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Scranton Wochenblatt. [volume] (Scranton, Pa.) 1865-1918, 1890-03-06
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Scranton Wochenblatt. [volume] (Scranton, Pa.) 1865-1918, 1890-03-06
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Scranton Wochenblatt. [volume] (Scranton, Pa.) 1865-1918, 1890-03-06
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Los Angeles daily herald., 1890-01-19
THE FORTY-NINERS.
A Banquet of Californis
Pioneers.
THE EARLY DAYS REVIEWED
The Chicago Society of Survivors OF
Notable Band of Men-Their
Last Grand Rally.
Associated Press Dispatches to the HERALD

Associated Press Dispatches to the HERALD. |
CHICAGO, January 1S.-This afternoon
the organization of the newly formed
Western Association of California Pio-
neers was made permanent, and tonight
the forty-second anniversary of the first
discovery of gold in California was
celebrated by banquet at the Pa
cifc hotel under the auspices of
the association. The organization is linn
tied to men who crossed the plains and
braved the hardships of the gold diggings
prior to 1855. The association ia looked
upon as sort of last rallying ground for
the old forty-niners, 80 today the veteran
gold.seekers from dozen States
west of New England were present
to take part in the proceed.
ings. When the nucleus OF the associa-
ton was formed few weeks ago it com.
prised but very few members, but it has
rapidly grown in numbers until at pres
ent it possesses quite respectable mem
herehip. DR.. ]. Ward Ellis, who went
out to the diggings in the height
Of the gold fever, was elected
President, Charles Jackson, Secretary
and Addison Bullard, Treasurer. One
Of the schemes of the organization is the
compiling of a biographical volume, con.
tainipg sketch of the society. This
will undoubtedly furnish a valuable
addition to the history of the far West
The banquet this evening was happy
STAIR. Sixty of the pioneers, accom-
panied by their wives, sat down to the
tables. After the feasting, President
Ellis delivered his inaugural address ir
felicitous vein. He touched on the ex
periences of those present in the old days
on the Coast, and said: "Our memories
some of them are sad, some of then
happy, but whatever they are none O
us would blot them out. We are here
to foster the memory of those days, tt
greet each other as men and womer
bound by the ties of a common expert
ence and common love for California.
Los Angeles daily herald., 1890-01-19

MONDAY week the Council will prob
ably SET the date for the sewer elections.
1t appears to be conceded that the three
propositions will have to be voted on
on three separate days. This ia part
OF the ridiculous red tape of the State of
California, in which every law is framed
with the view of multiplying expenses
and giving employment to those who
earn the nimble dollar by chance jobs of
a semi-political or political character. 1t
is to be hoped that, some day, sensible
California Legislature will meet and that
some common sense enactments will
follow. AS it is, however, the Council ia
guiltless of this bungling work.
Los Angeles daily herald., 1890-01-19
How 10 HuY corner Lots Cheap.

How 10 Buy Corner Lots Cheap.
Pittsburg is enjoying boom in real
estate lust now, and the competition for
choice lots runs high.
Mr.. Bilgus owned lot on the corner
of Fifth avenue and Madison street a
week or two ago, but he does not own 1T
now, This is how he came to part
with it,
Two men walked into his office one
afternoon and one of them said:
"Mr. Bilgus, believer"
eyes, SIR" 49,,
81 understand YOU want to sell that
lot on the corner of Fifth and Madison.
What will you take for it ?"
"I don't know that l am anxious to
sell that lot," said Bilgus; "still might
| if could get what it is worth"
"Well, what is your price?"
"That property is worth every cent oi
$50 900, and don't know but what
ought to ask $35, 900. Do you want tc
buy?" :.
"Oh, no." replied Bilgus' visitors
taking q memorandum book out of his
pocket and putting down some figures
''My name is Gerrish; Pm the new
Assessor for that district, and merely
wanted to get at the value of your prop
erty."
Blgus smiled sickly sort of smile
81 was only in fun" he said, presently
'I don't suppose could get more thar
SIS, 900 for the lot if had to sell it, anc
the man who would offer me 10000
would be snapped up so quickly it woult
make his head swim"
The Assessor smiled just little, bu
went on making memoranda.
"Say," exclaimed Bilgus, jumping up
"don't put that lot down at more thai
$4,000. I'll take that for it, 'pon m,
honor, will"
Every WE'LL" said the Assessor, "I'l
take it for that. Here's q certified
check for $500 to bind the bargain"
Bilgus was speechless now.
81 thought you were the Assessor" h.
gasped presently.
"Well, can't an Assessor buy prop
erty ?"
Bilgus kicked like 81 dozen mules, bu
it was no 90. Mr.. Gerrish had his wit
ness to prove chat Bilgus had offered tn
lot for $1S, 1000, and rather than defen,
against threatened lawsuit the unhapp,
man made out the deed.
The real estate was worth $25, 90
easily; but am sorry to say that Nh
Gerrish told an untruth when he said b
was the new Assessor.
Los Angeles daily herald., 1890-01-19
Coffee Duty and Consumer.
The World is in receipt of the follow.


