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Year: 1875

The best time to set fruit trees is ip
the spring, say the last of April CT first
OF May, or ~ soon - the ground il
settled.


The way I set trees is this (and
never lost tree yet BY trausp|auting).
PIow the ground deep as possible BE-
tore setting, aud harrow we'll ; then
stake off your ground in rows both
ways. setting the stakes where the tree
is to be set. Then proceed to dig the
holes for the tree. Dig the hole about
two feet deep, and large enough to
admit the roots without coming ia con.
tact with the sides Of the bank. Fill
in the hole some Of the top soil, say
foot, leaving the hole foot deep Set
in tree and work well pulverized soil
around the roots, aud when the roots
are we'll covered poor ia half pail Of
water, and work the tree little, till
the water soaks away then fill in
more dirt aud press down firmly with
the foot, then more dirt until the sur.
face is little higher than the level OF
the ground. Be sure and straighten
the roots so they will lay the same ~
they did in the nursery. Be sure and
lean the tree little to the southwest
After the trees are all set, have some
halt rotted straw or other coarse litter,
and put around them az mulch. This
checks the rapid evaporation Of the
moisture.


The best mode of culture have not
learned yet. But my mode Of culture
is to cultivate with some kind of a hoed
crop for few years and never cult.
vate later than the Goth Of July or the
list Of August. / find it . good plan
to keep fruit trees mulshed the year
round. This is my plan will some
one else better it?-O. D. Storrs, in
Farmers Union. ,.4ssrr
Year: 1875

The general public has, this week,
experienced some sensations akin to
those resulting from blow between
the eyes, by the announcement of the
consolidation of the St, Paul Press and
Pioneer. The initial number appeared
on Sunday morning. Owing to de.
lay Of the mails we know little beyond
the mere fact. The new Journal is
called the Pioneer Press, and is in
dependeut in Politics.
Year: 1875

To CURE CR1BBlNa IN HoRsEs,-


l had three year old addicted to
the habit. I tried various remedies
without success, the horse growing
worse all the time. Seeing the animal
always kept his head nearly in a line
with his body I SO arranged the stable
that he could not get resting place
for his teeth except oa the manger.
This I put on the f,or of the stall, aud
kept him confined for short time.
This was done two years ago, and al
though he has frequently been allowed
to exercise 10 q lot, I have not seen
him indulge in the habit Others have
tried the experimen, with like results.
to Scientific american. ss,,@.
Year: 1875

Our readers should bear in mind, as a
special inducement to secure local and q
metropolitan newspaper at the same time,
that we have made an arrangement with
the old and staunch "St. Paul Pioneer" {"
whereby we can furnish the GAsErrR and
"The Pioneer" postpaid, for the low price
of 1920 per year, Who can afford to he
without two such valuable papers at 60
slight a cost,
Year: 1875

A colored woman by the name Of Mar
tina Fore, who has been suffering for a
long time with the consumption, was
found dead in her bed this morning, at
her home on Lodge alley, near Sixth
street. The neighbors and acquaint-
ances of Martha have taken up the idea,
from some reason or other, that her
death was brought about by medicines
administered by some quaek, whose
name they refuse to give until the in-
quest is held. The Coroner was notified,
and will probably hold an inquest this
afternoon.
Year: 1875

WHEN a new Government official is in
stalled nowadays it is the custom to make
a great howl about his design to reform
things generaIly. Ifhe removes his Office
desk to another portion of the room than
the one it occupied under the administra-
ton of fhispredecessor the world is at once
informed that he has inaugurated new
system for the rapid dispatch Of business.
The inference from this is that his prede-
cessor was incompetent. The Democrats
take advantage of this inference to injure
the Republican party. No one will deny
to a careful and conscientious official all
the honor he may deserve for the reforms
he may legitimately estaLiish, but a careful
and conscientious official will avoid, as far
as possible, any effort to build mp a repu-
tation at the expense of others and to the
injury of his party. No two men do bust
ness alike, and, while new brooms pro-
verbally sweep clean, it mast be remem-
bered that all the virtue and independence
of the party is not tencompassed by recently
appointed officials
Year: 1875

