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Los Angeles daily herald., 1875-05-15
Los Angeles Library Association

Los Angeles Library Association:
T. r. MCCONNELI.,,,.,.,.... President
J. c. LITTLEFIELD.... Librarian
Library, Downey Block.
Judicial Directory:
Terms of Court-First Monday of Feb,
May, Aug, and Nov.
H. X. 8. O'MELVENY Y ..Judge of Probate and
County Courts.
Terms of Court-First Monday of JAM,
Mar, May, July. Sept, and Nov.
GEO. C. GIBBS. ...~Dist. Court Commissioner,
Office, No. ~ Spring street.
Justices Courts:
WM. H. GRAY Temple Block, over w. F. &
Co.'s Office.
JOHN TRAFFORD.. .Downey Block, Temple
Street.
Los Angeles daily herald., 1875-05-15

National Officials.
II. X, w. BENT......... ............... Postmaster
Postoffice, Temple Block.
ALFRED Reg. q. s. Land Office
]. w. HAVERSTICK....Rec. U. s. Land Office
Temple Block.
]. o. WHEELER...Dept Coll. U. s. Int Rev.
Office, No. 10, Temple Block.
j. r. BRIERLY Rev. Gauger
Office, No. As, Temple Block.
J. ID. DUNLAP-."...".....De u. s. Marshal
New High street.
B. C. WHITING..U. s. Court Commissioner
Office, Nos. 2S and 49, Downey Block.
JACOB A. MOURENHAUT... French Consul
Main street.
CLINTON B. SEARS, In charge of Improve
ment of Wilmington NEUTRALITY-SUSPICIOUS.
at terminus OF street railroad
County Directory.
A. w. POTTS......Co. Clerk and Clerk of Courts
]. w. .GILLETTE.....Co. Recorder and Auditor
Il. ROWAN AN.........................Co. Treasurer
W. r. ROWLAND..Co. Sheriff and Tax Coll.
GEO. II. PECK...........-. Co. Supt. of Schools
DIONICIO BOTILLER R............ Co. Assessor
[. SEBOIlD.-............... ".....Co: surveyor
DR.. s. w. BROOKE"...-......-..Co Physician,
(Office, Lanfranco's Buildlng)
Board of Supervisors:
GEO. KINDS, Chairman,
]. NJ. GRIFFITH, EDWARD EVEY,
+. PALoMAREs, +. MACHADo,
A. SEPUi.vEDA, Acting Interpreter.
Regular Meetings-First Monday OF each
Public ledger. [volume] (Memphis, Tenn.) 1865-1893, 1875-01-07
4 Cal,forn,aLlon Carries on a chiId

The Grass Valley (Cal Union tells
this story Some time since resident
OF Grass Valley had occasion to 60 to
Siskiyou county, and while travelling over
Mount Shasta be saw four large Cali
fornia lions. Not knowing much Of their
savage characteristics, he stopped his
horse ard gazed at them. They looked
at him for some time and then turned
and slowly trotted away. he had no
weapons, aud had they been hungry he
would not have returned TO tell his expe.
rience. When he came to stopping
place that night he told of his adventure,
when one Of the residents there told him
that one Of those lions had short time
before stolen a child under the following
circumstance: The mother of the child
had occasion to do some washing, and
for this purpose had to 20 into the en-
closure that surrounded the back door.
She placed the child-a girl about
eighteen months old--on the ground and
gave it some plsythings to amuse itsell
with, while she busted herself with the
work, with her back to the child. A few
minutes after this she heard scream
from the child, and turned just in time
to see iull.grown California lion leap
ing over the fence with the unfortunate
child in its mouth. The mother tainted
aud, no one else being near, she lay in
this condition for some time. When she
recovered, an alarm was raised and pur'
suit made, but no trace could be found
of the lost child"
Public ledger. [volume] (Memphis, Tenn.) 1865-1893, 1875-01-07
SPECIAL NOTICE.


