anaheim-gazette 1885-03-14

WEEKLY GAZETTE. SATURDAY...MARCH 14, 1855 SUBSCRIPTION, penyear, $2. The Legislature has passed a bill designed to prevent the licensing of gambling as has been done for some time in Sacramento. Thus the reproach will be wiped from that city, despite itself. Is an election was to be held in California today, the Republicans would have an overwhelming majority. There are very few Democrats left in the State. They are all in Washington on a hunt for office. The alliterative person, Dr. Barchard of New York, has been retired by his congregation who want a younger and more energetic pastor. He apparently reached the climax of his career when he hit upon that unhappy phrase—Rum, Romanism and Rebellion. That part of President Cleveland's inaugural address in which he favors the exclusion of the Chinese is very unacceptable to Becher. However, he can find consolation in the fact that if Blaine had been elected he would have announced the same opinion as Cleveland on the Chinese question. Mr. Tilden's main food now is fruit, we are informed, and a house is being built at Greystone in which to force grapes and similar things out of season for his use. There was a time once before, some eight years ago, when Mr. Tilden had a similar hankering, but unfortunately the grape vines got over the garden wall, and the fruit was gathered on the other side by a different person. That was a very practical sermon preached by a minister at Haverstraw, N. Y. He showed that the bakers' profit was over $13 on each barrel of flour baked, and offered to furnish all the flour required at $1 less than the bakers declared they had to pay. As a result of his expose, the loaves manufactured by the bakers of that city are said to have increased in size very materially. It is quite within the range of possibility that England and Russia may again have a boast at arms. Some peculiar and augmentive AN ABORTIVE APPEAL. To the Honorable Senate of the State of California: The last hours of the session of the Legislature for 1855, find the irrigation bills passed by the Assembly not considered in your honorable body; and representing us do, the irrigators of the State, our sense of duty impels us to make one last appeal for protection and justice at your hands. No question of more vital importance was ever presented to the Legislature of any State in the Union. We come asking bread for the vast constituency we represent; will you give them a stone? Hear us for our cause; turn not a deal ear to the supplications of the thousands and tens of thousands whose now happy homes may be made desolate by non-action on your part. The day has come when the per diem of the members of the Legislature must stop; but is there no pay except in dollars? Is not the approval of one's own conscience, the gratitude of men, the smiles of women and the happiness of innocent children sometimes worth more? As those who step somewhat outside the bounds of duty to obstruct and defeat all consideration of these bills will forever receive the condemnation of every true friend of California, so will those who now sacrifice something in the cause of justice receive at the hands of the people the ever welcome plaudit, "well done, good and faithful servants!" Will you adjourn and go to your homes without even hearing the cause of those we represent? You know that thousands of people went upon the arid deserts of California because they had not the means to purchase land elsewhere, and under what they thought the laws of the State, diverted the waters of the streams upon them; that they lived in flimy buits, affording insufficient shelter from the burning sun of summer, and the cold blasts of winter; that they went poorly clad, and lived on the coarsest food—not enough, in many cases, to properly support life—while they were digging ditches and waiting for the vine and fruit tree to grow, and that thus beautiful homes have been made, and large and prosperous communities built up. These people have demonstrated that California can be made to sustain a population equal to that of the entire Union at this time. The way being thus pointed out, millions of capital invested in irrigation enterprises throughout the State, and wealth was created, measured in dollars, by the hundreds of millions. But now comes an interpretation of the law that these diversions of water are wrong and illegal; that three or four cattle The Game Laws. Handling in a fair Principles paper of late Saturday of several arrests for violation of the game laws, suggested the publication of following extracts from the game laws of the State, applicable to this section: Every person who, in the State of California, between the first day of March and the first day of October in each year, hunts pursues, takes, kills or destroys quail, pet tridges, or grouse, or rail, is guilty of a misdemeanor. Every person who, in any county of this State, at any time takes gatherers or destroys the eggs of any quail partridge or grouse, is guilty of a misdemeanor. Every person who, in any county between the first day of November in each year and the first day of July in the following