anaheim-gazette 1877-11-24

WEEKLY GAZETTE SATURDAY...NOVEMBER 24, 1877. MORRISSEY'S ELECTION. The triumph of ex-pugilist John Morrissey over the cohorts of Tammany Hall, at the election on the 7th inst., was a most remarkable and unprecedented event in politics. His opponent, Mr. Schell, was an entirely respectable man; he had the powerful support of John Kelly, the Tammany leader; the Seventh Senatorial District, which he aspired to represent, was the home of Kelly. And yet, notwithstanding all these favorable circumstances, he was ignominiously beaten by an ex-pugilist, ex-gambler, and ex-rogue, rowdy, and bully. The natural inference would be that he was elected by the votes of the fraternity of which he was once a shining light. But such is not the case. Without the Republican vote Morrissey would have been beaten. He received the warm support of such men as ex-Secretary of State Hamilton Fish, Peter Cooper, Rev. Dr. Howard Crosby, Thurlow Weed, and other equally distinguished Republicans. And what at first thought appears equally strange is the fact that they voted for him on his record. Not his record in the P. R., or at the faro table, but as an office-holder. He, the despised gambler, bravely resisted all attempts to corrupt him, even when his more respectable colleagues succumbed to the pressure brought to bear upon them, and lent their support to corrupt measures. Whatever follies and crimes he may have been guilty of in his past life, his career as an office-holder has been a model to pattern after. And it was because of this known incorruptibility that he received the support of the respectable members of both political parties. On the evening of election day John Kelly made a speech in Tammany Hall, in which he said: The responsibility for this act (the election of Mr. Morrissey) falls upon the Republican party. Mr. Morrissey in that district has received about eighteen per cent. of the Democratic vote. Now, gentlemen, I am astonished that you here, as Democrats, would cheer at the election of the man who has been elected by the Republicans over the Democratic party. [Cheers.] That old Trojan, that old Democrat who has served his party so well in this city for forty-five years, has been beaten by John Morrissey. Let the infamy and disgrace rest upon those whom it belongs. Let your Dodges and Phelps THE COAL DISCOVERIES. The development of the coal mine, discovered in the Santiago mountains by Dr. Witte, has established the fact beyond the shadow of a doubt that there exists in that range of mountains coal enough to supply this entire section with fuel, and that at no distant day it will become one of the chief exports from this county. The knowledge of the existence of coal beds in the Santiago range is by no means of recent date. In 1862 a Scotchman by the name of Henderson discovered a ledge of coal in the same range, and a claim was located in the Santa Ana canyon. A company was formed by Meera Henderson, Aiken, Yorba and others for the working of the mine. Judge Dryden, then County Judge of Los Angeles county, became interested in the enterprise, and considerable money was spent in building a road and developing the mine. It was found that the vein of coal ran horizontally into the mountain, and that owing to the amount of dirt and rock which had to be removed, and the extreme difficulty attending the conveyance of the coal to a place of shipment, it could not be put upon the market at rates low enough to compete with the coal sent to San Francisco from Mount Diablo, and after several months' work the mine was abandoned. Mr. Henderson also discovered upon the same side of the mountain a vein of alabaster, and endeavored to form a company to work it. In 1864 quite an excitement was raised regarding discoveries of coal in the Santiago canyon, not far distant from the location of Dr. Witte. Several parties from Los Angeles visited the place, but no well organized company attempted the working of it. Since that time, at various periods, parties hunting and prospecting in that range of mountains have stumbled upon indications of coal. As early as 1866 we heard a prominent lawyer of Los Angeles, then residing in this section, express the opinion that there was a vast bed of coal underlying the Rancho of San Joaquin, and extending from the Santiago mountains to the coast, as at various places in the hills lying close upon the seashore traces of coal were to be found. In 1875 a party of Anaheimers made a coal discovery, and a company was formed, which was afterwards abandoned. A party from Los-Angeles started in about the same time, and relinquished the project for lack of funds. All of these mining operations were commenced in places some distance from the Witte mine, and in all of them traces of good coal were found which go to serve The responsibility for this act (the election of Mr. Morrissey) falls upon the Republican party. Mr. Morrissey in that district has received about eighteen per cent. of the Democratic vote. Now, gentlemen, I am astonished that you here, as Democrats, would cheer at the election of the man who has been elected by the Republicans over the Democratic party. [Cheers.] That old Trojan, that old Democrat who has served his party so well in this city for forty-five years, has been beaten by John Morrissey. Let the infamy and disgrace rest upon those to whom it belongs. Let your Dodges and Phelps and the other gentlemen who reside in the district, who have been continually betraying the Democratic party of this city—let them now consider the act they have done in sending