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Los Angeles daily herald., 1875-01-30
PosTPoNEMENT.

A T A MEETING OF THE BOARD OF
"A Directors Centinela Land Company Jam
uary s, 1875, 1t was M aAit ,sll-tf tf
Resoiged, That owing to the inability OF the
surveyolsto com pIete the surveys and prepare
the necessary maps OF the subdivisions of the
Centinela Ranches, 1t is expedient to adjourn
the sale Of the Hands of the company from the
18th day ofJanuaIy until the 18th day Of Feb-
ruary, 1875. .., t,. M 3z,Ils3f Il l5s75 !. ~
BY order, w. II, J. BROOKS.
~ ~Asstt see fitt45f 's Secret:fry
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Again Postponed. .

cember ith, 1874, the time at which the pay
ment of the above assessment became delin-
quent, was again postponed to January I'd,
1875. L. M. HOLT,
dec10tf Secretary.
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San Juan capistrano Bridge.

CLERKS OFFICE, BOARD OF SUPERVISORS, I
Los Angeles County, California.
NOTICE is hereby given that sealed pro-
IN posals will be received at this office un-
til TUESDAY, FEBRUARY I'd, 1875 at 10
O'Clock A. NJ, the time set for opening said
bids. for building bridge across the Desechos
creek, in San Juan Township-according to
the plan and specifications on file in the
Clerks office. Proposals to be directed to the
Board of Supervisors, and endorsed "Propo-
sails for building bridge" The Board reserves
the right to reject any and all bids, as the
public good may require.
A. w. POTTS, Clerk.
BY @. w. GOULD, Deputy
Los Angeles, Cal, Jan Is, 1875.
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N. bail the newspapers which have the
advertisement of the Centinela for the sale OF
18th inst. please copy and make correction In
advertisement. lf7 trla w. II. j. b.
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MEDICAL.
Medical and Surgical,

And am prepared to give the most careful
study to each case, and to treat diseases in
the most scientific manner. | furnish the
purest drugs, and all the latest and best Med
ical and surgical appliances, and devote my
time, skill and medicine'to the relief of the
afflicted, at reasonable prices.
A little over one years practice in Los An
geles, as well as the many warm expressions
and acts of gratitude on the part of those |
have treated, has satisfied me that my SER
vices are appreciated. References; my
patients.
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Assessment Notice.

ORANGE COOPERATIVE COMPANY
~ Of Los AngelesTLocation OF Principal
Notice is hereby given that at meeting Of
the Directors held in this city on the 8lst day
ofJuly, 1874, an assess ment mo. ~ OF FIVE
DOLLARS PER SHARE was levied upon the
Capital Stock Of said Company, payable I'M
MEDIATELy, in United States gold coin, to the
Secretary, at the Office ofithe Company, No. Al
Temple Block, Los Angeles, California. Any
stock upon which this Assessment shall re-
main unpaid on the LIST day ofiSeptember, 1874,
VIII be declared delinquent and advertised for
sale at public auction, and unless payment is
made before, viii be sold on the li'f i
Los Angeles daily herald., 1875-01-30
rHE LoRDoN ART JouRNAL.

Each part will contain 26 quarto pages, in
cluding the heavy front-piece, on heavy plate
paper. A superb title-page, richly illumin-
ated in red and gold,will be given with the
first part, and the printing of the entire work
Press" which is a guarantee Of something
beautiful and valuable. - 444f.stl 04
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1sth day Of September, 1874, ~

To pay delinquent assessment, together with
cost OF advertising aud expense of sale. sg
BY order Of the Board.
Nts4 Il. M. HOLT, Secretary.
Offices No. Al Temple Block Los Angeles
California. 1i .tosfTif &.
Dated Iulv al Ik74
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FINANCIAL ann COMMERCIAL.
GOLD REPORT.

M n SAN FRANCISCO, january 90
Gold, 1929. -
GreenJacks-B Buying. SO; selling, s'ha.
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Published every Wednesday and Saturday
mornings. Office in Temples New Block,
Spring street, opposite the Courthouse.
It has large circulation in the State OF CAL
ifornia, the Eastern States, Louisiana, Mexico,
and Arizona and Colorado Territories, Central
and South America, and Spain.
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A. w. POTTS. Go. Clerk and Clerk of Courts
j. w. G1LLETrE....C co. Recorder and Auditor
4 E. ROW AN. Co Ireasurer
". r. ROWLAND..Co Sheriff and Tax Coll.
DIONICIO BOTILLE ER-..........-....C Assessor
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IL H PR DUCIN O.

ings never before offered at less than five
times the amount These plates have been
4 ha attraction of
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board Of Supervisors:
x<xk<.

