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Los Angeles daily herald., 1874-07-08
THE COMET.

Apropos to the occasion, we reproduce the
following choice bit OF verse, from the pen of
one of our most gifted poets, Oliver Wendell
Holiness:
The comet! he is on his way,
And singing as he flies;
The whizzing planets shrink before
The spectre of the skies.
hh well may regal orbs burn blue,
And satellites turn PALE
Ten million cubic miles of head,
Ten billion leagues of tail!
On, on by whistling spheres of light
He flashes and he flames:
He turns not to the left or right,
He asks them not their names.
one spurn from his demoniac hoel-
Away away they fly,
Where darkness might be bottled ND
And sold for "Tyrian dye"
And what would happen to the land,
And how would look the sea-
Ifin the bearded DEVILS path
Our earth should chance to be?
Full hot and high the sea would boil,
Full red the forests gleam
MethOught saw and heard it all
In a dyspeptic dream!
saw a tutor take his tube
The comets course to spy;
heard a scream.-the gathered RAYS
Had stewed the tutors eye!
Shw a fOrt,--the soldiers all
Were armed with goggles green;
Pop cracked the guns! WhiZ flew he balls.
Bang went the magazine!
l saw a poet dip scroll
Each moment in a tub;
| read upon the warping back,
The Dream of BeelZebub."
lie could not see his verses burn,
Although his brain was fried,
And ever and anon he bent
To wet them as they dried.
l saw the scalding pitch roll down
The cracking swathing pines,
And streams OF smoke. like water-SpOut,
Burst through the rumbing mines.
asked the firemen why they made
Such noise about the town;
They answered not, but all the while
The brakes went up and down.
l saw roasting pullet sit
Upon Il baking egg;
saw n cripple scorch his hand
Distinguishing his leg.
L saw nine geese upon the wing
Towards the frozen pole;
And every mothers gOsling fell
CriSped to a cracking coal.
saw the OK that browsed the grass
Writhe in the bliStering rays,
The herbage in his shrinking Jaws
Was all a fiery blaze.
i saw huge fi~hes, boiled to rags,
Bob through the bubbiing brine;
And thoughts of supper crossed my soul,--
had been rash at mine.
Strange sights! Strange sounds! fearful
dream!
Its memory haunts me still;
The steaming sea, the crimson glare
Ihat Wreathed each wooded hill.
Stranger if through thy Re cling brain
Such midnight visions sweep.
Spare. spare, . spare thy evening meal,
And sweet shall be thy eep!
Los Angeles daily herald., 1874-07-08
NOTES OF TRAVEL NO. 3.
White Sulphur SprinSs-COntemplate
Railroad - Strawberry Patch -
GrasshOppers-Esatt Para
disc.

In company with Mr.. Edgar Steele,
your correspondent had the pleasure
of visiting what are rapidly becoming
the famed Newsom Springs. They
are situated about twelve miles from
San Luis, in a branch of the Canon de
Arroyo Grande. They are commonly
known as the White Sulphur Springs,
and have no doubt but they will, in
% short time, rival the now noted
springs of Paso Robles, the medicinal
qualities of the two being equal, while
the temperature of the Newsom
Springs is much less than that of
PAso Robles, it being go, while the
latter is 1l00 A railroad project is now
being rapidly pushed forward from
San Luis, running east through the
San Luis Obispo valley to the Arroyo
Grande, down the arroyo to the coast,
thence south, entering the Guadalupe
valley on the west, thus opening COM
munication and assisting the develop
ment of one of the finest valleys in the
State. This road will be about thirty
miles in length, and as it is the inten-
llOn 10 dU once CONNECT the present.
landing with San Luis, more than five
hundred thousand acres of rich and
fertile bottom lands will be at once
thrown on the market.
GRASSHoPPERs.
Hitherto, Mr.. Editor, l have con-
fined myself entirely to the bright
side of the picture. 1t would be q
species of moral injustice not to pre-
sent to your readers the dark side also.
A very ancient historian records the
fact that after the visit of the lOcusts
in Egypt, "there remained not any
green thing in the trees, or in the
herbs of the field, through all the
land" and it would seem as though
the grasshoppers were endeavoring to
fulfil the Scripturalquotation regarding
the locusts. 1t is not an infrequent
sight in San Luis (as L can bear wit
ness) to see an Indian or Chinaman
busily engaged in the laudable occu-
patton of "herding" grasshoppers.
Parties in town, to prevent their little
gardens from taking wings and bid
ding an affectionate farewell to their
fond owners, keep man walking
around, armed with brush to keep
away the myriads of pests that there
do congregate. This, L must confess,
is not a particularly pleasing feature;
but am assured that with the culti-
walton of the soil this California
plague will cease to be. Hasten the
day when every nook and corner OF
Los Angeles daily herald., 1874-07-08
A North Carolina Wonder.
July I'd, 1874

