anaheim-gazette 1883-11-10

ANAHEIM VOL. XIV. HANNA & KEITH, REAL ESTATE AGENTS. Live Stock Bought and Sold on Commission. ANAHEIM. Great Clearance Sale OF FURNITURE AND CARPETS, AT BARKER & ALLEN'S, We offer our immense stock at GREATLY REDUCED PRICES, in order to make room for our Fall importations. Call and get prices and see that we mean business. Nos. 322, 324 & 326 North Main Street, (Next to Pico House), LOS ANGELES, CAL. DR. JAMES ELLIS: PRICE AND DRUG STORE IN THE BUILDING East of GAZETTE's office. Homeopathic Medicine wholesale and retail PLANTERS' HOTEL ANAHEIM, Los Angeles County, Cal. We offer our immense stock at GREATLY REDUCED PRICES, in order to make room for our Fall importations. Call and get prices and see that we mean business. Nos. 322, 324 & 326 North Main Street, (Next to Pico House) LOS ANGELES, CAL. DR. JAMES ELLIS OFFICE AND DRUG STORE IN THE BUILDING East of GAZETTE office. Homeopathic Medicine wholesale and retail. Office hours 7 A.M. and 9:30 A.M. and at 2 P.M. and 5 P.M. DR E. L. COWAN, Dentist, Has opened an office in the upper part of Mrs. Meta's building, Los Angeles street Anaheim. Having had twenty years experience he can speak with confidence of his work. His scale of prices is very low. He will be found in his office every day between the hours 9 A.M. and 5 P.M. RICHARD MELROSE, NOTARY PUBLIC Gazette Office H. C. KELOGG. Surveyor and Civil Engineer. Parties will please leave their orders with Mr. John Hanna, Anaheim. ROBT W. SCOTT. ATTORNEY AT LAW AND NOTARY PUBLIC Commissioner of Docs for Arizona Territory Kroeger's Block, Anaheim, Cal. VICTOR MONTGOMERY, Attorney-at-Law, SANTA ANA, CAL. Office in Dibbles' brick building, nearly opposite the Postoffice. Office hours from 10 A.M. to 3 P.M. M. L. WICKS, Attorney-at-Law Rooms 86 and 87 TEMPLE BLOCK. LOS ANGELES. L. GUNTHER, Pioneer Boot and Shoe Maker, Cor. Adelaide and Los Angeles streets. ANAHEIM. GEORGE BAUER, 300T AND SHOE MAKER, Center Street MANING AND REPAIRING AT THE LOWEST cash price. All orders promptly attended to. All work guaranteed. WM R. HARKER, SADDLE & HARNESS MAKER, CENTER STREET, ANAHEIM. PLANTERS' HOTEL ANAHEIM, Los Angeles County, Cal. The only First-class House South of Los Angeles. Offers Superior Accommodations to Tourists, Families and the General Public. Suites of Rooms for Families. HENRY S. KNAPP, Proprietor. ALBRECHT BROS., Manufacturers of Family Fruit Dryers. An Assortment Always on Hand. Will take contract for Erecting Buildings, Tanks, Frames, etc. Agents for the BACHELDER WINDMILL. Shop on Center Street, near Railroad Depot. 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. Anaheim Carriage and Waqon Factory. JACOB YAEGER, Proprietor. WOODWORK of all kinds, Belies, Wheels and Gearing put up on short notice. BLACKSMITHING of all kinds, Horse-Shoeing a specialty. FRANK Glassware, Candies, gars, Notions Adjoining Planters' Hotel, An THE CHEAPEST STORE WASHING Meat MaCENTRE STREET, C.F LEONARD, THE PATRONAGE OF THE heim and vicinity is respectful. QUICK TIME AND C To Eastern and Euro Via the Great Trans-continent CENTRAL PACI OR SOUTHERN PACI Daily Express and Emigrant T connections with the several the East. CONNECTING A New York and N with the several Steam ALL EUROPEA PULLMAN PALACE Su attached to Overland Exc THIRD-CLASS SLEE are run daily with Overland No additional charge for Berths i Tickets sold. Sleeping car other information given upon appany's offices, where passengers secure choice of routes etc. RAILROAD LA IN NEVADA, CALIFORNIA For sale on reasonable Apply to, or address W.H.MILLS, Land Agent, C.P.R.R.Co., San Francisco, Or H.B.ANDRE Land Commissioner, G.H.S. Tanio, Texas. A.N.T.OWKE, General Manager, Geauga-6im San Francisco, PEARSON'S DINING NICE BILL OF FARE. MEALS A WITH EVERYTHING THAT affords. No. 269 North Main St., Log An GEORGE BAUER, BOOT AND SHOE MAKER, Center Street WM. R. HARKER, SADDLE & HARNESS MAKER, CENTER STREET, ANAHEIM CHARLES WILLE, COOPERAGE. P. PELLEGRIN, PRACTICAL Watchmaker and Jeweler, CENTER ST... ANAHEIM Repairing of Watches, Clocks and Jewelry done promptly and warranted. Sole Agent for the Johnston Optical Co.'s Improved Spectacles and Eye-Glasses (interchangeable). Improved Eye Tester to perfectly suit the eye. B. DRYFUS, Anaheim, San Francisco J. FROWENFIELD, New York J. J. WEULIN. B. DREYFUS & CO. Growers and Dealers in California Wines and Grape Brandy. 630 to 642 Brannan Street, San Francisco; 45 Broadway New York. 