anaheim-gazette 1877-11-17

ANAHEIM VOL. 8. ANAHEIM WEEKLY GAZETTE. Established 1870. SATURDAY ... NOVEMBER 17, 1877. Dr. W. N. HARDIN, Office and Residence, Corner Los Angeles and Sycamore Streets, Anaheim, Cal. J. H. YOCUM, M. D., Physician & Surgeon. Office and Residence corner Centre on Palm Streets, With office hours at Hanken's Drug Store, from 9 to 10 A.M., and 4 to 6 P.M. Anaheim, Cal. Dr. J. N. BURTNETT, Physician & Surgeon, Santa Ana, Cal. Graduate of Jefferson Medical College Dr. H. F. THOMAS, (Pastitioner of Homopathy.) Physician & Surgeon, Graduate of the N.Y.M.S.A. College, March, 1869. Office and residence, 63 Spring Street, Los Angeles. DR. E. L. COWAN, DENTIST, HAS OPENED AN OFFICE IN THE UPPER part of Mrs Metz's building, Los Angeles Street, Anaheim. Having had twenty years' experience, he can speak with confidence of his work. His scale of prices will be very low. His office days are Wednesdays, Thursdays, Fridays, and Saturdays, between the hours of 9 A.M. and 5 P.M. W. M. HIGGINS, Kleinigkeiten. [FROM WEDNESDAY'S SIXI-WEEKLY.] Surveyor Hansen will probably be here during the next week to complete the town survey. We are informed that the stream in Brea Canyon was considerably raised by the rain of Sunday night. At ten minutes past three on Sunday afternoon a sharp earthquake shock was felt in this vicinity. D. E. Miles and C. E. Miles have formed a co-partnership, the firm name being Miles Bross. Governor Irwin has appointed W. W. Allen a Notary Public to reside at Downey City. The Los Angeles and San Bernardino Land Company will pay this year $7,315 taxes. Their real estate is valued at $385,000. Enough rain has fallen to insure grass in the foot-hills. Stock-men feel encouraged by the prospect of a good winter. Mrs. J. C. Littlefield, of Los Angeles, fell on Sunday evening, and shattered her hip joints. It will be a month before she will be able to move around. It was rumored on Monday that there were three cases of diphtheria in town. Our reporter has made diligent inquiry and is satisfied that the rumor is without foundation. A large sack of coal from the Santiago mountains was brought A Los Angeles paper Paul Schumacher, former States Coast Survey, but in the service of the United State Commission to seize aboriginal antiquities and mains throughout North America in the Smithsonian Institution is registered at the St. Catalina Island. The P.O. Box that he and his assistant island for over three months remains of many burials found the scene very rich in view. They succeeded four boxes of arrowhead implements and remains, last week from Wilmington While on the island, he is great difficulty in procuring animals he had with him in town until Friday, when steamer for San Francisco. Items from the Doctor understand Mr. Jotham plating the division and sale of land owned by him, and our town limits, and adjudge Judge Venable. There are thousand acres, and if so divided into forty acre trust lands and Mr. Holcomb left last, with a four-horse canned fruits, destined for win, Inyo county. A pro-undoubtedly be found Judge Venable has nearly his corn. It turns out bested, averaging 70 bushels to a Dr. E. L. COWAN, DENTIST, Has opened an office in the upper part of Mrs. Metz's building, Los Angeles Street, Anaheim. Having had twenty years' experience, he can speak with confidence of his work. His scale of prices will be very low. His office days are Wednesday, Thursday, Friday, and Saturday, between the hours of 9 A.M. and 6 P.M. W. M. HIGGINS, Centre Street, corner of Lemon, Anaheim, Cal. Dealer in Drugs, Medicines & Chemicals, FANCY ARTICLES, SPONGES, BRUSHES, PERFUMERY etc. Physicians Prescriptions carefully compounded, and orders answered with care and dispatch. Farmers and Physicians from the country will find our stock of medicines complete, warranted genuine, and of the best quality. M. L. WICKS, Attorney at Law, Office in new Bank Building, Centro Street, Anaheim. Will practice in all the Courts of Los Angeles and adjoining counties. HORSE W. SCOTT. VECTOR MONTOOMERY. SCOTT & MONTGOMERY, Attorneys at Law. and Real Estate Agents. Anaheim. Los Angeles County, Cal. R. LUEDKE. Watch Maker and Jeweler, Centre Street, Anaheim. Every description of watches, clocks, and jewelry carefully repaired and warranted. Also a fine assortment of Jewelry on hand. L. GUNTHER, Ploneer Boot and Shoe Maker, Cor. Third and Los Angeles streets. ANAHEIM. GEORGE BAUER, BOOT AND SHOE MAKER, Los Angeles Street. MAKING AND REPAIRING AT THE LOWEST cash price. All orders promptly attended to. All work guaranteed. P. C. McKINNIE, Contractor and Builder. Shop—On Centre Street, opposite residence. J. BENNERSCHEIDT, TIN AND COPPER SMITH, Centre Street, Anaheim. Stoves, Tinware, etc., Always on Hand. H. A. STOUGH & CO. Blacksmiths. Horse SHOEING AND REPAIRING. CORNER OF Centre and Clementina Streets, near the Cooper Shop. Though rain has lain so mature grass in the foot-hills. Stock-men feel encouraged by the prospect of a good winter. Mrs. J. C. Littlefield, of Los Angeles, fell on Sunday evening, and shattered her hip joints. It will be a month before she will be able to move around. It was rumored on Monday that there were three cases of diphtheria in town. Our reporter has made diligent inquiry and is satisfied that the rumor is without foundation. A large sack of coal from the new coal mine in the Santiago mountains was brought into town on Tuesday. Its burning qualities will be tested in the grate at the bank. There was no quorum present at the meeting of the Fire Company on Saturday and the business was postponed until the next meeting. Messra. B. Dreyfus & Co. are buying all the grapes which are for sale in this section, for the purpose of manufacturing