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Southern Californian
Published Every Saturday.
RICHARD MELROSE & CO., PUBLISHEES AND PROPRIETORS
OFFICE ON Los Angeles Street,
(Over Heimann & George's Store.)
TERMS
For One Year (in advance.)...4 00
" Six Months," " "...2 00
Advertising rates...$1 per square
AGENTS:
LOS ANGELES.....W. J. Brodrick
SANTA ANA.....W. H. Spurgeon
MALLATIN.....Frankel Irross
SAN FRANCISCO.....L. P. Fisher
BUSINESS CARDS!
A. BAILEY,
Justice of the Peace.
...OFFICE IN...
Enterprise Hall Building;
J. W. CLARK,
Notary Public
BUSINESS CARDS, ETC.
MRS. FLORA ELDREDGE,
MILLINER.
CENTER STREET, ANAHEIM.
Next to Clark's Book Store.
LADIES will and Battigers celebrated PATTERNS (or sale). BATS and DONNIES MADE TO ORDER
MRS. A. HIGGINS,
LADIES' PHYSICIAN AND MIDWIFE.
Particular attention given to diseases peculiar to women and children. Office and Residence.
Corner Lemon and Center streets Anaheim.
GEORGE BAUER
BOOTS AND SHOES
Made and repaired at the lowest cash price.
All orders promptly attended to, and work guaranteed.
GEORGE BAUER.
Los Angeles street, opposite Enterprise Hall.
BATH HOUSE
...And...
Barber Shop.
CENTER STREET - - ANAHEIM
Prof. Dean Proprietor.
L. GUNTHER,
PIONEER
BUSINESS CARDS!
A. BAILEY,
Justice of the Peace.
...OFFICE IN...
Enterprise Hall Building;
J. W. CLARK,
Notary Public
AND
Justice of the Peace.
Land Agent and Conveyancer. Acknowledgments Taken.
Loans negotiated on real estate security
Office at Clark's new building opposite Planters'
Hotel Center street.
H. C. AUSTIN,
NOTARY PUBLIC
...AND...
Real Estate Agent.
[LATE REGISTER U.S.LAND OFFICE.]
BUYS AND SELLS REAL ESTATE, LAND SCRIPT,
Stocks and Bonds, Negotiates Loans, and attends to business in the U.S. Land office at Los Angeles and before the department at Washington.
No. 20 Downey's Block, Los Angeles. P.O. Box,312.
June 28th
H. M. MITCHELL,
ATTORNEY AND COUNSELOR AT LAW
Office in Temple Block, Los Angeles.
Address P. O. Box 456.
A. A. WILSON.
W. P. DOONER.
WILSON & DOONER,
ATTORNEYS AT LAW
...O...
Room No. 11, Temple Block,
San Los Angeles, Cal.
A. G. HOWARD.
M. T. HAZARD.
HOWARD & HAZARD,
ATTORNEYS AT LAW,
OFFICE IN NO. 8 DOWNEY BLOCK, LOS ANGELES, CAL.
B. H. CHAPMAN.
A. W. HUTTON.
CHAPMAN & HUTTON,
Attorneys at Law
OFFICE IN TEMPLE BLOCK, UP STAIRS, Los Angeles, Cal.
DR. W. N. HARDIN,
Office and Residence
Cor. Los Angeles and Sycamore Streets
ANAHEIM.
DR. J. S. GARDINER,
PHYSICIAN & SURGEON.
Office
IN CLARK & AUSTIN'S BUILDING
ANAHEIM.
BATH HOUSE
...And...
Barber Shop.
CENTER STREET - - - ANAHEIM
Prof. Dean Proprietor.
L. GUNTHER,
PIONEER
BOOT & SHOEMAKER,
Cor. 3d and Los Angeles Sta., Anaheim.
R. LUEDKE,
WATCH MAKER
AND
JEWELER.
CENTER STREET
ANAHEIM.
EVERY DESCRIPTION OF
WATCHES, CLOCKS AND JEWELRY
Carefully Repaired and
WARRANTED.
A FINE ASSORTMENT OF JEWELRY ON HAND.
D. DESMOND
HAT;STORE,
MAIN STREET,
LOS ANGELES
ANAHEIM COOPER SHOP,
CENTER STREET, ANAHEIM.
J. WESTPHAL,
PROPRIETOR.
CHAS. WILLE,
COOPERAGE!
Pipes, Barreis and Kegs
ON HAND AT ALL TIMES.
