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Year: 1875

WASHINGTON, Jan. 27.-Mr. Butler, Of
Massachusetts,, as a question Of privilege,
called up the motion made by him at the
last session to reconsider the vote by which
the Civil Rights bill was referred 10 the
Judiciary Committee. A point of order
was raised, but the Speaker decided on the
authority Of that Journal, that the right
existed, and thereupOn, the Democrats
began fillibustering.


After some three hours taken up in
voting on motions to adjourn, Mr.. Butler
said he had proposition to make, as fol-
lows:


We have now wasted four hours Of pub
lie time on the question of consideration of
the Civil Rights bill. desire to say to the
opposite side Of the House that if the bill
is allowed to be considered, we on this side
Of the House will permit all proper Oppor-
tunity for debate, and will permit all
proper germane amendments to be offered,
so that every man can give his
amendment and make such a speech as the
House will listen to, and leaving the bill to
be considered fairly and properly.


Mr.. McCTary here asked for the reading
Of the resolution which he had prepared.
Objections were made by members on the
Democratic side to the resolution being
read by the Clerk, whereupon Mr.. Butler
said he would embOdy it as a part Of his
statement and he proceeded to read it him
self. II was, that on a motion
to reconsider two hours should be
allowed for debate, of which all
but thirty minutes should be allowed to
opponents of the measure, and that when
the bill came before the House, four hours
should be allowed for debate, Of which one
half should be given 10 the opponents Of
the bill; that six amendments should be
allowed to be offered and voted on sepa-
rately, but that no dilatOTy motion should
be allowed.


Mr., Randall said, in reply to the prOpO-
Year: 1875

An English physician who hasbeen visiting
the islands Of the Turkish archipelago with
a view Of studying the cause and nature OF
leprosy, reports that in Crete singular vii
lagos exist where every being is a leper,
and where the population is increasing.
There is no description made public Of the
appearance Of things in these villages, but
the view must be a strange one. A village
where every persOn-man, woman and
child-is prey TO the most lOathsOme Of
diseases; where there is marrying and Civ
ing marriage, for the propagation Of what
is a curse TO mankind, must be a singular
as well as a saddeling spectacle. That
such condition Of things should be, that
a Government should allow such horrible
disease TO be perpetuated and extended, is
q sufficient commentary upon the charac-
ter Of the empire, and perhaps a sufficient
cause for Intervention By other nations, in
the interest Of humanity.
Year: 1875

This, from the Louisville Courier
Journal of yesterday, is not calculated
to cheer the heart Of theayerage Nash
vile merchant: cover five thousand
dollars worth Of goods were sold from
Louisville through the agency Of the
State Grange for Kentucky and Ten
nessee one daylast week, the merchan-
disc going to parts Of the country that
have heretofore bought in other
markets"
Year: 1875

In the Kellogg House to-day there were
several admissions 10 the effect that there
was no legal quorum. One member upon
the committee to examine into the books
Of the Auditor and Treasurer, said the de-
lay was caused because the Attorney Gen
eral said that the investigation would not
carry any weight because Of its illegally.


The KeIIOxEifes Getting sIek and
Year: 1875

lSt. Louis heph plcdn, June =


Disaster may have visited the win


wheat crops north of Tennessee.


me absence of snow for protection
lnay have winter-killed more or less,
and in our own State the crop may be
short but ia these two States above
mentioned this has not been the case,
and there is no doubt their crops are
good, fnOt unqualifiedly good, while
that of Texas, TO use the phraseology
of n letter in the commercial columns
of the RepRbclidR of this morning,
promises TO be the largest yield than
State has ever seen, and the farmers
are correspondingly '.jubilant. ~ The
prices of the grades of Winter wheat
will be sustained 80 far as obr own
market is concerned, but spring wheat
will gTavitate to point that will as
tonish some at least. winter wheat is
of comparatively limited production,
and chiefly valuable insthe st. Louis
market-more so, however, in its flour
produce than before the invention of
the new process by which the pro-
duct from spring grain has been
brought into competition. The export
to the United Kingdom comprises
spring wheat, and this is the product
that really establishes the wheat value
in this country. Then IL the winter
wheat crop is short in the northern
producing territories, and is good in
the southern, while there is fixed de-
mand for the -four product, prices may
be sustained perhaps at their usual rel
ative proportion TO spring grain, but
with the fact patent and admitted that
spring wheat flour, by the new process,
is found to be the equal of the winter
wheat brands, no advances in dis
proportion between the two can safely
/ be predicated. Just now opinions of
I wheat prices are chaotic-swayed by
the irregular statements of actual or
possible damage from many causes
existing in the country, or said to exist
but this great fact is to be borne in
mind, that as demonstrated by the inn
mense surplusage of the crops OF
Europe and this country in 1874, and
the testimony of the great crops Of
winter grain in Tennessee and Texas,
and the promise of the spring crops OF
Europe and the limited demand there
may be for our grain, operating with
other eauses-there can be small chan
ces for high values in the future.
Year: 1875

