anaheim-gazette 1884-09-06

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. ABSOLUTECY NEW! In Principle and design 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. MEMORABLE EARTH Brought to Mind by August Commenting upon the "the States" recently American says: The particular place where originated affords room for lation. We really know but accepting any set of itially, also, adopting a cause. The most prevalent the starting point was no of New York city, and bed of the Atlantic. The disprove, and many to s tion that the interior of very highly heated state. fluid condition so large with its rigidity, which in that of a ball of steel, this cause of the great weight terior presses toward the less it is steadily cooling, that it has required two years to acquire its present form, and that during mountains were formed the seas made, by a sort of surface as the globe of leed gases contracted to According to this idea the earth extends down from there being beneath than thickness of plastic matter rocks, etc., under high crust of the earth is all the state of tension, from the interior causing cave the superincumbent earth closer to its heated co water by percolation to ovens, it is thought, may explosions, dislocating material, and perhaps, b cation with the still he down, be the cause of sor 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. ABSOLUTEOY NEW! In Principle and design No Shuttle to thread. Seems 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 Gazewn 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 Commissioner of Deeds for Arizona Territory Kreeger's Block, Anaheim, Cal. R. R. BENTLEY. J. H. LUCAS. NOTHING WICKS. WICKS, LUCAS & BENTLEY, Attorneys-at-Law. 86 and 87 Temple Block, Los Angeles may 17 S.A. VICTOR MONTGOMERY, Attorney-at-Law, SANTA ANA, CAL. Office in Dubbies' brick building, nearly opposite the Post Office. Office hours from 10 A.M. to 3 P.M. RICHARD MELROSE, NOTARY PUBLIC GAZETTE OFFICE. L. GUNTHER. 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 at tention will be paid to Boating 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. Bucks for Sale. THE SUBSCRIBER HAS FOR SALE A NUMBER of French and Spanish Merino bucks.of the quality for which the rach 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. According to this idea the earth extends down from there being beneath that thickness of plastic matte rocks, etc., under high crust of the earth is all the state of tension, from the interior causing cave the superincumbent earth closer to its heated cooled water by percolation to ovens, it is thought, may explosions, dislocating material, and perhaps, because with the still heat down, be the cause of some destructive volcanoes.There are largely hypothetical with all we know of these they afford the best theory account for earthquakes well as to explain the prediction of the earth's surfaice the earth we have hardly upon; but we know that down the warmer it is, which supply the city of nearly 1,800 feet yiel Fah., and the lower level Mines having an almost u of 130° Fah. It is estimated increases one degree for and this would give melt the hardest rocka miles. On this theory the pre earthquake regions of this along the axis of those corrugations from the crust thought to be at of greatest tension.The these are down the east ing the Japan and Phillip extending to Java, where quake of last year occurs extends down the Pacific South America,the mahave been very light in since the commencement but of whose presence we have many striking protrends on an irregular path Himalayas and Indian Oceast coast line of South Asia riebean sea;and another,eVIDENCE of having not n a region of most terrific seaward along the western Azores,Madeira,Canary lands,Largely consisting and suggesting that they surface of the fabled island Atlantis, once said to cAmerica.A smaller quake region is found new of the Italian Peninsula,tries have been in comparison reeThe great Java earthquake was perhaps the most severe land of Krakatoa was al away,a part of it seems used to form two new miles distant,and an in into the atmosphere in s afford the best explanationthe anomalous sunsets ofItalian earthquakes had enough to make a catalog est recorded having been destroyed Herculaneum many years before they were lava from an eruption of 1773 to 1776 there were shocks,500 of which were of force One in Calabated to have caused th persona,and was felt Europe.The latest co VICTOR MONTGOMERY, Attorney-at-Law, SANTA ANA, CAL. Office in Dibbles' brick building, nearly opposite the Post Office. Office hours from 10 A.M. to 3 P.M. RICHARD MELROSE, NOTARY PUBLIC GAZETTE OFFICE. L. GUNTHER. Ploneer Boot and Shoe Maker, Cer. Adele and Los Angeles streets. ANAHEIM. GEORGE BAUER, BOOT