anaheim-gazette 1877-03-10

WEEKLY GAZETTE. Established 1870. SATURDAY...MARCH 10, 1877. Willis, a New York Congressman, and the Doorkeeper of the House had a fight on Wednesday, in which Willis got a black eye and a knife was drawn on him. The cause was the obstinacy of the Doorkeeper, who refused to admit friends of Willis on a card of the latter. The unaccountable action of the Supreme Court of this State, in delaying their decision in the Pacheco-Wigginton contest, is beginning to have the effect of exciting the press to make pointed and unpleasant remarks about that tribunal. There was nothing very complicated about the points submitted for their decision—at least nothing so intricate as to require so long a study. It is in order for the Supreme Court to rise and explain. The San Francisco Chronicle gives this instance of the law's delays: The residents on the 15,000 and odd acres, which constitute the San Pablo ranch, to the number of nearly 500, and whose material interests are involved in the litigation for the property which has disturbed them for several years, fancy they see daylight ahead in a statement which Judge Dwinelle made to one of them INTERESTING LETTER FROM MR. HINDE. A few days ago we indulged in some remarks in regard to the corruption and venality of the times in which we live. We attributed the cause of this condition of affairs to the inordinate greed for gain which characterizes the present generation, and charged that the press was directly responsible for this evil, because of its constant and fulsome eulogies of wealthy men. Our view of the matter is indorsed by Mr. G. R. Hinde, who in the following communication advances some well digested thoughts, to which we are glad to give publicity: ANAHEIM, March 1, 1877. EDS. GAZETTE.—Your leading article in this morning's issue cannot fail to meet the cordial approbation of every good man and true whose eye it meets. It suggests to me a few thoughts which may not here be out of place. It is undoubtedly true that in the future, if not the present, the men of great wealth merely will occupy no estimable position in the history of the nation to which they belong; but what is the pressing need of the hour, to which our thoughts must ever turn? What of the situation—the condition—of this great country and people, upon which our mental perceptions ever fasten themselves? Take the State of California as an example of the financial situation, and what do we behold? The spirit of the greed of gain (to which you call attention) absorbing all the wealth of the country and daily passing into the hands of a few men, who, in a patriotic sense, (though they may not think Written for the Gazette. The Magistrate. The present, however, and evanescent. Memoir moment, fixes it upon the picture on the soul her to look upon when important sense, the for but not gone. We live memory: It is said of Carsten Meyer traveler that "when old feeble that he had borne from his bed to his membrance of his early before his memory, with they presented themselves his sightless eye-balls. bed, pictures of the go upon his darkness as di had just closed his eyes an instant. The cloud heavens bending by darts, and studded by constellations, shone as after the lapse of half upon the first Chaldee they won to the worshEN, and he discoursed w ing eloquence upon thou in the hours of stillness reflected upon his inn. Something of this occurs in advanced life an old man of many w which his young life The San Francisco Chronicle gives this instance of the law's delay: The residents on the 15,000 and odd acres, which constitute the San Pablo ranch, to the number of nearly 500, and whose material interests are involved in the litigation for the property which has disturbed them for several years, fancy they see daylight ahead in a statement which Judge Dwinelle made to one of them that he was ready to make a decision. For two long years those interested have awaited this judgment, and they cannot perceive what reason there is for withholding it. They cannot sell or mortgage their property, for no one will handle it while the title is unsettled, and they are exceedingly anxious that Judge Dwinelle should render a decision and keep them in suspense no longer. A jury in Alabama had been impanelled in the case of a Mr. Johnson, charged with killing his wife. The evidence was positive and conclusive, leaving no doubt of his speedy conviction. To the amazement of all, the jury, after a short absence, returned a verdict of "Guilty of horse stealing." The Judge, astonished, asked an explanation stating that the indictment was not for horse stealing, but manslaughter. The foreman, with his hand upon a huge law book, and with an amusingly dignified air, informed the court that "it was not a case of manslaughter, but womanslaughter, for which the law made no provision; but being satisfied the man deserved to be hanged, they had brought in a verdict of horse stealing, which, in that county, would be sure to swing him." Irregularities have been discovered in the office of the City Collector of Sacramento. Went T. Crowell. An investigation is being held. It appears that Crowell has been accused recently, to return to the Auditor accounts of money paid to the Treasurer each week, which, in fact, were not paid. Sometimes these delinquencies ran up to $1800. Subsequently he would pay the money. He is now delinquent about $660. The Auditor permitted these entries to go to the credit side without exhibit of the Treasurer's receipt. Both of these acts are violations of the Charter which severely requires complete settlement each Saturday. Crowell has been very popular there, having been born and raised in that city. He was a prominent candidate for Sheriff at the coming election. He holds over as General of the 4th Brigade, though not confirmed by the Senate. Much regret is expressed at these irregularities. Crowell will pay the money, but his influence in that city is ruined. He accounts for his present delinquency by book errors and complication