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Daily Los Angeles herald., 1884-04-19
A Strange Abode.


People living in the neiehborhaod hav.
ing complained that strange light had
been noticed several nights In and about
4 family vault in the cemetery, party
Of police officers were set to watch the
place last night. The officers, anticipat-
inc an encounter with ghouls, were we'll
armed. About 0 o'clock little ragged
man was seen coming into the cemetery,
and sneaking up to the tomb indicated BY
the neighbors, he carelessly turned the
lock and entered. When theofficers came
upthey found him sitting on amarillo slab
over q casket, with a candle weirdly
Pickering by his side, just preparing for
his lunch, which he was Speeding out
in his lap. The police arrested him, and
on taking him to the station, found that
he was well-known and eccentric char
acter, going under the name OF Stone.
wall Jackson. For long time he has
gone about the residence part of the
city, begging his food and suddenly dis
appearing about the dusk of each day.
The cranky Stonewall was set free and
ordered to leave town. The lock on
the tomb was an old any simple one that
would yield to almest any key.-Propi-
dence (R. ~ Dispatch 10 Boston Globe.
Daily Los Angeles herald., 1884-04-19
A Cemetery Surprise Party.

A cheerful practice is undermining
the cemeteries Of San Francisco. The
price Of cadavers having advanced stead
lily for four years, the medical colleges
found scarcity of good reliable subjects.
The sawbones, therefore, clnbbed togeth-
er and hired venal sexton to make q
inidnight raid upon the graveyards lin
ing San Francisco's favorite drive, and
anticipate the day Of reckoning for a
small consideration. Things ran smooth
ly until last month, when an able bodied
savant was buried. A burst of thunder
sound startled the cltizens the fol-
lowing night; there was patter
OF buttons and coffin-nails upon the
roofs far and wide, and the sections wife
awoke next morning to find herself a
widow. 1t seems that the savant, q doc
tor himself, had directed quantity Of
dynamite and Illuminating silver to be
inferred with him. and the unsuspecting
caterer to the college was thus trapped.
The simple ingenuity and effectiveness
Of the invention seems to have tackled
the San Franciscans, and the cemeteries
arc now being honeycombed with torpe
does and blasting powder, fuses and per.
cussion caps. to such an extent that the
science Of anatomy is practically brought
to an ena.-LJc.
Daily Los Angeles herald., 1884-04-19
The Europesn Rusn.

1t il said that the rush to Europe will
fall off this season; that for some reason
Americanswill 10 great part stay at home.
This may be mere lull in the fashion
able exodus, or it may Indicate some
causes at work that will sooner or later
reduce the annual flight to moderate pro-
portions. 1t is just possible that the
thing has been overdone and that the
stream OF ridicule turned upon a certain
class of Americans abroad who Travelled
solely to exhibit their "means" is having
its effect in making all Americans hes
itate before exhibiting themselves as
Yankees. There is another suggestion.
1t may be that Americans are slowly find
ing out that if they will only have pa
tience and stay at home Europe will
come to them. In fifty years from the
present the weight of fashionable travel
will be from the other side. Unless the
American goes abroad to study art he is
very apt to be disappointed with brief
visit and he comes back with an improved
xest for his native sunshine and land
scape. 1t is notoriously the case that
the so-called fashionable exodus owes its
magnitude to restless and ennuied people
who find that one continent is not big
enough to hold their weariness or graf
ify their vanity.-New York World.
Daily Los Angeles herald., 1884-04-19
al IpYI,
j. rusl, in Tho Manhstt.n.l

