anaheim-gazette 1872-01-06

SOUTHERN CALIFORNIAN. Published Every Saturday. CHAS. A. GARDNER. EDITORI and PROPRIETOR, Office at Corner of Center and Los Angeles Streets. TERMS: For One Year (in advance.)... $5 00 " Six Months," " " ...3 00 " Three " " " ...2 00 Business Gards. MRS. S. A. HAWKINS, Dress Maker Center Street AND BLOCK THE ORIENT, DOWNEY'S BLOCK, LOS ANGELES. FRANK GANAHL. E. H. McDANIEL. GANAHL & M'DANIEL, OFFICE—In Downey's New Building. Banks, Etc., Etc. FARMERS' AND MERCHANTS' BANK, OF - LOS ANGELES. BANK CAPITAL, - $500,000. JOHN G. DOWNEY....President. ISAIS W. HELLMAN....CARRIER. Exchange for Sale on SAN FRANCISCO. FRANKPORT. NEW YORK. HAMBUG. LONDON. BERLIN. DUBLI. PARIS. Receive Deposits, and issue their certificatesBUY AND SELL LEGAL TENDERS, GOVERNMENT, STATE AND COUNTY BONDS, Will also pay the highest price for Gold and Silver Bullion. From and after this date, on all monies left as term deposits, interest will be allowed. Los Angeles, April 13, 1870. THE BANK. WM. WORKMAN, F. P. F. 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Make Advances on Shipments of Grain and other Produces consigned to their friends in San Francisco. CHAS. R. JOHNSON. E. F. DECELIS. Refer to Geo. H. Howard, Alfred Robinson, A. W. Bowman, H. F. Teschmacher of San Francisco. SANTA ANA STORE, Santa Ana, BY WM. H. SPURGEON, DEALER IN GENERAL MERCHANDISE, INCLUDING Greceries, Crockery, Hardware, Boots, Shoes, Dry Goods, Wines, Liquors and Cigars. A Large Stock of Choice FAMILY GROCERIES Constantly on Hand. Notice! THE AGENCIES of the Anaheim Lighter Company in Anaheim and San Francisco have been appointed by order of the Board of Trustees, MR. ROBERT N. WHITE, at the Landing, being the only authorized Agent of the Company. HARD. A. KORN. Secretary. MOUNT DIABLO. Oh Diablo, great Diablo, we are gazing on these now, We see the line of fleecy clouds, that wreathe thy snowy brow, We hear the South wind's plaintive voice among the tall pines sing. Whose lofty h-ads bow at thy side, as followers greet their king. How many an age, a strange wild age, has passed beneath thy gaze; How many a race of dark-skinned men, gone down life ceaseless ways; How many a peace-crowned harv-t moon, has waxed and waned on high. Since first thy snow clad summit stood beneath that star lit sky. Yes, men of every creed and tongue have come within thy shade, Since last the brave's war-whoop was rung through grove and sunny glade. And fields of nodding wheat now stand where war plumes wave no more. While ships from East and Western lands, bring tribute to thy shore. So shalt thou stand as thon hast stood through time's long flight of years. The march of empire moves thee not, nor hopes nor human fears; Thy land-mark bright that guarded men, when Moses smote the sea, Shall still guide millions now unborn, and nations yet to be. CHARLES A. GARDNER. MARK TWAIN'S SUNDAY SCHOOL ADDRESS meroy, and coming on so smart that with the blessing of Providence she'd get well yet—and Greeley, before he thought, says, "Well, I'll risk two-and-a-half that she don't, anyhow." This-yer Greeley had a mare—the boys called her the fifteen-minute nag, but was only in fun, you know, because of course, she was faster than that—and he used to win money on that horse, for all she was so slow and always had the asthma, or the distemper, or the consumption, or something of that kind. They used to give her two or three hundred yards' start, and then pass her under way; but always at the fag-end of the race she'd get excited and desperate like, and come cavorting and spraddling up, and scattering her legs around limber, sometimes in the air, and sometimes out to one side amongst the fences, and kicking up m-o-r-e dust, and raising m-o-r-e racket with her coughing and sneezing and blowing her nose—and always fetch up at the stand just about a neck ahead, as near as you could cipher it down. And he had a little small bull-pup, that to look at him you'd think he wasn't worth a cent but to stand around and look onery, and lay for a he could get over most strailtle than any an you ever see. Jump level was his strong stand, and when it Greeley would ante as long as he had a monstrous proud of he might be, for fellow elled and been ever he laid over any frog see. Well, Greeley kept little lattice box, and him down town some fr a bet. One day he ger in the camp, he cross him with his be "What might it be in the box?" And Greeley says ent like, "It might be a canary, ain't-it's only just a And the feller took at it careful, and this way and that, and so 'tis. Well, what? "Well," Greeley careless, "He's good thing I should judge-ary frog in Calavera The feller took the MARK TWAIN'S SUNDAY SCHOOL ADDRESS. Jim Greeley's Jumping Frog. [This master-piece of Mark Twain's humorous genius has often been printed before, but we think it will be new to many of our readers, and that even those who are already familiar with it will read it again with pleasure.