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Year: 1875

One of the first effects of the attempt to enforce system of compulsory education in New York is a marked increase in the number of applications for admission in the public schools; and the manifestation of considerable anxiety by parents in regard to the future conduct of boys who have hitherto been in the habit of play ing .truant. It is also believed that many children employed in workshops will soon be sent to night schools for the first time, thus largely increasing the at tendance at those useful institutions. The incorrigible youths have apparently not yet been influenced by the law, and it is supposed that stringent measures will be necessary to impress them with the con- viction that it mYt be obeyed; but there is dispositiod to make arrests and impose punishments in cases where mild meas ures prove ineffective Alta.
Year: 1875

TIE stages Of late go and come pretty full, a. d they run as regularly as good clock. Mir. Moore says the stock was never in better order than now and he re- gently passed over the line twice.
Year: 1875

DAVIS & NELSON received an addition to their stock of tin and other ware this week. Thy keep full assortment in the tin, sheet iron and S;ove ware line, and also have fine clocks and jewelry.
Year: 1875

CURED HEE.-An old man up in
Connecticut, had poor, cranky bit Of
wife, who regularly once a week got
up in tie night and invited the family
to see her die. She gave away her
things, spoke her last words, lnade her
peace with heaven, and then at about
eight she got up in the usual way and
disappointed everybody by going at her
household duties as if nothing had hap
pened- The old man got sick of it IL
naIly, and went out aud got coffin,
real nice cashmere shroud, wreath Of
immortelles with Farewell, Mary Ann
worked in, and a handful of silver plat
ed screws. Laying the screw driver
beside the collection, be invited her just
to holler die once more. do it, said
he, "and in you go, and this farewell
business is over" Mary Ann is at this
moment baking buckwheat cakes for a
large and admiring family, while they
dry apples in the coffin in the garnet.
Year: 1875

SUPPOSED MURDER IN MoNTGoMERY
CouNTY.-We learn from gentleman
who was in Montgomery county last
week, that on Christmas morning the
dead body of white woman named
Payne, was found near the road about
six miles northeast Of Rockville aud
within a mile or two Of her home. The
report was that the woman and her
husband were in Rockville on Thursday,
where both of them got drunk. Re
turning home at night it is supposed
that they quarreled, and the husband
killed his wife. The jury of inquest
rendered verdict that the womans
death was caused by violence at the
hands of some person unknown to the
jury. The husband was arrested on
suspicion and sent to Jail. The parties
resided on the farm of Judge Cashel,
about seven miles from Rockville


Hddietown, Nd. Register
Year: 1875

One of the most strongly marked
characteristics of a ''nice girl is tidi-
ness and simplicity of dress. She is
invariably associated in our mind with
high frock, plain collar, and the neat
est Of nice ribbons, bound with the
most modest little brooch in the world.
We never knew 'hice girl" who dis
played profusion of rings or bracelets,
or who wore low dresses or splendid
bonnet.
Year: 1875

Six and half feet of bride stood be-
fore the altar in Paris church the
other day, and promised to love, cherish
and obey threefeet and half of bride
groom; and that's the long and short of
If
Year: 1875

Mr.. EprroR.-I find the following
counsels in the address of the Bishops
of the NJ. E. Church TO their ministers
and members and forward them for re-
publication praying for them the con-
sideration which they SO We'll deserve
from all christians The Southern Meth
odist General Conference has shown
like fidelity to the spiritual interests of
its members and with respect TO TEN
perance has probably surpassed any
church in the land, making discernment
in this thing between him who serveth
God and him who serveth him not.


The Pastoral Letter of the Bishops
OF the Episcopal Church have recently
put forth similar counsels and there Is
a growing demand in the Church for
lay discipline, arising from growing
sense Of lis necessity. G. w. a.


The extracts referred to are the fol-
lowing


During the past yeal in addition TO
the reviyals of religion, and often pre-
ceding and leading to them, there has
been a great awakening on the subject
of temperance. Alarmedat the evident
increase of dram-drinking and intemper-
ance, and the consequent multiplication
of all forms Of misery aud crime, the
people have been moved to extraordl-
nary efforts for the suppression of the
evil. We rejoice to believe that per
manent advance has. been made. But,
by precept and example, in the family
and in society, by private and by pub
lie means, let us not cease to labor and
to pray for the determination OF this
giant foe to God and man --intemPerance
from the land.


