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Year: 1874

The railroad magnates. CRocKER,
Cotton, GRAY and GAGE, returned
from the east yesterday morning.
They extended their tour as far east
as San Gorgonio Pass. They are Law
ish in their praise of the country be-
tween here and the Pass, and especial
ly of that around San Bernardino


The party had long consultation
with the people of San Bernardino on
Monday night, and the utmost good
feeling prevailed. The citizens offered
TO furnish the ties and assist in grad
ing the road and take stock in the
road in payment therefor. The party
report the San Gorgonio Pass one of
the finest for railroad purposes. The
preparation of the road bed from
Spadra to and through the Pass is
neither difficult nor expensive. 1t is
not yet definitely known what
amount of the road will be
built this year, nor is 1t
Year: 1874

We have, it appears, walked the
wrath of the Water Company, and
we are in consequence threatened with
libel suits, personal violence, and
other little unpleasantries calculated
to disturb the equilibrium of an even
tempered institution. This would be
discomforting, were it not that we
cheer ourselves with the conscious
ness that we have uttered nothing but
what We have abundant reasons for
believing to be true, and that in maxi
ing the statements that have appeared
in the HERALD relative to the impur-
tiles of the water furnished this city,
we have done the people lasting SER
vice, for which we are daily receiving
their thanks. 1t Is not our purpose to
make single unfair or prejudiced
statement relative to the reservoirs
of the Los Angeles Water Company,
nor do we believe that we have print
ed a single word on the subject that
will not be sustained by those of our
citizens who have Informed them
selves as to the facts in connection
Herewith. On the other hand, if by
calling attention to irregularities and
impurities at the fountain head of a
stream from which twelve thousand
people obtain their water for domestic
purposes, we shall cause correction
of those irregularities and a removal
of those impurities, we shall regard
ourselves as successful performers of a
Herculean task and rejoice that the
work is done, even though in doing it
We have drawn upon ourselves the
enmity and i'll will of all the self-as-
sumed "exclusive franchise" in the
city Of Los Angeles. The HERAL D
is the peoples paper and it expects
the i'll will of those who have proven
themselves anything but the friends of
the people.
Year: 1874

known OH what part OF the route it
will be built. Thecompany expect to
add fifty miles to the track which now
terminates at Bakersfield. A twenty
mile section is already ordered, and
thirty miles more will be added before
Spring. This will extend the track
some thirty miles into 7Tehachape
Pass, or within seventy miles of San
Fernando. Mr.. CRoCKER says, how
ever, that it is more than probable
work will be commenced on the
extension east from Spadra, at the
same time track laying is going on
south of Bakersfield. Should these
plans be carried out, and there is every
reason to believe they will, we shall
have the benefits of one hun
dred miles additional track within
the next four or five months. The
plans of the company concerning this
part of the State will be arranged as
soon as Messrs. CRoCKER and Cotton
return to Sacramento. taGaiE e
Year: 1874

THE Democrats of San Francisco
thought they could afford to burn a
few pounds of powder on Telegraph
Hill in honor OF recent victories in the
East. The Chronicle alludes to the
fact in the graceful style that charac-
terizes Tom-cat when n heavy boot
presses his TAIL For a professed lnde-
pendent paper, the Chronicle has a
most cordial hatred of Democrats.
Year: 1874

Says the Lake county Bee of Thurs
day: ga large party of surveyors is
just now on the shores of Clear Lake.
Without making a positive assertion,
we believe we are justified in stating
that the visit of these gentlemen is
made under the auspices of the San
Francisco Board of Supervisors.
Year: 1874

If "Observer had read our little
cotemporary's issue of last evening,
he would not have made the above
enquiry. A paper that will deliber-
ately assert that the water furnished
this city is pure, is either a fool, a
knavc or slave.
Year: 1874

ST. LOUIS, Jan. 10.-A young man
named Tanzberger, living in Meraville
township of this county, took a dose of
poison yesterday with the view of killing
himself, but for fear it would not do its
work speedily enough, blew his brains out
with pistol. The cause of the act was
opposition to his marriage to a young lady
in his neighbOrhoOd by both his own and
her parents.
Year: 1874

