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Los Angeles daily herald., 1875-04-24
THE SEMI-TR0PICAL FARMER.
A Weekly Journal for the
Farmer.
On the LIST day Of May Next

TyHE UNDERSIGNED WILL BEGIN THE
Il publication In the city of Los Angeles or
weekly rural Journal devoted to the inter
ests Of the farmers, fruit-growers and stock
raisers of the Southern counties.
It will give special attention to the rural
industries peculiar to Southern California,
and will devote large portion OF It's space to
the Grange movement, beside giving o full
compendium Of local and general news, home
and foreign markets, etc.
The paper will be quarto In form, consist
Ing of eight pages Of four columns each, and
will be issued at the subscription price OF ~ o
year. A limited number Of unobjectionable
advertisements will be received.
- r. GLANCEY,
JOHN M. PAYNTER.
Los Angeles, March %, 1876 mr27
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SPECIAL GIFTS TO THE CLUB.
A Philadelphia paper says: "The
unusual severity of the past Winter

"A THllducipula phpoT says. IHo
unusual severity of the past Winter
and the stagnation in trade has mani
tested itself even in the attendance at
the public schools. All the lower
classes have fallen off greatly in num-
bers and many divisions have been
dropped for want of attendance. In
other schools inducements have been
offered by the teachers to their pupils
in order that the number in the class
might not fall below the standard
fixed by the Board of Education,
which, by the way, was reduced in De-
cember last, owing to the same cause.
Parents could not afford to send their
children to school; they had no
clothes, they had no shoes to wear,
the father was out of work, with
gloomy prospects before him of living
the Winter through, and he had 700
hard a struggle in feeding them to
provide the little ones with sufficient
clothing"
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The following is list of prizes to be
distributed at the picnic to be given by
the Irish Literary and Social Club at
the Arroyo Seco tomorrow:
~ Value.
Handsomest lady-ParasOl and glove
box, gifts Of Dillon q Kenealy and l..
Ha%eliest manmHaf Is ;'.s% Desmond u ~ ~
Target-shooting-Arm pistol, H. Slot
terbeck IL w
Sig dancing Qady)- First prize, set OF
ewelry, c. H. Bush. % 90
Second prize, comb, chain and cross, al
bum and fan, Mrs Ponet..... 10 90
First prize gent, set amethyst sleeve
buttons and studs, Chas Prager............ 25 90
Second prize, silver mug, Samuel Myer. Is 90
Dancing-Best lady walter, r,silver-mount-
ed riding whip, John Reynolds.......... 80
Second prize, silk scarf, Dunsmoor Bros. 90
Jumping-Hop, step and jump-Moss
Second prize. combination pen-knife,
Isaac Norton & Co-......................... 2 so
Jumping Three jumps, set emerald
Second ss prise. shaving %de Utensils Myersten oo
%
Jumping-High jumps, box cigars, Ed
sacE rac;nymRox irisn linen handrar. "
chiefs, Eugene Meyer Co..................' IL 90
Second prize, q pair of pantaloons, Pef-
fenberger q Shorb. ..:..........."... ...... IL 90
Running race-SeL gOlu sleeve buttons,
s. NOrdlinger.. ................... IL so
Second prize, coin, Major Kerns...... 8 90
Running race tboys)-Silver mug, l. Leh-
man. 00
Second prize, fancy dog collar, Work.
Third prize. pocket rnifeW NJ Stoddard 60
Running race fiat men)-Monster Chi
cago ham $50 lbs. }, E. German 4 Co... 10 90
Second prize, bottle kummel, Lips,
Craigue O0
Running race (girls)-Lady's work box,
Max ROssek..-...... ................... %
Second prize, bottle cologne Rosenthal 50
Third prize, box hair-pins, Rosenthal. 90
Stone throwing lheavy weight)-Combi-
nation knife, Harper & COulter.......... so
Second prize, emerald sleeve buttons, l.
Norton %
Stone throwing (light weight) - Gold
sleeve buttons, Pulaski & GOodwin...... 5 %
LATEST man-Walking cane, Goldsmith
~
Fisher IS 90
married ladles), velvet hearth rug, Leh-
man q CO.. Id w
(Babies), beautiful folding chair, Dotter
bradley. bo
Monster cake from California Bakery for
the Is 90
Sickest mana prescription, DR.. Shorb.
SPECIAL GIFTS TO THE CLUB.
d. II. DOWney ~ w
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The city of Detroit spent, last year,
49, 900 in supporting schools and $S7,-
600 in the erection of new school
houses.
Los Angeles daily herald., 1875-04-24

A teacher once received the follow
ing: "Miss -: Please excuse God
Almighty for affecting my son.
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MISCELLANEOUS.
POST OFFICE EMPORIUM.