GEO fffND6 Chairman,
F.PAioMiREs, + y; On F.MAcHAd'o,
A. stfPULvEDA, Acting Interpreter.
Regular Meetlngs-F First Monday of each
The Pulaski citizen. [volume] (Pulaski, Tenn.) 1866-current, 1875-04-15
How Some Men Have Risen

lTwsed began as q brush maker, at
lourneyman's wages. Had he remained
at his trsde and continued honest, his
native talent would have insured wealth
but he arose TO a dizzy height, and
then Suddenly fell ss Hank Smith. .
who died in his official career of police
commissioner, began as a driver on the
Erie canal, and reached at one time a
membership In the ring which gave him
(as it was estirlated) million. Of this
but little is left, and his widow is living
in distant villsge. The late police
superintendent, Jourdan, began as a
newspaper folder in the service of the
Tribune. He was IN the Office of su-
perintendent for three years, and left
an estate worth, as il is said, $500 Goo
The salary of this Office is 81, 500, but
the facility of receiving bribes enables
the incumbent to get rich rapidly. Tt
has been said that Jourdan knew the
secret of the Nathan horror, and that
an enormous fee secured a pledge of
immunity in favor of the guilty parties.
Another man who has risen from
poverty to wealth is Brown, the noted
sexton of Grace church He besan
life as a carpenter, but being of porily
turn he found the trade laborious, and
of carriages. Next he was made sexton
OF Grace church, and for twenty years
he has had all the patronage of that
rich society. He is extensively en-
ployed to manage social reunions and
receptions, in which branch he is an
adept. He has the run of all the fash
ionable young men, and many a S.
note is handed him to refresh his mem
oTy when invitations are TO be circu-
late d. Such a man may assist a friend
to an entrance into a certain class of
society, if not into the best. In this
manner Brown, though occupying
'seeond-rate position, is in fact an auto
crat among many of the fashionable
world, at least in that which is next to
the creme de Ia creme. Instead of
showing the plane at $15 week, he now
has a country seat, and is estimated at
quarter million.
Oliver Charlick, who is now president
of the Long Island railroad, and is
considered millionaire. began basi-
ness as the keeper of a grocery on the
wharf, where the profits of the orgies
of sailors and loDgshoremen gave him
both money and political infuence.
Chsrfick was at one time leader IN the
city government, and this was rich
source of plunder. OF course he be-
came wealthy. These results. and
others which could be referred TO.
show what curious changes occur amid
the social revolutions of great city.
The Pulaski citizen. [volume] (Pulaski, Tenn.) 1866-current, 1875-04-15
How Fish NAV Be improved.

It is now well known that the rich,
delicate flavor of the white fish in many
western lakes comes from a celery-fed
parasite on which it lives. This celery
is the marine plant that gives to the
canvas back duck its glory among con-
noisseurs of the table. Here is a good
hint in the line of fish culture. Why
may not the common varieties be made
table delicacies, for instance, by put
ting them on a mild diet of Worcester
shire sane. before they are served? It
is the creosote and gas parasite, how
ever-the deadly refuse of oil and paper
mills-that should be first looked to.
CLANS and oysters and even fish are
thus being foully impregnated and
sometimes killed. The fish of the
Genesee river were recently found SO
tainted with kerosene from oil mills as
TO render them unfit for fOod. A SINH
lar condition in the river Iser, produc-
ing an appeal from the fishermen of
Munich to the government, has called
out an eminent chemist, Prof. A. Wag-
ner, who shows by experiments, that in
water with one per cent. sf gas refuse,
fish die IN six minutes, with one-half
per cent. they die in thirty minutes,
while one-tenth per cent. kills the hard
lest river fish in twenty-four hours. A
partial guard against this, the profes-
sor suggests, is to allow s. gradual dis
charge of the refuse ints the stream,
instead of the wholesale dumping now
pIacticed.
The Pulaski citizen. [volume] (Pulaski, Tenn.) 1866-current, 1875-04-15
The Volcanoes Of Ieeland.

