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Los Angeles daily herald., 1875-12-23
Stage Robbery.
EASTERN NEWS.
Freight Rate Reduction.

NEW YORK, December 22d.-The
sudden reduction of rates on freight
from this city to the West, which went
into effect this morning, caused con-
siderable JOY among shippers. The
freight schedule as issued includes i'm
portant Western points as far as Cairo,
Kansas City, Keokuk, Milwaukee and
intermediate points.
Death Of Chief Justice.
HUDSON, Y. Y, December ODD
Hon. James G. Patton, Chief Justice
of the Supreme Court of New Mexico,
died at Santa Fe yesterday He was
resident of this city, where his FAM
lily still live.
The Canadian Road.
OTTAWA, Ont, December 22d.-A
great many political rumors are afloat
concerning the Pacific railroad to Brit
ish Columbia, and the ant cipated de-
fault in the revenue. The Free Press
tonight denies that the route of the
Georgian Branch, as laid down in Nc
Kelsie's premiers' map, is to be devil
ated from in the least. The engineers
have reported that in going West from
Renfrew they have found route,
the gradings on which will not
exceed twenty six feet to the
mile. A change will be made at the
west end of the line near the French
river whore no decision as to route has
yet been arrived at by Engineers.
Swinging Around the Circle.
WASHINGTON, Dec. 22d.-Presiden
Grant left here this morning on the
limited express for New York to at
tend the annual dinner Of the North
East Society. He expects to return
to Washington tomorrow.
Cuban Sympathy.
RICHMOND, Va, Dec. 22d.-The
House Committee ON Federal Rela-
tions to which was referred the joint
resolution requesting our Representa-
tives in Congress to support all meas
ures having in view the granting of
belligerent rights to the Cubans, re-
ported this morning by resolution
that it is not becoming the general as
sembly to take action on the subject
The Committee asked to be discharged
from further consideration of the res
olution.
Los Angeles daily herald., 1875-12-23
Medical Gard.

DR.. Il. C. Gale, who graduated in the Ohio
Medical College In 1872. after practicing his
profession IN Southern Indiana tor nearly
thirty-fOur years, has located in Los Ang. les,
and respectfully tenders his professional SER.
vices to those who "ay choose To consult him.
Relieving as he does thar Southern CaliforniS
is one of the best placss on the continent to
test the durability OF rcular ption,
he Will i'm conjunction with his general prac-
tice, give that disease special attention. Ills
diploma will be cheerfully shown to any
gentleman who may honor him by calling to
see the same. Office in Ducommun Building
with DIR. Burgess. dec8tf
Los Angeles daily herald., 1875-12-23
ESPECIAL, TO THE HERALD. !
PACIFIC COAST.
For Los Angeles.

CALIENTE, Dec. 21.-The following
passengers for Los Angeles left on
the Telegraph Stage Line to day:
Cinal Palosofi, Chinaman, p Scovoy,
and Goldsmith.
Los Angeles daily herald., 1875-12-23
Incorporated.

Articles of incorporation of the San
Francisco Petroleum Company were
filed yesterday. The purposes for
which the corporation has been
formed are to carry on the general
business of prospecting for oil, ,petrole-
um, naphtha, asphaltum and other
mineral substances producing oil, and
to extract, refine and prepare the
same for the market; to acquire all
such roads, railroads, landings and
works of all kinds as may be needed.
Capital stock is $l0,000,000, divided
into 100000 shares. The Directors are
J. III. Mahoney, r. o. Mcpherson,
Henry Abbott, Robert c. Page and
Grove Adams.-iS r. Call.
Los Angeles daily herald., 1875-12-23
In Hoe Signo vinces.

Collections promptly made in all parts of
California, Nevada, Arizona, Montana and
New Mexico. Hard times made easy by
leaving your accounts for collection with
Messrs. kevane, Betiis & Co., OF the Mercan-
tile Collection Agency, room 9, over the Com
mercial Bank, Main street, Los Angeles. All
monies paid over upon receipt of same.
noyl6f
Los Angeles daily herald., 1875-12-23
yus Aneeles Aerald.

