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The morning call. [volume] (San Francisco [Calif.]) 1878-1895, 1891-07-03
A HUGE LOBSTER.
Boy accidentally Hooks One Weighing
Twenty Pounds.

A Boy Accidentally Hooks One Weighing
Twenty Pounds.
James Roddy. a bright boy 16 years old.
the son of William Roddy, plumber. was
out fishing in a small boat off Highland
l. ghts. He had out common line and bass
hook, and was angling for any ordinary fish
that might come along.
About o'clock in the afternoon he felt n
tremendous Juggling on his line. Itrequired
all his strength to pull up his line, and he
thought that maybe he had young shark
on MS hook. When he got the line to the
top OF the water lie saw huge marine
animal, which looked at first sight like a
devil-hsh. 1t was lobster, which weighed
2eA pounds, was three feet long and had
claws as large as boxing gloves.
The boys hook had accidentally caught
IN the Holsters mouth, and as the lobster
was unable 20 get free from the hook, it had
been brought to the surface. William Ryan,
q plumber, William Hugo. a grocer, and
Thomas Phair, liquor-dealer, leaned over
the side of the boat and caught the lobster
by the tail and claws with their hands.
lhey lifted 1t into the boat. 1t showed
nght, and scisS0red the air with its huge
claws as If they were tailors' shears. Two
men had to stand on the lobster to keep it
quiet
The captain of one of the fishing boats
which goes to the banks said that it was the
largest lobster he had seen in thirty five
years. Many fish-dealers and amateur fish
ermen said it was the largest lobster they
ever saw.
1t was brought to First avenue and made
dinner for thirteen people, besides leaving
over enough lobster salad fol- eleven People.
Inc skeleton was preserved and will be ex-
hl6ted in some museum. reporter saw
the lobster and It's size seemed almost in
credible. Ii was the Jumbo of IobsterS.-N
Y. special TO Pittsburg Press.
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MACKAY'S EX-SECRETARY.
Deserted in Poverty by Friends and Rel,

deserted In Poverty by Friends and Rela-
tives, he Takes to Drink.
j. Minor Taylor, who was John w. Mac
Rays private secretary aud book-keeper in
Virginia City few years ago, recently APP
piled to the Overseers OF the Poor of the city
of Boston for aid, and was sent to the Sol
diers' Home at Greton, Conn. He is a men,
tai and physical wreck, and for some time
before he became a public mendicant he
subsisted upon the charity of friends and
bought his liquor with the pension of IS a
month allowed him by the Government.
Taylor held his place in the Office of the
bonanza firm for several years, but the
strain OF Keeping up his luxuriant growth of
MINISTER'S was too much for his cOnstitutio u
ana he began to show signs Of atrophv of
gray matter. A few years ago he lett Ne
Vaua ana returned to New England where
MS relatives live. He settled on farm
that he owned near Litchfield, Conn, and
II was not long before trouble arose between
him and other members of the family.
Affairs soon got in very bad way
anu Taylor asserts that his mother. and
brother, ). n. Taylor, were responsible for
the mismanagement. Most of his property
was sold and note for large sum that no
held against his brother was cancelled. He
soon had nothing left but the homestead
and lie mortgaged that ami lived for year
ana two or three months agD he lost the
place and went t. pieces generally.
lie pawned for S52 diamond ring worth
$500, and then lost or sold the pawn-tcket.
The next that went into the pawn-shop was
$500 gold watch that was given to hin by
john W. Maekay, for which he got about
ST. Then he had nothing to live upon but
CHARITY and his pension, and he became
little better than vagabond.
Two years ago TAYLOR married at Hart
ford woman named Fannie Comstock, but
soon after took TO drinking more than wa s
good for him. She deserted him.
When Taylor applied last month to the
Overseers of the Poor for aid he was re-
ferred to the State Board of Charity, and
the customary official investigation which
allows person TO Starve 20 death while red
tape Is being wound, was begun. His sister
heard OF his plight before official phiIan-
throiy got through with the case and ga We
him enough money to pay his way to the
Soldiers Home at Groton, where he was ad-
mitted because he had served in the War Of
the Rebellion as member of Company A =,
Thirteenth Connecticut Volunteers, regi-
ment that was with Butler in New Orleans.
And so the confidential clerk of the Do-
nanZa hrm-a decrepit, broken-down man,
at the age OF 46-is an inmate of a soldiers
home. 1t is not a case OF the ruin of once
brilliant intellect, as his acQueintances of a
later day seemed to think, but the collapse
OF an average man Of a some what feeble or
der OF physical and mental architecture, who
encouraged an abnormal growth of hair and
probably got Sottening of the brain; but it
IS pltlaOle case, rtheless.-Newark
journal.
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HE LAUGHED ALOUD,
But His Face Grew Hard When the UNI
brelia Lost Its Natty shape.

