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Los Angeles daily herald., 1874-09-17
Compulsory Temperance a Failure.

What has become of the temperance
crusade? Has the scheme failed and
have the apostles of temperance found
cause that pays better, on which to
expend their eloquence and energy L?
kilograms from the East no longer
announce the surrounding of saloons
by troops of female crusaders, and we
no longer hear of startling conversions
from the whisky selling business.
What does all this mean? Has the
attempt to hold the mirror up to ma
ture and show vice in all its hideous-
ness, proved useless Have the great
moral teachers and the enthusiastic
moral disciples tainted in the good
work and fallen by the wayside, or
have they discovered that they started
in wrong? In our own State, Local
Option, q plant of rank growth and
brilliant promise, has disappointed its
friends and supporters by shrinking,
withering, dropping, dying. Where
it is law it is hardly enforced, and in
no town or county can majority be
obtained in its favor. Why is this +?
The cause is as good, the evil as great
and the demand for reform as impera-
tive now as six months ago. When the
first attempts to enforce the law were
made, the HERALD expressed doubts as
to its power to reach the evil, but we
urged fair trial of the experiment
and implicit obedience where the ma
jority decided for no license. The trial
has been made and the general i'm
preston is that it is failure-that we
cannot legislate mems appetite out of
them nor morality into them. 1t all
comes back to this: We may lead a
horse to water but we cannot compel
him to drink. Moral suasion and ed
ucation are the only effective temper
ance advocates. We may persuade a
man not to drink, but our command
that he shall not drink he defies. The
correctness of this theory is strongly
exemplified in Los Ange les. Here
where Local Option could not be car
ried under almost any circumstances
the temperance cause is progressing
steadily, we may say, rapidly. The
moral suasion of the Good Tenn
plars is inducing drink men-men
who have been in the ha t of getting
drunk-to take pledge not to drink
and keep it. This is the only effect
i've mode of warfare that can be used
against intemperance. Persuade men
to abandon the vice by contrasting it's
evils with the purity and happiness of
a temperate life.
Los Angeles daily herald., 1874-09-17

THE Express continues to exasperate
over the HERALDS refusal to credit it
for the meager and often incompre-
hensible dispatches it prints and we
sometimes copy. Now there is no
reason why our contemporary should
get excited. There is no actual value
attached to those dispatches, and while
we do not question the Express as
sertion that it pays for them, we must
be permitted to say that in doing so it
affords the most indisputable proof of
being in condition that demands the
appointment of q guardian for its af-
fairs and the consignment of its man
ayers to the com mmonwealth's home
for idiots. The newspaper pur-
loiner of those dispatches after contin-
uing the custom for one year could not
be held for petty larceny, because
there is no value in them. The reader
will observe that the HERALD pub
fishes about three times as much dis
patch, as well as three times as
much other reading matter, as the
Express. We all cut out of the Bulle-
tin, and the HERALD's scissors are
longer than those of the Express.
That's ALL
Los Angeles daily herald., 1874-09-17

THE celebration of Mexico's dis
REIMBURSEMENT from the domination
which was consummated on the 10th
of September, 1910, was duly celebrat-
ed by the Spanish Mexican population
of this city and county yesterday
The ceremonies were commemorative
and tasteful. The speeches and songs
were appropriate and given in feel
ing and pleasing manner. The car
containing America" with Liber-
ty" and "Justice " on either side,
representing the different States OF
Mexico, were the most tastefully and
beautifully decorated chariots we have
ever seen. The procession was or
derly and highly respectable, both in
numbers and appearance.
Los Angeles daily herald., 1874-09-17

II is understood that parties owning
large interests in the Panamint mines
are completing arrangements for
hauling large quantities of ore to the
water at Wilmington, whence it will
be shipped on board the Panama
steamships and sent on to Swansea,
England, where it will be thoroughly
tested and the value of the mines es.
tablished. A number of teams about
San Bernardino are already engaged
to do the hauling and will commence
work in few days. We presume this
enterprise has been inaugurated at the
suggestion of Senator JONES, who has
invested heavily in those mines.
Los Angeles daily herald., 1874-09-17

