anaheim-gazette 1882-02-04

WEEKLY GAZETTE. County Official Paper. SATURDAY...FEBRUARY 4, 1862 It is feared that a famine is imminent in Tunis. A very large portion of the agricultural land has been, in consequence of the recent troubles, left unsown; and it is estimated by those capable of judging that when the scarcity of food begins to be felt in the interior of the country another and probably a fiercer insurrection of the population is likely to break out. The price of beer has advanced in San Francisco from $5 to $7 per barrel, with every probability of a still further advance soon. There is very little brewing barley in the State, and that little is held by speculators who are asking $1 80 per cental. The poor prospect for a crop this year will send the price still higher. Such an advance in the price of beer in Germany would have been followed by a riot which only grape and shrapnel could have suppressed. The Mexican authorities, like those of other countries, do some very wise things and some very foolish things. They have shown their wisdom by fixing the passenger rate on the Mexican Central railway at two cents per mile, and the State Legislature of Sonora has shown its foolishness by passing a law in which there is a clause to the effect that all signs in any other than the Spanish language, shall pay a tax of ten cents per word for each month, and public offices double the same. It is interesting to note that the Dutch are at present engaged in reclaiming half a million acres from the Zuyder Zee. Between 1840 and 1852 45,000 acres were rescued. BELOW ZERO. Ice, Snow and Bitter Blast. The present alleged winter is the most disagreeable and unsatisfactory one with which Southern California has ever been affected. Tantalizing rain signs, but no rain; cold, uncomfortable weather, especially irritating to thin-blooded semi-tropical people. It is only by constant reflection upon how much colder it is in other States that the present weather is made endurable; for it is a universal trait of human nature to derive an immense amount of satisfaction from the knowledge that some other man is worse off than yourself. The average temperature in Anaheim for the week ending January 25th was 48° degrees. In our semi-tropical innocence we deemed that cold; but in an Eastern paper of the 25th ult., we read the following paragraph which shows that the temperature here was blazing hot by comparison: A schooner running into Newport for shelter yesterday brought on her decks a casual accumulation of six tons of ice. The St. Lawrence is frozen so solid that preparations are being made to lay a railway on the ice. Such facts as these set at rest any fears of the lack of an ice crop. Indeed, the Hudson is sobly frozen from Peekskill north, and ice cutting is going actively forward. The cold in many places is the most intense ever recorded. At many points throughout New England and northern New York the thermometer has registered more than thirty degrees below zero. At Newport the schools had to be closed because it was impossible to keep them warm. Curiously enough, the bleak extremity of Cape Cod was a comparatively warm place yesterday, the lowest temperature indicated there being seven degrees above zero. This is accounted for by the long reach the land makes toward the Gulf Stream. Many cases of death by freezing are reported. A perusal of the following telegrams will prove interesting: POUGHKEEPME, Jan. 24.—Two inches of ice were made last night, and ice-cutting is active everywhere north of Catskill. The temperature in this region yesterday morning averaged 16° below zero. TEACHERS EXAMINATION The following is a list under their respective head dates for teachers' certification to answer at the examining County Board of Education December 20, 21 and 22, 18. The Gazette publishes this response to many requests, to Prof. Hinton, the County of Schools, for the copy, written of foolscap paper. SPELLING. Auxiliaries, Academician, Bailiff, Belligerent, Confectionery, Convalescence, Chalybeate, Crystalline, Diaresis, Daguerreotype, Ebullition, Ellipse, Emollient, Eraneascence, Exhilarate, Fallible, Flaccid, Gnomon, Guillotine, Gauger, Haleyon, Ineffable, Infallibility, Innuendo, Irremediable, WRITTEN ARITHMETIC Nine questions; ten creeds. 