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Los Angeles herald., 1891-09-24

in a report that is of far more conse-
quence to the Presbyterian church than
anything that has occurred in it since
conventicle days. That committees
revision of the confession of faith is now
being submitted to all the churches.
and the Presbytery of Los Angeles yes
terday, by a vote of SO to 26, not only
adopted the amendments made to the
instrument by the assembly committee,
but in the third chapter went farther,
and instead of adopting the modified
version of the fifth section as submit
mitted by the committee, voted to
strike it all out. 1t looks as if that
strong old-fashioned Calvin doctrine of
predes.ination is doomed to be con.
signed to the limbo where all doctrinal
fallacies that have served their turn and
been exploded by the common con-
science and judgment of mankind ought
tO %
Los Angeles herald., 1891-09-24

WHAT, in the name OF Atropos, has Joe
Mesmer done to the Times that it says
he is not broad-minded enough even to
make a capable park commissioner I?
We presume that park commissioners
are not required, like chieb of horticul-
tural bureaux for world fairs, to know
all the Latin and Greek roots, but
ought to have good business qualifica-
tions, and an artistic eye for effects
in landcape gardening, etc. Does the
Times dare to say that Mr.. Mesmer is
deficient in either OF these qualifications
1t is hard to say what measure of mem
tai broadness and intellectual expan-
sion the Times would require in man
proposed for public position whom it
did not like. The man who could fill
seven; chairs in university is much
easier to find than the universal genius
the Times would require for janitor of
the city hall, providing one of its enc
mics was up for the place.
Los Angeles herald., 1891-09-24

A DISPATCH from Washington says that
a position in the cabinet is to be offered
to Hon. M. M. Estee by President Har-
rison. Estee would have been cabinet
member from the beginning OF this ad-
ministration bad itnot been for the fatal
fashion Californians have of starting a
mud-war at once against any person
named for exalted national place. 1t
does not seem probable that Mr.. Estee
will take Mr.. Proctor's place as secretary
Ofwar. Attorney-General Miller, who
lis the worst case of Necessity the coun-
try has ever seen in law place of i'm
portance, ought to be retired and the
position given to Estee. He would fill
it with credit.
Los Angeles herald., 1891-09-24

AT THE afternoon session of the Pres
bytery of Los Angeles, now sitting in
Emmanuel church, there was a very
interesting debate on the subject of the
revision of the Westminster confession
of faith, yesterday. 1t will be recol-
lected that at the general assembly of
the Presbyterian church, which met at
Detroit in May last, the committee APP
pointed by the previous years assembly
reported back very extensive changes in
the confession of faith. The progressive
churches and liberal ministers had OBJ
jected to the third, fourth and fifth Sec
tions of the third chapter, on predesti-
nation. The committee, however, went
carefully through all the chapters, and
made many changes and notifications,
extirpating the offensive terminologies
of the seventeenth century in many
places, and soitening the acerbities in
cident to an age in which religious and
sectarian controversy was always bitter,
sometimes brutal and uniformly un-
charitable. The action of the assembly
on this important subject was really
dwarfed and lost sight of in the great
and absorbing battle that took
place at that session upon the
orthodoxy of DIR. Briggs's writ
ings and teachings about the inerrancy
of the Bible, and insisting upon it's
Interpretation in the light of modern
thought and the advance made by bibli-
cal exegetes in the science of theological
criticism. DR.. Briggs's book, Whittier, :"
and his Inaugural" were severely
handled, and the result OF the battle
was that the assembly pronounced the
doctors teachings "heresical" and or
dered his deposition from the biblical
chair in the Union. Theological univer-
sity. Whist the great din Of this con-
fiIct filed the air, there was quiet and
unobtrusive committee making progress
Los Angeles herald., 1891-09-24
ADJUSTMENTS.

