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Year: 1874

The town of Sharon, bounded on the eastern line of New York, nearly resem- bles in soil and climate the adioin- ing towns in that state. This is especial ly the case with the western portion of Sharon which is also moro free from rocks than is usually the case in Litch- field county.

 It is no exaggeration to say of the good people of Sharon that for courtesy, kind ness, and affability to strangers they are not easily excelled. They have been ac- cused of want of public spirit and it has been said that ''here people have no enter prise, in embelshing their homes" The finest ornaments of the country village are certainly here in the stately elms that tower high above the houses and make the principal street of Sharon 8 very beautiful one, and show that much has been done most iudiciously to open the way for improvement. A little park might very easily he made, at small ex- pense compared with its value, commen- cling at the head of the street and extend- ing down between the two roads. Such a a park, enclosed with nice fence and embellished with shrubblery. this season, would soon make Sharon street the most beautiful street in Western Connecuticut: and the value of real estate throughout the town would be increased more than five times the cost of the improvement.

 It should be remembered that all our cities are very rapidly growing and in

 creasing in wealth, and that the demand for accommodations for city boarders in beautiful and retired country towns is constantly increasing and must continue to increase. Yet, many people coming from New York go right through this viii lage to Lakeville and pay there much higher prices for board than a charged in this village. With little effort and improvement in Sharon this need not he case. One reform, of all others, must be accomplished before our beautiful street
Year: 1874

,,e made attractive, or indeed anything but annoying, to summer visitors. Cattle and horses should never be allowed to run at large onthe highway; for, besides the filthy condition in which they keep the street and sidewalks, they are so destruc- five to shade trees that it is almost lmpossl- ble to keep young trees from being utter ly destroyed. The fact that so many per sons will drive right pasta hitchlng post and tie their horses to young tree ought to arouse the indignation of every public spirited person in the community.
Year: 1874

Word reached the city yesterday di-
rect from the Temple claim. The we'll is
now about two hundred feet deep.
The oil Is within four feet of the top
ofthe well with immense volume of gas
escaping. The excitement at the well
and in the neighborhood is intense.
We learn that parties are on the way
from the city ito visit the well to-day
Great credit is due the parties who
have stuck to this enterprise under so
many discouraging circumstances.
They deserve a thousand-barrel we'll.
To Mr.. SPANGLER is due the credit of
the particular location of the place
where the we'll is sunk and to his gen.
ius and enterprise the company are
indebted for their success. Mr.. RAM
sEY, who is at work on the San Fer
nando well, writes that the oil cannot
be pumped out to within forty feet of
the bottom of the we'll, it flows in so
rapidly. This is an excellent quality
Of oil, pronounced equal to any in
Pennsylvania by oil experts direct
from that State. This excitement
must increase. The territory is ex-
extensive and millions will be realized
from it when developed.
Year: 1874

four years was too short time to inn
press any policy, however good, upon
the country, and that the second-term
principle was highly Objectionable on
the ground that it opened the door to
ambition, and as a corrolly the first
term was more apt to be devoted to
the interests of party than those of the
country. When his duty was plain
before him, JACKSON was not very
patient recipient of advice from any
source, much less from political ad-
venturers and place hunters who
swarm around the capital like vul-
lures over a dead carcass. This was
very forcibly exemplified at New Or
leans, when an entire Legislature and
large portion of the representatives
of the wealth of that city, including a
high judicial functionary, advised him
to surrender the city to the British,
who were lowering in great force in
the immediate vicinity, to save it
from bombardment and pillage. We
all recollect how he treated this ad-
vice. He placed muskets in their
hands and marched them, under
guard, to the front, and there on the
field of Chalmette made them fight
for their property and the honor of
their country! But, in conclusion, we
truSt that this now moya of Mr.
JAMES LYONS may result in bringing
money to his depleted Golfers, if not
honor to his name; and should he sue
ceed in carrying the Old Dominion for
GRANT the third term, he will merit
high consideration at his hands, and
will doubtless be the recipient of a fat
office, fat salary, fat perquisites and
fat stealings.
Year: 1874

