anaheim-gazette 1876-11-25

Anaheim Gazette SATURDAY...NOVEMBER 25 1876. LET US INCORPORATE. The influence of the GAZETTE has been asked in furtherance of a proposed plan to petition the Board of Supervisors at their next session to confer upon Anaheim a Municipal Government. No urging is required to induce us to advocate a scheme of this kind, for we have ever held that, in order to effect the many needed reforms so urgently required by our burgh, a Council or Board of Trustees, armed by law with the power to enforce their edicts, were needed. Appeals for voluntary action in important matters have been unbeeded; sound arguments showing the necessity and policy of public improvements have repeatedly appeared in the columns of this journal, and though the truth of the articles were undisputed, and the line of argument met with a hearty approval, no steps were taken to comply with the suggestions made therein. In fact, as we have stated, it is plainly evident that our people must be coerced into a line of action by which our present supremacy will be retained. Recent events should open the eyes of our citizens, and should tend to awaken them from the fatal legarthy into which they have fallen. It is needless to state in detail the reasons which should impel every property owner to give a hearty assent to the proposition to incorporate. And it would be useless at the present time to point out the many reforms which our municipal officers would find themselves called upon to inaugurate. If this proposition for incorporation meets with public approval, and our County Legislature grants our peti- ALDEN PRUIT. The fruit dried by the Alden process is steadily gaining favor with consumers. The Alla says that orders have been received in San Francisco for several tons of Alden fruit, mostly apples and apricots, to be sent to London and Hamburg. Samples sent last year to several points in Europe were received with great favor, and assurances are given that a large demand will follow as soon as the goods are advertised and known in the foreign markets. The Alden apples will cost $270 per ton in Liverpool, including $15 freight, leaving about 13 cents a pound as the price received here by the exporter. Each pound of the Alden apples represents eight pounds of the fresh apples, large quantities of which, shipped from New York, are sold in England at $60 per ton, though often bruised and beginning to decay. The Alden apple is better for cooking purposes, as well as more convenient and much cheaper. The price leaves a fair profit to the orchards and drying-houses, though there is less profit on the apple, than on many other fruits; for California has almost a monopoly in our continent of the more delicate and more costly, and not less prolific prune, plum, apricot, fig, grape and Zante currant. There is no European dried prune or Zante currant equal in elegance of appearance, none in delicacy of flavor to those prepared by the Alden drying-houses in this State, and these merits will, at no distant time, be recognized in every market where wealth is the servant of luxury. It is gratifying to learn that the products of the Anaheim Alden works have been pronounced by experts to be the equal of, and in many respects superior to, that produced at other factories. Meursr. Heimann & Sorenson have made several large ship- The law under which it is proposed Anaheim shall be incorporated can be found on page 1050 of the General Laws of California. A careful reading of its main features leads to the belief that it will be found sufficient for all our needs. The following are some of the chief points in the law, condensed: The Board of Supervisors of the county can incorporate a town, upon the petition of a majority of the inhabitants of the place proposed to be incorporated. The powers and duties of such incorporated town shall be vested in a Board of Trustees, to consist of five members. These trustees shall be elected on the first Monday in May of each year. The trustees have power to make such by-laws and ordinances as they may deem necessary; to prevent and remove nuisances; to prohibit disorderly conduct; to provide for licensing public shows, lawful games and bars at which spirituous liquors are sold; to regulate and establish markets; to construct pumps, aqueducts, reservoirs and other works necessary for duly supplying the town with water; to lay out, alter, keep open and repair the streets and alleys of the town; to provide such means as they may deem necessary for the protection of the town from fire; to levy and collect annually a tax on all property in the town, not exceeding one per cent. on the assessment valuation thereof; to impose and collect a poll-tax of not exceeding one dollar per annum, on every male inhabitant of twenty-one years of age and upwards; to impose and collect a tax on dogs, of not exceeding six dollars per annum, on every dog found at large within the incorporate limits of the town; and to pass such other by-laws and ordinances for the regulation and police of the town as they may deem necessary. The Board can impose fines for a none in delicacy of flavor to those prepared by the Alden drying-houses in this State, and these merits will, at no distant time, be recognized in every market