anaheim-gazette 1877-06-02

Established 1870. SATURDAY...JUNE 2, 1877. A meeting of the Cabinet, it was decided to appoint Mrs. Thompson, daughter of the late Rev. Alexander Campbell, Postmaster at Louisville, Ky. Sims, the fugitive slave who was captured by Attorney-General Devens when the latter was United States Marshal at Boston, during Fillmore's Administration, and under the Fugitive Slave law turned over to the authorities at Savannah, Georgia, has been appointed messenger in General Devens' Department. The Argonaut, noting the fact that a San Francisco has recently committed suicide in St. Louis, remarks: "And yet no city in the world presents greater advantages to the suicide than San Francisco. We have an efficient and accommodating coroner, and a comfortable, though rather badly lighted dead house. Our undertakers have engaging manners, their hearse easy springs. There is a charming view from every cemetery. In addition to these advantages, San Francisco is itself a very good motive." Some months ago mention was made in the Call of the shipment by Lusk & Co., as an experiment, of 500 boxes of Briggs' raisins to New York, by the ship Two Brothers. The ship cleared on the 7th of December and arrived lately. A dispatch states that the NOW AND THEN. A little note from Nevada states that "returned men from the Black Hills give a gloomy account of that country. Hundreds of Eastern emigrants are footing it back to the railroad without a dime." The difference in the effect of this intelligence on an Eastern and a California reader must be very great. To one accustomed to California life, it calls up old memories of Rocca River, Carriboo, and Arizona,—of the shifting, reckless life of the miners who once constituted the principal element of the population of California. It is to these reckless, daring, enduring spirits that Northern California owes her greatness. It was their super-abundant vitality that laid the foundations of the cities of San Francisco and Sacramento. It was their growing wants that sent to this fertile country emissaries in search of food, and first brought gold and silver in exchange for the fat cattle with which these broad valleys were stocked. We admire the dashing pluck of the miner and early adventurer, and scarcely give credit to the patient industry which at this day is making the substantial, lasting developments in our country. To those who have watched the changes in this section during the past ten years, the shifting panorama seems more like some tale of the Arabian Nights than stern reality. The business of the country, the race of inhabitants, the languages and the manners and customs have all undergone an almost magical change. Even the face of the country has so much altered its appearance that we doubt not that, should one of the old Mission padres attempt to make the pilots drenn this: "Go where you will; there is no cruel sink that will shut to your or my heart."—Alta. Sunday Morning The Sixth Anniversary logical Seminary was held at 18th inst. The program interesting one. Rev. Petaluma delivered the subject, "Is the pulp Mr. Hutchings thought journalists were filled with and that they were employed means to the purpose of and great they were, andally trying to make it appear is losing its power, and elinizing. As an argument the speaker called attention fact that many thousands listened to his oratory while Bob Ingersoll's lecture eloquence is a plea for relief, woman's right to lie without being to children, Bob says: Christians who act as if that when the Savior drenn to come unto me," under his mantle, and get them within strike you what I say to minden this: "Go where you will; there is no cruel sink that will shut to your or my heart."—Alta. Hayes doesn't want Some months ago mention was made in the Call of the shipment by Lusk & Co., as an experiment, of 500 boxes of Briggs' raisins to New York, by the ship Two Brothers. The ship cleared on the 7th of December and arrived lately. A dispatch states that the shipment turned out in a sweated condition and was disposed of by auction at 90 per box. It is evident that the safest mode of shipping raisins is by rail; still, no difficulty was found getting cargoes from Malaga in good order by sailing vessels before the railroad was built. The Marysville Appeal charges the wholesale pardoning of convicts "to a mistaken policy which has been in vogue under the administrations of our Governors from Bigler to Irwin," and says: "The people in the country, who pay very heavy taxes to place those villains where they belong, are not pleased to see them turned loose because of any morbidity in the Executive's kindness of heart." All such cleverness is thrown away. Natural thieves are not to be born again because a Governor is tender-hearted. If murderers and highwaymen were reformed by example, there would be no need of State Prisons." Several hundred night-editors have heard with a groan that the Poles are thinking of taking a hand in the European unpleasantness. This is all that is needed to complete the confusion. Just fancy that, while Tootrokoplts Pasha is holding the line of the Xesviw river, from Tehigny to the Serbian frontier opposite Schukmot, his antagonist, Gen. Migsvalenkateffaki, who is confronting him with his regiments of Petropaulovski and Ekaterinoslav, and awaiting re-inforcements being brought up by Col. Nicholas Nicholateffovitch, is taken in flank by an army of Polish insurgents led by Prince Protevolopschilminski, Count Grinmleslavtezhnigazinski, and the veteran General and hero of 1847, Misczwyzcs. And yet we heard our friend Mendelson remark yesterday afternoon that the Polish language was the nicest and most musical of any European tongue! The French citizens of San Francisco held a meeting in that city recently to express their views on the present condition of affairs in France. The following resolutions were adopted: Firmly believing that anything which tends to impede the free development of Republican institutions in France can only be detrimental and fatal to the moral, political and social regeneration of the country; and being also convinced that, under the present