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 Optrich Farming Company. Agents for the Howe, Eldredge and Victor Sewing Machines Los Angeles Street.: Anaheim. Anaheim Carriage and Wagon Factory. JACOB YAEGER, Proprietor. WOODWORK of all kinds, Belies, Wheels and Gearing put up on short notice. BLACKSMITHING of all kinds, Horse-Shoeing a specialty. Sign and Carriage Painting Done in first-class style by S. A DENNIS. All work of the above description will be guaranteed and we pledge ourselves to give satisfaction. We are here to stay and will spare no paints to please our patrons. Our wood shop and blacksmith shop is on Center Street, west of Mitchell's stable, and our paint hop is directly opposite. We are sole agents for the STUDEBAKER WAGONS And for all kinds of Farming Machinery. Eureka! Eureka! The long desired TEA Free from all poisonous mixtures. that makes a healthy drink, of delicious flavor, can now be had at the Store near the Depot. Call for the "Mayflower" brand and test its merita. Also when there sample the various COFFEES that have been provided for his customers by M. H. CHEESEMAN. WEEKLY CIM GAZ ANAHEIM, CALIFORNIA: SATURDAY, NOVEMBER 10, 1883. ANAHEIM HOTEL, Center Street, Anaheim. JOHN DIETZEL, - Lessee and Manager HAVING LEASED THE ABOVE-NAMED HOTEL and being determined to remain here, I will use every endeavor to make the house a popular stopping place. I understand the hotel business thoroughly, and will spare no trouble to accommodate my patrons. I respectfully solicit the patronage of the public. A Bar in which the Choicest of Liquors are kept is attached to 'the House. FREE COACH from all Trains. The table will be supplied with the very best in the market, and the kitchen will be under my personal supervision. Respectfully, JOHN DIETZEL FRANK EY, DEALER IN Glassware, Candies, Tobaccos, Cigars, Notions, Etc. Adjoining Planters' Hotel, Anaheim. THE "SLICKEST TALKER." "The slickest talker on the Pacific Coast," said one man to another as they stood on the platform of an emigrant sleeping car of a Central Pacific train as it approached the Oakland ferry. From within the car could be heard issuing the voice of "the slickest talker" referred to, and no one who would listen to that voice for a time would doubt that its owner merited the appellation. The speaker was the agent of the Immigration Association. He boards every emigrant train, and going from car to car addresses passengers on the advantages offered by California to those who are seeking a new home. He begins by telling that there are people who think that everybody who is an "emigrant" must be ignorant or a fool, but that he knows better. After which somewhat subdued compliment, but which evidently gratifies his hearers, he delivers a lecture, descriptive, statistical, philosophical, historical and otherwise informative concerning California's resources. The time at his disposal for cramming useful knowledge into the heads of the passengers is limited, but its brevity is offset by the marvelous agility of the speaker's tongue. The words trip from his mouth with a rapidity that would daze all but the best of short-hand reporters. Although the lecture is in part a repetition from day to day, it is not of a stereotyped form, and the lecturer is ready, on the hint of a question, to give it whatever turn may Farming in Arizona. Arizona Citizen The Alta California ridicules the idea of profits from small farms in Arizona, but the ridicule of that journal will fall stillborn on the man of sense and judgment who has investigated the subject or has given the question any thought. The Alta seems to be in ignorance of the large tracts of rich bottom lands along the Colorado, Gila and Salt rivers, and many other smaller streams throughout eastern and southern Arizona. We assure the Alta, that we have as good, or better grain and fruit lands in Arizona, than can be found in California. Arizona being largely a mining country, the consuming portion of our population is large, and will continue to be for generations to come. This being the case we shall always have a good market, and until such time as a surplus is produced the market price of all fruits and grain produced in Arizona will be the market price of the same commodities in California with the freight added. We claim that Arizona produces fruits and cereals, in all respects equal, and in many respects superior to those produced in California. Oranges, lemons, pineapples and bananas do better here than in California, while our peaches and apples in the higher altitudes are far superior to those grown in that State, and bring a higher price in our markets, while the grain product of Arizona is in every way equal to that of California and is... FRANK EY, DEALER IN Glassware, Candies, Tobaccos, Cigars, Notions, Etc. Adjoining Planters' Hotel, Anaheim. THE CHEAPEST STORE IN TOWN. WASHINGTON Meat Market! CENTRE STREET, ANAHEIM, C.F. LEONARD, Proprietor. 