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Year: 1874

Across the dewy green she slept.
In the sweet freshness of the morn.
While yet the tears that night had wept
9listened on grass and hedge-row thorn,
No fairy maiden she. whose tread
The yielding clover did not stir;
Nor tiny foweret raised its head,
When by she passed, to look on her.
The bloom of Spring was on her cheek,
The light of morning in her eye;
Her lips half parted, as to speak.
And wreathed with maiden witchery,
With quick, elastic. dancing feet
She slept along the dewy grass;
'Twould wake the dullest pulse to meet
This pretty. blithesome farmers lass.
And many a rustic lad she met.


And greeted with pleasant smile,
Though well she knew. the arch coquette,
Who waited for her at the stile-
Who waite ! for her at the stile,


Down in the green. secluded dell;
And yet to each she gave smile,
AS she slept lightly toward the well.
Her rustic lovers, as she passed,


Stayed their own steps to look at her;
And at each sidelong glance she cast,
Felt their young pulse beat quicklier;
Twas pleasant fooling, each one knew,
, For each one knew land sighed y full well
Who waited at the rendezvous


Down near the well-side in the dell,


-Hdrper's Weekly.
Year: 1874

NOW the Czar met his DhuShters
London Letter describing the Cars landing


at Dover.


As she (the Russian yacht approached
near enough to distinguish persons upon
her deck, figure standing alone on the
starboard paddle.box attracted all eyes.
1t was the Czar. He wore a gray coat
with sleeves hanging loose, and he was
looking through his glass at the landing
place, endeavoring no doubt to catch
the first glance of his daughter. She
was waiting for him at the very edge of
the pier, and as he saw her he kissed his
hand to her again and again. The work
Of getting the vessel alongside of the
pier was one of difficulty, aud both
father and daughter grew impatient.
Finally, the Grand Duchess and the
Prince of Wales left the landing place
and ran up the stone steps to the top Of
the wall which was just level with the
paddle-box on which the Car was stand
ing. The ship at this moment grazed
the side of the pier, and the Duchess,
with what was really daring impetuosity,
jumped upon the paddle-oox, and the
next instant was in her fathers arms.
He held her closely to his heart; he
kissed her again and again, aud she re-
turned his caresses with equal warmth.
Year: 1874

An impressive warning against at
tempting to do unusual feats without
gradual practice is pointed by the press
of Lafayette, Indiana, from the case of
a citizen who was drowned in the canal
while trying to wash himself.
Year: 1874

A Milwaukee boy has swallowed half a
dozen steel buttons, and his mother
doesn't have to scream for him when he
is out on the street playing with those
Cluckerson boys She brings magnet
to the door, and he flies to it like a
needle to the pole.
Year: 1874

about him and overaowed all who came
in contact with him. They affected his
style of writing, and despite the saga
cious Taine, they gave his descriptions


much of their singular vitality and
Year: 1874

II is o favorite argument with those
individuals who are straining every
nerve to defeat Mr.. BEAuDRY, that
his public spirit and liberality only
presents itself when an enhancement
in the value of his ownproperty is La
Bile to follow. We have taken some
little trouble to Investigate the truth
of this charge and find that it cannot
be sustained. We will cite few of
the many instances where Mr.. BEAU
DRY has given property and expended
money for the public good: In 1865 he
purchased the Ballestras tract--a
vineyard-through which he opened
Center, Howard and Ramirez streets.
These streets are fifty feet in width.
On them he built six bridges, which
together with the land occupied by the
streets he gave to the city. He pur-
chased attract of land lying Northwest
of Sixth street and through this land
he opened streets some sixty and some
eighty feet wide. The land for these
streets did not cost the city dollar.
We shall not particularize but if so
disposed we could show where he has
expended thousands of dollars in
grading streets by which the city was
greatly benefited, and for which he
has never asked the Taxpayers to re-
imburse him to the amount of a single
dollar. His method of selling lots on
the monthly payment plan has ena-
bled hundreds of families to secure
homes who could never have pur-
chased lots on the cash down princi-
pie practiced by the parties who are
now going beyond the confines of truth
for arguments to defeat his election.
1t is fact we'll known to every we'll
informed citizen that Mr. BEAUDRY
has always been and is now u liberal
minded and enterprising citizen and
no unprejudiced voter will deny but
that the city's progress and develop
ment would have been greater had she
possessed few more such men.
Year: 1874

