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Daily Los Angeles herald., 1878-05-26

We cannot forbear reproducing
the following Washington dispatch,
which appeared in the HERALD OF
yesterday:
The main feature of the bill re-
ported in the Senate by Ehmunds
to day, on the subject of
the electoral votes for Presi-
dent and Vice President, is
the provision that no electoral
vote from any State from which
but one return has been received
shall be rejected, except by an af-
firmative vote OF both Houses of
nCongress, and that in case more
than one return is received from
any State, the votes only shall be
counted Of those electors whose
title rs electors the two Houses,
acting separately, shall concur
rently decide is supported by the
decision of the lawful tribunal of
such State provided tor such pur-
pose by its legislature.
TO the discriminating observers
of the salient features of the late
presidential election the foregoing
'biIl, reported by Senator Ed
munds, contains volume of preg-
nant matter. When the perjured
Returning Boards Of South CARROLL
ma and Florida were consummating
their Infamous work, the Supreme
)urts of both States sought to in
-erfere by maniamus and compel
them to certify result in keeping
Daily Los Angeles herald., 1878-05-26

THERE was good deal of the
Convention style of thing in Los
Angeles yesterday. First we had
the Farmers Convention in the
County Court room. 1t was very
thinly attended and was largely
made up of the neighbors aud SYM
pathizers of our excellent friend
Judge Lindley, of Monte Vista.
Then there was the Workingmen's
Convention at Turn Verein Hall,
which was quite strong, Kearney
and anti.Kearney feeling asserting
itself. Then there was the coalesced
Convention of Workingmen and
Farmers. This Joint body has NOM
mated ticket for local delegates to
the Constitutional Convention
which, amongst the rest, contains
the names of that sterling work.
ingman Judge J. s. Thompson.
The Democratic County Commit
tee also assembled and took action
looking to the representation of
this county in the San Jose nom
partizan Convention. For further
details we refer our readers to our
local columns.
Daily Los Angeles herald., 1878-05-26
LAST NIGHTS NEWS.
Especial TO the Herald by the Western
Union Telegraph Company.l
Pacific Coast News.

sts'ensns from EIood tz O'Erieu.
tSAN FRANCISCO, May 25th.-Last
Saturday complaint was filed in
the Twelfth District Court by John
Burke against the members of the
firm of Flood & O'Brien, Trustees
of Consolidated Virginia, the Neva-
da Bank and the Mill, Flume and
Water Companies under control of
the Bonanza firm, for the recovery
of $35, 634 1888, alleged to have been
wrongfully diverted by defendants
from the stockholders of Consoli.
dated Virginia in their manage
ment of that mine. To-day the Bul.
letin publishes three column state
ment from the firm of Flood
81 O'Brien, giving their version
of the causes which have led to
bringing the suit, as we'll as the
statements criticislng their man.
agement, which have appeared
from time to time in print or have
been circulated on the street. tits
the first reply ever publicly made
by the firm to accusations against
them. The following is a summa.
ry:
In 1871, when the big bonanza
was being developed, Squire p.
Dewey became purchaser of Con-
solidated Virginia stock to the
amount of about Is. 900 shares. The
purchase was made to q great ex-
tent on information obtained from
j. c. Flood, between whom and
Daily Los Angeles herald., 1878-05-26
European Cable News.
e 'sii,n sp cuIattons on the aue-
EOuE.


