anaheim-gazette 1882-03-04

WEEKLY GAZETTE. County Official Paper. SATURDAY... MARCH 4, 1882 A whole city is being Boycotted in Illinois. Cairo's officials oppose the entry of a new railroad, and the residents along the line have signed an agreement not to spend a cent in Cairo stores. The Catholic Church in Reno was burglared on Thursday night of last week, and robbed of $403, which had been collected to build a parsonage. The money was in a small iron safe, which the robbers took outside and cut open with a cold-chisel, and then carried back to its place. Vanity Fair, a London society journal, publishes an article describing the extraordinary development of poker-playing in fashionable society. Large sums, it is said, are lost and won. Some well known ladies are pointed out as regular players. It adds that London is undoubtedly indebted to General Schenck, the American Minister who in a pamphlet described the game, for its present gamestering mood, in private life, which is carried to such lengths as to become a serious social scandal. The bill to restrict Chinese immigration, now under consideration in the Senate, will likely pass that body, but its fate in the House is covered with uncertainty. In order that the influence of public opinion may be brought to bear upon the Senators and Congressmen, Governor Perkins has issued a proclamation designating to-day, (Saturday, March 4th) as a legal holiday for the purpose of enabling the citizens of the State to unite in a grand demonstration in favor of the passage by Congress of the bill. The Governors of Oregon and Nevada have also been requested to take such steps as they may deem most effective to aid the cause. UNDER the decision of the Postmaster-General it is understood that all mail conducted at the courtroom and heard himself denounced by an attorney as a thief, a convict, and a blackmailer. These epithets were hurled at him with all the wealth of rhetorical invective with which criminal lawyers are apt to garnish their appeals to the jury. He left the courtroom, returned in fifteen minutes armed with a pistol and in the presence of Judge, jury and officers, shot the man who had but a short time before denounced him as a vile and despicable character. Nothing is more firmly settled than that there is no justification for the revengeful taking of human life. Every man who takes the life of another, except in self-defense, or accidentally, should be punished with the utmost severity. To maintain any other doctrine is to invite a return to the barbaric methods of old and to upset the civilization of the present day. Maroney, therefore, should be punished; but, while conceding this point, it is right and proper that, as an offset to his crime, the provocation he received should be considered. And while it is to be hoped that his victim will recover, and live his allotted time, care should be taken that no undue amount of maudlin sympathy should be showered upon him. The weight of testimony is to the effect that Maroney was neither a thief, a convict, nor a blackmailer, but that he was an honest man, conscientiously striving to do his duty, and that he had rejected bribes which were offered to him if he would "let up" on the prosecution. He had a wife and two children, whose peace and happiness were far dearer to him than the life of the man who publicly branded the husband and father as a criminal. No wonder that he is described as sitting nervously during Murphy's denunciation, and exhibiting signs of anger and hatred. He would, indeed, have been but a poor specimen of humanity if he had sat unmoved through the ordeal. If the shot which has wounded Murphy so grievously shall have the effect of making attorneys of his stamp more careful in their speech, it will be a good, though severe, lesson to them. There is a story of an old lawyer who gave this advice to a young one: GARLAND The Peroration of A By invitation of Blaine delivered anudent Garfield in Wash., was an impressive oude tude was assembled Arthur and all the around the Nationaof which the followeafine effort: Great in life, he wu death. For no cannonsness and wickednessof murder he was thof this world's interspirations, its vicinous presence of Death; alone for the one alstunned and dazed,hardly aware of through days of dweeks of agony,that cause silently borne calm courage he looWhat blight and reyes, whose lips may warm, manhood framedrending of household proud, expectant na-taining friends;a mother, wearingthe early toil and tears;whose life lay in hisyet merged from chiefthe fair young daughjust springing into claiming every day;ing a father's loveheart the eager,jre demands.Before hegreat darkness,anden.His countrymenstant,f profound amMasterful in his moimthe center of a nationthe prayers of a weandall the sympathi him his sufferingalone.With unfaildeath. With unfairleave of life.Abovethe assassin's builfof God.With simi.to the Divine decree As the end