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Year: 1875

1t Is noticeable that the recently


elected United States Senators from


Southern States are instructed or re-
quested to use their influence toward
securing the passage Of the bill loan
ing the Government credit To the
Texas Pacific Railroad TO the amount
of $35, 900 or $40, 900 per mile. The in
situation that these instructions were
produced through the influence of
Tom SCOTT and party would perhaps
be met with the assertion that it was
false by the hackers and manipulators
Of the stupendous subsidy scheme.


Yet it is more than probable that the
influence was used and that it made
itself felt through representatives that
are not true and on promises that will
never be verified. The people of the
South need transeontinentsl rail-
road and those of them who have not
given the subject careful study are in
Aueed to believe that the Texas Pa
.cific road will supply this great want.
Such however is not the case. The
road which Mr.. SCOTT asks the gov-
.ernment to build for him will only
skirt the Southern States and become
the outlet for the net work OF roads OF
Year: 1875

Every person should know how TO
treat a flesh wound. Every one is IL
able to be placed in circumstances
away from surgical and veterinary
aid, where he may have to save his
own life, the life OF friend or beast,
simply for the exercise Of Q little COM
mon sense. In the first place, close
the lips Of the wound within the
hands and hold them firmly together
to check the flow of the blood until
several stitches can be taken and u
hapdage applied. Then bathe the
wound fgr long time in cold water.
"Should it be pajpfHlj' q eorrespon-
dent says, "take a painful OF burning
Goals and sprinkle upon them common
brown sugar, and hold the wounded
papt in the sm9ke. IN u minute or
two the pain will ke allGyed. and the
recovery proceeds rapidly.


In my case, Il rusty nail had made
bad wound in my foot. The pain
and nervous irritation were SEVERE
This was.all removed by holding it in
smgke fifteen minutes, and was able
to resume ny re9diAg in comfort,
We have often rec0NmeHdeq IL tg 9th
ers with like result.'
Year: 1875

SAN FRANCISCO is inaugurating
measures for the suppression of the
opium dens established and frequented
by the Chinese Of that city. These
Mongolian death pens are no doubt
great promoters of vice and disease,
but there is another class of dens
found all over San Francisco that are
a thousand times more damaging to
public morals, more destructive to
health and productive of more misery
than those frequented by the Chinese.
They are the back alley and cellar
dens where lahorng men spend their
small means in the purchase of the
most yillainous of alcoholic drinks
that ever maddened the brain of a
human being. In these places are
worse than squandered the means that
should be, and but for them would be,
expended for food and clothing for the
lily clad and often hungry wife and
children at home. 1t is into these low
places the unwary countryman is en-
ticed, and after being drugged with
the poison sold as whisky is robbed OF
his little all and himself thrown upon
the sidewalk. These are the dens that
San Francisco should suppress. They
are the direct source of much Of hel
poverty and great deal of her crime.
Ten giIded saloons do not bring 50
much actual want and privation to
the poor woman and her children as
one of these back alley deRs.
Year: 1875

AS we have ever had an eye for the
public welfare, and as the winter sea-
son is now at hand, we take the lib
erty of saying a few words toour read
ers Oh the comparative merits of wood
and coal for fuel. Where coal has
never been used more extensively than
in Los Angeles, there is liable to be
prejudice against it. People look up
on it with suspicion, when studying
home economy. They confounda a ton
of coal with Il cord of wood and give
coal the Ego by" as an expensive lux
ury. The truth however is that one
ton Of coalis worth three cords OF wood
for simple ordinary burning purposes
In Summer time perhaps, when the
only family use for fires is for cooking
wood may he the cheapest article, but
i'm Winter when the hearthstone must
be lit all day long to render a house
agreeable, coal is by far the cheapest,
and as matter of convenience, by fal
the most desirable. Wood varies in
price from twelve to fifteen dollars
per cord. The best Sidney coal, we


understand will now be delivered III
this city for about twenty dollars pei
ton. If one ton of coal is equal 10 bnl
two cords of wood, quite margin i
left in favor Of coal, even for family
uses. For our foundrys, hotels, water


