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Year: 1874

very interesting but pathetic story of
the life OF an orange planter named
Landman. Thirty years ago he
came into possession, as squatter,
of the Island of Cheniere on the Cult
Coast. He was at that time very
young and full of enterprise. BY
hard labor, year after year, he sue
ceeded in raising one Of the largest
and finest orange orchards in Louis
iaua, although he worked alone for
years. After time he married and
took his wife to the island, and for
years they enjoyed one of the hap
piest Of homes. Children were born
to them and their work was remu-
nerative, SO that they laid up a hand
some sum. Then sickness came,
and, one by one, the family died un-
til the father was left alone again.
Brooding upon his troubles, he fan
cied that the spirits of the dead
were about him, and soon became an


ardent believer in Spiritualism. At
this point some greedy land specula-
tors discovered tina. he had no valid
title to his land, and set about in the
courts to dispossess the old man of
his island home. He would not re-
tain counsel, but relied upon the
spirits to help him manage his case.
OF course there could be but one is
sue to the case. There was practi-
cally no defense at all. His spirit
friends did not help him. He lost
his home where he had lived for
thirty years, and where his wife and


children were buried. When the
judge announced his finding and de-
cree, the poor old man arose in court
and his sole reply was: "Please your
Honor, there is no redress for me in
earthly courts; l therefore appeal my
cause to the higher courts of the
third Heaven" This is an appeal
which cannot and will not be laid
aside. His compensation will come.
Year: 1874

A contemporary says: A newspaper
and a newspaper editor that people
don't talk about and sometimes abuse
are rather poor concerns. The men
and business that an editor some
times feels it duty to defend at a
risk of making enemies Of another
class, are often the very first to show
ingratitude. The editor who expects
to receive much charity or gratitude
will soon find out his mistake; but
he should go ahead and do what he
conscientiously thinks right, without
regard to froWns and smiles
Year: 1874

Among the recent discoveries OF
ancient ruins in Mexicois that Of an
arti6cially executed grotto, fifteen
miles from, Tancitaro, in the stGte Of
Michoacan. The grotto is represented
to be, of immense depth and vast ex-
tent; the remains of walls and arched
corridors are still to be seen, and
many curious specimens of the hadi-
work Of IAN unknown race has. been
brought from this subterranean pal
Two citizens of a neighboring village
recently penetrated into the cavern
ous depth of the grotto and lost their
way. Three days and nights were
spent in wandering through the laba-
rynthine passages Of this place before
they found an outlet from their
strange imprisonment. Subsequent
to this competent persons made a
more thorough examination Of the
grotto, when the fact that at some
unknown period in the past it mad
been shaped by human skill, and wall
ed in on every side by human hands,
was revealed. 1t is q dark labyrinth,
surprising in extent ard intricacy
the fabled one constructed by D9da-
lus. Tie walls are of masonry, and
the passage ways, which connect the
chambers, are arGhed over with stone.
These evidences Of human skill and
cortrivance lead to the supposition
that it is tho work of an aboriginal
race which long ago pcrished.
Year: 1874

FARMERS BooTs AND SHOES. = A
farmer who has been accustomed to
wearing thick boots for more than
forty years past, says that before
wearing the boots, give tho bottoms a
good coating of tallow or coal tar,
and dry it in; then oil the Jumpers"
with castor oil, about one tablespoon
full to each boot, then oil them twice
a week with the castor oil, when one
tcaspooniul will be sufficient. If the
weather should be rainy, or you are
compelled to work in water dnring
the day, wash your boots clean at
night, hold them by the fire until
quite warm, and oil them while wet,
and you will have no trouble about
your boots getting hard and shrink
ing up so that you cannot get them
on. If the leather should become
red, give a coat Of ordinary shoe
blacking before oiling. The effect ot
castor oil is to soften tho leather
while it fills tho pores and prevents
the water from entering. | have
stood in mud and water two or three
inches deep for ten hours day for


week, without feeling any dampnes'
or having any difficulty in getting m!


