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Year: 1874

The wife of Liverpool butcher has
developed rare talent as a special plead
er. Her husband was recently arrested
on q charge of selling veal which was
unfit for food, and the good lady
promptly explained that it was not for
food, "but that it was going to be made
into veal pies, and that she considered
it quite good enough for that purpose
Year: 1874

A PLEA FOR THE LITTLE ONES
Gather them close to your loving heart
Cradle them on your breast;
They will soon enough leave your broodlins
Soon enough mount youths topmost stair
Little ones in the nest
F"nt not that the children's hearts are gay,


That the restless feet will run;
There may come time in the by and by,
When you may sit in your lonely room and


sigh


For sound of childish FUN.
When you'll long for the repetition ss-;ss
That sounded through each room,
Of mother" mother" the dear love calls
That will echo long in the silent halls,


And add to their stately glo ON.
There may come time when you'll long tc


hear


The eager boYish tread,
The tuneless whistle, the clear shrill shout,
The busy bustling in and out,


And the pattering overhead.
When the boys and girls are all grown up,
And scattered far and wide,
Or gone to that beautiful golden shore
Where sickness and death come meyer more,
You will miss them from your side
Then gather them close to your loving heart
Cradle them on your breast;
They will soon enough leave your brooGlins


care
Soon enough mount youths topmost stair
Little ones in the nest.
Year: 1874

ST. Louis, Feb. 3-The national grange
| committee, to whom WAS referred the
matter relating to the Boston grange, in
their report to the national grange, to day
| after giving 4 history of the Boston grange
use the following language. We End that
the Massachusetts state grange encouraged
, and sustained by resolution passed at a
| regular meeting the Boston grange in its
acts of insubordination and resistance to
lawful authority, and therefore hare rend-
cred them selves liable to censure by a
violation of their obligation to inculcate
strict obedience to lawful edicts and proper
authority. We find that the action of the
Boston grange, in refusing to surrender it's
dispensation, and submit quietly to the
rulings of our head, until this meeting Of
the rational grange, when they could have
applied for redress by an appeal from the
action of Worthy NJ aster A dams has been
very demoralizing and injurious to the
interests Of our order throughout the entire
West and South, and good order impera-
lively requires that sucll jnsuborljnaton
and persistent resistance 10 aCthOritv must
be checked. Without calling into question
the Integrity, moral worth or frien y feel
ngs which the persons who formed the
Boston grange may have for the principles
or success and prosperity OF our order, we
lind that the grange was Eot, and Is not
now, composed of the material declared By
our order to be eligible to membership
t hud that they have been delinquent in
not obeying the roquirtments cf our worthy
master, when he demanded surrender Of tie
disrensation under which they were work
ing: that they are stiIl acting in defiance
of the aGtharlty which commanded them to
stop, and by suoh naturalization they
have forfeited all right to be considered
Patrons of iiusbandrv in good and regular
standing. We recommend that the secret
airy of the national grange be instructed to
notify all state oranges within his iurisdic
tion that the Boston grange is no longer
connected with the Patrons of Husbandrv.
and hencetorth 10 fraternal recognition
can be extended to it by any grange, state
or subordinate, and the master of the
Massachusetts, state grange is hereby re-
quir, i to make formal demand for the
surrender Of the dispensation and ritual OF
the Boston grange, aud when received re-
turn to the state grunge; to obtain the
moneys paid for sail diSpensatiDn and
ritual and return them without delay to
secretary of the national grange at Wasl-
ington.


Tho report was adopted.


Report Of the committee on transr orta-
ton after being presented and partially
discussed. was withdrawn. on the ground
that it was too specific. ard not general
enough in character, and t..e whole matter
lies over Until the next anuuli m Getting.


The grange then adjourned, to meet in
Charleston, South Carolina the first We'd
nesday of FEBRUARY next. A number of
members left lar home this evening, and
the remainder will leave to morrow.
Year: 1874

IN the District Court of the Fourteenth Judicial
District of the State of California, in and for
the Con nty of Placer.


