anaheim-gazette 1878-01-12

WEEKLY GAZETTE. SATURDAY...JANUARY 12, 1878. The Express says: Mr. Seniley, of Painter & Co.'s type foundry, San Francisco, has returned from Anaheim. He informs us that he has packed up and shipped to San Francisco all the machinery and types of the late Anaheim Review office. This leaves that excellent journal, the Anaheim Gazette, sole master of the journalistic field which it originally pre-empted, and which is limited enough for one good paper. An orange tree in the Azores in one year produced 20,000 oranges, which were exported in perfect condition to England. In those islands the exportation of oranges has become a very important industry. During the past year they have yielded to Great Britain alone 209,615 cases of the fruit, worth about $500,000. The branches and trunks of the trees are attended to so scientifically that they usually attain gigantic proportions. If any item appears in this issue which has the appearance of being what is commonly called a left-handed compliment, it should be attributed, not to the malicious instincts of a depraved heart, but to the fact that in a fit of abstraction the writer inserted his good right hand in one our rapidly revolving presses, which necessitates handling the editorial pencil with the left hand. A slow but not uninteresting proceeding. Much indignation is expressed in Berlin papers at the conduct of the citizens there toward the members of the Chinese legation, who happen to walk the streets. They are followed by crowds, and their queues are pulled, to the great delight of the populace. The police have orders to arrest all offenders, and school teachers have been directed by the Government to urge decent behavior in this matter upon their pupils. In London and Paris the Chinese legations have never been annoyed. The San Diego News has this complaint: By the acts and doing of the Irrigation Committee of the State, we are further reminded, if that be necessary, that San Diego is not a part of California, for the Committee has appointed meetings, which we published yesterday, extending over most of the State, and reaching south to Los Angeles and San Bernardino, where they cease in that direction. If there be a county in the State that really needs this improvement, it certainly is San Diego, but it receives the go by, unless some general law is passed that its own people can make applicable to it; and if that is done, it will be clearly an accident not at all attributable to the Committee. Last session there was a bill arranged, or said to have been arranged, to secure irrigation, but the friends of San Diego made such a fierce fight against it that it was pierced to death. It was said that the bill asked too much, and that there was too much margin for stealing, and that may have been true, but we believe that any measure that will irrigate a very considerable portion of the county is worth more than $500,000. The Sacramento correspondent of the San Francisco Chronicle, writing of Creed Haymond's irrigation bill, (which we publish in another column), says: A concurrent resolution will soon be introduced in the Legislature empowering the Committees on Irrigation of both Houses to take testimony, employ clerks, etc., and affording other facilities as may be required to obtain early and full information on this important subject. Three or four Senators, and quite a number of Assemblymen have expressed to your correspondent their opinions upon the subject, and they all agree that an irrigation bill must be passed this session, if nothing else in the shape of legislation is accomplished. The invitation extended to Professor Davidson to lecture before the Assembly on this important topic is a move in the right direction. It is understood that the Professor, who has accepted the invitation, will devote a large part of his address to the debris question. None can be better qualified than himself to treat on this matter, his knowledge of hydrography making his utterance in the premises almost authoritative. It is expected that the Senate will attend Memorial WASHINGTON, JANUARY 18 ber of copies of an article the Memorial had been printed and with all members of bothnia companies' skillfully prepared its tone and bouncing tracts from the test Congressional Collegians in favor These extracts are general denial of any to the Chinese, made by their enemies. The Chinaman as a temperate, sharp-wet leaf, cleanly neat, oracle. All those him in an eminent peruse the pamphilion on the subject include that the pro California is an uu productive of heaven's Local SACRAMENTO, JANUARY 18 Smith introduced harbor of Wilmington. The first is an am Code providing that not be subject to provisions that provide for the sale of swine moist and tide lands lands in harbors. No wharf shall be harbor so as to injure ferred to the Com Navigation. Death LONDON, JANUARY 18 died at 2:30 this consolations of Woman Support WASHINGTON, Suffrage National organization and is attri to its sessions each California is represented Sargent and by le Much indignation is expressed in Berlin papers at the conduct of the citizens there toward the members of the Chinese legation, who happen to walk the streets. They are followed by crowds, and their queues are pulled, to the great delight of the populace. The police have orders to arrest all offenders, and school teachers have been directed by the Government to urge decent behavior in this matter upon their pupils. In London and Paris the Chinese legations have never been annoyed. The Anaheimers have taken the ancient party by the name of Time by the flintlock, and