where wealth is the servant of luxury. It is gratifying to learn that the products of the Anaheim Alden works have been pronounced by experts to be the equal of, and in many respects superior to, that produced at other factories. Meurs, Heimann & Sorenson have made several large shipments to San Francisco, and advises from that city report a steady and increasing demand for their goods. Los Angeles, too, affords quite a market for their fruit, several thousand pounds of rains having been disposed of there. FREE READING ROOM. We have before alluded to the laudable endeavor which is being made by the Literary Society to establish a Free Reading Room and library in Anaheim. There is perhaps no town of the size of Anaheim on the Pacific Coast, which does not support one or more institutions for the mental improvement of its citizens and the pleasure of its guests. When the subject of a "Brass Band" was introduced, our citizens responded generously to the call for aid in the enterprise, and a sum of money sufficient to purchase good musical instruments was raised. The progress which has been made by that organization is sufficient proof that the money was not spent in vain and with a few more months of practice our band will be able to furnish us with music equal to any in the county. A little help now in the matter of a Free Library will put upon a solid footing another organization, which will be a profitable and pleasant feature in our town. The committee appointed by the Literary Society will canvass among our citizens for donations of books, magazines and periodicals, and as soon as an amount can be obtained sufficient to make a beginning, a room will be obtained for a library. There is scarcely a paper in the State, but will send a copy to assist the institution, and with little or no expense goodly collection can be obtained. Almost every family has a few volumes which they can well spare to assist so worthy an object, and we bespeak for the committee who solicit, a generous response from those who are interested in the growth of the town and the improvement. and advancement of society. California is now which is puzzled problem. On the ent, at Queensland landed in swarmthe gold fields of by the intense heatthe Celestials can wthe British goldgradually enlargements until theyrol the gold diggingsand, and the goldwithout leavinga country. 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The marshal shall collect all taxes levied by the trustees. The compensation of the various town officers shall be fixed by the trustees. The trustees cannot contract liabilities, either by borrowing money, loaning the credit of the town, or contract any debt or debts which, singly or in the aggregate, shall exceed the sum of three thousand dollars. The Board of Supervisors have the power to disincorporate any town which may have been incorporated under this Act, upon the petition of three-fourths of the legal voters of such town. Our citizens have plenty of time before the next meeting of the Board of Supervisors to thoroughly digest the law and revolve in their minds the advantages which would accrue were the welfare of the community placed in hands of five public-spirited men, armed with law to wipe away existing nuisances and take effectual means to place Anaheim in a position which would banish the present apprehensions felt in regard to its future. The Nevada Grand Lodge of Masons is in session at Virginia City. M. Trisserenc de Bort, French minister of agriculture and commerce, has issued a circular to the departmental prefects, calling attention to the advantages that may accrue to agriculture from the purchase by the communes or townships of France, of the higher and more expensive agricultural machinery. French farmers in some sections are too poor and too little impressed with the advantages of superior culture to conceive or execute the idea of combining their small capital for the purchase of machinery. The minister calls upon the prefects to study the question in its various aspects, and to submit to the central government the results of their cogitations upon this subject. Hall's Land Journal asks: Can a farmer in the Eastern States, who struggles to get twelve bushels of wheat from a few acres, believe that a farmer in California has just thrashed the wheat from his field of 25,000 acres and finds the yield to average fifty bushels to the acre? Another one, with 10,000 acres, where the stalks stood five and a half feet high, has threshed out his wheat with an average yield of seventy-five bushels to the acre, which he sold at $1.25 per 100 pounds. We learn from the Bakersfield Courier that Dr. J. Stockton, this year, finding himself possessed of an enormous quantity of watermelons, determined to reduce them to syrup. It took eight gallons of melon juice to make one of syrup. He has made this year one hundred and twenty-five gallons of excellent syrup. AN IMPORTANT CONSIDERATION. One of the most important considerations which should be taken into account by our citizens, in determining whether it would pay to have Anaheim incorporated as a town, is the fact that the citizens of a town so incorporated are exempt from the payment of county road-tax, the town tax for street improvement