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Year: 1875

THE CRY CoUNcIL.-The City Council
ought to be commended for the evidence
their conduct affords of full determin-
alton to manage the City affairs in the
most economical way. There is now but
little talking done by the members on
either side, and the most careful scru-
tiny bestowed on all work. 1t is hoped
that with such prudence Us will be used,
the expenses Of the city next year may
be kept within the proposed limit of ap-
preparations which has been reported by
the Finance Committee. To do this
will require great care we are confident.
but we know that the heads of the
committees will maket the greatest efforts
in their power to accomplish their
ouiect
Year: 1875

THE Boston Journal Of Commerce in.
sists that if Vice-President Wilson had
had proper nursing and been kept rigor.
ously quiet, he would most likely be alive
now. Possibly, and yet we have no evi-
dence OF a want of careful nursing. As
to the failure to enforce quiet, MIR. Will
son was perhaps more to blame than any
of those who had charge of him.
Year: 1875

To ORDER sixteen iron-clads to be
ready for war in a time of profound
peace. is perhaps one of.the inalienable
prerogatives Of the Secretary of the
Navy, but the people have a right also
to know why such unwonted activity
prevails in the Navy Department
There may be given eventually a good
and sufficient reason for this strange
procee ding, but for the present there is
nothing in the signs of the times to war.
rant it, unless it's only another
of the many tricks resorted to by the
Republicans to spend and steal the pub.
lie money.-Phild. Chronicle.
Year: 1875




Jndgo DrckEY, Corporation Counsel, has
rendered TO Comptroller HAYEs an opinion rs
to tho lawful authority Of the City Collector
to levy upon tho personal property of own
ers Of real estate in order 10 enforce the nay-
1nens OF delinquent toxes The opinion is to
the effect that such authority Is unquestion-
ably vested by law in tho Collector, tho stat
ute expressly declaring that city taxes shall
bo lien upon any property, real or personal,
belonging to tho delinquent, aud such pron-
erty may bo seized by the Collector and sold
to discharge unpaid taxes. Tho Comptroller
had contemplated levy upon tho pcrsonol
property Of parties who refuse to pay their
taxes Of 1874 in consequence of tho failure Of
the city to obsain judgment in The County
Court, and the opinion Of Judge D.cKrx vas
requested for tho purpose OF determining the
legality Of such proceeding.
Year: 1875




The new City loan Of s125,oOO. has been all
sold at premium, ranging from fifteen cents to
three per cent. This is very creditable
achievement on th nart OF the finance commit
toe, and one unprecedented in the history OF
our municipal borrowing. The credit of the city
has been 80 maintained that its bonds have
steadily stood at par, and none have been placed
at any time, sznader that rate. Even at periods
when the demand for money WAS active, and
six per cent. security considered by
no means desirable, the bonds of the
City Of Wilmington have been negotiated
at their full face value, and have not declined
to . less quotation in the current sales Of the
market. But to rise even above this, and dis
pose OF 30 largo . loan in one day. at premi-
um, is still more creditable both to the city and
those conducting its finances


Just here, lot US urge that the ease
of borrowing shall not encourage tho
further accumulation OF municipal debt
Public feeling LIS justly opposed to
the issue OF more bonds. except for some
purpose Of tho greatest Importance. The estab-
lishment Of sufficient water supply is an object
so vitality Important to our manufacturing in
dustries, to the comfort OF the people, and the
protection Of property from fire, that the large
amount expended upon it is money well invest
ed. But the city debt has now reached a point
beyond which further addition to it is to be dep
recsted. The interest charge and annual pay
ments Of principal, which, by the terms of the
eral loans, must be made, are themselves heavy
burden upon the annual tax lists, and they
should not be increased, until an increase Of
population and property adds to the ability to
boar them,
Year: 1875

A NATIONAL CONVENTION of 'colored
newspaper men" is called to meet at Gin
cinnati on the fourth Of August. This will
be the first assemblage of the kind, we be-
lieve, ever held. 1t should be generally
attended, and as it is supposed to be to some
extent under the auspices or patronage of
Peter II. Clark, there is no reason why
it should not be. The colored element in
the profession of journalism is by no means
an insignificant one, and it deserves en-
couragement. No better indication of the
progress of the race is to be found than in
the fact that it is able and willing to support
large number,of newspapers devoted to its
interests.
Year: 1875