state of affairs, any act which tends to compromise its friendly relations with foreign powers can produce most perplexing complications, dangerous to its welfare in the present and to its destiny in the future. The French residents of San Francisco, in mass meeting assembled animated by intense early adventurer, and scarcely give credit to the patient industry which at this day is making the substantial, lasting developments in our country. To those who have watched the changes in this section during the past ten years, the shifting panorama seems more like some tale of the Arabian Nights than stern reality. The business of the country, the race of inhabitants, the languages and the manners and customs have all undergone an almost magical change. Even the face of the country has so much altered its appearance that we doubt not that, should one of the old Mission padres attempt to make the pilgrimage from San Juan Capistrano to the Mission of San Gabriel, he would lose his trail and be obliged to ask for information, and if indeed Saint Peter holds the keys of heaven and lets our complacent crowd in, the old friars—who are sure to be there—will be somewhat taken aback by the mild and gentle shepherds who have succeeded to their flocks and pastures. Not alone has the aspect of the country altered. Its population has been changed. Attracted by the abundance of grass and healthy climate, the flock-masters crowded their sheep upon the ranges of the horses and cattle, forcing them back until the fertile valleys were given up entirely to the production of wool, and for many years Southern California was noted only as the home of wealthy sheep-raisers. Prior to the commencement of the sheep era, a little band of sturdy Germans had inaugurated an enterprise which at the time was more wild and problematical than the most daring ventures of the Northern miners. The little colony of Anaheim was started and the vineyards and orchards soon made an oasis in a desert, so far as settlement and cultivation were concerned. As the tall poplars and prolific fruit trees of Anaheim raised their leafy tops to the heavens, they attracted the attention and admiration of an occasional visitor, whose stock interest or curiosity brought them from their Northern homes, and the reputation of our agricultural facilities spread as far and fast as had our notoriety as a wool-producing section. Now the broad sombreros gave place to the stylish silk hat, the heavy Spanish saddle and clinking spurs were superseded by the four-wheeled buggy and the pig-skin. The riata and the shepherd's crook were changed for the gang plow, the reaper and the threshing machine. The verealias became well defined roads, and the sheep ranches were subdivided and applied to the growing of fruit trees and grain. The new comers brought with them the manners and customs of their fatherlands, and improvements in churches, in school houses and in society were the natural results. These marvellous changes are but the forerunners of what is to come. The inhabitants of the country and the productions clamored for railroad transportation, and it reached us and gave an outlet for the fast accumulating fruits of our soil. Soon this method will prove too slow and primitive, and manufacturing interests will be established and the water power, now only used to drown gophers and squirrels, will be set at work. Our irrigating facilities Hayes doesn't want to ligion. He has notified Foundry Methodist church he is willing to subsist other member for the sale. The most liberal suburb about $500 annually. A Boston lawyer, unextremely High Church to sow seed by all water paper branded with S other day he had occasion from the Chief Justice, a sheet headed, "Ye a price." He didn't get. The New York Herd and world are getting trial things. A reverence later travelled largely eles, said at the Bapticece, recently that he where money matters without making the m Alta: What a pity gersoll is an Infidel. She will say nothing to the glorious but simple resurrection and the l The Mohammedans for various kinds of hair thing in the idea. The stated hells; for instant turned libeller; another a third for the blasphethe unsanctified week. A sinner of average reo to be compelled to assis for all eternity. King Alphonse XII feet of twelve aged p Holy Thursday. This fine vestments of cloth ered satin. After they ty set dishes of meat his aged subjects. So outright when an nearly upset a plate o risk of spoiling his gift uniform. A few years since Minister at Columbus ror of shouting in ch well known to his c after he had preached an old lady was observed in a very hasty manner days after, the minister had left the church s Firmly believing that anything which tends to impede the free development of Republican institutions in France can only be detrimental and fatal to the moral, political and social regeneration of the country; and being also convinced that, under the present state of affairs, any act which tends to compromise its friendly relations with foreign powers can produce most perplexing complications, dangerous to its welfare in the present and to its destiny in the future. The French residents of San Francisco, in mass meeting assembled, animated by intense feelings of affection toward the land of their nativity, deeply regret the unhappy occurrences which have brought back to official life the representatives of political parties who were repudiated at the polls by the great majority of their fellow citizens. They express the hope that the French nation, far from feeling discouraged, will preserve with unabated energy in its decision so often reiterated, of maintaining the Republic, and will still defend it against any and all the dangers with which it may be threatened. Dr. S. Weir Mitchell, a Philadelphia physician, has been studying the relation between bodily pain and weather. It is well known that diseases and injuries of the bones, rheumatism and other ailments cause increased pain on the approach of storms. Dr. Mitchell induced an army officer, who had lost a leg, and suffered neuralgia in the stump, to keep a record of his pains in connection with