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Los Angeles daily herald., 1874-04-10
Sad Accident.

The Phoebe New Record of April
LIST has the following: A sad accident
occurred yesterday. at the Meadow
Valley shaft No. 7. A man named
Chris Peterson was engaged in either
hooking or detaching the bucket,
when, from some cause or other, a
piece of the shaft timbers became de-
tached and fell on him from great
distance. The piece of timber, we
were told, one of the guides, struck
the unfortunate man on the leg, COM
pletely smashing the knee joint. So
soon as practicable the sufferer was
brought to the surface and taken to
the hospital. Drs. Deal, Bergstein
and Philson held a consultation, and
it was decided that the only chance to
save the poor mans life was immedi-
ate amputation of the injured limb.
This was skillfully performed by DR..
Deal, assisted by Drs. Bergstein and
Philson, and the patient made as COM
Portable as possible. The shock to the
nervous system was, however, SO great
that the injured man seems to rally
very slowly, and at the time of this
writing is in a very critical condition
indeed. We were informed that at
the time the accident occurred and
some time previously, he had been
working for the contractors who are
running the Hume & Hunt tunnel No.
7, and was steady, handwriting
man,
Los Angeles daily herald., 1874-04-10
Curious Case.

In 1870 Elizabeth Smith. of Chicago,
made up her mind to get rid of her
husband John. She went to secret
working divorce lawyer and paid him
SO to secure her freedom. John heard
of the matter, and so convincingly
promised reform that Mrs. Smith paid
the lawyer $40 more and told him to
drop the proceedings. The husband
thereafter behaved himself, and the
pair lived happily. Lately he sold a
house, and in the transfer of the title
arecord was found of "a divorce granted
in 1870 between Elizabeth and John
Smith. The lawyer had already got
the decree when the lady changed her
mind, but did not tell her so. So they
had been living together over three
years unmarried. They went at once
to a minister and were married over
again,
Los Angeles daily herald., 1874-04-10
gos Angelss Aerala.
OLD AND BLIND.

Gallant Gray-beard, can't you see,
You unconscionable bat, you
While you play the devotee,
That the girl is laughing at you"
You were handsome in your day,
You are well preserved and thrifty,
And your manners, one may say,
Are superb, but-you are fifty!
Don't be foolish, now you're old,
Flirting in this feeble fashion,
Trying on hearth grown cold
To re-light boyish passion.
Yon have had your day of youth,
With its tender freaks and fancies;
You have known woman'S truth,
And have lived Loves sweet romances
Ay, know her lips are red;
True, her curls are black and glossy;
Yes, she bears dainty head,
And her eyes are sweet and saucy.
But she knows you act part,
While you try to tease and please her.
Knows, Old Make-believe, your heart
Is as dead as Julius Caesar.
Knows it, though simple girl,
And is laughing while you inger;
Knows 1t well, and, like curl,
Winds you round her jeweled finger
But if you must act part
II you cannot drop your feigning,
reign you have not in your heart
Such a thing as love remaining.
Come and stand with me, my friend,
She'll permit you-never doubt her?
Do as do and pretend
Not to care q fig about her
-lDr. Holland, in Scribner's for April
Los Angeles daily herald., 1874-04-10

a cotton-growers' association has
been organized at MERGED City, for the
purpose of testing the capability of
Bear Creek soil for the production of
cotton. They will plant several hun
dred acres this season.
A correspondent at Fort Klamath,
ueder date of March 7th, writes that it
has been showing there without cessa-
ton since February 2Sth. The snow,
by actual measurement, was five feet
81 inches deep upon the parade ground.
If man bores an artesian well and
finds plenty of water, and another
man bores an artesian well near the
first and gets plenty of water, after
which the first we'll ceases to flow,
what is to be done about it? That is
what a couple of men over at San Ber-
nardino are trying to find out.
The Union says the "wild man.
recently captured about twenty miles
from Woodland, and now in Jail at
that place, is thought to be Wells, the
Sacramento murderer 1t is said that
he has been wandering in the noun
tains in that vicinity twelve or thir-
teen years. Two Sacramento police
men are going over to look at him.
In the gizzard of a chicken killed in
the town of Poygen the other day,
were found the following articles:
Fifteen pins, piece of copper wire, a
hoo -and-eye, a piece of glass, mar
BILE, large button, needle and
piece of tin. 1t is supposed that a lit
tie boy had been swallowed by the
chicken and everything but the con-
tents of his pockets digested.
A bet was made at Gold Hill, New,
that man named Wallace could not
in an hour pick up one by one hun
dred stones placed in straight line, a
yard apart, and carry them separately
to a box placed at one end of the line.
The trial took place on one of the
grades east of the town. Wallace ac-
complished the feat in fifty-one min
utes. The distance travelled was 10,-
600 yards, or little less than six
miles.
Kern county can represent some
twenty different localities in which
rich extensive quartz mines have been
discovered, during the past few
months, and the miners are only wait
ing for the melting of the snow before
they commence "the rush, to the
new mines. Considerable prospecting
is now being done on the mountain
sides below the present snow line. A
three hundred dollar prospect from one
of the newly discovered districts was
shown to us yesterday with the remark
that there were .many more lodges
that produce thousands of tons like
it.n Everything considered, the
Southern mines are bound to be the
fields of attraction this year Miner
of the 2Sth.
Los Angeles daily herald., 1874-04-10
Lusus nature.

