anaheim-gazette 1875-01-16

ANAHEIM VOL. V. Anaheim Gazette PUBLISHED EVERY SATURDAY. RICHARD MELROSE & CO., PUBLISHERS AND PROPRIETORS. Terms of Subscription: One year... $4.00 Six Months... 2.50 Three Months... 1.50 All subscriptions must be paid in advance Club Rates: In order to increase our already large circulation, we offer the following inducements to clubs: Ten copies, one year... $3.50 Twenty copies, one year... $6.00 One copy will be sent free to the person getting up the club. Transient Advertising: SPACE 1 W. 2 W. 3 W. 4 W. 1 square... $1.00 $1.50 $2.00 $2.50 2 squares... 2.00 3.00 3.50 4.00 3 squares... 3.00 4.50 5.00 5.50 4 squares... 4.00 6.00 6.50 7.00 Regular Advertising: One square or less, per month... $1.50 Two squares... 2.00 One column... 15.00 Half column... 8.00 Quarter column... 5.00 Legal advertisements must be paid for BUSINESS CARDS MISS McWHIRTER, Dressmaker, At the residence of P. C. McKinnie Centre Street, Anaheim. Dressmaking, Stamping, Braiding, Pinking, and all kinds of plain sewing at reasonable rates. MRS. M.E. PARK, Millinery and Fancy Goods, Lace Collars and Ribbons of all kinds. Imported Hats and Bonnets Always on hand. Hats Cleaned and Pressed In all the latest styles. Store under the Lafayette Hotel, Los Angeles, Cal. PROF. DEAN Proprietor of the... Bath House and Barber Shop Centre Street, Anaheim FRANK EY'S Hair Restorer A splendid preparation for cleansing and invigorating the growth of the hair. Manufactured and sold by Frank Ey. Fashionable Hair Dresser, Planters' Hotel Building, Anaheim. MISCELLA ANAHEIM DR. Herman Blanken Dealer Drugs and Medicines, Perfume Trusses, Toilet Wines and Liquors Prescriptions caret J. H. GO Practical Ho CARRAGE P Opposite Popl CENTRE STREET... All kinds of Carriage Pa Very Boz Prices according to style $15 upward. A. HI Carriage and Wagon Transient Advertising: SPACE 1 w. 2 w. 3 w. 4 w. 1 square $1.00 $1.50 $2.00 $2.50 2 squares 2.00 3.00 3.50 4.00 3 squares 3.00 4.50 5.00 5.50 4 squares 4.00 6.00 6.50 7.00 Regular Advertising: One square or loss, per month ... $1.50 Two squares ... $2.00 One column ... $15.00 Half column ... $8.00 Quarter column ... $5.00 Legal advertisements must be paid for before affixation of publication is made. Advertisements must be handled in before 4 o'clock on Friday afternoon in order to insure publication on the Saturday following. Communications for publication should be added to R. McRose & Co., and not to individual members of the firm. Copies of the Gazette in wrappers ready for mailing, are for sale at the office of publication. PROFESSIONAL CARDS DR. J.-S. CARDINER, Physician and Surgeon. Office ... in Clark & Austin's Building ANAHEIM. J. H. YOCUM, M. D. (Graduate of Pennsylvania University). Having had twenty years active practical experience is prepared to practice medicine in all of its branches in accordance with the latest approved methods of the Art. Office and residence opposite Langinberger's store, Anaheim, Cal. Dr. J. M. ROBERTS, Resident Dentist, Anaheim, Cal. AS FITTED UP A COMMODIOUS OFFICE in the Anaheim Hotel building where he can be found on Fridays and Saturdays of each week. MRS. SHIGGINS, Ladies' Physioian and Midwife. Particular attention given to diseases peculiar to women and children. Office and residence, corner Lemon and Centre Streets, Anaheim. PIONEER DRUG STORE! Centre Street, corner of Lemon, Anaheim, Cal. W. M. Higgins, Proprietor Dealer in... Drugs: Perfumery and Garden Seeds. GEORGE C. KNOX, Civil Engineer and Surveyor, Office at the GAZETTE office, Los Angeles Street... Anaheim. A. BAILEY, Justice of the Peace. Office at... ENTERPRISE HALL BUILDING. J. W. CLARK, JUSTICE OF THE PEACE PROF. DEAN Propriator of the... Bath House and Barber Shop Centre Street, Anaheim FRANK EY'S Hair Restorer A splendid preparation for cleansing and invigorating the growth of the hair. Manufactured and sold by Frank Ey. Fashionable Hair Dresser, Planters' Hotel Building, Anaheim. A. G. BEEBE, Contractor and Builder, Plans and Specifications drawn up with neatness and accuracy. Orders left at Clark & Austin's book store will receive prompt attention. P.C.MCKINNIE, Contractor and Builder, SHOP ON CENTRE STREET. Adjoining