If the will of the Democracy of CAL
ifornia is embodied in the expression
Of their papers, Senator P. A. ROACH
of San Francisco, chief editor of the
Examiner, is the favorite candidate
of that party to succeed NEWTON
BooTH. Those of our Democratic ex-
changes that have yet expressed their
preference for the Gubernatorial can
didate have done SO in favor of the
gentleman named. Mr.. ROACH is
popular with the masse for the reason
that he is known to be thorough
honest man and because during his
long public and journalistic career he
has always been on the side of the
people. If the State is to have DEM
ocratic Governor it will be difficult to
find man who will be more general
ly acceptable to the rank and file of
all parties than Senator ROACH.
Year: 1874

The ludicrOuS spectacle of 4 man
looking for himself and suffering the
keenest chagrin at failing to find him
self, was exhibited on he;Union Pa
cific Railroad not long ago. An East
arn-bound emigrant train stopped at
Rock Creek station for breakfast. One
emigrant strayed away, and the first
section of the train started without
him. He reached the second on time
and managed to get away. His friends
in the first section missed him and
were seized with dread that he had
been. killed. The conductor tele-
graphed to the second section to look
for him and bring him or his body to
Laramie. The passengers turned out
readily to aid in the seach. Foremost
among them and displaying terrible
anxiety, was the man for whom they
were looking. He hunted for the miss
ing emlgrant with zeal which could
only be accounted for by the fact
unknown to him-that he was look
ing for himself. During the whole
day and following night the search
was continued, the unconscious cause
of it suffering deeply to think that he
had been lost. When he reached Lar
annie the idea never occurred TO his
friends that the railroad employees
might still be looking for the missing
emigrant, when one bright individual
startled the crowd with the remark
that our hero had been looking for
himself and had failed to find himself.
--ChicQQ0 Tribune. 1.u A
Year: 1874

THE Democratic majority in the
House of Representative is now con-
ceded to be 70. What will they do
with it? They may use this majority
as the stepping stone to national su-
premacy, or they may make of it the
milestone that shall sink the Demo-
cratic party until it is drowned in the
muddy waters of corruption wherein
now lies the corpse of the Republican
party. The present majority it is true
will give the Democracy but mega
tive strength, the Senate and Presi-
dent being against it, but it is a
strength which, while it cannot force
the enactment of just measures, can
yet prevent the passage of bad ones.
1t may check and defeat such swind-
ling schemes as the Credit Mobiler
and it can Investigate those of like ilk
that have had the sanction and encour-
agement of Congress heretofore. What
the Democrats will do with their ma
jority is what the people are eager and
anxious to know.
Year: 1874

The HERALD Office is lighted with
gas manufactured by the Union gas
machine. The gas is of first rate
quality, giving forth a pure, white
light, much superior to. the ordinary
coal or brea manufactured article,
which costs in San Francisco $4 and
in this city 81 so per thousand feet.
The gas made by the Union machine
costs less than 50 per thousand. Since
the lighting of the HERALD office,
one week ago, several of these ma
chimes have been ordered for private
residences in this city and some ten
or fifteen Others will be ordered as
soon as the parties become satisfied of
the great superiority of the Union.
These machines are automatic and are
by far the most complete, cheapest
and most convenient apparatus for
furnishing light that science has yet
offered this benighted world. A large
number of private residences in San
Francisco, Oakland and Alameda are
lighted by the Union gas machine,
and up to this time no complaint has
been made or accident occurred.
They are the best and most economic
means for obtaining good light avail
able to the masses. But our purpose
in writing this article is to make a
suggestion to the people of Los Ange-
les. Our street-lanps are not lighted
and it seems that at the ruling rates
for coal gas, the municipal exchequer
Year: 1874

will not permit the lighting of many
of them. lnthis emergency and as .
matter of economy, would it not be q
good plan to light the streets with
Union gas machine? A two-hundred-
light machine will cost in San Fran
cisco about 81, 200. This machine will
light two hundred lamps-more than
are at present required--through two
inch main. The main would not cost
many thousand dollars. The machine
once up, the main laid and connections
made, the city would be handsomely
lighted with gas costing less than So
per thousand feet, Ne-UYWre
Year: 1874