The French town of Issoudun boasts
of the most wonderful lusis natura
of the age. 1t is young girl fourteen
years old, whose body, from the
waist downwards, is double. and pre-
sents two parts acting Independently
of each other. The two legs she uses
for walking belong each to a different
trunk, whilst third is quite insensible
to pain. She enjoys good health.
Los Angeles daily herald., 1874-04-10
PROFESSIONAL CARDS.
DIR. M, s, JONES,

FORMERLY OF ST. LOUIS, Mo-,
Il has loeatad in Los Angeles, where he
will give his special attention To diseases of
the Eye, Ear. Nose and Throat.
OFFICE: Spring ST., opposite Temple Block.
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Los Angeles daily herald., 1874-04-10
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And other freight, will leave San Francisco
for San Pedro and San Diego and all Way
Los Angeles daily herald., 1874-04-10
Tuesday, March 2Ath.

Returning, will leave San Pedro Tuesday
March 3lst. il.i fo 81 tsff t%8I
The CALIFORNIA has recently been fitted
up especially for Stock boat, and has ample
accommodations for 5000 Sheep.
Los Angeles daily herald., 1874-04-10

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The daily Argus. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1873-1877, 1874-12-30
THE GRASsKOPPER.
It's History and Peculiar Habits.

Ny position in charge of the Immigration
Bureau of Nebraska, one of the states raw
aged in part by the grasshopper, has led
me to enquire into the history and peculiar
habits of these destructive insects,
| have consulted many persons who have
given the subject much attention for many
years. The statements and opinions of
these numerous persons do not entirely
harmonize, but they agree substantially in
the most important respects.
The abiding home of the grasshopper is
found on tie high, dry plateaus of New
Mexico and Arizona, and the southern foot
hills of the Rocky Mountains. There they
are altcdys, for tits TIER congenial home.
In some seasons, especially adapted TO this
end they multiply with astonishing rapid
", and become too numerous to subsist.
Then, like bees, they swarm and migrate
to other countries. They follow no rule of
emigration, but go with the wind They
fly until they become weary and hungry,
aad then drop down 10 rest aud eat They
do not all 90 at once nor to one place
They become widely separated and much di
vided after starting bu. in almost any case
whether the grand army or SOME principal
detachment. they are as the sands Of the
sea, myriads of millions. Coming in the
distance they look ike light cloud rapidly
riding on the wind. and under the blazing
noon day sun they glitter like snow fakes.
extending from hear the ground to the
height Of half mile, but east a gloomy
shadow en- the earth. When they drop
down to feed. every green aud gay thing i
covered in momeni, and the earth is gray
and dismal Only few things do they
disrelish-as sorghum, brOomcOrn,a and tie
peach. Wheat aud cats, when the straw
or grain is green, are devoured in few
hours.
When the straw or grain is somewhat
dry and tough they eat of the stem just
below the head. and the grain falls TO the
ground.
Corn is their staple. they go for the
tassei and silk lifthese are Quit, then the
tender grain; scrambling aud crowdins
each other like hungry pigs. They ART
very fond of potatoes, beans, and cab
bage, but onions are their most delicious
morsel, -they viii dig into the ground for
the last particle.
Usually they remain not more than
The daily Argus. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1873-1877, 1874-12-30

