anaheim-gazette 1877-03-03

WEEKLY GAZETTE. SATURDAY...MARCH 3, 1877. ITALY has declared its seventeen universities open to women, and Switzerland, Norway, Sweden and Denmark have taken similar action, while France has opened the Sorbonne to women, and Russia its highest schools of medicine and surgery. A LETTER from Burns to the chief magistrate of Dumfries has been recently discovered among old custom papers at Somerset House, London. It contains the unporetical suggestion of a more complete system in collecting the imposts on ales brewed and sold in Dumfries. "The following lie is told by the Anaheim (Cal.) Gazette," says the Boston Globe. And then follows our goose story. For writing a scrupulously truthful account of a very strange occurrence, we have been branded as a brilliant and gifted falsifier from Dan to Beersheba on the north, and from Boston to Indianapolis on the south-west. We are almost driven to vow never to tell the truth again. Last evening's Express thus sums up the political situation: The vote of South Carolina has been counted for Hayes & Wheeler, and the dilatory tactics in joint convention were not countenanced by a sufficient number of Democratic members to render them of any importance. The two Houses continued the count to Vermont, and by this time the election has been fully declared, and Hayes and Wheeler will be inaugurated on Monday. The agricultural returns of Great Britain for 1876, just published, show a cultivated area of 47,393,000 acres, exclusive of heath and mountain pasture land, and of woods and plantations. The acreage under wheat last year was eleven per cent. less than in 1875, and twenty-two per cent. less than in 1869; that under oats showed an increase, while the potato crop was much decreased from fear of disease. The acreage under artificial grasses is the largest yet recorded—4,540,000. AN EVIL FOR WHICH THE PRESS IS RESPONSIBLE. In casting about for the true cause of the corruption and venality now running riot through the land, we are convinced that it lies in the imordinate greed for gain that has gained such complete ascendancy over all classes of people. Before investigating the question of how much actual benefit riches confer on their possessor, we must point out what appears to us to be the part taken by the press in creating, or more properly speaking, maintaining—since it already exists—this greed for money. Assuming as incontestibly true the great influence of the press as moulders of public opinion, it must follow that what they keep prominently before the people, and eulogize, will be sought after and prized by the public. Then, if we find the press parading and enologizing wealth, evidently wealth will be much sought after. Now, we venture to say that through the means of the American press the nation and the world have become familiar with the names of our millionaires. Vanderbilt, O'Brien, Drew, Gould, Flood, Fisk, Mills, et al., are characters known the world over; known as American celebrities, honored for the power they possessed and do possess of acquiring wealth; known as reckless speculators or shrewd financiers, with millions behind them; known as men to be envied and copied, because of their dollars; known as the greatest men in America in the catimation of the masses. Who is there in this land who has not heard of Fisk and Gould? Was not that unscrippulous rascal, Fisk, almost deified, all on account of his wealth? Are not the Bonanza Kings the most envied men in California today? Their every move, their houses, their banks, their horses, their dogs, their servants—everything connected with them—is chronicled and heralded abroad by the press. The press alone is responsible for this toadyism to filthy lucre, for this exaltation of money over all else; and from this exaltation and toadyism springs, in a large measure, the stream of rascality in which we exist. Stop any ten men on the street and ask them the names of the ten richest men in America, and see how glibly they will run over the names of our millionaires. Ask the Hogs and Cattle. There is quite a general farmers who have had experience in this particular cattle will not do well if pastures together. We think there is no good reason of such an impressive hogs and cattle feeding to pastures and running together and not separately; vigorously in consequence by their own manure, and we account they reject. The these bunches, but eat thirst and thus all the clover is also many kinds of reject, which cattle eat. Running on the same field plants will be consumed cattle, and there we get some people have an impact what the hogs chew out, and that such food ease known as the "mad ground" for this impression. First, the hogs do not chase way and spit it out after cattle will certainly not from such cause, have to. There are positive why a farmer who keeps hogs. The sour milk-room are among can be given to hogs, a small pigs. A very little make pigs thrive, when difficult to raise them. Pigs from the milk of the cows is almost indispensable cattle are being fed for tending them, on corn or less followed by hogs, although of the food is wasted, but field with cattle save it all get the mad itch from stomach with dry corn-starch there be any of the blacks. This is of itself poisonous most assuredly give horses on stalks affected with Record-Union. Toy Man An English writer details of this branch of following is an abstract Paris there are about five employed in the exclusive factory. The chief The agricultural returns of Great Britain for 1876, just published, show a cultivated area of 47,393,000 acres, exclusive of heath and mountain pasture land, and of woods and plantations. The acreage under wheat last year was eleven per cent, less than in 1875, and twenty-two per cent. Less than in 1869; that under oats showed an increase, while the potato crop was much decreased from fear of disease. The acreage under artificial grasses is the largest yet recorded—4,540,000. A correspondent, writing from Oregon, says that in answer to the petitions that are being circulated there by Republicans asking that Grover be kept out of the United States Senate on account of bribery used in his election, and his connection with the Electoral muddle, the Democrats are working up attidavits calculated to impeach Senator Mitchell, and showing that some persons were "influenced" to vote for him at the time of his election. So it will be a fight all around, and the correspondent has no confidence that it will amount to anything on either side, if indeed it is ever commenced. That large class of persons who are suspicious as to the probity of chirpologists, will find their prejudices sustained by a recent trial at Cambridge, England, where a person of the omnious name of Wolff, aged sixty-six, and reputed to speak five languages, was convicted of trying to obtain money of