anaheim-gazette 1878-12-14

ANAHEIM VOL. 9. WEEKLY GAZETTE. Established 1870. SATURDAY...DECEMBER 14, 1878. For Terms, see Fourth Page. 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 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 Kleinigkeiten. [FROM WEDNESDAY'S SEMI-WEEKLY.] Only one hotel is open at Santa Monica—the Ocean House. A correspondent of the Union locates San Juan Capistrano in San Diego county. His jography is shaky. Among our visitors on Monday was Mr. M. Mendelson, of San Juan Capistrano. He reports matters quiet in his section. S. A. Tuttle, a resident of Los Angeles for many years, has gone to Japan as one of the engineering corps under Col. Crawford. We acknowledge a visit from Mr. H. W. Lake, one of the most prosperous and enterprising merchants of Santa Ana. It is said that the ladies of the Presbyterian Church intend to have a Christmas Tree. We presume they will favor us with their programme shortly. Judge Holloway, the representative of this county in the last Legislature, has sold his possessions in Downey and removed to San Bernardino. Willie Eaton, 11 years of age, of Downey, stole $135 from his stepfather and levanted. He was caught in San Bernardino, after having squandered all but $18 of the money. The School It is seldom that pleasure of attending treatment as that given and it is not often that brings out so large and exercises were unusual dent from the close attentive hearty applause that While in the hall we do break, stop, or hesitate performers in acting the evidently been careful success in rendering flects great credit upon labor of preparing body never appeared before their parts in dialogue difficult and laborious any amount of pain The complete success no doubt encourage them to favor us with another the close of the school of the exercises we number. The select humorous character done, and was so in the programme as to the exercises. The farce, "War which concluded the ment, was well acted The Thespians have acting. 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. E. L. COWAN, DENTIST, HAS OPENED AN OFFICE IN THE UPPER part of Mrs. Metta's building, Los Angeles Street. Anaheim. Having had twenty years experience, he can speak with confidence of his work. His scale of prisms will be very low. He will be found in his office every day between the hours of 9 A.M. and 5 P.M. ANAHEIM DrugStore IN CONSEQUENCE OF THE LARGE DEPOSITS of Gold and silver lately discovered in the mountains close to Anaheim, the proprietor of the Anaheim Drug Store (established in 1870 by the learned Dr. D'Ascornville, and so many years successfully carried out by Herman Blanken, Eq.) has made arrangements with an eminent German Chemist from the University of Leipzig to take charge of the Anaheim Drug Store. This gentleman will Assay any Samples of Ore. And appraise precious stones for a small fixed sum, and during his leisure fill prescriptions at San Francisco prices. The Anaheim Drug Store, Lemon St. ROBERT W. SCOTT. VICTOR MONTGOMERY. SCOTT & MONTGOMERY, Attorneys at Law. PROBATE BUSINESS & SPECIALTY. Anaheim. Los Angeles County, Cal. M. L. WICKS. MOYE WICKS. WICKS & WICKS, Attorneys at Law, TEMPLE BLOCK, LOS ANGELES, CAL. [Dec 7 Sun] R. W. SCOTT, Notary Public. BOOTT & MONTGOMERY'S OFFICE, Kroeger's Blesk, Center Street, Anaheim. L. GUNTHER. Pioneer 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 each price. All orders promptly attended to work guaranteed. P. C. McKINNIE, Oral surgeon and Builder. It is said that the minister Church intend to have a Christmas Tree. We presume they will favor us with their programme shortly. Judge Holloway, the representative of this county in the last Legislature, has sold his possessions in Downey and removed to San Bernardino. Willie Eaton, 11 years of age, of Downey, stole $135 from his stepfather and levanted. He was caught in San Bernardino, after having squandered all but $18 of the money. In the list of railroad passengers telegraphed to the Los Angeles papers, appears the name of J. Bellyache. He is not expected to reach Anaheim until Friday, the day after the Episcopal lunch. Mr. J. K. Tuffree will auction off his fine lot of dairy stock on the 21st instat. The completion of the Cajon ditch has made his land too valuable to longer, justify him in keeping it only as a pasture farm. At the meeting of the Los Angeles County Medical Association, held in Los Angeles on Friday last, Mrs. Dr. Alice Higgins of Anaheim read a paper on "Croup." The members of the association were unanimous in their approval of the essay. Mr. L. J. Rose, of San Gabriel, has purchased a great