anaheim-gazette 1883-12-08

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. OFFICE AND DRUG STORE IN THE BUILDING East of Gazette office. Homeopathic Meal jones wholesale and retail. Office hours at 7 A.M. and 9:30 A.M. and at 2 P.M. and 5 P.M. PLANTERS' HOTEL ANAHEIM, Los Angeles County, Cal. 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 Medilenses wholesale and retail. Office hours at 7 a.m. and 5:00 a.m. at 2 p.m. and 8 p.m. DR. E. L. COWAN, Dentist, UNTIL FURTHER NOTICE MY OFFICE DAYS in Anaheim will be on Friday and Saturday of each week DR. E. L. COWAN RICHARD MELROSE, NOTARY PUBLIC, Gazette Office. H. C. KELLOGG. Surveyor and Civil Engineer. PARFIES WILL, PLEASE LEAVE THEIR ORDERS WITH Mr. John Haun, Anaheim. W. H. WIGHTMAN, Civil Engineer AND SURVEYOR. Office over Commercial Park, Santa Ana, Cal. Correspondence by mail promptly attended to Nov10th. ROBT. W. SCOTT. ATTORNEY AT LAW AND NOTARY PUBLIC. Commissioner of Deeds of Arizona Territory. Kranger's Block, Anaheim, Cal. VICTOR MONTGOMERY, Attorney-at-Law, SANTA ANA, CAL. Office in Dubles' brick building, nearly opposite the Post Office. Office hours from 10 a.m. to 3 p.m. M. L. WICKS, Attorney-at-Law Rooms 86 and 87 TRAFFLE BLOCK, LOS ANGELES. L. GUNTHER, Pioneer Boot and Shoe Maker, Cor. Adele and Los Angeles streets. ANAHEIM. GEORGE BAUER, BOOT AND SHOE MAKER, Center Street. 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 Wagon Factory. JACOB YAEGER, Proprietor. WOODWORK of all kinds, Bodies, Wheels and Gearing put up on short notice. BLACKSMITHING of all kinds. Horse-Shoeing a specialty. L. GUNTHER, Pioneer Boot and Shoe Maker, Cor. Adele and Los Angeles streets. ANAHEIM. GEORGE BAUER, BOOT AND SHOE MAKER, Center Street MAKING AND REPAIRING AT THE LOWEST cash price. All orders promptly attended to All work guaranteed. WM. R. HARKER, SADDLE & HARNESS MAKER, CENTER STREET, ANAHEIM. CHARLES WILLE. COOPERAGE. Pipes, Barrels and kegs on hand at all times. Tanks and Tubs made to order. Honey Barrels for sale cheap P. PELLEGRIN, PRACTICAL Watchmaker and Jeweler, CENTER ST., - ANAHEIM Repairing of Watches, Clocks and Jewelry don 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. DREYFUS, E. L. GOLDSTEIN, Anaheim, San Francisco J. FROWENFIELD, J. J. WEOLRIN, New York 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. 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 please ourselves to give satisfaction. We are here to stay and will spare no pains to please our patrons. Our wood shop and blacksmith shop is on Center Street, west of Mitchell's stable, and our paint shop is directly opposite. We are sole agents for the STUDEBAKER WAGONS And for all kinds of Farming Machinery. nov10 Eureka! 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 merits. Also when there sample the various COFFEES that have been provided for his customers by M. H. CHEESEMAN. WEEKLY EIM GA ANAHEIM, CALIFORNIA: SATURDAY, DECEMBER 8, 1880 ANAHEIM HOTEL, DEUTSCHES GASTHAUS, Center Street, - Anaheim. JOHN DIETZEL, - Proprietor. Board and Lodging: Per week, $5.00 Per day, from $1 to 1.50 Single Meals, .25 Fredericksburg LAGER BEER On draught at all times. WASHINGTON Meat Market! GLUCOSE vs. CANE SUGAR AND SORGHUM. When corn was so cheap at the West that it was in many places used as fuel in lieu of firewood, the glucose industry seemed all at once to blossom into full activity. This was a little over three years ago. The business had heretofore been conducted on a pretty large scale, but so quietly that the public in general had hardly any knowledge of such an industry until its attention was invited by the publication of full details relating thereto, in the course of an important and highly sensational lawsuit in the western part of New York State. The particulars then presented as to the extreme cheapness of production, at a time when corn was selling at 25 cents a bushel, and the extent to which it had been substituted and unwittingly used for cane sugar, though possessing only a small part of the sweetness of the latter, attracted universal attention, and had a twofold result. The first was to induce the investment of large amounts of capital in the manufacture of glucose, sugar and syrup; extensive establishments therefor springing up in many places almost as if by magic. But the investors in this instance seem to have been a little too hasty. The public also had "seen the papers," and consumers generally had become acquainted with the difference between cane sugar and glucose. It was quickly understood that an admixture of glucose in granulated sugars could be SPEAKER CARLISLE. WASHINGTON, Dec. 1.