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Year: 1878

J. C. GLADE, Esq, German Consul at this
port, at private audience with His Majesty
last week, presented an autograph letter
from the Grown Prince of the German En-
pire, acknowledging in the most court
eous manner the receipt of His Hawaiian
Majesty's Congratulatory Letter to the En-
peror William of Germany on his providen-
tial escape from the bullet of the assassin.


WE ask the especial attention of our readers
to the notice of W. C. Parke, Marshal of the
Kingdom, and his caution to all persons deal
ing in and handling kerosene oils. This officer
very properly calls attention to the law passed
at the recent session of the Hawaiian Legisla-
ture, inficting heavy penalty upon all per
sons who will introduce, sell, or distribute on
these Islands, spurious article of kerosene
oil. We are glad to see the Marshal calling
attention to this important subject; and If,
after the publication of the Marshal's notice
and caution, people will disregard the law,
they must not complain if the severest penal
ties of the statute are invoked against them
We are authorized to say that the Marshal If
determined to prosecute, with the utmost rigol
of the law, all who disregard the warning con-
tanned in the notice referred to.
Year: 1878

We take the following from the Ventura
Free Press


We have been shown ncw grain, dis
covered about four years ago by farmer
in Surprise valley, in the nothern part of
this State. taken from the crop of wild
goose shot by the farmer. He sowcd the
seed Immediately after it was taken from
the garner Of the birds crop, and il pro
duced more than q hundred fold. Mr.
Merithew, farmer OF Butte county, being
OH visit to Surprise valley, obtained some
few seeds of the new grain and succeeded
in propa eating il with wonderful success
on his farm in Butte county. The straw
and beardless heads resemble wheat; the
grains look q little like rye, but are twice
as large as rye. When cut as it is passing
into the milk, it makes a hay even superior
to wheat hay Mr.. Merithew has on hand
several tons Of hay from the new variety
of grain, and perhaps FIVE bushels Of seed.
He gave about two quarts Of the seed to
one OF our citizens lately visiting Butte
county, who was struck with tbe wonder
ful beauty of this new cereal, and brought
It TO Southern California for propagation
ihos. L. Bard Esq, has taken the seed and
proposes TO give it. z thorough test upon
his ich alluvial lands Of the Colonia ranch,
near the sea shore. II could not have fallen
into the hands OF more intelligent and
panstaking cultivator. 1t appears TO us
every way superior to rye, and may prove
to he Of great utility, as it is a fne grower
and very productive. We have some Of
the grain, as q specimen, at our office,
which is attracting great attention.


A grain which exactly answers the des-
criptlon of tie above has long been known
on the overfowed lands Of the Colorado
The Cocopah Indians have always gathered
and ground it, storing it for winter use; it
is very nutritious and is much liked BY
them. The wild geese in their migrations
feed upon it while passing and one of them
10 doubt has furnished the above goose
story. Parties wishing seed can apply to
Mr.. Batcman or to Mr.. Andrade Of Lerdo
who We presume would furnish it in any
quantities.
Year: 1878

"METALLIC ACCIDENT" is the odd name
given to q mine three quarters Of mile
north of Mineral Park by T. j. Christy.
From part of the ledge sixty feet long
by sixty feet deep ne took out ore which
he sold for $4,000 in cash, Mohaye
county has turned out quite number Of
such mines.
Year: 1878

