anaheim-gazette 1876-11-18

A ZEALOUS OFFICIAL The New Yorkers are having a good laugh at the expense of the Spanish Consul in that city, whose zeal has caused him to be placed in a very ridiculous position. It seems that a steamer is being refitted at East River preparatory to accommodating a circus troupe which proposes to make a tour of the West Indies and South America. A gang of fifty men are at work on the vessel, and, singularly enough, they are under the direction of Captain Smith, who at one time commanded the Virginia, which was captured by the Spanish authorities, and which was the cause of so much trouble between the United States and Spain. It has for some time past been noticed that a number of suspicious looking idlers have frequented the dock where the ship was being refitted, and they seemed to scrutinize with watchful eyes the movements of the workmen. It now transpires that the Spanish Consul, having learned that an expedition was fitting out for the avowed purpose of transporting a circus troupe, somehow became impressed with the notion that the real design of the movement was to furnish aid to the Cuban patriots and menace the peace of His Majesty's possessions in the West Indies. He was persuaded the circus story was altogether a guy, and accordingly took precautionary measures. The result has been the presence on the pier, day and night, of a score of vigilant detectives in the pay of the Alfonso government, who follow the hands to their homes, keep strict surveillance over the whilom privateersman, Capt. Smith, and in divers other ways seek to discover the secret of the real destination and object of the ex- MORMON TACTICS. The steamship Wyoming which arrived at New York from Liverpool a few days ago, brought among her passengers 126 Mormon converts for Salt Lake City. They were in charge of Elders Barton and Lyman, and were principally natives of England and Wales — Manchester, Birmingham, Newcastle and Sheffield contributing the majority. Their occupations are given as farm laborers and mechanics. Among the number were several very pretty Welsh girls. The Mormon Emigration Agent informed the reporter of a New York paper that this party is the last which will arrive from Europe during the present year. The parties which have arrived during the year were of 150, 638, 250, and the Wyoming's 126 would make a total of 1,264 souls. This harvest seems to be satisfactory to the Mormon leaders, and has determined them to double their efforts next year. They propose to send sixty missionaries to the different States to use their eloquence in making converts. The exposures which are made from time to time regarding Mormonism and the leaders of that semi-religious organization, fail apparently to exercise any influence in deterring converts from emoracing the tenets of that church. There is nothing in its creed liable to attract sensible and pure-minded persons; and not all the plausible sophistries which their most eloquent missionaries might utter would make converts of the sturdy yeomanry of England. But their manner of procedure is calculated to influence the immigration of the overworked and underpaid mechanics and farm laborers, who as a rule care nothing for the religious aspect of the organization. The wily missionary knows this, and instead of wasting his eloquence and wind by arguing that the profession of a belief in Mormonism is a short cut to heaven, he Transplanting Vehicles We give place to an article from the Fruit Press request of our Westminsterent. The information should insure it a careful examination annually about ten million for trees. Through ignorance of crops of planting, and a per capita afterwards, this money is lost. The only a heavy burden towers, but deprives them and profit which success would give, and tends to thing else to discourage further planting, which needed all over our land. The causes of success based on common sense one giving a little reflection will readily see. A tree is an organizer and its wants, though not active and not to be sluggish. Give it the proper growing, and a tree will vigorous and continued existence, and is only such treatment as actual. Among the condition growth are the following: 1st. Moisture around out the land being so wet. 2d. Melowness of young roots must easily soil, as they have no starch their way into hard ground. 3d. Fertility of soil, the roots begin to grow teed, and are just as thick food and thrive just as it does an animal planted tree must have for this food. If weeds half or more of the moisture prepared for the theft by its apperception certainly as an animal manger subjected daily amount of theft. We send out far longer and roots than most people will do active execution the plant, and will put your feet of space which sidered a generous allowance if allowed to grow on ground prepared for it. In the spring, when of moisture in the ear THE EXPENSE OF A NATIONAL ELECTION There are probably but few people who have not, at one time or another, given a thought as to the amount of money spent by the different parties at elections, and wondered how much it took to land the successful Presidential candidate in the White House. It is evident that the outlay of money must be enormous. Campaign documents must be printed and distributed, hails rented and speakers hired, the regalia and paraphernalia of the different organizations must be purchased, and a thousand other necessary expenses must be incurred. Of course it is impossible to tell the exact amount required in such cases, for the men who have charge of the finances are remarkably reticent, and indisposed to gratify public curiosity in this delicate matter. Very close estimates, however have been made, and one which is probably nearest the mark places the average cost of a Presidential election at about three millions of dollars—a million and a half for each of the great opposing parties. Accepting this as the true figure, it will be seen that the expense of electing a President