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Year: 1874

Too HARD BLow.--lhe State Militia,
consisting in the main of tinsel tiI ped bum
mers and shoulder-strapped and epauletted
gentlemen, whicl, have cost the State at the
rate of not less than $75 900 per year,
was, by one master stroke of the Reiormers.
last Tuesday, knocked ont Of existence, and
by that stroke this neat sum of money VII
be saved each year to the taxpayers.


What this expensive militia have ever done,
either in time of war or time of peace, the
people are unable to appreciate, and that the
abolishment of the system will meet with
popular favor there is no doubt. But we
think the blow was too hard. We would
favor the exis tence Of an Adjutant General,
TO be paid by the State, and would give
encouragement to the organization and
'lrilling OF self-supporting companies, by Of
fering premiums, all to be under the control
Of the Adjutant General but to receive no
compensation from the State, unless called
into actual service by the General.
Year: 1874

AssEMDLyMAN WILLIAMS, of FL Dorado,
would like TO shift the burden of the interest
of the Ell Dorado county debt on the State
If the people of that unfortunate county
have blndly in the past voted for railroad
scalawags TO triAe with their means, and for
blightng measures to replete their treasury
shall the people of the whole State offer sac
ritices for their folly? That is the question
Year: 1874

IT has been said that the people through
out the Sta.e who are accommodated by
branch railroads are opposed to the Freeman
House bill on Fares and Freigbts. This is
not so. The Colusa Independent says let
the bill pass, let it be tried. 1t thinks the
bill will prove success And it bases that
belief on the principle advanced by us last
week, that the less the rates the greater the
amount Of business. 1t is principle that
will do to rely upon, and the strongest ar
gunent in favor Of the justness of the bill
to the company Yes, let it pass.
Year: 1874

FUsH.--The argus is sadly in need OF
something to say when it asserts that wbis-
key, women and coin will carry any meas
ure through the reform Legislature. Peo-
pie ridicule such unfouLded slang. For
whatever faults the present Legislature may
have, it is notorious that they are less in
Huenced by either coin or whiskey I'VE have
nothing to say against women) than any
body of their size that ever ASSEMBLED in
the city OF Sacramento. All such Hmsy
nonsense falls like dew on hot stove.
Year: 1874

STATE NORMAL SCHo L. From early in
the Legislative session we have advocated
the idea of establishing the State Normal
School at Berkley, in connection with the
University. We have shown wherein such
an association would result in numerous and
lasting advantages to both of the instit'-
tions and the pupils of each, and how such
an association would be a lasting act OF
economy to the State; and we have shown
how successfully the plan of assocating
State Institutions of learning has been car
ried out in the Eastern States. As plausi-
BILE and commendable, though, as the idea
is, no action has been taken by the Legisla-
ture in that direction; nor has any Journal
come to our aid in advocating the move, ex-
cept the San Francisco Post. When eight or
ten thousand dollars year can be saved
and better results obtained where is the ex-
cuse for not saving it? That is the ques-
ton.
Year: 1874

Niger IN THE FENCE.-1he bill for
driving the present Harbor Commissioners
from Office and providing for the election of
new ones at an early date by the Legisla-
ture, contains niger in it somewhere We
have weighed the matter, and looked into it
as far as we can with the means at hand
and al that we can see in the back ground is
the dim shadow of three men, on whose
brows, by close inspection, we see in dim
letters the word "MoNopoLY" coming for
ward to take the place of the three good
men that are ruthle sly deposed by this bill
Ther is, as manifest by this measure, an
element in the Legislature which is endeav-
oring to impose on the people repetition of
a few of the old and cursed Il hicks of Rad
icalism. They need watching. AS for
this particular bill we have no fears, how
ever damnable it may be, because we have
confidence that the Governor will not give
it his approval.
Year: 1874

The LAw.-The new county salary bill
is now in force. 1t will save much money
to the County Treasury. Bee.


Just SO, Mr. Bee. and can you deny but
this saving to your county is the result OF
the Independent party-The party that full
fils it's promi.es?
Year: 1874

A minority of the San Francisco delegation
thorize the Board of Education of that city t
establish and maintain labor school in an
for said city and county. l have often wonder
ed why the experiment of manual labor col
lege or school has never been undertaken upo
this coast.
Year: 1874

From all parts of the county we


have cheering reports in relation to


the prospects for the independent
ticket. In certain localities, every


voter is for the ticket, and after
leaving the town, il is not toe


much TO say that nine men out Of


every ten are for the reform ticket.


