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Year: 1875

An account Of an interesting discov-
cry made during the cruise of the Brit.
ish ship Basilisk is given in the proceed
ings Of the Royal Geographical Society,
London. New Guinea is known to be
inhabited by three distinct types of men |;
the Papuans living in the south, the Ma
lays in the northwest, and the Arfaks in
the mountains of the north. Captain
Moresby now reports the existence of a
nation on the shores of the eastern
peninsula of that territory and on the
island Of the outlying archipelago.
They are said to possess characteristics
which show that they are probably Of
mingled Papuan and Malayan blood,
being more civilized than the former,
Year: 1875

New YORK, March Ex-Governor
Howard, Of Rhode Island, presented to
the senate of that State yesterday the
report Of the chief constable relative to
the official interference of the United
States by Marshall Coggershell at the re-
cent seizure of liquors which were under
the protection of the State. On pre-
senting the report the governor made a
speech, in the course of which he said !:
SIN the collision between the officers OF
the State and the United States, 1 was
called on by member of the constabula-
ry and informed of an existing difficulty
and asked to interfere in the matter.
Although there was not any doubt in
my mind that might direct q portion
OF the military establishment Of the
State to sustain the State officers of the
law, yet prudence required that the
question might better be decided by the
court than by the intervention Of the
military. / therefore directed the con-
stabulary to make no further effort to
seize the liquor then held by the United
States marshal and chief of police. AS
the result, this has been plscarded as a
victory on the part of the United States
marshal and his deputy. l agree fully
with the universal opinion that these
attachments are collusive aud thinly-
disguised shame, and l share the gener-
al sense of modification at the indignity
| to which our commonwealth was sub
jected. realize, also, the gravity Of the
situation, and recognize as our i'm
Lerative duty to take measures for
early and proper adjustment of the ques-
ton. There have been dinned into our
ears for the past six months threats in
regard to Fort Adams and the revenue
cutters; but so long as these threats were
words, and rude words, they have been
treated as such; yet, when it is grsvely
stated by an intelligent and respectable
journal that troops from Fort Adams
and the United States revenue cutter
Samuel Dexter had been placed at the
disposal of the marshal, it seems proper
to ask, Why is this done? 1t must be
for q purpose-waging war on the peo-
people Of State who from the date
OF its settlement have been noted
for their intelligent conservatism and
patriotism. Your presence here, SEN
ators, is a mockery and a farce
when such proceedings as these are sus-
tanned by the Federal government,
your honorable judiciary and executive
may as we'll resign their Office and leave
the control and direction of State affairs
to subordinates Of the; United States gov
eminent. No graver question has been
forced upon the State since its first set
tlement. 1t is vital question, for in il
are involved the sovereignty of State
and harmonious relations with the
United States. The little State of Rhode
Island is entitled on such points to equal
respect as larger States or the genera
3 | Ooyarnmant itaalfV
Year: 1875

that is, the bill taxing the losing party
in civil suits with the jury costs, passed
In the house to-day, over the governors
veto, as ii had previously been passed In
the senate; hence it has become the law.
The governor, being lawyer, took the
same view Of the bill which was taken
by the members of the two houses be-
longing to the legal profession, but the
bill has been matured in the face OF that
opposition; and the fact that decided
reduction in petty litigation will follow
is quite evident, and no doubt the NOR
ais Of any given community will be i'm
proved at q corresponding rate, though
the business Of lawyers may suffer some
what. OF course no one suppOses that
the governor was influenced in his ac-
ton by this lsst-named fact, as he be-
longs to q class OF lawyers who find their
time fully occupied by cases Of a more
important character, but the people al
large will rejoice to know that this bill
has become the law, notwithstanding
the executive veto.
Year: 1875

BEE SrINGs.-Any absorbent will give
relief. But perhaps nothing Is more
cfIectual than lean raw meat. The sting
Of bee or wasp may be almost instantly
relieved by it. 1t Is said to cure the hi'e
Of rattlesnakc and relieve erysl pelas'
Year: 1875

