anaheim-gazette 1881-10-15

ANAHEIM VOL. XII. 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; Licentiate of the Royal College of Physicians and of the Royal College of Surgeons of Edinburgh; Licentiate of the Society of Appreciates of London; Sate Senior Resident-Surggeon, Resident-Physician and Assistant Pathologist, Glasgow Royal Infirmary, and later 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. H. R GARNER, Physician and Surgeon! Office at the drug store of W. M. Higgins. ANAHEIM. 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 LUMBER Y PLANING, SAW AND MOULDING M OF A. Guy Smith Anaheim NEAR THE RAILROAD All Varieties of Pine, Redwood LUMB B Doors, Sashes, and Blinds, Grape Boxes, Bee-Hives, and Fruit Builders' Hardware a Plain and Fancy SCROLL SAWING 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, Dealer in Groceries, Hardware, Paints, Oils and Crockery. Len. J. Thompson & Co., DEALERS IN GROCERIES, 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 comfortable in the town, and special attention will be paid to Boarding and Grooming horses. The charge 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, 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. RICHARD MELROSE, NOTARY PUBLIC, GAZETTE OFFICE. H. J. STEVENSON, Deputy U. S. Land and Mineral Surveyor, OFFICE: Room No 4, Downey Block, LOS ANGELES, CAL. L. GUNTHER, Pioneer Boot and Shoe Maker, Cor. Adele and Los Angeles streets. ANAHEIM. GEORGE BAUER, FOOT AND SHOE MAKER, Los Angeles Street MAKING AND REPAIRING AT THE LOWEST cash prices. All orders promptly attended to. All work guaranteed. CHARLES WILLE. COOPERAGE. Tapes, Barrels and bags on hand at all times. Tanks of Tubes made to order. Honey Barrels for sale cheap. 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. THIS PAPER may be found on file at Geo. P. Rowell & Co.'s Newspaper Advertising Bureau (10 Spruce St., where advertising contracts may be made for it IN NEW YORK. 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. Meltermott, 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 Bungles 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 FENCING. Book-keeping, single and double entry, and all School Studies taught, according to improved methods. Mathematics (method of Socrates) a Specialty. A. T. JULIUS VOIGT. WEEKLY IM GAZ ANAHEIM, CALIFORNIA: SATURDAY, OCTOBER 15, 1881. LUMBER YARD PLANING, SAWING, AND MOULDING MILLS. OF A. Guy Smith & Co. Anaheim, EAR THE RAILROAD DEPOT All Varieties of Pine, Redwood, and Spruce LUMBER! Doors, Sashes, and Blinds, Grape Boxes, Fruit Boxes, Bee-Hives, and Fruit Dryers. Builders' Hardware and Nails Main and Fancy SCROLL SAWING at Short Notice CALIFORNIA'S FRUIT INTEREST. S. P. Chronicle. It appears from recent statements by the State Horticultural Commission that the fruit interest in California, while it has this year grown to much larger and more profitable proportions than ever before, is very seriously menaced by the attacks of noxious insects upon the trees and vines. Phylloxera are not more detrimental to our vineyards than the coddling moth and other tree vermin to the orchards. In the early years of our fruit culture these pests were either unknown or unnoticed. We incline to the belief that they were unknown as late as 1870 save among the few oldest and most neglected orchards. No general complaints were heard till about 1877; but since then the progress of the evil has been rapid and something more than annoying, till now it has reached a stage which by the admission of all intelligent orchardists is so alarming as to demand the liberal aid of law as well as skill in entomology to check it and protect the future reputation of our orchards and fruit. Failure in this would be almost as great a disaster to the State as the failure of a grain crop. Up to the present year the year of our greatest fruit shipment was 1879, when, exclusive of Los Angeles and other districts south of Stockton, it aggregated 7,187,000. WHY THE GERMANS COME. The heavy immigration from Germany to this country is partially explained by statistics furnished to the London Economist by its correspondent at Vienna. They show the prevalence of much distress among the small proprietors of Germany. Bad seasons and foreign competition have brought ruin to many of them. In Bavaria alone, says the correspondent, no less than 3739 farms, representing 30,059 hectares of ground, were publicly sold in the year 1880. Of these, 953 farms, representing 5394 hectares of ground, were not farmed during the year, on account of the difficulties arising from the public sales. The census of 1871 showed upward of 1,800,000 proprietors in a total agricultural population of