boots on or off.
Year: 1874

In a hospitalin Montpelier, France,
is q patient who has just swallowed a
thermometer left on his table, while.
suffering from temporary deliriulns
They have a great deal of trouble
with him now. When he drinks hot
coffee that thermometer flies up
against the roof of his mouth hard
enough to lift his hat off. and when
he eats ice cream it gets down in his
boots and worries his corns. ~ TaTss
Year: 1874

A Louisville papa did not seriously
object to the proposed elopement OF
his daughter with dry goods clerk.
Happening to get wind Of the plan,
he merely lay in wait for Augustus,
and sent him away with the impress
sion that remarkably healthy young
mule had played a tattoo with his
heels under his coat-tails.
Year: 1874

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Year: 1874

The Springfield Republican says:


In another column, Abby Smith con-
lnues the story of her plucky protest
against an unjust and iniquitous spOlia-
Lon under the forms of law. Told as
she tells it, it requires neither supple
mentlng nor comment. If any member
OF the voting sex can read il with
amusement, we do not envy the gentle
man his sense of humor. If any woman
can read it without keen sympathy and
Indignation, We pity her lack OF COM
mon, womanly feeling.


Abby Smith and her sister evidently
have very much the same blending OF
enthusiasm and forebOding which we
are accustomed to associate with the
ilea of forlOrn hope. They feel alone;
the whole town is against them; neigh
bors whom they have loaded with kind
nesses look cOldly on them. "It may
well be called battle,n writes Abby in
Il, = to the editor 'and against fear
fui otis.n


fine men and women in Connecticut
who believe in equal rights for both
sexe uffer this foriOrn hope to go down
for la, of proper support and backing
at the r hands, they may az well quit
circul. ting documents and making
speecl and holding conventions.
TalkiBs without doing never accom-
plished anything in this world, and it
never will. Duty here is opportunity as
we'll. The enemy's line has been
broken t its weakest point; obviously,
the onl thing TO be done now is to pour
in the reinfOrcements. There ought to
be such u rally around Abby Smith and
her sister within the next fortnight as
will not only Danish from the minds OF
these ladies all sense of loneliness or
thought of the Poor-house, but will
make male Glastonbury rub the eyes of
astonishment.


If the equal suffrage people of Con
necticut are wise men and women in
their generation, they will see to it that,
when the petition of these ladies comes
before the Legislature, the argument
shall be public, and shall be conducted
ON one side, at least-by the ablest
lawyers that can be procured for love or
money.
Year: 1874

AS an illustration of the power of
one poison to counteract another in
the human system, a recent case in
this city furnishes highly important
and interesting instance. We give the
statement as related to us by DR.. Har-
ris, who was called to the relief Of a
wOuld-be suicide, and who admins
tered the successful antidote. The
person had taken between forty and
fifty grains of opium, and was fast
dying. He could no longer swallow,
and his eXtremities were cold and had
turned black, while his respirations
only numbered between six and seven
to the minute. This last of itself
seemed to indicate that all hope was
gone, as anything less than eight res
pirations minute had heretofore been
known as a sure precursor of death.
AS a last resort, the doctor determined
to try heroic treatment, and he accord
ingly, with hypodermic syringe, in
jected two-thirds of drachm of nuX-
vomica, dissolved in a teaspoonful of
water, beneath the skin over the
heart, stomach, spine, and on each
arm above the elbow, and on the calf
of each leg. The quantity of nuX-
vomica would have been the death of
any we'll man in existence, but in an
tagonism to the opium it was in this
seemingly hopeless case, and in fifteen
minutes the man was sitting up in bed,
conscious, and rapidly recovering
South Bend lind. J, Tribune.
Year: 1874

and indicates the existence of gardens
and golcondas more beautiful and
richer than mortal man has dreamed
of. Yet after the picture is painted
the panorama unfolded - and the
imagination and cupidity of the be-
holder excited, he is told that to
dream and read of the glorious coun-
try is all he is vouchsafed. He must
not attempt to reach the Arcadia.
People who feel themselves taking the
Black Hill fever will do we'll to pause
and think; to read over the accounts
of Gold Bluff, Gold Lake, Cariboo, and
the many other gold excitements
that have turned thousands wild and
dotted the route with. lonely graves.
Year: 1874

