anaheim-gazette 1882-12-30

WEEKLY GAZETTE. SATURDAY... DEC. 30, 1882 SUBSCRIPTION, per year, $2. SPECIAL ANNOUNCEMENT. We offer the Gazette in combination with the American Agriculturist for $3 a year (cash in advance), which includes postage on both. In addition; we will send free to every person who takes both papers, a magnificent Plate Engraving of Dupre's last great painting, "IN THE MEADOW," now on exhibition in New York, and offered for sale at $5000. The eminent Artist, F. S. Church, writing to a friend in the country last October, thus alludes to this picture: "I was delighted this morning to see offered as a premium a reproduction of a very beautiful picture, 'IN THE MEADOW,' by Dupre. This picture is an educator." This superb engraving (17½ by 12 inches, exclusive of wide border) is worth more than the cost of both Journals. It is mounted on heavy plate paper, and sent securely packed in tubes made expressly for the purpose. When to be mailed, 10 cents extra is required for packing, postage, etc. GREETING. To all the readers of the Gazette, a Happy New Year. For the past ten years it has been our privilege to send forth an annual greeting through these columns. During this decade, many and wonderful are the changes that have been wrought in the localities where the Gazette circulates most largely. The progress has been sometimes retarded and checked by untoward circumstances, CLIMATIC A very large proportion of the people who come to settle in Los Angeles county are induced by the fact that it is favored with a climate which nearly approaches perfection. One need not be an invalid, nor an asthette to desire to live where nature is genial and smiling during all time. It is just as natural for the strong and rugged to desire to escape the rigor of winter; and our experience is that the climate of this county has been the greatest factor in bringing people here, and in keeping them here. As we write this, the wind is whistling loudly against the eaves and dust is quite conspicuous. One of the so-called Santa Ana winds is blowing. It is a very unpleasant, parching wind; dries up moisture rapidly and its influence on some systems is disagreeable. In its wildest tantrums it blows off superfluous oranges from the trees, and breaks a limb occasionally. This wind is the one unpleasant feature of the climate here, and what a fuss is made about it by some people! Granted that it is disagreeable while it lasts—about fifteen days in the year—has it not its recompense? Every ill smell disappears before it; every germ of malaria is made infertile; every lurking atom of disease is dissipated. Nothing more prejudicial to the healthfulness of this county could happen than a complete cessation of these winds; and if there is any country where there is less wind and storm than here, we have yet to be told where it is. Surely, if we have 350 days of calm throughout the year, we ought not to carp at whatever price is embodied in the other fifteen. It is of the winter months that inquirers mostly ask about, and we have compiled the following reliable thermometrical data, which will give a fair idea of our winters: On December 25th, 1877, the lowest reading of the thermometer was 42°, and the highest 57°. January 1st, 1878, lowest 36°, highest 57°. December 25th, 1878, lowest 32°, highest 59°. Of butter cheese, 547 pounds; homemade fruit crop, 300 acres under GREETING. To all the readers of the GAZETTE, a Happy New Year. For the past ten years it has been our privilege to send forth an annual greeting through these columns. During this decade, many and wonderful are the changes that have been wrought in the localities where the GAZETTE circulates most largely. The progress has been sometimes retarded and checked by untoward circumstances, but the rally has been prompt, and the forward march has been one of increased impetus. It may be that in the year just opening some industries will languish and some enterprises be held in abeyance, if the rainfall will be as scant as it now threatens; but even these dry years have their recompense. It is safe to say that to this day the old alovenly and wasteful methods of irrigation would still have been in vogue had not the occasional seasons of drouth compelled an improvement in the system. We doubt not that in the next twelve months a marked advance will be made in this direction; the minds of the people will be spurred to cognize on the subject; and whenever any problem of such great moment is seriously considered by the people, the solution is readily found. Nay, the solution is already found; and one or two dry years will force an application of the remedy. Are not rivers of water now flowing to waste? Yes. Are there not convenient reservoirs wherein this surplus water can be stored up? Yes. So that, take it all in all, 1883 opens suspiciously, and there is little doubt that to all our readers it will prove a Happy New Year. THE GAZETTE Readers of this paper will bear us out in the assertion that we have never burdened our columns with any great amount of self-laudation. On the