anaheim-gazette 1881-08-20

ANAHEIM VOL. XI. WEEKLY GAZETTE. Established 1870. For Terms, see Fourth Page. Dr. Reginald A. Fergusson Doctor of Medicine and Master of Surgery of the Queen's University, Ireland; Liecentiate of the Royal College of Physicians and of the Royal College of Surgeons of Edinburgh; Liecentiate of the Society of Apothecaries of London; late Senior Resident Surgeon, Resident Physician and Assistant Pathologist, Glasgow Royal Infirmary, and lately Resident in the Rotunda Hospital, (for diseases of women only) Dublin. HAVING PURCHASED FROM DR. JAMES ELLIS the Anaheim Sanatorium and Drug Store may be consulted on all Medical and Surgical cases. Diseases of Women and Children a specialty. Office hours from 7 A.M. to 12 M., and from 5 P.M. to 8 P.M. DR. ALICE HIGGINS, Physician and Surgeon! OFFICE—Corner of Center and Lemon Streets, ANAHEIM. A. J. HOWE M. D., Physician and Surgeon, CITY DRUG STORE! Ferguson & Lake, Prop's. Centre Street (Opposite Planters' Hotel), ANAHEIM. A choice variety of perfumery, toilet articles, etc., pure and fresh Drugs, patent medicines, etc. Physicians' prescriptions carefully compounded at all hours. IF YOU WANT TO GET RID OF SQUIRRELS AND GOPHERS USE CARBON BI-SULPHIDE Everybody who has used it recommends it as the ONLY SURE EXTERMINATOR Of this vermin. For sale by: A. LANGENBERGER, DR. ALICE HIGGINS, Physician and Surgeon! OFFICE—Corner of Center and Lemon Streets, ANAHEIM. A. J. HOWE M. D., Physician and Surgeon, SANTA ANA. DR E. L COWAN, Dentist, Has opened an office in the upper part of Mrs. Metz's building, Los Angeles Street, Anaheim. Having had twenty years experience, he can speak with confidence of his work. His scale of prices is very low. He will be found in his office every day between the hours of 9 A.M. and 5 P.M. GEO. B. SHAFFER, NOTARY PUBLIC. OFFICE—BANK OF ANAHEIM. VICTOR MONTGOMERY, ATTORNEY AT LAW AND NOTARY PUBLIC, Anaheim, Cal. Office at Santa Ana on Tuesdays and Fridays. P.O. address, Anaheim, Cal. ROBT. W. SCOTT, ATTORNEY AT LAW AND NOTARY PUBLIC, Commissioner of Deeds for Arizona Territory, Kreeger's Block, Anaheim, Cal. M. L. WICKS, Attorney-at-Law, Rooms 86 and 87 Temple Block, LOS ANGELES. H. M MITCHELL, Attorney and Counselor at Law, Office—Rooms 76 and 77 Temple Block, LOS ANGELES. H. J. STEVENSON, Deputy U. S. Land and Mineral Surveyor, OFFICE: Room No 4, Downey Block, LOS ANGELES, -- CAL. L. GUNTHER, Ploneer Boot and Shoe Maker, Cor. Adele and Los Angeles streets. TO GET RID OF SQUIRRELS AND GOPHERS USE CARBON BI-SULPHIDE Everybody who has used it recommends it as the ONLY SURE EXTERMINATOR Of this vermin. For sale by: A. LANGENBERGER, Dealer in Groceries, Hardware, Paints, Oils and Crockery. Len. J. Thompson & Co., DEALERS INGROCERIES, PROVISIONS, ETC. Wholesale and Retail Agents for the Celebrated ANCHOR CHEESE. 36 SPRING Street, Los Angeles, - Cal. City Stables, Corner of Los Angeles and Center Sts. ANAHEIM. L.F. Lewis, -- Proprietor. THESE STABLES ARE THE BEST VENTILATED and most commodious in the town, and special attention will be paid to Boarding and Grooming horses. The charme in all cases will be reasonable. Single and Double Teams Furnished at short notice, and careful drivers, familiar with the country, supplied when required. The patronage of the public is respectfully solicited. BLACKSMITHING AND WAGONMAKING! Removal. MR. H. A. STOUGH DESIRES TO INFORM THE public that he has removed his blacksmith shop to the shop on Lemon Street formerly occupied by H. J. McDermott, and respectfully solicits the continued patronage of his many customers. One part of the shop is occupied by Mr. T. L. GAN-NON, Wagronmaker, who is prepared to do all kinds of woodwork in a thorough manner and at cheap rates. Messrs. Stough and Gannon are jointly agents for The Osborn Farm Machinery. Consisting of Mowers, Reapers, Self-Binders, etc. Also agent for the Studebaker and other celebrated FARM WAGONS. W.A. MORRISON. H. J. STEVENSON, Deputy U. S. Land and Mineral Surveyor, Office: Roem No 4, Downey Block, LOS ANGELES, - CAL. L. GUNTHER. Ploneer Boot and Shoe Maker, Cor. Adele and Los Angeles streets. ANAHEIM. GEORGE BAUER, BOOT AND SHOE MAKER, Los Angeles Street. MAKING AND REPAIRING AT THE LOWEST cash price. All orders promptly attended to. All work guaranteed. CHARLES WILLE, COOPERAGE. Pipes, Barrels and kegs on hand at all times. Tanks and Tubes made to order. Honev Barrels for sale cheap. MILES BROS. WAREHOUSEMEN AND COMMISSION MERCHants. All consignments of produce shipped through us will be sold at the highest market rates. Liberal cash advances will be made. Backs, twine and bale ropes sold at low figures. Agents for all kinds of farming implements. Also agent for the Phoenix and Horse Insurance Co.'s Office at Warehouse, near Railroad denot. F. & J. BACKS. Importers, Manufacturers and Dealers in Furniture, Bedding, Paper Hangings, Picture Frames, etc. UNDERTAKERS. Agents for the Howe, Eldredge and Victor Sewing