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Year: 1874

To-day is the general grand exposition OF fal
fashions in this city. The leading establishments
have made extensive preparations for the past
week, and on this particular occasion they promise
TO excel the displays OF former seasons. Already
indications OF the styles that will prevail this
winter have been given, but to-day the offical
seal oil Dame Fashion Will be stamped on every
garment. There is little in the line OF absolute
novelty, but much TO be commended in the
prevaience OF true taste. fashion article
nowadays is particularly difficult on account
OF the endless variety and combination OF styles
and materials. Each toilet seems 70 have some
special feature OF interest and individual taste
and adaptablity super rsede the former dictum or
the modste. The present week will be one OF
the most brilliant IN the annals OF fashion. The
summer BIRDS nave winged their way back from
seaside and mountain and are eager Tor fresn
piumape. The modste's art has never been
tested more severely than this fall, ior ladies have
become more iastldious, and Partisan modes.
SIMPLY as such, have lost their power. An Amer
lcaD lady consuts her own taste now Ia all things
appertalning 10 her toilet.
Year: 1874

I hereby tender grateful acknowledge nents to
my many customers for their liberal patronage,
and pledge myself to make every effort to carry
a stock of goods that will do credit to the State
of Virginia and servo to concentrate trade IN
our city that will be advantageous to both buy
er and seller.
Year: 1874

scraplug itself with a ponherd in the
ashes Of defeat and despair. Bat this is
not all. These two lovely papers are
calling eachiother names, and not pet
names either, over the affair. We shall
not quote their abusive remarks Of one
another, but simply commend them
both to the supervision oI our fair friend,
the Secretary Of the Ladies' League, who
is no doubt familiar with that verse in


Watts hymns about the biting and bark.
ing Of the animals. By the way, speak.
ing Of the Secretary, is it not about time
for her to issue pronuncismento of some
sort over the rcverses OF the Statehood,
now that beer flows like q wild deluge
within the precincts Of that wicked cityH
Year: 1874

UNDER BOND james Ruckman was
before Squire Caldwell yesterday, upon
complaint Of Mrs, Mary Strange, a colored
woman, who charged him with commit
ting q breach Of the peace. Ruckmsu
was required to give bond in the sum Of
800 to be Of good behavior for the period
Of one year.
Year: 1874

We learn from the astronomer of the De-
troit Free Press that the moon is not inhabit-
ed; and our readers will bear us out in the as
sertion that we have never claimed very
large circulation in that locality.
Year: 1874

Moral reformers will be glad to learn that
the fly is doing its best to use up the coming
crop of Virginia tobacco, altogether overlook
ing the fact that the fly has no moe right to
chew tobacco than have men and women.
Year: 1874

Detroit Free Press: The reason that a
coroner's jury in Camden thought that the
corpse was that of PHILADELPHIA editor, was
because they found pair of shears in the
coat-tail pocket.
Year: 1874

Some people keep grain always before
their fowls, on the principle that the more
they eat the better. Others follow the
same practice, but give an opposite reason.
namely, that less is eaten than when the
birds are fed by throwing to them all they
Will Immediately consume. From long
observation, we are inclined to believe in
the latter reasoning. Adult fowls that are
fed on whole grain. by throwing to them
twice a day all they will eat, will devour
more than if it is kept by them all the
while. This is because in one method,
through the scramblng and rivalry, each
fowl is induced to swallow all it possibly
can; but on the other hand, when the feed


box is visited quietly, there is no such
stimulus inducing glutilng. For few
days the fowls will, it is true, gorge them
selves to the top Of their bent, but after
being cloyed they will act very differently.
Nevertheless, the true way is to feed by
throwing down the grain as they eat it,
and stop while they are yet hungry, rather
than to keep grain always by them. They
eat too much when allowed food ad
libtum. A feed box is indispensable, to
prevent soft food from getting dirted, and
to enable each fowl to get its share; but
it should not be made the instrument of
overieedng and overwhelming.