The Bulletin of the I'd says: "The
halcyon days of placer digging are
gone forever, but the honest miner
still lives and fiourishes about Placer
vile. At least twenty drifting claims
are being worked. In some the gold
Is extracted by simply washing in a
sluice-box; in others, where the gravel
is more cemented, it requires crushing
by stamps before washing. The COM
panies working in the vicinity are
close corporations. They manage
their own affairs and keep their own
counsels. They do not appear on Cal
ifornia street. They do not ask the
public to share their profits nor help
them pay their assessments" We
understand from this that placer min
ing, even at this late day, pays better
than any other mining, for all other
kinds of stock is hawked on California
street. We never knew man who
got stream of water on gravel bed
and stuck to it, that did not come out
rich. "They keep their own COUNSEL"
No one knows how much they make;
it is secret to all until they retire.
Men nave run wild over lodges, and
once in while a fortune is struck.
But placer mine is as sure as an old
fashioned tub mill; it grinds out
money every day in the year. Thous-
ands of miners with nothing but pick
and pan, have made good fortunes.
We have rich gravel beds enough be-
tween the San Gabriel and the Peru,
in this county, to occupy ten thousand
miners twenty years. In and around
the Castac mines there are thousands
of acres of as rich gravel as was ever
worked in California. These mines
have been worked for over thirty
years-hundreds of tons of the earth
have been packed on donkeys three
or four miles to the Santa Clara river
and washed. AS soon as the Castac
Company complete their ditch, that
country will swarm with picks and
pans. On the south side of San Fer
nando Mountain, g. few miles this side
OF the town of San Fernando, there is
fine body of placer gravel that will
attract attention some day. There
are parties now looking at the Peru
mines and water privileges with a
view of buying.
Year: 1874

The question of gas is one that in
terests the people of Los Angeles next
in Importance to that of water. Both
of these indispensable articles are
items of heavy expense here, and any
thing looking to a reduction in the
cost of one or the other, receives i'm
mediate attention at the hands of our
residents. The Union gas machine
seems to be the MOSES that will lead
us out of the Egyptian. darkness in
which we are enveloped. We have
devoted some time to obtaining accu-
rate information relative to this ma
chine-its powers as an illIminator
and the advantages it possesses over
other gas generating machines. We
have learned, first, that the machine
cannot explode, because there is moth
ing explosive about it. Second, it has
no fire or weights about it, and at no
time is there pressure to exceed six
ounces to the square inch on any part
of the machine. 1t is as safe as q
clock or music-box. Third, that the
gas generated is simple mixture of
common air and gasoline. Fourth,
that one gallon of gasoline will gener-
ate 200 feet of gas, and the gasoline is
worth in San Francisco only twenty
five cents per gallon. Fifth, that the
gas generated by the Union machine
passes through test meter only half
as fast as coal gas. Sixth, that the
cost of the gas manufactured by the
Union machine is but one dollar and
twenty-five cents per thousand feet in
San Francisco. The increase in the cost
of the article manufactured in Los
Angeles will be but the freight on
gasoline added. 1t is safe to say that
the cost of gas generated by the Union
Machine will not exceed one dollar
and half per thousand-quite a saw
ing on seven dollars, the price now
paid. Seventh, that thirty light
Union gas machine costs $3.50, and
five hundred or an eight hundred light
machine is worth $500. Eighth,
that the Board of Underwriters will
not insure property with one of these
harmless machines within less than
thirty feet of the building wall.
Ninth, that the State Investment,
Hamburg Bremen, Home Mutual, St.
Louis Mutual and Commercial Com
panies will insure property with the
Union gas machine in the cellar, par
lor or garrett Tenth, that Mr.. JOHN
KNoTwELL. the Agent of the Union
Gas Company, and first-class man,
may be found at the Lafayette Hotel
in this city. We advise all who desire
cheap and clean gas to get Union
circular and after reading it through
call on Mr.. KNOTwELL and learn how
they may manufacture their own gas
at a cost less than $1,50 per thousand
feet
Year: 1874

