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Year: 1875

A special from Troy, N. Y, says the Rev. Peter A. Masling of the German Methodist church, accompanied his daugh- ter to Pier No. p, East River, at 10 l-2 o'clock on the day the steamship Waco sailed, and remained with her until 3 4. During the time he was there large num- Der of barrels of oil were taken on board and slowed along the deck running around the cabin. So many of these casks were on board that the whole space fore and aft was occupied by them, and he therefore had some difficulty in making his way from the door of Miss Maelllng's cabin to the gangway leading down to the wharf. He can safely assert that more than forty casks were so placed. He also noticed boxes such as contain tins of Astral oil piled on the deck at the entrance aft, and saw large box which may have contained matches or other inflammable materials He considered 1t somewhat singular thai the persons slowing the barrels of oil were two of the cabin stewards, and noticed that the casks were heavy requiring two men tc handle each of them. He noticed on the countenances of the stewards and chamber maid an evidence of gloom and apprehen sion, and became so much impressed wi.t an idea that something unfortunate wa, about to happen that if he could have ac complished it after taking leave of hi daughter he would have withdrawn he from the vessel. He thinks that when i was seen that the passengers were of clas who could not resist shipment of oil, ad vantage was taken to put it on board at tn, last moment. During the time of it's bein! shipped other merchandise was being takel in the hold. He has lived at Galveston fo twenty years, and never knew of an in stance of lightning setting fire to anything there. Therefore he considers that the fir, arose from the materials aboard the Waco and not from Lightning. From the posi- ton of the oil, ranging fore and aft, nc possibility of saving the vessel could ex;s when once the fire broke out He intend. to commence legal proceedings against tho owners of the Waco for the loss of hi. daughter, and visits New York for that pur pose.
Year: 1875

A STRANGE DISCOVERY OF OLD HATS An interesting revolutionary relic, of special value in view of the approaching ce ltennial. was discovered in an old house in Minor street, yesterday afternoon. Workmen have been engaged for several days in tearing down an antiquated build ing at No. 5l3 in that street, and yester- day they went into the attic of the rear building. The roof had been left entire. but while some of the men were tearing out the solid partitions others began to pull down the ceiling. A heavy thrust with crowbar brought large section out in a lump, and, much to the astonishment of the workmen, a shower of heavy leather hats and caps pourd out from between the ceiling and the rafters and rolled at their feet. They were of all sizes and of several different patterns, and when the men got the accumulated dust brushed off 1t was evident that they had unearthed the head gear of band of revolutionary soldiers. Some of the hats, high in front and low behind, with no frontpiece, but with a

 

 heavy leather guard at the back to cover neck, closely resembled those worn by the Hessians; but others. of different shapes, and especially the large topped caps, were unlike the Hessian pattern, and looked as though they might have belonged to artillerymen or cavclrymen. One of tue high hats. much brighter and better preserv- ed than any of the others, had evidently belonged to an officer, and was ornamented with stripes of yellow paint. The building in which the hats were found Is low, three-story brick, with old-fashioned square windows, glazed each with twelve of the tiny panes of glass that the old-time.builders used. It is immediately in the rear ot Tower Hall, which stands on the site of what was for some time Washington's head quarters, and it is said that 1t was at one time used as a barrack for the British troops. It has lately been used as paper and rag warehouse, and in a day or two i, will disappear entirely, to make way for a more modern and commodious building Philadelphia Times, Oct. 9.
Year: 1875

A very bold attempt to escape from state prison was made on Wednesday evening about five o'clock. A convict named Wm. Johnson, New York burglar who was convicted at Bridgeport last spring for burglary, wcrke in the upper shoe shop of Hunt, Helbrook S Barber. As the line was being formed in the shop to march to the cells for the night, Johnson jumped through the window. first raising the sash and catching hold of an iron rod running into the main wall that holds the smoke stack or chimney to the engine house in position, he went up, hand over hand, and threw himself upon the roof of the shop outside, and then ran along the roof to the roof of the prison building, and from there went on to the wall, from which he drop ped to the ground, easing himself down by the caves. This brought him into the alley which runs along the north side of the prison to the barn, and he then jumped over into the garden to reach the roadway. Meanwhile the guard had fired at him, the weapon, however, having no charge of shot in it, and nothing but wooden plug in the muzzle of the barrel. The discharge gave an alarm which was heard by Alexan der He6fy, colored convict sentenced fol life from Hartford, who was at the barr doing chores with one of the assistants, and he started in pursuit and very soon oyer hauled Johnson and held him, which ended the excitement.

