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AFTER A FOURTH TRIAL
Louisa Worthington Asks the
Supreme Court for
Rehearing.
Twice Found Guilty of Murder in the
Second Degree and Once Jurors
Disagreed.

Louisa Worthington, who killed Harry
Baddeev, has broken the record in her
attempts TO get new trials through the
agency of the Supreme Court. She has
already had three trials. Once the jury
disagreed; twice she has been found
guilty by jury of murder in the second
degree. The case came first before Judge
Seawell in 1855. There were errors dur
ing the trial, and the Supreme Court gave
the woman another chance.
The second trial took place before Judge
Belcher, in May, 1895. Upon this trial the
jury stood nine for acquittal and three for
conviction. Then the case came before
Judge Wallace to be tried the third time,
and verdict was found of murder in the
second degree. The Supreme Court. when
an appeal was taken from that Judgment,
found that the Superior Court had not
erred, and new trial was denied.
Nothing daunted by this, Mrs. Worth
ington urged upon her counsel to make
another appeal. The decision of the Su-
prerae court adverse to her was handed
down just three weeks ago. Yesterday
B. g. Haskell acting for Mrs. Worthing-
ton, FLED petition for rehearing.
In this document it is asserted that
Mrs. Worthington has not had a fair trial.
and the question of whether she was in
sane when the shooting occurred was dis
cussed
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ONLY THE VERY BEST.

That Is the Advice Which the Leading
Physicians of the Land Give.
Thousands of people at this time of the
year find themselves in low state OF
health, and many are now asking the
question, How can regain health and
strength and feel as ought to feel p
For the benefit of people who ask this
question, it may be stated that some of the
best physicians in the land say that Ma
ture requires assistance, the sluggish blood
needs stirring up, impurities driven from
the system, and the great organs of the
body endowed with new life. For produc-
ing these effects no stimulant has ever
equaled pure malt whisKey, providing it
really is pure and free from adulterat ton.
Eminent physicians throughout the world
agree on this point.
DR.. S. Weir Mitchell, Philadelphia, says:
81 adhere to the belief that pure whiskey
is the least injurious, safest and best alco-
holic liquor.n'
DIR. Frank II. Wade, Pittsburg, says:
After many years OF careful study, am
firmly convinced that whiskey is the least
injurious, and therefore, the safest and
best of alcoholic liquors for people to use."
While the above opinions carry weight
and conviction, it must be remembered
that or dinary whisky cannot be depended
upon, ana will usually do more harm than
good. What people in a weak, rundown
condition need is pure medicinal whis-
key, aud the only whiskey that has ever
answered this description is Duffy's malt.
The San Francisco call., 1896-12-29
Foreien Song Birds for Parks.

An interesting experiment is to be tried
in Lincoln Park, Chicago. which, if sue
cessful, will add a new feature to the at
fractions of that beautiful resort. About
fifty of the choicest kinds of European
song birds, including linnets, goldjnches.
hullfinches, and other varieties, have been
imported, and they will spend the winter
in the spacious palm house OF the con-
seryatory. They will be properly fed and
cared for, apd it is believed they will do
well, as the winter temperature OF the
palm house is about the same as that of
the latitudes from which they came. In
the late spring the little songsters will be
released ana allowed to seek nesting
places in the PARK trees, or make their
homes inside the building at their own
sweet will. Practical ornithologists are of
opinion that the birds will remain in the
vicinity of their winter quarters during
the summer to raise their young, and
that the colony will eventually become a
populous one. At any rate the expert
ment was thought worth trying. and if it
turns out well the visitors to the park
next summer will be charmed with some
of the sweetest bird music known. Here
tofore the feathered population of Lincoln
Park has been limited to very ordinary
native varieties. principally bluejays and
robins
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HIS WIFE,S PROPERTY,

S. G. Baldwin Sued for the Money In
His Possession.
T. w. Read, as executor of the last will
of Mrs. Caroline f.. Baldwin, yesterday
brought two suits by his attorneys, Wal
ter II. Linforth and George E. Whitaker,
against S. c. Baldwin ior the purpose of
recovering from the defendant certain
property said to belong 10 the dead
woman's s estate.
At the time of Mrs. Baldwin's death she
was, and for twenty years prior thereto,
had been the wife of the defendant, and
il is charged in the complaint that after
her death, on the 8th of last Septemb ber,
he uniawfully took from East Oakland,
Alameda County. $487 so belonging to his
wiie's estate, that he converted the same
to his own use and refuses to return the
same to the plaintiff. who is legally enti-
tied to possession thereof, though fre-
euently requested so to do.
An order of court was asked for requir-
ing Baldwin to give up the property thus
unlawfully held by him.
The San Francisco call., 1896-12-29
Caucus Of the San Fran
cisco Assemblymen-
Elect.
Their Decision as to How They
Shall Act on Certain
Propositions.
Prominent Measures Proposed to Be
Urged During the Coming Session
of the Legislature.