IT Is APPARENT from the result OF the
flushing of all the water-mains in the Dis
trict yesterday morning that the difficulty
OF which so much complaint is made does
not exist IN the water pipes, but in the
water itself The flushing referred to will
have the effect to prove to our citizens that
Colonel Lubey, the water registrar, has
done everything in his power to remove
the nuisance. Now let the engineer Off
GERS do as much by drawing off the water
from the reservoirs and cleaning them of
the filth and alluVlal deposits which have
accumulated in their bottoms during a
number of years. We are assured that this
can be done by connecting the mains di.


rectly with the Potomac, and emptying the
reservoirs through the sluice-ways provided
for that purpose, Until it is done no one
Year: 1875

will be satisfied that all possible precAution
against disease has been attempted. The
investigations by the Board Of Health are
well enough in their way; but the result
will not be so acceptable to the public as a
practical effort to change the water from
the fountain head down to the smallest
sDiT0f
Year: 1875

CFrom the Harrisburg Telegraph


North Carolina has Republican Governor.
but the Lieutenant Governor is a Democrat,
The Governor intended to go to Boston to par
participate in the Bunker Hill festivities.
And the Democrats of that intensely honora-
bic State projected a nice little scheme to be
PLAYED while the Governor was absent. The
present judge of the Supreme Court appears
10 be Democrat, but does not appear to suit
his party very well. Some of the managing
politicians of the judges political faith secured
his resignation to be presented to the Lieuten-
ant Governor as soon as his chief left the
State and the duties of acting Governor fell
upon him. Then some other important offices
were to be vacated by their incumbents and
successors, in favor of some of the schemes,
the accomplishment of which the Governor
has steadily obstructed, were to be appointed
by the Democratic acting Governor. To pre-
vent the success of this nice little scheme Gov.
Brogden has been forced to remain away from
Boston, and so fail to appear at the Centennial,
TO which he had been invited and had an
nounced his intention of attending. This
scheme of the tar-heel Democrats bears close
resemblance to a plot for stealing the Sunday
dinner of a man who is going to church. But
then, as It was to be done by chivalrous sons
of Carolina, we suppose it must be all right.
Only we have been educated in a different
school, and so we are unable to appreciate that
fine sense of honor for which our Southern
brethren-and particularly our Carolina
brethren-are so justly celebrated.
Year: 1875

IT IS EXCEEDINGLY strange that such
writers as Nordhoff, while investigating
Southern affairs, are seemingly unable to
find a respectable colored Republican in
that section. Is it possible that the blacks
are all scnundrals or demagOgues?
Year: 1875

Under this title the Picayune of yester
day morning. in its eagerness to say some
thing derogatory of Governor Kellogg,
makes statement which ia incorrect in
every particular. after stating that two
men we're pardoned who were under een-
tence Of death, this paragraph occurs:


The articles of condonement were also
being written for convicted murderer
from Plaquemines, but as the clerk was in
the act of writing out the pardon the sheriff
entered and said the prisoner had escaped,
and thus the writing was dispensed with.


The object of this is plainly to keep up
the unwarranted abuse of the Governor for
his action in pardOning certain criminals.
1t has many times been shown that in every
case where pardon has been granted by
Governor Kellogg it has been recommended
by those authorities which precedent has
established as the proper ones to mako ap-
plication for executive clemency. If the
case above referred to was one Of pardon
it would be found the facts of the case
would have justified it.


But the Pie0ymne was wrong In every.
thing but the name of the parish. 1t was
the case of Richard Mas, convicted in the
parish of Plaquemines of murder for q most
brutal act OF assassination. So far from
Governor Kellogg having any intention of
pardoning him, it was his death warrant
that he had ordered prepared. 1t would
have been signed if the sheriff had not ar
rived with the intelligence that Mas had
Il o:o3r, Ssro
prieved." but not by the act of the Gov
ernor, and if he is captured will suffer the
full penalty of the law.
Year: 1875

Murder Denounced In shreveport.


