anaheim-gazette 1879-10-31

The Debtors' Prison. Never was there a pleasant antithesis suggested than the conversion of the site of the Queen's Bench Prison into a children's playground. A correspondent on Thursday made the proposal, and another on Friday showed how feasible is its accomplishment. Lying off the Borough road, the melancholy spot has none of that costly frontage which government surveyors value like ordinary mortals. No compensation would have to be paid to displaced traders. No evicted poor would complain that the amusements of childhood were being purchased at the expense of added toll and straitened accommodation for grown men and women. The land is a waste happily fallen out of cultivation. It bore for several centuries a luxuriant series of harvests of indolence and despair. At length it has ceased to be worth the plowing. But it is no common land. There is a sort of miserable sanctity about it which appeals against its appropriation to the ordinary business of life. Like a spot which has earned a tragic distinction by the murder of a saint or a king, it demands to be purified by some nobler use. To dedicate it to the innocent recreation of children would be for the nation to erect the best chapelle explatoire in its power in atonement for ages of legal blundering. The Queen's, or King's Bench Prison derived its name from its original institution for the confinement of persons guilty of contempt of the Queen's, or King's Bench Court. It had, according to a very doubtful legend, countenanced by Shakespeare, a very illustrious inmate once in King Henry V., committed to it when Prince of Wales by Chief Justice Gascoigne. But its real use was as a place of detention for the multitudes detained under the ordinary law of debt and bankruptcy. With the casinity which delighted old English jurisprudence, failure to discharge a debt was regarded as a contempt of the court which had made the order for its payment. A man who did not pay his grocer's bill was arrested and imprisoned, not for breach of faith to the shopkeeper, but for disobedience to the Judge. Merchants whom the unavoidable chances of commerce had overwhelmed, fine gentlemen who had acquandered their estates at the gaming table, authors whom a patron had displeased. The Afghans. The character of the Afghans for treachery and cruelty receives a new and terrible illustration in the late massacre of the British embassy and its retainers, to the number of more than a hundred, at Cabul. It serves to recall a more bloody vengeance which they visited upon their British foes in 1842. In this same city of Cabul, the English army of invasion and occupation was compelled to make a humiliating capitulation, the terms of which were utterly and flagrantly disregarded afterwards by the Afghans. During the intense cold of January, the British army began its retreat in the presence of a pitiless enemy. Its overthrow was one of the most disastrous and complete in all history. The first day's march was only five miles through snow a foot deep. Before they could rest their weary limbs on the frozen earth, the soldiers had to clear away the snow. They were scantily furnished with provisions, and before the morning dawned, several hundred men and women died from cold and hunger. The horrors of the retreat became more and more dreadful from day to day. The Afghans showed themselves to be as destitute of mercy as of honor, and they were more cruel than the cold, pursuing the retreating army, and slaughtering them at every step. Out of twenty-six thousand soldiers, camp-followers, women and children who, according to Ferrier, set out upon the disastrous retreat, only one, if we except some two hundred who were early taken and held as captives, escaped to tell the story of suffering and death! The late news from Cabul shows that the Afghans are the same monsters in perildy and cruelty that they were forty years ago. Ferrier, whose history of this people is written with discrimination and candor, thus describes their character: "They enter into engagements and bind themselves by the most solemn oaths to respect them, and in order to give them a sacred character, transcribe them on a Koran to which they affix their seal, but nevertheless perjure themselves with an impudence perfectly indescribable. Murder is a game, and they evince a feeling of vanity when they commit one, and glory in the perfidy and cruelty which they can show in their acts of devastation." Intellectually the Afghans stand higher Intelligence IX. Mexico does not like principle. The American bob-fail sensation on the London. A North Carolina child have paid its pastor only of peas for a year's present. An association has been Spain to introduce honesty in the country as a substitute baiting. The Lutherans have 35600 congregations and municials in the United Canada. A little Boston boy gave White Mountains she owes when they found him her Emerson