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Year: 1874

petition.


After long delay the English government
has finally announced its purpose to send out
new North Polar expedition. The state
ment is put forth that it will equip two
steamers, one Of which will be commanded
by Commander Markham, Of the Royal Navy,
an officer Of some experience in Arctic naviga-
ton and Of great ambition and promise.


The announcement will kindle great en-
thusiasm in the ranks Of modern gsographeys
and be one Of Mr. Disraeli's popular measures
for the Advancement Of science by govern
ment aid. The distinctive feature In this new
Polar enterprise will be the strictly naval out
fitting and management, with the most rigid
discipline, which Is not attainable in private
expedition Of the required magnitude. The
route of exploration, ii we may judge by the
oft-spoken will OF the various societies and
individuals at whose earnest solicitation the
expedition was determined upon, will be the
American route by Smiths Sound, following
the track of the Polaris. Doubtless oil the
elements of success will be embodied in the
new project and nothing left undone to arm



This expedition will make the first full and
fair experiment of steam navigation in the
icy seas, If indeed, as we presume, the
steamers are suitably prepared tor their peril
Gus undertaking. In recent voyage in the
steam whaler Arctic Captain Markham had
opportunities OF testing the power of steam to
force way through formidable pack ice in
Davis Straits, in which sailing vessel
would have been perfectly helpless. Should
the new expedition be able to steam as high
north as Captain Hall did in the Polaris they
will be within about four hundred miles of the
can send out their Polar search parties, with
hopes Of passing beyond eighty-iour degrees
north. The physical indications in the high
ATTITUDES, in and north OF Smiths Strait, favor
very strongly the idea that the throbbings Of
the Polar Ocean loosen the ice belt, and that
flow OF water, which has perhaps come
through Behring Strait, makes its way south
ward through Kennedy Channel. The tidal
phenomena reported by HIS party Ito the
effect that the tides rose in the northern part
OF this channel and progressed southward) as
well as the driitwood picked up, render highly
probable the existence of loose ice, if not open
water, north OF Grinnell Land and even Pres
ident's Land, the extreme northerly point
sighted by Captain Hail. 1t seems physical
impossibility that o tidal wave, however small,
could be propagated southwark through the
crcumpolar sea, unless its ice was in broken
condition. And ii that sea is not solidly ice
bridged there is strong ground for hope that
two iull powered steamers. under skilful man-
Year: 1874

PORTLAND AND BosToS are both rejoicing,
the former because the missing link Of an air.
line route has been supplied and the latter
over the prospect Of new road to the West
Each Of them expects, in consequence, to be-
come the commercial metropolis This is all
very we'll as far as it goes, and New York has
no fears that it will 20 too far.
Year: 1874

HIGHWAY ROBBERY is becoming q very
common crime in this city. We report two
Eases this morning, both of which occurred in
respectable neighborhood below the Central
Park, With hard winter before us and
want staring many desperate men in the
face these crimes are ominous unless timely
measures OF repression are adopted. In Lon
don some years ago cases of this kind were
30 common that scourging was found neces-
sary as part of the punishment We hope
that no such extreme measures may be needed
here but the police must see to it that
criminals Of this kind are speedily arrested,
or ous streets win become unsafe during the
aight
Year: 1874

GERMANY SEEKING FooTHoLD IN Mo
Rocco.-Since the new German Empire super
seded that of France as the arbiter Of Europa
the government at Berlin has entered upon
the work of building powerful navy and has
been casting about for foothold at various
points here and there, in both hemispheres,
for colonial establishment or naval station.
The latest reported movement in this direc-
ton is in the treaty declared to be under con-
sideration, whereby the seaport of Morocco ID
10 be ceded to Germany. If such convention
is under way the underlying idea is doubtless
German base Of operations in Northern
Africa against Algeria in the event Of another
war with France
Year: 1874

for which support they are ready to
pay any price that may be
demanded Of them by the party in power.
Neither have confidence in the opposition,
the colored voters doubt the inclinstions
and the whites have no confidence in the
ability of those opposed to the Republi-
can party TO do themselves justice or pro-
tect them, and Is consequence the whole
South is at the feet of the administration.
Different Races should be Harmon


lied


Ii is now demanded not only that We
have just regard for the welfare of the
people South, but by consideration
of those things which deeply affect
the perpetuity of free insti-
tutious everywhere, the different
races in the late slave States should be
harmonized, and be taught to look for
themselves and to influence Ne just laws
and their impartial administration for
protection, and for the promotion Of thei
happiness. Ii iIko be hoped that op-
position by its csndor and justice will bs
able to win the confidence Of all classes
in the South and by that means remove
what seems To me to be one of the most
serious dangers that threaten the country.


