anaheim-gazette 1879-11-14

ANAHEIM GAZETTE. RICHARD MELROSE. Editor and Proprietor PUBLISHED EVERY FRIDAY. Like His Dad. I hear his mother's chiding voices: "How came your trousers torn? And black as ink, sir, is that shirt You put on clean this morn. Your feet are wet, too, I declare; You're modify to your knees; It is too bad; you only care Your mother, air, to tease. And those nics shoes—your Sunday best, That but three times you've worn, Are scratched and scraped and all run down, The heel of one is gone. Your hair is twisted in a snarl, And just look at that hand! It looks as though 'twere never washed— How dare you say 'dis tanned? You've been a fishing air, I guess— What! been to see the match? You'll have a dis of sickness, sir; A pretty cold you'll catch." And thus she talks for half an hour, And only stops to say, "Your father'll hear of this to-night; I wonder what he'll say?" My friends in complimentary way Declare to me they see A close resemblance—very marked— Between the boy and me. But nothing that they see in him In either form or face Bespeaks my son as do his pranks— In these my own I trace. And why should I at tattered clothes Or dirty ones repine? In him I live my youth again— God bless the boy! he's mine! Love Stronger Than Life. The principal event in local history, Sunday, is one of indescribable and grievous sadness, and its recital affords another plummet for the partial sounding of the depth of woman's love and the awful intensity of woman's nature. In its general features it is not without a parallel, but it is nevertheless one of those strange truths of humanity that at his room, though she was not permitted to take upon herself nurse's duties. All needed care of this kind came from the brother, who had a ferent affection for the sick man; an affection indeed, so tender that it can well be designated unusual. Fred was the youngest of the family, and though twenty seven years old, had retained his character of the favorite from childhood up. She came with fresh flowers and other tributes of love to brighten the sick chamber, and when prevented from being at his side she came to the office of Dr. Norton to learn the developments of each visit. On Saturday evening hope of his recovery was abandoned, and a sorrow-stricken circle of friends gathered to attend his last moments. Mr. Albert Voorheis, and Mr. Rapel, of the firm of Voorheis, Miller & Co., Mr. Charles Ferriman and wife, Mr. Henry Ferriman, Rev. I. Newton Stanger, of Christ P. E. Church, were there to watch the dying lovers, for both were dying, though only one lay on the death-bed. The sufferings of the poor girl, her passionate prayer to heaven for the succor which she seemed to wish to compel by her agonizing, either through his recovery or her death; her tender pleadings to the unconscious and dying man, her vain wrestlings with her own will for mastery of her feelings and love, and anon ominous settings of her teeth, all are mentioned by the witnesses, but not one seeks to describe them. She had come to the bedside early in the afternoon and had caught his last audible words; they accompanied a faint smile of recognition and were: "You come to see me, Petty?" Her prayers for his life, or if not that, her death, were conched in the language of such exaltation that the mourning ones heard with amazement and could do nothing else than to let the frenzy have its course. A few minutes before 10 o'clock at night nature broke down under the terrible ordeal and she swooned. Mr. Voorheis carried her into an adjoining room and found her muscles as rigid as marble. Before she recovered consciousness the lover died. That was at 10 o'clock. Her strength returned, she at once insisted on going home. Mr. Voorheis insisted on accompanying her, but she declined the proffered services and started down stairs on a rapid run. locket attached of her dead lock she clutched after a purse. She Rogers, and so tempt to help her die and go to marks of the same status of her thoughed once she about the pisi bought it for Doctors were in Minor, Dr. Yale Dr. Carr. Who was first she had already bore every man He attempted dacing a reaction her up as lost. Of Drs. Norton take the two o'clock the reaction able again to imitation as coo that the bullet at a point two o'clock toward the oblique direct heart, which pierced if the straight again passed through lung. That this was evidenced blood which tended to endure until termoon and after in the morning condition, entitle under the infiltrates, which to administer She manifests condition, says to die. As to the physicians certainty. This thorough an ence because of that her without any do not know thy hemorrhage feared, however if not soon, far yet it will come soon after in brothers of the Albion, Sandwich remains. Love Stronger Than Life. The principal event in local history, Sunday, is one of indescribable and grievous