Iceland is situated at the termination
of the great volcanic line, skirtiDg the
extreme west of the Old World, which
has existed since the Cretaceous period
certainly, whilst the points Of eruption
appear 10 have travelled noEthwards.
As AL the rocks are sgneous, or igneous
derivatives, no sHratigraphlcal arrange-
msnt can be made ont. Basaltic lava
streams are common IN the vicinity of
Rey kjsYik, though no active volcano
exists in this part Of the island, which
is in the secondary stage of solfataras
and hot springs. These isolfataras are.
mere pits of blush white silieeous mud.
the result of decomposition of contig-i
nous tufa. The principal gas exhaled
is sulphnretted hydrogen. Their posi-
tion changes. The hot springs are
working out their own destruction by
the accumulation of sinteF the COM
position of this varies in springs within
a few yards of each other, The large
riffs IN the old lava at Thingvala were
attributed to the flowing away of the
undercurrent of lava into yet deeper
depression, thus leaving the unsup-
ported crust to sink down in the mi die
An the lavas of Heckla are basaltic, and
contain crystals of felspar and Divine
the mountain. There were four craters;
the longest one is an elliptical depres-
sion $50 feet deep, at the bottom of
which lay snow, though some aches and
clay were still quite hot. The district
of Mydals JOkull, containing the terri
BILE volcano -Kotluiia, is remarkable for
the confused aintermixture of 7agueous
and igneous, ejectRmenta, producing ag-
glomerates and tufas. Sand and hot
water are the principal productions of
Ketlujia itself, which has not been
known to produce lava, though ancient
felsitic lavas were noted at its base.
These floods are produced, in addition
to the melting Of the Jokull, by the
bursting of large cavities In which water
has accumulate for years. Such res
ervoir was noted in a small nsighboring
crater, at the bottom of which was a
deep pool of turpid water, into which
several small streams emptied them
selves, but none ran out again. To
Vatna Jokuli the principal volcanic
forces of Iceland seem now to have re-
treated. This is a vast tract of snow
and ice which rests upon nest of vol
canoes, many of which have been in
eruption during historical time. The
Vatna rises from series of basaltic
platforms The existence of perma-
nently sctive volcanoes In the unknown
interier of this mass was considered not
improbable.
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A Burning Gas-well.
a Wonder of tno Pennsylvania Coal
..f. Regions.

A Wonder of the PennsyIvania Coal
.f Regions.
The following interesting description
OF a burning well ia Pennsylvania has
been received by the signal Office in
Washington city from Mr.. S. Cum
mings, of Tarentum, one of the Volun-
tser observers for the signal service:
On the night of the ID of February,
1875, ], in company with several others,
paid visit ts the great gas-well, situ-
ated abor1t nine miles from Tarentum
and fifteen miles south of Butler, at a
place called Larden's Mill, on the farm
of Mr.. William Hervey, and owned by
a company consisting of Messrs. Viii
liam Hervey, j. s. Vandegrift and j.
McAllaster. The ewen was tapped about
two weeks ago, as / learned from one
of the proprietOrs in their search after
oil. They have gone down distance
of / 145 feet, and have inst struck the
first sand rock. The well is located in
"a hollow about 800 feet wide, between
ab~ups hills. Our party came in the
vicinity of the well about nine o'clock
at night, having seen the vast light
floating in the tky On many a dark night
on previous occasions, thirteen miles
distant, but when we came IN its imme-
diate influence and saw the trees on
either hand lit up, and their trunks
and branches silvere1 to their tops by
this burning torch, the scene was be-
yond description On, arriving at the
ground we were met by people from all
parts of the country, who, Ike our
selves, flock nightly to see this great
wonder. The first thing to strike the
visitor is the great mass of fine white
fame OF intense heat and brightness
and the hollow, rumbling noise heard
as the out-rushing gas plunges into the
atmosphere and lights AL around by its
imposing brilliancy. The flame of this
natural torch Is aboHt forty feet long
and fifty wide, and keeps at these di-
mensions night and day with striking
regularity. Hence the light is both
re Eular and constant The heat emit
ted by 50 large a body of flame is very
great. The trees all around, at proper
tionBl distances, are budding. and the
grass that has not been trOdden down
by the throng of visitors is growing
finely. and considering that this Is mid
| winter, this circumstances viii give soma
idea of the great heat. I approached
within sixty feet of the flame, and sup
posed it to be a. that distance about 40
degrees. The place has the character
of camp meeting at night IN conse-
| queuce of the mighty crowds who con-
gregate there. The light Is grand.
| You can see to read with ease a quarter
Of mile from this enormous gas-iet,
and If uninterrupted by trees and the
wind of the road reading could be done
1 at tue distance Of q mile and a half.
The noise as the gas fushes out and rs
/ Consumed il wonderful
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The gray old college rises through its leaves
Sweet with birds futing meath the shadowed
caves.
How fair. familiar and unaltered still,
That glimpse OF roof, that sunlit gable end
Those gay flowers gemming that deep window sin 8,
That iyied archway and that eloister bend!
There slopes the lawn away beneath its trees;
There peep again the college walls beyond:
There, as Of old, in white majestic ease,
The swans move, oAring up theliiied pond.
The gray-beard gardener, with his swinging scythe
10 how he shakes He is too old 70 NOV,
II seems but yesterday saw him Blithe
Aud young All, well we al must older grow.
It seems but yesterday that here we walked
And sat and smoked my own best friend and I,
Gay happy hearted lads and fondly talked.
And planned our futures and their honor high.
Should plead and question, wearing wig and gown,
And should don the sober suit, and be
Quickly, Of course, shining light in town.
Then came the 9old-green June, that somewhat hid
Our wig and miter dreams, and made them
How fleet aud fair the sweet flower season sIidi
How Of the present was our only thought
How the cid place was changed, and sudden made
Vocal with maiden voices sweet
Bright with gay CLEANS shot down the happy shade,
Flashed through the fair white hands and fairy
feet.
And one there was who drew us to one spot,
And made us meet-no more in friendship fair,
In love or her, our own love was forgot;
And where she was. there two always were.
So bate rose up between my friend and me,
Poor pretty girl She could not love us both.
" Ugh win your miter aud your wife, sneered he,
gibed, and called f' Judge" and made him wroth.
o friendship feeted like this heeting shaded
o this way planned, that way acted life
He lives and grinds in Oxford: in trade.
He won his fellowship, and 7, the wife.
Temple Bar.
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George washingson.s Family.
sons interesting Facts-ErobaaIe origin
OF the American FrIan.

