anaheim-gazette 1878-01-05

WEEKLY GAZETTE. SATURDAY... JANUARY 5, 1878. The French think that Grant was no end of a patriot and hero, because when his Presidential term expired he stepped down and out. Such renunciation is too high for them; they cannot understand it. As a cold year in California means a wet year, readers will be glad to know that Professor Poizzie Smith, by observation of the waves of temperature for the past forty years, predicts that the present winter will be more than usually cold, to be followed by a remarkably warm period, beginning about the middle of 1879. It will be recollected that about a year ago a widow named Oliver brought suit against Hon. Simon Cameron for breach of marriage promise. Nothing has been publicly known concerning this suit until a few days ago. It now appears by a statement in a Washington paper that it was abandoned in January or February last, the widow having waived further proceedings in consideration of the sum of $1000. An Oakland lady, Mrs. Van Winkle, very kindly remembered the prisoners in the Alameda county jail with turkey, etc., at Christmas. The prisoners sent a most characteristic reply, in which they state that they are "battling with the vicissitudes of life in California," that they look for "more favorable circumstances," and "by their deeds shall ye know them." Pretty good for prisoners and the vicissitudes. When the crop, now being sown, reaches maturity, there will be very little grain in the country, and consequently the new crop will command high figures. The knowledge of this fact acts as an incentive to our farmers, and it is estimated that the acerage sown this year will be double that of last year. At least, this can be said of this section of Los Angeles county, and we presume it is the same elsewhere. A London Riot. New York, Dec. 30.—A London telegram to the Herald says: A great anti-Russian meeting, composed largely of workingmen, was held yesterday afternoon in Trafalgar Square. This was made a pretext for a Russian gathering in another part of the same plaza. Each of the crowds possessed all the elements of a mob, and the display of three Turkish flags in the first assemblage precipitated an attack by the second. More than 6000 people were present. The confusion soon became so great at the Turkish meeting that the speakers could not be heard. A Russian flag suddenly appeared in the crowd, and a free fight, lasting one hour and five minutes, ensued, led by a sooty-faced man, who HOWLED LIKE A BASHI-BAZOUK. The Anglo-Turks charged on masse upon the Russian party. The Russian standard-bearer was taken, soundly thrashed, and the Muscovite flag destroyed. The forces of the horny-handed friends of the Czar soon rallied. They carried by assault the position held by the Turkish color-bearers behind one of Sir Edward Landseer's lions. The reserves pressed so closely upon the assaulting party that retreat was impossible. It was serious business, however, for the men in front. The Turkish standards were totally destroyed, and the victors glared for a few moments at the seething crowd before them, apparently anxious to know if there were any of the obnoxious flags near at hand. The wounded were not butchered. They were only jumped on and playfully kicked about the face and head. The assemblage soon became so overwhelmingly Turkish that the Russophiles were COMPELLED TO WITHDRAW. As the minority slowly disengaged itself from the majority renewed cheers burst forth from the triumphant Turkish party. The cheering soon became tumultuous, and thousands joined in the cries, hurrying to the scene out of St. Martin's lane, the Strand, Cockspur street and Whitehall. Red flags were hoisted upon sticks, or held aloft upon canes. New flags were procured from some unknown locality, and the British and Turkic languages were spoken. The White House A correspondent some years since for the east end of the benefit and the benefit. Take one-half lime, slack it with during the procession. Strain the liquor strainer, and add to it well dissolved in ground rice, boiling half pound of powder and one pound of previously dissolved then hang it over tule within a larger Add five gallons of water, stir it well, covered from dust and for this purpose on a portable table about a pint of square yard upon properly applied. May be used, according to the job required. Paint for wood, bristle er. It retains its There is nothing ooze pane with it, either walls. Buildings will take a much longer time may be shaded desired. Sreddish pink when deep according to tinge of this is very Finely pulverized with Spanish broth color; yellow ochre wash, but the ooze makes a color gee It is difficult to make different; it wounds on a shiny must not be mixed with color, and the whitewash which New York Tribune When the crop, now being sown, reaches maturity, there will be very little grain in the country, and consequently the new crop will command high figures. The knowledge of this fact acts as an incentive to our farmers, and it is estimated that the acreage sown this year will be double that of last year. At least, this can be said of this section of Los Angeles county, and we presume it is the same elsewhere. Wells, Fargo & Co.'s statement of the production of the precious metals west of the Missouri River, during the year 1877, shows some interesting facts relating thereto. The yield of California was $18,174,716; Nevada, $51,580,290; the rest of the country, including Mexico and