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4. f' rr THE NAPA JOURNAL. THE PEOPLES MARKET MCGOWAN Prop MAIN STREET, BELOW THIRD, ft ft- The White House The Providence Journal, a strong Republican organ, says The great dread of the North for so many years that the rebel debt would be paid in case the Democratic party came into power, now fids fair to be turned into a fear that the Republican party will grant a pen-soin to every voter. It is a dangerous thing for a party to bid for votes by promises to pay from the National Treasury. This comes so close to bribery that self-respecting people will not stand it, and the Republican leaders must not forget that self-respecting and thoughtful people are still too numerous to be disregarded.

Hottel Smith Always keep on hand a large and varied stock of choice and fresh GROCERIES, ALSO A Fine Assortment of CBOCKERY, GLASSWARE, LAMPS, ETC. It is advisable to have a machine, the fruit being of better quality, but it need only be used conjunctively with Natures great desiccator The Peach in Napa is as fine as any that can be raised in California. The writer picked many Susquehanna peaches last summer-measuring from 12 to 15 inches in circumference, and, be it always remembered, everything raised here is without irrigation. Consequently, the fruit is firm and sweet, qualities essential for canning or shipping. The orchard of Mr.

A. Fisher, two miles from Napa City, will show what can be done in this line. The peach requires warm, well-drained land, not succeeding where the soil is wet or heavy. A black, gravelly loam, or yellow or red land is well suited to peach culture. Thorough cultivation and heavy pruning are of the greatest importance.

The varieties that should be planted for profit are Alexander, Hales Early, Early Crawford, Susquehanna, Muir (a new California peach, but the best for drying), Salway, Sellers and McKevitt Cling. The peach bears at three years. We have often picked 50 pounds or more the fourth year more than this would injure tbe tree while so young. The Apricot succeeds well, if the proper variety is planted, and in a suitable soil. More care is required in selecting the soil and location than for any other fruit.

Royal, Blenheim and Hem-skirke are the best. A young orchard four years old, near Napa City, will average 80 pounds to the tree, the older trees are all full of fruit. Plums bear heavily, and succeed in almost any soil. The great plum of the future is the Kelsey Japan, the fruit being as large as a goose egg, and remarkably sweet and firm. As a shipping or canning fruit it is unsurpassed.

Pears and Apples grow and bear well almost anywhere, the heavier lands be ing best adapted for their culture. Small fruits are everywhere a success. Much interest is being taken in the Olive, the cultivation of which is destined to become a great industry. Thousands of acres adjoining the hills on either side of the valley are perfectly suited for this crop. Indeed, it is hardly possible to find anything that will not grow and bear well in Napa.

Visitors to Napa are always cordially received, and hospitably entertained; and there is abundance of room yet for many more beautiful homes and prosperous farms, and many opportunities for the capitalist and business man to make profitable investments. Fruit Growing in Napa County. Leonard Coates in Napa County Pamphlet. For the fruit grower, the grape grower, the home seeker, or the invalid, severally or collectively, Napa possesses inducements second to none. Neither is this a locality of inflated values, or high-priced lands.

The writer has no land for sale, and is interested in no land sales, but could show proof whereof he speaks. The close investigator will soon discover that the net yield per. acre, proximity to market, cheapness of freights, certainty of crops every year, are factors not to be overlooked in estimating the comparative values of land. to this, an unequaled climate the term is used advisedly, and not as a stereotyped or figurative phrase and what more can be desired? We have neither the boisterous breezes prevalent near the bay or ocean, nor the strong, desiccating northers of the interior; Both here are tempered by natural conditions. We are never visited by drought, know nothing of the storms and freshets of the mountain districts, and never had a touch of the malaria of irrigated sections or river bottoms.

This past winter there have been from ten to twenty days only when the farmer could not plow or cultivate his land, and half of that time he could prune his trees or vines. The rainfall has been about twenty inches, a little below the average, but an abundance for every crop that grows. The remainder of this so-called rainy season has been bright, clear, and warm weather, with enough of frosty mornings to make the air bracing and to keep trees and vines dormant. Fruit, as a business, is in its infancy here, there not being enough yet of some varieties to supply the local maiket. There never has been the need, as in many pai ts of the State, to rush into extremes, or to immediately change the system of farming commonly in vogue for some other.