the weather for three years. The conclusion derived by this investigator is that a certain combination of atmospheric conditions is required to produce the pains. He says: "Every storm, as it sweeps across the continent, consists of a vast rain area, at the centre of which is a moving space of greatest barometric depression, known as the storm centre, along which the storm moves like a head on a thread. The train usually precedes this by six hundred miles; but before and around the train lies a belt, which may be called the neuralgic margin of the storm, and which precedes the rain by about 150 miles. This fact is very deceptive; because the sufferer may be on the far edge of the storm basin of barometric depression, and losing nothing of the rain, may yet have pain due to the storm." From a boy's essay on "bees" in the Santa Barbara Press, we take the following paragraph: I find the bee does all the work; that a man liberally supplies them with empty candle or soap boxes to hive in; and that while the busy bee is diligently gathering sweets from flowers the culturist quietly squats down upon his haunches, and there contentedly remains until the honey is manufactured, when it is gathered in, strained, canned and sold, and the money pocketed. WEEKLY EIM GAZ ANAHEIM, CALIFORNIA: SATURDAY, JUNE 2, 1877. Sunday Morning Chit-Chat. The Sixth Anniversary of the Pacific Theological Seminary was held at Oakland on the 18th inst. The programme was a very interesting one. Rev. Mr. Hutchings, of Petaluma, delivered the oration, taking for his subject, "Is the pulpit losing its power?" Mr. Hutchings thought the San Francisco journalists were filled with harmless conceit, and that they were employing their wits and means to the purpose of boasting how grand and great they were, and they were continually trying to make it appear that the pulpit is losing its power, and that oratory is declining. As an argument against this idea, the speaker called attention to the significant fact that many thousands of persons attended the meetings of Moody in Boston, and listened to his oratory with wrap attention. Bob Ingersoll's lecture, stripped of its eloquence, is a plea for man's rights to disbelieve, woman's right to vote, and children's right to lie without being whipped for it. As to children, Bob says: There are even some Christians who act as if they really believe that when the Savior said 'Suffer little children to come unto me,' that he had a whip under his mantle, and simply said that to get them within striking distance. I tell you what I say to mine. I say to my children this: "Go where you may, do what you will; there is no crime you can commit, there is no depth of infamy to which you can sink that will shut to you my door, my arms, or my heart."—Alta. Hayes doesn't want to read headlines. To the Fruit Growers of Semi-Tropical California. In accordance with the request of the temporary Board of Directors of the Southern California Horticultural Society I desire to lay before you a few items in connection with that organization, which is now being brought into existence. In April last a petition was circulated, and extensively signed by the fruit-growers of Los Angeles county, calling a meeting to be held in Los Angeles on Saturday, April 28th, for the purpose of forming an organization having for its object the discussion of the merits of various kinds of fruits grown in this latitude as well as the best methods of cultivating such fruits, and such other questions connected with fruit culture as might be of interest; also for the purpose of seeking a market for fruits when raised: As an inauguration of the good work, a question was proposed for discussion at the first preliminary meeting, which aroused an unusual degree of interest, and called out a large audience which was seeking after more light and practical information on the subject to be discussed—"Will it pay to bud the orange?" This meeting, which continued throughout the day and evening, created more interest and aroused more enthusiasm than any other gathering of agriculturists ever held in this part of the State. The fruit-growers present were unanimous in favor of a permanent and strong organization, and to that end appointed a committee consisting of J. de Barth Shorh, Thomas A. Garey, O. W. Childs, Capt. C. E. Thom, Dr. O. A. Conger, Milton Thomas, D. M. Berry and L. M. Holt to take into consideration the details of a permanent society; arrange a plan of operations and report at a called meeting as soon as they should be ready. This committee organized by electing Thomas A. Garey President and L. M. Holt Secretary. Fleming's Confession. A court martial convened at Alcatraz Island, last week, for the purpose of inquiry into the charges of embezzlement preferred against Lieutenant Fleming, of the Twelfth U.S. Infantry. He pleaded guilty to the charges and read the following confession: Gentlemen of the Court: The charges upon which I have been arraigned before you and the pleas I have made thereon tell a dreadful story. I know full well that I need not relate it to you; you cannot our comprehend it before I attempt to utter it. The transactions recited in these charges and specifications reveal dishonesty on my part. Let me then, at this supreme moment—perhaps the culminating one of my military career—make a frank and honest statement to you. It will at least relieve a spirit that is broken, a mind that is sur-charged and oppressed by the weight of the awful miseries I have brought upon me and mine. I am yet a young man; I am 30 years of age. I was well born; I was reared under influences and surroundings which were kindly and propitious. I am a graduate of one of the finest military schools in the world. I belong to a profession, which, thank God, in our country universally acknowledged to be the purest of any of the branches of the public service. My associations, companionships, and friendships have been with men who are an honor and an ornament to that profession, and previous to these occurrences I was well thought of. I have introduced some testimony upon this subject. I have a loving, faithful and devoted wife. This briefly stated I stand before you a man who should have a future. I have ONLY A PAST. And a horrible past it is, at this point it contemplates. Would you know what has wrought this ruin? It is a passion for gambling. That passion absorbed all my other to children, Bob says: There are even some Christians who act as if they really believe that when the Savior said "Suffer little children to come unto me," that he had a whip under his mantle, and simply said that to get them within striking distance. I tell you what I say to mine. I say to my children this: "Go where you may, do what you will; there is no crime you can commit, there is no depth of infamy to which you can sink that will shut to you my door, my arms, or my heart."