anaheim-gazette 1884-08-02

ANAHEIM VOL. XIV. HANNA & KEITH REAL ESTATE AGENTS. Live Stock Bought and Sold on Commission. ANAHEIM. We Are Now Offering Unprecedented Bargains INFurniture, 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. NEW No. 8 WHEELER & WILSON, With Straight, Self-Setting Needle and Back-Feed. ABSOLUTEGY NEW! In Principle and close No Shuttle to thread. News from the thinnest gauge to the heaviest cloth or leather. Can DARK, PATCH, MEND and EMBROIDER without any attachment. Only O. T. BARKER & SONS, Barker & Allen's Old Stand, near Pico House. 322, 324, 326 N. Main Street, Los Angeles. NEW No. 8 WHEELER & WILSON, With Straight, Self-Setting Needle and Back-Feed. ABSOLUTEGY NEW! In Principle and due to No Shuttle to thread. News from the thinnest gauze to the heaviest cloth or leather. Can DARN, PATCH, MEND and EMBROIDER without any attachment. Only needs to be seen and tried to be appreciated. Don't buy until you have seen the New No. 8. Satisfaction Guaranteed or no pay. E. C. GLIDDEN, Agent, 33 North Main Street (Ponet Block). LOS ANGELES, CAL. WEEKLY GAZETTE Established 1870. For Terms, see Fourth Page. DR. JAMES ELLIS. OFFICE AND DRUG STORE IN THE BUILDING East of Gazier office. Homeopathic Medicine wholesale and retail. Office hours at 7 A.M. and 9:30 A.M. and at 2 P.M. and 5 P.M. H. C. KELLOGG. Surveyor and Civil Engineer. PARTIES WILL PLEASE LEAVE THEIR ORDERS with Mr. John Hanna. 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 Commissar of Deeds for Arizona Territory. Kroger's Block, Anaheim, Cal. R. H. BENTLEY. J. H. LUCAS. NOVE WICKS. WICKS, LUCAS & BENTLEY, Attorneys-at-Law, 86 and 87 Temple Block, Los Angeles may 17. VICTOR MONTGOMERY, Attorney-at-Law, SANTA ANA, CAL. Office in Dibbles' brick building, nearly opposite the Postoffice. Office hours from 10 A.M. to 8 P.M. RICHARD MELROSE, NOTARY PUBLIC GAZETTE OFFICE. 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 commodious 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. Buoks for Sale. THE SUBSCRIBER HAS FOR SALE A NUMBER of French and Spanish Merino bucks, of the quality for which the ranch has been noted for many years. Although the quality remains as in former years, I have put the prices down so as to make them conform to the hard times now experienced by sheepmen. The bucks can be seen at my place, six miles north of Anaheim, and I respectfully request intending purchasers to inspect them. JOHN WAGNER How many have business some twenty? I always handled 500. I've had plenty of you call them," he co-wiped his lips with a kerchief." Long as member the biggest nigger was $9,000 wench that I sold in '53. She was only white as you or me had light, curly hair down near Bowling Oldn't want to part w/in his luck that he hated too, that his wife leave the plantation to her family. My i take less than $6,000 to get a big percentage when they put her out up for all she was worth. There were more ding for her, and the $9,000 was a rich ame from Tennessee, who city on a spree and wily to the sale. He wasn't caring anything was so set on having would have given $2 body had bid her up her home that day, after you anything more ad made a big name in it was killed at the head. One of this woman first master lives in now, and is a rich man of black blood in him. Have you sold man? Plenty of likely color up to nearly wht $000 to $6,000 apiece fw was a good market for No, it didn't come from in the South. You c from Maryland to Lo tlemen took an inter cent master would l marry a black man people, superior people. Which were the b? New Orleans, Louis Baltimore used to be cussed black Abitio niggers North by the After that it was a business in Baltimore the Yankees would a Pennsylvania line or I brought six black on my own account, at the corner of Eutah to wait for a sale. The night, and that was t of them. Of course Pennsylvania, but t done it without someone they came clear from were worth $1,500 ap out of pocket. There Quakers at a place ca State, and they were rob a man of his home. Another time a time at Newport, Ky., I went across the river mine who kept a place in a good many thousands dollars. I told him the man back, and saidn't a fool, you'll mightn't be healthy f here over one nigger, ers are bosses here." And I took his advice. This was in '58, do any more business? 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 MELROSE, NOTARY PUBLIC GAZETTE OFFICE. 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 keys on band at all times. Tanks and Tubs made to order. Honev Barrels for sale cheap. S. A. DENNIS, Carriage and Sign Painter, Center Street, Anaheim, OFFERS AS REFERENCES THE NUMEROUS wagons and signs painted by him in Anaheim. PRICES REASONABLE. The patronage of the public respectfully solicited may "TRAVELS IN MEXICO AND LIFE AMONG the Mexicans" by Frederick A. Ober. The most fully illustrated and the largest popular work on Mexico ever published. A stirring narrative of a most interesting journey from Yucatan to the Rio Grande in one large octavo volume of nearly 700 pages. Agents wanted. Apply to J. DEWING & CO., 429 Bush street, San Francisco, Cal. A PRIZE. Send six cents for postage and receive free, a costly box of goods which will help all, of either sex, to more money sight away than anything else in this world. Fortunes await the workers absolutely sure. At once address Trauz & Co., Augusta, Maine. Cakes for Parties on Short Notice. CENTER STREET. ANAHEIM. Buoks for Sale. THE SUBSCRIBER HAS FOR SALE A NUMBER OF French and Spanish Merino bucks, of the quality for which the ranch has been noted for many years. Although the quality remains the same as in former years, I have put the prices down so as to make them conform to the hard times now experienced by sheepmen. The bucks can be seen at my place, six miles north of Anaheim, and I respectfully request intending purchasers to inspect them. jy15-till sep10 JOHN WAGNER. Casks, Pipes AND PUNCHEONS IN PERFECT ORDER For Sale at Low Prices. B. DREYFUS & CO., Anaheim. B. DREYFUS, E. L. GOLDSTEIN, Anaheim, San Francisco J. FROWENFIELD, 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. FASHIONABLE DRESSMAKING. Miss J. F. Casey IS PREPARED TO GIVE THE BEST SATISFACTION in this line. Perfect Fit Guaranteed. Mrs. Metz's building, Center St., Anaheim. Masonic Notice. THE REGULAR