THE House seems to have spent yes
terday in random speeches with Ran
dom Butler from Tennessee in the
chair. The Senate was not IN session
at all, and the salary grab repeal still
hangs fire. Another week wasted, and
nothing done. Congress seems TO have
learned little from mingling with the
people during the holidays. There is
but little ground for indulgingany hope
of reform from this body. In view of
the sea of corruption through which
the Radicals are wading; they conclude
with Macbeth that ''to return were te-
dious as 90 DER"
Year: 1874

The following clipping from the CiI3cil-
natl Times treats Of very important mat
ter:


Arrests on suspicion have long afforded
food for reflection, especially by those
against whom the charge is placed. Aman
is arrested by an officer of the city loaded
with sufficient powers TO take him from his
family and lodge him in the station-hOuSe,
there to remain, in many instances, several
DAYS. without even giving him the poor
privilege Of seeing 4 lawyer, while often,
after thus lying in the cold, damp cells
made for the telons, they are finally liber-
ated without trial, showing the little
grounds officers have for imprisOning them.
Then after being released, after having
their characters blasted by such impriSOn-
ment, they have no remedy for redress.
What would be the price set by any good
citizen were he asked to 90 through the
humiliation consequent upon three days
incarceration in a station-hOuse cell
, in many cases money could not
purchase a three DAYS Imprisonment.
Yet men are dragged there and held
against their wills because an officer be-
lieyeS he nay be guilty of a certain crime.


This morning, in the police court, His
Honor Mayor Johnston, acting as Judge
pro tan., very appropriately came to the
relief Of the victims of arrests on Suspi-
Cion." II appears that a man named Null
holland was arrested on saturday last by
detailed officer White on suspicion of steal
ing a horse and wagon and a lot Of turkeys.
He was conveyed to the Ninth street sta
tiOn and put in a cell. This morning His
Honor took occasion to make the following
remarks in regard to the case in question
aud Others like il:


'.Oficers frequently transcend their au-
thOrity, and commit many flagrant viola
tiOns OF the law by unjust arrests on the
ground Of suspicion, when the prisoner is
not informed Of any charge against him,
and away from any information of friends.
This Is a case where a well known citizen
has been kept secluded without knowledge,
and | now request the officers in command
Of the several StatiOnhOuSeS to see that no
more such oppression is permitted by them,
and TO see that the prisoners are guaran-
teel all their rights, and especially a speedy
trial -
Year: 1874

BALTIMORE will not admit girls to the
High School under Il years of age. 1t
thinks that below this limit the children
would have to undergo a process of mental
forcing, which is very injurious, and quite
opposed TO the complete development of
their minds.
Year: 1874

4 child that had the whooping-cough.
one day coughed till it suddenly ceased
to breathe; his face turned black. his
limbs relaxed and he lay motionless. A
lady who was on a visit to the family
took the child in her arms. put her
mouth to his. and brcathed his lungs
full; then she pressed her hands on his
breast and pressed out the air, contin-
uing to breathe IN and expel the air al.
ternately till the child's natural breath
ing began to go on. Had 1t not been
for this prompt action Of the lady he
would never have breathed again. Be
fore the lady took him IN her arms
one Of the family had gone for the
physician as fast as he could run; the
physician said it was useless for him to
90 to see a dead child.-H0me and
School.
Year: 1874

The half Of hospitality lies in the speeding
If parting guests. lavish welcomes are easily
enough bestowed bu, the hospiable thought
must be genuine, indeed, which dares TO leave
the guest as free and welcome to go as 20 come.
We all suffer, now aud then, from undue ur-
ging to stay when we prefer to 60, aud nearly
every one Of rs is himself a sinner IN this re-
gard. too No sooner does the guest intimate
a wish 10 terminate bis visit than we IVY IN the
face of his desire, aud urge him 70 stay longer
We sometimes do this, too, do we not p as
mere matter If duty, when in our hearts we
care very little whether the guest goes or stays.
We feel ourselves bound TO show our apprccia-
ton Of our friends VISIT 10y asking that be pro-
ouged It, Now, true hospitality ought to
learn its lessons better than this. Our effort
should be, from first 70 last, 70 make our
friends visit thoroughly pleasant and agreeable
10 him. We strive Cor this result 10 Fastening
to offer him the most comfortable chair aud 10
set our hes. yiauds, if be break bread with US.
It is that he may enjoy bis stay that we take
pains 10 talk ouly upon agreeable topics. IN
short from tie time he crosses our threshold
until he rises TO leave, we make the moments
sip by pleasantly as possible. But the mo
ment be asks for bis bat our courtesy fails US.
Hitherto We have studied to anticipate and 70
crafty his every wish. Now that he wishes
to go however, we eudeavor to thwart biz pleas
ure we selGshlg try TO torn him from bis pur-
pose 10 ours. We wish him 70 stay while he
wishes to 90. Courtesy wocid prompt US 20
give his wish precedence to our own, but as a
rule we ask him to sacrifice bis own 70 our
pleasure. Hearth and Home
Year: 1874

