anaheim-gazette 1877-10-20

WEEKLY GAZETTE SATURDAY...OCTOBER 20, 1877. FIOUS SWINDLERS. The ungodly press is in its glory. The funny paragraphist has a promising subject on which to exercise his wit. The scoffer and unkellever say with unction, "Behold the religious fronds." The disclosure of rotten savings banks and insane companies have brought to light the fact that in a majority of cases the managers and presidents of these swindles are members of churches, and devout Christians in all outward seeming. And this fact has been taken advantage of to decry the good effect of religious influences and Christian teachings. There can be no doubt that exposures such as these bring the church into disrepute with a great many unreflecting people. And there is still less doubt that the church is not altogether unblamable for harboring these scoundrels. The confidence which was bestowed on these swindling managers and presidents was in a great measure caused by their seeming exemplary Christian character. None knew this fact better than they. They "stole the livery of heaven to serve the devil in," or in other words, they acted as well as they could the character of Christian gentlemen because they saw that in that character their dupes were more numerous and confiding. To say that religion had anything to do with causing them to commit their dishonest acts is sheer nonsense; yet there are not wanting weak-minded or vicious persons who so argue. We say that the church is blamable in that its discipline is so lax that evil-minded persons find an easy refuge under its protection. There is scarcely a congregation into which has not crept one or more individuals whose every-day practices make them unfit for intercourse with Christian men and women. And the profane, ignoring the fact that with one or two exceptions the congregation is composed of worthy and exemplary Christians, point to these exceptions as evidence of the fallacy and weakness of religion. If a church member is known to be guilty of Sabbath-breaking, disobesty, (the most common form of which is avoidance of paying just debts), back-biting, profane speak- HYPOCHRISY AND DEMAGOGISM. Denunciations of Chinese cheap labor is a winning card to play. Lead-monthled stampers and political demagogues never fail to denounce the Mongol, and metaphorically shed tears over the woes endured by the poor white man because of the abundance of "Chinese cheap labor." That in a majority of cases this kind of talk is all clap-trap, scarcely admits of a doubt. If our memory serves us right, during the last campaign in this county a candidate attempted to make capital by assailing the Chinese after the usual manner, but when an opponent charged him before his face with employing Chinese labor in every department of his household, he dared not deny it, and his hypocrisy was unmasked, to his utter humiliation and confusion. Another somewhat similar case has just transpired. The very able, gentlemanly and genial Attorney-General Jo Hamilton, of this State, recently made his biennial report to the Governor, which was printed in many of the papers of the State, and favorably commented upon. He devoted considerable space to airing his views on the Chinese question, and very truthfully deduced from the arguments he presented that Chinese labor was an evil, and was responsible in a great measure for the hardships under which the laboring men of California are just now suffering. No doubt thousands of Democratic and Republican laboring men read this report with unmixed pleasure, and unanimously voted Jo a good fellow, who could be trusted implicitly by them to discountenance and discourage Chinese labor, and all that sort of thing. But at the very time the eloquent Jo was indulging the savage distribe against the heathen, one of them was employed in his kitchen, and probably others were engaged in other occupations about his house. Unfortunately for our genial Attorney General, he employed Chinamen who were addicted to fighting and quarreling, and last week one of them was shot and killed by a countryman. Had it not been for this fortunate rencontre, the hypocrisy and demagoguery of the genial Jo (as his friends delight to call him) would probably not have become so widely and generally known. Another instance of this double-facedness can be found in the outgivings of the editor of the San Francisco Post. Every issue of that something FOLLOWING. Good Plain-Speaking Law. West Oakland. Kim. Gazette — Agree I will send your mediation rands of matter at this may appear of general public good. Dio Lewis has come to his remaining days, and wealthy churches harm young ladies, the process some benevolent object freshing to hear this grittiarch boldly tell he need most to know and good; things which, in the society, but few spare those young ladies to keep warm with sufficiently tightings and shoes, and new feet; to cut off their abject gather up the filth earth, raise a continually their underclothes and wicked and senseless action for which was important mounds of Paris. Indeed that no people on earth up the fashionous originals of Paris, as are the Amrican with the English, From better class. They made the convenience, utility innovation before adoption loud in style as American marked that much of beauty of girls consisted and clean, white teeth. Use toothpicks, cold wax a parent who failed to upon his children was crushed them one great power that of a sweet looking mouth. He said hot drink, or salaratus, considerable influence teeth, and cited that sued the smooth sides of teeth decay there; but decay time the great amount are carried about between in the high temperature decays, and those causes the decay, and often diphtheria, etc. He died death from small particle between the teeth, causing the blood, by contaction of the mouth—the poisoning so often results dissecting-room, or in s from disease. No girl unless these things, th There is scarcely a congregation into which has not crept one or more individuals whose every-day practices make them unfit for intercourse with Christian men and women. And the profane, ignoring the fact that with one or two exceptions the congregation is composed of worthy and exemplary Christians, point to these exceptions as evidence of the fallacy and weakness of religion. If a church member is known to be guilty of Sabbath-breaking, dishonesty, (the most common form of which is avoidance of paying just debts), back-biting, profane speaking, or the hundred other vices to which many are addicted, he should be promptly expelled and the fact of his expulsion publicly stated. Prompt measures like these are necessary if religious bodies desire the outside world to believe in the honesty of their professions, and respect them and give them credit for the good which they undoubtedly do. We have seen a statement made in a Sacramento paper that Lieutenant-Governor Johnson has decided that, as President of the next State Senate, he will re-appoint to office the Pages and Porters that did service at the last session of the Legislature. A very good idea, indeed, and we wish that the members of the Assembly would adopt the same course as that outlined by our worthy Lieutenant-Governor. In that event they would elect as Assistant Clerk Chas. W. O'Neill, a gentleman who filled the position at the last session with signal ability, and who is possessed of untiring industry, fine scholarly attainments and a business capacity which makes him peculiar fit for the position to which he again aspires. In the event of his election the