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Los Angeles daily herald., 1875-10-31

a few hours all Is dark and~ gloomy.
But soon the rallying power makes
itself felt, and in little time the ca
lamity Is forgotten amid the excite
ment of overcoming its consequences.
When San Francisco's great bank
closed It's doors the people were
stunned. 1t was O heavy blew, rem
dered all the more heavy because it
was unexpected, yet within thirty
days those ponderous iron doors turned
on their hinges and revealed to skep-
tical eyes such masses of gold that
confidence in the bank and faith in
its managers were at once established.
All the principal part of city is laid
in ashes and in three days, even before
the earth has cooled, the work of re-
building Is resumed. Verify our peo-
pie are not easily discouraged.
Los Angeles daily herald., 1875-10-31
Cuba.

The people are beginning TO talk
about Cuba and information relative,
to the Island and its people is eagerly
sought after. In answer to the ques-
tions of a correspondent we condense
from the American Encyclopedias the
following: Cuba is the largest and
most Westerly Of the West India
group ofislands. Its Western extrem-
ity, Cape San Antonio, is distant one
hundl ell and thirty miles from the
coast of Yucatan. The extreme length
of the Island is 769 miles. Its width
varies from 20 to l34 miles. The area
including dependencies is47, ,21S square
miles. The Island is long, narrow
and slightly curved, the convex side
being to the North. The entire coast
line Is about 1900 miles. The latest
trustworthy census was taken in 1862
which gave total population of $780,
43S of which about LIS, 900 are slaves.
Havana, the chief city of the
Island has a population of 100000.
There are thirteen other cities, twelve
towns and 324 population centers
called pueblos and caserios. The
chief products of Cuba are sugar and
tobacco. Cotton is cultivated but not
to great extent. Many cattle are
bred but the supply does not equal the
demand. The value of products OF the
Islan from sugar cane, tobacco and
the honey bee for 1871 was S78.S7l 1897
There are copper mines on the Island
also mines of iron, alum and cop
peras but they have received little at
tention. The Island Is one of the rich
est spots OH the face of the globe. but
the rebellion against the government
of Spain which was inaugurated in
1868 and has been maintained up TO
this time has greatly reduced its
annual products and caused the de-
struction of much private property.
II, as now seems probable, the United
States interferes and expo uses the
cause of the patriots, quiet will soon
reign throughout the Island.
Los Angeles daily herald., 1875-10-31
The Cause and The Effect.

If the boy is father to the man and
man is no improvement on the boy,
about the close of the next decade CAL
ifornia will have large population
of the worst and most worthless men
that ever disgraced Gods footstool.
Our towns and cities are plentifully
sprinkled with boys who are a dis
grace to their parents and an annoy.
ance to the neighborhood in which
they live. The piously inclined are
horified at the deviltries of these rest
less youths and the practically mind
ell are studying the problem "what
shall we DO with our boys?" There
are two ways of answering the ques-
ton. One is to let them alone and
the jails and States Pr.s,n will take
care of them. The other Is to find
them employment and keep them at
it. Idleness is prolific manufactures
of bad boys. The boy of California
is no worse than the boy of the East
ern States until he is corrupted by
idleness and evil communications.
Work makes good boys and good boys
rarely develope into bad men. In
San Francisco not one half of the boys
aged from ten to twelve years are
kept steadily employed. This is not
the fault of the boys or their parents.
1t is forced idleness. There Is moth
ing for them to do. The duties per.
formed by boys in the East are, with
US, discharged by our cheap labor
chattel the Chinaman. The common
laborer complains that he is forced in-
to competition with the Cinnamon
and that this is so is lamentable fact,
but the greatest evil that the monge-
liam toiler is forcing upon us is the de-
moralization of our boys. The China
man does the work the boys ought to
do and for want of employment the
boy degenerates to hoodlum then
sinks TO the level of the thief. There
may be other causes tending to make
bad boys In California dut idleness Is
the prime cause.
Los Angeles daily herald., 1875-10-31
MORNING DISPATCHES
A. Nj.
ESPECIAL TO THE HERALD
PACIFIC COAST.
Latest from, Virginia city.
1 A. NJ