 The officers of the prison have for con siderable time suspected that Johnscn med itated some desperate attempt to escape, and he has been carefully watched. Nc one suspected, however, that he would make SC. bold an effort. It was the work of an instant, and no precaution could have prevented it, as the reckless daring ot breaking through a window and taking al most hopeless chances could hardly have been foreseen yet but for the presence ot Henry at the barn it is possible the fellow would have got away. H" Was upon being taken back to the prison placed in solitary confinement as punishment for his act Hartford Courant.
Year: 1875

New Siding.-Several new side tracks have been, and are being, put in ln various places along the line of the Conn. Western road. It is thought the new side track now being made at Whiting River fill, will ulti- mately become the main track, and the present main track be used for siding. Such change would vefy much improve the short curve, which yerks train about pretty lively when running rapidly over it at the western end of the fill

 We understand the two sidings in this village will soon be made into one long one, by building piece of track between the two to connect them.
Year: 1875

A BRAVE BRAKEMAN.-Clarence Hollis end brakeman in the employ of the consol- idated road, has been promoted to the posi- tion of baggage master. and Otto Hoyt, a common brakeman, to be end brakeman, both for heroic conduct. The other day when the 8. 10 a. m. train from New Haven for New York stopped this side of Bridge port at the draw-bridge two young lady school teachers alIghted and started across the track to reach the platform. As they did so they were mortified at beholdlng the milk train coming directly upon them. They ran toward the platform, then, in thelr confusion, back, then up the track, and finally stood transfxcd with horror, clutching each others hands. Otto Hoyt, centre brakeman of the BIO train, jumped from his car and rushed to the rescue, but the engine was so close to him that he gave up the task, being compelled to crouch close under his car to escape and receiving scalding from the steam. Clarence Hol- lis, the end brakeman, had little more time, as he was farther from the engine, and running on the track, feeling the ground tremble beneath hlm from the ad, vance of the train as he ran, he seized the ladies and sprang backward against his own car, holding them until the train had passed. So close was he to the engine that his cap was lifted by it and carried down the track. After the ladies had been cared for Hollis was cheered by the passengers who had expected to be unwilling witness es of double death, but not at all affected by these marks of respect and esteem, he went back to his post as if nothing had happened. .-Hartford Post.
Year: 1875

ASTOUNDING SToRY-In Jackson county, West Va., last week, grand house-ralsing took place. As is customary on such occa- sions, chickens had been killed by chopping off their heads. Two little sons of the owner of the house to be raised saw the chickens thus. guillotined, and during the day concluded to repeat the operation. It was just at time when the men were lift ing heavy log in it's place The fatber, who was holding one end of the log, casting his eyes towards the little fellows, one of whom had tke axe raised to sever the neck of his brother, let go of the log to save the boy, and it fell. killing six men, two instant. ly, the others living only few hours. The axe fell before the father could reach the scene, cutting off the head of the son.
Year: 1875

E3- Plymouth church is destined to keep itself before the people, both it's friends and enemies uniting to that end. The church has determined to sustain MT. Beecher, and why should his enemies, who believe him such an unparalleled minister al criminal, persist in retaining connection with either church or society that so dis graces itself in their opinion. Yet they will not be quietly relieved from so unde- sirable connection, but fly to the public prints at every movement of Plymouth church, looking towards final disruption of the relations existing between them and their former pastor. A single church or ganization would not suffice to contain MT. Beecher and those who waged so savage war against his reputation. As the intend ed victim doesn't step out, his assailants must, and it becomes them to do so with as little stirring up of disagreeable reminiscent ccs as may be.-Bosto,a Transcript.
Year: 1875

