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The daily morning Astorian. [volume] (Astoria, Oregon) 1883-1899, 1889-03-13
NEWSY PARAGRAPHS
From the City Near the Ocean Shore.
ILWACo. March IL. 1889

Our people can easily understand
why it is that there has been a lack
of eastern mail of late, but where
fore The Historian should fail to ar
rive twice a week is both puzzling
and disappointing.
The I. r. & N. Co. have a force of
men at work under the direction of
Captain Edward Spencer, ballasting
and improving the track. Once again
the locomotive whistle is heard
screeching through the woods and
warning COWS and other tramps to
clear the track. Boats are arriving
frequently with railroad material and
lumber, and times are busy.
Every other householder in town
owns COW, and milk can be had for
10 cents quart provided the buyer
furnishes transportation, and yet We
were obliged to submit to q butter
famine which lasted five days, and
only by kilograms TO Frisco and
about, was relief finally obtained.
California cabbage and Oregon
mutton and potatoes find ready sale
here.
Handsome spiles, 30 feet and more
in length, brought down from St.
Heiens way, are sold here for IS
cents each.
A man recently obtained permis-
sion to and did cut down twenty-five
young hemlock trees in the woods
near by. They are in the woods yet;
owner wants 80 cents stumpage
Timber hereabouts is held at high
figures, so high that it is allowed to
remain growing.
Miss Lizzie Harris, niece of Capt.
A. j. Harris is seriously i'll at the
Cape; reported to be a case of ty-
phoid fever.
From present indications there will
be more pound nets in Bakers bay
this season than ever before.
Some claim that owing to warm
spring weather there will be a very
light run of salmon. The spring OF
'S3 was just like the present one.
Material for building and a few
carpenters are already down from
Portland, bound for the weather
beach.
Bro. Reed is still here preaching
every night in the schoolhouse. This
makes the sixth week he has labored
to convince his hearers that Satur
day is the true Sabbath, and of the
near approach of the end of the
world. And he has made several
converts and friends.
The masquerade on the 4th inst
was the best ever held here, our peo.
pie love to dance, and probably will
pay their compliments to the memory
of st. Patrick on the night of the
10th.
The Ilwaco hotel is now under the
management of J. Howerton who
heap saveys the business, knows how
to set table and entertain all com.
ers. The Central hotel remains
closed.
Tneo. Broemser is fitting up a new
bakery and restaurant.
n. G. Kofoed will soon open a sa
loon in the building formerly used as
drug store.
James Gold has lately built dwell
ing house.
VIM. Hall is now building one 26l
Is with an ell 16x14. Several bnild.
ing lots have recently been sold here
and the town grows.
I. II. Bell has purchased a = inter.
est in pound net company and will
devote his time to salmon fishing
Tom has been one of the most popu,
lar clerks the A. P. Co. store has had
and will be missed by the public.
II. Bragden is now clerking for the
A. P. Co. Lots of us are praying
that llwaco becomes a port of entry
that we may have an opportunity tc
display our zeal as Office seekers.
n. G..
The daily morning Astorian. [volume] (Astoria, Oregon) 1883-1899, 1889-03-13
Merit Wins.

We desire to say to our citizens, that
we have been selling DIR. Kings New
discovery for Consumption, Dr. Kings
New Life Pills, Bucklen'S Arnica Salve
and Electric Bitters, and have never
handled remedies that sell as well, or
that have given such universal satisfac-
ton. We do not hesitate to guarantee
them every time, and we stand ready to
refund the purchase price, if satiSfac-
tory results do not follow their use.
These remedies have won their great
popularity purely on their merits. j.
w. Conn, Druggist.
The daily morning Astorian. [volume] (Astoria, Oregon) 1883-1899, 1889-03-13

The California insurance com
panies have caved the governor down
the bank; he has vetoed bill admit
ting the formation of a mutual insur-
ance company and plainly shown his
preference and prejudice for the COM
pact.
The daily morning Astorian. [volume] (Astoria, Oregon) 1883-1899, 1889-03-13
Notice.

