anaheim-gazette 1883-05-12

ANAHEIM VOL. XIII. WEEKLY GAZETTE IF YOU WANT TO GET EID OF SQUIRRELS AND GOPHERS USE CARBON BI-SULPHIDE Everybody who has used it recommends it as the ONLY SURE EXTERMINATOR Of this vermin. For sale by A LANGENBERGER, Dealer in Groceries, Hardware, Paints, Oils and Crockery. City Stables, Center Street (Opposite Kroeger's Block), ANAHEIM. L. F. Lewis, Proprietor. THESE STABLES ARE THE BEST VENTILATED and most commensious in the town, and special at tention will be paid to Boarding and Grooming horses. The charm 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, Certainly the most post-placer mining been the development of settlement. The over with highly which are, in tranchetype, Anaheim gentlemen, few or aptitude for the exselves together a buy them a thousand on the cactus burrow heim now standard section nothing s investor, but the s association saw thatilizing waters of things might be ac association was maAmongst them w who had means artisan class of C and there amongst who had drawn amongst the vineyother vine growing A METHODICAL EXPERIENCE. Having purchased heim in 1857, they ident, who laid out the vineyards w grandly to the fro most of the coloncreated to their fuThey prospered a H.C. KELLOGG, Surveyor and Civil Engineer. ROBT. W. SCOTT. ATTORNEY AT LAW AND NOTARY PUBLIC Commissioner of Dews for Arizona Territory VICTOR MONTGOMERY, Attorney-at-Law, SANTA ANA, CAL. Office in Dubles' brick building nearly opposite the Post office. M. L. WICKS. Attorney-at-Law, Rooms 36 and 7 Temple Block. LOS ANGELES. John Mansfield W.A. CHENEY MANSFIELD & CHENEY. Attorneys-at-Law. Rooms 49, 50 and 51, Temple Block. Will practice in all the Courts. MONEY TO LOAN. Apply to U.W.SCOTT Attorney at Law. L. GUNTHER. Pioneer Boot and Shoe Maker. For Adult and Los Angeles streets. ANAHEIM. GEORGE BAYER, BOOT AND SHOE MAKER, Centif Street. MAKING AND REPAIRING AT THE LOWEST cash price. All orders promptly attended to. All work guaranteed. WM. R. HARKER, SADDLE & HARNESS MAKER. CENTER STREET, ANAHEIM. CHARLES WILLE, COOPERAGE. Ipsa, Barrels and kegs on hand at all times. Tank and Tub made to order. Honey Barrels for sale cheap. F. & J. BACKS. L.F. Lewis, -- Proprietor. THESE STABLES ARE THE BEST VENTILATED and most commodious 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 Pursued at short notice and careful drivers familiar with the country supplied when required. The patronage of the public is respectfully solicited. 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. Office opposite Railroad Detroit, Anaheim, Cal. A. E. WHITE. E. A. WHITE BLACKSMITHING — AND — Wagonmaking! All Work Warranted. Prices as low as the lowest. Los Angeles Street, Anaheim, Adjoining the Gazette office. B. DREYFUS & CO. Growers and Dealers in California Wines and Grape Brandy. 630 to 642 Brannan Street, San Francisco, 45 Broadway New York. Exotic Gardens AND Nursery. New Los Angeles Street, between 1st and 3d, in rear SADDLE & HARNESS MAKER. CENTER STREET, ANAHEIM CHARLES WILLE, COOPERAGE. 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. ANAHEIM BAKERY. E. A. MEEK. P. PELLEGRIN, PRACTICAL Watchmaker and Jeweler, CENTER ST., - ANAHEIM Repairing of Watches, Clocks and Jewelry done promptly and warranted. Sales Agent for the Johnston Optical Co.'s Improved Spectacles and Eye-Glasses (interchangeable). Improved Eye Paste to perfectly suit the eye. California Wines and Grape Brandy. 630 to 642 Brannan Street, San Francisco, 45 Broadway, New York Exotic Gardens AND Nursery. New Los Angeles Street, between 1st and 3d, in rear of the Cathedral Los Angeles, March, 1883 To all MY FORMER CUSTOMERS AND THE public generally I would respectfully announce that I have this season to offer a large and well selected stock of everything in the deciduous ornamental line. Some choice trees of Fan Palms in variety. Lawson, Italian, Monterey, Weeping and other Cypress Robusta, Mignolia (double and single flowering), Bambous in sorts, Roses, Carnation, Dahlias, Gladiolas, and Tubers in great variety Variegated Leaf Plants, Pampas Grass Roots (the best white), Choice Golden and always Golden Arbor Vites, small and large Plants, Pine of different sorts. Norfolk Pines (5 sorts) and hundreds of other choice trees and shrubs too numerous to mention Fresh Kentucky Blue Grass seed Call and see me or address. LOUIS J. STENGEL, Los Angeles, Cal. My prices, 25 per cent lower than elsewhere mar17 KIDNEY-WORT FOR THE PERMANENT CURE OF CONSTIPATION. No other disease is so prevalent in this country as Constipation, and no remedy has ever equalled the celebrated Kidney-Wort as a cure. Whatever the cause, however obtusive the case, this remedy will overcome it. PILES. This distressing complaint is very apt to be complicated with constipation. Kidney-Wort strengthens the weakened parts and quickly cures all kinds of Piles even when physicians and meditators have before failed. IF you have either of these troubles PRICE $1. USE Drugs Sell KIDNEY-WORT WEEKLY EIM