British Columbia, $27,666,748, most of which was silver. The exports of silver from San Francisco to China and India amounted to $8,620,000. Mr. D. C. Hayward, of the Semi-Tropical Nurseries at Orange, thinks we are decidedly "off" on the question of budded trees. Instead of writing a three-column article to prove that we "don't know nothink about it," he proposes to convince us of the error of our ways in a much more practical and pleasing manner. His argument will consist of planting in our garden a buddied orange tree, which will bear its golden fruit next year. Some men have a happy faculty of getting at the true inwardness of the situation without any unnecessary circumlocution, and to this class belongs Mr. Hayward. The riot in London on Saturday between the cockney friends of the Czar and the Porte possesses no political significance. Such scenes were not infrequent prior to the Crimean war—but beyond exhibiting the love for pulgilistic encounter, which characterizes the hoodlum element in any city, the phenomenon has no value. The statement that the combatants numbered seven thousand men, and that the fight lasted over an hour; that no one was hurt, and that two policemen quelled the riot, would seem to indicate a consideration and tractability on the part of a London mob entitling the proceeding to be classed among the most civil of civil wars. We have several times made distant allusions to the eccentricities of the postal service, and the delay occasionally observable in mail matters. And while we are not "dispoged" to indulge in ill-natured comments on the inefficiency of the service and its agents, it is but natural to demur and enter a protest against being compelled to wait over a year for a letter which should have reached here the day after it was mailed. For instance, a very important document, (a statement of account) was received at our office on Thursday last, when the date line showed it to have been written in Los Angeles on January 2nd, 1877. Things have taken a letter COMPELLED TO WITHDRAW. As the minority slowly disengaged itself from the majority renewed cheers burst forth from the triumphant Turkish party. The cheering soon became tumultuous, and thousands joined in the cries, hurrying to the scene out of St. Martin's lane, the Strand, Cockspur street and Whitehall. Red flags were hoisted upon sticks, or held aloft upon canes. New flags were procured from some unknown locality, and the British and Turkish ensigns floated over the meeting upon tall staffs side by side. It was a strange spectacle, and recalled the day immediately preceding and during the Crimean war. The police interfered three hours after the meeting first organized, and two arrests were made. Nobody of any prominence was present; and the meeting has no political significance. Opposed to the Repeal. New York, Dec. 31. — The Sun's Washington special says: The proposal is warmly urged by Southern Representatives and members from the Pacific Slope, that the tax on fruit brandy should be repealed. In regard to this Commissioner Raum says: "In my judgment, that would be an unwise act. In the first place, it would reduce the revenue $1,250,000. If fruit brandy could be manufactured and sold free of tax, the amount produced from grapes in California, and from apples and peaches throughout the country, would, in my judgment, be ten or fifteen million gallons per annum, and probably more. This would come in direct competition with spirits from grain, which would inevitably result in a falling off in the tax upon spirits produced from grain." In regard to tobacco, Commissioner Raum seems also opposed to a change. His recommendation for a remission of taxes is as follow: "In my judgment, if the Government can afford to take off any of the Internal Revenue taxes at all, I think it would be well to take it off from matches and savings banks, which would reduce the revenue about $3,350,000. The status of the Pacheco-Wigginton contest is thus given in a Washington dispatch: The sub-committee of the House Committee on Elections has prepared its report on Pacheco vs. Wigginton, in favor of the latter. The case has been examined in detail upon printed briefs, from evidence already published, and the Democrats of the sub-committee decided that Pacheco had fourteen illegal votes and failed to receive two votes to which he was entitled, reducing him from 19,104 to 19,092; and that Wigginton had eight illegal votes, reducing him from 19,103 to 19,095, or three majority. None of the precincts which Wigginton challenged are thrown out, and about half the claims of illegal voting preferred by both sides are rejected. The Democrats on the Election Committee will unquestionably approve the report of the sub-committee, and a straight party vote will be had upon the question. Russia. The three heroes paign who are enraged Russians are Todtle leff. Todtleben is having entered the Petersburg in 1884 war he conducted against Silistria, Sebastopol. At their ent war he was co-shelved in that Minister of War out that Plevna o hurling solid regulations, the veterans to conduct them his fiftieth year, as Crimea and in Dashing raid across mands the Imperial Russian Army,and part in the siege of youngest Major-Gage being thirty-third dare-devil during and has exposed his party of ten men plished the desire his men against that was left of the army late in July,and upon the enemy's fought like a second. The first expert light in Berlin was ember,in the new