THE DAILY and WEEKLY HER
AID has more than double the cir
culation Of any other paper published
in Southern California. Business men
recognize it accordingly as the best
advertising medium South Of San
Francisco.
Los Angeles daily herald., 1875-12-23
LegIsIatIve Proceedin IS.

SACRAMENTO, Dec. 22d.-McCoh-
nelPs bill providing an additional
Justice of the Peace and Constable for
Los Angeles, has received the Cover
nor's signature.
Scrivner's bill to extend the time
two months for paying the taxes in
Kern, Tulare and Stanslaus counties
passed the House to-day, after consid-
erable discussion.
Preston's bill to print two thousand
copies of the Governors message in
Spanish passed the House to-day,
Pierce gave notice of bill to pro-
vide for funding the floating debt of
San Diego and Stanislaus.
The Assembly to-day voted the use
of the Chambers to Mrs. Xathalan
Pollard for lecture after recess.
Bush, Chairman Of the Committee
on Hospitals, will visit various hospi-
tails and asylums during the recess.
The Assembly adjourned at one, and
the Senate at two o'clock, till two
O'Clock of the third of January.
Troops for the Border.
SAN FRANCISCO, Dec. 22d.-Berdan's
Company First Cavalry, u. S. A., now
in garrison here, will be sent overland
TO San Diego tomorrow by General
Schpfield, in response to the call of the
citizens fSan Diego for troops to pro-
tect the frontier line against maraud-
ing MeXicans.
Stage Robbery.
MARYSvILLE, December 22d.-The
Downieville stage was stopped on its
way down, near Dobbins' ranch, by
three masked men, and Wells, Fargo
& Co.'S box demanded. They held the
stage till the box was broken open,
and finding nothing in it they COM
PEELED the passengers to get out and
stand in row. and then proceeded to
search them, getting in all about $500,
taking $l65 from Chinaman and
nearly $500 from a white man.
Los Angeles daily herald., 1875-12-23
DI II d.

MILLER.-In this city, December 2lst, Elise
Miller, wife of Jacob Miller, aged rs years,
native OF Bremen, Germany.
The funeral will take place this morning at
10 O'Clock, from the residence, on Ninth street,
West of Pearl
Los Angeles daily herald., 1875-12-23
Latest kilograms.

Dispatches of American Press Assoeia-
tion by A. a. T.. Telegraph 90.
Los Angeles daily herald., 1875-12-23

Halifax kilograms report man fro
zen to death, a case of infanticide and
two schooners wrecked.
Los Angeles daily herald., 1875-12-23

MOORE'S AUCTION HOUSE.
No. Court street.
AlsO-New Wagons, Harness, Guns, Watch
es, Beds. Bedding, all kinds Of Furniture,
Cook and her Stoves. Pic ures, Shirts,
Books, Safes Cupboards, Teas, Tobaccos. Spi-
ces, Toys, Piano Fortes, Sewing Machines,
Tin-waie, Cutlery, Piated-ware, Spring Mat
uesses, all sizes, Lamps, Crockery, GLASS;
ware, etc.
Cheap fOl. Coin.
dl- lw
Los Angeles daily herald., 1875-12-23
DeaiI, Of 10 Chief Justice.

HUDSON, Y. Y, December ODD
Hon. James G. Patton, Chief Justice
of the Supreme Court of New Mexico,
died at Santa Fe yesterday. He was
a resident of this city, where his FAM
ily still live.
The Kenosha telegraph. [volume] (Kenosha, Wis.) 1860-1888, 1875-12-30
Cure for Gossip.