AND SHOE MAKER, Center Street MAKING AND REPAIRING AT THE LOWEST mash price. All orders promptly attended to All work guaranteed. WM. R. HARKER, SADDLE & HARNESS MAKER, CENTER STREET, ANAHEIM. CHARLES WILLE, COOPERAGE. Pipes, Barrels and kegs on hand at all times. Tanks and Fabs made to order. Honest 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 meant interesting journey from Yucatan to the Rio Grande in one large adarro volume of nearly 700 pages. Argentine wanted. Apply to J. DEWING & CO., 428 Bush street, San Francisco, Cal. A PRIZE. Send six cents per postage and require from a costly box of goods which will help all, of either sex, to more money right away than anything else in this world. Portuguese awaits the workers absolutely sure. At once add them & Co., Augusta, Maine. Cakes for Parties on Short Notice. CENTER STREET, ANAHEIM. Bucks 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 sep19 JOHN WAAGER. Casks, Pipes AND PUNCHEONS IN PERFECT ORDER For Sale at Low Prices. B. DREYFUS & CO., Anaheim. B. DREYFUS, Anaheim, San Francisco J. FROWENFIELD, New York. B. DREYFUS & CO. Growers and Dealers in California Wines and Grape Brandy. 630 to 642 Branuan 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 ANAhia Lodge No 207, F. and A. M. are held in Manusia Hall on the Monday evening of or preceding the full moon in each month. Signaling brothers in good standing are cordially invited to attend Time. Rusam, W. M. Italian earthquakes have enough to make a catalogue best recorded having been destroyed Herculaneum many years before they were hit by lava from an eruption of 1773 to 1776 there were shocks, 500 of which were of force. One in Calabria mated to have caused the persons, and was felt Europe. The latest earthquake was probably the most severe outside of the Italian peninsula was felt in the Alps and Sweden; 60,000 persons of the city permanently neath the bay. Amount in Europe in 1878 was one have in many respects not one here. It occurred not remarkable in its vicinity estimated to have covered cal square miles, ringing houses and making cracks was accompanied by no noise; the workmen the Cologne Cathedral oscillate and feared for one of 1,100 miners below in the mines not This was not so severe even in England last Spring, where thrown down, and twisted as to be rendered. In South America these earthquakes within Caracene, in Venezuela, ed by three shocks, with 1812. The city of Quito almost destroyed in 1812. MEMORABLE EARTHQUAKES. Brought to Mind by the Quake of August 10 Commenting upon the shake which shook "the States" recently, the Scientific American says: The particular place where the earthquake originated affords room for no little speculation. We really know nothing about it, but accepting any set of facts we are partially, also, adopting a certain theory as to cause. The most prevalent opinion is that the starting point was not far from due east of New York city, and probably under the bed of the Atlantic. There are no facts to disprove, and many to support the assumption that the interior of the earth is in a very highly heated state. If it is not in a fluid condition so largely as to interfere with its rigidity, which is counted equal to that of a ball of steel, this is said to be the cause of the great weight with which the exterior presses toward the center. Nevertheless it is steadily cooling, geologists claiming that it has required twenty-five million years to acquire its present externally solid form, and that during this period the mountains were formed and the hollows of the seas made, by a sort of wrinkling of the surface as the globe of liquid fire and heated gases contracted to its present shape. According to this idea the solid crust of the earth extends down from ten to forty miles, there being beneath that a greater or less thickness of plastic material, from melted rocks, etc., under high pressure, while the crust of the earth is all the time in a high state of tension, from the gradual cooling of the interior causing cavities, and allowing the superincumbent earth to crowd down closer to its heated core. The access of water by percolation to these subterranean ovens is thought, may in some cases cause explosions, dislocating vast quantities of material, and perhaps, by opening communication with the still hotter portions lower down, be the cause of some of the most de- large part of Ecuador was devastated by a great earthquake, several shocks from the 13th to the 16th of August occurring over nearly all South America. This was the date also of the earthquake at Iquique, Peru, when the U.S. war ship Watersee was lifted and left stranded two miles inland by a great tidal wave. The latter earthquake caused a wave more than two feet high at San