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The true northerner. [volume] (Paw Paw, Mich.) 1855-1920, 1875-02-19

A LAW is at last proposed for the Sc
curity of life at all the public bathing
resorts. This is especially needful on
the sea coast, where 80 many lives are
lost.
The true northerner. [volume] (Paw Paw, Mich.) 1855-1920, 1875-02-19
Ghe True 9artherner.
PAW PAW, MICHIGAN.
FRESH TOPICS.

CHINA, with three-year-old Emperor,
will doubtless have children's party.
The true northerner. [volume] (Paw Paw, Mich.) 1855-1920, 1875-02-19

THE Hon. Thomas Drlrfee, Rhode
Islands new Chief Justice, has requested
the Legislature to reduce his salary from
81, 900 to 81, 800 because he thinks there
should be no more than $500 difference
between his salary and that of the Asso-
ciate Justices, who receive $4,000. He
thinks that judgment, Ike charity, should
begin at home.
The true northerner. [volume] (Paw Paw, Mich.) 1855-1920, 1875-02-19

THAT loathsome disease, small-po
has been doing bad work i'll many parts
of North America during the past few
weeks. We hear of it in the Eastern
States, in Canada, and lately it has
closed large Catholic school in one of
the principal towns of Texas. 1t prevails
10 n greater or less degree in most of the
largo cities, and many of the smaller
cities, of the Union.
The true northerner. [volume] (Paw Paw, Mich.) 1855-1920, 1875-02-19

PARIS is a veritable Botany Bay for
dethroned monarchs and royal pretenders
generally. The Count de Chambord is IA
householder there all the Orleans family
are residents; Prince Napoleon (Jerome)
spends most of his time there, living on
the dowry of his wife, Princess Clotilde,
which Victor Emanuel, her father,
prudently had settled upon herself. The
ex-Queen of Spain, erst Isabella H., has
headquarters in Paris, as well as her
mother, Christina, the Queen Dowager,
widow of Ferdinand VII. One of the
Murat family is also living on somewhat
contracted means in one of the Partisan
suburbs, and he had hope, once upon
time, of going back to Naples, of which
his father, Joachim Murat, brother-in-
law of Napoleon l., was sovereign for
some years. Last of all, just before the
close of 1874, King George, of Hanover,
and his family took up their abode in
Paris, resolved to spend the winter
there.
The true northerner. [volume] (Paw Paw, Mich.) 1855-1920, 1875-02-19

A MILITARY academy has just been es
tablished in Japan with an ex-United
States officer at its head
The true northerner. [volume] (Paw Paw, Mich.) 1855-1920, 1875-02-19
Informal PEOPLE.

Preserve us from unceremonious peo-
ple-those men and women who "never
stand on ceremony who are always
perfectly at home in other peoples
houses! Society has many pests, but few
so intolerable as they. Free and easy"
visitors are most thoroughly disagree
able. They will infict themselves upon
you at any time, and expect to be always
cordially welcomed because they are 80
free and easy and SO 10th to put anybody
to trouble. They will come before
breakfast, or just as you are sitting down
to dinner, and draw up their chairs quite
like one of the family Early in the
morning they delight to "run in" and
they will come right up to your chamber
to save you the trouble of coming down,
and there they will sit and watch you
make your toilet, and comment on how
gray your hair is getting, and wonder if
you are not great deal stouter and red
der in the face than you used to be.
They will hunt over your writing-desk
for note-paper battle their faces with
your cologne-water, and scent their
handkerchiefs with the contents of your
choicest perfumery bottle. They are
always ready for luncheon" You know
I'm too much ut home in your house to
go hungry, my dear, and any stray
confectionery lying about melts before
them as dew before the sun. They make
no scruple of borrowing your latest
magazines and novels even your ward
robe does not escape their encroach-
ments and all this insolence is cloaked
by some such empty remark as this: ." l
never stand on ceremony, but make my
self mt home everywhere, so don't put
yourself out to entertain me Again
we pray, preserve us from unceremonious
people
The true northerner. [volume] (Paw Paw, Mich.) 1855-1920, 1875-02-19

An imaginative correspondent of a
Chicago daily paper thus depicts a scene
in the Illinois Legislature Nervous
hands sought imaginary pistols, nervous
fingers grasped material inkstands and
prepared for the fray. But ere the first
blow was struck, ere the first ink was
split, the clear, ringing voice of the
Speaker fell with magic influence upon
that wild, tumultuous throng, The
Clerk win call the roll "
The true northerner. [volume] (Paw Paw, Mich.) 1855-1920, 1875-02-19