sadness, and its recital affords another plummet for the partial sounding of the depth of woman's love and the awful intensity of woman's nature. In its general features it is, not without a parallel, but it is neyertheless one of those strange truths of humanity that startle and shock the mind as profoundly as though there had never been any preparation through the medium of literary fiction or the saliannals of human misfortunes. There are details in the case so full of woe that their recital seems sacrilegious; they concern feelings that are too noly to be made the subject of careless gossip, and it is doubtful whether the exalted language which such a description would exact would be clearly comprehended by a cold and passive reader far from the immediate influence of the tragic occurrence. A young woman, remarkable for unusual beauty, and especially for the superior graces of mind and character, lifts her hands against her life because of the death of her lover and betrothed husband. Such cases are on record with many sorrowful details, but none can now be called to mind that equals this in its utter depth of misery and woe. The snuice is a Miss Laila George, who has been in Cincinnati since September 1st, but whose home is in Bonaparte, Iowa. She is between eighteen and nineteen years of age, with beauties of features that met their complement in her singular gifts and talents. In two respects these talents were nearly akin to genius; she painted with an almost inspired skill, and was an exceptional musician. She played the piano finely, and had even written little pieces for the piano, and with them won the admiration of her friends in the far West. The special purpose of her coming to Cincinnati was to take lessons in singing at the College of Music, she desiring to add this to her other accomplishments. Her home was at Mrs. Rogers' boarding house, south-east corner of Fourth and Smith streets. Her bearing, her tastes, and all her actions gave evidences of gentle birth and refined culture. At her home in Iowa lived her mother, her father being dead, and two brothers who are in the law profession. Another brother is a druggist in Keokuk, Ia. The interest which those at home had in her welfare can be read in this, that, on learning of her engagement to the lover whose death was the cause of her dreadful deed, one of the brothers came to this city to make his acquaintance and learn his character. The young man was Fredl B. Ferriman, traveling agent for the wholesale clothing house of Voorhies, Miller & Co., 95 West Third street, and all who knew him are aware how estimable was his character. He was a devoted lover, and was glad in the knowledge that his love was met by another as pure, and deep and lovely as ever blessed a man's life. They had met at Olney, Ill., when she was visiting her uncle Mr. Rogers. A few minutes before 10 o'clock at night nature broke down under the terrible ordeal and she swooned. Mr. Voorheis carried her into an adjoining room and found her muscles as rigid as marble. Before she recovered consciousness the lover died. That was at 10 o'clock. Her strength returned, she at once insisted on going home. Mr. Voorheis insisted on accompanying her, but she declined the proffered services and started down stairs on a rapid run. Mr. Voorheis and Mr. Rupel overtook her, however, and accompanied her to Mrs. Rogers' house, where, though Miss George requested them not to do so, they informed Mrs. Rogers of the girl's hysteria. The precaution was a wise one, for within a few minutes her condition required a vast amount of care. She at once became frantic with tearless grief, and entirely uncontrollable. A physician's care was found necessary, and Dr. Carr was summoned. He came, but she resolutely refused to take medicine of any kind. In her hysteria she rehearsed scene after scene from the past. She pleaded, scolded, laughed, and tormented the lover whom her diseased fancy made present. She quarreled and begged his forgiveness. She listened to his avowals, and returned them with frenzied protestations. She even sang, like poor Ophelia, and all her horror-stricken listeners felt that her reason could not long stand the awful strain bearing upon it. Finally Dr. Carr was obliged to call a couple of gentleman to his assistance, and to administer an anesthetic of chloroform and ether by force. He then injected morphine in her veins, and eventually succeeded in quieting her completely. At half past 7 o'clock in the morning the Doctor, who had watched nearly all night at her bedside, returned and found his patient calm and rational. During her wild ravings she had often called out to her Fred: that she would soon join him, but little heed was paid the remarks, they being looked upon as natural to her exalted frame of mind, and as not having the force of threats against her own life. During the morning call she appeared calm, but