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Year: 1875


After an idea is conceived the fewer
words yeu clothe it in the better.
He who is thankful fora favor not
only liquidates it but has paid some
thing toward the next one. 41


Women rule the world, and fashion
rules the women, s.fsaa.if,r
don't know az I can tell which
makes the biggest fool of a msn, fear
or lOve..e Ee.f sis h0 2eIas r.


There is nothing we see quicker and
despise more than the vanity of others
and yet there is nothing that we have
more of ourselves. es, ti


He who is ottenest In the wrong il
the very man who thinks he never is
so. -asss5 &C. q, fseeaea -55 .sH 5tt


1t is much easier to cheat ourselves
than it is others, but we don't think
SO.


Men blame fortune for their bad
luck, and credit themselves for their
good luck. r.. .of. -.


The modification of getting cheated
always stings US more than any loss
that we suffer. .......4..


Ne man can get so low down in this
world as to be of no account for good
or for evil.


II . man has not got faith he has got
nothing that he can rely on; energy
without faith is like kite in q high
wind without tail.


There seems to be two fagorite ways
to use up a man one is to pull him
down with base slanders, and the 9TH
er is to blow him up with vanity until
he collapses hue.


The man who is tyrant in his FAM
lily is always a coward when he is
away from home. eats


"A true friend is one vino will tell
you all your failings but hides them
carefully from others. sag.s
: Many people manage to make the,n-
selves continually miserable by trying
to enjoy something they haven't got.


How can we expect to find perfec-
ton In others when we can't hnd it in
ourselves ?H .a


Epitaphs are so cheap nowadays
that no man ought to despair of final
ly becoming famous. ..:!


The best way to be happy is to have
lots to do, then you have no spare
time to be miserable zf7
The most useless thing I can think
of just now is an empty pecket-book.
1t requires more judgment to man
age friend than it does an enemy
Josh Billings.
Year: 1875

We do not read anonymous letters and commune
cations. The name and address of the writer are in
all cases Indispensable not necessarily for publication
but as guaranty of good faith.


We cannot undertake to return or reserve commu-
nications that are not used.
Year: 1875

EVERY regular attache of the PRESS is furnished
with Card certificate countersigned by Stanley T.
Pullen, Editor. All railway, steamboat and hotel
managers will confer a favor upon us by demanding
credentials of every person claiming represent
Year: 1875

Some years ago the famous "Skittles,


less famous as Miss Walters, being met
at Lords Cricket Ground with a little
girl of ten, and asked where the child
came from, responded, This is little
Eugenia Plummer, and ] am the lady
the Queen has appointed to take charge
Of her" Little Eugenia Plummer was
at the time quite as much as Skittles the
talk of the town. She had laid grave
charges against a jail chaplain, who was
brought tO trial and apparently on the
verge Of disgrace for life, when it came
to light that little Eugenia had only been
drawing for her facts on an Imagination
Year: 1875

All the Year Round.l


Indian housekeeping is at once very
simple and paradoxically complex. The
fact that all servants are on board wages,
from the moonshee, who takes tempo
rary engagement as secretary or tutor,
down to the humblest puhka, wallah or
grass cutter, renders it comparatively
easy for a master to know his expenses.
But then there is something bewildering
in the subdivision Of labor, in having to
harbor tailors and cobblers, washermen
and watchmen, and florists and sweepers
1t is perplexing that every servant so
well knows his or her place that palki
bearer would scorn to fetch a pitcher OF
water; that hereditary poultry keepers
attend the hens, hereditary grooms the
horses, and that not meal can be
cooked or carpet spread except by the
agency Of somebody whose caste points
him out as the appropriate person to
perform the duty.


