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Year: 1874

THE Southern Pacific railroad is now completed to Bakersfield in Kern county, California. With all the spiteful abuse sf Governor Stanford and his associates by tue self-styled independent press of Cal ifornia, they are doing more. and have been for more than twelve years past, to make accessible the remote parts of Cali fornia from the seaboard, than any other company of men now in that State or ever were in it.
Year: 1874

Our stock has been selected with great care by one of the firm of most

 EXTENSIVE EXPERIENCE and with especial reference to the require ments of THIS MARKET. We are conh- dent we meet the necessities of our custO- mers at as REASONABLE RATES as any house in the Territory.

 To examine our stock and PRlCE out goods, will be to purchase.

 FULLY, OCHOA & co.
Year: 1874

GENTLE reader, do you know the value
of the grape? We are not speaking of
the juice, nor of the wine, which may
become a" mocker," nor of the brandy,
which (still worse) may come to be
fatality; but our topic is the fresh, lus-
cious, health giving grape. For the
elderly or the young people there is no
more healthful fruit. No fruit now in
market is cheaper; none is ever in finer
condition at any season of the year than
the ripe grapes of autumn. The various
small fruits, such as strawberries, cher
ries, raspberries and blackberries, often
get stale before they reach the hands OF
many of our city consumers. Grapes
keep well for days and days. During
many coming weeks they will be abun-
dant and cheap


Flour and meat we think we must
have; but for the bilious, for persons
troubled with the various difficulties of
the stomach, the liver and the kidneys,
grapes are a grateful fruit, and at the
same time a valuable medicine. For
children, for the delicate and for the ro-
bust, also, what autumnal food is equal to
nice, fresh, ripe grapes? And emphatic
ally we say that grapes are strong food;
that in them we have not only the most
healthful and the only naturally-adapted
sugar, called by the chemist grape-sugar
Infinitely superior to that chiefly exotic
product, cane sugar-being more digesti-
BILE, more. natural and more healthful,
especially for sedentary persons in
temperate climates), but we have also the
healthful acids and notable amount of
those nitrogenous essentials which are
blood makers, not to speak of the various
salts which have also become necessary
constituents of the blood.


We say again, now eat grapes. In the
country the writer of these paragraphs
has few grape-vines; one, an entirely
wild and natural vine, which bears grapes
as large as small plums But he does
not raise one-fourth so many grapes as
the mouths dependent upon him gladly
consume; probably not one-tenth so
many as they ought for their health, and
for true domestic economy, to con-
sumo We write this to promote double
interest. Our city people could eat
twenty times as many grapes as they do;
our country friends could find forty
times the encouragement which they
now have to send grapes to market; and
both classes would be great deal better
for it.-N. Y. E0eni1ag Post.
Year: 1874

THE blind King of Hanover has re-
turned to Paris to have another look at
the art treasures of the city, for, although
an indefatigable sight-seer when with us
a wear ago, he could not get through all
there was to be seen. This may seem an
odd way of speaking of blind man, but
there is not much exaggeration about it.
King George sees with the eyes of his
daughter who has faculty possessed
by few With her father upon her arm
she enters museum or any public place
and begins a conversation in low, run
ming voice, giving, in few words, a gen
eral idea of the room and of the people
in it, then going into details as they go
on. The King enters like a man with
good eyes, and, when on his daughters
arm, never fails to return the salutes
addressed to him from whatever direc-
ton they may come. 1t is evident,
therefore, that there is some system of
telegraphy known to the two, and from
long habit the King has become SO eX-
pert that he rarely makes mistake. AT
a soiree he is led up to the host or
hostess, bows at the right moment, and
goes through the ceremony with all the
ease of man who can see. He even
pays most unexpectedly compliments,
when the daughter, without saying a
word, telegraphs that lady is young
and beautiful; and when surprise is ex-
pressed King George gallantly replies
that he sees with his soul. When l saw
him at the Louvre / longed for an op-
portunity to hear what the Princess
said as they went from picture to
picture, the King looking intently upon
the wall, but could hear nothing but a
low hum too indistinct to be compre-
hended by ears less attentive than those
of her father Her language cannot be
understood by others, even when not
spoken with the usual rapidity. 1t is
very touching to see the love and devo-
ton of this young Princess.-P0qis Letter.
Year: 1874