Charity A. Given VS.. Isaac p. Given.
The People of the State of California send greet


ing to Isaac p. Given, Defendant


NOU are hereby required to appear in an ac-
L ton brought against you by the above
name Plaintiff in the District Court of the Four
teenth Judicial District of the State of California
in and for the County of Placer and to answer
the complaint filed therein Ga copy of which ac-
companies this summons), within ten days (ex-
elusive OF the day of service) after the service on
You of this summons -- # served within this
county; or, if served ont Of this county but within
this Judicial District, within twenty days; or, If
served out of said District, then within forty days
or Judgment by default will be taken against
you, according to the prayer of SAID complaint
The sad action is brought to obtain decree Of
this court dissolying the bonds of matrmony
existing between you and plaintiff, all of which
Is more fully set forth in plaintiffs complaint on
he, herein to which special reference is hereby
nude


And You are hereby notified that if YOU fail to
appear and answer said complaint as above re-
quired, the said Plaintiff will apply TO the court
tor the relief demanded in the complaint.
Given under my hand and the seal OF the District


\ Court Of the Fourteenth Judicial Dis
SEAL trict of the State of California, in and
\CT6II for the County of Placer, this ninth
day of June, in the year of our Lord, one thou
sand eight hundred and scycnty-four.


i. f. BURT, Clerk.
iel3-2m BY +. d. ADANs, Deputy.
Year: 1874

CLUBS AND GRANGEs.--ln the agricul-
tural department of the San Francisco
Weekly Chronicle there will always De
found some useful hints or information to
farmers. The following item come from
that source:


The Grange organization has been the
means of reducing freights in many places; !;
through their agency.the price of farming
machinery and utensils of all kinds have
been lowered; they have built store-houses; !;
established banks; erected fruit drying
houses, and various other difficult things
have they accomplished. In doing this,
however, they have inadvertently lost
sight of many smaller things that should
be done. Say what we will, the old
Farmers Clubs, which had their existence
in nearly every town and city before the or
ganization of the tiranges on this coast,
were productive of great deal Of good in
disseminating useful knowledge, aud giving
to each of its members the experience OF the
others in agricultural matters. The Far
mers' Club-room was place where farmers
could meet, converse and Cebate freely.
without any of that embarrassment which
illiterate men, unused to parliamentary speak
ing, feel when trying to speak in public. In
the Grange hail it now takes up all the time
TO 90 through with the regular order OF
business and the limitations, and except on
some matter of great importance, there Is
no general discussion on agricultural topics
This they cannot help; it is the natural re
suit of the Organization. The only way to
remedy it would be to have one Grange
meeting each month devoted to general dis
cussions. have n debate on minor agrcul-
tural matters, in which the most unplrFa
mentary farmer can participate as freely as
though talking across the fence with his
next neighbor.


The Grange meeting partakes largely Of
the nature of any other secret Lodge, and
requires men of experience to make the
rulings and conduct the meetings properly.
there will always be few men who Will
be put into office because they can do this,
while the majority of its members retain
their seats, feeling awed by seeing SO much
form and ceremony. And at the same time
these very men who sit on the back seats
and have the least to say, may be better
posted, more able to give correct practical
opinions, and men of sounder judgment
than those who take the lead. The Grange
hall should, so far as it can be done, be
made place where every member can feel
perfectly at ease, and express himself on
any topic that may arise.


On our agricultural growth and prosperi-
ty as a State depends almost entirely the
growth and upbuiIdng of our cities and
towns, and in educating our farmers, we are
constantly laying the foundation for a bet
:er system of farming. If we ran bring
about a system whereby our farmers can
produce as much on one acre as thcy now do
on wo or three, we shall accomplish a great
work.
Year: 1874

NOTICE Is HEREBY GIVEN THAT THE
~ city of Los Angeles intends to make the
following improvements upon Main street.
to witt


That sewer be built on Main, from the
Main and Arcadia street, opposite the end of
Arcadia street, to the Ozier Lane O distance
of 3,G77 feet.


