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Daily Los Angeles herald., 1878-11-17
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We have already discussed PEE
troleum - fuel; but, in view of
eho extreme Importance of the
subject. based OIL our possession of
extensive deposits Of oil, we throw
our local columns open to its fur
ther discussion. We entirely en-
dorse what our correspondent has
20 say Of petroleum as q fuel. Pc
troleum gas Is now largely and
eoccessfully used In the manufac-
tufe OF iron and steel in Pitts
burgh, being conveyed in pipes
from the wells to the foundries and
rolllng mills. We have ourselves
Visited East Liverpool, Ohio, where
the oil escaping from a well is SO
abundant as to light and heat the
whole town. Some years ago, as
the representative of u leading
Western journal, we visited st.
Louis to inquire into the circum.
stances Of the iron manufacture in
that city. In interviews with the
representative Of the Messrs.
Choutsau & Valle and other lead.
Ing iron firms, we found that the
great drawback to the prosperity Of
iron manufactures In st. Louis wal
tho difficulty of getting q fueI
which would generate the requisite
amount Of heat within a giver
time. From Belleville, a:d from
various other sections of Illinois
&nd Missouri, they could gel
abundance of coal, but in pudding
Iron fuel is needed that, like the
Pittsburgh coal, will yield an in.
tense flame and volume of heat in
. given time. 1t is the same thing
precisely in the manufacture o
glass. Should petroleum be demon
strated to have the qualities poss
eesed by fine grades of bituminoul
and anthracite Goals, Los Angeles
would have brilliant future as {
manufacturing aud smelling cente
before her. Such a development
would dwarf the importance Of ou
recently discovered coal fields an,
wouli enable us to laugh to scorl
the efforts of the Standard Oh
Company 10 crush our petroleum
production in its infancy.
Daily Los Angeles herald., 1878-11-17

AND now the whole Pacific Goa.
u waiting With fear and anxiety TO
nnd out whether this is bonanza
yoar or year which shall record
the biggest swindla ever known
even Of region which has had its
diamond sensation. There is Just
one thing in favor oe those who
have cast their fortune on I'll g
throw Of single die-Sierra Ne.
l-and that Ia that California
has SWyays been the beneficiary of
zs14 y 4 Providence. When the
Beicher and Crown Point bonanzas
were uncovered they were painfully
needed. Everything was tagging
and contingent on new discoveries
then. So of the "big bonanza"
which was discovered later. They
were all lied when they came,
and they came when they were
needed. The fact Is that California
would never have been developed
agrIculturally at all If it had not
bsen for her rich placers. One
thing fitted into another. The
abounding riches of our cations and
dry streams would have been ex.
hausted, and the country would
have been abandoned, had it not
been for the discovery of our quartz
gold mines. When these halted
the discoveries in Nevada-a closed
borough called State of the
United States. but absolute.
~ owned in San Fran
cisco--came In to help US
~ realization of the fine
thing we have in our State, and
onr hydraulic mines were super
added as q new hostage to fortune.
This State has really been the
spoiled darling of fortune; and her
luck has been so great that we be-
lieve. as we need a large bonanza
1t this stage, in order to make |
things pleasant, that we shall prob
ably find 1t in the Sierra Nevada;
or, II not there, rnaugre the dis
charge Of the miners In the Consol-
idsted Virginia, somewhere in the
neighborhood of that historical and
wonderful mine. Wherever it is
found it will just meet the present |
requirements of the Pacific Coast,
which. like tue rest of the world
iatterly, has been sadly dropping.
Daily Los Angeles herald., 1878-11-17

