anaheim-gazette 1883-10-13

WEEKLY GAZETTE. SATURDAY...OCT. 13, 1883 SUBSCRIPTION, per year, $2. An observer in Utah writes that one of the causes operating towards the gradual abolition of polygamy is the inter-marriage of Gentiles and Mormons. In the marriages of this kind that have come under his observation, the supremacy of the religious belief of the Gentiles is apparent. This is a fast age. At the Chicago Driving Park a young pacer driven by Peter V. Johnson on Tuesday elipsed all previous records. The horse got a warming up in 2:23, and on the second trial paced without break or skip in exactly 2:10, thereby making the fastest harness record ever known. The press of this State are "after" a Mr. Tyrell who, in an interview with a New York reporter, belittled California. If Tyrell is at all sensitive, and can read, he probably realizes that it would be better to tie a grindstone around his neck and jump into the sea than to speak alightingly of the Golden State. Rev. Morgan Dix, of New York, not long ago drew upon himself the urge of the advocates of woman suffrage by giving in a series of elaborate addresses, his reasons for not wanting to confer upon woman any more civil rights than she now enjoys. And now that he has suffered a signal defeat in his candidature for assistant Bishop of the Episcopal church, his form a opponents are rejoicing with exceeding joy over his disconcertance. Serves him right. PERSIAN CLIMATE. Among the duties exacted of American Consuls residing abroad is the writing of occasional reports to the Department of State detailing any facts which in their opinion would be of public interest. And as the Consul, like the editor, must write his little piece whether or no, it is not strange that they are driven to great straits occasionally for suitable subjects on which to build a report which will meet the approval of the managing editors at the National Capitol. A recent report of Mr. Benjamin, our Consul General in Persia, deals with the climate of that Shahidom. His desire to vanit Persia as a health resort no doubt arises from the fact that he is a polly old soul who would like to see more of his countrymen than he now does, and despairing of any other way of getting them to visit his place of exile, he has attempted to work the climate racket. But his prentice hand has made a sad mess of it. He says that in general the climate is salubrious, and that after becoming accustomed, foreigners find that, with the assistance of quinine and the exercise of common prudence, they suffer no inconvenience. Further, the logical Mr. Benjamin highly recommends Persia to those suffering from pulmonary complaints. We could very readily understand how a humorist like Mark Twain could, with assumed gravity, recommend as a health resort a country where the stranger, if he lived until accustomed, could exist if he took his regular dose of quinine and prudence. With the same precautions, a very fair sort of existence might lie in the bottom lands of Texas or Missouri, or the swamps of Louisiana. Quinine and prudence are wonderful preservatives. CREMATION. The fact that such an august body as the Grand Jury of New Orleans has recommended in their report the abolishing of cemeteries in that city and the substitution of peculiar about Water Rights. Ed. Gazette:—I have come into the lucky possession of now defunct Cajon Irrigation the payment of $100. All this company has been trained North Anaheim Canal Company to call that ditch a canal; a branch of the ocean? and shares has been multiplied shares, which are valued at company at $10.65 cash, so $100 have increased to $10 real, would be profitable, since compared with the nominal who held five, ten or two shares. I have read about magnate who, with a stroke, dated countless millions, by ing is called watering of station is simply an anticipation future value of property we road, can be realised by management and which depends on the rapid progress of the city in farming, for this has to do of the freight. With similar suppose that an irrigation can be fitted in manipulating them that they do not include tha and hinder the irrigation maintain, and I believe that man will do the same in time water available for irrigation land, no matter who owns it ditch, no matter who makes that the adoption of this feciple will lead to an equitable all the irrigation problem this State and in our district that the land in our district rigable with the water from rally has an inalienable and this water, because the vapors depend on its being irrigable nobody to claim in any part. Rev. Morgan Dix, of New York, not long ago drew upon himself the art of the advocates of woman suffrage by giving in a series of elaborate addresses, his reasons for not wanting to confer upon woman any more civil rights than she now enjoys. And now that he has suffered a signal defeat in his candidature for assistant Bishop of the Episcopal church, his family's opponents are rejoicing with exceeding joy over his dissatisfaction. Serves him right. The California exhibit of farm and orchard products at the Illinois State Fair recurs a lengthy and flatter notice in the Chicago Inter Ocean, a copy of which is before us. We observe, however, that all the exhibits were from the northern and mobile counties. This is not the fault of the Immigration Department of the Central Pacific, under whose auspices the exhibit was got together, because they made an urgent and special appeal to this county for contributions but the request was unheeded. The extensive work being done on the Panama canal strangely enough