—Ed. Southern Californian.] In one of "Mark Twain's" letters to the Alta, from St. Louis, he related how he was invited to address a populous Sunday School, having assured the "solemn old Deacon" that addressing Sunday School children was his "strong suit," and how, when he got up before the children, he told them a story that won from them hearty applause, which the "solemn old Deacon" could not check. The story was the legend of "Jim Greeley's Jumping Frog," which 'Mark' heard when he "visited Angel's Camp, at the request of one Artemus Ward," to seek information of a friend of his—the Rev. Leonidas W. Greeley. "Mark" was referred to an old resident of the camp since '49—one Simon Wheeler, who was dozing over a bar-room stove, and when questioned about the Rev. Leonidas W. Greeley, he blockaded his interrogator in the corner, and gave him the following information about the only Greeley who ever lived in the chapm. [Imagine the Sunday School children watching for the "moral" of the story:] There was a feller here once by the name of Jim Greeley, in the winter of '49—or maybe it was in the spring of '50—I don't recollect exactly, some how, though what makes me think it was one or the other is because I remember the big flume wasn't finished when he first come to the camp; but anyway he was the curiousest man about always betting on anything that turned up you ever see, if he could get anybody to bet on the other side, and if he couldn't he'd change sides—any way that suited the other man would suit him—any way just so's he got a bet, he was satisfied. But still he was luck-uncommon luck; he most easily ding up, and scattering her legs around limber, sometimes in the air, and sometimes out to one side amongst the fences, and kicking up m-o-r-e dust, and raising m-o-r-e racket with her coughing and sneezing and blowing her nose—and always fetch up at the stand just about a neck ahead, as near as you could cipher it down. And he had a little small bull-pup, that to look at him you'd think he won't worth a cent but to stand around and look onery, and lay for a chance to steal something. But as soon as money was up on him he was a different dog—his under jaw begin to stick out like the for'castle of a steamboat, his teeth would uncover, and shine savage like the furnaces. And a dog might tackle him and bully-ry him, and bite him, and throw him over his shoulder two or three times, and Andrew Jackson—which was the name of the pup—Andrew Jackson would never let on but what he was satisfied, and hadn't expected nothing else—and the bets being doubled and doubled on the other side all the time, till the money was all up—and then all of a sudden he would grab that other dog just by the joint of his hind leg and freeze to it-not chaw, you understand, but only just grip and hang on till they thrown up the sponge, if it was a year. Greeley always came out winner on that pup till he harnessed a dog once that didn't have no hind legs, because they'd been sawed off by a circular saw, and when the thing had gone along far enough, and the money was all up, and he come to make a snatch for his pet holt, he saw in a minute how he'd been imposed on, and how the other dog had him in the door, so to speak, and he 'peared surprised, and then he looked sorter discouraged like, and didn't try no more to win the fight, and so he got shucked out bad. He give Greeley a look as if to say his heart was broke, and it was his fault, for putting up a dog that hadn't no hind legs for him to take holt of, which was his main dependence for a fight, and then limped off a piece, and laid down and died. It was a good pup, was that Andrew Jackson, and would have made a name for himself if he'd lived, for the stuff was in him, and he had genius—I knew it, because he hadn't no opportunities to speak off-and it don't stand to reason that a dog could make such a fight as he could under them circumstances, if he hadn't no talent. It always makes me feel sorry when I think of that last fight of his'n, and the way it turned out. Well, this yer Greeley had rat-terriers and chicken cocks, and tom-cats, and all these things in the box. And Greeley says ent like, "It might be a canary," and isn't-it's only just another way to careful, and thus this way and that, and so'tis. Well, what's it? "Well," Greeley careless, "He's good thing I should judge-ary frog in Calaveras." The feller took the took another long jump and give it back to Gvery deliberate, "We no points about that better'n any other frog." "Maybe you don't," "Maybe you understata maybe you don't use maybe you've had maybe you ain't only it were. Anyways," "pinion, and I'll reskof he can outjump any frog County." And the feller stuck and then says, kinder-I'm only a stranger I got no frog-but if I beth you." And then Greeley all right-that's all I hold my box a minute get you a frog;" and took the box, and put dollars along with Grydown to wait. So he set there a going and