1t is seldom that an audience, even by
fy-by-Dight transforming company,
is insulted and in a measure ignored /;
when such treatment is accorded pat
rons of a theater by an actor of high
standing and his company, there are
few terms strong enough to express
condemnation of it. Mr.. Nat Goodwin
and his entire company attempted to
play The Nominee last evening at the
opera house. There was an exception
ally large audience present, which was
good natured to fault, but though
there was no vociferous expressions of
dissatisfaction, there was an almost uni
versal feeling of disgust at the perform
ance. Mr.. Goodwin was evidently not
drunk, nor were any of his company,
but they, one and ALL paid little or no
attention to their action, laughed so
that they broke down in their
lines frequently and paid much
more attention to extraneous mat
ters than to their work. In spite of
Mr.. Goodwin's occasional recollection
that he was supposed to be acting, the
performance was an insolent piece
of absurdity. Another impertinence
to the audience was the excision
and undue acceleration of the play, in
order that the company might be at the
Arcade depot in time to take the 10 40
train for the north. Altogether Mr..
Goodwin and his company will be an
unpleasant recollection to theater-goers
who saw them last evening.
NY
Mr.. Charles Dickson will begin three
nights engagement this evening
at the opera house in 1ncog, play writ
ten for him by Mrs. Romualde Pacheco.
In this production Mrs. Pacheco has
written comedy of the same class as
Phe Private Secretary, All the Comforts
of a Home, and Wilkinson's Widows.
Incog turns upon mistaken identity, and
Mrs. Pacheco is said to have given the
subject a thoroughly novel treatment,
Tom Stanhope loves the companion OF
his fathers ward. The old gentleman,
who wishes him to marry the ward, be-
comes furious on learning this and
drives him from the hotel where they
are stopping. Tom determines to dis
guise himself and return incog, and hay
ing found photograph on the lawn
makes himself up to resemble it. The
Los Angeles herald., 1891-09-24

and others, urging the interest of the
church in the movement.
The programme for today will be as
follows:
500 a. m.-Devotional services.
ga. m.-Conference session.
2;30 p. m.-Anniversary of the Wo-
mans Home Missionary society. An
nual address by the president, Mrs. j..
P. Widney.
Missionary address, DR.. J. o. Peck.
Southern work, Mrs. f. w. Caswell.
Work among the Indians, Mrs. NJ. A.
Gibson.
Immigrant work, Mrs. G. w. White.
3:45 .. m.-Anniversary of the Wo-
mans Foreign Missionary society. Ad-
dress, Miss A. Watson.
80 p. m.-Anniversary OF the
Church Extension society. Addresses
by William Stevenson, d. D., and a sec
retary.
Los Angeles herald., 1891-09-24

Phil. DwYER, the racing horse man, is
lessee of the Brooklyn Jockey clubs
course at Gravesend, and he made up
his mind that he would compel the pool
room men in New York to pay for news
from the track or he would prevent them
from getting it. So he shut out the
Western Union wires and enforced arule
to let no one out of the course until the
races were over. The poolrooms, how
ever, continued to receive the news as
theraces progressed. Dwyer then erect
ed high fence in front of the judges
stand SO that the parties outside could
not tell what horses had been scratched
nor catch the exact time made. This
move was met by the poolmen with the
erection of 75-foot tower over build
ing in front of the quarter stretch, and
the wires were connected with the top
platform, where the poolroom reporters,
with glasses, could see everything on the
track. This brought Dwyer to terms
and compromise was effected. But in
the meantime the public got disgusted
with the whole business, and the gate
money has fallen off aarmingly.
Los Angeles herald., 1891-09-24

photograph, however, is that of Richard
Winters, who not only has wife and
two children stopping at the house, but
a twin brother whois as like him as two
peas, and this brother has a sweetheart
in the hotel. The brothers have not
met in some time, and Tom and they
all arrive about the same time, but
without seeing each other. OF course
the other characters mix them up, and
Tom is mistaken for Dick, Dick for Tom,
and Harry for both of them, and there
suit is a set of ludicrous situations that
keep the audience in screams during
the entire performance.
~*~
Hoyt's most successful production, A
Midnight Bell, is the attraction selected
by Manager Wyatt as the most fitting to
open the theatrical season this
evening at the New Los Angeles theatre.
The play is a pastoral idyl, exhibiting
phases of life in little country town,
not the same as the Old Homestead, but
just as true and quaint. Hoyt's char
acters, too, though so different from
those OF the elder play, are equally typi-
cal, and show that beneath the denun-
Citations of the rigid Puritanical faith lie
warm hearts, full of human sympathy.
The old deacon's constant struggle be-
tween an Unsuitable love OF fun, his en-
bryonic common sense and touch of
good judgment is a study. Pious and
tender, naturally he wishes to please the
women and loves the pretty girls. He
wants peace, and he wants .ofice." He
is willing to do anything to make the
''deestrick" prosperous, but he wants
his finger in the pie. He also requires
homage, and so 'gives up" to the
sisters. Above all, he has had
hammered into him since early child
hood the Presbyterian doctrine of dam
nation, of which, while he processes and
quotes it, his whole life unconsciously
shows his disbelief. George Richards,
for whom this part was written, has in
terpreted these traits most artistically.
His heartfelt declaration concerning the
scorching of the wicked is only equalled
by the grim humor with which he turns
it into a joke, showing shamefacedly
that way down in his generous soul he
thinks there is some chance for the sim
ner after all. The young clergyman is
a common product of sublimated New
England life, pure, rigid, forgiving, and
yet keenly appreciating the faults OF his
people and grieving over them. His
sister is the true Yankee girl, cultivated,
sarcastic, with a tongue sharpened by
the old gossips, and the terror, as well
as the admiration, of her family.
Los Angeles herald., 1891-09-24
AN oUrLRT TO OUR SEWERS.