SCnEScK's PuLNosIo SyRuP. SEA WEED
Tonic, AND MANDRAKE Pn.Ls.-These deserv-
edly celebrated ana popular medicines have
effected revolution in the healing art. and
proved the fallacy of several maxims which
have for many years 0bstructed the progress
of medical science. The false supposition
that Consumption is incurable" deferred
physicians from attempting to find remedies
for that disease. and patients afflicted with it
reconciled themselves TO death without
making an effort to escape from a doom which
they supposed to be unavoidable. 1t is now
proved, hewever, that Consumption can be
cured, and that II has been cured in very
great number of cases (some Of them appa-
rently desperate ones) by Schenck's Pulmonic
Syrup alone; and in other cases by the same
medicine in connection with Schenck's Sea
Weed Tonic and Mandrake Pills, one or both,
according to the requirements of the case.
DR.. Schenck himself who enjoyed uninter-
rupted good health for more than forty years.
was supposed, at one time to bo at the very
gate of death, his physicians having. pro:
nounced his case hopeless, and abandoned
him TO his fate. He was cured by the afore-
said medicine, and, since his recovery, many
thousands similarly affected have used DR..
Schenck' preparations with the same remark
able SUGGEST. !.
Full directions accompany each, making il
not absolutely necessary to personally see DR..
Schenck unless patients wish their lungs ex-
amined, and for this purpose he is profession
ally at his principal office. corner Sixth and
Arch streets, Philadelphia, every Monday,
where all letters for advice must be addressed.
Schenck's medicines are sold by all druggists.
Public ledger. [volume] (Memphis, Tenn.) 1865-1893, 1875-01-07
How Warren, she "Medium," Made
Fortune.

u Fortune.
New York Correspondence of the Cincinnati
Commercial.
A sharp fellow, with queer history,
is the Spiritualist medium who has late
ly been edifying believers at Tammany
HALL. Years ago he found out the
modus operandi of some Of the more
startling kinds Of spiritual manifesto
tons, and thereupon took up the bust.
ness of public lecluring, with view of
displaying and exposing them. He
went from place to place, but could not
get audiences, could not make the thing
pay, finally gave it up as failure, and
aiterward, in course of time, found him
self trying to get a living by keeping a
fish stand. BY and by one day there
came to his fish stand the well know ed
itor of Spirituallst paper, who was sur
prised TO find the unbeliever in the busi-
ness, aad at last said to him. Now, as
you know all about these manifestations,
and can give them to such advantage,
why doa't you 90 around giving them
before Spiritualist meetings instead of
running them down." The dnprinci-
pied 6shman saw the notion, took to
It, went about as medium in the way
that had been suggested to him and has
met with such success that he is able to
show $4,000 to his credit in the bank
He now laughs in his sleeve as be tells of
the failure he suffered while showing up
the "mauifestions" which have since
brought him fortune, and holds that
mankind prefer his present career to his
previous one.
Public ledger. [volume] (Memphis, Tenn.) 1865-1893, 1875-01-07
a race,tous Eng,i.n sherir.