THE Council on Thursday came
within one of refusing to order the
grading of Temple street. This would
have been bit of bad legislation.
The property-owners pay the greater
part of the expense Of street grading,
and the city realizes the advance in
property in the increase of taxation.
The property that will be opened up to
improvement through the grading of
Temple street is extensive, and the
number of houses that will be built as
soon as the grading is done will be
considerable-so considerable that the
increased revenue which the city will
realize in taxation will more than
treble the cost of grading. To refuse
to grade and improve streets running
through private property is always
bad Judgment on the part of municipal
authorities.
Year: 1874

1t is worse than idle to deceive our
selves. There is no widespread and
substantial prosperity. We can find
no class of substantial manufacturers,
merchants, agriculturalists, artisans,
or common laborers who are steadily
earning a profit, or have full or con-
tented employment. Every device or
shift by which money is made or q
competence gained seems to be tenn
porary, and hence all business affairs
are very much unsettled. The mer-
chants are not overstocked with goods,
but they are trying to loan their capt.
tai on call or take a turn with it in
some speculative adventure, rather
than to employ it in gathering an as
sortment of the wares in which they
deal. The consumers take hold still
more sluggishly and purchase only
for immediate necessities. Every
where there is sense of depression
and discouragementt to activity. an at
titude of waiting, without any fore
shadowing of the relief to be expected.
~ Y. Journal of Commerce.
Year: 1874

The very fiorid descriptions of the
Black Hill country with which the
public is being favored through the
columns of certain newspapers, savors
somewhat strongly of a job. Even
the Government seems to have taken
stock in the scheme of causing a rush


to that part of the world, for we notice
an occasional general order from some
military department mildly warning
the people that they will not be per-
mitted to visit the slack Hill region.
This will OF course stimulate many to
go there who would never have thought
of such thing had they not been told
they should not do it. General Gus
TER's report is very highly colored,
Year: 1874

THE Express says the HERALD is
another that will not have "Died of
it's own smartness," written on its
tomb. 1t is said children and fools tell
the truth, and although the Express
is not child we fear the HERALD
need not expect to have the coveted
line craven on it's monument. The
seer non con1pus has spoken against it.
Year: 1874

POLAND, who claimed the author
ship of the press-gag law in Congress,
has been defeated in Vermont. When
the regular Republican nominee is
defeated in that State, he must be the
kind of man that the people would
not trust as far as they could throw a
church up hill.
Year: 1874

REG1sTRATIoS IN THIS CITY commences to-
morrow, and will continue three days. All
those who have not heretofore registered
will then be entitled to do so. Those who
have removed from one yoting.precinct to
another since last election must get their
transfers, or they will not be allowed to vote
at tbe coming municipal election.
Year: 1874

RIcHMoND AMATEUR OPERA CoMPANY.-
Within the next two weeks the Amateur
Opera Company Of this city will render ut
the Theatre series Of operas well known to
the public. Tonight the company will have
a stage rehearsal at Professor Ambold's
music store.
Year: 1874

The committee appointed by the Ma
tional Grange recently to examine into
alleged impurities in Boston Grange,
found there grain dealers, commission
merchants, and other persons Ineligible
to membership. The committee recon-
mended the withdrawal of its authority to
act from the Boston Grange, and the See
retarY of the National Grange instructed
to carry out the recommendation.
Year: 1874

Brother De Morse, of the Clarksville
Standard, withdrew from the Senatorial
race before the Legislature, because there
were three aspirants from Northern
Texas. This was to secure the election
of enc of the remaining two. This is a
rare exhibition of disinterested devotion
to sectional duty, as it is rare instance
Of self denial.
Year: 1874

Some Methodist ministers have
been subscribing torthe San Marcos
Free Press, to send to other States
to induce immigration. Faith and
Works so hand in hand in a matter
of this kind.
Year: 1874

