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Year: 1874

This is sound logic: The Cincinnati
Commercial says that on the question of
more civil right legislation, to force the
colofed race by penal statutes into closer
and more intimate association with the
whites, the record OF the Republican
party is wrong. The path to negro
equality lies, not through legislation (of
which We have enough already, but
through the demonstrated capacity of
the race in vigor and intelligence to oc-
cupy an Independent and equal position
by the side Of their white fellow-cid-
zens. II the Republican party goes to
the country on any such issue as the
civil rights bill passed by the Republi
can mrjority in the senate, and almost
forced through the house, it will be Is
surely defeated as the Democratic party
would be on the platform taking away
the civil rights already secured to the
neg.o by the constitutional amend
meuts.
Year: 1874

pE 1T RESOLVED, BY THE COMMON
IC.GOUNClL of the. City OF Los Angeles,
as follows:


SECTION |. That the assessments hereInaf-
Ter set forth are hereby declared to be the as
seSsmentS properly chargeable to and col
leclable from the several owners of the prop
erty respectively hereinafter described, for a nd
on account OF the grading of Main street,
as ordered to be graded by resolution of the
Common Council on the 2lst day of May, A.
ID. 1874.


SEC. ,. That each of the assessments here
matter contained and set forth as the assess
ment levied upon and charged against the
respective lots or parts thereof for the grading
of said Temple street and the grading of any
intersection of cross streets, Is hereby de-
clared true and correct, and that the valua-
tions respectively put upon such lots or parts
thereof are the just and correct cash values
of such lots or parts thereof, irrespective of
improvements thereon, liable to lie assessed
therefor:


SEC 3. Tho Clerk of the Common Council
Is hereby directed to enter a statement of this
assessment I'm the docket of city liens, accord
ing to law, and give notice of the levy ofsuch
assessment by publication OF the same for ten
days in the Los Angeles DAILY HERALD and
La Cr0nicd respectively.


SEC 4, The following is the assessment
hereinbefore referred to. That is TO say:
En shc Matter of the Grading and Max


ing Of Main street between Fourth


street and the Plaza Assessment


List.
Year: 1874

hereby certify the foregoing to be a full.
true and correct assessment list In the matter
OF Main street, in said city OF Los Angeles, and
that each and all assessments are made and
payable in gold coin of the United States.


SEC. 5. This resolution shall be certified to
by the Clerk of the Common Council, and
published once in English in the Los Angeles
DAILY HERALD, and once in Spanish in La
Cfontcd, and thereupon and thereafter shall
take effect and be In force. Irtt9!.f Fl fIt
Year: 1874

or pauper, and if the parent neglects to
take that course with his child which will
make him good citizen, society, as meas
ure of selfprotection. has the right to take
charge of him-to compel him to 60 to school.
Citizens are compelled to serve as Jurors and
witnesses in court for the public good. In
deed, the personal freedom and rights of the
individual are so entirely ignored in time Of
war tkat he is drafted and sent to battle,
simply because the public safety demands it.
Within few years tens of thousands were so
taken from home, and for what purpose
To put down revolt which found its strength
in an ignorant populace. 1t is to avert such
calamities, to disband the army of crime avert
the famine of pauperism, and to place the Re-
public on the sure foundation Of an enlight-
ened patriotism that we plead for law that


will demand the education of every child.
Year: 1874

To the Editor of the Press:-


A writer in the PRESS this morning reiter
ates statement very far from the truth, and
inpudent beyond liberation. He says-for
the hundredth time it may be-that the two
Boston roads made offers ''for doing the busi-
ness of the Maine as follows: Boston &
Maine, passengeos $500, Eas ern $L5O-with
something like this difference in freight rates.