drewthe sea returned.power had been to hapital of pain,and hifrom its prison wallstetifying air, from its hopelessness.Gentle Under the decision of the Postmaster-General it is understood that all mail contracts in California for which Boone, Salisbury and Cabell, members of the straw-bond ring of contractors, were the lowest bidders, will be withheld and readvertised or awarded to the next lowest responsible bidder. Contracts were not to be awarded until March 1st. All of these men were indicted last Saturday for straw-bond frauds. Between them they have nearly one hundred routes in California, besides several thousand in other States obtained in the same way. The Department holds that their bonds are worthless. Boone was the lowest bidder on several routes in Los Angeles county. Why is it that the crime of horse stealing is considered so very heinous? The theft of a horse worth $50 makes more talk and excitement than the theft of ten times that amount of money. Governor Crittenden of Missouri is one of those who for some reason or other are particularly hard on horse thieves. A petition was presented to him for the pardon from the State Prison of one of this fraternity, to which he made this terse reply: I will not pardon a horse thief. I agree not how many petitions request it. The sooner this is understood the better it will be for those engaged in such applications. It will be time and labor lost. All other criminals can entertain a hope of relief, but horse thieves, when the prison door closes on such, the sentence must be completed, as far as I am concerned, unless the higher demands of the State demand a release for other purposes. We of the Pacific Coast do not hear much of the Life Saving Service, or the perfection which has been attained by the system. Some interesting facts were brought out the other day in Congress when a bill to promote the efficiency of the Service (by increasing the number of stations and the pay of keepers, who now get only $400 a year) came up for discussion. Mr. Cox of New York declared that on the New Jersey and Long Island coasts alone a thousand lives a year were lost before the establishment of this service, and that since its foundation in 1871 the total number of lives lost there had been twenty-nine. He therefore claimed that in the past eleven years eleven thousand lives must have been saved by this service, besides $15,000,000 worth of property. These statistics seem extraordinary. The President has nominated Sargent of DESTRUCTIVE FLOODS. Memphis, March 2.—Private letters from Riverton, Mississippi, 150 miles below Memphis and 170 miles above Vicksburg, say that the levee broke Monday night and that the loss of property is fearful. The stock is all drowned and there is no provisions for the poor. The break occurred about 100 yards above Duncan's. We have sent to Terrine for the steamer Plow-dearer to him than the life of the man who publicly branded the husband and father as a criminal. No wonder that he is described as sitting nervously during Murphy’s denunciation, and exhibiting signs of anger and hatred. He would, indeed, have been but a poor specimen of humanity if he had sat unmoved through the ordeal. If the shot which has wounded Murphy so grievously shall have the effect of making attorneys of his stamp more careful in their speech, it will be a good, though severe, lesson to them. There is a story of an old lawyer who gave this advice to a young one: "When you have the law and the facts on your side, use them; when you have neither the law nor the facts with you, abuse the opposing party." This advice is literally followed by a majority of lawyers, and there are doubtless few of our readers who have not been in a courtroom and heard with indignation the outrageous language used by attorneys in referring to opposing witnesses. There is something radically wrong in a judicial procedure which permits lawyers to villify and abuse opponents without stint, unrebuke by the presiding Judge. A San Francisco paper has the following paragraph concerning the matter: The members of the Police Department freely expressed their opinions upon the case, all being in sympathy with the prisoner, and arguing that it was about time to put a stop to the practice of two or three lawyers, when they held had been in the habit of assailing the character of every officer who brought a case into Court and refused to settle it on the outside. It had been the custom of these lawyers to place the officer on trial, and not the prisoner at the bar. In this case even the parents of the officer had been dragged into the case. The failure of the Court to terminate the personalities freely indulged in by both counsel and witnesses in the Dolliver case was also commented upon. Since the above was written, another instance of the natural result of the unlimited license given to attorneys by Courts has transpired. In the trial of a case in the District Court of Eureka, Nevada, F.W.Cole, one of the attorneys, in his argument to the jury denounced M.D.Foley, a witness in the case as a falsifier, etc. Foley subsequently struck Cole, who made no resistance at the time, but a few hours later he sent a challenge to his assailant. The challenge was declined, but the two men go about heavily armed with the express determination to shoot at each other (and probably kill one or two innocent bystanders) whenever they meet. They are closely watched by officers, and up to last accounts had been kept apart. DESTRUCTIVE FLOODS. Memphis, March 2.