Pioneer Livery Stable. GEORGE BAUER, Boot and Shoe Maker Los Angeles Street, opposite Enterprise Hall. Making and repairing at the lowest cash price All orders promptly attended to, and work guaranteed. L.GUNTHER, Pioneer Boot and Shoe Maker, Cor. Third and Los Angeles Streets, ANAHEIM. J.BENNERSCHEIDT, Tin and Copper Smith, CENTRE STREET... ANAHEIM Stoves, Tinware, etc., always on hand. Well-Boring. THE UNDERSIGNED BEGS LEAVE TO inform the people of Anaheim and vicinity that he is prepared to sink deep surface wells on short notice, using single or double pipe as preferred. For any depth under 100 feet, a bits per foot. All orders left at the store of Heimann & George will receive prompt attention. C.C.ANGLE. Anaheim Cooper Shop, Centre street, Anaheim, Cal. J.Westphal, Proprietor. CHARLES WILLE, COOPERAGE! Pipes, Barrols and Kegs on Hand at all Times. Tanks and Tubs Made to Order! North 2d street Anaheim. CHARLES HILLE Propriator of the... GEORGE C. KNOX, Civil Engineer and Surveyor, Office at the GAZETTE office, Los Angeles Street... Anaheim. A. BAILEY, Justice of the Peace. Office at... ENTERPRISE HALL BUILDING. J. W. CLARK, JUSTICE of the PEACE AND NOTARY PUBLIC. Land Agent and Conveyancer. Acknowledgments taken. Loans negotiated on Real Estate security. Office at Clark & Austin's book store. SAMUEL HAMILTON, Attorney at Law AND NOTARY PUBLIC. OFFICE WITH WM. R. OLDEN, Centre Street, Anaheim. J. O. HOWARD. H. T. HAZARD. HOWARD & HAZARD, Attorneys at Law, Office in No. 8, Downey Block, LOS ANGELES, CAL. R. H. CHAPMAN. A. W. HUTTON. CHAPMAN & HUTTON, Attorneys at Law, Office in Temple Block, Up Stairs, LOS ANGELES, CAL. A. A. WILSON, Attorney at Law, Rooms No. 35 and 27, Temple Block, LOS ANGELES, CAL. SAMUEL MEYER, Crockery, Glassware, Lamps Olls, Gas Fixtures and Kitchen Utensils Commercial Street, Los Angeles. J. Westphal, Proprietor. CHARLES WILLE, COOPERAGE! Pipes, Barrols and Kegs on Hand at all Times. Tanks and Tubs Made to Order! North 2d street Anaheim. CHARLES HILLE Proprietor of the... CITY BAKERY, Centre Street, Anaheim. Fresh Bread constantly on hand. S. C. FOY, Pioneer Saddle and Harness Maker and dealer in Saddlery, Leather & Findings 17 Los Angeles St., Los Angeles. CARPET WAREHOUSE Aaron Smith. No. 75 Downey Block... Los Angeles. Importer and Dealer in... Carpets, Oilcloths, Paper Hangings, and Upholstery Goods. Carpets Sewed and put down neatly. AMERICAN Bread & Cracker BAKERY. Corner of First and Main Streets, Los Angeles. Butter. Sugar. Soda. JennyLind Pilot and Ginger CRACKERS At San Francisco prices. We have also on hand a large assortment of Cakes, small and large also. Wedding Cakes Of all description. Call and examine for your advice before going elsewhere. LOWEST Patronage Great Ree LUMB J. G. JACOB Corner of Alameda and Los Angeles Rough and Surfaced and C LUMB SHINGLES, LATHS, S WINDOWS, BLIND CEMENT, HAIR Wm. W. Robins F. LANGENBERGER. HALBERSTA Anaheim La Dealers in LUMB of Every Desire Keep constantly on hand a b assortment Redwood & Oregon Rough, Sarfacod, Tongue Posts, Shingles, Bling Shakes, Blinc and Fancy P Windows, Moulds Plaster, Halr and Hardw All of our lumber is of the b are determined to s Lowest D All kinds of Grain and Countr Taken in exchange f EXAMINE OUT ANAHEIM DRUG STORE. Herman Blanken - Proprietor. Dealer in... Drugs and Medicines, Patent Medicines, Perfumery, Trusses, Toilet articles, etc. Wines and Liquors for medical use. Prescriptions carefully Dispensed. J. H. GOOCH, Practical House, Sign, AND CARRIGE PAINTER! Opposite Poplar Row, CENTRE STREET...ANAHEIM All kinds of Carriage Painting done in the Very Bost Stylo. Prices according to style and quality, from $15 upward. A. HILL, Carriage and Wagon Manufacturer. BANKS THE BANK. W.H. WORKMAN. F.P.F. TEMPLE. TEMPLE & WORKMAN BANKERS, Temple Block...Los Angeles. Receive Deposits and issue their Certificates and transact a General Banking Business. Draw on the... London and San Francisco Bank, Limited, at San Francisco. Exchange for sale on... New York. London. Paris and Hamburg. Legal Tenders, Bullion, Gold Dust, and Government, State, County and City Bonds bought and sold. Receive valuables for safe keeping. FARMERS' AND