An English resident also is apt to be
puzzled by the habit of the native do
mestics, strange to our notions, of col
lecting around them clan of relatives,
old and young, more or less dependent
for sustenance on the monthly wages of
the bread winner. These followers"
like Others of their plastic race, are by
no means obtrusive, and are content to
be tucked away in sheds and huts, or
to lie about the passages of some ram
bling villa while a pipkin OF grain and
spoonful of ghee comprises, with lit
tie cloth, their few wants. Servants in
India have two merits to counterbalance
such faults as are inherent in race re-
markable for the subtle ingenuity with
which, on occasion, it can cheat and lie.
They are grateful, not merely for excep-
tional kindness bat for the bread and
salt that they have eaten, and breach of
trust is abhorrent to even the elastic
conscience OF Hindoo, SO that the very
man who takes the lead in plundering
the Sahibs storeroom, When pitting his
wits against the duller fancy Of his em.
ployer may be berendered honest by being
appointed dragon or ordinary over the
treasures it contains.
Year: 1875

MARK TwAIN.--Coming out the Erie
Railway building, yesterday saw Mark
Twain, whom we used to know in the
old Frisco days as Sam Clemens. He
wears the same old brigand hat and
cloak, and one is always Esure when
looking at him that he would rather
look shabby than wear pink overcoat
with yellow buttons. It is just ten
years since I sat one day on the steps
of the American House, in Honolulu,
Sandwich Islands, with Clemens, and
happened to mention that | was writing
letters to the New York Herald. He
was then unknown. except as an odd
character in San Francisco, and as tho
writer of letters to the Sacramento


Union, and he very timidly said he had
received an offer from a musical monthly
to write page for it for six dollars. He
wanted to know whether it would pay
him to go to New York. I had never
read anything of his. and I told him
that if he went on to New York he
wouldn't earn his salt. Yet there he
stood yesterday, with his saucy mus
tache and gimlet eyes, as unconcerned
MS if he hadn't made hundred thou


sand dollars and hadn't married o girl
Year: 1875

How DEAD Hoo KILLED MAN, "A
negro man in the adjoining county of
Baldwin killed large hog in the woods.
He opened the animal. removed the en-
trails. and devised q method Of carry
ing the pork which was altogether ssi
gener;s. This manner Of transportation
was effected by tying the hind legs to-
gether. passing his head between them.
and the heavy carcass in front, easing
the weight on his neck by lifting on the
fore legs with his hands. It is pre-.
sumed that he got along remarkably
well until rail fence got in his way,
and in order to climb this, he needed
his hands. Accordingly, he relieved
them by lifting the hog over the top
rail and letting it drop on the other
side. 1t is presumed that he proposed
to follow the hog. but he did not A
few days since congregation of buzz
yards attracted attention to a locality
where negro man was found hanging
on one side of a rail fence and hog on
the other. The weight of the animal
evidently having pressed his neck down
upon the rail until he was choked to
death.-Pensacola (FLa. Gazette.
Year: 1875

CHANGE OF STEAMERS. - The
steamship City of Panama will
take the place of the Dakota on
the route between here and San
Francisco. Though not so large
as the Dakota, she is elegantly
fitted up and it is expected will
be q favoritc.
Year: 1875

HIGHWAY RoBBERY.-A farmer
from up the river, whose name
we did not learn, on Sunday
morning, reported at his hotel
that he had been stopped on the
street, the previous night, by two
men, who choked him and rob-
bed him of S45. He left for
his home without putting the
matter in the hands of the prop
er authorities.
Year: 1875

TIE FIVE BROTHERS OF DAHEoCH.


Fair and fine is the Maid OF killccna.
Her foot is light on the heather as the
eyes are bluer than the blue seas round
Zig; when she speaks the valley re-
ioices And she has no lover. the Maid
of killccna her heart is aS free as the
winds of the morning; the young men
are afraid of her laughing; they avoid
the road to killccna."


Such were the phrases, mere echoes
of Macpherson OSSian. that were run
ming through the head of Il Young lad
who lay on the beach of the tIr and
lonely island of Darroch, in the Heb
rides. He WAS dressed in rough, dark
blue tishcrman's costume his hands
and face were Drowned with the
weather: but somehow he did not seem
to have the robust and hardy look com
mon To the inhabitants of that rough
coast. His face WAS pcnSivc and sad !;
his ewes large and thoughtful his
limbs appeared slender and supple
rather than thick Sc! and strong. AT
this moment he WAS regarding with AN
absent and Indifferent look the sea be
fore. him. the islands that stood black
in the pale coloIs of the water, and il
large brown rowing boat which was
hcing pulled out through one of the
channels to the open plain bcNonn. In
that boat were his four brothers. He
was to have gone out fishing with them
us usual but he had forgotten the time
and missed them. and he had run down
to this projecting point of the coast tu
hail them us they went by. For sec
ord or two they hung on their oars. and
seemed inclined to pull in fol him but
then he could see his eldest brother
duncan, turn round and address his
companions with many angry gestures
and presently the oals were dipped int,
the waves again, and the boat made
ont for the open sea. The young lad
| Alister Lewis 10y name, lay down "i
the shingle, disappointed, ashamed, ant
vretchcd. His heart WAS not III tho
fishing. and every one knew it: still /