1. What is the value of quarter multiplied by one sixth multiplied by four multiples by two-fifths squared and two-thirds cubed minus thirds squared plus four mins and one-fourth divided by two. 2. What is the amount bill? 5 joists, 8 in. x 2 in., 12 in. x 2 in., 10 ft. long, at lb hay at $10 per ton; 3,800 per m. It is interesting to note that the Dutch are at present engaged in reclaiming half a million acres from the Zuyder Zee. Between 1840 and 1852 45,000 acres were rescued from the sea at Haarlem. When such a process is attempted in Britain it generally results in some landlord proclaiming a right to the foreshore, which precludes further operations. In Scotland, especially of late years, private enterprise has been effectually balked in this way, and on the Friths of Forth and Clyde valuable acquisitions to the State have been lost by the stupid opposition of riparian proprietors, who would not themselves spend a penny to reclaim the land, but were prepared to prevent others doing so at any cost. The very remarkable statement has been made that during the year 1879-80 there were exported from New Orleans 6,000,000 gallons of pure olive oil, extracted from cotton seed. Eighty-eight per cent. of this stuff was sent to Mediterranean ports, and half of this amount went to Italy, the home of the genuine olive. The interesting question arises, what is the pure haile d'olive, which is sold in this country, made from, if in Italy itself they consume a vile adulteration? But the fact that there is such a demand for oil ought to give encouragement to California farmers and fruit-growers to pay more attention to the culture of the olive. It is a branch of horticulture as promising as any pursued in this State, and it ought not to be neglected in the future as it has been in the past. There is no reason to doubt the accuracy of the following picture, portrayed by a Washington correspondent: "The patriots here do not permit politics to interfere with business. They are fierce against each other, in the Senate and in the House of Representatives. They make violent speeches. They arraign the respective platforms, and they threaten things terrible in the way of exposures. "But much of this speechmaking is theatrical, and signifies nothing. The antagonists retire to the cloak room after the performance, and, like Roman augurs, laugh over the tricks played on the public. They dine together, and have a good time in rehearsing these farces." When parents take their child to a physician to have it vaccinated; when they see its arm lacerated and its blood deliberately inoculated with a poison; when they witness the subsequent pain and fever which the process entails, it is no wonder that they are Poughkeepsie, Jan. 24.—Two inches of ice were made last night, and ice-cutting is active everywhere north of Catskill. The temperature in this region yesterday morning averaged 16° below zero. Newburgh, Jan. 24.—The temperature here last night fell to 14° below zero. The Poughkeepsie propeller Miller and the Newburgh large Sunquehanna, which left this city for New York at 8:30 o'clock last night, with freight and passengers, were caught in a winnow of ice in the Highlands, near Cold Spring, between 10 and 11 o'clock; and could get no further. The passengers walked ashore on the ice this morning. The propeller worked her way back to this city tonight. Whitehall, Jan. 24.—The temperature this morning at Saranac Lake was 40° below zero, and at Saratoga 36° below. Norwich, N. Y., Jan. 24.—The thermometer marked 33° below zero here this morning. Troy, Jan. 24.—The thermometer this morning ranged from 14° to 20° below zero, and at noon it registered 8° below. At Sand Lake it marked 24° below, at West Cambridge 32° below, at Schuylerville 52° below, and at Luzerne 36° below. William Cooper, aged 65 years, destitute and crippled, was frozen to death in bed at Centre Cambridge. Newport, R. I., Jan. 24.—The weather here this morning was the coldest in ten years, 6° below zero. Boston, Jan. 24.—The extremity of Cape Cod was to-day the warmest place in Massachusetts, the thermometer marking 7° above zero in Provincetown, or 20° higher than the minimum in this city. The difference is believed to be due to the influence of the Gulf Stream. Montreal, Jan. 24.—At 5 o'clock this morning the temperature averaged 27° below zero, and during the day 10° to 12° below. Ottawa, Jan. 24.—The thermometer last night marked 38° below zero, and at Pembroke, on the Upper Ottawa, 40° below. To day was the coldest of the season, the mercury not rising above 25° below zero. Near the city a woman and child were frozen to death. Look on this Picture. Washington, Jan. 30th.—The President is said to be the hardest worked man just now in the United States. He dines at 7:30, and is a hearty eater. He generally has friends to dinner, and wine and good stories are not lacking. At dinner he is Chet Arthur again. This meal and cigars end about nine o'clock. From that to eleven he accords to appointments made during the day with various individuals. After these are over, or about twelve o'clock, he goes into the library and looks over the newspapers arranged there for him, and disposes of such public business as must be transacted without interruption. This occupies him until two or three o'clock in the morning, and sometimes it is four or five before he creeps into that aesthetic bed which has been so elaborately