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Year: 1874

The remains of a woman, which had
reposed in a grave in the cemetery near
Wheeling, w. Va, for six or eight
years, were recently disinterred in order
to remove them to another place. Much
difficulty was experienced in raising
them, the weight was so excessive. On
opening the coffin the body was found
from the neck to the feet to be q perfect
specimen of petrification. The form
was full and sound; the feet, which
were incased in CATERS, filed them as
completely as a living subject, and the
hands and arms We're plump and hard.
The clothing wa7 in an excellent state
Of preserve tiC1@t le fabric proving,
when tested, 70 be quite strong. The
head, however, had suffered the decay
incident to the period of time II hau
laid in the ground. None of the oodles
which rested in close proximity 10 'ii'9
had undergone a similar change
Year: 1874

The editor of the Sentinel should at
least concede that if woman is capable
OF being the sovereign of the United
Kingdoms Of England, Scotland. and
Ireland these mauy years, it might be
possible to entrust the ballot to that sex
IN this country, with confidence that it
would be intelligently and judiciousIy
used.-.Sdntd Cruz Enterorise.
Year: 1874

Scott county, Mimi, has the most
extensive mandatory Of Limburger
cheese in the country. This kind of
cheese is said to be "riper when n piece
the size Of walnut will drive dog out
OF a lanyard.
Year: 1874

No more children, but 1cODleH, full
grown and ready for the life about
which we have dreamed so long. 1t Is
coming now on swift wings and we
have but to wait for the "long years to
bring It; such as we wish it be-"


In this pause in our lives while we
are waiting, and mutely listening, We
will hear a voice saying r
'sThe child Is n woman, the book may close over


For all the lessons are said"
Year: 1874

Never burn kindly written letters;
it is so pleasing to read them over when
the ink is brown, the paper is yellow
with age, and the hands that taaced the
friendly words be folded over the hearts
that prompted them under the green
sod. Above all, never burn love letters.
To read them in after years is like
resurrection to ones youth. The ell
derry spinster finds in the impassioned
offer she foOlishly rejected twenty years
agOa fountain of rejuvenescence
GlaDcing over it she realizes that she
was once belle and a beauty, and
beholds her formor self in a mirror
much more congenial to her tastes than
the one that c0nfronts her in her dress
ing-room. The "widow indeed" de-
rives sweet ahd solmon consolation
from the letters of the beloved one
who has journeyed before her to the far
off land, from which there comes no
message, and where she hopes one day
to join him. No photographs can so
vividly recall to the memory of the
mother the tenderness and devotion of
the children who have left at the call
of heaven, as the epistolary Outpouring
of their love. The letter of true son
or daughter to true mother is some
thing better than an image of the fea-
lures; it is a reflex of the writer's soul.
Keep all love letters. Burn only the
harsh ones, and in burning them for
give and forget them.
Year: 1874

The wills man of the illustrated
London News says that ladies have not
the opportunity of controlling their
husbanns in regard to their marrying
as he does not remember single case
OF a married woman by her will piac-
ing any restraint on her husband mar
rying again but he knows of a case
contrary. Mrs. Van Hanrigh by her
will, proved in December, 1868, leaves
all her property which appears to
have been cOnsiderable-to her hus-
band. 1ndorsed on the back of her
will is a. memorandum staining that
she wishes her clothes to be sold to pay
her funeral expenses, which are to be
as small as possible; and after COM
mending her husband to the care of her
mother she adds: at is.also my earn
est wish that my darling husband
should marry ere long a nice, pretty
girl, who is good housewife, and,
above all, to be careful that she has a
good temper"
Year: 1874

1t is not to sweep the house, make
the bed, darn the socks, and cook the
meals, chiefly that man wants a
wife. If this is all he needs, hired help
can DO it cheaper than a wife. If this
is all, when young man calls to see a
lady, send him into the pantry to taste
the bread and cake she has made, send
him TO inspect the needle-wOrk and
bed-making; or put broom in her
hands, and send him TO witness its
use. Such things are important, and
the wise young plan will quickly look
after them.