are preparing for a cherry-tree-and-hatchet ball on the 22d of February. The above from the Santa Barbara Press is perfectly correct, except that part of it which is an error. There's no use in Colonel Otis trying to convince us that the intelligent compositor is to blame for inserting "flintlock" in the beautiful figure of speech used in the above paragraph. Incombustible writing paper has been invented by two Salamanca savants, which is warranted to resist the most intense heat. A single sheet will carbonize, but will not burn, while if a roll of prepared paper be placed in the fiercest fire, although the outside leaves and the extreme edges may carbonize, the interior will remain unaltered, and the writing or printing will be perfectly legible. Papers already written or printed upon may undergo the process of preparation without injury. This is lidera scripta manet with a vengeance; invaluable in breach of promise suits. The Irrigation Commission, appointed by the Senate to visit different portions of the State and ascertain how irrigation can be best protected and served by law, have made the following appointments for holding their sessions: Modesto, Monday, January 14th; Merced, Tuesday, January 15th; Fresno City, Wednesday, January 16th; Visalia, Thursday, January 17th; Bakersfield, Friday, January 18th; Los Angeles, Saturday, January 19th; San Bernardino, Monday, January 21st; Nevada, Thursday, January 24th; Marysville, Saturday, January 26th; San Francisco, Monday, January 28th. The following statement of freight received at and shipped from the Wilmington wharf for the eleven months ending December 31st, 1877, has been furnished to the Board of Supervisors by the General Freight Agent of the 8. P. R. R.: FREIGHT RECEIVED. Lumber, feet ..... 11,200,000 Posts ..... 41,100 Laths ..... 2,288,000 Shingles ..... 4,313,000 Shakes ..... 700,000 Merchandise, tons ..... 8,740 Of out freight there were 3,624 tons shipped. Freight for the Railroad Company is included in the above. Most of our readers have probably read the very affecting story of the boy who received a tremendous "hist" from a mule. While he was lying on his couch, swathed in bandages, he asked his sympathizing father whether his injuries would result in disfiguring him. To which the father replied to the effect that he would not be as handsome as before his altercation with the animal, but that he would know a great deal more. We can now apply this story to ourselves. When we recover from the effects of our recent misunderstanding with the job press, we will not have as pretty a "fin" as formerly, but we will be infinitely the wiser. Mr. J. A. Boyd the editor of the Panama Star and Herald, is in Los Angeles. About three months ago we addressed a letter to this gentleman requesting him to forward to us any information he might possessed of or could obtain regarding the "rain tree" which is said to flourish in the neighborhood of Panama. As we have received no answer to our communication, we presume the gentleman will reply to our inquiries in propriia persona. He can consider this notice an invitation to extend his visit to Anaheim. Mr. H. McLeLLAN, agent of the Pacific Coast Steamship Company, besides being possessed of admirable business tact, wields upon occasion a very cutting, trenchant pen. His last literary effort, published in a Los Angeles paper, is about as sharp and keen an article as we have ever read. It is an answer to some statements of the Republican regarding the withdrawal of the Steamship Company's advertisement from its columns. A TELEGRAM from London says that the crop returns for the year 1877 show, except hay, that crops have been much below the average. The wheat crop has been the most deficient of all, six out of 409 returns representing it as over the average and no less than 369 describing it as below. According to the tables it was even a worse crop than that of 1875, which was the most difficult crop previously had during fifteen years. Barley, too, was the smallest grown within the same period. Mrs. Bella Locke male lawyer of the Chinese and Indian Mrs. Spencer she thought she had ballot as much as wife should be br Indian squaw with A Mr. Evans thought these two lieve what they want think they want votes, which w home, imported ballot. Mrs. Stanton and judgment im ed the current of remarking that, influx of Chinese their vice and ig compulsory educa the Union. Special Message The following is a translation of a paragraph found in the writings of Prof. Von Liebig, the distinguished German chemist: "The white wines are hurtful to the nervous system, causing trembling, confusion of language and convulsions. The strongest wines, such as champagne, rise quickly to the head, but their effects are only of short duration. Sherry and strong cider are more quickly intoxicating than the generality of wines, and they have a peculiar influence on the gastric juices of the stomach. The intoxication of beer is heavy and dull, but its use does not hinder the drinker from gaining flesh. The drinkers of whisky and brandy are going to certain death. Red wine is the least hurtful, and, in some cases, really beneficial." The large African lion belonging to Adam Forepaugh escaped from his winter quarters at Haywards last Wednesday. When the feeder made his rounds he discovered, to his surprise, when peering into the cage, that he had escaped, after breaking away three bars of iron. The alarm was given at once, and a diligent search made through the hills and canyons, and he was discovered about half a mile off sitting on the top of the hill. Master Eddy