anaheim-gazette 1878-03-16

ANAHEIM VOL. 8. WEEKLY GAZETTE. Established 1870. SATURDAY...MARCH 16, 1878. Dr. W. N. HARDIN, Office and Residence Corner Los Angeles and Sycamore Streets. Anaheim. Cal. J. H. YOCUM, M. D., Physician & Surgeon. Office and Residence corner Centre and Palm Streets, With office hours at Blanken's Drug Store, from 9 to 4 o'clock, and 4 to 5 p.m. Anaheim. Cal. DR. ALICE HIGGINS, PHYSICIAN AND SURGEON. OFFICE—Corner of Lemon and Centre Streets. ANAHEIM. Dr. J. N. BURTNETT, Physician & Surgeon, Santa Ana, Cal. Graduate of Jefferson Medical College Dr. H. F. THOMAS, (Practitioner of Homoeopathy) Physician & Surgeon, Graduate of the N.Y. Horn Med College March, 1869 Office and residence, 63 Spring Street, Los Angeles. Kleinigkeiten. [FROM WEDNESDAY'S SEMI-WEEKLY.] —Sunday, the 17th inst., is St. Patrick's Day. —A troop of Mexican acrobats arrived in town yesterday. —The Union Club will give a ball at Kroeger's Hall on the 25th inst. —The Southern California Horticultural Society now has a membership of 360. —Sheriff Mitchell has appointed K. A. Ling a Deputy in his office. —Two hundred and fifty sacks of coal are ready for shipment from the Black Star Coal Mine. —M. L. Pierce suicided in Los Angeles on Saturday by shooting himself. He was daft on spiritualism. —The Governor has approved the bill giving this county two sessions of the Supreme Court annually. —a condor measuring fourteen feet from tip to tip was captured near town on Saturday. —Only the Governor's signature is now required to the bill incorporating the town of Anaheim. It has passed both Houses. Bill-heads, letter-heads, cards, envelopes, circulars, etc., printed in superior style at this office. Call and examine specimens. Mr. Hanna's broken leg is now mending. More Remedies Mr. Louis J. Stengel Exotic Garden and Nurseries writes to the Gazette that "As regards the plan mention) I can give you played against those peo teen years, and I have meet with success in all of the aphis or erios to plants, particularly y bushes, etc. Solution of common soap-suds and tobacco (but not hot) and applied or still better, with a will also answer. Tea suds must be thrown force against the twigs repeated whenever the appearance. There are also severalcessfully employed, viti with considerable force often remove them. Surely kill them, but can in enclosed frames plants with solution of strong carbonate of ammonia water. This has the m well as effectual. Plant lice may also b the branches affected and several minutes in warm suds, or in a solution of The last is not recommen ladies, as the odor of w ANAHEIM. Dr. J. N. BURTNETT, Physician & Surgeon, Santa Ana, Cal. Graduate of Jefferson Medical College Dr. H. F. THOMAS, (Practitioner of Homoeopathy) Physician & Surgeon, Graduate of the N.Y. Horn Med College, March, 1869 Office and residence, 63 Spring Street, Los Angeles. DR. E. L. COWAN, DENTIST, AS OPENED AN OFFICE IN THE UPPER part of Mrs. Metz's building, Los Angeles Street, Anaheim. Having had twenty years' experience, he can speak with confidence of his work. His reale of prices will be very low. His office days are Wednesdays, Thursdays, Fridays, and Saturdays, between the hours of 9 A.M. and 5 P.M. WICKS & STEPHENSON, Attorneys at Law, Office in new Bank Building. Centre Street, - - Anaheim. Will practice in all the Courts of Los Angeles and adjoining counties. ROBERT W. SCOTT. VICTOR MONTOOMERY. SCOTT & MONTGOMERY, Attorneys at Law. PROBATE BUSINESS A SPECIALTY. Anaheim, Los Angeles County, Cal. R. LUEDKE. Watch Maker and Jeweler, Centre Street, Anaheim. EVERY DESCRIPTION OF WATCHES, CLOCKS AND JEWELRY carefully required and warranted Also, a fine assortment of Jewelry on hand. L. GUNTHER, Ploneer Boot and Shoe Maker, Cor. Third and Los Angeles streets. ANAHEIM. GEORGE BAUER, BOOT AND SHOE MAKER, Los Angeles Street. MAKING AND REPAIRING AT THE LOWEST cash price. All orders promptly attended to I work warranted. P. C. McKINNIE, Contractor and Builder. Shop—On Centre Street, opposite residence. H. A. STOUGH & CO., Blacksmiths. HORSE SHOEING AND REPAIRING. CORNER of Centre and Clementina Streets, near the Cooper Shop. CHARLES WILLE, COOPERAGE. Pipes, Barrels and kegs on hand at all times. Tanks and Tubs made to order. Honey Barrels for sale cheap. The Governor has approved the bill giving this county two sessions of the Supreme Court annually. A condor measuring fourteen feet from tip to tip was captured near town on Saturday. Only the Governor's signature is now required to the bill incorporating the town of Anaheim. It has passed both Houses. Bill-heads, letter-heads, cards, envelopes, circulars, etc., printed in superior style at this office. Call and examine specimens. Mr. Hanna's broken leg is now mending. He suffered excruciating pain for some days after the accident. Hon. G. Wiley Wells, the United States Consul to Shanghai, China, is in Los Angeles on a visit to his brother-in-law, General Bouton. The Los Angeles papers say that the orange crop this year is a small one. As far as we have seen, the reverse is the case in this part of the county. We think the San Francisco Call must now be printed on its new $30,000 press, as the copy we get is most villainously printed. The dancing school under the management of