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Year: 1875

They had been to the match and had bet
all their ten cent notes on the Quicksteps.
They were disguised, not seven cents in the
crowd for street car ride. There were eight
and half of them, AMI had reached Tenth
and Madison, when venerable Quaker cou-
pie, the old lady with an umbrella and the
patriarch had hatchet. 1t was fine op-
portunity for fun and the eight and half
jostled the old lady's umbrella. It was
soon over, for the last seen of the gallant
eight was at Ninth and Jefferson, and the
umbrella in full possession of the field, with
the half in custody, who was allowed to join
his discomfted companion upon promise
not to bet Oh the Quicksteps again, until the
Sth inning has been played.
Year: 1875

The Water street loafer feels sad and
care-worn as Saturday fades away, and the
stiffness of Sunday takes the place of the
hustle and excitement of the preceding day.
He still has some consolation left, for he
can go up the alley and procure his accus-
toned drains, an unregenerate son of Erin,
felt this morning that he was getting over
powered with ennui, and meeting an Afri-
can citizen on Water street between Orange
and Shipley, commenced to demonstrate
with the dusky haired gent, on the impro-
priety of his action in occupying space on
the pavement in that locality. The darky
gave him some back talk, and then they
commenced to argue with their fists. A
crowd soon collected, and the white portion
of the crowd cheered on the Caucasian,
while the colored portion did the same for
their brother African.


The'white man got the other against the
fence and pummeled him with such vigor
that victory seemed to rest on his shoulders;
but the darkey, making desperate effort,
hauled the other out In the street, and gave
him hit which sent him. reeling to the
ground, and caused his head to make close
connection with the P. w. & B. railroad
track. The darkey then, thinking of the
proverb "He who lives to run away &C.,"
put up Orange street, pursued by the hoot-
ing crowd. The white man got up and ex-
pressed desire to Immediately whip any
black niger in existence. He appeared to
be provided with an extensive repertoire of
very original oaths, from which he called
many choice extracts. The last seen of
him he was endeavoring to get some enc to
give him five cents to invest in benzine of
the noted Water street brand.
Year: 1875

Judge Underwood, of Rome, to four
young lawyers who had just passed an
examination in his court: Young gem


tlemen, want to say thing or two to
you. You have passed as good an ex-
animation as usual, perhaps better; but
you don't know anything. Like these
young fellows just back from their
graduation college, you think you know
great deal. It's great mistake. II
you ever get to be any account, you will
be surprised at your present ignorance.
Don't be too big for your breeches. Go
round to the Justices court and try to
learn something. Don't be afraid-let
off upon a high key, You will, nc
doubt, speak great deal Of nonsense.
You will have one consolation-nobody
will know it. The great mass Of man
kind take sound for sense. Never mind
about your case, pitch in-you are about
as apt to gain as lose. Don't be ashamed
at the wise.looking Justice. he
don't know a thing. Hes a dead beat
on knowledge. Stand to your rack, fod


der or no fodder, and you will see day


light after a while. The community gen


orally suppose that you will be rascals


There is no absolute necessity that you
should. You may be smart without be


ing tricky. Lawyers ought to be gentle


men. Some Of them don't come up tC
Year: 1875

The question OF the taxation OF Church property Is
an important one and that deserves close attention
from the people; but il Is not national question In
any sense and has no proper place in national pocsf
II State question exclusively and should bo settled
BY the people Of each state the way that best suta
themselves -Piffsbro Commercial trep.)


