anaheim-gazette 1878-05-18

ANAHEIM VOL. 8. WEEKLY GAZETTE. Established 1870. SATURDAY ... MAY 18, 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 Blankon's Drug Store, from 9 to 10 A.M., 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 Homosopathy.) Physician & Surgeon, Graduate of the N. Y. Hom. Med College, March, 1869. Kleinigkeiten. [FROM WEDNESDAY'S SEMI-WEEKLY.] Peter Richards returned home on Saturday. Any one having a good safe field can get a horse to pasture by applying at this office. The Anaheim Brass Band, in conjunction with the Magnolia Social Club, will hold a picnic on Sunday, May 26th. The Grand Jury is now in session. One of the members is a colored man. And singularly enough his name is White. Postmaster Higgins will receive sealed proposals until May 24th, for carrying the mail from Anaheim to the Railroad Depot seven times a week, each way. D.B.Woolf, Clerk of the Supreme Court, is in Los Angeles for the purpose of selecting rooms for the use of the Supreme Court while in session in that city. Mr. J. H. Fruit of Santa Ana was in town yesterday. He reports Santa Ana to be in a healthy condition and somewhat exercised in regard to the Constitutional Convention. A large audience assembled at the Presbyterian Church on last Sunday night to listen to Rev. J. A. Mitchell's lecture on "The Catacombs of Rome." The lecture was an interesting and able one. Anaheim Literature. The society convenes court room on Thursday usual hour. M. A. M. elects, on taking the chairing inaugural address members the necessity efforts to build up the tend its usefulness. Teresed in the society joins the interest its members would have larger audience we must make our literature and every member prompt to perform well upon. The question, Resolutionishment should be abolished in the affirmative by Mr. Beebe, in the negative goorney and Guinn. D affirmative. Mr. Henderson having Secretary, J. M. Guinn office. Messrs. Montgomery be were appointed committee. The following question at the next meeting poverty is more often than of mismanagement Guinn, Cahill and Lederson, Athearn and Bogomy and Stephenson Declamation. It was decided to ho 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 Homemopathy.) Physician & Surgeon, Graduate of the N. Y. Hom Med College, March, 1809. Office and residence, 63 Spring Street, Los Angeles. DR. E. L. COWAN, DENTIST, HAS OPENED AN OFFICE IN THE UPPER part of Mrs. Meta's building, Los Angeles Street, Anaheim. Having had twenty years' experience, he can speak with a confidence of his work. His scale of prices will be very low. His office days are Wednesdays, Thursdays, Fridays, and Saturdays, between the hours of 9 A.M. and 5 P.M. 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 MONTGOMERY. SCOTT & MONTGOMERY, Attorneys at Law. PROBATE BUSINESS A SPECIALTY. Anaheim. Los Angeles County, Cal. R. W. SCOTT, Notary Public. SCOTT & MONTGOMERY'S OFFICE, Kroeger's Block, Center Street, Anaheim. R. LUEDKE. Watch Maker and Jeweler, Centre Street, Anaheim. EVERY DESCRIPTION OF WATCHES, CLOCKS, and Jewelry carefully repaired and warranted. Also, a fine assortment of Jewelry on hand. L. GUNTHER, Ploneer Boot and Shoe Maker, Cor. Third and Los Angeles streets. ANAHEIM. GEORGE BAUER, BOOT AND SHOE MAKER, Los Angeles Street. MAKING AND REPAIRING AT THE LOWEST cash price. All orders promptly attended to I work guaranteed. 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 -D.B.Woolf, Clerk of the Supreme Court, is in Los Angeles for the purpose of selecting rooms for the use of the Supreme Court while in session in that city. Mr. J. H. Fruit of Santa Ana was in town yesterday. He reports Santa Ana to be in a healthy condition and somewhat exercised in regard to the Constitutional Convention. -A large audience assembled at the Presbyterian Church on last Sunday night to listen to Rev. J. A. Mitchell's lecture on "The Catacombs of Rome." The lecture was an interesting and able one. -We are told that in the saloon "forninst" this office an exciting series of games at billiards was played on Sunday. The stakes were $20 per game, and when the sun went down the best player had won about a hundred and fifty dollars. -The term of the public schools closes on the last day of the present month, after which a vacation will be bad until sometime in August. The usual examination will be had before the close of the term, probably commencing on Wednesday, May 29th. -The County Central Committee of the Workingmen's party has recommended the State Convention to place Major Kinley's name on the State ticket for the Constitutional Convention, and in case two names are allowed us, they recommended R. D. Pitt for the second place. -If Mr. Victor Montgomery's ability as an agriculturist can be gauged by the size of the turnips he raises on his farm near Orange, he can be ranked as a No. 1 farmer. At the store of Messrs. D. & G. D. Plate are two specimens of the vegetables mentioned, which weigh six and eight pounds respectively, and each measure 29 inches in circumference. -We visited the establishment of Messrs. McDermott & Grimshaw yesterday to see the new carriage