standing in lieu of this. Shortly after the defeat of the incorporation bill by the last Legislature, a communication was published in the GAZETTE, in which the writer pointed out that by the defeat of the bill Anaheim lost at least $1,300 per year of street improvement fund. He further said: "Within what would have been the city limits of Anaheim, there is about six hundred thousand dollars of taxable property. The levy for county road tax for last year was 15 cents on the one hundred dollars. This levy on the taxable property within our limits would have given us nine hundred dollars street fund. Inhabitants of incorporated cities [or towns] are exempt from county road poll tax, this being paid to the Street Commissioner instead of to the County Road Overseer. There are about two hundred persons in Anaheim subject to this tax. At $2 each, this would have given us $400 more of street fund—a total of $1,300 a year for street improvement, without any grease in our taxes!" We are glad to be able to state that the necessity for incorporation is very generally recognized; and that, before the next meeting of the Board of Supervisors, steps will doubtless be taken to call a meeting of our citizens to consult on the matter and prepare the necessary papers and petition to lay before the Board. Reply to "Investigator." Webster defines a conundrum thus: "A sort of riddle in which some old resemblance is proposed for discovery between things quite unlike; a quibble; a jest." Not pretending to be well-informed, still I feel like replying to "Investigator," as I am always anxious for promised benefits. Quibble No. 1—It was Friday evening at Kroeger's Hall. Quibble No. 2—It is not always necessary to use the same ropes. No. 3—It was Saturday evening, at Mrs. Parker's, that a man offered a tarred cord; that was not pleasant for the spirits in the body, or out, to handle. But Mr. Keelar offered to take a rope, without tar, and use it on Sunday evening, the cord to be marked. I have never used glass, so cannot vouch for the truth; but I have a friend who has sat on a chair with the legs perfectly isolated with glass, and had rapping. I believe that no well-informed person will dispute that electricity and magnetism is present to a greater or less degree in all living bodies. If it is an invisible power, what becomes of it when we lay aside this organism? For my part, cording, bell-ringing, etc., etc., is not what I rely on in proof of immortality. The testimony of two or three reliable witnesses is accepted in our courts of justice. We must experience a thing before we can knowingly explain. Please allow me to state a few facts: Six years ago I stood by the death bed of a lovely young woman. She knew that her time had come. Holding my hand, she looked in my face and said: "I shall soon know if it will be possible to make myself known to you." She was a member of the Methodist Church. No less than seven of those electrical, magnetic persons called "mediums" have minutely described Gracia in public and private. You ask what good. She says she learns life's lessons through me. What a powerful restraint from crime, to feel that the loved ones can see our actions, and read our motives, always grieving for our faults! It always seemed very strange to me why a sun picture, before it was finished, had to be placed in the "dark," but I firmly believe it a great necessity, or it would not invariably be done. MISCELLANY. Hayes' majority in Oregon is eleven hundred and seventy-four. Patrick Burns, of San Diego, proprietor of the International Hotel, is dead. Jefferson Davis is a passenger on the steamship Adriatic, which sailed on Nov. 17 from Queenstown for New York. It has cost Vermont $32,500 more than it received in fines to enforce the Prohibitory Liquor law during the past two years. The care of the Santa Cruz Railroad Company crossed over the new bridge at Watsonville on Tuesday last for the first time. Work has been resumed in the iron mine at St. Helena. One hundred tons are to be taken out as a test by the Oakland Smelting Company. The ore resembles hematite. The Colorado potato bug is to obliterate that Blaine and Morton were the only ones on the list of Presidential aspirants before the Cincinnati Convention who worked actively and ardently for Hayes during the canvass. The season for ham and bacon curing has commenced in Nevada City, where large quantities of hogs are shaughtered daily. Nevada City aspires to the distinction of being the Porkopolis of California. Two suits have been begun by the Government against General O. O. Howard—actions in assimptis—one to recover $150,000, with interest from July 18, 1865; and one to recover $20,000, with interest from May 12, 1865, which amounts, it is claimed, he received as Commissioner of Refugees and Freedmen. During an Episcopal Church entertainment at Perryville, Madison County, New York, on Friday evening, a portion of the floor gave way, precipitating over fifty ladies and children twelve feet to the floor below. Several ladies were seriously injured, one probably fatally. Sankey is accustomed to tell, as the origin of "Hold the Fort," about Sherman's message signalled to Gen. THE CHINESE PROBLEM. California is not the only country which is puzzled with the