—The Speaker of the next House of Representatives will be John G. Carlisle of Kentucky. He received 106 votes in the Democratic caucus tonight, against fifty-two votes for Samuel Randall of Pennsylvania and twenty-seven for Samuel S. Cox of New York. The result was a surprise to Randall's friends, who regarded him as more than doubly as strong as he proved to be, but it was not much of a surprise to those of Carlisle. They expressed themselves as certain at noon to-day and for the rest of the day did not bother themselves with the matter. CHICAGO, Dec. 2.—The Tribune says editorially on the selection of Carlisle: The victory of Carlisle shows the strength of the free-trade wing of the Democratic party. It shows that that faction has the upper hand and that it intends to use it at this time, when it has full control of the lower house of Congress. It indicates that reform legislation will be attempted at the present session and that committees will be framed with an eye thereto. That this will be resisted, no one who knows the temper of the supporters of Randall can doubt, and we may look forward with serene confidence to a bitter, savage war between the free-traders and the protectionists in the Democratic ranks. It will be a war in which the Republicans need take no part, and they can stand on the edge of the crowd and laugh while Fredericksburg LAGER BEER On draught at all times. WASHINGTON Meat Market! CENTRE STREET, ANAHEIM, C. F LEONARD, Proprietor. PACIFIC WAGON COMPANY. J. R McMANIS, - Manager. 303 North Main Street, Los Angeles. sept 13m D. W. HUDSON 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 decisions of making profitable INVESTMENTS cannot do better than to call on us at our office. Correspondence Solicited. mar17 TUGSON (A. T.), December 1. — A Star Prescott special says: At 10 this morning, during a trial in which C. W. Beach and P. McAtee were principals, the lie passed between counsel Attorney-General Churchill and District-Attorney Charles Rush, upon which Rush struck Churchill and a general fight followed. Beach was stabbed in the neck by McAtee, who was then shot in the side by Beach. In flourishing a dirk-knife McAtee struck an old citizen named James Moore, cutting a terrible gash in his arm and severing an artery. The physicians say that McAtee and Moore are mortally wounded. It is thought Beach will recover. Beach was, until recently, the editor and proprietor of the Arizona Miner. At the time of the fight no bailiffs were in the courtroom and the few present could not quell the row. CINCINNATI, Dec. 1. — James Boyd shot latter, attracted universal attention, and had a twofold result. The first was to induce the investment of large amounts of capital in the manufacture of glucose, sugar and syrup, extensive establishments therefor springing up in many places almost as if by magic. But the investors in this instance seem to have been a little too hasty. The public also had "seen the papers," and consumers generally had become acquainted with the difference between cane sugar and glucose. It was quickly understood that an admixture of glucose in granulated sugars could be readily detected by the different appearance at crystallization, while in the powdered and brown sugars, and in the beautiful syrups, where glucose had been largely used as an adulterant, people had only to have their attention called to the inferior sweetness of the glucose compounds to see the advantages of cane sugar. Manufacturers of confectionery, who were at first large users of the new product, discontinued its use to a great extent, certainly in all their better productions; the brewers, who had begun to employ it largely, have likewise almost entirely ceased therefrom, owing to the popular demand that they should do so, and no responsible merchant of any standing would now attempt knowingly to sell a sugar adulterated with glucose as the pure product of the cane. In this way, while the facilities for manufacturing glucose were being largely increased, the demand therefor was being diminished in a yet greater ratio. Many thousands of dollars have thus been utterly sunk by the investors, some large establishments being entirely idle, and others owned by parties who at first attempted to buy up or crowd out opposition, doing only a small and unremarkable business. With the present promising outlook for a large production, from sorghum, of sugar in no way distinguishable from that made from the sugar cane, there seems little probability that the glucose manufacture will ever again assume the important position it temporarily held, while the new industry gives every indication of "coming to stay." The Inter-Ocean says editorially on the speakership: The success of Carlisle in the Democratic caucus last night means that the committees of the House will be formed in the interest of the anti-protection wing of the Democratic party. It means also that the Southern wing of the party, having formed an alliance to elect Carlisle, will take