and yelling alice. A lady at Newport was ball upon a night when tertains. She began lookin in July and is still looking engaged time." It is estimated by those appear to have plenty of least $150,000 have been port this year in private care of one kind and another. A Cuban gave a dinner Windsor Hotel, Saratoga ago to ten ladies and gem contract was $10 a plate wines, the bill for which it been $125. Cupid has not done any portance at the watering year. The ladies say they much interested in pools and the men say of them they are not of the kind nor the story books. The 30,000 deaf mutes States have for their accords fifty places of worship, who are conducted in the six They owe this blessing to Mission to Deaf Mutes, or Thomas Gallaudet, is these Three amateur fishermen Fire Island in a boat she became rough, and the Waltons became sick. So you do not pull for the sieve." Said another: "To leave everything to my wife third said: "Thank heavens." But is real use was as a place of detention for the multitudes detained under the ordinary law of debt and bankruptcy. With the casuistry which delighted old English jurisprudence, failure to discharge a debt was regarded as a contempt of the court which had made the order for its payment. A man who did not pay his grocer's bill was arrested and imprisoned, not for breach of faith to the shopkeeper, but for disobedience to the Judge. Merchants whom the unavoidable chances of commerce had overwhelmed, fine gentlemen who had squandered their estates at the gaming table, authors whom a patron had disappointed by refusing a dedication or its price, government contractors who had failed in their engagements, Chancery suitors who either from obstinacy or inability could not comply with the command of a Chancellor or Master of the Rolls, were all in their turn fish for this insatiable net. It had companions, though scarcely competitors, in its business. There was the Fleet Prison, made illustrious by Mr. Pickwick, in Farrington street. There was near at hand the old Marshalsea Prison, like itself in the borough. There was Whitecross Street Prison in the neighborhood of Shoreditch. But customers were forthcoming enough for all and to spare. They overflowed the walls of the King's Bench. Its 230 rooms were too few, though each often held more than a single lodger. Many debtors, once immured, remained prisoners for the term of their lives. They could do little or nothing to help themselves. The compassion of their acquaintances and relatives was exhausted on petty remittances. A result was that more pressure for space compelled in time assent to the strangest arrangement it ever entered the imagination of legal administrator to devise. Courts, whether of common law, equity, bankruptcy, or admiralty, ordered the imprisonment of supposed offenders against their majesty when the real offense for the most part was only an unpardonable impeccuniosity. But in ordinary cases of such imprisonment for debt a class of half boarders, as it were, was formed. The debtor was assumed to be a prisoner under lock and key. He was in reality living in his own neighborhood in his own hired lodgings. This "liberty of the rules" was purchased according to a regular tariff, and the prison precincts were enlarged for the privileged persons till they comprised St. George's fields. Students of Thackeray will remember how, in one of his shorter tales, the victim of a knavish promoter of companies lives pitifully "within the rules" with his wife to comfort or share his desolation. So artificial and unmeaning in time did the whole system become that the custom of the "rules" was extended without even the excuse of the limitation of prison space. A debtor might have resources, though not sufficient to buy himself out of gaol altogether. Such a person was allowed to purchase a "day rule," and to go about among his friends on condition of returning, like a schoolboy or a soldier, by roll-call. The one essential condition of the system, in truth, was that men who had been sentenced to prison for want of industry or skill to meet their engagements to their credit. They Come. The appearances indicate an avalanche of European emigration. Manufacturing industry is about as flat as the agricultural interests of England. The final footings up of the harvests show that wheat, oats and barley crops are one-third less than the average yield; making, as estimated, a loss of $125,000,000 to cultivators. The loss on potatoes is calculated at $75,000,000; on peas, beans, and rye, $15,000,000; on hops, $7,000,000; on hay, $75,000,000; a total loss falling upon the single class of farmers of about $297,000,000; besides other losses which cannot be estimated on butchers' meat, grasses, vegetables and minor products. This is one-third greater than the anticipated loss published a month or two ago. And then there is another element of repulsion from Europe and attraction to