TANKS AND TUBS MADE TO ORD R
North 2d Street, Anaheim.
S. C. FOY.
PIONEER SADDLE and HARNESS MAKER.
Wholesale and Retail Dealer in Saddlery ,Leather and Findings
No. 17, Los Angeles street, Los Angeles.
CARPET WAREHOUSE
Aaron Smith,
IMPORTER AND DEALER IN
DR. W. N. HARDIN,
Office and Residence
Cos. Los Angeles and Sycamore Streets
ANAHEIM.
DR. J. S. GARDINER,
PHYSICIAN & SURGEON.
Office —
IN CLARK & AUSTIN'S BUILDING
ANAHEIM.
GEO. C. KNOX,
Civil Engineer and Surveyor.
OFFICE—At the CALIFORNIAN office,
Los Angeles St. Anaheim.
PIONEER DRUG STORE.
Center street' corner of Lemon, Anaheim.
W. M. HIGGINS, PROPRIETOR DEALER IN
Drugs.
Perfumery,
and Garden seeds.
A. G. BEE BE,
CONTRACTOR AND BUILDER.
Plans and specifications drawn up with neatness
and accuracy.
Orders left at CLARK'S BOOK STORE will receive
prompt attention.
P. C. M'KINNIE,
Contractor and Builder,
SHOP ON CENTRE STREET,
[Adjoining Pioneer Livery Stable.]
JOSEPH BENNERSCHEIDT,
TIN AND COPPER SMITH.
CENTER STREET, ANAHEIM.
Stoves Etc., Always on Hand.
SAMUEL MEYER.
Crockery, Glassware, Lamps,
Oils, Gas Fixtures, and
Kitchen Utensils.
COMMERCIAL STREET ... LOS ANGELES
S. C. FOY.
PIONEER SADDLE and HARNESS
MAKER.
Wholesale and Retail Dealer in
Saddlery, Leather and Findings
No. 17, Los Angeles street, Los Angeles.
CARPET WAREHOUSE
Aaron Smith,
IMPORTER AND DEALER IN
Carpets, Oil Cioths, Paper Hangings and Upholstery Goods.
No. 75 Main Street Los Angeles,
Downey Block.
Carpets sewed and put down neatly.
J. EVERDING & CO.
Commission Merchants,
48 CLAY STREET,
Below Drumm,
SAN FRANCISCO.
DEALERS IN OREGON PRODUCE.
Agents for Imperial and Harrisburg
Flour Mill.
Wheaten Starch of our own manufacture
ALWAYS ON HAND.
C. F. HARPER.
R. H. DALTON.
HARPER & DALTON
...Dealers in...
Stoves, Pumps, Hardware,
...And manufacturers of...
TIN, SHEET-IRON AND COPPER WARE,
Roofing, Plumbing and Jobbing.
86 Main st. Downey's Block,
Los Angeles, Cal.
BABBITT METAL.
OLD TYPE FOR SALE IN QUANTITIES to suit
purchasers.
Apply at SOUTHERN CALIFORNIAN OFFICE.
EVERN CALIFORNIA
HEIM, CALIFORNIA, SATURDAY, FEBRUARY 14, 1874.
BUSINESS CARDS, ETC.
HARNESS
AND...
SADDLE MAKING
AT...
Anaheim.
HAVING PERMANENTLY LOCATED IN ANAhim, I am now prepared to manufacture
everything pertaining to my business. I defy
competition in Southern California as regards
WOKMANSHIP OR PRICE.
CARRIAGE TRIMMING
Nestly executed and
SATISFACTION GUARANTEED
in every instance.
REPAIRING
always attended to with dispatch.
D. R. M. THOMPSON,
Obed Macy's, old stand Center St
ANAHEIM DRUG STORE
Centre Street, next door to Wells, Fargo
& Co's. Express, Anaheim.
Choice assortment of...
Pure Drugs and Herbs,
Fresh by every Steamer.
Patent Medicines, Perfumeries
and Fancy Toilet Goods.
MISCELLANEOUS.
Richland Nursery.
LOCATION...
RICHLAND,
Los Angeles County, Cal.
HAYWARD & CASEY.
Proprietors.
WE HAVE FOR SALE THE FOLlowing Trees, which we guarantee to be of
the best varieties:
ORANGE (from 1 to 4 years old),
LEMON,
LIME,
PEACH,
PEAR,
WALNUT,
APRICOT,
NECTARINE
AMERICAN Sweet CHESTNUT,
And 22 Varieties of Apples.