steps to make the best possible use of their victory. Carlisle was bidding for their votes and he secured them by concealing rather than avowing his purposes, but it is not to be supposed that he secured the votes without pledges. The success of Carlisle means, in short, that the old-fashioned Democratic party is to assert itself, and that under cover of the new Speaker the Southern faction is to fight for the control of the party machinery. New York, Dec. 2. — The World, in commenting on the nomination of Carlisle, says: This result will be at once honorable and serviceable to the Democracy, while Randall's election beyond doubt would have been attributed to the influences at war with genuine Democratic principles. Carlisle's canvass has been simply an appeal to Democratic sincerity. He is not elected as a free-trader, or an extreme protectionist. He will have no special interest to subserve. He will not be expected to make Republican allies. He is a revenue reformer. In this he is in accord with a large majority of his party and in antagonism to Republicanism, which opposes every retrenchment and reform. The San Francisco Chronicle says; It did not seem possible that the Democratic party could fall into the gross blunder of surrendering the working machinery of the House of Representatives to a man who is but a free-trader under the thin disguise of a "tariff for-revenue" reformer. All the more impossible did it seem in view of the fact, now universally admitted, that the "strictly-for-revenue" plank in the Democratic platform for 1880 lost the State of New York and therefore lost the election for President. GIANT BAKING POWDER THE ATTENTION OF HOUSEKEEPERS AND the public in general is called to the following facts: The value of Baking Powder is determined by the amount of gas it contains and the freedom of the article from any injurious ingredients. The GIANT BAKING POWDER is absolutely pure, and contains about one-quarter more gas than any brand of Baking Powder in use on this Coast. Three cans of GIANT BAKING POWDER are equal to four cans of any other brand. Study economy and use none other. Your grocer will furnish you with a sample can free. Try it. FACTS. SAN FRANCISCO, JULY 13, 1883. BOTHIN MANUFACTURING CO. GENTLEMEN: The sample of GIANT BAKING POWDER is also samples of the following brands of Baking Powders purchased by me in open market, I have tested for total quantity of available gas, with results as follows: GIANT 196 cubic inches per ounce avoirdupois. ROYAL, 139 cubic inches. NEW ENGLAND, 110 cubic inches. PIONEER, 107 cubic inches. OOLDEN GATE, 107 cubic inches. DR. PRICE'S, 90 cubic inches. Yours, respectfully, THOMAS PRICE, Chemist. SAN FRANCISCO Sept. 24, 1883. H. E. BOTHIN, President Bothin Manufacturing Co. DEAR SIR: After a careful and complete chemical analysis of a can of GIANT BAKING POWDER, purchased by us in open market, we find that it does not contain alum, acid phosphate, terra alba, or any injurious substances, but is a pure, healthful Cream Tartar Baking Powder, and as such can recommend it to consumers. WM. T. WENZELL & CO., Analytic Chemist. We concur: R. BEVERLY COLE, M.D. J. L. MEARES, M.D., Health officer. ALFRED W. PERRY, M.D. W. A. DOOLLARS, M.D. ADG. ALERS, M.D. MANUFACTURED BY THE BOTHIN MANUFACTURING COMPANY 17 AND 19 MAIN ST., SAN FRANCISCO FOR SALE BY ALL DEALERS CINCINNATI, Dec. 1. James Boyd shot and killed his son, Alfred Boyd, aged 17 years, late this afternoon, in a house in Cummingsville. Boyd is a hackster, aged 49, and on returning home found his son playing marbles on the common. He reproached him for not working and then roughly caught the boy by the collar and dragged him home, a distance of 100 yards. On reaching the porch door the boy struggled and caught the door, refusing to enter. Then the father drew a revolver and deliberately shot his son through the chest. He was arrested. CHICAGO, Nov. 28. In the eastern part of Georgia on the Oconee River, a negro woman has given birth to a monstrosity, which has two separate, distinct and well formed faces, one set of arms and lower limbs, two teeth in each mouth, the heads well covered with hair, and the two thoroughly united, and all the features so far mentioned belonging to a properly developed child, save the union of the heads. But the body in front is only one, although two spinal columns are in the back, and its shoulders and limbs are covered with hair, fine and silky. A Swedish couple who live near Sioux Falls, D. T., have four children, two of them perfect specimens of the albino, while the others are ordinary fair-haired children. One of the albinos is a boy, and the other a girl. The latter's hair is white as the driven snow, and kinky as that of a thorough-bred African. Notwithstanding her off-color, she is very beautiful. WASHINGTON, Dec. 1.