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Year: 1874

This is not a very prosperous period
for plaintiffs i'll libel suits against
newspapers. Two have just termin-
ated in verdicts for the papers. Some
years ago Mining Bureau was formed
in Sacramento. The San Francisco
Chronicle, after investigating the
thing, pronounced it scheme for
swindling, and in language so plain
as to be unmistakable, denied that the
leading spirit was one of those indi-
viduals whom we are taught to regard
as the noblest work of God. The
leading spirit sued the Chronicle for
libel, and claimed twenty or twenty
five thousand dollars damages. The
case was tried about two weeks ago
and an intelligent jury decided that
the Chronicle had not libeled the lead
ing spirit, and that he was not dam
aged to the amount of q wooden nut
meg. A recount was had of the bal
lots cast at an election held at Sacra-
hlchto CIty III loioi db WHICH Tie pro.
ceedings were SO informal and suspi-
cious that the Union reflected some
what severely on the action of the re-
counting committee. Each individ-
ual member of the committee brought
libel suit against the Union, claim
lug ten thousand dollars damages
each. The first of these suits occu-
pied four days of last week in trial,
and the jury, after being out half an
hour, returned verdict in favor of the


Uuion for costs. The other four suits
will be dismissed. The Union claims
that the plaintiff in this suit was
backed by its ancient enemy, the
Central Pacific Railroad, and that per
consequence he was supported with all
the legal talent and financial means
necessary to make the most of his
case.
Year: 1874

EDITOR HERALD: Would any but the Gas
Company be permitted to dig up the streets
and leave them in the condition that corpora
tion has just left Main street? Has the city
no rights the Gas Company is bound TO re-
spect? TAXPAYER.


Los Angeles, Nov. 9th, 1874.


1t is a part of the Gas Company's
contract with the city to leave the
streets in as good condition as they
find them. If this condition is not
complied with, it is the fault of the
citizens or of those whose business it
is to enforce the law. The Gas Com
pany are sticklers for the full measure
of the city's contract with them, and
it is but q mere matter of justice to
the taxpayers that the city should re-
quire an equally strict compliance
with the compact on the part of the
COMPANY.
Year: 1874

1t is an error of Judgment on the
part of those who see only malice as
the prompting motive in all persons
who think differently from them
selves. There are many people who
set down all who do not agree with
them on all questions and issues, as
either knaves or fools. Such people
are themselves to blame if they have


few real friends. We cannot all see
alike nor are any of us free from fault.
An individual ought not to regard as
an enemy one who tells him of an en-
ror or declines an endorsement of his
every act. Corporations are combina-
tions of individuals and are therefore
liable to commit mistakes, perhaps
perpetrate wrongs. Should one do so
and the fact be alluded to, is the per-
son who points it out necessarily an
enemy of that corporation? Certainly
not. The act is one of friendship and
the corporation should so regard it. 1t
enables them to apply the remedy
Year: 1874




IT is announced that in his message
to Congress next month, the President
will say something severe about the
Credit Mobilier swindlers. 1t will
come too late. A forced service is never
highly valued. The President has
never alluded to the class of whole
sale infamies, of which the Credit
Mobiler is one, in any ofhis messages,
ahd it is probable he would not now
do so had not the people spoken so
emphatically against his Administra-
ton. 1t is useless to lock the stable
door after the horse is stolen. The
President had better maintain his rep
utation for stubbornness unto the end
That is about all the reputation he
will be able tie get away with. AT this
late period of his Administration no
amount of villany denunciation will
restore him to the confidence of the
people.
Year: 1874

THE libel suit of the Water Com
pany against the HERALD has al
ready added about one hundred names
to our subscription list and still they
come. Were it not that we do not
wish to hurt the Water Company's
feelings, we would print few of the
many letters we are receiving con-
cerning that respected and respectable
lion
Year: 1874

WHILE nosing around Mr.. BEAU
DRY's private business the Water
Company's organ has discovered
that though the owner of
water works that costs $40,-
600 he pays taxes on n less amount.
Had the organ been disposed to deal
fairly ii would have stated that these
water works were built since the last
assessment was made. But while we
are in the subject of taxes we will ask
the organ if it is not true that the
Water Company with a capital stock
of of $330,000 and an actual cash in
vestment of of over 100000 refuses to
pay cent of taxes on that property?
Year: 1874