year, hunts, pursues, takes, kills or destroys any male deer or back, is guilty of a misdemeanor. Any person in the State of California who has in his possession any skins or skins of any deer, elk, antelope or mountain sheep, killed between the first day of November and the first day of July, is guilty of a misdemeanor. Every person who shall at any time in the State of California hunt, pursue, take, kill or destroy any ante-lope, elk, mountain sheep, female deer or doe, shall be guilty of a misdemeanor. Every person who shall at any time hunt pursue, take, kill or destroy any spotted fawn, is guilty of a misdemeanor. Every person who shall take, kill or destroy any animals mentioned in this section are used or preserved by the person taking slaying it, or is sold for food, is guilty of a misdemeanor. Every person who shall buy soil, offer or expose for sale, transport; have in his possession any deer from which evidence of sex has been removed; or any animal sheared game at a time when it is unlawful to kill the same, as provided by this section and subsequent sections, is guilty of a misdemeanor. Every person who shall at any time new pound, weir, cage or trap any quail, partridge or grouse, and every person who shall sell buy transport or give away; or offer or expose for sale; or have in his possession any quail, partridge or grouse that have been snared, captured or taken in; or by means of any net, pound, weir, cage or trap is guilty of a misdemeanor. Proof of possession of any quail, partridge or grouse which shall not show evidence of having been taken by means other than a net, pound, weir, cage or trap shall be prima facie evidence in an prosecution for a violation of the provisions of this section; that the person in whom possession such quail, partridge or grouse found took killed or destroyed the same be means of a net, pound, weir, cage or trap. An Interesting Compilation. The table below shows the number It is quite within the range of possibility that England and Russia may again have a bout at arms. Some peculiar and suggestive movements in Afghanistan by the Russian troops has led England to demand an explanation, and the demand is followed by the transportation of troops from England to the Afghan frontier. The London Times ferociously says: "If Russia wishes to fight, England is not only ready but willing, and Russia has only to say the word." We find in the Sacramento Record-Union a long communication from ex-Surveyor-General Shanklin on the morits, or rather demerits, of the irrigation measures before the Legislature. Mr. Shanklin has an unfortunate faculty of reasoning inversely and getting upon the side of the question where he does not belong. He is an irrigator—the largest stockholder in the Anaheim Union Water Company—and yet he ranges himself with the riparianists and against himself. If the riparian proprietors on the Santa Ana river shalt off the water which he has appropriated, he will probably regret having lent his influence against his own interests. There are few localities in which the office of Justice of the Peace is very remunerative, and the devices of the incumbents to make a "living" are sometimes bad, sometimes ingenious and sometimes funny. This incident happened in Arkansas: "A negro in attempting to cross the Tyronza river fell from his mule and was drowned. When his body was discovered, after three days, the local justice of the peace held an inquest in his capacity as coroner, discovered a pistol on the body, fined the body $50 for carrying concealed weapons, and confiscated mule and pistol to pay the fine." One of the strangest peoples with whom the missionary has to do are the Falashaa of Ethiopia. They are black Hebrews, about 200,000 in number, living West of Jordan, who have as their holy writings the Old Testament in an Ethiopic version, and who still rigidly adhere to the Mosaic ceremonies and laws. They are the children of Hebrew immigrants, who, in the time of the great Dispersion, settled in Abyssinia and married wives of that nation—something not strange, as the Ethiopians are Semitic in nationality and language. Missionary attempts were made among these people by the Jesuits as early as the Sixteenth century, but with little success, and the recent endeavors of the Basle Evangelical Society have also been without tangible results. Very respectfully, J. DE BARTH SORB, J. F. WHARTON, W. S. GREEN, R. HUDNUT, H. S. DIXON, L. B. RUGLES, E. H. TUCKER, An Interesting Compilation The table below shows the number of words in each inaugural address; also how often the personal pronoun "I" was used: President: No Words. No Titles. Washington, first term...1,300 Washington, second term...134 J. Adams...2,311 Jefferson, first term...1,526 Jefferson, second term...2,123 Madison, first term...1,170 Madison, second term...1,142 Monroe, first term...3,322 Monroe, second term...4,466 J. Q. Adams...2,944 Jackson, first term...1,116 Jackson, second term...1,167 Van Buren...3,884 Harrison...8,578 Tyler...1,643 Polk...4,904 Taylor...1,096 Pierce...3,319 Buchanan...2,772 Lincoln, first term...3,588 Lincoln, second term...588 Johnson...362 Grant, first term...1,139 