anaheim-gazette 1884-05-10

ANAHEIM VOL. XIV. HANNA & KEITH, REAL ESTATE AGENTS. Live Stock Bought and Sold on Commission. ANAHEIM. We Are Now Offering Unprecedented Bargains —IN— Furniture, Carpets, Etc. Etc. Etc. And respectfully invite you to call and examine the same before purchasing. O. T. BARKER & SONS, Barker & Allen's Old Stand, near Pico House. 322, 324, 326 N. Main Street, Los Angeles. WEEKLY GAZETTE A. E. WHITE E. A. WHITE Established 1870. BLACKSMITHING Etc. Etc. Etc. And respectfully invite you to call and examine the same before purchasing. O. T. BARKER & SONS, Barker & Allen's Old Stand, near Pico House. 322, 324, 326 N. Main Street, Los Angeles. WEEKLY GAZETTE Established 1870. For Terms, see Fourth Page. DR. JAMES ELLIS. OFFICE AND DRUG STORE IN THE BUILDING East of Gazette office. Homeopathic Medicine wholesale and retail. Office hours at 7 a.m. and 9:30 a.m. and at 2 p.m. H. C. KELLOGG. Surveyor and Civil Engineer. Parties will please leave their orders with Mr. John Hancock, Anaheim. M. B. HARRISON, Attorney-at-Law, ANAHEIM. WILL PRACTICE IN ALL THE COURTS OF the State. ROBT. W. SCOTT. ATTORNEY AT LAW AND NOTARY PUBLIC Commissioner of Deeds 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. RICHARD MEDROSE, NOTARY PUBLIC GAZETTE OFFICER. L. GUNTHER. Ploneer Boot and Shoe Maker, Cor. Adelaide and Los Angeles streets. ANAHEIM. GEORGE BAUER, BOOT AND SHOE MAKER, Center Street MAKING AND REPAIRING AT THE LOWEST cash prices. All orders promptly attended to. All work guaranteed. WM. R. HARKER, SADDLE & HARNESS MAKER, CENTER STREET, ANAHEIM. 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) City Stables, Center Street (Opposite Kroeger's Block) ANAHEIM. L. F. Lewis, -- Proprietor. THESE STABLES ARE THE BEST VENTILATED and most comfortable in the town and special attention will be paid to Boarding and Grooming horses. The charge in all cases will be reasonable. Single and Double Teams Furnished at short notice and careful drivers familiar with the country, supplied when required. The patronage of the public is respectfully solicited. Anaheim Bakery. Fresh White and Rye Bread EVERY DAY Cakes for Parties on Short Notice. CENTER STREET, ANAHEIM. TO MY PATRONS. AFTER THIS DATE, MY TERM WILL BE CASH, Or a credit of thirty days, but thirty days only. Please bear this in mind, as I cannot afford to vary from the above terms in any instance. C. E. LEONARD, Washington Market. Anaheim, Feb. 9th, 1884. Casks, Pipes —and PUNCHEONS IN PERFECT ORDER For Sale at Low Prices. R. DREYES & Co., Anaheim GEORGE BAUER, BOOT AND SHOE MAKER, Center Street MAKING AND REPAIRING AT THE LOWEST mash prices. 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 Tube made to order. Honey Barrels for sale cheap Truck and Hauling Generally. THE UNDERSIGNED WOULD RESPECTFULLY inform the community of Anaheim and vicinity that he is prepared to do all kinds of Hauling, Trucking and Freighting. The very best of appliances for everything in his line will be used with the quickest dispatch and at living rates. I flatter myself after a fifteen years' experience in the business, that I shall be able to give entire satisfaction to all who may favor me with their patronage. Orders solicited. Balletin Board at office of Judge Bailey deceitum. PACIFIC WAGON COMPANY. J. R. MoMANIS, - Manager. 803 North Main Street, Los Angeles. sept 13m. 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. Masonic Notice. THE REGULAR MEETINGS OF ANAheim Lodge No. 207, F. and A. M. are hold in Masonic Hall on the Monday evening of or preceding the full moon in each month. Sojourning brother in good standing are cordially yelled to attend. B. GARRUM, Secretary. Casks, Pipes AND PUNCHEONS IN PERFECT ORDER For Sale at Low Prices. B. DREYFUS & CO., Anaheim. B. DREYFUS, Anahiem, San Francisco J. FROWENYIELD, New York B. DREYFUS & CO. Growers and Dealers in California Wines and Grape Brandy. 630 to 612 Brannan Street San Francisco; 45 Broadway New York. MOORE'S REMEDY FOR POISON OAK And other Sk in Diseases. The only PREVENTATIVE And certain cure. Sold by all druggists. REDINGTON & CO. General Agents, San Francisco. 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 rm 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. Tickets of admission to the farm can be purchased at the office of the Garrett or at the Anaheim Hotel. ALL DOGS BROUGHT ON THE FARM WILL BE SHOT. C. J. SKETCHLEY, Superintendent California Ostrich Farming Company THIS PAPER may be found on file at Geo. P. ROWELL & CO. Newpaper Advertising Bureau (10 Spruce Street), where advertising contracts may be made for it in NEW YORK. WEEKLY EIM GAL ANAHEIM, CALIFORNIA: SATURDAY, MAY 10, 1884 ENTS. gains purchasing. Los Angeles. A. WHITE HING CURL LEAF. Leonard Coates in Napa Register. Horticulturists everywhere periodically discuss this question, but without arriving at