outlet has been provided for the sewers
of this city, the sooner we shall be en-
abled to do away with the existing
cesspools, which are not only dangerou:
to the health of the people inhabiting
the houses connected with them, but
liable to spread poisonous gases through
out the neighborhood where they are
located. We have now system of in
tersecting and main sewers laid in the
city, but shut out from use until we can
either carry the sewage to farm where
it can be disinfected, or to lands upon
which it can be used as a means of en-
riching them.
The council seems to be unnecessarily
stalled as to the course they should
adopt in this matter. They seem to be
of the opinion that the only way to get
rid OF the sewage is to carry it to the
ocean by an outfall sewer. 1t looks to
us as if this course is at once the most
costly and the most difficult to success
fully carry out. We doubt whether there
is any point on the ocean beach
between Santa Monica and Point Fir
man where the attempt to discharge the
sewage of the city would not be resisted
to the utmost. The seaside watering
places have become too valuable and
popular for the people interested in them
to take any chances of pollution of the
waters that make them so attractive to
bathers.
Why has not the council taken steps
to inform itself of the methods adopted
in European cities of treating their sew
age? Birmingham and other cities
carry it to public sewage farm, where
the process of disinfection and precipi-
tation is made profitable from the sale
of resultant fertilizers for the soil. 1t
would seem that process of this kind
would be eninently adapted TO city
situated like Los Angeles.
The next best thing is the one which
the HERALD has always advocated and
always believed to be the method which
should be adopted here. The sewage
should be taken to the immense acreage
of poor, thin lands that lies between Los
Angeles and the ocean. Great
tracts of these sand and soilless
lands are now worthless. Fat
tened with the sewage Of this city
they would soon become rich and pro-
ductive. The owners of these lands are
certainly men who understand their
own interests, and if 80 they would not
only gladly accept the sewage, but pay
for it.
Enough revenue ought to be received
from the sewage of this city to pay for
the maintenance of any system of dis
tributing works it might adopt.
The intimations of the supreme court
in the Pasadena case are to the effect
that city can acquire and maintain a
sewage farm in its neighborhood, not
withstanding the protest of the vicinage.
The trend of such a mode of reasoning
would, of course, be favorable to our
right to discharge the wastage into the
ocean; but it would doubtless be accom-
panied with the proviso that the dis
charge pipes must reach SO far into deep
water that the cost thus incurred would
be very great-perhaps as great as the
entire cost of the outfall sewer itself.
Next Tuesday the council and a num-
Der OF leading citizens will make trip
along the proposed outfall sewer lines
and study the subject at close range.
Something practical may come out OF
this excursion.
Los Angeles herald., 1891-09-24

THE death of DR.. ]. E. Fulton takes
away gentleman who has been widely
known in this county for nearly score
of years. He originally established Full
ton Wells-now called Santa Fe Springs
and for years the curative waters Of
his sanitarium were greatly sought after,
not only by our local invalids, but by
people in other states. DR.. Fulton was
a man of great energy, persistence and
decision of character. He was surgeon
in the service of the confederacy during
the war of the rebellion.
Los Angeles herald., 1891-09-24

A COUPLE of weeks ago boy named
Gibson, of Oakland, was accidentally
shot. The bullet was not found and the
doctors believe that it entered the cavity
OF the chest, and may result fatally if it
is not extracted. But the parents of the
boy are believers in faith cure, and have
given him up altogether to the care of a
charlatan. The boy has been growing
worse from day to day, and notwith-
standing the neighbors have done all
they could to persuade the parents to
have the boy placed in the hands of
competent surgeons, they refuse to COM
ply. 1t would seem that in perverse in
stancesof this kind, where fanaticism as
serts itself at the risk of human life, the
law should be able tointerfere and come
to the relief of the victim.
Los Angeles herald., 1891-09-24