deal of wine in Anaheim lately. It is said that he paid from 18 to 20 cents per gallon for white wine, and from 40 to 45 cents for Angelica and Port. At a regular meeting of Santa Ana Lodge F. & A. M. held on Friday evening the following officers were elected to serve for the ensuing year: M. J. Bundy, W. M.; B. Parton, S. W.; C. C. Edinger, J. W.; T. J. Lockhart, Treasurer; R. C. Chilton Secretary. Our friends will please remember that we have special facilities for printing letter heads, bill heads, envelopes, circulars, business cards, wine labels, handbills, posters, etc., and that our work will compare favorably with that of any office in the State. We solicit the patronage of the public. On last Thursday Mr. J. Sheehan, of San Juan Capistrano, was thrown from his wagon while driving down a steep hill near that town. The wheel passed over his arm, breaking it badly, and he was otherwise considerably bruised. The physicians think that it will be necessary to amputate the arm. Mr. D. Nagle showed us yesterday a photograph of the runners of Confidence Engine Company—the victors in the Fireman's race at Agricultural Park some time ago. We cheerfully concede their superior fleetness, but as to personal beauty the Anaheim team could double discount them every time. Nobility of feature, elegance of form and great moral loveliness are the chief characteristics of Anaheim firemen. The Anaheim Base Ball Club are preparing to irrigate and otherwise improve their grounds. It is expected that a match game will be played on Christmas Day, the West- Pioneer 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 eash price. All orders promptly attended to work guaranteed. P. C. McKINNIE, Contractor and Builder. 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 ISAAC COHEN, (Successor to Heimann & George). KEEP CONSTANTLY ON HAND THE LARGEST best and cheapest stock of dry-goods, fancy goods guide and boys' clothing, shoes and boots, hats, trunks and vases. Also, groceries, provisions, crockery and hardware. Give me a trial ISAAC COHEN. A. G. BEEBE, Commission Dealer, AND SAN FRANCISCO COMMISSION AGENCY, Centre Street, Anaheim FOR THE BEST Wines and Brandies GO TO THEO. REISER, Cor. Santa Ana and Olive Sts. Anaheim. Mr. D. Nagle showed us yesterday a photograph of the runners of Confidence Engue Company—the victors in the Fireman's race at Agricultural Park some time ago. We cheerfully concede their superior flectness, but as to personal beauty the Anaheim team could double discount them every time. Nobility of feature, elegance of form and great moral loveliness are the chief characteristics of Anaheim firemen. The Anaheim Base Ball Club are preparing to irrigate and otherwise improve their grounds. It is expected that a match game will be played on Christmas Day, the Westminster club having intimated their intention to challenge "our boys." The time allowed for practice is hardly sufficient to put our club in trim for competing with players of such formidable reputation as the Westminster club, but if victory does perch itself upon our bats we will crow all the louder. The Mustang Bee Ranch, a few miles this side of Silverado, has been the scene of considerable mining excitement lately. The discovery of ore on the ranch, reputed to be valuable in tin, had the effect of drawing a horde of miners who have made locations all around the ranch. Only yesterday the news came of the discovery of placer diggings, said to have been made by Tony Faber and Mr. Lyons. Nothing could be ascertained of the extent of the discovery, but it is said the dirt washed out a dollar to the pan. The man Hawkins, whose magnificent place near Norwalk is one of the sights of the county, drinks a great deal more whisky than is good for him, and his drunken freaks have got him into trouble. The following items are from the Downey Courier of last Saturday: "Mr. E. W. Hawkins was arrested on Wednesday last,and was to have had his trial yesterday, before Judge Buster. The complaint charges him with reckless and furious driving over the public highways, to the imminent danger of pedestrians. This man seems to imagine that because he is rich he is privileged to ride over and maim or kill any one happening in his way while on his drunken sprees. It is high time he were undeceived." "Mr. G. W. Pallett has brought suit in the District Court against Mr. E. W. Hawkins, for running over and maiming him a short time since. The damages are laid at $25,000. Mr. Pallett, who is quite an elderly man, is said to be a cripple by reason of this occurrence. Mr. W. R. Olden has enriched the agriculture. The