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Los Angeles daily herald., 1876-05-11
T & r M S

Postage free to all subscribers in the United
States.
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Subscriptions to Harper's Magazine, Weekly
and Bazar, to one address, for one year, $40 90;
or two of Harper's periodicals, to one address
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Back numbers can be supplied at any time.
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Los Angeles daily herald., 1876-05-11
Probate Notice.

In the Probate Court in and for Los Angeles
county.
In the matter OF the estate of
H. B. Morrow, decd.
1T appearing to said court by the petition
] this day presented and filel by ] L. Wright,
the administrator of the estate of II. b. Nor
row, deceased, praying for an order of sale OF
real estate; that il is necessary to sell the
whole or some portion of the real estate TO
pay the debts outstanding against the estate
of deceased, and the debts, expenses and
charges of administration; ii is ordered bv
said court that all persons interested in the
estate of said deceased appear before the said
Probate Court on
Monday, the 18th day of May, A. d.
1875,
At 10 O'Clock A. M, at the May term of said
Probate Court of said day, at the court room
of said Probate Court, at the rourt house in
said city and county of Los angeles, to show
cause why an order should not be granted TO
the said administrator to sell so much OF the
real estate of said deceased as shall be neces-
sary, and that a copy OF the order be pub
lished at least four successive weeks in the
Los Angeles Weekly HERALD, a newspaper
printed and published In said city and coun-
ty of Los Angeles.
II. K. s. O'MELvENY.
April l4th, 1876. Probate Judge.
Attest: A. W. POTTS, Clerk,
apr2o-w4w BY Il. OWEN, Deputy.
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Harper's Weekly.
ILLUSTRA
Notices of the Press.

N0ttceS OF We ITeSS.
Harper'S Weekly is the ablest and most pow-
erful illustrated periodical published in this
country. Its editorials are scholarly and con-
vincing, and carry much weight. Its illustra
tions of current events are full and fresh, and
are prepared by our best designers. With a
least half a million persons, and its influence
as an organ of opinion is simply tremendous
The Weekly maintains positive position, and
expresses decided views on political and So
cial problems.-LouiSUilLeC COluter-Jou17ldI.
Its articles are models of high-toned discus
sion, and its pictorial illustrations are often
corroborative arguments of no small force
N Y. Examiner and Chronicle.
Its papers upon existent questions and its
inimitable cartoons help to mould the senti-
ments OF the country.-Pttsburg Commercial.
Harper's Weekly stands at the head OF Illus
trated journals in the United States, in circu-
lation, editorial ability and pictorial illustra-
tion.-Ladies' Repository, Cincinnati.
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MI SCELlAN EouS.

siA Complete Pictorial History of the
Times.''-''The best ,ch eapest and most
successful Family Paper In the UniOn.'
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Notice of &C partnership.

THE undersigned have this day formed a
copartnership in the city of Los Angeles
under the firm name and style of Merriam q
Leonard, for the purpose of carrying on the
confectionery and ice cream business at No.
Is Spring street.
They will be pleased to see all the patrons
of the old firm, and as many new ones as de-
sire a first-class article in their line. Orders
ID. E. MERRIAM.
mav2.lm RALPH LEONARD.
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T e r M s /:

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for one year, 81 90; postage free.
Anextra copy Of either the Magazine Weekly
or Bazdr will be supplied gratis for every club
OF five subscribers at S4 90 each, in one remit
tance; or six copies for SO %, without extra
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Back numbers can be supplied at any time
The annual volumes of Harper's Bdzar in
neat cloth binding, will be sent by express,
free of expense. for 81 90 each. A complete
set, comprising eight volumes, sent on re-
ceipt of cash at the rate of S5 % per volume
freight at expense OF purchaser.
Prominent attention will be given in Har
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Address HARPER & BRORHERS, NY.
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Certificate Of Partnership.