ID. Euek, in Tho Manhattanl
Isaw bevst on day In spring,
By The Of Z stream, as l dshed along,
Ana Iincd TO hear the robins sing,
And ssed q the secret they told In song.
Ths nj nJblossoms, 20 white and red,
Werjrrorcd beneath In the streamlet's flow;
And fD}ky was blue far overhead,
AndF IN the depths Of the brook below.
Ilay h hid by messy stone
Anboked In the water for flower and sky
heal step--I was not alone;
Arlhe vision Of loveliness met my eye.
SAVER come to the other side.
Aijthe apple-blossoms were not more fair'
She bopcd 70 gaze In tho sun-lit tide,
Afher eyes met mine In the water tnefe'
She (pped in timid and mute surprise,
Al that look might have lasted u'' no"'
But,odestiy dropping her dove-like eyes,
81 turned away to the meadow green.
bod In wonder snd rapture lost.
At her slender form and her step - iree,
4 her raven locks by the breezee tossed,
As she kicked up her heels in the air with giee
he annie. .bIos,oms are witAerod nov,
But the sky, and the meadow, and stream art
nd whenever wander that way vow
That some day III purchase that little blaci
mara.
Daily Los Angeles herald., 1884-04-19
A Famous Jockey.

The other day there died in York.
shire. England, Sim Templeman, a
jockey-"poor, old and blind" He had
IN his day won the Derby three times,
the Oaks three times and the ST. Leger
once. His first Derby was won in 1888
nearly half century ago-and there
is nothing to be learned OF his record
since 1855, when he won the Oaks with
Marchioness, but there would seem to
be enough in what is given of the old
jockeys life and successes to warrant
the opinion that he has been pretty
hardly dealt with. "Poor, old and
blind" would strike the casual observer
as an unnecessarily painful and unpleas-
antly suggestive epitaph to place ON the
tombstone Of the dead rider. The age
and the loss Of sight were inevitable,
but the poverty should have been pre-
vented.--N. y. Telegram.
Daily Los Angeles herald., 1884-04-19
Southern Spirit.

The military spirit is showing itself in
the South. The Adjutant General Of
Texas is in receipt Of Information that
guarantees larger attendance at the In
terstate drill at Houston in May of com
panies than ever gathered at one place in
the Southwest, or South. and equal to
any military display in America. Com
panies will be present from every part
OF the country, from Washington, and
representative companies from the cele-
brated old Sixty-ninth and Seventh
regiments of New York. The military
encampmcnt at Rome, Georgia, being
early in July, also promises to be no.
table affair. Eleven companies from
abroad have already accepted invitations
including several from Alabama and
South Carolina. Baltimore Sun.
Daily Los Angeles herald., 1884-04-19
A woman.s Terrible Oath.

Most women say "damn" when they
get mad. 1t is not a viriIle or VEN
omous damn. It's being quite intransi-
tive may take the harm out of it, for
they never damn anything or anybody
They simply emit the expletive itself
with considerable force and brevity, and
with a triumphal satisfaction in their
faces of having done something enor-
mously wicked. But they always say ii.
A young lady with a pale, rapt, angelic
sort Of a face occupied the adjoining
divan to mine in the Turkish bath.
While l was admiring her as one OF the
pale, high-bred type Of girls, she went
out into the nassage-room to cool for a
moment, and. slipping upon the wet
marble, fell prone upon the floor. With
the readiness of habit she exclaimed
"Hell,ty-devilty -cussedly damn
Daily Los Angeles herald., 1884-04-19
Press Pleasantries