is fifteen times greater than the whole amount of salary paid to the incumbent during his term of four years. As the population of the country is almost forty millions, this is equivalent to a tax of seven and one-half cents a head for every man, woman and child in the United States. A WELCOME TO TWEED. Old man Tweed, formerly of New York, and late of Spain, was always very popular with the masses in the big city, and there were not wanting thousands who felt genuinely sorry and bolsterously indignant when he was placed in durance vile. Yes, did they not elect him State Senator, even after the proofs of his guilt were made public? And though a dire necessity rendered it incumbent upon him to leave hisquent missionaries might utter would make converts of the sturdy yeomanry of England. But their manner of procedure is calculated to influence the immigration of the overworked and underpaid mechanics and farm laborers, who as a rule care nothing for the religious aspect of the organization. The wily missionary knows this, and instead of wasting his eloquence and wind by arguing that the profession of a belief in Mormonism is a short cut to heaven, he descants upon the beauty of the land where the Saints do dwell; glowingly depicts the benefits of a residence in Utah, and promises his hearers a life of indolence and luxury in that blessed land where Brigham reigns supreme. It is such specious arguments as these which accounts for the otherwise unaccountable number of converts to Mormonism. STATISTICAL. In its periodical review of "The Industrial Condition of the Slope," the San Francisco Alta of the 13th gives the following information: The population of California in June, 1870, as reported by the Federal Census, was 560,247, and the following columns of figures show the number of persons who have arrived annually by sea and rail, the number departed, the number of the gain, and the number of the gain in Chinamen: Period. Arriv'ls Dep'tures Gain Chinese 1870 [Boeh'h if of] 23,100 29,900 2,200 3,800 1871... 42,000 31,700 10,800 2,500 1872... 51,700 38,000 18,700 4,900 1873... 73,200 35,400 34,800 11,100 1874... 85,400 38,100 47,800 8,800 1875... 107,000 43,000 64,000 11,800 1876 10 months. 71,900 43,100 28,800 10,000 Total... 451,800 245,200 206,100 54,900 Of the 206,100 who have arrived since June, 1870, at our port as permanent settlers, we may presume that not less than 20,000 have gone to Oregon, Washington, Nevada and Idaho; but their number is probably not greater than that of persons omitted in the Census. The increase of births over deaths, at twelve for each thousand, would give us 51,000 from that source since June, 1870. Adding these figures together we have 817,000 as the present approximate population of California. Of Chinamen there were 49,277 in California in 1870, besides 13,922 in other parts of the Union. The average annual decrease by death (they are not recruited by births) may be 15 in 1000 or 8000 for six years and a half; and a tenth of those who have arrived since the last census may have gone to other parts of the Slope, leaving about 90,000 as the number of Chinamen now in California. In 1870 San Francisco had about 12,000, or about one-fourth of all in the State. The proportion may be a little larger now. Our attention has been called to the half or more of the mortality prepared for the theft by its apperception as an animal manager subjected daily amount of theft. We send out far longer and roots than most people will do active execution on the plant, and will put four feet of space which sidered a generous allowance if allowed to grow on ground prepared for it. In the spring, when of moisture in the earth weeds and grasses: thousands of trees start growth that in July are unequal to their rank petitors. They are unlive without nourishment poor tree droops and die same reason that left without water and this is the mystery of so many trees—simile death. The rules for success accordance with the aded about as follows: SELECTION OF The soil should be rich. If wet in spough subsoil, it should drained. Apples, peaches well on sandy or loamy plums and quinces do land in which clay is best on gravelly land. PREPARATION OF THE PLANTS If the tree arrives lash and is dried and shrive exposure; immediate whole length; top and moist ground and leaew two days to a week; condition; giving it absorb the moisture drying the sap thickenand the pores of the tree and the circulation owholly destroyed. B sorption of the moor ground; the tree is bmal condition; and clished very much as A WELCOME TO TWEED. Old man Tweed, formerly of New York, and late of Spain, was always very popular with the masses in the big city, and there were not wanting thousands who felt genuinely sorry and bolsterously indignant when he was placed in durance vile. Yes, did they not elect him State Senator, even after the proofs of his guilt were made public? And though a dire necessity rendered it incumbent upon him to leave his distracted constituents for an indefinite length of time, they do not appear to have lost their admiration for the obese Boss, and it is probable that his return will be the signal for a grand evation in his behalf. The New York Herald of November 5th, thus bears testimony to the affection which the New Yorkers have for William: Last evening a large number of posters were put up in different sections of the city, and which read as follows: Welcome home! William M. Tweed, the poor man's friend. He has suffered for his rascality, so let us one and all forgive him on account of his good heart and old age. To prosecute him further would only injure the democratic party and strengthen the republican, which was the only object of President Grant in having him arrested and brought home, without any law to justify him in so doing. DORA ET. In these piping times of reform, the rejection of Charles Francis Adams and the election of Ben Butler by the people of Massachusetts are certainly strange events. Mr. Adams' integrity and