BALMAcEDA's ante-mortem letter has
done much to soften the general opinion
against that unfortunate man. Itshows
that, even if he was tyrant, and a
cruel one at that, he was deeply imbued
with love of country, but deluded him
self with false policy, which he consid-
cred necessary for his success, when in
fact it led him to his destruction. Bal
maceda became a terror to friend and
foe alike, and both contributed to his
overthrow.
Los Angeles herald., 1891-09-24
IN SOCIETY.

Mr.. Perne Johnson, son OF General
johnson, was married at O'Clock last
evening to Miss Florence Perry at the
residence of the bride on Pearl street.
The bride is the accomplished and beau
tiful daughter of w. H. Perry. The
wedding was very private one, owing
to the serious illness of Ben Johnson, a
brother of the bridegroom.
Mr.. Perne Johnson is at present loca-
ted at Sacramento, where he holds q
good position under Governor Markham.
#*~
Miss Mamie Bougham, who has been
visiting friends at Norwalk and Los An
geIes, returned to her home at Pasadena
yesterday.
**#
Miss Lille Vosburgh has returned
from two weeks sojourn at Long
Beach.
Los Angeles herald., 1891-09-24
INSURANCE
MARCO HELLMAN
District Manager for the

District Manager for the
Uuion Assurance Society, of London (estab.
lished 1714.l
General Assurance Company, of London (estab-
1ished 1834.)
Entire management and control of Southern
California and Arizona Territory.
Am now ready to make appointments, accept
applications and risks, solicit busine IS and at
tend to all matters pertaining to the insurance
business in this district.
In case of loss, all adjustments made by me.
Correspondence solicited Address
MARCO HELLMAN, District Manager.
139-4042 South Main Street,
Postoffice box 1850 Los Angeles, Cal.
Telephone 81. 1926 3m
Los Angeles herald., 1891-09-24

TaE war of the roads was expected to
culminate in a serious breach of the
peace yesterday at the intersection of
Twelfth and Flower streets, which had
been obstructed by the cable men.
Sober counsels prevailed, however, and
the distractions were withdrawn sub
Heouently
Los Angeles herald., 1891-09-24
sirnal Corna nInrksmen.

The First Brigade signal corps shot
with revolvers, at the Downey-ayenue
range, yesterday afternoon. The shoot
was the final state shoot for the year.
The scores were as follows: Lieutenant
Darracott, 80; Sergeant Lawrence, 80 !;
Corporals NicoE, 20; Wilson, 20 (;
Thorpe, IS; Pease, 10; Privates Rey-
Los Angeles herald., 1891-09-24
THURSDAY. SEPTEMBER "a. 1891
SPECIAL NOTICE.

Any person who is unable to purchase the
HERALD on the railroad trains of Southern
California or from the news agents of the prin-
pipal towns, will confer a favor by promptly
notifying US, giving, If possible, name and
n1a0o.
Los Angeles herald., 1891-09-24

nolds, 10; Lyon, %; Sanborn, "a; Ris-
ing, %; Burr, So; Whaley, S5; Hersey,
20; Pease, %.
Los Angeles herald., 1891-09-24
CHURCH WORK.
THE PREsBYTERY AND ANNUAL
CONFERENCE.

Discussion of the Revision of Faith by
the esbytery-Interesting Session of
the Methodist Conference-Today'
Meeting.
Los Angeles herald., 1891-09-24

once Of Publication. sss-226 West Second
BiEeet. Telephone 166.
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No Trouble Getting Return Papers.

NEW YORK, Aug. 13.-The Herald
quotes a Chinaman as saying that many
of the Cinnamon who are carried in bond
by the Southern Pacific from San Fran
cisco to New Orleans, on their way to
Cuba, find little trouble in returning to
the United States. To the Chinese con-
sui at Havana they say they have lived
in the United States and wish to return.
He gives them the proper papers and
the United States consul recognizes
them, having no means to disprove their
statements.
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sunset on rtllamook Bay.