any very satisfactory conclusion. We know, in a general way, that curl leaf is caused by atmospheric changes. One night of cold weather, after a warm spell, will often be sufficient to produce the curl. Peach trees raised under the glass, where an uniform temperature is maintained, will not curl; this has been proved by experiment. Some varieties are more subject to it in some localities than others. A peach tree subject to curl leaf my have several other varieties budded on to it that are not liable to curl, and yet they will remain healthy, while the tree on which they are budded may be literally defoliated. A fungus may be observed on leaves that are curled, but it is a question whether this diseased appearance of the leaves is caused by the fungus, or whether the fungus attacks the leaves when they have commenced to decay. We must to the latter opinion. The spores of Fungi are everywhere, merely waiting suitable conditions and circumstances under which they can develop. Fungi are capable of reproduction in the most simple manner, by spontaneous bursting of the sac containing the spores, or sporules, each of which spare being a separate plant, in a short time reaching maturity; by the process of cell elongation, and reproducing itself in like manner like its parent. There is no known and authenticated remedy for curl leaf, although individual instances may be cited in which a tree is claimed to have been cured. This year we hear of a good deal of curl leaf in Vaca valley, a locality generally tolerably exempt from it, and yet this spring has not, thus far, been so cold and changeable as it was last year. It may not necessarily destroy the crop, and Thurlow Weed's Remedy for Intemperance. "Presumptuous as my scheme may be regarded," Mr. Weed writes, "I am prepared not only to suggest, but to demonstrate, that by the concerted action of the people and the Government we can become, as a nation, as distinguished for sobriety as we are now for intemperance. By the acquisition of new territory we can become as extensively a grape-growing country as France or Switzerland. Let California, Kansas and other States with soils adapted to grape culture, turn their industries in that direction, and the practical remedy for intemperance will soon be reached. When the grape is produced in sufficient quantities to furnish cheap wine as a beverage for all classes, it will be within the scope and duty of Congress to perfect a reform that will enunciate our people from the horrors and our nation from the reproach of intemperance. Congressional laws effectually prohibiting the adulteration of whisky and other alcoholic drinks should be enacted. Under such laws experts should be appointed to test the purity of such liquors. Other laws should be passed imposing duties so ocular upon imported liquors as either to exclude or to render them so expensive that the rich only could purchase them. "Intemperance, while it reaches all classes, is most fatal and most pervading with the poor, with whom the curse rests most heavily. The shortest and sarest remedy and relief for this most numerous class of victims is to place the cause beyond their reach. That cause exists in cheap liquors. The law should provide for the appointment of competent inspectors, whose duty it should be to ascertain by chemical tests that all liquors offered for sale are pure and adulterated. Alcoholic liquors should be heavily taxed." STRANGE RELIGIOUS EVENTS. The monks of Caslegovnizza, under whose chapel the coffin of the Count of Chambéry was placed, have received from the Council widow several sets of black velvet garments, finely embroidered with silver. A colored clergyman, now awaiting trust in New London, Conn., has made a comfortable living for the past ten years by collecting money from benevolent people to the purpose of founding a home for aged care people in Senegambia. The Rev. Mr. Pierce was in his pulpit at St. Elmo, Ill., on a recent Sunday when Mrs. Mary Smith, a young widow, left her seat in the body of the church, and got into the pulpit, stood beside the preacher and announced to the congregation that she was determined to become Mrs. Pierce. The worshippers at a church in Solana Col., went on Sunday night to service usual, but found that the bats had taken possession of the house and were so thick and aggressive that the services were poorly popped. On Tuesday the deacons inaugurated a bat hunt, and behind one of the winters found and killed 241 of them. Buddhism is spreading with great rapidity among the more intelligent classes in Russia. Converts are counted by thousands every year. The reason given for its spread is that it is more easily understood than the Christian religion and better adapted to the wants of the people. At present the Green Church is the only authorized church in Russia. The noted De La Matyr, Greenback Grassman and red-hot politician, is now said to be preaching in a Methodist Church at St. Paul. He has introduced an orchestra. Presidential Estimates. New York, May 31.