AI"teSt iTOHh SiTStuhh eiiys
VIRGINIA CITY October Both. Time
has been called and Virginia City
comes up to the scratch smiling, with
both eyes blackened, her nose swollen
and red with the frost, and battered
both above and below the belt The
city, to carry out the prize ring figure,
puts up its props and requests Provi-
dence TO come and do its worst. She
is good yet for any amount of punish
ment, and If Heaven holds off and
gives her fair chance she will very
soon get square upon her pins agair.
In every direction buildings are going
up and large gangs of laborers are
/ wheeling bricks from the rnins. clean
ing and piling them for use. Top
pling walls ale being pulled down,
lumber hauled and everything being
done toward rebuilding the city, not u
moment of time being lost. In places
where the fire still shoulders and ren.
ders the bricks too hot for handling,
one gang of men dashes water over
them, while Others bear them off.
Lumber is scarce, but is hourly becom-
ing more plentiful. The palm for en-
terprise must he awarded to the saloon
men. The Phoenix comparison i, weak
rs applied to them. They have not
only risen from their ashes, but rather,
like the saloon men, stood amidst the
flames, whisky-bottle in hand, and
supplied each sufferer with his cordial
in spite of fire, smoke and burning
dust. TO their credit be it said that
they neither watered the whisky nor
raised the price. Virginia City is graf
flied. Water is very scarce. The
butchers almost equaled the bar men.
They had up sheds in no time, and by
! their energy stayed the stomacl,s of
thousands. To-day numberless busi-
ness houses will have up places and be
open for trade. At the end of a week
"a new town will have been Gre ated,
not as fine by any means a, that
| WiliCii Weiib up III SlIOke anu name OH
Tuesday last, but good enough for all
practical purposes.
The First aud Third Ward school,
houses are crowded cons ant,y by per-
SONS in need of food and clothing. At
the First Ward about ] 500 people were
supplied with meat Yesterday, and
about 500 found sleeping Quarters
there last night. This morning there
was rush, and the Resources of the
place were put to a strong test. Pro-
visions ran rather short for time, but
u wagon load or two from headquar-
ters set things right again. At
the Third Ward school house
where the relief committee have their
headquarters, yesterday served be-
tween 1000 and 1900 rationS, AMI u
number of people were during the
night furnished with beds. During
Wednesday the lunch table, were
overrun by Cliinamen, who fed raven.
ously and returned to the attack as
off ell as poss bl". and fell back gor2ed.
The Chinese companies were informed
Los Angeles daily herald., 1875-10-31

No people in the world are more
disposed to look OH the bright side of
things than those of California. They
seldom yield TO despondency, and
when they do the feeling has but a
momentary existence and soon gives
place TO q disposition to make the
most or the best of untoward circum-
stances. The failure of great bank
or the burning of large city falls
like pail on the community, and for
Los Angeles daily herald., 1875-10-31
san Francisco News.

