Show t t I 1 A J i THE california lla LICK THE man people of san francisco and of california generally aig are very much exercised concerning their millionaire mr james lick mr lick was very sick a tim time baek back and be he concluded to give away most moa of his vast property before he died for divers benevolent ne and public purposes such as for an observatory at lake to certain asylums and relief societies to found an old ladies Ladie sHome home for establishing tab lishing and maintaining iree ilee free baths for certain monuments and for fon a school of mechanical arts etc his relatives vero were cut off with paltry sums of from 2000 to i each I 1 the property was turned over to seven trustees nominated by him and they went to work to dispose of it according to the behest As the business proceeded mr lick became dissatisfied with the action of the trustees quarrelled quarrel led with them and finally wrote to them that when he executed the deed of trustee supposed he had but a short time to live and the instrument was made without due consideration but his health improving he had concluded to rectify serious mistakes and errors in the instrument and he be wished the trustees to stay their work I 1 to resign and to reinvest him with the subject of the trust that he might administer ad minister it in accordance with his more matured designs and that the works of benevolence contemplated therein might t be well started while he was alive the trustees decline to resign stating that they had no power to do so nor to to mr lick the subject of the trust mr lick immediately had a revocation of the trust trus A filed in the recorders office the trustees declare that they will contest mr licks licka action in revoking the deed ot trust in the courts to the extremity of the law which shows that they dont like to give up the handlin handling of a handsome property liko ilke that altogether it is a very pretty guarrel and neither mr lick nor the trustees are likely tomake tomako to make much moral capital out of it I 1 nearly two pages ol 01 the alabama state journal fourn cd montgomery of saturday are filled with sales of real estate for city taxes ex judge s E R hoar says he is glad giad to be out of public life he becomes once more a sovereign and is a servant no longer mr george L mosher of bay city 1 michigan Aich igan recently caught in lake huron a trout 40 inches long and weighing 40 ibs lbs the governor of missouri has vetoed the tho bill authorizing the lessees lessels of the state penitentiary to work the th a convicts in any part of the state the toronto globe calls on all canadians to rise and spell it wants that yankee institution the skule introduced in the dominion |