Miss G. N. TURNER has removed to the
Posloflice building, where she will sell every
thing in the Stationery line
CHEAPER THAN THE CHEAPEST.
mr9tf
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GIVING UP BUSINESS.
Choice Groceries at Auction
ALSO, COUNTERS, SHELVES, SCALES
CANDY JARS, ETC.
Saturday Morning at 8 O'clock.

Corner Spring and Court Streets
AMFRED MOORE, Auctioneer.
~ Also Mare and Colt (choice>. ale 2
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Sixteen Tickets for ST..
mr3O
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Prizes for the Irish Picnic.

The following is list of prizes to be
distributed at the picnic to be given by
the Irish Literary and Social Club at
the Arroyo SecO tomorrow:
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HOTEL ARRIVALS.

PICO HOUSE.
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EAST LOS ANGELES WEST LIS ANGELES
DOwney Park. Intersecting Main and
Spring streets.
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Over the choicest portion Of their table lands
and purchasers will have the right to water
without charge. Such an opportunity to se-
cure land admirably situated and watered
and perfectly adapted to semi-tropical fruit
culture, will not occur again.
Los Angeles daily herald., 1875-04-24
East Los Angeles 4 Main Street
OMNIBUS LINE.
,IME TABLE.

DELOs CAMPBELL, !: Proprietor
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Are you going to the picnic to-mor-
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BUSINESS OPPORTUNITIES fine
est In manufacturing business "a monopoly,
81 500; half interest In a lundry business, long
established and paying well, $1,000; also a
pleasant and profitable oriire business, $500.
Apply to M. H. KIMBAI.L & CO., 10 Spring
street. apl7 iw
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Rail- Road improvements.

The rev railroad is completed at Anaheim
and runs directly along the southern portion
of our tract We will offer lands within from
one to three miles OF Downey City as well
adapted for corn as any now under cnltiva-
ton. and there are none better in the world.
The Kenosha telegraph. [volume] (Kenosha, Wis.) 1860-1888, 1875-10-14
The Peabody Educational FRnd.

At meeting of the Trustees of the
Peabody Educational Fund inNew York,
the other day, the report of DR.. Sears,
the general agent, was read. The report
states that the public schools are con-
stantly improving In character and in
creasing in number. North Carolina has
not yet made equal progress The Pea
body schools of the State are numerous.
They receive too little support rom the
State, and depend too much on contri-
buttons from others. The Superintend-
emf of Public Schools is now, as our
agent, visiting the people and setting
the subject in its proper light before
them. Of South Carolina but little CO
be said. Until recently few applications
for ass, stance have been made from that
State. The people of Georgia are In q
condition not unlike that of North Caro-
lima In regard to schools. Florida, Ar
kansas, and Texas are at the present
time, perhaps, behind the other South
ern States in support of schools From
present indications, however. a most ia
vorable report may be expected next
year. Over 100 counties of Texas have
been visited by the agent, and about
1000 schools are reported in operation.
The State Superintendent of Schools in
Alabama reports that public schools are
now more popular than ever before The
Superintendent of Public Schools in
Mississippi says that public sentiment is
rapidly being developed in favor of free
public schools, and that taxes for their
support are promptly paid. The in
crease in attendance has been more than
40 per cent. over last year. The work
in Louisiana, though by no means ost,
is not accomplishing all that could be
desired. In Tennessee public schools
are rapidly multiplying, and West Vir-
ginia continues to support it's schools,
but failed this year to make appropria-
tions for its normal schools. The funds
did not hold out sufficiently last year to
give the last State its due share. It will
therefore receive the more the present
year. The contributions of the Trustees
for the year ending July, 1876, are as
follows: Virginia, 1923, $50; North Caro-
lima, $16, $50; Georgia, SIS, 900; Florida,
5000; Alabama, 5000; Mississippi,
$50, 500; Louisiana, $500; Texas, So, 900;
Tennessee, 500, $50; West Virginia,
$7,100; total $97, $3.50.
The Kenosha telegraph. [volume] (Kenosha, Wis.) 1860-1888, 1875-10-14
Is New York on the Decline!