D. R. M. Thompson is becoming the most popular amusement of the town. There are now two large classes comprising some sixty members. A young man named Albert Allen, an employee of Judson, Gillette & Gibson, of Los Angeles, has been arrested for stealing money from the firm's safe. He was caught in the act. A man named Edward E. Cody was arrested yesterday and taken before Justice Athearn, on a charge of having insulted a lady on Center Street on Sunday night. He proved an alibi and was discharged. The rite of circumcision was performed at the residence of Mr. M. A. Mendelson on Sunday. A large number of friends and acquaintances were present and the occasion was an enjoyable one. Mr. H. Werder lost a bee-hive from his place on Saturday. He thinks it might have followed some one off and would request the finder to return it as soon as he is done using it. There was a select and pleasant party at the residence of Mrs. H. Bremermann on Monday, the occasion being the sixteenth anniversary of the birthday of Miss Katie Bremermann. The following persons were granted teachers' certificates by the County Board of Examination, in session last week: Miss Annie Hoyt, Miss Ada Mayes, Miss Nannie C. Straus, W. G. McPherson, Joseph Smith, B. F. McDonald, J. N. Burgess, William Burton and A.C.Shafer. Hon. B.D.Wilson died at his residence at Lake Vineyard on Monday, in the 67th year of his age. The immediate cause of death was heart disease but no head injury with considerable force often remove them. Surely kill them but can plant with solution or strong carbonate of ammonia water. This has the most well as effectual. Plant lice may also be the branches affected and several minutes in warm suds, or in a solution of ammonia water. The last is not recommenl ladies, as the odor of worm being an agreeable condition. Sheepherd is a breed known for her hardiness and ability to work in various conditions. Sheep herding does not feel like a long time. Some men never do any lives but herd sheep; an in the hills in a little selflessness than to be with them do not like to go out to do it for a living. There was a man here he made twelve hundred sheep herders work to $30, and then they go to and they stay drunk unguessed; and then they go make another raise. A Fearful San Bernardino Time Yesterday afternoon, a ten-year old son of Joan Rincon, named Augustus to walk up an inclined plane shaft in his father's place. The plank was slippery; the unfortunate child was precipitated low. His right leg was coog-wheels and literally crushed to a jelly torn from the body; prey is described by those accidents as horrible beetles left leg was also caused several places so bad would have been necessary being released from the caught by the driving brake by this means beaten in a fearful manner men in the mill, Messrs catchings sight of him jumping the belt, released before the hapless boy lay in pieces. Messengers post haste for surgical treatment... H. A. STOUGH & CO., Blacksmiths. ORSE SHOEING AND REPAIRING. CORNER of Centre and Clementina Streets, near the Cooper Shop. CHARLES WILLE, COOPERAGE. Pipes, Barrels and kegs on hand at all times. Tanks and Tubs made to order. Honey Barrels for sale cheap. Anaheim Cooper Shop, Centre Street, Anaheim. J. WESTPHAL, - Proprietor GADDY & LEWIS, Proprietors of the Planters' Stable, have opened a Branch Feed Stable, On Centre Street, near the Depot First-class accommodations for stock. ISAAC COHEN, (Successor to Helmann & George). KEEPES CONSTANTLY ON HAND THE LARGEST best and cheapest stock of dry-goods, fancy goods gents' and boys' clothing, shoes and boots, hats, trunks and valises. Also, groceries, provisions, crockery and hardware. Give me a trial. UPHAM & RAE, 43 Main Street, Los Angeles Wholesale and Retail dealers in School Books, Stationery and Music Special attention given to School Libraries. FOR THE BEST Wines and Brandies GO TO THEO. REISER, Cor. Santa Ana and Olive Sts. Anaheim. SUBSCRIBE FOR THE SEMI-WEEKLY GAZETTE BY MAIL, $5 PER YEAR. Monday, the occasion being the sixteenth anniversary of the birthday of Miss Katie Breermann. The following persons were granted teachers' certificates by the County Board of Examination, in session last week: Miss Annie Hoyt, Miss Ada Mayes, Miss Nannie C. Straus, W. G. McPherson, Joseph Smith, B. F. McDonald, J. N. Burgess, William Burton and A.C. Shafer. Hon. B. D. Wilson died at his residence at Lake Vineyard on Monday, in the 67th year of his age. The immediate cause of death was heart disease, but as he had been in his usual good health his demise was quite unexpected. Mr. Wilson came to Les Angeles in 1841. He represented this county in the State Senate for eight years, commencing at the session of 1835-6. Don't dig up Mission grape vines to plant other varieties in place of them. It is much cheaper and easier, and furnishes fruit sooner, to graft the Mission vine about six inches below the surface of the soil. Cleft grafting is easily and rapidly done, and costs much less than uprooting the valuable, sturdy Mission vine roots. Let the latter stay. They are the best stock to graft on that can be obtained. Mr. Langenberger has interested himself in sending samples of oranges raised in Anaheim to the fair to be held in Sacramento. Samples