GA ANAHEIM, CALIFORNIA: SATURDAY, MAY 12, 1883. ANAHEIM. As Seen by the Editor of the Los Angeles Herald. Certainly the most interesting feature of post-placer mining days in California has been the development of the colonial plan of settlement. The State is to-day dotted over with highly prosperous communities which are, in truth, but copies of their archetype, Anaheim. In 1857, some fifty gentlemen, few of whom had any special aptitude for the experiment, banded themselves together and employed an agent to buy them a thousand acres or more of land on the cactus burdened plains on which Anaheim now stands. There was about this section nothing specially attractive to the investor, but the sagacious agent of the association saw that, with the aid of the fertilizing waters of the Santa Ana river, great things might be accomplished, in time. The association was mainly composed of Germans. Amongst them were perhaps three people who had means above the average of the artisan class of California. Scattered here and there amongst them were a few persons who had drawn the first breath of life amongst the vineyards of the Rhine and in other vine growing sections. A METHODICAL EXPERIMENT—GRATIFYING RESULTS. Having purchased the present site of Anaheim in 1857, they appointed a superintendent, who laid out a town site, and initiated the vineyards which have since come so grandly to the front. The year 1859 found most of the colonists on the ground consecrated to their future and successful laborers. They prospered apace; and, to day, there is no indication of normal numbers on the rose in the magnitude of his operations. In the immediate neighborhood of Anaheim he has two hundred and twenty acres in vineyard; while, with the Messrs. L.W. and I.M. Hellman and J.G. Downey, he is an owner in the famous Cucamonga ranch in San Bernardino county—a ranch whose port wines are now famous all over the civilized world. Each of the gentle men named own a fourth of this vineyard. The prosperity of Anaheim is based upon the production of wines and brandies of great excellence. The Mission grape has been the great staple with the vineyardlists of that section. Mr. Theodore Reiser said to us, "I believe in the Mission grape. From it I can make five different kinds of excellent wine, white and red. Of what other grape can as much be said?" PROGRESS OF THE WINE INDUSTRY. But it would be a great mistake to suppose that the people of Anaheim have confined their attention to the Mission grape. Mr. Dreyfus, for instance, has set out considerable vineyards in the Riesling, the Zinfandel, the Berger, the Black Hamburg and the Queen Victoria. He has forever set at rest the question as to whether or not Los Angeles county can make a good claret. The experienced taster of the Eagle Wine Vaults has written him that the Zinfandel made from the Anaheim vines is the finest that has ever reached San Francisco. The Riesling which may be quaffed by the favored visitor to Mr. Dreyfus's wine cellars even surpasses, in its delicate bouquet, the product of the vines of Sonoma. Strange to say, from the Black Hamburg an excellent white wine is made. The Berger grape, in the rich soil, and under the genial sun of Southern California, eventually in a capital SIMPLE REMEDIES. Half a teaspoonful of common salt dissolved in a little cold water, and drank, will instantly relieve "heart-burn" or dyspepsia. If taken every morning before breakfast, increasing the quantity gradually to a teaspoonful of salt and a tumbler of water, it will in a few days cure any ordinary case of dyspepsia, if, at the same time, due attention is paid to the diet. There is no better remedy than the above, for constipation. As a gargle for sore throat it is equal to chlorate of potash, and is entirely safe. It may be used as often as desired, and if a little is swallowed each time it will have a beneficial effect on the throat by cleansing it and by allaying the irritation. In doses of one to four teaspoonsful in half pint' to a pint of tepid water, it acts promptly as an emetic; and in cases of poisoning is always at hand. It is an excellent remedy for bites and stings of insects. It is a valuable astringent in hemorrhages, particularly for bleeding after the extraction of teeth. It has both cleansing and healing properties, and is therefore a most excellent application for superficial ulcerations. Mustard is another valuable remedy: No family should be without it. Two or three teaspoonsful of ground mustard stirred into half pint of water acts as an emetic very promptly, and is milder and easier to take than salt and water. Equal parts of ground mustard and flour or meal, made into a paste with warm water, and spread on a thin piece of muslin, with another piece of muslin laid over it, forms the often indispensable "mustard plaster." It is almost a specific for colic, when applied for a few minutes over the "pit of the stomach." For Having purchased the present site of Anaheim in 1857, they appointed a