We can also furnish any number of the celebrated
LANGUEDOC ALMONDS.
We would respectfully call attention to the fact
that the superior facilities possessed by us, and
as we give our personal attention to the nursery.
AGRICULTURAL SELECT
The number of farms in the
nation is 23,734. Their average
482 acres. Total cash value
500,000.
In South Carol no during the
year 268,523 acres of land
been forfeited for non payutaxes.
They fine the farmers in
who skim their milk before it to the cheese factorins.
There is an orange tree in
the gardens at Paris theretoof the respectable age
hundred years.
Alabama papers state that
of the best cotton lands in W.
Alabama are selling for two dollars per acre and that selling very low all over thokansas farmers do not shave lost all faith in the futuagriculture, since they have seven acres of wheat theretoof where they had sown one laThe United States now stathe head of wool-producing tries, her annual product 177,000,000 pounds; England second with 159,000,000 poul-La Plata third, with 138,079
REPAIRING
always attended to with dispatch.
D. R. M. THOMPSON,
Obed Macy's old stand Center St
ANAHEIM DRUG STORE
Centre Street, next door to Wells, Fargo & Co.'s Express, Anaheim.
...choice a sortment of...
Pure Drugs and Herbs,
Fresh by every Steamer.
Patent Medicines, Perfumeries and Fancy Toilet Goods.
TRUSSES FOR ADULTS OR CHILDREN
Gasoline; Vesta Fluid and Dervoe's No. 1 Kerosene by the can, case or gallon.
Families' and Physician's Prescriptions Carefully and Correctly Compounded.
FINE WINES AND LIQUORS FOR MEDICINAL PURPOSES.
Orders from the country promptly filled on C. O. D. at moderate charges.
DR. V. D'ASSONVILLE
CLARK & AUSTIN.
— Dealers in—
BOOKS, STATIONERY,
and —
Fancy Goods,
Poys.
Accounts,
books,
Albums,
Gold Pens,
Caniles,
&c., etc.
Anaheim,
AGENTS for Averill's Chemical Paint; also, for the San Francisco dailies and weeklies, Eastern periodicals, and mail's Patent Fire and Burglar Proof Sales.
Give us a call. tf dee20
LOS ANGELES AND SAN DIEGO
STAGE LINE,
Carrying U. S. Mails
SEELEY & WRIGHT
PROPRIETORS.
THE COACHES OF THIS LINE MAKE CLOSE CONNECTION WITH those of the Telegraph. Stage Line for San Francisco. Time from San Diego to Los Angeles, twenty-four hours.
N. B.-A four-horse Concord coach leaves Anaheim daily, for Los Angeles at 7 o'clock A.M., and returning, arrives at Anaheim at 8:30 P.M., of the same day.
The accommodation coach between Los Angeles and Anaheim, remains in Los Angeles from 11 o'clock A.M. to 3:30 P.M.
ENTERPRISE SALOON,
PEAR,
WALNUT,
APRICOT,
NECTARINE
AMERICAN Sweet CHESTNUT,
And 22 Varieties of Apples.
We can also furnish any number of the celebrated LANGUEDOC ALMONDS.
We would respectfully call attention to the fact that the superior facilities possessed by us, and as we give our personal attention to the nursery, we can afford to sell our trees CHEAPER than any other Nursery in Southern California.
Part as living at a distance, who may cater trees from us, can rest assured that the orders will be promptly and conscientiously filled, and the trees packed with the utmost care.
Address all communications to Orange P. O.
Patronize us and you can rely on being satisfied
The Oldest Establishment
.....IN....
LOS ANGELES COUNTY.
ANAHEIM
Semi-Tropical Nursery,
Cor. Centre and Lemon Sts.
ORANGE,
LEMON,
LIME,
WALNUT,
and PEACH TREES,
From two to five years old, at prices to suit the times. For terms, etc., apply on the premises, to MRS. C. SCHMIDT.
Cor. Centre and Lemon Streets,
ANAHEIM.
THOS. A. GAREY'S
Semi-Tropical Nurseries,
SAN PEDRO STREET,
2 Miles Below the Court House.
The Largest Stock of Semi-Tropical And Northern Fruit Trees in Southern Cal.
Grafted Orange Trees
A SPECIALTY.
Priced Catalogue Sent Free.
THOS. A. GAREY, Proprietor.