The hen seemed to thrive and ate well,
but it was evident she had something on
her mind She seemed weighed down
with grief of some undischarged Sh1ty.
A few days ago Mr. Fithian killed the
chicken and on dissecting her discovered
twenty-eight full-sized, well-shaped eggs,
the only difference between them ana
marketable eggs being that they were
minus the hard shell. The cause of the
poor hens dependency was now ex-
planned. She had done her duty, had
prepared her eggs for delivery, but


owing to some obstruction nature re-
fused to perform her share of the work.
Year: 1874


on, haunting dreams of sweet summer dead
Ye bring me heart-aches in your whispers low
Echoes of song may not hear again,


Voices whose tones were silent long ago;
Visions of orchards crowned with bridal bloom
Where apple blossoms scent the air of May.
And from the sloping hillside comes the sound
Of sweet-voiced children at their happy play
There is low, sad rustic in the air,


Among the yellow banners OF the corn;
The faded sunfower droops her heavy head,
The garden border of its wealth is shorn,
subtle stiffness broods DER all the scene,


The benediction Of the year has come;
The sheaves are garnered from the fading held,
The husbandman has sung the Harvest


Home.'


In faded meadows where the partridge trills


His clear, lOud song to call his wandering mate
The streams are shallow and the grasses brown,
Where scarlet poppies fecked the field but late
There is q whisper in the falling stream, :.
A sigh thro' all the aisles of forest trees,
A tremulous vibration in the songs


The wild birds pour upon the evening breeze
The sweet, dead days will come to us no more;
New summers may bring harvests of delight,
Fair DAYS may dawn with eyes of splendid hue
They cannot shine SO infinitely bright
AS the sweet vanished hours that we have lost;
Or are they only garnered safe and sure,
To wait for us in some far future world,


Where summers shall eternally endure!
The rustling leaves drop softly at my feet,


Warm airs caress my cheeks with loving kiss,
No chill of autumn shvers in the air,


Yet something indefnable miss.
Oh! summer sweet, if never more on earth


| may rejoice in all your beauty rare,
/ cannot say farewell, for we shall meet


Where you will bloom more infinitely fair.
D. N. Jordan, IN ChurCh'S Musical Visitor.
Year: 1874

1t is noted as singular fact that,
while the sources of the supply OF quick
silver are multiplying with UNPRECEDENTED
rapidity, there is no reduction in the
price of the article, The ore is mo-
nopoly,
Year: 1874

4 cold is simply a developer OF dis.
eased condition which may have been la.
tent or requiring only some favoring con.
dition to burst out into the flame of dis
ease. That this is usually the correct
view of a cold as disease-producing
agent under all ordinary circumstances
may be made plain by reflection upon per.
sonal experience, even to the most ordi.
nary understanding. When the human
body is at its prime-wlth youth, vigor,
purity, and good constitution on its side
no degree of ordinary exposure to cold
gives rise to any unpleasant effects. All
the ordinary precautions against colds,
coughs, and rheumatic pains may be dis
regarded, and no ill effects ensue But let
the blood become impure, let the body be-


come deranged from any acquired disor-
der, or let the vigor begin to wane, and
the infirmities of age be felt by occasional
arrangements in some vital part, either
from inherited or actual abuses, and the
action of cold will excite more or less dis
order of some kind, and the form OF this
disorder, or the disease that will ensue,
will be determined by the kind of pre-ex.
isting blood impurity, Or the pre-existing
fault of the organic processes. 1t follows
from these facts and considerations that
the secret of avoiding the unpleasant con-
sequences thought to -pIing wholly from
the section Of cold upon the body has very
little dependence upon exposure, but
great deal upon impure and weak condi-
tion of all the vital processes. In other
words, with an average or superior con-
stitution and an intelligent observance Of
all the laws of health, men and women
could not take cold ifthey wanted to ; they
might be exposed to the action of cold to
a degree equal to the beast of the field,
and with like impunity. But in case of
persons with feeble constitutions, and who
disregard knowingly or otherwise the con-
ditions of healthy existence, no degree OF
care will prevent the taking of cold, as it
is formed. They may live in houses reg
ulated with all the precision of hot
house, they may cover themselves with
the mort highly protective clothing the
market provides, and yet they will take
cold. | don't think the consumptve per-
son lives. or ever will live, even if keptin
a temperature absolutely uniform, and
clothed in q wholly faultess manner. in
whom the wel-known signs of one cold
after another will not be apparent. But,
on the other hand, there are those who,
like the late Sir Henry Holland, OF good
constitutions. and living in accordance
the laws OF health, may travel, as he did.


