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THE SAN FRANCISCO CALL, WEDNESDAY, JUNE 17, 1896. STILL BEATING HIS CHILDREN, Terrorist Young Is Again Threatened With Arrest. MORE COMPLAINTS MADE The “Orders of the Lord” Are Now Carried Out in a Barn. SMALL VICTIMS OF “HOLINESS” Opinion General That the Crank Preacher Needs to Be Officially Restrained. OARLAND OFFICE S8AN Fraxcrsco CALL,) 908 Broadway, June 16. | A complaint was made to the Children’s Society of a case of peculiar behavior at Twenty-third avenue. When it was inves- tigated by Mrs. Prescott it was with much sarprise that she found it was another case sgainst Rev. F. F. Young, *‘(he terrorist’ and whole holiness man whose tesachings were responsible a short time ago for breaking up the home of Lieutenant Lasher in East Oakland. When driven out of the Fruitvale home of the Lashers by the influence of the threats of a local body of whitecaps, who called themselves the ‘Solid Twenty,” Young moved his family to Lynde street, on the top of the hill and about two blocks irom the terminus of the East Oakland Railroad. The nearest neighbors to where the terrorist now resides are the residents of Poulson castle. Young hasnot been heard of for a few weeks, but the residents in the neighbor- bood of Lynde street heard such an un- usual amount of children’s crying that they made an investigation. They re- monstrated with the father, but were not aware of the previous notoriety of their new neighbor, but now that they are ap- prised of it they intend that it shall cease. Young has eight children, and when the Lord tells him that they must be pun- ished, the call isobeyed with enough vigor to make the children wish their fatber was an atheist. His present mode of punishment is to take the child to be whipped into the barn and lock the door and there belabor the child with clubs and straps, while the ag- onizing screams can be heard for blocks away. His nearest neighbor, a German lady, Mrs, Swagerman, last Friday heard Young thrashing one of his small boys, and took the opportunity of threatening him with arrest foracts of cruelty, which have lately become very frequent. Notwithstanding that the secretary of the Society for the Prevention of Cruelty to Children of this cily bas warned him to desist his abusive whippings, under pen- alty of being arrested, Young defiantly pursues his own ways and sneeringly boasts *‘that if neighbors are going to dic- tate to him how he shall discipline his children he will move back to the Indian reservation in Washington, where he was for years a missionary, where he can use the rod as his conscience dictates.” One time Young beat his son Claude with a cowhide until the blood ran down his legs. The next time he was choked and beaten black and blue. The boy claimed protection of the neigh- bors and through Mrs. Prescott received it. He has left home and is living with a Baptist family in East Oakland. Mrs. Prescott was called upon yesterday to investigate the case for the protection of the eight younger children from their father's conduct, which 1s indorsed by the mother, who is also a religious fanatic who believes Young an “infallible saint of God" who is directed in these deeds of cruelty by the Holy Spirit. The case of this preacher of ‘“Whole Holiness” and abuser of his children has aroused so much attention that special action should be taken, The man is de- cidedly unbalanced mentally, and the circumstances related by the Lasher family vrove that Mrs. Lasher’s troubles are the direct outeome of Young's teachings. Y. M. 1. PICNIC. Pleasant Time Ontlined for Visitors to Shell Mound Park To-Day. OAKLAND, Cay., June 16.—The picnic of Oakland Council, Y, M. 1., will be given at Shell Mound Park to-morrow (Wednes- day). President Harrington has prepared en excellent programme and guarantees an enjoyable time to all whoattend. Every precaution has been taken to render it an affair to which all members of the family can go and not fear the intrusion of the objectionable element that is usually found when picnics are beld on Sundays. The affair is 1n charge of the following committee of arrangements: Charles J. Harrington (chairman), R. H. Hammond (secreurlyi), Frank Lynch, George W. Brown, Thomas P, Hogan. Floor man- ager, George P. Clark; assistant floor manager, B. F. McElroy. Floor commit- tee—\fiilliam Raffetto, D. J. Hallihan, John J. Kennedy, James F. Murray, John J. Rigney, William F. Duddy, Joseph F. Gordon. & The literary exercises consist of an ad- dress by Supreme President McDade, songs by Grand Second Vice-President 0'Donneli and Wilham Hynes, gn address by Frank J. McGlynn and other special features, ~ There will be some valdable gate prizes, and handsome trophies will also be given to the winners in the races. ARE FOR FREE SILVER. Delegates Selected in Senatorial Dis- tricts _ for a National Convention. OAKLAND, CaL, June 16.~-The various Benatorial 'districts of this county have chosen delegates for the Bimetallic League National Convention, which convenes in St. Louls July 22, either to place a ticket in the field or to indorse the candidates of the party which declares for the white Ineu . The delegates selected are as fol- ows: Twenty-sixth District—George W. Gray- son, delegate; John L. Davie, alternate. Twenty-seventh District—Frank J. Mof- fitt, aelegate; Weslev A. Jacobs, alternate. Twenty-eighth District—W. J. Dingee, delegate; A. H. Racketts, alternate. ——————— Colored Republicans. OAKLAND, CaAL, June 16.