1t is the people Of the country that


pay the taxes that are stolen by


the clown ring," and hence econo


my in public affairs more nearly


concerns the farmers and working


men than any other class of citizens.


At the head Of Dry Creek, We


learn that out Of one hundred and


ten voters, every man, with the


exception Of three, can be counted


upon to vote the independent


ticket. On upper Mill Greek. q


report reaches us That the farmers


and working men are unanimous


for reform On tie Tuuchet, take


its whole length, aud we are told


that not twenty voters can be found


who are willing TO admit that they


Viii vote tie "h9Odlum licket.7 In
the town Of Walia -walla the hood
lnms" have their main strength,
and i'll Dayton and WaitsLurc
they have 4 few symPathizers, but
outside the towns named, the uni
vcrsaI impression Is, that ring rule,
oppression and robbery can be no
longer endured. In this condition
Of affairs, j, is question for the
merchants and traders-men who
have something at stake-to con
slider whether they can afford to
range themselves on the side Of
the "hoodlums," and against the
country. We know that q Jorgn
of our merchants are in
full sympathy with the reform
movement, and We think it would
be well if they would all come out
and array themselves side by side
with the farmers and working
men. The farmers are the bone
and sinew of the country, without
whose support the towns would go
to decay, and hence as a matter of
policy, TO say nothing OF principle,
it is proper that the solid men Of
the town shonll unite with the
country in rcscuing Wa!la"walla
county from the control of ring"
thieves. III this contest, neutrality .
is out Of the question, and every
man who 5 not ranged on the side .
Of the people may expect to he f.
with the Piuudcrers The I
choice Is between economy aud re I
form on one hand, and cxtraya-
gaHce and robbery on the other. 1
Choose yc between them. /
Year: 1874

FLApDooDLE.-A democratic friend,
who has carefully read the resoiu-
tions of the late democratic ring"
convention, pronounees them the
weakest flapdoodIe ever put be-
fore the people" According to the
report Judge Gregory introduced
the resolutions, but as matter of
justice it is proper to say that they
were written by n T Cation, and
afford a very fair Illustration of the
mental calibre of the writer.
Year: 1874

HoNrsTY.-At the last session of
the Legislature, it was in proof that
aformcr Territorial Auditor wasim-
plicated in the robbery Of the Ter
rltory Of over one thousand dollars
in hard cash. The proof Of the
swindle was positive and direct,
and yet when this same man came
up as n candidate for election TO
the office of Auditor, we find that
Messrs. Ping, Cation, Hodsis and
Bush-all candidates on the "hood-
lum ticket voted to elect him 10
a place where he will have daily
opportunities TO plunder the Terri
tory and steal the money wrung
from the pockets Of taxpayers.
The gentlemen who thus betrayed
their constituents may deem this
honest and honorable conduct, but
we apprehend that the people Will
see it in different light.
Year: 1874

You must remember it isn't enly
laying hold of a rope-you must go
on pulling. It's the mistake you
lads make that have got nothing
either in your brains or your pocket
to think you've got better start
in the world if you stick yourselves
in place where you can easily
keep your coats clean, and have the
shop wenches take you for fine
gentlemen. That wasn't the way
J started, young man. When I
was sixteen my jacket smelled of
tar, and l wasn't afraid of hand>
ling cheeses. That's the reason
1 can wear good broad -cloth now,
and have my legs under the same
table with the heads of the best
firms in St. Ogg's.


If I got places, Sir, it was be-
cause | made myself fit for EN-. If
you want to slip into a round hole,
you must make ball of yourself
that's where it is.


You'll have to begin at low
round of the ladder, let me tell
you if you mean to get on in life.


