anaheim-gazette 1875-01-30

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 inclusions to clubs: Ten copies, one year ... $35 00 Twenty copies, one year ... $61 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 before all lavit of publication is made. 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 Guiling, Anaheim. MISCELLANY ANAHEIM DRU Herman Blanken Drugs and Medicines, Perfum Trusses, Toilet a Wines and Liquors fo Prescriptions carefu J. H. GO Practical Hou AND CARRIAGE P Opposite Popl CENTRE STREET... All kinds of Carriage Pa Very Best Prices according to style $15 upward. A. HI Carriage and Wagon Transient Advertising: SPACE. 1 w. 2 w. 3 w. 4 w. 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 before all law of publication is made. Advertisements must be handed in before A oclock on Friday afternoon, in order to insure publication on the Saturday following. Communications for publication should be adhere to R. McLewse & 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. GARDINER, Physician and Surgeon, Office ... in Clark & Austin's Building ANAHEIM. J. H. YOCUM, M. D. (Oralate of Pennsylvania University). HAVING HAD TWENTY YEARS ACTIVE practical experience is prepared to practise medicine in all of its branches in accordance with the latest approved methods of the Art. Office and residence opposite Langenberger's store, Anaheim, Cal. Dr. J. M. ROBERTS, Resident Dentist, Anthelm, Cal. HAS PITTED UP A COMMODIOUS OFFICE in the Anaheim Hotel building where he can be found on Fridays and Saturdays of each work. MRS. A. HIGGINS, Ladloe' Physician and Midwife. Particular attention given to ladloes 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 Soda. GEORGE C. KNOX; Civil Engineer and Surveyor, Office at the GAZETTE office. Los Angeles Street Anaheim. A. BAILEY, Justice of the Peaco. Office at ENTERPRISE HALL BUILDING. J. W. CLARK, JUSTICE OF THE PEACE AND 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 Presser, Planters Hotel Building, Anaheim. A. C. BEEBE, Contractor and Builder, Plants and specifications drawn up with neatness and accuracy. Ordered at Clark & Anstin bookstore 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. Tift UNDERSIGNED BEGS LEAVE TO inform the people of Anaheim and vicinity that he is prepared to sink deep surface walls on short notice, using single or double pipes as preferred. For any depth under 100 feet, bites per foot. All orders left at the store of Heimann & George will receive prompt attention. Anaheim Cooper Shop, Centre street, Anaheim, Cal. J. Westphal, ... Proprietor. CHARLES WILLE, COOPERAGE! Pipos, Barrols and Kegs on Hand at all Times. Tanks and Tubs Made to Order! North 2nd street Anaheim. CHARLES HILLE Propriator of the CITY BAKERY, Civil Engineer and Surveyor, Office at the GAZETTE office, Los Angeles Street Anaheim. A. BAILEY, Justice of the Poaco. Office at ENTERPRISE HALL BUILDING. J. W. CLARK, JUSTICE of the PEACE AND NOTARY PUBLIC. Land Agent and Conveyancer. Acknowledgments taken. James 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. G. HOWARD. H. 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. A. A. WILSON, Attorney at Law, Booms No. 35 and 27, Temple Block, LOS ANGELES, CAL. SAMUEL MEYER, Crockery, Glassware, Lamps Oils, Gas Fixtures and Kitchen Utensils Commercial Street Los Angeles. CHARLES WILLE, COOPERAGE! Pipos, Barrois and Kegs on Hand at all Times. Tanks and Tubs Made to Order! North 21st street Anaheim. CHARLES HILLE Proprietor of the CITY BAKERY, Centre Street Anaheim. Fresh Eread 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. 73 Downey Block... Los Angeles. Importer and Dealer in. Carpets, Oilcloths, Paper Hangings, and Upholstery Goods. Carpeta Sewed and put down neatly. AMERICAN Bread & Cracker BAKERY. Corner of First and Main Streets, Los Angeles. Butter. Sugar. Soda. Jenny-Lind Pilot and Ginger CRACKERS At San Francisco prices. We have also on hand a large assortment of Cakts small and large also Wedding Cakes Of all description. Call and examine for yourselves before going elsewhere. 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. GOCCH, Practical House, Sign, AND CARRIAGE PAINTER! Opposite Poplar Row, CENTRE STREET...ANAHEIM All kinds of Carriage Painting done in the Very Best Stylo. Prices according to style and quality, from $15 upward. A. HILL, Carriage and Wagon Manufacturer, BANKS THE BANK. WM. WORKMAN. F. P. E. 