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Bristol news. [volume] (Bristol, Va. & Tenn.) 1867-189?, 1876-05-23
THE MIRACLE.
BY HANS CHRISTIAN ANDERSEN.

[ The following is the last poem by
Hans Christian Andersen, and Is now
for the first time published in English
The translation is by Miss Adamine
Sindberg, of Boston, and retains in @
very happy manner the flavor of the
original:
From pyramid in the deserts sand
mummy was brought to DenmRrkG land
The hieroglyphic inscription told
That the body Smbalmed was three thousand years
old
II was the corpse Of mighty queen,
Examining 1t, they found between
Her closed fingers a corn Of wheat
So wOll preserved was this little seed,
That, being sown, It put forth its blade,
Its delicate atom Of light-green shade.
The ear got filed with reporting corn,
Full-grown through sunshine aud light Of tho
morn.
That wonderful power in a corn small
II Is a lesson to each and all.
Three thousand years did not queneh Its germ
1t teaches our faith to be strong and hrm.
When such life Is laid in a corn,
Whom out Of the husk new plant could be born
To ripon in sunshine and dew from the sky,
Then human soul, thou spark from on high,
Thou art immortal az thy great sire
Whose praise is sung by the angel choir
The husk, the body, is buried deep,
And friends will go to the tomb and weep;
But thou shalt move on, on wings so free;
For thine is the life OF eternity.
That wonderful power of so small seed
That miracle seen in that corn of wheat,
II puzzles the mind but still 1t Is done,
by the Author Of Life. the Eternal One.
Bristol news. [volume] (Bristol, Va. & Tenn.) 1867-189?, 1876-05-23

GRAMMAR AND CLEAN CORNERS
A female servTnt in the family of a
gentleman in the Department of the
Interior, Washington, is allowed to
make q yearly visit to her old home in
Riohmend, Virginia. Last summer,
when she left, q substitute was en-
ployed, a mulatto girl, who had been
quite well educated. She performed
the duties in rather Indifferent man
ner. When the regular servant re-
turned, she began her tour Of investi-
CATION to ascertain how her work had
been done, and was Disguised at the
evident want Of neatness manifested
everywhere. Her indignation finally
found vent in. the following, to her
mistress ON tell you what il, Miss
-, you can't get grsmmer and clean
corners out Of the same niger ~
Which, If true, offers a knotty prob
lem in reference to the education of
the race.-Editor'S DraUer, in Har-
per's Monthly for September.
Bristol news. [volume] (Bristol, Va. & Tenn.) 1867-189?, 1876-05-23
HEALTHY DIGESTION.

In regions where Liver complaint and it's
consequences, such as Dyspepsia, Loss of APP
petite, Cost veness, Piles, Sour Stomach,
Chills and Fever, Foul Breath, Restlessness
ut night, Flatulency Nervousness, Affections
of the Bladder and Kidney, Sick Headaches.
&C., prevail there has long been felt the need
Of a medicine that would act specifically on
the Liver, restoring it's normal functions and
at the same time be safe from after bad
effects and 80 simple that it might be used
by any one. II is claimed that Dr.. TURKS
LIVER PILLS supply this want, They act
directly on the Liver, and their constant
use will not injure the most delicate consti-
tuition. They are not recommended 40 n
universal cure all, but simply for diseased
Liver, and those maladies which follow it's
arrangement. AS a purgative medicine they
have no equal; their action is uniform, pro-
ducing no gripping or sickness of the stomach.
In their use no change of diet or occupation
is necessary, Is Murray st.
Bristol news. [volume] (Bristol, Va. & Tenn.) 1867-189?, 1876-05-23
From Bsllou's Magazine
Seeing it Down to a Fine Point,

