anaheim-gazette 1882-06-17

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; Lieutenant of the Royal College of Physicians and of the Royal College of Miracles of Edinburgh; Lieutenant of the Society of Apothecaries of London;ate Senior Resident-Burgeon, Resident Physician and Assistant Pathologist, Glasgow Royal Infirmary, and lately Resident in the Rotunda Hospital (for diseases of women only) Dublin. OFFICE AT THE SANITARIUM. LEMON STREET. - - ANAHEIM. Office hours from 7 A.M. to 12 P.M., and from 5 P.M. to 8 P.M. DR E. L. COWAN, Dentist, Has opened an office in the upper part of Mrs. Metz's building, Los Angeles Street, Anaheim. Having had twenty years experience he can speak with confidence of his work. If a scale of prices is very low He will be found in his office every day between the hours of W.A.N. and 5 P.M. GEO. B. SHAFFER. NOTARY PUBLIC. OFFICE BANK OF ANAHEIM. RICHARD MELROSE. NOTARY PUBLIC. 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. Degler in Groceries, Hardware, Paints, Oils and Crockery. City Stables, Center Street (Opposite Kroeger’s Block), 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. D. E. MILES, Warehouse and Commission Democratic Counties Condensed from the LoThe Democratic Counlect delegates to the Stain Los Angeles last Siwas chosen chairman. Had over this clause icommittee on OrganizatiThat said delegates nomination before the wshall be elected by a marum of the convention. Mr. Lynill offered thaabove: Resolved, That State Convention be elecdistricts, three delegateeexcept the first district, titled to six; that thaby such supervisoral degates and the Conventino power to change the The debate was heated and the amendment w noes. The Convention took hour to hold segregated eral district delegates the representatives to t and upon re-assembling gates were elected: First district—M. E. Jacob Kuhrts, S. Prager chado, Sidney Lacy. Second district—T. S. quette, J. B. Holloway. Third district—J. dephen M. White, TheodFourth district—W. Wicks, H. W. Head. Of the above delegatof Judge Sepulveda for preme Judge and three GEO. B. SHAFFER. NOTARY PUBLIC. OFFICE: BANK OF ANAHEIM. RICHARD MELROSE. NOTARY PUBLIC. GAETTE OFFICE. THEODORE LYNILL, Attorney at Law. ANAHEIM, CAL. Office in Planter's Hotel Building. MONEY TO LOAN.—Ruling rate 10 per cent. ROBT. W. SCOTT. ATTORNEY AT LAW AND NOTARY PUBLIC Commissioner of Docs for Arizona Territory Krowger's Block, Anaheim, Cal. VICTOR MONTGOMERY, Attorney-at-Law; SANTA ANA, CAL. Office in bibbies' brick building, nearly opposite the Postoffice. M. L. WICKS. Attorney-at-Law. Room 50 and St. Temple Blvd. LOS ANGELES. MONEY TO LOAN. Apply to R. W. SCOTT, Attorner at Law. 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. BOOT AND SHOE MAKER, Center Street MAKING AND REPAIRING AT THE LOWEST cash price. All orders promptly attended to all work guaranteed. D. E. MILES, Warehouseman and Commission Merchant. Highest Cash Price Paid for Wheat, Barley, Corn, Rye, Potatoes, And all Country Produce. Cash advances made on all consignments of Grain and Wool. Sacks and Twine At lowest market prices. Service opposite Railroad Depot, Anaheim, Cal. COOPERAGE A LARGE QUANTITY OF BARRELS, HALF BARRELS, 10 Gallon and 5 Gallon Kegs For Sale Cheap. Apply to B. DREYFUS & CO. Anaheim B. DREYFUS, Annaheim, San Francisco J. FROWESFIELD, New York B. DREYFUS & CO. Growers and Dealers in California Wines and Grape Brandy. 630 to 642 Brannan Street, San Francisco; 45 Broadway New York. A. E. WHITE. E. A. WHITE BLACKSMITHING AND Wagonmaking! All Work Warranted. First district—M. E. Jacob Kuhrts, S. Prager chado, Sidney Lacy. Second district—T. S. quette, J. B. Holloway Third district—J. dephen M. White, Theod Fourth district—W. Wicks, H. W. Head. Of the above delegates of Judge Sepulveda for prime Judge and three. The committee on Lions submitted the folwhereas, It has been principle of the Democwill of the people shall at all times and undeeither in their individual ballot box or through in all deliberative body the unit rule, emanation, Republican party, the tion, consolidation and promote and advance monopolistic corporatby the creation of m guided and directed corcorporations; and, Whereas, This Democracy of Los Amesented by its members in the honesty and in the gentlemen to be e county in the Democto be held at San Jo Therefore, be it Resolved, That it is this Convention that gate to the State Conthe interest of this coracy of the State, unby any instructions relative to a choice fo on the State or distri delegate, singly and shall act for the best in accordance with the conscience. Resolved, That the geles county, through Convention assembled antagonism to and Chinese immigraResolved, That the geles view with pride action of the Democ- tional Congress upon The following amResolved, That