anaheim-gazette 1883-08-11

WEEKLY GAZETTE. SATURDAY...AUG. 11, 1883 SUBSCRIPTION, per year, $2. BLASTED HOPES. Probably about the most disgruntled community in the State is that of San Diego, a town situate about a hundred miles south of Anaheim. For fifteen or twenty years the people of that city looked hopefully forward to the advent of a railroad, and formed the greatest of expectations as to the prosperity which would follow. During their many years of coquetting with railroad kings, it was apparent to the dispassionate observer that the people of San Diego were slightly daft on the question, and were over-reaching themselves by wanting, to use an expressive vulgarism, the whole hog or none. From the time when Tom Scott gave them Texas-Pacific taffy in return for dollars and lands they have studiously rejected all overtures of the Southern Pacific, and antagonized the only corporation which had the motive to benefit the Bay city. Had it not been for their repellant attitude they would have been connected by rail with Anaheim and the outside world years ago. The railroad they now have has been a most grievous disappointment. The cultured Boston syncope having wooed and won and then jilted them, the film has fallen from their eyes and they see the situation plainly and as it is. In consideration of the grand ifsequent promises of Nickerson and his associates, San Diego gave them $30,000 in cash and 11,000 acres of land. The Boston people promised to build a road from San Diego to the Needles on the Colorado river; there to connect with a through transcontinental line, the road to be finished by January 1st, 1884. A large freight depot was to be erected in San Diego, also an ample passenger depot; the principal place of business of the corporation was to be at San Diego. How the corporation compiled with its promises is thus stated by the San Diego Union. 1. The Boston people formed a syndicate to sell town lots and land on the National Ranch. 2. They built a road to Colton and stopped. 3. A surveying party was sent into the Cajun Pass and made demonstrations. 4. The "Bee Lane" project was started. 5. The Company put up a shed at the company pit. LICENSING GAMBLING. The municipal authorities of Sacramento, the capital of the State, have taken a step which will be deemed progressive or the reverse, according to the different standpoints from which the matter may be regarded. Finding that the police force either could not or would not suppress the gambling dens abounding in the city, the Trustees unanimously adopted an ordinance requiring every person carrying on any game of faro, mente, roulette, lansquenett, rouge et noir, or any other banking game, to pay a license tax of $100 per quarter. The ordinance further provides that such games shall be carried on in the rooms on the second door of the buildings where the games are located, and shall be open to the public; minors are not to be permitted to bet against or assist in carrying on the game; proprietors of games are held responsible for the acts of their dealers, keepers or employees. The Mayor of the city, in his remarks in support of the ordinance, said he anticipated some opposition to the enforcement of the ordinance, but that it would come from those engaged in gambling. Without desiring for a moment to impugn the good sense of the Mayor, we venture to express the opinion that the most serious opposition will not come from the gamblers but from citizens who will feel outraged that such an informal business is made legitimate and encouraged by the authorities who should repress it. There is not, we believe, another community in this State, which has had any such ordinance forced upon it; and it is humiliating to think that the important city of Sacramento should establish the precedent. We may now expect to see in the papers of that city, highly moral advertisements like this: MAYOR BROWN NIELSEN & BROWN DEAD BEAN FARO, MONTE, CHUCK A LUCK, ETC. SO. A NANTERT, NICHARGENTO (UP STATE) A square game guaranteed. Gamblers who may get "broke" at this establishment will be given enough money to buy a bed, breakfast and cocktail. Some one came all. The Sacramento Bee, in its puerile comments upon the ordinance, says. Trastee Nielsen wanted the words "except during Fair week" inserted after the second story clause, probably thinking that the city wouldn't wear its usual smiling countenance if rondeau and all the other costly amusements of that costly season were not allowed to go on openly and above. State Vitality The Gazette is giving the program Vaticanical Conviction at Dashway Hall August 27th and programme is as follows: MONDAY, August shipping and raiding Mossrs. Blowers, Carr. The select and maintenance TUESDAY, August and methods of pass experience in vacation and maintenance varieties of wine Coates, Onas Le others. Vine press remines, etc. P WEDNESAY, All wines and brandies General discussion pests and remedies. THURSDAY, Aspection of winesferences. General discussion construction George