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Year: 1874

If the 120 men who constitute the Argus
Publishing Co., know what is to their in
terest, they will give their scrbbler raise
we are in earnest. He is one of the kind
who will stoop to conquer, and if institutions
like the Argus don't stoop or crawl these
times, it is likely to get its head knocked
oH
Year: 1874

OUR FIRESIDE FRIEND is now in its Fifth
Volume, thoroughly established the leading
family and story Weekly in the Union, has the
largest circulation and the best appointed print
ing and publishing establishment in the West.
Is large, eght-page illustrated and original
family Weekly, price SO per year Every
subscriber receives n magnificent premium and a
share in the distribution. Subscribe now
Year: 1874

CONGRESS don't know what to do with
Secretary Richardson, for his vile action in
the Sanborn affair. Kicking him into the Po-
tomac, in deep place, with mll-ston
tied around bis neck, would be too good for
him. So it is really hard to tell what is
best to do.
Year: 1874

SrIDGER says Butler is trying to put
Pinchback into the House; Morton is trying
to put him in the Senate, and the people of
Louisiana are trying to put him in the
Penitentiary. 1t is hard to tell which will
win Justice stands the poorest chance
Year: 1874

WASHINGTON, February 25.-The
President to-day sent the following mes
sage to congress:


To the Senate and House OF Representatives:


have the honor herewith to submit
the report of the centennial commission
ers, and to add word in the way of re-
cOmmendation. There have now been
International eXpositions held by three
of the great powers of Europe. 1t seems
fitting that the one hundredth anniver-
sary of our independence should be
marked by an event that will display to
the world the growth and progress of a
nation devoted to freedom and
the pursuit of fame, fortune
and honor, by the lowest citizen as well
as the highest. A failure in this enter
prise would be deplorable. Success can
be assured by arousing public opinion to
the Importance of the occasion. To Sc
cure this end, in my judgment, con-
gressional legislation is necessary to
make the exposition both national and
international. The benefits to be de-
rived from q successful international eX-
position are manifold. 1t will necessar-
lily be accompanied by expenses beyond
the receipts from the exposition itself,
but they will be compensated far many
fold by the commingling of the people
fIom all sections of our own c0un-
try, by bringing together the people
of different Dationalities, by bringing
into juxtaposition for the ready exam
inatiOn of our own and foreign skill and
progress in manufactures, agriculture,
art, science, and civil station. The Sc
lection of the site for the exposition
seems to me appropriate, from the fact
that one hundred years before the date
fixed for the exposition the declaration
of Independence, which launched US into
the galaxy of nations as an independent
people, emanated from the same spot.
We have much in a varied climate,
soil, mineral products, and skill,
of which advantage can well be
taken by other nationalities to their
profit, and in return they will bring to
our shores works of their skill, and
familiarize our people with them to the
mutual advantage of all parties. Let
US make complete success OF our cen
tennial exposition or suppress it in its
infancy, acknowledge our inability to
give it an international character, to
which our self-esteem aspires.


U. s. GRANT.


EXECUTIVE MANSION, February Is, 1874.
Year: 1874

From our Special Correspondent.l


MACON, TENN, February "a, 1873.-
The stockholders of the Memphis and
Knoxville railroad company held a
meeting here to-day, and adopted strong
resolutions in favor of building the road
to Memphis this year. They expect
Shelby county to build the road through
Shelby, and they are willing and anxious
to continue it through Fayette. They
are anxious to go to Memphis, but if
Memphis and Shelby county are not
willing to meet them, they may con-
clude TO go east to Bolivar and connect
with the Mississippi Central road, and
thus get an outlet to New Orleans, to
st. Louis, and to Louisville. Does Mem
phis wish to lose the valuable
trade of this wealthy county?
Within three months the road
will be under contract from Bolivar to
the Fayette county line. Being anxious
to see Memphis retain her present trade,
and to enlarge it, must point out the
danger. 1t can be removed by very
small subscription, at this time, and the
Memphis trade largely increased. These
people are intelligent, enterprisiDg and
liberal, and are determined to have an
outlet in some direction. They recon-
me0ueu III CuoH hSOllnS tO-uayj tAdt
the president of the company make
call of one per cent. to pay the expenses
of an agent to canvass the line of the
road, and get up sufficient subscriptions
to have the road put under contract this
summer. The wealthiest men in this
REGION are most liberal in their sub
scTiptions, and they will make good all
their promises. No road going into
Memphis will bring more business to
that city than this road. They are now
looking to your people with intense in
terest
Year: 1874

