anaheim-gazette 1874-06-20

[From the Commissioners] SAN FRANCISCO MARKET. We have now entered upon the last month of the harvest year, and our holdings of receipts and experts show that our total supply of Wheat and Flower (in grain) aggregate for 11 months of 1873-4, 9,760,000 tons, against same time in 1872-3 of 11,200,000 tons; while our exports for the same period, reducing Floor to Wheat, aggregate in 1873-4, 19,271,982 cents, valued at $18,611,878; 1873-4, 6,971,228 cents, valued at $19,514,215. This is certainly a handsome exhibit for what is called a dry year. There are several vemils now on the burth for the United Kingdom to lead with dispatch, and it is probable that half a dozen ships will yet be laden before the close of June. The Wheat harvest has already commenced in favored localities, and it is probable that a few hundred mkts of the new crop will remain as before the close of the week from Hill's Perry, etc. There is naturally a doubt but that at least two categories of new Wheat will be cleared prior to July 1st, and with this in view $1.65 is freely offered for a thousand lbs or there to arrive this month. The Her husband has become very general throughout the State; the crop will be large and of superior quality. FLOUR—The crop is very slack; equipment being largely conditioned to local Load requirements. The ship Grandee is now completing her cargo of 45,000 bbls Extra at Vallejo Stair Mill, Kawaguchi for the week included 1,871 qr and 156 bfls to Honolulu per D.O. Murray; 1,862 bbls to China and Japan per Colorado; the Aminta for Liverpool carried 28,200 bfls and 9,095 qr sks various tensions. The receipts during the week include the J. L. Stephens' cargo from Oregon, 9,942 qr sks and 119 bfls. We quote Oregon Extran at Bancroft 25 for round hats to exporters California Superior. In export may be quoted at $4,964.75; Extra Superior, $9.25; Baker's and Family Extra, $5,964.75; Willem ha. The best Extra all-dressed from the Golden Age and Golden Gate Mill jobsbing as $6 bbl. WHEAT—The market is very slack with light offerings; shippers not free purchasers, while millers take all the desirable lots at current rates. The next Panama steamer will narrowly small shipment of 40 tons en route for Liverpool; this and the like shipments referred to last week, for Leith, etc., are made simply to test the expense attending such work, and to endeavor to learn the desirability of making direct shipments to island towns or cities in the United Kingdom, France, etc. In another week we will be in receipt of more or less Wheat of the new crop, and for this $1.65 is now freely offered for round parcels. The sales for the week include 2,600 aks good to choice milling at $1,700/1 bsl; 5,000 aks extra choice; $1,500/1 bsl; 1,500 aks ordinary in lota; $1,650/1 bsl etl. 1,500 aks inferior Coast; $1,600/1 bsl; Liverpool quotations of June 24 are: For average California; 12a 1d/12a 1d; club; 12a/12a which is a slight advance for the week. BARLEY—The demand is quite light at present. Holders of choices brewing are however firm in their views, while coast has been sold as low as $1.50 for feed. We note sales of 1,800 aks choice brewing at $1,650/1 bsl; 2,500 aks bright bay, in lota; at $1,650/1 bsl; 2,500 aks feed at $1,500/1 bsl etl. The John L. Stephens from Oregon brought us 715 sacks. OATS—The market is very slack since the sailing of the Australian steamer Mikado. The John L. Stephens from Oregon brought us 2,500 aks. The sales for the week, in lots, aggregate 1,500 aks good to choice at $1,700/1 bsl; 1,500 aks light at $1,500/1 bsl etl. OORK—The supply is light, with sales of about 1,400 aks Southern Yellow at $2 btl. RVE—There is very little offering, and business slack at $1,600/1 M., according to quality. BEANS—There continues a fair inquiry. We quote jobbing rates: Bayou, 2½¢/hee; Butter, 8¢/e; Pea, 3¢/hee; Small White, 5¢/hee; Pink and Red, 2¼¢/hee. HAY—There continues a good demand, at $1¢/lb ton for old: new,$1¢/lb. MUSTARD SEED—There is a light demand for White at ½¢/lc. Brown and Red, 2¾c., according to quality. FARM AND GARDEN. EARLY TOMATOES WITHOUT A HOT-BED.