—Private letters from Riverton, Mississippi, 150 miles below Memphis and 170 miles above Vicksburg, say that the levee broke Monday night and that the loss of property is fearful. The stock is all drowned and there is no provisions for the poor. The break occurred about 100 yards above Duncan's. We have sent to Terrine for the steamer Plow-dearer to him than the life of the man who publicly branded the husband and father as a criminal. No wonder that he is described as sitting nervously during Murphy’s denunciation, and exhibiting signs of anger and hatred. He would, indeed, have been but a poor specimen of humanity if he had sat unmoved through the ordeal. If the shot which has wounded Murphy so grievously shall have the effect of making attorneys of his stamp more careful in their speech, it will be a good, though severe, lesson to them. There is a story of an old lawyer who gave this advice to a young one: "When you have the law and the facts on your side, use them; when you have neither the law nor the facts with you, abuse the opposing party." This advice is literally followed by a majority of lawyers, and there are doubtless few of our readers who have not been in a courtroom and heard with indignation the outrageous language used by attorneys in referring to opposing witnesses. There is something radically wrong in a judicial procedure which permits lawyers to villify and abuse opponents without stint, unrebuke by the presiding Judge. A San Francisco paper has the following paragraph concerning the matter: The members of the Police Department freely expressed their opinions upon the case, all being in sympathy with the prisoner, and arguing that it was about time to put a stop to the practice of two or three lawyers, when they held had been in the habit of assailing the character of every officer who brought a case into Court and refused to settle it on the outside. It had been the custom of these lawyers to place the officer on trial, and not the prisoner at the bar. In this case even the parents of the officer had been dragged into the case. The failure of the Court to terminate the personalities freely indulged in by both counsel and witnesses in the Dolliver case was also commented upon. Since the above was written, another instance of the natural result of the unlimited license given to attorneys by Courts has transpired. In the trial of a case in the District Court of Eureka, Nevada, F.W.Cole, one of the attorneys, in his argument to the jury denounced M.D.Foley, a witness in the case as a falsifier, etc. Foley subsequently struck Cole, who made no resistance at the time, but a few hours later he sent a challenge to his assailant. The challenge was declined, but the two men go about heavily armed with the express determination to shoot at each other (and probably kill one or two innocent bystanders) whenever they meet. They are closely watched by officers, and up to last accounts had been kept apart. DESTRUCTIVE FLOODS. Memphis, March 2.—Private letters from Riverton, Mississippi, 150 miles below Memphis and 170 miles above Vicksburg, say that the levee broke Monday night and that the loss of property is fearful. The stock is all drowned and there is no provisions for the poor. The break occurred about 100 yards above Duncan's. We have sent to Terrine for the steamer Plow-dearer to him than the life of the man who publicly branded the husband and father as a criminal. No wonder that he is described as sitting nervously during Murphy’s denunciation, and exhibiting signs of anger and hatred. He would, indeed, have been but a poor specimen of humanity if he had sat unmoved through the ordeal. If the shot which has wounded Murphy so grievously shall have the effect of making attorneys of his stamp more careful in their speech, it will be a good, though severe, lesson to them. There is a story of an old lawyer who gave this advice to a young one: "When you have the law and the facts on your side, use them; when you have neither the law northe facts with you, abusethe opposing party." This advice is literally followed by a majority of lawyers, and there are doubtless few of our readers who have not been in a courtroom and heard with indignationthe outrageous language used by attorneys in referring to opposing witnesses. There is something radically wrong in a judicial procedure which