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Year: 1874

With the issue of this morning, the
DAILY HERALD commences it's third
volume, and we improve the occasion
to say few words concerning the time
past and to glance at the prospects of
the future. When one cannot look on
the record made in the light of ap-
proval it is perhaps the wisest and
best to make the look as short as pos
sible. The first volume of the HERALD
was badly edited and, if possible, still
worse managed. The craft was new
and staunch, but it had youth, mex
perience and indiscretion at the helm,
and it was due more to good luck than
good management that the voyage did
not terminate almost before it began,
in disastrous wreck. Thanks to the
toleration and good nature of the peo-
pie, the HERALD lived through an un-
popular administration and until its
control was assumed by abler and
more experienced hands. From the
commencement of the second volume
its progress has been onward and up
ward. 1t is rare thing for news
paper involving the large current ex-
penses of the HERALD to pay its way
under two or three years, but during
the last two months of the volume
just closed the receipts have exceeded
the expenses of the paper by several
hundred dollars. We note a steady
increase in the advertising patronage
and circulation of the HERALD. We
believe it is not claiming more than
will be generally admitted when we
say that the HERALD has done much
perhaps more than all of its contem-
poraries combined-toward advertis-
ing the advantages of Los Angeles
valley, in soil and climate, over any
other portion of the Pacific Coast, and
we are in daily receipt of letters
from people on the eastern side
of the continent, who say
that the knowledge which has
created desire to visit this coun-
try was derived from the HERALD or
HERALD pamphlet. 1t has been the
object of the HERALD in the past, and
it will be its purpose in the future, to
speak truthfully and earnestly
of our local interests. Los Angeles
valley is a broad field containing
much to talk about, discuss and de-
velop. We prefer to fill the HER
AIDS columns with articles descrip-
tive of our rich soil and it's astonish-
ing products; of our rare climate and
its wonderful effects on the human
system; of our inexhaustible resources
and the most practical modes for their
development, and of the many fiatter-
ing inducements offered to honest, in
dustrious men and women to come
here and build their homes among us,
rather than deal out long homilies on
national issues and affairs in Europe.
The advocacy of the interests of
Southern California in general and of
Los Angeles Valley in particular is
the mission of the HERALD. How
well and acceptably to the people it
has performed its task thus far, let it's
large advertising patronage and ex-
tensive circulation be admitted as evil
dence. The paper is not yet what we
intend to make it, but it will improve
in the full proportion of its support
and encouragement.
Year: 1874

SOME idea of the immense increase
of our commercial interests may be
obtained from the fact that Superin-
tendent HEWITT yesterday received u
dispatch from San Francisco inform
ing him that the steamer Orizaba had
just sailed with five hundred and sew
enty-five tons of freight for Los Ange-
les. This is the largest amount of
freight ever shipped by any one vessel
for this port. We are informed that
the six steamers running between
Wilmington and San Francisco are
not able to carry all the freight offered
for down the coast. The officers say
the amount is steadily increasing, and
there is no doubt but that when the
Panamint freight increases as it will
in short time, it will be necessary to
add couple more steamers to the
line.
Year: 1874

Council, because to do so would give
away within fraction of two acres of
land owned by the city. He does not
doubt but that to do the necessary
grading in front of the property will
cost almost as much as it is worth, but
he cannot find law or custom which
will warrant the act Of giving away so
large an area of the city's land I'M
der the circumstances we would sug-
gest to the Association the propriety
of accepting the deed for the lot and
asking the city to have the remaining
lots, or so many Of them as desired,
sold at auction and bid them in. I'm
der the circumstances, they would be
knocked down at nominal rate. We
hope the Association will secure the
amount of land they desire for the
purpose and carry out their design of
establishing school on the kinder
garten plan.
Year: 1874

We have interviewed the Mayor on
the matter of his refusal to comply
with the order of the Council with ref
erence to the donation of certain lots
to the German School Association.


