Nashville union and American. [volume] (Nashville, Tenn.) 1868-1875, 1873-10-07

Thus IL viii be seen that the maximum
| temperature at Anaheim for December was
| II degrees, and minimum so degrees, for
January the maximum so degrees, mini
mum so degrees, f5r February the maxi
| mum 70 degrees, the minimum A degrees.
EaAs Mentone and Aiken, are fayorise re-
sorts for invalids, close study of this table
will give much useful information to those
seeking balmy and uniform climate.
We present these statistics and let your
readers decide for themselves. Thousands
of invaliis from all the East and South
flock here every winter and many of them
are cured. Those in tie Eastern States who
intend coming here to spend the winter,
should cross the plains before the winter
SHOWS begin. rs gmroyt So
N HOW TO GET HERE.
Buy ticket to San Francisco and then
take the steamer TO. San Pedro, and then
Oh q small steamer into Wilmington, thence
20 miles By railroad TO Los Angeles. Those
objecting to travel by ocean can stop over
ct Lattrop, so miles East of San Francisco,
and lake the San joaquin branch of the
Central Pacific railroad to its terminus and
then Sc hours Of staging win bring you
here. .,7 -5s .c1 atsf r~ .r-
CARE YOU GLAD THAT YOU WENT TO
CALIFORNIA" r-a.
This question occurs in .
letter from one OF our particular friend
in Nashville. We answer emphatically
eyes, we are glad" We have not been
here long enough to form an iafallible opin-
| ion, but our expectations have been fully
realized and IS much as we love Tennes-
see, we prefer this country as home. We
have Q climate better than any port Of
France, skies as blue as ever. arehed an
Italian landscape, scenery as grand as the
Alps and valleys Milling in Arcadian beau
ty, while the very az is redolent with the
bloom of the olive and the orange. Still
with all these gifts given to Us By bounti-
full Providence, we do net advise our friends
to come. s5t 8
A CALIFORNIA PHENOMENON. --4.
Almost any day in riding over these tree
less plains you can see the fantastic mirage
building Of sunbeams, sometimes . forest,
sometimes babbling brook, then, rs with
witching mockery hanging lake Of silver
in the Transparent air, then spreading before
your wondering gaze an ocean in which
miniature vessels seem to sail in the infn-
tie depths of space. This everyday phe-
nornenon shows the purity, dryness and
clearness of our climate.
CALIFORNIA SHEEP sHEARIEG.
Everything in California is
carried on in rather q grand
scale. One man raised more wheat
this year in one of our middle counties,
than all Of Sumner county in Tennessee
raised last year. In improved Agricultural
implements this State is far ahead of Ten
nessee.
Last week we attended strengthening.
Those who have seen the old-foggy way of
Using sheep before shearlng as is practiced
in Tennessee and in the Eastern States
would be much amused too see the opera
ton Of shesring here. Before me were
twenty-four dark visaged, swarthy Span
iSrds aud Gredsers, each with shears in
hand. Fourteen hundred sheep were in
the corsell. TIE word was given or rather
the motion, for we did not understand their
language. Every one rushed for sheep
and in moment twenty flour pairs ofshesrs
were in motion. Wetcok our position near
the center of the outside of the platform,
with pocket full of tin checks and as each
one would bring up his fleece and cry
"una" we would hand him q check which
would represent one sheep. This is kept
up with astonishing rapidity, till dinner is
announced and then you never saw hogs
rush to swill trough with more eagerness
and less regard for the decencies
of life than these hungry Greas-
ers. Dinner over, gambling Ia
the next amusement. Having no money
they gamble on their cheeks, and often before
they are called bade to their work, the
checks have found their way into the pockets
of few deft-fngered ones. These Span
isrds and GTeasers are expert thieves, and
will ebert you If possible. II you are not
wide. awake, they will divide a fleecs and
bring up one-ha.f ct time and thus get
two tickets for one fleece. Argus with his
hundred eyes could ha' dly watch soore
of these cunning rSsca!s. II you detected
one dividing fleece, he laughs at it as a
good joke. The night is passed in gamb-
ling, and drinking and shearing- time is the
real Saturnalia of this class of people. IL
two days the ], 400 sheep are sheared and the
trouble ofsettliDg is not mnch, as the tickets
or checks are in the hands of
few. There are men here who can shear
so sheep in day, though 30 a day is fair
work. We close this letter with the hope
that it will answer mary of the queries of
our friends. JOHN SHIRLEY WARD.