Benjamin Treat Mapes, if all the charges
alleged against him are true, is very inge-
niOus marrying scoundrel. He married a
Miss Harriet Flynn Jenkins in New York
last August, and has already deserted her
and gone into retirement of single blessed
ness, where he cannot be traced. The de-
scription of his pereon calls wildly to mind
one r. B. Martin, who, in 1877, performed a
slippery matrimonial feat with great address
and dexterity, and Mapes and Martin are he
lieved to be one. A Southern family
residing in New York were about to
remove and advertised for place
as q governess or companion for a
young girl who had been living with them
and in whom they had an interest. They
received a letter from Hartford, purporting
to be from Mrs. Helen Kingsley, who
wanted a companion to travel with her to
help her take care of an invalid brother.
The girl accepted the position at salary
that was salts actory. A place of meeting
Mrs. Kingsley was fixed upon, and the girl
had to travel some distance alone to get to
the place. When she got there she did not
find Mrs. Kingsley hut the invalid brother
in waiting. Mrs. Kingsley was somewhere
the girl went by boat. On the boat the in .
valid was seized with spasm and had to re-
tire to his state-room. It became
the girls duty to put mustard
plasters upon him. This she did and
was early broken into her position az nurse.
At the place designated Mrs. Kingsley did
not appear, but the invalid brother got a
letter signed Mrs. Judge Kingsley, and ex-
cusing herself for not putting in an appear
ance on the plea of sickness, and charging
the new companion to take the best care of
her brother, who was subject to cramps, and
liable to be attacked by them at any mo-
ment. The girl could not leave sick man
of whom she had taken charge, away from
home and friends. so she continued to travel
with him and apply mustard plasters to his
cramps, which he had very frequently
So they travelled to Buffalo, and
to jamestown, Ohio, where the
invalid said he had large estates.
He showed the girl his property and asked
her to marry him. This she refused to do
until their return to New York, where the
invalid brother married his caretaker. Very
soon he left for Northampton, Mass, to re-
turn in three days and embark with his wife
for Europe. He did not return, and never
has returned. Then another Kingsley let
ter came stating that the absent husband
was very sick, and telling the deserted wife
that if she did not get another letter she
might know that he was dead. She did not
get another letter of course-and that is the
way r. B. Martin got rid of his wife. All
the circumstances point to Mapes and Martin
being one.
Year: 1878

Just so soon as Diaz got raidiDg stopped
on the Rio Grande, the greasers Of that
region became restless and kicked up
revolution. If the rebels are not inn
mediately put down By the Mexican
government, chaos and misruIe will soon
reign supreme along the river, and the
old system of raiding into Texas will
again prevail. The result will inevitably
follow that the United States, to protect
the people of Texas, will be forced to
recognize Diaz, and aid him in keeping
his turbulent subjects in proper sub
lection to law. A strong government
in the city of Mexico, with a long arm
reaching to the Rio Grande, is the only
thing that will put an end to our troubles
with those people And the government
at Washington owes it to the people of
Texas, that they may live IN security, to
see that Mexico has a government that
can control its people and make them
respect the rights of Others. Diaz has
been keeping things quiet, and the adj
ministration, instead of recognizing his
government and strengthening bis hand p,
has been fddling and fooling over the
subject, until a revolution has broken
out, that may raise for the people OF
Texas very hell along the border
rSan Antonio Herald.
Year: 1878

IF people would only abstain from in
termeddling in things with which they
have no concern, and which an unjusti-
fable interest, arising from a prurient
disposition of petty curiosity, prompts,
how smoothly affairs would proceed in
families and society, and how much mis-
chief might be avoided and vexation
spared! The happiness and tranquility
of life depends upon trifes, and by such
is much misery and disquietude caused.


A prying spirit only administers to its
own uneasiness; and those who are on
the watch for. causes of offense, find, that
one day or another, they come home to
them in an accommodating wave, like the
Dutchman, centuries ago, who cut open
dyke to injure neighbor, and drowned
himself and laid two provinces under
water. Great events spring from little
causes, and matters, unimportant in
themselves, have direful effect in con-
nection with others.


1t is always best to look upon the
shining aspect OF things aud not worry
ones self in torturing every look, gesture
and expression into a preconceived
notion, and converting an imaginary
grievance into a real trouble. There is
an unhappy fancy in some people to
parade themselves as injured and long
suffering individuals as patient martyrs,
and ostentatious victims OF the neglect
and indiference.of others. This proceeds
from obstinacy, pride and an ill-temper
and querulous temperament, of which
they are not conscious. They fancy that
they are personifcation of amiability,
and while the world is ringing with
praises of their exemplary resignation,
they little think that they have occa-
stoned themselves the very sorrow of
which they complain; and thai, had
they known how to practice the great
maxim, "bear and forbear," the farce of
the self-tormentor would have wanted a
prominent illustration.
Year: 1878

