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Year: 1875

A wharf and railroad handling and
transporting part of the products and
population of such q district would
have tolerably profitable business at
very low rates. Both wharf and road
are necessity; they are sure to be
built and soon. The wharf will be
built next year. 1t is in the hands of
men who always carry out what they
undertake, aud although we were
balked last Fall by the indifference
and pigheadedness of some who were
most interested and who should have
aided in its construction, still we will
build it without them and in spite of
the opposition of those equally pig
headed patriots who invariably oppose
any scheme for the improvement Of
this section. But when any improve
ment is really needed and men of en-
ergy and determination take hold of
it, as they have in this instance, moth
ing can prevent its successful accom-
plishment. Men of capital are always
ready to invest in anything that will
pay, and if any wharf ever did pay
this will. Its position secures this.
The business of the large and fertile
ulstIlct auJoInldS TO anu uepenueuU
upon it will naturally flow down hill
to it as the nearest and most accessible
point. From Anaheim by railroad to
deep water at Wilmington is 40 miles,
and from Orange and Santa Ana it is
45 miles, whilst the distance to this
wharf is but 13 miles, and that by a
road good at all seasons of the year. A
saving of from 81 to 80 miles in short
distances is considerable advantage,
and that advantage is immensely in
creased when the difference between
wharf and lighterage is taken into
consideration. Bolsa Chica must be-
come the principal shipping point in
Southern California.
Year: 1875

A FINE PKEsENT.-On Friday night
the Fame s. F. Z. Company received a
valuable addition to the furniture of
their engine house parlor, in the shape
of splendid seven. octave piano. The
carman who brought it said he was in
structed to say it came from friend
and this all the company can ascertain
in regard to the identity of the gener-
Gus donor. They highly appreciate
the beautifully gift however, and re-
turn hearty thanks to their unknown
friend
Year: 1875

ADIseUsTINa Nuisance. henum-
ber of men and boys, who bathe in the
upper race, and expose their nude per-
sons to the gaze of persons on the low
er side of the creek is simply disgust
ing. A summary stop should be put
to their insulting operations.
Year: 1875

The CASE OF MRs. HERrTAaE.-The
hearing Of Mrs. Heritage, for the shoot
ing Of officer Nickerson, has not yet come
OF, as officer Nickerson is not yet able To
appear against her. He is quite ill, and
may not be able to get out for some time.
Year: 1875

NOTICE is hereby given that the city of
~ Los Angeles intends making the foll0~ :
ing Improvements on Fort street from its in
tersection with Third street TO and including
its intersection with second street:


The street shalt be graded in the following
manners: The road bed snail be prepared by
cutting down or filing up the street TO sub
grade eight inches below The established grade
along the center line of the street: and IN snch
manner as to give it Il slope of one foot In
thirty towards the cutters. The road bed hav-
ing been prepared along the whole OF one
block and having been accepted by the City
Surveyors IL shall then be surfaced with ce-
ment gravel to the depth of eight inches.


The curb shall be of redwood 5xR inches,
srIiked 10 posts of redwood AKA inches and
three feet long set In the ground ON the inside
nofard two feet below the bottom OF the curb.
Said posts shall be not less than six feet apart
and in addition thereto there shall be
q similar post set in the same manner at each
and every joint of the curb, to which both
ends of the curb shall be spiked, there shall
be q stake of 3x4 redwood and two feet long
set in the ground opposite to and four feet In
side of each post There shall be u key of lx4
redwood and four feet long nailed with not
less than two ten-penny nails at each end to
and connecting the stake TO the post; said key
to- be placed four inches below the top of the
curb. The top Of thecu shall be placed two
inches below the established grade


The sidewalks shall be twelve feet wide and
shall be filed in or cut down at the curb TO
within six inches of the established grade, as
may be necessary, with slope OF tive inches
from the inside OF the sidewalk towards the
gutter. 1t shall then be filled in with four
Inches of cement gravel and properly leveled.