Grant, second term...1,332 The Fraudulent President: 2,472 Garfield...2,949 Arthur...431 Cleveland...1,688 Millard Fallmore took the oath without delivering an inaugural address. Legislative Writ- Assemblyman Corecoran introduced the following extremely amusing bill: WHEREAS, The compensation of every person connected with the Assembly has been increased except that of the overworked members; therefore be it Resolved That the Sergeant-at-Arms be instructed to send to the address of each member, by express charges prepaid his desk, chair and cuspid; and further Resolved That the following gentlemen have awarded to them the following property: To Firebaugh, the big clock; to Gregory, the small clock; to Yule, one of the print pictures of the New Orleans Exposition building, as a reminder of what his Normal School would have looked like at Stasta; to DeWitt, Clark and Ashe (the irrigators), one water-coiler each; to Watson of El Dorado, the portrait of General Sutter; to Dr. May, a beater; to Woodward, the thermometer; to McGlashan, the gas pipes; to Munday, the central cluster of gas jets; to Win. Davaa, one folding door; to the other members, any small piece of portable property that they can get their hands on. Complimentary. Assemblyman Edward's son, who broke his arm last week, has been complimented by the passage of the following resolution by the Assembly: WHEREAS One of the pages of this House, by name Wilkie Edwards, met with a severe accident while in the employ of this The Cyprus Locust. [Chambers' Journal.] Fancy an English farmer turning out after breakfast and admiring his six-acre field of wheat, deliciously green, about two feet high. Fancy him, too, coming home to dinner at noon and seeing this same field as bare as his hand. This is not exaggeration, but a plain matter-of-fact illustration of what may be seen any spring where Cyprus locusta abound. We have had the locusta with us always. In the old, old days they were sent by the gods; in less remote times they were a dispensation of Providence. They came and went, and nobody ever thought of trying if something could not be done to stop their ravages. Under Turkish rule, of course, this feeling was intensified by the fatalism peculiar to their faith. It was kismet and there was nothing to be done. But even Mohometana in time cannot escape altogether the influence of Western ideas, and some thirty years ago it occurred to Oman Pashu, the Governor of Cyprus, to try and make head against the scourge which devastated the island. He was earnest in the cause, but unfortunately died before his measures could possibly have had any effect. His successors, as a rule, talked a great deal, but, after the manner of their race, did nothing. A tax was imposed on the pansanta, which was to be devoted to the purchase and destruction of locusta' eggs. This was all very well; but, as the officials helped themselves to from 50 to 80 per cent. of the money collected, very little impression was made on the swarms. And then, again, as three parts sand and one part eggs did duty as eggs, it is not to be wondered at that the insects are as plentiful as ever. An Ohio woman is credited with having bought a pound of coffee on trust and then selling it for fifteen cents, which she spent at a skating risk. Prayer for the future of California. We beg that you will not, by non-action, destroy for years the bright future of our State. The State Commissioner of Immigration, now at Chicago, assures us, in a letter to the Record Union of Wednesday, that the eyes of all the East are upon us in this matter, and that we need expect no immigration, no addition to our population, unless you enact laws under which irrigation will be legally possible. Very respectfully, J. DE BARTH SHORB, J. F. WHARTON, W. S. GREEN, R. HUDNUT, H. S. DIXON, L. B. RUGGLES, E. H. TUCKER, D. K. ZUMWALT, Executive Committee of the State Irrigation Convention. Sacramento, March 5, 1885. An Advisory Committee. Last Saturday evening the conference of the Democratic County Committee and State Central Committee met at the new City Hall, San Francisco, and adopted the following resolution, preceded by a long preamble: Resolved, That while we have the most implicit confidence in the judgment and wise discretion of President Cleveland, we are nevertheless reminded of the fact that his multifarious duties may be of such an engaging nature as not to enable him to apply himself to a searching examination of the merits and qualifications of representative members of the party in San Francisco, whose selections to positions of trust and responsibility would inspire public confidence, and tend to the harmonious adjustment of whatever internal differences now exist in the ranks of the party of this city and State. Resolved, Therefore the Democratic County Committee of San Francisco and the members of the Democratic State Central Committee resident thereof, as duly selected representatives of the Democracy of the city, that we hereby appoint and deputize C. A. Buckley, Thomas J. Clunie and Maurice Schmidt to proceed to Washington, D.C., as the legally accredited representatives of the Democratic party of San