—A colored Re- publican club has been formed, and it has adopted a uniform.consisting of white coat, trousers and cap, with black trimmings. The cap has a visor and. a red, white and plue pampas plume: Lanterns bearing National colors will be carried under the arm. The club will bear the name of the Republican Presi- dential nominee. THE TAYLOR ESTATE. The Property Will All Be Distrlbuted to the Children After the Mother's Death. OQAKLAND, CaL., June 16.—The will of the late Chauncey Taylor was presented for probate to-day by his wife, Barah J. Taylor, and his son, William H. Taylor, who were named as executrix and execu- tor in the instrument, It was dated Janu- ary 26, 1894, and is signed by Victor H. and treorge D. Metcalf as witnesses. Testator declares the whole estate to be community property and ratifies the statu- tory provision,whereby his wife would have been allowed a half-interest had he died intestate. He bequeaths $10,000 to each of his children, Bertha Isabel Foote (wife of W. W. Foote), William H. Taylor and Henry B. Taylor; to his brother, Henry R. Taylor of Oakland, $5000 in trust for ‘the penefit and support of his sister (Henrietta R. Taylor of Oakland) during her life; to Augusta Graves, a sister in Alameda, $5000; to Francis Taylor, a brother in Brookiyn, N. Y., $5000, pro- vided all inaebtedness be first deducted. Henry R. Taylor, the brother in Oak- land, is bequeathed $5000, but the brother in San ¥rancisco, John Taylor, is omitted, he already being well vrovided for. The children of Mr. and Mrs. W. W. Foote are, each given $1000; his *‘two faithful house- hold em?lovec, Stewart Irwin and Bridget Clancy,” 00 each. The balance of the estate is given to his wife for life, and is then to be equally divided between the three cnildren or their beirs. e THE KNOWLES WILL. All the Property Given to the Widow, Who Is Also Made Execu- trix. OAKLAND, CavL., June 16.—The will of the late Captain J. N. Knowles was filed for probate this afternoon by Mary E. Knowles, the widow, who is named as executrix. The will is dated May 14, 1891, and has a codicil dated June 11, 1891, The estate cousists of a life insurance policy for $50,000 and various other prop- erties which will make a total of about $100,000. The daughter by his first wmar- i now Mrs. Harry F. Gordon, is given one-seventh interest in the estate, while the balance goes to Mrs. Knowles abso- lutely. The will says the children are omitted purposely, as the motheg will take frrroper care to see that they are provided TR CHRESE HONT 01 That Is, if They Persist in Violating the State Laws. Efforts of the Attorneys to Discredit Court Officials Fail to Save Their Clients. OARLAND OFFICE, 8AN FrANcisco CALL,| 908 BroADWAY, June 16, | The persistence of Chief of Police Lloyd in his efforts to clear Oakland of Chinese gambling dens and lottery dealers is at iast besring fruit, as two Louses on San Paplo avenue have had to close up perma- nently. The keeper of one of these served a term in prison and had only been out three days when he again found himself in the clutches of the law. Since that time he has concluded that it does not pay to fight officials who do their duty and en- force the law. The joint on Tenth street, - between Broadway and Franklin, has not reopened since the last raid of the police, but it is believed that the proprietor is only await- ing a time when he believes the officers have relaxed their vigilance a little, as he yet keeps a stock of goods in the store which has served as a blind in former years. An attorney imported from San Fran- cisco attempted to have the prosecution thrown out in a case tried last night, on the ground that the men who bought the lottery tickets from the defendant were accomplices of the lottery. He also attempted to bar out expert tes- timony in regard to lottery tickets and lottery drawings, but Judge Wood over- ruled him without effort. ‘When Hen Wong, the convicted lottery- dealer, was called for sentence to-day his attorney presented an affidavit signed by Thomas F. Agnew, in which the latter charges Officer Curtis with suggesting to him that he go on a lottery jury and vote for conviction and said, “Don’t say any- thing tQ your_ brother Tom about this, be- cause if you do he will tell Schaffer and it will be all off.”” (Tom Agnew was. ex- Chief Schaffer’s clerk.) ‘The affidavit was the basis of a motion for a new trial on the ground thatthe officer who summoned the jury was prejudiced, but the court continued the case until to-morrow that a subpena might be issued for Mr. Agnew so he can be ex- amined in court. Officer Curtis denieg the contents of Ag- news’ affidayit, but siys Agnew proposed that he be placed on a jury, saying that he had it “in”’ for Garrity, one of the lottery- dealer’s attorneys, as the latter had done him some *‘dirty’”” work. He further said that the whole affair looked like a scheme of the old Chapman-Schaffer crowd to get back at some one. ¢ e —— TWICE-TOLD TALES. Officer Hodgkins Relates the Details of the Capture of the Swindiers. OAKLAND, Cavn., June 16. — Sergeant Hodgkins, who made the capture of the two alleged gold-brick swindlers, “Big Foot” Gordon and Assayer Root, told his work on the case in the Superior Court to- day. Every technical point was raised by the defense possible and slow progress was made. Judge Greene reminded the jury, after he noon recess, that they had been cau- tioned not to talk about the case. He had been informed that a certain member had been talking of something which might and which might not be the case involved. He desired to warn them that he would not allow his orders disobeyed. L. W. Hewlett arose and said he was probably the one referred to, but declared that he was talking of another matter and had never mentioned the case to any one. . ——————— Arrested for Libel. OAKLAND, CaL, June 16.