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Year: 1875




We took occasion to say in last weeks
Mems that the organization OF n new
county out of Wood SanStasky, Seneca
and Hancock counties, is impossible.
We do not refer to this matter because
we for n moment harbor thought that
such a thing will ever be done, but there
are persons wholly Unacquainted with
the law bearing upon these subjects, who
are by designing persons imposed upon
and led to believe that such n thing can
easily be done. Now, as we dc not ask
that our assertions through the NcinS be
taken nnless based upon good reasons
and facts, we will show


WHY NRw COUNTY IS IMPOSSIBLE.


TO make n new county, then we will
include IN ih" supposed segregation
from Wood, the townships of Montgom
cry, Bloom and Perry. From Sandusl.y,
Scott township, and from Seneca, the
townahips Of Jackson, Louden and Big
Spring. From Hancock, Big Lick,
Washington, Cass and part of Allen
townships, making for the new county
by this estimate ten and IL half town
ships, which is the smallest amount of
territory it would he reasonable TO sup
pose it could ernhrae..


TO make this new county, then, leaving
Wood out of the question, it would he
necessary TO despoil Sandusky OF one
township, Seneca ofthree, and Hancock
of three and a half townships, leaving
Seneca with twelve townships instead OF
fifteen, and with her county seat near
the west line of her territory, leaving
Hancock with fourteen and half town
ships, and her county seat Within about
five miles of the southeast corner of her
boundary limits. We have not taken
intO count the fact that the people who
were voting themselves intOa a new conn
ty, would also entail upon themselves
the tax burden necessary for new build
ings and the attendant expenses. Now
let us see what the Constitution of Ohio
says, and III order that any man who
chooses may go into Justices Office and
see for himself, we will state that in ar
ticle III, sec 80, treating on


NEW COUNTIES,


will be found the following:


mo new county shall contain less than
four hundred square miles Of TERRITORY, nor
shall any county he reduced below that
amount and all laws creating new counties,
changing county lines, or removing county
seats, shall, before taking effect, he submit
ted to the electors of the several counties to
be affected thereby, at the next general cleo
tion after the passage thereof, and be adopt
ed by a majority of all The electors voting
at such elections, in each of said counties"


BY this it will be seen that the Con
stitntion of Ohio mot law that Leg
islature can change) provides that no
change can be affected without a major
ity vote of all the counties effected. If
it were possible to get majority vote in
Wood for such project, it would be
beat in the other counties ten to one,
hence we have said, and we think those
who have even thus hastily examined
the question with us, will agree with us
that it is among the impossibilities, at
least for 20 years to come, when the peo-
PIE of Ohio may again be called upon to
vote on a new Constitution.
Year: 1875

[From the San Francisco Bulletin.l


In Boggs county, on the road leading from Mar
shallville to Fruwich, Georgia, and ten miles
from the former town, resides q welLtodo farmer
named Myrup.


His smiable and loving wife, early after break
fast, had taken her infant child, about nineteen
months old, into her arms and had gone forth In
search of a fine and favorite milch COW, that had
for the first time failed to come home the previous
evening.


On coming home from the field to his dinner,
Mr.. Myrup learned that his wife and sweet little
prattler had not made their appearance. Almost
frantic with fear and excitement for their safety
knowing that very large bear had been seen in
the swamp near by only few days before, he put
ALI the hired men Of the place followed, and each
taking a different direction, the whole country
was ransscked for several miles around. The
neighbors, also, as the sad news reached them,
The sun was Just sinking behind the western
hills, when, as the miserable husband was re.
his spring, and he was still anxously, but almost
hopelessly, looking In every direction, while
passing along he descried in patch Of luxuriaut
piece Of gingham. He stood horrihed and mo-
tiOnless for q moment or two, and his heart al
most stopped pulsation as the thought rushed
might be his lvife's bonnet, and that both she
and his darling boy might be buried in the
iathomless qusgmires over the centre Of which
lay this relic.