of street assessment rolls. A dispatch from Washington says that Something of this occurs in advanced life: an old man of many years his young life with him and around colors have faded from and stir, the whirl and world, the world of today him not. He heeds but the passing hour. His scenes of his child companions of his youth streams, the bright eye on which his young eye again in his solitude, by the quiet fire-side the past. He feels agile. He leads again his boy brings home toys for again into their sports of life meet. Age comes us back to close where we began. Land Just one week ago following item: "Jarvis of Washington, D.C., Land Patent Decision find the following: Angeles county, Cal., Feb. 15. Affirmed of February 25th, 1874. rancho United States 19th, 1874." Mr. O'Neill yesterday afternoon of which the following: This letter is confidant report which we first told that this decision final, there being new—From Tuesday's Mail. We have been the official reporter Catcher of the town week ending March ing dog-ument, and (sausage) reflection dressed to the True official capacity and have arrested and one slut. Of these released and 6 kilograms merely will occupy no estimate position in the history of the nation to which they belong; but what is the pressing need of the hour, to which our thoughts must ever turn? What of the situation—the condition—of this great country and people, upon which our mental perceptions ever fasten themselves? Take the State of California as an example of the financial situation, and what do we behold? The spirit of the greed of gain (to which you call attention) absorbing all the wealth of the country and daily passing into the hands of a few men, who, in a patriotic sense, (though they may not think it) are the enemies of their country. In the coming time it will become an axiom of truth that the rapid acquisition of wealth in any one person is a process of robbery and fraud, from the simple fact that it implies the sacrifice of other interests, the violation of other rights, no matter by what generally sanctioned process it is obtained. In no country in the world do we observe a people more committed to the acquirement of wealth rapidly than this, and when we observe the effect of this culmination, we are impressed with the fact that by it the masses are impoverished while the few only attain the object of their desire, so that this monstrosity of modern times acts injuriously upon the whole people. The indissoluble unity of all human interests is a principle ever to be upheld and kept by the press and the pulpit, before the mind's eye of the people. What is an injury, an injustice to our person or class, must unquestionably be an injury to the whole. The patriotic eye in vain searches the products of the public press for the expression of the thought that shall yet disenral this great nation and country. It has been doubtless truly said "the voice of the people is the voice of God," but the voice of the people is not heard; their higher aspirations and desires are studiously ignored and their best interests trampled under foot by the designing few who make the laws, or execute them in the interests of the rich and not the poor. It is unquestionably the duty of the press to educate people in the matter of their political interests; they must look less to party and more to men. I venture to assert, without fear of contradiction, that the true patriots of this nation are now mostly standing in the back-ground, afraid to enter the political arena, appalled by the process through which they must wade to the place of honor among the people's representatives. At present the people are induced to call for merely the intellectual politician instead of the patriot, who is a man of large heart as well as clear head. The former is chiefly influenced by his own interests while the latter would mainly sacrifice his own to advance the nation's weal. It will be said such men are scarce. Doubtless it is so; good men have been scarce in all past time; but I believe that when the nation calls for them they will be found—scattered here and there in the obscure recesses of the country—from which they contemplate the mighty struggles of this nation for the freedom which it obtains only in name; for surely there is no people more repressed upon the face of the wealth merely will occupy no estimate position in the history of the nation to which they belong; but what is the pressing need of the hour, to which our mental perceptions ever fasten themselves? Take the State of California as an example of the financial situation, and what do we behold? The spirit of the greed of gain (to which you call attention) absorbing all the wealth of the country and daily passing into the hands of a few men, who, in a patriotic sense, (though they may not think it) are the enemies of their country. In the coming time it will become an axiom of truth that the rapid acquisition of wealth in any one person is a process of robbery and fraud, from the simple fact that it implies the sacrifice of other interests, the violation of other rights, no matter by what generally sanctioned process it is obtained. In no country in the world do we observe a people more committed to the acquirement of wealth rapidly than this, and when we observe the effect of this culmination, we are impressed with the fact that by it the masses are impoverished while the few only attain the object of their desire, so that this monstrosity of modern times acts injuriously upon the whole people. The indissoluble unity of all human interests is a principle ever to be upheld and kept by the press and the pulpit, before the mind's eye of the people. What is an injury, an injustice to our person or class, must unquestionably be an injury to the whole. The patriotic eye in vain searches the products of the public press for the expression of the thought that shall yet disenral this great nation and country. It has been doubtless truly said "the voice of the people is the voice of God," but the voice of the people is not heard; their higher aspirations and desires are studiously ignored and their best interests trampled under foot by the designing few who make the laws, or execute them in the interests of the rich and not the poor. 