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The daily morning Astorian. [volume] (Astoria, Oregon) 1883-1899, 1889-12-25
FORCING THE DEEP SEA VESSELS
UP TO PORTLAND.

PORTLAND has been making des-
perate efforts to hold fast to such
shipping interests as she now holds;
we can hardly call them deep water
shipping interests, even at the best.
The dredges have now, it is claimed,
secured about 10 #. depth of channel
at low water. How long will such a
channel remain at that depth or even
near it? Take your finger and draw
a groove in the sand of the sea
shore. The next breaker will
fill it completely and obliter-
ate it. So one flood in the Columbia,
with its burden of sand, and the
broad reaches of the Columbia to
give slack water, will nicely fill up
and smooth over these efforts of man.
ANY one who has been much along
the Columbia and noted its enormous
deposits of sand, much of them car
ried as far down as below st. Helens,
viii appreciate how quickly it will de-
posit sand in food time. Even a shad
net stretched out at right angles to
shore would start deposit of sand
and produce in time sand spit The
slack water caused by the sand lader
volume of the Columbia passing
across the little ditch made in
the bottom of the river
by the dredges land at most of the
bars the tendency of the food volume
is somewhat across the low water
channels) will quickly cause the sand
to be deposited. Let us wait and see
whether these artificial channels at
their best not suited for deep draught
vessels, will remain after next summer;
or whether the lightering down to
Astoria Will not then be even greater
than now. 1t is worthy of note also
that the vessels sailing from Astoria
since the Portland papers announced
the completion Of the dredging have
still carried very heavy percentages OF
ightered cargoes.
The daily morning Astorian. [volume] (Astoria, Oregon) 1883-1899, 1889-12-25

A PRACTICAL lumberman, who has
explored the whole Northern region,
is authority for the statement that the
Canadian government has lost
100000 in timber dues alone since
1882, through fires set out by Indians.
He says $1OO,OOO,O00, would not cover
the amount of timber that has been
destroyed by fire between Lake Dau-
phin and Lake Winnipeg.
The daily morning Astorian. [volume] (Astoria, Oregon) 1883-1899, 1889-12-25

The Canadian Pacific company
has completed its telegraph line be-
tween Montreal and Canso, where d.
rect communication is made with the
direct Atlantic cables of the Com
mercial Cable company. All Pacific
coast cablegrams viii now go by this
route.
The daily morning Astorian. [volume] (Astoria, Oregon) 1883-1899, 1889-12-25

AT Montezuma, Iowa, the jury In
the case of the state against Miss
Flora Look, young lady who shot
and killed two men of charIvarl
party who were serenading her grand
father, brought in a verdict OF not
guilty.
The daily morning Astorian. [volume] (Astoria, Oregon) 1883-1899, 1889-12-25

Z. cambridge Munday ESQ.,, County
Atty, Clay Co, Texas says: ''Eiave used
Electric Bitters with most happy re-
suits. My brother also was very low
with Malarial Fever and Jaundice, but
was cured by timely use of this medi-
cine. Am satisfied Electric Bitters
saved his life
Mr.. D; |. Wilcoxson, OF Horse Cave
XIV, adds like testimony, saying: lie
positively believes he would have died
had it not been for Electric BitterS.
This great remedy will ward off, as
well as cure all Malaria Diseases, and
for all Kidney, Liver and Stomach Dis
orders stands unequaled. Price 20 cents
and ST, at Jno &. Dement'S.
The daily morning Astorian. [volume] (Astoria, Oregon) 1883-1899, 1889-12-25

THE four rival cities for the worlds
fair-New York, Washington, Chlca-
go and St. Louis-are. through rep
preventative committees, to lay their
claims for the honor before congress
and let that body decide.
The daily morning Astorian. [volume] (Astoria, Oregon) 1883-1899, 1889-12-25

been taking Joys Vegetable
Sarsaparilla now for months
with splendid results. Ourex-
perience has beJn that after
taking it regulc ly for a short
tirae and gettira the system
started right, an occasional
dose thereafter keeps the sys-
ten in perfect &C 'dition. A
peculiarly of your vegetable
compound is, hat it does not
The daily morning Astorian. [volume] (Astoria, Oregon) 1883-1899, 1889-12-25