I0ok.
LONDON, May 25th.-The Crown
Prince Of Germany's visit to London
has q political side, just as the
Prince of Wales's action in Paris
was meant to promote increasing
friendship among the people of
France for England. Meanwhile
Schouvaloff'is in active communica-
ton with Beaconsfeld and Sails
bury, with whom he has had long
interview. The result was dis
cussed at a Cabinet Council. The
telegraph is now actively at work
between Schouvaloffand st. Peters.
burg. At present the English
ministers are rather listeners than
takers. Opinion in best informed
circles is that the ground is already
cleared for a Congress. and that the
prospects for peace are much i'm
proved.
Though England is prepared for
war, she may well hope for a
peaceful issue of the present crisis,
the outlook being gloomy enough
at home anu aUr0Iu.
hS iAtilCA Wal 10 idOIC StilOuS
than is generally known.
The moving of Indian troops to
Europe is sign Of weakness as
well as of strength.
The collapse Of the cotton trade
and the failure Of the effort to end
the strikes in Lancashire, with the
prospect of an immediate great
strike in the coal mines in the same
district, coupled with fears of fresh
outrages there, the Fenian threats
in Canada, the Corsair fears and the
growing alarm of the shipping in
terests, al! point to trouble enough
without actual war with Russia.
The closing-in movement of the
Russian troops around Constanti-
nople continues, and for the mo-.
ment the situation is further COM
plicated by signs of Austrian
Jealousy at the Intercourse between
Russia and England.
Altogether Europe continues in
an unenviable middle which even
the Congress will find it hazardous
to deal with.
Daily Los Angeles herald., 1878-05-26

SOME Democratic Governors, VIII
are not characterized by the rare
sagacity of Governor Robinson, of
New York, are distinguishing
themselves just now by deprecat-
ing the Potter Investigation-an
investigation which is not partizan
because it is in the interest of the
majesty of the American people.
On the other hand, there is the Re-
publican Governor of Pennsyl-
vania, Hartrauft, who declines to
condemn the investigation. On the
whole, the Republican party, in
the long run, leaving public NOR
ality altogether out of the question,
would lose more than the Democ.
racy by the equalization into q
dstestable public law of the prece-
dents set up in the late Presidential
election. The curious thing is that
their moro sagacious leaders, like
Ben. Butler, recognize this fact.
Daily Los Angeles herald., 1878-05-26

with the verdict of the people.
There is to be found on the docket
of the Supreme Court of both of
those States the details of the legal
process by which they sought to
impede the frauds, certain in one
case and suspected in the other.
Mr.. Edmunds, being o sagacious
man, and being DESTROYS to undo
the fatal precedent thus established
by the Republican party, which
permits Congress and Electoral
Commissions to count the vote of a
State for one man when it was re-
ally cast for another, seeks to pre-
vent the Democratic party from
using the same hellish machinery
should it, at the same time. have
both the power and the desire to do
so, employed by the Republican
party to place Hayes in the White
House. Senator Edmunds sees the
drift of our present politics, and
he is timely with his amendments
designed to protect the Republican
party from the fatal doctrine set
up by "Aliunde" Joe Bradley. The
Republican party is not without an
oblique sense of the pickle into
which it has got itself if the DEM
ocratic party shall prove, in the
next election, stronger than its OPP
ponents, with the presidents Of its
opponents to guide it. TO suit
their purpose in the last Presiden-
tial election, the Republican lead
ers set up the doctrine that
the Senate alone had the pow
or to decide all questions pertain.
ing to the Presidential election.
1t is true that the patriotism of
Roscoe Conkling and of q few other
Republican Senators defeated this
infamous conspiracy, but it was
done by mere scratch, and the
good was nullified 10y the Electoral
Commission. There would be a
good deal of grim humcr in the sit
uatiun if the Democracy should
stand solidly by the precedent es-
tablished by the rule of counting
the vote of State against the
man for whom it was cast. True
to its practice of II take the turkey,
you take the buzzard, or you take
the buzzard and l take the tur-
Key" the sagacions Republican
leaders are now willing to put away
in the lumber room the machinery
by which the electoral votes OF
Florida and Louisiana, ana prob.
ably of South Carolina, were made
to count for Hayes.
Daily Los Angeles herald., 1878-05-26
Mortgage Sale.
Alexander WE'LL, Plsintin,vs. Louis Hal
berstadt ct al, OBSERVATION-DISCLOSURES
District Court.