einburg street,best ple. In the countryside apparently which was conduced of five round streamed down on The effect was as so brilliant that it and the remotest The splendor of the offensive to the si gas,the result is a fifteen dollars;the lar for the same circumstance." Ir is not often that we use this column for the purpose of giving what is vulgarly called "a puff," but we depart from our usual custom in the present instance, for obvious reasons. We desire to introduce to the favorable notice and kindly consideration of those whose propensity for getting into various kinds of trouble necessitate more or less intimate relations with the officials of the judicial department of our system of government, Judge Athearn, whose advertisement appears in our column this morning. It may seem superfluous in us to say anything commendatory of His Honor, but nevertheless we can not refrain from recording our sincere conviction that the judiciary of our country will be greatly the gainer by the accession of Skip — beg pardon — Judge Athearn. We are certain that a marriage ceremony, at which he officiates, will be divested of half its terrors; by the suave and assuring manner in which he will play his part and collect his fee. The sneak thief will find glow within him higher and nobler aspirations as the Judge, with a moral lecture, sends him up for six months; and at the expiration of his confinement he will abandon his former evil ways and become a bank president or an insurance agent. And as the simple "drunk" receives his sentence of "thirty days," he will register within the silent confines of his own breast a solemn vow to return with all speed to his libations, if only to have the pleasure of being "sent up" in such a gentlemanly manner. We, therefore, bespeak for the new official a fair share of the public patronage, and we have no doubt that the Judge will make liberal deductions to regular customers. Not many months ago, says the Virginia City Chronicle, Al Perkins, a well-to-do rancher in Dayton, took to himself an Oregon widow for a wife. It was a big event. There was a big party, champagne was as free as milk and water, and the blow-out was pronounced a success. A few day ago, however, a change came over the spirit of the milk-rancher's dreams. He did not hitch very well with his new affinity and ordered her to take her four children and skip out. She produced a Colt's navy revolver and informed him that if he attempted to put on any French airs with her she'd fill him as full of lead as the jumping frog of Calaveras. A neighbor interfered in his behalf and she fired them both out. She now holds the redoubt. Perkins says that Oregon widows are hefty. Skobeleoff, THE HERO.—It is perhaps not generally known, (says the Glasgow News) that General Skobeleoff is of Scotch extraction. His grand-father was a parochial school master in Ayrshire, and his father, who served his apprenticeship in an engineering shop on the Clyde, while still young went out to Russia in charge of a floating dock manufactured for the Russian Government, and when the work was finished, settled in the country and married a young lady in St. Petersburg. Their eldest son, the present General, entered the Russian army, and displaying considerable ability, gradually rose to his present prominent position—his family name, "Scobie," being Russianized into Skobeleoff. Satin is now the rage. It went out of fashion in England twenty-eight years ago, when Mrs. Manning, a celebrated murderess, at one time lady's maid to the late Duchess of Sutherland, was hung in a black satin dress. The White House Whitewash. A correspondent wishes the receipt given some years since for the whitewash used on the east end of the White House. For her benefit and the benefit of others, it is repeated. Take one-half bushel of nice unslacked lime, slack it with boiling water; cover it during the process to keep in the steam. Strain the liquor through a fine sieve or strainer, and add to it a peck of salt, previously well dissolved in warm water; three pounds of ground rice, boiled to a thin paste; one-half pound of powdered Spanish whiting, and one pound of clean glue, which has been previously dissolved by soaking it well, and then hang it over a slow fire in a small kettle within a larger one filled with water. Add five gallons of hot water to the mixture, stir it well, and let it stand a few days covered from dust. It should be put on hot, and for this purpose it can be kept in a kettle on a portable furnace. It is said that about a pint of this mixture will cover a square yard upon the outside of a house, if properly applied. Fine or coarse brushes may be used, according to the neatness of the job required. It answers as well as oil paint for wood, brick, or stone, and is cheaper. It retains its brilliance for many years. There is nothing of the kind that will compare with it, either for inside or outside walls. Buildings or fences covered with it will take a much longer time to burn than if they were painted with oil paint. Coloring matter may be put in and made of any shade desired. Spanish brown will make reddish pink when stirred in, more or less deep according to the quantity. A delicate tinge of this is very pretty for inside walls. Finely pulverized common clay, well mixed with Spanish brown, makes a reddish stone color; yellow ochre stirred in makes yellow wash, but the chrome goes further, and makes a color generally esteemed prettier. It is difficult to make