To whom was this offer made? To ''the peo-
pie of Maine?'' Never; but in the spleen and
in the blindness, of warfare precipitated by
the Eastern itself, whenj it agonized for a
monopoly of the through business this offer
was made to the Maine Central, and not to the
people of Maine;" and it is under the burden
Of this:sharp overreaching of itself that this
"Boston road" is grinding its teeth, one week
pouring out wrath upon its competitor, another
week finessing to consolidate, and the third
week substantially declaring that it must do
something to break the hold of the Maine
Central Not man at the station in this city,
from Mr.. Bachelor down to the assistant
Conductors" who swarm at train time. but
knows that this is the true statement of the
case; and not one of them who can answer the
complaints about unjust discrimination in the





to the rigor of the Maine Central, even after
their own road has made rates SO liberal


So let us see how it stands: Can you 90 to
Boston from Portland over the Eastern for less
money than over the Boston & Maine? Not
bit of it. And if you are East of Portland, can
you get to Boston at any less rates than in the
olden days when you could be ticketed over
either the Slower" or the upper" route? or
might do again IL there were just use made
of the advantages of the "Bostcn roads," which
by the way, is the bane of the whole
mode, and curse to the whole people of tho
State.


1 do not forget that the Eastern made offer
of S1.5O fare from Portland to Boston, on
through business, and it did it because it hoped
to shut out the Boston & Maine, and compel
consolidation. But even this concession of
fifty cents made in the darkness, underbiddng
foolishly and blindly. did not go "to the people
of Maine, but to the Maine Central railway, a
thing which is supposed to be considered and
equalized in the ''grand consolidation Yet
the impudent cheat of this false statement is
thrust forward constantly, a position as un-
tenable as could be invented, and which men
are hired to "write mp" and paid for doing it,


l do not care to remark harshly upon this,
but do get tired Of steroetyped twaddle. If it
is not an offense, it is at least open to the OBJ
jectIons made by Mark Twain in the matter of
the cows tumbling into the tent four nights in
succession-'it Is getting monotonous


$3.50 PORTLAND.


January 22d, 1874
Year: 1874

SERGEANT AMBLER ON THE WAR PATH.-Re-
ports from Saco inform us that Sergeant Am
bier is preparing to enter the war path-not
upon Cuba, but upon the rostrum, and to bring
before the public startling novelty in the way
of lecture and exhibition combined.


He will bring out new lecture on Heroism,
delivering it in character, dressed in the High
land kilt, and enforce his descriptions by
scientific exhibition of the sword exercise,
something which has never before been at
tempted in this country, and as the Sergeant is
the acknowledge champion of the world as a
swordsman, we may expect rare treat.


Sergeant Amber is a man who never does
anything by halves, and from an intimate per-
sonal acquaintance, we know that he is never
the man who would bring anything before the
public unless he was prepared to give first
class entertainment In whatever he under
takes he is never satisfied until he has distanc-
ed all competitors, and when he speaks he
speaks with his whole soul, all life, energy,
animation and electric impulse. that carries all
before it, while his native wit and quaint hu-
NOR will always keep an audience in roars of
laughter. Success to the Sergeant, say we.
Year: 1874

WE understand that Representative Stone
of Bridgton is spoken of in connection with
the Treasuryship of the Insane Hospital at
Augusta. Those acquainted with Mr.. Stone
speak in high terms of his qualifications for
the position. tH
Year: 1874

THE trustees of Bridgton Academy will
make the State an offer of the institution and
its property for Normal school. The sur
rounding towns have petitioned tor such a
school in that thriving village and if the State
is to establish another, it would be difficult to
name better location.
Year: 1874

We do not read anonymous letters and commune
cations. The name and address of the writer are in
all cases indispensable not necessarily for publication
but as guaranty OF good faith.
We cannot undertake to return or reserve COM
munications that are not used.
Year: 1874

It IS an lnfrmity of man to cling to the teachings of past generation, and to stnbbornly resist the light of reform and progress. Health reform and tenn perance growth are jealously watched over by the poison bitters compound CTS. One great prevailing deception of the present age is the impression that every human biped of either sex must be stimulated, and the poisoned chalice is labeled :" "Medicated Bitters," the better to palliate their use and prolong the epidemic. One of the most zeal ous workers to cure this malady, Dr. Joseph Walker, inventor and proprietor of the famed California Vinegar Bitters. believes in making bitters that are "true medicine" and advises the sick man to swallow Q draught that will wash out the leprosy of his disease. In this faith he is steadfast, and his Vinegar Bitters, though contradiction to the general character of all other bitters, are, as great success and life vltallzer, evidence of one popular fal- acy and corrected,
Year: 1874