Under AND BY VIRTUE OF
~ decree of foreclosure and
2 Sales Of coa sa' OF sF'e'S the in sevs the
tenth Judicial District of the State
| Of California. in and for Los Angeles
county on the 2Sd day of May, A. D.
as a@ % of morfgage entered MN in
the aforesaid District Court annexed to
said decree and dated the 9th day OF
May, A. d. 1873, in the above entitled
plaintiff, and against L. Hal berstadt, Ca.
rola A. M. HalberStadt and L. Schubert,
assignee OF l.. Halberstadt, de-
PENDANTS, certified copy of which
sa andsr the seal o sSa Court t o
the 24th day of May, A. ID. 1873, and
delivered to me, together with the writ
annexed thereto, on the 18th day of
May, A. d. 1878, whereby l am com
highest and best bidder, ,foi cash i'll U. =;
gold coin. the following and in said de-
cree described real estate. to wit:
All those certain lots, pieces or parcels
county OF Los Angeles, State of Cal
| ifornia, and being each IL rods long and
| so rods wide, and known and marked
upon the map of Anaheim, recorded in
the Recorders Office OF said county in
Book 4 of Deeds, pages 500 and $50, as
town lots numbers fifty, one (5D and fifty
five 1851; also, all those certain lots, pieces
or parcels Of land, situate in the county
and state aforesaid, and forming part OF
the Rancho SAINT ago de Santa Ana, and
known and described as follows, to wit:
Lots number nine (9) and ten (le)in block
| G of tie Chapman tract, according to tn
| map and survey of said tract made by
Frank Lecouvreur in December, 1870.
Also, piece OF land adjoining said lot
| nine and to the east thereof described as
| follows, to wit: commencing at the
| northeastern corner of said lot numb
nine (O; thence east two and 33-100
chains; thence south twenty Coy chains
| thence west Two and S-l00 chains TO tn c
southeast corner of said lot nine (9);
thence nertherly along the east line of
said lots 8 and 10 and the piece OF land
last described containing eighty acres.
Public notice is hereby given that on
Daily Los Angeles herald., 1878-05-26
FOR SALE.

By the Lake Vineyard Land and Water
Association, the best Orange and Semi.
Tropical Fruit Land in the State. Water
right goes with tho land. Apply 10 the
office of Z. Beaudry, No. 81 New Hie Ii st.
aplStf +. w. WOOD, Secretary.
Daily Los Angeles herald., 1878-05-26
NEW TODAY.
SOUTHERN CALIFORNIA
HORTICULTURAL SOCIETY.
SPECIAL MEETING OF MEMBERS.

SPECIAL MEETING OF MEMBERS.
There will be n special meeting OF the
members of the Southern California Horti-
cultural Society at the Secretary's office, No.
. Spring street (up-stairs). on TUESDAY.
May ~, 1873, at O'Clock P. Tor tho pur-
pose OF receiving the report OF the Commit
tee on Pavilion Lot, and authorizing the
Board OF Directors to make purchase.
II. X. W. BENT, Vice President.
L. M. EoLr, Secretary.
Los Angeles, May rs, 1879. at
Daily Los Angeles herald., 1878-05-26
Ger. HOWard

toward the whites. Gen. Howard
has arranged to meot in council
with these Northern Indians at or
near Spokane Falls on the Goth of
next month. 1t is confidently hoped
that the threatened outbreak will
be avoided by a conciliatory policy.
Daily Los Angeles herald., 1878-05-26
Herald Steam Printing House.

rhe Herald Steam Printing House is
not surpassed By any Job Printing office
on the Pacific Coast, outside of San Fran
cisco, in facilities for doing job work
Low prices. good work and expedition
may be relied upon at this office.
Daily Los Angeles herald., 1878-05-26
TUESDAY, THE 18th DAY OF
JUNE, A. ID. 1878,