they have just turned out for Mr. A. Langeberger. It seemed to us to be a splendid piece of workmanship and we see no reason why orders should be sent to San Francisco and the East for wagons and carriages when such splendid affairs can be manufactured at home by our own workmen. -A correspondent of the Express tells the following: "There is an almost universal opinion that the class of animals embraced within the designation 'reptile' is inferior to the class Mammalia, not only in structure, but likewise in sagacity. This may be true, or otherwise; I am not prepared to say as to the fact pro or con, but I do say that a common horned frog, now the property (?) of Judge Brunson, exhibits an acuteness of perception almost human in degree. That reptile will not only erect itself upon its hind feet and tail at the command of the Judge, but while in that position, at the command "dance," strikes down with both feet into a regular "clog." It performs many other feats, such as turning over the pages of a law book, scrawling over paper with a miniature pen which it holds in both hands, and tying up bundles of paper with red tape. The Judge Mr. Henderson having Secretary, J. M. Guinn office. Messrs. Montgomery be were appointed commissioner. The following question cussion at the next most poverty is more often than of mismanagement Gunn, Cahill and Lederson, Athearn and Borgomy and Stephenson Declaration. It was decided to hold Magnolia Hall, on The 16th. The public are tended it is hoped that will by their presence some appreciation of their public-spirited person up and sustain a Lit town. Every school around has its Literary of which are largely heim, with its population can scarce turn out a lot to exercises equally mtaining. The New School The trustees of An on Saturday last decided the new school building elegant designs were s advertisement for pl matter to determine u able for the purpose; eration the plan presen & Ripley, of Los Angle the architects notified specifications and deta in about two weeks; w proposals will be ma tended by the trustee structure two stories; the most approved st large and well ventil ences everything whi The building will co dollarls. It is to be b penters and builders s in the matter of proc there is no reason whi pended in the building ed in our own town. fications are completen e be offered to build their estimates. A purchase the bonds have been received b taken in the matter trustees, as their dis A school district o with $500,000 worth security of which cap BOOT AND SHOE MAKER, Los Angeles Street. MAKING AND REPAIRING AT THE LOWEST cash price. All orders promptly attended to I work guaranteed. 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. Honev Barrels for sale cheap. Anaheim Cooper Shop, Centre Street, Anaheim. J. WESTPHAL, - Proprietor L. F. LEWIS, Proprietor of the Planters' Stable, has opened a Branch Feed Stable, On Centre Street, near the Depot First-class accommodations for stock. ISAAC COHEN, (Successor to Heimann & George). KEEP CONSTANTLY ON HAND THE LARGEST best and cheapest stock of dry-goods, fancy goods gentle's and boys' clothing, shoes and boots, hats, trunks and valises. Also, groceries, provisions, rocery and hardware. Give me a trial. FOR THE BEST Wines and Brandies GO TO THEO. REISER, Cor. Santa Ana and Olive Sts. Anaheim. ADVERTISE IN THE SEMI-WEEKLY GAZETTE. The Democratic County Central Committee have given notice that a county convention will be held in Los Angeles on June 4th to nominate three delegates to the Constitutional Convention. They have therefore ordered that an election be held in the several townships on the first day of June to select delegates to the County Convention. The polling places named for this section are as follows: ANAHEIM—Judge Bailey’s office; A. Bailey Judge; 3 Delegates. ORANGE—Orange Hotel; J. T. Jenkins Judge; 1 Delegate. FOUNTAIN VALLEY—School house; W. R. Candle Judge; 2 Delegates. GARDEN GROVE—School house; Dr. J. T. Head Judge; 1 Delegate. SAN JUAN CAPISTRANO—Iler’s Hotel; John Congdon Judge; 2 Delegates. SANTA ANA—School house; Trinidad Yorba Judge; 1 Delegate. SAN JOAQUIN—Judge Humphrey’s office; Levi Fickas Judge; 3 Delegates. TUSTIN—School house; Dr. W. B. Wall Judge; 1 Delegate. WESTMINSTER—School house; M. B. Craig Judge; 1 Delegate. In apportioning the delegates for the several precincts, the Committee took the vote cast for Mr. Holloway as the basis of the representation. One vote was allotted to each precinct as a precinct, another was given for every hundred and another for every fractional sixty-hundredths of the Holloway vote. The tests for voters at the primary are 1st. That they are qualified voters under the laws of the State; 2nd. That they Democrats. Berlin, May 11.-afternoon, as Emperor ing from a drive with several shots were fiver in the avenue body was hurt. The shots was arrested. Berlin, May 11.