Approaching to within q safe distance Of this
miry pit, he discovered the grass turned down.
ward and the surface Of the slough broken and
depressed, showing that some living body had
fallen in and been struggling greatly TO get out.
Very soon one Of the neighbors and two Of the
TO the depth Of his arm in the mire, but found
no traces Of the unfortunate ones. A pole,twely
Or fifteen ,I feet long was va, now 0btainsd and sent
be felt nor the bottom touched. Another rod,
longer than the hrst was then fastened TO Il, and
like examination was made with q like result.
ANY further attempt to recover the dead bodies
was, therefore, deemed useless. 1t was accord.
ingly decided to desist, and the party, which had
by this time increased to thirty-ve or forty per-
sons all set out for their respective homes just at
nightfall.


The quagmire had been known to all the occu.
pants Of the farm from its earliest settlement but
never till then was any conception formed Of its
immense depth. Full thirty feet of C had been
sounded, yet Its lowest part II any Il has, s still
to be ascertained. The mean diameter Of the pit
proper, for some fifteen feet down, is about three
and q half feet.
Year: 1875

In the report Of the court proceedings in THE
national REPUBLICAE OF yesterday mention
was made Of the divorce Of VIM. Q. johnson
from his wife Virginia As the lady seems
anxious about her reputation the following letter
from the attorney for her husband is Published:


WAsHINGToN, July II, 1876.
Mrs.. FiryiHiG Johnson


MADAM: 1t is due to you to say that there was
no evidence whatever in the suit of VIM. @.
johnson against you for divorce that in any
way tmpe8cbed your chastity. The divorce was
granted solely on the ground Of desertiOn, which
was admitted BY you and your counsel and the
plaintiff did not venture to attempt 70 support
his fnsinustiOns against your character by any
proof Respectfully, FRANCIS MILLER
Year: 1875

About $50 O'Clock yesterday afternoon an alarm
Of fire was turned In from box IS, situated at the
corner Of Twentieth and NJ streets northwest 1t
proved to be on the premises Of Henry A. Linger
Bros msttrass factory. The building was
stored with q large quantity Of innsmmable ma
terial, and, as the flames had made good head
way, when the aid Of the fire department was
called 1t was impossible to save either building or
stock. The fire was caused by the overheating Of
a hacking machine. The loss on the stock is es-
t!mated at 5000 and on the building the same
amount, partially covered by an insurance Of
$1,000 The members of the Arm say that they
will not lose over fortyeight hours, as they intend
to lind new quarters Immediately.
Year: 1875

Those who enjoy witnessing tine ball tossing
should not fail to prolt by the chance given them
TO see the game this afternoon between the Ex-
celsioTs and Nationals, the representative clubs
of baltimore and Washington. To the curious
IL may not be ont Of place TO say also that those
who will attend will have an opportunity of see-
ing the only one-armed ball-player In the country
the pitcher Of the EXcelsiOTs, and who pitches
bats, and fields in a manner that will astonish
these who think # necessary to have the full CON-
plement Of arms In order to play ball we'll The
and it is hoped that numbers of them will give
1.-The boys their gracious presence. See adTer-
Year: 1875

About O'Clock last evening as ofioer Reese, Of
the Second precinct, appeared at the station to
report of duty. and was removing his revolver
from the holster, It accidentally exploded, shat
terfng the thumb of his left hand and sending
the ball through the palm of the hand. The
wounds, which were dressed by DIR. Elliot are not
dangerous, but very painful.


GOODS AT ANY PRICE rather than carry TO our
new house, corner Of Seventh and streets


EIsEMAN BRos


sos Seventh street, near L.
Year: 1875

taking her himself for there's heaven know shell "a
there


The last time she was in this house she d Here feel
have no home bat on other side know she would be
than welcome On nv precious child How heart bieeds
you in thinking your suferngs Can you do anything
IN the matter


Must live in this suffering condition Of mind and bod,
with no YOu or yone else who advises htr 10
live with him. when he doing all he TO kill her BY sio"
torture is anything bnt a friend. -


don't know II yon can understand the We written
but I'm relieved somewhat writing The children are kept
from and haven't my darling child but since bef
return from this hOnse


thought the least could do 10 nt your name 70 ne
~ hefp TO reDsfae brother Elizabeth AZ dir
appointed as myself lie is still without employment with
sick wife and five children feed behind with the rent and
everything else behind hand


your wife has adopted Lib yon sympahize with her
pray you do something for relief before II Is late. He
the breath leaves her body will make tbg
whole thing public and this prospect think, i thing
which keeps her alive know Of other She's without
nourshmen for In her state; aud In
They would both deny Il, no doubt; 6ut US true.
Year: 1875

Streets, in the City of Los Angeles.


