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Year: 1874

Origin OF CERTAIN HABITs.-Many
of the most pernicious habits were con-
tracted originally for the sake of health.
Wine and distilled liquors are taken to
strengthen; tobacco, opium and has
checsh to relieve low spirits, card play
ing TO amuse. But, too often, the per-
sons who innocently acquire such habits,
know not how limit the extent of the
indulgence, OF TO abandon them entirely
when found to be preiudicial. The dose
of excitement must be increased; habit
exerts its sway; we are enclosed in its
net, and happy is he who is able with
resolute effort to extrieate himself from
Year: 1874

Editors Dispatch: Please be kind enough
to inform the young men of the city through
your valuable paper as to where they should
put their silk hats when they attend church.
There is 10 room for them on the benches,
and the foot.stools occupy the space beneath
the benches, and the consequences Is that an
eight-dollar hat soon becomes useless to
stylish YOUNG MAN.
Year: 1874

PuBL1c-ScHooL MATTERs.-A committee OF
the Henrico County School Board yesterday
called at the office of the superintendent Oh
Public Instruction to confer with the State
Board of Education to obtain greater liberty
than they now enjoy in the use OF tex.. x
hooks for their public schools. Owing 10 Inc
absence of the Attorneys General no meeting
of the Board could be beld, and the commit
fee left to call again.
Year: 1874

A grand double track freight railroad connect
ing New York with some point in the far West
is among the schemes suggested in the interests
Of cheap transportation. And this grand
trunk is to have branches running off to other
centres.
Year: 1874

Tho President has had many months in which
10 fnd man for Chief Justice, but he has not
been able to get out of Washington yet in search
If the right man, ana consequently we must get
along without one for while longer. Tho fresl'
dents circle OF acquamlances with great men Is
verv limited doubtless.
Year: 1874

The most fatal dart ever hurled at th'
liberty Of the American institutions was tba
Aung by Carpenter, Conkling and otbe
monarchists, at the press Of the country
They we'll know their shortcomings, wrong
doings and evil designs will, sooner or later
find their way into the columns of the press
with deserving comments, and bring upon
them the just Indignation Of an insulted peo-
pie. They can see in the press thororg
ventilation of their wick, deeds, fatal i'm
pediment to their plundering schemes and
plans to reduce this once fevored country to
An oligarchy in fact, with themselves the
rulers. They dread the press as murderer
breads the detective, who is bent on bring
ing him to justice, and hence their deceitful
attempt to choke it from uttering any word
that would tend to fair criticism of their
treacherous and plunderirg designs.


Even admitting that the press does occasion
ally abuse its liberty, destroy this liberty,
and who will say the remedy would not be
ten thousand times worse than the disease /?
"Free speech and free pres" the strongest
bulwark of the American liberty. Break
down this guard and freedom becomes at
once thing of the past. 1t is a disgrace
and an insult to the people that the friends
Of such conspiracy should be a lowed to
hra.tho nura air No hInw vao over hs,rlpd
1t our country more fatal to its freedom than
this thrust of Carpenter and his oonfeder-
tes in the Senate, and 10 taitor ever de-
served more prompt and eHectual punish
nent lan they.


impeachment of these traitors would be
mild punishment indeed, but of that there il
no hopes Thieves do not drive from their
band the principal actors; nor is designing
Senate likely to shut its doors against its
most cunning conspirators. When the pu-
rfying branch of our government becomes
thus debauched, is it not indeed time for the
most radical change? The changing power
It'll rests with the people. and there never
was time in the History of the nation when
heir obi alton to themselves and posterity
to unite and work for ii is change, was more
solemn than now And we still have con-
fidence, in the American people, TO believe
that they will make the needed change as
fast as opportun ty offers.
Year: 1874

A Man Lying Upon a Railroad Track
Run Over by a Passing Train-Evi-
dences OF Foul Play.


BRIDGEPORT, Conn.,, August II, 1874
About three O'Clock this morning the engineer
OF the owl train from Boston discovered the body
OF man lying on the track near the Wheeler b
Wilson sewing machine factory in East Bridge
port, but he was unable to stop the train until it
had passed over the body. Upon examination Of
the remains they were found to be those OF John
Bitterman, q resident OF West Stratford aged
thirty i've years The cause OF his death Is


A MYSTERY.