MEETINGS OF ANAheim Lodge No. 207, F. and A. M. are held in Masonie Hall on the Monday evening of or preceding the full moon in each month. Sojourning brother in good standing are cordially invited to attend. Tno. Brazen, W. M. S. Gardiner, Secretary. Another time a man at Newport, Ky., I went across the river mine who kept a place in a good many thousand dollars. I told him he the man back, and said a fool, you'll mightn't be healthy for here over one nigger, ers are bosses here." and I took his advice. "This was in '58, and do any more business close to the North." made in Baltimore and but for five or six year leans was our best man. "Maybe it isn't any but the hardest mastache the Yankees who had or had come here as one of them that would when he wanted to see two field hands once a mile out from Milledge them along the road quick as a flash and know I knew what he started to run, but I brought one of them the back. He wasn't I got them up to the shot was laid up for me if the man who had offer to sue me for the after I had saved his man was a Yankee so plenty more just as me." "I suppose there are the slave trading days." More than you't where to look for their inn hotel that was built ask them to let you go See if you don't find where the servants of at night. The Baltim once a hotel, and then dozen cells under it slave jail in that city Pratt street, although to a beer garden. large cities of the South could show you the place." When did you last "Going down the M to New Orleans on the South, in May, 1861." the South, (for things for me there). A few some niggers to a place Arkansas got cleaned draw, and put two o'straight. They were who had three dences." WEEKLY EIM GA ANAHEIM, CALIFORNIA: SATURDAY, AUGUST 2, 1884. THE SLAVE AUCTION. A Story Stranger Than Fiction to Young Readers "Yes, sir, so far as I know, and I think I know all about it, I'm the last living representative of the profession—the last man alive in the United States who made a business of selling niggers from the auction block. I'm 72 years old now, and I guess my time has nearly come." Thus spoke old Jack Campbell as he filled his glass for the fourth time at a Broad-street bar, and leaned back against the counter to open up his budget of reminiscences. "I went into the slave-auction business in 1835, and never quit it until the war broke out. I have sold niggers in Baltimore, Richmond, Charleston, Savannah, Louisville, Mobile, New Orleans, Memphis and all along in the other towns of the South. I don't blow my own trumpet—you know that on their own merits modest men are dumb—but I can say that Jack Campbell had the reputation for showing up the good points of a 'buck' or a 'wench' and drawing out bids that made him in demand wherever there was a big sale. "The nigger traders have made me travel 500 miles to run off a lot for them, and they paid me my own price for my work. "How many have I sold? I was in the business some twenty-five years, and I guess I always handled 500 or 600 a year. "I've had plenty of queer experiences, as you call them," he continued, after he had wiped his lips with a nobly white silk handkerchief. "Long as you ask about it, I remember the biggest money I ever got for a nigger was $9,000 for a pretty quadroon wench that I sold in Louisville about 52 or 53. She was only 18, and was about as white as you or me, and her two children had light, curly hair. Her master lived down near Bowling Green, and though he didn't want to part with her, he was so down in his luck that he had to sell her. He heard, too, that his wife swore that nigger must as he didn't want them, he offered them for sale." "Pretty much everybody on board knew me and I was called to ask for bids. They were two as good young bucks as you ever saw, and I only got $1,600 for both. When the war had brought business down that low I thought it was time for me to drop out of it and I did." "I have heard it said that these stories about betting slaves over a gaming table are all lies." "You just take old Jack Campbell's word for it that it is true. I've traveled the Mississippi a hundred times before the war, and held a hand in many a game where niggers right on board were the stakes. Yes, and I've won some of 'em, too, and lost 'em again."—Doston Herald. ABSENT-MINDED WOMEN. From the Chicago News. "Speaking of absent-minded people," said a west sider, "women beat the nation at that. There is my wife, one of the most careful and most level-headed women in the world. But one night last winter we went to a large party, and we both, for special reasons, were more than anxious to appear well. My wife was greatly concerned about me, as I am the absent-minded member of the family, and looked me over critically and carefully after I left the coat room and before we went down stairs. She was herself all right, of course, and was superbly dressed. We went down in high feather, and had passed through the parlors and had spent a delightful half-hour on parade duty, as it were, when my wife suddenly turned pale in what I thought was a fainting fit. I hurried her from the room, and was about to turn the house upside down in search of restoratives when she clutched my sleeve and pointed to her feet. She had before leaving home drawn over her shoes a pair of my socks, and had forgotten to remove them." SHE WANTED A HORSE. The Young Lady Who Applied to an Editor For Information and Advice. [Chicago Tribune] "Good day, sir." A young lady stood before the horse reporter's desk. "I came up here," she said, "because I often read in the Tribune—a papa takes it—about people that you give information to. Papa says I can have a horse, and one of those sweet little village-carts. Won't it be just lovely?" The horse reporter subscribed by an inclination of his head, to the entrancing nature of the prospect alluded to. "And I want to find out," she continued, "just what sort of a horse I ought to buy, because papa doesn't know anything at all about such matters, and I have got to do the whole thing." "I suppose that you want a horse that you can drive yourself." "Yes. And it must have its tail square, like those at the race. Weren't those lovely little horses that run last Tuesday? The cute little things! I won a box of candy on the delicious little Wanda. Isn't she splendid? Do you think I could get