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Year: 1874

United States District Attorney Bliss.


Among others visited by the HERALD represent
alive was United States District Attorney Colonel
George A. Bliss. Hs opinion. IL was thought,
would be O valuable addition to the Views ex.
pressed by others on tire present and probable fu-
ture OF the political outlook, inasmuch as he
might, in any remarks he made, be considered to
be the exponent OF the policy OF the admnstra-
ton party in this city, he being counted as one OF
those VINO form the council which directs the
movements OF the rank and file OF the Custom
House division OF the republican party.


In reply to the reporters interrogations Mr.
Bliss REPLIED


IL had made up my mind to keep my !sps closed
upon all political affairs, but for fear my refusal to
answer your questions In regard to the Governor
ship may be misconssrued, wiz so faS 20 bey ona
my previous determin alton to keep silence and
say that there cannot be any doubt but that
any one else. think, has ever believed that any
other than Governor Dix would receive the nom
inatiOn. He has the confidence OF the whole OF
the party and is. ! think, too popular with the
people throughout the STATE"


"DO yen look for his reelection in spite OF any
candidate that may be put forward by the demo-
cratic party P'


ii do not think there is a doubt about It. He
will, In my opinion, be returned by majority OF
about 10000. ! must decline to say any more on
this question:


"Colonel, you. perhaps, can tell me what are
your views in regard TO General Grant seeking u
third term ?"


al decline to answer"


"Supposng the President should refuse to
ACCEPT p renomlpat0R ior anakaag term. and
Year: 1874

arrest Of one Joe Johnson for the kill
ing of Albert, and what did they do q?
They released him on bond of $4,000
without the hearing of evidence. This
where the warrant read for murder in
the first degree If tho citizens OF
SomerviIle regret this affair, as they
profess TO do, why do they try to shield
the guilty? The fact is the only regret
they have is that the atrocious work
was not done better. l have written
this statement simply from the fact
that there has been but little truth i'm the
statements already published. / would
further state, in Justice to the colored
people, that they have never thought
of coming in to burn the town. They
have not been armed or prepared in
any way to get up n riot, the rioting
being exclusively by the whites.


TRUTH.
Year: 1874

would be powerful indeed that would
induce the negroes TO form a mob and
attact the whites They never made
an attact. Whenever there is fight
the negroes are upon the defensive,
and whenever anybody is killed it is II
negro or a negroes. They feel their in
feriority, aud know that they must go
to the wall if Il bloody issue is made,
and making that issue is the last
thing they will do. In the late Somer-
vile, Tenn, fight we are told that
when the shooting commenced 1.-THE
negroes rapidly left town, it was
thought, for rreinforcements." Any one
who is acquainted with the negro
character knows very well that they
'!left town mot for reinforcements,b but
to prevent being shot.
Year: 1874

WHILE Houk was writing his pro-
position to submit his claims to a cou-
vention, called at his dictation, he was
hedging even against its decision by
writing to his friends that he was a
candidate until the day Of election
convention or no convention.
Year: 1874

West Brooksville was visited BY .
pouring shower of hailstones Sunday after-
noon about five o'clock. Horses suffered
considerably as they stood hitched TO the
fence near the church


The prospect for large hay crop is
very promising; seldom has the grass
looked better so early in the season.


The bridge at North BrooksvilIe was
run as a toll bridge nineteen years with
out profit 10 the corporation. but with
great Inconvenience to the public, as is
proved by the fact that since the CORPORA
tion abandoned the bridge and notified
passers that they must cross at their own
risk, the travel has been four times great
er than ever before. G. V.M.
Year: 1874