From the Wilmington, N. c., Star.
At the house of a colored woman by
the name of Mag. Bluthey, on the cor
ner of Tenth and Wooster streets,
there reside colored man and his wife
by the name of Fisher, who are the
parents of a girl child about nine
months old, who is certainly one of
the greatest curiosities of the human
species that we have ever heard or read
OF. EX-Policeman William HI. Hai -
ris, who visited the house on Sunday
and examined the child, informs us
that its skin is perfectly white though
it's parents are both of q ginger-cake
complexion. Its form and features
are perfect up to the bridge of the
nose; the chin, mouth and nasal or
gan being not only we'll formed, but
rally handsome in their symmetry
and general appearance; but COM
menclng with the eyes, the face and
head has the appearance of an animal,
more resembling white bear than
anything else of the animal species our
informant could call to mind. The
hair is Of whitish color and like the
wool of n sheep. 1t eyes are round
and piercing. resembling those of q
mink, and revolve in their sockets in
very peculiar manner. They cannot
bear the light of lamp or candle, and
are instantly closed when one is
brought in the room, and are only
kept open in the daytime when the
room is somewhat darkened. 1t has
no eyebrows, and the lid is of pecu-
liar formation, in no particular resem-
bling the eyelid Of a human being. 1t
is very timid, and when anyone ap-
proaches it has the appearance and
actions of rabbit startled from its
lair. Here is fine field for those who
make human nature in its various
forms and peculiarities an object of
study and analysis.
Los Angeles daily herald., 1874-07-08
San BernardinO Items.
From the Guardian of July 4th,

from tnc Guardian OF july 4th,
Mr.. Goodcell has just finished burn
ing the largest brick-kiln ever burned
in San Bernardino, containing 260, 900
bricks. The bricks are of splendid
quality. Judging from their appear
ance, they are as impervious to water
as rock.
On the residence of Mr.. J. IT. Wood,
in Riverside, there is now a magnifi-
cent magnolia tree in full bloom. To
those who have never seen this pride
of the South, the beautiful and fra
grant magnolia, in full bloom, it is
well worth ride to Riverside to
see it.
A sad accident occurred on the
Mountain road on Tuesday. A team
ster named Nicholson was severely if
not fatally injured. While descend
ing the grade his wagon broke down,
and he was thrown beneath it, as he
thinks, though DIR. Cochrane thinks it
did not pass over his body.
The Guardian strongly favors the
construction of the Los Angeles and
Independence Railroad via Caion pass.
A very remarkable case of self-love
at Athol, Massachusetts, is mentioned
by the Boston Post. 1t is that of "a lad
who is literally, little by little, con-
suming himself. He is so much to
his own taste that he takes large bites
out of himself, and masticates bits of
his own person. In four years he has
reduced all the fingers on both hands
to stumps, and he is now engaged
upon the thumb of his left hand.
Whatever may be the scarcity of his
ordinary rations, that boy is provis-
ioned for his lifetime.
Los Angeles daily herald., 1874-07-08
Wheat Fields Devastated.