W. Heald, Felix Gille Markets for vintage requirements and FRIDAY, August tion of wines and ferences. General discussions relating to vitizen prejudices, tariffs Krug, L. J. Rose, Kohler, M. Deno The uses and dies: their relative public health and cysts C. A. We SATURDAY, Sep vitticultural tools, lars and cooperages of champ wines, etc., detailthe Convention. Echoes from The Philadelphia column and a half-person Davis on Judge Jeremiah S."Secession Secret" assertion that he order the evacuation view to prepare utterly and mexico as follows: "We popular to have A MISLEADING STATEMENT. As the season advances it becomes more apparent that the grape crop of the State has been severely hightened. The fruit has been caused to drop off in a great measure before well formed; in some cases the young berries have been apparently cooked on the vines. Our advice are not well enough digested to warrant an exact description of the trouble, hence speculation as to the cause is premature. The Pasadena people complain that their Museats are not setting well. Near Folsom the young berries were cooked on some varieties. Near St. Helena the ordinary features of the disease known in France as Coulure are more particularly described. What causes this disease and how to remedy are matters not well understood yet. It is certain, however, that certain varieties of vines are less subject to it than others, and some are practically free from it. The above paragraph is from an article contributed to the San Francisco Merchant by Chief Executive Vitticultural Officer C. A. Wetmore. It is a misleading and mischievous statement, and is palpably untrue when applied to Los Angeles county—or at least that part of the county with which we are most familiar. The trouble with Mr. Wetmore is that if he were asked to define "the State" he would probably answer that it comprised Napa, Sonoma and a few other northern counties which appear to be favorites of his. Though Pasadena is a very nice place, Mr. Wetmore apparently does not know that, viticulturally speaking, it is very small potatoes; and to gauge or judge the grape crop of this county by the Pasadena patches is the height of absurdity. The truth is that the Anaheim vineyards were never less free from blight than they are now, nor have they ever borne a larger crop of grapes. The vineyardists are absolutely without cause of complaint. If Mr. Wetmore intends to issue any more doleful bulbiness, etc., detailing the Convention. Echoes from The Philadelphia column and a half-person Davis on Judge Jeremiah S. "Secession Secret" assertion that he order the evacuation view to prepare utterly and immediately follows: "We popular to have a prosecution of the States; when the people shall be the wasted treasure of the land saddled and orphans, and version of those government for the war of the rebellion which the Union consent is the foundation of our policy of Buchanan town the question prey may receive the ransom and patriotism of To that better owe the judgment woe the opposite police whose military law from the field as the blood or smite Galveston McKinley special last day of the year was even a great The attendance being 50,000. yesterday is gone notables present, and Lewis was speaking and then was carried discretion. The nary run today who declared that never have more ship. He hoped the ex Confederate stripes in a contempt. ORIENT The prison at Huntington 700 inmates, rapid was the con could be rendered their trial was about 150 truer badly injured. Six high Gorean implicated in the July last year, hailed of the King. It functionaries came by the tribunals, sires to rid himself al he may have rea The telegraph hires for weeks before continually inquiring method of transmission it the "heavenly cord," but now thing it the "elephant feared that evil from it, and the T opportunity to make terrors. They may by plaining three together, and guiding the three fold would escape inju ONE DANGER. So close an observer of events as Morris M. Estee predicts that "we are going to have good times in California during the next five years." The completion of the Northern Pacific railroad giving better facilities than formerly for getting in and out of the State, will, in his opinion, be the principal factor in our prosperity. We see only one danger which threatens the fulfillment of Mr. Estee's sanguine prediction, and that is a continuance of the scanty rainfall which have characterized the past four or five winters. It is true, sufficient rain has fallen every winter to mature grain in nearly every agricultural district in the State, but there has been no margin—just enough and not a drop to spare. As a consequence the water has for years been gradually receding from the surface; the fountain heads have been drying up, and a point has been reached where a decidedly wet winter is necessary for the replenishment of the water sources and for the continued prosperity of the State. It is useless to dwell upon the probabilities of rain next winter, because no amount