NOTICE IS HEREBY GIVEN THAT l
~ have been appointed administrator of
the estate of Neil Livingstone, deceased,
and all persons having Gains against said
estate are required 10 present the same,
duly verified, to me, at the office of the
{. X. F. p. u. in Astoria. ClatsOp county,
oregon. within six months from this date.
ALEX. HOLMAN.
Astoria, Or, Feb. sth, 1889.
The daily morning Astorian. [volume] (Astoria, Oregon) 1883-1899, 1889-03-13

DURING February, 135 cars lumber
and AZ cars shingles were shipped
eastward from the Columbia and VIII
lamette rivers. OF these, SO cars lum-
Der and Al cars shingles went to Den
yer
The daily morning Astorian. [volume] (Astoria, Oregon) 1883-1899, 1889-03-13

All the patent medicines advertised
in this paper, together with the choicest
perfumery, and toilet articles, etc. can
be bought at the lowest prices, at J. w.
COnns drug store, opposite 0c,ident
hctel, Astoria.
The daily morning Astorian. [volume] (Astoria, Oregon) 1883-1899, 1889-03-13

\ DUBUQUE, Iowa, man has just
shipped LOO cats and 200 dogs to
Dakota, where the animals are wanted
to exterminate ground mice.
The daily morning Astorian. [volume] (Astoria, Oregon) 1883-1899, 1889-03-13
TeIephoneLodgtng House,

Best Beds in town. Rooms per night
50 and . cts, per week S1.50. New and
clean. Private entrance.
The daily morning Astorian. [volume] (Astoria, Oregon) 1883-1899, 1889-03-13

J. A. Montgomery buys direct from
manufacturers and consequently can
sell cheaper than others.
The daily morning Astorian. [volume] (Astoria, Oregon) 1883-1899, 1889-03-13

Heating Stoves, cheaper than ever be
fore in Astoria. Coal and Wood stoves
at John A. Montgomery's. He has the
largest stock and greatest variety.
The daily morning Astorian. [volume] (Astoria, Oregon) 1883-1899, 1889-03-13
Cannerymen and Fishermen.

Just received, direct from the factory, a
full assortment Of WOOdberry's soft laid
Cotton TwineS, and lie, q, and 4 thread
and twine laid. "a" quality, Cotton Rope.
MORGAN & SHERMAN.
The daily morning Astorian. [volume] (Astoria, Oregon) 1883-1899, 1889-03-13

The San Francisco lumber market
is dull: 100000 feet oflumber, of all
grades. are stored there.
The daily morning Astorian. [volume] (Astoria, Oregon) 1883-1899, 1889-03-13

Ludlow's Ladies' $500 Fine Shoes:
also Flexible Hand turned French Kids,
at GooDMAN'S
The daily morning Astorian. [volume] (Astoria, Oregon) 1883-1899, 1889-03-13

Coffee and cake, ten cents, at the
Central Restaurant.
The daily morning Astorian. [volume] (Astoria, Oregon) 1883-1899, 1889-03-13

The latest style of Gents Boots and
Shoes at p. J. GooDMAN's.
The daily morning Astorian. [volume] (Astoria, Oregon) 1883-1899, 1889-03-13
Weinhard-s Beer.

Mrs. Derby is receiving her spring
styles of Millinery.
The daily morning Astorian. [volume] (Astoria, Oregon) 1883-1899, 1889-03-13

loon, 8 cents.
The daily morning Astorian. [volume] (Astoria, Oregon) 1883-1899, 1889-03-13

Go to Jef's for Oysters.
The Abbeville press and banner. [volume] (Abbeville, S.C.) 1869-1924, 1889-03-06
Galway Fish Wives.

