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Year: 1874

The most unpopular institution in
the State of California at this mo-
ment, is the concern known as the
State University. The State Univer-
sity is an educational institution. 1t
has cost the State and the people of
California little less than one thous-
and dollars per annum for each stu
dent who has availed himself of the
munificient offers extended to those
youths thirsty for knowledge. It is
an unpopular, disreput able concern,
and we doubt if the people ever con-
ceive feeling of confidence in it. 1t
is managed by small coterie of ars-
tocrats and shoddyites. The commit
tee or circle who passed sentence on
Professor CARR thought he was too
much of a peoples man, that he did
not wear fine shirts nor fashionable
boots, and that he affiliated too
closely with those who titled the soil,
and they thought this ample grounds
for recommending his removal. Well,
it may be all right, but we doubt it.
The farmers of this State are
alive and vigilant; they do not intend
to be imposed upon, and the State
University, although it has shrewd
and wide awake Board of Regents,
cannot deceive the people into the be-
lief that the institution is worthy the
public confidence. AS stated at the
outset, the State University is an un-
popular and withal disreputable con-
cern.
Year: 1874

Mr.. DAVIS will return to this city
in three or four days with five of the
ALDEN fruit evaporators. The build
ing for these fruit dryers is now In
course of erection and will be ready
for occupancy on their arrival. 1t is
worthy of note that the evaporators of
Mr.. DAVIS will be provided with all
modern improvements of Mr.. ALDEN
the inventor of this popular process of
fruit drying.
Year: 1874

THE most popular movement that
has attracted the attention of our citi-
zens for long time is that of the Los
Angeles and Coast Railroad Company.
The stock is sought for by all classes
of the community and the success of
the scheme is admitted.
Year: 1874

DECLINES. Mr.. Harvey L. Pike, in
view OF the unseemly scramble for Office
In this county, has come to the sensible
conclusion that "the post of honor is the
private station" and therefore requests
US to say that he will not stand as a
candidate for County Surveyor, for
which Office he was nominated on the
'People's" ticket. He believes he can
pursue his vocation more respectfully
and satisfactory to himself, without the
aid of Office.
Year: 1874

good practical business qualifications,
sound common sense, and too much
discrimination to oe foolel or led into
any indiscretions by sharp attorneys in
the Legislature. They are safe men to
guard and promote the common inter-
ests, and will exert much larger infiu-
ence from the fact that they are neither
of them enamored of the music of their
own voices in public debate, and will
waste none ofthe time of the Legisla-
ture in magnifying their own oratorical
powers.


Entertaining toward Mr.. McGiIvra the
kindest sentiments of personal respect,
we very much regret that he should
have persisted in forcing himself upon
the people as candidate, after having
gone before two Coyentions and been
rejected by both. And we much more
regret that after this repeated rejection,
which would have been conclusive to
any man of ordinary modesty, he should
have been so needless of his public OBJ
legations as to drag the Railroad into
his own personal controversy. That is
matter too vital to the public interest
to be used as make>weight In local
politics.
Year: 1874

We do but scant justice to the Dem
ocratic and Conservative Executive
Committee when we say that their con-
duct of the canvass just closed entities
them to the lasting gratitude of the
people of Davidson county. But
for the energy, sagacity and firm
ness displayed in so extraordinary
a degree by its chairman and
members, the victory could not
have been won. At no state Of the
struggle were they unequal to the de-
mands made upon theirresources, while
the compactness of organization which
they effected under such peculiar cir
cumstances was almost unparalleled in
the history of Tennessee politics.
When weagain march upon the enemy,
may they be there to lead.
Year: 1874

Gustave Does new painting with the
above ti,le is described by the London
Academy as a wonderful drama on can
vas. The picture represents Filafe's wife
standing ON a staircase with an angel
on her left hand the right wing of tho
angel is ruddy with the reflected glow
Of the torches i'm the deserted bed room !;
the left is purple with visionary light.
lie is opening Eer spiritual sight to the
scene Of the morrow in the pr,etorium
where Plate appears, and TO much beside.
Pilates wife and tl.e angel stand at the top
Of the picture. q! the spectators left hand;
the scene in the p,gl0rium faces them,
above, and near to them on the left,
is balcony, where the oppressed Of all
ages seem 90 be stretching their chained
hands TO the great victim Of oppression;
below, at the bottom Of the right side OF
the picture, is a gorgeous. agitated group OF
oppressOrs between them is the procession
to Calvary, which transforms itself into
another procession, which seems meant for
the eternal crusade Of humanity, with war
riors in mail, and prelates with cleaning
crOsiers, marching up to a cross that CLEANS
amid the hierarchies Of heaven.
Year: 1874