—W. J. Din- gee swore out two warrants to-day for the arrest of Gavin D. High, editor and pro- prietor of the Oakland Times. One of the articles of the alleged iibels reflects on Mr. Dingee as a real estate operator and the other on the Dingee Water Company. -———— A Disappearing Lake, There is a lake near Valdosta, Ga., which disappears every three or four years and comes back again, no matter whatbe the condition of the wedather., The lake 1s three mildd long and three-quarters of a mile wide, with an average depth of fif- teen feet of water, but at the present time the water is rapidly passing -off through the subterranean passage, and in the next two or three weeks there will be left in its place a mammoth basin, furnishing as pretty a beach as can be found anywhere. After a month or so it begins to returh, and then in a couple of weeks it is the same magnificent stretch .of water as it was before,—Louisville Courier-Journal, CHIKER 45 PET VERSS FLOWERS Why a Mammoth Fence Soars Skyward in East Oakland. LADIES OPENLY AT WAR One Is Forced to Move Her Large Cottage Twenty-Five Feet Away. A POLICE COURT CHAPTER. Mrs. Dass Thought Mrs. Frisbie’s Chickens Could Fly Over the Moon. OARLAND OFFICE SAN FraNcisco CALL,) 908 Broadway, June 16, § Building celestisl fences as a means of preventing a neighbor from locking at a flower garden is not new to Oakland, but one has just been completed in East Oak- land that caused the injured party to move her house twenty-five feet so as to be able to see out of the windows. This is | not the worst of the affair. After moving the house the aggrieved party discovered | that by an appeal to the Fire Commission | the fence could have been legally removed. The trouble is between two ladies. Mrs. Frisbie owns one house, and is a very agreeable colored lady. Mrs. Dass owns the other, and was born on the berder- land of Switzeriand and Italy. Mrs. Fris- bie is passionately fond of chickens, and Mrs. Dass is enamored of flowers. There was a little fence originally between the two houses, but it was hen-tight but not chicken-tight. The little broilers pushed their way through the fence to promenade among the flowers. Trouble followed, and Mrs. Frisbie invested in a lot of laths and tried to make the fence proof against the chickens. The mixture of stakes and laths did not suit the artistic eye of Mrs, Dass, and a short time ago a fence was built that competed in height with the chimney. Mrs. Dass, previous to having the high fence built, had open trouble with Mrs. Frisbie. There are different stories told about how it all happened, tut it is known that Mrs. Frisbie was the battered party and that she had Mrs., Dass arrested. ‘When the case was called Mrs. Frisbie re- lented and withdrew the case, so that 1 is doubtful who was the guilty party. The high fence built by Mrs. Dass was close to the windows of the Frisbie house, and so blocked out all daylight that Mrs, Frisbie was compelled to move her house | to the other side of her lot, a distance of | 25 feet. “This is an old game of Mrs. Dass,” said Mrs. Frisbie to-day, “and I had to move my house because 1 was frightened that her fence might burn down and my house would be in danger. Now I have been told that if I had made a complaint | about the fence to the Board of Fire War- dens they would have ordered it to be re- moved. ‘I have been told that when Mrs, Dass resided in San Francisco there was similar trouble, and that her neighbors had to | make a sacrifice before Mrs. Dass would move."’ Mrs. Dass says she has simply done | what was necessary to protect her flower | garden, and denies that she has a habit of | building aerial fences. A glance at the fence shows that Mrs, Dass has a great ad- miration for the soaring capacity of Mrs, Frisbie’s hens, as the boards are as high as the middle of the roof. Either party is | willing to sell, but neither will make a saerifice. HE WOULD BE AN ACTOR, But Parental Authority Confined Him in the Privacy of His Home. Miseries of Maurice H. Chick, Stu- dent—Why “The Red Fox” Was Not Presented as Billed. BERKELEY, CaL, June 16.—Maurice H. Chick, High School student, would-be actor and -manager of the **American Dra- matic Company,”’ is confined in a room be- neath his parental roof and the American Dramatic Company will be unable to fill its dates. Young Chick, who is a brother of Berke- ley’s superintendent of streets, has had “siage fever’” for some years, ever sincean intimate friend of his parents joined the company of Kyrle Bellew. After vain efforts to secure employment before the footlights of Oakland theaters, the youthful thespian decided to organize a company of his own. He secured com- panions and at once commenced prepara- tions for the production of “The Red Fox,”’ a blood-curdling drama, in Shattuck Hall, “The Red Fox" was to have been given last Saturday night, but the leading man and manager received a parental sum- mons. He went to his home at 2611 Dwight way and has not been seen since, and it soon began to be whispered thatthe ambitious student was in durance vile. Chick had not been home for several