from the orchards of Bremermann, Korn and Langenberger have been sent which we think will compare well with any raised in the county. From the orchard of F. A. Korn one bunch was sent which consisted of nine large oranges on a single stem. We are pleased to note the success of Mr. Alfred Hinde, late of Anaheim, who has just become a graduate in medicine of Rush Medical College, Chicago. In point of merit we understand he heads the list of one hundred and twenty-five successful names. The following were the subjects of special examination:—Anatomy, Physiology, Chemistry, Materia Medica and Therapeutics, Principles and Practice of Medicine, Surgery, Dermatology and Genito-Urinary diseases, Diseases of the Nervous System, Diseases of the Chest, Ophthalmology and Otology, Obstetrics and diseases of women and children. Dr. Hinde was formerly a student of University College, London, England. Hon. David Alexander ing Sheriff, has upon his office which, for all he would as soon be wnesday he made a trip thimington for the purpose sheep, belonging to a Fiction. Arrived at the so confronted by ten or two shotguns, who proposed cution of the law. After officer by force of arms tear down the corral and over the plains from Dav course, the enforcement rendered hopeless in David had nothing to do about and come back to taken the advice of a la seled to go ahead and ev any circumstances, he wi with a posse and process vi et arnis. The business ed, and cannot be turned Sheriff. There was a comfort at the residence of Dr. J day. The doctor under there was pleasure here. LONDON, March 6. Freemasons of England, siding unanimously pass fusing to recognize as a son initiated in a Lodge is denied or ignored. The tion of the Grand Orient recently eliminated the belief in God from its rite More Remedies for the Aphis. Mr. Louis J. Stengel, proprietor of the Exotic Garden and Nurseries, Los Angeles, writes to the Gazette as follows: "As regards the plant lice (green flies you mention) I can give you my remedies employed against those pests for the last fifteen years, and I have no doubt you will meet with success in exterminating nearly all of the aphis or eriosoma family injurious to plants, particularly young shoots of rose bushes, etc." Solution of common soap, or mixture of soap-suds and tobacco-water, used warm (but not hot) and applied with a watering pot or still better, with a syringe. A sponge will also answer. Tea made from tobacco or suds must be thrown with considerable force against the twigs infested, and must be repeated whenever the insects make their appearance. There are also several other methods successfully employed, viz: Syringing plants with considerable force from a hose will often remove them. Tobacco smoke will surely kill them, but can only be employed in enclosed frames. Also, syringing the plants with solution of half an ounce of strong carbonate of ammonia in one quart of water. This has the merit of being clean as well as effectual. Plant lice may also be killed by bending the branches affected and holding them for several minutes in warm and strong soap-suds, or in a solution of whale oil soap-suds. The last is not recommended to be used by lalies, as the odor of whale oil soap is far Burlesque Temperance Bills. An unusual number of what we can only characterize as burlesque temperance bills have been introduced at the present session of the State Legislature. There is Hanna's bill, prohibiting the sale of more than one drink at a time. There is a bill providing for the introduction of the Virginia bell-punch, to register the drinks. And now Senator Bones has introduced a bill, by request, which appears to have had some attention bestowed upon its details, but which is as wild as Bedlam. We do not propose to discuss its propositions seriously, for they do not deserve such treatment. The effect of the bill would be to tax the liquor traffic out of existence, and perhaps that is the object sought. But a tolerably long and full experience has demonstrated that apart from all considerations of constitutional law, measures which aim at coercing people into a radical change of habit are inevitably abortive, and that they not infrequently result in an aggravation of the evils they are intended to destroy. The progress of temperance is emphatically a question of education. All attempts to treat it from any other standpoint have been, are, and will be failures. The most useful and decided steps in the direction of better things have been made by efforts to cultivate a taste for drinks containing less alcohol than the common popular beverages. The most serious drawback to temperance progress is the fact that temperance reformers so seldom practice the virtue they advocate. We do not mean to insinuate that The Extravagance of this Coast. We asked a shrewd business man what he thought was the cause of hard times here and everywhere throughout the country. His answer, in effect, was as follows: "Our people do not know the first principles of economy. We are the most extravagant people on the face of the earth. In San Francisco, there are some hundreds of people being fed by charity. In the same city there is thrown away food enough daily, from the hotels, to feed these people better than royal