WAS hard that he should he left IA


home to mind the farm as if he were :
rrl or an old woman. But as he la,
and dreamed of all these things, hi


fancy took him away to the nelShh"r
inc island of Killeena and to small
Year: 1875

seems to have remained. That committee has
| treated with contempt the desires Of the citl-
| zens signed to that petition, at the same time
| are refusing to have an improvement made
that would be of such essential convenience
to the public at large. We ought now to
have Ninth and Tenth and those streets run.
ming parallel with them extended to the very
outside limits Of the city. With these i'm.
proyements, the useless expenditure of time
and trouble in travelling would at once be
vastly decreased, and the value of contigu-
Gus property would, Of course, be greatly
enhanced. That these streets will have to be
extended ia time is certain, but it is great
misfortune to extend that time, and so pro
tract the period Of our deliverance from the
annoyanees at present so intolera6le. The
streets between Fourth and Tenth streets
are divided by ravine that could be
bridged or filled up at trfllng expense, and
why the proper city authorities cannot or
will not see the necessity Of doing this is
something that surprises me. Time TO be
econOmized by such an improvement is as
valuable to us.as to the inhabitants Of other
cities, where they have made similar inn
proTements at enormous cost.


1t will not do to sit down idly and dream
of the grand future in store for Richmond
we must prepare for it. Such future may
be invited, facilitated, and rapidly accom-
pllshed. It may on the other hand, be re-
tarded or Indefinitely postponed. We have
it in our power either TO hasten or impede
it, and the choice is open Whether, we Will
take an enterprising or indolent course. BY
all means let US take the enterprising one,
and commence by removing ali distractions
that prevent free travel TO all parts of the
city from without, and having places within
made as. easy of access to each other as posi-
BILE. Then, with the completion Of the
James River snd Kanawha canal and the
building of those contemplated lines Of rail-
road and the. reforms and improvements
which swelling population forced into an
exceptional situation demands, Richmond
would indeed be the Queen city of the
South. She would not be only great mart
Of trade, but model of taste and con-
venience. The misfortune is that this grand
realization is unlikely to be as near as it
should be to our own immediate time.


D. 0. L.
Year: 1875

PHILHARMONIC CoNCERT.-If the weather
is good the philharmonic concert at Assem-
bly, Hall tonight will no doubt be a grand
success. Nearly every seat in the house has
been sold, and the audience will probably be
one of the finest and most brilliant ever as
sembIed in that place Of amusement.
Year: 1875

The last severe weather has putin very
striking light the disabilities under when
this city so painfully labors in respect to It's
deficiencies for direct communication from
point to point within IFS own limits as well
as to the country. A person coming from
the country cannot approach to the centre


of the city on its northern side on any, street
between Second and Seventeenth. a petit.
ton, signed by number of taxpayers, was
hrought before the Council about two
months ago, praying that even thorough;
fare suitable for pedestrians be constructed
from Ninth street to the northern part OF
Seventeenth street, and by that BODY re.
ferred to its Committee on Streets, where Is
Year: 1875

SUIT AGAINST A RAILROAD COMPANY Some
Of TIE bcndh0ldcrs OF the Fredericksburg,
Orange and Charlottesville Railroad Compa-
ny have instituted suit in the Circuit Court of
the city Of Richmond for tue purpose Of
furcclo>ing the mortgage executed by said
company on said road.
Year: 1875

1DS Specch.


New YORK, February 24.-The Brooklyn
City Courtroom vas crowded this morning
when General Tracy opened In Beecber's
defence. All the parties to the suit were
early in their places.