SAN Francisco, October 30th.-
There was run 90 the National Gold
Bank AMI Trust Company this after
noon, which hegau about 3 O'clock.
The bank continued paying up 10 4
O'clock, their closing hour, and gave
out that they would resume business
as usual Monday. The run for II time
crpatedquiie Il stir on California street
and in consequence stocks were slight
ly deprecated, but no serious results
are apprehenie'l.
Shortly after 10 O'clock this morn
ing gloom was cast over the commu-
nty by the report of the death of
Mayor Otis at his residence, 82l Sutter
street. The melancholy event was
sudden and unexpected, as deceased
was at his office comparatively well
three days ago, and was only known
to I've suffering from an ordinary at
tack of acute diphthrria and pneumo-
mia. He was Il native of Boston. aged
DO years, and came to This city in 1910.
and at once engaged In the employ of
MacOndray & Co as clerk, rising stead
lily TO become member of the firm.
He leaves wife and six children.
Mrs. Otis is daughter of the senior
Maconlray.
Upon the announcement of the death
of Mayor Otis this morning the flags
i'm the city were all hung at half mast,
and public regret will be otherwise
manifested at once.
AT IL O'clock last evening n fire
broke out i'm the large two story build
ing near Buckingham d Kech's shoe
factory, on Cough street, and used by
the Chinese employees af that firm as
boarding house. The building Was
damaged 10 the extent of several hun
dred dollars.
During the week there were 100
deaths in the city-59 males and Al
females.
The Occidental and Oriental steam
ship Belpic arrived from Honkong and
Yokohama Friday morning.
About noon ye>ter lay child seven
years of age, son of Mrs. SEWN. living
near the railroad shops on the Potrero.
WAS struck OH the side of the head by
Il piece of store hurled from blast at
the P0trerO cut and his skull fracl ured.
He died last night.
About II O'Clock last night citizen
eXciIedly Informed officer Treen that
II man on Kearn-y street, near Sacra.
nIento, was kicking PROSTATE and
dHauken man. The officer went to the
spot and discovered a young and pow
erfuI hoodlum named Alex McKenty
kicking sailor named Harris in the
face aud head. The latter had been
beaten so severely that it was neces-
sary to convey him to the city prison
ia II hack. IN the Police Court this
morning his face presented u trightful
appearance. McKenty'a trial comes
off Monday morning.
Los Angeles daily herald., 1875-10-31

The iron monitor Comanche has
been overhauled at Mare island and is
now about ready to leave the hands of
the workmen. The vessel Is Of no
earthly account. She has cost an inn
mense sum of money and has never
earned a cent. She will never be
worth the powder it would take to
blow her out of or under the water.
1t would have been money in the peo-
ple's pockets If she had remained at
the bottom of the bay.
Los Angeles daily herald., 1875-10-31

THE people of San Francisco are Ii
able to panic. They catch 1t as easy
as boy catches the measles. Yester-
day, without cause or provocation, a
run on the National Gold Bank and
Trust Company was inaugurated, ard
for few hours things We're lively in
that vicinity. At the. hour of closing
the bank announced that it would re.
sume the work of paying out on Mon
day II people called for their money.
Los Angeles daily herald., 1875-10-31

1T will make no difference so long
as they are in fashion, but girls, those
stripped stockings are dangerous. The
highest medical authority pronounces
the color poisonous. Many cases are
cited where sores and eruptions on
the limbs have followed the wearing
of the zebra hued hose. In one in
stance the girl was unable to walk for
eight months.
Los Angeles daily herald., 1875-10-31

by telegraph of the condition of their
cOuntrymep. No response was made,
and yesterday the Chinanen were re-
fused access to the tables, In the hope
of forcing the committees To do some
thing. AS the Mnngolian breast IN
San Francisco has not heen moved,
and the Celt siial stomach in Virginia
is empty. the Chinamen hereafter will
have cooked rations Issued TO them.
1t Is a circumstance worth mentioning
that not a solitary Indian has applied
for food ut the relief stations. This
mornings train brought large quanti-
ties of provisions ami other necessa-
ries. From The citizens of San Fran
cisco were received ID bales of mat
tresses aud IL bales of blankets. From
Mill Station 10 sacks of potatoes and
one sack of cabbage. A large guam
thy of flour came to hand from San
Francisco this morning.
Los Angeles daily herald., 1875-10-31

THE news of the death of Mayor
OrIs, of San Francisco, will be re-
ceived in sorrow by his many friends
and acqu ,intances in this city. His
death was caused by acute diptheria,
and was very sudden. He was at his
Office comparatively well three days
Los Angeles daily herald., 1875-10-31

THE Central Pacific Railroad Com
pany have donated $4,000 to the Vir-
ginia City sufferers and they run free
trains loaded with supplies for those
people. Here is at least one corpora
tion with soul, and large sized one
at that.
Los Angeles daily herald., 1875-10-31

In one day the fire in Virginia City
deprecated the value of mining stocks
$25,000,000 The uncertainty of min
Ing stock wealth Is illustrated by this
fact so plainly that the most obtuse
cannot fail to see and understand it.
Los Angeles daily herald., 1875-10-31
NEW ADVERTISEMENT
Notice to Sh ppers and Consignees.