Machines. Los Angeles Street, : Anaheim. INTERNATIONAL BREWERY. T. P. HINDE, Proprietor. Orders from Town and Country promptly attended to. MR. H. A. STOUGH DESIRES TO INFORM THE public that he has removed his blacksmith shop to the shop on Lemon Street formerly occupied by H. J. McDermott, and respectfully solicits the continued patronage of his many customers. One part of the shop is occupied by Mr. T. L. GAN-NON, Wagonmaker, who is prepared to do all kinds of woodwork in a thorough manner and at cheap rates. Messrs Stough and Gannon are jointly agents for The Osborn Farm Machinery. Consisting of Mowers, Reapers, Self-Binders, etc. Also agent for the Studebaker and other celebrated FARM WAGONS. W. A. MORRISON, BLACKSMITH AND WAGONMAKER. At the old Stand on Center St., Anaheim. ALL KINDS OF WAGONS, CARRIAGES AND Buggies built to order from the best timber and at the lowest prices. Repairing of all kinds done promptly, and the charges in all cases will be moderate. CULTIVATORS For Vineyard and Orchard on hand and made to order HORSESHOEING A Specialty. I respectfully solicit the patronage of my old Customers and the public in general. A. E. WHITE. E. A. WHITE BLACKSMITHING AND Wagonmaking! All Work Warranted. Prices as low as the lowest Center Street, Anaheim. The Old German School. GERMAN, FRENCH, GYMNASTICS AND PENCING. Back-keeping, single sall double entry and all School Studies taught, according to improved methods. Mathematics (method of Beerrates) a Specialty. jan 1-6m. A. T. JULIUS VOIGT. THIS PAPER may not be found on me at Gea. Advertising Durans (10 Spruce St.) where advertising contracts may be made for it in NEW YORK. WEEKLY EIM GA ANAHEIM, CALIFORNIA: SATURDAY, AUGUST 20, 1881. HOW TO PREVENT DROWNING. Henry Maccormac, in Nature. I wish to show how drowning might, under ordinary circumstances, be avoided, even in the case of persons otherwise wholly ignorant of the art of swimming. The numerous frightful casualities render every working suggestion of importance, and that which I here offer I venture to think is entirely available. When one of the inferior animals takes the water, falls into or is thrown in, it instantly begins to walk as it does when out of the water. But when a man who cannot "swim" falls into the water he makes a few spasmodic struggles, throws up his arms and drowns. The brute, on the other hand, treads water, remains on the surface, and is virtually insubmergible. In order then to escape drowning it is only necessary to do as the brute does, and that is to tread or walk the water. The brute has no advantage in regard to his relative weight, in respect of the water, over man, and yet the man perishes while the brute lives. Nevertheless any man, any woman, any child who can walk on the land may also walk in the water just as readily as the animal does, if only he will, and that without any prior instruction or drilling whatever. Throw a dog into the water, and he treads or walks the water instantly, and there is no imaginable reason why a human being under like circumstances should not do as the dog does. feasible procedure calculated to avert it ought to be had recourse to. People will not consent to wear life-preservers, but if they only knew that in their own limbs properly used, they possessed the most efficient of life-preservers, they would most likely avail themselves of them. In every school, every house, there ought to be a slate tank of sufficient depth, with a trickle of water at one end and a siphon at the other, in order to keep the contents pure. A pail or two of bot water would at any time render the contents sufficiently warm. In such a tank every child from the time it could walk ought to be made to tread water daily. Every adult, when the opportunity presents itself, should do so. The printed injunction should be pasted up on all boat-houses, on every boat, at every bathing-place, and in every school. "Tread water when you find yourself out of your depth" is all that need be said, unless indeed we add, "Float when you are tired." Every one, of whatever age or sex, or however incumbered with clothing, might tread water with at least as much facility, even in a breaking sea, as a four-footed animal does. The position of a person who treads water is, in other respects, very much safer and better than is the sprawling attitude which we assume in ordinary swimming. And then the beauty of it is that we can tread water without any preliminary teaching, whereas "to swim" involves time and pains, entails considerable fatigue, and is very seldom adequately acquired after all. The Indians on the Missouri River, when they have occasion to traverse that impetuous stream, invariably tread water just as the dog treads it. The natives of Joanna, an island on the coast of Madagascar, young persons of both sexes, walk the water carrying fruit and vegetables to ships becalmed, or that may be lying-to in the offing, miles away. Some Croomen whose