But what the true man Wanrs with a
wife is her companionship, sympathy
and love. The way of life bias many
dreary places in it, and man needs a
companion to go with him. A man is
sometimes overtaken by misfortunes;
he meets with failure and defeat; trials
and temptations beset him, and he
needs one to stand by and sympathize.
lie has some hard battles to fight with
poverty, enemies, and with sin; and
he needs woman that, when he puts
his arm around her, he feels he has
something to fight for; she will help
him to fight; that will put her lips to
his ear and whisper words of counsel,
and her hand to his heart and impart
inspiration. All through life, through
storm and through sunshine, conflict
and victory, through adverse and
through favoring winds, man needs a
woman's love. The heart yearns for
it. A sisters or mothers love will
hardly supply the need.


Yet many seek for something further
thai success in h9useWork. Justly
enough, half of these get nothing more;
the other half surprised beyond meas
ure, have gotten more than they
sought. Their wives surprise them by
bringing out a noble idea in marriage,
and disclosing o treasury of courage,
sympathy and love.
Year: 1874




A writer in London Society pro-
pounds the following plan Of siiencing
that worst of social bores, the snecdote
'Cross-examine him, he says,
'on all salient points Of the anecdote.
Demand the why, the how, the when.
that some other course tLan
the one pursued ought certainly to have
been taken, and sift the affair as If you
were the sternest historical critic. If
the relator and his friend, Fred. Cooper,
were thrown out of dog cart, inquire
whether they were driving horse or
u mare; ask who made the dog cart,
and what was the height Of the wheels.
Request him to draw a plan of the spot
at which the upset occurred, and be
particular in your curiosity as to the
harness and the weather. i can con-
fidently, and from experience, recon-
mend this as the most effectual course,
Year: 1874

The New York Christian Adcocate,
the official organ of the Methodist
Episcopal Church gives the following
statistics showing the present coudi-
tion of the denomination, and the in
crease of a wear:
Year: 1874




1t will be noted that, after making
up for the unusually large numoer of
deaths (1S, ,9000 there is considerable
net gain in the membership, though
much less than Was hoped for at the be-
ginning of the year. There has been a
large increase in the number of timer
ant and local preachers.


The advance in the number of
churches is also large, giving an aver
age increase of over one and a half
church for every working day of the
year. In the number of parsonage5 the
gain has been hearty four each week.
The let increase in church property
(church edfices and parsonages) is
nearly S4,0O0,0O0. The average in-
crease in correctional church property
for each week of the year is over seven
ty-five thousand dollars.


The progress of the church i'll the
Sunday School department is also graf
flying, the average gain for every sab
bath in the year being over l0.7, over
67 officers and teachers, and no
scholars,
Year: 1874

Mr. Waite yesterday resigned the Presidency
OF the Ohio constitutional Convention, from
which ho WAS so unexpectedly summoned to the
most digniAed post in the Government. He
hado his fellow-menbora farewell in few
modest and well-choson words, in which lie made
still 1rmor tho tic OF personal friendship by
which he declared he felt bound to them all.
Tho Convention met hin, evidently in the samo
spirit and appointed committee of nino to
express their feelings in series Of resolutions.
Year: 1874

THE zeal of the Express to misrep-
resent the HDRALD outruns it's judg-
ment and destroys its veneration for
truth. 1t says we attacked O man who
came here to spend half million of
dollars. and in consequence he went
to San Bernardino and spent his
money with the merchants of that
city. This is untrue, and the author
Of the charge must have known it, or
else he is too ignorant to edit even the
Erpress. 1t was known, and we be-
lieve the Express made the statement,
that the company to which.the gen.
tleman referred to belongs had some
eight hundred tons of freidht in San
Francisco, which they would ship to
Panamint via this city. IT was not
their intention to purchase any con-
siderable amount of goods in this city
nor in San Bernardino, and they did
not purchase them. The Express
knows this if it knows anything, but
of late it seems to have parted with
what little intelligence it possessed
few months ago.
Year: 1874