—Alta. Hayes doesn't want to headhead his religion. He has notified the Elders of the Foundry Methodist church, Washington, that he is willing to subscribe as much as any other member for the support of the church. The most liberal subscription amounts to about $500 annually. A Boston lawyer, uncommonly pious and extremely High Church, thinks it needful to sow seed by all waters, and so has his note paper branded with Scripture texts. The other day he had occasion to write for a favor from the Chief Justice, and he unluckily used a sheet headed, "Ye are all bought with a price." He didn't get it. The New York Herald says that the church and world are getting into accord upon material things. A reverend gentleman who has lately travelled largely through religious circles, said at the Baptist Ministers' Conference, recently, that he did not find a church where money matters could be mentioned without making the members tremble. Alta: What a pity that the eloquent Ingersoll is an Infidel. Speak he ever so well, he will say nothing to touch the heart like the glorious but simple promise, "I am the resurrection and the life." The Mohammedans believe in special hells for various kinds of heretics. There is something in the idea. There ought to be graduated hells; for instance, one for the thief turned libeller; another for the blackmailer; a third for the blasphemous paragraphers of the unsanctified weekly papers, and so on. A sinner of average respectability ought not to be compelled to associate with such cattle for all eternity. King Alphonse XII of Spain washed the feet of twelve aged panpers at Seville on Holy Thursday. The King was dressed in fine vestments of gold and embroidered satin. After the ceremony, His Majesty set dishes of meat, bread and fruit before his aged subjects. Several times he languaged outright when an awkward chamberlain nearly upset a plate or dish, at the imminent risk of spoiling his gilded cloak and brilliant uniform. A few years since there was a Presbyterian Minister at Columbus, Miss., who had a horror of shouting in church, which fact was well known to his congregation. One day, after he had preached avery spiritual sermon, an old lady was observed to leave the church in a very hasty manner. Meeting her a few days after, the minister asked her why she had left the church so suddenly the Sunday This meeting, which continued throughout the day and evening, created more interest and aroused more enthusiasm than any other gathering of agriculturists ever held in this part of the State. The fruit-growers present were unanimous in favor of a permanent and strong organization, and to that end appointed committee consisting of J. de Barth Shorb, Thomas A. Garey, O. W. Childs, Capt. C.E. Thom, Dr. O. A. Conger, Milton Thomas, D. M. Berry and L. M. Holt take into consideration the details of a permanent society arrange a plan of operations and report at a called meeting as soon as they should be ready. This committee organized by electing Thomas A. Garey President and L. M. Holt Secretary, and instructed the Secretary to open communication with Societies throughout the country that all the information obtainable might be laid before the committee. On the 19th of May a meeting of the committee was held at which there was a full attendance. It was unanimously voted to incorporate under the laws of the State of California the Southern California Horticultural Society, with headquarters at Los Angeles, but whose district was to include the counties of Los Angeles, San Bernardino, San Diego, Santa Barbara, Ventura and Keru.The corporation has no capital stock, lit membership fees and dues. The affairs of the Society are to be under the management of a Board of seven Directors. With regard to future operations of the Society, I would just suggest that its future is just what the fruit-growers—questions that can be settled only by the fruit growers of this section—and these questions vitally affect the packets of the people and the prosperity of the State. It is possible to publish its proceedings and monthly discussions for free circulation among its members, and for general circulation everywhere, thus giving members in remote parts of the district all the benefits of meetings when it is not convenient for them to attend in person. It is possible for them to gather and christalize the thoughts and experiences of a thousand fruit growers, all of whom feel the need of other people's experiences, and thus save to this class of people fortunes which would otherwise be sunk in useless experiments. It is possible to build a Horticultural Hall at Los Angeles, and hold annual, semi-annual or quarterly fairs for the exhibition of fruit and by the judicious award of premiums, materially stimulate the fruit-growing interests of a section which for fruit-producing has no equal in the United States. It is possible for this society to ask and receive aid from the Legislature at its next session to carry on this work if its membership is sufficiently strong and determined to make good use of the aid sought. It is possible to enroll within the next three months a membership of 1,000 if the people are alive to their own interests and sufficiently appreciate the financial benefits to be derived from such a co-operative movement. I now suggest and urge that all persons interested in fruit culture immediately open correspondence with the Secretary, L. M. Holt, Pomona, Cal., with