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Year: 1874

The people of Southern California
will hear with pleasure that the At
lantic and Pacific Telegraph Com
pany contemplate an early extension
of their lines from the present termi-
nus In the San Joaquin Valley on to
this city. The railroad and telegraph
line will be completed to the eastern
end of Tehachipi Pass in a few weeks.
This will leave gap of little more
than one hundred miles between the
end of the track and San Fernando,
over which to stretch the wires. This
done the people of Los Angeles will
have double the telegraphic facilities
they now enjoy, together with the ad-
vantages of lower rates, which always
result from competition. The Allan
tic and Pacific Company will, when
their line is completed, do the COM
mercial telegraph business of the val
ley. They now own and operate lines
along the Wilmington, Spadra and
Anaheim lines of railroad, and
all these lines will become
feeders of the main wire, thus increas-
ing the volume Of through business.
At present the through messages
which are gathered up by the railroad
wires are of necessity turned over to
the Western Union Company. The
competition of through line by the
Atlantic and Pacific Company will
cause an increase of more than double
the telegraphic business to and from
this portion of the State. AT present
the rates are higher, all things con-
sidered, than in any other portion of
the State. A competing line will re-
move this costly inconvenience and
enable our merchants and others to
transact business by.telegraph at rates
which will not so constantly remind
one of "forty-nine prices. If our
information is correct, the next three
months will give us first-class line
Of telegraph between this city and San
Francisco, over which the Western
Union will exercise no control.
Year: 1874

A GENTLEMAN from Memphis, Ten
nessee, who has travelled over this
valley, leaves on Monday next for the
East. He will return with his family
to this city in few weeks. He reports
that two hundred families will leave
Memphis and vicinity this Fall for
Los Angeles county. This is encour-
aging news, but is in fact no more
than we have right to expect. We
have sent to the South and East sew
eral thousand copies of the HERALD
pamphlet and hundreds of copies of the
HERALD reach the same destination
weekly. The southern coast counties
are heard from by the people afar of.
They read the HERALD and are in
formed of our magnificent climate and
exhaustless resources
Year: 1874

1t is frequently asserted that the
worst feature of the BEECHER-TILToN
business is the demoralizing influence
on society. Really, we cannot dis
cover where this demoralizing ty-
phoon comes in. There has nothing
really bad been proven on either Mr..
BEEcHER or Mrs. Triton. People
who desire to become demoralized do
not need the columns of trash which
this investigation has placed before
the reading public to send them on
board the Generalization train, and
those having no wish to "demoralize"
will see no argument in the Plymouth
Church troubles in favor of their step
ping out of the line of duty to God,
society and themselves. 1t is a mis-
take too often urged that example,
precedent, custom make people bad
who would not be bad otherwise.
Men and women generally know
right from wrong and the glamour
from an example of wrong-doing can
not obscure the discriminating sense
of honest feeling, honest meaning
and honest acting people. five accept
the fall of one minister as an argu-
ment, why all ministers should fall
we shall soon have mountain of
proof that ministers cannot but choose
to fall. If the fall of one woman will
demoralize all women then it must be
admitted that all women are demoral-
lied. Such argument is mere words
devoid of sense and reason. If
BEEcHER and Mrs. Triton are guilty,
which is not yet proven, the fact will
not demoralize good men and women.
Those who wished to be demoralized
may poipt to the affair as an example,
but such people were looking for
precedent and they would have found
it somewhere.
Year: 1874

The Financial Bill In the House.


,Aspeclal dispatch from Washington in
yesterdays Cincinnati Gazette says that the
belief Of those who have been active in
perfecting tho currency bill Is that 1t can
bepassed in both the House and Senate
II tho 'rOte oil the retirement Of green.
backs Is left at40 per cent. II tho House
was left free to vote without fear OF defeat
inthe Senate the proposed amendment ol
88f per cent would donbtless show great
strength, but tho belief Is SO strong that
neither the Senate nor the President will
accept anything less than 40, that tho
proposition TO reduce the rate below this
will probably be rejected in tho House.


