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Pwli OAKIiAKD CALIFORNIA SATURDAY EVENKf JAXUABY 2G, 1834. EIGHT PAGES. NO. 20. VOL.

XXI. 1 i. ONCE UPON A TIME ESAU. A MAN FROM MONTANA. i "Lets Talk of Graves and "Worms I and Epitaphs." permanently than does corned beet, cabbage, codfish, hash or bacoii end greens; that the soldier, the sailor, the laboring man, the literateur, the journalist, the longshoreman, the philosopher and the mau who shouts at the door of a circus side show, are greatly benefited by the bean" cf the pork that flavors, it, and the brown bread, that blooms o' ye Sunday morning.

Then sing a song pork and beans, an oven full o' br. wn bread. Praise the bean raiser and the pork butcher, and the baker who bakes the bread. IM a pean door so i that escape being impossible be was forced to be an an welcome listener to the following dialogue, a witness of its denouement. ''Good evening, Miss Brocade, you are looking lovely this evening." "Good evening, Mr.

Hop Waltz. I am glad to see yon looking so well, and in evening dress, too. I do hope the fashion will be more generally observed here than it. has been. What a lovely coat; ao trig, isu't it, Sallie? Where I hope I'm not rude where did you get Mr.

Hop Wallz?" Oh, I didn't get it here; it was imported from New York. It nice land ao comfortable cool when dancing, you know. It's lined with silk too: see." Here young innocence turned th left lapel aad disclosed a glittering cfckle bidge which bore the mystic number "7." The garcn at the Paris, is the dotting of tulles, gauzes or other diaphanous fabrics with chenille of contrasting or similar colors, jj This is simple in effect, well adated to young girls, particularly where dreases; are entirely devoid of color. -tl Chenille run laces, and laces fun with gold or silver can be used with nice success; this last directly avoiding! extravagant ornamentation, while following a new fancy. I have seen two very pretty evening dresses, introducing both chenille and gold.

The first waa of bright yellow eilk, dancing: length, trimmed at the bottom with narrow ruttles; the drapery as long and full in front, of yellow tulle with chenille dots of black, the size of a cent piece. The back draperies, also of tulle, was wat-teau and very bouffant below. The. wait was oi the silk, V-shaped at the neck, Vienna cafe had forgotten to removeiit. The entrance ot the white-winged! mex- seugers iid commerce thrrugk tlw Golden ate in M0 has changed, many things.

Among others the California lion fcas Ativmr the inttrU)r an(l tbe Naks ani canvns tiie aiiine eL.j10 wail of It is seldom that one of these ariimals leavrs its lar, and if natural history is to, be -believed, it only when pressed by hunter, 'i be food that prefer is the juievhodyof Ihe Insurance i ves Clerk. 1 all clerks inferred. re-hapsjCa ps years nan NOMAD Echoes Fashion's Clarion Voice, So She Says. Woma'n't ContcUnlioaii Duty to Br Wardrobe Fashion novidn for Bkndt'aiHl Brunette-lA Par ticular AV 111 per Ball Toilets and Horninc Costum.es SPECIALLY WEHtTEN tfOR THE TP. RUXE.

Dear Gypsy: As there are "men and I men." so there are women and women, some honeet, some otherwise. Kow, do you know, for once at arntaoingto chat with you as rir.e honest woiian with another; am going tcho Fashion's clarion voice, acknowledging to on, dar girl, sincere interest inr all the vs jarjes of the mode, appreciating the fact hat you will not deny a corresponding feeling Do you know I -never had much respect for the women who ever disclaiming all attention to personal adornment, who con Btantly affect indifference to a vital sub ject, then contradict jhy their appearance their ever? utterance. I jso woman, aSit is oft repeated, can indif ferent to her wardroDet ami wny, it necessity demands simie attention, grant intelligent consideration to note the chameleon chancres of the 'eccentric who nrosides here. I say inteili-eat clnsidera tion. and repeat the Ephrass forcibly, for whv some representative fair sex will reliciouslv observe every eTTfdt of the fickle goddess with a rnagnificebt disregard of the laws of fitness, patseth all understanding.

I irrtelligent consideration, which will cist asiile every idea that is not suited to the style of the individual, no matter how it may insinuate itself into -feminine favor, liut tar as nrevailinr modes mar be adopted with eood taste, let it be so bid friends, ol wines, old books, may ba the liest, but where existsJthe creatus re that will Insist on old styles? If a garment must fcear age let its ingenious put dpon it a farj. re volutioniiinr: the cutvss' and ancle, mV be. only afnov4t in linierie. at slight exbense. but iafactory results.

I BLONDE AXIifliBUXETTE. Certainly fashion provides ibe 'ally for blonde and brunette, petite ones nnd their taller sisters, and there is bo rea on why every observing womanshouldl not prettily and taste fullfeattireJ. blind, I do not say elegantly aifid handsonJely c'ad. but prettily and-tastefully; and! I might safely add, neatly. Despite all droakio the fact remains tfiat beauty, like a picture, is always enhanced brlapproi ri.it and be coming settina, while many a ine who has not reeive generously ot mature pifts of form and feathre, may still create favorableeoniment byfseusible, artistic at tentiont the toilet.

