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Year: 1874

Next week our ships will come from sea,
And we'll rejoice exceedingly;


Next week the sun will brightly shine
And we will sail meath skies benign.


Next week will bloom the bridal rose,


That light DER all the pathway throws.
Next week will bring good news from home,
To paint with blue and gold our dome
Next week we are so sure of joy,


The present cannot much annoy,
Though we are eager to depart,
AS if it were some hostile mart.
Next week holds friends so true,
'Fis strange they are to day so few.
Next week some head Will Cease to ache,
Oh yes, some heart forget - Jeak.
Next week, next week how near 5ur bliss,
Aught of il shall we ~ IN
How much so 'er our wanls rXp-nd
Can they exhaust IT, A mighty hand?
Next week, nrxr week has blessings still,
And should they tail our hearts TO ill,
This lessn" they may surely teach,
We're formed the infinite tn reach!
Year: 1874

Jul iiio oho OouO uoWu W ene pcIlOu
OF my sorrow. 1t won't cost your
memory much to recollect the troub.
les OF f'6l. Father had not long been
dead, and heavy gloom rested over
our house when the thunders of civil
war broke upon our ears, and added
another pang to our hearts


"We had a good deal OF money
due US at the north. We lost every
penny oft. The first calamity that
we were forced to undergo, was to
sell one half of our plantation. From
that time it seemed that it went acre
after acre, until there was nothing
left oft save what you see mere and
about you. 1t was in the second
year of the rebellion that my brother
one night quietly saddled his horse
and rode away. The following morn
ing, finding he did not appear at
the breakfast table, we sent up to
his room to ascertain the cause of
his absence. The servant returned
saying his bed had been unused.
sprang up stairs. and, sure enough it
was 40. On gong to his bureau
tound a note written in pencil, aud
evidently in haste. II ran mus


My DEAR MOTHER AND BR,TuER -
NV county has need II all her children,
ana can M longer witness her woes un-
moved. My action is not the result OF i'm.
pulse May heaven protect you in my ab.
sence Should ever live to return TO you
once more, trust may find the old at.
fiction you always bore me. EDWARD.


"This was a bitter blow to nv
mother, ard source of very great
disquietuds to myself, for loved
Edward very dearly. His country
and my country were not the same.
/ blush to confess it, but l consider.
ed every man outside the revolted
States as nv enemy. A year later
found me with rifle on my shoulder
and a butternut suit on nv back.
never could hear where Edward had
gone, but kaew he was among the
Union forces somewhere. Many q
Year: 1874

Our San Franciscoans are about to
go crazy over sprig of royalty from
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If they make themselves so redicu-
lous over the crowned head of little
island, not as large as the dominion
of the old Southern planters of the
United States, what would they not
do if the Gear of Russia or King WILL
LIAM of Germany were to visit them?
We of Los Angeles feel ashamed of
the citizens of San Francisco. We
look upon every citizen of the United
States as king or priest and equal to
the royalty of any other country and
if that little King visits Los Angeles
no one but the hack-drivers will ever
run after him, and they only to get
his purse. We think it high time to
stop such todeyism or. the American
Continent.
Year: 1874

The cry of monopoly which the pa
pers in the employ of the ring are
yelling at Mr.. BEAUDRY is the old
subterfuge adopted by thieves of join
ing in the pursuit and shouting "Stop
thiefp We have no doubt but that
the ring wauld be pleased to turn at
tention from themselves by calling
Mr.. BEAUDRY n monopolist, but un-
fortunately for their purpose there is
nothing OH which to base their charge
against him, while the people have
abundant reason to remember the ring
managers as the most exacting and
oppressive of monopolists. Mr.. BEAU
DRY does not claim an exclusive right
to sell Los Angeles all of her water for
the next thirty years; he does not
claim and exercise the right, in direct
violation of the law, to fix the price
for water and collect it in advance; he
does not boast of his power and deter
mination to control the city whether
the people will or no. He does not
claim the right to compel person to
pay two dollars per month for two
barrels of water. He claims no mo-
nopoly of any kind. He obtained per-
mission to lay down water pipes to a
section Of the city to which the Water
Company refused to furnish water,
and he stands ready at any moment to
turn those pipes over to the company on
the payment of the cost and an agree
ment to continue the supply of water to
that locality. More than this, he is
willing that the company shall lay
down pipes by the side of his own and
furnish or give away water at every
point to which he has carried it. This
does not look like monopoly. He
has done much for the city. By his
individual enterprise and with his own
money he has largely increased her
taxable property, and rendered valua-
BILE large area Of land which the dog
in-the-manger policy of the Los An
geles Water Company caused to be
considered almost worthless. But the
monopoly will not take Mr.. BEAU
DRY'S water works off his hands at
cost, they will not supply the high
lands with water, and they boast that
if they succeed in electing their Mayor
and Councilmen they will place an in
junction on those water works, destroy
their usefulness and reduce to it's
former worthlessness the high lands.
This is what corporation is seeking
to do that now has it's hireling point
ing out Mr.. BEAUDRY and shouting
monopoly" The people cannot be
deceived by this trick. Its purpose
is too palpable, and the merciless and
grasping character of those who are
using it is too we'll known.
Year: 1874