—The Times says: Republican convention to choose delegates to the Republican National Convention have been held in all the States and all Territories except New Mexico, which holds its convention to-day. Out of a membership of 820 delegates, Arthur has 287. Blaine, 340; Edmunds, 66; Logan, 58; John Sherman, 21; Gresham, 7; and the preferences of fifteen delegates are unknown. It requires 411 votes to nominate a candidate for President. If the Mahous men are admitted Arthur's vote will number 309 or 311. On the other hand, if the regular Republicans are admitted Blaine's vote will be 364. Chicago, May 21.—The following is the summary of the Chicago Tribune made tonight, of delegates appointed: Blaine, 363; Arthur, 273; Edmunds, 71; Logan, 56; Sieerman, 26; Hawley, 12; scattering, 5; unknown, 10; total, 816. Delegates to come — Montana, 2; New Mexico, 2; grand total, 820. Three Indiana delegates are for Gen. Sherman and one for Grant, and one New York delegate is for Lincoln. The Montana Convention, which is in session, will probably give one vote to Blaine and one to Edmunds. Chicago, May 31.—The Times publishes this morning a careful inquiry as to preferences or instructions of delegates chosen to the Republican Convention, which shows 329 for Blaine, 295 for Arthur, 73 for Edmunds, 51 for Logan, 23 for Sherman, 12 for Hawley and 37 doubtful. The totals are the footings of a table which was prepared last night, after the returns were received from all the States and Territories except New Mexico and Montana. A Monster Suit. A suit has been commenced in the United States Circuit Court, in San Francisco, by Phillip H. Martz a citizen of Detroit Mich Intemperance, while it reaches all classes, is most fatal and most pervading with the poor, with whom the curse rests most heavily. The shortest and surest remedy and relief for this most numerous class of victims is to place the cause beyond their reach. That cause exists in cheap liquors. The law should provide for the appointment of competent inspectors, whose duty it should be to ascertain by chemical tests that all liquores offered for sale are pure and adulterated. Alcoholic liquors should be heavily taxed. That would immensely diminish the quantity sold, and so largely enhance the price as to render them inaccessible to the poor. It is only by mixtures and adulterations that intoxicating drinks are made cheap enough to ruin and destroy hundreds and thousands. These mixtures and adulterations not only intoxicate but poison their victims. That those who habitually indulge in the use of cheap liquor inhalate more or less of the deadly poison has been clearly ascertained by chemical analysis. The sale of poisoned liquors should for sanitary reasons, be prohibited. Let this reform be accomplished; let us retain the passage of laws which will prohibit by stringent penalties the sale of adulterated liquors. Gin shops and groceries would then rapidly disappear. If the time, labor, money and talent that have been since 1820 devoted to well-meant but utterly fruitless efforts in favor of prohibition had been united in favor of the measures here briefly outlined, the cause of intemperance would have been removed from our borders. Light and palatable wines would have been substituted for abriating and poisonous and alcoholic liquors. France and England are divided by a narrow channel; France produces wine as a beverage; England grows hops and brews beer. The French people are industrious, frugal and sober; in England the laboring classes are improvisant, temperate and degraded. Unhappily, our social and domestic habits and tastes came with our ancestors from England. Let us now rise above them, and adopt measures which will secure to future generations the blessings which confer prosperity and happiness upon the French people." All that has been actually accomplished for sabriety, in Mr. Weed's opinion, has been brought about by domestic moral and religious influences. Of these forces he ranked religion as the most potent. No Need to Drown. "I always dread the return of the season when sea bathing is indulged in," said a gentleman. "My family have had several narrow escapes and still they have a perfect mania for the water." "Why, there is no need to be afraid," answered his friend, "if you but retain your presence of nund. When you find yourself in deep water you will sink at first, but if you do not struggle you will come quickly to the surface again. On reaching it immediately draw a full breath and throw your head back. This will have the effect of placing you in a recumbent position on the surface of the water. Now, this is the most critical moment for those who do not know