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Year: 1874

There is no place on the Pacific coast
that is attracting more attention
abroad than Los Angeles, and there is
no section which is improving more
rapidly than our valley. Immigra-
tion is coming in; enterprises are pro-
crossing; houses are building; farms
are improving; groves are growing,
and land is increasing in value. We
are doing well-our city is increasing
Its population, extending it's proper
tions, and adding to it's beauty of ap-
pearance-but we can do still better.
Los Angeles valley is capable of sup
porting million people; it now con-
tains less than thirty thousand. There
are miles and miles of rich soil yet a
stranger to the plowshare. There are
thousands of acres we'll adapted to
fruit growing over which sheep are
grazing now. There are millions and
millions of gallons of unused water
which may be utilized in irrigating
these broad acres. We need one hun
dred thousand men and women imme-
diately. Their homes are here, and
at no distant day they will come and
occupy them. We may hasten their
arrival. The development of resources
is the loadstone that attracts popula-
tion. When the road to homes and


wealth is once opened, it will soon be
thronged with those seeking the prizes
to be found at the journeys end. Be
sides our rich soil and magnificent
climate, we are the natural outlet for
the vast yet undeveloped mineral
wealth which lies to the east of us,
and it Is our duty to make the channel
for the transportation of that wealth
as cheap and rapid as possible. The
building of railroad to the interior
such as contemplated by the Los An
geles and Independence Railroad
Company, will give greater impetus
to the development and rapid settle
ment of this portion of the State than
any other one thing that can be done.


The completion of this road will add
twenty thousand to the population of
this city and forty thousand to the
population of this county within two
Year: 1874

years. The increase in wealth will of
course be proportionately great. To
accomplish this requires an effort-an
immediate ef1ort-on the part of our
people. We must support the action
of those capitalists who propose to
come here and invest their money in
our railroad enterprise. They will not
build the road alone, and if we show
no disposition to assist in a work from
which we shall derive such immense
benefit, we may depend on it that the
promised capital from abroad will not
be forthcoming and we shall be left
alone in our apathy.
Year: 1874

The Big Meadows are located
eighty-five miles from Los Angeles
and near the old emigrant road, and
they are the largest and finest in the
northern part of the county, situated
as they are, near the edge of the great
American Desert. 1t is very singular
for so fine body of land and so large
a creek of water to be found here. 1t is
covered with dense grove of willows,
and singular popularity is the in
tense coldness Of the water through
out the entire year.


In 1862 some copper mines were dis
covered at this palce and several shafts
were sunk, but the price of copper
coming down, work was discontinued
and has never since been resumed.
While the copper mines were worked
the Meadows were occupied by the
noted robbers Henry and Mason and
their band who were the terror of the
country for several years, but when
the mines were deserted the Meadows
were abandoned on account of the
hostility of the Indians, and continued
vacant until the Summer of 1863,
when they were again located by the
Powell Bros, two hardy pioneers
who did not fear the Indians and did
not interfere with them, and COM
menced to improve the splendid
Meadows. They started into the hog
business at first but with in
different success. They had often
seen Indian signs in the vi
cinity, but lived a year and half at
the Meadows before they came in on
friendly terms. These Indians were
kindly disposed towards the white
people. They had previously been
very hostile and had frequently at
tackled emigrant trains. The Powells
succeeded in making lasting peace
between them and and the whites.
They were almost naked, and were
armed with bows and arrows, not hav-
ing any guns. People passing now
feel perfectly safe.


There Is great quantity of game at
this place-bear, deer, antelope, lions
and mountain sheep being abundant.
The mountains are very high and rug
ged, and are covered with a forest of
pines. There is ridge of earth
thrown up near the meadows by the
great earthquake of 1857 that extends
for many miles through the country.
1t bears evidence of the terrible convul-
sions of nature at that time. The near
est settlement is Soledad, which is %
miles distant. The Atlantic and Pacific
Railroad line crosses the desert near
this place, and some day it will be
brought into communication with the
outside world.


Bear are very numerous at the Mead
ows, and Mr.. Powell was once treed
by seven of them, and had a narrow
escape for his life. He succeeded in
killing one large she bear, which
dressed seven hundred pounds.


