anaheim-gazette 1879-12-27

ANAHEIM GAZETTE. RICHARD MELROSE. Editor and Proprietor PUBLISHED EVERY SATURDAY. Love's Influence. The drooping spirit, pining in distress, Is oft supported by a deed or word; True, it may be a maiden's sweet caress, Or even the gentle twittering of a bird. When, in the depths of such a sorrowing heart, Feelings and thoughts skim to pain arise, Even but a flower may relief impart, And prove a blessing lasting to the skies. Could we but know the woes that others feel. Could we but taste the bitter draught of thirst? Then would we strive their broken hearts to heal, And by affection soothe their troubled cares. Oh! speak not harshly to the anguished soul. But strew love-tokens o'er life's rugged steep; And in that world where years eternal roll, Spirits will rise and on these blessings heap. — Waverley. Three Wrecks. Calamities at sea are unhappily of frequent occurrence; but seldom is the community shocked by a series of marine disasters such as that which has taken place within the last few weeks. Two of the catastrophes occurred upon the same day. The total loss of the Champion five minutes after she came into collision with the Lady Octavia involved a terrible loss of life. The encounter of the Arizona with the iceberg fortunately resulted in nothing more serious than considerable damage to the vessel. The capazizing of the Petrel in mid-ocean was attended with the scenes of protracted horror that mark a wreck where there are a number of survivors left to battle with storm and starvation until a tardy succor arrives. Fortunately, the most important of these vessels, and that which carried the largest freight of human life, was the one that was spared. The Arizona is a steamship of the Williamis & Guion Lihue, and sailed from New York for Liverpool on the 4th of November, having sands of people have visited her at Shea's Wharf, while she lies waiting for repairs. The story of the loss of the Champion is one that can be told in a few words, so sudden was the catastrophe, and so terrible the fate that immediately overwhelmed the unhappy vessel. The Champion belonged to the New York and Charleston Line, and sailed from her pier in this city at five o'clock on the evening of Thursday, November 6. The voyage from New York, up to the moment of the disaster, was wholly without incident. The night was quite clear and star-lit, and the steamer passed Sandy Hook soon after dark. Supper being over, most of the passengers retired to the state-rooms, which were on deck. At three o'clock in the morning Captain Lockwood, having seen the vessel safely past the Jersey coast, lay down with his clothes on. Six minutes later he was made aware that a sailing vessel was ahead, close at hand. He went immediately to his wheel-house, stopped the engine, and then backed the steamer; but before the Champion's headway could be stopped, the two vessels had collided. The Lady Octavia, according to the officers of the Champion, struck the latter vessel on the starboard side, near the cat-head, driving her bow clear through the latter's walls, and the two vessels were locked together for several seconds. The Champion then fell away, owing probably to the reversal of her wheels, for Captain Lockwood had given his engineer the signal to back. The passengers and all the crew, except those who were on duty, were asleep at the time the accident occurred. The whole stem of the Champion was torn out, while the Lady Octavia, which was an iron full-rigged ship, escaped without serious damage. It was a few minutes after three o'clock when the two vessels came together. The Lady Octavia's sails were immediately furled, and a boat with four men in it was lowered and sent to the assistance of the drowning passengers and crew of the Champion. The search was continued until daylight, and resulted in the finding of seventeen men and one woman. The Lady Octavia had then drifted a long way from the topmast which was sticking a few feet out of the water, marking the spot where the Champion went down. No more persons could be found, and the Lady Octavia's boat was recalled. The obliged to be above danger of being wicked of everything out of the mainmast had every minute, and C was still at his post in expressing to his friend of the terrible fate. At precisely five o'clock of windstruck that A crackling of time the remainder of the side of the vessel later other mast gale. As it fell it (then at the wheel) fingers of the right him senseless. So veered she fell into the trough wildest excitement captain, unaware of man at the wheel, act. Many hands were not where to render minutes after the mate, a high roller completely capsizing after this was one. Between the time she rescue, those of not already destroy can be imagined and thirst beset them; the mate gave way companions approached at them as monster his flesh to eat. So been frequently difficult in use of scientific instruments lights as safe sea. In the course Mr. R. A. Proctor's application of Mr. meter, which is wo able suggestion. well known, is an precision in the n Fortunately, the most important of these vessels, and that which carried the largest freight of human life, was the one that was spared. The Arizona is a steamship of the Williamis & Guion Line, and sailed from New York for Liverpool on the 4th of November, having on board 300 souls, all told, passengers and crew. The first days of the voyage