from the tropics to the arctics again and
| again, clad only in an ordinary dress-cOat,
and yet scarcely know what it is to have
cold or sickness of any kind. The truth
is, to avoid taking cold from ordinary or
even extraordinary exposure, the vital
processes must be made strong enough to
rise above the untoward influence OF ex-
ternal conditions. From the Sanitarian.
Year: 1874

PzRsoNAL.-We received, this morning, SO
the Philadelphia City Item, who came down last
evening for the purpose OF attending Professor
Kruegers grand norsl reception, at the Masonic
Temple. We found him to be an accomplished,
genial gentleman, and courteous representative
Of the society whose doings he records. His re-
port OF the reception will appear in the next sun
day edition of the ITEM.
Year: 1874

The New York Times says you might
neatly as we'll forget your churches,
your academies and schoOl-houses as to
forget your local paper. 1t speaks to
ten times the audience your local min
lister does. 1t is read eagerly each
week from beginning to end. 1t
reaches you all, and if it has Il lower
spirit and less wisdom tn: IN Il sermon,
il has thousand times better chance
at you. La.in as it does, you owe it
to yourselves to rally literally to its
support, and exact from it as able,
heightened a character as you do from
any educator iu your mist. Ii is in no
sense beneath notice and care-uEless
you yourself is beneath notice and care
Tor it is your representative. Indeed
in its character it is the summation of
the Importance, intererest and welfare
of you all. 1t is the aggregate OF your
own consequence, and you cannot ig-
nor it without miserably depreciating
yourselves.
Year: 1874

While an immense crowd of people
was congregating about the State
House to witness the inaugural cere.
monies (fOr it began to assemble early


in the day. DIN affecting incidnnt was


teking place in the Executive chamber,


OF which there were but two eye-wit-


nesses. Hundreds of guests had call


Ell and scores were calling to say their


good-byes to Gov. NOyes. among


those who entered the chamber, how


ever, was an old man, thin, .wrinlked,


pale and gray-haired, and much bent


by age and manifest suffering. He
timidly asked to see the Governor, who
stepped aside with him. The old


man said he would have called before,


but had been sick. He came at that
late hour to make an appeal for the
pardon of an erring son, who had been
confined in the penitentiary for seven
years, and who had three more to stay.


what is the name of your SOM" ask
cd the Governor. The old man gave
it. Gov. Noyes then, without making
any definite reply, requested him TO
step into his private room and wait till
he was at leisure. The fact was, the
pardon had been granted early that
morning, and the old mans daughter
had already gone to carry the pardon
to her brother and. accompany him
from the penitentiary to the Governors
office. In few moments the liberated
man arrived with his sister, neither ex-
pecting to find the father there, and
the father not dreaming that the par
don had already been granted. One
can readily Imagine the scene rs the
Governor conducted the two to his
private room. The son flew to his
father and embraced him, and then


dinging his arms around the Cover
nor's neck, covered his face with kiss
rs. The old man, overcome by the
great happiness of the moment, sank
into his chair, sobbing like a child.
There were no dry eyesin that room,
and those who, few minutes later,
were talking and chatting with the re-
firing Governor in the reception
room, little imagined in what
touehingly pathetic scene he had been
a participant. The liberated man has
a wife and child eight years old. a sis
ter, and aged parents. 1t will be
pleasant reflection during his lifetime
to Gov. Noyes that it was one of the
last acts of his Executive power to fill
one household with the sunshine of
aud restored the beloved
one long separated from them who had
fearfully condoned for his crime.
Year: 1874