that man to the Legislature to make laws for the honest people of this great State. To my mind it is a disgrace to republican institutions. There is old maxim, Vox Populi, vox Del. Is there any gentlemen within hearing of my voice who can now agree to that sentiment? John Morrissey, the man who keeps the largest gambling house in the State of New York—[Voice, "They all do it."] Gentlemen, you have your families to look after; you have your children to bring up in this community. Now let me ask you as sensible men, is it proper, is it right that a man like John Morrissey should be elected? As a member of the State Senate at the last session he was present when a law was passed making it a penal offence to engage in pool selling. Yet Mr. Morrissey goes to Saratoga, and, in defiance of the law officers, sells pools just as if no law had been enacted. Now, gentlemen, these are things for you to look at. As American citizens you are all equal before the law. Isn't it your duty, under all circumstances, to obey the law? Now, in the face of all this, the men who live on Murray Hill, who support the New York Times, have elected to the Senate of the State of New York such a man as Morrissey. Let the blame fall on them and not on the Democracy. Several weeks since, says the Alta, we published the opinion of H. A. Shipp, Esq., who was manager of a tea plantation in British India, that the tea tree can be grown with profit in California; and Mr. H. B. Storndale now in this city, who cultivated tea in Eastern India, and also in Australia, agrees with him. There is no reason to believe that the tree will not thrive here. There are extensive plantations of it in China as far north as latitude 40, where the thermometer sometimes falls to zero, and the trees have to be tied around with straw every Winter, as are the grape vines in some parts of Germany, to prevent them from bursting with the frost. The plant is delicate when young and then needs to be shaltered from the hot sun as well as frost; but, after it is two or three years old, it is tough, and can defy the weather of the Sierra Nevada to an elevation of 2,000 feet above the sea. The soil in the auriferous districts is similar to that of Assam (which is also a placer mining country), where the tea is indigenous, the trees sometimes reaching a thickness of two feet in the trunk. The leaves are prepared for the market by heating them to the temperature of 160°, kneading and squeezing them till they are freed from a thick and pernicious juice, then driving and keeping for about a year was a vast bed of coal underlying the Rancho of San Joaquin, and extending from the Santiago mountains to the coast, as at various places in the hills lying close upon the seashore traces of coal were to be found. In 1875 a party of Anaheimers made a coal discovery, and a company was formed, which was afterwards abandoned. A party from Los Angeles started in about the same time, and relinquished the project for lack of funds. All of these mining operations were commenced in places some distance from the Witte mine, and in all of them traces of good coal were found, which goes to prove that there must be coal deposits throughout the entire range. It is believed that Dr. Witte has found the most convenient location for the successful working of a mine,and has also found the widest vein which has yet been developed. Some years ago a marble quarry was discovered in the same range. We saw at that time samples of the stone, which appeared to be of good quality. We believe that the land on which the quarry was discovered was found to be part of the Lomas de Santiago Rancho, then the property of Irvine, Flint & Co., and for that reason no attempt was made to develop it. Silver lodes have also within our recollection been discovered in the same range, but not of enough value to secure their profitable working. With a mountain of coal close at our doors, there can be no doubt of the growth and importance of this section, and we are sanguine enough to believe that the discoveries of Dr. Witte will aid incalculable wealth to this portion of our county. We also think that the marble quarry can and will be worked at some future day. Governor Irwin's lugubrious series of lamentations that he embodies circumstantly in what he terms a Thanksgiving proclamation, reminds the Call of "one that was not one" issued by acting-Governor Walsh of Kansas in 1858. Governor Denver had resigned, leaving his official position temporarily in the hands of his Secretary, Walsh. The Free State party, aided by the Anti-Lecompton Democrats, had thoroughly defeated, after an embittered struggle, the Pro-Slavery men, that is the Lecomptonites, at the polls. Acting-Governor Walsh was a full-blooded Mississippiian. He was nothing if not trunculent in the desperate cause of his section of the country in the new Territory. He hated a citizen of Lawrence as correspondingly as he clashed with his patriot breast, with warm arms surrounding, the ultra designs of Lecompton. As the Thanksgiving season of that year approached, he was petitioned by citizens of all parties residing in Leavenworth, Lawrence, Atchison, Topeka, and other somewhat important places, to issue a proclamation in conformity with those issued by Governors of Territories and States generally elsewhere. In response, he let forth something over his own signature as acting Governor, and over the great seal of the Ter- On the 12th inst., Washington issued a notice number of battles of the name o each hatch is preceded by the name Indian wars and the waking on through