Daily Los Angeles herald., 1879-04-24
rhe Mystery sti;I Uoso,ved.

SAN FRANCISCO, April 23.-The
mystery concerning the disappear.
ancs of Mrs. Annie Kline Town
send, who, with her daughter
Maude, left the new City Hall last
Saturday morning, and has not
since been seen, continues un.
solved. The lady has had an event.
ful history, having been arrested as
a spy and condemned to death dur
ing the late war for refusing to be.
tray her friends in the Confederate
service, after she had been cap
tured while carrying dispatches.
After the war she came here and
changed her maiden name of Kline,
highly honorable one in her Ea-
tive city of Vicksburg, for that of
Townsend.
Fsiied TO Agree.
UKIAH, April 23d.-The case of
Anthony was given to the jury at
9 o'clock Saturday night. They
came into Court at IL o'clock yester-
day, standing ten for guilty and
two for not guilty. They were dis
charged and new trial has been
ordered at this term of the Court.
the Great Republic Disaster.
PORTLAND, April 23d.-The Ore
gonian makes the following edito.
rial comments regarding the dis.
aster: No extended explanation Is
necessary to account for the loss of
the Great Republic. 1t was just
such result as was natural under
the circumstances, and no censure
can be severe enough for those who
are responsible for it. That so
large a steamer, carrying not M uch
less than thousand persons and a
valuable cargo, should have at
tempted, on dark night, to enter
a channel which can be prudently
navigated only by daylight, was
nothing less than a piece OF Grim.
inal folly. The circumstances were
such that any mistake concerning
the vessels course or position
was sure to be fatal and the chances
were that such mistake would be
made. Indeed, it could only be
averted by extraordinary good for
tune, when it was not possible to
see any object whatever, so as to
make out her course. The stea mer
was driven ahead under full steam
upon the fatal sands. She was not
less than half O mile beyond the
end of her northerly course, yet so
dark was it that no one could see
that her course should be changed,
having passed the middle of the
channel by half mile, and still
holding upon her course directly
across it, She struck, and with
such momentum that there was
not from the first the remotest pos
sibility Of getting her off. Had any
sea been running, all on board
would have been lost inevitably.
No condemnation can be too severe
for those who thus put life in peril.
The only object that could have
been entertained by those who
threw away all the safeguards of
ordinary judgment and prudence,
was to shorten the trip by q few
hours and reach the point of desti.
nation as early as a rival steamer.
Fortunate, indeed, 1t was that the
uisdotCl was nv WoIscJ Oub, dS ~
was, lives have been sacrificed to |
criminal foolhardiness, and large
numbers of poor people have lost |
their all, and are left in state of |
destitution which calls loudly for |
assistance and relief. There should |
be instituted at once an official In
quiry into the conduct of those
who recklessly put In peril thous-
and lives that they might gain q
few hours tiWe.
The wstiinxsoa Goa, Mae Disaster
bodies Recovered.
VICTORIA, April 20 Some of the
bodies have been recovered from
the Wellington coal mine, Depart
ure Bay. They are sbockingly
mangled. One man was blown
thirty yards up the stope and es-
capped.
arr a 077 WEEK TO aesnts. sIo