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Los Angeles daily herald., 1874-08-20

condition; the cuticle plant; the pores open;
and brings the blood to the surface; thereby
enabling the system to counteract these bane-
full atmospheric influences.
PIPIFAx-Passes through the blood, car
ries off by presplration and other excretions
the effete and injurious materials of the body.
1t is soothing, Alternative and deferative. Used
methodically and nationally, aided by sulta-
BILE diet, it produces most important changes
in the system, contributing to the reconstruc-
ton of tissues, and removes vitiated matter
which has become not only useless but inJu-
rious. No other article has ever been intro
duced which combines in such an extraordi-
nary degree the principles of an efficient anti
bilious agent and tonic. Try it and be con-
vinced. may29 3m-20
Los Angeles daily herald., 1874-08-20

A young man writes from Romeo,
Michigan, to Postmaster Bent of this
city for information as to the wages of
mechanics, etc. He says he is one of
four anxious to locate in Los Angeles
county, if they were confident of OBJ
tanning employment at fair wages.
These young men need give them
selves no apprehension on that score;
if they are worth employing, they
will find plenty to do at good wages.
Let them come along.
Los Angeles daily herald., 1874-08-20
POSTAL CHANGES.

The following postal changes went into op-
eration, July lst, 1874: All publications are
free of postage to subscribers in the county in
which they are published. Books and pack
ages of merchandise, tn the weight Of four
pounds can be sent by mail at the rate of one
cent for every two ounces or fraction over.
Tied packages may be entirely enclosed.
Some portion of sealed packages must be
opened for inspection.
Los Angeles daily herald., 1874-08-20
MARRIED.
Special Notices.

Agency Northern Assurance Com
pany of London and Aberdeen; assets, $10,0OO,-
600; and the old Hartford of Hartford Conn.
assets, 81, 100000 Office Room No. 3 Downey
Block. JOHN CARLIN, Agent.
jy l6-tf-2h
Los Angeles daily herald., 1874-08-20
CONSTARLE'S SALE.

DY VIRTUE OF AN EXECUTION IS-
ID sued out of Justice j. Wright's Court, of
San Jose township, county of Los Angeles,
to me directed in favor of John NJ. Vignon,
and against Fernando Minchago and wife.
/ have seized and shall expose for sale at pub
lie auction, for cash in hand, at o'clock A. NJ.
ON the 3lst day of August, 1874, at Spadra, in
front of A. B. Caldwells store, the following
described property, to-wit: The Rancho De
La Brea, bounded on the west and north by
the lands of the La Puento Rancho, and the
San Jose creek; the east by section number
20. range 20 west, and 30, OF township 2 south,
range 9west, West San Bernardlno Meridian,
and section and south, range 8 west, San
Bernardino Meridian; on the south by the
lands of the San Jose, San Judee de Cofer de
Satanna.
Notice is hereby given that on the 3lst day
of August, 1874 will sell all the right, title
and interest of said Fernando and wife, In
and to the above described property at public
auction for cash in hand. in gold coin, to the
highest and best bidder, to satisfy said eXecu-
tiOn and cost.
Dated August I'd, 1874.
Il. d. HOLLADAY, Constable,
aug l4-td San Jose Township.
Los Angeles daily herald., 1874-08-20

We have to dispose of our immense
Stock of Clothing, Dress Goods, ETC., etc., to
make room for a very extensive Stock of Fall
Goods, just purchased in New York, and en-
route for us. We have reduced the prices, and
you will find it to your advantage to call
the
Los Angeles daily herald., 1874-08-20

Business still continues lively at the
Esperanza Store, and what is the reason? 1t
is because they sell goods there cheaper than
ever before Please note the prices of few
things of their large stock of goods and you
will see that they will not be undersold by
any store this side of San Francisco: Flour,
Bakers. Extra, $3 rs per hundred pounds;
Crushed Sugar, lll4c. per pound; Coffee Sugar,
lOAc. per pound Sandwich Island Sugar,
SIC. per pound; Japan Teas, from SOC. to 75c.
per pound; China Tea, 371ac. per pound; Eng
lish Breakfast tea, at 81 per ponnd; Extra
Fine tea, 81 25; Soap, per box, So; Saleratus
and Soda, l21ac. per pound; Cheese, l4c. per
pound, Coffee, 22c. per pound; Coffee, ground
25c.; Starch, l5c. per pound. And all kinds
of groceries at prices that are lower than ever
was known before.
Los Angeles daily herald., 1874-08-20
PIPIFAX.