Chinese problem. On the Australian continent, at Queensland, the Chinese have landed in swarms, and monopolized the gold fields of that region. Favored by the intense heat, which, it seems, the Celestials can withstand better than the British gold digger, they have gradually enlarged their field of operations until they almost entirely control the gold diggings of North Queensland, and the gold bullion is exported without leaving an equivalent in the country. The Legislature, looking for a way to put the Johns on equal fiscal footing with the Colonists, agreed to impose special taxes upon them. Among the taxes proposed, and which strikes the Chinaman below the belt, and makes him rebel, is a tax of £7 as 6d per ton on rice, which is his principal article of food. As an alternative measure, it is proposed to increase their miner's license fee from 10 shillings to £3, and their business license from £4 to £10. The Chinese have forwarded a protest against the unfairness of these taxes, and state that if they come into operation they will be starved out by legislation. An Australian paper says: "Chinese immigration is becoming a serious question in Australia and especially in Queensland, and Legislators who are much troubled with the threatened descent of 600 liberated French communists from New Caledonia, should rather devise some means to check the Mongolian deluge, which from the propinquity of the Flowery Land, some people think threatens some day to overwhelm a large portion of our present settlements in Australia." John is swarming all over North Queensland, and although not pont up in narrow space in large towns, his social and moral habits render him as obnoxious there as here. Disgusting Nonsense. A million votes cast in the great States of Ohio and Indiana and the difference between the Republican She was a member of the Methodist Church. No less than seven of those electrical, magnetic persons called "mediums" have minutely described Gracia in public and private. You ask what good. She says she learns life's lessons through me. What a powerful restraint from crime, to feel that the loved ones can see our actions, and read our motives, always grieving for our faults! It always seemed very strange to me why a sun picture, before it was finished, had to be placed in the "dark," but I firmly believe it a great necessity, or it would not invariably be done. I hope you will pardon me if I have trespassed on your valuable space. Hoping that "Investigator" will be so kind as to advance all the "points for our benefit" even if not enlightened; for my desire is ever for the TRUTH, let it joggle all theories and isms that I have ever entertained. Respectfully, K.P. Spiritualism Again. EDS. GAZETTE.—As I notice in your morning edition a reply to my last communication, I presume I am entitled to a hearing, in order to vindicate myself. In the first place, I fail to see how Webster's definition, as cited by K.P., applies to the argument in question, but as she has seen fit to use it, I take it for granted that I have a like privilege. I would kindly ask K.P. if the very feeble ruse of employing her initials in her last communication, in lieu of her name in full is in the first case, does not bear a slight resemblance to a "quibble," its aim undoubtedly being to mislead the public into a belief that a third party had taken part in the controversy. The tarred cord offered on the Saturday evening in question, and with which Mr. Keelar very wisely refused to be tied, was a piece of spun yarn which, when once well tied, as it would have been, would not have stretched, slipped off or become untied, save by spirit hands. And just here I would remark that, had Mr. Keelar allowed himself to be tied as proposed and been unable to extricate himself, I would have had far more faith in him and his works than I now have; as then he could have maintained that the atmosphere, etc., was not in a proper state for the free working of the spirit agents. Again, K.P. says she has never used glass in the manner intimated by me, but "has a friend who has sat on a chair with the legs perfectly isolated with glass, and had rapping." This is all very well, but it is no reply to the question asked which was whether spirits would manifest themselves by rapping, if pieces of glass were placed upon the table and beneath the "medium's" hands. If K.P. will use this test, I fear the spirits will be found to be unaccountably absent. "The testimony of two or three reliable witnesses is accepted in our courts of justice." The truth of this statement I could not well galasny. Mr. Slade is a living witness that the same is true as re- During an Episcopal Church entertainment at Perryville, Madison County, New York, on Friday evening, a portion of the floor gave way, precipitating over fifty ladies and children twelve feet to the floor below. Several ladies were seriously injured, one probably fatally. Sankey is accustomed to tell, as the origin of "Hold the Fort," about Sherman's message signalled to Gen. Corse, at Alboona. "Hold the Fort—I am coming." The evangelist, however, does not quote Gen. Corse's reply, which was: "I am short a cheek bone and an ear, but I am able to whip all hell yet." The bust on the one-cent stamp represents