The World is in receipt of the follow.
ing letter:
To the Editor of the World:
Advocates of the protective tariff tax
claim that it does not increase the price
of the article taxed to the consumer, and
they cite the fact that coffee went up in.
stead of down when the tax on it was
taken off.
Will you make room in your "Editor's
Corner" to enlighten me on this point
Perhaps others Of your readers may be
as ignorant as your subscriber.
J.C. MILLS.
Brindletown, N. G., January 9th.
The person who cites the coffee expe-
rience of this country as showing that
the reduction or removal of protective
duty does not lower prices to the con-
sumer is necessarily fool or a knave,
for reasons which are plainly apparent.
The coffee duty was not a protective
duty at all, but revenue duty. The
effect OF it's removal has no possible
bearing, therefore, upon any question of
the effects OF protective duties.
In the second place -and this is the
more important point-when Congress
removed the import duty on coffee by
way of reducing revenue without inter.
fering with the protective tariff the Bra.
lillian Government Immediately added
to its export duty an amount equal to the
duty abolished by ourselves. So far az
the American consumer is concerned
therefore, the duty has never been taken
off coffee. 1t has only been transferred.
and instead of paying it into the United
States Treasury the consumer pays it into
the Treasury of Brazil.-[N. Y. World.
Los Angeles daily herald., 1890-01-19
Eamands,s had Break.

st. Jerome Edmunds, the austere gen.
tleman who has so long represented the
State of Vermont in the Senate of the
United States, has buttressed very
high reputation with fimsy materials.
In precipitsting himself into the Dudley
debate he has shown that he is ready to
sacrifice anything to partizanship. In
attempting to cast doubt upon the au-
thenticity of the ''blocks of five foater"
letter of Dudley, Edmunds tries severely
the faith of his admirers. The whole
thing is in exact keeping with the
previous record of that peculiar branch
of the Senator's party. 1t harmonizes
with the "crisp new two and FIVE dollar
bills" which Dorsey made so potential
in a previous campaign in the same
State, and with the addition, division
and silence" letter OF Quay g friend, VIM.
H. Kemble, to Titan J. Coffey. AS this
is the first time Edmunds has appeared
in such peculiar company, it is a dis.
heartening evidence of the degenerating
tendencies of the times. His action as q
Senator of the United States has not a,
all times been characterized by
great delicacy. Occupying seat in thai
august body, he has at no time deemed
it incompatible with his official functions
to earn a large income by arguing ths
cases of corporations, whose ultimate
claims might come before Congress, ir
the Supreme Court of the United States
la this he has been initiated by Other
Senators, including even so distinguished
lawyer as Senator Evsrts, but it is very
doubtful whether the latter would have
condescended under any circumstances tt
champion Dudley. The Republican meth
DDS in Indiana are too well established
by facts to permit of even Edmundl
confusing the record. When Chester 4
Arthur attended banquet in New Yorl
City celebrating the election of Garfield
and himself, some enthusiastic bu
mealy-mouthed person, in describing the
triumph in the Hoosier State, said, "Wt
carried Indiana by-by-" Here b.
hesitated in confusion. The Vice-Presi
dent elect, not whit abashed, whis
pered, "by the liberal use of soap. >
The record is made up and the American
people understand it.
Los Angeles daily herald., 1890-01-19

IT is pleasant to have the assurance of
such sagacious man of business as Jay
Gould that the current year is to be a
highly prosperous one, but it is just pos
sible that that great wrecker desires Just
now to bull the stock market. Pros
psrity, in the sense of buoyant good
times, seems TO have taken to itself wings
and flown abroad. By all accounts a
quite exceptional degree of prosperity
has characterized Europe during the past
year or 30, and notably during the period
embraced in the Paris Exposition. That
great city is said to have made profit of
a hundred millions of dollars by her grand
exhibition. The tide of Americans who
flocked to Europe was of itself suffi.
cient to make times good there, the num-
Der of our people who made the grand
voyage during the past year being placed
as high as seventy.6ve thousand. An
average individual expenditure of one
Thousand dollars was undoubtedly in
dulged in by this great tide of an emil
grafton which was almost wholly bent on
pleasure. Fortunately the balance of
trade has been largely in our favor, or we
should have had much harder times in
the United States than characterized
this country in the year which
has just drawn to close.
OF course, hard times in this country
is purely relative term, and is used to
describe the condition of poor fellow
who would be highly indignant if he
were to be denied meat thrce times q
day. But the fact remains that, until
lately, the average American got his
meat three times . day and had other
luxurles which In Europe are confined TO
Los Angeles daily herald., 1890-01-19
The Municipal Moneys.