Tillamook WatchtOwer.
Far out over the long black sea bill
lows, oceans vapors arise, pass and
change, group themselves and revolve
round the great, central, luminous orb,
and these dissolve and resume them
selves, here resume beauty and there
terror. Domes of gold, realms of beauty
unfold an image of splendor and solemn
repose. The night dews are falling, all
is sombre and still, the indistinct light
reveals war in the skies, armies of gold
DER the embattled mountains rise and
rest, while far up the dim airy crags the
shapeless sleepy clouds which seem to
be brilliant fragments of some golden
world, hover in the light around the
rims of the sunset. Then all those
phantasmagorial images wane dim and
draw off in silence, to meet the powers
of night which now gathering afar,
battles the last smilesof the sun in his
setting. In this last light of day, ship
far away asleep ON the waves now min
giles with the wild shapes of this cloud
world, but lasts only while, for the sun
has gone down and the purple and gold
in the west has turned ashen. The bay
from whose glimmering limits the last
transient pomp of the pageants of sunset
departed, drew into its bosom the dark
ness
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Hail as Big as Goose Eggs.

LAKE BENTON, Mimi, Aug. 14.-This
place was visited yesterday by destruc-
tive hail storm in the country. Every
thing in the shape of uncut grain in the
path of the storm was annihilated. A
terrible rain and hail storm passed over
Fulda, Mimi. Hail larger than goose
eggs poured down for half an hour,
breaking hundreds of windows and
stripping leaves and small branches from
trees. Farmers report corn and fax
badly damaged. Most of the wheat,
oats and barley had been cut what was
standing will not be one-third of the
crop.
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GENERAL PROSPERITY.
Crops are Excellent and Building is Be-
ing Pushed at BrownviIIe.


ing Pushed at Brownvi1le.
BRowNvILLE, Aug. 13.-There is no
late news from the mining camp, but it
was expected that the Brownvill mill at
the Poorman would be ready to begin
crushing ore last Monday, and the citi-
zens are waiting anxiously for the news
from the first run of the pioneer mill.
A furnace for clearing the tunnel of
smoke and foul air has been put in, and
a car and track has been built in the
Poorman tunnel. 1t was found neces-
sary to move the mill down the hill
nearer the creek in order to have more
water, and SO the chute to the mill had
to be heightened, and many other
changes were made, but it was expected
that everything would be ready by last
Monday.
The weather is 6ne and the farmers
are in the midst of harvest and the in
dications look favorable for very large
crop in this section. Hops are doing
very well and heavy yield is looked
for.
Work has been commenced in clearing
the lot for the new hotel building. F.
x. Dolan has purchased the old Waters
house and will move it down into the
Railroad addition. More improvements
are going on here in the way of building
walks, improving streets and putting up
houses than ever before in the history of
the town.
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A DESPERATE DEED.
A Prominent Memphis Citizen Chlor-
OfOrmed and Robbed in Hotel
in Memphis.
Minnesota Towns Visited by a Wind
and Hail Storm--Hail Stones as
Big as Goose Eggs.

MEMPHIS, Tenn, A lg. 13.-R. NJ.
Fraysier, president of the Security and
Memphis city banks, secretary of the
Memphis City Railway and principal
owner of the Public Ledger, and one of
the most prominent and wealthy citizens
of Memphis, was this afternoon ehloro-
formed and robbed at the Gayoso hotel,
by man asserting he was John A. Nor
ris, of New Orleans. Morris engaged
reom at the hotel, sent for Fraysier, who
went to the hotel. After talk regard
ing matter on which Morris asked in
formation, the latter asked the other to
take drink. Mr.. Fraysier drained a
glass. Turning to face Morris, the latter
pulled two. revolvers saying:
81 am desperate man. have no
money and my family in New Orleans is
destitute. 1 must have cash. You in
dorse check for $4,000.
Fraysier argued the matter. The par
ties finally compromised by Frayier
indorsing the check. Hoping the CASH
ier at the bank would suspect something
wrong and refuse to cash it, he. indorsed
the check P. D. Frauzier, an unusual
Endorsement. His checks are usually
indorsed P. Dudley Fraysier. Morris
then chloroformed Fraysier and sent a
bell boy to the bank for the money.
This evening cries of Murder, thieves, -
were heard issuing from the room. The
door was burst open and Fraysier was
found unconscious, his watch, $50 and
some valuables he had about him were
gone. The check was on the table. pay
ment at the bank having been refused.
Morris whereabouts are unknown.