Tihere is woman who ijr'Truly insensible advafitag-; ot tasteful adornment. Allow me I hereto te an extract from fcne of Kalph aldo mc-rson where, in turn, ne quote unknown member our own fcex. it carries torce despite im noeraiity, ana reads thus: "The sdnse of beliii: well dressed give a feelinof inward tranquil ity which religion is powerless to But enough of. the abstract; let Jue whis per of the particular. I Aye, yery particu lar, for am aroint? to Etell vou.

tlib rosa. of the peep had last! week at ttkif bridl trousseau of a lovely Httle bride. II do not intend to gratify your! curiosity rigarding each costume; they number too mkny, but will describe just one the prettiist robes de chambres I ever saw. It was verita ble French creation: the material, finest cashmere: in shade, neither white nor yet cream. In the back it fell from the neck into the demi-train, in full watteah pleats, Those eyer-eraeful folds will not be ban ished.

and once again assert their tlim to recognition; the frontf was fitted closely, and fastened together Until withla three quarters of a yard of the bottori ot the skirt, when it opened tfver a simulated petticoat of the same delicate shade of otto man silk. 1 A band, about hveinchjes wide, of soft, curling, white astrakah, went around the neck and followed d4wn the front, meeting a I wider band at the bottom, which terminated beneath THE SWEEP! iG FOLDS I Of the watteau-back. This' introduction of furs as trimming. tor house and Ball -toilets will certainly jbe adopted by the favored children of fortune, able to indulge in this lata luxurious fancy, if the beauty of a costume be added to as mate tally as the robe I have just told you of. A plainer and more serviceable wrapper, of i iel-blua cashmere, wag made half-fitting in the back and front, the fullness of the train made by inserted pleats- commencing just below the waist.

The Moiidre front of pale bine sicilienne fell in graduated poofs to the bottom of the skirt, while neck and aleevas were finished With delicate -ruffles of lace. There were calling, reception, dinner and evening dresses, each one seemingly lovelier than the preceding, but amid them all my eyea rested delightedly upon a shoulder wrap, in my estimation prettier than others jjof richer materials, for convenience it was certainly more to be admired, though liyht and small, still possessing sufficient beiiifi lined with quilted satin. The material was blue surah, so delicate in tint that by gaslight it became almost silvery. The shape was that of the ordinary telosely-fitting cap, in the back, not falling tlow the waist line, with half-square, flowing sleeves, a little longer in front! than in the back. Broad reveres of the sitk i turneil back over the sleeves, corresponding Ito the lroad collar and reveres which terminated half-way down the front in a poina where' it fasteaed together with a cluster of soft, ribbons of blue and pink, two inches wide.

Upon these bands or reveres, clusters of clover were embroidered, and the affect ot the shaded tri-formedjbronze leaves, pale pink bloesoan on the ground of silver-blue, was artistic and and bid Hot possess the characterless appearance which so often the result of this combination in colors. i' WEDDINGl GIFTS. Taming my attention to the wedding gifts, I noticed a pretty design and unusual 1 conceit -for a lace pin. It was he old time, mirth producing wish-bone that would never have known trans-golden Id my formed a it was into a thing ofj beaut v. about te tad home am: lady's delicate laces; a position not ho high a tne aoor, put lauoiieiy preieraoia.

There was the broken end, and whd knows but it recalled a some-time heart' wish that waa abjut to meet a happy I ful ali ment. However that may be, the idea was pretty and novel. If The time fa short ere wt must pit aside the gay attire of winter festivities, and Assume the more sombre hab ta and man-- ntra of the Lenten season, and it would eem as if Dame Fashion would! make these last days appear carnival like by rorgeona raiment. I had almost written goad-, and perhaps it would be well to admit this expression, for the addition of fold embroideries to evening costumes xaoat be done most sparingly; most) artistically, else oar otherwise beautiful robes will ha re the Uwdry.Unselly appearance of stage costumes. It ia well auch aqintro-dustion eomee lata, fair there will be few modistes who will undcrstaad the fart of gilded ornament in dreea.

A less berbarie And oriental mggaatkm that from In the Suburbs of Oakland tbera Stood a Mansion, Gloomy, aoSln'ster In Outward Appearance that Paueri by Shuddered Whenever thy Gaz ed I'pon It. A Secret and Indefinable Dread Oppressed ThfH, And everybody a.iid" the house v. i3 i hftiiiite-l. inis was true. Strange noises heard in thelgliximy id place, and several peopls who, had lived there, assorted that shadows of men and weuieu came and went, at uncanny hours, through the dark hallways and disappere.i in twilight shroude i corners.

These shapes were ghasit'y -enough but the noise were even mors The legend ran many, many ago Manuel 'jomz being jea'ou of Carmtlita Aunes, Lr.nn.ea cer with an as on the veranda. Whether this horrible tale was true op not, it is certain that at jireciseLy half eight o'clock on thelTlh of February, each, dwe'Ieia in this house heard the hoare whisper of a man's voice, the muffled scream of a worn ui and a sicken. ing sound that coiikl be likened to ing less frightful thau the blo.w- st aa ax upon the skull of a 'human It was not cheerful to be on the preia-i ises at half past eight -o'clock on the data mentioned. People generally moved out after tbg 27th ot February. 1 This ax business loccurred a a year.

Atotber tints the shadows sta;" py cirae and, went in grue.o-rue sort of way peculiar to gh from t'lraa immemorial. I i To be there -wtro other that were annoying, to say tbe least, and nervous people took no" comfort in sleeping ia the id house. i i These sounds were- muftled' on the heads of the bedsts a is or aainst the work of the rooms, as loved LatuiJ were beating the devil's tattoo. 1 These were the ghosts of people who had died in the house, but why they went about in the middle of the night drumming on the head-boards and wails nobody ever knew. only inhabitants of the rookery who appeared to tuiov themselves were the rats and the spiders.