weeks before last Saturday, having left in obedience to an injunction to alter his ways or shift for himself. On receiving his command he.bade fareweil to home and began a brief career of independence, among the incidents of which were an experiment as a farmer oh a ranch near San Jose, a week’s stay at an Oakland hotel, and finally the organization of the American Dramatic Company and preparations for *The Red Fox,’’'which proved the last straw to his mother and elder brother, with whom he has resided, and resulted in the call homeward and the long stay at home. “The Red Fox™ is a melodrama in three acts, Maurice H. Chick was cast for the role of hero, Charles Eggleston was to sus- tain the character of the villain of the piece, and various other roles were to be interpreted by George Holloway, Roy Stoddard, James Nickolsen, Bam Hogan, James Lyon and Jean White. After Saturday night’s performance the manager intended to take his company on the road, starting this week for M‘:..r nez. The villain and the supgort ‘were on hand on Saturday, but the hero failed to appear and the company, after a period of suspense, dispersed in despondency. | rectory of the churches of East Berkeley as mere boyish pranks and are disposed to think that he will soon outgrow his ambi- tion to be am actor and theatrical man- ager. g ‘he boy has already announced nis in- tention to abandon histrionic efforts, but he is still a prisoner. Teachers Re-Elected. BERKELEY, 'CaL, June 16.—The Board of Education last night re-elected for the coming year the teachers who haye been employed during 1895-96 in the Rose- street, Vtyhinin, Kellogf. Le Conte, Lorin, Columbus, San Pablo, and BSeventh- street schools. J. 8. Drew, teacher of physics ana chemistry in the high school tendered his resignation, which was ac- cepted and D. R. Wood of Stockton was chosen to fill the vacancy. The board’s special committee, consist- ing of Professor Wickson and Messrs. Engebretson and Norton, on the matter of teachers’ salaries &:resented a report show- ing salaries paid to teacheis in other towns of California as compared with those in Berkeley and recommended that no changes be made in the salary schedule. The recommendation was adopted and the teachers’ salary schedule for 1896-97 will be exactly the same as that p of last year. School Children to Ride Free. BERKELEY, CaL.,June 16.—Principal Waterman of the East Berkeley schools has interview ed Superintendent Wilder of the Southern Pacific with a view to secur- ing passes for school children to nde free on the local trains from Berryman to Lorin. It is proposed to establish the eighth grade at Lorin, whick would neces- sitate a large number of pupils going there daily from all parts' of East Berkeley. Mr. Wilder has promise¢ to endeavor to secure the concession. Statistics of Church Membership. BERKELEY, CAL., June 16,—A new di- bas been issued, showing the membership of the churches to be as follows: First Congregational, 292; First Presbyterian, 281, 8t.” Mark’s, 250; Trinity Methodist Episcopal, 167; First Baptist, 77; Friends Church, 63; First Christian, 33, Total, ‘Woodmen Entertain Ladies. BERKELLY, June 16.—Peralta Camp, Woodmen of the World, gave a ladies’ night this evening in American Hall, Quite a number of visitors from Oakland ‘were present and the affairwas a very pleas- ant one. Kerns Improving. BERKELEY, CAL., June 16.— Deputy Marshal T. C. Kerns, one of the candi- dates for the Postmastership of Berkeley, who has been confined to his home by se- rious illness during ti.e past two weeks, is reported to be on the road to recovery. —————————— | A Marriage. ALAMEDA, Can, June 16,—Miss Blanche Fisher and Leonard Jerome von Berwerker were married to-day at the res- idence of the bride’s parents, 2429 Webb avenue, by the Rev. C. E. W, Smith of the M. E. Church South. The groom isa popular young attorney in San Jose. A MORBID PASSION, Collections of Relics of Marderers, Sui- cides and Other Criminals. Stamp-collecting, though the most silly of foibles, has hitherto been unstained by a capital offence. Unluckily, collectors are likely to have their passion augmented by this fatal occurrence. An element of the morbid and macabre is now intro- duced. One crime breeds more, as all the world knows, by dint of suggestion and imitation, The deaths of kings and Presi- dents have long been desired if not actu- ally compassea by stamp-collectors, mere- ly that the heads of these potentates on old stamps may be rarer. T> make a cor- ner in a monarch’s ola stamps, and then to blow him up with dynamite, is a studiis haud alienum of a stamp-col- lector. His passion allies him with an- archists. A philosopher suggests collect- ing old railway tickets. This means a carcer of dishonest adventure, the romance of bilking, that untradesmanhke falsehood, ‘‘season,” and hiding, like Mr. Bultitude, under the seats | of railway carriages. The more valueless | the object the more does the passion for | acquiring it point towards desperate vil- | lainy. Our museums, all museums, are | receivers of stolen goods; or, at least, of | smuggled remains, of Greek and Italian art. A collector walked through the cus- tom-house of Athens in an ancient deco- rated Greek corslet, which he simply wore under his waistcoat. That corslet, which, | by Greek law, could not be carried out of | the country, is now in the Museum. | A feeling of delicacy causes us to omit the name and also not to mention the number of the Pope who stole books