The Powell Bros. sold the Meadows
two years ago and star ell into the
sheep business, when the land passed
Year: 1874

IN order to settle a dispute between
the Chronicle and the Call MICHAEL
REESE sends the following note to Mr..
PICKERING: az find in this days
Chronicle statement that the Morn
ing Call is mortgaged to me for S70,-
600, which is not true. I never held a
mortgage against the Morning Call
or any other paper in this city.
Year: 1874

MEAN.-It makes us feel mean when
we see an able-bodied man lounginr
about town and in whisky sheps ali day
long, whose wife at home has to cut her
own wood, carry water from a spring a
quarter of mile away from the house,
milk the cows, drive the pigs out of the
garden, run after breachy animals in the
wheat field, do all her own washing and
ironing, take care of four or five half
naked young ones, and have his supper
all ready for him when he returns
home, lest he might seold or beat her
and the children; help him to bed and
hear his drunken snores full half the
night; TO rise in the morning with an
aching head and adepressed heart; mop
ing still and still hope deferred LlttIe
did she think such would be heT IoI
many can realize the picture. Neigh
Dor, do you know any such'-i , o.''cO"'e'
] Register.
Year: 1874

The Compulsory Education bill was defeated
in the State Senate yesterday, through tho ill.,
attention and unBkillful tactics of ta supporters
and the general apathy OF the Legislature to any
public business Of Importance. The vote was 10
to Q. There were twonty-four Senators absont
or not voting,
Year: 1874

They have a new hired girl over at
Keysers farm, just outside of New Cas-
tie, and on Tuesday, before starting to
spend the day with friend, Mrs. Key
ser instructed the girl to whitewash the
kitchen during her absence. Upon re-
turning, Mrs. Keyser found the Job com
pleted in a very satisfactory manner.
On Wednesdays she always churns. and
last Wednesday, when she was ready. she
went out, and, finding that Mrs. Keyser
had already put the milk into the ehurn,
she began to turn the handle. This was
at eight o'click in the morning, and she
turned until ten without any eigns of
butter appearing. Then she called in
the hired hand and he turned until
dinner-time, when he knocked off with
some very offensive language addressed
to the butter which had not yet come.
After dinner the hired girl took hold of
the crank and turned it energetieally till
two o'clock, when she let 90 with a re-
mark which conveyed the impression
that she believed the churn to be haunt
ed. Then Mr.. Keyser came out and said
that he wanted to know what was the
matter with that churn, anyhow. 1t
was a good enough churn, if people only
knew enough to work it, Mr.. Keyser
tnen worked the crank till half-past
three, when, as the butter had not come,
he surrendered it again to the hired man,
because he had an engagement with
man in the village. The man ground
the machine to an accompaniment of
frightful inprpcatiOns Then the Key
ser children each took a turn for half an
hour, then Mrs. Keyser tried her hand,
and when she was exhausted she again
enlisted the hired girl, who said her
prayers while she turned. But the but
ter didn't come. When Keyser came
home and found the churn still in action
he blasted his eyes, and did some other
innocent swearing, and then he seized
the handle and said he'd make the but
ter come il he kicked up an earthquake
in doing it. Mr.. Aeyser effected about
two hundred revolutions of the crank a
minute, enough to have made any ordi-
nary butter come from the ends of the
earth; and when the perspiration began
to stream from him and still the butter
didn't come, he uttered one wild yell of
rage and disappointment and kicked the
churn over the fence When Mrs. Key
ser went to pick it up she put her nose
down close to the buttermilk and took
sniff. Then she understood how it was.
The girl had mixed the wlitewash in the
churn and left it there. A good, hon
est and intelligent servant, who knows
how to churn, can find IA situation at
Keysers. There is vacancy.-lfaE
AdeieT.
Year: 1874