There is in Kansas, or was up to
three years ago, a society of newspaper
men call the Rob. Ellia's FTiends.n
The society was founded TO perpetuate
the name and doings of a reporter
named Ellis, who made his name
famous on the Pacific coast by his
startling adventures, and whose career
finally closed with balloon ascension.
1t seems that a gentleman who had
made one or two Rscensions had adj
vertised to go up from a playground on
certain day, and that large crowd
ssembled to witness the expedition.
Ellis was sent to make q report of the
affair, and he took IL into his head to
have ride with the professor and
write up his experience. His company
was accepted, and as the hour APP
preached he took his seat in the car.
The balloon was inflated, but just as
it was ready to rise the professor had
some excuse to leap out. Eased of his
weight so suddenly, the balloon jerked
away from the men, and Ellis alone
went skyward. The man knew all
about newspaper business, but he was
ignorant as to aerial navigation. He,
however, took things as cool as if
nothing unusual had happened. There
was no wind below, and while the
balloon hung over the grounds, half a
mile above the heads of the excited
crowd, the following message came
floating down: Pm all right, and
intend to see the thing through. Tell
the---(his newspaper) TO look out for
a telegram from me tonight 1t was
about o'clock i'm the afternoon of a
June day, and the balloon and its
freight finally tioated away to the
northwest, and at last was lost to view.
No one In that crowd ever saw poor
Ellis again. In fact, Il was months
and months before he was heard Of
Days passed, and letters, were written
and kilograms sent, but there was no
news OF the balloon for week. Then
a hunter found this message on the
prairie: IAN still all right, aud am
having heaps of fun. / have found
the valve-cOrd and can descend when
ever / wishl but Rm going TO see the
thing down to a fine point.h He did.
Months and months afterward hun
ter passing through a forest few
miles from the Santee Agency, on the
line between Kansas and Dakota,
/ found the wreck OF q balloon hanging
10 q tree, and, half covered with leaves,
the skeleton Of Robert Ellis.
Bristol news. [volume] (Bristol, Va. & Tenn.) 1867-189?, 1876-05-23
TUESDAY, MAY %, 1876.
EVENT and COMMENT

Last Tuesday the Democrats of Cum
land, Md, elected their mayor by the
small, but clean majority Of one.
On the same day the train from Pc
tersburg to Richmond was thrown
from the trick and eight or ten per
SONS wounded.
The Prince of Wales has arrived
home from his trip to India, bringing
with him almost geological COllec-
ton of rare animals.
The Morristown Gazette says Chan
cellor Ham Smith is getting ahead Of
Pettybone and Judge Randolph for the
radical nomination for Judge of the
First Circuit, and that If he does get it
he "ain't gwine" to be fool enough to
resign the CHARACTERISTIC. Hams
head is as level as nickel in matters
pertaining to the said Ham.
Mr.. G.. U. Williams, who achieved
some notoriety in the House of Dele
gates last winter by introducing a bill
to license swearing, drinking, and
chewing tobacco, was found last week
in the road below Richmond inscnsi-
BILE. with his nose broken and lip bad =
ly cut. He was on horseback at the
time of the accident bur does not know
how it occurred. Thinks his horse
may have thrown up his head, striking
him in the face,
Bristol news. [volume] (Bristol, Va. & Tenn.) 1867-189?, 1876-05-23
The Insult 20 the Somth.

The following account is taken
from the Richmond Correspondent
Of the Petersburg Posi-, and we
presume it is correct. lfnot over~
drawn it ought to stir the pride of
most Southern men, sufficient to
cause them to stay away from the
place where they are libclled and
insulted before the world.
Charles Sumner would have had
the national battle flags cleaned of
such emblatic falschoods as a bar to
the restoration of good feelings
between the sections. Had he liv~
cd to see the Centennial Exhibition
converted into a bigoted scctarian
show for the humiliation of the
conquered South, he would then
have died with more supreme
digust for the two classes repre-
scented by the man who swings his
dirty daub emancipation" over
the national feast and the man of
the South who submits to it.
Here is the extract.
Richmond parties who have Just re-
turned from the Centennial do not
like what they saw in the Art depart
ment. Among the many fine pictures
there. | forget who is the painter, but
1t is the Emancipation of the negro
by Lincoln" and its surroundings are
decidedly revolving to the SOutherner.
Negroes heavily shackled in barbed
chains with cannon balls attached are
lying around, some living, others dy-
ing while Abraham Lincoln is break
ing these letters with sledge hammer
and angels are smiling approvingly
through the cracks of Heaven. Aside
from the subject the painting is said
by good judges to be perfect dauh.
The gentleman who saw this disgust
ing picture at once turned on his heels
ana left the Centennial grounds, and
few hours after was on the train
speeding hOmewards, He now advises
every Southerner to keep away from
the Centennial; or, if they care to be
lnsulted to go by all means.
What will the Southern visiting
military say when they see this daub
aud that Of the battle of Gettysburg?
Bristol news. [volume] (Bristol, Va. & Tenn.) 1867-189?, 1876-05-23