The returns of the election as to the
sale of the county railroad stock were
exceedingly meagre, but the impression
generally obtained that the majority of
those voting on the question voted in
favor of allowing the County Court to
sell the stock.
Year: 1874

As a matter of course, there will be
an enthusiastic popular response to the
call of the Executive Committee for a
grand jollifeation tonight. Let it be
worthy of the magnificent victory
which the people have achieved.
Year: 1874

THE telegraph report from the cleo
tiOn yesterday in the old North State is
meagre, but our adEices areto the effect
that six of the eight Congressman are
for the Democracy, while a seventh is
doubtful, and the eighth is pretty cer-
tain to be a regular Civil Rights thor
oughbred negro, from the Third Dis
trict. Thepeople throughout the State
are aroused, and the heaviest vote since
the war has been polled.
Year: 1874

GENERAL indignation was expressed
yesterday at the trick by which the
names of candidates on the White
Mans ticket were erased and others
substituted. In the opinion of able
lawyers, it is an indictable offense, and
criminal proceedings will probably be
commenced against the guilty par
ties.
Year: 1874

A NORTH CAROLINA belle recently took
quite a horseback ride near MOrgaBtOn in
that State. She vas riding rapidly with a
gentleman down long slope when the gen
tleman's horse tumbled and fell The
lady's horse cleared both him and rider at
one leap, and then became quite unman-
aseable Two hundred yards further on
a narrow lane was bI0ckaded by negro,
mule aud cart sli,are across it. Her horse
was carrsring at full speed. To pass round
was impossible, to stop equally so; but the
agile animal at one fsarfui bOund cleared
negro, mule and cart. The charming
equeStrienne never for 4 nIment lost her
balance, and was laughing gayly when her
horse was checked two miles further on.
Year: 1874

Boss Shepherd made ruoful comparison In
his communication to the District Of Columbia
Investigating Committee botweon tho oxpendi-
lures for tho improvement Of the District made
by tho National aud the Local Government. Flo
thought restitution ought to be mado to
tho District Treasury. A bill has been aub-
mistod to tho House by tho Delegate from
the District to meet this point. He
would havo Government property in tile
District taxed like that of individuals. Tho
ditrorouce between the appropriations Of the
two Governments Hinco 1900 for District
improvements, which is against tho Fed
Federal Treasury, is to bo restored to the Dis
trict for tho redemption Of its debt. FinaIly,
the Secretary Of tho Interior ia to include in each
ANIMAL estimate half the sum necessary to ruin
the District for the year.
Year: 1874

Nobody In tile House OF Representatives was
In the mood for doing anything yesterday. At
The evening aession only oght members wore Oh
hand. Thoro was @ quorum present during the
day, but no appoals of the Speaker could induce
them to vote one way or another on tho bill be-
fore them to establish q National Board OF
Health. Perhaps they thought tie national
health would be g. great deal safer If Congress
lot it alone At NIL events, after fooling away
Tho Whole day, nothing WAS done but to refer
he monentous matter to next Mondays caleu-
lar
Year: 1874

April was fixed last evening by tho Trustees
Of McOarthys church as tho date Of business
meeting OF tho congregation to consider tho
question OF tho dissolution of the relations
between tho pastor aud the church.
Tho meeting was vicious md turbulent
to an extent that recent experience would in
hicate could only be attained by an ccclesaatical
body. The coming Congregational Council In
New York will mood to display unusual dignity
to atone for the ofrensss OF tile Episcopalian
and Baptist brethren. Tho only secular as
semblage that could fairly be considered to
approach the Trustees' meeting Of last evening
lu oHeusiveness would DO tho Common Council
Of thia city.
Year: 1874

