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Year: 1874

Huntsville.

 MR. EDITOR Fl have read with great in terest your most excellent paper, but find nothing said of Huntsville. Allow me to inform your readers that there is such 8 place as Huntsville, whose inhabitants are full of enterprise, and do some things in this world of labor and business worthy of notice, as well as some other things. Per haps some of us fail to get to church as often as the people of some other villages, and the reason may be because we cannot spare the time, and may be that is not the reason. At any rate, we have before now heard something about "where the treasure is, there will the heart be also." The corn and potato crops are far better than we had expected they would be, and with butter at 40 cents pound, the dairy men netd not complain, unless it be at the rapid failure of the fall feed......The lecture in our school house not long since, by MT. Robert Rogers, on temperance, was lis tened to with much attention, and think some good resulted from it. MT. Rogers is member of the M. E. Church, in Falls Village, also member of the Good Tenn. plars order in that village. The story of MT. Rogers previous life, up to within a year or two, as told by himself will con vince anybody that he was lifted from the filthy gutter to the position of honor and responsibility which he now occupies, and will also convince all that the way of the transgressor, who pays the price of rum by the sacrifice of body, soul and everything worth living for in this world, is as hard as the way Of the transgressor in any other direction. May he be rewarded with abun- dant success in his noble effort to do good to others, whom. he sees in danger akin to that which dragged him into the gutter, ls the wish of an OLD CITIZEN.
Year: 1874

Our citizens are making some improve ments, which adds quite little to the looks of our village. MT. U. H. Miner is repair ing his store and sheds, and proposes to have his buildings kept in shape. Landlord Dudley and G. w. Hall have been treating their houses 10 coat of paint. The new residence of E. w. Spur and w. J. Can field are being rapidly ompleted and are in the hands of skilled painters, who will make them pleasant and attractive. Mir. J. A. Decker has built new blacksmith shop near what is known as the sand bank, and is ready for business. We trust our village is not only undergoing temporal improve ments, but IS also being improved morally. Notwithstanding Falls Village has borne a hard name in the years that have passed and has been charged, and perhaps justly too, as being the most incorporate and most degraded town of any of it's size in Christendom, she is so far reclaimed, that it may be we'll for the ''banner temperance towns" to look to their laurels. The license question WAS again voted upon by ballot at the October meeting, and notwithstanding every wire was pulled to procure license. she came out from the conflict of the day crowned with temperance victory, having for the second time said that to permit men to deal out death, for one hundred dollars year, was a wrong that her conscience compelled her to discountenance, a crime with which she would not be disgraced, a legislative liberty which she emphatically condemned. A large share of this success must be credited to the Good Templars, who have labored diligently since the or ganization of their society. A prohibition ticket. introduced at the aforesaid meeting. was east by forty as good men as North western Connecticut affords. Our good natured jeweler MT. G. V. Capron, like most other industrious men, occasion ally needs a little respite, and few days since as he was indulging his wearied self in a little outdoor sport, having with him a dog and gun-got strayed off onto the Cobble, in South Canaan, where his dog picked a muss with varmint which seemed to be rather of a disagreeable animal to have any unpleasantness with, and accordingly tested his skill as marksman upon it, and found it to be twenty-four pound wild cat.

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Year: 1874

Sheffield No. 9.