canoe PIPES AND OPEN DITCHES FOR IRRIGATION The Riverside Press shows in the following article how to make a limited amount of water go furthest in irrigation: The late B. D. Wilson, who was formerly owner of the Jarupa Rancho, where Riverside is located, and afterwards a large land owner and orchardist in the San Gabriel valley, was wont to say that water was worth $1,000 an inch for irrigating purposes in Southern California. If this figure is not too high, the Riverside settlement is losing property valued at a million of dollars by its abominable system of open ditches. Is that estimate too high? Let us see. Pasadena has under cultivation 1,000 acres of land that is worth in its wild state to-day $100 per acre or $100,000. Without water it would be valueless. Whatever value it has is given it by its supply of water. The water used in the Pasadena settlement only amounts to twenty inches, under a four-inch pressure, which, at $1,000 an inch, is worth $20,000; only one-fifth the value of the wild land of the Pasadena settlement. Pasadena uses only one inch of water on fifty acres of land. Riverside needs more water than Pasadena. The climate here is dryer than it is there, and the rainfall is less, but does it need as much more than Pasadena as the present amount in use would indicate? Riverside to-day uses what is not wasted of a supply that measures at the head of the river at its lowest part of an oil-rich day. The brute has no advantage in regard to his relative weight, in respect of the water, over man, and yet the man perishes while the brute lives. Nevertheless any man, any woman, any child who can walk on the land may also walk in the water just as readily as the animal does, if only he will, and that without any prior instruction or drilling whatever. Throw a dog into the water, and he treats or walks the water instantly, and there is no imaginable reason why a human being under like circumstances should not do as the dog does. The brute, indeed, walks in the water instinctively, whores the man has to be told. The ignorance of so simple a possibility, namely, the possibility of treading water, strikes me as one of the most singular things in the history of man, and speaks very little indeed for his intelligence. He is, in fact, as ignorant on the subject as a new-born babe. Perhaps something is to be ascribed to the vague meaning which is attached to the word swim. When a man swims it means one thing, when a dog swims it means another and quite a different act. The dog is wholly incapable of swimming as a man swims, but nothing is more certain than that a man is capable of swimming, and on the instant, too, as a dog swims, without any previous training or instruction, and that by so doing, without fear or hesitancy, he will just be as safe in the water as the dog is. The brute in the water continues to go on all fours, and the man who wishes to save his life, and cannot otherwise swim, must do so too, striking alternately one two, one two, but without hurry or precipitation, with hand and foot, exactly as the brute does. Whether he be provided with paw or hoof, the brute swims with the greatest ease and buoyancy. The human being, if he will, can do so too, with the further immense advantage of having a paddle-formed hand, and of being able to rest himself when tired by floating, a thing of which the animal has no conception. Bridget Money, a poor Irish emigrant, saved her own life and her three children's lives, when the steamer conveying them took fire on Lake Erie, by floating herself and making them float, which simply consists in lying quite still, with the mouth shut and the head well thrown back in the water. The dog, the horse, the cow, the swine, the deer, and even the cat, all take to the water on occasion, and sustain themselves perfectly without any prior experience whatever. Nothing is less difficult, whether for man or brute, than to tread water, even for the first time. I have done so often, using the feet alone, or the hands alone, or the whole four, many times, with perhaps one of my children on my back. Once I recollect being carried a good way out to sea by the receding tide at Boulogne, but regained the shore without difficulty. A drop of water once passed through the rima of the glottis, and on another occasion I experienced such sudden indisposition that if I had been unable to float I must think have gone hard with The position of a person who treads water is in other respects, very much safer and better than is the sprawling attitude which we assume in ordinary swimming. And then the beauty of it is that we can tread water without any preliminary teaching, whereas "to swim" involves time and pains, entails considerable fatigue, and is very seldom adequately acquired after all. The Indians on the Missouri River, when they have occasion to traverse that impetuous stream, invariably tread water just as the dog treads it. The natives of Joanna, an island