anaheim-gazette 1884-05-24

WEEKLY GAZETTE SATURDAY... MAY 24, 1884 SUBSCRIPTION, per year, $2. FERDINAND WARD and P. T. Barnum can give corroborative testimony upon the gullibility of the American public. The near approach of the fruit canning season is being prepared for. One of the largest canning firms in the State has imported several carloads of glucose. By the way, there seems to be a hitch somewhere in the new Courthouse scheme. Has the honorable Board awakened to the fact that no one uninterested in the jobbery wants a new Courthouse? It is said that in Sweden there is a law taking away the right of suffrage from every man who has been drunk three times. As a Republican, we wish that such a law could be enforced in the United States next November. JUDGE REID of Kentucky, whose vindication of his action in refusing to fight a duel was published in the Gazette a couple of weeks ago, has committed suicide. The excitement of his canvass for re-election produced temporary aberration of mind. Royal people are but human, after all. A short time ago the German Princess Lonise Battenbergs ate so much lobster salad that she was taken seriously ill, and now the same frisky lady has a sprained ankle, caused by playfully jumping over a coal scuttle. REPRESENTATIVE CASSIDY of Nevada and other Pacific Coast representatives had an interview with Tilden some weeks ago. Mr. Cassidy said that he "left Tilden in the firm conviction that he will gladly accept the nomination if tendered him by the Chicago Convention." The financial flurry in New York ended as suddenly as it begun. Save the stranding of a few stock gamblers, its effects were unimportant. The commercial atmosphere RELIGIOUS INNOVATIONS Verily I say unto you the religious observances of our times are not as they were in the days of our forefathers. If it is indeed true that the spirits of the dead are conscious of, and take an interest in, the events of this sphere, we can hardly imagine the consternation with which the Puritan of old views the innovations in our churches. Does not his spiritual hair elevate itself in spiritual horror, as he sees Reminyi standing on the steps leading to the pulpit of Beecher's church, and hear him extract alleged sacred music from his inspired fiddle? Does he not turn faint as the tones of Arbuckle's horn float heavenward as a prelude to Talmage's sermon? Yes, does not his soul writhe in auguish as the sweet music of Knapp's cornet percolates upward through the roof of St. Michael's on every Sunday evening? But we have no need to wonder whether the Puritan in the spirit views these things with wonder and grief; for there are not wanting people still in the flesh who think that the sanctuary is defiled by the presence and sound of even so mournful an instrument as the organ. There are to-day many churches in which the congregation are quarreling, as only Christians can, over the question of the introduction of organ music into the services. If these people object to that drowsy instrument, what their feelings are in regard to the violin and cornet is beyond power of description. But notwithstanding their protests, it is not beyond the bounds of probability that the present generation will hear within the sacred edifice strains of music from many brazen instruments, and if people can be gathered together by such attraction to hear the Word, the popular verdict will be that the end justified the means. RHETORICAL SLUSH. The disease which has been aptly characterized as "a rush of mush to the head" is one with which a large minority of mankind is afflicted with. It is not offensive, however, until the afflicted ones spread upon the public prints the evidences of their affection; and, unfortunately for the public, the greater the rush of mush, the greater the itch for scribbling. It is proposed to change some of the text books now used in the public schools of this county. Thereupon a party by the name of Rose closes a two-column communication by PACIFIC "Lucky" Baldwin victim this time is aged 20 years. A Swiss named Taddea death in a building in San Francisco. Controller Dunn hides the recent extra seas and finds the aggregate average of $1469 12. Mrs. Lealand Stanley the San Francisco kings was made on the anniversary. An Indian squaw triplets a few days considerably exercise them shall be strange custom. A San Jose paper on the quality of Portul of San Jose against the paper gave him ten cents. In a dispute at Sago Louis Insundah eyes destroyed by a thrown at him by Joan has been issued for Sugar. A worm, pronounced worm," has made it in northern portions where it is committing tation of all kinds. The Portland Stanley $25,000 damages for ter. It insinuated that willowware factory fire in order to obtain Four miners, James Chappelle, Robert Ware were buried in a mine about four miles from day morning. Their James Anderson, Sonoma county, form Gospel, while delivered Hall, Cloverdale, feather disease is supplied. Yreka reports a form of a double-head heads in one, i.e., and the double forms had only two ears. When it mewed