IT is significant fact that though
they had boasted they had the votes
and could force the order granting
them the right to close up certain
streets on Fort Hill, the Water Com
pany did not attempt to use their
power in the Council at the meeting
Of that body on Thursday. They evil
IDENTIFY feared the effect of this mani
festation of their authority on their
candidates for Mayor and Councilmen,
and concluded to postpone their grab
until after the votes were cast.
Year: 1874

1T is amusing to read the self-created
rumors of the Express that Mr.. TIF-
FANY is nota candidate for Mayor and
its vehement denial of those rumors.
Nobody expects Mr.. TIFFANY to with
draw from the canvass and everybody
knows that it is part of the rings
compact with the Express that he
shall remain a candidate. There is no
more danger of Mr.. TIFFANY with
drawing than there is of the Erpress
telling the truth.
Year: 1874

IT will be seen by our dispatches
that "Boss TwEEDn has managed to
escape from the authorities of New
York. We doubt if he is recaptured.
With day the start and a few faith
full friends behind, he will be able to
travel around the world and never be
overtaken by the officers.
Year: 1874

Rather than wear collar that
don't fit, or a neck-tie that looks
"slouchy'' throw the inferior article
away and call on Cohen & Davis at
the Identical where you will be sup
piled with the best in the market.
Year: 1874

THE U DERSIGNED WOULD INFORM THE


| citizens of Rock Island, that the largest and
best stock of Plants offered in this city can De
found at his Green House, the new Cemetery
road Otter street. about d mile east OF the
Cemetery, which WI be sold for low and r. ason-
able prices He will sell one dozen plants, OF his
own selection for 81. All wanting any thing IN
this line will please give him call
3-5dwed2m JOHN SlAfI-
Year: 1874

Ike New York NoF0iI says:


Now, the addition of forty-four mil
hens OF dollars to the currency is the
repudlation by the West of one six
teenth of al the interest it owes to the
East or to Europe, and that is why
the West votes roundly and steadily for
imitation.


Will the New York Herald tell us
how many more bushels of wheat the
West had to send to the East, and to Eu-
rope, to pay It's interest after the sub
traction of that forty-four millions
from tie currency, than it toos before
tie, subtraction


1t is very wrong the Herald thinks,
for Congress- to reissue the forty-four
millions, and it cheats the East to do
So, Lat did we hear anything from the
NrT0la about the wrong Of withdraw
ing that forty-foEr millions from cir
cuiatioii, and about cheating the West
III doing SO?
Year: 1874

Our exchanges from the Gulf States
are having a good deal to say just now
about the Southern Historical Society.
In Georgia, especially, the institution
seems to be live one, whose honora-
ole work it is to rescue from oblivion
and to stereotype into perpetual fame
the lives and deeds not only Of our
Lees, Johnstons and JacksOns, and our
other great leaders, but of all those
who took part in gaining an immortal
ity Of fame for the armies of the Con-
federacy. At least such is the talk in
Georgia, and if we can judge by the
number of addresses that have been
recently delivered upon matters pertain
ing to the war, we think the talk is not
for "Buncombe" alone.