Very truly yours, &c,


John NJ. PALMER.
Year: 1874

It !. hardly consistent from what /
suppose to b. the proper limits q this
communication that / should 20 farther,
but cannot fOrbear from saying that
nearly 10000 cOlOred voter. in the
south. and more than equal that number
of white voters in the same States. Are
Jealous and distrustful Of each other.
Each look. to the central government
for support against the other, and
Year: 1874

occupied by Mr.. August Renkof, and
the drowning of little Emma. aged three
years, and Mary Rcnkotf, aged one
year and the nurse girl of Miss Mailing


aged IA years. When the flood began


Mr.. RenkOtf was visiting
r brother on Spring Garden run. Mrs.
Reukoff went to her front door to ascer-
tain the extent of the food, and when
she opened it the water rushed in in
great volume and was soon several feet
deep. 4 number of articles of furniture
were jammcd up against the door leading
to the second story where the children
were, and she found she was unable to
get up the stair case. She then tried to
get to the rear Of the house, if possible to
save the sleeping ones by the upstairs
window. She tried III vain to rouse
them, and IL, she passed out of the front
door on the side facing the Allegheny
river. it fell out carrying her with II.
She was swept down the run about one
hundred yards and was canght on the
top of some of the debris of the glue
works. She clambcred over this dis
tance of fifty feet. and had to wade from
that point 10 the shore. distance of
about twenty yards, III water waste deep.
Year: 1874

which occurred in this vicinity WAS the
miraculous escape of the watchman of the
glue works. He thought the flood was Il
small affair, and started up stairs to get
beyond reach Of it just as there was about
foot of water in the lower story. II,
had scarcely reached the second story
when the stairs gave way, and he wa
compelled to jump down to the Goa
house. which stood in the vicinity of the
boilers. Out of this ne crawlcd through
an aperture while the water wa,
up to his chin; fortunately he secured t
plank and with that made for the shore
which he reached in safety.
Year: 1874

were responded to by several men who
happened to be- in the vicinity, and did
what they could to enable her to reach
the shore. She is in delicate health and
the courage she displayed WAS remarkable
During the time she was being swept
away. Mr.. A. V. Coolc, with his broth
cr Isaac went to the rear of the house by
means of Il private lane leading past it.
and by shouting at tn" top ofthcir voices
cndeav0red to awaken the children who
were imprisoned in the upper story Of
the dwelling. The roar of the torrent
drowned his voice, and he was unable to
make himself heard above the tcmpcctu-
ous element. He and his brother then
picked up clumps of earth and threw at
thc window. but lust then
Year: 1874

seHonesty is the best policy"
unless you can get about 500, 900,
and effect settlement at fifty per
cent.


Honor thy father and mother,
particularly about circus time, when
yoa don't know where to raise fifty
cents.


Never run in debt when you
can avoid it. It is better to 90
lstubbins around in a broadclotl
coat than to ybo in debt for a. suit
of Scotch mixed.


Love thy neighbor as thysef-
Borrow his plow, hoe or horses
whenever you can, but if he wants
to borrow yours tell him that you
are sorry, but you were just going
to use them yourself.
Be guarded in your conversation.
There are times when you may
freely express your opinion on a
political candidate, but you had
better wait until his friends are
over in the next county visiting.


Respect old age. If you have a
maiden aunt thirtytl1ree years old,
and she is passing herself off for a
girl Of twenty two, there is no
excuse for you to expose her. The
more you respect her age and keep
still about it, the more she will
| respect you.


