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CITY OF THE GOLDEN GATE ,
Breezy Qooaip From the Pacific
Slopo.
THE ALIEN LAND CLAIM MAN.
Batl Prospect * Tor Coal The New
ItntliliiK Hosort 'i'lic Political
Shooting Serape Sarali
Alllica Still Mvlng.
California hotter.
S A N' Ft ; Axcrpco , Oct. U. [ Correspond
ence of Tin" : Bun. ] The City of the
Golden Gate lias seldom had such a
haul thy , bree/.y excitement as the ocean
yacht race of last Saturday. The race
was for the pennant of the Pacific coast
and $1,000 in gold. The two contesting
Yossels were the America , a pilot boat
built by Matthew Turner , of Benicia.
who was made famous by the qualities
of his yacht Chispa , and the sealing
schooner C. II. White , built by Charles
G. White , ot North Heach , which is a
highly odoriferous part of San Fran
cisco , frequented by thousands of sea
gulls , who como there to pick up the
refw o of the city that is discharged
thero. Visitors come to see the place
because Henry Meigg.i , the Peruvian
millionaire , had a wharf there , which
has never boon repaired since the year
lie ran away a ruined man. There was
quite a bitter feeling between the two
builders , who have been victorious ever
ench other several times , and as the
two boats that made the nice are
their respective masterpieces , there
Was much excitement over the match.
Knch builder had a host of friends who
coincided in the sentiment that money
talks , and plunked down their twenty-
dollar gold pieces quite freely. Tlio
genuine Californinu always wages gold
coin , from habit probably , and because
he has n love of the shining metal dat
ing from old times. The race was about
fifty miles from the lighthouse out to
the smallest of the Purallono islands ,
a mere rock , round It , and back again ,
and it was won by the America , which
boat the scaling schooner by four
HAD PKOSl'BCTS POU COAT , .
The incoming steamers from Aus
tralia brought bad news with regard
to the great coal strike thero. So far
froiti any attempt at settlement masters
nnd men nro. more embittered against
cuoh other than over , and 501) ) men em
ployed at Newcastle in shipping the
cowl , nnd who had taken no part in tha
strike , were summarily discharged , a
piece of domineering brutality
on the part of the bosses which
has enraged the minors. This reacts
most unpleasantly upon San Francisco
nnd the vrholo of California. No real
cail has been discovered in the state ,
nnd as geologists have declared tlir.t
there cannot be , we have learned to
rely very much on the coal of Naualmo
in British Columbia , on the Welling
ton cottl of Mount Ranter , and on the
Australian coal from Newcastle. San
Francisco Imported last year 1,2-r 0Oi)0 , )
tons of coal from nil qunrtors.but chiefly
from Australia , for that is a superior
article , nnd ia absolutely needed in
some important industritM , such as the
glafi-s works. It has jumped up $2 u ton
already , with' the strong probability
that when the present supply is ex
hausted there will be no more until the
strike b over. This will virtually place
us at the tender morolco oC the South-
P.icitio , which , in combination with the
Oregon Improvement company , owns
the Mount Hauler coal beds , and wo
have before us the prospects of pitying
the highest price for the poorest article.
TIIU xnw iiATiHXO ui > oui' .
It is a singular fact that no bathing
arrangements on anything like a proper
scale have been made on the beautiful
Paoilio ocnii beach until very recently.