Franklin; twos; Jackson; three; Washington; fives; Taylor; sixes; Lincoln; sevens; Stanton; tens; Jefferson;twelves; Clay; fifteens;Webster; twenty-fours; Scott; thirties; Hamilton; nineties; Perry. The seven twelve and twenty-four-cent stamps are not now issued, but many of them are in circulation. What has been known as the Hogan Mountain gang of railroad train thieves, who have operated very extensively along the St. Louis Iron Mountain and Southern R.R., between St. Louis, Mo., and the Arkansas line, has been effectually broken up, and nine of their number, including three women, just been sentenced by the Iron Mountain Circuit Court to five to eleven years in the Penitentiary. The Napa Register says: The tannery and wool-pulling establishment of B.F. Sawyer & Co. now turns out about 1,100 skins a day—1000 sheep skins and 100 deer skins, which are converted from pelts into the finest leather, by a process patented by the firm. The firm have handled and shipped East this season 600,000 pounds of wool. There is a kind of spruce growing in the vicinity of Grass Valley which answers admirably for the sounding-boardes of musical instruments. The Foothill Tidings relates that there is a celebrated manufacturer of violins in Boston who is regularly supplied with wood of this kind from Grass Valley, which he uses for the tops of the best instruments. The first violin made from this wood there sold for $100. Some of the saints are said to be very indignant that Brigham Young should have named his son John as his successor in the prophet business, John being as wild, gay and festive a young rascal as ever cut a throat or scuttled a ship. As he has spent much of his time among the gayeties of New York and San Francisco, he may not make quite as refutable a prophet as the old man himself, but there is no doubt that he could tell the old man several things that he never knew.—Courier-Journal. Sacramento Record-Union: Evidently when a Chinamen starts in to learn any of the trades followed by white men, he proposes getting the whole business. We witnessed a man on his endwards in that line A million votes cast in the great States of Ohio and Indiana and the difference between the Republican and the Democratic vote probably less than five thousand! That is to say the majority is less than one-half of one per cent of the total vote! That is very close work, and it should teach a lesson of charity or rather of common sense. The Republican organs tells us that one-half of this million of voters are rebels, traitors, and rascals. The Democratic organs tell us that the other half of them are bigots, fanatics, and corruptionists. What disgusting nonsense! The fact is that 990,000 of these voters are patriotic citizens and, however they may be deceived and misled, mean to vote for the best. Among the other 10,000 are the self-seeking politicians, and a large number of them really think they are doing the country good service. It is perfectly natural that there should be two parties, and it is well that there are. Let us not be excited into a panic by the organs when they are so absurd in their statements. Boston Herald. Hon. W. Ramson has been nominated by the Democratic caucus for U.S. Senator from North Carolina. The New York Times in an editorial says: In the interests of a much abused and debased language, we enter a protest against the currency of the word "Bulldose." The unhappy prominence which Louisiana has acquired during this political crisis has precipitated upon the public this altogether ridiculous and partially brutal word. In the Arcadian regions of that State exists a society known as the "Stops." It is pledged to Tilden and reform. If a negro is invited to join it he is given fair warning, and then, if still contumacious, he is taken to the woods and given one hundred lashes on the bare back. This is called "bulldose," or a dose for a bull. A sharp fellow, sailing under the name of Holland, went to Vallejo representing himself to be one of the Secretaries of the Congressional Chinese Committee, now in session in San Francisco. He said he was sent to make full inquiry into the condition of the Chinese and their relation to whites, labor, etc. He was plausible, affable and very important. He let it be known that he was Private Secretary to Senator Morton of Indiana, and during the election he took great interest in the returns, and frequently had dispatches from Morton and Sargeat. He ingratiated himself with all the Chinese in town, and made them believe his name was Gibson, and sold them a lot of receipts at $5 each, guaranteeing them against all license tax for a year. He was the big man of the place for two weeks, and every one was glad to know him. However, his game began to leak and he suddenly disappeared, and now it turns out he was an arraunt rascal. Nobody can now be found in all Vallejo who ever heard of him. his successor in the prophet business, John being as wild, gay and festive a young rascal as ever cut a throat or scuttled a ship. As he has spent much of his time among the gayeties of New York and San Francisco, he may not make quite as reliable a prophet as the old man himself, but there is no doubt that he could tell the old man several things that he never knew.