There are two important reasons
why the water which now runs through
this city in bitches should be carried
beneath the surface of the ground in
pipes. One of these is the saving of
the large quantity of water now lost
by sipage and evaporation-a consid-
erable item when we remember the
demand for every drop of water the
city can furnish. If the water was
conveyed in pipes from the fountain
head to the opposite extreme of the
city limits, the quantity We should
have for irrigation would approximate
one-third more than is now supplied
those depending on the city for their
irrigating water. 1t will be seen that
the saving thus made would in few
years more than meet the cost of pur-
chasing and laying down the pipe.
But the saving in water is the least
important reason why the suggested
improvement should be made. These
bitches now endanger the health of
the city. 1t is the opinion of a num-
Der of our physicians that the zanjas
are the leading cause Of the scarletina
which now prevails to almost an
epidemic degree among the children
Of the city. The water furnished the
citizens of Los Angeles is impure at
best, but that of the bitches is even
more unwholesome. The bitches in
the lower portion of the city are the
receptacle for a great deal of sewage,
yet there are hundreds of families that
take the water used for cooking and
drinking purposes from them. Is
there cause for wonder that sickness
prevails?
Year: 1874

THE Ventura Signal calls for more
steamers on the coast route and as
serts that those now running are car
rying more passengers each trip than
the law allows. 1t also claims that
the rates for freight and passage are
unreasonably high. They are certainly
high enough-too high for the rapid
filling up of this portion of the State
with what we need most of all--people.
These things cannot be helped, how
ever, at present. Time will regulate
them for the better. The two lines of
steamers now doing the business of
the southern coast are inadequate for
the business, and for the good of the
country we could wish that opposi-
tions were not. so easily bought off or
that the old companies would place
more steamers on the route.
Year: 1874

We do not hear much railroad talk
of late, but presume the gentlemen
having the business in hand of push
ing the Los Angeles and Independence
railroad enterprise ahead, are working
with more zeal and less talk than
usual. The effect Of this railroad on
the future of our city and valley is
we'll understood. We all know and
feel that no one thing would add more
or as much to the aggregate wealth
and business prosperity of this part of
the State as the early completion of a
railroad connecting Los Angeles with
the rich and extensive mining region
lying one numbered and fifty miles to
the east of us. We discussed this
proposition at time when Panamint,
Cerro Gordo and Holcomb Valley
were the only mining camps known in
the locality, and they were hardly
prospected. 1t was then shown that
the road was not only important to us,
in business light, but that it would
prove good investment for it's own
ers. II this was the case, then how
much more important to us and how
much more valuable to it's owners
will the road prove, now that we have
the most substantial reasons for be-
lieving that in place of two or three
mining camps, the road will not only
actually reach to, but penetrate to the
center of rich mining section with
an area hundreds of miles in extent
The people of Los Angeles valley
should make the building of this road
the one great purpose of the day.
Year: 1874

out touching at any point. She was
seen lying full day alongside a ship
bound for Liverpool, but whether the
ship consented to receive the distin-
guished passenger from the yacht, or
he was subsequently embarked from a
pilot boat, is not positively stated.
Detectives are satisfied, however, that
he went in the ship.


The excitement in the mining share
market continues and there is great
crowd on California street, completely
blocking the sidewalks. 1t is reported
on the street that prices are well sus-
tanned.
Year: 1874

A dozen ship-carpenters are working
on the new ship now being built by
Messrs. Perkins & Co., at the foot Of
Marin street, Vallejo. The huge four
inch planking is now going on, while
on the inside the deck-timbers are in
place, and the first course Of the deck
placking is being fitted in place.
Year: 1874

The idea is preposterous and is only


worthy of the source whence it e ma
mates. JACKSON never had a secret
he was as open as the day-and his
greatest abomination was the man
who solicited private interview with
him. His invariable answer was: d"
have no secrets, sir; if you have any
thing to say that will not bear the
light Of day, L do not want to hear ii"
AS for the "advice of friends pre-
venting him from coming before the
people for third term, it is an unmit-
igated SANDER. No man since the days
of WASHINGTON left the Presidential
chair with greater political strength
and popularity than JACKSON, and if
any man on earth could have recon-
ciled the people to third term,
JACKSON was the man. But he never
thought of such desecration of high
precedent, and would have spurned
the idea if advanced by others. 1t
was JACKSON who grated the one
term principle upon the Democratic
platform, and which was becoming
generally recognized by all parties be-
fore his death. He, like WASHING
TON, always held that the Presidential
term of four years was too short, and
was willing to extend it to six or even
eight years, with constitutional ineli-
gibility thereafter, on the ground that
Year: 1874