THB LOSSES BY THB Coal SrRIKES-The
strikes in the coal regions of PENNSYLVANIA
are said to be rendering coal so scarce that
the furnaces and iron works which are
fortunate enough to have orders are unable
to run. This cause, together with the
demands of the furnace hands for higher
wages. are said to have led to the shutting
down OF large number of manufacturing
establishments. Where orders are urgent.
some are using coke in the place of coal.


The New York Daily Bulletin saws it is
stated on good authority that not less than
$2lOWO.0OO of investments in the Schuvl
kill coal regions alone are now living idle.
with no fewer than fifty thousand people
out OF employment, many of whom are
suffering for the necesSaries of life. The
most of the idle industries of PENNSYLVANIA
are regarded as the direct consequence of
the IRON workers strikes, or Indirectly of
those OF the coal miners The BaHtttn
makes a rough calculation that there are
to-day nearly one hundred thousand persons
and nearly $j0000000O of capital living
'dle IN that single State-.impy because of
the strikes. 1t is impossible to calculate
this loss in all its ramifications but it daily
equals magnificent fortune worse than
thrown away. To gain some conception of
the aggregate amount, we have only to
multiply the one hundred thousand persons
by what would be their average wages->ay
81 per day-ond We have los, on the
laborers part Of $2OO,OOO per day On the
part of capitalists We have to compute the
interest on the money invested. not calcllla-
ting for amy deterioration Of works and
material by disuse. Here we have. Mt six
per cent. interest for the working davs Of
the year, over $4,000 per day. These
figures clearly show upon whom the great
bulk Of the loss falls The weaker and
least able party-the workingmen-are
thus losing s to every s. entailcd upon the
employer class. The workingmen may
Well be asked. does this pay? On the en-
Ployers side it is only loss of profits; on
that Of the employed it is question Of the
actual necessaries of life 1t is possible
that in many cases concessions ought to be
made on the part of employers. but a resort
to arbitration, which has become in mercan
tile circles a popular method. is a more
rational and effective way ofse ttling Difficult
ties than the use of terrorism and force
Bait. SIN.
Year: 1875

1hc oON OOANO manufactured from the best nrreS
raw materials, all of which in themselves excellent fertilizers and
which when combined and rendered soluble concentrated
manure or great value has amply demonstrated


B@ We warrant the Sun Guano Be wholly free anv
teraon whatever No sand clay dirt other worthless substance
is mixed with it. and desire impress the fact upon the n
that there is wide difference between the numerous ad
cheap fertilizers the market many of which are odI+
ated with sand to the extent of 40 50 per cent!


AS we make our Suphrlc Acid grind own Bones and
prepare our Ammonaca Matter can afford TO sell The
Guano at Its very moderate price We MANUFACTURERS
OF fertilizers and MIXERS of manufactured articles from, otb
ctoreS and hence the profits which mixers are COM
PEELED to pay This the why fertilizer of such excellence
can be sold at price which places within the reach of ever
farmer. Ny


For Spring Crops the Sun Guano is admirably adar+d n.
corn garden vegetables berries &c it has produced splendid es
and m u confirmed all the representations have made in its favor
all who buy it will endorse it frst-cass manure Via"
Year: 1875

THH GRAVE or Administrators the
head of The Presidential Gewgaw the
Springfield Rep"Ihr5m show. up the folIy
Of the ambition for the presidency which
prevails in 50 many ardent brains. 1t sug


ge'ts that the field of our l.ast history is a
good one for profitable reflection on thi,
subject. The popular race-horsc stand, am
even chance for Immortality with most of
the occupants hitherto of the executive
char. ut would move the soul Of anv man
to go among the bones of it. dead politicians
and see how very dead they are. But one
Shudders to think how many Presidents We
shall lay away and forget in the next thou
sand years, and how it will tax the brain OF
the poor school boy of the future to commit
the list to memory. We are making them
at the rate of about one in four years, which
~ much faster than we produce great men. ="
Year: 1875

Vices, like shadows, towards the
evening of life grow great and mon
strous.