We have cause for apprehension con
cerning another growing eyil--thetond-
ness for social aud public amusements-
to which we ask your prayertul thought
and attention. Christians should not
seek their pleasure in those things to
which the vain and wicked resort for
their chief delights. "Whatsoever ye
do, do all to the glory Of God, is the
rule by which they are to be guided.
''If any man will be my disciple, let
him deny himself, and take up his cross
and follow me, is the requistion made
by Christ. We do not refer to the
theatre, the circus, the ball room or the
WINE party. These coniesscdly lead to
spiritual death. But there are other
more social and less offensive modes OF
amusement which offer specially TO the
young the enticements to those worldly
pleasures (which war against the soul.
They occasion a waste of time, cause
dissipation of mind, and unfit us not
only for the duties of religion, but for
the practical duties Of life. We would
not desire to lay upon you burdens
heavy to be borne. But the world is
so full OF innocent pleasures, and religion
opens so many fountains Of enjoyment,
that you can well afford to deny your
selves Of those which are of dangerous
tendency, or, at best of doubtful pro-
priety. The highest style Of pleasure
springs from personal purity and holy
and benevolent living. Strive there
fore, for the sake of your Christian
character and usefulness, and for the
sake of "che weak conscience Of your
brother for whom Christ died, ''to alb
STAIN" in this respect as in others,
"from all appearance Of evil, and cleave
to that which is right and good"
Year: 1875

A disastrous fire occurred in Boston,
Mass, at about ii o'clock on the night
of the-l4th inst, and continued to burn
until the morning ofthe 15ih,and owing
to a high wind blowing at the time,
the fire was not subdued until after
the destruction of near half million Of
property.
Year: 1875

GRAND OPENING. The weather be-
ing propitious, the Arctic Ice Com.
pany will have grand opening this
afternoonn, at their skating rink, over
Third street bridge. The ice is good
and strong, and those who delight to
skim over the CLASSY surface should be
sure to 60. a hack will leave the
Clayton House for the rink every hall
hour, the fare being only five. cents.
Let all go and enjoy themselves.
Year: 1875

In A BAD CONDITION street.
from, Market to French, is in condition
which sadly needs the attention of Coun.
Gil. 1t needs paving, and, in addition, is
30 dark and dismal that it is scarcely
safe to walk along there after night. A


few nights ago gentleman, while eros
sing at King street, was struck by the
pole of a passing carriage and narrowly
escaped serious injury. More lamps
should be erected and the street paved.
Year: 1875

The chairman of the Cumberland coun-
ty democratic convention said in his speech
upon taking the chair that he hoped to
live to see the day when Maine would be-
come democratic once more. He Will
have to live to be as old as Bill Allen, and
Bill Allen it is said was living when Co..
umbus discovered America.
Year: 1875

ROBERTS AND FREE RrK-HOW TT


WORKS.


In quiet town in Kennebec county
there are fifteen democrats who will vote
the republican ticket this year on account
Of the free rum speech Of General Roberts
at Bangor. That speech Is opening the
eyes of thousands to the true character Of
the democratic party in regard to temper.
ance.
Year: 1875

DIPLOMATIC relations between Pope Plus
and the Shah of Persia have been amicably
established. On the 9Th instant the Pope re-
ceived General Aga "a Catholic), the Persian
envoy, in the Throne-room of the Vatican in
Rome. The purpose of the mission was to
place in the hands of his Holiness letter
from the Shah, saying that he accepts the
letter and the presents which the Pope sent
him a short time ago, and to state that in
structions had been given to all officials
throughout Persia to protect and respect the
Catholics in that country, whether residents
or visitors, in the exercise OF their religion.
Year: 1875

The turkey is at last relieved from horrible
suspense, and his fate has been made known
to him. The 25th Of November is the date
assigned for his execution. This gives him
ample time for preparation. Let us hope
hat he will take philosophical view of the
situation, and peck and grow fat during the
month of life left to him,
Year: 1875

we do not read anonymous letters and communi-
cations The name and address of the writer are in
all cases Indispensable not necessarily for publication
but as a guaranty OF good faith.