it did at the same time. At Fort Verde, A.oughbred bulldog w young mountain lion fierce one, lasting abutting in a victorious canine did not surmount wounds received during half an hour. The young people at South, in Sacramento twenty couples, had REPRESENTATIVE CASSIDY of Nevada and other Pacific Coast representatives had an interview with Tilden some weeks ago. Mr. Cassidy said that he "left Tilden in the firm conviction that he will gladly accept the nomination if tendered him by the Chicago Convention." The financial flurry in New York ended as suddenly as it began. Save the stranding of a few stock gamblers, its effects were unimportant. The commercial atmosphere momentarily clouded is clearer and brighter for the storm, and the general prosperous condition of the country is unaffected. Fifteen thousand dollars have been appropriated by Congress for the encouragement of silk culture. This may yet become a profitable industry, as there is a vast amount of intelligence at work to make it successful. California is especially interested in the possibilities of silk culture. Logan is evidently determined to be "solid" with the ex-soldiers. He is the author of a bill giving to each soldier who served in the war $8 for every month they served, and the veterans rise up as one man and call him blessed. Did it depend on "the boys" Logan would be nominated on the first ballot. McLean, proprietor of the Cincinnati Enquirer, sent Gen. Grant a check for $50,000 when it became known that he was badly involved. Sorry the idea didn't occur to us. It would be no trouble at all to write a check for fifty thousand or fifty million. But old Grant would have a tough time in realizing upon it. The liabilities of the colossal swindling firm of Grant & Ward amount to the astounding sum of fourteen and a half millions of dollars. They were great purchasers of bonds, Railroad, Municipal and County; and paid a price far above that offered by other capitalists. What a pity our Board of Supervisors have been so slow in the Courthouse business. A splendid opportunity to work off their bonds is forever lost. A Washington telegram says that the item in the appropriation bill providing for the erection of a government building in Los Angeles will probably never be reached. Holman, whose ambition it is to be considered the watch dorg of the Treasury, objects to everything in the way of appropriations. Whether they be moritorious or fraudulent, it is all the same to him. Any donkey could enact the role of objector, and yet there are thousands of people who look upon Holman as the greatest statesman of the age. The disease which has been aptly characterized as "a rush of mush to the head" is one with which a large minority of mankind is afflicted with. It is not offensive, however, until the afflicted ones spread upon the public prints the evidences of their affliction; and, unfortunately for the public, the greater the rush of mush, the greater it for scribbling. It is proposed to change some of the text books now used in the public schools of this county. Thereupon a party by the name of Rose closes a two-column communication by asserting that "it is such actions as these which cause the enactment of such scenes as occurred at Cincinnati a few weeks ago," or words to that effect. Mr. Rose has an abnormal rush of mush to the head. D. B. Hoffman complains, in a letter to a San Diego paper, of the enormity of the outrage perpetrated upon the people by that regulation of the postoffice department which requires that persons renting postoffice boxes shall deposit fifty cents to secure the return of the key. And he closes his letter by saying: "It is such practices as 'this that lead sooner or later to the terrible 'scenes and ventilating lessons that were 'witnessed and taught to the world in Cincinnati a few weeks ago.' Mr. Hoffman's capacious cranium is running over with mush. The trouble with both these gentlemen is that they allowed their desire to write something pretty to overcome their common sense, and the result was the rhetorical slush which they no doubt thought was a fitting peroration to their letters. A CONTRAST While we of Southern California look upon plains covered with verdure, upon hills bedecked with wild flowers, upon rivers swollen with a superabundance of water and on hills covered with snow, the people of New South Wales are in extremity from a prolonged drought. A member of the Legislative Assembly of that country, who is now in San Francisco, said in answer to inquiries: Times were never so bad in the colony as they are at present. We have had a succession of dry seasons. Our stock is almost all destroyed. I might safely say that we have lost one-fourth of our animals. In round numbers, 8,000,000 sheep have died. The creeks are dry and if we have no rain in June I am afraid to say what will happen. The land mania has nearly died out. Numerous persons are out of work. Of course, the public works have not been stopped, because they are under contract, but otherwise the aspect of affairs is indeed gloomy. It will