( \dolf Sutro. the man who made the
Sutro tunnel nt thu Comstock lode in
Nevada , though ho did not realize a
colossi ! fortune as ho supposed ho
would , did succeed in getting something
out of his enterprise , and he invested it
in the ClilT house and the Sealrocks ,
one ot the favorite resorts of nil Fris-
cans. Kverybody rides or walks through
the Cioldcn'Uuto park to the ClitT house ,
and breakfasts there after loafing on
the pia///.a and watching the rtoa , lions
crawl up and down their rocks and
dump themselves into the sea. The dis
tance is a little to far for real study of
the queer actions of these creatures ,
vud Sutro conceived the idea of making
: i causeway from the bench out to one of
the rooks which was untenanted by
the mnrino monsters , and turning it
into a bathing place. It was a great
scheme , and will result in making
the CHIT house a resort without an equal
in the United States. This action
of Sutro has stirred up the park com
missioners who luvvo already done won
ders for the city , foi they have turned ,
by the patient work of years , sand dunes
into a paradise of llowors and shade
trees. Superintendent McLaren de
serves the highest encomiums for his
skill and iUtolity to his work. The
latest addition is to bo n deer | > urk , and
it man of Sonoma county felt so sympa
thetic that ho sent down a herd of ten
deer lieforo anything had been done to
make iv place for thorn. A plat of ten
acres is to be enclosed , and as the win
ters in San Francisco are really more
ngrocablo than the summers ( because
there are no fogs there ) , there is no
ncces-ity for a deer house , and the antlered -
tlered pots can roam about with nearly
the freedom of their mountains and
with much more security.
TUB AUH.V I AND CLAIM MAN1.
David Evans , who was formerly the
.superintendent and manager of the
California Kodwood company , and
whose chief business apparently was to
hire men to swar out land claims in
the beat redwood timber land of Cali
fornia , and to hand over the land cer
tificates to the company , has been ad
mitted as United States evidence in the
unit which the national government has
drought to punish this glaring abuse of
national generosity to genuine settlers.
The first prisoner to be tried is
Charles Reach , of Eureka , which
ia in Yrokn county and must not bo con
founded with Kurokn , Nov. Bvnns was
a Scotchman who came to California
and bought land patents under the firm
name of Rugs & Evans , but the linn
afterward merged In the California
Redwood Co. , and Evans became its
superintendent. Whatever disguise
may be put upon it , there is no doubt
that the business of I'vnns was to hire
men to cheat the United States by rep
resenting themselves ns intending set
tlers. ileUoh , of Eureka , was in all
probability Evans'chief agent , and he
ntTrms this , but Evans denies the fact ,
nnd when challenged to show his books
admits that ha burned them up. Evans ,
however , admits that the lands ho
bought from Beach he immediately con
veyed to the president of the company.
It looks very much as if the chief of
fender was testifying- against n subordi
nate , and there is an unpleasant odor
about the matter which suggests thut
the whole gang of scoundrels will be
permitted to go scot free , although
their crime is of the most dangerous
character. It will bo a miscarriage of
justice.
SAIIAU AIiTHKA SIIAUON' TEKHY &l'irL
LIVULV.
Mrs. Judge Terry was released from
imprisonment to-day for her contempt
of court. The rumor ran that she would
be immediately rearrested on some one
of the indictments found against her.
But the indomitable lady is by no means
denuded of friends , nor has she lost any
of the pluck for which she is notorious.
During her retirement she sent a com
munication to a morning paper here , in
which she strongly denies that she drew
a pistol from her satchel , atHrming that
the satchel itself was not in her keeping
at the timebeing in the hands of Porter
Asmc , the well-known racing man. She
declares that the case then before the
court wiu simply on the motion to sub
stitute the name of Frederick Sharon
( the son ) for William Sharon , and that
the tis-ue of abuse indulged in by the
counsel and directed against her _ was
part of a conspiracy to irritate
nor so that she might lose her
temper , and might be attached
by theoflieials of the court us actually
happened , and that she had received
verbal permission from a former mayor
of San Francisco to carry a pistol , and
was forced to do so in her own defense.
' Sarah AUUeu is not to be subdued by
such n little thing ns a month's Im-
prisonmeut. and if she can only half
make out her charge that the vvholo
scene was carefully pre-arranged in the
interests of Frederick Sharon it will
have a reaction that may coat him
million * .
Tin : I'OUTICAf , SHOOTING sf UAPB.
I Tlie point whether Jack McAuliffc ,
the pri/.e-lighter , did or did not shoot
Harrington is a minor consideration ,
although the democratic papers are
malcing much of it to hide the very
serious fact that Harrington is sup
posed , with good reason , to have boon
the shooter of David Donahue in the
fracas at the republican county commit
tee rooms. The autopsy revealed that
the fatal bullet , which had not been ex
tracted , was of the same calibre No.