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It has the immediate effect of quieting the title to several hundred thousand acres of the most valuable land in the State, preventing an otherwise incalculable amount of litigation and disturbance of property interests. Notwithstanding their failure to defeat the passage of the bill, the jumper and their Washington attorneys made desperate efforts to prevent its approval by the President. Eighty of the Los Angeles jumpers telegraphed to the President, earnestly requesting him to veto the bill, on the ground that it would deprive them of home and other valuable improvements. He therefore referred it to the Interior Department for examination and advice as to whether he should approve it or not, and Judge Widney, who is the representative of the State titles, and who has spent nearly a year in procuring the passage of the bill, found himself last week obliged to encounter seven or eight attorneys in a two days' argument before the Commission of the General Land Office on the merits of the question. The Commission was convinced by Widney's robusting argument, and reported favorably. The contest was then carried up to the Secretary of the Interior, and waged for several hours yesterday, with the same result. Wigginton and Luttrell seconded Widney's attempt at the department, and labored for the hill in the Senate, and by making personal representations to the President, urged its signature. Widney very effectively met the pretended settler's telegraphic plea for sympathy by producing the certificates of the Great Register of Los Angeles county, showing that these men are clerks, carpenters, barkeepers, etc., with their local residences and places of business in Los Angeles. G. R. HINDE Jesus and His Mother. To the Editor of the N. Y. Sun—Sir: The Rev. Dr. Bylance is reported in The Sun as having said on Sunday last: "There is no recorded instance of Jesus addressing the Virgin as mother. He always called her 'woman' when he spoke to her." If Dr. Rylance will turn to the "History of Joseph the Carpenter," one of the early Gospels (Anne-Nicene Library, vol. xvi.; p. 71), he will find these words, purporting to have been spoken by Jesus: "0, my virgin mother." And the expression "virgin" and "mother" separate and combined, frequently occurs throughout the Gospel, as spoken by Jesus. WASHINGTON, D. C., Jan. 15, 1877. VICE-PRESIDENT FERRY signed the declaration of Hayes' election with an eagle's quill, sent him from far West for that purpose. We have been informed by the official report that Catcher of the town week ending March ing dog-ument, and (sausage) reflection dressed to the True official capacity and have arrested and one slut. Of these released and 6 kids were $7, and they making the total My fees were—for killing, 25 cents each, making a Rogers closes his omitting the usual social documents. Future reports he will proper curse to put carry out the spirit which he is acting dog-matically upon constant experience. The Los Angeles small'd" (to use a version) to eight e-pression in business and as the proprietor man who thoroughness he has reduced preference to publish out with "dead" mentions. The Exp reading matter assists of thinking the 'its appearance. sake of reading its purpose of making papering walls with big enough to compiquantly, it satisfies big enough to make satisfies the ladies. The Health Co that in streets rises a greater proposition has been developed proves anything on the east side o WEEKLY CIM GAZ ANAHEIM, CALIFORNIA: SATURDAY, MARCH 10, 1877. Written for the Gazette. The Magic Ring. The present, however joyous, is fleeting and evanescent. Memory seizes the passing moment, fixes it upon the canvass, and hangs the picture on the soul's inner chamber for her to look upon when she will. Thus, in an important sense, the former years are past but not gone. We live them over again in memory: It is said of Carsten Niebuhr, the Oriental traveler, that "when old and blind, and so feeble that he had barely strength to be borne from his bed to his chair, the dim remembrance of his early adventures thronged before his memory, with such vividness that they presented themselves as pictures upon his sightless eye-balls. As he lay upon his bed, pictures of the gorgeous Orient flashed upon his darkness as distinctly as though he had just closed his eyes to shut them out for an instant. The cloudless blue of the eastern heavens bending by day over the broad deserts, and studded by night with Southern constellations, shone as vividly before him, after the lapse of half a century, as they did upon the first Chaldean shepherd, whom they won to the worship of the host of heaven, and he discoursed with strange and thrilling eloquence upon those scenes, which thus, in the hours of stillness and darkness, were reflected upon his innest soul." Something of this kind not unfrequently occurs in advanced life. Picture to yourself an old man of many winters. The world in which his young life began has grown old and its brightest Something of this kind not unfrequently occurs in advanced life. Picture to yourself an old man of many winters. The world in which his young life began has grown old with him and around him, and its brightest colors have faded from his vision. The life and stir the whirl and turmoil of the busy world, the world of to-day and yesterday, move him not. He heeds but slightly the events of the passing hour. He lives in a past world. The scenes of his childhood, the sports and companions of his youth, the hills and streams, the bright eyes and laughing faces on which his young eyes rested, in which his young heart delighted—these visit him again in his solitude; he sits in his easy chair by the quiet fire-side. He lives over again the past. He