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Los Angeles daily herald., 1874-05-17
Narrow Guage Roads.

The work of grading the Stockton
and lone Narrow Gauge Railroad is
commenced. The road will be about
thirty miles in length, and will be-
come almost from the date of compile
ton one of the most valuable pieces of
roa in the State. From Stockton, it
runs over level and rich section of the
valley, until it strikes the foothills
within few miles of lone valley.
This valley, though small, is one of
the garden spots of the State, and be-
meath it lies an ineXhaustible bed of
coal. The road will make this coal
valuable by aflording II quick and
cheap means for transporting it to tide
water at Stockton, where it will be
sent to San Francisco by boats or
throughout the San Joaquin valley by
the valley railroad. 1t is estimated
that the coal freight alone will enable
the owners to operate the road at a
profit to say nothing of the large pas
senger, grain and merchandise traffic
which only awaits the locomotive.
This will be short road, and will
only share the carrying trade along a
portion of the route with the Western
Pacific, yet its stockholders consider
their money we'll invested. Compared
with that of the Los Angeles and In
dependence Narrow Gauge, the bust
ness of the Stockton and lone road
will be mere nothing. Our road will
control the carrying traffic of a broad
mining area which has only been suf-
ficiently prospected to satisfy all that
1t contains work for thousands OF
miners for ages to come. The greater
portion of the products of these mines
must be brought out of the mountains
in the ore, or as crude bullion, and the
means of subsistence for the miners
as we'll as the machinery to work the
mines, must all be taken into the
country. All this transportation will
20 to the narrow gauge load our citi-
zens are preparing to build out from
this city. There will be no better
paying road on the Pacific Coast than
the Los Angeles and Independence
Narrow Gauge. Since this article was
placed in type, the proposition has
been made to change our road to the
ordinary gauge. Its value will be
equally great, no matter which gauge
is adopted.
Los Angeles daily herald., 1874-05-17

DRUMMOND, United States Land
Commissioner, has resigned. 1t would
have been better for all tillers of the
soil if this man had never been ap-
pointed. He seemed to regard it as
his chief duty to reverse the decisions
of WILSON, whom he succeeded. He
was a railroad corporation agent or
pettifogger, and robbed many poor
men of their land to bestow it on the
railroad companies. 1t is to be hoped
DELANO will do as DRUMMOND has
done-go, and stand not upon the order
of his going.
Los Angeles daily herald., 1874-05-17

THE Centennial Committee an
nounces that despite the refusal of
Congress to give them the key to the
National Treasury, they intend to con-
tinue the work ofpreparing for the an
niversary. They will not do a great
deal until the next session of Congress,
and if they have no better luck with
that than with the present session,
they will probably go ahead on their
own hook
Los Angeles daily herald., 1874-05-17

A COUPLE of years ago some one
proposed to establish factory or two
on the flats between the town of Oak
land and the water. The plan did not
meet the appreciation of Oakland's
aristocrats. They said these indus
tries would tend to bring poor labor
ing people among them, and they did
not like the smell of poor folks. The
works were not built, and now Oak
land wonders why she has become
merely sleeping place for San Fran
cisco business men,
Los Angeles daily herald., 1874-05-17

THE "eternal nigger' is cutting up
again in New Orleans. He declines
to work, and says he expects the Gov
eminent to supply him with food. If
he can manage to hold on to that faith
long enough, he will learn that Re-
publics are ungrateful, even to the
extent of giving man food who is
too lazy to work and earn it.
Los Angeles daily herald., 1874-05-17

Tom FITcH-silver-tongued Tom
has gone over to the Democracy. This
is just about the worst thing that could
happen to the Democracy of Utah and
Nevada. When Tom goes over to a
thing, the thing is none the whittier or
better for the go over.
Los Angeles daily herald., 1874-05-17
PUBLIC NOTICE.

~ Angeles City Water Company, residing
east OF Hill, New High and Castelar, streets,
will please take
NOTICE, That they will only be allowed
the use of water for gardens between the hours
of Z and 9 "A NJ, and and p. NJ, on and after
this date. Any violation of this rule, which
will be strictly enforced, will be met by
cutting off the water. Nor will any consumer
be allowed to furnish water for building pur-
poses without leave of the Superintendent.
Plumbers will please take notice that they
will not be allowed to place bath-tubs OF
water-closets in any premises without first
notifying the superintendent
G. f. MILES,
Superintendent.
Los ANGELES, May G, 1874. my7tf
Los Angeles daily herald., 1874-05-17

THE Democrats of Ohio think of
running PENDLEToN for President
again. We suppose Ohio wants to
own President, and PENDLEToN is
her best man. But he is not the best
man in the Nation, and if he should
run seventy-five times he would not
be elected.
Los Angeles daily herald., 1874-05-17
A CA r D..