on the coast of Madagascar, young persons of both sexes, walk the water carrying fruit and vegetables to ships becalmed, or that may be lying in the offing, miles away. Some Croomen whose canoe upset before my eyes, in the seaway on the coast of Africa, walked the water to the safe-keeping of their lives, with the utmost facility; and I witnessed negro children on other occasions doing so at a very tender age. At Madras, watching their opportunity, messengers, with letters secured in an oilskin cap, plunge into the boiling surf, and make their way, treading the water, to the vessels outside, through a sea in which an ordinary European boat will not live. At the Cape of Good Hope men used to proceed to the vessels in the offing through the mountain billows, treading the water as they went with the utmost security. And yet here, on our own shores, and amid smooth waters, men women,and children perish like flies annually,when a little properly directed effort—treading the water as I have said—would haply suffice to rescue them every one. The Deadly Kerosene. Los Angeles Express, August 12. Yesterday afternoon about 6 o'clock, an eleven-year-old daughter of Mrs. R. Roberts, who resides on Sainsevain street was attempting to build a fire by the use of kerosene oil,the mother being near by.The fire failing to start readily;the girl took can and attempted to pour on some more of the fluid,当the blaze communicated,以a flash,tothe can.The girl threw the can from her and it struck her mother，exploding and enveloping her in burning oil.Mrs. Roberts rushed out of doors，when detective Emil Harris and another neighbor named E.C.Davis hurried to her assistance，tearing off the burning clothing.Mrs. Roberts was frightfully burned about the limbs and chest.Dr.Kurtz was summoned，doing all that medical skill could suggest to alleviate the unfortunate woman's sufferings，but she died this morning. VISALIA，August 11.-About 4:30 o'clock yesterday afternoon,Miss Maggie Blain,a young lady of sixteen，attempted to start a fire in a stove with coal oil，when can exploded and she was immediately enveloped in the flames.No one was at home,and she ran out screaming with pain and terror.C.Krader,a neighbor,saw her and shouted to her to lie down in the grass.She obeyed and a lady brought a quilt and threw it over her，smothering the flames.The girl was taken into the house,hers clothing falling off and the flesh peeling in strips.She was thoroughly burned above the knees and below the face.At 11:30 she died. At the last meeting of the St. Helena Viti-cultural Society (we copy from the Star)the effect of frost on vines was discussed. Thos.Greer said his vines looked well last year，但the frost in the fall cut off the second crop.Pruned them this spring and they hooked-well，但 when time came for coming out they did not come except a little at the bottoms。Thought it the result of freezing last year。They are eight years old; what shall he do with them? Remedies for cases of this nature were discussed at some length.The general plan was to saw off the old stock and either put in a graft or leave a sucker to form a new cane.Some favored one，some another.Sheehan trained up suckers；they did well and bore the second year; got good fruit.Field's experience was that suckers are too liable to break off; did better with graft; got 30 or 40 pounds of grapes the second year.Cruely's experience was that the graft will double the productiveness of the sucker.Ewer preferred the sucker.Schram said in any event,cut off the old stumps below the ground; want no stumps sticking out in the way.Hastings had had some bad experience in the same line.Took 144,000 cuttings to Lake last year,and only a small percentage grew.Drying out in transportation partly the fault; they should have been sacked and kept moist. Edwards asked，what is a sucker?The term is understood differently by different people.Some discussion on this followed，在which it was generally concluded that a sucker is anything coming out below the head of the vine.Edwards also proposed Men and animals are able to sustain themselves for long distances in the water, and would do so much oftener were they not incapacitated, in regard of the former at least, by sheer terror, as well as complete ignorance of their real powers. Webb's wonderful endurance will never be forgotten. But there are other instances, only less remarkable. Some years since, the second mate of a ship fell overboard while in the act of fitting a sail. It was blowing fresh; the time was night, and the place some miles out on the stormy German Ocean. The hardy fellow nevertheless managed to gain the English coast. Brock, with a dozen other pilots, was plying for fares by Yarmouth; and as the mainsheet was belayed, a sudden puff of wind upset the boat, when presently all perished except Brock himself, who, from four in the afternoon of an October evening to one the next morning, swam thirteen miles before he was able to