evokes less comment in America than it does in France, although it would seem as if this country ought to feel more interest in it. The fact, however, that De Lesseps is the promoter, and that other French engineers have main charge of the work, accounts in a measure for the interest which the Parisians take in the matter. That they are proud of the work and have faith in its success is shown by their readiness in buying the new issue of stock placed upon the Paris market a few weeks ago. The enterprise will probably not languish for want of funds. The Advertiser of Blairgowrie, Scotland, of September 22d, reports a lecture on California delivered by U.D. Robertson of San Francisco, at present on a visit to his native land. In his remarks Mr. Robertson gave his audience some information calculated to remove an impression that seems to be prevalent in Scotland, that California is an uncivilized country. He said that during the month that he had been in Scotland he had seen more drunken people than could be seen in a year in San Francisco. The Advertiser, commenting on the lecture, says: "It was listened to with close attention and must have convinced most of his audience that 'California is entitled to be considered a civilized and progressive country, wherein with industry, skill, economy and sobriety, any man can do well if he behaves himself.'" The Mexican Government has made a contract with a firm at Leghorn, Italy, where 1,000 agriculturists and skilled workmen from that country will be brought on every trip of the steamers of the Mexican Transatlantic Company, running between Vera Cruz and the Mediterranean ports, the Government agreeing to pay for each person. As the ships stipulate to make sixteen round CREMATION. The fact that such an august body as the Grand Jury of New Orleans has recommended in their report the abolishing of cemeteries in that city and the substitution of crematories, shows that this reform is making headway in this country as well as in Europe. The evidence is too overwhelming to be slighted; that the outbreaks of epidemics are due in many cases to the infections germs arising from cemeteries—germs which are active for evil twenty years after enclosure by the soil as on the day they were hidden from sight. Cremation, repugnant principally because it is a comparatively new doctrine, opposed to all traditions, must necessarily come into vogue when it is demonstrated that it is for the welfare of all people that on earth do dwell. Commenting upon this subject, the Sacramento Record Union tersely says: Cremoration is the wise method, and there is not a scientist in the world today who denies it. It is cleanly: sequesters no valuable ground; does not poison the soil; sends no liquors abroad to destroy; creates no debts of death for the poor to discharge; rescues the poor body we lay unwillingly down from the bathsome earth-worm and the horrible process of slow decay; insures against burial alive, and the consequent horrors of solitude in the narrow grave; enables us to preserve the honored ashes of the dead at our fireside if we wish, or to place them in our garden and water them with our tears without exposure to poisonous exhalations of decaying animal matter. It is a matter of economy, of sanitary reform, of convenience and of public policy, and should be common in the land soon, as it certainly will be eventually. THE ELECTIONS. The State election in Ohio on Tuesday resulted in the election of a Democratic Governor and a Democratic Legislature, which also ensures a Democratic U.S. Senator. Hoadly, the candidate for Governor, is elected by a majority of from 3,000 to 4,000. There were two amendments to the constitution of the State on which a vote was taken. They were as follows: First — The General Assembly shall regulate the traffic in intoxicating liquors so as to provide against evils resulting therefrom, and its power to levy taxes or assessments thereof is not limited by any provision of the constitution. Second — The manufacture of and traffic in intoxicating liquors, to be used as a beverage, are forever prohibited, and the General Assembly shall provide by law for the enforcement of this provision. We gather from the dispatches received at the present writing that the first amendment is adopted and the second rejected. In Iowa, the Republicans won, but by a man will do the same in time water available for irrigation land, no matter who owns it ditch, no matter who made it that adoption of this fictile will lead to an equitable all the irrigation problem this State and in our district that the land in our district rigable with the water from rally has an malienable and this water, because the water depends on its being irrigated nobody to claim in any party pose the ownership of this gate rights of distribution same, solely because they have nor will we allow any party of the rest, to claim a large water by reason of a prior admission of this right leads cally to the ownership of part and the original and in claim and close the whole sequently belong to the within the canyon, for they fail The party who came yesterday to those who come to stay may claim all the air that exists that animates and all the rays this happy valley and find in depriving their neighbors nature, and it seems that it doubt they would. We have years ago to raise the monarch ditch by an equal assessment per acre and this seems to be because it avoids all couffins and ditch ownership. We have failed in this first attempt mainly from bad management no reason why we should not end time, for even we can promise. Since