the Democracy of Los Ame- of the nomination of man for Governor of After considerable tions were adopted and understood that the instruction to the do L. GUNTHER. Pioneer Boot and Shoe Maker, Cor. Adele and Los Angeles streets. ANAHEIM. GEORGE BAUER. BOOT AND SHOE MAKER. Center Street MAKING AND REPAIRING AT THE LOWEST cash price. All orders promptly attended to. All work guaranteed. CHARLES WILLE, COOPERAGE. Pipes, Barrois and kegs on hand at all times. Tanks and 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. JOHN HANNA, Real Estate Agent. Live Stock Bought and Sold on Commission. ANAHEIM. PORTABLE PUMP AND Fire Extinguisher. Protect the Orange Trees. Variable to Farmers, Orchardists, Bee Keepers, Poultry Keepers, Horse and Stock owners. Dustroys Inserts on Orange trees, Vines, etc. Send for handsome illustrated circular and catalogue. J. A. WHITMAN, Patentee and manufacturer. PROVIDENCE, R.I. A. E. WHITE. E. A. WHITE BLACKSMITHING — AND — Wagonmaking! All Work Warranted. Prices as low as the lowest. Center Street, Anaheim. 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. GANNON, 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. 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Dr. Kurtz was chosen chairman. A lively contest was had over this clause in the report of the committee on Organization: That said delegates shall be placed in nomination before the whole convention and shall be elected by a majority vote of a quorum of the convention. Mr. Lynill offered this amendment to the above: Resolved, That the delegates to the State Convention be elected by supervisorial districts, three delegates from each district, except the first district, which shall be entitled to six; that the delegates so elected by such supervisorial districts shall be delegates and the Convention at large shall have no power to change them or any of them. The debate was heated and acrimonious, and the amendment was lost, 53 ayes, 64 noes. The Convention took a recess of half an hour to hold segregated meetings of the several district delegates for the nomination of the representatives to the State Convention, and upon re-assembling the following delegates were elected: First district—M. E. Ryan, J. C. Morgan, Jacob Kuhrts, S. Prager, J. de la Luz Machado, Sidney Lacy. Second district—T. S. Shaw, L. L. Bequette, J. B. Holloway. Third district—J. de Barth Shorb, Stephen M. White, Theodore Lynill. Fourth district—W. H. Spurgeon, M. J. Wicks, H. W. Head. Of the above delegates twelve are in favor of Judge Sepulveda for nomination for Supreme Judge and three for Judge Ross. The Stinging Tree. Though the tropical shrubs of Queensland are very luxuriant and beautiful, they are not without their dangerous drawbacks, for there is one plant growing in them that is really deadly in its effects, that is to say, deadly in the same way that one would apply the term to fire, as if a certain proportion of one's body is burnt by the stinging tree, death will be the result. It would be as safe to pass through fire as to fall into one of these trees. They are found growing from two or three inches high to ten and fifteen feet; in the old ones the stem is whitish, and red berries usually grow on top. It emits a peculiar and disagreeable smell, but is best known by its leaf, which is nearly round, and having a point on the top, is jagged all round the edge, like the nettle. All the leaves are large—some larger than a saucer. "Sometimes," says a traveller, "while shooting turkeys in the shrubs, I have entirely forgotten the stinging tree till warned of its close proximity by its smell, and have often found myself in a forest of them. I was only once stung, and that very lightly. Its effects are curious; it leaves no mark, but the pain is maddening; and for months afterward the part, when touched, is tender in rainy weather, or when it gets wet in washing, etc. I have seen a man who treats ordinary pain lightly, roll on the ground in agony after being stung, and I have known a horse so completely mad after getting into a grove of the tree, that he rushed open-mouthed at every one who approached him, and had to be shot in the shrub. Dogs, when stung, will rush about, whining piteously, biting pieces from the affected part. The small stinging trees, a few inches high, are as dangerous as any, being so hard to handle." Summer Pruning Vines. The necessity of summer pruning being generally admitted, a brief address upon the theory will be sufficient here. The argument against this process is based upon the idea that it interferes too much with the natural growth of the vine. The generality of domestic fruits are undoubtedly the result of artificial treatment, by which the plant is made to produce fruit far superior to the original. Any theory, therefore, that takes us back toward any primitive method of cultivation of the vine must necessarily be erroneous. The principal advantage derived from the processes of summer pruning are three in number: 1st—The checking of the sap, diverting it temporarily from the production of wood, will favor the fruit in course of formation. 