In some recently compiled statistics,
which profess to be reliable, it is esti-
mated that the real estate in New York
is mortgaged for ST., 800, 900, 900, being
at the rate of 100000 per acre for the
10000 acres supposed to be thus encum-
bered. The usual rate of interest ON
mortgages in that city is Z per cent. this
would make the annual interest paid
$152, 900, 900. Add to this q per cent.
ON the gross amount of mortgages, for
taxes, and | per cent. for lawyers fees,
and the sum is $168, 900, 000-or 1858,
900, 900 more than the annual interest on
the national debt. We do not know
whether these estimates are correct or
not; the figures are appalling enough to
make us wish they are exaggerated; but
if they may be taken as approximately
accurate, the New Workers. have to make
living and pay $168, 000,0 900 in interest
and taxes every year besides. For
population of 100000 this is not so
difficult when trade is prosperous and
profits are good; but there have been no
profits in business in New York for two
years past, and the great incomes that
were once blazoned forth to the world
with so many ciphers have shrunk to
very modest proportions. The money
to pay the interest on it's mortgages must
come out of the city's trade and indus
try; and this, it is argued, makes the
cost of doing business IN New York so
great that trade must turn away from
them indeed, that it is already turning
away to seek cheaper marts. Louis
ReDubic07l.
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VOracity of the Pickerel.

The rapid growth and extraordinary
voracity of the pickerel are well shown
by DR.. S55urtevant in the report OF the
Massachusetts, Inland Fisheries Comm1s-
sioners. The doctor investigated their
powers Of eating in the following man
ner He put two young pickerel, five
inches long, in a trough with great
quantity of little minnows about one
inch in length and these two plckerel
eat 1913 minnows the first day, l32 the
second, and $50 the third, and they IN
creased one inch in forty eight hours.
They were mere machines for the asslm-
ilation of other organisms, and may
truly be termed the wolf OF the waters.
The Kenosha telegraph. [volume] (Kenosha, Wis.) 1860-1888, 1875-10-14

trade reported in broom corn, but the
arrivals of new we're somewhat larger,
and this caused rather an easier feeling to pre-
vail. Quotable at 10@1l16c for No. 2 to No. /
hurl, 7(08c for good stalk braid, $4,000 for
inferior brush, and &c for crooked. There was
nothing of consequence done in beeswax. Quo
table at 26(028c for prime yellow. The offer
ings of beans were light, and prices for this
reason ruled steady. Quotable at $3.50 for
prime Eastern medium, and $1.25@1.75 for
Western, according to quality. There was a
good demand for cider at $6.OO07. 90 per brl,
and So. 7503.25 for kegs. The supply was
only moderate. Cheese was firm, and
somewhat higher, owing to an i'm
proved demand and more favorable
reports from Eastern markets. Prime sold
freely at 1116(012c, and good at 1015@11c.
Common grades, however, were rather dull,
and these ranged at 4@Sc Dried peas were
slow at SLIGO for green, and $125@1.40 for
yellow according to quality. Dried fruit was
in good demand and higher with the offerings
of all kinds light. Apples quotable at 100
1016c for Eastern, and $1,000 for Southern.
Peaches steady at 12013c for halves and 10c
for prime live geese, 25@27c for tur-
key tail, and 3@5c for chicken. Green
fruits were fairly active, and for most
descriptions prices were firm. Apples
sold at $2.50@3.25 for common to choice in
lots. Peaches closed at 90c@$1.25 for large
boxes, ana d0(UJUc lot %S-Du DdSK0US. grapes
sold at 20O40c for Michigan baskets; $1,000
1.25 for 20-lb baskets of Ohio Concords, and
$3.50 for 36-lb cases. Delaware quotable ut
81. 10000 for large baskets, and $3.50 for
cases. Catawbas sold for about the same prices
as Delaware There was good demand for all
descriptions of game, and prices were firm.
Prairie chickens closed at $4.00@4.25 per doz,
Mallard ducks at $500, and small ducks at
81. 50@2.0O. Snipe sold at $1.00@1.25. Hops
were steady, though the market was dull,
and but few sales were made. Quotations
range at 4@13c for poor to prime. Hides
remain steady and firm at SIC for green
sailed and 61lc for damaged. Honey remains
quiet at 20(023c per lib for comb and 10@1216c
for strained. Potatoes sold slowly at 25@35c
per bu, and sweet potatoes at $500 for yellow
Illinois, and $3. 50@4.00 for Jerseys. There
was fair demand for salt at $1.50 for Onon-
daga and Saginaw fine; $l.7O for ordinary fine
without bags. There was but little demand for
vegetables and the market ruled dull at 30040c
per bu for tomatoes, 5000 per doz for corn,
and 75c per brl for onions.
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FINANCE AND TRADE.
weekly Review of the Chicago Market.
FINANCIAL.