THE Philadelphia Pre-" suggests that
the Pennsylvania militia might find In
struction in their next annual drill by
fighting over again on the ground In sham
the battle Of Gettysburg. Very good but
who would play the part Of the Eleventh
Corps In the first days fighti Some Of
the university walkiStS at Saratoga might
be able 70 do II, but they would probably
decline the invitation.
Year: 1875

laboring classes. Estimating these at the
liberal. figure of ten millions, we have
aweekly necessity Of one hundred millions
for this purpose. What is needed beyond
this in the shape of capital tied up in raw
material undergoing the process Of manu-
facture, the moving of crops, &c, is more
difficult of estimate, and indeed greatly de-
pends upon the degree of activity of circu-
lation that is maintained throughout the
country. This is, in fact the important
point. Circulation is accelerated or i'm
peded by the amount of confidence which
the public maintains in the financial sound
ness of the business community and the
security and safety of the medium
In use. When there is general
lack of this confidence, and the
tendency is to hoard the precious metals
or their equivalent, our ten millions OF
families by the boarding of three dollars
per week each would lock up thirty mil
lions of currency. Should they continue
this process of boarding and economy for
three months the sum would aggregate
$500, 900, 600, or if persisted in during six
months the hoard would amount to $780,
100000. On the contrary, If there is full
general confidence pervading all classes,
and the medium is kept in full and active
circulation by the liquidation of claims or
savings deposits in the institutions which
Immediately loan them for circulation,
there is no such contraction or stringency
experienced.


From these hypothetical conditions 1t
may be seen how absolutely our circula-
latlon Is subject to that commercial conf
dence which can only be maintained by
circulating medium, possessing intrinsic
value such as coin or coin-notes. II is
obvious that well. grounded confidence can.
not be secured except by the maintenance
of q specie basis. Our circulating notes
must be made redeemable In coin or Its
equivalent before we can secure full re.
turn Of public confidence such as Is nece&
sary to an active and healthful circulation
Of our medium of exchange. Tho redemp.
ton Of our legal tender notes In coin or lis
equivalent will attain the desired result.
Year: 1875

Why should the greatest attention bt
paid to the bed of a sick personl


Because, as he passes most of his time
IN bed, and the body is more susceptible
OF impressions during the period of sick
ness than at any other time, his present
comfort and future recovery may be
greatly influenced by the regulation OF
this matter.


Why should attendants upon persons
suffering under contagious diseases weal
glazed gowns and aprons of oil silk?


Because textures of wool, fur, cottoI
or any loose or downy substance, have
capabilities of receiving and retaining
the air, which being charged with the
poisonous exhalations, the infection is
by this means communicated to the body


Why should the curtains of the sick
bed, or the paper of the sick-room, moi
have patterns of prominent or monoton
GUS character


Because when the eye of the sick per
son is constantly meeting with certain
figures his brain becomes disturbed, anC
his mind wearied by tracing and follow
ing them.


Why is wetting the floor of sick
room injurious!


Because the slow evaporation from the
boards operates in the same manner
upon the surface of the body as exposure
to damp or foggy weather, and the in.
creased sensihveness of the body to out.
ward influences during sickness, rem iers
every evil doubly dangerous.


Why should glasses from which medi-
cines have been taken be cleansed when
they are done with


Because many medicines when they
are exposed to the air rapidly undergo
changes which alter their properties, and
this alteration having been undergone
by the small portion which is always left
Ill the glass or cup, communicates the
tendency to decomposition to that which
may be next poured into the cup and
thus the properties of medicines may be
altered, and their efficacy wholly neu
tralized.


Why is speaking distinctly better than
whispering in sick room


Because whispering stretches the at
tention to listen, or else gives the trouble
of asking what is said and it may be
injurious to the sufferer by exciting many
inquiring ideas.