feels again the vigor of youth. He leads again his bride to the altar. He brings home toys for his children and enters into their sports. And so the extremes of life meet. Age completes the circuit, and brings us back to the starting point. We close where we began—Life is a magic ring. Land Decision. Just one week ago to-day we published the following item: "James H. Mandeville Esq., of Washington, D.C. has issued a report of Land Patent Decisions and Laws, in which we find the following: Las Bolsas Rancho, Los Angeles county, Cal.; decision by Secretary, Feb. 15. Affirmed Commissioner’s decision of February 25th, 1876. For a part of this rancho United States patent was issued June 19th, 1874." Mr. Olden called at our office yesterday afternoon and showed us a letter, of which the following is a copy: San Jose, March 2d, 1877. Wm. R. Olden, Esq., Anaheim—Dear Sir—I have just received official notice from Washington of the decision by the Secretary of the Interior of the “Las Bolsas” case in our favor. I am, Yours Truly, C.B.Polhemus. This letter is confirmatory of the unofficial report which we first published. We are told that this decision of the Secretary is final, there being no appeal from his rulings. From Tuesday's Daily. We have been favored with a glimpse of the official report of D.R.Rogers, Dog Catcher of the town of Anaheim, for the week ending March 3d. It is an interesting dogument, and affords much food for (sausage) reflection. The report is addressed to the Trustees and says: "In my official capacity as canine apprehender, I have arrested and disposed' of 21 dogs and one slut. Of these two were redeemed, 14 released and 6 killed. My official charges office yesterday, and consequently the obligation was taken before Chief Justice Waite, at the hour mentioned. The ceremony was of the very quietest character, the only ones present being the Chief Justice who administered the oath, and the President-elect, who subscribed thereto. It was taken in the Red Parlor of the Executive Mansion, an apartment in which all diplomatic arrangements are conducted. It is the understanding that, in addition to yesterday's proceedings, the oath will be taken to-morrow as a part of the official ceremonies at the Capitol. Rumor That Tilden has Also Taken the Oath—Resignation of Hewitt. Washington, March 4. A rumor is current, and is believed by many, though doubted by others, that Tilden was sworn in to-day in New York, and will be here to-morrow. A great deal of curiosity exists, though not much anxiety is entertained, as to what move he will make on his arrival, if he does come. No difficulty seems to be anticipated in any quarter, although there are less than 1,600 Federal troops here. Hewitt has resigned the chairmanship of the National Democratic Committee. Senator Barnum, of Connecticut, has been appointed in his place. President Hayes' Cabinet. Washington, March 4. Prominent friends of President Hayes assert to-night that his Cabinet has already been selected and is known to only one or two intimate friends of the President. It is believed the selection was made before he left Columbus. Pacific Mail Subsidy Defeated. Washington, March 4. The amendments granting a subsidy of $500,000 to the Pacific Mail Steamship Company, for mail services between San Francisco and China and Japan, and the same amount for a line of steamships between New Orleans and Rio Janeiro, were lost. Pacific Coast Legislation. Washington, March 4. The shortness of the session and the obvious necessity of devoting nearly all the time to the work of enacting the regular annual appropriation bills, and to the proceedings connected with the count of the Electoral votes, have, of course, made any considerable amount of special legislation impossible, and consequently a large number of Pacific Coast measures have unavoidably expired with this Congress without final action. The Chinese and silver questions have been advanced toward a satisfactory solution next winter by the very able and exhaustive reports which Sargent and Jones have respectively presented, and at least three measures of great local importance have been carried to the point of enactment and placed on the statute book, namely those relating to the School Indemnity sections, to native grape brandy and to desert and moved down the shore, the man in the bow, harpoon in hand, thirsting for the fray. A large school of mullets were jumping ahead of us about a mile off, and in the centre of them a heavy wave was seen moving around that told of something out of the common run. Coming nearer, the man in the bow whispered that it was the devil-fish himself and no mistake. We drew closer and closer, until a huge black spot was visible. Rose up to look, and at the same moment the man threw the harpoon. For the next moment all was a dreary void. The huge creature rose from the water like an exploded torpedo, and came down like the weight of a pile-driver, one wing striking our boat in the bow, crushing the frightened darkey into both ice and windward snuppers at once, coating him over with a beautiful coat of alime. Yells of "Out the rope," and "Get to windward," were heard above the blood of water and the hiss of the line that was running out at the rates forty miles an hour, our brave harpooner keeping time in a wonderful series of back and head posturing, in his endeavors to keep clear of it. As near as I could judge we were heading for Spain, half full of water and one man missing. Looking around we discovered him standing up to his waist on a shoul half a mile off. He had been jerked overboard at the first round; and there on the shoul he remained for more than an hour, feeling as he told us, like a condemned lighthouse at high tide. It was evident something must be done, and while one bailed the rest attempted to haul in the line. Gradually we drew nearer to our team, who gave signs of giving out. It was evident that he could never be caught alive, so his agony was increased by a pair of grains in his back. This brought