the passage of the Fight against the Chinese several men have come here to set borhood. I hope that they will for this is no poor man's them is building an immense me. I call it a cathedral because enough to hold all the denomination I blush to think that these ingear enough for their land water right should be complying and justice to pay $10 national share which is not very cents, and that this france means to maintain my own titutions value of 300 per cent. The water is now apportioned pany according to the number which a man holds; that three shares and five acres as much water as the man and twenty acres, which s treatment besides being unfair be entirely wrong, because ownership of the water in tha in the land. And this illustrates one step in the wrong leads The new settlers accordingly of these diminutive but dear get water enough for five The Mexican Government has made a contract with a firm at Leghorn, Italy, where 1,000 agriculturists and skilled workmen from that country will be brought on every trip of the steamers of the Mexican Transatlantic Company, running between Vera Cruz and the Mediterranean ports, the Government agreeing to pay for each person. As the ships stipulate to make sixteen round trips annually, this is expected to assure a yearly addition to the resident population of at least 16,000 industrial people, who will contribute materially to the resources and productivity of the country. It will not be an exclusively Italian immigration. More or less French will be taken on at Marseilles, and about 200 will be brought from the Canary Islands every trip. A. C. Snyder, who for many years was connected with the Sacramento Bank of this city as paying teller, writes from Minneapolis, Kansas, to a friend in this city, under the October 3d, as follows: "We know that a 'straight wind' is out here. We had last Monday. It was accompanied with considerable noise, tons of dust, and a general battle-te-bang of boxes, boards and loose ash. It lasted about ten minutes, and all was quiet." He further adds: "Pending the approach of the storm or hurricane, everybody who could went to work and chained their houses, and even the streets, down to keep them from being blown away, and then a general rush was made for caves and cellars." — Sacramento Record-Union. The Distillers' Wine and Spirit Exchange opened in New York on Monday. Ex-Mayor Oakey Hall delivered the address. Gentlemen in the trade were present from many of the Western cities. Telegrams of congratulation were received from prominent Louisville dealers. The Exchange is situated at 17 Broadway, in the building occupied until recently by the British Consulate. It opened regularly for business at 11 A.M.on Tuesday. The following are the officers: President, Tates Forgesson; Vice-President, Charles A. Starkweather Jr.; Treasurer, Charles W. Lawrence; Secretary, James Demandeville. Several brands will be dealt in at once. First—The General Assembly shall regulate the traffic in intoxicating liquors so as to provide against evils resulting therefrom, and its power to levy taxes or assessments thereon is not limited by any provision of the constitution. Second—The manufacture of and traffic in intoxicating liquors, to be used as a beverage, are forever prohibited, and the General Assembly shall provide by law for the enforcement of this provision. We gather from the dispatches received at the present writing that the first amendment is adopted and the second rejected. In Iowa, the Republicans won, but by a greatly reduced majority. The Republicans also have the Legislature by a majority of about 40 on joint ballot. The Cause of it. The necessity for enriching the soil artificially is now so well recognized, as to require no special urging, but it may perhaps be as well to quote the following from the Florida Agriculturalist of a recent date, to show that the impoverishment of the soil is the main cause of the prevalence of insect pests: "Our attention has been called to several old groves on hammock land that are now in a critical condition, dying, it is said, from the ravages of the scale insects. In our opinion the insects are only the after cause; that the trees have been impoverished by the removal of tons upon tons of fruit year after year, without any attempt being made to renovate the soil by fertilizing. No land can stand such treatment, however rich it may appear; the trees have been placed in a condition to render them fit subjects for the scale insect; this is particularly the case on shell mounds, where the small amount of soil mixed with the shell has been used up. When wild groves existed in the hammocks the fruit dropped from the trees and enriched the soil, and the droppings from forest trees added to its fertility, the trees also remained quiescent in the shade and made little growth, giving back more than they drew from the soil, but when the forest trees were removed, the orange trees singled out, budded and exposed to the sun, then growth was stimulated and they made a strong pull on the rich soil. When they came into bearing and the crops of fruit were removed year after year, returning nothing to the soil of what was taken away, the land must become impoverished, and it stands to reason that the trees must eventually give out unless fertilized. Those who have hammock groves now giving them thousands of dollars per annum, should take warning in time, or they will find when too late that they have ridden a willing horse to death. In Australia a dressing of the finest Peruvian guano is used, two pounds to the tree, after each crop." The