Virtue, though in rags, may chal-
lenge respect more than vice set off
with all the trim of greatness.


The separation of friends by death
is less terrible than the divorce of true
hearts that have ceased to sympathize,
while memory is still recalling what
they once were to each other.


Who is wise? He that is teachable.
Who is mighty? He that conquers
himself. Who is rich2 He that is
content. Who is honored? He that
honoreth others.


Charity is never lost it may meet
with ingratitude, or be of no service
to those on whom it is bestowed, yet it
ever does work of beauty and grace
upon the heart of the giver.


Generosity during life is a very diff
ferent thing from the generosity in
death. One proceeds from genuine
liberality and benevolence, the other
from pride or fear.


Say nothing respecting yourself eth
er good, bad or Notwithstanding
good, for it is vanity; nothing bad,
for that is afectation; nothing indif-
ferent, for that is silly.
Year: 1875

pose. to hide her nest in. After awhile
She came lugging burden that looked
heavy enough for two wrens. She
had been to the wood pile, and picked
up stick longer than she was, and ]
watched her as she flew up to the hole
with it, and attempted to 60 in just as
she had done with. the other sticks and
bits. | laughed to see how puzzled
she was when her burden. bunted
against the sides, and pushed, her back
from the entrance. She tried it again
and again with the same result, futter-
ing up to the hole, knocking the stick
against the sides, and then obliged to
futter back again.


1t was very rude in the ungainly
twig, she seemed to think, and the lit
tie lady actually looked as if she felt
insulted. l Ialmost expected to see her
give it up, hut no. Fastening her feet
firmly on the edge of the opening, she
placed the stick perpendicularly, and
tugged with all her might to thrust it
through but in vain; then she turned
it and tried it horizontally, but it
would not go in. At last she tried it
endwise, and / could not help clapping
my hands as it slipped to the bottom
Of the nest, and the little bird hoped
in after it with kind Of provoked tri-
nmph in her manner, as if she said,
What a fool! Why didn't / know
that before?"


Little boys and girls, learn lesson
from this little bird, and don't give up
but keep trying.
Year: 1875

To prevent moths in carpets, wash
the floor before laying them with spirits
of turpentine or benzine.
4 Unslacked lime is excellent for
cleaning small steel articles, such as
jewelry, buckles and the like.


Glass may be powdered to render it
suitable for glass-paper, for filtering
varnishes, ETC., by heating it red hot
and then suddenly plunging it in
water.


Straw mating should be washed
with cloth dampened in salt water.
Indian meal sprinkled over it and
thoroughly swept out will also cleanse
it finely.


To remove old paint, cover with %
wash Of three quarts quick stone lime,
slaked in water to which one part
pearlash is added. Allow the coating
to remain for sixteen hours, when the
paint may be easily scraped off.
Four parts borax and three parts
Epson salts, mixed with three or four
parts warm water to one part of the.
combined substances, is said to form
an excellent fire. proof wash for clothes.
1t should be used Immediately after
preparatson.


In washing windows, narrow
bladed wooden knife, sharply pointed
will take out the dust that hardens in
the corners ofthe sash. Dry whiting
will polish the glass, which should first
be washed with weak black tea mixed
with little black alcohol. Save the
tea leaves for the purpose.


The unsatisfactory light frequently
given by kerosene lamps is often due
to the wick. The filtering of several
quarts of oil through a wick which
stops every particle Of dust in it must
necessarily gradually obstruct the
pores of the wick. Consequently,
although a wick may be long enough
to last some time, its conducting power
may be SO impaired that good light
cannot be obtained.


1t is very common practice to turn
a kerosene lamp down when the high
est light is not specially needed. This
practice may save few cents week to-
the consumers, but it fills the room
with very offensive and unwholesome.
odor besides soiling. everything in the
room by means of the gas which is,
amitted. This practice ought to be
abandoned as well for safety as for
other reasons. A lamp is more likely
to explode when turned down than,
when it has on a fair head of light.