AT Chattanooga, Tenn, a civil en-
gineer, named Newson, waved his
handkerchief at his wife, and young
lady in direct line with. the parties
believed it an attempt at Irritation,
and informed her lover, Davis, when
he picked up a rock and struck New
son. giving him fatal wound.
The daily morning Astorian. [volume] (Astoria, Oregon) 1883-1899, 1889-12-25

lose It's eHect, Dat seems TO accomplish the
same results continually. AS liver and
bowel regulator and corrective it is perfection.
We would not bo without ii. In fact 1 have
just bought q dozen bottles to get the re
dCced price a. II. Rowe Of 523 Jones street
S. T., also writes that it has been his habit fol
years TO awake IL The mornings with q head.
ache and an exhausted feeling; but since the
frst bottle he has had np return.
The daily morning Astorian. [volume] (Astoria, Oregon) 1883-1899, 1889-12-25
TELEGRAPHIC.
Specials to The Astorian,
SilcOtt and His Dulcinea in Oanad
Reported Consolidation of RAILROADS.

PoRTLAND, Dec. 24.-Owinp fo
trouble with the wires of the Western
Union Telegraph company. the recu-
lar associated press report was not re-
ceived to-day.
EUROPEAN EPIDEMIC.
vienna Dec. PA frequent SEQUEL
TO cases of influenza here is an attack
OF inflammation OF the lungs. A mum.
per or persons in the hospitals who
nave been suffering from the influenza
are stricken with inflammation of the
lungs and several of them have died.
The influenza has made its appear
ance IN the Jesuit school of Kalkas-
ourg, the victims of which are chill
dren OF aristocratic people. Seventy
eight scholars have been attacked.
HER NAME Is HERMINIE.
MONTREAL, Dec. 24-The police
have discovered that Silcott. the alb
scondlng treasurer of the sergeant-at-
arms Office of the United States house
OF representatives, accompanied by
his paramour, Herminie Tibault. ar
rived at Montreal on Saturday. the
9TH inst. Herminie remained until
Friday when she left for New York.
AN UNSETTLED QUESTION.
SAN Francisco, Dec. 24-The ar
rest of Frank Williams, charged with
robblng the stages in north California,
establishes it is said the innocence of
Plutarch Lewis, the young man re-
tently taken in custody at Redding,
California on the same charge. Lewis
said that he had seen Williams and
registered with him at the same hotel
after the robbery of the Roseburg
and Empire City stage The two men
are remarkably alike in appearance
and a description of one might aptly
apply to the other. Lewis was taken
from Redding, where he was arrested
while getting a valise at the express
Office and afterward taken to San Fran
cisco, where he was held to await trial.
MALIGNANT DIPTHERIA.
ABERDEEN, South Dakota, Dec. d
The superintendent of the state
board of health has gone to Eureka,
O41C OCA tC1 VI tuC SlSGG 1AusS1dn SCb-
Elements to take measures for the sup
preston of malignant diptheria now
raging among the Russians. Thirty
deaths have already occurred.
AN.ExPECTED ASSIGNMENT
New YORK, Dec. N.-The long ex-
pected assignment of j. Ii. Preble &
Co. blank book manufacturers was
made to-day. The terms are about the
same as anticipated.
THEY WON'T BE SOLD.
BOSTON, Dec, 24-The statement
was published yesterday that G. G.
Washburn's Touring mills of Mime
apolis would be sold to an English
syndicate. This morning it is contra
dicted by q telegram from the propri-
etors.
HIS SUCCESSOR HAS BEEN APPOINTED.
WAsHINGToN, Dec. 24-The attor-
ney general has received the resigna-
ton of l.. L.McAuthor attorney fOI
the district of Oregon.
THE ANNOYING INFLUENZA.
BRUSSELS, Dec. 24-InhuenZa is
spreading rapidly. Thirty per cent.
of the school children are suffering
andschools are closed. The disease
has spread to all the government Of
The daily morning Astorian. [volume] (Astoria, Oregon) 1883-1899, 1889-12-25
n QUAKER'S DOZEN.

kiehard Siege, the well known proprietor OF
the Quaker Dairy, No. 30 Ellis St., San Fran.
cisco, last week sent the following letter to
the Edwin w. joy Co. "My family have
The daily morning Astorian. [volume] (Astoria, Oregon) 1883-1899, 1889-12-25

TIE destitution in Dakota is not as
is bad as has been reported. The as
sistance already rendered has relieved
many.
The daily morning Astorian. [volume] (Astoria, Oregon) 1883-1899, 1889-12-25

Griffin & Reed, will use Crosby's old
store "a an annex to their present over
stocked quarters. A large stock of
Dolls, Wagons and Toys of an kinds,
ran nc found here
The daily morning Astorian. [volume] (Astoria, Oregon) 1883-1899, 1889-12-25