Forepaugh was summoned, but he had not the boldness to go nearer than about one hundred yards of him. Great excitement prevails among the farmers, who fear that the lion may make a raid upon their cattle. Traps are being set for him, but up to the present time all efforts have been fruitless. He sends forth his stentorian voice every morning at about 7 o'clock, which can be heard a mile and a half off. A telegram from London says that the crop returns for the year 1877 show, except hay, that crops have been much below the average. The wheat crop has been the most deficient of all, six out of 409 returns representing it as over the average and no less that 369 describing it as below. According to the tables it was even a worse crop than that of 1875, which was the most difficult crop previously had during fifteen years. Barley, too, was the smallest grown within the same period. Henry 8. Sprager, late Postmaster at Fort Bidwell, has been convicted in the United States Circuit Court for embezzling $1,041 of Government money. He has been sentenced to pay a fine equal to the amount abstracted and to be imprisoned in the Alameda county jail for nine months, dating from the time of his arrest, which leaves little more than three months to serve. The Mexican Congress has voted to admit breadstuffs from other countries free of duty. This is very advantageous for California, New Mexico and Texas, as it furnishes an available and profitable market for their produce. Artesian wells number 1,000 in California. Of these 300 are in Santa Clara Valley. Most of them overflow the surface, and the tubes average seven inches in diameter. The local sources of artesian water are now mapped out. Under the valley runs a broad river, coming from the great lakes of the Sierra, 200 miles off. The pressure from 6,000 feet elevation suffices to throw the water above the surface. The depth of the bore runs from 150 to 250 feet. Outside the boundaries of this subterranean river (several miles wide) due depth of boring has struck artesian water. There is reason to believe that every valley in the State has an underground river, leading direct from the same lakes, and lying below the superficial currents that have no direct connection with any elevated reservoirs. This makes them artesian. The name is derived from Artesium, the ancient name of Artoia, in France, where the first flowing water was obtained in a well. WASHINGTON has definitely denied nausee question there sage to Congress. Call attention to evils of unlimited this country and to take such action proper and effective the immigration dent has not yet suggest any part tainment of the ent it seems probable himself to a forcing necessity for the ac Houses of Congress proper remedy. Will direct the State Chinese Gov diplomatic channel part to restrict jects to this country but nothing posits an intimation had President expect for transmission re-assembling of A trump was magistrate, and said The Justice, in or marked that while that the prisoner crime, he thought as he had the wifi about to start a new que. Memorial to Congress. Washington, January 9.—A large number of copies of an address to Congress, entitled the Memorial of the Six Companies, has been printed and will be soon furnished to all members of both Houses by the California companies' Washington agent. It is skillfully prepared, judiciously pleading in its tone and bountifully furnished with extracts from the testimony given before the Congressional Commission by numerous Californians in favor of Chinese cheap labor. These extracts are adduced in support of a general denial of all statements prejudicial to the Chinese, made, as the compiler asserts, by their enemies. The address represents the Chinaman as quiet, peaceable, orderly, temperate, sharp-witted, frugal, philosophical, cleanly, neat, faithful, humble and honorable. All those virtues are attributed to him in an eminent degree and people who peruse the pamphlet without any other information on the subject will be likely to conclude that the presence of Mongolians in California is an unalloyed benefit and productive of heaven's choice blessing. Local Legislation. SACRAMENTO, January 10.—In the Senate Smith introduced three bills relating to the harbor of Wilmington, Los Angeles county. The first is an amendment to the political Code providing that tide lands there shall not be subject to purchase. The second provides that the provision of the political Code for the sale of swamp and overflowed salt, moist and tide lands shall not apply to tide lands in harbors. The third provides that no wharf shall be located in Wilmington harbor so as to injure it. The bills were referred to the Committee on Commerce and Navigation. Death of Emanuel. LONDON, January 9.—The King of Italy died at 2:30 this afternoon. He received the consolations of religion before his death. Woman Suffrage Convention. WASHINGTON, January 9.—The Woman's Suffrage National Convention has fully organized and is attracting crowded audiences to its sessions each afternoon and evening. California is represented by Mrs Senator Sargent and by letters from Laura DeForce A Shocking Accident. NEW YORK, Jan. 5th.—The Panama Star and Herald reaches here with the information that a serious accident occurred recently, at Guemellos, one of the southern guano deposits. It is stated that a scaffold fell, killing forty-four men and wounding many more. Release of Fenian Prisoners. LONDON, January 4th.