Assembly would gain an officer of ripe experience, and one who could be trusted implicitly to discharge faithfully the duties which would devolve upon him. The warfare against the use of opium in China has reached a point of interest. The anti-opium society of London, which aims to sever the connection of the Indian government with the opium trade, sent some time since a deputation to the Chinese ambassador in London. The result has been the forwarding of a memorial by the ambassador to the Empress Dowager of China, informing her of the existence of the association. He recommends the stoppage of opium culture in China and a prohibition of its use by the servants of the government. The Chinese Emperor has issued such a prohibitory order. It forbids the use of opium "by officials, scholars and the army," the prohibition to come into effect in three years' time. Governors of provinces are to draw up regulations for carrying out the Imperial decree. Not much good is likely to come of all this, for both ambassador and Empress are users of the drug. A very stiff-necked and perverse constituency is that of the Ward of Cheap, London. Two years ago Miles Bros. sent to a friend in Minnesota for a small package of Odessa wheat, which they determined to plant and ascertain whether that particular quality was adapted to this locality. They received by mail a four-pound package of seed, but by handling and waste it was reduced to three pounds. This quantity was sown and in due course of time a sack of wheat was realized. This was in turn sown last year by Mr. John Gwin, but owing to the drought, only enough was realized to fill fifty sacks. This quantity, which is enough to seed a hundred acres, will be sown the coming season, and if the expectation of a good wet season is realized, there can be no doubt that an enormous crop will be raised. Enough is known to warrant the assertion that wheat will in the near future be one of the staple productions of this section. The failures which have been encountered heretofore have been caused by the use of seed not suited to our soil and climate, but it is believed that the Odessa wheat will answer admirably. When another year's experiment will demonstrate beyond cavil that it can be sown with a reasonable certainty that it will yield, our agriculturists will not be slow, in planting their broad acres with this grain. There is another benefit which will follow the general planting of wheat. Just as soon as enough is raised to warrant the erection of a flouring mill, the enterprise and capital will not be lacking to build such an establishment. And, to pursue this subject further, if the mill is built it will no doubt be in a locality where advantage can be taken of the abundant water power which will be developed by our irrigating canals. It has been said that "great oaks from little acorns grow." From the three pounds of seed sown by the Miles Bros. will be developed a new product for our county, a manufacturing establishment, and the proclamation of the existence of water power in this section. When manufacturers learn that there is an abundance of the latter, they will be certain to erect their factories as soon as the country produces enough of raw material to keep his kitchen, and probably others were engaged in other occupations about his house. Unfortunately for our genial Attorney General, he employed Chinamen who were added to fighting and quarrelling, and last week one of them was shot and killed by a countryman. Had it not been for this unfortunate renouncement, the hypocrisy and demagoguery of the genial Jo (as his friends delight to call him) would probably not have become so widely and generally known. Another instance of this double-facedness can be found in the outgivings of the editor of the San Francisco Post. Every issue of that journal teems with arguments against Chinese labor and abuse of those who employ it. But other papers of the same city have publicly charged the Post editor with employing Mongolian servants at his residence, No. 907 Bush street. And he does not deny the charge. ODESSA WHEAT. Two years ago Miles Bros. sent to a friend in Minnesota for a small package of Odessa wheat, which they determined to plant and ascertain whether that particular quality was adapted to this locality. They received by mail a four-pound package of seed, but by handling and waste it was reduced to three pounds. This quantity was sown and in due course of time a sack of wheat was realized. This was in turn sown last year by Mr. John Gwin, but owing to the drouth, only enough was realized to fill fifty sacks. This quantity, which is enough to seed a hundred acres, will be sown the coming season, and if the expectation of a good wet season is realized, there can be no doubt that an enormous crop will be raised. Enough is known to warrant the assertion that wheat will in the near future be one of the staple productions of this section. The failures which have been encountered heretofore have been caused by the use of seed not suited to our soil and climate, but it is believed that the Odessa wheat will answer admirably. When another year's experiment will demonstrate beyond cavil that it can be sown with a reasonable certainty that it will yield, our agriculturists will not be slow, in planting their broad acres with this grain. There is another benefit which will follow the general planting of wheat. Just as soon as enough is raised to warrant the erection of a flouring mill, the enterprise and capital will not be lacking to build such an establishment. And, to pursue this subject further, if the mill is built it will no doubt be in a locality where advantage can be taken of the abundant water power which will be developed by our irrigating canals. It has been said that "great oaks from little acorns grow." From the three pounds of seed sown by the Miles Bros. will be developed a new product for our county, a manufacturing establishment, and the proclamation of the existence of water power in this section. When manufacturers learn that there is an abundance of the latter, they will be certain to erect their factories as soon as the country produces enough of raw material to keep his kitchen, and probably others were engaged in other occupations about his house. Unfortunately for our genial Attorney General, he employed Chinamen who were added to fighting and quarrelling, and last week one of them was shot and killed by a countryman. Had it not been for this unfortunate renouncement, the hypocrisy and demagoguery of the genial Jo (as his friends delight to call him) would probably not have become so widely and generally known. Another instance of this double-facedness can be found in the outgivings of the editor of the San Francisco Post. Every issue of that journal teems with arguments against Chinese labor and abuse of those who employ it. But other papers of the same city have publicly charged the Post editor with employing Mongolian servants at his residence, No. 907 Bush street. And he does not deny the charge. ODESSA WHEAT. Two years ago Miles Bros. sent to a friend in Minnesota for a small package of Odessa wheat, which they determined to plant and ascertain whether that particular quality was adapted to this locality. They received by mail a four-pound package of seed, but by handling and waste it was reduced to three pounds. This quantity was sown and in due course of time a sack of wheat was realized. This was in turn sown last year by Mr. John Gwin, but owing to the drouth, only enough was realized to fill fifty sacks. This