A correspondent of the Stockton In
dependent, writing from Pennington,
June 9th, says: A fire broke out
this afternoon which came near devas-
tating the whole country around us.
1t started on the ranch of Philip Lo-
ney, through carelessness in burning
weeds near the house. His whole 100
acres of wheat, which was in the
stack was burned. The fire ran east
and south over large sheep range,
owned mostly by Aug. Muller; then
to the ranch Of J. F. and n. Harrison,
occupied by VIM. Campbell. The
whole ranch (640 acres) was in grain,
and three-fourths of it was destroyed.
From here it caught in q field of rail-
road land, occupied by J. G. Schroeder,
and eighty acres of wheat was burned.
The fire was stopped by back-firing
from road running north and south
through Schroder's place. The yield
of the greater part of the grain-tields
burned over is estimated at an average
of about twenty bushels to the acre.
Had it not been for the fact that but
little wind was blowing at the time,
and from the almost superhuman eff
forts of at least three hundred persons4
there is no knowing where it would
have ended, for there is almost con-
tinual wheat field for miles east and
south. The extent burned over is four
miles long and from one and half to
two miles wide.
Los Angeles daily herald., 1874-07-08
Drs. STAIRWAY & JANcsO

CURGEONS AND PHYSICIANS.
OFFICE-Main street, above Caswell &
Ellis store. ms tf-2
Los Angeles daily herald., 1874-07-08

Apropos to the occasion, we reproduce the
following choice bit OF verse, from the pen of
one of our most gifted poets, oliver Wendell
Holmes.
Los Angeles daily herald., 1874-07-08
FOR SALE-TO LET.
A Nice Homestead For Sale.

CONSISTING OF TEN ACRES, WITH
~ brick house, stable and all conven-
fences, five acres in vineyard, ten bearing
orange trees on the place, and seventy-fo
other bearing trees of different varieties-En-
glish WalnutS, Pears, Peaches, Figs, Apples
and Oranges. Farming tools included The
place is about ten or fifteen minutes 'ralk
from the city, south of the Sisters Hospital.
Terms, S6,0n0; half cash, and long time on bal
ance. Enquire of
Mrs. MARY JANE DORIAN.
10 21rlW-IlLH
Los Angeles daily herald., 1874-07-08

Friedlander's annual grain circular,
issued on the second instant, gives the
following figures: "The total receipts
of wheat, California, from July l,
1878, to June 80, 1874, were sob, 291
centals; of barley, 1,2l1,062 centals; of
oats, 252, SIG centals; of flour, 40, 0,063
barrels. In addition we received from
Oregon the following: Wheat, 385, ,430
centals; barley, 3,096 centals; oats,
l46,O27 centals; flour, 14l, ,556 barrels,
and 100000 centals Of wheat from
Utah.
Our total receipts, therefore, foot up
$685. ,721 centals of wheat, 1,2l4, 15S
centals of barley, 39S,543 centals of
oats, and 6l2, 1877 barrels of flour.
Our exports during the same period
have been 7,2S9,279 centals of wheat,
500, 100 centals of barley, 26,6l7 centals
of oats, and 74,699 barrels of flour.
OF the exports of the past year, as
recorded above, 1907 centals of
wheat, 362,02S centals of barley, 5,S76
centals of oats, and 1858 barrels of
flour, were sent by rail to States and
Territories east of the Sierra Nevadas,
which have not heretofore been col
lated in the weekly exports.
Los Angeles daily herald., 1874-07-08
Los Angeles Petroleum Refining Co

AT A MEETING OF THE DIRECTORS
"A of the Los Angeles Petroleum Refining
Company, the Secretary was authorized to
sell limited amount of the Companys
stock.
Parties wishing to purchase stock are re-
queSted to call mt Temple & Workmans
Bank, where they will be accommodated.
BY order OF the Board.
Is. l.. PEEL, Secretary.
June IL, 1874. jn2S tf-4
Los Angeles daily herald., 1874-07-08
BEE RANCHES TO RENT.