THE kENNEY SCANDAL.-It certainly
must be relief to respectable families
who take the Epery Epeaing to learn that
the mess Of putrescent scandal which
has been flowing through that journal
for the past four or five days is about to
cease. The proprietors of that paper
are of various churches. Had either of
them been Nethodists we doubt whether
this mass of corruption tending to no
good, would have been permitted to have
appeared here to the disgrace of the COM
munity. Certainly Messrs. Bates and Nc
Comb would not have permitted it to / e
read in their families. But it happens
that Kenney is Methodist and not a
Unitarian or Episcopalian or Presbyte-
rian, and the dish of filthy trash is serv-
ed up daily until it becomes a stencil as
bad as the late Beecher-Tilton affair.
Although Kenney should be reduced
from his position and the church and
morality vindicated from reproach, to
the outside world, this affair ought to be
g very trihng matter.
Year: 1875

Erery Erening and the Herald have en-
tered into discussion in which the cha
racter and fitness of Col. H. B. N.cIntire
for Chief Engineer of the Water Depart
ment of this city forms the subject mat
ter. As the work on the new reservoir
has now progressed so far that it must
be completed as laid out, and there will
be but short time until frost and win
ter puts stop to it until next spring, it
does not matter so much who is elected
Chef Engineer. But it would seem that
the Council would hardly fail to choose a
man of experience and skill as a civil en-
gineer when such an one is to be found
ready to take the office. The services of
such man might prove immensely val
liable. We allude to Mr.. Daniel Farra.
1t Is unnecessary to refer to his character.
Year: 1875

enables them to elect their leader to
the United States Senate. Then 1t was
that the people began to expect the
redemption of promises of reform in
railroad management and reduction
in railroad fares. But alas for the fru-
ition of those hopes. The power was
there but the will and the ability to
exercise it were wanting. No Legis-
lature ever promised as much and per-
formed as little as that of two years
ago. With the close of that session
both the railroad company and the
people made an important discovery:
The railroad company that the hostil-
ity of the "reformers" to themselves
ceased with their election to Office,
and the people that the hue and cry
which had been raised to secure their
votes was but the yelping of wolves in
sleeps clothing, who neither knew
what they protested nor intended to
perform what they promised. The
discovery has been productive of i'm
mense good; it taught the railroad
company that it was a few dema-
gogues and not the people they had
been fighting; it opened the eyes of
the people to the fact that they and
the railroad company were the proper
persons to determine on all questions
of freights and fares. The lesson of
this discovery to the railroad COM
company is that their interests will
not suffer in the hands of the people,
and their consequent retiracy from
the political arena. To the people
it is conviction that the devil is not
so black as he is painted and that it is
for the interest of the railroad compa-
ny to carry freight and passengers
as low as possible without loss. To
the average mind these conclusions
appear correct. 1t is the interest of
the railroad company to populate the
State and develop her resources. They
know that to charge such carrying
rates as will prevent the settlement
and cultivation of the country along
the lines of their roads is not the best
plan to induce population and secure
development. There is principle in
this that does not require State legis-
lation in the shape of ludicrous and
impracticable freights and fares bill
to bring out and inculcate. Let the
railroad keep out of politics and the
people pay no heed to blatent and dis
honest demagogues and all difficulties
between the carrier and the producer
will soon fade away.
Year: 1875

SOMETHING should be done to save
the graded streets. 1t is neither eco-
nomical nor wise to expend large
sums in grading streets and then
leave them to be converted into dust
and blown away. The lately grad ed
portion of Spring street has become
almost as dusty as before the improv-
ment was made. Sprinkling would
save the street and abate the nuisance
to which the residents on either side
of the street are now subjected. The
authorities should set their wits to
work and devise some means for reg
ularly sprinkling all the graded
streets in the city. Unless something
OF this kind is done very soon the
grading in few localities will disap-
pear in dust.
Year: 1875