brandy and wine. The Grand Jury of San Diego county have found two bills for assault to commit murder against Michael Caszidy, alias Skinner, a former resident of Anaheim. Mr. Walter D. Stephenson has entered into a co-partnership with Mr. M. L. Wicks and will practice law in Anaheim. Mr. Wicks we understand will hereafter make his residence in Los Angeles. It has been suggested that when the Board of Supervisors advertise for proposals to build the Santa Ana canyon road, they insert a clause requiring the work to be done by white men. A lively shower of rain tell on Sunday night. The rain guage at Mr. Saxton's recorded a fall of one-quarter of an inch, but near the foot hills appearances indicated that the fall was greater. E. Schubert, assignee of Halberstadt & Co., has two advertisements in this morning's paper. One is a peremptory notice to those indebted to the late firm, and the other enumerates a number of articles which will be disposed of at very low prices. At the annual meeting of the stockholders of the Santa Ana Valley Irrigation Company, held in Orange, the following Board of Trustees were elected: Nathan Fletcher, A. B. Clark, W. C. McClay, E. F. Greenleaf and James Huntington. A gentleman passing along Los Angeles street on Monday found a half dollar near the Gazette office. We have repeatedly cautioned our devil to be more careful about the sweepings, as we have no doubt that large quantities of twenty dollar pieces and half dollars are daily wasted in that manner. Milton Thomas asserts and calls all men and women to witness, that he will in three years from date have the finest assortment of apples in the United States. This is a bold statement and we hope Mr. Thomas plating the division and sharing it on land owned by him, as our town limits, and adjudges Venable. There are thousand acres, and if so divided into forty acre trails and Mr. Holcomb left last, with a four-horse-cannon fruits, destined for win, Inyo county. A pre-undoubtedly be found Judge Venable has nearly his corn. It turns out betched, averaging 70 bushels to have averaged 80 had their field at the proper time. Freight for the follow received at the depot last month, 1 box books; W J A. E Taylor, 1 bill dry good WM Higgins, 2 cases rpg msd; EC Fargerson & J Backs, 8 pkg msd; pkgs msd; Cahen & Will D W Fish, 1 bill leather; pkgs msd; J McCoy, 2 b 2 pkgs msd; W B Hull, & Co., 27 pkgs msd; W B 11 pkgs msd; L F Serra A large water spout you on Sunday night. With water, which came force carrying everything most of the water was for is known as the Coyoteberg, in attempting to erase wagon on Monday morning drowning; and the party of Mr. F. Backs, Mrs. H child of J. Backs, were saved from a watery grazing many places was very deep swift. The Anaheim Water general meeting last Saturday received a notice from Company stating that, owing to the President and Vice Company, no conference meeting will be held by both Companies at Kroeger day at 10 A.M. A gee be held at the same place interested are invited to attend. On last Friday evening received a telegram stating that his mother woke on Saturday morning he Cisco. A short time after the cars a second dispatched nouncing that Mrs. Plane the night. We examined yes manufactured by Mr. T. the Anaheim Fire Depot pear to be light and durable fitted for the purpose for tended. The extension and ingenious contrivance Contractor and Builder. Shop—On Centre Street, opposite residence. J. BENNERSCHEIDT, TIN AND COPPER SMITH, Centre Street, Anaheim. Stoves, Tinware, etc., Always on Hand. H. J. STOUGH & CO. Blacksmiths. HORE SHOEING AND REPAIRING. CORNER of Centre and Clementina Streets, near the Cooper Shop. CHARLES WILLE, COOPERAGE. Flipas, Barrels and keys on hand at all times. Tanks and Tubes made to order. Money Barrels for sale cheap. Anaheim Cooper Shop, Centre Street, Anaheim. J. WESTPHAL, - Proprietor GADDY & LEWIS, Proprietors of the Planters' Stable, have opened a Branch Feed Stable, On Centre Street, near the Depot. First-class accommodations for stock. ISAAC COHEN, (Sincerely to Heinmann & George). KEEP CONSTANTLY ON HAND THE LARGEST, best and cheapest stock of dry goods, fancy goods, gourds and boots, clothing, shoes and boots, hats, trunks and winters. Also groceries, provisions, crockery and hardware. Give me a trial. ISAAC COHEN. FOR THE BEST Wines and Brandies GO TO THEO. REISER, Cor. Santa Ana and Olive Stz. Anaheim. In the habeas corpus case, in the District Court yesterday, wherein Katherine Backs applied for the body and custody of an infant child some eighteen months old, the issue of herself and husband, now living apart from each other, the custody of the child was awarded to the mother, the court stating in substance that under such circumstances (where the child is of such a tender age) the child will always be awarded to the mother by the court, unless it should be clearly proven that the mother is physically incapable of giving such child the necessary care and sustenance or morally depraved to such an extent as to render possession of it dangerous thereto. Older children may be awarded to the father, under circumstances which would dictate that infants be given to the mother. Law, common sense and the instincts of humanity all indicate that the mother should have control of her child during its infancy, except under the circumstances above stated. Hereditary. A gentleman passing along Los Angeles street on Monday found a half dollar near the Gazette office. We have repeatedly cautioned our devil to be more careful about the sweepings, as we have no doubt that large quantities of twenty dollar pieces and half dollars are daily wasted in that manner. Milton Thomas asserts and calls all men and women to witness, that he will in three years from date have the finest assortment of apples in the United States. This is a bold statement and we hope Mr. Thomas will prove it. It is a silly idea that fine apples cannot be raised in Los Angeles county. Some varieties are finer here than in any other country.