what to do next. Extend your arms at once on a level with your shoulders, with the palms of the hands downward, and begin gently paddling in the water with the movement of the wrist only. Extend your legs quietly and slowly in a line with your body." Facts About Spools. Spools are made in immense numbers. One factory turns out 100,000 gross a day, and consumes 2,500 cords of birch wood annually. The wool is first sawed into sticks four or five feet long and from seven-eighths of an inch to three inches square, according to the size of the spool to be produced. These sticks, after being thoroughly seasoned, are sawed into short blocks, and the blocks are dried in a hot-air kiln. At the house has been turned into a hotel. There was an extraordinary scene a few days ago at the Leek Cemetery in England at the funeral of a farmer. On arriving at the grave the officiating clergyman, the Rev. W. Brisford, discovered that the feet of the corpse would not point to the eastward. Although the sexton told him that the grave was in a similar position to hundreds of others, and showed him the headstones in confirmation, the clergyman insisted upon his point, referring to the difficulty which would be experienced on the day of resurrection if the corpse was placed otherwise than with its feet to the east. It was found that the grave would take the coffin the reverse way, and the ceremony was thus concluded. A Monster Suit. A suit has been commenced in the United States Circuit Court, in San Francisco, by Phillip H. Martz, a citizen of Detroit, Michigan, against John Doe and 125 other defendants, residents of Azusa, to secure title to one-third of the water used for irrigation and domestic use from the San Gabriel canyon. The complaint covers 31 pages of legal cap, mostly in print. U. S. Deputy Marshal Dunlap has served 95 of these defendants with subpoenas and is looking for the rest. John Doe and the rest of the Doe family will be required to put in an appearance at the Ninth District U. S. Court, on the first Monday in June next, for final adjudication. This is a most remarkable case, and will attract great attention from all parties engaged in irrigation. It is to be hoped that the matter will be satisfactorily settled, without the expense of a long drawn law suit. Col. J. F. Godfrey is attorney for the orator in the case.—L. A. Herald. Trying to Kill off Lincoln. New York, May 2d.—A World's Washington special reproduces a private circular recently issued, calculated to kill off Lincoln. The following is a paragraph: "We have in the list 'Buck' Grant, son of the greatest military man of the age. We have also Stephen A. and 'Bob' Douglas, sons of the great statesman. We suggest that Garfield's sons should be brought to public notice, and, as a preliminary, that places be given them in the next Cabinet, for 'prominent' sons. Say we now nominate 'Buck' Grant and 'Bob' Lincoln for President and Vice-President! There would be as much consistency in one as in the other." Chicago, May 2d.—The Times' Charleston special says: Clem Davis, a colored citizen of Richland county, S. C., apparently fell dead and was duly laid out for burial. The colored people gathered at his cabin at night to pray and sing, when Clem suddenly sat up after being in a comatose state for twenty-four hours. The watchers fled in horror, but came back cautiously and tendered their congratulations. Beetles as big as a small balloon deform the female form divine in Chicago this spring. "Why, there is no need to be afraid," answered his friend, "if you but retain your presence of mind. When you find yourself in deep water you will sink at first, but if you do not struggle you will come quickly to the surface again. On reaching it immediately draw a full breath and throw your head back. This will have the effect of placing you in a recumbent position on the surface of the water. Now, this is the most critical moment for those who do not know what to do next. Extend your arms at once on a level with your shoulders, with the palms of the hands downward, and begin gently paddling in the water with the movement of the wrist only. Extend your legs quietly and slowly in a line with your body. If you raise your arms, your head, or your legs above the surface of the water you will sink, but if you have the presence of mind not to do so and not to struggle about, you will never sink, so long as you keep paddling gently without exertion. So you may float on until you are picked up, or until you are numbed by the cold." Hogs vs. all Other Stock. By a careful analysis of the treasury reports, it is found that the hog furnishes more export material than all the fat cattle, all the dairy products, all the horses, all the mules, all the sheep and all the poultry and poultry products put together. While the exported hog products for the two years of 1879 and 