The quantity of food allowed fowls must
depend on the season. the rule of laying,


and the degree of fatness. Catch fowls
| upon their roosts, and examine their state
of flesh. Notice their degree of activity,
glossiness of plumage, and general ap-
pearance of thrift, in the daytime, and aim
to regulate the size of the rations, SO as
to stop at exactly that quantity that shall
keep them in just the desired condition.
There is where is seen the value of good
judgment and that nice perception that
pays so well in the management of any
sort of live stock, and marks the success
full poultry keeper. Do not feed breeding
stock as plentitully as you do fowls whose
eggs are to be used for food. Of course,
fowls to be fattened for the table are to be
used differently the more they can be in
duced to eat. the better. Young or only
partly matured chickens should be given
all they will eat up clean, and fed as
many times in day as they will partake
take with avidity; for they develop very
fast, and make correspondingly great de-
mands for material wherewith to construct
their expanding frames and tissues. Also
soft food should predominate for they are
not as good at "chewing" as their seniors.
We speak of the mastication which takes
place in the gizzard. to facilitate which,
| chickens should be furnished with gravel


of a size adapted to the caliber Of their
throats.
Year: 1874

E,OR SALE-vERY CHEAP, FOR WANT OF USE. A
IL splendid saddle Horse, years od sound and kind
In all harness is splendid horse for lady gentle


man to ride drive Gail at or address WASHINGTON
RIDING ACADEMY, Sixth avenue. corner of Twenty
Year: 1874

rejoiced at not having lived at the most
hourishing epoch in the Spanish mon
erchy. and some one asking her why,
she replied that it was only since the be.
ginning of the eighteenth century that
Spanish ladies of rank were allowed to
wear short dresses. Before that time
they were compelled TO wear the man
tilla, the graceful but long folds Of
which completely concealed their feet,
and the greatest favor that lady could
then confer on an admirer was to per-
nit him to admire the tips of her shoes.
In the eighteenth century, however,
King Philip V married the Princess
Louise de Sauoie, and the beauti-
full and spirited Princess des Urisins
was named camerera-mayor to the
new queen. Nature had bestowed on
Madame des Urisins charming feet,
which had been greatly admired by the
court of France. Taking advantage
Of the influence which she exerted over
the Queens mind, she soon complained
that mantillas raised cloud of dust and
spoiled the dresses, and one day she
brsvely appeared with short but grace.
full skirt. The disgrace of powerful
minister could not have agitated the
public mind more than this disdain of
the national costume Most parents
declared that they would rather see their
daughters in their graves than allow
them to exhibit their feet thus scandal
ously, and the chronicles of the time
even say that the descent of an English
army on the Spanish coast would not
have been considered greater evil.
Madame de Ursins and the Queen we're,
however, supported by his majesty and
all the young courtiers, and after
severe struggle their efforts we're crowned
with success. 0utrageously short skirts
took the place of the stately mantillas,
and continued to be worn until a late
date. In tropical weather like this, it
must be owned, it is relief to ladies to
get rid Of the preposterously long skirts
that have been worn during the winter.
Year: 1874

How California Braggart was


" Smitten Heavily"


He was not reticent, neither was he
diffident; but he was glib Of tongue and
possessed many accomplishments which
are taught and appreciated through the
interior. He could jump into the air,
crack his heels together four distinct
times, and when he landed-stiff leg
ged-could repeat the well known, I'm
thief in a manner that betokened
long practice and quiet determination.


When he found himself the center of
the right sort of audience, he could as
sumo nonhcalant air and lead the con-
yersation into the proper channel, when
he would begin counting upon his fingers
the number of private cemeteries he had
established; and then, fingers being in
sufficient he would call for sheet of
paper that the number each contained
might be correctly enumerated.


His first appearance in Eureka was
made few evenings ago, and he intro
duced himself as Cemetery Sam" gave
the particulars of his receiving the pa
tronymic, and stated that he was from
Piece, was gun fighter" and asked if
any there we're who doubted his state
ment. He sloshed around considerably
during the evening, and by dint of suav-
ity and terror leach applied as circum-
stances demanded) he succeeded in
loading himself with nectar ere the mid
night hour.