TN THE DIFFERENT CANYONS OF THE
l. Verdugo Mountains, with plenty of pas
ture, wood and water. The ranches can be
obiained without other consideration than to
prevent the cutting and removal of the timber
from the premises. Apply to
T.. BEAUDRY,
Opposite the Pico House.
July "a, 1874. jy2 2w-2
Los Angeles daily herald., 1874-07-08
PROFESSIONAL CARDS.
DR.. j. w. OLIVER,

"OMGOPATHIST. Office and residence,
III brick building, east side of Spring ST..
between Court and First streets, Los Angeles.
ie lS-ly-24
Los Angeles daily herald., 1874-07-08
DIR. M. s. JONES,
Or. L. Dexter Lyford i,

DHYSICIAN AND SURGEON - OFFICE,
l. No. IL, Downey Block, Los Angeles,
California. Office hours-9 to ii A. NJ; to
and to = p. NJ. aD23-tf-2
Los Angeles daily herald., 1874-07-08
LINES OF TRAVEL.
LOS ANGELES DIVISION
SOUTHERN PACIFIC RAJ ILR0AD.
Anaheim Branch Railroad.

La M VA; & q: ;s
Los Angeles daily herald., 1874-07-08

A BARGAIN - 10000 TAHITI ORANGE,
IN Malaga. Mesilla and Sicily Lem
0ns, and Acapulco Lime Seedlings, in
boxes. The above are one-yearold seed
lngs, except the Lines, which are of
various ages. and the entire lot will be
sold cheap for cash, in order to make
room for grading the lots which they now oc-
cupy, by the undersigned, on Hill street near
First. A. S, SPENCER.
je 27-1m-334
The Portland daily press. [volume] (Portland, Me.) 1862-1921, 1874-04-07
BY TELEGRAPH.
MATTERS IN MAINE.
Especial to Press.1

lSpcCldl 10 TreSS.I
Generous Offer of Ex-GOvernor Coburn
WATERvILLE, April 6.-At their last session
the Trustees of Colby University voted to raise
100000 to endow three preparatory schools,
one at Waterville, and one each in the eastern
and western parts of the State. Hon. Abne,
Cobnrn, Vice President of the board, has given
another proof of his wise liberality by subscrib
ing $50, 900 for the endowment Of the Water
vile Classical Institute, J. II. Hanson, LID,
principal, on condition that $4,000 more shall
be subscribed to endow the two other institu.
lions. Measures will be at once taken to secure
this generous pledge by completing the sub.
scription thus auspiciously begun,
Snow.
Six inches of snow fell here last night, and il
looks wintersh again.
Augusta Items.
AUGUSTA, April Cool. c. P. Mattocks OF
Portland, has been engaged to give the Grafton
in this city Decoration day.
The Supreme Judicial Court closed its ses-
sion to-day. The fines and costs collected dur.
ing the .erm amount to 81, OS1.SS, nearly all for
violation of the liquor law.
(By Associated Press.)
Accident at Sea.
EAsTPoRT, Me-, April 6.-The schooner Wei.
come Home, Capt. Hatfield, from Windsor,
n S., for New York, was dismasted off Mt.
Desert and lowed into West Quoddy Friday
night.
KMeMAN, April GA fire Sunday afternoon
destroyed the residence of E. II. Hall. The
furniture was saved in damaged condition.
The fire is supposed to have originated in the
cellar by furnace. A very high wind prevail
ed. and it was thought at one time lthe whole
village would be burned. Loss $500; partially
insured
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MINOR TELEGRAus.