the Hon. John Plunkett, an undergraduate, by pretending to extract six corns from his foot. The prisoner waited upon Mr. Plunkett with testimonials, and pretended to draw corns, which were little pieces of horn, and smeared the foot with red ink resembling blood. Wolff was sentenced to four months' imprisonment, with such labor as he can do. Major Sir Rose Lambert Price, Bart., recently spent some months in California, and since his return to England he has published a book containing a record of his travels. It appears that the gallant Major passed through our town, and complains that "some black-guard at the principal hotel in Anaheim stole my favorite umbrella, after having in vain endeavored to make me late for the train." In a subsequent paragraph the Major is pleased to say that our wines are simply horrid. Putting this and that together, we are inclined to believe that the gallant Major got on a beastly drunk while in Anaheim, and that on getting up the succeeding morning (too late for the train) and discovering that he had lost his favorite umbrella and gained an exercising headache, he revenged himself by penning the paragraphs mentioned. Nor content with having destroyed some traditional beliefs on the subject of bees, Sir John Lubbock is now attacking the reputation of the ant. According to Sir John it would appear that the different species of ants—and there are about 700—"have the Bonanza Kings the most envied men in California today? Their every move, their houses, their banks, their horses, their dogs, their servants—everything connected with them is chronicled and heralded abroad by the press. The press alone is responsible for this soadyism to filthy lucre, for this exaltation of money over all else; and from this exaltation and toadyism springs, in a large measure, the stream of rascality in which we exist. Stop any ten men on the street and ask them the names of the ten richest men in America, and see how glibly they will run over the names of our millionaires. Ask the same men to quote the names of the ten most prominent scientists, engineers, authors, professors of we care not what humanitarians, explorers, or we care not what other noble calling, and see the blank book that will spread over their faces. When was Morse compared with Vanderbilt, or what is a Yale Professor side by side with a Fisk? It is indeed but too true that our moneyed men are those whom the great bulk of our people strive to equal; it is those who are toadied, aped and admired. And it is to the influence of the press that this state of feeling is, in a large manner, directly traceable. Bad diet produces ill health, no matter whether it be bodily or mental. The press that furnishes the mental aliment to forty millions of people is responsible for their mental condition. The peculiar feature in the pursuit of wealth, as compared with other pursuits in life, is that it is peculiarly a calling which encourages dishonesty, because it is so easy to acquire wealth by being dishonest; whereas success in physic, sculpture, law, geology, engineering, etc., cannot be obtained save by honest toil and long years of labor. You cannot cheat Evarts of his mind full of learning, though you may Mills of his bank accounts. You cannot defraud Wm. Cullen Bryant of his literary knowledge by any legal quibble or stock operation, though you may catch Gould short on Western Union by some such means. So it is that fraud enters peculiarly into money-making, as a business. Now, did the press of the country let these money kings of the country, so to speak, take a back seat, and remain in comparative obscurity, and bring into public notice our better class of men, we venture to say the result would be good. It might also be wise to impress upon the youth of our land such principles as these: Anxiety increases with wealth. It is impossible to enjoy more than a sufficiency. Wealth is perishable, but knowledge is not. A good trade or profession, unlike a bank account cannot run dry. If the principle were better understood that a few years of potent work at any trade or profession will give a sufficiency, and that all beyond a sufficiency is anxiety, we think the mad rush after millions—that fills our jails and mad-houses, debauches our political world and our social circle, engenders mistrust and hatred between neighbors and relatives—would be somewhat stayed. The pursuit of money per se is not an honorable calling; so it should not be exalted over honorable callings that benefit mankind, while they also carry with them the requisite value to ensure field with cattle save it all get the mad item from stomach with dry corn-stain there be any of the blacks. This is of itself poison most assuredly give horse on stalks affected with Record-Union. Toy Man An English writer details of this branch of following is an abstract Paris there are about five employed in the exclusive facture. The chief easier procuring of the substantiary—to be used; for untainted for next or nothing would have to be sold to its success. The barrere dear to the warlike mans modern Gaul are wrong dine boxes. Doll's book covers of discarded dresses and trimming's stage costumes of actress every theatre, great or wheels which support their creations in which they lights they would, if coeven by toy wheelwright item of expense in the prince they are provided for this purpose the round wood or metal when he allow the insertion of Such are the cruel stand in which each glass blower of wood, while in medicine boxes would an example of the same thieves instrument us such as plates, knives fire irons,the toy ma service the metal belts pipes and spouts worn terial collected in work most horrible and striking yet unmade. Whence which those resolute Ge are made who stand so edges of ground; to be and marbles? Let not captivities or a tender made aware of the answer out of the metal cut dug out of the old cement. Death of a New A most ancient and new of Versailles has recent This is an Orange tree ries old,far older than old as the family that Navarre gave the her gardener in 1421; luna; from there the Or in the days of its youth it was the property o Bourbon whence its Connetable." Francis ferried it to Fountainbeauty turned traitor and we Louis XIV. transferr where it has survived revolutions two or nearly two hundred w Republic was more than it has died without giving of ill health. The Woosung Railway opened on Dec. 1. On there was a riot at the railway was closed train approached the Nor content with having destroyed some traditional beliefs on the subject of bees, Sir John Lubbock is now attacking the reputation of the ant. According to Sir John it would appear that the different species of ants—and there are about 700—"have strongly contrasted moral characteristics." Some are distinguished by bravery, some by cowardice, some are industrious, some