quantity, which is enough to seed a hundred acres, will be sown the coming season, and if the expectation of a good wet season is realized, there can be no doubt that an enormous crop will be raised. Enough is known to warrant the assertion that wheat will in the near future be one of the staple productions of this section. The failures which have been encountered heretofore have been caused by the use of seed not suited to our soil and climate, but it is believed that the Odessa wheat will answer admirably. When another year's experiment will demonstrate beyond cavil that it can be sown with a reasonable certainty that it will yield, our agriculturists will not be slow, in planting their broad acres with this grain. There is another benefit which will follow the general planting of wheat. Just as soon as enough is raised to warrant the erection of a flouring mill, the enterprise and capital will not be lacking to build such an establishment. And, to pursue this subject further, if the mill is built it will no doubt be in a locality where advantage can be taken of the abundant water power which will be developed by our irrigating canals. It has been said that "great oaks from little acorns grow." From the three pounds of seed sown by the Miles Bros. will be developed a new product for our county, a manufacturing establishment, and the proclamation of the existence of water power in this section. When manufacturers learn that there is an abundance of the latter, they will be certain to erect their factories as soon as the country produces enough of raw material to keep his kitchen, and probably others were engaged in other occupations about his house. Unfortunately for our genial Attorney General, he employed Chinamen who were added to fighting and quarrelling, and last week one of them was shot and killed by a countryman. Had it not been for this unfortunate renouncement, the hypocrisy and demagoguery of the genial Jo (as his friends delight to call him) would probably not have become so widely and generally known. Another instance of this double-facedness can be found in the outgivings of the editor of the San Francisco Post. Every issue of that journal teems with arguments against Chinese labor and abuse of those who employ it. But other papers of the same city have publicly charged the Post editor with employing Mongolian servants at his residence, No. 907 Bush street. And he does not deny the charge. ODESSA WHEAT. Two years ago Miles Bros. sent to a friend in Minnesota for a small package of Odessa wheat, which they determined to plant and ascertain whether that particular quality was adapted to this locality. They received by mail a four-pound package of seed, but by handling and waste it was reduced to three pounds. This quantity was sown and in due course of time a sack of wheat was realized. This was in turn sown last year by Mr. John Gwin, but owing to the drouth, only enough was realized to fill fifty sacks. This quantity, which is enough to seed a hundred acres, will be sown the coming season, and if the expectation of a good wet season is realized, there can be no doubt that an enormous crop will be raised. Enough is known to warrant the assertion that wheat will in the near future be one of the staple productions of this section. The failures which have been encountered heretofore have been caused by the use of seed not suited to our soil and climate, but it is believed that the Odessa wheat will answer admirably. When another year's experiment will demonstrate beyond cavil that it can be sown with a reasonable certainty that it will yield, our agriculturists will not be slow, in planting their broad acres with this grain. There is another benefit which will follow the general planting of wheat. Just as soon as enough is raised to warrant the erection of a flouring mill, the enterprise and capital will not be lacking to build such an establishment. And, to pursue this subject further, if the mill is built it will no doubt be in a locality where advantage can be taken of the abundant water power which will be developed by our irrigating canals. It has been said that "great oaks from little acorns grow." From the three pounds of seed sown by the Miles Bros. will be developed a new product for our county, a manufacturing establishment, and the proclamation of the existence of water power in this section. When manufacturers learn that there is an abundance of the latter, they will be certain to erect their factories as soon as the country produces enough of raw material to keep his kitchen, and probably others were engaged in other occupations about his house. Unfortunately for our genial Attorney General, he employed Chinamen who were added to fighting and quarrelling, and last week one of them was shot and killed by a countryman. Had it not been for this unfortunate renouncement, the hypocrisy and demagoguery of the genial Jo (as his friends delight to call him) would probably not have become so widely and generally known. Another instance of this double-facedness can be found in the outgivings of the editor of the San Francisco Post. Every issue of that journal teems with arguments against Chinese labor and abuse of those who employ it. But other papers of the same city have publicly charged the Post editor with employing Mongolian servants at his residence, No. 907 Bush street. And he does not deny the charge. ODESSA WHEAT. Two years ago Miles Bros. sent to a friend in Minnesota for a small package of Odessa wheat, which they determined to plant and ascertain whether that particular quality was adapted to this locality. They received by mail a four-pound package of seed, but by handling and waste it was reduced to three pounds. This quantity was sown and in due course of time a sackof wheat was realized. This was in turn sown last year by Mr. John Gwin, but owing to the drouth only enough was realized to fill fifty sacks. This quantity which is enough to seed a hundred acres will be sown—the coming season,and ifthe expectationofagoodwetseasonisrealizedtherecanbeno doubtthatanemountainwillansweradmirability.ItsknowofnooneonthiscoastorelsewhereinthenameoftheChristiantestagainstsuchbasement The President's message ofthe conditionoftheattentiontothefactthatbeenengagedindifficultysmalltimethemegaveforormanybe keptpureandclean.himethoughttothecertainappropriation.theproprietoryforthesupportofthecomingyearatitspresenticalstrengthof25000metersconsiderallqualitiesanincreaseanddecreaseofthelistlistmeninthereventoathenbysubsequentappropriationaskedforthemilitaryestablishmentforgendingJune301878am76498.I knowofnooneonthiscoastorelsewhereinthenameoftheChristiantestagainstsuchbasement He calls attentiontothe adoptingthenecessarylegislationthepeopleoftheUnitedStatesintheadvantagesoftheIndustryofagriculturalindustrieswhichwillbeheldfromthiscoastorelsewhereinthenameoftheChristiantestagainstsuchbasement A very stiff-necked and perverse constituency is that of the Ward of Cheap, London. Having once formed an opinion they defend it through good and evil report. An election for Alderman took place in that ward some time ago, and Sir John Bennet was returned elected, but the Court of Alderman rejected him on the ground that he was a person unfit to discharge the duties of the position. A second election was held; Sir John was again returned, and again the Aldermanic Court refused to recognize him and ordered another election. This has just taken place, and Sir John is again the choice of the Ward of Cheap. Whether the Court of Aldermen will succumb to the popular will, or for