take fully two years before the colony can get over this damage. It will stop emigration, and I doubt if there will be any money voted for emigration this year. I, who have always voted for an appropriation, would not do so now under any circumstances. Female Franchise in England. At Fort Verde, A., oughred bulldog w young mountain lion fierce one, lasting abut sulting in a victorious canine did not survive wounds received during half an hour. The young people e South, in Sacramento twenty couples, hailed the other day. The up and dusted, the few pews cleaned, and o pie order. That fur was fully demonstrat Candidates for post-vermont establishment as peas in a pool. T for Governor of Alasco Brown of Amador, al Nevada. Oregon fur the person of D.W. merly of California. At Greenville, Plum a man named George ed with having attent man to poison his (charged from custom that nowhere in th be found defining an attempt) to be made crime. The Coeur d'Alene live umbrella was bristle passengers from Jackson tied behind the saillid of civilization and th was greeted by the bue dued but prolonged h down the street. An ers and prospectors! The Rural Press mors of a movement o raisins looking stock. Raisins have drug since the beginn very low prices have asserted on good auth ion has been effected California layers has per box, while Long marked up to $1.75 p At Portland, Ogn Orton, aged seven, t o of a neighbor, carried stripped it, and seized ped the babe until it from neck to heels. covering such a case, injured child want to Orton's parents for ha she same as if it was "It is not generally ers," said a Stockton corn husks bring a m corn itself. The husk lea leaves being mere o torn off in taking o a ready sale in every price now is seven co have been as high as dozen in this city. T ing tomales." In political circles are mentioned as probable congressional candidates for nomination by the Democracy the names of Joseph D. Lynch, R. F. Del Valle and Stephen M. White of Los Angeles. On the Republican side Governor Mansfield and W. A. Cheney will be presented to the convention as Los Angeles county's offering to the list of candidates, and without prejudice we are of the opinion that Los Angeles county presents the best ability, availability and fitness of the whole list of candidates for nomination in the Sixth Congressional District. At Kingston, Ont., on Tuesday, George Peters, a railway laborer, returned home after a night spent in dissipation. He picked up a lighted lamp and started to go up stairs. When near the top the lamp fell from his hand, and in instant the stairway was in a blaze. The flames spread rapidly, making escape for those asleep in the upper part a matter of great difficulty. Mrs. Peter followed by her two daughters, rushed through the flames and managed to escape, as did also John Peters, a son, and two boarders. Maggie Peters, who had just escaped, discovered that her little sister was still in the burning building, and made a desperate attempt to rescue her, but she was overcome by the smoke and was taken out in an insensible condition. It is believed that her injuries are fatal. Miss Biedger, an invalid, parished in the flames. It is supposed that Peters, who was the cause of the catastrophe, also parished in the flames, together with three boarders who were so drunk that they did not banme aware of their peril until two late. Female Franchise in England. There is no blinking the fact that female franchise is becoming a question of practical politics, and one moreover, which will give ministers a good deal of trouble. Mrs. Pawcett showed true debating instinct in her speech at St. James' Hall last night, when she fastened on the "capable citizen" argument, and it is extremely hard to see how ministers, who adopted that argument the other day, can, with any show of reason, refuse the franchise to female householders. It will be interesting when Mr. Goodall's amendment comes on to hear how Mr. Gladstone will deal with the thousands of women who are daily fulfilling all the functions of "capable citizens"—the 50,000 women farmers, for instance, or the 120,000 women teachers, or the large number of women doctors, women poor-law guardians and women civil service clerks. —Pall Mall Gazette. Conversationists for Hire. Sixty years ago Figaro says, there was an agency in Spring Gardens, London, presided over by a Mr. Blackman, for procuring conversationists for parties of parvenous. He had an assortment of 600, ready to start, like Mr. Archibald Forbes, at a moment's notice for any place in the British empire. Among them was seven Irish peers and three Scotch, fifteen ruined baronets, and a number of men warranted to tell, with more or less eloquence, the story of the Peninsular war. The gentle sex was represented by 187 maidens of uncertain age and small revenues. "All these," said the advertisement, "play at cards generally to the advantage of their partners." The pay for time of sojourn was four meals a day "and claret if one of them is a Scotch or Irish peer." Very pretty figured lawns can be seen