are strikingly idle. They are too lazy even to feed themselves or clean themselves, and Sir John Lubbock found that to keep them alive it was necessary to put a few slaves for an hour or two every day in the case in which they were confined, in order that their domestic arrangements may be duly attended to. They are said to be very stupid in regard to locality. Sir John Lubbock has tried putting a store of food to be reached by passing over little card-board bridges, and he found that slightly shifting a bridge blilled them. They never tried to push the bridge or even to make use of a supply of fine mould put ready to help them fill up the gap. They "craned" at a jump of about one-third of an inch, and preferred going a circuit of eighteen feet, just as a cautious rider to hounds might make a detour of several fields to take advantage of a line of gates. It is a mistake, too, to suppose that ants will take care of a distressed friend. Sir John Lubbock tried just covering an ant with mould where many were passing and repassing. Not one took any notice of him. They have, however, a singular power of recognizing each other, as was tested by placing thirty intoxicated friends in company with thirty intoxicated strangers together in a nest. The ants were at first much puzzled with the sad spectacle. However, twenty of the friends were taken into the nest, five were thrown into the water, and the others neglected. On the other hand, twenty-four of the thirty strangers were thrown into the water at once, and of the six taken into the nest by mistake, four were afterwards found to be strangers, and were then taken out and thrown into the water also. In Tuesday's Alta we find the following: In the case of George E. Long, assignee, etc., vs. D. Freeman, E. F. Spence, and Wm. Temple, a decree was rendered by Judge Hoffman, yesterday. It was held that the assignment made by Temple & Workman, as partners and individuals, to defendants, is invalid and illegal so far as it relates to the assets in any manner of the partnership property of said Temple & Workman and the individual property of F. P. F. Temple. It is ordered and decreed that the assignment be annulled, and that the complainant become invested with the title to all property as assignee in bankruptcy of the said Temple & Workman as partners, and F. P. F. Temple individually. It is ordered that the defendants transfer all the property, rents and issues, and render a true account of the same to the plaintiff in the suit. Dr. Kenealy recently wrote to the Earl of Derby calling his attention to the alleged new evidence in the Tichborne case, asking whether, in the event of his going to Spain to inquire into the matter, his lordship would "give him any facilities for the elucidation of the truth." His lordship responded ambiguously. Meanwhile, Mr. Cobbett has made another effort to obtain the claimant's release. The Court of Appeals, however, amid much laughter, refused to entertain the application. Mr. Cobbett claims that "Sir Roger" was illegally convicted under an act which had been repealed five years previous to his trial, and that, even if the conviction was good, sentence could not legally exceed seven years, instead of fourteen years. The Woosung Railway opened on Dec. 1. On there was a riot at the railway was closed train approached the piled up stones across the them rushed across the bambooos and gongs, and the train and attack the gine driver made a dash and the train went. The ringleader stood near conductor seized him before he had time to curtance arose from the gangs of coolies who wove road, and not from any pany. As the contracts will shortly expire, nearly all cases return culturists have besought encourage immigration Congress has thereforeizing the Executive to pean men, with their government's expense. Will be given to them,ments of agriculture seeds for their first expected to earn food,and others,and to repay small installments. The Superintendent has apportioned them among the several county,which has schools will receive $1238; children between 5 and 10 receive school more makes the amount ap$6.70.Alpine County number of children,Bthe apportionment o$569.50. Hogs and Cattle Together. There is quite a general impression among farmers who have had no, or but little, experience in this particular, that hogs and cattle will not do well if kept in the same pastures together. We think we are safe in saying there is no good reason for the existence of such an impression. We have had hogs and cattle feeding together in the same pastures and running together winters for a number of years, and both have done well. Indeed, we think that there is economy in thus keeping them together. If on alfalfa fields in the summer, they will, if together, eat the clover more evenly and entirely than either would separately. Cattle are most sure to find bunches of alfalfa growing vigorously in consequence of being stimulated by their own manure, and which on that account account they reject. The hogs do not object to these bunches, but eat them as freely as any, and thus all the clover is consumed. There are also many kinds of plants that hogs reject, which cattle eat, and so the contrary. Running on the same field both these kinds of plants will be consumed by the hogs or cattle, and there we get the advantage of all. Some people have an impression that cattle eat what the hogs chew up and again spit out, and that such food gives them the disease known as the "mad itch." There is no ground for this impression, for two reasons. First, the hogs do not chew up food in this way and spit it out after, and if they do, cattle will certainly not eat such, and will not, from such cause, have the disease alluded to. There are positive reasons, however, why a farmer who keeps cows should also keep hogs. The sour milk and slops from the milk-room are among the best things that can be given to hogs, and more especially small pigs. A very little cow's milk will make pigs thrive, when without it, it would be difficult to raise them. In weaning young pigs from the milk of their mothers, milk of cows is almost indispensable. Again, when cattle are being fed for the purpose of fattening them, on corn or other rich food, unless followed by hogs, a considerable portion of the food is wasted, but hogs in the same field with cattle save it all. Cattle sometimes get the mad itch from overloading their stomach with dry corn-stalks, particularly if there be any of the black smat on the stalks. This is of itself poison to cattle, and will most assuredly give horses the heaves if fed on stalks affected with it.