SENATOR STEWART is active In bus
denunciation Of the civil service sys-
tenn. He says it is an irresponsible
secret service.
The daily morning Astorian. [volume] (Astoria, Oregon) 1883-1899, 1889-12-25

This addition is beautifully To-
Gated within one and a half miles
of the center of the city of Astoria
on the southern slope, and from its
excellent location and the magn:f
cent views to be obtained from
every quarter is acknowledged to
be one of the most desirable and
picturesque additions ever put on
the market. The government
military road on the north and the
Electric Motor line on the south
make it so accessible as to satisfy
The daily morning Astorian. [volume] (Astoria, Oregon) 1883-1899, 1889-12-25

the most exactlng. This property
being so near the city makes it
especially desirable for tradespeo
pie, and business men needing
suburban home within easy reach
iof their business. Lots will be
put on the market till January 1st
at Sixty Dollars fer Inside Lois
and Seventy Dollars for Corners,
and as the number is limited, APP
plication had better be made early
in order 20 secure the best loca-
tions.
The daily morning Astorian. [volume] (Astoria, Oregon) 1883-1899, 1889-12-25
MARRIED..

The latest style of Gents Boots and
Shoes al p. J. GooDMANs.
The daily morning Astorian. [volume] (Astoria, Oregon) 1883-1899, 1889-12-25
4 sar,nd Legal Oninion.

Telegraph wires have to be renewed
every five or seven years.
The daily morning Astorian. [volume] (Astoria, Oregon) 1883-1899, 1889-12-25

For Fine Photographs.
Go to Misses CarrutherS' photograph
gallery: Third street opposite Nor
1an & Shprman'S
The daily morning Astorian. [volume] (Astoria, Oregon) 1883-1899, 1889-12-25

The best, cheapest and finest assort-
ment of holiday goods, toys, dolls and
fancy goods ever exhibited in Astoria,
can now be seen at our two stores. Prices
are remarkably low. GRIFFIN & REED.
The daily morning Astorian. [volume] (Astoria, Oregon) 1883-1899, 1889-12-25

In Astoria. Christmas Eve, December 9th,
1889. by Rev. 5. 81. Campbell, ID. D., MIR.
John Josephensen and Miss Katie c. Whit
ten, of Astoria
The daily morning Astorian. [volume] (Astoria, Oregon) 1883-1899, 1889-12-25
THE ANNOYING INFLUENZA.

BRUSSELS, Dec. 24-Infuenza is
spreading rapidly. Thirty per cent.
of the school children are suffering
and schools are closed. The disease
has spread to all the government Of
fees and many officials are prostrated.
The daily morning Astorian. [volume] (Astoria, Oregon) 1883-1899, 1889-12-25
PROBABLE CONSULTATIONS.

ST. PAUL, Dec. 24-It is stated
that the Northern Pacific and Wis
consin Central will be consolidated
on January l, under the name of
the Grand Central
The daily morning Astorian. [volume] (Astoria, Oregon) 1883-1899, 1889-12-25
n UNSETTLED QUESTION.
MALIGNANT DIPTHERIA.

ABERDEEN, South Dakota, Dec. "a.
The superintendent of the state
board of health has gone to Eureka,
the cen ter of the great Russian set
Elements to take measures for the sup
preston of malignant diptheria now
raging among the Russians. Thirty
deaths have already occurred.
The daily morning Astorian. [volume] (Astoria, Oregon) 1883-1899, 1889-12-25

New YORK, Dec. 24.-The long ex-
pected assignment of J. H. Preble &
Co. blank book manufacturers was
made to-day. The terms are about the
same as ANTICIPATED.
The daily morning Astorian. [volume] (Astoria, Oregon) 1883-1899, 1889-12-25
THEY WON'T BE SOLD.

Boston, Dec, 24.-The statement
was published yesterday that G. c.
Washburn's Touring mills of Mime
apolis would be sold to an Engl lish
syndicate. This morning it is contra
dicted by telegram from the propri.
Wood County reporter. [volume] (Grand Rapids [i.e. Wisconsin Rapids], Wis.) 1857-1923, 1889-03-21
a Public Benefactor.