ONE Intensely amusing feature
OF the mining situation which is
now At = crisis is the way every
nfteen cent mine has struggled up
to = dollar and half on the
strength Of developments expected
IN leading sections Of the Com.
stock. Somehow or other every
wildcat claim on the whole scope
Of = region which has so far yield
ed almost ilIimitable money IS pos
turizing As Ii 1t had first. class
and rampant bonanza within its
limits. And they have all sue
oeedsd iu fooling the public to the
top Of their bent. besides. On the
north end Andes. which is gener-
ally content TO sell from fifteen to
ATTY cents. has ranged from dol
lar 70 two dollars and half; on
the south end Succor and New
York have repeated the sa me saga
cIous tactics. II tbs thing should
burst during the coming week
shese ephemera would go down to
soothing; II, on the contrary, the
6ieTrA Nevada cross-cuts should
show up handsomely, tho most
skittish wildcats on the whole list
Daily Los Angeles herald., 1878-11-17
LAST NIGHTS NEWS.
Especial to the HERALD by the Western
Union Telegraph Company.
Pacific Coast News.
Tao CanvsutiGn.

SACRAMENTO, Nov. 16th.-Th
Convention met at 10 o'clock.
On motion of Laine, a resolution
was adopted dispensing with reces
to-day and adjourning at O'CLOCK
until Monday at 2P. NJ.
Larkin offered q resolution dis.
charging all committee clerks
Adopted.
Harrington presented state,
ment of the affairs of the State
University, in compliance with the
resolution of the Convention. Or.
dered printed.
McComas presented a memorial
from the Supervisors of Santa
Clara, in relation to the State Hos
pital.
The Convention went into Com.
mittee of the Whole on the article
on corporations.
On motion of Barbour, section
eight, declaring that the right of
eminent domain shall never be
abridged to prevent the Legisla-
ture from taking the property of
corporations, was amended by per-
mitting the Legislature to take such
property at the companies own
valuation for purposes of taxation.
The section prohibiting corpora
ton from engaging in business
other than that authorized by Its
charter, was passed with but q yer.
bal amendment.
Section ten, prohibiting the Leg.
lslature from passing laws
leasing or alternating franchises.
Was passed without amendment.
Ga section ''prohibiting as issue
OF stock except for money paid and
labor done, and declaring a ficti.
tious increase of stock or indebted
ness void" Mcfarland moved to
strike out the section, stating that
ii would be mischievious, because
stock might be issued upon pay
ment of one cent.
Barnes offered an amendment
prohibiting the watering of stock,
etc., but protecting innocent hold
ers of corporate indebtedness.
The amendments of Mcfarland
and Barnes were voted down. The
section stands as reported.
Upon section twelve. providing
for cumulative voting similar to
the law Of last Winter, Estee of
fered an amendment adding the
clause recommended by the Com
on Cooperative Societies as
in to-day's correspond
ence.
Wilson, of San Francisco offered
IN amendment allowing cumulat.
I've voting in corporations having
no capital stock.
Further discussion was postponed
to enable the Committee on Corpor-
ations to further consider the clause
relative to cooperative societies.
Section l3, declaring that the
State shall not own or subscribe
20 stock In corporations, was tenn
oorarily postponed. Section IA.
declaring that all com mercial cor.
domestic and foreign,
ioing business In this State shall |
reep an Office here, with books con.
aiming full particulars OF the cor
,oration, which shall be open for
,ublic inspection. An amendment
vas offered by Howard that such
Inspection shall be confined to
Daily Los Angeles herald., 1878-11-17

OWING to the late hour at which
the nominations were made last
night we withhold comment upon
the several municipal tickets till
our next issue. AS whole the
Peoples ticket is such as should in.
spire confidence in the voters oil
Los Angeles. fit is heartily sup
ported by all the elements which
assisted In its formation it can
easily be elected.
Daily Los Angeles herald., 1878-11-17

GEoRaE G. GoRHAM has arrived
In San Francisco from Washington,
and in AN interview expressed the
opinion that on vital questions the
Greenbackers in the next House
will fall back into their old parties
and the Independents with them.
"In that case the House will stand
156 Democrats and 137 Republicans,
giving the Democrats reliable
majority Of 49,"
Daily Los Angeles herald., 1878-11-17

ELSEWHERE we publish Il com.
munication. from the Oldest Ameri-
can inhabitant of Los Angeles on
the question of the advisability of
purchasing the Feliz ranch. We
have already expressed our own
views on this subject; and, in &C.
cordance with rule of fairness
which is never intermitted in the
HERALD. we cbeerfully accord to
our correspondent the privilege of
our columns in ventilating his opin-
ions,
Daily Los Angeles herald., 1878-11-17
Watches and Jewelry.


