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Year: 1875

been solely one of business, and has not
even extended to the familiarity of
friendship never wrote Mr.. Allison a
note in my life. Titus excuses his at
tack on Allison by saying that he was
defending his wife's good name;" that
Allison had been showing her letter and
boasting Of favors received, etc. This
is infamously false, sir Mr.. Allison, in
the first place, had no occasion to boast.
Besides, know he did not. He has a
large family, to which he is especially
devoted, and be never thinks of any
thing but business.


THE ASSAULT ON ALLISON.


Mr.. Titus is pretty one to talk of de-
tending his wife's good name. 1t seems
to me that when a man in private life
curses and abusea his wife, calls her vile
names and openly deserts her in pub
lie hotel and then goes out into the
streets to vindicate her good name with
a cow.hide, he should be regarded as a
sensationalist Of the first water. There
is about as much real chivalry in him as
there is in the end of his walking-stick,
and as much soul in his entire economy
as you will find in the head of pin.
That's the Uriah Heep kind of chivalry
that don't want anything more to do
with. But the idea of young men GO
ing off and kicking up scene on the
street anyhow, merely on the strength of
what some other person has told him.
Some actor, it seems, with more bravery
than brains, went and told Titus that
Allison had letters and was showing
them. He never stopped to inquire the
truth, but seeing chance to once more
get into the newspapers and drag my
name in cruel manner before the pub
lie, he ran up like great ass and struck
Allison down in the public street.
suppose now he come up in the Police
Court and make another spectacle Of
himself Well, can't help it. | know
| am innocent OF any wrong, and so |
rest easy; but yet on his own account,
and also on account of the opinion Of
those who do not know me we'll, | could
wish that he would have behaved differ
emily.


Mrs. Oates states that the troupe will
continue TO perform until June, when
she will probably 60 to her home in Ken
lucky, and begin proceedings for d.
Porce.
Year: 1875

At last, however, night sets in. Crate
fully it comes after the sun has gathered
up its smiling beams and gone to its rest.
All at once we are plunged into compar-
alive obscurity, for again there is no twi-
light to stay the steps of departing day.
But, looking up into the sky, we behold
vast orb, which pours down g milder
and more beneficial splendor than the
great lord Of the system. 1t is such a
moon as we terrestrials cannot boast;
for it is not less than thirteen times as
large and luminous as our own. There
it hangs in the armament, without appa-
rent change of place, as if fixed in its
everlasting seat " But not without change
Of surface. For this great globe is a
painted panorama, and, turning around
majestically on its axis, presents its
oceans and continents in grand success.
sion. AS Europe and Africa, locking
the Mediterranean in their embrace, roll
away to the right the stormy Atlantic
offers its waters to view, then the two
Americas, with their huge forests and
vast prairies, pass under inspection.
Then the grand basin of the Pacific, lit
up with island fires, meets the gazer 8
eye, and as this glides over the scene,
the eastern rim of Asia and the upper
portion of Australia sail into sight. The
Indian Ocean, and afterwards the Ara
bian Sea, spread themselves out in their
subdued splendor; and thus, in four-and-
twenty hours, "the great rotundity we
tread" turns its pictured countenance to
the moon, and grandly repays the listen
ing lunarians by repeating to the best Of
its ability the story Of its birth. Nor is
the sky less marvellous in another re-
spect. For the absence of any atmos-
pheric diffusion of light permits the con
stellations to shine out with distinct.
ness which is never paralleled on earth.
They glitter like diamond points set in a
armament Of ebony. Stars. and clusters
which we never see by the naked eye
flock into view and crowd the lunar
avens.-British Quarterly.
Year: 1875

THE SEPARATION.