the war new order erases all of them same spirit as they produced by Sumner battles of the rebellion of regiments. A Plague A Calcutta paper gives count of a plague of fever. When people read Egypt, they are some what sort of flies they were our common and some visitor,the house are a species of musquito could not well have been those little side-walk green flies that are said seasons in India.Of a veritable plague during past week.It has been sit at a table where thieves came to flavor their tea,或to fill up their book if one attempts to on people's spectacles eyes.If people talk they lost they draw in me breath.The streets hastier than the houses,and passing lamp-posts with their faces,and others as selves by the vigorous against which the insect drive in an open carriage,a hail-storm;and in where pleasure is business to a stand.Flies burn lamps of billiard rods shunt balla that are generous carom,或turn line to the pocket.Even had to be closed.At trance hall was literallythe walls green withthe floor carpeted with their trance to the buffett tthe thickness of a heart lights,and in the house great nuisance. The Great Wall The Great Wall of China in many places by Mr. Cunliffe engineer,Lately engraved a Chinese railway.Him height at eighteen feet topof fifteen feet.Imp yards there is a tower square,and from twenty high.The foundation o granite.Mr.Unthank you brick from the wall，we have been built twefore the time of Cunliffe immense stone fence Tartars,the builders may avoid mountains or chasers For 1300 miles the wall mountain,and every foot is solid granite,and its texture is masonry.In so The Legislature will convene at Sacramento on Monday, December 3d, and the members from this county will leave for the capitol in a few days. If those gentlemen fail to legislate intelligently for the interests of this county, we do not well see how blame can attach to them. Their constituents have been too indifferent and careless to instruct them in regard to matters upon which it is desirable that legislation should be had, and the public offer of Judge Holloway to meet and counsel with our citizens upon the irrigation problem was treated with contemplation silence. And so, we say, the blame of blundering legislation, or no legislation at all, can not justly be laid to our representatives. In New York, within the last five years, forty-two brutal husbands have kicked their wives to death. Jerusalem has furnished a battalion of Jewish volunteers to the Sultan's army. They have a field preacher of their own faith, and cook their rations strictly in conformity with their dietary laws. Jewish soldiers are also in the Russian and Romanian armies, but those in the Turkish host doubtless serve with much more zeal and cheerfulness, as their treatment under the Sultan's army has been more humane. A citizen of Lawrence as correspondingly as he clasped to his patriot breast, with warm arms surrounding, the ultra designs of Lecompton. As the Thanksgiving season of that year approached, he was petitioned by citizens of all parties residing in Leavenworth, Lawrence, Atchison, Topeka, and other somewhat important places, to issue a proclamation in conformity with those issued by Governors of Territories and States generally elsewhere. In response, he let forth something over his own signature as acting Governor, and over the great seal of the Territory, to this effect: The South has been deprived of her rights in this Territory; the election has gone in favor of a usurping lot of Abolitionists; the true men of Kansas are bound hand and foot by the scalawags; we do not yet know what Congress is going to do about us; we have no crops worth speaking of; our lands, on account of internal disturbances, remain uncultivated; even if they had been in a state of cultivation, there has been little or no rain; the southern counties are still rebellious; the treasury is bankrupt; and the political prospect before us is dark indeed. "Therefore I," etc., do not recommend a day for Thanksgiving. The Territory, and the country for that matter, roared in convulsions of laughter over the document. It is hoped that some Kansas paper will reproduce it. By concerted arrangement of all parties, the Thanksgiving Day of that year was made the most enjoyable, perhaps, and the merriest of any that Kansas has ever seen; and it was made the merrier, inasmuch as the "proclamation" and its author were in all social gatherings the butts of the wits of those assembled. A report of a sensation at Liverpool Post, "was city Town Clerk on October effect that two Colorado discovered in a barrel of the Germanic. The most dentially, were dead, but the find were instantly Lords of the Privy Council the telegram having, so far yet received, their lordship engaged in anxious delicat disposal of the dead bodies. A French woman will be either witty or chick woman, if he is constant Dutch woman, if he does not comfort too much; or he wreaks vengeance on the displeasure; an Italian woman and poetical; a Danish woman that her native country is happiest on earth; a Russe despiples all Westerners andians; an American woman of money; an English woman affectionate and true.