You youngsters nowadays think
you're to begin with living we'll and
working easy you've no notion of
running foot before you get on
observation-disclosures Eliot.
Year: 1874

A girls every day toilet is part
of her character. The maiden who
is slovenly in the morning is not to
be trusted, however fine she NAV
look in the evening. No matter
how humble your room may be,
there are eight things it should
contain q mirror, a washstand,
water, soap, towel, hair, nail and
tooth brushes. These are just as
essential as your breakfast, before
which you should make a good use
of them, Parents who fail to pro>
vide their children with such appli-
ances, not only make a great mis-
take, but commit a sin of omission.
Look tidy in the morning, and
after the dinner work is over im>
prove your toilet. Make it q rule
of your daily life to " dress up :"
for the afternoon. Your dress may
not, and need not be, anything bet
ter than calico, but with a ribbon,
or flower, or some bit of ornament
you can have an air of self-respect
and satisfaction, that invariably
comes with being we'll dressed. A
girl with fine sensibilities cannot
help feeling embarrassed and awk :
ward in ragged, dirty dress, with
her hair unkempt, if a stranger or
neighbor should come in. More
over, your selfrespect should de-
mand decent appareling for your
body. You should make it point
to look as we'll as you can, even if
you know nobody will see you but
yourself.
Year: 1874

My dear, inquired a young
wife of her husband on his return
from business, 'have you seen the
beautiful set of walnut furniture
which the Smiths have bought 2


'Ah me- no my love but I
have seen the bill, and it quite sat-
isles me.
Year: 1874

EDITOR HERALD: Seeing that our
county is not very well represented in
the public prints, have assumed the
responsibility of letting you know
some points of interest concerning
our section with notes of progress.


The farmers here have harvested
and are threshing their wheat, the
yield OF which has been very satisfac-
tory. The corn crop bids fair to be a
good one. We have had one light
frost, but it did no damage.


The Elipse mill has been running
with five stamps for some time past,
and learn it will start before long
with forty stamps. This will make
things lively in this part of the valley.
So long as the mill is under the man
agement of Capt. Eucle it cannot we'll
fail to be a success, as he is man of
long experience as we'll as fine judg-
ment, which his mining record in this
county will tell.


The Cerro Gordo and Swansea mines
are doing good business. There are
many other ledges as yet undeveloped,
as rich, l suppose, as any in the State,
and all they need to develop them is a
railroad. When the owners become
convinced that the railroad is assured,
they will begin as fast as they are
able to work them.


We have no paper in the county ex-
cept the Inyo Independent, which does
a good business. The two towns of
Lone Pine and Independence present
the general appearance of mining
camp.


The climate here is quite healthy,
and people are in high hopes that the
proposed railroad will soon be forth
coming, and then Inyo county can
show more mines and better ones
than any other county in the State.


w. H. w.


Georges Creek, Inyo county, Sept.
Sth, 1872.
Year: 1874

We have received letter from a
gentleman in San Francisco who as
serts that he has had many years eX-
perience in the culture of tobacco and


preparing it for market, and he claims


that he is in possession of knowledge


not generally known, which enables
him to cure tobacco and render it su-


perior to that prepared by the Culp
process. He desires to be placed in
communication with the Los Angeles
Tobacco Company. If any member
of that company will comply with his
request they may obtain his address
at this Office. In this connection we
will remark that while we have filled
column after column of the HERALD
with facts and arguments designed to
encourage the culture of tobacco in
this valley, we have, through the pub
lication of letter from a gentleman
who urged some objections to the
Culp process, incurred the animosity
of the Los Angeles Tobacco Company
and one or two of its members have
actually damaged us to the extent
of two bits per week by stopping his
paper! The letter in question was in
telligently written and bore on its
face the evidence that its author was
o man of great personal experience in
Year: 1874

The suggestion of the HERALD that
Mr.. BEAUDRY possessed those quail
ties which progressive Los Angeles
should find in her Mayor has drawn
upon that gentleman the vindictive
attacks of the ana conda and al
ready it's emissaries are circulat-
ing the most arrant falsehoods
concerning him. One Of those false
statements is that Mr.. BEAUDRY is
one of the owners of the Feliz Ranch
and as the city is engaged or is about
to engage in lawsuit with the propri-
etors of that property it would not be
well to place Mr.. BEAUDRY in the
Mayors chair. The author of this re-
port must be very ignorant or else he
is very malicious. A glance at the
record will show that Mr.. BEAUDRY
has no claim against, and has not
owned an interest in the Feliz ranch
since 1871. Another invention of the
ana conda is that Mr. BEAUDRY's in
terests are all centered in one portion
of the city. This too is false. The
Assessors books will show that he
owns property in every portion of the
city. Such attack will not injure Mr.
BEAUDRY in the estimation of the
people but they serve to show how
exceeding obnoxious he is to the ana
conda.
Year: 1874

