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Los Angeles daily herald., 1874-07-09

CONGRESS has made a new appro-
priation of 100000 for defraying the
expenses incurred in surveying Gov
eminent lands. OF this sum, 100000
are to be expended in surveying public
lands and $4,000 in the survey of
private claims. The appropriation is
now subject to the order of the United
States Surveyor-General, and We
would respectfully call his attention
to the fact that he may judiciously
and beneficially expend a portion of
it in the southern portion of Califor-
MIA. There are in the southern coast
counties q number - in fact,
great many - townships that have
never been surveyed. That this has
so long been neglected works serious
injury to the country in the way of re-
tarding the settlement of the lands in
question. If this item meets the eye
ofthe Surveyor General, and of course
it will, we trust he will give our sug-
gestion due consideration.
Los Angeles daily herald., 1874-07-09
Cotton Culture.

The few experiments in Gotten
growing yet made in this valley, have
been so successful that persons fa-
miliar with the business, unhesitat-
ingly express their conviction that at
no distant day, cotton culture will be-
come leading industry in this part
of the State. The soil and climate is
all that could be desired for the busi-
ness. Colonel STRONG of Merced
county, who has done more than any
other man on the Pacific Coast to DEM
onstrate that California will become q
great cotton State, publishes an arti-
Gle in the last number of the Overland
Monthly, in which he affirms the sue
cess of cotton culture in California as
established, and illustrated by the fol-
lowing comparative table, the esti-
mates being based upon facts within
his personal knowledge, and he be-
lieves them to fairly represent the diff
ference of advantage between the Sec
tions compared, leaving out of calcu-
lation land rent in each case, and as
suming the land to be owned by the
cultivator:
Value of crop produced in Merced
county by two men-thirty. five
bales, at $50 per bale, on farm....... 80, 90 90
Net value of 200 bushels of wheat pro-
duced by same men and team...... 200 90
Harvest labor of two men without
team, three monihs.......... ........... 3l2 90
1 al or II, ~ nrn of Crrsli ~
ing, etc, four months................... 800 90
Total worl, of two men for one year. 1882 90
Less expense StX-horSe team five
menths, at S50............".....S 30
Less feed of same, five months,
at S00................ ......-......,........ 200
Less expense paid for hoeing
cotton ..........:"...... ............ lo0
Less expense paid for picking
cotton ............."..... .....".. l,Oi0
less expense of ginning and
baling cotton........................ lSj
Net result representing wages and
subsistence, rent, etc.................. sl957 90
Or, for each man. s9,7s SO
Value of crop produced in Tennessee river
Valley, north Alabama, by two men:
bales cotton, at $50 per bale, on farm e2i0 90
bus..eI, on farm I35 90
40 dozen er..................".""... 20 00
Total product of two m, n, one year. $685. 90
Less 20 per cent. on value of mule. $50
Less feed of same. one year...... 70
Less ginning and baling. ............ 20
I25 90
Net result representing wages, subss-
tcnce, rent, $40 90
Or, for each person. Sl35 90
Value Of crop produced in Mississippi river
bottom, Crttenden county, Arkansas, by two
men:
Is bales cotton, at $50 per bale on
IdCll. SSUU w
Less 20 per cent on value OF mule 30
Less feed of same, one year ....... 75
Less extra plcklng........................ 12S
Less ginning and baling........... 10
Jos 90
Net result representing wages, subsis-
tence, rent, ,etc......................... SOY W
Or, for each s296 00
Excess of wages, through production,
ofCallfornia over north Alabama
for two 81, ,6S7 90
Or, per man Si3 30
Excess of wages, through production,
river bottom, for two men ...........,. 1855 90
Or, per man 6S2 50
Los Angeles daily herald., 1874-07-09

REV. OTIS GIBSON, who conducts
the Chinese Mission on Washington
street, San Francisco, remarked few
days ago that "not one German in a
thousand was good citizen" This
is about the quality of sentiment one
would expect a fanatic to entertain.
The Rev. Otis GIBSON does not be-
lieve that class of foreigners, with
white skins, educated in the same
code of morals and worshiping the
same God with ourselves possesses the
principles and qualities requisite for
making good citizens of Republic;
hut he does believe that tribe of
pagans, who laugh at our religion,
sneer at our customs, detest our laws,
and hold it virtue to steal, possesses
the elements for making citizen and
sta tesmen. The Rev. OTIS does not
like Germans, and he does like Chi
nese. He would do this country q
service by leaving it, and he might
add to the material of the Celestial
fool-killer by returning to China.
Los Angeles daily herald., 1874-07-09
Pacific Coast Items.

