anaheim-gazette 1876-12-23

ANAHEIM VOL. VII. Anaheim Gazette SATURDAY...DECEMBER 23, 1876. SOMETHING DEFINITE. We are glad to be able to record at last something definite in regard to the Presidential muddle. That venerable manufacturer of glue, and late aspirant for the Presidency, (need it be said we allude to P. Cooper?) thinks Tilden has been fairly elected. Gov. Hayes, of Ohio, who has been somewhat prominently mentioned in connection with the Presidential chair, says that he has examined the situation carefully and thoroughly, and has solicited and obtained opinions from the best Constitutional lawyers of the country, and has come to the conclusion that he has been elected President of the United States, and is entitled to the office; and what's more, he fully expects to be inaugurated. Mr. Tilden is equally as certain that he is the man that is elected, but is not so confident of being inaugurated. He thinks the question will be settled without a resort to extreme measures. In Johnson's pool room, New York, bets were offered, 3 to 1, that Hayes will be the next President, with no takers. And as a sort of clincher to this mass of A FEW SUGGESTIONS. The principal subject of conversation and thought among our towns-people at present is the coming election and the prospective improvement of the town. The election is a certainty in the near future—the improvement of the town yet lingers among the probabilities. With our new town organization come visions of side-walks, clisterns, clean streets, hard roads, sanitary laws, and many other beneficial acts and constructions. There is another thing which has not been as generally discussed, but which will tend as much, if not more, to our growth and improvement, as side-walks and sewers. It is a general disposition among the citizens to act in concert and strive for the general interest, independent of who may be directly interested and benefited thereby. There is a growing disposition among the people to stand aloof from each other. A careful perusal of our freight lists will show that a great deal of money is sent out of town which might be advantageously used in it. With our many facilities for shipment, as large a variety of goods and merchandise can be and is laid down at Anaheim, and sold at as cheap rates as in Los Angeles. Our stores have always had as large an assortment as can be found in any of the cities, and if the prices are Voltaire tells us that Sweden could lie running with water night, and allow him up solid, without a health. We know who can nearly eat King in toughness. He spread a sheet of made a pillow of harking, "I've got o'clock, and don't in bits' for a bed for foe he went off into the sweetly as an infatuation. For two or three coldest part of last week Gazette office was tor of the genus traced in Anaheim flat by foot-sore. He was a and for two or three wormed himself into the bar-keeper at tha he piled up columns rapidity truly astonished provident in his perc would never eat meal a day and than twenty-five For the necessaries as whisky and to his credit liberally positor the Herald manifested a supreme comforts affo he has been elected President of the United States, and is entitled to the office; and what's more, he fully expects to be inaugurated. Mr. Tilden is equally as certain that he is the man that is elected, but is not so confident of being inaugurated. He thinks the question will be settled without a resort to extreme measures. In Johnson's pool room, New York, bets were offered, 3 to 1, that Hayes will be the next President, with no takers. And as a sort of clincher to this mass of contradictory opinions, we quote the following from the San Francisco Alta: An eminent physician of this city has received a confidential communication from a man who has known Governor Tilden from childhood, and he says he has a "sure thing" on betting that Tilden will never be President of the United States unless the Constitution undergoes alteration, for the reason that the aforesaid Sammy was not born in the United States, nor under any of the conditions which the Constitution recognizes as an equivalent for being born on the soil! The Doctor's friend says he is ready to prove his assertion, and if, by any hook or crook, the majority of the votes of the Electoral College should be cast for Tilden, then he will denounce the allen Pretender and save the nation. And the man seems to believe his own story; nay, more, he has more than half convinced the Doctor. PLAYFUL CREATURES. The average San Francisco school boy is a playful creature, and if his playfulness sometimes slops over into petty larceny, it is doubtless due to the invigorating influence of "the glorious climate of California," and not to any inherent weakness for crime. In a discussion which took place at a meeting of the Board