not much more than 12,000,000. The land-owning peasants and their families formed at that time a very large majority of the people employed in cultivating the soil. It is likely that when the last census comes to be analyzed, the proportion of independent owners to the whole number of agriculturists will be found to have sensibly diminished. But it is not so much the reduction in the number of the peasant proprietors which causes alarm, as the increasing embarrassment of their position. The long and severe depression of trade affects them, as it does all other Germans. Military service also opposes them. BA Last Thursday reported to the been swindled. The following story: Some name is not through China with Charley acquaintance. By which he did fidentially tell bars which had Fargo & Co., pants in the County Jail a bullion sold. agreed to in the white manket street. entered a room found, and Charley. The weighed fortress asking the prince them both after He thought rejected the agreement to let same time w strictly private for fillings all. But the great grievance of the the progress of the evil has been rapid and something more than annoying, till now it has reached a stage which by the admission of all intelligent orchardists is so alarming as to demand the liberal aid of law as well as skill in entomology to check it and protect the future reputation of our orchards and fruit. Failure in this would be almost as great a disaster to the State as the failure of a grain crop. Up to the present year the year of our greatest fruit shipment was 1879, when, exclusive of Los Angeles and other districts south of Stockton, it aggregated 7,187,000 pounds of all sorts in the green or uncanned state. This year, up to the 25th of September, the shipments from San Francisco and Sacramento alone aggregated 5,130,000 pounds, with six of the best weeks of the season yet to run. If we add 30 per cent for these six weeks, and allow for Los Angeles, Oakland, San Jose, Stockton, Marysville, Chico, Napa, Martinez and all other districts 75 per cent of the shipments from San Francisco and Sacramento to the close of the season, the figures for the entire State will reach 11,010,750, or to condense it, 550 tons. It is said that fruit which in ordinary years has sold sluggishly for 1/4 to 2 cents a pound, this year went off rapidly at 5 cents. Our fruit, then, is as well worth $80 to $100 per ton as our wheat is worth in average years $40 to $45 per ton; and an acre of well-kept apple, peach, pear, plum, apricot, fig and quince trees will produce from three to ten times as many pounds as an acre of well cultivated wheat. Indeed, it has been frequently asserted before public associations that orchardists in this State have this season realized from $1000 to $1500, and in one instance—a choice location—$2000 per acre on their fruit sales. Allowing to the orchardists but an average of $80 per ton, the value of the green fruit shipments this year will reach over $440,000. Probably twice as much will be sold for canning and preserving. In short, the interest already runs towards the millions, and with due care against disease and insect pests, and in the planting and cultivation of orchards, it can in a few years be run up to the tens of millions. Our means of supply are unlimited, for good orchards can be grown anywhere from the Coast Range to the foothill altitudes of 1500 to 2500 feet above sea level, and from Siskiyou to San Diego, without fear of blight from frost or drought. But it must always be borne in mind that to produce good fruit the trees should be carefully cultivated and kept clear of noxious insects. The above figures show that the business will pay far better than grain farming for such care and attention, and it can be conducted with as little capital and with a good deal less hard, sweating labor. Formerly our market for fruit was limited to San Francisco, Sacramento and a few mining towns. Now it extends in all directions, and is practically as unlimited as our means of supply. We ship apples and certain kinds of peanuts and their families formed at that time a very large majority of the people employed in cultivating the soil. It is likely that when the last census comes to be analyzed, the proportion of independent owners to the whole number of agriculturists will be found to have sensibly diminished. But it is not so much the reduction in the number of the peasant proprietors which causes alarm, as the increasing embarrassment of their position. The long and severe depression of trade affects them, as it does all other Germans. Military service also oppresses all. But the great grievance of the small owner is the enormous burden of the direct