The raising of cereals and stock has always been satisfactory, but as the few pioneer grape growers showed year after year the greater profitableness of grape grpwing, so the grain-fields and stock farms were gradually plowed up, until a large portion of the main valley and adjoining valleys and hills have become an almost unbroken vineyard. When the country was first settled by Americans, some thirty-five years ago, a few fiuit trees were planted, as they could be obtained and so, for twenty-five years, every new resident would plant a small family orchard, in some few eases planting with a view to marketing the products. The early planters had no insect pests to contend with, and generally obtained good prices for their fruit but mining, wheat growing, and stock raising were tbe staple industries, and but little was thought of it. With the increase of orchards, insect enemies have appeared but we agree with Prof. Riley, U.

S. Entomologist, who, speaking on the subject of insect pests, at a recent convention of fruit growers, said: With your lovely climate, rich and varied soil, and the many other advantages which your beautiful country possesses for the cultivation of fruits, the business would soon come to be overdone, and rendered unprofitable, could every before planting his trees, feel sure of an abundant and fair crop without having to contend with difficulties. Our soils, conditions, degrees of temperature and liumidit, are so various, that nothing but actual experience in a given locality are evidence enough to justify the large planting of any given variety of fruit. From neglect of this has arisen many failures. It is now entirely different.

An orchard can be planted intelligently, and an average estimate made of the annual net yield per acre. An intending fruit grower could not do a more foolish thing than to determine on the crop he will raise before he has bought his land and all these and kindred points he can learn by residing a short time in the lo cality he desires to settle in before mak ing his purchase. The prune is being extensively plant ed in Napa, the variety most commonly used being the French, or Petite dAgen. In warm, well-drained soils it succeeds best on the peach or almond root where the land is heavy, the plum root is preferable. The trees are planted about 18 or 20 feet apart, and cut back to feet, that the head may be trained low.

The ground is kept thoroughly cultivated until after the Spring rains are over. Pruning must be regular and systematic, the object being to get a goblet or vase-shaped tree, the center being open. The prune will bear a crop the fourth year, and from five years old the crop is very profitable Starting at the head of the valley, we find an orchard of thirty-five acres, owned by Mr. H. L.

Gibbs, which is now six years old. The crop last year was a good-paying one, but this season there will be from 50 to 100 pounds of dried fruit per tree. The crop is already engaged at 24 cents per pound Allow 100 trees to an acre, and we have $600 or $700 net yield per acre The gentleman just named took with him a sample of his dried prunes to a San Francisco firm of merchants; but they told him they did not want to buy, were loaded with stuff, etc. But they consented to see his sample, and soon after agreed to pay him 12) cents per pound for the crop, the highest market price being 7 cents." They showed Mr. Gibbs prunes from a different source which were far inferior, being little else than skin and stone in comparison with the Napa product.

Again, at the other end of Napa Valley, near Napa City, a large prune growler from another part of the State visited an orchard of mixed fruits. He noticed the prune orchard, and went up to a tree to examine the fruit. The variety, however, he did not recognize at all, the fruit being so much larger than What he had been accustomed to, and was amazed when he was 'told that it was the Barae variety as raised by himself, the large size being due only to the richer soil and more suitable climate. Such instances could be multipled, but these are mentioned merely as an answer to some of the many effervescent paragraphs that are circulated in the interest of a few wealthy land-owners, but which sometimes fall far short of the truth. Drying or curing the French prune is not a difficult or expensive operation.

The fruit is allowed to get perfectly ripe and then shaken from the tree on to a canvas spread under it. It is then dipped in wire baskets into hot lye from that immediately into cold, clean water. This softens the skin, but it is not necessary if the fruit is machine dried. The prunes referred to, grown by Mr. Gibbs, were sun dried.