THE Express says We are something
in-law to the Water Company. We
might retort by saying that the self
boasted Republican organ is some
thing by right of purchase to the DEM
ocrats who secured its support for their
candidate last year, but knowing our
little contemporary to be morbidly sem
sitive on that point we will not allude
to it,
Year: 1874

Owing to the soft nature of the
ground at the 750-foot level in the Bal
timore Consolidated mine, the timbers
have been crushed to atoms within
five feet of the face of the drift, and
will cause n delay of several days.
Year: 1874

The following, which we copy from the
America, MANUFACTURER aud Iron World,
published at Pittsburgh, will be read with
interest by many Of our citizens:


There is an impression very prevalent
that gas cannot be used as light economic
ally in small towns, that the first cost Of
the works, coupled with the cost Of making
gas to supply small demand as would
arise III these towns, would be so great as
to most etfectually debar its use by reason
Of the price per thousand that would have
to be charged to cover these items in cost


of the great superiority Of coal gas over
any other Illuminating material there can
be no question. In point Of cleanliness
compare it with candles, whale oil or pc
troleum, and the comparison would be
perfectly absurd Those who have been
disgusted with the odor Of either Of these.
also will not question the advantage Of
coal gas In this respect. Its convenience
is also in its favor, always ready for use,
no daily trimming with its attendant disa-
greeableness, no delay in lighting, but al
ways prompt to respond to the demand for
light. Its brllliancy, steadiness and many
other features, give it the preference over
all other Illuminating substances, and not
the least OF its advantages, especially when
compared with petroleum, is its safety. 1t
is frlghtful to read in almost every issue of
our daily press of the terrible deaths re-
sulting from the use of carbon oils, to say
nothing of the millions of dollars lost ev-
cry year by fires originating in their use.
1t is not to the purpose to say these acci-
dents would not happen we're people care
full in the handling Of these dangerous oils.
The fact exists that people are not careful
and hence the loss to life and property In
a word, in almost any view we choose to
take, coal gas is superior to any other illu-
mlnating material


This being 80, the only question az to its
use IN small towns is one Of cost 1t has
always appeared to us that this item has
been very much over estimated. To satisfy
ourselves on this point we obtained from
Messrs. Connolly, Naylor q Co., Of this
city, who are especially and extensively
engaged in erecting coal gas works in small
towns Of from 1000 to 5000 inhabitants,
an estimate Of the cost Of such works
These gentleman are fully COMPETENT to give
such facts as will decide this question of
cost.


Messrs. c., N. & Co. inform us that a
town of 5000 inhabitants would require
works with from two to two and half
miles Of main pipe, and capacity Of 16,
600 cubic feet per day. The actual con
sumption would not reach more than half
this amount, 50 there would be abundant
margin in capacity for a large increase in
population.


The cost of such works, including build
ings, machinery, gasometer, mAins and
laying of the same, would vary somewhat
with the nature of the ground, being less
in sandy soil and more in rocky. The
price would range from $2l 600 to &29, 600.
As Mesars. Connolly, Naylor q Co., have
! erected large number of works i'm towns
Year: 1874

when, except in England, political con-


victiOn shook all the leading states Of Eu-


rope. But since then, and notably in the


last two years, they have made rapid pro
gresa, until ut Last q definite scheme for
q revision of the Constitution was submit
ted TO the people, and ON Sunday, the 10Th
OF April, they were called upon TO give
their Judgment through the ballot box.
The result was conclusive beyond expecta-
tion. According to the latest returns which
have reached us from Berne, and which are
very nearly complete, the proposal was in
dorsed by 321, $40 votes, against only IT.
800 cast for the old confederation. The
work was accomplished without any un-
seemly disturbance, with no more than
healthy degree Of excitement, sufficient TO
mark the interest felt by the people, and
By no greater demonstration than the dis
play of few flags in two or three OF the
principal towns.-NelC York Times.
Year: 1874

A few weeks passed quietly by, and
young Thurston was fast regaining the
strength and vigor which he possessed pre-
vious to his illness. Meanwhile three per
sons were on the watch, only deferring
action most disastrous to the Markhams
until some suspicious occasion.


