The Alameda Argus from Alameda, California • 3

ALAMKDA A I KJIIS. xiiritsi 'm Lanrt-Grabbor Carrs Latest. I lie H.dvlutid of S.ihir laV say; I mK Sh-i iff lyjjel has l-ru fur the I pa-t, three of four seizing wriu of rctitn-j lion on tlie following persons in Murray lown-i sliip ami eje 'ting from tli dr old lioiu I aimd AlvUo, Jamex Stuart, George W. Andrew J.M-Creary, Frank Me-Kieriioru ami Josiph Km irt. TliU is tin con clmi ui of a long emir liligttioii guu about seViii years ao by W.

It. Carr to ejeet the above pirties from lands commonly known in Murray as tin? railroad lands. Met of them sett! there about tell or cleVeti y-ars ago, and some of them Into made quite I valuable improvements. Mr. Tvnvl sav.s it w.ts a decidedly iinplea-aut duty to put tin I people out of tin ir eomfo-itable houses ami turn I them ad lift with nothing but the clothes their backs to show for tin; labor of a good i fourth of their lives.

Kven tins, bad a it is, is I Hot tlie worht, for they have judgments of from S-IK) to SJ, 00, grow ing out of the suits, hang. iiig over their In-ads ready to absorb whatver they may accumulate for years. The writs Were served on a judgment rendered October 20, 1S75, and were issued dining the present month. Several of the parties liad from twenty-five to one hundred acres of wheat sown this Fall, which they had to abandon. OHOIOD FAMILY Groceries.

DRY GOODS. am ttffuring soeiiUargaJiis in SLACK AND COLOKKD CASHMERE And Silk9 to Match. CRAY CAMELS HAIR CLOTHS, BLACK ALPACA, PLAIDS ANOf FANCY DRESS GOODS, TsnnmtA, I would also you to look at Table Linens, Napkins, Towels, Bed-Quilts, Blankets, Flannels, LADIES, GENTS' A.VD CHILDRESS' Uhderwear and Furnishing Goods. A LARGE STOCK OF FANCY COCDS FOR THE HOLIDAYS Hosiery and Gloves a Specialty Please call and examine before going away to tml and 1 will save you time and money. THEO.

GREENE, tia maui By boys. Intimately connected with the influence which the stage will probably exercise sn futuiu g'MienitiojM is the char.vcter of its profosMois. We have been told th.it The dramas hiwn, tlie dramas patrons give, And thoe who live to please, must please to live. Let not the world, then, phtcc all the blame on the actor wlmn, as the price of that living which he iks, he is required to pander to ita corrupted with intellectual garbage. Let not one m.skd be set up fur Ids observance, and another for our owm.

Bold satirists have at times braved (he public taste, and the stage has been tlie field whereon the fiercest battles with prejudice, wrong and error have leen fought and won. But want, neglect and despair have often overtaken the warriors, and in this utilitarian age it requites a firmer hand and stouter heart than most of those jwssesg to braxe the public taste, even xvhen they know that public to be xvrong. If the stage is to le upheld, regenerated and lieautilicd, the public has its part to trform. Let not tlut public, while pro-fee Jug admiration for Shakespeare, degrade him to the meni.il of the circus, with no higher office than to sweep tlie ring or chalk the rope. We should not go into rhapsodies over Hamlet and buy tickets for J.xck Sheppard, or denounce the legitimate drama as immoral, and xvith slouched hats and stealthy stops seek the filthy corner of a mclodeon grog-shop, where tlie eat-off flutter an a sign for immoral and corrupting traffic.

Aliove all we should dis-criuiinate between the er.mest, faithful student of liia profession and he pretentious charlatan, words and performances are no kin together. With tlie advance of dramatic poetry and tlie improvement of dramatic art, the temples dedicated to its purposes were invested xvith a corresponding utility and magnificence and it is questionable if the modern shrines of the drama do not rived in splendor if not in magnitude tlie theaters of the classic age. In our day the tower-like wooden buildings of Shakespeares time, the Glolie and the Black-friars, roofless and with -strewn stage, are known only as things that were, and are replaced by the gorgeous Queen's Opera House in London, La ricala in Milan, San Carlos in Napals, The Academy in New York and the Grand Opera House in San Francisco. Probably there is no human institution about the influence of which the public sentiment has been so constantly and so evenly dixided as the drama. Tlie world is not without a large class who deem that nothing but evil can come of it, xx'liile there is perhaps a larger class who sec in it a great and general reformer.

Studying it closely we are led to believe that it may be made the means of good or evil, a a the public may decree. Like all our institutions, it is in the hands of the people, and they will use it as they list. Let the actors, then, be well bestowed. They have more reason than the world will allow for averting their honor and usefulness. Their daily vocation tends to lead the mind to correct conclusions, to eschew evil and love Lite good, and they point with pride to the calendar of great criminals, which is not lengthened by the single name of one of their profession.