described. Nine questions; ten credits 1. What is the value of quarter multiplied by one sixth multiplied by four multiplied by two-fifths squared and two-thirds cubed minus thirds squared plus four mins and one-fourth divided by two? 2. What is the amount bill? 3. Joists, 8 in x 2 in., 12 in x 2 in., 10 ft long, at lb hay at $10 per ton; 38 per m. 4. Purchased the N.W. land at $5 per acre. 5. Sold N.W. for $8 per acre, sold S.W. for $8 of the N.W. How many acres were surrendered in that sale, and wortion of the parts left? 5. The amount of a certain rate and the interest is one-fourth pal. What is the principal rate per cent? 6. Sold goods at a commissary and remitted the net process receiving for prompt payment amounting to $16.15. Whole of the commission? 7. What do you understrain, and what by the square and cube root? Where are roots in the one case and other? 8. If a 3-inch pipe discovers water an hour how water with like pressure discharge in the same time? 9. Bought 1,000 bbls. its value in cash, and gives days with 6 per cent. intance. The note was drawn on the day it was given, to $31.50. What was the per barrel? MENTAL ARITHMETIC Ten questions; one credit 1. When an article is cost, what is the loss per cent? 2. Bought hats-at $4 ea $5 bought them back make or lose, and what price? 3. How many car tickets can be purchased for $7:50? 4. A man after spending money and one-third of $10 left. How much had he spent? 5. If to $\frac{1}{2}$ the cost of A $10,the sum will be $2 cost of the watch? 6. What is the different and $\frac{1}{2}$ of 2? 7. What is the interest months at 6 per cent.per month. 8. How many times 8? 9. Cost of 40 eggs at t cents? But much of this speechmaking is theatrical, and signifies nothing. The antagonists retire to the cloak room after the performance, and, like Roman augurs, laugh over the tricks played on the public. They dine together, and have a good time in rehearsing these farces." When parents take their child to a physician to have it vaccinated; when they see its arm lacerated and its blood deliberately inoculated with a poison; when they witness the subsequent pain and fever which the process entails, it is no wonder that they are almost impelled to register a vow never to submit another of their offspring to a similar operation. But when the swollen arm is healed and the fever gives place to a normal condition of the system, reason and common sense again reassert themselves, and the parents, assuming them to be of average intelligence, are glad that they had the courage to submit their child to the pain entailed by lancet and virus. Facts are stubborn things, and no amount of sophistry can upset the known results of vaccination. Before Jenner's discovery, an epidemic of small-pox meant death to 99 out of every hundred people attacked; and now, carefully prepared statistics, made in different parts of the world, show that out of every 100 cases of small-pox the percentage of deaths among those who had been vaccinated is only 3.3. Indeed, vaccination is a surer preventive than small-pox itself. Out of every 100 cases of small-pox succeeding small-pox, the percentage of deaths was 15.7. The disease is very prevalent in many parts of our own State, and it would be wise for all who have not been vaccinated to adopt this preventive. Vaccination ought to be undergone every five or six years, as its protective influence is then exhausted. About a thousand million dollars of our national debt have been paid since the war ended. France has now nearly treble our debt, and Great Britain more than double. Even Spain has a bigger debt than that which remains of ours. The Governor of Michigan has been petitioned to call an extra session of the Legislature to provide relief for the people of the burned district. Sickness is on the increase among the destitute. A fire in Printing-House Square, New York, on Saturday destroyed property valued at $700,000, and four or six lives were lost. Chicago, Jan. 30.—A Times Washington special says: President Arthur pleases no one, although he has excited no great hostility except from Blaine, perhaps. Senatorial influence counts for little at present, and Senators sharply criticise the man who went to Albany less than a year ago in behalf of Senatorial prerogative and now ignores it. He is criticised for his late rising, and it is remarked that Congress sometimes meets and adjourns before he has breakfasted, and that business is greatly delayed by his sloth. Some of his personal appointments will bring on a tight. Extreme Stalwarts accuse him of intriguing for his own re-election. He won't succeed, for however valuable as an ally he has never been regarded as a leader. He is alienating himself from old friends and making no new ones. New York, Jan. 30th.