This remarkable curative herbal
preparation IL entirely unlike and greatly
superior to any other recuperant ever dis
covered.
principle, and gives energy to the muscles,
nerves. flaments, membranes, and all tissues
of the internal organs.
PIPIFAX-Keeps the skin In supple
Los Angeles daily herald., 1874-08-20

Agency Liverpool and London and
Globe Insurance Company. Assets, s2l ,OOO,-
600. Agency State investment Insurance
Company, Fire and Marine. Assets, S360,000,
Los Angeles daily herald., 1874-08-20

80 The tide Ofimmigration Is steadily set
ting in, and the first thing eastern people do
is to throw away their New York Hats and buy
a new one of DESMOND. They say there is no
comparison between the two. 2Lo
Los Angeles daily herald., 1874-08-20

Grasshoppers have entirely ruined
some of the potato fields at Tomales.
Los Angeles daily herald., 1874-08-20

The Fall term of the Napa Collegi-
ate Institute opened on Wednesday.
Los Angeles daily herald., 1874-08-20
Patrons of |. A. Water Company.

TNAKE NOTICE-IN ORDER TO ERECT
Il Hydrants, the water will be shut off In
the whole city to-day, the 18th, between
and p NJ. on Monday and Tuesday, the
18th and 18th, on Main Street, at same hours
augl5-td c. +. MILES, Supt.
Los Angeles daily herald., 1874-08-20
ImPOrtant,

On Main street, under the Lafayette Hotel,
before purchasing elsewhere.
Los Angeles daily herald., 1874-08-20

That handsome suit of clothes came
from Fitzpatrick's. He makes the finest
fitting suits to be had in the city; best of ma
terial scientific cutting; good workmanship;
style. Call on Fitzpatrick the fashionable
tailor when you wish to replenish your ward
Los Angeles daily herald., 1874-08-20
WOOL.

NTE WISH TO PURCHASE WOOL OF
w the incoming clip, for which we will
pay the market rates.
j. L. WARD q CO.,
aug l4-tf 43 Main street.
The Lake County star. [volume] (Chase, Mich.) 1873-current, 1874-04-30
Keeping Old Sheep.

Sheep should never be kept until
they lose their teeth; and a very
little observation and practice will
enable any person to tell their age by
the front teeth, and for the benefit of
those not posted i'm this art; we will
give description of the teeth Mt the
different stages of their growth and
decline, 80 that all may learn, rs we
once heard of person who went to
buy a bunch of sheep, pronounced
them all to old from the fact Of hav-
ing no teeth In their upper front jaw.
Perhaps he has learned before this
that they never had.
A full grown sheep has thirty-twO
teeth-eight incisors on the lower
front jaw, and six molars on each
side in the upper and lower jaw. The
lamb ut birth has two incisors pass
ing through thegums. When a month
old, 1t has eight comparatively short
narrow ones. At about a year old,
sometimes little more, the two CEN
trail, or "lamb teeth" are shed and
replaced by two broad teeth. Two
lamb teeth continue to be shed an
nually and replaced by broad teeth,
until the sheep has eight incisors of
second growth, when it's full mouth
ed, which is at the age of four yeas.
At six years old the incisors gener-
ally begin to diminish in breadth
and lose their fan-like shape. At
seven they become long and narrow,
stand about perpendicular with re-
spect to each other, and have lost
their round cutting edge, and so con-
tlnue to diminish until about the age
of ten years they become loose and
peg,n 70 drop out; 80 long as AS sheep
not good policy to keep them until
they become too old, as 1t has ten
dency to run down the flock and
give 1t rakish appearance. There
fore every farmer should look care
fully over his flock and select out
such as cannot be kept longer with
profit.
The Lake County star. [volume] (Chase, Mich.) 1873-current, 1874-04-30
A few Hints about Making Vinegar.

