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Year: 1874

CALL FOR AN EDITORIAL CONVENTION


TO CONSIDER TIE IMPROVEMENT OF


TIE PENINSULA.


&The editors of tho Salisbury papers
have invited the editors and newspaper
men of the Peninsula to meet in their
town on the Goth of October, for the
purpose of determining upon measure for
the improvement of the Peninsula. In
making the announcement ntthcSalisbury
EASTERN SHoREMAN says;


No class ofmen on this peninsula feel
q deeper interest in all measures for i'm
proving and developing our resources
than the editors, and they are al
ways found in the front rank of
improvementists encouraging with
voice and pen every effort to advance
our material interests. They feel that
heretofore our efforts have been direc-
ted with view rather to secure indi-
vidual benefit than to throw over the
face of the entire country the good re-
suits accruing therefrom; that while il
| is human nature to look out for self
| that self can be better helped by CO.
operation with numbers than by indi-
vidual effort that in union there is
strength; in strength, success, in sue
cess, happiness and content, at least to
the extent consistent to the mortal
Limitations. Hence, it has been deter
mined to hold a convention to concert
measures upon which the people of tho
entire peninsula may act in unision.
Salisbury being centrally located, ant
full Of that enterprise and business
vim which is so healthful to contem
plate, is deemed fit place for holding
the convention, andarrangementsh hav'
accordingly been made for it to taxi
place on the Goth of next month.


We earnestly call the attention o
our editorial brethren to the subjec
and cordially invite them to come L
our town and cooperate with us. 1t
desirable that every man interested II
tho newspaper business shoul


come; for, in addition to the dis
cussion of subjects relating to the ma
terial prosperity of the people, there


much to be said for the protectio


of newspaper interests. The questio


of forming IA new state out of Delawar


and Eastern Shore counties of Mary


land and Virginia, will also be discus


ed, as well as numerous other question


interesting to the press and people.
Year: 1874

ROLLING DOWN A HILL.-Saturday
afternoon, the colorcd driver of mule
team, in endeavOring to dump load
of dirt down the hill on Jackson street
between Second and Third, backed
the cart too far, and it started down
the hill dragging the poor mule along
in its descent. Soon there was an up
set, and for a minute it was hard to
tell which was mulo and which was
cart. When they arrived at the bot
tom the cart was somewhat broken,


but the mule escaped without injury
Year: 1874

The Little Rock Gazette, of the Esd,
congratulates the people of Arkansas
upon the spirit manifested in the late
Brooks Baxter troubles, and halls the
occurrence as the evidence of return to
that manhood which has lain. dormant
ever since the war, and which the Gazette
thinks will result in fair election next
fall.
Year: 1874

A JOINT resolution passed the Sen,
etc on the 25tb, instructing our Rep.
resentatives in Congress TO favor
an early completion Of the Texas and
Pacific Railroad. Right. This is an
enterprise Of the utmost Importance
to Texas, and is one that while its
early completion, would do more for
this State than any other three roads
either commenced or projected, its
grand advantage is that it will be Of
great practical utility to the general
government as well as the commer.
cial nations Of the world. There il
thousan1 reasons why we should
have the road, and not single one
against it.
Year: 1874

4 writer in Nature says: "If the
brains of different individuals are com
barred to running streams, in which the
waters exhibit different degrees of
clearness, as brains give evidence Of
differences in quality, their thoughts
may be compared to the reflections Of
surrounding objects on the surface Of
the streams. different in intensity ac-
cording to the clearness Of the water or
the quality of the brains cells. Upon
this analogy it is evident that the, rel
ative intesity Of different reflections is
not dependent at all on the stream
itself, but on the illuminating power Of
objcts reflected: III like manner we can
not conceive that the amount of nerve
tissue disintegrated by the greatest
minds at the time that they are evolv-
ing their mightiest thoughts is in ex-
cess Of that which is wasted during
the same time by the most common
place member Of every community.
Thought is as intimately connected with
the reception Of external impressions by
the healths human brain as reflections
from water with the illumination of the
surrounding objects they are involun-
tary when cause for their development
is present.
Year: 1874