—A The telegraph account of the suicide of the Chicago banker, Coollaugh, states that he "was a warm, personal friend of Stephen A. Douglas, and his act committed at the foot of the Douglass monument was a fitting tribute of respect to the dead stateman. The Sacramento Record thinks that this is really an original way of regarding the matter. Upon what ground is it asserted that the commission of self-murder is capable of being viewed as a "fitting tribute of respect" to the memory of a dead man, whose monument was selected for the perpetration of the suicide? Was Stephen A. Douglas a pagan God, in whose cult human sacrifices find a place? And if not, how can the spilling of his friend's blood at the base of his monument be looked upon as "a fitting tribute of respect" to his memory? We confess that this has perplexed us not a little, and the more so since it seems to open up so larid a vista in the direction of Chicago's religious views. What do those wonderful people believe? Is it possible that they have already worked round to the theory of human sacrifice, and that they regard such an act as Coollaugh's as quite a natural tribute to his friend Stephen A. Douglas? A correspondent of a Los Angeles paper criticises the financial exhibit made of the affairs of the Horticultural Society; and his ire is specially excited at the salaries paid to Mr. Holt and the Secretary, D. M. Berry. We believe the laborer to be worthy of his hire; and assuming that the payment of salaries to the gentlemen mentioned was proper, they do not appear to have received a very excessive sum. There can be no doubt that some mistakes were made in the management of the Fair, as the gentlemen were without experience. Indeed, Mr. Garey, in his remarks at the meeting of fruit-growers held here some weeks ago, directly acknowledged some errors of management, but said that with the experience gained this year the next Fair would be better and more ably conducted. A close criticism is, therefore, in our opinion, in exceedingly bad taste. On the 12th inst. the War Department at Washington issued an order taking off the next number of the Army Register all mention of battles of the rebellion. At present the name o each regiment in the roster is preceded by the names of the battles in which it took part, beginning with the early Indian wars and the war of 1812, and running on through the war of the rebellion. The new order erases all of the latter, and is in the same spirit as the famous resolution in BY TELEGRAPH. Another Bank Failure. SAN FRANCISCO, Nov. 16.—The Collateral Loan and Savings Bank, corner of Kearney and Post streets, has been placed in the hands of a receiver. The manager of the bank, John Tyler, who seems to have been the head and front of the whole concern, has been speculating in stocks, and managed to floss sandry brokers in various amounts, aggregating about $65,000. He also appropriated deposits of the bank amounting to some $24,000, only six or seven hundred dollars in corn being found in the safe. Tyler was arrested to-day and locked up. The other officers of the bank appear to know but little of the affairs, Tyler having had full control. The depositors number about one hundred. A Big Land Suit. NEW YORK, Nov. 16.—Mrs. Eliza Miller, of this city, who claims the John Young estate, consisting of 114,000 acres of land in Virginia, West Virginia and Kentucky, also valuable property in Philadelphia and Alexandria, valued at $30,000, appeared before the Commissioner of Deeds yesterday and signed documents preparatory to bringing suit in the Supreme Court for the recovery of these lands. Some of the property is now occupied by several large coal and iron companies. Whipping a Judge. BROWNVILLE, Tex., Nov. 18.—The trial of Gen. Escobedo for violation of the U.S. neutrality law resulted in his acquittal, because it was not proven that the armed men to the number of 200 or 300 who were in camp with him actually intended to invade Mexico. During the trial Judge Morrel, of the U.S. Court, made some remark from the bench which counsel for defense regarded as reflecting on them, and which they promptly repelled at the time. Ex-judge Russel, one of the counsel for the defense, subsequently addressed a note to Judge Morrel, asking him to disclaim any reflection on him, which Judge Morrel refused to do, wherenupon Russell slapped Morrel's face in the street after the close of the trial. Killed His Wife in Church. PHILADELPHIA, Nov. 19.—During services at the Church of Ascension yesterday morning, Alex B. Sayres walked up the aisle, drew a pistol and shot his wife, who occupied a pew several feet in advance of where Sayres had been sitting. The woman now lies at the hospital in a dying condition. Sayres was arrested. Both parties were regular attendants at the church but had been separated for two years. The husband had already served a term in prison for breaking his wife's arm. A False Alarm. NEW YORK, Nov. 19th.—The reported outbreak of leprosy in the Chinese quarters is officially contradicted. It is believed that San Francisco cigar makers started the report to prevent it. PACIFIC COAST NEWS. The coyotes are becoming so bold that they come right into the edge of town to steal and to howl. Night before last they made noise enough to be handed together by the hundred. One gang entered the premises of a lady on Sherman hill, and helped themselves to her ducks and chickens.—San Diego News. An impression prevails that poor, sandy soil is better adapted for the growth of the orange than a more generous soil. Now, on the lots of Mr. John McCall, on D street, are several of the cleanest, healthiest, straightest and in every feature best orange trees in the county. For their age, there are none in Old San Bernardino superior to them—they are bearing, and the fruit is large, Insecious, and perfectly free from rusty spots. The soil on which they grow is rich, heavy, and somewhat tinged with adobe. Those trees are by odds the finest trees in the town. Mr. McCall attributes their superiority in growth to the fact that he manured each tree liberally once every year. Trees which he did not manure are more dwarfs by the side of those manured. He says the manure not only gives additional nourishment to the tree and vigorous impulse to the growth, but that it retains more moisture after irrigation much longer than the dry soil. He is convinced by experiment that annual manuring would greatly increase the growth and strength then in vigor the health of the orange and lime trees.