Francisco, with full power to present to his Excellency President Grover Cleveland, a full statement of the wants of the party here, and they are hereby clothed with full power in full correspondence with the conservation of the great interests of the San Francisco Democracy. Secretary Kenny was directed to telegraph to Secretary of Treasury Manning the result of the conference and ask that no steps be taken toward the distribution of patronage until the committee should arrive in Washington. The committee will leave for that city between the 29th instant and April 1st. Complimentary. Assemblyman Edward's son, who broke his arm last week, has been complimented by the passage of the following resolution by the Assembly: Whereas, One of the pages of this House, by name Wilkie Edwards, met with a severe accident while in the employ of this Assembly a few days since; and whereas he has persistently refused to give his consent to the introduction of a resoluting allowing him extra pay, to defray the expenses incurred by said accident, giving as a reason that he was not entitled to it, as he had already received more than the law allowed him; and whereas we admire the spirit of honesty and fair dealing exhibited by the said Wilkie Edwards; therefore, be it Resolved, That this Assembly recognize in the said Wilkie Edwards an honest boy, and extend to him their sincere sympathy and good wishes. Curious Calculations. The assets of a life insurance company of New York are $103,876,178. It has been calculated that if this vast sum was converted into $10 gold pieces, they would weigh 119 tons or 75 carloads; silver dollars would weigh 3,060 tons or 191 carloads; new $1 U.S. notes would weigh 125 tons or 72 carloads; new $1 U.S. notes end to end would reach 12,524 miles. If piled up one upon the other, they would extend for six miles and a quarter high. To count the same—this sum $103,876,178, at the rate of one per second, bank hours. 10 A.M. to 3 P.M., would take nineteen years. Wishes he Was a Chineman. VICTORIA, B.C., March 11.-The Chief Justice of the Province, Sir M. R. Bagbie, has in two columns of public print slogged the Chinese and declared their advent to be a national benefit to any new country less much as he claims them to be a healthy, industrious, clean and frugal man and singularly free from vice in comparison with the white rass. Some time previous he expressed from the beach sorrow that he was not a Chineman, as he had long ago become ashamed of his countryman. The Game Laws. In a six Precious paper of last several arrests for violation of laws, suggested the publication of drug extracts from the game laws applicable to this section: Person who, in the State of California, is the first day of March and the October in each year, hunts, kills or destroys quail, per-grouse, or rail, is guilty of a misdemeanor. Every person who, in any of that State, at any time taken, destroys the eggs of any quail, per-grouse, is guilty of a misdemeanor. Every person who, in this State, is the first day of January and the June in each year, hunts, kills or destroys doves, is guilty of a misdemeanor. Every person who, be first day of November in each of that State, at any time taken, destroys the eggs of any quail, per-grouse, is guilty of a misdemeanor. Every person who, in this State, is the first day of January and the June in each year, hunts, kills or destroys doves, is guilty of a misdemeanor. Every person who, in this State, is the first day of January and the June in each year, hunts, kills or destroys doves, is guilty of a misdemeanor. Every person who, in this State, is the first day of January and the June in each year, hunts, kills or destroys doves, is guilty of a misdemeanor. Every person who, in this State, is the first day of January and the June in each year, hunts, kills or destroys doves, is guilty of a misdemeanor. Every person who shall take, kill or destroy any animals mentioned in this section at unless the carcass of such animal preserved by the person taking or is sold for food, is guilty of a misdemeanor. Every person who shall buy, expose for sale, transport, or possession any deer from which sex has been removed, or any of the game at a time when it is unlawful the same, as provided by this present sections, is guilty of a misdemeanor. Every person who shall at any time net, cage or trap any quail, partridge or grouse that have been injured or taken in, or by means of hand, weir, cage or trap, is guilty of a misdemeanor. Proof of possession of partridge or grouse which shall evidence of having been taken by than a net, pound, weir, cage or trap be prima facie evidence in any for a violation of the provisions on that the person in whose quail, partridge or grouse is killed or destroyed the same by net, pound, weir, cage or trap. Interesting Compilation Below shows the number of Low Angeles Minutes. Extends from the Los Angeles Pride Exchange "Call List" of Thursday. Announced by the Germain Fruit Company, 29 Main street, Los Angeles: BARLEY: Feed No. 1... $ .62|50 No. 1 job lots... .25 No. 2... .25 CORN: Large yellow oval load lots... .90 do job lots... .25 Small yellow job