hail a vessel at anchor in the offing. Animals themselves are capable of swimming immense distances, although unable to rest by the way. A dog recently swam thirty miles in America in order to rejoin his master. A mule and a dog washed overboard during a gale in the Bay of Biscay have been known to make their way to shore. A dog swam ashore with a letter in his mouth at the Cape of Good Hope. The crew of the ship to which the dog belonged all perished, which they need not have done had they only ventured to tread water as the dog did. As a certain ship was laboring heavily in the trough of the sea it was found needful, in order to lighten the vessel, to throw some troop horses overboard which had been taken in at Coronna. The poor things, my informant, a staff-surgeon, told me, when they found themselves abandoned, faced round and swam for miles after the vessel. A man on the east coast of Lincolnshire saved quite a number of lives by swimming out on horseback to vessels in distress. He commonly rode an old gray mare, but when the mare was not to hand he took the first horse that offered. The loss of life from shipwreck, boating, bathing, skating, fishing, and accidental immerseions is so disastrously great, that every young lady of sixteen, attempted to start a fire in a stove with coal oil, when the can exploded and she was immediately enveloped in the flames. No one was at home, and she ran out screaming with pain and terror. C. Krader, a neighbor, saw her and shouted to her to lie down in the grass. She obeyed and a lady brought a quilt and threw it over her, smothering the flames. The girl was taken into the house, her clothing falling off and the flesh peeling in strips. She was thoroughly burned above the knees and below the face. At 11:30 she died. Important to Settlers. United States Attorney-General MacVeagh has just made a decision of much importance to those who intend to make their homes on the public domain. It is this in brief: That the President may establish a military reservation on the public lands whenever and wherever he shall elect, regardless of the claim of any pre-emption settler on such land, up to the time that such pre-emption settler shall have made his last payment and proved up his right to the fee in the land. But as to homestead settlers the case is different. From the instant that a homestead entry is made the land settled on is segregated from the public domain, and the right of the settler to remain and complete his title cannot be disturbed. This is in conformance with many United States Court decisions. It gives so great an advantage to homesteading over pre-emption as to make the latter practically an obsolete law. Postmaster-General James is about to adopt a plan for transmitting small sums through the mail, which to newspaper subscribers and other persons whose indebtedness often includes fractions of a dollar, will be very welcome. It is an improvement on the new English system, and consists of a postal order on which there are three columns of figures—dollars, tens and units. There are two denominations, one with a maximum of $2.50, the other of $5. The postmasters who issue them will designate the amount they call for by punching out the figures required. They are to be sent like fractional currency, the Government not being responsible for them any more than for any other money sent by mail. A record of the amount and date of issue is kept upon a "stub" by the postmaster issuing them, but not of the name of the person buying them. In order to prevent their use as currency, they cease to be redeemable three months after their issue. They will cost from three to five cents each, according to the amount. Chicago, August 13.—During the session of the Irish Convention here it was stated that one of the trustees of the Skirmish Fund was Alexander Sullivan. That gentleman having his attention called to the statement to-night, said he had never been connected with the fund in any respect whatever. The names of the trustees are well known in New York. He says also that the Convention was not discordant, as reported, but was harmonious. Fully one third of its membership were professionals men, and one-third were engaged in the civil war of 1861 in this country. The Convention had no possible sympathy with Rossa, and abhorred the idea of dynamic being used against non-combatant American passengers on English ships, when their memory of American kindness to Irish sufferers is so fresh. They believe that time will be ripe to strike for independence as America did, when England shall become involved in foreign difficulties, and that they will have a full right to wage war. Burton, Ma., Aug. 11.—A vagabond named Jackson having insulted Mrs. Larkford, her husband attempted to cheat him, but was stabbed nearly to death. Mr. Langford then appeared on the scene as shot Jackson in the breast, who then tried to stab her, but fell from less than bloody Langford and Jackson will die. GAZETTE. 