lives in a daily conflict with nature
tearing open the mountains and wrest-
ling with the streams, that others
might wear the gold they won, would
gather round the gambling tables to
"try their luck and this thing called
"luck in the early day was strange
thing. Existing on the superstition
that is found in the composition of
every man, in greater or less degree,
it was phantom that haunted ali
classes and entered into all human cal !.
culations. Luck shamed reason
and set at naught all mathemat.
icnl certainties, and, forgetting that q
nan's luck was much of his own max.
ing, it was followed with a persistent
fatuity that led the feet of too many
into bad and dangerous places. It was
the scapegoat for all sins and short
comings. It was the rock upon which
were built the golden castles of the
hopeful future; the shifting sands that
carried away with it the unfruitful and
disastrous past; the harvest whose
sheaves 8 Of promise often yielded only
bitterness and disappoisssafnt. In.
these tilts with fortune the Bar drank
deep. If it was dry by day, it was un
quenchable by night. If luck was with
the boys, they drank and dallied with
it: If against them, they drank still
deeper and cursed it.


Altogether, the Bar was a wild and
abandoned place; but attrition with
these people taught me that there ale
solvents for even crystallized wicked
ness, that there lie no cloud so dark as
to be without single streak of silver,
no nature so rugged as to be impene-
trable or beyond the reach of human
izing influences.


l had been domesticated in my new
home about a month, when circum.
stance took place which seemed to
change entirely the whole routine of
He'll Roaring. There was an arrival
one morning, and the Bar throbbed
with new sensation, quiet, unassum-
ing lady-a Mrs. Hampton-and her
little daughter, who sought rest ana
health in the mountains. Mrs. Hamp-
ton was widowed, but no one inquired
into her history. She was welcomed
as new and strange element among 80
much wild, reckless life, that brought
Ia ~Hw
Year: 1874

IIor AIR AND Cool RooNs.-BecaaSe,
when the air of the streets marks 80 or
30 on the Fahrenheit scale, Il room oyer
warmed by fire can be cooled by opening
the windows, the average British household
er adopts the ready conclusion that when
ever 4 room feels hot the way to cool it i to
let IN the external air. Accordingly III
these piping times he, and still more often
she. opens the sunny side oi the house. lets
in air of temperature varying from 100 :
to 100 : or -. Then. because in very
short time the room materially enough. be
comes much hotter than 1t was, II l. con-
sidered that the windows are not opened
widely enough, and the supposed error being
remeiied. still larger quantity OF hot air Is
then let in. And 50 we find materiamillas
sitting with very light muslin upon her
frame, and great deal of perspiration up
on her upper lip, her face the color OF an
Orleans plum, and her condition of mind 10
the last degree detected, simply because she
persists in disrcgarding the most elementary
principles of natural philosophy. We tell
her that if she will open the windows On the
shady side of the house only. and keep the
others closely shut, her dwelling will be at
least not hotter than the shady side OF the
street, whereas by her arrangement it ac-
auires the heat Of the sunny side. We tell
her. also. that if her house be large and the
inmates few, she NAV live in = delightful
state of coolness by only opening the win
dows at night and keeping them closed du-
ring the day. Her house will be some 10 ,
or Is > lower in temperature than the
streets, and convey very much the refreshing
effects of cool bath upon entering it. We
tell her all this, and she is very much inter
ested. At our next visit we find every win
dow open and the house full of red-hot air
SIT stands to reason" she says triumphan.
ly, "that you cannot possibly cool hous.
, without plenty of ventilation. The Ian
Get.
Year: 1874

GREEN FoDDsR.-lt was the unanimous
orinion Of the committee on the dairy at the
last exhibition Of the Essex county Mass
agricultural society that green corn fodder
is the best article that can be used for cows
giving milk, taking into consideration lis
value Tor food and the ease with which 1t
can be used. One of them had tried an ex-
reriment. which he stated as follows -Four
cows were selected for his herd when the
pastures were scorched with excessive
drouth. Two of them were fed night and
morning with green corn stalks as much as
they could eat; the other two were fed with
English hay, OF medium quality, as much as
they wonld eat all going in the same pas
ture during the day. The milk was care
fully measured After about two weeks
their food was changed. Those that had
been fed with corn were fed with hay, and
those that had been fed on hay were fed on
corn for about two weeks longer, and the
milk was carefully measured. The result
was the same. There was no perceptiblC
difference in the quantity of milk produced
when fed on green corn fodder or English
lay'
Year: 1874

