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Year: 1876

PROTECTING SHEEP writer in
the Farmers Home Journal says:
Il have kept flock of sheep several
years, varying from one to two
thousand head, and for the last eight
years have not lost sheep killed by
dogs. I keep my sheep yarded
nights; and from once in two weeks
to once month, I go at bedtime
and place around the outside of the
pen bits of meat containing strych-
nine, which I take up again early in
the morning. if not eaten in the night.
Result-immunity from dogs, and
an old we'll on the farm has received
a layer of dog and a layer of dirt
until it is about full. I have never
killed a man dog through malice,
or anywhere except on my own
premises and in protection of my
own property, and have not, to my
knowledge, received any injury in
retaliation for the death of any dog.
The plan is just and right, and every
fair-minded man must acknowledge
it. Every person in the vicinity
who chances to be the owner of a
dog, "strayed or stolen," concludes
at once that he has found resting
place in Cotton's old we'll, and will
never believe anything else. I never
report dogs buried before sunrise.
Year: 1876

IN. Quad lately had hammock
suspended beneath the trees in the
ward of his stately residence on Fort
Street, Detroit. Subsequently after
getting his arm set and his head bound
up. he sat down and wrote A ham,
mock swung under the trees is nice
thing to rest in. 1t takes only four or
five men to hold it while you get In,
and in getting out you fall out.


The customary salution in Wash
ington nowadays is: "How is your
investigation coming on!'
Year: 1876

THE Coop TURKEYS Do.-The
Hartford Courant says: cit is pref
ty well established that if there's
any bug especially disgusting the
turkey will look out for it. In the
California region last year the best
fields were saved from complete de-
struction by caterpillars by those
birds and now it has been found
out over in Rhode Island that the
potato bug is the favorite food Of
the turkey, and anourishment upon
which it fattens literally. No doubt,
if there should come along any 9TH
er pest to rival caterpillers and bee
ties, the turkey would devour that.
Certainly the bird has earned place
at our Thanksgiving tables. even if
these interesting developments as
to its development create a wonder
regarding the peculiar sweetness Of
its flesh"
Year: 1876

But for the circumstances, pointing
with unerring certainty to The OPP
posite conclusion, VIC would gladly
infer that this recommendation was
an error of Judgment. We find,
however, the President interposing
the shield Of his power to prevent the
impeachment of Belknap, to prevent
the action of tribunal whose in dg-
ment he could not nulify, and i'm
mediately afterwards warning Marsh
of bis danger instead Of assuring him
of safety. Tho result is entirclv na~
tural, and perhaps was anticipated.
Marsh has fled, and the Attorney
General may find himself without
sufficient testimony to establish the
guilt Of BeIknap in Criminal Court,
and the Senate will lack evidence for
his impeachment. Let no guilty
man escape."-Charleston News aud
Courier.
Year: 1876

A scientific authority says that a
properly qualified old ram never
butts without first backing, This is
true; and from tho way the Demo.
O. ATTIC Congress has been going back,
it will soon butt the guile end off Of
something.
Year: 1876

We are assured by those who are debt
ors of the bank of TEMPLE& WORKMAN
and would like to postpone payment
until the end of time, that to settle
the estate in the bankruptcy court will
be more expensive than to leave it in
the hands of the assignees. This is
not true and we will produce a single
item of assignee expense that will
prove that it is not true. There are
now, as we are informed, four legal
firms of this city employed by the as
signees, as follows: GLAssELL, CHAP
MAN & SMITHS; MCCONNELL, BIcK-
NELL & RoTHscHILD; BRUNsoN,
EASTMAN q GRAVES and HAZARD &
HOWARD. Here are twelve lawyers in
the employ Of the assignees and we
have reason to believe that all those
lawyers not now employed need do to
receive a retainer is to drop a remark
in favor of throwing the estate into
bankruptcy. The creditors of the
bank will see by this item how little
truth there is in the assertions of the
assignee's organ that the business
will be more cheaply settled up by
them than the bankruptcy court. AS
things now appear it will not be long
before every lawyer of note in this city
will be retained by assignees. The
thing has already gone so far that one
of the firms above named is reported to
be acting as counsel for the assignees,
and attorney for one of the principal
creditors of the estate. After this let
us hear no more about the economy of
settling the business of the firm by
the assignee process.
Year: 1876