The crush hat Is the only proper hat
for evening wear, 10 fashion has decided.
II don't generally take more than one
coed evening out to crush any hat.
We are surprised to learn that Daniel
Montague has the Oldest piano in the
United States. We have always sup
posed the family next door owned it.
Why is IL that the man who drinks
near whisky, eats onions and smokes .
strong pipe always puts his mouth right
n your face In . confidential way when
ie has anything to say to youi
The inter-druggist war goes bravely
'n. Gatling guns loaded with pills are
alked OF and barricades will be made
nut of patent medicine bottles. Gencr-
Is Debility and Extortion are in com
hand Of the attacking forces.
Temperance puts wood on the fire,
flour in the barrel, money in the purse,
contentment in the house, clothes on
the back, vigor in the body" says DR..
Franklin.1 We find by experience that
the doctor is right, except the wood
we burn coal.
A boy found woman's switch in an
opera house and returned it to her.
THANK you, my little man," said the
lady; "you are an honest boy" "Oh,
no, I'm not so very honest, but know
what l am" "What are you, thepg'
"a hair restorer."
A Texas paper has recently taken to
saying kind words for the dudes. This
is another evidence of editorial shrewd-
ness. That writer wants TO attract the
dudes to that State SO the cowboys will
have something to practice upon be.
sides useful citizens.
Sly little puss (who has more candy
than she can eat and wants to save it)
."Auntie,F do you like chocolate bon.
borsg" Auntie-"Oh, yes, indeed l do;
am very fond OF them" Little Puss-
"WelI, then guess I'll give mine to
grandma to keep for me, size doesn't
like them"
A New York news item that needs no
comment: James Riley, telegraph
messenger, was found on the streets
Tuesday morning a raviag maniac, cry.
ing constantly, Il am Butts, the boy
detectivsp The physicians at the hos
}pital say his brain was turned by read
ing dime noveIs."
Walt Whitman says of his poems;
"They proceed out Of and reyoiye
around ones self, myself, and identity.
and declaredly make that self the nuclus
OF the whole utterance." This will be a
surprise to many of his readers who
have supposed that they proceeded from
an attack Of acute dementia.
A lady who had bought groceries had
them weighed as they were sent home
end found then all right. So she went
lown and oomplmented him on his
honesty, and he told her he always in
ended to do what was right, and then.
fter she had departed, he went and dis.
barged the clerk who pu, up the goods.
1t was Bovec who said, "Chesrfulness
an ofishoot OF goodness and Of wis
ini.' Sometimes IL is and sometimes
rs an offshoot Of about eight glasses
beer. philadelphia Call. It is very
ely that Mr.. Bovee, when he wrote
che origin of chaerfulness, had never
Y Philadelphia editor. - Louisville
Nrisr-Journai.
Daily Los Angeles herald., 1884-04-19
Principals in a Famous Trial.

hna Bond has received s2500 of her
suription fund. Ciementi, one Of the
mAccused Of assaulting her, is living
wihis mother in Milwaukee; Pettis is
hviwith his mother at Grove City,
andon sgomery IS at work on his farm,
neaAe Pettises. Miss Bond l. living
quis at her home. anc Judge Phillips,
whfesided at the trial, 10 : candidate
tor hgrsss sgzinst John r. Eden.
Daily Los Angeles herald., 1884-04-19
The country's Rainfall.

The annual rainfall in this country,
according to the Weather Signal. is low.
est in New Mexico, tl3 inches) and Cali
fornia us inches). and highest in Ore
-gon (49) and Alabama (59.) The annual
rainfall in the British Islands among the
mountains is Al inches; on the plains 25
inches; IS inches of rain falls on the
west side of England, 27 on the east
Daily Los Angeles herald., 1884-04-19
Necessary preoauslonarx Aaeasures.

MY dear" said the Gar of Russia to
his wife, "Will you give orders to have
the palace gates locked and the streets
for one mile in every erection cleared Of
peoplc,"
Certainly" replied the Cxarina, "but
what are you going to do ?"
II want to look out of the window TO
| see what kind of day it is.'
Daily Los Angeles herald., 1884-04-19
CALIFORNIA SOUTHERN 4. /.
DIRECT RAIL communlcAvloa urrn
NATIONAL CRY AND can nlEeo.

On and after Monday. February IS. lssS, trims
OF the California Southern Railroad goinv eos1th
viii leave San Bernardino daily, Sundays Il
cepted, at 15r. Y, Cotton at las A. u, or o.
arrival Of East-bound Southern Pacific train.
and riverside at 2:l5 A. H., arriving At san
Diego at 7;lbP I'm.
Going north, will leava San Diexo Il $40 4 4
Riverside at 2;22, arriving at Cotton at San. 4
md San Berardino at S:25 I'm
which is 90 minutes faster than San Frsncisro
time. Passengers will save from ten (lO) to sixty
l6o cents by purchasing their tickofs of ths srrt
before entering the cars.
Close connections made with s. p. local 70 and
from Los Angeles. Passengers to and from
the East will have but short delay al
Cotton, The above is National City time
For information for freight or faro asldssss
Agent California Southern Railroad. Cotton. OF
J. N.vlCTOh.
Superintendent, and Gen. Fr' and Pass. An
N .onal City. Cal ans
Daily Los Angeles herald., 1884-04-19
A Novel Temperance agency.