 We wish that these beautiful Indian Summer days might last forever, for we can appreciate best the warm days when they are about to depart. Everybody is driving out lately to enjoy our good roads and beautiful scenery. Even the black smith, who has inhabited the plain for nearly fifty years, was tempted from his anvil the other day by the pleasant weather and actually journeyed to Ashley Falls. this being the first time tbis gentleman ever saw the village of Ashley Falls. We think it worthy of mention. This is what he says, so it must be true. Though decided lY home body we can speak for MT. G. that he attends strictly to his business and is an example of industry and perseverance. .... MT. Toles lecture in the Congregational Church was well appreciated and the sing ing of the Little Wanderers much praised. ......The Friendly Union proves success as usual, and Sheffield can now boast of library of about 400 volumes. besides our church library. Dr. Dewey is expected to deliver the. lecture before the Union this week, and no doubt it will be flne Iris whispered abroad that Nelson Gardner is going to jail. Yes, and it's true too! The question is often asked what he has done to deserve such confinement, but no satis factory reply has yet been made. We hesr it said that he is'to be Turnkey there, and hope he may behave while in Jail with as much propriety as he has ever done in Sheffield. MT. Gray succeeds MT Gardner as station agent here. ..... There is pros- pect of our having lookup in Sheffield for the accommodation of the tramps who frequent the place much to the annoyance of every one. We hope the building will soon be erected......A sermon was preached by one of our Reverends on Sunday last who spoke particularly on the sin of sloth- fitness, and he pictured tue slothful man so plainly that some saw their own likeness and one who owns a fine residence in the village, also much neglected place just little out, was seen before sundown that very day propping up his decaying barn doors and tumbling fences at the home stead. This place was once one of the best kept in town, now it is an emblem of decay and ruin. That sermon was good l one. Give us another. We all need re- newing spiritually, for laziness is com mon sin......Some repairs are talked about at the M. B. Church, and it is hoped the | winter may not find them undone......A l lecture is advertised to be given by the re- nowned Father Beeson in the Town Hall. | Tuesday evening. We trust the audience will be large, as many will be interested to hear the news from Captain Jacks wid- ow,' for this lecturer halls from the region | where the poor Indians murdered so many whites not long ago, and he comes here to speak in behalf of the persecuted Indsons. | ...... There was wedding the other night at the parsonage and the 'Joe' of the viii age was united Tn matrlmony to Frances Lampman. Joe's days of southern slavery | are over, but he is to try another kind now.

 DAVID.
Year: 1874



 It is not very difficult matter to write an article if one has something to write about, but ordinarily there is so little that transpires in this quiet village worthy of record that your correspondent not having the happy genius of making something out of nothing finds himself utterly unable to make weekly contribution. The princi- pie event of the week is to be the celebra- tion of the fiftieth anniversary of the mar riage of the Hon. z. Bissell, of Sharon Valley, on Tuesday evening. About three hundred invitations have been sent out, and judging from his wide spread popular ity as politician, and from the respect and esteem in which he is held by his numerous friends, large assemblsge may be expected. book club has been formed here on somewhat novel but very sensible plan. Twenty-three ladies com pose the club, each pays two dollars into the treasury, and with the sum thus real ized the president selects and purchases twenty books. A slip containing the names of the members of the clubis pasted on the cover of each book and they then are distributed one to each member. At the end of fifteen days they all pass the volume then in their hands to the member whose name appears next below their own on the printed list and so on around the circle until each member shall have read the twenty-three volumes, they are then to be disposed of as majority of the club shall think proper, and new lot obtained. In country villages where there are no pub lie libraries the plan affords very eco nomical way of obtaining a. large amount of reading matter. ALPHA.
Year: 1874

n )ne of these human reptiles could be
found. But it is a libel on snake
that always gives warming before it
strikes, to call them rattlesnakes.
Human cobras would better describe
them. They creep about and strike
their victims in the back. They fas-
ten their deadly fang in the flesh
while protesting the warmest friend
ship. They smile, and murder while
they smile. They are found every
where -on earth in Hades-every-
where outside the gates of Heaven.
No region is too cold for them; no cli-
mate too hot for them. They are in
digenous to every soil, and their venom
is alike deadly in every country. They
seek those they would destroy in
every guise. Meekness, humility,
christianity, is their common cloak.
Beneath the garb of friendship turks
the demon of destruction. These CO.
bras are not without their use. With
out them we should be too confident
we should be too careless in our walks
and thoughtless in our actions. Our
unwary feet would lead us into side
paths and by-ways, which the knowl-
edge that the human cobra is watching
our every movement to fasten on us,
keep us out of and impel us forward
in the straight road of duty, After
all, the human cobra is necessity to
the rectitude of human society.
Without it we should forget to what a
depth humanity is capable of sinking;
we should cease to remember that the
good and pure share the common
birthright of suffering with all that
are born into this world We cannot
do without the human cobra, and un-
less our San Bernardino friend finds
his town inflicted with an undue pro-
portion of the reptiles, he has no
ground for complaint and should be
happy in the task of unearthing and
crushing the heads of the Shiny,
crawling things.
Year: 1874