2d—The production of a perfect shade, without which no marketable grapes can be produced. This is undoubtedly obtained through the abundant supply of lateral that will grow. 3d—Instead of a long, slender cane, we shall have a stronger growth, a point of much importance in the training of a young vineyard, either in strengthening the stock or forming a head to the vine by the production of lateral of the year growth. The production of cuttings need not be prevented entirely, as in most cases the canes may be left of sufficient length to form a cutting, and the lateral will often answer the second purpose. The first summer pruning should be done as soon after the bloom as it would be considered safe, without disturbing the blossoms by the jarring of the canes. The same could take place whenever the canes or lateral extend beyond the length necessary to shade the grapes. The usual manner of executing this work is to fashion a piece of an old scythe into the shape of a short saber, fifteen or eighteen inches in length, and cut a few First district—M. E. Ryan, J. C. Morgan, Jacob Kuhrts, S. Prager, J. de la Luz Machado, Sidney Lacy. Second district—T. S. Shaw, L. L. Bequette, J. B. Holloway. Third district—J. de Barth Shorb, Stephen M. White, Theodore Lynill. Fourth district—W. H. Spurgeon, M. J. Wicks, H. W. Head. Of the above delegates twelve are in favor of Judge Sepulveda for nomination for Supreme Judge and three for Judge Ross. The committee on Platform and Resolutions submitted the following: Whereas, It has been the time honored principle of the Democratic party that the will of the people shall be expressed freely at all times and under all circumstances, either in their individual capacity at the ballot box or through their representatives in all deliberative bodies, and believing that the unit rule, emanating as it has from the Republican party, the party of centralization, consolidation and monopoly, tends to promote and advance the interests of the monopolistic corporations of the present day by the creation of machine voters to be guided and directed by political bosses of corporations; and, Whereas, This Convention, and the Democracy of Los Angeles county, represented by its members, have all confidence in the honesty and integrity of purpose of the gentlemen to be elected to represent the county in the Democratic State Convention, to be held at San Jose, June 20th, 1882; Therefore, be it. Resolved, That it is the expressed wish of this Convention that each and every delegate to the State Convention shall represent the interest of this county and the Democracy of the State, unbiased and unhampered by any instructions from this Convention relative to a choice for nominee of the party on the State or district ticket, and that each delegate, singly and upon his own judgment, shall act for the best interests of the party in accordance with the dictates of his own conscience. Resolved, That the Democracy of Los Angeles county, through its representatives in Convention assembled, reiterate its unfaltering antagonism to monopoly corporations and Chinese immigration. Resolved, That the Democracy of Los Angeles view with pride and fully endorse the action of the Democratic party in the national Congress upon the Chinese question. The following amendment was proposed: Resolved, That the sentiment of the Democracy of Los Angeles county is in favor of the nomination of General George Stoneman for Governor of the State of California. After considerable discussion, the resolutions were adopted as amended, it being understood that the amendment was not an instruction to the delegates, nor a pledge! Those Worms. A Friendly Couple. [Sierra County Tribune] Some strange stories are told of a cow and dog that are owned by a lady of this place. The two animals stick closer than brothers. When the cow, which we will call Damon, is out on the hills or in the stable, Pythias, the dog can be found lounging about—always in sight. They go out on the hills at sunrise, and return together at sunset. A short time since Damon concluded to rusticate for a few days and left for parts unknown in company with her comrade. After a long search they were found in the neighborhood of Camptonville, about sixteen miles from Forest City. During their ramblings of nearly a week the dog had not tasted of food. A couple of weeks since, while the couple were sauntering peacefully up Main street on their return from a day's junty several vicarious dogs ran out and attacked