superintendent, who laid out a town site, and initiated the vineyards which have since come so grandly to the front. The year 1859 found most of the colonists on the ground consecrated to their future and successful labors. They prospered peace; and, today, there is no population of equal numbers on the American continent, perhaps not in the world, in which such a uniform prosperity prevails as in our Southern neighbor. We visited this charming and unique community yesterday; and, on all hands, we encountered evidences of thrift and well being which could not fail to impress favorably the most casual observer. As a matter of fact, the original colonists, with perhaps one or two exceptions, are all possessed of properties which yield a yearly income that of itself amounts to a competency; and they have besides, satisfactory balances either in the bank or in the shape of United States bonds or other securities. In addition, some of them have waxed very wealthy. For solid solvency to the acre and to the individual, there is no community anywhere that will compare with Anaheim, a fact which is doubtless largely owing to the thrift and perseverance of its inhabitants. A DELIGHTFUL REGION. Anaheim, the mother of all the comely and prolific colonies which have spring up in Southern California, is still the handsomest of the whole broad. In well cultivated vineyards and orange groves there are now about twelve hundred acres, and the beauty loving Anaheimers have not been amiss in embellishing their places with the most gracious flora known to all climes. In many cases the wide avenues are aligned by rows of Lombardy poplars. At every angle one encounters vistas of orange groves and vineyards. The houses are, without exception, suggestive of home comforts and even elegance. Last but not least of the attractions of Anaheim, are the innumerable wine cellars which are encountered on every hand. Cool and inviting, they afford a grateful shade to the seeker after pleasant sensations. En passant, we may mention that the wines of this section are noted for their clarity, fine color and unrivaled bouquet. No headache follows upon a liberal indulgence in the Anaheim vintages. On the contrary, they contribute to the creation of a wholesome chyme and chyle and to the development of perfect physiques. These latter abound on all hands, and a bluffer, heartier, healthier or more hospitable set of people is not to be found on the footstool than the Anaheimers. Not only is the visitor to Anaheim delighted by countless vistas of orange groves and vineyards, but old snow-capped Don Antonio, ten thousand feet high, looms up on the left, when one drives south, while the grand thirteen thousand feet high form of Queen Victoria. He has written him that the Zinfandel made from the Anaheim vines is the finest that has ever reached San Francisco. The Riesling which may be quaffed by the favored visitor to Mr. Dreyfus's wine cellars even surpasses, in its delicate bouquet, the product of the vines of Sonoma. Strange to say, from the Black Hamburg an excellent white wine is made. The Berger grape in the rich soil, and under the general sum of Southern California, eventuates in a capital light wine. The Queen Victoria grape promises to develop a wine of exceptional merit. The Anaheimers, though conservatives, are still, as they have been from the start, experimentalists, and they are to day probably doing more than any other community in California to develop all the latent possibilities in viticulture and vinulture which exist in this State. Calling to their and the experience of the old world, and never disdainting to avail themselves of the latest results achieved in the new Anaheim is really leading in the exploitation of the viticultural and viticultural possibilities of this coast. THE TOWN OF ANAHEIM. The town of Anaheim proper consists of probably a thousand people. A census of the suburbs would, of course, swell that figure very materially. It is a handsome burg. In the Planters' Hotel it has an excellent hostelry. It has a bank and a number of stores which do a large and incrative business. A thorough regard for education is shown in the existence of a large and pretentious school edifice, which is one of the first things which attracts the attention of the visitor. Anaheim also boasts a bank, Roman Catholic, Methodist, North and South, and Presbyterian churches. Drinkeness and riot are never heard of there; and crime, if it ever puts in its malign visage, has the face of a stranger and gravitates there from abroad. The excellent wines made there guarantee a good digestion, and even a dyspentic is a creature hard to be found. Arcadian spot! One may travel long before finding elsewhere on the footstool the abode of so much happiness, peace and content. While discussing this phase of the matter, it is perhaps well that we should add, by way of summary, that there is not too-day a mortgage recorded against a single one of the original incorporators of the company. THE