from New York had been very favorable. The weather was clear and pleasant and the ocean as placid as an inland lake. The first day the ship made 380 miles, the next 363 miles, and the log of the third day showed a similar result. The Arizona was now well off the Banks of Newfoundland, and one day more would have put her beyond their ice-infested shores. Under these circumstances, Captain Thomas Jones, who commanded, felt justified in running his ship at full speed. On the night of Friday, the 7th, the vessel was in charge of the officer of the watch, John Wynn Jones, Captain Jones having left the bridge at nine o'clock. All was then safe, and as the night, though overcast, was not dark, no danger was apprehended. Ton minutes later the ship, going at topmost speed, plunged head on into a mountain of ice. The huge vessel trembled like an aspen leaf, and recoiled, but again advanced and struck the iceberg, but fortunately with diminished force. The first blow had stove in her bows, crushing them as though they were made of card-board. Tons of ice fell upon the decks, or were forced through the gaping hole fn the bow. Full fifteen feet of the iron-work had been broken, bent, twisted, and forced inward, leaving an awful chasm, through which the waves dashed. It was as though a huge cutter had chopped off the bows, leaving the hull exposed. The sight that met the passengers' eyes was well calculated to chill the bravest heart. Towering above the steamer's bows rose a huge iceberg, threatening her with instant destruction. Out of the submerged field rose three huge cone-shaped masses sixty or seventy feet into the air. There was danger that one of these would topple over and crush the ship into a shapeless mass. In the few moments which followed this discovery men seemingly lived years of agony. The affrighted sailors of the watch fled behind the bridge, and thinking only of their own safety, set to work to launch one of the boats. One of these men wept in object terror; another spread dismay among the more frightened passengers by stating that the ship was sinking rapidly. Unfortunately, appearances but too well justified his statement, for the steamer, on striking the iceberg, listed heavily to starboard, and sank visibly forward, creating the impression that she was settling at the bows, which, broken and twisted, no longer offered a barrier to the in-rushing water which rapidly filled the fore-peak. Between the passengers and destruction there It was a few minutes after three o'clock when the two vessels came together. The Lady Octavia's sails were immediately furled, and a boat with four men in it was lowered and sent to the assistance of the drowning passengers and crew of the Champion. The search was continued until daylight, and resulted in the finding of seventeen men and one woman. The Lady Octavia had then drifted a long way from the topmast which was sticking a few feet out of the water, marking the spot where the Champion went down. No more persons could be found, and the Lady Octavia's boat was recalled. The boatswain was sent to the mast-head with a glass, and after a long, careful survey he reported that there were no signs of other survivors. The order was then given by Captain James Johnson to make sail, and the Lady Octavia headed for Philadelphia. She was in a leaking condition, and word went around soon after the collision that she was sinking. Her two life-boats were swung on the davits, and preparations made to abandon her, when the carpenter, who had made an examination, reported that there was no immediate danger, for the damaged bulk-head was still in a sound enough condition to keep her afloat. The Lady Octavia's bows were badly damaged. On the port side were two large holes, one above the water six feet in diameter, and the other below the water almost half as large. On the starboard bow was a great crack eight feet in length. Imbedded in her figure-head was the brass hawse-pipe of the Champion. On her way up Delaware Bay, and when off Lewes, she signaled for assistance, and a tug responded and towed her to Philadelphia, where she arrived about noon. A Norwegian bark, which hove in sight as the Lady Octavia left the scene of the collision, picked up six men, four of whom were passengers on the Champion. Few vessels have ever had to contend with a severer storm than that which accomplished the destruction of the Petrel. In the case of the Champion, succor was at hand, but the first help that came to the miserable survivors of this ill-fated vessel, reached them days after the terrible disaster occurred. The Petrel was capsized on the 29th of October. On Monday, November 3, the first mate on board the Austrian bark Rebus, sailing between London and New York, discovered the hull of a vessel about half a mile to windward. As he caught sight of the wreck a low sound resembling a cry for help fell upon his ear, and he immediately informed Captain Ivancich of his discovery. By time the captain got on deck the cry for help was quite distinct, and something red had been hoisted on a pole. "Man the small boat," the captain shouted, and five-seamen and Mate Reda promptly obeyed. Quite a heavy sea was running at the time, and there was a great danger of the boat capsizeing, but the experienced seamen kept her from doing so. Upon coming alongside of the wreck, over which the waves were washing, they were horror-streken to hear from