—Color-Sergeant McCarthy and private O'Brien, who were sentenced to a life-long penal servitude in 1836, have been released on tickets-of-leave. The prison governors have received no intimation concerning the release of O'Meara, Condon and Melidy, undergoing sentence for complicity in the Manchester murder, nor the probable release of other prisoners detained for complicity in alleged Fenian outrages, but who were not convicted of treason, felony or any other military offense. McCarthy and O'Brien were received in London by the Irish Political Prisoners' Visiting Committee. They are well, but look prematurely aged. No condition had been made as to their residence out of the United Kingdom. Speaker Randall. CHICAGO, Jan. 7th.—The Inter-Ocean's Washington special says that Speaker Randall has just puzzled his anti-subsidy friends by dismissing his clerk, Seudler, whom he inherited from Speaker Kerr and kept eighteen months, and appointed a son of Beverly Tucker, who is Tom Scott's Pacific Railroad agent among Southern Congressmen. Young Tucker has been helping his father and Scott and has not the least qualification for his present place. Gold Nuggets Made of Silver: NEW YORK, January 6th—For months past Langman & Sons, gold refiners, 31 John street, have been occasionally purchasing what appeared to be gold nuggets from a stranger who called at their place of business. The nuggets, in color and weight resembling the precious metal, after being tested in the usual way were always paid for by the firm at the rate of 50 cents per penny-weight, and in due time sent to their refining factory. The nuggets at length aroused suspicion, and a few days ago a member of the firm, on cutting one of the nuggets in twain with a chisel, found that it was composed of 90 per cent silver and the remainder 14-carat gold. The silver was so heavily plated as to resist the acid test, or even become visible on the ordinary application of a file. Yeaster California Timber Lands. The destruction of the forests in California, and the consequent injury to the future of the State by depriving it of the needful supply of fuel and building timber, and reducing the rainfall, are favorite topics for declamation by those who have read about the damage done in Europe, Northern Africa, and Western Asia by the destruction of the forests, and who draw upon their imagination for the facts as to California. We have already said something to show the groundlessness of the alarm, but some further remarks may not be out of place. When the Americans took California, thirty-two years ago, they found the most of it bare of trees, and over a large part of the area there was no possibility that forests should start, because there were no herds to eat down the grass, and thus a large mass of inflammable material was ready in the Summer after every wet Winter, to carry the fires set by the Indians to kill the game, or drive it where they could catch it. Now there is neither the same material to burn, nor the same motive for setting fires, and there are many obstacles to the spread of flames. The redwood district of the Coast from Watsonville to the Oregon line is 400 miles long and 39 miles wide on the average. Redwood is found on Howell Mountain, east of Calistoga, at a distance of 36 miles from the ocean in a direct line. The tree is hardy and when cut down it sends up a multitude of sprouts, which in time grow up to be large trees. A forest of it is almost indestructible. The area covered by it in small districts in Alameda county, where some Portuguese wood choppers, after cutting down the trees, grubbed up the roots for firewood. It is one of our most valuable trees, and thrives only in the foggy regions of this State; and renders much service in condensing the fogs,the moisture of which drips like rain in a redwood forest. The total redwood area of California is 12,000 square miles. Part of this land is timbered very sparsely; other portions have some of the densest timber in the world. Trees six and eight feet in diameter and 250 feet high are common,and there are considerable areas each of which will yield 2,000,000 feet of sawn lumber board measure (equal to 150,000 cubic feet) to the acre. The Sierra Nevada has a fine timber region from Kern River to Pitt River, 500 miles long and 20 miles wide, or 10,000 square miles. The valuable trees here are Death of Emanuel. London, January 9.—The King of Italy died at 2:30 this afternoon. He received the consolations of religion before his death. Woman Suffrage Convention. Washington, January 9.—The Woman's Suffrage National Convention has fully organized and is attracting crowded audiences to its sessions each afternoon and evening. California is represented by Mrs Senator Sargent and by letters from Laura DeForce Gordon, Sarah S. Knox and Elizabeth T. Schenck. Petitions from fifteen California cities and towns have been received for presentation to Congress in behalf of the proposed 16th amendment. Oregon is represented by Dr. Mary Thompson and letters from Agnes C. Barr and many others and six hundred signers of a petition. The President of the Convention, in announcing the representation of the various States, made the following statement concerning Nevada: Senator Jones contributed $100 to carry on the 16th amendment work and has thus effectively represented the women of his State. We could not have carried on the work without his help. It was also announced that Senator Sargent, last March, had replenished the empty treasury by giving $50 for use in printing and sending out petitions for signatures all over the country. The total receipts during the year were about $700. Mrs. Sargent was made a member of the Committee on Resolutions and of the Finance Committee. Dr. Mary Thompson is