—Superintendent Walling to-day received a circular from the Scotland Yard police, advertising a heavy reward, £3,000, for the recovery of the body of the late Earl of Crawford, which was stolen from the family tomb in Aberdeen. The English Government will pay £500, and the family £2,500 to any one who shall give information leading to the apprehension of the thieves. Pardon is promised to any accomplice who will give information. It is supposed the thieves came to America. Chicago, Jan. 31.—A special from St. Petersburg says: While a fleet of fishing vessels were engaged at the month of the Volga, near Astrakhan, a hurricane, which came up very suddenly, broke the ice and destroyed all the boats. Six hundred fishermen perished. The storm also did much damage at Moscow, besides unroofing the new exhibition buildings. 4. A man after spending money and one-third of $10 left. How much had he? 5. If to $\frac{1}{2}$ the cost of A$10, the sum will be $20 cost of the watch? 6. What is the difference and $\frac{1}{2}$ of 2? 7. What is the interest months at 6 per cent. per annum? 8. How many times 8? 9. Cost of 40 eggs at the cents? 10. The base and perpendicular triangle are respected 4 feet. What is the third grammarly question? Ten questions; ten creeds. 1. What double office and relative adverbs perform examples. 2. When should she supersede her verb be used in conditional rules for the correct use when used to denote future. 3. Write short sentences ticciples and infinitives, in their peculiar construction. 4. Analyze the following italicised words: "Tell numbers, Life is but an end; the soul is dead that sluices are not what they seem." 5. Correct the following give reasons for your corrections: (a) I expected to have done something. (b) Neither of them had precision. (c) I have laid in the same froze and feel very badly. (d) In all his works there was vigor. (e) Bread is more nutty as potatoes. (f) Compare, met, last, eternal, forth; little, up. (g) What is the adjective noun form? What is what parts of speech make butes? Illustrate. 9. Write a complex introductory sentence between rise and fall. 10. Give five rules for comma and illustrate each rule. The publication of these articles will be made next week. TEACHERS' EXAMINATION. The following is a list of the questions, under their respective heads, which candidates for teachers' certificates were required to answer at the examination held by the County Board of Education, in Los Angeles, December 20, 21 and 22, 1881. The Gazette publishes these questions in response to many requests, and is indebted to Prof. Hinton, the County Superintendent of Schools, for the copy, which fills 22 pages of foolscap paper. SPELLING. Auxiliaries, Academician, Bailiff, Belligerent, Confectionery, Convalescence, Chalybeate, Crystalline, Diaresis, Daguerreotype, Ebullition, Ellipse, Emollient, Evanescence, Exhilarate, Fallible, Flaccid, Gnomon, Guillotine, Gauger, Halcyon, Ineffable, Infallibility, Innuendo, Irremediable, WRITTEN ARITHMETIC. Nine questions; ten credits each. 1. What is the value of two and one-quarter multiplied by one-fifth plus five-sixths multiplied by four and one-fourth multiplied by two-fifths squared plus three and two-thirds cubed minus three and two-thirds squared plus four multiplied by three and one-fourth divided by two? 2. What is the amount of the following bill? 5 joists, 8 in. x 2 in., 12 feet long; 5 pieces 4 in. x 2 in. 10 ft. long, at $30 per m.; 4,848 lb hay at $10 per ton; 3,848 bricks at $14 per m. PACIFIC COAST NEWS. Charles L. Scofield committed suicide in San Francisco by taking poison on Tuesday. Mrs. Minnie Stone was thrown from her horse in Oakland on Wednesday and killed. Charles Clements was run over by a freight train at Oakland on Sunday and died on Monday. A fire at Colton on Monday destroyed Edelman Bros.' store and Kenniston & Brazleton's livery stable. Terry McMahon received a probably fatal stab from John Potter with whom he was fighting at Eureka, Nevada, on Tuesday. Thomas Herbert, convicted of the murder of Charles Ziegler at Bakersfield, has been sentenced to imprisonment for fifty years. He is 47 years of age. Knox Thorpe and William Moffat were hunting on Sunday near Camanche, Calaveras county, and the former's gun was accidentally discharged, the contents striking Moffat on the side inflicting a fatal wound. Dare J. Dare, a traveling tight-rope walker, sustained probably fatal injuries on Monday while performing at Hollister. The rope on which he was walking gave way, precipitating him to the ground, a distance of twenty feet. G. C. Fraash, a New York wine merchant, has bought 20,000 acres of the Disston purchase, in Florida, and has already located a portion of his purchase in Polk, Hillsborough and Manatee counties. Mr. Fraash, who is a heavy dealer in California and other wines, intends to plant vineyards on a large scale, and for that purpose will take a large