The transit of Venus will occur this even
ing, beginning nbout 8 o'clock md ending
at sc minutes past midnight. We do not
publish mass Of information concerning it,
G,r tho reason TINT nono Of our renders will
havo m opportunity of observing the pho-
romenon. It may, however, be interesting
to remember that, as the great majority Of the
residents Of tile Northwest are going to bed
tonight, tue great astronomical problem OF
the nineteenth century will be in process OF
solution,
Year: 1874

We congratulate the citizens of
Nashville upon the result of yesterdays
election. The canvass Just closed has
been marked by an absence of all po-
litieal feeling, stump speaking, the use
of fife and drum, and, in short, the
customary accessories of elections.
Realizing that their interests had suf-
fered by municipal mismanagement
during the past two years, the respec-
table, substantial class of voters de-
cided a new deal to be necessary, and
the desired change was brought about
in the most elective manner possible
by the use of the ballot-box.


In Morton b. Howell Nashville will
have an efficient Mayor-one who
will fill the position with credit to him.
self and those who elected him. What
is equally satisfactory. he will have the
aid and advice, in his official acts,
of a City Council composed chief
ly of solid business msn.


The proposition to levy special tax
to raise 100000 to purchase new
engine for the waterworks, and lay an
eighteen-inch main from the reservoir to
the Public Square, met with favorable
response on the part of our citizens.
Money, to be sure, is scarce and times
are hard, but the engine now in use at
the waterworks has been for twenty
years In constant service and is liable
to give way at any time, in which case
great inconvenience and even suffering
would ensue. The absolute necessity
of laying larger water pipe in the heart
of the city is also admitted, and now,
after this expression of opinion on the
part of a majority of the taxpayers of
the city on this subject, it is to be
hoped that the City Council will never
order the laying Of another foot
of three-inch pipe. Nashville is
growing every day, and, IN lew years,
Will be streching away over the beau
tiful elevations just outlying our pres
ent suburbs. The demand for water
viii be double or treble what it now is,
rendering the small pipe which it has
been the custom to use heretofore ut
terly valueless.


While the tax to be levied may seem
large, 1t should be bJrne In mind that
the additional revenue to be derived
from the largely increased water sup
ply will more than compensate for this
outlay.


For the success of our ticket great
credit is due the City Executive Com
mittee, who have labored necessarily
for the interests ofreform, and have been
untiring In their efforts to secure the
election of representative men to the
council, in order that Mr.. Howell may
be able to carry into effect his plans fol-
general improvement and the restora-
ton of the city's credit.
Year: 1874

AMONG the resolutions adopted by
the Senatorial Convention which met
at McMinnville on Thursday were the
following:


Resolved, That we pledge ourselves
to sustain and uphold the authorities
IN the suppression of outrages-and
deeply deplore many that have been
committed in Middle and West Tennes-
see.


Resolved, That while we heartily
and earnestly advocate and pledge our
selves to the above-that we will In no
wise nor under any circumstances sup
port any man who even squints at the
least love for the supplemental Civil
Rights bill lately passed by the United
States Senate.
Year: 1874

goods, cigars, etc, are all tasteful and ele-
CANT. In this division the Cotton Exchange
exhibits its samples of the American Stand
ard classification of cotton.


Such is a bare outline Of our great show,
as it appears 10 the eye at a glance and
without close inspection. Those who make
industrial fairs a study will find under orr
roof enough to occupy them. Such as want
TO have a good time in every way will find
it to their purpose to visit our show.


As to the pecuniary success of the Expo
sitiOn-a matter that interests our local
readers-the results and indications already
assure this to the satisfaction Of the BOar,l
of Managers.
Year: 1874

THE Carpet-bag Convention which
is to meet in Chattanooga on the 18th
of next month was called,
as every intelligent Southern man
understands, for but one pur-
pose-to influence the November
elections at the North. But why should
not we of the South have our say
The devil must be fought with his own
fire.
Year: 1874

Here's news for yOu, mother, the old farmer


said,
As he paused where his good wife was


making her bread
I've been talking awhile with our good


neighbOr Brown,
And he says they've stopped selling liquor


in town.
/ Just took off nv hat and shouted huzza,
When he said men had TO live up TO the law; :;
And | knew it would make your heart happy