contrary, it has been quite often intimated to us that by "tooting our own horn" occasionally, the result would be beneficial in a business way. But we have been content to gang our aim gait, because the course suggested is distasteful, and for the further reason that the business of the GAZETTE has increased as satisfactorily as any reasonable person could desire. When we purchased the GAZETTE ten years ago, it was a six-column paper, and the subscription price was $5 per year. Now the paper is larger and better in every way, the price is but $2 per year—and yet the receipts of the office are much greater now than at any time during the past decade. The success of the GAZETTE is not due to any straining after popularity. On the contrary it has more than once knowingly and have yet to be told where it is. It is of the winter months that inquirers mostly ask about, and we have compiled the following reliable thermometrical data, which will give a fair idea of our winters: On December 25th, 1877, the lowest reading of the thermometer was 42°, and the highest 57°. January 1st, 1878, lowest 36°, highest 57°. December 25th, 1878, lowest 32°, highest 59°. January 1st, 1879, lowest 52°, highest 59°. December 25th, 1879, lowest 33°, highest 57°. January 1st, 1880, lowest 39°, highest 66°. December 25th, 1880, lowest 53°, highest 62°. January 1st, 1881, lowest 41°, highest 62°. December 25th, 1881, lowest 37°, highest 63°. January 1st, 1882, lowest 38°, highest 76°. Since 1877, the GAZETTE has published weekly a thermometrical record giving the readings of the thermometer at 7 A.M., 7 P.M., and the highest and lowest points reached during the day. The average temperature during each month, made up from these four daily readings, is given in the following table: | | | | | | :--- | :--- | :--- | :--- | | Jan ... | 51¹ | 51² | 51³ | | Feb ... | 56 | 52¹ | 54¹ | | March ... | 58 | 54 | 56¹ | | April ... | 57¹ | 56¹ | 57¹ | | May ... | 61¹ | 60¹ | 61¹ | | June ... | 70 | 64 | 66¹ | | July ... | 72¹ | 67¹ | 68¹ | | Aug ... | 70¹ | 69 | 70¹ | | Sept ... | 69 | 66¹ | 66¹ | | Oct ... | 62 | 61¹ | 62¹ | | Nov ... | 59¹ | 56 | 53¹ | | Dec ... | 54¹ | 50¹ | 52¹ | The aesthetic side of our climate is summed up in the following extract from our correspondence: "Can Eastern people imagine, as they sit around their fireplaces 'this gloomy December evening,' how we in Southern California are looking? Whew! 'File on the wood,' close the shutters tight, 'for the wind is howling a carnival,' and 'the black ominous clouds go darkly,' hurrying 'past the pale new moon,' while the furious gusts bring the storm against the windows. 'Here on the Pacific Coast we sit with open doors and windows.' The perfume of scented plants comes to us with the breeze, and 'bouquets of lovely roses,' freshly cut from 'the garden,' stand on the table. The larks 'are bubbling over with melody,' and the 'twittering of the linnets and chattering of' 'blackbirds take the place of the roaring' 'fire and wailing wind.' Luscious grapes, 'fresh from the vine,' are brought for our 'refreshment,' and our cribs are bursting 'with yellow corn.'" The healthfulness of the climate here has passed into a proverb. Some really wonderful instances of prolongation of life could be noted. On this point we quote the views of a physician who wrote to the GAZETTE: "In my opinion there is no section of the world that possesses a more perfect climate than this. None have a more genial and Buckwheat Peas Beans Onions Castor Bean Plax Hops Tobacco Potatoes Sweet Potato Hay Sugar Beetle Of butter cheese, 547 pounds; hot fruit crop, $41,250; bearing olive trunks acres of grape; $800,000 gallons of brandy; $500 gallons of $425,317. The barrels of flax of corn. The ditches. $16,758,665; $262,892; a t... In the fi... land we acres under... Wheat Barley Oats Rye Corn Buckwheat Peas Beans Onions Castor Bean Tobacco Hops Potatoes Sweet Potato Hay Sugar Beetle Of butter cheese, $85 pounds; hot fruit crop; $41,250; bearing olive trunks acres of grape; $800,000 gallons of brandy; $500 gallons of $425,317. The barrels of flax of corn. The ditches. $16,758,665; $262,892; a t... In the fi... land we acres under... Wheat Barley Oats Rye Corn Buckwheat Peas Beans Onions Castor Bean Tobacco Hops Potatoes Sweet Potato Hay Sugar Beetle Of butter cheese, $85 pounds; hot fruit crop; $41,250; bearing olive trunks acres of grape; $800,000 gallons of brandy; $500 gallons of $425,317. The barrels of flax of corn. The ditches. $16,758,665; $262,892; a t... In the fi... land we acres under... Wheat Barley Oats Rye Corn Buckwheat Peas Beans Onions Castor Bean Tobacco Hops Potatoes Sweet Potato Hay Sugar Beetle Of butter cheese, $85 pounds; hot fruit crop; $41,250; bearing olive trunks acres of grape; $800,000 gallons of brandy; $500 gallons of $425,317. The barrels of flax of corn. The ditches. $16,758,665; $262,892; a t... In the fi... land we acres under... Wheat Barley Oats Rye Corn Buckwheat Peas Beans Onions Castor Bean Tobacco Hops Potatoes Sweet Potato Hay Sugar Beetle Of butter cheese, $85 pounds; hot fruit crop; $41,250; bearing olive trunks acres of grape; $800,000 gallons of brandy; $500 gallons of $425,317. The barrels of flax of corn. The ditches. $16,758,665; $262，892；a t... In the fi... land we acres under... Wheat Barley Oats Rye Corn Buckwheat Peas Beans Onions Castor Bean Tobacco Hops Potatoes Sweet Potato Hay Sugar Beetle Of butter cheese，$85 pounds；hot fruit crop；$41，250； bearing olive trunks acres of grape；$800，000 gallons of brandy；$500 gallons of $425，317。