Iifters etc, coal is by great odds cheap.
er than wood. As times are hard and


money tight, we present these few OBJ
seryations to those who may desire to
economize in the spirit of friendilness
and good will.
Year: 1875

which The Pennsylvania Central h.
the nucleus. If Mr.. ScoTT succeeds
in passing his bill so far from giving
the Southern States the, road they
want it will raise barrier that Will
forever prevent their obtaining what
they so earnestly desire. We appre-
hend the Senators who go to the Capt.
tol pledged to support the bill will, be-
fore they cast their final vote, become
possessed of information which will
place the scheme in its. true light be-
fore them and induce final with
drawal of their support. Its hardly
within the pale of Possibilities that
Congress will pledge the Government
for the gigantic sum asked for in tins
modest bill, but it is an act of inJus-
tice to Represents to othe people OF the
South that this Texas Pacific PROPOSE
tion will give them what they so
much xneed--a southern Overland
Railroad.fi a. AZ
Year: 1875

THE DAILY and WEEKLY HER
AID has more than double the cir
culation of any other paper published
in Southern California. Business men
recognize it accordingly as the. best
advertising medium South of San
Francisco.
Year: 1875

HORTICULTURAL AND PoMoLoaiCAL SOCIETY
An effort is about being made to place this
Society on its old footing. To this end, a:
we'll as to attend to other matters Of Import
ance, there will be meeting OF the Execu
tive Committee at the office of Messrs
Franklin Davis & Co. at o'clock this after
Year: 1875

In THE PEN,TESTrARY FOR FIVE YEARS.
Thomas Roper was tried in the Hastings
Court yesterday on the charge of stealing
a lot of clothing and SAB in money from
Armistead Neal's house, found guilty, and
sent to the penitentiary for five years.
Year: 1875

XANTHINE Is superior to all other preparations
for the hair now before the public. It renders the
hair soft and glossy; leaves the skin clean restores
the hair TO its original color In maryelously short
Year: 1875

An admirer of Mr.. Bright writes to a
Manchester paper that he has discov-
cred the secret of the power this great
speaker possesses of riveting the atten-
ton of his audience. This he believes
to lie in the fact that be uses monOsyl-
tables very largely. The grand pas
sage in Mr.. Bright's speech on the
Burials bill describing a Quaker funeral
begins, 81 will take the case of my
own sect" and on counting the words
of that remarkable Grafton it will be
found that out of one hundred aud
ninety words one hundred and forty
nine, more than seventy five per cent.
were mOnosyllables. On this it is
urged that those in charge of youth
should teach them the use of monosyl-
tables. IN American journal lately
mentioned a school where such pains had
been taken to instruct the boys in the
art of public speaking that if they had
learned nothing else they had acquired
the greatest contempt for all the de,
vices of stump oratory. The course of
study prescribed left to the imagina-
ton, but doubtless includes the traus-
lation into mOnosyllables of the pom,
derous verbiage which passes current
in most political assemblies as gen
uine eloquence. Tt would, however,
be cruel to insist on the introduction
of such teaching into any of the
" standards" Many are obliged to
speak who have less to say than Mr..
Bright, and to them the se8quipedalia
UerbG are Indispensable Mall
Gazette.


'YOuNG ladies are growing colder
e ran cynic, land how few d. we find
now who love man enough to hang
around barber. shop for lock of his
hair.
Year: 1875

There is something in the very air OF
a nice person which inspires you with
confidence, makes you talk without fear
of malicious misrepresentation; you
feel that you are reposing upon nature
which God has made kind, and created
for the benefit and happiness OF society.
1t has the effect upon the mind which
soft air and a fine climate has upon the
body.


A nice person is clear of little, trump
cry passions acknowledges superiority,
delights in talent, shelters humility,
pardons adversity, forgives deficiency,
respects all mems rights, is never long
and never wrong, always knows the
day of the month, the name of everybody
at table, and never gives pain TO any
human being.


If anybody is wanted for party, a
nice person is the first thought of when
the child is christened, when the daugh-
ter is married-all the joys Of life are
communicated to nice people the hand
of dying man is always held out TO q
nice person.