-cited in consequence Emperor’s life. Great front of the Palace, showed himself secedement of the ex The Ministers of for Ambassadors and oened to the Palace t on his escape. The hands of the po any information of petrator. The mot known. The man who a Emperor William in Heinrich Max Hoedzig. He was taken station, where a was instituted. The named Krueger, a lin. There were w before the palace Dense masses were suburbs to manifes pathy, singing the Santa Cruz, May old Williams mills this city, James O young man named was shot in the killing is said to be fense. O’Brien c himself up and is are said to be the It is said Gospel Swamp ha on strong alkaline straw. ANAHEIM, CALIFORNIA: SATURDAY, MAY 18, 1878. Anaheim Literary Society. The society convened in Judge Bailey's court room on Thursday evening at the usual hour, M. A. Mendelson, President-elect, on taking the chair delivered a stirring inaugural address. He urged upon the members the necessity of making renewed efforts to build up the society and to extend its usefulness. The public will be interested in the society just in proportion to the interest its members take in it. It we would have larger audiences at our meetings, we must make our literary exercises interesting and every member must be ready and prompt to perform well his part when called upon. The question, Resolved That capital punishment should be abolished, was discussed in the affirmative by Messrs. Stephenson and Beebe, in the negative by Messrs. Montgomery and Guinn. Decided in favor of the affirmative. Mr. Henderson having declined to act as Secretary, J. M. Guinn was chosen to fill that office. Messrs. Montgomery, Stephenson and Beebe were appointed committee on programme. The following question was chosen for discussion at the next meeting: Resolved That poverty is more often the result of misfortune than of mismanagement. Affirmative, Guinn, Cahill and Leonard; negative, Henderson, Athearn and Beebe. Messrs. Montgomery and Stephenson were appointed for Declamation. It was decided to hold the next meeting in Anaheim on Thursday evening May 18, 1878. ORANGE CULTURE. Having learned by accident that a small book on Orange Culture had been published in Florida, we sent to the author and purchased a copy. And we propose, from time to time, to give such extracts from the book as we think will be of interest or benefit to our readers. In this issue we give the chapter on DISEASES TO WHICH THE ORANGE TREE AND FRUIT ARE LIABLE AND THEIR REMEDIES. Few fruit trees are less liable to disease than the orange, but the fruit and trees are so valuable that no enemy should be allowed to attack them unopposed. Perhaps the most formidable disease which has yet made its appearance is the "die-back." Two causes producing this disease have already been noticed in a preceding chapter. The name "die-back" is a general term, used for want of a better and more specific name or names, for at least two diseases arising from three and perhaps four different causes. But as it is descriptive of the symptoms of one or more diseases arising from several different causes, its meaning is readily comprehended. The symptom is the dying back of the new wood to the old. It is sometimes confined to the branches of the tree. When this is the case the inference is that it is caused solely from the sting of an insect. If, however, the symptom is general to the young branches and they come forth, feeble and yellow with no marks of stings, the cause may originate A Mad Hungarian Horseman. Count Nagy-Sandor, of whose death we recently gave an account, married an elder sister of Prince Richard Metternich, and by her was the father of the ill-favored but fascinating lady whom Prince Richard married, and who so long led the fashions at the Court of Napoleon III. Mayfair of March 13th thus sketches some passages in his curious career: Not the least remarkable incident in the life of Count Maurice Sandor was his connection with Prince Metternich. The Prince was punctilious, reserved and measured, in words and politics, as the Count was brusque, reckless and harum-scarum. When he applied to the Prince for the hand of his daughter the Prince said he did not care about having his daughter's neck broken; but on Sandor promising to abandon his feats of tenaurship, he at last gave his consent. The very same evening Sandor rode his horse Tartar up two flights of stairs into a drawing-room and coolly told the Prince, when he remonstrated with him for breaking his promise, that "on the contrary, he was keeping his promise, and accustoming his horse to polite society." He was incorrigible. He jumped anything and everything. At a cross-road he once went over a peasant's wagon. He crossed the Danube on the floes when the ice was breaking up, galloped up and down the Prater backwards in his saddle, and rivaled all the feats performed in the great circuses. In 1848 he was treated to a chirurgical poplup on account of Mr. Henderson having declined to act as Secretary, J. M. Guinn was chosen to fill that office. Messrs. Montgomery, Stephenson and Beebe were appointed committee on programme. The following question was chosen for discussion at the next meeting: Resolved, That poverty is more often the result of misfortune than of mismanagement. Affirmative, Gunn, Cahill and Leonard; negative, Henderson, Athearn and Beebe. Messrs. Montgomery and Stephenson were appointed