Grants declaration favor Of discstabishng Ameri
can churches ana leaving them to be taxed like shoe
makers shops bakeries and profane mills has pro
voked tho Secretary Of the Methodist Sunday School
Union In Boston ropudiate the premature renomina
ton OF the President by Bishop Haven and the preach
era--Chica0o Times (dcm)


A church corporation has no more right TO expeci
that the people will pay rs than railroad or
banking corporation aud the President Is sound In the
position he has taken. n.-Chicago Tribune tyspl
Year: 1875

At wedding in town not many
days ago the organist did not ar
rive at the church until just as the
benediction was pronounced. Hur-
rying and stumbling up into the
organ loft he sat down before the
instrument and in his demoralized
mental condition commenced play
irg dirge under the impression,
probably, that he was officiating
at funeral. The brides big bro
tier was seen to rush up the gallery
stairs in great state of excite
ment. The judge remarked in
court, the next day, that although
the provocation was sufficient TO
merit strong remonstrance, tho
prisoner was not justified in beat
ing the organist as he did. Twenty
five dollars fine and costs.
Year: 1875

THE CITIZEN TO BE ENLARGEp-In tn, Citizen of July 10th we find the following

 "Next Saturday The Citizen will appea, precisely as large as the ARIZONA MINER, as we tind by measurement. This paper never has and never will take step forward under our management, that it'w will have s'to go back on" as the saying goes-therefore all its patrons may rest assured that the en- largement will be permanent"

 We are glad to notice such evidences of prosperity, they not only argue we'll for the success of the paper but speak good word for the country that supports it and en- courages its propristors in going 10 so great an expense. Suppose, however, that the paper shos!d take step in the wrong di- rection, as all things fallible are liable to do. would 1t keep on going wrong, or step back and start in right again? As, for instance, would it not be just as well 90 let General Crook rest since he has given us peace and gone from among us.
Year: 1875

Judge Dunne says, in his letter to us, that in the war times he did not understand the school question as well as he thinks he does now. For the purpose of showing how he understood it then, we copy from the Citi- zen certain extracts from speeches mads by him while member of the Nevada State Constitutional Convention in 1864;

 Mir. Dunne offered this proviso to Section ? of the educational article of the Consti- tuition:

 " "Provided, that the legislature shall have the power 10 pass such laws as shall make it compulsory with parents and guardians that all white children under their charge be- tween the ages of six and fourteen years, re- siding in incorporated cities and towns, shall receive educational instruction for at least three months in each year, unless physically or metally incapaciated."

 And among others made the following re- marks: {" It is from the cities and from the class of children in them which neglect to attend the public schools, that most of our criminals come, and maintain that where facilities for attending school are afforded, it should be made compulsory upon parents to send their children

 My opinion is, therefore, that it is the duty of the State to furnish the children the means of education, and then as a corollary, if it is the duty of the State to furnish tui. tional facilities, it is the duty of the child ren 70 attend upon them. There are many children who are daily squandering their time, and what Is far worse, contracting bab- its which will ultimate in crime in some form, and if we shall adopt some provision by which the authorities can exact their at- tendance upon de schools, they may be saved from an evil destiny, and the State will cer- tainly be the better for it."

 Again he said, "that if the people of the United States, and of Nevada in particular, were firmly impressed with the necessity of any one thing in the general policy of gov ernment, if was the necessity of fostering and protecting the common school system"

 And finally: Il believe, however, in turn ing our undivided attention, in the first place, to the common school system of the State, and do lot think that the interest derived from the school fund should be taken from the common schools and applied to the purpose of building up State University. | Therefore because there is special provision | made elsewhere for a State University, and | because re ought to endearor, in the frSt place, to secure Co our children he advantages of gosd common school system, I move that this last prOylso in Section be stricken out
Year: 1875

THE case of Manuel Abelis, who was con.

 domned to be hung here to-day, and has

 been respited by the Governor for two weeks.