of Education, in San Francisco the other day, this amiable trait in the school-boy of that city was brought out. In urging the necessity of having a truant-officer, Superintendent Bolander made a statement to the following effect: That one day, visiting Tehama-street school, he discovered a party of six young boys, who had taken up a position at one of the entrances, and were waylaying and robbing every pupil that came along. He found the Principal and janitor upstairs aware of what was going on below, and in great distress, indeed, but doing nothing to interfere with it. The young scamps were afterwards arrested, on prosecution by the Superintendent, and sent to the Industrial School. Quite recently, said Mr. Bolander, my own boy, with a son of a neighbor, walking on the streets at half-past three o'clock in the afternoon, were stained by other boys who is a growing disposition among the people to stand aloof from each other. A careful perusal of our freight lists will show that a great deal of money is sent out of town which might be advantageously used in it. With our many facilities for shipment, as large a variety of goods and merchandise can be and is laid down at Anaheim, and sold at as cheap rates as in Los Anes. Our stores have always had as large an assortment as can be found in any of the cities, and if the prices are carefully figured upon, and the expense counted up, it will be found that the advantage directly is in favor of purchasing at home, and that the advantages indirectly are incalculably in favor of the purchaser. The policy of taking the money out of the district in which it is made is suicidal to the interests of that district, and, in the end, death to the interests of the party doing it. A general interest among the people in encouragement, growth and advancement of the various industries which are established here, will result in the general prosperity of the town, and unless that interest is manifested, cisterns and side-walks will not save us. Nor is this the only point in which a beneficial alteration might be made. So long as there is an isolation among business men, and no unity of action on their part, there is little chance for general prosperity. An association, including within its membership merchants, manufacturers and traders generally, for the purpose of mutual protection and advancement in matters of business, would be of immense advantage to our community. Such an association has lately been formed at Santa Rosa, having for its objects, "To discuss questions of public importance concerning the trade and prosperity of the town; to devise plans for the inauguration of manufacturing and other public enterprises; to establish rules for the government of business, such as are usually adopted by Boards of Trade, and to facilitate the collection of accounts current." Such an association, under judicious and intelligent management, would be the means of accomplishing much good through the interchange of opinions, and the discussion of questions of mutual interest. We have here a location second to none on the Pacific Coast; its growth has been a healthy and steady one. Its resources are unbounded. Nothing is needed to make it hold its position as the largest and most flourishing community South of Los Angeles, but its ability to adapt to changing circumstances makes it a valuable asset. A Brooklyn physicist tended many cases of fever that resulted in Centennial, says that the cause was not tary condition of Herald Manifested a supreme comforts affords his sojourn with his sleep on the office floor or three occasions variety, he slept in covering being a co-worker unknown to us. THE Odd Fellow devoted Thanksgiving worthy object. A city united and building at Sixth Avenue home for old and new Order, where they care and attend their helpless condition Thanksgiving day edifice, which was auspices of delegates and many of the staff of the State. The presented by the Phi Beta Center we shall numerous types or gero unknown to us. SEVERAL leading marked that they end the end Lamar to the Senate before the adoption modified it so as to investigate of Privileges and Elections of 1874. This is untrue purpose of raising obeying to the intima Mississippi in that nature which elected a legal body. QUEEN VICTORIA He found the Principal and Janitor upstairs aware of what was going on below, and in great distress, indeed, but doing nothing to interfere with it. The young scamps were afterwards arrested, on prosecution by the Superintendent, and sent to the Industrial School. Quite recently, said Mr. Bolander, my own boy, with a son of a neighbor, walking on the streets at half-past three o'clock in the afternoon, were stopped by other boys who took $2.50 from one and a pocket-knife from the other. One of the school-houses of the Department