The balance contributed by
Hon. Bereford Hope, of the Brit
ish Parliament, and other persons
IN memory Of Stoncwall jackson,
after the erection of the statue in
Capital Square, amounts to $l,344.-
81, and has been set apart as a per-
pctual fund for the purchase, an
nuaIly, of two gold medals, worth
respectively 500 and $50. These
will be awarded to the two most
distinguished graduates of each
class of the Military Institute, ant
will be known as the Jackson
Hope Medals.
Bristol news. [volume] (Bristol, Va. & Tenn.) 1867-189?, 1876-05-23

much patronage it would otherwise
have had, but cease to be regarded
as arcal national affair. There
ought not to be anything exhibited
there which revives the unpleasant
memories of the late bloody strug-
gle inside the nation.
Bristol news. [volume] (Bristol, Va. & Tenn.) 1867-189?, 1876-05-23
THE NEXT PRESIDENT.

The New York HERALD, of all
American newspapers, is the most
nearly infallible reflex of prevail~
ing public sentiment, and it says :;
IF the Democratic candidate be
one who can carry unanimity OF action
and something like enthusiasm into
the Convention, and whose personal
qualities commend him to the conf
dence OF the people, he will in all
probability be the next President of
the United States.
Los Angeles daily herald., 1876-05-24
A New Enterprise.

The manufacture of paper is an i'm
portant enterprise, and we are pleased
to learn of the success of Captain
Walker, in his paper mill in Soledad.
He states that in less than month
he will have his 9O-horse power en-
gine at work crushing cactus and
turning it into pulp for the manufac-
ture of paper. For the present he will
confne his operations to this branch
of business. The cactus is stripped of
its outside covering, and then carried
to the mill, where the fiber is crushed
and put through various processes un-
til it is eliminated in the shape of
pulp of very superior kind. When
he has completed his machinery for
making paper, which will be in about
three moths from the present time,
he will export the pulp to Philadel-
phia, where it will be turned into pa
per. He has contract with George
w. Childs, of the Philadelphia Ledg-
err, to deliver twenty tons of pulp per
week. Mr.. ChiIds, who employs a
mill exclusively for the Ledger, will
thus secure supply of excellent ma
terial at a much cheaper rate than the
same can be had in the East. The
pulp will be baled and sent to San
Fernando, whence it will be taken by
car to the steamers and sent overland,
from San Francisco to Philadelphia. E.
In three months Captain Walker will
he in position to turn out a very fine
quality of newspaper. He has insti-
tuted very important industry here,
and we sincerely desire that his en-
terprise will meet with success.
Los Angeles daily herald., 1876-05-24
Grange Missionary in England.
From the Colusa sun.

Struck with a desire to do some
thing great, Mr.. j. w. A. Wright o
California got himself delegated from
the National Grange as IA missionary
to carry the order into England. JUS
why it was SO necessary to carry to es
tablish the Grange in that country
that it justified payment of the mis-
sionafy's expenses We could never dis
cover, but of course that gentleman
(who, by the way, possesses all ex.
tremely oily toHgue) had plausible
sort of story manufactured for the 0c.
casion-fuly as plausible perhaps IA:
the one he published about two years
ago persuading farmers that it wa.
better for them to pay S2l ton
freight to Liverpool when they could
get it for Sis or SIC. But Mr.. Wright
went to England to carry the truth to
the beni hted English farmers. He
had perhaps never read that the
Farmers Clubs in England have been
for many years far ahead of anything
of the sort in this country; the great
est statesmen of the country often
read papers before these clubs. The
Mark Lane Express of April 10th has
an article OIL Mr.. Wright's mission,
from which we infer that John Bull
is not going crazy over our missionary.
They have asked him for the practical
good of his work, and he has said to
hem: at would consume too much
space to endeavOr here tn enumerate
in full the many important results ac-
complished by our order in advancing
the true Interests of agriculture. Suf-
flee it to say that its influence h i'm
proved the cultivation of our soil, the
economy and comfort of our homes,
and has stimulated our farmers to
more self-culture. 1t has secured us
higher prices for our products, reduced
prices for our supplies, lower rates of
interest and insurance-thus, and ot =
er ways, making our farms more prof
liable financially. BY our more direct
trade with manufacturers, farmers fire.
quently save in the purchase of IA sing
lie maching many times the small
amount of money which the moderate
fees of the Grange cost him. We have
helped to put down large amount of
corruption, and our work tends to pu
rify our political atmosphere. And
yet our work has just begun" Tie
Express then remarks that the
Grange seems to be "a sort of mutual
Improvement society as well as an ag-
ricultural supply association, and that
in some underlined way it influences
the money market in favor of borrow
ers, and purities the political atmos-
phere-which, he adds, is a very desir-
able sanitary work in America as well
"a In ENGLAND ~ URut - SAWS th a ...i
itor, "the Grange only acts on politics
Indirectly, by the cultivation of II
sensitive political conscience, we pre-
sumo; for it disavOws all active inter-
ference on political affairs" The ed
itor then indulges in some very severe
criticisms on the secret work, and OBJ
serves that he has no doubt that the
"Shepherdesses" and the "Cultiva-
tors" flirt good deal, and that it is
an excellent marriage mart.
Los Angeles daily herald., 1876-05-24
An Extraordinary Fire froof Suit invented
by a Swede.
[From the Kolnische Zeiiung. !