of speculation or discussion will alter what inevitable Fate has in store for us. We have, however, reason for hope that copious rains will come with the next winter season, and if such is the case, then indeed may we look for a period of prosperity to which the past is but an index. A MISTAKE. The reduction of letter postage from three cents to two cents, (which will take effect on October 1st) is considered a mistake by Denis Kearney, because poor men write few letters, and the reduction will only help the rich men who write many letters. We also consider the reduction a mistake, but for a different reason than that advanced by Kearney. The country did not ask for a reduced letter postage, but it did ask for a more efficient postal service. Had the department continued the rates as they are at present and used the surplus revenue in duplicating the mail service wherever practicable, that part of the people who send and receive the most letters would have been better pleased. Two mails a day where one is now received would have been more acceptable to the business men of the country. LOCKPORT, August 5.—Captain J. D. Rhodes of Salamanca, a swimmer of some note, having a life-preserving armor, patented by himself, who in 1877 dove from a staging 100 feet high, near the ferry landing, into the Niagara river, now writes to Superintendent Neilson of Prospect Park, that he will use his armor and give $1000 bonds to swim the rapids and whirlpool, doing this at any time between now and September 25th and that he desires to make arrangements with the Park Company, offering to deposit $1000 with them as security. Mr. Neilson wrote to him, declining to be a party in the suicidal attempt. Rhodes replied that he would come to the falls and if the authorities would not give him an opportunity he would cross to the Canadian side from Captain Webb's starting point and show to the world what his life-saving armor will do. He says: "It is not for any notoriety or money that I will attempt this feat, but purely to demonstrate that the armor I wear will, with my ability and strength, carry me safely through. I shall come to the falls within nine days and make my points and carry out my plans and the first person who shall endeavor to retard my progress I will take under my arm and give him a bath." Au oil barrel, half filled with water and then headed tight and decorated with flags, went safely through the rapids this morning and at no time was entirely submerged. State Viticultural Convention. The Gazette is in receipt of a circular giving the programme of the Second Annual Viticultural Convention which will be held at Dashaway Hall, San Francisco, beginning August 27th and continuing six days. The programme is as follows: Monday, August 27 — Discussion of table, supping and raising grapes, and rains. Messrs. Blowers, Briggs, Earl and Mrs. Carr. The selection, plantation, cultivation and maintenance of vineyards. H. W. Crobb. Tuesday, August 28 — Inspection of rains and methods of packing. General discussion of experience in selection, plantation, cultivation and maintenance of vineyards, including varieties of vines. I. DeTark. Leonard Cates, Chas. Letrane, W. B. West and others. Vine pests, diseases of the vine, remedies, etc. Prof. Gustave Eisen. Wednesday, August 29 — Inspection of wines and brandies; informal conferences. General discussion of vine diseases, vine pests and remedies; American resistant vines. Prof. James Blake, Matthew Cooke, Julius Dresel. Practical fermentation and care of new wines. Arnal Harazzhy. Thursday, August 30 — Continued inspection of wines and brandies; informal conferences. General discussion of fermentation and distillation; construction of cellars, cooperage, etc. George West, F. Polendorff, J. L. Heald, Felix Gillet, J. B. J. Portal. Markets for viticultural products, their requirements and development, J. J. Jacobi. Friday, August 31 — Continued inspection of wines and brandies; informal conferences. General discussion of economic questions relating to viticulture, markets, obstacles, prejudices, tariffs, adulterations, etc. Chas. Krug, L. J. Rose, J. De Barth Shorb, Chas. Kohler, M. Denock. The uses and abuses of wines and brandies; their relation to personal character, public health and the formation of good society. C.A. Wetmore. Saturday, September 1 — Inspection of viticultural tools, machinery, etc., wine collars and cooperage in San Francisco, processes of champagne making, maturing wines, etc., details to be announced during the Convention. Echoes from the Confederacy. The Philadelphia Times publishes a three column and a half communication from Jefferson Davis on the public utterances of Judge Jeremiah S. Black, under the title of "Secession Secrets." He pronounces Black's assertion that he tried to coax Buchanan to order the evacuation of Fort Sumter, with a view to prepare the army for secession, as utterly and inexcessibly false. Davis closes as follows: "When it shall no longer be popular to have instigated and aided