For the sake of novelty it is to be
regretted that a spiritual manifesto
tion of some kind cannot be pro-
nounced and proven genuine. The
constant exposure and denunciation
as frauds of these manifestations has
become too monotonous. They no Ion
ger furnish our flash papers with ma
terial for sensational articles, and to
hear that Satan and his hosts are rails
ing the deuce, and the furniture in
some mansion is only the prelude to
the announcement that the whole
is the trick of some jolly youth or
sportive maiden. If one of these
house-warmings could only be ar
ranged as one of those "things no fell
lah can find out" it would be relief,
as we'll as refreshing change, in a
threadbare programme. Some weeks
ago we had series of startling devel-
opments in an Oakland house. Things
Were made unusually lively, night
after night, and the crowds of incre-
dulous persons who went, saw, and
were mystified, gave it up as some
thing they could not understand.
Many were confident the demonstra-
tions in the shape of flying furniture
and clanking chains were the result
of supernatural influences. We began
to feel comfortable under the strong
probability that we might yet see a
live ghost. But just at this point
some matter-of-fact individual sug-
gested committee of investigation.
The thing was done, and, imagine our
disappointment, on reading the fol-
lowing report of that committee:


That after q careful examination of
the construction of the house and To-
cation of the furniture, with respect to
the persons present, after q patient
hearing of the witnesses and, as we
believe, an impartial weighing and
comparison of the testimony, we find
the evidence insufficient to indicate
the action or presence of any super
natural or any occult agency whatever.


(Signed), JOSEPH LIE CoNTE,


w. w. CRANE,


]. X. MCLEAN.
Year: 1874




In an article published some days
ago, the HERALD alluded to the fact
that in order to meet the requirements
of their charter, the Southern Pacific
Railroad Company need only build
twenty miles of road each year, and
we remarked that they could secure
their land grants and yet consume
eight years in completing the road TO
this city. We said it was possible the
company would build the road in
much shorter time, but the probabil-
ity of their doing it under the disad-
vantages which the constant warfare
of a number of our leading journals
and many prominent politicians COM
PEELED them to labor, rendered it al
most certain that for several years to
come the road would not be construct
ed more rapidly than absolutely nee
essary to meet the requirements of the
charter. A correspondent of the Star
takes different view of the situation,
and argues that in order to secure the
subsidy voted by Los Angeles county,
the company must complete the road
to this city within five years from the
date of announcement by the Board of
Supervisors that such subsidy has
been voted, and that as eighteen
months have already passed since
such announcement the road must be
completed within three and half
years from this date. This is all true
so far as the company's contract with
this county is concerned, and we have
no doubt they would be only too glad
to fulfill that contract to the letter, as
they have all previous contracts
made with our people. But cir
cumstances may place it beyond
their power to do as they wish in the
premises. They can comply with the
requirements of the Government, but
unless the bitter warfare now waged
against them ceases and the value of
their bonds is thereby enhanced, their
chances for completing the road with
in the time agreed upon with us hangs
by feeble thread. If they do not
meet their contract with the people of
this county they lose the subsidy
which the people have voted them,
the whole amount of which is some
thing less than half a million dollars.
The sum is small-a mere nothing
compared with what it will cost to
build the road, and in referring to the
probable slow progress of the work we
did not take it's forfeiture into consid-
Grafton. We hope the track will be
completed in time to save the subsidy
voted by this county, and if there is
change in public sentiment concern
ing railroads within the next twelve
months, we may reasonably hope for
direct railroad communication with
San Francisco during the next two
years. We regard the hue and cry
raised against the railroad company
more as political capital than as the
earnest opinions of those who plan
and lead the attacks on the corpora
ton. 1t seems to us the people must
come to regard the struggle in this
light at an early day, and when they
do, anti-railroad leaders will drop to
the rear, and railroad. building will be
once more resumed. Railroads are
necessity of the State, and especially of
Southern California. Any movement
that postpones the completion of the
Southern Pacific to this valley is
direct blow at the development and
prosperity of the Southern coast coun-
ties
Year: 1874