Never marry for wealtL, but
remember that it is just as easy to
love girl who has brick house,
| with mansard roof and silver
plated door bell, as one who has an
auburn head and an amiable dispo-
sition.


Remember that appearances arc
often deceiving Many a pale,
| thin young lady will eat more corn
beef than a blacksmith. Because
you find her playing the piano iii
the parlor it is no sign that hel
mother is not at the corner
grocery running i'll debt for n peck
of potatoes.


Retain your temper, particularly
if policeman is in sight. Flights
of anger hasten death. If a mar
should call you horse thief, and
you siiopld get highly indignant, it
would cut your life short by sevefa,
days, and if it was in Texas, and
there was vigilance committee, it
might cut it short altogether.


Remember the poor. If you
know of family who are out OF
provisions and tuel, keep them in
Jour thoughts until you meet
Smith or Brown, and then tell
them they had better make dona-
ton. If they hold off, tell them
that ''He who giveth to the poor
lenGeth to the Lord.'' 1t is very
easy to remember the poor. |
can remember cases twenty years
ago.
Year: 1874

IT ia the opinion of the so.called po-
litical leaders in Congress that 1t will be
utterly impossible to procure a strict party
vote at the present session on any import.
ant measure. About the tariff, the cur
,rency, and transportation questions, there
is . confusing variety of opinions among
prominent men Of both or all parties.
Mems principles on these subjects are
very much I'M q line with their interests,
and it Is impossible to bring all the mem.
bers Of either Republican or Democratic
caucus to look at them from the same
standpoint, The result will probably be
that little will be done by legislation in
these matters at the present session.
Year: 1874

The House Committee on appropria-
tions today resumed the examination OF
the manner Of paying expenses for loans
and the sum paid. The design Of he
committee being TO ax such transaction
with exactness, and also to provide spe.
cidc appropriation instead Of leaving
money to be paid as heretofore under the
head Of permanent appropriations.
Year: 1874

Mr.. Maynard, from the Committee on
Banking and Currency, reported bill 10
amend several acts relating to the nation.
al currency and to establish free banking,
The bill was read.


After q discussion as to the disposition
to be made Of the bill, the House refused
to recommit 1t to the Committee on
Banking and Currency as desired by the
chairman Of that committee, and II was
sent TO the Committee OF the Whole, with
the understanding that it be called up for
discussion in two weeks. -
Year: 1874

The report of the Committee of Conference on
the Miscellaneous Appropriation bill having been
agreed to by both the House and Senate, makes
the following settlement of disputed points Inc
House agrees to the Senate amendment -adyane-
Year: 1874

The following record will show the changes in
the temperature for the past twenty four hours
in comparison with the corresponding day Of last
year, as indicated by the thermometer at Hudnut's
pharmacy, HERALD Building:-
Year: 1874

Details OF the damage to shipping by the typhoOn
at Hong Kong have been received In all five
vessels were sunk two stranded, seven are miss.
ing and twelve were wholly Or partially dismasted
Year: 1874

the rubber of the smoke tank a suita.
BILE thickness and strength, it will he
found to be very convenient when the
wearer desires to sit, as it will serve
as cushion, something which is


lften great convenience and com
fort. Due notice in regard to terms
per month, quarter and year will be
given in few days. Men are now
engaged in grading the lot on which
the works will be erected, and the
necessary machinery is on the way
from New York and will soon be on
the ground.-- Virginia City Territorial
Enterprise.
Year: 1874

1t is more than probable that if ma
ture had not made of Cajon Pass an
easy gateway through which we could
reach the country beyond the range
of mountains which enrich us on the
North and East, our people would
never have done complaining that we
had no passage way through the rug
ged barrier, and we should exclaim
with one voice that if we only had a
way hewn through the rocks, how
soon we should build railroad which
would secure US the trade of the rich
mining section Of Inyo county. But,
strange as it may seem, we by our
mastery inactivity are doing all that
man can do in the way Of closing up
the rift which nature has cleft through
the mountain chain. BY our tardi-
ness we are losing large trade which
naturally belongs to us. We have the
natural route for railroad, but we
lack the energy and enterprise to
build the road. We are closing the
pass and shutting ourselves out from
commercial Intercourse with the
ricnest and perhaps the most extern
siVe mineral belt on this continent. A
vast tfade which is legitimately ours
is rapidly being diverted to other and
Year: 1874