On Monday the Council will open the
bids for the custody of the city's moneys.
1t will be remembered that this time last
year they also went through this per-
formance in purely perfunctory man.
ner, and that the City Fathers finally
concluded to retain the municipal funds
in what are popularly called the Ring
banks, on the supposition that if they
did not do 80 the money would be loaned
up in San Francisco, or in some other
outside districts, or invested in govern
.ment bonds. OF course all this was
mere moonshine, and at best it was
out of the purview of that body's official
functions. The law explicitly said that
this money should be let out to the
highest bidder, and last year the Los
Angeles Savings Bank was the highest
bidder. The Council rejected that bid
on doubtful technically and called for
bids second time. On the second bid
ding the Farmers & Merchants Bank
bid three per cent. a year. The respon-
sibility of this bank-second to none in
California-could not be disputed. Never
theless, on the whimsical idea that
if the Farmers & Merchants Bank OBJ.
tanned control of the municipal money it
would be loaned up in San Francisco,
both the letter and spirit of the law
were violated. There has at no time
been any attempt to give rational ex-
planation for this action. The one actu.
ally assigned was farcical in the extreme,
because statement of the loans of this
public-spirited institution shows that it
has been largely instrumental in tiding
our people over period of financial de-
preston. But dismissing this fimsy
pretext, what the people of Los Angeles
know is that, through this juggling of
their City Council, from SIS 900 to $780,
600 was lost to the City Treasury last
year at time when every municipal
fund was confronted with deficiency.
They now demand, and in an impera-
tive voice, that this time there shall be
no juggling, and that the hard. bested
taxpayers shall be allowed to benefit by
the interest on the moneys accommodating
in the City Treasury. They insist that
the law, and the law only, shall be the
guide of the Council in this and other
mattars
Los Angeles daily herald., 1890-01-19
To our su bscrtber..

Send to f. P. Shumwsy Jr.. BOSTON. Mass
for free sample copy OF the ..Cottage Hearth
beautiful illustrated magazine. and go
realizs what an extraordinary offer we are
making when we offer to send both the
"Cottage Hearth" and the Weekly Herald for a
full year for only $3.50, when the price of the
cottage Hearth" alone is $3.50 year. The
Boston Transcript says of the "Cottage HEARTH: !:
Setting aside its literary contents, which are
of high order of merit, the collection of re.
ceipts for the kitchen and for the sick room. its
practical suggestions and advice for til raising
and care of plants and flowers, its instructions
| for beautifyiDg homes by simple means, and
other practical features, make it inyaluahle
| to every household.
| Try "Pride of the Family" soap Hl
Los Angeles daily herald., 1890-01-19
There is an old man in New York who

There is An old man in New York who
has been earning good income the past
few weeks going about among the resi-.
dences of the fashionable quarter mend
ing toys. Every year in the nurseries OF
the rich there is an accumulation OF
broken and discarded toys that their
little owners at the approach of Christ
mas carefully sort out and put aside for
the old toy-mender. Glue, few tacks,
and bit of fresh varnish do wonders for
them, and they are then sent to the nur-
series, asylums, or homes for the child.
rem of the poor. The old man appears
regularly and his customers wait for him
every year.
Los Angeles daily herald., 1890-01-19
Art Rreyit1eS,

For his latest portrait of Gladstone,
paid for by subscription of the women of
England, Millais received the sum Of
$25, 600.
1t is said that one of the characters
represented in Gerome's picture of the
duel After the Masquerade" was &C.
rome himself.
1t is reported that Meissonier, since
his recent marriage, has seemed to lose
all ambition to excel in art. He spends
very little time in his studio, and does
great deal of aimless sketching and
daubing.
The trustees of the gift fund, which
forms part of the $22O,0eO now being
raised by the American Fine Arts Society
for the purchase of land and the erection
OF its building, are Messrs. Henry G
Marquand. President of the Metropolitan
Museum of Art, Edward D. Adams, Cy.
rus J. Lawrence and E. @. Moore. Some
$25, 600 OF this fund has already been
raised, subscriptions to become binding
when $4,000 has been pledged. The
list OF subscribers of $100 to the life fell
lowship fund of the society already in
cludes some 200 ladies and gentlemen
interested in fine arts, and the capital
stock of $50, 900 has been virtually sub.
scribed by the cooperative societies and
their members, 140 artists and architects
being on the list.
According to an English journal two
minor branches of the doll industry form
distinct trades-the making of the shoes
and eyes. The shoes are made from the
waste material of children's ornamental
shoes and boots; but this branch is a
smaller one than. that of eye-making, as
many dolls are sent out with merely
painted boots, while all, or nearly all,
have proper eyes. Dolls eyes are of two
sorts, known technically as common and
natural. The common are simply colored
hollow glass spheres of white enamel,
black and blue being the only color
used. The natural eyes are of similar
composition. but have the pupil and
iris properly represented. Considerable
quantities are exported, especially to
French doll-makers. The black eyes
are used for dolls exported to South
America, and blue eyes for those used at
home, children naturally preferring their
dolls to have eyes of similar hue to
those most common among themselves.
Los Angeles daily herald., 1890-01-19