20, 1881. NO. 45 OPEN DITCHES RRIGATION shows in the followmake a limited amount of irrigation: Wilson, who was formerly a Rancho, where River-afterwards a large land plot in the San Gabriel valley that water was worth irrigating purposes in it. If this figure is not inside settlement is losing a million of dollars by them of open ditches. Is high? Let us see. Under cultivation 1,000 acres with its wild state to-day 100,000. Without water loss. Whatever value it gets supply of water. The Pasadena settlement only inches, under a four-inch $1,000 an inch, is worth fifth the value of the wild ma settlement. Pasadena of water on fifty acres of more water than Pasadehere is dryer than it is infall is less, but does it be than Pasadena as the use would indicate? Riv-what is not wasted of a rures at the head of the port of an oilile day. PACIFIC COAST NEWS. Louis Duchin, a native of France, aged about 45 years, committed suicide at Napa on Friday by taking strychnine. James Hart of Santa Barbara was found dead on the highway, a demijohn of whiskey by his side. Maurice Bremond, aged 11 years, residing in San Francisco, attempted to leap on a truck but slipped and fell. The hind wheels passed over his body, killing him. The supply of white labor is insufficient to harvest the hop crop near Healdsburg, and one farmer has employed a hundred Coast Indians to work in his field. The crop is very abundant. A strawberry patch of five acres, in the Pajaro District, Santa Cruz county, has been entirely destroyed by a small beetle, less than half an inch long. The loss is at least $1,500. This is a new enemy to the vines. A fire started by careless hunters has been raging in the Gabilan mountains, fifteen miles south of Hollister, for three or four days. It burned over 3,000 acres of Government land, and 350 acres belonging to Jesse D. Carr, destroying a great amount of valuable timber and stock feed. A telegram from San Jose dated August 12th says: A meeting of viticulturists was held this afternoon to devise ways and means to destroy the phylloxera, which has made its appearance among the vines in this val- Supremacy of California Fruit. A curious idiosyncrasy of some Californians is their disposition to underrate the flavor of the fruits grown in this State. It is more pronounced in the pioneer than the late-comer from the East. It is not unusual to hear a "forty-niner" intimate that our peaches do not begin to compare with those of New Jersey and Delaware, and that there is an indescribable something missing from our pears, etc. In refreshing contrast to this is the following frank testimony from the New York Express. That journal says: "The Tokay and Muscat grapes of California surpass, to a great degree, the flavor, size and general quality of the Eastern or European grape." "The pears," it adds, "are a little larger than the Eastern varieties, but they retain the exquisite flavor which has made them so popular." But when the pioneer sees the indorsement of our peaches, which are pronounced "large, and of exquisite flavor," and reads the added comment that "it is thought that they will eventually crowd the New Jersey and Delaware fruit out of the market," he will certainly think his palate is slightly out of order, or that he lacks appreciation. Nothing could prove more satisfactory to Californians than the closing remarks of the article in the Express from which we have quoted: The Pacific Slope west of the Sierra Nevada will in the course of a few years supply all the demands of the Eastern markets. The produce can be transported from San Francisco to New York for about $700 a car-land and the excellence of the fruit is such more water than Pasadena there is dryer than it is shall is less, but does it be than Pasadena as the use would indicate? Riv. what is not wasted of a picture at the head of the part of an ordinarily dry acres of water on 4,000 acres one-half of that supply is in ditches—and this estimate the truth—we then on 4,000 acres, or one inch pipe and save its water as eventually must do, and try to irrigate every inch of how the upper canal between canal and the Temescal owners will then have water The estimate at Orange every ten acres, and at Pasadena every fifty acres. Pasadeno the greatest duty possessing every drop. Riv. million dollars' worth concludes this nature were disillusion. The general plan the old stock and either put a sucker to form a new favored one, some another. Up suckers; they did well second year; got good fruit. Once was that suckers are too off; did better with graft; kinds of grapes the second experience was that the graft productiveness of the sucker. The sucker. Schram said in off the old stumps below the no stumps sticking out in the had had some bad experience line. Took 144,000 cut last year, and only a small Drying out in transporta-fault; they should have been moist. ed, what is a sucker? The good differently by