But His Face Grew Hard When the UNI
brelia Lost Its Natty shape.
A man who walked UP Park row on the
PostOffice side the other day when the wind
was blowing fercely and the rain was fall
ing fast Carried an umbrella 1t was not
remarkable that he sou!d carry an umbrella
on rainy day. and but for the accident that
befell him he might have passed unnoticed,
says the New York Sun. As he neared the
upper corner of the Postoffice he held his
umbrella directly in front of him to ward
of particula rly vigorous blast. Walking
with his vision thus DISTRACTED he suddenly
encountered another man. Instinctivey he
lifted his umbrella above his head and the
wind came under it and turned it inside out
lie stood for moment with the rain beat
ing upon him and stared at the inverted
cone on the other end of the handle, which
he still held. Then thought struck him
With one quick sweep lie brought the
mouth OF the cone to the blast and the wind
blew it into shape again. He was so pleased
that he laughed aloud. Then he seemed to
chance and he closed it. When he looked at
it closed his face grew hard again. The silk
had parted from the ribs in a number OF
places. and some of the ribs were bent. 1t
was still an umbrella, and it would shea
rain, but closed it was baggy and all cut of
shape. As lie gaZed at it he was pleased
wien he thought of his presence OF mind,
bu he was grieved as he dwelt upon tina
fact that 1t was no longer the jaunty UNI
brella with which he had started up Park
row.
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A THIEF'S ONE GOOD TRAIT.
MORALLY Wounded, He Feared the Shoe
W. Guild n

MORALLY Wounded, He Feared the Shock
Would XIII His Poor Mother.
My mother caa't stand it if she hears
am shot" This was the exclamation OF
William Llngosch, West Side tough, who
was MORALLY wounded in Henry Schroeder's
saloon, at Y North Desplaines street. yes
terday afternoon, while attempting to rob
w. Ii. Halliday Of 40 West Lake street.
Langosch had just returned from Joliet,
where he had served term of impris-
onment. Half an hour after he arrived in
Chicago he met an old-time associate named
Charles Henning. The two were out of
funds and decided to availof the first chance
to secure some cash. After visiting n num-
Der oil saloons without success they found
what they thought all easy prey in Mr.
Halliday, VINO stepped into Schrneders
place to get change for tifty-dollar bill.
halliday was counting over the small bills
which he had got from Henry Schroeder.
the proprietor, who stood behind the bar.
lie moment the eyes of the two desperate
men lighted on the money they sprang on
Halliday like tigers and hurled him to the
floor.
fierce fight then ensued, in which blood
was freely spilled. The tuSsIe was ended
by the arrival of Fred Schroeder. son of the
saloon-keeper. Seeing his father and
mother all smeared with blood and their
clothes bedraggled, he seized Il revolver
which rested on shelf behind the bar and
fired at Langosch, who dropped with bull
let IN his stomach The police patrol wagon
was called to take Lang0seh To the County
Hospital, but he begged and prayed the
officers not to take him there. The fellows
whole nature seemed TO change at the
thought of his mother.
=" know l am done for" he said, "and
If am taken to the hospital my mother will
hear 1t right away. She is old and feeble
and she can't stand it she hears am shot"
The officers agreed to take him home rather
than to the hospital. but when the wagon
reached within block of his home, at los
Samuel street. he insisted on getting out
and walking into his mothers howell. When
he went inside he pulled out a cigar and
tried to smoke it, but the blood trickled from
his wound to the floor and a Shrek from the
poor old mother brought the police running
into the house. They found mother and sou
stretched on the flour in faint The doc
tors say that Langosch cannot live.-Chicago
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MODERN DOTHEBOY'S HALL.
How Yorkshire SchooImaster Kept His
BOYS In q Perfect Line.