THE statement made in yesterday
mornings HERALD to the effect that
the nearest water to Mrs. STEARNs'
mill, during the fire the other night
which the firemen could find was dis
tant from the flames just far enough
to require every foot of hose the Fire
Department had in use, was some-
thing of mistake. The water used
happened to be that first found, and as
the hose was found sufficient no other
water was sought for. But if needed
it could have been found. The inn
mense well at Mr.. BEAUDRY's water
works is less than half the distance
from the mill that the hose of the De-
partment will reach.
Los Angeles daily herald., 1874-09-17
Railroad MEETING in Portland.

PORTLAND, Sept. 14.-The meeting
of the citizens in favor of the Portland,
Dalles and salt Lake Railroad on Sat-
urday evening was largely attended.
A resolution was passed that the Leg
islature should SO modify the aid
heretofore granted toward the con-
struction of the road so that the con-
sideration for work to be performed
may be available, as the work pro-
crosses, to a sum not to exceed $50, 1000
per annum, and should appropriate a
sufficient sum of money to defray ex-
penses of prosecuting this important
enterDrise
Los Angeles daily herald., 1874-09-17
Spbltualism.

EDITOR HERALD: Your correspond
ent, "Homo," seems to be waiting for
"the key" to the discovery of mans
Immortality. Allow me to say to
him, he needs no key. All over the
world "the gates are ajar." Step in,
friend Homo, and prospect for your
self. Your own good judgment will
tell you when you find the true gold
INVESTIGATOR.
Los Angeles daily herald., 1874-09-17
lncendlary Attempt at San Leandro.

SAN LEANDRO, Sept. 14.-Between
IL and II o'clock last night an at
tempt was made to burn the bakery
shop OIL. Musler,b by igniting some coal
oil which had been poured on the cor
ner of the building. The flames were
discovered in time to be easily eXtin-
guished. 1t is supposed that the OBJ
ject of the incendiary was to plumber
the surrounding buildings during the
excitement.
Los Angeles daily herald., 1874-09-17
MARRIED..

RAMSAU AUR-WALKER.-At Los Nietos, on
Wednesday, Sept. 10th, by Rev. P. o. Clay
ton, Mr.. w. p. Ramsaur, of Ventura, to Miss
Florence e. Walker, of Los Nietos.
Los Angeles daily herald., 1874-09-17

At camp-meeting near Freestone,
Sonoma county, few days ago, two
tents, with their entire contents, were
destroyed by fire. The fire occurred
about midnight, and the inmates mar
rowly escaped injury. Their clothing
and bedding were consumed.
Los Angeles daily herald., 1874-09-17

Only $65,000 more is required to
complete the Santa Cruz narrow-gauge
railroad, and arrangements have al
ready been made for obtaing that
amount
Los Angeles daily herald., 1874-09-17

On Sunday, the 9Th instant, terri
BILE tragedy was enacted near Jackson,
Amador county, by the shooting and
killing of John Ratio by Giobatto De-
voto. Both the slayer and the slain
were regarded as peaceable, law-abid-
ing men. Devote has left for parts
unknown.
Los Angeles daily herald., 1874-09-17

The Marysville woolen-mills are
running to their utmost capacity.
Orders are on hand which cannot be
filled before the first of December.
sixty men are employed.
Los Angeles daily herald., 1874-09-17
WAN T ED.