six men then on board that they were the only living of a crew of twenty-one, and that twelve of the fifteen dead were there—in the cabins and forecastle. The survivors who that no human foot but in the cases of Champion a more severe discussion that has used scientific instruments as safe sea. In the course Mr. R. A. Proctor's application of Mr. Meter, which is worth suggestion. Well known is an precision in the manner that the slightest perature—those or able even by ourometers—are also Mr. Proctor would prevent such accidents has just happened periling many lives by some descent or ability a sufficient degree to instigate a tiasimeter on both pathways cross those floes. More than tasimeter might be alteration of temp break or complete emergency. Fur trical generator Steamer without e require very little outlay for attendance alteration or descent a means of illumination vessel with the blaze Such a light, with lance as seamen should have prevented trophe to the Arising upon a tasimeter or ring a bell. Motion is no doubt New York Times cussing it," "old pretty general natural inference tended to act as vigilance eventual loss than gain to gendering false coo nd neglect of ne Harper's Bazaar Women Notice how read me better than you are not conscious served by women is made so silent an observing woman a man at any spy whole of them sometimes it is glance across you of a bat's wing can declare that But the glance w her scarce a see inch of you,and years of ancestry drawn,and goes bridge, and thinking only of their own safety, set to work to launch one of the boats. One of these men wept in object terror; another spread dismay among the more frightened passengers by stating that the ship was sinking rapidly. Unfortunately, appearances but too well justified his statement, for the steamer, on striking the iceberg, listed heavily to starboard, and sank visibly forward, creating the impression that she was settling at the bows, which, broken and twisted, no longer offered a barrier to the in-rushing water which rapidly filled the fore-peak. Between the passengers and destruction there stood only the slight barrier formed by the collision bulk-head, but at first it was impossible to tell whether it had not also been driven in. Should it prove so, all on board the Arizona were doomed to death. A hasty examination revealed the fact that the bulk-head had not given way, and that the forehold was free from water. A boat was then lowered, and the first officer proceeded to examine the breach in the bow. When he made his report, it was announced that the ship would lie to for the night, and that in the morning measures would be taken to repair the damage. Subsequently, on consultation with Mr. Guion, one of the owners, who with several members of his family was on board, it was decided to make for St. Johns, Newfoundland, the nearest port of refuge. This news was joyfully received, as there was a strong impression that the ship had received more damage than the officers were willing to admit. As soon as the excitement had become somewhat allayed, the passengers assembled in the saloon, and, at the suggestion of the Rev. J. M. Ross, all knelt in prayer, to return thanks for their deliverance from imminent death. All joined in the hymn, "Praise God, From Whom all Blessings Flow," with a deep and earnest fervor. During the remainder of the night very few persons want to bed, but kept watch in the saloon, till worn out by fatigue, they dropped asleep on the seats. The weather continued perfectly calm, and the disabled ship made good headway toward St. Johns. At eight in the evening the lights on the coast were sighted, and by ten o'clock the town lights could be distinctly seen nearing in the shadow of the rocky coast. Signal guns were fired, but no notice was paid to them from the shore. In the morning a pilot came off and brought the Arizona safely in. Her arrival created an immense sensation, and thou- "Man the small boat," the captain shouted, and five-seamen and Mate Reda promptly obeyed. Quite a heavy sea was running at the time, and there was a great danger of the boat capsizing, but the experienced seamen kept her from doing so. Upon coming along-side of the wreck, over which the waves were washing, they were horror-stricken to hear from six men then on board that they were the only living of a crew of twenty-one, and that twelve of the fifteen dead were there—in the cabins and forecastle. The survivors, who saved nothing but the clothes they wore, were taken on board the Austrian bark and cared for. Some of them were too feeble to walk, and had to be carried. After all were safe on board, another trip to the hull of the vessel was made to establish the fact that no one had been deserted. As they were about leaving her for the last time, a heavy sea struck the hull on the port side, and as it recovered from the shock, two dead bodies were forced up through the main hatch. The flesh on their faces was almost all torn from the bones, rendering both unrecognizable. The crew attached a weight to the bodies, and they sank. The story of the Petrel's struggle with the gale that capsized her, as told by the survivors, was one of intense horror. On the 25th of October she left New Bedford, with a miscellaneous cargo, for Bravo, Cape de Verde Islands. She was commanded by Captain Fisher, a part owner of the vessel, and had on board twenty-one persons, seventeen