While pursuing my stuaies in ine occms sciences perf cvyself in maiic lecnyied room in t'ui- house and became veVv well acquainted witU WJ who fold me that he was, in his Ufetirne, known as Senor Juan -'wealthy cattle owner in the Livermi re Valley. Uae evening while wa were conversing quietly in my room the old fellow; after a ot dubious Hints suddenly aKed me to on him a lavor. i I- "iiovo iuhuuu. i waul to Borrow yuu-ior an nou sujr or he replied. "Hnirow iflel I exclaimed.

Ves, loan me your Kdy for: a little be quietly respondeu. "What do you want to do with it?" I asked as soon as my astonishniest would permit. 'I want to. have- a short 'conversation with my mother-in-law." i Tour I You see I married my wife when" she was bat fourteen years of age. Her mother was thirty.

That was twecty years ago. I died two years after. 1 waa rich in lands and cattle. One year after my death, which occurred thia very room, my wife, instigated by her mother, i married a Grincro. 'He was my enemy in mv life time.

He was the sheriff of Mon- If Rv-nHiii me Uif accumulating my property illegally, i'i proved mm a liar. He conspired witn my motner-m-. law." "Andthey murdered you." I don't know, but it was the queerest tasting tomale I ever ate. Anyhow, I was a ghost in half an hour after I partook of the food." i "Quien sabe." j. 'i.

A "Cut 11 "To the "SiSenor." "And the sheriffr "He ate a tomale-also." "And your wife married again." "Another Gringo?" "Si, Senor." "What became of him "Another tomale," 'i "Strange fatality." "You may well remark, Atrange fa. tality'." 'f '1'id she marry arain?" "Oh yes." 1 "Another tomaleT i nrl thia r.lm. a Cinncrn sre. ife ate A 1,1" "My wife ate the tomale by mistake." "Heavens!" 'I was revenged, however." ,1 "In what manner?" "jti "The Gringo had obtained all the property accumulated by these successive mar-' riages my own included and my mother-in-law is to-day as penniless aa I am." "What, will you do if I loan you my "I will visit my mother-in-law. "And then? 'j "We will sup "On tomans?" "SiSecor" 1 "I am rry, amigo, but I shall lave to refuse the faejr you ask." i "Yon need fear nothing.

The fc male I ahU eat ill be harmless." "Can I trust youf i "With your life." I "Yuu speak i "I don't like to doubt yon." 'Touneed not." "What assurance have I that you will act in good, faith and return my body unharmed?" 'The honor of a Castilian who ia bent -on Revenge." 1 I "tiracias Senor." A. deep sleep fell npon me. Then I seemed to awake and etlnd beside my own corpse. Suddenly my body and after shir, eiing once or twice, strode from ha room. ,1 followed.

Through the streets I flitted close behind the corpse of myself, animated by the spirit of Alvarado. I- Arrived at a little hut in tbe eastern part of city we entered. A woman about fifty years of age sat beside a smouldering fire. She looked up in a weary, half curious way, as my body entered, i Alvarado produced from beneath his cloak a small boodle. "You were atarving; I bring you he sid, in Spanish.

1 The woman thanked the stracger and -opened the bundle. It contained two tomales. i "Eat," said the ghost. i The woman needed no farther urging. She devoured the food voraciously.

My own teeth, animated by the ghost of my friend, closed over the other tomale. Then tbe old woman laid down and died. I heard myself laugh. I never beard such a fiendish laugh in my life. 1 They said the ancient collapsed with heart disease.

j. I knew better, for When I recovered myself I tasted enn sad chicken on my lips. It was tha wholesome fl-vr ff Alvara- Pork and Beans Philosophically Considered. The Xn'tional DIsH Tlio Brown Bread of Beston Town -The Vejre-table Genn of Intellect and the i Basis of Murtial Courage The Fall of Troy and tli Sacceis of Alexander tireat Men Who Have Dieted on Pork and Beans A Rhapsodical Kidojfy of saHmeiy Bill of Fare The IosilJirtie the Subject. The-baked bean of Vv'hat a power thou art, oh Boston baked bean! And thou, too, oh brt wn bread of Peacon thou palpability of intellectuality.

Oh, pork of Fucker-Hill, prime cut from the hog of Cincinnati, refined and tendered fit food for philosophers an'd eloggers. Pork and beans and brown bread hurrah for the gastronomic trinity cf Yaukeedom. Uh, glorious combinatior all ha.l tnou homely conglomeration of rich juices, succulent meat and waim, crusted brown bread, reveled in thee; Chan-nirig loved Kdward Everett Hale was inspired to recoid the story of "The Man Without a Country'' after partaking i.f thee; Oliver Wen. Holmes pro-jjduced ids best work by thee; I.oa feil his sweetest under thy Agassi, grappled with Nature's jjisecrets more successfully after a plate of taefl; tven the ICY AUISTOl KACV Of Charles Francis Adams, and ail the Adams line, melts- beneath ie gen ial warmth of thy hearty good cheer; and John L. Sullivan's muscles were hardened and preserved by the bean of Boston, the pork and the blown bread" thereof.