| got pretty angry then, as you may
imagine. We were living at the 0cei-
dental, and l went straight home, though
without saying a word But when we
got home / said: Tracy, don't want
you to talk to me again as you did at the
theater. You insulted me in the grossest
way before the whole troupe, and | tell
you now, once for all, that | will not
stand il" He answered back with some
insolence, but we had no trouble then.
Next morning he began to abuse me
again, and the matter ended by his
jumping out of the bed and swearing
that he'd pack his trunk and leave the
next instant. told him quietly to do
it if he wanted to. He went to work pack
ing, and cursing me at the same time
He got all his things, and crushed them
into big trunk, slammed down the lid
and locked it, Then he dressed himself,
and ringing for a porter, sent his trunk
out Of the room, he put on his hat and
picked up his cane, and started for the
door; but, just as he was going out, he be-
thought him of his watch, It was
valuable one, and had been given to
him by Mr.. Oates before his death. he
pulled it angrily ont of his pocket, and,
marching few steps toward the bed I
was lying in bed), he took deliberate aim
at my head, and hurled it with all his
force. The watch struck against the
head of the bed, and smashed into
thousand atoms. t-aoy


HUMBLE APPEALS FOR RECONCILIATION.


Then he walked out l got up when
he had gone and turned the key in that
door, and swore that never again, so
long as | lived, should he ever enter my
apartments, and I've kept my word so
far, and mean to keep it. He has sent
me several humble messages since then,
but my self.respeot will not permit any
overtures of reconciliation. A man can
offer a woman no greater insult in this
world than to leave her in the manner
Mr.. Titus left my apartments that morn
ing, and shall never forgive him.


fMPEACHING A w1FE's HONOR.


In his shame and humiliation, and
with a want of manliness that never
could have believed of him, Mr.. Titus
now seeks to throw the odium Of the
whole business upon me by impugnihg
my honor. He accuses me of some kind
of a connection with Mr.. Allison, and
then goes and canes Allison for it, as if
that would improve matters. Why,
bless my soul, Mr.. -, Allison is no
more to me than you or any other
stranger. Hes the business manager Of
the troupe, and has been a very success
ful one. BE simply occupies the posi-
ton that Titus would it he'd attend to
it, and no more, Our intercourse has
Year: 1875

awhile, as have stated, there were ru.


mOrs Of the corrupt use of money tOsecure


the passage Of the Funding bill, it was


also rumored that there was a strong lobby


and a corrupt use of money TO defeat the
bill, in order TO enable the railroads in


debted to the State to buy up bonds at low


figures. If the Legislature had been cor
rupt and desired to sell out, they had, ae-
cording to rumor, an opportunity to do so
on either side"


Elder testified: 81 have heard that a
man walked into the Senate chamber and
offered 500, 900 for seven votes against the
funding bill. think the offer was made
just in casual manner-he just offered
SIOO,OOO for seven votes. l understand he
was a railroad man."


Hyder said, in the course Of his exam
iDation;


Elder came into the Battle House the day
the bill passed. DR.. Noblett and 1 were
boarding at the Battle House. Elder came
in pretty near so drunk that he didn't know
what be was saying or doing. He had on
a new suit Of clothes, fine hat and a new
suit Of clOthe out and out. Noblitt re-
marked to him that he bad made him a
suit of clothes that day. He sort O stag
gered around and said eyes and that aint
all by Cd, have got my pocket full of
money!" and with that he struck his hand
on his pocket. We were all talking about
the funding bill and were much excited
over the passage OF the bill.


Did you ever hear any banker or any
gentleman say that money had been used
in the passage of the measure.


l think did, sir. l don't know whether
he was cashier Of the Third National Bank
or not. l stepped into the Third National
Bank to get some silver for my children.
a gentleman who was in there, standing
behind the eounter-my recollection is be
was heavy-set, dark skinned man, and
that he was the cashier of the bank-said
to me, II tell you, Mr.. Hyder, you are all
right. You can go to your constituents and
look them in the face on this funding, but
there are other men who can't. 1t has cost
US nearly million dollars to get that bill
through, but we could well afford to pay
more.


Was this gentleman a stranger to You?


Yes; 1 didn't ask his name, and | don't
know that would know him if I were to
see him.


Was he the man that counted out the
A4OuCg AOA gOus


Yes.


Are you certain about the number of the
bank-that it was the Third National?


No; it was on College street, on the left
hand side as you 60 south from the Square"


Considerable testimony was taken with
regard to the election of Hobbs as Comp
troller, and the part played by John L.
House, but no facts Of interest were de-
velOped that had not been already brought
out in the ComptrOllership investigation.