SUBSTANTIAL HELP. Council Commit
tee on Water have agreed to render sub
stantial help to the Richmond Relief Commit
see to the extent Of giving employment in
constructing the new reservoir to eight
men, heads of families, who have been
this winter dependent upon the committee
for assistance. Such men have to get the
recommendation of members of the Relief
Committee, and will be assigned to duty aud
can 60 to work at once. ~ ..0#a
Year: 1874

OvERDREss.-It is to be feared at the


present day that the women of the


upper circles are spending fortunes
on the toilette, which good mothers
of former times would have saved to
endow their children; that less veal
thy women are bringing a certain
misery TO many a home by emula-
ting the classes above them; whilst
those of humber rank, rushing ca
gerly in the same mad race of vanity,
exhaust the surplus means that used
V b laid BY GoF marriage PeFtlopI
Year: 1874

beaver for the bill, and went home
with chip hat that he bought from
a boy He was also heard to make
the remark that he was disenchant-
ed. He knew he could never sup
port a woman who could eat so
much. 4 "


Passing other lovers, about whom
people saw comical things which for
some reason did not strike me as
being so absurd, perhaps it was be-
cause / had more tender feelings
than of yore, come to a lover who
annoyed me later in life. He was a
youth of twenty, several years my
junior, so tall that I had to look
twice to see the top Of his head +;
thin as a country editors pocket
book, and as conceited as a Bantam
rooster. He delighted in thread
bare outer clothes and dirty shirt,
ana considered himself genius of
high order. He worked for me in
my printing Office; consequently I
was thrown daily in his company,
and though he did not tell his love,
his actions were enough to drive
one wild. He had strange, dark,
gray eyes, which took terrible
wild appearance when he was not
pleased, and squinted ap sickishly
when he got iin a loving humor.
He had an ungainly nose, and very
white teeth placed far in his mouth,
giving him an uncomfortable look.
Then his straight dark hair, no lock
which was ever guilty of even a
wave, generally stood on ends, each
individual hair. taking up life on
It's own account, and spurning Its
fellows. 80


He was exceedingly attentive
If I attempted to clear up my desk,
he went to work at it too; If | cross
ed the Office for any article l want,
ed, he stumbled ahead of me and
brought it to me; if I was making
up a book-form, he annoyed me so
by trying to hand me the rules,
leads, quoins, &C., that I sometimes
ordered him out of my presence
only to find that he would not go;
and more he presisted in accompa-
nying me home, in spite of my de
ciarations that his attentions were
Objectionable to me. Once when
was walking on the street with a
gentleman, he had the audacity to
step between us, and walk there
until / reached home. The next
morning l found one of his poems
on my desk. 1 will give one verse
here as sample:
"Though the day doth bear no song,


And the night be dark and long,


When the storm clouds gather Ger the,


And the hail falls thick and fast,


Then I'll throw my strong arm round


And uphold the to the blast"


His voice was something between
the quacking of a duck and the fl
ing of a saw, sinking and rising
from high to low and low to high
along the scale, and he was always
singing. "Belle Ma Hone" was his
song. He would squint up his eyes
and look me in the face at the be-
ginning, then turn them upward
with a--a-..s
Year: 1874

But so it is, and so it viii be until the
end of time, unless-well l might
as well out with it-unless the Pro
fessor 6nds in his examinations some
one peculiarly fitted to my "qaeer"
nature, who will take me at the
Professors recommendation, when
l shall cheerfully consent to become
a victim to matrimony in order to
further the progress of. science.
Year: 1874

was addressed to her family solicitor.
It recalled TO his mind promise he had
made her. She had gone to see him,
and had asked him to make out for her
a paper transferring the whole OF her
property to a person whose name she
would not then give lin. He was to
prepare the necessary paper and sendit
to her to fill up the blanks and to sign.
She had done this, and she now erclos-
ed the paper, filled up and signed. Ey"
cry penny of her property was given to
the doctor, and the solicitor was in-
structed to make the transfer to him, to
ask no questions, and to take no re-
ceipt. The other letter was to the doc.
tor. 81 told you l should die," said
she, land when you receive this shall
be dead. For ten days I have taken
no food nor no drink; but 1t does not
kill me, and now have taken poison.
have no reproach to make to you, but
could not live without your love.
When am dead, look at my heart.
You will see your name there. 1 have
two requests to make of you. Go to my
solicitor and take what he has for you,
and then go of on holiday to Italy
for few months. The other request
is that you never ask where I am buri-
ed, and never come to my grave"