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 valables for safe keeping. FARMERS' AND MERCHANTS' BANK OF LOS ANGELES. BANK CAPITAL - $600,000 JOHN G. DOWNEY "NO WINTER." To the weakly or sensitive persons upon whom the cold Winter of the Western and North Atlantic States tells severely, it must seem like a fairy tale to read that there is no Winter in Southern California. It is difficult, in the midst of our Winter discomforts, to realize that in one favored part of our own Republic it seems always Summer; that when the snows cover the ground in all the northern half of the Union, fresh green grass and springing flowers mantle the soil of our "American Italy;" that while we are consuming the carefully-hoarded vegetables and fruits of Summer, the fortunate inhabitants of this new land of promise are making gardens and raising a fresh supply, and that while the farmer of these parts is dolling out hay and grain to his stock, sheltered in warm barns, green fields and pastures new receive the flocks and herds of Southern California. Even in the more northern locality of San Francisco the newspapers talk about the mornings being "delightfully cool and bracing." The other day, when the thermometer was at 15 deg. above zero at Davenport, Iowa, and 10 deg. above at Denver, Colorado, the San Franciscans were scarcely content with a temperature which was too cold for them at 40 deg. above zero. It is reported of one inhabitant that he sent to his less fortunate brethren in the East a December picture of his house embowered in flowers and foliage. Under such conditions as these, it is not surprising that people, weary of the hard wrestle with life which a Northern Winter makes necessary, ARTISAN don corrore Union w whole w lishmentes places o amuseme classes. Hartfordian Assoc. in Americ and harb choose to Heath, ly establ house, w of the la thing I l tion is to Any maenters a and his s is relied undertail attached but tha unsectar eating li card pla draughth kind arre ments ari sible pri coffee ca bread adj cents, a There is room, o large roo a place nights, sesemble V tions, or amateur member Opposite: Poplar Row, CENTRE STREET...ANAHEIM. All kinds of Carriage Painting done in the Very Best Stylo. 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. Hubs, Spokes, Bins, Axles, and all material kept in a first-class establishment. Horse-shooting well done. Blacksmith and Wagon Establishment, Centre Street, Andheim. THE UNDERSIGNED WOULD BE 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. Masonio Hall, ANAHEIM. WASHING AND IRONING DONE IN A prompt and workmanlike manner and at Lowost Ratos Patronage Solicited. Great Reduction LUMBER!! J. G. JACKSON, Corner of Alameda and First Streets, Los Angeles, Cal. Legal Tenders, Billion, Gold Dast, and Government State County and City Bonds bought and sold. Receive valables for safe keeping. FARMERS' AND MERCHANTS' BANK OF LOS ANGELES. BANK CAPITAL - $500,000 JOHN G. DOWNEY President. ISAMS W. HELLMAN Cashier. 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 Bullion. From and after this date on all money's left as term deposits, inter will be paid. Los Angeles, April 14, 1870. 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. GRIFFFITH. V. A. HOVERA. ROBERTS S. BASER. J. BINEY. B. E. TRUMSON. George S. DOSEM. Open for business from 19 A.M. (8:30 p.m.) and Saturday evenings from 6 to 9 o'clock. Deposits received in any amounts. Money to be kept on real estate in amounts 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. MRS. A. NEAL. LOUIS LEWIN, Successor to Drodrick & Co. Spring Street, opposite "Star" office; Los Angeles, Cal. Dealer in General Stationery, School, Blank, and Law Books, Sheet Music and Musi- Great Reduction LUMBER!! J. G. JACKSON, Corner of Alamanda and First Streets, Los Angeles, Cal. Sells at Balanced rates Rough and Surfaced and Oregon & Redwood LUMBER. SHINGLES, LATHS, SHAKES, DOORS, WINDOWS, BLINDS, PLASTER, CEMENT, HAIR, ETC. Wm. W. Robinson, Agent. P. LANGENBERGER. G. HALBERSTADT. HAL BERSTADT & CO Anaheim Landing. Dealers in LUMBER of Every Description, Keep constantly on hand a large and complete assortment of Redwood & Oregon Pine Lumber Rough, Surfaced, Tongued and Grooved. Posts, Shingles, Laths, Doors Shakes, Blinds, Plain and Fancy Pickets, Windows, Mouldings, Lime, Plaster, Hair, Nails, and Hardware. All of our lumber is of the best quality and we are determined to sell at the Lowest Rates. All kinds of... Crain and Country Produce Taken in exchange for Lumber. EXAMINE OUR STOCK. LOUIS LEWIN, Successor to Drodrick & Co. Spring Street, opposite "Star" office, Los Angeles, Cal. Dealer in General Stationery, School, Blank, and Law Books, Sheet Music and Musical Instruments, Law Blanks, Magazines, Etc. Others 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! ANDHook & 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! ANDCombination Locks, Vanit Doors, etc. Carbolized Hose, Fire Buckets, Lanterns, Soles and Sulphuric Acid. M. BOBEOWE. Local Agent. 52 Main Street, real of Telegraph office. The rising tide of life spreads far to the West and South, and before long it must flow into the sunny valleys; and cover the fertile plains of the fair domain by the Pacific. No other country but our embraces within its proper limits such an infinite variety of climate and natural productions of the soil. From New England to San Diego is not after all, such a vast distance; but the difference between their essential characteristics is as wide as the distance between the equator and the rigorous North. Both are within comparatively easy reach of the home-seeking stranger, and both belong to the land we call our own.