We cannot undertake to return or reserve commu-
nications that are not used.
Year: 1875

The Stockston Independent declares
on excellent information, that the
yield of crops throughout the San Joa-
quin Valley, will not exceed, if it
reaches, one halfthe quantity promised
six weeks ago. The advantages of
thorough tillage are so apparent this
year that farmers will probably, in the
future, pay more attention than they
have heretofore been in the habit of
doing to the preparation of the soil.
Thorough ploughing is money in the
purse in the long run. Experience
has shown Summer r-fallowing TO be
indispensable to wheat raising. The
advantages of that method are very
clearly shown in unfavorable seasons
like the present. When the soil has
been deeply ploughed, thoroughly pull
verized and made mellow, and the
wheat sown early, there are probably
few, if any, fields so treated, in the en-
tire valley where the crops will utter
ly fail.
Year: 1875

The Reese River Reveille says lady
appeared on Main street the other day
wearing one of the new style dresses,
and people who didn't know that it
was the new style thought that her
material had given out before the dress
was finished, and there was no more
of the same kind of stuff in town. La
dies can adapt their old dresses to the
new style by simply tieing the skirt
tightly around the lower extremities
with haY-ropes.
Year: 1875

Henry Whiting, an old teamster
was found on Wednesday last on the
road between his home, near Auburn
ravine, and Lincoln, in dying condI-
ton and lived but a short time after
wards. 1t is supposed he fell from his
wagon during fit or an attack ofheart
disease.
Year: 1875

The agreement between the Pacific
Mail Steamship Company, party of the
first part, and Charles Goodall, Chris
topher Nelson and George G. Perkins,
parties of the second part, has just been
filed in the Recorders Office at San
Francisco. The provisions of the COW
enant are as follows:


The party of the first part sells to the
parties of the second part the steam
ship line known as the Pacific Mail
Steamship Company's San Diego Line,
consisting of the steamers Mohongo,
Orizaba, Senator, Pacific, Califor>a
and Gypsy, together with all the
necessary outfits and supplies, free
from all membranes; also, all the
wharf, wharf franchises, warehouse
property and real estate of the party
of the first part situated in San
Diego also, the good will and exclu-
sive right for twenty-five years from
date as against the party of the first
part of all coast trade between San
Francisco and San Diego and all inter
mediate ports.





party of the second part for all of the
foregoing property is $3.50, 900 in gold
coin, $l25, 600 of which is made payable
at New York and the remainder at San
Francisco.


The party of the first part agrees that
it will not, for the term of twenty-five
years from date cause or permit any
steamship or vessel of any kind held
or controlled by it to run between San
Francisco and San Diego, or ports in
termediate, excepting that the parties
of the second part will permit the Pan
anna way and through steamers of the
party of the first part to stop at any
and all ports on the California coast
and to land and receive through freight
or passengers, but such steamers are
to carry no freight and no passengers
from San Diego to San Francisco, or
Ujce uersd, or from or to intermediate
ports, except at rates fixed by parties
of the second part; and the party of
the first part agrees not to sell during
said term of twenty-five years any
steamers except with the provlsO that
said steamers shall be subject to the
terms of this agreement.


For each and every breach of this
agreement, so far as it relates to the
good will or exclusive right to the
coast trade between San Francisco and
San Diego, the party of the first part
promises to pay to the parties of the
second part $4,000 in gold coin, us
liquidated damages, and the parties of
the second part shall still have the
right to seek legal redress for any such
breach.


The parties Of the second part agree
that none of the steamers now pur-
chased shall for twenty-five years from
date be run on any of the routes at
present used by the parties of the first
part; and they further agree not to sell
any of these steamers during said %
years, except with the proviso that
they shall be subject to the terms OF
this agreement; and for every breach
Of this branch of the agreement the
parties of the second part agree to pay
$4,000 in gold coinas liquidated dam
ages, and that the party of the first
part shall have, in addition, the right
to apply for legal redress.
Year: 1875

square naile is laid off at an eligible point
on the tract, with lots 25xliO; avenue 100 feet
and streets so feet wide.


stream of water can be brought in so us
to supply every lot with crystal, cool, sweet
water.