of whom were to do the work of seamen in part payment for their passage. On the morning of Tuesday, the 28th, the gale first struck the vessel. By noon it blew stiffly, and several sailors had to be "winged." The wind then suddenly changed to the southeast, causing a heavy chopped sea for about an hour, through which the schooner labored heavily, and shipped large quantities of water. As night closed in, threatening clouds totally obscured the light of the moon, making the situation more critical. For the safety of the craft all sailors were taken in, and she sedded before the gale under bare poles. At half past ten in the evening the wind veered to the northwest, blowing a hurricane. A terrific sea was running, and it required every effort of the crew to keep the vessel from falling into the trough of the sea and being water-logged. The waves washed the decks, and every one better than the other are not conscious served by women is made so silent an observing woman a man at any spain whole of them all sometimes it is glance across you of a bat's wing can declare that But the glance w her scarce a second inch of you, and years of ancestry drawn, and goes instantaneous deepen into every woman but these impression rarely, and to alone. But then a simpleton; a rogue; a gentler run you will genfying all her silliness. A fine woman ness that belong less of the act us. Men delibit to the work of all allthe line they sociate,and be gold-sand sticki does not always his being. But envelop other simply exists through their p miles of heaven John Weiss. HEALTH AND EXISTS that exal prolonge life,a ing; it better without it,the live He only can know the jo appetite,good sleep It causes quickly,freely drive away th e piration thus tity ofthe el purify and vital and hardens th them into ever cient servants o th rejoins and s tho body.Is it renders it activ operations. A tie game— At the hour at eight o'clock for the morning the decks were washed clear of everything movable, and part of the mainmast had been carried away. The fury of the storm was increasing every minute, and Captain Fisher, who was still at his post, was not backward in expressing to his men his conviction of the terrible fate in store for them. At precisely five o'clock a terrific gust of wind struck the Petrel broadside. A crackling of tigerber was heard, and the remainder of the mainmast fell over the side of the vessel. A few minutes later the other mast was snapped by the gale. As it fell it struck the first mast (then at the wheel), cutting off all the fingers of the right hand, and knocking him senseless. Suddenly the vessel veered, the rudder chins rattled, and she fell into the trough of the sea. The wildest excitement provailed, and the captain, unaware of the accident to the man at the wheel, was at a loss how to act. Many hands were ready, but knew not where to render assistance. Five minutes after the accident to the first mate, a high roller struck the schooner, completely capsizing her. The scene after this was one of terrific horror. Between the time of the disaster and the rescue, those of the crew that were not already destroyed, suffered all that can be imagined of torture. Hunger and thirst beset them, and the mind of the mate gave way, so that when his companions approached him, he shouted at them as monsters who were seeking his flesh to eat. Scenes like these have been frequently described by writers facile in the use of their pen, but no fiction ever equaled the simple story plainly told by the men rescued by the Rebus. This last disaster was one apparently that no human foresight could avert, but in the cases of the Arizona and Champion a more careful watch might have prevented both calamities. One of the few good results that have come from these awful catastrophes is the discussion that has arisen regarding the use of scientific instruments and electric lights as safeguards to vessels at sea. In the course of a recent lecture, Mr. R. A. Proctor indicated a practical application of Mr. Edison's microtaimeter, which is worth noting as a valuable suggestion. The tasimeter, as is well known, is an instrument of such precision in the measurement of heat obliged to be above was in imminent danger of being washed overboard. By the morning the decks were washed clear of everything movable, and part of the mainmast had been carried away. The fury of the storm was increasing every minute, and Captain Fisher, who was still at his post, was not backward in expressing to his men his conviction of the terrible fate in store for them. At precisely five o'clock a terrific gust of wind struck the Petrel broadside. A crackling of tigerber was heard, and the remainder of the mainmast fell over the side of the vessel. A few minutes later the other mast was snapped by the gale. As it fell it struck the first mast (then at the wheel), cutting off all the fingers of the right hand, and knocking him senseless. Suddenly the vessel veered, the rudder chins rattled, and she fell into the trough of the sea. The wildest excitement provailed, and the captain, unaware of the accident to the man at the wheel, was at a loss how to act. Many hands were ready, but knew not where to render assistance. Five minutes after the accident to the first mate, a high roller struck the schooner, completely capsizing her. The scene after this was one of terrific horror. Between the time of the disaster and