the third time refuse to receive the baronet with open arms, the telegraph has not yet advised us. The scene in Court when the forger, Gilman, was sentenced was affecting—very. The counsel who read Gilman's statement, confessing his guilt, did so with a trembling voice. Mr. Lane, who followed, was deeply affected, and said that Gilman left his wife at home on the verge of insanity. District Attorney Phelps, with tears coursing down his cheeks and with choking utterance, said he had known the prisoner, and that this was the saddest case he had ever had anything to do with. Recorder Hackett, in passing sentence, was much affected, and wiped away a tear. The detectives turned away from the tearful spectacle, hurried Gilman to the coach in waiting, and drove to his office, which he leaves this evening a convict for Sing Sing for a turn of five years at hard labor. Quong The John has informed the editor of the San Juan Times that Chinese all over the State are preparing for a grand exodus. Committee on Semi-tropical Fruits. The Board of Directors of the Horticultural Society, at a special meeting held in Los Angeles on Tuesday, passed the following resolution: Resolved That the Committee on Semi-Tropical Fruits be requested to visit different parts of the District and examine the following questions: 1st. What system of irrigation is best adapted to the successful cultivation of semi-tropical fruits—different kinds of soil, location, etc., being taken into account. 2d. What fertilizers, if any, are necessary to the successful cultivation of citrus trees. 3d. Report such facts as can be ascertained in regard to budding. 4th. Investigate all diseases and other enemies to the citrus tree incidental to improper cultivation and irrigation, and report remedies and preventives. 5th. Collect any information that may come under their observation regarding the horticultural interests of Southern California. The committee have accepted the work assigned them by the Society, and have arranged to start out on Monday, November 5th, to spend a week at the work. They will visit such localities as they may find best adapted to their work in Los Angeles and San Bernardino counties, and hold public meetings as follows: Anaisheim, Monday evening, November 5. Orange, Tuesday evening, Nov. 6. Riverside, Thursday evening, Nov. 8. Pasadena, Saturday evening, Nov. 10. The committee is composed of the following gentlemen: T. A. Garey, Las Angeles; L. J. Rose and J. DeBarth Shorr, San Gabriel; J. O. Fisher, Las Angeles; J. M. Asher, San Diego; L. C. Waite, Riverside; L. M. Holt, Pomona. Other prominent members of the Society will accompany the Committee and assist in the work. He calls attention to adopting the necessary legal people of the United States in the advantages of the International Agricultural industry arts which is to be held at in which Government by the Government of France. He also recommends amends $8,000 for the expenses of attend the International Congress proposes to study crime—is one in which all have an interest in common of Stockholm seems likely important convention even of this grave question. Manner of Preservation Republican: The following which Mr. J. H. Brower premium dried figs and raisins are profoundly interested in ducts and will be anxious to success: PRESERVING The figs are taken when (but not barred) and placed when boiling lye made from poured over them. They yield the sun upon scaffolds and dry nicely, should be turned five times, the first turning more than ten to twelve hours out to prevent moulding. Should be packed in close box. MAKING RAISINS First—The grapes (whole picked when thoroughly ripe) Second—They are then duly strong decoction of wood from wood ash. Third—They are then plating or drying-boards, and being to be turned but once. Fourth—When sufficient when they become transpired ready for packing, which is done in close-fitting boxes from the moth-fly. Fifth—The soil sandy, hot state of cultivation. SOMETHING FOR THE GIRLS. Good, Plain-Spoken Adress from Die Lewis. WEST OAKLAND, Oct. 14, 1877. EAR. GAZETTE.—Agreeable to your request I will send your readers an occasional memoranda of matter at the metropolis which may appear of general interest and for the public good. Die Lewis has come to Oakland to spend his remaining days, and being invited by the wealthy churches here to lecture for the young ladies, the proceeds to be devoted to some benevolent object, it was really refreshing to hear this grand humanitarian patriarch boldly tell his hearers what they need most to know and practice for their own good; things which, in the defective condition of society, but few speakers could with grace speak to the public ear. He told those young ladies to keep their legs and feet warm with sufficiently heavy drawers, stockings and shoes, and never to sit with cold feet; to cut off their abominable trails, which gather up the filth and nastiness of the earth, raise a continual cloud of dust to soil their underclothes and logs, besides being a wicked and senseless extravagance, the fashion for which was imported from the demi-nonde of Paris. Indeed, I have observed that no people on earth are so ready to take up the fashions originated by the worst class of Paris, as are the Americans. It is not so with the English, French or Germans of the better class. They more generally consult the convenience, utility and good taste of an innovation before adopting it, and are not so loud in style as Americans. Dr. Lewis remarked that much of the sweetness and beauty of girls consisted in a pure breath and clean, white teeth. That they should use toothpicks, cold water and brushes, and a parent who failed to impress this need upon his children was cruel in not saving to them one great power in social life—that of a sweet breath and a clean looking mouth. He said it was a fallacy that hot drink, or salaratus, or sweets, had any considerable influence in causing decayed teeth, and cited that such things strike upon the smooth sides of teeth, yet we never see decay there; but decay comes from the long time the great amount of particles of food are carried about between the teeth, which, in the high temperature of the mouth, soon decays, and those cause between the teeth the decay, and often the seeds of fever, diphtheria, etc. He cited many cases of death from small particles of decayed meat between the teeth, causing death by poisoning the blood, by contact with a slight abrasion of the mouth—the same kind of poisoning so often resulting from cuts in the dissecting-room, or in skinning cattle dead from disease. No girl can be beautiful unless these things, the teeth and gums, BOAD TO SAN BERNARDINO. Patition to the Supervisors to Repair Our Nine Canyon Road. A position, of which the following is a copy in being circulated and generally signed. It will be observed that it does not ask for a new road, but merely that the road which has been in use for many years be put in thorough repair and recorded as a county road. It is estimated that the entire cost of repair will not exceed $1500. ANAHEIM, Oct. 17, 1877. To the Honorable Board of Supervisors of Los Angeles County: We the undersigned citizens and tax-payers residing in the valley lying between the Santa Ana and New San Gabriel rivers, hereby ask your Honorable body that you will order the old traveled road leading through our valley through the Brea Canyon to and through the Chino Rancho to the boundary line of Los Angeles and San Bernardino counties, to be declared and recorded as a county road, and further ask that