How Yorkshire Schoolmaster Kept His
Boys In Perfect Line.
A writer in a provincial English con-
temporary gives some interesting remin-
iscences of the late DR.. Morrell as a school
inspector. Here is curious story which he
tells of ''the mechanical ingenuity of a man
in Yorkshire" and which he declares Nor
rell narrated to him in sober earnest This
Yorkshire schoolmaster, son a certain In
spection day, was to take class for some
subject, which l forget Morrell noticed
that the boys stood In perfect semicircle.
and that each boy stood exactly as his
neighbor stood. He noticed also that every
few minutes the. master opened the lid of a
desk at which he was standing.
This at last excited Morrel's curiosity,
and he asked the master for an explanation,
which was exactly what the master wanted
1t appears that this ingenious brother had
wonderful piece of mechanism running
around the semicfrcle, with c6nnectin Z
rod running up the pillar supporting his
desk. When he opened his desk it was to
touch spring which brought the whole
mechanism into play, and every boy not
standing exactly as he should was pricked
in the calf by this wonderful continuance.
had shrewd suspicion that Morrel was
poking fun at me. but he assured me he was
not, and therefore tell the tale as 1t was
told to men. Y. Times.
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NO OCCASION FOR MURDER.
How Congressman Grains Goodness Staye,
an Assassin,S Rul1nt

How Congressman Grains Goodness Stayed
an Assassin's Bullet.
Bill Grain, who represents the Galveston
district of Texas in Congress, tells some re-
markable stories of poker playing in that
State during war time. 1t was an epoch
there of lawlessness and mob rule, and per-
sonal bravery was the quality of leadership.
One night he was playing in a game with
three or four others, and one of them des-
Dorado named Boyd. The latter took ad-
vantage of the convviality of the proceed
ings to mold out card and Grain saw him
do It, On the spur of the moment Grain
said: "Bnyd, you are cheating" 1t was a
foolish thing TO do unless with pistol in
hand, because it meant immediate murder.
But. TO the surprise of every one, Boyd
simply turned very pale, laughed and re-
piled! Grain boards at my house. You
know, and so | can't afford to shoot him."
The next evening Boyd came unlimited
INTO Grams room, where some other men
were and offered to play Grain game of
two-handed "freeZe-out." The latter as
scented and they sat down at the table,
while the rest drew their chairs back aud
waited for the tragedy they supposed was
coming. A few moments later Boyd again
cheated SO openly that he doubtless in
tended to be caught, aud Grain at once
charged him with the offense. Immediately
Boyd leaped to his feet, seized two chairs
ana threw them into the air. One OF them
struck Boyd as it fell, and he drew the
pistol he had ready, crying: Grain, you
hit me with charp'
" had been drinking somewhat" says
Grain, in telling the story, shut my instinct
as criminal lawyer came to my aid in a
flash. | saw that his purpose was to claim
self-defense in shooting me. So, without
stirring from my seat, l pointed my finger
at Boyd, who had me covered with his gun,
and said: Boyd, you know that isn't true.
| haven't touched you. If you want to fight.
I'll accommodate you anywhere you like
and with any weapons within an hour of
this time. Let's fight, if need be, but there's
no occasion for MURDER"
Grains GOODNESS of action saved him. and
the duel never came off because friends in
.terfered. he lived to secure Boyi's ae-
quittal on charge of murder subsequently,.
Later on, however, Boyd was killed with
boots on in row.-Globe-D Democrat.
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which nipped the young plants. The late
cool spell was of no benefit to the vines,
and little more rain would be welcome
but altogether the weather has been very
favorable to the crop. Georgia melons fill
the markets of the country. The Florida
melons come on few days earlier, but the
crop is so small, comparatively, and so
soon gone, that it practically cuts no figure
Ill the market.-Savannah News
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Melons by the Million.

The railroads are preparing to handle the
largest watermelon crop this year they
have ever handled. Adyices received from
growers and agents show that the acreage
this year exceeds that of last year by about
30O0 acres, and that the total acreage in the
State is between 1900 and %, 900 acres. The
reports also show that the crop is in good
condition. and with fair prospects of a
large yield. The crop is about ten days
late on account of the late April frost,
The morning call. [volume] (San Francisco [Calif.]) 1878-1895, 1891-07-03

There is q movement in New York look
ing to the keeping open of all the ehurehe
in that city every day in the week.
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=. -yDGD PAPER ROUTE FOR SALE; FINE
c'-JCp. inside route; only requires 2l-a hours
each morning TO deliver; clears 500 Ter month"; is
upon one OF our most prominent morning paper5 :
loU can have weeks trial before buying: $500 Of
tie purchase price can remain. Apply X. KENNY,
d I -
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&H0n PARTNER WANTED TO ASSIST IN
- ONp. store and take orders, etc, in a rSt-claSs
y isiuess; clearing $500 per month: located in the
center Of tie city; object in adding another mem
-r 10 The firm is 10 extend the business, wntch
De- doubted inside OF 3 months; previous eIreri-
cree rrquired Apply X. KENNY, % Kearny. j22 II
G.l.)1 line CORNER SALOON MAR MAR
100. ket 81, with years lease: entrances:
p. 81 Aar-atu ia the city; rth $500. MORGAN ~
co..
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ALAMEDA ADVERTISEMENTS.

