anaheim-gazette 1871-02-04

ANAHEIM GAZETTE. PUBLISHED EVERY SATURDAY. G. W. BARTER, Ed'r and Prop'r. OFFICE AT CORNER OF CENTER AND LOS ANGELES STREETS. TERMS: For One Year (in advance)... 25 00 Mix Months, " " ... 3 00 Three " " ... 2 00 Bates of Advertising: One Inch Space, One Week... 87 00 Two Weeks... 3 00 One Month... 4 00 Three Months... 6 00 Quartet Column, One Week... 5 00 One Month... 10 00 Three... 15 00 Six... 20 00 One Year... 40 00 Half Column, One Week... 10 00 One Month... 15 00 Three... 20 00 Six... 3 00 One Year... 60 00 One Column, One Week... 20 00 One Month... 30 00 Three... 35 00 Six... 50 00 One Year... 120 00 AGENTS: Los Angeles, W. J. BRODRICK. San Francisco, L. P. Fisher. New York, Hudson & Monet. JOB WORK. ALL KINDS OF JOB WORK, PROMPTLY AND NEATLY EXECUTED AT THIS OFFICE. [The following was written by Derzhavin, in Russia, A. D. 1814:] Oh I thou Eternal Onel whose presence bright All space doth occupy, all motion guide; Unchanged, through time's all devastating sight, Thou only God—there is no God beside! Being above all beings! When none can comprehend, and none explore, Who will exist with thyself alone; Embracing all—supporting—ruling o'er: Being whom we call God—and know no more, Up to thy mysteries, reason's brightest spark— Though kindled by thy light—in vain would try To trace thy counsels, infinite and dark; And thought is lost, 'are thought can mount so high, E'en like past moments in eternity. What are ten thousand worlds compared to thee? And what am I, then? Heaven's unnumbered heat, Though multiplied by myriads, and arrrayed In all the glory of sublimest thought, Is but an atom in the balance weighed, Against thy greatness; Is but a cipher brought Against infinity! What am I then? Nought! Nought! But I live, and on hopes pinions fly Eager towards thy presence; for in thee I live, and breathe, and dwell, aspiring high— Even to the throne of thy divinity. I am, O God! and surely Thou must be. God! thus alone my lowly thoughts can soar; Thus seek thy presence—being wise and good, 'Midst thy vast works admire, obey, adore; And when the tongue is eloquent no more, The soul shall speak in tones of gratitude. Built According to Contract. AGENTS: Los Angeles, W. J. BRODRICK. San Francisco, L. F. Fisher. New York, Hudson & Menet. JOB WORK. ALL KINDS OF JOB WORK, PROMPTLY AND NEATLY EXECUTED AT THIS OFFICE. NOTICE: Subscriptions and Transient Advertisements Failed for Invariably in Advance. Current Advertisements Must be Settled For Monthly. Business Gards. H. D. Polhemus. REAL ESTATE AGENT. Corner of Center and Los Angeles Streets, Anaheim. REAL ESTATE FOR SALE. WITHIN OR WITHOUT City Limits, in lots to suit purchasers. FRANK GANABIL. E H. McDANIEL. Ganahl & M'Daniel OFFICE—In Downey's New Building, Main Street. Will practice in all the Courts of the 17th Judicial District. Chas, A. Gardner, Attorney at Law, OFFICE—Post Office Building, Anaheim. DEPUTY District Attorney for Townships of Anaheim, San Juan and San Jose. DR. DAVID TAYLOR, Physician, Surgeon AND OBSTETRICIAN. GRADUATE of Jefferson Medical College, Philadelphia, with the experience of active services in the Southern Field and Hospitals, during the late war, offers his professional services to the citiacus of Anaheim and surrounding country. Office and residence adjacent to Anaheim. d3t M. K. R. O'MELVENY. H. T. HAZARD O'MELVENY & HAZARD ATTORNEYS AT LAW. OFFICE IN TEMPLE BLOCK, LOS ANGELES, CALIFORNIA. Special attention given to business in U. S. Land Office. o29-1f EUREKA SALOON, Los Angeles Street, ANAHEIM, CAL. Built According to Contract. People who have built houses for themselves, and in the never varying experience of all, overrun the contractor's estimate, may find some consolation in the fact that there was one man who had his house built exactly as he ordered it, and didn't alter a line of his original plan, or overrun the original contract price. This was a peppery old sea captain, who sketched out his own plans, being something of a draughtsman, of his modest two story blinded wooden mansion, and summoned his carpenter, and demanded what he would charge to build a house for him, exactly after that plan, to be done in six months. "But, Captain," said the knight of the foreplane, "there are no——" "Don't but me," exploded the captain, "I want the house just according to my plan." "Not one single thing," roared the captain, "I pay you to build the house exactly as I have drawn the plan. I won't have anything put in; obey orders, if you break owners." "Very well, so be it," said Shawings, rather nettled, and the price was fixed for a dwelling, exactly according to