The lecture, xvhich xvas frequently applauded, xvas closed xxith a recitation of Shakespeares Seven Ages. Statistical. During 1S77 there were enrolled on the Great KegBter of this county names, and about 800 former registrations xx'ere canceled, 450 of xvhich had not been represented at the polls for three years. The list now numbers about 10.400. There are sixty public schools in the county, atteuded by 0,530 children.

Number of census children, 12,544. The Comity Clerk issued 481 marriage certificates during 1877. The total x'alue of real estate in the county is recorded at 30, 389,901. Txveuty-one divorces were granted by the Third District Court for the year just ended. Eightv-six erson x-ere admitted to citizenship in this county during 1877.

BOATID OV TUU3TEEJ. 'I lie Jlo-ird of Trustees ll) liiil cuing lift- I nn adjournment of two weeks, President Bob- 1 I n'oii presiding and id! tho luombir being he minutes nf the previous meeting were i re.ul and approved. Street Siierinten lent Smith reported that Mr. Thompson tlie removal of the towns xx.ibr tank on his premises on High street, and offered to buy it himself for (in motion bis otter wixs accepted. B.V the oliee rep irt submitts for the month of BccemiK-r it was that 11 at rest had been made, 3 of which Were for assault, 3 for diturbing the JU.e, 3 dnmkeiiiiess, 1 unlawful detaining of property ami 1 for first riding.

Of these arrests Officer Krauth imule 3, ill 4, Moulton 3 and Haralson 1. I luring the mouth subHmw uvre aerved, 3 commitments unde and 10 meals furnished prisoners. Mr. Foster's contract and for building a new lockup, were presented and approved. An ordinance for a sidewalk on Second avenue was read and adopted.

An ordinance concerning certain minor xvn read, and after a few amendments was adopted. It xvu.s ordered that the police officers be instructed to make projer complaints where minors make infractions of above oidinanee. A request for a sidewalk on St. George street by property-owners w.n referred to the Committee on Streets. A letter was presented by T.

G. Dauiellsof the A uni's as follows To the JJoanl of Truthr of (he Ton of A la nah A no official action has been taken in the matt of letting the public printing, to which your attention wus called in a previoti communication from me, noxv most ri-peotfidly ask that tlie Board take action in the matter, and xxill siy that I am prepared to do such legal advertising and punting as the Board may have to aw trd, for any period the Board may to contract it, for one-half the rates now being paid, forty cnt per r-quare fir the fir.t insertion of an advertisement and twenty cents for each subsequent insertion. Bospeetfriliy, T. G. Daniflls, tubli-her of the AlUiCS.

Tlie communication was referrerd to the Town Attorney, with instructions to rejxrt at tlie next meeting of tlie Board ujHin the legality of the contract now claimed to c.xi-t. The following bills xvere rejK.rted correct by the Auditing Committee and ordered paid: A. S. B'rry, gravel delivered, 37 S4 E. M.

Derby, lumber, SI F. K. Millington, services, 2 50; Alameda Gas Eight Company, gas, E. M. Smith, portion of salary, S.

S. Hamer, hauling gravel, 47; A. L. Bancroft, stationery, 11 80. The rules were subtended and tlie bill of Henry Calxin of 20, fi.r work on Fark street, xva allowed.

The following bills were rtfened to the Auditing Committee: Alamkha Alters. $1 40; S. Fidi, sU: T. A. Smith, F.

K. Krautli, 12 Barber Barker, 10 40; Alameda Hu 'ih'tf, 31 50. The contract of B. G. Head, for the buikling of a sidewalk on St, Marys street, was accepted.

On motion the Board adjourned. Board of Supervisors. The Board of Supervisors of Alameda county met in an adjourned session on the 27th ult. Several ports from road overseers xvere received and accept d. The Hospital Committee rejMxrted favorably concerning the insurance on tlie County In-finia'y.

Air. Smith offered a resolution to the effect that the Steward of the County Infirmary Ik directed to make out and return to the Board an inventory of all projcrty Ixdonging to that institution. The following petition from Wigirfn i vn ln-half of the association named theixun, wa pnsenti Y(ur ititioneis r.peotful1y show to this Honorable Board that the Oakland ilomo-pathic Hospital and 1 Association i a corjs.ration formed lv tlie Indie-; of tins i county for tlie urpo-tc of affording five medical and surgical jalxiee and treatment to the I nr: that they pi pose to t-taMi-h a hospit and di-ii-u-ary in the citv of Oakland to siqi-plement in some the Cmmtv Hospital, and xxhuh may icliexv ami care for suh pa- tieiits as cannot with safety Im cm tied so frr as the Count Il.K-).ital that said coipomtioii pro- pose to keep on hand at it dispemnrv all necessary drugs nnd appliances, supplied from its ox, re-iHirces ami further, to have in constant attend mees the most competent physi eiuis aid surgeons that these cxMnes an neecssajilv ln-axv and xxill r-(uiix all the current leciipt ainl mean of the sMiety. xxhere-iiMin titioiiem pray that your honorable body xx ill allow said assoeiatinn the ne of txxo hmuhs, rent five, in said city of Oakland, wherein to e-tabli-h and maiatain smli fiw di'iKiisajy and hospital. Mr.