permits lawyers to villify and abuse opponents without stint, unrebuke bythe presiding Judge. A San Francisco paper has the following paragraph concerning the matter: The members ofthe Natural Resultofthe Unlimited License GiventoAttorneysByCourtshasTranspired.InTheTrialOfACaseInTheDistrictCourtOfEureka,Nevada,F.W.Cole,一名oftheattorneys,在hisargumenttothejurydenouncedM.D.Foley,awitnessinthecaseasafalsiner,e.t.FoleysubsequentlystruckCole,谁madenoresistanceatthetime,但a fewhourslaterhesentachallengetohisassailant.Thechallengewasdeclined,butthetwomengoaboutheavyarmedwiththeexpressdeterminationtoshootateachother(andprobablykilloneortwinoincidentbystanders)whenevertheymeetTheyarecloselywatchedbyofficers,anduptolastaccountsbeneededapart. Astheenddrawedeveryseareturned.powerhadbeentohpitof painandfromitsprisonwalkstillflyingair,从itshoorewardtobreaknoondaysun;ontherarchinglowtothereandshiningpathwaythinkthathisdyingmeaningwhichonlysoulmayknow.LosestilenceoftherecedivewavesBreakingonah alreadyuponhiswafthe eternal morning The President has nominated Sargent of California to be Envoy Extraordinary and Minister Plenipotentiary to Germany. He has also nominated Conkling as Associate Justice of the Supreme Court. These appointments are a surprise, and the comments thereon are in the main unfavorable. Rightly or wrongly, the press and people of the East are "down" on Sargent, and, in the language of George William Curtis, think his appointment is "hard on the Germans." Conkling is specially unfitted for a judicial position. Such is the prevailing sentiment. The Tribune, Times and other Republican papers of his own State condemn the appointment, alleging that he is neither a jurist nor a lawyer, but simply a red-hot partisan, capable only of looking upon one side of any question. New York, March 1st.—A special election to fill the vacancy caused by Senator Wagner's death occurred to-day, and unexpectedly resulted in the choice of Baucus, a Democrat, who beat Stanford by 1,000 majority. The district embraces four counties, three of which ars usually Republican, one always heavily so, and one usually Democratic. Oddly enough, all the Republican counties to-day went Democrat and the Democratic county went Republican. There was also another element in the contest. Saratoga, the most populous and the heaviest Republican county, has been dissatisfied, because the Senator has so long been selected from other parts of the District. To-day, therefore, her usually splendid Republican majority of 2,500 is changed to a Democrat majority of 650, and Mr. Stanford is defeated. GARFIELD. The Peroration of Elaine's Enlogistic Address. By invitation of Congress, Ex-Secretary Blaine delivered an slogy on the late President Garfield in Washington on Monday. It was an impressive occasion. A vast multitude was assembled, including President Arthur and all the dignitaries who cluster around the National Capital. The address, of which the following is the peroration, was a fine effort: Great in life, he was surpassingly great in death. For no cause, in the frenzy of wantonness and wickedness, by the red hand of murder he was thrust from the full tide of this world's interest, from its hopes, its aspirations, its victories, into the visible presence of Death; and he did not quail, not alone for the one short moment in which, stunned and dazed, he could give up life, hardly aware of its relinquishment, but through days of deadly languor, through weeks of agony, that was not less agony because silently borne. With clear sight and calm courage he looked into his open grave. What blight and ruin met his anguished eyes, whose lips may tell? What brilliant, warm, manhood friendships, what bitter rending of household ties? Behind him a proud, expectant nation; a great host of sustaining friends; a cherished and happy mother, wearing the full, rich honors of her early toil and tears; the wife of his youth, whose life lay in his; the little boys, not yet merged from childhood's days of frolic; the fair young daughter; the sturdy sons, just springing into closest companionship, claiming every day, and every day rewarding a father's love and care; and in his heart the eager, rejoicing power to meet all demands. Before him lay desolation and great darkness, and his soul was not shaken. His countrymen were thrilled with instant, profound and universal sympathy. Masterful in his mortal weakness, he became the center of a nation's love, and inspired the prayers of a world. But all the love and all the sympathy could not share with him his suffering. He trod the wine press alone. With unfaltering front he faced death. With unfailing tenderness he took leave of life. Above the demoniac hiss of the assassin's bullet he heard the voice of God. With simple resignation he bowed to the Divine decree. As the end drew near his early craving for the sea returned. The stately mansion of power had been to him the wearisome hospital of pain, and