The barrels of flax of corn。The ditches.$16，758，665；$262，892；a t... In the fi... land we acres under... Wheat Barley Oats Rye Corn Buckwheat Peas Beans OnIONS Castor Bean Tobacco HOPS Potatoes Sweet Potato Hay Sugar Beetle Of butter cheese，$85 pounds；hot fruit crop；$41，250； bearing olive trunks acres of grape；$800，000 gallons of brandy；$500 gallons of $425，317。The barrels of flax of corn。The ditches.$16，758，665；$262，892；a t... In the fi... land we acres under... Wheat Barley Oats Rye Corn Buckwheat Peas Beans ONIONS Castor Bean Tobacco HOPS Potatoes Sweet Potato Hay Sugar Beetle Of butter cheese，$85 pounds；hot fruit crop；$41，250； bearing olive trunks acres of grape；$800，000 gallons of brandy；$500 gallons of $425，317。The barrels of flax of corn。The ditches.$16，758，665；$262，892；a t... In the fi... land we acres under... Wheat Barley Oats Rye Corn Buckwheat Peas BEANS ONIONS Castor Bean Tobacco HOPS Potatoes Sweet Potato Hay Sugar Beetle Of butter cheese，$85 pounds；hot fruit crop；$41，250； bearing olive trunks acres of grape；$800，000 gallons of brandy；$500 gallons of $425，317。The barrels of flax of corn。The ditches.$16，758，665；$262，892；a t... In the fi... land we acres under... Wheat Barley OATS Rye Corn Buckwheat Peas BEANS ONIONS Castor Bean Tobacco HOPS Potatoes Sweet Potato Hay Sugar Beetle Of butter cheese，$85 pounds；hot fruit crop；$41，250； bearing olive trunks acres of grape；$800，000 gallons of brandy；$500 gallons of $425，317。The barrels of flax of corn。The ditches.$16，758，665；$262，892；a t... In the fi... land we acres under... Wheat Barley OATS Rye Corn Buckwheat PEAS BEANS ONIONS Castor BEAN TOBACCO HOPS Potatoes Sweet Potato Hay Sugar Beetle Of butter cheese，$85 pounds；hot fruit crop；$41，250； bearing olive trunks acres of grape；$800，000 gallons of brandy；$500 gallons of $425，317。The barrels of flax of corn。The ditches.$16，758，665；$262，892；a t... In the fi... land we acres under... Wheat Barley OATS Rye Corn Buckwheat PEAS BEANS ONIONS Castor BEAN TOBACCO HOPS Potatoes Sweet Potato Hay Sugar Beetle Of butter cheese，$85 pounds；hot fruit crop；$41，250； bearing olive trunks acres of grape；$800，000 gallons OF brandy；$500 gallons OF $425，317。The barrels of flax OF corn。The ditches.$16，758，665；$262，892；a t... In the fi... land we acres under... Wheat Barley OATS Rye Corn Buckwheat PEAS BEANS ONIONS Castor BEAN TOBACCO HOPS Potatoes Sweet Potato Hay Sugar Beetle Of butter cheese，$85 pounds；hot fruit crop；$41，250； bearing olive trunks acres OF grape；$800，000 gallons OF brandy；$500 gallons OF $425，317。The barrels OF flax OF corn。The ditches.$16，758，665；$262，892；a t... In the fi... land we acres under... Wheat Barley OATS Rye Corn Buckwheat PEAS BEANS ONIONS Castor BEAN TOBACCO HOPS Potatoes Sweet Potato Hay Sugar Beetle Of butter cheese，$85 pounds；hot fruit crop；$41，250； bearing olive trunks acres OF grape；$800，O cause the course suggested is distasteful, and for the further reason that the business of the Gazette has increased as satisfactorily as any reasonable person could desire. When we purchased the Gazette ten years ago, it was a six-column paper, and the subscription price was $5 per year. Now the paper is larger and better in every way, the price is but $2 per year—and yet the receipts of the office are much greater now than at any time during the past decade. The success of the Gazette is not due to any straining after popularity. On the contrary it has more than once knowingly and wilfully antagonized the sentiments of its best patrons, simply because its editor has opinions of his own upon every subject and has always expressed those opinions whenever he thought it necessary to do so, regardless of how they were received. And as the Gazette has prospered, we are forced to the conclusion that we have in the main pursued a course that is pleasing to its readers. We shall try in the coming year to make the Gazette better than it has been, and to that end we ask readers to contribute to its columns any facts of general interest which may come under their observation. In the debate on the Civil Service Bill in the Senate, John Sherman said: "It may as well be understood now first as last, that the reason of the Republican defeat in Ohio grew out of the demand on the part of our people, or a portion of our people, for 'free whiskey and no Sunday.'" Same over here in California, John. WASHINGTON, Dec. 27.