Weekly Review of the Chicago Market.
FINANCIAL.
The money market was quiet, orders being
less numerous, and the general trade OF the
merchandise markets less active. Money, is
plenty at 6@1O per cent, according to time
and the class of security offered. Government
bonds firm and in fair demand.
BREADsTUFFs.
The grain markets have been quite active
during the past week. but at the same time a
very unsettled feeling prevailed, and values
were irregular and subject to both frequent and
quite severe fluctuations. At times prices for
wheat were higher and also lower, but the
closing quotations for futures do not show any
change as compared with the opening, although
the premium for cash wheat has been lost.
The corn market was active but unsettled, al
though averaging, and closing 203c higher.
Demand mainly on speculative account. Oats
were rather quiet, buG very firm throughout,
and higher The receipts of all kinds of grain
were lighter, and fair shipments were reported.
New York and Liverpool advices were rather
favorable for corn and oats, but not encourage
ing on wheat. Rye and barley steady, and
without important change for the weeks ave-
rage. The markets all closed quite firm.
The following table shows the prices current
at the opening and at the close of the past
week.
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Openang. n Closing.
PROVISIONS.


Rather an unsettled feeling prevailed in this
market during the past week, and marked
falling off was noticeable in the amount of
business transacted. The fluctuations in prices
were quite frequent, but not severe, they being
confined to rather small range. The market
for mess pork closed at 1927 for cash, 1872. As
seller October, and $40 15019.2O seller the
year. Cash lard closed at $13.3715@13.4 40,
seller the year at $12.O5@12 271S, and seller
February at $11.05.
SEEDS AND HIGHWINES.
The market closed at $2.0O@2.35 for COM
mon to prime timothy $6.00@6 so for medium
clover /; 81 20@1.30 for fax, and light sales of
fair Hungarian were made at 4215 045c. Prime
,quotable at about Soc. Highwines were quiet.
OooPERAGE, LUMBER AND WOOD.
Quotations range at $1.00(01.05 for pork bar
rels. and $125@1. 80 for lard tierces $1,000
30 for whisky barrels, and 45(055c for flour
barrels The offerings of lumber were quite
liberal, and there being good demand the mar
ket ruled fairly active, and prices were steady.
Sales ranged at $8.5O@14.0C for common to
choice boards and strips, $8.75 for joists and
scantling, $3.50 for lath, and $23O@2.T5 for
shingles. There was no change noticeable III
the market for wood; prices remain nominally
the same as previously quoted.
PRODUCE.
Butter was quotable at 26@33c for extras, IS
(025c for firsts, 1T@18c for seconds, and
14@16c for thirds. There was a fair
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edge at Hamilton, on Lake Ontario, on the
night of the 7th inst. They we're valued at
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Indian Tramps.

The Washington correspondent OF the
Chicago Times says: GA delegation OF
Pueblo Indians, composed of three mem
bers of the tribe, arrived Id this city to-
day. They came on alone, on a trip of
both business and pleasure. They had
only enough money to bring them here,
and made application at once to the In
dian Commissioner for some supplies.
He has quartered them at one of the Ia
dian hotels, and will probably furnish
them transportation on their return.
They had letter addressed to the Com
missioner of Indian Affairs, from Indian
Agent Thomas, dated Santa Fe, April 25,
1875, introducing them and saying they
90 to Washington at their own expense,
to see the President, the Commissioner
of Indian Affairs, the Secretary of the
Interior, and others. The letter says =
They make the trip witha view to COM
bining business and pleasure. Their
busir ess I leave them to state. Ire
spectfully recommend them to your kind
consideration. They also had letter
addressed to the President from the rep
resentative men of their tribe, praying
that the Great Father would prevent the
Mexicans from raiding on them, and dis
possessing them of their lands. These
Indians are among the few survivors OF
the famous Aztec race of Mexico. In
reply to questions by the Commissioner,
they said their fare to Washington cost
them 1926, which, they were several
months begging in New Mexico. They
were twelve days en- route.
The Kenosha telegraph. [volume] (Kenosha, Wis.) 1860-1888, 1875-10-14
WARDS WILL.
The Most Remarkable of All the Re-
marlxab1e Will Cases.