lots... .90 Small white... .25 HAY: Barley...10.00 POTATOES: Early Rose...1.25 1.40 BUTTER: LA No. 1 per lb... .21 Northern No. 1 "... .22 EGGS: Eggs...13 .15 HONEY: Extracted light...3½ 4½ Job lots...4½ POULTRY: Heens No. 1 per doz...5.75 6.50 Old roosters "...5.00 Young roosters "...5.50 Broilers "...3.50 4.00 Turkeys per lb... .15 Ducks per doz... .15 Geees each... RAISINS: Layers new...1.75 Ex. London layers new...2.25 Loose Muscatels...1.65 Bulk raisins...5 Dried grapes...5 NUTS: Walnuts...5 .6 Peanuts...5 CITRUS FRUITS: Oranges, Los Angeles... Lemona, Seedling, per box...1.37 " Eureka " ...2.50 Limes " ...1.00 1.25 ONIONS: Yellow Denver...4.50 Red... PROVISIONS: Extra light bacon...1.34 Medium bacon...1.12 Heavy bacon...1.11 A Texas Bill They have a bill before the Legislature in Texas declaring a man's legal residence to be where his wife lives. This is better than fixing it where another man's wife lives. But it happens that a goodly number of men have one residence and their wives another. There are at times "incompatibilities" that The Outback for Grouses (N.E.P., Dallas), March 11. The extensive crop reports which appear in this paper give a clear and comprehensive view of the condition of cereal crops at this date. It does not appear that more land has been seeded this year than last. The low price of wheat and barley will account for this. More attention has been given to fruit-farming so that the area is considerably larger than ever before. Orchards and vineyards suffer less from drought than cereals. In fact, a rather dry season is generally a good one for fruit. The crop reports show that in the coast counties the drought as yet has had little effect. These are the moist counties where cereal crops are pretty certain in a dry season, and where the grasses hold out late in the year. But, outside of the moist belt, the drought is beginning to tell upon the pastures and upon cereal crops. Within a week past the hills have taken on a brown tone for lack of spring rains, and patches of green are beginning to have a faded look. It cannot be denied that should no rain fall within the next ten days there would be a pinching off of crops in many places. Without any more rain this year there might be grain enough produced for home consumption—hardly more. The spring rains have not yet come. These are depended upon to make crops. The result of the warm, dry weather has been to bring forward fruit buds rapidly. Cherry trees and early pears are already in blossom, and all deciduous trees are putting forth their foliage. Last year, it will be remembered, the rains continued late in the season. One rainstorm, coming when cherries were ripe, damaged that crop materially in this vicinity. At a date in March, last year, corresponding to the present one, a very heavy rainstorm extended over nearly all the State. In the coast counties the rainfall was large, bringing up mountain streams to a height not exceeded during last winter. It is assumed that the spring rains will come along soon. They rarely fail. That is, rains do not stop off for the season in the early part of February. The norther which prevailed for two or three days last week brought about many indications of a rain-storm, and alight rains have fallen over small areas in the coast counties. Besides,the failing pastures and green crops, orchards just planted, as well as young vineyards need now a good drenching rain. There is much less snow in the mountains than is usual at this season. In places where six to eight feet apart on this date are counted upon by Pastifice Coast Novelty Oregon has prohibited this novelty market of clover,mangarine. The dried scale bug has persisted in several quahards in Santa Hena. Diphtheria has made its appearance form at Cushittt county. Defective drainage water are said to have caused trouble. The four-year-old daughter climax fell from the second story; residence at Benicia last Monday her neck. The steamship Colima on her Panama took 45,344 gallons of water at $25,$803 mainly for New York phis and Boston. To Honolulu sent also 3370 gallons valued at $24. A diary found at Portland,Coulture following memoranda: "September 1884: bear 10,bear 10,treat coffee-house 10,bear 5,belong coffee-house 10，shutting-gallery disc 20,cards 100,theatre coffee-house 20,pools 10,drink Lawrence W.Whalen was an Jose charged with the murder Smith,his wife's mother.Mrs subject to heart disease,and was pushed her aside when she prevent his entrance into her home from the shock. Fruit-growers in the vicinity to are complaining of fruit pest Argus says: The early peaches from some new and mysterious it is nobody can tell as yet,but worm.The Early Alexander be a complete failure,and if not more than half a crop can bake. The new local option law in videos that a license shall only when a majority of the voters petition it for it,and fixes them and $200 per year,the latter be licenses alone.This is the county city assessment being a separate good many liquor men want to. Buried-treasure hunters have ployment in the neighborhood Lake,Nev.A sack of gold is been buried by a miner many years dera boulder on Hawthorne Heath without