—S. B. Argua. A correspondent of the Guadalupe Telegraph names a new remedy for fleas—and may Allah bless him for it! It is nothing more than the yerba buena which grows wild in our montes and on the mountains. Wherever it is strewn, he says,the fleas pack their trunks forthwith and leave in huge disgust, cursing the country like a band of tramps. Two hundred thousand limes will be shipped from Riverside this season. Mr. Robert Bradley, a brother-in-law of Mr. Samuel Warnock, fell in a well night before last at Julian, by which his neck was broken.—San Diego News. They have a Girl's Brass Band at Carson City, which lately gave a concert at Theatre Hall, and acquitted itself well. The Tuolumne Independent states that the sheep near Sonora are dying of pneumonia caused by the severe cold and wet weather since late shearing. The Guadalupe Telegraph says a petition is being circulated in that town,and numerously signed,a asking Congress to grantthe Southern Pacific Railroad Companythe rightto construct its road downthe coast insteadof compellingit to build on throughthe storile,mountainous regionsof San Benito,Frasnoand Kern counties.The Telegraph thinksthat asthe companydo not demandanyadditionallandsorsubsidy,andasthe proposedchangeofroutewillgreatlybenefitan immenseareaofvaluableagriculturalterritory,therequestofthepetitionisreasonableandshouldbegranted. On the 12th inst. the War Department at Washington issued an order taking off the next number of the Army Register all mention of battles of the rebellion. At present the name o each regiment in the roster is preceded by the names of the battles in which it took part, beginning with the early Indian wars and the war of 1812, and running on through the war of the rebellion. The new order erases all of the latter, and is in the same spirit as the famous resolution introduced by Sumner, erasing the names of battles of the rebellion from the battle flags of regiments. A Plague of Flies. A Calcutta paper gives the following account of a plague of flies: When people read of the plagues of flies of Egypt, they are sometimes apt to wonder what sort of flies they were—whether they were our common and sometimes very tiresome visitor, the house fly, or whether they are a species of musquito, or what. They could not well have been more tiresome than those little side-walking, biting, jumping green flies that are said to usher in the cold seasons in India. Of these Calcutta has had a veritable plague during the evenings of the past week. It has been scarcely possible to sit at a table where there was a light. These flies came to flavor the soup, to improve the tea, or to fill up the inkstand. They cover a book if one attempts to read, or they settle on people's spectacles, or jump into their eyes. If people talk they have to be careful lest they draw in more than the needful breath. The streets have scarcely been better than the houses, and we have seen people passing lamp-posts with handkerchiefs over their faces, and others trying to protect themselves by the vigorous working of a fan, against which the insects rattle like peas. To drive in an open carriage was like meeting a hail-storm; and in some places business, where pleasure is business, has been brought to a stand. Flies burn their wings in the lamps of the billiard-room, and the dead flies shunt balla that are gently rolling for a delicate carom, or turn them from the direct line to the pocket. Even the skating rink had to be closed. At the Corinthian the entrance hall was literally covered with them, the walls green with their numbers, and the floor carpeted with their bodies. At the entrance to the buffett they lay in heaps to the thickness of a hearth rug under the gaslights, and in the house itself they were a great nuisance. The Great Wall of China. The Great Wall of China was measured in many places by Mr. Unthank, an American engineer, lately engaged in a survey for a Chinese railway. His measurements gave the height at eighteen feet, and a width on top of fifteen feet. Every few hundred yards there is a tower twenty-four feet square, and from twenty to twenty-five feet high. The foundation of the wall is of solid granite. Mr. Unthank brought with him a brick from the wall, which is supposed to have been built two hundred years before the time of Christ. In building this immense stone fence to keep out the Tartars, the builders never attempted to avoid mountains or chasms to save expense. For 1300 miles the wall goes over plain and mountain, and every foot of the foundation is in solid granite, and the rest of the structure is masonry. In some places the wall is built near Sonora are dying of pneumonia caused by the severe cold and wet weather since the late shearing. The Guadulhupe Telegraph says a petition is being circulated in that town, and numerously signed, asking Congress to grant the Southern Pacific Railroad Company the right to construct its road down the coast, instead of compelling it to build on through the sterile, mountainous regions of San Benito, Fresno