The fruit is then spread upon boards which are laid upon the ground, and in a few days are sufficiently cured to be taken to the packing house. J. E. Walden, Editor. NAPA, AUGUST 18, 1887.

The widow of Oliver Hazard Perry, the hero of the battle of Lake Erie, is still living, in Stratford, Conn. The Union Iron works of San Francisco has been awarded the contract for building one of the new cruisers for the Government, to cost $1,428,000. Eight hundred people per week, leave Chicago for California, with excursion tickets. A year ago the ticket sales were only 100 a week. Since 1867 this country has paid in pensions $885,631,098.

That is an average of $44,281,555 per year, or nearly as much as the total annual expense of the Federal Government in 1860. The next National Democratic Convention will have 820 delegates. The New England States will have 76 the Middle States, 150 the South, 306 the West, 24; the Pacific, 28; the District of Columbia and the Territories, 18. As the rule requires two-thirds to nominate, the sucoessful man must get 547 votes. The proposed railroad from Napa to Clear Lake will be of great advantage to this city, and our people should make a united effort to raise the necessary money to secure it.

It is to be hoped that there will be a large attendance of representative citizens at the meeting to be held at the Opera House this evening Ex-Senator Aaron A. Sargent died at his residence in San Francisco last Sunday morning, after a few weeks illness. He had been ailing from enlarge ment of the spleen for some time, trtit his condition was not considered extremely serious until a few days before his death. Mr. Sargent was a native of Newburyport, Massachusetts, and would have been 60 years of age the 28th of next month.

He leaves a wife, two daughters and one son. According to the report of the Secretary of the State Board of Equalization, the total acreage of bearing vines in California is 121,440. The counties which have the largest acreage are as follows Sonoma 21,683 Los Angeles. 17,000 Napa 14,431 Fresno 10,165 Santa Clara 9,423 San Bernardino 9,165 Sacramento 6,465 Tehama I 4.972 Alameda 3,451 The Sacramento Record Union says Fruit gathering by the aid of white boys and girls has proven successful in the Santa Clara valley. So it would anywhere if men who understand how to manage children are put in charge of the juvenile workers.

The experiment tried a few yeais ago in the San Joaquin valley was not a fair test of the capacity of boys to gather fruit, for the reason that they were not controlled by proper influences. The American boy can be led but seldom driven. It is stated that President Cleveland has virtually decided upon the appoint ment, as a successor to ex-Justice Woods of the United States Supreme Court, udge Edward W. Pettus of Alabama. It has generally been supposed that Secretary Lamar would receive the appointment, but it is now stated that the President considers Lamar his chief counsellor, and on that account will not listen to his withdrawal from the Cabinet.

The total assessment on the railroads of this State this year is $48,104,000 against $48,051 ,000 in 1886. The South Pacific Coast is assessed at $750,000, though recently sold for over $6,000,000 but much of its property, presumably the larger portion, is assessed by the counties. The assessment on the Central Pacific was this year reduced and on the Southern Pacific $500,000 though how these roads have decreased in value, while increasing in length, the San Jose Times thinks something of a conundrum. The other day a reckless individual named Alphonse King crossed the Niag-gara river above the whirlpool on a water bicycle. The bicycle is supported by zinc floats and to the wheel of the machine paddles are attached.

The whole thing weighs 250 pounds and is steered by a head-wheel attached by cords to a rudder When the center of the river was reached, the bicycle careened wildly. The current was swift and the waves were ugly and choppy, and the strange craft was tossed from side to side a good deal. King put more muscular power in his legs, however, and finally passed through safely. The Vallejo Chronicle in an article intended to encourage the people of that town to make an effort to secure the Napa and Solano District Fair this year, says: We have ever lived under the ban of a bad reputation, caused by political strife, and it is a good time to show Vthat we are not a sleeping and unener-gVtic people, but as much alive to our pwo interests as the dwellers in any other city. We do not doubt the truthfulness of the Chronicles statement, yet tbe fact stares us in the face that no other paper in the District has done so much as the Chronicle to keep alive that strife.