number of immigrants to Florida, who will settle upon his lands and care for his vineyards. Thus the possibilities of Florida as a wine-producing State will have a fair test. At San Diego on Monday evening a little girl, aged ten years, named Agnes McCorraniel attained that position in the head bus. Mr. Gendl and Mr. Huntington in the Southwest. To the former it means one less competitor to his Southwestern system, and it assures to that system all the traffic to and from the Southern Pacific, both to St. Louis or points on the Gulf. To the Southern Pacific, by reason of the power to control the Atlantic and Pacific, it means for some time to come a monopoly of the Pacific coast traffic which is not diverted to the Central and Union Pacific roads, the former of which is controlled by Mr. Huntington and his friends. The transaction must plainly involve disappointment to the Atchison, Topeka and Santa Fe Company, which about a year and a half ago became interested with the St. Louis and San Francisco in the building of the Atlantic and Pacific. That company operates over 2,200 miles of road, running as far west as Albuquerque, New Mexico, from which point the western division of the Atlantic and Pacific has been built. A direct and controlled Pacific coast connection has been a feature of its policy. WASHINGTON, Jan. 30th.—The War Department has received official information concerning the arrest and imprisonment of Lieutenant D. N. McDonald and his scouts at Ascension, Mexico, by order of the Mexican troop, from which it appears that McDonald's action in crossing the frontier was unauthorized, and that he was ordered back by Colonel McKenzie. Both Colonel McKenzie and General Pope, commanding the Department of the Missouri, say that McDonald is a brave officer, and that he did not intentionally violate the order not to cross the border. The chief scout of McDonald's command says that he was on the trail and went into Ascension to buy forage. The people all treated them well, and gave them entertainment. During the night they were surrounded by Mexican troops, who insisted upon disarming the Indian scouts. This McDonald complied with, after which the Mexicans disarmed the Americans. The next day they were taken as prisoners to Janos, and stayed there two days. Then they were taken to Casa Grande, and were there four days, when orders came for the release of the whole party, and directing that all their arms and ammunition, supplies Nine questions; ten credits each. 1. What is the value of two and one-quarter multiplied by one-fifth plus five-sixths multiplied by four and one-fourth multiplied by two-fifths squared plus three and two-thirds cubed minus three and two-thirds squared plus four multiplied by three and one-fourth divided by two? 2. What is the amount of the following bill? 5 joists, 8 in. x 2 in., 12 feet long; 5 pieces 4 in. x 2 in. 10 ft. long, at $30 per m.; 4,848 lb hay at $10 per ton; 3,848 bricks at $14 per m. 3. A boy buys apples at the rate of 5 for 6 cents, and sells them at 25 per ct. profit; how many does he sell for 30 cents? 4. Purchased the N. W. $\frac{1}{4}$ of a section of land at $5 per acre. Sold the N. E. $\frac{1}{4}$ of the N. W. $\frac{1}{4}$ for $8 per acre, and the S. $\frac{1}{4}$ of the S. W. $\frac{1}{4}$ of the N. W. $\frac{1}{4}$ for $6 per acre. How many acres were sold, what was the acreage in that sold, and what is the description of the parts left? 5. The amount of a certain principal for 3 years at a certain rate per cent. is $750, and the interest is one-fourth of the principal. What is the principal, and what is the rate per cent? 6. Sold goods at a commission of 5 per ct. and remitted the net proceeds to the owner, receiving for prompt payment $\frac{1}{4}$ per cent. amounting to $16.15. What was the amount of the commission? 7. What do you understand by the trial divisor, and what by the complete divisor in square and cube root? Why do you double the root in the one case and square it in the other? 8. If a 3 inch pipe discharge 1,000 gallons of water an hour, how many gallons of water with like pressure, will a 4-inch pipe discharge in the same time? 9. Bought 1,000 bbls. flour, paying $\frac{3}{4}$ of its value in cash, and giving a note at 60 days with 6 per cent. interest for the balance. The note was discounted at a bank on the day it was given, the discount being $31.50. What was the price of the flour per barrel? MENTAL ARITHMETIC. Ten questions; one credit each. 1. When an article is sold for $\frac{3}{4}$ of its cost, what is the loss per cent? 2. Bought hats at $4 each, sold them at $5, bought them back at $4 each. Did I make or lose, and what per cent? 3. How many car tickets at 6½ cents each can be purchased for $7:50? 4. A man after spending one-half of his money and one-third of the remainder had $10 left. How much had he at first? 