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Year: 1875

SOME HoPE.-The conviction Of the
three Deputy Assessors for forgery and
the summary removal of Assessor Rose
ncr from office give good reasons for hop
ing that new era is dawning upon the
local governments of this State. There
is no question but the crime for which
Morgan and the others were prosecuted,
has been practiced to very great extent
all over the State, but more especially in
the counties where there was large Chi
ncse population rs that people was cor
sidered lawful game at the hands Of ev-
erybody who could get the best Of them.
The error into which Rosener's deputies
seem to have fallen seems to have been
in imposing their forged receipts upon
those who readily detected the fraud. 1t
is to be hoped that the men who spend
money to be elected to Office with the ex-
pectation Of rcimbursing themselves from
the "stealings" will learn that an era OF
better government is approaching, in
which official position and high connec-
tion will be no bar to the punishment of
those guilty of a criminal breach of pub
lic trust.
Year: 1875

IL LITIGATIoN.-In the Sixth District
Court of Sacramento county, suit has
been commenced by John Bellmer on
behalf of the people, to compel of the
State Board OF Education q repeal of the
resolution adopting the Bancroft series OF
Readers. Bellmcr makes affidavit that
the new Readers are inferior 20 those now
in use in " contents, binding, paper and
typography" BY the Code the Board is
forbidden to change for books which
are inferior to those in use in any OF
these respects. Judge Ramage has is
sued an order to forbid the State Board
from taking any steps to enforce the les-
oluton till after the hearing, which is SET
for the Sd of March.


The frequent changes which have been
made in the school books, predisposei
parents to be prejudiccd against any fur
ther changes unless it is established be
yond cavil that the scholars are to bC
gamers thereby. Consequently, wher
the State Board, by bare majority vot'
decided to substitute the Bancroft sere
for those now in use, it was followed by
an outburst of popular Indignation which
at once set those who had favored th
change on their defence, and caused th
firm of Bancroft & Co. to flood the Stat
with circulars asking suspension o
public opinion until trial could be had
And whatever may be the result in tn
test case now being made, we can rest as
surel that none but the gravest reason
will be allowed to influence the action G
the State Board on future occasions.
Year: 1875

A PUBLIC SPIRITED OFFER.-The
Sacramento Record desires the press of
this State to take note of its offer for the
benefit of immigration this year. 1t says
with truth that the immigrants who de-
sire labor are carried through to San
Francisco where they have to seek en-
ployment through the intelligence office.
The Record offers the use OF one of its
columns to those desiling to employ, and
desires those in the interior needing help
of any description to forward for publica-
ton in their column of" Wants." short
statement of the kind OF help wanted and
the wages to be paid, which will be pub
lished free Of charge and the paper dis
tributed mOng the immigrants at Ogden
Immigrants thus, by correspondence or
otherwise, could obtain situations when
their services were in demand. The Of
fer of the Record is q most liberal one,
and one fully in accordance with its pro-
gressive ideas.
Year: 1875

Strumous or Scrofolous affections are the
curse, the blight, the potato rot of mankind
They are vile and filthy as well as fatal. They
arise from contamination and impurty of the
blood and are to be seen all around us every
where. One quarter of all we meet are taint-
ed with the disease and one quarter of these
die of them. Die foolishly too, because they
are curable. Ayers Sarsaparilla cleanses the
scrofulous corruption from the blood, renders
it pure and healthy and effectively expurgates
the foul contamination from the system. No
longer groan under your Scrofulous disorders,
since the learned Aver has provided his mas
calls Sarsaparilla.- Montgomery (Ala.) Ad-
vertiser
Year: 1875

In the Bank of France they have a
brick for which they have paid one thous-
and francs in specie. 1t was taken from
the ruins of burned house and the i'm
age and figures Of a note for one thousand
francs are burned on the surface, trans
ferred by the heat from real note. This
brick the bank redeemed as though it
were the note itself, upon its presenta-
tiOn
Year: 1875

THAT "grasping, soulless monopoly"
the Central Pacific transported all offer
ings Of the people to the city of Marys-
Vile free of charge and gave $4,000 be-
sides. We are not advised as to the sum
donated by the propretors of the Union.
Year: 1875

