The Daily Astorian. [volume] (Astoria, Or.) 1876-1883, 1883-10-13
ASTORIA, OREGON:

ASTORIA, OREGON:
SATURDAY.....................o OCTOBER l3. 1888 !
Alert Ii. & l. meeting this eyen-
ing.
The Oregon went to sea yesterday
afternoon.
The first matinee ever given in a
Seattle theater brought out 100 people
Saturday last.
The Netrs thinks that Portland's
wharves should be lighted, as a pre-
ventative against accident, and it is
right.
The sheriff of Marion county ad-
vertises for sale half interest in the
Oregon Statesman, to satisfy a judg-
ment Of 1888 5S,
The gap between the two ends of
the water pipe is about closed, and
the laying Of the pipes through The.
city viii be begun next week.
E. {. Holden will continue the.
auction sale Of merchandise and sun
dries at A. NJ. johnson q Co.'S store
at half past ten this morning.
The man who stood AZ the Main
street corner yesterday afternoon was
not overcome by the heat, nor emo
tion, nor sad memories, nor anything
of the kind. He had only swallowed
4 fiY-just plain fly.
One OF PhilaJelphia's most learn
cd Judges runs faro game in that
pleasant city and dispenses even han
ded justice to transgressors, thus
illustrating how history, ike slut
tering school boy, repeats itself.
The Palouse Gd-cfte reports the
killing of two men at the new mining
camp. That looks like business; a
mining camp never amounts to any
thing till twenty-five or thirty of the
"orneries;" are killed. Then she
booms.
From correspondence between
freight agents of different railroads it
is learned that the Astoria salmon
which was shipped hence overland was
given quick dispatch; from Helena,
Montana to New York and Phila-
delph;a being less than five days.
The fact that twenty-eight gradu-
ates of law school have been turned
loose during the present month in this
state hardly merits the extended edi-
torial notice that it has received. No
doubt those twenty-eight gentlemen
viii find the legal knowledge they
have acquired of great use to them in
whatever business they may engage.
In conversation regarding the
proposed town clock in the new public
school building, a gentleman makes
the excellent suggestion that it be
provided by a fund raised by popular
subscription, each citizen to give one
dollar, no more to be accepted from
any one. This would give all an
opportunity to carry out the idea OF
having a substantial public clock.
Two boarding house runner:
started from Portland yesterday with
seven sailors for the Harry Morse, but
despite their most watchful care, three
of the mariners got away from then
at various landings on the river. Thu
last to so, jumped ashore at Brook
field, and from the way he streaked
through the timber the supposition i
that he is running yet.
The Post -Intelligeacer says tha
John Gardison, night watchman o.
the steamer Idaho, has within th
past nine months rescued sixteen mel
from drowning in the waters of tn
bay. Many of these were rescued b.
Mr.. Gardison at his own imminen
peril. It is safe to say that man.
persons that wear the medal of tn
Life Saving society have no such he
ruic record as this.
High Prices,
A correspondent who signs himsel
Retail Merchant" thinks it is IN
wise to comment upon the high pric
of food in Astoria, because food
Just as high in other places. That !
just the point We intended to make
Food is too high in proportion to tn
earning power of money. ''Reta
Merchant" knows what any other ma
or woman knows, that man earnin