showed a refractory spirit when the doctor at tempted to induce her to take medicine. He first argued the case with her, and asked why she refused to take it. "Do you think that it will kill you?" he asked. "Oh, no," she replied quickly; "if I thought that I'd take it." Dr. Carr finally told her that unless she took the medicine willingly he would be obliged to force her, as he had done the night previous, wherenoupon she consented. Some time between the hour of this visit and 10 o'clock she was left alone in her room. When next seen it was in the neighborhood of Fourth and Vine streets by a couple of gentleman boarders at the house. Knowing her condition they took her back to her room. This was at ten o'clock. At about eleven o'clock Mr. Henry Ferriman, who had been deeply tonched by her devotion to his dead brother, called at the house to find out whether there was anything he could do for her; she asked if she could not exaltation that the mourning ones heard with amazement and could do nothing else than to let the frenzy have its course. Washington town from Arnold on the very day but was prevailed engagement by by the earnest old officer; passed; to spain inspect some Next day; while staff including at the table at dispatch was General; white and read; the comment: No his countenantfectly silent among his sisters; the Gentle to follow him apartment; without utter fatal dispatche giving way to feeling; fell aloud. The young French regard his Grace in his usual usual weakness imagined." In relating it was the only long and soot that Washington for a moment tune; and human being him an exhibit to his temper covered him the community to his emotion to his staff; no countenance ency."—Loppe The Those who the "wonder" in her annals can take heart heard from him but in Maine age Two year father by one quantity of space of time the present former ones in the village Haunibal H 15 year-old per a few evivive bundles can be read in this, that, on learning of her engagement to the lover whose death was the cause of her dreadful deed, one of the brothers came to this city to make his acquaintance and learn his character. The young man was Fred B. Ferriman, traveling agent for the wholesale clothing house of Voorhies, Miller & Co., 95 West Third street, and all who knew him are aware how estimable was his character. He was a devoted lover, and was glad in the knowledge that his love was met by another as pure, and deep and lovely as ever blessed a man's life. They had met at Olney, Ill., when she was visiting her uncle, Mr. Powers, salesman for Shipley, Hoover & Co., this city, and proprietor of a store in that town. There also Mr. Ferriman and his brother Henry kept a room at which they often stopped on their Western trips. Visitors to that room speak with pathetic enthusiasm of the marks of love upon its walls and furniture. Its chief ornament was a full-length portrait of the lover from the pencil of Miss George. Their home is at Albion, Ill., where their mother still lives at the age of seventy-four years. Another brother, Mr. Charles Ferriman, and a sister, Mrs. Emery, of Paducah, Ky., complete the living members of the family. Fred's employment in this city, and the meetings which her visit here made possible, were the source of much happiness to the lovers. He was on the road, most of the time, however, and when here roomed at the St. James Hotel. There he took ill with congestive chills last Monday. The disease made rapid havoc with his system, which had suffered from malarial influences. Dr. O. D. Norton was summoned, but the symptoms grew so alarming that Dr. Comegys was called in consultation. As the week passed he sank rapidly, and already on Wednesday had spells of delirium. On that day occurred an incident, which, though not part of this recital, affords food for such strange reflection that it is given. After one of his delirious spells, he startled his brother, who had come in obedience to summons to nurse him, by saying that he had seen their little niece, a daughter of Mrs. Emery, of Paducah, dead in her coffin, and that she was a wondrously lovely corpse. At the time neither of the brothers knew that the child was ill, but two hours later news came by telegraph that she was dead. During the week of the young man's illness, Miss George was a daily visitor less she took the medicine willingly he would be obliged to force her, as he had done the night previous, whereinpoen she consented. Some time between the hour of this visit and 10 o'clock she was left alone in her room. When next seen it was in the neighborhood of Fourth and Vine streets by a couple of gentleman boarders at the house. Knowing her condition they took her back to her room. This was at ten o'clock. At about eleven o'clock Mr. Henry Ferriman, who had been deeply touched by her devotion to his dead brother, called at the house to find out whether there was anything