the rescue, those of the crew that were not already destroyed, suffered all that can be imagined of torture. Hunger and thirst beset them, and the mind of the mate gave way, so that when his companions approached him, he shouted at them as monsters who were seeking his flesh to eat. Scenes like these have been frequently described by writers facile in the use of their pen, but no fiction ever equaled the simple story plainly told by the men rescued by the Rebus. From $400 to a University. So many manifest private charities distinguish this age that it seems as if Providences had chosen certain men of money making aptitude to carry out His best effort design. They toll for years, raking gold from a thousand streams. Then they transfer their accumulations into some philanthropic or educational channel, and for centuries, minister to mind and body. These gold-rakers may be conscious or unconscious of the divinity which shapes their ends. That matters not, save to themselves, but they, nevertheless, execute the divine purpose. One of these chosen ones was John Hopkins, of Baltimore. His contribution to the catalogue of munificent charities was the university and the hospital which bears his name. He was brought up on a Maryland farm, associated with a rare deed of philanthropy. On it, John's grandfather had, before the Revolution, emancipated one hundred slaves. After seven years of hard labor in a grocery store, John began his business career at twenty-four, with a capital of four hundred dollars. He had, however, in addition to this sum, that which young men sometimes neglect to consider ready assets, but which old merchants view as substantial capital, experience gained by hard service and an aptitude for business. When he died, fifty-four years after he opened his little store, he was worth several millions of dollars; and every cent of it was made honestly. One of the peculiarities of the young grocer is worthy of the consideration of those beginning a business life. He was willing to start in a small way. Keeping within the limits of his capital and credit, he opened a small store put in it a small stock, and spread out on the counter many samples. If a customer desired two bags of coffee, instead of the one which John had in stock, he hurried off to the importers and in a few minutes the bag was in the store. What he bought was always paid for on the day the bill was due. He gained a reputation for promptness, and for that square dealing which never evades the plain sense of a bargain. Another peculiarity, one which caused him to be misunderstood, was that he habitually declined to sign sub- The Fever for Speculation. There has been a twofold secular revival. Side by side with the solid prosperity over which we have so much reason to rejoice, there has arisen a reckless, grasping, impatient spirit of speculation, which has seemed upon almost every class of society and penetrated into every sock and corner of the hand. Hardly had our splendid crops, in connection with the destitution on the other side of the Atlantic, begun to tell upon the fortunes of the country, than the stock market began to "boom," as the Western phrase is, and there was a general rush to buy at the advancing figures. Wall street brokers were fairly overwhelmed by the multitude of orders which poured in upon them from every quarter; and the investments were often in stocks that had no intrinsic value, but which, under the stimulus of the loud demand, were soon, in numerous instances, forced up to a nominal equality with substantial properties. The advance on these valueless stocks, since the beginning of the year, has been on the average about 40 per cent, and sooner or later buyers were bound to find the bottom dropping out from under them, and their money and fair prospects gone together to a common ruin. Already the speculative bubble has bursted. The violent fluctuations in stocks during the past few days may have beenthe resultof effortsto breakthe marketforthebenefitofspeculators.As longasmenarewillingtopourmoneyintothestreet,theywillbeaccordedeveryfacilitytodoso.Butletthefloodbegintofail,andthefictiouscharacterofthe"boom"willquicklymakeitselfapparent.Manya manthatcouldillafforditpaiddearestweekforthelessonsreceivedinWallstreet. Butthefeverforspeculationhasnotbeenlimitedtothestockmarket.它has takenholdupontheproductsofthecountry,andgreatcapitalistshavebeeng engagedin"lockingup"wheatbutter,andotherstaplearticles.inordertoforceupthepriceandincreasetheirgains.它isreportonedogauthoritythatnotlessthan10,-000,000bushelsofwheat.oraboutfivetimestheusualstock，arenowinstoreinthiscitywaitingforariseinprice.Andweareinforbyaleadinggrocerofthiscitythatthespeculatorshavegainedsofirmagriponthebut- that no human foresight could avert, but in the cases of the Arizona and Champion a more careful watch might have prevented both calamities. One of the few good results that have come from these awful catastrophes is the discussion that has arisen regarding the use of scientific instruments and electric lights as safeguards to vessels at sea. In the course of a recent lecture, Mr. R. A. Proctor indicated a practical application of Mr. Edison's microtasimeter, which is worth noting as a valuable suggestion. The tasimeter, as is well known, is an instrument of such precision in the measurement of heat that the slightest fluctuations of temperature—those ordinarily not appreciable even by