Then there are great m any who go
out patronizingly. Their whole air is
that of persons who have found out
something which they want to tell to
other persons, They feel so good, they
are so sorry for folks who do not feel
as they do, that they are everywhere
talking and offending persons pride.
yet they are "unwortfy,t to have receiv-
ed such gifts as they have received;
and it pleases God to employ sush in
strumeutalities as they are" There is
ever so much of that; aud it is ofens-
i've both to God and to men Of good
sense


A woman brings up her household
through sorrow, through JOY, with
hardship, with labor, with inward trials,
that send her to God; day after days
she ripens, she beautifes-for there in
no beauty like that which the grace OF
Gcd causes to strike outward from the
soul, and illumine the features; home
illness itself forgets to be unbeautlful,
and learns to shine under the influence
Of grace; and though this woman may
never have spoken even to a sister
Christian on the subject of religion yet
she lives with such an example OF pa
tience, and purity, and discretion, and
tenderness that her children see it, and
her neighbors see it, aud take an ideal
of life from it which they would not
have had but for her, and become
admirable teachers and preachers, 1t
may do by reason of her silent
testimony; and thus she is instrumental
in bringing many into the kingdom OF
God. She never uttered a word In
meeting, but she never ceased to be
witness for God to all who looked upon
her. | would rather have one little
sprig of mignonette than cart load OF
sunfowers. | would rather have one
single fragrant rose bud than acres and
acres of rank and coarse flowers; and
so I say, the fragrance OF Christ the
beauty of Christ, the gentleness OF
Christ, the loveableness of Christ are
worth more than any outward
observances.
Year: 1874

The strange old woman, Mrs. Fan
der, who for many days in daytime and
night time, and in summer and winter
weather, stood on little board at the
corner of Plum and Longworth streets.
looking for her husband, who never
clme, is still keeping up har vigils.
She now, with handkerchief on her
head, stands in the doorway of house
on Fifth street, near Park, where she
occupies little room and works at
mantaua-making. She glances up and
down the street without seeing the
coming of the one she is looking for.
The husband is reported to have been
killed in the Mexican war, and is sup
posed to have been, but the wife hopes
that it is not true. The poor woman
is said to receive at regular periods
small sums Of money through the
Adams Express Company, from whom
nobody can tell. The recipient be-
lieves it comes from her missing hus-
band, and that in place of the money
be will arrive some day.
Year: 1874

Best of all things to us is home.
In hours of ambition and pleasure we
NAV sometime forget its exquisite sweet
ness, but let sickness or sadness come,
and we return to it at once. Let the
hollow hearts that feign friendship
they do not feel stand revealed before
us-let US know, as we all must. at
moments, that, however important we
NAV be in our own estimation, our
places would be filed at an hours
notice. should we die tomorrow, then
we whisper to ourselves the magic word
home, and are comfortable.


"Hone. street hon,e!' It does not
matter how" humble" it is; nor is it
less home for being palace. 1t is
where those we love dwell-wherever
that may be where we are valued for
ourselves, and are held in esteem be-
cause of what we are IN ourselves. and
not because of power, or wealth, or
what we can do for other people.


Who w0ald be without home?
Who would take the worlds applause
and honor IN place of the tenderness
Of few true hearts, and the cozy fire.
side meetings where the truth may be
spoken without disguise, and enviols
carpingS are unknown? In life's bat
ties even the hero finds many enemies,
and much abuse and slander and de-
traction but into home. if it is what
it ought to be, these things never find
their way. There, to his wife, the
plainest man becomes a wonderful
thing-a sage. man who ought to be
President of the United States, aud
would be were his worth knswk'
Year: 1874

DO the best thou knoWest to-day
Shrink not from the frequent errors In
this gradual fragmentary atate, Fol,
low the light for as much as it will
show thee be faithful as long as thou
canst, in hope that faith presently will
lead US to sight. Help others without
blaming their need of help. Love
much and be forgiven.-Iargaret
Fuller.
Year: 1874




ugly beggar.


Women have more heart and more
imagination than men.


Ignorance gives sort of eternity
to prejudice and perpetuity TO error,


TO have ideas is to gather. To
think is to weave them into garlands.


There are many who go on from
ignorance rather than from knowledge.
The spanking period is appropri-
ately called the paimy days of child
hood


The closest walk With God is the
sweetest heaven thar can be enjoyed
OH earth.


Genius is the gold 10 the mine;
talent IS the miner who works and
brings it out.


Let every one sweep the snow
from his own door and not busy him
self about the frost on his neighbor's
tiles.


