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Year: 1875

The LscTURE.-We must confess that we
fell ashamed for our people when we entered
the lecture room, Saturday night last, and
found such beggarly attendance. Even the
front seats were not filled, and the rear of
the room presented the appearance of q de-
serted hall. This in face of the fact that the
lecturer had remained here nearly week in
order TO afford our citizens an opportunity to
hear him, and full notice had been given Of
both time and place. The class aspiring to
the position of " leading citizens" and who
pride themselves upon their wealth and as
sumed respectability, were notable for their
absence. The trouble is, that many of those
who ought to be representative men and
women, are ignorant and uneducated, and
hence they have no taste for an intellect
nal ntertainment such as was presented
them by Calvin B. Mcdonald. Had it been
lone horse OPERA" or a "nigger show"
they would have been out in full force, but
it being purely historical and learned dis
course, for them it had no attractions. For
tunately we have i'll our midst few persons
a very few-Of culture and refinement, and
these were out and enjoyed al intellectual
repast The subject of the lecture, as previ-
ously announced, was the Massacre of
Glencoe" ari 10 say that it was able and
instructive Is faint praise. We had read
Macaulay's version of that dreary episode in
Scotch history, and had been charmed by the
eloquence and beauty of diction employed by
that polished historian when describing the
bloody scenes that attended the massacre. In
the matter Of word painting Macaulay is al
ways exhaustive, but We have no hesitation
in saying that in beauty of diction and power
of description, Calvin B. Mcdonald is far in
advance of the great historian. 4 finer piece
of composition we have never heard read,
and as the lecturer turned over page after
page we imagined that we were listening TO
the rippling of mountain stream or the mur
mur of molten silver. Softly and sweetly the
sentences We're turned, and over an hour
slipped away with the audience insensible to
the passage of time. At its close, the feeling
was that it was too much short, and we be-
lieve those who were present would gladly
have remained for hours listening to the witch
cry of the lecturers voice and his beautifully
rounded sentences We understand that
Mr.. Mcdonald will revisit WalIa Walla at
an early day, when it is not unlikely he
will repeat his lecture to a larger but not
more appreciative audience.
Year: 1875

VALUE Or CHARACrER.-W hear of a
man who never drinks, never smokes, never
chews, and IL fact has no vices, going into a
saloon the other night, presided over by a
female, and remaining for an unprecedented


length of time. His, friends finally became
alarmed for his safety, thinking possibly
that he might be going through on a game
of draw poker and entered for the purpose
if need be of rescuing him. As the friends
entered the front door our moral gentleman
lied ont the back door intending to jump the
fence, but was brought back by the lady,
who holding him by the collar said: " You
came in by the front door and must go out
the same way I'm woman. of good char
acter, and am not to be compromised by the
likes Of Won - Those who were present say
that the victim went out of the door looking
very much " like a reed shaken by the wind. J"
Year: 1875

California should be well represented
at the Centennial next year. No State
in the Union can make the display
she can, and there is no State that can
be more benefited by being brought
favorably before the worlds represen-
tatives at the great Centennial. The
people of the State should demand
that the work of the Centennial Com
mission be none faithfully, SO that the
resources and capabilities of California
are prominently presented.
Year: 1875

Now is your time No such chance again In
one hundred years! The Bazaar Is selling out
their entire stock of Dry Goods 25 per cent.
below cost, as they intend giving up tnelr nry
goods business and keep only Gents Furnish
Ing Goods. This Is no bogus sale, but genu-
,ne selling out OF our entire stock OF Dry
Cry Cords, as YOU will find out by calling at
the bazaar, corner of Main and Requena
streets. opposite the U. s. Hotel. jel7
Year: 1875

need of work and money, the temporary
tramp would simply have to apply to the
road master, who would never be without
employment to give and fifty cents day
to pay for it. The work hunter would not
be long in acquiring enough to pay his way
further or to support himself untilhe found
work in the neighborhood. Farmers and
others in want of help would soon learn to
resort to the road gangs to pick their men,
the volunteers being free to engage them
selves at an time, those under arrest when
their ten days were up. The professionals
would more or less quickly learn to prefer
free labor at high rates to enforced work on
the roads at low rates; in the meantime an
enormous "waste product" would be
utilized, and the highways improved at
small cost to the residents. 1t is safe to
predict that any community adopting such
plan would soon have better roads or
fewer bcggars-possibly both.
Year: 1875