—Sacramento Record-Union. Toy Making. An English writer gives some curious details of this branch of industrial art. The following is an abstract of the article: In Paris there are about five thousand workmen employed in the exclusive trade of toy manufacture. The chief essential in this art is the Blue Glass in Politics. If General Pleasanton's blue glass theory be worth anything, the new panason must be applicable to a great many evils which medicine has failed to cure. For example, since the theory is in the effect that a particular filtration of sunlight nourishes the body better than undiluted or unfiltered light, it is evident that the brain must partake of the benefit from blue light bath; and General Pleasanton specifically asserts that this is the case. If, therefore, we wish to obtain the greatest benefit from the new specific, we should introduce glass into the windows of all legislative halls, court-rooms and public offices generally, and in that way secure the fullest advantage from the diffusion of the blue rays. Had the Democrats thought of this in time and inserted blue glass in the windows of the Supreme Court-room at Washington, it is possible that the decisions in the Electoral Commission might have been different, and that Justice Bradley might have found it incumbent upon himself to vote with the other seven upon the main points. Before giving in our absolute adherence to General Pleasanton's pleasant hypothesis, we think it necessary to recognize and guard against the characteristic iniquity of the age, by enquiring whether he happens to be a partner in a glass factory, or is in the receipt of any salary or subsidies from the vendors of blue or other glass.—Sac. Record-Union. Object of the Order of Caucausians. Supreme Chief Dorney of the Order of Caucausians denies that the organization teaches any such doctrine as undying hatred to the Chinese, and says: "On the contrary, it grants the Chinese the natural right to better their condition, and, if they have the power, the right to supplant our system and establish their own, and we simply reserve the same rights we grant. Caucasus regards the present contest as one systems, not of race, and punishes any act of violence in speech or deed practised against the Chinese or others. Again, you say the main object is a union of labor against capital. The exact reverse is the case. We seek to attract and co-operate with capital by laboring to make it profitable for the latter to unite with us. We know that we cannot crush capital, sustained as it is by the most absorbing of human passions—avarice; nor do we want to crush it. Labor and capital are Siamese twins, and one cannot die and the other survive; therefore, from sheer self-interest we seek to feed, train and direct it to the end that each twin may be healthy, cheerful and truly brotherly labor together for the prevention of the establishment of a BY TELEGRAPH. The Crookedness of Salinas Officials. SAN FRANCISCO, Feb. 27. The Call this morning publishes a detailed account of the circumstances connected with the recent burning of the Court House at Salinas, from which it appears that a defalcation of from $15,000 to $20,000 has discovered in the accounts of the Tax Collector, and that the Deputy Collector, Wm. H. Rumsey, is supposed to have gambled off the most of it, losing portions of the amount to faro dealers, but the most of it in poker games with a number of prominent citizens, including several county officers. It is also intimated that a close ring exists which has been plundering the county for years, and detectives from San Francisco, who have been working up the case, state that the affair is the worst that has ever come under their notice, even the Courts seeming to a considerable extent to be disposed to afford the ring every opportunity to make out a good case. Popular indignation is very high and the citizens of the better class show a determination to sift the affair to the bottom. There is hope that Rumsey may be induced to turn State's evidence. The ring has money and a lot of desperadoes in its interest, who may be secured to commit perjury or acts of violence in defense of their employers. Fatal Accident. SAN FRANCISCO, Feb. 27. Myers, a German, aged about 35, living on the corner of Dolores and 22d street, was instantly killed this morning by the accidental discharge of his gun while he was loading it. Deceased was a driver of a laundry wagon and leaves a wife and three children. Anti-Chinese Nomination. SAN JOSÉ, February 26. The Anti-Chinese Association has nominated the following city ticket: Clerk, W. N. Castle; Councilmen, W. Abel, H. H. Anderson, F. Gabler and A. S. Knox. Justifiable Homicide. SAN FRANCISCO, Feb. 26. About 1:30 this morning Owen Conlon, Special Assistant Office appointed Oakland Toy Making. An English writer gives some curious details of this branch of industrial art. The following is an abstract of the article: In Paris there are about five thousand workmen employed in the exclusive trade of toy manufacture. The chief essential in this art is the procuring of the substances—the raw material—to be used; for unless these can be obtained for next to nothing, the finished work would have to be sold too dearly to allow of its success. The barrels of sham guns, so dear to the warlike male offspring of the modern Gaul, are wrought up out of old sardine boxes. Doll's boots are made of the coverings of discarded purses; and their dresses and trimming of the old, worn-out stage costumes of actresses, gathered from every theatre, great or small. As for the wheels which support the thousand movable creations in which the infantile heart delights, they would, of course, if constructed even by toy wheelwrights, be an important item of expense in the profession. As it is, they are provided for by appropriating for this purpose the round pieces cut out from wood or metal, when holes are bored in it to allow the insertion of some other article. Such are the crutches stands in use in France, in which each glass bottle is encased in a layer of wool, while in this country probably medicine boxes would afford a more common example of the same thing. For the little pewter instruments used in doll's houses, such as plates, knives, spoons, bottles and fire irons, the toy makers press into their service the metal belonging to old water pipes and spouts, worn out roofing, and material collected in work shops. But the most horrible and striking revelation remains yet unmade. Whence comes the lead of those resolute German English soldiers are made, who stand so bravely on their thin edges of ground, to be picked off by peas and marbles? Let not boys with tender susceptibilities or a tendency to melancholy be made aware of the answer. They are mounted out of the metal cut from ancient coffins, dug out of the old cemeteries at Nuremburg. Death of a Notable Tree. A most ancient and respectable inhabitant of Versailles has recently given up the ghost. This is an Orange tree more than four centuries old, far older than the chateau, and as old as the family that built it. The