The daily morning Astorian. [volume] (Astoria, Oregon) 1883-1899, 1895-11-23

has made her last run for this year, and
from now on until April the missionaries
In the Northwest will receive or send no
mail.-Alas1an.
Without canals the practical route
o the word lie 37,796 miles. The
Suez Canal reduces this distance to 2S,363
miles. When the Nicaragua canal is
constructed 1t will reduce the distance
to 22,3O9 miles, or Within 1909 mics of
the earth's actual circumference on a
great circle.
The steamer Wellington arrived from
Nanatmo, B. c., yesterday with a cargo
of coal for Dunsmuir & Co., saws TIE
Chronicle of Tuesday. She has been on
the ways at Victoria B. c., for
over five months, and during THAT time
$4,000 of repairs has been hade on her.
New boilers were put in and the ma
dhfnery thoroughly overhauled. CAPTAIN
Salmond says THAT THE big collier is now
as good 40 a new ship. Chief Steward
Glover made many friends while the
steamer was in British Columbia, and he
Is now the owner of a magnificent meer-
schaum pipe which his admirers present.
ed him before the Wellington sailed.
d. SpeyeIS' SecUnu mate OF the Ameri-
can ship Shenandoah, says the Call, is
now a full-hedged master, and emit tiled,
according to his papers, to take com
inland of any merchantman flying the
United States flag. He is a native son
and only % years of age, but me has
oeen a close student and is a thorough
seaman. When the big clipper arrived
here Speyers determined to pass his final
examination. He accordingly appeared
before the inspectors of hulls and boilers
and passed his examination with flying
co.ors. He will remain with the Shen-
andoah until she arrives in New York,
and then, If an offer is made him to 20
master or chief officer of another craft. |
he will accept it.
Mrs. Harriet Avery, late stewardess of |
the steamer City of Sydney, and widow
of the commander of the unfortunate
Coltma, has deserted the Mail Company.
When the news of her husbands death
reached her she was Frustrated, but
nnally picked up courage and faced the
the world with a firm front. She be-
acquainted with the wife of Luis
OJeta, the millionaire sonLfn-'aw OF
Barrios of Guatemala. and
that lady decided to make a tour
OF Europe she offered TO AXE Mrs. Avery
as companion and governess TO her
little son. The position was accepted.
and yesterday Mrs. Avery sailed on the
CITY OF Sydney as a passenger, and not
as stewardess. At San Jose de Guate-
nala she will join the Oiedas and the
parity will go Ito New York via Panama
and Whence to Europe.-Examlner.
The steamer Signal from Vancouver.
3. C., has arrived without a Chinese
on board. This Is undoubtedly
due to the rigid rules Of examination
aid down by Collector Black. through
Nnfch more than twoIthiris of the last
u merchants brought by the SIgral to
were refused landing and forced
70 return to Vancouver. The collectors
has put a damper on the native
porn scheme of the Chinese, with which
1hey ~endeavored to work through the
custom house young Chinese lads, claim
ng the boys were born in this city but
rad returned TO China at an early age
hat they might. be educated. Only Chi
1ese testimony could be taken in these
Sases, as no, white man would lay him.
self liable to prosecution by swearing
ne Identified a boy of II as being the
1aby he had once seen in the store of the
who now claimed to be thu
'ather OF the lad. The collector has.
therefore,, rejected the entire lot as fhey
lrrived. N 1t would now seem the Chi
lese importers have abandoned the {
scheme 30 far as Portland is concerned" {
A brief telegram received from Val
'araisO reported the burning OF the large q
wooden ship Parth1a, while bound from !
liverpool to San Francisco with about {
200 o of coal, but from subsequent
received 1t appeans that the q
rev had a tremendous Journey In their I
pen boats before they reached a place i
Il safety. Information dated Valparaiso. I
9Th inst, and which came part of the q
Quincy by cable. shows that the Partn,a
vas abandoned about 400 miles from the I
oubhern coast Of Chile. The crew left '
heir ship in three small boats, urder q
he command respectively OF the captain. e
lhdef officer n second officer. The last 2
was the first to arrive at Va a
'~arafso.' 1t contained seven hands; and 4
hen there was no word OF the other d
oats. A subsequent cable received, '
owever, reports the arrival of a cutter b
all of the crew at Valparaiso. but r
only one boat reached there II would
lean that INK other had been abandoned d
that her occupants had beer trans
to the cutter. The men appear g
0 have had a most trying voyage.- A
liverpool journal of Commerce, Oct. "a.