Understanding that Mr.. Guadalupe Auzar
has made certain statements derogatory to
my character as a business man and q gentle
man, l take this means of contradicting the
reports he has circulated concerning me. The
true cause ofthis attemt of Auzar to injure
me lies in the fact that / was compelled to
bring suit against him to recover a small debt
In my due from him. Being thus compelled
to discharge his just obligations, he has had
recourse to the mean eXpedient OF Islander, as
a matter of revenge.
l trust that my friends will consider the an
linus which prompts his slanderous state
ments concerning me. and pass them by for
what they are worth.
Respectfully,
myl33t MARIANO G. SANTA CRUZ.
Los Angeles daily herald., 1874-05-17

A LONDON firm has sent ex-Tide
Land Commissioner L. L. BULLOCK
into Oregon with a commission to
purchase two million five hundred
thousand bushels of wheat. Are there
indications of short crops in Europe?
Los Angeles daily herald., 1874-05-17

SINCE MAST began to caricature the
Republican party, the members of that
organization begin to see why the
Democracy could not laugh at his pic
lures some time ago.
Los Angeles daily herald., 1874-05-17

THERE is disposition to lionize the
bandit VAsoUEz on the part of num-
Der of we'll meaning but mistaken
people. This is wrong. The man adj
mits himself a criminal, and how
great criminal he is remains to be
seen. 1t is to be hoped that all maud
lin sympathy will be withheld, and
the prisoner brought to trial as speedily
as possible, where it is also to be hoped
justice will be meted out to him, and
the law virdicated. VAsQUEz is
doubtless great man of his kind, but
he is not of kind to merit, and should
not receive, the sympathy of law-abid-
ing, justice-loving people. Let the
law take its course as speedily as pos
sible.
Los Angeles daily herald., 1874-05-17

The legal opinions of eminent law
yers on questions of law affect
ing railway corporations are the
ablest productions of the American
bar. They are positive proof that the
country possesses great legal minds
and profound scholars. In nine cases
out of ten they prove beyond the pos
sibility Of refutation by the common
mind, that black is whitehall rail.
roads have all the rights and the peo-
pie none. They are powerful logical
efforts, but their authors could pro-
duce still greater arguments on the
other side, if the incentive was as
great-but the people do not pay such
fees. Their case does not require it.
Los Angeles daily herald., 1874-05-17

THE Republicans of Missouri pro-
pose to abondon the field to the Gran
gers. They cannot nominate ticket
that the Changers will support, and
without that support election is i'm
possible. -
Los Angeles daily herald., 1874-05-17

CONGRESS will never adjourn again.
The present session will extend to the
crack of doom. HoUGHToN announced
that he would retire at the close of the
present session, and in order to retain
his valuable services it was resolved
that the present SO sion should never
Weekly Trinity journal., 1874-11-21

AN EXTINCT volcano IN PLUMAs
CoUNTY.-We find the following sub
Joined in the reported proceedings OF the
Academy Of Science at the meeting held
in San Francisco last week.
DR.. Harkness, who has been spending
some time in Plumas county, gave verb
al account of an extinct volcano that is
there found. 1t is on the line that divides
Plumas from Lassen county, about three
miles long by half as wide, and is now
where stands Great Lake. The chief in
terest is that it is of recent origin. There
are a number Of trunks of trees standing
upright, and any quantity of stumps on
the bank. The lava lies about in flakes.
from ton weight to a cubic foot in size.
The surrounding surface is utterly devoid
Of vegetation to the extent Of from three
to four hundred acres.
The Doctor said that two and a half
miles to the northeast he had discovered
a very fine lake Of water, somewhat larger
than Lake Tahoe, and which has only
been known to hunter or two. 1t is
1880 feet above the sea and the highest
lake known in the United States. He
a;l'ssI it Lake livingstone IN honorof the
English explorer. He feels certain that
the volcano has been in active operation
within the past twenty y-fve years. There
are Indians tho:eabouts whose fathers
have said their fathers informed them
that in years past all the mountains were
on Ere.
Weekly Trinity journal., 1874-11-21