The Most Remarkable of All the Re-
markab1e Will Cases.
The "Ward will case,' which is now
literally raging at Detroit-for on at
least one occasion a party to the suit has
in open Court attempted the life OF his
opponents counsel-may safely be set
down as one of the most remarkable Of
all the remarkable will cases recorded.
Eber Ward, the King of Michigan, who
controlled the politics of the State and
the mining industries of the lake region,
and made his weight felt in railroads,
manufactures, steamboat lines-in every
direction, in fine, where an ambitious,
restless and powerful man OF business
could employ his energy and capital,
died last winter, leaving an estate
amounting to several millions of dollars,
accumulated through his own toll and
speculation. He had been twice mar
ried. Between the superstition which
formed an essential element Of his char
acter and affection for medium, he
became thoroughly, slavishly convinced
of the truth of Spiritualism. No i'm
posture was too gross and palpable for
him, no impostor too absurd. Gibber
ish and forgery he accepted as the rules
of his daily life, and those who uttered
or wrote them became his Oracles and
business advisers, to be trusted fully
and followed implicitly. He branded
one of his sons as ilegitimate because a
fower-painting medium omitted the
blossom typical of him from bouquet
emblematic of the family. He believed
in spirit photographs because, if there
were no spirits, how could their vapory
shapes be fixed on the plate? He con-
suited the ghost of the dead Senator
Howard, going through the formality OF
shaking hands with it, and asked it's
advice about his will. Indeed,
he went to multitude of spir-
itual counsellors for aid and in
SEPARATION on this momentous subject, but
found not in that multitude safety.
Dean Richmond's ghost had advised him
how to deal in railroad stock another
shade-or perhaps the same-instructed
" him how to clean out Chandler, and
a spirit named cabbage john guided
him in his mining ventures, but it was
the spirit of his first wife, working
through. no less famous medium than
Margaret Fox, which dictated COM
plete testament in backhand SO that it
could only be read by holding it before
a mirror. This will gave the property
in equal shares to her children, the sur
viving Mrs. Ward and her children, but
the spirits of the present Mrs. Wards
uncle and niece insisted that her off
spring should have the pine lands, mills,
etc., free of debt, and that trustees
should be appointed to manage
the affairs Of the insane is
sue of the first marriage! Under
these circumstances it is not surprising
that lawsuit has been instituted to set
aside the will and bring about more
equitable distribution of the immense
property which he bequeathed at the
dictation of lunatics or swindlers, nor is
it surprising that a case complete at
The Kenosha telegraph. [volume] (Kenosha, Wis.) 1860-1888, 1875-10-14
The Government and Jay Cookies Es'
tate.

The Philadelphia Times says: "Judge
McKennan, in the United States Circuit
Court yesterday, read the opinion of
Justice Strong in the suit of the United
States against Edwin NJ. Lewis, trus-
tee of the estate Of Jay Cooke & Co.
The claim of the government was that
Jay Cooke, McCulloch & Co., of Lon
don, of which firm the members OF the,
firm Of Jay Cooke & Co. were partners,
we're, at the time of the bankruptcy of
the latter, indebted to the government
in the sum of e132, go 9s. 3d.. that the
government mad priority over other
creditors, and that the assets in the
hands of the trustee should first be APP
piled to the discharge Of this indebted
ness. The case was argued at Erie, and
Judge Strong, sustaining the claim of
the government, decided Ia its favor :
The Kenosha telegraph. [volume] (Kenosha, Wis.) 1860-1888, 1875-10-14
every point has been made out against

every point has been made out against
the will.
The explanation of this almost in
credible superstition and folly is found
in the evidence indicating the hereditary
faint of mental unsoundness. None the
less does the case remain most remark
able In its every feature, and inspire
amazement that business man SO shrewd
and successful should take the maunder-
ings of madness for his councillors and
place the honor OF his wife and the fu-
ture of his children at the absolute dis
position Of the first professional swindler
that presented herself to influence his
weak mind. -Ne,O York World.
The Kenosha telegraph. [volume] (Kenosha, Wis.) 1860-1888, 1875-10-14

NJ. THEIRS has received q graceful
compliment from the municipality of
Paris. The rough stone pavement in
front of his house has been removed and
smooth cement put in its place, SO that
the venerable statesman may think, and
work, and sleep TRANQUILITY.