Taere appear in June or July two sets
of mos1uitces-a grayish fellow, who
stands the day watch, and big black
devil that relieves him at sundowu.
They cut right through an ordinary
mosquito bar as if it were q piece of
cobweb, and chew at their helpless
victims until, as gentleman who has
had experience expressed it, they swell
up like poisoned pup" Then little
later comes the boss flea, muscular and
pestiferous bug that takes a piece out,
every time he bites, as big as leothpick
Ben eau take ont of section of custard
pie. These nuisances hunt the human
family in detachmentsot OF a couple of thou
sand at a time, and so thoroughly subdue
the object of their attack that six or
seven hundred will head OFF, seemingly
with the maguanimous reflection, He's
got enough. we can afford to let him
alone" The iavorite watering place of
jacksonville people in the "warm"
summer months is Fort George Teach.
There is considerable ocean there ard
myriads of insec's of all kinds, from The
boss flea down 10 the busy little gnat.
Year: 1878

A dispatch from Havana states that the
time for the surrender of the Cuban in
surgents having expired, active opera
tions viii commence in the eastern de-
partment against Waco and few more
chiefs who ere still under arms.


The phonograph has carried Paris by
storm. At first the story was actually
spread abroad that the machine was
simply mysti6catIon, and that the per-
son who exhibited the phonograph was
merely clever ventriloquist and imita-
tor of other peoples voices. No mind
but that Of Paris cockney could have
conceived of such an idea as that AS
soon as the Academy of Science had tes-
titled to the genuineness of the invention
the town went wild about it, and Edison
has had such advertising as in his wild
est dreams he could not have expected.
Year: 1878

Correspondence JbilsdeITLis Bullotin.l


The women dress here far better than
in any city outside OF Paris, and at very,
very reasonable prices All the great
Partisan modistes have branch establish
ments here Then, again, this climate
tolerates color, and that is very desira.
Bile thing, as your artistic readers know.
The varied plumage of the birds and the
varied colors of the flowers harmonic
colors, and render them becoming. II
you see one Brazilian woman you see
them all. From eleven to fourteen there
is some appreciative difference, but after
that age they rapidly assimilate, and
become more alike


Women, as you doubtless know, attain
their mature growth at an average of
twelve years, and it is no unusual thing
to see a young man of twenty one with
mother of thirty-two. Within a stones
throw of where am now writing is a
young man celebrating his twenty first
birthday His mother is on visit to
Lisbon, and was born in July, 1916, at
Bahia.
Year: 1878

The running stream, and the busy miilI
In fancy think hear them still;
And the old gray walls seem now in view,
Beyond the bridge that so well knew;
But sweeter the charm that brings them near
For the friends who met by the green bank here
The wheels and the burrs go humming round,
And oil the vale with pleasant sound


While clear ami strong oa the breeze without
Ieatch the tones of joyous shout


As a loving hand gives welcome there


And my boys bright face is balm for care
The mill goes on, and the wagons wait


Bat a strangers hand is on The gate;
The waters fall as they did of yore
And he grist still siands on the or ken floor.
Bat the traders row whO come and 90,
Are rome Of the people we used to know.
The quaint old mIii Is to me thrice fair,
4 nd my spirit loves TO linger there;
But the vision oft Is dimm'd by tears
For heavy shade On the SCI ne appears
For the sweet young form see no more
With the miller's dress at the open door.
Year: 1878

OUR exchanges inform us that
Gen. Howard is near Malheur AgeD-
cy. Col, Forsythe, who is supposed
to he on the main trail of the hos
tiles, had not been heard from ex.
cept by chance report up to the time
Of writing. He is however supposed
to be some thirty miles south of In.
dependence. Saturday morning Of
last week soon after his column had
started, and while it was near the
crossing of Clear Creek, it became
necessary to cross canyon some
1900 feet deep. Fourteen Of Col.
Robbins scouts were sent ahead to
reconnoiter. They had only got a
short distance down into the canyon,
when they were fired upon by In
dians in ambush. Two were badly
but not fatally wounded. The lp-
dams were we'll fortified, and could
have taken in the entire company of
scouts, but the accidental discharge
of gun in the hands of one of the
scouts caused them to believe that
they had been discovered, and they
opened fire on he scouts prem tire
ly and thus gave them an apportuni.
ty to retreat to the command. The
Indians fled before the troops came
up. The hostiles are making toward
Malheur agency and are near Cranes.
They still continued to slaughter
stock, wherever found, for as usual,
they are out of meat, also short of
ammunition and we hope before long
they will also be out of breath. 1t
is useless to say: What shall we do
with them? First they must be
caught, then of course the Great
Father at Washington will forgive
his prodigal sons and kill calf, as
a cotemporary suggests. 1t may be
that our government will learn how
to deal with the reds by the time
they are extinct.
Year: 1878