Nearly every housekeeper might,
with q little care, supply herself with
plenty of good vinegar. A better
article, in fact, than you can get by
buying it. A great deal that you pur-
chase of the grocer is made from
acids, and are very injurious to the
health. l save my apple Feelings
when go to make apple butter, or
for any quantity for cooking, and
pack them as closely as possible in a
jar, and weigh them down pour cold
rain water enough over them to come
to the top of the Feelings, and let
them stand few days to get the
juice soaked out. Then drain of the
water and strain through coarse
cloth, and put in the vessel you wish
to contain it; but be sure the vessel
Is not quite full of the liquor, as vim
egar will not make without air. And
If you have n vinegar mother to put.
in 1t, II will be apt to make very
quickly; If not set in q warm place
and cover with cloth. 1t will not
make il you cork 1t, as by so doing
you would exclude the air. If, after
a few weeks, 1t does not seem to be
souring, add little molasses or cider,
as it may not have strength enough
to sour. And, 1 do not think you
will have any trouble In obtaining
a good article. And by saving all the
material calculated to make vinegar,
instead of throwing It into the slop
pail, you will be apt to find that you
have plentiful supply. To raise
mother on vinegar dip a common
piece Of brown paper In molassess
and drop it into it. This / have tried
and found good. - From q Farmers
Wife, in American Farm Journal.
The Lake County star. [volume] (Chase, Mich.) 1873-current, 1874-04-30
The Spiders.

Most persons would possibly be as.
tODished If they were assured that, In
the whole range of the animal crea-
ton, there are few groups whose his
tory affords greater evidence of mar
vellous design in their construction,
or OF interesting variety In their hab.
Its, than these objects of common
scorn and detestatlon. If we admire
the exquisite symmetry of the honey
comb, or the Industry of the mi-acu-
lous little creatures by whom 1t Is
built up, we find In the web of the ge-
Ometrical spiders, which we tear in
every walk we take In the garden or
the field, a structure almost as math-
emattically true, constructed with
equal industry and perseverance,
and with as distinct q reference to Its
ultimate end and use. The mysteri-
Gus flight of the gossamer effected In
some rash manner, which Is even yet
scarcely understood, by means of Its
long, floating, filmy thread-the den
OF the mygale excavated In the
ground with equal assiduity and in
telligence, and covered by its con-
cealed and perfectly fringed lid-the
brilliant silver diving bell of the Ar
gyroneta, as artificially constructed
as Its gigantic analogue there, and
a hundred other cOntrlvances equally
perfect, and equally manifesting the
most wonderful intelligence and de-
sign, are to be found In the habits of
the various species Of this multitu-
dinOus class.
The Lake County star. [volume] (Chase, Mich.) 1873-current, 1874-04-30
A Watch Trade.

Old Davis, of Ossipee-the well
known single and clapbOard autocrat
OF thirty years ago had dog named
Watch. The dog had become old
and a nuisance. Davis had threatened
often to kill the brute, and had as
often relented.
One day Sam Brown, the Concord
peddler, drove up to Davis store, but
Davis wanted to buy nothing.
"Can't sell you clock I? I've got
'em as cheap as dirt, and real good
ones"
~ haven't got the money"
"Drat the money! I'll take iair
exchange of anything.
Davis scratched his head, whereat
Brown continued:
"COme, We'll have trade some
how. You've got to have one of my
clocks. What have you got to ex-
change for it?'
"I've got nothing but watch"
"Eh? watch 2" cried the peddler,
Frightening up. "What kind of a
watch ?"
"Tain't, of course, a very good one,
or wouldn't want to trade 1t off,"
"What kind o. cases?"
II can't say much for the cases, but
the insides are in good order, and 1t
runs well. It'll let you know when
feedin' time comes sartin."
"How'll you trader"
"I'll give you my watch for one of
your clocks, and call 1t bargain,
without any IFS or ands.'"
"Done " cried Brown, and he
selected steeple-toped Connecticut
clock and brought 1t into the store.
"There Is your clock. Now where's
your watch?"
Davis went to the door and
whistled and called:
Watch Watch Here, old fellow,
you're wantedW
The dog came in with a bound.
"That's the watch, Brown. You'll
find his in'ards perfect, and can run
like Sancho and when 1t comes meal
time, II he don't let you know 1t, I'm
mistaken in him."
The peddler gasped and staggered,
and he said something not quite
proper to ears polite; but he did not
back out. He only said, as he hitch
ed the dog to the axle-tree of his
wagon and prepared to drive off:
before night.n
And 1 opine that there are hun
dreds of people to-day in that section
of New Hampshire who have a firm
belief that they helped to pay old
Brown for that clock.
The Lake County star. [volume] (Chase, Mich.) 1873-current, 1874-04-30
HOUSEHOLD HELPS.

