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Year: 1874

A most ingenious device for carry
ing on clandestine courtship was
brought to light by o grape skin,
Friday evening. The young lady
lives with her parents and brother
on Pine street, The young man
whom she favored is trifle obnox-
ious to the rest of the family, and it
has been their aim to keep him at a
distance. As he had not been to the
house for some time, and as she had
not been discovered with him on the
street, the family Aattered themselves
that the ill-starred match was broken
up. On Friday evening the brother
arrayed himself in his best suit and
went down street. An hour later,
while passing along the dark side OF
the street, he encountered the OBJ
iectionable suitor engaged in close
conversation with another man. Not
wishing to notice him he lifted his
eyes above the level Of the other
party's head, and was preparing to
sail by with an unconscious demean-
or, when no unfortunately stepped
upon the skin Of o grape, and losing
his balance, shot violently into the
strange gentleman's legs, bringing
him down upon himself. The young
mans embarrassment was changed
to horror and astonishment, when
the stranger cried out in the voice OF
his sister, "Oh Tom how could youP"
He sprahg to his feet in an instant.
The stranger was also getting up,
and presenting q most. remarkable
Appearance. His face was red as
scarlet, and his glossy moustache
was turned half way around, one-half
laying across his mouth, and the
other5 hugging the lee side Of his
nose. "Why Maryl" exclaimed
the shocked brother. But Mary said
nothing, and held her head, while
her lover made scarce. The brother
took the sister home, and her mother
escorted her to her room, where she
us at once undressed and put to
he'd With hot bricks TO her feet, and
a o1art oi bonesst down her throat.
Her mother, Who could not believe
Ill Of her daughter, declared it was a
case Of bilious fever, and deteImln-
ed to get the best Of it. The ioyer
has secured work at New Haven Tor
the Winter. Ddabuyy Nelcs.
Year: 1874

ANOTHER steal is in contemplation.
Senator Nipple has introduced a bill
in the Senate condeming the new Gus
tom House just built at Portland and
providing for the erection Of another.
There is no sense or justice in scuh
extrayagance as this, and it can only
be consistently defended OH the
ground that somebody must have a
stealing contract. No wonder the
public debt is increasing millions
every month.
Year: 1874

IT is stated in connection with in
surance that in 1879 more than ff-
teen times as many policies in life
insurance companies were dropped
by parties holding them as expired
by death or limitation.
Year: 1874

and which he can deny. He shuns me be-
cause he breads truth. If l am elected to
the Senate, | haze friends in the North
who served with me in Mexico, and l could
exercise influence with them. Mr.. John
sons election would enrage the North,
and he could have no influence
with them. His election would
not please Southern, men because he
betrayed them in the hour of their trouble.
He cannot read on me any resolutions of
conventions or speeches of prominent men,
because / never endorsed them.


In speaking to the negroes he (Savsge)
was very frank and plain. He said SD
premacy or separation was inevitable. The
negro was not and never could be the
social equal of the white man, and the at
tempt to make him so would always create
disturbances. If any negro is hard-work-
ing and industrious and is willing to aSSOci-
ate with his own people, he is my friend
and am his. But if any negro wishes to
uuit bis own race and thrust himself Into
white society, let him not vote for me.


Col. Savage said he did not believe in
the plan of placing the name of Senator
on the ticket, because the Radicals IN that
way could elect the Senator of the Demo-
cratic party by uniting with the johnson
men. But the people ought 10 express
their opinions in public meetings or other
wise, as to what man they preferred for
Senator, and this will of the people ought
to be respected and obeyed by the Legisla-
ture.


His speech was more than two hours in
length, and was listened to with deep in
teaest, interrupted by manifestations OF
applause, or disapproval, according to the
temper Of his hearers.
Year: 1874

Important Changes In the Canon On


Divorce Pending.


New YORK, Oct. I6.-The General
Canon of the Protestant Episcopal Church,
Immediately after the forming prayer, went
into secret session. After discussion, the
delegates from missionary districts were
admitted into secret session, which ended
at 4 o'clock The petition from Chicago
has not vet been read to the house. The
secret session will continue again tO-mOr-
row.


Among the messages received from the
House of Bishops were the 70 lowing:


Resolved, The House of Clerical and
Lay Deputies concurring, that TIE follow
ing canon of divorce be substituted in place
CT canon thirteen, title three, which is here
by repeated, and that said canon be num-
bered canon thirteen of title two, namely:


Canon Of Divorce.


