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Year: 1879

AS we intimated yesterday, it is
to be regretted that General Han
cock happened to be Military Com


mandant Of the District of Column
bia when Mrs. Surratt was execut-
ed for the crime of enjoying the


personal acquaintance of John


Wilkes Booth. But for that unfor-


tunate incident he would have
made an exceptionally strong Dem.
ocratic candidate, not on account
OF his military record, but be-
cause of his assertion OF the
superiority of the civil to the
military power during his COM
mand of the Department of the
Gulf. Our latest Eastern exchanges
contain a conversation between a
leading Catholic priest of Balti-
more and newspaper correspond
ent. In this conversation the Rev.
erend gentleman states positively
and OF his own knowledge. that
Gen. Hancock personally declined
to allow the last hours of Mrs. Sur
raft to be solaced by the ministra-
tions OF a clergyman of her own
church. The mere fact that such
an impression had taken hold of a
large portion Of the Catholic voters
of the United States would rule q
candidate out as not in any sense
available. That fact Of itself would
decide the vote of the State of New
York adversely to the Democracy.
Year: 1879

II can't earn two shillings any
quicker"


A woman opened the door at
that moment, and the stranger put
down the book on the desk,
clasped her hands and said:


"Begin at the pencil mark there
and read slowly"


His Honors chin dropped exact
ly eighteen inches as he saw that
the reading matter was the usual
form of marriage, but he didn't
back down from his word. II was
the cheapest marriage he ever at
tended, and he didn't half enjoy
the buckles of the bride and groom
as they went out.
Year: 1879

YEAR by year our productions
are steadily increasing in amount
and variety. II Is a safe thing to
say that, for flour and other staples
OF prime necessity, Los Angeles
county sent abroad annually at
least three.quarters Of a million
dollars yearly. We now produce
these staples and we are saving
that money. The mere economic
ing on freight alone is enough to
make us well to do in a period of
ten years. We are catching the
secret of self-help. 1t is probably
safe to assume that this year, in ad-
dition to producing all the flour
needed to support our own people,
we shall export three or four ship
loads of that cereal. We have in
augurated the sensible custom of
shipping barley direct to New
York. There cannot fail to be

money In this venture. Our barley
is of such superior quality that it
is always sure to encounter lively
demand for it in the Eastern mar.
ket. By the way, it is matter
worth making public that the
wheat raised in the San Fernando
valley, in Los Angeles county,
makes the best -four sold in Cali
fornia, The mex. best brands are
made from the wheat of the Cajon
valley, San Diego county. 1t is
safe to say that the "cow" counties
intend to be heard from hereafter
In the inventory which shall record
the productions of this State. Not
only that, but the time is not very
far distant when the wines and
brandies of Los Angeles county
alone will foot up heavily in the
millions.
Year: 1879

IT seems almost universally con-
ceded that Gen. Grant will be the
Republican nominee. And yet we
cannot resist the conclusion that
there is a latent patriotism in the
Republican party which sympa-
thizes with the idea that two terms
are enough for any man. The New
York Sun says that Grant would
insure the defeat of his party were
he nominated. This is bold chal-
lenge to very demonstrative opin-
ion which hold the very reverse.
We think that the Sun is right and
believe that the nomination of
Grant would lose the Republican
party tenth of its vote.
Year: 1879

To some persons it may seem sim
Rular that q political alliance
should spring up between the
Workingmen and the Democracy.
When L little attention is paid to
the matter, however, the apparent
singularity disappears. There is
an identity between the views of
the two parties which makes such
union the most natural in the
world. They are both emphati-
cally opposed to strong govern
ment. Both are interested in see
Ing an end pat to the insolence
and aggressions CT place-holders.
Both dearly desire to see Republic
canism the leading feature of the
United States Government. 1t is
to be regretted that q consolidation
Of all the elements opposed to Re-
publican ascendancy was not ac-
conplished In California last sum-
mer. 1t was made impossible by
the insulting tone adopted by both
the Workipgmen and the New
Constitution party towards the
Democracy. Fraternity is impos-
sible where one of the parties to an
endeavor to establish it is arraign-
ed In the most contumelious terms
by the others. AS long as the
Workingmen applied to the De-.
mocracy the most contemptuous
terms in the English language, a
concert of action between them
was Of course impossible. The
same thing applied to the New
Constitution party. which was just
as glib in employing epithets of
sh..se. To the Democracy was left
no alternative but to meet harsh
words in similar spirit. We
think that we are perfectly war;
ranted in assuming that the Work
ingmen have learned the folly of
abusing the only party on which
the country can rely for strong
and successful fight against CEN
trallzation. They recognize the
impossibiiity Of organizing a third
party movement for the next Pres
tdsntial campaign which would
have any other effect than to guar
antee the election of the Republi-
can candidate for President. AS to
the. ability OF Democrats and
Workingmen, working cordially
together, to assure the Democratic
nominee for President the electoral
vote of California, we have no
doubt whatever.
Year: 1879