Pythias. But with the aid of his friend he was equal to the emergency. Damon took in the situation at a glance and "braced up" for a long and bloody battle. She was compelled to use her heels, having no horns. She uses them to advantage, too. The canines were soon dispersed, and then came an affecting scene. Pythias could not find actions sufficient to express his gratefulness toward the cow, while she would manifest her affection for him by licking his face. First she would look down at him with an expression as if to say: "Old boy, I'll wade up to garters in gore before any harm shall come to you!" and then Pythias would gaze up in her face with an expression of love and determination as if he would answer, "And I'll give a running jump into a six-oat grave if ever a mother's son harms a hair in your head!" A few years ago large farms were all the rage in England. Small holdings were scouted, and confident predictions were made that they would share the fate of the hand loom and the spinning wheel. Now the tide has turned and it is running as strongly in the other direction. Large farms cannot be let; small holdings are snapped up at once. According to Land, there is all through the west and the midlands the keenest competition among small farms and men who a few cuttings need not be prevented entirely, as in most cases the canes may be left of sufficient length to form a cutting, and the lateral will often answer the second purpose. The first summer pruning should be done as soon after the bloom as it would be considered safe, without disturbing the blossoms by the jarring of the canes. The same could take place whenever the canes or lateral extend beyond the length necessary to shade the grapes. The usual manner of executing this work is to fashion a piece of an old scytte into the shape of a short saber, fifteen or eighteen inches in length, and cut a few inches off the tops with a swift stroke. And in conclusion I would say, keep your left hand out of the way.—Proceedings San Jose Viticultural Society. A Famine. DANVILLE (Va.), June 10. Reports come from Patrick county, in this State, to the effect that 5,000 persons in that county are starving. The drought last year greatly curtailed corn and other crops in that locality. In many portions of the county hundreds-of people are crowding around the settlements imploring aid. Contributions have been taken up in different parts of the country, but have not been sufficient to relieve the sufferings of these people. A courier, who has just arrived, gives heartrending accounts of the situation. Patrick Court House is thronged with men, women and children, begging for bread. Some of the women had walked twelve miles, in some cases bringing infants in their arms, to beg for a little corn or flour, which could not be got for any consideration. A wagon load of shelled corn which arrived Thursday was at once surrounded by an emaciated and wan crowd, all fighting eagerly for a handful of the precious grain, which had to be given out to them. Three hundred people at Patrick Court House alone, have not tasted a morsel of food for two days. Some have died, and others are dying in remote portions of the country for want of something to eat. Patrick county is a very isolated, mountainous, inaccessible section of the State, the nearest railroad station being forty-five miles over a fearful road. The suffering is not only among the humber classes, but well-to-do farmers, who never knew want before, are begging for bread for their starving families. Several wagons have been pushed out from Danville, and will travel all night, and it is to be hoped that all the lives will be saved, but it is feared it will be impossible to reach all the sufferers in time. The Methodist Episcopal Church South is next to the largest of all the Methodist bodies in the world. The General Conference has just closed at Nashville, and the policy of the denomination on several questions was then settled for at least four years to come. It refused to change the Discipline so as to make women eligible as Sunday school superintendents. It petitioned Con- Those Worms. Santa Ana Standard. It will be recollected that we made notice some time ago of some peculiar worms found by H. K. Snow near here. Mr. Snow sent the worms to Mr. Cooke, Chief Executive Horticultural and Health Officer, for his inspection. Mr. Cooke acknowledges the receipt of the worms, and in a letter to Mr. Snow, dated May 15th, says of them: "As to the caterpillars sent, and received on Saturday. They belong to a genus of (insect) lepidoptera, called the sphinges. The three largest belong to, or are called, deilaphilea chamanerii, and feeds on willow, herbs and grapes. The smaller is the deilaphilea lineata and feeds on purslane, grapes, apple, melons, turnips, buckwheat, evening