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Los Angeles daily herald. [volume] (Los Angeles [Calif.]) 1873-1876, 1874-04-08
Proposed Reunion Of Pioneers. !

Frank s. Duff, M. B. Lucas and John
Hanson, of Eureka, who are among
the survivors of the company which
arrived at San Francisco on the ship
Pharsalia on July %, 1919, published u
call for all the survivors now living on
the Pacific Coast to assemble at the
Cosmopolitan Hotel on the 2lst of July
next, the twenty-fifth anniversary of
their arrival, and requesting all those
who are unable to be present to COM
municate by letter. Mr.. Dufffurnishes
us with the following list of the names
of survivors known by him to be in
the State at this time +: Austin Sper-
ry, Oliver Perry, = Stockwell and
Phelps, of Stockton; Henry r. Reed,
Joseph Ringott, Capt. Gawley, -
Haynes, formerly of Haynes q Law
ton, and Jas. r. Duff, San Francisco /;
John Martin, of Weaverville, and =
Craig, of Smith & Craig, San Diego.
1t is believed that many other surviv-
ors of that company are yet living in
the Pacific States and Territories, and
that a reunion on the anniversary date
named can be made very happy one.
We shall take it as a favor if our
brethren of the Trinity Journal,
Stockton Independent, Los Angeles
Herald and Star, and of the San Fran
cisco press will give this movement the
benefit of additional publicity. Brother
Lovejoy, of the Trinity Journal, may
be able to learn the whereabouts of
others of the survivors from John
Martin, who has always kept an eye
on the movements of his companions
of that six months voyage. John c.
and c. B. Crowninshield, formerly of
Weaverville, were members of the
Pharsalia company.-[Wes Coast Sig
Los Angeles daily herald. [volume] (Los Angeles [Calif.]) 1873-1876, 1874-04-08
A NEW HOTEL FOR THE CITY.

Wake up, and keep it before the
people, that for invalids and parties
who wish mild and equable climate,
Los Angeles is acknowledged to be un-
equalled, either in southern France or
sunny Italy. But few, however, of
the great number of tourists who
yearly crowd the Atlantic steamers
for Europe are familiar with the eX-
cellence of our climate for those seek
ing health and pleasure. Here no
rude winds sweep our fair fields to
chill the blood, nor do miasmatic- ex-
halations infest the ground, but all is
healthful and charming as heart could
wish. Now the air is redolent of the
sweet perfume of a thousand flowers
and our fields are clothed with living
green. What are we doing to induce
the people of the States to visit US, in
stead of Europe, where no climate
like ours is found and where travelling
is so VIGOROUSLY expensive? The all
swer is, nothing. Hundreds of people
have come here to remain for months,
but finding no hotel accommodations
suited to their comfort, they leave for
other and more favored places. While
Santa Barbara and San Diego have
built elegant hotels to induce tourists
TO visit their respective towns, capital
lists and others interested in the growth
and prosperity Of Los Angeles are re-
posing in n cataleptic sleep, doing
nothing and proposing nothing. We
say to all such, wake up to the ext
pency of the times, There is capital
enough here, but the enterprise to APP
propriate it in the right direction is
wanting. 1t will not be long before
the railroads centering here now being
constructed will be completed, when
thousands of visitors will come in
upon us demanding accommodations.
What shall we do with them? We
say, build a hotel, with accommoda-
tions for at least three hundred guests.
If no one party can be induced to in
vest so large sum of money as would
be required to construct such a build
ing, let there be a combination of
capital. One hundred and seventy
five thousand dollars appropriated to
the building of hotel on a site that
may be chosen in this city, would
complete the structure and give to the
owner yearly rental of $4,000. This
can be easily demonstrated thus: Il
stores, 20xS0 feet, at Sis per month, is
per annum, $500; rent of hotel,
1900 per month, per annum, $4,000;
total, $4,000; being about twelve per
cent on 100000. Who will make the
first move in this enterprise? X.
Los Angeles daily herald. [volume] (Los Angeles [Calif.]) 1873-1876, 1874-04-08
The Chamber of Commerce.