No library in the United States con-
tains over 800, 900 volumes.
The true northerner. [volume] (Paw Paw, Mich.) 1855-1920, 1875-02-19

MINISTER ScHENCK writes to his friend,
Gen. Young, of Cincinnati, explaining
the story that he had published n book
on the art of playing poker. he says
that, when leaving a country residence
in Somersetshire, he was asked to write
down the rules of the game as played in
America. He did SO, and heard no more
of the matter until he received copies
printed for private circulation by an
amateur compositor.
Los Angeles daily herald., 1875-01-01
San Fernando.

This promising town is located at
the present terminus of the Southern
Pacific Railroad, running north from
Los Angeles, and twenty-one miles
distant from our city. The whole Sec
ton one year ago was a vast sheep
range, known as the San Fernando
Grant. Upon the completion of the
railroad last Summer to that point,
the land was divided into small tracts,
with town site laid out around the
depot. Much of the property was sold
as soon as it was thrown upon the
market, and since that time the town
and surrounding section have made
very material progress. There are
now about three hundred inhabitants
in the place and the number is con-
stantly increasing. The valley is ex-
cellently adapted to the raising of
vines and fruit. About four thousand
acres were planted in wheat during
the past Fall. The anticipated yield
of this grain is 80 to 40 bushels to the
acre. Besides its agricultural ad-
yantages, San Fernando is the centre
of the late oil and quicksilver discov-
cries, which will soon add much i'm
portance and wealth to the section.
Los Angeles daily herald., 1875-01-01
Anaheln.

Anaheim, with its thrifty Germans,
its prolific vineyards and orchards, can
refer to the dead year with pride. The
wine harvest has been bountiful and
all have prospered. Founded in 1857
its progress has been most wonderful.
During the year over thirty buildings
have been erected, at an aggregate
value of 100000. In the list are three
fine brick buildings, worth $4,000
each, and other fine edifces worth
several thousand dollars each. The
city has commodious school-house,
and two churches-the Catholic and
the Presbyterian. The Episcopalians
also have a congregation there but no
chursh as yet. There are two good ho-
tells in Anaheim and some thirty stores
and workshops, all prosperous. Now
as the railroad has its terminus at the
place, Anaheim will g. ahead like
magic. There are over sixty fine
in the Anaheim settlement
and half dozen fine wine MAX
ing establishments. There are also
quite number of fourishing orange
groves in the same locality. All fruits
haye flourished we'll during the year
and the grain yield has been abund-
ant. Of the entire tract, 5000 acres,
over five-sixths are under cultivation.
Los Angeles daily herald., 1875-01-01

the man or woman who failed to make
visit to Santa Monica was both out.
of the world and out of fashion. Many.
families took tents, with cooking and
sleeping accommodations along with
them and made stay of several
weeks or months, according to their
leisure. For while there was quite
a village of tents stationed on the
beach, including an improvised hotel,
restaurant and bar. The Sunday visi-
tors were sometimes numbered by the
hundreds. As the bathing season
closed, and the cool sea breezes set in
the campers one by one folded their
tents like the Arabs, and the village
of Santa Monica was no more. There.
is no permanent place of accommoda-
tion at this point, but an excellent
opportunity is offered some man of
capital to build a large hotel which
will rival the Cliff House in popular
ity.
me Island OF Santa Catelina lies
some thirty miles off the coast. For
the most part it is barren and unin-
viting and has no accommodations,
save few huts of sheep-herders and
an old deserted building which is said,
to have been used as barrack for
some United States soldiers at re-
mote period. Some of the more adj
venturous pleasure seekers during the :
bathing season made their way to this
island by a small schooner, pitched
their tents upon its beach aud passed
a very pleasant time. There is not a.
doubt that our bathing facilities will
be greatly increased during the next
two or three years, and the coast of
Los Angeles county will yet become
celebrated as a watering place.
Los Angeles daily herald., 1875-01-01
Post0Hice Statistics.