This sewer shall be l4xl6 inches in diane
ter from Arcadia street to First street; from
First street to the OZier Lane the sewer shall
be 16XlS inches in diameter, it shall be oval
shaped, and built of brick, with n four-inch
ring, the mortar shall have one barrel cement
to ten barrels of lime. The bottom of the
sewer shall be laid eight and one-half feet be-
low the grade, at its intersection with the
Main anu Arcadia street sewer, at Arcadia
street, and shall rise with a uniform slope to
point six feet below the grade at q point op-
posite the center line of Commercial street, Il
distance of AGO feet from the last named point
opposite Commercial street; the sewer Shall
conform to the grade of the street as now es-
tabliShed; the bottom of the sewer being six
feet below the surface of the street as far as
practicable


The sever shall be laid in he center of the
street as far as practicable and shall be con-
structed under the direction of the City Sur
veyOr and superintendent of Streets.


And be it further resolved that connections
be made with the main sewer in Los Angeles
street, at first street, and at OZier Lane; the
sewer down First street to be OF brick l4XlG
inches in diameter, and oval-shaped with Il
finch ring; the slope of this sewer shall con-
form to the official grades of the street, be-
tween the crossing of First and Main, and
First and Los Angeles streets the connection
of the Main street sewer with the main sewer
down the OZier Lane, shall conform to the
natural slope of the ground between Main
street and the main sewer where it crosses the
OZier Lane.


This sewer shall be l6XlS inches in the in
side diameter, and shall be oval shaped the
sewer shall be built of the same material and
in the same manner as the Main street be-
fore mentioned.


BY order of the Common Council


NJ. KREMER,


Clerk of Common Council.


iV12-l0t
Year: 1874

AN lNcIpENT.-A pleasant incident
occurred as the carriage containing the
Presidents daughter and her husband
was leaving the door of the White House,
after the marriage. Two little girls,
daughters of Marshal Sharpe and Collec-
tor Casey, came out upon the porch and
and each threw slipper after the depart.
ing couple, and the omen Of good luck
was made complete by the dircctness
with which they aimed, one striking the
bride and the other her husband.
Year: 1874

In Sunday.school, the other day,
when the basket was handed round for a
collection for the heather, the teacher
was somewhat surprised to find a bank
note in it. Closer examination revealed


the fact that it was counterfeit, The
inquiry among the boys brought to II 9
front one who acknowledged having hand
ed in the spurious scrip. YES" he said
"but | didn't think it made any difference
to the heather ; they could pass it of. '
Year: 1874

iIoUsToN's SKELETON. The life of Sam
Houston, says an "old stagcr,r has yet to
be worthily written. A more adveutur.
Gus and checkercd career was mover run
bv an American. He was afiianced in
early life to an accomplished and charm
ing lady, and before the consummation
Of the marriage he fled from his home and
civilization, and sought refuge with the
Chickasaw tribe of Indians There he
remained for more than two years, con-
forming TO the habits aud modes of life of
the Indians. He was adopted into the
tribe, and chosen a chief, and was said to
have exerted very wholesome inhuence
upon the savages. There was mystery
surrounding his abandoning the lady to
whom he was contracted in wcdlock that
was never so fully solved as to satisfy the
curiosity Of his Tennessee ncigbbors. He
never spoke on the subject or allowed his
acqualutances to interrogate him, and as
he was not a man to be safely affronted
care was taken to avoid all allusion to il
in his presence. The truth is. the lady
was attached to another gentleman whom
her friends would not permit her to mar.
ry, and they persuaded or constrained
her to contract an alliance with Houston
She stated the facts to him at the last
moment, appealing TO his forbearance and
generosity to - re her the pain Of the
connection Houston was full OF chival.
ry aud delicate tenderness apd he took
the most effective mode of relieving her
But the affair tinged his whole life. He
never forgot her, and much OF the eccen
ttlcity and waywardness that marked his
conduct after he went to Texas, and al
long as he lived. was the result Of thii
pathetic incident.


Expensive furniture - Indian Bu
reaus


A mau may be great by chance, bu
never wise and goud without taking pain
for il.