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 Berths 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 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. Ry Co., San Antonio, Texas. A.N. TOWNE, General Manager, Gen Pass & Tkt. Agt aug4-6im San Francisco, Cal. PEARSON'S DINING PALACE. NICE BILL OF FARE. MEALS AT ALL HOURS. WITH EVERYTHING THAT THE MARKET affords. No. 269 North Main St., Log Angeles (Rose Block). dently gratifies his hearers, he delivers a lecture, descriptive, statistical, philosophical, historical and otherwise informative concerning California's resources. The time at his disposal for cramming useful knowledge into the heads of the passengers is limited, but its brevity is offset by the marvelous agility of the speaker's tongue. The words trip from his mouth with a rapidity that would daze all but the best of short-hand reporters. Although the lecture is in part a repetition from day to day, it is not of a stereotyped form, and the lecturer is ready, on the hint of a question, to give it whatever turn may appear to be most likely to interest the audience. The attention paid by many of the passengers to this extraordinary outpouring of talk shows how keenly alert they are to catch any scrap of information that may be of practical use to them in the country to which they have come to seek their fortunes. Those who are indifferent to the speaker's volatility are such as have made in advance their arrangements for settling down in chosen places. But many of those who have already learned much about the country, and have delinite aims in view evince abundant curiosity and desire to add to their mental stock of facts. A large proportion of emigrant passengers are altogether undecided as to what they want to do, and these listen to the railroad lecturer with the greatest interest, searching for suggestions that will give a certain purpose to their movements. They lean over the backs of seats and gather in the passage way in proximity to the "slickest talker," and take in what he has to say with all their ears. The pamphlets and cards which re distributed by the agent, are also scanned with cagerness by these people. Generally speaking, it is an intelligent and respectable class of persons who are to be seen in these improvised lecture audiences: Many of them present every evidence of being comfortably supplied with means. They look as if they had been accustomed to taking care of themselves, and are prepared to follow out that excellent practice in the future. Numbers of them could afford very well to travel by the more expensive modes of conveyance than the emigrant trains, but are disposed to be economical at the outset of their new move in life, especially as it is possible to journey in the emigrant cars of today with a degree of comfort that would astonish people who are only acquainted with "palace sleepers" and "drawing room" cars, and who are apt to suppose that anything to which the name "emigrant" is attached must be of a poverty-strenken and undesirable description. Nevertheless, although by far the larger part of the emigrant passengers by the overland route are able and willing to look after themselves, they are appreciative of the idea that is ready to assist them in their necessarily more or less tentative endeavors. They regard the presence of "the slickest talker" on the train as one evidence that they will be welcome in California, that in fact they are very much wanted, and are therefore so far endangered on the threshold of their new life. — Bulletin. produced the market price of all fruits and grain produced in Arizona will be the market price of the same commodities in California with the freight added. We claim that Arizona produces fruits and cereals, in all respects equal, and in many respects superior to those produced in California. Oranges, lemons, pineapples and bananas do better here than in California, while our peaches and apples in the higher altitudes are far superior to those grown in that State, and bring a higher price in our markets, while the grain product of Arizona is in every way equal to that of California and is a sure crop. It would be well for the Alta to post up on the resources of Arizona before it pokes too much fun at Arizona "cactus farms." The Utilization of the Hairpin. Every gentleman has noted how deftly a woman utilizes a hairpin as a button hook or a glove-fastener, and who has not observed the graceful pose as the hairpin is restored to its place and settled in the hair with a coquettish pat. Then as an extemporaneous nut picker it is invaluable. How searchingly it penetrates the intricate convolutions of the most complicated nut, and extracts the toothsome kernel which otherwise would baffle search. Who has not seen the prompt hairpin summoned to mend a fan, and replace the ever-displodging spindle, on which alone the breeze producer can spread? Who has not witnessed the ever-ready hair-pin serve as a bodkin, as a perforator of papers, as an instrument with which to poke over the contents of a button box or a littered drawer? And even in the picking of small locks, how efficient is the bent hairpin to serve in place of a lost key? As an extemporized key ring the bent hairpin is useful. In an emergency hairpins are used to fasten shawls or to repair a torn garment. A Curious Case. CHICAGO, November 2.