WE are willing at all times to
withhold information we may have
in regard to anything which is in
teresting to the public, especially
if it furthers the end of justice to
keep back for a while the knowl-
edge we are possessed of, but We
disapprove of a manoeuvre which
seems gotten up to give the eve.
ming paper a chance to impart in.
formation which the morning pa
pers should have published. We
may not be doing entire justice to
some one, but the party for whom
this is intended will admit that we
have not been treated fairly.
Year: 1879

CONGRESSMAN BERRY has start
ed for Washington. This gentle
man signalized himself by making
one of the manifest and most saga.
cious canvasses ever known in Cal.
ifornia. He succeeded by the skin
OF his teeth but he demonstrated
what can be done by clear grit and
He will make his
mark at Washington. We have no
doubt.
Year: 1879

THERE is hardly a doubt but
that we shall have very abund-
ant rainfall this year. The rule
which generally prevails in Cali
fornia is that the rainfall after the
first of January is froE two to
three times as great as before. Los
Angeles county leads the central
and northern portions Of the State
thus far in the amount of the rain
fall. tShould we have the usual De-
cember rains, it is safe to say, II
this proposition should hold good,
that we shall have five or six
inches more of rainfall this season
than would be needed to guarantee
a crop in this county.
Year: 1879

Tho facilities OF the HERALD Steam
Printing House for doing job work are not
surpassed in California outside of San
Francisco and Sacramento. All work en-
trusted to us will be executed with neat
ness and dispatch at the lowest living
rates.
Year: 1879

d SOOo AOoI U 40 nS2Vh S5oAos


Words are the souls ambassadors.


Tranquil pleasures last the longest.
We are not fitted to bear long the bur
den of great joys.


It is to be feared that they who marry
where they do not love will love where
they do not marry.


The manner of vulgar man has free
dom without ease, and the manner OF
the gentleman has ease without free
dom.


Evils in the journey of life are like the
hills which alarm travellers upon their
road they both appear great at a dis
tance, but when we approach them we
find that they are far less insurmounta-
BILE than we had conceived them.


It is a secret known to but few, yet OF
no small use in the conduct of life, that
when you fall into mans conversation,
the first thing you should consider is
whether he has greater inclination to
hear than you, or that you should hear
him.


Keep the tongue from unkindness.
Words are sometimes wounds; not very
deep wounds always, and yet they irri-
tate. Speech is unkind sometimes, when
there is no unkindness in the heart. So
much the worse, that unintentional pain
is caused.


Common sense is looked upon as a
vulgar quality, but nevertheless it is
the only talisman to conduct us prosper.
ously through the world. The man OF
refined sense has been compared to one
who carries about him nothing but gold,
when he may be every moment in want
of smaller change.
Year: 1879

"I1l lay for you !" as the hen said
to the farmer.


An exchange says that paper teeth are
the latest. They are probably the latest
to get through with tough beefsteak.


Disturbed parent and noisy five yea,
old: "See here, sonny: What did
your mother tell you?" "She told me
not to Jump" "What makes you Jump,
then?" 81 didn't hear her."


We noticed in an exchange instruo'
tions on chow to pass the time" We
did not read the article, because we
would rather like to know how to pass
lead half dollar that has been growing
round edged and weighing heavily in
our pocket for three months past.