spacious brick wagon is an ornament to the well stocked with furnishings. As good a fit in a suit tailors in this town as about the same price as Anaheim is the nearest coal and tin mines of Silverado is a good course of ore and coal can be used atorium. The Anaheim Drug D'Assonville) is carried atorium, and a large spilled by the eminent San Francisco, are always stable but in any other part of the competition keen. The salerooms of always stocked with lions for ladles. Home Francisco prices. The impression there is no work being mined in the Santa Clara but that is a mistaken blacksmith, too a day passes in which orders for drilling shows that consider in the way of devotion of course, the hill persons who made summer pastime. Prof. Geo. Herschel theory that the winter rains the 16th instant weeks. Rain will but February when correctness of the best course tends as soon as possible so as to receive thе At a meeting F. and A.M., he following officers W. M.; A.W. Grimshaw, J.W. urer (re-elected), retary. A very fine business of and an excellent much relish. At a stated Chapter, R.A.A. at Masonic Hall elected for the eighth Edelman, M.E. (re-elected); GeMeyer, Treasure Secretary (re-elected). WEEKLY CIM GAZETTE ANAHEIM, CALIFORNIA: SATURDAY, DECEMBER 14, 1878. The School Exhibition. It is seldom that our citizens have the pleasure of attending so delightful an entertainment as that given last Friday evening; and it is not often that any performance brings out so large an audience. That the exercises were unusually interesting was evident from the close attention given and the hearty applause that greeted every piece. While in the hall we did not notice a single break, stop, or hesitancy by any of the young performers in acting their parts. They had evidently been carefully trained, and their success in rendering their parts so well reflects great credit upon their teachers. The labor of preparing boys and girls, who have never appeared before an audience, to perform their parts in dialogue and declamation, is a difficult and laborious undertaking, requiring any amount of patience and perseverance. The complete success of their exhibition will no doubt encourage the pupils of our schools to favor us with another entertainment before the close of the school year. The programme of the exercises we published in a former number. The selections were mostly of a humorous character. The singing was well done, and was so interspersed throughout the programme as to give a pleasing variety to the exercises. The farce, "Wanted, 1,000 Milliners," which concluded the evening's entertainment, was well acted, and very laughable. The Thespians have become famous for good acting. A Sportsman's Elysium. To one who is fond of field sports, Anaheim possesses great attractions. As fine shooting grounds as there are in the State can be reached in an hour's drive from the town, and within an area of ten or twelve miles every imaginable kind of game can be found. Quail and rabbit abound on the plains east of town, and the former, as every sportsman knows, is one of the most enjoyable birds to hunt. At Anaheim Landing geese and ducks are always plentiful, but never more so than this year. The numerous sloughs and creeks are covered with them, and hunters have not been sufficiently numerous this year to make them shy. A good way to enjoy a hunt is to leave town in the afternoon, arriving at the Landing an hour or two before sundown. Hunting can be indulged in as long as daylight lasts, and then the tired sportsman can adjourn to the comfortable shelter of Mr. Jacob Walker's tavern, where a good bed and a bountiful meal can always be had. Daylight should find the sportsman on the hunting ground, and he is a poor shot indeed who cannot bring down as much fowl as it is comfortable to carry. To the ambitious Nimrod, to whom deer-stalking is a pastime, and a tusale with a grizzly a delight, there is every opportunity to gratify his fancy. In the proper season deer are plentiful in the hills a few miles east of town, and we have never yet known anyone to hunt the gentle bear that returned disappointed in his search. The favorite haunts of the grizzly are well known to Washington Letter. REGULAR CORRESPONDENCE OF THE GAZETTE. WASHINGTON, D.C., Nov. 25. The first day ever set apart for Thanks giving within the present territory of the United States was February 6, 1632. Nearly 250 years this day has been in some manner kept in force and it now has become a part and parcel of our national life. If those who lived two and a half centuries ago, had occasion to render thanks to the Giver