bears evidences of having been treated like a block-house, its sides being riddled with shot and bullets. Several cases of outrages against the schools have been successfully prosecuted. If told abroad this tale would be incredible. JOSHUA T. BAILEY, formerly Collector of Internal Revenue in New York, and who absconded a defaulter in 1869, has refunded the entire amount hitherto unaccounted for, and has received the full pardon of the President. Bailey makes a long statement in the Tribune, in which he declares that his flight was unpremeditated, but was forced by circumstances over which he had no control. GERMANY will not take part officially in the Paris Exhibition of 1878, the principal reason given being that the German Government and the Chambers of Commerce do not anticipate that a sufficiency of German goods will be sent to Paris to warrant the large expenditure to be incurred by the Empire. In addition, they think the present time of depression inopportune. THE NEW YORK HERALD is pleased to say that Southern California will be the great raisin-making district of the world. WHEN the proposition to give $1,-500,000 to the Centennial Commission was before Congress, several members, in substance, said: "I shall vote for the bill, but not because I believe the Government will ever be reimbursed. The Government will never get a cent in return." It is now stated that, if the money advanced by Uncle Sam is not paid back, private investors will receive ninety per cent. of their money. The New York Herald takes the view that, as the Government represents the whole people, and as the country at large had derived considerable benefits from the display of its resources, it would be perhaps unfair to throw all the losses on the plucky individuals whose subscriptions to the Exhibition stock made the enterprise a grand success. ANAHEIM, CALIFORNIA, DECEMBER 23, 1876. Voltaire tells us that Charles XII, of Sweden, could lie down in a gutter running with water on a winter's night, and allow himself to be frozen up solid, without any injury to his health. We know of a compositor who can nearly equal the Swedish King in toughness. The other night he worked at the case till 3 o'clock in the morning. When he was through he spread a sheet of paper on the floor, made a pillow of his shoes, and remarking, "I've got to go to work at 7 o'clock, and don't intend to give 'two bits' for a bed for four hours' sleep," he went off into the arms of Murphy as sweetly as an infant.—Herald. For two or three weeks during the coldest part of last winter, a case in the GAZETTE office was held by a compositor of the genus tramp, who arrived in Anaheim flat broke, hungry and foot-sore. He was a rapid type-singer, and for two or three days, until he had wormed himself into the confidence of the bar-keeper at the nearest saloon, he piled columns of matter with a rapidity truly astonishing. He was provident in his peculiar way, too, and would never eat more than one meal a day and never paid more than twenty-five cents for it. For the necessaries of life, such as whisky and tobacco, he spent his credit liberally. Like the compositor the Herald tells about, he manifested a supreme indifference to the comforts afforded by spring Santa Ana Items. [Regular Correspondence of the Gazette.] Dr. Lockhart, of Indianapolis, Ind., is visiting this section of country. He is at present visiting his brother, L. J. Lockhart, near Orange. Dr. L. occupied quite a prominent position in the medical faculty of Indianapolis, being Professor of Materia Medica in the medical college there. He will make quite an acquisition to this community if he can be induced to locate here. Mr. J. Tappener, of Santa Monica, has located in this place. He states that he has two houses at that point, which he proposes to put on wheels and move to Santa Ana. The lots he supposes will revert back to their first sandy, primeval condition. He has engaged in the boot and shoe business. Mr. Keim, a typo from Colorado, has succeeded Joe Acklin as foreman of the News. Joe is now one of the proprietors of the new Hebrew Journal, that is to be. John Lowe has demonstrated to our farmers that he can turn out as nicely a finished wagon as any other establishment in the county. He holds forth at the corner of West and Main street, opposite Linington's warehouse. P. Watson and Allie Ross have flung tonsorial signs to the breeze. W. H. Spurgeon started for San Francisco on Monday for the purpose of laying in a stock of goods and to purchase a job press and material for starting a daily paper, both to be run in connection with the Santa Ana Valley News. demands a new newspaper, a new tin shop, a new hardware establishment, a new hotel and several new dry-goods and grocery stores. The enormous profits made by the above-named establishments