The Chamber Of Commerce met last
night at the usual place. Present: S.
Lazard, President; 1. w. Lord, Secre-
tary, P. Beaudry, J. w. Griffith, G.. c.
Lips, N. Newark, III. Hellman, r. M.
Widney. Minutes of former meeting
read and approved.
A communication was read from
Hon. A. J. King as to the necessity of
having proper statistics of the city and
county. On motion it was ordered
that the Secretary request the Board
of Supervisors to call the attention of
the Assessor to the Importance of care
fully collecting all the statistics re-
quired by law.
On motion it was ordered that the
Committee on Newspapers be author
lied to draw on the Treasurer to the
amount of $50, to be used in furnish
ing information to persons from
abroad who enquire about this county.
Meeting adjourned.
Los Angeles daily herald. [volume] (Los Angeles [Calif.]) 1873-1876, 1874-04-08
Timber that has Stood for Four Thou
sand Years.

Probably the oldest timber in the
world which has been subjected to the
use of man is that which is found in
the ancient temples of Egypt. 1t is
found in connection with stonework
which is known to be at least four
thousand years old. This wood, and
the only wood used in the construction
of the temple, is in the form of ties,
holding the end of one stone to an
other in it's upper surface. When two
blocks were laid in place then it APP
pears that an excavation about an inch
deep was made in each block, into
which an hourglass-shaped tie was
driven. 1t is, therefore, very difficult
to force any stone from its position.
The ties appear to have been the tam
arisk or shittim wood, of which the
ark was constructed, sacred tree in
ancient Egypt, and now very rarely
found in the Valley of the Nile. These
dovetailed ties are just as sound now
as on the day of their insertion. AL
though fuel is extremely scarce in the
country, these bits of wood are not
large enough to make it an object
with the Arabs to heave off layer after
layer of heavy stone for so small
prize. Had they been of bronze, half
of the old temples would have been
destroyed years ago, so precious would
they have been for various purposes.
Los Angeles daily herald. [volume] (Los Angeles [Calif.]) 1873-1876, 1874-04-08
G. DUCOMMAN,
B. MESPLOR,
Is. ULLMAN,
u. ANDERSON,
j. A. CLINE,
d. MCCARTHY.
A CARD TO THE p. of H.

EDITORS HERALD: l hereby call
attention of the p. of III. to the fact
that have been elected by Los An
geles Grange No. SO, to represent that
Grange in the Convention to be held
in San Francisco on the 21st day of
April, pursuant to call of the Execu-
tive Committee of the State Grange;
and in connection with that duty,
will cheerfully attend to any business
which may be be desired by the Patrons
of this District. sf4 aalt @
J. Q. A. STANLEY,
Dist. Agt., P. Of II.
Los Angeles, April 7tb, 1874.
Los Angeles daily herald. [volume] (Los Angeles [Calif.]) 1873-1876, 1874-04-08

When Charles Lamb was invited at
public dinner to say grace, and re-
sponded with the remark, as there no
minister present? Then let us thank
Godp he was satlrist, and he knew
it. When a Sheriff down in Vermont,
in opening the County Court, cried:
"All persons having causes or matters
pending therein, draw near, and they
Shall be heard, and God save the peo-
plew he was satirist and he didn't
know it.
Los Angeles daily herald. [volume] (Los Angeles [Calif.]) 1873-1876, 1874-04-08
Killed by a Falling Wall.

About o'clock yesterday after
noon an accident occurred on the
premises of Mr.. Signoret on Main
street, resulting in the death of la
borer named Gille.
For some days men have been en-
gagged with pick and bar tearing down
the old brick and adobe building on
the site of Mr. Signoret's new build
ing. A portion Of the rear wall which
was composed of adobe had been I'M
dermined and the wind striking it
with some force threw it over without
seconds notice, catching Gille under
its heavy weight. The unfortunate
man was instantly killed, having his
neck and back broken, with other Sc
we're injuries, any one of which would
have been sufficient to cause death.
The deceased was without friends or
relatives in the city, and will be buried
by Mr.. Signoret. The following is the
verdict of the Coroner's Jury: j.
We, the jury, convened to investi-
gate the causes of the death of August
Gille, find that the deceased, a native
of Switzerland, aged about "a years,
came to his death by the falling of q
wall on the premises Of F. Signoret.
Signed:
Perrysburg journal. (Perrysburg, Wood Co., O. [Ohio]) 186?-1965, 1874-08-14
The Enigma of Existence.