he could do for her; she asked if she could not see the body of Fred. Mr. Ferriman replied, not just then, for it was being prepared for shipment, but that if she wished he would call for her at three o'clock. She urged him to come, and spoke somewhat vaguely of going with Fred. and of being there when he should be buried. The strangeness of her expressions were not noted until afterward, when by her own act she proved that she was already resolved to die, and that her morning walk had had a fatal purpose. Up to this time she had not wept; her grief had found vent in tempestuous ravings which were unsolaced by tears. Now, Mr. Ferriman being gone, Mrs. Rogers took her upon her lap and talked to her with the purpose of causing her to weep. She succeeded, and it was hoped that the worst danger was passed, when she sank sobbing into the kind landlady's arms. She now begged Mrs. Rogers to leave her alone for a few moments "to think." With a singular cunning, however, she had already learned the exact location of her heart by questions to Mrs. Rogers so adroily put that no suspicion was excited. After she had located it, Mrs. Rogers asked if her heart pained her, and she replied yes. Mrs. Rogers left the room to arouse her daughter, who was sleeping after the watching of the night, and within a few minutes heard a suspicious click. She hurried to Miss George's room, and just as she put her hand on the door-anob heard the report of a pistol. The deed was done when she entered; Miss George lay across her bed, clad in an elegant dress, which was torn open in front. A twenty-two caliber pistol had fallen from her hand, and blood from a wound in her left breast dyed her clothing. She seemed to have put on her best apparel for the event. The dress was a heavy silk, elegant diamond rings graced her shapely fingers, and around her neck was a heavy gold chain with a locket attached, and in this a portrait of her dead lover. In her left hand she clutched a towel, some money, and a purse. She spoke kindly to Mrs. Rogers, and said it was useless to attempt to help her as she was resolved to die and go to Fred. This and other remarks of the same purport was the substance of her talk whenever conscious, though once she answered a question about the pistol by saying she had bought it for a dollar on Fifth street. Doctors were at once summoned. Dr. Minor, Dr. Young, Dr. Norton, and Dr. Carr. When Health Officer Minor, who was first on the ground, arrived, she had already lost all consciousness, bore every mark of speedy dissolution. He attempted the usual means of producing a reaction, but failed, and gave her up as lost. He left on the arrival of Drs. Norton and Carr in order to take the two o'clock train. Shortly after the reaction set in, and she was soon able again to talk. Such an examination as could be made, indicated that the bullet, which entered the breast at a point two inches from the left nipple toward the right, had passed in an oblique direction, and missing the heart, which it would surely have pierced if the pistol had been held straight against the breast, had passed through a portion of the left lung. That the lung had been pierced, was evidenced by its action and the blood which the injured woman spat and vomited up. During all of the afternoon and night, up till a late hour in the morning, she remained in this condition, entirely conscious when not under the influence of anesthetics and epipates, which she asked the physicians to administer whenever she awoke. She manifested little concern in her condition, saying only that she hoped to die. As to the result of her injuries the physicians do not speak with much certainty. They have not yet made as thorough an examination as is possible, because of the suffering it would cause her without a compensating good, and do not know to what an extent internal hemorrhage has taken place. It is feared, however, that death will result, if not soon, from the wound directly, yet it will come from secondary causes soon after inflammation sets in. The brothers of the dead lover started for Albion, Sunday night at 7 o'clock, with the remains. The Old National Pike. The traffic seems like a frieze with an endless procession of figures. There were some sixteen gaily painted coaches each way a day; the cattle and sheep were never out of sight; the canvas-covered wagons were drawn by six or twelve horses with bows of bella over their collars; the families of statesmen and merchants went by in private vehicles; and while most of the travelers were unostentations, a few had splendid equipages, and employed outriders. Some of the passes through the Alleghenies were as precipitous as any in the Sierra Nevada, and the mountains were as wild. Within a mile of the road the country was a wilderness, but on the highway the traffic was dense and as continuous as in the main street of a large town. The national