Among the 300 or 400 fish wives of
Galway are hundred women of frame,
face, complexion and unconscious race
manner, who are precise types of those
you will find in the same vocation IN all
the seaport cities of Spain. There are
not half dozen distinctively typical
Irish faces among the saucy lot. 1t is
only when you hear their wild, shrill
voices, catch Their luscious broguc, or
become hapless victim of their merci-
less billiugsgate. that this wonderful
semblance IS dispelled. Then the awaken.
ing is so startling that one wonders If
he has been dreaming. or in what gro
tesaue guise these folk will rext be
masking. Wherever one turns in the
Quaint city the race likeness is met. Out
of that spacious mansion comes dlgnl'
fed old man. He is an Irishman, but he
has the manner and very look of Span
ish grandee. Here at the window you
modestly peer into the face of lady,
Young or old. The broad forehead, deep
set, luminous eyes, the wide arching
eyebrows-truiy gift in Irish beauty,
but never so marked as here-the oval
face, the large, half,open lips, and the
souare round chin, will greet you. These
belong to Irish women. But Spanish face
and form surely enfoId the Irish
heart and soul. On this
huge arched bridge gather lettering
peasant women from far Connemara
wilds, looking longingly at the myriads
of salmon in the Corrib beneath. See
The Abbeville press and banner. [volume] (Abbeville, S.C.) 1869-1924, 1889-03-06
A Picnic in Samoa.

The Samoaus are as fond of picnics as
anv . ,litical or social club in New York
A select party of about a hundred people
in all will arrange an event Of this kind,
inviting friends to participate, and often
the o hcers or men OF the foreign vessels
in the harbor are included among the
guests. The picnic grounds, or waters
rather, are in the mountains, about tout
miles back of the Apla. The central
range of mountains in the island OF
Upolu, which is the principal island OF
the group and the one upon which Apis
is situated, reaches height of about
four thousand feet above the level Of the
sea. The foot hills, which rise gradually,
one above the other, from short dis.
tance back from the shore, ore covered
with verdure the year around, and here,
in the cool forest, are found mountain
pools of clear water, where the
amphibious natives can enjoy themselves
to their hearts content.
Over the bare, precipitous rocks on
the shore the mountain streams have
poured their waters for ages, until the
surface of the rocks is worn as smooth as
polished marble. Some Of the male
picnickers precede the main body OF
jewellers to one of these pools, carrying
the provisions, which include a bounteous
supply of fresh pork, chicken and fish
when all have urrived they enter the
water and amuse themselves by swim
ming, diving and skylarking. ducking
each others heads, or rising unexpectedly
beneath some one whose attention is
diverted elsewhere. There is an upset,
a scream oflaughter and an escape. They
are exceedingly good.natured and merry.
never taking offence at the pranks and
practical jokes of their companions.
After about two hours of this sport
they gather on the shore and partake OF
q luncheon, and then again into the
water they go like sporting seals.
The Abbeville press and banner. [volume] (Abbeville, S.C.) 1869-1924, 1889-03-06
A Woman OF Business.

Mrs. ELLA F. Eramau, OF this city,
holds more offices than any other woman
in the country. She is Boston woman,
and was formerly Miss Collins. Her hus.
band is a Commissioner Of Deeds for
every State and Territory, and for
Canada and foreign countries, too.
Five years ago, in Boston, he needed a
clerk, so he got Governor Long to re-.
commend his wife. and the States of
Kansas, Connecticut and Illinois each
appointed her Commissioner of Deeds.
Then they moved here, and Governor
Hill gave her more recommendations,
and she has finally got appointments for
States and Territories to the number of
thirty.three So her husband now stays
down town while Mrs. Braman keeps aa
office uptown. Besides attending to
business Mrs. Braman has managed to
keep house and raise family of four
children, the oldest girl of eighteen
New York Sun.
The Abbeville press and banner. [volume] (Abbeville, S.C.) 1869-1924, 1889-03-06
Inns and Innkeepers Of Norway.

