Daily Los Angeles herald., 1879-04-04

still dancing, blindfold, touched
each of the eggs with her toe. This
alone, aside from the Professors
tricks of legerdemain, is more than
worth the price of admission. At
the close OF the performance num-
ber of useful articles were dis
tributed, General Roley drawing a
sack OF flour, Mr.. Noel "Callfor-
MIA fruit basket" and Mr.. Kelly,
Of San Francisco, kit Of mackerei.
The capital prize-a handsome
china tea set-was won by Master
Nicely. The capital prize for to-
night will be q handsome lounge.
Hank Waggoner (who is the Col
lector of the port of Colton) met
with a sad accident the other day,
while cruising for smugglers on the
bosom of the stormy Santa Ana. A
Cajon zephyr was taking a spin
down the country; in the the gale
his gallant bark would neither stay
nor wear, and it became necessary
to box-haul her to get her on the
right track to lay up to port. The
fore-sail was brailed up; the stud
ding sail booms run in; the helm
put hard.a.weather; the sheets
eased off, but instead of ranging
ahead, she made stern-board at
the rate of two knots an hour, foul
ing her stern cow-catcher with the
rudder.head and windlass bits,
and badly chafing her cat heads
and dead eyes. During a plunge to
leeward the crochio yard swung
'thwartships, knocking the teeth
out of the jaws of the m zzen gaff,
,parted the pinnacle halyards, and,
to cap the climax, a sea mountains
high swept the decks of the doomed
vessel. Hank was saved from
watery grave by clutching one end
of a lanyard, the other end of
which was made fast to an empty
dem John, but the rest of his small
stores fuse your tears now) went
bobbing and dancing over tie
waves. Disguised, the Collector
abandoned his craft and waded
ashore. No more "life on the ocean
wave" for him.
We had the pleasure of a call
yesterday from Col. James IL.
Fruit, of Santa Ana. The Colonel
is one of the gentlemen whom
Kearney abused so unstintedly.
The fact is that the Rule-Kearney
episode is an open secret to every.
one In Santa Ana. Kearney re-
ceived courtesies from Colonel
Fruit, AMI the latter was grossly
abused in return. The Colonel,
who has been over thirty years on
this c)ast, was not used to that
style of thing, and was indignant.
Futherm ore, he is in very delicate
health. Rule, who Is friend of
Fruit, knowing the latter's physi-
cal condition, pressed forward with
q generous mans perhaps inconsid-
crate haste, to insure a battle on
equal terms. Col. Fruit assures US
tnat LIl0 StatculeuJ tuat auyouO oup
Rule struck Kearney is an infa-
nous lie. He says, what comes to
US from every side, that Kearney
showed himself to be one of the
veriest poltrOon in the world, and
that he achieved better time than
has SO far been recorded on the
American continent, with perhaps
two exceptions, viz, the records
made by the reporters OF the CdH
and Chronicle. These gentlemen
very conveniently represented
them selves as being absent at the
telegraph office, when the Kearney
STAN pede began. The fact is that
they had TO be coaxed out of q
very tall malva patch after the ex-
element was over. These versa
tile young literati didn't know
what sort of "blars.ed, bloody
countryn they had fallen into, you
know, and they didn't want to
com promise their precious lives in
the interest OF the Sand Lot me-
nagerie they were "toting" around
the country.