The apparition of beings upon the sur
face of tile globe is offered to the human
mind as prodigious enigma. There
was time when the conditions of life
did not exist upon the earth. The day
came, however, when these conditions
were realized. The world then became
covered with vegetation and peopled
with animals; finally man is created,
These truths, conforming as they do to
the general sentiment manifested among
the nations of antiquity, are demon
strated by the structure of the terTes-
trial shell and by the presence of or
ganic remains. But if one seeks to
figure to ones self the birth of life to
ascertain how it was produced, every
such effort of thought remains barren.
The marvellous discoveries of science
permit us to trace with certainty part
of the history of distant ages and to
give sort of existence to the aspect of
nature during successive periods, but
they do not throw any light upon the
origin of being The magnificent re
suits achieved by modern investigation
make us anticipate immense progress in
the knowledge of those surprising phe-
nomena of which our planet has been
the theater, but they do not authorize us
to expect that in one day will be learned
the method by which beings have surged
into existence "The beginning" it
seems, must forever remain impenetra-
BILE to human intelligence.-Repue des
DettB MORdes,
Perrysburg journal. (Perrysburg, Wood Co., O. [Ohio]) 186?-1965, 1874-08-14
The Republican Party.

Senator Hannibal Hamlin, of Maine, in
his speech at the recent Republican Con-
gressional Convention at Bangor, said:
Any reading and thinking man must
see that spirit of progress animates our
party-a disposition to open up new
channels of commerce and to increase the
production of the country, a disposition
to aid all genuine projects calculated to
benefit the nation at large, spirit of lib
erality to aid the Government in its up
ward course, desire to have stricter
accountability between Government
officers and departments, strong pur
pose for economy in every branch of the
Governmental these are characteristics
of the party to which the Government is
intrusted, Notwithstanding the ISLANDERS
and scandals set afloat by "A portion of
the press. There has been too much of
this slander by lnnuendo. The man who
boldly charges me with crime, and fixes
the time and place, regard as gentle.
man when compared with him who en-.
deavors to fix it upon me by innuendo
The fairest flames have been blasted by
this underhanded, whispered, half-con-
cealed method of abuse, when there was
not the slightest grain of truth in the
slander-when it was false as hell itself.
IHC sO-CdlCu independent press HIS
nothing to do but scandaliZe the whole
people, and public men in particular; it
is the food they live on. | do not say
this because they have accused me of
stealing God knows how soon they will),
but because it has become a crying evil.
In this country, as in all others, war has
been in some degree cause of demOral-
iZation; but we have come out of the
greatest war the world ever saw, and
have taught the world lesson. We have
demonstrated that republic is not only
the best but the strongest form of gov
eminent, and that ours has done more
than any other of which history tells us
to correct this Generalization. For
thirty years past have known the Pres
idents and heads of departments, many
of them intimately, and state here on my
reputation, which hold dearer than any
thing else in this world, that there is as
much integrity in public officials to-day
as at any hour since we have had Gov
ernment. l do not say that we have no
corrupt men in office, but do say that
the Republican Administration has done
more to get rid of them than any other
government -
Perrysburg journal. (Perrysburg, Wood Co., O. [Ohio]) 186?-1965, 1874-08-14
Insects Injurious to the Potato Crop,

ENToMOLoGIsTs assure us that there
are not less than ten distinct species of
bugs preying upon the potato plants
within the limits of the United States.
Many of them are confined within GER
tain geographical limits; some attack
the potato in the larvae state and in the
perfect or winged state, and others again
in the Larvae state alone. In the case of
seven of these insects there is but one
brood every year while of the remaining
three there are every year from two TO
three broods, each of them generated by
the females belonging to the preceding
brood. Eight of the ten feed on the
leaves or the tender stems of the potato
while two of them burrow like the borer
exclusively in the larger stalks. Almost
every one of these ten species has its pc
culiar insect enemies, and Il mode of
attack which will prove very successful
against one, two or three of them will
often prove worthless when employed
against the remainder.
The stalk -borer, the potato stalk weevil
and the potato or tomato worm attack
the potato only in the larvae state. The
striped blister beetle, the ash-gray bis
ter beetle, the black rat blister beetle and
the margined blister beetle attack it eX.
clusively in the perfect state. The three
lined leaf beetle, the cucumber flea beetle
and the Colorado potato beetle attack il
both in the Larvae and perfect state, but
go underground to pass the pupa state,
| in which state, like all other beetles
without exception, they are quiescent and
eat nothing-N. y. Herald
Perrysburg journal. (Perrysburg, Wood Co., O. [Ohio]) 186?-1965, 1874-08-14