different discussion on this followed, generally concluded that a coming coming out below the Edwards also proposed a fire started by careless hunters has been raging in the Gabilan mountains, fifteen miles south of Hollister, for three or four days. It burned over 3,000 acres of Government land, and 350 acres belonging to Jesse D. Carr, destroying a great amount of valuable timber and stock feed. A telegram from San Jose dated August 12th says: A meeting of viticulturists was held this afternoon to devise ways and means to destroy the phylloxera, which has made its appearance among the vines in this valley. Charles A. Wetmore, of the State Board, made a lengthy address and advised the formation of a society. A Committee on Permanent Organization was appointed, to report next Saturday. Johnny Skae, for many years identified with the mining interests of the Comstock, and who at the time of the Sierra Nevada boom could have sold out for millions, went on a glorious drunk in San Francisco, on Friday morning, and made himself so hilarious on Kearny street that Officer Rainsbury was compelled to arrest him on a charge of intoxication. The only property in the fallen Comstock king's pocket was a bunch of keys; and so utterly poverty-stricken was he that he was unable to produce $5 bail, and was compelled to doze off the effects of his potations until some sympathizing friend, who heard of his misfortune, appeared and bailed him out. It seems that some dangerous species of thistle is in the Coos Bay country, Oregon. A Coquille City correspondent informs this department that some farmers in his vicinity have a great deal of work to destroy them, and their purposes are frustrated by the carelessness of neighbors who let them grow in waste places. The thistle which is so obnoxious is known as the "bull" thistle, and is a biennial, and very large and thrifty. The winds blow the seeds over the whole region. There has never been a thistle law in California, though the question was at one time agitated somewhat. In his detail of Indian horrors that came under his notice, Mr. Markley, the New Mexico Indian killer, stated that in 1867 he gave an Indian half a dollar for a hair rope ten feet in length and about the size of his little finger. He untwisted the end and found that it was made of aburn and black hair, which, from the length of each hair, was that of a woman. He questioned the Indian, who told him the rope was made from the hair of the women and girls slain in the Mountain Meadows massacre, for complicity with which murder John D. Lee, the Mormon, was tried and shot a few years ago. The place where he purchased the rope was at Paleronagote, sixty-five miles from Mountain Meadows, where the most harrowing and brutal massacre of modern times occurred. —Pioche Record. The Southern California Horticultural Society is determined to outdo all previous effaces. The Pacific Slope west of the Sierra Nevada will in the course of a few years supply all the demands of the Eastern markets. The produce can be transported from San Francisco to New York for about $700 a carload, and the excellence of the fruit is such that competition would be almost madness. The favor with which Western fruit is received in the East shows conclusively that the land of the setting sun is the El Dorado of fruiterers and the land of promise to episcure. The superiority of California fruit must be conceded beyond any cavil when it is asserted that it would be madness to try and compete with it in the markets of New York, even when handicapped by freights amounting to $700 per carload. —S. F. Chronicle. Ottawa, August 12. James Wetherell, aged 70, and Margaret Depoty, aged 50, having married, some roughs charivariated them from 11 p.m. till 2 this A.M., and then broke in the door and demanded money. The old man beat them off and then followed them out. This morning his dead body was found by the roadside with his head crushed. Accounts from Lancaster, O., where the largest vineyards in the State are located, represent the vines to be in splendid condition, and that the grape crop will be the largest ever known. All varieties are loaded with fruit, perfectly free from mildew, rot, rust and curelio. One grower expects to make 50,000 gallons of wine. Some of the parents at Cambridge City Ind., blew up with dynamite the saloon in which liquor had been sold to their children. Enterprising Druggists. Mr. A. Langenberger, the live storekeeper of the town, is always up to the times and ready to meet the demands of his many customers. They have just received a supply of that wonderful remedy that is astonishing the world by its marvelous cures, Dr. King's New Discovery for Consumption, Coughs, Colds, Asthma, Bronchitis, Hay fever, Phthisicis, Croup, Whooping Cough, Tickling in the Throat, Loss of Voice, Mooseness, or any affection of the Throat and Lungs. This remedy positively cures as thousands can testify. If you do not believe