Queen of Navarre gave the original orange-pip to her gardener in 1421; he sowed it at Pampeluna; from there the Orange tree was moved in the days of its youth to Chantilly, where it was the property of the Connetable de Bourbon, whence its name of "le Grand Connetable." Francis I seized it and transferred it to Fountainebleau. When its master turned traitor and went over to Charles V. Louis XIV, transferred it to Versailles, where it has survived some half a dozen revolutions, two or three invasions, and nearly two hundred winterers. But the third Republic was more than it could bear, and it has died without giving any previous signs of ill health. The Woosung Railway in China was reopened on Dec. 1. On the following Monday there was a riot at one of the stations and the railway was closed temporarily. As the train approached the station, the natives present contest as one of systems, laws of race, and punishes by expulsion any act of violence in speech or deed practised against the Chinese or others. Again, you say the main object is a union of labor against capital. The exact reverse is the case. We seek to attract and co-operate with capital by laboring to make it profitable for the latter to unite with us. We know that we cannot crush capital, sustained as it is by the most absorbing of human passions—avarice; nor do we want to crush it. Labor and capital are Siamese twins, and one cannot die and the other survive; therefore, from sheer self-interest we seek to feed, train and direct it to the end that each twin may be healthy, cheerful and truly brotherly labor together for the prevention of the establishment of a system of civilization that must ultimately end in the destruction of our system of capital as well as labor, for one Siamese cannot long live and bear the decaying corpse of the other." Plowing Table. As a matter of interest we print the following table, which indicates the distance traveled by a horse in plowing an acre: Breadth of furrow allocs 7 inches ... 14 miles ... 8 ... 12 ... 9 ... 11 ... 10 ... 99-100 ... 11 ... 9 ... 8 ... 49-100 ... 24 ... 4 From this table can be seen the gain in the labor account with a crop which comes from the use of a broad furrow in plowing. If we call 16 miles a day the day's work for the horses, we plow but 14 acres a day by making a 7-inch furrow; nearly 2 acres by making a 12-inch furrow; and when a gang plow is used, which plows a 24-inch furrow, the acreage is increased to nearly 4. The use of an improved plow, which turns a broad furrow and palverizes, is therefore an economy on land suited to its use, and there is great gain from the use of a gang-plow under circumstances where it is applicable. —Scientific Farmer. A paper at Mexico City says that no Mexican newspaper ever has over two hundred and fifty subscribers, and about fifty of those will shoot at the editor if asked to pay up. Over 24,000 Masons were made in North America last year, and the whole number of affiliated Masons now on the continent exceeds 600,000. It is an old practice in Cambridgeshire, England, villages to sprinkle with chaff the doorstep of a house belonging to a man suspected of beating his wife, chaff being the result of thrashing. The man who invented the process of sending photographs by telegraph first became impressed with the feasibility of the thing when he telegramped to his uncle for a loan of $500 and received negative in reply. "Gentlemen," remarked a Kansas horse thief to a Vigilance Committee, just before the aerial dancing began. "Fun's fun, but I object to this practical choking." But they capital punished him just the same. A Philadelphia Court has granted an injunction restraining the ringing of St. Mark's chimes, it being a nuisance. The Court, however, expressed an earnest hope that counsel would compromise and secure a moderate ringing. The Fish Commissioners have distributed a large number of young white fish in Lake Donner, Lake Tahoe and various small lakes on the Summit. They have also received 150,000 young Eastern trout, which will be distributed among the trout streams of this State. Anti-Chinese Nomination. San Jose, February 26. The Anti-Chinese Association have nominated the following city ticket: Clerk, W. N. Castle; Councilmen, W. Abel, H. H. Anderson, F. Gebler and A. S. Knox. Justifiable Homicide. San Francisco, Feb. 26. About 1:30 this morning Owen Conlon, a longshoreman, was killed in the grocery of Schalte Bros., corner of Battery and Green streets, by another longshoreman named Owen Growney. The parties had been disputing during the evening on political and religious topics, and both had been drinking, though not to excess. Conlon, who was much the larger man of the two, finally attacked Growney, striking him several times with his fists. The latter seized a beer glass and hit his assailant twice over the head, and then ran into back room and closed the door. Conlon attempted to break it down, but a moment after fell and died instantly. Growney was arrested and examined in the police court this morning, and discharged on the ground of self-defense. A New Party. Chicago, Feb. 26. The Times' New Orleans special says: In connection with the report from Washington yesterday that the Southern Democracy threaten to take a new departure on the basis of a Hayes compromise, it is significant that D.B.Penn,Nicholls' Adjutant-General, left for Washington yesterday, charged with furthering a project looking to the support of the Southern Democracy of the claims of Hayes to the Presidency, conditional upon a guarantee by Hayes that recognition is to be given to the Conservative Government of Louisiana and South Carolina. Mr.Penn has authority to represent the sentiments of Gov.Nicholls as in consonance with the proposed programme. The tactic pledge is to effect that under a compromise giving Nicholls recognition he will not only conciliate the Republican Conservative element, but he will weed out the Bourbon element and release it into obscurity. The opinion here seems to be that the movement now on foot means the formation of a new party which shall be made up of the conservative element of both parties. Conservatives here think that in its latest struggle the Democratic party has exhausted itself, and that it has fought its last fight. The Feeling in Chicago. Chicago, Feb. 25. The Times speaking of the sentiment of the business and professional men of Chicago on the Presidential question says: "A fortnight ago it was hard to find a man in Chicago who did not believe that the decision of the Commission would be accepted in good faith. That was before Bradley turned a double corn malt from Florida to Louisiana." The Woosung Railway in China was reopened on Dec. 1. On the following Monday there was a riot at one of the stations and the railway was closed temporarily. As the train approached the station, the natives