A few days ago mention was made
in the columns of the HERALD of the
fact that a gentleman now a resident of
this city had packed ripe oranges and
lemons, and taken them via the
Isthmus to England where they ar
rived in perfectly sound condition.
Now comes Boston paper withs the
statement that importers of lemons
box on 100000 boxes, The cause of
this loss is not on account Of fluctua-
tions in the lemon market, but be-
cause of the great waste occasioned by
the decay of the fruit whilst in trans
itu. Our semi-tropical fruit-growers
should mark this statement. 1t is
well known fact that the fruit gath
cred for the market to which the Bos-
ton paper refers is gathered green and
ripened in transit. Fruit so gathered
is never good and often has a wilted
taste. Besides it is a we'll known fact
that lemons and oranges gathered
when ripe will not only retain their
flavor better, but keep in a sound con-
dition much longer than they will if
gathered green. 1t may be however,
that the orange and lemon grown in
this climate, are harder than the
same fruit grown in a tropical, or
damp climate. No matter what the
cause may be, he fact that our fruit
bears shipping better than that from
any other country, is of great impor-
tance to our fruit raisers. If we had
southern overland railroad by which
we could ship oranges without being
compelled to send them through a
country which in Winter, the time
when the orange crop comes into mar
ket, freezes them, we could supply the
large cities with semi tropical fruit
seven days from the tree and as fresh
as the hour when picked.
Year: 1874

MEssRs. LIPS q DEs AUTELs yes
terday afternoon received dispatch
announcing that the Supreme Court
had rendered decision declaring the
Local Option law unconstitutional
We anticipated this decision some
weeks ago. 1t is common sense de-
cision and is the only one that could
be reached. Morality is thing of
education, but not of compulsory leg
islation. Moral suasion may induce a
man not to make pig of himself, but
there is too much of the pig in him to
be driven to morality.
Year: 1874

1t is trite old saying that "there is
nothing true but death and taxes.u
At the earliest dawn of civilization it
was found that the masses were under
some kind of royalty or tribute to
their local chiefs or lords; and
as civilization advanced these chiefs
or lords found it necessary for self
protection to confederate together and
form statutes, with one of their most
powerful members their head, to whom
they in turn became tributary; and
as civilization still further advanced,
new devices were, from time to time
resorted to to draw from the masses a
large portion of their substance. For
ages this system continued, with more
or less severity, until some of the
more intelligent of the masses began
to consider the subject and it was left
to our forefathers under the imbecile
reign of GEORGE the Third, to make
the first bold and successful opposition
to system which, among some nations
was rendering the masses but little
better than hewers of wood and draw
ers OF water for their self-constituted
masters. These patriotic men first
began with humble petitions address
ed to the throne and to the British
Parliament, then by earnest but re-
spectacle remonstrance, against the
unjust exactions of the mother coun-
try. To these the only reply was in
creased exactions. We all know
what followed-a grand tea party in
Boston Harbor, and grand bon-fires
on Boston Common, made of British
tea, and British stamped paper. Soon
after the civilized world was startled
at our bold Declaration of Independ-
ence, and Magma Charta of Human
rights-infusing new spirit and hope
in manhood all over the world, and
causing tyrants to tremble upon their
thrones. After six years of bloody
war, the sequel is known to every
child in the land. British power in
America went down in Yorktown, by
the surrender of Lord CoRNwALIs to
the majesty of our "Rebel" Chief
WASHINGTON, and nation was born.
Compared with our then resources,
this bloody struggle left us deeply in
debt, which was greatly increased by
the War of 1872, which was brought to
glorious conclusion on the field of
Chalmette, by the grand old hero
JACKSON. Yet the last dollar of the
debt was paid off by this same JACK
son, during his first Administration
and the Nation kept upon the high
tide of prosperity, and down to this
time the people were strangers to di-
rect Federal tax gatherers, This vast
sum together with the current ex-
penses of Government, having been
collected from custom duties alone,
levied discriminatory upon foreign
luxuries, and such commodities as in
terfered with our infant manufactures.
But since those palmy days we have
greatly changed-we have set up the
golden calf and gone after strange
Gods-and now the excise men-the
tax gatherers, and secret detectives,
swarm among us as the locusts in an
Year: 1874

WE believe 1t is generally conceded that
when a prominent man came here with a
view to opening an important trade with Pam
amint, and to spend in the vicinity of half a
million of dollars in pursuance of that object,
A. was met by the HERALD with editorial de-
nunciation of the most calling character. Re-
suit: Said man made all his contracts with
San Bernardino merchants, merely taking an
Indispensable outfit from this city.-ErpreSs.