Francisco, and California itself has had many quite severe earthquake shocks. One that occurred there March 26, 1872, occasioned general alarm, and did a good deal of damage in San Francisco, cracking the walls of many fine buildings. The nearest region of earthquake activity to our Eastern shores, however, is found in the West Indies. Here, on March 19, 1873, the city of San Salvador, about 300 miles due east of the southern part of Florida, was totally destroyed; three successive severe shocks were experienced, but the inhabitants had been so well warned by the previous noises that only some 500 lives were lost. The Atlantic States of the Union are thus, it will be seen, not very far removed from a region of recent volcanic activity, and belong to a section whose probable axis of seismic disturbance lies about as indicated by the recent earthquake, i.e., between the West Indies and Bermuda on the one side and the Appalachian range on the other, somewhat according to the course of the Gulf Stream. The number of minor disturbances in this region has been considerable, but far the largest proportion of them have been so slight as almost to escape notice. The earthquakes already catalogued number about 900, and it is estimated that one occurs on an average twice a week somewhere in the world, but our section of the world has contributed very little to this list, nor does the earthquake of Aug. 10 afford any idea that we are more likely to have such disturbances in the future, except as it suggests the ever present possibility, for us as well as all other people on the globe. Proctor says: "The lifetime of a world like ours may be truly said to be a lifetime of cooling. Beginning in the glowing vaporous condition which we see in the sun and DEPUTY SECRETARY OF STATE. Thomas A Reynolds is Arrested and Gives Batl—How the Deficiencies Were Discovered. [Bulletin.] Thomas H. Reynolds, late Deputy Secretary of State under Daniel M. Burns, was arrested in Fresno on Wednesday night of last week, on warrants sworn to by Controller Dunn, charging him with falsifying the books of his office and embezzling $25,000. Reynolds, on hearing the warrants were out for him, at once deposited $8,000 bail with the Sheriff of Fresno for his appearance at Sacramento. The Record-Union of yesteryear gives the following details of the events which led to the arrest of Reynolds: Reynolds met the Controller and his deputies in the Controller's office on Monday evening. District Attorney J. T. Carey and Assistant Attorney-General Marshall were present by invitation of the Controller, and Mr. Reynolds was accompanied by his attorney, Judge S. C. Denson. Fred R. Danforth and George Gale, a brother-in-law of D. M. Burns, who were deputies under Burns, were also present at the consultation. Danforth said that he was the recording clerk in the office, and attended to the filing of articles of incorporation, trade-marks, etc., and the preparation of C. O. D. packages. In the absence of Reynolds he also received for money. Every transaction he made and every cent of money he received he copied on a daily journal, and upon Reynolds return the money was turned over to him, and he entered it into a cash-book. Mr. Reynolds corroborated this fact, and stated that upon the receipt of the money he would enter it in a cash-book—a private cash-book of his own. From the daily journal he would post the fee-book, entering every transaction and every fee appearing on the journal. At the end of the month, when about time to make up the monthly report, Mr. Burns would appear, and, taking his pencil, would cross out the items on According to this idea the solid crust of the earth extends down from ten to forty miles, there being beneath that a greater or less thickness of plastic material, from melted rocks, etc., under high pressure, while the crust of the earth is all the time in a high state of tension, from the gradual cooling of the interior causing cavities, and allowing the superincumbent earth to crowd down closer to its heated core. The access of water by percolation to these subterranean ovens, it is thought, may in some cases cause explosions, dislocating vast quantities of material, and perhaps, by opening communication with the still hotter portions lower down, be the cause of some of the most destructive volcanoes. These explanations are largely hypothetical, but they accord with all we know of the earth's surface and they afford the best theory we yet have to account for earthquakes and volcanoes, as well as to explain the present structural condition of the earth's surface. This crust of the earth we have hardly made a pin scratch upon; but we know that the farther we go down the warmer it is, the artesian wells which supply the city of Paris from