Two box culverts shall be placed across the
Intersection of Fort and Second streets, to be
made of S=inch redwood. They shall be three
feet wide and one foot deep on the inside, and
so placed as to serve as crossing; the bottom
to be laid longitudinally and the , top cross
ways M. kREME ER,


api6 lot Clerk of Conn., Council.
Year: 1875

NOTICE Is hereby given that the city OF
~ Los Angeles intends making she follow
ing Improvement on Figueroa street frem its
intersection with Pico street to and including
its intersection with Adams street:


Said Figueroa street shall be graded by ex-
cavating or filling in SO as to bring the centre
line thereof up to the grade as established,
giving the roadway aslope OF one foot In thirty
To the bottom of the gutter.


Sidewalks l2 feet wide shall be left on either
side, which shall be excavated or filled In So
as to make them correspond with the estab-
ished grade. They shall then be made per-
fectly smooth, and all large stones or other
impcdiments to footmen shall be removed
Year: 1875

An Iowa woman ends her views
on female suffrage with "You may
look at this matter III whatever light
you will, but simmer it down and it is
but a qurrel with the Almighty that
we are not all men.
Year: 1875

Ages 10 come, see the world, And loi it is full of evil Fnli of women and men; The only prayer of the good is for death, And the only feat of the brave, to die. There is no God any more among all the people Science has murdered God, And now, in her turn is dying With that she fed on-Inan and the world. The world Is full of man, full 10 rotting, Full as channeled carcass crawling with creep

 ing things And Science sits P the heap. and griRs like a

 ghastiy fiend, Gibbcring empty words when one enquireth the

 end. The cattle are slain and slain Clean away from the earth, For the need of a hungry world, And all that creepeth and moveth Is gathered in by lean blue hands That clutch as the drowning at all things. The rivers are thick and foul, For the thirst Is more than the water. The soil Is noisome sight, Barren with overtask, Scraped and raked and mucked To the smallest sand; And thieves unearth the seed For an hours life. The air is rank, and the high heaven Clammy with exbalation; The heaped world choking and no green leaf Any more to transmute the stench.

 Q, people exceeding wise is this! With curious books and tools Impotent sages gnashing their wisdom teeth, Cursing all that Is or may be. Fighting for food like wolves, Like wolves devouring each other, Love is dead, and lust Hunger sits in the sunken eyes That glare on the covering woman. And woman, with whom love dies the latest, Posons the babe in her womb The world Is full; Strangles the babe at her breast The world is starving.

 "A crash, and the world is done. The void is filled with a fiery hail And shudder that crceps to the farthest star.

 -Orerland Monthly for ApTil
Year: 1875

There comes 4 time when we grow old,
And, like sunset down the sea,
Slope gradual, and the night wind cold
Games whispering, sad and chilling!


And locks are gray


AS winters day,
And the cves of saddest blue behold V
The leaves, all weary. drift away.
And lips of faded coral say,
There comes time when we grow old.
There comes time when joyous hearts,
Which leaped as leaped the laughing main
Are dead to all save memory,
As prisoner in his dungeon chain.


And dawn of day


Hath passed away,
The moon hath into darkness rolled
And by the embers warm and gay,
hear voice in whisper say,
There comes a time when we grow old.
There comes time when manhood's prime
Is shrouded in the mist Of years,
And beauty, fading like dream,
Hath passed away In silent tears;


And then how dark!


But, oh! the spark
That kindled youth to hues Of gold,
Still burns with clear and steady ray,
And fond affections, lingering. say.
There comes . time when we grow old.
There comes a time when laughing spring,
And golden summer cease to be,
And we put on the autumn robe
To tread the last declivity;


But now the slope.


With rosy Hope,
Beyond the sunset we behold
Another dawn, with fairier light,
While watchers whisper through the night
There comes time when we grow old.
Year: 1875

appealed to mare in the herd, who
had no colt Of her own-had not had
for two years-perhaps never had
She came down with the sustenance,
adopted the nurseling, and the little
fellow is getting fat, while the step
mother is as proud as she can be-
Singular, isn't it? A.
Year: 1875

A lucrative opening for young ls-
dies has been made by the decision
of an Indiana court that the fact of q
girl being engaged to several gentle
men at once is no bar to her suing
each of them for a breach of promise.
Year: 1875

The great majority OF our people care
little about the proposed change in the city
charter. 1t is true, they would prefer the
officers elective instead of the present sys-
TEN OF appointment. 1t is also true that
they are opposed to any increase Of salaries
They want the guards kept secure to pre-
vent increased taxes, and they would like
the proposed amendment to clean the Coun-
Gil as well As the Mayor, although they
have little hope OF that, Is oue of the coun-
cilmen who hold over is Senator, and
while he Processes 10 care not, vet he will
nerer consent to be legislated out of Office.