Yesterday afternoon Senator JONES
informed the Editor of the HERALD
that he had subscribed 1920, 900 to the
stock of the Los Angeles and Inde-
pendence Railroad Company and that
if Los Angeles showed herself in ear
nest it was his purpose to do all in his
power to aid in the early construction
of the road. He said his subscription
would be ready as fast as called for
and he hoped the assessments would
be made early and often for then he
would know the company was made
of the right kind of material and that
the road was progressing. Senator
JONES is in earnest and he wonders if
the people are alike earnest-if they
will act as well as talk. If we all
stand together the Los Angeles and
Independence road will be built and
speedily built. The people of Los
Angeles city and county should sub
scribe $500,000 to the stock; the San
Bernardino people will aid the work
with a 100000 subscription. The
owners of the Cerro Gordo Mine have
half million dollars invested in stock
and wagons used in transporting their
bullion to the railroad at San Fernan-
do. Messrs. BEAUDKY & BELsHAw
can well afford to subscribes an
amount equal to that invested in
teams for as the road progresses the
number of teams required for the trans
portation of the bullion will decrease,
and with that a decrease of their
freight bills, until at last they will be
enabled to send their bullion to San
Francisco,or the refining works in this
city for about one-fifth of the present
cost. Yesterday morning the HERALD
stated that the prospects for railroad
extending from the water through this
city, and ON to the heart of the great
mining region of the interior, were
brighter than ever before. This morn
ing we are pleased to say that those
prospects are ten-fold more brilliant
than twenty-four hours since. If we
go to work with will and work to-
gether for the common good we shall
not only build the railroad but we
shall awaken an energy which shall
not rest until Los Angeles is the Sec
ond city on the Pacific Coast.
Year: 1874

THE collision in New Orleans two
days ago between the people and the
Metropolitan police" which is sort
of State militia organized by the
KELLoG faction as body-guard, indi-
Gates that those engaged in the busi-
ness of manufacturing Southern out
RACES are determined to have some
thing on which to base their stories.
How much longer the Government
will look calmly on at these political
manipulations, which it requires no
great amount of intelligence to see are
intended to annoy and impoverish the
people, is al question which honest
men and women of all parts of the ma
tion are beginning to ask themselves.
Year: 1874

tobacco culture, and we gave opinions
believing that the Culp process did
not fear investigation and would not
shrink from comparison with other
systems and methods of tobacco cur
ing. So far as the Los Angeles Toboc-
co Company which is using the Culp
process is concerned, we were mis-
taken. We have selected the present
time to make this explanation for the
reason that we understand Mr.. CULP
is now in our city. We are confident
that he does not fear the most thor
ough investigation of his system nor
do we believe he will spend his time
in efforts to injure newspaper that
publishes honestly expressed opinions
adverse to his system.
Year: 1874

BEFORE leaving for San Francisco
yesterday Senator JONES stated that
it was his intention to return to this
city within a month and remain here
some time. His extensive invest
ment in Panamint together with his
railroad interests in this valley will
require his presence in this city for a
few weeks and he will improve the oc-
casion to give his aged mother an op-
portunity of visiting section the de-
lightful climate and beautiful location
of which has so charmed her son.
Year: 1874

ELSEWHERE we publish the resolu-
ton of the Compton Grange denounc-
ing the proposed change of school text
books. The action of this Grange on
this very important subject should be
initiated by every Grange in the
State
Year: 1874

THE editor of the San Francisco Post
is constantly worrying over the loss
of vested rights. He will keep on at
this until he is invested with one of
those vests they call straight-jackets.
Year: 1874

We must not weary in well-dolng.
The capital county of the State achiev-
ed glorious triumph in the recent
local canvass. We have the same foes
to meet again. We have the same OBJ
iects to attain. The conditions of sue
cess are also the same Fraterna CO.
operation and the selection Of good and
trustworthy men in the progressive
seaffolding of the canvass until our
standard bearers are chosen, and then
work like Trojans to make their cleo
ton sure.