May we be pardoned for asking
whether we have Southern Historl-
cal Society in North Carolina, and if
so, what it has done to promote the
cause for which it was organized ?
Year: 1874

Gay" writing from Saratoga to the
Louisville Courier Journal, says :;
" Yonder is a maiden lady whose hair
is almost snow-white. She looks very
gentle, refined, and delicate. a light
shawl covers her shoulders, and even on
this bright morning she has to avoid
the draught. The gentleman, who
seems to regard her with the tenderest
care. moves her chair and otherwise
seems solicitous about her health and
comfort. Some are puzzled to under
stand the relationship that exists be.
tween the two, for they do not bear the
same name, and, besides, there is a
nameless something which tells that he
is neither husband, lover, or brother.
These relationships are common and
easily defined, but in these days of de-
generated honor it is rare to find a man
devoting himself to a woman past her
youth, and who is nothing more to him
than friend, but is the sister of the
girl who years ago was to have been his
wife, and would have been but that death
interposed and the bridal robe became her
winding-sheet. No other love has since
entered his heart, but he preserves his
loyalty to her memory by q brothers
love and protection to her only sister,
and she, IN spite of ill-health, has per-
formed her mission in life by support
ing and educating orphan nephews, so
that as she declines in years she has
those about her who think an old
maid the dearest and best of women. T"
Year: 1874

The American correspondent of an
English review recently pointed out,
in a letter treating of literary matters
here, tendency that 1t is worth our
while to notice and examine With some
care. We are by no means indebted to
this writer for first calling our attention
to state of affairs that has long been
perfectly obvious to every one who has
studied, however specifically, the con-
dition of the American literary field /;
but paragraph of his letter presents
the case with comme1s4able clearness
and truth, and will seeve us as a text
better than any longer dissertation.
American journalism" " he says, ''is the
magnet that attracts all young pens,
and there is hardly rising man or
woman who does rot contribute to the
daily press. Formerly 6his was not so.
The passing genere tion of writer's had
little sympathy with newspapers. Let
not your life be taken by newspapers
was one of Thoceau's maxims It is i'm
possible to think of Emerson or Long
fellow, or Whittier, or even theversatile
Lowell, dashing off a leader, or writ
ing editorial paragraphs. To days bat
ties are fought with newspapers, not
books /; and so young writer's enlist
where they are sure of seeing most SER
vice. Journalism is becoming pro-
fession, and as, in this country, it prom
ises the finest results in political and
social influence, the next decade will
see a great change for the bettty in our
press. In enterprise il to-day leads the
world. In culture and dignity English
journalism can give us lessons"


That there are strong forces at work,
besides mere inclination, to draw the
best writer's to journalism, is a fact
which doubtless accounts for a consid-
erable part of this state of affairs. In
the immediate compensation, and in the
security that attends constant employ
ment and regularity of payment for it,
journalism undoubtedly outbids liter
ary work of the other class. There are
many men who can with perfect justice
argue that they cannot afford to write
even a successful book IL fdoIt ViUre,
and they cannot wait for slow returns of
sales and the hard earned fame that
comes at last.


The last few years have seen in Amer
lea very few great books in any depart
ment of literature, scholarship or fc-
ton. Yet there are men whom we could
point out-whom people constantly do
| point out-at work in the absorbing and
intense labor of the daily press, who
could make no trifiing part of the liter
sture of generation. The press cannot
afford, it would seem, to lose their SER
vice but can general literature afford
| to lose it, either?


Is there no way to solve the problem
| Cannot press and literature advance
with equal step? Or must we give up


the pursuit of one noble end in striving
for the other? The question is worth


the thought of both writer's and read
| ers 80 91l1IetO1'S Journal
Year: 1874

London Morning Post Criticism of


Our NationN Game.