Smith moved that 10 jKr month 10 1 allowed the but the motion xvas I lost and tlie refrrred to the Hospital Committee. i Mr. Smith offered a resolution, which xvas directing that District Attrney Glass- l.ek and Ifi-triet Attorney -elect Yroomnn be re(pnted to draft a bill to be presented to the Legislature b' pmxide for a Kor farm and almshouse for Alameda county. A large number of bills xvere nlloxved, after which tlie Board adjourned until January 8, 1878. Tho School Dirootors.

Tlu Board of School Directors met last Saturday evening, all the members Wing present. Tlie minutes of tin prex ions meeting "ere read nnd ordered to be corrected so as to read that the srhooD Ik closed from December 21, 1877, to January 7, 1878, The folli.xviug bill were reported eortvet by the Auditing Committee, ami ordered paid: Dm her Barker, for fuel, 852 2 S. al-entiue. for ink, 2 Home insurance Company, for insurance, 198. WejKut xx civ received fnuii the High School, the Bark-street Sehiol nnd the et End School for the month of December.

A received from Mi- Sarah D. IVinv resigning lnr M'-itin ft tsaehcr of the Bark street Communication xvere re(M'ivxd the fol lowing per-on asking for Mition as teaeho in the public Minnie G. Millington, ii Turner, mil IVoetor, Suie McClmv, Emma Good and M. II. Lean.

Tin SuM'rnti ndclit made a reiort respecting the result of his ef the schools dm ing the at mi, Mr. Mayiisch iiffcivd the folloxxing reolu lion, which wa adopted nn.ininion!x I'h-it the teacher of the Alaim d.i public school Ih reqiictcd to gix pat ticidar attention to the folloxxing broncho of Mudv, reading, penmanship, spelling and ni ith- luetic. 1 It xx a oideivd that 50 be appropii ited from the libr.irx fund for tlie pun bae Jipp.ii'utus fr the ue the -eliooD. (hi tion of Mr. Mead tin folloxxing reo- 1 Intioii was un-mimoiidy adopted I tu'linf, Th it tlie Seen of thi Board be in-tenet.

to transmit Mi Barn tin thank of thi I to id for her faithful rrx ice a lh in- i cip.d of the Falk Fiim.ux School. (hi motion of Mr. Chub, seconded by Mr. Mead, it wa ordered that the Supei iuteiident be iiistnnted li appoint Mi Minnie G. 1 tin Baik -li-' Srlio-d duiiug the ph 0-ill of the Ito.lld.

I The Go, i loiuiied till Janu.irx 7, 1878. at 7 M. 1 1 1 1 I I STATE HEWS. A Cbiiux nan sprang from (Im S.ura'ncnbi and Ydo bridge l.wt Sunday and w.w dr xvued. (ollin, Vialia, have u-pnded bllsiliertS, IJllbiHtiea, ull-Ult The Odd I'Ylloxva are building a new hall at Washington CornerH, in tlii county.

Two 11111 were found dead in the hay near Ba ifie-treet wlnuf, San Francisco, ou Monday afternoon. Thomas J. )ixon, Clerk of the Bailee Court at San Brunei -ten, xvas arrested lust Monday for tmhezzbinent. Sbektm nmrkeU are well aupjdicd witli venison. Deer are plentiful in the foothill mid are easily shot hy untera and hunter.

An orange in Dr. Beech orchard at Los Angeles weighs two oundsand tlarteen omices and measures nineteen and a half inches in ciivumfereuee. rI1ie fonrtlund correspondent of the Bio Vista Kahrprite says the Chinese on that island have organized a Lodge cf Indciendeut hder of Mongolians. Henry FarquhaiNon, sex'enteen, of San Francisco, xvas killed hy the discharge of a shotgun in lid own hands near. Befc.dmna last Monday.

Frank It. Angell, a xvell-known shorthand reporter, xvas accidentally killed on tlie 1st int. by the premature discharge of a gun in tlie hands of hia companion while duck -shooting. Ellen Norton, an aged colored woman, was found dvitd in her bed in Sacramento last Sun-d She bad been dead a week, having died of old age, aud wan supposed to be a hundred yearn old. Wild ducks are doing a great deal of damage to crops in the ujer- end of Sonoma county.