—Procure empty tin oyster cans that can be found in abundance in any village. With a pair of shears cut off the top and you will have a vessel about six inches deep, four and one-half wide, and one and one-half thick. Fill with the best soil you can find, and sow your seed, and place your can near the kitchen stove. If you can procure some moss, such as grows on old logs, cut a piece to fit the top of each can. Saturate the moss with water, and this will keep the seeds moist, and they will germinate very quick. As soon as the plants prick through the ground, take off the moss and place the cans near a window in the sunshine. After a few days, pull up all of the plants but one or two. If you save but one, let it be near the center of the vessel. If two, of course they should stand near the ends of the vessel. As soon as the weather is warm enough, put them outdoors in the middle of the day. Leave them in the can until all danger of frost is over, and the ground warm enough that they may grow right along. Then select a favorable day; wet the earth in each can thoroughly; turn them upside down, tapping gently on the bottom, and the ball of earth will slip out, and you can transplant them without their growth being checked twenty-four hours. PROLIFIC SHEEP.—The Hereford (England) Times relates the following, as showing the prolific nature of sheep when extra pains are taken to insure this end: Within the last fifteen months, forty-eight ewes belonging to Mr. Thomas Taylor, of Aston Rowant, Oxon, have produced 295 lambs, all of which are still living, or have been sold fat. Forty-four of the ewes have each had three pairs, and most of them in less than fourteen months (a few in only thirteen months and two weeks). Two ewes brought seven lambs each,viz., two a few days before Christmas, 1872,two in June，1873,and three in January，1874. One ewe produced eight lambs within fourteen months. One (half bred) has given birth to nine The memory is revived this Mr. Stokes his York papers ment in explanation wife has suceed some twelve o Stokes had ag that the curtain around the parlor he desired no divorce,and certain pathos "In justice contradict these prejudiced peas abandoned my was guilty of act.I was my Maria Southam man of wealth has been written were diametrical intemperate-ed his head,c eyes watered on that It is society was o account.AtDUCT was alm girl.of whom so strong ar eyen us that most anything a separation wife with kind money could her.She ha vants,and no more comfort sent her to I 1871. Our aunt went wme affectional pens across gold month received endeavour Mr. Stokes his wife,inthe receipt which,int its no idea that but asserts she Paris.He f "We mutuat a short time to her." OATR—The market is very slack since the sailing of the Australian steamer Mikado. The John L. Stephens from Oregon brought us 2,056 sks. The sales for the week, in lots, aggregate 1,500 sks good to choice at $170/175; 1,500 sks light at $150/160 etl. CORK—The supply is light, with sales of about 1,000 sks Southern Yellow at $2 etl. RYE—There is very little offering, and business slack at $160/161 M., according to quality. BEANS—There continues a fair inquiry. We quote jobbing rates: Bayos, 2½/2 Me; Butter, 19/2 Me; Small White, 5½/2 Me; Pink and Red, 2¼/2 Me. HAY—There continues a good demand, at $140/141 ton for old; new, $130/131. MUSTARD SEED—There is a light demand for White at 1½/2¢c. Brown and Red, 2¢c, according to quality, but the supply is very light. OIL CAKE MEAL—The mill price to the trade is yet $22.50, less the customary discount. BUCKWHEAT—The demand is light; price nominal say 2¢c. ALFALFA SEED—The demand is light, with small jobbing sales at 1½¢c. BRAAN AND MIDDLINGS—The present mill price in jobbing lots $16 for the former and $28 for the latter. ONIONS—Of the new crop are now arriving freely, and selling at $12½/2¢c. 25¥e 100¥a. HONEY—The market bare of Comb. Strained in 2-banks is worth $2¢c; Comb in 2-cans, $4¢c doz. BEESWAX—Small quantities now coming in; selling at 2¢c. HOPS—Advices from New York state that "fine" are scarce as 30%; choice California inquired for at full figures. Last week we noted a shipment East of 17 bales overland for growers' account. Our market is at present dull and prices nominal. POTATOES—The early planted crop at the Mission seems to be blighted—dead-doubless owing to the continued planting of same seed on old ground. Two or three crops every year, and the product thereof cut and planted in bits as soon as one crop is gathered, are quite sufficient to account for the failure. There is, we think, no reason to fear the contagion extending to other localities, but it is a timely warning to all parties to change their seed, and not cut the same "too fine." The Beaming Post says the blight has extended to Half Moon Bay, the Alma House farm, etc. The blight gives its first symptom in the stalks drooping and rapidly turning black; vegetation ceases, the leaves and stems dry so that they crumble into powder at the tooth, and a discoloration of the potato follows; so they wither and dry up from lack of nourishment from the stalk. The blight is said to be very similar to the potato murrain which occasioned the