a view to being enrolled as members, and having their influence felt at the next meeting, which is called to meet in Los Angeles on Saturday, June 16th. 1877. Those who cannot be there in person should have their names there on that day, This meeting, which continued throughout the day and evening, created more interest and aroused more enthusiasm than any other gathering of agriculturists ever held in this part of the State. The fruit-growers present were unanimous in favor of a permanent and strong organization,and to that end appointed committee consisting of J. de Barth Shorb, Thomas A. Garey, O.W. Childs, Capt. C.E. Thom, Dr.O.A.Conger,Milton Thomas,D.M.BerryandL.M.Holt take into considerationthedetailsofapermanentsocietyarrangeaplanofoperationsandreportattacalledmeetingasastheyshouldbeready.ThiscommitteeorganizedbyelectingThomasA.GareyPresidentandL.M.HoltSecretary,andinstructedtheSecretorytoopencommunicationwithSocietiesthroughoutthecountrythatalltheinformationobtainablemightbelaidbeforethecommittee. On the 19th of May a meeting of the committee was held at which there was a full attendance. It was unanimously voted to incorporate under the laws of the State of California the Southern California Horticultural Society,with headquarters at Los Angeles,butwhosedistrictwastoincludethecountiesofLosAngeles,SanBernardino,SanDiego,SantaBarbara,VenturaandKeru.Thecorporationhasnocapitalstock,hitmembersfeesanddues.TheaffairsoftheSocietyaretobeunderthemanagementofaBoardofsevenDirectors. With regard to future operations of the Society,Iwouldjustsuggestthatitsfutureisjustwhatthefruit-growersofSouthernCaliforniamakeit.Ifthevigorwhichsetonfoottheenterpriseremainsunabated,andissharedinbyallpartiesinterested,theSocietywillbecomeapowersecondtonoteofitskindintheState.Itspositionsareverygreat,anditspowersforgoodarealmostunlimited. Itispossibleforittomeetmonthly,discussandfinallysettlethequestionsoftheutmostimportancetofruit-growers—questionsthatcanbesettledonlybythefruit-growersofthissection—andthequestionsvitallyaffectthepacketsofthepeopleandtheprosperityoftheState. 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Several times he langhed outright when an awkward chamberlain nearly upset a plate or dish, at the imminent risk of spoiling his gilded cloak and brilliant uniform. A few years since there was a Presbyterian Minister at Columbus, Miss., who had a horror of shouting in church, which fact was well known to his congregation. One day, after he had preached a very spiritual sermon, an old lady was observed to leave the church in a very hasty manner. Meeting her a few days after, the minister asked her why she had left the church so suddenly the Sunday before. "Well," she responded, "the fact is, I was so filled with grace in listening to your sermon that I found I could not contain myself, so I ran over to the Methodist church across the way and shouted." That ancient political relic, General Leslie Combs, who resides in Lexington, Ky., in conversation with a correspondent of the Cincinnati Enquirer, said: "I am a regular old-line Henry Clay Whig in politics and a St. John-in-the-wilderness, milk-and-honey iron-sided Baptist in religion; none of your sprinkled fellows, but a regular dipped-in-the-river-Jordan-Baptist. A Pennsylvania preacher stuck a nail in his foot, yelled out, "Good gracious!" and is being tried for swearing. Didn't we say, over a year ago, that the preachers of America were being gradually burdened beyond endurance. Appointment of Delegates. The Republican County Central Committee last Saturday decided that each precinct should be entitled to one delegate for every 50 votes or a fraction over 25 cast for the Republican electors last November. This appointment will give representation as follows: Los Angeles—First precinct, 5; 2d precinct 4; 3d precinct, 9; 4th precinct, 7. San Joaquin (town of Santa Ana) 4. Three delegates each—Anaheim and Wilmington. Two delegates each—Compton, Orange, Santa Monica and Westminster. One delegate each—Azusa, Cahuenga, Cienega, Duarte, El Monte, Elizabeth Lake, Florence, Fountain Valley, Garden Grove, La Ballona, Los Nietos, Monte Vista, Norwalk, Pomona, Pasadena, San Antonio, San Fernando, San Gabriel, San Jose, San Juan, Santa Ana, Silver, Soledad, Tustin City and Vernon, and to San Gabriel and Pasadena jointly a delegate. Barbers often assert that razors get tired of shaving, and that they will perform satisfactorily if permitted to rest for a time. It has been found by microscopic examination that the tired razor, from long stropping in the same hand and in the same direction, has the ultimate fibres of its surface or edge all arranged in one direction, like the edge of cut velvet; but after a month's rest these fibres rearrange themselves heterogeneously, crossing each other and presenting a saw-like edge, each fibre supporting its fellow, and hence cutting the beard instead of being forced down flat without cutting, as when laid by. Wreck and Ruin Of what might have been an honorable and creditable career. I have written to my family a statement of what I have done, and I hope and expect that all the money I have taken in these various ways will eventually be restored to those to whom it belongs. I have promised and pledged myself that such restitution will be made. I refrain from making such a pledge to you or to anyone else, realizing how little weight it should from the circumstances of the case, receive. Now I leave my case with this frank and honest statement with you, and I repeat what I have substantially said before: I have no claim for clemency; I supplicate for mercy. Starvation in China. From the London Times. Shanghai, March. 