His Honor says he promised to sign,


and still stands ready to sign, a deed
giving the Association lot 100 by 1855
feet in size. He says he has not, and
will not comply with the order of the
Year: 1874

SOME of GRANTS hackers say Gen.
JACKSON once made up his mind to
run for the third term. This is not so.
JACKSON did not run. If he had ever
made up his mind to do 1t, "by the
Eternal" he would have carried it
Year: 1874




Would it not be wise TO substitute more
eggs for meat in our daily diet? About one
third of an egg, is solid nutriment. This is
more than can be said OF meat. There are no
bones and tough pieces that have to be laid
aside. A good egg is made up of ten parts
shell, sixty parts white, and thirty parts yolk.
The white OF an egg contains egnty-six per
cent. water; the yolk fifty-two per cent The
average weight of an egg is about two ounces.
Practically an egg is animal food, and vet
there is none of the disagreeable work of the
butcher necessary to obtain it. The vegeta-
rians of England use eggs freely. aud many of
these men are eighty and ninety years old,
and have been remarkably free from illness.
A good egg is alive. The shell is porous, and
the oxygen OF the air gees through the shell
and keeps up a kiud of respiration. An egg
soon becomes stale in bad air, or in dry air
charged with carbonic acid. Eggs NAV be
dried and made to retain their goodness for a
long time, or the shell may be vanished,
which excludes the air, when, if kept in a
moderate temperature, they may be kept good
for years. The French people produce more
eggs than any other, and ship millions of
them to England annually. Fresh eggs are
more transparent at the centre, old ones ON
the top. Very old ones are not transparent
In either place. In water, in which one-tenth
of salt has been dissolved, good eggs sink and
and Indifferent ones swim. Bad eggs float
in pure water. The best eggs are laid by
young healthy hens. If they are properly fed,
the eggs are better than if they are allowed
to eat all sorts of food. Eggs are best when
cooked four minutes. This takes away the
animal taste that is offensive TO some, but
does not harden the white or yolk as to make
them hard to digest. An egg il cooked very
hard is difficult of digestion, except by these
with stout stomachs; such eggs should be eat
ell with bread and masticated very finely. An
excellent sandwich can be made with eggs
and brown bread. An egg spread on toast is
iocd tit for king. if kings deserve any better
food than anybody else, which is doubtful. Fri, Il
eggs are less wholesome than boiled. An egg
dropped in hot water is not only clean and
handsome but delicions morsel. Most peo-
pie spoil the taste OF their eggs by adding rep.
per and salt. A little sweet butter is the best
dressing. Egg contain much phosphorus,
which is supp osed 10 be useful to those who
use their brain much.-Poultry Reviec, Eng.
Year: 1874

Imagine the wrath of a young woman who
rises from her scat in horse car to give tito an
old lady when she turns round and sees that
the young man opposite is looking out of tie
window, instead of gazing at her approving!y.
Year: 1874

New Orleans Republican,: The gallant
Secretary of life insurance company being
in command of platoon during the late un-
pleasantness, struck up the gun of one of his
men about to fire on staff officer with the
exclamation, "Don't shoot at him, we've got
policy on him -
Year: 1874

great medicine is always target for fraud


Shallow cheats, without the talent 10 originate any
thing useful the dccency to permit an article of
superior excellence to perform its mission, without
striving to turn dishonest penny by attempting


to substitute trash in its place. are now engaged in
initiating and counterfeiting Hostetter's Stomach
Bittera the most popular tonic and restorative in
the civilized world. brood of local bitters, mix
lures Of damaged drugs with worse LIQUORS. has
cropped out all over tae country. Although the
to aneet the interests of staple remedy. it seems
duty TO warn the public against them The color
OF dyspepsia. liver complaint. rheumatism inter
cannot be initiated. iyl1to53
Year: 1874

We are informed by the reports of the Council


proceedings that the Water Department propose
TO commence at once the erection of new basin
that is estimated to cost $500 900 and will uire
three years TO build. This work is not neces sary
now and We regard 1t as The greatest folly to com
nance it. Why commence ii now just before an
important city election Should the Council be
chsnged In political complexion 1t most probably
would not be commenced for two or three years
There is no actual necessity for it, and may not
he for ten years to come. LOOK at the cost of
this work during the next len years. In all that
time, il it goes on, taxes will have 10 be laid and
collected for the interest," and by the time we will
want the works, if we ever want them, we will
have paid just about $500 $50 in interest alone,
thus making i cost US, at the end of that time,
s6Oo,000.