A nice person never knocks over wine
or melted butter, does not tread upon
the dogs foot or modest the family cat,
eats soup without noise, laughs IN the
right place, and has watchful and at
tentiVe eye.
Year: 1875

Because they wea. close hats and


caps. Women are never bald. Some


times, from long confined headache,


heat in the scalp, bad hair dressing and
some other causes, women may have


bare spots here and there but with all


these combined, you never see a woman


with bare, shiny, bald head. And


you never see a man lose q hair below


where the hat touches the skull. It


will take it off as clean as you can shave


it down to exactly that line, but never a


hair below, not if he has been bald


fifty years. The common black stiff


hat, as impervious as sheet iron, retains


the heat and perspiratiOn. The little
hair glands, which bear the same rela-
ton to the hair that the seed wheat does
to the plant above ground, become
weak from the presence of the
moisture and heat, and finally be-
come two weak to sustain the hair. 1t
falls out, and badness exists, A fur
cap we have known to produce complete
badness in a single winter. A man
with a good head of hair needs very
little protection where the hair grows.
Women who live much within doors,
and who are, therefore, susceptible to
the cold, oil their hair and plaster it
down hard and fiat upon their skulls, so
as to destroy nine-tenths of its power
as a non n-conductor, have worn for years
postage stamps of bonnets stuck on the
back of their skulls, and then going out
of furnace-heated pariors, have ridden
hours in very cold temperature
without taking cold and without COM
plant.


Man, with his greater vigor and
habits of outdoor life, aud with his
hair not plastered down, but thrown up
loose and light, could no doubt go to
the north pole, so far as that part of his
person is concerned, without any artifi- |
cial covering. And yet we men wear
immensely thick fur caps, and do not |
dare to step out into chilly atmos- |
phere a moment lest we take cold. 1t |
is a silly, weak and really serious error. |
The Creator knew what he was about |
when he covered a mans skull with hair. |
It has very important function in pro-
tectiDg the brain. Badness is a serious |
misfortune. 1t will never occur in any |
man who will wear q common black |
high silk hat with five hundred holes |
through the top, so that there shall be |
more hole than hat. This costs moth,
ing; the halter will do this for you |
when you purchase your hat. If the |
nap be combed the wrong way, and |
after the holes are made it be combed |
the right way, no one will observe the |
peculiarly. The hat will wear quite as
long-the hatters say considerably |
it is dry instead of |
moist in brief, there is not a single |
objection to it, while it will certainly
prevent badness and keep the top of
the head cool and prevent much head
ache.
Year: 1875

and when it is may we be there to sect.


"Well, you'd better believe it wasn't
long before that wedding came off,
but we didn't risk it in a church again.
And we might have admitted the tradi-
tional FIVE hundred friends. for we had
oeco.Ae celebrities; but Bessy wanted
a quiet wedoiDs. averring as a reason
that among five hundred people there
must of necessity be one or more luna
tics. Miss Spicer was gracious ond
stood up with us again, bat John
Charles had taken his departure to
realms unknown, so we had to put up
with an ordinary man. The wedding
came off this time without an inter
ruptiOn and don't fail to look in upon
us, Tom, and wish us JOY" 4
Year: 1875

Political affairs in France can not be
half so exciting as the kilograms would
have us believe. The prefecture of the
Seine has found leisure to occupy itself
with the good old sport of changing
the names of the Paris streets and It
is pleasing illustration of the respect
in which the arts are held in France that
the government has given the artists
their share of these municipal honors.
The Rus Saint Paul is to be known
henceforth as the Rue Henri Regnault
the Rue du Chemin de Fer becomes the
Rue Lacaze, in honor of the great
amateur who presented his superb col
Year: 1875

Mr.. Conway writes of skating rinks in
England and says A noted belle of
Brighton is at this moment laid up by
an accident suffered at he rink. All
her upper teeth were pressed through
her under lip, the teeth becoming dis
located, and she has been under the
combined attention of the surgeon and
the dentist for a week. A second
beauty has broken her thumb, and a
third her leg; but they are reported TO
be heroic, feeling that they have suffered
for q great cause, and complaining only
that some little interval must elapse
before they can again fly over the rink.
One thing was especially observable, /
thought, that no company of English
ladies ever appeared out of doors lin
such really beautiful costumes before.
It is true that when l selected, by invi-
tation of Brighton friend, the lady
that seemed to me the most beautiful
and the best dressed, | was informed
that she was an American but the
eomplacency with which learned this
did not prevent nv saying that there
was not an ugly or i'll dressed woman
among the gallant six hundred. There
was not highly colored, not a sensa-
tionaI, not cloud" dress among them.
The dresses were short, though not 80
short as is usual among fair skaters in
America, and they were all free from heav-
mess. There stood on the sides of the
rink, looking on, few ladies dressed
in the eight" French fashion, which is
just beginning to appear among us, but
that fashion was in sharp contrast with
th6 loose draDeries of the skaters, If
the new fashion should become general
over here there will have to be a special
skating costume made for Brighton, for
it is difficult to see how, in the tight
style, any of these young danes could
perform the graceful curves and brave
evolutions which now excite so much
admiration. / am told that the physi-
clans declare that for sanitary advan-
tages the seaside air and bath are of
little importance compared with this
new exercise, which is gradually finding
it's way to all places of resort.
Year: 1875