—Republican The first schooner on the new line between San Francisco and Wilmington will sail from the former place next week. A full cargo has been shipped by our merchants, the correspondents of houses here having been buying goods especially to ship by this vessel. Meyberg Bros., who make their shipment of Christmas goods by this schooner, say that the charges upon a crate of crockery were formerly $7 or 8, but that lately they have been paying as high as $22 per crate to the railroad. By the schooner it will be much lower than even the old competitive rates. The goods on their arrival at Wilmington will be brought to this city by mule team at $2 50 per ton.—Express. In the habeas corpus case, in the District Court yesterday, wherein Katherine Backs applied for the body and custody of an infant child some eighteen months old, the issue of herself and husband, now living apart from each other, the custody of the child was awarded to the mother, the court stating in substance that under such circumstances (where the child is of such a tender age) the child will always be awarded to the mother by the court, unless it should be clearly proven that the mother is physically incapable of giving such child the necessary care and sustenance or morally depraved to such an extent as to render possession of it dangerous thereto. Older children may be awarded to the father, under circumstances which would dictate that infants be given to the mother. Law, common sense and the instincts of humanity all indicate that the mother should have control of her child during its infancy, except under the circumstances above stated. Hereditary. About this time the Belfleth around uneasily onethick time tables of treeth He museth with himselfthe vaults of the condenumbered with coin-day-school class a tearfuleth believe to the publicpoint of death. Moreover trusty honchman totheand Montgomery to affixtothe door of his whilThen he wendeth his meaOakland Ferry,the whillliaving him to be at hisled by learned leeches,mourn his exit,and thenpointed to dole out a pitAnd, behold:after manythe pious Bank Presidentto all man,and the spendhis substance has notbeSavings Depository,bothguardshipofthe fiscidothe economical mooreand truly the prodigalfhehis is not one of them.— A Los Angeles paper says that Prof. Paul Schumacher, formerly of the United States Coast Survey, but for some years past in the service of the United States Government, commissioned to search for and obtain aboriginal antiquities and archaeological remains throughout North America, for deposit in the Smithsonian Institute at Washington, is registered at the St. Charles, from Santa Catalina Island. The Professor informs us that he and his assistants remained on the island for over three months. They exhumed the remains of many burying-grounds, and found the scene very rich in scientific point of view. They succeeded in getting twenty-four boxes of arrowheads, bowls and other implements and remains, which they shipped last week from Wilmington to San Francisco. While on the island, he informs us, he found great difficulty in procuring feed for the pack animals he had with him. He will remain in town until Friday, when he will take the steamer for San Francisco. Items from the Downey Courier: We understand Mr. Jotham Bixby is contemplating the division and sale of a large tract of land owned by him, a short distance from our town limits, and adjoining the farm of Judge Venable. There are some four or five thousand acres, and if sold will probably be divided into forty acre tracts... Judge Allen and Mr. Holcomb left here on Monday last, with a four-horse team loaded with canned fruits, destined for the mines of Darwin, Inyo county. A profitable market will undoubtedly be found in that locality. Judge Venable has nearly finished husking his corn. It turns out better than he expected, averaging 70 bushels to the acre, and would PACIFIC COAST NEWS. At San Bernardino there is on exhibition a most singular freak of nature in the shape of an apple, bearing in every outline from rounded head and perfect bill to drooping tail, an exact resemblance to a chicken, newly hatched. It is a perfect apple chicken. The Mendocino County Beacon says the shinglemakers complain of dull times. In San Francisco shingles sell at $1.50 per M., and it costs $1.80 to get them there. No wonder that shinglemakers feel dubious. So far but one installment of brandy has been entered in the bounded warehouse at Santa Rosa. A defect in the law creates a barrier against entries in a great measure. No provision exists for any person but the distiller to enter brandy, and after it is entered the distiller cannot transfer it do any other persona, to be withdrawn by them. F. W. Bemis raised this year on eight acres of land near the coast 322 sacks of good merchantable potatoes, averaging 138 pounds to the sack, and 133 sacks of small potatoes. So says the Petalina Courier. County division is now being agitated in Santa Barbara county. The Alden drying-house at San Andreas has closed for the season, after drying 100 tons of fruit (weight before drying), and the entire product has been sent to England. The total amount of money tobe paid by San Francisco during the current year as taxes is $4,601,061 42. A letter to the Marysville Appeal says: The wool merchants at Colusa are offering fourteen cents now for fine wool, but the producers show no