MERCHANTS' BANK OF LOS ANGELES. BANK CAPITAL - $500,000 WEATHER TALES. Bijah's Story, the Reporter's Story and the Old Man's Story. [From the Detroit Free Press.] As the reporters sat around the stove waiting, Bijah spoke up and said: "There's half an hour to spare, and I move that we all tell a story." It was agreed, and biting off another piece of liquorice he began: "Talk about cold weather! You ought to pass one Winter in Arizona. In the Winter of 1870, which the natives called an open Winter, the weather was so cold that coffee froze on the stove while we were getting breakfast. We had to take a maul and wedge to split butter open, and potatoes put into a red-hot oven to bake, would freeze in less than five minutes." "Didn't all the live stock in the country freeze to death?" queried one of the circle. "Well, some did, but we saved a good many horses and cattle. It was a great deal of trouble. We had to pack each animal in a box, cover him with cotton-bafting and fur, and then build fires all around the boxes. Even then some of the horses were so frost-bitten that their hoofs dropped off, and the poor animals had to be taken up on sheets and taken down into the valleys when Spring came. Some of you may think I'm lying, but the man who says so wants to come down behind the tannery and say—yes he does. I've lived in this world too long thirty years." Adam ever, so lost maelodys; Adam and lay meadow; the whale leaving hollow; ures two circumscribed ground; to have one groaned as thunder Railway; "Eve!" low boll residence. The top thatchette fire-plane on the side it; side it; and family vanient line wavered residence became for this "Eve!" years, an hole haunted. CARRIAGE PAINTER! Opposite: Poplar Row, CENTRE STREET...ANAHEIM. All kinds of Carriage Painting done in the Very Best Style. Prices according to style and quality, from $15 upward. A. HILL, Carriage and Wagon Manufacturer, LEMON STREET: ANAHEIM. CARRIAGES, BUGGIES, SPRING. FARM and Freight Wagons Made to Order, on short notice, and of the best material, and by the best workmen the country affords. PLUMBING! In all its branches. Tin, Copper, and Sheet-Iron Work done, and artesian well pipe made. Iron, Steel, Cumberland Coal, Hardwood Lumber, etc., for sale. Hulks, Spokes, Kims, Axles, and all material kept in a first-class establishment. Horse-shooting well done. Blacksmith and Wagon Establishment, Centre Street, Anaheim. THE UNDERSIGNED WOULD BEG TO inform the public that he is fully prepared to do all kinds of Blacksmith Work, Wagon and Carriage Making, and General Job Work, at the most reasonable prices. Horse-shooting is made a specialty at this establishment. Kindness, strict attention to business, and all work warranted is my motto. Wm. Crowther, Proprietor. Semi-Tropical Bitters, PREPARED BY. Herman Blanken, Druggist, Centre Street, Anaheim, California. THE BEST TONIC FOR INVIGORATING the digestive organs, improving the appetite, and imparting to the whole system warmth, vigor and cheerfulness. TINWO, Chinese Wash-House, Los Angeles Street, opp. Masonic Hall, ANAHEIM. WASHING AND IRONING DONE IN A prompt and workmanlike manner and at Lowest Rates. Patronage Solicited. Great Reduction IN... LUMBER!! J. G. JACKSON, Corner of Alameda and First Streets, Los Angeles, Cal. Paris and Hamburg. Legal Tenders, Bullion, Gold Dust, and Government. State, County and City Bonds bought and sold. Receive valuables for safe keeping. FARMERS' AND MERCHANTS' BANK OF LOS ANGELES. BANK CAPITAL - $500,000 JOHN G. DOWNEY...PRESIDENT. ISAIS W. HELLMAN...CASHER. Exchange for sale on. San Francisco, New York, Frankfort, Hamburg, London, Berlin, Dublin and Paris. Receive Deposits and issue their Certificates. Buy and sell Legal Tenders. Government.State and County Bonds. Will also pay the highest price for Gold and Silver Dullion. From and after this date, on all moneys left as term deposits. interest will be paid. Los Angeles, April 14, 1970. LOS ANGELES COUNTY SAVINGS BANK Main Street, Los Angeles. CAPITAL STOCK...