NF the firm of Doak and Lu Gar, doing a
~ Sewing Machine and Millinery business
in the city of Los Angeles, county of Los An
geles, State of California.
We, the undersigned persons, hereby certify
that the above partnership is composed of
the following persons, and no others, whose
names and places of residence are as follows,
to-wit: Edmund Doak, Los Angeles: Edgar
T. Lu Gar, Los Angeles.
In witness whereof, we have hereunto af-
fixed our hands and seals this thirty.first day
of March, 1876
EDMUND DO4K,
EDGAR Il. LU GAR.
STATE OF CALIFORNIA,
County of Los Angeles.
On this 3lst day of March, in the year 1875,
before me, Chas. E. Miles, County Recorder,
personally appeared Edmund Doak and Ed
gar L. In Gar, known TO me to be the persons
whose names are subscribed to the within
instrument, and acknowledged to me that
they executed the same.
Witness my hand and official seal this 3lst
day OF March, 1876. CHAS. K. MILES,
aprl-lm County Recorder.
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COPARTNERSHIP NOTICE.

NOTICE is hereby given that the under
~ signed persons have formed a copartner-
ship under the firm name of Gold mith &
Falkenau, for the purpose of conducting the
wholesale cigar and tobacco business in Los
Angeles. l. GOLDSMITH,
may2rim WM. FALKENAU,
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The apportionment is as follows.

Ordered to be published in the Examiner
and copy sent to the Chairmen of the sew
eral County Committees.
PETER DONAHUE, Chairman.
j. Q. MAYNARD, Secretary. apr25-td
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NEW ADVERTISEMENTS.
: A Repository of Fashion, Pleasur,
and Instruction.
Harper's Bazar.
USTRATED.
Notices of the Press.

The Bazdr is edited with a combination OF
tact and talent that we seldom find in any
journal; and the journal itself is the organ
OF the great world of fashion.-Boston TraU-
eiler.
The Bazar commends itself to every men,
Der of the household-to children by droll
and pretty pictures, to the young ladies by
It's fashion-plates in endless variety, to the
provident matron by its patterns for the
children's clothes. to paterfamilias by its
tasteful designs for embroidered slippers and
luxurious dressing-gowns. But the reading
matter of the Bdzar is uniformly of great ex-
celence. The paper has acquired a wide pop
ularty for the Preside enjoyment it affords.-
N. Y. Eventng Post
In its way there is nothing like it. Fresh
and trustworthy as fashion guide, its stories
and essays, its poetry and squibs, are all in
vigorating to the mind Chicago Evening
Journal.
The weekly clarion. [volume] (Jackson, Miss.) 1863-1882, 1876-06-14
An Inter esGing Will Case.
NO. BulletIn.l

N o. Bulletin.l
Judge Billings decided yesterday
a very interesting will case in the
United States Circuit Court, and
one which has excited considerable
attention among the lawyers, on ac-
count of the nicely of the question
involved.
In 1867, Mr.. Norman Story, an
old and well. known resident of this
city, made his last will and tesla
ment, in the following words:
New ORLEANS, April 24, 1867.
|, Norman Story, of this city OF
New Orleans, of sound body and OF
sound mind, but having the uncer-
tainty of life in view, do write this,
my last Geographic will and tesla
mept, hereby expressly revoking
all other wills and testaments by
me written.
1. appoint my brother Benja-
min S. Story to act as executor OF
this, my last will without security.)
2. 1t is my wish that all my just
debts shall be paid without delay.
3. will and bequeath to Henry
G. Story and Benjamin S. Story all
properties l die possessed OF, to be
divided equally between them.
NORMAN STORY.
Suit was brought by b. S. Story
for all the property. The question
arises out OF the last paragraph of
the will Tt was admitted by the
pleadings and shown by the proof
administered, that Henry 9. Story
named with Benjamin S. Story as
the legatees under the will, died
before the testator Norman Story.
The plaintiff contended that the leg
acy was what our law terms the
eonioint legacy, and by the effect of
the death of Henry c. Story, before
the death Of the testatoF, the part
which would have been inherited
by Henry c. Story, had he lived,
accrued by right of accretion to
Benjamin S. Story. There was no
issue of fact. The case presented
the simple legal issue of the con-
struction of the will, whether or not
it is the conjoint legacy.
Many authorities from the French
! hooks were cited to show that the
legacy to Henry G. Story accrued,
as it is technically called, to his
heirs on his death and not to his CO.
legatee, Benjamin S. Story, but at
ter a careful review of the law,
Judge Billings decided that on the
death of II. G. Story, all the prop
erty of the testator passed to the
plaintiff, Benjamin S. Story, and
| Judgment was rendered accord
ingly.
The weekly clarion. [volume] (Jackson, Miss.) 1863-1882, 1876-06-14
A Murderer Captured.
Vicksburg Tribune.l