—A great deal of comment is being indulged in here among the lawyers and others in regard to the case of San Mateo Co. against the Southern Pacific Railroad, and Justice Fields' action in connection therewith, by his presence at the banquet given by Leland Stanford, of the Central Pacific road, to Conkling and others of the counsel who appeared for the Southern Pacific. The unanimous verdict is that Justice Fields did a very indelicate thing, to say the least, in view of the fact that he tried the case in California. No other member of the United States Supreme Court participated in the banquet and, indeed, it is safe to say that no other of its Justices were invited. —The extension of the main of the Town Water Works is now in progress. "are bubbling over with melody, and the 'twittering of the linnets and chattering of 'blackbirds take the place of the roaring 'fire and wailing wind. Luscious grapes, fresh from the vine, are brought for our refreshment, and our cribs are bursting 'with yellow corn." The healthfulness of the climate here has passed into a proverb. Some really wonderful instances of prolongation of life could be noted. On this point we quote the views of a physician who wrote to the Gazette: "In my opinion there is no section of the world that possesses a more perfect climate than this. None have a more genial and purer atmosphere; none more free from malaria; none where the mean temperature through the year is so nearly the same; none where one can sleep and live in the open air with less inconvenience. No one county is so diversified with mountain, valley and plain, and we of course have a great diversity of climate, so far as relates to temperature. On some of the mountain heights snow may be seen for from four to eight months in the year, while in the valleys and canyous but a few miles distant perpetual summer reigns. In the valleys back from the coast the air is dry and the heat most intense; while upon the plain stretching away from the foothills to the ocean, the air is permeated with moisture from the ocean and the temperature is modified and equalized by the trade winds which prevail from April to November." This county is emphatically the home of the invalid, and is destined to become one vast sanitorium for the enervated and diseased in more rigorous climates of the world." A clergyman writing to a Canadian paper says: "The most characteristic features of the climate here are, first, its perennial sunshine; and second, its extraordinary equability. From the beginning of May to the end of October a single cloud in the sky is an unusual sight and attracts notice. Between the dates mentioned, rain is almost unknown. The rainy season does not begin until December and is over before May. And during the rainy season, rain does not fall so often nor as continuously as it frequently does in Ontario during September. What is more to the purpose, it generally falls at night, leaving the days clear and bright as sunshine can make them." No sufferer from lung disease can make a mistake in coming here unless the disease has gone too far. In the earlier stages of the disease very great benefit and in many cases complete restoration may be found in this climate if the sufferers remain amid its healing influences long enough." The atmosphere varies considerably throughout the county, so that asthmatic persons or those afflicted with lung disease can find within the limits of the county localities where the atmosphere is beneficial to them. STATISTICAL The annual report of Surveyor-General Shanklin, a copy of which we have received, deals largely with the subject of irrigation, and for that reason is especially interesting to the people of Southern California. His views on this subject, though interesting, are in our opinion fallacious; and as we said some months ago Mr. Shanklin's private interests are such as to preclude the possibility of his looking at the subject from more than one point of view. His plan of confiscation of all existing water rights is a trifle too communistic for the present day. From the statistical portion of the report we compile the following information, relative to Los Angeles county. The information is obtained from the report of the County Assessor for 1880-81. There were in that year 69,500 acres of land inclosed and 150,-000 acres under cultivation. The yield was: | ACRES | YIELD | | :--- | :--- | | Wheat | 40,350 | | Barley | 31,450 | | Oats | 500 | | Rye | 600 | | Corn | 21,400 | | Buckwheat | 200 | | Peas | 130 | | Beans | 1,250 | | Onions | 215 | | Peanuts | 100 | | Castor Beans | 900 | | Flax | 200 | | Hops | 75 | | Tobacco | 95 | | Potatoes | 3,075 | | Sweet Potatoes | 280 | | Hay | 10,630 | | Sugar Beets | 170 | Of butter there were made 115,000 pounds; cheese, 547,500 pounds; wool, 3,402,536 pounds; honey, 575,000 pounds; value of fruit crop, $750,000; bearing lemon trees, PACIFIC COAST NEWS. Miguel de Pedroena, a well known Californian, died at his ranch in San Diego county on Monday night. Henry C. Kiesel, the City Treasurer of Tucson, has skedaddled to Mexico taking with him several thousand dollars belonging to the city. James Clark was accidentally shot and killed by his brother at San Bernardino on Monday. James was fighting with a stranger and his brother interfered and began beating the