Why should persons in a sick-room be
careful not to jostle the furniture, dis
turb the curtains, rustic the leaves of a
book, etc.,


Because, trifing as these accidents
may appear to person i'll health, to an
invalid they impart the acutest pain
disease has awakened in him a high
degree of nervous sensibility, which ex-
tends the personality or identity of the
invalid to everything he touches, OF
which is nearest him so that if, for in
stance, the sofa on which he may be
lying is rudely pushed against and
shaken, he feels as though he himself
had been struck.
Year: 1875

The Boonville (Mo.) Enquirer says
CA number of our exchanges are hav-
ing good deal to say about men going
about with bullets in their brains. That
may do well enough for men, but we can
beat them all by similar instance of a
little boy in our midst. Three years ago,
on Thanksgiving Day, neighbor, Mrs.
Cloth, stepped in to visit q Mrs. Bmt-
tacher, and while engaged in CONVEX
sation the former picked up a revolver
that was near, and which had been lying
about the house not supposed to be
loaded, and while carelessly handling the
same, the weapon was discharged, the
ball striking three-year-old boy, which
was sitting on the mothers lap, on the
front part of the head, passing directly
through, and lodging in the brain, pro-
ducing fracture from which the brain
oozed for several days. Strange as it
may seem, the child never lost its con-
sciousness, aud recovered in few weeks,
and is now well and hearty, neither its
mental or physical condition being inn
paired. These are facts of our personal
knowledge, and we'll known to our
citizens"
Year: 1875

An IMMENSE WASH HoUT.-There must
have been terrible freshet in New York
in 1873 which the public have heard
nothing of. At least such would be the
inference froin one of the bills allowed
by the Canal Commissioners for dam
ages done n mans farm from break in
the canal, in which the State was charged
for twelve acres of land washed away
and likewise six tons of iron spikes. The
bill was allowed. 1t did not appear what
a farmer was doing with so many spikes.
He would have been wise had he used
them to spike down those twelve acres.
Detroit Free Press.
Year: 1875

were married according to their liking,
and are now living in the same house.
The villagers, however, do not approve,
and one night they gathered around the
house to express their sentiments by
blowing horns and burning tar.
Year: 1875

The sudden departure for Los An
geles of we'll known bar-keeper of
this place developed the fact that he


had received intelligence of the elope-
ment of his wife with n man of that
city. At last dates the couple were
on the way to San Francisco with the
furious husband in hot pursuit, and
should he Ovcrtake the guilty couple
We may look for bloody tragedy. &
Year: 1875

From tie Cincinnati Commercial, oct. 25.


Work has been commenced on
the ship, and tits confidently expect
ed that she will be ready for her
trial trip in about two weeks. The
lleleton Of the ship is made Of
double Q wire braced Iengtnwise by
single 0 wire. The ship itself IS
eigh tytiye feet long, nine feet HIGH,
and eight fooo "ido, ~la II ouJpc
resembles a long steamship bull,
with the exception that the fore
and aft projections extend about
seven feet from the body Of the
ship. The iron Shaft runs length
wise, the pushing propeller beng
attached to one end, and the pull
inc propeller to the other in order
that they can be worked to the best
advantage, and to allow the ship to
turn around on It's own pivot in the
air. Underneath are two rudders,
one fore and one aft, for steering
purposes. On making the ascent,
the pulling propeller will be put in
motion, assisted by the pushing pro-
pelier and the rud lers, and thus the
inventor confidently expects to be
able to 60 Whithersoever he will


The ship is attached to the bal
loon by 1896 ropes, situated at
equal distances apart, in order to
preserve as exact a balance as pos
sibIe. The capacity Of the balloon
is 265,919 cubic feet. Hydrogen
gas will be used, and tnis substance
is so light that it is calculated that
one cubic foot will have a lifting
power of one and three quarter
ounces, thus making the lifting
power of the balloon about 10000
pounds, or nearly fifteen tons. It's
not probable that the balloon will be
inflated to its full capacity, mas
much as the extreme rarelaction of
the air at great attitudes tends to
withdraw the outside pressure from
the balloon, and the hydrogen inside,
thus relieved Of outward pressure,
will expand more readily, and per-
haps burst the balloon. But esti-
mating the capacity at an amount
less than that given, the balloon


will easily have lifting power Of
ten tons, while the weight of the
apparatus, the gas, balloon, netting,
ship and machinery is but 4,80o
pounds, or two and two-fifths tons.