The Napa Plow Company have COM
menced building operations.
The usual annual cloud of gnats is
beginning to swarm from the lake.
side into Lakeport.
A man named John Stewart, ma
tive of Texas, committed suicide at
Timbuctoo on the lst inst.
The house and premises of Manuel
| Amego, in East Petaluma, was burned
on Friday. Loss, $1,000.
The Census Marshal of the Petaluma
School District, reports l52 children
as not attending school last year.
Census Marshal Rich, of the Nevada
School District, reports 1872 children
as not attending any school last year.
At the recent election for school
trustees at Gilroy, Volney Howard
and VIM. Wilson were the choice of
the citizens.
b. Philbrick has purchased the
ground in San Luis Obispo on which
to erect an iron foundry and machine
shop.
VIM. p. Harrington, Jr., Cashier of
the Colusa County Bank, was elected
School Trustee of Colusa county on
the 9th of June.
The change in the county line be-
tween Plumas and Sierra counties
gives Sierra township $4,000 addi-
tiOnal assessment.
The new line between Mariposa and
Merced, own u by Parker, Hunt ey
and Barlow, commenced running on
the 1st instant.
The dwelling-house of Jerry Fay, on
Sonoma Mountain, eight miles from
Petaluma, was destroyed by fire on
Friday. Loss, $4,000.
A man named Patrick Hanon,
working on the farm of J. b. Hoyt,
in Montezuma, Solano county, was
killed by sun-stroke last Monday.
They are having spell of hot
weather in Stanislaus county. In
Modesto, three days last week, the
thermometer ran up to 1912 in the
shade.
The new petitions for the removal
of the Butte county seat are now in
circulation. In few hours on
Wednesday over 800 names had been
signed in Chico.
The city authorities of Salinas have
purchased about two acres of land at
the corner of Gabilan and Capitol
streets, stones addition, as site for
the new school edifice.
On last Tuesday a fire broke out in
the wheat field of George Hoag, of ia
cinto, Butte county, and fifteen acres
of grain were destroyed before its raw
ages could be stopped.
On Thursday morning, at about s
o'clock, a miner named Humphrey
King, working in the stope on the six
hundred foot level Of the North Star
mine, Grass Valley, was caved on and
instantly killed.
The Rincon School District, Of Lake
county, contains forty-seven children
of school age. The election for School
Trustee resulted in the choice of DIR.
M. H. Hall. He received 80 votes out
of 120.
School Trustees were elected last
week in Sonoma county as follows:
Wilson District, A. j. Spaulding; San
Antonio District, James Hayes; Marin
District, w. w. Chapman, H. d. Gill
bert, Chas. King.
Alvinza Hayward is building a fif-
teen hundred dollar road from his res
idence at San Mateo to the beach.
He will Immediately commence the
construction of a wharf, warehouse,
and boat-house at the terminus of the
road.
Coons have been making depreda :
tions on the poultry in the vicinity of
Goodwin's Ranch, near Petaluma.
Within a week, George Judkins has
shot and killed three of the animals
while they were prowling around at
night
Los Angeles daily herald., 1874-07-09

How easy it is for people to be mis-
taken is illustrated in the case of the
half-idiotic old man, KosH, who was
arrested some time ago at Salt Lake
on suspicion of being the old fiend
BENDER. The latter is said to be in
telligent in appearance, of good adj
dress and affable in manners; yet
when KosH was first taken those who
knew BENDER were so confident that
he was the man, that strong guard
was necessary to keep them from
hanging the old man, who was as
much unlike the Kansas fiend as chalk
is unlike cheese. The BENDERs are
still at large.
Los Angeles daily herald., 1874-07-09