he begged to be taken from its prison walls, from its oppressive, atiling air, from its homelessness and its hopelessness. Gently, silently, the love of a fine effort: Great in life, he was surpassingly great in death. For no cause, in the frenzy of wantonness and wickedness, by the red hand of murder he was thrust from the full tide of this world's interest, from its hopes, its aspirations, its victories, into the visible presence of Death; and he did not quail, not alone for the one short moment in which, stunned and dazed, he could give up life, hardly aware of its relinquishment, but through days of deadly languor, through weeks of agony, that was not less agony because silently borne. With clear sight and calm courage he looked into his open grave. What blight and ruin met his anguished eyes, whose lips may tell? What brilliant, warm, manhood friendships, what bitter rending of household ties? Behind him a proud, expectant nation; a great host of sustaining friends; a cherished and happy mother, wearing the full, rich honors of her early toil and tears; the wife of his youth, whose life lay in his; the little boys, not yet merged from childhood's days of frolic; the fair young daughter; the sturdy sons, just springing into closest companionship, claiming every day, and every day rewarding a father's love and care; and in his heart the eager, rejoicing power to meet all demands. Before him lay desolation and great darkness, and his soul was not shaken. His countrymen were thrilled with instant, profound and universal sympathy. Masterful in his mortal weakness, he became the center of a nation's love, and inspired the prayers of a world. But all the love and all the sympathy could not share with him his suffering. He trod the wine press alone. With unfaltering front he faced death. With unfailing tenderness he took leave of life. Above the demoniac hiss of the assassin's bullet he heard the voice of God. With simple resignation he bowed to the Divine decree. As the end drew near his early craving for the sea returned. The stately mansion of power had been to him the wearisome hospital of pain, and he begged to be taken from its prison walls, from its oppressive, atiling air, from its homelessness and its hopelessness. Gently, silently, the love of a fine effort: Great in life, he was surpassingly great in death. For no cause, in the frenzy of wantonness and wickedness, by the red hand of murder he was thrust from the full tide of this world's interest, from its hopes, its aspirations, its victories, into the visible presence of Death; and he did not quail, not alone for the one short moment in which, stunned and dazed, he could give up life, hardly aware of its relinquishment, but through days of deadly languor, through weeks of agony, that was not less agony because silently borne. With clear sight and calm courage he looked into his open grave. What blight and ruin met his anguished eyes, whose lips may tell? What brilliant, warm, manhood friendships, what bitter rending of household ties? Behind him a proud, expectant nation; a great host of sustaining friends; a cherished and happy mother, wearing the full, rich honors of her early toil and tears; the wife of his youth, whose life lay in his; the little boys, not yet merged from childhood's days of frolic; the fair young daughter; the sturdy sons, just springing into closest companionship, claiming every day, and every day rewarding a father's love and care; and in his heart the eager, rejoicing power to meet all demands. Before him lay desolation and great darkness, and his soul was not shaken. His countrymen were thrilled with instant, profound and universal sympathy. Masterful in his mortal weakness, he became the center of a nation's love, and inspired the prayers of a world. But all the love and all the sympathy could not share with him his suffering. He trod the wine press alone. With unfaltering front he faced death. With unfailing tenderness he took leave of life. Above the demoniac hiss of the assassin's bullet he heard the voice of God. With simple resignation he bowed to the Divine decree. As the end drew near his early craving for the sea returned. The stately mansion of power had been to him the wearisome hospital of pain, and he begged to be taken from its prison walls, from its oppressive, atiling air, from its homelessness and its hopelessness. Gently, silently, the love of a fine effort: Great in life, he was surpassingly great in death. For no cause, in the frenzy of wantonness and wickedness, by the red hand of murder he was thrust from the full tide of this world's interest, from its hopes，its aspirations，its victories，into the visible presence of Death；and he did not quail，not alone for the one short moment in which，stunned和dazed，他 could give up life，hardly aware.of its relinquishment，但through daysof deadlylanguor，throughweeksofagony，thatwasnotlessagonybecausesilentlyborne.Withclear sightandcalmcouragehelookedintohimopengrave。