TO know,
They have dried up the fountain of madness


and woe.
Now the town will he quiet and peaceful


again,
And the streets won't he crowded with wild


drunken men,
And the boys won't be tempted to smoke


drink and fight,
To gamble all day and carOuse all the night.
There's Jane, bless her heart, she will dance


like a top,
For she can go back now and sew in the shop;
1t won't be unsafe for her now, am sure,
For though she is thoughtless, the child's


heart is pure.
You needn't buy things at the Corners no


more,
For I'll send Sam to town to the big dry
goods store,
He won't come home drunk with the buggy


broke down.
For tell you they've stopped selling liquor


in town.
There's Jim, he won't study and don't take


TO work,
We can let him 90 now and hire out for a


clerk,
1t will do the boy good, he'll find out it amt


play,
And there amt any grog shops to lead him


astray.
And there's little Peter, you know how he


learns,
And how he saves every penny he earns,
To buy new book, and the boys got plan
That he'll be a lawyer when he is a man.
So, if You are willing to venture, think
We will send him to town now, he won't


learn TO drink,
They've got good school, and he'll learn


very fast,
I'm glad they have stopped selling liquor at


last
lie paused, and the wife Of his youth made


reply.
While joy sent the tear-dropS like pearls


from hereye
Heaven bless the pure hearts that have put


this curse down;
Thank God they have quit selling liquor in


TOWN
Year: 1874

THIS hand tonight will surely pen
The fatal word that rends
The chords so cherished once; hut then
We both were better friends.
Twill scarcely give us pain at last
To break the silken bond
That bound us to the tender past,
Fair, promising, and fond
And let it 90, without a sigh.
At least with slight regret
For better days are doomed to die,
And we can both forget.
4 friendship, which was that in name
But was il more-Or less.
That brought sweetness into life
And left bitterness.
| can send back each souvenir


And calmly, heaven knows;
Nor wish to keep one loving line,
Nor hide one withered rOsei
No wild pulse thrills my bosom now,
Nor bids my fingers stay;
Our idol has been dead 80 long


Wen bury it to-day.
Beneath the careless mOrrow's smile,
As though the tears that blot
The story of all else that's lost,
In this had been forgot;
And let it be nameleSs grave
A hidden hermitage
But one TO which our sated hearts
Shall make no pilgrimage.
Year: 1874

There has been n marked decline IN
real estate in New York within the last
year-a positive decline. \ very few
dwellings and stores were rented TINS
spring at the old rates, but a great ma
icrity of landlords were compelled 10 be
content with a reduction Of from 20 to
so per cent. And consequently the price,


or rather value. or real estate. has de-
cIined correspOndingiy. This is not al
together the effect of the panic, though
Of course that had something TO do with
il. But there are other causes more DO
tent than panics. The city i governed
by non-prOperty-holders, who take great
pleasure in sweating property. The
rOughs and bruisers. who are either in
the government personally or control
those who are in. look upon the tax
payers as their Legitimate game. and
they make the most of them The tax
payer Is pOwerless; for the roughs can
and do elect not only the city govern
ment. but, in the hands of the rings,
have a controlling power in the Leelsia-
ture Of the State Taxes are piled ON IN
Year: 1874

Coon IDEA.-A soft, full voice Is "a
pleasant thing, particularly in woman"
and rather rare possession IN these
d,ys Of squeaky sopranos and brassy
contraltos which render conversation a
hideous medley of discordant sounds.
Perhaps we are a little too hard in our
criticism; but igh-pitched, discordant
voice is Just the one thing in this little
world which we cannot endure in pa
tieuce; and We cordially agree with those
admirers of elocution who desire its
study to become general. No one per.
son among ten thousand uses his or her
voice tremendously; indeed. people sell
dom think of studying elocution unless
they are stage or poetry struck. They
do not imagine there is any use for them
to speak properly, so long ns they know
how to dispose of the moods, lenses.
number and cases of sentences, while
the truta is, the real work is just begun
upon the requirement of that knowl-
edge. Not for moment ia it advanced
that every remark should be studied and
precise. The principles of elocution,
though well defined, are 30 simple thai
they may become u second nature to
those who will learn them, and then,
without thinking, conversation becomes
concise, correct, to the point, graceful
and artistic. But before women try
to speak we'll, they must learn to
breathe correctly. The woman style Of
breathing only down to the second CLASP
on a corset bone will not answer the pur
pose. Respiration must be deep, strong
and regular. The man breath in poin
of fact Is the kind required. 1t is no
out OF place to state in this connection
that while the women continue to lac,
their waists there will be two clasiica
tons OF breathing, the man breath ant
the woman breath. A man breathe
down into the abdomen, which womel
are either too modest or too foolish t
do. In this case the exception prove
the rule. Women who toll at hard labo
cannot afford corsets, short breaths
They respire like men, and how they ca
use their voices-when they scold! Som
of them would embalm their names /
glory il they could buy stock OF goo
IDEAS, il they have none on hand, an
take the rostrum. So take of your cor
sets, my good lady, nor wonder, els
your husband thinks you ''simpleton