Irish famine of 1846-7. The cause of the disease has never been definitely settled, but the best authorities attribute it to a deterioration arising from frequent propagation by tubers, instead of germinating from the seed. The stock of Humboldt is light, and in good demand at $11½/2¢c; jobbing sales, $150¥e 100¥a. New crop Mission are in light supply, selling from wagoners at $175¢2¢e 100¥a. WOOL—The demand continues active, and good parcels find quick sale at extreme rates. Take it all in all, the season has been a very satisfactory one to the producer as well as for the purchaser. The clip has been very large, notwithstanding the great loss of sheep through the winter months, and the number of pounds marketed will prove that the increase has been fully equal to the percentage of former years, while the condition has been superior now principally to the fine winter rains and consequently late green grasses. Prices have been in advance of the early expectations of wool growers, and therefore all parties on the coast identified with this interest have caused for congratulation. Sales for the week approximate 1,000¥e 20¢c; Burry, 20¢c; average staple, 22¢c; choice floss; extra choice, 30¢c. The Oregon Wool trade is thus spoken of by the Commercial Bureau of Portland, under date of May: "The Wool trade of Oregon has grown to be of considerable importance, the clip of this season being estimated at 3,800,000¥a, and both producers and dealers are deeply interested in the condition of the market, present and prospective. The strong tone of the San Francisco and Eastern markets has strengthened the prices here, and 25¢e is now offered for choice Williamite, and 100¢e for Eastern Oregon. This is a considerable advance on prices offered at this time last year, and dealers are not over anxious to buy, fearing that when the Western clip reaches the market, prices will decline." We submit the following circular report of the market, of this date, as prepared by a leading commission house: "As near as it can be made out, receipts have been about 14,400¥e 600¥h. Tally three-fourths of the Spring clip purchases (almost entirely by Eastern money) about 12,000¥e hailing a stock on hand of about 2,800¥e 600¥ha. The market continues active for choice fleece, defective being a little neglected. We quote choice and extra choice 26¢c/29¢c; a large line of choice Red Bluff Wool sold last week at 25¢c." GARGET IN MILCH Cows. — The Country Gentleman gives the following as prescriptions that have been given for garget in milch cows. 1. Cut up fine the roots of "sooke" (phytolacha decandra) or "pigeon berry," and give two tablespoonfuls in bran or meal twice a day for two or three days; then omit the root for the rame length of time. Repeat until aured. 2. Give one ounce pulverized saltpetre in a bran mash once a day for two or three days. Repeat as in No. 1. 3. Give seven drops of tincture of aconite, dropped on a piece of bread, and fed in a bran mash for two or three days, once each day. Repeat as in No. 1. 4. Give in same manner as in No. 3, one-half teaspoonful of tincture of aconite root. (This is not the same as the "tincture aconite" in No. 3.) 5. Linseed oil, one ounce; kerosene, one ounce; tincture of aconite, twenty-five drops. Rub the bag well with this mixture two or three times a day. Feed roots or bran mash es freely. 6. Spirits ammonia, one ounce; camphor, one ounce; goose, skunk, coon or other soft oil, four ounces. Rub the bag well and often with this. 7. Muriate of ammonia, three-eighth ounce water one quart. Mr. Stokke his wife, in its receipt which, in its no idea that but asserts she Paris. He fills his own heart with gold a month received endearingly. Poor Stokke he still is "money!" could afford Like Fisk and crowd, he cares ringes and that the work had wealth owed her his "wretched." Judge? Was made her in intemperance less life? — B How Nut so much used nous to the Most perfect perfection and belongs permit the cother is The nutmeg feet high whiof a rich daft ful. It reachiveness, at tting. From of the fruit but as the there are all and ripe on plentiful in year. The a healthy trunk and one and A plantation labor of se two ppls fo The fruit i hook attach shaped like peach,and The nut has one is a th strong flavor preserved in favorite sweeter Under this is which is can carry rich scarlet color,and re dry to pre growth to be of considerable importance, the clip of this season being estimated at 3,80,000 lb, and both producers and dealers are deeply interested in the condition of the market, present and prospective. The strong tone of the San Francisco and Eastern markets has strengthened the prices