Bernard Burdois--this man, forgetting
in the excitement of his new passion his
former plans, fully realizing that one in
advertant word from ClariDel might lead
her father to detect ut once that decep-
ton had been practiced upon him, arose
one morning with deep-seated conviction
that force alone would be adequate to gain
the end he sought. To put this plan in
execution involved so many other consid-
erations that he pondered deeply and
calmly over the most judicious and certain
line Of action. To openly svow himself as
a suitor for Miss Markham would only
bring upon him the vengeance of the
Countess, as would it also forever separate
him from Mr.. Markham. Burdois was
willing to renounce the name and fortune
in prospect, but he knew that In one way
only could he gain Claribel-by deep plot
ting and by compulsion. To convey Clarl-
bel Markham to one of the many secret
hsunts he knew to restain her liberty
and TO force upon her . union, would be a
comparative easy affair. Arising and don
ming his clothes, he turned his footsteps
toward portion Of the city infested by the
lower class Of society, bent on some errand
of Importance, else the fastidious vOtary OF
fashion would not have sOiled his clothes
by plebian contact.


Colonel Richard Delevan-this man
seemed to have undergone . peculiar and
thorough change since the advent of the
Markhams From the careless gambler
and indifferent beau to antiquated ladies,
he suddenly merged into . stern, medi-
tating being, ever at bay, defiant, morose
and secretive. Of every action of the
Markhams he kept himself well posted
The mention of the name would bring 9
wild, uncertain quiver of the eyes, and the
Year: 1874

The following interesting account Of the
funeral Of DIR. Livingstone is from Rey-
notis' Newspaper, Of April % Yesterday
morning Livingstone was buried in the
Abbey, round which large crowds had
gathered The choir had line of black
cloth down it, which was met by another
from the door of the western cloisters,
where the body was received, and in the
center Of the nave was a black cloth, Of the
shape Of coffin, and Just rlmmed round
with broad band of wnite. Without such
precaution one might have Inadvertently
shipped into it in the early gloom of the
morning, but as the day wore on during
service the sun came out in flood Of light,
which, pouring through the stained win
dows, tinted the columns and ancient
monuments with all the hues Of the rain
bow.


THE GRAVE.


Like all the graves in Westminster Alb
hey it is not deep one, for there are no
vaults under the Abbey, and the soil is 50
sandy that it is scarcely safe to 90 far down.
AS it was, both sides Of the grave had to
be shored to prevent the sand from slip
ping. These supports, however, were
hidden by black cloth, which gave, as usual,
a most forbldding aspect to the large aper
ture, and one Of most unusual depth. The
central position of the grave made the
whole ceremony far more conspicuous than
was the case with the funerals of Lord
Lytton or Lord Macaulay That of Dickens
was absolutely private. 1t was nearly IL
O'Clock before those who had tickets began
to take their seats. Without a single eX-
ception, all were more OF less in mourning
that is to say, some in deep mourning,
others only III ordinary black. The choir
soon filed, and those beyond it made up a
throng in the nave and alsles But all was
silent as the grave itself, not even the
usual mild whisper Of waiting congrega-
ton went round. Earlier than all came a
group of seven ladies', some very young,
and all clad in the deepest mourning. They
took their places in the seats allotted to
mourners in the southern side of the choir,
Just in front Of the two black velvet tres
sells on which the coffin was to be placed
Each lady had with her large chaplet of
myrtles and violets or camelias and cypress,
which were ranged IN front of them, and,
in spite Of their b auty, were, with their
associations, a melancholy looking row.
| THE PROCESSION.


