Daily Los Angeles herald., 1884-04-22

Rattle, A Graham, w Erwin. II Tuf-
fey, Sacramento;J e Steele, Colusa, Cal;
Mrs B II Neal and baby, Humboldt;
Mrs G Peters, Santa Ana; Capt Charles
Goodall, Miss Nettie Boole, T w Strow-
bridge, wife and two children, b Hager
and wife. II H Welch, Miss Loacus, Mrs
Perris, b G Truman, + Gid1ons, L II
Lyon, San Francisco; + II Howard, Los
Angeles.
Petitions Presented.
SACRAMENTO, April 2l.--In the As
sembly Wharton presented q petition
from the Fresno viticultural and Horti.
cultural Association asking that young
non. bearing trees and vines be exempted
from taxation, Storke presented pc.
tition from citizens Of Santa Barbara
protesting against the proposition to
tax different occupations according to
the total business done in that line in
that county.
Bills Passed in the Assembly.
SACRAMENTO, April 2l.--Two i'm
portant bills were passed by the House
this afternoon. Wharton's bill. amended
out Of all Of Its original shape by the
thirteen or fourteen references to conf
mittees that 1t has had, but still retain
ing the prohibition against the issuance
of injunctions to prevent the collection
of delinquent taxes and also the binding
provision that ''any corporation
which, without first having paid
its taxes under protest as afors-
said, shall apply for or obtain from
any Court. State or Federal, any written
process restraining the sale of property
Tor taxes or for restraining the execution
of the powers or duties of the Tax Col.
lector, shall forfeit its charter and fran
chise and shall be deemed to have in
Cured such forfeiture, and itshall there
upon be deemed the duty of the Attor-
ney General Of the State to Immediately
institute proceedings in the proper
Court to enforce such forfeiture"
The bill originally introduced by
Wallace, but reconstructed by the Com
mittee on Ways and Means, to guide the
State Board OF Equalization in deter.
mining for the purposes of assessment
the value of the franchise, road-bed,
rails, &C., and to ascertain the same
when a road is situated only in part in
this State, If inoumbered by mortgage,
also passed final reading.
The Corporations Committee to- night
amended the constitutional amendment
fixing the maximum of freight charges
so as to include salt, beer and brandy in
bulk in the class for which the rate of
two cents is allowed upon roads having
q gross annual income Of SO, 900 per
mile.
Blbbs' Bill Beaten.
SACRAMENTO, Gala, April 2l.-In the
Assembly, Bibbs' bill limiting the rate
of taxation was the special order this
afternoon. A long discussion followed,
and upon calling Of the roll the bill was
lost-ayes 32, noes 80,
The sharon Divorce Case.
SAN Francisco, April 2l.--In the
Sharon divorce case to-day Mrs. Jenny
Wagner, q fortune teller, testified to
having received frequent visits from Miss
Hill, and that it was she who told Miss
Hill to put some of Sharon's garments
in a newly made grave. Miss Hill told
her one day that she intended going
East and asked witness il she remained
there short time and then PASSED
off q child on Sharon, what she
thought of the plau. Witness
expressed her disapproval of it. Miss
Hill frequently talked about charms.
One day she told witness she had taken
a pigeon, cut it open, took the heart
out and put nine needles and nine pins
in it. She did the same thing with
bull frog. Continuing, the witness said
Miss Hill came to see her as often as
four times day. One day she told
witness she got $500 from the Senator
every time she rubbed his feet.
Newspaper Change.
SAN Francisco, April 2l.--The Evea-
ing Post announces this afternoon that
General John +. Sheehan, until lately
one of the proprietors of the Sacramento
Bee, has become associated in the pro.
prietary interest of the Post.
The stock BOARD.
SAN Francisco, April 81. - Best 4
Belcher, Sl.30; Chollar, S0.S5; Cos.
solidated Virginia, 30; Crown Point,
Sl.l0; Eureka Con-, -; Gould &
Curry, Sl,O5; Hale h Norcross, 81. .O5;
Mexican, 81 90; Northern Belle, ,-;Ophir,
AS; Potosi, =; Savage, 80; Sierra
Nevada, SLIGO; Union Consolidated,
Sl.S0; Yellow Jacket, Sl.75.
Wheat and Barley Market.
SAN FRANcIsco, April 81. - Wheat,
steady and quiet; seller, 81 .40S@sl .4li;
buyer, season, Sl,54@l l.54s; buyer,
Sl.55t@l.56. Barley, strong and lively;
seller season, .7S@S0; buyer, SS5@ @90t;
buyer, season, 100 .Sl4.
Row In the Peoples Railway Di-
rectOry.
San FRANoIsco, April 2l.-A. j.
Reynolds, formerly director of the so.
called Peoples Railway, organized at
Indianapolis, was to-day horsewhipped
by Emit Kennedy, presidest of the same
company. A fight ensued and Kennedy
drew revolver, but was prevented
from using it. Reynolds charges kenne.
dy with having obtained $4,000 cash
for which there was no accounting and
that Kennedy proposed issuing 100000
900 in bonds at fifty cents on the dollar,
taking what cash he could get and the
balance in promissory notes.
splendid Crop Outlook in the san
Joaquin.
SToCToN, Gala, April 2l.-Charles
Warheld, Superintendent for Miller &
Lux, on the Upper San joaquin, is in
Stockton to-day and states that the con-
dition and outlook in that section are of
the most encouraging character. In the
vicinity of Firebaugh the feed for stock
surpasses anything experienced for the
past eighteen years.
suicide ofCol. VI. ". Bufrnm.
TOMBSTONE, A. t., April 2l.-News
has Just reached here of the death of
Col NJ. V. Buffum, which occurred at
Sinoquipe, Sonora. Deceased had been
in that section, engaged in mining, for
several years. He had been drinking
heavily of late, and his friends, antici-
pating something of the kind, had dis
armed and kept a close watch on him.
He managed to elude them and going to
his lodgings sat down against the wall
and, plac ng a PISTOL to his forehead,
blew lis brains out. During the civil
war he was Colonel or Lieutenant. Colo.
mel of a Connecticut regiment. He
afterwards joined the Fifteenth Infantry,
Regular Army, as First Lieutenant, and
was for long time stationed at Fort
Wingate. He was 81 years of age and
his family reside in the Eastern States.
EASTERN.
Congressional.
| WAsHINGToN, d. c., April 2l.-SEN-
ArE-The Bankruptcy bill as amended
was reported from the Committee of the
Whole to the Senate and passed. Yeas
80, nays 10.
HoUsE-M Mutchler, from the Commit
tee on Civil Service Reform, moved to
suspend the rules and pass the bill re-
psaling the section OF the Revised
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