stranger with a revolver. It exploded, with the result stated. Thes. Kerr shot and killed Wm. Hartley at Globe, A. T., on Monday. The murder was unprovoked, and Kerr was hanged half an hour afterwards by the citizens. He confessed to having killed several men. After being drawn up once he was let down, whereupon he asked permission to take off his boots. The request was granted, and he was then launched. The San Francisco Bulletin of Dec. 27th says: On the arrival of the steamer Oriaba, this morning, from the Southern coast, Captain Johnson notified Officer Lerman, who is on duty on Broadway street wharf, that he had a passenger on board who seemed afraid that some one would kill him. Officer Lerman thereupon boarded the steamer, and Gustave Schill was pointed out to him as the man. In conversation with the officer, Schill stated that he lived in Los Angeles, and on Sunday started for church with his little daughter aged ten. Fearing however, that some one (unknown to Schill) would kill him, he boarded the train for San Pedro, keeping his daughter with him, and at the latter place he secured passage on the Oriaba to this city. Schill, who is a draughtsman and very intelligent in all matters except the expected killing, was taken to the City Prison by the officer, and from thence was sent to be examined by the Commissioners of Lanacy. He had on his person $102.85 but had changes of clothes neither New Year PRESENTS A LARGE ASSORTMENT OF Glassware, Willowware, Toys, Yankee Notions, Fancy Good Candies, Cakes, etc., etc., Will be found at Frank Ey's New Store In brick building formerly occupied by the Bank Anabeh. Also the finest and best brands of Cigars, Tobaccoos and Cigarettes. I respectfully in-lite the public to examine stock, assuring them that they will be welcomed, not importuned to purchase. As to prices I guess that they are as low as those of any store in Angeles county. Inquire the prices of the various articles, and make comparisons. Respectfully dec20 FRANK EY Notice to Creditors. ESTATE OF HENRY F. EVANS, DECEASON Notice is hereby given by the undersigned ministeratrix of the estate of Henry F. Evans, decided to the creditors of, and all persons having claimed against the said deceased, to exhibit them with necessary vouchers, within four months after the publication of this notice, to the said Administrator at the law office of Robt W. Scott Esq., in Anabah Cal., the same being he place for the transaction the business of said estate. ANN E. EVANS, Administratrix of the estate of said decease December 30th, 1882. R. W. Scott, Att'y for Estate. Notice to Creditors. ESTATE OF HIRAM H. CROSS, DECEASON Notice is hereby given by the undersigned ministeratrix of the estate of Hiram H. Cross, decided to the creditors of, and all persons having claimed against the said deceased, to exhibit them with necessary vouchers, within four months after the publication of this notice, to the said Administrator at the law office of Robt W. Scott Esq., in Anabah Cal., the same being he place for the transaction the business of said estate. ANN E. EVANS, Administratrix of the estate of said decease December 30th, 1882. R. W. Scott, Att'y for Estate. W.G.POTTER, BREEDER OF FIRST-CLASS Of butter there were made 115,000 pounds; cheese, 547,500 pounds; wool, 3,402,536 pounds; honey, 575,000 pounds; value of fruit crop, $750,000; bearing lemon trees, 41,250; bearing orange trees, 256,135; bearing olive trees, 3,056. There were 9342 acres of grape vines, and the yield was 2,800,000 gallons of wine and 150,000 gallons of brandy. The seven breweries made 94,500 gallons of beer. The sheep numbered 425,317. The eight grist mills made 65,304 barrels of flour and ground 115,000 bushels of corn. There were 345 miles of irrigating ditches. The real estate was assessed at $16,758,665 and the personal property at $3,262,892, a total of $20,021,557. In the fiscal year 1881-82, 92,000 acres of land were reported inclosed and 212,000 acres under cultivation. The yield was: | ACRES | YIELD | | :--- | :--- | | Wheat | 85,000 | 1,700,000 bushels | | Barley | 36,450 | 729,000 | | Oats | 525 | | Rye | 500 | 12,500 | | Corn | 25,340 | 1,267,500 | | Buckwheat | 100 | 1,500 | | Peas | 140 | 5,000 | | Beans | 1,100 | 33,000 | | Onions | 275 | 55,000 | | Peanuts | 80 | 80,000 pounds | | Castor Beans | 900 | 1,200,000 | | Tobacco | 25 | 25,000 | | Hops | 75 | 120,000 | | Potatoes | 3,500 | 7,000 tons | | Sweet Potatoes | 310 | 1,860 | | Hay | 12,555 | 28,250 | | Sugar Beets | 950 | 19,000 | Of butter 220,000 pounds were made; cheese, 855,450 pounds; wool, 3,555,675 pounds; honey, 275,000 pounds. The value of the fruit crop is placed at $950,000. Of bearing lemon trees there were 48,350; bearing orange trees, 450,125; olive trees, 3,155; bearing apple trees, 64,384; pear trees, 23,640; peach trees, 38,175. Of grapes there were 11,440 acres, and the yield was 3,100. 