—Courier-Journal. Sacramento Record-Union: Evidently when a Chinamen starts in to learn any of the trades followed by white men, he proposes getting the whole business. We witnessed a specimen of his endeavors in that line yesterday. A Celestial was engaged in mixing mortar for building purposes, and he had not only acquired every movement of the white professional in that line, but carried it to the extreme of having a little, blackened clay pipe stuck away in the corner of his mouth. Santa Barbara Press: A two-hundred and fifty pound Jew fish was brought ashore by the fisherman yesterday. He was a huge, round, black fellow, with some of the marks of a rock fish. His scales were as large as 20-cent pieces, and he could gulp a common sized dog with little difficulty. The Californians call this fish Corvina and its flesh is very desirable as food; though coarse-grained, it is sweet and tender. They are frequently caught in the channel. The West Coast Signal, of the 8th, says: The salmon fishing season is drawing to a close. Up to yesterday the catch has been as follows: Jno. Mosely, 700 barrels; Swett & Adams, 800 barrels; Jesse Duncan, 200 barrels; Sam Fillmore, 200-barrels. The river is represented to have been fairly alive with fish last Sunday morning. People living near the ocean beach say they came in such quantities as to show their fins above the water. Santa Barbara Press: Diptheria seems to be fearfully epidemic in town and it has carried away several little children within the past few days. Not only in Santa Barbara, but the disease seems to travel like a plague. Some three weeks since the children in San Bernardino valley were suffering and dying from it, and its course northward can be followed by its deathly work. Some of the schools have been temporarily suspended in consequence here. Thorough drainage about the house, and good wholesome food is the best preventative. BY TELEGRAPH SAN FRANCISCO, Nov. 21. FLOUR—Another advance of 121 was made to-day in the jobbing rate for the best city extra now quotable at $6 50, silver. WHEAT—A slight advance is reported in the Liverpool market to-day. There is very little offered in this market. Holders are generally asking $2, while buyers offer $1 90 for choice. Sale of 1,500 sacks fair shipping, at $1 80; sale of 2,500 tons choice shipping made yesterday on terms reserved, but intimated to be not less than $1 85. BARLEY—Active demand for feed; prices a shade higher. Chevallier, $1 40; coast feed $1 10, silver; choice feed $1 07½ gold, choice brewing $1 20. OATS—Steady at $1 50@1 85 for inferior to choice feed. POTATOES—Market heavy, especially for inferior; choice Petaluma 82½@87½; Sacramento river selling at 40@60c; Hif Moon Bay 40@75c; Cuffey Cove 80@90; sweet have dropped again to 50 ets. HAY—Sales of poor stock at $9; fair, $10 50; wheat and oats $12@14; choice wheat 16. CORN—Small yellow, $1 05. SAN FRANCISCO, Nov. 21. It is now reported that the conditions of the compromise proposed by John H. Liek to the Academy of Sciences, whereby an amicable adjustment of the complications arising out of the cash bequeathed to them by James Liek was sought to be furthered, has been refused by the committee acting for the Academy, because the demands of John were considered too exorbitant in the premises, and the ends of the deed of trust would not be carried out. Wherefore the Academy will now proceed, with the other leguates, in prosecuting their claims for the amount mentioned in the deed, unless some other mode of settling the difficulty is suggested. The small-pox is again on the increase. The resident physician at the pest house reports to the chairman of the hospital committee that during the past week the epidemic has been extensive, and we have nearly as many bad patients as at any time. During this week we have received 23; discharged 15 curd, and had four deaths. In the hospital there are now 50 patients. Stearns to himself canvass the vote for Electors, on the assumption that as the State statute creating and defining the duties of the State Board omits to charge that body with counting the votes of Electors, and as it is his duty to issue to the electors their certificates of appointment, he must make a compilation of the county returns to ascertain who are chosen to office by the popular suffrage. This reasoning and proposed action produced consternation among the Democratic leaders, and was met by a severe denunciation. KANKAKEE, Ill., Nov. 21. Emory Cobbs's short-horn bull, Nineteenth Duke of Airdrie, valued at $20,000 died last night. BOSTON, Nov. 22. The harbor pilot last night reported that he saw an iron collier of the Philadelphia and Reading Railway in distress, and suddenly afterward the vessel sunk out of sight. The collier had on board 1000 tons of coal and a crew of 17 men. A report is current in Philadelphia that the steam collier Perkilomen was sunk in the Boston harbor, and she is doubtless the vessel above alluded to. NEW YORK, Nov. 22. The Times' Hartford special says that a point is raised there, that if post-masters are negligible as electors because they hold office, and their places can't be filled, that Gov. Ingersoll, one of the Democratic electors from Connecticut, is disqualified by reason of holding the position of