The Shreveport Times has arrived at a
very moderate degree in Journalism. A
short time since We observed case of the
shooting of an innocent colored man by a
posse of citizens in Shreveport, which
shooting the Times said should not have
occurred, for the reason that the act would
most likely be misconstrued by General
Merrill and others to the detriment abroad
of the Red River city of brotherly love.
Upon the occurrence of later murders the
Times has taken still higher moral grounds,
aud condemns murder as an act of lawless-
ness and upon general principles of human
ity. The most recent murder, ae reported
in the latest number of the Daily Times
received, is that of a poor negro woman by
two citizens. The name of the woman is
not given; perhaps it is not Of sufficient i'm
portance to find place in a local item
but the gentlemen charged with the murder
are called James Myers and Doc johnson.
OF this murder the Times speaks as lone
of the most brutal and outrageous We have
ever been called upon to record" and it
suggests ''to the executive of the State,
meaning Governor Kellogg, probably, that
he should 'offer reward of $4,000 for the
apprehension of the perpet rators." This
is certainly step in the right direction,
and one calculated to make crime un-
popular. Soon after the colored woman
was killed the usual posse was organized to
bring in the murderers, but up to the latest
advices they had not succeeded in captur-
ing the criminals.
Year: 1875

House bill No. 81, an act reducing the
fees of the criminal sheriff and clerks of the
First District and Superior Criminal Courts,
which was reported some days ago to have
disappeared from the keeping of the En-
rollment Committee of the House. has, we
learn, come to light, been enrolled, and
will be in the hands of the Governor in a
day or two. This is genuine measure of
reform. and will doubtless be promulgated
without delay.
Year: 1875

A person calling himself Philo A. Barker
has for some time past been in the city of
New Orleans representing himself to be an
agent for this paper. No one of that name
has, or ever had, any authority to act for
the h,ter-Ocean either in New Orleans or
any other Chicago Inter. Ocean.
Year: 1875

The Sedalia, Missouri, Den,ocra


comes to US with the following notice
of our New Years issue, kindly giving
at the same time a kick at Southern
California:


We are much obliged to our young
| friend, - for q copy of the Los
| Angeles HERALD, full of glowing ac-
counts of that section of California


We have no doubt the climate is genial
and enjoyable, but we guess that is
about all they have to brag about.
| Our brother quill i'm Missouri has
fallen into quite a common error, we
believe, prevalent East of the noun
tains regarding our section of the
State. Still, rs lie has sinned through
Ignorance, we cannot find it ia our
heart to reprimand him very severely.
But this much we would say to you,
Mr.. "Pike": AS soon as you can raise
enough rag dollars from the panic
stricken community of Missouri, come
out and see us (your money will be
good here ut SO cents on the dollar;
we will then show you, beside the eli
mate which we brag about" soil
that is not taxed to its utmost capacity
in the production of "hog and hom-
iny," but will grow grains of all kinds
with nearly double the yield to the
acre that you receive from Missouri
soil. We will show you the orange,
lemon, lime, olive, fig, pomegranate,
almond and every variety of semi
tropical fruit, as well as the peach,
apple and pear, and all fruits grown i'm
more Northern ~latitudes. We have
grapes from which we make wine and
brandy enough to keep the whole pop
ulation Of Missouri drunk the year
round. Besides our agricultural
and pomological products, we
have mines whose wealth would
pay the assessed value of your State,
including all the property under the
Sheriff7s hammer. Our bees make
honey enough to spread all of your
bread and butter an inch thick, allow
ing double supply to hungry editors.
And the climate which we brag about:
While your teeth are chattering with
the cold and your thermometer sinks
to from l00 to 900 below zero, we are
enjoying a temperature ranging from
500 to 60o above the little O-the grass
is growing, the trees are in bud, BIOS
som and bearing. Again, in mid
summer you are baked and parboiled
at ll0o, while we take it moderately
comfortable at 70o to $50. Your fields
are singed with the hot sun and de-
vastated with drouth, and the festive
grasshOpper leaps from sprig to sprig,
while we irrigate our lands, without
depending on the uncertain clouds, and
our expectations are not disappointed.
While you are just beginning to thaw
out in the Spring, We are eating our
fully matured oranges, picked fresh
from the trees.


