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Year: 1875

During the seventeen years. cOnfine-
ment of this strange prisoner at Sainte
Marguerite, St. Mars, who brought him
to the fortress, was replaced by u Mon
sleur de Bonpart, as governor. The
daughter OF the latter, just emerging
from childhood to wOmanhood, grew up
with this mystery about her. She had
seen the graceful figure of the masked
prisoner promenading at night upon the
terrace and at worship in the chapel,
where he was forbidden to speak or un-
cover his face, the soldiers in attendance
having their pieces always pointed to-
ward him, if he should attempt to do
either. She discovered that her father
always treated him with the greatest
respect, serving him bareheaded and
standing. His table service was of mas
sive silver, his dress OF the richest vel
vet, he wore the finest linen and most
costly lace. She had heard her father


accidentally speak of him as ''the
Prince" No wonder that his sad fate
occupied her thought by day and his no.
BILE figure haunted her dreams by night.
She, too, was very young and beautiful
and their eyes occasionally met in chap
el. He sang beautifully, and was very
skillful performer on the guitar. 1t is
said she climbed the rocks under the
castle terrace and sang sweet songs to
the poor captive. Thus romantic love
sprang up between them, and as it gain
ed strength, the young girl dared to pur-
loin the key from her father and so Oh
talned access to the prisoner. When the
Governor discovered his child's treach-
cry, he was struck with the greatest dis
may. His oath was binding upon him to
put Immediately to death any one who
had spoken to the prisoner. But she con-
fessed her love for him and pleaded pite-
eusly for her young life. The captive
also, to Whom the governor was imuch
attached, joined his prayers to hers and
implored that they may be made man and
wife, and then the secret would he safe.
The governor was not stern enough to
immediate his child, and perhaps CLEAN
of ambition may have flashed across his
mind, as, in the event of the death OF
Louis XIV, the prisoner would be ac-
knowledged, and his daugher sit on the
throne Of France. However, their nup-
tials were performed by the priest of the
castle in the dead Of night, and all were
sworn to secrecy. A whisper Of this
reaching the ears of the minister, the
Marquis OF Louvois, the prisoner was
Immediately. removed to the Bastile for
safer keeping; and the mother, the priest,
and the governor disappeared. The
children were sent to Corsica to be
brought up in obscurity under the
name OF their grandfather, Bonpart,
which was corrupted into Bonapart.
And thus, says the legend, Providence
avenged the wrongs OF The twin-brothers
of Louis XIV, and restored tho Oldest
branch OF the Bourbon line 70 the throne
81 France.
Year: 1875

The following is from the Little Rock Ca
zette of the 25th, We are glad the Finance
Board are taking every step to improve the
credit of the State:


The collectors Of about twenty-five coun-
ties up to this time have made partial settle
ments for the revenue collected for the year
1874, and it is gratifying, indeed, to see how
well the people, notwithstanding their pover-
ty, have paid up their taxes. No county has
paid less than fifty per cent. Independence,
among the list, as much as eighty, a few reach
seventy five. and great many sixty to sixty
five per cent; and we are satisfied, by the
time in which the collectors are bound to set
tie expires, there will be tw0-t thirds, if not
more, of taxes paid,


Already the board OF finance have paid up
the debt due the Union Trust company. of
New York, some SIS 500. and taken in large
number of the bonds hypothecated some
years since on this debt.


BY the lst of July next, there is no doubt
the treasurer will be able to pay the interest
due on the ten-year war bonds. c,e,. if the
whole number provided by law be issued.


This is showing which will be pleasing to
every citizen Of the state, and gives tull assur-
ance that our credit is being rapidly restored,
and that our financial condition will soon be
on IA firm and healthy basis
Year: 1875

IT, The young ladies of Van Buren
deserve great credit for the energy and
untring industry shown in preparing and
carrying forward the dedication cere-
monies, on Thursday. God bless them,
as the friends of the Confederate dead
will do--when they put their hand to the
plow they never tmn back. Now let there
be Il perfectly organized association. to
prepare for the annual remembrance of
the dead soldier
Year: 1875