am quite ashamed to take people
into my garden and have them notice
the absence of onions 1t is very mark
ed. In onion Is strength, and a gar
der without it lacks flavor. The on.
ion in its satin wrappings is among
the most beautiful of vegetables, and
1t is the only one that represents the
essence of things. 1t can almost be
said to Have q soul. You take off
coat after coat, and the onion is still
there; and when the last one is re.
moved, who dare say that the onion
itself is destroyed, though you weep
over its departed spirit? If there is
ANY one thing on this fallen earth that
the angels in heaven weep over more
than another, it is the onion. know
that there is supposed to be prejudice
against the onion, but think there is
rather a cowardice in, regard to it.. IN,
- i doubt not that all men and wo-
men love the onion; but few confess
their love. Affection for it is conceal
ed. Good New Englanders are as shy
of owning it as they are of talking
about religion, Some people have
days on which they eatonions, " hatyou
might call retreats, or their "Thurs.
days The act. is in the nature of a
religious ceremony, an Eleusirian M vs.
terry; not a breath of it must Jet
abroad. On that day they see no com


pany l$-they- deny the kiss of greeting
to the dearest friend; they retire with,
in themselves and bold communion
with. one Of the most pupgent and PEN
etrating manifestations Of the moral
vegetable world. Happy is said to be
the family which can eat onions to-


gether. They are for the time being
separate from the world, and have a
harmony of aspiration. There is a
hint here for the reformers. Let them
become apostles Of the onion; let them
eat and preach it to their f3llows, aud
circulate tracts of it in the form of
seeds. .tf"af


In the onion is the hope of univer-
sal brotherhood. Ef.All men will eat
onions at all times they viii come in
to universal sympathy. Look at Italy.
L hope | am not mistaken as to the
cause of her unity 1t was the Reds
who preached. the gospel which made
it possible. All the Reds of Europe,
all the sworn devoters of mystic Mary
Ann, eat Of the common vegetable.
Their oaths are strong with it. 1t is
the food also of the common people of
Italy. All the social tmosphere of
that delicious land is laden with it.
Its odor is practical democracy. In
the churches all are alike; there is
one faith, one smell. The entrance of
lletor Emanuel into Rome is only
the mpoussproclamation of unity
which garlic had already accomplish.
ed; and yet we, who boast of our
democracy, eat onions in secret
Diarlss Dadiey Karner.
Year: 1874

A Nashville printer recently had
some very bad manuscript copy to set
up. Every word needed close study
before its meaning could be guessed at,
but at length two or three words came
in succession, which it was quite i'm
possible to deoipher, All hands in
the office tried and failed. until at
length the printer, in despair, set up
"eOpy-books ten cents each, and cOa-
tinued the work, afterwards sending
the proof to the author for correction.
The hint was taken aud the author
employed an amanuensis.
Year: 1874

The German school property on
Main street is so circumscribed that it
is no longer equal to the demands
upon it. This property = lot and
buildings-has all been donated, and
it has been kept in repair and the
school maintained by the society,
each member of which pays fifty
cents per month for that purpose. But
the number of pupils has increased
until the building is no longer ade-
quate and, as the site is not desirable
for school, the society proposes to
sell the property and use the proceeds
of the sale in the erection of larger
building in more convenient local
ity. At its meeting on Thursday the
Council donated the society a lot oil
the corner of Temple street and Gem
etery Avenue for school purposes, and
as soon as the Mayor signs the resolu-
ton, which we presume he will -
probably has already-and the deed is
made out, the Trustees will proceed
to grade the street and erect on the lot
a fine two-story school build ing. The
grounds will be tastefully set out in
trees and shrubbery Immediately, and
as soon as the school opens it will be
supplied with all the implements OF
gymnastic exercises. The Trustees
propose to divide the pupils into two
classes and empty a German and an
English teacher, thus teaching both
languages in the school. This school
has no connection with the public
schools of the city; it is maintained
by the private subscriptions of citi-
zens who, while paying their pro rata
of the school tax, prefer to send their
children to private school. On the
lot donated by the Council the Trus-
tees will erect building on which
will be taught hundreds of children
free of all expense to the city.
Year: 1874