primrose, etc. The only remedy at this season of the year is hand-picking. Mr. Briggs, at Davisville, is troubled in his large vineyard the last two years with a caterpillar, called the philenpeius achemon, in such numbers that he employs two hundred Chinamen, and arms each one with a pair of scissors; the men go from vine to vine and cut the worms in two. In 1880 two tons were gathered and destroyed in one day. He has them thinned out, but gave up the fight a week too soon last year, and they are beginning to show this season again. Those you sent are the larvae of the moth found flying in the evenings, generally called hummingbird moths." "Speaking of shad, would you say the price had gone up or had risen?" asked the schoolboy of the fishmonger. "Well," replied the scale-scraper, "speaking of shad, I should say it had roes." A few years ago large farms were all the rage in England. Small holdings were scouted, and confident predictions were made that they would share the fate of the hand loom and the spinning wheel. Now the tide has turned and it is running as strongly in the other direction. Large farms cannot be let; small holdings are snapped up at once. According to Land, there is all through the west and the midlands the keenest competition for small farms, and men who a few years ago were in possession of farms of 200 or 250 acres, without possessing the capital necessary for their proper cultivation, are now taking farms of forty or fifty acres upon which, if they have less capital than they had five or six years ago, they will have a larger capital in proportion to their holding, and better security than they had to encourage them in the free use of their capital and skill alike. An agricultural, if not an agrarian, revolution is thus going on silently, which can hardly fail profoundly to modify both the political and social condition of English rural life. The delightful climate of California has its disadvantages, and among those one of the most serious is the strong and chilling winds that blow from the ocean at some points along the coast. What makes this particularly important is the fact that the soil is often cultivated to the very verge of the beach, where vegetation, grain and fruit that would otherwise flourish luxuriantly, feel the winds keenly. It is now proposed to remedy this evil by planting dense rows of hardy trees along the coast to form a barrier against the winds. That would also serve the useful end of helping to fix the shifting sands. It is more than likely that in course of time the coast of California will present the novel spectacle of unbroken woodland extending along the very edge of the ocean for hundreds of miles. From a thoroughly reliable New York paper. The Methodist Episcopal Church South is next to the largest of all the Methodist bodies in the world. The General Conference has just closed at Nashville, and the policy of the denomination on several questions was then settled for at least four years to come. It refused to change the Discipline so as to make women eligible as Sunday school superintendents. It petitioned Congress against the carrying of mails on Sunday. It declined to amend the general rule for bidding the use of intoxicating beverages so as to make it also prohibit their manufacture and sale; but it inveighed against intemperance, and provided that dealers in alcoholic drinks might be proceeded against under the law of the Church relating to imprudent conduct. As to the marriage of persons divorced for other causes than adultery, the vote was unanimous that no preacher ought to officiate in such cases; but it was decided not to put any provision in the Discipline on the subject. In the matter of amusements; a strenuous effort was made to put all dancing, theatreicals, circuses, and card playing under a ban; but it failed, and the law, which leaves such diversions to be dealt with by the local churches, was unaltered. Indulgence in tobacco was not forbidden but a resolution was passed deprecating an intemperate use of the weed. The use of the revised New Testament in Sunday schools was ordered to be discontinued. A proposition to assess all members equally for the support of the church, and expel those who refused to pay when able to do so, was rejected. The denomination was asked to celebrate the centennial of Episcopal Methodism, in 1884, by contributing $2,000,000 to be applied to missions, education, and church extension. The man that says that woman has never invented anything should listen for a few minutes at a keyhole of a sewing society. GAZETTE. NO. 36 Mining Vines. Summer pruning being brief address upon the present here. The argument is based upon the too much with the mine. The generality undoubtedly the re-ment, by which the pine fruit far superior to theory, therefore, that