blood, and we gradually came down to common time. Amid splashes, jerks from the fish, and yells from the men, we got fairly over him, and sent a third larger whale-harpoon into him. Next minute the long whip of a tail came over the boat, striking Old Ram, a colored man, and causing a general and hasty sitting down. This was the last effort. We floated over the black mass, about three miles from where we starfed, victors but not yet happy. That one hash of the tail had laid one man's cheek open to the bone and broken the skin completely around his head; another was presumptive food for crabs and sharks on a distant reef. Not one of us came out of the race without bangs and bruises enough to start a fair prize-fight. We cut a slit however, in one wing, and in two hours had our fish on the edge of the sand. A mule was then made fast, and the great devil-fish for New York Aquarium rose from the san, as dead as the traditional door-nail. We measured him, and found him from wing to wing eighteen and a half feet, and from tip of the tail to the nose twenty-three feet. The tail alone was eleven feet long, and as large at the base as a man's wrist, tapering down to a most delicate lash. Immediately above the base of the tail are three bony, serrated stings, that are terrible weapons of defense. Courting by Proxy. Mr.' Leopold Stern was a commercial traveller for the business house of Sutro & Newmark of this city, selling goods for them mainly in the West and Southwest. He received a commission on his sales,and being an active salesman ,was enabled to make very good wages. While on a trip in South he received instructions from one of the partners in the firm to proceed to New Orleans and there furtherthe partner's suit forthe handofaveryattractiveyoungwomanthepartnerhad previously seen.Thecommercialtraveller didhispartnersbusinessinsoatisfactorya mannerthattheyoungwomansubsequentlyledtothealtarbythe We have been favored with a glimpse of the official report of D. R. Rogers, Dog Catcher of the town of Anaheim, for the week ending March 3d. It is an interesting dogument, and affords much food for (sausage) reflection. The report is addressed to the Trustees and says: "In my official capacity as canine apprehender, I have arrested and disposed of 21 dogs and one slut. Of these two were redeemed, 14 released and 6 killed. My official charges were $7, and the cost of food was $2 20, making the total charges amount to $9 20. My fees were—for arresting, 25 cents each; for killing, 25 cents each; for food, 10 cents each, making a total of 60 cents." Mr. Rogers closes his report very abruptly, omitting the usual suggestions found in official documents. It is to be hoped that in his future reports he will give his views as to the proper cur-se to pursue to more effectually carry out the spirit of the ordinance under which he is acting. He has a right to speak dog-matically upon a matter in which he has constant experience. The Los Angeles Express has been "ensmallled" (to use a Santa Barbarian expression) to eight columns to a page. The depression in business is the cause of this step, and as the proprietor is a veteran newspaper man who thoroughly understands his business, he has reduced the size of his paper in preference to publishing a large sheet padded out with "dead" or non-paying advertisements. The Express will contain as much reading matter as formerly, and to our way of thinking the "ensmallment" has added to its appearance. People buy a paper for the sake of reading its contents and not for the purpose of making bed quilts out of it, or of papering walls with it. If a newspaper is big enough to contain all the news, served up piquantly, it satisfies the gentlemen; if it is big enough to make a fashionable bustle, it satisfies the ladies. So everybody's satisfied. The Health Officer of Los Angeles says that in streets running north and south a greater preponderance of cases of small-pox has been developed on the west side. If this proves anything it is that you ought to live on the east side of such streets. By ingenious crossing of breeds a Colorado sheep raises an animal that gives milk like an Alderney and shads fleece like a Cashmere-goat, mountain sheep and cow. Mr. Leopold Stearn was a commercial traveller for the business house of Sutro & Newmark of this city, selling goods for them mainly in the West and Southwest. He received instructions from one of the partners in the firm to proceed to New Orleans and there further the partner's suit for the hand of a very attractive young woman the partner had previously seen. The commercial traveller did his partner's business in so satisfactory a manner that the young woman was subsequently led to the altar by the New York business man, and a happy married life has followed the union. The commercial traveller, however, consumed considerable time, several weeks, in arranging affairs with the maiden, so that she might not look with disfavor on the partner, and on his return ascertained that he had been employed in a business that afforded him no commissions. Applying for payment for his services, he was given $500. He could easily have made $900 in that time, he averred. The partner refused to pay more than $500, and the man who courted partner's wife for his partner instituted suit yesterday in the Common Pleas Court for the remaining $400. N.Y.Sun. Star: Our venerable and much respected friend, the Broadaxe, dropped in upon us yesterday, and we exhibited to him the little document just received from the A and P, setting forth that Hayes had received 185 electoral votes, etc. Then the Broadaxe, said he: "Henceforth I am no politician; I have purposely held back my promised journal until the termination of this unfortunate controversy. Now, my hands are untied, and I shall soon issue my new paper in the interest of the people, and in favor of the right and in deadly (we knew the old gentleman was warming up when he made use of the word deadly) opposition to the." Mr. Spence, the Cashier of the Commercial Bank of