FUTURE. There are some exquisite places which may be said to be finished. Anaheim is most emphatically an exquisite place, but it is a region which is as yet but in its infancy. The superb homes of the Messrs. Hartung, Reiser, and many others, are destined to be duplicated innumerably: Both the territory and the water are there, and the shining example, which has already been set by the Anaheimers, will be imitated for years and years to come. Before many years that question as to whether or not Los Angeles county can make a good claret. The experienced taster of the Eagle Wine Vaults has written him that the Zinfandel made from the Anaheim vines is the finest that has ever reached San Francisco. The Riesling which may be quaffed by the favored visitor to Mr. Dreyfus's wine cellars even surpasses, in its delicate bouquet, the product of the vines of Sonoma. Strange to say, from the Black Hamburg an excellent white wine is made. The Berger grape in the rich soil, and under the general sum of Southern California, eventuates in a capital light wine. The Queen Victoria grape promises to develop a wine of exceptional merit. The Anaheimers, though conservatives, are still, as they have been from the start, experimentalists, and they are to day probably doing more than any other community in California to develop all the latent possibilities in viticulture and vinulture which exist in this State. Calling to their and the experience of the old world, and never disdainting to avail themselves of the latest results achieved in the new Anaheim is really leading in the exploitation of the viticultural and viticultural possibilities of this coast. THE TOWN OF ANAHEIM. The town of Anaheim proper consists of probably a thousand people. A census of the suburbs would, of course, swell that figure very materially. It is a handsome burg. In the Planters' Hotel it has an excellent hostelry. It has a bank and a number of stores which do a large and incrative business. A thorough regard for education is shown in the existence of a large and pretentious school edifice, which is one of the first things which attracts the attention of the visitor. Anaheim also boasts a bank, Roman Catholic, Methodist, North and South, and Presbyterian churches. Drinkeness and riot are never heard of there; and crime, if it ever puts in its malign visage, has the face of a stranger and gravitates there from abroad. The excellent wines made there guarantee a good digestion, and even a dyspentic is a creature hard to be found. Arcadian spot! One may travel long before finding elsewhere on the footstool the abode of so much happiness, peace and content. While discussing this phase of the matter, it is perhaps well that we should add, by way of summary, that there is not today a mortgage recorded against a single one of the original incorporators of the company. THE FUTURE. There are some exquisite places which may be said to be finished. Anaheim is most emphatically an exquisite place, but it is a region which is as yet but in its infancy. The superb homes of the Messrs. Hartung, Reiser, and many others, are destined to be duplicated innumerably: Both the territory and the water are there; and the shining example, which has already been set by the Anaheimers, will be imitated for years and years to come. Before many years that question as to whether or not Los Angeles county can make a good claret. The Riesling which may be quaffed by the favored visitor to Mr. Dreyfus's wine cellars even surpasses, in its delicate bouquet, the product of the vines of Sonoma. Strange to say, from the Black Hamburg an excellent white wine is made. The Berger grape in the rich soil, and under the general sum of Southern California, eventuates in a capital light wine. The Queen Victoria grape promises to develop a wine of exceptional merit. The Anaheimers, though conservatives, are still, as they have been from the start, experimentalists, and they are to day probably doing more than any other community in California to develop all the latent possibilities in viticulture and vinulture which exist in this State. Calling to their and the experience of the old world, and never disdainting to avail themselves of the latest results achieved in the new Anaheim is really leading in the exploitation of the viticultural and viticultural possibilities of this coast. Mustard is another valuable remedy: No family should be without it. Two or three teaspoonfuls of ground mustard stirred into half pint of water acts as an emetic very promptly; and is milder and easier to take than salt and water. Equal parts of ground mustard and flour or meal; made into a paste with warm water; and spread on a thin piece of muslin; with another piece of muslin laid over it; forms often indispensable "mustard plaster." It is almost a specific for colie; when applied for a few minutes over the "pit of the stomach." For all internal pains and congestions; there is no remedy of such general utility. It acts as a counter irritant; by drawingthe blood tothe surface; hence in severe casesof croupa small mustard plaster should be appliedto backofthe child's neck.The same treatment will relieve almost any caseof headache.A mustard plaster should be moved about overthe spotto be acted upon;for if left too long on one place it is liable to blister.A mustard plaster acts as wellwhen at considerable distance fromthe affected part. Common Baking Soda is bestof all remediesin casesof scaldsandburnsIt maybe used onthe surfaceofthe burnedplace,either dryor wetWhenappliedpromptly,the senseof reliefismagicalItseemstowithdrawtheheatandwithitthepain,andthehealingprocess sooncommences。