LOS ANGELES, CAL.
Address P. O. Box 265.
TREES! TREES!!
Australian Gum Trees,
Red and Blue Varieties,
dollars per acre and that selling very low all over the Kansas farmers do not have lost all faith in the future agriculture, since they have seven acres of wheat there where they had sown one land.
The United States now stands the head of wool-producing tries, her annual product 177,000,000 pounds; England second with 159,000,000 pounds La Plata third, with 138,079.
The Patrons of Husbandry a joint stock company organizes running for one year. The only been about fifty per cent capital stock paid in, but theitors declared a dividend of ten cents, which shows a good start, as that dividend on the whole would amount to 400 per annum.
John B. Watson, of Oakland devised a very simple and distinctive method of thinning oak squirrel crop, and has found it operate successfully on his heels. He uses one-half pound of phorons to a bucketful of oil and distributes this quantity a fifty-acre piece of land, dry not more than half a dozen here and there.
The number of fruit and bearing trees in Santa Clara are computed as follows: Surveyor-General's report: 104,372; peach, 45,836; pea 117; plum, 30,412; cherry, nectarine, 1,518; quince, apricot, 3,749; fig. 1,438; 1,029; orange, 3,073; olive, prune, 6,531; mulberry, 1,677 mond, 2,988; walnut, 2,687; number of grape vines is at 1,182,193; and the wine mills 1872, 119,763 gallons,and the dy. 97,672 gallons.
Alfalfa seed may be sown at time from this date to April dry; warm land the sooner it is now the better; as a larger crop be secured the first season. It also be sown early on alkali in this soil it requires a good rain to make it sprout and start before the dry weather starts. On deep alluvial soil that moisture well to the surface it be sown; and will grow success in April. Not less than pounds should be sown to that ground should be well piled before sowing; and that should be put in by a brush or drawn over the land. A will cover the seed too deep low land.
To kill insects on trees or plants
SELEY & WRIGHT
PROPRIETORS.
THE COACHES OF THIS LINE MAKE CLOSE CONNECTION with those of the Telegraph. Stage Line for San Francisco. Time from San Diego to Los Angeles, twenty-four hours.
N. B.—A four-horse Concord coach leaves Anaheim daily, for Los Angeles, at 7 o'clock A.M., and returning, arrives at Anaheim at 8:30 P.M., of the same day.
The accommodation coach between Los Angeles and Anaheim, remains in Los Angeles from 11 o'clock A.M. to 3:30 P.M.
ENTERPRISE SALOON,
Richards & Granet,
PROPRIETORS.
LOS ANGELES ST...ANAHEIM.
Having resumed the management of this popular establishment and thoroughly renovated it, and having a choice stock of the best wines and liquors on hand, we respectively invite all my old friends to come and see us again.
Two Fine Billard Tables, and a Reading & Chess Room Are attached to the establishment.
NEW YORK
BREWERY,
CHRIS. HENNE ... Proprietor
219 Main Street Los Angeles.
The Best of Lager Always on Hand
Anaheim Agency.
Parties in Anaheim desiring to procure the excellent BEER manufactured at this establishment can do so by applying to Mr. TIMM BOEGE.
Anaheim
CALIFORNIA BREWERY,
Seventh North street, between Los Angeles and Lemon.
ANAHEIM.
F. CONRAD,...Proprietor
THE BEST LAGER BEER, BY BOTTLE OR GLASS, always on hand. Orders promptly filled.
Priced Catalogue Sent Free.
THOS. A. GAREY, Proprietor.
LOS ANGELES, CAL.
Address P. O. Box 265.
TREES! TREES!!
Australian Gum Trees,
Monterey Pines,
Italian Cypresses, Etc.
The undersigned have on hand a large lot of the above named varieties of trees, well rooted in pots, and in the finest condition for immediate transplanting, which they offer for sale at the most reasonable prices. Apply to HEIMANN & GEORGE, Anaheim.
PLANTERS' STABLE,
GADDY & LEWIS -- Propr's
Horses boarded and groomed, by the day, week, or month.
Single and double teams, always on hand.
New Buggies—Blooded Horses, and everything belonging to a first class establishment kept constantly on hand for our patrons.
Place of Business—Los Angeles street, next to Placher's Hotel.
ANAHEIM LODGE, NO. 207.
F. & A. M.
REGULAR MEETING Saturday of or preceding the full moon in each month.
Theo. REISER, W. M.