man, however, revenge charging me $5 for bringing horse which he denied having was unkind of a neighbor. Paid $11 to the Anaheim Warehouse for a three days run of water patch, but I never got a drip there was plenty of sand in no water. But it did not matter the 40 sacks of seed potato Ealer in San Francisco were being thoroughly rotten before this digression which may seem livening a dull theme, to comers who now suffer grievous experience. As there exists no other law regarding water rights but this New Constitution Article IXII regulations I recommend the reader concerned in irrigation or ditch it wisely ignores all such riparian rights and ancient laws only for lawyers to hang them dom on. This article XIX Constitution is too long for you may find space for ZETTE and by republishing thanks of our community. tinently "that all appropriated public use" and cannot against the payment of fix since this is the law alike if is evident that the North Company, like any other water thereby held to deliver water owner in the district, and to retain rates, be he shareholder or not. It will be justice to law in force. PECULIAR VIEWS About Water Rights and Things. Ed. Gazette:—I have come by accident into the lucky possession of one share in the now defunct Cajon Irrigation Company for the payment of $100. About a year past this company has been transformed into the North Anaheim Canal Co. (good heavens! to call that ditch a canal; why not call it a branch of the ocean?) and each of the old shares has been multiplied into 33% new shares, which are valued and held by the company at $10.65 cash, so that my paid-in $100 have increased to $354.78. This, if real, would be profitable, still it is moderate if compared with the nominal gain of those who held five, ten or twenty of the old shares. I have read about a mighty railroad magnate who, with a stroke of the pen, created countless millions, by what in financing is called watering of stock. This operation is simply an anticipation of a possible future value of property which, with a railroad, can be realised by skill and careful management and which depends principally on the rapid progress of the country, especially in farming, for this has to supply the bulk of the freight. With similar prospects I suppose that an irrigation company is justified in manipulating their stock, provided that they do not include therein the water and hinder the irrigation of the land, for I maintain, and I believe that every thinking man will do the same in time, "that all the water available for irrigation belongs to the land, no matter who owns it, and not to the ditch, no matter who made it." And I think that the adoption of this fundamental principle will lead to an equitable adjustment of all the irrigation problems now pending in this State and in our district. If we admit that the land in our district, as far as it is irrigable with the water from our river, naturally has an malienable and equal right to this water, because the value of this land depends on its being irrigable, we will allow nobody to claim in any part or for any purpose. PACIFIC COAST NEWS. Sacramento has been selected as the next meeting place of the State Grange. Charles Beeler was beheaded by the cars at bridge No. 26, about twenty miles from Truckee. At Prescott, A. T., George Ralph, a lawyer, was shot and killed in his office by Geo. C. Walker, with whose wife Ralph was said to be too intimate. On Tuesday night two shocks of earthquake were felt in San Francisco, Gilroy, Port Costa, Benicia and other towns in the northern part of the State. Scarlet fever is reported to be raging virulently in portions of Polk and Yamhill counties, Or. A number of deaths are reported from the disease and many are sick. The fruit and produce commission-house of M. T. Brewer & Co., of Sacramento, closed its doors on Saturday. The liabilities are between $30,000 and $40,000, largely due to grape growers and shippers. Some sacreligious thief entered the Congregational church at Seattle Friday evening and stole the three-months' contributions of the Sunday school scholars, amounting to about $30, which was contained in a number of earthenware jugs. Schieffelin, the noted prospector and miner, who came down from Alaska on the Corwin, and who, with a large party, has been prospecting on the Yukon river and other streams, says that the country does not suit him. Although he is satisfied that it contains plenty of gold, yet it is too cold and inaccessible to mine profitably. A special from Forty-nine Mile Siding, on the Palouse branch of the Northern Pacific says: Joseph Disart, conductor of the pile-driver train, shot and killed Jack Hanson, an employee of Mr. Wise, contractor for pile-driving. Hanson had insulted a lady riding in the caboose and was ordered by the conductor to which he belonged would do its duty. NEWS OF THE WEEK. The wife of C. P. Huntington,the railroad man, is dead. A. A. Cohen,the well known San Francisco lawyer, was stricken with paralysis in New York. He may recover. Two brothers (negroes) quarreled on a Florida plantation and one shot and killed the other. A colored courtesan named Hill wantonly shot and killed Police-Sergeant Jenkins at St. Louis. The reason advanced by Henry L. Taylor, of Belair, Md., for asking for a divorce is that his wife will not let him read the Bible. There are many cases of typhoid fever in Boston, attributed by some of the journals to the bad state of the water furnished the city. Judge Noonan, of Baxter county, Texas, defines the term vagrant as including not alone loafers and bummers, but