our finest medical thermometers—are accurately registered. Mr. Proctor would apply this invention to prevent such accidents as that which has just happened to the Arizona, imperiling many lives. As the proximity of an iceberg is necessarily accompanied by some descent of temperature—probably a sufficient descent to be registerable by the instrument—he would place a tasimeter on board steamers whose pathways cross the track of icebergs or floes. More than this, he thinks the tasimeter might be so arranged that the alteration of temperature should either break or complete an electrical circuit, and be applied in this manner to the purpose of sounding an alarm, ringing a bell in the captain's room, in a word, piping all hands on deck to meet the emergency. Furthermore, as an electrical generator can be run on board a steamer without extra expense, it would require very little ingenuity, and no outlay for attendance, to convert the alteration or descent of temperature into a means of illuminating the track of the vessel with the blaze of an electric beam. Such a light, with such ordinary vigilance as seamen are bound to exercise, would have prevented the almost catastrophe to the Arizona, without depending upon a tasimeter to sound an alarm or ring a bell. Mr. Proctor's suggestion is no doubt ingenious, but, as the New York Times justly remarks in discussing it, "old sea-captains bear pretty general testimony to the very natural inference that all inventions intended to act as substitutes for human vigilance eventuate in the end in more loss than gain to human safety, by engendering false confidence, carelessness, and neglect of necessary precautions." Women as Observers. Notice how Shakespeare's women read the men, and understand them better than the other men do... Men are not conscious when they are observed by women, because the survey is made so silently... The glance of an observing woman does not pierce a man at any spot; it surrounds the whole of them at once impalpably. Or sometimes it is one swift flit of her glance across your own, like the shadow of a bat's wing. It is gone before you can declare that she looked at you. But the glance was an estimate; it cost her scarce a second to peruse every inch of you, and to audit a hundred years of ancestry. The glance is withdrawn, and goes into obscurity, like an keeping within the limits of credit, he opened a small store put in it a small stock, and spread out on the counter many samples. If a customer desired two bags of coffee, instead of the one which John had in stock, he hurried off to the importers and in a few minutes the bag was in the store. What he bought was always paid for on the day the bill was due. He gained a reputation for promptness, and for that square dealing which never evades the plain sense of a bargain. Another peculiarity, one which caused him to be misunderstood, was that he habitually declined to sign subscription papers for charitable objects. His friends, even, did not know that he was saving his money for a special purpose, then incubating in his mind. "My money is not intended for you," was his answer, when asked to give money to advance other people's plans. "It is not mine. I did not make it. It merely rolled up in my hands, and I know what for. I must keep to my own work." Yet John Hopkins gave away a good deal of money to those whom he thought would use it wisely. He frequently forgave a debt, or advanced capital, or pointed out a good investment to deserving men. A poor widow was trying to make a living. John Hopkins was one of five persons who loaned her one hundred dollars each to stock a small shop. Two years after the loan was returned with interest, and four of the lenders accepted their shares. John Hopkins refused his saying, "I don't want it. Keep it and lend it again in the same way." After his death an engraved likeness of the rich man was found hung in many counting-rooms. In each case it hung there because John Hopkins had done the firm some signal service. Shortly before his death he divided eight hundred thousand dollars equally among sixteen nephews and nieces. "Whatever is more than this cometh of evil," he said. His beginning life with a capital of four hundred dollars emphasized the apothegm. With the rest of his fortune he fulfilled the destiny under whose shadow he had toiled. That destiny was to found a university, a hospital, and a colored orphan asylum. The university provides free scholarships for young men from Maryland, Virginia, and North Carolina. The hospital, connected with which is a training-school for nurses, cares for the bodies of the wealthy and the poor, of the black and the white. The saylum is for destitute or orphan colored children, who will be provided for until they reach a self-supporting age, when they are to be apprenticed to some trade. Something New in Telegraphy. In Sheffield, England, has lately been exhibited a writing telegraphic machine, the principle of which consists in communicating at all times to a writing pen placed in the recording instrument in the exact position of a pencil used by the operator at the transmitting instrument through two line wires, enabling a person to write at a distant point many miles away, just as though he Wall street. But the fever for speculation has not been limited to the stock market. It has taken hold upon the products of the country, and great capitalists have been