In some instances they haxe kept the new grain cropped so close that its vitality is gone, and it cannot possibly mature. Andrew Collins, the young Oakland des-emdo who stabbed his mother, has been vi -ited by that relutix'C, whom he tried to induce to wiihdraxv the compUint against him. Mrs. Coll ius firmly refued io inteifcre with the uuul course of the laxx. A Yisilia telegram of the Sffth ultimo states that S(L Gladdn, one of the parties in pursuit of the Hanford robWrs, was killed in an assault ujhui a Spanish house on the west side of Tulare lake, in an attempt to take a man to belong to the giug.

Two horses wire also shot. On Sunday la-t Deputy Sheriff Atwood ar-i re-tt I'hilip Forxvood near Lodi on the charge 1 of attempt to murder. Last September he shot John McGoxven, who was in For wood's i vineyard, with a shotgun. He xvas arrested and gave bail in the sum of but subse- quently forfeited his bail and flex! the country. 1 Having rexi-ited this locality, he is now lodged in jaiL On the 39th ultimo a xx'oman named Henries lloopt, lixing on Firt strett, Los Angeles, secretly took a pistol from a drawer and left tlie house, telling her husband that she xvas going to a friend's house aud xvould return soon.

Becoming alanned at her prolonged absence, he went in search of her and finally found her in a lifele-s state at the ranch of Mr. Labory on the east side of the rix'er, near the new cemetery. Says tlie Oakland Tranwript 1 Vre can never poot to raise fi-h in our bays and rivers while the State permits the use of nets with nu.dies that catch the small lih, xvhich, being of no ue for the market, are thrown aido or destroyed by the fi-hormen. Every maritime country has found it necessary to pas laxvs for tlie iitction of it fi-h. Will not some one in our State Leud-lature look after this very iiu-j pnrtant niatU-r? Several well-dros-ed females s-topjied at the phw factory at San Leandro one day last week and one of the girls book-keejier to change a 500 greenback.

He could not do it, but tlie Su'erinteiideiit, dropping ill at the time and bearing wliat she wanted, gave the reijuiivd animiiit of coin for the paper. A few hours afterwards he discoxvrcd the bill xxas counterfeit. The parties passing the bill have )i yet leen di-covered. The timber ued in tlie Comstock mines costs 17, (H a day the firexx ood, mostly cxuisunied by the steam engines, candles bunied in the mine, the quickMlver Lt, 2.000 and the ice needed to cool the water for drinking in the hot lower levels, 1,000 a day. The Consolidated Virginia alone uses ice daily worth 180.

Over txo tons of bullion, containing forty percent of gold, are produced, allied at from 150,000 to 170,000. The coal mine near Niles has been vi-itxd recently by a San Jose propeotor, xvho mentions it iv folloxvs in the re net? The xvorkmen, he says, are noxv in xx ith their tunnel a distance of 98! feet, and are nearing the main vein. Already they have struck feeders of as fine coal as lists ever been found on this coa-t, aud there is noxv scarcely a doubt that they will si Mill ohu A valuable mine. One of the Directors, Martin Corcoran of Santa Clara, assures us that evperieiioed coal miners xvho have viitod the mine are unanimous in their conclusions as to tlu promising fact that a huge vein of coal xx ill le found in the further prosecution of the work. Samples of the coal in our possession, and also in possession of Mr.

Corcoran, show it to be of a xcrv superior quality. SENATOR PORTER'S LECTURE. (hi Saturday evening Oakland turned out an unusually large nudiemv to hear Senator Bor-ter's ili-omr-e in Tin Drama, delixvtvd in the liit tngregatioiial Chuivh (f that city. After ann-mneing that diffenuit jM iMns require different amusements, and spaking of the actor. of the olden time ami relating the connection of the drama xn ith ancient and modern art.

Mr. Dorter said: This golden age of the written drama lore fruit which no after time has equaled, and for more than a century our amv-tors fed freely at the delicious banquet. I tut xxilh strife, contention and fraternal di-coiil the looum-hy an I the altar xxeiit down in hhtod, and tlie declamation of the actor xxas drowned in the exhortation of the Goundhead, hmles c.ium xxas ht A in. named Croutxxcll rien -A great The Buiit.m loxtd nt the stage, nor ran we wonder. Their tern integrity, their yearnings foi eixil freedom, xxeiv linked with a religion fjinatieiiu xxlneli taught them to lok xxith hoiixir on tin xv.it Id's frivolities and in an age wlien Meeiitiou-nes xv.is bisvming rife and power xx a retching tvranny they hhcd on Imtli a linked in an unholy cause, aud stt nek at lotlt together.

AN ith the Botoraiion commenced lu xx era. The second Charles re-twined, and with him the meretricious Injuries, the recklc. x.xxalii iw and Inanition toetxxho made hi in a srturnafia. Tin drama, like exerx thing took its color from the Court and the spirit of the age. Hoxxexrr high tuny Kt md the mime of Drxdcii.