rules, because tastes are different; it would be best to try experiments on a shingle and let it dry. Green must not be mixed with lime; it destroys the color, and the color has an effect on the whitewash which makes it crack and peel. New York Tribune. Is She Masculine? Washington, Dec. 22—The Hon. A. G. Riddle, attorney to the Commissioners of the District of Columbia, whose opinion was asked by the Commissioner whether they can lawfully appoint a woman a notary public, has rendered a decision that they can do so. Mr. Riddle adds: "In the statutes, where the male sex is not otherwise declared, is the pronoun he to be taken to refer only to a male? May not this seeming male guise be worn by a woman without a violation of law or decorum of sex? Man, according to the dictionaries, always embraces woman, and there is ample authority that he very often sustains some relation to her. The word he in Federal law covers the appointment of women as department clerks and Postmasters. 'If he does not include her,' Mr. Riddle says, "then women cannot be punished under laws for treason, criminal correspondence with foreign powers, dealing in immoral literature or abortion medicines, for perjury, counterfeiting, embezzlement, robbing the mails, theft of Post Office property, or fraudulent voting, unless in the eye of law she is a he.'" Mr. Riddle says that many judicial decisions imply that when a penalty is denounced or a disability imposed, masculine pronouns include women, but when a benefit is offered or privilege bestowed, they mean man alone; but every writer on English law holds that statutes imposing penalty must be strictly construed to exclude every person and thing not within their letter; but those conferring benefits are to be liberally construed to include every person within the reach of their spirits. He cites the action of the President in appointing women postmasters and clerks, and the Supreme Court of the District in admitting women to the bar as precedents to be followed. Mrs. Marilla M. Ricker, associated with a woman lawyer here, has, upon this opinion, made application to the District Commissioner, Dennison, to be appointed notary. The Commissioner has refused, notwithstanding Mr. Riddle's opinion, to grant her petition. She proposes to go to Congress for relief. An Unavenged Murder. We find the following communication in the San Francisco Chronicle. The McManus alluded to is a fellow of unsavory reputation, who fled from Gospel Swamp after having shot Constable Titchenal, of Santa Ana: Allow me to say through your paper that Issac McManus, Jerry Sloane, William Dean and Charles A Newman murdered my brother, Benjamin Holland, on the 30th of June last, on the Moapa Indian Reservation, southeast Nevada. They were arrested by the local authorities of Lincoln county, Nevada, and turned over to the United States to be tried at Carson City. They were indicted by the United States Grand Jury for murder in the first degree, and when the trial came on in Court the question of jurisdiction was sprung, and argued by the attorneys on both sides. Judge Hilley rendered a decision that the United States Courts had no jurisdiction in the matter; and by requestturned them murderers over to Sheriff Swift at Carson. The authorities of Lincoln county refused to pay the expenses of returning the prisoners to their county for trial, and Judge Hilley refused to make an order remanding them back to the United States Marshal, with instructions to return the prisoners to the Sheriff of Lincoln county, out of whose hands they had been taken. Thus the matter was managed, and in order to bring the murderers to justice I had to expend a large amount of money to send them back to Lincoln county. They were indicted by the Grand Jury, and their trial took place last week. The jury brought in a verdict of acquittal, so the surprise of everyone in Pioche—even the defendants and their attorneys were surprised. They are under indictment in the same Court for another murder, and will be tried some time next month. I have heard that these same parties, or some of them, are wanted somewhere in southern California, in case they are not hung at Pioche. I hope this will serve as a notice to all persons concerned that they may know where these men can be found, and that they will be taken from Pioche and tried for other murders and crimes they have committed, in case they are cleared in the trial to come off next month. They are murderers and thieves beyond all question, and no greater outrage could be done than turn them loose again upon the public highway to kill and rob as they have done. None of us are safe with such men running at large, and I do earnestly trust they will be brought to justice in some other place if not in Lincoln county. My brother was a good man, and leaves brothers, sisters, children and numerous friends to mourn his loss. He was mur- Russian Heroes. The three heroes of the Bulgarian campaign who are enshrined in the hearts of the Russians are Todleben, Gourko and Skobeleff. Todleben is now in his sixtieth year, having entered the engineer school in St. Petersburg in 1835. During the Crimean war he conducted the siege operations against Silistria, and the heroic defence of Sebastopol. At the outbreak of the present war he was considered an old fogy, and was shelved in the Engineer Department of the Minister of War. When the Staff found out that Plevna could not be captured by hurling solid regiments against the