For slaughter of fish there are no di-


reetions. They may be eaten though


they die naturally on being taken out of


their element, and in this respect their


case is different from that of quadrupeds


and fowls. The general rule is that an


animal must be put to death according


to certain formulas. If it die naturally,


or by accident or disease; If it be torn


by beast of prey, speared by an Indian,


or brought down by the bullet of


sportSmen; If it be drowned, like the


ducks thai are caught in the nets in


Great Shinneeoek Bay, or robbed of its


breath by the air-pump of an expert
mentalist-nay, even though it be de-
prived of life in the most humane and
scientific way, according to the latest
French theory. 10 the orthodox ISraelite
it is nevertheless in the list of the for
hidden. To be proper food for him, the
animals throat must be cut clean to such
depth that the wind-pipe and gullet are
severed, and it must then bleed to death
The wound must be inflicted by per-
son, known as ShOceet, who has studied
the art, and is familiar with all the reg
ulations relating TO it, and whom the
rabbiAicai authorities have properly
authorized to discharge this duty. He
must use knife which has been sharp
ened to its highest capacity, and which
has perfect edge. 1t is also his duty,
after the animals death, to examine the
carcass, and to see that it was in sound
health; any indication of disease render
it,.unft it for food. Eruptions are fatal,
and so are foreign substances ia the Vi
tails which may have engendered disease
The lungs are examined with especial
and almost any malforIna-
ton or unsOundness there will cause the
whole body to be rejected. Such inspec-
ton is made only with reference to
With fowls it is deemed
comparatively unnecessary, although
even in their case the same general rules
apply as to the effect of foreign matter
and symptoms Of funsoundness. But they
must be slaughtered precisely as the
larger animals are, and, as have said,
a partridge that is shot on the wing may
tempt, but it cannot seduce the ortho-
dOx Israelite Flesh cut from a living
animal, as the Abyssianians were once
said to have cut their steaks. is likewise
prohibited. GALAXY.
Year: 1874

REMARKABLE IF TRUE.-The follow
ing incident of the famine, reported
By the Collector of Monghyr, is, says the
Times Of India, certainly remarkable;
"a woman of the fishing caste, writes
Mr.. Lockwood, twas sitting by the SIDE
of the Ganges, some 100 miles from here,
in the Patna District, about daylight
the 10Th of August; suddenly the bank
on which she was sitting gave way, and
she fell into the water, dragging with
her a large bundle of castor oil sticks
which she was carrying at the time
She managed to support herself on these
sticks. which formed a kind of life buoy,
and she was carried down by the cur
rent. which is now running at a great
pace. Aseaeh village or boat was passed
She shouted to the villagers TO help her,
but none came 10 her relief. In this
way she was carried nearly 100 miles,
and. fortunately for her, when she had
been twenty four hours in the water, she
passed by Monghyr, and was rescued by
Col. Murray, who, seeing her floating
by, sent his private boat and rescued
her. The woman did not appear much
the worse for her prolonged stay in the
water, but naturally was much i'm
pressed by the fact Of her being rescued
By a European, when 50 many of her
own caste had declined to help her.
She was provided with railway ticket
to Patna, together with food and cloth
ing from the relief funds"
Year: 1874

the shelter of the forests like frightened
sheep.


THIS gave us a moments breathing
time, and a glance at Starkey showed
how terribly he had been handled in the
fight. his clothes hanging in tatters and
dyed with blood. while his horse was
covered with blood and foam. Oar first
care now was to recover the other ami
mails and The baggage, but nowhere
could w zee either them or the guide !:
so picking up my rifle, which | had
dropped when | fell, We crossed the lit
tie prairie as rapidly as our wounded
horses could carry us in search of them.


As we were passing along the dry
water-course we perceived our guide
beckoning to us from the edge of some
reeds, where we presently had the salts
faction to find the horses and baggage
all safe. He said that when Starkey
had driven off the savages that were in
pursuit of him, he had endeavored to
recover the runaways, which, after con-
siderable difficulty, they having been
much scared, he succeeded in doing,
and had hidden them in this place until
he could see some way of aiding us.


This was a great relief to us, as, so
long as we retained our arms and ammu-
milton, we feared nothing. Quickly
changing our saddles TO the backs of
horses, and leading the wounded ones,
we struck off to the woods, not a mo-
ment too soon, however, fo1the guide,
directing our attention 90 an immense
column of black smoke on the edge of
the prairie, declared that the natives
had set fire to it.