America for the workingmen. The Pall Mall Gazette, in summing up the information procured by the European consuls concerning labor in Europe, the 30,000 deaf mutes States have for their access fifty places of worship, we are conducted in the sights They owe this blessing to Mission to Deaf Mutes, or Thomas Gallaudet, is the Three amateur fishermen Fire Island in a boat the became rough, and the Waltons became sick. Sick you do not pull for the saddle." Said another: "To leave everything to my wife third said: 'Thank heavier pay that extra dollar for our man wanted." Many of the streets of lighted by means of oil lamps. There are nearly fifty streets, lanes which are illuminated by verbere swung on a corrode street or on the old-fashioned lamp-posts, specimens of woven on the quais anywhere Tulleries up to Beroy. The movements of the English fleets in the East are evidently bent on Greeks in Salonica in case man outrages. The visit lish men-war to Besikia altogether a mere summer questionably England is can to help Turkey in its with Greece. Women of To-Day Mr. Gladstone is poor, he has a large fortune, with very generous. Over 600 women have tethered in Boston, to vote officers at the next election. The Queen of England lies on the affairs of the world diligent reader of the daily. The Archduchess Marie addition to her other occupies herself with wood. The naughty daughter of nobleman kills all the cannals can get at, by sticking pins. George Eliot once had marriage from Herbert Spencer is now 59 years old and is $250,000 with her pen. The English Ladies' Dread is paying a dividend cent to its share-holders; fair balance in the treasury. The Princess Louise was the Marquis of Lorne's book which he will not complete his visit to the United States. A Roman Countess learned in the Greek and guages, has just been elected of the Academy of Lincei in The Gloucester Relief for the benefit of fishermen and orphans, has resumed it and up to the last meeting assistance to fifty families. Gen. Hood's orphans see find homes. A wealthy Gentleman one, a New York lady and the rules” with his wife to comfort or share his desolation. So artificial and unmeaning in time did the whole system become that the custom of the “rules” was extended without even the excuse of the limitation of prison space. A debtor might have resources, though not sufficient to buy himself out of gaol altogether. Such a person was allowed to purchase a “day rule,” and to go about among his friends on condition of returning, like a schoolboy or a soldier, by roll-call. The one essential condition of the system, in truth, was that men who had been sentenced to prison for want of industry or skill to meet their engagements to their creditors were compelled to a life of idleness. They had their fives and racket courts in the prison. They were encouraged to spend whatever money they could extort from the shame or charity of friends in procuring delicacies and luxuries from outside. They were allowed to entertain visitors. Major Pendennis, if we remember aright, confused on one occasion King’s Bench Walk in the Temple with the King’s Bench in Southwark, where he had partaken of many pleasant little dinner parties. They might, if they preferred it and had the means, fold their hands in rooms outside the prison instead of folding their hands within it. They might take a holiday and feel the free air and sunshine. The one thing unlawful was that they should resume the course of ordinary life in which alone was there any possibility of obtaining power to repair the wrong society charged to them. At length reason revolted, with the aid of the great masters of fiction on its side, against a system which insulted it. In 1835 “the liberty of the rules” and “day rules” were abolished by statute. The reformed Parliament determined that, if the law of debt was not merciful, it should at any rate be logical. If debt were a crime, it was senseless to permit the criminal to purchase exemptions from its penalties. How the authorities of the prison managed to find room for their charges when residence was compulsory remains a mystery. A few years later, in 1842, the difficulty must have been augmented by the transfer of the Fleet and Marshalless prisoners to the Queen’s Bench which now became “the Queen’s Prison.” The building maintained a precarious existence as a military prison; but its diamal glory was departed, and now the very structure is doomed. —London Times. Are book-worms good for bait? Intelligence Items. Mexico does not like the one term principle. The American bob-tail ear is the latest sensation on the London tramways. A North Carolina church is said to have paid its pastor only a half bushel of peas for a year’s presching. An association has been formed in Spain to introduce horse-racing into the country as a substitute for bull-baiting. The Lutherans have 3,150 ministers, 5000 congregations and 725,000 