900 gallons of wine and 145,000 gallons of brandy. Seven thousand barrels of beer were made by the breweries. Of sheep there were 305,512. The work of the ten grist mills is not reported. There were 415 miles of irrigating ditches, and 397 miles of telegraph line. The assessed value of real estate was $17.479.833; personal property,$3.330.767. Total,$20.809.850. To many staid old people back East California is a new and lawless country, where all manner of outrages on civilization are perpetrated daily. The dear old souls placidly ignore the horrid mess of crime occurring daily near their own homes, but concern themselves greatly over Western peccadiles. It may to them seem strange, but it is nevertheless true that the penal laws of California stated that he lived in Los Angeles and on Sunday started for church with his little daughter aged ten. Fearing however that some one (unknown to Schill) would kill him he boarded the train for San Pedro keeping his daughter with him and at the latter place he secured passage on the Oriental to this city. Schill who is a draughtsmans and very intelligent in all matters except the expected killing was taken to the City Prison by the officer,and from thence was sent to be examined by the Commissioners of Lunacy. He had on his person $12.85 but had changes of clothes neither for himself nor his child. The special jury convened to pass upon the question of the insanity of Josiah Smith,the child murderer returned a unanimous verdict that he was sane,and his trial for murder was proceeded with on Thursday before Judge Hines.The attorney for the defense asked to interpose a plea of guilty,provided the sentence would be imprisonment for life,但the defendant refused to agree to it,and the request was denied by the Court.The case was given to the jury who after a short deliberation returned a verdict of murder in the first degree,and fixing the punishment at imprisonment for life. Anaheim is an important town in this important county.It is situated about twenty-seven miles south-east of Los Angeles in the valley of the Santa Ana.The town was established in 1887 by an association of Germans who undertook the culivation of the vine on the cooperative principle.Twenty acres of a large plat of land were given to each shareholder,a canal from the Santa Ana was built for irrigation and the colony waxed prosperous.Anaheim is now a principal center of the "grape growing district." San Francisco Spirit of the Times. Father Peter Verdagner.of the Old Church at the Plaza has purchased for his church a "crib,"being a representation of the stable at Bethlehem.The principal figures within the stable are the Virgin mother St.Joseph and the infant Jesus in a cradle with an ox and an ass on each side.On the outside are the shepherds and the Magi or three Wise Men.The crab has been placed near the altar of the Church of our Lady of Angelswhere it will remain until the 14th of January.-Herald. An interesting sequel to the event of the baby being left last spring on the steps of the Orphan's Home on Figureroa street.is about to be made public.The physicianwho waited on the mother during her sickness in this cityis about to sue her father for his fee.The mother lives in Orange,and hitherto has borne a good name.-Express. The following real estate transactions occurred during the week: N H Mitchell to Chas F Rice and Wm Reed-NWl of NE Sec 18,T4 S,R1O W; Louis Durr to Charles Schindler-Lot 44,block E.5,Anaheim:$75; Alfred Robinson.trustee.to John Kerr-East 29.92 acres of NWl of SWl Sec I,T4 S,R1O W;$627.6O. The following real estate transactions occurred during the week: N H Mitchell to Chas F Rice and Wm Reed-NWl of NE Sec 18,T4 S,R1O W; Louis Durr to Charles Schindler-Lot 44,block E.5,Anaheim:$75; Alfred Robinson.trustee.to John Kerr-East 29.92 acres of NWl of SWl Sec I,T4 S,R1O W;$627.6O. The following real estate transactions occurred during the week: N H Mitchell to Chas F Rice and Wm Reed-NWl of NE Sec 18,T4 S,R1O W; Louis Durr to Charles Schindler-Lot 44,block E.5,Anaheim:$75; Alfred Robinson.trustee.to John Kerr-East 29.92 acres of NWl of SWl Sec I,T4 S,R1O W;$627.6O. The following real estate transactions occurred during the week: N H Mitchell to Chas F Rice and Wm Reed-NWl of NE Sec 18,T4 S,R1O W; Louis Durr to Charles Schindler-Lot 44,bLOCK E.5,Anaheim:$75; Alfred Robinson.trustee.to John Kerr-East 29.92 acres of NWl of SWl Sec I,T4 S,R1O W;$627.6O. The following real estate transactions occurred during the week: N H Mitchell to Chas F Rice and Wm Reed-NWl of NE Sec 18,T4 S,R1O W; Louis Durr to Charles Schindler-Lot 44,bLOCK E.5,Anaheim:$75; Alfred Robinson.trustee.to John Kerr-East 29.92 acres of NWl of SWl Sec I,T4 S,R1O W;$627.6O. The following real estate transactions occurred during the week: N H Mitchell to Chas F Rice and Wm Reed-NWl of NE Sec 18,T4 S,R1O W; Louis Durr to Charles Schindler-Lot 44,bLOCK E.5,Anaheim:$75; Alfred Robinson.trustee.to John Kerr-East 29.92 acres of NWl of SWl Sec I,T4 S,R1O W;$627.6O. The following real estate transactions occurred during the week: N H Mitchell to Chas F Rice and Wm Reed-NWl of NE Sec 18,T4 S,R1O W; Louis Durr to Charles Schindler-Lot 44,bLOCK E.5,Anaheim:$75; Alfred Robinson.trustee.to John Kerr-East 29.92 acres of NWl of SWl