at Cahona. "Lucky" Baldwin is married again. His victim this time is Miss Lilly C. Bennett, aged 20 years. A Swiss named Theobold was burned to death in a building in which he was sleeping in San Francisco. He has a son and daughter living in Los Angeles. Controller Dunn has footed up the cost of the recent extra session of the Legislature and finds the aggregate to be $74,925,00—an average of $1469 12 a day. Mrs. Leland Stanford has given $4000 to the San Francisco kindergarten. The gift was made on the anniversary of her dead son's birthday. An Indian squaw at Bodie gave birth to triplets a few days ago, and the father is considerably exercised as to which two of them shall be strangled, according to Piute custom. A San Jose paper published a reflection on the quality of wine made by J. B. J. Portul of San Jose, and he brought suit against the paper for damages. The jury gave him ten cents. In a dispute at Sacramento a few days ago Louis Insmund had the sight of one of his eyes destroyed by a handful of wet mortar, thrown at him by John Sporing. A warrant has been issued for Sporing's arrest. A worm, pronounced the voracious "army worm," has made its unwelcome appearance in northern portions of Eastern Washington, where it is committing great havoc on vegetation of all kinds. The Portland Standard is being sued for $25,000 damages for defamation of character. It insinuated that L. Feldman & Co.'s willowware factory had been destroyed by fire in order to obtain the insurance. Four miners, James Lawrence, Coleman Chappelle, Robert Wallace and Joseph Hays, were buried in a mine at Forest springs, about four miles from Grass Valley, Saturday morning. Their bodies were recovered. James Anderson, Deputy County Clerk of Sonoma county, formerly a minister of the Gospel, while delivering a sermon at Liberty Hall, Cloverdale, fell dead in the pulpit. Heart disease is supposed to be the cause. Yreka reports a freak of nature in the form of a double-headed kitten. It has two heads in one, i.e., two mouths, four eyes and the double formation of a head, but it had only two ears. It lived but nine days. When it mewed it did so with both mouths at the same time. At Fort Verde, A. T., last week, a thoroughbred bulldog was matched against a young mountain lion. The battle was a very fierce one, lasting about fifteen minutes, resulting in a victory for the dog; but the canine did not survive long, dying from wounds received during the fight in about half an hour. The young people of the Methodist Church South, in Sacramento, to the number of about twenty couples, had a church cleaning bee NEWS OF THE WEEK. The reflection of the sun's rays from a milkcan set fire to house in Machias, N. Y., recently. Glover, Vt., has a citizen who wears a shoe twenty-two inches in length and eight in width. It is estimated that there are 40,000 persons in New York dependent on gambling for a living. The Cape Cod canal dredger is the largest in the world. It takes out 600 cubic yards an hour. A nao living near Gynne Station, Phillips county, Texas, was recently stung to death by buffalo gnats. Two brothers in Connecticut married sisters, and the first son of each couple was born on the 29th of February. One of the Boston papers says that the weekly sales of oleomargarine in that city amount to 100,000 or 150,000 pounds. A new process in shot-making does away with the tall towers. A strong current of air is forced on the lead as it falls into the water. Bennington, Vt., has the largest dealer in the world of genuine spruce gum. His average sales of this commodity reach 12,000 pounds annually. A patent has been granted in Mexico for a new process for manufacturing mescal, which will make that potent liquor twice as strong as ordinary. A disastrous drought has prevailed in Australia. Vast numbers of stock have perished. In some places cattle are dying of starvation at an alarming rate. A Savannah lady, to cure dyspepsia, drank eleven gallons of tepid water at an Atlantic water-cure, which threw her into convulsions. A careless farmer near Dublin, Ga., found a rat's nest in the matted hair of his horse's tail. The young rats were nearly half grown. Each year the loss by fire in the United States increases. Eight or nine years ago it was about $70,000,000 per annum. Now it is $100,000,000. Artesian wells in New York show that the East river underflows the island. In deep wells lately sink the water ebb flows with the tide. The gold-fish globe must go. They act as burning glasses, and it is stated that one insurance company has refused to take risks on houses where they are kept. At Bel Bazar City, Asia Minor, 950 dwellings, 544 warehouses and shops, 11 mosques, 16 schools, 9 khans and 144 other buildings were burned. Eleven persons perished. Dogs in Tennessee, it has been calculated, number 30,000; cost $3,000,000 a year to keep and prevent the raising of 2,000,000 sheep whose mutton and wool would be worth $5,000,000. The Viticulturists. The Viticultural Commission met in San Francisco on Monday and decided upon having a California viticultural