T OST.-A BLACK COAT, on the Anahem
4 Road between the Seventeen Mile House
and city, containing letters and a note for $500
in favor Of VIM. Bush. The finder will be
literally rewarded by leaving the same at
this office, or with WIN. BUSH,
Sepl6-2t" Santa Ana.
The daily phoenix. [volume] (Columbia, S.C.) 1865-1878, 1874-01-06
acknowledgements R.por,..

leicxra phic-COmin Reports.
LONDON. January 5-Noon Street
discount a.ic. below bank rate. Consols
9l5s@92. 5s 103lS
PARIS. January 5. 5.-Rentes 59f. 55c.
LIVERPOOL. January 5-Noon.-Cot-
ton quiet and unchanged; sales $4,000
bales; speculation and export 2, 900; up
lands. nothing below good ordinary, to
be delivered in February or March,
Z 1916; ditto. shipped in December or
January. 8; Orleans, nothing below
good ordinary, shipped in December or
January. 81; sales include $500 bales
of American.
L1vRnroon. January 5-Evening.-
'Cotton-sales of uplands, nothing be.
low good ordinary. shipped in Decem-
Der or January, 6; ditto, shipped in
January or February, 8 1-1e; ditto,
shipped in February or March, S1k;
ditto, to be delivered in March or April,
9; ditto. nothing below low middling,
deliverable in January. 1916; Orleans,
nothing below low middling, delivera.
BILE 10 March or April. 8as.
NEW YORK, January 5-Noon. Gold
opened at 11si-now 11sa. Stocks
active but lower. Money leaned ut Ga
7. Exchange-long 4S3; short 1877
Governments dull. State bonds quiet
The daily phoenix. [volume] (Columbia, S.C.) 1865-1878, 1874-01-06
HO! FOR CHRISTMAS! !!
christmas comes but once a year,
And when 1t comes. it brings good cheer"


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MONEY, o p
80
per finest.
Ool'ng Tea, sl20 pound-hnt.
P%HGIE6 qS q p 81 COFFEE Fl e.! s3s ana CENTS p % pouna
Parched Gov nment Jaya4O Ocentspe
Rio Coffee
CSUGAR II cents pound per
Ex Sugar, III tail
per l;retall
Crushed 12 60
+: 4: Ferris Co.'s New cured 15cen
CHEESE,
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centsp epoupd
BACON SHOULDERS. 81
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CANNED the echocestb bran in endless
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The daily phoenix. [volume] (Columbia, S.C.) 1865-1878, 1874-01-06

Mess Mackerel.
En KITS extra mess MACKEREL, for
w sale by HOPE QYLES.
The daily phoenix. [volume] (Columbia, S.C.) 1865-1878, 1874-01-06

1ADaID. January 4.-The Anal aud
cisive. vote by which CASTELAR, was
aaten in the Cortes stood 100 to 100,
BsEhe majority against him being 20. in.
stead OF 100. rs first reported. As soon
as the result was announced, General
Pavia sent an officer to the chamber
With letter demanding q dissolution of
The Cortes. Senor Salmeron and others
1rged CASTELAR, to continue in power.
lut their prayers were refused; where
lpon g company OF the municipal guard
entered the palace of the Cortes and ex-
oelled the deputies. General Payia.
'ith his etaf, held position outside with
!. .annon pointed at the building. It is
expected that the new Ministry will be
composed Of Conservatives and Radi.
Gals, with Marshal Serrano as President.
MADRID. January 4--Midnight.- The
new Ministry has been formed as fol-
!, lows: President, Serrano; Minister of
goreign Affairs, Sagosta; War, Seavala;
Justice, fignorola; Agriculture, Be-
cara; Finance. Echegerry; Interior,
Garcia Rsoise; Marine, Topete. All the
strategic points OF the city were oocu.
Apied by the military last night. The
chief civil and military aathoritieS OF
Yu0"AAy "h Ho'GtcsAucoS III COmnuOlCA-
ton with Madrid have telegraphed to
Genera! Pavia their approval OF his con
duct Mo- disturbance is reported in
any quarter. The transmission Of pri-
vate kilograms has been temporarily
suspended.
LONDON, January ga Times special
from Madrid says it was Marshal Ser.
ramos wish that CASTELAR, should be a
member OF the new Ministry, but the
latter refused to again accaptthe office.
On the defeat of CASTELAR,, and previous
to the interference of General Pawn,
the Cortes elected Senior ,Hotania Presi.
dent Of the Cabinet. .J7s
A Ne'0s special says the Republican n
force besieging Cartagena accepts the
new Government. The national n,ilitia
in Madrid is being quietly disarmed.
The daily phoenix. [volume] (Columbia, S.C.) 1865-1878, 1874-01-06