1t is noticeable and gratifying fact
that the Southern and Central Pa
cific Railroad Companies are taking
no part in the political campaign now
progressing in this State. This is a
new order of things, and will,we trust,


prove the beginning of more health
ful era in the history of California pol
itics. For some years past-in fact,


almost from the organization of the
Central Pacific Railroad Company,
that corporation has taken an active
part in every campaign that has oc-
Cured in our State. The causes which
led the company into politics have
never, we believe, been clearly under
stood by the people. Many of these
causes have passed away, and as nei-
ther they nor their attendant conse-
quences will be likely to again present
themselves before the public, there is
now no necessity for attempting an
explanation of them. The one great
cause was that of self-defense, and as
circumstances may again compel the
company to assume that attitude, it is
legitimate subject for discussion.
Certain once influential journals in
this State, from motives which were
perhaps more selfish than any that
ever actuated the railway managers,
assumed an aggressive policy toward
them, and by constant iteration of
wrongs, fancied or real, perpetrated on
the public by the railway company,
created prejudice against them which
the willy and unscrupulous dragged
into politics, more for the purpose OF
| elf-aggrandiZement than a desire to
defend the rights of the community.
Finding themselves likely to be at
tackled in the Executive, Legislative
and Judicial branches of our State
Government the railroad company
realized the necessity for defending
themselves with the same weapons
used in attacking them, and oul
political campaigns soon assumed
the complexion of railroad and
anti-railroad. In these contests the
corporation was assailed in the most
virulent and in many instances unjust
manner, by men and journals who
sought to excite and use the prejudices
of the people for the purpose of secu.
| ring to themselves the emoluments
and patronage. of Office. They were
met and cOmbatted at the ballot-box
by the railroad company, campaign
after campaign, up to the convenine
of the last Legislature, when it was


found that the anti-railroad faction
possessed the strength necessary te
Year: 1875

DELAWARE COUNTY TEACHERS. Out of the one
hundred and twenty five teachers in the public
schools Of Delaware county, nine only OF the
male persuasion still linger round the campfires.
The old sehoolmaster will soon step down and
out, and thus give way to what is known As the
weaker vessel "
Year: 1875

VALUABLE RAILROAD REC LATIoS.-A new
regulation has gone into effect on the West Jer-
sey Railroad which might be adopted with bene-
fit to travellers on all Others 1t is to call out
the next station in advance Immediately after
leaving the one last passed. The benefit OF the
rule is obvious
Year: 1875

DISPATCH PRINTING HoUsE.-In order to meet
the constantly increasing demands Of our trade we
have added well.seected assortment OF NEW
TYPE, which, together with our IMP PROVED MA
C1IINERY and sKGLFUL MECHANICAL TALENT
warrant US in guaranteeing the VERY BEST CLASS
OF WORK at moderate figures and In the most ex.
fna
Year: 1875

How TO DESTROY ASTs.-A chalk mark, at least half and inch in depth, around the upper edge of sugar buck cts, barrels, etc., will not admit one ant into the interior. The same mark drawn on the edge of shelves will also prevent the approach of an ant as they are not able to crawl over the chalk. But if they are numerous among jars and jelly pots, take a large sponge, wet in cold water, and squeeze 1t nearly dry, and then sprinkle fine white sugar over it. Place 1t on the infested shelf, and next morning din 1t quickly and carefully into a bowl of boiling watar.
Year: 1875

nUR MILL NOW BEING IS FULL V operation, we are prepared tO furnish the market with q quality Of Flour, which We guarantee far superior tO any manu- factured in the Territory, and fully equal tO the very best imported rom California. We will keep constantly on hand nt the Mill, and at our several agencies
Year: 1875

fWashington special says of the
Louisiana report:


The report of the sub committee
on Southern Affairs in Louisiana is
a terrible blow to the Administra~
TIN and to the carpet -baggers and
scalawags. The more it is ready
the greater the wonder that it
should ever have been permitted to
see the light. and all statements
TO the contrary not Withstanding it
is an undoubted fact that it was not
made public until all possible means
had teen resorted to for its sup
preston. Now all that the Raids
cas- can do is to attempt to throw
discredit upon it, an undertaking in
which they are not likely to meet
with much success, and to bring in
another report, such as Kellogg
may dictate. The latter duty may
deyolvc on Messrs. George L.
Hoar, Frye and Wheeler, who, in
compliance with the demand of Kel
logg, will leave for New Orleans at
anearly day. kellogg and Packard
are already preparing the evidence
and picking out the swift witnesses,
upon whose testimony their report
will be based. 1t is fortunate for
the regulations Of Messrs. Foster
and Phelps that they went to New
Orleans when they did, and made
such q report as IS now before the
people.
Year: 1875