from a French | painter—indeed, ‘‘Innocent,” as his name, was an obyious erro; ondon News. PHENOMENON OF THE TIDE RIP. Two Stowaways Who Traveled Around the Globe Without Spending 2 Cent. | A “tide rip” phenomenon of the sea was encountered in the Indian Ocean recently | by the ship Francis, which arrived at this port yesterday, says the Philadelphia Record. The tide ran in many directions apparently almost at the same time and the big ship was whirled around by it lixe a top or took peculiar and erratic sheers until she became uncontrollable and could not be kept on her course. It was feared at times that she would go to pieces, for the tide seemed to increase in force. For fourteen hours the Francis was at the mercy of this peculiar action of the ocean currents and soon afterward a cyclone struck and partially dismasted her, a dis- aster which has been before reported. Two stowaways, William M. Beatty and Stephen Munday, who had traveled all the way around the globe without the ex- enditure of a cent, were brought on the rancis from rassaroean, Java. They were formerly members of the crew of the British steamship Rio, which arrived at Java some time before the Francis left there for Philadelphia. In some way they were left behind by the Rio, and then they stowed away in the coalroom of the Francis, where fuel is kept for the “donkey” engine and other uses. They were discovered several days after the Francis left 2assaroean, and there was no alternative but to bring them along on the long voyage, which lasted 121 days. An examination made by the immigra- tion officials developed the fact that one of the men, Beatty, was a native of Fiorida and the other an-Englishman. They were glad to leave Java, being unable to earn more than 10 cents a day. —_—— OOEAN FLYERS. Paul’s Remarkable Performance. American Ships to the Front. The three Transatlantic liners now in the first class for speed are the Lucania, Campania and 8t. Paul. The latter's av- erage in the remarkable run she finished last Friday afternoon was 20.82 knots an hour. This average places the St. Paul ahead of the Teutonic and Majestic, and is excelled only by the speed of the Lucania and Campania.” Heretofore the Southamp- ton record has been held by the New York—which, though under the American flag, is Clyde-built—6 dngs 7 hours and 14 minutes, Now, by the St. Paul’s remark- able performance of the voyage in 6 days 5 hours and 32 minutes, the record sses to a steamer built on the elaware. Nsturally, the contest will be resumed between tihe three vesses with the bighest records. The result cannot be forecast, but 1t should be remembered that the Lucania and Campania have each 30,- 000 horsepower, or 10,000 more than the St. Paul, and burn 540 tons of coal a day, against the latter’s consumption of 310 in the same time. That Americans can puild as fast ships as foreigners can construct no longer stands in need of demonstration, if itever did. The Lucania, we have no doubt, can be duplicated in an American yard if St. Young Chick is still confined to his . home. - His friends, who are very wel:l known in Berkeley, regard his escapade: by .year.—Boston Transcripts sufficient money is forthcoming. The|with a scowl and look of scorn. _money is the rub, but thedifference in first | times in these drunke: cost between vessels built_in England and | he was on the field those constructed here1s diminishing year | Jena or Eylau, and he would rush 117 IMPURE BUTTLED CREAM Point Reyes Company Has Its Specialty Confiscated by the Inspector. Election Pledges a Bar to Impartiality. Justice Swasey Has Still a Grievance. ALAMEDA, Can., June 16.—No more Point Reyes Company’s bottled cream will be sold in Alameda. Veterinary Inspector T. Carpenter has confiscated over fifty bot- tles of the cream, as he has found several bottles in a state of decomposition., He made the discovery at a produce store on the corner of Railway avenue and McPher- son street, and subsequent visits to other stores told the same tale. The local agent had none on hana, as he had found the ar- ticle was not a success and reshipped his consignment. 5t Pledging Beforehand. ALAMEDA, Can, June 16—E. A. Cohen, who appeared for the protestants last night againsi the opening of Ver- sailles avenue, surprised the City Trus- tees by questioning their right to consider the case, as their election pledges werea bar to impartial consideration or his case. He cited the action of the BSouthern P: cific in denying the legality of acts of two of the members of the Railroad Commis- sion, inasmuch as before their election they had pledged themselves to reduce freights. e held that the same argument applied in his case, because Chairman Forderer and Trustees Leydecker and Hammond had pledged themselves before election to open all streets in the city. He intimated that the rcad was not going 10 be opened until the property-owners saw that the opening would benefit them. A Justice’s Grievance. ALAMEDA, Car, .June 16.