Gothic called on Schiller one day. and
not finding him at home, seated him.
self at his friends writing table to note
down various matters. He was soon
seized with a strange disposition, from
which he nearly tainted, but finding it
proceeded from a dreadful odor, he
traced it to drawer, which he found
full ofdecayed apples. He stepped out
of the room to inhale the fresh air,
when he met the wife of Schiller, who
said her husband kept the drawers al
ways filled with rotten apples because
the scei.t was so beneficial to him that
he could not think of work without II.
Year: 1874

1t has just been discovered that, If
iron pyrites are roasted a second time
In proper furnace with fresh ore, both
above and below, cast iron containing
only one or two thousandths of sulphur
can be made directly from It,
Year: 1874

motion was made before Judge Donohue,
IN the Supreme Court yesterday for order prohibit
the from allowing and the executors from
carving out distribution of the late James b. Tay
Of the Court OF Appeals reversing the surro-
gates Judgment Decision reserved after the arsu-
ment


Daniel Fallon's suit against the city for
n7Soo due for the occupancy Of Nelson Hall on
Fteenth-st which he leased in 1877 for armory pur
poses at year. trial before Judge Van
Brunt in Supreme Court Circuit Part III The plaintiff
UP properly executed lease, while the city holds
Board OF had authority TO make
lease and that 1t the result OF colusOn between
Faon and persons acting in the interest OF the Board or
SuperylsOrs. Messrs McKeOn and Smyth appear for
the plaintiff and Dean and Carter represent the city,


Judge Daniels rendered decision yesterday
regarding the two motions made on Wednesday in the
Supreme Court IN the matter Of Henry Clewss prop
srty He denies both motions and dismissee the pro-
ceedings with costs One motion by the First
National Bank OF TarrytOwn and the other by another
Judgment creditor Louis E SCHNEIDER; first, for an
order compel Mr. Cews appropriate enough OF his
property 20 satisfy judgments against him; secondly
for the appointment OF receiver OF his properly
Judge Daniels accompanies his decision with long
opinion in which he gives his grounds for denying both
motions and dismlssiDg the proceedings against Mr.
Clews T.
Year: 1874

not depositing their eggs like most
other.fish. They would need no
eyes in this dark abode, for not a
single ray Of light ever enters this
gloomy chamber of. darkness and
[silence. -.


The prettiest part of the cave is
Gothic Arcade, which is entered
from the main cave by a flight OF
wooden stairs fifteen feet high, and
leads off nearly at right angles,
about one mile and halt. After
proceeding a few steps the iirst
object pointed out to you by the
guide is the Seat of Memory, which
IS niche in the wall just large
enough for a person to occupy,
The story is, that a female Indian
was found sitting III this, clad in. the
skins of wild animals and ornar
mentcd with trinkets, and a child
close by; and the supposition is.
that she wandered into this part sof
the cave, and becoming lost and
bewildered, sat down and died. It.
is we'll established fact that per-
sons have on several occasions, lin
gered behind their party, lost their
way, and in their excited attempt
to regain them, have fallen down
and extinguished their lights; and
under the oppressive feeling Of
loneliness, and the utter darkness
and. silence that reigns around
them, have become partially insane
and only recovered after months or
years of rest. Near this is a large
stalactite which reaches from
the ceiling above to the floor, and
from it's resemblance to the trunk
Of a tree, is called the Post Oak.
All along this cave is number Of
stalactites hanging from the wall Of
different lengths, some reaching to
the floor, others only a part of the
way, and beneath these upon the
floor are stalagmites formed from
the dripping above. These rocks
are carbonate of lime, and are very
hard as I found in my attempt to


break off a piece as a memorial.
Here is the Register Room also, so
fcalled from the number of names
traced upon the walls and ceiling
| by the smoke of a candle. Some
people are so ambitious of notorie-
ty, that in violation of good taste
they trace their obscure names
upon these beautiful walls, to be
read and straightway forgotten as
they deserve to be. This room is
one hundred yards long, and from
eight to sixteen feet to the ceiling,
Which is beautifully white, and as
smooth as if plastercd by hand. |
next came to Lovers Leap where a
rock projects over a pit below, 70
feet deep, and lovers can walk out
upon it and leap below which is 4
sure panacea for all their aches;
but not being particularly effected
in that way I declined to make the
experiment and returned once
more to the light of heaven and
felt greatly relieved.