The San Francisco Assem- blymen-elect
held q caucus last night in Justice of the
Peace .Carrolrs courtroom and discussed
matters in which they had common in
terest, irrespective of politics, in the COM
ing session of the Legislature.
The meeting partook more of social
than business character and the greater
part of the time of the session was occu-
pied by the members in getting acquainted
with one another. There were present:
w. II. Gately, E. S. Ryan, f. Lundquist,
l. a. Henry, H. c. Dibble, Leon E.
Jones, G. Pohlman, H. 1. Mulcrevy, H.
McGrath, L. ]. Dolan, F. Maloney, G. B.
Godfrey, ]. H. Power, J. Treacy, H. NJ.
Kelly, ]. Allen and E. F. Lacy.
The Recommendation recently made by
a committee of Senators appointed at the
last session of the Legislature to the effect
that bills when introduce should not be
printed, but referred TO a committee
which should reject duplicate bills or ex-
clpde from printing unimportant bills,
engaged the attention OF the caucus. The
Assemblymen were unanimously in op-
position to the scheme.
They were quite willing that the Senate
should make all the rules it wanted in
reference to Senate bills, but were firm in
the position that every Assemblyman's s
right 10 introduce q bill and have that
bill printed and copy of it placed On the
desk of every member should be re-
spected.
The seventeen Assemblymen present
seemed to favor the idea of primary cleo
tion law, similar in general sense 10 the
law which was passed at the last session
of the Legislature and declared unconsli-
tutlonal by the Supreme Court. The OBJ
jections indicated by the court can be
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suicide early yesterday morning by shoot
ing himself in the head at 719 Market.
He went to the house on Sunday evening
ana engaged room. About $3.50 o. clock
yesterday morning the other dodgers were
awakened by the loud report of a pistol.
George Keefe, the proprietor, opened
Boyd's door and found him stretched on
the bed with bullet-hole in his forehead.
w. ]. Gam BILE, a friend of the deceased,
called at the Morgue and said the sui
cide's widow, who resides with her five
children, at 698 Twenty-fourth street,
Oakland. received letter from the dead
man a few days ago. in which he stated
that want and lack of employment had
driven him desperate, and that he had de-
cided to take his life.
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there shall be pro rata pension, and the
fund shall not contract any debt thereby.
One quarter of all the moneys placed in
the permanent fund shall be us in the
payment of annuities. and the permanent
fund shall remain intact until it has
reached $50. 600, after which it shall go
into the annuity fund ana will be invested
in State or municipal interest bearing
bonds Parts of salary forfeited because
of absence from school will be placed in
the fund.
There is now $4,000 in the treasury and
seven pensioners drawing $3.50 per month.
AS the amendment will not increase
taxation, the fund being made up volun-
tarily by the teachers themselves, it will
not likely be opposed.
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noted and the law framed SO as to become

noted and the law framed SO as to become
operative.
As the Legislature is Republican in both
branches, and the caucus was composed OF
eleven Democrats and six Republicans,
questions of patronage were not dis
cussed. The talk was informal. 1t was
decided to defer the permanent organiza-
ton of the delegation until the mem bers
shall meet in Sacramento.
One invitation was accepted. The As
sembIymen agreed TO become the guests
of the State Board of Harbor Commis-
sioners for trip around the bay to-
morrow.
Sig Bettman was the only Assem- bly,
man absent. He was seen at the Bald
win Hotel last evening. He said he had
no intention of holding aloof from the
conference and that his absence was
mainly due to his own negligence.
Several members of the delegation in
tend to leave for Sacramento next Friday
evening and the others will start next Sat
urday morning. One of the delegation
observed facetiou5ly that it would be
wiser. better and safer TO leave on New
Years night than to try to get up at
o'clock in the morning the day after with
that tired maIarious feeling and attempt
to catch the train.
The Assembly delegations will hold a
caucus in Sacramento next Saturday even
ing and the Senate will caucus on Sunday,
so that there will be no day of rest on the
first Sunday at the beginning OF the year,
nor on any other Sunday during the ses-
sion, for that matter.
The coming session of the Legislature
promises to be replete with interest. Econ
omy will be the battle-cry ON one side,
and to the victors belong the spoils will be
the slogan on the other. The past has not
been a pros sperous year with wool and raisi in
growers under the Democratic system
of non-protecticu, and the wine-growers
would have been much better off had their
industry been protected. The tiller of the
soil, the shepherd and the stock-raiser
have been hard hit, and therefore the rep
resentatives from the bucolic woods and
meadows have been instructed to fight for
economy and retrenchment.
1tds likely that there will be concerted
movement against the bureaus and COM
missions which have increased so rapidly
during the past decade and whose salary
and maintenance bills are heavy drafts
upon the State treasury. 1t is said by the
representatives, of the granger element
that the greater part of these bureaus are
sinecures-that they are shady alcoves OF
repose generously provided by the law
makers for the reward of their faithful
friends.
They say that the State Mining Bureau
is for the benefit only of rich men who
are assisted in The sale of mining proper
ties by the recommendations of the State
Mineralogist. Then there are the Yo-
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The render-Hsarted soldier.