also a member of the Finance Committee and was one of the most interesting of the ten minute speakers last night. None of the long speeches thus far, except those of Elizabeth Cady Stanton and Mrs. Hooker, have risen above mediocrity and many speakers have been extremely weak and rambling or glaringly injudicious in their line of remarks. Several have gone so far as to enologize the railroad riots of last summer. Mrs. Bella Lockwood, the well known female lawyer of this city, favored letting the Chinese and Indians vote. Mrs. Spencer, also of Washington, said she thought the heathen Chine needed the ballot as much as women, but the Chinese wife should be brought in with him and the Indian squaw with her master. A Mr. Evans thereupon remarked that he thought these two ladies did not really believe what they advocated. He did not think they wanted fifty million Chinese votes, which would not be missed at home, imported by this country to rule the ballot. Mrs. Stanton, with her usual good tact and judgment, immediately arose and turned the current of discussion at this point by remarking that, in view of the threatened influx of Chinese into this country with their vice and ignorance, there should be a compulsory education law in every State in the Union. Special Message on Chinese Immigration. New York, January 6th—For months past Langman & Sons, gold refiners, 31 John street, have been occasionally purchasing what appeared to be gold nuggets from a stranger who called at their place of business. The nuggets, in color and weight resembling the precious metal, after being tested in the usual way were always paid for by the firm at the rate of 50 cents per penny-weight, and in due time sent to their refining factory. The nuggets at length aroused suspicion, and a few days ago a member of the firm, on cutting one of the nuggets in twain with a chisel, found that it was composed of 90 per cent silver and the remainder 14-carat gold. The silver was so heavily plated as to resist the acid test, or even become visible on the ordinary application of a file. Yesterday the cunning rascal called at Langman & Sons to sell three nuggets, when the firm caused his arrest and secured the bogus lumps. The prisoner gave the name of Franc Neohauser, and said he was a jeweler, living at 164 Essex street. A Varied Accompilation. Washington, January 6.—The Post Office Department has prepared a catalogue of over ten thousand articles accumulated in the Dead Letter office to be sold at auction, commencing on the 16th instant. The catalogue includes 1,275 lots of jewelry, 2,161 books, engravings, chromos, etc., and over 6,000 miscellaneous articles, embracing almost every description of wearing apparel, from babies' socks to women's dresses, and a heterogeneous collection of objects, in the enumeration of which are specified such extremely miscellaneous articles as cannellies, clocks, revolvers, wax toys, hair, Easter emblems, stuffed lizards, bedquilts and preserved potato bugs. A Horrible Death. Virginia City, Nev., Jan. 8.—About 5:30 o'clock last evening Wm. Carpenter, employed at the Savage mine, was boring a stick of timber with a steam auger. The auger was pointed toward him and he was pressing the stick against it, when the anger passed through the stick, caught in the man's abdomen, and came out at his back. He was taken away as soon as the machinery could be stopped and eight feet of his entrails unwound from the auger. He conversed a few minutes about his business affairs and was then put under the influence of chloroform to die. He expired shortly afterwards. A Notable Wedding in Philadelphia Jewish Circles. Philadelphia, Dec. 26.—The wedding of Mr. Ezra Arnold to Miss Minnie, eldest daughter of Mr. Kahn, of the firm of Kahn, Wolf & Co., was the event of the season in Jewish circles, the bride's father being one of the richest, if not the richest, Israelite in the city. The ceremony was celebrated with all the rites of the Hebrew faith, at 5 o'clock this evening, at the residence of the bride's father, No. 921 North Eighth street. There were twelve bridesmaids and groomsmen. The wedding supper was served for the bridal party, with about one hundred and fifty guests, and at 8 a reception was given to and attended by quite 800 people. The bridal dress was of white satin and Lyons brocade, with puffed baby-front of satin, cut squint in the neck and edged with exquisite duchese point lace. When on,the square is filled by a bib of point to match. The flowers are heavy garlands of snowballs and myrtle blossoms, set straight down the sides of the front and carried back to train. The gores next the front are of brocade, and the train is in square box plaits of brocade laid on a foundation of satin. Snowballs and myrtle blossoms form the bosom bouquet and loop the veil low down; but the garland for the hair is of orange blossom. Orders Obeyed. A young sub-lieutenant left his regiment a short time ago on sick leave, and put up at the best hotel, not a hundred miles from Poonah, where he was immediately smitten by the attractions of a lovely maiden who was staying there. He proposed, was accepted, and the happy day was fixed. The colonel, however, disapproved of sub-lieutenants getting married,and particularly the marriage of the sub.in question.As he happened to be a friend of the young man's father,他 thought to prevent the union of the fond couple by sending a peremptory telegram couched in the following words: "Join at once!" The son of Mars was in despair.Here presented himself before his intended with the fatal missive in his hand,and anything but a look of pleasure in his countenance,but the lady was equal to the occasion.With a blush of maidenly simplicity and virgin innocence,she cast her eyes on the ground and remarked; "Dear me! I'm glad your colonel approves of the match,但 what a hurry he is! I don't think I can get ready so soon,但 I'll do my best because,course，love,the commands of our colonel must be obeyed." The young warrior was puzzled.