of all mercies, how devoutly should we "offer unto God thanksgiving, and pay our vows to the Most High, for he hath not dealt so with any nation." Ere this letter shall have reached you, the observance of this day will have passed, and from the east and west will have come dear ones long separated, to sit around the family board, and there recount the blessings and recall the memories of by-gone years. Around many a festive board will have sat invisible ones, who have gone hence to the "land beyond the blue," but in spirit sweet converse will have been held between the living and the departed. Happiest day of childhood! How it fills old care-worn hearts with a flood of memories of years agone, bringing back faces, scenes and delights long buried with the worry and burden of life's years of toil! "When the care-wearied man greets his mother once more, And the old matron smiles where the girl laughed before. What moistens the lip and what brightens the eye, What calls back the past like the rich pumpkin pier." The Postoffice Department are advised of No doubt encourage the pupils of our schools to favor us with another entertainment before the close of the school year. The programme of the exercises we published in a former number. The selections were mostly of a humorous character. The singing was well done, and was so interspersed throughout the programme as to give a pleasing variety to the exercises. The farce, "Wanted, 1,000 Milliners," which concluded the evening's entertainment, was well acted, and very laughable. The Thespians have become famous for good acting. The teachers and pupils request us to return their thanks to Mr. Harry Hanna, Mr. Geo. B. Shaffer, and Mr. Ed. Pellegrim, to the members of the Thespian Club, and to Messrs. Higgins, Crowther, Turner, and Gilman, of the Anaheim String Band, for valuable assistance in making their school exhibition a decided success. The receipts were $106; the expenses $15, leaving a balance of $91. A bell as large as can be hung in the tower of the new school house can be procured for about $80. Thus the object of the exhibition was more than realized. It is a noteworthy fact that there has never yet been an entertainment given in Anaheim, having for its object the advancement of our school interests, that has not proved an emphatic success. A community which so readily responds to the wants of the educational department must of necessity be the home of intelligence, culture and progress. A Radical Change Needed. Referring to the disgraceful disclosures made in regard to the purchase of examination papers by candidates for teachers' certificates, the San Francisco Stock Report says: We sincerely hope that the disclosures made and to be made in the matter of the misappropriated examining questions will at least have one outcome for good, and that is that it may result in a reorganization of the office of State Superintendent of Public Instruction. We have submitted with a good deal of patience for over two years now to a condition of affairs in that department that we don't believe would be tolerated in any other office in the State. An incompetent incumbent—an invalid at that—turns the whole management of the office over to his wife, and she, in turn, hands it over to her son. If there isn't nepotism for you, then we should like to know where to go to look for it. The result of such an administration as that is apparent in the handling of the questions prepared for the use of the various school boards. The Superintendent himself says that 55 copies of these questions were printed, and details with great circumstantiality the precautions he took to prevent more than that number getting out. The son, who printed the questions, enveloped them and sent them out, says there were 59 copies printed. The mother, who prepared the questions, and, as she says, was only equalled by her husband in the care and solicitude she exercised, says that there were 70 copies printed. Now which branch of this nepotic tree are we to believe? Father, mother or son? The whole thing is nauseating and we hardly know which branch of the business is most prolific of scandal, the purchase or sale of the questions, or the disclosures that come of it, concerning the way things are run in the chief educational office of the State. We hope next time a State Superintendent of Education is to be elected. have sat invisible ones, who have gone hence to the "land beyond the blue," but in spirit sweet converse will have been held between the living and the departed. Happiest day of childhood! How it fills old care-worn hearts with a flood