THE PROFESSIONS AND THE PBEsT-
DENCY.-The confident prediction by
so old and intelligent q statesman as
Hon. Alexandria Fl. Stephens that the
next president of the United States will
be journalist, suggests the inquiry AS
TO how the different professions have
Jared in the past in the distribution OF
that honor. A hasty review of the list
will be found TO result somewhat as
follows
Year: 1875

1t is true that jackson was Il lawyer
as well as a soldier-a Judge as well as
a general--but as it was his career as a
fighter that made him president, he Is
credited to that profession. SO Pierce
was a brigadier-general in the Mexican
war but he didn't distinguish himself
peculiarly as a warrior, so we apply to
him the correlative of the proposition
that we apply to his great democratic
predecessor. 1t should, perhaps, be
explained with respect to Madison that
he studied law, but seems TO have been
drawn into public life too soon to make
any progress in the practice.
Year: 1875

erately undertaken. They have never
been so bold and hopeful as now. The
general Democratic success of last fall
has filled them with new venom and
disclosed their fangs. They expect to
capture the Southern Sates, then the
General Government, and then -!


There is no Disgusting the iact---
the country is approaching very
grave crisis. The calmest and most
impassivned men here are profoun-
dly impressed with the magnitude Of
the danger. They understand tho
spirit and purposes of the rebel ele-
ment as the country does not and
the success Of that party portends per-
il to tho blacks, peril to al Union men
in the South and peril to the country.
The absolute domination of that force
in the Democratic party is even now
perceptible. Every prominent Demo-
crat here is already bowling TO the
South. When John Young Brown
spit out his rebel venom the other day
no Democrat had the courage to con
denim him. The South will rule the
caucus and command the party. It
cannot be controlled. And when
these facts fully appear, and these dis.
plays are made, as they certainly will
be, then, If not before, the country will
wake up to the danger before 1t, and
will stretch forth its hand to rescue
itself.


have the strongest confidenco--so
said to-day one of the least. .excitable
and best judging statesmen we have,
who has just been through the South
that the Republican party will carry
tho election in 1876. His confidence
is based upon the belief that when the
unrepentant rebels show out their
spirit, as they are doing now and will
do in still greater degree in the next
Congress, the patriotic sentiment of
the land will be inspired and consoli-
dated as it was during the war. The
Republican party needs to rouse to the
grand work before it. An object i'm
measurably greater than mere partisan
success appeals to its best energies
aud it's noblest efforts. The preserva.
ton of the blood bought fruits of the
war and the security of the Union
men of the South are staked upon its
labors and to this commanding duty
it should address itself with all its
courage, wisdom and unity. c. E. 8.
Year: 1875

A very sensible remark 1t was, that
was made lately by An old man, that
many farmers wife is literally work
ed to death In an inadvertent manner
from want of reflection or considcra-
ton on the part Of her husband. None
can understand better than he. In
ploughing, or sowing, or harvest time,
that II horse gets sick, or runs away,
or Is stolen, another must be procured
that every day or the work will in.
evitably 60 behind hand. He does
not carry the same practical sense in.
to the Kitchen when the hired help
leaves without warning or becomes
disabled, although he knows as we'll
as any man can know that "the hands"
will expect their meals with the same
regularity, with the same pr0mptness,
and with the same proper mode Of
preparation ; but instead of procuring
other "help" ON the instant, he allows
himself to be persuaded, If the "help"
is sick, she will get well In day or
two, or In q week at farthest, and that
It is hardly worth while to get another
for so short . time.