a depth of nearly 1,800 feet yielding water of 82° Fah., and the lower levels of the Comstock Mines having an almost uniform temperature of 130° Fah. It is estimated that the heat increases one degree for every fifty feet, and this would give a temperature to melt the hardest rocks in less than ten miles. On this theory the present volcanic and earthquake regions of the globe are located along the axis of those supposed wrinkles or corrugations from the contraction of the crust thought to be at present in the state of greatest tension. The most marked of these are down the east coast of Asia, including the Japan and Philippine Islands, and extending to Java, where the great earthquake last year occurred. Another also extends down the Pacific coast of North and South America, the manifestations of which have been very light in the northern part since the commencement of historic times, but of whose presence in South America we have many striking proofs. One also extends on an irregular parallel between the Himalayas and Indian Ocean; another near the coast line of South America on the Caribbean sea; and another, which gives every evidence of having not many ages since been a region of most terrific activity, extends northward along the western shore of Africa, the Azores, Madeira, Canary, and Cape Verde islands, largely consisting of extinct volcanoes and suggesting that they may be the surviving surface of the fabled island or continent of Atlantis, once said to connect Africa with America. A smaller volcanic and earthquake region is found near the southern part of the Italian Peninsula. All of these localities have been the scene of violent eruptions within comparatively recent times. The great Java earthquake of August, 1883 was perhaps the most severe, when the Island of Krakatoa was almost bodily carried away, a part of it seemingly having been used to form two new small islands some miles distant, and an indelinite portion sent into the atmosphere in such a condition as to afford the best explanation we have had of the anomalous sunsets of the last year. Italian earthquakes have been numerous enough to make a catalogue, one of the earliest recorded having been that which partially destroyed Herculaneum and Pompei sixteen years before they were finally covered with lava from an eruption of Vesuvius. From 1773 to 1776 there were no less than 947 shocks, 500 of which were of the first degree of force. One in Calabria in 1783 was estimated to have caused the death of 100,000 persons, and was felt in a great part of Europe. The latest considerable one, at Marvelous Horsemanship A St. Petersburg correspondent, writing to the London Standard, says: "This morning I witnessed a wonderful display of horsemanship. It took place in the Petroffsky Park. Here, in the presence of the Grand Duke Nicholas, and most of the foreign officers and guests, the regiment of Cossack Guards went through an extraordinary series of exercises which threw the most daring feats of the circus into the shade. The entire regiment passed at full galop, in loose order, with many of the men standing upright in their saddles, others upon their heads with legs in the air, many leaping upon the ground and then into the saddle again at full speed, some springing over their horses' heads and picking up stones from the ground, and yet regaining their seat. While performing these feats all were brandishing their sabers and firing pistols, throwing their carbines into the air and catching them again, and yelling like maniacs. Some men went past in pairs, standing with a leg on each other's horses—one wild fellow carried off another dressed as a woman. The effect of the scene was absolutely bewildering, and it seemed as if the whole regiment had gone mad. Upon a signal being given, the regiment divided into two parts. One rode off; then halted and made their horses lie down on the ground beside them, waiting as in war the approach of the enemy. The other section of the regiment then charged down, and in an instant every horse was on his feet, every rider in his saddle, and with a wild yell they rode at their supposed enemy. When the maneuvers were over, the regiment rode past, singing, and uncommonly well together, a military chorus. Altogether, it was a marvelous exhibition of daring horsemanship, and one hardly knew whether to admire the docility and mettle of the steeds or the skill and courage of the riders. All the foreign officers and guests were no less astonished than delightful. Girl's Ways One of the most amusing studies at any watering place is the woman with a Sunday Italian earthquakes have been numerous enough to make a catalogue, one of the earliest recorded having been that which partially destroyed Herculaneum and Pompeii