Provision will be made for a College and
Farm School.


large lot will be set apart for each relig-
ious denomination. a block will also be
different Ffaternai, Grange and Temperance
Societies..
Year: 1875

ps- 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 thei e Is no
comparison between the two. 2Xo
Year: 1875

The New York Times, referring to
the fact that merchants are now busy
taking stock to discover their assets, and
balance their books for the year, re-
marks: "The probability is that the
stock-accounting this January will show
great decrease in the amount of goods
on hand in the city. In the country,
too, stocks are generally light. This re-
duction of stocks throughout the coun-
try, the stoppage or diminished working
time of the manufactures, and the dis
posal of the stocks in the hands of New
York merchants, have brought the mar
ket into healthful condition, and pre-
pared it for rapid improvement in ali its
branches when renewed activity springs
up. This is view of the situation that
the business man has the best of ground
for taking, and from which he can gather
justifiable hope for the future, even
though his balance sheet for the year
1874 does not show that large sum of
profit which it had displayed on pre-
vious Januarys.
Year: 1875

acquiesces in his doom, and gives him
self to repentance the heart of the
other, filled with rebellion against man 8
injustice, can scarce bring itself to ask
pardon of God. I had gradually over
come this feeling, in spite of the good
clergyman's irritating efforts, which were
mainly directed towards extracting a
confession, without which, he assured
me, he had no hope to offer.


"On the morning of the day fixed for
my execution, I felt measurably resigned.
1 had SO long stood face to face with
death, had so accustomed myself to look
upon it as merely n momentary pang,
that no longer felt soicitous save that
my memory should one day be vindi-
Gated. She for whom I had gone to
prepare home, had already found one
in heaven. The idings of my calamity
had broken her heart, She alone, of all
the world, believed me innocent and
she had died with prayer upon her
lips, that the truth might yet be brought
to light. All this 1 had heard, and it
had soothed rs with sweet incense my
troubled spirit Death, however un-
welcome the shape, was now portal,
beyond which L could see one angel
waiting to receive me. I heard the
sound of approaching footsteps, and
nerved myself to meet the expected
summons. The door cf my cell opened.
and the sheriff and his attendants
entered. He held in his hand paper.
1t was doubtless my death-warrant. He
began to read it. My thought were
busted elsewhere. The words full and
free pardon were the first to strike my
preoccupied senses. They affected the
bystanders more than myself. Yet so it
was: was pardoned for an offense I
had never committed


"The real culprit, none other, it is
needless to say, than he who had sought
and abused my hospitality, had been
mortally wounded in o recent affray in a
distant city, but had lived long enough
to make a disclosure, which had been
laid before the governor barely in time
to save me from q shameful death, and
condemn me to a cheerless and burden
some life. This is my experience. Ny
judgment, as yours, in the case before
us, leads to but one conclusion, that of
the prisoners guilt but not less conf
dent and apparently unerring was the
Judgment that falsely pronounced my
own."


We no longer importuned our fellow
Juror, but patiently awaited our dis
charge, on the ground of inability to
agree, which came at last.


The prisoner was tried and convicted
at subsequent term, and Mt the last
moment confessed his crime OH the
scaffold.
Year: 1875

This is the season for taking cold-first
few swapping cold days, then a long
spell of damp, foggy weather, so mild
that winter garments feel oppressive,
and yet one does not dare to take them
OIL. When some unfortunate sits with
throbbmg brow, stuffed head, sore
throat, and a vexatious little cough,
when alternate chills and foyer fits run
over his whole body, and he feels
"most miserable" if anything in the
world can interest him. it is the flood of
remedies suggested 10y eympathizing
friends, or tho "certain cure for colds"
which meets the eye in almost every
newspaper of the day. Pages would not
be sufficient even to give a brief mention
of all these eremedies-allopathic homeo-
pathic, hydropathic - for n "cold" is
one of the most common rs well as one
of the most uncomfortable of the ills to
which flesh is heir. Not long ago we
read somewhere an article on "How to
avoid taking cold"-a practical point
which everybody would like to under
stand for his own personal comfort.
The general idea advanced was that
when the body is at its prime, with
youth, vigor, purity of blood, and q
good constitution on its side, no ordi-
nary exposure will cause any unpleasant
effects; indeed, ordinary precautions
against colds may be disregarded with
out danger. But when the blood is i'm
pure, the body disordcred, and the vigor
of life begins to wane, then colds will be
developed often upon the slightest pro:
vocation and without any known expos
ure. 1t frequently seems as though no
degree of care will prevent person with
feeble constitution from "taking
cold" rs it is termed. To be secure
from this evil the vital processes must be
strong and in healthy action. Conse-
quently the best way to avoid taking
cold is to build up a good constitution
by obeying all the laws of health. Those
who are permanently and incurably weak
and feeble must doubtless submit to
their fate. They must carefully guard
against exposures---and even then will
doubtless be afflicted with colds"
Year: 1875