A BEAUTIFUL PRosPEcT.-Seemingly
the great point Of attraction for after-din.
ner observations yesterday and in fact the
chief popular resort throughout the day
was found in the upper terraces and sum-
NIT of that all-commanding pile of ma
sonry yclept the Palace Hotel. The outer
walls OF the edifice and large portion Of
the interior masonry and flooring are now
completed to the Top Of the sixth story,
affording a safe and spacious area from
which to enjoy the surrounding prospect,
something less than the summit of Monte
Diablo. The top of the structure is ac-
cessible by two winding stairways more
easy than the ascent of Bunker Hill Mon
ument and the view obtained, aside from
the inspection of this enormous enterprise
well repays the labor of ascent. From
the sixth and seventh stories of the Palace
a greater portion Of the city is within
range Of vision, the surrounding buildings
sinking into comparatively insignificant
proportions. The effect Of the view from
this lofty position is peedliSr, distances
seeming TO contract, and ASIAN instance
the new Mint, a good half mile away, is
apparently brought within stones throw.
The upper stories command a clear stretch
to Lone Mountain, all the Mission section
of the city, Mission Bay, the Potrero,
South San Francisco, far down into San
Mateo county, and the full extent of the
bay to the south. To the eastward a large
expanse of Alameda and Contra Costa
c1u4tios, to the mountains, is within the
range, and northward, San Pablo Bay
and the mountains Of Marin county,
When the hotel is completed the prospect
from the observatory will become one of
the chief attractions Of tbe city and no
doubt the company will perceive The pro-
pricty Of lending enchantment to The view
by providing a good telescope for the en-
joyment of guests. Another story re-
mains to be added, and the rext fortnight
will probably see the exterior walls of the
Palace to their full elevation, and the
company expects to have the structure
rooted by the 18th or Goth of the coming
month. Owing to the enormous dimen-
sions Of the edifice, and the admirable
proportions Of the plan, the great hight is
not readily appreciable from the street,
but ascending the pile at its present stage,
the effect is very grand and impressive
s. r. CdH, l6ih,
Weekly Trinity journal., 1874-11-21
and Last
GIFT CONCERT
IN AID OF THE
PUBLIC LIARARY OF KENTUCKY.
A CARD TO THE PUBLIC.

The management have determined to
have the drawing Of the Fifth and Last
Gift Concert Of the Public Library of
Kentucky, on the 3Oth day of November
next. We believe now that all the tick
cts will be sold and that the drawing will
be full one, but whether all are sold or
not the drawing will nevertheless certain
ly come off on the day appointed.
The special object Of this card is to call
a meeting Of the ticket-holders at Public
Library Hall, on the Goth of November,
to make arrangements in connection with
the Committee appointed by the Trustees
to suporiatend the counting Of the tags
representing the numbers of tickets sold.
While there is no actual necessity for the
presence Of ticket-holdersS as Under our
arrangements the interests of all are
equally cared for, yet at the same time |
would greatly prefer that as many Of
those interested as can, would attend this
meeting and see each for himself how
perfectly fair and impartial the distrbu-
tion must be.
Every arrangement has been made for
the drawing, but little more than month
remains for the sale OF the remainder of
the tickets, and whatever is done must be
done promptly.
THos. f. BRAMLETTE,
Agent and Manager.
Louisville, KY, Oct. %, 1874.
Weekly Trinity journal., 1874-11-21

"IT's JUST LIKE A MAN. We paid
a visit last night to the house of n we'll
known citizen Of Virginia. 1t was some
thing unusual, Of course, but then we did
so. This gentleman has a couple Of
handsome daughters, and while we were
paying our respects to them we obtained
permission to light cigar. One Of the
ladies volunteered to light it for us, and
placing the right end between her ruby
lips (for wonder she did put the right
end in her MOUTH, she successfully per-
formed the operation. Well, she was so
elated that she Immediately rushed over
to her sister and kissed her vohemently.
What sweetness was then wasted upon
the desert air The sister Immediately
cried out, ooh, Carrie, do it again, quick
it tastes just like man ~ And Carrie
did do it again and quickly, too. Now
what puzzles US was, that we thought it
very strange that the eldst daughter of
citizen, supposed to be the head of well
regulated family, should know anything
about such matters. We did not say a
word, but we thought heap.-Gold LLiU
NcWS.
Weekly Trinity journal., 1874-11-21