We have no 'authentic information that the heroes of BreedV Hill were fed upon baked beans, or that.they par. took of brown bread previous to the great t'ght of 177.r; "hardly a man isuov alive that remembers that famousday and year;" but it is sale to presume that if they had not been so fed. Hunker flill MonumenL would never have been erecte i. Trie baked bean of iifSttiu must have been invented at that time. American history would have paused and looked backward had the a' thing of 'the future, when Putnam tu.

us' siled ids little band of pati-iots, and W'urrJn fell, striking for his ''altar and his British beef must have proved had Tin: iiakkt) isr.vx Boer. unknown, when Paul Revere rode 1 spread the alarm through every Mid dlesex village and farm. 1 hen ivt me r. the bean, the brave old bean, the bean, the bean that saved a people li.iinded a nation. potent tor gieat deeds thun hash, more prolific of tremendous results than the pumpkin pie jf Maine, or the corn pone of Georgia, the doughnut of New Hampshire, or the baked yam of Smith Carolina.

Brans' is. the natural food of soldiers, and. salt pork with hard tack strengthens the sailor in his toil while braving the pri's of the deep, "the, lightning and the gale." Had. Hector's braves been fed on Boston baked beans and brown bread, Troy had ne'er' succumbed to the Grecian arms and the Iliad would never have been written. It was lucky for literature that Priam's soldiers were depiived of pork and beans as combined on the Boston plan.

It was fortunate for Alexander that the natio ns he conquered so easily were ignorant of the virtues of baked beans flavored with the juices of THE AMERICAN HOG, And served up with the brown bread of Boston town. It is curious to contemplate what might have been the result had baked beans been the diet of the Cai thagenians or the food of the Medea and Persians. It is. even possible that Rome would not have declined and fallen had beans beeu baked in the age of Augustus. But, perhaps, it is just as well that Lucullus supped with Lucullus without placing pork and beans on the bill of fare.

It is barely possible that had the tables of the Greeks anl Romans groaned beneath the weight yi pork and beans instead of the enervating luxuries of that era, the "ragged Continentals," who afterwards fought for their independence, would not have been successful, and the descendants of CESAR'S SOLDIERS Might have made it exceedingly warm for us, even at Bunker Hill. It is the food which a people devour that molds their character and renders them physically invincible or dependent upon more powerful and better fed rations. Poi and bean fed people never "crook the pregnant hinges pf the knee, that thrift may follow fawning," they offer "uiidions for defense," but refuse to give "one cent for tribute." There is something fcturdy, robust and hearty in the bean, and combined with good pork, well cooked, renders the person who eats the homely fare intellec-j tually and physically great. The bekn is I brain food, and all great thinkers of modern times have had high and abiding faith its properties as a thought producer, i I am myself imbued with the idea that the bean is a better material for the mann-jtaclure of a high order of intellect than even Long Bridge smelt or Goat Island roede dd I do not assert that pork and beans ia the only biaiu food extant; I do not say that corned beef and cabbage is not a powerful incentive to intellectual ground and lofty tumbling; I have never held that the cod fish ball of New England is not a good semi-occasional food for THE PHILOSOPHICALLY INCLINED; But I do say that pork and beans and brown bread is pre-eminently tee best food for thiarhirpose that has been discovered or invented. Eaten in conjunction with these other classes of food at stated intervale, it wiU produce the ancestry of future generations of Bacons, Hoggs and Lambs, Boston has got the start of the rest of the world as regards the pork and bean intellectuality, but the fashion of dining on this fare is Bow becoming very; general in thia country, and in a few more decades America will begin to stride down the quarter stretch of intellectual progress at a.

2:12 gait, at least. Teach your children to love the bean and crave pork and brown bread. Teach them that there is mere phosphorous in a bean diet than there is in a match factory. Point to the illustrious Boston ians who have become intellectually and physically great through eating pork and beans and brown bread. Allow them to BBJVEhEXCX TECS CODFISH, The sand eel and the clam, if they wilL but impress upon their young minds the prime necessity for filling oft at every possible opportunity, on pork 'and beans and brown bread, that they may become great ia tbe world of literature, acience, art and phdoeophy.

I think I have satisfactorily demonstrated that pork and beans aad brown bread, aa promulgated in the halls of learning- of Boston, ia the basis of all knowledge; that this food is the great brain builder of the age; that it develops th muaclee; that it is assisting in the creation of a race of giants; it implants coorage ia the heart of man mora The Crowd that Went to See Wheeler Run The Flurry In the Newspaper Offices The Law's Delay-People who Don't Agree With the Supreme Coorl An Oakland Prist ma Donna The Tljrres of the Watts Tract. It was the lot of the Man from Montana to witness the hanging of Wheeler the strang.er, and as I stood in that crovd of jamming and cursing men outage the jail 1 and listened to the rude, coarse jokes that I Mew about. I felt that volution has not yet improved idl the old tigeiish instinct, Jthe thiist for blood, oct of our human Inside they waited hungry for the llifetf a fellow creatuie, while theSheiitf dosed his patient ndth brandy so that Lei i miiht stand up "likeaiuan" and nake aj Ibiave, show. He did stand up, but sol much were they afraid that he would not that at the back, of the scaffold biard waa ready with straps to stand jbim up with a woodeu backbone, i And when he sank through the trap i with a swish, the men on the balcony' i craned over and their necks went out like i ttlcscopes in their tagerness to gljat over i the Ut quiver of the dying man'. Then said some in a half -disappointed tone, "lie never moved." I wonder if there is atiy 'nnection I 'tween pernonul vanity and mi.ider.