road proper was built from Cumberland, Maryland, to Wheeling, Virginia, by the United States Government, the intention being to establish it as far as St. Louis. It was excellently macadamized; the rivers and creeks were spanned by stone bridges; the distances were indexed by iron mile-posts, and the toll houses supplied with strong iron gates. Its projector and chief supporter was Henry Clay, whose services in its behalf are commemorated by a monument near Wheeling. Henry Beeson, a former Congressman, was also an advocate of it, and on one occasion he made a public speech in which he showed the audience—so flexible is arithmetic combined with imagination—that from the number of horseshoes it would necessitate, and the number of nails, it was better adapted to promote trade than any railway could be. From Cumberland to Baltimore more the road, or a large part of it, was built by certain banks of Maryland, which were rechartered in 1816 on condition that they should complete the work. So far from being a burden to them, it proved to be a most lucrative property for many years, yielding as much as twenty per cent, and it is only of late years that it has yielded no more than two or three per cent. The part built by the Federal Government was transferred to Maryland so time ago, and the tolls became a political perquisite; but within the past year it has been acquired by the counties of Alleghany and Garrett, which have made it free. Irrigation of Colorado Farms. There is no doubt that nearly every one who visits this region for the first time, even if partially informed about it beforehand, is grievously disappointed at the arid aspect of the plains, and finds it hard to believe in the power of that great beneficent agent, water, which can make every inch of the table-lands and valleys, or the sagebrush wastes of the Humboldt region, or the Egyptian desert itself, literally "blossom like rose." This is a comparatively rainless area, the "barren and dry land," where no water is," of the Psalmist; and yet a means has been found of not only supplying the place of the rains of heaven, but also of making such supply constant and regular. An intelligent and experienced writer says: "Irrigation is simply scientific farming. The tiller of the soil is not left at the mercy of fortuitous rains. His capital and labor are not risked upon an adventure... He can plan with all the certainty and confidence of a mechanic. He is a chemist whose laboratory is a certain area of land; everything but the water is at hand—the bright sun, the potash, and other mineral ingredients (not washed out of the soil by centuries of rain). His climate secures him always from an excess of moisture, and what nature fails to yield, greater or less, according to the season; the farmer supplies from his irrigating canal, and with it he introduces, without other labor, the most valuable fertilizing ingredients, with which the water, in its course through the mountains has become charged." Water is thus both for the farmer and the herder—and the ranchman, who is both farmer and herder—the since quanon, the prime necessity; and just here did one see how well Uncle Pete had chosen his situation. He had nine miles of water frontage on the St Charles Creek, and the same on the Muddy. Just where the former comes out of the Wet Mountain range, and where no one could take water above him, he had tapped it for his broad irrigating ditch, which, after a tortuous course through the estate, empties again into the stream from which it came, not a drop of its precious contents being thus wasted. Along the upper side of the fields lying on this gentle slope below described run o'clock at the end of the terrace, he adjoined tables as rigid covered condition, saying only that she hoped to die. As to the result of her injuries the physicians do not speak with much certainty. They have not yet made as thorough an examination as is possible, because of the suffering it would cause her without a compensating good, and do not know to what an extent internal hemorrhage has taken place. It is feared, however, that death will result, if not soon, from the wound directly, yet it will come from secondary causes soon after inflammation sets in. The brothers of the dead lover started for Albion, Sunday night at 7 o'clock, with the remains.