Again, the people would like to nave the
Board of Education limited to a six-mill
tax, instead OF nine mills, As it now Is.


VIII our members carry out the will oi
the people? We think most Of them are
inclined to do so.
Year: 1875

The cotton factory working people at
Fall River, Mass, now on 4 strike 10 the
number of about 1000, have applied 10 the
local relief society for support, and fund,
which has hitherto remained untouched, is
now being drawn upon. The managers of
the mills set February as the day upon
which wages would he reduced, and the
employees having struck, they are determin-
ed to keep the mills closed until the times
become more favorable or the strikers sue
cumb.


Ii would seem that since some financial
stringency, and not principle, is at stake,
the better judgment OF the strikers would
commend TO them the foolishness of living
on charity, when they could get plenty OF
work at reasonable wages, considering the
hard times. r
Year: 1875

While it is clear that the good Deacon
Houston has given Castle greater provoca-
ton for libel suit than THE TINES gave
Lecompte, OF border rufiian notoriety, and
Notwithstanding the fact that the Commer-
cial gloried in the fact that old Lecompte
sued and got verdict yet our Christian
feelings and desire to be fair and candid to-
wards an opponent compels us to say that
the case of this man Castle against Houston
ought TO be unceremoniously kicked out Of
court, and it will be unless some blockhead
OF a justice of the peace binds him over
We hope public sentiment will condemn
Castle and his kind from instituting such
cowardly suits.
Year: 1875

THE London Times devotes four columns
TO the Charley Ross case, giving a full ac-
count OF the whole affair. This may in
duce some enterprising British criminal to
enter the kidnapping business. There is
any number OF children in the royal fami-
ly, and the abduction OF a small prince
would create even more sensation in Eng
land than WIS created by the stealing of
Charley Ross in this country.
Year: 1875

In the New York Bay Cemeter; is tomb,
and within rests metallic coffin and an
easy chair. Twice a week there comes to
this tomb middle aged lady, who quietly
unbolts the iron door, seats herself in the
easy chair at the head Of the coffin and
mentally converses as she thinks, with her
G-ad husband who lies by her side. The
constancy has been persisted in during the
past eight years. So accustomed are the
keepers and workmen At the cemetery to
her coming that they now think no more OF
it than Of any other regular occurrence of
every day life. The husband died while
on a visit to California, and was sent back
TO his wife in The metallic coffin In which
he now lies. The features are said to be as
natural rs on the day of his death.
Year: 1875

We have received a copy OF Senate bill
No. ?, introduced by Mr.. Halderman. 1t
is an act providing Tor the repeal of the OBJ
noxious registry law. There is no doubt Of
its passage in the Senate, and We hope the
House will act sensibly in the matter, and
wipe out this expensive and useless annoy
ance. The act only applies to cities OF the
first class, and We know there is not .citi-
zen in Leavenworth that does not agre
with Senator Halderman, that this registry
law is useless, expensive and withal great
ANNOYANCE.
Year: 1875

SENATOR ScHuKz will not return to Mis-
souri, after the close of the present Congress,
unless it be for very short visit. He will
probably spend the summer in Europe, and
then take up his residence in the East, for
the purpose Of gathering material for his
promised volume on American politics.
Year: 1875

The Cincinnati Gazette wants to know


how ii is that a city of 100000 people can


bum more gas than a city of $4,000. 1t is
not at al! wonderful, considering how sel-
dom the sun is able to shine through The
dirt and smoke OF Cincinnati. Speaking
for Leavenwortb, We will say that the mat
ter for surprise is, not that We burn 90 little
gas, but that of the quality furnished we
barn any at all. 6.-
Year: 1875

TIE Cincinnati Inquirer is still pushing
old Bill Allen for the next Presidency, but
there does not seem to Us to be any response
from the East or from any considerable por-
tion OF the West. The St Louis GloJs
thinks that the name OF the coming man Of
the Democratic party, at the present writ
ing. is Samuel J. Tilden.
Year: 1875