The Chicago papers have reported the sudden death of an old lady named

 Wagner. She was standing at the front door of her daughters house, chatting with her little grandson, who was playing in the yard, when she re- oeived a bullet which passed entirely through her body. The wound was fatal, and she was soon dead. There was no one in sight at the time, and where the bullet came from was mys- tery. Subsequently it was reported by boy who had been out on the prairie tending COWS that two police men had been practicing pistol.shoot- ing at mark. The policemen were hunted up, and acknowledged the fact, and one of them stated that one of the balls missed the mark. But what made the case more remarkable was the fact that the distance from the point where the policemen stood when firing to the point where Mrs. Wagner stood when killed was not less than 700 feet The coroner gave the matter his closest attention. It was claimed that the natural depression of the ball would have brought it to the ground long be. lore It could have gone 700 feet, even supposlng 1t could have been projected that far at all. Several gunmakers tes- tltied as experts, and convinced not only the coroner but the jury that that particular pistol could project 8 ball that distance, and even farther, and with sufficient force to kill 8 human being. The lady was an excellent wo- man, and her death sudden and shock ing. The only punishment which can be inflicted upon the policemen is that of a fine for firing inside the city limits,
Year: 1874

Sad and touching incidents are told

 of the dreadful Fall River m1ll disaster,

 some of them being of the most heart

 rendering description. During the

 height of the excitement a little girl,

 scarcely in her teens, appeared at one

 of the upper windows gazing upon the

 horror-stricken people below. All eyes

 were directed to her, in the expecta-

 tion of seeing her follow the example of

 others who had jumped from the win

 dows at the risk of life and limb. Those

 who were holding beds beneath the

 windows grasped them more firmly to receive her, while scores of voices shone full upon her face, which was wreathed with a beautiful smile, as though she had caught glimpse of the other world already as the people gazed she slowly turned around and disappeared forever from mortal view.

 Whether she became insensible from moment had deprived the poor child of dead give up their secrets. Another incident that has been narrated as an actual fact, but which have been un- able as yet to substantiate, is almost incredible, though not beyond the range of possibility. It is said that a little fellow, scarcely dozen years old, jumped from one of the upper windows to the ground, and when the spectators rushed forward to pick up the maneled body they were astonished to see him spring to his feet, apparently uniniured and start on run for his home. Burst ing into the house in breathless haste, he shouted to his mother, "The mill is all on fire p and then he suddenly dropped to the floor lifeless, the fearful sixty-foot jump having resulted in fatal internal injuries which the excitement of the moment prevented his feeling. It appears that many of the deaths and severe injuries were caused by the peo- pie striking upon the ladders which were run up to the third and fourth stories. One little girl struck between two rounds in such manner that her back was instantly broken, and her head hung down swaying back and forth, and while the body remained in that position man and 8 woman in turn struck against it, bounding off again to the ground. All the persons who attempted to escape from the attic did not make clean jump to the ground. A rope was thrown out of the window by somebody, which reached good part of the way to the ground, and quite anumber slid down this rope as far as possible and then dropped the rest of the way, thus escaping instant death, though all were more or less in- jured. 4

 Two of the girls Alice Stafford and Nancy Mullen, who were among those who used the rope-had their hands badly burned by the friction, and the former had her back injured and both ankles dislocated by the fall. The per sons who availed themselves of this rope would have escaped serious injury had not the rope caught fire from the flames bursting out of the windows and burned off some forty feet from the ground.