Section l. II any persons be joined to-
gether other wise than as Gods word doth
allow, their marriage is not lawful.


Sec. ,. No minister of this church shall
solemnize matrimony in any case when
the divorced wife or husband of either
party is still living, and when the divorce
was obtained for some cause arising after
marriage; but this cause shall not be held to
apply to the innocent party in a divorce for
cause of adultery, or to parties once divorced
seeking to be united again.


Sec. 5. No minister of this church shall
present for confirmation or administer the
holy sacraments to any person divorced for
any cause arising after marriage, and mar
ried to another in violation of this canon
during the lifetime of such divorced wife
or husband; but this prohibition shall not
extend to the innocent party when divorce
has been for the cause of adultery, nor to
any penitent IN ertreH,iS.


Sec. 4. Questions touching the facts of
any case arising under this canon shall be
referred to the bishop of the diocese or
missionary district, or, if there be a vacan-
cy in the eplscopaie, then to some bishop
designated by the standing committee, who
shall thereupOn make inquiry by commits
sion or otherwise, and deliver his gOdly
judgment in the premises.


Sec. B. This canon, so far as it
affixes penalties, does not apply to cases
occurring before its taking effect, according
TO canon 4, title 4.


Ordered placed on the calendar.


Seymour.


The Tribune learns that in the vote Of
the Episcopal House of Bishops to-day,
upon some matter considered as a test vote
as 10 the confirmation of Bishop Seymour,
only ten out of forty voted in the negative.
One bishop is credited with saying, he
wished he was as sure of heaven as Prof.
Seymour was Of his confirmation.
Year: 1874

Nor often, IN these days, do we see
an executive officer voluntarily seeking
to divest himself Of patronage or other
means of currying favor. That the
charities of Nashville have often
been grossly prostituted to poht


ical and personal purposes, Is
well known of all. In. proposing to
turn over this department, however, to
the Robertson Association, our new
Mayor has also another object in view,
namely, to secure more time for the
proper duties of his Office. We do not
know of any body of men, to whom the
matter could be more safely entrusted
than the Society in question. The ar
rangement would rebound to
the benefit of the worthy
poor, ensuring more attention and dis
elimination in supplying their ecessi-
ties, as well as better protection against
frauds. There are some legal points
about this delegating of the city's
charities to an unofficial body, but we
hope the City Council will find the
proper method for accomplishing the
desirable objects of this movement.
Year: 1874

The Southern Hotel is first class in all its appoint
ments Its tab cs are at all times supplied in the
Creates abun4anee with all the delicacies the mar
kets afford Its clerks and employees are all polite
and attentive 10 the wants Of the guests at the
Hotel.


There is an improved elevator leading from the
first floor 10 the upper one.


Railroad and Steamboat Ticket Office, News
Stand and Western Union Telegraph Office in Ro-
tunda of tue Hotel. 3-21tts1y
Year: 1874

EDIToR HERALD: AS the Water
Company already claim to hold six
acres of the city's land on Fort Hill,
and, as stated in the Council n few
days ago, they only intend to occupy
one half acre of that with their reser-
voir, what do they propose to do with
the remainder and the otherlot they
are now trying to secure?


RESIDENT.


Los Angeles, Nov. %, 1874.


We can only answer our correspond
ent by assumption. 1t is plain to
every intelligent person that the COM
pany do not want the lot they are ask
ing for for reservoir purposes. They
will probably place q small reservoir
on the summit of the hill, but as it
will cover an area of less than half
acre they will, if they obtain the other
lot, have something over six acres in n
body. They claim to. hold thirty
years lease on this land, and if they
can make their claim stand, the rent
age of the land will amount to some
thing handsome. Each of the six
acres may be divided into six building
lots, and each lot is worth and the city
could to-day sell it for three hundred
dollars. This makes the six acres of
the city's land now held by the Water
Company worth ten thousand eight
hundred dollars. The company prob
ably intend to suitcase these lots for
the term Of twenty-eight years-the
time they claim their lease has yet to
run-to parties who will build upon
them. Or they may build houses
themselves and increase their income
by a large rental. This may be the
object of the company in holding the
six acres and in getting rs many more
lots as they can induce the Council to
give them.
Year: 1874