II is now more than half century
since there resided in large and popu-
lous seaport town in the north of Eng.
land much respected and eminent at
torney, who was ever on the oui vive for
fun and good humor. His jokes were
frequent, and he was noted all over town
for his eccentricities and habitual pleas.
antry. Being wealthy man, he gave fre.
quenily to public aud private charities,
and was welcome visitor to the abodes
of the poor as well as the rich.
/ well remember the time when this
facetious gentleman filed the Office OF
sheriff, and when he INDUCED his pen
chant for the humorous by the summon
ing of four remarkably queer juries to
well and truly try persons at the court
Of quarter sessions for the town and
county in which he then resided
AT first, at the spring term, our face
tious sheriff summoned fat jury
twelve oil the most portly ponderous men
he could ind-and when they we're call.
ed on by the clerk Of the court to take
their seats in jury box it was found
almost impossible to cram them into it
And when, after much hard squeezing
and grinning, they we're shit up in the
box, they became literally packed jury
and no mistake.
The second jury summoned by this
droll official was the very reverse of his
| first panel-twelve OF the leanest and
lankest men he could find all over town;
men with long legs and long faces, who
seemed as though they had been fed on
water Cruel and never tasted roast beet
in the course of their lives.
The third jury summoned by our face
tious Sheriff for the September term
consisted OF twelve BARRIERS, whose shaw
ing shops were near the courthouse,
and in so placing those BARRIERS on the
jury all the barristers who attended
court that day appeared with their wigs
undressed and uncombed--a funny spec.
tacle for the officers OF the court, the
learned Recorder and all others who hap
pened to be present on that memorable
| occasion.
! But in bis selection Of a jury for the
December term of the court of quarter
sessions our good humored Sheriff capped
the climax Of his official drollery by
summonng twelve men who squinted sc
awfully at the learned Recorder when
he attempted to make the FIRST charge tC
! them, that the learned judge could moi
help joining in the general laugh, anC
exclaiminy, in seeming anger:
i This is indeed too bad Mr. Sheriff.
But the latter only remarked, in 9
very serious and amusing tone:
Twelve good and lawful men, you
honor"
And here let me add that | never
heard of the facetious Sheriff serving
longer than one year.
Public ledger. [volume] (Memphis, Tenn.) 1865-1893, 1875-01-07

The statement is going the rounds
that mathematician at Harvard has
calculated that the pet dogs now owned
by students would cover the quadrangle
at the rate Of one dog for every square
yard. Either these Harvard mathema'
maticians are very unsoand calculators,
or they have a very rare breed OF dogs
in Massachusetts. A dog to yard is
no doubt very large allowance, and We
pity the people to whose houses the dogs
belong But in this latitude every well
constructed dog has at least four square
feet, and we have seen a dozen pet dogs
with nearly fifty. The Harvard allow
ance is very small. 1t would be great
deal better to let the quadrangle cover
the dogs than to have such three-leggeC
monsters cover the quadrangle.
Public ledger. [volume] (Memphis, Tenn.) 1865-1893, 1875-01-07
MEMPHIS TENN. THURSDAY EVENING, JANUARY J. 1875

had was what the younger children
brought in by begging from door to door
and from the relief store. Charles took
the stand and corroborated bis brother.
A warrant was at once issued for the
arrest of the drunken pair. They were
hroaght into court Their seedy ap'
pearance, filthy garments, bloated, dis
torted features, red eyes, etc., stamped
them as rum drinkers. The boys declared
that they had done their utmost to re-
claim their parents, but in vain. They
prayed that they might be placed for a
season where they could gel no rum.
The court so ordered. and the wretched
couple were sent to Jail. According to
the magistrate it is the worst case OF rum
ruination they have ever witnessed.
Public ledger. [volume] (Memphis, Tenn.) 1865-1893, 1875-01-07
A nsarlrenalnr Rum story

From the New York Herald, 2sth ult.l
In the Newark police court yesterday
afternoon one Of the saddest and most
heartrending cases OF family drunken
nesses was brought to light. Before the
magistrates appeared a bright looking
youth Of seventeen, Daniel Hedrigel by
name, and upon oath declared that his
father and mother, Peter and Catherine
Hedrigel, Of No. 1913 Charlton street
we're habitual drunkards, and that they
squandered the earnings Of Daniel anC
his brother Charles and the hegglngs o
several younger children Daniel de
clared he could neither read nor write
ror even decipher the alphabeti tha
avery penny be and his brother earne'
was npent Tor liquor by their parents
that The latlor we're continually inloxl
patcd, and that the only food the famil
Public ledger. [volume] (Memphis, Tenn.) 1865-1893, 1875-01-07

