The daily gazette., 1879-02-25
SECOND EDITION
Letter From California.

Ramie Incention-C Curiosity in Sheer
-Shrinkage Of Values-Lick Estat'
Tied Up-Lompoc Temperance Colo
ny-Reu. Mr.. Gibson's Chinese Schoo
Erhibition.
Correspondence Of the Bait. Sun.
SAN FRANCIsco, Feb l, 1879.
The State of Nevada is ont Of debt and
1t has 100000 in its treasury. The tax
rate last year was reduced from 81 % to
80 cents, and the Governor thinks 1t may
be now be 80 cents. He recommends the
exclusion of Cinnamon from the State
and the prohibition Of discriminating
freight charges on the railways. Washoe
lake has been stocked with Eastern cat
fish and perch, and in the rivers OF
Nevada twcnty thousand salmon have
been introduced. The rivers have no
surface communication with the sea.
Their outlet from the State is through
great sinkers in the earth, whence they
must pass through over five hundred
miles of subterranean channels, through
part of Mexico, and into the Gulf of
California. The question for Ash CON-
missioners Is viz: Salmon In all coun-
tries, are marine fish, which only leave
the sea to spawn in fresh water. Can
they accommodate themselves to the
new conditions?
Something new and inexplicable in
shepherd experience has occurred among
fiocks of sheep herding in the mountain
range east OF Tulare county, California.
They have shed their coats, and are quite
naked. Though seemingly free from
disease, they will probably perish from
the severe cold and deep SHOWS of our
mountain ranges.
A company here announces the dis
covery Of the long sought-for means to
cheaply and perfectly cleanse the fibre
OF China grass or ramie from the resin
Gus gum that prevents its preparation for
textile uses. If this discovery be effec-
tual the culture of ramie will far surpass
wheat in value on the Pacific coast
Should this invention fail, we commend
to consideration the method our Eastern
paper makers have found to cleanse pop
lar wood Of analogous viscidity The
near relationship Of these vegetable pro.
ducts lends hope that following this line
will leade to like snccess in ramie. There's
vast fortune in it to reward invention.
The dividends for the year from banks,
insurance companies, savings institu-
lions, mining corporations, &c., aggre-
gate twenty-six and a-half million dol
lars, of which eighteen millions came
from mines and four-and-a-half millions
from savings banks mortgages. This
State has increased its gold returns half a
million. Nevada has fallen off sixteen
and a-half millions. From all sources Of
the Missouri river, including British
Columbia and Western Mexico, came
eighty-one million dollars, Of which half
was gold. Though Nevada mines are
called silver mines, thirty-five per cent.
is gold, invisible till separated by chemi-
cal process. The outprint in California
was 10 millions, Nevada IS millions,
Montana 81 millions, Utah and Colorado
each 8 millions, Arizona 2i millions. The
product Of Arizona is astonishing, con-
'idering Its infancy and its wants of IA
cilities To market, as well as the triple
cost of machinery till lately. The edu.
catlonal fund of California is three mil !
ion dollars. The shrinkage of gam.
bling stock has been one hundred mil !
ions, and of town property the same. As |
IN instance, the trustees Of the Lick es-
ate report over half q million reduced !
value of the Lick House block, and gen.
orally like shrinkage in other parts of |
hat vast estate. None of the Lick lega- |
lies have been paid, on account OF the |
ielay of the Supreme Court in legalizing
;he compromise made with the heirs |
the bill. This delay has great !
y impoverished the funds.
Temperance folks will be interested in !
the result of efforts to defeat |
he perpetual injunction against sales of /,
intoxicating spirits in Lompoc, Santa !
Barbara county. The property was so Id |
n lots, each subject to reservation, In
m lvyi fnrf. ifttr. af4. H.
,een made to nullify the prohibition, but
t is now announced that the contestants
iave submitted, and to-day there is not a
in the hourishing town of Lom-
,oc.
Rev. Otis Gibson knows more of Chi
lese capacity for improvement than any
me else on this coast, except a few per.
ons who have been missionaries in Chi
IA, and who indorse his reports. His
mission is the education of Chinese in San
francisco, with efforts to change the ,
of their superstition. We |
,annot improve on the moral laws of
Jonfucius. They are Identical in China |
With ours In Chrlstendom and they form
he base OF all religions from the begin
1ing there has been no essential varia-
ion. The trunks only differ in form and
tructure, and in the mythic story of who
planted it, and when and where and by
tudl mlIhCits VIC lOWIy DcHtNtu ludb
Tod directed the planting. Otherwise the
ruit of all is alike in moral nutriment,
dapted to the various peoples.
God sends his teachers into every age,
% every CLINE and every race of men,
With revelations fitted to their growth
And shape of mind. Nor gives the realm
of truth
into the selfish rule of one sole race
4Otreu.
The reverend missionary wisely admits
he merits of Confu,ius; claiming that for
his age and for this country our doctrine
, better adapted, and may be accepted
Without dlsparagement to Confucians.
his is the shortest and easiest way to
vim converts. A public examination of
,hinese scholars gave canvincing proof
f the capacity of that race for intellec-
ual advancement far beyond that of the
eRroes. If being sharp at a bargain be
ny sign of wit, Cinnamon are fully our !
eers. As further test, they are perfect !,
,astery of modern machinery in less time
han our own average apprentices. More .
yer, all Chinamen are more reliable and !
uick at figures. They have wee deci-
lal contrivauce of balls sliding on wires :
nat counts up in trice, and unerringly,
.actional values, which our accountants
ypher out by primitive rules of painful
and oft repetition. S.
Tilden Ohio's Choice.
At a meeting of the Hamilton county,
'hio, Democratic Club, at Cincinnati,
udge George Hoadly, orator for the