"We had q man in our company" said
an old soldier, "whose patriotism was
fervent but who was so tender-hearted
that he hated to infiict pain on anybody.
At the first fight the regiment was in,
when the order was given to commence
firing, he said to the Captain:
"'I don't want to shoot over there-I
might hit somebody
''Oh. go ahead said the Captain. 4
guess there's no danger
''But before the war was over-such is
the influence of a mans surroundings-he
had cot so that he took aim. New York
Sun.
The San Francisco call., 1896-12-29
Miss Ella Dales Miles and
Fl. Clair CanteloW
to Wed.
The Rev. Mr.. Stephens to Tie
the Knot at Simpson Me-
mortal Church.
The Bride, Popu ar Society Be lie,
Is a Cousin of Gsner;l Nelson
A Miles.

Miss Ella Dales Miles, cousin of General
Nelson A. Miles, and III. Clair Cantelow, a
trusted employe of the Oregon Railway
and Navigation Company, are to be mar
ried on New Years ev4 at 8 o'clock at
Simpson Memorial M. E. Church, corner
of Hayes and Buchanan streets.
Rev. John Stephens is to pronounce the
words that will join "for better or worse
the happy young couple.
Miss Miles is popular young belle and
counts her friends by the score. She is
the daug ter of the late Captain E. G..
Miles, and resides with her mother at 436
Valley street. The BRIDES late father and
General Miles were first cousins, and the
two families have always maintained the
most intimate social connections.
Miss Miles has selected for her bridal
attendants Miss Alice Miles cher sister),
who is to officiate as maid of honor, and
the Misses Maude ana Myrtle Hodson,
who will act as bridesmaids.
Edison Hall. a lifelong companion of the
groom, is to be best man, and Robert
Blake, Oliver Harker, Samuel North and
Elmer Curry are to be the ushers.
1t is to be a pink and white wedding.
The roseate tones are to be carried out in
the gowns of the bridal party and decora-
tions of the church.
The bride is to wear dainty gown of
white organdie over white silk. The dress
will be destitute of all trimmings save
numberless rows of Valenciennes insert
ing. Her bouquet will be of i:lies of the
valley.
The maid of honor and the bridesmaids
will be attired alike in white eorgandie over
pink silk. Their bouquets will be of pink
carnations.
Alter the church ceremony reception
for relatives and the bridal party only will
be held at the brides home, 436 Valley
street,
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EMANCIPATION DAY.
Afro Am ericans to Celebrate-Aid for
John Brown and Frederick Doug
las Monument Funds.

The following resolutions fully explain
themselves:
WHEREAS, The Afro-American Congress
adopted a resolution providing that the first
day OF January of each year be generally OBJ
served and celebrated emancipation day,
therefore each local league throughout the
State is hereby instructed aud earnestly re-
quested to take steps to celebrate in fitting
and becoming manner that day as one OF the
greatest moment to the whole Afro-Ameriean
race in the United States, it being the day of
our deliyerancee by the proclaim alton of the
immortal Abraham Lincoln. -.
1t is also recommended that a collection be
raised or contri button be made for the John
Brown and, Frederick Douglas monument
funds aid be forwarded to James F. Summers
recording secretary, 1l09 Thirty-second street,
Oakland, which will by direction OF the exec
utlye council be forwarded to these respective
funds.
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Chinese Mission.