Wanda? "You don't want a race horse," said the horse reporter; "you want one you can drive. You can get a bay filly with her tail banged, though, and that will answer the description of Wanda pretty well." "Get a what?" "A bay filly." "What's a filly. Is it a new kind of horse, and is it fashionable?" "A filly," replied the horse reporter, "is is a girl horse." "Oh," said the young lady, blushing violently. "and do you think I'd better get a filly?" "It will do as well as any. I suppose you want a gentle one." "Oh yes." I want a sweet little horsey "How many have I sold? I was in the business some twenty-five years, and I guess I always handled 500 or 600 a year. "I've had plenty of queer experiences, as you call them," he continued, after he had wiped his lips with a nobby white silk handkerchief. "Long as you ask about it, I remember the biggest money I ever got for a nigger was $9,000 for a pretty quadron wench that I sold in Louisville about 52 or 53. She was only 18, and was about as white as you or me, and her two children had light, curly hair. Her master lived down near Bowling Green, and though he didn't want to part with her, he was so down in his luck that he had to sell her. I heard, too, that his wife swore that nigger must leave the plantation or she would go home to her family. My instructions were not to take less than $6,000 for the girl, and I was to get a big percentage on all over that; so when they put her on the block I talked her up for all she was worth. There were more than twenty men bidding for her, and the fellow that got her for $9,000 was a rich and gay young bachelor from Tennessee, who happened to be in the city on a spree and was attracted by curiosity to the sale. He was a little drinky and wasn't asking anything for hisducata. He was so set on having the girl, I believe he would have given $20,000 for her, if anybody had bid her up that high. He carried her home that day, and I ain't going to tell you anything more about him than that he made a big name in the Southern army and was killed at the head of his soldiers. "One of this woman's children by her first master lives in a Massachusetts town now, and is a rich man. There isn't a sign of blood in him." "Have you sold many of such people?" "Plenty of likely girls, from chocolate color up to nearly white, and got from $3,000 to $6,000 apiece for 'em. There always was a good market for that kind of stock. No, it didn't come from any particular place in the South. You could find it everywhere from Maryland to Louisiana. Southern gentlemen took an interest in it, sir, and no decent master would let one of those girls marry a black man. They were superior people, superior people." "Which were the best markets?" "New Orleans, Louisville, Charleston and Baltimore used to be about the same till the cussed black politician got to running the niggers North by the underground railroad. After that it was a little dangerous to do business in Baltimore or Louisville for fear the Yankees would steal them across the Pennsylvania line or the Ohio river. "I brought six blacks to Baltimore once on my own account, and put 'em in the pen at the corner of Eutaw and Camden streets, to wait for a sale. Two got loose that very night, and that was the very last I ever saw of them. Of course they got over into Pennsylvania, but they never could have done it without somebody helped them, for they came clear from North Carolina. They were worth $1,500 apiece, and I was $3,000 out of pocket. There was a nest of infernal Quakers at a place called Christiana in this State, and they were always lookin' out to rob a man of his honest property. "Another time a nigger ran away from me at Newport, Ky., and got to Cincinnati. I went across the river and saw a friend of mine who kept a place where I had played in a good many thousands of my hard-earned dollars. I told him I wanted his help to get the man back, and says here: 'Jack, if you can't a fool, you'll let moke go.' It mightn't be healthy for you to raise a row here over one nigger, 'cause the nigger lovers are bosses here.' He was a sensible man, and I took his advice. "This was in '58, and after that I didn't do any more business on my own risk so well. My wife was greatly concerned about me, as I am the absent-minded member of the family, and looked me over critically and carefully after I left the coat room and before we went down stairs. She was herself all right, of course, and was superbly dressed. We went down in high feather, and had passed through the parlorors and had spent a delightful half-hour on parade duty, as it were, when my wife suddenly turned pale in what I thought was a fainting fit. I hurried her from the room, and was about to turn the house upside down in search of restoratives when she clutched my sleeve and pointed to her feet. She had before leaving home drawn over her shoes a pair of my socks, and had forgotten to remove them. The thought that she had been parading before three hundred people with those socks on was too much for her." A South Sider, who had listened to this, said after indulging in a contented little chuckle: "My wife tells almost as good a story as that on herself. She is, as everybody knows who knows her at all, very particular about her dress, and she grieves over a spot on my coat or a lack of polish on my shoes with a grief that will not be comforted. She went down street shopping on one occasion this string, and in trying on bonets became a little disturbed over the fact that none of the new shapes suited her face. She therefore picked up her parasol, walked out of the store, called on a very aristocratic acquaintance, and then came home. A glance in the hall glass showed that she had no bonnet on. She had taken it off to try on the new ones, and as she expressed it, had been parading along the streets with nothing on her head but a small veil across her forehead. She didn't scold me about the spots on my coat for a week." "I have a better story than that," said a superintendent of one of the departments at Field's. "Not long ago a fashionably dressed lady came in early, and in the course of her bargaining put her parasol on the counter near a large feather duster which one of the clerks had been using. After making some purchases the lady caught up the duster instead of her parasol, and went on. As soon as I discovered the mistake I sent a boy after her with the parasol, but he did not overtake her until she had made quite a journey. "In fact, she flourished that feather duster along the street, flourished it about as she went into another store, and put it down on the counter, still under the impression that it was a parasol, and seeing the feather duster, asked for her parasol. The clerk explained that she had not brought any parasol in, but had come in carrying that duster. She was indignant at such an intimation, and was delivering the clerk a sharp lecture on the subject when in came our boy with her parasol and an explanation. She was so overcome that she had to be sent home in a carriage." A Little Girl's Scheme to Build a Church. WASHINGTON, July 19.