for Declamation. It was decided to hold the next meeting in Magnolia Hall, on Thursday evening, May 16th. The public are cordially invited to attend. It is hoped that hereafter our citizens will by their presence, if nothing more, show some appreciation of the efforts that a few public-spirited persons have made to build up and sustain a Literary Society in our town. Every school district in the country around has its Literary Society, the meetings of which are largely attended; while Anaheim, with its population of fifteen hundred, can scarce turn out a dozen auditors to listen to exercises equally meritorious and entertaining. The New School House. The trustees of Anaheim School District on Saturday last decided upon a plan for the new school building. As a number of elegant designs were sent in response to the advertisement for plans, it was a difficult matter to determine upon the one most suitable for the purpose, but after careful deliberation the plan presented by Messrs. Boggs & Ripley, of Los Angeles, was adopted and the architects notified to commence upon the specifications and details, which will beready in about two weeks, when advertisements for proposals will be made. The building intended by the trustees will be an elegant structure two stories high and lighted after the most approved style. The rooms will be large and well ventilated and the conveniences everything which could be desired. The building will cost about nine thousand dollars. It is to be hoped that our own carpenters and builders will bestir themselves in the matter of proposals for building, as there is no reason why the money to be expended in the building should not be expendled in our own town. As soon as the specifications are completed every facility will be offered to builders everywhere to make their estimates. A number of proposals to purchase the bonds of the School District have been received but no action has yet been taken in the matter of selling them by the trustees, as their disposal is an easy matter. A school district of seven square miles, with $500,000 worth of assessed property, is security of which capitalists have no fear. Attempt to Assassinate Emperor William. BERLIN, May 11.—5 p. m.—At 3:30 this afternoon, as Emperor William was returning from a drive with the Dutchess of Baden, several shots were fired at him from a revolver in the avenue Unterden Linden. No want of a better and more specific name or names, for at least two diseases arising from three and perhaps four different causes. But as it is descriptive of the symptoms of one or more diseases arising from several different causes, its meaning is readily comprehended. The symptom is the dying back of the new wood to the old. It is sometimes confined to the branches of the tree. When this is the case the inference is that it is caused solely from the sting of an insect. If however, the symptom is general to the young branches and they come forth, feeble and yellow with no marks of stings, the cause may originate near the roots. Deep planting will produce such symptoms. Trees do not depend solely upon their leaves for the supply of carbonic acid. The roots gather a very considerable part of this gas, so essential to plant life, not in a pure state, as is done by the leaf, but in chemical combination with other elements. This is the case especially with trees which have very yellow roots. Such trees send their roots into a very porous soil easily penetrated by the air, or else send them near the surface, where they find a greater abundance of air, which decomposes manure and is essential to the formation of carbonic acid. Such is the case with the orange tree and roots. If the tree is planted too deep or the crust on the top of the soil has become very compact, these roots, depending upon air for health and ability to perform their functions, are virtually smothered. They make an effort to grow, but as often as they form rootlets and roothairs, those die and convey no nutriment for the formation of the woody structure of young shoots, so the new and tender cells, which are but frame work of the plant, perish for want of support. And hence the light cellular structure in the forms of the young shoots die back as certainly as if they had been cut from the older wood. I have occasionally dug up trees so afflicted and found them wanting in new roots. The remedy is to reset, or else take away the top soil till the lateral roots are brought near the surface and to keep the soil well cultivated. The better plan is to take them up and reset them. Cut away all diseased wood and roots. When extremities of roots of trees come in contact with poisonous earth a similar symptom is produced, as in planting upon the hard-pan or over a stratum of salt earth. Rust on the orange (fruit) has been a considerable cause of annoyance to some growers, because it mars the beauty of the fruit, though it does not affect its sweetness, nor its flavor. It is a disease confined exclusively to the outer skin. Whether it is true rust or is simply an absence of the essential oil so abundant in the peel of the yellow fruit, the writer is not fully