US ns Harrington's revolver , but the
man makes light of this and said with a
laugh that many men carried tlS-cnlibre
guns. The two other wounded men ,
Martin Kelly and Anton Christiansen ,
are in St. Mary's hospital , and the hit-
ter's case is considered likely to end
fatally. The republican state central
committee has sifted the matter thor
oughly , and asserts , unhesitatingly ,
that the cause of the trouble was a con
spiracy of democratic fireman , ward-
strikers and subordinate oflleials to
break up the republican primaries , and
to stutt nnd in some cases to destroy the
ballot boxes , and that in pursuance of
this schema they broke open doors and
sot fire to a building , and in another
case oxiwllcd the republican olllcers
and took possession themselves. And
they denounce Buckley the blind dem
ocratic boss , as having been the insti
gator of those proceedings and as mor
ally responsible for the blood that has
been shed. The people of San Fran
cisco boliuvo them , because the demo
cratic understrappers of the city are
notoriously a vile , criminal mob , prid
ing themselves on just such acts.
_ Tio.
It tins Heoii Worse.
Globe-Democrat : The general opin
ion is that the yellow fever epidemic in
Jacksonville is severer than any which
has hitherto raged in this country.
This view is not in accord with the
facts. Figures show that in Jackson
ville one person dies to every ten who
are attacked. In the epidemic in Mem
phis unit along the lower Mississippi
en years ago the proportion was one
de.'ith to four attacks. Yellow Jack not
only exorcised sway over a much larger
area in 1878 than he docs in 18S3 , but
iis assaults were far more deadly than
they are now.
EDUCATIONAL.
The class of ' 93 at Union college , Schenec-
: ady , N. Y. , numbers thirty-live , being 23
; > cr cent moie than that of last year.
Our youngest American university , aud it
is now bulldlnrr , ia the richly-endowed Clarlc
university , of Worcester , Mass.
Colvln Huntiugtou , of Fort Scott , Kan. ,
has Riven $0,000 to Vassar college to found a
scolarship for the education of his descend
ants for all tuna to come , or of those bearing
the Huntington name.
To nil the alumni and friends of Williams
it will bo a matter of much interest to know
thut at lust a suitable monument to the mem
ory of the Ute Dr. Hopkins has boon erected
iu the college cemetery.
Prof. P. II. Tarroll , who has boon a very
prominent Instructor at Yale for ten years ,
lias permanently severed his connection with
the university , and will this joarbetho
assistant director of the American school at
Athens.
Prof. C. J. White has resigned the regia-
tranship and chairman of thu parietal coin-
mitteo , both of which positions ho has tllk'd
for thirteen years. Prof. ( Jbupm has boon
en.ill-man of the
appointed parietal commit
tee , and the ofttco of registrar has been abel
ished.
The students of the Tuskegcl ( Ala. ) nor
mal school , for training colored teachers , of
which Hooker T. Washington , a Hampton
graduate , is principal , havu just completed a
large three-nnd-ono-nalf story brick build-
lug , on which the students have done all the
work , except putting on the roof. Tno
building has been named "Armstrong hall , "
in honor of General S. C. Armstrong , of the
Hampton institute.
The question of Swinton's text-books in
the Hoston public schools will delight woman
suffrage advocate * in the number of women
it has aroused to vote. It shows that the
women of the Hub are prompt at the polls
when they have an issue the maintenance
of tlio Integrity of our school sj stain , which
Is the basis of the state. The number that
registered was 4Ui ) , bringing the total over
13,001) , and some predict that it will reach
20RX ( ) oeforo the registrar closes his books.
President Barnard , of the Columbia col
lege , New York city , Is bv no means an ath-
lotio enthusiast. Of a college like Columbia ,
winch has uo regular gymnasium , ho think *
it particularly true that only u very small
proportion of the students persistently eu
gaga in the axcicUcs which contemplates
match games withmembers , of other univer
sities. Ho submits to the trustees as ques
tion deserving careful consideration , whether
match games of any sort with persons not
students of Columbia should not bo totally
prohibited. i
The foundations of the new Vale recita
tion building , money for which has been
given by an unknown friend of the univer
sity , have partly been laid. The plans show
that the structure'will bo a beautiful one
architecturally , beilttmp thn location , which
is the most conspioltous on the campus.