ability have never been questioned, but he has been defeated; Mr. Butler's dishonesty and smartness as a political trickster is conceded, yet he has been elected. As Butler's engineering left no doubt as to the result in his district, his election is no surprise to him; and as Adams has been uniformly defeated for every office to which he has aspired, his rejection this time will not disturb his aristocratic equanimity; So, both being satisfied, all is well. Of Chinamen there were 49,277 in California in 1870, besides 13,922 in other parts of the Union. The average annual decrease by death (they are not recruited by births) may be 15 in 1000 or 8000 for six years and a half; and a tenth of those who have arrived since the last census may have gone to other parts of the Slope, leaving about 90,000 as the number of Chinamen now in California. In 1870 San Francisco had about 12,000, or about one-fourth of all in the State. The proportion may be a little larger now. Our attention has been called to the numbers of farms and agriculturalists or persons engaged in farm labor in the Union and in California, and we find that though the farms have on the average three times as many acres in this State, there are relatively fewer laborers to the farm. The nation has 2,650,000 farms, and 5,922,000 farmers, while our State has 28,000 farms and 47,000 farmers. Ohio, Connecticut and Nebraska have about the same proportion as California, or two agriculturalists for each farm, while New York, Penisylvania and Illinois have three for two farms, and Alabama and Georgia have four for one farm. The larger average size of the Californian farms is caused by the fact that 2,700,000 acres out of 6,200,000 acres enclosed are used for pastures of wild grass; and that on account of the dry character and light, clean soil of most of the farms, a man can cultivate a larger area than in the moist, weedy, and heavy soils of the Atlantic States. There has been no notable change in the rate of wages in California for several years. Mechanics get from $2 to $5 per day; unskilled white male laborers from $1 to $3; and Chinamen from 60 cents to $1, without board. Masons, plasterers, and plumbers receive from $4 to $5; carpenters, blacksmiths, and wagon makers from $3 to $4; servant girls for general housework, $15 to $25; farm laborers, from $25 to $30 in Winter and from $30 to $50 in Summer, per month, with board. Miners get $3 50 or $4 per day; and surface laborers at mines, $2 50 or $3 without board. The same work is done for half so much on the Atlantic Slope and Australia, and one-third in Europe, and provisions generally are cheaper in California. The San Francisco Herald is dead. If the tree arrives here and is dried and shrivens exposure, immediate whole length, top and moist ground and leaves two days to a week condition, giving it absorb the moisture drying the sap thicken and the pores of the tree and the circulation of wholly destroyed. Its sorption of the moist ground, the tree is baked condition, and clipped very much as being for a time resting man. A tree should new moment longer expect wind than is necessary removed from its in which it came, then dipped in a sort of grass soil and water, and iried in the ground, or expressed it,"heeled care," so as to allow contact with every part. Before planting cut knife any bruised end they heal much soon. PREPARATION OF Dig them all and them before removing the place where they live. When entirely reading take the trees from the place where they live; then commence good mellow fertile soil before mentioned; then tree keeping it continually shaking down to thoroughly dry the roots. When the hole throw in a pailful of settle the ground after put more fresh firmly but carefully around the tree, leafless as a post. The mainder and careful two or three inches without any treadning. Transplanting Trees. We give place to the following article from the Fruit Recorder, at the request of our Westminster correspondent. The information it contains should insure it a careful reading: The people of the United States pay annually about ten millions of dollars for trees. Through ignorance of the best methods of planting, and a neglect of proper care afterwards, fully one-half of this money is lost. This imposes not only a heavy burden upon the planters, but deprives them of the pleasurable and profit which successful planting would give, and tends more than anything else to discourage and prevent further planting, which is so much needed all over our land. The causes of success are simple and based on common sense, which anyone giving a little reflection to the subject will readily see. A tree is an organized living thing, and its wants, though few, are imperative and not to be slighted. Give it the proper conditions for growing, and a tree will always make vigorous and continued efforts for an existence, and is only overborne by such treatment as actually kills it. Among the conditions essential for growth are the following: 1st. Moisture around the roots, without the land being so wet as to be cold. 2d. Melowness of earth, for the young roots must easily penetrate the soil, as they have no strength to crowd their way into hard ground. 