Commissioner of the U.S. Court. London, Nov. 22. The Pall Mall Gazette, the Standard and other conservative journals, express complete distrust of the Czar's pacific assurances, as expressed to Lord Loftus, the British Ambassador, in his interview with His Majesty on Nov. 2d. ST. PETEIROUG, Nov. 22. The Czar, in receiving various distinguished personages during the last few days, has stated that he would still hope for the maintenance of peace, but he considered Russia's honor and his own plighted to maintain the autonomy which he had demanded from the Porte. SAN FRANCISCO, Nov. 23. FLOUR—City millers to keep up with the advance of wheat, have raised the jobbing rate for extra to $6 62¼, silver. will now proceed, with the other leguates, in prosecuting their claims for the amount mentioned in the deed, unless some other mode of settling the difficulty is suggested. The small-pox is again on the increase. The resident physician at the pest house reports to the chairman of the hospital committee that during the past week the epidemic has been extensive, and we have nearly as many bad patients as at any time. During this week we have received 23; discharged 15 curds, and had four deaths. In the hospital there are now 50 patients. The Hayes and Wheeler Blues, numbering about 700, have determined to maintain their organization for a while. CHEYENNE, Nov. 21. The body of the daughter of P. Lynch, fourteen years of age, was found last night near Brady Island, Nebraska, bearing marks of having been outraged. Suspicion rests on a tramp who was seen during the previous day on the premises. He has been arrested and will be held pending the verdict of the coroner’s jury. NEW YORK, Nov. 21. John Kelly was married this morning to Miss Teresa Mullen, niece of Cardinal McClosky. The ceremony was performed by the Cardinal. LIVERPOOL, Nov. 21. Cotton quiet; up lands, 6½; Orleans, 6-9-16; sales 19,000. Receipts of wheat for the past three days, 21,000 quarters; American, 9,000. BRUSSELS, Nov. 21. The government of Belgium has received a communication from the Belgian Consul at Malta, announcing that the Malta authorities had informed the Chamber of Commerce that torpedoes had been placed at the approaches of Odessa, Kentch, Sevastopol and Eschakoff. SACRAMENTO, Nov. 22. The inquest into the cause of death of the victims of Moore's Opera House disaster on Saturday, was continued to-day and goes on agonis on Wednesday. The proofs show clearly that the house had a bad reputation among those competent to judge, as an unsafe building. The landlords swore they sent an expert to examine it, and received a favorable report. The expert will be the next witness. He refused to appear to-day, and his evidence will be brought out in the course of the examination of public buildings by the Grand Jury. SAN FRANCISCO, Nov. 22. The Lick trustees and John H. Lick’s attorneys state that the action taken by the other relatives will delay the almost concluded compromise. They are dissatisfied at Mr. John Lick’s willingness to settle the matter without having recourse to law, and nettled at the idea of losing their claimed share of the spoils. They will try their own hand at forcing a compromise more satisfactory to their own interests. Neither the trustees nor the attorneys above mentioned appear to entertain the least fear of the result. The Society of Pioneers have already signified their assent to any action the trustees may take toward a compromise. Lord Loftus, the British Ambassador, in his interview with His Majesty on Nov. 2d. ST. PETERBURG, Nov. 22. The Czar, in receiving various distinguished personages during the last few days, has stated that he would still hope for the maintenance of peace, but he considered Russia’s honor and his own plight to maintain the autonomy which he had demanded from the Porte. SAN FRANCISCO, Nov. 23. FLOUR—City millers to keep up with the advance of wheat, have raised the jobbing rate for extra to $6,624; silver. WHEAT—A few purchases have been made at $2, and some large lots of shipping have changed hands at $195. Shippers now claim to be well supplied and the news from Europe being more pacific, they expect a weakening in the market. Sales embrace 4000 skis fair shipping at $190; 100 skis choice milling, in two lots, at $2. BARLEY—Arrivals light; market firm; Coast feed, $110@1124; silver; browning, $1124@120. OATS—Feed, $1.60@$185; heavy milling, $190@195. POTATOES—Choice Cuffey’s Cove are reported at 80c; other choice grades, 80@87c; inferlog kinds, 45@60c. Sweets are very hard to sell at 50c. SAN FRANCISCO, Nov. 23. Previous to the adjournment of the Postal Commission yesterday, a petition was presented, signed by a number of prominent merchants, setting forth the importance of fostering American merchant marine interests on the Pacific Ocean, and recommending that the government extend a reasonable mail subsidy to the Pacific Mail Steamship Company’s Panama, Australian and British Columbian lines, and revive the subsidy to the China line on the expiration of the present contract. COLUMBIA, S.C., Nov. 23. The Board gives as a reason for their adjournment since die: first that the statute, as they interpret it, required them to do so; and second, that if they had not done so, the Democrats might