A TEST CASE BROUGHT BEFORE JUSTICE WYIE-THE


RESPONSIBILITY FOR oNE-HALF OF THE DISTRICT


DERr INyOIvFD-A LARGE PART OF THE SPECIAL


CERTIFICATES INTOXICATED IN NEW YORK.


fFRoM A REGULAR CORRESPONDENT OF THE TMBUNE'l


WASHINGTON, July 3O.-The first real test OF the
legality of the special improvement certificates OF
This District was made before Justice Wyle in Spe-
cial Term on Tuesday, July rs. The point was
made in chancery case in which the sale of lot
in the northern part of this city was reported AT
8. 800. with an agreement that the money should
not be paid until all liens were first paid of !;
several alleged liens, costs Of suit taxes, &C. were
presented for approval. The Court directed the
payment of the general taxes and the judgment
liens, but refused to allow a special tax certlti-
cate of seven hundred dollars for Improvements.
now held by a New York bank without fur
ther advisement, and directed that the claim
under the certificate be referred to the audi
Tor TO report whether such certificates constitute
lien on the real estate upon which they are issued.


Whatever the ruling of the auditors may be In
this case exceptions viii be taken, and the question
come up for argument before the court Should the
auditors decide that the assessments for which their
certificates were issued were legal, the nice point
for the courts to determine will be whether they
are embraced within the limit of the ten million
debt authorized by the organic act and unless this
can be clearly established it is the opinion OF some
of the ablest lawyers of the District that the courts
will pronounce this class of cepcates as illegal and
in direct violation not only Of the organic act but
subseduent acts of Congress. The effect of such a
decision will be to transfer the responsibility for one
hall of the present debt of the District from its prop
erty TO the individual members of the Board Of
Public Works, and unless Congress assumes this ex-
cess of Indebtedness there is telling the amount
of litigation in store Nearly all of their special tax
certificates were hypothecated IN New-York and are
now held there; and this case being test one, its
solution by the auditors and courts is looked for
with considerable interest
Year: 1874

LONG BRANCH, July 31.-Mrs. William Weaver
was accidentally killed at the Highlands this AFTERNOON
She was crossing on the track when the down train
for Nev-Y York came along and before she had time 10
ret ont of the way she was struck by the engine and
received Injuries from which she died In few minutes.
Her husband In attempting TO rescue her. was siso
kpoo ked down and seriously injured.
Year: 1874

TIE COMMITTEES GROUND FOR DELAY.
AsHARP REJoINDER TO THEIR CRrTICs-MR. BEEcHER


CANNOT BE EXPECTED To EXPLAIN LETTERS


WHICH HAVE NOT BEEN PRODUCED AND EX-


TRACTS FROM WHICH HAVE BEEN QUOTED FROM


SHORTHAND NOTES


The friends OF Mr. Beecher expressed much dis
pleasure yesterday with the position of the press to-
ward the Examining Committee and the case before
them Said one of these gentlemen The Com
mittee cannot be directed influenced in this mat
ter by any external excitement or by public sentl-
ment They are well aware that when Mr. Beecner
speaks he must speak conclusively, and leave no
opening by which his enemies can again enter to at
tack him. Everybody familiar with the al
fair knows well enough that he could not
satisfy the public demand or remove the sus-
picons against him by his public denial. Everybody
knows now, as well, that to answer portion OF the
charges and leave some of the letters Unexplained
would be fatal to him. But how can he speak OF leu
ters of which only extracts have been printed, anu
those extracts from imperfect shorthand transcripts
esnec,ally since be does not recall writing some OF
the letters2 He is ready and anxious to explain the
strong expressions which he has used, and IN a man
ner that will be convincing to the public as well as
his friends; but why should he volunteer 10
sneak in his own defense until the charges
and the full evidence are III against nm ihust
take exception to THE TRIBUNE's editorial remark
This morning There stand Mr.. Beechers letters.
Where do they stand is exactly what the Commit
tee wish TO find out and that is what they want 10
know from Mr. Moulton. Do such letters exist, ana
what are the remaining portions of themf ms
must be definitely answered before the Committee
can attach any importance to such documents. Let
ters messengers and kilograms have been sent IN all
directions for Mr.. Mouton and Others who pretend
TO have some knowledge regarding the matter, but
il takes time for all this, and the public has no
right to find fault with the Committee for dong
their work thoroughly even though 1t be slowly
If Mr.. Moulton refuses to testify and other import
ant witnesses follow his lead, the Committee VIII
hear Mr. Beecher, and then render report IN ac-
cordance with the facts of which they nave oeeh
made cognizant."
Year: 1874