EDITOR HERALD: The fame of Los
Angeles county as health resort and
semi-tropical fruit producing country,
has spread far and wide. The impress
sion created abroad is favorable to the
general growth and prosperity of our
county. But an qnfavorable impress
sion is being created against us by the
numerous seekers of land for homes
who have gone away to buy some
where else.


There is general dissatisfaction
expressed by visitors in regard to the
high price of lands in this county. I
know of parties who have lands upon
which not particle of water can be
had without sinking wells, who are
asking exorbitant prices. There are
others who bought land year ago for
mere trifle, who are now asking an
advance of three hundred per cent.
There can be no doubt but that this
imitation of land prices-this sort of
mania for getting all that can be OBJ
tanned from the strangers a suicidal
policy. 1t has tendency to create the
impression that our landowners are
land-sharks and money-grabbers. The
result is that multitudes of strangers
in search of homes are driven away to
seek homes in other parts of the State,
where the price of land is within the
reach of their means. 1 know of
many who have recently came here
with money in their pockets for the
purpose of purchasing homes, but in
consequence of what they considered
exorbitant prices went to the adjoin-
ing county and bought lands at less
than one-half of the price that they
were asked here for similar land. I
fear that our landowners are short
sighted in not selling at lower figures;
for by selling their land to the stranger
and keeping him here, the money is
put into circulation, our taxes will be
Year: 1874

GEORGE G. GORHAM wants to be
Governor of California and he would
like to take the Gubernatorial chair
Immediately after it's vacation by
Lieutenant Governor PACHECo who
will Become Governor after the fourth
Of March next in consequence of Gov
ernor BOOTH assuming his seat in the
United States Senate. GEORGE is a
good fellow socially and as good fell
low politically as thousands who de-
nounce him corrupt. We might
have less honest man for Governor
and we could not have more genial
gentleman. We like GEORGE. He
was a good fellew in miners cabin;
he is a good fellow as Secretary of the
United States Senate, and he would
be a good fellow as Governor of our
State
Year: 1874

A PARTY of gentlemen just arrived
from Panamint say they do not believe
the squad of Cinnamon sent out by
the STEWART party will be permitted
to commence work. There are several
hundred white men in the district,
and up to this time not single Chi
naman has made his appearance there.
We trust no unlawful act will trans
pire. Violence and persecution are the
poorest possible remedies to apply in
such cases.
Year: 1874

OUR people are in the habit of swear
ing at the Common Council for not inn
proving the streets. We have no doubt
the Council has many sins to answer
for, but that body has much to con-
tend against. An idea of how much,
may be obtained from reading re-
monstrance, together with the names
of it's signers, which we publish in
another column. The Council pro-
posed to grade Commercial street, and
forthwith every property holder on
that street, except one or two, sign a
protest against the improvement.
They believe the work "entirely I'M
necessary for the present.
Year: 1874