charges upon the land. The land tax alone is no trifling matter, forming as it does a prominent feature in the Budget of every German State. The Prussian Budget alone shows a sum of more than $2,000,000 to be due to this source of revenue, and the tax which the peasant pays to the State in respect of his land is, as a rule, far exceeded by his contribution to the expenses of his commune and his district. Communal Budgets have grown to alarming proportions, and communal debts likewise. Then, the private debts of the small farmers are burdensome. The land of Germany is mortgaged to an enormous extent, and the smallest owners are the most heavily mortgaged. The peasants started on their independent career saddled with debts, which they had to incur to pay off their liability to feudal services. In the prosperous days of ten or twenty years back it was common enough for a sanguine peasant to increase his mortgages till they amounted to quite one-half of the value of his property. There now be many peasants who are practically nothing but tenants on the soil which is nominally their own, and tenants at a rent so ruinously high that they will soon be driven from it altogether. It is not beyond the reach of possibility that if the socialism which has infected the artisans of the manufacturing centres ever spreads to the agricultural population, Germany may see a revolt against the mortgagee similar in all essential respects to the Irish revolt against the landlord. Accusations of witchcraft and maltreatment of supposed witches by the illiterate country people are still things of frequent occurrence in Germany. A recent number of the Danziger Zeitung tells of an incident of this kind in the village of Stangenwalde, where an old lone woman was accused of having bewitched an invalid widow because, as the latter was driving past the other's hut, her horse suddenly came to a stop. This was assumed to be owing to the old woman's occult influence, and to prove that the widow's illness had been caused by her. The old creature, frightened out of her senses, was dragged to the widow's bedside and subjected to various torments to coerce her into expelling the devil from her victim. This mode of procedure failing, she was compelled to inflict cuts in three of her white manket street. entered a room found, and ther Charley. The weighed forty asking the police them both at He thought he rejected them agreed to let same time wrestle privily for fillings at the purpose bullion. The Chinaman and purchase prices. After ascertained The reason to the police had been prudent would return in Chinese appointment three friendly cats. Butte Creatt attracts Mrs. Nellie extracted it caused a stomach, ww For a year has been kept baths. He 70 pounds nightly, an retching day. She voice, and case has been rears parts of tha The Suppan an importor Weber vs. Clara counsels of any new Constituent for public compensation jury as in waived ing of a hi Tucson sengers ww Benson and attacked frightened men over CORRESPONDENTS. FIRST NATIONAL BANK, Los Angeles, FARMERS AND MERCHANTS BANK, Los Angeles, PACIFIC BANK, San Francisco. FIRST NATIONAL BANK, New York. DRAFTS, LETTERS OF CREDIT OR POSTAL orders issued on Banks in the principal cities in all European countries. Tickets entitling the holder to passage from New York to the several ports of England. France or Germany, or from any port in those countries to New York, via the Hamburg American Packet Company, sold at regular rates. Return tickets at a reduction. Certificates, entitling the holder to passage on railroad from San Francisco to New York, or vice versa, issued at the established rate. Persons in Anaheim or vicinity desiring to send to any point in the countries named for any relative or friend can purchase tickets here and forward them to the proper person by mail. FIRST NATIONAL BANK OF Los Angeles. PRESIDENT: E. F. Spence. CASHIER: W. Lacy. A New York paper says: "When the Southern Pacific Railroad is completed, with its connections, to New Orleans — an event that is expected to occur by next summer—immigrants will be conveyed by this route from Liverpool to San Francisco for $40 to $50. This is looked forward to as being the solution of the problem presented by California's distance from the centres of civilization, and by the consequent high rates of freight and passenger transportation that have heretofore been checking her business progress and her rapid settlement." Formerly our market for fruit was limited to San Francisco, Sacramento and a few mining towns. Now it extends in all directions, and is practically as unlimited as our means of supply. We ship apples and certain kinds of pears in the green state to Wellington, Auckland and other towns in New Zealand, and the papers of that country land them far above the productions of New South Wales and other Australian colonies. 