The balloon is fastened to the
ship in such manner that it cannot
sway to aud fro, so that it is impOs-
sible for the balloon to get out of a
perpendicular position. The ship


has two masts, tore and aft, which


reach up to the equator of the bal
loon. On the top Of each mast a


large wire cap is fastened to the


netting perpendicularly, and the


balloon itself is fastened to the net
ting all around its equator. In case


Of an explosion the lower part of
Year: 1875

stirred that yellow clay from the time
he was old enough to hold plow until
he left for California, for fifteen BUSH
els of corn per acre, is not content to
come here and clear more money in
one year from the growth Of grain
and the raising of stock than he real
lied from the white-oak point from
boyhood to mans estate. We can
point out many men who settled in
this valley ten years ago without a
dollar, who have accumulated property
worth from twelve to twenty thousand
dollars, and supported their families
in the meantime. But they did not
do this by planting an orange tree and
swear away the time in its shade. Men
can do we'll here, but it does not rain
a fresh shower of mama every morn
ing, nor have we a MOSES who draws
water from the rocks for the lame and
the lazy.
Year: 1875

The proposed Constitutional amend
ments, which have been published in
the HERALD, were prepared by the
last Legislature, and if endorsed by the
nextLegislature, the members OF which
are to be elected in September next,
they will be submitted to q vote of
the people at the succeeding general
election, and if endorsed they will
probably become constitutional law.
These amendments are long as moral
code, and some of them are objection
able. For instance, the clause COM
pelling common carriers to move
goods one mile at the same rate per
mile that they are allowed for moving
them fifty or five hundred miles, is
impractical A railroad company is
permitted to charge ten cents per mile
per ton for carrying freight, and un-
der this clause they could not charge
more; yet, for moving this ton of
freight the short distance required,
they must pay one dollar for loading
and unloading. The insertion of this
clause will discommode the patrons of
the road to the extent of having
freight to be carried only short dis
tance refused by the carriers. There
are other equally Objectionable Sec
tions. In fact, there is too much of
this Constitutional amendment verbi-
age. 1t forms a greater bulk than the
original document. 1t is adding such
an extensive patch to the old gar
ment that the new cloth entirely hides
the old. However, the people have
yet two ballot-box chances at these
amendments, and in order that they
may fire their paper shots advisedly
and effectually, We again recommend
each voter to carefully con them over.
If we must amend the Constitution,
let us do the work so that we will not
be compelled to Immediately amend
our amendments.
Year: 1875

1t is not of much consequence to the
people of this portion of the State and
we only refer to the matter in order to
demonstrate the correctness of the
HERALDs surmise some time ago.
We refer to the causes which led to
the stealing of the painting "Elaine"
from San Francisco gallery. We
said the indications were strong that
the theft was put up job designed by
the friends of the painter of elaine"
Toby Rosenthal, to spread his fame.
1t now appears there was something
in this and we haveno doubt but that
if the matter can be sifted to the bot
tom it will be made manifest that the
celebrated detective who figured so
conspicuously in the recovery Of the
picture and the capturing of the
thieves fully understood the pro-
gramme if he was not an adviser and
counselor from the first inception of
the plot to the sentence of the plotters.
1t appears that ALLEN one of the
thieves made a confession while in
prison to the detectives in which he
stated that he was induced to GO into
the work by the young man MURPHY
who afterwards betrayed his compan-
ions and aided in bringing about their
capture. This confession the detect
i've thought proper to Withhold from the
public, but the Call obtained a clue to
the mystery and sent reporter to San
Quinten, where ALLEN is now serving
out his sentence, and obtained copy
of the confession which has been
printed. IfALLEN tells the truth, and
his story is frank and straightforward,
MURPHY "put up' the job and this
being admitted it is difficult to explain
why he did SO except on the hypoth-
esis that he was himself "put up'' to it
by those who sought to aspread the
fame of TOBY RosENTHAL.
Year: 1875