1880, amounted to the great sum of $180,087,727, all the products of all other domestic animals and the live animals themselves, amounted to only $105,870,372, making about $75,000,000 in favor of the hogs, as against all and every other domestic animal and products from the same that found an export market. Really this shows well for hog raising. How important then is the hog stock to this nation, and of the great Northwest in particular. When it is considered how important a factor the hog is in the production of wealth, is it not a little strange that the real scientific knowledge of how to raise them and keep them healthy is so little understood? This is a field that our agricultural colleges and veterinary doctors had better explore. An Athletic Empress. The Empress of Austria, while recently at Wiesbaden hotel, spent her days in athletic training. She seldom attended the concerts, theatre and other amusements of the fashionable watering-places, but a day rarely passed when she did not ride to some of the surrounding chateaux or villages, accompanied by her groom. Not content with these long rides, the Empress devoted several hours daily to fencing and gymnastic exercises, in which she is said to show more skill and endurance than many a practiced fencer or gymnast. Grave would take the coffin the reverse way, and the ceremony was then concluded. Facts About Spools. Spools are made in immense numbers. One factory turns out 100,000 gross a day, and consumes 2,500 cords of birch wood annually. The wool is first sawed into sticks four or five feet long and from seven-eighths of an inch to three inches square, according to the size of the spool to be produced. These sticks, after being thoroughly seasoned, are sawed into short blocks, and the blocks are dried in a hot-air kiln. At the time they are sawn a hole is bored through them. The spool machine is managed by a boy, who throws out the knotty or defective pieces. The spools polish themselves by their motion and contact in revolving drums. Some of the spools are dyed yellow, red or black; others are ready for use when they leave the drama. The number of yards of cotton on a spool is determined by the size of the spool. The cotton is never measured, but the spool is gauged to contain 100,200 or 500 yards, as the case may be. Silk and linen firms always send to their spool makers patterns giving the size and shape of the barrel and of the head and belvel, which determines the amount of silk or thread that the spool will hold. One of Arthur's Characteristics. From the Boston Herald. The President's worst fault is procrastination. He does not want his guests to go because when he says good night to the last of them he will be obliged to do something else, and that is what he always hates to do; but when the house is empty, he shuts himself up in the little room next to his bedroom and works. Mr. Arthur writes more public papers than almost any other President has written. He is very clever with his pen, having a clear, vigorous style, and a knack of presenting what he has to say with its best foot foremost. He works late into the night, for he hates to stop and go to bed, just as he hated to stop talking to go to work. Whenever he goes anywhere he is late, and he keeps people waiting for him an unconsequenceable length of time if he happens to be doing anything which he is interested in when they call upon him. It isn't because he is an idler that he puts off till to-morrow what ought to be done today, but because he enjoys doing what he is for the moment engaged in. He loves to be comfortable, and he dreads discomfort, but he never neglects his public duties if he is obliged to sit up all night to perform them. Sanguine Dakota papers predict that the immigration to this country will amount to 200,000 this year. GAZETTE. Y, MAY 10, 1884. ANGE RELIGIOUS EVENTS. of Caalegornizza, under whose coffin of the Count of Chambord have received from the Count's real sets of black velvet vest-embroidered with silver. clergyman, now awaiting trial on Conn., has made a com-ing for the past ten years by colly from benevolent people for of founding a home for aged colon Senegambia. Mr. Pierce was in his pulpit at on a recent Sunday when Smith, a young widow, left her body of the church, and, going it, stood beside the preacher to the congregation that she need to become Mrs. Pierca. ippers at a church in Solano, a Sunday night to service as found that the bats had taken the house and were so thick that the services were post-Tuesday the deacons inaugurated, and behind one of the win-und killed 241 of them. is spreading with great rapidity more intelligent classes in Ruits are counted by thousands. The reason given for its spread more easily understood than the religion and better adapted to the people. At present the Greek one only authorized church of De