15. — Simultaneously with the drought in India, a famine is raging in the north of China; but while the care and energy of the Indian Government reduce the distress in the former case to a minimum, people are dying by thousands in China of shear starvation. The scenes of the chief distress are in the north and east, in the extreme north of Kiangsu and Shantung, in Pechilli, and in Shanse; and from Shantung especially the accounts are heartrending. The whole tract of country suffered last summer from severe drought, which nearly destroyed the crops; and the peasantry having eaten what little grain they had in store, or were able to gather, are reduced to the last stage of want. The people are eating grain husks, potato stalks, and elm bark, buckwheat stalks, turnip leaves, and grass seeds, which they gather in the fields. After these are exhausted they pull down their houses and sell the timber, and many eat the rotten sorghum stalks from the roof. They sell their clothes and children. Having no clothing left to protect them from the cold, many take refuge in pits underground to keep themselves warm by the fetal breath of the crowd. In the east suburbs of Chingchow city there are four such pits. One-third of the number (240) originally put into them are now dead within six weeks and no sooner is a corpse carried out than a crowd are struggling for the place. Villages of 500 families report 300 dead of starvation; villages of 300 report 100 dead. Almost the whole province of Shantang is suffering; but the suffering of sight hica districts is said to be beyond description, and as each contains an average of 1,000 villages, the thousands who have already perished may be readily conceived. The Government is doing next to nothing to relieve the distress. They have allotted only £14,000 for the whole of these eight districts—a mere pitrance for such a calamity. GAZETTE. 1877. NO. 33. Confession. Opened at Alcatraz purpose of inquirer-embezzlement preFleming, of the life pleaded guilty to following confession: The charges upon need before you and concern tell a dreadful that I need not reout comprehend it for it. The transaccharges and specification in my part. Let me, ment—perhaps the military career—make ment to you. It will that is broken, a and oppressed by miseries I have minize. I am yet a of age. I was well influences and sursults and propitious, of the finest military belong to a profession, in our country is to be the purest of the public service. My hips, and friendships are an honor and passion, and previous well thought of. testimony upon this thing, faithful and destated I stand behave a future. I Part. at this point to conknow what has is a passion for gamblered all my other Notes From Anaheim. [From the Rural Press.] It is unnecessary to state that this is a dry year. The fact is patent to any one but a blind man in many parts of California; and also another fact is equally evident to the senses of the observer, that a dependence upon our uncertain rainfall in many parts of this State, but more particularly the southern part, is nothing but folly. One good crop and two utter failures in three years is anything but encouraging to a hard-working farmer, whose livelihood as well as that of his family are dependent upon his success. It is this dependence upon rain that causes farming to be considered an uncertain business, but on the other hand those who do not depend upon rain, but upon natural moisture or irrigation, are entirely free from all anxiety for the future; they can make their calculations on a certain amount of crop in each year, and the misfortunes of their neighbors are without action on their part an advantage to them, from the increased price of produce consequent upon scarcity. The man whose land always possesses the requisite moisture, or who can irrigate at pleasure, is always screne. If the rainfall is insufficient for others his land is wet enough, or he supplies the deficiency by irrigation. A small amount of extra labor or expense makes him perfectly safe, whilst his unfortunate neighbor in the dry country is praying for rain that does not come, and watching the clouds night and day, fluctuating between hope and despair, as appearances are favorable or otherwise. I, like many of your readers, have experienced all this, and know that such a state of affairs is more wearing upon health and constitution than the hard-land most unremitting labor; the fatigued laborer is rested and recuperated by sleep, sound, dreamless sleep, but from worry and anxiety and the feeling of utter helplessness the other has no rest night or day, and becomes entirely hopeless and discouraged. This year applies the test; land which produces fair crops notwithstanding our diminSouthern Pacific Railroad. In the matter of speedy construction there is nothing in the history of railroad building comparable with the Southern Pacific Railroad. Undertaken and perfected as far as Fort Yuma by a few wealthy, energetic business men of California, without Government aid or extraneous subsidy, but depending for success almost wholly upon the foresight, judgment and nerve of its builders, it is a monument of Californian enterprise of which the people of this State may be proud. Linking together some of the most fertile southern counties, whose soils and climates are susceptible 'of yielding nearly all the agricultural products of the temperate and semi-tropical regions; giving them rapid and regular freight and passenger communication with the metropolis, and then crossing a wide desert waste, infusing into it life, vigor and prospective wealth; and finally, opening up the rich and virgin mineral and agricultural resources of Arizona, the Southern Pacific Railroad is a work which challenges the commendation of all right thinking people. There is strong reason to believe, however, that what has been done is but the forerunner to other and grander results. Its eastern terminus has now reached a point from which it can take precedence of all competitors in tapping the trade of Mexico through the State of Sonora. It has successfully rounded the head of the Gulf of California, and occupies a position from which branch lines can readily be conducted through the northern tier of Mexican States to the capital, stimulating industry and enterprise in the neighboring Republic, imparting information and a spirit of thrift among its people, opening a large and lucrative market for our products, and offering a more accessible one for those of the Mexican, Centraland Pacific States. No other railroad company can now hope to wrest from the hands of the Southern Pacific the