Meanwh bile the wife Is expected not
only TO attend to her ordinary duties
as usual, but somehow or other to
spare the time to do oil that the cook
or washerwoman was accustomed to-,
that is, to do the full work of two per-
sons, each of whom had already quite
as much labor TO perform as she
could possibly attend to. The wife
attempts it. BY herculean efforts all
goes on we'll. Tho farmer preceives
no jar, no hitch in the working Of the
machinery, and because no complaint
is uttered, thinks that everything 10
going on without an effort. Mean
while, time passes, and (infinite shame
on some Of them) they begin to calcu-
late how much has been saved from
servants wages and how much less
food has been eaten, and, because still
no complaint is made. the resolution
quietly forms In the mind to do moth
ing until she does complain but. be-
fore that takes place. she falls . victim
to her over.exertions, In having laid
the foundation for weeks and months
OF illness, II not of premature decline
and death. Sincerely it 10 believed
that these statements ought to be writ
ton in large letters above the mantela
of half tho farmers of the country, and
If over the other half also, It would
not be labor lost in favor Of many q
heroic and accomplishing but out.


ragged farmers wife and dsughter.-
Erchaaos
Year: 1875

THE WHITE LEAGUE Of Louisiana
seized upon large amount Of arms
belonging to the Government armed
with which, they overthrow tho State
Government IN September last. Pres
ident Grant called upon them to dis
band and surrender to the lawful an.
thorities. They did surrender posses
sion Of the State Government, but
they never have yet given up their
arms; they have been spisitsd away.
Year: 1875

The Republican Senators have found
that the Democratic side OF the Senate
are determined to waste all the time
remaining this session, on the appro-
priation bills, If these are passed upon
first, in order to defeat the Civil Rights
bill and other measures. and the Re-
publicans have, therefore, resolved to
take early action upon the Civil Rights
bill, and then the Pinchback resolution
win be taken up and probably be dis.
posed of.
Year: 1875

WASHINGTON, Feb. 2G-Mr Bartlett,
Attorney for the Pacific Mail Steam
ship Company, left this morning for
Minnesota to attach the property Of
VIM S King in order TO recover the
amount received by him in connection
with the subsidy
Year: 1875

NEARLY SERIOUS ACCIDENTAL few
days ago man who was shooting ducks
from Gunpowder Bridge, on the p, w.
L b. Railroad. carelessly laid his gun
across the track, and train approach
ing he forgot to remove it. The train
ran over the gun, smashing it to pieces,
and also came near being thrown over
the bridge by the obstruction.
Year: 1875

Recent events have called public at
tention 10 the intimate relation OF morals
and manners. II NAV be said that there


issno greater peril o morality than much
that is called merely free and dash man
ners. Young men. and even Young wo-
men. permit themselves freedom and
license Of manner which. having all the
aspects ofimpropriety, may very readily
acquire iis substance. Edward address
rs Emily with a loud and jestiDg inti-
macy Of tone and conduct, which might


be expected IN the sailor saloon, but
which is repulsive and odious in the
drawing-room or among refined and
gentle persons. Edward and Emily


would be amazed to be told that they
have not the manners of a gentleman or
of a lady, and have the air of the demi-


monde. They think that they are espe-
ciaily CONNIE il fant, and that above all
others they know what is the rule of
high society. But they are merely vnl-
gar, and have the manner Of those worse
than merely vulgar. Coarseness can not
bc gilded into refinement. The young
lady who habitually calls her young


friends Of the other sex by their Chris
tian names. or who suffers ANYTHING that
can be called familiarity, although it
falls short OF actual indecorum. should
reflect carefully. Sir" said lady to a
policeman who took her elbow to pass
her over the street. "if / wish YOU TO
touch me | will ask you" No woman
OF high sense Of personal dignity
wishes any man TO Jay his hand upon
her thoughtlessly or unnecessarily. Nor
will such woman permit amy kind of
rudeness in The tone and manner of men.
Year: 1875

ncr Bedford is likely to have trouble
over her new railroad, by some who in
tend to refuse to pay the amount ot
their subscription. The company agreed
with all those who subscribed 10 build
a first-class railway without naming the
gauge of the road, but all surprising uf
course that the gauge of the road would
he the same as other roads in the country.
The company is building narrow
gauge road for iirst-class road The
ground OF contention is on the part OF
some who made donations. that mar
row gauge road in this country is not
first-class road. And it may be that on
this ground the donations TO the road
by subscriptions may be defeated.