Duncan testified that his efforts to secure
the passage Of the Funding bill were solely
in his own interest, as he was carrying
about S2J0,0O0 Of bonds, and the failure Of
The measure would have been his everlast-
ing ruin. If there were any New York
bondholdeTs here, or represented here, at
hat time, he was not aware Of the fact.
Year: 1875

PARIS, March 1.-THE Assembly to-day
adopted resolution providing for the ap-
pOintment of jury Of physicians TO in
quire into the cases Of BOnapartists enjoy
ing pensions on account Of infmities al
legged to have been contracted in the ser
vice of the State.


The Left, upon condition that day be
appointed for dissolution Of the Assembly,
which shall be six months after EasterreceSs,
are inclined to agree to the proposal made
by the government, that no more elections
be ordered TO fill vacancies in the present
Assembly. The question Of filling vacant
seats, which is thus made to involve the
question Of dissolution, will be brought up
for debate Immediately. Many supple
meutary constitutional measures will be
introduced in the Assembly after Easter.
Year: 1875

YESTERDAY evening at about the usual
supper time, several Of our ''cOlored
brothers" called at the Read House and
demanded supper but were politely inform
ed by the gentlemanly clerk that as the
Read House was no longer a public hotel
but private boarding house, they would
have to hunt some other place to be accom-
modsted. We learn they afterwards at
tempted the same game at the Van Horn
and Commercial, with no better result than
at the former house, This is the first at
tempt the negroes have made to test the
Civil Rights in cur City.-ChGttaROOgO
Times.
Year: 1875

The Senate was too busy in amend
ing the dog law to adjourn to witness
the passage Of the St. Patrick process
sion by the capitol; but the House had
recovered from the shock Of the caucus
and adjourned early to see the boys in
green as they passed.
Year: 1875

SALT LAKE, March 17.-TO-day three
men were caught in a'sIlow slide in Logan
canon. Justus Clark was buried, and life
was extinct before he could be dug out.
The snow in the slide is reported TO be
from thirty to seventy feet deep. A snow
slide also occurred in Little Cottonwood
canon to-day, blocking up the canon. A
man named Strong and wife were killed.
Year: 1875

YANKToN, D. T. March 1.-THE Her
aid states on authority of delegate Arm
strong that the treaty with the Sioux In
dians, by which the Black Hills country
was reserved for them, was never ratified
by Congress, and there Is the best authority
for saying it will not stand if tested.
Year: 1875

IT is safe to say that, with the exception
Of a complete exoneratiOn Of all concerned,
nothing would have tended so effectually TO
make the great scandal trial unpopular as
the appearance Of smallpox in the court
room.
Year: 1875

conviction in the Departments that
the money already expended there
has been thrown away, and induce a
belief that further appropriations will
be mere waste of the peoples money.
The fact that an acceptance of these
statements as true comes from Sen
ator who would be greatly benefited
may not be known to the Senators
who will be called upon to vote the
appropriations, and In consequence a
harbor on which considerable money
has already been expended, and which
few other donations would render
the only safe anchorage between San
Diego and San Francisco, Is abandon
ed, the work now done lost, the land
Ing falls into disuse, and a monopoly
of the carrying business is given to
the open sea wharf at Santa Monica.
Suppose steamers discontinue landing
at Wilmington, and all business is
done at Senator JONES wharf in the
beautiful bay Of Santa Monica, how
much better off will be the people of
this valley than they were when Will
mington held the monopoly that
Santa Monica is seeking to acquireP
Year: 1875