The chief charges against railroad


companies are high rates and discrim-


ination against or in favor of indivi-


duals and localities. 1t occurs to us


that the best and most effective meth
cd for the removal of these causes of
dissatisfaction that can be adopted is
the enactment of law authorizing
the appointment of Board of Exam
liners, whose duty it shall be to hear
the evidence on which complaints are
based and if found to be as represent


ed to confer with the managers of the
railroad in question and induce a re-
moval of the cause of dissatisfaction.
If the Examiners on investigation
find that the rates of freights and fares
are too high, or that injustice has
been done an individual or locality by
discrimination, they will confer with
the railroad company and on q clear
setting forth of the facts, we have no
doubt, an understanding will be had,
and the cause of complaint at once re-
moved. Many of the railroad acts of
omission or com mission of which the
people complain are not chargable to
the owners. They are the incidental
results of vast business, the details
of which will sometimes become
slightly deranged, though ever so care


fully looked after. BY the plan we
suggest, all these complaints would bt
brought directly to the attention o.
Year: 1876

the head officers who, otherwise,
would never hear of them except in a
general way. Through the examiners
both the people and the Railroad Com
pany would be heard and their differ
ence duly discussed. Would not such
a procedure insure more satisfactory
results to all concerned than the pas
sage of a freights and fares bill
which, while it imposed the same con-
ditions on all railroads, would render
it impossible to operate the greater
portion of them and compel an entire
discontinuance of all railroad build
ing on the Pacific coast /?
Year: 1876

We understand that certain parties in town
have secured legal opinion from Jo Hamil-
ton to the effect that if Mr.. Temple be ad-
Judged bankrupt he cannot qualify as the
fiscal officer of this county. People who feel
inclined to peer under the sur ace for reasons
will find in this opinion one of the motives
OF the sudden outbreak of the hoodlum edi-
tor in favor of throwing the affairs of Temple
& Workman into bankruptcy.-EIpresS.


Why does not the Express act frank
ly and admit that the objective point
of all this bosh is the postponement
of the payment of what it owes the
creditors of TEMPLE & WORKMAN S
bank.
Year: 1876

Some time ago, while coming down
from San Francisco on the steamer
Senator, Capt. SToTHARD pointed out
to us cove or bay about twenty miles
above Santa Monica which he said OF.
fered the safest anchorage for vessels
during a stress of weather to be found
between San Francisco and San Diego.
He stated that the entrance was easy
and the water deep in both the chan
mel and harbor. We have since been
furnished with the following informa-
ton relative to this cove and sur
roundings, supplied by GEO. DAVID
SON, of the United States Coast Sur
vey, who examined the locality with
view of selecting a site for what is
now known as the Hueneme light
house:


SAN FRANCISCO, Nov. 2Sth 1871.


Prof. Benjamin Pierce, Superinten-
dent U. S. Coast Survey, Cambridge,
Mass.-Dear Sir: During my examin-
alton of the Southern Coast of Califor-
mia ls.st summer, was impressed with
the Importance of Dune Cove, about
two miles northeast and eastward of
Point Dune, as harbor of refuge for
vessels in heavy northeast weather.
l was at Point Dune during the heav-
lest northeaster of the season, and Wis.,
tied the Cove at the time. There was
smooth water at the anchorage and
vessels could have lain there without
discomfort or danger, as the tend of
the shore from Point Dune to Cove is
almost northeast by north. The pre-
vailing westerly winds blow almost
directly off shore at the anchorage.
Assistant Greenwell in 1866 and 1856
frequently used this Cove as an anchor
age and reported favorable upon it.
For some years it has been OCCASION
ally used by Captains who knew it's
advantages. 1t has no known outly-
ing danger, and good depth of water
can be carried close in, but no hydro
graphy survey has been made there.
The usual practice of vessels under
stress of northeast weather, not know
ing the value of Dune Cove, is to run
for San Pedro anchorage about forty
miles to the leeward. On account of
the position it holds near the throat
of the eastern part of Santa Barbara
channel, and its advantages as a ref
uge from heavy northeast weather,
recommend that light house with
light of the 4th order be placed upon
Point Dune. The formation of the
point is peculiar and characteristic,
having an elevation of 20afeet with low
land behind it, and forming notable
landmark. There is view of it in
the Coast Pilot, page Is, and I will
furnish another from Balona. Fhe
topography has been executed along
the coast from the westward to point
almost abreast of Dune Cove. Build
ing material can be obtained in the
vicinity, and materials easily landed
at the Cove. The point of Cove is up
on the Rancho Topanga Malibou, for
which United States patent has been
issued. GEO. DAVIDSON,


Asst. L. S. Coast Survey.