There was post mortem examlna-
ton made Of the young lady's body. On
her breast, over her heart, deeply i'm
printed in the flesh. we're the initial Of the
doctors name. The characters seemed
to have been made there two or three
years before. They were probably i'm
printed by her own hand on the day
when she first saw him.
Year: 1874

Touch me lightly, for it is plain
That will never be myself again.
was new in your grandfathers days,
And then could sweetly, softly play,
Aye when touched by hands of art,
could charm the fairest lady's heart,
But now-alas l am sad and lone
With my voice cracked and out of tone,
While rheumatism in my joints and bones,
VIII fully explain my hedious tones.
was played upon for several years,
by many, now beyond ''this vule of tears, :,
And, would that were among the mum.


ber


OF those who thus so sweetly slumber.
You may tune me, do with me as you


please,
But I'll always belch the same old wheeze
Do you expect me to sound as of yorc?
With "the raven" I'll exclaim, "never


more"


Still will do my very best to suit you all,
BY being ever responsive to your call,
That is TO the best of my limited ability,
nyou1l excuse my general debility.
"Music hath charms to soothe the savage


breast"


If such be the fact-at once give me rest,
For If gentle savage were to hear me


play


I fear he'd scalp each of you right away.
A few more words and I'll have done,
For feel my course is nearly run,
Even now, the hour ofmy dissolution nears
And am tottering meath my weight OF


years


Then, why not quit my anxious fears?
Surely each member will be more than


blest,
When am gone where old organs are at


rest;


So try and do all you possibly can
To replace poor me, with new organ.
Year: 1874

Through which every desirable article


In New York IL furnished at the


lowestrates without extra charge.


Our Own Fireside Is Home journal
in Its fourth year. 16 large pages with
Illustrations. Price, $3.50 q year
Every subscriber makes selection of q
valuable premium from the many Offer
ed. Those subscribing now receive the
paper the remainder of the year free Of
charge.
Year: 1874

had better go and see DR.. Lothrop."


She did go and told him all about it.
"And so, my dear. you went 10 the par
ty and danced, did your" he said. ''Yes
SIR" And did you have good time?"
"Yes, SIR" "Well I am glad of it, and
I hope you will go again and enjoy your
self. And now want you to tell me
the name of the woman who has been
making you all this trouble" She told.
go to that woman and tell her from
me, that if she wants to get to heaven
she had better make more use Of her
feet and less of her tongue"
Year: 1874

Says a recent number Of: Frank Les
lies Illustrated Newspaper, |" Over
500, 900 tracts were issued to farmers
by the National Grange last year


This little paragraph, in an ont Of the
way corner of the journal from which it
is taken, is full of meaning to the mem
bers Of the Grange. Il shows that the
Order is honestly and efficiently perform
ing one of the principal portions OF its
work, for one of its main objects is the
collection and dissemination of informa-
tion relating to agricultural interests
and OF value to the farmer. Half mil
lion little tracts sanctioned and sent out
from the Central Grange find their way
to millions of readers. They are couched
in plain and simple language, and
abound in practical information. They
are read, also. The farmer receiving
such tract reads it with confidence, as
he knows that it has come from men
who are earnestly seeking his good as a
member Of the great interest for which
they are working. * x *


The Grange does not regard the farm.
er as mere machine, a mere drudge
1t looks upon him as reasonable re-
sponsible being, and seeks to elevate and
improve him. It stretches over him
the shield of it's protection against the
enemies that assail him and seek to rob
him Of the rewards of his Industry it
offers him the means of social enjoy
ment, and teaches him the duty Of health
full recreation and pleasure; it recog-
nizes the right Of woman to share the
pleasures as we'll as cares of man, and
secures her pure andennobling influence
and cooperation in it's work and it
teaches and enforces the lesson that the
most intelligent and thoughtful farmer
is sure to be the most successful.


In short, the Grange seeks to make
better farmers of the agricultural class.