Notwithstanding this dispatch to the
Gazette we shall not be much surprised If
nothing Is done before Congress adjourps
inregard TO currency bill. The House
lately refused to suspend the rules and
take up the Senate bill, and ahould they
pass adifereut bill the Senate may not
accept it, or lit does the President may
veto 1t. Undoubtedly the country will
get on for another year without any
change in the banking laws, but what
shall be said Of the efficiency and respon.
Slbility Of q Congress which, after keeping
the business Of the country in a state Of
nervous uncertainty for more than six
months, throws up the game and goes
home without having devised any form or
measure oI reliet.
Year: 1874

AVePthB OPeu AtDIhIics w ouuuhy'


AS Is well known, the directors Of the
Wheeling Library Association undertook
some months ago the experiment Of open
Ing the Library on Sunday in order to &C
eommodate o supposed demand on the
part Of the young men Of the city, and
other persons, for innocent entertainment
on the only day when they had leisure to
enjoy themselves. At first there was q
iaIr attendance, although 1t was never
very encouraging, but 1t grew less by de-
grees and finally became so small that
the directon considered 1t their duty to
close the room altogether o9 tina. day.
What has been our experience here has
also been the experience Of tho New
York Mercantile Library which wa,
opened on Sunday with the design Of
Withdrawing young men from places Of
dissipation. Not more than one per cent
oiits members ayailcd themselves Of the
opportunity, and the few who did attend
were not Of the class who would have
been likely to visit resorts Of vice and fol.
lyl The directors acknowledge the fail
ure, but have not yet concluded TO close
on Sunday.
Year: 1874

The Lecture ofProf. Carr OH 'Wom-
ans Prerogative" delivered at the
Congregational Church for the benefit
of the Public Library was of rare ex-
,cellence and amply rewarded all who
attended. The speaker took the
ground of a higher standard of sduca-
ton for the women of our day and,
when this is acquired, they will be the
educators of the world, instructing not
only in the household, but throwing
their more refined influences over the
whole field of society. He also advo-
Gated the right of woman to do what
ever she was well adapted for and
could accomplish successfully in every
field of labor. The lecture was one OF
the most entertaining ever delivered
in Los Angeles, and was replete with
wholesome truths. 1t should be
printed in letters of gold and hung at
every fireside and in every school
room iu the land.
Year: 1874

EASTERN IGNoRANCE.-Mr. Swan writes


from his old home in Boston, to the


Port Townsend argus: It is surprising
to see the amount of ignorance and in-
difference. among people here about Pu-
get Sound. They really know more aud
can talk more intelligently about the
Fiji Islands than Washington Territory.
Itwould take the conceit out of some
of those Port Townsend boys. whose
knowledge of the world is limited to the
horizon they can see from the top of
hill; and some of those old settlers too,
who in their faulty think Port Towns
end is the spot to which the fabled lever
can be applied to move the world. could
those people get away from that charm-
led place and see how little outsiders
know or care about Port Townsend, or
Puget Sound, or Washington Territory
aud how less than nothing do outsiders
care about those oracles who stand on
the street corners and sit around the
grocery stores and talk so blatant and
oracularly about the Government at
Washington and the mighty influence it
will have on the nation S politics wheth-
er Selucius Garfelde or Obadiah Me-
-Fadden represents us in Congress.


The surprise which our friend Swan
felt at the profound ignorance of the
people of Boston regarding our section
of the common country is but natural,
considering the many years he has been
away from there; but it is astonishing
that a man who has had such opportu-
mites for enlarging his own information
should SO readily fall back into the hab-
it Of his early education as to judge
everything on the outside from Boston
stand point; to conclude that the people
of Puget Sound ought to be greatly hu-
inflated at their own Ignorance and IN,
significance because the people OF hos-
ton do not KNOW arvtLinc about ;keai.
Year: 1874

RICHMOND PHILHARMONIC AsSoCIlT!0S-
The gentlemcn of this Association propose
celebrating the seventeenth anniversary OF
the Association on the 4th Of July next, and
the necessary arrangements will be made ut
their meeting To- night at Philharmonic Hall
te consummate the plan. There is no more
popular association in the country than the
Philharmonic Association Of Richmond. al.d
certainly their efforts should be crowned
with success.
Year: 1874

TINE AND MONEY CAN DE SAVED By GOING TO
LEVY BROTHERS. and making your purchases.
Their stock is large, their assortment unexceed,
and as to their prices, they will be found TO be
lower I'm nine times out of tenl than the same
quality OF goods can be purchased for elsewhere.
moderate profit on all goods is LEVY BROTHERS
motto,
Year: 1874