disposition to sell at that figure, and are consequently holding for better prices. Harry Truitt saw a large black bear near Skagga Springs last week. He says that all kinds of large game are unusually abundant this year. In one day he counted twenty-six deer while riding over his ranch, and another party counted seventeen in half a day. Concerning the Mormons. The history of the Mormonocracy forms one of the most curious passages in the annals of our country. This organization, which has distinguished honor of possessing the only religion distinctly and exclusively American, has also afforded the only apparent example of the revival of medieval presentations for opinion's sake, which has stained the tenthchelon of the United States, if we accept the instances recorded to the eternal disgrace of New England. From the time of Smith's first announcement of his claims to devine, inspiration down to the present date the weapons of radicle, calmy, and invective have alternated with the dagger, the revolver, the halter and the torch, in the attempt to heat down to the earth the religion of the Latter Day Saints. The tales of the Bashi Razouka and the Comacks' atrocities in unhappy Turkey are well-nigh paralleled by the narrative of the outrages and indignities which were heaped upon the little land of suffering religious enthusiasts whose only crime was believing in the highly moral, though very stupid and ungrammatical Book of Mormon. The reasons for the extraordinary enmity which Smith's followers excited wherever they went are well worth investigation, innamuch as it is, as just observed, phenomenal in our history, and has often been ascribed to causes not at all concerned in its production. Among the comparatively few persons who are aware that the Mountain Meadow massacre was but a retaliation for at least a dozen similar outrages which the pions Christians of the West had inflicted upon the Mormons, it has been the general supposition that the hostility which the latter encountered was due to the polygamous element in their creed. Nothing could possibly be further from the truth than this idea. Consider for a moment the intrinsic improbability of it. The fact that any man or set of men may be engaged in living in a manner repugnant to the ideas of sexual morality prevailing in the community has by no means proved to be necessarily provocative of active persecution. The plating the division and sale of a large tract of land owned by him, a short distance from our town limits, and adjoining the farm of Judge Venable. There are some four or five thousand acres, and if sold will probably be divided into forty acre tracts... Judge Allen and Mr. Holcomb left here on Monday last, with a four-horse team loaded with canned fruits, destined for the mines of Darwin, Inyo county. A profitable market will undoubtedly be found in that locality... Judge Venable has nearly finished husking his corn. It turns out better than he expected, averaging 70 bushels to the acre, and would have averaged 80 had the Judge irrigated his field at the proper time. —Freight for the following persons was received at the depot last night: W D Stevenson, 1 box books; W J A Fisher, 1 organ; W E Taylor, 1 bldy dry goods, 15 pkgs mds W M Higgins, 2 cases mds; 7 Cohen, 41 pkgs mds; EC Fargerson, 1 bill type case, F & J Backs, 8 pkgs mds; Crowder & Co, 3 pkgs mds; Cahen & Willard, 2 pkgs mds; D W Fish, 1 bill leather; J S Hayward, 5 pkgs mds; J McCoy, 2 bxs mds; L A Carey, 2 pkgs mds; W B Hull, 20 pkgs mds; S W & Co, 27 pkgs mds; W B Pierce, 20 sks flour 11 pkgs mds; L F Serran, 9 bxs apples. —A large water spout burst in Brea Canyon on Sunday night. The stream was filled with water, which came down with terrific force, carrying everything before it. The most of the water was forced out upon what is known as the Coyote flat. Mr. Wartenberg, in attempting to cross the flat with a wagon on Monday morning, narrowly escaped drowning; and the party with him, consisting of Mr. F. Backs, Mrs. Rehm and the infant child of J. Backs, were with great difficulty saved from a watery grave. The water in many places was very deep and the current swift. —The Anaheim Water Company held their general meeting last Saturday. They received a notice from the Cajon Irrigation Company stating that, owing to the absence of the President and Vice-President of that Company, no conference could be held. A meeting will be held by the Committees of both Companies at Kroeger’s Hall next Saturday at 10 A.M. A general meeting will be held at the same place at 3 P.M. All interested are invited to attend. —On last Friday evening Mr. G. D. Plato received a telegram from San Francisco stating that his mother was seriously ill, and on Saturday morning he left for San Francisco. A short time after the departure of the cars a second dispatch was received announcing that Mrs. Plato died during the night. —We examined yesterday the ladders manufactured by Mr. T. S. Grimshaw for the Anaheim Fire Department. They appear to be light and durable and admirably fitted for the purpose for which they are intended. The extension ladders are of simple and ingenious contrivance. The total amount of money tobe paid by San Francisco during the current year as taxes is $4,601,061 42. A letter to the Marysville Appeal says: The wool merchants at Colusa are offering fourteen cents now for fine wool, but the producers show no disposition to sell at that figure, and are consequently holding for better prices. Harry Truitt saw a large black bear near Skaggs’ Springs last week. He says that all kinds of large game are unusually abundant this year. In one day he counted twenty-six deer while riding over his ranch, and another party counted seventeen in half a day—Healdsburg Flay. After a lapse of many years of voting and tax-paying in San Bernardino county, by property holders and citizens of Resting Springs it has suddenly been discovered that these mines belong in Inyo county, and are not in San Bernardino at all.