-Hasty Rusks.-Two eggs, one
pint of flour, one cup of sugar, one
cup of milk, one dessert-spoOnful Of
butter, one teaspoOnful of soda, two
teaspoonfuls of cream tartar. To be
made up and baked Immediately
thereafter.
French Cake.-TwO cups of su.
gar, four cups of -four, three-quarters
of cup of butter, one cup Of milk,
four eggs, two teaspoonfuls of cream
tartar, one teaspoonful Of bi-carbonate
of soda. TO DO favored with rose
water and baked In tins.
Pudding Sauce. hall teacup
of butter, one and a-half teacups OF
sugar, and one pint of Strawberries
mashed till juicy. Canned berries
may be substituted for fresh ones.
Beat the butter and sugar to cream,
then stir In the berries.
Delicious Dressing for Fowls
Spread pieces of stale but tender
wheaton bread literally with butter
and season rather highly with salt
and pepper, working them into the
butter q little; then dip the bread In
wine, and use it In as large pieces as
IL convenient to stuff the bird. The
delicious flavor which the wine gives
Is very penetrating, and gives to the
fowl a rich gamey Character which 10
very pleasant.
The Lake County star. [volume] (Chase, Mich.) 1873-current, 1874-04-30
Beams or Gold

What Is it that cheers the weary and
heavy laden mother who tolls early
and late that her little ones may be
fed? The golden beams of happy an
ticipatiOn of a future when her chill
dren are men anG women, able to care
for her and themselves. God only
knows what she suffers, and how the
mother love and instinct makes her
strong to endure. When the covers
are snugly tucked around the dear
little bodies, and rosy faces speak the
story of gentle sleep, the widow on
Bonded knee thanks Heaven for
health and strength, and prays that
not one of her darlings shall be taken
from her care. She will work and
and slave to support her children, and
If at night she can gather them all
around her knee, to tell them of their
father who lies out In tho cold church.
yard, and of their Father In Heaven,
and the beautiful world he has given
them to enjoy--she will count all
privatlon pleasure.
After years of toll and care the
golden beams gather to crown the
brow Of woman who Is faithful to
the last. Her children strew her
pathway with roses of love. Or, If
one or two or all insensible Of their
obligations to her, and every earthly
thing seems fraught with bitterness,
beams of gold make her radiant In
immortal robes, and Over There an
gels will gladly nestle In the warmth
other great mother love.--Eym Oriou.
The Lake County star. [volume] (Chase, Mich.) 1873-current, 1874-04-30
Old Letters.

Never burn kindly written letters
1t Is so pleasant to read them over
when the ink is brown, and the paper
is yellow with age, and the hands
that traced the friendly words are
folded over the hearts that prompted
them, under the green sod. Above
all, never burn love letters. To read
them In after years is like resurec.
ton of ones youth. The elderly
spinster finds, in the impassioned
offer she foolishly rejected twenty
years ago, fountain of juvenescence.
CHANGING over It she realizes that she
was once belle and a beauty, and
beholds her former self In "a mirror
much more cOngenial to her taste
than the one that comforts her In her
dressing-room. The "widow indeed"
derives q sweet and solemn cOnsola-
ton from the letters of the beloved
one who has journeyed before her to
the far-off land from which there
comes no message, and where she
hopes one day to join him. No
Photograph can so wildly recall to
the memory of the mother the ten
derness and devotion of the children
who have left at the call of heaven,
epistolary outpouring of their love.
The letter Of a true son or daughter
to true mother is something better
than an image of the features-it Is a
reflex Of the writer's soul. Keep
all loving letters; burn only the
harsh ones, and In burning them, for
give and forget them.
The Lake County star. [volume] (Chase, Mich.) 1873-current, 1874-04-30
Mammoth Elevator Project.

The New York Central and Hudson
River Railroad companies have de-
termined on erecting q mammoth
grain receiving elevator In New York,
and locality between Sixtieth and
Sixty-eighth street, fronting the
North river, has been fixed upon as
the site. The project, although fully
determined, has not been entirely
developed, the manner In which 1t
will ultimately be conducted being
more or less dependent on the action
taken by the freight agents of the
different railroads, at present sitting
in convention at the Metropolitan
Hotel.
The dimensions of the projected
receiving elevator will be about five
hundred feet in length by two hum
hired in width, with capacity of
holding 10000 bushels of grain.
Tile general freight agent of the
New York Central Railroad states
that the company expect, by the es-
double the carrying capacity for
grain on their own connecting lines.
1t Is claimed that by the storing of
grain In the receiving elevator direct
from the freight cars, and its ship
ment into barges or other convey
ances at the pleasure Of the consignee,
considerable expense will beavoided,
and the large quantities of grain
usually lost in re-shipping and stor-
ing by the ordinary process, will be
saved. The proprietors of the enter
prise, state however, that it will
he impossible to make the UNDER
taking a success unless the produce
exchange adopts the regular grain
grading system.
The Lake County star. [volume] (Chase, Mich.) 1873-current, 1874-04-30
Benefit or Laughter.