Joseph Jewell, late or Los Uatos, was particular; to nil hair in th? middle, and be r- row a gold watch and chain to adorn his stomach being pht graphed. heeler insisted that his trousers should jbe fashionably cut and of a certain shade of blue, and no ether. His Vest must be ciifhigll and have no -collar. When his soul wus expedited on its star route, he iwo'ild leave a well-tailored corpse behind. But when, it comes to Majors, the rule fails alt'" getLer, iierhaps because it would be hopeless to attempt to build an ornamental structure so unpromising a foundation; perhaps because Majors is an i intellectual murderer, wh' has his killing done out, like his washing.

I lemvn'iber very distinctly the Hurry the newspapers liy Wh-eler It was nearly midnight when ne came into the Central Police Station, and it wns fully half-past twelve before any one realized thr.t a niuni bad been done; that the stolid man who stood there unconcernedly, telling over arid over Bgajn his strange had committed one t.e Mivost sei sut'onal crimes of the last quaiter a century. Some of the -men lost their heads completely umier -the responsil'ihtv of: in writing: 'up so inqortant a matter so Linked a time and their leports were hopelessly contused in cr.se-iju-nce. One littie may wns wise and ran np to his office, and the city editor at once, put seven men to work on the several dif ferent phases of the crime, lhey got out I i three columns ana a nan mostly repetition as the men's work overlaped considerable 1 but it looki! well, and was sent to all the icountry press tuaikcd with a blue penci. I and a request to notice the enterprise." il never saw a more unequal lot of reports a crime, than those which appeared in i the morning ipers. As a rule, police reporters" fall into ironclad methods and 'get almost exactly the saui't facts about any given event.

Take four morning '-papers and compare tbe story of a crime of the day before and you will scarcely find a shade of difference. The regular police reporter," however, goes home at 1 ten u'clockand whoever is on duty is sent 1 1 .1 til lit. I -A I i ri i'i lata the late watch." The roan who goes may be better and may be worse than tee regular man, but he is sure to lack the latter'a systematic methods two inches for pathos, three for family history, six inches of blood, and a foot and a half for the woman in the case. It took nearly three years and a hair to convince tbe officers of the law that Wheeler had been sufficiently tried and condemned, and yet there are plenty of men -day endowed, with what are called' legal minus, who maintain that a writ of something or another oughttshave been issued to stay the execution. jSjhe Cox and McLaughlin suit has been sixteen years in thd courts, and may remain ere for sixteen more.

There ia no part of world where thelaw is slower or new trials are granted more frequently for mistakes of courts of the first instance than here in California. Of two thing-, one must be true either the judges of the first instance are incompetent to interpret the law, or the minds of tbe appellate judges are cob-webbed over with narrow technicalities. Perhaps the fact that a second-class lawyer caiu earh as much money in a year as the salary of a Supreme JuslL-e, may help to explain the facts. Judge A. M.

Crane is nearly if not quite the ablest judze on the bench of any court, Superior or Supreme in Cali fornia to-day, and he has had the honor of disagreeing as frequently as anybody with tine ouprtroe Court. A local paper says that a local musicaLf erltli wsiih iu.L'erI tit, tiii-A Art ion ol a local prima donna tie ioi i ons posseases a memoo ami nas a beautiful and phenomenally rich soprano voice of equal strength and sweetness in all its registers. Her lower and mid lie tones of sonorous fitness elide into each other with, perfect ease. Her rendition ii always refined and superior. She has ever evinced a genius in style and action Which indi cates clearly her ability to take high rank in the near future either in concert or opera.

In conclusion, I may reiterate that few singers have voices so rich, liquid and true, and of such compass and thrilling sweetness." The prima donna business ia a very good one. Patti eets So. 000 a nicht and Nillaon our Oakland prima donna is evidently equal to either. Let us raise more prima donnas. I wonder what the bench and the bar.

and the public generally, think of a judge who hangs a man first and then makes a confession to a reporter of his reasons. An apology for a judge! There is an art in "the way of putting In speaking of the Grand Army camp lire last wees an OaRland ta)ier says: "Comrade nomas called upon Comrade Boynton to lead in prayer. After tbe divine interest was Supplicated," etc This reminds ns cf bat preacher who praved. Lord mm would not presume to dictate, only to adrift and Sttssresf-" It was at the kettledrum last week. The Man from Montana was there.

During the evening be had noticed a slip of a lad strutting about in a new clawhammer coat. He knew tbe youth, and having never seen him arrayed in this fashion before, concluded that it was his first appearance in such costume. The Mas from Montana was glad to see that one of Oakland's young men had arrived at the knowledge that evening dress does not mean a aacque coat, light trousers, and crimson tie. During the evening the young gentleman was observed' conversing with three yean ladies. They had taken a position in tho corner of the room, aad pinned tha Maa from Montana behind a it, ia so it as at 1.

be shouted by the nations of the earth, in jolly hallelujah of the bean and the pork 1 therewith. ro pork and beans forever the national food of America, as r--at beef is the national food of old England, as saner kraut and pretzels ia th national food of as tenderloin of frog- is the national for of France, as niacarroni is the national iod of sunny Italy, as caviare is tho national food ol Rusaia, as rice is the national fond-of China, as broiled warrior is the national food, of Central Africa. Hurrah for pork and baans and brown bread. Ksau. TEXT BOOKS.