Whatblightandruinethemangledeyes，whoselipsmaytell？Whatbrilliant，warm，manhoodfriendships，whatbitterrendingofhouseholdties？Behindhimaproud，expectantnation；agreathostofsustainingsfriends；acherishedandhappymother，wearingthefull，richhonorsofherearlytoilandtears；thewifeofhisyouth，whoselifelayinhis；thelittleboys，notyetmergedfromchildhood'sdaysoffrolic；thefairyoungdaughter；thesturdysonssjustspringingintoclosestcompanionship，claimingeveryday,andeverydayrewardingafather'sloveandcare；andinhishearttheeager,jrejoicingpowertomeetalldemands.Beforehimlaydesolationandgreatdarkness,andhis soulwasnotshaken.Hiscountrymenwerethrilledwithinstant,fprofoundanduniversalsympathy.Masterfulinhis Mortalweakness,hiebecamethecenterofa nation'slove,and Inspiredtheprayersofaworld.Butalltheloveandallthesympathycouldnotsharewithhimhis suffering.Thetrodthewinepressalone.Withunfalteringfronthefaceddeath.Withunfailingtendernesshetookleaveoflife.Abovethedemoniachissoftheassassin'sbulletheheardthevoiceofGod.WithsimpleresignationhebowedtotheDivinedecree. Astheenddrawnearhisearlycravingfortheseareturned.Thestatelymansionofpowerhadbeentohimthewearisomehospitalofpain,andhebeggedtobeknownfromitsprisonwalls,从itsoppressive,intiflyingair,从itshomelessness和itshopelessness.Gently,silently,theloveofa WESTMINSTER ITEMS. Congregational Social Society will give a concert of vocal and instrumental music next Tuesday evening in the church. After the concert there will be refreshments. Admission free. All are cordially invited. Mr. J. J. McCoy has finished Mr. Kiefhaber's well, putting a six inch pipe inside of a seven inch from 70 feet down to 111 feet, and obtaining a 2½ inch flow. Mr. Matt. Coseboom accidentally cut his leg quite severely while pruning trees for Mr. Keifhaber. Mr. David McFadden and family have returned from the mountains where he has been staying for his health, which has been very much improved. The warm rain of last Saturday night and Sunday, and the warm weather since, is making the grass and grain grow in a way that is very encouraging. The social of last Tuesday evening was a very pleasant affair. The programme, principally musical, was well rendered. The assistance of Miss Witham who is teaching a singing class here, but who resides at Garden Grove, and that of Miss Webster of the same place, was highly appreciated. Mr. E. C. Burlingame of Compton has purchased A. Robinson, trustee, 20 acres in Sec. 13. GARDEN GROVE ITEMS. Mr. Daniel Brown, from Cole county, Illinois, has lately purchased eighty acres of land in this vicinity and settled there with his family. Mr. Brown will be a desirable acquisition to our community. Mr. George Hough is making his place home in addition to hedges of January 19th stood at thirty-six degrees below zero at Grasshopper, Lassen county, and at Susanville ten degrees below. There was snow at Hayden Hill, in the same county, between four and five feet deep, while at Susanville it was six inches. The Baptist Church at San Jose was destroyed by fire on Saturday night. An attempt was made to fire the Methodist church last week, and the Jewish Synagogue was nearly destroyed in the same way about a year ago. The perpetrators cannot be ferreted out. John Day left Bakersfield on Monday for his home on Kern Island, and next morning the team which he drove was found in the canal, the horses being drowned. Day's body was also found in the canal. He was intoxicated when he started for home. Governor Perkins has pardoned William Gale, convicted in March, 1881, at Sacramento, of felonious assault, and sentenced for nine years. The cause was the discovery and confession of the little girl that made the charge that the same was untrue. This is certified to by Judge and Jury and Court officers and the State Prison Directors. On Wednesday morning Prof. J. W. Herre, living at 890 Washington street, Oakland, was knocked down by a Berkeley passenger train at Watts's Tract station and instantly killed. Mr. Herre was a teacher of music and at one time occupied a position in the old College of California, but of late years he had been addicted to heavy drinking. A Nevada City dispatch of Feb. 27th says: The leading topic of conversation here at present is the fire which occurred yesterday morning in the dry goods store of D. Auerbach & Co. Public indignation is unbounded, and today a written request, inviting the proprietors of the store to leave town, was circulated and signed by about sixty business men. It was intended to have the petition published; but the newspaper refused to insert it, owing to its loebous nature. The Hollister Advance has the following: Amongst several mail contracts received by Jesse D. Carr, last week, was one for carrying the mail "from Salinas to Gabilan," his bid being $720. We have before this called the attention of the postal authorities to the fraud which must be apparent to everybody, in this contract. There is only one house