revealing the location a field for speculation and search who have exhausted their faith Kidd's treasure. The Woodland Mail says of Interesting Compilation Below shows the number of which inaugural address; also how personal pronoun "I" was used: - first term...1,300 - second term...134 - third term...2,311 - fourth term...1,526 - fifth term...2,123 - sixth term...1,170 - seventh term...1,142 -第八 term...3,322 -第九 term...4,466 -第十 term...2,944 -第十一 term...1,116 -第十二 term...1,167 -第十三 term...8,384 -第十四 term...8,578 -第十五 term...1,643 -第十六 term...4,904 -第十七 term...1,096 -第十八 term...3,319 -第十九 term...2,772 -第二十 term...3,588 -第二十一 term...588 -第二十二 term...15 -第二十三 term...1,139 -第二十四 term...1,332 -第二十五 term...2,472 -第二十六 term...2,949 -第二十七 term...1,688 Regislative WitAn Corcoran introduced the extremely amusing bill: The compensation of every elected with the Assembly has had, except that of the overwork therefore be it: That the Sergeant-at-Arms be send to the address of each express, charges prepaid, his and cupidor; and further. That the following gentlemen to them the following proper-counting the big clock; to Grego-clock; to Yule; one of the of the New Orleans Expositions as a reminder of what his would have looked like at Witt, Clark and Ashe (the ir-water-cooler each; to Watson the portrait of General Sutley, a heater; to Woodward, the to McGlashan, the gas pipes; the central cluster of gas jets; a one folding door; to the other any small piece of portable they can get their hands on. Complimentary: An Edward's son, who broke week, has been complimented as of the following resolutionibly: One of the pages of this House, Lie Edwards, met with a seahole in the employ of this A Texas Bill They have a bill before the Legislature in Texas declaring a man's legal residence to be where his wife lives. This is better than fixing it where another man's wife lives. But it happens that a goodly number of men have one residence and their wives another. There are at times "incompatibilities" that make different residences the interest and comfort of both parties. Such a law as suggested will work special hardships upon a certain kind of widowers, and the gentlemen who are distinguished as the husbands of actresses, book agents and such charming creatures. If applied in California, we know some Benedicts who would never venture to take an oath as to where they do reside, since their wives are birds of passage and change their residencies to suit their own sweet whims. "Woman's rights" are "marching on" and "no mistake," but this Texan march outtrips any advance of which there is record. Woman's rights are well enough; but how about men's rights? If it is not equally as logical and forceful to provide that a wife's legal residence shall be deemed to be where her husband's is? Some such amendment to the Texan bill will equalize things and give many a couple two residences—very convenient for voting or "skipping" the Assessor. Texas is a "big" State; a progressive State; a wide awake commonwealth—and judging by this residence bill, just a little ahead of all her sisters on the woman's rights question. Vive Texas. Fatal Fires: STEUBENVILLE, O., March 9.—This evening a fire was discovered in the United States Hotel. The flames were confined to the hotel and the adjoining block. These were entirely destroyed. The east wall of the hotel fell with a terrible crash, killing Andrew Bickerstaff, a fireman. Mrs Mosesgrove, the wife of the proprietor of the hotel, was lying ill when the fire broke out and she was carried from the burning building in sensible. Loss $135,000; insurance $47,000. NEW ORLEANS, March 9.—The Picayune's Pearlington, Misa., special says: The residence of Mrs. Jane Snoppe was burned last night while the lady was at church. Three boys, the eldest 11 years of age, perished in the flames. A Durant, Misa., special to the Times-Democrat, says: Three colored children were burned Saturday. The parents locked them in the house while they attended a log-rolling. Two white boys were badly burned trying to rescue the burning children. His Loving Son: LOUISVILLE, Ky., March 11.—A sensation was created to day at Bowling Green, Kentucky, by Charles Moore entering the house. It is assumed that the spring rains will come along soon. They rarely fail. That is, rains do not stop off for the season in the early part of February. The northerer which prevailed for two or three days last week brought about many indications of a rain-storm, and slight rains have fallen over small areas in the coast counties. Besides,the failing pastures and green crops, orchards just planted, as well as young vineyards, need now a good drenching rain. There is much less snow in the mountains than is usual at this season. In places where six to seven feet at this date are counted upon by miners there is hardly more than two feet. A long rainstorm now, if the weather should not be too warm, would result in piling up two or three feet of snow on the western slope of the Sierra. Of course a spring drought puts the farmers on the anxious seat. Agriculture leads all other industrial interests. A great many millions turn on the weather for the