Yesterday ne received o months pay at Wheeler
4 Wilson'S and last evening visited several places
In the city having the money in his POCKET. At
halfpast ten O'Clock he was seen going home.
When his remains were found this morning his
purse and money were both missing Foul play
Ia suspected. A jury OF inquest was impanelled
this morning which after short session adjourned
until this evening. The deceased was temperate
and Industrious citizen.
Year: 1874

MILWAUKEE, August II, 1874
In the Supreme Court to-day the arguments in
the railroad case were concluded BY Assistant
Attorney General Sloan, who addressed the Court
at some length In support OF the motion for an in
junction. 1t Is not certain when the decision will
ho ram
Year: 1874




There is great excitement in this city in con-
sequence of the receipt of intelligence that
Marshal Bazaine had escaped from the Island
of St Marguerite some time during Sunday
night


THE QUESTION OF THE DAY, CHOW DID HE GET


AwAY?"


Details of the manner in which he succeeded
In getting away are unknown, except that he
used q rope ladder and got on board o vessel
bound for Italy.


The night was dark and stormy.


THE LAW TO BE INDICATED.
The journals Of this city declare that the
government will act promptly and energeti-
cally in Furnishing all who connived at his
flight.


Thrilling Adventures ON the Path to
Freedom-Received by His Wife and
Placed ON Board . Steamship.


LONDON, August II, 1874.
The following interesting particulars of the
escape of Marshal Bazaine from his prison on
tho Isle of Ste. Marguerite have been re-
ceived:-


HOW he GOT AWAY.


The apartments occupied by Marshal Ba-
zaine opened upon terrace, which was built
upon lofty and precipitous cliff overhanging
the sea. A sentry was posted on the terrace,
with orders to watch the prisoners every
movement


During Sunday evening the Marshal walked
de-camp. At ten o'clock he retired as usual
apparently to sleep, but before daybreak he
had effected his escape.


AT DEAD OF NIGHT.


He must have crossed the terrace in the
dead of night, and, eluding the sentinel
reached the edge of the precipice Thence,
by means of knotted rope, he descended to
the sea- He evidently slipped during the
descent and tore his hands, as the rope was
found stained with blood in several places.
THE LOVE AND TOLL OF FAITHFUL WIFE
Under the cliff, in o hired boat, were
Bazaine's wife and cousin.


They received him as he reached the water,
and Madame La Marechale, taking the oars
herself, rowed directly to strange steamer,
which had been lying off the island since the
previous evening.


ON BOARD gTEAMsHIP AND AWAY TO SEA.
They reached the vessel in safety, were
taken on board, and the steamer then put to
Sea


It is thought that they have landed at
Genoa as the steamer proceeded in that
direction.


CITIZEN EXCITEMENT AND AN ARREST.
The first news of the affair came to Grasse
the nearest place on the coast, and the magis-
trates of the town Immediately sent officers in
every direction to search for the fugitives
There was great commotion in Marseilles
when the facts became known. An investiga-
ton was opened. Colonel Villette, who was
walking with the Marshal on the evening of
his escape, was discovered there and impris-
.oned.
The commandant of the fort of Ste. Mar
,guerite was placed under arrest and General
.Sewal has gone to the island to investigate
the affair.
Year: 1874

Our climate and soil are peculiarly
adapted to the growth of fruits that
cannot be raised east Of the Rocky
Mountains-such as prunes, plums,
apricots and raisin grapes-fruits for
which our merchants are paying mil
lions of dollars annually to foreign
countries, and the supply is never
equal to the demand. We have not
raised these fruits because we could
not market them green, and We did
not understand the process of curing
them to advantage. But we have
been assured by those who know that
the Alden process cures this fruit in a
manner that makes it far superior to
any we have ever seen in market.
And to show the profit of this fruit,
cured by this process, the following
estimate is given. The prune, for ex-
ample: To cultivate the prune, they
are planted fourteen feet apart. This
gives two hundred and TWENTY-FIVE
trees to the acre. The petite variety
Will from the bud produce at five years
old two hundred pounds to the tree.
These prunes can be made into an ar
ticle far superior to any imported, at q
Seost not exceeding three cents per
pound. This would give fifteen thous-
and two hundred pounds per acre of
preserved prunes, which at twenty-five
cents per pound would give three
thousand and forty dollars per acre.
Deduct from this the cost of curing,
and you have two thousand FIVE hun
dred and eighty dollars. This is a cor.
rect estimate OF the prune, and other
small fruits are equally valuable.
Does Los Angeles want anything bet
ter? When we take into considera-
tion the small cost of machinery, the
cheapness of the building required,
the light expense of running-all of
which is given ina pamphlet published
by the Alden Company-and the i'm
mense returns given in hard cash, we
feel justified in saying it is the best
thing that has ever come to this
county
Year: 1874