Its columns day after day, ever since the last Presidential election have teemed with attacks upon the Administration, calculated to arouse the prejudices of the people, and to keep alive that political strife a Inch it now confesses has placed Vallejo under the ban of a bad reputation. It is to be hoped that the Chronicle, now that it acknowledges the error of its way, will hereafter strive to repair the damage it has wrought. THE LEADING DRY GOODS EMPORIUM OF IfcT.AX.A. COTTZfcTTTT Everything will be found First Class, and Prices that will suit Everybody. REMEMBER: THE "WHITE HOUSE MAIN STREET, Adjoining Odd Fellows Hall, NAPA CITY.

DUNCK BROS, Second Street, opp. Court House. Wholesale Ketail Dealers IN Choicest Wines, Liquors and Cigars, Imported Ale, Porter Mineral Water. AGENTS AND BOTTLERS FOR THE CELEBRATED John Wielands Philadelphia Lager Beer. WO" Delivered to all parts of the city at $1.50 per Dozen Connected ith the establishment is a nicely fitted up Billiard Hall.

rn Old Pioneer Store, Is the place to go and bay your GROCERIES. We always keep on hond a fullIne of the Choicest and Best Groceries in the Market. New Goods Arriving Every Week, and Sold at very Reasonable rates. ALSO Fine Cigars and Tobacco, Choice Wines and Liquors. Fresh Fish and Vegetables, Flour, Grain, Feed and CoaL ROSENBERG DUNCK, Cor.

Main and Second Sts. Dec2. CHEAPEST AND BEST! American Bakery, Cor. Brown and Fourth Streets, NAPA, CAL. The Whitest, Sweetest and Most Nutritious-Bread in the city, for the least money.

BAKED BEANS and Boston Brown Bread! every Sunday morning. Ilkinds of Plain and Ornamental Cakes to order. A good assortment of Cake Ornaments, Lace Papers and Iceing Sugar always on hand. KO All Goods are absolutely PURE and HEALTHFUL. myl JAS.

MASON. Prop. PIONEER DRUO STORE, D. M. STOCKMON, Propr.

DEALER IK Drugs, Medicines, Chemicals, Fancy and Toilet Articles, Sponges, Brushes, Perfumery, Etc. Armica Jelly for Chapped Lips. MAHT STREET. Bet. First and Second.

NAFA, CAL Physicians prescriptions accurately com Having opened a market at the above stand I respectfully solicit a share of the public patronage. FRESH Beef, Mutton, Pork, Veal, Corned Meats, Etc. Always on Hand and Sold at tbe LowclPrirb Orders Delivered to all Parts of the City Give us a Call. McGowan Bros. L.L.

JAMES CO. SUCCESSORS TO James, Boggs James, Wholesale and Retail Dealers in LUM BEE OF ALL KINDS, DOORS, BLINDS, SASH, LIME, SAND, PLASTER, WINDOW-WEIGHTS, ETC GRAPE STAKES Always on nana and sold in Quantities to suit. OFFICE Foot of iTa-pst. Ordersi rom the interior promptly delivered on the cars at any station along the Railroad, at the Lowest Possible Rates. Freight and Passenger Line BETWEEar Napa San Francisco Touching at Vallejo.

The Fast and Commodious) Steamer CAROLINE, )G. OAKLEY, Master, WILL LEAVE NAPA every Monday and Thursday evenings, with the tide. SAN FRANCISCO Leave Jackson 8t. Wharf every Tuesday and Friday at 5 oclock p. m.

Freight taken at Lowest Rates. N. H. WULFF, Agent, Napa Junel9 18 Napa Ladies Seminary, Napa Ciiy, Cal. Boarding and Day School The next School Year will begin nONDAY, AUGUST 1st, 1887.

For farther information address: JHIm K. V. DARLING, Principal. aug-I IF RAZEE EH BEST III THE WORLD UUtaUUh Its wearing qualities are n-rnrrSiMml aetaallr outlasting two boxes of anr ottierDraad. Free from Animal Oils.