1t is said bygood medical authority
that there Is not the remotest corner or
little inlet of the minute blood-vessels
of the human body that does not feel
some wavelet from the CONFUSION oc-
casioned by good hearty laughter,
and also that the "central man." or
life principle, Is shaken to its inner
most depths, sending new tides of life
and strength to the surface, and thus
materially tending to insure good
health to the person who indulge
therein. The blood moves more
rapidly-probably caused by some
chemical or electric modification oc-
casioned by the convulsion-and con-
veys different impression to all the
organs of the body as 1t visits them
on that particular mystic journey,
when the man Is laughing, from what
1t does at other times.
For this reason every good hearty
laugh In which a person INDUCES
tends to lengthen his lie, conveying,
as it does, new and distinct stimulous
to the vital forces. We doubt not
that the time will come when physic-
ians, conceding moreimportance than
they now do to the influence of the
mind upon the vital forces of the
body, will prescribe to the torpid and
melancholy patient certain number
of hearty peals Of laughter, to be
undergone at stated periods, and be-
Iieve that they will, In so doing, find
the best and most effective method of
producing the required effect upon
the patient. Our advice to all is, in
dulge In good, hearty, soulful laugh
ter, when the opportunity offers, and
If you do not derive material benefit
therefrom, charge us with uttering
false principles of materia medica.
The Lake County star. [volume] (Chase, Mich.) 1873-current, 1874-04-30
Reduction Of the Army.

The House Committee on Military
Affairs have perfected their bill for
the reduction of the regular army
They propose to cut off five regi-
ments of infantry, one of artillery
and one of cavalry, which is to be
done gradually by the first of jan
uary, 1875.
The present strength of the regular
army Of the United States is 10000
men, and the current cost of its sup
port is between $50, 900, 900 and $40,-
100000. It Is composed of forty reg
iments-twenty-five of artillery, and
ten Of cavalry. The apparent esti-
mate of Its cost Is 81 900 per man, but
that of course Is inaccurate. Inves-
tigation has shown that, while to this
force of 10000 men there are 5000
officers. the expense Of supporting
the latter alone amounts to over
u, 200, 900, or nearly one fourth of the
entire appropriation. The House
Committee on Military Affairs mean
to reduce the present force by 5000
men, and this Is to be done simply by
stopping the work of recruiting
Instead OF twenty-five regiments of
Of infantry, five Of artillery, and ten
OF cavalry, the army is hereafter to
consist Of twenty regiments of in
fantry, four OF artillery, and nine of
cavalry.
The Lake County star. [volume] (Chase, Mich.) 1873-current, 1874-04-30
FARM AND HOUSEHOLD.
A Local knowledge OF Farming.

There are truths that apply to all
soils. But there are also truths-and
they are many-that apply only to
localities, and these differ according
to locality. Hence book knowledge
has only u general application. There
must be a knowledge of particular
soil worked. This can only be ac-
quired by practically working the
soil and noting its effects. Analysis
will acquaint us with the material OF
which the soil Is composed. Yet there
Is something besides that Is import
ant; some of this is known, and
some is entirely In the dark. Who
knows, for instance, what causes the
superior quality of tobacco raised in
some soils, apparently the same as
contiguous land, which produces an
inferior kind. This Is common In
the island of Cuba, where our best
tobacco Is grown and also an In
ferior quality.
So, eminently with grapes. The
same grapes do much better In some
sections-this often independent of
the climate. The grape (some sorts)
will also grow thrifty but bear little
I'm some sections; In Others do re-
markably and uniformly well, i'm
proving the quality. There Is some
element unknown that has an effect.
All this, and much more might be
said on this head, shows that a soil,
in order to know its capacity, must
be tested.
Hence local knowledge Of farm
ing is indispensable to success. Books
point only in general way. A COM
plete science of agriculture requires
knowledge of the localities, as science
is the result Of knowledge. It will
therefore be seen how much there Is
to do for the farmer; he must rely on
himself, see and note accurately. j
have seen this beautifully illustrated
in cases that / know of. Only the
best heads are the best farmers; and
these not Unnecessarily the best educated
but always and necessarily those
having the best acquaintance with
their soil. The two, local and
general knowledge combined, are
the highest requisites. Then through
work and success Is assured, making
farming safe, a profitable thing, as
well as a very pleasant and agreeable
occupation. - Cor. Country Gentle
man.