gamblers as well. Near Nettleton, Arkansas,a dead tree fell on a tent in which seven railroad laborers were encamped,and three of them were killed. Weston having announced his intention to start on a 500 mile tramp through England with a view of demonstrating the superiority of tea over alcoholic drinks,has been challenged by Robert Carlisle,who is willing to agree that his drink shall consist principally of stout,port,brandy and other alcoholic drinks. At a meeting held in Neufchatel,Switzerland,called to demand of the authorities the expulsion of the Salvation Army from the country;2000 persons were present.The proceedings were conducted in an orderly manner.Resolutions demanding the expulsion of the English Salvationists were adopted.The Councilor of State said that the body to which he belonged would do its duty. man will do the same in time, "that all the water available for irrigation belongs to the land, no matter who owns it, and not to the ditch, no matter who made it." And I think that the adoption of this fundamental principle will lead to an equitable adjustment of all the irrigation problems now pending in this State and in our district. If we admit that the land in our district, as far as it is irrigable with the water from our river, naturally has an inalienable and equal right to this water, because the value of this land depends on its being irrigable, we will allow nobody to claim in any part or for any purpose the ownership of this water, or to arrogate rights of distribution or sale of the same, solely because they have made a ditch; nor will we allow any party, to the injury of the rest, to claim a larger share in the water by reason of a prior settlement; for an admission of this right leads legally and logically to the ownership of the whole by a part and the original and indisputable right to claim and close the whole river would consequently belong to the Mexican settlers within the canyon, for they have come first. The party who came yesterday in preference to those who come today may just as well claim all the air that exists, all the sunshine that animates and all the rain that falls over this happy valley and find full gratification in depriving their neighbors of every gift of nature, and it seems that if they could, no doubt they would. We have tried several years ago to raise the money needed for a ditch by an equal assessment on the land per acre and this seems to be the best way, because it avoids all conflict between land and ditch ownership. We have lamentably failed in this first attempt of ditch making mainly from bad management; but that is no reason why we should not succeed a second time, for even we can profit by experience. Since the passage of the immigration Act against the Chinese several Eastern and other men have come here to settle in our neighborhood. I hope that they all are opulent for this is no poor man's country. One of them is building an immense barn in front of me. I call it a cathedral because it is large enough to hold all the denominations. Yet I blush to think that these men, after paying dear enough for their land to include the water right, should be compelled against all right and justice to pay $10.65 for a fractional share which is not worth that many cents, and that this fraud should be the means to maintain my own share at a fictitious value of 300 per cent. above par. The water is now apportioned by this company according to the number of shares which a man holds; that is, the man with three shares and five acres gets three times as much water as the man with one share and twenty acres, which system of apportionment besides being unfair I consider to be entirely wrong, because it places the ownership of the water in the ditch and not in the land. And this illustrates again how one step in the wrong leads to other wrongs. The new settlers accordingly have to buy ten of these diminutive but dear shares in order to get water enough for five acres and no es A special from Forty nine Mile Siding, on the Palouse branch of the Northern Pacific says: Joseph Disart, conductor of the piledriver train, shot and killed Jack Hanson, an employee of Mr. Wise, contractor for piledriving. Hanson had insulted a lady riding in the caboose and was ordered by the conductor to keep still. Hanson then became very boisterous and insulting, and finally attacked Disart, who drew a revolver and fired one shot. Death was instantaneous. Disart surrendered to the authorities. Stephen Malaspins, who is sentenced to life imprisonment at Folsom, attempted to escape on Thursday last by burying himself in a pat dog in the yard. He was completely buried with the aid of a friendly prisoner, and obtained air by means of an iron tube. It appears that he was to remain in this tomb for a few days, until the search for him was abandoned and then to dig up and skip out. His hiding place was discovered Friday, when he was unearthed and put back in his cell. At Merced, Thos. Grifith was killed by Willis Sumner. The evidence showed that after prostrating his victim with four pistol shots, all fatal, Sumner beat the prostrate dying man on the head with a pistol, crushing in his skull, and that, subsequently, he picked up Grifith's gun and shot his neck and face to pieces, as he lay helpless on the ground. The verdict charges Sumner with wilful murder. Grifith was a wealthy sheep owner, a native of Wales, aged 51. Sumner is a small, pale young man, a consumptive, and a native of Arkansas. The Triennial Correlave Committee have found, after paying all expenses, that they have a balance of nearly $7,000 on hand. The committee have donated $3,000 et it to the widow of Sir Knight Alexander Weel, who died from injuries received by a fall from his horse on the day of the procession. The Masonic Board of Relief has been given $1,000, and $500 was donated to the payment of Sir Knight U.C.Sattuck's doctor's bill for attendance during his confinement to bed from injuries received in the procession. Mrs. Strong, the widow of Gen. Strong, who first tried cotton culture in the San Joaquin valley on any scale worthy of mention, has this year produced from her ranch in Merced county, 190 bales each weighing 450 pounds, or $85,500 pounds. The setting of the cotton mill at Oakland in operation will give a stimulus to cotton growing in that part of the State. The staple is said to be good New Orleans "Middling." The Oakland mill is in course of construction. For a time raw cotton will be imported from Texas. Mrs. Wells on Oakland miller found a win, and who, with a large party, has been prospecting on the Yukon river and other streams, says that the country does not suit him. Although he is satisfied that it contains plenty of gold, yet it is too cold and inaccessible to mine profitably. At a meeting held in Neufchatel, Switzerland, called to demand of the authorities the expulsion of the Salvation Army from the country, 2000 persons were present. The proceedings were conducted in an orderly manner. Resolutions demanding the expulsion of the English Salvationists were adopted. The Council of State said that the body to which he belonged would do its duty and close the gates of Switzerland to those who are trading upon her hospitality. During the progress of the union meeting at the Methodist Church at Maquoketa, Iowa, Sunday night, H.A.McCarron, Prohibition Greenbacker, arose and asked if the meeting was for temperance and Christianity, or for the Republican party. He was hissed down and ordered out of the church. Then he turned on the ministers present and denounced them as hypocrites. The deacons added by a number of members, made a rush at McCarron, but he was sustained by a party of friends and a free fight ensued. McCarron and his friend's finally left the church and the meeting proceeded. Advices from Gatesville, Texas, say that near there, some time ago, the son-in-law of Mrs. Shaw lost his wife, and turned over Ms little two year old child to its grandmother to care for. He married again,and was desirous of regaining possession of the child. Mrs.Shaw being unwilling to render the child,它 was taken by force,and aggrieved by the loss she on last Wednesday suicided by lashing herself in a very ingenious manner to a stone fence,first saturating her head and clothes with kerosene.She then struck a match-and applied it.Wen found she was dead,hers body being horribly burned. At the Central Point Church,在a remote part of Pike county,Ga.,a maniac named Samuel McAlister,kurin in hand,drovethe minister and congregation out ofthe office.Hinterruptedthe preacher several timesand grew violent,and whenthe latter beganhis servon he rusged forwardtothe pulpit,brousinga knifeintheair,andtheminister,seeinghislifein danger,flewdowntheasle,andwasfollowedoutofthechurchbythe womenandmostofthemen.Anumberofthewomenadledtotheterrorofthe situationbyfainting.Sixmenmanagedtostand their groundandesayedto capturethemmaniac,但diviningtheintention,thekeptthemat baywithhisknifeuntilhegainedanopenwindowthroughwhichhesprangandmadehisescape. The Eastern Grape Crop. New York Sun.Oct 3 Grape deale say thatthe cropthisyearis phenomenalinbothquantityandquality.The yieldofConcordgrapesintheHudson Valleyvineyardsisvariouslyestimatedat means to maintain my own share at a fictitious value of 300 per cent. above par. The water is now apportioned by this company according to the number of shares which a man holds; that is, the man with three shares and five acres gets three times as much water as the man with one share and twenty acres, which system of apportionment besides being unfair I consider to be entirely wrong, because it places the ownership of the water in the ditch and not in the land. And this illustrates again how one step in the wrong leads to other wrongs. The new settlers accordingly have to buy ten of these diminutive but dear shares in order to get water enough for five acres and no escape is left to them from the option of no share no water, for the knife is at their throat. This is simply insult heaped upon injury and it is worse than highway robbery with the revolver and "your purse or your life," for they are not only robbed of their own (the right to water), but made to pay for being robbed. But newcomers have to pay for experience and this reminds me of my own ten years ago. One of my neighbors, now gone to other parts, had a branch ditch across my land and offered to sell me a share in it for $100. I accepted but wanted to see water, for the ditch was dry. The poor man tried hard to coax the water up; but no go, it stopped outside of my line, for that ditch was one of —'s uphill problems. The man, however, revenged himself by charging me $5 for bringing in my stray horse which he denied having seen, and that was unkind of a neighbor. Another time I paid $11 to the Anaheim Water Company for a three days run of water on my potato patch, but I never got a drop of water, for there was plenty of sand in that ditch but no water. But it did not matter much, for the 40 sacks of seed potatoes from Kruss & Ealer in San Francisco were past sprouting, being thoroughly rotten before arrival. Excuse this digression which may serve, besides enlivening