P. A. CLARK, Secretary.
Sojourning Brothers, in good standing, are respectfully invited to attend.
ANAHEIM LODGE, NO. 199
I.O. O.F.
Regular meetings of the above Lodges are sold in their Hall every Tuesday evening at 8 o'clock.
All Sojourning Brothers, in good standing, are cordially invited to attend.
P. C. MCKINNIE, N.C.
MAX NEELUNG, Secretary.
On deep alluvial soil that moisture well to the surface it be sown, and will grow success in April. Not less than pounds should be sown to the ground should be well priced before sowing, and that should be put in by a brush or drawn over the land. A will cover the seed too deep low land.
To kill insects on trees or make a wash as follows: One of potash dissolved, one pot bitter aloes dissolved, two of strong soapsuds. For boots trees, add to the above slaked lime to make a good wash, and apply the mixture spring and once or twice during summer. As a matter of prefice it would be well for all those have set out trees during the season to give them a coat of the mixture in the spring, say in another in June and another August. Add to this precauce good mulching of coarse earth around the tree and there but little danger from sunshine insects.
It is a strange fact that not only eat alfalfa hay, but they will do well on it. We discovered the fact by thorough investigation of alfalfa chaff, from which seed had been cleaned, over hogs for a nest, when to prise, they devoured it much greediness as they were much eats or barley. Our experience and observation since proved to us that good alfalfa with plenty of water, will keep in a good growing condition through the winter. They foddered in the same way you fodder sheep or cattle, but with a cutting machine and fore feeding, they will eat it and do better on it.
CULTURAL SELECTIONS.
number of farms in California is 1,734. Their average size is acres. Total cash value, $141,000.
South Carolina during the past 268,523 acres of land have perfeited for non payment of fine the farmers in Illinois sign their milk before sending cheese factories.
An orange tree in one of gardens at Paris that has the respectable age of four years.
Pima papers state that some best cotton lands in Westrn are selling for two to four per acre and that land is very low all over the State.
Farmers do not seem to trust all faith in the future of nature, since they have sown acres of wheat this year they had sown one last year.
United States now stands at end of wool-producing county annual product being 159,000 pounds; England comes with 159,000,000 pounds, and a third, with 138,079,000.
MISCELLANEOUS.
Baron Meyer de Rothschild is dead.
Gen. Sickles has taken his final leave of the Spanish government.
The Indians on San Carlos Reservation, Arizona, have broken out and gone on the war path.
News from the wool market is favorable. Prices are firm and advancing slightly.
Rhode Island is one of the seven States in which the Postal Service pays expenses.
The Boston police seized the liquors at the principal hotels in that city last week.
Advices from South America announce that the cholera has appeared in Buenos Ayre.
The first spike of the Eureka and Palisade railroad was driven at Palisade, Nevada, on the 3d instant.
Pablo de la Guerra, judge of the First Judicial District, died at Santa Barbara on the 5th instant.
Russia refuses to send goods to the exhibition in Philadelphia in 1876, on the ground that it is a private affair.
The citizens of Santa Barbara
Patrons of Husbandry have stock company organized at too, Iowa, which has been for one year. There has been about fifty per cent of the stock paid in, but the Directed a dividend of 100 per which shows a good standing, dividend on the whole capital amount to 400 per cent sum.
B. Watson, of Oakland, has a very simple and destructive method of thinning out the crop, and has found it successfully on his ranch. He one-half pound of phos- to a bucketful of wheat, attributes this quantity over mere piece of land, dropping more than half a dozen kernels and there.
Number of fruit and nut trees in Santa Clara county computed as follows in the General's report: Apple, peach, 45,836; pear, 36,100; 30,412; cherry, 19,397; rose, 1,518; quince, 2,195; 83,749; fig. 1,438; lemon, orange, 3,073; olive, 1,126; 5,531; mulberry, 1,672; almond, 988; walnut, 2,687. The grape vines is stated at 33; and the wine made in 19,763 gallons, and the bran-72 gallons.
Seed may be sown at any time this date to April. On sun land the sooner it is sown better, as a larger crop will feed the first season. It should sown early on alkali soil, as soil it requires a good wash to make it sprout and get a frost the dry weather sets in. Dry alluvial soil that holds well to the surface it may and will grow successfully will not less than twenty should be sown to the acre. Ground should be well pulver-fore sowing, and the seed put in by a brush or board over the land. A harrow over the seed too deep in melodic insects on trees or plants, shall follow. One pound nounce that the cholera has appeared in Buenos Ayres.