rs the company expected. This will
greatly reduce the anticipated cost Of
the work. With these favorable facts
our confidence In this enterprise Is
fixed. Indeed we had hardly doubt
ofsits success when we learned that
Col. r.. M. WILLIAMS was at its head.
He says it shall be done, and that Is
enough. The cost of this ditch is esti-
mated all the way from twelve to
twenty thousand dollars, and we have
not found a man who says the mines
are worth less than half million
when the water ditch shall have been
completed. We like such enterprises
as this and wish we had more OF them.
We are promised full report from
the engineer as soon as it can be made
out
Year: 1874

lst. In the absence OF efficient sewerage
(which, by the way, the city authorities are
now endeavoring TO provlde) our present sys-
tenn OF privies and domestic drainage in gen.
eral amounts to nothing less than nuisance
OF the most dangerous character The seeth-
ing masses OF human corruption and fifth
found in large majority OF old vaults speak
In tones OF thunder, demanding OF us To bury.
cremate or abste in some manner the foul
collections for the sake OF all the people-not
only for the poor tenant and the innocent and
helpless child, but the wealthy landlord.
who, though in many cases removed some
blocks away from his property, is often the
victim OF the poison sent toward high heaven
from his own property.


The people of this city know that
these facts exist. They may as we'll
"face the music" at once, and assist
the officer In correcting the evil. Let
every neighhor inform upon every
other neighbor, who does not comply
with this ordinance, until this DESC
lating stencil is removed from the
city. Do this or your low-land prop
erty goes down and the hill1and goes
up in value. Newcomers seeking
lots upon which to build their family
residences Will naturally select the
high land until this sewage question
is finally and effectually settled.
There is one clause in the letter that
needs modification. In speaking OF
"dry earth closets" he says:


It especially appeals to he people of this
city because, we have not now, nor never can
have. an efficient system Of sewerage The
lay of the land In much of the city forbids 1t,
and then we have no sea, bay nor river to
effectually absorb the vast quantities of sew
age that !2ooo to 2ooQa people send forth.
know where they may discharge the main
sewer, as the present one IS reported nui.
sance. Even in this imperfect way they will
be unable to supply all portions of the city
with sewerage for some years to come, hence
the greater necessity for adopting this dry
earth closet for the protection of the public
health.


DR.. PATTERSON, in his lecture on
irrigation (which nobody went to
hear, published in the first number
Of the HERALD, said that the richest
most productive and valuable land in
Scotland were those manured and
watered by sewage-liquid manure;
meadows cutting ten tons of hay per
acre per year. Sewage is commod-
ity that has value in the old country.
The city and the owners of land below
the city should combine and construct
one large trunk sewer, and keep a
head of water constantly flowing
through it. This would make COM
plete outlet for the sewage, which
would be worth to the landowners
below ten dollars per acre per year.
Nothing would be lost; all would be
utilized, and the city cleaned. The
Cooperative Nursery Company could
we'll afford to build one-half the sewer
for the liquid manure it would carry
them.
Year: 1874

LOCAL OPTION cannot win and tenn
perance reform will progress back
ward in this city until there is an inn
provement in the quality of water
we are called upon to drink. People
like fish and they like bivalves but you
seldom find man or - woman that
likes to drink these things. The other
day gentleman exhibited to US a
little whale about two inches long,
taken from the water pipe, and more
recently we have seen handful OF
periwinkles, small clans and other
shell fish, taken from hydrant near
the terminus of the Sixth street rail-
road. These little things smelled just
as loud as little things could be ex-
pected to smell. Our whisky may be
bad, but while we are compelled to
drink whales and periwinkles in our
water, we must have something to
kill the animalcule after it reaches
the stomach.
Year: 1874

The Los Angeles and Independence
Railroad will never be built.-IKern
County Courier.