ONE reason why the ShawMcCormick
wedding which was to have occurred at
Savannah, Georgia, will not come off at


all, is because Shaw went to kiss her
without taking the cigar out of his mouth
and the lighted end struck her on the
Year: 1875

A ST.. Louis girl made her lover a
present of a shirt, ana he took the shirt,
but deserted the girl. She followed him
with a revolver and gave him his choice,
either return the shirt, or death. He
yielded the linen.
Year: 1875

The comet has left us, and
not a poet has composed an
ode to it. d


Is giving vent to your feel
ing's letting the cat out of
the baga


A rain Of terror-when it
rains pitchforks with the
times downward.
I Onr fashion editor notifies
us that sacks will be q little
bagging this year.


IF q young man will wear
tight boots he mast suner the
corn sequences.


Dogs undertake to, prove
their claims as musicians by
the performance Of q baTky
role.
Year: 1875

We copy the following from
the Brookhaven Ledger
Read and preserve the paper:


AS some Of the Radicals are
fond Of figures we submit this
article to their consideration.
1t shows the difference in tax
es when the government was
in the hands Of home men and
now. When the Radical par
~ took charge Of the State
the entire tax upon the one
thousand dollars worth of
property was less than five
dollars. Now it is six times
as great. The following state
ment Is taken from the re-
cords of Kinds county:
Year: 1875

The Holly Springs Repor-
ter says that cool and patient
courage is the companion Of
success. Let each member Of
the Conservative party prac-
tice it in this canvass. Our
party does not need the blood
of twenty or thirty colored
men to help it, but on the
contrary it needs peace and
harmony, patience and pluck
a Id much of what the Tex
ans call, git mp and git,' in
its work. Work, and see that
your neighbor works. Watch
as a faithful sentinel upon
the tower of liberty.
Year: 1875

An industrious citizen a..
rose a few mornings ago.,
while the festive lark was,
still snoring, and with a tim
bucket under his arm went
to the barn to milk the fam
lily COW. It was dark and
rainy, and fumbling about
for old brindle he got into'
the wrong pew, and began to-
pail the off mule of his wag-
on team. He can't remem-,
ber now which side of the.
roof he went out at, but his:
recollection of alighting on.
the picket fence is very Wv
id. He expects the bucket
down in a few days.
Year: 1875

A little child suddenly let e" her
motbcrs's hand. and ran laughing with
slee ont into the middle OF the street
The next instant ii frightened morse
came dashing along with the fragments
Year: 1875

An Arkansas man at" Il pint of saw
dust ii few days ago, OH ii bet. An in
t-lligcnt physician who was called in,
told him that he would have pain in his
lumbar region if he stuck to such board
Us that.
Year: 1875

Gov. Allen starts into the Ohio cam
paign with speech in which he decares
it the duty of the government to make
everybody prosperous. Therefore if
everybody is not prosperous, he argues
that it is the fault of the party which has
had control of the government and the
people should therefore put out the Re-
publican party, and put in the Democrat
ic. He declaims this as the peculiar
friend of the laboring man and the poor,
and as their champion against the rich
Once for brief period demagogues who
talked as Allen does, got possession of
power in foreign country, and set out
to make the poor prosperous. The re-
suit was that capital was paralyzed in
dustry destroyed, laborers reduced to
beggary and robbery, and rich and poor
dragged down by universal distress.


The communistic principle which this
demagogue proclaims is that the people
are not to rely upon their own industry,
energy, ability, and thrift for their con-
dition in life, but are to call on the gov
ernment to do for them. But if Allen
could raise this agrarian monster, which
he now invokes only to deceive for his
own advancement does he suppose it will
let him enjoy his 300 acres of Scioto
bottom land, while so many have neither
an acre nor lot for a shanty? When he
he invokes the plumber of property to
help the laborer, does he fancy that his
bloated wealth is to escape2 He, with
his lordly domain, and his thrifty habit
of absorbing and of adding field unto
field, Is pretty man to set himself up as
champion of the laborer against the
property classes.