hOlnisCue uHB.J
A few days since an exhibition of
the new Oestberg fire eXtinguishing
apparatus cook place OH the Linden
strausse in Berlin in lhe presence Of
the Emperor, the Empress, he Crown
Prince, the Grand Duke If Baden. the
Swedish Minister, the Ministers of
War and the Interior, and other dis
tinguished persons. The inventor,
who is a Swede named Oestberg, and
Messrs. Brandt and Nawrocki, who
had charge of the exhibition, were
presented to the Empress before the
experiments took place.
Captain sAhlstrom appeared in
peculiar looking costume, made of the
Oestberg invention, aud walked into
an immense fire made of wood satu :.
rated with petroleum. The heat of
the fire was SO intense that no one
else could approach within eighty
PAGES without being burnt or scorch-
ed. The Captain, however, walked
around in the glowing pile perfectly
undisturbed, leaning on the burning
wood, and finally quietly seating
himself on the burning Goals He re-
mained i'm the fire for fifteen minutes,
and on his coming out, every one
pressed round to see how much he
had heen injured. He was unharmed,
and in spite of the Emperor's assev-
Grafton that he had seeu enough of SO
dangerous an experiment, Captain
Ahlstrom went again into the nery
oven.
on finally emerging, he took off the
suit, and appeared clothed in red fan
mel. The Emperor said, tone must
see this to form any just conception
of it," He then asked Messrs. Brandt
and Nawrocki about the patent in
Prussia and when Informed that the
application for patent had been re-
fused, expressed great surprise.
Los Angeles daily herald., 1876-05-24
New Patents.

Through Dewey Il Co., Patent t
Agents, San Francisco, we receive the
following advance list of United
States Patents, granted to Pacific
Coast inventors, VIZ, David B James,
Visalia, cars for one rail railways;
Carol f Kusel and Carl HI E Bechert,
Oroville, pen racks; Joseph r n Owen,
Hamilton, New, breech loading ordi-
nance; Arthur r Watterson, S. F.,
sash pulleys; Thos Guerin, S. F., ad-
justible water gate and cages; Adam
Rutherford, Walla WaIla, w. T.,
horse collar; VIM Smith, S. F., water
closet valves; Oscar f Tiffany, S. F.,
fruit dryers; .Snas Cummings Virgin
ia City, New, reissue, grinding and
matchmaking pans; Edgar B Whi-
ney, S. F., trademark, cosmetic,
Los Angeles daily herald., 1876-05-24

Anti Chinese meetings are all the
go now, and ere many days this ques-
ton of Chinese emigration must be
settled. Get up delegation, a party
of ten, and send them tn Washington;
but in order to insure success our ad-
vice is let them all go to the Great Im-
portant, un'ler the Lafayette Hotel,
aud get their clothing, as this is the
place to get nobby and cheap clothing,
even cheaper than any house in San
Francisco.
The Prince of commedians, Harry
Lorraine at Woods Opera House.
Los Angeles daily herald., 1876-05-24

London literati were scandalized re-
Gently by bit of drunken frenzy on
the part of that erotic and cratic poet,
Algernon Charles Swinburne. 1t was
nothing less than a wholesale raid on
the hats of the gentlemen of his club.
IL seems that when the gifted wooer
of the Muse sought his tile, the pleas
ures of the evening being over, it was
not to be found. Enraged by the pros
pect of going home bare headed, he
fell to kicking all the hats he could
lay his hands tor feet, rather. In a
very short time they were hopelessly
ruined, and had it not been for the
large charity extended to the 'eccsn-
tricities of genius the irate poet
would have been tatterdemalion. AS
it was he was hustled into a cab and
driven home, only, however, to wake
up and find himself famous, thanks to
newspaper enterprise. Was his offense
venial or mortal? This grave 4ues-
ton is now under consideration be-
fore the British court of public opin-
ion.-EI.
Los Angeles daily herald., 1876-05-24
REAL ESTATE TRANSACTIONS.