—Justice Swasey still maintains he bas a grievance against the Police Department. He drew the attention of the Trustees to the watter in January last and again in March. Or- ders were then given to the police author- ities to divide the cases equally between the two justices, Morris and Swasey. Justice Swasey last night pointed out how the Lrustees’ orders had been disobeyed, and suggested the drawing up of an or- dinance requiring the Marshal to make a monthly report to the board of all cases brought before the courts and how they have been disposed of. The idea last night was to burke the matter. Trus- tee Hammond told the board that it knew quite well that the City Marshal had de- clared he would never bring a case up be- fore Justice Swasey, and as that gentle- man was an appointee of the county his redress lay there. Eventually the matter was referred to the board as a committee of the whole. Justice Swasey is very wroth at the ac- tion of City Marshal Rogers. He said this morning: **This robbery has been go- ing on for the past ten years. When Tap- pan was a Justice, Rogers was a constable and Morris his deputy. It beganthen and it has been kept up -ever since, and I pro- pose now to fight this matter to a finish.” Injured at a Fire. ALAMEDA, CaL., June 16,—Chief of the Fire Department F. K. Krauth Jr. met with an accident while attending the fire on Regent street on Monday morning that has confined him to his home. He was on a ladder when it broke and tumbled him into the fire. He was at once pulled out, but his hand and foot were burned and his back was strained. L Tasor o chens WAS HE MARSHAL NEY ? The North Carolina Pedagogue May Have Been Napoleon’s Corps Leader. The recent interesting volume by Rev. Mr. Weston, which seems to identify the | old French schoolmaster of North Carolina with Napoleon’s great marshal, gives en- hanced value and interest to the recollec- tions of one of Peter S. Ney’s most intelli- gent pupils. About twelve years ago I was called to the pastorate of the Presbyterian Church in Holly Springs, Miss. parishioners I found an invalid physician, Dr. Shuford. He had been confined to his room for many years, but these years | of sickness and suffering had not in the least beclouded his fine intellect or af- fected his remarkable memory. He had been a student from boyhood, and fond- ness for nature had developed habits of careful and critical observation. His in- teresting personality and character drew me to him and I often enjoyed a morning with bim in his sickroom, sometimes deeply interested in his accounts of the flora of the new region which had then be- | come my home, but more frequently I was an eager listener to his reminiscences. T was only recently from North Carolina and the emaciated invalid loved to recall his own boyhood inithe old North State, from which he had removed to Mississippi years before, One day as I sat beside his invalid chair and our conversation drifted away to the people and scenes of his natiye hills he turned to me-and asked with animation: “Did you ever hear of the old French schoolmaster, Peter S. Ney 7" “Yes,"” I replied; ‘‘often.” “Well,” said the doctor, “I was a pupil of his for years.” 1 had been reared in the midst of revo- lutionary memories, for my early home was midway between the two battlefields that marked the beginning and the end of the great conflict—Alamance and Guilford Courthouse. Those historic fields were only a few miles distant from the old church of my fathers, where the venerable pastor was historian as well as preacher, and his volumes had helped mold my tastes. Such environment had naturally fastened in me a passionate interest in the bistory and prominent characters of my native State, and so I had often heard of the old French schoolmaster of Catawba, and had looked with reverence on his sword, pistols and other relics kept in the State M‘:zuum in Raleigh. “Yes,” continued the doctor, “he was my teacher in western North Carolina for several years, and I knew him intimately, That was some time in the '30s, for he died in 1842, when about 70 years old. I have never doubted that he was Marshal Ney. There was much about him that was mys- terious and that indicated an eventful ear- lier history. Moreover, he was a man among men, brave, manly, chivalrous. He had come mysteriousiy into the neigh- borhood years before, made no confidants, lived alone, wis dignified and reserved an studiously avoided all attempts at inquiry into his past history. He taught a private school for boys, earrying us into Latin and mathematics. He was usuaily faithful to his worlg, but occasionally he indulged 1n ‘spree.! ‘At such times he was accustomed to ask me and one of my fellows (he always showed marked confiGence in us) to come to his room and stay with him to take care of him while in his delirium. “I shall never forgetthose occasions; they were indelibly p! otornphod on my memory. While completely under the in- fluence of intoxicants, often delirious, the hitherto reticent, reserved schoolmaster became an animated, brilliant soldier, striding the floor with majestic treaa and flashing eye. Often at such times, in the dead of night, as we sat by the fireside in wonder and awe, my companion and I heard him thu derln% out his orders on the battlefield to imaeinary subordinates, or by turns,with princely deference, touch- ing bis hat and exclaiming, ‘Sire!’ as i’ he again stood in the presence of Napoleon. “Sometimes he seemed to be in confer- ence with Kleber (under whom Marshal Ney first rose to distinction), then there would be allusions to Massena, but always e- n sprees he fancied of Hohenlinder or at to and Among my new | Tuction Bales A. L CRESSWELL, AUCTIONEER. THIS DAY, Wednesday....................June 17, 1896, At11 o’clock A. M., On the premises, 537 Guerrero Street, Near Eighteenth, <...I WILL SRLL.... Per order of M. BERGEN, on account of departure for the East, Grand Square Piano; Parlor, Chamber and Dining- room