But that we cannot bring ourselves
tn encourage lying, we should thank
our contemporary for imagining a case
to illustrate the power and influence of
the HERALD.
Year: 1874

THE Express is dissatisfied because
we condemn the early administration
of the HERALD. That is nothing.
Three-fourths of the community con-
denim the present administration of the
Ernress
Year: 1874

apply to the gentlemen who appeared before the
Ways and Means Committee during the Jayne IN
vestgaton and made argument. Mr.. Schultz ana
Mr. Eaton. and those who accompanied them, and
the gentlemen from Boston, greatly advanced the
cause they came here to plead. They understood
that to secure any reform they needed help from
every quarter whence it could come. But some OF
their successors seem TO have been more interested
in keeping Democrats quiet until the Administra-


ton measures could be perfected, and in so shaping
the business that the Republican party should re-
ceve injury, than in advocating the reform they
are nominally here to promote. If they had done
little less of working out" of the delegations the
men who by their enthusiasm and energy were
rapidly creating opinion in Congress that
would surely have resulted in the passage of
radical measure of reform, and directed their inhu-
ence upon halting Administration Senators and
Representatives, the prospects would now be much
brighter If nobody but New-York Administration
politicians to be allowed to take prominet part
in working for the reform so much needed. the
result will be very much like the reform of the
Republican party within itself about which the
country heard SO much two years ago.
Year: 1874

A novel law question has arisen IN
Iowa. The Mississippi river until re-
Gently has annually frozen over solid
between Prairie du Chen and McGre-
cor. The ice has furnished winter
highway from one side TO the other dur
ing several months in the year, en-
abling the people TO dispense with
bridge and ferries. Recently the Mil
waukee and st. Paul railroad has built
a pile bridge across the river, the effect
of which, it is asserted, has been, by
creating eddies and changing the cur
rent, to wholly prevent the formation
of ice, so that the stream below the
structure remains permanently open.
The river, it is claimed, is public
highway at all seasons, as much one
way as another, and the use of the ice


bridge is a right of which the public
can not be divested by any authority.
1t is assumed that suits for damages
would lie, am that the railroad bridge
is liable to DE indicted and ordered
removed as a nuisance and obstruction
to trade and intercourse between states.
Year: 1874

The special correspondent of the New
York Tribune in Cuba, writing from
Havana under date OF January 2o1h'


"It is the general opinion among the
leading foreign residents OF Havana
and the interior cities, that before the
end of the present year the struggIe Ie
which is now convulsing the island VIII
have been ended one way or the other.
Sucb of the residents as care to express
am opinion on this point seem to beIeye
that the success of the instruction is
assured, and that the disorgganized and mi
chaotic condition of the mother country
will preclude further systematic effort
70 prevent such a result. The recent
repeated successes of the insurgents III
the interior and the reports OF the Car
list instructions at home have demor'
allied the rulers here, who find them
selves without resources, and are con
tinualIy harassed by querulous com
plants of the people, which are the
more bitter because they are SO Just
The Spaniards are thoroughly disgustee


with the condition of affairs, and de


nounce the war of determination at home


as unsparingly as they do the insurrec
/ tion unon the island.
Year: 1874

career carried it oy -er so many checkered
scenes. and whose passage in its multi
form divisions frol n hand to hand was
in every case a N .essage of gladness, a
token of honesty. and a promoter of
prosperity, or tb at of Squire Clineh
whose only chang from the dull mo-
notony of its use less, selfish life was
such a disastrous one?