engaged in "locking up" wheat, butter, and other staple articles, in order to force up the price and increase their gains. It is reported on good authority that not less than 100000 bushels of wheat, or about five times the usual stock, are now in store in this city waiting for a rise in price. And we are informed by a leading grocer of this city that the speculators have gained so firm a grip on the butter market that only a limited quantity can be procured by retailers at a time. By this process, the price of these and other food staples has been advanced beyond the exporting point, and the inflow of gold, so important to the country at the present stage of our return to a sound currency, has almost ceased. Such methods of business as these are essentially unsound. They are pursued because men are not content to follow the slower processes of regular traffic, but are in haste to be rich. But they inevitably bring disaster in due time, and the nation suffers both in morals and in business stability through the prevalence of these feverish seasons of speculative excitement. It is well, we repeat, when recalling the abundant prosperity of passing year, to remember also the perils which attend the return of good times, and to pray that the country may speedily be delivered from the unhealthy condition which has already begun to impair its renewed vitality.-N.Y.Examiner and Chronicle. American Interests Abroad. We commend, says the London Echo, to the consideration of Manchester manufacturers the latest volume of "commercial reports" by her Majesty's Consuls in China. They will there find evidence, if they have found it nowhere else, that the success which for a time attended their efforts to "take in" John Chinaman by selling him sized cotton is now at an end, and that the astate Celestials, however anxious to buy in a cheap market, are not fools enough to be cheated long into buying glue for cotton. They have a proverb that "the conjurer does not deceive the man who beats the gong for him." Masters in the art of adulterating tea and silk, they are too clever to be long deceived by professors in the same line of business. The consequences to English trade and English character are what might be expected. Manchester manufacturers are credited with being makers of shoddy goods and of little else, and the trade in foreign cotton textiles is passing into the hands of the Americans. The port of Chefoo in 1874 imported 438,399 pieces of gray shirtings; last year it imported only 229,463. Though American drill is 40 per cent dearer than English, it is driving the latter out of the market. Of English drills, 14,673 pieces were imported to Chefoo last year, and 58,108 American pieces; 871 pieces of English sheeting and 59,943 American. From Hankow, Ningpo,and other places,the reports are simi- better than the other men do... Men are not conscious when they are observed by women, because the survey is made so silently... The glance of an observing woman does not pierce a man at any spot; it surrounds the whole of them at once impalpably. Or sometimes it is one swift flit of her glance across your own, like the shadow of a bat's wing. It is gone before you can declare that she looked at you. But the glance was an estimate; it cost her scarce a second to peruse every inch of you, and to audit a hundred years of ancestry. The glance is withdrawn, and goes into obscurity, like an instantaneous sun-picture, there to deepen into distinctness. Almost every woman has set up a gallery of these impressions, which she shows rarely, and to her trusted inmates alone. But there you are preserved—a simpleton, a rowdy, a gallant, a rogue, a gentleman... In the long run you will generally succeed in justifying all her silent estimates. A fine woman has not the consciousness that belongs to spies; she is guiltless of the act and the intent to watch us. Men deliberately set themselves to the work of scrutiny; and pay out all the line they have to fathom an associate, and bring up his mud or gold-sand sticking to the sinker. It does not always reach the ground of his being. But clear-headed women envelop other natures as the air which simply exists to drench all objects through their pores, by the stress of miles of heaven's blue piled upon it—John Weiss. HEALTH AND EXERCISE.—No doubt exists that exercise is a necessity; it prolongs life, and greatly improves living; it better fits us for our duties; without it, we do not more than half live. He only who exercises sufficiently can know the joy of good health, good appetite, good digestion, refreshing sleep. It causes the blood to circulate quickly, freely and equally, and will drive away the blues. It increases respiration, thus bringing a larger quantity of the elixir of life, oxygen, to purify and vitalize the blood. It rounds and hardens the muscles, and educates them into ever-ready, faithful and efficient servants of the will. It limbs the joints and strengthens every part of the body. It invigorates the mind, and renders it active and efficient in all its operations. A tie game—Marriage. Something New in Telegraphy. In Sheffield, England, has lately been exhibited a writing telegraphic machine, the principle of which consists in communicating at all times to a writing pen placed in the recording instrument in the exact position of a pencil used by the operator at the transmitting instrument through two line wires, enabling