you will appropriate a sufficient sum of money from the General Fund of the county to repair said road and make it passable; said road being the shortest, best and most convenient route for passing from our part of the county to Cuccamonga, Cajon Pass, San Bernardino, Riverside and Rineon. Said road being more particularly described as follows, to wit: Commencing at the mouth of the Ybarra canyon, on the county road from Anaheim to Spadra, thence north-easterly up said canyon, following the line of said road to the county line. And your petitioners will every pray, etc. To Make Good Bread. A correspondent of the San Francisco Alto says: Mrs. Hale in her cookery book says to cook a hare you must first catch it. To make good bread you must first have good yeast, and as every house-wife living outside of a brewery well knows, all the patent yeast cakes and powders of the day are unreliable, and furthermore Mrs. Lealie and all other writers on bread-making tell us to make yeast. Now, as Mr. Shafter of the Petaluma Fair has told the good people of that neighborhood how to make bread, permit me as one who has wandered a great deal on the outskirts of civilization, to tell them how to make yeast with little expense and labor,and in so doing they can have as healthy and good bread as is made in Vienna. This idea has suggested itself to me by having been compelled a short time since to eat bread in the neighborhood of Petaluma,made NEWS IN ERIEF. A Knoxville (Tenn.) correspondent of the N.Y. Trilune says: "When Southern statesmen like Senator Benj. H. Hill endorse the work of the Electoral Commission, the Democratic leaders in the North would do win to head the warning, and cease their assaults, lost they cause the South to units in defending the title of a President who has won its respect and gratitude." Some New York journalists report that Jay Gould and Sidney Dillon have perfected arrangements for a railway to San Francisco under one management. The programme embraces the Erie Great Western or Grand Trunk Michigan Central and Northwestern or Rock Island to Omaha. Gould for years has been aiming at such a stoke. The New York Tribune announces that the police have discovered a bold and extensive scheme by lottery swimmers involving the sale in New York, Boston, Providence, Hartford, Albany, Troy, Buffalo, Philadelphia, Baitimore, Washington, Chicago, Cincinnati and St. Louis, of hundreds of thousands of dollars' worth of tickets in a bogus and illegal Georgia lottery. Judge A. O. Lochrane, an agent of the State of Georgia, is in New York to prosecute the bogus lottery men who appropriated the franchise of a charitable institution, known as the Masonic Home for Orphans, at Atlanta, as the basis of the swindle. Mr. Fautrat asserts that wooded land receives more rain than bare land in its immediate neighborhood. Pine forests attract more moisture than other forests. Pine trees also retain in their branches more than half the rain which falls on them while leafy trees permit more than half of the rainfall to reach the earth immediately. The Krupp cannon works in Germany are of immense dimensions. They send their armaments to all parts of the world,and employ an enormous capital.A striking feature of the establishment is a hundred thousand pound trip hammer.The Emperor William recently made a visit of inspection there,and 6,984 workmen turned out to receive him. The portraitraits of some of the most famous Americans are to be put upon the new stamps for lager beer kegs.The stamp for the eighth of a barrel,brown,vith a vignette of Washington for a center piece;the sixth of a barrel,brown,vith a vignette of Thomas Corwin;one-fourth of a barrel,green,vith vignette of Thomas H.Benton;one-third barrel,purple,vith vignette of Gen.Geo.H.Thomas;one-half barrel,buff,vith vignette of Jofferson;barrel,pink,vith vignette of ex-President Johnson; hogshead,black,vith vignette of Silas Wright. An Englishman,for a wager $250,000,has begun a walk through France,Germany,northern Russia and Siberia.to China,and thence to India,Pernis town,Peninsula. teeth, and cited that such things strike upon the smooth sides of teeth, yet we never see decay there; but decay comes from the long time the great amount of particles of food are carried about between the teeth, which, in the high temperature of the mouth, soon decays, and those cause between the teeth the decay, and often the seeds of fever, diphtheria, etc. He cited many cases of death from small particles of decayed meat between the teeth, causing death by poisoning the blood, by contact with a slight abrasion of the mouth—the same kind of poisoning so often resulting from cuts in the dissecting-room, or in skinning cattle dead from disease. No girl can be beautiful unless these things, the teeth and gums, which God gave for ornament as well as use, be kept pure and clean. Another valuable hint is this: If school children, in sitting or walking, would hold the chin close to the neck, it would perforce throw the shoulders back, expand the chest and give greater power, dignity and grace of carriage. Thus is the practical thing of life does this great man help* the young. He is one of those Christians who believe Christ came to save all there is of man, body as well as soul, and when we abuse our bodies we defy the spirit of Christ. The M. E. Church Tract Society offered some time ago $250 for the best essay on the evils resulting from the use of tobacco. Dr. Gibbons, of San Francisco, above fifty competitors, received the sum. The Iowa M. E. Conference entreats all its ministers to desist from the use of tobacco for conscience's, for the church's and for the world's sake. It is understood that the California Conference declines to admit young men to the ministry who use tobacco, and that the M. E. Church literature is opposed to the use of tobacco, yet the California Christian Adrocate, which describes itself as a good paper to advertise in, because it has a Sunday School department, is the official Christian and family paper of the M. E. Church, and is second to no religious weekly, and it says of itself, "its Christian character carries implied indorsement giving to advertisements special value," stultifies itself by devoting twenty-one half-lines of its columns each week to facilitating the trade in tobacco, when at the same time the M. E. Book Depository building and agent is the headquarters for the Pacific Coast of the "National Temperance Publication Society" and Sunday School literature. I know of no other religious paper on this coast or elsewhere doing the like, and in the name of the Christian churches I protest against such debasement of its columns. A.G.C. The President's Message. The President's message opens with a statement of the condition of the army, and calls attention to the fact that although they have been engaged in difficult and arduous service they have been without pay. He urges an immediate appropriation. He suggests the propriety of making the necessary appropriations for the support of the army for the coming year at its present minimum numerical strength of 25,000 men, leaving for future consideration all questions relating to an increase or decrease of the number of enlisted men, in the event of the reduction of the army by subsequent legislation. The appropriation asked for the support of the military establishment for the fiscal year ending June 30, 1878, amounts to $32,436,-764.98. There is also required for the navy department $20,386,127. He calls attention to the importance of adopting the necessary legislation