 has been the subject of much discussion du- ring the past few days. A petition has been in circulation asking for communication of the sentence to imprisonment for life, and a majority of the people have signed it. Many assign as a reason that they were unwilling to see him hung while his companions in the crime were allowed to go free. We see nothing in such an argument and in signing It took only into consideration the man himself without reference to what was done with the rest. That he is guilty of helping to kill the man We have no doubt, and that he ought to be severely punished we are fully persuaded, but having heard portion of the testimony and been convinced that the deceased deserved killing, not by the hands of Abelis, of course, but that he was unfit to live, we thought the matter over, and concluded that if our name would have any influence in saving the man from death and putting him in prison instead, where he could do no further harm, we had not the heart to withhold it. This may be sickly sentimentalism, or maudlin weakness if you please, but We confess, that except in ex- treme cases, we think hanging man is not the best use he can be put to, especially as we arc now erecting safe prison at Yuma where convicts can be made useful to some extent, and kept without fear of escape besides, if Yuma is anything like what it is represented, it may be greater punishment to roast him to death there than to hang him at once and be done with it.
Year: 1875

| CALIFORNIA ALL RIGHT ON THE SCHOOL ] QUEsTIoN.-Both the Democratic and Re

 publican parties in California have incorpo-

 rated blanks in their platforms declaring

 that there shall be no division of the Public

 School Fund of that State among the reli-

 gious sects, but that the schools shall be

 public and free for all, the rich, the poor.

 the wise and the foolish. The itching palms

 of fanatics who would fain appropriate the

 school money to Sectarian uses have met

 with deserved rebuke from the delegates

 representing the two great national parties

 in California. This is not move against the

 Catholic Church, for the Democratic party

 of that State is largely composed of Catho-

 lies, il is simply a recognition by the party

 of those great fundamental ideas upon which

 the party and the laws of the country are predicated, freedom from religious interfe- renee in State affairs, and the right to wor- ship God according to the dictates of each individual conscience, even though foreign

 Dictator shall command otherwise. The so- called Independent party had not the inde- pendence to tackle the question, and let it pass, although they made the longest and most meaningless preamble and resolutions ever put forth by any party. The State will be safe in the hands eithor of the Re- publican or Democratic parties, because they have the courage to assert the right and act upon it. This matter of interference of the 1 creeds in school affairs is the most serious and threatening that any party will have to deal with in the future.
Year: 1875

TEE Democratic and Republican parties of California fixed themselves right on the record by putting blanks in their platform. against the division of the school funds among the sec:s, and the Independent party of Sonoma county, not to be placed in an equivocal position on that question, adopted the following resolution as a tenet of their faith:

 Resolred, That our public school system is worthy the commendation and support of every American citizen. and should be main- tained on the basis of free and unsectarian schools and an undivided school fund.
Year: 1875

DOUBLE TAxATIoN.-On the outside of

 this paper we republish a petition to

 the California Legislature, signed by tho

 principal law firms of San Francisco, calling

 for change in the law taxing mortgages, as

 unjust, unequal and particularly burden

 some on that enterprising class of citizens

 who do business on borrowed capital. The

 lender, it is true, pays the tax on the mort gage, but he always adds enough to his per- centage to cover it, and as the borrower has

 to pay on the money borrowed it is practi- cally taxing him twice on money that he really does not own cent of. This is the view taken in California where the capital ists reside, and where the officers whose duty it is to collect taxes have the best op- portunities to compel them to pay. The ob- Jections to the system in that State, have still stronger force in Arizona where opera tors are nearly all borrowers. They not only have to pay on the money borrowed but must remunerate the lender, who usually lives in California, for the tax he is supposed to pay on the mortgage that secures the debt, and in the end the Territo- ry fails to collect it because the holder has no real estate in the Territory out of which to make it, and the result is the borrower has paid twice and the Territory has only collected once. All political parties have pronounced against it, and some of them have incorporated blanks in their platforms pledging their representatives in the legisla- ture to reform the abuse.
Year: 1875

The Republican successes of Tuesday have
led the New York Herald to re-invoke the
third term spook. Originally it was an in
vention OF the Herald and for long time it
monopolized the matter, but by degrees a
large number of journals came to discuss it,
and great many honest people came to be-
lieve that there was something in it. At
present it is the utmost folly to attempt to
create a diversion in that direction. The
Presidents letter of last summer settled the
third term business, and if it had not the
resolutions Of the Republican conventions in
every state except Maine in the North have
settled the matter, not because the people
are hostile to Gen. Grant, but because the
country is opposed to the thing ITSELF The
Democratic press will follow the Herald in
raising third term hullabaloo but the thing
won't scare this year.
Year: 1875