WEATHER PRoBABILITIES.-A pleasant change
In the weather. making quite agreeable for The ID
dies to go out and do their shopping Of course
they will not fail to call on LEVY BROTHERS. who
are now Offering extraordinary inducements 10
purchasers OF goods in their line.
Year: 1874

the Indian and the hunter, it is clear
that the Indian would have preferred
half a turkey with half crow to the
whole crow which he got. But as the
hunter appropriated the turkey, there
was nothing left for the Indian but the
crow. The Southern white people
have to live in one country with the
negroes, the honestly rewarded labor
Of the negroes is as essential to their
prosperity as TO the we'll being of the
negroes. But it is essential both to
the white and to the negroes that the
profits of the capital and labor of the
whole community should not be left at
the mercy of mob OF Legislative
biockheads, controlled by a gang of
legislative Togues. And as these block
heads and these rogues are in power
by the force of the ''blach mans par
ty." how are they to be put out of
power except by a ''white mans par
ty 2 1t is not a question of races. It
Is q simple sum III arithmetic. Poll
tics at the South is not q game OF
domlnocs, where all the pic cs are
white. It Is Il game of checkers, where
half the pieces are black. The Radi-
cal thieves have mono polized the black
pieces. What can tho Conservative,
honest mon do but play the white ?''
Year: 1874

Somc Of the negro Representative
in che South Carolina Legisture mani
fest singular consciousness ABOUT the
sale of votes. Thus We are told q
negro preacher, member Of that
body, who would never take more
than $40 for his vote. It was perfectly
right, he thought, to sell his vote, but
it wes wrong to ask too high price
for it. The morality of his procedure
he summed up by saying: Dis ting
of gettin' 500 for vote is all wrong;
80 am rs much as it am Wuff."
Year: 1874

Iu the discussion at King and Queen Court
House, between Major Douglas AID Mr..
Seuer, the following bit Of spice was inter
mixed:


Major Douglas said Sener had made an
assertion during previous discussion which
he must now retract viz: That Montague and
Critcher had been bought over to his sup
port.


Sener-"I retract nothing


Douglas-Then. sir, pronounce you base
calminator and slanderer.


Some confusion occurred at this stage, but
Major Douglas continued: showed how Sener
had voted tor the salary grab but Congress was
obliged to repeal the law. Among the seventy
six nayes cast against repeal was Sener's. AT
the close of his speech Maj. Doug lass was again
loudly applauded


1t was evident that Douglas had etfectually
torn the double mask from the face of his
competitor and that he was smartlng under
the effects of the castigation he had received.
After the Major had retired to LIS room at the
hotel, Sener sought and obtained conference
with him for the purpose of settling the dispute
that had arisen in regard to his assertion that
Montague and Critcher had been bought over.
1t was agreed that they should return to the
Court House and that Sener should retract
the offensive statement, when Maj Douglas
would withdraw his remark. Again the court
room was filled. Sener's ''retracton' consisted
in saying that he had been Informed that
those gentlemen had been whipped over to
Douglas support-of course he knew nothing
about it personally" He took his seat, remark
ing that Maj. Douglas will now make his state
ment."


Major D.--You said you wanted to come back
to retract the statement, which you have not
done Until you do that have no statement to
make"


Scner again arose and made, it was evident,
an unwilling retracton.


Maj. D.-"Theu recall my remark for the
present, but with the certainty of doom if ever
you repeat the offense, | will repeat my remark
and more besides, The man who repeats a
slander becomes the slanderer, aud l assert
that the man who says that Robert L. Monta-
que or John Critcher has been bought over or
whipped into my support, is an infamous
liar and scoundrel - Vest Point Star.
Year: 1874