a person to write at a distant point many miles away, just as though he were present there himself, without requiring the use of any special signals, codes or signs, and without the assistance of any person to translate the signals as received. The latitude and longitude of the pencil are continually given, the vertical position of the pencil being communicated by one wire and horizontal position by the other. The pencil has two light contract rods joined to it, and one of these slides over the edges of a series of contract plates, having various resistances interposed between them and the wire. The second rod slides over them a second set of similar plates connected to the other wire, and at the receiving instrument each of these wires actuates its own needle. These two needles, which are placed at right angles to each other, and are provided with light springs, are so arranged that they actuate a writing pen, to which ink is constantly supplied. The pen moves up or down and backward and forward in exact obedience to the motions of the pen which is guided by the operator at the transmitting instrument. The message is written by the sender on a strip of ribbon or paper, which passes under his hand, being unwound by clock work. The message—which is literally written by him at the receiving station—is produced by the pen there on a slightly smaller scale than in the pencil original, moved under the pen, also by clockwork.—Boston Bulletin. The nine hundredth anniversary of the discovery of the art of painting on glass has been celebrated at Tegernsee, the Bavarians claiming the invention for the Benedictine Abbey there. Prof. Sapp has written a pamphlet for the occasion, maintaining the assertion. Four stained windows have been unveiled in the church of the village, which have been put in to commemorate the event. Character are what might be expected. Manchester manufacturers are credited with being makers of shoddy goods and of little else, and the trade in foreign cotton textiles is passing into the hands of the Americans. The port of Chefoo in 1874 imported 438,399 pieces of gray shirtings; last year it imported only 229,463. Though American drill is 40 per cent dearer than English, it is driving the latter out of the market. Of English drills, 14,673 pieces were imported to Chefoo last year, and 58,108 American pieces; 871 pieces of English sheeting and 59,943 American. From Hankow, Ningpo, and other places, the reports are similar. The Lancashire manufacturers by their devotion to size are deliberately shutting themselves out from the greatest cotton markets in the world. The province of Shantung alone has a population of 30,000,000 clothed entirely in cotton. Socks, caps, even shoes and boots are made of the same material. Sedan chairs are often covered with cotton, and wadded curtains of cotton often supply the place of doors in their houses. Yet the number of cotton pieces imported per annum is only 1,000,000. Last year the enormous number of 332,000,000 needles were entered at the single port of Chefoo—a remarkable indication of the vast quantities of cloth which must be made up in the province, and of the extent of the market for cotton fabrics. BEAUTY IN SOUTH AFRICA.—The English call Satan black, the Hottenots call him white; the Cape colonists, when Lord Grey was colonial secretary, proposed "to split the difference and call him grey." The Kaffire themselves, though not generally black, admire that complexion; there has been a man among them so fair that no girl would marry him. One of the titles of the Kulu king is," You that are black." To be black, then, is to possess a physical virtue. Still more important is it to be corpulent. Fatness is a sign of good feeding and good breeding; and therefore, of high social position; besides as a Kaffire said to Mr. Shooter, in the event of a famine, a fat person might survive till the next season while a lean one would surely die. A very obese noble was once condemned in Sulu; to be hurled from a precipice; being padded by nature, he broke no bones—whereas had he been slim, his whole anatomy must have been dislocated. 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 Ranchon, without authority from the undersigned, 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 ranchos wood of any kind, either for fire-wood 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 unsold lands on the Stearns Ranchon, for pasturage. Office in Langhamberger's store, Centre street, Anaheim. B. 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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 ORANGES, LEMONS, LIMES, HYS, ALMONDS, WETSUITS, APPLES, PEACHES, PEARS, DILMIES, FERRYS, HARVEY, FAT, RUMBA, COTTON, etc. Also many thousand acres of NATURAL ENERGIZING PATTERNS suitable for dairying. Good water is abundant at an average depth of six feet from the surface. On almost every site of this land forming artesian wells can be obtained and the ground allowed portions can be irrigated by the waters of the Santa Ana river. Most of these lands are particularly moist, requiring only good cultivation to produce crops. TERMS—One-fourth cash; balance in one, two or three years, with ten per cent interest. I will take pleasure in showing these lands to parties seeking land, who are invited to count and see the commercial trust before purchasing elsewhere. W. H. OLDKE, Amherst Anaconda, Los Angeles Co.