--Grest wealth comes by destiny;
moderate wealth By industry.


The ripest fruit will not fall into
your mouth.


The pleasure of doing good is the
only one that does not wear out.


Dig we'll before you are thirsty.


Water does not remain in the
mountains, nor vengeance In great
mind


The most brilliant fortunes are not
worth the littleness to gather them.


Our sorrows are like thunder
clouds, which seem black in the dis
tance, but grow lighter as they ap-
proach.


1t is said that DR.. Mary Walker
now carries pistol for newspaper men.
We have always spoken Of that beauti-
ful and accomplished physician
with the highest respect.-LouisUitte
Couier-Jounat.


If the wicked flourish and thou
suffer, be not discouraged. They are
fatted for destruction thou art dieted
for health.-FMtcr.


W hen you see man mangllng
fowl at dinner table you may safely
predict that he will never carve his
way to distinction.


i am a man Of peace; God knows
/ love peace, bat hope | may never
be such a coward as to mistake oppres-
sion for peace.-RossHth.


What is even poverty itself that
man should murmur under it: 1t is
but as the pain of piercing maiden's
ear, and you hang precious jewels in
the ound.-Richter.


IF liquor fattens, why not give it
to our beef cattle, our turkeys, and
our pigs. a good dram of it morning,
noon and night!


As rays come from the sun, and
yet are not the sun, even so our love
and pity, though they tre not
God, but merely poor weak image and
reflection Of him, yet from him alone
they come. If there is mercy in our
hearts, it comes from the fountain of
mercy. If there is the light of love
in US, it comes from the full sun OF
love. = Chas. Kingsley


Best OF all things to us is home.
In hours of ambition and pleasure we
may sometime forget its exquisite sweet
ness, but let sickness or sadness come,
and we return to it at once. Let the
hollow hearts that feign friendship
they do not feel stand revealed before
us-let US know, as We all must. at
moments, that, however important We
NAV be in our own estimation, our
places would be filed at an hours
notice. should we die tomorrow, then
we whisper to ourselves the magic word
home. and are comfortable.


T.
Year: 1874

As rays come from the sun, and
yet are not the sun, even so our love
and pity, though they tre not
God, but merely poor weak image and
reflection of him, yet from him alone
they come. IF there is mercy in our
hearts, it comes from the fountain Of
mercy. If there is the light of love
in US, it comes from the full sun Of
love. -Chas. Kingsley
Year: 1874

ually invested in Wiscon sin roads
from their earnings in the State he
would have been nearer correct.
At any rate it is not Il verv bad
showing for the railroad companies
that are now pleading poverty and
insisting that their earnings have
never paid a fair return upon their
investment The great trouble has
been in the Credit Mobilier manage
ment of these great corporations.
a little ring of directors gain con
troll of the company and enrich
themselves by fleeing the people
and detrauding the stockholders.
This great abuse the legislation of
last winter ought to remedy.-Nud-
isOn Democrat
Year: 1874

TO show the general Stagnation
of the transportation business, a
Chicago exchange gives us this
item: eve notice that on the side
tracks Of the Michigan Southern,
Pittsburg and Fort Wayne, and
Rock Island Railways, just south of
the southern limits of Chicago, there
are more than fire miles of unem-
ployed freight cars, which have
stood there for more than a month
and as far as present appearances
are concerned, they are likely to stand
there unemployed for a month Ion
ger"


These are the idle cars the rail.
way managers were charging up to
the Potter law. The roads have not
so far complied with the provisions
OF the law a single day, and yet
more than five miles of unemployed
freight cars have been standing on
the side track at Chicago for over
a mOnth.-W0djsOn Democrat.
Year: 1874

The admirable utteranccs Of Gen Cor
don, Of Georgia, on the morrow of our
recent great political victory, and the
equally admirable address upon the same
occasion of the Democratic Committee
of Alabama, are thus eloquently echoed
by General Beauregard, Of Louisiana, in
a letter to friend in this city;


Before answering your letter, allow
me to congratulate YOU. and through you
the great State of New York, for the gal
liant manner in which you have come to
the rescue of republican institutions, for
the fate of which was calmly apprchen-
sive AS to old Massachusetts, we are
astonshe6 and delighted beyond express
sion at her grand rally to the cause of
freedom. Her people have shown them
selves worthy descendants of the heroes
of the tea party and of Bunker Hill.
May they never flag in their dctermina-
ton to rid the country of unworthy pub
lie servants.


