anaheim-gazette 1875-05-08

ANAHEIM VOL. V. Anaheim Gazette PUBLISHED EVERY SATURDAY. MELROSE & ATHEARN, EDITORS AND PROPRIETORS. Terms of Subscription: One year.....$4 00 Six Months.....2 50 The a Month.....1 50 All subscriptions must be paid in advance Club Rates: In order to increase our already large circulation we offer the following indemnities to clubs: Ten copies, one year.....$33 50 Twenty copies, one year.....60 00 One copy will be sent free to the person getting up the club. Transient Advertising: WACK....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 l.s., per month.....$1 50 Two squares.....2 00 One column.....15 00 Half column.....8 00 Quart r column.....5 00 BUSINESS CARDS MISS McWHIRTER, Dressmaker, At the residence of P. C. McKinnis Centre Street, Anaheim. Dressmaking. Stamping. Braiding. Pinking. and all kinds of plain sewing at reasonable rates. Fashionable Dressmaking! First door cast of Mrs. Brown's, Centre Street, Anaheim. STRICT ATTENTION PAID TO CUTTING and Fitting. Also apply for the Ramington SEWING MACHINE, considered a fineclass machine in the East. MISS. BECKINGTON, MISS E. PARKER. Mrs. SHORT & Mrs. HARVEY Milliners and Dressmakers, Planters' Hotel Building, Los Angeles street, Anaheim. LADIES' FANCY AND FURNISHING GOODS of all descriptions. FRANK EY'S Bair Restorer A splendid preparation for cleansing and invigorating the growth of the hair. Manufactured and sold by Frank Ey. Fashionable Hair Tresser, Planters' Hotel Building, Anaheim. A. G. BEEBE, CARPENTRIL. Transient Advertising: WAGE: 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 Quart r column ... $5.00 Legal advertisements must be paid for before all lavit of publication is made. Advertisements must be handed in before 4 o'clock on Friday afternoon, in order to issue publication on the Saturday following. Communications for publication should be added to B. 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 ANAHEM. J. H. YOCUM, M. D. (Graduate of Pennsylvania University). HAVING HAD TWENTY YEARS ACTIVE practical experience is prepared to practice medicine in all of his branches in accordance with the lab approved methods of the Art. Office and residence opposite Langenberger's store, Anaheim, Cal. DR. WM. N. HARDIN, Physician and Surgeon, GRADUATE of the JEFFERSON MEDICAL College of the city of Philadelphia; of the New York Medical College of the city of New York; of the New York Opthalmic Hospital; and of the New York Chemical Labatory. Has had twenty-five years practical experience in his profession. May be found at all hours except when professionally engaged, at his residence corner Los Angeles and Sycamore streets, Anaheim. JAMES ELLIS, M. D. MEMBER OF THE ROYAL COLLEGE OF SURGEONS OF ENGLAND. Residence and Office: Anaheim Hotel Building Consulting Rooms Nos. 10 and 11. DR. J. N. BURTNETT, Physician and Surgeon, Graduate of Jefferson Medical College, Philadelphia. OFFICE: At Faulkner's Hotel, Santa Ana, Cal. Dr. J. M. ROBERTS, Surgeon Dentist, Office in Langenberger's new building, up stairs, Centre St. Anaheim. FRANK EY'S Bair 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. G. BEEBE, CARPENTR F, Contractor and Builder, Orders left at the Gazette letter box will receive prompt attention. P. C. McKINNIE, Contractor and Builder, SCOP... ON CENTRE STREET. Adjining Pioneer Livery Stable. GEORGE BAUER, Boot and Shoe Maker Los Angeles Street, opposite Enterprise Hall. Making and repairing at the lowest cash price All ords 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 STREE... ANAHEIM Stoves, Tinware, etc., always on hand. FOR THE AMERICAN DRIVE WELL! Leave orders at J. Bennerscheidl's Tinshop on Center Street Anaheim. HENRY SCHWARZ. Well-Boring. THE 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 pipe as preferred. For any depth under 100 feet, 5 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, Barrels and Kegs on Hand at all Times. Tanks and Tubes Made to Order! Graduate of Jefferson Medical College, Philadelphia. OFFICE: At Faulkner's Hotel, Santa Ana, Cal. Dr. J. M. ROBERTS, Surgeon Dentist, Office in Langenberger's new building, up stairs, Centre St. Anaheim. MRS. A. HIGGINS, Ladies' Physician 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... farmery and Garden Seeds. 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. Acknowledgements taken. Leans negotiated on Real Estate security. Office at Clark & Austin's book store. J. G. 