NOTICE is heiei given that the busi-
~ iuess ~ the S. l.. r. II. Co.,, Is nom his
date transferred tothe IA, W De pc uildli on
the "uueI Ia del Moline" L. ct. Shippe
and nsagnees wi | govern In ms. YES ac-
cordingly. L +. HEWITT,
Supt. +. A. Div. S. Z. Il. X. Co.
Los Angeles, Oct ~, 1914. 2itf
Los Angeles daily herald., 1875-10-31

THE San Francisco Ledger says the
Palace Hotel covers over ten acres or
ground. About eight acres of the
land exists only in the imagination of
the Ledger man.
Los Angeles daily herald., 1875-10-31
Latest kilograms.
BY ATLANTIC AND Pacific LINE
ESPECIAL TO THE HERALD ]
PACIFIC COAST.
For Los Angeles.

CALIENTE, Oct. 29.--The following
passengers for Los Angeles Left on
he Telegraph Stage Line to-day:
Mr. Nj Fugett and wife, A p Caldwell,
} Hartman, Geo A Prtch and w ]
T Won
Los Angeles daily herald., 1875-10-31

The defendant was indicted and con-
victed of the crime Of an assault with
the intent TO commit murder. There
was no direct evidence proving that
the defendant committed the offence.
but there was circumstantial evidence
tending to prove the defendants guilt.
At the Instance of the prosecution the
Court Instructed the jury Us follows:
III the jury find from the evidence
that the circumstances evidence u
strong suspicion of guilt, and the de-
fentiant might, If he was Innocent, ex-
plain these. circumstances con-istei [
with his own innocence, and yet does
Los Angeles daily herald., 1875-10-31
An Important Decision.

The case of the People VS.. Newman
elected 80 much interest in this coun-
ty during It's pendency before our
courts that publication of its result
in the Supreme Court must bean item
that will attract considerable atten-
ton when the importance of the prin-
ciples involved and the parties inter
ested are considered. We give the
decision In full and as follows:
July Term, 1875. Filed Sept. 18th.
PEOPLE,
DS. NO. lO, 10.
NEWMAN.
Los Angeles daily herald., 1875-10-31
Fer Sale..A Great Bargain.

A well furnished hon and lot situated in
the bast locat on in this city, Sprli z st, eel.
cars pass the dor. For PARTICULARS, apply at
this Off 'e, or address p. D. Box 1888, l. An
geles. Oct29if
The Findlay Jeffersonian. [volume] (Findlay, Hancock County, Ohio) 1870-1881, 1875-12-10
NO.. 81.

Republicans. They know how vitality
necessary TO our political health such q
reform Is, and that it is not to be ex-
peeted OF good intentions, but only of n
change of system. Their paramount
duty is to oppose the nomination of any
candidate who represents merely the
traditional party system, aud to support
some man of Republican sympathies,
and who is therefore proper candidate
for party convention, whose political
independence of character is such as to
give the highest confidence that the
cause willlose nothing by his election
Harper's Weekly.
The Findlay Jeffersonian. [volume] (Findlay, Hancock County, Ohio) 1870-1881, 1875-12-10

SCHOOL Room DEFoRMITIES. - Tie
bodies of growing children are soft and
tender, easily made to grow in either q
normal or abnormal shape. Now to grow
normally requires constant change of
position and freedom of limb. It also
requires exercise to make the blood flow
and load it with fresh air Now coniine-
ment in school-room, unless strict at
tention is given TO air and exercise, pre-
vents their free development and causes
deforn,ity. The only remedy is TO make
physical culture as prominent as mental,
a thing not yet done by any means i'll
even the best schools.
The Findlay Jeffersonian. [volume] (Findlay, Hancock County, Ohio) 1870-1881, 1875-12-10
Hancock SAVINGS Bank
OUR GIRLS.