piled up stones across the track and attempted to take up some of the rails. Hundreds of them rushed across the fields, carrying flags, bamboo and gongs, and threatened to smash the train and attack the passengers. The engineer made a dash for the obstruction and the train went over it in safety. The ringleader stood near the train, and the conductor seized him and drew him into a car before he had time to call for help. The disturbance arose from the jealousy of two rival gangs of coolies who were employed upon the road, and not from any hostility to the company. As the contracts with the coolies in Peru will shortly expire, and as they intend in nearly all cases returning to China, the agriculturists have besought the Government to encourage immigration from Europe. The Congress has therefore passed a law authorizing the Executive to import 100,000 European men, with their families, at the Government's expense. Small tracts of land will be given to them, together with instruments of agriculture and building, and also seeds for their first crop. They will be expected to earn food, at first, by laboring for others, and to repay the Government in small installments. The Superintendent of Public Instruction has apportioned the State school money among the several counties. Los Angeles County, which has 9,319 pupils of public schools, will receive $62,437.30. The amount apportioned is $1,238,972.90; the number of children between 5 and 17 years of age entitled to receive school money is 184,787, which makes the amount apportioned to each child $6.70. Alpine County has the smallest number of children, having 85, which makes the apportionment of that county amount to $569.50. Seventeen Kentucky mules were taken on board the steamship State of Pennsylvania last night—"kicking up before and behind," as a sailor expressed it. No finer animals of the kind are to be seen, one of the chief kickers standing sixteen hands and three inches high and built in proportion. This is said to be the first shipment of the kind to Europe. They come from Stonewall, in Scott county, Kentucky, and are three years old. About forty more are to follow them in a week or so. The cheapest among them, in Kentucky cost $150. They are to be used for dray horses in Glasgow.—New York Herald. A Philadelphia Court has granted an injunction restraining the ringing of St. Mark's chimes, it being a nuisance. The Court, however, expressed an earnest hope that counsel would compromise and secure a moderate ringing. The Fish Commissioners have distributed a large number of young white fish in Lake Donner, Lake Tahoe and various small lakes on the Summit. They have also received 150,000 young Eastern trout, which will be distributed among the trout streams of this State. A dispatch from Santa Rosa says: Mr. Woolbury, agent of the California State Fish Commission, brought up from Berklye, on Tuesday last, 50,000 Eastern trout eggs, and superintended the construction of a hatching house, in which they have been planted, at the north end of the lake leading to the reservoir of the Santa Rosa works. The State Prohibition Convention met at Columbus, Ohio, on the 22d, and adopted a platform favoring the prohibition of the liquor traffic; against the employment-in-the public service of persons who sell liquor or are addicted to the habit of drinking liquor; demanding female suffrage and compulsory education; favoring the use of the Bible as a text-book in the public schools and the observance of the Christian Sabbath. H. A. Thompson, of Westerville, was nominated for Governor. The Leigh Chronicle, an English paper, publishes the following letter from Mr. Gladstone, on the question of keeping clubs open on Sunday: "Sir: It is difficult to answer you without any knowledge of special particulars, nor should I like to appear in print as an adviser. I think, however, it is good on the whole to keep the club house closed, provided the desire to do so is very general indeed; but I would not coerce a large minority, nor even a small one, if it were a number of persons who in good faith, not having homes, wished to make use of the club in lieu of them.—Yours faithfully and obediently, W. E. GLADSTONE." Seventeen Kentucky mules were taken on board the steamship State of Pennsylvania last night—"kicking up before and behind," as a sailor expressed it. No finer animals of the kind are to be seen, one of the chief kickers standing sixteen hands and three inches high and built in proportion. This is said to be the first shipment of the kind to Europe. They come from Stonewall, in Scott county, Kentucky, and are three years old. About forty more are to follow them in a week or so. The cheapest among them, in Kentucky cost $150. They are to be used for dray horses in Glasgow.—New York Herald. The Times, speaking of the sentiment of the business and professional men of Chicago on the Presidential question, says: "A fortnight ago it was hard to find a man in Chicago who did not believe that the decision of the Commission would be accepted in good faith. That was before Bradley turned a double somersault from Florida to Louisiana and before the last vestige of belief that there was a little honesty on the top shelf of the Republican party had disappeared. To-day, outside of the tradesmen, whose souls are in dollars and cents, it is equally difficult to find a man who thinks the decision is entitled to the least respect. Shop-keepers urge that to protract the contest would be to destroy trade. The nation has already suffered enough, they say, from delay, and the easiest and quickest way to reach a definite conclusion is the one that should be adopted, even if something of principle has to be sacrificed. "It is much like a quarrel between a man and his wife," said one. "One may be all right and the other all wrong; but it is better for the aggrieved party to waive many strong points and make many concessions than to fight it out to a divorce. The Goddess of Liberty may have been seduced by Chandler, raped by Morton, wooped into open adultery by Bradley, and all that, but it is better for us to condone her offense under the circumstances than to pitch her overboard just now." A Defaulting Postmaster. Chicago, Feb. 25. Special Agent Stuart, of the Postoffice Department, who has been in this city for several days looking into the accounts of the Chicago Postoffice, has discovered that General McArthur, the Postmaster here, is a defaulter to the amount of $38,000. This fact was ascertained yesterday when General McArthur telegraphed his resignation to Postmaster-General at Washington, and then went into voluntary bankruptcy. It is believed his bondsmen are also bankrupt. Special Agent Stuart will take charge of the office until McArthur's successor is appointed. Oakland News—Futally Injured. Oakland, Feb. 28. At 8:15 last evening Peter Backus