General Tracy devoted much eloquence on
behalf of Beecber, who, he said, took bis
stand alone, but supported by God and the
Justice OF his character. He alluded to bis
prominence as u supporter Of the Union at
the commencement of the late war, which
be said won the admiration of the whole
world.


One of the most striking characteristics OF
the man was profound and earnest interest
in young men. This prosecution was the
reward he received for the love and deYo.
ton be had laVished upon young man.


General Tracy then related the history OF
TiIton, and dwelt upon his being Delst
ard denouncng the marriage relation as =
fraud and Us ninderng the advancement OF
the world.
Year: 1875

The GOSPEL TABLEAUx.-The exhibition
of the GOSPEL tableaux at the Pine-Street
Baptist church tonight will be with new
and elegant arrangement of colored lights.
The entertainment will no doubt be highly
enioyable
Year: 1875

Col. II. G.. Wright, Chairman Of the
Pennsylvania Democratic State Com
mittce, spoke a. Reading on Saturday
night. He spoke pointedly in favor of
the specie basis for our currency, and
denied that the Erie platform endorsed
initiation. Mr.. Wright said:


THE Democratic party has ever
maintained and do now, that gold and
silver is the only basis OF circulation.
But what they do object to is forcing
resumption in 1879, or any other day
to be named. They will insist on re-
sumption when the industries of the
country will permit it TO be DONE
The Democratic party have never and
will never abandon the idea of specie
resumption, and l challenge any man
of intelligence to put his finger on the
line or paragraph of the Erie platform
and show it. 1t is not there. If it
is, forced construction must indicate 1t.
AS party We will never abandon the
idea Of specie resumption at the proper
time, nor does the platform controvert
this position. We do claim, no wever


that the volume Of money should a,
all times be sufficient for the demands


of trade. And it matters not what


name you give 1t. So should the vol


ume be contracted when 1t will not


interfere with the business of the
| country
Year: 1875

Commander Perkins has been ordered
to hold himself in readiness to command
the Alliance, at Philadelphia, and Lieu
tenant r. Mason Lisle has been ordered
to the Navy Yard at that port,
Year: 1875

A square nile is laid off at an eligible point
on the tract, with lots 25XlI0; avenue 100 feet
and streets SO feet wide.


A stream of water can be brought in so as
to supply every lot with crystal, cool, sweet
water. = y y = "a p FIAG


Provision will be made for a College and
Farm School. 7 2. A p n
A large lot will be set apart for each rellg-
iOus denomination. A block will also be
given for the erection of q large hall by the
different Fraternal, Grange and Temperance
Societies.
Year: 1875

pa- The tide ofimmigration is steadily set
ling in, and the first thing eastern people do
is to throw away til cir New York Hats and buy
a new one of d DESMOND. They say the) e Is no
comparison between the two 2%o
Year: 1875

About three months ago, in the edge OF
Russell county, Kentucky, child was
born into q family in which other children
had previously made their appearance from
time TO time, all Except the last) being
well formed and healthy. This is an un.
usual product of nature. The body, from
the head down to about the hips, is in
form and color, with few exceptions, very
much like other white children; around
.he hips it is perfectly black, its legs being
like those of an ordinary child. The head
is also spotted, and the hair upon 1t is a.
stiff as the bristlcs of hog. The sex OF
the child cannot - yet be determined.
The mother gives the following explana'
ton of the freak. A short time before
the birth of the child a vicious wild hog
broke out of his pen, which was near tie
house, and with devouring intent imme-
diately made at the child that was playing
in the yard. The mother witnessed the
scene, and 50 in,;nent was the danger that
she was greatly terrified. She sprang to
the little ones assistance just In time to
save it from the furious animal The hog
was of that kind known among farmers
as ''listen," that Is, having stripe acioss
its shoulders; the remainder of his body
was spotted. The marks on the child cor.
respond to these color marks on the hog.
The hair ON the childs head Is simply q
number of thick bristles projecting out
from the skin. Up to this time 1t has been
healthy and bids fair 10 grow up to youth
hood.
Year: 1875