OF tEo American Flag.
The WashingtOn's 3 were North of Eug-
land people. who some time lived In
Durham, then in Lancashire, and finally
in Northamptonshire. It is safe to 20
back to the reigns of the seventh and
eighth Harrys for q founder, and we
find him in Sir Thomas Kitson, one of
the great merchants who developed the
wool trade. The first OF the family to
settle in the rich pasturage OF the mid
land county of Northampton was Law
renee Washington, whose mother was q
Kitson. Lawrence was a baTrister, but
gave up his profession of the law for
the good and ancient reason, perhaps,
That though he was bred to the law. the
law was not bread for him, and so he
retired 20 the country to lcok after his
uncle Kitson' hocks Of merinos. law
renee must have been a man of some
significance, for he was made mayor Of
Northampton, and when Bluff Hal
raided the monssteries, Lawrence being
identified with the cause Of reformation
came in for share OF what in vulgar
parlance might be called swag," IN
other words, the king made a grant to
him of the monastic lands of Sulgrave
Near this was Althorp, the family seat
of the Spencers, ard the Lady Spencer
of that day was the daughter of Sir
Thomas Kitson. and consequently the
first cousin of Lawrence Washington.
The rector OF the parish was DR.. Lay
ton, who was Lord Cromwell's prime
commissioner for the dissolution of
monastsries, by which we reach another
cause, IN addition to his blood relation
ship to the Spenesrs, of why the lands
of Sulgrave should have been given to
Lawrence Washington.
For three generations the Washing
tons held SuIgrave, taking rank among
the nobility aud landed gentry of the
country, but after that their fortunes
waned. Sulgrave7 was sold, and the
family retired to the parish of BriDgtoD,
under the care and patronage as it were
of poor relationship of the SrenceEs. i
Prosperity however came to them here
quickly, and it came in way to prove
the respeetability of their lineage. The
eldest son of the family married the
half-sisteS of George Villiers, duke of
Buckingham, and thus we see the
WashiDgtons intermsrrying with two of
the best families in all England. The
Washington who emigrated to America
In 1857 was the grandfather of the hero
who sleeps on the banks of the Poto-
mac. In 1862 he was knighted by
James L, and it is known that be was
on the most friendly terms with the
.Spencers down to the very eve of the
civil war. In that struggle the Wash
ingtons drew their swords for the king.
Sir Henry Washington led the storming
party at Bristol, and defended Worces.
ter. Sir Henry held. the. rank of col
onet, and was man so noted for his
brlyery that It became a proverb in The
army when a difficulty arose away
with it." quoth Washington.
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NUMBER 10.