Vicksburg Tribune.I
In 1869, valuable horse was one
night stolen from a planter in
Kinds county. A description of the
animal was sent to the various sur
rounding towns and river crossings
among them, one to Mr. Ralison,
the keeper of a ferry on Big Black
river. Ralison kept sharp look
out for the stolen horse. A few
days only elapsed when one morn
ing a negro rode up to the ferry
and asked to be put on the Warren
county side. "What'is your name p
asked Ralison, "Gregory.n briefly
replied the negro. THAT is a fine
horse, whose is he 2" remark ed Raj
ison. c'He is mine :" "a valuable
horse has lately been stolen near
here, and yours so exactly fills the
description that l must ask you to
go with me to Edwards said Raj
ison. "Oh, we'll, I'll do that" re-
piled Gregory: So Ralison saddled
his own horse, and with Gregory
started for Edwards Depot. When
a few miles on the way, Ralison
carelessly got in front Suddenly,
Gregory rode rapidly up to Rail-
son, pistol cleaned in the sun
shine, there was a sharp report, and
Ralison fell from his horse, dead,
shot through the brain. The muir
derer eluQod all pursuit and es-
capped. Years went on, and Rail-
sons murder was unavenged. A
few days ago, again a negro rode up
to the same ferry and asked to be
put across the river. Ralison's wife
was there. ''That is the man that
killed my husband said she. Then
2 LITTLE band gathered around the
long looked for Gregory, and took
him prisoner. He was carried be-
fore Justice Hammond, and by him
committed to Jail, where he will re-
main until the calling Of the crimi-
nal docket IN the Circuit Court
October next.
The weekly clarion. [volume] (Jackson, Miss.) 1863-1882, 1876-06-14
THE REFORM LEGISLATURES
ATS Faithful Redemption of the
Pledges.

McComb City Intelligencer.l
1t is creditable TO the Legislator
which was elected in the great pc
litical revolution in our State las
year that it faithfully redeemed it
pledges to curtail expenditures anC
that il eschewed every form of al
traism. Its course was marked by sin
eular moderation upon every subject
which it touched. In view of the
hardness OF the times, there was
/ absolute necessity for curtalling ex
/ pendituI es. but in no instance was
the efficiency of this public service
impaired. The Public School sys-
TEN will cost less hereafter, by
/ cutting off supernumeraries, and re-
ducing salaries, but the scholastic
terms will be heightened for the
benefit of pupils.
The Penitentiary, which is being
constantly recruited by muscular,
able bodied convicts, trained TO la
Dor, and ought to have supported it
self, has been a heavy tax on the
State Treasury. 1t will hereafter be
self-supporting.
The average annual cost of the
judiciary department for the six
years prior to 1876 has been about
100000. The appropriation for
that department by the Legislature,
on an estimate of its probable ex-
perses the present year, is only
$4,000. The number of judges has
been cut down nearly one half.
And here are some of the reductions
in salaries: Supreme Judges, from
$1,000 to $4,000 per annum; Circuit
Judges from $500 to $1,000.
There is no department TO which
the pruning knife Of retrenchment
has not been vigorously applied in
the same manner. For example,
for the six years previous to the
present, the average cost of public
printing was about $4,000 The
amount appropriated to that branch
of the service by the Legislature
for the present year, notWithstand-
ing the long session, is only $24,-
coo.
AS a consequence of these practi-
cal reform measures, State warrants
are worth 90 cents on the dollar,
whereas, at the same period last
year, they were selling at IS cents
on the dollar. A curtailment of eX-
penditures was logically followed by
a reduction of the State tax from
nine and a half mills on the dollar
to six and half mills and there will
doubtless be a corresponding reduc-
ton in county and municipal taxes.
On the whole, the people have
ample cause to be gratified with the
present aspect of affairs in our State
with reasonable skill and pru-
dence in the management of their
private concerns and the practice of
industry and economy, they may
confidently hope for the dawning
of brighter and better day in the
near future.
The weekly clarion. [volume] (Jackson, Miss.) 1863-1882, 1876-06-14

BY ELLEN P. AILERTON.