But Gov. Allen does not mean any way
by which the rich shall be compelled tc
share with the poor. He has no intent
Year: 1875

Courtesy has market value. In one
of our largest hotels young man has a
very large salary as room clerk. He
has the faculty of slowing away people in
all sorts of unmentionable places in his
hotel and make the guests feel happy
about it. His politeness and good hu-
NOR never run empty. Stout. of the
Shoe and Leather bank is celebrated for
his financial success and for his mex
haustible good nature. He is never so
busy but he has a kind word for the
humblest When they are rushing
things in the bank, Mr.. Stout always
finds time to say, Take a seat, sir; III
be at leisure in moment.


A man came into the bank the other
day and opened an account. II came
here" he said mot simply because l
knew my money would be safe with you,
but because you are always civil. l have
been n depositor in - bank for many
wears. | went in to-day to see the cash
Ter. | knew him when he had no society
to boast of, and hardly money enough to
pay for dinner at cheap restaurant,
/ laid my hat on the desk, which sup
pose l had no business to do. Hewaved
his hand with an imperious air, and said,
take that hat off l removed my hat,
when he said, Now I'll hear what you
have to say I've nothing to say to
YOU. | went to the boolS-keeper, order
ed my account made up, took the bank S
check for $42, 900, and this l wish to de-
posit." The president and the cashier
represent two styles of business common
in New York Sauciness does not bear a
high commercial value among the finan-
cial men of this city.-N \. Herald.
Year: 1875

Yesterday was indeed an eyentful day
in the life of lady on west Jackson
street. During a trip on the street cars
to State street and back, she saw the
loveliest polonaise pattern she ever saw
in her life, the handsomest. fellow she
ever saw in her life, the homeliest woman
she ever saw in her life, got the worst
fright she ever had in her life from the
drunkest man she ever saw in her life,
never was so insulted in her life as she
was by young man who spoke to her
on the car, and finally got home feeling
more tired than she ever felt in her life.
Year: 1875

A man was recently accused in Paris
of having stolen pair of trousers from
a dealer in the Temple. There were sew
eral witnesses, but the evidence was rath-
er meagre, and so the accused was acquit-
ted He was told that he might so
without stain ON his character" but
there he stood motionless. Atlength he
leaned over the side Of the dock, and
whispered, "The fact is, sir. do not like
to move till the witnesses have left the
court" "Why is that2' Because sir,
| am now wearing the trousers | stole.
Year: 1875

DIsINFEcTANT AND MOUTH WASH.
A very weak solution of permangan-
ate of potash will destroy instantly
any taint from diseased teeth or i'm
perfectly cleaned plates, and should
always be used to rinse the spittoon
in hot weather every time it is made
use of. 1t is cheap, satisfactory, al.
most tasteless, not poisonous, and
quite free from smell. 1t may be
satisfactory to some to know that this
will remove the taint of smoking
from the breath if used as a mouth
wash.
Year: 1875

We are stronly tempted to offer a
large reward for any issue of daily
or weekly newspaper which does not
contain the news of either q homicide,
suicide or other crime directly caused
by liquor. We feel certain we would
never be called on to pay it. Yet
temperance is a humbug! But-we
love the "humbug," and pray for its
universal triumph-Spird Of the
.Age.
Year: 1875

We would ask of all young men
who are in the habit Of inGulging in
the use Of strong drink, to their
injury, to associate themselves with
the Temple Of Honor, and the iniiu'
encc Of that Order, and the following
of the obligation truly. will save
them from filling perhaps dishonored
drunkards' graves. Young men, aim
for something higher, nobler than
thiS.-E.r.
Year: 1875

SAVE THE SoAPsUDs.-However
deplorable washing day may be to
the household (and the careful house
mistress or tidy maid has it in her
power to greatly modify its discom-
forts to the garden it is a very
bountiful day. Our hungry and
thirsty grape vines and flowers are
glad Of every drop of wash water,
and will repay every bit of fatigue il
may cost US to give them this fertilizer.
If the sun is shining hot when we
60 out to dispense our favor, it is best
for us to dig slight trench not faI
from the root of the plant, and pour
the water into it, and cover agair
with the top soil. This makes the
water 60 farther, and at the same
time does not tempt the rootlets t.
the surface Of the ground.-Dutches'
Farmer.
Year: 1875