We are told that the new pump will raise into
our present basins, each day, 100000 gallons OF
water. This is just about double the amount we
use per day, If in ten years the city increased
10000 1t would still furnish more than days
supply; in addition to that we still have the Cor
nish pump and the water wheel pump, two ex-
cellent and reliable pumps that can furnish US
with as much water as we can use each day
eAo1'~ '"e ue" pump pe s'oPPcu' we nave
therefore now supply OF water equal to about
5000 900 gallons per day Surely this ought to
satisfy our Counciimen aud cause them to pause
and give US some respite from heavy taxes. Dams
have been bursting in various parts Of the New
England States that were thought to be secure
Is there no danger to be apprehended from erect
ing wall fortj feet high in part of the city
that will In less than twenty years be built all
overr We merely throw out this question with
out having carefully viewed the ground but sup
pose care VIII be taken to make all secure Shll
1t will work up the cost aud make n.ce thing for
those who furnish brick and stone at such rates
as the city has been known to pay where there
was no contract entered into
Year: 1874

The Radical Congressional Address is intended
10 secure two-hirds vote in the next Congress.
They want to fight Grant as they did Johnson
Here is what they say perhaps the Radicals will
consider the information important


you are about TO select Representatives to a
new Congress. We earnestly entreat you TO send
the truest and ablest Republicans you have; but
We entreat you to send Republicans and not Dem.
ocrats. You will send one or the other. No
matter what the individual may call himself, or
what disguise he may wear, he will be Republi-
can or DemocInt. There is at present no room
Tor my other style in our politics II you do not
mean 10 retrace the past you will select Republi-
cans, and not Democrats If you mean 10 20
forward in the future you will select Republicans
and net Democrats"
Year: 1874

The IRoN TRADE.-The indications of a
revival in the domestic iron trade continue to
multiply We learn that the Cambria Iron
Company, Johnstown, Pa, have within the
past week started their rolling mill on "double
turn" and the Btssemer steel works ofthe COM
pany, which have been running irregularly for
some time past, would now be running on full
time were il not for the scarcity Of water. This
is, indeed encouraging. The revival could not
begin IN any one pursuit Of all our various
industriesthal would give more evidence ofbeing
geneal rand lasting than that Of iron Ledger,
Jniy II.
Year: 1874

For New England and the Middle States,
generally clear weather and lower temperature
will prevail in the interior, and light rains near
the coast, with northwest to southwest winds
and rising borometer.
Year: 1874

In answer to complaint Of the price Of
eggs, grocer took occasion to explain that
il was on account of their scarcity because
Of the panic, and upon the customer pro
testing that she could not see the connec-
ton between the two, he further explained
that owing to the general depression the
hens were running on half time. She
took the eggs.
Year: 1874

A wife in San Francisco lately put a
petition for divorce in the court on the
ground that her husband was "confound-
ed fool" The judge, who was an old
bachelor. would not admit the plea, be.
cause, he said, every man who gets mar
ried would be liable to the same imputa-
ton.
Year: 1874

UTTER NONSENSE. .-Macklin was once


lecturing upon literature and the stage, and
in discussing the education Of memory,
boasted that he could repeat any formula


Of words after once hearing it. Foote was
in the audience, and at once wrote and
sent to the stand that rigmarole that has
since grown 50 famous: $50 she went
into the garden to cut cabbage leaf to
make sn apple pie: at the same time a
great she-bear, coming up the street, pops
its head into the shop "What no soapa"
So he died, and she very imprudently
married the barber; and there were present
the Picininies, the Joblillies, and the Gay
rules, and the Grand Panjandrum him
self, with the little round button at. the
top; and they all fell to playing the game
Of catch-as-catch-can till the gunpowder
ran out Of the heels Of their boots" Mack
lin failed, and so has everybody else that
every tried to repeat it. Suppose you try.
Year: 1874

Il A New Hampshire farmers wife fell
into well, and it was four days before he
missed her and made a search. He said
he thought the house unusually quiet, but
he didn't know what made il So
Year: 1874