5. If to $\frac{1}{2}$ the cost of A's watch you add $10, the sum will be $21. What was the cost of the watch? 6. What is the difference between $\frac{1}{2}$ and $\frac{1}{2}$ of 2? 7. What is the interest of $800 for three months at 6 per cent. per annum? 8. How many times 8 is $\frac{3}{4}$ of 56? 9. Cost of 40 eggs at the rate of 2 for 5 cents? 10. The base and perpendicular of a right chase, in Florida, and has already located a portion of his purchase in Polk, Hillsborough and Manatee counties. Mr. Frash, who is a heavy dealer in California and other wines, intends to plant vineyards on a large scale, and for that purpose will take a large number of immigrants to Florida, who will settle upon his lands and care for his vineyards. Thus the possibilities of Florida as a wine-producing State will have a fair test. At San Diego on Monday evening a little girl, aged ten years, named Agnes McCormick, was accidentally shot in the head by a playmate of the same age, named Walter Rennie, son of the County Recorder. The boy had one of the common toy pistols made to explode percussion paper caps on, and had in some way managed to get a 22 calibre cartridge into the barrel which did the mischief. He did not see the girl when he fired the pistol and only knew that she was near by hearing her scream. The bullet took effect in the center of the forehead. A Bakersfield dispatch says: "The sale of a half interest in the Atlantic and Pacific Railroad to the Southern Pacific Railroad causes a general feeling of indignation there. Real estate was looking up, new buildings were being contracted, large stocks were being laid in, and every one was anticipating a revival of business, consequent upon the advent of a competing line to the markets of the world. Now, everything has gone down with a crash. Town property alone has depreciated to-day fully thirty per cent," and will continue to fall. This act will do more than any other thing to strengthen the Anti-Monopoly League in Southern California. A San Jose dispatch of the 30th ult. says: Alvino Pico, who, since his conviction for grand larceny, has been playing insane, gave up the job and to-day was sentenced to four years in the State Prison. After he was found guilty he feigned violent insanity, refusing all food up to a day or two age, when he ate a little. So violent was he that Judge Belden said he was not fully satisfied of his sanity, but would call a jury to determine it. His sentence has been postponed from time to time, thus lengthening his fast beyond his expectations. At length he could stand it no longer, and he confessed that he was acting a part to escape imprisonment and avert disgrace from his family. BUYING OUT COMPETITION. C. P. Huntington and J. Gould have bought a majority of the stock of the St. Louis and San Francisco Railroad Company. The transaction is the result of negotiations which have been pending for some time between Mr. Huntington on behalf of the Southern Pacific Railroad and some of the officers of the St. Louis and San Francisco and the Atchison, Topeka and Santa Fe Railroads, which jointly control and are building the Atlantic and Pacific Railroad. The last is practically a joint extension of the two first-named roads to the Pacific coast. The object is the Southern Pacific Company held in the negotiations was to induce Donald's command says that he was on the trail and went into Ascension to buy forage. The people all treated well, and gave them entertainment. During the night they were surrounded by Mexican troops, who insisted upon disarming the Indian scouts. This McDonald complied with, after which the Mexicans disarmed the Americans. The next day they were taken as prisoners to Janos, and stayed there two days. Then they were taken to Casa Grande, and were there four days, when orders came for the release of the whole party, and directing that all their arms and ammunition, supplies and animals should be returned, and if anything was not returned it should be paid for when the party left Janos. The Mexican officer who made the arrest at Ascension was reported under arrest. McDonald is on his way to Washington. NEW YORK, Jan. 29.-The World's London cable says: A hideously indecent expression was interpolated in the Times' report of a speech by Sir William Harcourt last Monday. The matter was made worse by an apology yesterday and a statement that the management of the Times hoped to bring the guilty parties to justice. This has increased the morbid curiosity of the puritent, and copies of this issue referred to have been sold for £1 each. It is said that twenty compositors and two proof readers have been discharged from the Times office. The low weekly papers print the report verbatim, and these papers are being sold by thousands in the streets. It is, of course, very annoying to all parties to have this filthy expression put in the month of the Home Secretary. CALAIS, France, Jan. 31.