communicants in the United States and Canada. A little Boston boy got lost in the White Mountains the other day, and when they found him he was quoting Emerson and yelling alternately. A lady at Newport wants to give a ball upon a night when no one else entertains. She began looking for dates in July and is still looking for “unengaged time.” It is estimated by those who would appear to have plenty of leisure, that at least $150,000 have been spent at Newport this year in private entertainments of one kind and another. A Cuban gave a dinner party at the Windsor Hotel, Saratoga, a few days ago to ten ladies and gentlemen. The contract was $10 a plate exclusive of wines, the bill for which is said to have been $125. Cupid has not done much of importance at the watering-places this year. The ladies say the men are too much interested in pools and horses, and the men say of the ladies that they are not of the kind read about in the story books. The 30,009 deaf mutes in the United States have for their accommodation fifty places of worship, where services are conducted in the sign language. They owe this blessing to the Church Mission to Deaf Mutes, of which Rev. Thomas Gallaudet, is the manager. Three amateur fishermen were off Fire Island in a boat the other day. It became rough, and the imitation Ike Waltons became sick. Said one: “If you do not pull for the shore I shall die.” Said another: “Take notice, I leave everything to my wife,” and the third said: “Thank heaven, I didn’t California Against the World. It is only a few months since the first cake of Phosphate Soap was manufactured by the Standard Soap Co., of San Francisco. As the ingredients and combination were the result of the best chemical science in the world there was every reason to expect something far superior to any toilet soap ever made before; yet it was hardly expected that the medical profession would indorse Phosphate Soap for its remedial qualities as strongly as they have. It is well known that physicians of high standing are conservative and slow to indorse anything new until they are thoroughly convinced of its merits. But when an article is worthy of confidence they are willing to indorse it. The public no longer wait in doubt, because they know that the physician who has lived in their midst for years and earned a high reputation in his profession will not indorse an article unless he is well satisfied of its merits. Such men as Dr. W. A. Douglass of San Francisco, and Dr. A. J. Spencer of San Jose, Cal., have grown venerable in the medical profession and are respected by all who know them. They well-known physicians, with many others, have tried Phosphate Soap both as a toilet article and as a remedy for skin diseases, and pronounce it superior to any other article of the kind. The soothing, cleansing, purifying and disinfecting qualities of Phosphate Soap render it a prime necessity in every family. Besides, it is a most convenient article. It is good for shaving as well as the toilet and is also useful in removing grease and impurities from clothing and delicate fabrics. An Editor vs. a General. It requires as much genius to create and conduct a great newspaper as it does to command an army. The best evidence of this truth is afforded by the San Francisco Weekly Chronicle, eight pages in size, brimful of news, and abounding with everything that can amuse, instruct, or inspire to beneficial thought. The care, labor, expense and enterprise of preparing even a single number must be immense. It is with something of professional pride that we note the prosperity and inconsistent improvement of our great cotemporary. A student said, in response to a reproof for the lowness of his position in the class "Well, professor, never mind; I presume I am as much to blame as you are." Answer This. 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Many of the streets of Paris are still lighted by means of oil or petroleum lamps. There are nearly one hundred and fifty streets, lanes and passages which are illuminated by the old reverbere swung on a cord across the street or on the old-fashioned gibbet lamp-posts, specimens of which may be seen on the quais anywhere from the Tulleries up to Bercy. The movements of the French and English fleets in the East are creating a good deal of speculation. The French are evidently bent on helping the Greeks in Salonica in case of Mussulman outrages. The visit of the English men-of-war to Besika Bay is not altogether a mere summer cruise. Unquestionably England is doing all it can to help Turkey in its negotiations with Greece. Women of To-Day. Mr. Gladstone is poor, but his wife has a large fortune, with which she is very generous. Over 600 women have thus far registered in Boston, to vote for school officers at the next election. The Queen of England keeps posted on the affairs of the world by being a diligent reader of the daily papers. The Archduchess Marie