Here is something of Importance
which has hitherto escaped the notice
of our railroad builders. Don MATEO
KELLER informs us that this harbor is
easily reached by railroad from this
city. If this is true, and we. have no
doubt it is, We suggest to the officers
of the Southern Pacific Railroad, the
expediency of examining the harbol
and route, with view of making il
the terminus of the road they propose
to build to deep water from their new
depot IN this city,.
Year: 1876

On the shoulders of ARCHER ofSan-
ia Clara has fallen the mantle of
FREEMAN of Yolo. FREEMAN had
the freights and fares fever so badly
that his constituents thought it unsafe
to expose his attenuated frame to the
vicissitudes of another session of the
Legislature and he retired to the
peaceful shades of private life. But
he left the seeds of the disease in the
vestibule of the State Capitol and up
on his entrance therein they fell upon
and diseased the corpulent personal
of ARCHER of Santa Clara. His fren-
zy has eliminated freights and fares
bilfas visionary and impracticable as
that of theYolo statesman which he
now calls upon the Legislature to
pass and thereby render imperative
every railroad in the State. 1t is re-
markable that the motives which i'm
PEELED FREEMAN and ARCHER to
frame and introduce these bills had
nothing whatever to do with the in
terests of the people. Mr.. FREEMAN
wanted the railroad company to give
him a private side track at Davisville.
The modest request was not acceded
to and in revenge he produced his
freights and fares bill. Mr.. ARCHER
has imbibed the notion that it is popu-
lar to go against railroads and on a
lame, halting impracticable freights
and fares hobby horse he hopes to ride
into Congress. The people are begin
ming to understand the motives of the
ambitious gentlemen who play Don
Quixote against the railroad windmill
at every session of Legislature, and.
once they are understood they will
be appreciated at their full value. The
right of the State to legislate on this
subject is undisputed, but legislation
on this and many other questions is
unnecessary. The owners of railroad
in order to make their road renumera-
tive must cooperate with the people
residing near and doing business over
such road. The carriers and the ship
pers must operate together for mutual
benefit. If freights and fares are fixed
too high people will neither ship nor
travel and the road suffers alike with
the community from which it secures
its patronage. No legislation is nec-
essary for the correction of evil. The
railroad traffic must be overhauled and
the rates of transportation fixed at
figures which will secure business. 1t
is simple business proposition which
can be more satisfactorily arranged
by the parties concerned than by
legislative enactment. The railroad
owners and the people are much more
likely to arrange freights and fares on
basis acceptable to both carriers and
shippers than the hobby riding legls-
lators who biennially attempt the So
luton of a problem that can only be
solved by practical demonstration.
Rates of freights and fares that might
be profitably operated by one road
would throw another into bankruptcy.
Locality and business have more to
do with the fixing of freights and fares
than all the bills that ever did or ever
will emenate from the brain of popu-
larity seeking members Of the Legis-
lature.
Year: 1876

ONE of the pet names which the
Express applies to the editor of the
HERALD is "the Hoodlum Editor.n
To our mind the term is preferable to
that of walking editor--one of those
fellows who walks off and forgets to
pay his board bill.
Year: 1876

THE DAILY and WEEKLY HER
AID has moro than double the cir
culation Of any other paper published
in Southern California. Business men
recognize it accordingly as the best
advertising medium South Of San
Francisco.
Year: 1876

II you wish to feel good all over and
have yourself remembered by a
friend with uncommon affection, take
him into, the Orient and order small
bottle of the Cabinet Green Seal. 1t
is the most popular brand of Cham
paigne now in use, and at the Orient
you will get the genuine article.
Year: 1876