twenty-four to forty eight hours in place,
If the weather is warm and the sky clear
but sometimes a week, if the air is chilly
and yery damp, and the sky cloudy. Al
Ter leaving their native home, they have
never been known to propagate in their
colonies more than three years, and that
Int twice in the history of the United
States. Somewhat more frequently they
have been known to hatch during the sec
ond wear. But out of twenty swarms this
has happened only three times In other
cases they have ended their existence ana
their race, in any given place, 10 one year.
Of those which invaded Nebraska this
year, 1874, the first swarms laid eggs 10
several counties; but the long dry fall
hatched them out, and thus stopped fur
Their production.
The swarms that came last seemed to
have been Matched too far north and too
late 10 the season to come to maturity, and
consequently they laid no eggs. All per-
ished in the first trosts
It will be several years before their
native land will be overcrowded, and when
they rise up to migrate they will be as
likely to 90 Ia one direction as another
From extensive correspondence 10 Ne
braska. Kansas, Iowa, and Minnesota, it is
ascert..ined that no eggs have been laid
that will hatch next spring, except in a
part of one county 10 Kansas.
Ever since the year lS49 the plains have
been Travelled over constantly, and the
movements of this Desert Locust, as it
should be called, have been noted In all
this time there has been no such devasta-
ton as this year, nor is it likely that there
will be a recurrence Of this calamity Tor
many years, and let US hope never.
The numb.r of persons made destitute
and dependent on aid from abroad for the
next six or eight months is not very fully
ascertained. But for the last two or three
years there has been heavy tide Of immi-
grafton to the interior and frontier OF this
fair State, where millions of rich acres
have been awaiting the brave pioneer, and
the number who must be helped or suffer
actual hunger and nakedness will probably
be found to between 5000 and 10000.
To all these the State Aid Society will is
sue an allowance of food for about 200
DAYS. Clothing also sufficient to prevent
suffering will be judiciously, bestowed
through the same efficient and wafchnui
agency, and seed to plant the smitteh ois-
trict will be furnished either py tne otate
or Nation, or both, and be equltaply dls-
tributed. when this calamity will be over
past, and Nebraska be herself again.
P J. II. NoTEwARE.
State Superintendent Of Immigration,
Nebraska
The daily Argus. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1873-1877, 1874-12-30

Edwin Forrest never received high
err compliment than that once Intentionally
paid him by one of those much abused but
necessary lesser lights of the dramatic fir
mament. super. 1t was at rehears-
al of "Richelieu," and the great tragedian
whose uncertain temper made him the ter
ror of bunglers, was standing in the wings
with folded arms and trowning brows,
watching the progress of the piece, when
it fell to the lot Of the super to enter and
announce. His Eminence, the Cardinal
Duke dc Richelicu.' Shambling on to the
stage with the indescrbable slouch of hi,
kind the super drawcd out his lines, anc
was going off when Forrest, strlding for
ward in his most majestic manner thund
cred, mo, sirrah, no! That is not the
proper manner in which to announce the
Cardinal. Look you, sirrah enter thus
Assume your position thus, and then an
nounce, His Eminence, the Ca-ardinal,
Duke de R-r,r-ichheu.u thu. cannot
you d. that, sirrah 2? mo, can't,
drawled the super IF | cud |
wouldn't be playin' here fur six d9iIa, a
week
The daily Argus. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1873-1877, 1874-12-30
The Farmers Went Back on Him.
In 8. M. Smiths letter to the Industrial
Aoe, making an attack on The ARGUS

referring to Gen. Elliott, he says
quote from one Of the many letter. donbled
ter the election: I'VE could have easy Snt our
our vote for congressman and &c deemed II safer
90 LEI them stsv there II an to call them out to wore
Tor men who. Il eiected would vote against the VI
TAI principle In our reform movement
Smith has exposed his little game by
making the above extract public. The
farmers were given exactly the candidate
they clamored for. l. A practical, work
ing farmer, ., A man of brains and ed
ucation. 3, A man of Republican ante
cedents. 4. A man with splendid war
record, and one of the most gallant and
braye fighters in the war. 5. A man
who was an able and earnest supporter OF
every vital principle in their creed. And
the trickster who writes the above extract
to Smith says "we could easily have dou-
bled our vote for congressman and soma
tor" but would not do it. That extract
alone is enough to show the treachery to-
wards man who possessed every requisite
for the position. The treachery Of pre-
tended friends of the farmers movement
beat Elliott-men who wanted the place
for which he was, without solicitation, nom.
mated. They could not bear to see this
gallant man walk into the position they
had been laying their wires to secure. and
Smith has let their game out by publish
ins the extract above quoted from his let
ter. If any more evidence of the treach-
cry of professed friends were needed, Smith
furnishes it in his last sentence of his let
ter, as follows:
Every man connected with the farmers move. .
ment would, under the circumstances, have been
perfectly justified in Withholding their votes from
Gen. Elliott. That 60 many OF them did not do So
was owing to the political record OF his opponent,
s. NJ. SMITH.
KEwANEE, Dec. 14th. 1S74
The daily Argus. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1873-1877, 1874-12-30
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The daily Argus. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1873-1877, 1874-12-30
ANOTHER
OPPORTUNITY