it, call at Langenberger's store, Anaheim,and get a Sample Bottle free of cost or a regular size bottle for one dollar. As you value your life, give it a trial and be convinced, so thousands already have been. Wholesale by Redington & Co., San Francisco. Oh What a Cough! Will you heed the warning? The signal perhaps of the sure approach of that more terrible disease, Consumption. Ask yourselves if you can afford for the sake of sav- off the old stumps below the no stumps sticking out in the had had some bad experiline. Took 144,000 cutlast year, and only a small Drying out in transportafault; they should have been at moist. what is a sucker? The good differently by different discussion on this followed, generally concluded that a coming coming out below the Edwards also proposed a keeping cuttings than tying dangles. The inside canes in a bud; put them in thin rows, all touch all of them. Of this spring not a dozen that freezing, with 5 or 6- caused black knot. August 13.—During the session Convention here it was statthe trustees of the SkirmishAlexander Sullivan. That giving his attention called to the night, said he had never been with the fund in any respect the names of the trustees are in New York. He says also mention was not discordant, as was harmonious. Fully onememberhip were professional third were engaged in the 1861 in this country. The Conno possible sympathy with horred the idea of dynamite against non-combatant Americas on English ship, when the American kindness to Irish sucah. They believe that the ripe to strike for independence, and when England shall become foreign difficulties, and that then be a full right to wage war. Avg., Aug. 11.—A vagabond man having insulted Mrs. Langhusband attempted to chastise stabbed nearly to death. Mrs. man appeared on the scene and in the breast, who then tried but fell from less of blood. Jackson will die. The Southern California Horticultural Society is determined to outdo all previous efforts in its Fourth Annual Fair, to be opened at Los Angeles on the 1st of September, and continue six days. Some half-dozen counties will take an active part in the exhibition, but it is announced to be "open to the world." The programme of exhibits is divided into six departments and thirty-four classes, which take in a wide range of articles, including grains, fruits, minerals, agricultural implements, and the products of growth and industry in every material branch, but omitting the arts in their numerous attractive varieties. Arrangements have been made with the steamship and railroad companies for cheap fares, and the attendance, from all the inducements offered, will, it is expected, surpass in numbers anything that has been witnessed in the "City of the Angels."—Call. On last Wednesday night, one of the prettiest steamers ever constructed in this city was launched from a shipyard at the Potrero. The boat was built for the Pacific Coast Steamship Company, and will be employed as a freight boat between this city and the south coast ports. The vessel was built almost entirely of Oregon pine, the stern and rudder posts being of hard wood. She is 180 feet in length, 27 feet beam, 16 feet hold, and is 600 tons burthen. The engine is a compound surface condensing one high pressure 18, and low pressure 24 pounds. Some of the single timber composing the kelson and water-ways are 110 feet in length. The vessel is lying at Main street wharf, receiving the finishing touches, and will be ready for sea in about 8 days. Her very pretty appearance and graceful lines attract considerable attention, and Captain Goodall was so struck with her beauty on first seeing her that he promptly decided to christen her the Bonds, which is acknowledged to be most apprehensive. The native cost of the steamer, ready for sea, will amount to about $70,000. Call. Oh, What a Cough! Will you heed the warning? The signal perhaps of the sure approach of that more terrible disease, Consumption. Ask yourselves if you can afford for the sake of saving 50 cts., to run the risk and do nothing for it. We know from experience that Shiloh's Cure will cure your Cough. It never fails. This explains why more than a million Bottles were sold last year. It relieves Group and Whooping Cough at once. Mothers, do not be without it. For Lama Back, Side, ar Chest, use Shiloh's Porous Plaster, Sold by Wm. M. 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This salve is guaranteed to give perfect satisfaction in every case or money refunded. Prices 25 cents per box. For sale by A. Lansur-Menzorke, Anaheim, wholesale by Medlingham & Co. S.F. Sore Throat, Diphtheria, Quinny, are different forms of congestion, the result of "catching cold." Trask's Magnetic Ointment was never known to fall in immediately relieving the congestion and curing those forms. As a mild, but effectual laxative; as a safe but sure tonic; blood purifier and general strengthener; use King of the Blood. See advertisement.