—S. B. Argus. The suspicion that Duncan and Lewarne had escaped on board the schooner Ariel, which sailed the Sunday before the failure of the Pioneer Bank was announced, proves to have been wrong. The American Consul at Acapulco was informed that it was thought Duncan was on board the Ariel, and he took pains to intercept that schooner on its arrival off that port; but neither Duncan nor Lewarne was found, and the Consul at once informed the Chief of Police of San Francisco. It is said that between here and Los Angeles the Southern Pacific railroad company has a permanent employee for every mile of track. Section-men, repair-man and track-walkers are constantly on the road. One man walks from Colorado Station to Pilot Knob (eight miles) and back every day. He carries a few tools with him and fixes any trifles he may find out of order. If he discovers anything requiring much work, he puts a signal up near it, and it is attended to by repairmen constantly going over the track in hand-cars. —Yuma Sentinel. This year seems to be a very favorable one for raising alfalfa crops. Biglow Brothers, of Sherman Island, have cut four crops from their fields this season, with a total average yield of about six tons to the acre. They have already cleared $55 per acre, and expect, if the rain holds off, to cut another crop yet this fall. This makes a neat little interest on their investment. There are at present nearly 400 tons of alfalfa hay stored in the warehouse at Emmaton, Sherman Island.—Solana Republican. Eat Bread and Milk With Lime Water. Milk and lime water are now frequently prescribed by physicians in case of dyspepsia and weakness of the stomach, and in some cases, to our knowledge, the diet has proved very beneficial. Many persons who think bread and milk a great luxury, frequently hesitate to eat it, for the reason that milk will not digest readily. Sourness of the stomach will often follow. But the experience of many will testify that lime water and milk is not only food and medicine at an early period of life, but also at a later when in the case of infants, the functions of digestion and assimilation have been seriously impaired. A stomach taxed by gluttony, irritated by improper food, inflamed by alcohol, enfeebled by disease, or otherwise unfit for its duties, as is shown by the various symptoms attendant upon indigestion, dyspepsia, diarrhea, dysentery and fever, will resume its work and do it energetically on an exclusive diet of bread and milk and lime water. A goblet of milk, to which two tablespoonfuls of lime water have been added, will agree with almost any person, will be amenable to the stomach other food is Among the comparatively few persons who are aware that the Mountain Meadow massacre was but a retaliation for at least a dozen similar ontragents which the pious Christians of the West had inflicted upon the Mormons, it has been the general supposition that the hostility which the latter encountered was due to the polygamous element in their creed. Nothing could possibly be further from the truth than this idea. Consider for a moment the intrinsic improbability of it. The fact that any man or set of men may be engaged in living in a manner repugnant to the ideas of sexual morality prevailing in the community has by no means proved to be necessarily provocative of active persecution. The case of the Oneila Free Lovers, who are settled in the midst of the populous State of New York, and who live in perfect peace and harmony with their neighbors, is simply sufficient to show that doctrines diametrically opposed to those commonly received among us in this important matter may not only be boldly avowed, but openly lived up to without arsoning any appreciable amount of indignation in the bosoms of ordinary Christians—certainly without inducing them to vindicate the honor of the Gospel of Love by butchering men and women, and burning babies alive, as the Western settlers did in the case of the Mormons. And anyone who is least familiar with the state of society in the West at the time of the Mormon exodus (it is appreciably improved now) will smile at the idea of people being disturbed at immorality. But the supposition that polygamy brought all their misery on the fortunate “Saints” is not only unlikely in itself, but it is also directly contradicted by the facts. The “regulation” on subject of polygamy is claimed to have been made to Joseph Smith at Nauvoo July 3, 1843, but was not published until 1852, at a conference in Salt Lake City. All the outrages which the Mormons suffered including the crowning infamy of Smith’s assassination, which form so dark a page in Western history, were perpetrated while the Church avowed such doctrines as the following: From the Book of Mormon, p. 118: “There shall not any man among you have save it were one wife, and concubines he shall have none.” From a “Revelation” to Smith, in 1831. See Book of Covenants, p. 124: “Thou shalt love thy wife with all thy heart; and shall cleave unto her and none else.” From a Revelation given to S. Rigdon, P. P. Pratt and Lemon Copley, one month later—“Book of Covenants”, p. 218: “Marriage is ordained of God unto man; wherefore it is lawful that he should have one wife, and they twain shall be one flesh.” From the Book of Covenants, Section 58, Part 5: “Let no man break the law of the land; for he that keepeth the laws of God hath no need to break the laws of the land; wherefore he subject