Then he girded up his loins and de-
clared his determination to start corpse
factory, but in order that his victims
might know who they had the honor of
being slain by, he thought proper to
offer explanation, and in so doing carried
on a sort of informal dialogue, asking
the questions with formal and grave
earnestness, and answering with cunning
lightness, thus:


who was it inaugurated the grave
yard at Rocky Bar, because barkeeper
refused him a drink? Guess it was
Cemetery Sam" "Who was it caused
the first orphan asylum to be started at
Montana2 Cemetery Sam was the fell
ler." Who was it made public ad-
ministrator rich in Eastern 0regon2
I'm mistaken il it wasn't Cemetery
Sam" Who was it that here some
one present, who evidently thought that
the thing was becoming monotonous,
smote Sam heavily and the latter fell.
When he arose he continued the mono
logue by asking: who was struck by
lightning Just now? If my memory
serves me right, it must have been Gem
etery Sam
Year: 1874

Says the Virginia City Enterprise:
Hank Monk, the stage driver who gave
Horace Greeley his memorable noun
tain ride, in common with all his tribe,
hates the sight of the ponderous archi-
lecture in the trunk line known as the


Saratoga band.box. He likes Sara
toga about as we'll as a cat likes hot
soup. He now drives on the stage line
between Carson City and Lake Tahoe.
He was driving on the same line last
summer. 4 Virginia lady who was
stopping at the Glenbrook House had


Saratoga at Carson which she wished
brought up to the lake. 1t was about as
long and wide as frst-class spring
mattress, and seven or eight feet high
The lady had managed to get as far as
Carson by rail, but the trouble was to
get it up into the mountains. Hank had
promised two or three times to bring it
up next trip, but always arrived with
out it. At last Hank drove up next
evening, and, as usual, the lady came
out on the veranda to ask if he had
brought her trunk. Like that great
and good man George, Hank
cannot tell lie, and so he said, No,
ma am, l haven't brought it, but | think
some of it will be up by the next stage.


Some of i'll cried the lady. Yes may
be half of it, or such a matter. Half
of it, groaned the Mortified owner of
the Saratoga. Yes; half tomorrow
and the rest next day or the day after.


Why, how in the name of common
sense can they bring half of itf Well,
when / left they we're saving it in two,
and - Saving it in twol Saving my
trunk in two2 That was what l said
coolly answered Hank. Two men,
with big cross cut saw, were working
down through it-about in the middle, |
think. Saving my trunk in two?-and
all my best clothes in it Saving 1t in
the middlep And in a towering passion
she rushed indoors, threatening the
hotel, the stage line, the railroad com
pany, the town of Carson and the State
of Nevada with suits for damages. It
was in vain that she was assured that
there was no truth in the story of the
sawing-that Monk was a great joker;
she could not be made to believe but
that her trunk had been sawed in two
until it arrived intact and she had ex-
amined its contents most thoroughly.
Year: 1874

society-the traffic in whisky. Never
until our legislature does this, shall
we succeed in removing intemperance.
Without this, the woman's movement
viii spend its strength, and after
time, we shall lapse back into intem-
perance again-all experience proves
this. Moral suasion and legal enact
ment must go hand in hand. No
great national evil was ever effectually
put down by moral suasion alone 1t
is only when the moral sentiment of
tho people is backed up and sustained
by the law, that evil can be effectually
restrained in community constituted
as society now is.
Father Matthew spent years In the
Temperance Reform, and got four
millions Of people to abstain. Ireland
became sober. But alas. he failed to
call upon the legislature to sustain by
legal enactment the moral standard
he had raised against the traffic, and
the result is we have to fight the bat
tie over again. The Washingtonian 3
movement proves the same. That
movement converted thousands over
to Temperance, bet after that great
wave subsided, the community lapsed
back into their previous intemperate
condition--and why? Because our
legislatures licensed men to carry on
the drink traffic, and thereby tempted
men to drink and fall again. So it
ever will be until, by stringent laws,
we RESTRAIN men from following
business which tempts men at every
turn to drink and fall. We can not
regulate the business. The only effec-
tual way is, to put a positive and abb
solute ban upon the traffic az


In St. Louis they undertook to Ii
cense prostitution, thinking that
would regulate and remove, to a very
great extent, the social evil But the
result has proved a most lamentable
failure. Instead of lessening the evil,
it has most fearfully increased it. So
ciety there is rapidly becoming de-
praved under this legalizing of prosti-
tuition. Hence, the people are now
struggling with the most herculean
efforts, to have that law repealed. So
it must ever be-the licensing of an
evil always proves abortive in restrain
ing it. The only sure way is for the
law to put its veto upon every pursuit
which initiates against the public
good. Last week the jury gave a ver-
diet of q, 600 against a saloon keeper
in this city. The people hail it with
delight as new and glorious era.