$300,000 PRESIDENT...J. S. SLAUSON VICE-PRESIDENT...J. M. GRIFFFITH DIRECTORS: J. S. SLAUSON, J. M. GRIFPFTH. V. A. HOOVEN, ROBERT S. Baker. J. BIXBY. H. B. TICHENOR, GEORGE S. DODGE. Open for business from 10 A.M. till 3 P.M., and Saturday evenings from 6 to 8 o'clock. Deposits received in any amount and for length of time desired. AMERICAN LAUNDRY WASHING AND.. IRONING Done in good style and at the cheapest rates at the American Laundry on Clementina Street. MHS. A. NEAL. LOUIS LEWIN, Successor to Brodrick & Co. Spring Street, opposite "Star" office, Los Angeles, Cal. Dealer in... General Stationery, School, Blank, and Law Books, Well, some did, but we saved a good many horses and cattle. It was a great deal of trouble. We had to pack each animal in a box, cover him with cotton-bafting and fur, and then build fires all around the boxes. Even then some of the horses were so frost-bitten that their hoofs dropped off,and the poor animals had to be taken up on sheets and taken down into the valleys when Spring came. Some of you may think I'm lying, but the man who says so wants to come down behind the tannery and say it—yes he does. I've lived in this world too long to have any young men cast slurs on my statements." A REPORTER'S STORY. After Bijah had been assured that every body in the circle placed the most implicit confidence in his story, a reporter cleared his throat and said: "I never had much to do with cold climates, but I know how it is in Africa. When I was reporting on the African Dogstar,the leading morning paper in that country,six men had to stand and fan me as I wrote. One day two of the six got into a fight,and the heat was too much for the other four. It melted this left arm right off,you see,and my right leg was saved only by the greatest exertions. I know it looks like a big story,but if any of you doubt my word I'll give you the names of several respectable parties in Africa who can be addressed. But that wasn't called hot weather—not a real hot day. When the sun got to melting the types in the cases,door-knobs dissolved,and awning frames burned like straw,then we had to stay in doors and look out for ourselves.I know of several instances where parties taking aim at rabbits had the barrel of the gun melt before they could fire a shot!" AN OLD MAN'S STORY. There was an old man there from St. Chair,a stranger in the city,who had heard of the doings of the Central Station Court,and had come in to see for himself.He had listened very attentively to the other two stories,and after taking a long breath he commenced: "Gentlemen,you may observe that I am an old man.My locks are as white as the driven snow,my limbs are weak,and it is evident to any of you that I have not long to stay in this world.I speak of this because it doesn't seem likely that I,so near the grave would tell a lie for the sake of telling a story.No,no;I shall speak nothing but the solemn truth.I was going to speak about snow.The winter I lived in California was a poor winter for snow There was a great complaint that the crops would be frozen out,and a great many farmers were down-hearted.I was over in Los Angeles County one day hunting,and while going across a plain I came upon a circular hole in the snow,以a ladder leading down.Filled with curiosity,我 descended.I went down 267 feet by the tape-line,and then struck the tops of trees.One hundred and fifty feet further down I came upon a village.Sleighs were dashing about,business going on,and every- residence.The top thatched fire-plane on the side it,tide side,and "family" ventilate line.wait hollow residence became for this "Eve" years,and bole has for a doo! A Strange Some of Slames which very tree feathers took an duced an into the robe front off,and When tha was in p head watha wolf,v Three re it was robes coo buffalo,Five roi altogether when seized M sed him feet foretoes to th umns. stage an shoulder goaded th shriekling upon his about on seemed t ground a great pile barbarous a dazzling Tepada at the fold and hold feet. LOCKING-up or rled out tthe clock porter,cel bearing a companion,tar guard-how Keys." five or si low low him challenges goes there The gate barred sentries o and receiv fore.A guard-how stamp wipe goes there LOUIS LEWIN, Successor to Brodrick & Co. Spring Street, opposite "Star" office, Los Angeles, Cal. General Stationery, School, Blank, and Law Books, Sheet Music