Come to me!
Come to me in thy brightness and sweetness,
Come to me in thy spirits completeness,
Come on the wings of loves magical beetness,


My heart longs for thee


Come to me!
Come when my feelings are solemn and prayer
full,
Come when my heart is weary and careful,
Come when my eyes with sadness are fearful,


My soul yearns for thee.
Come when the morning in brightness emerges,
Come when the noontide with ardency urges,
Come when the night-billow solemnly surges,


My being calls for thee.


Come to me!
Oh, haste in thy coming-oh, darling one,
quicken,
Oh, come to this breast with care sadly stricken,
wait for thy coming-I languish and sicken


For sore need Of thee.
Though time divide, though distance disseyer,
Soul may meet soul in loving endeavor;
Come to me, come to me, nov :nd forever


I'm waiting for thee.


Come to mo!
Let me but feel thy true arms around me,
My soul shall know peace that seldom hath
found me,
No peril shall chill no sorrow shall wound me


Leaning on thee.
Year: 1875

The Philadelphia Press of May Goth
has the following:


AS an evidence of the improvement
in the iron trade and in railroad build
ing we may mention that, the Penn
sylvania Steel Company are at work
on an order for five thousand tons of
steel rails for the Southern Pacific
Railroad Company of California. The
Bethlehem Works are filling a similar
order for the same road. These rails
are to be shipped to San Francisco and
will be used in filling the gap of one
hundred miles which now exists be-
tween the Los Angeles division of the
Southern Pacific and the Tulare val
ley division. With the completion of
this portion there will be a continuous
rail communication from San Fran
cisco to a point one hundred miles
South of Los Angeles, or about seven
hundred from the Pacific coast metrop-
oils. 1t is the intention of the COM
pany to extend the rails to Fort Yuma
without delay, SO as to accommodate
the Arizona and North Mexican trade.
AS long as we can make iron for Cali
fornia we will have something to do.
Year: 1875

KANSAS and Nebraska are pest rid
den. For some years past the grass
hoppers have eaten everything of the
vegetable kind that has peeped from
the ground, and this year, if accounts
are true, the same fate awaits the labor
of the husbandman. This species of
misfortune cannot go on forever.
Something must be done, or those
broad prairies will again become the
bowling wilderness of half century
ago. The best grasshopper extermin-
ator we ever knew is the Indian. The
noble red man is fond of grasshopper
stew, fry, bake and boil, and he is not
averse to them on the shell. A good
grasshopper season is always one Of
abundance to the Lo family. This
idea ought to be hint enough to the
Government to Immediately convert
Kansas and Nebraska into Indian
reservations. Turn half dozen tribes
loose on that territory, and in two
years not grasshopper will be found
within its broad confines.
Year: 1875

Our exchanges from the middle and
Northern portions of the State are CIV
ing estimates of the crop this season,
and their statements are not as high as
could be desired. The fruit crop around
the foothills of the Sacramento valley
was SO damaged by the frost that an
almost total failure is reported, and at
best nothing more than is required for
local consumption will be produced.
The Grass Valley Union estimates that
the grain product of the middle portion
of the State will not exceed half a
crop. To the Los Angeles valley
farmer these reports sound strange.
Here the frost did not seriously affect


the fruit, and almost if not quite the
average crop willbe gathered. In fact,


owing to the increase in the number