Los Angeles, showed us a $30 lump of virgin gold that has a history. Away back in 1849 a young man came to Los Angeles county from Texas. He went out prospecting for gold around the Soledad, and a part of his spoils was this nugget. He went back to Texas, taking it with him. He married and had children. The other day one of his sons put in an appearance at the Commercial Bank, from Texas, and sold this curious memento of his father's early California experience. Herald. GAZETTE. NO. 21. MISCELLANY. A sheep ranch of 640,000 acres has just been surveyed in Menard county, Texas, for a Tennessee breeder. A friend of President Hayes says that his life is as pure as a woman's Dubious praise. There are women and women. A letter addressed to "Robert Burns, Poet, Heaven," lately reached the return letter branch of the Glasgow post office. A New York doctor says that a person with a sore throat shouldn't kiss one whose throat is all right, as the complaint can be communicated. Girls with sore throats should wear a bell. It is stated that several species of canary seed are now used as food for raccoons on account of the large proportion of nutritive matter such seeds contain, unmixed with any objectionable substance. Storme's apothecary "God tempera the wind to the shorn lamb." printed in 1678, is tracked to Herbert, 1640: "To the shorn sheep God gives wind in measure," which is a close translation from Henry Estienne, who wrote in 1594: "God measures the wind to the shorn sheep." The old fort at Marblehead, Mass., built during the war of the Revolution for the protection of Salem harbor, is now garrisoned by a large bull terrier. He never strays beyond the line of the earthworks, and is so fierce that all who approach the fort are compelled to beat a hasty retreat. In the private study of the Emperor of Germany there is a calendar which he consults every morning, containing under dates, brief notes on important events in his life that occurred on the same day of the year. There is also each day a text from the Bible and a motto selected from the works of his favorite poets. Brooklyn Argus: In Massachusetts, when an Adams marries, he marries a Quincy, and when a Quincy marries, he marries an Adams. If the Quincy's should ever Mark Twain as an Author. As there is going to be a Church fair pretty soon, the manager may find in the following item from a Boston paper a suggestion which will doubtless help to swell the revenue, if initiated here: The "package party" of the mission circle" of the Aryllus Hill Congregational Church Sunday School at Hartford on Friday evening, passed off plausibly; decidedly to the satisfaction of layers and gallers, the chapel being well filled and busy. At 7:30 "Mark Twain" supplied a platform in the middle of the room and with his nimitable peculiarity began. "Ladies and gentlemen, excuse my back. I should like to face everybody. I always do but I can't tonight." He stated that he had a few articles of more or less value; didn't know where they came from; but wanted to start them at about half their value, in order to prevent competition, and to be sure that no one gave more than three or four times what the article was worth. He opened a bundle alleged to have been sent by the Emperor of China to the Rev. J. H. Twitchell in acknowledgment of his work for the Chinese in America. At sixty cents there was a halt in theidding. Mr. Clemens said he would let it go at that if it came from any other source, but under the circumstances would keep on until sixty-five cents was offered. It was struck off with the comment, "Will the purchaser of that article please come forward and pay for it." The next the auctioneer declared to be a useful article that he couldn't afford in his house more than once in three months, and then not unless he borrowed it. In spite of opposition he purchased it himself at 81 25, (a cold roast chicken) and this morning sent it to the coffee house. The next was once the property of the Queen of England, or some one in that neighborhood, sold for five cents, which was not an "extravagant figure." The auctioneer commented meanwhile that his audience was engaged in a peculiar set of faith, "seeking after that We rose up to look at the man threw the man moment all was a large creature rose from a pile of torpedo, and came into the bow, crushing both lee and wind-coating him over with ice. Yells of "Cut the windward," were heard better and the hiss of the beat at the rate of forty harpier keeping series of back and head favors to keep clear of it. Judge we were heading of water and one man round we discovered him assist on a shoal half a mile jerked overboard at here on the shoal he resumed hour, feeling, as he turned lighthouse at high nothing must be done, the rest attempted to gradually we drew nearer signs of giving out. It never could be caught is increased by a pair brought blood, some down to common jerks from the fish, then we got fairly over larger whale-harpoon at the long whip of a stalking general and haste was the last effort. We took mass, about three starfied, victors but not hash of the tail had open to the bone and entirely around his head; active food for crabs and seaf. Not one of us can see bangs and bruises prize-fight. In one wing, and fish on the edge of the when made fast, and the New York Aquarium dead as the traditional ensured him, and found eighteen and a half up of the tail to the nose. The tail alone was as large at the base as being down to a most radiately above the baseONY, serrated stings, that of defense. By Proxy. Was a commercial tawny house of Sitro & New-selling goods for them and Southwest. He re-ons on his sales, and being an enabled to make very on a trip in the South he was from one of the part-proceed to New Orleans the partner's suit for the active young woman the only seem. The commer- sions partner's business in so far that the young woman led to the altar by the closer, until a huge moment all was a large creature rose from a pile of torpedo, and came into the bow, crushing