TE- Apples are now grown IN winch
two or more varieties are blended INTO
one-that is. apples having one section
sweet and the other sour. 1t is exceed
inely interesting to examine the crop, as
one apple differs widely from another,
and there is difficulty in finding two alike
The line Of demarcation on the skin is
distinctly defined, the sour portion hav.
ing reddish color, while the sweet is OF
a pale green.
Year: 1875

axr A fellow with a red nose and
blind in one eye is selling the negroes
down South a pin warranted to make
them white, and about fifteen minutes al
ter they swallow it they lean across
saw buck and turn themselves inside out
hnt the white is all in their eyes
Year: 1875

WHITENING STRAW HATs.--Tho girls
can whiten their own hats by the follow.
ing process: Scrape thick sulphur with a
knife, mix the powder to mush with
water, plaster it thickly over the straw,
and place in the hot sun for several
hours brush off when dry.
Year: 1875

EF The regnant thought with mos'
men is How to make money; and the
regnant thought with most women is
How to spend it In their better mo
ments some Of these women have beer
heard to admit that man is a useful ami
mol
Year: 1875

"a" The proprietors of the Ccdarylle Mills
have sent to our Office sample OF WOOL rolls
They look very nice, but as We are no judge
of such things we invite all interested to call
and take look at them.
Year: 1875

IT occurred at Oshkosh. Will you
do it ?" she said, twisting one end Of the
strap around her hand and fetching him
a singer across the shoulders with the
other. He squirmed and looked frantic
ally at the keyhole of the door as if he
could crawl through it. " Will you do
it ?" she said, aiming two or three at the
calves Of his legs, while he skipped around
like great Northwestern grasshopper
with the jim jams. "Well you do it ?'
she repeated, concentrating her energies
for terrific swoop, and dealing him a
binder over the eyebrows that made the
cold perspiration start cut of every pore
in his body. II will" he roared in agony;
and they were married.
Year: 1875

THE BANK OF CALIFORNIA San
Francisco last week was the scene of II
financial crisis, such as the Pacific States,
in late years at least, were strange to.
The Bank of California, for many years
looked upon as the great financial institu-
ton of the Pacific shores, has suspended
payment. The exact condition of affairs
in the bank is not yet known, but its
friends express confidence that the credit
ors will be paid dollar for dollar. The
failure had the effect of bringing many
business men to the verge of ruin, and
had there not been cOmmendable spirit
displayed among them in the way of
granting extension, the probabilities are
the crash would have been extended
widely. So far as we can learn, there is
but one person in this county affected by
the suspension.
Year: 1875

Our STATE AYYIvERsARY.- Thurs
day next will be the twenty-fith anniver-
sary of the admission of California to the
United States. For nearly a year after
the adoption Of her State constitution her
representatives waited at the door of the
halls OF Congress, refused admission be-
cause the vote of California would destroy
the equality of representation in :he SEN
ate between the free and slave States.
The debates in Congress during this long
period were characterized by that bitter
ness which afterward took the form Of
rebellion and secession and the attempt
to divide the Federal Union. 1t may be
said with truth that that part Of our his
tory which tended to the acquisition Of
this State was the means of bringing into
prominence the slavery question to such
degree as to ultimately tend to the de-
struction of that cherished institution Of
the South. The famous " Wilmot pro-
viso," which sought to declare that nei-
ther slavery nor involuntary servitude,
except as punishment, should be permit
ted in the newly acquired territory; the
nomination of II " Free Soil |" candidate
for the Presidency in 1913 the admission
of California with free econstitution, and
the repeal Of the Missouri Compromise,
followed by the formation Of the Repub-
lican party, were links in the chain of
events which led to the rebellion and the
destruction of that institution which had
come to be a disturbing element of our
national politics. Those who had attain
ed an age at that time when the affairs Of
the country were engrossng the atten-
tion, can look back through the quarter
of IA century which has interviewed since
our State was invested with sovereignty,
and marking the events which success
lively followed, see for themselves that the
period Of which we have spoken was one
fruitful Of national glory. California was
the thirty-frst State 20 seek admission to
the sisterhood, but younger than she have
come forward, peopled by the pioneers of
civilization, until now the bond reaches
almost across the continent. In our
quarter century of national life, we have
grown to a rank in wealth and population
far surprising some Of those who preccd


ed US into the Union. The day will be
appropriately celebrated in the cities and
should be throughout the State.
Year: 1875