它是thebestapplicationforeruptianscausedbypoisonousivyandotherpoison plants，asalsoforbitesandstingsofinsects.Owingtocoldsoverfatigue,auxietyandVariousothercauses,theurineisoftenscanty,highlycolored,andmoreorlessloadedwithphosphateswhichsettothebottomofthe vesseloncooling.Amuchsodaascanbippedupwithatencentpiece,dissolvedinhalfa glassofcoldwateranddrankeverythreehours.willsoremedythetroubleandcauserelieftotheoppressionthatalwaysexistsfrominterruptionofthenaturalflowofurineThistreatmentshouldnotbecontinuedmorethantwentyfourhours. The OriginofPostage Stamps. The ideaofan adhesive stamp affixedtoaletter，asindicativeofthepaymentofpostage，ismucholderthanhasgenerallybeensupposed。它isknownthatthefirstgestionofsuchanarrangementinmoderntimescamefromRowlandHill，fatherofthecheappostalsystem，abouttheyear1839or1840Itwasseveralyearshowever,beforehis suggestionwascarriedinto effect.Historyhowever,tellsusthatthe ancientGerman citiesofThurnandTaxishadsucha system，which,forsomeinexplicablereason,fellintideuseorfailedtobecomegeneralamongnations.Themodernpostage stamp，thenwasfirstusedinEnglandabouttheyear1842or1843.In1842,F.E.Mitechell，thenPostmasterOfNewHaven,takingadvantageoftheEnglishidea,madeuseofanpostage stampofhimwhichbecontinuedinuse till1847. ache follows upon a liberal indulgence in the Anaheim vintages. On the contrary, they contribute to the creation of a wholesome chyme and chyle and to the development of perfect physiques. These latter abound on all hands, and a bluffer, heartier, healthier or more hospitable set of people is not to be found on the footstool than the Anaheimers. Not only is the visitor to Anaheim delighted by countless vistas of orange groves and vineyards, but old snow-capped Don Antonio, ten thousand feet high, looms up on the left, when one drives south, while the grand thirteen thousand feet high form of old Grayback and the San Gorgonio mountain tower up in front, with the famous San Gorgonio Pass clearly disclosed. Anaheim not only rejoices in the homely beauty which results from the labors of man applied to charming forms of vegetation, but her scenic attractions are of an uncommonly high order, referable, as they are, to mountain surroundings of an altitude seldom surpassed. From every point of view the town is calculated to enlist the admiring attention of the visitor. SOURCES OF PROSPERITY. Standing on the porch of the Planters' Hotel in Anaheim, and looking to the right, the eye encounters a one-story building which was the first edifice erected in Anaheim. It was built by Mr. Benjamin Dreyfus, who drove the first stake in this now classic ground. Mr. Dreyfus was one of the original incorporators of the colony, and was the first President of the Anaheim Wine Growers' Association. Perhaps no better example could be given of the prosperity which has attended this famous colonial scheme than the fortunes of this gentleman. When, in 1857, he made his appearance in Anaheim, he was by no means well appointed in the goods of this world. Partaking of the prosperity of the place, he has gone steadily forward until he is the head of one of the largest wine concerns in the United States, the famous Eagle Wine Vaults of B. Dreyfus & Co., reaching from 630 to 642 Brannan street, San Francisco, with a branch house at No. 45 Broadway, New York. In the production of wine in Los Angeles county Mr. Dreyfus follows immediately after Mr. L. J. Mr. Hayden of Washington is the inventor of an apparatus for burning petroleum as fuel, which is claimed to be the only one in the world which will perform the work for which it is constructed. Some years ago a woman, Miss Amanda Jones, invented an apparatus for burning petroleum under steam boilers, which has been continuously and successfully used in the old regions. THE FUTURE. There are some exquisite places which may be said to be finished. Anaheim is most emphatically an exquisite place, but it is a region which is as yet but in its infancy. The superb homes of the Messrs. Hartung, Reiser, and many others, are destined to be duplicated innumerably! Both the territory and the water are there, and the shining example, which has already been set by the Anaheimers, will be imitated for years and years to come. Before many years that portion of the waters of the Santa Ana river accruing to Anaheim will be piped in iron mains, instead of being