satisfied though inclining to the latter opinion. Fruit so affected has one advantage. It keeps longer than that enveloped in the lighter and more oily skin. The writer has had no difficulty in removing this disease. At different times and on different trees he has changed, in a single year, the color of the fruit from a dark-brown to a bright-yellow and smooth skin by the application of slaked lime. Tartar up two flights of stairs into a drawing-room and coolly told the Prince, when he demonstrated with him for breaking his promise, that "on the contrary, he was keeping his promise, and accustoming his horse to polite society." He was incorrigible. He jumped anything and everything. At a cross-road he once went over a peasant's wagon. He crossed the Danube on the floes when the ice was breaking up, galloped up and down the Prater backwards in his saddle, and rivaled all the feats performed in the great circuses. In 1848 he was treated to a chirivari by an enraged populace, on account of his connection with Prince Metternich, but stepping out on the balcony with a dog whistle and two servants, each with a sack full of cats, he quite out-whistled and outmiaowed his antagonists. Then, going down stairs amongst them, he seized a stone and throwing it at one of his windows, invited the crowd to smash the rest. Taken aback at this courtesy, they refused. Thereupon Sandor cried, "Well, then let us go to my father-in-law's and smash his." This proposal was carried by acclamation, and the Prince's windows were duly smashed. But by this time Sandor had got the crowd so under his control that no further damage was done, and what might have turned out a serious riot was changed into a convivial meeting. One day a remarkable transformation took place. He became as nervous and timid as he had been reckless and daring. He never mounted a horse again, refused to take his rein when he went out driving, and always warned his daughter to be cautious. This change, I was told by one of his most intimate friends, was due to a dream. The dream was to the effect that the devil suddenly appeared with a number of mirrors, which he held one by one before the Count, and in which Sandor saw the danger he had run in each of his exploits. Mirror after mirror was held before him till the sweat poured from his brow, and the last glass was reached. But instead of showing him this one the devil put it back with a leer and said: "This is the last one; this has yet to come." At this moment the Count awoke and vowed he would never mount a horse again. And he did not. Jeff Davis's Costume. From the Oil City Derrick. Like Joaquin Miller, we have "a weakness for weaker side, aiding with the helpless weak," not to mention last week, this week and week after next. We cannot therefore stand idly by and see a hundred newspapers asserting every once in a while that Jefferson Davis was captured in a common brown pet-ticoat and a sun-bonnet. Mr. Davis's modesty will not allow him to describe what he really wore on the momentous occasion, and thus give the lie to these slanderers. Our sense of justice prompts us to come to the rescue. Mr. Davis wore a gros grain-silk, cut bias, with a George Francis Train, which he carried under his arm to keep it out of the mud. It had a deep skirt, adjusted by Attempt to Assassinate Emperor William. BERLIN, May 11.—At 3:30 this afternoon, as Emperor William was returning from a drive with the Dutchess of Baden, several shots were fired at him from a revolver in the avenue Unterden Linden. Nobody was hurt. The man who fired the shots was arrested. BERLIN, May 11.—The city is greatly excited in consequence of an attempt on the Emperor's life. Great crowds assembled in front of the Palace, to whom the Emperor showed himself several times in acknowledgement of the expression of sympathy. The Ministers of foreign countries, foreign Ambassadors and officers of the army hastened to the Palace to tender congratulations on his escape. The would-be assassin is in the hands of the police, who decline to give any information of the character of the perpetrator. The motive for the crime is unknown. The man who attempted to assassinate Emperor William is a tinsmith, named Emil Heinrich Max Hoedel, said to be from Leipzig. He was taken to the nearest police station, where a preliminary investigation was instituted. The accomplice arrested is named Krueger, a laborer belonging to Berlin. There were unceasing demonstrations before the palace throughout the evening. Dense masses were streaming in from remote suburbs to manifest their loyalty and sympathy, singing the National anthem. SANTA CRUZ, May 13.—Yesterday at the old Williams mills, seventeen miles from this city, James O'Brien shot and killed a young man named Alfred Jouca. Deceased was shot in the mouth and breast. The killing is said to have been done in self-defense. O'Brien came to this city and gave himself up and is in jail. Family troubles are said to be the cause. It is said that Mr. Layman, of Gospel Swamp has secured luxuriant alfalfa on strong alkaline soil by mulching with straw. COANSVILLE (Ind.) May 10.