen are
at work framing the timber for the
lower and principal platforms. Work
men are engaged on the slcping bank
for foundations to the main structure.
Tool and storage houses have been
erected on the bank for material and
patterns. Bolts will be principally
ussd in putting up this structure, and
large quantities Of them have arrived
and are being placed in the timbers
when required. All this makes
busy place of the heretofore quiet
river bank, and is suggestive indi-
cation OF the colossal enterprise which
is soon to follow. ''The false work."
is what the wooden platform and trel-
lis is called by the engineer-in-chief
of the Central Bridge Company, and
it will be an elaborate and scientific
piece of work. It will be 12O feet
high. facing the river over the piers;
60 feet on the bottom and 36 feet on
top. 1t will contain II bents, placed
on firm foundations on the bank
slope, made of timbers 12x14 inches
square, firmly bound by iron bolts.
As stated above, it will take over q
month to put up one of these false
works. Thirty carpenters are now
on it, and more will be put
on as the work progresses,
Washington standard. [volume] (Olympia, Wash. Territory) 1860-1921, 1883-07-13
SOLVED THE PUZZLE.

The other night merchant in a
village in OHIO was discovered in his
store at an unusually late hour, and in
reply to inquiries he said:
MY confidential clerk is missing"
"And what of it."
why, I'm looking over the books,
but they seem to be all square"
Have you counted your cash?"
"Yes, and it is correct to dollar" p"
Looked over your bank book
Il have, and it is satisfactory.
That's the puzzle, you see. He's
skipped. and l can't make out what
for"
"Been home since noon"
"No."
perhaps he has eloped with your
wife!"
Lands alive! but it may be so.
1t it is, then the puzzle will be
solved"
He hurried home, and it was so,
and he felt great anxiety off his
mind.
Washington standard. [volume] (Olympia, Wash. Territory) 1860-1921, 1883-07-13

There is 10 gulf that love cannot
bridge over says Pearl, softly. "Oh,
Paul. live for my sake. for l love you,
oh. L love YOU
And no loyelier mistress ever
reigned at Aylmer's Rest than Pearl
Everson, who has bought back the
family estate and presented it to her
husband. There they now live, and
Pearl watches over the remaining
days of the white haired woman who
once turned her from her doors.
Washington standard. [volume] (Olympia, Wash. Territory) 1860-1921, 1883-07-13
FORGET-ME.NOT.

She gave them to me in the long ago.
only a lit,le bunch of flow rets blue:
On my heart kept them i loved them So
They seemed like our love, strong, pure
ami true
loved them then, and love them vet;
because she gave them TO me with her
heart.
And told me that with tears they had been
wet
And begged that from them should never
part.
But jealous. cruel time. with burning breath.
Drank from their stems the essei ce of her
tears,
And left them flutt'ring in the throes of
death,
phantom memory of those iove-lit
years.
have them now, bunch of time-lried
straw.
Tied with ribbon faded as can be:
But shall always keep and love them more
Because she gave them. wet with tears, to
me-
Washington standard. [volume] (Olympia, Wash. Territory) 1860-1921, 1883-07-13

The Mechanical World says that
after careful investigation DR.. John
Roebuck, grandfather of the late dis
tinguished member for Sheffield, has
received the credit of being the in
ventor, in 1852, Of the process Of
converting cast-iron into malleable
iron: Being good practical chemist,
the inquiries of DIR. Roebuck led him
to seek for more economical methods
of smelling ore than those in use, and
he set up some works on the banks Of
the Carron, a small stream near
Falkirk, in Scotland, being Joined
by several Birmingham and Glasgow
gentlemen. His specification dis
tinctly states that the cast-iron was
melted on a hearth with blast, and
then worked until reduced to ma
ture." In this state it was exposed
to 1.-The action of a hollow-pit coal
fine heated by the blast of a bellows
until reduced to loop" 1t was then
forged under hammer into bar iron.
Washington standard. [volume] (Olympia, Wash. Territory) 1860-1921, 1883-07-13

Victor Hugo has always prided him
self on his aristocratic ancestors, but
a French writer, who has been look
ing the matter up, finds that his
grandfather was a joiner, and that
before him the Hugos, so far as can
be ascertained, were ordinary farm
ers. II such is the case the great
poet has much to be proud of.
Washington standard. [volume] (Olympia, Wash. Territory) 1860-1921, 1883-07-13
or smoky.