'This year, by the Southern Pacific Railway, some of our fruit has found a profitable market in Texas as far south as Dallas, and in the outlying districts of Kansas, Colorado and New Mexico. Much of it has gone as far East as Philadelphia, Boston and New York. But Chicago is and perhaps always will be our best customer for early fruits, such as cherries, apricots and early varieties of peaches and fox grapes and certain varieties of pears and plums. Such a business is worthy of all intelligent methods of preservation and expansion. It has not escaped the observation of old Californians that within the last fifteen or twenty years the quality of some of our most profitable fruits has deteriorated. The insect pests are the ostensible cause of the deterioration; but it will probably be found on closer investigation that bad cultivation and the long neglect of orchards have caused the breeding of the insects. To do well fruit trees, like chickens, must be kept clean and clear of vermin. And it is with trees and vines as with poultry, that one lousy or diseased one will contaminate all its surroundings. If accounts be true, Mr. Conkling is more unpopular in Ohio than in his own State. The charge against him is that his resignation from the Senate, accompanied by that of his colleague, will enable the Democrats to secure the organization of that body at the approaching extra session. A Columbus (Ohio) correspondent of one of the New York papers writes: Should President Arthur show a disposition to be advised or led by Senator Conkling, 30,000 Ohio Republicans will stay away from the polls on election day, the Democratic ticket will be elected by a vote larger than that of Bishop in 1877, the Legislature will be under Democratic control, and the Democrats will gain (by new districting) ten Representatives in Congress. A most extraordinary marriage ceremony took place at Portsmouth, England, last month. Miss E. Mainwaring, daughter of an army officer, was about to be married, her trousseau and that of her bridesmaids having been provided, but she was seized with illness and suddenly died. It was therefore decided to go through, as far as possible, the marriage ceremony before her body was interred, and on the day appointed several carriages were provided for the accommodation of the friends. The coffin, followed by her friends in wedding costume, proceeded to Holy Trinity Church, where a Rev. T. D. Platt and other elergymen officiated. The marriage service was read, after which that for funerals was proceeded with, and the cortege went to the cemetery, where the interment took place. GAZETTE. NO. 1 BARS COME. Germany to be freed by statistion Economist by They show us among the Bad seasons brought ruin alone, says 3739 farms, of ground, ear 1880. Of 5394 hectares surging the year, arising from 1871 showfactors in a toof not much land-owning armed at that the people emitated at that It is likely needs to be anadent owners culturists will finished. But in the numwhich causes disarrassment of and severe deas it does all service also opprevance of the BARS OF BRASS. R. P. Alta. Last Thursday morning Charley Ah Wah reported to the Chief of Police that he had been swindled out of $6000 by a white man. The following is substantially Ah Wah's story: Some time ago a white man, whose name is not given, took frequent strolls through Chinatown, and became acquainted with Charley Ah Wah, and cultivated his acquaintance. He made Ah Wah an offer by which he could realize a large profit, confidentially telling him that he had two gold bars which had been stolen from Wella, Fargo & Co., and that one of the participants in the affair was then lodged in the County Jail and was anxious to have the bullion sold, to raise bail money. Charley agreed to inspect the bullion, whereupon the white man took him to a house on Market street. Proceeding to the top floor they entered a room where two other men were found, and the two bars were shown to Charley. The men stated that the bars weighed forty pounds each. Upon Ah Wah asking the price, he was told he could buy them both at $30,000 or one for $15,000. He thought the price was extravagant and rejected the offer. The three men finally agreed to let him have them at $6000, at the same time warning him to keep the affair strictly private. The Chinaman then asked for fillings and cuttings of the bricks, for THE PHYLLOXERA—NO CERTAIN REMEDY. The Sonoma Index has treated the phylloxera question lightly, and asserted that "the phylloxera panic is a matter