Deeds filed for record for the II hours
ending May 23d, 1876. as reported for the
HERALD by Judson, Gillette d Smith, Ex-
aininers of Title, No. 80 Spring street, Lo-
Angeles:
r II Downing to p. Banning-Portion OF b
A, Banans's Reservation, Wilmington, SlO0.
Golfer To L y Dunsmoor and A l.
Nhllney-Agreement to convey ten acres in
ns sec twp Is, l3 W, for S2.l3U.
hoOert Pal ker tO A b oster Twenty acres
on East side of W . a of see 3, twp S, r 10
W, S2,0U0.
Horace Bell ct ux to R Toberman-one
acre South side of OF Poo street, $1,000.
ii spufgeon to w ii 1itcheraI-Iots 8
ana y, b IL, Sania wa, $50
a fotts to Wltteishlfer & Raphael-80 It
on hlii ST by 10 II deep in II, Ord's survey,
city OF Los Angeles to l. A Canal and Res.
erVoif Comp tny-Fractiona lot 2, Al, reser-
vDlr lands, $50 81.
! W Forbes 20 5 c Bullock-Portl IN of lot @,
4, Hancoek's surrey, Los ngeles ci v, $500
John w Searles to Geo Walker-N X II
Sc ID, twp As, r l3w, $l.UOO. /1
~ Boige TO G and u E Miles-Lot OF
ilLnn BoiSe's Addition To Anahe. m, S225.
Benz keim 10 Howard Andre ws-zlL acres
Nc adden tract, Rancno Santiago de santa
Ana, 800.
b A stern to H Lussk nd-L IA, b lO5, Bel
vue tract, Los Angeles city, SIOO
IL Denton to A j Bryant-% OF certain oil
Sl0U D''-''''
- IL Denton and Bryant To Star Oil Works
SoinPahy-Gertaln oil claims in san FernaI-
40 Pe.r1lum Mining District, 500.
IL loorrinan ct al TO Francisco A McDou-
gall-Loi 4 b 2, Ord's survey, cor Second and
spring streets, l. A city,
& shepherd to Jno Carpenter-Bond to
convey lot three, block ID, Mott tract, L
city, for ,6Ol
n, Los Angeles City Homestead Association TO
Chas flanagan-Lots 8 and 10, block IL, lands
OF said association, $500.
Jos Muilaly to "A olassell and A B Chap
mah-frant from ing PA feet on West side of
upper sine Main street, SlO0
j Jones and X 5 Baker 10 Perpich--Lot
U Ia block lSi, >aata Mo aica, 1895.
A Gla,sell and Chapman to JOS Mulla-
ly-M Mullay lot, upper Main street, 800.
= Beaudry 10 II Buchanan-Lot 8, Bunk
er Hill tract, l. city, ST. 05p.
Los Angeles daily herald., 1876-05-24
COURT REPORTS.
District COurt..-.SEPULvEDA, ].

District CO"rt..-.SEPULvEDA, j.
TUESDAY, May o.
Felipe GARNER VS. Juana H. de Lazza rov vich
ct al y cree order d a. prayed for
w. G. Go>s VS. Elijah TN GoSs d fault OF
defendant en- cred amt case referred to Court
Commissioner 10 take testimony.
Farmers and Merchants Bank vs SAM
uel Hamilton Ell al-keset for June 9th vt 10
a m
Nee Yuen VS. NJ. Goldbaum-Passed,
Margarei Starkey vs. d. V. Waldron-Jury
demanded r. Nay 26th at 10 IN.
Peep VS. James + Burns. demurrer con-
frssed by plaintiff; ten days to answer.
Maxwell admitted to practice
w Lord VS. Goodall, Nelson & Perkins,
Change OF venue granted TO 18th District
Court.
Mrs NJ w Temple We d w Alexander
set Ior wednesday, May 3lst. at 10 m.
Arcadia b. de Baker VS. j Carrillo.-Ten
days TO answer.
VIM Leslie ct al VS. Clark & Relfe.-Decree
orde ed as prayed Tor.
A Wisoa VS. w K Bowers ct al-Cause
submitted; tw" days to file findings.