Q0O00 FINE BARGAIN; HOUSE ROOMS
eDOOOO. and bath: 90xl40 feet; $1,000 cash,
balance monthly instaIlments.
Sl9o0-New house rooms lot 25x1lO; near sta
ton: 5000 cash. balance monthly.
$22O0-Cottage room; lot 50xl50; terms to suit.
Lots from 800 and upward in good localties.
take broad-gauge ferry. iy2 lot
ELEGANT AND CoMMoDIoUs COTTAGE OF 8
large rooms and bath with large lot; Tor sale at
Charles ST.. Bay Station. ie3O st%
go0O CASH-s35 PER MONTH WILL BUY 4
.pOOO beautiful home on Santa Clara ave;
rooms. partly furnished; 50xl5O front; Nor
$3.50 cash-s4o per month will buy beautiful
cottage; rooms; San Jose ave., near Chestnut-st.
Sl3oO-Lot 5oxlo5 and improvements; near sta
S33oO-Fine 7-room house new: near station and
school; street work an done; very easy payments.
$26Oo-six-room house, new; small cash pay
ment balance $40 per month.
Houses VIII be built to order easy installmsnts
on the famous fassking's Park Tract at Grand-st-
Station; now ready.
OPEN SUNDAYS
Four-room modern improved cottages to let. s14.
including water near station.
MARCUSE Il KENNEL,
Alameda, San Francisco.
Bay-st. Station 62s Market ST
and
!iILoos out for the opening of the Garfield and
MARCUsE d KENNEL, Agents je2s 1t
EXCHANGE FOR CITY PROPERTY : ALSO
II several fine ranches for improved unim-
proved property; homes Tor only Sluo down; D
beautiful. corner lots with modern dwellings;
choicest locations In Alameda; large list OF fnr-
ntshed or unfnrnished houses Call at our olice
and judge for yourself. MRS. l. II. CHANDLER IL
CO.. 1928 Park ST.. Alameda. ie29 If
CDCS0 FINE COTTAGE; LOT 45xI00: ALL
,DZZCU. street work done near station: easy
terms.
s70co-Best bargain in Alameda; lot 10Ox22O;
fine residence; easy terms. JUDD, HANLEY ~ CO.,
1851 Park ST. my27 II
CMALL ADVERTISEMENTS AND sUBsCRIP-
- tons taken ut CALL Branch Offices, SUB larKin
St. 339 Hayes ST. and 25I5 Mission ST.; open TILL
9:3u r. NJ.
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LoDGING-EousEs FOR SALE.

GHnn LoDGING-HoUSE: 63 BEDS; CLEARS
dDOUc. over $40 month; no offer Ike this in
market; trial. LESS Fourth ST. It's
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OAKLAND REAL ESTATE.
OAKLAND AGENCY-ADVERTISEM AND
" subscriptions received at the Oakland Branch
oflice OF THE MORNING CALI, a02 broadway.
A 30-MlLE EXCURSION TO FRUITVALE, OAK
l. n land and return for 25c., and ride TO look at
the De Wolf Tract whose large lots give room for
eroquel grounds or tennis court is Just the to
pass the Fourth. jy2 II
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RUsTNFSs CHANCES.

0On SALOON: NICE FIXTURES, LARGE
')UD. STOCK. good location. splendid trade;
lily worth $500. hut must be sOld;. genuine bar
n II LESS Fourth 81. ltS
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Observation-Disclosures.