—New York Times. VALUABLE WINES. — Lord Dalhousie's cellar of rare old wines was sold in Edinburgh the other day. The most interesting part of the sale was the spirited competition for the "Stag sherry," a dark-brown wine, bottled in 1887, and presented to Lord Dalhousie (then the Hon. Fox Maule) by the late Marquis of Breadalbane. This curious wine was sold at £7 5s. per dozen. Lot 29, Port, 1830 vintage, bottled in 1844, was sold at £4 14s. per dozen; the "Tappit hen," holding one gallon of 1841 elaret, fetched £5; lot 31, imperial magnums of Chateau Laffitte, 1851 vintage; cellared in 1855, was sold at £20 per dozen; lot 35, Chateau Latour, 1858 vintage; at £4'5s. per dozen: lot 37, Chateau Latour, 1862 vintage; at £1 12s. per dozen; lot 38, magnums of 1864, Chateau Laffitte, at £10 per dozen; lot 39, Chateau Laffitte, 1864 vintage; at £1 15s. per dozen; and lot 40, Chateau Laffitte, 1865 vintage; was sold at the same price. Some of the rare hocks of Johannisberg, Steinberg and Raenthal, of vintage of 1846 were knocked down at the low price of £5, etc. Most of the wines were bought by the friends of the late Earl. On Monday a small nitro-glycerine factory, situated on a small artificial island in North river, a short distance below Commanipaw was blown up and four men killed. The bodies of three of them were recovered. They were terribly disfigured. The body of the other man has not been found. Shortly after the explosion another workman was seen leaving the island in a boat, which was sunk. His fate is unknown. GAZETTE NO. 15 Sensitive persons in Winter of the Atlantic States seem like a fairy that is difficult, in winter discomforts, favored part of the snows cover northern half of the soil that while we carefully-hoarded of Summer, the of this new land gardens and stand that while it is doling out stock, sheltered fields and pasocks and herds. Even in the year of San Francisco talk about the whitely cool and day, when the 15 deg. above Iowa, and over Colorado, the scarcely content which was too big, above zero. inhabitant that estimate brethren for picture of his flowers and foliage as these, it people, weary of life which takes necessary, ARTISAN'S CLUB-HOUSE.—The London correspondent of the San Diego Union writes: A matter in which the whole world is interested is the establishment of cheap cating houses and places of innocent recreation and amusement for the poor laboring class. Paris, Glasgow, Boston and Hartford, and the Young Men's Christian Association, in almost every city in America, provide rooms for reading and harmless recreation for all who choose to enter them. But at Brindle Heath, London, there has been recently established a sort of Artisan's Club-house, which seems to meet the wants of the laboring poor better than anything I have heard of. This institution is to be entirely self-supporting. Any man may enter the house as he enters a beer saloon or coffee room, and his custom and that of his friends is relied upon for the support of the undertaking. There is no condition attached to the free use of the place but that of good behavior. The club is unsectarian and unpolitical. Intoxicating liquors, dancing, gambling, and card playing are prohibited; but chess, draughts, and other games of that kind are freely provided for. Refreshments are furnished at the lowest possible prices. A large cup of tea or coffee can be obtained for three cents; bread and butter or meat pie for four cents, and other things in proportion. There is a smoking room, a reading room, one or two dining rooms, and a large room for entertainment, and as a place of general assembly on full nights, when as many as 200 men assemble to sing songs, deliver recitations, or to listen to music by some amateur performer on the piano. A member of the committee of management attends to keep order; but his quicksilver lode has been discovered near Olema, Sonoma county. Rev. Dr. Chapin says of the Lincoln statue that none needed it less, none deserved it more. Now is a good time to buy thermometers. They are lower now than they have been since last spring. The overflow of Bear Creek and Mariposa river has flooded the town of Merced. Sixteen hundred feet of the R. R. track has been swept away. The number of immigrants who arrived in New York during 1874 was 140,337, compared with 266,818 during 1873. The wharf at Santa Barbara sustained quite serious damage by the storm of the 19th last. So much so that the steamers could not discharge freights. A reaction among leading Republicans is reported from Washington City. They have decided to recognize and sustain the Kellogg Government. A Wisconsin man recently killed six skunks in one day. After interviewing the first one he became reckless and so kept on. The first and second Kings of Slam, father and son, have had a civil war, in which the latter was defeated and compelled to take refuge with the British Consul. There's a row in Cincinnati. The brewers are mixing rice and cornmeal with their malt, and citizens complain that thirty glasses of it are more than they can now drink at one time. A little canal of twenty-three miles was wanted in China in 1825. Time must be precious there though life is as these, it people, weary of a life which a makes necessary, to such genial northern California over State is more any part of the is, necessarily, short for those who there is no californians assert inducements to country than can