If you wish to travel cbenply. patron
ize those railr pads which adv.rtiso I,
Year: 1874

SLATE.-It is only within compara-
lively recent period that the many impor-
tant uses to which slate is applicable have
come to be understood. Experiments
show that an inch slab of slate is equal to
one of granite three to four inches, and Of
marble even eight 70 ten inches thick. 1t
is also an almost perfectly nonabsorbent ar
ticle, for, il an inch slab be immersed in
water for three months, it is found, on
merely scratching the outer surface, to be
perfectly dry underneath; on this account,
it is not liable, like stone, to be injured by
frost. When enameled, according to the
process now in vogue, its value is greatly
increased, and its uses multiplied. In
this process there is first the ground coat
ing burnt in, and afterwards rubbed down
to fine surface to prepare it for the pen
Gil Of the artist, who gives it the appear
ance Of the richest sienna, brocatella,
granite, porphyry, or even inlaid work,
after which it receives the first coating Of
enamel, and is again subjected to heat,
and again rubbed down; it receives, in all,
three coats of enamel over the painting,
all burnt in at very high heat.
Year: 1874

THE COMMON LoT THE HAPpIEsr.-
Moralizing on the state of the times, the
Tribune says :--"For our own part, we are
willing to acknowledge in these feverish
days great yearning toward commonplace
people, who write no poetry, and are con-
tent with life's jog-trot duties. Depend
upon ii, to this kind is the world indebted
for whatever happiness it may rescue from
wrecked hopes and disappointed ambitions.
Wordsworth was right. A woman may
be too bright and good for human natures S
daily food. Her Irritating restlessness may
grow to bother. Her elegant sentimen-
talities may lead to the nerves. She may
expect an impossible happiness from mar
riage and grow morbid with disappointment.
And what we say Of Her we may say with
equal propriety Of Him. Happy both Il
God vouchsafes to them the inestima-
bic blessing of obscurity and the mild lot
Of the majority"
Year: 1874




A story Is told Of aD old Virginia gen.
tleman who had 50 much State pride, and
at the same time 50 much courtesy, that
nc made It rule never to ask stranger
where he was born, for fear that he would
be put to the modification q aeknowledg-
ing that ne was not born IN ViFginial


But one Of the best anecdotes Of Yir-
gina courtesy heard recently is BY John
Rollins who was at one time clown in
John hObinson's show Rollins was ceIe-
brated for his ready wit and quick rcpartee,
ana IN answer 70 question whether he
was ever at a loss when in the ring 70
reply 70 any remark made BY spectators,
sald, never but once, and that was at
warrington, m Fauquier county. Il was
part Of my role to play drunken man.
l came INTO the ring as usual, 10 full clown
costume WIN a bottle Of whisky IN my
mana ana while acting the various charae-
1erS o. in'oxication noticed an old gen
'ieman standing near the rope which
enclosed the ring, occasionally winking and
noddlng at me, as much as to say, IL con-
yenlent please pass the bottle around this
way ms greasy black cloth suit, high
crowned hat, slightly smashed IN, gold
headed cane and red nose, told who he
was de had evidently seen better days,
Dut was a hne broken down Virginia gen
tieman' whose decline could be traced to
an DER fondness Of looking upon the wine
when it is red.


Passing around the ring | stopped inn
mediately in front Of the old fellow extend
ing the bottle and asking him to drink.
Win one hand he took the big cud Of
tobacco out OF bis mouth, throwing i on
the ground, his looks exhibiting desire
for strong pull at the bottle, while his
Year: 1874

mundsson and Gudmundsdottir. When
such concession is made TO the rights OF
women it "a little surprising to find that
she is in any other respect treated as an
inferior, not usually sitting down to the
table with the men of the family, but
waiting on them and dining separately.
Otherwise, however, women seem sufficient
ly well of, having full rights Of property,
and riding valorously about the country
wherever they will and we could not
hear that there was any movement for
their emancipation, or indeed for social
reform Of any kind, though, to be sure,
imperfect knowledge of the language
restricted our inquiries. In one regard
the women Of Iceland have obtained a
completer equality than their sisters in
Continental Europe. They receive exactly
the same education as the men do. There
are no schools in the island naturally, as
families live mostly dozen miles apart !;
and instruction is, therefore, given by the
father to his sons and daughters alike and
together, the priest--where there is priest
-sometimes adding little Latin or
Danish. Thus the girl learns all her
parents can teach her, and is as good an
arithmetician, and as familiar with the
Sagas as her brothers. Accomplishments,
of course, are pretty well out Of the ques-
tion painting, not only from the difficulty
of procuring the materials, but because
there is really nothing to paint; dancing,
because you can seldom gather sufficient
ly large party, and have no rooms big
enough instrumental music, on account Of
the impossibility of Transporting a piano
over rocks aud bogs on the back of pony.
Nevertheless, We found in remote house
"a good wooden house, by the way,) upon
the coast, where we were Hospitality enter
tanned for day and night, not only
piano, but several young ladies who could
play excellenty on 1t, and a guitar, accom-
panying themselves to songs in four or five
languages, the Swedish, as we thought, the
prettiest Of ALL They lived in the most
desolate spot imaginable-the sea roaring
in front on long strand inland, plain
Of dreary bog, and behind it miles away,
grim shapeless mountains. They had no
neighbors within ten or fifteen miles, and
told US they were often without visitor
for months together. But they were as
bright and cheerful as possible, and though
they did not respond to the suggestion Of
a dance, they sang and played to two of us
all the evening long in the tiny drawing
room, while the storm howled without; and
their worthy father, (who was a sort Of
general merchant for that part of the
island,) and the lord lieutenant Of the
county, who had dropped in from his house
thirty or forty miles off, brewed noble
bowls Of punch, and held forth to our third