Yet these are not all the things we
have .to brag about" brother Pike;
this is only an inkling of them.
We have lived in Missouri; we
lived there about ten years-and we
know whereof we speak. The compar-
ative merits of the two countries
Missouri and Southern California--are
well known to us, and we can only
commend like experience to you.
Year: 1875

Here is situation for Santa Bar
bara. The City Council refuses to re-
peal the ordinance compelling Mr..
Stearns to pay license on his wharf,
Mr.. Stearns refuses to have it repaired
until the ordinance is repealed, and
the city is suffering. A dispatch has
been sent to Goodall, Nelson & Co.
not to ship any more freight for this
port, as it cannot be landed at either
wharf. Freight has already been car
ried by, with numerous disgusted pas
sengers who could not see the beauty
of landing in surf boats, and the citi-
zens are divided in sentiment, as to
whether the Council or the wharf
proprietor shall be taken out and
iynched; but nothing is done to re-
pair the damage. There is talk Of or.
ganizing company to build a
new wharf Immediately, but even If 1t
is anything more than talk, 1T will take
months to complete the arrangements
and build the wharf, and in the mean
time the damage to the city will be SC
great that years cannotrepair 1T.


It is not the amount of the license
that Mr.. Stearns objects to, but the
principal of paying any license on q
business that benefits the city more
than it can ever benefit himself, while
the Council having passed the ordi-
nance will not repeal it at the dicta'
ton of any individual, and neither
will make the slightest concession.


If the wish and the great need of the
people can have no effect on either
side they would better take the mattel
into their own hands, and If they can
not purchase the wharf from its pres
ent owner and repair it, erect anothe


with as little delay as possible.-Press
Year: 1875




Although more rain fell in shorter
time than has been known for several
years, the Santa Ana river was but
little affected by it, having been ford
able the whole time.


A few days ago little son of Judge
Johnson, of Santa Ana, whilst attempt
ing to cut rope loose from the neck
of q pet calf, cut himself across the
right eye. The wound did not appear
to cause much pain, but it has resulted
in the entire loss of the eye.


Mr.. Robert McFadden, who was in
town yesterday from the Santa Ana
settlements, reports that Gospel Swamp
was never so dry after rain as it is
now. 1t is mystery to the citizens
of that usually very wet locality where
the water went to. One thing, how
ever, is certain-it didn't remain on
top Of the ground.


Last week son of Mr.. Bush, of
Santa Ana, and grandson of Hon, A.
l.. Bush, was playing with a broken
whip-stock and fell down with it in
his hand. The sharp and Jagged end
of the stick struck squarely in his nos
tril and passed thence through the eye
into the brain. The boy fingered in
pain for two or three days before death
came to his relief.


The rain storm played ''smash" with
the railroad, washing away culverts
and in different places sOftening the
embankments SO that they could not
bear even the weight of the ties and
iron. On Sunday morning the train
came as far as Coyote Creek, but from
that point the U. S. mail and the more
venturesome passengers did the bal
ance of the journey on a hand car. A
force of men was scattered over the
road as soon as the weather would per-
nit, and the damages have been SO far
repaired as to allow the passage of
hand-cars with mail matter, ETC., yes
terday as far as Sproules' Station, on
this side of New San Gabriel river,
where they were met by one of the San
Diego coaches, by which the first mail
of the week was brought through. 1t
is expected that trains will be running
on time again early next week.
Year: 1875

A square Elile is laid off at an eligible point
on the tract, with lots 25Xl4O; avenue 100 feet
and streets so feet wide.


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


Provision will be made for College and
Farm School.


A large lot will he set apart for each relg-
ious denomination. A block will also be
given for the erection of q large hall by the
different Fraternal, Grange and Temperance
Societies.
Year: 1875

re- The tide ofimmigratlon is steadily SET
ting in, and The first thing eastern people DO
is to throw away their New York Hats and buy
n new one of DESMOND. They say there is no
comparison between the two. 21So
Year: 1875

O. Now how about the meals; how much you In the
habit Of taking meals there either formal guest or socAf
A. Oil was there great deal, very great deal


@ And from what period did that form Of intimacy date or
habit daief A From the first OF January, 1871.


q Now, throw s outside OF Of these dates-that we
may very well understand but will say prior to the hst o
January 1870 which year before what were your habits
Of personal and social intimacy in that regard about being
often at his house at meals either socially as forna
guest A. Oh very rarely his house eas before that


@ Very rey' A. took my meals az my own house before
that; after that very rarely sat at my table.