the few counties California are very real acreage being of the six New said that most and immediately cultural purposes, the region, and crops are raised to make it a The plaintive years has been population." The immigration has country is that it takes a consider-ego to any part be a family, with amidable understest favorable con-gentiment is such men of slender ore they underen the charm of "strawberries all will not always who is debating before, our bleak fields are not yet a comfort for sees feel crowded here is so much Republic. Pospeople who will may get the best of the region eventually be, with large towns and evidences of man-inspiring one. intervening spacesided by the in- of the country. spreads far to and before long sunny valleys,and of the fair do No other country within its proper variety of cllductions of the England to San such a vast disce between their is as wide as the equator and Both are within each of the home-habitant that estimate brethren or picture of his flowers and foli- There is a smoking room, a reading room, one or two dining rooms, and a large room for entertainment, and as a place of general assembly on full nights, when as many as 200 men assemble to sing songs, deliver recitations, or to listen to music by some amateur performer on the piano. A member of the committee of management attends to keep order; but his veto is rarely needed. The institution has been open only a short time, but already its success exceeds the most sanguine expectations. It is frequented by many residing in the neighborhood who have heretofore spent their leisure time in places where all surrounding influences were evil. HE "DIDNA KEN."—The Duke of Athol having one day, at Blair-Athol, entertained a large party at dinner, produced in the evening many curious and interesting family relies for their inspection, among them a small watch which had belonged to Charles Stuart, and given by him to one of the duke's ancestors. When the company were on the point of departing, the watch was suddenly missed, and was searched for in vain upon the table and about the apartments. The duke was exceedingly vexed, and declared that of all the articles he had exhibited the lost watch was the one that he most valued. The guests naturally became exceedingly uncomfortable, and eyed each other suspiciously. No person was present, however, who could possibly be suspected, and courtesy forade any stronger step than the marked expression of the noble host's extreme annoyance and distress. Each parted to his home in an exceedingly unenviable state of mind, and the mysterious disappearance of the royal relic was a subject of discussion for several months in society. A year afterwards, the duke being again at Blair-Athol, was dressing for dinner, and in the breast-pocket of a coat which his valet had handed to him, felt something which proved to be the missing watch. "Why——!" exclaimed his grace, addressing his man by his name, "here is the watch we hunted everywhere in vain for." "Yes, sir," replied the man gravely; "I saw your grace put it in your pocket." "You saw me put it in my pocket and never mentioned it! Why didn't you speak at once, and prevent all that trouble and unpleasant feeling?" "I didna ken what might ha'e been your grace's intentions," was the reply of the faithful and discreet Highlander, who saw everything and said nothing, unless he were directly interrogated. The Moscow Gazette in commenting upon a correspondence from the provinces of the Vistula, predicts that if the wholesale destruction of timber be not placed under effective limitations within the next quarter century, that finely-wooded region will become an arid plain. Volhynia, in which skirts in one day. After interviewing the first one he became reckless and so kept on. The first and second Kings of Slam, father and son, have had a civil war, in which the latter was defeated and compelled to take refuge with the British Consul. There's a row in Cincinnati. The brewers are mixing rice and cornmeal with their malt, and citizens complain that thirty glasses of it are more than they can now drink at one time. A little canal of twenty-three miles was wanted in China in 1825. Time must be precious there though life is so cheap. Only six weeks was given in which to dig it, though it went through great forests and over extensive marshes; twenty thousand men worked upon it night and day, and over seven thousand died of fatigue. The New York assembly adopted last week by a secret party vote, resolutions condemning the interference of the military in Louisiana affairs and the growing tendency of the general Government to subordinate civil to military power; especially condemning Sheridan's banditti proposition, and its approval by the Secretary of War in the name of the Administration. The message of the President on finance recently sent to the Senate with his approval of the Senate bill for the resumption of specio payment, calls the attention of Congress to the necessity for increased revenue to carry out the obligation of adding to the sinking fund annually one per cent. of the public debt, and the promise of the bill to redeem $80,000,000 of