distributed through porous zanjas, the latter system involving immense loss by seepage and evaporation. Anaheim is destined to embrace five-fold the territory which she covers now. Mr. Dreyfus, in response to a question asked by us, as to the profits of a vineyard, said that the average yield of grapes was three and a half tons to the acre, and the usual price was $20 per ton. Here was a gross return to the husbandman of $70 to the acre. He added that, when the vineyardist made his own wines, and was able to hold them till they were matured, this profit was doubled. Lands which return $140 an acre are bound to be steadily in demand; and Anaheim, in consequence, is destined to increase five-fold in population. Even now, in addition to the old site, two or three thousand acres are utilized. By a proper system of distributing the water, and by winter irrigation, Anaheim can well hope, ultimately, to claim a population of five or six thousand souls. There is nowhere a more inviting place for settlement than this, the original of all the colonies of Southern California. The report of the Kansas Board of Agriculture for 1882 shows 11,048,000 acres of land under cultivation in the State, against 2,476,000 in 1872. The increase in ten years equaled the united area of Massachusetts, Connecticut and Rhode Island. The value of all field crops for the year is put at $108,-117,000, and of live stock $26,539,000. GAZETTE. MAY 12, 1883. REMEDIES. Fall of common salt discoloration water, and drank, will heart-burn" or dyspepsia. Warning before breakfast, inactivity gradually to a tea-tumbler of water, it is sure any ordinary case of the same time, due attention diet. There is no better above, for constipation. The throat it is equal to and is entirely safe. It often as desired, and if at each time it will have a throat by cleansing the irritation. In doses so poisonous in half pint to a gallon, it acts promptly as an agent of poisoning is always excellent remedy for bites insects. It is a valuable sorbages, particularly for extraction of teeth. It is and healing properties, most excellent application operations. Other valuable remedy: No without it. Two or three pound mustard stirred into acts as an emetic very milder and easier to take over. Equal parts of ground flour or meal, made into a paste and spread on a thin with another piece of muscra the often indispensable master." It is almost a when applied for a few "pit of the stomach." For other valuable remedies there is. PACIFIC COAST NEWS. Irvine Nye, aged ten years, was drowned in a millrace at Taylerville, Plumas county, last Wednesday night. Jacob Recht shot and killed Levi Arnold at Hill's ferry, Stanislaus county. The deed, as far as can be ascertained, was in self-defense. The steamer Eureka was wrecked in Peril Straits last week by running on a sunken rock. All the passengers were saved. She was on a voyage from Portland, Oregon, to Alaska. A man on Cow Creek, Tuolumne county, says the Reno Gazette, is making money running a skunk ranch. The animal's secretion, so offensive to the Caucasian nostrils, is highly prized by Chinese as a medicine, and they pay a large price for it. A one-legged tramp stole a ride from Reno to Wadsworth last week. He was drunk and disorderly and was put in the calaboose at Reno. During the night the calaboose got on fire and was burned up. The tramp was sunothered. Mr. Patterson, engineer, in the employ of the P.C. Oil Company at Newhall, was terribly burned by an explosion of gas at Well No. 5, and lies in a critical condition. In pulling off his coat the flesh came off with it wherever it touched the skin about the neck and hands. John A. Chandler who a few years ago in San Francisco, shot and killed his brother-in-law Cunningham, on account of domestic trouble, has been committed to the Insane Asylum at Napa. Chandler was married at Napa a few weeks ago to a young lady from San Francisco. NEWS OF THE WEEK. A blind chess player in Pittsford, New York, advertised for opponents, and, as a result, is carrying on eight games at once by postal card, one of which is with a resident of California. A dispatch has been received from Tabseoz, Persia, reporting that that city has been visited by an earthquake, which destroyed a great many houses and caused the death of a large number of persons. Ohio has enacted a law making it a punishable offense for any one to sell or give a toy pistol to a person under fourteen years of age. A dealer who violates the law is liable for all damages resulting. The bill offering to pay $1 per ton for sugar beets or sorghum or sugar-cane "which shall be used here in the manufacture of sugar" has passed the third reading in the Massachusetts House by a large vote. The vestry of Bethnal green were startled at a recent meeting by the announcement of the Chairman of the Sanitary Committee that horse flesh was being sold in the parish for beef, and that moreover, its appearance was so rosy and altogether desirable that customers didn't know