The line dividing the First and Sec
ond Wards strikes Downey Block at
the intersection of Commercial and
Main streets, and goes through the
block by means of an imaginary pass
age to Sand street, thence to the western
limits of the city. A portion of the
inhabitants of Downey block will
never know in which Ward they re-
side. All the cemeteries, all the
swamp land and all of Sonora" are
in the First Ward. Nearly the entire
native California vote of the city is in
this Ward. The division is bad one
for several reasons. Each Ward elects
an equal number of Councilmen, and
this division deprives the Third Ward
which is growing more rapidly than
any other portion of the city, of a fair
representation. The disproportion Of
the Wards is marked now and will
grow still greater in very short time.
The plan Of throwing all the Mexican
vote into one Ward is not calculated to
advance the best interests of the en-
tire city. The Spanish American
and the American population are gov
erned by the same laws and ordin-
ances, and it should be the purpose
of those who district the city
to place in proportionate ratio
the two classes in each Ward, rather
than to colonize them in Wards by
themselves and thereby aid in foster
ing and maintaining sectional feel
ing. In our opinion the plan of divid-
ing the city into Wards submitted by
Mr.. BEAUDRY would have been much
more satisfactory had it been adopted.
He divided the city into three Wards
by commencing at a point in the CEN
ter of the intersection of Spring and
Fourth streets and running northerly
through Spring to its intersection
with Main street, thence through
Main street to its junction with Ala
media street, thence northerly to the
city limits. The area East of this line
to the city limits to constitute the
First Ward; that West to the city
limits to constitute the Second
Ward, and all South of the center of
Fouth street extending East and West
to the city limits to comprise the
Third Ward. The following diagram
will explain Mr.. BEAUDRY's plan:


THIRD WARD.


SOUTH
Year: 1874

a SAN FRANCISCO Grand Jury con-
cluded that for waylaying a man and
shooting at him in a crowded street, q
newspaper publisher committed no
offense against the law or the public
safety. De YOUNG should be permit
ted to practice on the members of that
Grand Jury until he succeeded in lodg-
ing ball in the body of each one.
Year: 1874

THE Express has reached the con-
clusion that our Common Council
might be surpassed in intelligence by
a deputation from the State Insane
Asylum. 1t is the common habit of
insanity to imagine everybody else
insane. The Express seems to have it
bad
Year: 1874

1t will be seen at a glance that had
Mr.. BEAUDRY's suggestion been
adopted the city would have been
more equally divided both in terri
tory, population and intelligence and
it is to be regretted that the Council
could not be induced to do piece of
sooner or later
Year: 1874

Il offered by the pOstponement Of Public Library of
Kentucky to the 9Th of FEBRUARY, next OF their
FIFTH and LAST CONCERT and DRAWING.
The Management are pledged to the Return OF
THE MONEY if the Drawing should not cone of at
Year: 1874

citizens are property-owners But the
sudden introduction of vast body OF ig-
norant. destitute negroes revives all the
reasons for making one branch of the Leg
islaturc representatives of property In
States where the negroes are numerous.
Such recurrence to the early policy Of
the Republic would redeem South Carroll
ma. Protection to negro rights would be
just as complete as it is at present, tor
the blacks could always elect the lower
branch of the Legislature, and no law
could be passed abridging their rights
But they could not impose heavy taxes on
property without the consent of its own
ers. They could elect ths Governor; but
if he appointed incapable or dishonest ne
groes to the local Offices, the Senate would
refuse to confirm them. The change VIC
suggest is very simple, but it would be
very efficient for the protection ofproper-
ty; and it would leave an equally efficient
protection for all personal rights in the
hands of the negroes.


This salutary change is practicable if
the administration and the Republican
leaders would support it. Their sway
II hn mil
all.controlling whenever they choose to
exert it, as they habitually do in the cleo
tions They would lose nothing, and gain
much, by exerting it now in this direc-
ton. They conferred the right Of suff-
rage on the negroes to insure their contin-
ued possession of the Federal government.
Putting the State Senate on the basis Of
property would not interfere with this
purpose. The Presidential electors and
the members of Congress would still be
elected BY the unrestricted negro vote.
In choosing United States senators the
two branches of the Legislature would
probably differ; but the election would
then be made by joint ballot, and the ne
groes would eject their candidate. The
Republican party would therefore retain
ali its present advantages in national pol
itics, and be relieved from the odium of
the hileous condition of affairs in the ne
gro States. We have given the Rcpubi-
can leaders good advice, it is forehem to
decide whether they will accept i.