To-day being set apart by the Ma
tional and State Executives as day
of Thanksgiving and prayer. and
whereas, as we cannot conveniently
attend to those duties and get out a
paper; and whereas, we must omit
one or the other; therefore, be 1T re-
solved, that in order to give the en-
ployes of the HERALD office an oppor-
tunity to attend one or more OF the
score of turkey dinners to which each
one is invited, no paper will be issued
from this office on Friday morning.
We trust that our friends and patrons
will enjoy their good cheer to-day and
hope that one and all may live to see
the annual return of many more
Thanksgiving days, on each of which
they may be as prosperous and happy
as the present.
Year: 1874

Farmers have brought to the HER
AID office potatoes weighing twelve
pounds each and we have written col
umn after column setting forth the
great facility and ease with which
first-class butter may be manufactured
in this valley, yet on enquiry among
our grocery firms and produce dealers
we find that large proportion of the
potatoes consumed in this city and a
great deal of the butterpurchased here
is brought down from San Francisco.
This is an unsatisfactory showing and
is far from creditable to our rich val
ley or complimentary to our farmers.
No soil in the world will produce
larger, better or a greater number of
tons to the acre of potatoes than that
of Los Angeles valley. In place of
drawing our supply of this common
article of food from other localities, we
should export annually thousands of
tons. We presum that our supply of
o+I Il = - -
Vi hlectiiIo IHe uciHdiu. IL HIS DcGh
demonstrated that a few acres of Los
Angeles valley soil seeded to alfalfa will
support large dairy, yet we find that
in place of sending tons of butter every
month to San Francisco we are actu-
ally compelled to draw portion of
our supply from that place. We call
the attention of persons desirous of
establishing good business to these
facts. Farmers have shown that the
soil will grow immense potatoes. The
next thing to do is to grow some of
them. The valley is well adapted to
the dairy business; let us at least
Year: 1874

We have again and again warned
our people of the danger to which they
are exposing themselves by tardiness
ana indifference concerning the Los
Angeles and Independence Railroad.


we nave repeatedly pointed to the
fact that those interested are msking
strenuous efforts 70 turn the trade
which now passes through the citv
over the San Joaquin Valley Railroad
and across the mountains fiom or near
Bakersfield. Their exertions ara bo.
ginning to bear fruit and unless o,,r
citizens bestir themselves, the trade
with Panamint, Cerro Gordo and all
the Inyo county mines will be lost to
us forever. The following from the
Express Of last evening is in accord
Year: 1874

We hear it stated that in case of the
election of Mr.. TIFFANY or SABICHI
the Water Company will demand the
repeal of the ordinance or resolution
granting Mr.. BEAUDRY the right to
lay down pipes and convey water
upon the hill lands. This would be a
manifest injustice to Mr.. BEAUDRY
who is expending large sum in the
work by which, according to the EG-
press, he will add millions of dollars
to the taxable property of tho city, but
to large number of our citizens-all
of them in fact to a certain extent for
by reducing the value of the hill land
property they increase the rate of tax.
alton on other property. Mr.. BEAU
DRY simply obtained from the city
the permission to convey water to q
APPOINT on which the Water Company
refused to place it. He neither asked
uor obtained an exclusive franchise
and though he is now conducting
water to all parts of the high lands, he
is willing the company should lay
down pipes by the side of his own and
sell or give away water all over the
hills. If the company are able to
elect their Mayor and Councilmen,
they will seek to destroy all that Mr..
BEAUDRY has done and by so doing
render almost worthless q large
amount of property which is now val
liable. 1t rests with our citizens to
call down upon themselves or avert
this damaging blow.
Year: 1874

with what the HERALD has heretofore
said and is a clear statement Of the
case:


A glance at the map will show that
we are on the eve of a very heavy blow
unless we do something ourselves to
avert it. The Southern Pacific Com
pany are giving unmistakable signs
of determination to push their
road from Bakersfield so as 10 control
the Panamint and Cerro Gorio trade.
If they reach Tehachape before we
have done anything to push out the
Los Angeles and Independence Rail-
road, they will be masters of the situ-
alton, and we may set quietly down
and chew our cud of disappointment.
But if our people are wise. enough to
understand that the future of this city
depends on speedy action, they will
check the Southern Pacific Company
and hold the reins over trade which
will exert material influence upon our
future. There are but two considera-
tions before the people in this matter.
One is, build our road and prosper;
the other, neglect to do so and sink
back into provincial insignificance.
Efforts ought to be made to get to-
gether mass meeting of our people
so that the situation may be properly
considered.
Year: 1874