There is no special typo of architecture. It
is a mixture of Anvbeinuu and Uouianesnuo ,
happily blended , nnd producing a pleasing
cAect. That part of the building on tliu
corner of Chapel and College streets , where
tlio much-missed "fence"
- formerly stood ,
will ba partly circular In form and will have
twelve side * .
Partial registration at Cornell shows that
at least twelve hundred students are enrolled
and the final totals promise an increase of
more than two hundred over last year. Thu
freshman class of 400 is tlio largest that ever
entered an American college. The law class
is increased from sixty to 100 , The new
school of pharmacy opens with a surprisingly
largo enrollment , while about ono hundred
advanced students enter post-gr.iduato
courses of study. The co-educational system
is so much of a success that the Sage college -
logo for women 1 * overcrowded. The faculty
U strengthened by several distinguished
names aim a numbar of young professor * .
Three largo buildings are ia progress of
erection , and the mechanical equipment of
tlio college has. been largely increased during
thu summer.
REMARKABLE AVOIRDUPOIS ,
A Bit of History About an Old-
Tlmo Monstrosity.
LOUIS CORNELIUS1 GREAT SIZE.
His Antipathy Oir the Scales How He
Smashed a Bully An Over-
Brown Coward How Ho
Kept Order.
A Whopper.
New Orleans Telegram : The death
of Winnie Johnson , the negro giantess ,
who was buried recently in Baltimore ,
recalls another monster of corporohity
who died in Milford , Pike county , Pa. ,
on September 27,1811. His name was
Louis Cornelius , and ho was u noted
hotel-keeper in his day. When in good
health Cornelius weighed between
seven hundred and eight hundred
pounds. His exact live weight never
was known , as he had an extraordinary
antipathv to being weighed. After his
death , which followed a short but ex
tremely wasting diseaseho was weighed
and accurately measured by llvo of his
fellow-townsmen , whoso record of that
performance appears to this day in the
following quaint chronicle inscribed on
the lly-loaf of ono of the musty record
books In the county clerk's olllce :
Louis Cornelius , died September 2 , IS11.
Dimensions are as follows :
Height , n feet.
Ft. In.
Circumference below the waist 8 -
Circumference at the waist 15 2
Circumference arm below elbow. ! i 'J
Circumference arm at elbow I 9
Circumference wrist 1 3
Clrcumfeience thigh 4 3
Circumfeienco call of leg 2 7
Circumference ankle 1 7
Weight , Otr > } pounds , without clothing.
Wo do certify that we were present and as
sisted in weighing Louis Cornelius after his
death , mid that the statement above is true
and correct.
Horace L. West , John Schiinmol , M. Dim-
uiick , 10. H. KIdred , O. H. Molt.
While Winnie .Johnson weighed
nearly 200 pounds more than Cornelius
did after his death , she was practically
incapacitated for anything but her pro-
fosiion of a muiotun freak. Cornelius ,
on the other hand , was an active man
for his si/o and poi-.essed the strength
ot an ox. He was llio proprietor of the
Sawkill house , which is still standing
nnd is being run as n hotel by his
daughters. He was only forty-four years
old at the time of his death , and until a
few days before that event always enjoyed -
joyed robust health. Numerous stories
are told of his many eccentricities. In
spite of hi- , great strength ho was an ar
rant coward nnd peaceable to the last
degree.
Ono day , according to the local le
gend , some workmen were digging a
sewer in Main street. Among thorn
was a strapping big Irishman from
I'ort Jurvis a quarrelsome bully who
had more than u local reputation us a
pugilist. Ho had heard of the Pike
county giant , and made up iiis mind
before ho left town that ho would measure -
uro strength with him. Ho did not
have long to wait. Ono afternoon Cor
nelius happened to be in the neighbor
hood of thu sewer when he was osplcd
by the I'ort Jorvis bruiser , who hur
ried out of the ditch and confronted
him on the sidewalk.