The roller skating rink has been in
troduced in numerous towns and cities Of
Iowa to promote the temperance cause,
and it is so effective in attracting young
men from saloons that the saloon b eeper.
are circulating petitions asking the Leg
islatnre to compel skiting rinks TO take
out licenses.
Daily Los Angeles herald., 1884-04-19

Steamers Queen OF the Pacific and 0rizaba
through to San Diego, leaving San Pedro on the
dates Of their arrivals from San Francisco.
The Queen Of the Pacific and Orizaba call vt
Santa Barbara and Port Hartford. (San Luis Obs
POI only, on the route to and from San Fruncisco
Cars to connect with steamers from San Ped
for San Francisco leave the g. P. r. r. Depot
Los Angeles, at 10 clock A. NJ, railroad time
Cars to connect with steamers from San Pedro
for San Diego leave the $. P. r. r. depot Los
Angeles, at l r. N. railroad time.
Daily Los Angeles herald., 1884-04-19
GEORGE M. THOMPSON,
Shipping and Commission Merchant
AND.
GRAIN DEALEx-
Agent for the following Insurance. Com
pauies.

The Insurance Company Of tho State Of Penn
sylvania, incorporated A. d. 1874; capital stock
s2oo,eoo; net surplus, ssl7, ,sss. So Assets. Jan,
uafy ~ lssi, s6oa, ,0l0 i6; liabilities, January
ist, 1854, s2si, ,5s2.s7. Losses paid since orsani'
xation Of the company, si4 l6I' '4o5s7.
New zealand Insurance Company. Capital
- oo9 900. uhlinited liability. Losses prou.ptly
paid In u. 3. gold coin. F"f'''
The Manhattan Life Insurance Comoany Of
New York; Incorporated 1850. Cash assets
eH ,oo0. COO
OFFlCE;-206 Los Angeles street. cor.
her commercial. spSd&wly
Daily Los Angeles herald., 1884-04-19

Senator Miller has sent his quota Of
agricultural reports, seeds, etc., to the
Secretary OF the State Board of Agr :
culture at Sacramento, who will dis
tribute them.
Daily Los Angeles herald., 1884-04-19


Southeast, and the West Northwest
10 Pac
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Daily Los Angeles herald., 1884-04-19


abandoning
nabi lm not to everybody but all that be cured
retreat
TO
which viii be ready iHvE Nc ONE
YOUNG MEN 10
eo
will personally All correspondents
P. B. MEYERS, M. D.,
ocaaw LOS ANGELES CAL,
Daily Los Angeles herald., 1884-04-19
a. PEAsLEv,
DEALER IN

x:rcmsn AND RovsERolp wAREs,
Timing and Sanitary Plumbing. General Job
bing and Repairing No 1S North Main street.
Fico lionss block. now
Daily Los Angeles herald., 1884-04-19
INSURANCE AGENCIES.

THE MUTUAL
Life Insurance COmp'y y
OF NEW YORK.
lis the Oldest active Life Insurance
Company in this Country.
2-Is the largest Life Insurance Com
pany, by many millions of dollars,
in the World.
Sits Rates of Premiums are lower
than any other Company.
Alt has no "Stockholders" to claim
any part of its profits.
SIT offers no Schemes under the
name of Insurance, for the spec
ulation by special classes upon the
misfortunes of each other.
Cts present available Cash Resources
exceed those Of any Life Insurance
Company in the World.
It's Cash Assets on the 1st Of Janu-
~, 1884, amount to more than
ONE HUNDRED AND ONE MILLIONS or
DOLLARS.
Any desired information will be cheerfuliy
furnished by
q. A. DosINsoN,
Resident Agent,
Office Of Dickinson Fairchild
10 COMMERCIAL STREET, three doors from
Main street apis I'm
Daily Los Angeles herald., 1884-04-19