in the PACIFIC COAST NEWS. Capt. A. H.; Wilcox formerly of San Diego died in San Francisco on Sunday. Magnant scarlet fever prevails to some extent in Solano county. The assistant lighthouse keeper at Point Bonita, named Eaton, fell over a cliff in the night time and was killed. Solomon Levy playfully pushed Jacob Schneider in a San Francisco saloon. Schneider fell on the floor and fractured his skull and died. At Chicoon Mollie White, a reformed woman of the town, and who was betrothed to Riley Straile, a well to do teamster, posed him and herself with strychnine. Strahlie died in a few minutes. The woman recovered and is under arrest. Friday, August 24th has been declared a legal holiday by Gov. Stoneman. The occasion is the laying of the corner stone of the monument to President Garfield, in Golden State Park, San Francisco, by the Knights Templar. During a fire at Red Bluff on the 1st instant, a 10-year old child was burned to death, and several other persons were severely burned. They were all members of a Mexican family named Morales. The cause was the use of kerosene to start a fire. The abduction of young children in San Francisco is on the increase. Another attempt was made Tuesday by a Chinaman to steal a baby sixteen months old out of its baby carriage, where it had been left for a few moments by its mother. A gang of Chinamen resisted the collection of the polititax Josephine county, Or., Saturday, and 150 of them charged the officers and posse, who fired upon the Chinese killing three and dangerously wounding the same number. A fire in San Francisco on the morning of the 4th destroyed nearly an entire block which included the Winter Garden Theatre, the Eintracht building, Red Men's Hall, Pacific College and Drudil's Hall. Harry Morgan, an actor, was burned to death in his bed. The Benicia New Era says the town water company has bored seven wells to the bedrock, 40 feet, and struck a fine stream of water. A steam engine was put to work and pumped at the rate of 200,000 gallons per day without lowering the water in the wells which rises within a few feet of the top. On Wednesday last Mr. Walton, a well-known citizen of San Buenaventura, died, and on the following day his wife died both victims of grief and weariness in watching by the beldside of their son Frank, who graduated with high honors at the State University, but who a month ago returned home to die of typhoid fever. During both finerals every business place in town closed. Three orphan girls are left. NEWS OF THE WEEK. Sarah Burns, aged 16, hanged herself at Fayetteville, Ark. She had been ruined and jilted. The Texas fever has broken out at Dodge City, Kansas; and cattle are dying off in great numbers. One man has been arrested for driving in cattle down with the fever. A child buried in the ruins at Casamigciola island of Ischia; at the time of the earthquake July 25th was recovered alive Saturday August 4th. A man named Barker living on Hurricane creek, Ark., killed his daughter upon her announcing her intention to marry a certain young man against his wishes. The neighbors hanged Barker in his front yard. Thirty-two guns were fired in the public square at Syracuse, N.Y., celebrating the killing of the informer Carey. Two gunners were badly injured by a premature explosion. Felicitos Mejia,a famous bull-fighter, was fatally hurt in the City of Mexico. He was tossed in the air by a bull, which again caught the man on its horns as he fell. The building was crowded at the time and the greatest excitement prevailed. At Camden (S.C.), on Friday night many persons partook of ice-cream at a Baptist church festival and on Saturday sixty were taken seriously ill. One child died and only about two-thirds of the victims are pronounced out of danger. Theophilus Abase living at Pern Clinton county,N.Y.,was found dying in bed with three knife wounds in his neck.His wife has fled. It is believed she is insane from poisoning.The Coroner's jury found that the wife probably committed the deed. A terrible rain and hail storm swept through Iowa on Wednesday. It was about two miles wide,bearing corn and all growing vegetation into the ground. It is regarded as one of the most severe storms that ever visited Western Iowa.Several lives are reported as having been lost. A fierely educated young Swede was found lying dead in the Swedish Lutheran Church at Englewood,Cincinnati,having committed suicide.The morning papers claim that the young man had been identified as an illegitimate son of King Oscar of Sweden and that he was raised in the family of a sister of the King. At Chicago a man named Bezy was in a hack with his three children James,josephine and Christine; aged 10,12 and 16 years when the horses became frightened and plunged into the river as Polk street bridge,the drawbridge being open.The hackman and Bezy escaped but the children,couped up in the vehicle were drowned and also the horses. Investigations by the Internal Revenue Bureau into the adulteration of beer have developed facts so startling