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 & NUTTON, Attorneys at Law. Office in Temple Block, Up Stains. LOS ANGELES, CAL. Anaheim Cooper Shop, Centre street, Anaheim, Cal. J. Westphal, - - Proprietor. CHARLES WILLE, COOPERAGE! Pipes, Barrels and Kegs on Hand at all Times. Tanks and Tubs Made to Order! North 2nd 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. CHINESE LAUNDRY, SIN SI WAU, - - Proprietor. Los Angeles Street, Anaheim. Washing and Ironing! Shirts Repolished. SAMUEL MEYER, Crockery, Glassware, Lamps Oils, Gas Fixtures and Kitchen Utensils Commercial Street, Los Angeles. Castor Beans!!! Crop of 1875. I will contract until May to pay for the crop of 1875, arriving five dollars per ton for easier beans; to be delivered at Los Angeles or at any other equal shipping point. GEORGE H. PERK. Agent of Pacific Oil and Lead Company, San Francisco. El Monte, November 28th, 1874. ANAHEIM DRUG STORE. Herman Blanken • Proprietor. ...Dealer in... Drugs and Medicines, Patent Medicine, 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 Style. Price according to style and quality, from $15 upward. A. HILL, Carriage and Wagon Manufacturer, TAILOR Anahaim Merchant Tailoring Emporium. M. A. MENDELSON, Centre Street, Anahaim. Notice is hereby given to my friends and the public generally that I have removed my establishment from my old stand to the same formerly occupied by Goodman & Illman. I have custody of a full line of fabrics, conditioned and writings of the very latest styles, which I am now enabled to sell by yard or other wise, and I desire to inform all that any goods which I sell I will cut free of charge. I have also added a full line of great's furnishing goods which are all of the newest styles, and would respectfully solicit my friends to call and see me. Repairing, Dyeing and Scouring done at reasonable rates. BANKS THE BANK. WM. WORKMAN. F. P. F. TEMPLE. TEMPLE & WORKMAN BANKERS, Temple Block...Los Angeles. Receive Deposits and issue their Certificates and THE HABIT OF READING. "I have no time to read" is the common complaint, and especially of woman, whose occupation is such as to prevent continuous book perusal. They assume to think because they cannot devote as much attention to books as they are compelled to devote to their avocations, that they cannot read anything. But this is a great mistake. It isn't the books we finish at a sitting which do us the most good. These we devour in the odd moments, half a dozen pages at a time often give us more satisfaction, and are more dignified than those we make a particular effort to read. The men who have made their mark in the world, have generally been the men who have, in boyhood, formed the habit of reading at every available moment, whether for five minutes or five hours. It is the habit of reading, rather than the time at our command, that helps us on the road to learning. Many of the most cultivated persons, whose names have been famous as students, have given only two or three hours a day to their books. If we make use of spare moments in the midst of our work, and read a little, if but a page or a paragraph, we shall find our brains quickened and our toll lightened by just so much increased satisfaction as the books give us. Nothing helps along the monotonous daily round so much as fresh and striking thoughts, to be considered while our hands are busy. A new idea from a new type of which volume notfelicienbeen" has them, and upon the New York Herald Perhaps world are dictionary吏. When with a g. honest old live from Bendolph In legs in my By any o form the joke down as most ignite States. O posed, and caught in to cover him el to spell was like I subsidy in turned up stock." B makers of of the vali wrestling only to clear other star standard? Worcester son and Jo authorities words; and ences of th 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. Hubs. Spokes, Rims, Axles, and all material kept in a first-class establishment. Horse-shooting will done. Blacksmith and Wagon Establishment, Centre Street, Anaheim. 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 specially at this establishment. Kindness, strict attention to business, and all work warranted is my motto. Wm. Crowther, Proprietor. VICTOR PONET, Pioneer Undertaker! 60 Main Street, Los Angeles. Keeps on hand the Largest and Best Assortment of Metalic, Rosewood and Walnut Coffins, Shrouds, Trimmings Etc. In this city, direct from the East. Dealers in the country will find it to their interest to give him a call, as he will sell goods. CHEAPER THAN THEY CAN GET THEM IN SAN FRANCISCO. Full charge taken of Funerals. Bodies Embalmed for Shipment East. All orders by telegraph promptly attended to. The finest Hearse In Southern California. Great Reduction LUMBER!! J. G. JACKSON, Corner of Alameda and First Streets, Los Angeles, Cal. BANKS THE BANK. WM. 