3d. Fertility of soil, for the instant the roots begin to grow, they begin to teed, and are just as thankful for good food and thrive just as certainly upon it as does an animal. The newly planted tree must have no competition for this food. If weeds or grass steal half or more of the moisture and fertility prepared for the trees, it shows the theft by its appearance, just as certainly as an animal would, were its manger subjected daily to the same amount of theft. Weeds and grasses send out far longer and more hungry roots than most people suppose. They will do active execution four feet from the plant, and will perfectly fill the four feet of space which is usually considered a generous allowance for a tree if allowed to grow on the border of the ground prepared for it. In the spring, when there is plenty of moisture in the earth, and before transplanting trees. After planting, the tree should stand about an inch deeper than it stood if the nursery to allow for the settling of the ground. A good fresh tree so planted, and the soil for a space of two or three feet from the tree kept moist and mellow all the season through, will rarely die. The writer has known several instances where 2,000 or more trees were transplanted in such a manner as described with the loss of scarcely a tree. Loosing trees by transplanting should be the decided exception. CUTTING BACK THE TOPS. Generally it is best to cut back the tops of trees one half to two thirds when planted to counterbalance the necessary loss of root caused by taking up the tree. In some instances where the ground is excessively fertile and the season moist, the tree will do just as well without any removal of the top, but as a rule it is best and safest to cut back one half or two thirds of all the top as soon as planted, not a week or two afterwards. MULCHING. One of the best methods of retaining the moisture in the ground, and at the same time keeping the weeds from growing, is to heavily mulch the tree to a distance of four feet from the tree in every direction. This to be done effectually must be done thoroughly. The mulch may consist of half rotted manure, leaves, straw or sawdust, or any similar article, and should be at least six inches thick. This, if applied early in the season, say by the 1st of June, will be of immense advantage. HOW TO DETERMINE IF TREES ARE FRESH AND UNINJURED. The roots of all uninjured trees upon being cut with a knife will present a white or nearly white appearance. If they are red or black they are injured of killed. The roots of evergreen trees rapidly injure upon being exposed to the sun, the sap becoming so resinous by evaporation that no after soaking will dissolve it. Hence the utmost care should be used in planting evergreens, and not expose them before planting. SHORT LIST OF IMPROPER PRACTICES. 1st. Sowing oats or planting potatoes in the hole, with the tree, in the expectation that they will benefit the tree. 2d. Placing the manure in direct contact with the roots of trees; this is almost always fatal to them. BY TELEGRAPH NEW YORK, Nov. 14. A Time's special from Talithames says that the canvass of Florida was made to-day, but as many of the polling places are hundreds of miles from all railway communication official returns cannot be placed in the hands of the Board of State Canvassers for at least a week. No figures that can be relied upon have been received from any of the counties to-day, but all scattering returns which have come to hand show that the Republicans have under-estimated rather than exaggerated their majorities. The County Boards have commenced canvassing them. It will rest with the State Board to throw out returns if franks can be proven against either party. A Times dispatch from Columbia, South Carolina, signed L. Cass Carpenter, Collector, says that returns from thirty counties show that Tilden runs behind Hampton eighteen hundred votes. NEW YORK Nov. 14. Rest assured that we are trying to be thoroughly impartial and accurate for our own credit as well as for your information. The Herald's news regarding the doubtful States is not generally sustained by the preponderance of testimony elsewhere. Its Conover dispatch, conceding Florida to Tilden, and another saying that Marshal Wallace concedes South Carolina to Tilden both proved to be forgeries. It was doubtless innocently deceived, for it corrects both statements itself. The election pool gamblers are desperate, and trying every expedient to save something of their enormous losses if Hayes is elected. Hence much of the conflicting and bogus news. The Times' news bears internal evidence of being much more careful than any other in this crisis. Nobody else has such full, logical specialists from the South at present. Hitherto the case was different, and it had conflicting estimates in abundance. As the official returns come in they seem to sustain the Republicans and reduce the Democratic claims. This morning a case appears absolutely so in Louisiana, where the Republicans still claim the State and the Democrats pretend to claim it only on the basis of returns from five parishes, whence the Republicans declare they will persist in opposing evidence. The soil should be dry, mellow and rich. If wet in spring, or has a tough subsoil, it should be underdrained. Apples, peaches and cherries do well on sandy or loamy lands. Pears, plums and quinces do best on clay, or land in which clay is mixed. Grapes best on gravelly land. Preparation of Soil The better it is prepared, the more certain and positive will be the success. Naturally good soil requires less preparation than poor or cold soil. For orchards and large plantings it is best to first plow and subsoil the whole surface, then make it thoroughly mellow with the harrow. Where few trees are planted, and in situations where general cultivation is impracticable, a hole at least four feet in diameter should be dug and the turf and soil removed to the depth of one foot and replaced with rich garden loam. This will give the tree a good start the first year. If the turf is used at all, it should be carefully inverted and used as a mulch on the top of the ground, after the tree is planted. It is better, however, not to use it, as the grass in it is liable to grow. Preparation of The Tree For Planting If the tree arrives late in the spring and is dried and shrivelled from long exposure, immediately bury it the whole length, top and all, in mellow, moist ground and leave it there from two days to a week, according to its condition, giving it an opportunity to absorb the moisture it has lost. In drying the sap thickens in the wood, and the pores of the tree are less open, and the circulation of the sap is most wholly destroyed. By a thorough absorption of the moisture from the ground, the tree is brought