at Gabilan receiving mail, and that is Jesse D. Carr'; and in plain English the $720 is paid Jesse D. Carr for sending a man to Salinas after his own mail. If we remember rightly, this is the same Carr that gave away the star route business; he doesn't seem very anxious to give up that $720, however. In the Supreme Court of Santa Rosa Emmet Blackington of Healdsburg was tried and convicted of felony for attempting to blackmail H. K. Brown of the same place. Blackington wrote several anonymous letters All the merits of the encalyptus tree have not hitherto been recognized. Reports have recently come from Australia that its leaves are the special abhorrence of all insects which prey upon fruit trees, against whose depredations they furnish a perfect protection if the ground beneath be only strewn with them. If, however, it be desired to face, known to everybody, misspelled by nobody. We recall them now merely to set this appointment in the light of attendant facts. If the nomination were otherwise a fit one, something would be pardoned to the personal friendship and personal gratitude of the late Vice-President; but the nomination is, on other grounds, notoriously unfit. Conkling has no standing at the Bar to entitle him to be even thought of in connection with the Supreme Bench. He has had no considerable practice since his youth; he has been retained in no cases save those which came in the way of pay for political influence; the appearances he has made in Court have been such as to provoke the contempt and ridicule of real lawyers. On this point, in spite of the high position and great influence he had, there has scarcely been a divided opinion. WASHINGTON, Maren 2.-The Senate, in Executive Session, confirmed the nominations of ex-Senator Conkling and Sargent. News from Mineral Park, A. T., announces the occurrence of a dreadful tragedy at Hackberry. J. O. Weldon, a desperate character, on the 20th ult., shot and almost instantly killed, without any provocation, a good and peaceable citizen by the name of John Bullock. The citizens immediately rushed to the scene of the shooting and opened fire on Weldon, which he returned, slightly wounding Indian Agent Charles Spencer. The citizens at length shot Weldon through the breast, and, after his pistol was emptied, he surrendered. He was held in custody by Deputy Sheriff Davis till the night of the 21st ult., when a party of fifteen men took him out and hung him to the beam of a blacksmith shop. Weldon declared publicly, a short time ago, that he was glad that Guiteau had killed Garfield. A meeting attended by three thousand wine merchants and keepers of wine shops has been held at the Corque d'Hiver, in Paris, for the purpose of protesting against the severity of the laws on the subject of what in the slang of the wine market is called wetting—that is, diluting. At present the French law treats dilution as adulteration, which is a crime punishable by fine imprisonment, placarding of offender's name, and even loss of civil rights. On the other hand, the wine merchants, whose meeting is part of an agitation that has extended over some years, desire that it should be treated as a mere breach of contract, rendering sales, when it is discovered, null and void. A petition to the Chambers was resolved upon praying that the penal regulation now in force should be reserved for cases of adulteration with matters injurious to health. All the merits of the encalyptus tree have not hitherto been recognized. Reports have recently come from Australia that its leaves are the special abhorrence of all insects which prey upon fruit trees, against whose depredations they furnish a perfect protection if the ground beneath be only strewn with them. If, however, it be desired to face GARDEN GROVE ITEMS. Mr. Daniel Brown, from Cole county, Illinois, has lately purchased eighty acres of land in this vicinity and settled thereon with his family. Mr. Brown will be a desirable acquisition to our community. Mr. George Hough is making his place look very inviting by additional hedges of cypress. Dr. Warren is rapidly recovering from the injuries received a few weeks ago when he was thrown from his horse, and we hope soon to see him resume the duties of his profession. Dr. Head, Sr., superintended the planting of quite a forest of blue gum trees last week on the property recently purchased by L. H. Long. Attempted Assassination of Queen Victoria. LONDON, 6:30 P.M., March 1.—Queen Victoria was fired at while at the Windsor railroad station to-day. She escaped unhurt. LATER.—As the Queen was entering her carriage this evening a man in the station yard deliberately fired a pistol at her. The man, who was a miserable-looking object, was immediately seized by several policemen and taken to the Windsor Police station. No one was hurt. LONDON, March 2d.