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 JOHN G. DOWNEY...PRESIDENT. ISAIS 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. Interest 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. GRIFFITH DIRECTORS: J. S. SLAUSON, J. M. GRIPFITH, V. A. HOVER, ROBERT S. BAKER, J. BIXBY. H. B. TICHENOR, GEORGE S. DODGE. than the time at our command, that helps us on the road to learning. Many of the most cultivated persons, whose names have been famous as students, have given only two or three hours a day to their books. If we make use of spare moments in the midst of our work, and read a little, if but a page or a paragraph, we shall find our brains quickened and our toil lightened by just so much increased satisfaction as the books give us. Nothing helps along the monotonous daily round so much as fresh and striking thoughts, to be considered while our hands are busy. A new idea from a new volume is like oil which reduces the friction of the machinery of life. What we remember from brief glimpses into books often serve as a stimulus to action, and becomes one of the most precious deposits in the treasury of our recollection. All knowledge is made up of small parts, which would seem insignificant in themselves, but which, taken together, are valuable weapons for the mind, and substantial armour for the soul. "Read anything continuously," says Dr. Johnson, "and you will be learned." The old min-utes which we are inclined to waste, will, in the long run, make golden days that we shall be ever thankful for. A SOLEMN SKETCH Do the thoughtless humorists imagine because a man goes waltzing past a buzz-saw, on both sides of it; that his friends can be brought to consider it any more of a joke than if he had gently coughed his spirit out in bed with a galloping consumption? Can the tenderest humor, playing lightly with the salient points of the dreadful scene, convey to the stricken widow any idea of the ludicrous in her adored husband's going into a threshing machine with the wheat and coming out with the straw? Ah, no! Wit fails to bring smiles from the weeping heart. The terrible picture will come to her mind, in all the vivid coloring of its horrors, as she sees 2 chopping wood in No. I's clothes. Why, then, should this thoughtless levity, in speaking of such solemn subjects, be indulged in? And when a fellow-man, in a burst of that desperate energy, born to us moments of great peril, attempts to blow back a handful of buckshot that is trying to emerge from the muzzle of his gun, he should be dealt with as tenderly as if his breath was strong enough to make the attempt successful, and he should live to die in a bed with ruffled pillows, and a table standing beside it with a Bible, a tablespoon, a bunch of grapes and a bottle of medicine upon it. Why should the memory of a departed citizen be held up to laughter merely because a few moments preceding his demise he happened to be standing at a mule whose cropper had got turned upside down? Speak of them tenderly, no matter where they have gone, or how they went. Whether they went fluking amid the fragrant fumes of the fitful kerosene, or in the whirl of the revolving buzz-saw, or amid the suggestive notes of the East. All orders by telegraph promptly attended to. The finest Hearse in Southern California. Great Reduction LUMBER!! J. G. JACKSON, Corner of Alameda and First Streets, Los Angeles, Cal. Sells at reduced rates Rough and Surfaced and Oregon & Redwood LUMBER, SHINGLES, LATHS, SHAKES, DOORS, WINDOWS, BLINDS, PLASTER, CEMENT, HAIR, ETC. Wm. W. Robinson, Agent. P. LANGENDERGER. L. HALBERSTADT. HALBERSTADT&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... Grain and Country Produce Taken in exchange for Lumber. EXAMINE OUR STOCK. CAPITAL STOCK...$300,000 PRESIDENT.....J. S. SLAUSON VICE-PRESIDENT.....J. M. GRIFFITH DIRECTORS: J. S. SLAUSON, J. M. GRIFITH, V. A. HOOVER, ROBERT S. BAKER, J. BIXBY. H. B. TICHEOR, 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 amounts. Money to loan on real estate in amounts and for length of time desired. LOUIS LEWIN, Successor to Brodrick & 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. Orders taken for any Book or Music published in the United States. Just Received A large assortment of... Colored Paper! Suitable for... POSTERS & CIRCULARS, At the Anaheim Gazette Job Office. BABBITT METAL. OLD TYPE FOR SALE IN QUANTITIES TO AND PURCHASERS. Apply at GAZETTE Office. MARKS CONVICTED. John J. Marks, the swindling San Francisco Harbor Commissioner, has been found guilty of embezzlement. In the course of his speech to the jury the Attorney-General recited an anecdote of official corruption which at one time existed in the army of Napoleon Bonaparte. A certain officer had been entrusted with funds wherewith to purchase wine for the soldiers; but he yielded to the tempter and appropriated the