T. H. GOODMAN.
General Passenger and Ticket Aesus
A. N. TOWNE,
General Mapagur.
E. E. HEWITT,
Assistant Superintendent. Los Angs1m
Daily Los Angeles herald., 1884-04-19
Rates of Fare from Los Angeles.

nHII DltgU Hnu fttufn. 1T
fBPlans Of Steamers Cabins at Agents Office
where berths may be secured
For Newport Landing, via Santa Cruz etc.
freight steamers leave San Francisco about every
two weeks, as tides serve on the Newport bar
The Company reserves the right to change the
steamers or their days Of sailing
Daily Republican., 1884-01-07

The manufacture of matches is an ex
tensive industry In Sweden. From tht
factories in Jonkoping, in Smaland,
Wenersborg, and Mariesbad, at the
foot of the great lakes Wettern and
Wenern, the bones of the civilized
world are lighted up. Already very
rich and powerful, these factories are
more SO since the United States has be-
come their great customer. At JOnkop-
ing Is the Oldest and great 1T match
factory in the world. II was established
100 years ago. There are shown speci-
mems Of the matches in use when the
nineteenth century began. They are
big iagots of wood, with a handle and q
tip to dip in sulphur tub. They are
the giant ancestors Of the delicate little
slivers used for matches to-day. Mil
lions OF the latter are turned out in q
day. There was a time wben they did
not make IA million Of tbs big matches
in year. The wood is taken from
neighboring forests. They parcel the
forests ont in fifty sections. Every year
they cut one of the sections, and then
repiant 1t with young trees. The great
forests of Smaland supply the factory at
The trees are hewn into
plaEks In the forests and are cut into
sIivers at the factory. They use the
outside rinds of the trees for boxes for
the matches Transportation is cheap
and rapid in Sweden. You can 90 to
any of the shipping ports in Ave days II,
the furthest. The traffic is mostly by
canal. The factories are on the banks
Of the lakes, and wide canals reach from
AXE to AXE.
Daily Republican., 1884-01-07

This evening Barry aud Fay the cele.
brated comedians, will appear at the
Opera House in Irish Arist0c racy at
Muldoon's Picnic" This IL said TO be
one of the best Irish plays on the stage,
and to be hrimful Of fun from the OPP H.
ing to the close Last week 1t was pre-.
sentrd In Baltimore, and was greeted
with crowded houses, and all who en-
jos hearty laugh should be sure 10 at
tend tonight.
To morrow evening, Patterson's New
York Opera Company will present
" The Queens Lace Handkerchief"
This opera is well known in this city,
and the company is said to be one of the
best on The road.
Wednesday eve. Howerth's Hibernica
and Comedy Company, will appear in
comedy and speciality performance,
with magnificent scenery and beau
titul living allegorical tableaux.
Daily Republican., 1884-01-07
Always Do IL Well.

Whatever you do, do it we'll. A job
sighted because tits apparently unim.
portant leads to habitual neglect. SO that
men degenerate insensibly into poor
workmen.
That's good job," said foreman
in our hearing recently and he meant
that it was piece of work not elegea nt
In itself, but strongly made and well
put together.
Training the hand and eye to work
well leads individuals to form correct
habits in other respects, and u good
workman Is, in most cases, q good citizen.
No one need hope to rise above his pre-
sent situation, who suffers small things
to pass by unimproved, or who neglects,
metaphorically speaking, to pick up
cent, because it is not a dollar. Some
of the wisest law makers, the best states.
men, the most gifted artists, the most
nerciful judges, the most ingenious
mechanics, have risen from the great
mass. A rival of certain lawyer
sought to hurniliate him publicly by
saying:
" You blacked my fathers boots
once?"
" Yes, replied the la wyer, una ba shed,
" and did 1t WELL
And because of his habit of doing even
mean things wei. he arose to be greater.
Take heart, all who toll all youth in
humble situations, ALI in advese circum-
stances, and they who labor unapprecia-
ted. If it be but to drive the plow, strive
70 do it we'll if only to cut bolts, make
good ones or to blow the bell ows, keep
,be iron hot. 1t is attention to business
hat lifts the feet higher up on the lad.
Ter,
Daily Republican., 1884-01-07