The chief reads through the country
have been built by the Government, and
they are invariably good, being kept in
order by the farmers along the route.
This is requirement of the laws. The
post or road houses are likewise good,
both as to bed and board. Without ex-
ceptiun, at all of these houses no plated
stuff of any desert ption is used; only
purely solid silver is to be found on any
of these tables, and these are public
houses. Strangers come and go, doors
are open, drawers unlocked, spoons,
forks, bowls, cream pitchers, coffee and
tea pots, all real silver, watches, family
jewelry, etc, all lie about in perfect
safety. The traveller may leave his
watch under the pillow or drop his wal
let with all his surplus cash upon the
floor at any one Of these stations" and
before he reaches the next, or second one
at furthest, a man cr boy, mounted, and
in hot pursuit. arrives on the scene with
the missing but maybe not yet missed,
chattel, all intact. Would that more OF
Norwegian spirit were broadcast over
the wide woslo.
New the reader would naturally in.
quire why we'll to.do people, retaining
such hcirlooms as old family silver, would
yet follow the lowly calling of wayside
innkccpers. 1t does seem paradoXical,
but in Norway all caste distinctions, as
expressed by inherited titles, have been
done away with by act of the Storlhing
(ParliamenD or royal decree. The keep
ers of these stations a:e generally in
government service, and this means more
than with us-sometimes in connection
with the magisterial, but frequently the
postal branch, these functions being
such that the upper classes alone can
meet all government requirements,
among others good service on the post
road, which poor man could not furn-
ish. SO the owner of broad acres figures
as landlord of the country inn. At Tafte.
man, at the head of the Gudbrandsal,
where we stopped for change of horses,
the station. master traces his descent from
Harold ~Iaarfager. He possesses num-
Der of Interesting old curiosities, silver.
ware, etc., SAID to be worth as much
as $50, 1000. Two or three stations to
the south of this is the rude stone
plate over the grave Of Col. George Sim
clair, who, on August 26, 1912, with his
200 Scotch troops, were ambushed ard
all put to the sword by the Norwegian
peasants near this place. Sinclair was
trying to force his way to junction
with the Swedes, then at war with Nor.
way. A narrow road, bounded on one
side by River Longcn and n precipice on
the other, tells the story of the ill-fated
Scots, who found here another Thermo-
pylae.
Fillibuster though he was, Sinclair's
lonely wayside tomb touches none but
our better and gcntlcr recollections.-
Detroit Free Press.
The Abbeville press and banner. [volume] (Abbeville, S.C.) 1869-1924, 1889-03-06
Largest Dam in the World.

The Bear Valley dam was built some
four years ago in the mountains of San
Demanding, Cal, at an altitude OF 1000
feet, in q narrow gorge at the outlet Of
Bear Valley, which by means of the dam
has been converted into an enormous
storage reservoir for the supply of ex-
tcnsive irrigation works in the San
Pcrnardino alley. This dam is of most
startling dimensions. Its extreme height
is 81 feet: thickness at top :: feet; at o
point As feet from the top it is but /;
feet, where square set of about two
feet is made on each side. The thickness
at bottom is .? to 2 feet. l have not
the exact dimensions, but I understand
it is about $50 feet long on the crest, and
is built in a curve whose radius is some
500 feet. 1t is vertical on the back, and
is built of granite, cut in blocks and
laid in Portland cement.
Here is q dam that is without a
paralIel in the civilized world, so far as
[ have been able to learn the most
ultra radical of the pure arch type-and
vet it has stood with reservoir brim-
ming tull every year back of it for nearly
five years, waiting for the earth quake
that is to effect its luin. For the lessons
which this daring experiment may teach
I think it is worthy of more attention
than it has received at the hands of the
profession. Its remoteness and difficulty
of access accounts for the mcagre in
formation obtaiuable regarding it.-New
York Graphi:.
The Abbeville press and banner. [volume] (Abbeville, S.C.) 1869-1924, 1889-03-06
The Streets OF Brussels.