A DARKENED LwE.--In Nashua,


New Hampshire, resides O young


girl whose pitiful lot excites the deep


est sympathy, yet for whom sympa-


thy can do but little in alienation of
the sad misfortune which has dark
ened her life. When q child she


was terribly scalded about the head
and face, and although she survived
her injuries, she was thenceforth dis
figured for life, and the rosy face Of
childhood was changed to a mask
a trayesty on the human countenance
absolutely frightful in its hideous-
ness. In Lowell, Massachusetts,,
where she once lived, so great was
the horror excited by her appearance
that she was forbidden by the au-
thorilies to show herself on tho
streets At Nashua sho venturod ont
the other day, when several ladies
fainted of sight Of her, and call is
now made upon the authorities Of
that place to forbid ker appearance
on tho streets. What a mournful
fate is hers To live through tho
terrible physical suffering only to en-
dure honceforward a keoner mental
anguish in the knowledge that She
is a thing Of horror, to DO abhorred
and Stunned by human kind, with
no hope in tho future except the
grave, which shall hide her deformi-
ties from the gaze Of her fellow be-
.agB, -Boston Transcript
Year: 1874

GLIMpsEs or THE "NEw REBELL-
IoN"-ln Vicksburg, Miss, the for
mer soldiers of the Union and Con
federaLe armies have held several
meetings, and have finally associated
themselves in a society TO be known
as the order Of the Blues and Grays.n
That this fraternization took place in
a Southern State, and in a city whose
Radical officials were recently making
a frantic call on the President for bay.
onets, is q sufficient answer TO the
charge fostered in the North for party
purposes, that the Southern people
hato the Republic and are seeking to
destroy il. IL was in Southern State,
the other day, that General Forrest
offered to lead a company Of Southern
white men to hunt down and destroy
tho desperadoes who had oppressed
the freedmen in Gibson County At
this rate the ''new rebellion" which
the Radical politicians would be SO
happy to see, and which they have
neglected no effort TO provoke, will be
a long time coming to bead.
Year: 1874

cannot more forcibly portray the
distress existing in this city among
these who labor for their daily bread,
than by instancing the case of Bar
nun who, when he brought his Hip
podrome here, advertised for a great
number of men to parade at each
performance; great many more than
were required presented themselves,
and although their services were 16
hours each day, they gladly accepted
the pittance of four dollars aoee6
which the great showman-who made
a net profit of $4,000 while here
with princely liberality gave them.
Year: 1874

The GOVERNOR AND The TAX BILL.-A
committee Of our City Council waited upon
the Governor yesterday, bearing the reselu-
tlons passed by the Council relative to the
tax bill. They were courteously received,
but got no intimations of the purposes Of the
Executive.
Year: 1874

IT WAS CAPTAIN WILLIAM ENGLISH who
presented the resolution in the Council on
Monday night in relation to the cars stand
ing on Broad street the day OF the picnic ut
the State Fair Grounds.
Year: 1874

Illness which angelic sweetness might
envy but could not eclipse; before
which the star on the brow of the
night grows pale, and the diamonds of
Brazil are dim; and then reflect upon
the utter madness and folly of suppos-
ing that so much beauty would
expose itself to the terrors of
an empty building in the cold
damp, dead of night, when in
nocence like hers is hiding itself
among the snowy pillows of rcposc;
gentlemen of the jury my feelings are
too Overpowering for expression, and
throw her into Your arms for protec-
ton against this foul charge, which tho
outrageous malice of a disappointed
scoundrel has invented to blast the
fair name Of this lovely maiden. whose
smiles shall he the reward of the ver-
dict which know you will give.