- Mrs. Mary A. Miller of New Orleans applied for a license as master of a steamboat. The supervising inspector of the district reports her competent but debars her because of her sex. The San Francisco Chronicle says; It did not seem possible that the Democratic party could fall into the gross blunder of surrendering the working machinery of the House of Representatives to a man who is but a free-trader under the thin disguise of a "tariff for-revenue" reformer. All the more impossible did it seem in view of the fact, now universally admitted, that the "strictly-for-revenue" plank in the Democratic platform for 1880 lost the State of New York and therefore lost the election for Hancock. The country will certainly interpret the party's preference of Carlisle, the free-trader in fact, to Randall, the protectionist, as signifying a committal of the next year's National Convention to the policy of free trade, or what is the next thing to it, a tariff for revenue, so low as, with the retention of the taxes on spirits, malt liquor and tobacco, and the income from sales of land and miscellaneous sources, to not much exceed the last fiscal year's receipts from the whisky tax alone. The total receipts for the last fiscal year were, in round numbers, say $386,000;000; from customs, about $220,000;000. The surplus was say $125,000;000. Deduct this from the total and we have $261,000;000 for current expenses of the Government, interest on the debt and pensions. Estimating the pensions at $70,000,-000 and interest on debt at $60,000;000, and we have left for current expenses $131,000,-000. Now, if the internal taxes are left as they are and the receipts from land sales and miscellanies amount to as much next year as this, these items will pay the current expenses of the Government, leaving only the items of interest on the debt and pensions—$130,000;000 now, and probably not over $160,000;000 for the fiscal year ending June 30, 1886—to be provided for by the tariff. And if to this we add a margin of $30,000,-000 for surplus, for liquidation of the outstanding three-percent bonds, the total revenue from the tariff which this man Carlisle and his following are as good as committed to will not exceed $130,000;000 in 1886 and not more than $100,000;000 two years thereafter, when the yearly pension account will run as low as $40,000;000 and the interest account as low as $50,000;000. This is about the programme to which the election of Carlisle over Kandall invites the country and which the Democratic House majority has just cut out for the next National Convention of that party. GAZETTE. DECEMBER 8, 1883. NO. 9 R CARLISLE. Dec. I. — The Speaker of the representatives will be John Stucky. He received 106 democratic cancus to-night, votes for Samuel Randall and twenty-seven for Sam-York. The result was a Stucky's friends, who regarded doubly as strong as he it was not much of a surcarlisle. They expressed pain at noon to-day and for did not bother themselves. 2. — The Tribune says ediction of Carlisle: The view shows the strength of the Democratic party. It faction has the upper tends to use it at this full control of the lower. It indicates that reform attempted at the present committees will be framed so. That this will be reknows the temper of the call can doubt, and we with serene confidence to or between the free-tradersists in the Democratic war in which the Re- no part, and they can not the crowd and laugh- EVERYTHING. There are nine negroes in the new Legislature of Virginia. There are twenty-eight farmers and forty lawyers in the Ohio Legislature. A movement is on foot in Boston to make the Governor's term of office two years. His Extravagancy is what the Pennsylvanians are beginning to call Governor Patison. It costs $40,000 for the annual legislature in the Chocktaw nation. It is proposed to cut down numbers and reduce expenses to $15,000. Ex-Governor Hendricks of Indiana fears that the election of Mr. Carlisle to the Speakership will have a tendency to increase the "Southern scare." The Democrats of Virginia are raising a fund with which to buy a carriage and horses for presentation to the Hon. John S. Barbour, Chairman of their State Committee. At Gowanda, New York, are said to be six brothers and six sisters, each of whom has six children. Not one of the twelve is less than six feet tall, and the lightest one weighs 200 pounds. Mrs. Fred Fisk of Canestona, N. Y., has a set of lace embroidered curtains the work of her own hands, and which have occupied her four years. She has refused an offer of $4,000 for them. ADULTERATED FRENCH WINES. New York, November 20. — The Tribune says: Notwithstanding the reports of interested parties to the contrary, it is positively asserted that phylloxera continues to ravage the vineyards in France and particularly in