FRESNO, CAL, January 18 Fire was
discovered on the third floor of the Baker
block at 5 O'Clock this morning. The
fire department responded, and after
hard work extinguished the fire. the
lower floor of the building was occupied
by A. F. Baker, grocer, and the upper
stories by Mrs. M. J. Hughes as lodg-
ing house. The loss by water and fire to
her is $1,000, fully insured. Bakers
loss on stock, by water, is So, 900; par
TALLY insured; loss on building, $5, 900.
The building was just completed in De.
cember.
Los Angeles daily herald., 1890-01-19
MURDERED FOK MONEY.
Wealthy Hermit's Fate - H
House Burned Over Him.


KANSAS Cry, January 1S.-The Times
Springfield, Mo-, special says: At 1C
O'Clock last night the house of Hugh
Farmer burned to the ground. Farmer
perished in the flames. An investiga-
ton of the ruins showed that coal oil
had been freshly scattered about the
house, and it is believed some ol
farmers negro tenants murdered their
landlord for his money and then set fire
to the house to cover up the crime
Farmer was native of county Wicklow
Ireland. the son of wealthy parents. Hii
family objected to his marrying house
maid, and he came to America ant
invested his money in Missouri farm
and other real estate. He lived the lif,
of a hermit, and accumulated larg,
amount of money from real estate deals
Los Angeles daily herald., 1890-01-19
I'm dicted for Perjury.

PORTLAND, Ore, January 1S.-The
Grand Jury today indicted for perjury
A: Sunderland, Dairy Commissioner
who, two years ago, began a crusade Q
against fresh California butter, which
was being imported here in large quanti-
ties. The California butter dealers were
defeated at the trial, and, it is now
stated, on manufactured evidence.
Los Angeles daily herald., 1890-01-19
The Consumers Always Suffer.

A tariff organ congratulates Mr.. Wana.
maker upon his recovery of $500 600 as
his share of the sc, ,0OO, 900 which the
decision of the Supreme Court will com.
pei the Treasury to repay to importers OF
ribbons. 1t says "the half-million
of dollars belongs to him, and we
are glad he is going to GET
the money" This is conspicuouslv un.
true. The money belongs-or ought to
belong--to the customers of Mr.. Wana.
maker and of the other merchants who
added the duty to the price of the ribbon
in making their prices. But under our
tariff laws it is always the consumer who
is taxed and robbsd.-[New York World
Los Angeles daily herald., 1890-01-19
Charged with EmbezzIement

BUFFALO, N. Y, January 1S.-Rev. E.
q. f: Ernst, OF st. Jacobs church, is &C.
cused OF misapplying $4,000, which he
collected to defray the expenses of the
organization of grand musical festival
to aid the building fund of the church.
A card is published, in which several
leading citizens, who were aiding the
movement, announce their withdraw wal.
Ernst is much troubled over the affair.
He denies his guilt, but does not say
what has been done with the funds.
Los Angeles daily herald., 1890-01-19

the wealthier classes. One capital proof
that we are perhaps entering upon live
lier times is the fact that they have been
dull for SO long, and the American
people rarely indulge in one style of thing
for an extended period.
Los Angeles daily herald., 1890-01-19

supposed that these gentlemen could
ssand off Azrael himself, but like other
mortals they have their weak spots
They are only invulnerable when Il
comes to resisting the force of Mayor
Hazards sensible suggestions.
Los Angeles daily herald., 1890-01-19

/ In French settlement four miles
from Tweed, the Picton Times saws.
there are an unusual number of families
Of the same name -Courneyer. They
are all related. either as cousins, second
cousins or third cousins. Like every
other nationality they have g. favorite
Christian name, and theirs is Paul.
Los Angeles daily herald., 1890-01-19

and each have Paul. The way they
are known is as Paul, Big Paul, Big
P Paul's son, Little Paul, Long Paul, Short
Paul. Black Paul, Blind Paul, Cross
Paul Quiet Paul, Paul Peter. Peter Paul
Paul c., Paul j., Paul Christmas, Pau
Xavier, Paul Sivisire, and Francis Paul
II takes a new settler in that locality
almost year before he is able to cal
them by their known names.
Los Angeles daily herald., 1890-01-19

The Barge exhibition in New York will
cloee January 18th. 1t is to be inferred
from the New York papers that it is not
attracting so large audiences as had been
hoped.