DIsTEMPER CURE.-A correspon--
dent of the Cincinnati Gazette cures
the distemper in horses, he claims.
with the following: Take sassafras
root, wild cherry bark and burdock
root, quart of each put in kettle.
with two gallons of water, boil down
to one gallon, give one gallon twice
day, in bran and oats. Continue the
above until cured.
Year: 1875

ELEGANCE DOES NOT MAKE A
HOME never saw garment too
fine for man or maid; there was never
chair too good for cobbler, or cooper
or king to sit in; never a house too
fine to shelter the human head. These
elements above us, the gorgeous sky,
the imperial sun, are not too good for
the human race. Elegance fits man.
But do we not value these tools Of
house keeping little more than they
are worth, and sometimes mortgage a
home for the mahogany we would bring
into it? | would rather eat my dinner
off the head of a barrel or dress after
the fashion of John the Baptist in the
wilderness, or sit on a block all my
life, than consume all myself before l
got to home, and take so much pains
with the outside that the inside was as
hollow as an empty nut. Beauty is
great thing, but beauty of garment
house and furniture is very tawdry
ornament compared with domestic
love. All the elegance in the world
will not make home, and | would
give more for spoonful of real hearty
love than for whole ship loads eff furni-
ture, and all the gorgeousness that all
the upholsterers of the world could
gather together. Theodore Parker.
Year: 1875

The fact that in almost every case
the ends of old letters are used in evi.
dence, induces an exchange to say !:
"There is no higher appeal to honor
than that which confidential letter
implies. The winged words may be
lost forever, but the written words re-
main. 1t is the most unquestioning
love, which puts itself at the mercy of
correspondent, which writes what it
would hardly whisper, and takes its
chances of being advertised and trum-
peted to the four corners of the earth.
Does not such tender frankness demand
even nervous care and caution upon
the other side? A blow for kiss is
bad enough. Ingratitude is the oppro-
brium of our nature. But what blow
can be bitterer to a sensitive woman
than to find confdance misplaced, trust
disregarded, and the sa,,ctitns Sa,sctorlnl
of her soul thrown wide open for the
curious to stare at its boarded and hal
lowed treasure? Such mockery of
good faith is tolerable between man and
man-it is tragedy pure and simple
when it poisons the peace of women.
Did she write this loving sentence for
the whole world to read? Did she
spread out all the tenderness of her
soul upon the blistered page, that
coarse testers might translate it into
their own foul dialects, and construe
it according to the uncleanliness of
their own besotted natures?


Yes it is certainly better to burn
letters of affection than to hoard them
in this most uncertain world. Burn,
if you would not have your costliest
secrets continue undivulged! Burn
for your own sake and for the sake Of
others! Give trembling hopes and
gentle assurances, the first faltering
promise, the last welcome observation,
the golden and silver sentences, the
record of dreams and of doubts, the
lines traced when all was benighted-
give the sweet and bitter and the bit
ter.sweet, earnestness and playfulness,
deep appeal and trivial jest-all to the
friendly fire!
Year: 1875

D1DN'T GIVE UP.-I was sitting one
June morning an the open window Of
a pleasant country house when l OBJ
served busy wren flying back and
forth through the boughs of large
English-cherry tree, bringing little
bits Of wood and grass to the little
round hole which she had made in the
bottom of the tree, for place, sup
Year: 1875

The FIRE That OLD NICK BUILT
We find in an exchange the following
capital imitation of the style of the
" house that Jack built" and wish it
might become a household favorite;


Intemperence-This is the fire that
old Nick built.


Moderate drinking-This is the fuel
that feeds the fire that old Nick built.


Rum selling-This is the ak that
cuts the wood that feeds the fire that
old Nick built.


Love of money-This is the stone
that grinds the ak that cuts the wood
that feeds the fire that old Nick built.


Public opinion-This is a sledge
with its face of steel that batters the
stone that grinds the AK that cuts the
wood that feeds the fire that old Nick
built.


A temperance meeting-This is one
of the blows that we quietly deal to
fashion the sledge with its edge of
steel that patterns the stone that grinds
the AK that cuts the wood that feeds
the fire that old Nick built.