Postmaster Bent has furnished US.
with the following statistics of opera
tions at the Los Angeles Postoffice for
the year 1874:
No. of domestic letters registered,
1,943; No. of foreign letters registered,
l4S; No. Of Reg. package envelopes
used, l, ,l52; No. of packages in transit.
1,177-all registered business.
The value of stamps and stamped
envelopes sold during the year
amounted to 1911 70.
For the last three months $50 domes-
tic money orders were issued, value.
SIT, ,435 25; and 456 paid, value S16,-
436 81. "a British orders were issued
and one paid; 81 money orders were
issued to Germany.
Los Angeles daily herald., 1875-01-01
Petroleum Oil.

The indication of petroleum in the
San Fernando mountains, in this
county, are abundant, and were known
to the first Americans who settled in
the country. During the great oil ex-
cltemenu in Pennsylvania u few of
our citizens spent considerable time
and money in the vain hope of pro-
curing oil near the city; being de-
ceived by the surface indications,
which were doubtless cepage from
the main reservoir in the range of
mountains north of US. Their failure
to procure a flowing well, together
with report Of some U. S. engineers,
and Surveyors, that there was "nO pc
troleum on the Pacific coast" threw a
damper on the enterprise and very
little was done towards developing
our oil mines until eight months ago,
when few of our citizens organized
a company to refine oil. They made
few barrels of excellent kerosene,
but having no skilled operator they
suspended work for the time. A few
days ago they had the good fortune to
get a refiner from Cincinnati, and
they are now at work again with good
prospects. AS soon as it was known
that the refining company would
furnish a market for the petroleum,
boring companies were formed to sink
or claims in the San Fernando noun
tains. One we'll is down 300 feet or
over, with increasing prospects of sue
cess, and other companies will soon be
at work. That we have rich oil terri
tory running through this, Ventura
and Santa Barbara counties, there
can be no doubt. There are perhaps
one hundred springs of oil running out
of this mountain, each of which pro-
duces from ten gallons to five barrels
per day; besides the quantity that
flows from these springs down the
caflons. Several hundred barrels per
day flow from the main reservoir un-
der this mountain into the sea. The
Pacific is coated with it for many
miles as thousands of travellers will
testify. A number Of oil experts have
said to us that, eff this territory was
in Pennsylvania it would be worth
many Millions Our reply has been,
'it is worth as much here.o The fact
is, it is really worth more here, for we
have nearly half the world for
market, without competition. The
freight on oil is more than upon any
other article of commerce, except
powder, and We have that advantage
over our neighbors in the East.
The oil interest of our county is too
far developed for its value to be over
looked any longer. Men of capital
are now paying attention to it, and
we know that the result will be the
development of vast industry here
tofore unknown on the Pacific slope.
During 1874, the U. S. Gauger in
spected $4,000 gallons of grape brandy
made in and near Los Angeles.
Los Angeles daily herald., 1875-01-01
The Los Angeles Immigrationsnd Land
Cooperative Association.

This Association was incorporated
on the 10th of December, 1874, under
direction of the Committee on Immi-
grafton, appointed by the District
Council Patrons of Husbandry, for
Los Angeles and San Bernardino
counties. The object of the Associa-
tion is to direct the attention of i'm
migrants to Southern California, and
to circulate reliable information re-
garding the resources of this favored
country. They also buy and sell real
estate on commission, loan money and
carry on a regular land and money
brokerage business. The capital stock
of the Association is $3.50, 600, divided
into $500 shares of 500 each; and is
all subscribed. The stockholders and
officers are prominent and reliable
men. The Board of Directors is COM
posed as follows: T. A. Carey, Presi-
dent; ]. II. Gordon, Vice-President,
H. j. Crow, Treasurer; j. e. McCo-
mas, Manager; Milton Thomas, AS
sistant Manager; Geo. c. Gibbs, At
torney; and r. M. Town. l.. M. Holt
is Secretary. The Association have
established monthly paper entitled
"7he Nea0 Haly-The Immigrants
True Guide to Homes in Southern
California" The first number has
just been issued, and five thou
sand copies have been placed in cir
culation.
The Association have purchased all
the choice lands OF the Los Angeles
and San Bernardino Land Company,
lying west of Coyota creek, near
Sprouts Station on the Anaheim
Branch Of the S. p. r. r. These
lands are being cut up and sold to ac.
tual settlers at a low figure, and on
easy terms. They comprise the
choicest body of lands now to he had
in the country, the soil being of
rich sandy loam and entirely free
from alkali; artesian water can be
had on every acre of the tract. Three
hundred and twenty acres have al
ready been sold to Messrs. Thomas,
Carey and Crow, who are making
arrangements to put out the entire
tract to an orchard of semi-tropical
and northern fruits. The Association
have also large number of valuable
tracts of land to sell on commission,
so that the purchaser will be liable to
find tract in their hands that will
suit.
Their facilities for advertising and
selling real estate are equalled by
no firm in Southern California, and
their commissions for selling are
lower than those usually charged
the commission on all over the fourth
thousand dollers of any sale being but
one per cent.
A team is kept for the purpose OF
onnunsrine those who aro la soaroh of
land to the lands they wish to pur-
chase, free of charge.
The reliability of the men compos-
ing this Association, and the peculiar
work they have undertaken, will
make their office, No. IL, Spring
street, the headquarters of those in
search of homes; and we have no
doubt that those who patronize them,
either as sellers or buyers, will be we'll
pleased with their style of doing bus
iness.
Los Angeles daily herald., 1875-01-01
Westminster Colony.