All Senators, when accompanied by
their families, have star against their
names in the Congressional Directory.
A somewhat noted Senator was marked
in this way, and a lady drove to his ho-
tel and was shown into the parlor Her
card found its way TO the gifted Senator,
who was disposing of his noontime indi-
gestion. He deliberately finished his
meal aud then sauntered into the recep-
ton room expecting to be encountered
by some female lobbyist. Seating him
self he gave the fair lady prolonged
stare. rs your family well, SenstorP y
she asked, breaking the awkward silence
well, madam, replied the Senator, 'as
III haven't any family, ! may say it il
well" " beg your pardon, sir sh,
said; "as the directory indicates tb,
presence Of your family, | called to pay
nv respects. wish you good day, sir,
ana she leit,--BostoR Post,
Public ledger. [volume] (Memphis, Tenn.) 1865-1893, 1875-01-07
A Beau,iful Thought.

When the summer of youth is elowly
wasting away on the nightfall Of age,
and the shadow of the path becomes
deeper aud deeper, and life wears to its
close, it is pleasant to look through the
vista OF time upon the sorrows and felic.
tiles of our earlier years. If we have a
home to shelter and hearts to rejoice with
us, s,and friends have been gathered around
our Gresides, and the rough places Of
wayfaring will have been worn and
smoOthed away in the twilight Of life,
the many dark spots we have passed
through will grow brighter and more
beautiful. Happy, indeed, are these
whose intercourse with the world has not
changed the tone Of their holier feeling
or broken those musical chords Of the
heart whose vibrations are so melodious
SO tender and so touching in the evening
of their life.
Public ledger. [volume] (Memphis, Tenn.) 1865-1893, 1875-01-07

The sensation in Newark the other
Sunday was Weston, and sensational
preacher there chose for his text, And
Enoch walked with God" A scoifer
sent up a note asking the reverend gem
tleman to give the distance and time
rooda
Public ledger. [volume] (Memphis, Tenn.) 1865-1893, 1875-01-07
MONUMENTAL
MARBLE WORKS.

ITALIAN. AMERICAN AND TALADEGA
i marble at very low prices, as follows;
Headstones. Q feet, with socket and foot.
stone, lettered ....S w
Headstones, 21S feet. with socket and
ootstone, lettered.. IL %
Headstone. 8 feet, with socket and foot
stone. 10 W
And all other sizes in proportion. Italian
and American marble box tombs. panelcd all
round, and full siz,. $3.50. Also Italian mar
Bile spire monuments, feet high and lettered.
ever sold at in Memphis before. Designs sent
to the country free Of charge. Elmwood curb
ing al reduced rates.
Public ledger. [volume] (Memphis, Tenn.) 1865-1893, 1875-01-07
ANOTHER
OPPO RTU 1T Y

TO INVEST A FEW DOLLARS, WITH POS
SIBLE RETURNS OF THOUSANDS. IS OF
FERED BY THE P0STP0EEMENT OF
PUBLIC LIBRARY OF KY. TO THE 9TH OF
FEBRUARY NEXT. OF THEIR FIFTH AND
LAST CONCERT AND D2AWING. THE
MANAGEMENT ARE PLEDGED TO THE
RETURN OF THE MONEY IF THE DRAW
ING SHOULD NOT COME OFF AT THE
DAY NOW APPOINTED.
Public ledger. [volume] (Memphis, Tenn.) 1865-1893, 1875-01-07

Whole Tickets, $50; Halves. s25; Tenth. or
each Coupon. IS; Eleven Whole Tickets. $500.
For Tickets, or information, address
EhOS. E. BRAMLETFE.
Agent and Manager. Public Library Building
Louisville KY. dkw-98-l2i
Public ledger. [volume] (Memphis, Tenn.) 1865-1893, 1875-01-07
Gro. p. RowrLL & Co.