—Cincinnati Gazette. Washington's Emotion. Washington had accepted an invitation from Arnold to breakfast with him on the very day the plot was discovered, but was prevented from keeping his engagement by what men call chance—by the earnest request, namely, of an old officer, near whose station they passed, to spend the night there and inspect some works in the neighborhood. Next day, while Washington, with his staff, including Lafayette, were seated at the table at this officer's quarters, a dispatch was brought to the American General, which he immediately opened and read, then laid it down without comment. No alteration was visible in his countenance, but he remained perfectly silent. Conversation dropped among his suite; and after some minutes, the General, beckoning Lafayette to follow him, passed to an inner apartment, turned to his young friend without uttering a syllable, placed the fatal dispatch in his hands, and then giving way to an ungovernable burst of feeling, fell on his neck and sobbed aloud. The effect produced on the young French marquis, accustomed to regard his General (cold and dignified in his usual manner) as devoid of the usual weakness of humanity, may be imagined. "I believe," said Lafayette, in relating this anecdote, "that this was the only occasion throughout the long and sometimes hopeless struggle that Washington ever gave way, even for a moment, under a reverse of fortune; and perhaps I was the only human being who ever witnessed in him an exhibition of feeling so foreign to his temperament. As it was, he recovered himself before I had perused the communication that had given rise to his emotion; and when he returned to his staff, not a trace remained on his countenance either of grief or despondency."—Loppinott's Magazine. The Wonderful Girl. Those who have begun to fear that the "wonderful girl" would not put in her annual appearance this season can take heart of grace. She has been heard from, not in the West, as usual, but in Maine. She is but 15 years of age. Two years ago she surprised her father by cutting an incredibly large quantity of wood in an incredibly short space of time; but her achievements the present summer have outdone all former ones. Being at work on a farm in the village where the Honorable Hannibal Hamlin formerly resided, this 15-year-old maiden went out after supper a few evenings since, put up forty-five bundles of hay and milked twenty built by certain banks of Maryland, which were rechartered in 1816 on condition that they should complete the work. So far from being a burden to them, it proved to be a most lucrative property for many years, yielding as much as twenty per cent, and it is only of late years that it has yielded no more than two or three per cent. The part built by the Federal Government was transferred to Maryland some time ago, and the tolls became a political perquisite; but within the past year it has been acquired by the counties of Alleghany and Garrett, which have made it free. We have written of what is past. The canal and the railway have superseded the old national "pike," and it is not often now that a traveler disturbs the dust that lies upon it. The dust itself, indeed, has settled and given root to the grass and shrubbery, which in many places show how complete the decadence is. The black snakes, moccasins and copperheads, that were always plentiful in the mountains, have become so unused to the intrusion of man that they sun themselves in the road, and a vehicle cannot pass without running over them. Many of the villages which were prosperous in the teaching days have fallen asleep, and the wagon of a peddler or farmer is alone seen where once the travel was enormous. The men who were actively engaged on the road as drivers, station agents and mail contractors are nearly all dead. The few that remain are very old, and while an inquiry about the past reanimates them for a moment, they soon lapse into the oblivion of their years. But the taverns, with their hospitalic and picturesque fronts, the old smithies, and the toll-gates, have not been entirely swept away. Enough has been left undespoiled to sustain the interest and individuality of the high way, which from Frederick to Camberland, is rich by dower of Nature, independent of its past.—W. H. RIDEING, in Harper's Magazine. Slavery in Africa. A writer who has recently visited the western coast of Africa on the United States steamer Ticonderoga makes the following statements respecting negro slavery: "The idea that slavery in Africa disappeared with the abolition of the foreign slave trade, an idea which seems to be prevalent both in Europe and America, is nevertheless a mistaken one. Slavery not only exists, but its evils are very much aggravated by the fact that for the want of a foreign market the supply is in excess of the demand. The value of the slave has preciated until the preservation of his life and health has become a matter of no consequence to his owner. The increase and growing export trade of Africa is the product of slave labor. The slave, not so well fed or cared for, is raising ground-nuts in some distant part of his own country, as far away from his home and kin as though he were cultivating sugar on a Cuban plantation. It is safe to say that money and sympathy expended on the negro slave has to nowise ameliorated his condition. On the contrary, the trade which was made contraband and abolished at sea has added to its cruelties the thousand