La Matyr, Greenback Con- red-hot politician, is now said in a Methodist Church in which has introduced an orchestra. BLAINE. New York Sun. Everybody admits the fact, and those who are most surprised at it admit it most cheerfully, that Mr. Blaine is a great deal stronger as an aspirant to the Presidency, after having been out of office and engaged in the occupations of private life for two years and a half, than he ever was when in office; and yet he has held very important, honorable and influential posts, and has exercised in them an immense power over the politics of the country. The reason of this cannot be concealed, and it is that Mr. Blaine's popularity has grown in his retirement until he is now the most popular individual in the whole Republican party. It is not the popularity of politicians, for the politicians are mainly against him. It is not a popularity of the press, for there are few powerful journals that champion his cause. It is a popularity of the masses; and the fact is most creditable to Mr. Blaine. The Republican press are against him; the Republican politicians are against him; but the people are for him with an enthusiasm and a determination such as has not been evinced toward any Republican leader of our day, with the single exception, perhaps, of Gen. Grant, and in his case the feeling was not due to personal magnetism or to political associations, but to the prestige of his successes in the civil war. With Mr. Blaine it is all a matter of personal attraction and of the prestige of dashing political abilities. But will this feeling suffice to nominate Mr. Blaine at Chicago? The answer which every experienced observer of public affairs will be likely to give is that it will not suffice. In 1860, the supporters of Mr. Seward went to Chicago backed by the same popular zeal, stimulated by even greater confidence and greater resources; and not often. EVERYTHING. Quebec, they say, is suffering a steady and gradual loss of population. Over 5,000 alligator hides were shipped from one port in Florida week before last. The Russian government is trying to get the railroads to reduce their rates on grain. The recent fire at Rangoon, Burmah raged two days, and destroyed forty-one houses. Loss, £1,200,009. Great suffering from lack of food is reported from many places overflowed lately by the Mississippi. A monastery of Domician nuns, the only one in the United States, has been opened at Newark, N.J. Dr. Law of Cornell University says emphatically that the Kansas cattle plague is not a contagious disease. A recent traveler along the line of the Panama canal predicts that of the 15,000 workmen now engaged there fully two-thirds will be dead before the canal is completed. The blue coat for evening dress, which has been fashionable in Paris this season, has had its day already, and the habit groselle—say gooseberry green—takes its place. John F. Pfeiffer, a veteran Union soldier of Chambersburg, Penn., has just received a check for $8,500 for back pensions. He is totally blind. The farmers around Tolano, Ill., have dug a number of wells, striking natural gas, with which they do their cooking and heat and light their houses. Two bed-ridden consumptives, lying in different wards of a New York hospital, have sued for divorce, and the referee recommends that it be granted. A signboard marked "Six miles to Montgomery," Ala., was found in it. the services were post-Tuesday the deacons inaugurated, and behind one of the winand killed 241 of them. is spreading with great rapidity more intelligent classes in Rustats are counted by thousands. The reason given for its spread more easily understood than the region and better adapted to the people. At present the Greek one only authorized church of De La Matyr, Greenback Conred-hot politician, is now said ing in a Methodist Church in he introduced an orchastra consisting of two violins, a bass the brass pieces. The old-fashers have left the church, but the led at every service with young was devoutly reading the to his congregation when he in words in the lower right to which he desired to give So he read with a loud m"—turned over two leaves "an ass, the foal of an ass" this mistake, found the right ed, "that I am." chant churches are represented rapid headway with religious soo. The Presbyterian have monaries, over 7,000 communi300 children in their mission Episcopalians report fortyworship, 1,500 communicants, era in their mission schools. ha have eighty-six missionaries and a large number of members ness. Other denominations are equal success. days no woman was allowed to within the walls of the monasaugustin, Mexico. A noble wife of the reigning Viceroy, visiting it. Nothing could stop came. But she found only a for each virtuous monk securely in his cell, and afterone in the floor which her saclad touched was carefully renew one fresh