This colony was founded in 1871 and
its progress during the year has been
exceedingly favorable. The settle
ment is five miles distant from Ana
helm Landing and about seven miles
from the town of Anaheim. During
the year over twenty new farms have
been located and worked and some ten
houses, costing altogether $4,000,
erected. The colony has two school
houses; two religious organizations; a
cooperative store, doing business of
$4,000 per year, and numerous other
stores and workshops. There is not a
single dram-shop in the colony, as the
rules of the settlement prohibit the
mandatory or sale within its limits
of intoxicating beverages of any kind.
The colony has all area of 10000 acres
of splendid land of both light and
heavy sandy loan. Over fifty arte-
sian wells have been bored, at an av-
erage depth of 100 feet, furnishing
ample water for irrigation and house,
hold uses. The farmers give good re-
ports of the years work. The yield of
corn has ranged from 60 to 125 bushels
per acre; rye, S5 to 45; barley, II tons;
beets, 100 tons; potatoes have yielded
emo rmously; vegetables of all kinds
in profusion. Orange, lemon and lime
trees have been planted in great num-
bers and promise well, while all the
fruits of the temperate zone have
yielded immensely. About half of
the colony's lands are open to settlers
at from $15 to $50 for unimproved and
$35 to $125 for improved lands.
Los Angeles daily herald., 1875-01-01
Sea Bathing.

Will Tells, Santa Monica and the
island of Santa Catalina are the sea-
side resorts for Los Angeles and her
visitors. The two former are points
on the coast respectively fourteen and
sixteen miles west of the city. AT
"Tell's Seaside Retreat" as it is CALL
ed, there is small house which is
kept as an inn by the proprietor, Will
Tell and his estimable wife. Good
fare, bed, something to stimulate
the inner man, accommodated for
hnrses. bathing, boating and sporting
facilities are all provided There is a
small lake about four miles long, with
an average width of q quarter
of a. mile, and SO protected
from the tides that it is always tram
quill, and furnishes a safe place for the
most inexperienced to ply the oar or
furl the sail. Across the lake and be-
yound ridge of sond-dunes is found a
long, gently sloping, sandy beach, upon
which q fine surf comes rolling in.
There is no better sport known than
bathing in this surf during the sunny
days of our Summer. Though some
what crude in its artificial advantages,
the place is not a whit less pleasant in
all other points than Long Branch,
Newport or other celebrated Eastern
watering places. Santa Monica lies a
little further up the coast or to the
westward of Tell's Retreat. The at
traction is fine scenery, a wooded
cai1on and good surf. During the past
season IL was the popular resort and
Los Angeles daily herald., 1875-01-01
Common Council Proceedings.
THURSDAY, Dec. 1st, 1871