of memories of years agone, bringing back faces, scenes and delights long buried with the worry and burden of life's years of toil! "When the care-wearied man greets his mother once more, And the old matron smiles where the girl laughed before. What moistens the lip and what brightens the eye. What calls back the past like the rich pumpkin pie." The Postoffice Department are advised of the return of a postal card addressed by the writer in Saxony to himself on the 24th of May last, asking all postmasters to dispatch it without loss of time via Alexandria, Singapore, Yokohama, San Francisco, New York and thence to Chimnitz, Saxony. This was the result of a wager made, that under the present postal arrangements a postal card would make the circuit of the world in 120 days. The feat was accomplished in 117 days, and had it been mailed one hour earlier it would have made the journey in 96 days. This card has been photographed, and henceforward will pass into history. If the world does move, the present generation are making great progress in the development of its social and material interests by bringing into closer commercial relations all nations of the earth. A singular discovery was made by the District Commissioners recently of a bond of the class called pleasure bonds, having nothing thereon to show the date of issue. No one now connected with the District Government knew anything of the history of the indebtedness or the issue of these bonds. The archives were ransacked, and a long search revealed a stub book showing the issue to have been made in 1816, over 62 years ago. Another strange fact has transpired. The original debt was $178,000, and the pleasure bonds issued to float this sum have never paid, and the interest at 6 per cent. paid yearly thereon has amounted to near four times the original indebtedness. Washington has heretofore been found the best market in the country for the sale of Japanese and Chinese high class objects of art, both ancient and modern, and the epidemic thus early has broken out afresh with more than usual spirit. No family is exempt and it is hardly possible to keep the household running on an even keel unless some of these oriental novelties are enthroned as domestic attractions to be admired by the family, or elicit the praise of fashionable and gay society callers. There is no accounting for taste, hence love for poodle dogs, but why Americans are ready to squander profusely money on these works of ancient art, many of which never cross the ocean, is a thing "no feller can find out." With a little putting and a slight change in our American ideas it might be possible to create a good market, and a ready sale at remunerative prices, for a lot of reputed Egyptian mummies. The higher the price placed upon these rare specimens of nature embellished than they certainly would be Mr. W. R. Olden has by his valuable writings largely enriched the agricultural literature of this country. The spacious brick warehouse of the Messrs. Backs is an ornament to the town, and the warriors are as well stocked with furniture as any in San Francisco. As good a fit in a suit of clothes can be bad at the tailors in this town as in Boston or Washington, and at about the same price and quality. Anaheim is the nearest railway station to the silver, coal and tin mines of Silverado. From Anaheim to Silverado is a good county road of 20 miles. Samples of ore and coal can be seen at the banks or at the Sanatorium. The Anaheim Drug Store (established in 1870 by Dr. D'Assonville) is carried on by the proprietor of the Sanatorium, and a large stock of drugs, trusses, etc., supplied by the eminent firm of Charles Langley & Co., of San Francisco, are always on hand. The library stable business is done cheaper here than in any other part of the State, feed being cheap and competition keen. The salerooms of Messrs. Goodman & Rimpau are always stocked with the latest foreign fashions for ladies. Home stuffs and imported silks at San Francisco prices. —The impression has gone abroad that there is no work being done on the various mines in the Santa Rosa and other districts, but that is a mistake. Mr. H. J. McDermott, the blacksmith, told us yesterday that hardly a day passes in which he does not receive orders for drilling and blasting tools. This shows that considerable work is being done in the way of developing the mines; although, of course, the hills are weeded of the many persons who made mining and prospecting a summer pastime. —Prof. Geo. H. Peck, a firm believer in the Herschel theory (whatever that is), predicts that the winter rains will