A JUVENILE wedding took place
near Visalia the other day. DAVID
SLINKARD, aged seventy-seven, led to
the the altar the blushing Mrs.
FRANCIS GRIFFITH, aged seventy
two. External love in loves fresh
case, weighs not the dust and injuries
of age, nor gives to necessary wrinkles
place, but makes antiquities for aye
his pagei finding the first conceit of
love there bred, where time and out
ward forms would show it dead"
Los Angeles daily herald., 1874-07-09

PHILADELPHIA has an active and
industrious ring of thieves in her city
officials. Her present debt is S60,0O0,-
900, and her taxable property is only
about half that of New York. The
annual expense of the city govern
ment is S2O,OOO,OOO, and the rate of
taxation is now 81 20 on the S1OO.
Los Angeles daily herald., 1874-07-09

The voters of San Ramon School
District, Contra Costa county, at the
recent Trustee election, exercised their
discretion and privilege under the
new school law in electing Mrs. j. O..
Boone to the office of School Trustee,
to fill the place made vacant by the
expiration of the term for which it
had been filled by her husband.
Los Angeles daily herald., 1874-07-09

AT IL o'clock on the night of June
2Sth barn in the rear of the residence
of A. j. Winslow, at Petaluma, was
discovered to be on fire. The flames
were eXtinguished before much dam
age was done. 1t was the work of an
incendiary, and is the fourth time that
the premises have been set on fire
within year.
Los Angeles daily herald., 1874-07-09

THE editor of the New York Sun
will feel like q whipped school boy
when he sees late number of the
the Placer Argus, and reads the casti-
CATION that paper gives him. 1t was
very foolish on the part of DANA to
rouse the ire of the Argus man.
Los Angeles daily herald., 1874-07-09
Relative Cost of Gas.

The following are the current rates
paid for gas per 1000 feet by consum-
ers in the twenty-four cities named.
1t will be seen that the people of Los
Angeles pay few cents-a fraction
more than those Of any other city:
Los Angeles daily herald., 1874-07-09

The Odd Fellows Library of San
Francisco contains 25,141 volumes,
and is in very prosperous condition.
1t has never been beggar and has
never invoked the aid of lottery.
Los Angeles daily herald., 1874-07-09
FOR EICN.
French Politics.

LONDON, July S.-A Paris dispatch
says the Right and Left Centres have
agreed to defend McMahon's powers
from all attacks of his opponents.
Los Angeles daily herald., 1874-07-09
Vocal and Instrumental Music

RECEIVE PARTICULAR ATTENTION.
TNHE FIRST TWENTY WEEKS SEES
L sion of the scholastic year, lS7I-75, COM
mences August 3d and ends Decembe 18th.
The second session commences January llth
and ends May 2S
The points in which Santa Barbara College
differs from most other educational institu-
tions are as follows:
!. Special attention is given to Physical Gull
ture In connection with the institution is q
fine gymnasium, fitted up with all the appar-
atus necessary for practising both light and
heavy gymnastics.
2. Modern languages receive special atten
ton. Those desiring will have constant OPP
portunity to converse i'll French, German and
Spanish.
3. Analytical Chemistry and Mineralogy
will be practically taught by the Principal
4. The Institution is not of q sectarian char
acter, and is governed by a Board of Directors
of eleven of the most prom nent citizens.
o. Books and stationery are furnished TO all
the pupils free OF expense. Pupils, in addi-
tion to their ordinary wearing apparel, fur
nish only pair of blankets.
Each pupil will have q separate sleeping
room, well ventilated and lighted.
ELLWOOD COOPER,
... Pre- ident Board of Directors.
G. z. TEpBETrS, Secretary.
Bsr For further particulars, write for cata-
logues. jy7 lw"
Los Angeles daily herald., 1874-07-09
NEW ADVERTISEMENTS.
Celebration of Independence.

For the proper celebration n good cigar is
indispensable. have.j just received an entire
new stock of Imported and Domestic cigars
and cigarettes, which will sell at very mod
GOLDSMITH'S,
Main ST., adjoining w. F. & Co.'s Express.
til-tf-3
Los Angeles daily herald., 1874-07-09
Masonic Notice.

Los Angeles Lodge No. AZ, +. d A. NJ
The stated meetings of this Lodge are held on
the first Monday of each month at 1870 p. M.
Members of Pentalpha, No. 202, and all Mas
ter Masons in good standing are cordially in
vited. S. c. FOY, w. NJ.
CHAS. SMITH, Secretary. f4 ao2S-ly--6
Los Angeles daily herald., 1874-07-09
NOTICE.