WE would refer our readers to letter
from Topeka in our columns this morning.
1t reflects on the action of the State Board
of Agriculture We dc not see why the
Board would not patronize State enter
prize at,
Year: 1875

OUR article on the folly of appropriating
$4,000 for the relief of the destitute. and
making the State Board of Agriculture the
custodians OF the fund, is being generally
endrsed in the State.
Year: 1875

The defea, of Mr.. Carpenter subtracts an
able and trained legislator of large expe-
rience from the Senate when such qualities
are greatly needed. The New York Guphie
thinks the Senate in the next Congress will
be chiefly remarkable for the men who are
not there
Year: 1875

The strike of the mule-spinners of Lowell, says an exchange, notlikely to develop the same type of violence as prevails in Pennsylvania when strikes occur. But it will nevertheless infict great deal of hardship on thousands of people who are not at all responsible for 1t. AS most people know, the spinning mule is @ machine which twists and winds the cotton yarns employed in weaving cloth. The production of one mule will keep several looms at work, so that the strike of each attendant on a mule involves the compulsory idleness of several weavers. At least this is an inevitable consequence, unless the produc- tion of the ordinary "ring frames," whose attendants are zstill at work, can be greatly increased, orpnless the vacant places of the mule-spnn&s can be sup piled by others who are willing to con tinue work at the reduced rates of last fall. Both these remedies require time, as the trade has not yet got the requisite confidence in the ability of ring frames to turn out weft yarn equal to that of the mules, and as spinning presup poses certain amount of training which new hands do not possess So the con- test may be long and bitter, since the strikers are comparatively limited class, well organized and well-supported. Meanwhile, thousands of weavers who are willing to work will be brought face to face with starvation.
Year: 1875

In speaking of the merits of the Wilson shuttle sewing machine, it is sufficient for us to say that we think the invention of this ma chine marks one of the most important eras in the history of this country and when we con- sider the influence it has upon the social we'll being of the masses it is difficult to conceive of all invention of more importance. It has a beautiful noiseless movement; it makes the genuine "lock-stitch alike on both sides, and does to perfection all kinds of plain and fine sewing it needs no commendation it's rapid sales, the increasing demand, and the many fattering testimonials from those who have used it, is sufficient proof of it's merits. The want of sewing machine IS deeply felt in every househoid and as the Wilson shuttle sewing machine, on account of it's extreme simplicity and less cost of manufacture, is sold at 8 much lower price than all other first-class machines, it is meeting with the extensive patronage that it so justly deserves. Machines will be delivered at any railroad station in this county free of transportation charges, if or dered through the company's branch house at 827 and 829 Broadway, New York. They send an elegant catalogue and chromo circular free on application. This company want a few more good agents.-EOR.
Year: 1875

EDITOR REPUBLICANS:


Would it not be a good idea to form
battalion one half of which shall be COM
posed of those who fought under the Con-
federacy and the other those who fought
for the Union, said battalion to be organ
lied for the express purpose of visiting
Philadelphia during the centennial. An
organization of this kind would 90 a good
way to harmonic the discordant elements
in our midst, and pave the way to brighter
and better feeling.


CORPORAL TRIM.
Year: 1875

There is one kind of doctrine which the
Creator has appointed shall be acquired by
the busy intellect, and which, when So ac-
quired, is held in inalicuabla possession.
There is another kind of knowledge which
he gives to faithful and obedicnt hearts. and
which even the truest Of them hold on the
prccarious tenure OF sustained faith and un-
relaxing obedience. The future world as
suredly belongs to this latter class of knowl-
edge. 1t Is, as one Of the greatest of living
teachers has said, part of our religion,
not branch of our geography Why it is
so why our passionate longings for more
satisfying information cannot be INDUCED.
we can even partially see for we may per-
ceiye that it would instautaueously destroy
the perspective cf this life, and uullify the
whole present system of moral tuition 10y
earthly Joys and chastisemcuts The men,
tai chaos into which those persons obviously
fall, who in our day imagine that they have
obtained tangible. audible and visible proofs
Of another life, supplies evidence Of the
ruinous results which would follow were
any such corporeal access to the other world
actually opened to mankind Let us then
courageously face the conclusion which we
seem TO have reached The KEYS which
must open the door Of hope beyond the
grave Will never be found by fumblng
among the heterogeneous stores of the logi-
cal understanding. Like the one with
which the pilgrim unlocked the dungeon of
Giant Despair's castle. it is hidden in our
own hearts given TO Us long ago by the
Lord Of the way.-FTmces POirer CoLJt
Year: 1875