shot himself with a pistol in the left temple and died instantly. The dead man was well-known as the proprietor of the Oakland saloon, corner fifth street and Broadway, and also of the extensive boarding house in the rear of the backyard in which the tragedy was enacted. Backus was formerly proprietor of the Summer Garden, in which connection he became widely known. Decased was fifty-five years of age, and killed himself on account of alleged domestic infelicity. Patrick Donohue, foreman of a gang of Chinamen on the Central Pacific Railroad, was run over by a construction train near Melrose, receiving fatal injuries. Wheat Market. SAN FRANCISCO, Feb. 28. Liverpool quotations for the wheat market of yesterday, just received, show a blow decline of Pennsylvania all around, but no change has taken place in the local market. Political Notes From New York Papers. NEW YORK, February 28. The Herald's dispatches give the stories of the threatened assassination of Hayes, but places no confidence in them. It says editorially: "In view of what took place in the House yesterday we have no longer any doubt that the filibusters will be foiled in their revolutionary plans. Hayes will be declared elected two or three days before the close of the session, and will be quietly inaugurated, in spite of their lunatic and futile attempts to defeat the purposes of the law. The majority of the Democratic party will have reason for congratulation that the factions filibusters did not succeed in ruining its future prospects." The Herald's Washington special says; Among letters received here to-day by members of Congress, urging filibustering, was one from John Bigelow, of New York, who urges that effort be made to obstruct and defeat the count of the votes. Bigelow is so near a friend of Tilden that his letter was case of Pennsylvania to-day. The time required to read this mass of testimony by relatives of clerks, kept at work night and day, is variously estimated at from ten days to two weeks. The Republicans still fear a deep Democratic scheme, but hope for better things. Change in the Electoral Commission. WASHINGTON, Feb. 27. In the Senate, on receiving notice of the resignation of Thurman, member of the Electoral Commission, on account of physical disability, Kermann was unanimously chosen to fill the vacancy. Imported Small-Paper. SAN FRANCISCO, March 1. The steamer Gaelic, of the Occidental and Oriental line, arrived from China yesterday morning. Upon going on board the quarantine physician found a Chinaman suffering from small-pox. The eruption has been visible for five days. He promptly quarantined the steamer, and it was not until evening that the cabin passengers were allowed to land. The Electoral Commission. WASHINGTON, Feb. 28. The Electoral Commission met at 10 A.M. Hurd submitted a resolution asking why the Commission should reject the certificate from South Carolina, holding that a Republican form of government must exist in a State, to give validity to the vote of that State. He said that if legal disabilities were imposed or intimidation was practiced, a Republican form of Government was not maintained, and proposes to show, by the testimony taken by the Home Committee, that both these conditions existed. He held that, as the constitution of South Carolina required the registration of voters and that requirement was utterly ignored, the election was void. He next referred to the objection that troops in the State oversaw the people and prevented a free expression of the will of the people. He read the proclamation of the President, of October last, declaring that insurrection existed in the State, and mentioned that the clause to the constitution authorizing the interference of the Federal Government contemplated an insurrection against, or resistance to State authority and not a disturbance between individual citizens. the session, and will be quietly inaugurated, in spite of their lunatic and futile attempts to defeat the purposes of the law. The majority of the Democratic party will have reason for congratulation that the factions filibusters did not succeed in ruining its future prospects." The Herald's Washington special says; Among letters received here to-day by members of Congress, urging filibustering, was one from John Bigelow, of New York, who urges that effort be made to obstruct and defeat the count of the votes. Bigelow is so near a friend of Tilden that his letter was regarded as an expression of the latter's wishes, but it will not have much effect. The World's Washington special says: That Hayes will recognize the Nicholls Government, in Louisiana, neither Morton, Sherman nor Frye believe. They say that such a course would reflect on his own election by the Returning Board, which counted Nicholls out with Tilden, but aside from that, the recognition of the Nicholls Legislature by Hayes, would give the Democrats a majority in the Senate of two or three. The World's Washington special says it is the general belief that Hayes will take the oath of office Sunday noon next in the Executive Mansion, in presence of Grant and his Cabinet, and the Chief Justice, who will administer the oath. It is not his present intention to arrive here till the count is completed, but if it is delayed till Friday he will leave Columbus on that day for Washington, and become the guest of Senator Sherman until he takes possession of the Executive Mansion. An Exciting Scene. CHICAGO, Feb. 27. The Journal Washington special says: The Democrats by their renewed and successful filibustering this morning satisfied the Republicans that the contest was not yet over. The Breach in the Democratic ranks, however, is hourly widening and a bitter feeling is being engendered, which is rapidly leading to irreconcilable differences. The Republicans and Conservative Democrats, by a rousing vote, defeated the motion to have Pennsylvania evidence read, but on the ayes and nays the filibusters succeeded in inducing their party friends to go with them, and the motion to read the evidence, and the reading occupied one hour. Hewitt enlivened the debate by renewing his attack on Hoar, under whose flagellation he was still smarting. The Democrats crowded about his seat, and when he said that although the Democrats were cheated and defrauded they must abide by the decision, some one shouted, "Coward;" "That is cowardice." etc. The confusion here was great. Cate, of Wisconsin, and Yates, of North Carolina, stood in front of him both shaking their fists. Great excitement ensued and a Democratic fight appeared imminent. The Speaker restored quiet and the debate went on. The Republicans will do nothing towards displacing the President pro tem. Ferry unless it becomes evident by Thursday or Friday, that the He next referred to the objection that troops in the State oversaw the people and prevented a free expression