from the mounses are sadly changed. The turned into a hotel. extraordinary scene a few Leek Cemetery in England of a farmer. On arriving at officiating clergyman, the Rev. discovered that the feet of the not point to the eastward. Alson told him that the grave position to hundreds of othhin the headstones in conlergyman insisted upon his to the difficulty which would on the day of resurrection if replaced otherwise than with ast. It was found that the to the coffin the reverse way, any was then concluded. About Spools. made in immense numbers. was out 100,000 gross a day, 500 cords of birch wood anood is first sawed into sticks long and from seven-eighths tree inches square, according the spool to be produced. after being thoroughly seasoninto short blocks, and the in a hot-air kiln. At the an enthusiasm and a determination such as has not been evinced toward any Republican leader of our day, with the single exception, perhaps, of Gen. Grant, and in his case the feeling was not due to personal magnetism or to political associations, but to the presitige of his successes in the civil war. With Mr. Blaine it is all a matter of personal attraction and of the prestige of dashing political abilities. But will this feeling suffice to nominate Mr. Blaine at Chicago? The answer which every experienced observer of public affairs will be likely to give is that it will not suffice. In 1860, the supporters of Mr. Seward went to Chicago backed by the same popular zeal, stimulated by even greater confidence and greater resources; and yet, after a most animated struggle, they were beaten; and the judgment of impartial history is that their defeat was a great gain for the country. In 1880 the supporters of Gen. Grant went to Chicago with a similar though perhaps a less decided assurance of victory; and they, too, were beaten, in spite of all that could be done by the unwavering phalanx of the famous 306; and history now proclaims that their defeat was likewise a public boon. Yet all these precedents, and all the circumstances of Mr. Blaine's own history should not be held to close the case against him. Times have greatly changed and men have changed with them. He may win new triumphs where his renowned predecessors failed utterly. Certainly the surprising successes he has just met with in States like Ohio and Pennsylvania is well calculated to confirm the determination and cheer the courage of his devoted followers. Pecan Trees and Pecan Nuts. I see with much satisfaction the growing interest for—the cultivation of pecan and other nut-bearing trees, living as I do in the centre of one of the best pecan-growing sections in the world. Here the trees grow naturally all over the country. It occurs to me that, from observation and experience, I can offer a few hints that may be of service to those who are making these efforts. The pecan tree will grow almost anywhere. It seems able to stand any amount of cold, nor is it injured by the heat of our protracted summers. But there are other things to be considered. Most writers seem not to take into account the fact that there are many varieties of pecan, and there is as much difference in the quality as there is in the sorts and sizes. Some have thick and others thin shells. Some are very early, and others very late. These, however, are only matters of taste or fancy. The real item of paramount importance is with this tree, as with fruit and other trees, its health and freedom from insects. Like the walnut, the foliage of the pecan tree is not infrequently totally destroyed by the caterpillar. Hence those trees that have the thickest, toughest foliage do best. There is one sort growing here—the nuts of which are an inch and a half long, with a medium thick shell, of short, stubby growth, and with foliage so thick and tough that I have never seen it injured by insects of any species. This variety is very early, and for this reason is frequently gathered by eager boys before fully matured. The nuts are soon gone, and seldom reach the markets. Here we plant the seed in the fall soon after they are gathered. They sprout well in the following spring, growing about two feet the first year. As soon as they drop their leaves in the fall we lay bare one side of the root and root prune them, replacing the dirt. In the spring before the plentiful growth been fashionable in Paris this season, has had its day already, and the habit groselle—say gooseberry green—takes its place. John F. Pfeiffer, a veteran Union soldier of Chamberburg, Penn., has just received a check for $8,500 for back pensions. He is totally blind. The farmers around Tolano, Ill., have dug a number of wells, striking natural gas, with which they do their cooking and heat and light their houses. Two bed-ridden consumptives, lying in different wards of a New York hospital, have used for divorce, and the referee