The jury convicted her without lcav.
ing their seats.
Year: 1874

A statement was recently made that mill
tia arms had been shipped to Harrisonburg'
in Catahoula parish. and come OF those
vaunted peace lovers Of that section were
informed that the muskets were slowed IN
the Jail. Last Friday night the jail was
fred, although eight prisoners we're inside
and burned. 1t may not be conscling to the
incendiaries 10 know that but few Of the
arms were in the building, but such was
the fact. Most Of the muskets were IN
secure place. When officers 90 up there to
investigate this affair. it is likely that the
businesses Of Sicily Island will increase Its
Year: 1874

The Executive Committee Of the
Interstate Industrial Exposition
congratulate the citizens Of Chicago
and the Northwest on tie unquali-
Hod success Of the Second Annual
Exhibition, both as regards the exhi-
bition itself and also the attendance,
The Departments are now complete
and the display in all respects sur
passes that Of anything Of the kind
ever seen in this country.


No One SlOnld Fail to Attend.
Year: 1874

PRINCESS NELLY ON THE BRINy.-
Mrs. Sartoris never left her state
room but once on the passage. She
came on deck for a few minutes one
morning in blue wrapper and
white shawl, but before it was well
known she was out she had disap
peared. Sartoris did not share this
seclusion, but was around most all
the time. He said his vile was 'not
seasick but homesick." Poor Nell
lie! We could all of US understand
that she might be, for of all the dull
youths who part their hair in the
middle (and it's your dull youth that
always does that, Algernon Fred
erick, and all the rest of the Sarto-
ris, is the dullest. While we waited
our turn at the dock in Liverpool,
he, with some others, went ashore
and bought mutton pies, so that the
first really good view of Nellie Grant
we had after she came aboard was
standing resting on her husbands S
fat arm, her eyes full of trusting af-
lection, her heart full of confiding
love, and her mouth full OF Liver
pool mutton pie.-Extract from Let
ter of Baltic Passenger.
Year: 1874

BRADBURY's MIsTAKE.+In Phila-
deiphia there are whole blocks of
houses exactly alike, and sometimes
there is such a quantity OF them in
square that man who lives near the
middle has to begin counting at the
corner in order TO ascertain which is
his house. Mr. Bradbury a few nights
ago came home late, and as he was
thinking of something else he forgot
to count, when about two doors from
home he ran up the front steps of Mr.
Petty's residence with a conviction
that it was his own. His dead latch
key opened the door readily. and
Bradbury, after cropping around in
the dark for the hat-rack, knocked
against il and upset it. Mr. Petty was
upstairs Just about to go to bed.
When he heard the noise he went to
the head ofthe staircase and listened.
He discovered that there was man
in the hall below and he knew at
once it was burglar. So he went
back to his room and got his revolver.
Then he shut his eyes and fired at
random. The noised walked Mrs.
Petty and she began to scream vio-
lently. Then Bradbury felt certain
that there was band of robbers up
stairs engaged in -butchering Mrs.
Bradbury and the children. AS he
started to creep softly up the staircase
to recconoitre Petty begen Ito steal


quietly down the staircase to look
after the burglar he had killed. They
met on the first landing, aud although
both were terribly frightened they
grappled, for both knew it would
be struggle to tho de&th. After
fighting desperately the combatants
rolled down the stairs to the floor be-
meath, while Mrs Petty syrang the
rattle for policeman. just an Petty
got the upper hand of Bradbury and
was mutilating his nose with his fist,
the police burst the front door open
and struck light. Then an explain
alton ensued and Bradbury went
home. You have perhaps seen a
prize egg plant at an agriculture fair?
Well, Bradbury's nose resembled
that in size and color and shape, and
now he not only counts from the
corner when he comes home, but he
has the front of his house painted
white, with a locomotive headlight
over the front door.-Mar. AdeJer.
Year: 1874

SCEPTICS WILL fLEASE Try IT,
I'VE made the statement, says the
. louisville Courier, that advertise
.lnents-are very generally read. If
amy one of a practical turn of mind
edesires to attest the accuracy of such


a statement, and at the same time
learn the effect of advertising on
sbusiness, let him advertise in two
&ines in the most obscure part of


some newspaper that he wants to


buy dog. If he does not want the


Hisitations this will bring him, let


him insert a line in the midst of a
Batch of other advertisements that
lhe will no longer pay his wiie's
.fbills and then go about among his
acquaintances and observe if there
is anything peculiar in their man
1 ner that would seem to indicate that
they had read the notice.