SUITS of ejectment have been COM
menced against seventy-nine persons
who have squatted on the Rancho las
Bolsas y Parades. The settlers claim
that they are on Government land,
and the ranch owners hold the land is
part of the ranch. The ranch has been
surveyed and the survey accepted by
the United States Government, but
the company propose to have the lines
run over again. The company also
claim that should the land claimed by
the settlers be found outside of the
Bolsa grant it must fall within the
grant Santiago de Santa Ana, as the
eastern boundary of the Bolsa ranch
is the western boundary of the Santa
Ana ranch. The case will go to the
Supreme Court.
Year: 1874

Two adventurous persons q day or two
ago successfully accomplished the feat of
crossing Long Island Sound in q twelve.
foot rowboat, drawn by q kite. The kite
was ten feet high by eight feet wide, and
was attached to the forward part Of the
boat by strong cord, about six hundred
feet Of which was let out.
Year: 1874

AcoUNTERFE1T twenty dollar note Of
the Merchants National Bank Of New
York has been discovered at the Treasury
Department among the national bank
currency sent there for redemption. Its
80 well executed that It passed undiscov.
cred through the hands Of several count.
ers before being detected. The Comp.
troller win add this series 10 the already
lengthy listo national bank notes 10 be
called in for cancellation, the rule being
to call in and abolish by cancellation the
whole issue of each denomination OF o
bank that Is successfully counterteited.
Year: 1874

Here is y 1.-THE pen picture
OF Judge Gilmore, the Demo
aratic nominee for Supreme
Judge. 1t is taken from the
Hamilton Telegraph:


The nomination of Judge
Gilmore to the Supreme Bench
was an outrageous thing for
the Democratic State Conven-
tion to do. 1t would be hard
TO find in all OHIO a lawyer or
'Judge" less qualified IN every
way Tor so responsible a posi-
,ion. He is unlettered, ignor.
ant even IN his chosen profess
sion, and the slave OF his appe-
tlte. The Sheriff of Butler
county had been compelled to
adjourn court from day to day
while Judge Gilmore was in
dulglng in one OF his frequent
and protracted sprees. The
Butler county Bar, not long
since, sent him a petition, ask
ing him to exchange and so let
another judge hold court In
Butler county. Only a short
time ago, he was arraigned be
fore the Mayor of his own vii
lage and fined for drunkenness.
Year: 1874

No good citizen desires two kinds Of
money in our country. Public safety
and common justice require uniform
currency for all. That currency too,
ought to be uniformly good-ought to
be honest money, Labor and bust
ness demand a sound and safe cur
rency, not Of a shifting and dishonest
character. Our currency ought to be
equal to that Of the best in the world.
Government under our constitution, has
no right to give US an uncertain, depre.
eiated currency, affecting and changing
values and commodities.
Year: 1874

The Democratic press of the State bear
deserved testimony to the admirabletact
and ability with which John G. Thomp-
son, chairman of the Democratic State
Executive Committee conducted the cam
paign. All that is said in commehdation
is Just. As chairman of the Democratic
Executive Committee of the State, he has
done the party incalculable service.
With ability to organize, he is a man Of
untiring energy.
Year: 1874

