Saturday press. [volume] (Honolulu, H.I.) 1880-1885, 1882-02-04
San Francisco Correspondence.
SAN Francisco. jan. Is. |.

SAN FRANCISCO, Jan. 10, 1882.
Error Pass: A strong north wind has
been doing considerable damage in many
parts of California; it was 80 strong that
On the coast near Santa Barbara it has
blown down barns and houses, and uprooted
old oak trees that have stood the storms of
centuries. 1t is the scverost ever known
to the oldest inhabitant. | suppose the
backwNrdncss of the season is one of the
causes of all kinds of provisions becoming
much doarcr. Everything in tho food limo
has advanced in price. Tho only people
that will feel this arc the poor and laborng
class they are the ones that catch it. They
ought not to BIO poor-t is thor bad luck.
We had last year SO much prosperity every
Que had hopes it would continue.
The Chinese still arrive by tho cargo
aud Congress ms yet has done nothing to
stop thcm. Senator Miller has framed n
bill to give the people the desired relief, but
it has not been brought up for reading
yet. am afraid the Senator has too many
bill, to present to Congress and this Chinese
question will not have tho careful and
vigorous attention il otherwise would have
if he only had this, of all the most vital
ono to the people of the State, and l may
say tho whole country
Another fearful railway horror, telc-
graphed this morning, on the Hudson
River Railroad. The Tarrytown train ran
into the rear of the special express nt
Spuyton Duyvil, telescopug two Palace
sleepers, which burned up by tho ovcrturn-
ing of tho stoves. The express train had
stopped to cool off hot box and the cou-
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Tarrytown special but he did not do it, rs
the special at the rate of 20 miles an hour
thundored around the curve into the cars
destroying nine lives. There Was n young
lately welded couple named Valentine on
their wedding tour, the bride only nineteen
and the groom twenty.one, and the nephew
of Trsnor w. Park. They were burnt
alive and could have both been saved il
the bride had not chung 80 desperately to
her husband. Senator Wagner was also
burned alive; his cries for rescue were
heartrending, as also were those of lady
who was fast in the seats and could not be
rescued; she WAS also burned alive. Senator
Wagner WAS burnt in his own coach, and
shortly before the disaster laughingly re.
marked to number OF the Legislators that
he was opposed to monopolies as they
sometimes smashed his cars, and passed
into his own coach to meet fearful death.
There has been such a large number OF
this kind of accidents by the upsetting OF
stoves and burning people alive, that it is a
great wonder that some other plan OF heat
ing the cars is not adopted, as heat coulo
be sent through pipes from the locomotive
and avoid at least the destruction of life
by fire.
Guteaus trial has been on hand so long
very few people take any interest in it. II
is now very near to close, and Judge Coz
has denied the assassin the privilege o
making the closing speech to the jury il
his defense. do not think the jury viii
hang him but it would be equivalent t.
it il they clear him and turn him loose.
do not think he would live twenty. fou
hours.
Our last Grand Jury has been examining
all the exits of the public pieces of amuse
ample to avoid such q catastrophe as oc
CURED at the theatre in Vienna.
Our new City Hall is beginning to lool
grand; it will DO ono of the best building
in America when finished. A great nun
Der of new buildings have been erected il
this city within the year past. Real estat
10 about the same--no excitement about il
1t was thought with SO many continental
roads reaching for California that the Pee
pie were going to have some relief fror
the oppressive rates by competition, bu
that deusivs hope has been destroyed, 70
We hear, as Dennis Kearney used to say
they have all pooled their issues" or i
other words gone into combination I
keep up rates. 1t takes railway corpora
tions to hold four aces on the public.
ANON.