Have pens arranged that they may be ofy
and comfortable. Absorbents like muck or
leaves should be spread over the bottoms OF
the pens and replaced by fresh as soon as they
ere saturated by excrementS. Give the hogs as
soon as put up two or three doses OF Hour OF
sulphur in their slop 10 open aud regulate
their bowels, and afterwards every few days +"
handful Of charcoal, ashes. lime and salt.
Feed a, first soft food, like apples, pumpkins
and roots, which is all the better if cooked or
mixed with scalded meal or bran, gradually
increasing the quantity Of meal. Feed them
soft corn as i. is husked ont Cooking un-
ground corn, even where it can be DONE Is
economical. but when cooked meal Is used
greater saving is made. Put up your hogs as
soon as possible, aud their fattenins is much
more easily accomplished.


Beef cattle ought to be pushed forward as
much as possible Give them old corn meal
and messes occasionally of roots aud pat'p-
kins.


Sheep, also, when fattcnins, require to be
pushed ahead. Give them as good pastuTase
as You can afford, where they can be quiet.


Mich cows ought to receive little extra
feed as the pasture grows poor; mess oi
meal and bran and little hay at night VIII
be more than repaid


Young stock Of all binds should begin the
winter 10 good condition \ little extra pro-
vender now will prevent them running down
and ought to be provided; for once run dowr
it will be hard to bring them back TO good
order.-American Farmer
Year: 1874

While certain forms cf table etiquette


may seem altogether conventional, even
fantastic, the forms usually observed are
founded on good sense and adapted to
general convenience Table etiquette is
not, as is often alleged, merely matter
of fashion, although some things that
were IN vogue generation or two ago are
no longer deemed polite. The reason is
that manners and table furniture have un>
dergone so many changes have really so
much improved, as to require a mutual
readjustment. For example, everybody
was accustomed twenty or thirty year,
since to use the knife to carry food to the
mouth, because the fork of the day not
adapted to the purpose. Since the in
PRODUCTION of the four.tined silver fork
it has SO entirely supplanted the knife
that the usage of the latter, in that WAYS
is not only superauous, but is regarded as
a vulgarism.


Another example is the discontinuance
of the custom Of turning tea or coffee
from the cup into the saucer. Although
small plates were frequently employed to
set the cup in they Were not all in gen.
eral use; and even when they were used,
the tea or coffee was likely to be spilled
upon the cloth.


The habit, likewise, of putting ones
knife into the butter arose from the fact
that the butter-kuife proper had not been
thought of. Such customs as these, once
neccssitated by circumstances, are now
obviously inappropriate.


Certain habits, however are regulated |
by good taste and delicacy of fee ling. |
aud the failure to adopt them argues a
lack Of fine perception or social insight.
One Of these is eating or drinking audi
bly,. No sensitive person can hear any |
one taking his soup, coffee. or other liquid
positive annoyance. Yet those
Who would be very unwilling to consider
Year: 1874

THERE are two few teudllg men and


women among the generality Of mankind;


and it has long been the ardent study Of


many intellectual men as to what plan


might be adopted that would disseminate


knowledge more generally among tho
masses. As yet no plan has been found
effective. But the Grangers-un united and
connected as they arc---the subordinate
with the county; the county with the
State; the State with tho National
Grange, have it ID their power to exert q
tire mendous influence in that direction.
If each subordinate Grange were fitted up
with handsome library of one or two
hundred volumes Of choice reading mat.
ter, each Grange would be truly an "in.
tellectual institution In this way the
poor who are not able to purchase books,
and Others who are ignorant what kiud to
purchase, would have access to q 6rst.
class library. Not only so, but emula.
tion would spring up to who should per.
sue the most books, aud who could tell
the most about them when perused; the
merits of the different works would be dis
,ussed among tue members. etc, In
short, if this or a similar plan is success,
fully carried out, the Grange may yet be
The means Of revolutionizing the society Of
our country,--P. B. Bin farmers Vim
3icator. .n
Year: 1874