 The Murphy girls -sisters-were all buried in one grave, and their remains were followed to the cemetery by 8 large procession of mourners. They were the only support of widowed mother, and the shock npon the aged lady was so severe that she, too, will follow them to the grave in few days.
Year: 1874

The New Jersey new compulsory school law proSides that every parent, guardian, or other person, having con- trol or charge of any child between the age of eight and thirteen years, shall cause such child to attend some public or private school at least twelve weeks in each year, six weeks, at least, of which attendance shall be consecutive. This attendance is not required if the child's mental or physical condition is impaired. Instead of the attendance the child may be instructed at home in branches commonly taught at the pub lie school. If the person having charge of such 8 child neglect this duty he will forfeit twenty dollars to the school district. This penalty may be recov- cred in any court of competent iuris- diction in the district. If the parent or guardian can prove extreme poverty he is relieved from the penalty. In several districts the law cannot be carried out, it is said, owing to insuffi- c1ent school accommodation.
Year: 1874

General Sherman is reported as say ing of Indians as soldiers "I have thought that the idea of employing the Indians as soldiers was g good one, and we have employed a number of scouts. As scouts they do admirably. There is no trouble in their management, and they so far forget their allegiance to their own people es to go freely out to fight them whenever they are called upon. Even Indian soldiers enlisted belonging to different nations that have always been at war, when they become scouts seem to forget their old hatreds, and to work admirably together. The only case of defection in our Indian scouts has been at Fort Fetterman, a short time ago, where few but recent ly enlisted deserted and joined their people. SEEEs -sj Y %
Year: 1874

There is law in New York, we be- lieve, that requires every roadmaster to see that the weeds along the road side in the district over which he has jurisdiction are cut twice year-that is twice during the season of growth. In some road districts and by some roadmasters this duty is performed faithfully but by the large majority no attention is paid to it. Every good farmer is interested in tine faithful en- forcement of this law, because the road sides are great weed breeders and dis sen1inators unless they are carefully kept clean in the manner described.
Year: 1874

A conductor on an Indiana railway while attempting to quiet drunken and noisy passenger the other day, was struck by the latter on the head with a miners pick-handle. He fell, bleeding profusely, and the other occupants of the car, thinking him murdered, seized his assailant, carried him to the rear platform, and threw him off while the train was going at the speed of thirty miles an hour. Strange to say, how ever, he was picked up by later train quite uninjured, excepting few bruises. and is now awaiting his trial on charge of assault and battery.
Year: 1874

AN ADvENTURER. Julius l.. Men delssohn was found guilty of forgery in New York, and sentenced to five years imprisonment in State prison. He claimed to be a son of the noted com poser whose name he bore. After h1s sentence he was taken to the Tombs. and while in his cell committed suicide by taking arsenic and suffering a terri ble death. It is shown that he was an adventurer, and in no way related to the composer.
Year: 1874

WHAT HE DID.-A touching and cu- rious incident is the purchase by MT. Anderson, of Toronto, of the yacht Foam, in which two of his sons were lately drowned near Niagara, and it's destruction by fire. The paternal heart could not bear that the craft which had borne his sons to death should longer exist. He purchased it and burned it to the waters edge. There is some- thing almost classic in this display of a fathers love.
Year: 1874

Married people should treat each other like
lovers all their lives. then they would be hap
py. Bickering aud quar.eling would soon
break of love aiiairs consequently lovers in
dulge in such only to very limited extent.
But some people-meu aud women both
when they have once got married think they
may do just as they please, aud It VIII make
10 difference. They make a great mistake
It causes all the difference in the world
Women should grow more devoted and men
more fond after marriage, il they have tue
slightest idea Of being happy as wives and hus-
bands. It is losing sight Of ibis fundamental
truth which leads to hundreds Of divorces.
Yet many a man viii scolI his wife who would
never think Of breathing harsh word to bis
sweetheart and many wife viii be srum and
morose on her husbands return who bad only
smiles and words of cheer for bin When be was
her suitor. How can such people expect to be
happy?
Year: 1874




Apropos Of what Mss. Livermore's late lec-
ture on the above important questions said,
the Davenport Democrat thus makes answer:
Teach them seIf-reancc.


Teach them to make shirts


Teach them to make bread.


Teach them to foot up store bills.


Teach them not to wear false hair.


Teach them not to paio, or powder.
Teach them to wear thick. warm shoes.
Teach them how to make good meal Of
victuals


Teach them every day. dry, hard practical
common sense.