for enduring the discomfort of wearin
them. The "Anti-Fashion Convention


will have done good work If twenty.fiv
ladies' are induced to resign their pc
torture; for. as great endings sprln
from small beginnings, there is hope thu
SO good an example may soon be 10
lowed by all the thinking. women
America. Then we'll talk about elocr
toni Waverley Magazine.
Year: 1874

The TRUE GENTLEMAN.-Show us the
young man who can quit the society Of the
young, and take pleasure in listening to the
kindly voice of age. show us man who
bows as politely and gives the street as free
ly to the poor sewing girl as the millionaire;
who values virtue, not clothes; show us the
man who never forgets for an Instant the
delcasy and respect due a woman, as a
woman, in any condilion--and you show us
a true gentleman.
Year: 1874

CRpIIdI &ueSlIOn.

 It is some comfort to talk about rail way and other prospects in Arizona. One thing is certain and that is each year brings us nearer to the enjoyment of rail ways The influences at work will ere many years effect the construction of at least one great overland line, and perhaps somo feeders-the one to Guaymas for instance, which of itself will be large affair, and only second in importance to the Texas and Pacific. The Gila valley is the route made by nature for the latter, and the former can hardly fail to connect with it via the Santa Cruz valley, and heRce Tucson will be on the line. Engin- oers spent years and hundreds of thou sands of dollars in trying to avoid the valley of the Humboldt on the Central Pacific, but could not; and any efforts to substantially avoid the Gila valley will result likewise. The present reports of preliminary surveys show the Gila route to be a most favorable one-by far more favorable for light work, light grades and easy curves than any, other across the continent. The good water along every mile of it, and the mild climate, and the fact that this line passes through the heart of by lar the greatest and only consid orable agricultural belt of our Territory, are facts that have great weight with rail way builders. In California and Nevada, :1ining communities grow and decline, and stock ranges are eaten up and tramp cd out, but the Sacramento, San Joaquin and other agricultural valleys are each year becoming more populous and wealthy and always will. So will it be in Arizona Mining towns will grow and we hope flourish forever, but experience proves they are liable not to. The large business of the future in Arizona, will be trans acted in the Gla and Salt river valleys. Other places will flourish but all con- tribute to the prosperity and business of them. The largest city of this Territory will be built in its agricultural section. The known permanency aud continuous stability of agriculture will insure it; and these with the water, climate and level surface it, will inevitably influence the route of the great overland railroad from cast to west. Advices from Washington 1 indicate favorable action on President Scott's proposition for ample aid, aud the terms of hIs own bill compel a compile uon of the whole line within six years. These are facts-for facts they are and | time will prove them to be such-which | we commend to the Yuma and Maricopa | members of the coming legislature. Wise men will not want to put the public prop erty and offices on wheels, especially | when in few years at furthest, they may | serve both public and private interests best by not doing it. So far as we are concerned, we are determin- ed to remain in Tucson with or without | the capital. Looking to the future and l to the welfare ot the Territory the reten- tlon of the capital where it is until rail- | ways develop the proper location for it, is better and more economical, and legis- lators ought to govern their action ac- cordinglY. t1- '-4
Year: 1874

The cllY ia'hers of Corsicana have
at last pleased the Observer man.
They have built walks across the
square to the Courl-house. Now
Dick, old boy, they should build a
comfortable walk from the Observer
Office TO the jail, and then the public
will be pleased.
Year: 1874