WE ALL HAVE OUR SATANs.-Each one of
us has a different Satan. Satan comes to
one man in the form of idleness, and makes
him waste day after day, year after year,
until he has wasted bis whole life doing
nothing. Satan comes to another man as
work, and makes him distroy himself in
the opposite way, wearing out prematurely
his brain and his body. He comes to
another as Christian zeal, and the man
becomes u bigot, full Of fire for the Lord
but the Lord he serves is God of wrath, q
God who cares for trifes, God who prefers
sacrifice to mercy. He comes to another
as charity, but it Isl charity which tolerates
evils and lets it alone, which has no edge
to it, no courage; an indolent charity,
which is not love at all, but only easy good
nature. So he disguises himself as an
angel of light, calling himself patriotism
when he wishes to make nations hate each
other; calling himself Christianity when he
wishes to make men persecute each other
calling himself honesty when he wishes tc
encourage a man in his rude and over
bearing ways; and so on, changing himself
into every virtue and every grace.
Year: 1875

the stars that looked down upon the whis-
pering and lingering parting at the gate.


She found her mother in no very amiable
humor.


$50 you've come at last, miss A pretty
time o'night for you tew be comm home
Thought had sich good company that yo,'
0ouldn't hurry, eh? Who told you that
consider old 'Lijah Skinner good compny
He's the most tiresome fellow l ever dd
see! There he sot an sot, an wouldn't
take no kind of a hint, till fairly had to
tell him to go. l wonder what good he
thinks it's going tew dew him to come here
to see me? Now, Salmantha Jane Peabody
l want you tew jest remember one thing
that this is the last time you go out with
Sam Skinner"
Year: 1875

In old times the genuine Wesleyan was
in appearance unmistakable He was not
only solemn and severe, as if the weight
of the worlds sins were III the atmosphere,
but he cut his garments in angles, and
made them of sombre hues, that he might
be known of all men. Brave, sturdy
sincere fellows, most of them, who did
good work in the great vineyard, mainly
because they were of the people and
among them. But we see them no more.
1t is with something of surprise that we
find him now with mustache and eyeglass,
wearing a colored shirt, as if he belonged
to boat club, smoking highpriced cigars
occasionally, and not afraid to drink claret
in his camp-meeting lodge; talking about
running over to the springs, wondering how
gold is this morning and regretting that
he did not bring his horse up. Ills wife
is equally astonishing, when think OF hel
in her lavender colored challie, with skirt
en- train, followed to prayer meeting by hel
French maid.-Letter from Bound LAX
Camp Meeting.
Year: 1875

VERBAL VIcEs.-Tndulgence in verbal
vice soon encourages corresponding vices in
conduct. Let any one of you come to
talk about any mean or vile practice with
familiar tone, and do you suppose, when
the opportunity occurs for committing the
mean or vile act, he will be as strong
against il as before? 1t is by no means
an unknown thing that men of correct
lives talk themselves into sensuality, crime
and pcrdition. Bad language easily run
into bad deeds. Select any iniquity you
please; suffer yourself to converse in its
dialect, to use its slang, to speak in the
character of one who relishes it, and
need not tell how soon your moral sense
will lower down to its level. Becoming
intimate with it, you lose your horror of
it. TO be too much with bad men and in
, bad places, is not only unwholesome to a
mans morality, but unfavorablc to his
| faith and trust in God. 1t is not every
| man who could live as Lot lived in Sodom,


and then be fit to go out of it under Gods


convey. This obvious principle of ITSELF


furnishes a reason not only for watching


the tongue, but for keeping ourselves as


much as possible out of the company oI


bad associates.-hlctia.. .trcdNd.
Year: 1875

There are few things which make more
trouble between neighbors than the incur
sion of pigeons, chickens, or some other
creatures into grounds where they are not
desirable or profitable. OF course people
who have TO live side by side together arc
much in the condition Of married people,
who have to give and take, as the saying is,
if they ever expect to get comfortably
along. Much annoyance is often endured
III this way, and very often to the extent
of one party feeling that he has to do all
the talking, while the giving all comes
from the other side.


In all annoyance of this kind it requires
a good deal of cool command of ones self
to get along well, and much may be done
by the aggrievcd party doing something
himself to keep out intruders, when that
something does not cost too much time and
labor to do. Attempts at coercion, or
anything that may create bad feeling, are
not wise as Il rule, and not till all kinder
methods fail. 1t is well, however, for all
to understand what is the rights of parties
in these cases as the law understands ii.


There is general impression that the
! keeper of a drove of fowls, or a flock of
pigeons has no responsibility in regard to
! keeping these annoyances from his neigh
bors. If he has good feur-raied fence,
such as would keep horse or COW from
breaking through, he thinks in many cases
he is relieved from all other care as to
what other thing may 90 ; and he contends
that it is the neighbor who is to keep out
the visitors if their presence be undesirable


to him.