In certain farm house, twenty years ago,
a great blank book was kept and labelled
"Home Journal" Every night somebody
made an entry in it. Father set down the
sale of the calves, or mother the cutting of
the baby's eye tooth; or, perhaps, Jenny
wrote full account of the sleighing party
last night; or Bob, the proceedings of the
Phi Beta Club, or Tom scrawled "tricd my
new gun. Bully. Shot into the fence and
Johnson's old cat" On towards the middle
of the book there was an entry of Jenny's
marriage, and one of the younger girls had
added description of the bridesmaids dres-
ses, and long atterward there was written
"This day father died, in Bob's trembling
hand. There was blank of many months
after that. But nothing could have served
better to bind that family of headstrong boys
and girls together than the keeping of this
book. They come back to the old homestead
now, men and women with grizzled hair, to
see their mother, who is still living, and turn
over its pages reverently, with many hearty
laugh or the tears coming into their eyes. 1t
is their childhood come back again in visible
shape.-Scribner's M0nttly
Year: 1876


Thee and thee only. woman sweeter than the breath
When through orange groves and ctron to the sleep


ing houri borne
love, and will forever with such unselfshness
That my lips shall open tongue speak bu, to


bless.
In the midst of joy and gadness az of heavness and
care,
In triumph and in sadness craven strong and deeply
there,
Until death and After until time shall be more,
If it be that men remember when they reach the
known shore,
What was good earthl in heaven; the tablets of
my heart
Will be found page inscribed to Love and you and
kept apart
From a., the rest and in it pray you read to find
How the endrils of affection with esteem enter
twined.
And how slight the best xp-cssion of absorbing inter
est
TO the passion that beges it and the bliss of which it
Year: 1876

We had very little idea when the news
reached us that the prisoners had desert
ed their quarters in the Jail that there
would be any efforts made to recapture
them. But in this We were mistaken.
Some mysterious conferences among the
officers led us to suppose that something
was in the wind, so We sent our reporter
out to see what details he could discover.
He found some difficulty in getting clue
to work upon, but finally he secured
some information that led him to sup
pose that the escaped prisoners had gone
to Old Mackinaw. A man had seen them
there. So definite was this Information
that some of the officers were dispatched
in that direction. 1t was not long after
wards that the reporter found another
man who was just as positive that they
had gone out towards Gaylord, for had
not Mr.. Lafave seen them? Then an
other man was just as confident that
they were still concealed somewhere in
the village. However, after getting all
the information together, it would seem
as if the prepOnderence of evidence was
in favor of their having gone to Gaylord.
They are gone, and it is to be hoped that
the next Jail they get into may be stronger
than ours.
Year: 1876

AS noticed last week, the dredge to be
used for the inland navigation work was
being moved very slowly. 1t was moved
not over twice the length of it last week
and was in such bad place at the end o
that time, that it seemed like large un-
dertaking to get 1t few rods further up
on hard ground in tue street. Mr.. Ami
OF who had contracted to take the ma
chine over the dam threw up the con-
tract. This left things in rather bad
shape for quick commencement of the
upper river work. Howev,r, Mr.. Dorr,
who is here in charge of the dredge, i'm
mediately made contract with Capt.
Kirkland, of the Leviathan, who took
hold of the matter Wednesday. John
Vincent has the immediate charge of the
work. and they are commencing the work
in such shape that when another at
tempt is made to move the dredge they
expect it to 60 along all right.
Year: 1876

The section of country which hereto
fore hts been very little known. lying in
the upper peninsular about north OF this
place, is beginning to attract some atten-
ton for farming purposes, and already
considerable of the land has been taken
for that purpose. Mr.. j. ID. Smith, OF
Elkhart, Ind.has purchased from the state
several thousand acres of land in that sec
ton, upon which he expects to secure
the settlement of number of families
who will go energctically to work to i'm
prove it. Mr.. Smith in company with
the heads of four familiey went up to
Pine river last week, where they expect
to make beginning. They expect to
build, and to clear considerable land the
present season, having taken the teams
and material for that purpose. Should
arrangements be made which would Sc
cure the commencement of the Mackinaw
and Marquette railroad this year, it
would give great impetus to the settle
ment in this section of the state.
Year: 1876

AS stated last week, and as is shown
by the small portion of the debate pub
lished elsewhere, Senator Ferry made all
the exertions possible for any one TO
make to save the Michigan harbor and
river appropriations in the Senate. He
succeeded in saving some, but the APP
preparations for the lighthouses at
Round Island and Little Traverse were
thrown out by the last committee of con-
ference, and the bill finally passed with
out them.