that a circular has been issued requiring beverages to forward to Washington a statement of all arrestees." Echoes from the Confederacy. The Philadelphia Times publishes a three column and a half communication from Jefferson Davis on the public utterances of Judge Jecemiah S. Black, under the title of "Secession Secrets." He pronounces Black's assertion that he tried to coax Buchanan to order the evacuation of Fort Sumter, with a view to prepare the army for secession, as utterly and inexcessibly false. Davis closes as follows: "When it shall no longer be popular to have instigated and aided in the prosecution of the war against the Southern States; when the sober second thought of the people shall have taken an account of the wasted treasures, of the sacrificed lives, of the land saddened by the wail of widows and orphans, and last, but not least, the subversion of those sound principles of free government for which the colonies fought the war of the revolution, and to perpetuate which the Union was formed; then, when consent is the foundation and fraternity the cement of our political structure, the efforts of Buchanan towards a peaceful solution of the question presented by South Carolina may receive the reward due to the wisdom and patriotism of his conciliatory policy. To that better day I refer Judge Black to the judgment which may be rendered upon the opposite policy of his bellicose advisers whose military laurels were gathered so far from the field as to be unstained by either the blood or smoke of battle." Galveston (Texas), Aug. 8. The News McKinley special says: On the second and last day of the Confederate reunion there was even a greater display than the first. The attendance was greatly increased, numbering 50,000. The speech of Gen Lewis yesterday is generally condemned by the notables present, still it took with the crowd and Lewis was cheered, to the echo whole speaking and the supposition, is the enthusiasm was carried high beyond the bounds of discretion. The only tinge out of the ordinary run today was a speech of Gen Cable, who declared that England and America can never have more than an innumerable friendship. He hoped to live long enough to lead the ex Confederates under the stars and stripes in a contest against England. ORIENTAL NEWS. The prison at Hiroshima, Japan, containing 700 inmates, took fire on July 31, and so rapid was the combustion that before help could be rendered sixty-one persons awaiting their trial were burned to death and about 150 trees and untried prisoners were badly injured. Six high Korean dignitaries, who had been implicated in the disturbances at Seoul in July last year, have been poisoned by order of the King. It appears that in Corea high functionaries cannot be sentenced to death by the tribunals, and that if the King desires to rid himself of an objectionable officer he may have recourse to poison. The telegraph has reached Hanchon, China. For weeks before its arrival, the people were continually inquiring about it, and the real method of transmitting letters. Some called it the "heavenly cord," some the "earthly cord," but now they generally agree in calling it the "electric cord." Some people feared that evil influences might emanate from it, and the Taoist priests seized the opportunity to make a few cash out of their terrors. They made anti-telegraph charms by plaiting three cords of different colors together, and guaranteed that any one wearing the three fold talisman round the neck would escape injury. On Wednesday last Mr. Walton, a well-known citizen of San Buenaventura, died, and on the following day his wife died, both victims of grief and weariness in watching by the bedside of their son Frank, who graduated with high honors at the State University, but who a month ago returned home to die of typhoid fever. During both funerales every business place in town closed. Three orphan girls are left. A foot race was run at Gold Hill, Virginia, Nev., when David Hughes, who was under the influence of liquor, became so excited because he had bet on the winning man that he pulled his pistol and fired in the air. He was bringing up the weapon for a second shot when it was discharged, the ballet striking Joey Fulton, a boy of 12, in the abdomen, indicting a fatal wound. Mr. Blowers, the great raisin maker at Woodland, informs the Ato that the Mascat grape is generally a failure this year. He says cause of the failure is an insect which appears on vine when in bloom, which saps it and destroys the fruit. Fortunately he treated his vines to a wash which destroyed the insect and hence will have a good crop. Mr. Blowers' theory is that this is not a new insect, but that the unusually hot weather in June hatched them out earlier than usual. A young farm hand named E. Roberts living near Eugene City, Lane county, Oregon, was struck by lightning and instantly killed. He was crossing a meadow with a three-timed pitchfork across his shoulder during a heavy thunder-storm. A great ball of fire was seen to glow