What is the cure for gossip Simply,
culture. There is great deal OF gossip
that has no malignity In it. Good
natured people talk about their neigh
bors because, and only because, they
have nothing else to talk about. AS we
write, there comes to us the picture OF q
family of young ladies. We have seen
them at home, we have met them in gal
leries of art, we have caught glimpses OF
them going from bookstore, ora library,
with fresh volume in their hands.
When we meet them, they are full OF
what they have seen and read. They are
Drumming with questions. One topic of
conversation is dropped only to give
place to another, in which they are inter-
ested. We have left them, after de-
lightful hour, stimulated and refreshed ;
and during the whole hour not neigh
bors's garment was soiled by SO much as
touch. They had something to talk
about. They knew something, and wan
ted to know more. They could listen as
well as they could talk. To speak freely
of q neighbours doings and belongings
would have seemed an impertinence to
them, and, of course, an improperly.
They had no temptation to gossip, be-
cause the doings Of their neighbors formed
a subject very much less interesting than
those which grew out of their knowledge
and their culture.
And this tells the whole story. The
confirmed gossip is always either mal1-
cious or ignorant. The one variety needs
a change of heart and the other change
of pasture. Gossip is always personal
confession either of malice or imbe-
cility, and the young should not only
shun it, but by the most thorough culture
relieve themselves from all temptation to
indulge in it. It is a low, frivolous, and
too often dirty business. There are
country neighborhoods in which it RACES
like pest. Churches are split in pieces
by it. Neighbors are made enemies by
it for life. In many persons it degenerr-
ates into chronic disease, which is
practically incurable. Let the young cure
it while they may. j. @. Hotta''0,
IN iScqi6ne9 for January.
The Kenosha telegraph. [volume] (Kenosha, Wis.) 1860-1888, 1875-12-30
Something in Favor of the Sentiment
aIiSt.

There is something to be said in favor
of the sentimentalist, after all. In life
and In literature the sentamentalist is
hardly as unpleasant as the cynic. Tt
would be well for every man and woman
to cultivate an antipathy to cyni-
cism, for it is the state into which
we are most likely to fall as life
leads us on, and we meet the inevi-
table disappointments. 1t is a fate to
which even the sentimentalist is liable.
Indeed, it is a well-worn proverb that
the sweetest wine makes the sourest vim
egar. 5
That the sentimentalist is not always
despicable, you may learn from Thacke-
rays worldly-wise pages. In what a
fatherly way he pats the little creatures
heads, and chuckles them under their
chins. Dickens, too, would hardly be
Dickens should you leave out OF his
books those tenderly amusing touches i'll
which he shows what charm there is
for him in the gushing sentimentalist,
young or old. The fact is all the more
interesting when one considers that, al
| though Dickens can easily patronize a
sentimentalist. he is good deal of q
sentimentalist himself.
| How can we be hard on sentimental
ism when we look into our own hearts {?
Few of us who cannot find corner there
| for that visitor is not at homel The
danger is, that if we turn him out into
the cold, there will be an empty and a
dreary place, or, worse still, some fell
low of the baser sort may enter and oc-
cupy.
Supposing ourselves to be of the most
refined and sensitive type, utterly una
BILE to endure the young woman of the
autograph collection, or the young man
at the Won Bulow concert whose hair
frowzles down over his eyes, and who
regards the pensive browed girl of his
choice with too evident alteration Git is
the autograph girl herself, by the way;
supposing ourselves perfectly hard and
unsympathetic In our attitude toward
every grade of sentimentality, it cannot
be denied that there is one satisfaction
in contemplating case of this kind-he
or she, at least is happy. All! thou
cynic, what wouldst thou net give to
have the freshness, the enthusiasm, the
joyful egotism of that young man and
that young woman These have all
gone from thee forever and what hast
thou in their stead? good taste, pro-
priety, slow pulse and q dull time. Thy
| conceit, even is not conceit that brings
content. It is a little conceit-a both
ering, diLettGnte, self conscious, shifting
conceit; not the kind that puts spirit
of youth in everything. -Scrd6ner for
| .Enult07u.
The Kenosha telegraph. [volume] (Kenosha, Wis.) 1860-1888, 1875-12-30
Ned Buntline and His Indians.