has opened the eyes of the people in regard to the manner in which they have been fleeced. Competition is the one thing needful and we must have it. Mr. A. W. Birch is about to engage in the tin and hardware business, which he was engaged in before he came to California. A dry-goods and grocery establishment is to be started soon by parties from Santa Monica and from San Juan Capistrano. The Immigration and Information Bureau, of Santa Ana, met at Judge Humphrey's office on last Tuesday night. Proceedings of last meeting read and approved. The resignation of the treasurer was accepted, and, on motion, it was ordered that an election be held on Tuesday, Dec. 19th, to fill the vacancy. M. F. Parker was elected Permanent Secretary for Orange. Encouraging reports were received from various sections of the valley, showing that the people were deeply interested in the proposed movements of the Bureau. We will have to defer the reminiscences of Lucky Baldwin until our next. The Olio Club, of Newport, propose to have a grand dramatic and musical entertainment at the Newport school house, on the evening of Dec. 27th. Admission, including supper, 75 cents. The proceeds to be devoted to procuring an organ for the Sunday school at that place. The closing exercises of the school in A Brooklyn physician, who has attended many cases of the characteristic fever that resulted from visiting the Centennial, says that he is convinced that the cause was not the bad sanitary condition of Philadelphia or of the exhibition grounds, but the present of fomites in certain articles on exhibition, which had been brought from some of the worst plague spots of the earth—Egypt, Africa, India, Asia and South America. The doctor further adds that as a result of the Centennial we shall be inflicted with numerous types or grades of fever hitherto unknown to us. The Odd Fellows of Philadelphia devoted Thanksgiving day to a very worthy object. A few Lodges of that city united and erected a splendid building at Sixth and Vine streets, as a home for old and infirm members of the Order, where they will receive all the care and attention demanded by their helpless condition. The event of Thanksgiving day was to dedicate this edifice, which was done under the auspices of delegates from the Grand and many of the subordinate Lodges of the State. The ceremonies are represented by the Philadelphia papers to have been very imposing. Several leading Senators have remarked that they intend to resist to the end the admission of Mr. Lamar to the Senate. Mr. Edmunds, before the adoption of his resolution, modified it so as to include in the investigation of the Committee on Privileges and Elections the elections of 1874. This is understood to be for the purpose of raising the issue that owing to the intimidation practiced in Mississippi in that year, the Legislature which elected Mr. Lamar was not a legal body. Queen Victoria wrote to her Uncle John Lowe has demonstrated to our farmers that he can turn out as nicely a finished wagon as any other establishment. In the county. He holds forth at the corner of West and Main street, opposite Linington’s warehouse. P. Watson and Allie Ross have flung tonsorial signs to the breeze. W. H. Spurgeon started for San Francisco on Monday for the purpose of laying in a stock of goods and to purchase a job press and material for starting a daily paper, both to be run in connection with the Santa Ana Valley News. We visited San Juan some time ago and were right royally taken care of by Dr. Craue and Judge Egan. They gave us quite a vivid account of some of the proceedings that took place at the meetings of their literary society, which we will have to make a note of and report at some future time. Mr. L. Gildmacher has returned from San Francisco with his holiday goods. J. H. Moesser, D. H. Collins and a number of other “Swamp” and “Wantage” citizens were in town on Saturday. Rev. Father Mutt, from San Juan, was in town on Monday. Mrs. Keys, from San Francisco, who is at present rusticizing in Orange, paid Santa Ana a visit a few days ago. She is “completely charmed” with the people and country in this part of the valley. Dr. Hardin passed through here on Monday, on his way to San Juan on professional business. Mr. Choyinski, the cabinet man, remarked the other day, “Dotishaboor-blasefordegoffinmagerofcourseheinsandy.” The following conversation took place between a druggist and a physician a short time ago: Druggist: “These hard times don’t affect you physicians like they do us; all you have to do is to sit down and write a prescription and you don’t lose anything but a minute’s work if you are never paid, while we druggists, who have coin invested in our business, have to keep up our stock, whether we get paid for our drugs or not.” Physician: “How much money have you