entrenchments, the veteran was called to the front to conduct the investment. Gourko is in his fiftieth year, and had seen service in the Crimea and in Poland before he made his dashing raid across the Balkans. He commands the Imperial Guard, the flower of the Russian Army, and has borne a conspicuous part in the siege of Plevna. Skobeleff is the youngest Major-General in the service, his age being thirty-two. He won the name of dare-devil during the campaign in Khokand, and has exposed himself recklessly during the present war. On the evening before the passage of the Danube at Simmitza, having been requested by the Grand Duke to call for volunteers from the division of Cossacks under his command to swim across the river and reconnoiter the opposite bank, he plunged into the water at the head of a small party of ten men, and successfully accomplished the desired work. He always leads his men against the enemy. He saved what was left of the army that attacked Osman late in July, and in the desperate assaults upon the enemy's works, early in September, fought like a second Suwarrow. The first experiment with the electric light in Berlin was made on the 14th of November, in the new synagogue in the Oranienburg street, before a large crowd of people. In the court-yard of the building a stationary apparatus furnished the light, which was conducted over the roof into two of the five round windows, whence the light streamed down on the synagogue below. The effect was astonishing. The light was so brilliant that it illuminated the gallery and the remotest corners of the edifice. The splendor of the light was vivid, but not offensive to the sight. In comparison with gas, the result is as follows: Gas, per hour, fifteen dollars; the electricity light, one dollar for the same time. Their apparent costs their spirits. He cites the action of the President in appointing women postmasters and clerksa, and the Supreme Court of the District in admitting women to the bar as precedents to be followed. Mrs. Marilla M. Ricker, associated with a woman lawyer here, has upon this opinion, made application to the District Commissioner, Dennison, to be appointed notary. The Commissioner has refused, notwithstanding Mr. Riddle's opinion, to grant her petition. She proposes to go to Congress for relief. The Montenegrins. The Montegrin men are tall, broad-shouldered and well shaped. One of our guides was at least six feet three high. They wear the national cap, of black silk on the outside, with a red flat top, on which are worked letters H. I., which stands for Nicholas I., for the H in Slav represents N. These letters are surrounded by a semicircle of gold lace surmounted by a cross. It is not so smart in appearance as the Dalmatian cap, of brigot red, with black embroidery, worn janttilly on the side of the head. The dress is usually a white capote, reaching to the knees, with a belt full of pistols and daggers, and blue trousers fastened at the knee. The rest of the leg is covered with a white stocking, made of coarse flannel, at the back of which runs an embroidered line. The shoes are sharp pointed, like canoes, laced in front with leather or string. A complete Montenegrin suit costs about £20; and when we expressed our surprise that they could afford such a sum, we were told a dress will last a lifetime. They are all extremely courteous, and we hardly ever met a Montenegrin who did not put his hand to his cap and slightly raise it—a salutation which we took good care to return. Of course, in speaking of the character and habits of the Montenegrins, we cannot pretend to know them ourselves, for our visit only extended to a few days; and we bear in mind the story of the traveller, who, when he first entered France, finding that the chambermaid of his inn had carroty locks, put down in his note book: "Mem. The woman in France have red hair." But we have read much about them, and from a general concurrence of testimony, we think that we may say that they are not only an extremely brave, but a sober and honest people. Their food is of the simplest kind, and drunkenness is entirely unknown. Their wine is rather sharp, and is much improved by a little water; but a great deal may be drank without affecting the head. Before the time of Danilo I. we believe they were addicted to marauding and robbery; but he promulgated a new code, and punished offenders with exemplary severity. It has been said that, before he died, a purse of gold might have been left on one of the mountain paths, and no one would have attempted to take it. The effect has been to change the character of the nation in this respect, and we believe they fairly deserve the title of an honest people. But war has a demoralizing effect, and we were told that laterly symptoms have appeared which show that the Montenegrin principle, as regards their spirits. He cites the action of the President in appointing women postmasters and clerksa, and the Supreme Court of the District in admitting women to the bar as precedents to be followed. Mrs. Marilla M. Ricker, associated with a woman lawyer here, has upon this opinion, made application to the District Commissioner, Dennison, to be appointed notary. The Commissioner has refused, notwithstanding Mr. Riddle's opinion, to grant her petition. She proposes to go to Congress for relief. The Montenegrins. The Montegrin men are tall, broad-shouldered and well shaped. One of our guides was at least six feet three high. They wear the national cap, of