IT is no ratter of surprise that only half
of the voters of Massachusetts go to the
polls when one considers what terrible re-
sponsbility man must feel at depositing one
of these 6x12 inch ballots where it may make
ruler of the peunle -
Year: 1875

We do not read anonymous letters and communi-
cations The name and address of the writer are in
all cases Indispensable not necessarily for publication
but as guaranty OF good faith.


We cannot undertake to return or reserve commu-
nications that are not used
Year: 1875

The San Francisco Chronicle treats
its readers to an essay on the uncer-
tainty, the worry and annoyance of
farming. After enumerating the mill
lions of small troubles to which the
tiller of the soil is subjected, 1t winds
up with the assurance that the cares
and anxieties Of stock broker are
not more nu merous and CALLING than
those of the farmer. We have known
for some years that the editor of the
Chronicle was an humble dabbler in
the noble calling of CINCINNATUs. We
have often heard him dilate on the
number and size of the vegetables
which would grow in the soil of his
overdowed land up on the San Joa-
quin river, when he could find some
one who would levee it and kill out
the tule, on the shares. We have
known PIXLEY to take his shot gun
and fight mosquitoes and shoot ducks
on the only five acres Of that land that
was out of water, for three whole days
at a stretch; but really we had no idea
his farming operations had been 30
unsatisfactory as to cause him to wish
he had chosen the profession of stock
broker instead of the occupation of
farmer.
Year: 1875

Here is another of those pleasant
letters which one finds now and then
in Eastern papers about California.
1t is really sad that we are to have no
crops this year. 1t is probable that
California will not export over fifty
million bushels of wheat this season.
But it is gratifying to know that "this
is not a bad country to live in." This
letter, written ION the spur of the mo-
ment''-a moment when truth was
not at home-we find in the Dallas
(Texas) Commercial:


MAJ. q. 4. CUTLER: deem it my duty to
correct some of the reports in regard to the
fertility of the soil, and the opportunities for
getting rich, that some OF the papers are SO
continuously spreading before the country in
regard to this section of the United States.
These reports are of the most exaggerated
character, and are calculated to ruin many
families If not corrected: 1t is true this is not
2 bad country to live in, but It is nothing
like what 1t is reported to be. The heavy frost
Of the last month has ruined the prospect for
crops for this year. The wheat and barley
their ruin. Fruits, too are killed, and all the
resources of this kind are cut of. 1t is true
that this Is an unusual season, and that the
like may not occur for years to come. Not
one-half of those now here can fnd employ
ment.


would not advise any one to migrate TO
California this year. If they are making but
half of a living they will do better than they
would in this country, unless they come with
plenty of means


1t is true that this is fine climate, and that
those with money can have almost any lux
ury they want; but those who come here with
the calculation of making that money will
have a rough time Of 1t.


have written these hasty lines on the spur
of the moment, but will promise you a long
letter before long. Yours, etc.,