—Hattie Snell is a 13-year-old girl living in St. Johnsville, N.Y. The Episcopal society were attempting to raise money to build a new church, and Hattie took a great interest in the project. She conceived the plan of obtaining aid from the Statesmen at Washington, and she wrote letters to nearly everybody whose name appears in the Congressional Directory, asking each to contribute a few bricks. Her plan was so novel, and her letters were written in such childish ingenuousness that the responses were large. Among the contributors were President Arthur, all the members of the Cabinet, Gen. Sheridan, Vice-President Edmunds, Speaker Carlisle, many of the "You don't want a race horse," said the horse reporter; "you want one you can drive. You can get a bay pilty with her tail banged, though, and that will answer the description of Wanda pretty well." "Get a what?" "A bay filly." "What's a filly. Is it a new kind of horse, and is it fashionable?" "A filly," replied the horse reporter; "is a girl horse." "Oh," said the young lady, blushing violently; "and do you think I'd better get a filly?" "It will do as well as any. I suppose you want a gentle one?" "Oh yes." I want a sweet little horsey that won't kick, or run away, or anything like that. That would be perfectly terrible. Why, Belle Jones had a perfectly charming donkey last summer, and the naasty little thing went right into the flower-beds at Central Park with her, and ate up a lot of begonias and things, and a horrid policeman said she ought to get married and practice on her husband a year or two before trying to drive a real donkey. Wasn't he mean? The scholarly forehead of the horse reporter was again inclined in an affirmative manner. And so," continued the young lady," "I want a nice horse—one that will do just whatever I want him to as soon as he finds it out. It must be a be a bay horse with a square tail, and have white harness." They are not growing harnesses with horses this year," said the horse reporter. "They used to do it, but it is cheaper to let the horses grow up and then have the harness made." Why, of course!" exclaimed the young lady. "I ought to have known better than that. Why, General Grant was a harness-maker, wasn't he? And that's how he came to be President. I remember papa saying that no matter how humble station a man got on at, he might attain any honor in this country." General Grant was nota harness-maker," said the horse reporter; "and your papa didn't say anything about a man getting on at a station. Prosperity isn't a railroad train." Well, perhaps he didn't; but anyhow I want a white harness, and a blue ribbon on the whip. It'll be just too lovely—and the young lady sat back in the chair and for a moment silently contemplated the ecstatic vision thus conjured up. Then she said: "What shall I call my horse." Have you decided to get a filly?" Yes." Well there are plenty of good names How does 'Beatrice' strike you? O; that would be elegant. And then I could call her 'Trixy' for short couldn't I? It will be simply ravishing to have that dear darling little horse and a cunning cart with yellow wheels, and I think you're awful good to tell me all about it. And will there be an item in next Sunday's paper that Miss Lillian Smith appears daily on the boulevard driving a beautiful bay filly? Yes, we'll have an item prepared." And will it be in the society news? No, we'll put it on the editorial page where it will attract more attention. O! You're just lovely. You must let me take you out riding some day. Thanks," said the horse reporter; "but I love life, and I have seen women drive." Mistaken in The House. When the delegates were assembling for the late Republican State Convention, several convival fellows put up at a favorite lodging house. A well-known minister of the gospel who occupies a pulpit in one of the gospel houses on my own risk so well. "How many have i sold?" Another time a nigger ran away from me at Newport, Ky., and got to Cincinnati. I went across the river and saw a friend of mine who kept a place where I had played in a good many thousands of my hard-earned dollars. I told him I wanted his help to get the man back, and says here: Jack, if you ain't a fool, you'll let that moke go. It mightn't be healthy for you to raise a row here over one nigger, 'cause the nigger lovers are bosses here.' He was a sensible man, and I took his advice. This was in 158, and after that I didn't do any more business on my own risk so close to the North. The last sales were made in Baltimore and Louisville in 1861; but for five or six years previous New Orleans was our best market. Maybe it isn't any use telling people so, but the hardest masters on the slaves were the Yankees who had settled in the South or had come here as overseers. I never saw one of them that wouldn't break up a family when he wanted to sell. I had to deliver two field hands once at a plantation, three miles out from Milledgeville. I was marching them along the road, and one turned as quick as a flash and knocked me down before I knew what he was doing. They started to run, but I drew on them and brought one of them down with a bullet in the back. He wasn't badly hurt, but after I got them up to the plantation the one I shot was laid up for three weeks, and cuss me if the man who had bought him didn't offer to sue me for the loss of his services, after I had saved his nigger for him. That man was a Yankee squatter, and there were plenty more just as mean as him." "I suppose there are many signs left of the slave