Prayer is a key, for it opens to us the door
TO the knowledge Of God. None can under
stand anything spiritually of the character
and glory of God but those who 20 to Him
to be enlightened Whor we 60 to Him as
the Father Of Lights, aud call upon Him, by
that very act we place ourselves in the beam
ing splendor which goes out from Him. We
come TO the light and lie is ever ready to
open to us the door, if we but use the key.


Second--Prayer is a key, because it opens
to as the knowledge of ourselves. just rs |
bring an object out Of the darkness into the
light when | wish TO examine it, SO ! bring
my dark and spotted heart TO the light, when
come to God in prayer. In the light OF Ills
holiness and love and joy, | see my own sin
fulness and shame and misery, The nearer
| go to Him, the more clearly see myself
and know what am. Prayerless men do
not know themselves. They have never seen
themselves in the light of God, and they
think they are good and blameless but
praying men know the wickedness of their
own hearts " Now mine eye seeth thee,
SAYS job wherefore | abhor myself and
repent in dust and ashes


THnd-Prayer opens to the soul the glory
of the natural world A prayerless man
does not know one in thousand OF the
beauties Of nature aud what he sees not,
that he cannot enjoy, as the spiritual man
enoysit For thou, Lord, rejoicest me by
thy work | Joy in the works Of thy hands.
O Lord, how great are thy works, and thy
thoughts are very deep, The british man
knoweth not neither does the fool understand
this" God makes the hearts OF those re-
ioice in His works, whose joy is to draw neal
to Him.


Fouh-Prayer is a key, for it opens to
us most glorious knowledge Of heaven. II
| brings us into spiritual harmony with the
employments and the enjoyments of the IN
| habitants of heaven we can understand bet
ter what is the home of the blessed, Oul
| faith is so strengthened that we obtain cleal
views of the eternal heights and the heay
enly heights and the heavenly fields. Nc
/ hin on earth is so high, no mountain summit
1 is so near heaven as the mount of God.


The key which can open so many locks
and throw wide so many doors-which car
bring a man into possession of so many
blessings, is within the reach of every man
if he only desires and takes pains to Obtain
it, Many young and poor, learned and un
learned, have found it and enjoy it in the
use of its unspeakable blessings; and are w
not sure that every one who has this key
that opens the treasures Of the Most High


must seek at his own door the blame for hi


shame and misery ?-Erchdnge.
Year: 1875

Aud what doth the Lord require of thee,
but only love But how great thing is
love Love brought Him down hither to
US and love will carry us up to God. Love
made Him like to man and love is able to
make thee like to God Oh, the power of
heavenly love How shall we get it planted
in our hearts-how, but 10y love The fire.
quent meditation of this admirable love of
God in His Son, Jesus Christ, win not suffer
us not to love Him with all our heart, soul and
strength, Let US resolve, then, that the re-
membrance of His love shall lie perpetually
in our heart What more welcome thought
can there be to thee every morning when
thou wakest than this; ] am the beloved of
the King of Glory ? With what canst thou
open thy soul more cheerfully3 What will
brighten it, and chase away the darkness of
melancholy, sadness, sorrow, cares and fears,
like to this ? Let the morning light bring
Jesus ever along with it to thy mind, and
enkindle in thee a new devotion to Him.
B'slOD pdfrici
Year: 1875

FALSE PRAYER.-1here is good deal of
this praying, which is not prayer at all. Men
piousy ask the Lord to undertake works by
the score which they are too lazy or too pc
nurious to do for themselves. Prayer be-
comes a cloak for lazness, and piety mask
for avarice. In this point of view, mission
airy meetings are often the saddest places a
thoughtful man can sit for an hours medita-
ton. lie finds himself wondering in them
not that the heather are not converted, but
that there are any Christians left. Men
meet and pray and exhort, and turn the
with an air of pious resignation, contribut-
ing a dollar or two as they leave it, as their
share toward the enterprise.--Chwch Journal