There is more energy apparent
among our leading citizens at this
time in the way Of railroad enterprise
than we have been able to note here
tofore. There seems quiet determin-
alton on the part Of those from whom
we have right to expect action, to
take measures which will secure the
building of the Los Angeles and Inde-
pendence Railroad. We understand
that the Company is effecting per-
manent organization and in a few days
an assessment of ten per cent. on the
stock subscribed will be levied. The
books will be opened. and all men of
means who desire the prosperity of
our city and valley will not hesitate
to take such an amount of stock
as their financial condition will war
rant. Senator JONES has subscribed
$220, 900 to aid in the construction of
this road and if the people of Los An
geles county will set the ball in mo-
tion with liberal subscriptions and en-
ergetic action he will not only invest
more of his own money but he will
induce other capitalists to invest their
means in the enterprise. There never
was time when the interests ofall de-
manded a more prompt and united
action of the entire community. The
building of this road is all important to
us, and we must not stand idly by and
let the opportunity to inaugurate and
carry out the work slip through our
fingers
Year: 1874

AT this time it is hardly just to APP
ply the term "rotten burrough" to
the State of Nevada. The palm for
that sort of thing belongs to San Fran
cisco. In the metropolis, corruption
in Office seems to be the custom and
not the exception. First the Tax Col
lector is discovered to have strayed
long way from the line of duty to the
people. Then the Assessors Office is
found in condition which necessi-
tates the taking charge thereof by the
Mayor and Auditor. Next we find
Coroner RICE in possession of valua-
BILE buggy robe which belonged to the
estate of dead man who suicided and
was sat on by the Coroner and his jury
Really, some of San Francisco's office
holders are proving themselves un-
worthy servants of the people.
Year: 1874

A visit yesterday to the Alden fruit
drying factory of Mr.. GEO. B. DAVIS,
in course of construction on the east
side of the river, satisfied us that the
works were being pushed rapidly for
ward and that the factory would be in
operation in q short time. The brick
work inclosing the three vaporizers is
all completed, and the evaporators
were finished almost to the third floor.
From Mr. FRANK PYLE, who is super
intending the work, we learned that
the evaporators would be ready for
operation in about one week from this
time. We make this statement for
the information of grape-growers who
wish to dispose of their grapes to Mr..
DAVIS and are anxious to know at
what time he will be ready to receive
them. Mr.. PYLE is pushing each di-
vision of the work as rapidly as the
number of workmen to be obtained
will do it. The first work Of the evap-
orators will be the manufacture of raj
sins from the Mission grape. AS these
grapes ripen, Mr.. PYLE becomes more
thoroughly impressed with the opin-
ion that they will make a raisin vastly
to that manufactured from
the Mission grape in other portions of
the State. This opinion is shared by
Mr.. MCMULLIN and other San Fran
cisco wholesale grocers who have Wis
tied this city and valley during the
present Summer. The indications are
that Mr.. DAVIS will not be able to
meet the demand for his raisns until
he enlarges his factory to its fullest ca
pacity, which is that of sixteen evap-
orators.
Year: 1874

WE regret to find the Express con-
Meeting the term Vigilance Com
mittee" with the MCDONALD murder
case. The necessity for such body
does not exist in this community.
The HERALD has pointed out the utter
worthlessness of the law governing
criminal cases and cited the fact that
such law tends to destroy the conf
dence of the people in all law and re-
grets that the Express thinks itself
called upon to speak of Vigilance
Committee.
Year: 1874