In this mundane sphere thereis prob
ably nothing more calculated to dampen
the ardor of lover who is out serenad-
ing his inanaorata with "Hear me,
Norma, than to have Norma utterly ig-
more his presence, while out OF the
window next to hers the old man gently
pours down upon the singers head q
DuCkeG OF wafer.


The cultured New York Mail has
reached the conclusion that combina'
tions of gastronomy and intellectually
should be hailed with qualification.
The combination is all right; but give
men their choice Of one or the Other
three times day, and it will be founo
that there is an unvarying and ve1atlouf
sameness in the demand.


It is said that toward the region OF the
north pole the temperature OF the water
600 fathoms deep is sixty.four degrees
above zero. All that seems to be ne
cessary, therefore, to make a successful
voyage around the pole, is a ship tha'
can manufacture within itself a breath
able atmosphere and travel under wate'
like loon. 1t looks like an easy thing
for Edison to accomplish, doesn't it?
Year: 1879

The most absent-minded man was not
the man who hunted for his pipe when
he had it between his teeth, nor the one
who threw his hat out of the window and
tried to hang his cigar on peg no
but the man who put his umbrella to
bed and went and stood behind the
! door.
Year: 1879

Some time ago, mention was made Of
the arrival of family of Turks at New
York. The family consisted of father,
mother and four children. They have
made their way to East Tennessee, where
they propose to settle. They have come
to the United States to escape from the
tyranny of Mussulman rule, and to en-
ioy the freedom vouchsafed to all in this
country. It is their purpose to make
the United States their permanent home,
and they have chosen East Tennessee
because the climate is much like that tc
which they have been accustomed.
Year: 1879

Let congress stay in session like
the Long Parliament to guard the
liberties of the people. Let Mr..
Hayes remember that one of the
results of the Long Parliament was
that Charles lost his head. And
let the democratic congress remem-
Der that they no longer represent
the cause of mere party, but that
of the whole people-the cause of
popular self-government. No step


back W ard! fr.
Year: 1879

Grant it is stated, wants Post
master General Key to have the
second place on bis ticket. This
will be a tremendous addition to
the boom. With Key tied on as a
conciliator the Southern people
would doubtless tsiFly foam at the
mouth with enthusiasm.
Year: 1879

The Shah OF Persia has written
a new book, aud every newspaper
critic in that land will say it is the
most able and interesting work
ever issued from the press. They
would rather tell a lie than have
their heads chopped of. "
Year: 1879

BISMARCK has a majority Of the fed
eral council In favor of his new tariff
measures. He will secure majority
Of the reichstag by securing the rural
members through protecting native
corn and cattle.
Year: 1879

AN INTERSTATE police system is
advocated by some Of the eastern vi
docqs. While there are many things
in favor of the scheme, the fact of big
salaries for the superintendents will
kill 1t before it is month old.
Year: 1879

Call at our Drug Store and get tria
bottle of DR.. Kings New Discovery
free Of charge, If you are suffering with
a Cough. Cold. Asthma, Bronchitis.
Hay Fever, Consumption, loss of voice
tickling in the throat or Lungs. This
lie the great remedy that is causing so
much excitement by it's many wonder
full cures, curing thousands ofhopeless
cases. Over one million bottles of DIR.
Kings New Discovery have been used
within tbs last year. and have given
We can unhesitatingly say that this is
is really the only sure cure for throat
and lung affections. and can cheerfully
recommend it to all, Call and get a
trial bottle free Of charge, or a reg gular
size for 81 90.
Year: 1879

No use of having the chills, no use of
headache, ,or any of the ills that come from
a disordered or inactive liver. One bot
tie of this old and reliable family remedy
will cure the most stubborn case-will
relieve the system and make you feel like
a new person. Try it and be satisfied.
Year: 1879

Frank Miller's Harness Oil and Blacking
is pronounced by the trade generally to be
the best manufactured. The grade OF
these goods is always standard and their
reputation unsurpassed anywhere. The
firm is one of the Oldest in the country and
has the largest trade in it's line. DIFF
Year: 1879

is common complaint. If you feel so
get package of Kidney-Wort and take il
and you will at once feel its tonic power
1t renews the healthy action Of the Kid
peys, Bowels and Liver, and thus restores
the natural life and strength to the weary
body. Get box and use it at once.
Year: 1879