hereafter claim they have no power to issue certificates because the time for them to do it has expired. In other words, it was done to prevent the possibility of the Democrats getting any advantage hereafter on the pretence that the Board had not complied with the law. NEW YORK, Nov. 23. The United States steamer Franklin with Wm. M. Tweed on board is expected to arrive at quarantine about noon. COLUMBIA, S.C., Nov. 23. Thos. Dent, son of the Sheriff of Richland county, was shot and fatally wounded by State Senator John Cochran, of Anderson county, in this city last night. The difficulty arose out of a political discussion. A dispatch from Faribault, Minn., dated the 20th says: The Younger brothers were brought into Court this morning, and contrary to expectation, pleaded guilty to indictment for the murder of Haywood, the Northfield Bank Cashier. There was no excitement or Lick's attorneys state that the action taken by the other relatives will delay the almost concluded compromise. They are dissatisfied at Mr. John Lick's willingness to settle the matter without having recourse to law, and nettled at the idea of losing their claimed share of the spoils. They will try their own hand at forcing a compromise more satisfactory to their own interests. Neither the trustees nor the attorneys above mentioned appear to entertain the least fear of the result. The Society of Pioneers have already signified their assent to any action the trustees may take toward a compromise. The Academy of Sciences have appointed a committee to confer with the trustees in the matter. Yesterday afternoon the Regents of the University of California held a special meeting with regard to this question, and after a lengthy discussion passed the following resolution: The Board of Regents are disinclined to make any objection to the proposed compromise in regard to the Liek estate, provided that the donation to the University of California shall be and remain unimpaired. It will be remembered that the trustees had no intention of making a compromise that would lessen any donation in which an amount was specified, and therefore the concurrent action of the Regents simply removed any doubt of their interfering with or putting any stumbling block in the way of the trustees. SAN FRANCISCO, Nov. 21. The Great Republic, which arrived this afternoon from China and Japan, brought 186 Chinese in the steerage. Of late this class of immigration has increased somewhat as compared with the comparatively few arrivals immediately subsequent to the anti-Coolie encirclement of last Spring. NEW YORK, Nov. 22. Following is the Herald's summary of the political situation: Confusion daily becomes worse confounded on the knotty question as to who has secured the electoral vote of the three disputed States. South Carolina was provisionally scored yesterday for Hayes by the precise action of the State Canvasser under the order of the Supreme Court, which the day before was deemed certain to give it to Tilden. The tabulated returns give part of the State officers to each party. Florida furnishes a complete surprise in the proposal of Governor COLUMBIA, S. C., Nov. 29. Thos. Dent, son of the Sheriff of Richland county, was shot and fatally wounded by State Senator John Cochran, of Anderson county, in this city last night. The difficulty arose out of a political discussion. A dispatch from Faribault, Minn., dated the 20th says: The Younger brothers were brought into Court this morning, and, contrary to expectation, pleaded guilty to the indictment for the murder of Haywood, the Northfield Bank Cashier. There was no excitement or demonstration. After a valu attempt by counsel for the prosecution to secure a jury, who, under the statute, can pass death sentence in a case like this, the Judge sentenced them to imprisonment in the State Penitentiary for life. A party of fifty-six persons left Cincinnati on the night of the 19th inst., in two furniture wagons, to attend a German wedding some distance oht in the northwestern part of the county. About ten miles out, while crossing the West Fork, in the darkness the wagon containing thirty-six people was driven off the side of the bridge, falling 25 feet to the rock below. Louis Bramlage, aged 67, had his spine fractured and will probably die. Joseph Meyers had his skull fractured, and nine or ten others were more or less injured. The Chinese of Vallejo have got up a sort of register, upon which appear the names of 125 Chinamen. We are informed by the Chronicle that when a stranger arrives his antecedents are inquired into, and if not found good he is blacklisted and, the colony warned to beware of him. A man was put on trial on the other day in a Canadian court on a charge of receiving stolen cattle. The evidence, however, went to show that he had stolen the cattle, not received them. As he had already been acquitted of stealing the cattle at an earlier session of the court, there was nothing to do but let him go free. A man who lives in Wooden valley, Solano county, informs the Solano Republican that he has a tame white goose which is rather carniverous in its proclivities. He says that it will gobble up every young live chicken which comes within reach and choke them down as readily as a veritable hog.