EUREKA, November Goth. "A
BILE accident occurred ut the Rich
Smelling Works this morning
Rice, employed rs oiler in the Ell
room, while oiling the machine
was caught in n belt and his boo
completely torn to pieces. Boil
and legs were torn off and the
bone drawn from tho body. Dee
was nineteen years of age, and
time Of his death, had only ten
utes more to work, as he intent
give up his position, having ac'
lated enough funds toward comp
his education, and he intended
to enter ore of the California col
Year: 1874

others which are yet to oe made are as complete
guarantees can be furnished aIatnsJ the recur-
renee oil u similar disaster here.


Not only Is there room Tor such a COMPANY
owing to the defct5, IN insurance capital and ths
certainty OF profit. as shown by the history OF the
past, when the opportunities for profit were less
tnan they are now. but the local conditions are
also favorable. The people are ready for 1t. The
prominent business men OF the city Will subscribe
promptly and largely to It's stock, and the requi-
site capital to insure the safety of its operations
sary drst to assure the people that It's adnnstra-
tion will be IN the hands OF careful, capable and
honest men. Second, Its capital shOuld be at
least $l.0O0.000 The trouble with our local
insurance companies before the nre OF 1871 was
thar their capital was too small In this case IL
should be large enough to meet any energencv
and TO enable the company to go dist ibute tho
rlsKs that great nre will not impair 1t. A CON-
pany with this amount OF capital administered by
cautious and enicient officers, would be one Of
tine most profitable inves ments In the country,
and would command large business at home and
abroad.


or course any insurance company has the right
to close Out It's business and move away II SO DIS
posed Dut the action OF the New York committee
grows out Of the influences brought to bear Oy some
aud had not The spunk to go out Alone but must
needs take as many Others possible to keep
them In cOuntenance. Under such circumstance es
as these the people OF hicag0 must hep them
seve,. They preserved their credit when their
city was laid In ashes ann all business was pros
trate. They preserved their credit through the
financial panic, and now that the city Is restored
and business Is built up again on stronger fOunda
tl0ns than ever they can preserve 1t again.
Year: 1874

FATTENING PIGs.-For our own


use, we never fatten pigs. 1t takes
better feed and more care to make
pork from pig than an old hog, but
the pork is better, and the work is
accomplished in nine months instead
Of eighteen. The advocates of fatten-
ing old hogs seem to forget that they
feed twelve months or more before
they begin to fatten, and that store
pigs can not live upon air and water


If the quality and quantity of food
consumed by an eighteen months hog
and nine months pig be compared,
the advantage will be found on the
side of the pig for equal amounts of
pork produced. Ofcourse there must
be some old fellows kept to propagate
the species, and these must in due
time be fattened.-Ne,v York Times
Year: 1874

massachusetts was formerly the
only State where the raising of broom
corn and the manufacture of brooms
was carried on to any very great ex-
tent, and Boston was the great dis
tributing point for the manufactured
goods. Now there is scarcely an
acre devoted to broom corn culture in
:New~Enghnd, as since the war farm
sers have raised tobacco in its place.
Illinois is the largest grower ofbroom
corn at present, Ohio and New York
coming next, and Chicago and Gin:
cinnati are the centres of business,
while New York is the great depot OF
manufactured goods.
Year: 1874

BONE FELON.-The London La,a-
Get suggests the following simple treat
ment AS soon as the disease is felt,
put directly over the spot a fy-plas-
ter, about the size of your thumb
nail, and let it remain for six hours,
at the expiration of which time, di-
rectly under the surface of the blister,
may be seen the felon, which can in
stantly be taken out with the point Of
4 needle or lancet.
Year: 1874

The Oldest printer in the world
is dead again. He was nearly
hundred years old next to the last
time he died but we are unable to
say how old he was at his subsequent
death.-Louis11Ne Courier-Journal
Year: 1874