brother. We have before us e tran
script Of this shield. and fr5m il we are
constrained TO believe that the United
States flag IS seen now very certainly
took its origin. 10 this shield are FIVE
horizontal stripes, of alternate guies
and white. as are those Of the national
dsg, while the three stars IN the upper
stripe bave the parallel popularity of
being fve-pointed. All this may not
be of interest to those who care very
little whether George Washington had a
grandfather or not, but then again there
may be others who viii not think any
the less of the father of the great repub-
lic because his ancestors fought against
Cromwell and his Ironsides tc Keep
Charles head upon his shenlders.-Sg.
Louis Republican.
The Pulaski citizen. [volume] (Pulaski, Tenn.) 1866-current, 1875-04-15
Capt11re Of a Herd Of Elephants

A correspondent of Land and Water
tells Of the capture, in the MysOre dis
Irict, India, of herd of elephants,
numbering forty nine head. An irri-
eating canal winds through q dense
Jungle, at some points approaching a
small river, at others stretching away
from it into the Jungle. In one place
bend Of the canal forms, with the river,
an inclOsure in the shape of a horse
shoe, containing about fifteen acres OF
wooded ground. To this place ele-
plants resort during the monsoon,
crossing the canal at three or four points
where the banks have become tredden
down by constant use. In order to
trap the entire herd, two lines of chains
we're retched across the river at the
ends of the horseshoe, and a trench
vas dug on the river bank to cut off
ascape on that side. The elephants
having crossed into the inclosure, the
sords we're barricaded with cocoanut
trees. the canal deepened at those
places, and two deep trenches cut from
the canal TO the river. Fires we're kept
up at night on the banks of the canal.
Meanwhile deep, cireulaF trench was
dug, and two parallel trenches were
also dug. leading from the horseshoe TO
this small inclosure. Drop gates we're
made to prevent the animals leaving
this Eeddah when once they had en-
tered it.
A large force Of men we're How di-
rected 70 drive the herd into the Red-
dab. The first FtteHps failed, the ele-
plants stampeding back into the horse
shoe after a few of them entered the
inclosure. A second effort was crowned
with success. First came female with
her calf then seven other females, and
sfter q while on came the entire herd
with a rash, males, females, and calves
of ali sizes, like herd Of rather large
pigs, iostling a3d pushing one another
through the gate way. When the last
was IN, down went the gate, and they
were sll secured. The catching Of the
elephants one by one was the work Of
several days. 'sThe men ride in among
them. on tame beasts, and put ropes
round tbeir legs and necIs, after which
the tame elephants drag them out ia
spite cf all resistance, and they are
chained one by one {. trees TO be trained
at leisure. They do not mind the tame
elephants mixing With them AZ all, even
with men on their backs, but they OBJ
! iect strongly to the men on the ground,
who have 20 put on the FJpes. Tine
/ clever way 10 which the tame elephants
1 help is wonderful they move close up
to the wild ones, and understand EOW
20 Put their legs so as 20 shield the faen
/ from all kicks they take hold Of the
/ wild onss' legs ard trunks with THEN
own trunks, and are invaluable.
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A Prescription for the Cure of Drunk
enness.


There is a curious prescription in
En- land for the cure of drunkenness,
by which thousands are said to have
been assisted in recovering themselves.
The recipe came into notoriety through
the efforts of John Vine Hall, father
of Rev. Newman Hall and Capt. Vine
Hall, commander of the Great Eastern
steamship. He had fallen into such
habitual drunkenness that his utmost
effort to regain himself proved IN
ayailing. At length he, sought the ad-
vice of an eminent phys scian, who gave
him a pres sription, which he followed
faithfully for several months, and at
the end OF that time he had lost all de-
sire for liquors, although he had for
many years been led captive By a most
debasing appetite. The recipe, which
he afterwards published, and by which
so many have been assisted to reform,
is as follows: stSulphate. Of iron, 5
grams magnesia, 10 grains pepper
mint water, IL grains spirit Of nat
meg, one drachm 20 be taken tEise a
day." This preparation acts as a tonic
and stimulant, and partly supplies the
place of the accustomed liquor. and
prevents that absolute physical and
moral prostration that follows a sudden
breaking off from the use of stimu-
lating drinks.