The daily morning Astorian. [volume] (Astoria, Oregon) 1883-1899, 1895-12-14

Recently Captain Weiss, of the Belgian
King, picked up and saved the lives Of
two French fishermen in the English
channel under the most difficult circum-
stances. This is not the first time that
the gallant captain has displayed his
bravery. He has received from ship own
ers over $4,000, of which 5000 has fallen
to him personally. In August, $780, when
captain of the Bath City, he saved the
German bark Margeretha Blanca, 800
miles south of Halifax In March, 1881,
$50 miles south of st. Johns N. F., while
in command of the steamer Brooklyn
City, he saved a steamer with $50 passen-
gers on board In 1888, as captain of the
steamer LANDAU City, he picked up the
American schooner Carl ID. Lothrop and
brought her into Naragansett ybay. In
February, 1884, he met the steamer Strath-
leven, of the Burrell line, disabled 4SO
miles west of the Fastnet, and towed her,
amid the most awful storm and peril to
himself, into Queenstown. The following
year, while in command of the steamer
Wells City, he towed into Queenstown the
steamer Albano, fIom Hamburg for
Baltimore, having picked her up at dis
tame of 500 miles west of the Fastnet.
In 1898 he commanded the Exeter City,
and towed the schooner Agnes Manning
45O miles into the port of New York
Very lately Captain Weiss has saved
over So lives from the perils of the deep
in mid-ocean. Such services should not
go unnoticed and such a record of brav-
cry and devotion to cause should be
highly appreciated.
Their has been a more active movement
In ~ w lFaf ha
week under review The feeling gener-
ally is firmer, and more confidence is felt
that prices will advance by degrees. VAL
ues have appreciated slightly, but there
are some interior holders who think that
they will advance much further by the
turn of the year, and that the advance
has not kept pace with the Improvement
abroad. Foreign advices have been firmer,
sellers are offering wheat here more free
ly, and at no time since the beginning OF
the present cereal year have offerings
been so liberal. Receipts are much larger
and warehouses are filling up. Export
ers are paying for Walla Walla 51@52c per
bushel, ard for Valley 5319c. They are
only willing buyers when grain can be
bought at or near the market value, and
having no present need of wheat or any
untitled engagements, there is no compes
tition, and bids placed represent the actual
basis of export value. There are holders
who refuse to sell even at these figures
claiming that the late improvement il
foreign and Eastern markets have en-
couraged them in holding, and 1t seems
that any extra firmness abroad st'mu'a es
sellers in either holding aloof or asking
figures which, If paid, would represent
considerable of loss in floating cargoes
at present freight rate and selling prices
abroad. Though exporters are paying &c
to &c per bushel higher than week ago,
it would seem as If the majority of the
crop of Oregon and Washington would
be out of the farmers and graindealers
hand. hut such is not the case, notwith-
star "coorts are published to that eff
feet. Iheie is plenty of wheat that has
not and cannot be secured at any price
that is quoted today. Whether any fur
ther advance in prices can be looked for
i'm diately is extremely doubtful, owing
stocks in Europe and increasing
supply That the continental de-
La,I is falling off is clearly reflected
IN the steady decrease in quantities on
ocean passage, and as a result a large
proportion of our exports are directed to
the United Kingdom.-Commercial Re-
view.