and Musical Instruments, Law Blanks, Magazines, Etc. Orders taken for any Book or Music published in the United States. LOS ANGELES AGENCY! Absolutely the Best Protection against Fire. The Babcock FIRE EXTINGUISHER! Self-Acting Fire Engine! AND Hook & Ladder Trucks! In daily use by the Fire Departments of the principal cities of the Union. The Government has adopted them. The leading railroads use them. SEND FOR THEIR RECORD, Crofutt's Life Protector. DIEBOLD, KIENZLE & Co.'s Fire and Burglar-Proof Safes! AND Combination Locks, Vanit Doors, etc. Carbolized Hose, Fire Buckets, Lanters, Soda and Sulphur Acid. M. BORROWE, Local Agent. 32 Main Street, rear of Telegraph office. Colonel M. Eyre, Jr., has just imported from the East, along with a lot of fancy poultry, a pair of light brown ferrets, for the benefit of the rats at his poultry ranch. These animals, besides being good for rats, are also said to exterminate squirrels, a quality that should particularly commend them to the California farmer.—Naps City Register. A REMARKABLE STUMP. — Some thirty or forty years ago there stood in the Lug Meadows, near Morton, a little north of Hereford, England, two very large oaks, about a hundred yards apart. They were massive and lofty trees, and known by the names of "Adam and Eve." They had, however, suffered greatly from storms, had lost many branches, and were perfectly hollow. During a violent storm, "Adam" was completely blown down, and lay for some years after in the meadow. "Eve," too, lost her top, and the whole of her remaining branches, leaving nothing but her immense hollow trunk. This trunk now measures twenty-five feet eight inches in circumference, at five feet from the ground, and thirteen persons are said to have taken tea within it; twenty-one grown sheep, too, have been counted as they came out of it. When the Shrewsbury and Hereford Railway was made, the line included "Eve" in its boundaries, and its hollow bole was at once appropriated as a residence by an economical navvy. The top was evenly sloped off and thatched, as it still remains; a brick fire-place was built in a low opening on the south side, with a chimney beside it, a door was fitted to the east side, and thus it was converted into a "family tenement, compact and convenient." For many months after the line was opened for public traffic this hollow bole actually formed the only residence of the station master. It then became the lamp-room, and was used for this purpose for fourteen years. "Eve" has now been dead for five years, and since 1869 her noble hollow bole has been converted into a stable. A GHASTLY Joke. — Some years ago, when cannaballism was in vogue among the South Sea Islanders, an English man-of-war put into one of the Fiji group. Among the party who went ashore, was an assistant surgeon named Ben Johnson—a fat and perverse person, who was always quarrelling with a young midshipman named Manners. There were two boats, and as the surgeon, who had wandered off from the party when they landed, had not rejoined them when they were ready to go to the ship, they put off without him, but left one of the boats so that he might follow. The captain was annoyed and a little alarmed at their reappearance without Johnson, and instantly dispatched a fresh boat's crew, under Manners, in search of the missing officer. They found his body in the midst of a number of savages, who were just preparing to devour him, but who fled at the sight of the sailors. The poor fellow was not half cooked. A grave was soon made for the undone remains of the unfortunate Johnson, while Manners set up a board to mark the spot, upon which he managed to cut a single sentence with his penknife, unobserved. The captain was shocked on hearing of the dreadful occurrence, and determined to go ashore and take a last look at the resting-place of the ill-starred officer; but when he got a glimpse of the epitaph or inscription on the board he was constrained to turn away to hide his face from all present—for there, in large letters and deeply cut, stood the sentence, "O, rare Ben Johnson." A MATRIMONIAL SOCIETY. — An at-times A STARTLING METAMORPHOSIS. Some one who has been viewing the Siamese