next three weeks. The question of rain takes the precedence in the minds of agriculturists who have so much at stake. The season, as has already been noted is a peculiar one. A severe winter on the Atlantic side of the country, and no winter at all to speak of here. The pleasant weather has enabled farmers to accomplish a great deal of work; yet even now we hear of many fields of cereals sown so late that the grain has not yet sprouted and will not without further rains. On the other hand, the growth of new wood in some of the vineyards equal a length of four to six inches. A great deal of wet land is reserved for cultivation late in the season. But this year this land has already been put in tilth nearly a month earlier than usual. A young farmer said in military phrase with respect to his crops on the hills of Alameda county, that he could "hold the fort" for ten days longer. After that term he would have many sickly looking crops should no rain fall. One may see in all directions bare fields where the plow and the harrow have done their work. These fields are sown to oats, barley and, in some instances, wheat. They will remain brown until the rains come; and if they do not come they will be in about the condition of summer-fallowed land for cropping the following season. It is safer to predict abundant spring rains than an unbroken drought. The atmosphere has more humidity and the southerly winds alternate with northern winds. Premising that within the next ten days there will be a considerable rainfall and thereafter a succession of showers, the aggregate crops thus assured would be as great as last year. The dusty roads, the hard crust formed on adobe land, the diminished rivulets and streams and the grass which has ceased growing on the dry hills, as well as many brown fields, tell of a temporary drought and of little more. Farmers prosecute their work as if the coming rain had been reduced to a certainty; and there are nine chances to one that they are not going to be disappointed. A Prolific Country. "The ex-Khedive of Egypt who height of his power was visited by Empress Eugenia. He showed his sights, but there was one sight to see, namely, an Arab marriage shall see it, madam," he said,and directed one of the ladies of his Complimentary. An Edward's son, who broke week, has been complimented of the following resolution publicly: One of the pages of this House, Joe Edwards, met with a sewhile in the employ of this few days since; and, whereas, he refused to give his consent to defray the expenses incurred, giving as a reason that it, as he had already than the law allowed him; two admire the spirit of honesty exhibited by the said sons; therefore, be it that this Assembly recognize in the Edwards an honest boy, and their sincere sympathy and Louisville, Ky., March 11.—A sensation was created to-day at Bowling Green, Kentucky, by Charles Moore entering the house of his father, Dr. J. R. Moore, one of the best known and wealthiest citizens in the State, and demanding that his aged parent sign notes to the amount of $5,110, which he refused to do. The boy then seized his father by the throat and choked him severely. Releasing his hold on the old gentleman's throat he brought forth two revolvers, which induced his father to come to terms and sign the documents. As soon as he recovered he had his son arrested. Young Moore is in the government employ at Evansville, Indiana. His father is in a very feeble condition and refuses to prosecute his son. Teo Many Cats Homesdale, Pa., March 7.—Sales Clapper, aged 77, living on the eastern border of this county, was greatly annoyed by cats several days last week. On Saturday he shut several of them in the kitchen, and goingsmong them with a heavy club beat several of them to death. When he got through, the kitchen floor and walls were covered with blood, and the sight of it horrified the old man after he got over his excitement. He went out into the barn and half an hour later he was found hanging by his neck from a rope dead. A firm of Connecticut bed-quilt manufacturers have purchased the entire village of Pitchville, Conn., consisting of two large stone mills, twenty-seven tenement houses, a church, schoolhouse and public hall. The Roma, N. Y., Central reported that two men who served on a jury at a trial in Utah the other day, after they retired, voted on a verdict in direct opposition to their real sentiments because they did not know the difference between the terms "photofilm" and "indefinent" in the man. A Prolific Country. "Speakin' of productive soil," said the man from Kansas, "the half has never been told. A few weeks ago my wife said, 'Why John, I ble've you've took to growin' again.' I measured myself an' I hope Gabriel'll miss me in the final roundup if I hadn't grown six inches an the last two weeks. I could not account for it for some time, till at last I tumbled to the fact that that war holes in my boots an' that infernal soil got in thar and done its work. Did you see that boy that was with me on the street this morning? Looks like he was about eighteen years old. Wal, about six months ago my wife she sat our six months old kid