The annual meeting of the California Chi.
nese Mission of the American Missionary Asso-
citation was held yesterday. Rev. F. B. Per.
kins presided and Rev. DR.. Pond read the an
nual report, which was on the whole encour-
aging. The following officers were elected
President, Rev. ]. K. Mclean; Independents,
Robert B. Forman, Rev. John Kimball, Rev. F.
B. Perkins, George w. Marston; secretary, Rev.
william G. Pond: treasurer, w. Johnstone
directors, Rev. George Mooar, DID,, Rev.
Joseph Rowell, Rev. J. Kimball, Rev. f. b.
Perkins, Rev. w. w. Scudder. Dr. G. I. Hawley,
Rev. Jee Gam.
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NOW UNDER WAY"
What Acting Secretary Curtis Has to
Say About the Proposed Postoff1ce
Building.

What Acting Secretary Curtis Has to
Say About the Proposed Postoffice
Building.
The following terse correspondence be-
tween John L. Bardwell of this City and
w. E. Curtis. Acting Secretary OF the
Treasury at Washington, will not be with
out interest TO patient San Franciscans,
although it does not illuminate the sub
ject discussed to any alarming extent:
SAN FRANCISCO, Dec. IA, 1896
To the Honorable the Secretary Of the Treasury,
Washington, d. C.-DEAR SIR 1t is nearly
twenty-five years since prominent men OF
San Francisco commenced agitating for new
postoffice. Will you kindly inform me what
the prospects are and how much longer we
have got to wait? Very respectfully,
JOHN L. BARDwELL,
214 Third Street, San Francisco.
To this, under date of December % Mr..
Curtis replied as follows:
John L. Bardpelt, sf4 Third Street, San Fran
cisco. CdL-SIR: Replying to your inquiry of
the 14th inst, take pleasure in informin G
you that the working drawings for the pro-
posed Federal building in your City are under
way, with g view to the early commencement
of building operations. Respectfully yours,
w, +. CURTIS. Acting Secretary.
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NOT 4 new PREPARATION, But ONE
THAT HAS STOOD The ItSI OF over
4 QUARTER OF A Century.
Thousands of persons all
over the United States
gratefully praise DR.. Mar
tins Pain Curer and are
never without it.
(which is an external and internal
remedy without an equal.

The Curer is free from all injurious
and poisonous properties, and is en-
tirely vegetable in its composition. 1t
tones up and strengthens the system,
purifies the blood, expels bad matter
from the organs of the body generally,
promotes digestion, regulates theappe
tite and secures healthy state of the
system and its various functions. Taken
occasionally as preventive of disease,
it keeps the mind cheerful and happy
by promoting healthful action of the
skin. heart, lungs, stomach, pancreas,
bowels, liyer, kidneys, bladder, spleen,
spinal co4mn, and the whole nervous
system. 1t is also especially always
WOMAN'S FRIEND, and is unequaled
The San Francisco call., 1896-12-29
!. "Pacificn Changes Editors.

with the new year Rev. S. A. Cruzan will
assume the editorship of the Pacific which
will remain the official organ of the Congrega-
tionalists. Rev. John Kimball and Deacon
Smith, the present editors, have long desired
TO retire and new editor for the Pacific has
been on the tapis for some months.
The San Francisco call., 1896-12-29

speeding
Taylor of the Boston Globe
The of the ribbon fastened below card disk of black
which Fellows
little paddock caspod through staples holds securely
probably
Cmeter New York
The San Francisco call., 1896-12-29
"Your Good Health. "

Drink the toast in bottle of Evans India
Pale Ale or Brown Stout, The best health in
surance, Sherwood & Sherwood, Pacific Coast
Agents.
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To this, under date of December % Mr..
Curtis replied as follows:

At one steam laundry in London the
number Of collars ''made up" every week
exceeds 500 600.
The San Francisco call., 1896-12-29

The highest score in an international
football match was made by England VS..
Ireland at Belfast in 1881. 1t was Is goals
to none.
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The following resolutions fully explain
hor
The San Francisco call., 1896-12-29
A WONDERFUL MEDICINE.

BEECHAM,S PILLS, taken as directed,
will quickly restore Females tocomplete health.
They promptly remove distractions or irregu-
larities of the system. For
The San Francisco call., 1896-12-29
WITHOUT A RIVAL,

Annual Sales more than 100000 Boxes
Csc. at Drug Stores. or will be sent by o. q
Agents B. F. ALLEN CO., 3s5 Canal st., New
York, post paid. upon receipt of price. Book
free upon application.
The Florida agriculturist. [volume] (DeLand, Fla.) 1878-1911, 1896-02-12
Economy in Feeding.