The first spike of the Eureka and Palisade railroad was driven at Palisade, Nevada, on the 8d instant.
Pablo de la Guerra, judge of the First Judicial District, died at Santa Barbara on the 5th instant.
Russia refuses to send goods to to the exhibition in Philadelphia in 1876, on the ground that it is a private affair.
The citizens of Santa Barbara held a mass meeting on the 7th inst., to take steps for the formation of a city charter.
On January 19th and 20th., says the Humboldt Daily Times, more snow fell than has been known for twenty years in that country.
The London Times says great men are always in debt. What a thundering lot of great men we have in this vicinity.
Reports are received of more election rioting at Staley Bridge and Dudley, England. Many were injured and houses sacked and robbed.
News from Cuba indicates that the Insurgents are gaining ground, and that the Spaniards are badly in need of men and money.
The clergymen of Boston are organizing a band of praying men and women to visit the saloons, in imitation of the Western practice.
Five tons of mail matter direct from London for Australia, via San Francisco, passed through Omaha on the 8d instant.
As many as two thousand deer are annually slaughtered in Mendo-cino and Humboldt counties for their hides alone, the carcasses being left to rot on the ground.
The establishment of a jute factory at Santa Clara is considered to be a settled matter. About $150,000 have already been subscribed to the project, and a suitable location is being selected.
The population of Boston, based on the Assessor's returns for 1873, will be on May 1st 1874, 357,254 divided as follows: Boston, 308,875; Charlestown, 32,040; West Roxbury 10,361; Brighton, 5,978.
Dr. Chandler, of Sutter county cured fifty tons of raisins last season. The California raisin is as good for cooking as the imported article, and sells for half the sum per pound.
Gen. Harney favors the peace policy but thinks the Indian Bureau should be transferred to the War Department. He says that if it were not for bad white men the Indians would be quiet and peaceful on reservations.
to make it sprout and get a
before the dry weather sets in.
up alluvial soil that holds
the well to the surface it may
and will grow successfully
soil. Not less than twenty
should be sown to the acre.
ground should be well pulverfore sowing, and the seed
to put in by a brush or board
over the land. A harrow
over the seed too deep in melled.
All insects on trees or plants,
wash as follows: One pound
fish dissolved, one pound of
calces dissolved, two gallons
of soapsuds. For borers in
add to the above enough
time to make a good whiteand apply the mixture in the
land once or twice during the
winter. As a matter of precaution
be well for all those who
cut out trees during the winter,
them a coat of the above
in the spring, say in April,
or in June and another in
Add to this precaution a
mulching of coarse manure,
on the tree and there will be
no danger from sun scald or
A strange fact that hogs will
eat alfalfa hay, but that
will do well on it. We first
receded the fact by throwing a
alfalfa chaff, from which the
had been cleaned, over to some
for a nest, when, to our surthey devoured it with as
greediness as they would spit
seats or barley. Our own exience and observation since, has
to us that good alfalfa hay,
plenty of water, will keep hogs
good growing condition all
with the winter. They may be
bed in the same way you would
sheep or cattle, but if cut up
cutting machine and wet beeding, they will eat it cleaner
to better on it.
Dr. Chandler, of Sutter county
eured fifty tons of raisins last seasson. The California raisin is as
good for cooking as the imported article, and sells for half the sum per pound.
Gen. Harney favors the peace policy, but thinks the Indian Bureau should be transferred to the War Department. He says that if it were not for bad white men the Indians would be quiet and peaceful on reservations.
The quicksilver fever is fast spreading in Vallejo, and some of the most prominent citizens have fallen victims to its insidious embrace. According to the present outlook, there will be very little of Napa or Lake county left when these searchers for ore have all driven their stakes.
President Grant has announced his intention of appointing Colonel Coey as Postmaster of San Francisco in place of Stone, whose term of office will expire in May. The nomination will not please the representatives from California, and Clayton, from the San Francisco district, intends to protest against such action on behalf of his constituents. He favors the reappointment of Stone.
Both the present and former Secretary of the Treasury are very much opposed to the valuable privilege granted by Congress to the Alaska Fur Seal Company, and statements have been freely made for several years past that the seals are rapidly being exterminated. A bill has been prepared which authorizes the Secretary of the Treasury to send a special agent to Alaska to examine and collect information on the subject, and it is now supposed the Committee on Ways and Means will probably be favorable to it.