TNHE SAN PEDRO IRRIGATING COM
L pany, principal place OF business being
Compton, Los Angeles county, State OF Cali
fornia. Notice.--There is delinquent upon the
following described stock, on account of as
sessment levied on the 23d day of May, 1874,
the several amounts set opposite the names
of the respective shareholders, as folows
Los Angeles daily herald., 1874-07-09
WANTs-LosT-EouNp.

NTANTED. "A YOUNG MAN WANTS
w employment as a clerk in a store, or
is willing to do anything Address, through
Postoffice, slt
jy3 lw-l CHAS. II. GORSUCH.
Los Angeles daily herald., 1874-07-09

VIyANTED-FARM TO RENT, WITHIN
w ten miles OF this city, furnished with all
kinds of Agricultural Implements; the farm
to contain not less than seventy-fve nor more
than one hundred and sixty acres. Address,
ATEX. CAMP, l.. A. P.sO. je e20-l%
Los Angeles daily herald., 1874-07-09

And in accordance with the law, and an Or
der ofthe Board of Directors, made on the 23d
day or May, 1874, so many shares of each par
Gel OF such stock as may be necessary will be
poration, in Compton, said county and State
on the 10th day of July, 1874, between the
hours of O'Clock a. NJ. and O'Clock p. NJ. of
said day, TO pay delinquent assessments there
on, together with costs of advertising and ex-
penses of the sale. r
c. w. TWISS, Secretary.
Compton, Los Angeles county, Stale of Cali
ifornia, July 3, 1874 jy3 l0t-S
The Donaldsonville chief. [volume] (Donaldsonville, La.) 1871-current, 1874-05-02
The Cost of Royal Honors.

The income of the newly married pair in
England is reported at 100000 a year,
with town and country house in Eng
land, and two also in Russia, good slice
of which comes from the royal exche-
quers.
Another favorite Of fortune is General
Wolseley, late commander of the English
skirmishing party i'll Ashantee, who is to
be promoted to a major generalship, IN ad-
dition to receiving an annual pension OF
$37, 800, gold value This viii give him
about $3.50 in gold per week, for life, and
all for bravely beating an unorganized
horde of savages. Should Wolseley live
for forty wears to come, his emeluments
from the late campaign will aggregate
81, ,700, 900, not counting the interest. As
money doubles every ten years, and as he
is to receive salary and pension as ne goes,
should they double only once in forty
years, that would increase the figure to
So, ,400, 900.
The expenses of the Ashantee campaign
are officially announced at 81 900 600. Gen.
Wolseley's presence at Ashantee must,
therefore, eventually cost the British Gov
ernment almost as much as all the remain
der of the expedition. Placing his emolu-
ments at ST 200, 600, and the other expenses
of the expedition at $4, ,000, ,000, ,andWe have
total of S., 100000. General Woiseley's
pay will just be S100 per day for every day
in the week except Sunday, and $50 for
Sunday, while the pay of the soldier who
took part in the campaign viii be about
shilling day. ~
The Donaldsonville chief. [volume] (Donaldsonville, La.) 1871-current, 1874-05-02
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Taxable BachelOrh0od.

A writer in Lippincott's says: sin
these DAYS of revenue discussion perhaps
some of our Congressional financiers may
borrow hint from a deputy in the
French Assembly, who, being husband,
and Herewith also father OF seven chill
dren. thinks of demanding that capita
tion-tax be placed on bachelors. Starting
with the mournful assertion that there are
in his country at least two million men
who are not married, and are yet arrived
at mems estate, ne proposes that these dill
atory or reluctant members Of society
shall annually pay SO head for their priv
ilege of single blessedness. This tax
would produce revenue of about Sl6,-
000,000 Now, the question that will arise
in the readers mind is as to when this Gull
pate state of celibacy begins. You obVlc
ously can hardly tax young man OF
twenty-odd on the grounds that he does
not marry, q hen the poor fellow might be
only too glad to do so. On the other
hand, it is equally clear that the line must
be drawn somewhere. With commend
able moderation, and even with degree
of mercy, the French deputy fixes the age
of thirty-iYe as the one beyond which
disposition to celibacy may be suspected
as already confirmed. There would be
many arguments pro and con regarding
the Justice of drawing the line at ffve-and-
thirty-and in fact the question may be
confidently commended to the notaee OF
debating societies of mixed academies
but meanwhile it would at least gives an
! official date for taxable bachelerhood,
The Donaldsonville chief. [volume] (Donaldsonville, La.) 1871-current, 1874-05-02
How the Eye is Swept and Washed.

