The daily morning Astorian. [volume] (Astoria, Oregon) 1883-1899, 1883-12-01
Around the City.
Collection DAY.

Collection day.
Where is that man that prophesied "a
dry winter"
The Queen arrived yesterday: the Co
lumbia sails to-day.
There will be an auction sale al L. c.
Holden's at IL this morning.
DR.. Il. T. Cabaniss. late post surgeon
at Ft. Stevens. has moved TO this city.
The A6nes' CObun is loading $500
cases of salmon at San Francisco for
Liverpool.
The Minnie W. Watts is now out 3O2
days from New York. Fears are enter
tanned as TO her safety.
The Pacific Journal continues to inn
prove. Ii is one of the most valuable of
our weekly exchanges.
Dir. Thos. Deale. secretary Columbia
Canning Company, gives notice of a
meeting OF the company's stockholders
on/fhe afternoon of the 10th inst.
H. b. Parker left Montpelier on his
way to Chicago last Monday. He calcu-
lated to leave st. Paul to-day on his re-
turn home.
Oregon Judges are all resigning; Judge
Hanna, of the first judicial district ten
ders his resignation TO take effect the
3lst inst.
During a nine months steady run the
Hampton box factory has turned out
10000 boxes. For the first 10000 l6
cents per box was received: for the re-
mainder, 20 cents was paid.
/. Groenwald was the name of the un-
fortunate man who was swept off the
Oregon while crossing out on the 22d ult.
he was quartermaster of the vessel and
was heaving the lead at the time.
Mr.. and Mrs. German have lost their
little four-year-old daughter, LOttie, who
died of scarlet fever last Wednesday
night. This is the second death from
that scourge that has afflicted the fam
lily in the last month.
The Queen and Idaho arrived in yester-
day: the Oberon, IrORSide and Harry
Bailey came down: the MOrdyShire, City
Of Madrid and Sovereign Of the Seas go up
stream to-day; the Sea King moves east
ward on Tuesday.
Major McMurray is energetically push
ing the work of building the road on the
military reservation between Candy and
Nwaco. Enterprising citizens of Pacific
county will finish il from the reservation
TO connect with the present road.
The schooner Martha ". Tufts, of San
Francisco, has been engaged for the trade
between Astoria and Gray's Harbor and
will begin loading at that point on Mon
day. Messrs. Gray, Esmond and Ander-
son are the contracting parties.
On Thursday evening, November 29th,
Beaver Lodge No. 35, 1. o. o. F., elected
officers for the ensuing year as follows
n. G., John Hahn; V. G., ii. L. Nelson;
IL. s., L. S. Jewett, reelected; p. s., l..
Wilson, reelected; Treas, /. w. Case, re-
elected.
Look out for spurious dollars. A
United States detective reports that large
numbers of spurious standard dollars are
in circulation. The counterfeit Is of
white metal dipped IN silver. The wash,
die and milling are nearly perfect, but
they lack the ring.
During November nineteen vessels
cleared from this port foreign bound. OF
these, seventeen cleared for Queenstown.
one for Hong Kong and one for Calais,
France. The clearances were S44,23f
bushels wheat, and 49, l1S barrels -four,
aggregating in value $l,079,652.
The Orerldnd Monthly for December
is on our desk. In those days of maya
zine perfection a monthly periodical
needs strong merit to insure success. In
all the essentials the Overland possesses
the attributes of merit and is a grand
Our music-loving people will do we'll
not to miss the vocal and instrumental
concert TO be given at the Congregational
church on Tuesday evening next. Tick
cts have been put at the low price of 80
cents, and may be had at the City Book
store, Jordan d Bozorth's, Carl Adler's,
Theo. Bracker's and VIM. Edgar's.
A change has been made in the sailing
of the ocean steamers northward from
San Francisco. Beginning with the
Queen which left Wednesday, and arriv-
ed here yesterday, the Oregon leaves
there to-day, the State next Wednesday,
the Columbia next Saturday. continuing
in the same order. The purpose is to
have large and small steamer alternate.
Each number of the West Shore is an
improvement upon its predecessors and a
pleasant surprise to the subscribers.
Progress" is the publishers watch-word
and perfection his aim. With its Janu-
airy number the journal enters its tenth
year, and will then appear in an entirely
new dress of type, be generally remod-
eled and have eight pages added to its
present size.