AT II O'Clock NJ, will proceed to sell
at the Court House door, in the city and
county of Los Angeles. State of Califor-
mia, at public auc ton, to the highest and
best bidder, for cash in U. s.
gold coin to satisfy said decree for prin-
cipal, interest, attorneys fees, costs and
and all accruing COSTS, all the above de-
scribed real estate.
Given under my hand, at Los Angeles
this 25th day of May, A. ID. 1878
Ii. NJ. MITCHELL,
Daily Los Angeles herald., 1878-05-26
LOS ANGELES
Exotic Gardens & Nursery
go LOS ANGELES STREET, in 40
-. rear of Cathedral. ~

/ would respectfully announce TO my
old customers and the public generally
that have on hand and shall keep eve
rything in Ihy line of business-TREES,
SHRUBS, PLANTS, etc., wholesale and
retail and at LOWEST PRICES.
Orders from abroad promptly executed
and satisfaction guaranteed. Plants de-
livered free of charge in the city.
LOUIS ]. STENCIL,
mr2-2m Formerly Shaeffer 4 Stengel.
The Ouachita telegraph. [volume] (Monroe, La.) 1865-1889, 1878-03-29
IS 1T LEGAL AS WE'LL AS CONCILI
ATORY?
shreveport Daily Times.l

shreveport Daily Times.]
The President applauds the decision
of the Supreme Court as sspatriotic and
in the interest of conciliation," but
says nothing of its legality:
"WAsuINGToN, March 18th. - Mr..
Packard, Postmaster General Key and
several other representative gentlemen
called on the President after the decis-
ion of the Louisiana Supreme Court in
regard to the case of Tom Anderson
and the contingent cases of members of
the Returning Board was announced.
The President expressed high gratifica-
ton and said the whole Union would
applaud the action of the Supreme
Court as patriotic and in the interest of
conciliation."
The foregoing Washington dispatch
recalls to our mind the following lines
on the raising of the bronze statue of
Chief Justice Marshall, at Richmond,
Va:
We are glad to 500 you, John Marshall, my
So fresh from the chisel of Rogers;
Go take your stand on the monument there
Along with the other old codgers;
With Washington, Jefferson, Henry and
Who sinned with a great transgression,
In their old-fsshioned notions Of freedom
ard right
And their hatred of wrong and oppres-
You cane rather late to your pedestal John,
For sooner you ought to have been hero,
For the volume you hold is no longer the
And this is no longer Virginia.
Tho old Marshall-law you expounded of
yOre
Is now not at all to the purposes.
And the martial law of the new brigadier
Is stronger than haJeas corpus.
So keep you the volume shut with care,
For the days of the law are over.
And it needs all your brass to hold it there,
With "justice" inscribed on the cover.
Could life awaken the limb of bronze
And blaze in the FURNISHED eye,
What would we do with your moment of
life,
Ye men of the days gone by?
Would you chide us or pity us; blush or
weep,
Ye men of days gone by?
Would Jefferson tear up the scroll he holds,
That time has proven n lie?
And Marshall shut the volume of law,
And lay it down with a sigh?
Would Mason roll up the bill of rights,
From race unworthy to scan it
And Henry dash down the elegant sword
And clang it against the granite?
And Washington seated in massy strength
! On the charger that paws the air,
Could he see his sons in their deep dis.
grace,
Would he ride SO proudly there?
The Ouachita telegraph. [volume] (Monroe, La.) 1865-1889, 1878-03-29
A CHANGE OF FEELING.
New York Observer. |
IDeSoto Democrat.1

New York Observer
The money kings of the earth were
never deceived as to the results of the
reconciliation OF silver. They wished
others to be deceived they did all
in their power, through their agents in
Congress and in the press, to befog the
public mind and to spread abroad the
belief that the reconciliation of silver
meant depression Of prices and ruin.
But no sooner had the law been passed
than they-amply prepared because
perfectly aware of what was certain to
happen-began to buy everything they
could lay their hands on which was
worth buying. Especially they began
to buy United States bonds, and as
they had nothing but gold to buy
with, the price of bonds advanced and
the price of gold went down. The
money kings are wise in their genera
ton, but after all they are no wiser
than Voltaire was. That philosopher,
unlike the most of his tribe, became
rich and he once told how he did it
81 had an intimate friend in the Bank
of France" said he "when that friend
told me the bank was about to emit
money in large quantities, L bought
The Ouachita telegraph. [volume] (Monroe, La.) 1865-1889, 1878-03-29