The Los Angeles and Independence
Railroad will be built.-[Los Angeles
Express.


These are two positive assertions.
and as they are fatty contradictory
one must prove false. There is no GER
tainty that a thing will be until it is,
but in our opinion no coming event is
more certain to arrive than the build
ing of the road. "By the Eternal"
the Los Angeles and Independence
Railroad shall be built.
Year: 1874

WIN. p. REYNOLDS has returned
from tho Castac mines. He surveyed
the ditch and found the water can be
put ON the highest ground of the
mines-giving ten feet fall to the mile
and then have fifty-eight feet to spare.
That Is they have fifty-eight feet more
fall than they need. This settle, all
doubts about Castac placer mines.
There has always been some doubt


as to whether the water could be run
on the mines In q ditch, giving the
fall necessary. One other item Of i'm
portance was also determined by the
survey Of this ditch, viz: that 1t will
not require over half as much fiuming
Year: 1874

A GOOD pair of eyes looking from
the housetop or second story window
will see a great many signs in this
city that are very carelessly fastened.
Many great heavy signs are set up on
the awning and held in position by
two or three Stats tackled to the upper
edge and then tackled to the roof be-
hind. Many of the swinging signs
are held in position by the feeblest
fastenings. The wind may send down
these great weights at any moment,
and the man, woman or child
who chances to be in their line of de-
scent will be manned or killed. The
Council should have these signs exam
ined and where found unsafe properly
fastened. Many of them are actually
dangerous now.
Year: 1874

EDITOR HERALD Your editorial
in Fridays issue on the action of Ger.
tain high-toned Regents in the State
University, is eminently proper and
to the point, and will receive the un-
qualified support of the entire farming
community, from our Worthy Brother
Hamilton, Master of the State Grange
down to the most humble Granger in
the State. 1t is about time that those
kid-gloved gentry received a healthy
drubbing at the hands of the "horny.
listed farmer" and there is revolution
in the air. The people are beginning
to wonder why our Worthy Brother
Carr should be so summarily dis
charged from his position in the Uni
versity. The probability is the peo-
pie will demand the reasons why Carr
should be removed. The day of ex.
travagance STEALING officially mean)
Is about over, and the people will rise
as one now to resent 1.-THE farmers as
an organized body leading the van.


Yours for the right, G.


Los Angeles, August sth, 1874.
Year: 1874

A town meeting is appointed for this week to decide the fate of the school house to be erected in Ashley Falls. Some will favor cheap house-others will vote for a durable one this time. Ashley Falls is a district containing GO scholars it deserves house large enough to seat that number at least. The house so lately built and so suddenly destroyed was an ornament to the village and the pride of tho inhabitants ; but those who have spent hours in the building can see many improvements that might be made in the plan. In the first place We do not approve of the two story plan for school of this kind. The pupils are of all grades, from "A B O classes to Algebra classes. Some attend regularly !; others favor the teacher with their presence three months in the year. On account of this we cannot form two distinct grades as should be where the two story plan is adopted. It would be far better to build one large room to seat 70 pupils, and have a recitation room opening out of it. This would be convenient for two teachers-a principal and an assistant. The pupils would then be under the control of one teacher, and the expense be lessened. Ash ley Falls needs hall for public use. A school house of this description would an swer every purpose and cost less than a building of two stories. Will the people consider this plan before they build again, and obliged one of the interested. s.
Year: 1874