commence about the 16th inst. and continue for about three weeks. Rain will be abundant in January, but February will be dry. Assuming the correctness of this prediction, it follows that the best course to pursue would be to plough as soon as possible and dry sow the barley, so as to receive the benefit of the first rain. —At a meeting of Anaheim Lodge No. 207, F. and A. M., held on Monday evening, the following officers were elected: D. E. Miles, W. M.; A. W. Steinhart, S. W.; T. S. Grimshaw, J. W.; M. L. Goodman, Treasurer (re-elected, 6th time); G. D. Plato, Secretary. A very social time was had after the business of the evening was disposed of, and an excellent lunch was discussed with much relish. —At a stated convocation of Los Angeles Chapter, R. A. M., held on Monday evening at Masonic Hall, the following officers were elected for the ensuing Masonic year: A. W. Edelman, M. E. H. P.; J. S. Crawford, King (re-elected); George Hindes, Scribe; Sam Meyer, Treasurer (re-elected); Sam Prager, Secretary (re-elected).—Express. New York, Dec. 4. —A Berlin correspondent states that the Government proposes sending to America men holding dangerous Socialistic doctines, and warns Americans that only Congressional legislation can prevent large numbers being shipped. Influential journals here, noticing the fact, state that the danger to our society is much greater from this source than by any incurred by the importation of Chinese, and suggest that the President notify the German Government that deportation of dangerous Socialists would be regarded as an unfriendly act. New York, Dec. 10. —The World's Washington special says that Senator Butler received a letter to-day from a relative of Wade Hampton saying that the Governor's health was improving, but that amputation of the wounded limb was necessary and that the operation would be performed to-morrow. The Legislature will elect, adds the enthusiastic correspondent, Hampton to the United States Senate in place of Patterson. Washington (Iowa), Dec. 8. —The Washington county Poorhouse was burned this afternoon with all its contents and five of the 26 inmates. The fire was not discovered in time to make any effort to save property. Supt. Robertson, in his endeavor to save inmates, nearly lost his own life, being finally carried from the building insensible. Loss to the property, $8,000 or $10,000. The oystermen transplanted, in all, some 300,000 oysters in Benicia waters. They are in prime condition now, and about twenty-six boxes, containing 300 oysters each, are being shipped daily to market. mestic attractions to be admired by the family, or elicit the praise of fashionable and gay society callers. There is no accounting for taste, hence the love for poodle dogs, but why Americans are ready to squander profusely money on these works of ancient art, many of which never cross the ocean, is a thing "no feller can find out." With a little putting and a slight change in our American ideas it might be possible to create a good market, and a ready sale at remunerative prices, for a lot of reputed Egyptian mummies. The higher the price placed upon these rare specimens of nature embellished by art, the more certainly would they be classed with the beautiful. These unique and antique specimens of departed ages would be surely old enough to satisfy the most fastidious antiquarian. The army of tramps that usually gather at the capital have recently come to grief, and the necessity for penny lunch rooms and soup houses will be less apparent than last winter. The District authorities, approving the righteous judgment pronounced against father Adam, "In the sweat of thy face shall thou eat bread," have ordered every tramp to be arrested, sent to the workhouse, and set at breaking stone for concreting streets and other city improvements. This step is the true one, and every State, county, town and city should have a stone pile or quarry with a superintendent provided under law where tramps can be set at work breaking stone for improving roadways, and thus secure food and lodging without begging. When men everywhere are compelled by law to earn food, the trump question will fade out of sight. SAN FRANCISCO, Dec. 7. —Dr. O'Donnell, member of the Constitutional Convention from this city, has applied for a warrant for the arrest of the proprietor of the Chronicle on a charge of libel The action is based on an article published in the Chronicle of December 3d. NEW YORK, Dec. 7. —Letters from China state that during the recent famine seven millions of people died—five millions in a single province. The amount of contributions