But this is not so. We have now before


us the report of case sent to court in


order to test this very thing. One neighbol


had a taste for flowers and prided


himself considerably on his garden. The


other neighbor loved fowls, and kept {


numerous flock of them. The fowls loved


flowers also, and made frequent visits tC


the neighbor's beds. The fowl owner wal


repeatedly appealed to; but he always fel
back on what he considered his righths-


which werc he thought, that the neighbo
who objected to the chickens should pu
up fence sufficient to keep the fowls out


But the decision was adverse to any sup
posed right, and he had to pay good sun
; for flowers destroyed, time charged il
) driving chickens out, and in watching til


BEDS and a large number of similar items
; besides the costs of the whole suit.


, 1t is a very common thing for one VIII
5 is in most matters honest and correct,
] allow his fcathered stock to wander owe
: his neighbor's grounds. Sometimes it is i
l thoughtlessness, and he might not perm
c it if he had an idea how sorely his neigl
c Dor felt about it; ; but generally we believ
!, it arises from this very feeling Of right
n that it is the right of the opposite party
+ keep them at home and it is in view
t this feeling that we thought the dccisio
y referred to worth prominent comment
r Germantown Telegraph.
Year: 1875

\ movement has been set on foot in En-
gland to abolish the custom of wearing
mourning for all relatives, far and near,
and thus, if the connection happens to be a
large one, OF passing large portion of life
IN habilnncnts Of felt or feigned Woe A
society-everything moves by society now
a-days-has been organized, whose mem.
bers pledge themselves to limit mourning
to the heads of the family, except that
children may wear it for their parents,
brothers and sisters. This is a sensible
troubling of customs stagnant pool. Does
1t not seem too absurd for whole family
to go into mourning for their great uncle's
wite's sister, and not only to put on "inky
cloaks' themselves, but to array their
servants, as is the custum in England, in
black EXtravagant, silly, ridiculous are a
few of the adjectives which are applicable
to this custom, not only in England but
nearer home, where, if a story once current
i'll this city may be believed, a young lady
once went iii mourning for the child Of
an intimate friend Mourning does not
make people mourn. Even if it did it
would be out of place in a world where
there is sorrow enough already. 1t is not
always sign of real grief, and therefore
the donning of it often partakes of the
nature of hypocrisy. For all these and
many other reasons its use ought to be, and
! when people learn to live less artifcially
! will be, abolished.-Er.
Year: 1875

GREENS OBsrRUcr1vESEss. The absurd re
fusal of Mr.. Green TO pay the salaries Of the
Aldermen on Tuesday last because two per-
sons claiming to have been elected Assistant
Aldermen" an Office abolished by the char
ter-protested against such payment, is only
another exhibition of the Comptroller's an
noying and impertinent obstructiveness. The
Mayor has had occasion to take Mr.. Green to
task for his neglect to either accept or reject
the sureties offered on the bond of the printer
of the CITY Record Mayor Wickham re-
minded Mr.. Green that he is q subordinate in
the city government, that his duties are de-
fined IN the charter, and that he has no
business to assume powers that do not belong
to him and to virtually set himself up above
the Mayor and Commonalty. The Mayor
should at once put stop to the petty tyranny
Mr.. Green seeks to exercise over oil public
officers of whom he does not stand In fear.
Year: 1875

Mr.. SEwARD's BILL for the paving of Fifth
avenue with concrete pavement from WASH
ington square to Ninetieth street will no doubt
be welcomed by the residents in that avenue
and our citizens generally as the promise of
something better than the present dangerous
and disgraceful pavement The street is of
necessity the most important drive ill the city,
and its condition is now so deplorable that
any proposition for its improvement can
scarcely fail to be acceptable. Still, the Legis-
lature ought to bear in mind that many of our
citizens are of opinion that macadamized
road, the advantages of which are we'll estab-
lished, would be preferable to any concrete
pavement for such splendid avenue.
Year: 1875