sixteen years before they were finally covered with lava from an eruption of Vesuvius. From 1773 to 1776 there were no less than 947 shocks, 500 of which were of the first degree of force. One in Calabria in 1783 was estimated to have caused the death of 100,000 persons, and was felt in a great part of Europe. The latest considerable one, at Ischia, was confined in narrow limits, causing only about 150 deaths. In 1857 a severe earthquake visited the kingdom of Naples, doing little damage to the city, but much to the province, and this earthquake was made specially memorable by the investigation relating to it by Professor Mallet, of the British Association. By using the fissures in buildings, the disturbance of heavy objects, etc., as natural measures, he fixed, from 177 determinations, the focus of the disturbance as being beneath the village of Caggiora, finding the mean depth of the cavity at 5¼ miles. He also deduced the general form of the focal cavity a curved fissure, 2 miles high, 9 miles long, and of very small thickness, the velocity of transit of shock being between 658 and 989 feet per second. The great earthquake at Lisbon in 1755 was probably the most severe one felt in Europe outside of the Italian peninsula. The shock was felt in the Alps and on the coast of Sweden; 60,000 persons perished, and a part of the city permanently engulfed 600 feet beneath the bay. Among many others felt in Europe in 1878 was one which seems to have in many respects resembled the recent one here. It occurred August 26, and was not remarkable in its violence, but for the great amount of territory affected. It is estimated to have covered over 2,000 geographical square miles, ringing bells and swaying houses and making cracks in the walls, and was accompanied by a dull subterranean noise; the workmen on the towers of the Cologne Cathedral saw the scaffolding oscillate and feared for their lives, yet not one of 1,100 miners working 1,000 feet below in the mines noticed the disturbance. This was not so severe even as the shock felt in England last Spring, when some chimneys were thrown down, and many walls so twisted as to be rendered usafe. In South America there have been numerous earthquakes within the last fifty years. Caracas, in Venezuela, was entirely destroyed by three shocks, within fifty seconds, in 1612. The city of Quito, in Ecuador, was almost destroyed in 1859, and in 1868 a regiment divided into two parts. One rode off; then halted and made their horses lie down on the ground beside them, waiting as in war the approach of the enemy. The other section of the regiment then charged down, and in an instant every horse was on his feet, every rider in his saddle, and with a wild yell they rode at their supposed enemy. When the maneuvers were over, the regiment rode past, singing, and uncommonly well together, a military chorus. Altogether, it was a marvelous exhibition of daring horsemanship, and one hardly knew whether to admire the docility and mettle of the steeds or the skill and courage of the riders. All the foreign officers and guests were no less astonished than delight-ed." A Familiar Title [Sacramento Record-Union.] "Southern California" is a title familiar at the East; in every community it is a common term. The essays written about it, the glowing enologies pronounced upon its climate, and soil possibilities; the broad measure of exaggeration that has been indulged in regarding it; the persistent and never-tiring efforts with which its people have advertised it; all have combined to turn to it, not only the attention of men, but the tide of immigration, and to-day the whole region is feeling the impulse of new blood, new energy and enlarged population. Prices of land have advanced, communities have increased in strength, trade has been stimulated to new enterprise, and general prosperity and animation pervades the whole section—notably so that most near to the city of Los Angeles. Passing the exaggeration that has been indulged in by the thoughtless, and which has invariably resulted badly, it is to be said that the people of Southern California have done well in inducing immigration to their counties. The people of Central and Northern California have done poorly in the same matter. In short, had the same energy been displayed to advertise this section that has been in Southern California, this whole central and northern section would be just as widely known, and have received just as much benefit—nay, far greater addition to its population and material wealth. GREENVILLE, Cal.