1T is difficult to understand why
laboring men will permit themselves
to be led into what are popularly
termed strikes. There are always
journals and pot house orators ready
to incite laborers to war with their
employers, but these are fungus out
growths Of the communist doctrine,
and it is strange that sensible men
will heed and act upon the suggestions
of such dishonest fanantics. 1t is
time, if experience teaches anything,
that labor realized the hopelessness
of an uncalled for struggle with cap
ital. Ofthe dozens Of strikes in as
many different departments of indus
try that have occurred in the United
States the past few years we cannot
now recall one in which the strikers
attained the object aimed at. 1t
would be something wonderful if they
should. Labor has an every day du-
ty to perform. 1t must provide bread
not only for one but in most cases for
half dozen mouths. A struggle be-
tween labor and capital is contest
with the odds so great on the side
of capital, that it is but ques-
ton of time when labor must go to
the wall. The hands of a factory
strike and work stops, so also does the
food of these poor mems families.
There is the bitterness of the cup.
Hungry children and an empty cup
board soon convince a man that steady
work at two dollars per day is better
than attempts to force a raise of wages
by doing nothing. A strike is hum
dred poor men against one man of
means. The employer closes his shop
eats his regular meals and waits for
hunger to prove the fallacy Of pot
house argument and communist edi-
torial. The en- ployer loses only the
profit on the labor of the employed
and this Is almost always smaller than
the strikers estimate, while the labor
ers lose everything. The Pennsylvania
coal mine strikers have lost much
time and some of them their lives,
yet 1t is a thousand to one 1t avails
them nothing and in the end they
will resume work at the old wages.
These strikes are seldom or never
caused by the oppression of capital.
They are the work of nonproducing
drones who live off of the misery they
create. If labor would mob commun-
ist newspaper offices and pot house ora
tors who seek to incite them to strikes,
capital and labor would work in har-
mony together and one would pay all
the other earns.
Year: 1875

NOTHING more thoroughly demon
strates the strength and superiority of
soil than the fact that 1t will grow ex-
cellent crops Of corn. Taking this for
standard test, the soil of Los Angeles
valley must be considered equal to the
best to be found In the world. The
corn crop of Ell Monte, Los Nietos and
other sections of this valley will be
very heavy this year, and what will
be of interest to many is that the
greater portion of the crop is produced
without irrigation. We were shown
yesterday by County Clerk PoTTs, an
average stalk taken from field of
thirty acres on the Coyote Ranch
which is ten feet high and just begin
ming to tassel. The stalk Is about six
inches in circumference. This field of
corn was planted just two months ago.
At Monte Vista-Judge LINDLEY's
place--on the mountain side near San
ia Monica, we saw on Sunday corn
fourteen feet high, each stalk bearing
from two to four ears. The field Is q
wilderness of vegetation. This corn
has grown, as has everything else on
the place, without irrigation. The soil
is loose black loan and is very deep.
Year: 1875

Aside from the injury that Los An
geles may sustain by reason Of the
widespread assertion that she can
never become the commercial city Of
Southern California, there are two Sc
rious results likely to follow the efforts
of the unscrupulous schemers who are
using Senator JONES' name and prop
erty to inveigle the unwary into rur-
chasing lots in their magnificent city
of zone hundred thousand inhabi-
tants" at Santa Monica. One of these
Is the deception sought to be practiced
by the flaming advertisements. The
magnificent bay of Santa Monica"
exists only in the minds Of those gen.
tlemen whose harvest is in the sale of
town lots. The bay of Santa Monica
Is an open sea, and though there, as
almost anywhere on the Southern
Pacific coast, a wharf may be run out
to deep water at which vessels may
discharge and receive cargo for ten
months in the year, it is no more enti-
tied to the name of bay than any
given area of the Pacific ocean, and
people who visit the place influenced
by the statement that there is q bay,
are doomed to a disappointment more
positive and general in character than
anything which. the vivid imagina-
tions of the Eastern California
ligning journalist is able to conjure
up. If the effect of this disappoint-
ment fell only on the interests of those
who are responsible for it, the univer-
sal fitness of things would be discern
able; but II does not stop there. The


Santa Monica victim does not at.
tempt to confine his notion of mis-
statement and deception to the local
ity in which he sunk his money. He
believes that the whole country is
over-estimated and he leaves feeling
that what has been said of other parts
of the valley is as false as he has proven
that to be which was told him of
Santa Monica. Thus the spectators
call down not only curse on their
own locality, but create a false i'm
preston in the minds of the victims
concerning all Southern California.
The other Is the falsehoods relative to
Wilmington harbor. Wilmington, we
are told by the Santa Monica specula-
tors, can never be made safe anchor
age for vessels nor practical point
for the receipt and discharge of
freights. The Government has al
ready expended a considerable sum of
money in dredging and otherwise i'm
proving Wilmington harbor, and this
expenditure has borne good fruit.
Time and few more appropriations
will make the harbor safe and con-
venient anchorage, yet the effect of
the statement from the agents of a
United States Senator that the harbor
ts no harbor at all will be to create q
Year: 1875