invested in your business?” Drug: “About $1500.” Phys.: “I have over $20,000 invested in my business.” Drug.: “Oh!” Speaking of physicians, reminds me of an occurrence that took place a short time ago. We know the physician well and can vouch for the truthfulness of the story: He was called up in the middle of the night (did you ever hear of one called at any other time?) in a great hurry to go to that classic region called the “devil’s elbow.” The messenger stated that “the child was dying, and to hurry up.” He left, and the physician followed as soon as possible. After travelling nine miles, he arrived at the place, and knocked. Silence prevailed within; finally, he roused the inmates, and a night cap was pushed through the window and he was asked. “Who’s there?” The Los Nietos Valley Courier has the following: At last we are glad to chronicle a move in the right direction. An extensive pork-curing establishment is to be put in operation here at once. A tract of five acres and a half has been purchased, and lumber is now on the ground for the erection of a substantial dwelling house, fences, etc. It is the intention of the proprietors to slaughter two or three thousand hogs per annum, or as many as can be purchased. A specialty will be made of the curing of ham and bacon, and the establishment will fill a void long required, and retain at home some of the money sent abroad for these articles of food. Messrs Douglas & Wolle are the enterprising projectors of this pork-curing institution. We some time since mentioned the fact that Judge Allen, of this vicinity, had started from here with a large amount of canned fruit, intending to seek a market either in Arizona or Sonora. We learn that, almost in the incipiency of the journey, the greater portion of the fruit were discovered to be spoiled, and the whole lot was immediately disposed of at far less than the original cost of the cans alone. The terrible heat of the desert is thought to have caused the fermentation and loss of the fruit. Without doubt the venture would have proved profitable had Judge Allen reached his destination with his cargo in good condition. Dr. Fulton’s artesian well, on the Santa Gertrudes is still flowing with undiminished volume. He is now boring a very large well near the sulphur well for irrigation purposes. This sulphur well is undoubtedly the finest in Southern California, as regards its medical properties. The Santa Gertrudes ranch is being rapidly settled up by a desirable class of people, as its agricultural capabilities become known and appreciated.. QUEEN VICTORIA wrote to her Uncle Leopold in February, 1852: "Albert grows daily fond of business and politics, and I grow daily to dislike them more and more. We women are not made for governing, and, if we are good women, we must dislike these masculine occupations." The full text of the letter is given in the second volume of the "Life of the Prince Consort," recently published. PROF. HUXLEY, having, at a London lecture, the other night, given some striking instances of the ill effect on public health of neglect of drainage, showed by the case of the town of Salisbury, that consumption, which was more fatal than all the zymotic diseases combined, might be diminished as much as fifty per cent. by thorough drainage of the subscil. They have a novel way in Silver City, Nevada, of evading the law on election bets, which, for originality, is as marked as the danger that it should ever become popular in the State. Attorney General Hamilton would have to import a brace of Philadelphia lawers to help him out of the snares. In Silver City a young lady bet a young man a kiss that Tilden would be elected—he to pay if Tilden won, she to pay if Hayes was elected. On the morning of the 5th he called and paid the bet; on the 9th he called and "took it back." That evening she paid the bet. Next morning she "look it back," and he paid, and so they have been kept busy by the contradictory dispatches ever since, and both declare their willingness and ability to hold out till Congress decides the question. People living in this school district, who subscribed money to help build the Southern Methodist Church, did not expect that organization to repudiate their contract made with the people of the district. All who have not paid their subscriptions to the church should refuse to do so, until they show a disposition not to walk in the footsteps of Inman. If this thing goes on much longer, people will think that Inman was the right man to build and be a member of that church. The people are glad to note that the school trustees have not yielded an lot of the people's rights in the matter. We have waited patiently for our good neighbors of Tustin City to get in a good humor about "township division," but we still hear an occasional growl over the