"Stop , " ho shouted ju ho faced him ;
"I want to snake wid yo. "
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Cornelius halted , as 'ho wan bade.
"So yo'ro the Pike county giant , ar-
yoV"
Cornelius was too much astonished to
reply.
"Well , I'm the Orange county bully ,
and I'm going to lay ye out afore I go
back to mo work. "
"I d-don't want to fight , " stammered
Cornelius , his teeth chattering with
fright.
"Fight yo must , and quick- , too , " con
tinued the bully , feeling easy as to the
result of the scrimmage , as ho advanced
ferociously upon his unwiedly antag
onist.
Cornelius was lee big to run and too
cowardly to fight , but ho had to defend
himself , so doubling up his lingo fist ho
struck ono blow at his opponent untl fled
from the scene as rapidly as his sixo
would nllowwithout oven looking back.
The bystanders hoard a crunch , such
as a battering ram might make ns it
strikes a board wall. Then they saw a
tall and angular Irishman spring back
ward half a do/.on feet into the air and
fall to the ground like a log. They
went to him and found that his face
had boon crushed almost to a pulp. Ills
nose was flattened and his jaw shattered.
Thebully | had been altogether unprc-
pared for the blow , nnd the entire
weight of the two giants mot at the end
of Cornelius' arm. That established
the prowess of the Pike county man
even if it did not do so much for his
courage , and from that time on ho was
never coaxed Into another light.
While he was oxtromcly cowardly ,
Cornelius would never allow any dis
turbance in his hotel. Ono day , when
ho was sitting in his big arm-chair by
the open window , a drunken guest be
came unduly boisterous , nnd refused to
go out when Cornolius requested him to.
Whereupon the host caught the man
by the nape of his nock nnd scat of his
trousers , and. without stirring from his
chair , tossed him through the window ,
ever the porch and into the gutter on
the other side of the ( lavement.
It was always n matter of curiosity
among his acquaintances to learn his
exact weight , and many wore the trieko
resorted to to ascertain the figurr-i. But
none was over successful. C'ornolius
was in the habit of visiting this city
once or twice a year to buy goods. On
one occasion some clerks placed a big
arm-chair on n pair of scales and in
vited him to sit down , but before the
weights could bo adjusted ho discovered
their purpose and hastily loft the store ,
never to return.
Cornelius suffered greatly from the
heat. In summer time his favorite rest
ing place was in the hotel collar , and
in the severest winter weather ho was
accustomed to walk around the streets
in his shirt sleeveIn character lie
was cxtremoly modest and retiring. lie
disliked , above all things , to bo re
garded as a ourioMty , and the greatest
anger ho ever felt was caused by the re
ceipt of n flattering olTer from Bnriium
to exhibit him clf in the Broadway
ninsmun.
Ho had three sons and five daughters ,
ono of whom weighed over five hundred
pounds at her death. One of his sons
was afterward sheriff of Pike county ,
and while ho was a giant In height
nnd strength , was not abnormally stout.
St. Peter ( sternly ) Halt ! Who goes
there. Beautiful spirit O ! I'm all right. I'm
from DoRton.
If church bolls did not ring no ono would
remember that it was Rtimiav. That's why
they ring- , and It prevents lots of men from
starting out will , llslipolc * .
The Kpificopulian minister who s.ild hn
would vote for Harrison because ho thought
u surplice was n good thing Inn been disci
plined for unseemly levity.
Now that they have made John llunyan
out a plagiarist it only remains for somebody
to show from wli.it defrauded and heretofore
unacknowledged genius Dr. Watts stole his
immortal hymns
Ilev , K. P. Cwvan of Pittsburg declares
that profanltv is more profusely indulged in
among Ameitcuu * ttiau nuy other people m
the orld. The good parson should permit a
little lingual latitude in a presidential year.