Let those in VIII. ose care the destiny
of greenbacks may be placed take warn
ing from these two cases, and so act on
the lesson taught as to make the world
prosperous, their neighbors glad, and
themselves richer in the return sure to
F01Ic,r
Year: 1874

We believe e day is not far dis
ant when thg enlightened public
opinion of the country will demand
universal education applicable to and
enforced in every in section of the Ee-
public. Our perpetutity and safety
as a government depends on the in
telligence of our people. The higher the
standard of intelligence the safer and
morespermanent will be our institutions.
In his farewell address Washington left
us his views on the sdbject. He said :
Promote, as an object of primary i'm
porsance, institutions for the general
diffusion of knowledge. In proportion
as the struc ure of government gives
force to public opinion tits essential that
public opiaion should be enlightened. ?
The partyN Nhat follows this advice will
not lack the earnest support of the peo-
ple.-RePu6lic.
Year: 1874

Bs- The tide Ofimmigration is steadily set
ting in, and the first thing eastern people do
Is to throw away their New York Hats and buy
a new one of DESMOND. They say there is no
comparison between the two. 21$,
Year: 1874

A meeting of the Directors of our
latest formed railroad project was held
on Thursday evening. The matter
was thoroughly canvassed and made
to assume a tangible shape which
points strongly to its speedy execu-
ton. The proposed railroad is to run
from Los Angeles, through the Cent?
nella Rancho, to the nearest point on
the coast, distance of twelve miles.
1t is claimed that this will be two
miles shorter than the proposed "Shoo
Flyr route and will also reach point
on the coast much better adapted to
the construction of a wharf and the
accommodation of shipping. The
capital stock of the company is fixed
at $5OO,OOo; but 100000 is deemed
sufficient to construct the road and
wharf. The latter sum only will be
collected on the stock. The plan
of building the road is that recon-
mended by Engineer Crawford for the
Los Angeles and Independence Rail-
road The ties are to be laid down six
feet apart, mortised to receive string
er six by eight inches, laid flatwise
and securely spliced and pinned to a
broad tie under each joint. These
stringers will be covered with
heavy strap iron and the whole
buried, SO that the top or
rail surface will be slightly
raised above the bacll-filling. Such a
road-bed, in Mr.. Crawford's opinion,
would rot out long defore it would wear
out, and it would last as long as ord-
nary railroad ties and could be readily
and cheaply renewed. 1t is proposed
to operate the road with light rolling
stock and siX-ton engines.


The wharf to be built on the coast
is to be extended one thousand
feet into the water where q depth of
thirty feet will be secured-ample to
accommodate any vessel which sails
along the coast.


One-third of the amount necessary
to construct the road and wharf has
been already promised and the rest
will doubtless be forthcoming as soon
as the stock books are opened. The
project is in the hands of men who
possess ample wealth and enterprise,
and there is no room for a doubt of its
completion. The Directors of the road
are the same as the managers of the
Centinela Colony. Their object, of
course, is to improve the value of the
property lying at the coast end of the
line, which they will soon throw
upon the market; but, at the same time
they will accomplish great good for
Los Angeles and take an important
step towards making our city the rail-
road center and metropolis of South
ern California.
Year: 1874

The Los Angeles immigration and
Land Cooperative Association recent
ly formed in our city, believing in the
efficacy of printers ink in any busi-
ness enterprise, have wisely concluded


to publish paper of their own. The
sheet is to be called The NeaO Italy. 1t
will be four-page paper with six col
umns to the page-nearly the size of
the DAILY HERALD. Five thousand
copies are to be issued monthly, and


arrangements are being made to dis
tribute them on every passenger and
emigrant train that leaves Omaha,


westward bound; also on the steamers
leaving San Francisco for Southern
California and on the steamers sailing
from New York for Aspinwall. A
large number of the papers will be
circulated through our own county, to
be sent East by individuals who may
have friends desirOus of knowing
something about our country, and the
paper will also be sent to the principal
places East as will bring it before the
thus be made an excellent advertising
medium, not only for our city and
county together with the lands
of the association, but for
real estate dealers generally


and all who have property for sale.


The NeaO Italy will be issued from the
HERALD office. A full supply of ma
terial has been ordered from San Fran
cisco for it makeup and it is designed
if possible to have the first number
printed by the 25th of this month.
Any further information regarding
the publication can be obtained at the
office of l.. M. Holt-the Secretary OF
the AssociatiOn-No. II Temple Block.
Year: 1874

How is it that the Peoples Palace is
so popular with the public? Echo an
swers: Not alone do they charge very
low for goods at the Palace, but they
also offer an additional inducement by
presenting each customer buying SIS
worth of goods with Christmas
present. III great many instances
the presents are more valuable than
SIS, some ranging in value as high as
$50. d11:2W