1t will be o blessing to he..North, as
we'll as to the South, that our evils have
at last been understood. With good gov
ernment the South, reviving as great
producing and consuming country, will
revive also the benumbed industry and
trade Of the North. Let us have true
peace, and with it prosperity.


Thus speaks one of the bravcst and
most distinguished soldiers whom the
civil war made famous on either side OF
that unhappy conflict, We commend his
manly and patriotic words to the atten-
ton the i'll informed though well mean
ing people who have persuaded them
selves into the wild notion that the
Southern people really prefer ruin TO
prosperity, chaos to order, and hell to
heaven .NeW York World.
Year: 1874

LITTLE Rock, Nov. q, 1874.
j. S. DUNHAM--


DEAR SIR Since my last letter, reso
utiors of thanks to Gov. Baxter have
passed both Houses of the General As
sembly, with but few dissenting votes.
Several impor,snt bills have been intro
duccd and are now pending, among them
a bill to establish Court of Please and
Charter Sessions, as contemplated in the
new constitutions This bill will no doubt
pass, bat we shall not be in hurry to
pass it, as it is desirable that it should
be made as perfect as possible before be-
coming law.


The Committee on Finance have re
ported bill to provide the ways and
means for dcfrayng the expenses Of the
State government, and to establish the
credit Of the State on permanent basis.
1t will be printed in day or two, say
1000 copies, and ready for distribution.
When printed and our business men and
fnanciers have seen it, shall be pleased
to have their views on the policy and
wisdom of the plan proposed


There is strong disposition mani
Testing itself here to repeal the Code, and
return to the common law practice in our
courts of Justice The older members of
the bar | think genc'ally favor the re-
peal, while some of the younger practl-
tioners seem averse to it. The subject is
important, and ought to be well cousid
cred before final action upon it.
: The Congressional investigating com
mittee have so far as can learn accom-
plished but little. Poland | think was
anxious to get away. He left several
days ago and reached Washington yes
terlay. Ward remained until to day.
Sayler who had not been looked for ar
rived here from Cincinnati two days ago
But no further testimony has been taken
since Poland left, and the little that had
been taken during the last visit of this
committee can be Of no advantage in the
world either to Brooks or Smith. Every
thing here looks well for the Garland
Government and no fears are entertained
of Congressional interference


Very truly, JESSE TURNER
Year: 1874

EDITOR HERALD: / wish to obtain
information concerning the compare
tive cost and merits of concrete and
wooden houses, but do not know to
whom L can apply for such informa-
ton. l therefore write to you with
the expectation of soon seeing in your
columns communication from some
one of your numerous readers, on the
above subject.


1t seems to me that concrete is just
the material best adapted to building
dwelling houses in this country where
lumber, bricks and mechanics wages
are so very high.


Any information on this subject
will prove very interesting to many
beside the writer and will be most
thankfully received by


Yours truly,


X. w.
Compton, October Sd, 1874.
Year: 1874

The Executive Committee of the
National Grange have arranged for a
consolidation of Oranges, as follows:


First-Application for permission to
consolidate should be made to the
Master of the State Grange and his
consent obtained. The course then for
the Grange to pursue would be for one
of them to vote to surrender its char
ter and to consolidate with the other,
and the other to vote to receive all OF
the members of the surrendering
Grange en- mldSSe.


A copy of each vote, duly authenti-
Gated, shall be transmitted to the Sec
retary of the State Grange, and the
surrendered charter should be returned
to the National Grange (whence it is
sued) through the State Grange, with
the fact and date of its surrender and
consolidation thereon, authenticated
by the Secretary of the State Grange.
Year: 1874

The Council Committee of the So
lano Changers have been investigating
the financial affairs of the county. In
their report they advise the different
Oranges to employ an attorney to see
that the Board of Supervisors at their
meeting allow no bills but such as are
in accordance with law.
Year: 1874

us- The tide ofimmigration Is steadily SET
ting in, and the first thing eastern people do
is to throw away their New York Hats and buy
a new one of DESMOND. They say there Is no
omparison between the two. 21ao
Year: 1874