ENGINEER CRAWFORD is not favor
ably impressed with the practicability
of Tejunga Canon as q railroad pass.
1t Is narrow and the surface very ir-
regular, the grade reaching as high as
two hundred and fifty feet to the mile.
He believes there are other and better
passes through the Sierra Madre, and
he will start out in search of them in
a few days.
Year: 1874

SAN DIEGO, September 29.-When
the Julian stage came in last evening
there was an extensive fire raging in
the canon between Sweetwater and
Vale de las Viejas. The settlers were
all out fighting the fire, with the hope
OF getting it under control. The line
OF fire was nearly a mile long, with
strong east wind.
Year: 1874

THE robbery of immigrants on the
overland railroad by three-card monte
sharps is Of almost daily occurrence.
1t is strange that the officers on the
Central Pacific and Union Pacific roads
cannot prevent the repetition of these
outrages. The robber-gamblers can
not but be known to the conductors of
trains, and the wonder is why do they
see ignorant men f1eeced of their last
dollar without taking some action for
preventing it. 1t looks in some cases
almost as if the railroad men and the
gamblers had an understanding, if not
a partnership, in the business. No
one but fool will bet at three-card
monte, and when the railroad men
find they have an imbecile on board
they should guard against his having
his pockets picked, as we'll as prevent
him jumping off the train.
Year: 1874

The New Orleans Times of a recent
date says Major Wilt, of that city,
still calls for aid for the more than so,
900 men, women and children who were
turned out of house and home by the
desolating waters. The relief commit
tee has also announced that the sup
plies now on hand will not last over
two weeks. Although the committee
has done all that was possible, the ca
lamity which has befallen the people
of Louisiana is by no means over.


To meet the immediate wants of the
people, an appeal to the citizens of New
York for help to relieve the distress is
uow being made by an association of
southern ladies under the highest sane
tion. The whole of Louisiana and Mis-
sissippi and parts of Texas are in a con
dition, we'll nigh, of ruin. The loss oc-
casiOned by the floods has been esti-
mated at the lowest as not less than
eight millions of dollars. Thousands
of square miles Of once fourishing
lands are under water and number
less families are destitute and depend
ent for subsistence upon aid which may
be rendered them from time to time by
their neighbors. They all have the
strongest claim upon our consideration.
Many of them suffered severely from
the ravages of the yellow fever, which
too frequently carried off the male
members of the families, and left wO-
men and children dependent upon their
own resources. These have now lost
everything. Their homes are swept
away and their lands inundated. Many
were working on capital borrowed on
mortgage, and if the means of meeting
the claims falling due or not forthcom-
ing even the title to their lands will
pass from them and thus people who
have been accustomed in former times
to live in comfort, perhaps in luxury,
will be rendered not temporarily, but
permanently destitute. Not only in
New York, but in every other city that
can afford it, ought funds to be raised
for the famishing, and that without de-
Law = Nashville Runner
Year: 1874

So-called accomplishments are a sort
of mansard roof clapped on the sounder
structure of the average English educa-
tion. Why they are thus denominated,
when in the possession of them so little
is really accomplished, it is difficult to
determine. Their material is generally
as unsubstantial as that of the thing to
which they have been compared, and,
subjected to the fiery tests of life and
experience, they are almost as readily
destroyed. The requirement of little
knowledge Of music, certain rules of
drawing, the process of mixing colors,
and q few foreign phrases, are often the
result of much misapplied industry.
If music, drawing, and painting were
studied and cultivated as arts, with the
intent of becoming thoroughly prof
cient in them, that they might stand, if
need be, in good, practical stead, then
the time devoted to them would not be
wasted. Instead of being mental fol-
fOls in which to deck their ill-clothed
minds in public, these attainments
would be of deep and lasting satisfac
tiontO their possessors, veen though not
put to any severe trial.