FAILED TO BEGIN WITH.-One Of
the blanks in the Democratic State plat
form declared in favor Of Convention
to amend the State Constitution. But so
far as we have heard the plank was hui-
lifted from the outset. In this county llie
plank was ignored, no attention oeing
called to the fact that such vote wou'u
taken nor was it ordered printed on the
tickets of the party. As matter Oh
course the convention will be defeated oy
six or seven hundred majority here, as the
law requires majority Of all the votes
cast to call convention. In San Fran
cisco the party managers had the tickets
printed with For n Convention" and
against Convention" leaving to the
voter the privilege of scratching off either
he chose. The result will probably be
the defeat of the proposition. We have
already little idea of how much Demo-
Gratis mean by their professions.
Year: 1875

A WISE LAw.-The legislative wis
dom Of the State has the credit of having
passed one law which all must admit to
be wise in its conception and excellent in
its practical workings. We allude to the
one prohibiting the sale of liquors on
election day. Those who rememb Der the
scenes of drunkenness which attended
former elections, when men who had lost
their sense OF manhood in the love of liq-
uor kept back their votes so long as the
chance Of "free whisky" was offered to
them, and were finally led to the polls in
such condition that the act of depositing
their ballots was a buresque on the elect
i've franchise, who contrast the election
now with such scenes, can have no desire
to return to old usages.
Year: 1875

THE discovery Of method by which


glass is made elastic and wonderfully
strong is entitled to rank among the most
important inventions Of the century.
Glass can henceiorth be used for cooking
utensils, and will take the place OF metal
and wood in a vast variety o. manufact-
urcs. The discovery orrevival Of a F." lost
art" for that Roman artitcer mastered
the secret Of making elastic glass and was
put to death in order that the value Of the
brittle glass in existence might net be
impaired by the discovery Of making a
vastly better article, has always been be-
lieved, although no one until now has
succeeded in hitting upon the process


which perished with the ancient Roman.
Year: 1875

WIN. c. RALsTON.- Close following
upon the news that the bank OF California
had suspended payment came the inteli-
gence that VIM. c. Ralston was drowned.
Passing from earth Mt such a moment,
when the great institution of which he
had leen the financial head was ruined,
the thought naturally followed that with
the loss Of his entire fortune, he had lost
hope and sought relief in suicide. The
inquest of the Coroner's jury, however,
does not seem to bear out the impression.
Mr.. RalstOa had been in the habit
o. going to n bath house on the shores Of
the bay and taking bath in the salt wa
ter and this he had done on the occasion
OF his death. The physicians called in at
the inquest incline to the belief that he
entered the water oveIheated, and there
by brought on apoplexy. The event ere
atod great sensation, and the general
respect in which Mr.. Ralston was held
was evidenced by the fact that fully fiftv
thousand people suspended work on the
day Of the funeral, the city generally be-
ing droped in mourning. This evidence
of pablic respect was not paid to the man
on account OF his wealth, but for the good
use he had made of it during his lifetime.
He had always displayed liberal public
spirit which, willie seeking to his own
means, gave employment to hundreds
and thousands. No doubt he would have
retrieved his fallen fortunes had he been
spared, but that was not to be. He left
insurance on his life to the amount of
$4,000 which cannot be touched by the
creditors of the bank and which will place
his family above want.
Year: 1875

MAKING MoNEY.-The Truckee Re
publican INDUCES in the following COM
plant: There is Il gang Of men in this
town supposed to be Cinnamon, who have
a systematic way OF making money that
ought to be looked after. A great many
gold coins have lately been observed to
have the milling filed of to such an ex-
tent that the value is noticeably lessened.
There is IL heavy penalty provided by law
for each otiense, and it is hoped that some
one will proceed to work up II case in
this matter. The otlense an important
one, and deserves attention.
Year: 1875

AT San Luis Obispo on Monday even
ing, Chinaman named All Jack was
shot and instantly killed while sitting in
China Doctors shop. This was the third
attempt at his life within four months.
A bitter feud between All Jack and other
Chinamen has existed for the last four
years. Jack cut his hair off a long time
ago, which brought upon him the wrath
of his country men, and the feud was in
creased with years.
Year: 1875

THE Paris Founding Hospital has set
up a novel claim lately. One of its pro-
teges whose mother was dead and whose
father had abandoned it, inherited for
tune from IA relative Of the mother At
once the father claimed the child, the
mothers relatives claimed it and the hos
pital claimed the right to hold the child
and administer its fortune; but the law
gave the child to guardian chosen by
the relatives of the mother.
Year: 1875