|
without personal commitment for or
against it. It is stated in other quar-.
ters that the action is in the line of con-
ciliation, and was prompted by tho reso-
lutions Of the Virginia Legislatures
Sorle Virginia Republicans were pro.
minont in the movement.
A bill was introduced in the House
To-Day authorizing the President to ap-
point commission to investigate the
subject OF wages and hours OF labor,
and OF the Joint profits of labor and
capital between the laborer and capital
ist, and the social, educational and sani.
tary condition Of the luboring classes of
the United States.
Treasurer Spinner leaves here to-
morrow for Florida, for the benefit of
his health.
The Internal Revenue Office was
closed to-day in respect to the memory
OF the late Deputy Commissioners Sweet.
| The House Committee on Appropria.
tons this morning, in discussing the
army appropriation bill, cut out all esti.
mates for the armament of coast FORTH
cations, except suoh ns were deemed
absolutely necessary for the national
safety. A great many forts, it will be
remembered. during the Virginius OK. w
citement, were ordered to BIZ mantled.
and the effect OF the action of the com.
mittee will be to let them remain as
they were heretofore.
The Senate, to-day, was principally
engaged on the salary question, but nu
action. Wright Of Iowa, introduced o
resolution instruoting. the Committee on
Civil Service and Rtrenchment to in.
qulre into the expediency OF making o
reduction Of ten per cent. on the sala :
ries of all the Government officers.
Bogy made speech on the finances, in
which he complained of tho unequal
distribution OF the currency to the de-
triment of the South and West.
Bishop Wilmer visited the President
The daily phoenix. [volume] (Columbia, S.C.) 1865-1878, 1874-01-06

Commissioners being divided in OPT
MON. Mexico claims that, under the
treaty of Guadalonpe, the United States
pledged themselves to forcibly restrain
incursions into her territory, and that
whenever such raid could not be pre-.
vented, the Indians should be punished
! by our Government, and satisfaction for
the same exacted. The Unitod States,
on the contrary, insist that our Go.
vernment could not promise to do for
Mexico more than it wns required to do
for our own citizens, and therefore no
damages could be claimed Should, as
it is expected, the umpire decide against
Mexico in the pending case. Mexico will
present the samo principle rs an answer
| to the United States for claims of da-
IMAGES to citizens of Texas, growing out
of tho incursions OF Mexicans into that
State on the Rio Grande borders.
The Senate Judiciary Committee has
had several meetings during the recess,
| at the residence of Senator Edmunds,
and considered the bankrupt bill. Yes
terday. they met at the capitol, and fur
ther discussed that measure, with O
view OF perfecting and reporting it to
the Senate at an early day. The esti-
mates OF the Light House Board have
been out down about 81, ,0OO. 900. leaving
them one.half the sum estimated at the
| beginning of the session.
CHICAGO. january s 5.-Bshop Cheney,
OF the Reformed Episcopal Ohuroh, TO-.
day administered the rite Of oonfirma-
tion, after the form adopted by the new
church. to forty,five persons, ut Christ
Church. which was crowded with people.
SAN FRANCISCO, JANUARY Two hun-
tdfed pounds Of giant powder exploded
r. Nevada mihe, killing two and in
luring others. A 200 foot shaft was
destroyed. ~
WAsatNdToN. January 5.-The at
tendance, IN the House is very thin.
Tho usual call OF States is progressing.
The friends OF the supplemental Civil
Rights bill havo no doubt OF its passage
tomorrow, at. 4 o'clock. The general
Carson daily appeal. [volume] (Carson City, Nev.) 1873-1877, 1874-11-25
DIED.