-A reservoir burst here to-day. The torrent destroyed the school house and two other buildings and but few inmates escaped. The loss is unknown. Up to the present time 27 bodies have been recovered from the ruins. Oscar L. Baldwin, the defaulting Cashier of the Mechanics' National Bank of Newark, appeared before the United States Court, pleaded guilty and was sentenced to fifteen years in the State Prison. NEW ADVERTISEMENTS. FOR SALE. AN UPRIGHT PIANO, NEARLY NEW AND IN first-class order. Will be sold cheap. Apply at Planter's Hotel. Sheep Range To Let Until 1st Dec., 1882. THE NORTHWESTERN PORTION OF THE San Marcos Rancho, containing over one thousand acres of grass no brush-with good water privileges; camps and corrals; Considerable Government land adjoinning. Will let very low if applied for soon. Address San Luis Rey, or call at the range ten miles from my home at Camarillo marina 4. A man after spending one-half of his money and one-third of the remainder had $10 left. How much had he at first? 5. If to ½ the cost of A's watch you add $10, the sum will be $21. What was the cost of the watch? 6. What is the difference between ½ of 3 and ½ of 2? 7. What is the interest of $800 for three months at 6 per cent. per annum? 8. How many times 8 is $\frac{2}{5}$ of 56? 9. Cost of 40 eggs at the rate of 2 for 5 cents? 10. The base and perpendicular of a right angled triangle are respectively 3 feet and 4 feet. What is the third side? GRAMMAR. Ten questions; ten credits each. 1. What double office do relative pronouns and relative adverbs perform? Illustrate by examples. 2. When should the subjunctive form of the verb be used in conditional clauses? Give rules for the correct use of shall and will when used to denote future time? 3. Write short sentences containing participles and infinitives, illustrating each of their peculiar construction. 4. Analyze the following and parse the italicised words: "Tell me not in mournful numbers, Life is but an empty dream, For the soul is dead that slumbers, And things are not what they seem." 5. Correct the following, if necessary, and give reasons for your corrections: (a) I expected to have gone. (b) Neither of them are remarkable for precision. (c) I have laid in the snow till I am almost froze and feel very badly. (d) In all his works there is sprightliness and vigor. (e) Bread is more nutritious, but not so cheap, as potatoes. 6. Name three ways in which a noun may be independent. Give examples. 7. Write the plurals of the following: (a) Die, pea, index, church, hold, folio, bandit, knife-blade, datum, wife, half and calf. (b) Compare, met, last, eldest, dead, worst, eternal, forth; little, up and vertical. 8. What is the adjective form of the verb, the noun form? What is an attribute, and what parts of speech may be used as attributes? Illustrate. 9. Write a complex interrogative sentence. What is the difference between later and latter; between rise and raise? 10. Give five rules for the use of the comma, and illustrate each by an example. The publication of the balance of the questions will be made next week. C. P. Huntington and J. Gould have bought a majority of the stock of the St. Louis and San Francisco Railroad Company. The transaction is the result of negotiations which have been pending for some time between Mr. Huntington on behalf of the Southern Pacific Railroad and some of the officers of the St. Louis and San Francisco and the Atchison, Topeka and Santa Fe Railroads, which jointly control and are building the Atlantic and Pacific Railroad. The last is practically a joint extension of the two first-named roads to the Pacific coast. The object the Southern Pacific Company had in the negotiations was to induce the St. Louis and San Francisco, and the Atchison, Topeka and Santa Fe people not to complete their Atlantic and Pacific road, but to make a junction with the Southern Pacific. When completed the Atlantic and Pacific would be a competitor of the Southern Pacific, which is building eastward from the Pacific coast. That company has recently headed off what was another formidable competitor, the Texas Pacific, by a compact which on the one side included that road and all the rest of Gould's southwestern system. The compact placed that system and Mr. Huntington's Southern Pacific on terms of accord, and stipulated that the Texas Pacific shall not build west of a certain point where it connects with the Southern Pacific. The sale just consummated indicates that negotiations for an agreement of the same sort with the Atlantic and Pacific were not successful, and that the object in view has been accomplished in a more substantial, if less direct, manner by the purchase outright of the control of the St. Louis and San Francisco, which carries with it a