THE Enterprise is the name of new
Sunday paper at Sacramento. There is
a field for Sunday paper in that city as
none of its three dailies are issued on Sun
day morning. The new paper is neat
looking sheet, well filled with reading
matter and deserves success.
Year: 1875

IN certain town in Mendocino, the
boys not long since had considerable fun
with barber, making him believe that
at the coming election county barber
was to be elected. The boys and the
barber enjoyed the joke so well that they
wound up by having little spree-at the
expense of the barber.
Year: 1875

A LEAyENwoRTH burglar entered a
house by bedroom window, and in
cropping about to feel his way, naturally
first put his hands on the feet of the lady
of the house. She screamed and tainted
away, and next day prematurely gave
birth to child. The burglar also was
confined.
Year: 1875

If your girl, or her big brother, comes
along and points pistol at you, and tells
you to go right down to the minister's and
be married, go right along and do it the
marriage will be bogus. That has re-
Gently been decided by the Supreme
Court of New York.
Year: 1875

ON Saturday last lady of Reno took
chloroform to allay the pain attending
the pulling of some teeth The chloro-
form had such an effect on her system as
to jeopardize her life. She was saved
however, by great care.
Year: 1875

The people of Reading, Pa, have an
inclination to lynch n man named Bess-
niger, because his wife committed suicide
when her husband drove her out of her
home. The police are guarding him.
Year: 1875

THESE medical journals are always
printing something ridiculous. Here
comes the London Lancet and says that
1t Is not healthful for any one to sit longer
than an hour. Suppose fellow is sitting
on the sofa with his girl, then what?
Year: 1875

kinds Of produce raised now, and
all that may hereafter be introduced
into this extraordinarily rich and fer
tile district, will be shipped through
to a place on the river where boats
can reach it the year round. And
this is not all by perhaps half. 1t
has the effect to open up one Of the
finest numbering districts on the Pa
cifc Coast. It has already been
demonstrated thai both cedar and fir
timber Of the finest quality can be
brought from the inexhaustible for
ests on the Mckenzie River. From
this source alone there might be as
many twenties put into circulation as
from all the grain grown in the same
district. If the people Of Albany
wish to know whether / have stated
facts or not, send some Of your prac-
tical, common sense men and make
q thorough examination for your
selves. r. B. COCHRAN.
Year: 1875




Mr.. Samuel L. Clemens has con-
sented to lecture in Hartford for the
benefit of the poor Following is
his letter.


HARTFoRp, Feb. 20.-GENrLEMEN-
/ accede TO your request with pleas
ure Many months ago I porma
nently quilted the lecture field, and
/ said ! would not appear upon q
platform unless driven there by o
lack Of bread. BY tho spirit of that
remark / am debarred from deliver
ing this proposed lecture, and so I
fall back upon the letter of it and
emerge upon the platform for the last
and final time because am confront
ed by lack of bread among Father
Hawley's flock. Most people lie by
the spirit and the letter too, but /
am not one Of that kind, for ] have
been very carefully brought up. |
wish to impose upon you the condi-
ton that tho expenses of this enter
prise shall be paid out Of four or five
private pockets (mine to be one Of
them,) to the end that all Of the
money that comes in at the door shall
go to Father Hawley's needy ones
unimpaired by taxes on its journey
/ am GLAD to know that you are going
to put the tickets at 81; for what We
are after now is money for people
who stand sorely in need Of bread
and meat, and SO the object justifei
the price. As this will probably be
the last time ! shall ever have the
opportunity Of hearing sound wisdom
and pure truth delivered from Tho
platform, / wish to buy q ticket tc
this lecture, and / herewith send
money for the purchase. lam aware
that / could get in for nothing, anC
still be acting q measure honorably
but when / run my lecture over il
my mind and realize what very
bonanza Of priceless information it is
/ find / cannot conscientiously nc
cept Of free pass.


Respectfully,


MARX TwAIN.
Year: 1875

A scientific agriculturist reports that
he has found as high as thirty per
cent of cream in the last pint of milk
drawn from a COW, when the first pint
from the same COW yielded only nine
and half per cent.