to its normal condition, and circulation is established very much as artificial breathlessness. The root system evergreen trees rapidly injure upon being exposed to the sun, the sap becoming so resinous by evaporation that no after soaking will dissolve it. Hence the utmost care should be used in planting evergreens, and not expose them before planting. Short List of Improper Practices 1st. Sowing oats or planting potatoes in the hole, with the tree, in the expectation that they will benefit the tree. 2d. Placing the manure in direct contact with the roots of trees; this is almost always fatal to them. 3d. Allowing grass and weeds to grow around the tree for the purpose of shading the ground. Every growing plant is a pump and rapidly sucks up the moisture. The quantity may be estimated by supposing the plant to be cut off at the ground and water applied by a watering pot enough to keep it in as moist a condition as it was when growing. The quantity used would at once be seen to be large. The same amount or more is extracted from the ground by the fast-growing weeds to the permanent injury of the tree. It is now officially announced that Moulton has discontinued his suit against Henry Ward Beecher and agrees to pay the costs. The President has signed a pardon for Wm. O. Avery, confined in the penitentiary at Jefferson City, for complicity in the whisky frauds. The friends of Wm. McKee express confidence that he will be pardoned within a day or two. The Republican State Central Committee have adopted a resolution, and invited all political clubs and organizations to join in the game, that no demonstration shall be made when the final result of the Presidential election is announced. New York Herald: The most attractive feature on the bill at the theatre Comique is the marvellous exhibition of skill at shooting by Mr. Ira A. Paine, the champion pigeon shot. Glass balls are tossed from a rubber bowstring into the air at the back of the stage, and Mr. Paine, standing gun in hand on a platform in the audience, fires at them breaking them into atoms. He fired at them singly, and then two were tossed at once, both of which he broke, firing with great rapidity. He fired with one hand only on the gun, never missing a globe. He then had them thrown up while his back was toward them, and turning suddenly and with hasty aim he smashed them with apparent ease. The performance is a novel and pleasing one and was heartily applauded. Some idiot, who ought to be confined in an asylum for life, rolled up a double-barreled shotgun, loaded in a bed-cot, and shipped it as freight on the steamer Orizaba. While the freight was being discharged at the wharf here yesterday morning, the gun exploded, the charge striking one of the ship's hands in the side of the head, tearing out one eye and inflicting a probably fatal wound. All over the country the Times' news bears internal evidence of being much more careful than any other in this crisis. Nobody else has such full, logical specials from the South at present. Hitherto the case was different, and it had conflicting estimates in abundance. As the official returns come in they seem to sustain the Republicans and reduce the Democratic claims. This morning a case appears absolutely so in Louisiana, where the Republicans still claim the State and the Democrats pretend to claim it only on the basis of returns from five parishes, whence the Republicans declare they will present such conclusive evidences of fraud and intimidation that the Returning Board cannot help throwing them out. We are not omniscient and have not offered our opinions, but confine ourselves to telling what the preponderating testimony seems to show from time to time. To-day the World persists in claiming Tilden's election, but its editors are signally devoid of supporting the claims by argument of facts. Its strongest telegram is a special from Columbia saying that Hampton declares he has received a report from the managers of the election in every precinct in the State, and is certain of his election by fourteen hundred majority. He is equally certain that, except for Republican frauds, he would have had at least 10,000; that he intends to prove many instances of repeating, illegal conduct-of-managers, and ballot box stuffing. He knows but little, he says, concerning the Presidential result, but don't concede the State to Hayes. I candidly think the calm, moderate men of both parties here are settling to the conviction of Hayes's election as above. J.W.Simonton. New York Nov. 14. The Herald's Washington dispatch says: It is said at the Democratic headquarters here that there is a big blunder in the printing of the Republican Electoral ticket of Wisconsin. Only nine Republican Electors have been chosen out of ten from that State, and that as a consequence the highest candidate on the Democratic ticket is also elected, giving Tilden the requisite majority of 185 votes, regardless of what may be the result of the election in the three disputed Southern States. St.Petersburg Nov. 14. The Czar has ordered the mobilization of part of the Russian army. A circular of Prince Gortschakoff, the Russian Premier, to Russian representatives abroad explaining this measure, says the Czar does not wish war, and will, if possible, avoid it. He is, as ever determined that the principles of Justice, which has been recognized as necessary by the whole of Europe, shall be carried out in Turkey under efficient guarantees. London Nov. 14. On the Stock Exchange, Russian securities are greatly depressed almost to the extent of a panic. They have fallen four per cent. from the morning's highest per centage. A special from Berlin to the Pal Mall Gazette says that Russia has given large orders to Berlin houses for military exports. If the tree arrives late in the spring and is dried and shrivelled from long exposure, immediately bury it the whole length, top and all, in mellow, moist ground and leave it there from two days to a week, according to its condition, giving