thinking to hit he got the frog out at month open and took filled him full of qualifi pretty near up to his on the floor. Grto to the swamp and slow the mud for a long time he katched a frog and give him to this frog. "Now if you're really longside of Dan'l," and word." Then he says three-jump!" and hitler touched up the frogs and the new frog he Dan'l give a heavie,and his shoulders-so-like but it wa'n't no use budge; he was planted anvil; and he couldn't than if he was anchored ley was a good deal," he was disgusted too; have no idea what the course. The feller took tha started away, and whil ing out at the door he his thumb over his shoot-at Dan'l, and says ag I remember the big flume wasn't finished when he first come to the camp; but anyway he was the curiousest man about always betting on anything that turned up you ever see, if he could get anybody to bet on the other side, and if he couldn't he'd change sides—any way that suited the other man would suit him—any way just so's he got a bet, he was satisfied. But still he was lucky—uncommon lucky; he most always come out winner. He was always ready and laying for a chance: there couldn't be no solitry thing mentioned but that feller'd offer to bet on it—and take any side you please, as I was just telling you; if there was a horse race, you'd find him flush or you'd find him busted at the end of it; if there was a dog fight, he'd bet on it; if there was a cat fight, he'd bet on it; if there was a chicken fight, he'd bet on it; why, if there was two birds sitting on a fence, he would bet you which one would fly first—or if there was a camp meeting he would be there regular to bet on Parson Walker, which he judged to be the best exhorter about here, and so he was too, and a good man; if he even saw a straddle-bug start to go anywhere, he would bet you how long it would take him to get wherever he was going to, and if you took him up he would foller that straddle-bug to Mexico but what he would find out where he was bound for, and how long he was on the road. Lots of the boys here has seen that Greeley and can tell you about him. Why, it never made any difference to him—the danglesteller. Parson Walker's wife laid very sick once, for a good while, and it seemed as if they warn't going to save her; but one morning he came in and Greeley said how all Lies, and he said she was considerable better, thank the Lord. Son Infiniti have made a name for himself if he'd lived, for the stuff was in him, and he had genius—I knew it, because he hadn't no opportunities to speak off—and it don't stand to reason that a dog could shake such a fight as he could under them circumstances, if he hadn't no talent. It always makes me feel sorry when I think of that last fight of his'n, and the way it turned out. Well, this yer Greeley had rat-terriers and chicken cocks, and tom-cats, and all them kind of things, till you couldn't rest, and you couldn't fetch nothing for him to bet on but he'd match you. He ketched a frog one day and took him home, and said he called to educate him; and so he never done nothing for three months but set in his back yard and learn that frog to jump. And you bet you did learn him, too. He'd give him a little punch behind, and the next minute you'd see that frog whirling in the air like a doughnut—see him turn one summerset, or maybe a couple, if he got a good start, and come down flat-footed and all right, like a cat. He got him up so in the matter of catching flies, and kept him in practice so constant, that he'd nail a fly every time as far as he could see him. Greeley said all a frog wanted was education, and he could do most anything—and I believe him. Why I've seen him set Dan'l Webster down here on this floor—Dan'l Webster was the name of the frog—and sing out "Fliva! Dan'l flies!" and quicker'n you could wink, he'd spring up, and snake a fly off'n the counter there, and flip down on the floor again' as solid as a gob of mind, and fall into scratching the side of his head with his hind foot as indifferent as if he hadn't no idea he'd been doin' any more'n any frog might do. You never see a frog so modest and straight for—and as he was, for all he was so gifted. And when it come to fair-and-square jumping on a dead level, The seller took the started away, and whispered out at the door before his thumb over his shirt at Dan'l, and says again liberate; "Well, I don't about that frog that's another frog." Greeley stood in head and looking down long time, and at last wonder what in the maze throw'd off for—I won't something the man he 'pears' to look now somehow," and he kept the nap of the neck, and up and says, "Why be if he don't weigh five turned him upside down behelped out about a deed of shot. And then he and he was the madness the frog down and to that feller, but he never And— [Here, Simon Wheeler name called from the frog got up to see what was turning to me as he said, "Just set where yger, and rest easy—I am gone a