many primitive method vine must necessarily principal advantage de-ness of summer pruning is first—The checking of it temporarily from the will favor the fruit in second—The production of it which no market-produced. This is un-hrough the abundant it will grow. Third—In our cane, we shall have point of much import-ation of a young vineyard, laying the stock or forming the production of lathe. The production of it prevented entirely, as may be left of suffici-nting, and the lateral second purpose. The should be done as soon it would be considered using the blossoms by the same could take canes or lateral extend necessary to shade the banner of executing this piece of an old scythe short saber, fifteen or length, and cut a few The Beet-Sugar Industry. S.-F. Chronicle. From causes not well understood the manufacture of sugar from the sugar beet has not enticed a great deal of capital in this State. It was tried a few years ago, and the estab-lishment suspended for the want of a sufficient quantity of the right kind of raw material. Beets grown on soil impregnated with alkali are rejected. But there are millions of acres of the right kind of soil, and the crop here always yields well. One success ought to tempt others into the business, and we have that one. The factory is located at Alvarado, in Alameda county. The amount of capital invested is not known to us, but it is stated on good authority that the earnings last year were over 30 per cent. on the investment. They turn out the best quality of cube sugar at eight cents per pound, or less. This is four and a-half cents a pound less than the Hawaiian monopoly has been taxing this coast for crushed sugar. But still the manufacture of beet sugar must be protected by a duty on foreign cane sugar to thrive and grow. The greatest danger it encounters here is from the direction of Hawaiian free sugar and the monopoly which controls this market, by the favor of the Reciprocity Treaty. It is the opinion of gentlemen connected with the Alvarado establishment that the abrogation of that treaty would greatly increase the manufacture of beet sugar in this State, Oregon and Washington Territory. Some of them go so far as to say that we of the Pacific States could, by reasonable protection, produce all the sugar needed in the United States; but we imagine that it would take a great many years to develop the industry to that extent, as the consumption of sugar in the United States reaches a million tons annually, and the whole beet sugar production of the world EVERYTHING. California Christian Advocate: Now we want a law for bidding the immigration of Mormons. To continue to receive them, is a vast and terrible mistake. It is adding strength to a great and threatening crime. There is no law of God or man that requires us to receive any more of them. We are not compelled by any consideration to cherish in our very vitals a disease we can starve out. Mormonism is a cancer; it is fed by immigration. Mormonism is a rebellion; it is increased by every one that comes to our shores. Mormonism is a crime, and we are participants in its guilt while we do not stop it. The Senate and House have proved and have voted we are not "tenants in common" with all the world. The Chinese bill is a folly and an atrocity if we stop at it. Let us head of Mormonism. A "chemical lung" is the latest thing proposed for the ventilation of tunnels. It was lately tested in London by fourteen scientists. A room 15 by 18 feet was kept for an hour at a temperature of 82°, and the air was loaded with impurities. The men of science were now called upon to enter, and the air was made still more impure by burning sulphur and carbonic acid gas. Then the "chemical lung," or punkah, so called, measuring 4 by 2½ feet, was set in motion. The temperature was soon reduced to 62° and the air freed from all impurities. Then fat was burned, to test the machine for organic substances, and the "lung" was start-ed up just in time to prevent the examining gentlemen from running out for fresh air. It is proposed to use the invention during the construction of the Channel tunnel. There is no doubt that the emigration of the Jews has reached dimensions which make the movement not only a serious econ- June 10. — Reports come in this State, to the reasons in that county are last year greatly curricrops in that locality, the county hundreds of around the settlements contributions have been parts of the country, sufficient to relieve the people. A courier, who has heartrending accounts Patrick Court House is women and children. Some of the women had in some cases bringing to beg for a little corn not be got for any connoction load of shelled corn yesterday was at once surpassed and wan crowd, or a handful of the precinct to be given out to hired people at