it an opportunity to absorb the moisture it has lost. In drying the sap thickens in the wood, and the pores of the tree are less open, and the circulation of the sap is most wholly destroyed. By a thorough absorption of the moisture from the ground, the tree is brought to its normal condition, and circulation is established very much as artificial breathing for a time restores a drowning man. A tree should never be allowed a moment longer exposure to the sun and wind than is necessary. As soon as removed from the box or package in which it came, the roots should be dipped in a sort of gruel made of the soil and water, and immediately burried in the ground, or, as a nurseryman expresses it, "heeled in"—with great care, so as to allow the soil to come in contact with every part of its roots. Before planting cut off with a sharp knife any bruised ends of the roots, as they heal much sooner in consequence. PREPARATION OF THE HOLES. Dig them all and carefully prepare them before removing the trees from the place where they were heeled in. When entirely ready for transplanting, take the trees singly as needed from the place where they are heeled in, and at once plant in the following manner: Let one person place the tree in the line, which it is to stand, about the centre of the hole, his assistant placing with his hands the roots in an easy natural position in the same direction as they are growing on the tree, then commence filling in with good mellow fertile soil, provided as before mentioned, the person holding the tree keeping it perpendicular and continually shaking it gently up and down to thoroughly sift the dirt among the roots. When the hole is about half full throw in a pailful of water which will settle the ground among the roots, then put more fresh earth on them, firmly but carefully treading the earth around the tree, leaving it almost as cold as a post. Then fill in the remainder and carefully rake off, leaving two or three inches of mellow soil without any treading upon the top. and turning suddenly and with hasty aim he smashed them with apparent ease. The performance is a novel and pleasing one and was heartily applauded. Some idiot, who ought to be confined in an asylum for life, rolled up a double-barreled shotgun, loaded, in a bed-cot, and shipped it as freight on the steamer Orizaba. While the freight was being discharged at the wharf here yesterday morning, the gun exploded, the charge striking one of the ship's hands in the side of the head, tearing out one eye and inflicting a probably fatal wound. All over the country the papers are constantly chronicleing just such accidents, the results of criminal carelessness.—San Diego Union. A correspondent of the Post, in answer to the question, Who Hayes been elected? says we shall know when we get official returns—not Til-den. Sacramento Record-Union: A most amusing scene was witnessed on K street the other day. A lady with a vigorous pullback skirt, and an elaborate polonaise, was walking up K from Fourth street. In that unaccountable outside pocket, which fashion prescribes shall be trained to the rear and hung as low down as possible upon the last named garment, she had a new, full spool of thread, just purchased evidently. An end of this escaping from the open pocket caught the eye of a K street gamin—a 6 or 7 year old specimen. He deftly caught the end, and holding to it found it to feel off without the promenader being aware of it. He at once squared himself, sailor fashion, in the middle of the walk, and as she "paid off" he "hauled in," hand over hand, to the infinite amusement of half a hundred masculines who witnessed the operation. In a brief time the line reached clear up Fifth street from near Fourth, and as the lady stepped on the flagging to cross the street the end ran off and she went on with the empty spool, blissfully unconscious of the merriement behind her back at her expense. The cruel men, and by this time a hundred had seen the unrelieving process, then began to speculate upon the look of blank astonishment which must have overspread her countenance when, on reaching home, she found the spool empty, which she could qualify to as being full when she purchased it. LONDON, Nov. 14. On the Stock Exchange, Russian securities are greatly depressed almost to the extent of a panic. They have fallen four per cent. from the morning's highest per centage. A special from Berlin to the Pall Mall Gazette says that Russia has given large orders to Berlin houses for military exports. Should Russia persist in her war-like policy there is reason to believe she will be perfectly isolated. Germany is understood to be pledged to the observance of neutrality as against Austria, with an engagement to watch the Polish provinces, presumably to assist repressing any Polish rises. NEW YORK, Nov. 14. Solace, of Vermont, having resigned his postmastership, is a qualified Presidential elector; so says Senator Morrill. A resignation any time before he receives his election commission is sufficient. The Senate settled this principle when it voted that Vance's election as a North Carolina Senator was invalidated by the fact his disabilities were removed only after such election. WASHINGTON, Nov. 14. Some Democrats here are circulating the rumor that one of the Oregon electors on the Republican ticket is a Democrat, and will vote for Tilden. PHILADELPHIA, Nov. 14. The Times' St. Louis special says that the Tilden papers praise Grant for ordering troops South; saying, judging from the President's order in its entirety, we see no reason to condemn or question his fidelity to his unqualified demand for an honest return for President, if as we shall believe until the contrary appears, the troops have been ordered South solely in the interests of peace and justice. It is well that they have gone, and their presence under prudent officers who will obey the spirit as well as the letter of the order cannot fail to exert a military influence. NEW YORK, Nov. 15. The Herald's