Furniture, Everything must go. No reserve. A. L. CRESSWELL, Auctloneer. PERENPTORY AUCTION SALE S o e $5000 WORTH OF FURNITURE, Household Goods of Every Description. ‘Friday and Saturday......June 19 and 20 At 10:30 A. M., 2:30 and 7:30 P. M. Removed for convenience of sale to the Exposi- tion Building (Tabernacle), corner Twelfth and Harrison streets, Oakland. Bargains for every- body. All to go to the highest bidder. THIS DAY, AT 11 O°CLOCK A. M., GROCERY AND LIQUORS, 1055 Howard St, nr. 8th FRANK W. BUTTERFIELD, Auctioneer, 19 Montgomery st. thundered out his commands. At such times he seemed fo be on the field of smoke, amid the cannons’ roar and car- nage and the martial spiritin him rose to its full height. Once or twice he seemed to be on the field of Waterloo, leading the old guard in that last desperate charge. “*So far as my knowledge of history goes, his allusions were always correct as to places, names and events. These drunken rehearsals were always marvelously in keeping with history. I cannot doubi that the martial figure pncmg up and down before us had once marched on those same historic fields, either as soldier or commander.’” Such are some of the reminiscenes of my old friend and parishioner, Dr. Shuford. He passed away before the appearance of Mr. Weston’s book on Peter 8. Ney. If Marshal Ney indeed lived till 1842, his age then, 73, would have coincided with that of the North Carolina schoolmaster.— Nashville correspondence of the Chicago Record. ——————— CHOCOLATES. Products of Cocoa That Are Considered Useful for Many Purposes. Chocolates are merely combinations of cocoa and sugar, with some flavoring, al- lowed to cool in forms and sold as solid cakes to be shaved up before using. They generally contain more oil than cocoa sold in tins, and the cheaper sorts are mixed with starch, ete. The by-products of cocoa are of consid- erable value, cocoa butter being highly valued to cure irritations of the skin, as an ointment for the nursery in place of vaseline, etc. Cocoa butter will not stain, nor become rancid, being proof against oxidization or crystallization. It is used largely in making suppositories, for oiling guns and for various uses in the arts, and in making soaps, pomades, confections, ete. 1t sells at 32 to 35 cents a pound wholesale, ¥ The cocoa_shells are also sold in many stores as a cheap substitute for cocoa, be- ing rich in cocoa flavor and the stimulant principle. The use of cocoa, it may be seen, has a market value over that of tea or coffee. These beverages are mere in- fusions or decoctions, containing little nutriment, and, as a rule, more of hurtful ingredients in the way of tannic acid or narcotic stimulants. Cocoa, on the con- trary, being usually made with at least half milk, has the extra nutriment of the milk to begin with. It then has valuable | nitrogenous eiements, considerable starch and more or less cocoa fat, all highly nu- tritious.—New York Tribune. - e e———— How She Liked Them, The poet Wordsworth’s grave in quaint old Grasmere Churchyard was literally ablaze with spring flowers last week, in commemoration of his one hundred and twenty-sixth birthday, There are still several hundred inhabitants who remem- ber him and his devoted sister Dorothy. One of them told me an amusing story of ‘Watching a flight of wood-pigeons one day, she half-unconsciously exclaimed out | loud, “How beautiful!” An old woman | laden with faggots heard her. ‘Ay, butI | like ’em better in a pie,” she remarked as she passed. ON EASTERN TRACKS. Horses First to the Wire in Yesterday’s REacing Contests. CHICAGO, ILL., June 16.—38{111" at For- sythe: Three-quarters of & mile, Ovation won, Billy B second, Kingsclere third. Time, 1:17%. Five-eighths of a mile, Zamar II won, Yours Truly second, Harry Gwynne third. Time, 1:013. One mile, Elusive won, Willie M second, Ar- dath third. Time, 1:40}4. Thirteen-sixteenths of a mile, Simmons won, | Battledore second, Virgie Dixon third, - Time, 1:21%. Three-fourths of a mile, Samson won, Bar Guard second, Proverb third. Time, 1:153{. Seven-eighths of & mile, Terragnes won, B, F, Fly Jr. secoud, Reveille third. Time, 1:283{. CINCINNATI, Omuio, June 16.—Oakley re- sults: Five-eights of a mile, CAn& won, Dul- | cenia second, Her Excellency rd. bt Three-quarters of a mile, Mattie Lee won, Miss Emma second, Jennie Thatcher third. Time, 1:15%. Seven furliongs, Jake Zimmerman won, Lo- bengula second, Yellow Rose third. Time, 1:2734. Fiv’é furlongs, Eugenie Wicks won, Irby B second, White Frost third, Time, 1:013. One and a sixteenth miles, Semper Ego won, Ben Holliday second, Bloomer third. Time, 1:4637, N% YORK, N, Y., June 16.—Gravesend re- sults: Five xurlon&a, ‘Wabasso won, Flying Squad- ron second, Stlver Brook third. Time, 1:08. One and ‘a sixteenth miles, Merry Prince won, Hornpipe second, Sir on Jr. third. Time, 1:47. Six furloags, Glenmoyne won, Agitator sec- | ond, Runaway third. Time, 1:15%. One and & quarter miles, Handspring won, éntermiuicn second, Hamilton IT third, Time, 14 Eleyen-sixteenths of a mile, Hero won, Gee Gee second, Rifle third. Time, 1:10%. One and a sixteenth miles, Pat Ryan won, ShIS‘klelpelre Il second, Septour third. Time, ST. LOUIS, Mo., June 16.