Eternal Truth-This is the spirit so
gentle and still that nerves the smith
to work with a will to give force
to the blows that we quietly deal to
fashion the sledge with its face of steel
that batters the stone that grinds the
ak that cuts the wood that feeds the
fire that old Nick built.
Year: 1875

We now enter the field for
the fall and coming Winter
and arc furnishing the bes.
paying ard most easily worked
agency in the world. Our
agents have always been the
most successful, and we nave
lately added ne " and exceed


ing,y taking inducements, re


quiring only intelligence and
application for any one, young
or old, of either sex, to make
really frst-ciass paying bust
Year: 1875

We hear great deal said at times
about methods of teaching the various
branches in our schools. At Teachers
Institutes and kindred assemblies very
elaborate essays and addresses are
gotten off on the subject, the majority
of which seem to imply that methods
must necessarily be good or bad, as
they succeed or fail in the hands of
certain persons.


have listened many time and oft
to lucubrations of this nature, with
feelings of impatient wonder that peo-
pie aUOutd waste so much precious time
and speech in discussing matter that
needs no discussion. Methods of
teaching may be good or bad, accord
ing as they are suited to the genius of
the one using them, and no thorough
teacher attempts to impart instruction
until he has, to some extent, at least,
elaborated and systematized methods
of his own. 1t would be like wearing
the cast-off clothes of another to adopt
methods at secondhand. Neither fit
ness nor congruity would ensue there
upon.


IL is true that beginners in the sci
ence of teaching must form themselves
somewhat upon certain recognized
models until use begets a moderate
degree of confidence in their individ-
ual powers. Then, if their gifts be of
the right quality, they will cease to
copy and begin to invent plans of their
own. None but the lazy or the stupid
will submit to the procrustean bed of
other peoples methods. No, we must
each one methodize for himself, or the
winds of success will never fill our
sails. That our instructions may pos
sess vitality and directness, they must
first be part of ourselves.


We must emphatically do our own
thinking. We must consider the sub
jects we are teaching from every point
of view: we must read, mark, learn
and inwardly digest all that can pos
sibly bear upon them. And last, but
not least, we must endeavor to put
ourselves in the place of our pupils as
learners, that we may comprehend as
far as may be their abilities and disa-
bilities.


Then again, the real living teacher
will find that each year in passing
changes or modifies previous methods.
His reading, observation, or perhaps
| the material of which his class is COM
posed will suggest a variation of past
! plans or the invention of new ones to
meet present needs; and so the work
| goes on from time to time and from
year to year. Modes of instruction,
| like all else of human origin, pass
away with the using. True success in
imparting knowledge can only spring
from the soil of originality and reality
in ourselves. Methods will be good or
bad according to circumstances. The


best ones are such as are the sponta-


neous outgrowth of the mind that uses


them, not exotics transplanted from a


foreign soil.
Year: 1875

More than half oft Moist Land, adjoining
the new city of San Fernando, and within
400 yards of the Railroad Depot Two crops
can be raised each year. Apply at the Office OF


LA CRONICA.
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Year: 1875

The terms on all sales of lands outside the
town plat, and on town lots exceeding one
acre in size (three-fourths of the town plat)
will be ONE-FOURTH DOWN AND THE
BALANCE IN ONE, TWO AND THREE
YEARS, at one per cent. interest per month.
On town lots of less size than one acre, one
half down, and the balance In one year with
interest at one per cent. per month.


j. E. McComas Will be on the grounds daily
to show the land to those who desire to exam
inc the same up to the day of the sale.


During the sale free transportation will be
furnished those in attendance, from the cars
to the lands and return, and reduced fare for
the round trip will be secured on the railroad
from Los Angeles and return.
Year: 1875

Yesterday Major J, c. Covell, superin'
tcndent of the Blind and Deaf and Dumb
Asylum at Romney, arrived in the city
bringing with him about twenty pupils
and one or two teachers from the Asy.
lum. He comes at the invitation Of
prominent members Of both houses Of the
Legislature, for thepurpose Of giving the
Legislature and the public an exhibition
OF the modus operandi by which the blind
and the deaf and dumb are taught the
various branches Of learning pertaining
to good education,


With the device Of raised letters, by
which the Blind are taught, and with the
sign language, by which MuIOs commune
cate with each other, the public at large
have buta very superficial acquaintance.
Tonight an opportunity will be afforded
OF seeing exactly how these methods Of
instruction convey ideas. No doubt the
Opera House will be crowded, as the ex.
is free entertainment.