to the powers that be.” We repeat that this was the professed faith of the Mormons during all that dark period that they were hunted from one hiding place to another; and shot down like wild beasts, men, women, and babies; wherever they might be found. There is no doubt that the prophet, Smith,and many of his followers were addicted to practical morality—but in this they were neither better nor worse than the majority of those that persecuted them, and certainly they were not butchered for any such cause. It is clear that we must leave out polygamy in our search into the secret of the Mormons’ sufferings. It has been thought that a portion of the hatred they aroused might be traced to Smith’s connection with a “wild-cat” banking enterprise in which he unquestionably refuses full support. In all cases under sessionment or mineral having refused full support. The one who wrote Russia tothe Central East Bythe reception was rare people,the republic night,cunning amazed. Strik! We examined yesterday the ladders manufactured by Mr. T. S. Grimshaw for the Anaheim Fire Department. They appear to be light and durable and admirably fitted for the purpose for which they are intended. The extension ladders are of simple and ingenious contrivance. The Southern Pacific managers have officially notified the Los Angeles merchants who desire to put on a line of schooners between Wilmington and San Francisco; that they will take all legal steps to make the enterprise unprofitable. This they propose to do by making extortionate charges for lighterage and wharfage at Wilmington. A very pleasant party met at the residence of Mr. and Mrs. Yarndley on Monday evening for the purpose of organizing a dramatic, literary and musical society. We understand that it is their intention to give a public exhibition at some future day. Four car loads of iron came down last night for the branch road to Santa Ana. About this time the Bank President shuffled around uneasily on his seat, and searched the time tables of travel by sea and land. He museth with himself, and descendeth into the vaults of the company, coming forth encumbered with coin. He hiddeth his Sunday-school class a tearful farewell, and made believe to the public that he lieth at the point of death. Moreover, he sendeth his trusty honeyman to the corner of California and Montgomery to affix certain printed slips to the door of his whitlow treasure house. Then he wendeth his melancholy way to the Oakland Ferry, while the multitude believing him to be at his mansion, surrounded by learned leaches. Tearfully the people mourn his exit, and the gay receiver is appointed to do out a pittance to depositors. And, behold! after many days, the doings of the pious Bank President are made manifest to all men, and the spendthrift rejoiced that his substance has not been entrusted to the Savings Depository, but rather to the genial guardianship of the festive barkspar. Thus do the economical means their wiring ways, and truly the prodigal feeble jubilant that he is not one of them.—S. F. Wasp. GAZETTE. 17, 1877. NO. 5 Mormons. A Vineyard in Virginia. [Correspondence Baltimore Telegram.] Leaving the steamer at Conrad's wharf, Middleex county, our party, of which Mr. Howard B. Ensign was chief in the capacity of host, boarded a country wagon and proceeded across the country to visit Mr. E. P. Bailey's Rappahannock Vineyard, of which we heard much. After leaving the river the country was a wilderness—a perfect blind tangle of woods and undergrowth—with an occasional tortuous and narrow road to indicate that the footsteps of civilization sometimes pressed the soil. We found this vineyard all it had been represented. Mr. Bailey has twenty-five acres set in grapes, chiefly of the Concord Ives' Seedling and Delaware varieties. The vineyard is situated on the Rappahannock river, about six miles from its mouth, and gently slopes toward the water. The vineyard was planted in 1871-72 and produces from fifteen to twenty tons of grapes annually. The grapes are picked, culled, packed in baskets and cases, the former holding twenty-five pounds, and the latter 80 pounds; and shipped to Baltimore, where they are sold at wholesale prices ranging from four to six cents per pound. The proprietor also makes about a dozen barrels of wine annually, which he considers fine. He claims to find a market for his wine in New York, realizing therefor one to two dollars per gallon, according to the age of the article. Mr. Bailey is from Central New York, and told me he considered the Northern slope of the Rappahannock equal to the best grape growing regions of New York or California. His vineyard is certainly a very thrifty and valuable monument to industry and intelligent cultivation of the soil. L. W. Pease, also from New York, has a vineyard of ten acres close by the one above mentioned, and there are several other smaller vineyards in the country aggregating probably twelve acres more. Grape culture is yet in its infancy in this region, but I can see no reason why it should not become a leading feature in the products of the country. NEWS IN BRIEF. A Madrid paper states that a titled lady of that city is collecting photographs of the prettiest women she can find, to be sent to the Paris Exposition as specimens of Spanish beauty. At Wurzen, near Leipzig, 128 persons were lately made ill by taking diseased meat, which was traced to a farmer named Mueller. This inquiry has cost Mr. Mueller the sum $4,500 in the shape of a fine. Two butchers, his accomplices, have had to pay $1,500. Berlin had a stock exchange hoax lately in the form of a telegram from the seat of war: "Crawwitch taken prisoner near Niels." It was true too. Moses Aaron Charewich, a Jewish