the difference. Edward Crisco, living near Brown's Mills, N.C., when returning with a party of young men from his sister's funeral, proposed a horse race and bet money on the result. During the race Crisco's horse swerved and threw him against a tree, breaking his thigh and arm and causing severe internal injuries. F. Meystrick, living near Omaha, drove his wife and children from the house into a beating storm; set fire to the dwelling and then mounted guard over it with a shutter. Mr. Patterson, engineer, in the employ of the P.C. Oil Company at Newhall, was terribly burned by an explosion of gas at Well No. 5, and lies in a critical condition. In pulling off his coat the flesh came off with it wherever it touched the skin about the neck and hands. John A. Chandler who a few years ago in San Francisco, shot and killed his brother-in-law Cunningham, on account of domestic trouble, has been committed to the Insane Asylum at Napa. Chandler was married at Napa a few weeks ago to a young lady from San Francisco. Rev. John A. Gray, pastor of the First Baptist church at Portland, Oregon, went on a drunken spree some months since, but after apologizing was taken back, has again fallen from grace and has been drinking heavily for several days. He has sent in his resignation which was accepted by the church. The Immigration Association reports 1570 immigrants arrived in the State last week. The Association has been advised that the Harrison line of steamers, of Laverpool, have decided to put on a regular line between that point and New Orleans. The first steamer would leave on the 3d instant. The immigration tickets are now to be purchased from Laverpool to San Francisco for $72.50. It is expected that this will lead a large migration from Great Britain to California. Thursday, April 26th, the community at Halfmoon Bay was deeply excited over the marriage of a white woman to a negro. It being unlawful for a white person to marry a negro in this State, some whalers were hired to take the party out four miles from shore, and by this means the ceremony was performed beyond the State limits. One woman is a widow from the Summit, her first husband, a white man, having died a year or more ago. A special from Eagle Rock, L.T., says Whiteby, a discharged employee of the Utah Northern Railway, entered the station and called the station agent, W.B. Green, to the counter. After exchanging a few words he drew a 44 calibre revolver and fired three shots at Green, each of them taking effect and inflicting fatal injuries. Whiteby was arrested and it is thought he will be lynched. The shooting grew out of a complaint made by Green upon Whiteby was discharged. Montreal, May 5th.—Quite a sensation was occasioned here by the intelligence that Premier Mousseau of the Quebec Cabinet had been compelled to resign his seat for County Jaques Cartier for bribery and corruption of voters at his last election. Money payments and the remission of fines due the Province for liquor selling on Sunday were proved on the trial of the election petition. The resignation came in time to save Mousseau from being disqualified for political life for seven years. The affair has caused a great pointal scandal, although it is far for beef, and that moreover, its appearance was so rosy and altogether desirable that customers didn't know the difference. Edward Crisco, living near Brown's Mills, N.C., when returning with a party of young men from his sister's funeral, proposed a horse race and bet money on the result. During the race Crisco's horse swerved and threw him against a tree, breaking his thigh and arm and causing severe internal injuries. F. Meystrick, living near Omaha, drove his wife and children from the house into a beating storm, set fire to the dwelling and then mounted guard over it with a shotgun and kept the neighbors at bay until the building was consumed with its contents; incurring a loss of $2500. Meystrick is insane and will be sent to the asylum. William H. Vanderbilt has laid down the scepter of the railroad king and retired into private life. He has transferred the symbols of power to his sons Cornelius and William K., who henceforth will control the destinies of the New York Central, Lake Shore and Michigan Central roads. Wm.H. Vanderbilt has been suffering from dyspepsia and nervous headache for some time, and his physician advised entire freedom from business care, as the disease is likely at any moment to turn into gout in the stomach, and that of an incurable type. The Chicago Morning News publishes an interview with a prominent physician (Dr. Hutchinson), who states that there are in Chicago five cases of leprosy. In describing one of his patients he said: "The first points of the middle and his ring fingers had dropped off, and the ulnar nerve of the arm was greatly enlarged. He had no sensibility of pain in his hand, and I ran a pin through his fingers without attracting his perception. He had the sense of touch, but not of pain. He could judge the