Old gentleman fto little boy fishing Sun
day ) "Won't your parents ho angry when
they learn that you Imvo been fishing nn tha
Sabbath daLittle ( boy "They will ii
you stand thoio much longer botherin' mu
uu' scarlu1 the Huh. I've had bad luck so far ,
an' ov'r.v mlimlt counts. "
Husband ( on his way to church ) -I'lljtist
skip on aheadmy dear , and get sumo change.
l'\e nothing less than one dollar , ami that's
to uiuih to give. Wife ( on his overtaking
her ) Did you get the bill changed f Hus
band Yes. Wife You will contribute halt
n dollar , John I Husband I can't \ cry well
now. I happened to meet three or fout
friends , and I'vo ouly got a quarter loft.
Mr. Pompadour "Would you like to go
with mo this evening to the church ! They
have JUKI introduced a now boy oboir , and tha
service is said to bo very interesting. Very
high church , you ttnow. " Miss Hcavyorapo
( In mourning for her father"I ) hardly
know what to say , Mr. Pomnadour. You aoe ,
I have been to no amusements since poor papa
died.
"Yos , papa , " said a Hlack Rock urchin , to
his father ono bright , starlight night , us sire
and HOII sat at anop n window , " 1 do believe
m my Sunday school luuivun , but , really , I
think It would bo a nicer heaven if wo could
go from star to star and live all the tbao
travelling from one to the other and suclug
all those new worlds , than to play a Imrp In
regular church honvon ; don't you ) " And
the father coughed and said it was time UtUo
children were In bed.
A chicken with hair instead of feathers Is
n curiosity at Poi ry , Oa.
A man died In Haltlmoro last weolc from
the clTcct of falling asleep with his chin hang
ing ever the rim ot a celluloid collar.
A beetle aa large us a sparrow has been r -
colvcd by the stale entomologist of Now
York. It cumo from Central America.
Tom Uroo ksa coloied boy seventeen years
of age. wasf found dead standing on his feet
the other day at JacksonIn West Tennessee.
Ho was u tenant on tha farm of llr.V. . A.
Wood , who vouches for the truth of the
story.
A man In Clayton , 111. , has a Maltese cat
that takes to water even mnro kindly than a
spaniel. He will go Into tbo water on his
own account nnd seems to enjoy it hugely.
Like u dog ho will bring back a stick thrown
in the water.
In digging a well upon the Webster placa ,
near the Cherokee line , last vretjli , the digger
dropped on something about thirty font below
the surface that is whlto as chalk , frco from
grit and about the consistency of dougb. It
is thought to be a chewing pum vein. If it
proves to be such it will ho a bomin/a.
A remarkable double headed child was re
cently born to a French family named Keoul-
bault in Manchester , Mo. The heads are
both perfect , and nro Joined to the body by
two short , well-shaped nooks. U uses Its
mouths and oyusapparently at will in eating ,
crying , winking and oven .sleeping. The
child is likely to live.
Three months ago M. H. Wilson of Mar-
queue , Mich , was shot , the ball passlugclear
through his neck , tearing nut a portion of
the vertebra and causing complete paralysis
of the body below the neck The doctors don't
know what Ui make of him. Ho can't fcul plus
stuck anywhere In his body , but retains hl
llcsh nnd his appetite , and can talk and read.
Ills llesli bcJQW the neck Is described as
"white ns alabaster , nnd nerveless on a
sponge. "
Several months ago the mother of Emma
Felub , of Dnnvors , Mass. , died from cancer.
The daughter soon afterward fell ill , and ae-
clared that sho. too , had a cancer. The phy
sician could find no symptoms to warrant her
bollnf.tmt the girl insisted that she was right
and located the cancer. She refused food
saying that U dlsUoiicd her , and , after
lingering illness , died An nutopny showed
that she had no cancer , that the doctor wa
right , and that her disease was purely sym"
pithctlc.
Hose Coghlanjand her company nro actively
reheat bint : the now pUy of "Jocelyn , " and
M. Senac , a maitrc d' annex , Is giving the
gentlemen of the organisation Instructions in
the use of the sword. Under his direction
Miss Cogldan has already become quite pro-
nrient in the use of the foils. Ctiarle * .
William is painting the scenery for the no * . if4
play , and Frunk How&oa is conipoiing UM *
music. . ' '