THERE is large establishment at Kehl,
opposite Strasburg, on the Rhine, where
artificial wine is made into which a grape
never enters, In the valley Of the Rhine
and the PalAtinate there are hundreds Of
similar manufactures where this imitation
wine is made. The Rhenish and Alsatian
wine growers intend to urge the German
Reichstag to PASS stringent law against
the adulteratiOn and Justification of wines.
Year: 1874

THE officers of the Northwestern Road
at Chicago state that their orders for grain
cars for the past week have increase d beyond
their capacity to supply them, anJ that the
shippers seemed to be determined to get
their wheat in to get the benefit Of any
sscOrner1 that might occur.
Year: 1874

An experienced editor pays high
and deserved compliment to the fair
patrons of the press. "Women," he
says, "are the best subscribers in the
world to newspapers, magazines, etc.
We have been editor for forty years,
and never lost q dollar by female
subscribers. They seem to make it
a point of conscientious duty to pay
the preacher and printer-two class
es of the community that suffer more
by bad pay and no pay at all than all
the rest put together"
Year: 1874

October returns to the Depart
ment of Agriculture show an i'm
provement in the wheat crop in near
ly all the States. The total yield
will almost if not quite equal the
splendid crop of the census year.
Year: 1874

We give below the receipts and
disbursements of the late County
Fair, from which it will be seen that
the latter exceeded the former in the
sum of S333.78:


RECEIPTS.
The receipts from the sale of tickets and
Year: 1874

A simple Method or Controlling Them.
To THE EDITOR OF THE HERALD


There are SO many accidents from horses run
ming away that think it would be we'll to let the
public know how 1t may be remedied and lives
saved. 1t Is simply this:-


Take small cord, tie a loop at one end, pass
the loop over the horse's head, attach it with a
string the throat latch 80 that it will not fal
too far down; let the other end pass into the car
rage II the horse runs oil you have to do is to
pull on the cord which Will choke the horse and
lnialioy stop him in minute two, as he can
not run II his breath Is stopped. As soon as he
stops let go the cord and suffer him again to
breathe.


The philosophy of the operation is very obvious
and any vice Which . horse may show can be
arrested by this means Alter Two or three trials
the horse Will at once recognize the slightest pull
on the cord and viii at once be controlled


STAMFORD, Nov. IL, 1874. ISAFEGuA
Year: 1874

Before Judge Brady.


Mr. Gamalie Benjamin, in 1857, sold to Horace
A. Miller some lots OF land in East New YORK; re-
ceiving in payment $1,000 in cash and 1890 IN
American National Bank stock. 1t is alleged that
the stock was represented as being worth par,
whereas 1t was only worth seventy per cent Suit
was brought to recover the alleged value Of the
STOCK on the ground OF fraudulent representations
as to its value The defence set up denial OF any
fraud; that The represen tailons were made in
good faith; that the defendant paid par for the
stock and believed II was worth par when the sale
took place. II was shown In the evidence that
two years aterward the plalDtln SOLD the stock
to an officer Of the bank 1or seventy cents on
dollar. During the past year the bank has been
in liquidation, although dong business for some
four years alter the sale. The case Is Still on.
Year: 1874

lings, TO take through the difficult channel be-
tween the northern part of Mainland and the island
of Yell The queer, labvrinthine yet most substan-
tal little town interested us greatly, and we might
easily have spent several days in learning its many
original features: but the necessity of getting to
Iceland in time for the Millennia Jubilee admitted
no further delay. Three genial Shetland gentlemen
joined us at dinner in the cabin, our mail was dis
patched. and started at five o'clock. under the
gray arch of cloud which had spanned our arrival


The strait was a repetition of the same scenery.
Lofty. dark guano-Streaked cliffs and headlands
haunted by thousands of sea-birds brown and pur-
pie hills behind them, fresh green of grain-helds
in the valleys with here and there lonely farm
house, or a cluster of five SIX as an attempt at
village alternated on either side. After two hours
or more, the pilot indicated a group of houses as
the point where he wished to be set ashore as the
open sea was visible ahead, and there were no fur
ther reefs in the channel. A fishing-boat came out
for him; and some Of rs noticing dozen golden
tinted rock-cod in the bottom, proposed to buy
them. mo money! said the fisherman but you
NAV have them for brandy" The captain consent
ing. the exchange was made, and we steamed away
from the bare dark, picturesque and fascinating
shetland shores, into the gray, rainy, and restless
Northern Ocean. B l'