Howard and Ether-edge in tlu poctie calendar dramatists, how do tin pole befoie the fm Sh and hi mte'ip iv The gentler uoxx, for tin fii-t time, appeired upon the tag(', for hull. -ito the fi Jll( ItO I bei pel lin'd THE PEOPLES CHEAP CASH CROCERY, On Park Street, RET. RllLRO.tD 4D r.MIFC ATSh IS NOW FULLY ESTABLISHED AND IS SELL-in? tr-x'd for the following very low prices 13 lbs Best Table Rice fl 0 9 cans liottd Ovters I 00 9 Ihs Drieii Currants 1 00 9 tbs Arted rackers 1 00 8 Fnine 1 00 8 cans Yeat Pwucr 1 00 8 Ils Cm Starch 1 00 7 8uap 1 00 6 cans Sardines 1 00 6 cans Concentrated Lve 1 00 cans Green Coni 00 5 cans Axle Grease. 1 00 11 Good Candles tS 1 1b bet Ewrlbh breakfast Tea 86 1 tt Extra Mixture TLa hd 1 tb Family Mixture lea. 50 24 lbs 4 Tea 1 00 1 3 Comet Oolong Tea 70 And everything else proportion.

Full Line of Crockery. Ubm ful Orders called for daily and goods delivered free of charge. Give us a call. PEOPLES CASH GROCERY, dd DAVIDSON A CO tUutgm. W.

EARLL. P. A. RARLL. W.

EARLL SON, Proprietors of the ENCINAL COAL YARD, WRTLR STREET Between Pacific and Ivailrued avenues, ALAMEDA. The above firm, now permaxextlt established at the ahoxe location, would rwpwit fully iiuorm the hou'ctvddirs of Aluiueda that they are at all times prepared to till orders in Urge or mu quantities for WOOD AND COAL. At the lowest market rates, guaranteeing full weight, dclixered to all parts of the Didual, FREE OF CARTAGE. COALS: Wellington, Renton, Coos Bay, Seattle, West Hartley, Eta, Coke and CharcoaL HAY SCALES Weighing Promptly Done. FOR SALE, or ANDREW BAIRD, 304 California San Francisco, 3 Shores Alameda.

Oakland and Plod. mont Railroad 10 Share. Union Saving! Bank of land; 100 Share! Oakland Ou Stock. 40 GEORCE CONRAD, COSMOPOLITAN WINE AND BILLIARD SALOON. Best Wines and Liqours.

Families 8upplid. risk AMs St EBB STBEETC. 10 Alameda. jl YlltW, IlUl I.4M II, ahwh a. 'I.

r. in. 7 r. M. 1.INI, rixKxx I'li I-'1 7.hi.9h.

Hmni, win P. M. I an-, 1 Sun-lax. I Snnl.i iin: 11 iji.H i-'rnn S.m nf 1" m. iihd Jinn VIMI-.

llu Kit.u v. M. iivi'ht -Fr the Ki-t at 7 no S.m I'raiicbro, 00 A M. kk1.ui, 7 IMI A. xi.

km. ARfmK the Bil al 8 a. S.m 4 lOTAnV Kr the F.it at 7.1.' a. S.m Fnn.ic., Itllll.ialS NOIHI.S. MFTIMHIST FFISCul U.

ClirPCH. kv. II. B. Pnvirhim: at 11 'I-ami r.

M. c.uh ScMt'fnv. Sibhith at 12.:.. v. M.

ami I1' Ymmir iV-ple ci i at r. m. Iii'r' Cli I' riil i f. m. 1niyor MVdue-l excnimr al rnr.snvTF.iti ax riirnrn.

(Corner Vntrul ami Wr-niHe iivcnne.) B. Pa-tor. lli-L'iilir Serxicc every Suml.iv at 11 on a. m. ami Salihatii School alter morning Kcrvir.

Chinese Sthhiili School at 0 r. M. ctlucsilay at 7 11,1 f. FIRST II PTIST (TiniCH. (lUpt-W Hull, uver P.ut tilllcc -Kii'ratuT im Webb P.pv.

Ccoiiok It. lU.vo. Pastor. Prcarliimj ccr.v Si.mlay at li on a m. imd v.

m. Sumlav School at H.nl r. Prayer Meeting Wednesday at' 7 l. -M. TOWN TALK.

The Merry Friend will give iumtlier Imp a week from to-nmrrow evening. The We-t Knd Fire Company hold their annual eleetion ofFavi.s t'nis evening. Tlie Y-t Knd Ihigine Company celebrated Xew Year's live ith a roaring jollification. For fast (hiving on F.uk street loss Taylor was fined 5 Friday by Jnrtine Kadeliffe. The Ihmonuit says there will ho a large emigration of Oakl.m lers into Arizona in the spring.