money. Napoleon discovered the embezzlement, but forgave the officer in consideration of his distinguished services as a soldier. The offence was repeated. What did Napoleon do? He hanged him, gentlemen of the jury—he hanged him. And what was the consequence? The consequence was that thereafter no other officer stole anything. The counsel then exhorted the jury to so act that it may be known, from Modoc to San Diego, that official thieving must not be countenanced. He closed his argument by appealing to the jury to "strike this one blow for common decency and convict the defendant." An elopement in Millbury, Mass., had no novel feature, but it called attention to a strangely complicated family. The wife who eloped was twenty-one years old, having been married seven years, and the husband whom she left was sixty-seven. The husband's two sons by a previous wife, are married to his recent wife's two older sisters, and her brother is the husband of her husband's daughter. GAZETTE NO. 29 HOW TO SPELL Noticing the fact that "spelling bees" have become national institutions, and the difficulty of deciding upon the spelling of words, the New York Herald says: Perhaps the worst spellers in the world are the people who make the dictionaries. There was Noah Webster. What a call! He spelled shad with a e, which was worse than the honest old Mr. Creanter. Representative from Pennsylvania, whom John Randall seconded of a branch of privilege in spelling Congress with a K. By any of the learned punishers who form the jury at the spelling match, old Webster would have been put down as the worst speller, and the most ignorant man in the United States. Only he was caught and exposed, and like many another man caught in the act, he invented a theory to cover his delinquency and pretended to spell wrong on principle. It was like Bill King, who, while the subsidy investigation was in progress, turned up in Canada, "looking for stock." But this difficulty with the makers of dictionaries softens the fall of the vain man who goes down in wrestling with hard words; for he has only to claim to be judged by some other standard. And what is the standard? Here are Webster and Worcester and Walker and Richardson and Johnson, and many less famous authorities, and they all differ on many words; and who can decide the differences of these doctors? MISCELLANEOUS A sick man covered with masked plasters, said: "If I were to eat a load of bread, I should be a walking sandwich." An Ohio man has been converted to temperance ninety-eight times, and he says he'll go up to a hundred or die. A lady wants to know what is the meaning of "ante," and "penis the book." Her husband once them in his dreams, and she is afraid it indicates typhoid fever. According to the local paper, fighting, wrestling, foot-racing, etc., are the principal methods of diversion resorted to by the moral Reasoner of a Sunday. The average Gorilla of Central Africa now points to Stanley and his band of explorers, and pathetically reminds his grandchildren that "it is what they may one day expect to come to." Every man who mails a package subject to the new postage rates, drops it into the hole with the wish that Senator Hamill had to sit for two hours on a hot shovel.—Detroit Free Press. A rich offender of revenue the other day asked a man of wit what sort of a thing opulence was. "It is a thing," replied the philosopher, "which can give a rascal the advantage over an honest man." A toad under a harrow is supposed to be in an unpleasant and beautiful situation, but its situation is enviable compared with that of a "faller" who sees his sweetheart sucking at one end. THE WHEAT CROP. Farmers have been disappointed at the non-appearance of the rainfall which has been usual during the Spring months. The crops are suffering badly in most counties in the State for the want of it, and in many fields there will be almost a total failure. The Stockton Independent, after having made careful inquiry concerning the prospect in the great San Joaquin Valley, reluctantly confesses that the "yield of grain will not exceed, if it reaches, one-half the quantity promised six weeks ago." The late sown wheat has generally suffered severely, and in many places has been rendered lifeless, while portions of that first planted have been badly damaged by the prolonged dry weather and prevailing northwest winds." Less damage was done to the wheat by frost than was supposed. The Independent says, "The wheat in the southern portion of San Joaquin, Stanislaus, Merced and Fresno counties, while it will as a general thing fall far short of what was expected, is believed to be in much better condition than the crops further south." Where summer-fallowing has been