Christine, in addition to her other accomplishments, occupies herself with wood-carving. The naughty daughter of an English nobleman kills all the canary birds she can get at, by sticking pins in them. George Eliot once had an offer of marriage from Herbert Spencer. She is now 59 years old and has earned $250,000 with her pen. "The English Ladies' Dress Association is paying a dividend of six per cent to its share-holders, and has a fair balance in the treasury. The Princess Louise will illustrate the Marquis of Lorne's book of travels, which he will not complete until after his visit to the United States. A Roman Countess, profoundly learned in the Greek and Latin languages, has just been elected a member of the Academy of Lincei in Rome. The Gloucester Relief Association, for the benefit of fishermen's widows and orphans, has resumed its operations and up to the last meeting had afforded assistance to fifty families. Gen. Hood's orphans seem to readily find homes. A wealthy Georgian wants one, a New York lady and one in Bali- A student said, in response to a reproof for the lowness of his position in the class "Well, professor, never mind; I presume I am as much to blame as you are." Answer This. Did you ever know any person to be ill, without inaction of the stomach, Liver or kidneys, or did you ever know one who was well when either was obstructed or inactive; and did you ever know or hear of any case of the kind that Hop Bitters would not cure—Ask your neighbor this same question—Telegraph. The Best Evidence Of the value of Robertson's Process for reducing ore is in the practical working by those who have secured a license to use the process. In one instance parties bought 300 tons of tallings for a dollar and a half per ton and took out between $30 and $40 per ton at a very small expense, making a handsome profit in a short time. John A. Robertson, P.O. box 532 Oakland, Cal., owns the patent. C. J. Hawley & Co. This popular and reliable house will not only fill all country orders for every description of groceries, but will fill orders for any and all description of goods needed in the household or the farm. Give particular de-scription of goods needed and remit by Wells, Fargo & Co., or by P.O. order to 215 Sutter St., San Francisco. Men See Snakes When they are full of whisky, but temperate men are oftentimes in a condition little better when they are oppressed by a morbid feeling of gloom and despondency caused by a torpid liver disease or indigestion. If such people would use Turner's Regulator they would soon be restored to health and happiness. The Wilcox Pump. 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A wealthy Georgian wants one, a New York lady and one in Baltimore have written the Mayor of New Orleans, asking permission to each adopt one. Hamilton Co., O., has had a cooking contest, and a prize was awarded to a young woman who prepared a good dinner in sixty-five minutes. Another girl cooked one in less time, but it was not good. Herein lieth a moral. The mother of the late Vice-President Henry Wilson still lives at his former residence at Natick. She has just celebrated her 93rd birthday, retains her faculties remarkably and shows a strong interest in politics. A young lady of New York was married the other day in the wedding gown of her grandmother, made seventy years ago, without any alteration, and so similar were the styles no one knew but it was a new one, "made for the occasion." Miss Rye has been carrying on her good work for about ten years. She collects street waits—girls from the highways of London. These girls are taken to Canada and placed in respectable families, and in most every case have obtained comfortable homes and led virtuous lives. The Queen of Belgium, while in London, visited the Home for Lost Dogs at Battersea. The Queen is a great admirer of small dogs and carries one always which is arrayed in a coat the same color as her dress. Each time her dress is changed an attendant changes the dog's coat. The System is often so RANDOMLY REDUCED by a severe attack of Diarrhea, or other Affection of the Bowels, as to get almost beyond the reach of medicine, before the patient can realize the necessity of looking about him for a remedy. Better keep by you Dr. Jayne's Carminative Balm, a safe curative for Aslatic Cholera, Crampy Dysentery, etc., and thus be prudently prepared to treat these complaints on their first appearance. WITHOUT A RIVAL! ENLARGEMENT OF THE SAN FRANCISCO Weekly Chronicle. REDUCTION OF PRICE TO $2 per Year AND GREAT IMPROVEMENT. Encouraged by an enormous and increasing subscription list, and with unsurpassed facilities, the WEEKLY CHRONICLE has been enlarged from a 64-column paper to a paper of 72 columns, and in connection with the change the price has been reduced materially, making this the CHEAPEST, LARGEST and BEST weekly publication in the United States, if not in the world. It is the Great Family Paper for the Farmer, Miner and Merchant Of the Pacific Coast. It contains eight large pages, clearly printed with new type and on new presses, with nine long columns to the page. It is a complete mirror of the passing events of the world, as well as a library of literature, amusement and knowledge. AN AGRICULTURAL DEPARTMENT Is one of its leading features, which is under the management of a gentleman thoroughly qualified for the position by education, experience and long residence on the coast. As a medium of agricultural information it has no superior. 