—Mr. Harry Williams certifies under his notarial seal, that Mr. A. Williams was suffering with pains in the back, so severe she was unable to turn and was delirious. When the case assumed an alarming stage, one application of St Jacob's Oil was made externally after several remedies had been tried and failed. The patient slept soundly until morning and got up entirely cured. Incorporated papers filed show a deficiency of $4,084. Notaries commissions filed $2,000; appointments issued to members of Boards of Agriculture, etc., $250; trademarks filed $800; Commissioner of Deeds certificates, $300; sales of codes, $2,000. They think there is a deficiency of several thousand dollars in the stationery account. They have investigated sufficiently to ascertain the fact that there is a deficiency of at least $25,000, which may possibly be increased to $40,000. Women's Ways One of the most amusing studies at any watering place is the woman with a Sunday husband, and a correspondent has found it especially diverting at Cape May. The number of wives who are left widowed during the week, to be joined from Saturday night until Monday morning by Philadelphia spouses, is very great; and inevitably they include a certain proportion of coquettes. Now, it is a common silliness in extremely raw young men to flirt with married women," this authority declares. "There you have the essential conditions. From the going out of the train on Monday morning until the coming in of the same on Saturday evening, these giddy wives covertly exchange sentiment with benax. And on Sundays the married flirt kills two fond birds with one stone cleverly thrown. She dotes on her husband in the most undisguised and captivating manner, from the greeting kiss to the parting hug. He correctly believes that she loves him dearly. But it is also true that she knows and fully intends the effect produced upon the beau." An Improbable Story A New York Tribune's Saratoga correspondent tells of the sale of a slave in Saratoga Tuesday. The girl is described as having been the property of a wealthy Cuban family. She was sold in the regular way; save that the date of the bill of sale was drawn up by a Saratoga attorney and was dated "Havana, June 30th," instead of "Saratoga, August 26th," the actual day of the transfer of the girl and the payment of the price fixed,$1,200. The girl has light complexion, is comely and only twenty years old. She has been in Saratoga for four seasons past as a nurse in the family that owned her. The purchaser is a widower with no children. He will be married in Havana in October, and it is said he intends presenting the girl to his bride as a maid. The correspondent gives no names. It makes a milkman's wife blush to ask her if her silk dress is watered. GAZETTE. NO. 48 MBER 6, 1884. A Wonderful Substance Among the most interesting developments which have followed in the wake of the discovery of petroleum is the immense trade which has sprung up in ozokerite, or ozocerite, as Webster has it. No fairer substance ever sprang from most unpromising parentage than the snowy, pure, tasteless opalescent wax which is evolved from the loud smelling, pitchy dregs of the petroleum still. The Mining Review thus sums up the many cases to which this remarkable substance is applied: This comely, impressionable article, with all its smooth, soft beauty, defies agents which can destroy the precious metals and eat up the hardest steel as water dissolves sugar. Sulphuric and other potent acids have no more effect on ozokerite than spring water. It is alike impervious to acid and to moisture. Its advent seems to have been a special dispensation in this age of electricity. Every overhead electric light cable or underground conduit, or slender wire, cunningly wrapped with cotton thread; all these owe their fitness for conducting the subtle fluid to the presence of this wax. And in still more familiar forms let us outline the utility of this substance. Every gushing school girl who sinks her white teeth into chewing gum chews this paraffine wax. Every caramel she eats contains this wax, and is wrapped in paper saturated with the same substance. The gloss seen upon hundreds of varieties of confectionery is due to the presence of this ingredient of petroleum, used to give the articles a certain consistency, as the laudress uses starch. So that a product taken from the dirtiest, worst-smelling of tars finds its way to the millionaire's mansion, an honored servitor. It aids to make possible the electric reliance that floods his rooms; or, in the form of wax candles, sheds a softer luster over the scene. It polishes the floor for the feet of his guests, and it melts in their mouths in the costliest candies. For the insulation of electric wire, paraffine wax has to-day no successful rival, and the growth of the demand for this purpose keeps pace with the A Helcoat Denver, (Col.), Aug. 29th.