O. And generally his? A Not generally, bus very IRE
quenuy.


@ Now, when you had occasion 10 seek con-
fdent friend 1 suppose that you had understood
that you had ia this month Of December S0was there any
else that all comparable in his relations with you TO
Mr. Mouon, the person that you should conide nf A.
There among my personal friends az that time IN
whose ability integrity and loyalty all combined and in whose
genius Of administration and great courage Of thought ana &c
ton, that could compare with Francis D. Mouton


O. And you resored hin in that view and in the relation
that he held to you a frend' A. did, Sir; and had
occasion to be thankful for il since


@ And that selection your part has in your judgment
been justified by his conduct towards you nce' A. Yes s


think that Francis Molton is the of Sir Philip
Sidney in all that honorable manly and magnificent ia friend
ship.
Year: 1875

RESTRICTION OF RAILROADS TO THEIR OH1


BUSINESS.


TO the EdftOr Of Ths Trt6uh


SIR: A correspondent Of The TRIBUNE
recently described the eyi Effects OF high freight
charges between the st West in consequences Of
the railroads beng comp cd 10 dividends On
watered STOCK Is there another burden quite "a
great which should DE named at the same times and
remedy appiedf refer 70 the manner in which rail-
road corporations are permitted TO buy coal and IRON
lands the mining OF coal manufacturing OF railroad roa
locomotives cars building and keeping hotels and eating
houses along Inc OF their roads &C. The legitimate
business for which they created the conveying
OK freight and passengers from point TO point Nearly
every ton OF anthracite coal In the country Is IN tho
hands OF railroad corporations, while they are dons
their utmost to place Duminous coal In the same posi-
ton Who believes that manufacturing and com
mercial industries can revive while these men
stand at the Of every factory MILL furnace, FORGE
and steamship line, and demand the mcat exorbitant
rates for this necessary article utterly regardless OF
trials to which these interests are subjected from
competition with foreign capital and cheap labor as
well as from the general depression OF business In this
country The people through the press IN Congress
ana the state Legislatures should compel these cor
poratons 10 go back their original position OF com
mon carriers Of passengers and freight and dehar hem
from entering INTO any other business in thcir corpor-
ate capacity Until this ia done may look IN vain or
any return Of that general prosperity which every man
lies growing more arrogant, moro powerful and
wealthy and the great mass OF the people becoming
more and more I'M Ovsr1shcd. PLAIN ofLECd.


Hel d.. ,.
Year: 1875

Whatever you try to do in life, try
with all your heart to do it well; what


ever you devote yourself to, devote your


self to it completely, In great aims and
small be thoroughly in earnest. Never
believe it possible that any natural or i'm,
proved ability can claim immunity from
the companionship of the steady, plain,
Woodworking qualities, and hope to gain
its end. There is no such thing as such
tulfillment on this earth. Some happy
talent and fortunate opportunity may
form the two happy sides of the ladder
on which some men mount, but the
rounds of that ladder must be made ol
material to stand wear and tear; and
there is no substitute for thorough going
Irdent, sincere earnestness. Never pui
he hand tn anything on which you can


not throw your whole selt; never aff+ct
depreciation oil your work, whatever it is
Year: 1875

OPENING OF THE FAIR LAST NIGHT.


Odd Fellows Hall, Sd and King, was well
filled last evening by the many friends of the
Rifles. The room has been very tastcfully
decorated, tables being arranged around each
side over each one of which has been con-
structcd an arch of cedar twigs. In one end
is large table laden with fruits and cakes
on one of which are also six Springfield
rifles.


A handsome centre stand has been erect.
cd, which is well stored with toys and
trinkcts.


There are many useful and valuable arti-
cles on exhibition to Re CHANGED for, among
which are pair of very fine opera glasses,
handsome marble top table, and neat
little lounge. The sword to be voted for is
also on exhibition and is much admired by
the throng of spectators.


The young ladies are particularly inter
ested in the Fair, and are doing all they can
to sell chances in the various articles.


The Fair will he kept open this afternoon,
and as it is holiday, will doubtless be we'll
attended.


From the favorable opening last evening,
it may be supposed that the undertaking
will be a successful one. If it should be 1t
will be continued for two weeks. Let all 60
who can, the sights to he seen will pay for
what little money is asked for admission,
which is only 10 cents.