Few girls care enough for music and
drawing to pursue them after being
freed from the restraint of masters, and
many would never begin such study
were it not for the ambition of parents,
guided by a society that demands all
girls to be nodded after one model.
This idea is so obviously impossible as
to be absurd. Countless goOd garden
ers, milliners, dress makers, and house
keepers have been spoiled IN poor piano
players, simply because knowledge of
the piano was considered an elegant ac-
quisition while an understanding of
the other things was regarded as some
thing that only necessity should require.
The hours of strumming on unrespon-
sive instrument, (unresponsive because
touched by no sympathetic fngers),
which, otherwise employed, might have
made capital cooks, are incalculable.


The original design was gOod-to en-
able women to impart pleasure and i'm
provement to themselves and others !;
but it signally fails. Seldom are girls
willing to play, or exhibit the work of
their pencil to critical ears and eyes :;
and when good nature impels them to,
what have they to offer? Ordinarily
the merest smattering-more repellant
to ripe judgment than total ignorance
would be.


1t is evident that an acquaintance with
the alphabet of many branches is not so
great an aid to intellectual improve
ment, as being thoroughly versed in
one. In this short life, it is much to
know even one thing well. If thorough
ly understood. everything from steak
broiling to oratorio-composing, should
be considered an accomplishment. Pu-
pills apt at figures should b. taught
bookkeeping in place of minims and
semi .breves and natural nurses given
an insight into bottles and bandages, in
lieu Of curved lines and neutral tint.
Thus the training of the mind in a di-
rection at once natural and useful con-
tributes to its healthiest growth, and
rebounds to individual advancement
and general advantage. ge.-Scribner'S


Whoever has gone through much
of life must remember that he has
thrown away great deal of useless IN
easiness upon what was much worse in
apprehension than reality,
Year: 1874

An ex-editor of a Jersey City paper
tells how as he approached the Grand
Central depot, to take the 10: 30express,
he noticed two very pretty and elegantly
dressed young ladies, who came up and
treated him as an old acquaintance, and
he, thinking it was a case of mistaken
identity, thought he would carry the
thing through and have some fun.
They informed him they had procured
a section in the drawing-room car and
invited him to take a seat therein. He
did so, and enjoyed a very pleasant
ride of two hours. On the arrival of
the train at Poughkeepsie both the
ladies put their arms around his neck
and kissed him goodbye. He stepped
to the dining room and ate some lunch
and returned to the train, when, to his
dismay and alarm, he found he was
minus his pocket book containing two
ten-ceat stamps and fiye-eent piece,
Year: 1874

political. revolutions, no ascendancy of
democracy or imperialism. no revival oc
decay of literature or art, mo soientiir
invention; will substantially affect their
lives. Steam and the telegraph have
done nothing for them, fer there is not
a stesm-engine or galvanic battery in
the country and though a steamboat
visits them six times year, trade is
not more brisk than in the old days.
Even those discoveries which seem of
the most universal utility, discoveries
in medicine and surgery, are practically
useless to them. who have but one
Jo6L62 -f
Year: 1874

A London letter says the dutchess Of
Edinburg's position at court has been
settled. She is to be called her royal
imperial or imperial royal highness,
and is TO rank next TO the princess of
Wales except when the royal crown
princess of Prussia happens to visit
England. The rule has heretofore been
that the daughters of the sovereign took
precedence over the wives OF Sons
except in the case of the princess of
Wales. The duchess of Edinburg,
however, IS not only royal by marriage
but imperial by birth, and it is on this
ground that higher place has been aE-
signed her. In Russia she was, after
her mother, who is an invalid and lives
in retirement, the first lady in the land,
and raised high above all nobility.
Here, she is only one among many prin-
cesses, and has apparently few striking
qualities of her own to win a command
ing position. The duchess is deficient
in dignity and style, and her sex are
cruel enough to say she does not know
how to dress. However, in other ways
she may strike out line for herself,


The good mans life, like the noun
tain top, looks beautiful because it is
a. L
Year: 1874




| Are weakness of body and mind, help
| lessness, shallowness of thought and
knowledge, frivolity of taste and pur
suit, absor tion in the art of men-pleas-
ing-are these, indeed, the essential
charact .ristics of womanhood, and is
she who combines them the type of the


perfect woman, nobly planned,


To cheer to comfort, to command.