families are fed in Germany. Here on the Comstock are hundreds of young men working for $4 per day. They will not see that they are peculiarly blessed; they will not say to themselves: 'I can live nicely on $1 50 per day, and if I save $2 50 a day, in a year I shall have $750, with which I can buy a quarter section of land, a team, seed, and a year's food, and in five years be independent in my own home.' Not at all. They will at least have one suit of clothes better than a wealthy New England man wears every day; once or twice a week they will go to a theatre, they will not think of smoking anything less than two-bit cigars, and the result is they are at the end of December just where they were on the first day of January preceding, except that they are a year older. And this is characteristic of us all. Mingled with the extravagance is a false pride, which causes men and women to try to keep an appearance before the world which their incomes do not justify. This is probably the cause of more heartaches than- with considerable force from a hose will often remove them. Tobacco smoke will surely kill them, but can only be employed in enclosed frames. Also syringing the plants with solution of half an ounce of strong carbonate of ammonia in one quart of water. This has the merit of being clean as well as effectual. Plant lice may also be killed by bending the branches affected and holding them for several minutes in warm and strong soap-suds, or in a solution of whale oil soap-suds. The last is not recommended to be used by ladies, as the odor of whale oil soap is far from being an agreeable fragrance." Sheepherding. ORANGETHORPE, March 11. EDS. GAZETTE: The following is by one of the young members of our Literary. The ideas seem to have been evolved from the inner consciousness of the little fellow. I hope you may have an odd corner that it may fit. Very Respectfully, MISS JENNIE R. BUSH. Sheep-herding is a very bad business. When a man herds sheep every day for about a month and don't do anything else, he gets lazy and hates to work, and when he quits herding he don't feel like going to work for a long time. Some men never do anything else in their lives but herd sheep, and would rather be off in the hills in a little house, all by themselves, than to be with a family. But some of them do not like herd; but they have got to do it for a living. There was a man herded for us once until he made twelve hundred and 44 dollars. He was an American man. The most of the sheep herders work until they get about $30, and then they go to town and get drunk, and they stay drunk until this money is all gone, and then they go to work again and make another raise. A Fearful Death. [San Bernardino Times March 8th] Yesterday afternoon, about half past two, a ten-year old son of Jesse Mahew, of the Rincon, named Augustus Mahew, attempted to walk up an inclined plank over the driving shaft in his father's flouring mill, at that place. The plank was wet, very steep and slippery; the unfortunate boy's foot slipped and he was precipitated on the machinery below. His right leg was caught between two coq-wheels and literally torn from its socket and crushed to a jelly; the tendons were torn from the body, presenting a sight that is described by those accustomed to fearful accidents as horrible beyond all description. The left leg was also caught and broken in several places so badly that amputation would have been necessary. The boy, after being released from the coq-wheels, was caught by the driving belt across the body, and carried between it and a large pully, his body by this means being bruised and lacerated in a fearful manner. Two of the workmen in the mill, Mesrs. Lee and Stevenson, catchings sight of him, jumped forward and cutting the belt, released him, not, however, before the hapless boy had been nearly torn in pieces. Messengers were at once sent post haste for surgical assistance, and Dr. On a Coffee Plantation. Coffee culture is very interesting, and the growing crop is very beautiful. The trees at maturity are from five to eight feet high; they are well shaped and bushy, with a glossy, dark green foliage, and planted eight or nine feet apart. The flowers are in clusters at the root of the leaves, and very fragrant. The fruit has a rich color, and resembles a small cherry or large cranberry. It grows in clusters, close to the branches, and when it becomes a deep red is ripe and ready to be gathered. The trees are raised from seed, and do not begin to yield until the third year. In Central America they bear well for twelve or fifteen years, although, in exceptional cases, trees twenty years old will yield an abundance of fruit. The tree is particularly beautiful when in full bloom or when laden with ripe fruit. The process of preparing coffee for market is as follows: The ripe berries are first put through a machine called the "despulpador," which removes the pulp; the coffee-grains, of which there are two in each berry, are still covered with a sort of glutinous substance which adheres to the bean; they are now spread out on large "patois," made specially for this purpose, and left there, being occasionally tossed about and turned over with wooden shovels until they are perfectly dry. They are then gathered