half interest in the Atlantic and Pacific. It is learned that the transaction was originally made between Mr. Huntington and the representatives of a majority of the stock who were Messrs. J. & W. Seligman & Co., and that Mr. Gould did not become a party to it until January 24th, when it was arranged that he should join Mr. Huntington in the purchase. The amount of stock included is not stated by the parties to the transaction, further than that it is a majority. The price paid is said by them to be in the neighborhood of the market price. The St. Louis and San Francisco is capitalized at $25,000,000, of which $4,500,000 is 1st preferred, $10,000,000 2nd preferred, and $10,-500,000 common stock. The market value of the entire capital at the prices which have ruled of late is about $15,000,000. The purchase includes stock of each class, but the amount of each is not stated. The transaction was for cash, and the stock was delivered and the money paid on January 25th. The principal sellers, it is understood, were the Seligmans, who have been largely interested in the road for several years, and have been its financial backers. The company owns and operates about 650 miles of road, its main line being 202 miles from St. Louis to the southwest corner of Missouri. The purchase strengthens the position of SATURDAY, FEBRUARY 18th, 1882, at 3 o'clock P.M. of said day, to pay said delinquent assessments, together with costs of advertising and expenses of sale. R. MELROSE, Secretary. Anaheim Cal., January 25th, 1882 P. PELLEGRIN, PRACTICAL Watchmaker and Jeweler, CENTER ST., - ANAHEIM. Repairing of Watches, Clocks and Jewelry done prumply and warranted. Sale Agent for the Johnston Optical Co.'s Improv-Spectacles and Eye-Glasses (interchangeable). Improved Eye Sucker to purify aid the eye. REDUCTION IN PRICES At The DRY GOODS PALACE, OUR NEW STOCK ARRIVED ON THURSDAY. AND IS Now Ready for Inspection. As our purchases will hereafter be exclusively for cash, we can only sell exclusively for cash, and the results will be that our patrons will receive bargains such Now Ready for Inspection. As our purchases will hereafter be exclusively for cash, we can only sell exclusively for cash, and the result will be that our patrons will receive bargains such as they never dreamed of before. It is common for advertisers to make such claims as this, without the slightest intention of fulfilling them, but we pledge ourselves to carry out to the letter everything that we promise. All Persons having accounts with us will please settle them forthwith. GOODMAN & RIMPAU, Center Street, - - Anaheim. Hippolyte Cahen, Selling Out. Notice. As I anticipate making some changes in my business, I will from this day sell all my stock of Drygoods at Cost. Groceries at lowest market rates. Center Street, Being satisfied that the credit business is detrimental both to the merchant and consumer, I have positively resolved to stop it after the 1st day of September, 1881, and confine myself to a strictly cash basis. For this purpose I will sell goods at the lowest market rates possible, for Cash or Produce, and feel assured that it will be for the benefit of all parties. Thanking my customers for their liberal patronage in the past, I would respectfully solicit a continuance of the same in the future. All persons knowing themselves to be indebted to me will please come forward and make a settlement at their earliest convenience. Anaheim, Cal. at Cost. Groceries at lowest market rates. Center Street, Anaheim, Cal. THE GREAT STORM Of January 12th, 1882, which injured or destroyed scores of Windmills in Los Angeles County proved conclusively that the CALIFORNIA WINDMILL is the only one that can stand, uninjured, a heavy rate. Although some of nearly every other manufacture was destroyed, so far as known every one of the California Mills put up by the undersigned escaped injury. These Mills are so strongly made and so perfectly self-regulating that, when properly put up, it is almost impossible for a storm to injure them. It is also superior to other Mills in having an ADJUSTABLE STROKE (4 different lengths) in the case and nonlinearness of its work, in the beauty of its design and finish and in the marvelously low price at which it is sold. I will furnish these Mills with Pumps and Tanks, and set them up in complete running order at the lowest possible rates. For further particular call upon or address N. E. SMITH, Anaheim, Cal., The General Agent for Los Angeles County. GEO. F. SILVESTER, Importer, Wholesale and Retail Dealer in SEEDS, SEEDS, SEEDS! Fruit and Evergreen Trees, Plants, Etc. ALFALFA, GRASS AND CLOVER SEED In large quantities and offered in lots to suit purchasers. Hedge Shears, Pruning & Budding Knives, Green House Syringes, Etc. SEED WAREHOUSE, 317 WASHINGTON ST., 8AN FRANCISCO. GET YOUR JOB PRINTING At the GAZETTE Office