It is probable that the vote in the French
Assembly on the amendment to section fourth
of tho ventavon bill is part Of bargain of
which the other parts are not yet apparent;
because it is not in character for all the repub-
licans of every shade from red to blue to vote
together on any measure without such . def
mite reason ss bargain might involve, moro
especially when the measure in support of
which they are thus grouped is one that may
give soldier and . senatorial clique power to
turn the representatives Of the people out Of
doors whenever they are found obstinate in
the assertion of the national will. Section
fourth Of tho Ventavon bill gave to the Mar
shal President the power to dissolve the As
sembly, and required that in case of dissolu-
ton elections for new Chamber should be
held within six months. The WALTON amend
ment required that the dissolution should not
be on the mere decision of the Executive,
which would put the House always in the
power of a Ministry but should be ''by the
advice and consent of the Senate" q
body the creation of which is provided
for by the bill of Lefevre Pontalis.
Certainly this is limitation of the power
that would have been given as proposed by
ventavon but it is not Limitation that can
be palatable to republicans, for the Senate, if
constructed as the law projects, will never be
body in sympathy with any decidedly repub-
lican system. Half it's members will neces-
sarily be firm adherents of privilege, and the
half that issues from election could only equal
these if such miracle were to happen as that
every man elected should be republican.
Preferred, therefore, even as the least of two
evils, dissolution, as voted, can be very little
better than dissolution as proposed in the
original bill, and the republicans might have
been expected to oppose either with equal de-
termination for soldiers will always be apt
enough at the dispersion of legislatures
where they have the power, and where they
doubt their power it is not in the interest of
liberty to give them the encouragement os
constitutional forms. But it is probable that
oil the elements Of the Left have voted this
measure out of complacency to the republicans
nearer the Right, on pledge that the repub-
licans Of the Right Centre will vote with them
in turn for the modification of the bill creat-
ing the Senate or on some other point to
which the Left may attach greater impor-
tance. The ventavon bill was passed to it's
third reading yesterday, and the Senate bill
will be brought up in week. Thus is the
Septennate endeavoring to emerge from the
prouisoire.
Year: 1875

Az ENGLISH SUBJECT can always feel secure
and confident of protection from his govern
ment in any part of the world. One has been
imprisoned at Aspinwall and consul at that
port has been assaulted, according to our
news to-day Consequently British man-of-
war has been ordered to proceed to the
Isthmus to inquire into the matter-a more
efficient remedy than voluminous dispatches
from our Department OF State.
Year: 1875

CARPENTER DOWNFALL. by one the
friends of Caesar are falling. Butler was
swept away in September, and with him fell
many less famous but not less Jealous adher-
ents OF the Executive policy. 1t was still be-
lieved after the battle, however, that at least
two of the leaders we're saved where so many
nameIess heroes were lost forever. These
we're Chandler and Carpenter. But first the
former was slain, and now we have news
that the latter also is destroyed. There is in
all this most salutary lesson. The people
have determined that personally and polit-
caly our statesmen shall hereafter maintain
themselves upon a much higher level than
was the practice in the last few years, and the
Senate and the country will be all the better
Tor the admonitions which the downfall Of
Carpenter and men like him bring to the at
tenton of our public men.
Year: 1875

The Pelaes Eeres-RsNDsning Bach.


We alluded few days ago to the case Of


Paris detective. who, having been found in


collusion with thieves. receiving money from


them and protecting them from arrest, was


sentenced to five years imprisonment An


example like this is calculated to keep detec-


tive force honest and to make it efficient II


the corrupt officer had simply been removed
from the detective department and put on
patrol duty, or detailed for special service at
hotel. court Of law or some other public
place, the tendency of the act would have


been to demoralize the force and to render
life and property in the city insecure A man
who would oonnive with thieves as deteo-
tive would be very likely to lend valuable as
sistance to burglars as pstrolman.


''They order these matters better in France"
than We do in the United States, or at least
in New York. short time ago the Police
Commissioners discovered, OF affected to have
discovered corrupt practices on the part Of
some Of the captains. It was common
talk among the Commissioners that In
this or that precinct tho captain was supposed
to be in league with panel house propri-
etors and other VIC ators of the law,
and to levy upon such persons regular tax,
in consideration Of allowing them to pursue
their business without molestation by the
police. 1t does not appear to have occurred
to any Commissioner that . captain who
would be guilty Of such conduct was unfit to
be on the police force in any capacity what
ever. All that the Board deemed necessary in
the case was to "break up the rings by chang
ing the captains round into different pre-
cincts. To be sure, there was nothing to prevent
the transferred officers from forming new COM
binations of similar character in their new
precincts or from making over their profitable
arrangements to their successors. The Com
missioners only desired to make show Of
activity and ''reform," and were indifferent as
to what the intrinsic value Of the reform
might be. More recently they have made q
similar stir in the detective department
Having made up their minds that about half
the detectives were in league with thieves and
making fortunes through protecting the.per-
petrators of crime from arrest, they order the
suspected men to put on the uniform and do
patrol duty or detail them to hotels and courts
of law. Again, it does not seem to have 90
CURED to the Commissioners that ununi-
formed officers who were the accomplices of
thieves would be the Same after they had put
on the uniform, and would indeed possess
yet more dangerous power as patrolmen than
as detectives. In Paris the captains and detec-
tives against whom these crimes were alleged
would have been tried, and if convicted would
have suffered the penalty. The action of our
New York Police Commissioners only proves
that the real reform Of which the force stands
so much in need can only be secured by
commencing ct the head of tho depart
Ynent