LOST GIRL-IEFoRMATIoN WANTED.
Elizabeth Morgan left Boston, Massachu-
sets, on the 9.h Of October last, to come
to Grass Valley. Nothing has been heard
OF her since she left Boston, ard her fam
ily'and friends here are very anxious con-
corning her safety. She was placed,
when starting, in the charge of the con-
ductor Of the train, and he had instruc-
tions to make arrangements that conduct
tors on all the roadsover which she tray
eled would see to her welfare. The miss
ing girl is about fourteen years old, has
light hair and blue eyes, fair complexion,
and Is rather large Of stature for her age.
Any information concerning her, sent by
telegraph to S. p. Dorsey, agent for
Wells, Fargo & Co., Grass Valley, Cali
fornia, will be most thankfully received
and literally rewarded. Exchanges and
contemporaries publishing this notice will
greatly oblige distressed family.
Weekly Trinity journal., 1874-11-21

A SAD incident is related in connec-
ton with the Fall River disaster. A
bereaved mother, whose three daughters
were killed, still believes them to be liv-
ing. Every day when the factory bells
are ringing for dinner, the woman who
saw her three daughters borne away to
be buried that Sunday, takes a tin pail,
as she used to do, and starts for Granite
Mill No. l. Sometimes her neighbors
divert her attention by telling her that it
isn't bell time, but other days she walks
to the place where the mill stood, sees
nothing that she can recognize, turns back
in 9azed way and goes to her deserted
home.
Weekly Trinity journal., 1874-11-21

If the maker Of promissory note
fails to pay at the time when itfalls due.
the endorser is, under ordinary circum-
stances, not held responsible unless pay
ment has been demanded, and afterward
notice given of the non payment, and
protest made. The Supreme Court OF
California has decided in the case of Bry-
ant'vs. FEEDER, that when the endorser
told the holder before the note fell due.
that he, the endorser, was collecting mon
ey for the maker and would see that the
note should be paid, he waived demand.
notice and protest, and took the responsi-
bility to pay the note.-Aua.
Weekly Trinity journal., 1874-11-21
WHEAT DID 1T.

The San Francisco Bulletin has reduced
It's price from three bits a week to two
bits, it being the last of the daily papers
to make a reduction. The Sacramento
Union was the first paper to come down
in price, and the causes which forced it to
do so are thus set forth in the Bee of that
city:
Before and during the war, and for
some time after the war, the Union, Bull
eha and Alta had a monopoly Of the
overland news; the San Francisco papers
were at Sacramento and north and east
thereof day behind the Union, because
there was no railroad between the capital
and metropolis. A day with a newspaper
or even an hour ahead of its cotempora-
ries, is fortune, hence the Union had
no competitor north or east Of this point.
One day the railroad dropped down to
San Franciscisco and thereafter the trains
brought the San Francisco journals with
them to be distributed all over the coun-
ly al luc SAINT tlilic WIN tlit CNtDH.
There was the CaU at bits week (Which
had secured the news and the Bulletin,
(which made a morning issue at three
bits having the same telegraphc news,
competing with the Union at four bits,
and they were grinding it to powder be-
tween the upper and neither millstones,
hence the Union had to reduce its rates
lpr be driven out of its own field. Other
Ahings being equal-time, cost, quality
3bnd quantity public will take met
roplitan in preference to a provincial
journal, as all provincial journals Of note
have long since discovered. 1t was the
Central Pacific Railroad, then, that caused
the reduction in the rate of newspaper
subscription in California, just as it has
caused a reduction in the price of many
other things, by bringing the people near
to one another, while at the same time it
has been the means Of raising the price of
real estate everywhere, and largely in
creasing the demand for labor and capital
in addition to which it has been the means
of breaking up the overland telegraphic
news monopoly, which the dailies hereto
fore named have so long enjoyed to their
own great financial benefit"
Weekly Trinity journal., 1874-11-21

IT seems to be the opinion of well in
formed Eastern and European journals
that We are on the eve Of an over-produc-
tion of wheat. Russia, by means Of rail
roods, is opening up a wheat country as
large as that Of the United States and
from which this staple can be placed in
the great markets Of the world at less cost
than from any part Of America. Atten-
ton cannot be directed to irrigation and
a more varied agriculture in the wheat
producing valleys Of this State too soon.
Weekly Trinity journal., 1874-11-21

THE NEXT CoNGREss.--T Forty
fourth House Of Representatives will con-
tain 292 members, of whom 40 will be
new and 10 old members. Politically.
the two houses will stand so far as we can
now estimate them, as follows: In the
Senate, "A neutrality-suspicious., AZ;
Democrats, 81; Independent, l. In the
House-Republicans 96; Democrats, I73;
Independents, 6. -Four States, New
Hampshire, Connecticut, California, and
Mississippi choosing an aggregate of II
members, hold election next year.
Weekly Trinity journal., 1874-11-21