Bordeaux. This year's crop will be poorer than ever before. But in the face of the diminished production for several years the exportation of wine from French ports annually increases. There is no more difficulty in procuring what purports to be French claret of well-known brands than there was ten or fifteen years ago. Whoever desires to solve this mystery finds the means of doing so without much trouble. The Tribune then details the well-known method of doctoring French wines with the California product and also the sale of California importation under French labels and says: The truth is that while the French vintage is constantly becoming worse the California vintage, for a rule is constantly becoming better, and what is now principally required for the further improvement of those distinctively American and unquestionably pure wines is public recognition of their good qualities. Of course, so long as the people will accept spurnous wines and are content to be deceived and made to pay double value at the same time, dealers and others will continue to sell doctored brands under fictitious titles, but it rests with the consumers to protect them by demand. The Democracy of Virginia is raising a fund with which to buy a carriage and horses for presentation to the Hon. John S. Barbour, Chairman of their State Committee. At Gowanda, New York, are said to be six brothers and six sisters, each of whom has six children. Not one of the twelve is less than six feet tall, and the lightest one weighs 200 pounds. Mrs. Fred Fisk of Canestona, N.Y., has a set of lace embroidered curtains the work of her own hands, and which have occupied her four years. She has refused an offer of $4,000 for them. There is a young Indian at Winnipeg who makes a fat living by laughing as a profession. He will laugh five minutes for five cents, and the ringing continuous cachinnation is said to be worth the money. Charitable ladies in New York have specialties. One lady seeks out bandy-legged and knock-kneed youngsters of impoverished parentage and maintains them while their limbs are being straightened. The Legislature of South Carolina appropriated $40,000 for the higher education of boys, and now the ladies are making it uncomfortable for the members because they did not do the same for the girls. Over a church door in a Kentucky town is the notice, "Sulphur Methodist Church," but this does not refer to the particular views of the members; it only refers to the town of Sulphur, where the church is situated. A Huguenot Society has been formed in New York city, which will organize branches wherever Huguenot descendants exist in this country, to collect memorial and historical documents and to publish the same. The liquor bars have been abolished on many of the principal Mississippi and Ohio River steamboats, and it is believed that a saloon attachment to a first-class boat may yet become the exception instead of the rule. The State House at Boston is found to be infested to an alarming degree with white ants, which are capable of leveling buildings by honeycombing timbers. A few years ago they ruined a railroad bridge at Cambridge. A young man is on trial in New York for sending three hundred letters to a young lady with whom he never spoke. The letters were never answered, and they represent four years of wasted time and foolishness, with a law suit for requital. The per diem of a Pennsylvania legislator is $10, and the present session has already cost that State over one million dollars; more than half this sum being chargeable to the "dead lock" on the Senatorial Apportionment bill. Prohibition is becoming a formidable issue in the local politics of South Carolina. In Barnwell county the prohibitionists have elected their ticket triumphantly, and in says: The truth is that while the French vintage is constantly becoming worse the California vintage, say a rule is constantly becoming better, and what is now principally required for the further improvement of those distinctively American and unquestionably pure wines is public recognition of their good qualities. Of course, so long as the people will accept spurious wines and are content to be deceived and made to pay double value at the same time, dealers and others will continue to sell doctored brands under fictitious titles, but it rests with the consumers to protect themselves by demanding pure wine under their own names, and if this were done thousands would soon realize that it is possible to procure better vintages than three fourths of the alleged French ones at less than two-thirds or even half the cost of the latter. If this experiment were made, moreover, it would undoubtedly have the effect of inciting California wine makers to greater efforts and would hasten the perfection of wines which have already made really