We must look for the answer somewhat
deeper than the surface and conven-
tiOnal rules of society, and, going to
the constitution of things, ask ourselves
what special functions woman has to
perform in this world as woman, apart
from the function common to all human
beings in virtue of their humanity.
That function is motherhood. 1t is in
her motherliness that we find her wO-
manliness. She may not be, or ever
become, a mother, but she cannot be
perfect woman unless she possess all
the attributes which belong to perfect
motherhood. What, then, are these at
tributes ? First on the list stands ten
derness; the mother must, above all
things, be tender and pitiful for her
love is the highest type of human ten
derness, the truest symbol of the divine.
Next comes strength the mother must
be strong and helpful for how else
shall she protect and guide the helpless
lives clinging to her? She must be
pure, not only with the purity which IS
ignorance, but with the purity which,
knowing evil, abhOrs it ; for is she not
the representative to her children OF
divine purity? She must be true; for
if her children find their trust in her
deceived, in whom else will they have
faith? She must be lover and pro-
meter of order; for order in the family
is like law in the state without it there
is only anarchy and confusion. She
must be Just for children have keen
sense of justice, and will pay respectful
and cheerful obedience only to the rule
they feel to be just. She may be self
controlling and self-forgetting for she
cannot rule her children unless she can
rule herself, and she cannot have that
perfect sympathy with them that shares
and lives in their life, unless she can
forget herself. She must have a high
ideal ; for how else shall she inspire her
children with the love and worship of a
goodness, justice and beauty transcend
ing that of earth And, finally, she
must be crowned with wisdom for her
love must give light as well as warmth
she must be able to guide as well as to
cherish. This is the type of the perfect
mother, and therefore it is the type of
the perfect woman. Here, then, we
have the standard we wanted, and may
lay down as the rule, whose application
admits no exception, that whatever ac-
ton, pursuit or profession is incompati-
BILE with this type is unwomanly. What
ever habits of life, or methods of edu-
cation, tend rather to repress than to
cultivate those attributes of perfect
womanliness-tende strength, pur-
ity, truth, justice, noble idealism, order
and wisdom-is wrong course, and a
radically faulty method of education.
Year: 1874

A NOVEL ELoPEMENT.-The White Pine
(Nevada) Neaos records the following: "Near
the banks of beautiful stream of water, not
many hundred miles away, lived in happi-
ness andlcomfort an apparently loving couple.
But the insidious gay deceiver was, as usual,
friend of the family, and in due course sue
ceeded in making captive the wife's affections.
An elopement was arranged, and carried out
by the most novel ruse. The husband hay-
ing been engaged in his usual avocation all
day, and feeling tired from labor performed,
was induced by his faithless wife to divest
himself of his garments and take bath in
tub of water already prepared. With thanks
for the kind feelings which seemed to prompt
the request on her part. the unsuspecting
man proceeded to do as bid. Scarcely had he
completed undressing himself, when the wife
of his bosom stole his clothes and jumped on
horse near at hand, and dashed away furi-
O1sly. We are informed that the chagrined
and outraged husband refused to follow the
faithless one, and is now rather glad to be rid
of bad bargain"
Year: 1874

Those Calfornians are a progressive and
whole-souled set of people. They not only
are ready fox the cremation dogma, but offer
all their stock of Cinnamon for purposes of
experiment In other words they say 'Get
your furnace ready, gentlemen, and we will
see that the bodies are on hand"