The daily morning Astorian. [volume] (Astoria, Oregon) 1883-1899, 1895-12-27


ing, but returned to wait till the weather
moderated. They will make another at
tempt today
The Emma Hayard brought the Edith
down from No. 1 buoy to an anchorage
opposite the city yesterday morning. The
tugboat men spent Christmas day in this
city with some of the Edith's officers.
The Mowhan, Ball1amah, Kate Thomas,
Penryhn Castle and Edith for Queens
town, the Riverside for Bristol, the
Grassmere for Port Gamble, Wash, and
the schooner Louis Olsen for Victoria, b.
c., are all waiting an opportunity to leave
out.
The Astorian has received a quantity OF
miscellaneous reading matter, magazines,
newspapers. etc, for the use of ships
crews. If shippers will allow their ap-
prentices or seamen to come ashore and
ask for it they are welcome to all they
can carry away.
Captain Hawes, of the tug Escort, re-
ported yesterday sighting a three-masted
schooner close reefed standing away
from shore. He headed after it for sew
eral minutes, but when he found the YES
sci was going faster than the Escort he
gave up the chase and returned to port
The Harvest Queen came down from
Portland on Christmas day 1t was her
first trip since she was sunk, and she
looks better than she did before the acci-
dent. Her repairs have been so made
that the fore part of her hull, both in
shape and build, is great deal stronger
than ii ever was before
The British bark Stanmore, Captain
Nicl1les, cleared today for Adelaide with
1,447,5S1 feet of lumber valued at $103OO,
says Wednesdays Ledger. The lumber
is heavy timber for use in mines. 1t is
as fine a lot of Washington fir as ever
went from the state, and is cleared under
the usual misnomer of oregon pine
The cruiser Philadelphia will remain in
the stream for several days, says the
Chronicle. She is short thirty-four men,
and until they are shipped she will not
proceed on her cruise. Flag Lieutenant
Fox's time expires in a few days and he
will be succeeded by Lieutenant George
NJ. Stoney. The time of Captain Coch-
lane, of the marines, also expires in a
few weeks, and the chances are that his
successor will be appointed before the
sailing of the warship. From here the
Philadelphia will go to San Diego and
thence to all the Southern ports.
THE wind she blows like hurricane
by'n'by he blow some more" is quota
tion from a breezy poem written on s
French Canadian skipper, and one that is
exceedingly applicable to last nights
storm. The wind, accompanied by
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places of shelter and the pedestrian ur
fortunate enough to be compelled to|
breast it was to be pitied Beside the
rain, the cold was penetrating in the ex-
treme, and no matter how heavily clad
one may have been he would be chilled
to the marrow in a very few minutes.
No damage was reported from the water
front, where the wind had terrific
sweep-Post-Intel
The German bark Mathilde Deussen
crossed in over the mouth of the river
on Christmas day. She is from Chile in
ballast Captain Behrmann reported that
his vessel caught the brunt OF the big
gale on Saturday and Sunday, and that
he did not take his clothes or for fifty
hours. The Deussen stood away on
shore at the approach Of the storm and
ran with It to the northwest for a con-
siderable distance On Sundey night she
ran out of the gale and tackled again for
the shore, laying off the mouth Of the
river Monday and Tuesday. Though IL
was one of the worst blows the skipper
ever experienced the vessel suffered no
accident of any kind. and all her crew
came throuhg 1t safely.
The barkentine Tropic Bird which ar
rived from Tahita yesterday had very
rough time during the last five days OF
the voyage She is a stout vessel, how
ever. and like her master, the older she
gets the better she is. We had rough
time OF IT," said Captain Burns, but,
Lord bless you. there was never gale
yet that could bother the Tropic Bird :"
The only passenger was W Gooding, the
agent Of Matthew Turner. Of Benicia in
the French group for years. He is irou-
bled with asthma. AMI has come 10 San
Francisco on a visit TO his sister to see
whether II win do him any good. For
fifteen years ne has almost continuously
lived in Tahiti and the Marqueses. and
there he says he viii die.
Here f. a recipe for housewives-cheap
and simple. No doubt II tastes as good
as II sounds: Take one pound Of Mag