black silk on the outside, with a red flat top, on which are worked letters H. I., which stands for Nicholas I., for the H in Slav representa N. These letters are surrounded by a semicircle of gold lace surmounted by a cross. It is not so smart in appearance as the Dalmatian cap, of brigot red, with black embroidery, worn janttilly on the side of the head. The dress is usually a white capote, reaching to the knees, with a belt full of pistols and daggers, and blue trousers fastened at the knee. The rest of the leg is covered with a white stocking, made of coarse flannel, at the back of which runs an embroidered line. The shoes are sharp pointed, like canoes, laced in front with leather or string. A complete Montenegrin suit costs about £20; and when we expressed our surprise that they could afford such a sum, we were told a dress will last a lifetime. They are all extremely courteous, and we hardly ever met a Montenegrin who did not put his hand to his cap and slightly raise it—a salutation which we took good care to return. Of course, in speaking of the character and habits of the Montenegrins, we cannot pretend to know them ourselves, for our visit only extended to a few days; and we bear in mind the story of the traveller, who, when he first entered France, finding that the chambermaid of his inn had carroty locks, put down in his note book: "Mem. The woman in France have red hair." But we have read much about them, and from a general concurrence of testimony, we think that we may say that they are not only an extremely brave, but a sober and honest people. Their food is of the simplest kind, and drunkenness is entirely unknown. Our wine is rather sharp, and is much improved by a little water; but a great deal may be drank without affecting the head. Before the time of Danilo I. we believe they were addicted to marauding and robbery; but he promulgated a new code, and punished offenders with exemplary severity. It has been said that, before he died, a purse of gold might have been left on one of the mountain paths, and no one would have attempted to take it. The effect has been to change the character of the nation in this respect, and we believe they fairly deserve the title of an honest people. But war has a demoralizing effect, and we were told that laterly symptoms have appeared which show that the Montenegrin principle, as regards their spirits. The Montenegrins. The Montegrin men are tall, broad-shouldered and well shaped. One of our guides was at least six feet three high. They wear the national cap, of black silk on the outside, with a red flat top, on which are worked letters H. I., which stands for Nicholas I., for the H in Slav representa N. These letters are surrounded by a semicircle of gold lace surmounted by a cross. It is not so smart in appearance as the Dalmatian cap，of brigot red，with black embroidery，worn janttilly onthe sideofthehead.Thedressisusuallyawhitecapote，reachingtotheknees，withabeltfullpistolsanddaggers,andbluetrousersfastenedattheknee.Therestofthelegiscoveredwithawhitestocking,madeofcoarseflannel.atthebackofwhichrunsnointheembroideredline.Theshoaresharppointedlikecanoes,Lacedinfrontwithleatherorstring.AcompleteMontenegrinsuitcostsbearonlyatPioche.Ihopethiswillserveasa noticetoallpersonsconcernedthattheymayknowwherethemencanbefound,andthattheywillbettothemepursuitstheyhavecommitted.incasetheyareclearedintrialtocomeontnextmonth.Theleyaremurderirsandthievess beyondallquestion,andnogreaterouragecouldbedonethanturntheloomagainuponthepublichighwaytowill劫androbasheave done.Noneofusaresafewithsuchmenrunningatlarge,andIdo earnestlytrusttheywillbroughttojusticeinsomeotherplaceifnotinLincolncounty.Mybrotherwasagoodman,andleavesbrothers,sisters,andnumerousfriendstomournhisloss.Hew漠deredincolld血withoutcauseorprovocation,andIaskthatthegoodpeopleofourStatewillassistmeihavingtheperpetratorspunished.Ihadthephotographsofthemurdersofmybrothertaken.AnyofficerdesiringtoseeinhiminordertoidentifythepartiescanaddressmeatatSacramento.JAMESHOLLAND.SacramentoDecember29th. A Nice.Quiet Town. GARLAND (Colorado), December 31.-A reignoflawlessnessandbloodshedprevailshere.Fourmenwerekilledthisafternooninasaloon,andat8:45thiseveningGeo.M.Clay,alawyerresidinghere,eintereda concerthallandgotinto disputewiththebarkeeper,thewhomhecutwithaknife,andwasthenhimselfshotthroughthetempleandisdying. The Year's Disasters. St.Louis,Dec.31.-The lossofpropertyontheWesternriverduringthepresentyearissetdownat$533000.$ThisincludesiceandcoalboatsdisastersintheOhioriveramountingtoworlddollars.Thenumberofliveslostduringthesametimewasmorethantwo-thirdsofthosebyexplosionsandtheburningofsteamers. Lost. 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Before the time of Danilo I. we believe they were addicted to marauding and robbery; but he promulgated a new code, and punished offenders with exemplary severity. It has been said that, before he died, a purse of gold might have been left on one of the mountain paths, and no one would have attempted to take it. The effect has been to change the character of the nation in this respect, and we believe they fairly deserve the title of an honest people. But war has a demoralizing effect, and we were told that laterly symptoms have appeared which show that the Montenegrin principle, as regards the distinction between meum and tuum, is not quite so strict as it should be.—Blackwood's Magazine. TAR WATER FOR INSECTS.