failure of it. The proposition they made to the Supervisors would have defeated it without any protest from the citizens of the old township. Could they expect the citizens of Orange and Santa Ana to consent to the division by the lines they proposed, which left the old township from 24 to 3 miles in width, while the new one would have been about twelve miles in width? Make a reasonable proposition and there will be no difficulty in the matter. The growing needs of Santa Ana well and can vouch for the truthfulness of the story: He was called up in the middle of the night (did you ever hear of one called at any other time?) in a great hurry to go to that classic region called the "devil's elbow." The messenger stated that "the child was dying, and to hurry up." He left, and the physician followed as soon as possible. After travelling nine miles, he arrived at the place, and knocked. Silence prevailed within; finally, he roused the inmates, and a night cap was pushed through the window and he was asked, "Who's there?" "Ob, yaa, Nancy, does the baby need anything now?" "No: that catnip and cammomile fixed it." The doctor turned to depart, and had got away about thirty yards, when the night-cap re-appeared and said: "Helloa, Doctor! you won't charge anything fur this visit, will you, seein' how you didn't give no medicine." The M.D. didn’t trust himself to a reply, but he put spurs to his horse and kept up a devil of a thinking. The rate on grain has been reduced to five dollars per ton by the Southern Pacific Railroad from this place to San Francisco. This is a little higher than the steamer rates, but the grain can be placed in the market much sooner by rail, can be shipped in second-hand sacks, and insured by the company. Santa Monica Items. The Santa Monica Outlook has the following: The Los Angeles Herald has been advocating State division, but the public generally considers it rather premature. Taxes are already heavy enough. The Bee-keepers met in Santa Monica last Saturday. As we were unable to attend, and no report has been furnished us, we cannot give a definite account of their proceedings. We understand they organized an Association, and will hold their next meeting at Mr. Mully’s in Cox’s Caifon. An old sailor pointed out to us yesterday morning what he called a "Mackerel Skyy" and said it was a sure sign of rain; but it hasn’t come yet; though it looks as if we might have a shower at any time. The San Diego World reports that Captain Royes has gone to San Francisco to purchase a steam propeller for whaling purposes. He will run between San Diego and the Gulf of California. A girl at Sunderland, England, while running to look at a funeral, fell down and a hair-pin ran into one of the apertures of the spine through which the nerves pass, causing inflammation of the spine and ultimately death. GAZETTE NO. 10 3, 1876. How the Comstockers are Amused. The Comstock is an improving place to live in. Both Gold Hill and Virginia are well supplied with schools, and there is no lack of churches. We have more saloons to the population than any place in the country. Every Sunday when there is a show in town we have a matinee and an evening performance. On the Sabbath, also, we are entertained with a horse race or a fight between a bull-dog and a wild cat. Every month or so the prize fighters favor us with a mill, which we all go to see and then indict the fighters, as a sort of concession to the portranical element. It is merely a form, however, as we generally take care that our favorite bruisers have ball, and it would be hard to find a jury of generous Comstockers who would convict them. Every Saturday night small boys parade up and down the principal streets of Virginia, carrying transparencies which inform our sport loving people where cock fighting may be enjoyed. Faro, keno, chuck-a-luck, and roulette may be found in every second saloon, and a special policeman, wearing his star, frequently conducts the game. Taking everything into consideration, there are few pleasant places to live than on the Comstock. Our favorite recreations are all so delightfully open and above board, too. In the effete Eastern States a man would be sent to jail for doing those things which serve to daily and nightly amuse the Nevada gentleman. Thus it is seen how the mind broadens in its views as it travels west.—Gold Hill News. Almond Culture. A correspondent of the Santa Barbara Press gives the following interesting statement of his experience in among culture: CARPINTERIA, Dec. 9, 1876.