conduct an Agency for the reception Of adver-
tisements for American Newspapers s-the most
complete establishment Of the kind in the
world. Six thousand Newspapers are kept
regularly on file. open to inspection by cutto-
mers. Every Advertisement is taken at
the home price Of the paper, without any ad-
ditiOnal charge OF commission. An adyer.
tiser,. in dealing with the Agency, is saved
trouble and correspondence. making one con-
tract instead Of a dozen. hundred or thou
sand A hook of eighty pages. containing
lists Of best papers. largest circulations, reli-
gious. agricultural. class. political, daily and
country papers, and all publications which
are specially valuable to advertisers. with
some information about prices, is sent FREE
to any address on application. Persons at
distance wishing to make contracts for adyer-
tising in any town, city, county. State or Ter
ritory Of the United States, or any portion Of
the Dominion Of Canada. may send o concise
statement Of what they want, together with
copy of the Advertisement they desire in
serted. and will receive information by return
mail which will enable them to decide whether
to increase or reduce the order. For such in
formation there is no charge. Orders are
taken for single paper as well as list; for
single dollar as readily as for larger SUN.
Offices (1imes Bailding),
Al PAHK Row, N. Y.
Public ledger. [volume] (Memphis, Tenn.) 1865-1893, 1875-01-07

Insures at Board rates. Private dwellings
especially desired; policies issued for three
years for two annual premiums. Att
Public ledger. [volume] (Memphis, Tenn.) 1865-1893, 1875-01-07

PADUCAH AND MEMPHIS RAILROAD.
Mail and Freight Train leayes...... 300 p. m
{" '' arriyos......10:00 a. m
The mail and freight train leaves Ooyington
for Memphis at a. IN. and returns TO Coving.
ton at 7:65 PIN. Trains leaving Memphis viii
start from the Underwriters' Warehouse.
J. W WILBUR. Gen'l Sup't.
Public ledger. [volume] (Memphis, Tenn.) 1865-1893, 1875-01-07
Directors;

JAMES D. PORTER. Ja.. Gov. of Tennessee.
LOUIS HANAUER. Of Schoolfeld. Hanauer
4 Co.
f. M. WHITE, Of F. M. White &Co.
NJ. G. PEARCE. of Pearce. Suggs L Co.
3. URQUHART, Of e. Urquhart 4 Co.
7. B. HAYNES. of T. B. Haynes Co.
HENRY WETTER. Of H. Wetter & Co.
Public ledger. [volume] (Memphis, Tenn.) 1865-1893, 1875-01-07

An. Pm. IN. Pm.
Mail Train daily............ 100 $50
Freight and AccoInmoda-
Sleeping cars on mail train. Depot Center
Landing, foot Of Washington street. Ticket
Offices, 2S7 (cor. Madisonl and NS Main street.
T. S. TATE, Asst. Sup't.
Passengers get GOOD SUPPER or Break
fast at Brinkley's 70 miles from Memphis.
Public ledger. [volume] (Memphis, Tenn.) 1865-1893, 1875-01-07
RAILROAD TlME TABLES.

MEMPHIS AND LrrTLERooK RAILROAD
Arrives. Leaves.
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The Canton mail. [volume] (Canton, Miss.) 18??-1882, 1875-08-28
Shakespeare and the Sea.

Swinburne opens his papers, entitled
"The Three Stages of Shakespeare,
with the subjoined fine passage
The first of living poets had drawn a
parallel of elaborate eloquence between
Shakespeare and the sea and the like
ness holds good in many points of less
significance than those which have been
set down by the master hand. For two
hundred years at least have students of
every kind put forth in every sort of
boat on a longer or shorter voyage of
research across the waters of that I'M
sounded sea. From the paltryest fish
ipg-craft to such majestic galleys as
were steered by Coleridge and by
Goethe, each division of the feet has
done or has essayed it's turn of work !;
come busted in dredging along shore,
some taking surveys of this or that gulf
or headland, some putting forth through
shine and shadow into the darkness of
the great deep. Nor does it seem as if
there would sooner be an end to mems
labor on this than on the other sea.
But here difference is perceptible.
The material ocean has been so far mas
tered by the wisdom and the heroism of
man that we may look for a time to come
when the mystery ehall be manifest of
ibS IaItueet uoItH anu Soutu, ana men
resolve the secret of the uttermost parts
of the sea; the poles, also, may find
their Columbus. But the limits of that
other ocean, the laws of its tides, the
motive of it's for,es, the mystery of its
unity, and the secret of its change, no sea-
farer of us all may ever think thoroughly
to know. No wind gauge will help us
to the science of its storms, no lead-line
sound for us the depth of its divine and
terrible serenity.
The Canton mail. [volume] (Canton, Miss.) 18??-1882, 1875-08-28