Clean, gay, and brilliant are the streets
of Brussels in the upper town on fine
day, with their lcisurely well dressed
crowds of promenaders, the e9uipages OF
royalty, aud the beau monde, the gallop.
ing officers and companies of soldiers
always marching somewhere or other to
the strains of most excellent bands or
the spirited fanfare of trumpet or roll of
drums. And very picturesque to strang.
ers' eyes are the groups of white bloused
commissionaires aud blue -bloused ou-
vrics, and flower rsnders with huge
baskets of violet and roses, and Car,
melite monks in russell gowns, with
naked sandaled feet and the rope of self
tlaggelation dangling from their waists,
and the handsome koman and Neapoli-
tim girls in veritable Italian costumes-
artists models during the week and
organ grinders Of Sunday-.and the
famous milk women. sturdy, fresh-feced
peasants, striding along BY their little
dog carts, where, in beds of clean straw,
are reposing brass cans polished to
dazzling brightness. 1t is all very pretty
and enlivening, if ones eyes are open to
catch its novel features. .-Procsdence
T,u,y1l
The Abbeville press and banner. [volume] (Abbeville, S.C.) 1869-1924, 1889-03-06

the red, black aud yellow in their coarse
rsiment. You cannot find such striking
colors north Of the Tyrol. Under this
arch; by the edge of this park, which
you think of as plaza; in wide, huge
doorways; at crumbling church porches
where lanes aud alleys tangle and lose
themselves in mazes of picturesque an
giles; see the flashing of these barbaric
Oriental colors. See the 1.-the, supple
forms; the free, generous gesture; the
head-carried burden, the cloaking OF
exquisite natural grace under the old
black braideens; the universal draping
of raiment or ornament from the wonder.
full coal-black hair; the unconsciously
daring, Straightforward, half-wondering,
half-pathetic look out of those great
black or dark-blue eyes. which so en-
frances in women of the tropics; the
long, dropping eyelsshes, far more
marked than with Irish beauties, so dis
tinguished in this respect. as we'll as in
Vulnerable other touches and traces of
s;militude- all heritage Of the warm
and passionate South, aud the student
of ethnology has before him most extra
ordinary proof of the marvellous impress
left by Spanish domination of fully
thousand years ago upon this isolate
Irish "City of Tribes. ~ Mew York
Graphic.
The Abbeville press and banner. [volume] (Abbeville, S.C.) 1869-1924, 1889-03-06
Why a High Tower Wasn't Built.

Mr.. Trevithick, the inventor of the
piston pump, the steam dredge and other
useful articles, who died half century
or more ago, wanted England to put up
a tower sos meters high, which would
have been little over 1000 feet Hap.
PLY the people of England had too much eI,
sense, and the tower was never oull'
except on paper. This tower was to
commemorate the passing of the reform
bill. The hight of these things was very
aptly expressed by crazy man who lived
in Glasgow about the same time Mr..
Trevithick did-that IS, the Glasgow
people of that day said he was crazy but
the chances are that he was the one wise
man in the town. They had put up a
fine triumphal arch to celebrats some oc'
casion, and one Glasgow man asked the
so called lunatic what the hight of il
was.
"The hight of-nonsense," was the
rcrlv.-Detr0h Free z. ls.
The Abbeville press and banner. [volume] (Abbeville, S.C.) 1869-1924, 1889-03-06
"Comanche jacks" Record.