exhibit at the Antwerp Exposition of 1885. A petition was received from the wine merchants of San Francisco, asking the Commission to request the Commissioner of Internal Revenue to enforce the existing law against the adulteration of wines and the manufacture of spirious wines; reference being had to the New York adulteration and manufacture, which is detrimental to the pure wine interests of California. The chief executive officer, Mr. Wetmore, called the attention of the Board to the importance of making questions of fermentation and disease of wine resulting from defective methods and badly constructed cellars of leading prominence during the conventions to be held this year; in order to facilitate wine-makers overcoming many difficulties which they now experience, such as the formation of lactic acid, aldehyde, bitter tastes, putrid decompositions, which sometimes follow fermentation conducted with considerable skill and experience, and in order to determine if possible, varying rules for the fermentation of different varieties of grapes as well as the proper construction of cellars to suit given climatic conditions. He advised also that the scientific professors of the State University be requested to act during the summer vacation, commencing in June, on behalf of the Board in instituting a careful examination of the wines in cellars in various parts of the State, taking notes of difficulties of fermentation as demonstrated by the condition of such products with a view to the careful study of the problems thereby suggested to them. The importance of this work was believed to be so great and pressing that the Board authorized the chief executive officer to invite Eugene W. Hilgard, professor of agriculture, and Willard B. Rising, professor of chemistry, to constitute a committee for such purpose; the Board pledging to provide a liberal compensation for their services during vacation; and an assistant to work under their direction. Mr. West, Commissioner for the San Joaquin district informed the Board that he would call a convention of vine-growers to meet at Fresho on the 10th, 11th and 12th of June. The Board agreed to make this convention of special importance, as in the case of the Los Angeles convention last year. Each member of the commission will be expected to be present. On motion of Mr. Wetmore a special committee consisting of Messrs. Rose, Blowers and West, was appointed for the purpose of considering the raisin question. This committee was instructed to request those interested in raisins to make known at the Fresno convention the special wants of their industry; in order that the Board may intelligently act in their beh if during the next session of Congress. At Fort Verle, A. T., last week, a thoroughbred bulldog was matched against a young mountain lion. The battle was a very fierce one, lasting about fifteen minutes, resulting in a victory for the dog; but the canine did not survive long, dying from wounds received during the night in about half an hour. The young people of the Methodist Church South, in Sacramento, to the number of about twenty couples, had a church cleaning bee the other day. The carpets were all taken up and dusted, the floors scrubbed out, the pews cleaned, and everything put in apple pie order. That fun can be made of labor was fully demonstrated. Candidates for positions under the new government established for Alaska are as thick as peas in a pod. The principal candidates for Governor of Alaska are ex-State Senator Brown of Amador, and ex-Gov. Kinkaad of Nevada. Oregon furnishes a candidate in the person of D. W. Welty of Portland formerly of California. At Greenville, Plumas county, last week, a man named George Bellas, who was charged with having attempted to bribe another man to poison his (Bellas) wife, was discharged from custody, the Court holding that nowhere in the codes could any statute be found defining an "attempt to procure an attempt" to be made at the commission of a crime. The Coeur d'Alene Nugget says: A real live umbrella was brought in by one of the passengers from Jackass Thursday. It was tied behind the saillde, and was an evidence of civilization and tender-footedness which was greeted by the boys in camp with a subdued but prolonged howl as the owner rode down the street. An umbrella among miners and prospectors! What next? The Rural Press says that there are rumors of a movement on the part of holders of raisins, looking to a concentration of stock. Raisins have been more or less a drug since the beginning of the season, and very low prices have prevailed. It is now asserted on good authority that a combination has been effected by which the price of California layers has been advanced to $1.50 per box, while London layers have been marked up to $1.75 per box. At Portland, Ogn., on Tuesday, Freddie Orton, aged seven, took a two-year-old babe of a neighbor, carried it under the house, stripped it, and seizing a leather strap, whipped the babe until it was covered with welts from neck to heels. There is no ordinance covering such a