The procession left the Royal Geograph-
ical Societys premises in Saville Row
Year: 1874

Certainly Jerry had not improved in APP
pearence that was quite true. His swar-
thy face and small, gltterlng eyes, black
and restless, constantly suggested that Oh
noxious foreign origin which the neigh
bors never could get over. But Jerry, shy
as some wild creature, troubled the neigh
bors but little; only once in while they
caught glimpses Of him setting out shore
ward with his fishing line, or late of an
evening strolling along the sands with Deb,
who never wore the old sun-bonnet now,
having replaced 1t with a broad-brim mmed
gypsy, always gay with knot of crimson
flowers. ''She could afford 1t now" she
said, "since Jerry had come home"


Aud never could any one bring Deb to
see any thing amiss with her boy. To all
cavilers she pointed with pride to her trim
garden, rescued from sand and weeds,
where occasionally Of a twilight afternoon
you might catch a glimpse of the ragged
straw hat and turned up trowsers in which
the long-waited for prince did duty in the
potato patch or weeded the cucumber bed.


"There never was such boy for work :"
says bis mother, watching him dreamily
from the porch and il he had come home
a millionaire or a merchant prince, you
could see no difference in the light of the
mother-eyes beaming upon him.
Year: 1874

SECRETARY STANToN's DEATH-A
STRANGE STORY OF SUIcIDE.-What Jerry
Black has darkly hinted is now boldly
stated in some Of the papers, that Secretary
Stanton FASTENED his death, during the
last days of his despondng illness, by
partially successful attempt TO cut his own
throat. II was one Of bis customs, runs
the now extraordinary revelation. TO be
shaved at home, and the duty was per-
formed by colored barber who came reg
ularly for the purpose. In Mr.. Stantons
private apartment stood an improvised
shaving chair, and to this the trusty valet
would go at the appointed time to perform
his duty. Mr.. Stanton had been apparent
ly failing gradually in health for a week,
and had become so respondent as to al
most excite fears of an alteration of the
mind. On the evening of the 23d of De-
cember, the colored valet called to shave
Stanton. They were left alone in the pri-
vate apartment, and Stanton took his seat
In the chair. The barber had partially
finished his task, and, laying down the ra-
zor on a III tie table beside Stanton, step
ped across the room for some water. A
movement startled him, and he turned
just in time to see the glstening steel flash
by the barred throat, leaving a streak in its
wake. Rushing 10 the side of Stanton, the
barber caught the razor before another
stroke could be made. He called for help,
and in few moments there were at the
bedside the surgeon-general, a few trusty
attaches of the government, and one or
two members OF the family. The work
had been done, however and the life cur
rent reached. AT 8 o'clock, next morning
stanton was dead. How well the secret OF
his death has been kept, those who read
this may know.
Year: 1874

little keepers Of asylums for the blind.
What is the restraining inhuencef


Similar conduct on the part OF tribe
of men would be unhesitating attributed
to rude sort of religious feeling; and Sir
John Lubbock wonders whether some
thing of the kind may not actuate these
ants, whether they do not regard their
helpless though relatively gigantic wards
with feeling akin to reverence. Is it pos
sibe that they have arrived at stage OF
development parallel with that of the bee
tle-worshipping Egyptlans1


In our pride of bulk, we despse the ants
for their lttleness. But suppose they we're
as big as horses, proportionately strong for
their size, as thoroughly organized and az
Intelligent as they now are, where would
we be 2-Scientlfc American.
Year: 1874

In regard to the tea matter we think the printer was in fault or your cores pondent must have imbibed pretty freely of Gllberts celebrated "rose favored tea which he says will lift person right up, , so that the sales reached tho enormous figures of one hundred chests per month instead of per year. Probably no one was more astonished at the extravagant statement than the old tea merchant. He certainly keep good article and sells large quantities, as we'll as our other mer- chant, large share of which goes out of town of course, as we'are few people, and very temperate in most things.

 -Ayoung minister who is supplying the pulpit of the Congregational church at Cornwall Plains, exchanged with our past or last Sabbath and preached in highly acceptable manner, in fact produced quite a sensation, and were we candidating he would doubtless receive q pressing in vitation to come again. We have the copy and the printer followed it. Our contributor (who is not our regular War ren correspondent put the amount of tea sold by Mir. Gilbert at 100 chests per month; though the pile certainly did look mountainous" we know very we'll what an unaccountable man B. G. is, and conclud- ed to let the statement ''slide" ED. ENo. l