trading days?" "More than you'd think, unless you knew where to look for them. Go into any Southern hotel that was built before the war and ask them to let you go down into the cellars. See if you don't find there the old cells where the servants of travelers were shut up at night. The Baltimore custom house was once a hotel, and there are more than two dozen cells under it now. Ben, O'Hara's slave jail in that city is still standing on Pratt street, although it has been turned into a beer garden. And through all the large cities of the South the old residents could show you the private pens." "When did you last sell a negro?" "Going down the Mississippi from St. Louis to New Orleans on the steamer Star of the South, in May, 1861. I was getting out of the South, for things were becoming too hot for me there. A fellow who was taking some niggers to a plantation he owned in Arkansas got cleaned out in a little game of draw, and put two of 'em up on a small straight. They were scooped in by a man who had three dences and a pair of jacks, and, WASHINGTON, July 19.—Hattie Snell is a 13-year-old girl living in St. Johnsville, N.Y. The Episcopal society were attempting to raise money to build a new church, and Hattie took a great interest in the project. She conceived the plan of obtaining aid from the Statesmen at Washington, and she wrote letters to nearly everybody whose name appears in the Congressional Directory, asking each to contribute a few bricks. Her plan was so novel, and her letters were written in such childish ingenuousness that the responses were large. Among the contributors were President Arthur, all the members of the Cabinet, Gen. Sheridan, Vice-President Edmunds, Speaker Carlisle, many of the Senators, and a large number of Congressmen. Now she proposes to sell the autographs which accompanied the contributions, and will be able thereby to more than duplicate the sum she received. Anything to Draw a Crowd. From the Tasmania Mail. The Salvation Army announced that at their meeting on Monday there would be shown "a boy with hair like heaven." This in itself was sufficient to attract an immense crowd to the Mechanic's Institute, and after the said crowd had remained in the hall on the qui vice for a couple of hours the "feature" was at length exhibited. The surmises of the congregation that the lad would be a lilly-white youth of 7 or 8 summers, with hair of flaxen hue, proved incorrect, as upon the chairman's signal, a well-grown son of Han stepped forth. "Now," said the Captain, "we will proceed with our promise. You would hardly imagine that this youth has hair like heaven? But he has. In that head above a face as black as your hat you cannot distinguish a parting—hence the similarity." Amid the laughter of the on-lookers the army struck up "There'll be no more parting there." Australian wines are making their way into favor in England. Doctors are beginning to recommend them to their patients. There was an exhibition of the wines of Victoria recently at Edinburgh. Some of the vineyards in the colony have been in cultivation twenty years, and the appliances are much improved of late. Some of the cellars have now storage for as much as 200,000 gallons. Australian wine is said to be rich in color and of considerable natural alcoholic strength—22 to 28 per cent., which is equal to that of the strongest French grapes. Several specimens of champagne shown were made chiefly from hock grapes. Brooklyn, N.Y., now claims 700,000 population. And will it be in the society news? "No, we'll put it on the editorial page, where it will attract more attention." 'O! You're just lovely. You must let me take you out riding some day." "Thanks," said the horse reporter, "but I love life, and I have seen women drive." Mistaken in The House. When the delegates were assembling for the late Republican State Convention, several convival fellows put up at a favorite lodging house. A well-known minister of the gospel, who occupies a pulpit in one of the churches, lives at the same place. His wife being an invalid, he usually carries her supper to her on a tray, in order to save her the effort of clambering up and down two flights of stairs. As the reverend gentlemen passed the room of the gentlemen mentioned, with the tray in front of him, one of the delegates rushed out, caught him by the shoulder, threw a dollar on the tray, and said: "Bring us up two bottles of beer, a cigar, and a cocktail." The minister was nonplussed, but recovering said: "I am a minister of the gospel, and am in a temperate house." The delegate refused to take back the dollar, said: "let it go for the heathen," and promised to send the minister a box of oranges on his return to Los Angeles. About Pecan Nuts. John Wilson, of Chattanooga, Tennessee, writes as follows to the S.F.Call: First, the nuts should be planted in the spring, very much the same as fruit trees, only a greater distance in the rows should be given, as the trees grow very large. If trees should be preferred, they should be from one to two years old, though older ones can be used. The pecan should be cultivated the same as apples or peaches, as it will improve them in size. The trees grow very rapidly and usually begin to bear in three to five years, owing to variety and soil. As many have asked my opinion about the growing of the trees in their localities, I would say that I believe they can be grown in almost any section of the United States without regard to the kind of soil, as they are found wild in the woods on all varieties of soil, and even solitary trees stand far out on the prairies—and are as well adapted to cold as warm climates. Mr. Levi Hottle, Coryden, Indiana, says he suffered from pains and inflammation resulting from a fractured clavicle, and after trying various remedies without relief, he tried St. Jacob's Oil and was cured. GAZETTE. AUGUST 2, 1884. NO. 43 TED A HORSE. Who Applied to an Information and Advice. [Go Tribune] Good before the horse re-come up here," she said, dead in the Tribune—papa that you give informa- I can have a horse, and sweet little village-carta.ely! Her subscribed, by an in- to the entrancing na- alluded to. And out," she continued, a horse I ought to buy, not know anything at all and I have got to do you want a horse that self." Just have its tail square, wee. Weren't