recommends that it be granted. A signboard marked "Six miles to Montgomery, Ala." was found, it is asserted, in the mountains after the recent tornado, 250 miles from Montgomery. The resolve for biennial seasons (as a proposition distinct from biennial elections) has been rejected by the lower branch of the Massachusetts Legislature. The House Committee on Civil Service has reported adversely on two bills, both introduced by Democratic members providing for the abolition of the Civil Service Commission. Gen. Gordon, it is said, has caused an Arabic text to be conspicuously inscribed over his throne in the palace of Khartoum, a translation of which is: "God Rules Over the Hearts of Men." The Italian Consul at Malta proposed to deposit in the government stores two hundred cases of dynamite from a vessel; but the government ordered the ship to sail within forty-eight hours. "And do your workmen," asked a London visitor of a Lancashire mill owner," do your workmen really live in these hotels?" "Certainly not," replied the master." "They only sleep thore." They live in my mill." Cincinnati doctors say that the recent floods have cleansed and purified that part of the city which has always been starting point of disease and the city was never in such a good condition. The arbitrator to whom the question of wages in the manufactured iron trade in Northern England was referred, has decided upon a reduction amounting to 2½ per cent. The employers demanded a reduction of 10 per cent. The present liquor license tax in Bloomington, Ill., is $600 a year. There is sufficient talk of raising it to $1,000 a year, so that figure would weed out a number of superfluous saloons, and at the same time yield more revenue than is now received. The Lanet thinks that now it has become a penal offence to sell in France such wines as contain salicylic acid, they will be sent to England; it might have added America. Dr. Brownardel found 15 grains of the drug in a litre of wine. Oleomargarine has found its way into the English market from this country, and is creating considerable talk among the people there. It is certain to encounter fierce opposition, and there is a strong probability that stringent prohibitory laws will be enacted. A Hungarian official recently hired the town-erier to go about with a drum announcing that a certain colleague of the former was "a secondrel." This The Vienna papers have styled "American vengeance," perhaps because, like the "American duel," it is thoroughly no American. Quin Bohannon, a Nebraska murderer, when first convicted at Nebraska City, was sentenced to life imprisonment. He secured a new trial on a technicality, and was recently convicted and sentenced to be hanged. The condemned man says he prefers the last sentence. A Man and Rat Fight. The Ilkeston correspondent of the Sheffield, Eng., Daily Telegraph writes: The details of a disgusting exhibition of brutality have just transpired at Ilkeston in the shape of a man and rat fight which occurred a few days ago at Cotmanhay, a suburb of Ilkeston, chiefly inhabited by collars. Unlike the Hanley "man and dog fight," which proved to be a myth, the circumstances of this affair can be vouchered for as strictly correct. At a spot near the Granby Colliery a group of men collected. Presently a piece of string was produced, and a fierce-looking rat was forfeiting. The cord was attached to the animal's tail, and the rat was the centre of attraction for a moment or two, while a man among the group, who was familiarly addressed with a nickname which betokened him to be of Irish origin, allowed his hands to be tied behind him with another piece of string. These were the "combatants," and all being ready for the battle a space was cleared on the ground. The biped knelt down and a shower of "coppers" was thrown to encourage him. The man in charge of the rate (himself an authority in the pagillistic art, it is said) placed the animal on the ground, retaining in his possession the string attached to its tail. The fight then began in earnest, and the man and the rat alternately grabbed at each other. The rat drew the "first blood," by fastening on the man's face, whilst the latter made grab after grab to get hold of the rat with his teeth. The animal, however, seized the man by the nose and inflicted a wound which the fellow will have cause to remember. Eventually the man became tired and the rat worn out. Thus the disgusting scene ended. Columbia River Cannery. Mr. George Home, one of the largest canners of fish, on Columbia River, Oregon, says that he suffered with rheumatism for seven years, having spent six months at Arkansas Hot Springs, and at Pase Robles Springs, Cal., four months in every year, without benefit. Finally he tried St. Jacobs Oil, the great pain cure, and in a short time all stiffness and soreness of the joints disappeared.