a dull theme, to console those new comers who now suffer grievously from sad experience. As there exists no other law in this State regarding water rights but that given in the New Constitution, Article XIV. in 2 sections, I recommend the reading of it to all concerned in irrigation or ditch property, for it wisely ignores all such obsolete stuff as riparian rights and ancient laws, which serve only for lawyers to hang their fustian wisdom on. This article XIV. of the New Constitution is too long for insertion here, but you may find space for it in your Gazette and by republishing it deserve the thanks of our community. It declares distinctly "that all appropriated water is to be of public use" and cannot be withheld against the payment of fixed rates. And since this is the law alike for our district it is evident that the North Anaheim Canal Company, like any other water company, is thereby hold to deliver water to every land owner in the district, and to all alike for certain rates, be he shareholder in their stock or not. It will be justice to all to hold that law in force. O. DES GRANGER. Mrs. Strong, the widow of Gen. Strong, who first tried cotton culture in the San Joaquin valley on any scale worthy of mention, has this year produced from her ranch in Merced county, 190 bales, each weighing 450 pounds, or 85,500 pounds. The setting of the cotton mill at Oakland in operation will give a stimulus to cotton growing in that part of the State. The staple is said to be good New Orleans "Mudding." The Oakland mill is in course of construction. For a time raw cotton will be imported from Texas. Mrs. Wells, an Oakland milliner, found a woman crouched under her counter one day last week, and on inquiring her business, was answered by the strange woman, on her knees, that she had taken refuge there in order to avoid the attacks of a brutal husband, who she said, had been chasing and threatening to kill her. She asked protection from Mrs. Wells, who kindly asked her inside, and later assisted her to leave the premises by the back way, hoping in this way to prevent the collision between husband and wife, which seemed inevitable. The humane office performed Mrs. Wells returned to her store, and after some little time had occasion to go to the money drawer, which she found had been plundered of its contents—about $12. Nothing is known of the shrewd operator. In his sermon last Sunday Talmage, the Brooklyn preacher, said: "God and civilization demand of political parties of this day a plank anti-Mormonistic. It is high time the nation stops playing with this cancer. Nothing but surgery of the sword will cure it. All congressional laws on this subject have been notorious failures and the last failure, the Edmunds bill, was worse because so much was expected of it. Congress will have to repeal the law against Chinese immigrations. The time will come when in America John Chinaman will have the right to vote. He will be smothered with kisses and the Democratic party will throw its arm around his neck and kiss him on one cheek and the Republican party will "throw its arm around his neck and kiss him on the other cheek, and then both parties will get into a fight as to which has loved him longest and loved him most." Eleven thousand dollars was stolen from the Paymaster of the Mexican National Railway in the station of the City of Mexico on Sunday night by the Paymaster's servant. Six men managed to stand their ground and essayed to capture the maniac, but divining their intention, he kept them at bay with his knife until he gained an open window, through which he sprang and made his escape. The Eastern Grape Crop. New York Sun, Oct 3. Grape deale say that the crop this year is phenomenal in both quantity and quality. The yield of Concord grapes in the Hudson Valley vineyards is variously estimated at from one third to one-half greater than in any year preceding, and a like increase is promised in the supply of Delawares and Catawbas. At present the receipts in this city amount to more than 500 tons a day, and at least that much may be expected daily for three weeks to come. But that by no means exhausts the enormous yield from the river counties between Saugerties and Cornwall on the west and Germantown and Fishkill on the east side of the Hudson, for vast quantities are being shipped direct by rail to New England, and put away in cold storages for future use. Most of these cold storages are comparatively small, but there is one at Highland Village owned by Chas. N. Snyder of New York which will hold 300 tons, and in which he has already 200 tons stored. This is said to be the largest establishment of its kind in the world outside of the big cities. Mr. Snyder said: "The grapes in it will keep for at least two months in perfect condition and I intend to fill it with Concord grapes." The cold air in which they are kept is perfectly dry. The greatest grape harvest in that part of the country is composed of Concords. From the western part of the State, up about Cayuga and Seneca lakes, come large quantities of Catawbas and a very considerable amount of Delawares, but not very many Concords, as most of the latter produced there go into the manufacture of wine in a season of great abundance like this. Concord grapes are now worth at wholesale, in this market, 3 and 4 cents a pound; Delawares 9 and 10 cents. Dianas are not yet in the market. Some Isabellas were received to-day from Fishkill Landing, the first of this season,and sold for 3 cents. They are good grapes for shipping, as they have stout skins and do not mash so easily as the