—For the last five years I have not lost a cucumber or melon, vine or cabbage plant. Get a barrel, with a few gallons of gas tar in it; pour water on the tar; always have it ready when needed, and when the bugs appear give them a liberal drink of the tar water from a garden sprinkler, or otherwise, and if the rain washes it off and they return, repeat the dose. It will also destroy the Colorado potato beetle, and frighten the old, long potato bug worse than a threshing with a brush. Five years ago this summer, both kinds appeared on my late potatoes, and I watered with the tar water. The next day all the Colorado that had not been well protected from the sprinkling were dead, and the others, though their name was legion, were all gone, and I have never seen one of them on the farm since. I am aware that many will look upon this with indifference, because it is so cheap and simple a remedy. Such should always feel both their own and their neighbors' bugs, as they frequently do.—Chicago Tribune. Some days ago a strange accident happened on Pine Ridge, Mendocino county: J. S. Marsh, formerly of Little Lake, had a fine pair of oxen which were grazing on the hill. A little daughter of his about 12 years old was playing a hundred and fifty yards above the oxen. The child rolled a stone weighing about three pounds down the hill towards the oxen. It bounded, and the noise caused by the rolling of the stone caused an ox to raise his head and look up the hill, the stone striking in the center of the forehead, knocking the animal down and killing him almost instantly. The rock made an indentation of half an inch in the skull. Notice. ALL PARTIES INDEBTED TO THE FIRM OF Morrison & Spees Are hereby notified that they must come forward and settle up. Notice to Contractors. PROPOSALS FOR REMOVING THE BUILDINGS from the corner of Los Angeles and Centre streets will be received at the store of P. Davis & Bro., until January 15, 1878. All necessary information can be obtained by inquiry in person or by writing P. DAYIS & BRO., Anaheim. Cajon Irrigation Company Location of principal place of business—ANAHEIM CALIFORNIA. NOTICE IS HEREBY GIVEN THAT AT A MEETING of the Stockholders held on the 8th day of December, 1877, an assessment of forty dollars per share was levied upon the subscribed capital stock of the corporation, payable immediately in United States Gold Coin to the Secretary, Anaheim, California. Any stock upon which this assessment shall remain unpaid on the 8th day of January, 1878, will be delinquent and advertised for sale at public auction, and unless payment is made before will be sold on the 8th day of February, 1878, to pay the delinquent assessment, together with the cost of advertising and expenses of sale. W. M. McFADDEN, Secretary, Anaheim, California. Notice to Creditors. Estate of J. W. Hazen, Deceased. NOTICE IS HEREBY GIVEN BY THE UNDER-signed administrator of the estate of J. W. Hazen, deceased, to the creditors of, and all persons having claims against the said deceased, to exhibit them with the necessary vouchers within four months after the first publication of this notice, to the said J. B. Pierce at the law office of Scott & Montgomery in the town of Anaheim, in Los Angeles county. J. B. PIERCE. Administrator of the estate of J. W. Hazen, deceased. Dated at Anaheim, Dec. 6 A.D. 1877. Notice to Creditors. Estate of Jacob D. Wiser, deceased. NOTICE IS HEREBY GIVEN BY THE UNDER-signed administrator of the estate of Jacob D. Wiser, deceased, to the creditors of, and all persons having claims against the said deceased, to exhibit them with the necessary vouchers within four months after the first publication of this notice to the said administrator at his office in Temple Block, Los Angeles city. J. E. GRIPFIN, Administrator of the estate of Jacob D. Wiser, dec'd Dec. 8th, 1877. A Bargain. I HAVE 419 ACRES OF LAND IN WASHINGTON County, Mississippi, which I wish to exchange for land in this State. VICTOR MONTGOMERY, Of Scott & Montgomery, Attorneys-at-Law. Important Announcement. Messrs. D. & G. D. Plato Respectfully announces 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 CHILDREN'S 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. Children's Shoes, $1, formerly sold for $1.50. Children's Shoes, $0.50, formerly sold for $1. To enumerate the articles upon which we have made reductions would be almost impossible. We ask our friends, whether they intend to purchase or not, to call at our store and ascertain the prices of our goods. Our stock consists in part of DRY-GOODS, P. H. LOOK & CO., DOING BUSINESS IN THE TOWN OF ANAHEIM County of Los Angeles, State of California. We the undersigned persons, hereby certify that the above described Partnership is composed of the following persons and no others, whose names and places of residence are as follows, to wit: P. H. Look, Anaheim, C. E. Leonard, Anaheim, D. Drowne, Anaheim. In witness whereof, we have hereunto affixed our hands and seals this 31st day of December, 1877. P. H. LOOK, [REAL] C. E. LEONARD, [REAL] DANIEL DROWNE, [REAL] STATE OF CALIFORNIA, County of Los Angeles, On this 31st day of December in the year 1877, before me, J. W. Clark, Notary Public, personally appeared P. H. Look, C. E. Leonard, and Daniel Drowne, known to me to be the persons whose names are subscribed to the within instrument, and acknowledged to me that they executed the same. Witness my hand and official seal this 31st day of December, 1877. Fred. W. Athearn, Justice of the Peace Real Estate and Insurance Agent. Collection Office Accounts