astonishing advances when we consider the obstacles and prejudices against which they have to contend. Indications of the Clouds. Some of the oldest text books, or the reading books, of the present mature generation show by text and illustration the shape and proportional construction of clouds, giving them names, as the cirrus, stratus, cumulus, nimbus, and their names compounded. A recent contributor to our cloud knowledge is an English meteorologist, Rev. W. C. Lay, who has initiated the appearance of the clouds as a study by means of photography. He claims that by observing cloud forms he can predicate rain from the surface of a cloud whose nimbus portion may be forty miles away. His plan comprehends the material as well as the forms of clouds. The cirrus is an ice cloud sailing at an altitude of from three and a half to seven or eight miles above the general surface of the earth, with a very high velocity, at times exceeding that of the locomotive. The ice structure of the upper clouds is evidenced not only by the fact that at the levels on which they move the temperature must be extremely low, but by the fact that birds and cock saus formed by curri cannot be explained in accordance with optical laws, except on the hypothesis that the light is refracted through minute priams of ice. Outlying streams of this cloud, often from twenty to one hundred miles in advance of the main pack, he shows, serve as "the pioneers of the coming army" these attenuated threads of ice crystal between 25,000 and 45 feet below the earth, arranged in parallel lines, gradually overspreading the sky with a molly-looking film of whitish cloud matter. This stage occurs at a place lying in the storm's track before the barometer gives any warning, and sometimes while the mercury in the weather glass is raising. Thus the trained observer may consider The per diem of a Pennsylvania legislator is $10, and the present session has already cost that State over one million dollars; more than half this sum being chargeable to the "dead lock" on the Senatorial Apportionment bill. Prohibition is becoming a formidable issue in the local politics of South Carolina. In Barnwell county the prohibitionists have elected their ticket triumphantly, and in other parts of the State they are making a vigorous canvas. Dealers in sanerkrant all over the country agree in the solemn announcement that the native American is becoming fond of the national dish of Germany. Lager beer has already well-nigh completed the conquest of the globe, but it has not been supposed that sanerkrant was destined to a universal dominion. A German paper reports that German emigrants return weekly in great numbers from America. One hundred agricultural laborers returned recently from Chicago to their old homes in East Prussia. They explained their ill success by the much quicker, but less thorough, work of the Americans with whom they had to compete. They had with difficulty earned their passage money. Gov. Begole, of Michigan, has set the tongues of the political gossips in that State wagging by reason of the publication of one of his letters to a railroad manager, in which he requested one of the company's little "red books" for himself and another for his wife—the "red book" referred to being a pass for 500 miles. In the same letter the Governor urged the railroad managers not to send members of the Legislature passes, as it would tend to lengthen the session. The people of Minnesota at the recent election adopted an amendment to their State Constitution, providing that hereafter the general State election shall be held once in two years, on the first Tuesday in the even numbered years, after the first Monday in November in said years. By another amendment, also adopted, the terms of office of the Secretary of State, Treasurer and Attorney-General are to be each two years, and of the Auditor four years. The following is Artemus Ward's description of why he courted Betsy Jane: "There were many a affectin' ties which made me banker after Betsy Jane. Her father's farm jined ours; their cows and corn squeched their thirst at the same spring; our mares both had stars on their forehead; the measles broke out in both families at nearly the same time; our parents (Betsy Jane's and mine) slept regularly every Sunday in the same meetin' house, and the neighbors used to observe: 'How thick the Ward's and the Peasleys air.' It was a sublime sight in the spring of the year to see our several mothers (Betsy's and mine) with their gowns pinned up, so that they couldn't sile 'em, effectionately balin soap together and aboosin' their neighbors." DOWNIEVILLE, Cal., July 18, 1882.—I am selling Ammen's Cough Syrup, and the sales are gradually increasing. It gives good satisfaction. V. P. SMITH, "Miner's Drug Store," Downieville, Cal.