In q small society like that OF Edin'
burgh there was q good deal of scandal
and gossip; every ones character and
conduct were freely criticised, and by
none more than by my aunt and her
friends. She used to sit at q window
embroidering, where she not only could
see every one that passed, but With o
small telescope could look into the
dressing.room of o lady. A spinster
lady of good family, cousin OF ours.
carried her gossip so far, that she was
tried for defamation, and condemned 70
a months imprisonment, which she
actually underWentsin in the Tolbooth.
She was let out just before the kings
birthday, TO celebrate which, besides
the guns fred at the Castle, the boys
let off squibs and crackers in all the
streets. As the lady in question was
walking up the High street, some LADS
in a wynd, or narrow street, fired Q
small cannon, and one OF the slugs
with which it was loaded hit her mouth
and wounded her tongue. This raised
a universal laugh; and No one enjoyed
1t more than my uncle William, who dis
liked this somewhat masculine woman.
Mrs Somerville's Autobiography.
Year: 1874

The utilization Of rats as an article OF
human food having been suggested by
a writer, there promises to be an inter-
esting discussion Of the qualities Of the
too familiar rodent as an article Of diet.
An old United States naval officer gives
his experience in China. He first tasted
rat at Canton, and found it decided
relish, and one OF his brother officers
who tested it at the same time with him
became 30 enthusiastic over his first rat
meal that ever after, when ashore, he
invariably had his rat stew, with curry
sauce. Apropos Of this subject, we
may say here that Canton and New
York are not the only places where sa-
worry rats can be found. In the West
Indies, in the old slavery time, that
variety of the rodentia known as the
cane.piece rat so called from its
feeding principally upon the sugar cane
was very generally eaten by the Afri-
cans, who brought the taste for it with
them from their native land; and an
aged planter who had once been induced
to share in rat broil assured the writer
of these lines that it was as nice NOR.
sci as he had ever tasted, the flesh
being remarkably tender, with the
piquant flavor OF game. Unlike our
naval friend, however, he never asked
for "more." Perhaps he was not such
an epicure. .-Erchange.
Year: 1874

What the proposed final disposion of
the bodies of the Siamese Twins is to
be, says correspondent, am not in
formed, but report here says that they
are to be embalmed and disposed of at
an enormous price to some museum or
medical college, or placed on exhibi-
ton at sum equivalent to the value
set upon them by the Mount Airy man
ayers, who, OF course, will realize a
handsome percentage out Of the trans
action. Ali of this, however, is to be
subject to the decision of the members
of the families, who have been notified
OF the death of their parents, and are
expected home at an early. day.


No effort whatever was made TO per-
form an operation on the ligament with
regard to ascertainiug whether there was
an artery passing through it or not. as
that would have materially interfered
with prospective greenbacks, and pres
ent speculations would have been nip
ped in the bud. Embalmed and pre-
served as they are, the bodies OF the
twins will have market value from
which money can always be realized by
those having possession of them. The
lieament cut in the interest OF science,
the curiosity would be destroyed, and
consequently the separate dead bodies
would be OF no value.
Year: 1874

A clever writer says: Providence
meant woman to make the world beau
tiful as much as flowers and butterflies,
and there is no sin in tasteful dress, but
only in devoting to it too much money
or too much time" This is most
sensible view, and is the true medium
between the one extreme of straight
and rigid simplicity and the devotion
of the best energies of a lifetime to
vanity and frivolity. But, after all,
what is this rage TO, dress but an effort
after the beautiful? The reason why
the beautiful is not always the result, is
because so many women are ignorant
or merely initiative. They have no
sense of fitness. The short wears what
belongs to the tail, and brunettes sac
rifice theft natural beauty to look like
blondes, and well they may, for blondes
seem generally preferable,
Year: 1874

In almost the last letter written by
Lieutenant Colonel Pemberton from
seat of war before his untimely death,
there was passage describing one of
the most pathetic OF all incidents of the
Franco-German war, though the pathos
OF it relates, not to the human belliger-
ents, but to their only active ally in the
animal world, the horse. A Prussian
huzzar, who had got on his horse to
carry water to the wounded and dying
comrades, was killed, with the poor
soldiers he was relieving, by shell, in
the very act of pouring the water down
the throat of one of them and just
then his regiment moved off, his empty
horse following in the ranks where
upon Lieutenant Colonel Pemberton
remarked: "Only those who have seen
battlefield can form notion of the
extraordinary way in which the horses,
as long as they have leg to crawl on,
will follow the regiment to which they
belong. I saw what evidently had been
sergeant's horses keeping their position
in rear of their squadron, wheeling with
it, and halting exactly as if their riders
were on their backs, and all the time
streaming with blood. Poor creatures |!
they are indeed to be pitied for they
have neither Vaterland, promotion, nor
the coveted medal to think of, whatever
may be the issue and few indeed are
there. who have not some honorable
scars to show" Again, The German
Post relates "that after the slaughter
at Vionville, on the 18th of August, a
strange and touching spectacle was pre-
sented. On the evening call being
sounded for the First Regiment Of
Dragons of the Guard, 602 riderless
horses answered to the summons, jaded
and in many cases manned. The noble
animals still retained their disciplined
habits"
Year: 1874