weight of a substance placed in his hand, but would be perfectly unconscious, so far as pain was concerned, of the loss of a finger. After I had made my diagnosis the patient went away. He was a laboring man. I have not heard from him, but I suppose he is still alive. Of course, he will never get well, for the disease is incurable. He may live for several years, and another affliction may come and cause his death, as leprosy is a very slow disease. The other cases are Norwegians and Chinese. Some of the better class of people are also doubtless affected, but they have kept it secret." The Liquor Question. A sufficient quantity of liquor is used in the United States annually to fill a canal four feet deep, fourteen feet wide and 120 miles long. But what has that to do with Swayne's Pills, the best family medicine in the world? Millions of boxes have already been sold and there is a call for millions more. They cleanse and build up the over-taxed system as no other medicine can all for a quarter of a dollar. Do not delay, but give them a fair trial. Chicago, May 5.—Before Judge Tuley, in Montreal, May 5th. Quite a sensation was occasioned here by the intelligence that Premier Mousseau of the Quebec Cabinet had been compelled to resign his seat for County Jaques Cartier for bribery and corruption of voters at his last election. Money payments and the remission of fines due the Province for liquor selling on Sunday were proved on the trial of the election petition. The resignation came in time to save Mooseau from being disqualified for political life for seven years. The affair has caused a great political scandal, although it is far from being a novelty here. Chicago, May 3.—A museum in this city, which is attended by as high as 20,000 persons daily, is advertising for the most beautiful woman in America and has received over 100 applications during the past week. Local journals comment on the contest daily and scribes grow rapturous over some applications describing the various claims for beauty. One journal states that three ladies, about whom there seemed a great air of mystery, presented themselves in the afternoon. One was very stylish; had light hair, splendid black eyes, a Hebe-like figure, enveloped in a sweeping veil, and with a superb air of refinement. She said she was a Mexican, had a competency, and only had the subject of the contest suggested to her as a means of amusement. Another one of the trio was a plump little body, with a lovely form and a limpid voice that would beguile sparrows from the telegraph poles. She said she was born and bred in California and had not seen much of the world, and didn't exactly know what would be required of her, but she could assure the management that she would give none of their secrets away. She said she could also play poker if called upon. The management thought well of her, but finally concluded her hair was too short for perfect beauty—and so to the end of the string of would be Langtrya. For one dime get a package of Diamond Dyes at the druggist's. They color anything the simplest and most desirable colors. The Liquor Question. A sufficient quantity of liquor is used in the United States annually to fill a canal four feet deep, fourteen feet wide and 120 miles long. But what has that to do with Swayne's Pills, the best family medicine in the world? Millions of boxes have already been sold and there is a call for millions more. They cleanse and build up the over-taxed system as no other medicine can, all for a quarter of a dollar. Do not delay, but give them a fair trial. Chicago, May 5.—Before Judge Tuley, in the Circuit Court, to-day certain heirs contested the payment of a bequest to a priest of the Roman Catholic church, to reimburse him for saying masses for the repose of the soul of the testator. The point urged by counsel for the heirs was that the money was expended for a superstitious use. The Court held the objection could not hold and that the bequest was valid under the State statutes. "Butter be wise by the misfortunes of others than by your own." Take warning in time. Avoid quack nostrums by which thousands annually perish. Use only such remedies as are demonstrated above suspicion, foremost among which is Kidney-Wort. For torped liver, bowels or kidneys, no other remedy equals it. It is sold in both dry and liquid form by all druggists. Chatanooga, May 4.—D. F. Walker was hanged to-day at Trenton, Ga., for the murder of S. S. Hardberger on Sand Mountain in October last. Walker died unmoved. He made a long speech on the gallows. A row followed the hanging and George Bird, a brother of the Sheriff, attempting to quell it, was shot. Several were badly beaten. Invigorating Food For the brain and nerve is what we need in these days of rush and worry. Parker's Ginger Tonic restores the vital energies and brings good health and joyous spirits quicker than anything you can use. —Tribune. Ninety-three thousand acres of land were planted with timber in Kansas last year.