A dispatch from Springfield, Mass.
says Ned Buntline's dramatic COM
pany has bursted in this city in conse-
quence of the arrest and Imprisonment
Of Ned for debt. This sudden collapse
throws five big Indians upon the Over
seers of the Poor for support. By law
OF Massachusetts, railroad bringing any
foreign persons into the State can be
compelled by the Overseers to carry
them out. The Overseers accordingly
shipped the Indians for Albany, but the
conductor promptly elected them from
the cars, and they soon reappeared at
the Overseers' office in all their native
grandeur. The Overseers propose to
try on the law, but the nice question
arises, how can Indians be construed to
be foreigners.
The Kenosha telegraph. [volume] (Kenosha, Wis.) 1860-1888, 1875-12-30

unearthly radiance. s'The ole year is
Going. and am going with"
"0h, Lottie, my child" the mother
sobbed.
The child bent forward and touched
her hot lips to her mothers cheek.
"Hush, mother-God is at work for
YOU. Where is father? Go and fetch
him here Tell him that Lottie must
see him before she goes?'
The mother obeyed. The miserable
father came creeping up the steps and
into the room where his dying child lay
pale and haggard, tremulous from late
debauchery, and covered with an awful
sense of guilt. -
ssLottie, my poor girl, he burst out,
falling on his knees by the low bed, :
didn't mean to hurt you SO !"
The child bent down and took the poor,
guilty head in her two slender arms.
aPoor father, / know, and God
knows, and He will forgive you as do,
she murmured. :.
"No, no, there's no forgiveness lit is
too late p be cried "I'm a murderer
Lottie, Lottie, you must get well for my
sake r
"No, papa, the soft arms still clasp
ing him I can't get well for your
sake. Hark, there. go the bells again.
When the year goes out shall go with
it. I can't live for your sake, papa. but
you must be a better man for mine.
Papa, love, won't you? Look at poor
mother there-she cries so-and see the
dear baby! When all the children il
the city had Christmas, baby had none !!
Oh, papa, give up the nasty drink-will
you, for my sake? There go the bells
for the last time. Promise me, oh,
promise me quick, papa, before the year
is gone!"
S:My child, yes, yes, I promise-be-
fore Heaven dol" ht.l
The little dying face lit with rapture.
"Thank Heaven 70 the pale lips whis-
pered. "And you'll keep your promise,
papa, for Lottie will be your good angel
and help you Thee, don't cry now.
mamma. I am going to begin my New
Year in Heaven, and you and papa will
begin your happy New Year together
here! Good-by, papa, good-by, mamma
Let me have the baby now
| The weeping mother placed the baby
on the bed beside her.
ssThere, finished it, after all y cried
Lottie, producing pair OF chubby red
socks from beneath the cover, the rag
doll, with it's staring glass eyes, pro
| truding from one of them. 81 finished
the doll after all, and here it is for New
Year, and that's better than Christmas
Take it, baby dear, and good-by
There go the bells again-the New Year
is begun !"
Baby clutched the doll with two fat,
eager hands, and Lottie fell back upon
her pillow. A gasp, a futtering breath,
and she began her New Year in Heaven.
Five years later her father was one of
the most influential citizens in his native
village, and above Lottie's grave lowered
marble shaft, bearing this inscrip-
ton: @ M
'My Little Lottie! Through her death live!"
The Kenosha telegraph. [volume] (Kenosha, Wis.) 1860-1888, 1875-12-30

loo and Borodino shall grow dim in the
distant cycles of receding centuries /;
when the names of Eugene, MARI
borough and Napoleon are no longer re-
membered when the pyramids of the
Pharaohs shall have crumbled into dust;
when the hippopotamus shall cease to
inhabit its native Nile even then your
ruling upon this demurrer will still sur
vi7e in the antique volumes of legal lore
as fresh, green and imperishable as a
Big Thompson grasshopper or a Colora4
do potato bug. - DenUer NeaUs.
The Kenosha telegraph. [volume] (Kenosha, Wis.) 1860-1888, 1875-12-30
Large Salaries.