The admirable part of the play had
all through been the fielding. Nothing
hit up in the air escaped. The accu-
racy of the catching would have re-
ioiced the heart of old Clark, and made
many a slow bowler enviOus of the
pairs of hands. But the accuracy and
skill of the catching was surpassed by
the wonder of precision of throwing.
A moment to look, moment to get the
proper equilibrium, and then the ball IS
hurled, "a shaI D and low, quite straight
to the baseman's hands. No fumbling,
no half-volleys, no wide throws. So
accurate was it that the exclamation Of
many cricketre present was: With such
throwing who would not be wicket
keeper? The Philadelphians were I'M
able to make up their lost 6round-the
seventh inning of Boston and the ninth
and last were both skunks, but in their
last three hands the Blue Stockings had
only made two, and at the end of the
play they were only seven, whereas their
conquerers were thirty-four. Had the
game been nearer it had been better,
but il sufficed to show the ne ture of the
play and many of the qualifications OF
good player. The lessons which 1t taught
we e, as we suspected, first, the immense
advantagegof cultivating fielding. Gould
English cricketers throw and field as
the Americans did we should see much
less of mammoth scores, and matches
would be far more interesting. Secondly,
the advantage of losing no time. If the
outside took the field with half the alac-
1 " shown by the Americans during
base ball, or when the time came for
them to resume cricket wlIen the base
bell was done, far fewer matches would
be left drawn, and far more men wou1o
be able to play. LASTLY, the necessity
of playing for the side. a mans hits
tell in his favor when the record is kept,
but they help his colleagues as much as
himself In the fielding, too, he con-
stantly keeps in mind the necessity of
enabling others to distinguish them
selves, and he knows that his unaided
efforts are useless unless he is well
backed up. A man, for instance, who
has caught catch when player is on
base, hurls the ball at once to the base
man in the hopes of getting two birds,
as it were, with one stone. All the
players play for the side, and not for
themselves. Individual prowess is
merged in united success, and every
one cares more for his fellow than for
himself. There can be no fear that
cricket will be ousted by base ball. 1t
has more variety and many more phases.
It is both harder work and greater idle
ness. But many men could find time for
base ball who have no time for cricket,
and in bringing under the notice of Eng
lishmen game which has so many good
points, and the great advantage of be-
ing playable in three hours, they have
conferred on us benefit for which our
thanks are dt1a
Year: 1874

To withdraw child from a city sea-
son, and to let her loose in Saratoga for
recuperation and Refreshments of body
and soul, is like transplanting flowers
from scorching greenhouse to sun
burnt desert. These is nothing In Sar-
atoga fit for young spirit to dwell mp


on. Do you yourself recall the man.
ners of the young woman that you have
seen there in the walks, and in the gar
dens, the drives, and parlors? Did
they not bear themselves either with
shyness (which was clear assumption)
or an effrontery which chilled you to the
bones? Did they not stare at you with
appraised chins in a manner shrewdly
patterned upon childhood simplicity
and frankness until you lost your self
possession Did they not gaze into
your eyes and laugh SO immoderately,
and open their mouths so wide, that
you were forced to say " Hoyden" be-
hind your lips? When they success
sively took your arm and walked away
for the floor. or for an ice after an
hours acquaintance, did You not ex-
claim to syourself in consequence OF
their manners, "Can it be possible that
she thinks me rich Does she love
me % Did you not mark the anachron-
ism of the elaborate coiffure, the queen
like dress, and the downcast lids, SO
timid, SO reluctant, so apprehenslye,
lest a. gaze should penetrate to the
eyes they hide2 Also that that lay
between a Quaker-like modesty OF at


ire and look so full of worldliness
Year: 1874




Twas once sitting in a cool underground
saloon at Leipsic, while without people
were ready to die from the heat, when a
new guest entered and took seat OppO-
site me. The sweat rolled in great drops
down his face, and he was kept
busy with his handkerchief, till
at last he found relief in the ex-
clamatiOn, "Fearfully hOt!' watched him
attentiyely as he called for cool drink, for
/ expected every moment that he would
fall from his chair in a fit of apOplexy.
The man must have noticed that 1 was OBJ
serving him, for he turned toward me sud
denly, saying, 81 am a curious sort Of per-
son, am not?' 'Why?" 1 asked. "Be-
cause perspire only ON the right side.7
And so it was; his right cheek and the right
half of his forehead were as hot as fire, while
the left side Of his face bore not trace Of
perspiration. had never seen the like,
and, in my astonishment, was about to
enter into conversation with him regarding
the physiological curiosity, when his neigh
Dor on the left broke in with the remark.
"Then we are the opposite and counterparts
of each other, for perspire only on The
left side" This, too, was the fact. so the
pair took seats opposite to each other, and
shook hands like two men who had just
found each his other half.
Year: 1874

THE Emperor Of Germany is satisfied
that the power which he exercises is guar
antee for peace with foreign counties.
Very probably it is for the present; but the
immense armaments which are kept up are
a drain upon the resources Of the country
almost as great as an ordinary war would
be. He proposes an efficient organization
of the LdndStuFBs, and an increase Of the
ordinary military appropriations, thus ad-
ding TO the burdens Of country which
was ia no condition to bear with ease
what was previously exacted.-Nelo York
Tribune.
Year: 1874