The following from Harper's MagGzin,
should be read 10y fathers and mother,
having daughters whom they would send
out into the world prepared to make
life success:
''One sharp lesson of last Autumn's
panic, and, indeed, OF our shifting
American fortunes without any panic
at all, is the wasteful folly and cruelty
| OF the old education OF women. 1t is
| folly, in an economic sense, that ignores
the sharp possibilities of the future of
our girls, while we send our boys out
into lie fully armed and equipped for
the fray.
The young man, returning from col
lege or the scientific school, in the bright
glow OF dawning powers, untrammeled
as yet by care, and under the shelter of
his father'sroof, decides upon his career.
Admiring aunts and sisters watt their
prayers and hopes upon the winds that
wing his sail; the fathers experience
and counsel pilot the boat through the
shallow waters near the shore Every
thing aids his start. outh, freshness,
and special training. lie has no re-
sponsibility upon him save for his own
health and good behavior
"When does woman choose her ca
reerl In middle age; broken down sor-
row; when she has seen her Iife's hopes
go down one by one in the horizon. As
girl, she has waited in her fathers
house for the lover who never came.
All of youth has gone by in vague
dreams. In the frivolous business of
fashionable society, her strength has
spent itself.
"Her hands are skill-less save in deli
cate embroidery; her brain is sluggish,
though it aches with new anxiety and
despair. Heavily-weighted with re-
sponsibility, it may be, with the broken
down or the always invalid mother now
suddenly dependent upon her, she sets
out upon this new path with weak, un-
certain steps. Beginning a career at
forty, ali unframed!
'rhe daughter of her washer woman
can distance her; the girl who used to
bring home her shoes has already shot
far ahead. She scarce used to notice
these girls, save when they were thinly
clad or looked hungrier than usual. Ii
was easy to loosen her purse string or
send them into the servants room to be
warmed and fed. Where are they now,
while she is halting, timorous, on the
sharp stoues of the highway The
washer woman's girl is saIaried teacher
in the model school house yonder; the
other is book keeper in her fathers
shop, and it pays her well.
''Ahl that artisan father, that mother
toiling early and late, had a deeper wis
dom in their neeu than the merchant,
the clergyman, the railway king, in his
hour of power What cruelty like to
their indulgence now! The unreasoning
fondness which reared their girls in lux
urious helplessness, which assumed the
future as certain in its golden round,
has its parallel ia other lands. There
are Asiatic fathers who put ont the eyes
of a girl that she may be more pathetic
beggar. To the study of this Chinese
prototype We commend the American
father who, choosing career for his
boys in the iine freshness of early man
hood, leaves his darling daughters help
less amidst the Bullets of the changing
tide"
The Findlay Jeffersonian. [volume] (Findlay, Hancock County, Ohio) 1870-1881, 1875-12-10
40 firai
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"'it''u for t'o Fudiay JefIer-ouian.
IETUE.