We have before called attention to
the fact that the Woolen Mill tract
has been divided up into building
lots of large size, which will be sold
at auction on the I'd and Sd prox., and
we will now give some detailed infor-
nation relative to the location of the
tract, together with some account of
its soil and eligibility as building
property. The land lies due North
from the Woolen Mills, extending
along the line of Pearl street to the
intersection of that street with Temple
street. A street railroad is about to be
built on the line of those streets. The
Spring and Sixth street railroad now
extends to within one block of the
South end of the tract, Nearly the
whole tract lies on the Northeastern
slope of the high ground which fringes
that part of the city, making the lots
very desirable for homestead purposes.
The soil Is not excelled, and will grow
all kinds of fruit trees and shrubbery


without fertilizing.
Year: 1875

monument to the keen foresight of the
Southern Pacific Railroad Company.
Wilmington is bound to be the great
shipping point for this valley and the
back country. 1t is the only possible
point at which to construct harbor,
and harbor can have no rival.


The longest train we remember to
have seen in this valley left Whining
ton for Los Angeles Tuesday morning.
At least three-fourths of the cars were
loaded with lumber. House building
is getting to be an extensive business
in this valley, and the indications are
that it will continue to increase for
years to come.
Year: 1875

Over the choicest portion of their table lands
and purchasers will have the right to water
without charge Such an opportunity to So
cure land admirably situated and watered
and perfectly adapted to semi-tropical fruit
culture, will not occur again.
Year: 1875


mine is very rich, and the shares
too large for small people to carry,
the manipulators water it a little,
that the honest laborer may have a
show as we'll as themselves; and if
in time the laborer is unfortunate,
and the money rolls back into their
pockets, the Bank will build ano-
ther hotel, and send for more
laborers from the East to build it,;
and who shall say it is not bless
ing to the community, and long
may it live and prosper. Leland
Stanford is another of CALIFORNIA; s
benefactors. His house is pro-
crossing, and host of people are
being occupied in it's construction.
Corinthian columns inside and
out, banquet halls and barronial cas-
ties are mixed up IN sort of wild
profusion-in the Chronicles descrip-
ton; but what has made more I'M
preston on the mind of your pres
ent correspondent, is the fact of
twenty-five bed chambers fora fam
lily of four persons! How they were
to be distributed so as to enjoy the
full benefit of the establishment at
first, was a mystery, until we re-
membered that retinue of fifteen
or twenty servants had to be accom-
modated, and then we thought what
blessing again for the dear
people.


Haggin & Tevis have recently
purchased large tract of valuable
land from the Steamship Company,
and the mystery has been, what are
they going to do with it? The Com
pany have leased it for term of
years, when, it is currently repor-



ted, large building is to be erected,
supplied with heavy machinery for
the condensation of air, in such a
manner that the air of the city will
be exhausted, and the only supply
can be delivered from their place.
Pipes will conduct from their build
ing to all houses in the city, convey
ing fresh air, which will be paid for
proportionately, even higher rates
probably than that of gas and water,
of which they now have a monopoly.
Lord help poor Frisco; What is to
become of us? CYNTHIA ANN.
Year: 1875

THE PAr1ySr ELEpHANr.-An elephantin
Calcutta had disease in his eyes, For three
days he had been completely blind. His
owner, an engineer officer, asked the doctor if
be could do any thing to relieve the poor ami
NAL. The doctor said he would try the nj
trate of silver, which was remedy common
ly applied to similar diseases in the human
eye. The large animal was ordered to lie
down, and at first, on the application Of the
remedy, raised most extraordinary roar at
the acute pain which it occasioned. The eff.
feet, however, was wonderful. The eye was
in manner restored, and the animal could
partially see. The next day, when he was
brought and heard the doctors voice. he lay
down of himself, placed his enormous head on
one side, curled up his trunk, drew in his
breath just like man about to endure an
operation, gave sigh of relief when it was
over, and then, by trunk and gesture, evident
ly wished to express his gratitude.
Year: 1875

The ladies of the Presbyterian
church have decided to hold their
moonlight festival for the benefit of
their building fund, on the grounds of
the Public School building on the hill
tonight instead of at the Washington
Gardens as heretofore indicated. This
is central and eligible location, a
beautiful place for the occasion, the
evening will be beautiful and pleasant
and the affair will be an enjoyable one.
They extend q cordial invitation to
every body, and knowing their cause
is a good one we wish them abundant
success.