plan, and to be finished in six month's time, and the captain sailed away. Re turning home, he was waited on by the builder, and the new mansion visited its exterior was quite correct; pretty green blinds, neat door, with trellis and all complete, and so was the first floor, entry and rooms. The captain was profuse in commendation-- "And now," said he, "we will go up to the chambers." "All right," said Shavings, "come outside to the ladder." "Outside! why, Chips; what d'ye mean by that? I want to go up stairs." "Can't do that, sir, there are no stairs." "No stairs!" exclaimed the astonished mariner, "no stairs!" "No," replied the impurturable builder; "ycu refused to have a single thing put in but what you laid down in the plan, and that contained no stairs. Obey orders, if you break owners." The captain was fairly caught for in O'MELVENY & HAZARD ATTORNEYS AT LAW. OFFICE IN TEMPLE BLOCK, LOS ANGELES, CALIFORNIA. Special attention given to business in U. S. Land Office. EUREKA SALOON, Los Angeles Street, Anaheim, Cal. RICHARDS & MELROSE, ... Proprietors. THE BEST OF WINES, LIQUORS AND CIGARS Constantly on hand. Also, San Francisco Lager Beer. All levers of BILLIARDS will find here one of Stable & best Carom Tables, with latest style of cushions, etc. TENNENT'S BOTTLED ALE AND PORTER FOR SALE. DR. L. W. FRENCH, DENTIST. LANFRANCO'S BUILDING, Los Angeles. Only License for the use of Rubber as a base for artificial Dentures, in Los Angeles. ANAHEIM Shaving Saloon, By Professor Dean, Los Angeles Street, Anaheim. CITY BAKERY ALL PERSONS in want of CAKES, PIES, AND CORPSTONERY, Can obtain the very best, at the City Bakery, Anaheim. D. K. WILLIAMS, CARPENTER, JOBBER and BUILDER, ANAHEIM CAL. Outside! why, Chips; what d'ye mean by that? I want to go up stairs." Can't do that, sir, there are no stairs." No stairs!" exclaimed the astonished mariner,"no stairs!" No," replied the impurturable builder; "ycu refused to have a single thing put in but what you laid down in the plan, and that contained no stairs. Obey orders, if you break owners." The captain was fairly caught, for in his drawing he had utterly forgotten this important portion of his dwelling, and his peppery temper had prevented the carpenter from pointing it out to him. Since then, it is said, the captain always gets in a passion when any one stares at him.—Boston Com. Bul. A Milwaukee widow, on being cautioned by her minister about flirting, said that she knew it was wrong for unmarried ladies to flirt, but the Bible was her authority. It said "widow's mite." She was flirting awfully at last accounts, her pastor acknowledging that "widow's mite." FRIED CHICKENS.--Cut up the chickens and lay them in cold water to extract the blood. Wipe them dry, season with pepper, and salt and dredge them with flour. Fry in lard to a rich brown; take them out and keep them near the fire; skim the gravy carefully in which the chickens have been fried-mix with it half a pint of cream, season with mascara, pepper, salt and parsley. "Come here, you mischievous little rascal, you." "Won't you lick me, father?" "No." "Will you swear you won't?" "Yes." "Then I won't come, father, for Parson Atwood says that he who swears will lie." The Marshall County (Iowa) Times says: "Don't go back on your newspaper. A subscriber to the Times recently stopped his paper, and the next week was kicked by a horse so severely that his life is despaired of." EIM GAZETT ANAHEIM, CALIFORNIA, FEBRUARY 4, 1871. The Chinese Method of Discovering Hidden Treasure. A resident at Ningpo writes to Once a week: "The credulity and superstition of the Chinese know no bounds; a striking instance of the former having just been the main cause of the terrible Tien Sai tragedy; and the universal disquietude that pervades every part of China—ninety-nine out of every hundred Chinamen firmly believing that foreigners in general, but the Roman Catholics in particular, kidnap children for the sake of their eyes, heart, and other parts, to be used in compounding a potent drug. The following horrible story has been related to as a solemn fact by a Chinaman, who declares that he was an eyewitness of the latter part of what is here written: Some years ago, when the Tai Ping rebels were devastating the most fruitful provinces of China, a novel plan was invented for discovering the money and other treasures concealed by the terrified merchants and people on the first warning of the approach of the rebels. Some ingenious Tai Ping thought within himself that, as men are all devout worshipers of gold and silver, something composed from man would in all probability be more efficacious than anything in discovering hidden treasure, without putting men to the trouble of pulling down each separate brick of any suspected place to get at the coveted board. He therefore seized the first How to Kill a Town. To kill a town in two years, closely and promptly observe the following rules: 1st Put up no more buildings than you are obliged to occupy yourself. 