A gentleman from the East, after
travelling somewhat extensively over
Southern California with his eyes
open, informs the HERALD that in his
opinion NoRDHoFF's book, "Semi-
Tropical California" and one or two
other publications relative to this part
of the State, whose authors have
drawn heavily on their imagination
for their facts, have done much more
toward creating the impression abroad
that California is over-estimated than
the newspapers. There is some truth
in these charges, and it ought to be
the duty of the Press to remove as far
as possible the errors those florid pub
lications have disseminated. These
grandiloquent volumes induce the be-
lief that this is land of milk and
honey and that all man has to do is
to reach here to secure life of elegant
leisure and luxurious ease. This Is
not true, and the fact that it is not, de
ludes people and Injuries the country.
Persons in the East reading these
chapters from the Arabian Nights are
led to believe that they need do moth
ing after reaching this valley and
planting few acres of orange trees,
but lay in the shade. Let all such free
themselves of the notion as soon as
possible, or at least before their de-
parture from their old homes, for if
they do not it will fade away like the
baseless fabric of a vision very soon
after their arrival here. AS in every
other civilized land, there are but two
ways in which an honest man can
earn a living here he must have
money or he must work. In too many
cases the immigrants to California
come with hopes that will never be
realized. They have read NoRDHoFF
and they are deceived. Finding them
selves so, they fly to the other extreme
and write letters home underestimate
ing the country as much as the fancy
authors overestimated it. If people
sought California in search of a better,
and not a great deal better, country
than they left, there would be no dis
appointments. This is good coun-
try; an Industrious man with small
means cannot find better. If one is
content to sow and reap grain as they
do in the East, with small annual
profit, all will be well. There are
millions of acres of land in Southern
California that will produce good crops
of barley without irrigation; and bar
ley, besides being always in demand
for feed, is convertible into money by
feeding it to stock-cattle and hogs


There is scarcely any land, except the
rugged mountains, that will not grow


barley. But man who was born and


brought up on the yellow clay soil of
an Illinois white-oak point, and who
Year: 1875

advance of 100 per cent, and almost
Immediately after changing hands
there is still another advance of 100 per
cent, and still there is room for an
other rise and still another before it is
on an equal footing with the lands
which 1 cultivated in the Eastern
States. where it took one man to each
25 acres from the first of January to
the last of December to cultivate, gar
ner and feed away the products. And
all of this hard work was done to
make pork for the next year and feed
the horses and to cultivate the next
crop, with q gain for the year of per-
haps one calf or half a dozen pigs.


SMALL LAND OWNER.
Year: 1875

IT is now believed that genuine
grasshopper has been found in the up
per portion of the Sacramento Valley.
Its genus is not yet thoroughly fixed
and if the genuine article it is lame,
imperfectly hopping and emaciated
specimen. Still it is hoped it will
live long enough to enable our late
aquisitions from Kansas to write back
to that productive land that there is
grasshopper in California.
Year: 1875

SAN LUIS OBIsPo, June 7th.-About
noon to-day a man riding to this place
on a freight wagon loaded with freight,
fell off the load and was picked up in
sensible. He was brought to the Co.'S
mopolitan hotel, where he Immediately
expired. Deceased was passenger by
the steamer Constantine, which ar
rived this morning. He is apparently
about forty years of age, is alone and
an entire stranger to all. Upon his
person was found a poll-tax receipt
issued in Mendocino county March 5,
1875, with the name of Matinney upon
it. The Coroner is now holding an
inquest upon the body.
Year: 1875

SAN FRANCISCO, June 7th.-In the
Board of Supervisors last night the
water question was debated to very
late hour. A resolution was finally
passed, striking out from the Spring
Valley proposition so much as related
to the Calaveras Valley. The amend
ed resolution as to the Spring Valley
then passed to print.


The order prohibiting the carrying
of concealed weapons passed to print.
Year: 1875

Moore's Restaurant, on Commercial street,
is the proper place to go for a good meal, with
a good cup OF coffee or tea to drink with it,
There is probably no restaurant on the Pacific
coast where SO many of the substantials and
so many of the luxuries may be had for 25 els.
Don't forget the place-Moore's Restaurant,
Commercial street Private eating rooms have
been neatly fitted up for the accommodation
of ladies' j5-tf
Year: 1875

COMMISSION MERcHANTs.--We solicit your or
ders for printing, or call st any time you may


wish to see specimens oh ain estimates, feeling
assured that It will be TO your advantage.