Patrick have not tasted a morsel. Some have died, and on remote portions of the something to eat. Patty isolated, mountainous, of the State, the nearest forty-five miles over a suffering is not only classes, but well-to-do knew want before, are their starving families. Been pushed out from travel all night, and it is all the lives will be saved, will be impossible to reach home. Piscopal Church South is of all the Methodist bodies. The General Conference Nashville, and the policy upon several questions for at least four years to change the Discipline women eligible as Sundayants. It petitioned Concipile. Reciprocity Treaty. It is the opinion of gentlemen connected with the Alvarado establishment that the abrogation of that treaty would greatly increase the manufacture of beet sugar in this State, Oregon and Washington Territory. Some of them go so far as to say that we of the Pacific States could, by reasonable protection, produce all the sugar needed in the United States; but we imagine that it would take a great many years to develop the industry to that extent, as the consumption of sugar in the United States reaches a million tons annually, and the whole beet sugar production of the world is but 1,400,000 tons. Yet, if we could hope to do as well as France does in this line, that would be of enormous benefit to the State. France produces about 300,000 tons of beet sugar, and she began the experiment less than eighty years ago, at a time when her necessities, because of the British blockade of her ports left her no other alternative. There is no reason why we might not expect equal success in the course of years. The value of 300,000 tons of beet sugar would be nearly $30,000,000. It would consume 2,500,000 tons of beets, require not more than 200,000 acres of land, employ, in the production of the raw material, 40,000 hands, and in the manufacture of the sugar about 20,000. This would indeed, solve the labor problem, and make California, with her other agricultural and horticultural interests, one of the liveliest and richest countries in the world. Witchcraft in Natal. The influence which "witch doctors" among the South African natives have over their followers is well known. The practical annihilation of the Amaxosa tribe in 1857, when 50,000 people perished of starvation, having destroyed all their crops and herds at the bidding of the mad Mhlakaga, affords one of the most striking instances of Calfre credulity; and neither the experience of such disasters, nor the influence of civilization, nor the laws which have been enacted in the British Colonies to put down the practice of witchcraft, have sufficed to suppress it. A trial, reported in the South African papers, affords an instance of the hold which witch doctors still have over the people. A doctor of the name of Uzwabozwabo, and an assistant or accomplice rejoicing in the name of Unjakunja, were charged before the Umgeni Court in Maritzburg, the former with selling, and the latter with applying, a certain "charm." Uzwabozwabo made a statement to the effect that Unjakunja had applied to him for medicine to kill Ngatsha, the son of Umgunkulu. He refused to supply it till he had been paid a "first-fee" of $50, and he was further to receive an ox and seventy-five head of cattle. His instructions for the application of the "medicine" were that the Unjakunja was to tie it around the neck, and to bite at it while repeating the name of the person whom he wished to affect, when that person would continually dream of him until he There is no doubt that the emigration of the Jews has reached dimensions which make the movement not only a serious economic blow to Russia, but a grave difficulty to her neighbors. The emigrants who are pouring into Galicia, though they might have been producing wealth in the country of their birth, are in the first instance, at any rate, a cause of poverty to the country in which they take refuge, homeless, penniless and abused. Protests have been raised both in the Hungarian and Austrian Parliaments, and the Government has been loudly appealed to to insist upon the better protection of its Jewish subjects by the Russian Government, not so much from motives of humanity as from motives of self-preservation on the part of the protesters. The marked feature of ancient bridge building was the thickness of the piers. The famous old bridge at Verona had a pier 39 feet thick, though only 11 feet high. In old London Bridge the piers were so enormously thick that they available waterway at low water was rather less than one-fourth of the width of river spanned by the bridge. The London Buibter thinks that the modern tendency is to make the piers too light. Of late years no country in Europe has seen more remarkable bridge work than Italy. Signor Mosca's bridge over the