up and put into the not infrequently result in an aggravation of the evils they are intended to destroy. The progress of temperance is emphatically a question of education. All attempts to treat it from any other standpoint have been, are, and will be failures. The most useful and decided steps in the direction of better things have been made by efforts to cultivate a taste for drinks containing less alcohol than the common popular beverages. The most serious drawback to temperance progress is the fact that temperature reformers so seldom practice the virtue they advocate. We do not mean to insinuate that they are intemperate as regards drinking, but we do mean to say that they propose very intemperate remedies, and that they usually fail to perceive the broad distinction between temperance and total abstinence. Temperance strictly implies the moderate use of alcoholic drinks; but the temperance reformers are total abstainers, and in advocating coercive and violent measures of bringing all the world to their way of thinking, they inevitably engender antagonisms which are too commonly fatal to their usefulness. All legislation of the kind introduced at this session is futile, even supposing, what is hardly possible, that a Democratic Legislature could be got to consider such bills. The prevention of the adulteration of liquors, if it can be effected, is certainly to be desired; and any legislation which would tend to discourage the habitual use of whiskey, and to substitute less harmful drinks for it, may be tolerated. Men can be much more easily led than driven, and reforms of all kinds are more easily brought about by slow degrees, than when attempted per saltum. Sacramento Record-Union. A la Russe. There is no country which has so few old maids as Russia. The great ridicule attached to the title when not borne by a num has possibly something to do with the unwillingness of ladies to sport it. When a girl has reached the age of twenty-five without finding a mate, she generally sets out on what she calls pilgrimage if poor—on a round of travels if rich; and in either case she turns up some years later as a widow. Widows are as plentiful as old spinsters are scarce, and widows whose husbands were never seen are more numerous than the rest. Etiquette forbids any allusion to a ladies' dead husband in her presence; and this is perhaps sometimes convenient. Grasshoppers from India. The ship C. C. Chapman, which arrived a few days ago from Calcutta, has been the medium through which a new species of insect has been introduced. When the hatches were raised hundreds of grasshoppers sprang from their warm berths among the buttery where they stored themselves four months ago. These tropical insects resemble the grasshoppers common around New York in movement only. They have many long feelers and are of a light brown color. Captain Pote has also two other more interesting fugitives in a pair of Indian ring doves, which aligated on the ship in an ex- The left leg was also caught and broken in several places so badly that amputation would have been necessary. The boy, after being released from the cog-wheels, was caught by the driving belt across the body, and carried between it and a large pully, his body by this means being bruised and lacerated in a fearful manner. Two of the workmen in the mill, Mesrs. Lee and Stevenson, catchings sight of him, jumped forward and cutting the belt, released him, not, however, before the hapless boy had been nearly torn in pieces. Messengers were at once sent post haste for surgical assistance, and Dr. Rene, of this town, and Dr. Kilpatrick, of Pomona, were summoned, but were unable to render any assistance, and the poor child died at midnight. Hon. David Alexander, our lately retiring Sheriff, has upon his hands a souvenir of his office which, for all intents and purposes, he would as soon be without. Last Wednesday he made a trip to a ranch near Wilmington for the purpose of selling a band of sheep, belonging to a Frenchman, on execution. Arrived at the scene he found himself confronted by ten or twelve men, armed with shotguns, who proposed to dispute the execution of the law. After first defying the officer by force of arms, they proceeded to tear down the corral and disperse the sheep over the plains from Dan to Beersheba. Of course, the enforcement of the writ being rendered hopeless in a double sense, Don David had nothing to do but to turn himself about and come back to town. He has now taken the advice of a lawyer, and, if counselled to go ahead and execute his writ under any circumstances, he will reinforce himself with a posse and proceed to take the sheep viet armis. The business ranks as unfinished, and cannot be turned over to the new Sheriff. There was a comfortable dinner party at the residence of Dr. James Ellis on Sunday. The doctor understands such things and there was pleasure for all present. London, March 6.