The Independent and Liberal Republican
papers are just now loud and enthusiastic
in their commendation of Mr.. c. F.
Conant, the new Assistant Secretary of the
Treasury. 1t is to be hoped that they will
not be any the less so when they ere in
formed that Mr.. Conant prepared nearly
every one of the financial statements which
carried such terror into the ranks Of the
opposition during the last Presidential
canDoiUn
Year: 1874

COLONEL F. A. CoNKLITG, of New
York, believes that the imperative duty of
New Workers, at the present time, is to
elect a majority Of honest men to Congress.
Colonel Conkling is brother of Senator
Conkling, and a Liberal Republican in
politics. If he should search for honest
men in his own party to send to Washing
ton, there will not be enough to go around
the Congressional districts of the Empire
Year: 1874

An independent journal believes that,
whatever may have been the original oh.
ject of the gag" law, its principal effect
will undoubtedly be to punish the papers
more efectuslly for attacks upon Congress
men. This is tantsmount to confession
that the law as it existed was imperative,
and that it was only right to amend it.
Nobody will be punished who does not de,
Sarve IN he
Year: 1874

A New York paper aIudes to the Beech
er scandal as the Brooklyn sorrow, " and
believes that if Mr.. Beecher will only keep
still and not say word "all the powers of
earth and hell cannot overthrow him.
This is very funny and peculiar style Of
answering a grave accusation. 1t seems to
US that an open confession would be good
for Mr. Beecher,
Year: 1874

A CALIFORNIA paper says: How happy
ought the average Californian to be this
year. because we are to have State cleo
ton" 1t is strange, but nevertheless true,
that great many people are very unhappy
here for the very same reason. 1t threw a
damper over the Fourth at the Capital
Year: 1874

In REGARD to the Kemper letter, an ex-
change says Universal reconciliation and
peace" would sound very we'll in cam
paign. The phrase is only the ''blOOdy
chasm" in a new dress, and the sound Of
that in the end was anything but pleasing
to those who started il.
Year: 1874

The protection journals are gradually
having their eyes opened in regard to the
Reciprocity treaty. The Bulletin, the
organ Of the iron men, believes that upon
examination it will be found to be g measure
conCcrring many and signal benefits upon
our ncighbors, and few and unimportant
benefits upon this country. "The Domin-
lion and the mother country would be
great gamers at our expense" We are
a very gullible people, but hardly so much
so as to swallow this little concoction of the
Dominion statesmen.
Year: 1874

THE principal Democratic paper in the
country, the Tribune, of New York, warns
its friends that their recent victories in New
Hampshire and Connecticut must not be
attributed 10 any change in the political
sentiments of the people, and that they
must learn the lesson of steadiness and
nerve in the exercise of their power. The
interest of the Tribune, founded by Horace
Greeley. in the Democracy is truly pathetic
Year: 1874

At this final Concert everything will be upon
scale corresponding with its increased Importance.
The music will be rendered by an orchestra con-
si,ting hundred performers selected for their
fame IN different lands, and the unprecedented
Sum
Year: 1874

WIN LOOK no further for = choice selection


OF WINES from FRANCE and GER


MANY.


All the above goods are in tin or glass in small
packages, prepared for instant use, and can be
carried without breaking.
Year: 1874

STATE OF CALIFORNIA, In Probate Court.


County of Placer.


In the matter of the estate of Thomas Treharne,


and Mary A. Palmer deceased.
Order to show cause why Order of Sale of real


estate should not be made
IT appearing to the Probate Judge, said Court
i by the petition this day presented and filed
by G. j. Brown, the Administrator of the estate
of Thomas Treharne, and Mary Ann Palmer.
his wife, deceased, praying for an order Of sale
of real estate, that it is necessary to sell the
whole of the real estate, to pay the debts out
standing against the deceased and the costs and
expenses Of administration.


1t is therefore ordered by the Probate Judge
OF said Court, that all persons Interested in the
estate of said deceased, appear before the said
Probate Court on Monday, the 29th day of June,
A. y. 1874, at one o'clock in the afternoon of
said day, at the court room of said Probate
Court, at the Court House. in Auburn, County
of Placer, to show cause why an order should
not be granted to the said Administrator, to sell
so much of the real estate of the said deceased
as shall be necessary.


And that a copy of this order be published al
least four successive weeks in the Placer HERALD
newspaper printed and published in said Pla
Ger County.


BY order of the Court.


Dated, May 25 1874. rn30-4w