army purveyor, had, with his provisions, been snapped up by Basil-Banowka. Prizes rapidly rose on receipt of the telegram. The religious sentiment in San Antonio, Texas, is overwhelmingly orthodox. An infidel delivered a lecture there against Christianity. On the following night he was whipped by a mob, and warned that if he ever again attempted to teach infidelity in that community he would be hanged. The making up of old prescriptions has just been legally interdicted to druggists in Germany in all cases in which the prescription contains any powerful drastic or mercotic component, unless the practitioner sanctions its reproduction by a written order. Lloyd's Weekly News, a Sunday paper of wide circulation, and other English papers are now printed on paper made from Slips tenacissima, a tall reedy grass from Algeria. The blakes, which are between two and three feet high, are exceedingly tenacious in texture. It requires no cultivation, and as soon as one crop is cut another begins to grow. A few years ago this grass was considered a nuisance; now it is a mine of wealth. Enormous quantities are exported. Whatever may be the drawbacks of the cell-skin style of feminine dress, it certainly does not involve the frequent loss of life that attended the fashion of crinoline, which sent too many ladies to a dreadful death. In its production, few persons who maintain Meadow massa for at least a dozen pious Christians upon the Mormona, supposition that the war encountered wasiment in their creed. The further from the consideration for a moment of it. The fact men may be engaged to the idea in the communion to be necessarias persecution. The Lovers, who are sette the populous State of in perfect peace and nobors, is simply suffruticos diametrically received among them may not only be fully lived up to withable amount of income of ordinary Christian inducing them to the Gospel of Love by women, and burning bern settlers did in. And anyone who the state of society of the Mormon exorcised (immed now) will people being disturbthe supposition that their misery on the not only unlikely in truly contradicted by on" on the subject of have been made to July 3, 1843, but 1852, at a conference the outrages which including the crown-assassination, which Western history, were unharmed such ing: mormon, p. 118; man among you have, and concubines he to Smith, in 1831. p. 124; wife with all thy unto her and none to S. Rigdon, P.ley, one month later p. 218; of God unto man; that he should have wain shall be one tenants, Section 58, law of the land; laws of God hath laws of the land; the powers that be." He was the professed during all that dark hunted from one hid- shot down like him, and babies, where-found. There is no Smith, and many of tested to practical impley were neither but majority of those that certainly they were cause. It is clear that polygamy in our the Mormons' suffought might be traced with a "wild-cat" which he unquestioned in its reproduction by a written order. Lloyd's Weekly News, a Sunday paper of wide circulation, and other English papers are now printed on paper made from stipes tenacissima, a tall, reedy grass from Algeria. The blanks, which are between two and three feet high, are exceedingly tapacious in texture. It requires no cultivation, and as soon as one crop is cut another begins to grow. A few years ago this grass was considered a nuisance; now it is a mine of wealth. Enormous quantities are exported. Whatever may be the drawbacks of the cel-skin style of feminine dress, it certainly does not involve the frequent loss of life that attended the fashion of crinoline, which sent too many ladies to a dreadful death from fire. Although on a few occasions—notably once at Kenilworth Castle, where a lady clambering among the ruins, missed her footing, and would, but for her dress catching in the ivy, have infallibly been dashed to pieces—crinoline has, on the other hand, saved life. Messrs. Moet & Shandon of Epernay reckon that during June a daily average of 100,000 bottles are washed, dried, filled with champagne, corked, wired, lowered into their cellars and carefully arranged in order. This makes 3,000,000 in a month. New bottles must always be used, because of the gas engendered during fermentation, which permanently weakens a bottle. Only the best glass can be used. The broken glass is a perquisite of the workmen, strange to say, and its sale last year brought $4,000. For England and Russia, champagne is usually put in gold foil, pink paper, and wooden cases holding a dozen or two, while the other European nations prefer waxed necks, repudiate pretty paper, and insist on wickar baskets holding fifty bottles. A correspondent writes from Japan: "Bear in mind, Asiatics live as no other race can, and upon food which would not sustain a European house dog. Frugal as badgers, industrious as bees, they undersell every labor market which they enter, and outnumber civilized artisan at his own trade. Any one who sees a Japanese carpenter at work, with his toes for a vise, and his thighs and stomach for a benen, has seen tools well used, and goods equal to European turned out. They will, in fact, become formidable rivals of all kinds of Western manufactures. The Japanese are always ready to learn, and to outvie everything that the West does, and this they do with less food, less air, less clothing, and less comfort than any civilized workman." Every Russian soldier actually present at the seat of war will according to the terms of a decree just issued by the Emperor, be capable of promotion to an officer's rank for distinguished military service. Further advancement will be dependent on their successfully passing the usual examinations. A new safety