—A performer with a variety combination attempted at Rockport, Ind., yesterday, the feat of shooting an apple from the head of a woman. His aim miscarried, and an eight-year-old boy, who was playing outside the canvas, was shot in the forehead and almost instantly killed. The performer was arrested, but as it was evidently accidental, nobody could be found to file an affidavit, and he was released. New hats and millinery goods received every week at Mrs. Brown's Center Stress Anaheim. McLin, of Florida Returning Board fame, is the Mrs. Tilton of the Grand Scandal. He has a fresh confession every day or two. At first he confessed that Manton Marble tried to bribe him, and when Mr. Marble said it was a lie, everybody believed it was. Now McLin says General Noyes tried to bribe him for the other side, and everybody will believe that is a lie, without a word from General Noyes. GAZETTE. 1878. NO. 31 Man Horseman. of whose death we must, married an elder Metternich, and by the ill-favored but fascious Richard married, fashions at the Court of March 13th ages in his curious catable incident in the landor was his connecternich. The Prince had and measured, in the Count was brusque, turn. When he appose hand of his daughdid not care about neck broken; but on landor his feats of centre his consent. The landor rode his horse of stairs into a drawhold the Prince, when him for breaking his contrary, he was keepaccustoming his horse. He jumped anyAt a cross-road he peasant's wagon. He in the floes when the colloped up and down in his saddle, and riformed in the great was treated to a chiriplace, on account of Bound to Keep Pace. There are hardware men in Detroit who keep a cook stove at the store door as a sign, and that the stove may not be injured by rust, they paint it over. The other day, one of them, who had a stove with red legs, white covers, and a blue top, secured an old farmer for a customer. The farmer stipulated for a stove "just like that," and ordered it sent home by the team of a neighbor. A stove of the size and pattern was selected and sent away in good shape, and all was lovely until the next day. Then the farmer and his wife came in with their own team, having the stove in the wagon. The husband held the lines while the wife entered the store and remarked: "When we buy a certain kind of a stove we don't want to be put off with another." "Why, madam, isn't that stove all right?" asked the man that sold it. "No, sir, it isn't! You sold my old man a stove with red legs, and a blue border around the top, and white covers, and that one out in the wagon is nothing but a scrub looking old black stove!" "Why—why——" he tried to explain, but she waved him around and declared: "We're old folks, and we live out among the frogs and owls, but we keep pace with the style just as much as any one, and you can't palm off any scrub stoves on us!" The men could hardly lift ten pounds apiece as they exchanged the nicely-polished stove for the one with red legs, but the old lady thought it was because they were so mad. The Electoral Troubles. WASHINGTON, May 13.—In the House today Potter, as a question of privilege, presented the following preamble and resolution: Whereas, The State of Maryland has by its legislature formally declared that due effect was not given to the electoral vote cast by the State on the 6th day of November, 1876, by reason of fraudulent returns in the electoral votes from the State of Florida and Louisiana, and Whereas, An affidavit of Samuel B. McLain, chairman of the Board of State Canvassers of the State of Florida, for the election held in that State on November 1876, for electors for President and Vice-President, has been made public, alleging false and fraudulent returns of votes for such election in the State, whereby the choice of the people of that State was annulled and reversed and that the action of the Board of State Canvassers making such returns was influenced by the conduct and promise of the Hon. Edward T. Noyes, now minister to the Government of France; and Whereas, It is alleged that a conspiracy existed in the State of Louisiana whereby the Republican vote in all the precincts of the parish of East Feliciana at the general election in November, 1876, was purposely withheld to afford a pretext for the exclusion by the Board of that State of the vote cast in these precincts for electors for President and Vice-President; and that Jos. E. Anderson, Supervisor of Registration in East Feliciana, and D. A. Webber, Supervisor of Registration in the Parish of West Feliciana, in that He jumped any at a cross-road he meant's wagon. He ran the floes when the hilloped up and down in his saddle, and ridden in the great was treated to a chirp on lace, on account of Prince Metternich, but cony with a dog whiskey with a sack full of whistles and outwits. Then, going down one seized a stone and his windows, invited the rest. Taken aback he refused. Thereupon he let us go to myash his." This propoacclamation, and the duly smashed. But had got the crowd so that no further damage might have turned out engaged into a convivial transformation took nervous and timid as and daring. He never refused