1t is only our mental duration that
we measure by visible and measurable
objects, and there is nothing mourn
full in the contemplation for one who
knows that the Creator made him to
be the image of his own eternity, and
who feels that in the desire for im-
mortality he has one proof OF his
capacity for it.-Souttey.
Year: 1875

a train of seventeen heavily laden canels
have started from Tripoli To cross the Sardha
Desert. II may lie that they are carrying a
complete library Of the Beecher scandal into
the regions Of Central Africa.
Year: 1875

BRAN AND Corn MEAL FOR Cows.
The Practical Farmer says: "It is
well settled, In the opinion of all our
best dairymen. that bran greatly pro-
notes the milk secretions in cows,
and it is fed almost universally
About equally mixed with corn meal
is the usual proportion. This mixture
seems to promote both quantity and
quality of milk. Hungarian grass is
also found for milch cows to be rather
superior to the ordinary run of hay.
The last year or two Hungarian grass
has loomed up wonderfully in the
estimation of our dairy farmers and
very large scope of land will be
sowed with it the coming season. 1t
natures for cutting in about sixty
days, and produces two to four tons
per acre-the latter, of course, on
good soils. Three pecks to the acre
is the usual allowance of seed.
Year: 1875

CURE FOR THE OPIUM HABIT.-In
a recent report on the condition of
the English hospital at Pekin, China,
the attending physician gives a
formula for "anti-opium pills" This
remedy is composed of extract of
henbane, extract of gentian, camphor.
quinine, cayenne pepper, ginger and
cinnamon, with CASTLE soap and sirup
to form the mass, and licorice powder
to form the coating. The efficacy of
these pills in overcoming the opium
habit. and in preventing the suffering
on giving up the use of that poison,
is stated to have been proved in
numerous cases. The native remedies
it is said, contain opium in some form
and most frequently the ashes o
opium already smoked, and conse
quently are inefficacious, it being as
difficult to discontinue the use of th'
medicine as of the drug itself.
Year: 1875

To MAKE AND KEEP SAUSAGE
For one hundred pounds of meat, two
and one-quarter pounds Of salt, one
half pound of pepper, one-half pound
of sage. Some vary this by putting
in little more sage and little less
pepper, but the above rule is q very
good one. When chopped and
seasoned, pack the meat firmly in tin
pans or small stone jars; take lard
melted just enough to spread with a
knife and cover the top with lard an
inch thick, to keep out the air. This
will keep nicely all winter, unless 1t
freezes and thaws too often. Some
make balls and fry sausage, packing
them aud covering with melted lard
but it is some labor to prepare large
quantity that way-more than most
people would relish.
Year: 1875

An Agent Wanted for Each Town


and County I'm the United States.


Parties desiring to act as agents must ae-
company their application By letter Of recon-
mendation as to character and responsibility
from and signed by the editor Of newspaper
published in the town or county for which
agent proposes to act. The agency is TO sell
the bonds Of the Ildustrial Exhibition Com
Year: 1875

Every other temptation from that or any other
source they successfully withstood. They were
assailed day after day ty series OF the
most liberal amendments thrown among them
like frebrands from the Right, but they
were proof against them all. Their own vio-
lent leaders were as powerless as their enc
mics to bulge them fIom their safe poseon.
NJ Louis Blanc could no more lead them away
than NJ Raoul Duval could deceive them.
The final test of discipline was presented
when the classe establishing the seat OF gov
ernment at Versailles was taken up. No queS-
ton has been treated with more passion and
bitterness than this by the Deputies OF the
Left. The dethrOnement of the royal city OF
Paris has always been stigmatizcd by them as
an indescribable outrage. Bat all the royal
ties had to go together, and for the purpose
of saving a more important principle, they
allowed their idolized capital to wear stiA the
willow in desertion and neglect.