DE IT RESOLVED, BY THE COMMON


ID Council of the City of Los Angeles as fol-
lows: sI4E 1t#J q


SECTIONL That the assessments hereinaf-
ter set forth are hereby declared TO be the as
sessments properly chargeabie to and collect
able from the several owners of the property
respectively hereinafter described for and on
account of the construction of a sewer from
Short street to New High street, to Turner
street, and thence along Turner street to the
intersection of said sewer with the Main and
Arcadia street sewer on Main street, and for
the branch of the proposed sewer commenc-
ing on New High street in front of the prop
erty of DR.. Bush and running thence along
New High street Northerly to the intersection
of Turner and New High streets. t4
. SEC. 2. The Clerk Of the Common Council
Is hereby directed to enter a statement of this
assessment in the Docket of City Liens, ac-
cording to law and give notice of the levy OF
said assessments by publication OF the same
for ten days in English in the Los Angeles
Daily HERALD and for ten days in Spanish in
La CrOnicu.
~ SEC. 3. The following is the list Of the as
sessments hereinbefOre referred to; that Is to
say:
Year: 1875

Pittston, Pa, March 1S.-The loss
by the flood here exceeds half mill
lion dollars. The ice is again gorged
at Ransom, three miles above here,
to the height Of twenty feet, the
gorge extending up the river about
five miles. The Lehigh Valley rail-
road trnck is completely covered
with ice six feet deep. Many of the
mines in the neighborhood have
stopped work on account of the in
ability to ship the coal. No trains
here either way yet, and great
anxiety is felt as to the effect of the
movement Of the gorge when the
weather moderutes.
Year: 1875




Ellen HcLane was placed on trial on charge Of
feonious assault preferred by Henry b Hertz, of No
sls Lexington avenue who stated that he had on the
LIST day Of this month hired the accused to act cook
and laundress in his family. Considerable trouble was
experienced with the girl in consequence or her III
temper. little than week after her advent
into the household-that is, on the sth inst-MrH
Hertz told another employed in the family 70
70 outside and sweep the sidewalk, when the accused
said TO the girl who had been directed sweep "Dont
you do il FOR the damned Jew" Mr. Hertz was in
an adjoining and overheard the remark. His
wife Immediately after to him and asked him
70 speak 10 the girl He entered the kitchen
where she engaged, and demonstrated with her,
when she seized carving knife and rushed toward
him crying out, AIll cut the heart out OF you you
damned Jew The complainant sent for an officer
and had the accused taken into custody


She placed on the stand yesterday and sworo
that the whole disturbance grew out OF dispute about
her leaving the employ OF the complainant; that she
had taken hold Of knife at all that there had not
been single kne Ia the room that the complainant
had called her names threatened "club her damned
head Off z and knocked her head against the marble
mante when she expressed desire stay In his ser
until tho end Of the week The jury remained ont
for than hour when they announced that they
unable 70 agree. They were discharged. and the
accused was remanded 10 await a new trial


sNATcHING A WATCH.


Thomas Devinc, a Lad Of nineteen was tried on the
charge or having the 30 day Of the present month
snatched watch and chain from the pocket OF Frank
Goodwin while the latter passing through West
Thirtleth street He was found guilty and was sen.
fenced to four years In State Prison.


ATTEMPTED BURGLARY.


James willard, alias wilets pleaded guilty to an
attempt al burglary in the third degree in having
broken into the store Of Martin Reilly No AZ Market
street He was sent % State Prison for two and half
Year: 1875

judices of the country they will band
the disciples of Knox and Wesley
against the followers of the head of the
Catholic Church, they will say: we
have succeeded in sending our legions
to emancipdte the negroes Of the South
,rhea zee had no right; we sent our army
to Syria to fight for the Holy Land
now let Peter the Hermit make another
crusade against the Church of Rome.''