Sec I,T4 S,R1O W;$627.6O. The following real estate transactions occurred during the week: N H Mitchell to Chas F Rice and Wm Reed-NWl of NE Sec 18,T4 S,R1O W; Louis Durr to Charles Schindler-Lot 44,bLOCK E.5,Anaheim:$75; Alfred Robinson.trustee.to John Kerr-East 29.92 acres of NWl of SWl Sec I,T4 S,R1O W;$627.6O. The following real estate transactions occurred during the week: N H Mitchell to Chas F Rice and Wm Reed-NWl of NE Sec 18,T4 S,R1O W; Louis Durr to Charles Schindler-Lot 44,bLOCK E.5,Anaheim:$75; Alfred Robinson.trustee.to John Kerr-East 29.92 acres of NWl of SWl Sec I,T4 S,R1O W;$627.6O. The following real estate transactions occurred during the week: N H Mitchell to Chas F Rice and Wm Reed-NWl of NE Sec 18,T4 S,R1O W; Louis Durr to Charles Schindler-Lot 44,bLOCK E.5,Anaheim:$75; Alfred Robinson.trustee.to John Kerr-East 29.92 acres of NWl of SWl Sec I,T4 S,R1O W;$627.6O. The following real estate transactions occurred during the week: N H Mitchell to Chas F Rice and Wm Reed-NWl of NE Sec 18,T4 S,R1O W; Louis Durr to Charles Schindler-Lot 44,bLOCK E.5,Anaheim:$75; Alfred Robinson.trustee.to John Kerr-East 29.92 acres of NWl of SWl Sec I,T4 S,R1O W;$627.6O. The following real estate transactions occurred during the week: N H Mitchell to Chas F Rice and Wm Reed-NWl of NE Sec 18,T4 S,R1O W; Louis Durr to Charles Schindler-Lot 44,bLOCK E.5,Anaheim:$75; Alfred Robinson.trustee.to John Kerr-East 29.92 acres of NWl OF SWI Sec I,T4 S,R1O W;$627.6O. The following real estate transactions occurred during the week: N H Mitchell to Chas F Rice and Wm Reed-NWl of NE Sec 18,T4 S,R1O W; Louis Durr to Charles Schindler-Lot 44,bLOCK E.5,Anaheim:$75; Alfred Robinson.trustee.to John Kerr-East 29.92 acres OF SWI Sec I,T4 S,R1O W;$627.6O. The following real estate transactions occurred during the week: N H Mitchell to Chas F Rice and Wm Reed-NWl of NE Sec 18,T4 S,R1O W; Louis Durr to Charles Schindler-Lot 44,bLOCK E.5,Anaheim:$75; Alfred Robinson.trustee.to John Kerr-East 29.92 acres OF SWI Sec I,T4 S,R1O W;$627.6O. The following real estate transactions occurred during the week: N H Mitchell to Chas F Rice and Wm Reed-NWl of NE Sec 18,T4 S,R1O W; Louis Durr to Charles Schindler-Lot To many staid old people back East, California is a new and lawless country, where all manner of outrages on civilization are perpetrated daily. The dear old souls placidly ignore the horrid mess of crime occurring daily near their own homes, but concern themselves greatly over Western peaceniloes. It may to them seem strange, but it is nevertheless true, that the penal laws of California are as strict, and as fully enforced as are those of any State in the Union; and that the moral sense of the average Californian is more sensitive than the average New Yorker, for example. Some time ago, a boxing match between two women was proposed in San Francisco, and the fair bruisers went into training. But the moral sense of the community was against the proposed scene, and the police peremptorily forbid the fight. In New York, however, the law is not so rigid, or its administration is more lax, as the following telegram, dated the 27th instant, shows: Two regularly-trained heavy weight colored female pugilists last evening toed the mark and battered each other around the historic ring to the Queen's last. Bessie Williams, when down to her fighting weight, turns the beam at 290 pounds, while Josephine Greene in her clothes weighed 280 pounds. The husbands of both ladies are experts at the manly art, and have taught their housewives how to defend themselves otherwise than by their tongues. For some time past every effort to bring the Amazons together and settle the question of superiority has been tried without success, but eventually a number of sporting men, with Billy McGlory at their head, succeeded. The match was for twenty dollars a side and the colored lady championship. They had a bloody, brutal and vicious fight, and during its progress both looked like spotted tigresses. Finally Bessie got in a right-hander on Josepfine's nose, and knocked her out of time. A large crowd witnessed the scandalous proceeding. WASHINGTON, December 26th—In answer to an inquiry on the subject, the Treasury Department has decided that a Chinese wet nurse must be considered a laborer, and as such is excluded from the United States under the provision of the act restricting Chinese immigration. TOPEKA, Kan., December 23d.—Mrs. T. J. Brondon has an infant son whose weight is but eighteen ounces. The following real estate transactions occurred during the week: N H Mitchell to Chas F Rice and Wm Reed—NW¼ of NE¼ Sec 18, T 4 S, R 10 W; $1800. Louis Durr to Charles Schindler—Lot 44, block E 5, Anaheim; $75. Alfred Robinson, trustee, to John Kerr—East 20.92 acres of NW¼ of SW¼ Sec 1, T 4 S, R 12 W; $627.60. A Vexed Clergyman. Even the patience of Job would become exhausted were he a preacher and endeavoring to interest his audience while they were keeping up an incessant coughing, making it impossible for him to be heard. Yet, how very easy can all this be avoided by simply using Dr. King's New Discovery for consumption, Coughs and Colds. Trial Bottles given away by W. M. Higgins, Druggist. NEW ADVERTISEMENTS. Grape Cuttings. 