special from Tallahassee says: It is considered to be settled that the full official returns of the County Canvassing Board will give the State to Draw by more than 900 and to Tilden by more than 500 majority. These majorities will be attacked before the State Canvassing Board, and the Republicans are confident that they can throw out several presidents. The Democrats are equally confident that they can successfully defend every return. The County Board has, with hardly an exception, canvassed the vote and referred all matters of contest to the State Board. A dispatch has been received at the Republican headquarters, stating that Mr. Cespedes, the Republican candidate for the Legislature in Monroe, protested against the canvass of the vote of the third precinct in Key West, on the ground that the ballot box was taken away from the polls and counted by the managers, in violation of law. This precinct gives a large Democratic majority. The protest was not heeded by the County Board. The Times' Tallahassee dispatch says that as the County Canvassers go on, it becomes more and more apparent that Hayes has run far ahead of his ticket. The Republicans are sure that their ticket is elected, by a good majority, but no matter how they may be, there can be no doubt as to the success of the National ticket. NEW YORK, Nov. 15. John S. Williams of the steamship firm of Williams & Gulon; died last night, aged 62. AUGUSTA, Gr., Nov. 15. The engineers of the Georgia Railroad Company, belong to the Brotherhood of Locomotive Engineers, struck for higher wages at 1 o'clock this morning. Thirteen freight and passenger trains are now out on the road. The regular passenger train left for Atlanta this morning. NEW YORK Nov. 15. The Tammy Democrats are urging John Kelley to accept the Comprotrollership to which Mayor Wickham is disposed to nominate him, vice Green, whose term expires Monday. Duke Gwin, in talking with a Tribune interviewer, said: The Presidential election is now a question for the lawyers. He was confident that Tilden had been fairly elected, but expected to see Hayes counted in by the Returning Boards. He thought that if Hayes took the Presidential chair with a suspicion of fraud, it would work immense damage to the country and effectually wreck the Republican them to be dissolved; to hold meetings from time to time, and keep up the interest, promising further communications from time to time, with regard to this request. The circular will probably be issued to mormons. The only sensation on the street today was the bulletining of a dispatch from Duke Gwin, who is in New York, to Senator Kelly, of Oregon, dated the eleventh instant, and obtained here by private hand, as follows: "I suppressed we had reason to rely upon your State... We have private advice that an effort is being made to count us out. Spare no exertions or expense in looking after the State. I will be repsirable, and rely upon you." A crowd gathered around the board, and commented in accordance with the individual views of the speakers, the Democrats viewing it as a proper caution to the Democrats of Oregon to look after the interests of the party in a legitimate manner, while the Republicans were disposed to view it as a direct hint to make the State out Democratic, whatever the honest result at the polls. NEW YORK, Nov. 16. According to New York papers the political situation is unchanged. The Herald claims that Drew's majority in Florida cannot be cut below 800 or Tilden's below 400, while the Times claims that the Republicans have carried both State and National tickets. The Herald's Columbia, South Carolina special says that a rough calculation, made from official returns from twenty-eight counties at the office of the Republican Secretary of State, and an estimate on the vote on the Governor of the four remaining counties, give Hayes about 1,000 majority over Tilden. The same authority gives the State to Hampton by about 1,200 majority. Neither of these estimates are regarded by Democrats as correct. They claim that Tilden will carry a sufficiency of electoral votes to elect him, but will not disclose their reasons for this assertion. The Republicans now concede the election of Hampton on the face of the returns, but claim that the remainder of the Republican State ticket is elected. The Herald's New Orleans special states that State Senators Kelly and Sherman, and Messrs. Stoughton, Hale and Kasson arrived last night. It has now been finally decided by the Democratic visitors to entrust their case to Trumbull, Palmer and Potter, who remain here to watch the canvass. All the other gentlemen now here in that interest will probably return in The Tammany Democrats are urging John Kelley to accept the Compromissorship to which Mayor Wickham is disposed to nominate him, vice Green, whose term expires Monday. Duke Gwin, in talking with a Tribune interviewer, said: The Presidential election is now a question for the lawyers. He was confident that Tilden had been fairly elected, but expected to see Hayes counted in by the Returning Boards. He thought that if Hayes took the Presidential chair with a suspicion of fraud, it would work immense damage to the country and effectually wreck the Republican party. There was a possibility of the whole matter being referred to Congress, in which event the country might have a Democratic President and a Republican Vice-President. WASHINGTON, Nov. 15. The trial of the claims of Abraham Porter, of the North Atlantic Squadron, for the prize-money growing out of the capture of Richmond, was begun yesterday before Judge Humphries. About $500,000 is involved in this controversy. A dispatch from Columbia, South Carolina, names several Republicans who openly admit that the returns as received, and without eliminating those as fraudulent, elect Hampton Governor. The same returns give Hayes a small majority. Elliott, the Chairman of the South Carolina Republican Committee, telegraphs to-day, denying having conceded Hampton's election