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Double Ranch Harness, $5 to $8 per set; Double Buggy Harness, 20 to $100 per set; Single Buggy Harness, $12.50 to $75 per set; Side Baddles, $8 to $90 each; Buggy Whips, $1.50 to $8 per dosz.; two horse laissez fit, $2 to $7 per der.; Harness leather, good quality, 2c. to 3c. per lb.; Curry Combs, $1 to $4 per dosz.; Hame Straps, $2 per dosz.; Snake whips, $8 to $10 per dosz.; sweet Collars, $8 to $12 per dosz.; Silicone, $6.50 to $11 per dosz.; Collar Strap, $1 to $20 per dosz.; California hand soap and spout. California saddles all complete $7.50 each to $80. Can furnish the names of ranch men in every county in the state who have had their orders satisfactorily filed by freight or express. Send for price list to W. DAVIS, 421 Market St., San Francisco. It is an old proverb that an ounce of preventive is better than a pound of cure. Twenty-five cents invested in a cake of PHOSPHATE SOAP will save hundreds of dollars in doctors' bills. It acts as a constant disinfectant, preventing Salt Rheum and other skin diseases. PAPER HANGINGS! G. W. CLARK, Importer of Fine French, English and American Paper hangings. The Newspapers constantly arriving. Window Shades, Designer in all kinds of Shade Material and Trimming Agent for the Self-Adjusting Spring Shade Helium. The manufacture of fine Gold-hand and Elegant Decorative Shades for Private Homes specially. GEO. W. CLARK, 421 Market St., San Francisco. If you wish to make your hands soft buy a cake of PHOSPHATE SOAP, and when that is gone you will buy a dozen and recommend your friends to do the same. DO NOT FAIL to send for our NEW PRICE LIST. More complete lists on Cincinnati descriptions of everything required for personal or family use, with over 1000 illustrations. Send nine cents for it. (Buses will do.) We sell all goods at wholesale prices in quantities to suit the purchaser. The only institution in America who makes the perfect invoices is MONTGOMERY WARD & CO., 227 & 229 Webash Ave., Chicago, Ill. Dr. Spinney Co. 12 Madison St., San Francisco. There are many men from thirty to sixty years of age missing Dom general preservation and a weakness of the system which they can not account for. Dr. Spinney will guarantee a perfect cure in all such cases and a cohesive remuneration of the papers and revenue so won. Call or address us above. Send for: Dr. Spinney & Co.'s new pamphlet. HARNESS! And Saddle Goods Wholesale and Retail. Double Ranch Harness, $5 to $8 per set; Double Buggy Harness, 20 to $100 per set; Single Buggy Harness, $12.50 to $75 per set; Side Baddles, $8 to $90 each; Buggy Whips, $1.50 to $8 per dosz.; two horse laissez fit, $2 to $7 per der.; Harness leather, good quality, 2c. to 3c. per lb.; Curry Combs, $1 to $4 per dosz.; Hame Straps, $2 per dosz.; Snake whips, $8 to $10 per dosz.; sweet Collars, $8 to $12 per dosz.; Silicone, $6.50 to $11 per dosz.; Collar Strap, $1 to $20 per dosz.; California hand soap and spout. California saddles all complete $7.50 each to $80. Can furnish the names of ranch men in every county in the state who have had their orders satisfactorily filed by freight or express. Send for price list to W. DAVIS, 421 Market St., San Francisco. It is an old proverb that an ounce of preventive is better than a pound of cure. Twenty-five cents invested in a cake of PHOSPHATE SOAP will save hundreds of dollars in doctors' bills. It acts as a constant disinfectant, preventing Salt Rheum and other skin diseases. PAPER HANGINGS! G. W. CLARK, Importer of Fine French, English and American Paper hangings. The Newspapers constantly arriving. Window Shades, Designer in all kinds of Shade Material and Trimming Agent for the Self-Adjusting Spring Shade Helium. The manufacture of fine Gold-hand and Elegant Decorative Shades for Private Homes specially. GEO. W. CLARK, 421 Market St., San Francisco. If you wish to make your hands soft buy a cake of PHOSPHATE SOAP, and when that is gone you will buy a dozen and recommend your friends to do the same. DO NOT FAIL to send for our NEW PRICE LIST. More complete lists on Cincinnati descriptions of everything required for personal or family use, with over 1000 illustrations. Send nine cents for it. (Buses will do.) We sell all goods at wholesale prices in quantities to suit the purchaser. 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