The morning call. [volume] (San Francisco [Calif.]) 1878-1895, 1895-01-19
AROUND TIE CORRIDORS.

"There are great many people in San Fran
cisco who don't know that they have Greek
church among Them" said r. S. Peck, the horse
man, in the Palace yesterday" and they thereby
missed a very interesting and solemn cere-
mony which recently took place in that edifice.
1t was that of swearing allegiance to the new
Gar, which has been going on in every Russian
church in the world since that dignitary took
the throne. The ceremony is an old Byzantine
one, preceded by liturgical chants and prayers.
The officiating priest and singers are heard but
not seen during the devotional part of the
service and when they appear they come for
ward to table which bears a crucifx and a
copy of the gospels The congregation then
files past the table and each member halts
while the priest, holding up the forefnger and
several fingers of one hand, recites the oath.
The person sworn in holds his hand in the
same manner and repeats the oath says, with
his hand on the gospels, 4 swear" and kisses
the cruciix."
Cup in Washington the whitecap fever seems
to have taken a foothold, said ]. H. Hurlburt
OF Portland, who was at the Grand yesterday.
''The little town of Juliatta was the scene of
the most recent outbreak, which occurred last
week A man named Fred Bratton lives in the
town and has the reputation of very hard
drinker. This habit and Ill treatment of his
wife are said to have caused that lady to be-
come insane, and it was for this that five
masked men called at his house after dark, sum-
noned him to the door, bound him hand and
foot, took him to a bridge in the neighborhood
and swung him off at the end of rope. Mr.. Brat
ton would probably have bid final farewell to
all things earthly had he not fortunately been
able to release one of his hands, with which he
succeeded in getting the moose loose, and after
hanging in this position for a short time the
ra rtv Eenpd and hn was lot he
admonition to leave town at once.''
1.-THE deciduous fruit growers about Pomona
are agitating the question of the formation of
union similar to that already formed by the
orange-growers,' said S. B. Crates, who owns
an orchard in the vicinity mentioned, in the
Lick yesterday. "The orange men were for
years at the mercy of the commission men, and
prior to last year the outlook for the orange
business, from growers point of view, was
exceedingly dark. The growers got together
and resolved that, as the only relief possible
was to be found in cooperation, they would
organize union, and the body was a notable
success last season. The crop was large one,
and, although the financial depression which
prevailed throughout the country naturally
had bad effect the product was handled to
the entire satisfaction of the producer, and this
year the outlook seems to be still more en-
| couraging."
"These are troublous times for the rail-
roads," said E. T. Holmes, travelling repre-
sentative of the Wabash, at the Palace yester-
day. "But while some of the companies have
fallen into the hands Of receivers and others
have had pretty hard time of it in escaping
that fate the conclusion of a company to
voluntarily go out of business entirely is in the
nature of surprise. That, however, is the
course decided upon by the managers of the
Columbus and Marysville road in Ohio. The
line has been run at a loss ever since it was
built, and recent inspection showed that it will
require $4,000 to place it in good condition,
and rather than put this amount of money in
it the managers concluded to shut up shop
entirely"