THURSDAY, Dec. 1st, 1874.
The Council met at the usual hour
with. Mayor Beaudry in the chair.
The minutes of fprevious meeting were
approved. The Mayor then presented
a message embodying the following
facts: 81 Cemetery lots were sold for
Se5. AS there were objections to
holding the Mayors Court in its pres
ent location, he had rented the spa
cious brick building of Mr.. Trudell,
opposite the Council room, which he
would furnish and pay for at his own
expence. He further suggested that
the City Clerk be instructed to adver--
tise for bids for the several banks of
our city to receive and disburse the
city's funds.
On motion, the message was received
and recommendation ordered to be :.
carried out.
The special committee on depot pre-
sented majority and minority reports,
the former in favor of enforcing the
contract with the railroad company,
and the latter against it. After much
debate the majority report was adopt
ed, Messrs. Sotello, Mullally, Carmo-
ma, Wolfskill and Robinson voting
aye; Huber and Teed, no.
The Committee on Police presented
report which was laid on the table.
A report of the City Surveyor was
received and referred to the Board of
Public Works.
A report from the Board Of Public
Works was received but action de-
ferred until maps could be submitted
by the City Surveyor.
The Board of Health reported i'm
favor of employing DR.. Mckee as
Health Officer. Adopted.
On motion, the Board Of Education
was recommended to suspend the ses-
sion of public schools for one month.
The notice of intention to grade
Figueroa street was ordered to be pub,
lished.
The ordinance regulating place of
holding Mayors Court was read and
laid on the table.
| A number of matters relative to
public improvements were referred to-
the Board of Public Works.
Contracts with Mr.. Borrowe for the
grading of streets were submitted and
agreed upon.
The Committee on Supplies was au-
thorized to pay $40 for blankets for
use of prisoners.
Bills for December were presented
and submitted to the Committee on
Finance.
Adjourned until next Thursday at
P. NJ.
THE Riverside Colony, fifty miles
east of this city, is one of the most
pleasant, as we'll as one of the most
prosperous, settlements in California.
An immense number of orange trees,
one, two and three years old, are
within the limits of the colony.
Los Angeles daily herald., 1875-01-01

BY a vote of eight to four, the Com
mon Council yesterday decided that
the contract, entered into by the pre-
ceding Council and the railroad COM
pany, that the depot should be erected
on the ground designated, should be
carried out to the letter. This settles
the question of the depot location and
sends to the wall another of the pri-
vate jobs in which our cotemporary,
the Express, is engaged in advocat-
ing.
Los Angeles daily herald., 1875-01-01

To those seeking home in our
thriving city, particularly persons of
moderate means, we recommend the
lots of the Los Angeles City Home
stead Association, situated mile and
a half from the business center of the
city, and one square from the line of
the Main street railroad. They are
being sold at $500 each, payable in
installments of SO per month, and, as
they are in very desirable part of
the city, they offer excellent opportu.
nifty for investment as we'll as for
homesteads.
Los Angeles daily herald., 1875-01-01

During 1874, the U. S. Gauger in
spected $4,000 gallons of grape brandy
made in and near Los Angeles.
Los Angeles daily herald., 1875-01-01

THE Riverside Colony, fifty miles
east of this city, is one of the most
pleasant, as we'll as one of the most
prosperous, settlements in California.
An immense number of orange trees,
one, two and three years old, are.
within the limits of the colony.
Clearfield Republican. [volume] (Clearfield, Pa.) 1851-1937, 1875-01-06

How AN OPERATOR WAS WAKED
UP.-The Troy Wig relates the fol-
lowing; ave have heard much of the
wonders of cable telcgraphy in ont
running time and annihilating space,
but an anccdote related to us the other
evening by Mr.. W. p. Phillips, assist
ant agent of the State Associated Press
in New York, who was on visit TO
this city, surpasscs anything we have
ever heard, A gentleman OF the Wcs-
tern Union Telegraph Office at No. 145
Broadway, New York, was sitting in
the cable-room when telegram from
Philadelphia, destined for Paris, came
over the wires. This message, like all
others for France, was to go over the
cable ria Duxbury, Mass. The opera
tor called Duxbury n few times, and
then said; THAT fellow is asleep evil
IDENTIFY but the cable men are always
awake-l'll have to get one Of them to
go in and wake him up. So he stepped
to another desk, called Plaster Cove,
in Newfoundland, and sent the follow
ing message; 'ToCable Operator, Dux-
bury--Please 90 in and wake up my
own true love This message Plaster
Cove FASTENED to send across the ocean
to Valencia, Ireland, who in turn
rushed II TO London; thence it was
hurried TO Paris, and still onward to
the European end of the French cable
atSt. Pierre; the operator there flashed
itback to Duxbury. In less than two
minutes by the clock the message had
accomplished its journey OF some 5000
miles, by land and sea, as was evidenced
by the clicking of the instrument on
the Duxbury desk, which licked. out
in u manner little more petulant !:
That is nice way TO do; 90 ahead.
Your own true love. =