FOR THE SANTA BARBARA SUFFERERS. - The Mechanics' Fair will close to-morrow evening, but will open on Monday for one day, and the proceeds of that day are to be sent to the starving unfortunates of Santa Barbara. The employees of the Fair will give their services gratis, so that the result may be as large as possible. We take pleasure in publishing their names: J. F. Sterling, B. Mackeon, R. Liddle, W. Evatt, J. McKinley, P. B. Comins, H. Gale, H. Maddern, Thomas W. Dickens, George Sturtevant, Daniel L. Perkins, C. H. Bartlett, C. Smith, J. Lang, N. Byron, J. G. Lambert, James Dunning, J. B. Bowers. Whether the Pavilion Police will add their names to the this list or not is not yet ascertained, but it is supposed they will not hesitate to do so. Mr. Woods will give the gross receipts of his Napa Soda fountain for the day; these sometimes reach forty and even fifty dollars a day, but on the occasion in question they may double these figures, for people will then drink soda whether they feel like it or not. We understand that all exhibitors whose wares produce a revenue, have also cheerfully signified their willingness to turn Monday's receipts over to this home charity. We shall publish their names in time to give people a chance to hunt them up and make them do a land office business. Mr. Halstead, the elder man, refused to be counted in this list, however, as we are informed by the Secretary of the Fair. We shall look for a generous turn-out on Monday in favor of our suffering citizens of Santa Barbara.
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THE JEWISH NEW YEAR. - This evening, as the sun goes down, the Israelites will begin to celebrate the advent of the New Year, according to their peculiar chronology, with religious services, which will be continued through Saturday and Sunday following, at the hours of eight A.M. and six P.M. of each day. This holiday is generally observed by the adherents of Judaism, although not strictly required by their Church rules. Business is not suspended when it works any considerable inconvenience. Jom Haddin, as the day is called, is observed as the anniversary of the Creation of the World, and is believed by the Jews to be a kind of judgment day in Divine Economy. The year about to be inaugurated numbers 5,625 from the era of creation. Their religious almanac gives seven leap years, consisting each of thirteen months, in a period of nineteen years, viz: The 3d, 6th, 8th, 11th, 14th, 17th and 19th; the ordinary year, like ours, consisting of twelve months. The extra month in leap year is inserted between the sixth and seventh. The year begins on the day of the first new moon after the Autumnal Equinox. The Jews of this city will meet for religious services at their two Synagogues, and at other appointed places.
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THE REFINEMENT OF CRUELTY. - The necessity or at least the custom which has grown to be a part of our nature, of having flesh diet, while it involves the necessity of destroying animal life, does not warrant cold-blooded, savage barbarism, such as is sometimes seen among those whose vocaton familiarizes them with scenes of brute suffering, and as a consequnce, in a measure deadens their sensibilities to the agonies of their victims. A man engage in slaughtering cattle at at the Potrero yesterday was observed to do an act which capped the climax of cruelty. A person passing the establishment, hearing the machinery of death working within, paused for a moment to witness the operation. A rope leading from a cog-wheel windlass passed through a ringbolt in the floor, and was made fast around the animal's horns, in the pen adjoining. By this the beef cattle are drawn into the slaughter house and brought close down to the ring, rendering it utterly incapable of resisting, and there dispatched in a manner that leaves little room for suffering. As a bullock was being drawn in to the ringbolt, the man referred to stoody by the door which opened out into the cattle pen, and when the poor brute was within reach slipped a butcher knife into its right eye as unconcernedly as if his natural impulses had no other vent than this species of refined cruelty. Such devilish ingenuity would have become the palmiest days of the Inquistion.
[Not in Branch's list. Transcribed from microfilm, p. 3.]
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HUMAN GREATNESS AND THE FINE ARTS. - Among the numerous contributors to the galleries of Art at the Pavilion, two distinguished names have thus far been passed over in silence. No tribute of praise has been accorded to the productions of the pencils of Emperor Norton and Washington the Second. Royalty and philanthropy have turned aside for the moment to patronized the muse of the studio, and have condescended to exhibit their cartoons to the world. The productions of these illustrious artists are worthy of especial attention, for the reason that the closer they are examined, the more their merits don't become apparent. The designs represent landscapes, and exhibit some of the eccentricities of [design? partially illegible] both in conception and execution.
[Not in Branch's list. Transcribed from microfilm, p. 3.]
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DAY OF ATONEMENT. - At about sundown on Sunday, the 9th of October, the Jews will enter upon the observance of Yum Kippoor, or Day of Atonement, which lasts until seven o'clock on the evening of the next day, (Monday, 10th.) For twenty six hours they will not touch food. This fast is rigidly observed by all those who have any regard for their religious ordinances. Services will commence at their different appointed places at seven o'clock, A.M. of Monday, and last continuously until sundown, after which they may break their fast and make up for lost time. Healthy human appetite is like steam in a boiler over a furnace, it gathers a head by being kept in.
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DOG THEFT. - Yesterday, as detective Officer Blitz was walking up Washington street, he met a man, towing a stately San Bernard by a rope, and recognized the brute as his own property. Mr. Brumagim, the banker, has been keeping the dog for the past year, and the animal had doubtless been stolen from the premises; his new possessor, the corn medicine peddler, whose name is S. Sayer, said the dog was his, and refused to deliver him up to Blitz, but the intelligent animal recognized his old master, and refused further allegiance to his new one. Blitz arrested Sayer, and locked him up on a charge of larceny -- grand or petty, according to the size of the dog.
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CHINESE HUMOR. - Officer Cody says some gay and sportive Chinaman burned Cayenne pepper in the Chinese theatre on Jackson street, night before last, and the result was the that sing song discords of the actors were drowned in a mightier discord, violent sneezing and coughing, and the smothering audience fled in confusion and dismay from the building.
[Not in Branch's list. Transcribed from microfilm, p. 3.]
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