SACRAMENTO, June 2Oth.-A few
delegates to the Independent State
Convention are already here. No
speculations have yet been made on
the Gubernatorial nomination, beyond
the determination to put up the best
man available. A. G. Paulsell of San
Joaquin Is mentioned for Lieutenant
Governor. 1t is understood that Lau-
rem Crane of Sierra county will be a
candidate for Controller. An effort
will also be made to find place on the
ticket for Attorney-General Love and
State Treasurer Baeher.
Year: 1875

1T will be remembered how bitterly
Senator BOOTH denounced the Repub-
licans in his speech made in San Fran
cisco few weeks ago. 1t will also be
remembered that after that speech and
the elimination and recrimination
which followed 1t, both the Independ-
ent and Republican journals and lead
ers admitted that all hope of a union
of the two factions was at an end. In
the face of these indictments we have
the following from the Stockton Inde-
pendent, Republican paper:


1t is rumored that Geo. c. Gorham and
Newton Booth were closeted together previous
to the Republican State Convention and that
the latter gentleman has since stated that the
ticket and platform of that Convention meet
his approval and that he will take the stump
and advocate the same, provided the party
desires his services.


To this the Sacramento Bee says:


This looks like business. This, II true, ex-
plains Gorham's course in the Convention,
and II Is the only reasonable explanation of
that gentleman's course yet given. 1t Is also
said that he offered to let the Independents
write every word Of the Republican platform
and name every candidate on the Republi-
can ticket If they would agree to support it
and not run ticket OF their own, but the offer
was declined.


We have no doubt the office-seeke
of both the Republican and Independ-
ent organization, would be pleased to
see this union of fire and nitro-glycer-
inc brought about, but only those who
obtain places on the ticket will stand
by the compact. The defeated and the
people will not stand by the sale.
Year: 1875

Now is your time! No such chance again in
one hundred years! The Bazaar is selling out
their entire stock of Dry Goods Is per cent
below cost, as they intend giving up their dry
goods business and keep only Gents Furnish
ing Goods. This is no bogus sale, but genu-
inc selling out of our entire stock Of Dry
Cry Goods as YOU will find out by calling at
the Bazaar, corner of Main and Requena
streets, opposite the U. s. Hotel. jel7
Year: 1875

An INCIDENT OF WEESTEK--Mr. Web
ster was fond of practical Joke. but only
harmless one. and generally a benevolent
one. He had in Northiield, across the river
from his Franklin farm, a small piece OF
sandy, barren land. with a poor house up
on it, in which 4 very destitute family
had been living without paying any rent


I-pon one of his visits TO the place. the
GOOD woman expressed her anxiety about
being able to remain. She expected TO be
turned out. and didn't know where TO go:
She hoped Mr.. Webster would not be hard
with her. lie heard her through, and
told her with great gravity. that he knew
it was a hard case for her; he wished TO
consider her,and didn't wish to be unkind !;
but he has 4 great many to provide for
| At the same time putting his hand in his
pocket, he took out five dollar bill and


handed it to her saying he WAS very sorry
he could not do better by her. but if she
thought she could afford to stay on the
same place another year forthat. he should


he very glad, and rode Off
Year: 1875

TIE PATIENT ELErHANr.-An elephant
in Calcutta had 4 disease in his eyes. For
three DAYS he hal been completely blind
His owner. an engineer officer. asked the
doctor ifhe could do anything TO relieve
the poor ANIMAL.


The doctor slid that he would try the
nitrate of silver. which WIS = remedy
commonly applied to similar disease IN
the human eye.


The large animrl was ordered TO lie
down. and at first. on the application OF
the remedy. raised Il most extraordinary
roa. at the atcute pain which it ocasloncd
The effect. however, was wonderful. lht
eve was in n manner restored, and the ami
nal could partially see.


The next day when he was brought and
heard tie doctor voice. h. lay down o
himself, placed his enormous head on one
side. curled up his trunk. drew IN HI
breath luSt like 4 man about to endure n
oprration, gave 4 sigh of relief when i
was over. and then by trunk and gesture
eyi.l-n,lv wished to express his gratitude.