both lee and wind-coating him over with ice. Yells of "Cut the windward," were heard better and the hiss of the beat at the rate of forty harpier keeping series of back and head favors to keep clear of it. Judge we were heading of water and one man round we discovered him assist on a shoal half a mile jerked overboard at here on the shoal he resumed hour, feeling, as he turned lighthouse at high nothing must be done, the rest attempted to gradually we drew nearer signs of giving out. It never could be caught is increased by a pair brought blood, some down to common jerks from the fish, then we got fairly over larger whale-harpoon at the long whip of a stalking general and haste was the last effort. We took mass, about three starfied, victors but not hash of the tail had open to the bone and entirely around his head; active food for crabs and seaf. Not one of us can see bangs and bruises prize-fight. In one wing, and fish on the edge of the when made fast, and the New York Aquarium dead as the traditional ensured him, and found eighteen and a half up of the tail to the nose. The tail alone was as large at the base as being down to a most radiately above the baseONY, serrated stings, that of defense. By Proxy. Was a commercial tawny house of Sitro & New-selling goods for them and Southwest. He re-ons on his sales, and being an enabled to make very on a trip in the South he was from one of the part-proceed to New Orleans the partner's suit for the active young woman the only seem. The commer- sions partner's business in so far that the young woman led to the altar by the closer, until a huge moment all was a large creature rose from a pile of torpedo, and came into the bow, crushing both lee and wind-coating him over with ice. Yells of "Cut the windward," were heard better and the hiss of the beat at the rate of forty harpier keeping series of back and head favors to keep clear of it. Judge we were heading of water and one man round we discovered him assist on a shoal half a mile jerked overboard at here on the shoal he resumed hour, feeling, as he turned lighthouse at high nothing must be done, the rest attempted to gradually we drew nearer signs of giving out. It never could be caught is increased by a pair brought blood, some down to common jerks from the fish, then we got fairly over larger whale-harpoon at the long whip of a stalking general and haste was the last effort. We took mass, about three starfied, victors but not hash of the tail had open to the bone and entirely around his head; active food for crabs and seaf. Not one of us can see bangs and bruises prize-fight. In one wing, and fish on the edge of the when made fast, and the New York Aquarium dead as the traditional ensured him, and found eighteen and a half up of the tail to the nose. The tail alone was as large at the base as being down to a most radiately above the baseONY, serrated stings, that of defense. By Proxy. Was a commercial tawny house of Sitro & New-selling goods for them and Southwest. He re-ons on his sales, and being an enabled to make very on a trip in the South he was from one of the part-proceed to New Orleans the partner's suit for the active young woman the only seem. The commer- sions partner's business in so far that the young woman led to the altar by the closer, until a huge moment all was a large creature rose from a pile of torpedo, and comes into the bow, crushing both lee and wind-coating him over with ice. Yells of "Cut the windward," were heard better and the hiss of the beat at the rate of forty harpier keeping series of back and head favors to keep clear of it. Judge we were heading of water and one man round we discovered him assist on a shoal half a mile jerked overboard at here on the shoal he resumed hour, feeling, as he turned lighthouse at high nothing must be done, the rest attempted to gradually we drew nearer signs of giving out. It never could be caught is increased by a pair brought blood, some down to common jerks from the fish, then we got fairly over larger whale-harpoon at the long whip of a stalking general and haste was the last effort. We took mass, about three starfied, victors but not hash of the tail had open to the bone and entirely around his head; active food for crabs and seaf. Not one of us can see bangs and bruises prize-fight. In one wing, and fish on the edge of the when made fast, and the New York Aquarium dead as the traditional ensured him, and found eighteen and a half up of the tail to the nose. The tail alone was as large at the base as being down to a most radiately above the baseONY, serrated stings, that of defense. By Proxy. Was a commercial tawny house of Sitro & New-selling goods for them and Southwest. He re-ons on his sales, and being an enabled to make very on a trip in the South he was from one of the part-proceed to New Orleans the partner's suit for the active young woman the only seem. The commer- sions partner's business in so far that the young woman led to the altar by the closer, until a huge moment all was a large creature rose from a pile of torpedo, and comes into the bow, crushing both lee and wind-coating him over with ice. Yells of "Cut the windward," were heard better and the hiss of the beat at the rate of forty harpier keeping series of back and head favors to keep clear of it. Judge we wereheading of water and one man round we discovered him assist on a shoal half a mile jerked overboard at here ontheshoalheresumedhourfeelingasheturnedlighthouseathighthingmustbedone,therestattemptedtoindullywednearersignsofgivingout.itThereisnearlyanewspaperpublishedfromoneendofyeartoanotherthatwillnotifcriticallyconsider,giveoffencetotombodyinthecommunity.Thepoliticianobjectsto-thewayhispeechisreported.Thebuyersonesetofsharesareoffendedbecausemoneycolumnreportsanothersetasgoinguporgoingdown.Gentlemenwhofindthemselvesinthehandsofthepolicearegrievedatthelicenseofthepresswhichreports