Were the happiness of the next
world as closely apprehended as the
felicities of this, it were a martyrdom
to live; and unto such as consider none
hereafter, it must be more than death
to die, which makes us amazed at
those audacities that burst be nothing
and return unto ths chaos again.
Year: 1875

The Radicals are preparing to hold
an indignant mass meeting in Peuder
county, because of its passage in the
Senate. 1t is said they Will invite such
Democratic Senators as voted against
the Bill to join Judge Cantwell and
others in addressing these mass meet
ings. To-day as the freight train pas
sed Rocky Point, one of these Radical
meetings was cOnvening to protest
against the action of the Senate and to
try to take Rocky Point township out
of the new county. If any Democrat
ic member of the Housa besitates to
support this new County Bill let him
know before he votes that the negroes
of New Hanover are almost en- nlasse
IN opposition, head d by every carpet
Dagger in the whole cou lty. Let the
hallowed name of Pender be remem-
bered in this struggle between native
boon Southern white men and tax
payers on the one side, and all the
carpet-baggers and negroes on the
other WHITE MAN


January 3Oth, 1875.
Year: 1875

The Hot springs (Ark.) Democrat,
of Wednesday, learns by rumor gen.
orally accredited, that a horrible
murder was committed last Wednes-
day night in the vicinity of Center
Point. which in point of atrocity has
no parallel in the annals OF crime in
Arkansas, unless, perhaps. the muir
der of the Richardson family at Rock
Creek. in Pulaski county. may fur
nish its peer. A man living in How
ard county sold his farm and stock
last fall with a view to removing to
Texas. and receiving the money a
few days since, was all prepared for
his contemplated journey. On last
Wednesday be was at a neighbor's s
house, some few miles away from
home, his neighbor induced him to
stop over until morning; but during
the night the man who was away
from his family could not rest, feel
ing 8 presentiment that something
was going wrong at home. so he got
up and started, man from Texas,
who was heavily armed and stopping
at the same house. accompanying
him. Upon approaching his house
a light was discovered, when
the gentleman remarked to his Tex.
an friend that there certainly was
something wrong. as his wife was
not accustomed to being up so late
at night. They alighted. and creep
ing stealthily 20 the house, discov-
cred four men sitting by q bright
fire counting money. The horrible
suspicion of murder and robbery
flashed upon the minds of the par
ties watching the money-counters.
so stationing themselves, one at
each door, they commenced an at
tack upon the strange inmates, which
resulted in slaughtering the entire
party-the Texan killing three and
the other man one. Entering they
discovered the dead hodies OF the
mans wife and two little children,
while scattered about the room torch.
es were placed. ready to ignite, for
the purpose of firing the building to
conceal the crime.
Year: 1875

August Barth was held in default
of $500 bail in the Tombs Police
Court on charge Of stealing 1858
from the poor box in st. Patrick's 8
Cathedral. 1t was shown, on the ex-
animation, that thieves stand near
the Cathedral on Sunday morning
provided with a long whalebone with
a piece of wax on the end and that
when the ushers arc inside seating
strangers, the thieves drop a whale
bone into the box and draw out what
ever adheres to the wax. Hundreds
of dollars have been stolen in this
way within a few months, and it was
some time before the clergymen
learned why their parishioners were
giving so little for the poor.
Year: 1875

Life is no commonplace matter; it
rsSy feel SO when we are disappoint-
ed. when we are wearied with labor,
or are disgusted with meanness. aud
then we may say with the Jewish
preacher, "Vanity of vanities. all is
vanity!" But myself, how often in
my more cheerful moments, and at
those more thoughtful seasons, when
my awakened faculties have made
me the most truly man, have I been
awe-stsuck and breathless, whilst the
great mystery of life has occurred to
my mind in sudden vividness In
such moments what miracle have 1
felt myself! Excepting God him
self, what is there more wondrous
than the existence OF the infinite !;
than this birth Of feeling. thinking
and active life, in our bosoms, which
short time since were inanimate,
insensate dust What thought is
there more wondrous than this. that
we are living souls, abroad and ac-
tive on the face Of world which was
once without form and void Well
might the sons Of God shout for joy,
when the first man of our race stood
up erect amid the trees of Eden. It
was the birth Of mortal spirit; and
that paradisaI wonder is repeated in
the growth of every infant and
throughout the life of every man.
WounfJorth.