The salaries of the different monarchs
of Europe are given as follows by Ger
man statistician: Alexander L., &c.
$50. 900, or $25, 900 day; Abdul Aziz,
S9. OOO, 900, or $4,000 a day; Francis
Joseph, $4,000, 900, or $1O,05O 6 day;
Fred. William H., $3,0OO,OOO, or 3d.
21O a day; Victor, Emanuel, So, 400,-
600, or $751; $40 day; Victoria, So, 2O0,-
600, or $6,27O day; Leopold, $500, 900,
or S1,643 day. In addition to this
salary, each of these individuals is fur
nished with dozen or more palaces to
live in without any charge of rent.
The Kenosha telegraph. [volume] (Kenosha, Wis.) 1860-1888, 1875-12-30
scuENcK,s MANDRAKE PILLS.

Will be found to possess those qualities necessary to the
total eradication of all bilious attacks prompt to start
the secreons of the liver and give healthy tone to the
entire system. Indeed it is ordinary discovery in
medical science to have invented remedy for these
stubborn complaints which develop all the results pro-
duced by q heretofore free of caomel. mineral
Justly dreaded by mankind and acknowledged to be de-
structiye 10 the the human system That the
properties of certain vegetables comprise all the virtues
of calonae without its injurious tendencies. is low an
admitted fact rendered ndisputable by scientific re-
searches and those who the Mandrake Pills will be
fully satisfied the best medicines are those provided
by nature in the herbs and roots of the Fields
These pills open the bowels and correct all bilious oe-
rangements without salvation of the injurious
effects of caomel or other posons The secretion OF
bile is promoted by pills, as viii be seen oy the
altered color of the stools and disappearing OF the SAL
low complexion and cleansing of the tongue.
Ample directions for accompany each box OF pills
Prepared only by j. H. Schenck Son, at their prin-
cipal Office Sixth and Arch Streets Philadelphia
and for sale by all druggists and dealers Price % cents
per box.
The Kenosha telegraph. [volume] (Kenosha, Wis.) 1860-1888, 1875-12-30

And I'm sure she understood me,
She looked so cunning and wise."
A mellow little voice, very like the
trill of lark, was singing this pretty
ballad on the morning before Christmas.
Little Lottie sat in the window-seat, her
threadbare pinafore full of tiny bits of
many-colored stuffs, from which, with
dexrous fingers she was trying to fash
ion rag doll.
Tomorrow would be Christmas Day,
and the doll was to be present for Lot
ties baby sister; and while she fashioned
it, shaping the round head, and sewing
in two glass beads for eyes, the happy
little creature sang the pretty ballad.
''Hush that noise, will you," thun-
dered savage voice. "I'u bet I'll ST.
lence you, you screeching brat!"
Lottie bounded from her seat like a
ball, scattering all her pretty scraps, so
great was her terror at sound of this saw
age voice, but not In time to escape the
shoe which her drunken father sent
across the room. 1t struck her just
above the right eye, laying open an ugly
cash; and, with a plteous cry, and all
weltering in blood, the child went fut-
tering out of the bare, cherries room
like a lapwing.
The man at the cobbier's bench broke
into brutal laugh, and went on with
his hammering. He was quite drunk,
and bottle of gin occupied the right
hand corner of his bench; while he
worked away at the shoes which were to
bring him the means to indulge In big
Christmas carouse.
Little Lottie's father was not bad
man to look at, or very ignorant one,
but man made brutal and ferocious
by the fatal influence of strong drink.
The child fled from the room in terror,
and crept up to the loft, and into her
small bed.
"Oh! ohi I'm SO sorry p she
moaned, wiping the trickling drops
from her wounded temple. 81 can't
finish the doll now, and to-morrow's
Christmas, and poor, dear baby will
have nothing. Oh, me if the blessed
Lord would only putt tinto fathers heart
to leave off that dreadful drink I"
Thus moaning and murmuring she fell
asleep and thus her mother found her
when she came home. Miserable
mother, and most wretched wife, obliged
" ~ Out III t44O COCUu VI U44C VIII
ter cold, and work for bread to keep her
children from starving. Yet on her
wedding day no happier woman lived |
Fer young bridegroom was streng and
handsome, and very fond of her, and
Ter fortune looked all bright. But he
fell victim to the power of strong
drink, and this was the end.
6 I cannot bear it-oh, Heaven, can
not, moaned the broken hearted woman,
on her knees beside the couch where her
wounded child lay. my burden is too
heavy /"
Christmas had come and gone-a
dreary Christmas in the drunkards
home Il was the last night of the old
year, and little Lottie lay dying-her
head bound with linen cloths, her wan
face flushed with fever. She had lain
for hours In a torpor, her poor mother
sobbing over her pillow but as the first
chime Of bells was heard ringing the old
year out and the new one in, she started
up.
clark to the bells, mother" she
cried, her blue eyes all alight with al
The Kenosha telegraph. [volume] (Kenosha, Wis.) 1860-1888, 1875-12-30
Forensic Elouuence.