Having purchased the stock and fix.
lures OF the we'll known JeWelry store OF
Mr.. 7. w. Stackpole, adding thereto
large and entirely new assortment of
goods, we ere are prepared to show the
citizens of Los Angeles and vicinity one
Of the finest and best selected stocks to
be found in the State, which will be sold
at the lowest living rates.
We shall constantly be in receipt OF all
the latest novelties In watches, chains,
jewelry. etc., to which the attention OF
the public is especially invited.
In spectacle we have large and va.
ried assortment, and are the exclusive
agents in South ern California Of the cell
eUrated Lazerus g. Morris perfected spec
tacles, which we claim are the finest in
the world.
Mr.. Stackpole will remain in our en-
ploy, having exclusive control OF the
work department, and. rs heretofore, es-
pecial attention will be given to the re
pairing Of fine watches and Jewelry.
We shall be happy to see all our old
friends and the public at large.
DUNSMOOR BROS.
jy9tf 81 Spring street.
Daily Los Angeles herald., 1878-11-17

will not consent to be transferred
to new owners short Of the prices
which ruled for Consolidated Vir-
ginla and California in July. Such
are the vicissitudes and character
istics of mining speculation in Cal
iforniai
Daily Los Angeles herald., 1878-11-17
Card of Acceptance.

To MEssRs. G. W. GIBSON, V. A.
HOOVE K and others. citizens and tax
payers of the Second Ward:
GENTLEMEN-In reply to your call upon
me to become a candidate for Council
man OF the Second Ward, will accept
TO the best of my ability.
Yours very respectfully,
A. H. DENKER.
Los Angeles, CAL, Nov. 10th.
Daily Los Angeles herald., 1878-11-17
Latest Eastern News.

ssnnioriHi Contest IN Nor.h Uiro-
llua.
WASHINGTON, Nov. 16.-A lively
contest is going on over the United
States Senatorship in North Caro-
lima, between Merrlman, the pres
ent incumbent, and Governor
Vance, both Democrats. The Re-
publicans will not make any nom-
inatIon but will act with the Inde-
pendents In endeavoring to beat the
caucus nominee. Vance claims to
Daily Los Angeles herald., 1878-11-17
FOR SALE.

The Stock, Fixtures and Improve
ments OF the Candy and Stationery Store,
No. 54 Spring ttreet. The lease will bs
transferred to the purchaser,
Mrs. Frye's Lung and Cough Syrup
constantly on hand. Mrs. Harrisonfs
system Of dress-cutting taught in three
lessons. An Intelligence Ofice is now
open ed, and those Wishing help can be
supplied and those wishing EN- pioy m ent
can obtain desirable situations.
Also, FOR SALE CHEAP, q house and
barn. pleasantly located on q corner lot,
said lot containing great variety of
fruit and shade trees, shrubs and vines.
For other Information inquire at MRS.
j. =. FRYE's, No. "a Spring st. ocl0
Daily Los Angeles herald., 1878-11-17
PROGR NM Nj e:

PROGR M Nj r:
PART FIRST.
1, Overture e-Sonnambula. BELLINI
Full orchestra, under the direction Of
Conterno.
2. Quartette male voices)-"Night" .ABT
"Turnverein Quartette," under the
direction Of Prof. Ruthard.
3. Sol0-Casta Diva. .BELLINI
Miss Mamie Perry MRS. siratton,
pianist.)
4. Piano Solo-Rondo Capriccioso. .....
MENDELsoHN
Miss Nealy Stevens, graduate of yassar
College.
s. Trio-L. Eclair. air................HA HALEvY
Flute, Conterno; Violoncello, H.
Wangeman; piano, Mrs. Stratton.
G. Sextett-From Lucia di Lammermoor.
DoNIzETTI
Mad Maria, Miss Perry, Messrs. Fam
ming, Hasselman and Profs. Arevalo and
Ruthard--Mrs. Stratton pianist, with
select orchestra, under the direction
Of Prof. Conterno.
Z. Aria a-Gemma di Vergy. =. .DoNIzETTI
Full orchestra.
PART SECOND.
l. Air-When your silver locks were gold.
CoNTERNo
Full orchestra.
2. Solo Let me dream again.. SULLIVAN
Madam Maria.
g. Piano Solo--"Sans Sonci Galop di
bravura." .AsCHER
Prof. Lindberg.
4. Solo-From Bal Masque ...........
Ch. Hasselman.
5. Duett-From Norma q cornets)..
BELLINI
Profs. Conterno and Scoville.
G. Piano Solo-Rhapsodie Hongroise. .LIszT
Miss Nealy Stevens.
7. Sextett-From Ernani. ......... VERDI
Mad. Maria, Miss Perry, Oh. Hassel-
man, F. B. Tanning, Prof. Arevalo,
Prof. Ruthard-Mr Stratton pianist,
with select orchestra, under direction
Of Prof. Conterno.
8. Overture-Nabucco. o........... VERDI
Full orchestra.
RESERVED SEATS.................... cts.
EF-Seats may be reserved upon appll-
cation at the Music store of Wangeman
Brothers, 40 Spring street.
Doors open at 7 O'Clock; Concert to COM
mence at
Daily Los Angeles herald., 1878-11-17
NOTICE..
Los ANGELES, Nov. 16th. 1s7s

Los ANGELES, Nov. 10th, 1873
MEMBERS OF THE CITY COUNCIL
and all officers of the City Government are
requested to meet at the Council Rooms to.
day Sunday at one o'clock p. NJ, 70
attend the funeral obsequies of the Mayor,
the Hon. "A. MAoD0UGALL, deceased.
The Civic and Military Societies, mem-
bers Of the Fire Department and citisens
generally are invited to attend.
s. B. CASWELL, Clerk.
Daily Los Angeles herald., 1878-11-17
Herald Steam Printing House.

The Herald steam Printing House Is
aot surpassed by any Job Printing of1ice
IN tbs Pacidc Coast. outside of San Fran.
clroo. IN fAcilities for doing job work.
koW prices. good work and expedition
naT ~ relied upon ct this office.
Daily Los Angeles herald., 1878-11-17
European Gable News.
News From London.

News From London.
LONDON, Nov. 16th.-Lord Rose
berry has been elected Lord Rector
of Aberdeen University by ma.
jority of four over Cross.
The report of fire on the steam.
ship Wyoming, from New York,
was unfounded.
Daily Los Angeles herald., 1878-11-17
Attention, Los Angeles Guard

You are commanded to appear at your
Armory at one o'clock P. M. to-day,
Noy. 18th, to attend the funeral Of our late
Mayor MacDougall.
CAPT. P. NJ. DARCY.
Daily Los Angeles herald., 1878-11-17
New Use Tor u Qutus.

SAN FRANCISCO, Nov. 10th.
Yung Chin, n domestic at the resi-
dence of A. Hemme, suicided some
time last night in his room. He
twined his queue around his neck
and hung himself to the gas fix
ture. Last evening he was OBJ
served to act strangely and said
some Cinnamon were going to kill
him.
Eureka Consolidated has declared
q dividend of So.
The Pacific Mail steamer Grenada
brought sos, 200 in treasure, recov-
cred from tho wrecked steamer
Georgia.
Daily Los Angeles herald., 1878-11-17
FOR SALE.

By the Lake Vineyard Land and Water
Association, the best Orange and Semi
Tropical Fruit Land in the State. Water
right goes with the land. Apply to the
Office of P. Beaudry, No. 81 New High st.
apl8tf F. w. WOOD, Secretary.
Daily Los Angeles herald., 1878-11-17
NEW ADVERTISEMENTS
Wheat Land to Rent.