w. 3.
Year: 1874

young woman known as Mollie High has been
living for several months past In the Revere
House. She Is we'll favored in face and form, and
has always been gay In manner. she was the
wife OF James sylvester. the young athlete who
was killed at Berry's Opera House, In Thirty.fourth
street, about year ago, and as she was
trained and daring. she used often to take part
with him IN gymnasttc performances before
the public. Since tue death or sylvester Mote has
had occasional fts OF melancholia but on no oc-
casion has she given evidence that she was be-
violent insanity were Drst noticed In her actions
early last evening, and, az the indications were
mistaken by their observers. Mollie was simply
put to ped. soon she became outrageous In her
demeanor and was conveyed In an ambulance to
Bellevue hospital.
Year: 1874

The Brooklyn Tabernacle was crowded to it's
very utmost capacity yesterday morning. The
Rev. 7. DE Witt Talmage. d. d., preached a very
powerful sermon on the question Of opening the
theatres ana other places OF secular amusement
on the Christian Sabbath. He took his text IRON
the thirty first chapter OF Exodus and part the
thirteenth verse :-"verily my Sabbaths ye shall
keep- He said that the wisdom OF assigning one


sy out or the seven to rest and as relief 10 the
hard lot OF man as a laborcr had CONNER ended Itself
10 thinking people. Actually man could do less In
seven DAYS than in six with the provision OF the
Year: 1874

The Contract with the Post once De.
partme mt Unbroken-Opinion OF tho Az.
torney General-The New Iron steam-
ers for Peace or War.


WASHINGTON. Dec. l3, 1874
The following Is the full text OF the opinion OF
the Solicitor General, Endorsed by Attorney Gen.
eral Williams, relative to the contract with the
Pacific Mail Steamship Company for an additional
monthly mail between San Francisco and China
and Japan, which was recommitted by the House
to the Committee on Appropriations and ordered
TO be printed
Year: 1874

In the autumn, when the hoilows
All are filed with flying leaves,
And the colonies Of swallows
Omit the quantity succeed caves,
And silver mantle glistens
Over all the misty vale,
Sits the little wife and listens
To the beating Of the fail.
To the pounding Of the fail
BY her cradle sits and listens
To the tapping of the fail.
The bright summer days are over
And her eye no longer sees
The red bloom upon the clover,
The deep green upon the trees;
flushed the songs of finch and robin,
With the whistle Of the quail;
But she hears the mellow throbbing
OF the thunder of the fail,
The low thunder of the fail
Through the amber air the throbbing
And reyerberating fail.
In the barn the stout young thresher
STOPPING stands with rolled-up sleeves,
Beating out his golden treasure
From the ripped and rustling sheaves;
Oh, was ever knight in armor-
Warrior all in shining mail
Half so handsome as her farmer
AS he plies the flying fail,
AS he wields the flashing hail?-
The bare-throated, brown young farmer,
AS he swings the sounding fail?
All the hopes that saw the sowing,
All the sweet desire of gain,
All the joy that watched the growing
And the yellowing of the grain,
And the love that went to Woo her,
And the faith that shall not fail
All are speaking softly to her
In the pulses of the fail,
OF the palpitating fail
Past and Future whisper to her
In the music of the fail.
In its crib their babe is sleeping,
And the sunshine from the door
All the afternoon is creeping
Slowly round upon the floor;
And the shadows soon will darken,
And the daylight soon must pale,
When the wife no more shall hearken
To the tramping Of the fail,
To the dancing of the fail
When her heart no more shall hearken
To the football of the fail.





Be o maiden, be wife,
While the moving shadows lengthen
Round the dial of their life;
Theirs the trust OF friend and neighbor,
And an age serene and hale,
When machines shall do the labor
OF the strong arm and the fail,
OF the stout heaIt and the fail
Great machines perform the labor
OF the good old-fashioned fail.
But when, blessed among women
And when, honored among men,
They look round them, can the brimming
OF their utmost wishes then
Give them happiness completer?
And can ease and wealth avail
To make any music sweetsr
Than the pounding Of the fail?
Oh, the sounding Of the fail
Never music can be sweeter
Than the beating Of the fail
j. T. 1ro,c6ridge in Harper's Magazine for Sep.
TENDER.
Year: 1874