CHICAGO. Oct. 2I.-The Rezigio- Phil


osophicol' Journal for October 25th will
contain an exposure OF ID. NJ Bennett, a,
present in the Albany penitentiarg for
circulating obscene publications, and
whose pardon the Liberal convention, late
ly held at Cincinnati. demanded in series
of resolutions. The Journal says:


THE facts are ahat while Bennett was
laying claim to his right to be considered
a public teacher of better morals than the
prevailing Christian religion afforded, he
was endeavoring with beastly persistence
to obtain control of the person of q young
woman. who had touched bis fancy and
who had been induced to accept a sal
aried situation IN his Office, evidently under
the design on his part to obtain her con-
sent to become his mistress, The ad-
vances of the libidinous old Lothario pro-
Juced only astonishment and disgust on
the part OF bis intended victim, but in
spite OF her repeated protestations against
his course, che was made the object of
attentions that assumed the character of
villainous persecution. He boldly pro-
claimed to her that his home and wife
were distasteful to him; that his
love there had long since died. and that
she alone of women was the object OF
his undying 1--we 1t only added to his
unholy flame that she, who refused to
listen to him. bore an unblemished reputa-
ton From a mass of letters written by
Bennett to this young woman, abundant
evidence may be obtained to prove that
while he persecuted her under the
vilest i'm mpulses of his iewd nature, he still
knew her to be pure, and the testimony of
friends who knew her before, during and
since her business association with him, is
all strong in her cumBendation. Being
unable to prevail with professions of love
and offers to give the lady share iu his
business, Bennett discharged her expecting
that poverty would make her yield to his
prosecutions, That whatever may be his
proper grounds of omplaiut against the
court before which he was tried, and how
ever much many spirituaists and liberals
may have believed in him. being deceived,
no honest exponents of these parties can
longer acknowledge him to be their reore-
sentative; that while they will always stand
ready to contend for freedom of thought
and speech, they are not willing and will
not longer allow themselves to be under
stood as in any way countenancing a man
who, under the preteDse of teaching free
thought and spiritualism bides the char
acter of filthy rascal. "


The Efforts OF Bennett were so serious
that the young lady fed to friends in an
other State, where she now is.
Year: 1879

General Noyes, our Minister to France,
has been visiting Palestine, and the foreign
mails report that member of his family
came near drowning while bathing in the
Dead Sea and was rescued with great diff.
Guilty. Considering that three or four parts
of Dead Sea water on evaporation yield one
part of solid matter, and that a bather
standing erect rises breast high above the
surface, it must require extraordinary
ingenuity even for Yankee to drown
in the Dead Sea who preserves presence
of mind enough to abstain from reversing
the natural positions of his head and his
feet. The most serious danger consists in
strangulation by swallowing the strong
brine. The density of the water Of the
Great Salt Lake in Utah is not quite SO
great. A bather standing erect in it does
not rise quite so high into the air. The
southern end of that lake has been favor
ite resort for excursion parties from the
Mormon capital for thirty years, but we be-
lieve no fatal accident ever has occurred
there.
Year: 1879

We print this morning Mr.. Sala's narra-
tive Of landing at this port, and we find IL
very entertaining. Mr. Sala is livelier
than the Duke Of Argyll, his present
competitor in transatlantic sketching


but whether he is quite as conscien-
tious we reserve our opinion till he has
been here six weeks, the period of his
noble rivals stay. What ho writes about
the New York Custom House troubles us
little on this point. He remembers dis
tinctly that he took oath TO several things
which were represented to be needful to
pass his luggage, consisting Of ten packages,
but what they were he is sure he does not
know. benevolent old gentleman with
snowy hair handed him some papers and
said Swear" and he swore and had no
bother whatever afterward. Consequently
he compliments the New York Custom
Year: 1879