here, and 2% is now offered for choice Williamette, and 15% 20% for Eastern Oregon. This is a considerable advance on prices offered at this time last year, and dealers are not over anxious to buy, fearing that when the Western clip reaches the market, prices will decline." We submit the following circular report of the market, of this date, as prepared by a leading commission house: "As near as it can be made out, receipts have been about 14,000,000 lb. In total three-fourths of the Spring clip purchases (almost entirely by Eastern money) about 12,000,000 lb. Leaving a stock on hand of about 2,000,000 lb. The market continues active for choice Fleece, defective being a little neglected. We quote choice and extra choice 26/29/40; a large line of choices Red Bluff Wool sold last week at 28/40; good, 22/23/40; average staple, 20/21/40; burry, 19/21/40; according to condition, staple, and quantity of burrs. Most of the Wools now arriving are ready and quite burry, if at all." HIDES—The daily receipts average about 1,500. Prices for Dry have declined slightly, with a lessened demand. Trade dull. We quote Dry, 18/19/40; Dry Murrain, 12/13/40; Wet Salted 8/40/40. TALLOW—The market is quite active, with sales of 14,000 be rushed at 7/14/47; 30 days. Eastern overland parcels cost 7¢ Refined, 8¢ %c. DAIRY PRODUITS—Many of the dairymen are engaged in packing the bulk of their stock, and the present receipts are therefore only equal to the daily consumption. Fresh Roll may now be quoted firm as £15/40 for good to choose; a few fanary dairies held higher. Firkin Butter, newly packed, is selling at £15/40. California Cheese is more plentiful and prices have declined to 12¢/%c. No Eastern here. Eggs—Receipts of fresh California have been quite light for the week past, while the demand has not been lowered; consequently all imported Eggs have much with quick sales and at advanced prices. Fresh California bring 7¢/%c; Oregon, 2¢%. Of the latter, 14,000 do arrived per hastummer. Eastern are again plantiful, with free arrivals and the prospect of a decline soon. GATTLE—Mainia of all descriptions are plenty and cheap; quality excellent. Shanghai's prices are: Beef, quarter first quality, third quality, third quality. Mutton is plentiful, 4¢/%c. Spring Lamba, 5¢/%c. Olives are held at $5½c. Hogs are very plentiful, and prices have fallen to $6½c; the latter price for small, which are very common, and $6½c for dressed; the latter for choice small Horn. FRUIT—The market is now abundantly supplied with Cherry, causing some declines in rates. Apricots from Kelown County and of good quality are now on sale; also Raspberries from Alameda. Strawberries continue plentiful, put the rush is over for the season, so manners have not their full supply, and prices are now down below a reasonable point. Grapes are plentiful. Now is the time for thinning cut Apples, Peaches, Plums. It costs labor and wages, but it is pure in an extra price for what remains. Black berries have appeared, of very choice varieties, and far days sold at a dollar per pound. Oranges, Lemons, Limes, etc., are new obtainable in quantities. Custumbers, Summer Squash, String beans, Peas and Asparagus are all plentiful. Quotations are as follows: Apples, chosen, $22½d box. Oranges, Tahiti, $22½d box; M.; Los Angeles, $22½d box; M.; Lemonade, Nicely, $21¼d box; Los Angeles, Diligently $19½d box; M.; Australia, $19½d box; Pine Apples, $19½d box; Dessert Apples, $19½d box; Strawberries, No To Dessert Apples, $19½d box; Cherries-shears, $19½d box; Common Apples, $19½d box; Grape-berries, $19½d box; Raspberries, No To Dessert Apples, $19½d box. At Wakefield, R. I., the other day, a woman found an oyster, the shell of which is eleven and a half inches long. London consumes 130,000 bushels of cinders yearly. 4. Give in same manner as in No. 3, one-half teaspoonful of tincture of aconite root. (This is not the same as the "tincture aconite" in No. 3.) 5. Linseed oil, one ounce; kerosene, one ounce; tincture of aconite, twenty-five drops. Rub the bag well with this mixture two or three times a day. Feed roots or bran mash es freely. 6. Spirits ammonia, one ounce; camphor, one ounce; goose, skunk, coon or other soft oil, four ounces. Rub the bag well and often with this. 7. Muriate of ammonia, three-fourths ounce; water one quart. Wash the bag daily with this, rubbing thoroughly. 