of the will of the people. He read the proclamation of the President, of October last, declaring that an insurrection existed in the State, and reminded that the clause to the constitution authorizing the interference of the Federal Government contemplated an insurrection against, or resistance to, State authority and not a disturbance between individual citizens of a State. That the Rifle Clubs were riding up and down murdering peaceable citizens, as stated in the President's proclamation, did not amount to such an insurrection against the United States or State authorities, as warranted the intervention of troops, which were not to keep the peace but influence the election. When Hurd had finished. Cochrane said that Judge Black and Mr. Blair would appear as counsel for the objectors to the certificates. The Commission declined to admit the evidence. The case was argued by confessor on both sides. The Commission then went into secret session and voted that the Hayes certificates were the ones provided for by the Constitution. Louisiana Politics. NEW ORLEANS, March I. Senators Webber and Hallett, two of the succeeding Republican Senators, took their seats in the State House to-day. Governor Nicholls issues a proclamation convening an extra session of his Legislature. An Oration to Hayes. COLUMBUS, March I. The citizens of Columbus, without distinction of party, gave Governor Hayes a reception last night at the Capitol. The building was crowded, even in the halls and corridors. The utmost enthusiasm prevailed. Suicide. CARLSLEE, Pa., March I. J. P. Haasler, late cashier of the Carlisle Deposit Bank, hanged himself this afternoon in the garret of his dwelling. Heavy Failure. LOUISVILLE, March I. W. H. Walker’s wholesale whisky firm have failed, with liabilities over two hundred thousand dollars. A Protest. CLEVELAND, March I. The Board of Trade has adopted resolutions demanding a speedy count of the Electoral votes and condemning filibustering. Redemption of Bonds. WASHINGTON, March I. The Acting Secretary of the Treasury has issued a call for the redemption of 5-20 bonds of 1865, May and November. The call is for ten millions of which seven millions are coupons and three millions registered bonds; principal and interest to be paid at the Treasury and after the 28th of May next. In Chicago. Chicago, Feb. 25. of the sentiment of national men of Chicago question, says: "A hard to find man in believe that the decision should be accepted in good Florida to Louisiana of belief that there is the top shelf of the disappeared. To-day, whom souls are in equally difficult to find decision is entitled to keepers urge that to destroy has already suffered delay, and the easiest to reach a definite one that should be nothing of principle has much like a quarrel this wife," said one and the other all for the aggrieved strong points and seems than to fight it the Goddess of Liberty by Chandler, raped to open adultery by but it is better for us under the circumference her overboard just. Postmaster. Chicago, Feb. 25. ort, of the Postoffice been in this city for the accounts of the has discovered that Postmaster here, is a amount of $38,000. This yesterday, when General was his resignation to Post-washington, and then bankrupt. It is also bankrupt. The South Carolina Arguments. New York, Feb. 28. The Times' Washington special says: Argument will commence at ten o'clock to-morrow on the Republican side. No more time than is absolutely necessary will be occupied in the argument, and the proposition which is likely to be acted on is that the Republican objectors shall waive argument and permit counsel to go on with whatever argument may be necessary. The rules of this Commission, as originally adopted, permitted eight hours of argument in the South Carolina case. It will be impossible, if the whole of this time is consumed, to bring a report back to the House before Wednesday afternoon, if indeed before Thursday. In the South Carolina case there is nothing at all which requires argument, and it is suggested that the Commission may change the rules, and limit speeches. It has been rumored for two or three days that, when the decision of the Commission in the South Carolina case is read in the two Houses, the objections which will be presented will contain in toto the report and testimony taken by the House Committee in South Carolina. The entire manuscript, covering 15,000 pages, has been withdrawn from the Public Printing Office, and there is no doubt that an attempt will be made to force its reading as part of the objections, or by a vote of the House, when the objections come to be considered, as in the A Protest. Cleveland, March 1. The Board of Trade has adopted resolutions demanding a speedy count of the Electoral votes and condemning abusiveness. Redemption of Bonds. Washington, March 1. The Acting Secretary of the Treasury has issued a call for the redemption of 5-20 bonds of 1865, May and November. The call is for ten millions of which seven millions are coupons and three millions registered bonds, principal and interest to be paid at the Treasury on and after the 28th of May next. Heavy Loss of Life. London, March 1. The whaling steamer Spitzenberger was lost near Berger, with 22 persons. The Sacramento Record-Union gives the following instructions to make an soilian harp: You can construct an soilian harp, one of the most simple and delightful of household ornaments, very easily. The case may be ornamented with decaleomanie, spatter work or cut figures, as elaborately as you please. Make a box of pine or walnut as long as your window is broad. Let the wood be quarter of an inch thick. Make the box four inches deep and five wide. At the top of each of the ends glue two pieces of oak, or hickory, or ash, half an inch high and quarter of an inch thick. These are bridges for the strings. Within the box glue at each end two pieces of light, dry wood, beech or whitewood, or thoroughly seasoned white pine. Let them be one inch wide and run across the box. Into one of the bridges fix seven pegs or pins, and in the other seven brass pins. To the first fasten one end of the strings, and to the other end so fixed that they can be drawn tightly. Some use but two sizes of strings. The more varied the sizes you use the more varied and intricate the melodiza- Violin or guitar strings are best but a fine and a coarse harp string of metal will also make a good variety. Tune the strings to perfect unison. Put over the strings a board one-eighth of an inch thick, supported on four pegs, so as to be three inches from the sounding-board. Puggle whistle in a window, drawing the sash down upon the last-described board. A door opposite being opened induces draught and increases the power of the instrument. Kansas anticipates a very large emigration in the spring from Wisconsin, Minnesota, and Michigan.