watched by ile wiIei..i deep, dark river,
r. in sluggish silence it crccpcd along
From Hn unknown source, It rolled fOrcvci
Through Wild, Grcary wastes where was
heard no song,
And | -iw mcn COME from the east and west
In such eager haste all with cares op,
pressed.
And they brcaihc;l this prayer,
As they stopped 10 drink.
That their every care
In the ioDd might sink.
[ watched them 50 long, then At last drank:
Sach iou.. deep drauehi-likc the
thirsty man.
And my cares In that silent river sank
They were born away where The river
ian.
Then | stood alone on that sterile shore.
For the past had left me forcvcrmrre.
N breathing the prayer
forgot the link
Between JOY and care,
80 stopped 20 drink
Nv country was gone; her lochs and her hills
Her woods and her mDOriands Of heather
were gone,
Her sons, brave rs gods. rcDcIling al .'l-.
al these had dep; rcd and lcft mc alone
| wcpt as | stood ly L'thc's dark wave
Fora country lost which was deemed 50
brave.
When | breathcd that prayer,
And then stopped to drink,
WAS not aware
That 50 much would sink.
Ny clliIdhood's bright hone and memories
OF youth,
Those who watched o'cr me in lifc's early
morn,
Chosen companions in those days Of truth
All sank in the stream and onward were
borne.
| was robbed of my yOuth--lcft all alone
While Lethc's dark flood ran silently on.
Then in deep despair,
On the dark Hoods brink
How cursed the prayer,
And that fatal drink.
And shc-far faircr than Venus oi old
Purcr than Ncsia-or soul OF the rose
She sinks in the food. The waters 50 cold,
Deep, dark and silent my fair one enclose;
Oar children with their bright laughter
were zone,
They left me bg Lethe, left me-alnnc
Then brcathcd the prayer.
And stopped down TO drink
That with all my care,
| might also sink.
One thing yet remained. The Cod over all
To him now | turned, but sought Him in
vain;
For lie, too, had gone far beyond recall,
Left me To wrcSllc alone with my pain.
OH, that dark, bitter hour of dismal woe.
When nothing was left save the flood
below.
And with all that care
plunged from the brink
Bat in wild despair,
Found | could not sink;
But tloatcd through wastes so dreary and
wild,
Over rocks ice, and DER burning sands,
Through regions where clouds upon clouds
were piled;
Till | reached Tartarus, where Pluto
stands.
There | met mycarcs on that drcary shore
But the joys of my life saw no more
Snd without prayer,
Or drop to drink,
In depths OF despair
began TO sink.
The Findlay Jeffersonian. [volume] (Findlay, Hancock County, Ohio) 1870-1881, 1875-12-10

A PROJECT is now on foot to trans
port the house in which Horace Greeley
was born, to the Centennial Exposition.
The house is situated on farm about
five miles from Manchester and is very
old fashioned, oak-framed. storyand a.
half building, thirty by forty feet, and
contains four rooms. Tie State Gen.
tennial Commission is ready to build the
occupant, an old man, new house in
place of the old
The Findlay Jeffersonian. [volume] (Findlay, Hancock County, Ohio) 1870-1881, 1875-12-10

BABcocK's OFFIcEs.-Gen. Babcock
is moderately well of in Offices. He is
Major of Engineers, regular army; Pri-
vate Secretary to President Grant, Com
missioner Of Public Buildings and
Grounds. President Of the Columbia
Lying in-AsyIun, Engineerin Chief of
the Washington Aqueduct. and Archi-
tect % the new State and War Repars-
ment buildings. His engagement as con-
fidential Washington agent of the 81.
Louis whisky ring has ended. d.-Terre
Hnnke E,l:nress
The Findlay Jeffersonian. [volume] (Findlay, Hancock County, Ohio) 1870-1881, 1875-12-10

STUDYING WITH AN OBJECT.-This
characteristic Illustration Of the parrot
drill of public schools is given by wri-
ter in the Pom Monthly: at is said
that gentleman who fell in with one
ofour school boys offered him "a quarter
il lie would tell him the names of ell the
capitals in Europe. 1t was done, and
quickly. Now said the gentleman, 4
will give you another quarter if you VIII
tell me whether they are animals or veg
etables.' Animals, was the ready and
confident answer"
The Findlay Jeffersonian. [volume] (Findlay, Hancock County, Ohio) 1870-1881, 1875-12-10
L. DAVIS. j. DAVIS. NJ. L. DErwILI
DaxiS DETWILER e. CO,

XkIHOLEsALE AND RETAIL GROCERS,
w and Dealers in Flour, Provisions, Wood
en-, VIII -ow and Stone Ware, Confectionery,
Fruits and Gene al Variety. Goods at Whole
sale at Cleveland and Toledo prices. Nos. q
and % Main Street.