We do not assume the ungrateful Office Oh
prophecy, but it cannot be denied that the
manner in which this Constitution is bestowed
upon France gives q better promise OF per-
manency to democratic government there than
was afforded by the revolution of 1913. Ihat
was the result of a successful emeute when
demonstrated the impotence OF the monarchy,
and after less than four years OF tumult ana
intrigue it gave way to the coup d6tat or the
President and his staff. The Republic OF to-
day sprang up from the ruin and disg race OF
the Empire at Sedan, and has steadily gained
strength and consistency during four years OF
struggle for life against a coalition OF its enc
Iion NJ
at first sincerely skeptical, became convinced
that it was the only form of government pos
sible under the circumstances, and has since
been its earnest advocate. The Assembly
elected in the hurly- -burly of war still re-
mained unfriendly, and substituted Marshal
MacMahon, a mere soldier, in place OF
the converted statesman. MacMahOn has
done all he could honestly do against
the Republic; but the force OF pub
lie opinion has been so strong that he
has not been able to hold it in check. The
Assembly has passed away from his control,
and the most significant vote in the recent
contest was that by which the Deputies re-
fused to allow the President to nominate to
them the seventy-fve Senators whom they are
to elect. Another excellent omen for the Re-
public is that its worst enemies arc known.
NJ de LA Rochette has warned the country
that he and his Legitimist friends Will not ac-
cept the Republic, but will do all they can
to destroy it, which is a fair and timely notice.
The Prince of Chselhurst will hardly have the
audacity to present himself as the best friend
of the Republic. as his father did before him,
or if he does, the country will not so candidly
accept him. If he wishes to follow in the foot
steps of that worthy. there seems but one
way open to him. The Strasburs gate is
barred as the result of that campaign in which
he received his baptism of fire. The Assem-
bly, is not open to one embarrassed by the
name of Napoleon w. There is nothing left
but Boulogne and the tame eagle.
Year: 1875

When Louis Philippe was warned, twenty
seven years ago this week, that there was
imminent danger of an insurrectiOn around
the Tuileries, he smiled in that superior way
40 natural to the great, and said: IL know
"my Parisians They do not make revolutions
Gin February Before the month ended, how
ever, he was on his way to England with his
carpet-bag, and an improvlsed Republic was in
possession of France. Once more the month
of February has been fatal to the monarchy
in that country and auspiciOus to republican
government. The Republic has been formally
and definitely constituted by an almost two
thirds vote of the Assembly, which included
every section of the Republican party and the
most valuable and substantial portion of the
Conservatives. The Legtimists and the I'm
perialists, the representatives of feudalism and
the lobbyists of the BOnaDarte family, stOutly
opposed this desirable consummation, and it
is certainly good omen that it was accom-
plshed without their aid. There is mildew
in the contact of the first, and the taint
of corruption in every measure of the latter
faction Those of us who have hoped for
some such result through four years of good
and evil report have right to some feeling





public opinion has rarely won more remark
able triumph. 1t has made itself felt even
upon this Assembly, which seemed utterly
incorrigible. The first manifestation of this
action was on the 30th of January, when the
clause formally recognizing the Republic was
approved by majority of one, in the midst
of great agitation and against the real hOstil-
ity of the President and his Cabinet. This
slight advantage seemed a few days later to
have been lost, and nothing but dissolution
appeared practicable to break the deadlock
between the Assembly and the country. But
this reaction was only mOmentary. The
course of events was all in favor of the Re-
public, and on Wednesday this same clause
was finally adopted by vote of 433 to 262.
The wittcism of the Bonapartists on the last
day of January, "There is but one voice for
"the Republic" is likely to become sober
truth on the last of February.


The completeness and the regularity of the
proceedings by which this result was reached are
enough to compensate for all the disappoint-
ment and impatience with which the Repub-
licans have regarded the preliminary stages of
the Constitutional work. In four years of
struggle they have learned many things which
cannot fail to be of use to them in the future.
The good effect of this teaching has been re-
markably shown during the last week. They
have exhibited a spirit of discipline and COM
promise superior, We venture to say, to that
existing in any other parliamentary organiza-
ton on the continent of Europe, and fully
equal to that upon which the party leaders
are able to count here and in England. Once
they were beguiled for moment from the
straight path by the proposition of the Bona
partists to elect the Senate by universal suf-
frage but they made even that lapse means
Of grace BY their prompt recovery from 1t.