5000 TO 5000 ACRES CHOICE
WHEAT LAND In the San Jacinto Val
ley for rent on favorable terms, either
for share Of the crop or for cash rent.
The wheat crop has not failed in this
properly sown in season. In this valley
wheat Is not likely to suffer from dre nth
or rust. An excellent wagon road is now
In process of construction from the San
Jacinto valley to the Southern Pacific
Railroad at San 0orgonio, a distance Of
less than six miles. We hove choice
white Australian wheat for seed, barley
for seed or feed and hay, all on the ram
cho. to supply parties renting.
Apply TO G. A. Collins, San Jacinto, or
to Il. Bouton, Los Angeles.
E6-lm q. A. COLLINS 4 co.
Daily Los Angeles herald., 1878-11-17
NEW TO-DAY.
NOTICE.

THE LOS ANGELES FIRE DEPART
MENT will meet at their respective houses
in full uniform to-day, November 18th,
at p. NJ, to attend the funeral of our late
Mayor, DR.. MacDougall. By order.
CHAS. E. MILES, Chief.
Daily Los Angeles herald., 1878-11-17


Legislative committees and parties
interested.
Hager offered further amend
ment that foreign corporations do
ing business in this State shall
have at least one office, with an
agent upon whom process may be
served. The amendment by Judge
Hager was adopted on division by
so ayes to 80 noes.
The amendment offered by How
ard was also carried. Ayes 81, noes
40.
Wilson, OF San francisco, ther
offered further amendment con.
fiuing the inspection of books, etc.,
to home corporations. Ayes 81
noes 81. Lost.
At two o'clock the committee re
ported progress and the Convention
adjourned until Monday at 2 p. NJ.
Daily Los Angeles herald., 1878-11-17
san Francisco Mnrnets.

SAN FRANCISCO, Nov. 16th.-
Wheat stagnant and nominal. Bar
ley dull; coast, S5c.@$1; brewing,
81 1O01 20. Oats inactive and un-
changed. Corn easier; large yell
low, 81 07a; small do. 81 12@l Is.
Rye-Sales of bay at ST. 273. Hay
steady at Ss4@16. Po.atoes-To-
males, 81 35@1 l22.
Daily Los Angeles herald., 1878-11-17
Light Tonnage Com,nx.

SAN FRANCISCO, Nov. 16.-Care-
full examination shows only about
$1,000 of tonnage now on the way
to this port, which is considered to
indicate that the bottom Of the
freight market has been toucl ed.
Daily Los Angeles herald., 1878-11-17
Money Market.

SAN FRANCISCO. November l6.-
Legal tenders, 99s bid, 100 asked;
trade dollars 64 to discount,
halves Il to l 80 discount.
Memphis daily appeal. [volume] (Memphis, Tenn.) 1847-1886, 1878-06-29
The south Carolina Cases.

Charleston Ne,cs and Courier: The letter
of our Washington correspondent, published
to-day, confirms the opinion we had express
ed concerning the dlatoriness of the house
of representatives in dealing with the con-
tested election cases from South Carolina.
Messrs. Richardson and Tillman are kept out
of their seats, and the majority of the voters
in the first and fifth congressional districts
are denied representation, because the sitting
members, who were not elected, pre- colored
men, and one of them is 80 popular as to be
greeted In public aUec efesion by the speaker
of the house. Our correspondent lays the
blame chiefly on Mr.. Ellis, of Louisiana, the
member of the committee on privileges and
elections who had the South Carolina cases in
charge. In the district which Mr.. Ellis rep
sesents, the colored votcIs are in the MAORI
ty, and they will not look with favor on any
candidate who is instrumental in. ejecting
colored man from congress. Of course, it is
of more consequence that Mr.. Ellis should be
reelected than that justice should be done to
South Carolina. The house of representatives
allowed Messrs. Richardson and Tillman
thousand dollars each for expenses. This is
far less than the contest has cost them. It is
safe ID assume that no decision will be
reached until next spring, in the last hours of
the present congress, but there Is little doubt
that Me3srs. Richardson and Tillman will be
renominated and reelected, in November,
and next year they will take the seats they
should have occupied since last November.
Memphis daily appeal. [volume] (Memphis, Tenn.) 1847-1886, 1878-06-29
Kearneyism in California.