The average shipment of from tin interior to the Long Wharf is five carloads per day. Taxpayers should rememh that after wt Monday all unpaid town taxes will become delinquent. The Oran.l Jury of Alameda County will meet on the 7th. There are an immense numbt of copes to come before it. Mr.

Augbinbr.ugh of tlie e-t hud commences this morning to build six cottages on Cential avenue, next to George Smith's place. The olde-t inhabitant has come to the surface again and concludes that the past few days were the -t of any lie has expriencul in California. The pastors of the Oakland churohe- made a formal quest tint their should have no wine on their tables on New A cars day. (fates ik A -by is the name of the new firm that has jut ojeiicd a fine stock of groceiies at tlie corner of Iailroad aenuo and Webster street. The Oakland loundma-t'r is taking in the stray eats tlut coneerti.e within his olfi ial jurisdiction, and a thankful populace rbe up and cull him Mi cd.

Therein a female barber on Hroa hvuv, e-tween hirst and Second streets, Oakland, and tlie local editor of the Ihhi-x'n't, who lum Und it, says that to be sliased by in is a most thrilling sensation. Mary Morri-f San Fram-i-eo was anv-tid l.Lst Friday and taken before Justice Uadchde on a charge of drunkenness, but was allowed to depait unfilled on condition that she would neer conic Alameda again to cclcbxatc the holidays. (hir exchanges are full of sickly poems about the new year, and of notices to young men that this is the time to sweat tf. There a general odor of eggnog in tlie air that lends us to think this latter bu-inoss is more a matter of form than of bona fide good intentions. Speaking of fast trawling bv the local trains Conductor 1ones is credited with saying that a man wit his he.nl out of the car window at Oakland Point went to KUs his grandmother good-by, but the train pulhd out so fu-t that lie kissed an old negro woman at Center-stria station.

The consolidati-m of the Atlantic and Pacific and Western Cniou Telegraph Companies, which took effect at the firt of tin year, discontinues the office of the latter company in Alameda, which was operated by 1arber Parker. Yesterday tlie wires were being arranged to that end. It is rumored, though mt on any authority that we can trace, that the Central Pwitie Company intend to run half-hmnTv trains to Alameda, direct fiom Oakland Point owr tlie overland track', and that they will make tlie trip between Alameda and San Francisco in as short time ns the Bay and Coast Company possibly can. The feature of tin street parade of Fore-pauahs Menagerie during the coming season will be a trained lion, which will ride on a gorgeous platform chariot unrestrained saw by the eye of his trainer. Concerning this beast the Hawaids Juitrimf says If it don't make your hair stand on ml to see Jack Fore paughs trained lion standing on a pl.itfoim, separated from yon by only half a dozen ot of very thin air, it at least awakes a wish that von were gazing at him from a thiid-stnry window.

Thoro's Danger in It. The habit of jumping oi. and off the tiain- at the depot tlut a number of boys about town lmo is very bad one, and although of eour-e they think there is md. the least particle of tl iv really is, ami some day, if they rsist in doing it, we are very much afraid we will have a sensation avtiele to wiite, ami (hat their fiiemls will hae ji funeral to attend. Personal.

Miss Ida Barnes, well known bv the young people Alameda, departed la-t her home in t.duma. mlge Crosby called on ns la-t Moiid.tV, and we regret being absent al tlie time. lb. Mr. T.lbor, of the Ple-b leii.m Church, lias returned from his m( to Allgeles.

Hook nnd Lrutrior Cominny. Tlie I btd an I I Company have be mliug the sil to them by tlie Trustees tipin funilure, li iing purelia-ed two dozen ram- -eat i bails, a shoe and desk, -te. They Mow ln things fi ved up In a) 'I depie nrd -r. anioi.d elertioii of ollie. rs takes pl.ie.

a w.vk fr Miiiievt Mond.i. I The Pnbllo HiU. I Air. Foster competed tli. eniitt'i Ml) the 1 Fill 1 ot Mmi 1 iv id -lit, hirh is I the Imildin-J of the fl.omw.ekof ltd edltiee.

I i bioMiu now bein 1 1 I an I will be I1' i ih vi ii as pi is aide, -n i hi lini v. ill i Complimentary Notices. The Auers, a new aspirant for public favor, hiw just been started in Alameda by T. G. IkinielK it presents a fine typographical appearance, and it- columns di-phy ability and enterprise.

Jh rb A if rate. We have received No. 4 of tlie Ai.amkda Aina a new weekly paper published iii Alameda every Thursday. It is a very handsome sheet, well conducted and apparently well T. G.

Ikmiells is the propnetor, and wc him and his enterprise Hath Irani Jnaraal. I The initial number of the Ai.ami'.ua Aimi made it appearance It is a very pretty, bright weekly pajcr of twenty-eight column-, independent in polities and e-jccialy devoted ti the intere-ts of the town of Ala-! med.t, whiiv it i The tone its I editorials is good, and its selections are excellent. T. G. llanielb, is the editor ami i promietor.