for an instant on the prongs of the fork and disappear. Young Roberts was seen at the same moment to fall. Several ran to his assistance and found him stone dead. His face was perfectly black. This is the second instance of death by lightning stroke in this State. At the last meeting of the Napa Grape growers' Association it was generally admitted that the phylloxera is gaining headway, and that all experiments thus tar have failed to discover an effective remedy for the pest. From the statements of the vine-growers present the grape crop in the vicinity of Napa the present year will be a good average one, though most vineyards suffered greatly from the hot spell in June, and the crops in a few instances was completely destroyed. Viticulturists who have planted the cuttings of resistant vines imported from East have had poor success in making them live. Leonard Coates says: "If the cuttings when received were at once immersed in running water for several days many apparently dead would grow. This has been my method, although I lost one bit totally, amounting to 10,000 cuttings." On Thursday afternoon a large number of citizens assembled at Colton to witness the laying of the cross-track of California Southern Railroad over the Southern Pacific, on its way to San Bernardino. As the 2:30 East-bound train swept by the employees of the California Southern made ready the immense steel crossing. Just as they were ready to put it in place, a ponderous eight-wheel engine of the Southern Pacific drove up and came to a stand at the crossing signal, held aloft by Mr. Victor. Superintendent of the California Southern Railroad. The large crowd of people present were intensely indignant over the obstruction, and at first proposed to remove it by force, but wise counsel prevailed. Legal notices will be served on the Company to remove it, and if At Chicago a man named Begy was in a hack with six three children, James Josephine and Christine, aged 10, 12 and 16 years, when the horses became frightened and plunged into the river at Folk street bridge; she drawbridge being open. The hackman and Bezy escaped, but the children, coopered up in the vehicle, were drowned and also the horses. Investigations by the Internal Revenue Bureau into the adulteration of beer have developed facts so startling that a circular has been issued requiring bravery to forward to Washington on a statement of all armies clashed in the manufacture of lager. If the order is not obeyed, the offenders will be closely followed by the revenue agents. Mortz Scharf, the boy who was the principal witness for prosecution in the recent trial of a number of Jews at Nyreggaazu Hungary, charged withthe murder of a girl in order to procure her blood for ritual purposes, and who swore that he saw the murder committed, has confessed to a report of The Poster Legal Newspaper that his testimony was false. A letter was received by the Mayor of Brooklyn from the Burgomanaster at Munhausen, Thuringia Germany;the latterplace of John A. Koepping,the engineer ofthe Brooklyn bridge.The letter stated that a street in that city had been named afterthe distinguished engineer,and that a brass tablelet containing his likeness andthe dateof his birth and death,had been affixedtothe housewhere he was born. George Kallogg,a convict inthe State Penitentiary at Solitl.,while at work at a wire-drawing machine.committed suicideby throwinga coatofwarmaroundhisneckand sufferinghimselftobe drawnagainstthe machine.The wirewas unboundinhisneck.Justbeforecommittingdeadhewenttothebossandsaid,"IamthemanwhocommittedthedoublemurderatHatta. At Bloomfield,Md.,the invaded wifeof rounds Lawrence Conrad,a wellknown Halloween lawyer,maintainedbydisease,shother husbandwhowassleepingbyhersale,broughthimimmediately.Miss Conradis cousinofSamuelHosenwho recentlykilledCharlesRiggleWhiteinHowardcounty.Sheisalsoa cousinofJohnFollyJohnsandRichardJohns,brotherswhocommittedsuicide.Allwere sufferingfrom insanityatthetimeofthe tragedies. At Grand Rapids,Michigan,a conductor onthe grand Kapids and Indiana Railroad,havingreceivedavisitbyburglarsathishouseonMondaynightwaspreparedforasecondvisitontuesdayandawardedtheminthekitchen.Hiswife.awakenedbyastreetnoise,arose,passedthroughtheroom,andherhusbandmistakingherforaburglar,fired,theballtakingeffectintheforeheadcomingoutneartheright ear.Sheisalivebutunconsciouswithonlyslighthopesofrecovery. Albert Rhodes.atone timeConsulatRouenhassentanimportantreporttotheStateDepartmentwhichhasbeenofficiallypublished.AformerreportonfrankilentwivesdrewuponMr.Rhodessome bittercriticismbyFrenchproducersanddealersHenowreafirmsallheatfirstreportedandsupplementstithownewchargesandproofsTheseshowthatthe falsificationandadultiationofwineshavenotbeencheckedintoleast.HecitesthefactthattheFrenchGovernmentitselfhas broughtoutbyofficialanalysisallthefaitshehadrecited。