ADVERTISING BY HANDBILLs. Hard times have brouehr with them the cheap practice of advertising by hand-bills. Our sidewalks, filtered with the hand-bills of va rious trades, attest the folly of this prac. tice, and the waste of labor and matter. A hand-bill, and one mi.:ue later it is dropped on the ground. If i, be retained longer in the hand, the holder twists it around his fingers as he talks to companion or thinks about some matter of personal interest, and finally drops it upon the side-path to keep company with the litter of untwisted hand bills, and all this time the advertiser imag- ines that the public are reading all about his business, cheap goods, and the induce ments to buy at his store. He is told by the boys who distributed the bills that the latter have been put into the hands of the passers-by, on the principal streets, and that they must have been read. and his ex- pectations of a crowd of purchasers run very high, but the next day comes. and with it no unusual number of customers. He loses faith in thls means of advertising and falls back upon the old practice of ad- vertising in an old established newspaper He feels sure that this is not thrown upon the ground or otherwise wasted, but is first read for its news. and its advertisements and notices at least glanced over by the reader. His anticipations of an increase of custom are realized, and the class of cus- toners is good one, as nearly all reading classes are. Finding this the true way to advertise, he uses the columns of his paper to announce each new article as it is opened out for sale ID his store.

 Advertisers, look to your interests, and use the columns of the best papers to an nounce to the public the opening of your wares. Waste no money on hand-bills and other perishable means of catching the eye of the public, but go into newspapers which the people search daily for what is new.-Neao York Express.
Year: 1875

A BELL BuzzARp. The gooa people
OF Concord, Del. have been exercised
ior sometime over the mysterious jing-
ling OF tiny bell. The other day the
mystery was solved, as it was discov-
cred that q buzzard had been caught
by some person and a bell tied around
its neck. 1t so frightened the colored
people that not one of them could be
persuaded to venture outside the door
after dark.
Year: 1875

LINN CoUNTY.-We expect to publish
full and complete description of Linn
county, the price of lands in the different
sections, the population of the different
towns, with the amount and character of
the various industries pursued, the total
volume of business during the year.
together with n vast amount of interesting
and useful information to those especially
who are seeking MONIES in Oregon. through
the columns OF the REGISTER, about the
first of January, 1876. 1t will be an eight
page sheet of f1fty-six columns, and will
be sold to the general public Mt Zoe per
copy.
Year: 1875

FACTORY STORE BuRNED.-The Browns
vile woolen factory store burned down last
Friday. The store was used by the tailor
employed BY the factory in the manufacture
of clothing. The loss to the factory will
not amount to more than 1900. while the
tailor loses pretty heavily, probably as
unllci more
Year: 1875

Sam'l E. Young will soon be receiv-
ing new goods from San Francisco. In the
mean time You can get almost anything
you want at his store in the way of general
merchandise, groceries. etc.
Year: 1875

The Evangelical and Baptist churches
are pushing right ahead. and will soon be
ready for use. The Episcopal church is
not going up so rapidly. but will probably
be enclosed before wiuter sets in.
Year: 1875

California is pre-eminently the land


of wine and the country for the vine,


and Los Angeles county has taken
the leading position in viniculture.


Our equable climate, our unlimited
command of water, our freedom from
frost, the absence of severe winds and
the semi-tropical character of our
Summers all combine to produce in


the grape the proper saccharine quail
tiles, which make good wine. In
Europe the favored localities for wine


making are sit uated near the Isother-
NAL line, and just beyond them lie
the sections where grape growing is
precarious or even impossible. This
confines the choice grape growing re-


gions to a very small space and at
times the Isothermal temperature is
as unreliable as i'm less favored zones.
The product of these peculiar localities
is naturally limited and maintains q
very high price. In this neighbor-
hood, on the contrary, there is not
much choice in locality, the vine
growing we'll in any place in the coun-
try. The exposures of Southern slopes
are not necessary, as our Summer sun
reaches every locality where the vine
can be planted. France, Spain, Por-
tugal and Italy are not favored by ma
ture like Southern California and in
time our advantages of climate and
soil will be recognized by all vini-
culturists. OF late years our enter
prising vine growers and wine ma


kers have been making rapid
strides until our vines are
counted by millions and our wine
product is estimated at over a million
gallons annually. Next year our lead
ing wine makers will exhibit their
manufactures at the Centennial, and
will show the world the capacity OF
Los Angeles county in this industry.
They are willing to exhibit side by
side with France and Spain, and we
are assured the comparison will not be
unfavorable. OF the profits of wine
making vineyards we cannot present
any figures, though we believe in time
Year: 1875