to take the best driving, and always to be cautious. This one of his most intiude to a dream. The fact that the devil suddow a number of mirrors, none before the Count, saw the danger he had exploits. Mirror after more him till the sweat and the last glass was of showing him this back with a leer and last one; this has yet to present the Count awoke never mount a horse not. His Costume. City Derrick. Ar, we have "a weakness insiding with the helpless last week, this week We cannot therefore be a hundred newspapers in a while that Jefferson in a common brown petnot. Mr. Davis's modim to describe what he momentous occasion, and these slanderers. Our impulps us to come to the worse a gros grain-silk, George Francis Train, which is arm to keep it out of deep skirt, adjusted by A bar of gold, 19 inches long, 6½ inches wide, and four inches thick, reached the office of Kountz Brothers, bankers, 12 Wall street, yesterday, from Montana. It was obtained from the Penobscot lode, situated fifteen miles from Helena, and was sent by L. H. Hershfield & Brothers, bankers of that place. Strong men tried in vain yesterday to get their fingers beneath it as it lay on the floor to lift it. It weighs 282½ pounds, and is worth $54,000. It is covered with figures made in the soft metal with dies. They indicate the weight it was found to possess by the different persons through whose hands it passed. The figures are the same. It is said to be the largest bar ever sent to the East. It is to be sent to the Government Assay office to be coined or made into small bars. It is not pure gold, a little over one-fifth of it being silver. It has a dusty, yellow, unattractive appearance.—New York Noyes, now minister to the Government of France; and Whereas, It is alleged that a conspiracy existed in the State of Louisiana whereby the Republican vote in all the precincts of the parish of East Feliciana at the general election in November, 1876, was purposely withheld to afford a pretext for the exclusion by the Board of that State of the vote cast in these precincts for electors for President and Vice-President; and that Jos. E. Anderson, Supervisor of Registration in East Feliciana, and D. A. Webber, Supervisor of Registration in the Parish of West Feliciana, in that State, in furtherance of that conspiracy, falsely protested that such election in such precincts had not been fair and free, and that the State Returning Board thereupon falsely and fraudulently excluded the votes of said precincts, and by means thereof and of other false and fraudulent action by said Returning Board, the choice of the people of that State was annulled and reversed, and that such action of said Weber and Anderson was induced or encouraged by the assurances of Hon. John Sherman, Secretary of the Treasury of the United States; and whereas the gravity of these charges, the nature of the evidence upon which they are reported to be based and the official dignity and position of the persons named in connection with said frauds, make it proper that the same should be inquired into, to the end that the honor of the country may be vindicated and the truth as to such elections made known. The preamble and resolutions having been read, Conger said they did not present a question of privilege and that the powers proposed in the resolution could not be given by a mere majority vote, but would require a suspension of the rules. Speaker—A memorial is a petition and is provided for in the constitution wherein it is stated that Congress shall make no law abridging the right of the people to petition the government for redress of grievances. Conger appealed from the decision of the Chair. By a vote of 128 yeas to 108 nays the appeal was laid on the table. The vote was a party one with the exception of Mitchell, Butler (Mass.), and Fort, who voted with the Democrats; and Mills and Buckner, who voted with the Republicans. A Successful Flying Machine. New York, May 9.—A special to the World from Philadelphia says: Private views of the new flying machine were given to quite a number of invited guests at the Permanent Exhibition building yesterday afternoon. The machine is worked by a crank and steered by flanges, somewhat like those of a steam propeller. A cylinder is attached, being filled with gas. The operator moves the machine up or down at pleasure by turning the crank. He can with ease move it in any direction. The experiments were not altogether successful at first, and many went away dissatisfied, but those who remained until the close were gratified at witnessing a successful operation. The trouble in the early effort was occasioned by the fact that We cannot therefore be a hundred newspapers in a while that Jefferson ennounced a common brown petitnot. Mr. Davis's modem to describe what he momentous occasion, and these slanderers. Our attempts us to come to the wore a gros grain-silk, George Francis Train, which the arm to keep it out of deep skirt, adjusted by a narrow under-arm gore front and on each front either with a beautifully-worn raised seam which rest-bone at the back, thence to the shoulder-blade on his bonnet, it was a was