“Don't you see,my darling," he said,"that this confounded one of our most valuable trees,and thrives only in the foggy regions of this State,and renders much service in condensing the fogs,the moisture of which drips like rain in a redwood forest.The total redwood area of California is 12,000 square miles.Part of this land is timbered very sparsely;other portions have some of the deniest timber in the world.Trees six and eight feet in diameter and 250 feet high are common,and there are considerable areas each of which will yield 2,000,000 feet of sawn lumber board measure (equal to 150,000 cubic feet)to the acre. The Sierra Nevada has a fine timber region,从 Kern River to Pitt River，500 miles long and 20 miles wide，或10,000 square miles.The valuable trees here are mostly yellow fir，red fir，sugar pine，and yellow pine，with a considerable proportion of other trees of little use save for fuel. These two regions comprise the only large tracts of very fine timber in California，但 besides these there are 12,500 square miles in small or sparsely covered districts； thus making about 30,000 square miles，或 less than one-fifth of the 160,000 square miles in the State. According to the statistics furnished by the County Assessors，500,000 foots of lumber were sawn in California in 1876，但the total amount sent to San Francisco (the chief market) from Californian mills was only 160,000 foots.The Assessors' reports say that in that year Humboldt county sawed 64,000 foots，femundocoal 53,000，sonoma 60,000 foots，和 Santa Cruz 15，000 foots,making over 200,000 foots from the redwood districts.Yet,the redwood brought to this city (and nearly all was brought here) measured only 114,000 foots.it is safe to say that the amount of railroad sawn did not exceed 140,000 foots,and we estimate entire sawn lumber product of State at 300,000 foots，包括 that cut in California and sawn in Nevada。Thousands of fine trees are cut every year for redwood ties and fencing material；但 after putting together all the consumption of lumber trees，我们 do not consider it equal to the annual growth;and even if it were there would be no cause for serious apprehension.The product of the forest is needed now,and as the area of timber decreases和the population increases，more care will be taken of trees,more will be planted,and the great valleys now nearly bare will abound with orchard and ornamental trees that will furnish fuel." Special Message on Chinese Immigration. Washington, Jan. 8th.—President Hayes has definitely determined to make the Chinese question the subject of a special message to Congress. In this message he will call attention to the present and prospective evils of unlimited Chinese immigration to this country and will recommend Congress to take such action as in its wisdom may be proper and effective to restrict and regulate the immigration of Mongolians. The President has not yet decided whether he will suggest any particular manner for the attainment of these objects, but at present it seems probable that he will confine himself to a forcible presentation of the necessity for the action and leave for the two Houses of Congress the task of devising a proper remedy. It is also quite probable he will direct the Secretary of State to notify the Chinese Government through the usual diplomatic channels that some action on its part to restrict the immigration of its subjects to this country is likewise desirable but nothing positive in regard to making such an intimation has yet been determined. The President expects to have the message ready for transmission to Congress soon after the re-assembling of Congress. A tramp was arrested, taken before a magistrate, and sentenced for three months. The Justice, in explaining the sentence, remarked that while there was no evidence that the prisoner had been guilty of any crime, he thought it prudent to commit him, as he had the wild, haggard look of a man about to start a newspaper.—Transeal Argus. The wedding supper was served for the bridal party, with about one hundred and fifty guests, and at 8 a reception was given to and attended by quite 800 people. The bridal dress was of white satin and Lyons brocade, with puffed baby-front of satin, cut squat in the neck and edged with exquisite duchess point lace. When on, the square is filled by a bib of point to match. The flowers are heavy garlands of snowballs and myrtle blossoms, set straight down the sides of the front and carried back to train. The gores next the front are of brocade, and the train is in square box plaits of brocade laid on a foundation of satin. Snowballs and myrtle blossoms form the bosom bouquet and loop the veil low down; but the garland for the hair is of orange blossoms alone, the orthodox bridal wealth. It is scarcely necessary to say that the dress is in princess shape, since all grand toilets now are. The bridal bonnet was imported, and was of white kid with white satin ribbon and thick, curled ostrich plumes for trimming. Most of the dresses are black, and all are variations of the princesse. There is a black velvet with superb thread lace flounce; a black metelasse, trimmed also with thread lace; a black gros-grain, with ornaments of clair de lune jet, another which is a mass of