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AROUND TOWN. 25-lb-box French prunes $1, at Johnson Bros. Mrs. J. T. Ross returned from Portland yesterday. Hon. Benj. Young went down to Seaside yesterday. Jeff's Restaurant-the largest and best. A trial will convince you. Richard Nixon, receiver of the Portland Savings Bank, was in the city yesterday. George McGowan and Mrs. McGowan were registered at the Occident yesterday. The steamer Alliance sailed yesterday morning with a full cargo and forty-seven passengers for oCos bay and Eureka How often we see women on the street with their hands full of bundles? How much trouble and incon-venience they would save were they to use those nice baskets which Ross, Higgins & Co. have just received. They have the largest assortment of all kinds and shapes in the city. A large force of carpenters is rapidly enclosing the new church for the Finnish Evangelical Lutheran National Congregation in West Astoria. The building is being very substantially con-structed and will be a sightly edifice, the walls being twenty-two feet high and the location one of commanding prominence. Col. C. J. Holt, the experienced and successful temperance orator, will commence his work in this city next Friday evening at the Baptist church Seats are free as long as they last. Come early and thus secure one. Colonel Holt is very anxious to have good singing and most cordially invites all singers in the city to be present and help. BEST 15-CENT MEAL; RISING SUN RESTAURANT.