from the Eastern States for the sufferers to November 1st was $22,670, which was distributed judiciously, BORDEAUX, Dec. 4. —The director of the mint has been arrested charged with abstracting thirteen hundred thousand francs' worth of silver bars belonging to Rothschilds, and substituting galvanized copper bars. GAZETTE. MER 14, 1878. NO. 9. Aon Letter. INSTANCE OF THE GAZETTE. RON, D. C., Nov. 25. I set apart for Thanks present territory of the February 6, 1632. Nearly has been in some manner now become a part national life. If those who centuries ago, had occation to the Giver of all mershould we "offer unto and pay our vows to the which not dealt so with any better shall have reached of this day will have east and west will have separated, to sit around and there recount the memories of by-gone by a festive board will miss, who have gone hence the blue," but in spirit have been held between departed. Happiest day it fills old care-worn memories of years dark faces, scenes and deth the worry and burden. man greets his mother once miles where the girl laughed and what brightens the eye, like the rich pumpkin pier department are advised of A Painful Mystery. [San Francisco Chronicle.] A disclosure attending a case before the Police Court yesterday seems to surpass any of the unique sensations of recent production at the East. A citizen engaged in a flourishing trade in sausages, and enjoying an enviable renown acquired by the superior quality of his manufactures, was tried and convicted of cruelty to animals, in cutting the tails off from cats. The culprit had been in the habit of purchasing all the cats brought to him, and in consequence of his enterprise and the industry it inspired among a lot of unscrupulous urchins who had been let into the bonanza, the feline species had been fearfully decimated in the northern part of the city. Witnesses appeared who had furnished cats to the accused by the dozen, and one young Arab testified to having turned in seven tabbies in a single day. There was no direct evidence as to the precise nature of the defendant's pressing requirement for cats, and the only ground on which to base surmise was the dark mystery that has always enveloped the composition of sausages, and the fact that the defendant's productions were possessed of a peculiar flavor, delightful to the palates of hon vivants at the fashionable restaurants, and were retailed at a price that placed them beyond the enjoyment of poor people who classify mutton as a game food. The defendant merely asserted that he required the cats to disperse the rodents that infested his premises, and that he cut off their tails, as it had a tendency to A Narrow Escape. The Nashville, (Tenn.,) American of Nov. 18th gives these particulars of a clergyman's escape from drowning. The adventure resembles in some respects the mishap which befel an Anaheim clergyman some time ago. From one of his brother ministers we learn the particulars of the escape from drowning last week of the Rev. A. D. Tadlock, of Grayson county, Kentucky. He had been with his wife and child visiting his father, a Presbyterian Minister and President of King College, Bristol, Tenn. On his way back by Pound Gap, in crossing Clinch River at Rocky Ford, the high waters washed the horse from his footing and overturned the buggy. Mr. Tadlock clung to his wife and she to the child until it washed from her arms. He was manfully swimming although entangled in the lines. When she shrieked at the loss of her child, he succeeded in grasping it and retaining his hold upon his wife. The horse, meantime, was partly swimming and partly washed down by the current, dragging the buggy and the entangled swimmer. The line now proved their salvation. Reaching slack water the horse dragged them ashore, the gallant husband and father still clinging to wife and child and managing to keep afloat. The child was unconscious when the shore was reached, but was revived and suffered no lasting ill effects. The buggy was torn up considerably, but the shift preacher, with a borrowed hatchet and rope, was soon ready to return to Bristol for a new outfit and to be embalmed as the hero of one of the The New York Sun comments as follows on the naturalization of the New York Chinamen: "Of course, controversy is likely to be raised respecting the citizenship of Wong Ah Yee, but in the end Judge Larrimore's decision, being consonant with common sense, with the spirit of the Constitution, and with the humanitarian principles of this country, expresses the rule that must stand." In London there are for sale in shop-win- Ex-Gov. Seymour, of