to enable the people of the United States to participate in the advantages of the International Exhibition of agricultural industry and the fine arts which is held in Baltimore. good bread you must first have good yeast, and as every house-wife living outside of a brewery well knows, all the patent yeast cakes and powders of the day are unreliable, and furthermore, Mrs. Leslie and all other writers on bread-making, tell us to make yeast. Now, as Mr. Shafter of the Petaluma Fair has told the good people of that neighborhood how to make bread, permit me one who has wandered a great deal on the outskirts of civilization, to tell them how to make yeast with little expense and labor, and in so doing they can have as healthy and good bread as is made in Vienna. This idea has suggested itself to me by having compelled a short time since to eat bread in the neighborhood of Petaluna, made of saleratus, acid and soda, and if you eat such bread, you must drink whiskey, or use some other stimulant, to drive it through your stomach. YEAST. Boil one-half ounce hops in one quart of water for half an hour. Strain and cool to warm milk, then add a tea-spoonful of salt and one-eighth pound of brown sugar, and one fourth-pound of flour; after it has been mixed with a small quantity of the liquid, strain and stir all well together three or four times daily, keeping warm all the time near a fire. The third day add three-fourths of a pound of boiled and well mashed potatoes. On the fourth day strain and put in a closed jar. It will keep in a cool place for two months. Lasted of using fresh yeast daily reserve from day to day a tea-cup full of dough, to be worked into your flour the succeeding day. Three tablespoonfuls of this yeast and a like quantity of warm water is sufficient for one quart of flour. Some prefer a spoonful of butter or lard worked each morning into the dough. If the yeast becomes sour put a few fresh coals from the fire into it. The Famine in India. From Australia and the South Sea Islands by way of Ceylon, I reached Madras, Southern India, just in time to attend the great famine meeting presided over by his Grace the Duke of Buckingham, and Chandos, the Governor of the Madras Presidency. The Duke's speech was a most manly appeal for help, and ought to stir the hearts of other countries as well as England. According to the British Medical Journal 88,500 lives were sacrificed during the Franco-Prussian war. Peace philanthropists said, and rightly said, "horrible!" But within a few months over half a million people in southern India have actually starved to death! The Madras Presidency has a population of 31,000,000, the city something over 400,-000 three-fourths of which are Tamils or original Hindoos. The editor of the Madras Times says that there are a million of people on relief works in this Presidency already another million is receiving subsistence allowance, and a third million is dropping by ones and twos and threes into untimely graves, or by the wayside into no grave at all. The Duke of Buckingham, the present Governor, told me a few days since that "certainly 400,000 had died, either directly or indirectly, from starvation." Lord Lytton the Viceroy of India is now in Madras counseling with the Governor as to ways and means of staying the famine and providing for the future. Only yesterday I went all through Montegar Choultry, one of several famine camps adjoining the city. The sights were most harrowing. Here were 3,500 human beings subsisting on charity, a portion of them receiving but one meal of rice per day. The poor creatures were very emaciated and not nourished at all. The portraits of some of the most famous Americans are to be put upon new stamps for lager beer kegs. The stamp for the eighth barrel is blue, with the vignette of Washington for a center piece; the sixth of a barrel, brown, with a vignette of Thomas Corwin; one-fourth of a barrel, green, with vignette of Thomas H. Benton; one-third barrel purple, with vignette of Gen. Geo.H. Thomas; one-half barrel, buff; with vignette of ex-President Johnson; hoghead black, with vignette of Silas Wright. An Englishman, for a wager of $250,000 has begun a walk through France, Germany, northern Russia and Siberia, to China, and thence to India, Persia, southern Russia Greece, and Italy, to France. The time allowed for the walk is six years. Mr. Kenner, in lecturing in New York on his Siberian travels, said that in remote parts of Siberia American newspapers and magazines are found occasionally, and that in one place he had seen a picture of General Dix; cut out of Harper's Weekly; framed; hung upon a wall; and worshipped as a Russian saint! Lucy Stone, who has been lately preaching woman suffrage in Colorado, writes that Mexicans there have no ploughs; but stirthe ground with a crooked stick. To thresh grain they lay it in a large circle and turn horses or a flock of goats upon it. Two or three men then drive the animals repeatedly until round, until the wheat is trodden out. The straw is then thrown up with a fork or with sticks,and the chaff is blown away.Such wheat as may be required for family use is washed by the women,and that which is sold remains unwashed. The statistics of the military prison at Oberhans in Bavaria contain some curious information as to the capacity of th Bavarian soldier for beer. One an artilleryman,said that twenty quarts did not exactly hurt him.A second,a mason by profession,said: "I never count up to more than ten or twelve quarts,but after that it goes quickly;"and a third wasofthe opinionthatifcoulditgethewoulddrinktwenty-eightquartsaday,andnotfeelit.Onexclaimedindignantlythathewasnotdrunkforhедhadonlyhad eightquarts;whileone,aregularhabitatoftheprison insisted thathewasnoblackguard,bothedliket drinking. AmongthenoveltiesofthecomingParishexhibitionwillbea youthoffourteenwithfeatshapedpreciselylikehishands.Hecanususethemforthesamepurpose,andplaysuponthepianowithbothhandsandfeet,havingapeculiarchairwhichenableshimtocurlhisbodyintothenecessaryposition.Heisverygoodperformer,andspeaksbothEnglishandGerman.HisFrenchisyetimperfect. Lord AberdeenblunderedterriblyinhisaddressasPresidentofthesocialScienceCongress.Hearguedagainstthecontinuationoflawofimprisonmentfor debtwhichhas,factlongbeenabolished,andadvocatedprisonreformswhichhavegenerallycarriedoutalready.TheLondonSpektorremarksthissortofthingwillneverdo,andtheTimesthinkstheaddressinoffensivebutnotwhatitoughthavebeen. TheFrenchFreeMasonshavelongbeiveduponthequestionastowhetherabeliefinthe“GrandArchitectoftheUniverse”shouldbeadogmaoftheirorder.AttherecentMasonicConventioninFrance,thesecondclauseoftheconstitutionwhichranthus:“FreeMasonryholdsto.the principleoftheexistenceOfGodandoftheimmortalityofthe soul.”wasalteredbyanimmensemajorityto“FreeMasonryholdsto.theprincipleofanabsolutefreedomofconsequence,andtothebrotherhoodofmankind.”Itexcludesoneonaccountofhisbelief.” Abandonscrified.Theprovidencedmenareamers.Aladbythejahadgadandusedfromgreaterletarma.’ A ladbythejahadgadandusedfromgreaterletarma.’ Manner of Preserving Figs and Raisins. Republican: The following is the process by which Mr. J. H. Brewer obtained his fine premium dried figs and raisins. Our readers are profoundly interested in these two products and will be anxious to know the road to success: PRESERVING FIGS. The figs are taken when thoroughly ripe (but not bursted) and placed in a steamer, when boiling lye made from wood ashes is poured over them. They are then placed in the sun upon scaffolds and dried. Figs, to dry nicely, should be turned from three to five times, the first turning to be made not more than ten to twelve hours after being put out to prevent moulding. They, like raisins, should be packed in close boxes. MAKING RAISINS. First—The grapes (white Muscat) are picked when thoroughly ripe. Second—They are then dipped in a moderately strong decoction of boiling lye made from wood ashes. Third—They are then placed upon scaffolding or drying boards, and sun-cured, requiring to be turned but once. Fourth—When sufficiently dried, that is, when they become transparent, they are ready for packing, which is advisable to be done in close-fitting boxes, to preserve them from the moldy. Fifth—The soil sandy, but kept in a high state of cultivation. A Celestial Duncan. What a Chinaman won't find out about the bad tricks of his white brothers is of very little consequence. Witness the following: Chung, a native of the flowery kingdom, who has been in the employ of Messrs. Wilson & Shorb, at the Mission, at various times for five or six years past, was hired this year, along with several others, to harvest the grape crop. Chung's services, altogether, came to $151, which amount he was paid on the 14th inst. by a check on the Farmers' & Merchants' Bank of this city. The check was first drawn by error for $131, and afterward raised to $151. Mr. Wilson making the indorsement on the back, "This check has been raised to $151." Chung, not satisfied with this advancement, raised the check a second time from $151 to $051, presented it at the bank, drew the last named amount—and vamoosed. Don Benito Wilson got wind of the trick this morning for the first time, and came to town to see about it. —Express. Two days after Thiers' death, a ramor ran around Paris that Paul de Cassagnac had publicly whipped by an indignant Republican, for his scurrilous article on the dead statesman. The next day Le Pays contained the following: "A foolish report has been circulated about the city—that M. Paul de Cassagnac has been publicly whipped. This is not the first time. When it again makes its round let each man ask, 'Has De Cassagnac killed any one?' and if the response be 'No one,' he can rest assured the report is false. P. DE C." The Republican journals copy this with a single but expressive word of comment—"Fenah!" The French Free Masons have long been divided upon the question as to whether a belief in the "Grand Architect of the Universe" should be a dogma of their order. At the recent Masonic Convention in France, the second clause of the constitution, which ran thus: "Free Masonry holds to the principle of the existence of God and of the immortality of the soul," was altered by an immense majority to "Free Masonry holds to the principle of an absolute freedom of conscience, and to the brotherhood of mankind." It excludes no one on account of his belief. Henry Turner, aged nine years, died at Maysville, Ky., the other day, and was buried at Orangaburg, some seven miles distant. When the funeral procession left Maysville, a small hog, which the child had fed and petted, got behind the hearse, and despite repeated efforts to drive it back, followed the procession all the way to the burying ground. There it attempted to enter the ground, but a fence prevented it doing so. The prisoners in the St. Louis jail, especially the negroes, believe it is haunted, and are in a state of abject terror. A woman has died from the effect of the fright. William Morgan, an old insane negro, had been an inmate for many years. His wild, rolling eyes, his haggard face, and his spectral figure made him an object of awe. He was regarded as a wizard by other negro prisoners, who eagerly listened to every word of his wild ravings. The old man died, and nervousness overcame his fellows. Then, the death of the woman added to the terror of the prisoners; and to them the jail is now haunted by two ghosts instead of one. Their condition has become really pitiful. They are oppressed by gloom, which grows deeper and deeper as night comes on; and when darkness arrives, and the ghosts stalk through the cells, they are not only too terrified to sleep, but they break out in the wildest shrinks of agony and fear. They beg to be sent to the panitentiary, or to any other place that is not haunted. The Sultan of Zanzibar is organizing a force of 500 negro soldiers to be armed with Martani Henry rifles and a Gatling gun, for the suppression of the slave trade in his dominions. The Austrian soldier is about the only one in Europe who receives only one meal a day in time of peace. That is indeed, a very fair one; still, for young soldiers hard at work all day, it is scarce enough. About 250,000 pistols have been made at Norwich this year. Orders are increasing, and many of the works are running day and night. The Bridgeport cartridge works make some 700,000 cartridges a day. They have The Trotting Stallion Gibraltar, WILL BE KEPT AT MY STABLES ON JEFFERSON STREET, NORTH AIRPORT, LOS ANGELES, AFTER SEPTEMBER 20TH. He is in a dark blond bay, 18 hands high, weighted 1,150 pounds, with large hoops and insulated mounts. His date by "Green Dale" is five years old but Mary has been trained but a few months; has taught a half mile in one minute, twelve and one-half minutes, and a full mile in 227], and many times inside of 229. The great depression in the value of all kinds of stock had induced me to offer the service of this intriguing trotting horse for $50 for the season, and $60 to insurance. Marrs kept at reasonable price and guaranteed against escape. Apply to grown in charge, or to GEO. O. TIPTANY, Owner. GUERNSEY BULL, No. 33. "CAPTAIN GUERNSEY." Berkshire Swine. M. Thiers is said to have left the enormous fortune of $2,700,000, and if this really be the fact, there will be a good deal of wonderment as to where it all came from. He had not a penny of patrimony. His father, whatever might have been his original status, became an army contractor, and being obliged to retire from that kind of business for discreditable conduct, his children were thrown upon the world. One became a courier and applied to his brother, who scarcely knew of his existence, for a place, and was provided with an Asiatic Consulship! M. Thiers had a sister, commonly reputed to be not much better than she should be, who gave him a great deal of trouble. She placarded over a store which she opened in Paris her relationship to the Minister, and tried by this means to induce him to satisfy her demands. It is to be presumed that M. Thiers's wealth is the result of the very sagacious investment of the money he derived for his works, with the accumulation of a long and economical life. Paris property has risen so enormously in value in the past forty years that purchases made by him in middle life would very likely have quintupled in value. Guizot did not leave five thousand dollars a year. Our news from Baker's Island, 700 miles west-southwest from Honolulu, includes the two interesting facts that the ocean current in that vicinity has changed from a westward to an eastward course, and the climate that never had rain now has an abundance of it. The rain is doubtless a result of the alteration in the ocean current, but as to the cause of that alteration we have no suggestion to make. The phenomenon is likely to attract much attention among scientists and navigators, and deserves careful investigation. —A.a. PACIFIC COAST NEWS. Cajon Irrigation Company Location of principal place of business—ANAHEIM CALIFORNIA. NOTICE IS HEREBY GIVEN THAT AT A MENTION OF THE DIRECTORS HOLD ON THE 25th day of September, 1877, an assessment of nine dollars per share PACIFIC COAST NEWS. The railroad from Benicia to Suisun, connecting near the latter place with the California Pacific, is to be finished before the middle of December, and it will complete what has been called the air-line road from this city to Sacramento, making the shortest practicable route between the two places. A ferry will be used for crossing the Strait of Carquinez. The route from Martinez to Bantas—part of it unfinished by reason of litigation about right of way—the road from Oakland to Sacramento, by way of Niles and Stockton, and the road from Vallejo to Suisun will lose something of their tradie, and their towns something of their importance by the influences of the road from Benicia. This town, after thirty years of disappointment, may now take a new start. Its advantages of situation were not sufficient to bring it out without the help of a railroad, and what that will do for it is yet to be seen.