A Full Lit ol Text liooli For The County School to he Advertised For Report, on School Eiaininit-tioni. t- The County Board of Edubatiotf to-day granti-d certificates to S. E. llolyer on a Normal School diploma; Maiion Kendall (temporary) on a State Educational diploma: Mrs. Kate Har- educational diploma; Thomas Rutherford.

Secord-grade certificates ere renewed for A. Beatrice McDonald; Mr. M. Hardy, 'Mrs. A.

Chase ai Louise A. Clark. A temporary second graiie was jr.tnted Hattie jSliaw. Ella F. Wils was lee 'in-iuended to the State Board iwr tional diploma.

A was adopted to advertise in the Oakland Ri- iu NK on or before March 1st for sealed bids of proposals foi' furnishing text books t. replace entire list now in uso in the schV.l oi cjunty. The tw.is will be i per ed at the Superin tendent's orh.e mi May .11, The following committee repor. was male: We 'have carefully examined that part of 1 Clause 1, Section ltK of the school law of California, relerrcd to us for consideration. It reads "H'he County i Board of Education shall proi ide and re-j quire that examinations in each of said i courses shall take i lace at ttated periods, net; less that tw ice ia eac hroi yt-ar, for promotion.

It is clear troi.i the context that the Words "eacrAd courses," have reference to A he sehoai coin a provided for in the first ilau-e i Slc. 1' -and to the grammar ofcrse to be I in co.i-lormity to the second imu-e of said section. The meaning is that t'ie Board shall provide and require that examinations for promotion shall take not lets than twice in each school year, ail the public schools of phis ccunty. But thejduties to be pe; formed Jby the Board of Education in ex vninati 'ns not being apparent to your com toil tec, we submitted the sut'ject to ilic Attorney. His opinion is that the Board is authorized to nuke such previous arrangement for the contemplate! examinations st it may deem 'rx the time for holding the same, piepare the '-juestions to be usfcd, estabii-h the percentage required for piotnotion, and superintend i he examinations as far as auvisable to: carry out the spirit of the This is the construction which the Board has heretofore taken ot thu law.

ing-the examination of grammar school graduates. And any other view of this clause Would be to destr oy its vititiity. To carry out this provision in a way to accomplish good in the schools of the county, will require a thorough revision of the course of study. It will, be indeed, prepare and adopt several courses in order to meet ke differences in the time school are maffTtained, and in tl.e ftumber of teachers em pi yed. A harmonious tourse should be piepared for schools of like chartcter nly.

It would be unjust tf the pupils of a school having but one teacher to subject them to the same examination that is required of the pupils of a well graded school employing two or more teachers. Nor wpuld it be fair to expect 5 pupils of remote districts to do in seven months the work that better organized schools are directed to do in ten months. The Connty Superintendtn's Report of last year shows that we had then in the County twenty nins scho employing one teacher- each, eight employing two teachers, four employing three teachers, two employing five teachers, one employing seven teachers, and one -employing eight teachers. All the schools of the County, except seven having one. teacher each were in session over eight months during the'year.

These forty-five schools of the connty might be divided into the following classes, and a codrse prepared for each class: Schools employing one teacher each; in session over eight months; of whici there are twenty-two. The seven schools in session eight months or less may pursue this course as closely as circumstances will admit. I II. Schools employing from v'b to four teachers each, of which: there ttr'e twelve, having twenty-eight III. Schools employing five or more teachers each, of which there are four having twenty-five departments.

In constructing these courses, it will be necessary to apportion careiuily the work to be done for each term; and it might be of interest to teachers, and benefit pupils, if the -successive steps in the work of the term were pointed out in a clear sequential plan. With properly devised courses of study appor'tioniti a determinate work to teachers and pupils, the preparation of examination questions for all grades and on all subjects taught in oub public schools would be definite; and with a careful supervision ot examinations, and an inspection of papers by the Board, the provision of the law may be carried out with benefit to tbe schools. The work would be laborious, but its effect would be worth the effort. Such a scheme of examinations would awaken teachers to the necessity of doing their work systematically and faithfully from term to term; and pupils having a definite work to do, would be stimulated to earnest study and regular attendance to accomplish it. It would give a more vital purpose to the visits of tbe County Superintendent; and it wonld arouse an interest in the cause of education throughout the country.

It would require pupils to keep step in the educational march. Those who are idle, inattentive and irregular in attendance would naturally fall, as inattentive recruits do in the army, into the awkward squad. They would have to drop bck let the studious and perseveringadvanceto knowledge and gather school honors. It would bring our schools of like conditions and character into harmony; and it would do justice to pupils and teachers; because it would enable parents and school officers to Judge, nnderstand-ingly of the relative progress of pupils and schools which they cannot do from the present loose, irregular, and superficial reports as we find them published from time to time in local newspapers. i Your committee being also directed to prepare a plan for carrying out the provisions of tbe law, have the same under consideration, bat not being ready to report ask for farther time.

i W. F. B. Ltnch, aJ.THOM, i Gvorgc W. Fbics.

Oaklajtd, January 26, 1884. The report was adopted aa progressive, aad farther time waa allowed the Com mittee. short on the hips, and pointed, lilack satin slippers, embroidery! in jet, were worn with black hose, the gloves Were undressed kid the color of the dress, thus avoiding too pronounced character and bad taste. No flowers or feathers found place on the costume, but soft folds of dotted tulle finished the r.eck. jjThe fan was of 'black satin, with a design winked in fine gold thread and oriental bilks of deep colors.