Burlingame Treaty be modified to one for
commercial purposes only. This resolution
should receive the hearty sanction of every
member of both Houses. We know every
Independent will indorse it with pleasure,
as a duty to their reform constituents. Ev-
Iery Democrat should or lose his right to the
party name; and Republicans can. find no
other excuse for refusing to do so than that
they are lost to all desire to legislate for the
people. Let it, or thes ameng in substance,
receive a universal Endorsement by our Leg
islature, that the government at Washing
ton may have no excuse for further delay
ing action, and in few years from now,
when California shall teen with an intelli-
gent, wealth producing population from Eu-
rope and the older States, she will rise up
amid the happiness that will surround her,
and will attribute her prosperity and great
ness to the wise act ons of the men who
composed the Twentieth Session of the Leg
lsIature. rt1 s tH
Year: 1874

On this subject will be found an able cor.


respondence m this issue of the HERALD,
which we commend to the earnest consi der
alton of our readers. The correspondent
takes the right view of the subject, when
he declares that the treaty-making power is
the one which must be induced 10 move in
the matter, and the right way to secure its
action, and that promptly, is for California
the State afflicted more than all others
with this evil-to send from her Legislature
a joint resolution, unanimously endorsed
declaring the President should at once take


steps to repeal or modify the treaty with
China to one for commercial purposes only.


We have noticed with pleasure the action
of Senator Roach, from San Francisco, dur
ing the present session of the Legislature.
The expressions Of aggregated capital, polt-
car corruption and the Coolie curse are the
three prime evils Of which the people Of
California have complained, and we ask,
where is the platform, local or State, fol
years that has not embodied within it a
plank declaring or demanding reform on
each Of these three subjects !? Such planks
were necessary in order to catch votes, a
fact which proves conclusively that the peo-
pie are IN earnest in their demands for legis-
lation relieving them from the presence Of
these evils. How much has been done we
need not say, as the people appreciate to
keenly the fact. Senator Roach has shown
that he meant what he promised on these
and kindred subjects. He offered bill
and made bold fight for its passage, which,
should it become law, as it ought, would
put an efectual check on bribery and cor
ruption in official circles. And he now


comes forward with the very resolution that
is needed, requesting our Representatives in
Congress to demand Of that body that the
Year: 1874

efforts have been made to arrest the Chinese
influx to our State. No legislation we can
pass can be successful to accomplish the OBJ
ject. Congress itself is limited in its pow
ers by the solemn obligations Of treaty
made with the Chinese Empire. That can
be modified only by the treaty-making pow
ers Of the United States, the President and
the Senate. Therefore, whatever ac-
ton is to be taken on the premises,
must be based on the fact that the Presi-
dent must be asked to take the initiative in
the matter. Article 5 of the Treaty made
by Burlingame is an invitation on our part
to encourage the free immigration of the
Chinese. We know, however, that in the
true sense of that term there is no free i'm
migration of laboring Chinese to our shores.
They are brought here under contracts to
labor for their masters, for series of years.
in the United States, at starvation wages to
our people, and the ful6llment of their
contracts is enforced by the edicts Of secret
tribunals and the inAiction of cruel and ar
bitrary punishment.


The presence in our midst of race, near
ly all of whom are the thralls of their own
capitalists who promote the vicious instincts
of their bondsmen in order that they may
obtain their earnings, is detrimental to pub
lie morals, while their standard of living is
so low and their habits so filthy that the
communities in which large numbers of them
reside, are exposed to pestiferous diseases.
We want commerce with China, but need
not give her four hundred million of people
cordial invitation to emf CRATE to the
United States.


Senator Roach has introduced Concurrent
Resolution on the subject, asking that Arti-
Gle V. and VI. of the Burlingame Treaty be
abrogated. lie recites at length the evil
effect of those stipulations upon the welfare
of our people, and requests our Senators and
Representatives in Congress to use their in
Huence to discourage Chinese immigration
by obtaining appropriate action for the gen.
eral government His suggestion places
the matter in the proper light. 1t invites
the President by resolution of a sovereign
State to move in the matter. .|.
Year: 1874

MIsTAKE.-The Argus man says the
Civil business of the Sheriff s office will
amount to 1858 per annum. He is only
four or five thousand dollars out of the way
The truth is he either desires to wilfuly
mislead the public on this, as he is notorious
for doing in other matters, or he has de-
lberately told a what?