Davidson county, in duty to herself
and her proud position in the State,
should send to the convention that
meets here next Wednesday a delega-
ton of whom we may all be proud. If
there be schemes and petty divisions
among us, set them all aside. There are
plenty of men to select from, honest
and earnest. in whom all have equal
confidence.


There is no excellence without labor.
The true way is to make conventions
all they should be by preliminary work,
instead of resting idle 20 carp at i'm
perfections afterward which We ought
to have prevented. Let Davidson S
quota to the State Convention be wor-
thy of a body which ought to reflect
the worth, intelligence and honesty of
the Old Volunteer State.
Year: 1874

Horrible Fate of Young Boy In Bed


ford County.


Walter Summers. aged ten years. a son
of Col. w. w. Summers, met with a singu-
Iarly tragical fate al Fairfield, in Bedford
county, last Thursday morning. He was
playing In the water near mill, and, ven
turing too close 10 a turbine wheel, was
sucked under. His left lee was caught in
the wheel and crushed in a horrible man
ner up to the hip-joint. No one but a
little bOy who saw him disappear was
aware of the casualty until the wheel was
stopped by the manSled body, when the
man in charge Of he mill went To see what
was the matter: The unfortunate boy gave
a gasp OF two and expired Just as be was
being raised from the water. Even if his
leg had not been so fearfully crushed, he
was under the water long enough for half a
dozen men to have been drowned in sue
cessiOn.


The funeral took place yesterday afier-
noon and was largely attended. Young
Summers father was a member Of Fairfield
Grange, and on that account the Grange
did not attend the gathering Of the PatTonS
near Bell Buckle yesterday, as they had
expected to do, in body.
Year: 1874

To the Union and American:


wish TO return thanks, through your
columns, to Police Commissioners Walsh
and Parkes for the fairness and impartial
its displayed by them yesterday in the
trial Of the case wherein was defendant.


LAWRENCE KUHN.
Year: 1874

TIE expression Of a nervous woman
face. upon getting into 4 dentists chair, ls
something that no man can initiate until
he gets a letter from his mOther-in-law,
sharply inquiring If tha, spare room IS
ready.
Year: 1874

Alt was not. My general purpose in
the matter Of this whole thing was this,
and kept it as the motto Of life: By
patient continuance in well doing to put
to shame those who falsely accused me.
meant TO put down and preach down
this trouble. Of course il my dismal
moods l felt as though the earth had come
TO an eni.


Q.-Tilton had cOndOned his wife'S
fault. What did you mean by this?


A.-COndOned has legal meaning and
a general meaning, but used -ths-WOrd
as a literary man would use it, not as
lawyer. If used it in legal phrase there
would have been an ofense. not fault.
Year: 1874

Q.-GOu say in the same letter that he
had eujOined upon you not to betray his
wife. In what respect?


A.-NOt 10 betray this whole difficulty
into which his household had been cast.
Next 10 stabbing a woman. dead is to talk
about her virtue, and if the public suppose
that in order to interpret these letters i
must refer TO a vulgar physical gross indig-
IA,y, then they are living on plane where
l do not live. TiltOn had also in acts Of
Jealousy accused his wife Of criminal iHti-
macy with several gentlemen, Ct whom l
am not one, and had asserted in the pres
ence Of witnesses that all her children eX-
cept the first were children of those gentle
men RESPECTIVELY.
Year: 1874

went so far as to figure up how
many rabbits were brought into
Paris each year, and how many were
consumed, and they made out that


twice as many were consumed as were
brought in. He felt for time as if the
business was ruined, for thereafter the
rabbit purchasers demanded the head Of
the rabbit as a guarantee of the genuine
ness of the animal. But he was equal
to the emergency. He gave an extern
sion to his commerce by making an ar
rangement with all the cooks on his rag
beat to buy their rabbit skins on condi-
ton that their heads should be delivered
with them. Thereafter he was enabled
to furnish to skeptical buyers the rabbit
head with the dressed cat, and every
body was satisfied. He sold the animals
to the small out-of-the-way restaurants
as rule, where they were made into
gibelottes The cat entire yielded him
one franc, and they to whom he sold the
flesh usually got about two and one'halt
francs out Of the animal when turned
into gibelotes. The business was fair,
but there was more competition, especi'
ally since the commune, under which
some people had learned to eat the cat
with pleasure, knowing him to be cat. =