Custom and common consent usu-


ally aceords considerable growing lat


itude to- the leaders of defeated party


and as we feel just nowin very good


humor with ourselves and all the


world besides, we are willing that the


Express shall scratch its sore head and


vent its dissatisfaction for n whole


week; but while doing this we shall


insist that it keeps within the con-
fines of truth, or as nearly so as its


dazed eyes and soured disposition will


permit. We shall gently lead It back


to the path of rectitude,- from which


it has so widely strayed of late and in
the performance of this kindly task
we shall commence with an error and
self contradiction in its yesterdays
issue. In an attempt to explain why
one of its candidates for Mayor was
not elected, it charges that the cleo
ton was carried by money and that
votes were purchased at prices ranging
from 50 so to S. each. Further on In
the same article it says there was con-
siderable hanging back by those who
believed votes would command a
higher price later in the afternoon.
This contradiction of itself we pass to
explain why the vote was less than
anticipated. There was more gen.
eral expression of sentiment than is
usually seen at an election in
this city. The vote was on principle
by men whose votes could not be pur-
chased. The purchasable vote-those
voters who usually come to the polls
late in the day and vote in little
squads-did not vote on Monday.
There were several hundred Of this
class whose ballots did not reach the
box. Their failure to connect was
due to this fact: Early in the forenoon
the opponents of Mr.. BEAUDRY real
lied the hopelessness of their case and
despaired of defeating him. They saw
that the purchasable vote would not
help them out and wisely concluded
to throw away no more money on a
hopeless case. The peoples candi-
dates would not buy votes and the re-
suit was that the piece voters not
finding purchaser held off until eve
ming and the polls closed on them
with their votes still on the market.
We are assured by old residents that
the election on Monday was fairer
expression of the people than has
been witnessed in this city for many
years. The purch hasable vote is the
one that was not counted.
Year: 1874

San Fernando valley will soon be
broad grain field. Some two thousand
acres will be seeded in wheat this sea-
son, and nearly or quite as many
acres will be sown in barley and other
small grain. A considerable area will
be planted in corn in the Spring. All
this is done in avalley which last year
was used for grazing purposes. The
town of San Fernando which is quite q
respectable village in size is produc-
tion of 1874. 1t is increasing rapidly
In population and buildings, and will
in short time, become quite busi-
ness place. 4 great deal of wheat
sown is already above ground and
gives promise of an abundant harvest.
Being protected by the hills from the
damp air of the coast, San Fernando
valley is well adapted to wheat grow.
ing, and will, we predict, ultimately
produce annually large quantity o
small grain. The soil is excellent, an,
increased irrigating facilities will in
sure large yields to the farmer.
Year: 1874

WE owe an apology TO our country
readers. City politics do not as a gen.
eral thing prove theme of interest to
people outside of the little world cir
cumscribed by corporation lines; and
for the last few weeks the editorial
columns of the HERALD have con-
tanned little else than municipal poll
ties. That is happily at an end for the
time, and we shall now devote our
columns to subjects of more general
interest to our readers outside OF the
oitv
Year: 1874

THE tri-weekly line of stages run
ming between Kernville and Pana-
mint cannot accommodate the travel
toward the mines. Seats are engaged
days ahead. The line is daily be-
tween Bakersfield and Kernville and
it is said the stage will run daily
through to Panamint short time.
Year: 1874

OuR evening cotemporary says the
secret history of Mondays election
would make an interesting pamphlet.
We venture to say that there is at
least one chapter in the secret history
of the campaign which it would not
like to have made public.
Year: 1874

more distant markets. We cannot
much longer delay the great work of
building the Los. Angeles and Inde-
pendence Railroad We must build
the road, or rest content with trade
that does not extend further interior
than San Bernardino.
Year: 1874