The San Bernardino Zines publishes
the following:


They had been married but a few
months. He was from the South, she
a native of the Northwest. While q
passenger on Mississippi steamer he
first met and became acquainted with
her who is now his wife. A tender at
tachment soon followed their meeting,
and in due course of time they were
married and came to California. She
obtained position in the public
schools of San Francisco and he was
employed in a wood yard, both receiv-
was attractive to the young husband,
but he soon became weary of the mo-
notony of domestic life and wandered
off in search of "new fields and pas
lures green" Discord and dissen-
sion followed. Harshness, cruelty
and neglect usurped the place
where fond affection dwelt. A
separation followed. She came
to Southern California and he
remains in the wood yard OF the me-
troDolis. Such is the story she told q
San Bernardino lawyer when she ap-
piled to him to institute proceedings
for a divorce on the grounds of ex-
treme cruelty and neglect. But, alas!
although the lawyer was willing to
assist the fair applicant, he had to tell
her that as she had not been a resi-
dent of the State six months, the
Courts of Equity were closed against
her. She departed on the stage for
Cotton and will endeavor to pass u
short time in country school house
until she can truthfully claim that
California has been her residence for
six months.
Year: 1875

PALIsADE, Dec. 2d.-The express
train going south on the Eureka and
Palisade Railroad was thrown from
the track last night about six miles
from Eureka. The spikes had been
drawn from three rails by parties who
were doubtless intent Or robbing
Wells, Fargo d Co.'S Express. They
failed however TO put in an appear
ance after the train was ditched. A
snow storm had occurred just before
the train arrived at that point, and it
is supposed that th.. robbers fearing
they would be easily tracked
abandoned their design. No one was
hurt and there was no material dam
age to raih Dad property.
Year: 1875

The cement around Guibord's cof-
fin, in the Catholic cemetry at Mon
treal, is now as hard as limestone
rock, but the police are still on duty
at the grave. The Governor-General
and the Queen have both expressed
their joy at the peaceful termination
of the affair.
Year: 1875

THE DAILY and WEEKLY HER
AID has more than double the cir
culation Of any other paper published
in Southern California. Business men
recognize it accordingly as the best
advertising medium South of San
Francisco.
Year: 1875

est in barring tho road of England to the East oh
the other hand, all tho powers concerned IN the
Eastern question-Turkcy herself excepted-may
accept this as notice that England has secured the
thing essential to her. and that she may not feel
called on to interfere in tho disposition OF the
rest What she has acquired is, indeed, nero
interest in a commercial undertaking. but IT pledges
her to protect that interest, and to fight anybody VINO
threatens it, The Suez Canal can now never DO
closed to England so long as England romans
great power. That her determination has long been
taken that it never should be, do not doubt but
this is the announcement of her determination 10 all
the world the hoistng of flag which can never 80
down but in defeat and irreparable disaster. AS
such it is probably the gravest political resolution
she has taken since 1915. o. W. B.
Year: 1875

BROOKLYN, N. \ e, Sept :, 1917.
Samuel Townsend, Esq,


Der .Sir:-It was quite lisappoint
mcnt to me this morning when learn
ell that the shipment of peaches to Eng
land had not turned out as expected.
1t is to be regretted that they did not
arrive in q sound condition; but the
cause is evident and easily remedled.
AS you no doubt know, it was due en-
tirely TO the giving ont of the ice. SO far
as our ability to carry the peaches is con
cerncd, there is not the least question.
1t was my intention and my cndcavor
to rcfrigerate the peaches for SO to IS
hours before the sailing of the ship,
thus removing all the heat before the
starting, making it only necessary to
maintain the temperature already oh
tanned; but it was impossible for me
to do so, owing to lack of time. | am
positive that if the peaches had been
thoroughly chilled before starting, the
10 tons of ice would have been more
than sufficient to carry them over safe
ly. If the room had been filled with
warm meat there is not the least doubt
in my mind but that there would have
been ice enough to keep it. | am
thoroughly satisfied on this point from