这些disclosuresweremadeintheinterestofpublichealthbya fearless bureauoftheParisian municipality,andsubsequentlybytheStateDepartmentitself.Mr.Rhodes The telegraph has reached Hanchon, China. For weeks before its arrival, the people were continually inquiring about it, and the real method of transmitting letters. Some called it the "heavenly cord," some the "earthly cord," but now they generally agree in calling it the "electric cord." Some people feared that evil influences might emanate from it, and the Taoist priests seized the opportunity to make a few cash out of their terrors. They made anti-telegraph charms by plaiting three cords of different colors together, and guaranteed that any one wearing the three fold talisman round the neck would escape injury. The North China News says: "The Viceroy and Governor of Kuangtung have recently complained to the Emperor of a certain magistrate in that province for his wholesale executions, the head and tront of his offending being that on one occasion, feeling irritated at a somewhat disrespectful reply from an old man whom he was bullying, he ordered him to be burned alive. The inhuman wretch has been cashiered and placed upon his trial, the Emperor authorizing the memorialists to use "extreme measures" to elicit the facts of the case. This means that the magistrate is to be tortured, and it is impossible to feel any sympathy with him in the agony which lie before him. Toledo (O.), Aug. 6th. - Frank W. Smith, formerly a prisoner of war at Andersonville and Millen, Ga., Blacksher, Fla., and Florence, N. C., now General Secretary of the Railroad Young Men's Christian Association in this city, will hold religious services next Sabbath at the famous Providence Spring, which broke out within the stockade while he was a prisoner at Andersonville. Mr. Smith takes with him 14,000 national flags, one to be placed upon each of the 13,716 graves in the national cemetery near the old stockade. In this labor of leve he is assisted by some of those who wore the gray, and next Thursday the ladies of Atlanta will meet at the Y. M. C. A. rooms and arrange the flags for this memorial service. The Continental Guards of New Orleans, during their recent visit to this city, sent Smith a contribution to aid in purchasing the flags. W. J. Footner of St. Paul, Minn., has been in San Francisco about a week, making arrangements for an office of the Northern Pacific Express Company. The idea is to begin operations on September 1st. It will be in opposition to Wells, Fargo & Co. Thermometrical Record. The following is our record (taken 1½ miles North of town) for the week ending Wednesday P. M. Aug. 8, giving lowest point by night preceding date and highest by day: DATE Lowest High Highest Lowest High Aug 2 60 62 84 72 3 62 65 82 71 4 59 63 86 72 5 51 60 87 72 6 50 58 92 78 7 57 66 89 78 8 59 67 89 76 Average Temperature...70° highest and lowest...72 One day an Irishman was working for a wealthy lady, who was known alike for stinginess and devotion to the church. After laboring several hours transporting old shutters, doors and window-sash from a house which she was having repaired to the cellar of her own residence, she gave him ten cents. At quitting the place a neighbor inquired: "Pat, what has the old woman got in that cellar, anyhow?" "Got in that cellar, is it?" returned Pat. "Bedad, she has got everything in that cellar but the grace of God, and that will never enter if she waits till I fetch it." Albert Rhodes, at one time Consult at Rouen, has sent an important report to the State Department, which has been officially published. A former report on fraudulent wines drew upon Mr. Rhodes some bitter criticism by French producers and dealers. He now readirms all he at first reported and supplements it with new charges and proofs. These show that the falsification and adulteration of wines have not been checked in too least. He cites the fact that the French Government itself has brought out by official analysis all the facts he had recited. These disclosures were made in the interest of public health by a fearless bureaucracy of the Parisian municipality, and subsequently by the State Department itself. Mr. Rhodes now charges that wine production has for some years been steadily decreasing in France, and the demand has been met for what could not be grown by deliberate manufacture of spurious wines. CLEANLINESS and purity make Parker's Hair Balsam the favorite for restoring the youthful color to gray hair. $50 REWARD. STRAYED FROM THE LOS ALAMITOS RANCH ON THE 15th of July a dark hay horse, 150 hands high. The finder will please return it to J. W. Bixby or to B. Dreyfus, Anaheim. The Buyer's Guide is issued March and Sept., each year: 216 pages, 8¼ x 11½ inches, with over 3,200 illustrations—a whole picture gallery. Gives wholesale prices direct to consumers on all goods for personal or family use. Tells how to order, and gives exact cost of everything you use, eat, drink, wear, or have fun with. These invaluable books contain information gleaned from the markets of the world. We will mail a copy Free to any address upon receipt of the postage—7 cents. Let us hear from you. Respectfully, MONTGOMERY WARD & CO. 227 & 229 Wabash Avenue, Chicago Ill. Maps of Los Angeles County for sale at the Gazette office for 50 cents GOODMAN & RIMPAU OF THE DRY GOODS PALACE Respectfully announce the receipt of a superb lot of New Goods. It is needless to enumerate them, suffice it to say that in every department the stock has been replenished, and we can confidently assert that We can gratify every taste. As to Price, we assert that neither in Los Angeles nor in any other part of the county Are we Undersold. This assertion we are prepared to substantiate. Soliciting the public patronage we again invite you to ascertain our prices and examine our stock. Agents For Devlin and Co., MERCHANT TAILORS OF NEW YORK. Suits ordered from Samples and a Perfect Fit Guaranteed. Several hundred samples on hand. Devlin and Co., MERCHANT TAILORS OF NEW YORK. Suits ordered from Samples and a Perfect Fit Guaranteed. Several hundred samples on hand. THE GREAT STORM Of January 12th, 1882, which injured or destroyed some of Washmills in Los Angeles County predeceased by the revenue agents. JACKSON'S CALIFORNIA WINDMILL THE Best and Cheapest 10 foot... $75 12 "... $85 14 "... $100 MADE BY JACKSON & TRUMAN San Francisco. Casks, Pipes AND PUNCHEONS IN PERFECT ORDER For Sale at Low Prices. B. DREYFUS & CO., Anaheim ALBRECHT BROS. Manufacturers of Family Fruit Dryers. An Assortment Always on Hand. Will take contract for Erecting Buildings, Tanks, Frames, etc. Agents for the BACHELER WINDMILL. Shop on Center Street, near Railroad Depot. QUICK TIME AND CHEAP FARES To Eastern and European Cities Via the Great Transcontinental All-Rail Routes, CENTRAL PACIFIC R. R. OR SOUTHERN PACIFIC R. R. Daily Express and Emigrant Trains make prompt connections with the several railway lines in the East, CONNECTING AT New York and New Orleans The Purest and Best. CHEESEMAN'S BAKING POWDER For sale at the Store at the Depot. OSTRICH FARM. IT HAVING BEEN FOUND NECESSARY TO close the above farm to visitors, notice is hereby given that all persons trespassing on the said farm WILL BE PROSECUTED. Visitors wishing to see the birds can do so on Sundays and Wednesdays by TICKETS only, which may be procured of Mr. Knapp, Proprietor Plantation Hotel; Mr. Richard Melrose, Gazert office; Nauheim, and Mr. Sutherland Hutton, Los Angeles. Travelers from a distance who are simply passing through the country can see the birds at any time by practicing tickets as above. C. J. SKETCHLEY, Superintendent Southern California Ostrich Farming Company. QUICK TIME AND CHEAP FARES To Eastern and European Cities Via the Great Transcontinental All-Rail Routes, CENTRAL PACIFIC R. R. OR SOUTHERN PACIFIC R. R. Daily Express and Emigrant Trains make prompt connections with the several railway lines in the East, CONNECTING AT New York and New Orleans with the several Steamer Lines to ALL EUROPEAN PORTS. PULLMAN PALACE SLEEPING CARS attached to Overland Express Trains; THIRD-CLASS SLEEPING CARS are run daily with Overland Emigrant Trains. No additional charge for Bertha in Third-Class Cars. For tickets sold, sleeping car Bertha secured, and other information given upon application at the Company's offices, where passengers calling in person can secure choice of routes, etc. RAILROAD LANDS IN NEVADA, CALIFORNIA AND TEXAS, For sale on reasonable terms. Apply to, or address W. H. MILLS; JEROME MADDEN, Land Agent; C.P.R.K. Co., San Francisco, S.P.R.K. Co., San Francisco; Or H. B. ANDREWS, Land Commissioner, G. H. & S.A. By Co., San Antonio, Texas. A. N. TOWNE; T. H. GOODMAN, General Manager, Gen Pass. & Tkt. Agt. aug 4-5m San Francisco, Cal. Cottage and Lot for Sale. THE FESENFELD COTTAGE AND LOT ON Palm street, near Center, is offered for sale very cheap if applied for soon. Apply to Mrs. FESENFELD. Millinery Store to Rent. FITTED UP WITH SHELVING, CASES, COUNTERS, everything complete. Rent low. Also for sale in a lump a fine lot of Millinery goods very cheap. Apply to this office or to B. DREYFUS, Anaheim. Notice to Creditors. ESTATE OF ELISA KUELP. DECEASED. NOICE is hereby given by the undersigned, Administrator of the estate of Elisa Kuelp, deceased, to the creditors of all persons having claims against the said deceased to exhibit them with the necessary documents within four months after the first publication of this notice, to the said Administrator at the office of M.L.Wicks, 80 and 87 Temple Block, Los Angeles, the same being the place for the transaction of the business of said estate in the said county of Los Angeles. A. SCHNEIDER; Administrator of the estate of Elisa Kuelp, deceased, Dated at Los Angeles, July 18, 1883. B. DREYFUS. E. L. GOLDSTEIN, Anaheim. San Francisco J. FROWENFELD. J. J. WEGLEIN, New York B. DREYFUS & CO. Growers and Dealers in California Wines and Grape Brandy. 620 to 642 Brannan Street, San Francisco; 45 Broadway New York. Notice IS HEREY GIVEN THAT THE ROAD TO the San Juan Hot Springs situated on the Mission Vieja Rancho, has been closed. Executors of the estate of F.D.A. Pioche, By LUIS DARTIGUES, Lessee of said Rancho, may 19