GET Ti GEN UINK. FOR SALE BY 'CALIFORNIA MERCHANT! aad Dealers generally. According to an official statement recently issued, the total number of immigrants arriving in the United States from Foreign ports during the fiscal year ending June 30th, 1887, was In the corresponding period ending June 30th, 1886, the number of arrivals was 328,895. The new arrivals are classified as follows England and Wales, 74,020 Ireland, 68,130 Scotland, 18,633 Germany, 106,559 France, 5,034 Austria, Bohemia and Hungary, Russia, Finland and Poland, Sweden and Norway, Denmark, Netherlands, Italy, Switzerland, 5,213, all other countries, 9,234. It will be observed that tbe immigration from Germany lalgely exceeds that from any other country, while the combined contribution of England and Wales during the year exceeds by nearly 6,000 that from Ireland, which formerly led the van in increasing our foreign population.

The Overland Monthly for August presents a table of contents sufficiently varied to please all tastes. For those that like fiction there are the short story A Disagreeable Young Woman, a camping story, wherein the young woman is not so disagreeable but that she wins the heart of reader as well as of the hero, the serial Chata and Chinita, and the opening chapters of a new short serial, The Acequia Madre of Santi ago. None the less interesting for being true are the out-door sketches Our Camp in the Canon and An Ascent of Mt. Shasta representing both ends of the State in a charming fashion. In the line of Indian articles, a stronghold of the Overlands, are Major-General Howards continuation of the history of the Bannock War, and Col.

A. G. Tassins seqond paper of the Chronicles of Camp Wright. But the Oveiland is not confined to the Pacific Coast alone, though there lies its peculiar field, and in the present number there are two historical studies that will attract all thoughtful readers. A Nest of Wild Cats tells with marked incisiveness the story of wildcat banking in- Nebraska, where the bitter school of experience demonstrated the necessity of a national banking system and the commercial unity of the nation.

Slavery in Florence is an interesting Study of the mediaeval status of that great problem over which tears of blood were shed centuries later in our own country Literary subjects receive due attention in two articles in the body of the magazine and the usual department of Book Reviews. The Overlands review's are acknowledged to be of the highest authority as well as of the greatest readableness. Poems, Etceteras, and the usual departments complete a fine number. The Overland has as broad a literary field as any magazine in the country, and appears to fill it completely. Samantha at By Josiah Allens Wife.

One of the most prominent personages of the literary world just now is Miss Marietta Holley, popularly known as SamanthaJ Allen, or Josiah Allenswife. She became a favorite very early in her literary career, and each new issue from her pen has added to her fame, until for her latest work, Samantha at Saratoga, Messrs. Hubbard Brothers paid her a princely sum, and the book is decidedly a hit. It will doubtless outsell all her previous issues, as it unquestionably outshines them all in the fascinating vein of humor in which Miss Holley is so happy and so rich. Preparing for this work, Miss Holley went to Saratoga and spent an entire season, with eyes and ears open, and with brain and pencil vigorously at work.

She went in her famous assumed role of Josiah Allens wife, her imaginary Josiah at her side, with his characteristic blunders, faux pas, and quick, boylike enthusiasm. As Samantha Allen, Miss Holley is observant, unsophisticated, outspoken, and sound to the core on every question of propriety. Such a couple in the whirl of Saratoga would certainly develop many remarkable situations and utter many funny comments. It is here the humor it the book arises. Plain, back-country, village life, and gay, artificial Saratoga life are so wide apart, that each side becomes ludicrous to the other.

These laugh-provoking contrasts are the dominant features of Miss Holleys book. To these mirth-making presentations of the author the artists pencil has added a rich entertainment. Over a hundred drawings have been made especially to illustrate the. text by Frederick Opper, the leading artist of Puck. Burt Wilder, too, has done a share in embellishing this attractive book.

These artists make their pictures talk, and between the text and the talk of the pictures the reader looks and laughs and laughs and looks again. Altogether, the book is a rare product, and its purchasers will not be disappointed. Published by Hubbard Brothers, Philadelphia. There is said to be but one lawyer in heaven. How he managed to pass St.