In the Indian Territory there are en-
ployed large number Of brave and
hardy men as Deputy United states
Marsha!s who appear periodically in the
largest city most convenient to their
working place, 80 that Wichita is often
called upon to entertain visitors of al
most as much notoriety as "Billy, the
Kid" or Jesse James. Chief among
this number is Teputy United States
Marshal Jack Stillwell, now stationed
at Fort Reno, l. r. lack, or rather
"Comanche Jack" as he is familiarly
known, is a handsome. looking chap,
with a laughing blue eye, curly hair,
slightly tinged with gray, for this noted
borderman is Just fifty years OF age,
about 5 feet 10 or II inches in height,
and of massive build. He is also the
acknowledged crack pistol shot of the
West, and even in the days Of that
ansas cyclone, known as "Wild Bill"
who never missed shot, Jack StillWell
ranked high.
The number of men killed by Jack is
variously estimated at from twenty-five
to thirty one, and it is known that IN
addition he has aided in send :ng seven
teen other men over the valley of death
by means of the hangman's moose. Only
few weeks ago la"k sprung the trap
in Wichita, which sent to their death
the two noted Creek Indian murderers,
Jack and Joe Tobler. Even in that
country, where "killcrs' are to be met
with every day, "Comanche Jack" Still
we'll is q curiosity, and is pointed out
to strangers with q strange mixture OF
awe and pride.
BY this it must not be understood that
this gallant Deputy United States
Marshal is u desperate who goes about
glorying in his bloody work. On the
contrary, he is rather retiring in his dis
position, and only when he has been
drinking boasts of his deeds. When
desperate work is to be done or bad
desperado is to be taken, stillwell is
ALWAYS the man who is detailed to ac-
com plish it. The Territory despcradoes
and cut-throats all know and fear the In
trepid officer, and are aware of the fuct
that if he goes after them he will get
them. dead or alive. Many are tire traps
that have been laid to kill him, but he is
as cunning as ne ~ uIaFe, "n' I"'
always managed to evade the snares that
would have caused the death of less
accomplished plainsman.
Brought up as he was among the Co.
manche Indians, Jack has never exer'
cised the right of franchise, and at the
age of fifty has never cast a vote. He
speaks the Comanche and several other
Indian languages as well as the Indians
do themselves, and during the sitting of
the United states Court in Wichita it is
always an amusing sight to see the In
dians, dressed in their primitive way,
following the great "White Chief" as
they cali Jack, about the streets. He
calls them his ''menagerie," and says
they are lot of dirty, thieving wretches
for the most part, as we'll as the most ac-
complished liars in the world.-Post.
DisDHtch.
The Abbeville press and banner. [volume] (Abbeville, S.C.) 1869-1924, 1889-03-06
Food for Reelection.

There is food for reflection in couple
of advertisements which appear sde by
side IL q contemporary, which iead,
with the omission of address, as follows
WANTED-Young lady in publishing Of
flee: quick writer; 81 per week.
WANTED - An experienced girl for
censral housework in family OF seven; as
sisted about washing; wages 81
It will be observed that the rate OF
compensation is the same in both cases,
but that while the "lady" receives sim.
ply 81 per week the Inexperienced glrl'
gets in addition her board and lodging.
Whether gentility-the word most beau
tifully expresses the thing!--is worth
what it costs must seem at least au open
question when the rate is so high B1s.
ton Courier.
The Abbeville press and banner. [volume] (Abbeville, S.C.) 1869-1924, 1889-03-06
THE AMERICAN IDEAL.

An independent young man;
A right kind of stuff young man;
A deep. comprehensive,
Plain spoken, sensible.
Thoroughly self-made young man.
A not-to-te-teat,n young man;
An up-to-the- front young man;
A genuine, plucky,
Happy-go lucky,
Try it again young man.
A knowledge seeking young man;
A real wide-a wake young man;
A working in season.
Find out the reason,
Not too smart to learn young man.
A lock- out-for- Others young man;
A practice-not-preach young man;
Kind, sympathetic,
Not-at-a,l-theoretic,
One-in.a-thousand young man.
An af1able, courteous young man;
A know-what-to-suy young man;
A knight Of true chiyalry;
Frank in delivery,
MaSing-his-mark young man.
A nowadays scarce young man;
4 bard-to. be-found young man;
A perfectly self-possassed,
Not always over-dressed,
Kind that like young man,
Cincinnati Commercial