ARRESTS and threats Of arrests in the
interest Of the Kellogg party are
arousing bitter sentiment in Louisiana
These are not fair return for the sur
render in good faith of the opposition.
No greater misfortune could occur to the
State than a new insurrection, which
would justify military rule. Perhaps to
hurry Louisiana into rebellion nigh
save the Republican party but such a,
method Of saving is rather too costly.
Our dispatches indicate thatthe situation
is becoming grave. On our third page
an interesting letter from our correspon-
dent at New Orleans shows how all in
auences Of the Church, State and socie-
", combine to hSld the colored citizens
under the control Of the Kellogg Ring
-A@ExshsRgN
Year: 1874

Two thousand registration frauds have
already been discovered and the investi-
CATION continues. The location of resi-
dence given by ten persons was found to
be an unoccupied lot. One colored man
had registered fourteen times.
Year: 1874

Charles O. Brown has this week been out in the Whetstene mountains look ing for the somewhat noted Whetstone mine, known to have been extensively worked many years ago, but did not find it. He found a canyon with number of springs which form quite $ stream, and plenty of ash and walnut shrubbery and wild grapes also several stone houses, the largest of which was about fifteen feet square. It is not exactly clear whether the houses were built for miners or mes. cal makers, but there being very little mescal in the neIghborhOod it is believed they were for miners.

 MT. Brown and others leave to-day for the Gro Blanco mines where tLere are eight arrastrars running on the Ward mine and more are being put up. Parties in from there this week, report the work ing of 5000 pounds of ore with a yield of S90 gold.

 P. Forbach has recently discovered a rich silver and copper mine only two and one-half miles south of Sacaton Station, and has men at work on it now. He is now on the lookout for other mines, and says that before long he ex- poets to find placer diggings not far from old Camp Reno, beyond McDowell

 Men are at work in the copper district west of Tucson, sinking wells and open ing the mines, and we believe quite number of miners are at work in the Papago district.
Year: 1874

Our people are favored with nightly view of what the press calls "the new comet" It is seen early in the evening in the northwestern sky at an angle of about 45o with the horizon, with a tail apparently about six feet in length visible with the naked eye. To give our readers a bit of scientific history relative to this comet, we quote the following from The New York Herald of June I5:

 This new cloud of cosmical dust is to be- come in a few weeks one of the most splendid meteOrs ever witnessed. It was first discovered on April l7 ultimO, by M. COggia, at MarseilleS, small, but having an intense nuclear condensation. It's polar distance was about twenty degrees, fifteen minutes and twenty-three seconds, and it was moving slowly towards the southwest. It was first visible in the early morning, but is now also visible in the evening. It has been increasing in brightness. and, by sharp and somewhat practiSed eye. can be seen in the cOnStella- ton Camelopard in right ascension about seven hours and declination about seventy degrees north. It is now receding from the sun and is dimming in actual size and brightness, but as it is approaching nearer to us its brilliance is apparently aug mented.

 Comet II. of 1874, is wholly outside of the eath's orbit, but as it moves on it's fiery track, will on the Sd of August attain it's maximum beauty and brightness for us. When first deserted by M. Coggia its brightness was only one in the scale, now it is nearly seven; but after the 1st of July it will reach much higher degree of luminosity, and on the 3d of August will have a brightness of two hundred and forty-five. These figures will afford the reader an idea of what an astronomic treat he may look forward to in August.
Year: 1874

A fig for your upper-ten boys,

 With their canes and cigars and eye

 glasses, Their dandified airs and soft eyes, Winking down on each girl that passes. They may guZzle clambake and cham

 pagne

 And pride in their high birth; But give me that lad that goes plain, The boy with the hickory shirt. He is round as a barrel, and brown AS the peach in the mid-autumn sun; From the sole of his foot to his crown, He is brimful of frolic and fun. Not afraid of hard work or of cold, He is fearless and rough, without hurt; His honor's as good as pure gold The boy with the hickory shirt. To say his big heart cannot beat With kindness for parents and

 brothers, Would picture his traits incomplete, If his sisters shared not with the

 others. In fact he's broth of blade; I can't fathom how much he is worth; But the poor girls fortune is made, That gets Jim with the hickory shirt.