legal tenders, and suggests the restoration of the duty on tea and coffee, and the repeal of the ten per cent. reduction on certain articles by the act of June 5, 1872. At a recent New York funeral, where the deceased was a young and beautiful lady, where over $3,000 worth of flowers were distributed in and around the coffin; a chorus was sung by hired vocalists; on either side of the coffin stood four young girls dressed in white each holding in her hands a wreath of flowers; while a minister prayed, a bell was filled in the hallway, and a chant sung by the hired vocalists. The lady friends of the deceased thought the entertainment "perfectly elegant." A subscriber in Anaheim writes: "There is a rumor in this place that the Palace Hotel will have a dining-room three-fourths of a mile square, and the chief waiter will be on horse-back, with a pair of opera-glasses, and the orders for dinner, etc., will be sent by telegraph to the chief cook, the latter being also on horse-back in the kitchen. Please state if this is really so." We think there must be some exaggeration about it. We do not believe the room is over half a mile square besides the horse-back business is incorrect; velocipedes will be used.—Alta. The case of the German bond holders vs. California Pacific Railroad came up in U.S. Circuit Court in San Francisco other morning. The defendant corporation, it will be re-imbarked in this court to The Moscow Gazette in commenting upon a correspondence from the provinces of the Vistula, predicts that if the wholesale destruction of timber be not placed under effective limitations within the next quarter century, that finely-wooded region will become an arid plain. Volhynia, in which formerly 42 per cent. of the land was forest, now contains but 25 per cent. Riga will soon lose its character as a timber-exporting point. Renza has reduced her forest area from 35 per cent. to 20 per cent. of her surface. Other provinces show a similar tendency. These complaints are re-echoed by the other leading journals of the empire. The danger of injurious depletion of forest areas has attracted the attention of the leading agricultural societies, and the impression is gaining ground among all classes of the people that prompt action must be taken by the government to avert the injurious consequences of a general destruction of forests. The fireman of the steam heating apparatus at the Central depot yesterday found a penny as he was raking over the hot ashes in the furnace, and he took it up with the tongs and placed it on a bench outside to cool off. It had hardly commenced to cool when a heavy man named Johnson, living in Saginaw, came along. He was talking business with a friend, and as he came to the bench he parted his coat tails and sat down on the penny, remarking: "As I was saying, you can have forty acres for—whoop! Thunder and blazes—ouch—dash it—gosh to whoop!" He galloped around in wild amazement, the hot penny sticking to him like a brother, and it was two or three minutes before any one found out whether he had dropped down on a tack or been hitten by a dog. There was a heavy aroma of burning cloth and blistered meat, and Mr. Johnson stretched forth his arm and exclaimed that he should devote the remainder of his life to hunting down the fiend who thus planned to waylay him. Detroit Free Press. The case of the German bond holders vs the California Paigle Railroad came up in the C.S.Crentit Court in San Francisco the other morning. The defendant corporation, it will be remembered petitioned in this court to have the adverse decision of Judge Holguin reviewed and set aside. An order was made by Judge Sawyer for petitioners in bankruptcy to show cause why the prayer of defendants should not be granted, and the hearing was set down for that morning; but on motion of counsel for bond-holders, with the consent of the other side, the master was continued until the 28th of February. A dispatch from New York says that no calculations made on the data obtained in the recent transit of Venus see the sun's parallax as being respectively 9.4°—9.25°—and 9.20°—the mean being 9.24°. The computation were made by Prof. O. Henricke, of University College; Frederick Cuttrie, of the Royal School of Mines and Art; and Mossera Dunkin and Elks associants at the Royal Observatory, Greenwich. Based on this dispatch, the World remarks, on the authority of an American astronomer: "To say that the sun's parallax has been ascertained to be 9.24°, is to say that the sun is distant from us about 88,443,727 miles. This is 6,926,274 miles less than the distance made out by Euke, from observations of the last transit, and three or four millions less than results obtained by more recent measurements. If this ratio were constant, we should require 1,440 years to overcome the entire distance, and fall into the sun; but, as it is certain that our centripetal motion would be vastly accelerated as we got closer within the sphere of the sun's attraction, unless his force should be proportionately decreased or his volume reduced, it is also probable that we should consume very much less time than above given in making the tremendous journey."