To INVEST \ FEW DOLLARS, WITH POSI-
BILE RETURN OF THOUSANDS, Is OFFERED
BY THE DISAPPOINTMENT OF PUBLIC IL
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MONEY II TIE DRAWING SHOULD NOT
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The daily Argus. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1873-1877, 1874-12-30

The same week that Gen Elliott and Danforth |
had an interview at the Harper House on the eve |
ming of March 18th lasting until midnight, he, Dan.
forth told gentleman Of Henry that Gen Elllot
must be our candidate for congress- IS. NJ Sn'ah!
Nearly all the interview" alluded to was
in room in the Harper House having two
beds in it, and occupied by Elliott and
Smith together, and the interview was as
much with Smith as it was with Elliott.
Smith heard all that was said, and partlcl.
pated in the conversation, and nothing OF
the kind alluded to by him occurred. Eli
lott never mentioned the subject of the
congressional nomination or alluded to it.
He was asked his opinion as to candidates,
and he replied that his judgment was
that the matter should be left to develop
ITSELF" He said ''he thought the people
would make better selection if there was
no effort made to force any man into prom
inence-let the matter take care Of itself
1t was suggested to him that his name had
been mentioned in connection with the
nomination. lie ridiculed the idea, and
said he was not a candidate This covers
the whole conversation on that point, eth
er in Smiths presence or out OF it. Dan.
forth never told q gentleman OF Henry
county, or of any other county, that 'El
lott must.be our candidate for congress,
nor anything that sounds like it-nor did
he attempt to dictate or to influence any
body in relation to the nomination OF Elliott
or anybody else Smith says:
win the gentleman say that at that interview the
subject Of Gen Eliiotts candidacy was not mentioned
and that the Generals views ON the currency as eX-
pressed in his speeches since, was not the ground on
think not nor do l think TnE ARGUS viii have the
hardihood to deny that the comfy convention which
elected the delegates to the Princeton convention.
was packed in the interest Of Elliott by THE ARGus.
and because OF his known views on the currency
question.
The subject was not mentioned except as
related above-nor was THE ARGUS pledg-
ed to support Elliott or anybody else. The
convention was not packed in the interest
of Elliott" or anybody else Elliott s
views on the currency question were Meth
er known or talked of, nor was it known
who the delegates would vote for. There
was, to our knowledge. very strong feel
ing among the delegates in favor of nom
mating Judge Peasants, Republican
though he wasl, and had he been nomina-
ted by our convention at Princeton and ac-
cepted the nomination, it would have
pleased TIE ARGUS very much, and he
would have cheerfully had all the support
this paper could have given him
The daily Argus. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1873-1877, 1874-12-30
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The daily Argus. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1873-1877, 1874-12-30
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The Wheeling daily register. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1864-1878, 1874-04-03

THB attitude OF the Christian Church
toward smusemeuts is the suggestive
title OF a lecture that has recently fur
nished the New York press with few
pegs upon which to hang some thoughts
moro or less wise. Por-
teous, . divine whose sentiment
will necessarily shock those "unco
good" folks who see Tophet in the
drama, and everlasting perdition in the
farce, but nevertheless greatly please
the more liberal portion OF the COM
munity. The reverned gentleman tskes
distinct issue with the old spirit OF an
tayouism to amusements and sensuous
enjoymeots. He considers them not
only perfectly legitimate, but beneficial
and iutrinsically he regards the theatre
IS neither wicked, vicious, nor bad. He
comedies that evil mingles With the
good OF the stage, but it is the mission
OF the Church not to condemn the good
on that account. What it should do
is to accept and encourage the good. and
mako it q basis for the eradication oil
the evil. --..