8. Sweet oil, two ounces; alcohol four ounces; aqua ammonia，四 ounces; tincture of opium,两 ounces. Rub in thoroughly two,三 or four times daily. PRUNING BLACKBERRIES. Persons having cultivated the New Rochelle blackberry are possessed of sufficient knowledge to understand the fact that the longer they allow the canes to remain unpruned,the lateral branches are proportionally shorter,and the fruit smaller.To obtain the largest sized berries and the largest quantity,too,cut back the leading canes to not exceeding four feet in length,and shorten in also the lateral branches. This will be found to increase also the breadth of the stool,affording more bearing room,and generally to result in greatly improving the crop。它 is not too late yet to shorten in where it has been much neglected.as we often see it in some of our gardens.In July the young wood,bwhich by that time has grown over the tops of the old,bearing canes should be clipped especially the lateral branches.它 will have the best effect upon next year's crop.-German-town Telegraph. Origin of The population the name of plant which Europe，is that a knight by the side ing vows when la the stream the myoste them.The her, plunging the oppi of flowers. current proafter many was borne flung the f exclaiming not." The Divorce of Stokes. The memory of Fisk, Stokes, etc., is revived this morning by a statement Mr. Stokes has published in the New York papers. He makes this statement in explanation of the divorce his wife has sued him for, and obtained some twelve days ago. It seems that Stokes had agreed to the divorce, and that the curse of privacy was thrown around the proceedings. Stokes says he desired no secrecy himself about the divorce, and adds in words that have a certain pathos in them: "In justice to myself I ask you to contradict the story which has so long prejudiced persons against me, that I abandoned my wife and child. I never was guilty of any such contemptible act. I was married when scarcely 21 to Maria Southack, daughter of a gentleman of wealth, and my life ever since has been wretched. Our temperaments were diametrically opposite. She was intemperate—but—[here Stokes bowed his head, his lips quivered, and his eyes watered]—I do not wish to dwell on that. It is enough to say that her society was distasteful to me on that account. At times, however, her conduct was almost perfection. My little girl, of whom I am overfond, created so strong and irresistible a link between us that I preferred to endure almost anything rather than insist upon a separation. I always treated my wife with kindness. Every luxury that money could afford I lavished upon her. She had her carriages and servants, and no one in New York was more comfortably situated than she. I sent her to Europe in the spring of 1871. Our daughter and my wife's aunt went with her. She parted from me affectionately. I paid all her expenses across, and sent her $1,000 in gold a month. By every steamer I received endearing letters from her." Mr. Stokes also gives a letter from his wife, in which she acknowledges the receipt of money from him, and which, in its tone, certainly conveys no idea that the wife felt neglected; but asserts she herself wished to stay in Paris. He finished by saying: "We mutually agreed upon a divorce a short time ago. I made no opposition to her application and a decree Owing to the hard times and the inability of many of the suffering to visit the National Surgical Institute at Indianaapolis, Indiana, three of the surgeons of the Institute have yielded to urgent solicitations and will revisit the Pacific Coast, where they can be consulted at their old rooms, 319 Bank street, between Kearny and Montgomery, San Francisco, from the 26th of May to the 1st day of July, 1874. They will have with them all kinds of Surgical Apparatus and Appliances, and will be fully prepared to treat such cases as may call upon them for relief; also to re examine their old patients and furnish and direct for their continued treatment. They will come especially prepared to treat all Surgical cases, Paralysis, all kinds of deformities of the Face, Spine and Limbs, Diseased Joints, Diseased Eyes, Catarrh, Piles, Fistula, etc. No cases will be undertaken without a fair hope of relief. Prices will be moderate. It is needless to say that this Institution is entirely responsible, and the largest and most popular of the kind in America, curing thousands of cases annually. All the afflicted who are in need of treatment such as this Institute only is prepared to give should not fail to see the Doctors during their short visit, as another such opportunity may never be afforded them. Remember the time and place, and come as early as possible. ONE OF CALIFORNIA'S SUCCESSFUL ENTERPRISES. In view of the admission by one and all that California's prospects were never brighter than at the present time, it is gratifying to note the success of one of our local industries that is now in position to reap