Sunday morning the store connected with
Hewitts Iron Works at Riugwood, N. j., was
burned. Loss, $4,000 There was hall over
the store occupied as church, and prepare
tons had been made for the Easter celebra-
ton.
The steamerG lasgow left forLake ports Monday
morning. All the crafts in that harbor are
being rapidly fitted out.
Judge Edmunds, the eminent spiritualist,
died Sunday.
After protracted spree, John Van Nest, a
Jersy City bar tender, pu. an end to his missr-
able existence with bullet through his brain
yesterday.
Frauds to the amount of $4,000 or 800 OOC
have been discovered in the National Bank OF
Brighton, the money being used by an official
in real escate business.
VIM A. Green becomes Chief Engineer OF
the Boston fire de artment to-day, the term OF
Chief Engineer Damrel expiring.
Three men were smothered and one nearly
killed at Bisbee's chemical works at Hunters
Point. N. Y. yesterday, while removing OBJ
structions from a still.
Captain Dunton of Bath, died at Bunaco and
was CURED there on the 9th of March.
A crevasse fifty feet wide and six feet deep
occurred in Bayou LafOurche, Louisiana, Mon
day.
The Mississippi Legislature has passed a
liquor license law.
The revolutionary movement ir Chiapos,
Mexico. is suppressed.
The bankruptcy proceedings against the
Spragues will be discontinued on Wednesday.
A settlement was arranged yesterday be-
tween Jay Cooke & Co.'S estate and the
Northern Pacific Company. by the estate tax
ing for It's advances to the railroad. its first
mortgage bonds.
The METHODIST ministers of Boston passed
strong resolutions Monday commencing and
encouraging the women's crusade in the West
against rum, which had drawn the traffic
from 81 towns, closed 1851 saloons and convert
500 dealers to God
The Portland daily press. [volume] (Portland, Me.) 1862-1921, 1874-04-07
SECRETARY RICHARDSON
The QuestiOn-.-Will He Resign Z
RUMORS, ETC.

NEW YORK, April f.-Washington specials
renew the report that Secretary Richardson
will resign at an early day. In case Secretary
DelanO should succeed him Gen. Bristow of
Kentucky and not Eugene Hale of M aine
would probably be nominated Secretary of the
Interior
The President saws that Secretary Richard
son will retire voluntarily. if at all.
The Times says edtOrialy that if he goes he
Banield should join the retiring party.
The Tribune's " ashngton special says that
it is generally believed that Senators Morgan
and Logan received an intimatiOn in an inter-
view last week with President Grant that he
would not sign any bill providing for expan-
sion to any extent, and it was rnmored last
night that the $800.000 900 scheme may yet be
defeated BY combination led by MIR. Sherman
and supported by other administration Sena-
tors, not the firm hard money men nor yet the
earnest inhatiOnists. These men are un er-
stood to have under consideration the propo-
stion giving more paper money, but one which
will no. incur a veto.
Per contra, the Herald's Washington ad
Woes represent that the President will sign The
bill now under consideration.
WASHINGTON, April g. With reference to
the reports in circulation that secretary Rich
ardsOD intends to resign, that gentleman to-day
said that whatever may be his Intention in this
respect, he has communicated with no one, and
that whenever he does make up his mind to re-
tire from the Treasury Department he will ia ke
care that it is immedi tely made public; that
the present rumOrs grew out of the well-knOwn
fact that he has be u pressed for two or three
years to go into private business.
MIR. Richardson said that the President has
never com nunicated with him upon the SUBJ
ject of his retirement from the Treasury.
The Portland daily press. [volume] (Portland, Me.) 1862-1921, 1874-04-07

The Color GUARD.-This evening the Bos
worth Post produces at City Hall the splendid
military drama of ''The Color Guard" Exten
sve preparations have been made for putting
this drama on the boards in unexceptional
STYLE The play has been faithfully rehearsed
and fine representation is promised. Mr.. Col
Inns, the comedian, who has made snch SEN
sation in his character of Pete Hygley the
Dutch recruit, appears in the same impersona
ton this evening. Mr.. Gum, an accomplished
manager, has direction of the stage arrange
ments. Chandler furnishes the music. The
play will be given for five evenings. and crowd
ed houses are looked forward to. 1t will re-
pay patronage, and none should fail to see it.
At the rehearsal last evening they did finely,
there is but little change in the characters from
those taken last fall, consequently those taking
parts are familiar with the play. Collins looks
as comical as ever, and is sure to "draw" as he
always does,
The Portland daily press. [volume] (Portland, Me.) 1862-1921, 1874-04-07
Administrators Sale of Real Es-
fate