prosecution against the men who had
perpetrated the crime of falsifying oul
election returns. During the progress
of that trial the eyes of the whole coun'
try were upon us. The case was pros
ecuted and defended by able counsel
and with untiring energy aud vigilance
on both sides. The rulings and the
charge OF the criminal court have been
widely commended for their wisdom
and impartiality, and the accused was
convicted. The law, in this case al
least, seemed about to be vindicated,
and the people breathed freer in the
conciousness that their laws and their
liberties could not be trampled upon
with impunity. The convicted felon
appealed to the Supreme Court and
who falsified the election returns, and
by his fraud kept the State for weeks
in a state of revolution, involving the
loss of millions of dollars, committed
no crime against the law of Louisiana.
The Electoral Tribunal refused the peo-
pie relief and the country protection
from the frauds of the members of the
Returning Board, and now the courts
to which we were directed for redress
declare that the gang are innocent of
any crime.
Is this justice, is this law? If it be,
can constitutional liberty long survive
under such laws or such administra-
tion of the laws? 1t would seem, in
deed, that the seed, the bloom and
flower of justice had withered and per-
ished, and that commissions and courts
had only the dry and withered husks
of technicality on which to feed our
souls.
We understand that there has been
much graduation in some quarters
over this sweeping and unexpected de-
cision and the release of Anderson.
We cannot sincerely participate in this
rejoicing. Our opinions of right and
wrong, our love of justice and scorn of
the villainy which violates our most
sacred laws and corrupts our manners,
have grown too stiff and stubborn for
us to feel otherwise than deeply panied
and humiliated at the escape from JUS
tice, through the technicalities of the
law of a man who has so Wronged, op-
pressed and harassed our State. We
see in graduation over the result of
this trial a melancholy evidence of the
decay of that memorable spirit of resis-
tance to every outrage upon the con-
stitution and the freedom of elections,
which constitute the only true basis of
our institutions. From. formidable and
widespread, open and defiant, attacks
upon these there is little danger. "The
true DANGER" says one Of the wisest
and greatest of men, sis when liberty
is nibbled away for expedients and by
parts"
The Ouachita telegraph. [volume] (Monroe, La.) 1865-1889, 1878-03-29
A FEARFUL WEAPON.

n new sword has been introduced
in the English army. 1t is described
as a combination Of the ordinary regu-
lation sword Cavalry and Infantry,
with a six chamber revolver at the
hilt of the sword answering for the
stock Of the revolver, the chambers OF
which take the Boxer cartridge, regu-
lation pattern. The steel scabbard is
wonderfully utilized, being cut in
sections, with top hinges, and folding
up in the form of rifle stock. This is
attached to the hiIt OF the sword by
slot and catch, the whole forming q
short repeating carbine, or, with the
scabbard attachment, q sword and
revolver in one and the same weapon.
1t is sighted up to one hundred yards,
the foresight being taken from the
point OF the sword.
The Ouachita telegraph. [volume] (Monroe, La.) 1865-1889, 1878-03-29

It is related Of Mr.. Lincoln by an
eyewitness, that when he visited the
battlefield of Gettysburg he was shown
the cemetery heights where tho tide of
battle was turned. He was told that
here the enemy came charging three
times with great violence and were re-
pulsed with difficulty, and that the
troops who held these heights should
be remembered forever. lie answered:
eyes, the troops who held these heights
will be remembered forever" Then
gazing down at the steep descent with
look peculiarly his own, he said:
eThat was a steep place to charge up,
and the troops who charged three
times up those heights will live in
history, too, and 1 shall always be
proud to remember that they were my
countrymen."
The Ouachita telegraph. [volume] (Monroe, La.) 1865-1889, 1878-03-29

You can't have everything you want
in this world. Life is like blanket
that is too short if you pull it up over
your shoulders you uncover your feet,
and if you cover your feet your shoul-
ders must be bare. However, some
cheerful people manage to draw their
feet up little and so pass a pleasant
night.
The Ouachita telegraph. [volume] (Monroe, La.) 1865-1889, 1878-03-29
Dentistry.