2d. If you have an empty building to rent, demand three times its value. 3d Look sour at ever new comer, and give the cold shoulder to every merchant and mechanic who desires a home among you. 4th Go abroad for your goods and ware; by no means purchase from your own merchants and manufacturers, even at the same price or less. 5th. Don't subscribe for your local newspaper. 6th Take no steps to put streets and pavements in a passable condition. 7th. Refuse to assist or encourage parties that want to build railroads to or through the town, and turn up your nose at a suggestion to establish a bank or build a cotton factory. 8th. Take no interest in the schools of the town, and give the cold shoulder to the teacher, who is laboring for the good of your children and the community. Finally, put a thorough finish to your work of vandalism, by killing off your local newspaper. By refusing to subscribe for or advertise, so that person will not know that any business is being was invented to discover the money and other treasures concealed by the terrified merchants and people on the first warning of the approach of the rebel. Some ingenious Tai Ping thought within himself that, as men are all devout worshipers of gold and silver, something composed from man would in all probability be more efficacious than anything in discovering hidden treasure, without putting men to the trouble of pulling down each separate brick of any suspected place to get at the coveted board. He therefore seized the first prisoner he could lay hands on, and quietly proceeded to cut him up and put him into a large cauldron, whereupon he was allowed to simmer until a sufficient coating of oil had collected on the surface; this was carefully skimmed off and then a roll of cloth was spread out and soaked in human oil, after which it was tightly rolled up and converted into a torch. The rebel lit his torch, in a fever of expectation, started in quest of a likely house. Having found one to his taste, he entered, and slowly waved the torch in all directions, intently watching the flame, which shortly com menced flickering—like a man's finger clutching at gold. The rebel was overjoyed at this sight, and felt that this was a sign that treasure was concealed exactly where the torch flickered; he accordingly set to work and pulled down that part of the wall, and sure enough there discovered a goodly board of silver. This plan was afterwards universally adopted in the Tai Ping camp, and became so notorious that an imperial officer, in whose suit was my informant, taking one of the rebels prisoner, questioned him as to the truth of the report, remarking, at the same time, he could not possibly believe it. The prisoner declared that such was their method of discovering hidden treasure. Whereupon the officer replied that, as the prisoner persisted in vouching for the truth of the report, he would do himself the pleasure of testing its truth or falsehood on his person. The prisoner was immediately killed, and cooked, and converted into a torch, and used with the greatest success." EDUCATION IN GERMANY.—In Germany, every parish and every civil corporation is bound by law to provide sufficient schools for the education of all the children within its jurisdiction. The attendance of the children is secured by a system of compulsion which, ten years ago even, would have aroused within the minds of Englishmen, the wonder that a nation would be induced to submit to it. But public opinion on this subject has grown with incredible speed; and the Englishman to-day, through the town, and turn up your nose at a suggestion to establish a bank or build a cotton factory. 8th. Take no interest in the schools of the town, and give the cold shoulder to the teacher, who is laboring for the good of your children and the community. Finally, put a thorough finish to your work of vandalism, by killing off your local newspaper. by refusing to subscribe for or advertise, so that person will not know that any business is being done in your own. Josh Billings says: The live man iz like a little pig; he is weaned young, and begins to root early. He is the popporass uv creation, the allspice uv the world. One live man in a village is like a case uvitch in a distrikt skule—he sets every boddy scratching to onest. STANDING TREAT.