case, and the parents of the injured child want to bring a charge against Orton's parents for harboring a vicious boy, the same as if it was a vicious dog. "It is not generally known among farmers," said a Stockton vegetable dealer, "but corn husks bring a much higher price than corn itself. The husks should be kept whole, the leaves being merely bent down instead of torn off in taking out the ear. They find a ready sale in every large city." The retail price now is seven cents a pound. Husks have been as high as twenty-five cents per dozen in this city. They are used in making tomales." A Mammoth Orange Grove. The report comes from Florida that Heather Island has been sold for $100,000 to a syndicate of capitalists, prominent among whom are ex-Governor Horace Fairbanks and Hon. Franklin Fairbanks of Verla. Travelers over the Mexican Central railway are experiencing great inconvenience because trains are not allowed to cross to the Texas side after 5 o'clock P.M., under the Mexican Custom House Regulation. John B. Franklin, a white man living in Russell county, Ala., not satisfied with his wife's cooking, stock a red hot iron and branded her. He has been given a year in the penitentiary and $1,000 fine for the act. A Pennsvlianian has made a perfect locomotive, which from the end of the tank to the point of the cowcatcher, measures six and a quarter inches and weighs two pounds. It will be in operation at the New Orleans exhibition. A Chicago newspaper asserts that there are over 1,000 more saloon-keepers and bar-tenders than preachers in the State of Illinois. There are over 2,000 bankers and brokers, over 33,000 merchants of the various trades, and about 500,000 persons engaged in agriculture. One of the provisions in the life sentence imposed in Berlin on Carl Schenck, one of the trio of servant-girl murderers, is that on every anniversary of the killing of each of his victims he is to be confined for that day, in a dark cell. He will thus have to spend ten days per year in total darkness. Sheep husbandry is rather a precarious occupation in Georgia. The Atlanta Constitution reports that John Pusser of Pulaski county last spring turned out 900 sheep and this spring gathered 300. John Rogers out of 1,700 penned 1,300 j while many others have suffered similarly, and they all attribute their losses chiefly to the ravages of dogs. Buffalo guats, which have proved so fatal to mules, are now attacking human beings, and the death of a farmer, the result of a sting from one of them, is reported from Helena, Arkansas. He was attacked while at work in a field, the guats swarming around him. Their stings becoming unbearable, he started for home at full speed. All remedies failed to relieve him, and he died in a short time in great agony, his face and neck having turned almost black. A special from Harrodsburg, Ky., says: A horrible case of wholesale poisoning by homlock took place near that place on Monday. Eighteen boys, after playing a game of baseball, started in search of wild parsnips, hot got hold of deadly hemlock instead. The boys ate freely, and all of them were taken violently ill. Two died almost immediately and five are in a very critical condition, but expected to live. The others are suffering more or less from the poison. A Mammoth Orange Grove. The report comes from Florida that Heather Island has been sold for $100,000 to a syndicate of capitalists, prominent among whom are ex-Governor Horace Fairbanks and Hon. Franklin Fairbanks of Verla. Travelers over the Mexican Central railway are experiencing great inconvenience because trains are not allowed to cross to the Texas side after 5 o'clock P.M., under the Mexican Custom House Regulation. John B. Franklin, a white man living in Russell county, Ala., not satisfied with his wife's cooking, stock a red hot iron and branded her. He has been given a year in the penitentiary and $1,000 fine for the act. A Pennsvlianian has made a perfect locomotive, which from the end of the tank to the point of the cowcatcher, measures six and a quarter inches and weighs two pounds. It will be in operation at the New Orleans exhibition. A Chicago newspaper asserts that there are over 1,000 more saloon-keepers and bar-tenders than preachers in the State of Illinois. There are over 2,000 bankers and brokers, over 33,000 merchants of the various trades, and about 500,000 persons engaged in agriculture. One of the provisions in the life sentence imposed in Berlin on Carl Schenck, one of the trio of servant-girl murderers, is that on every anniversary of the killing of each of his victims he is to be confined for that day, in a dark cell. He will thus have to spend ten days per year in total darkness. Sheep husbandry is rather a precarious occupation in Georgia. The Atlanta Constitution reports that John Pusser of Pulaski county last spring turned out 900 sheep and this spring gathered 300. John Rogers out of 1,700 penned 1,300 j while many others have suffered similarly, and they all attribute their losses chiefly to the ravages of dogs. Buffalo guats, which have proved so