The daily morning Astorian. [volume] (Astoria, Oregon) 1883-1899, 1883-12-21
Around the CITY

mates.
The CyiiiSco cleared for Queenstown
Yesterday, with S4S, ,763 worth Of wheat.
5. +. Albert, sheriff OF Wahkiakum
county, is in the city on official business.
II is thought in Portland that Senaca
Smith will get Judge Stott's vacated posi-
tiOn.
John Ward. of Clatsop, another of
our returning pioneers. arrived home
yesterday evening.
Now is the time TO pay up all old scores
that you may start square with the world
the first of the year.
Mrs. Achey has concluded 10 postpone
the sale OF her picture OF the harbOr OF
Astoria till next spring.
The secretary of the treasury in his
estimates for the various military posts,
places $9,s59.4S for Fit. Candy.
The fog had il pretty much its own way
Yesterday; the clouds hung low and wept
the most of the few hours of light that
this latitude vouchsafed.
Foard & Stokes have rented one of j.
W Welch's handsome new buildings and
will move their stock of groceries and
provisions in there shortly after New
Years.
The carpenters a; the o. Il. d \. dock
are putting the finishing touches on the
building and fitting up the clerks offices,
and the painters are giving the outside a
coat of slate color.
The proposed numbering of hours from
to q will have a demoralizing effect
upon the loving young man when he hears
the clock strike % for the first time while
sitting up with his girl.
johnson, the victim of the Wallush
logging accident, was in considerable
pain Yesterday. His case looks serious.
White was resting easy, and Will. doubt
less, pull through all right.
Information is wanted of Z. A. Nyman
and Frederick Holther. Also of Anton
Olson and Andrew Ivenson, who were
drowned in the Columbia last summer.
Address Arthur Wilson. Portland.
AT the last meeting of the Masonic
Land and Building AssOciatian, Messrs.
Geo. Flavel, l. w. Case, c. A. Mcclure,
j. w. Gearhart and A. Montgomery We're
chosen directors for the ensuing year.
At the last regular meeting OF the Co
lumbia Canning company the following
board of directors was chosen for the en-
suing year: NJ. Foard, b. Gallagher, olof
Thompson, j. McTenpeney, j. McKal-
loch. The president is NJ. Foard: Thos.
Dealey. secretary.
4 fine New Years present TO absent
friends, and one that they will appreciate.
will cost you only two dollars, and will
prove 10 he worth many times that
amount. The present would 60 by mail,
postage paid, and would be TIE WEEKLY
Historian for 1884.
A military schottische is the latest nov
slty this winter. 1t is the same old step
with hop, skip and jump, and jump
fy.v -,
variety. 1t is almost as graceful as a
woman climbing over fence or getting
oIt of the way of mouse.
The recent collision IN the stream in
front of the o. II. d n. dock has been
settled as to damages. The GleHifer
pays the costs 10 herself and the BOliUid,
and the company stand the expense of
repairing their boat and barge. About
$1,000 will make everything all right
again.
There is one more chance remaining for
those who wish TO invest in the addition
10 Ocean Park. L. c. Holden will hold
an auction sale at IL this morning; at 2
this afternoon at n. Johansen's store in
upper Astoria, and again in his auction
rooms at this evening. This is the last
chance.
Among the estimates for Oregon river
and harbor improvements is the pitiful
sum of $4,000 for improving lower
Willamette and Columbia rivers" All
that is needed to make the ridiculous
ness of the thing complete are the words,
including the bar at its mouth" tackled
On as an addendum.
The steamers Sam and Tom Morris
took down large delegation yesterday
10 the sale of the Gearhart property.
Capt. Flavel, c. A. MCGUIRE, j. West, L.
Goodman. j. A. Mullley. L. j. and Ed.
Taylor were there. The land sold for
$500; the stock, etc, brought $l,100.
Z. c. Holden oficiated as auctioneer.
Christmas gift time is nearing, and
most people are building air-castles on
the event. You know when You fI your
mind on a gold watch, diamond pin, or
a seal skin cloak IL makes the world look
awfully dreary to awaken Christmas
morning and find a fifty-cent kerchief or
some dollar article of jewelry thrust in
your stocking.
So great is the prejudice against the
number Ii that at a little card party the
other evening one of the guests at the
last moment not appearing, and those
present numbering the unlucky l3. the
hostess kindly sent out to one of her
friends TO come at once and fill the va
cancy before the amusement for the
evening began.
The grain feet has received quick dis
patch throughout this season. Decem-
ber's shipments aggregate large amount
Three more vessels cleared at the As
toria custom house for Queenstown yes
terday. The Boiirid takes 16,57l bbls
flour. worth $7S,712. The Bolirid is q
fine steel bark of S77 tons; her build and
lines enable her to carry 1900 tons cargo
"a salr ,,a
wheat across the sea.
The young ladies in Washington coun.
", are organizing. and are taking an OBJ
legation 10 marry no man who is not Z
subscriber to his own county paper
Their reasons are that any man who doe
not take his local paper is not intelligent
or too lazy TO read, and is not able or en-
terprising enough to provide this import
ant source of information. The ladie.
consider these reasons sufficient TO bar
man from matrimonial alliances.
Among the passengers on the rive
steamer last evening was John Hobson
one of Astoria's Oldest citizens, returning
from a trip to England. Mr.. HobsoI
went east last fall with the rest of thl
Oregon pioneers, and having got to tn
Atlantic, kept right on across the ocean
returning on the City Of Chicago on tn
18th ult. He expressed his pleasure a
getting back, says he enjoyed excellen
health throughout and has amassed
store of memories and pleasant recol
ections while absent.
Everyone knows Prof. Taylor, tn
wizard who shows UP every two o
three years. They are telling some har,
tales about him on the frontier. TIL
latest is that be got $50 house in Pas
del Norte, and then, saying that he woul,
show the assemblage trick that woul,
open their eyes, termed 'The Mysti
Man, or the Disappearance" he brough
out large box and said: 81 will nov
shut myself up in this box; the trick is &
find me-" Five minutes later everybod
knew that he had escaped from the rea
with the receipts of the evening and
coat belonging to an enplove of III