the benefit. We refer to the CALIFORNIA SILK MANUFACTURING COMPANY. This company, after having struggled for over two (2) years and having many difficulties to overcome, has reached a point where success is no longer doubt. The management of the Company was changed some months ago, and since that time its course has been onward. Its affairs are now in hands of some of our most stirring business men. The factory, situated at South San Francisco, is in the best possible running order. We were shown through the building by the gentlemen Superintendent, Mr. Morrison, who we informed, has done so much further than the interests of the Company, and to establish it as one of our local paying manufacturing industries. We were informed by him that nearly all the machinery was new and of the latest improved kinds, and that it had no reason to doubt what he said. Everything in and about the building has a clean, bright, and active look. We were much interested in the process of manufacturing machine and other silk threads, and were somewhat astonished at the deep interest the hands appeared to take in their work, especially the girls. We may here mention that nearly all the work is done by young girls, varying in age, we should judge, from fourteen to twenty years, of whom there are nearly 100 employed. The process of cleaning and drying, and the spooling of the silk is a marvel of curiosity. We never to our knowledge, spent an hour of greater interest, in any manufacturing establishment, than the hour we spent in Mr. Stokes also gives a letter from his wife, in which she acknowledges the receipt of money from him, and which, in its tone, certainly conveys no idea that the wife felt neglected; but asserts she herself wished to stay in Paris. He finished by saying: "We mutually agreed upon a divorce a short time ago. I made no opposition to her application, and a decree was privately granted in her favor. If she was in my place, and I in hers, I would hasten to her relief." Poor Stokes, how thoroughly imbued he still is with the omnipotence of money! "Every luxury that money could afford I lavished upon her." Like Fisk and like all of that terrible crowd, he can't comprehend that "carriages and servants" may not be all that the woman married him for. She had wealth of her own. Since he married her his life, he says, has been "wretched." Between them who can judge? Was it Stokes' reckless life made her intemperate, or was it her intemperance drove him to that reckless life?—Brooklyn Eagle. How Nutmegs Grow.—This spice, so much used in every family, is indigenous to the Moluccas, reaching its greatest perfection in Amboyna. This island belongs to the Dutch, who do not permit the cultivation of the nutmeg in the other islands under their control. The nutmeg tree is twenty-five or thirty feet high when fully grown, with foliage of a rich dark green, and very plentiful. It reaches maturity, or full productiveness, at the fifteenth year from planting. From the blossom to the ripening of the fruit takes about seven months, but as the tree is a perennial bearer there are always blossoms, green fruit and ripe on the tree. The yield is most plentiful in the last four months of the year. The average yield per annum of a healthy tree is five pounds of nutmeg and one and one-fourth pounds of mace. A plantation of 1000 trees requires the labor of seven coolies, fifty oxen and two plows for cultivating and harvesting. The fruit is gathered by means of a hook attached to a long pole. It is shaped like a pear, about the size of a peach, and has a delicate "bloom." The nut has three coverings; the outside one is a thick, fleshy husk, having a strong flavor of nutmeg. This husk, preserved in syrup when young, is a favorite sweetmeat in the East Indies. Under this husk is the bright red mace, which is carefully flattened by hand and dried on mats in the sun. It loses it rich scarlet, and becomes a dull orange color, and requires to be kept perfectly dry to preserve its flavor. After the meat went with her. She parted from me affectionately. I paid all her expenses across, and sent her $1,000 in gold a month. By every steamer I received endearing letters from her." GARLAND'S VEGETABLE COUGH DROP The Greatest Remedy of the age for THROAT AND JUNG COMPLAINMENT Warranted to Cure. Sold ever where. Depot, $25 Market St., San Francisco. REAL HAIR POMPADOUR BRAIDS, THICK WITHOUT RATS, from $3 to $42; low switches, $6; three long heavy side curls, $8; single curls, $9; quick hair. Tangled hair: five curls steamed for twenty five cents. All work done cheaper than elsewhere. JOHN D. WILSON, 411 Sutter Street, opposite Synagogue, San Francisco. Anderson & Woods' American CAST STEEL PRICE, 18c. PER LB. Every Bar warranted and guaranteed equal to an English brand. HOOKER & CO. Sole Agents for the Pacific Coast, 117 and 119 California Street, San Francisco. HORSE BLANKET Both plain and fancy, at the lowest rates. SADDLEERS, PLEASE TAKE NOTICE Address GEO. M. MAIN, New Montgomery St., San Francisco. AMERICAN EXCHANGE HOTEL SASSOME STREET. Next adjoining Bank of California, San Francisco. Prices reduced. First-class Board, per $31 per week.