I Another lobe for the evening, of cream-color the skirt trimniedj with deep floutces of pold-embroidered reaching nearly, to the waist, surplice bojdy, with draperies made of the deep lace" forming naniers: a soft scart waa fattened a careless knot near the center of the waist, and the deud-sleeves were nrade by bringing together, with gold-thread, the edges of the lace trimmmg. I tie dress was chaste and elegant, with not the lead; semblance of cheap finery. It is not often we are granted tie opportunity of opera but fate has looked kindly iipon after our long musical faipine, and we aie preparing to listen once iagam to voices that will be like sweet bells jangled harsh an 1 out of tune. Vith he season, a word for opera vrr.ps. Tlu-y need not be white, yet I know of: one now rapidly approaching completion aftr a pretty design.

Not very long in jthe back, with panel fronts of- medium length; the sleeves rounding and fitting into ba forms. The material is white velvet, with embroidered vine of gold.tluee-fjuarters of a finger wide around the garment -which is bordered by the ever acceptable swans-down. Others are blue, crimson, and oiiye, in various fabrics more or lews exjen-sive. Cashmere, of good quality, will always make a pretty suitably trimm-d, both stylish and raciful, also inexpensive. i Darker dresses of silk are largely orna- mented with mauy pompoms, the entire front of the dress being closely When the costume is of green, itavy-blue or like color, these balls should he made a shade- darker than th" tnateritl.

Fno.igh is truly aw good as a fei-t. on have gazed long through my eyesi'ou will nut care to glance again if 'wearied now. Then again while it is (food and right and proper that these things should observed, there ara- other things to study. I recognize the duty. jAdieu: in my wandering! I will remember' you.

and you shall again receive the gleanings of i'. NuiMAD. POLICE COURT. The following' business was transacted in the Police Court this morning: Johrt Tirard and Charles Le Grande, Vagrancy; fo.und guilty, and sentence next Mon day. Liu Dong, assault with a deadly weapon; discharged iwatd Jvobir.s in, drunk, fined or 45 days.

George Wilson, drunk, fined 10. or five days. Jose phine -Watts, drunk aad tightiner, ti'ned S30, or 15 days. James I.aveie, fighting, discharged. Fat Krane, drunk sentence on Monday.

E. A. Melbourne, robbery, set for examination on the jth inst. John Bums, petty larceny, discharged. Frank Clark, shooting in the city limits, fined or two and a half days.

James Morton, burglary, second degree, set for examination February Tst. James Donnelly and James Edwards, petty larceny, sentence on Monday. Kival Spellers. A challenge has been issued by H. C-Kinne in the January number of the California Teacher to J.

G. Kennedy, Superintendent of the San Jose schools, to appear before a committee of competent ju Iges and decide the merits of spelling book compiled by Mr. Kinne as compared with any other Mr. Kennedy may select. The advocate against whose speller the jury shall decide, shall give 100 toward the support, of the San Francisco kindergarten schools.

The cause of the challenge was the assertion by Mr. Kennedy before the State Teachers' Association that Mr. Kinne's speller was "perfect trash." Robbla Dt.nkei Man. A. Melbourne was arrested Iasteveu-ing by Detective Fuller and Officer Mac-key, and charged with the robbery of Patrick Krane.

It is alleged that Melbourne undertook to pilot Krane who was drunk, to his room in the Oakland House, and on their arrival relieved theinebriate of $2 which he placed in his (Melbourne's) shoe. When the officers arrived Melbourne held up his hands and made a great outcry of honesty and offering every facility for a search of his person. The police complied and found the The case is set for the 29th instant in the Police Court. jj- Death of a Valuable Horse. Newland the livery menf hired a double team to a couple of men from San Francisco to go to Alyarado yes.

terday. They evidently neglected the animals, for when they reached the stable on their' return, as soon ai the harness was removed, one of the horses dropped dead. It is supposed that the horse, took cold standing unblanketed, and congestion ensuing, resultiug as stated. The party who hired the horses promptlr paid the price for the horse considering it fair and reason-, able. fl Lost His Jtlustnche.

In a San Francisco paper yesterday appeared the following advertisement: Mustache Lost A liberal price paid for another. Applicants call at 32 Glen Park avenue. A reporter called at the house named and ascertained that the advertisement was a joke on Frank Roller, the Superintendent of tha Judson Powder Works at West Berkeley, whose mustache was burned off in the explosion a few days ago. His injuries are not serious, but he ia not quite able to smile at tbe joke. The Bank of Hay wards, j-At the annual meeting of stockholders of the Bank of Hay wards on Saturday, 325 out of 500 were The bank is doing a prosperous business.

The following officers were reelected: A. C. Henry, Chris Hermann, P. R. Borein, D.

S. Smaliey. and Henry StrobeL President, A. C. Henry; Vice President, Chris Hermann; Cashier, P.

R. Borein. Jacob as Held for Trial. In the case of Percy acobua, ex-Secretary of the Eureka Consolidated Mining Company, who waa examined upon one of sixteen charges of having embezzled funds of the company. Judge Webb decided -hold the accused for trial in the Supento Court.