those lovely run last Tuesday? The I won a box of candy on Wanda. Isn't she splen- I could get Wanda?" a race horse," said the I want one you candrive. well with her tail banged, will answer the description ill." Is it a new kind of horse,? the horse reporter, "is young lady, blushing you think I'd better get a as any. I suppose you a sweet little horsey EVERYTHING. A Polish nobleman mixes mortar in Council Bluffs. Cuba has 1,521,684 inhabitants, including 46,698 Chinamen. The British Museum has an acrolite weighing live tons. Brooklyn, N. Y., has this year issued licences for nearly 5,000 dogs. Artesian wells were known at Thebes 2,000 years before the Christian era. At a free ice-water tank in New York over 1,200 pounds of ice were used in one day. It is estimated there are 40,000 persons in New York dependent on gambling for a living. The people of this country consume $100,-000,000 worth of patent medicines yearly. Typhoid fever, it is estimated, causes 15 per cent of the annual deaths in England and Wales. About one thousand deaths a week is a fair average in New York city at this time of the year. In St. Louis, says one of its newspapers, four-fifths of the inhabitants have taken to chewing gum. The perceptible earthquakes of the civilized world are estimated to average in number 110 per annum. The corpses of children are carried uncofined through the streets of the City of Mexico to the cemeteries. The Minister of Education in Canada believes too many farmers' sons are leaving the country for the cities and towns. The New York Postoffice employees delivered last year, through boxes and by carriers, 269,555,705 pieces of mail matter. Twenty-one thousand widows of soldiers of the War of 1812 are stated to be still drawing pensions from the Government. Matrishny in California. [San Francisco Letter.] There is domestic unhappiness everywhere in every community, but I doubt if there is any place where marriage goes through in the same free-an-easy style. As a rule appearances weigh far too greatly in the consideration. A young man is good-looking, fair-spoken, pleasant. He has a good position, a fair income, and hope is a very important factor in the marriage contract. When the daughter marries the parents give her all the "mind-off" they can. She comes back in a month, having already begun to see the clay, sometimes the cloven foot of her idol. Pleasant as it was to court, to go to the theatre, to spend a few hours together—it is a very different thing when a whole life has to be passed in close relations. Beyond the mere sentiment and emotional bond between them, there proves to be no taste in common, no adaptability, no unfailing attraction that makes it possible for them to enjoy their own society completely. They grow weary of one another. Each makes the enjoyment or longs for it that please most; quarrels, separation, divorce cause. The woman's life is wrecked; for she cannot recuperate like a man. Society will not permit it. And all because no study has been made of the suitability of the matriarchy potent parental authority has argued the question between the sentimental and the practical. The Glassware Crane. [Chicago News.] This is decidedly a cut-glass season, and though rare bits of china, like old wine or flint glass, are never pane, silverware, however costly and sterling, has not the ghost of a show on the table or sideboard of the day. So there is nothing to do but to put the big, swinging water-pitcher, with a goblet and tray, in a flannel bag, and relocate it to the dust and cobwebs of the darkest corper of the top shelf in the pantry. The sacrifices is a cruel one to more than a few proud little housewives, but fashion says, "everything, silver and all things high must go," and bar The perceptible earthquakes of the civilized world are estimated to average in number 110 per annum. The corpses of children are carried uncoffined through the streets of the City of Mexico to the cemeteries. The Minister of Education in Canada believes too many farmers' sons are leaving the country for the cities and towns. The New York Postoffice employees delivered last year, through boxes and by carriers, 269,555,705 pieces of mail matter. Twenty-one thousand widows of soldiers of the War of 1812 are stated to be still drawing pensions from the Government. During a recent thunder-storm at Fall River, Mass., the lightning turned on the gas and lit it. Ellis C. Potter, a New Yorker, who died week before last, was born in slavery on Long Island in 1790. Mrs. Mark Hopkins has begun the erection of a stone dwelling-house, to cost about $1,000,000, at Great Barrington, Mass. The Legislature of the State of Tabasco, Mexico, has passed a law paying a bounty of $5 for each agricultural laborer imported. During the visit of the United States steamer Hartford to Vallejo, an enterprising citizen smuggled flasks of whisky on board by sewing them up in salmon. A specimen of every plant named in the Bible is said to be growing in the gardens of the Missouri Botanical Society, near St. Louis. Statistics show that there is less crime in the United States in proportion to the population than in any other country in the world. Oregon, judging by the increase of the vote of 1884, compared with that of 1880 and the census of 1880, now contains 211,000 people. Brooklyn is delighted to learn that the Prospect Park reservoir, the source of its water supply, is much favored by tramp bathers. Milton's Bible has found its way into the British museum. It contains the dates of the birth of his children in the poet's handwriting. Nine defaulters, formerly bank or Government officials, now in the Trenton, N. J., Penitentiary, are said to have stolen a total of $3,000,000. New Orleans is talking of adopting the semi-tropical style of architecture—that of gardens enclosed by plain, one-story, quadrangular dwellings. New York, during 1883, had 2,169 fires, with an average loss at each of $1,619. The expenses of the Fire Department averaged $723,814 for each fire. It costs five cents to cross in a boat from Laredo, Texas, to Neuvo Laredo, and ten cents to return. It is cheaper getting into Mexico than getting out. Bibles are no longer to be found in watering place hotel parlors and bed-chambers. Formerly the Bible was as much a part of the furniture as the match-safe. The