The Supreme Court of Kentucky
has decided that wife may recover
money lost by her husband at gamb-
ling. That is more than the husband
can do for himself.
Washington standard. [volume] (Olympia, Wash. Territory) 1860-1921, 1883-07-13

Mrs. Scoville, sister of Guiteau,
wishes to have her name changed to
Howe.
Washington standard. [volume] (Olympia, Wash. Territory) 1860-1921, 1883-07-13

With respect to his locomotive
limbs. civilized man has lost some
faculties and is losing others. The
prehensile power Of the great toe,
inherited from our ape like ancestor,
and still obvious in the human en-
bryo, is retained in part by savage
races, but of necessity lost by those
human beings who habitually inclose
their feet in the boots and shoes Of
civilized life. Indeed, the separation
of the five toes under such circum-
stances is no longer necessary, and
will not permanently survive. AL
ready the percentage of persons who
have two or more Of their toes united
throughout their length is surpris-
ingly large.
AND AFRAID OF FIGHTING.
In that particular form of endur-
ance, again, which enables men to
travel long distances on. foot, the
savage is, as was to be expected,
immensely superior to his civilized
brother. And increased facilities OF
artificial locomotion. by rendering
the use by the latter Of his lower
The true northerner. [volume] (Paw Paw, Mich.) 1855-1920, 1883-04-06
Billy Fish's Water Treatment.

1t was one mile from London, Ohio,
in about the year 1858, when one
Christopher Slagle had been given up
to die by the physicians, after several
consultations. He was a man of nat
urally strong constitution, but an in
veterate user of tobacco. Almost at
deaths door, he muttered in feeble
voice: "If the doctors can do nothing
more for me, let Billy Fish try his
water treatment" With no more
knowledge of what to do than could be
acquired from the reading of his jour-
nal in year, father undertook his task.
Mark, now, his manner of proceeding:
Placing two comforters upon the bed,
then two wooden blankets upon them,
he prepared his patient by removing all
his garments. Then taking q sheet
wrung from warm water, quickly spread
it and bodily the poor man was lifted
into it, too weak to get there himself.
Then placing his arms alongside his
body, the wet sheet was wrapped tight
ly ABOUT every part of his body up to
and including the neck. Then the first
and second blankets were wrapped
tightly about him, and lastly the COM
IN ioooC dDb W
chill for while.) Very cold spring
water was used in wetting cloth for
his forehead, and very warm applica-
tions were put to his feet, good
draught of cold spring water given to
drink, and the patient slept for one
hour. Having the heat of the room at
about rs degrees, he was un-
packed, given a tepid bath and thor
oughly rubbed. The rolls of refuse
that collected upon his skin and re-
moved from his pores were perfectly as
tonishing. Had o miracle been per-
formed it would not perhaps have been
more marked than the effects of that
sheet pack" This was repeated twice
a day Tin his case) for two days, then
reduced to once a day until the patient
got well. Not one drop of drugs passed
into his stomach after Billy Fish took
hold of the patient. So much of con-
vert to water treatment did this man
become that he was discovered rolling
naked at one time in the snow.-L. s.
Fish, Cleveland.
The true northerner. [volume] (Paw Paw, Mich.) 1855-1920, 1883-04-06
..NIGGKR MIGHTY HAPPY,s
PLANTATION SONG.

Hog start a-runnin when de overseer callin';
Whipper~in boiler when de -draps fallin';
Duck keep a-quAokin' when de hard rain DO In |:
Crows Hook togedder when de young corn grow
IN:
Pig gwine to squeal when de milk-mAid churnin';
Niger mighty happy when de blackberries turn
in'i
6qu'el 40 to jumpin when do soaly -barks oom-
in;
martin sail when de honey bee hummin';
Lean horse nicker when de punlIin-vine spread
in:
Rabbit hack his ear when de cabbage stalk head
in;
Rooster start a-orowin's when de broad day
breakin';
Niger mighty happy when dc hoe-cake bakin'i
Big fish fiuttcr when he done cotch de cricket;
Builfrog iibely when he singin in de thicket;
Mule git slicker when de plantin' time over;
Colt mighty galy when you turn him In de
An 1t come mighty handy to de Niger man mater
When he soppin' in de gravy wild big yam 'taterl
Rlacksnake waitin' while de old hen hatchin';
Sparrow hawk lookin while de little chicken
scratchin';
Biz owl jolly when de little bird singin';
'Possum gwine to clam whar de ripe simmons
swingin';
Niger mighty happy-ef he amt wuf dollar
When he startin out co'tin' wild tall stan in
collar!
~ A. Macon, in The Century.