DR. ST.. BRACEY, Dentist, respectfully
~ offers his professional services to the
citizens of Monroe and surrounding coun-
try. Having an experience of fourteen
years in the practice, he feels confident Of
giving satisfaction in all branches of his
profession. Is willing to warrant all work.
Office at residence on Jackson street, near
the Female Academy, Monroe, La.
y7-marl6:ly
The Ouachita telegraph. [volume] (Monroe, La.) 1865-1889, 1878-03-29

Lord Cork recently moved for a
select committee to inquire into the
prevalence of incorporate habits,
which moved Sir Wilfrid Lawson to
commit the following epigram:
Tho doctrine of the final cause,
It's general principles and laws,
Descentls from Aristotle;
But West minister's moro special work
Has been to demonstrate that Cork
Was meant to stop tho bottle.
The Ouachita telegraph. [volume] (Monroe, La.) 1865-1889, 1878-03-29
TALBOT STILLMAN,
ATTORNEY AT LAW,
MONROE, LA,
MONROE, LA.

Will practice in the Parish and District
Courts OF North Louisiana. Will attend
these courts in person.
Will give special attention to Land Office
matters connected with the Land Office at
Monroe.
Will give to all business immediate at
tention and abundant care.
Will answer all communications with the
least possible delay.
August 10, 1877. Iy
The Ouachita telegraph. [volume] (Monroe, La.) 1865-1889, 1878-03-29

If the spring puts forth no blossoms,
in summer there will be no beauty,
and in autumn no fruit. So If youth
be trified away without Improvement,
ripper years will be contemptible, and
old age miserable
The Ouachita telegraph. [volume] (Monroe, La.) 1865-1889, 1878-03-29

The Cincinnati Times thus apostro-
phizes Capt. John Cnnnon's new boat
now in progress of building ut Jeffer-
sonville: "This steamer will carry the
palm for elegance on the Mississippi
river. Her cabins are very high and
roomy, with three-feet skylights, alter
mated i'll squares and circles of ground
and stained glass, and ceiling beauti-
fully frescoed. In the panels of her
ceilings will appear fine oil paintings.
Her state-rooms, which are twelve feet
deep, are being frcscoed and decorated
with oil paintings, in the highest style
of the Italian art. Her cabin is being
built with IL most magnificent and do
lightful promenade, which extends to
her jack-st The upholstering and
furniture, which has been contracted
for, is of the most sumptuous order.
She will be floating palace, indeed,
the cost of which will approximate
$l5O,OOO, n good sum of money for a
steamboat in these times of cheap
material and labor. Captain Cannon's
boat, however, will have queenly
reign Of short duration, if we arc to be-
lieve tho magnificent description Ito
beg of Captain Tobin's new steamer,
just commenced Mt Jacksonville.
When this vessel turns her wheels on
the Mississippi river, it is claimed she
will be without n peer in point OF beau
ty and elegance on Western rivers"
The Ouachita telegraph. [volume] (Monroe, La.) 1865-1889, 1878-03-29
DR.. q. C. Murphy.

OFFERS his professional services to the
" citizens of the town and country sur
rounding. He may be found when not pro-
fessionally engaged, either at his Office
corner of Grand and Wood streets, on bank
of the river, or at his residence in rear OF
the Ouachita House.
August "a, 1877. vS-nl
The Ouachita telegraph. [volume] (Monroe, La.) 1865-1889, 1878-03-29

r. RICHARDSON. SD. M'ENERY.
Richardson & McEnery,
4 TTORNEYS AT LAW, Monroe, La,
n will practice in all the parishes OF
North Louisiana, the Supreme Court of the
State, the Federal Courts, and in the Land
Office Department OF the General Govern
ment. January IL, 1878.