 The beauty of our village has been very much marred by the tornado. We shall all mss the beautiful shade trees which can not be replaced for years to come. But the injury done to the buildings will in time be all repaired. The storm did not so nm poverish the good people as to render it i'm possible to aid those who suffered the great CT loss. Already aided by liberal sub. scription, MT. Meacham has a new roof on his house......Mrs. Ashley's barn learn, is also to be repaired by the same liberal spir- it. And when our neighbor Griffith is ready to rebuild his barn have no doubt he will receive liberal assistance, though better able to sustain his loss than the two tormer......Our new school house in due time Will take the place of the one now in ruins, and it is hoped somewhat improved in plan and built more substantially. The money saved Tn building the former will now be required with compound interest to build the latter......The selectmen have been busy the past week in repairing the dana ges done the roads, SO as to make them again passable. The wash-out south of the village, near MT. Shultz's house, is bridged for she present.....The crops and small fruit injured about here will be & failure this year. Some already talk of blowing in the rye and sowing to buckwheat; where the ground has been seeded with grass they may let it remain...... .McCrea & Parsons have added new stoop in front of their store, and new sign, giving the front view of their store deciled improvement. MT. John Pease has added a new fence in front of his dwelling, the work of his own hands, replacing as we learn, one which fol a quarter of a century has stood there. The roof of his woodhouse. which was blown off, has also been repaired. L Last Sabbath we noticed the church presented an unusual cleanly appearance, and we learned the tidy housekeepers of our village had beer there the week before. Without question, one article of their creed is cleanliness is next to Sodliness.' It was announced that next Sabbath Rev. E. Roys would occupy the pulpit in the absence of the pastor, who is take short vacation. .... The sick few weeks since, have all or nearly all recov. cred, and now no longer fear the measles. PEN HOLDER.
Year: 1874

Mrs. Cree, who took second husband the other day, evidently wanted to cree mate.

 If man dreams that the devil is after him, it is sure sign he had better settle his subscription bill.

 A Maine woman has hair seven feet ant five inches long-too long to be available for use in butter.

 A cYnic says marriage is very often g dull book with very fine preface. Some times it is half calf too.

 A toast-Woman the last and best ol the series-if we may have her for toast we won't ask for any but-her.

 Our Boss is off on an excursion,

 So what does it matter to us

 If We copy the pieces, or compose them,

 Just so they are new to the folks. A London advertisement runs thus: "A country priest will say mass once week for any one who will regularly send him the I6mses newspaper, second hand, on the day of its publication.
Year: 1874

COUNTERFEIT FIFTY CENT ScR1Pr.- Among the commercials which should be guarded against is one of the recent issue of fifty cent scrip. It is one-sixteenth of an inch shorter in length and width than the genuine, and the line connecting the upright lines of the letter N in the small words engraved. engraving and printing, at the end of the scrip is reversed in every in stance but one. In the counterfeit there is no distinction between the white cravat and shirt bosom of Samuel Dexter, while in the genuine they are well defined. It is well calculated to deceive.
Year: 1874

AAAAsNVOrtns

 We, the people of Ellsworth think that we are worthy of representation in TIE NEWS occasionally. Ellsworth as you are aware is an inland place, being three miles from railroad; the Housatonic at Corn wall Bridge being the nearest station. We are distant from Sharon five miles, of which eve thlnk) we are very important part. We are composed of two villages, North Ellsworth being the business portion and South Ellsworth the residence of the wealthy aristocrats, of whom we have qulte number. One of them after years of pa- tlent industry has become possessed of competency which he is bound to enjoy. He is at present putting up mammoth barn near hls palatial residence, with all the modern improvements, which will be a great addition to the place besides great convenience to him. His faithful serving man, Robert, is still assisting the labors of his declining years......The Congregational society here have secured the services of Mir. Lee, student of Yale...In North Ellsworth there is occasionally dog fight or something equally exciting, but general ly we are very quiet people. The gossips are just now busy with little novelty in the matrimonial line. We have several wealthy widows here, but one in particular; fat, fair and aged 72, whom the gossips say has very much attracted the attention of spruce young man from out of town of the tender age of twenty-one. Present indca- tions point to either speedy marriage or else the adoption of son and heir. We are so highly or hilly favored that we are not troubled with floods or the breaking of dams, unless it be occasionally profane one from some outsider whose ire we are liable to arouse. Of one thing we can boast, and that is the most ilfworked, rough, mean roads for twenty miles around. It is said the road commissioners will have du- ty to perform here soon under petition from some of the taxpayers, who are get ting tired Of jolting over such abominablc roads. We say good MT. Commissioners do your duty and condemn the whole batch, for they are all worthy...... One thing l came near forgetting. and that is the dog that has agitated the suburbs of Sharon not little. The case is in the hands of the legal brethren, and dog law suit is ex- pected soon. QUoD.