Concords, but they are not so good as the latter for eating, and never command as good a price. There are no Catawbas of any account in vet, but they will come in next week. When they come in they set the prices of the market. Martha's, small and rather pleasantly flavored white grapes, are worth 7 cents a pound. They come from about Hammondsport and all along the Hudson, in small quantities. Agawams, rather larger than Concords, red and sweet, are worth 8 cents. Brightons,a very large, richly flavored red grape,not generally known,aare worth 10 cents. GOODMAN & RIMPAU. ANNUAL Clearance Sale! We beg to announce to our customers and the public in general, that in order to make room for our Fall and Winter importations, we are compelled to make a complete clearance of every dollar's worth of SPRING AND SUMMER DRY GOODS Clothing and Furnishing Goods in our entire stock. The sale will continue For the Next Thirty Days Only During which time we shall have NO REGARD TO THE COST of Spring and Summer Goods. Our object shall be to dispose of these goods regardless of cost FOR CASH only. Remember that this annual sale will NOT be postponed, but will commence on Saturday, Aug. 25, 1883, And continue without fail for thirty days; and we will NOT have an auctioneer to talk you to death. Remember that this is not a Remnant Sale but a Clearance Sale Of every dollar's worth of Spring and Summer Dry Goods, Clothing and Furnishing Goods. ALSO, A LARGE ASSORTMENT OF STRAW HATS. Saturday, Aug. 25, 1883, And continue without fail for thirty days; and we will NOT have an auctioneer to talk you to death. Remember that this is not a Remnant Sale but a Clearance Sale Of every dollar's worth of Spring and Summer Dry Goods, Clothing and Furnishing Goods. ALSO, A LARGE ASSORTMENT OF STRAW HATS. Come Onc; Come All, and see for yourselves that this is no sham, but a bonafide sale. GOODMAN & RIMPAU, Anaheim, Aug. 224, 1883. Center Street, Anaheim. THE GREAT STORM Of January 12th, 1882, which injured or destroyed stores in Windmills in Los Angeles County proved and sively that the CALIFORNIA WINDMILL The only one that can stand, uninjured, a heavy ale. Although some of nearly every other manufacture was destroyed, so far as known every one of the California Mills put up by the undersigned escapal injury. These Mills are so strongly made and so perfectly self-regulating that, when properly put it is almost impossible for a storm to injure them. It is also superior to other Mills in having an ADDITIONAL STROKE (4 different lengths) in the e-see and miscellaneous stress of its work, in the beauty of its design and finish and in the marvelous low price at which it is sold. I will furnish these Mills with Pumps and Tanks and set them up in complete running order at the lowest possible rates. For further parishers call upon or address N. E. NUTTE. Anaheim, Cal. The General Agent for Los Angeles County NEW ADVERTISEMENTS. Baled Hay. THE UNDERSIGNED HAS THIRTY TONS OF BEST CLASSED BAILEY HAY FOR SALE AT farm $10 per ton, or $10 per bushel delivered. W. M. Snyder. North Anaheim. Delinquent Notice. NORTH ANAHEIM CANAL COMPANY. Location of Principal place of Business, Anaheim, Los Angeles County, California. NOTICE: THERE ARE DELINQUENT UPON the following described stock in a count of the assets level on September 6th, 1883, the several amounts set opposite the names of the respective shareholders: No. No. Aunt Names of Shareholders. Shares Cert. Due. O. Des Granges 32 $76.50 W. M. Bailey 33 ($balance) $6.50 L. F. Lewis 59 $25.00 And in accordance with law and an order of the Board of Directors made on September 6th, 1883, so many shares of cash parcel of such stock as may be necessary will be sold at public auction at the office of the company at the school house in Placentia district at 2 Jocke Rm. 99. SATURDAY, NOVEMBER 3d, 1883, to pay said delinquent assessments, together with costs of advertising and expenses of sale. WM FROMHELM, Secretary Anaheim, Cal., October 10th, 1883 CHEESEMAN'S BAKING POWDER For sale at the Store at the Depot. OSTRICH FARM. IT HAVING BEEN FOUND NECESSARY TO D. W. HUDSON & CO.. Real Estate Brokers and General Land Agents At Anaheim, Los Angeles County, California. Office: Center Street, Abstracts of Titles Furnished, Loans Negotiated, Taxes Paid and Rents Collected for Non-Residents. Those desirable of making profitable INVESTMENTS cannot do better than to call on us at our office. Correspondence Solicited. GERMAN SCHOOL. A SCHOOL FOR INSTRUCTION IN THE GERMAN LANGUAGE has been opened by Mrs. Frohling at her residence, and she is now prepared to receive pupils on the most favorable terms. Instruction is given on Tuesday and Friday afternoons, commencing at 4 o'clock. For further particulars call on or address MRS. FROHLING, Anaheim. THE FOUNTAIN Saloon and Billiard Room, CENTER STREET ANAHEIM. DOMINIC LIEB, Proprietor. Pool Table and Billiard Table. The finest of Snooks and cigars. All the illustrated papers. 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 only, and the price of admission to the farm is fifty cents each. ALL DOGS BROUGHT ON THE FARM WILL BE SHOT. C. J. SKETCHLEY, Superintendent Southern California Ostrich Farming Company B. DREYFUS, E. L. GOLDSTEIN, Anaheim, San Francisco J. FROWESFELD, J. J. WEOLIN, New York B. DREYFUS & CO. Growers and Dealers in California Wines and Grape Brandy. 630 to 642 Brannan Street, San Francisco; 45 Broadway New York. A. E. WHITE. E. A. WHITE BLACKSMITHING AND Wagonmaking! All Work Warranted. Prices as low as the lowest. Los Angeles Street, Anaheim, (Adjoining the Gazette Office.)