jugglers says: "One trick which Minhman performed was a very superior version of the mangrove feat of the Indian jugglers. He took an orange, cut it open, and produced a serpent. This he took down into the audience, and borrowing a robe from one, cut the snake's head off and covered it with the robe. When the robe was lifted again a fox was in place of the snake. The fox's head was cut off, two robes borrowed, and when they were raised, there was a wolf, which was killed with a sword. Three robes and a leopard appeared; it was slain with a javelin. Four robes covered a most savage looking buffalo, that was killed with an axe. Five robes covered in part, but not altogether a lordly elephant, who, when the sword was pointed at him, seized Minhman by the neck and tossed him violently up. He mounted feet foremost, and finally clung by his toes to the capital of one of the columns. Tepada now leaped from the stage and alighted upon the elephant's shoulders. With a short sword he goaded the beast on the head, until shrieking, the unwieldy animal reared upon his hind feet, twined his trunk about one of the great columns, and seemed trying to lift itself from the ground and wrap its body around the great pillar. The music clashed out barbarously. Norodom flashed forth a dazzling firework of some sort, and the elephant had disappeared, and Tepada lay upon the stage writhing in the folds of a great boa constrictor and holding up Minhman upon his feet. LOCKING-UP THE TOWER. The locking-up of the Tower of London is carried out nightly at eleven o'clock. As the clock strikes that hour the yeoman porter, clothed in a long, red cloak, bearing a huge bunch of keys, and accompanied by a warden carrying a lantern, stands at the front of the main guard-house, and calls out, "Escort Keys." The sergeant of the guard and five or six men then turn out and follow him to the outer gate, each sentry challenging as they pass with "Who goes there?" the answer being "Keys." The gates being carefully locked and barred, the procession returns, the sentries exacting the same explanation and receiving the same answer as before. Arrived once more at the main guard-house, the sentry gives a loud stamp with his foot and asks, "Who goes there?" "Keys." "Whose keys?" Johnson, while Manners set up a board to mark the spot, upon which he managed to cut a single sentence with his penknife, unobserved. The captain was shocked on hearing of the dreadful occurrence, and determined to go ashore and take a last look at the resting-place of the ill-starred officer; but when he got a glimpse of the epitaph or inscription on the board, he was constrained to turn away to hide his face from all present—for there, in large letters and deeply cut, stood the sentence, "O, rare Ben Johnson." A MATRIMONIAL SOCIETY. An attempt has been made in Philadelphia to organize a matrimonial help society similar to those established in Europe. The society is to be divided into divisions, each division containing one thousand members. The divisions are to be sub-divided into three different classes, according to the ages of the members, and the amount of monthly assessments. The society proposes to accept any lady or gentleman, between the ages of fifteen and fifty years, of a respectable character and a good repute, as a member, upon paying the initiation fee and monthly dues, according to the class entered. On the expiration of one year members become beneficiary, and on getting married they receive a sum of money adjusted to them in the rules. Each member is assessed for every marriage that occurs in the division to which he belongs for the benefit of the member getting married, or in case of death for the benefit of his heirs. HORTICULTURAL ORNAMENTS. "One of the prettiest objects I have ever beheld," writes a correspondent, "is a spruce cone filled with sand and grass-seed which sprouted and grew out of the scales. It is now as large as a cocoa-nut with the husk on, and of the most vivid green color. The grass grows with a luxuriance that is remarkable. To produce this charming specimen, the cone was baked in a stove oven till the scales opened out equally. It was then carefully filled with equal parts