1t is but justice to Senator Ferry that a
statement Ibe made public showing
the rise and fall of these bills. Mr..
Ferry introduced these measures i'm the
early part of the session, and gave them
his personal attention until they were
thl Ough both Houses. Ordinarily this
would have been the end of the matter,
but this season it was different. These
bills were among the hundreds contained
in the sundry civil appropriation, or
Omnibus BILL" rs it is sometimes called.
Upon this bill as whole there was a
difference of some five millions of dollars
between the two Houses of Congress
the Senate desiring to be more liberal
with necessary appropriations. TO har-
monize these differences committee of
conference was appointed. The Demo
cratic managers on the part of the House
struck out with other matters the items
above named. Three times the Senate
refused to agree to the report of the COM
mittee of conference.-the Senate agree
ing with Mr.. Ferry that the interests of
true economy demanded the making of
such necessary improvements, as the
ones named. At last the President OF
the Senate appointed anew. conference,
but the House refused to recede from
its position, and the Senate was compelled
to agree to the report or lose the whole
bill, involving millions OF dollars. In
fact the Senate had ito concur i'm the re-
port which involved these items, or stop
the wheels of the government. which
would have been grave responsibility
of which the country would not approve.


The responsibility for this loss is not
with Senator Ferry or with the Senate,
but is the result of the so-callcd retrench-
ment and economy of the Democratic
House. The most of the reductions made
by that body of which so much is said,
are for improvements of this nature.
These lighthouses are necessity to the
safe commerce of the lakes, and to cut
off such improvements as would tend to
increase the safety of vessels travcrsing
these lakes. is not economy; it is extrav-
agance. Against these anu other reiuc-
tions of similar nature effecting the
great commerce Of the lakes, Mr.. Ferry
left his position of presiding officer of the
Senate, and for three days labored on the
floor to save them, but without avail.
This will probably show to some of the
people in these localities that the cry OF
economy and retrenchment is false one,
and thatit really means stop necessary
improvements.
Year: 1876

The Detroit News says that che worst
bridge in this state is at Cheboygan, and
recent visitors say that the Jail and bridge
of that place would suffice to make a
would-be settler have very poor opin-
ion of the enterprise of the residents. No
one seems to think of burning them.
however"
Year: 1876

KEEPING PIAc5Os IN ORDER.-A musi-
cal journal says that there is not atteE-
tion enough paid to pianos to keep them
iu good tone. It asserts that q piano
should lie tuned at least four times &
year by an experiei-ccd tuner II you
allow it to go too loEg without tuning,
it usually becomes fiat, and troubles a
tuner to get it to stay at tuning pitch,
especially Ill the country. Never place
the instrument against an outside wall,
or III cold, damp room, particularly in
a country house There is no greater
enemy to piano than damp. Close the
instrument Immediately after you prac-
tice by leaving it open dust fixes on the
sound board and corrcdes the movements
and if in a damp room tue strings soon
rust. Should tie piano stand near or
opposite the window, guard, if possible,
against It's being opened, especially on a
wet or damp day and when the sun is
On the window draw the blind down.
Avoid putting metallic or other things
on or in the piano; such things frequent
ly cause unpleasant vibrations, and
sometimes injure the instrument. Tie
more equal the temperature of the room
tie better the instrument viii remain III
tunp
Year: 1876

A NATURAL Ice HOUSE. The Bur
lington Free Press says 'sChittenden,
Vt, is boasting over a sort Of natural
ice house Which has hitherto been com
paratively little known. The place is a
narrow gorge with rocky sides extend
ing down about 20 feet and arched over
head with trees. Here an abundant
quantity of clear. solid ice can be found
during tie hottest season of the year.
at the upper end OF the gorge is clear
spring of water, from which the ice is
formed in winter, filing the fissures and
crevice between the rocks at the bottom
of the ravine. This is the ice house for
the people il the vicinity. and here they
obtain their supply. Last year ice was
taken out in September, and there is
reason to believe that it lasts during the
whole year. The atmosphere in the
vicinity of the gorge is cooled by lis
frozen treasures, and when the wind is
in the right direction a change in tenn
perature is apparent half mile distant
At a watering trough by the roadside Sc
rods away. fed directly from the ice bed,
men and beasts alike are refreshed with
real ice water"