of the past, and by proper cultivation and pruning of the vines, it will become extinct in this (Sonoma Valley) section." Julius Dresser, an intelligent grape-grower of that district, writes as follows to that journal: "If you never made the trip from Napa to Santa Rosa, why did you not at least inquire of the stage drivers, what they must have remarked every day passing under their eyes? Scores of vineyard owners in that distance can testify that the phylloxera has invaded their lands and is extending its ravages from a hundred different points at this very moment. How is it that you neither see nor hear of a truth that stares in the face of everybody else who cares to observe? And regarding remedies, why do you not communicate your secret arcana about plowing and pruning? I am particularly anxious to get acquainted with those redeemers of our phylloxera-stricken vineyards. "The fact is, there exists no generally practical remedy against these myriads of insects. Over 1,000 supposed remedies have been tried in France during the last ten years, and all have been found wanting. The Government recommends now, officially, and the most experienced private au- It is likely that the people embody this behavior which causes harassment of and severe deception as it does all service also opposes the burden of the land tax reforming as it is the Budget of Russian Budget than $2,000,000 revenue, and the State in reevaluation, far exceeded expenses of his Communal Budging proportions, etc. Then, the farmers are burrowing is mortally, and the small-family mortgaged. Their independent which they had facility to feudal days of ten or common enough increase his mortquite one-half of there must now be practically soil which is empties at a rent may soon be not beyond if the socialism means of the manuels to the agrarian may see a reminiscent in all essex revolt against it and maltreaty by the illiterate beings of frequent recent number of an incident of Stangenwalde was accused of widow,because past the other's name to a stop, moving to the old and to prove that he caused by her. Named out of her widow's bedside movements to coerce him from her viculture failing, she puts in three of her The Supreme Court on Saturday rendered an important decision in the case of C. M. Weber vs. the Board of Supervisors of Santa Clara county, to the effect that the Supervisors of any county have no right, under the new Constitution, to condemn private lands for public uses and award damages, but that compensation must be ascertained by the jury as in other civil cases, unless the jury is waived. The case arose out of the opening of a highway through the plaintiff's land. Tucson, October 8.-The stage and passengers were robbed this morning between Benson and Contention City. Five robbers attacked the stage, when the horses became frightened and ran away, but the highwaymen overhauled the stage and robbed the before leaving they returned 85 hear of a truth that stares in the face of everybody else who cares to observe. And regarding remedies, why do you not communicate your secret arcana about plowing and pruning? I am particularly anxious to get acquainted with those redeemers of our phylloxera-stricken vineyards. "The fact is, there exists no generally practical remedy against these myriads of insects. Over 1,000 supposed remedies have been tried in France during the last ten years, and all have been found wanting. The Government recommends new, officially, and the most experienced private authorities all over the country advise, to plant American vines of the Riparia and Destivalia families. Bi-sulphide of carbon may be employed with good effect in restricted cases only, but it cannot at all serve as a safe-guard in a district where the evil has already a more extended foothold. Therefore I appeal to the intelligence of my fellow wine-growers and say: Put your shoulders to the wheel, prepare nurseries for some American vines, raise your own rootings and multiply them yourselves, which is easily done at little cost, and in that way you can forestall the danger, retrieve the losses already sustained, keep up the credit with your banker and your reputation with the vineyardists of the world; but do not allow yourselves to be made the laughing-stock of the neighboring counties by your own paper." The opinion is entertained by the blue-blooded German nobility that it is degrading to one of their high lineage to busy himself with any of the younger and more sensible noblemen. Duke Theodore of Bavaria has won an enviable reputation as a physician, and particularly as one who devotes himself with noble compassion and sympathy to the alleviation of the sufferings of the