The following was part of a young at
torneys peroration on argument Of de-
murrer in one of our city courts recent
": May it please Your Honor, thus
is stupendous question. Its decision
by you, this day, will live in judicial bis
tory long after you and l shall have
passed from this scene of earthly glory
and sublunary vanity; when the tower
of Pisa shall be forgotten when Water
The Kenosha telegraph. [volume] (Kenosha, Wis.) 1860-1888, 1875-12-30

CHAPpED hands, face, pimples, ring
worm, saltrheum, and other cutaneous affec-
lions cured, and rough skin made soft and
smooth, by using Juniper Tar Soap. Be care
full to get only that made by Caswell, Hazard
& Co., New York, as there are many limitations
made with common tar, all of which are worth
less.
The Kenosha telegraph. [volume] (Kenosha, Wis.) 1860-1888, 1875-12-30

YOU'VE ladies who are accustomed to
read the newspapers are always observed
to possess winning ways, most amiable
dispositions, invariably make good wives,
and always select good husbands.
The Kenosha telegraph. [volume] (Kenosha, Wis.) 1860-1888, 1875-12-30

VEGET1NE is nourishing and strength
ening; puriies the blood; regulates the bowels;
quiets the nervous system; acts directly upon
the secretions, and arouses the whole system to
action fs4 al gse
The Kenosha telegraph. [volume] (Kenosha, Wis.) 1860-1888, 1875-12-30
!. For the RIood i the Life },

See Deuteronomy xii: %. The blood being
the source from which the SYSTEM is built up
and from which we derive our mental as we'll
as physical capabilities. how important that it
should be kept pure If it contain vile, Tester
ing posons, all organic functions become
enfeebled. Settling upon important organs,
as the lungs, liver, and kidneys. the effect is
most DISASTROUS Hence it behooves all to keep
their blood in a perfectly healthy condition,
and more especially does this apply at this par
ticular season of the year than any other. No
matter what the exciting cause may be, the
real cause of large portion of all diseases is
bad blood. Now, DIR. Pierce does not wish 10
place his Golden Medical Discovery in the cat
alogue of quack patent nostrums by recon-
mending it to cure every disease, nor does he
SO recommend it; on the contrary, there are
hundreds of diseases that he acknowledges it
will not cure; but what he does claim is this
thaC there is but one form of blood diseases that
it will not cure, and that disease IL cancer. He
does not recommend his Discovery for that dis
ease, yet he knows it to be the rdost searching
blood-cleanser yet discovered, and that it will
free the blood and system of all other blood
poisons, be they animal, vegetable. or mineral.
The Golden Medical Discovery is warranted by
him to cure the worst forms OF Skin Diseases,
as all forms of Blotches Pimples, and Erup-
tons; also GlandUlar SwelhDgs, and the worst
form of Scrofulous and liberated Sores of the
Neck, Legs, OF other parts, and all Scrofulous
Diseases of the Bones, as White Sweliings,
Fever Sores, p-joint and Spinal Diseases. n
all of which belong to Scrofulous diseases.