—The temperance town of Oberlin, O., has furnished a sensational case, which was placed on trial in the Common Pleas Court yesterday. Frank Bronson, a druggist of Oberlin, recently brought suit for $20,000 damages against Rev. J. Brand, pastor of the Oberlin Congregational Church. Bronson claimed about one year ago, during the agitation of the temperance question, that Brand abused him in a sermon and charged him with selling liquor and destroying men's souls. The sermon was afterwards published in the Oberlin News. This is an extract from it: "Ghastly deeds of the past still stretch out their skinny hands and haunt tnee! Good men will breathe freer at thy death, and thy monument shall be a testimony that a plague is stayed. And as thy guilty spirit is borne on the blast toward the gates of hell, the hideous shrinks of those whom thou hast ruined shall pierce tnee." PEARSON'S DINING PALACE. NICE BILL OF FARE. MEALS AT ALL HOURS. WITH EVERYTHING THAT THE MARKET affords. No. 269 North Main St., Log Angeles (Rose Block). je30-3m PACIFIC WAGON COMPANY. J. R. McMANIS, - Manager. 303 North Main Street, Los Angeles. sept 13m. D. W. HUDSON. L. W. BENTZ. D. W. HUDSON & CO.. Real Estate Brokers and General Land Agents At Anaheim, Los Angeles County, California. Office:—Center Street, CITY PROPERTY BOUGHT AND SOLD, ORANGE Groves, vineyards, farms and unimproved lands for sale. Abstracts of Titles Furnished, Loans Negotiated, Taxes Paid and Rents Collected for Non-Residents. Those desirous of making profitable INVESTMENTS cannot do better than to call on us at our office. Correspondence Solicited. THIS PAPER may be found on me at Gen. Advertising Bureau (0) Spruce St., where advertising contracts may be made for it in New York. which the name "emigrant" is attached must be of a poverty-streken and undesirable description. Nevertheless, although by far the larger part of the emigrant passengers by the overland route are able and willing to look after themselves, they are appreciative of the idea that is ready to assist them in their necessarily more or less tentative endeavors. They regard the presence of "the slickest talker" on the train as one evidence that they will be welcome in California, that in fact they are very much wanted, and are therefore so far encouraged on the threshold of their new life. — Bulletin. An Infant Telegrapher. The Dublin (Erath county, Tex.) Enterprise says: We had the pleasure Monday of meeting and witnessing the expertness of Miss Brown, the infant telegrapher of the world. She is only six years old, and is certainly one of the greatest wonders of her age. Her father, who will probably rank as an average operator, is much her inferior as to ability in distinguishing the sound and rapidity with which she does it. She has just received a second reader, and, seated on one side of the table on which were arranged the instruments, her father seated himself at the key and wrote from the book one page of reading matter, at the rate of thirty to thirty-five words a minute, and the little marvel succeeded in getting the entire page without making a single break, her father seeming determined to send faster than she could take, but with the greatest speed he could send failed to do so. But it was a great cruelty to tax a six-year old child in that way. Florida Orange Crop. The crop of merchantable oranges in Florida last year amounted to about 330,000 boxes of 150 each. The crop now in sight, according to the estimate of competent judges, is 600,000 boxes, including choice and inferior fruit. The number of select boxes will probably reach 375,000. This rate of increase is most gratifying, and gives promise of a glorious future to the growers. The crop is now considered pretty safe from mishaps, as the fruit is turning rapidly and is beginning to come forward for shipment. — Florida Times Union. When you have a cough or cold ask for Ammen's Cough Syrup. It will surely cure you. of the temperance question, that Brand abused him in a sermon and charged him with selling liquor and destroying men's souls. The sermon was afterwards published in the Oberlin News. This is an extract from it: "Ghastly deeds of the past still stretch out their skinny hands and haunt thee! Good men will breathe freer at thy death, and thy monument shall be a testimony that