A. the time 'tlraweth nigh" when the
setting OF hens and the rearing of young
chickens IS in order, | Will, for the benefit
OF those who may he 50 unfortunate as to
be troubled with the chicken cholera the
coming season, give my experience of the
remedy for the most fatal Of chicken
diseases. | agree with C. R. NJ in saving
that ii is not due to exclusive corn feed,
as my chickens We're fed corn, wheat, and
all the fruit they wished such rs apples,
pears, &c, &c, which they picked up
from under the trees; but in spite of this
variety Of feed, out Of about one hundred
old fowls and twice as many young. |
have left about TWENTY-FIVE in all As
never was troubled with the chicken
cholera until last summer, | was not aware
Of its presence until about half of my
chickens had died then inquired for il
remedy which | applied but without eff
tect. | then took the matter into my own
hands and began to try remedies on the
fowls which were known to be beneficial
among human beings afflicted with dis
cases OF similar nature. My reasoning
was correct, as my remedy was successful


and 1t IS this; As soon az the fowl refuses
its food, it is sign that it has caught the
disease it then must be cOoped separately
and fed again with corn or any grain that
IS convenient; water must be rain 1c0ter,
with about four drops Of camphor to the
pint Of water; hard water is injurious, and
must not be given to them If the fowl
still refuses its food, (and they will so
long as they have the disease, and [
honestly believe they actually starve
themselves to death,) bread soaked in
Two parts whiskey, one part water, must
be forced down its throat. This, then, is
the remedy-whiskey and camphor given
as above All my fowls that this remedy
was given lived, although some of them
were half dead as it were, and as some
said to me, that chicken is too far gone
burnt brandy won't save J" but even
in these desperate eases my remedy was
a success. If any of your readers try it,
| would be glad to hear with what sue
cess Country Gentleman.
Year: 1874

As the waters roll in on the shore with
incessant throbs, night and day, and al
ways not alone when storms prevail but
in calms as we'll, SO is it with a mother
heart bereaved of her children There is
no grief like unto it-Rachel weeping for
her children and refusing to be comtorted
because they are not With what long
patience, what burden and suffering does
the mother wait until the child of her hope
is placed in her arms and under the sight
of her eyes. She remembereth no more
the anguish for JOY that a man is born into
the world


Who can read, OF, if he saw, could utter
the thoughts of mother during all the
days and nights in which she broods the
helpless thing. Every true mother takes
home the full meaning of the angels
word that holy thing which shall be born
of thee shall be called the Son of God.
The mother does not even whisper what
she thinks, and the whole air is full of
gentle pictures, every one on the back
ground of the blue heavens


The child grows; grows in favor OF God
and man-and every admiring look cast
upon it, even by strangers heart.
Wonderful child. The sun is brighter for
it The whole earth is blessed by its
presence! Sorrows, pains, WEAKNESS,
self-denials, for its sake are eagerly sought
and delighted in.


But the days come when the little feet
are weary; when night brings no rest
when the cheek is scarlet, the eyes
changed and the smile no longer knows
how to shine All day, all night, it is the
mothers watch Her very sleep is but a
yelled waking JOY: the child is coming
back to health. Woe: it is drifting out
again, away from consciousness, from life
here, toward the shores beyond, where
sickness and pain are never more known.
1t is far, far out, toward ight--toward
darkness 1t disappears.


The mothers heart was like heaven
while it lived; now it has assembled to
Gods heaven and the mothers heart is as
| the gloom of midnight. Wild words of
self-reproach at length break out, as when
frozen torrent is set loose by spring
days. She that has lavished her life force
| upon the child turns upon herself with
fierce charges Of carelessness, Of unskill,
of thOuohtiessneSS. She sees a hundred
WAYS in which the child would have lived
but for her. All love is turned into self
elimination. Tears come at length to
quench the fire Of purgatory. But griet
takes new shapes every hour, till the
nerve has lost its sensibility, and then she
coldly hates her unnatural and inhuman
heart that will not feel


A child dying, dies but once; but the
mother dies hundred times. When the
sharpness is over, and the dulness Of an
overspent brain is passed, and she must
take up the shuttle again and weave the
web Of daily life, pity her not that she
must work, must join again the discordant
voices, and be forced to duties irksome
and hateful. These all are kindly medi-
eines; A new thought is slowly preparing.
It's thatlmmovable constancy and strength
which sorrow gives when it has wrought
| the divine intent


HEB. xii. II. ''Now no Christening for the
present seemeth to be joyous, but grievous !;
nevertheless, afterward it yieldeth the peacea-
bic fruit of Righteousness unto them which are
exercised thereby
Year: 1874