second." But by your leave I that a continuation of the enterprising vagabody would be likely to an information concerning onidas W. Greeley, an away. As the door I met Wheeler returning, and hailed me and re-commenced "Well, this yer Greeley." he could get over more ground at one straddle than any animal of his breed you ever see. Jumping on a dead level was his strong suit, you understand, and when it come to that, Greeley would ante up money on him as long as he had a red. Greeley was monstrous proud of his frog, and well he might be, for fellers that had travelled and been everywhere, all said he laid over any frog that ever they see. Well, Greeley kept the beast in a little lattice box, and he used to fetch him down town sometimes and lay for a pet. One day a seller—a stranger in the camp, he was—come across him with his box, and says: "What might it be that you've got in the box?" And Greeley says, sorter indifferent like, "It might be a parrot, or it might be a canary, maybe, but it ain't-it's only just a frog." And the seller took it, and looked at it careful, and turned it round this way and that, and says. "H'm-so'tis. Well, what's he good for?" "Well," Greeley says, easy and careless, "He's good enough for one thing I should judge-he can out-jump any frog in Calaveras County." The seller took the box again, and later one-eyed cow that didn't have no tail only just a short stump like a baannner, and—" "O, curse Greeley and his afflicted cow!" I muttered, goodnaturedly, and bidding the old gentleman good day, I departed. Yours truly, MARK TWAIN. Mahomet. The Arabs before the mission of Mahomet, were Sabeans, or worshipers of the stars. To the distinguished tribe of the Koreish belonged the charge of a black stone, which was regarded as the national palladium, and was kept at Mecca. To this tribe belonged Mahomet, who, through his intercourse with the Jews and Christians, learnt to prefer Monotheism to the Polytheism of his countrymen. After attaining an independent position by marriage with a rich widow, he gave himself up for a while to a life of religious retirement, and in his fortieth year re-appared with the doctrine that there was but one God, and that he, Mahomet, was his prophet. At first, he not only found but few adherents, but a riot forced him to leave Mecca for Medina on the 16th of July, 622, from which as the Hegira or Flight And Greeley says, sorter indifferent like, "It might be a parrot, or it might be a canary, maybe, but itain't-it's only just a frog." And the feller took it, and looked at it careful, and turned it round this way and that, and says, "H'm-so'tis. Well, what's he good for?" "Well," Greeley says, easy and careless, "He's good enough for one thing I should judge-he can out-jump any frog in Calaveras County." The feller took the box again, and took another long, particular look, and give it back to Greeley and says, very deliberate, "Well, I don't see no points about that frog that's any better'n any other frog." "Maybe you don't" Greeley says, "Maybe you understand frogs, and maybe you don't understand 'em; maybe you've had experience, and maybe you ain't only a amature, as it were. Anyways, I've got my opinion, and I'll reask forty dollars that he can outjump any frog in Calaveras County." And the feller studied a minute; and then says, kinder sad like, "Well I'm only a stranger here, and I ain't got no frog—but if I had a frog I'd bet you." And then Greeley says, "That's all right—that's all right—if you'll hold my box a minute, I'll go and get you a frog;" and so the feller took the box, and put up his forty dollars along with Greeley's, and set down to wait. So he set there a good while thinking and thinking to hisself, and then he got the frog out and pryed his month open and took a teaspoon and filled him full of quail shot-filled him pretty near up to his chin—and set him on the floor. Greeley he went so the swamp and slopped around in the mud for a long time, and finally he katched a frog and fetched him in and gave him to this feller and says: "Now if you're ready, set him alongside of Dan'l, and I'll give the word." Then he says, "one-two-three—jump!" and him and the feller touched up the frogs from behind, and the new frog hopped off, but Dan'l gave a heave, and hysted up his shoulders—so-like a Frenchman, but it wan't no use—he couldn'tudge, he was planted as solid as an invil, and he couldn't no more stir than if he was anchored out. Greeley was a good deal, surprised, and he was disgusted too, but he didn't have no idea what the matter was, of course. The feller took the money and started away, and when he was going out at the door he sorter jerked his thumb over his shoulder—this way at Dan'l, and says again, very de Jews and Christians, learnt to prefer Monotheism to the Polytheism of his countrymen. After attaining an independent position by marriage with a rich widow, he gave himself up for a while to a life of religious