times greater evils of transportation overland through jungles and marshes, where hundreds perish by the wayside from famine and exposure." would not put in her annual appearance this season can take heart of grace. She has been heard from, not in the West, as usual, but in Maine. She is but 15 years of age. Two years ago she surprised her father by cutting an incredibly large quantity of wood in an incredibly short space of time; but her achievements the present summer have outdone all former ones. Being at work on a farm in the village where the Honorable Hannibal Hamlin formerly resided, this 15 year-old maiden went out after supper a few evenings since, put up forty-five bundles of hay and milked twenty-three cows before sunset. The next day, after washing the dinner dishes and putting the house to rights, she went into the field, loaded three loads of hay, stowed them away in the barn and then stowed away a fourth load, which somebody else loaded. Then she prepared supper for a family of four, served it, washed up the dishes; walked two miles to get a pair of shoes and got back before dark. In one way, of course, this energetic damsel deserves the admiration of her sex for destroying the theory that woman is "a poor, weak critter," and creating a demand at the East for the helpful wives who are, as the census reports persist in saying, so much in excess there. But, in another way, she is doing an incalculable injury to her sex, inasmuch as her example will be held up as a perpetual taunt to the overworked wives and mothers of the land. Detroit Free Press. Hear It.—If you place one of your fingers into your ear, a roaring sound will be heard, which Dr. Hammond says is the sound of the circulation of the blood: Try it, and think what a wonder of a machine your body is, that even the points of yor fingers are such busy workshops that they roar like a small Niagara. The roaring is probably more than the noise of the circulation of the blood. It is the voice of all the vital processes together—the tearing down and building up processes that are always going forward in every living body from conception to death. A Hartford paper gives the following "signs of the times" to be found in that city: "Washing and going out to days' work done here;" "Breakfast, dinner and supper at all hours;" and "Saws filed, and set up stairs." A curst answer has two edges. The engine was imbedded in a hole, one car was lying across the track, another had lost its trucks and was flat on the track, and the tender of the locomotive was also deeply imbedded, we had waited there an hour and a half or two hours, and twenty trains had been stopped. They had yanked one of the cars up on jack-screws, as if to run trucks under it, and then get it out of the way. It looked as if we were going to stay until night, and we began to think about finding a steamboat or buggy or something to get on to New York, when all at once an engine and wrecking-car heaved in sight. Before the engineer had come to a stop, we could hear the roadmaster's voice ring out, giving his orders before he had seen the situation. He seemed to be as familiar with everything on the spot as if he had been there all night. There was an engine off at some distance, but doing nothing. He called out to the engineer to come up and make fast to the buried locomotive. In half a minute the engine was attached and pulling to get the other out of the hole, and at the second effort the great mass of iron came up suddenly and was hauled out of the road. 'Pass that rope over the top of that car and make it fast to that tree youder,' he cried. It was done. 'Now five hundred of you lay hold of that rope,' he shouted. The entire little army, under the inspiration of that voice, laid hold of the rope using the tree for a purchase, and they pulled the car across the track square out of the way by main strength. Then the rails which had been bent were straightened with heavy hammers and nailed down. 'Come on here with that engine,' he cried again, 'and make fast to this truck.' With another tremendous pull the whole thing came out of the ground like a tree by the roots and was pulled off. 'Now start that first train,' cried the man. In less than ten minutes from the time of his arrival what looked to be a week's job was out of the way, and the passengers went on. I formed a higher idea then William Vanderbilt's executive men than I ever had before. Difficulty is the nurse of greatness, a harsh nurse who roughly rocks her foster children into strength and athletic proportions. The mind, grappling with great aims and wrestling with mighty impediments, grows by a certain necessity to their stature. Good bread is always much kneaded for the rich as well as the poor. African is the product of slave labor. The slave, not so well fed or cared for, is raising ground-nuts in some distant part of his own country, as far away from