proportion of color-blind persons, says the Boston Herald, is nearly 6 per cent among the Quakers, while the percentage in the general community is only 3%. At Boston a few days ago 225 dozen eggs shipped from Cape Breton were accidentally found to have been cooked by the heat of freshly-cut grass in which they were packed. A Catskill, Greene county, N. Y., woman broke her husband's nose the other night, while she was about half asleep, and sorrowfully explained that she had been dreaming that she saw him kissing a neighbor's wife. The perceptible earthquake of the civilized world are estimated to average in number 110 per annum. The corpses of children are carried uncoffined through the streets of the City of Mexico to the cemetery. The Minister of Education in Canada believes too many farmers' sons are leaving the country for the cities and towns. The New York Postoffice employees delivered last year, through boxes and by carriers, 269,555,705 pieces of mail matter. Twenty-one thousand widows of soldiers of the War of 1812 are stated to be still drawing pensions from the Government. During a recent thunder-storm at Fall River, Mass., the lightning turned on the gas and lit it. Ellis C. Potter, a New Yorker, who died week before last, was born in slavery on Long Island in 1790. Mrs. Mark Hopkins has begun the erection of a stone dwelling-house, to cost about $1,000,000, at Great Barrington, Mass. The Legislature of the State of Tabasco, Mexico, has passed a law paying a bounty of $5 for each agricultural laborer imported. During the visit of the United States steamer Hartford to Vallejo, an enterprising citizen smuggled flasks of whisky on board by sewing them up in salmon. A specimen of every plant named in the Bible is said to be growing in the gardens of the Missouri Botanical Society, near St. Louis. Statistics show that there is less crime in the United States in proportion to the population than in any other country in the world. Oregon, judging by the increase of the vote of 1884, compared with that of 1880 and the census of 1880, now contains 211,000 people. Brooklyn is delighted to learn that the Prospect Park reservoir, the source of its water supply, is much favored by tramp bathers. Milton's Bible has found its way into the British museum. It contains the dates of the birth of his children in the poet's handwriting. Nine defaulters, formerly bank or Government officials, now in the Trenton, N. J., Penitentiary, are said to have stolen a total of $3,000,000. New Orleans is talking of adopting the semi-tropical style of architecture—that of gardens enclosed by plain, one-story, quadrangular dwellings. New York, during 1883, had 2,169 fires, with an average loss at each of $1,619. The expenses of the Fire Department averaged $723,814 for each fire. It costs five cents to cross in a boat from Laredo, Texas, to Neuvo Laredo, and ten cents to return. It is cheaper getting into Mexico than getting out. Bibles are no longer to be found in watering place hotel parlors and bed-chambers. Formerly the Bible was as much a part of the furniture as the match-safe. The proportion of color-blind persons, says the Boston Herald, is nearly 6 per cent among the Quakers, while the percentage in the general community is only 3%. At Boston a few days ago 225 dozen eggs shipped from Cape Breton were accidentally found to have been cooked by the heat of freshly-cut grass in which they were packed. A Catskill, Greene county, N. Y., woman broke her husband's nose the other night, while she was about half asleep, and sorrowfully explained that she had been dreaming that she saw him kissing a neighbor's wife. The Glass Ware Crane. [Chicago News.] This is decidedly a cut-glass season, and though rare bits of china, like old wine or flint glass, are never passé silverware, however costly and sterling has not the ghost of a show on the table or sideboard of the day. So there is nothing to do but to put big, swinging water-pitcher, with a goblet and tray, in a flannel bag, and relegate it to the dust and cobwebs of the darkest corporate of the top shelf in the pantry. The sacrifice is a cruel one to more than a few proud little bruswives; but fashion says "everything silver and all things high must go," and her dictates are invincible. The result is a gorgeous array of plain, cut, carved and engraved crystal glassware in all the colors of chromatics; unboard-of designs in plain and decorated china; and never to be seen a dish, vase, cruet, bowl, basket,turen; or standard over eight inches in height. Everything from a butter patty to an epergne is in flair relief; though the endless variety in color and design precludes the possibility of monotony. While the general appointment of a fashionable table is said to be low，exception is made to water-bottles，pot，jug，and jar，but all are so artistically and gracefully constructed as to make amends for their deviation from the low rule. A New Use for Eggs. [Detroit Free Press.] Every one is familiar with the value of the yolk of an egg as a hair wash，但 perhaps may not be aware of its virtue in clothing cleansing. Beaten up with alcohol can do cologne or ether，like ox gall，它 keeps better and is more powerful；or in simpler cases，it may be used alone，或 merely mixed with water，to be rubbed on with flannel，for removing from colored materials the stains of mud，或of coffee and chocolate，when prepared with milk。It is frequently applied to velvet collars and cuffs，etc.,和 proves a cleanser，as well as a spot extractor. When it has done its work it is washed off with soap，and the material thoroughly rinsed in pure water. Egg has a specially good effect on those annoying patches of wheel grease belonging to the compound class of stains，as they represent a mixture of stale grease，iron and other substances. Heroism of a Mother. [Boston Globe.] No more pathetic story has come from the scene of the wreck of the City of Columbus than that told by Mr. Tibbetts of the wife who begged her husband to save himself if he could，as there was no chance for them both，so that he might care for their four children. It was an instance of rare heroism，在 which love is stronger usually than the intelligent desire to live。So，在the wild rush of the panic-stricken people，at a time when calm decision is a quality most rare，她 weighed the chances and saw that life for her husband meant a happier life for her children than if she were saved。