a plague is stayed. And as thy guilty spirit is borne on the blast toward the gates of hell, the hideous shrieks of those whom thou hast ruined shall pierce thee." Niagara's Depth. Dr Pohlman, in a paper read before the Buffalo Society of Natural Sciences, argued from geological evidences that the Niagara river, between the falls and the Whirlpool, cannot exceed a maximum depth of 100 feet, and is probably nowhere more than between 70 and 80 feet deep. The maximum depth, he said, is near the falls, from where it shallows toward the Whirlpool Rapids, where the average depth cannot exceed 20 feet. As to the depth of the Whirlpool, "we found," said Dr Pohlman, "the bed of the preglacial Tonawanda outlet, one mile north from its lowest fall, to be about 75 feet below the edge of the gray sandstone band, and within this mile the Whirlpool of the present day is situated. To these 55 feet we add the 20 feet of water which covers the gray band in the Rapids, and we have a maximum depth of this far-famed spot of 75 feet." Barn-Burning. Chicago, November 2—The Inter-Ocean's Corunna, Ind., special says: For some time the farmers of this neighborhood who own self-binding harvesters have been receiving letters through this and adjacent postoffices threatening vengeance because these machines reduced the demand for farm laborers. These threats took the form of incendiary barn-burnings this week and several barns have been consumed already, including two last night. One of these was set on fire at three o'clock this morning, after the owner had guarded it until two. There is much excitement and the farmers are forming a vigilance committee. Senator Edmunds expresses the hope that the Democrat of Ohio will send his "old friend Thurman" back to the United States Senate. GAZETTE. NOBER 10, 1883. Arizona. What one would willingly forget is told by a correspondent of the Philadelphia Ledger, who recently visited the tower of London. He says: I stood before the headman's block and axe. These things of themselves were sad enough. The old black block is awfully practical in its adaptation to its purpose and is worn smooth—perhaps with its former frequent use, perhaps with the polishing required to remove the blood stains—possibly with the care necessary to preserve so dreadful a memorial. On the one side is a wide depression for the shoulder of the victim; on the other a lesser place for the head; the ridge between lifting up the neck, so that at a blow the head could be severed from the trunk. What fair shoulders may, for a moment, have rested here in woman's calm attitude, awaiting death! What manly forms have here reclined in that dreadful resignation too proud to protest, too resolute to struggle! Just as the whole of this "object" teaching was fairly understood the silence was broken. I heard a gentle voice, and turned from the hideous block to scan the features of a fair young girl, who was explaining to an aged woman the horrid thing and what it meant. The old lady's face was hidden by a bonnet as antiquated as herself, but I could see her breast heave, and fancied I could hear her sobs. Fascinated, she bent her head nearer to the block, shuddered, and was hastily led away. As The Tower of London. What one would willingly forget is told by a correspondent of the Philadelphia Ledger, who recently visited the tower of London. He says: I stood before the headman's block and axe. These things of themselves were sad enough. The old black block is awfully practical in its adaptation to its purpose and is worn smooth—perhaps with its former frequent use, perhaps with the polishing required to remove the blood stains—possibly with the care necessary to preserve so dreadful a memorial. On the one side is a wide depression for the shoulder of the victim; on the other a lesser place for the head; the ridge between lifting up the neck, so that at a blow the head could be severed from the trunk. What fair shoulders may, for a moment, have rested here in woman's calm attitude, awaiting death! What manly forms have here reclined in that dreadful resignation too proud to protest, too resolute to struggle! Just as the whole of this "object" teaching was fairly understood the silence was broken. I heard a gentle voice, and turned from the hideous block to scan the features of a fair young girl, who was explaining to an aged woman the horrid thing and what it meant. The old lady's face was hidden by a bonnot as antiquated as herself, but I could see her breast heave, and fancied I could hear her sobs. Fascinated, she bent her head nearer to the block, shuddered, and was hastily led away. As Insulting an Agent. When a Detroiter removed to Denver eight or ten years ago and went into the grocery business he naturally bethought him of