CECoND-HAND PRINTING-PRESS WANTED:
- size. ska or 10xl5; state price and stysI. Al.
dress Z. c., Box 10. this Office iy2 3ts
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hunting and fishing J. HENRY. rrop'r. my2I Pm
pose MARIE FARM. SANTA CLARAC co OPEN
IL all year. picturesque scenery; fishing; hunting;
circular showing house. McCU RRIE. Fox o. Gilroy
SHAYER HOUSE, SAN RAFAEL, FIRsT-CLAsS
- IN all respects; large grounds. ap29 3mo
4 NDERSoN SPRINGS, LAKE CoUNTY-THE
- proprietor of this famous aud celebrated resort
wishes TO announce to her friends and the pubiic
that arrangements have been made with the South
erh Pacific Company and VIM. Spiers stage line for
the sale OF through tickets to the springs: from
san Francisco and Oakland SIS: round trip SO 50.
through tickets also be obtained at Sacramento
and san Jose. The advantages of our hot and cold
sulphur and Iron baths. natural steam baths are
uhequaled; take 1870 4, N ferry from San Fran
cisco lor Caiistoga. For further particulars ad
dress J. ANDERSON, Anderson Springs Middle
town. Lake County, Cal my3I II
NAFA SODA SPRINGS NOW oPEN-CLIMArE
~ equable; free from malaria and cold sea air;
health-giving natural mineral waters natural seen
Portable beds; table first quality; hot and cold Napa
soda baths; views unequaled by any other hotel in
running water In every room; all the boarders
happy; what more you ask ? Address JACK
son WOOSTER. proprietors, Napa soda Springs
Postoifce ap2s cod BIN
EOLLiN COTTAGES, BEACH HILL; BEST FAM
L lily resort In Santa Cruz; MAGNIFICENT bay view;
also furnished cottages. Ad. q. w. FoLLIN. M II
DESERTS, SPRINGS AND HOTELS OF THE
~ Pacific Coast. with rates. location, etc, puD-
bshed In the Hotel Guide, ll6 pages For sale by
newsdeaiers' or send 25e In stamps to w. VI. PAT
TERSOS. publisher. $40 Post ST, >. +. mr1 II
GRAND HOTEL, DUNCAN'S MILLS POPU-
" lar resort elegant rooms; climate, fishing,
boating, bathing, scenery, drives and redwood
forest rambieS; send for circulars; 81 10 $40
per week, and special rates to families. W. b.
MOORE mvl2 II
VILLA Los TOMAS: BEAUTIFULLY STU
ated in Santa Cruz Mountains; tuss the place for
health aud rest. ID. ZILLMER, Santa Cruz il II
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GUNNY HOUSE, 4 ROOMS, ON CALIFORNI
- ave. bet. Howard and Folsom sts.. near Invent
seventh. Apply grocery, Twehty-seventh and fC
som SITS. ly3 Ste
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G.OSO SALOON; CENTRALLY LOCATED;
z COU. north Of Market; ntued mp in frst-caSs
style; II business. NJ LESS Fourth st. Its
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> MONTGOMERY ST.-TIE FINEST OFFICE
- and desk-rOom la the city. Tvs IOt
II Pow ELL-LAEGE OFFICE, SUITABLE FOR
- dentist or other Professional bnsinesS 30 1ts
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SUMMER RESORTS,


SEA VIEW, SONOSlA CO.-THE MOST BEAUTl-
- full summer resort the Pacific Coast: good
hunting and fishing J. HENRY. iPop'r. my2i pm
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I V. LAWRENCE, CARPENTER AND BUILDER
,. 6ls Sacramento St; cabinet work and fitting up
'fees promptly attended; telephone 800 ml6tf
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GTOOO CASH-LOT FACING GOLDEN GATE
" iOOp PARK; y. side Fell ST., bet. Lyon and
Lott; 5OxlS7 81 street graded and severed. AL
PHEUS BULL Jk.. 4Ul California ST: jeSO 6t
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= OUO IARlNER N HOTEL AND BAR
u ObO. business: old established mechau les
house: among fac cries etc. 90 rooms: house iulI:
splendid bar trade; thorough Investigation. NJ.
I .k>S, 5 Fourth st. it,
, 1891-03-06

The American trait Of hurrying from
instinct was illustrated on the bridge
the other day. A man with a big valise
in one hand and leading two little girls
by the other, while a tired looking
woman with a baby in her arms and a
bandbox perched on the baby followed,
furnished the illustration. The party
was Just starting up the stairs on the
Brooklyn side. The man turned and
said, There, Maria. we have forty-five
minutes to get to COrtlandt street, so
We needn't hurry" and then as he
heard the bell clang at the head of the
stairs nc vas on his way up, two steps
at a time, with the valise and the two
little girls humping together as they
trailed out behind him, and the poor
woman with the baby and the band,
box making frantic efforts to keep in
sight,
He missed the train, as he deserved,
and while he was waiting for the next,
which followed In one minute and a
half. he remembered that there was no
need of being in a hurry, and asked
Maria why she did not remind him of
that fact instead of letting him race up
the stairs at the risk Of dropping dead
from heart disease. New York Times.