Peter is not positively known, but it is conjectured that he passed himself off for an editor and slipped in unexpectedly. When he was discovered the startled angels searched the realms of felicity in all their length and breadth for another lawyer to draw up papers 'or his ejectment, but. thej could none, of course, and he held tBe fort. f' IV a I Country Produce Bought and Sold. HOTTEL SMITH MAIN STREET, ODD FELLOWS BUILDING NAPA CITY, CALL AND SEE OTTH, NEW STOCK OF USINESS SUITS Latest Styles, Lowest Prices.

A HANDSOME LINE OF ECKWEA JUST RECEIVED ALDEN ppr Leading Clothiers, NAPA, CAL. my 27 Oak Mound School For Boys. NAPA CITY, CAL. Next term Begins WEDNESDAY, JULY 27th, 1887. Thorough Instruction, Experienced Teachers.

Careful atteution to the needs of the individual student. College Preparatory, English and Commercial Courses. The Primary Department is conducted by Mrs. L. A.

Maxwell, number limited to fifteen NUMBER LIMITED TO FIFTY. For information address: WALKER, Or GEO. E. GOODMAN, Principal. Secy Trustees.

july-21 FAMILY TAURANT JUST OPENED. In Center Block, North Main NAPA, CAL EDWAED WILSON, Prop. Everything New, Neat and Complete. Meals Served at all Hours of the Day and Evening. OYSTERS.

CLAMS and FISH of all kinds fresh, and served In any style desired. ICS And ihe CHOICEST BRANDS OF WINE served jun2 PALACE HOTEL. EAST NAPA, REMODLED, newly refitted and elegant furnished throughout. First Class in Every Particular. The table supplied with the choicest th market affords.

Fine Billiard Hall'and well stocked Bar J. H. COWAN, apr29 Fxepcleter. i I A 3-year-old girl accompanied her mother to witness a baptism the next day, arranging her dolls along the edge of the bath-tub, she prepared one of them for immersion. Her mother advanced within listening distance, and heard the following address to candidate I now baptise you in the name of the Father and the Son, and into the hole you go.

What and When to Eat, is the title of an exchange. The when never gave us any trouble in our eating, but we have been compelled to do a sight of skirmishing after the what. Burlington Hawkeye. Somebody asks What is warmer than a womans love? Two womens love. Get two women after you and the heat will be found somewhat oppressive.

Physicians Have Found Out That a contaminating and foreign ele ment in the bloody developed by indiges tion, is the cause of rheumatism. This settles upon the sensitive sub-cutaneous covering of the muscles and ligaments of the joints, causing constant and shifting pain, and aggregating as a calcareous, chalky deposit which produces stiffness and distortion of the joints. No fact which experience has demonstrated in regard to Hostetters Stomach Bitters lias stronger evidence to support than this, namely, that this medicine of comprehensive uses checks the formidable and atrocious disease, nor is it less positively established that it is preferable to the poisons often used to arrest it, since the medicine contains only salutary ingredients. It is also a signal remedy for malarial fevers, constipation, dyspepsia, kidney and bladder ailments, debility and other disorders. See that you get the genuine.

KABBIED. GIBBS HICKOX In Sacramento, August 6th, 1887, Mr. Geo. Gibbs of St Helena, and Miss Irene Hickox, of Sacramento. NEW TO-DAY.

F. HABERMEHLS Sausage Factory! AND Delicacy Store, BROWN STREET, next to Seeley Bickfords Bank, Napa City. Canned and Cured Meats, Fish, Fruits, Pickles, etc. Will also keep constantly on hand a full stock of SAUSAGES of all kinds; also Tripe Ham, BaconCheese, etc. Also, Fresh Oysters and Dressed Chickens at the lowest prices.

The finest quality of goods at the lowest prices. FRED. HABERMEHL. novlS MESDAMES BOKE PACCAUDS MUSIC SCHOOL, MADAME PACCAUD will be pleased to receive pupils at her residence on First street, next to Mr. Souther febmm" 'S'.

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