fatal to mules, are now attacking human beings, and the death of a farmer, the result of a sting from one of them, is reported from Helena, Arkansas. He was attacked while at work in a field, the guats swarming around him. Their stings becoming unbearable, he started for home at full speed. All remedies failed to relieve him, and he died in a short time in great agony, his face and neck having turned almost black. A special from Harrodsburg, Ky., says: A horrible case of wholesale poisoning by homlock took place near that place on Monday. Eighteen boys, after playing a game of baseball, started in search of wild parsnips, hot got hold of deadly hemlock instead. The boys ate freely, and all of them were taken violently ill. Two died almost immediately and five are in a very critical condition but expected to live. The others are suffering more or less from the poison. A Mammoth Orange Grove. The report comes from Florida that Heather Island has been sold for $100,000 to a syndicate of capitalists, prominent among whom are ex-Governor Horace Fairbanks and Hon. Franklin Fairbanks of Verla. Travelers over the Mexican Central railway are experiencing great inconvenience because trains are not allowed to cross to the Texas side after 5 o'clock P.M., under the Mexican Custom House Regulation. John B. Franklin, a white man living in Russell county, Ala., not satisfied with his wife's cooking; stock a red hot iron and branded her. He has been given a year in the penitentiary and $1,000 fine for the act. A Pennsvlianian has made a perfect locomotive, which from the end of the tank to the point of the cowcatcher, measures six and a quarter inches and weighs two pounds. It will be in operation at the New Orleans exhibition. A Chicago newspaper asserts that there are over 1,000 more saloon-keepers and bar-tenders than preachers in the State of Illinois. There are over 2,000 bankers and brokers, over 33,000 merchants of the various trades,and about 500，000 persons engaged in agriculture. 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It was not cold, but the wind was fierce, and the snow reached a depth of four or five inches. It was entirely unexpected, as the weather had been very fine for some days, and the cattle men thought summer had come to stay. Fifteen hundred head of cattle had just been received by a firm in town. Those that had been unloaded at the cattle yards were many of them weak from the trip and hungry. In the more sheltered end of the yards hay had been placed. Toward the food and partial shelter the cattle rushed madly. The weak went to the ground and were trampled to death by the strong. The law of the survival of the fittest went into operation, as the crushed and lifeless carcases of a hundred animals showed. To the Cheyennes the crushed beef was a godsend. They were employed by the owners to take off the hides, and they were very glad to take their wages in meat. That night the al fresco Cheyenne kitchens did not look meat. Some of the statistics published in Eastern papers with regard to estimated profits in the cattle trade must not be too greedily swallowed. Some calculations that have recently appeared were based on the prices of cattle some years ago—$12 and $14, for instance. Cattle cannot be purchased here for any such prices. The last two purchases were at $30 and $40 per head. Sheep now bring $5 a head. Bucklen's Arnica Salve. The Best Salve in the world for Cuts, Bruises, Sorex, Ulcers, Salt Rheum, Fever Sores, Tetter, Chapped Hands, Chilblains, Corns, and all Skin Eruptions, and positively cures Piles, or no pay required. It is guaranteed to give perfect satisfaction, or money refunded. Price 25 cents per box. For sale by W. M. Higgins. A Mammoth Orange Grove. The report comes from Florida that Heather Island has been sold for $100,000 to a syndicate of capitalists, prominent among whom are ex-Governor Horace Fairbanks and Hon. Franklin Fairbanks of Vermont, Francis B. Knowles of Worcester, and Charles H. Morse, a Chicago capitalist. This syndicate has formed a company with $200,000 capital, and propose making a mammoth orange grove on this large and fertile island. The island contains about 4,000 acres of very rich land, 100 acres of bearing grove. Opera Flannels in great variety of colors received by Cahen. SLEEPLESS NIGHTS, made miserable by that terrible cough. Shiloh's Cure is the remedy for you. Sold by Wm. M. Higgins. THAT HACKING COUGH can be so quickly cured by Shiloh's Cure. We guarantee it. Sold by Wm. M. Higgins. SHILOH'S VITALIZER is what you need for Constipation, Loss of Appetite, Dizziness and all symptoms of Dyspepsia. Price 10 and 75 cents per bottle. Sold by Wm. M. Higgins. SHILOH'S COUGH and Consumption Cure is sold by us on a guarantee. It cures consumption. Sold by Wm. M. Higgins. CATARRH CURED, health and sweet breath secured by Shiloh's Catarrh Remedy Price 50 cents. Nasal Injector free. Sold by Wm. M. Higgins. FOR LAME BACK, Side or Chest use Shiloh's Porous Plaster. Price 25 cents. Sold by Wm. M. Higgins. A new No. 8 Wheeler & Wilson sewing machine is