$61 per month,$85. Board and Rooms, per day,$1.50 to $2.00. Wear and wear: $4.00 per month.$29. For families reduced. Terms payable in advance. USE SCHAEFFER'S STEARIC ACID CANDLES. The best in the market. Human Hair The largest Wholesale and Retail Human and Infection Hair Store on the Pacific Coast. All kinds of Hair Work done to order. C.M. CHAPMAN 25 New Montgomery Street. Grand Hotel Building, San Francisco. WHITTIER, FULLER & CO. Manufacturers and Importers of Paints, Oils, Varnishes Artists' and Painters' Materials, Plate, Stain Window Glass. Sole Agents French Belgian Plate Glass Companies. 21 and Front St., San Francisco—28 K St., Sacramento. U.S. Live Stock EXCHANGE, S.E. corner Fifth and Bryant St., Santa Ana. Catleigh, sheep, Milch Cows, Hogs, and horses; so commission or bought on farm for cash. Dawson & Bancroft 449 Fifth Street, San Francisco. 200 PIANO AT $300.EACH. JUST ARRIVED, with a new stock of Piano Fortes from the East and opened a new warehouse; will first-class instruments cheaper than the advertised price. ORIGIN OF THE FORGET-ME-NOT. The popular tradition, which tells how the name came to be applied to the plant which now bears it throughout Europe, is not generally known. It is that a knight and a lady were walking by the side of the Danube, interchanging vows of devotion and affection, when the latter saw on the other side of the stream the bright blue flowers of the myostis, and expressed a desire for them. The knight, eager to gratify her, plunged into the river, and reaching the opposite bank, gathered a bunch of flowers. On his return, however, the current proved too strong for him, and after many efforts to reach the land, he was borne away. With a last effort he flung the fatal blossom upon the bank, exclaiming, as he did so, "Forget me not." Two millions and a quarter of people have emigrated from Ireland to America during the last twenty two years. WONDERFUL DISCOVERY AT OUR VERY DOOR. In boring for an Artesian well on Josiah Sessions' property in Alameda 'County,' Tahua 'Bota', a year ago of water was struck, possessing the most wonderful Medicinal Properties. It is known by the name of VERNON MINERAL WATER. It has been in constant use by a number of parties affiliated with different maladies, and has in deplete curces in some of the worst cases of Dyspepsia. Kidney Affections, Stick Headache, Constipation, Piles, Nephrolitis, etc. We refer to the following parties who have used and been cured by the famous VERON MINERAL WATER. Dr. Hanko, Mrs. Capell, Brooklyn; A. L. Van Viertel, corner kills and Phrenews streets; Oakland; Jo slah Sessions; Mrs. Hook, Brooklyn; Milton Sessions, corner California and Battery streets; Mr. Putnam; Lake La Rue, and hundreds of others. We have numerous testimonials from prominent parties, which we will be pleased to show any one. The following treatise from one of Francisco's most important and amusing physicians on the efficacy and carnative powers of Vernon Mineral Water, speaks for itself: To whom it may concern: I hereby certify that for several years I had been suffering from a phosphatic condition of the urine, which caused all the unpleasant symptoms of a severe disease was called to some peculiarity of the water of a well sunk on the premises of Josiah Sessions at Oakland. I drank freely of it a few times and found great relief, and, in fact, have had no particular inconvenience nor suffering from the kidney since and my habit of life has not been changed. I attribute the change in my system to the effect of the Mineral Water, and likewise to make fire use of it. The result of analysis of Vernon Mineral Water made by J. S. Phillips, an aminent chemist of this city fully recommends its use to the attention of the medical profession, whose object is to relieve suffering through every available means made known to them. Very Respectfully, WASHINGTON AYER, M. D. Office 41st Kearny. L. A. KENNEY, Agent The Idea of a Universal Medicine is at last realized in Dr. Walker’s Vinegar Bitterns. This concentrated essence of the finest medicinal herbs and roots in the Western hemisphere eradicates all diseases which have not undermined the sources