The daily morning Astorian. [volume] (Astoria, Oregon) 1883-1899, 1888-08-12

ASTORIA. OREGON:
THAT was an impressive spectacle
at st. Matthews Roman Catholic
church in the national capital, yester-
day, when cardinal Gibbons, prince
of that ancient faith, pronounced a
funeral panegyric over the dead body
of the illustrious Sheridan.
AN Indiana man has levied upon
yoke of oxen belonging to his daugh-
ter's lover, because he did not put in
an appearance on the day fixed for
the marriage. He claims $40 as the
price paid for the wedding breakfast.
They mean business out in Indiana
every time.
The most important engineering
work now under way in Great Britain
is the Manchester ship canal, work
upon which has just begun after a
long period of preliminary agitation
and discussion. This canal will form
a connection between the city of
Manchester and the deep water of the
river Mersey.
The total revenue derived by the
British government from working the
telegraph lines of the United King
dom during the fifteen years since it
took possession of them has fallen
short of the working expenses and the
per cent. on the amount paid for
their purchase by e3,O24, 800, or about
S15,0OO,OOO.
NINE years ago a Mrs. Manning of
Paris, ILL.,, vowed that if her son mar
ried a certain young lady who was
Objectionable to her she would go to
bed and stay there till she died. The
marriage took place, and the mother.
true to her resolution, never left hel
bed until last week, when she was
borne to her coffin.
The democratic candidate, Grover
Cleveland, is a lawyer. The Republi
can candidate, Benjamin Harrison
is a lawyer. The female suffrage can
didate, Mrs. Belva Lockwood, is ;
lawyer. The prohibition candidate
Clinton B. Fisk, is Wall street stool
jobber. The union labor candidate
A. J. Streeter, is farmer The land
tax candidate, r. H. Crowdy, is /;
druggist.
SHERIDAN died, like Grant, will
his pen in his hand. Last Sunday b,
sent to his publishers a dozen proc
sheets, carefully corrected, and in
few days the last pages of his bool
will be in press. The first volume
printed and now is being bound. /
isspoken of as a well written, inter
esting narrative, and will certainl,
have an extensive sale.
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WHILE game of baseball was il
progress in Dallas, Tex, few day:
ago, player, in attempting to stea
second base, disappeared from sight as
suddenly and as completely as if the
earth had swallowed him up. He
had broken through the ground int
an old well, the existence of whicl
had been forgotten, and was rescued
standing up to his neck in icy water
DIR. SIvARTHA of Chicago. has just
left that city for Palestine via En-
gland. His idea is to rebuild Jeru
salem, and he expects to take out {
large number of people from Chicago
and other American cities as well a.
from England. DR.. Sivartha ha:
worked out elaborate plans for re
storing temples, gates, walls and pub
lie buildings, according to descrip
tions given in the Bible.
A New YORK man willed that hi.
seyenty-one pairs of trousers SHOULD
be sold at auction for the benefit o
the poor and that they should in NJ
way be meddled with or examined
before the sale and that no persol
should be allowed to buy more thai
one pair. The seventy-one pairs, it i
said, were duly sold to seventy-on
different purchasers and each foun,
$1,000 in the pockets of his purchase
His Views Of Alaska.
Major Sabin of Minnesota. VIII
recently returned from a trip +
Alaska, says the twilight is SO pro
tracted at Sitka that at II P. NJ. b
could read book or newspaper wit
aaea Tho domp hooino of q ,f q