How does the soldier and colored
man like that record. How does any
loyal man like ito
Year: 1875

the main cause Of the prevailing depression
Remove this cause and the conditions are pres
ent for healthy and active business. The
crops are large and there is good foreign de-
mand for our surplus products at good prices.
This is the foundation to build upon. 1t is
the only foundation to support trade. Hav-
ing this foundation, all that remains is to go
to work; stop the disgraceful talk about in
fation and repudiation, and We shall have
such developments as will speedily satisfy
everybody except the worthless demagogues
who are too lazy to work and too proud to
beg, that the honest way is the best and the
only way to prosperity.-[Cin. Gaz.
Year: 1875

Tile new 1OTh


1t used to be said during the late war
that several vehement and reckless
Democratic journals, East and West,
were supported from a Republican
secret service fund, with the object of
making the Democratic party odious to
the people. 1t has also been asserted
thst one or two especially foolish Dem
ocratic Congressman, during the same
period, received their nominations
through the intrigues of astute Repub-
lican managers, who foresaw the value
OF such men in Congress to make their
party suspected Bnd feared.


There was probably, little or no foun-
dation for these assertions; for candor
requires us to say that the Democrats
during and since the war have been but
too ready to encourage the ignorant
and unprincipled among their public
men, and have needed 40 outside help.
But the course of the party in Ohio and
Pennsylvania just now recalls the old
story of Republican manipulations, and
lends to them certain amount Of prob
ability. For, what could be more NAL
adroit than that, just when the country
has made up its mind that paper mon
ey is blunder. when prices have al
ready shrunk very nearly TO a specie
standard, when most of the hardship
and suffering necessarily resulting from
resumption has been felt, when we
might with but little effort and patti
ence return to sound currency, these
Democrats should not only demand a
new initiation of the currency, but COM
nit the additional blunder of accusing
their opponents of having contracted
the currency-a charge which is so cas-
lily refuted by undeniable facts that
only the rasheSt ignorance could max e
it.


Mr.. George H. Pendleton, one of the
foremost Democratic statesmen,
solemnly warned the country in Con-
gress. in 1862, that legal-tender cur
rency would lead to imitation, and
probably to reputation. He spoke
wisely; and the ablest men of both
parties all over the country have for
years urged upon the Republican ad-
ministration the duty of bringing the
nation back to a sound currency. So
general is the conviction among the
people of this necessity that in this
year eight of ten Democratic State Con-
ventiOns which have met have adopt
ed resolutions in favor of sound cur
rency, and all the Republican conven-
tiOns have done the same thing. That
there is faction, more vehement than
strong, in all the States, desirous of in.
tiation, is perfectly true, but there are


many signs such as the ridiculous fail


ure of the Detroit imitation meeting, to
+, show that neither the mass of the peo.


pie nor the really eminent leaders OF


either party favor so fatal and dishon.
est policy.
Year: 1875

party to a system of paper money,
based upon an unconstitutional exercise
of Federal power, as u crime against
the common welfare and q wanton vi
olation of cardinal article of the Dem
Ocratic creed.
Year: 1875

The FByER There is a decided
abatement in the fever the past
week. The few cases on hand are
all doing well and the number Of
deaths to record only three, which
we alIude to elsewhere We can
only hope that this is more than
mere lulI in the pestilerce.
Year: 1875

YELLOW FEvLB AT MOBILE
The Mobile Register, true to its
promise 10 advise its readers from
time to time Of the health Of that
city, reports in its issue Of Thurs
day, the death in the city of a
Young woman, which the Board Of
Health admits to have been o5ca-
stoned by yellow fever bat thinks
there is no cause of alarm as the
season is too far advanced for
it TO develope into an epidemic and
advises those living in the city not
to fee, while, those absent, who
have nothing to call them there may
as we'll " take a boud Of fate" Pad
delay their visit tor a week or two.
Year: 1875

A PROPOSED method Of getting rid of the
nuisance Of the smoke and cinders from the
locomotive in railway trains has appeared
in Cincinnati In this hot weather, when
open car windows are the rule, and BY
some people held to be a necessity, and
with the prevalence of bltuminous coal
burning in locomotives, smoke and cinders
hare become greater nuisance than ever.
The device is tube of considerable dame
ter moving over the top of the cars from a
point Just behind the smoke-stack to the
rear Of the train. The theory is that the
motion of the train will make draught
sufficiently powerful to draw all the smoke
and cinders through the tube, 50 that they
will be discharged behind the train.
Whilst the train stands still the wind will
carry them off-that is, if the wind is
blowing in the right direction.
Year: 1875

THE OUTRAGE ORGANS.