In Carson City. on Tuesday, November q,
1874. JOSE phiue, daughter of Mr.. and Mrs
Joseph Platt, aged years and % days.
The funeral will take place from the residence
of the parents at o'clock this afternoon.
Friends are invited to attend
In Carson City, on Tuesd'y night, November
q, 1874, Eddie, only son Of Mr.. and Mrs. D.
G. kitzneyer, aged yesrs and q days.
Scarlet fever was the cause of little Eddie's
DEATH We deeply sympathize with the be
reaved parents. We could no. learn when the
funeral will take place.
Carson daily appeal. [volume] (Carson City, Nev.) 1873-1877, 1874-11-25

MORE SCARLET FEvRR.-Mr. Jacob
Muller has five or six sick ones in his
family-all down with the scarlet fever;
and one of Mr.. Dan kitzmeyer's chill
dren was reported very dangerously of
with this awful malady last NIGHT.
Carson daily appeal. [volume] (Carson City, Nev.) 1873-1877, 1874-11-25
AN INSANE MANS KILLED on TIE
c. p. RAILWAY.
Probable Suicide.

John Egsers, a Swiss, who has been
engaged in ranchino and hay-makinu Oh
| Cold Creek, White Pine county. having
gone mad from natural causes, was ad-
judged insane by the District Court for
that county and ordered to be conveyed
to the Asylum at Woodbridge, Califor-
MIA. Accordingly he was placed in the
| charge Of Mr.. Jacob Bellrude, Under
Sheriff Of White Pine county. and that
| officer stlrte! at once with lis charge.
About ! o clock on Monday night, Bell
| rude being overcome with fatigue aud
loss of sleep, put Eggers in charge Of an
acquaintance, and lay down for a short
nap. At station about eight miles
east of Reno, Bellru,ie was wakenea by
the stopping Of the train, and getting up
he failed to find either Eggers or the
man in whose keeping he lad left him.
After a hasty search through the train
he told the conductor that he must be
set back to the station where ELgers had
got off, but the conductor r5rij-ithat he
had better come on to Reno and take the
eastward bound train. H lii! So and
giving the needed directions to the Ell
Sineer and conductor, and stati0ning
himself on the lookout FIR hi; man, he
retracel lis course. When near the
place where EcgeIs GOT of, the train, !
which was C0irt slowly for fear Of run |
ming over I'll" poor man. waS suddenly /.
stopped, and N-llru.." Was informed that /.
man answering lis dissertation had .
just been struck and knocked iuto the /
ditch, This proved to ke true and .
E-Gers being lifted into til baggage car
WIS found to 10 severely bruised about /
Carson daily appeal. [volume] (Carson City, Nev.) 1873-1877, 1874-11-25

PEEsoyAL.-Nr. G. W. Bryant, Of the
Mint, has returned from the Bay. Hon
J. +. johnson of Genoa was il town
yesterday. Hon. James W. Haines of
Douglas passed this way Yesterday Ell
route to San Francisco. He paid the
APPEAL Office a visit.
Carson daily appeal. [volume] (Carson City, Nev.) 1873-1877, 1874-11-25

SAM WRIGur's CHILDREN, We are glad
to learn, are much improved. Sammy,
the younger one. was thought, yesterday
to have passed the crisis OF his disease.
Johnny Is convalescent.
Carson daily appeal. [volume] (Carson City, Nev.) 1873-1877, 1874-11-25

JOHN NEE, for assault and battery
was fined $50 by Mr.. Justice Witherell
yesterday. He paid it like little man.
Carson daily appeal. [volume] (Carson City, Nev.) 1873-1877, 1874-11-25