strong position it occupies in this respect. It is master of the situation. Nor can it be reasonably supposed that the indefatigable en- At this point to conclude what has been a passion for gambrel all my other motions—my entire passion and have I honestly think is easy for men who passions, who have balanced minds, to thank God that other men are. I make in my case for there soon; but I ask, nay, those whose duty it would consider the circercally as you can understand it, is not a matter; but that lessens not less of my offense. I do not at any time inquire of what belonged away first what was I could ill afford to buy a lot of thieving which belonged to me, my brain being fire, I took a small and even in my foolish would turn thus regain what I had to whom I had lost because, as you can all trebly involved. I am involved involved and entangled Whatever may be the subject, the impulse next step was honest in restore that which I urged by again tempting me. I did it. I did it in 6th; and lost that not tell the rest of the from its recital. The all taken in desperately in utter abandonk and the objects on to you by precedent directs you traverse as far or places of business. When I gambled what was existence of the fate to notion for gambling was took vows and made that I would never not keep them. I will not pain you and uncovering the causes, which have made a land ruin. In an honorable and have written to my what I have done, and not all the money I have ways will eventually do whom it belongs. I judged myself that such made. I refrain from to you or to anyone little weight it should, as of the case, receive me with this frank and you, and I repeat what said before: I have no A small amount of extra labor or expense makes him perfectly safe, whilst his unfortunate neighbor in the dry country is praying for rain that does not come, and watching the clouds night and day, fluctuating between hope and despair, as appearances are favorable or otherwise. I like many of your readers, have experienced all this, and know that such a state of affairs is more wearing upon health and constitution than the hard- and most unremitting labor; the fatigued laborer is rested and recuperated by sleep, sound, dreamless sleep, but from worry and anxiety and the feeling of utter helplessness the other has no rest night or day, and becomes entirely hopeless and discouraged. This year applies the test; land which produces fair crops notwithstanding our diminished rainfall can be relied upon in any year. The amount of rain which has fallen in this valley is about four inches, and in the hills about eight inches, but it is only upon the moist valley lands or other lands that have been irrigated, upon which there are any crops. Much of our barley is a full crop; this is on land with abundant moisture, either from irrigation or good cultivation. There are other crops with less moisture that will yield one-half or one-third of a crop. On the dry land, as every where else, it will not make good sheep pasture. Our corn and potato crop will be as large as usual. Most of it is raised on irrigated land, and the rest on land always productive. But the great standby of our stock and dairy men is our immense body of green pasture land—and covered with a compact sod of perennial grass which really grows better in dry years than in wet; in this valley there is not less than 40,000 acres of this perpetually green land which can be relied upon to sustain one cow to the acre during the entire year, and there are portions of it that will carry not less than five cows to the acre, for eight months of each year. Cows fed on this grass need no other feed, and make gilt-edged butter. Alfalfa, being a deep-rooted plant, is not affected by dry seasons, as its roots are in perpetual moisture, that, resting upon an impervious bed of pipe-clay, is always at hand, no matter whether the season is wet or dry. Stock farming is the most prosperous in the whole line of farming, on account of the saving of labor, and this is undoubtedly one of the best stock counties in the State of California. The dairymen in many districts of the State calculate ten acres to each cow, and dry feed half of the year; here one acre of natural feed will do as much and no dry feed; with alfalfa one-fourth of an acre will do as much. Horses, cattle, sheep and hogs will thrive upon it; and an industrious family, with one acre of alfalfa and another in garden truck, can make a comfortable living from the sale of the produce from their cows, pigs and hens. Forty acres of this land is better than 400 acres in some places dependent upon rain. The owner makes money with absolute certainty, there are no drawbacks, the seasons here are always favorable to the man who has water. I am sorry to see by the letter of my friend Berwick, that even the Carneal valley has suffered this year. He promised years ago to pay me a visit; now is a good opportunity, as I suppose he will have more than his usual amount of leisure this season. I hope he will avail himself of it. In addition to our resources of natural moisture and flowing wells, which last number is between 500 and 1,000 (it is now impossible to keep account), at least one each day is added to the number, and each set of boring tools are engaged weeks ahead by other parties. There are not less than 150,000 acres in the valley where water can be obtained, and a large portion of the land is still unoccupied. We will this fall have completed a large irrigating canal, which will supply 25,000 acres of our best land that requires irrigation, and by constructing reservoirs for accumulating The Oriental Business. From the Detroit Free Press. A good citizen of Croghan street was reading the other day of a good Persian gentleman who always walked about with a smile on his face. When this Persian was asked why he always looked so happy when other men looked sad, he replied: "I smile because it may be sunshine to some poor soul surrounded by shadows." been an honorable and have written to my what I have done, and at all the money I have ways will eventually to whom it belongs. I adged myself that such made. I refrain from to you or to anyone tight weight it should, of the case, receive. me with this frank and you, and I repeat what should before: I have no supplicate for mercy. in China. London Times. 