insurance. One morning he called at the office of the "Great Consolidated Insurance Company" and asked of a dapper little man who sat reading a paper if the President was in. "Yes, I am the man," was the reply. "And is the Secretary here?" "I am the man, also." "Perhaps you are likewise the Treasurer?" "I am, sir. And to prevent further loss of time I will add that I am also the Board of Directors, Actuary, Adjuster and Cashier." "Then you are the whole company?" "Certainly, sir. We have tried it both ways and we find that these Western people want some one to shoot at when an insurance company doesn't toe up. By consolidating everything into one man it makes a great saving of ammunition." "What are your assets and liabilities?" "What?" The question was repeated. "See here, stranger," said the astonished agent, "you must be a tenderfoot! When it is known all over Colorado that I'm raking in about $8,000 per week from my three saloons and two poker-rooms; the idea of asking about liabilities is an insult. I don't Old Connecticut Blue-Laws. [New York Times] It is a mistake to suppose that the statute under which Justice Tuttle, of East Haven, imposed fines upon a number of persons for driving over the Foxon road last Sunday is one of the old colonial laws. The almost obsolete Sunday law of Connecticut is a modification of one of the old laws, but in comparison with the original it appears to be a very light blue indeed. Here are some of the restrictions formerly placed upon the inhabitants of the Dominion of New Haven on the Sabbath day: I. No one shall cross a river on a Sabbath day but an authorized clergyman. II. No one shall run on the Sabbath day, or walk in his garden or elsewhere, except to and from meeting reverently. III. No one shall travel, cook victuals, make beds, sweep house, cut hair or shave on the Sabbath day. IV. No woman shall kiss her children on Sabbath or fasting days. V. The Sabbath shall begin at sunset on Saturday. These are genuine old "blue laws." There is no danger that the most zealous church-going folk in the State will ever urge the revival of any one of them. It will be observed that they place no restriction upon driving or riding on Sunday. None were needed. The old Puritans owned no horses or wagons, and there were no livery stables in those days. Railroad Taxes. SAN FRANCISCO, Nov. 3.—The following letter has been addressed by Governor Stoneman to all Boards of Supervisors: SACRAMENTO, Nov. 3, 1883. To the Honorable, Etc., Gentlemen: An appeal to the Supreme Court of the United States having been perfected in the railroad tax cases lately decided against the people in the Circuit Court of the United States at San Francisco, it now becomes necessary to provide means for defraying the costs and expenses of conducting that appeal. You are therefore respectfully requested to appoint one of your number as a committee to ways and we find that these Western people want some one to shoot at when an insurance company doesn't toe up. By consolidating everything into one man it makes a great saving of ammunition." "What are your assets and liabilities?" "What?" The question was repeated. "See here, stranger," said the astonished agent, "you must be a tenderfoot! When it is known all over Colorado that I'm raking in about $8,000 per week from my three saloons and two poker rooms; the idea of asking about liabilities is an insult. I don't want your risk, sir! Good-day, sir!"—Detroit Free Press. Some Big Families. Mrs. Houston of Portland, Me., boasts of four pairs of twins born within a period of seven years. Christopher Mann, of Independence, Mo., has been married twice, and is the father of twenty-six children. Mrs. Mary P. Jones of Stevenson, Ala., who has just celebrated her 100th birthday, has 216 lineal descendants. From statistics compiled in Prussia, it is learned that twins occur once in eighty-nine births, triplets once in 7,940, and quadruplets once in 371,126. The funeral of Lucy Fish Curtis, who died at West Randolph, Vt., at the age of about 100 years, was attended by all her six children, the youngest being fifty-five and the oldest eighty-three years of age. Wiley Moore of South Washington, Blender county, N.C., took an inventory of his descendents the other day, and found the number up to that date to be 384, including children, grandchildren, great and great grandchildren. Elica Baggs, a native of Scriven county, Ga., went to Florida at six years of age, married at thirteen, and her first child was born when she was only fourteen. She is now thirty-one and has eighteen children (twins twice), fifteen of whom are living. A Powerful Steeper. MILWAUKEE (Wis.), Nov. 3d.