carefully and Promptly attended to. OFFICE IN GAZETTE BUILDING, Los Angeles Street, Anaheim. AUCTION SALE OF LOTS AT THE TOWN OF Santa Ana, East Wednesday, January 23, 1878 At 11 o'clock, A. M. THIS PROPERTY, LOCATED AT THE TERMINUS OF the Los Angeles and San Diego Railroad, is in the midst of the richest and best watered district in the State of California. The surrounding country is thickly settled with an industrious and thriving population. AN EXCURSION TRAIN Will leave Los Angeles at 9 o'clock, A.M. on the day of sale, conveying passengerrio Santa Ana and returning them in the evening. Tickets for the round trip, Fifty Cents. Good for that day only. Terms of Sale: One fourth cash on day of sale, Misses' Gaiters, $1.25, formerly sold for $2.00. Childrens' Shoes, $1, formerly sold for $1.50. Childrens' Shoes, $0.50, formerly sold for $1. To enumerate the articles upon which we have made reductions would be almost impossible. We ask our friends, whether they intend to purchase or not, to call at our store and ascertain the prices of our goods. Our stock consists in part of DRY GOODS, LADIES' FANCY GOODS, CLOTHING, BOOTS, SHOES, HATS, CAPS. GROCERIES, HARDWARE, CROCKERY, Etc., Etc. PRODUCE TAKEN IN EXCHANGE. D. & G. D. PLATO, Corner of Los Angeles and Centre Streets. Frank Ey, Importer and Dealer in HAVANA AND DOMESTIC CIGARS AND TOBACCO ! Planters' Hotel Building, Los Angeles Street, ANAHEIM. St. Louis LAGER BEER! BY THE Cask or Dozen, AT P. DAVIS & BRO., ANAHEIM, NEW Buckwheat Flour In Quantities to Suit. A. Guy Smith & Co. Assignee's Sale. NOTICE. DEBENTED TO THE FIRM OF JONSON & SPEES that they must come forward and W. A. MORRISON. REMOVING THE BUILDINGS of Los Angeles and Centre streets in the store of P. Davis & Bro., until necessary information can be observed or by writing P. DAYIS & BRO., Anaheim. AGATION COMPANY place of business—ANAHEIM CALIFORNIA. BY GIVEN THAT AT A MEETholders held on the 8th day of Dement of forty dollars per share subscribed capital stock of the cormediately in United States Gold Anaheim, California. which this assessment shall remain of January, 1878, will be dedied for sale at public auction, and before will be sold on the 8th to pay the delinquent assessbe cost of advertising and expenM. McFADDEN, Secretary, Anaheim, California. to Creditors. W. Hazen, Deceased. BY GIVEN BY THE UNDERrator of the estate of said J. W. the creditors of, and all persons at the said deceased, to exhibit vouchers within four months of this notice, to the said J. office of Scott & Montgomery in Los Angeles county. J. E. PIERCE. estate of J. W. Hazen, deceased. Dec. 6 A.D. 1877. to Creditors. Job D. Wiser, deceased. BY GIVEN BY THE UNDERrator of the estate of Jacob D. the creditors of, and all persons at the said deceased, to exhibit vouchers within four months of this notice to the said adance in Temple Block, Los Angeles J. E. GRiffin. estate of Jacob D. Wiser, decd. Dec12-1m Bargain. AGES OF LAND IN WASHINGsippi, which I wish to exchange VICTOR MONTGOMERY, Montgomery, Attorneys-at-Law. THIS PROPERTY, LOCATED AT THE TERMINUS of the Los Angeles and San Diego Railroad, is in the midst of the richest and best watered district in the State of California. The surrounding country is thickly settled with an industrious and thriving population. AN EXCURSION TRAIN Will leave Los Angeles at 9 o'clock, A.M. on the day of sale, conveying passenger to Santa Ana and returning them in the evening. Tickets for the round trip, Fifty Cents. Good for that day only. Terms of Sale: One fourth cash on day of sale, balance in six, twelve and eighteen months, with interest at the rate of one per cent. per month. WESTMINSTER NURSERY! All kinds of Trees at Fair Prices. APPLES VERY LOW. Planters will consult their own interest by calling and seeing the trees they purchase. THE STOCK IS MAGNIFICENT & TRUE All orders by mail or in person will have attention in the order in which they are received. Dec 22-2m ROBERT STRONG. A New Delicious Fruit Japan Persimmon! Importation of HENBY LOOMIS. Six Varieties. Grafted and Reliable. First Consignment received in good order. Send for circular, with information and endorsements. BOBERT STRONG, (Westminster Nursery), Sole agent for Southern Los Angeles County. NEW Buckwheat Flour In Quantities to Suit. A. Guy Smith & Co. Assignee's Sale. NOTICE IS HEREBY GIVEN THAT THE UNderigned, T.C.Hull, assignes of G.L.Tompkine, bankrupt, will sell at public auction to the highest bidder for cash in U.S. Gold Coin, at the Co-operative Store, Westminster, on Monday, December 24th, 1877, At 1 o'clock p.m., the following described property: 1 Tread Horse-Power and Separator One Town Lot in Westminter, T.C.HULL, Westminster, Dec. 7, 1877, Postponement. THE ABOVE SALE IS HEREBY POSTPONED UNtil Saturday, January 8th, 1878, at 2 o'clock, p.m. T.C.HULL, Assignee. LADIES, IF YOU Wish a Fashionable Dress Hat or Bonnet, Wish a Cheap Hack Hat, Wish an Old Lady's Bonnet, Wish a Stylish Felt Hat for Misses, neatly trimmed, Price, $150. Wish Lace, Ribbons, Trimming Silks, Velveta Prilling Flowers, Feathers, or Fancy Goods, two numerous to mention; call at MRS. FLORA BROWN'S MILLINERY STORE, Centre Street, Anaheim. To Photographers! THE UNDERSIGNED HAS A WELL FITTED-UP Photograph Gallery To Rent On Los Angeles street, Anaheim, on vene reasonable terms. There is a great demand for a Photographer in Anaheim, and the right kind of man would do a splendid business MRS. M. METZ. ADVERTISE IN THE SEMI-WEEKLY GAZETTE.