Continued on fourth pagc.)
Year: 1875

Messrs. Peter Wright d Sons,


Dear .Sirs'-I received both your de.
spatch and letter in regard to the fail
ure to deliver our peaches in good or
der at Liverpool. You admit that the
supply of ice was exhausted on the
Goth of August, and your ship Ohio
sailed on the Goth and lost one day in
the river, giving sufficient time to
have laid in additional amount of ice
III the person in charge of the refrige
rator had been competent person and
had understood the business he would
have examined how much ice had
been exhausted the first twenty four
hours. However, we, the peach grow
ers who shipped the two thousand
| crates of peaches, have nothing to do
with the failure of the refrigerator
Weagreed TO give you certain amount
of money for certain compartment
OF one OF your American built ships,
fitted up as Il refrigerator, from Phila
delphia to Liverpool. We pat our
peaches on board and paid yon our
money in good faith; You made said
compartment a refrigerator for three
| days, from the 2Gth to the 29th Of
| august At WHICH tllllc you AUNT tuC
ice was exhausted; and therefore the
compartment at the same moment
ceased to be a refrigerator, and you
therefore broke your contract and win
be required at least to refund IL our
money, and have your redress from
the incompetent person you employed
to make refrigerator out 0t ono Of
the compartments in the steamer Ohio


lou will please let me hear from YOU
as soon as convenient. Yours respect
fully, SAMUEL TOWNSEND.


T.. S.-Hinckley, President of thc
p, w, u b. X, II. Co., has given or
ders to all his agents at stations where
said peaches were shipped to refund
the freight to the shipper, although he
carried the peaches up to Philadelphia
safely.
Year: 1875

ARIZONA LAws.-0n the outside We pub- ilsh the law passed last winter with reference to herdIng sheep. The regulations under which one land owner may herd within two miles of the land of another are pehaps clear enough to those better versed in land mat ters than we are, but from casual reading we fail to comprehend it fully. This law. as will be seen. applies only to this and Mohaye counties.

 We also publish . section from the law passed to enable Arizona to become an ex- nio'tef at the Centennial, which makes it the do'y or each board of supervisors to appoint an agent in April.
Year: 1875

The Indian Agent, Mir. Tonner report,

 that the Wallapai Indians have left their res

 ervation on tho Colorado river and gone ir

 the direction of Bill Williams Fork and

 Beale's Springs.

 All the necessary steps are being taken by

 General kautz to return these Indians to

 theH proper reservation. The supposed cause of their leaving the Colorado is on ae. - count of ftheir removal from the Sub Agency at La Psz, by the Indian Department, where they have been informed rations would no longer be issued to them and that their SUD- plies in future would be given them at the Colorado Reservation.

 We have been of opinion all tho time that it was dangerous policy to inaugurate these removals just as the Indians begin to culti- vate and make their new homes attractive.

 It IS especially unfortunate that the Sub Agency at La Paz should be broken up and dissatisfaction created among the Wallapais just at this time, when all the scouts are sent away to San Carlos, and the 9th Cavalry is about to leave the Department. It will be several months before the Sixth can reach here from Texas. General Kautz, however. we believe to be equal to this or any other emergency. and though he will have nothing but Infantry to operate with he is fully de- tesmned to do his whole duty, and the Wal lspais will soon have to submit to the change of locations or take another sound drubbjps.

 1t is tery desirable that the Interior and Military departments should work together m harmony, and tkere are hopeful indica- tions of their inclination to do so The former has, we think, committed an error of management in making removals when the Indians had become pesc.able and satisfied pr ii 1t was not error to remove them it cer- 'a'nly was neglect of duty not to inform he military commander of such intention in lime to allow him to prepare for she conse- luences.