Every dollar saved in the food is an
addition to the profit, but economy
should never be prac tised in using any
foods that induce production. AS long
as an article is giving satisfaction, it
pays to use it, and when the hens begin
to fall off in laying it indicates that they
require something else. To practice
economy the cost Of the food must be
considered from the standpoint of profit.
If corn has given good results and the
hens cease to lay, then corn is no longer
cheap. It may no doubt be purchased
at less outlay than any other food that
can be used, but 1t will not be cheap be-
cause it is of no further use after the
hens reach condition in which they
demand a new article of diet. Lean
meat, fresh from the butcher, is an ex'
pensive food when it cannot be conven'
lently produced, yet, If the hens demand
it and the results are favorable, it is
cheaper than corn. There is no saving
in buying grain because Of it's cheapness
when better foods are demanded and it
is this point that the poultryman should
keep in view. He should feed for eggs
no matter what kind of food may be re-
CURED.
The Florida agriculturist. [volume] (DeLand, Fla.) 1878-1911, 1896-02-12
Stimulate Egg Productions.

American farmers are prone to scratch
over an extended area to raise grain
crops, which in many cases hardly pay
the cost OF production. Why not spec
ialize? And what offers better induce
ments than poultry keeping? American
farmers do not raise as many eggs as
the home market consumes. Even
though they did, 1rst-cIass market is
open the year round within six days
Journey of New York, We refer to the
English markets. During the first
eight months of 1898, England imported
10. 80, 900 dozen eggs valued at S12,317,-
600; in 1894, 78, 1873. 80 dozen valued at
s12, O26, $50; in 1895, 81,O73, $50 dozen
valued at ST., 28O,9l7. These eggs came
mostly from France, Belgium. Germany
and Denmark. Why should not the
United States share in this distribution
of wealth ?-Ex.
The Florida agriculturist. [volume] (DeLand, Fla.) 1878-1911, 1896-02-12
Some Poultry Methods.

To make poultry a success, they should
receive good care and management, the
same as anystock. When we want milk,
lots of it, and good butter, we protect
our COWS from storms, and feed them
what we think will produce rich milk
and good butter. Hence we must have
our poultry house, where there will be
plenty of sunshine and protected
through the day as we'll as night from
the storms.
The best feed I ever found to make
hens lay was wheat, not threshed, but
cut and fed to them straw, head and all.
After they have picked the wheat from
the heads, one has the straw for bedding.
1t would pay any farmer or poultryman
to have wheat cut and saved, straw and
all; have it loose or in sheaves and feed
what they need. When wheat is only
fifty cents per bushel there is no feed so
cheap as wheat.
Through the winter, if the ground is
covered with snow, they must be pro-
vided with oyster shells or ground bone
to make shell. Feeding wheat heads
beats throwing grain among litter to
make them scratch for exercise, for they
will scratch to get the whea~ out Of the
heads. Milk is one of the greatest egg
producers known. The great trouble
with many farmers is that they think
the poultry can get through the entire
year without feeding. Not long ago
hauled load of corn to a man whose
wife kept lot of chickens. When un-
loading it and an ear Of corn would drop
she would pick it up for fear chicken
would get grain. Well, thought that
was tough on the poultry. Poultry re-
quires feed same as any other stock, and
when eggs are 20 cents per dozen it will
pay to give more attention to them.-E.
Wing, in Orange County Farmer.
The Florida agriculturist. [volume] (DeLand, Fla.) 1878-1911, 1896-02-12
Vigor IN the Breed.

In all breeds will be found some fowls
that are worthless. Unless careful se!ec-
ton of the breeding stock is made before
March it will be too late. Whatever the
conditions may be, or the breed pre-
ferred, aim to secure vigor, and espe'
cially be careful not to allow bird in
the flock that has been sick or that came
from a farm on which were sick fowls.
Be cautious on that point, and it will
save many hours that would otherwise
be used in doctoring the flock.
The Florida agriculturist. [volume] (DeLand, Fla.) 1878-1911, 1896-02-12
Money in Cheap Eggs.

can sell eggs at eight cents dozen
and still make money, with the aid of
good bone cutter and plenty of clover
for them to pick both summer and win
ter. pay one-half cent per pound for
bone and meat at the butchers, give
each bird all they wish once day, and
get the best results, although they are
confined all the time and get nothing
but what is fed them. feed grain at
night lust before they go to roost, throw
ing it in a litter where they must dig to
find IL all, and change the grain fire.
quently. The table waste with a little
middlings mixed with it makes their
breakfast, with the cut bone and meat