poor. We now hear also of Prince Ernest of Meiningen, who has studied law in Strasburg as about to undergo the usual Government examinations for admission to the practice of the legal profession. This is a rare proceeding in Germany. England has just learned what was the cost in blood of her South African and Afghan wars from 1875 to 1880, inclusive. For the war in Afghanistan the number who were either killed outright or who died of their wounds was 99 officers and 1524 men, and the number of the wounded 111 officers and 1252 men. In Zululand 58 officers and 1328 men were killed and 17 officers and 272 men were wounded. In the war with Seccoconi 3 officers and 9 men were killed and 7 officers and 249 men were wounded. Other South African wars between 1875 and 1880 involved the loss of 12 officers and 167 men and brought wounds to 15 officers and 243 men. The biggest Chincapin tree we ever saw, we think, is on the Cason old plantation, near Briar Creek Church. It measures 180 feet in circumference. Between 200 and 300 TUCSON, October 8.—The stage and passengers were robbed this morning between Benson and Contention City. Five robbers attacked the stage, when the horses became frightened and ran away, but the highwaymen overhauled the stage and robbed the passengers. Before leaving they returned $5 to each passenger. It was the intention of the robbers to take in the stage coming down from Tombstone, but being an hour late it escaped. M. Pasteur, who has been patiently continuing his experiments in sheep and cattle vaccination, has now announced the complete success of the work, which he has been carrying on on a large scale at a farm near Melun, France; and he believes that he has obtained a process by means of which sheep and cattle can be made wholly secure against some of the most dangerous and destructive class of maladies to which they are subject. LAS VEGAS, N. M., Oct. 8.—Yesterday, a controversy took place over the telegraph wires between J. S. McBride, operator at Glorietta, and Jack Hardy, operator at Levi Station. The latter called on McBride about midnight, for the purpose of revenge. This morning, Hardy was found on the floor of the telegraph office, fatally shot in the head. McBride is missing. The shooting is supposed to have been unjustifiable. The disease called "pink-eye" seems to be epidemic among the equines of the city. About 25 per cent of the animals in the larger stables are affected with the disease. The symptoms differ in different animals, but include high fever, inflammation of the eyes, and swelling of the legs. The disease is said to be due to atmospheric influences. Horses at pasture have not been affected, neither have brood mares with foals "at foot."—Chicago Tribune. A son of Senator Vance of North Carolina, indignant at an editor who criticised his father, has "posted" him "as an infamous scoundrel, a willful liar, a cur and a sneak." The biggest Chincapin tree we ever saw, we think, is on the Cason old plantation, near Briar Creek Church. It measures 180 feet in circumference. Between 200 and 300 persons can be shaded by it all day long. It is thought it can furnish over 300 persons a quart of chincapins each to eat for one day. The 180 feet around is not the body, but the limbs gracefully hanging to the ground laden with fruit. It forms a most comfortable tent, and is one of the old pioneer trees of the State.—Warrenton, Ga., Clipper. C. H. Dwinelle gives the Rural Press the following recipe for preserving dried fruit from insects: "After curing the fruit, place it in a basket and dip it in a boiling solution of one ounce of borax to one gallon of water, drain and dry off. I know of its having been used for protecting figs with perfect success, while others not so treated became infested with insects." Hon. John F. Swift delivered a lecture at the University last week on the Chinese Empire, which he visited not long ago as a United States Commissioner to negotiate a treaty. He said, in the course of his lecture that lying was universal among the Chinese, it being considered an insult even to a high official to accuse him of telling the truth. "Delays are dangerous." An Eastern paper speaks of a gentleman who was proposed, elected, and a dispensation given to confer both degrees of the A. O. U. W. upon him on a certain date. When said date arrived, he failed to present himself, although alive and well. Before the meeting night of the following week he was dead. S. J. Tilden, in a letter asking him to be the candidate for the nomination at the Democratic Convention, writes that he has no idea of returning to the Governorship, "even if I flattered myself I would receive the unanimous vote of the people."