Too little rest, too little sleep,
Too many hours to SOW and reap
AT last, disease and pain
Weak grows the never loosened band;
The strongest rope parts, strand by stran
Beneath a ceaseless strain.
Let him VINO burns his midnight oil
In the lonely and unwholesome toll,
Think, when he trims his lamp,
That thus he trims his life as well,
And hastens towards his last low cell
Its darkness and its damp.
He who would travel far and long,
And keep stately stride and strong,
Must rest beside the way.
A ceaseless pace at first may win,
But he who haults at wayside inn,
AT last shall win the day
To weary feet all streams are deep,
All roads are rough, all hills are steep,
As way-worn travellers know.
One hour of rest is priceless boon
To him who tolls through heats ofnoon,
With painful steps and slow.
Then, We who hope to make your mark
Ere your last night-fall cold and dark,
And stand above the throng
On some far, sun-kissed height of thought,
Or do some deed no hand hath wrought
Work, rest-and 50 be strong.
The weekly clarion. [volume] (Jackson, Miss.) 1863-1882, 1876-06-14
Hon. Jacob Thompson ConfrOnts
His AcCuSOrs.

Special to New York Herald.l
The recent publication of re-
mark by Secretary Chandler that lie
thought Mr.. Jacob Thompson, for
merly Score tary Of the Interior, was
responsible and might be impeached
for the loss Of the Indian bonds while
he was Secretary of the interior
under Mr.. Buchanan, has brought
Mr. Thompson to Washington. He
arrived here yesterday and this
morning sent a letter to Mr. Chand-
Ter asking whether the newspaper
paragraph represented him correct
ly as saying that he believed Thomp-
son guilty of abstracting the Indian
bonds. Mr.. Chandler said he would
reply to the letter, n 5@ he was I'M
derstood to hold that if bonds were
distracted from the interior De-
partment while he is Secretary he
would consider himself responsible
for them. Mr.. Thompson announces
publicly his readiness to have the
loss of the bonds and his whole con-
duct of the Interior Department in
vestigated by a committee, the ma
iority or the whole of whom should
be Republicans, and that if they
hold that he ought to be impeached
he pledges himself in advance
not to plead that the Senate has no
jurisdiction.
The weekly clarion. [volume] (Jackson, Miss.) 1863-1882, 1876-06-14

The most celebrated cotton man
ufacture in Russia is, it is stated,
of more than half a century's exis-
tence, having been established in
1920, when it consisted simply OF
a wooden building, in which eight
hundred spindles, spinning low
numbers, gave employment to about
sixty persons.
Since then, the establishment has
been enlarged, so as to consist, at
the present time, of six-story
building for cotton and wooden
spinnings; five four story buildings
occupied for spinning, weaving and
machine shop; two-story building
for store and warehouse another
two story building for weaving,
bleaching and finishing; a one-story
house for boilers and dyeing; also,
a smithy, school and orphan house,
an infant school, hospital, dining
room, gas works and about thirty
houses for overseers and operatives.
There are now forty thousand
spindles and nearly thousand looms
to manufacture cotton, and eight
hundred spindles and thirty looms
for wool, requiring more than two
thousand workers of both sexes,
from twelve to seventeen years OF
age.-St. Louis Republican.
The weekly clarion. [volume] (Jackson, Miss.) 1863-1882, 1876-06-14

The Baltimore American SAYS
" The head book-keeper of a lead
ing establishment in the city was
badly poisoned by putting a lead
pencil in his mouth. He was in
the counting room at an early hour,
and, on beginning work, used new
lead pencil. While in the middle
OF his calculation he inadvertently
put his pencil in his mouth, as is the
habit of many. He Immediately be-
came unwell, with a nauseous taste
in his mouth, and expectorated CON
slderably in order to get rid of it.
The sick feeling continued, and he
became so much worse that he was
compelled to be conveyed home.
A physician was summoned and an
tldotes administered, and relief was
obtained, He 10 still suffering"
The weekly clarion. [volume] (Jackson, Miss.) 1863-1882, 1876-06-14
The Texas Pacific.
Vicksburg Herald. !

Vicksburg Herald.
We notice that Col Thos. A.
Scott and a number of his friends
have subscribed $1,000, 900. which
they hope to increase to $2,O00,0OO
at once, for the purpose of building
an extension of the Texas Pacific
road 120 miles westward to Fort
Worth. The extension is to be fin
ished by August. This action is
rendered necessary in order to pre-
vent the absorption of the land
grant by the rival California Pacific
The road is to be laid with steel
rails and built in the most thorough
manner.
The weekly clarion. [volume] (Jackson, Miss.) 1863-1882, 1876-06-14

The Philosophical Society BurIe,
Baron de POIm After EGyp-
riam Rites.