—A traveler may go all over the continents of Europe, Asia and Africa, without seeing any man—except an American—offer to treat; and the French are quite social enough; but when they turn into a café to sip their wine and brandied coffee together, each man pays for his own. When two Germans, long separated meet, they will be very likely to embrace, and then to turn into an adjacent beer cellar, sit down and drink lager and eat pitzels and chat; but when they part again each man settles his own score independently. So in Italy. The Italians are proverbially merry and generous, but every man pays for his own wine, macaroni and cigare. They never go into each other's pocket books in the sacred name of friendship. They would as soon think of transferring to each other their washer-woman's bill. The preposterous fashion of "treating" is responsible for the drunkenness in America. There would be as little need of temperance societies and like work for the Good Templars as there is in Germany, France and Italy, if this pernicious and insidious habit was abolished. It is, take it all in all; the most unreasonable, and the most pestilent custom that ever laid its tyrannical hands on civilized human beings. The story is told that the King of Greece received General Sheridan with the exhilarating remark that he was glad to take by the hand a countryman of George Francis Train. Phil made better time in leaving the region where such compliments grow, even than that of his famous ride from Winchester twenty miles away. A man at Sparta, Wis., wishing to present an organ to a church wrote to EDUCATION IN GERMANY.—In Germany, every parish and every civil corporation is bound by law to provide sufficient schools for the education of all the children within its jurisdiction. The attendance of the children is secured by a system of compulsion which, ten years ago even, would have aroused within the minds of Englishmen, the wonder that a nation would be induced to submit to it. But public opinion on this subject has grown with incredible speed; and the Englishman to-day, whose recent legislation has given him a Compulsory Education bill, will study the system of Prussia rather with interest than wonder. Just as the compulsory law of America may be traced to the strong religious feelings of the early Massachusetts settlers, so the law of Germany takes us back to the times of the Reformation. That it was considered the duty of the Church to see that every Protestant child should be taught the duties of religion—and primary secular instruction was indissolubly linked with religious teaching now the Church has still the same duty, but it can appeal to the civil power when its remonstances are despised. The present law in Germany simply legalizes and enforces traditional usage—the usage is not the creation of the law. The ediot of Frederick William in 1716, which is popularly regarded as the compulsory system, merely gave legal sanction to a system which had already received the higher sanctions of religion and duty. Compulsory education has never in Germany had to struggle against an adverse public opinion, because the duty of the parent to educate his children had to be admitted from the time of the birth of the reformed faith. So, too, the rites of that faith have practically fixed the superior limit of the ages between which attendance at school is to be secured. The interior limit may vary between five in Saxony, and eight in Hamburg; but by a national custom more potent than law, the school period ceases with configuration and the first celebration of the Communion.—St. Pauls. The story is told that the King of Greece received General Sheridan with the exhilarating remark that he was glad to take by the hand a countryman of George Francis Train. Phil made better time in leaving the region where such compliments grow, even than that of his famous ride from Winchester twenty miles away. A man at Sparta, Wis., wishing to present an organ to a church, wrote to a friend in New York, to know what it would cost to get one. He received a reply that he would get a little cussed organ for $1,500: "but if you expect to get to Heaven on the organ dodge, you had better invest about $3,000," He took the high-price organ. If we were only halt as lenient to the living as we are to the dead, how much happiness might we render them, and how much remorse might we be spared when the grave has closed over them. GREELEY ON TURKEYS — A Southern paper spoke of "Turkey showing her teeth," whereupon Mr Greeley wrote to the editor that none but her turkeys have any teeth at all. The