Will people who select residences ac-
cording to neighborhood, appearance and
satisfactory floor plans, read carefully the
article under the head, ''Stand from Under r.
that we publish in another column to-day |?
It describes some buildings which will
probably be finished attractively and put
on the market for sale or rent, but the walls
of which, in thickness and appearance,
tell their own story to any one who
may be curious enough to examine
them. These houses show how much
risk builder will cheerfully impose upon
tenants who are not of his own family, and
to what extent some officials of the Depart
ment of Buildings are willing to assist in
this sort Of business, and the enraging rev.
elation carries it's moral with it. The
Building Department itself needs imme-
diate and searching overhauling, and if the
Legislature does not promptly act in the
interest of tenants as against builders of q
certain class, which class will increase
rapidly if let alone at Albany and assisted
as the department has seemed to assist
them, every city member will be guilty of
an offence compared with which raids on
the treasury are virtuous acts. GO look at
the walls.
Year: 1879

We print to-day special cable despatch
from London telling of the verifcation of
another of the HEaALp's storm predictions.
The warning stated that unsettled
weather would prevail" instead of indicat-
ing the advance of a storm centre, because
the disturbances wero developed SO rapidly
that some of them were likely to merge
with one another while crossing, and reach
the British coasts as large depression
having several centres Of energetic disturb
ance. The sudden change in the weather
after the 26th proves the accuracy of the
warning beyond all doubt, and to judge by
the amount of damage done to railroad
property by the gales the weather was
decidedly unsettled" The rumored
loss of the British steamer Aragon at sea
will not tend to allay the fears for other
shipping that left port before the 9th,
but it is to be hoped that timely warning
was sent to the coast stations, so that small
craft were prevented from leaving their
anchorage in the face of the danger.
Year: 1879

1t is to be hoped that no soldiers of the
late volunteer army are foolish enough to
expect any profitable results from the in
PRODUCTION of Mr.. Weaver's bill to pay them
the difference between gold and the green
backs they received for their services dur
Ing the war. Aside from the fact that the
amount OF money required would be far
greater than the United States could afford
to add to its sufficiently large debt, there is
nothing honest in the. proposition. IT the
soldiers are to be paid according to gold
values, so should every one else who in any
way contributed to our success during the
civil war. The half million or moro of
men, women and children who made arms,
accoutrements and clothing for the army;
the far greater number who titled the
ground which produced the wheat that
made the soldiers bread and the oats
and corn that fed the soldiers horses the
great army of railroad and steamboat men
who furnished transportation for the
armies when marching was out Of the ques-
tion the tens of thousands of clerks who
were necessary at the departments in Wash
ington-all these and hundreds of thou
sands more deserve readjustment on o
gold basis for services rendered or supplies
delivered, if the soldiers do.


For nearly twenty years we have been
claiming that the war between North and
South was a patriotic contest. but now
appears bill which, if passed, will make
q mercenary of every patriot. There is not
the slightest possibility that such bill can
or will pass, and the few old soldiers who
have been betrayed into thinking we'll of
it and petitioning for its passage should
give few moments of careful thought to
the subject before they disgrace themselves
by making patriotism not only venal but
ridiculous.
Year: 1879

On Wednesday evening the street lamps
and some Of the houses in Menlo Park will
be lighted by the Edison electric light,
which has already been exhibited to several
hundred persons. As this public exhibi-
ton will so soon take place critics will
display only the simplest sense and
prudence if they forbear further comment
until they have before their eyes the visible
proofs of the systems merits and defects.
In the history of scientific progress there
are many prominent warnings against criti-
cisms made hurriedly, rs if to prejudice
public opinion even against experiments
promised at an early date. The prophecies
of scientific New Workers three-quarters of
century ago that Fulton s steamboat would be
failure and the apparently logical demon
stration by DR.. Lardner that steamship
could never Gross the Atlantic are significant
illustrations Whatever may be the result
Of Mr.. Edison's experiment. it cannot be
said that the designer of the new system of
illumination by electricity has forced his
opinions upon the public. Whatever has
been published on the subject was sought
not offered. The inventor is as much Of
recluse as any man of his kind, and what
the public knows about the light has been
the result OF persistent inquiry at the doors
of man whose good nature and accessi-
bility are apparently the only special points
of difference between him and other per-
sistent experimenters. Besides, scientific
critics generally find it as safe to beware of
a man of one idea-for the time being--as
those other critics who are warned against
the man of one book.