THE SKEPTIcAL CONVINCED Every
advance in Medicine, every new remedy
has encountered an opposition which Is
the test of truth. Galen and Jenner only
were believed when they had proved
their discoveries against opposition. But
men are observing, and benefits always
make believers. No incredulity can stand
the silent argument of good results
When DIR. Walker proclaimed that lie had
produced from the medicinal herbs of
California an Elixir that would regehet-
ate the sinking system and cure diseases
not organic the incredulous shook their
heads. Yet his VINEGAR BITTERs is now
the Standard Restorative of the Western
World. The truth could not be resisted.
Under the operation of the new remedy
Dyspeptics regained their health, appe-
tite and strength, the Bilious and Consti-
pated were relieved of every distressing
symptom; the Consumptive and Rheu.
matte rapidly recovered; Intermittent
and Remittent Fevers were broken up
the taint of Scrofula was eradicated
Who could gainsay facts like these
Not even the Faculty. Skepticism was
routed. All doubts as to the claims of
the Bitters to the first place in the first
rank of modern medicines were silenced
and this wonderful preparation is to-day
the most popular Tonic, Alternative and
Blood Depurent ever advertised in
America. In common with other jour
nalists we are free to add our testi
mony to this remedy. 1t is domestic
medicine, and no household should bC
without it.
Perrysburg journal. (Perrysburg, Wood Co., O. [Ohio]) 186?-1965, 1874-08-14
An Incident with a Moral.

SOME years ago, when defalcations of
bank officers were not so frequently
made public rs at present, q young gen
tleman was invited temporarily to fill
the place of an absconding teller of a
prominent bank, who had neglected to
square up his accounts before leaving.
One day not long after check for a
large amount, signed by the President of
the bank, was presented at the counter
by one of his clerks. The President had
no such amount on deposit, and the clerk
was politely informed of the fact by the
teller, and that, of course, the check
could not be paid. "But it must be"
said the clerk "it is for the President of
the bank" 81 cannot help that" said
the pro tempOre officer; "there are no
funds to meet It," "Tll see if you won't
pay it," said the clerk, who at once
carried the dishonored check to his
principal then in the Directors room.
That official hastily appeared behind the
counter, and, in no gentlemanly manner,
demanded why his check had not been
paid. mo funds" "That makes no
difference. You know l could make it
good in a few hours. You must pay it,"
"Sir, | shall pay no check unless the
funds are here to back it," said the teller,
firmly. "Then | will cash it myself
sald the President, proceeding as if to
do so from the piles of money before
him. Sir" said the teller, l am held
responsible for that money, and If you
touch dollar of it you do it at your
peril. But when my accounts for the
day are made up and accepted you may
take the whole for all care" The
President used very strong language and
retreated to the Directors room and told
how "that impudent fellow" had refused
to honor lh check A brief talk with
his associates showed him that the teller
was right. One of the Directors who
had funds loaned his check to cover the
emergency, as the Presidents note for
ten times the amount would have been
promptly discounted if he had asked it
and the teller, supposing his time was
up, carefully prepared his accounts be-
fore the time for closing and presented
them to the President, saying he sup.
posed he was to leave, after what had
passed. "No, sir" said the President
you are not going. You were right and
| was wrong"
MOrdI-If all bank cashiers and tellers
could have the firmness and grit to re
fuse all over-drafts of their Directors
and other powerful customers we should
hear of but very few delalcations OF
those officers; and if Directors always
conformed strictly to their own rules
and were moderately careful in looking
after the books of their officers, there
would be but little inducement and less
opportunity for such defalcations to con
tinue for any series of years.-IVorcesteI
Perrysburg journal. (Perrysburg, Wood Co., O. [Ohio]) 186?-1965, 1874-08-14
Colds.