OikUtinl Jh IhrmAyvlth. We are in receipt of the Ai.amkpa (Cal.) Amirs, published bv T'rue G. llauiells, formerly connected with the Jirff-tin. It is a hand-nme sevn-column ably edited p.qer. Success to the Ami I-ara JJof-, fttia.

I Heal Eotato Transactions. The following tr.mfei' of Alameda projK-ity were recorded for tlie week ending Tue-dav, iWember 2-th, at P. N. Ie (lyly to J). Burns, lot 47, block 2, Fitch I I 2.b I.

Uan dph to C. H. King, lots 2 and 3, block 1, 15.1! dett fifty-acre tract; W. F. Iuown to II.

pouth half of lot block in, Alameda Park Homestead UNI. I Y. GibK.ns ami wife to Hay and Coa-t Hail-road Company, corner Versailles avenue and Monroe street 1 L. Aldrich et al. to C.

H. Haile, lot 9 to 1 1, block BO; :00. I I. .1. Page to H.

H.im it 5 Paver's tiact o.lX0. W. K. Brown to S. Ilutan IdO, bhwk 21, Oil; Shade; i S.

A. ila-tingset al. ts D. T. Sullian, wot line Broadway, 200x220; i rl S.

Moi-r to J. invan, lot (, block 31.1; SBoOQ. i Tho Holidays. In iva-liii the AlaU tliis we we hoje due allowance ill be made for anything that may be ami-s, and that the under which it i nied will bo tak into -u. bile the publishers of otlur pajuT.

di of tlie holiday quor-tio by imply pub-li hing a little notice to the effect that as New Yeais is a legal holi lay. an I in order to give our employes an opjoi tunity, there will bo no paHr fim this olliix on tlut day, wo were to keep right on, ami the ame number of columns had to ho filled with news and otlu matter that seemed let to 1o obtainable. Matter in Alamida hae hi on mi very qubt and orderly during the pa-t woek that the loc.d depai-tmont of the Almt suffers i in consi(uenco. We promise to In-ttt when 1 matters resume their usual routine and Kple reeioer from celebrating. Widening of Ccntval Avonuo.

Some of die who de-ire the widening of Ciiitr.il avinue, and win have become tin. I waiting for the litigation which iv-trains the Trustees from doing it to end. have taken tin i matter in their own hands, ami as far a they can will pel form tliis public improvement vob untarily and iudh idually. Messrs. Iku-linier, Baneaster, Gray and the Methodist Church i Societv liae cmmnneed tlie work, and as far as their property ext-nd will widen the aumue ten fiet on eaeh side, making it eighty feet in width.

If the proiKU'ty-owners desire to make a beautiful thoroughfare of Central avenue they should continue the improemont along its on tire length, and if they will do it their own i accord it will do away with the vexations of i the law's delay. A Now Depot. Although not definitely known hy outsiders, it is said that the Bay and Coast Bailroml Company intend to erect at their crossing on Park street a depot something like the one at San Jose ow m-d by the same company. It is further said that the building will be commenced as soon as tin -lips for the ferryboat at tlie jH-int are finished, which will be in tin course of a month or i weeks. If such a depot is erected it ill add much to the appearance of upj-er laik street and show that the company mean to make tl; -ir accommodation firl cl.iss in Alann-d Surpriso Party.

Some friends of Mr. and II rs, gave them a genuine urprie last Monday night, coming in ujn them unheralded and unannounced, hnt being reeeixed with tint midi J-itv that makes a ippy lino unaxoiil dde. The exening wa pied in social enjoyment, toast 1. ing pledged in fiowing Bhein wine and being responded to appropriately by those pieseiit. Imre wen present Mes-r.

C. B. I.lhe, Nei-ser, Fanrolir. Call Ieterson, A olliner, Hr. Field- Mr.

and Mr. iWhmer, Mr. and Miss A if and Mrs. and Miss Amniomcntft tn tho City. At the Califoiuii Theater Bluh Crook," hit li is said to he tin most gorgeous Hrrtaeh exer seen nil the mast, xxill be presented tin balance of the week, including tin Satmdiy n.atiuee.

At Baldwin's 'Ams (Talk," a romantic drama, will be continued throughout theweek. Bound the Clock is still being plaxed at the (Jraiul. Adah Bhlimond's blonde Cpeia p.onffe Comp inv me at F.ne r-sou's, ami Fuhtix l.ouisi Buekingbam nnd ln-r trihnd hoi-e are pi. ix lug ieppn at the I.ii li Tln-aier. Our Noxv JuMttco.

ed re F. O. Crosbx lrn niunted the thione of jest ire jn-t xaeati olelilTe, and for the elisiii'i Veil NX HI tll.ike all o'b inh-r Il oil', lit bet ore him feel tlie 111.1 of the I i Hi eai 1 ai'pi in thi- week's Ale 1 1 THE LEADING HOUSE IN TOWN. GENERAL MERCHANDISE, Gents and Ladies Furnishing Goods, DRY GOODS. Park Comer Santa Clara At.