The attention Of spor ting men, who
are unfamiliar with the law in refer
ence to gunners, Is called TO section II,
Of the Delaware game law, which reads
as follows.
THAT If any person shall kill, take,
or destroy, sell or expose to sale, or
have in his possession, unlawiully, af-
ter the same has been killed, any part.
ridge, quail, pheasant, or ruff grouse,
woOdcock, or hare, commonly called
rabbit, in either of the counties, Kent or
Sussex, between the fifteenth day of
January and the fifteenth day of No
vember, in any year, or in New Castle
county between the first day of Janu-
ary and the fifteenth day of November
in any year. such person shall be DEEM
ed guilty Of n common nuisance, and
upon conviction thereof before any
justice of the peace in this State shall
be fined fve dollars ($5OW for each
bird orTabbit 80 killed, taken, or de.
stroyed, sold or exposed to sale, or In
his or her possession, after the same has
been killed, and if such person shall
fail or refuse to pay such tin5 and all
costs Immediately, the said justice shall
forthwith commit him to the custody of
the Sheriff until the same are paid.
One. half of said fine for the use of the
State, the other half for the informer
provided that this section shall not
prohibit any person from killing game
Dn his own land at any time.
Daily Republican., 1884-01-07
Keep Near the Children.

1t is really pitiful to see good, CON-
scientiOus little mother resolutely shut
ting herself away from so much that is
best and sweetest in her children's 3 lives,
for the sake oftucking their dresses and
ruffling their petticoats. How surprised
and grieved she will be to find her boys
and girls, at sixteen, regard "mother"
chiefly as most excellent person to keep
shirts in order and to make new dresses,
and not as one to whom they care to 60
for social companionship. Yet, before
they are snubbed out of it, by repeated
rebutfs, such as, Run away, I'm too
busy to listen to your nonsense" chill
dren naturally 60 to theirsmothers with
all their sorrows and pleasures; and If
"mother" can only enter into all plans,
how delighted they are! A wise mother
once said to the writer cannot let
my children grow away from me;
must keep right along with them al! the
time; and whether it is croquet with the
little ones, or Latin grammar and base
ball with the boys, or French dictation
and sash ribbons with the girls, must
be in IL as far as can"
Daily Republican., 1884-01-07
The IvOss Industry.

The St. Louis Age of Steel reports
that a scheme, originating among the
furnace men of the Lehigh Valley, Is
on foot TO pool the entire pig iron in
dustry of the United States. 1.-THE
plan is 10 divide the country into 6dis.
tricts, each to be represented In the pool
Gu "A basis made up from the tonnage.
producing capacity of the district, and
the proft-earning capacity per ton AZ
shown bv the work Of d series OF years
Each furnace in district is to share in
the districts share Of the general pool
on basis determined In the same way.
One of the chief objects of the scherae
is to ascertain the exact product of pig
iron in the country, and with this in
formation in the hands of the Executive
Com mittee having the authority to shut
down, it can be ordered at any time to
let the demand catch UP with tho sup
ply, and prices can thus be made regn-
lar and steady. It is also proposed that
at any time when the furnaces are
ordered to be stopped for any reason,
each will draw It's share of profits from
the pool as though it we're in blast"
Daily Republican., 1884-01-07

Captain Ownes, Of the bark w. l.. j.,
from Pernambucs, who has arrived at
Halifax, reports that on the 23d nit,
being then OFF Hdtteras, in furions
gale, four Of the six men forming his
crew were frost bitten and compelled
to take 10 their bnnks. Bad weather
continued until the 2Stb, the vessel be-
ing swept by heavy seas. AT last,
to attempt to calm the sea. three can.
vas bags were filed with OIL aud
thrown over the side to the windward.
The oil oozirg through the canvas had
the desired effect, and the water about
the vessel soon became considerably
smoother. Huge waves could he seen
rising and roaring short distance TO
windward, but before they reached the
bark their force was broken by the
floating oil" The fishing schooner
Oresa was soon afterwards sighted, ,an Il
transferred six men to the Wild. ,
who took her into La Have harbor.