A HAPPY HONE. Some discouraged
wives fancy they do nothing worthy when
they only make good and happy home.
For such we quote the following paragraph
from an exchange; ''lt takes a good deal
of brains to keep house, to make a home,
even if you don't do the manual labor
The woman who makes a perfect one, puts
into the work probably enough talent to
have made a fortune. But if she prefers
the latter result, she had best not marry.
She may be able to do other things BETTER
more profitably, but very few of us in this
world get into just the work we want.
There IS no tonic better than the con-
sciousness that one amounts to something.
But we are sorry for the woman who
thinks she does not because she only keeps
house,
Year: 1874

-Sleepless persons should court the sun.
The very worst sporific is laudanum, and


the very best, sunshine Therefore it is
very PLAIN that poor sleepers should pass
as many hours as possible in the sunshine,


and as few as possible in the shade. Many


women are martyrs, and yet they do not
know it. They shut the sunshine out Of
their houses and their hearts; they wear
wells; they carry parasols and everything
possible to keep off the most potent influe,
ence which is intended to give them
strength and beauty and cheertulness. Is
it not time to change all this and SO get
color and roses ON our pale cheeks,
strength in our weak backs and courage
in our timid souls? The women OF America
are pale and delicate, but with the aid of
sunlight they may be blooming and strong
Year: 1874

WAsHINGTON's STRENGTH General
Wilson relates an account Of 4 converse
ton with Mr.. Cnstis from which he OBJ
tanned some interesting personal reminis-
cences Of Washington. During II visit
at Arlington House, Virginia, in 1854, the
writer asked MIR Gusts if Washington
shoe, and received tor reply that he had
no doubt he could had he tried, for his
hands were the largest and most powerful
he had ever seen. Mr.. Gusts then gave
several instances of the Generals strength,
of which recall the following When
Washington was young man, he was
present on one occasion, as looker-on at
wrestling games, then the fashion in Viz
ginia Tired Of the sport, he had retired
to the shade Of a tree, where he sat
perusing pamphlet till challenged to a
bout by the hero Of the day and the
strongest wrestler in the State Washing
ton declined, till taunted with the remark
that he feared to try conclusions with the
gladiator, calmly came forward, and
without removing his coat, grappied with
his antagonist There was fierce Strug-
gle for i brief space of time, when the
champion was hurled to the ground with
such tremendous force as to jar the very
marrow in his bones. Another instance
Of his prodigious power was his throwing
the stone across the Rappahannock at
Fredericksburg feat that it is quite safe
to say has never been performed since.
Later in life a number of young gentlemen
were contending at Mount Vernon in the
exercise of throwing the bar. Washing
ton, after looking on for some time,
walked forward, saying, Allow me to
try and grasping the bar sent the iron
flying through the air twenty feet beyond
its former limits. Still later in his career
washington, whose age was like lusty
winter, frosty, yet kindly observed three
Of his workmen at Mount Vernon vainly
endeavoring to raise a large stone, when,
tired of witnessing their unsuccessful at


tempts, he put them aside and, taking it
in his iron-like grasp lifted it to its place,
remounted his horse and rode on.''
Year: 1874

To CURE PAVING HORSES. To break
horse Of paving in the stable, CORE
spondent Of the Farmers Union says
Take piece of trace-chain two feet long,
tasten it to the leg that he paws with, just
above the knee, with a hame strap, and
let the chain hang at the side of the leg :;
he will soon be glad to keep it still
Year: 1874

ANDREW JoHSsox delivered an address
before the Sumner County Agricultural
and Mechanical Association at Gallatin
last Friday afternoon, in which he fally
discussed the Grange movement and
State and national finances. be was
very severe upon those who, be said, be
trsyed him four years ago. aud admitted
that be might be a candidate for the
United States ana declared that be had
no platform but the Constitution and bis
record as public servant. The speech
was similar in its political features to the
one delivered last spring in Memphis.
Year: 1874

IT is rumored that General NegIey is
to be set aside for General Burnside for
the Russian mission II nominations are
still in order we would like to name a
man from West Tennessee who is ct for
the place and aoundantly able to accept
an appointment worth sl2 900 q year in
gold, with perquisites to match.