hand embroidery, and yet another with trimings of silk, with black and white lace and ribbons. A white cashmere Japanese robe is richly wrought in silk by hand, in rainbow hues. A party of Irishmen, who felt aggrieved over the irreverent parody of the wake in "The Shaughraun," assailed the actors, in Denver, with a shower of eggs just before that scene was to be given. There was great commotion among both the audience and the actors, and one of the latter, advancing to the footlights, offered $100 reward for the arrest of the perpetrators. Three of them were promptly nabbed. Attention is directed by the press of Georgia to the large number of persons emigrating from the State to Texas. Colonies of hundreds each are going, bag and baggage, and the infection has spread into South Carolina. The Southern press also chronicles the migrating of several hundred persons from Indiana to Mississippi. A colony from Maine is likewise on its way to the fertile plains of northern Texas. The expression "so-long" used sometimes in the sense of good-bye in the Southern States, was borrowed from negroes. It is a corruption of the Turkish word "salaam," which, with the spread of Mohammedanism, travelled to the west coast of Africa, whence slave cargoes were procured. The expression became also common in Glasgow and Bristol, during the last century, whither it was carried by sailors of slave ships. The son of Mars was in despair. He presented himself before his intended with the fatal missive in his hand, and anything but a look of pleasure in his countenance, but the lady was equal to the occasion. With a blush of maidenly simplicity and virgin innocence, she cast her eyes on the ground and remarked: "Dear me! I'm glad your colonel approves of the match, but what a hurry he is in! I don't think I can get ready so soon, but I'll do my best because, of course, love, the commands of our colonel must be obeyed." The young warrior was puzzled. "Don't you see, my darling," he said, "that this confounded telegram puts a stopper on our plans? You don't seem to understand the telegram. He says peremptorily, 'Join at once.'" The lady's blushes redoubled, but with a look of arch simplicity, she raised her lovely eyes to her fancée and replied: "It is you, my darling, who don't seem to understand it. Your colonel says plainly, 'Join at once,' by which he of course means 'get married immediately.' What else can he possibly mean?" A look of intelligence replaced the air of bewilderdment in the young hero's classic features, and bestowing a regular feu de joie of chaste salutes on her rosy lips, he accepted the explanation, and was enabled to answer the colonel's telegram in 48 hours afterward in these words: "Your orders are obeyed. We were joined at once."—Bombay Gazette. Dr. Wilkes, in his recent work on Physiology, remarks that, "It is estimated that the bones of every adult person require to be fed with lime enough to make a marble mantel every eight months." It will be perceived, therefore, that in the course of about ten years each of us eat three or four mantelpieces and a few sets of front door steps. And in a long life I suppose it is fair to estimate that a healthy American could devour the Capitol at Washington, and perhaps two or three medium-sized marble quarries besides. It is awful to think of the consequences if a man should be shut off from his supply of lime for a while and then should get loose in a cemetery. An ordinary tombstone would hardly be enough for a lunch for him.—Adeler A writer in Chamber's Journal, who has been looking over the manuscript copies of seven or eight of Charles Dickens' novels in the South Kensington Museum, says that one is struck by the number of alterations and interlineations with which the pages abound. The first emotion is one of surprise that the books which appear so fluent and natural should have been the result of so much anxious thought, care and elaboration. NEWS IN BRIEF. The Italian Senate, by a vote of 72 to 59, has abolished imprisonment for debt. As an inducement to the unguilty to enter upon a life of religious observance, an Edgartown (Mass.) man offers a chromo to any person in that place attending church services every Sunday morning for the next six months. English enterprise. As soon as the news of the fall of Plevna had been received, histories of the war were advertised in the London papers, and a firm of tourist directors began to organize "parties for visiting the scenes of the recent struggles in Europe and Asia." The millionaire, Mr. Arnold, of New York, would not let his eighteen-year old daughter have any beaux at all, but whenever she needed an escort, sent her out with a bald-headed old confidential clerk, nearly sixty years old. The bald-headed clerk ran away with his employer's daughter, and married her himself. Hereafter, the Governor of New York will be furnished with a house by the people. The mansion at present occupied by the Governor, for which Mr. Tilden paid a rent of $10,000, has been bought for $45,000 by the State. Sundry English papers are discussing the question whether England has ever derived any solid advantage from the conquest of India, and a member of the House of Commons recently remarked that it had been of far less value than the invention of the steam engine. A carless young business man in Lockport, N. Y., lost his sweetheart by making a mistake in forwarding presents for Christmas. His brother's wife received from him a jewel case and a note asking her to marry him, while the silver-mounted feeding bottle went to his girl. Elder Evans, the head of the New Lebanon