WHY NORA prominent gentle
man from WILDLY Island has sug,
gested to us that a daily mail be
tween this place and the Island might
be obtained at a very reasonable cost
above the present expense of carry
ing the mail over there. The sloop
Francis, now employed between this
place and Ebey's Landing, runs
across and back every day in the
year when the weather permits, and
Mr.. G. d. Campbell's stage connects
between that point and Coupeville
nearly every day, so that it is most
likely the parties most interested
would carry daily mail as far as
Coupeville, if not farther, at rate
Of compensation which would justify
the Departmental the desired change
If the people over there are enter
prising enough to get up a good,
rousing petition on the subject, we
do not doubt their ability to carry
the desired point. AS we said be
fore, why not :?
Year: 1878

The Walla Walla Union predicts not
withstanding the dry weather has had n
bad effect on the grain crops, the total
production will be greater than that of
last year, as there is a much larger acreage
sOwn.
Year: 1878

Arrangements are now under way for
grand excursion of the different Sun
Beach, in July, during the session of the
Sunday School Convention. The rail
road officers are being consulted with in
regard to the affair.
Year: 1878

LIVERPOOL, June 21.-A leading
grain circular says: The tempera-
ture this week has been somewhat
higher and the days finer, but 1t is
wet this morning and there is little
appearance of the weather settling.
The declining tendency of the
wheat trade continues, many Of
the markets showing a decline of
one shilling within the week.
During the last few days of this
week it has been steadier, though
the home demand scarcely i'm
proved. Cargoes off coast
have steadily disappeared,
good number having been taken
for the contingent. Maize is with
out quotable change, but there is
more steadiness for that on the
spot and better inquiry for parcels
to arrive next month. At this
market to-day there was good
miller's demand for wheat and
some parcels were taken to hold
over. The extreme prices of Tues
day were realized in some cases.
There was a penny per Genital ad-
vance and flour is more steadily
held, with average business. Corn
has advanced six pence per quarter
with moderately free sales.
Year: 1878

LIEUT.. GENERAL KEARNEY,
with the bays of victory OH his
brow, is very different figure from
Kearney on the Sand Lots. Denis
has now a fine chance of showing
what mettle he is made of. If bis
wand shall prove to be all powerful
in Constitutional Convention in
California it behooves him to see to
1t that it is not broken before the
people. Democrats and Republi-
cans are alike in an expectant at
titude. Our fellow citizens of the
Workingmen's party should re-
member that the real test of their
power will come when the Consti.
tuition framed by them shall be
submitted to the people.
Year: 1878

WE have still some hopes Of the
election of Gen. Howard from this
district. The General has run
ahead OF his ticket almost uniform
", and there are so many scattered
%preciucts in the county that we
shall not be able to get at the bot
tom facts until the Supervisors
meet MS Board of Canvassers.
We have made every effort to get
the complete returns but the task
uroved to be hopeless one.
Year: 1878

correspondent writes to the american,
Poultry Yard: II saw an article in the


Poultry World, under the title of TRY it and


report" referring to common tarred paper.


L have used it tor more than eight months,


and have found it will do just what Mr..