made expressly for last to the Southern Convener was trimmed with clusmixed with small roses, lilies and silver-thistles. A brown petticoat and Mr. Davis was decked Morace Greeley that he in Indiana, when the full career and a bank carried a hundred miles on it. The lecture com-Greeley in bank-bills of He looked at them, and would not you give me, in well-executed counterfeit bank? A Returning Board fame is the Prand Scandal. He has every day or two. At that Manton Marble tried when Mr. Marble said it may believed it was. Now Noyes tried to bribe him, and everybody will without a word from place. Strong men tried in vain yesterday to get their fingers beneath it as it lay on the floor to lift it. It weighs 282 pounds, and is worth $54,000. It is covered with figures made in the soft metal with dies. They indicate the weight it was found to possess by the different persons through whose hands it passed. The figures are the same. It is said to be the largest bar ever sent to the East. It is to be sent to the Government Assay office to be coined or made into small bars. It is not pure gold, a little over one-fifth of it being silver. It has a dusty, dull yellow, unattractive appearance.—New York Paper. Some years since, when visiting the Royal Mews in London, we inquired what became of the Queen's horses after they had ceased to be useful as her carriage horses. The reply was that they were killed in order that they might not be used for any meaner service. It appears that a similar custom has been in vogue in connection with the white mule that is allotted to each Pope; it has been destroyed at his decease. The Animal World states that the first breach of this barbous custom, many centuries old, was made by Pius IX., who on his death-bed directed that his favorite should not be killed, as his predecessors had been, to preserve a tradition, but should be maintained on the proceeds of a fund provided by him for the purpose. This is a pleasing incident connected with the memory of the late Pope.—N. Y. Observer. Great labor and ingenuity are expended on the production of the Bank of England notes. They are made from pure new white linen, and for 200 years been manufactured in the same family. The printing is done by a must curious process in the bank building. There is an elaborate arrangement for insuring that no note shall be like any other in existence; consequently there never was a duplicate of a bank of England nots except by forgery. A Georgia teacher advertises the Marion High School at Buena Vista, and adds: "The subscriber takes pleasure in announcing to the public that there is no longer any necessity of sending young men to college to have their morals and manners corrupted—educate them at or near home." Views of the new flying machine were given to quite a number of invited guests at the Permanent Exhibition building yesterday afternoon. The machine is worked by a crank and steered by flanges, somewhat like those of a steam propeller. A cylinder is attached, being filled with gas. The operator moves the machine up or down at pleasure by turning the crank. He can with ease move it in any direction. The experiments were not altogether successful at first, and many went away dissatisfied, but those who remained until the close were gratified at witnessing a successful operation. The trouble in the early effort was occasioned by the fact that the gas cylinder was filled early in the day and left standing with the valves loose, so that a portion of the gas escaped, which was not discovered until the experiments began. A boy was substituted for its regular operator, and though he managed to get the machine into the air, he could not control it properly. Finally the eyhinder was filled and a gentleman trained to operate the machine made some successful ascents and descents to demonstrate its capacity as a flying machine. A Life's Romance. New York, May 10.—At Plymouth Church to night Mr. Beecher announced the receipt of a telegram from his brother Thomas, at Elmira, N. Y., stating that their sister, Miss Catherine Beecher, had been stricken with apoplexy and was dying. Beecher said, referring to his sister Catherine: She was the oldest of the family, and his earliest recollections of her were in connection with her engagement of marriage to Prof. Fisher, of Yale College, whose life was lost by shipwreck on a voyage from hare to Europe. He remembered distinctly the utter prostration and despair of his sister upon the receipt of the news of the death of her lover. She found the ordinary consolations of religion of no avail, and she determined that if her life had been destroyed before it had well begun, she would henceforth devote herself to the benefit of others of her sex. He then mentioned very many seminaries which she had been instrumental in establishing in different States of the Union, and said she had written from fifteen to twenty works, all on the subject of female education. He was glad that her death had been so sudden and that she had been spared the pain of a lingering illness, and he gave Ged great thanks for her life of usefulness and for her sudden departure.