The Philadelphia Bulletin is the cham


pion mill in the country for grinding ou'
Southern outrages. There may be one Other
papers that comes near to it and that is the
Chicago Inter- Ocean. These two fanatical
organs Of the administration never know
an honest statement when allusion to the
South il made in their columns. They
have set the keys of their organ to the tune
Of Southern outrage and that same cid tune
! it grinds out all the time. But it is not SO
bid now as it was in the time before hon
esty and truth prevailed, and showed the
persistent falsity that all these outrage buga-
boo. were composed Of Now that the
story has grown stale and greets the public
ear with less Of the terrific and horrible
than it formerly did, we are treated to only
occasional dosesof it. Some of the other
papers that were little disposed to doctor
their readers with this nauseous medicine,
have dropped out Of the ranks altogether
and We are left with the Philadelphia Bul-
letin as the champion and the Chicago
Inter Ocean az the nearest approach to it.


Poor old Morton, Of Indiana, continues
TO hobble through Ohio preaching the same
stories in the campaign there and the CORY
shirt waves over the land in the hands Of
these servants Of the administration, but is
as impotent in what it aims to accomplish
as the chances for Grants reelection.
The reasons for the constant war of the
bloody shirt party are obvious. The pa
pers which keep the cause before the peo-
pie are subsidized by the government, and
those men who 60 of into oratorial elo-
quence on the stump about it are in some
path that leads to government pap or
favor.


We predicted several days ago that the
recent insurrections among the negroes in
Georgia would be construed by the blood
and thunder press into a frst-clas Ku
Klux sensation. But while it has not rs
sumed that shape it has come very near
it. The negro is excused upon the ground
that he is subjected to many indignities,
and as an American citizen has right to
carry weapons and Use them in defense of
his rights and privileges. If the murder
Of all the whites living in the country
where the insurrectioh took place, to OBJ
tain possession Of the property Of the land
holders, is what this sacred press calls the
rights and privileges Of the black man,
then the sooner the negro goes into slavery
again the better it will prove for the peace
Of the section in which he lives.


The plot of the insurrection was to kill
all the whites and take all the lands which |
were to be divided into forty acre patches. !
All the money of the planters was to be |
put into a common treasury, and they
would give as little of the crops to the |
poor whites that were spared as they chose.
The members Of the conspiracy were all |
bound to secret oath, and they were as
sured that if they broke this they would
be handed over to Grant" who would
punish them. This is what the bloody |
shirt party and papers wish to excuse on
the grouud that the negroes were led by
willy men, and that they had weapons in
their possession simply in imitation of
white people.
Year: 1875

A correspondent of the New
York Tribune incidcntly tells the
following story which he reniem-
bers to have heard 40 or so years
ago: 4 stage coach was going
along an Arkansas rHad. On the
back seat were two women; on the
middle one, two men, tall and mus
cular; while the forward seat held
only a small man, wrapped up
completely in a blanket. After a
time one Of the powerful men on
the middle seat lii a cigar and
smoked. The smoke went full in
the face Of one of the women, who
was young and tinid. She re-
quested the man to stop smoking.
'f have paid my fare; ; 1t is custom
ary to smoke, and / will smoke, as
much as / have o mind to-" Ac-
cordingly he took out a fresh
cigar and started tho smoke cloud
again. The women could only add
that "smokers ought not to forget
to be gentlemen" This suggcs-
ton excited the mans rage to
white heat. At this point the


small man on the front seat laid


aside his blanket, put his left hand
on the knee Of the enragcd rufiian,
In order TO withdraw his attention
from the woman and to himself,
while with his right hand he drew


a bowie knife from Ms case between
his shoulder blades. Pointing the
weapon at the heart Of the brute
and looking him square in the eyes