—I have been asked many questions by latter and otherwise, in regard to the cultivation and profit of the almond tree, and with your permission I will endeavor to answer some of these inquiries through the columns of your paper. In the Spring of 1869 I planted sixteen acres to "root grafts," setting them 14x20 feet, or one hundred and fifty-five trees to the acre, which proved almost a total failure, only twenty grafts growing. The following Spring I replanted the ground with "dormant buds," adding sixteen acres more. This was another failure; only about two hundred of the buds started. The next year I re-budded a few of the trees, and in the Spring of 1872 I planted 1000 yearling trees which grew and have done well. In the Spring of 1874 I planted 500 more, and the following Spring I removed from the orchard over 1200 "seedling trees" (those on which the buds had failed to grow) leaving none but the genuine "Princess de Languedoc" variety, of which there are 2360 trees, occupying fourteen and one-half acres, from which nuts were gathered this season. The orchard yielded 17,700 pounds, (an average of 8 pounds to the tree or 1240 pounds per acre) against 10,000 pounds last year, and 400 pounds the year before. I commenced the harvest this year on the 25th of September, and finished on the 19th of October, employing... The Holland Wind-Mills. Our special delight for once was not "the cathedral." We got close to a wind-mill and were happy; we entered, and our joy was full. We had no conception of the magnitude of these labor-saving devices. We counted not less than six stories in the tower of the one we were permitted to examine. It must have been as high as an ordinary church steeple. The arms or fans were of enormous length, and carried 3,000 feet of canvas. And this is the machine that literally makes Holland. It pumps out the ocean when the ocean gets in. It saws and grinds. It does the lifting and the lowering. A family lives in the mill. In Holland there are ten thousand of these mammoth structures. In London and Liverpool and New York there is everywhere a forest of masts. In Holland there is everywhere a forest of wind-mills. Some are built of brick, others of stone, and many of wood; of course, we mean the tower part. They turn slowly, yet with great power; and we learn that, so flat is the country, that there is seldom a serious or long continued lack of wind.—Correspondence Universalist. Congressman Luttrell writes to the Sonoma Democrat that his Grape Brandy bill will pass the Senate at an early day. The passage of this bill will be a great boon to our vineyardists. Its provisions are on the principle of the bonded warehouse, which, for many years, has facilitated the business men of leading cities of the United States. The necessity of paying the tax on grape brandy as soon as it was manufactured has discouraged its production greatly. There is hardly any profit in the manufacture of wine, at the present low prices for the domestic article, unless the refuse of the wine press can be treated for brandy. Brandy which lacks age, is without a market value. Insisting on the payment of the tax on the nail was an onerous and oppressive exaction. Under the new system we may look for a greatly improved status of California brandies, for they will now be kept long enough to give them merit and guarantee them a fair price. By the passage of this bill the government will practically constitute itself the banker of the vineyardist, and a banker which will practise no extortion. Both the viniculturist and the government will be the gainer, as more brandy will be manufactured and, consequently, more tax will be paid. Our old system was really that of killing the goose which laid the golden egg. Mr. Luttrell will have earned 500 more, and the following Spring I removed from the orchard over 1200 "seedling trees" (those on which the buds had failed to grow) leaving none but the genuine "Princess de Languedoc" variety, of which there are 2360 trees, occupying fourteen and one-half acres, from which nuts were gathered this season. The orchard yielded 17,700 pounds (an average of 8 pounds to the tree or 1240 pounds per acre) against 10,000 pounds last year, and 400 pounds the year before. I commenced the harvest this year on the 25th of September, and finished on the 19th of October, employing fifteen men, who boarded themselves. I paid $1.25 per day for gathering, and 1¢ cents per pound for shucking. There were 110 days' labor at $1.25 per day, making $137.50, and 17,700 pounds of nuts at $1 cents, $309.75—total cost $417.25, or 2¢ cents per pound. The fruit will shrink in drying and preparing for market about twenty-five per cent, which, at present prices, will leave considerably over $100 per acre, clear of all costs and expenses. The trees are perfectly healthy and vigorous, and the fruit improves in size and quality as the trees grow older, some of the oldest trees yielding fifty pounds of nuts. My failures in starting the orchard were owing to want of experience in tree-planting, and not to any difficulty in raising the almond, which is easy of