comrade in strange mixture Of tongues
upon the resources Of Iceland, and the
prospects of opening, by means of British
capital, Aourishing trade in sulphur.
Year: 1874

LITTLE Rock Dec 16.-A rumor has pre-
vailed on the streets several days that the State hai
on deposit at soddards Bank at the time OF Its suspen
sion large sum of money. committee was appointed
By the Senate investigate tbs matter and to-day they
made their report which it appears that ne State
had $4,000 In currency and $4,000 in State scrip in the
bank at the time OF suspension This was left at
the bank by the County Collector, aud the Deputy
TREASURER accepted checks the bank III their settle
mrnt This afternoon counsel for the State obtained an
order from the Chancery Court appointing receiver to
take charge OF bank aud the property belonging 10
he firm.
Year: 1874

AN ATTEMPT TO EXTRICATE THE REPUBLICAN PARTY


FROM IFS DILEMMA on THE CURRENCY CUES


TION-POINTS OF A PROPOSED FREE BANKING


BILL.


[FEoM a REGULAR CORRESPONDENT or THE TRIBCNE.l


WASHINGTON. Dee. 16.-In their efforts to eXtri-
cate their party from the dilemma in which 1t Is
placed between the hard and soft money men, aud
to give it something resembling policy in the most
important issue now before the country. tie Republi
can leaders in Congress have about come to
the conclusion that the only thing practicable
is TO pass a free banking bill with
provision for the retirement Of grcenback fast az
new notes are issued. This is a conclusion not
highly satisfactory. may well be imagined, TO the
radical resumptioniss. 1t docs not fix any date for
specie payments, and can be called hard money
measure only because it provides for the gradual
retirement of the greenbIcks, which are the great
obstacles IN the way of reaching gold basis. Ac-
cOrding to the belief of able nancierS, ii would take
20 years to resume if this legislation should alone be
relied upon for the purpose The hope Is that the pro-
cess of educating the public mind up to capacity Tor
sound thinking on questions of National finance will
go on with accele1ating lapidity, and that after
year or two something moro radical can be passed.
What is sought is not the wiscSt and best
course to take, bnt the most polite one. These
statesmen want to save their party first and help
the country afterwards If an attempt be made, as
now looks probable, to push free banking bill a
party measure, considerable number of Ropub
hcans will have to be read out of the party or
allowed in it only on suflerance. All the greenback
infatiomsts would oppose such measure, and all
the 3.Gj bond men. whether nfationiSts or not and
besides the small faction who want paper cur
rcncy redcemable in gold but want it furnished by
the Government. 1t is claimed however. that two
thirds Of the Republicans in the House be
united on such bill.
Year: 1874

the hold; water over the CRATE bars
in the 6re-rooms; in the after COM
partment dry. The sea was very rough
and it was blowing gale. When the
boat from the Ussipee came under the
Virginius's bow the landsman were put
in irst. It took five trips to take all
the officers and men off the sinking
vessel At 1T P. M. the Virginius
sur bow first, in eight fathoms of
water. The cross-trees are above
water. For five days the men in the
fre-room worked in water up to their
knees, and at the time they left the
ship were nearly exhausted.