—At 11 o'clock last night a train belonging to the Anglo-American circus, Miles Orten, proprietor, left Fort Collins for Golden via the Greeley, Salt Lake and Pacific road. Forty minutes later, when near Greeley, the sleeping car, in which 75 men employed as roostaboute in the circus were asleep, caught fire and was wholly consumed. Ten men parished. Two were seriously and five were slightly burned. The fire was communicated from an open torch, with which the car was lighted, to a quantity of gasoline which was being carried in the same car, causing an explosion. The burning was attended with indescribable horrors. The burned car was next to the engine in a train of seventeen cars, containing the Orton's Anglo-American circus, which left Fort Collins about midnight for Golden, over the Greeley, Salt Lake and Pacific road. The train was nearing Windosr, a small station near Greeley, running about 25 miles an hour, when the engineer, Collepriest, discovered the car on fire. He reversed the engine and threw open the whistle valve. There were sixty men in the car, arranged in three tiers of berths on either side. The forward side door was closed, and the men in the bunks were sleeping against it. The rear side door was also closed, and the men who awoke discovered the lower unoccupied berth next to it, containing rubbish, on fire, filling the car with smoke and cutting off escape in that direction. The only means of egress was through a small window between the car and engine. John Pine, of Edgerton, Wis., and Almer Millet, of Iowa, crawled through the opening and tried to pass in water from the engine tank. Owing to the suffocating gases it was difficult to arouse the sleepers. Some were kicked and bruised in a shocking manner and patched out of the windows. The screams of those unable to get through the blockaded aperture were terrifying. The wild glare of the flames, the light of the burning victims outside who were writhing in agony on the cactus beds, caused the wild beasts in the adjoining car to become frantic. Every transaction he received in the money he received was turned over to a cash-book. The daily journal, upon Reynolds' arrival, entered every fee appearing at the end of the month. The monthly report would be copied from the cash-book of the office, which explanation of his unusual mode of proceeding is his superior; that suspended on his position that Burns was in charge of the amount, and he did this chance of getting subsequently stated connected in a minishown receipts signifying they did not apothecary, Reynolds statically directed him not buddies understood that it must make up the de facto fact, he had often official in regard to was an understanding effect. The book were made up, and all the months while he was conceived by him. As an entitlement to be overcome at amount of defalcation given: The Secretary of ballot paper, worth, and failed to He sold to Bancroft count of $3,047 75, and $302 50. From few days ago by Banford that the payments of two years, and the first payment, the other seven remitted to $1,250. It ing Burns' term of account amounting to $4,-paid over, leaving a Over $500 worth of were sold, for which at all. Certified which $1,900 were dollar of which ever treasury. They do not this amount is, from such transactions and the experts have their informa-tapers filed show a detritus' commissions units issued to members are, etc., $250; trade commissioner of Deeds laws of codes, $2,000; deficiency of several stationery accounts, sufficiently to ascertain is a deficiency of at may possibly be in- Pacific Coast News A quarer plague has manifested itself at Winnemucca, Nev. The animals fall dead without apparent disease. The Democratic Central Committee of Fresno county nominated A. M. Clark as candidate for Assemblyman, in place of E. M. Morgan resigned. In Victoria, Australia, alone, there were in March last 40,474 men who gained their livelihood by digging for gold. The gold yield for that quarter was 181,011 ounces, which is considered good. The Kern County School Superintendent, A. B. McPherson, having failed to give the bonds required by the Board of Supervisors, the office has been declared vacant. His former bondmen had withdrawn, alleging as a reason, in their petition to the Court, his gambling and profligate habits. In Judge Winn's Court in San Francisco the custody of a child was awarded to her husband, Patrick F. Robinson. Outside the Court room door a struggle for the child occurred, and Robinson knocked down George B. Collins, the wife's lawyer, and kicked him in the head and face. Collins is seriously hurt. Robinson was arrested. Goodall, Perkins & Co., acting as superintendents of the Ocean division of the Oregon Railway & Navigation Company, received instructions from the O. R. & N. Co., at Portland, to reduce salaries 10 per cent. on