his home and kin as though he were cultivating sugar on a Cuban plantation. It is safe to say that money and sympathy expended on the negro slave has to nowise ameliorated his condition. On the contrary, the trade which was made contraband and abolished at sea has added to its cruelties the thousand times greater evils of transportation overland through jungles and marshes, where hundreds perish by the wayside from famine and exposure. "I have just visited the Gallinas," a river on the coast of Liberia, a point where, in the palmy days of 'the trade,' Dom Pedro Blanco held his rude court and annually shipped to Cuba thousands of his sable brethren. A negro, likely, young and robust, can be bought here today for £4 taken in trade goods at that! I venture to assert that 1,000 slaves a month could and would be delivered at that rate to any buyer in the market. Perhaps the most indifferent man to this state of things is the negro himself. It is his normal condition; if he runs away he is only captured by another master." 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 Pergamon & Lake'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. E. L. COWAN, DENTIST, HAS OPENED AN OFFICE in the upper part of Mrs Metk's building, Los Angeles Street, anaheim. Having had twenty years' experience, he can speak with confidence of his work. His scale of prices will be very low. He will be found in his office every day between the hours of 9 a.m. and 5 p.m. Robert W. Scott. Victor Montgomery. SCOTT & MONTGOMERY, ATTORNEYS AT LAW Probate Business a Specialty. ANAHEIM. Los Angeles County, Cal. R. W. SCOTT, NOTARY PUBLIC Commissioner of Deeds for Arizona Territory. SCOTT & MONTGOMERY'S OFFICE. Kroeger's Block, Center Street, Anaheim. Bank of Anaheim, CAPITAL STOCK, $100,000.00. NOTICE. All owners of stock of any kind, horses cattle, sheep or hogs, are hereby cautioned against allowing their animals to range on the Stearns' Ranchos, without authority from the under-signed, as they will be proceeded against for so doing, as trespassers, under No Fence Act. Under no circumstances will hogs be permitted to range on the said ranchos. All parties are also cautioned against cutting and removing from said rancho wood of any kind, either for fire-word or fencing purposes, and are hereby notified that the section of the Trespass Law relative to such acts will be rigidly enforced against them. Agent for leasing unold lands on the Stearns' Ranchos, for pastureage. Office in Langanberger's store, Centre street, Anaheim. B. DREYFUS & CO., Growers and Dealers in California Wines GRAPE BRANDIES. 45 BROADWAY, NEW YORK. STANDARD Fire Insurance COMPANY. Commissioner of Deeds for Arizona Territory. SCOTT & MONTGOMERY'S OFFICE. Kroeger's Block, Center Street, Anaheim. Bank of Anaheim, CAPITAL STOCK, $100,000.00. S. H. MOTT PRESIDENT B. F. SEIBERT CASHIER. DIRECTORS: H. MABURY, E. F. SPENCE. G. F. SEIBERT, S. H. MOTT. O. S. WITHERBY. This Bank receives Deposits, Loans Money, Buys and Sells Exchange and Currency, makes Collections and transacts a General Banking Business. CORRESPONDENTS: Pacific Bank, San Francisco; First National Bank, New York. The Commercial Bank OF LOS ANGELES. AUTHORIZED CAPITAL, $300,000. J. E. HOLLENBECK President E. F. SPENCE. Cashier DIRECTORS: A. H. WILCOX S. H. MOTT, L. LANKERSHIM, E. F. SPENCE, J. E. HOLLENBECK, O. S. WITHERBY, H. MABURY. W. WOODWORTH. 45 BROADWAY, NEW YORK. STANDARD Fire Insurance COMPANY. Capital Stock, $5,000,000. One of the Soundest and most Reliable Companies doing business in the United States. RICHARD MELROSE, Agent for Anaheim and vicinity. OFFICE...in GAZETTE Building. Policies Issued upon Application DR. SANFORD'S DOLLAR PAD! 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THE BANK IS PREPARED TO RECEIVE DEPOSITS ON OPEN ACCOUNT, ISSUE CERTIFICATES OF DEPOSIT AND TRANSACT A GENERAL BANKING BUSINESS. COLLECTIONS MADE AND PROCEEDS REMITTED AT CURRENT RATE OF EXCHANGE. THE STEARNS' RANCHOS. ALFRED ROBINSON, Trustee. 120 Sutter St., San Francisco, California. EIGHTY THOUSAND ACRES OF LAND FOR SALE IN LOTS TO SUIT. SUITABLE FOR THE CULTURE OF ORANGE, LEMON, LIME, AGG, ALMOND, WHOLE IS APPLES, POWDER, KILLS, CORN YRSE, BARRY, FLAX, RANDE, COTTON, etc. Also many thousand acres of NATURAL EVERGREEN PATURES suitable for dairying. Good water is abundant at an average depth of six feet from the surface. On almost every acre of this land flowing artesian wells can be obtained, and the more elevated portions can be irrigated by the water of the Santa Ana River. Most of these lands are naturally moist, requiring only good cultivation to produce crops. TERMS: One-fourth cash; balance in one, two or three years, with ten percent interest. I will take pleasure in showing these lands to parties seeking land, who are invited to come and see this extensive tract before purchasing elsewhere. W. R. OLDEN, Agnerahaimin, Los Angeles Co.