THE result of the Nevada election is
thus summed up by the Gold Hill Nelcs .
" The Republican party has elected a
Congressman, nine out of thirteen State
officers, and thirty-nine of the sixty-five
members Of the Legislature chosen at the
recent election. There will thus be n
Republican majority of twenty-one on
Joint ballot for U. S. Senator"
Weekly Trinity journal., 1874-11-21

Fox HUNTING BY RAIL.-Fox hunters
must take the modern world into consid-
Grafton. Recently the dogs lost a fox
near the station of Ferte Saint Auoin, in
France, and though they beat up tho
neighborhood for two hours, could get no
trace. 1t was thought very strange that
an old dog was missing also. Next day
it was ascertained that the fox had leaped
into the baggage ear of a train just going
out, and the dog had followed and killed
him,
Weekly Trinity journal., 1874-11-21

BUDD DoBLE says Occident is the only
square trotter among all the great step
pers of America. All the rest have a
hitch, skip or wabble, or run-behind
while trotting forward Goldsmith Maid
does this or cheat in some way to save
themselves ; but Occdent's stroke is as
regular as the motion of the walking
beam of an engine, and his limbs when
in play make one think or whole troupe
of ballet girls.
Weekly Trinity journal., 1874-11-21

SEEING that there has been an election
we have been waiting to hear something
about the great Independent party Of
Governor Booth and Sam Seabough. As
yet, no tidings Of it have come to hand.
What can be the matter? ? 1t must have
gone off fishing somewhere and forgot
about the election.-S. H. Post.
Weekly Trinity journal., 1874-11-21

THE Government has concluded ar
rangements with the Pawnee Indians for
their removal from their reservation in
Nebraska to one to be selected for them
in the Indian Territory. They have been
given permission 10 engage in buffalo
hunt in the Indian Territory with their
relatives, the Washitas, after which they
promise they will forever abandon the
chase and apply themselves to farming
and civilized pursuits.
Weekly Trinity journal., 1874-11-21

THE Four MILE RAcE.-The race IN
San Francisco, over the Bay District
track, was won by Katie PeaSe in the
two first heats, the time being 7:43H and
1865. 1t is estimated that fully 10000
persons were on the grounds and large
amount of money changed hands.
Weekly Trinity journal., 1874-11-21

AT a rife shooting match in San Fran
cisco on Sunday, Adolphe Strecker, the
winner Of the honors at the recent Schultz
enfest at Baltimore, was defeated by
Charles Burgans, private of Company
G, First Regiment National Guards of
California.
Weekly Trinity journal., 1874-11-21

LARGE SALE.-The Lick Estate was
sold nt Auction, in San Francisco. on
tuesday last, aggregating 81. .059, ,s25. The
,Iick House property sold for 1920 ooo
put 1t Is said the sale will not be confirmed
as 'hlS property is valued by competent
persons al 81 200 600. The otherproporty
constituting the Estate sold at good prices.
Weekly Trinity journal., 1874-11-21

IL Eel river, Humboldt county, one
day last week, with four seines, and with
in three hundred and fifty or four hundred
feet, enough salmon were secured to fill
two hundred barrels. Eel river is repre-
aented as being literally alive with fish.
Weekly Trinity journal., 1874-11-21

THE New York Express says il seems
somewhat of pity that the Icelandic
people, who are said to be enterprising
and highly civilized, and are used to cold
weather, do not undertake the job of in
vostgating the north pole and its sur
roundings.
Weekly Trinity journal., 1874-11-21

THE American Press Association has
almost eclipsed the old Associated Press
in way Of foreign news, and the latter
~g indignant. 1t is a fact well
Known to those who read more than one
paper that the journals on this Coast con-
nected with the American Press Associa-
ton furnish the best dispatches, both for
elgn and domestic.
Weekly Trinity journal., 1874-11-21

who'll believe a part of this if we
will the rest "a Georgia planter drain
ed his rice swamp last year, and this
Spring planted it to corn. A hybrid crop
was-p>-luced, the blades and stalks being
Of corn. while the kernels on the cob were
Tice.D
Weekly Trinity journal., 1874-11-21

TIE Union of Friday, is responsible
for the following: "A clergyman who
passed through the city yesterday, en-
route for San Francisco from the East.
WAS ylctimized at Battle Mountain bv
monte operators, on the previous day. TO
the extent of $3.50.
Weekly Trinity journal., 1874-11-21

Rev. j. II. Todd of Sioux City played
rather "A neat little joke on his wife the
otherday. While she was unsuspectingly
engaged in half soling his Winter trou-
sers, he quietly slipped out at the back
gate and eloped with n nillner.