Rather than wear collar that
don't fit, or neck-tie that looks
'slouchy'' throw the inferior article
away and call on Cohen & Davis at
the Identical where you will be sup
piled with the best in the market.
Year: 1874

4 WONDERFUL DREAMER.-Mr. John
Alden, of Fairhaven, Mass, not the
John who went back on the valiant and
choleric Miles Standish, has wonderful
dreams-a not Strikingly singular fact, to
be sure, but when the New Bedford
Standard vouches for the story of the
fulfillment of those nocturnal visions,
the affair begins 10 wear a slight air of
mystery. The following are some of the
instances published in the above named
journal: Forty years ago, Mr.. Alden's
brother was away on a whaling voyage,
and the ship was lost, and nothing was
heard from it for some time. But at
length Mr.. Alden dreamed that by the
middle of June he would learn what end
his brother had made. And, sure
enough, on the 18th of June, his brother
arrived at home safe and sound. having
been wrecked ON the Pelew Islands,
where the natives murdered some of his
shipmates. About fifteen years ago Al
den had been moving a building in New
Bedford, and was engaged with a num-
Der of men in building up the founda-
ton under it, when one night he dreamed
that particular corner of the wall fell
in, though not so suddenly but that he
was enabled to shore the building up
and prevent it from capsiZing. The
next day everything happened just as
he had dreamed. A few years later he
was employed to move house a short
distance, about three miles southwest
of fremont, and in a dream, though he
had never been to that place, he saw
the house so distinctly that when he went
there to do the job, he recognized it "a
soon as he came in sight of the place.
A few days ago he had another singular
instance of this wonderful dream pow
er. He had been to East Bridgewater
and lost knit woolen scarf or comfort
er in the cars. \ few nights afterward
he dreamed that the scarf was found by
a brakeman. whom he saw so distinctly
in his dream, that on another trip he rec
ognized him in the cars, though he had
not noticed him before. This brakeman
was William Neil, on Conductor Bolle's
train. and on Mr.. Alden describing the
scarf TO him, he Immediately produced
it and returned it TO him.
Year: 1874

There is said to have been a very de-
cided increase in the quantity of native
wines within the last five years, as well
as an improvement in their quality. 1t
is claimed, however, that for climatic
reasons, the quantity of stimulants used
in this country must always be proper
tionately less than in Europe, and that
statistics show the truth of the theory.
e 1t would thus appear that the natural
limit of American grape culture will fall
somewhere below that of Europe, though
it is doubtful whether the American love
of whiskey is thing to be affected by
climatic laws
Year: 1874

The fable of the ssMan in the Moon" is weu
known, and everybody who has seen q pam
tomime remembers how the clown perplexes
the learned astronomer by holding turnip
before the telescope, or gazing down the big
end at the petrifed eye at the small one, and
finally extinguishing the moon entirely with
his hat. Professor Parkhurst experienced SINH
Lar sensations of astonishment when he saw in
one Of our lunar pictures on Sunday satellite.
four hundred miles in diameter, making its
transit over the moons disk The Professor
no doubt knows that some astronomers have
believed that Venus has satellite which We
never see distinctly, but of which glimpses
have been obtained at rare intervals. That
the Man in the Moon has such mysterious
companion we certainly do not affirm, yet
such satellite Of the second order did appear
in our fifth picture Of the eclipse on Sunday.


On Monday, however, this moonlet had dis
appeared from our picture, showing that It
had moved away. Some persons may account
for this by sthe mysterious influence of the
HERALD" of which we hear 80 much. Yet we
were very moderate in our planetary innova-
tions. Shakespeare, who has something TO
say about everything has fellow in ''King
John" who rushes in with the startling rumor.
s.My Lord, they say FIVE moons were secn
tonight" yet we had but two. Many per-
sons have seen SIX or seven moons at once,
especially at sixteen minutes past three
A. NJ. and none of them were able
to conduct themselves properly. This
comes Of looking at our luminous COM
panion through glasses which are too
powerful Yesterday we restored the heavens
to their normal condition, as We are satisfied
with the sensations we produce on ear.h, and
have no desire to meddle with the planetary
ayatAm.