Fortunately for US, what little wind
there was, was unfavorable to the fire
advancing in our direction, and, by
desperate effort, rendered doubly diff
cult by the wounded condition of some
of our animals, we gained the woods in
time to set fire to our side of the prairie
before the advancing flames had reached
a dangerous proximity, and in a brief
space the little prairie that, an hour be-
fore, had been one luxuriant bed of wav-
ing grass and beautiful flowers, became
a smoking, blackened and desolute
waste.-THrf, Field and Farm.
Year: 1874

SINGuLAR.-Ast strange coincidence is report
ed in Indiana. In August last man was kill
ed by the cars at the junction at Ko Komo. A
few nights ago his brother was killed by the
same train, the same engineer running it, at
the same hour, and at the same place.
Year: 1874

He seemed to me quite different from
any other man had ever seen. He
was in no sense a negationist or de-
structive as to the character of his mind;
he never approached any person or any
dogma with bow and spear; he never
sought to make captures. He dealt in
affirmations, uttered his truths in lu-
minous, genial way, and if he offered an
opinion fatal to your prejudices, it was
as if he offered you the rarest flower
from his garden. Such tendernessl
There was something pathetic in his
treatment even of wrongs, as If there
were written in his breast the motto Of
of the Eastern king, "Act as if you
watched over an infant" Such humil-
ityl Buddha sat down on the grass,
and the grass became jeweled throne. 4"
He, too, took the lowest seat, and pub
lished therefrom eternal laws. Never
shall I forget the sensation produced
here during the second great canvass in
which he stood for Parliament, by his
outburst of horror at the image which
Mansel had set up as the Christian God.
In contending that the highest human
morality must be altogether different
from the morality of an Infinite Being.
~ WILL" said Mr.. Mill (whom must
here quote from memory" will call
no being good who is not good in the
same sense as l mean when I apply that
term to my fellow-men. And if there
be any such being, there is one thing
which, however powerful, he cannot
make me do-he cannot make me wor-
ship him. And if such being can
sentence me to hell for not so calling
him, to hell I will CO." This senti-
ment was dragged out at the election,
and placarded the walls as specimen
of Mills atheismw Canon Kingsley,
preaching at the time in the Chapel
Royal, quoted the words, and said,
" To my mind these words express the
most exalted Christianity" And an
other said, "The religious world owes
great debt to this man it has distrust-
ed, who, when blow was aimed at the
moral majesty of God, upheld the
shield" They who had best studied
and pondered Mr.. Mills works-still
more they who knew him personally,
and could witness his life and conversa-
tion-required no such vindications.
They would not be at any loss to see in
this outbreak of feeling in the midst
of philosophical essay and instance of
the depth and strength of it's authors
religious feeling. And it is probable
that Mr.. Mills intimate friends were
one and all asked to-day what they con-
sidered the profoundest element in their
great friends character, each would
reply: his essential righteousness. -
Harper's Magazine.
Year: 1874

BAD DREAMs.-Bad dreams are fire.
quently caused by a tight neck-band,
which prevents the blood when it reaches
the brain from flowing freely back
again. Compression of any part OF the
body should be avoided at all times,
but especially during sleep. The light
er the bed-clothes the more refreshing
and sweet will be the repose. For this
reason, comforters made of delaines. or
other thin wooden material, and stuffed
with wool, are far preferable to those
made of cotton, and warmer even than
blankets, since the fibers of wool are
wider apart, and the same weight goes
farther in retaining the warmth OF the
body.
Year: 1874

@ Six persons are killed in London
every day on an average by being run
over by horses or wagons; the mortality
from that source being greater relatively
in that city than any other because the
streets are more crowded and the fogs
are denser and more frequent. The
people there are used to it, however,
and they do not give it q second thought.
Year: 1874

How did people get in habit of shaking
hands? The answer is not far to seek. In
early and barbarous times, when every
savage OF semi was his own lawgiver,
Judge, soldier and policeman, and had to
watch over his own safety, in default of all
other protection, two friends and acquaint-
ances. or two strangers desiringto be friends
or acquaintances, when they CHANGED to
meet, offered each to the other the right
hand-the hand alike of offence and defence,
the hand that wields the sword, the dagger,
the club, the tomahawk, or other weapons
of war. Each did this to show that the
hand was empty, and neither war nor
treachery was intended. A man cannot
well stab another while he is in the act of
shaking hands with him, unless he be
double-dyed traitor and william, and strives
to aim cowardly blow with the left while
giving the right and pretending to be on
good terms with his victim. The custom of
Misunderstanding prevails more or less among
all civilized nations, and is the tacit avowal
of friendship and good will, just as a kiss is
Of warmer passion. Ladies, as every one
must have remarked. seldom or never shake
hands with the eordiaiity of gentlemen, M
less it be with each other. The reason is
obvious It is for them to receive homage,
not to give it. They cannot be expected to
show to persons Of the other sex Il warmth
of greeting which might be misinterpreted
unless such persons are very closely related
to them by family or afluction--in which
cases hand-shakiDg is not needed, and the
lips do more agreeable duty.
Year: 1874