''Wbo is III. Ell. Warner, of Roches 81 :,
N. Y, whose Safe Remedies, especialgy
Warmers Safe Cure, have attained such
success and celebrity at home and
abrOadf"
The question is inspired as mnch b.
affection as curiosity, s1nce through his
fundamentally hundreds of thousands,
in both hemispheres, have been restore
to health and happiness.
Hon. I'll. FL. Warner, then, is leading
and honored resident of Rochester, not
only, but prominent and influential citi-
gen of the United States. On severa! oo
casions chosen by his party as National
delegate TO nominate President of the
Republic, he hae been a member of the
Republican State Committee and OF it's
Executive Committee. He is member OF
the American Institution for the Advance
ment of Science; President of the R ,ches-
ter Chamber of Commerce.; a successful
and upright business man. He has given
away fortunes in charities. The celebra ed
and costly Warner Observatory of Roohee
ter was conceived, endowed, and is main
tanned by him. His insufficient prizes for
the discovery of comets has been at onoe
the wonder and delight of the scientific
world.
The yellow fever soourage in the South,
the Ohio floods, the fire disasters of Rech
ester and other cities awakened his pro-
foundest sympathies and III each instauc~
bis check for $5n0 so $4,000 swelled the
several relief fuads. Where other wealthy
men give tens and hundreds, he gives
hundreds and thousands.
His charities are as ready and magnif
cent as his enterprises and public spirit
are boundIess.
The world has need of more such meu.
An incident led him into the manu- fact
ure of medicine. Seized some twelve years
ago with what the ablest physicians termed
fatal kidsey disease, he vas miraculously
restored to health by what is now known
as Warmers Safe Cure. At once he re
solved to make known the merits of so
potent remedy, and the consequence is
that to-day he has immense laboratories
and warehouses il the United States.
Canada, England, Germany, Austria, Aus
tralia and Burmah. Sales of his Safe
Remedies are enormous, and their power
over disease simply marvellous.
The merit of producti ton is in exact
keeping with the character of it's pro
ducer. An honest and reliable man him
self, Mr.. Warner makes honest and reli-
able medicines-a fact abundantly
attested by their phenomenal efficacy
and popularity.
Wood County reporter. [volume] (Grand Rapids [i.e. Wisconsin Rapids], Wis.) 1857-1923, 1889-03-21
Correcting Mistakes.

DIR. Joseph Parker of London recently
gave the workingmen talk, his purpose
being TO correct some of the mistakes
the nature of Christi nifty itself. Que Of
the first mistakes with regard TO Chris
tiauity, said he, was that only scholars
could understand it. His solemn con
viction was that scholars, by distinct
perversiop of scholarship, had done more,
in not a few instances, to dishonor Chris
tianity than to exalt it. They had made
a puzzle of the heart of God. They had
gone into metaphysical distinctions and
clsssiications and analyses that had no
relation whatever to the immortal hunger
of the immortal soul. What we wanted
for proper understanding of Christian
principles was conscious need OF the
thing in our oEn souls. The broken
heart would find out more about Christ
than the most complete aud nished
scholar. Another mistake was that only
priests could communicate its grace and
blessing and bring men into right re-
lation TO God. Wherever We found g
real priest we found bad man. What
superstition the priests had foisted upon
the age, and hoa they had bedimmed the
glory of Christ by the cloud of their own
pretention and ignorance and folly! He
ventured TO say, for the purpose of dis
cussion rather than to assume anything
of final character, that IN the catechism
of the Anglican church there was super
stition enough to ruin the the cause of
Christianity.
Wood County reporter. [volume] (Grand Rapids [i.e. Wisconsin Rapids], Wis.) 1857-1923, 1889-03-21
The,.Way 1t is, Going.

Robert Sigel, son of General Feap8
Sigel, Pension Agent at New York, was
arrested yesterday on a charge of forgery
and violating the pension laws. He has
been employed by his father as private
secretary and confidential cle~k, and has
been in the habit of exao:ing fees from
pensioners. The amounts he secured
ranged from 81 to $500. He confesses
having violated the laws over a hundred
and fifty times. One charge against him
is the forging of the Endorsement of Sid
ney Knight, blind veteran, by which
Knight lost $500. His excuse for the
forgery was that he had procured the
pension for knight, and that the latter
was satisfied with the amount which he
received. In default of $4,000 bail, Sige
was sent to Jail 20 wait examination next
Tuesday.
Wood County reporter. [volume] (Grand Rapids [i.e. Wisconsin Rapids], Wis.) 1857-1923, 1889-03-21
The Wisdom Of the Mule.
evening.