The seizure of Roman Ca holic
seminary by the Prussian author;-
ties and the severe punishment Of
the bishop and clergy Of the diocese
will add still more to the hatred felt
for Bismarck. He is making mar
tyrs Of his opponents, and martyr"
dom never fails to strengthen the
cause in which it is endured.
Year: 1875

The people Of Mecklcnburg are
bent on holding the Centennial
celebration Of the Mecklenburg
Declaration or the Goth of May.
They have al cady taken the initia~
tory steps towards the desired end
and the affair will probably be all
5hat can be wished.
Year: 1875

What the Governor of North
Carolina said to the Governor Of
South Carolina, has long been
faYorably known, but what the Vice
President said to the President is
likely to become equally famous and
as generally approved.
Year: 1875

Grants message on the Louisiana
question was such concoction, in
our opinion, Of f4lsehoods, that we
were not disposed to publish it. We
consider it square "back down"
from his policy. We refer our
readers to the opinions of the New
York press on the message which
appears on our first page.
Year: 1875

The radical administration at
Washington only calls for $780,
100000 more of revenue or taxes
upon the people to carry on their
military government. What will
the people say of that new piece of
economy.
Year: 1875

A much more pleasing performance,
and one which might perhaps better have
been mentioned in connection with the ex-
plots of the jugglers, is the "egg dance"
This is not, as one might expect from the
name given it, dance upon the fragile
objects. 1t is executed in this wise: The
dancer. dressed in corsage and very
short skirt, carries willow whee of mod
crate diameter fastened horizontally upon
the top of her head. Around this wheel
threads are fastened, equally distant from
each other, and at the end Of each of these
threads is slip moose, which is kept open
by glass bead. Thus equipped, the
young girl comes toward the spectators
with basket full of eggs, which she passes
around for inspection to prove that they
are real. and not limitations. The music
strikes up jerky, monotonous strain, and
the dancer begins to whrl around with
great rapidity. Then seizing an egg. she
puts it in one of the slip nooses, and, with
quick motion, throws it from her in such
a way as to draw the knot tight. The
trfugal force which stretches the thread
out straight like ray shooting from the
circumference of the circle. One after
"hOlhOi lIC CSoS arc tHiOW Out III tutSC
slip nooses until they make horizontal
aureole or halo about the dancers head.


Then the dance becomes still more rapid,
so rapid in fact that it is difficult to distin-
guish the features Of the girl; the mo-
ment is critical; the least false step, the
least irregularty in time, and the eggs
dash against each other. But how can
the dance be stopped? There is but one
way,-that is, to remove the eggs in the
way in which they have been put in place.
This operation is by far the more delicate
ofthe two. tits necessary that the dancer
by single motion. exact and unerring,
should take hold Of the egg. and remove
it from the moose. A single false motion
OF the hand, the least interference with
one of the threads, and the general ar
rangement is suddenly broken, and the
whole performance disastrously ended.
AT last all the eggs are successfully re-
moved; the dancer suddenly stops, and
without seeming in the least dizzied by
this dance of twenty-five or thirty minutes
she advances TO the spectators with firm
step. and presents them the eggs, which
are Immediately broken in fiat dish to
prove that there is no trick about the per-
tormance .-Scribner for November.
Year: 1875

The Lives Insured by the Society are carefully ?
selected in different parts of North America and
Europe furnishing, by this broad field OF opera
IONS an additional and exceptional safety to the
Policy-hoders. The Insurances are made only on
he Mutual Principle. The Surplus Premiums are
returned annually to the Insured.
Year: 1875