SPRNGvALE, Dec. 26, 1874.
To the Editor of the Press:


The discussion which has been going on in
the PRESS and other papers in relation to the
Senator question has had the effect in this
part of Old York to cause people to express
their views in relation to that question. Being
in position where have had an opportunity
Of conversing with the leading Republicans in
this town and the adjoining towns of Acton,
Shapleigh and Lebanon, have been surprised
to find what a unamimity there is in the opin-
ion that Mr. Hamlin should not be returned to
the Senate for another term. venture the
assertion, without fear of contradiction, that
five out of every six Republicans in this town
are opposed to his reelection, and am told il
Year: 1874

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


We cannot undertake to return or reserve COM
nunicatons that are not used.
Year: 1874

We here present the decision OF the
Register and Receiver OF the y. s.
Land Office in the case of Easton &
Davis, under the Act of 1866. This
decision contains some new points Of
law which have never before been
presented and win be of interest to
many:
Year: 1874

Ward H. Lamon, the reputed author
of life Of Lincoln, his intimate friend
and law partner for many years, answers
a criticism of Henry Ward Beecher in
relation to Mr.. Lincoln s religious views,
in letter to that reverend gentleman
which concludes as follows:


He entertained the belief that the
Holy Scriptures were not of divine inspi-
ration. On this point his mind had
reached fixed and unalterable decis.
ion. He was an in6del, and rested in
his conclusions. 1t would certainly
have been pleasant to me to have closed
the chapters of his biography without
touching upon his religious opinions;
but such an omission would have VIOLA
ted the fundamental principle upon
which every line Of the book was traced.
Had it been possible to have truthfully
asserted that he was a member of the
Church of Christ or that he believed in
the teachings of the New Testament, the
facts would have been proclaimed with
a glow of earnest and unfeigned salts
faction. come now to complain of
the Injustice which you have done me
personally whenIyou say that the hearth
ness his arguments upon Mr.. Lincolns
religion casts certain doubt upon it,
and leaves the impression that he was
inspired by all anti Christian animus.'
Pardon me, my dear sir; although not
protesting Christian myself, | may say
that few men possess deeper venera-
ton for the Christian religion, and all
that the orthodox church regards as
sacred, than the humble individual VIZ ON
you make the subject of your somewhat
severe criticism. | may not always en-
ploy the language which would best de-
clare my meaning, but when so many
very good people in pious and loyal zeal
sought to make their idol land | might
say mine) devout and rigid Christian,
| deemed it unjust to him and injurious
to Christianity Itself to permit such an
error to pass without correction and
refutation. WARD ID. LAMoN.
Year: 1874

sery rhyme in the sweetest of under.
tones.


Then / knew that she was thoroughly
a happy wife and satisfied with her lot.


Madam Rosa was never jealous Of any
other prima donna. Every one who
came down on us was more welcome to
her than the last.


We cannot have too much music,
nor too many songs" she said. An
artistic is an example, and everybody
should be glad to hear new one. By
and-by am going to find that home that
| have dreamed about, and all those
children, and l don't want to leave
great silent space where | have been so
long"


The space has been made, and the ST.
lence has fallen, but there was never
any real home for her, nor any little
children. Alas poor Carl Rosa


When Parepa thought she should have
been a mother, two years since, she
went to England that the child birth
place might be the same as her own.
By.and-by she came back to US sorrow
fully, and left the little hope buried in a
tiny coffin. She sang again, and her
voice was richer, sweeter and tenderer,
but something had gone out of her face,
something Of carelessness for the pres.
ent-a something of hope for the future,
but her song had an added pathos, and
there was less laughter where she went.


By-and.by the renewed hope of becom-
ing a mother brought her back from
Egypt to her native country. Her pbysi-
clan had endeavored to hinder expecta-
tion from reaching too far into her
plans for the future; but she refused to
think of childless home, for a chill d,
all her own, was her dream Of happin es.


In heaven we hope her dream is a
beautiful realization, for the dead
mother lies with her dead babe clasped
close to her bosom, and we are all very
sorrowful.