—The miscreant who fired at the Queen gives his name as Roderick McLane. He was with difficulty rescued from the crowd. The Queen arrived at Windsor about 5:25. She gave a drawing-room levee on Wednesday in honor of Princess Helena of Woedecke, who is to marry Prince Leopold. A great crowd assembled at Buckingham Palace this morning in hopes to see the Queen drive out. The demeanor of the people was cordial as usual. VISITING CARDS at the GAETTER Office In the Supreme Court of Santa Rosa Emmet Blackington of Healdsburg was tried and convicted of felony for attempting to blackmail H. K. Brown of the same place. Blackington wrote several anonymous letters to Brown, threatening to divulge certain things unless bought off. Brown pretended to agree, when he laid a plan for Blackington's capture. He was to leave a sum of money at a place appointed, and in place left a policeman, but Blackington had sent another person, and temporarily circumvented his capture. He sent an illiterate letter desiring the officers to release the person first arrested, but Blackington was finally arrested himself, with the result as above stated. He is respectably connected. The mortality of sheep does not appear to be confined to Southern counties. Says the Ukiah Dispatch: "We learn that the sheep on Mr. M. W. Fairbanks' ranch, in Anderson valley, are dying off very rapidly, the mortality being caused by a worm in the liver. The principal loss is said to be among yearlings. The worm which is killing Mr. Fairbanks' sheep is from four to seven inches in length, from three-eighths to half an inch wide, flat and jointed like a tapeworm, and on being stretched out will break into pieces, coming apart at the joints. The livers of all of the sheep which have been examined were found to be infested with these worms. Out of a flock of six hundred sheep about two hundred have already died, and the mortality continues at the rate of from five to twenty per day. The lamentations of the Bordeaux wine merchants continue. They were obliged last year to import 24,000,000 gallons of foreign wines, besides 2,500 tons of Smyrna and Cyprus raisins, which furnished about 2,000,000 gallons more of a fluid which, duly mixed, they supply as claret. All the merits of the eucalyptus tree have not hitherto been recognized. Reports have recently come from Australia that its leaves are the special abhorrence of all insects which prey upon fruit trees, against whose depredations they furnish a perfect protection if the ground beneath be only strewn with them. If, however, it be desired to make assurance doubly sure, it is only necessary to bind strips of eucalyptus bark around the trunks of the fruit trees. These are the first reports, and experiments now going on in Australia and South Africa will soon show whether they are true or not.—New York Tribune. SPRINGFIELD. Ill., February 28.—A dispatch from Shawneetown, Gallatin county, was received by the Governor yesterday, representing that a large portion of that country is overflowed and a hundred people have been driven from their homes. They have flocked into Shawneetown and the citizens are unable to furnish shelter for them all. The Sheriff of the county has appealed to the Governor for assistance and a hundred tents were sent forward. It was still raining at Shawneetown and the river was still rising. BOSTON, Feb. 25.—A traffic arrangement was made to-day between the Southern Pacific and the Atchison, Topeka and Santa Fe Company, securing the completion of the Atlantic and Pacific, and making the Southern route their main line. BOSTON, March 1st.—The will of Charles Albert Reade, of Newton, Massachusetts, gives $50,000 to the Treasurer of the United States to be applied to the reduction of the war debt. NEW YORK, Feb. 27th.—A Belgian who landed at Castle Garden yesterday has a pair of horns an inch long protruding from his forehead, and seems proud of his peculiarity. To the Public. GOODMAN & RIMPAU Of The DRY GOODS PALACE HAVE just finished MARKING THEIR GOODS DOWN to the Very Lowest Figure In order to induce sales, and thus make room for their SPRING STOCK which will begin to arrive next month. SPRING STOCK which will begin to arrive next month. POSITIVE BARGAINS Can be secured in every line of goods dealt in by us during the coming month, but it must be borne in mind that it is only by doing an exclusively CASH BUSINESS That we can give the bargains we do. 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. THE GREAT STORM JACKSON'S Of January 12th, 1882, which injured or destroyed scores of Windmills in Los Angeles County proved conclusively that the 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 gale. 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 ease and nonlessness 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 particulars call upon or address K. H. 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, Prnning & Budding Knives, Green House Syringes, Etc. SEED WAREHOUSE, 317 WASHINGTON ST., SAN FRANCISCO. GET YOUR JOB PRINTING At the GAZETTE Office