of vitality, and in Chronic Indigestion, Nervous Headache, Congestion of the Liver, Rheumatism, Gout, General Debility, and innumerable ulcerations and sebious disorders, it is a specific absolute and infallible. PRATT’S ABOLITION OIL—A reliable remedy that you cannot afford to be without. In time of need it will save you many dollars in money and many pains of pain. Every bottle its own testimonial. The people everywhere use and recommend PRATT’S ABOLITION OIL as best remedy in the world all Lameness and Palsy. For sale by all draughts. A. McBOYLE & CO., Dragola, San Francisco, Population. HOME SHUTTLE SEWING MACHINE PRICE, $45. Agency for Mama Democrat’s reliable CUT PATTERNS. Read for catalogues. BUILDING PAPER. Tenter Bould, plains and densest, used as a substitute for Plastering, Tearal Building, Leaving Plat, Methapgood Carpent Lining, Pat Paper Oilcloth, etc. An agent wanted in every town. Need for samples and climates to BROWN BRIDGE, General Agents, 17 Drummer Street, San Francisco, Cal. BUCHAN'S CRESYLIC SHEEP DIP AND OINTMENT, Superior to any other in use. Used in all States East of the Rocky Mountains. Send for price list and circular to M. V. H. WATSON, 315, 315, 317 and 319 Battery St., P.O. BOX 1264. SAN FRANCISCO. ROPE! ROPE! TO THE TRADE—Rale Rope and Manda Rope is latest item, first quality. 18 cents per pound, at the "LOW PRICE" Wrapping Paper, Br pom, Twine, Wood and Willow Ware Store. No. 391 Front Street, San Francisco, P. T. NOUGTON & CO. T. H. KING & CO., (Successors to J. D. Casebelt & Co.). Importers, Wholesale and Retail Dealers in CARRIAGE AND WAGON MATERIALS, Hube, Spokes, Rims, Pellets, Shafts, Bows, CARRIAGE HARDWARE, Trimlags, Mountings and Lamps. 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THE NEW CHROMOS, FROM WILLARD'S FAMOUS PAINTINGS. These elegant Chromos are by far the most expressive pictures ever given to the public, being full of humor and "Pluck" to the last extent. Size 16 by 22 inches, mounted upon canvas and strainer. Price, $18 the pair. Bend orders to the publisher. J. P. RYDER. 229 Superior Street, Cleveland, O. STATEMENT OF THE Mutual Life Insurance Co. of New York. F. S. WINSTON, President. For the year ending December 31st, 1878. ANNUITY ACCOUNT. No. An. Paym'ts. No. An. Paym'ts. STATEMENT OF THE Mutual Life Insurance Co. of New York. F. S. WINSTON, President. For the year ending December 31st, 1878. ANNUITY ACCOUNT. No. An. Paymts. In force, January 1, 1873... $18,928.00 Issued... 9,609.00 Terminated... 5,276.00 INSURANCE ACCOUNT. In force, January 1, 1873... $284,561.962 New Risks... $64,509.568 Terminated... 31,640.644 DR. To Balance from last account... $64,974,484.21 Premiums received... 17,818,898.20 Interest and Rents... 2,842,113.08 REVENUE ACCOUNT. Cr. By paid Death and Endowment Claims... $2,779,894.99 Annuities... 21,353.28 Dividends... 5,065,474.86 Surreyed policies and additions... 4,087,260.98 Commissions (payment of current and extinguishment of future)... 809,222 Expenses and Taxes... 1,983,064.94 Balance to New Account... $61,131,181.49 Dr. To Reserve at four per cent... Claims by Death not yet due... 134,025.84 Post-mortem dividends due on demand... 43,218.90 Premiums paid in advance... 29,964.92 Surplus accrued on Toutine Policies... 26,729.19 Undivided Surplus... 2,727,795.99 BALANCE SHEET. Cr. By Bonds and Mortgages... $62,797,912.17 U. S. and New York State Stocks... 5,567,005.63 Real Estate... 2,600,400.38 Cash in Banks and Trust Companies at Interest... 2,224,901.84 Interest accrued... 923,773.97 Premium deferred, quarterly and semi-annual... 1,087,014.98 Premium in transit, principally for December... 102,813.19 Balances due by Agents... 17,771.36 From the Undivided Surplus, a Dividend will be apportioned to each policy which shall be in force at its anniversary in 1874. I have carefully examined the foregoing Statement and find the same correct. January 31st, 1874. NOTE—By recent act of the Trustees, the membership of this Company is limited to one hundred thousand insured lives. SYNOPSIS OF THE ABOVE STATEMENT. Cash Assets... $65,000,057.07 Cash Receipts for the Year... 31,600,000.26 Cash Dividends Paid the Insured... 5, Received for Interests and Rents... 5, Paid Losses by Death and Matused Endowments... 5, Excess of Interest Received over Amount of Losses and Endowments... 403,546.26 Increase of Assets for the Year... 7,559,778.26 Surplus over All Liabilities... 5,727,795.99 RATIO OF EXPENSES TO RECEIPTS, §.34. Agencies in the principal towns of California, Nevada, and Oregon, and in the Territories of Washington, Utah, Montana, Idaho, and Arizona. A. B. FORBES, GENERAL AGENT, 204 MONTGOMERY ST., SAM FRANCISCO.