steamers plying between San Francisco and Portland, viz., Columbia, Oregon and State of California. In accordance with these instructions an order reducing salaries was- In Judge Winn's Court in San Francisco the custody of a child was awarded to the mother, pending a divorce suit against her husband, Patrick F. Robinson. Outside the Courtroom door a struggle for the child occurred, and Robinson knocked down George B. Collins, the wife's lawyer, and kicked him in the head and face. Collins is seriously hurt. Robinson was arrested. Goodall, Perkins & Co., acting as superintendent of the Ocean division of the Oregon Railway & Navigation Company, received instructions from the O. R. & N. Co., at Portland, to reduce salaries 10 per cent. on steamers plying between San Francisco and Portland, viz., Columbia, Oregon and State of California. In accordance with these instructions an order reducing salaries was issued Friday to the officers and crew of the State of California, which was to sail Monday, but the resistance to the order was so great that all were shipped at old salaries. Suit has been commenced in Sacramento by Samuel Norris against Haggin & Tevis for the reconveyance of the Norris grant, and damages. Samuel Norris, an old pioneer of California, claims that he was the owner of this tract of land, which contains 45,000 acres, together with several lots of real estate in the city of Sacramento. That from the effect of a blow over the head in 1859 he was incapacitated for doing business and was not in his right mind until 1883. That between those dates the defendants through their agent, A. K. Grim, fraudulently got possession of his property, which is worth $1,312,000, on a judgment obtained by Grim against him for $2,055. He claims that he did not find out until 1884 the means by which the property was wrested from him, and prays the court to compel the defendants to deed the ranch back to him and pay him damages and costs of suit. Sundry Places. The place for babies—Baby-Ion. The place for scholars—School-craft. The place for lovers—Court-land. The place for soap makers—Ash-land. The place for temperance societies—Cold-water. The place for sleepy-heads—Bed-ford. The place for laundrymen—Washing-ton. The place for cooks—Pots-ville. The place for farmers—Rich-land. The place for anglers—Fish-kill. The place for hungry men—Sandwich. The place for reporters—Pencil-vania. The place for carpenters—Plane-well. The place for butchers—New Market. The place for Chinamen—Queen. The place for vocalists—Sing Sing. A barber shop for women only, is a New Haven, Conn., attraction. J. A. Plymire's little boy, Harry, while playing around the house last Sunday, says the Red Bluff Democrat, ran across a big rattlesnake, and ran to the house and told his father that he had "found a big black thing with yellow stripes on it." Mr. Plymire at once went to the spot indicated by the little fellow, arriving just in time to see his snakeship crawl into a hole. He got a mattock and dug the reptile out and killed it. In its stomach was a half-grown chicken. It had six rattles and a button. The boy was playing within two feet of it, and it is a wonder he was not bitten. Easy When You Know How. O'Donnell, the pitcher of the Youngtown (O.) Club, recently showed what may be done in making a ball "curve" on its way from pitcher to catcher. He set up three poles in a straight line. One of the end poles was ten feet and the other was eighteen feet from the middle pole. O'Donnell stood so that his hand in delivering the ball was close to the pole which was furthest from the middle one, and he repeatedly pitched the ball so that it passed to the right of the middle pole and to the left of the pole beyond before it reached the catcher's hands. Rare Good Feeling: There was a brilliant Republican demonstration at Burlington, N. J. The Republican and Democratic headquarters are on opposite corners, and shared in the general illumination of the city. When a club of young Republicans marched by the Democratic headquarters, they were greeted with a cordial salute and cheers from Democratic friends. The Republicans had saluted the Democrats in a similar manner on a previous occasion. The delicate white flower of the buckwheat is the fashionable flower at summer resorts, where it is sold by florists under a fanciful title. A huge bouquet of buckwheat edged with ferns and tied with pink ribbons makes a charming ornament for a Saratoga belle. The gloomy fears, the desponding views, the weariness of soul that many complain of would often disappear were the blood made pure and healthy before reaching the delicate vessels of the brain. Ayer's Saratopailla purifies and vitalizes the blood; and thus condenses to health of body and immunity of mind.