The E1EcCCIo., which is soon to take
place-that OF JOHNNY Murphy fur
nisLes in Itself another of the manifold
reasons why the county jail should Be
further removed from the business part
Of the town and provided with commo-
dious yard. As it is, this wretched man
must be taken from the Jail in broad
daylight upon the most frequented and
populous street Of the place, paraded in
presence of men. women and children,
right through the heart of the town, and
hanged i'll full sight Of everybody who
chooses to witness the execution. Ger
tainly we hope that the hitherto mooted
proposition to sell the present comfy
buildings and erect q new Courthouse
and Jail with the proceeds of the sale
may be fully and earnestly considered
between now and the time for the adj
tournament of the Legislature.
Carson daily appeal. [volume] (Carson City, Nev.) 1873-1877, 1874-11-25

All LuN, an Empire chicken thief,
was convicted yesterday in the District
Court. of burglary. He will be SEN
fenced in due time and form.
Carson daily appeal. [volume] (Carson City, Nev.) 1873-1877, 1874-11-25

+. FRED. BROOKS is in San Francisco
making his regular annual holiday pur-
chases. We may expect Fred to open
rich in the toy and notion line when his
goods arrive and are put on exhibition.
Carson daily appeal. [volume] (Carson City, Nev.) 1873-1877, 1874-11-25

RICE & HELMS WATER WoEKs have
put in an appearance on Carson street.
A numerous gang Of workmen were En-
gagged yesterday in digging trench for
the pipes, adjusting the same, and other
wise carrying on the work. Weather
permitting, this undertaking will be
completed in very few days
Carson daily appeal. [volume] (Carson City, Nev.) 1873-1877, 1874-11-25

III OPERATION @. feeling that Wild
cat at Gibson 4 Dsa,y's has to be car
red on At the end Of a stick-that is to
say, il the feeder IS at all particular about
having his hand. clawed. We saw
him fed to 4 chunk Of meat about as big
rs mans fist. Yesterday. He was tor
tGred into fury Of impotence and ex-
pectancy until, when the meat was
poked within his striking distance lie
lit out with one OF his unerring paws anl
nipped his allowance Of beef as deity rs
. tame cat catches a mouse. He Is a
splendid specimen Of lis species, fat,
sleek and Of fine coating. still we are
not anxious to sleep with him. and If he
were to dispute orr ri-At Of way into
Democratic coHv-Uti7u ~ faro game,
we should respectfully decline any con
troversy with him.
Carson daily appeal. [volume] (Carson City, Nev.) 1873-1877, 1874-11-25

y No LIVES were lost in the recent eaatl-
quake il Mexico.
Carson daily appeal. [volume] (Carson City, Nev.) 1873-1877, 1874-11-25

VERY SUDDEN DEATH EEoI SCALLIT
TEvE1.-Jo5spLinc, the Oldest child Of
Mr. and Mrs. Joseph Plat, died very
suddenly yesterday from an attack Of
scarlet fever. It was taken on Saturday
last, and yesterday morning was thought
to be better. This wes 4 very bright and
beautiful little child, about years of
age, and its loss is a sore bereavement to
its parents.
Carson daily appeal. [volume] (Carson City, Nev.) 1873-1877, 1874-11-25
HOTEL ARRIVALS.

oRMsnr HoUsz-GEonGr D. FRYER. Proprietor
The New Orleans bulletin. [volume] (New Orleans [La.]) 1874-1876, 1874-07-04

Advices from Central Asia indicate that the
long-expected struggle in that quarter Of the
world is about to commence. For some years
Russia has made steady advances toward the
frontier of British India. To counteract this
movement it is now said the British have
stirred up the natives to revolt against their
Russian masters, with the view of stepping in
at the right time, should the latter be defeat
ed, or some other contingency arise, and by
treaty or annexation, or both, so extend their
influence as to render further Entertainments
of Russia in that quarter impossible. Both
England and Russia are doing all they can to
secure predominant influence in Asia, and
who knows but that the present complications
win lead to war between them, the result Of
which win give ono Of thu o1her a those ma
lions snpgeme control in AsiAn aAaixa