THE secret to avoid the unpleasant
consequences thought to spring wholly
from the action of cold upon the body
has very little dependence upon expos
ure, but a great deal upon an impure
and weak condition of all the vital proc
esses. In other words, with an average
or superior constitution, and an intelli-
gent observance of all the laws of health,
men and women could not take cold if
they wanted to; they might be exposed
to the action of cold to degree equal
to the beast of the field, and with like
impunity. But in the case of persons
with feeble constitutions, and who disre-
gard, knowingly or otherwise most
frequently otherwise-the conditions of
healthy existence, no degree of care will
prevent the taking of cold, as il is termed.
They may live in houses regulated with
all the precision of "A hot-house-they
may cover themselves with the most
highly protective clothing the market
provides, and yet they will take cold.
The consumptive person does not live,
nor ever will live, even if kept in tem-
perature absolutely uniform, and clothed
in wholly faultless manner, in whom
the wcll-known signs of one cold after
another will not be apparent. But, on
the late Sir Henry Holland, of good
constitutions and living in accordance
with the laws of health, may travel
as he did from the tropics to the arctics
again and again, clad only in an ordinary
dress coat, and yet scarcely know what
it is to have cold or sickness of any
kind The truth is that in order to avoid
taking cold from ordinary or even eX-
traOrdinary exposure the vital processes
of the body must be made strong enough
TO rise above the untoWard influence of
external conditions. If the body is not
thus superior if it is so weak that it can
only act harmoniously under the most
favorable conditions, a continued state of
health is not among the possibilities.
No more will weak body maintain
itself without harm amid great external
disturbance than will the weak machin-
cry of steam vessel maintain itself
without injury amid a severe storm. The
avoidance of elemental disturbances is
not possible in the one case any mole
than in the other, yet il Is precisely
what persons by the 10000 are to-day
seeking to accomplish in the preserva-
tion of their health. The study is not
how to make blood purer, their bodies
stronger, but how to dodge the ugly
weather.
The conclusion from all this is that
neglecting the conditions upon which
strength of constitution and purity of
blood depend, and then striving TO avoid
in a sedulously careful manner the evil
influences of colds upon the body, is like
neglectng the substance for the shadow
of health; or more properly, it is like
one who starves his body and then
strives to keep quiet in order that his
strength shall not be exhausted. Let
food be taken and the exhaustion from
exercise will not ensue; let all the con
ditions of health be observed and then
the natural changes of the weather will
fall harmlessly on the healthy functions
of the body.-SdRitdridR.
Perrysburg journal. (Perrysburg, Wood Co., O. [Ohio]) 186?-1965, 1874-08-14

tations to their neighbor's one, or forgets
TO return his call within the prescribed
limits, and then meets him with beam
ing smile and jocund manner, as IL he
were not sinner and q breaker of the
law. That kind of thing is abhorrent to
them-as bad as cobwebs on the ceiling
or material slippers down at heel. What
the sticklers for etiquette like is every
thing to be done with the incest pre-.
cision Invitation for invitation, and the
complimentary card left on the exact
date on which IL should be left; call re-
turned for call within the term prescribed
| according to the degree of intimacy; and
the whole of the social life mapped out
as you would map out the plan of an es.
tate, with so many acres, roods and
perches signed to A, and so many rods of
| forest-growth told off to B. Sometimes,
however, these sticklers for etiquette are
kind people in their way-people who
will lend but not borrow, give but not
| ask. They are generous in bestowing,
| but not generous enough to accept, They
will load their neighbors with benefits,
but they will not carry away so much as
a flower in free gift. Their house is
open to you, and you might, If you would,
use it in their absence, and make
yourself at home with cup of afternoon
tea and a lounge on the comfortable
sofa; but they would die of fatigue and
inanition rather than do the same by you
and you may talk forever, but you can.
not beat it into their heads that there is
no difference between you, and what
they allow from you they may also COM
nit for their own parts. Not a bit of it.
To the end they remain generous, hos.
pitable, free handed in what they grant
and TO the end, also, precise, stiff stick
lers for etiquette, and tiresomely punctil.
ious in what they accept. Sometimes
they are just the contrary to this, and,
while they will accept unconventional
kindnesses frankly enough, will not al
low the smallest infraction of the rhada.
mantine rule of strictest etiquette tC
themselves. They would hold 1t as an
objectionable liberty if their dearest
friend should enter their house in theil
absence, though he or she had come
twenty miles and more to see them. A
servant who should offer cup of tea OF
her own accord, even to their sister
would receive her dismissal before the
night had come; and lifelong intima y
has been broken for all time for no great 1
offense than that of picking unbidden il
of mignonette out of bed which was
choked with its own luxuriance An
some again are at least just and logical
and neither give nor take, but demand
the pound of flesh with the most scrl
pulous exactness and pay 1t just Il.
methodically.-P Mall Gazette.