—Alta. George T. White has a grapevine on his place just south of Colton that he claims is the champion vine of the county. It is ten years old, covers an area of thirty square feet, and yielded this year 750 pounds of fine grapes. The vine is of the Mission variety, and has been sadly neglected for several years. Fifteen tons of grapes are daily manufactured into raisins at Folsom. Blue gum telegraph poles have been used exclusively by the railroad company on the line put up from Oakland to Martinez, and are thought to be capable of lasting a greater number of years than the common redwood poles now so generally in use. The woolen factory at Santa Rosa will soon begin operations. The officers of the McArthur report that hammer-headed shacks—the bona fide man-eater—exist in large numbers off Gaviota and Point Concepcion, and that there were over a dozen of them around the vessel all last week. It is exceptional to find them so high up the coast. They fight shy of the keel and will not attempt to pass it.—Santa Barbara Press. Patrick Regan, a stevedore in Sacramento, was choked to death by a piece of beefsteak. Lalla Rookh is dead. Strange to say "Lalla" was a prize bull. He had been subjected to excessive heat at Sacramento, and also on the trip down from there. Then at Petaluma he stood in a draft, took cold, and died of inflammation of the bowels. He was worth $1500. About 150 citizens of Winters have subscribed to buy the property of Chinatown. The property is to be sold and the proceeds divided among the subscribers. The Chinese are leaving the place. A lady in town has been badly poisoned by the juice of the leaves of the fig tree. She had gathered several and stewed them down, and used the water for cleansing a dress from grease, for which purpose it is an excellent remedy. But the flesh of her hands and arms, wherever the water touched it, is badly infused and swollen, and some Cajon Irrigation Company Location of principal place of business—ANAHEIM CALIFORNIA NOTICE IS HEREBY GIVEN THAT AT A MEETING OF THE DIRECTORS held on the 25th day of September, 1877, an assessment of nine dollars per share was levied upon the subscribed capital stock of the corporation, payable immediately in United States Gold Coim to the Secretary, Anaheim, California. Any stock upon which this assessment shall remain unpaid on the last day of November, 1877, will be delinquent and advertised for sale at public auction, and unless payment is made before will be sold on the 1st day of December, 1877, to pay the delinquent assessment together with the cost of advertising and expenses of sale. W.M. MCFADDEN, Secretary, Analeim, California. NOTICE. To Parties on Rancho Los Bolsas. Parties occupying lands on Los Bolsas, who are not purchasers, but who wish to purchase, are notified to make application for the land they want. The Company have no objection to selling to any person who is a good neighbor, and a quiet, respectable citizen. All who do not buy promptly will be ejected by law. WM. B. OLDEN, Agent for Stearns' Rancho. Important Announcement. Messrs. D. & G. D. Plato Respectfully announce to the citizens of Anaheim and vicinity that the San Francisco member of the firm has lately taken advantage of an opportunity to purchase a full line of goods at prices much below the ruling market rate. This, therefore, enables us to give our customers the benefit of first-class goods at prices much lower than has ever ruled in Anaheim. As is well known, we have lately been making a specialty of LADIES' AND CHILDRENS' GAITERS AND SHOES, And in order to secure this trade we make the following announcement, merely premising that we make an proportionate reduction on every class of goods in our store: Ladies' Kid Fox Gaiters, $1.25; formerly sold for $1.75. Ladies' all cloth Gaiters, $1.50; formerly sold for $2. Ladies' Gaiters, $1.50 per pair; formerly sold for $2. Ladies' Buttoned Gaiters, $2.50; formerly sold for $3.50. Misses' Gaiters, $1.25; formerly sold for $2.00. The London Specimen The address inoffent to have been. About 150 citizens of Winters have subscribed to buy the property of Chinatown. The property is to be sold and the proceeds divided among the subscribers. The China men are leaving the place. A lady in town has been badly poisoned by the juice of the leaves of the fig tree. She had gathered several and stewed them down, and used the water for cleansing a dress from grease, for which purpose it is an excellet remedy. But the flesh of her hands and arms, wherever the water touched it, is badly inflamed and swollen and very sore. Can any one inform us what the poison is that exists in the juice of the fig leaf?—Santa Barbara Press. John Bruce was killed at a lime kiln in Santa Cruz on Saturday by a rock falling on him. Capt. D. H. Rand, Chief of the Police of Oakland, died last Friday. His disease was pleurisy. A new coal company has been organized and the tools are now on the way from Anaheim. The new company has several rich San Diego men at the head of it, and work will go on in earnest at the old coal bed on the San Dieguito Beach.—San Diego Union. Some sheepmen, with whom we have conversed within the last few days, fear that if we do not have early rain, their sheep must die off rapidly, as many of them are barely living at present.—San Diego News. A great lot of young ladies welcomed General Sherman at Albany, Oregon. The old warrior went right in and kissed the whole of them, while his son, a cowardly young fellow who has never been through the wars, stood back and looked sheepishly on. Forest Grove (Oregon) letter: Mr. Clapsham raised 25 bushels of wheat to the acre on the summit of the mountain, six miles west of this place. Several thousand bushels were raised on the mountains near here where a few years ago the land was considered of no value. In some quarters, we have heard it said that the sheep were becoming diseased by the long drought, and in some places, they were suffering for water to drink. One gentleman is reported to have said, several days ago, if we did not have an early rain, to benefit his sheep by washing, as well as affording them water to drink, he should lose a great many of them. What effect the rain of yesterday morning will have upon his flocks, we do not know, but hope that they will be greatly benefited. It is the hope of all, we suppose, that the rain so early commenced will be ample, and so continuous as to forward the grasses, and not destroy them.—San Diego News. For a real nice job of Carriage Painting, go to J. H...000CH, painter, with Morrison & Spees, Centre street. His rates are low and his work first-clause.