15. — Simultaneously with while the care and Government reduce the case to a minimum, peosands of the chief distress east, in the extreme Shantung, in Pechili, from Shantang especially trending. The whole last summer from nearly destroyed the entry, having eaten what in store, or were able to the last stage of eating grain husks, elm bark, buckwheat and grass seeds, which fields. After these are known their houses and many eat the rotten sorroof. (They sell their Having no clothing from the cold, many take ground to keep themtial breath of the crowd. of Chingchow city there. One-third of the numput into them are now and no sooner is acorpe rowd are struggling for of 500 families report on; villages of 300 report province of Shantung is offering of eight like disbeyond description, and average of 1,000 villages, have already perished received. is doing next to nothing. They have allotted whole of these eight pitrance for such a In addition to our resources of natural moisture and flowing wells, which last number is between 500 and 1,000 (it is now impossible to keep account), at least one each day is added to the number, and each set of boring tools are engaged weeks ahead by other parties. There are not less than 150,-000 acres in the valley where water can be obtained, and a large portion of the land is still unoccupied. We will this fall have completed a large irrigating canal, which will supply 25,000 acres of our best land that requires irrigation, and by constructing reservoirs for accumulating the surplus water, the same canal will afterward supply a total of 50,000 acres, and the total expense will not be more than $3 per acre for the whole, and will furnish an unfailing supply of water and also the best water power in the State, because the power will be contiguous to the centre of population. Wm. R. Olden. Anaheim, Los Angeles Co., May 14th. The following is the farewell address of ex-President Grant, made while steaming down the Delaware: My Dear Friends: I was not aware we should have so much speech making here, or that it would be necessary for me to say any more to you; but I feel that the compliments you have showered upon me were not altogether deserved; they should not all be paid to me, either as a soldier or as a civil officer. As a General, your praises don't all belong to me; as Executive of the nation, they were not due to me. There is no man that can fill both or either of those positions without the help of good men. I selected my lieutenants when I was in both positions, and they were men, I believe, who could have filled my place often better than I did. I never flattered myself I was entitled to the place you gave me. My lieutenants could have acted, perhaps, better than I had this opportunity presented itself. Sherman could have taken my place as a soldier or in the civil office, and so could Sheridan and others I could name. I am sure if the country ever comes to that need again there will be men for the work. There will be men born for every emergency. Again I thank you, and again I bid you good-bye; and also again I say that if I hid failed, Sherman or Sheridan or some of my lieutenants would have succeeded. A young Indian girl who had curiosity watched the process of marking barrel-heads in a flouring mill, in Winona, Minn., stole in one day, and taking possession of the stemls, ornamented her blanket with the words "Ellsworth's Choices," and paraded the street in great delight, but to the disgust of Mr. Ellsworth, who is a bachelor, and has made no such choice. Prison offences. It is such creature who throw obloquy and disgrace upon the noblest profession in the world, and which numbers in its ranks the greatest and purest intellects as well as moral and legal monsters. The Oriental Business. From the Detroit Free Press. A good citizen of Croghan street was reading the other day of a good Persian gentleman who always walked about with a smile on his face. When this Persian was asked why he always looked so happy when other men looked sad, he replied: "I smile because it may be sunshine to some poor soul surrounded by shadows." It was very nice in the Persian, and the Croghan street man said he'd be hanged if he couldn't out-smile a Persian or anybody else walking around on two legs. He at once began to smile at his wife. She stood it for a few minutes and then observed: "What's the matter, William, got the colle again?" "I smile because I want to bring sunshine to your darkened soul," he replied. She wanted him to understand that fifteen minutes at the wood-pile would help her more than all the grins he could grin in a straight week, and when he went into the kitchen to smile some sunshine at the hired girl she followed him and raised a row that put dinner three-quarters of an hour behind hand. However, one can't get the hang of Oriental business in a day, and this man tried it again on the street car as he came down town yesterday. Opposite him sat an old woman with a basket, and he undertook to smile the shadows from her heart. She watched him for two or more minutes, growing mad all the time, and presently she said: "Do you think you know me, that you are grinning across the alley, like a circus baboon?" "I smile, madam, because—because——," he stammered, forgetting what the Persian said, "I smile because——" "You are grinning because I've got sore eyes!" she shouted. "No, madam. I smile that I—that I—" "I'll not stand it!" she exclaimed, and she hammered him with the basket until he escaped off the platform. "Now grin all over that, will you?" she called after him as she shook the basket in the air. "The Persian who went around smiling was a fool and I'm his first cousin!" growled the man, and he quit smiling and picked a tight with a harness maker. Ex-Surgeon-General Hammond took the occasion of his daughter's marriage to throw his influence against "the unphysiological and barbarous" custom of bridal tours. His daughter went directly from her old home to her new one.