New York, believes that, "as nothing can be worse than our present laws for the punishment of crime," there can be no harm in trying new plans. He advocates, in Harper's Magazine, the empowering of judges to impose "punishments other than sending the offenders to common schools of vice." While Governor he learned that the suffering for crime generally fell not so much on the offender as on his family, and he was led to fancy the following as an appropriate title for the criminal laws: "Acts to Punish Wives and Children of Criminals." Punishments ought not to be restricted to fines and imprisonments, he thinks; but this is the nearest that he comes to explaining his plan: "There is no danger in giving magistrates the power over habitual offenders which parents and guardians have over minors—that of making them work, of binding them out, and of locking them up; and, in case of children, having them chastised rather than sent to jails. There is no reason to fear that this punishment will be used too often or too harshly. It would rarely be applied, but should not be made illegal, as it would give magistrates great control, and would do much to put an end to the bravado and swagger of disorderly boys which are so much admired by their youthful companions." New York, Dec. 7.—Elder Orson Pratt is about starting to England to procure the publication of a new and revised edition of the Book of Mormon. The Tribune says: A turn seems to have come in the tide of immigration. For 11 months of the present year the number is 72,147 against 52,009 for the same period last year, and 62,820 for the same period the year before. "Sojourner Truth," the colored woman over 100 years old, lectured at the Cooper Institute last week before a small audience on religious topics. Virginia, Nev., Dec. 9.—L. H. Torp, County Commissioner and one of the oldest and best known citizens of the Comstock, was instantly killed this afternoon by his team running away. His wife was with him, and had her leg, thumb, wrist and nose broken, but will recover, The New York Sun comments as follows on the naturalization of the New York Chinamen: "Of course, controversy is likely to be raised respecting the citizenship of Wong Ah Yee, but in the enlist Judge Larrimore's decision, being consonant with common sense, with the spirit of the Constitution, and with the humanitarian principles of this country, expresses the rule that must stand." In London there are for sale in shop-windows many photographs of pretty ladies. Recently, a beautiful young Philadelphia girl discovered in a London window her own portrait annexed to an almost undraped figure and labeled "Mazeppa." After considerable trouble, her father had all photographs of the kind destroyed, except those that had been sold. No imprint was on the pictures, and the process of joining the head to the demi-nude figure is called "cooking." Rev. J. W. Stevenson, Presiding Elder of the Dayton (Ohio) District of the M. K. Church was arrested recently on a public street in a beastly state of intoxication. He was taken to the station after a severe struggle with the officer, when his identity was discovered. Stevenson is one of the most prominent ministers in the State, and has borne the highest moral character. The chief of the voudoo doctors in Louisiana is a tall colored man named Anderson, half African and half Indian, with very long hair and whiskers. He is intelligent, shrewd, and has a smattering of medical knowledge; but he flourishes by exciting and pandering to the superstitions of the negroes, who regard him as a veritable devil in human form. He sells charms for protection against disease and witchcraft, and credulous white persons are among the purchasers. It is thought by some that he has professed supernatural powers until he really believes in himself. The Central Pacific Railroad Company employs 11,800 white men and 1,300 Chinamen. The wages paid to machinists are 30 to 42 cents per hour; blacksmiths, 35 to 40; helpers, 22½ to 27¼; boiler makers, 25 to 36; carpenters, 25 to 35; painters, 25 to 33; engineers, $110 to $122 per month; firemen, $70; passenger conductors, $110 to $115; freight conductors, $85 to $90; brakemen, $65 to $70; track foreman, $65 to $70; laborers, $2 to $2.25 per day. Values are declining in Iowa. He had broken his promise to marry the girl, and her father wanted a money consideration to help heal a wounded heart. The young man said he would consider a reasonable proposition. "Well, then," said the irate father, who was seeking justice for his daughter, "Young man, how does a dollar and a half strike you?"