place for everything, and everything in its
place; use for everything, and used only for
that special purpose. Let US take, for exam
pie, the omelet pan; the English cook does
not scruple to employ this white, delecate,
enameled pan to fry the bacon for breakfast, and
is astonshed that her omelets fail, and that her
mistress complains she s getting careless it
is not that she is getting careless, but that she
has never been anything else, and neither she
nor her mistress cOmprehends or understands
that true economy is practiced by carefully
using each article of the batterie de cuisine for
the purpose alone for which it is Designed
The cook will probably reject the chemical rea
son that the sulphur given forth by eggs, and
to q certain extent absorbed by the enamel at
the time of making the last omelet, materially
assists the omelet of to-day, and this in spite
OF the must cUuuprctc cfeHufruesS Uu tho parU Ur
the cook. Sauces should be prepared in a pan
kept for that pIrpose, and the ehameled sauce
pan used for melted butter should never on any
account be used for anything else.


Most cooks know that if eggs are boiled in
saucepan previously used for onions, they
will come to table bright orange color; this
will prove how necessary it is to use each culi-
nary utensil for its destined purpose, and un-
less perfect order is preserved in the kitchen
and in the mind of maid and mistress, this is
not possible. The economist may demur to
this statement, but if each article be used for
it's own purpose only, and taken care of when
in and out of use it will last lifetime, instead
of being replaced every four or five years.
The housekeeping money in some families is
not allowaneed, but the bills are settled by
check once month. Experience shows that
this is a very bad plan, and housekeeping thus
managed costs considerably more than it does
by system of cash payments. The wife should
ask for an allowance in proportion to the style
of table expected; as the steward of her hus-
bands property, she must allow no waste and
suffer no extravaganza she must be guided by
her husbands wishes as to her expenditure,
and keep we'll within the sum allowed weekly
this will permit of her meeting the losses and
accidents which happen to the most careful
and economical manager.
Year: 1874

4
A crss5 and turtle'iived .slder myrtle,
just in the pond at the foot of the hill.
Inc crab was the hack-sharp, snappy and black;
The turtle was master-fat pokey and still.
The turtle gave orders from off the ponds boarders;
The crab did the marketing all by himself,
And worms fat as butter all full of splutter
he brought for his master to lay on the shelf
They lived there together through all fine weather
And then came autumn with whirlwind aud gale;
The pond grew an ocean, and in the commotion


The turtle imagined his victuas were stale.
GIVE pains in my liver" said he, with shiver;
THE worms are like shaVngs, the snais have no
I'm meagre and hollow was an Apollo;


60 quickly and get me some fowl can eat'
They argued together. The crab said the weather
Was much too severe for his delicate frame;
1.-The wind ~ said his MASTER will blow you the faser'
Then kicked the crab out with scruples shame
Ten sprawls he is landed well watered and sanded:
One groan and he starts for the inn just ahead;
He's nobody's chicken, to mind for kicking;


He'll have his revenge on the turtle instead
"a splendid old turtle lives urder the myrtle"


He cries to the landlord who came to the door;
Go get him for dinner before he grows thinner,
Goquick will show you the way to the shore"
The crab went the aster and reached his old master
In time to inform him of what he had DONE
70, whippity whoop, sir, you'll make fine soup sir;
I'll watch while they fix you. o, that will be fun ~
The landlord looked gently but very intently,
All over the crab who had acted as guide;
Then said "you are tender and dainty and slender,
You'll do for my supper, well buttered and fried"
u , ess.s sled in terrar receiving his error;
The iasyiord walked off with both master and man.
They boiled the fat turtle from under the myrtle,
And fried the false crab in hot buttered pan.


R, W. ESterbrooks,