observed the crops are best—a fact worth knowing to all planters. STEAM SCHOONERS. A conversation with Mr. Hooper yesterday elicited some interesting facts bearing upon the ocean transportation of our lumber and freight. One of Mr. Hooper's steam schooners will arrive to-day or to-morrow at Newport. It is a small but beautiful vessel, and is the forerunner of one which is now being built for Mr. McFadden, of Newport, at an expense of some twenty thousand dollars. The schooner will be able to carry some 150,000 or 160,000 feet of lumber. Mr. McFadden's idea is to have his vessels bring lumber to Newport, and carry a return cargo of corn or other grain. She will be of sufficient tonnage to accommodate about two hundred and fifty tons of the cereals. This is an entirely new feature in our shipping annals, and we should not be surprised to see it largely introduced.—L. A. Express, April 30. THE CENTENNIAL. Dispatches dated London, April 25, says: At a reception given to Cheva- THE CENTENNIAL. Dispatches dated London, April 25, says: At a reception given to Chevallier, the distinguished French economist, in Birmingham, this evening, John Bright made some remarks on free trade, in the course of which he said it was ludicrous for the United States to invite foreign manufacturers to compete at an exhibition where a protective tariff prevented them from competing in American markets. At a meeting of the Town Council of Kidderminster the Secretary of the Carpet Manufacturing Association stated that the carpet manufacturers generally, throughout the Kingdom, had decided not to send their products to the Philadelphia exhibition, because of the existence of a prohibitory tariff, and that a memorial to this effect would be forwarded to the British minister at Washington. REVENGE. A terrible European war once arose from a patty quarrel about a stolen well-bucket. We have been told that the steamer Pilot was put on the Petaluma route as an opposition to the Antelope for a came, involving at first, a single dollar. One of our wealthy Petaluma merchants tendered two dollars as payment for a round trip to San Francisco (which sum had been the price for years), but was obliged to put up another dollar, after a somewhat wordy warfare. Believing the action of the railroad company to be a species of extortion, he, with a few others, bought the Pilot, put her on the route a few weeks ago, reduced fares to the old rate and set the freight charges at low figures. We have been informed that the Pilot's receipts are not less than $100 per day. The veteran expressman, Henry Wells, who has just returned from a visit to San Diego, has organized a new Express Company, which will have its routes in Southern California, Arizona and New Mexico. The company will have its headquarters at San Diego, and Charles H. Wells, son of Henry Wells, will be the General Superintendent.—Call. Special Agent Elliott, from Alaska, is in Washington, supervising the printing of his last report. This report will confirm the important positions which excited so much curiosity in the scientific world, and which were so violently annulled. Elliott maintains that for physiological reasons the seals will never leave Alaska, and will consequently always be a source of revenue to the Government. A Paris telegram says: M. de Lafayette, President of the French Commission for the Philadelphia Exhibition, states that encouraging letters have been received from all parts of France. Many deputations from the metal manufacturers and principal wine-growers of Glorande and the merchants of Lyons have visited the Commission and promised active co-operation. During a trial in the Police Court in San Francisco, a colored man was called as a witness, and took his place on the stand. Mr. Martin, the Clerk, directed him to raise his right hand and be sworn. The individual put up his left, when Mr. Martin said to him: "Raise your right hand, sir, and be sworn." "Can't," curtly replied the witness. "Why," asked the Clerk. "'Cause I'm left-handed,' replied the witness. He was finally induced to raise his right hand, and the oath was administered to him in due form. One of the most fervent of the praying temperance women in Dubuque, Iowa, has a drunken husband. It is related that she found him a few nights ago intoxicated in a saloon. She suffered him soundly, and then said to the proprietor: "See here, sir, you darned miserable skunk, this has gone far enough. During the crusade I prayed for you, and since then have come to you with tears in my eyes; but it seems to have done no good, and now if you ever sell him another drop of whiskey, I'll come down here and snatch you bald-headed! You hear my gentle voice?" Then she took the old man.