D. L. MUNSON, Proprietor. d6 F. BOEHJVIER, PARK STREET, ALAMEDA Sealw 1b GROCERIES, CROCKERY AND GLASSWARE, Wood Willowware AXD HOUSE-FURNISHING GOODS la GeainL AIR.

F. POKllMF.R 1VK8IRF.9 TO NOTIFY ALL 1 the eople even where that has again entered Uon hia old line of buines with a Mm-k of gmais equal to anx kept in the beat of the city stores and to Insure a steady trade he Is determined to sell at city rate, always giuxranteeinjt flrstHlaas iphhIs. The Stock is large and well assorted, and sold by the barrel, box or package at the LOWEST PRICE. To any part of Alameda, Oakland or tho County. .1,1 AW Eaiu.l Sox, in order to accommodate their customers on Park street and its vicinity, have etaldihed an agency at Mr.

G. H. Moulton's collection office, in the new Yosemite building. All orders left there will be promptly filled. Order Iwxes can be fxmml at Baroteaus griMvry, Kucinal, and the Bay-street grocery store.

LIST OF LETTERS pr.MIXIXi! rSf.U.LF.D FOR IX THE POST Ii otti'V at Alamc.U January 1, 1878. Inquire f.r adwruel letters. LAMES LIST. Mt Minnie Curtin. Mi- Johanna I'xxiiuile.

Mi A F-azier. Mrs Knehel ti.irxcy. Mrs Mary A Haims, Mm Hxtnntt. Mr Mmtie Kohler, Miss Lizzie HLXTLEMEXS LIST. Lang.

Mis Winny Vancoa-t, Mrs Scmt. Mi Lillie Sehnarr. Miss Mary S'uren, Mrs ilver. Mrs Thornburg, Mrs Ilmimynon. Kmile ffrannan, I.roxxn Kagar A it Paiin.

(JiH'rge Krunklin, UiKhnam'r, ll.mlin, John HujK'rs. Frank 11 Men. John Johnson. Kt-i'U-r, KilJulT, Sl'AXlSH AND IOimTU ESE. Sum Andre a Cailias do Sr Manoel Machadxi Gon Fneina I culm's Sum iunnu Kmilia Sr Joc Antonio le Sonia Sr Jose IVreira tlomez Hennixios Umlin AUTHl'R 8.

BAKU Ell, P. M. lloxt PIKS LIST. Barm. Fnlee t'oimor.

Mm pJl lux idon, Mr i. i'ninihoim. Mrs Mrs lli-ron, 'Ir KuM. 'Ir Man- MiVulloy, Mrs GENTLEMEN'S LIST. L-ui I Srtnnb.

I Ihihiiio, I'aonuMH Schlutcr. Mr IVrn, tis stniy, A j. w. p. m.

Miihn. tr Mis Margaret Simon. Mr Uobt 1 joi. Mr Ouinn, Mi William, Miss Addie I O. I KOMtV.

4TTOKNFY AT 1.W. MILL TTF.NI' TO I'IS- tnct t'ourt an I IroLiU Court bimss. Justice ot the iVure lr Aloncda. Collection mmU I Mils inoru-Ui)it xx ill. Ii and arxvment prvjrel.

'larria, aeknoxxKiL'enieiit and all other duties of I the Ju-tuv Oftiee atieii'Uil to eandull.x. Oitiee on Park tivvl, oppoMie Puiiliv auimo, AlaumU. jaj HENRY ROBINSON, Dealer in REAL ESTATE, And General Insurance Agent. PARK STREET, OPP, POST-OFFICE, Alameda. LOANS NEGOTIATED.

TIK'JIAS HILLS. CIIAILK! ntCMW' MILLS FISCHER, PRACTICAL Plumbers and Gasfiitters NO. 2 SMITHS BLOCK, Park Street, Near Do pet, 1)U MI1IN1 AND OAS FITTINO IV AU. IT i branch vs. Tin KouAng aud Geuerai Kbb(M attended Ui.

4H WEST ENO Real Estate Agency. CLARK SHEPAROSON, LXUBRt is Real Estate, Improved Unlmprmcl Brni, (iillrrird and lean! ryot la led. I'DUXKH ST. AM) RMI.ROAtl AV Xetir Matlen, Ultttl, mn. lM-o HBre.

41.1 Nanlgenmry M. tt.H.iH .,7 CONRAD STOLZE, naxuiw IX Fine Liquors Cigars Ami F'njirltnr uf BOWLING ALLEY. ffiwrm STMKi Ver HMlrk MoMon, Uttllt,.