100,000 BERGER, GOLDEN CHANSELAS, BLACK MALVOise and Zinfandel Grape Cuttings for sale by M. OE INGER, Anaheim. Grape Cuttings. 20,000 ZINFANDEL, at $2 per 1000. 10,000 Malvoise, W M. McFADDEN, Anaheim. The Days of Monopoly are Over in Anaheim. JAMES T. STEWART, PLUMBER, GAS FITTER AND TINSMITH, will supply this community with goods in that line at reasonable prices. Come and see me. Remember the CREAM OF 1ARTAR WORKS. P. RANZONI, THE PROPRIETOR, RESPECTfully requests wine growers to save all their deposits from wine, etc., which he will buy and pay cash for. He has removed his factory to J. Bernard's place on Alameda street, Los Angeles, and added many improvements. Address, P. O. Box 298. dec39 AU REVoir 1882. Welcome. 1882 THE MEMBERS OF THE ANAHEIM SOCIAL CLUB will celebrate the event of the new year by Grand Ball at KROEGER'S HALL. New Year's Ev'g, Jan. 1, 1882. To which the public are invited. A fine String Band has been engaged for the sion, and the committee will spare no pain to the evening an enjoyable one for their patronage. Floor Managers. C. K. Stone, A. Rimpus, C. O. Rust, M. Nobelung. Grand March at 9 o'clock share Admission; Gentlemen $1. Ladies free. GRAND OPENING AT THE DRY GOODS PALACE. Our Mr. Goodman has just returned from San Francisco, not from the Eastern Markets, but we assure our customers and patrons that the prices in the future in our establishment will be such that cannot be beat in any outside of San Francisco. The stock we are just now opening is the Largest and best Selected that ever came to Anaheim. It consists of all the Latest Styles in Every Line, and we particularly call the attention of the public to examine our prices and patronize us. We feel safe to say They can Save Money by Buying from us. Our aim is to keep all the trade of the surrounding country. Our Motto hereafter is "QUICK SALES AND SMALL PROFITS." CASH will tell whether we can sell cheaper than any place outside of San Francisco. Our stock is too numerous to mention everything in detail, but it consists of a FULL LINE OF LADIES DRESS GOODS, UNDERWEAR, LACES, RIBBONS, HOSIERY, SILKS AND SATINS, TRIMMINGS of all kinds, "QUICK SALES AND SMALL PROFITS." CASH will tell whether we can sell cheaper than any place outside of San Francisco. Our stock is too numerous to mention everything in detail, but it consists of a FULL LINE OF LADIES DRESS GOODS, UNDERWEAR, LACES, RIBBONS, HOSIERY, SILKS AND SATINS, TRIMMINGS of all kinds, Flannels, Shawls, All kinds of KNIT GOODS for Ladies and Children, and especially a fine lot of LADIES' CLOAKS, ULSTERS and DOLMANS. Also the finest stock of LADIES SHOES that ever came to the place. And a fine line of Gents Clothing, OVERCOATS, BOOTS AND SHOES, Eastern Styles; HATS AND CAPS, Gents Furnishing Goods, Children and Youth's Clothing, Ladies' and Gents Kid Gloves, a large assortment of Trunks, Valises and Ladies Fancy Articles, BOOTS and SHOES. And a large assortment of Fancy Goods in every line, too numerous to mention. Don't forget to call at the DRY GOODS PALACE and examine the prices and Goods. No trouble to show Goods early or late. Politeness always in order in ear establishment. GOODMAN & RIMPAU. LOOK OUT FOR HIPPOLYTE CAHEN'S GRAND DISPLAY OF HOLIDAY GOODS, CONSISTING OF TOYS, FANCY GLASSWARE, FANCY CHINAWARE, PLATED WARE, FANCY GOODS. READY FOR INSPECTION SATURDAY, DECEMBER 16th. HOLIDAY GOODS, CONSISTING OF TOYS, FANCY GLASSWARE, FANCY CHINAWARE, PLATED WARE, FANCY GOODS. READY FOR INSPECTION SATURDAY, DECEMBER 16th. THE GREAT STORM Of January 12th, 1882, which injured or destroyed scores of Windmills in Los Angeles County proved conclusively that the CALIFORNIA WINDMILL In 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 underwritten 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 modulus most of its work, in the beauty of its design and finish, and in the maraviously 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 rate. For further particulars call upon or address R. H. SMITH, Annapolis, Cal., The General Agent for Los Angeles County JAMES T. STEWART, Plumber and Gas Engineer, Center Street - Anaheim (near Anaheim Hotel) Pumps of all kinds, Bath Tubs for hot and cold water, Wash-stands, Tin Roofing, Gas-fitting, Plumbing work in all its various branches. Repairing Pumps a Specialty. Charges moderate, and all work guaranteed. P. PELLEGRIN, PRACTICAL Watchmaker and Jeweler, CENTER ST., - ANAPALEM Repairing of Watches, Clocks and Jewelry demons warranted. Sole Agent for the Johnston Optical Co.'s Improvi-Spectation and Eye-Glasses (Interchangeable). Im-proved Eye Tester to perfectly suit the eye. PRUNING. The undersigned hereby notifies owners of vineyards who wish to have them pruned that he is ready to prune young and old vineyards at short notice. Fifteen years experience and practice in Anaheim enables him to do the work to the satisfaction of everybody, dec23-1m. VIEWING CARDS at the GARDEN OFFICE