—The Grand Lodge of Freemasons of England, Lord Carnovan presiding, unanimously passed a resolution refusing to recognize as a Freemason any person initiated in a Lodge where belief in God is denied or ignored. This refers to the action of the Grand Orient of France, which recently eliminated the article expressing a belief in God from its ritual. The ship Wisteria, which cleared from this port on February 6th for Adelaide, took as a portion of her cargo 30 frame houses valued at $10,000, and doors, saash and lumber valued at $2,540. The shipper was A. D. Moore, who says that the houses are for a wealthy man in Australia. These houses were built here and finished inside and out, so that they can be put together without delay. Redwood was principally used in their construction, and most of them contain three rooms, and others four rooms each. These panel houses, as they are called, are intended for the country about Adelaide, and will be occupied by sheep-herders and their families. Mr. Moore is also building a number of these houses, which are to be sent to the San Joaquin Valley. A four-room house can be made for about $400, and a good carpenter can put up one in six days.—San Francisco Chronicle. The ship C. C. Chapman, which arrived a few days ago from Calcutta, has been the medium through which a new species of insect has been introduced. When the hatches were raised hundreds of grasshoppers sprang from their warm berths among the butts, where they stored themselves four months ago. These tropical insects resemble the grasshoppers common around New York in movement only. They have many long feelers and are of a light brown color. Captain Pote has also two other more interesting fugitives in a pair of Indian ring doves, which aligated on the ship in an exhausted condition. Compote of Oranges. Put a handful of loaf sugar to boil with a gill of water in a saucepan; when it boils adal, the rind of three oranges minced finely or cut into very narrow strips. Let the whole boil five minutes, add a liquor-glass of brandy, and pour the syrup—hot—over half a dozen oranges, peeled and cored, or cut up into any form liked. Leave the oranges in a basin with the syrup until quite cold; then pile them up on a dish, and serve. A compote of oranges—with the brandy and even the thin rind left out or not, as the case may be—served in conjunction with a pudding of a farinaceous character, such as rice, tapioca, semolina, etc., or with a custard pudding, is always a welcome sweet with children. The following appeared in the Newcastle Chronicle Jan. 6, 1779: "Monday last was brought from Howick to Berwick, to be shipped to London, for Sir Henry Grey, Bart,a pie, the contents wherof are as follows: 2 bushels of flour, 20 pounds of butter, 4 greese, 2 tarkeys, 2 rabbits, 4 wild ducks, 2 wood-cocks, 6 snipes, 4 partridges, 3 neats' tongues, 2 curlews. 7 blackbirds, and 6 pageons. It is supposed to be a very great curiosity. Was made by Mrs. Dorothy Patterson-housekeeper at Howick. It was near nine feet in circumference at bottom, weighs about twelve stones, will take two men to present it at table. It is neatly fitted with a case and four small wheels to facilitate its use to every guest that inclines to partake of its contents at table." Howick was the ancestral home of Charles Earl Grey, the great Reform Minister. The present peer is his son. GAZETTE. NO. 22 Time of this Coast. business man what he of hard times here throughout the country, as as follows: "Our first principles of the most extravagant the earth. In San the hundreds of people In the same city good enough, daily, these people better fed in Germany. There hundreds of young day. They will peculiarly blessed; they lives: I can live nicely if I save $250 a day, 18750, with which I own of land, a team, and in five years be home. Not at all, one suit of clothes New England man or twice a week they will not think of than two-bit cigars, live at the end of De were on the first ing, except that they this is characteristic the extravagance is a men and women to face before the world not justify. This is more heartaches than Tax on Wools—Important Amendments. WASHINGTON, March 6.—The Ways and Means Committee to-day considered the rate of tax on wool, and made the following amendments: The duty upon wool of the first and second classes, which shall be imported washed, shall be twice the amount of duty to which it would have been subjected if imported unwashed, and the duty upon the wool of sheep or the hair of the alapaca goat and other animals, which shall be imported in any other than ordinary condition, as now and heretofore practiced, or which shall be changed in its character or condition for the purpose of evading the duty, or which shall be reduced in value by the admixture of dirt or any other foreign substance, shall be twice the duty to which it would be otherwise subject. Wools of the first class, the value whereof at the last port or place whence exported to the United States, excluding charges in said port, shall be 16 cents or less a pound, 6 cents per pound; wools of the first class, the value whereof at the last port or place whence exported to the United States, excluding charges in said port, shall be not over 32 cents a pound, 12 cents a pound. The Beautiful Snow. CHEYENNE, Wyo., March 10.