Dora, at Turin, is a masterpiece of construction. While Sister Agnes of the House of Mercy Clewer, near Windsor, in England, was making arrangements other day with a cottager's wife at Dedworth for the reception of a little invalid boy who had been brought from London, she was informed that the child had fallen into a pond near at hand. Sister Agnes, who is an excellent swimmer without waiting for assistance, ran to the place, and finding that the boy had disappeared plunged into the water, and directed by the air bubbles rising among the duckweed on the surface, fortunately succeeded in rescuing him from being drowned. A London lecturer on female attire said recently: "Dressed as women are, the less exercise they take the better for health. In fact, they are seldom fit to stand erect or walk a block, but should be rolled around or carried on a palanquin. Not one woman in 10,000 has room inside her clothes for the rise and fall of the ribs in breathing, and there is not one in 10,000 whose vital organs are not displaced by external pressure. While this is so, the less exercise the better." A Salzburg wine merchant was recently The Episcopal Church South is of all the Methodist bodies. The General Conference in Nashville, and the policy on several questions for at least four years to change the Discipline women eligible as Sundayaints. It petitioned Concerning of mails on Sunday to amend the general rule of intoxicating beverages to prohibit their manufacture; it inveighed against in-provided that dealers in alight be proceeded against the Church relating to imminent that no preacher was in such cases; but it was any provision in the Disobject. In the matter of unconscious effort was made to the theatricals, circuses, and for a ban; but it failed, and leaves such diversions to be local churches, was unaffected in tobacco was not for cultivation was passed depreciate use of the weed. The New Testament in Sunday had to be discontinued. A few all members equally for the church, and expel those who able to do so, was nomination was asked to annual of Episcopal Method by contributing $2,000,000 to missions, education, and ways that woman has never should listen for a few whole of a sewing society. Chicago, June 10.—Last night when Caspar Seybold, a baker who works nights, left home, his wife prepared for a horrible deed. They had fong children, aged twelve, seven, two and a half years and four months. She dressed them in clean white clothes, with bright ribbons, gave them strychnine and when they died laid them out carefully with flowers in their hands and all surroundings made as beautiful as possible. Then she took a dose of poison herself, having put on a white chemise with ribbons in it. When the husband appeared at the door she told him to come in and see the children all dead and gone to Heaven. One of the children was alive, but has since died. Mrs. Seybold died about 7 o'clock this morning. A London lecturer on female attire said recently: "Dressed as women are, the less exercise they take the better for health. In fact, they are seldom fit to stand erect or walk a block, but should be rolled around or carried on a palanquin. Not one woman in 10,000 has room inside her clothes for the rise and fall of the ribs in breathing, and there is not one in 10,000 whose vital organs are not displaced by external pressure. While this is so, the less exercise the better." A Salzburg wine merchant was recently fined $125 and imprisoned for two months for adulteration. He had purchased 3,000 small casks of wine, which by additions of water, alcohol, potato sugar, wine dregs, and salt in enormous quantities, he had increased to 52,000 casks. This mixture, which was sold at five times its value, recalls the dying vintner's advice to his son: "Always remember that you can make wine out of anything—even wine." Sr. Louis, June 6th.—A heartrending accident occurred near Harris Station, on the Missouri, Kansas and Texas Railroad, in this State, Sunday last. John Jackson went to church, leaving his four children, the eldest fourteen years old and the youngest two years old, locked in the house. From some unknown cause the house took fire, and when the parents returned they found their dwelling in ruins, and their children dead and burned to a crisp. One woman has been Postmaster at West Foxboro, Massachusetts, nearly fifty years. The office pays $11 a year, and that is the reason why no man ever stepped in and took it away from her. Here and there are offices which magnanimous man is willing to concede to humble but deserving woman. Ubiquitous: When Mrs. Homepun heard of the recent assassination in Ireland and that it was attributed to the Irish, she exclaimed: "Massa makes! You don't tell me the Irish have got into Ireland? Well, well: I believe they're everywhere."