—Edward Richards, 40 years old, an inmate of the National Soldiers' Home, has been asleep twenty nine days. He went to Northern Wisconsin on a furlough in September and was engaged as nurse by the Sheriff of Bayfield county, who one day found him asleep. He could not be awakened and was brought on to the Home in a comatose condition. He is regularly fed by an attendant and swallows anything put in his mouth. When held up by the attendant he can walk, and is sensitive to touch on the bottom of his feet and draws up his limbs when tickled. In the early part of the present year Richards slept from February 28th to March 16th. A league has been organized in New England to inaugurate a war against the excessive granting of divorce decrees. During last Railroad Taxes. SAN FRANCISCO, Nov. 3.—The following letter has been addressed by Governor Stoneman to all Boards of Supervisors: SACRAMENTO, Nov. 3, 1883. To the Honorable, Etc., Gentlemen: An appeal to the Supreme Court of the United States having been perfected in the railroad tax cases lately decided against the people in the Circuit Court of the United States at San Francisco, it now becomes necessary to provide means for defraying the costs and expenses of conducting that appeal. You are therefore respectfully requested to appoint one of your number as a committee to meet the Controller and Attorney-General and consult with them at the room of the Board of Supervisors of the city and county of San Francisco, on the 10th of November, 1883, in order to devise the means of carrying out said appeal. Herewith please find a copy of a resolution which it will be proper for your honorable body to pass in the premises. (Signed) George Stoneman, Governor; E.C. Marshall, Attorney-General; John P. Dunn, Controller. The resolution referred to authorizes the Board to appoint a person to make a contract to assist in paying the expenses of the appeal. The letter has been sent to all Boards of Supervisors having delinquent railroad tax accounts. A Fatal Charivari. CINCINNATI, November 1.—At a German wedding on a dairy farm last night a tinpan serenade was tendered to the contracting parties by the young men in the vicinity. The noise was ordered to be stopped by the groom and his friends. The order not being complied with, a fight with rocks ensued, followed shortly by pistol-shots. During the melee Herman Hibbers, aged 21, one of the wedding guests, was shot in the side, evidently accidentally, by one of his friends. A doctor was called and it was found that the bullet had entered the left side and pierced the lungs. The wounded man will die. In Texarkana, the town lying partly in Texas and partly in Arkansas, the marshal for the Texas and the marshal for the Arkansas side were sent out to arrest a drunken man. It appears that he was lying across the State line, his head in Texas, the feet in Arkansas. Each marshal argued for jurisdiction, and finally the Texan won, on the ground that the head was the offending party, as the legs did not intend to get drunk, and had no part in doing what superinduced intoxication. A league has been organized in New England to inaugurate a war against the excessive granting of divorce decrees. During last year 587 divorces were granted in Maine—an increase of nearly 50 per cent in twenty years. New Hampshire divorces have increased from 107 in 1860 to 314 in 1882; Massachusetts divorces from 243 to 600 in the same length of time; Connecticut divorces from 14 in 1849 to 445 in 1880; Rhode Island divorces from 162 in 1869 to 261 in 1882. New York Courts granted 218 divorces in 1880, 253 in 1881, 316 in 1882, and this year the number promises to swell to 400. Historical. It is claimed that there are 3,064 languages spoken in the world, and 1,000 different forms of religion. The Christians are divided as follows: Church of Rome, 170,000; Protestants, 90,000,000; Greek and East Church, 60,000,000, and of this vast number at least two-thirds are afflicted with Itching Piles or eruptions of the Skin in one form or another. Swayne's Ointment banishes all humors in a jiffy, and persons of every religion are beginning to know it. Druggists keep it. It costs $15,000,000 a year, in round figures, to maintain our naval establishments, there being about 16,000 persons on the payrolls, of whom more than 2,000 are officers, 9,000 enlisted men and boys, and the remainder civilians employed as mechanics, clerks, etc. David Adams starved himself in Washington county, New York. The sum of $10,000 has already been found secreted in his house, and his heirs are searching for $20,000 more. His wife died of starvation ten years ago. The legal authorities of Greenwich, Conn., are in a state of mind over Jerry Whalen's liquor saloon, as they cannot close it on Sunday, because the New York State line runs through his house, and he sells on the New York side.