SIGMA.
San Buenaventura, Cal, April 2s, 1875.
Year: 1875

The San Francisco papers are very
busy just now in the effort to convince
themselves and their readers that the
primary election lately held in that
city was unfairly conducted, the dele
gates fraudulently elected and that
dissatisfaction and discord prevail
among the Democrats. Reports of this
character are to be expected. Save
the Examiner, there is no Democratic
paper published in San Francisco, and
consequently Democratic proceedings
are seldom or never correctly reported.
The papers Of the largest circulation
are anti Democratic. The Call and
Bulletin are the organs of the Inde-
pendent party; the Chronicle and Alta
are and always have been Republican;
the Post has no influence, is every
thing by turns and nothing long, with
the standing motto that all is fish that
comes to its net. The people Of the
State generally understand this and
are not astonished or deceived by the
political news which comes to them
through the columns of the San Fran
cisco papers. We have taken some
pains to obtain correct information
relative to the condition of the Democ-
racy in San Francisco, and from an
intelligent and reliable gentleman
who came down from that city on the
last steamer we learn that there is no
basis for the reports of discord among
the Democrats which the papers are
sending forth. The vote at the pri.
mary was unusually large and the del
gates elected are unpledged on the can
didates for Governor or for any other
Office. They will send delegates to
the State Convention instructed to go
for the best and ablest men. No money
was spent except for tickets, and there
are no charges of corruption except
such as are invented and circulated by
men outside of the party, with whom
the wish is father to the thought. We
doubt not this statement is literally
true. At least it comes from one who
though not a politician is yet shrewd
observer and without prejudice or pre-
ference against or for any party.
Year: 1875

of the road between this city and the
water is now completed. A great deal
of heavy grading has been done in
the vicinity of Cajon Pass, and work
ON the tunnel in that Pass has been
crowded as rapidly as possible.
The piles for some seven or eight hun
dred feet of the wharf at Santa Mon
lea are already driven and the struc-
ture is growing out in the water as
fast as men and steam can build it,.
Senator JONES has given orders. to
have the wharf done by the last of
June. Ties and iron sufficient to
complete the road from Santa Monica
some distance East ofthis city are now
en- route and will arrive in few
weeks. Chief Engineer CRAWFORD
has just returned to this city from the
East, where he has purchased locomo-
tives and rolling stock for the road.
These are the facts, and we offer them
in evidence that the road will be built
from Santa Monica to Independence.
We cam ot, of course, offer anything
to allay the fear expressed that the
road will ultimately pass to the con-
troll of other parties, nor is the proba-
bility of its doing so matter for
grave consideration. The road, once
built, will be operated by some one,
and this is all that is necessary to in
sure the development and prosperity
of the country,
Year: 1875

THE suggestions of the HERALD
and Express to the Chamber of Com
merce and persons interested in dis
seminating correct information about
this portion of the State by sending
East copies of our weekly papers, is
meeting the approval of all. Great
efforts are being made in other por-
tions of the State to check the immi-
grafton now pouring into Southern
California, and unless we exert our
selves, those efforts will be, in part, at
least, successful. We can best and
easiest checkmate the move of our
jealous friends by sending broadcast
the truth, as found in the columns of
our local papers. The Chamber of
Commerce is alive to the Importance
of immediate action.
Year: 1875

A prominent San Francisco finan-
cier writesto the HERALD for infor-
nation concerning the Los Angeles
and Independence Railroad. He says
he is interested in the mines of Coso
and Panamint, but that parties with
whom he is in negotiation for the
sale of these mines do not believe that
our railroad will extend sufficiently
far into the interior to enhance and
facilitate mining operations in that
locality. They believe it probable
that the road will be built out forty or
fifty miles from Los Angeles, and
there stop and wait for bids from the
Southern Pacific Railroad Company.
In answer to our correspondent, we
will say that we have every reason to
believe that the gentlemen who are
investing In the Los Angeles and In
dependence Railroad are acting in
good faith and intend to build the
road, not only from Santa Monica to
Independence, but to extend it East


ward from the Point-of- Rocks to ajunc-
tion with the Utah Central, q distance
Of only 400 miles, thus giving US a
continuous railroad from Los Angeles
to the Western terminus of the Union
Pacific. The through connection is
now under consideration, and meets,


we are informed, the approval of Sen
ator JONES and other capitalists asso-
ciated with him. The building of the
road from this city to Independence,
we regard as certainty. The citizens
of this county have subscribed the
amount-$30O, ,00O-asked by the incor-
porators, and every part of the work
is moving forward. The route has
been surveyed and the road located a


greater portion of the distance be-
tween Santa Monica and the Eastern
end of Cajon Pass. The heaviest portion