Working animals sach a horses ano
mules are generally kept on a cotton
plantation in large open pen In the
centre there is feed shed, containing p
trough for corn and rafter for fodder
overhead. Stock Is fed only twice day
noon and night. By sun-up on work days
the pillow hands appear, aa9h to catch his
"eritter," and the forty or fifty mules at
their sight move in utter confusion
around the shed, hiding behind ore an
other. Bus how Is il on SundaysS There
reigns then an Arcsdian peace in the pen.
Each mule is paired off with his "chum.' .
"a selective affinity no doubt) in an
angle of the rail fence, head and tail to-
gether. The object is a practical e1em
plicafion of the golden rule. To enjoy
an untroubled siesta, each head secures
immunity from the fly pest by a close
proximity TO his friends "perpetum
mobile" Farm hands may go in and
out without producing the least sign of
alarm. But should brides appear, that
disturbs only masters saddle or carriege
horses. As to the mules, no extra twitch
in t il or ear shows the least sus picion
that their owner could possibly be the
victim of mistake. With eyes dropping
and head On a level with that of his
neighbours tail, his somnalent torpor is q
picture Of trust and safety. He knows
it is Sunday. I remember we'll the
amused look of my foreman, Essex,
when asking him for bis opinion on the
subject: "Why, in course" said he, ode
knows its Sunday"
Pertinent to the above queer is the
other: Do animals know n0ontime?
For the sake of lively scene let as some
loren DON go into q large field. Presently
We are startled from our reverie by an
unearthly "Ee-hung, hung, ee-ee-hung
hung, hung" 1t is the Nestor of the
four-fOoters that calls thus: "Time for
refreshments''-a signal similarly second
ed and approved in succession by forty
others. We look at our timepiece, and,
sure enough the large hand is about
covering the smaller. Il is noon. The
mule, however, is some minutes ahead
of time, and there ensues a fearful con-
test for the mastery between him and
the driver, which the distant dinner-horn
only ends.
Now, how ia IL that the mule knows
no0ntime? Does he rely on the infalli-
bility of his time piece, that warns him
that it needs rewinding? Or has he
noticed his equally hungry partner, Sam
DO, who on reaching the end os row,
halts a moment, and, turning face north
ward, apxiousiy scans the shadow at his
feet? Or is the constituencies of his back
so delicate that he can discriminate be
tween oblique aud vertical rays?
We are prone to mystify, and because
we are unwilling to grant brute creation
the power of reasoning, we call their
actions that surprise us "instinct." In
the barnyard, stable and field We never
observe this quality OF instinct in the
young. 1t is only the old that become
wise by experience.
Wood County reporter. [volume] (Grand Rapids [i.e. Wisconsin Rapids], Wis.) 1857-1923, 1889-03-21
The Wise Men of Lagos, a Mexican Story.

Once, upon great festival, the Town
Council of Lagos went to the parish
church to hear the mass. And ell the
members of the Council were dressed in
seemly state in black coats and tight
black trousers and flowing cloaks, and
each wore wide brimmed hat of black
felt over which feather CALAMITY curl
ed. For their comfort leather covered
bench was placed before the chancel
rail. And when they came to sit, each
man, in the order of his dignity, sat
down upon the bench and placed beside
him his hat. But when six OF the twelve
Councillors thus were seated the bench
was full. Then whispered conference
was held, and it was decided that the
bench must be sh etched. So six of them
took hold of one end, and the other six
took hold of the other end, and they
pulled hard. Then they came to sit again.
And now the first Councillor put his hat
beneath the bench; and the second did
likewise, and so did they all. And they
all in comfort sat down-by which they
knew that they had sufficiently stretched
the bsnch.
Being thus seated, the first Councillor;
crossed his right leg over his left leg
and SO did the second Councillor, and SO
did they all. But when came the time in
the mass when all must rise, not one of
the Councillors could tell certainly which
two of the twenty-four legs were his; for
ali we're clad In tight black trousers and
all were crossed. Aud each man looked
at tbs many logs among which were his
own, and sorrowfuliy wondered If he ever
should know his own legs among So many
and so be able to arise and walk. And
while they thus pondered it fell out that
the first Councillor was bitten by flea
fercely in his rearwerd parts. And the
first Councillor slapped at the flea, and
that he might slap the better uncrossed
his legs. The the second Councillor knew
which were his legs; and so did the third,
and SO did they all. And SO they all un-
crossed their legs, and with great thank
fulness afose.-From "Mexican Folk
Lore and Super5titions," by THOMAS A.
JAAvIKR, in the March Scrihuer's.