with life on the earth? Are not, on
the contrary, the chances infinitely great
against such coincidence? Ii, as
Helmholtz has we'll said, the duration of
life on our earth is but the minutest rip
pie in the infinite ocean of time, and the
duration of life on any other planet of
like minuteness, what reason can we
have fo- supposins that those remote:
minute, and no way associated waves OF
life must needs be abreast each other on
the infinite ocean whose surface they
scarcely ripple ?" 1t should be borne
IN mind, as lessing the chances OF
coincident of life in two words, that
the life sustaining period of planet $
existence covers but a minute period OF Its
actual existence, and hence it may justly
Der eyarded as ''antecedently improbable
that any planet selected at random,
whether planet of our own system or
planet attending on another sun than
ours. is at the present time the abode
OF life" Though we close our review
with this sentence as embodying Prof.
Proctor's conclusions deduced from
his main premises, justice to the author
bids us recognize the extended efforts
here unnoticeG-by which ne'appears TO
justify the claims which we have hardly
more than set forth and defined.-1p
2)ietonS' Journal.
The Canton mail. [volume] (Canton, Miss.) 18??-1882, 1875-08-28
A Sad Picture.

Olive Logan writes from Long Branch
to the Baltimore American. "Laugh
while you may. Such fit of the hor-
rors as we've had this last week would
freeze the fun ont of Touchstone him
self. One of our brightest belles-ugh /!
1T gives one a shiver to write the words
has gone insane, and for three days
she, who ten days ago was as much
admired as any young woman here, las
been making night hideous with her
maniac howls, jumping ont of windows,
refusing food in the fear of being poi
soned. Unrequited love is said to be
the cause, though in one of her sane
moments the poor girl said think /
must have eaten too much lobster salad
one night last week. Could anything
be more indicative of the frightful ex-
tremes of tragedy and farce that are
seen in the undivine comedy
of life than an episode like this? And
last evening, while the music was sound
ing and careless feet were dancing in
the parlor, the wretched girl, barri-
caded in a remote room, where physi-
clans were wrangling as to the propriety
and possibility of bleeding her, was
baying like q wolf against the moon.
Her relatives were driven almost mad
with the excitement and hor-
ror of this fearful calamity, but the
others danced on.
For some must laugh and some must weep
So runs the world away"
The Canton mail. [volume] (Canton, Miss.) 18??-1882, 1875-08-28
A Partisan Romano.

The following incident in the life of
Madame MacMahon is related In the
middle of the winter of 1888 fire broke
out in the female seminary at Limoges,
France, and spread with such rapidity
that it was feared all the inmates would
perish. Suddenly there was cry that
one little girl had been left in her room.
AS the excited spectators were beginning
to pray for the unfortunate child, a tall
girl, with disheveled blonde hair and
flowing night-gown, cut through the
crowd, and, with n shrek of "I'll save
her y that rose above the sound of the
cracking timbers and falling masonry,
dashed into the doorway. A loud bur
rah that was prolonged to the echo only
to be repeated again attracted the at
tention of the devotees, and the pale
faced girl was seen skipping through
the flames with the terrified child. A
few days thereafter King Louis Philippe
sent the heroine gold medal for her
bravery, and a captain OF the French
army, who had witnessed the girls