Burnham recommends it for AS far as the


color is concerned, l whitewash it the same


as anything else. want to relate my ex-


perienoe with lice in as condensed form as


possible Last year got a flock of chickens


to commence with, and, to my horror. |
found they were too lousy to stand still. To
all appearance whltewash did no good. I
then got some mercurial ointment. and dis
solving 1t in warm water, took a brush and
sprinkled the roosting places and walls
thoroughly. Then put tarred paper around
the nests. In two days there was not a
louse to be found. 4 day OF two after, my
neighbor (who had a chicken house near by)
asked me if | had got rid of the lice | told
him had, and he said he thought they had
all come into~his hen-house, for it was alive
with them. have only a very few hens.
but have raised 155 chickens Gn March and
April), and have only..found one lolase on the
entire flock. With the use of this ointment
[ have no trouble with the lice never put
it where it can get on the eggs, for the tar
red paper does its duty IN that quarter, but
am confident the continent or paper alone
would do the same thing.
Year: 1878

IN communication addressed to the Ell
mira Farmers Club, r. ID. Button writes as
follows on the culture of field peas:


peas are as sure q crop us any other, and
one which leaves the ground in the best of
order for wheat. The yield viii! vary with
the soil, forty bushels beng a large yield.
In preparing the land aim to fall plow and
tit With cllltivator in the spring; although
the best crop | ever raised was on corn stub
BILE, spring plowed. Peas are better if drill
ed, but can be sown broadcast on the fur
row if rolled afterward. Peas like a fine,
dry loan or sandy soil best, but will thrive
well on clayey soil, if we'll fitted. | have
been troubled with bugs which sting the
peas while yet soft, leaving the small eggs,
which are hatched, the worm feeding upon
the pea, leaving but a thin shell by the fol-
lowing spring. This is obyiated by early
sowing, so as to have the ajority of the
pods SO hard by the time the fly arrives at
maturity that it is impossible to pierce them.
If the season be backward and this cannot
be done, very late soowing will secure the
same result. Good crops have been raised
when sown as late as the fifteenth or twen-
tieth of May. The quantity of seed will de-
pend on the soil. If very tine and rich, one
and half bushels to the acre; on ordinary
soil, two, and on very poor, three bushels,
or better not SOW any,"
Year: 1878

Chicken Pe.-Cut the chickens as YOU


would to fricassee them, boil for forty min


utes, or an hour, rs they seem more or less


TENDER Skin all the scum carefully from


the water rs soon as it boils Line your


yellow or white nappy with thick, rich


paste, made like soda biscuit only with more


shortening, and cut out the paste from th,,


bottom OF the dish, as it is apt to ,he heavy.


Then put n layer of the pieces with heart,


liver, ETC.; add sprinkling of flour, salt,


pepper and butter in thin shavings. Repeat


this until all the pieces are used, dressing
the top layer literally with butter. Roll Il
thick upper crust, cut it twice across the
middle, TWO inches each way, and lay oyere
the pie, Wetting the edges of the crust SO
they will adhere and prevent the gravy (of
which you have previously added Il pint o..
less) from running out when baking. Cut
out leaves, or any fancy trimming, and Or
lament the top. BE sure to leave ample
space for the escape of gases while cooking
and cooling, as a lneat pie Of any kind With
out this precautioA is not wholesome. A.
large pie requires two hours baking.


CA1chen G''aoy.--Of course you have kept!
your dripping pan sufficiently full of water
to prevent drying or burning while roasting
your fowl. There should befrom half a.
pint to pint when the turkey or chicken is
done. This should be set on tine stove and.
tipped so that one end of the pan is nearly
Try. Into this ccrner put Il piece of butten.
The size OF an egg, and as it melts rub into ist
l large spoonful Of -four then mix with the
gravy and bring to boil. Add the heart,
iver, etc, which have previously been boil
I'd :nd chopped fine. Salt if necessary and
send hot to the table This way of aairiaq;
he -four and butter together is the greatest
possible improvement upon the ordinary
method of mixing flour in water and pour
ng into the boiling gravy. Flour should be
'sed in this way in the making OF all grapies,
Using the fat baked from beef, pork, etc..
when no butter is needeCD, to mix with the
lourria the end OF the dripping pan, andi
oilinge as sorturhay gravy.
Year: 1878

l.'l culture, and endeavor to prove whether
there is any virtue in it or not The berry
is very plump and bright, and we suppose.
from the very high latitude in which it was
grown, must be hard enough to satisfy the
most fastidious miller. Whether the dis
lance north of Winnipeg was precisely 1000
miles we cannot say, but from all that could
oe CLEANED from the Indian it was raised n
long distance to the north-probably nearer
TO the pole than any wheat that has ever
reached Minnesota before.