retirement, and in his fortieth year re-apparated with the doctrine that there was but one God, and that he, Mahomet, was his prophet. At first, he not only found but few adherents, but a riot forced him to leave Mecca for Medina on the 16th of July, 622, from which, as the Hegira or Flight of Mahomet, the Mahometans compute their years, as the Christians do theirs from the birth of Christ. While at Medina he composed some of the fragments of which the holy book called the Koran consists. Shortly afterwards he was acknowledged by the Arabians as the appointed messenger of the Deity, and after his death, in the year 632, his tomb at Mecca became the resort for pilgrims. The religion which he left behind him taught the unity of God as the creator and preserver of the universe; the resurrection of the body after edeath; a life hereafter in which the good would be rewarded and the bad punished. To the ceremonials of 'the faith belong frequent ablutions, the offering of five prayers daily, fasting, and pilgrimages to Mecca. The giving of alms was commended, polygamy within certain limits was allowed and wine and pork were prohibited. A very practical precept of the Koran was the duty of diffusing the true doctrine by fire and sword, if necessary, and all who died in the pious cause were promised a paradise full of sensual delights. The Peach. The Peach is supposed to be a native of Persia, and its botanical name refers to that origin. It is known to have flourished in both Persia and China at a very early period, and was highly valued in both countries. It has often been found growing spontaneously in Asiatic Turkey. It is mentioned by Pliny, and several other classical writers, and many anecdotes are related of the veneration and even superstition with which it is regarded by the Asiatics. It may have been one of the "trees of the garden" which God planted in Eden, and which were to nourish and cheer our first parents in their pristine purity and happiness. It is not mentioned in the Bible, but its congener, the almond, is mentioned several times, and as early as the days of Jacob. his shoulders—so like a Frenchman, but it wa't no use—he couldn't judge; he was planted as solid as an envil, and he couldn't no more stir than if he was anchored out. Greeley was a good deal surprised, and he was disgusted too, but he didn't have no idea what the matter was, of course. The feller took the money and started away, and when he was going out at the door he sorter jerked his thumb over his shoulder—this way at Dan'l, and says again, very deberate; "Well, I don't see no points about that frog that's better'n any other frog." Greeley he stood scratching his head and looking down at Dan'l a long time, and at last he says, "I do wonder what in the nation that frog throw'd off for—I wonder if there isn't something the matter with him— pears to look mighty baggy, somehow," and he ketched Dan'l by the nap of the neck, and lifted him up and says, "Why blame my cats he don't weigh five pound," and learned him upside down," and he telephoned out about a double handful of shot. And then he see how it was, and he was the maddest man—he set the frog down and took out after that feller, but he never ketched him. and— [Here Simon Wheeler heard his name called from the front yard, and not up to see what was wanted.] And warning to me as he moved away, he said, "Just set where you are, straner, and rest easy—I can't going, to go gone a second." But by your leave, I did not think at a continuation of the history of the enterprising vagabond Jim Greely would be likely to afford me much information concerning the Rev. Leidas W. Greeley, and so I started way. As the door I met the sociable Wheeler returning, and he buttonled me and re-commenced: "Well, this yer Greeley had a yal- How's This—The following from the pen of a celebrated author should be attentively read by every man who appreciates sound truth and wholesome instruction: "Breathes there a man with a soul so dead, who never to himself hath said—I will my county paper take, both for my own and family's sake. If such there be, let him repent and have the paper to him sont—and if he'd pass a happy winter, he in advance should pay the printer!" Amen: The last of the revolutionary soldiers are dead, but there are forty-nine of the widows yet drawing pensions. The records of the proper departments at Washington show that 275,000 men served in the Revolutionary army, 527,631 in the war of 1812, and 2,625,523 in the Union armies during the war of Secession. The New York Evening Post, by a curious calculation, shows that Tweed and his fellow thieves have stolen as much as thirty-two thousand laboring men could earn in a lifetime, at fifteen hundred dollars a year. The relative value of gold and silver in the days of the patriarch Abraham, was 1 to 8; at the period B. C. 1,000, it was 1 to 12; B. C. 500, it was 1 to 13; at the commencement of the Christian era, it was 1 to 9.