hen turkey gathers the food and chews it, when the gobbler is called in to gobble it up. He says there is a wrong impression in the minds of the people as to the teeth of poultry, which will be corrected in forthcoming articles, entitled. "Foul Play," or what I know about Farming. Persons fattening hogs or beef should crowd both. The best food and the most of it that will not injure the health, should be the motto of every feeder, whether of one animal or a hundred. Hunger always awakens expectancy, which is another word for unrest, and if lot of hogs or a herd of beef cattle spend half of their time looking through or over the fence for the coming food, there is little gain from what is given them. THE EFFECTS OF CALIFORNIA WINE ON TREASURER SPINNER — A wine firm in San Francisco has received a letter from United States Treasurer Spinner, at Washington, acknowledging the receipt of a dozen bottles of assorted California wines. Following are the extracts from the letter: It has been said that those who drink the least liquors and wines are the best judges of their purity: If this be true as I drink but little, then my opinion that your wines are of excellent quality ought to be worth something. Believing that there is less drunkenness in wine growing lands than in countries where wine is not produced, I wish you every success in your laudable undertaking of making California not-only a wine-producing country, but in making its quality fully equal to the best German or French wines, be they from the Rhine or the Moselle. How do you produce a discord? By praising one lady's singing at the expense of a rival who overhears you. SCIENTIFIC ORIGINALS. Earthquakes. During the last few years, numerous theories have been advanced as to the SCIENTIFIC ORIGINALS. Earthquakes. During the last few years, numerous theories have been advanced as to the cause of earthquakes. Some believe that they are caused by electricity, and a consequent disturbance of the surface of the soil to a few feet in depth. Others advocate the slumbering volcanic theory. I have attributed them to the circumstance of the earth being almost instantly thrown far out of its habitual course. For instance, when some variation occurs in the universe, if the earth were to fall ten thousand miles in six seconds, it would make respiration difficult, cause the atmosphere to look sulphury and sensibly disturb the equilibrium of men and houses, upon any part of its surface. I have also thought that, as the substance of the earth was increasing from meteoric dust and the general accumulation of particles of matter in its flight through space, as well as from the loosening and decomposition of its harder and compact portions, that the quaking is caused by a sort of chrysaline expansion in certain localities, at certain intervals. The surface of the land near the bays of the ocean, containing, as they do, deposits of substances once held in solution by the ocean, and the accumulated shells and refuse of marine animals, indicate that they were once beneath the water, and that they have in some way got above it. Those who have experienced earthquakes will also remember that the houses, on such occasions, are raised up by the ground beneath, and that the ground does not lower again. Sometimes a more startling theory forces itself upon my mind. It is that our round earth this only a monstrous egg, turning and evenly hatching out in the sun. That the incubation is nearly completed, and that the earthquake waves and shocks, occurring so often, are only the kicks and quickening impulses of Why Cocks Crow. I listened one morning as daylight was approaching, and heard far to the eastward of the city, the voice of a solitary cock. Suddenly, the quiet and sleepy cocks of the city commenced crowing, and the voices of these awakened the cocks within hearing distance still further to the westward. The first cock bad caught the sound from an easterly neighbor, as the sun had lit up his part of the world; and upon his repeating the sound, it was taken up by other cocks, and gradually the crowing grew nearer and more distinct, until all the cocks in my immediate vicinity were crowing. Sound is more rapid than the turning, diurnal motion of the earth; and the sun, lighting the morning on the shores of the Atlantic Ocean, starts the voice of Chanticleer, and the sound of the voices of one set of cocks reaches the perch of another set farther to the wert, waking them up a little faster than the earth moves in the opposite direction. Thus, the sound of the cock is constantly traveling around the world, just in advance of the sun's light.