The funeral of Baron de Polm. &C
cording to the ancient Egyptial
rites, was an occasion for the gath
ering of nearly four thousand peopl
at the Masonic Temple this even
ing.
The deceased baron. who came {,
this country fifteen years ago, ha,
expressed wish that no Christian
priest or minister be allowed to tax,
part in his obsequies.
They were conducted by the The
osophical Society of this city, o
which the deceased was a member
Only those having tickets. about
800 in all, were admitted to the
building.
The assemblage was we'll dressed
and intensely curious in regard tC
the nature of the funeral rites
They were of much simpler char
acter than had been expected.
The platform or altar was embel.
lished by an incense burner, which.
according to the officers of the socie.
ty, was emblematical of the worship
of fire; and a wooden cross bearing
a serpent, which seemed engaged
in an honest but fruitless effort to
bite his own tail.
This was typical, according to a
member of the association, of the
evolution of the matter. Between
the cross and the vase of burning
incense, and directly in front of the
stage, appeared the coffin.
1t was a handsome ebony casket.
bound with silver, and bearing the
name, age and titles of the dead
gentleman. On it were placed sew.
en- lighted candles, five of them
white, one red and the other green.
They were also intended to typify
the worship of fire and light, Seated
on the stage III circle behind the
coffin were the priest and six mem
bers or fellows of the association.
They were all clad in heavy flow
ing gowns of heavy black wooden
material, and each of them had in
his hand a bunch of green leaves,
which signified their "good will and
peace toward men,"
Col. Olcott was master and con.
ductor Of the ceremonies. After a
brief interval of music, the questions
and responses began. They consist
ed Of curiously phrased questions
and answers from a regular, ancient
Egyptian liturgy, in regard to the
nature Of God. the human soul and
a future state Of existence,
During the questions and answers
the incense was burned An old
gentleman, who did not like the ma
ture of the ideas put forth in the
ritual, ordered his daughter to leave
the organ; so part Of the musical
portion OF the ceremonies had to be
with.
Col. Olcott delivered lengthy
address on the nature of Theosophy.
He said that the deceased Baron,
after long life in the courts and
career Of ambition, finding nothing
in creeds to satisfy his inquiries in
regard to future state, found con.
ISOLATION in Theosophism.
After the rites were over, the re-
mains were removed to a vault in
the Lutheran cemetery, and will, it
is said, be cremated as soon as per
mission can be obtained from the
The body was en-
balmed soon after death.
The weekly clarion. [volume] (Jackson, Miss.) 1863-1882, 1876-06-14
Good Enough to he True.

A lady now living in California
relates the following as an incident
of her early life: ''Traveling in a
coach in thinly settled part of Ala
bama with her parents, she gave
utterance to the enthusiasm of a
young girl at the romantic scenery
Her father apologized to a fellow
passenger for her exuberance. The
stranger answered: ''Do not check
her; enthusiasm is a gift of God y
and then he began in eloquent Ian
guage to tell of scenes he had
gazed upon and the lands he had
visited, dwelling alternately on the
majesty of the wilds of the West
and the splendors of the highest
civilization. The girls fancy was
all afame, and she led the stranger
to speak of foreign lands, and at
last Spain, until, forgetting himself,
he spoke of scenes and narrated le-
gends in words which disclosed to
her his identity. Clapping her
hands, she cried, "You are Washing
ton Irving"
The weekly clarion. [volume] (Jackson, Miss.) 1863-1882, 1876-06-14
bleeding the Heather.
rom Tie Chicago Times.

From Tie Chicago lines
A favorite way of bleeding the
Heather Chinee in San Francisco
aside from the quarterly "license,"
which he is obliged to pay by way
of forced contribution, is to ar
raign him for some petty violation
of the law and give him the alter
native of paying an enormous fine
or going to the county Jail. If he
goes to Jail his pigtail is cut off,
which is to every Chinaman ter
rible social and moral degradation
Rather than lose his pigtail the
heather will permit himself to be
robbed Of his last dollar. This is a
great deal meaner way to discour.
age Chinese immigration than il
would be to lead out few promi
nent Celestials and assassinate
them in an open and becoming
manner.