Shakers, publishes a protest against anybody being prosecuted for blasphemy. "I was under the impression," he says, "that this was not a Christian, but an American nation, where the Mohammedan, the Hindo, the Jew and the Quaker had equal right to their opinion. The recent earthquakes do not more surely indicate the existence of hidden forces in the earth that we cannot control than the arrest of one of our revered citizens for blasphemy betokens the fact that the church has already the control of the United States Government." LET US EVADE. The Humors of Dodging the New York Excise Law. [New York Graphic.] LET US EVADE. The Humors of Dodging the New York Excise Law. [New York Graphic.] "Will you 'evade' this morning?" said my friend. What? Evade. Evade the excise law. That's what we call it now. "I will evade," I answered promptly. "I always do evade when possible. I do it on principle." At the door of a popular restaurant stood a man. He surveyed me keenly: My friend tried that door. It was locked. The man stepped up. "Can't get in gentlemen," he said; "bar closed." Why you know me, don't you?, asked S. to the sentinel. No. Who are your references? We must have first-class references now as to character, occupation, and standing to guard against excise spies. After giving the name of a prominent judge and another high official the door was unlocked. We entered. No bar was visible. People were going up and down the cellar stairs. We joined the throng. Descending to the cellar, a bar improvised on a board and two barrels met our eye. The bar-keepers were busy behind it. "This is evasion," said S. "How will you evade?" With hot Scotch." Mine too," said S. We evaded. "Isn't this shameful?" said S. "Call this a free country, indeed! Why it's so much trouble to get a single drink now that one must drink twice and save that much introductory ceremony. Let us evade again," said he. We did so. "How's business?" I asked of the bartender. Never better," said he. "People have so much trouble in getting into a saloon to get a drink that they drink two or three times to save going through it all again. Then they rather like the novelty of the thing. This evasion of the law lends to it the charms of adventure. So now people evade who did not evade before, and those who did evade do now evade the more." Let us go somewhere else and evade," said S. We found another saloon, another guard, another locked door; references were again produced; we were admitted. The place was full. The bar-tenders had no time to clean their glasses. "It's a great hardship, isn't it," said S., "to be this way? Let's evade again." I've had enough of this evasion," I said. What!" said S. "Nuff! I'm goin' to see this thing through. I'm goin' to devote the res' uv this day t'vasion." I left him evading. M. A. MENDELSON R. H. Gilman HAS THE Best Varieties OF BUDDEDOrange, Lemon, AND SEMI-TROPICAL TREES. A Large Assortment of Northern Fruit Trees. JAPANESE PERSIMMON TREES OF THE CHOICEST VARIETIES. All fruit trees will be sold at the Lowest Living Rates. NURSERY - 34 miles north-east of Anaheim. The Westminster Co-operative Store Company OFFER CLEAN SEED BARLEY IN LARGE OR small lots at $1.55, Gold, per hundred. Best Alfalfa seed, 13 Cents, Gold, per pound. T.C. HULL, Mansger For Sale. $4000. VINEYARD OF TWENTY ACRES IN Anaheim, good orchard, brick house, two wine shades, stable, etc. Apply to SCOTT & MONTGOMERY. Sheep Wanted. ANYONE HAVING A BAND OF GOOD EWES for sale can bear of a purchaser by applying at this office. To Farmers--Wanted. 500 Tons of Castor Beans and 500 Tons of Flax Seed during 1878. TERMS: I WILL CONTRACT TO PAY FOR CASTOR BEANS, delivered at the Oil Works in San Francisco, 270 gold per ton. Usual cash advances will be made, and balances paid within thirty days after delivery. For flax seed, 300 gold, payable within thirty days after delivery as above. Flax seed for sowing can be purchased at 34 cents gold per pound in San Francisco, by remitting the money to me or to the Pacific Oil and Lead Works, 292 California Street, San Francisco. For circulars telling all about "How to make Castor Bean or Flax Seed Crops," address GEO. H. PLEK, El Monte, Sole Agent Pacific Oil and Lead Works, S.F. M. A. MENDELSON & Co. NOTICE! THE SAME SCALE OF PRICES WHICH HAS RENDERED MY STORE SO POPULAR THE PAST MONTHS WILL BE CONTINUED DURING THE YEAR. SHIRTS, UNDERWEAR, SCARFS, GLOVES, COLLARS, CUFFS, CHEAPER THAN ELSEWHERE. The Reduction in Custom-Made clothing and clothing made to Order will also be continued. The stock in my line of business is not to be surpassed by any house south of San Francisco. Call and examine it. M. A. MENDELSON & CO., CLOTHING AND Merchant Tailoring Emporium, Center Street, Anaheim California. Cahen & Willard, In order to make room for their new stock soon to arrive, have determined to sell their present stock (except groceries) at a great reduction. We have without doubt the very finest and most varied assortment of goods ever brought into this section. Dress Goods, Fancy Goods, Linens, Percales, Peques, White Goods, Ladies' Furnishing Goods, etc. In Gents' and Boys' CLOTHING AND FURNISHING GOODS We have the latest and most vartal novelties. BOOTS AND SHOES Of all descriptions. PROVISIONS AND GENERAL MERCHANDISE Too numerous to mention always on hand. We make a specialty of Men and Boys Clothing, Boots and Shoes, which we sell at a great sacrifice. CAHEN & WILLARD, Center Street - Anaheim. To Photographers! THE UNDERSIONED HAS A WELL FITTED-UP Photograph Gallery To Rent On Los Angeles street, Anaheim, on very 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.