For us to be able to see objects clearly
and distinctly, it is necessary that the eye
should be kept clean. For this purpose it
is furnished with a little gland, from which
flows watery fluid (tears) which is spread
over the eye by the lid, and it is afterward
swept off by it, and run through hole in
the bone to the under surface of the nose,
where the warm air, passing over it while
breathing, evaporates it. 1t is remarkable
that no such gland can be found in the
eyes of fish, as the element in which they
live answers the same purpose.
If the eye had not been furnished with
liquid to wash it, and lid to sweep it off,
things would appear as they do when you
look through dusty glass. Along the
edges of the eyelids there are a great num-
ber of little tubes or glands, from which
flows an oily substance which spreads over
the surface of the skin, and thus prevents
the edges from being sore or irritated, and
it also helps to keep tears within the lid.
There are also six little muscles attached
to the eye, which enable us to move it in
every direction; and when we consider the
different motions they are capable of CIV
ing to the eye, we cannot but admire the
goodness of Him who formed them, and
thus saved us the trouble Of turning our
heads every time we wished toyiew an OBJ
Loot
The Donaldsonville chief. [volume] (Donaldsonville, La.) 1871-current, 1874-05-02
FOREIGN.

A large portion of an exploded steam boil
er was recently driven through school-house
in Hamilton, near Glasgow, Scotland, and
three of the scholars were killed and some
thirty more or less injured.
The Welland Canal was opened for naviga-
ton on the 9th.
The death of Senator Sumner was officially
commemorated at Port au Prince by draping
the public buildings in mourning, and an I'M
pressive funeral service took place at the
Cathedral, during which minute guns were
fired from the Notifications around the city.
Serrano's campaign against the Carlists has
proved failure, and it is stated from Mad
rid that General Coneha had gone to succeed
him.
A Berlin dispatch of the 10th says that
compromise has been effected on the military
bill, by which the most serious obstacles to
its passage have been removed. The Govern
ment has accepted an amendment proposed
by Liberal members of the Reichstag, limit
ing the total strength of the army to 100000
men, and period of service to seven years.
1t is stated that this compromise was due to
the fact that Bismarck had distinctly warned
several Liberal Deputies who called upon
him, that he would resign in favor of Gen.
eral Manteuffel, unless the military question
was settled.
Jean Luie and Captain Brown, two wit
nesses for the Claimant in the Tichborne case,
have been found guilty of perjury and sem
fenced to five and seven years penal servitude
respectively.
DR.. Livingstone's funeral is to take place
on the 18th.
A telegram from Calcutta on the 11th re-
ports that the famine is everywhere under
control. The accumulations of provisions
made by the Government were more than
sufficient to meet the demand, and further aid
and subscriptions in England were considered
superf1uous.
1t is stated that the Carlists have rejected
proposals made by Serrano, for peaceable
adjustment of the difficulties in Spain.
1t is officially announced from Havana, that
all slaves furnished the army in Cuba win be
organized under white officers, to serve five
years, and then be regarded as free. Their
compensation viii be the same as that of reg
ular troops, Free coIored persons who enlist,
will be assigned to transport duty.
Adviees from Rio Janeiro report that the
Brazilian Government has pardoned the Bish-
op of Pernambuco.
The Emperor Francis Joseph has sent a
eonciliatory reply to the Pope's recent pro-
test against the ecclesiastical law. 1t is un-
derstood that the opposition of the Vatican
is merely formal. The Upper House of the
Reichsrath passed the ecclesiastical bills,
whereupon the Bishops withdrew in body.
The French Government has issued cir
cular prohibiting attacks by papers upon the
septennat, and declaring that President Nc
Mahon's powers are incontestible.
The Carlist force before Corona has retired,
the municipal authorities having paid them
| 100 600 reals.