But stern fate had no pity on her devotion and heroism。The waves swept her off the vessel and swallowed her up，and after enduring the agonies of cold and exertion in the rigging，也 went down to join her in her ocean grave. To Temper Lamp Chimneys. [Chicago Times.] A Leipside journal gives a method which，it asserts，will prevent lamp chimneys from cracking. The treatment will not only render lamp chimneys，tumblers，和 like articles more durable，但 may be applied with advantage to crockery，stoneware， In The House. Les were assembling for the State Convention, severally put up at a favorite well-known minister of opies a pulpit in one of lives at the same room of the gentlemen tray in front of him, crushed out, caught him new a dollar on the tray, up two bottles of beer, oil." The minister was covering said: "I am a al, and am in a temperate delegate refused to take id," let it go for the issued to send the ministers on his return to Los Pecan Nuts. Chattanooga, Tennessee, the S. F. Call: would be planted in the same as fruit trees, since in the rows should grow very large. If offered, they should be years old, though older ones can should be cultivated or peaches, as it will imitate. The trees grow very begin to bear in three to four varieties and soil. As opinion about the growth their localities, I would they can be grown in all the United States, with kind of soil, as they are foods on all varieties of trees stand far out on earth as well adapted to them. Dorydon, Indiana, says, has and inflammation, reared clavicle, and after lies, without relief, he and was cured. Bibles are no longer to be found in watering place hotel parlors and bed-chambers. Formerly the Bible was as much a part of the furniture as the match-safe. The proportion of color-blind persons, says the Boston Herald, is nearly 6 per cent among the Quakers, while the percentage in the general community is only 3½. At Boston a few days ago 225 dozen eggs shipped from Cape Breton were accidentally found to have been cooked by the heat of freshly-cut grass in which they were packed. A Catskill, Greene county, N. Y., woman broke her husband's nose the other night, while she was about half asleep, and sorrowfully explained that she had been dreaming that she saw him kissing a neighbor's wife. In the ninety-eight years of its existence, the American Bible Society has issued more than forty-three million volumes, including Bibles, New Testaments and portions of the Gospels. One of the Boston theatres is now occupied by no other employees than women, by whom all the parts in an opera are played, the tickets are sold and collected, the auditors shown to their seats, and the orchestral music made. The orange tree lives to a greater age than any other fruit tree. It is said to have attained the age of 300 years, and is known to have flourished and borne fruit for more than 100 years. The most influential man in Dodge City is said to be Batt Matterson, who has killed thirty-two persons, according to common fame, and is spoken of as a "sociable, good fellow, when he isn't crossed." The farmers of a certain region in Scotland drove away the rooks a few years ago. Since the rooks departed all kinds of destructive grubs have appeared, and the farmers are now trying to get the rooks back again. A wooden statue of George Washington which stood in the old New York Battery Park from 1794 to 1842, after several transfers, has finally been bought for $300 by David Schiff, a New York tobaccoist, who will use it in front of his store as a sign. The Insurance Crutie asserts that "there are more than ten thousand steam boilers in New York city attended by seven thousand men, of whom not one seventh are believed to be trustworthy and qualified for their responsible work; and yet dynamite cartridges are a terror to many people." The celebrated Aderbach Echo has at last been eclipsed, it is stated, by a seventeenth-tongued one in Silenia. If the traveler sounds his horn at a point called Garves Rub, near Charlottebrunn, he will hear, after the lapse of a few seconds, a succession of sweet, clear notes coming back to him at brief intervals, until seventeen in all have answered. To Temper Lamp Chimneys. [Chicago Times.] A Leipisc journal gives a method which it asserts will prevent lamp chimneys from cracking. The treatment will not only render lamp chimneys, tumblers, and like articles more durable, but may be applied with advantage to crockery, stoneware, porcelain, etc. The chimneys, tumblers, etc., are put into a pot filled with cold water, to which some common table salt has been added; the water is well boiled over a fire and then allowed to cool slowly. When the articles are taken out and washed they will be found to resist, afterward, any sudden changes of temperature. The Devotion of a Son. [Cottage Hearth.] Next to the love of her husband, nothing so crowns a woman's life with honor as the devotion of a son to her. We never know a boy to turn out badly who began by falling in love with his mother. Any man may fall in love with a fresh-faced girl, and the man who is gallant to the girl may cruelly neglect the poor, weary wife in after years. But the big foy who is a lover of his mother, at middle age is a true knight, who will love his wife in the sure leaf of autumn as he did in the daisy spring. There is nothing so beautifully chivalrous as the love of a big boy for his mother. On Kissing Soup. [Croftin in Pioneer Press.] For instance, "Don't eat soup from the end of a spoon, but from the side." Such a rule cannot be called established. The very shape of a spoon proves that it was meant to be eaten from at the end, and to slip from the side successfully without spilling, especially if the diner has a full mustache, is a difficult feat. At the same time the position of the arm is more graceful, if one tip from the sides. It is no sort of consequence which mode is adopted—it is merely a question of taste. A Vanderbilt Legacy. [Inter Ocean.] George Vanderbilt, William H.'s youngest son, was 21 years old last Wednesday, and was at once handed over in a big envelope, the legacy left him by his grandfather, the old commodore.' The original legacy was $80000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000