of sand and grass-seed, a string tied to the top, and the whole suspended in the dark, in a jar, with water enough to come half way over the cone. In a week it was placed in the sunlight, when the seed sprouted rapidly, and in a month filled a gallon jar completely. It has been taken out and hung in the window. Every morning it is thoroughly soaked in milk-warm water." Talmadge gives a recipe for keeping times hard: Let everybody talk depressingly. When anyone falls in business, put it all in the papers. Let business men keep up perpetual complaint. Let us have occasional editorials inciting bread riots, and political speeches on the wrongs of the laboring classes. Let everybody prophesy a hard winter, a very hard winter, an awful hard winter. Let us all talk down instead of up. Let us take no account of the fact that flour is cheap, and that the harvests are large, and God is good. We shall in this way be able to take another faggot from the poor man's hearth and knock another An Arab Legend.—King Nimrod one day caused three urns to be placed before his three sons. One of the urns was of gold, the other of amber and the third of clay. The king told his eldest son to choose among the urns that which appeared to contain the treasure of the greatest price. The eldest chose the vase of gold on which was written 'Empire'; he opened it, and found it full of blood. The second chose the amber vase, on which was written 'Glory'; he opened it and found it filled with ashes of men who had been famous on earth. The third took the remaining vase of clay; he opened it, and found it empty; but in the bottom the potter had written the name of God. "Which of these vases weighs the most?" demanded the king of his court. The ambitious replied, the vase of gold; the poets and conquerers, the vase of amber; the sages answered and said, the empty vase, because that a single letter in the name of God weighs more than the entire globe. Petaluma has subscribed $100,000 to the San Rafael and Petaloma Railroad. A preliminary survey of the line has been commenced. When anyone falls in business, put it all in the papers. Let business men keep up perpetual complaint. Let us have occasional editorials insisting bread riots, and political speeches on the wrongs of the laboring classes. Let everybody prophesy a hard winter, a very hard winter, an awful hard winter. Let us all talk down instead of up. Let us take no account of the fact that flour is cheap, and that the harvests are large, and God is good. We shall in this way be able to take another faggot from the poor man's hearth and knock another pane of glass out of his window, and hinder the manufacturer from employing him. All together now—ministers, editors, capitalists—and laborers—let us give a long, deep groan, and keep it going till next spring, and the times will be as hard as we could reasonably expect. S. M. B. Haley, a professional borer of artesian wells, estimates that there are 1,000 wells of this kind in San Francisco, some good and many indifferent in quality. The artesian wells at the Palace Hotel yielded every drop of water which has been used in the construction of that colossal edifice. The Grand, Occidental, and Lick hotels have artesian wells, as have also a number of manufacturing establishments. A number of artesian wells which have just been sunk beyond the Mission Woolen Mills, and near the creek, have a very strong flow yielding from 4,000 to 6,000 gallons of water an hour. There are 133 convicts in the Nevada State Prison, which Governor Bradley says in his message is an increase of nearly 100 per cent. over the previous two years. He does not, however, put this fact down to the discredit of the State, but attributes it to greater vigilance in the detection and more earnest zeal in the prosecution of criminals. A greater number of arrests and convictions take place now than ever before. An old farmer gives it as his candid opinion, after many years of observation and experience, that the arrival of a circus will do more towards enforcing the Fourth Commandment than a dozen Sunday schools. Three men have been badly possibly fatally injured by the fall of a staging in the Palace Hotel.