1 or A Injr Wary Ofl Masters Frank Morris of Chicago, Illinois, and John Clark of Papeete, Tahiti Island, entered tbe Sackett School thia week. Tbe latter had to travel four tbou-aand mCea to get to hie school, and he waa thirty-eight days on the water. tins is a I'royiuence. How- ever that may be one thinir is certain, and that a fine female specimen 'f the California lion is prowling about inth street stud Broadway. Iter lair has 'jeen dUcover-nJ to be among the wild, weird defiles otiAhe Watt's Tract.

She is known the Watt's Tract Tigress. The fact that she haunts the insurance offices has kept all the e'erks steadily at business iThey hardly k'ure to take a run. down lunch ati their nooning. It icommnly held among theTii be bad policy: to take this risk, ami the life insurance rale has gone up It is confidently expected that interesting wl! foil and "th-t scries wiit be witnessed tfe phra e'ivtuig the aijici-nt Hairy but too feebly describes. 1IIK JiAN FROM MONTANA.

WEST OAKLAND ITEMS. R'txirted for The Tribunl The paddle wheels of the Ahiadi beit repaired. are The wharf at the end of the mle being strengthened. i A -ld northeast gale was blowing ii We.t Oakland this morning. The Schooner Htwnqk JHoili'Ort is discharging a cargo of heavy redwood limber the Long Wharf.

I Workmen were this morning' engaged in bllasti ng track ''K the Ceptral Pa- cific Kaiiroa 1 depot Messrs. W. H. "Finch and G. H.jKer-logg returned yesterday from a hv.pt in Marin County; They retort fair A.

Holland js having erected' a six room basement cottage on west Tenth street, near Center. Thomas Jennings is the contractor. Cost. 81,000. The ni-istt-r of tV-e tug; Wizard i-hich ran tlie (Ktont several dav airo, has been sos- ended rTv? davs.

bw the 1 i i 1 niie.i inspector or steam vessels'. I he soutliern overland tram which now leaves Ht eveiy morning, will firi 'a short time be started" at in the after- noon, which trive- a davlijrht view of the scenery cf tlie Tehryfieia pas ant) the famous loop line. i A steam-ivringfr at the Contra Ccsta aundrv, on Fourteenth street, between Kirkhatn and Centpr espj-ded yesterday, slightly injuring Henry Lede-l-ach and several other employes. The wringer cost neatly and was destroyed. In spiteTlfHs unfavorable surroundings.

Principal BlacV, of the Tompkins school, maintains thatits health record will corn- pare favorably with that of any other school iu the ity. During the past year there has noteen a single case of diph- theria amonc the nupils. The Watch Tneives. farces Morton, James Donnelly and Japes Edwards have been booked for the Ormeby jewelry store robbery, on Center street some time since. -Morton is charged with.

burglary in the second and Donnelly and Edwards are charged jwith petty larceny. These are the parties who sold tweDty-one of the stolen watches to a notorious "fence" named Gnakie Stein, in San Francisco, for 41. On the preliminary examination of Stein for re- i ceivinsr stolen goods, Donnelly, Morton and Edwards acknowledged their crime and stated "that Stein bought the goods, knowing them to be stolen, In the Police Court this morning the case of Morton was set for February let; Donnelly; and Edwards pleaded guilty and will be tenced on -Monday. Sale of the Carr Tract ia Murray Townships The several owners of what are known as the "Billy Carr- lands" in Murray township, have placed them upon the market for sale. The Beveral interests were held by E.

H. Dyer and E. Dyer, of this connty, and D. O. Mills, Edgar Mills, J.

B. W.I Carr, of San? Francisco. Mr. E. H.

Dyer, had his share set off, selecting 4 SO acres of foothill land four miles southeast of town, while Mr. Carr has transferred his interest to Mr. Hasgin. A thorough examination of the lands was made! list fall by an agent in the employ of the own-em, piloted by the local agent, William H. Wright, and a price schedule was prepared, upon which it is now proposed to The Bolsn Lands Sieir During the year 1883 the work of re-, clamation of the willow-covered "bjolsa" lands, near Pleasanton, which was accomplished, wis largely in excess.

of any previous season. Jason A. Rose was the most extensive reclaimer, clearing ready for the plow, fully two hundred and cutting an opening entirely across! the former swamp. The several Portugese who made purchases on the; Baker ranch, have cleared an equal amount, and the total area redeemed from willow swamp will not fall short of six hundred acres. This land will all be put in potatoes, and other vegetables, or barley, this year, according to the nature of the season, and enormous crops will be realized in any event, except nas ot a iresnet, Peet Frsen.

Thoma. of Li vermore Valley, who went to Washington Territory last fall, was badly frozen two weeks ago, while lost in a storm, and has lost the toes from both feet. He wan completely prostrated by the cold, and if he had not been discovered, would have frozen to death. As Boon as he i able to travel be will be brought back to Spnora, Tuolumne county, where his wife is. Mr.

Pierce was bunting for a stock range in Spokane connty, when overtaken by tbe storm. A Death of Charlea Blaise, i Charles Blaise, a former resident of th's city, died at the age of 80 years on December 21st, last, near Paris. Mr. Blaise, after disposing of his property Lere, returned to France te end bis I Barelars Arrested. Albert Tryon, and James Crocket, two notorious bai-glars who have sei vedaeveral terms in the State Prison were arrested yes-terdayatMartinesbyDept Sheriff for burglary committed in San Joaquin County abbot January 9tb.

The property stolen consisted of several watehea. They were caught at the office of Weils Fargo ft where they were eoTMvins: Beveral niekma Misiml i do'stomala. Ezx UassAjr. S4.