and claiming the election of Chamberlain. SYRACUSE, Nov. 15. The woodwork part of Sanders & Barrett's carriage factory at Onedia was burned this morning. Loss about $35,000; fully insured. CLINTON, Iowa, Nov. 15. A fire here yesterday morning destroyed Lamb & Sons large saw-mill, with an extensive dry-house: Loss over $80,000. No insurance. CHARLESTON, S.C., Nov. 15. An error in the returns from Pickens county reduces the majority of the Democrat State ticket, according to to the News and Courier count, to 118. AKAYAB, Nov. 15. The British ship City of Manchester from Liverpool for Calcutta has sunk off here. All hands except the Captain and Steward are supposed to be lost. COPPEROPOLIS, Nov. 15. The stage was attacked by three men two miles this side of Sonora, this morning, and while stopping, one of the highwaymen's pistols was discharged, and the driver drove on as he saw the robber fall who held the gun on him. SAN FRANCISCO, Nov. 16. FLOUR—Superfine at $4 25@4 75; best Extra, in shipping lots; $5 50; do., jobbing; $5 62@6 12], per bbl., latter price for silver. WHEAT—Market closes firm. Shipping, $1 65@1 77]: Milling, $1 75@1 82]; Superfine, $1 50@1 60. Sales of 600 sacks superfine at $1 60; 1000 do choice shipping at $1 77]; 1550 db milling at $1 80; 1000 do extra white Australia at $1 82]. The editor of the Tehama Tocsin reents the criticism of his contemporaries. "When our ability flags," he says, "and our supply of brains becomes exhausted, we will call upon our butcher friends, Altkens Bros., for a supply of hog brain," which we consider superior and preferable to the brain matter displayed by some of our cotemporaries." This is not only an impressive method of vindicating the dignity of journalism, but it is also a pleasant artifice for advertising the town butcher. The two giants, whose wedding attracted considerable attention in London several years ago, Capt. Bates and Anna Swan, are now living quietly near Rochester, N.Y. He is seven and a half feet high, and she is an SAN FRANCISCO, Nov. 16. FLOUR—Superfine at $4 25@4 75; best Extra, in shipping lots, $5 50; do., Jobbing, $5 62@6 12}, per bbl., latter price for silver. WHEAT—Market closes firm. Shipping, $1 65@1 771: Milling, $1 75@1 82}; Superfine, $1 50@1 60. Sales of 600 sacks superfine at $1 60; 1000 do choice shipping at $1 77}; 1550 db milling at $1 80; 1000 do extra white Australia at $1 82}. BARLEY—Demand for export not as strong as it has been. Coast feed firmer at an advance; quotable at 95@$1 02}; brewing, $1 00@1 15; Chevallier, $1.25@1.40 per cental. OATS—Market well supplied and prices firm at $1 50@1 80 for feed, and $1 80@1 90 for milling. CORN—Market overstocked and weak for all varieties; good to choice at $1 05@1 07}. EYE—Receipts very light and holders of lots in warehouse not inclined to sell under $1 60. POTATOES—Demand for export has been light and prices have suffered. Sales of Coast at 50c, Bodegas at 62c@80c; Pigeon Point at 80c. The highest price paid for extra choice is from 85@90c. SAN FRANCISCO, Nov. 16. Relative to the Chicago Times Washington special to the effect that Gov. Irwin had telegraphed to Washington that he would not certify to the returns of this State, having discovered such frauds as would negative the Republican majority, the Chronicle has the following: SAN QUENTIN, Nov. 15. 11:30 P.M. —To the San Francisco Chronicle: I have sent no dispatch, of the character to which you refer, to Chicago or elsewhere, nor have I authorized any such dispatch to be sent there or elsewhere, nor did I have any knowledge of the dispatch to which you refer until I saw it in this evening's Bulletin. [Signed] WM. IRWIN. SAN FRANCISCO, Nov. 15. The Republican State Central Committee has prepared a circular to be sent to the various political Clubs throughout the State, requesting them to maintain and strengthen their organization, and on no account allow comes; exhausted, we will call upon our butcher friends, Altkens Bros., for a supply of hog brain,' which we consider superior and preferable to the brain matter displayed by some of our contemporaries." This is not only an impressive method of vindicating the dignity of journalism, but it is also a pleasant artifice for advertising the town butcher. The two giants, whose wedding attracted considerable attention in London several years ago, Capt. Bates and Anna Swan, are now living quietly near Rochester, N. Y. He is seven and a half feet high, and she is an inch taller, and each weighs more than four hundred pounds. The rooms of the house are eighteen feet high, and the doors twelve feet high. Their bedstead is ten feet long, and all the furniture is proportionately large. To those who come from the land where winter apples and hard cider and hickory nuts and hickory backlogs now comprise the luxuries and comforts, the boxes of large fresh strawberries exposed for sale in our markets look strangely out of place. Someway it seems as if they had laped back through the Summer into last Spring, or that Winter has dropped out and let them into next Spring, without the usual nipping frosts and aches. If they stay with us long enough they will experience the latter phenomenon; but the strawberries are all right and regular, though it be November, and they can be captured at the rate of 15 cents a box — Santa Barbara Press. The Enclinal says that Captain N. Page, of Alameda, has a half dozen pear trees in that place, now bearing a second crop this year. They are of two varieties—the Bartlett and Winter Nellis. The Bartlett fruit is ripe and ready to pick, though not as large as the first crop that matured in July. The buds of the second yield began to appear when the first crop was gathered. The Los Angeles Herald learns that Mr. A. H. Hotchkiss, late district Attorney of San Diego county, in the event of Mr. Tilden's election will be pressed by powerful Pennsylvania influences, for United States Minister to Brazil. Mr. H. is an able diplomat, and he would fill the position with distinction.