—The Union Pacific is still blocked by snow. The Western Division is open beyond Laramie, but nothing has passed that point eastward. The Eastern Division is open east of Sidney, but nothing has passed Antelope westward, where No. 3 passenger train, due here Friday last, still remains awaiting relief. Several hundred men with shovels, together with a number of plows, have been engaged today between Sidney and Laramie in the endeavor to lift the blockade. The heaviest plow on the road left Laramie this morning, but stuck at the siding. The snow in the cuts is packed very hard and the plows which left here eastward at 7 o'clock A.M. have not made much progress, returning here at 7 P.M. The Colorado Central train is at Taylor's station, eighteen miles south, with a plow in the ditch. The Denver Pacific train is ten miles south in a similar predicament. Relief has started from the south for both of these trains. No news from the north has yet been received. Reports from Colorado say that the Kansas Pacific is badly blocked with a wrecking train in a ditch at Box Elder. OMAHA, Neb., March 11.—The snow storm on the line of the Union Pacific from Julesburg to Bitter Creek is abating, so that men can work to clear the track. It is expected that if the storm does not rise again that the track will be clear to-morrow evening, so that trains can move. Trains were leaving Omaha regularly for the West. It was reported that a large number of cattle had been driven into the Platte river by the Remarkable Conversion. SAN FRANCISCO, March 11.—The agitators held their usual meeting on the sand lots yesterday, about 7,000 being present. Kearney described his recent interview with Lealand Stanford and admitted that he had, as the result of that interview, come to the conclusion that Stantord was a much smarter man than he had supposed. He credited Stanford with saying that he had been a working man himself and would not interfere with his employees in voting as they saw fit, and hoped that if any one attempted to do so he would be reported. Kearney volunteered the information that, in his opinion, Stanford would vote the Workingmen's ticket at the next election, and succeeded in manufacturing quite a feeling among the crowd of admiration for the man who had been lately denounced as the arch-enemy of the Workingmen's movement. Wool-Dealers to be Heard. WASHINGTON, March 5.—The Committee on Ways and Means will to-morrow permit the wool men to make statements before the Committee in relation to the schedule on wools and woolen goods. This will be the first time in which the rule adopted by the Committee to refuse a hearing to all parties has been set aside. In this instance it was done against the protest of Chairman Wool. If the wool men are given a hearing the Committee cannot consistently refuse the same privilege to other interests without rendering themselves liable to the charge of unfair discrimination. The Municipal Elections in Oakland. SAN FRANCISCO, March 12.—The city election in Oakland yesterday resulted in a large vote. The Workingmen elect all the candidates except Superintendent of Schools and City Marshal by small majorities. The fight was between the Workingmen and Republicans. The Democrats fused to some extent with the latter party. In the municipal election at Salinas the Citizens' party elected the whole ticket except one Councilman, a Workingman. Murder in Oakland. OAKLAND, March 12.—A murder by stabbing occurred at one o'clock this morning on Fourth street, the murdered man being John Harrison, a stepon of Con. Dwyer. The police were on law in view subject. Woors of the first class, the value whereof at the last port or place whence exported to the United States, excluding charges in said port, shall be over 16 and not over 32 cents or less a pound, 6 cents per pound; wools of the first class, the value whereof at the last port or place whence exported to the United States, excluding charges in said port, shall be not over 32 cents a pound, 12 cents a pound. Remarkable Conversion. SAN FRANCISCO, March 11.—The snow storm on the line of the Union Pacific from Julesburg to Bitter Creek is abating, so that men can work to clear the track. It is expected that if the storm does not rise again that the track will be clear to-morrow evening, so that trains can move. Trains were leaving Omaha regularly for the West. It was reported that a large number of cattle had been driven into the Platte river by the storm and died in consequence of cold and ice. The report, however, is exaggerated, as it has since been ascertained that very few if any cattle have died. Sergeant James Ford, Co.D, 5th Cavalry, was driven into a canyon a mile from that town and covered up by twenty feet of snow. Efforts were made by his comrades and citizens to rescue him, but they have not yet proved successful. Heavy drifts between Cheyenne and Archer are reported. Strength and Longevity. It would seem from statistics gathered by medical men that the old adage, "Always sick, never die," has a better foundation than mere hearsay. A high medical authority, Dr. E Southey, in a lecture on health, said: "Health and longevity are not synonymous neither are health and great muscularity. The most muscular men, great prizefighters, men who could fell an ox with their fists, have been known to be always ailing and complaining about themselves. Longevity like height is a rare attribute, but it does not signify health. The three oldest people I ever knew—women who reached respectively 89, 98 and 100—were valetulinarians, and