The British Arctic expedition was at
last accounts in readiness to sail on its
ice-bound voyage. The vessels had ar.
rived at Liverpool, and presents of books
and other articles for the men were fast
pouring in. Despite repeated failures
and the wearying return of disappointed
men, the Government has determined to
make fresh attempt to penetrate the
100000 of square miles of unknown
area which surround the pole. No pains
have been spared to place at the disposal
of Capt. Mares, the commander of the
expedition, every appliance which past
experience may have suggested or pres
ent need demand. The failures of former
navigators have proved that nothing is to
be gained by entering the drift-pack, and
that the success of the expedition de-
pends upon their hugging the shore and
giving the floating ice as wide berth as
possible. Capt. Mares will proceed by
Baffin's Bay and Smiths Sound. Beyond
the inner circle of 907 everything is very
much a matter of conjecture. At the point
where Hall was brought to a standstill
by floating masses of ice it is hoped that
the Alert may be able, through her su-
perior engine power, to push her way
The existence of an open sea at the pole
is asserted by DR.. Kane and other ex-
plorers. Kane discovered tidal sea as
far as the eye could reach. Capt. Mur-
ray said its waves were dashing on the
beach with the swell of boundless
ocean. The tides ebbed and flowed in it,
and he was of the opinion that the tidal
wave from the Atlantic could no more pass
under the icy barrier than the vibrations
of musical string can pass fret upon
which the musician has placed his finger
Whether this mysterious sea is isolated
or conjoined with the North Atlantic
Ocean is one of the problems which Capt.
Mares will attempt to solve. 1t is antici-
pated that, whether the expedition reach
the pole or not, many valuable discov-
cries may be made in botany, geology,
geography, ethnology and kindred
sciences. The application of spectrum
analysis to the phenomenon of the
Aurora Borealis will probably lead to
some interesting discoveries.-Chicdgo
Inter-Ocean, May 10.
Year: 1875

That is what the situation says to
every man of the vast numbers who are
daily coming to this city, allured by the
fame of the big bonanza and the hope of
four dollars per day. There is, here,
neither work nor accommodations for
either these men or their families. The
city is overrun by workmen seeking en-
ployment where none is to be had.
Yesterday over 200 men-some of them
destitute of the means of daily subsist-
ence, with families depending upon them
for support-applied for work at one of
the principal mines in the city, all OF
whom had to be denied. The company
are already employing more men than
they need, out of pure charity and be-
cause they do not wish to see them suf-
fer; but there is limit to even such dis
interested generosity. In conversation
with one man who had been compelledto
turn despondingly away the informa-
tion was elected that the East, and
especially Chicago, whence he came, is
placarded from end to end with notices
stating that workmen are wanted at four
dollars per day to help develop the
bonanza. 1t is useless to say that all
such representations are as cruel as they
are false, and can have been gotten up
for no other purpose than to make
money out of the poor victims who, in
duced thereby, gather up their house.
hold goods and come hither. 1t is hard
to think the railroad companies would be


guilty of such miserable meanness, but
who so likely as they to profit thereby!


1t may be done by those who expect to


profit by selling outfits, or even by those


who get percentage of the ticket money
paid by those whom they induce to pur-
chase the tickets at certain offices; but
by whomsoever the representations are


made, and with whatever object it is


done, it is all base swindle and ought
to be punished. To all those who, de-


ceived by these inducements, have been


led to take passage we would say, as we


said in the beginning, do not come here.


The chances are better in some farming


section. Better, much better, to keep
right on to California. where the grain is
| already ripening for the harvest and
men are more apt to be needed. We ap-
| peal to the press, ever ready to difuse


knowledge and do good, to try to put a
stop to this thing, and to use their en-
deavors to induce the poor, deluded VIC
Tins of vile conspiracy to rob them Of


their little all to keep right on to Cali


fornia or settle elsewhere Virginia
| (Neo.) Enterprise,
Year: 1875

"A girl out West ate seven pounds of
heavy wedding-cake in order that she
might dream of her future husband. She
dreamed that man with teeth foot
long, dogs feet and a hair-lip sat on her
all night, and rather than marry him she


contemplates suicide and An early tomb,
where the bobolinks sing. aR 5
Year: 1875

We are again called upon to commend the
Louisiana State Lottery for the liberallty
and enterprise displayed in assuming the
risk of all unsold tickets 10 the great golden
drawing of December 81.


As a measure of precaution it was at first
determined to reserve the privilege of seal
ing of prizes in case of all the tickets not
being sold. Since then, however, so many
tickets have been sold. and those on hand
are going off so rapidly, that the company
has wisely determined that no scaling of
prizes shall take place, and that all holders
of lucky tickets shall be paid in full. Merry
Christmas is rapidly approaching, and al
most before one is aware the day tor win.
ming golden fortune will pass away. We
advise all those, therefore, desirous of &C.
curing a competency to at once come fur
ward and purchase ticket in the golden
drawing.