and Kern counties. The Telegraph thinks that as the company do not demand any additional lands or subsidy, and as proposed change of route will greatly benefit an immense area of valuable agricultural territory, the request of the petition is reasonable and should be granted. Up in Napa a special tax of "six dollars per serenade" has been imposed by the City Council upon midnight warbler, guitar players and flute blowers. The unkindest cut of all is placing them in the same clause with "negro minstrels and circus performers." We have heard there is some talk of the commencement of proceedings by residents Of the Montecito who use the water from the Sulphur Springs Creek, against the proprietors of the Hot Sulphur Springs, to have them enjoined from using the water for bathing purposes, because it contaminates the water. Santa Barbara paper. If we could live on climate alone Santa Barbara would drift into immediate prosperity. But a dry year and hard times are like a stone in the stomach, and all the climate in the world will not help us digest them. Santa Barbara Press. A San Diego dispatch of the 19th instant says: The jury in the case of Royal F Barton second trial for the murder of John Tannahill, after being out 24 hours, returned a verdict of murder in the second degree at 8 o'clock last evening. Can we grow cotton? Yes, sir; we can; and fine cotton, too. We have a very fine specimen of "cotton wool" on our table at this moment, sent us from Tia Juana valley, fourteen miles southeast of town, by Mrs. Charles Mansur. It weighs an eighth of an ounce, and came from two balls. The seed was planted on the 26th of June, and the cotton was picked on the 28th of October. The plant had no irrigation whatever. Charley Mansur thinks good crops of cotton can be made all the time in the Tia Juana, and with this specimen before us we should say, why not? If cotton will grow to such perfection without irrigation in the drytest season we have ever experienced in the county, what will it not do in ordinarily good seasons? San Diego Union. A colored woman got intoxicated at San Francisco a few nights ago, and having a district telegraph box at her house, amused herself by turning in calls for everything the box called for—messenger, hack, express wagon, policeman, fire alarm, doctor, etc., and there was soon a lively scene at her headquarters. Compressed Tea. At a late conference in London provision was made for a critical examination of the merits of compression and other methods of treating tea, with a view of eliciting definitely by comparison, the amount, if any, by which the tea is strengthened by the process, and what are the advantages to be obtained from its general adoption. The "compression" of tea referred to is a process of treating tea which was patented in 1871, and first brought to notice at the South Kensington exhibition in 1873. The operation is very simple, and consists essentially of weighing out tea to quarter pounds, and placing these in mounds in a sheep near Sonora are dying of pneumonia caused by the severe cold and wet weather since the late shearing. The Guadulhupe Telegraph says a petition is being circulated in that town, and numerously signed, asking Congress to grant the Southern Pacific Railroad Company the right to construct its road down the coast; instead of compelling it to build on through the sterile, mountainous regions of San Benito, Fresno and Kern counties. The Telegraph thinks that as the company do not demand any additional lands or subsidy, and as proposed change of route will greatly benefit an immense area of valuable agricultural territory, the request of the petition is reasonable and should be granted. Up in Napa a special tax of "six dollars per serenade" has been imposed by the City Council upon midnight warbler, guitar players and flute blowers. The unkindest cut of all is placing them in the same clause with "negro minstrels and circus performers." We have heard there is some talk of the commencement of proceedings by residents Of the Montecito who use the water from the Sulphur Springs Creek, against the proprietors of the Hot Sulphur Springs, to have them enjoined from using the water for bathing purposes, because it contaminates the water. Santa Barbara paper. If we could live on climate alone Santa Barbara would drift into immediate prosperity. But a dry year and hard times are like a stone in the stomach, and all the climate in the world will not help us digest them. Santa Barbara Press. A San Diego dispatch of the 19th instant says: The jury in the case of Royal F Barton second trial for the murder of John Tannahill, after being out 24 hours, returned a verdict of murder in the second degree at 8 o'clock last evening. Can we grow cotton? Yes, sir; we can; and fine cotton, too. We have a very fine specimen of "cotton wool" on our table at this moment, sent us from Tia Juana valley, fourteen miles southeast of town, by Mrs. Charles Mansur. It weighs an eighth of an ounce, and came from two balls. The seed was planted on the 26th of June, and the cotton was picked on the 28th of October. The plant had no irrigation whatever. Charley Mansur thinks good crops of cotton can be made all time in the Tia Juana, and with this specimen before us we should say, why not? If cotton will grow to such perfection without irrigation in the drytest season we have ever experienced in the county, what will it not do in ordinarily good seasons? San Diego Union. A colored woman got intoxicated at San Francisco a few nights ago, and having a district telegraph box at her