His name is Henri Rochefort. For twenty
years he kept Louis Napoleon dancing with
rage. He is no philosopher. He does not
care whit for political economy. He has
no respect for the solemn pageants enacted
in the name of religion, nor for the shams
and funkeys and hypocrites who rob the
people in the name of law. lie is born
disorganizer, a trained agitator, an incar-
nate revolution. He is pot always boiling,
and sometimes boiling over. He has a
faculty ofsaying those sharp, bitter, singing
things, which fly like poisoned arrows direct
to the mark and rankle worse than death
where they do kill, and which give mex
plessible delight to the Frenchmen who
look on, aud who are hundred times more
eager for an epigram than for an argument.
He is the prince of paragraphists, and no
writer ever lived who could write q sharper
line than he. His words pierce like needles.
His sentences are lancets, S,ll edge and no
back. They glitter like polished steel, but
they ignite wherever they fall, and in the
inflammable tinder of French society they
make a blaze they do not create a con-
fagration. Afraid of nobody, shrinking
from nothing, defying enemies and epithets,
at home, anywhere, half inspired and half
insane, but altogether alive with an over
mastering passion for liberty, he has been
the terror of every tyrant and the fear of
every regime France has had for a quarter
of a century.


Rochefort is the man of the hour. lie
carries revolution III his brain. No
wonder the Royalists, the Imperialists, the
timid and time-serving Conservatives of
France want to crush him. He is their
doom. In his advent they see nothing but
the Judgment Day. They forget their own
follies and blindness and crimes have made
him possible and given him his power to
harm. France wants order. But it cannot
be the order of the graveyard. She must
have liberty. But it cannot be the liberty
of universal license. Rochefort may be the
fire and lead the whirlwind needed to clear
the ground and purify the air. But states
men of another order must follow to create
the new nation and marry liberty and order
in everlasting wedlock.-GoldenA Age.
Year: 1874

From the Chicago Times, June2.


One day last week a professional gambler
went into a faro-room on Clark street to
have an engagement with the "tiger."
He commenced playing, lost, won, lost
again and continued losing; and finally at
the end of fifty hours he quit the engage
ment out of pocket to the amount of Sill
900. During this season of fifty hours the
game was unbroken. The gambler never
slept for a moment, never stopped to eat a
meal, but carried the whole tremendous en-
terprise through without rest, cessation or
refreshment.


The wonderful thing of this is not the
amount lost by the player-although it was
a sufficiently bad thing for him-or the
amount won by the bauk- which was no.
tably good thing for the bank-but the
enormous endurance shown by the loser.
The case is one nearly or quite without a
parallel. Men have ridden, spoken, and
done many other things for twenty-four or
thirty hours at stretch; but case other
than the present one is unknown in which
a labor was carried through so long a period
"a labor which involved so tremendous a
mental wear and tear, and was, therefore,
trebly arduous in its effects upon the sys-
tenn of the chief participant The event is
also noticeable as showing the absorbing
power of gaming. One cannot fancy any
task which would induce or force man to
deprive himself during the same period of
sleep Or refreshment. One watching by the
bedside of a dying child would succumb
within less than this period. A man who
had the certainty of living but fifty hours
would probably spend one-fourth Of it in
sleep, and would give due attention to his
food. One escaping from deadly foe, and
knowing that every instant delay might
prove fatal, would not fly for so long
time without snatching momenta1y rest.
In short, one can conceive of no other cir
cumstance in which man would give fifty
unbroken hours to q single task-circum-
stances more especially which would tear
the chief actor with hope and fear, and
harass him necessarily with the operation
of the most destructive of the emotions
Could some one perform similar feat in
interests of charity. or country, or friend
ship, he would secure for himself very
fair grade of immortality.