Mr.. Beecher chose the plea of mot


guilty. Whatever may be the truth, lie


had extraordinary temptations to enter


that plea. Henry Ward Beecher was


the most spleudid, the most Inspiring, and


the most beloved figure before the Ameri.


can people, He had not only toiled and


fought with tremendous effect in that


great struggle to free at once the slave


and the nation, but he was swift to preach


a higher and more generous and more


vital Christianity than the American pul.


pit had ever yet uttered. The common


people have not simply heard him gladly;


they have experienced vast new birth


under bis teaching, to which the reviyals
OF the "protracted meetngs' are not to


be compared in richness Of faith. After
the successive deaths OF his great cotem.
Porarles he remained the great man of
the American people. Mr.. Beecher did
not overcstmate the tremendous power of
that greatness. He could hardly have
expected that men would RELY, as MANY
intelligent men do rely, on what they call
the simple impossibility of the crime and
of its denial in so great man. Men for
his sake have discarded their knowledge
of human nature. For it is certain that
men great in other respects are often
equally great in the violence of their pas.
sions. Need we recall Abelard? Need
we recall David, who wrote the twenty.
third Psalm, and who,in the tenderness of
his religion and the breadth of nis sym.
pathies was the first Beecher? And vet
David who could thrice spare the foe who
sought his death, who had owed his life to
the devotion of his wife, and who sung the
religion that should bind the broken heart
for ages, went down under a great gust of
passion, when the temptation came in the
twilight, and even restored to murder to
the ruin of the household he
had betrayed. God alone knows why
human nature has compounded of the
angel and the dragon, why even the great
of earth have that warning thrown down
to them by the wise men, to count the
ruling of the spirit greater than the cap
ture of cities. .-SpinqfeM RcmJlican
Year: 1874

The Middlstown IN. Y.)Press says
that strange occurrence took place few
mornings since in the family of Mr.. Salas
DOloway, in that village. Mrs. Doloway
is accustomed to leave her babe, q little
girl four months old, on the bed up stairs,
while she does her mornings work in the
basement, from where she could hear the
least noise. On the morning in question
she heard the little one growing as usual,
but finally noticed that the sounds ceased.
and shortly after heard strange gurg>
ling noise. Supposing that the child had
got Its head under the Ted clothes and
was Suffocating she ran up stairs to see
about it, and found the house cat with its
nose in the child's mouth. The child was
strangled black aud was lighting feebly
with his hands. She caught the child
and shook it several times when it caught
its breath and came out all right. In
few minutes more it would probably have
been strangled to death.


Mrs. Doloway had to pull the cat off the
child so eager it was foreman. 1t had
paw on either side of the child's head.
had its nose pressed deeply into the child's
mouth The cat was instantly killed.
Year: 1874

One of the secrets of the manu-
facture of shot is the mixing of the lead
with q certain proportion of cOmbina-
ton of mineral substances called "tem-
per-" The "temper is fused with the
lead, and gives the molten metal that
consistency which makes it drop. If it
were not for the "temper the lead
would be nodded by the sieve, and
would form little pencils instead OF
round shot. When "BB shot, for in
stance, are to be made, the lead is
poured into pan perforated with holes
corresponding to that size. The little
pellets come pouring down in contin-
uous shower, and fall into tank filled
,Eith water on the ground floor. In
their descent of two hundred feet they
become perfect spheres, firm and dense,
and they are tolerably cool when they
strike the water, although the swift
conclusions make the tank foam and
bubble as if the water was boiling furi-
ously. The shot must fall in water,
for if they should strike any firm sub
stance they would be fiattened and
knocked out of shape. To get the lit
tie pellets perfectly dry after they have
been in the well" is the most difficult
and troublesome process of the whole
manufacture. An elevator with small
buckets (very much like those used in
flodr mills carries the shot up as fast
rs they reach the bottom of the "well,


and deposits them in box sixty feet
above the first floor. The water dIips
from the buckets as they go mp, and
not much is poured into the receiver
above, although it is intended to be a
sort of dripping machine. From this
receiver the shot runs down a spout in
to a dry-pan, which greatly resembles
a gigantic shoe, made of sheet iron.
The pan rests at an angle which per
mits the wet shot to roll slowly down
to the chamber below, and the pellets
become perfectly dry as they pass over
the warm sheet iron.
Year: 1874