pURSUANT to a license from Hon. John A; VIZ :,
terman, Judge OF Probate tor the Couss .tup =,
Cumberland. shall sell at puoc auction t Gn sser
day the End day Of May, at 8 O'Clock "a ,hs ~
noon on the premises first below descfifoEd v.rd
lowing real estate, which which wcs snDtv de,easeS
Brunel late of eering. in said ~ Thomas S. Files
viz Lots Nos. 40 and "A ON plan County R.xistr,
Of Deeds Pon BOOK No Page Ss 81 s n.1 N
peering AFORESAID, and halt feet northwes-
ery the Road b Sad real ,b estate ss
eighty teet back eighty-eigbt feet All buildings
exepd,ng be same be placed at least twelve feet
erectsa rom the front live The same will be sold
dsct to mo tgage to Thomas s. Files, for 1857 81
suyy accrued interest
ana Iso certain piece of land for road situated on
the easterly side of the Town House Road contain
ing about nuety-seven square rods. The right re-
served to ravid H. Watson to pass ami repass On
said road more particularly described In the deed
from said Watson 10 said deceased dated June 81,
1872
Also one acre Of land in the snutherly corner OF
the lot Of land conveyed by sand ieceased to mes
Leighton, dated May 16, 1871. recorded in ,afh neg
stry, Book 1856, Page 257 reserved in said deed anu
particularly described therein.
HENRY G. PEABODY, Admir- o. tne
mc3od3w Extate Of Edward a burnen oseo'
The Portland daily press. [volume] (Portland, Me.) 1862-1921, 1874-04-07

iSl;aactcslly explain his acton at proper time
roster Dewey, Tweed's secretary asserts, thai
ne has been unable to dress himself, he ha:
oeen under medical treatment for ten years
ana ~ II subjected to all the rgor of prison dis
c'piine, would live but short me- Further
more, owing to his great bulk and weight he
could not be confined in one of the ordinary
cells, 'A''
Tweed himself says he has performed all the
work incumbent upon him as a hospital atten-
ne would not escape if he could, and is hopeful
mat his counsel will be able to effect his re-
lease. He complains of great physical prostra
slon and believes himself nit subject for a
hospital
The Times says he himself paid with money
soDoed from the city,. for the royal appointment
aua says additionally that he still has political
iunuence, and as he holds the fate of scores of
PROMINENT men in his hands, it was never very
plfH;oa9le that he would be left to pine away in
Soisuoe. II he be ieved there was no hope of
escape he would undoubtedly open his little
budget OF secrets. Tweed was Yesterday visit
eo Dy over one hundred prominent politicians
and personal friends
Arrival Of an Overdue Steamir.
Inc overdue steamer Merrimac, from Rio
Janerio and intermediate points. copceruing
whose safety here has been much anxiety, is
coming up the bay this morning
A Chapter Of Casualties.
Ann Clark's clothing taking fire while wait
ing on customers yesterday in her candy store
on ferry street, SHE ran screaming through the
rtreet. A policeman followed and enveloped
mel in~6lankets, not however before she was
fatally burned.
Otton Hidedrant, brakeman, was caught
between the cars at Bergen tunnel yesterday
ana literally cut iuto mincemeat.
:, Allen Burton, ex-Minister to Bogota, was
thrown from horse car yesterday and had his
shoulder dislocated.
The Portland daily press. [volume] (Portland, Me.) 1862-1921, 1874-04-07
WASHINGTON.


WASHINGTON, March 6.-The South Carolina
tox-payers ask Congress to interfere in their
behalf under the clause of the Constitution
guaranteeing protection of person and proper.
ty.
The Treasury Department decides that the
tax on the colored glass for church windows is
30 per cent. instead of 40, as heretofore and
on seed potatoes Is cents bushel
Internal revenue receipts Monday were $523,::
057
The Agricultural Committee will report a
to send seeds free. also !. bill to prevent cruelty
to animals transported in cars: but adversely
on bill FOR an appropriation to test the theory
OF producing rain by systematic discharges of
artillery.
Treasury Balances.
The following are the Treasury balances to-
day:-Currency, S40S, O25; special deposit of
legal tenders for redemption of certificates of
deposit $52 2n0, 900; coin, SS7 Jig, 1882, including
coin certificates 1891, A9, 800; outstanding legal
tenders, 1885,, 100000.