X It is to the farmer a wise
and judicious friend, and it advises only
that which his own good sense tells him
is the best course for him.-Histo,y of
Grange Increment.
Year: 1874

4 hireling Congress, that has been in
their hands like "clay in the hands q
the potter" while the true interests Of
our land has been overlooked. The real,
the substantial interest of our country
is it's landed estate. it is the bed rock
and foundation of our whole structure ;
financial panics don't disturb its solidity,
it is the same from one generation to an-
other, you cannot drive it away, neither
can it run away; how unlike capital
that hides itself when the breath of a
Jay Cooke strikes it !; it is gone before
you are aware Of it. and searching for
it, is like the old "Sam" looking for a
"needle in hay stack; ~ to-day in
New York, tomorrow in Europe, and is
as likely to turn up in China or Japan
as anywhere else; in its absence it cre-
ates debt, and the landed interests of
the country must foot the bill. In the
future we must see to it for ourselves.
that men who want Office must he
"above .suspicion," tried men that can
not be bought or sold, men on whom
the - smell Of fire had not passed" "
The powers that be are with our ene-
mics; while one hand is held out to us,
the other is spread to its fullest extent
receiving subsidies, railroad stock,
and bribes of all kinds, and these are
so lavishly given, that they bring down
the scales on the wrong side; it may
look little curious to us farmers, but
not having handled these articles we
are ignorant of their weight. I
suppose they must be the $: Weightier
matters of the Law"


UNCLE TOM.
Year: 1874

On Following.Up.


The editor Of the Riverside Bulletin
always has something good to say, be-
fore he says anything. And he never
said anything better than the following,
which We extract from his number for
October first:


The world of business is always roll
ling its little paper wads and firing
them at passers-by, but we doubt if
there are any three words which embody
so much stern wisdom as those which
every business man is called upon to utter
to his subordinate or associates, "Fol-
low it up" They are in the air so
constantly that there is no need to shout
them from placards or letters Of gold.
The sum of rules for success is con-
tanned in them. How many an ardent
beginner in a profession or business,
who started on full run, has come
limping in after his fellows, because he
could not follow it up. How many a
capital piece of game has been lost be-
cause the hunter who beat the bush had
forgotten to load his gun, and 50 could
not follow it up. How many a servant
has loitered by tie way because: his
master. having sehs him on an errand,
did not follow him up.


A merchant who had built large
business by judicious advertising, told
the editor once that he had system Of
dispatching circulars by messengers to
the houses of possible customers.-
i" But how" asked the editor, could
you be sure that your messengers de-
livered them ?" cob! I sent man
to watch them" "And then you
watched him? ?" EYES," He was a
follower-up. This indeed touches upon
the special weakness Of organizations
otherwise we'll planned and meant to
run we'll. The chief gives an order to
his subordinate, who executes it throug h
other agents. Now there are few per-
sons removed two degrees from the one
actually fulfilling an order who do not
temporarily lose sight of it. They do
not follow it up in mind and remain un-
easy until it comes back in the shape of
a trustworthy report as complete and
fulfilled. 1t is so easy to give an order
and regard the thing as then done. 1t
is like Mr.. Micawber's method of pay
ing his debts by giving notes for which
he had made no provision. The army
system of punctual reports is requisite
in every large establishment; but in
every establishment, large or small, the
essential thing is that the person in
charge should knoeo in some way or
other that an order is carried out, and
should follow every order to its execu-
ton.


The motto is equally applicable to
the conduct Of any enterprise. Unless
it be followed up, the positions gained,
held securely and ne" advances made,
the immediate success soon becomes
worthless. The mao in the parable
Who had his one pound was so far we'll
of, but because he did not follow it up
he never got to be ruler over even one
little city. And as We seem gradually
dropping, not into poetry but preaching,
finally, brethren. observe the sigui6-
canoe Of the word up. "Follow it up "
is the text, because every persistent
pursuit leads one on to higher vantage
ground. No man who eyer faithfully
followed his work found he was follow:
ing it down.
Year: 1874

The jackson Co.. Republican
inquiries Of our correspondent the loca-
ton Of the fine lead Of coal that has
been opened near Jackson. We hope
our correspondent will make a note Of
this. An. editor should not be ignorant
Of the topography, the minerology and
geology Of the section Of the country in
which he lives. There was some ex-;
cuse for Ignorance before THE GRANGE
ADVANCE came into existence, but
now let all men be fully enlightened.