The potato, being a mountain tropical,


is subject, in our climate especially, to
changes of temperature very different
from its condition in its native habita-
ton. The very statement of its history
seems 70 prove that, as it now exists
among us, it has mainly lived its life
out. but its Wig Or in its wild state may be,


and probably is still unimpaired. 1t IL
highly probable that if some man pos
sessed of the requisite knowledge and
skill were to go to- South America, and
seek out the healthiest locality where
the potato is Indigenous, and, selecting
from the healthiest wild vines, bring
them by good cultivation to n proper
degree of perfection in their native
habitation, then selecting from these the
very earliest that could possibly be pro
duced there, bring them to this climate
with all their native vigOr unimpaired,


we might thus obtain seedlings of origi-
nal health and vigor of constitution.


The expense of course would be consld-
erable, but if the government could be
induced to rise above mere political
considerations, and appoint some such
person as our minister TO Chill, and per-
haps one or two other South American
states upon the Pacific coast, congress
making the necessary provisions for his
or their additional expenses, the desired
result might be brought about without
much outlay of money. Or if some
society, or some wealthy individual,


would undertake the matter, great pub
tic good to all mankind might thus be
accomplished Journal Of chemistry.
Year: 1874

The Lanark Gazette, a staunch Gran
ger paper, publishes the following,
which is too good to be lost:


GA Granger dreamed that he died ;
he went straight to the spirit world he
knocked at the gate of the New Jerusa-
lem and it was opened unto him. The
books were opened. He was asked.
Did you ever belong to any secret
society p to which he replied l did-tO
the Grangers.' Then, sir, you can not
be dmitted-depart.' He then went
to the bottomless pit, where the same
questions were again asked him by the
devil, and again he was told to depart.
After he was gone a little way off he
was accosted by the homely ruler of
the pit, when the following propositions
were made: stranger. said Nick, l
will not admit you here they do not
want you in heaven but L will sell you
two hundred barrels OF birthstone for
cash. ten per cent of, and you can
start little hell of your own, with no
agents or middle men.
Year: 1874

The most curious relict of the Asian
tee campaign brought home by the


newly returned troops is said to be a
Cape Coast bull, perfect kitten of the
species. He is described as not so tail
as an umbrella, and, judging from his
build and activity, might be as safely
trusted to perambulate the fragile groves
of a crockery warehouse as the most
docile dog. He was allowed to be loose
on the deck, and Is the pet and play
thing of the crew, who tease him until
he runs at and butts them as the goat
does. Twelve of these animals were
shipped as fresh food on the voyage,
and some idea may be formed of this
representative of Liliputian " live beef,
Year: 1874

All dissonance of character has its
real foundation in these early impress
sions. The happiness of children de-
pends much on their being as little as
possible interfered with in their little
joys. How quickly do their good incli-
nations unfold themselves How open
are they to every humane and gentle
feeling Harsh and erroneous treat
ment acts in the very opposite way it
shuts them up. It is not the ideas, /
believe, that ore learns, which really
work on tho character, but those which
one makes his own, because the imme-
date bearing on our disposition is what
makes them really important. Right
ideas, therefore, may engage the imagi-
nation whose creations become hereby
only more harmonious. But every
fancy does not act and create in the
same degree, It is that alone which
points ont to the teachers the different
treatment that is necessary.
Year: 1874

-"Talk abont the severe mental
labor of men," says Bertha, at takes
more hard study to discover the front OF
a new spring hat than it would to win a
case in the Supreme Court against a
railroad"
Year: 1874

(NENTRAL CHURCH FAIR,


CORNER LIBERTY AND GASQUET STREETS.
A Grand Fair for the benefit Of CENTRAL
CHURCH is in operation and will SO continue
EVERY EVENING till March :.


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