down in the plowed ground to play, an' gents, I'll be dogged if—but you wouldn't believe that if I told it. Yes, it's a wonderful country, gents. I could sit here for hours relating actual facts, but I must rush out and do some tradin'. I've got to buy a hatchet to shingle my barn with. I left my old hatchet out over night last week an' in the morning' it was a full-grown ax. Goodbye." The Legislatures all over the country are passing anti-loomargarine hills, but there are no reports of manufacturers going out of the business or of grocers being punished for selling the stuff. A Cincinnati printer, who brought suit to compel a telephone company, that had removed his telephone because he used profanity in a message through it, to replace the instrument, has been defeated in the Ohio Supreme Court, the court holding that the company had the right to remove the instrument. When Baby was sick, we gave her CARROLLA. When she was a Child she used for CARROLLA. When she became Mice she dug to CARROLLA. When she had Children she gave from CARROLLA. Matrimonial Matters The ex-Khedive of Egypt who height of his power was visited by Empress Eugenie. He showed his sights, but there was one sight to see, namely, an Arab marriage shall see it, madam," he said, and directed one of the ladies of his home brought out, and to be presented to camp. The unfortunate office as much an Englishman as an Egyptian whose dream had been to marry and had no escape. The nuptial curse performed within two days, and dowry went with it. Marriage among the Wa-taveta, Central Africa, is described by M. Thomson, who recently visited matter of so many bullocks. Who man takes a fancy to a girl he an matter with the father, and agrees many head of cattle. If he is all the requisite number at once, marriage is consummated with This, however, seldom happens man is poor, the engagement frequents over a term of years, till the lock is paid up. A temperance society in Boston resolved that the use of tobacco forification of the appetite is "a sin and humanity." Another company has been formed York for the purpose of arrials with a capital stock of $100,000 mentions will be made with Peterson air ship. A specie broker in New York street bought 100,000 trade dollars to China, paying for them 84 cents said that over half a million dollars hands of two firms which bought peeping Congress would in the end the piece. The number of applications for tenghione received on Monday at office Department has never been any previous day, and the First Fashion General found it necessary a special force of employees to Oregon has prohibited the sale, unless no warrant, of elephantrine. The deeded snake bag has made its appearance in several orchards in the vicinity of Santa Rosa. Diphtheria has made its appearance in a malignant form at Croskett, Ocata County. Defective drainage and impure water are said to have caused the disease. The four-year-old daughter of John Sinclair fell from the second story of the family residence at Benicia last Monday, and broke her neck. The steamship Colima on her last trip to Panama took 45,344 gallons of wine, valued at $25,808, mainly for New York, Philadelphia and Boston. To Honolulu there were also 3370 gallons, valued at $2830. A diary found at Portland, Or., contained the following memoranda: "September the 8, 1684; bear 10, bear 10, treat 15, disc 15, coffee-house 10, bear 5, belone 10, bear 5, coffeehouse 10, shutting-gallery 35, bear 10, disc 20, cards 100, theatre 23, dusse 20, coffee-house 20, pools 10, drinks 45." Lawrence W. Whalen was arrested at San Jose, charged with the murder of Mrs. G. F. Smith, his wife's mother. Mrs. Smith was subject to heart disease, and when Whalen pushed her aside when she attempted to prevent his entrance into her house she died from the shock. Fruit-growers in the vicinity of Sacramento are complaining of fruit pests. The Placer Argus says: The early peaches are suffering from some new and mysterious pest. What it is nobody can tell as yet, but it is not a worm. The Early Alexander variety will be a complete failure, and of Hale's Early not more than half a crop can be counted on. The new local option law in Oregon provides that a license shall only be granted when a majority of the voters of a precinct petition for it, and fixes the rates at $300 and $200 per year, the latter being for beer licenses alone. This is the county tax, the city assessment being a separate affair. A good many liquor men want to sell out. Buried-treasure hunters have found employment in the neighborhood of Walker Lake, Nev. A sack of gold is said to have been buried by a miner many years ago, under a boulder on Hawthorne Flat, and his death without revealing the locality leaves a field for speculation and search for men who have exhausted their faith in Captain Kidd's treasure. The Woodland Mail saws of hog cholera: The Australian Mining Ministry is issued 200 yards west of the Anatidae railroad depot. There are two million mines gunnery and pepper trees for sale, and fifty thousand northern fruit trees, holding a fine investment of ornamental trees. 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