Baltimore Sun: The result of the election
just held in California to choose delegates to
meet in convention to frame a new State con-
stitution will be regarded everywhere as a
matter of more or less concern. There Is no
doubt that labor has been more disorganized
and impoverished in that State for long
time than in any other part of the country.
From one extreme-fancied prosperity-mat
tiers have gone to the opposite extreme-ac-
tual poverty. Under this condition of things
what Is called Kearneyism has arisen-that
is, political agitation under the lead of a man
named Kearney, advocating agrarian doc
trines and supported by the multitude of dis
contented and impoverished men that abound
in California, with communism publicly
preached, and the rights of property called
in question. The laboring men, IN one de-
partment or another, have fallen in with the
movement, though it does not follow by any
means that they will accept or permit the
carrying out of the extremes indicated. We
would rather expect that mostly they are pre-
pared to act on the theory that though we
may enter the coach on its starting, we are
not bound to go with it to The end of the
route; we may leave it at any safe or con-
venient point. Yet it is feared that the cleo
ton having resulted adversely to the con-
sentative elements of the State, its organic
law may be so changed as to lead to conse-
quences too serious to be lightly considered
Memphis daily appeal. [volume] (Memphis, Tenn.) 1847-1886, 1878-06-29

THE Kentucky Yeoman thinks it possible
that "Mr. Hayes knew nothing of the COM
mission Of wrong in the matter of his acces-
sion to the Presidency, but if he was once
totally in the dark as to the corrupt acts of
his friends, he certainly had time and good
opportunities to investigate and satisfy HIM
self upon all points. The urgent appeals of
those who had performed difficult service
ought to have opened his eyes, if nothing else
appeared strong enough to Justify private
inquiry" Cinching this view, Mr.. Henry
Watterson, q connection of Mr.. Stanley
Mathews, and therefore interested in protect
ing that gentleman from public criticism and
condemnation, said, in his interview with the
New York Sun reporter, that ''there IS hard
ly any room to doubt that the President had
a general, and, to all effects, guilty, knowl-
edge of the circumstances to which he owes
his place. That accounts for the refusal of
Stanley Mathews to go before the Potter COM
mittee. The head and front of Mathews's
offending was his effort to save his party
friends from scandalous exposure, knowl-
edge of which had reached him.
Memphis daily appeal. [volume] (Memphis, Tenn.) 1847-1886, 1878-06-29

A COMMUNICATION signed Irish Demo-
Greet the feeling of disappointment which, 1t
is claimed, our Irish fellow-citizens entertain
at the failure of the late convention to noml-
nate one of their countrymen for county
Office. "Irlsh Democrat" says that he thinks
there was an outcroPping of knownothing
feeling in the convention, and that there is an
undertone sentiment prevalent among a GER
tain class of Democrats that indicates deep
seated hostility to such of our citizens as were
born IN Ireland. While not doubling
that our correspondent has some
grounds for the complaint he
makes, we cannot believe that the intolerance
he paints in such vivid colors is general. The
people Of Memphis are too liberal and too IN
telligent to be led into anything like the os-
tracising of class who In all the trying years
of our history have stood true to our every in
terest, and on the battlefield, as well as at
the ballot-box, have contended for all we held
DEAR So far from anything like know
nothing feeling prevailing toward the Irish,
we are convinced their fellow Democrats have
profound respect for them, which, on any
proper occasion in the future, as in the past,
will find expression. The selection Of
individuals for office, or their rejection, is
not proper gauge of the feeling which native
American citizens entertain for their fellows
Of Irish blood, and we trust 'Irish Demo
crat" will do what he can to so convince his
countrymen.