offered for sale at a large discount. The machine can be seen at D.W.Hudson's real estate office. CROUP, WHOOPING COUGH and Bronchitis immediately relieved by Shiloh's Cure. Sold by Wm. M. Higgins. WILL YOU SUFFER with Dyspepsia and Liver Complaint? Shiloh's Vitalizer's guaranteed to cure you. Sold by Wm. M. Higgins. Cretonnes at H. Cahen's. NEW ADVERTISEMENTS. Anaheim Union Water Company Location of principal place of business, Anaheim, Los Angeles County, California. NOTICE IS HEREBY GIVEN THAT AT A meeting of the Directors, held on the 19th day of May, 1884, an assessment of one dollar per share was levied upon the capital stock of the corporation payable on or before June 19th, 1884, to the Secretary of the corporation at his office in the Town of Anaheim, California. Any stock upon which this assessment shall remain unpaid on the 19th day of June, 1884, will be delinquent, and advertised for sale at public auction, and unless payment is made before, will be sold on the 19th day of July, 1884, to pay the delinquent assessment, together with costs of advertising and expenses of sale. RICHARD MELROSE, Secretary. Office at the Postoffice at the Town of Anaheim, County of Los Angeles, State of California. PASTURE. BEST OF PASTURE FOR STOCK AT THE COSTS BANche. Apply on the premises to A.V.Heward or to SAXTON & COX, May 17 This Space reserved for RIMPAU BROS. JACKSON'S CALIFORNIA WINDMILL Contractor and Builder. Pumping Outfits A SPECIALTY. 10 feet.....$75 12 ".....$85 14 ".....$100 MADE BY JACKSON & TRUMAN, San Francisco. PUMPS, PIPE AND PIPE FIXTURES At LOS ANGELES RATES. For neatness of design, for strength, durability, great lifting power, a perfect self-regulating Windmill safe in the fiercest storm, an adjustable stroke (4 different lengths), and by far the cheapest first-class mil sold on this Coast. JACKSON'S CALIFORNIA WINDMILL is far ahead of all competitors. I am now furnishing these Mills with Tanks, Pumps, Pipe, Faucets, etc., and setting them up in complete running order at LOWER PRICES THAN EVER GIVEN IN THIS COUNTY. Do not purchase a pumping outfit without first examining my work and price. S. B. SMITH, Anaheim, Cal. GEORGE M. THOMPSON, DEALER IN Grain, Hops, Honey and Dried Fruits. Consignments of Produce Solicited. FOR SALE. Grain, Bean and Wool Bags, Hop Cloth, Burlaps and other Jute Goods, Cotton, Fleece and Flax Twines. INSURANCE. Fire Insurance Co. of the State of Pennsylvania. CAPITAL, $200,000. ASSETS, $699,016.16. New Zealand Insurance Co. Capital, $5,000,000. Insurance on growing grain at lowest rates. Life Insurance. The Manhattan Life Insurance Co. of New York, Cash Assets, $11,000,000. OFFICE, 206 Los Angeles Street, LOS ANGELES, CAL. THE “BEDETTE.” Life Insurance. The Manhattan Life Insurance Co. of New York, Cash Assets, $11,000,000. OFFICE, 206 Los Angeles Street, LOS ANGELES, CAL. THE "BEDETTE." PATENTED JUNE 13, 1892. This invention supplies a long felt want for a cheap portable bed, that can be put away in a small space when not in use, and yet make a roomy, comfortable bed when wanted. Of the many cots that are in the market there is not one, cheap or expensive, on which a comfortable night's rest can be had. They are all narrow, short, without spring, and in fact no bed at all. While The Bedette folds into as small space, and is as light as anything can be made for durability. When set up it furnishes a bed wide and long enough for the largest man, and is as comfortable to lie upon as the most expensive bed. It is so constructed that the patent sides, regulated by the patent adjustable tension corda, form the most perfect spring bed. The canvas covering is not tacked to the frame, as on all cots, but is made adjustable, so that it can be taken off and put on again by any one in a few minutes, or easily tightened, should it become loose, at any time, from stretching. It is a perfect spring bed, soft and easy, without springs or mattress. For warm weather it is a complete bed, without the addition of anything; for cold weather it is only necessary to add sufficient clothing. The "Bedette" is a Household Necessity, and no family after once using would be without it. It is simple in its construction and not liable to get out of repair. It makes a pretty lounge, a perfect bed, and the price is within the reach of all. PRICE LIST: No. 1—35 inches wide, 6½ feet long, raised head, adjustable cover, painted vermillion red, covered with first quality 8 oz. Duck ... $4.00 No. 2—30 inches wide, 6½ feet long, raised head, adjustable cover, painted vermillion red, covered with first quality 8 oz. Duck ... $4.00 No. 3—27 inches wide, 4½ feet long, raised head, painted vermillion red, child's bedette, covered with first quality 8 oz. Duck ... $4.00 For sale by F. & J. BACKS, Anaheim. D. B. SUMNER, Los Angeles, Cal., General Agent Pacific Coast. Card. FRESH EASTERN OYSTERS EVERY SATURDAY and Sunday at Mrs. Zala Kennedy's Ice Cream Perform. THIS PAPER may be found on Aqua Press A/G Newspaper Advertising Bureau of Southern Sound, where advertising contracts may be made for it in NEW YORK.