house, amused herself by turning in calls for everythingthe box called for—messenger,hack，express wagon，policeman，fire alarm，doctor，etc.,and there was soon a lively scene at her headquarters. Compressed Tea. At a late conference in London provision was made for a critical examination ofthe meritsof compressionandothermethodsfotreattingteawithaviewofelicitingdefinitelybycomparison,theamountifany,bychhythmicalprocess,andwhataretheadvantagestobeobtainfromitsgeneraladoption.The“compression”ofteareferredtoisacostringtreatmentteawhichwaspatentedin1871,andfirstbroughttonoticeattheSouthKensingtonexhibitionin1873. The operationisverysimple,andconsistsessentiallyofweighingoutteaquarterpounds,andplacingtheseinmoundsinrao "A report of a sensational character," says the Liverpool Post, "was made by the Deputy Town Clerk on Oct. 24. It was to the effect that two Colorado beetles had been discovered in a barrel of potatoes on board the Germanic. The monsters, most providentially, were dead, but the particulars of the find were instantly telegraphed to the Lords of the Privy Council. No reply to the telegram having, so far as is known, been yet received, their lordships are presumably engaged in anxious deliberation as to the disposal of the dead bodies." A French woman will love her husband if he is either witty or chivalrous; a German woman, if he is constant and faithful; a Dutch woman, if he does not disturb her case and comfort too much; a Spanish woman, if he wreaks vengeance on those who injure her displeasure; an Italian woman, if he is dreamy and poetical; a Danish woman, if he thinks that her native country is the brightest and happiest on earth; a Russian woman, if he despises all Westerners as miserable barbarians; an American woman, if he has plenty of money; an English woman, if he is manly, affectionate and true.—Anonymous. The President as a point, and unless the present silver bill be amended it will certainly be vetoed. The President will sign a modified bill, but strongly opposes the unlimited issue of silver. The President and Secretary Sherman are authoritatively stated to be in accord on this question. Davis has introduced a bill in the House for the erection of a postoffice building in San Francisco. A Solano county paper in rather a sarcastic tone remarks: In response to the demands of many saxious friends, the Governor certainly ought to offer a reward for information that will lead to the discovery of the California Railroad Commission. It is many months since it was last heard from and the suspicion that its members have been fouled away with strengthens daily. Something must certainly have happened to them: At a late conference in London provision was made for a critical examination of the merits of compression and other methods of treating tea, with a view of eliciting definitely, by comparison, the amount, if any, by which the tea is strengthened by the process, and what are the advantages to be obtained from its general adoption. The "compression" of tea referred to is a process of treating tea which was patented in 1871, and first brought to notice at the South Kensington exhibition in 1873. The operation is very simple, and consists essentially of weighing out tea to quarter pounds, and placing these in moulds in a revolving iron table, a piece of metal exactly fitting the mould being placed on the top. As the table revolves each mould comes under the stroke of a hydraulic ram, which exercises a pressure of about eighty tons on each quarter of a pound, reducing it to one-third of its bulk, and consolidating it in a mass marked by depressions into divisions of exactly half an ounce in weight. As the table revolves, each cake is ejected from its mould, and the process, in which not a particle of moisture is used, is completed. The effect of this enormous pressure is said to be so thorough as to break the cells and smaller vesicles of the tea leaves that thetheine and aromatic oils are set perfectly free, and the mass of tea is more easily affected by boiling water, in which it at once falls to pieces. The practical result is that the liquor produced from the consolidated tea after ordinary infusion is considerably stronger than that produced from loose tea, varying according to the quality of the tea subjected to the process; the higher the grade, the more marked the separation of the fibres and particles of the tea would naturally appear to produce the effect named. It is also asserted that the half ounce of consolidated tea will in five minutes give the same strength of liquor as the same weight of ordinary tea in four or five hours. That the ordinary infusion of tea does not remove all the virtues of the leaves is shown by the fact that if such leaves be dried and submitted again to the process of tea-making a liquor of considerable strength will be produced. Another advantage claimed for the consolidated tea is its much greater convenience of transportation and packing, fitting it especially for use on expeditions by land or sea. Sportmen and travelers have used it to great advantage. It is also stated that the tea thus treated retains its strength a longer time. AMONG RAVENOUS BEASTS. A Reporter's Visit to a New York Manageria. At the extreme left, along the line of the old promenade, in the grayish glaze of Gilmore's Garden at dusk yesterday, stood thirty Shetland ponies. Some whinked their tails in a lazy, deliberate manner, others chewed their hay, but a large majority stood perfectly still, and when this visitor said "Get up," not one of them answered smith. George Artingstall said: "I take care of the elephants. I've just finished washing them. I wash them every Sunday with hot water, soap, and carbolic acid. It softens the hide and cleans it at the same time." "Do they have vermin?" "Not at all. No, nothing but dirt, and that creates them up and hardens them. The carbolic acid softens their hide wonderfully. They like to be washed." The elephants were wrapped in blankets, and looked like small barns with flapping shutters. The keeper fondled a baby elephant and put his thumb in the creature's mouth. He sucked it with evident relish, and when it was withdrawn cried for more. "What do you feed the baby on?" "We bring him up by hand. Here's his bottle. It holds three gallons of milk, and he would take more if we would let him have it. This one, 'Babe' we call him, is fourteen years old. He is very fond of Dick, the camel. Now, you see what he will do when I ask him about Dick. Babe, where's Dick?" As he said this the elephant gave a tremendous grunt, then flapped his enormous ears, and waved his trunk like the arm of a windmill. A fearful growling, a series of sharp yells, and a fierce roar attracted the attention of the keeper, and inviting the reporter to follow; he went over to the cage where the noise was. Mr. Parks, the proprietor, chanced to come in, and in response to the writer's request called an attendant and together they went from cage to cage. There was no one else in the place, from all sides of which rogo barks, growls, and a concert of roars and cries. Mexican hogs were all hog. They thrust their snouts through the bars and begged for food. The sacred cow chewed her end placidly. The great two-humped camel is a comical creature. He lifts his head and chews hay precisely as an intelligent eater who has lost his back teeth mumbles his food. A lioness was fast asleep. Prodded with a poker, she awoke and jumped the length of her cage, then showed her teeth and growled. "Monarch," the lion that broke from his cage in Augusta, Ga., and killed a $600 yak, sat on his haunches, shook his mane, and roared as if he had a contract to furnish thunder for a first-class storm. A long beautiful tiger paced his cage, up and down, up and down, as rustless as possible. "What's the matter with them all?" Of Westminster, Having just opened a large stock of General Merchandise, Cordially invite their friends and enemies to call and examine them. These are no Cheap John Auction Goods But have been CAREFULLY SELECTED, IN PERSON, from first-class Houses, and will be sold For Cash At Prices that will Save Money to all who buy. Having inaugurated an era of Low Prices In this part of the county, we propose to remoir "TO THE FORE" In furnishing GOOD GOODS At the LOWEST POSSIBLE PRICES. Highest Prices Paid for Grain and Produce. GOODMAN AND RIMPAU ARE NOW UNPACKING THEIR NEW STOCK OF GOODS!! A horse's neigh attracted attention, and the reporter passed along the old passage underneath the boxes to the temporary stables. Few men are better housed than these circus horses. Like the ponies, they were tied and roosting. Some slept, but most of them were wide awake and solemn, as befitted the day. From the stables the observer went along by the cages of birds, beavers, and minor animals. Night had thrown its mantle over the scene, and the dustman of childhood's fable had made all eyelids heavy. The elephants were prone on the sawdust, their keeper in his private box. The hyenas snapped and snarled. The camel snored. The hogs were quiet. All the ponies and the zebra were on their sides. The lions groaned in their sleep. The two cubs, one on top of the other, and both protected by their mother's paw, forgot their hunger in their sleep. The tigers walked and walked; they were too wretched to sleep. But any kept their watch almost entirely alone. Every few minutes a growl from one of the cages awoke echoes from the others. At times the entire company joined in, and when that was the case the shrill pipings of the monkeys and the sharp scream of the cockatoo were heard far above the din, while the sober comments of the pelican, hungry and alone, added a humorous element to the combination that was irresistibly funny. The Rev. Dr. John Hall defends the business of politics in the Ledger. He says: "Let us dismiss from our minds the idea that there is anything otherwise than honorable in the choice of a political career. A lawyer, a doctor, a banker, a clergyman, proposes to be a public servant, and to live by the legitimate reward of his service. Why should not a man choose a political career, with the same honorable object?" Dr. Hall also believes in office seeking, so long as it is done by worthy men. "Nor is it," he says, "to be a reproach to a man who has chosen a political career that he seeks to be in office. Why should men have to affect reluctance and to chatter commonplaces about yielding to a sense of duty' in taking office? A good man embarked on a political career is as likely and as free to seek office as a lawyer to seek business, or a minister to seek a congregation." The pianos and organs used in the public schools of Boston, as well as those of many families, are tuned by blind pupils from the Perkins Institute, who are found to be capable of peculiar skill in that occupation. Their lack of sight makes them more dependent on hearing, and this latter sense thereby gains in delicacy. ARE NOW UNPACKING THEIR NEW STOCK OF GOODS!! LADIES! AND GENTLEMEN ARE INVITED TO CALL TO-DAY AND INSPECT OUR SPLENDID ASSORTMENT. A BEAUTIFUL CHROMOGIVEN AWAY TO SUBSCRIBERS TO THE SEMI-WEEKLY AND WEEKLY GAZETTE.