The Statesmen wants the papers oil
the State to cease complimcnting
leading Radicals at the expense of
their advisers. 1t is so seldom that
they do anything commendable that
when they do, the Statesman should
no; grudge them the small need OF
praise they get.
Year: 1874

Alex II. Stephens made powerful
speech the other day in Congress
against the Civil Rights Bill, in which
he took occasion to say that the spirit
of Jefersonian Democracy was not
dead, and they who asserted that it
was, were making tremendous mis-
take. Principles are eternal and can
never die. This is the true position.
No! Democracy can never die
Year: 1874

Scribbleton was prompt in keeping his ap-
pointment at the Simpsons. He was received
with gracious courtesy by Mr.. and Mrs.
Simpson, and with shy pleasure by Jennie
Howard; and the evening passed off agreea-
bly, to ali parties. Both the retired merchant
and his estimable wife formed u favorable
opinion of our author, for nothing occurred
to call out his idiosyncracies, and when they
were.k kept IN the background, Scribbleton was
a man to produce a favorable impression up
on any one. And Jennie, when Scribbleton
had taken his departure, and she had gone to
her room, was forced to acknowledge to her.
self that her first unaccountable interest in the
young author was considerably deepened.
The rocking chair, her favorite seat again
swayed gently in the dim light of the low
turned lamp as for long time previous to
retiring she wrought the delightful fancies
of young love; and when she went to bed
and fell asleep, Scribbleton mingled with her
last waking thoughts and passed on into the
sweet dreams that wreathed in smiles the pill
lowed face of the beautiful sleeper. AS for
Scribbleton, when he descended the steps of
Year: 1874

Few of us ever st> , to think how CID the
Bible is. Yet ''the Scriptures are beleyed by
candid writers are believed by candid writer's
and critics to contain the most ancient forms
of truth now known to men," With the aid
of chronological tables, any one may easily
make profitable comparison between the an
tiquity of the book and that Of other writings
and events. The Scriptures contain the only
authentic history of the world before the flood.
We find in the Pentateuch one or two stanZas
of poetry composed in the antediluvian pc
Rod. The Hebrew statutes were enacted a
thousand years before Justinian reformed the
Roman jurisprudence. In the Bible we have
the record of the chartered rights secured TO
the people more than two thousand years be-
fore the Magma Charta. What a sensation
would be produced if the first chapter of
Genesis should appear for the first time in
one of the newspapers tomorrow. Yet there
can be no doubt that that chapter contains
the oldest writing, twenty-five hundred years
before the invention Of printing. Xenophon's
his Memorabilia, seems an o)A book to us,yet
six hundred years before The works of
Tacitus, Plutarch and Quintillian are not
modern: vet the books of the New Testament
are older than they. As to the Book of Job,
its age is beyond conjecture Those who
make it "a modern as they can are compelled
to place its origin at least one thousand years
before Homer. When Priam was King of
Troy, Job was of remote antiquity The
name of Alexander has no modern sound for
us, yet when Alexander invaded Syria the
book of Job might have been read before him
as the work of an author more time -honOred
than the name of Alexander is now. The
writings of Confucius are modern when CON-
pared with most of the Bible, and the most
that the Hindoos can justly claim for their
sacred books, the Vedas, is that they were
written five hundred years after the death of
Moses. The Koran is book fresh from the
press compared with the Holy Scriptures.
Year: 1874

BUcKwHEAT PANCAKEs.--Pure buck
wheat flour when baked into cakes, as
is usual, is apt to 'lie heavy on the
stomach" the fact has given rise to the
remark. To obviate this and improve
otherwise, mix Graham flour with the
buckwheat-a little more than two
thirds buckwheat with onc-third Gra-
ham or unbolted wheat flour. This
may be mixed in large quantity, and
kept at hand ready for use. The Gra-
ham flour will make it light, aid diges-
ton, and make it palatable and whole
some. 1t can be mixed and baked at
short notice, by making batter with
sour milk from the churn, and raised
with soda, or what is more generally
acceptable, mix and set by the stove
over night. If the first morning is
not sufficiently light, it will the next
and thereafter if not kept to warm. 1t
may be mixed with water or milk
milk is best-and in either case little
soda should he added just before bak-
ing; more where sour milk Is used.
Give il fair test.