cannot that shoots an anchor from ships in distress, has lately been tried at Bremerhaven. From a cannon with a diameter of five inches an anchor weighing seventeen pounds was shot, attached to a double rope 2,400 feet in length, and weighing thirty-two pounds, to a distance of 260 yards, by which a stronger rope was pulled on to the ship, with which the ship and men could be drawn ashore. A singular rumor has gained currency in Limerick, Ireland, to the effect that the late Viscount FitzGibbon, a gallant cavalry officer who was supposed to have fallen in the celebrated charge of the Six Hundred at Balaklava, did not meet that fate, but is at this moment on his way home to claim his estates. It is stated that when last seen he was leaning apparently wounded on his horse; that he was taken prisoner by the Russians, and shortly after, for some insult alleged to have given to a Russian offi- Striking Miners Take Possession. Deadwood, D. T., Nov. 10.—On Thursday the miners employed at the Keats mine under contractor Corlee, took forcible possession of the mine on account of non-payment of their wages by the contractor. The miners are still in possession of the mine, having resisted the sheriff successfully and refused a compromise of any kind, except the full and complete settlement of their claims. They are securely fortified and well armed, and provisioned to stand a month's siege. The citizens of Central City, near which the mine is located, are in sympathy with the miners. It is feared blood will be shed before a settlement will be obtained. At 6 o'clock this evening the miners issued a printed circular invoking public sympathy in their behalf, and explaining their position, which is briefly that the contractor, who owes them $2,500 for labor, will not pay them and they hold the mine for the same. Considerable excitement exists over the situation which is the main topic of conversation throughout the gulch. The anti-Chinese crusade, as now carried on, is condensed folly reinforced by treachery, deceit, and cowardly ruffianism, says the Commercial Herald. It is the right and proper province of every man to make use of all lawful means within his power to better his condition, and whether those means consist of Chinese machinery, or any other like source of aid, he would be unwise to discard it for no better reason than it excites the jealousy and temper of other people. The man who would cut a piece of useful machinery to pieces at therequest or demand of his neighbor, because it is able to perform the work of three men, should be consigned to the lunatic avilum. The hypocrisy attending this anti-Chinese raid is really worthy of note. Popular French laundries employ Mongolians to do the washing; members of the anti-Coolie organizations utilize them as servants; people who are the most violent and frequent in their anathemas keep them stealthily at work; places on which placards are stuck saying: "No Chinese employed here." furtively keep them occupied. In short, it is an unbroken chain of mendacity and shallow hypocrisy all round, and is the agent for committing many a piece of rascality. A singular rumor has gained currency in Limerick, Ireland, to the effect that the late Viscount FitzGibbon, a gallant cavalry officer who was supposed to have fallen in the celebrated charge of the Six Hundred at Balaklava, did not meet that fate, but is at this moment on his way home to claim his estates. It is stated that when last seen he was leaning apparently wounded, on his horse; that he was taken prisoner by the Russians, and shortly after, for some insult alleged to have been given to a Russian officer, was transported to Siberia, where his term of exile having expired, he is returning to Ireland. A statue of him adorns the Wellesley bridge. Sarah A. Summers is under arrest in Des Moines. She was fast accumulating a fortune when her business was interrupted by the police. She sent to all parts of the country circulars advertising a substance composed of white sugar alone, but of which she said: "It possesses such powerful and magnetic influences that, when handled by either sex and given to the other, they immediately become attracted, and in a short time love the giver, no matter who they have loved before. Any lady or gentleman can gain the love, and wed the one they love, by using this powder. It is easily given in wine or liquors of any kind, or tea, coffee, or any drink that can be sweetened, as it tastes and looks like sugar, and can be given without fear of detection, or can be given by another person after following the directions. The love you gain will be true, pure, and permanent." In Mrs. Summers' rooms were found a vast number of letters, chiefly from girls in semiaries, showing that she had sold a great quantity of white sugar at the rate of about a dollar per half ounce. Some of the purchasers had written to say that they had administered the powders, but without effect. The Boston Theatre is reform Association is to begin its work by issuing circulars warning people against such plays as are immoral. A leader in the movement considerately says, "We shall not dictate to the managers." Ireland and Scotland are only separated at one point by 22 miles of water, and 125 years ago it was proposed to divert the water from the narrow part of the Irish channel near Portpatrick, and join the countries together when it was contended every objection against a union would cease. The proposal was of opinion that "it might be completed in one summer by a few regiments of soldiers." Cork is coming into use in Germany as a filling for winter bad coverlets in the place of feathers. It is said to be not only lighter and chaperer, but decidedly warmer.