Now, Messrs. Editors, | have
written more about the cave than l
expected to, but the half has not
been told. There arc scores OF
halls and avenues and domes and
pits and passages, that are soon for
gotten unless dotted at the time;
but I fear Of firing you, and will
promise not to trouble yourreaders
any more, being on my way to my
pleasant home. F. A. @.
Year: 1874

| JAN. lsT, 1874.
DEAR ADVANCE The people out in this
" bowling wilderness" are ever ready to
greet you with hearty welcome.
We are anxious to hear how the good
work is prospering in other parts of the
world. We are very weak here as yet,
there being but two Oranges in the county,
but we live in g hope" that we shall have
accessions to our number ere-long. Al
though We do not realize much pecuniary
benefit as yet, I can see that the social
feature of the order is doing~a} great deal
Of good in our Grange. Our Grange is
wide awake, and when the time comes for
strike you may expect to hear from u.s.
Our Worthy Master has just returned from
the State Grange. Hope soon to see the
proceedings Of that body in print.


think that as Patrons we have reason
to rejoice that we can muster such an army
Of acorthy brothers. have no doubt but
that they did the business up in the best
possible manner. For one I am glad that
they were unable to get a majority in favor
of cutting down the representation. think
that every Grange should be represented,
and if there is no city in the State large
enough to hold them, let US meet in warm
weather and camp out. I think this would
be the better plan anyway small sum Of
money would fit up a capital place. And
then we could have all the room we pleased
to use, and good time generally, and take
oil the time we please and no fear of being
in anybody's way.


There are several advantages to be de-
rived from such plan as this, and we
hope to hear from others on the subject.


Excuse us for this intrusion and believe
US yours in sympathy.


JAMES A. AUSTIN,


W. L., Spring Grove Grange
Year: 1874

Advices from Washington intimate that
the House Committee on Appropriations
has worked through enough of the estimates
to justify the conclusion that from twenty
tive to thirty millions can be saved. To do
this, however, nearly all the appropriations
for Notifications, rivers and harbors. and
public buildings will have to be cut off. IF
this is the best the committee can do, there
WILL be very strong popular conviction
that 1t might be strengthened and improved
by the accession Of gentlemen of somewhat
keener and quicker perceptions.


The flush times Of the war fostered ten
dency to extravaganza in all departments
OF the public service, and, though we re-
duced everything else to a peace footing
long ago, the appropriation bills have es,
capped the pruning process till now. That
they must come down, has been theory
not disputed by anybody; yet the nerve to
begin and adhere to the unpleasant re-
trenchlng process has not been found when
1t was wanted. Every member was ready
to cut down estimates for works or for sim
ecures in every district but his own. but
resolutely opposed applying the pruning
knife to anything affecting the real or SUD-
posed interests OF his constituents. The in :.
evltable consequence has been a compro-
mise which gave to everybody everything
he wanted, and kept the appropriations for
ordinary purposes up to about double what
they should be. Now, it has become nec-
essary either to borrow money for the run
ming expenses Of the government, to in
crease the taxes, or to reduce the expendi-
lures.


If the Congressman could persuade
themselves to put little restraint upon
their own selfshness and the greed of their
districts, it cannot be doubted that forty or
fifty millions might be Topped from the ap-
preparation bills without .impairinc the ef-
ticiency of any part Of the public service.
1t has already been made apparent that the
people will view any addition to the Ia.
tlonal debt or to the burdens of taxation
with displeasure and alarm There should


be no hesitation about following the only
other practicable road out of the financial
difficulty in which we are involved, and
cutting down the expenditures within the
probable limits of the revenue.-CN;ca0o
Post.