theirarrangementandtrialamongthepoliceprocedures.ThesympathiserofFranceisoffendedatlettersfromBerlin,andthebelieverinGermanunitymournsoverdispatchesfromParis.Thenewpaperthinoffendssomeonejustastheweather—rainyto-dayandsunshinetomorrow—annoysomebody.Thecommonsenseviewisthatthenewspaperisthehistoryofyesterdaywrittento-day;thatitistmirrorofthetime,andthatthosewhocontiutitcarenotlingforindividuals.excepttodothejustice—NewYorkHerald. A Blasphemous Resolution. New York,March 3. A Times Columbus Ohio,special says:TheabsenceofmanymembersoftheGeneralAssemblylefttheHousewithoutaquorum,andtheDemocratsbeinginthemajor,electedaSpeakerprotem,andpassedaseriesofscurriliousresolutions,discharingthatThePresidencyhasbeencapturedbyfraud,andthatthisresultdestroysdemocraticfaithinthejusticeandbeneficentgoodnessOfAlmightyGodThisblasphemousexpressionofinsplacedconfidencewillbesimplyexpungedfromtherecordswhentheHouserecovene. New Patents. Through Dewey & Co.San Franciscowe receivethefollowinglistofU.S.patentsgrantedtoPacificCoastinventors,viz.Lewis Cutting,S.F.tipsupsforumbrelas;Calvin Nutting和Calvin NuttinJz,S.F.metalwheelburrows;Emil Boesch,S.F.,reflectors;QeboeccaSarah Briseu,Sonora.Cal;chairs;AdamaGood,S.F.,umbrellrunners; A gentleman, while traveling with his wife in a railway carriage from Cologne to Bremen, was startled by flames bursting up through the bottom of the compartment. He opened the window, but could not make himself heard. The smoke and flames increased. He crawled through the window and along the slippery board until he reached the tender and succeeded in stopping the train. It was not an instant too soon, for on running to the coupe and releasing his wife, they found her dress already singed. The fire was caused, it appears, by the coal boxes, with which the carriage was heated, being worn out. Ex-Pere Hyacinth delivered a lecture in Geneva the other day, in which he stigmatized that capital as being the most infidel and immoral city in Europe. He says he bases his judgment upon the desecration of the Sabbath, the general tone of the press, public opinion as manifested in the clubs, and the spirit that animates the education of youth. He has thereby excited the indignation of a certain Prof. Nicole, who in a letter just published, and addressed to the Father himself, says that as a foreigner, having resided in Geneva for the last fifteen months, he can testify that in no other town of Europe are the four matters condemned by the illustrious orator of a more elifying nature than in Geneva. It is the opinion of some mariners that there are rocks in the Atlantic which have been thrown up by volcanic agency, and are the frequent cause of ships disappearing. These rocks, it is asserted, have often been seen in the Atlantic by Captains, officers and all hands. Various British Governments have sent out ships which have searched for them in vain, and because those ships have failed to find what hundreds have seen with their own eyes, these dangers have been expunged from the charts. The position given by those who have seen them is, in most cases, obtained by dead reckoning, and therefore, is only approximate; consequently it is a most difficult task to find them again. The effect of bright colors on the eyes is carefully discussed in Fraser's Magazine. The writer says: "Highly-colored curtains are injurious when the windows are open, so that various brilliant and glazing colors are flung about the room by the incoming breeze. A very bright carpet is an injurious thing, and when combined with a brightly-painted ceiling madness. These things may be a merry thing for the eyes, but they are a short one. A rich patterned, sober-toned carpet, and a soft sky-gray or stone-colored ceiling, are my own private fancy." Another bit of advice, sure to be disregarded by women, is that mirrors be banished from the rooms as much as possible. Through Dewey & Co., San Francisco, we receive the following list of U.S. patents granted to Pacific Coast inventors: viz. Lewis Cutting, S.F., tip-cups for umbrellas; Calvin Nutting and Calvin Nutting Jr., S.F., metal wheelburrows; Emil Boesch, S.F., reflectors; Qeboeca Sarah Bruise, Sonora, Cal.; chirns; Adana Good, S.F., umbrella runners; Miles M. Harvey, S.F., stop hoppers; G.M. Jesen, Portland, Ogn., speed and distance indicators; Azanna J. Lowell, Alvarado; Cal., manufacture of tea kettles, etc.; Alex C. McManis, S.E., spring mattresses; Allan Oliver, Forest Hill, Cal., quartz mills; Wm H. Thurman, Barden, Cal., method of connecting lumber for transportation in flumes, etc. A western journal, not to be outdone in dog stories, relates the following: A few mornings ago Thomas Trees, son of Levi Trees, of Conemough township, went down the creek from his father's house to examine some traps he had set. While inspecting the traps, he heard his dog making an unusual noise some distance below him. On going to the dog he found him lying on the ground, and partridges sticking out all around his body. The dog had found a flock, and alighting in the middle had pinioned ten; but when he rose up, eight of them escaped, he still holding two with his paws. Thomas scoured the two partridges—the other wall escaping. This is an extraordinary feat for a dog; and only needed a word from the young man to have scoured the whole of the birds originally captured by the dog. Hollister has had little or no rain this season. To force the clouds to give down water, the citizens there have decided to get up a terrific hailstorm. They have subscribed $1,000 to test the powder theory. The military commandant at San Francisco was asked to land United States ordinance for the purpose. He replied that the ordnance could not be moved without the permission of the Secretary of War. That officer has now been addressed, and if he lands a favorable ear to the petition, the gun will be taken to Hollister and fired. We had a call yesterday from William C. Eales, who has located in Anahaim. Mr. Eales is a civil engineer and surveyor, and is now open in engagements in the line of his profession. He is an able gentleman and we doubt not will be successful in business. His office is in the Sanatorium.