had been so nearly all their lives." The Insurance Monitor says it appears from the experience of life canvassers that a large number of the persons solicited, who are willing and might otherwise have been acceptable, either decline or are refused because they cannot favorably answer some questions relating to their bodily health, although the affliction does not ordinarily or necessarily lead to the shortening of life. The Monitor remarks that "the soundness of any life is only in degree; a really sound life, entirely free from any seeds of disease, hereditary or acquired, is a rara avis in life insurance." Insurance of "impaired lives" has been tried in England and in this country and bids fair to be a success. A large company of easily-gulled individuals was victimized a short time back in a small country town. By means of posters announcing a grand sacred concert, and by a free distribution of complimentary tickets, bearing on their face this condition, "No gentleman admitted unless accompanied by a lady," a large audience was gathered at the theatre. When the crowd began to press through the doors, the ticket-taker began shouting, "All having complimentary tickets will please pass upstairs to the gal- Murder in Oakland. OAKLAND, March 12.—A murder by stabbing occurred at one o'clock this morning on Fourth street, the murdered man being John Harrison, a stepson of Con. Dwyer. The murderer is John Welsh, a son-in-law of Con. Dwyer. The affair grew out of a family trouble about which all parties are reticent. The murderer delivered himself to the authorities and is in prison. Destructive Tornado. ATLANTA, Ga., March 11.—A tornado occurred here yesterday. The Episcopal church was destroyed, and eighteen of the congregation wounded. Several other churches were injured. The City Hall was entirely unroofed and the car sheds of the railroad depot were overturned. SACRAMENTO, March 11.—Senate—The substitute irrigation bill, providing for the appointment of an engineer to investigate the whole question, was amended by the insertion of a clause requiring a report on the value of the lands in the Sacramento valley injured by debris from mines, and finally passed. The following joint resolutions and bills were passed: Haymond's, asking Congress to make an investigation as to the best method of reclaiming swamp and overflowed lands; Barstow's bill against granting any further grants of public lands to corporations; Pauly's, relative to Indiana in Southern California; Miller's, against change in the import duty on wool; Brook's, asking for the recognition of the Diaz government in Mexico. It has been calculated that about 100,000 boatmen are employed on the canals of England and Wales, that 70,000 women live in them, and that the children found afford make up a total population of nearly half a million. No women or children are allowed to live in canal boats in either Scotland or Ireland. A large company of easily-gulled individuals was victimized a short time back in a small country town. By means of posters announcing a grand sacred concert, and by a free distribution of complimentary tickets, bearing on their face this condition, "No gentleman admitted unless accompanied by a lady," a large audience was gathered at the theatre. When the crowd began to press through the doors, the ticket-taker began shouting, "All having complimentary tickets will please pass upstairs to the gallery." This was a dark, dreary, hot place, not having the capacity for seating comfortably more than two hundred people. Those who pressed forward with their tickets were told that if they did not wish to go forward to the gallery they could be admitted by paying a shilling apiece. Every man who appeared with a complimentary ticket of course had a lady with him, and felt a sort of embarrassment if she were not his wife or intimate acquaintance, so he yielded to compulsion and paid rather than retire, and so the scheme succeeded to the extent of filling the house. An effort is being made in England to abolish actions for breach of promise of marriage. Parliament is petitioned not to pass such a law, and the ladies set forth their objections to its passage in the following sensible and strong arguments: "Marriage is the natural and honorable profession in which most women maintain themselves by the discharge of the conjugal, social, and domestic duties which pertain to the duties of a wife; the entrance on this profession comes to a woman through an offer or promise of marriage; the acceptance of which offer or promise delays the woman from forming other ties, and the breaking or non-performance of such promise hinders her from obtaining an establishment in life; inasmuch as a woman who has given her affections to one man cannot transfer them to another without grievous loss; men do not usually marry for a maintenance, while marriage is regarded as the proper and usual means by which women obtain a maintenance; therefore a breach of promise of marriage by a man to a woman causes a preliminary loss which is not usually suffered through a breach of promise by a woman to a man; and upon these and other grounds, the petitioners pray that leave may not be granted to bring in a bill to abolish action for breach of promise of marriage."