Four ladies Of position in London have
become house decorative artists. They
undertake the whole furnishing, upholster-
ing, furniture, and all that tends to embel-
lish the interior of a dwelling. They are
said to be remarkably clever and very sue
cessful. They have served a regular ap-
premiership and acquired a thorough
knowledge Of the business.
Year: 1874

MAYNARD was announced in the
Knoxville papers to speak in that city
last night, and the Chronicle of Sun
day intimated that he would de.
vote particular attention to Governor
Brown.
Year: 1874

THE pivotal Issue of the day is home
rule versus oentralism. How close the
issue comes to us, we saw yesterday
when the Republicans attempted to
take control of the elections through
Federal supervisors.
Year: 1874

The election returns will be an
nounced IN front of the UNION AND
AMERICAN Office tonight, as fast as
received. Our friends are invited to
call and hear the glorious news that
will come flashing over the wires.
Year: 1874

out as long as you can, and wind 1t about
as rapidly as possible over the reel of
fancy; tangle it up with a variety of
hooks, put about the ears of as many of
female friends as will stand to have the
operation performed, and the result will
be a splendid piece Of crochet work,
which viii be OF the utmost service as a
pattern-to be universally avoided.
The world is governed by three things,
wisdom, authority and appearances.
Wisdom is for thoughtful people, authori
ty for rough people, and appearances for
the great mass of superficial people, who
can look only at the outside, and who
judge only by external matters.


What we do for ourselves, will soon be
forgotten; what we do for others, may be
the vision TO cheer the soul when the
eye can no longer behold the loved ones


Pillows, though not belonging TO the
human species. come under the head of
rational beings.


Penmakers are bad lot They make
people stseI pens, and then say they do
scrite


Thirty years ago young man entered
the city of New York in an almost penni
less condition. and without single ac-
quaintance in the great wilderness of
houses. To-day his name is known
wherever humanity breathes. 1t is
spoken in every city, and is as familiar to
the workers in the mines rs 20 his broth
er in the mills, al d whenever language is
known and ideas expressed the name of
this penniless, unknown and uncouth lad
of thirty years ago, is uttered. 1t was
John Smith.


A visitor remarked To the teacher of
young ladies' grammar school, who was
boasting of the proficiency of his pupils,
that not one of them would "dcciine" a
husband.


Never be critical on the ladies'" was
the maxim OF an ITish peer. remarlla-
BILE for his homage to the sex. 1.-The only
way that q true gentleman will ever al
tempt 10 look at the faults of pretty
woman is to shut his eyes"


A gallant was lately sitting beside his
beloved, and being unable to think of
anything else to say, saked her why she
was like a tailor! :" i don't know" she
said with pouting lip, unless il is
because am setting l,s>idc a goose.


If all The pulsations of the heart for
forty eight hours could be concentrated
into one great throb, that throb would
be found TO have sufficient force to throw
a ton OF iron lao feet into the air. Just
think of that for the never weary "pit-;l-
pat engine within your beast


Whatever good an umbrella preforms,
it is put up to it.
Year: 1874

may have definite fixed salary that every
body will understand. Let it be made
$4,000. which think is a fair equivalent
for the old pay, taking no account of the
franking privilege, or even $500; and
shall support either as have opportuni-
f.
Year: 1874

When a western member of Congress re-
Gently alluded so teelingly to the "hay-seed
in his hair" and the coats in his throat"
why didn't he complete the diagnosis by
speaking Of the rye in his stomach?
Year: 1874

Some men never lose their presence of
mind. In Milwaukee last week man threw
his mother -in-law out of window in the
fifth story OF burning building. and carried
feather bed down stairs in his arms.
Year: 1874

An Organist tells this story: A strange
man was acting as sexton. An Old
gentleman who was deaf took his seat,
in a pew, and produced from his pocket
an ear-trumpet of curious shape, and
to the disnay of the temporary sexton
raised it toward his face. The sexton
sprang to his side, and said something
in low voice, whereupon the gentle
man endeavored to raise the trumnet
to his ear, but was prevented by the
sexton seizing his hand. With increas-
ing voice and excitement, he said ::
= eYou mustn't, sir. You mustn't blow
that horn in here. If you do, / shall be
obliged to put you.Out!" And the good
Old man, ,pOcketing his bugle, heard
nothing of service or sermon.