Teach them how to darn stockings and sew
on buttons.


Give tbom a good substantial common
school education.


Teach them to say no, and mean it, or ycs
and stick to i:


Teach them TO wear calico dresses and do it
ike a queen


Teach them to regard the morals aud not
money Of beau.


Teach them to have nothing to DO with in-
temperate ard dissolate young men.


Teach them accomplishmeuts-music, paint
ing, drawins-Ifyo you have time aud money to
DO it with.


Teach them that God made them in his own
image and no amount Of tight laeing will i'm
prove the model.


Teach them that good, steady mechanic,
without cent, is worth dozen oil patent
loaiers in broadcloth.
Year: 1874

1.-The Hindoo women" says a writer
in FrazeS's Magazine, ATTRACTED me most
by their graceful carriage; their pic
turesque drapery, consisting of full
skirt and sort of bnrnous, which pass
es over the head, almost completely
yelling the face. These vary in color,
being sometimes bright blue, and pink
and yellow, the skirt often bordered
with hem of some other color, often
very gaudy, but the dark skin harmoni-
zes it all. The most artistic, to any
mind, is the dark indigo blue, but it is
more rare in the Northern than In the
Southern India, where almost all the
lower classes of women wear it. 1t is
pleasant to watch the easy grace with
which they walk, bearing round red
earthen ware or bright copper water
jars on their heads, steadying their bur-
den with one well-shaped, small-wristed,
dusky arm stretched up to its full length,
and covered almost to the elbow and
sometimes with numbers of bracelets.
These are sometimes silver and often
plated metal or red and green lace.
once heard of a school, the pupils OF
which were trained to walk about with
tumblers of cold water on their heads;
and when / saw the firm footed easy
grace of these burden bearing women,
regretted that the practice was not uni
versal, The pale-face race may perhaps
pride itself on its superiority in the use
of the contents of its head, but these
dusky daughters of the sun certainly
outdo their more favored sisters in the
use they make of the outside of theirs
They carry everything on their heads,
jars Of water, piece Of cloth baskets OF
vegetables, huge bundles Of sngar cane
fuel, anything and everything leaving
their hands free for any additional bur.
den. They do not even carry their lit
tie babes in their hands, but either bal
ance them astride on their shoulders
with the little hands on their mother,
head, or else astride on one hip, encir.
cled with strong arm. have seen 9
woman with four water jars towering on
her head, and her little baby on her hip
walking along with springing grace
iingling her silver anklets and toe-belli
as she went"
Year: 1874

WAsHINGroS, February 25.--The
President to-day sent the following
message to Congress: | haze the honor
herewith 10 submit The report of the
Cenntenial Commissioners, and TO add a
word in the way Of recommendation.
There have now been international ex-
positions held by three of the great pow
ers of Europe. 1t seems fitting that the
one hundredth anniversary in our indie
pendence should be marked by an event
that will display to the world the growth
and progress of a nation devoted to free
dom and to the pursuit of fame, fortune
and honor by the lowest citizens as we'll
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
secure 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 successful international ex-
position are manifold. 1t will necessa-
rily be accompanied by expenses beyond
the receipts of the exposition itself, but
they will be compensated for many fold


by the commingling of people from all
sections of our own country, by bring
ing together people of different nation
alities, by bringing into juxtaposition
for ready examination our own and for
eign skill and progress III manufacturing.
agriculture, art, science and civilization


The selection of the exposition seems to
me appropriate from the fact that one
hundred years before the date fixed for
the exposition the Declaration of Inde-
pendence, which launched us into the
galaxy of nations as an independent
people, emanated from the same spot.
We have much in our varied climate
soil, mineral products and skill of which
advantage can he taken by other ma
ti9nalities to their profit. In return they
will bring to our shores works Of their
skill, and iamiliarize our people with
them to the mutual advantage Of all
parties. Lei us have a complete sue
cess of our Centennial Exposition or
suppress it in its infancy, acknowledge
ing our inability 10 give it the inierna-
tional character TO which our self esteem
aspires.. {. :. GRANT.


Executive Mansion, Feb. %, 1874.