propagation and a rapid grower. Shall fill out the orchard this Winter with yearling trees from my own nursery. S. H. Olmstead. The National Democratic Committee has issued the following congratulatory address: We announce as the result of the Presidential election held on the 7th of November the election of Samuel J. Tilden, of New York, as President, and Thomas A. Hendricks, of Indiana, as Vice-President of the United States. We congratulate you on this victory for reform. It now remains for the two Houses of Congress, in performance of their duty, on the second Wednesday in February next, to give effect to the will of the people, thus expressed in the Constitutional mode by a majority of the electoral votes and confirmed by a majority of all the States, as well as by an overwhelming majority of all the people of the United States. By order of Executive Committee, ABRAM S. HEWITT, Ch'm. FREDERICK O PRINCE, Secretary. And the Hon. Z. Chandler makes the following rejoinder: An address has been issued by the Democratic Committee. It is a last desperate attempt to prop up a failing cause. Hayes has been fairly elected by a clear majority of the Electoral vote. There are no indications that any right-minded citizen has doubt as to the result. The address of the Democratic Committee is an impertinent and audacious attempt to prejudice and pervert the public judgment. Hayes and Wheeler are elected, and the will of the American people will be carried out and maintained. Z. CHANDLER Mr. J. Trotter has 100 acres of land on the Santa Paula, and this year he raised from four acres seventy-five tons of squash, thirty sacks of Irish potatoes, twenty of sweet potatoes, 1500 pounds of onions, and the family put up three barrels of cucumber pickles. There was also on the four acres 900 head of cabbage and 150 bushels of corn. In addition Mr. Trotter has now 150 pounds of cotton in the seed. The cotton he says is equal to any grown in Louisiana. He also grew watermelons without number. He sold thirty dollars worth of melons. The beets beat all. There were a number which measured three feet in length. Edward Everett Hale says that he has "within six months talked with a highly cultivated American woman who did not know the difference between a Senator and a Representative in Congress." And he "went into a public school one day and asked a question about the Battle of Brandywine, and found that the class had never heard of it and was only amused by the drollness of the name. At the present rate of destruction, elephants will soon become extinct. At a recent meeting of the English Geographical Society it was reported that England imports annually 1,200,000 pounds of ivory, to obtain which it is necessary to kill 30,000 elephants. The total annual destruction of the animal is estimated at 100,000. We don't know of anything sweeter than a seventeen-year-old girl-baby after all. An address has been issued by the Democratic Committee. It is a last desperate attempt to prop a falling cause. Hayes has been fairly elected by a clear majority of the Electoral vote. There are no indications that any right-minded citizen has doubt as to the result. The address of the Democratic Committee is an impertinent and audacious attempt to prejudice and pervert the public judgment. Hayes and Wheeler are elected, and the will of the American people will be carried out and maintained. Z. CHANDLER, Chairman National Republican Committee. NEW PATENTS.—Through Dewey & Company, Patent Agents, San Francisco, we receive the following advance list of United States patents granted Pacific Coast inventors, viz.: Edward J Delaney, San Jose, combined hoe-cart reel and irrigator; Richard Heller, San Francisco, devices for pulling piles and posts; Henry R. Taylor, San Francisco, clamps for wire ropes; Ed. B. Dorsey, San Francisco, car trucks for prismoidal tracks; Chas M. Hays, Silver City, Idaho, rulers; Levi J. Henry, San Francisco, envelopes; Christopher Lamb, San Francisco, clamps for holding band rail wreath pieces; Ambrose J. Latlin, Alvarado, Cal., spring bed bottoms; August Mann, Big Oak Flat, Cal., mining riffles; Frederick Oppenheim, San Francisco, re-issue, vehicle seats. Canaris, the Greek Admiral, who over fifty years ago with forty-two comrades, took the sacrament and then devoted himself to death, mailing two fire-ships into the midst of the Turkish fleet at Seleo, succeeding in destroying the Panha's ship and hundreds of men, is living in Athens, a hale old man of 82 years. It seems that when a negro in Louisiana turned from being a Democrat to being a Democrat, he was always convinced by a barbecue. An Alabama baby, of negro parentage, has exactly one-half of his body white and the other half black. Count him in. A French artist represents Abraham as about to shoot Isaac with a Gulf's revolver.