—Six furlongs, Amelia Fonso won, Siddubia second, Ben Wad- dell third. Time, k:16%4. Five furlongs, Lm;flhumce wom, Jusnita second, Queen Saxie third. Time, 1:0814. Six {urmngé Earl Bug won, Outawsy sec- ond, Helena Belle third. Time, 1:16!4. One mile and twenty yards, Pinkey Potter {von,mndl second, Bingbinger third. Time, Six xm-lon)gn1 Devault won, Fred Foster sec- ond, Little Nell third. Time, 1:153, Time, Five furlongs, Typhoon won,. Buckvidere second, Parthemax third. Time,1:023;. ————— ON THE DIAMOND, Winners of Yesterday’s Bascball Games in the East.. PITTSBURG, PA., June 16,—Pittsburg-Chi- cago game postponed; rain. CLEVELAND, OH10, June 16.—Young’s su- perd pitching and the very bad fielding of the Louisvilles were the features of to-day’s game. Score: Clevelands, 11,13, 0; Louisvilles, 1, 5, 7. Batteries—Young and Zimmer; Cunning- ham and Warner. Umpire—Lynch. ‘ CINOMA‘&,‘IOHI June 16.—Bert Inks made his . after the first inning eomxletely at his mercy. Score: Cincinnatis —3, 2; St. Louis—2, 6, 3. and Vm;hn; Hart and Murphy. Umpire— Sheridan. ST WASHINGTON, D. C., June 16.—Washington- Philadelphia game tponed ; rain. BROOKLYN, N. Y., june 16.—Score: Brook- lyns, 0,5, 3. Baitimores, 4, 5, 0. Batteries— Abbey and Burrell; Hemming and Clark. Um- P STON, Dati. Juse 16.—bcore—Bosto ) MAss., June 16. 14, 17, 4. New Yorks, 5, 7, 6. B:nefle:i Nichols and Ganzell; Campfield and Farrell. fro, pointing this way and.that, as he | Umpire—Emslie, 2 the latter when. they lived at Rydal. { Batteries—Inks | A PRETTY FURNISHED HOME AT ATUOTION. LAURENCE VINCENT, General Auctioneer and Commission Merchant, Rooms 609 and 610 Spreckels Bldg., 927 Market st. THIS AFTERNOON, Wednesday............... .....dune 17, 1896 At 2 o’clock on the premises, 20 Heteaife Place, off Geary St., nr. Taylor This sale is worthy the attention of all intending purchasers. It is very prettily farnisheds from kitchen to bedrooms. Sal: made in the afternoon for the accomm odation of buyers, : Elegant 0dd The v Chairs; Couches, .: Magnificent Inlaid Walndt and Six- 'y Coamber Suits; 8 Elegant 34 B Lressing Cases, Wardrobes, etc.; Fine Spring and Curied Hair Matiresses; Fine Bedding; Elegant Sideboard; Extension Table; Dining Chairs; Chinaware; Glassware; Platédware, etc.; Elegant ' Range, Agateware and a host of useful articles t00 numerous to megtion. ATTEND THIS SALE. LAURENCE VINCENT, Auctioneer. PAVLION AUCTION HOUSE. 319-321 Sutter St., Above Grant Ave. AT SALESKOOM THIS DAY, Wednesday. .. ..June 1 10:30 1 WILL SELL The contents of a First-Class Tail plete with Tools, Mirrors, Tavle yards Imported and Domest : latest EIH.PI BA Lion: FIRE AT ASPHALTO. Plant of the Standard Asphalt Company Is Reduced to a Total Wreck. BAKERSFIELD, Car., June 16.—Fire broke out in the refining works of the Standard Asphalt Company at Asphalto Saturday morning, which resulted in the compiete destruction of the plant. It ap- pears that the man in charge of the ket- tles was about to make a test of oil, when a lamp suspended above one of the kettles either exploded or some volatile gases from the heated oil took fire from the lamp and in a few minutes the entire refinery, said to have cost $20,000, was in flames, and also about 100 barrels of oil. The heat caused several large stee! drums contain- ing oil to explode, and in one or two cases drumheads were shot a distance of 100 yards with terrible force, making it yvery danegerous for the men employed in trying to save adjoining property. On the platforms above the kettles there were about 150 tons of asphalt ready for refining, which, of course, being so close to the latter, was entirely consumed. Fire burned all day, as long as there was any- thing inflammable, as no means were at hand for extinguishing the flames, 1896 hop, com- and 500 B WASN’'T DUNHAM. The Authorities of Santa Ana, Mex., ZTnought They Had Him. NOGALES, Ariz, June 16.—At Santa Ana, Sonora, Mex., a town seventy-five miles south of this place, the aut orities arrested and placed in jail a man answer- ing the description of Dunham, the mur- derer of the McGlincy family at San Jose. Upon investigation, however, the suspect proved to be the wrong person and he was released. ——————— . Pacific League Disbands. SEATTLE, Wasn., June 16.—The new Pacific Baseball League, comprising teams from Portland, Seattie, Tacoma and Victoria, has gore to pieces. Poor attendance, due mainly to the unfavor- able condition of the weather, is given out as the cause 6f suspension. Some of the Seattle players have started to their homes in the East. e Movements of Trans-Atlantic Sseamers. NEW YORK—Arrived June 16—Stmr Friesland, from Antwerp; stmr Norwegian, from Glasgow; stmr Braunschweig, from Naples: stmr Missis- sippi, from London; stmr Virginia, from Stettin. Sailed June 16—Stmr Havel, for Bremen. SCILLY—Passed June 16~Stmr Lahn, from New York, for Bremen. LIZARD—Passed June 16—Stmr Obdam, from New York, for Rotterdam; stmr Persia, from New York, for Hamburg; stmr Suttgart, from New ¥ ork, for Bremen. KINSALE—Passed June 16—Stmr Auranis, fm New York, for Queensiown and Liverpool. flsmart Broadway, New York, druggist has this sign hanging outside his store; it marks the new era of drug selling. Is it any wonder that he has to enlarge his quar- ters, that his clerks are busy, and that his store is one of the most ular alo: the leading thor- are? ou can afford to trade with a druggist that has such a motto as that. I The Subscription List Of the Weekly : Call Has More Than Doubled Within the Past Year. | | 2;. Gibbon’s Dispensary, 5 KEARNY ST. Establls) - hed {n 1854 for the treaimént of Private M'flflfl‘onbofiylndmlndlnu; Skin Diseases. The docto othersfall, Ty him. Charges 10w aranteed. Callorwrite, 1957, San Francisco, Dr.Jd, ¥. uflmfimfm