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Year: 1875

Now that active operations have
commenced on the Los Angeles and
Independence road both at Truxton
and in Cajon Pass, renewed confidence
is manifested in the successful carry
ing out of the enterprise. There is a
more general interest taken by all,
and the task of persuading people to
become stockholders in the road is not
SO difficult as some weeks ago. Engi-
neer CRAWFORD is pushing ahead
with his surveys as rapidly as the ma
ture of the work will permit, and eve-
rything indicates determination on
the part of the managers to redeem
the promise that the road will be COM
pleted to Cajon Pass within five
months from this date. If the people
render that assistance they should, the
road will be speedily built.
Year: 1875

1t is now almost certain that the
country will be afflicted with an extra
session of Congress. This extra sess-
ion business ought never to come up
except in time of war. 1t is both ex-
pensive and dangerous. An extra
session will cost the people many
hundred thousand dollars, which
ought to be saved by the transaction


OF all necessary business during the
regular session. The danger consists
in the probability that in the enact


ment of necessary laws, bad bills will
be rushed through. On whom the
blame of creating the necessity for an
Year: 1875

SALT LAKE, February 1Sth.-Local
rates of freight by the Union Pacific
are so high that parties here ship to
San Francisco and thence by rail to
New York at through rates.


The Winter has been mild and more
ore has been taken from the mines In
this Territory than in any previous
season.
Year: 1875

Moore's Restaurant, on Commercial street,
is the proper place to go for a good meal, with
good cup OF coffee or tea to drink with it,
There is probably no restaurant onthe Pacific
coast where so many of the substantials and
so many of the Injuries may be had for 25 Cts


Don't forget the place-Moore's Restaurant,
Commercial street. Private eating rooms have
been neatly fitted up for the accommodation
of 1adies. j5-tf
Year: 1875

SALT LAKE, February 18th.-Citi-
zens of Springville, of this Territory
have organized company to build a
narrow gauge railroad through to
Spanish Fork Canon so as to tap the
San Pete coal cafion and the sulphur
fields.
Year: 1875

na- The tide ofimmigration is steadily set
ting in, and the first thing eastern people do
Is to throw away their New York Hats and buy
a new one of DESMOND. They say there is no
com parison between the two. 21lo
Year: 1875

Some statistics not pleasant to COntem-
plate, but very suggestive, are furnished by
one Of our Iowa correspondents. They re-
late to Outrages UpOl women in that State
during the past six months. Newspaper
files show that ffty-seven cases Of this kind
have occurred in the period mentioned.
Ofthe perpetrators Of these Outrages, only
three have been brought 10 justice, and,
even Of these three, not one had a severe
punishment This is a sad commentary
on the condition Of Iowa justice. The
fault in that State appears to he excessive
tenderness Of heart on the part Of the peO-
pie who rule. Doubtless there will be
some amendment in this respect when the
question is seen to be between the safety Of
wives and mothers and the comfort Of
beastly men. The abolition Of capital
punishment is mainly responsible for the
present laxness and insuficiency Of crim-
ipal prosecutions in the State.
Year: 1875




A man who was either a monOmaniac,
or an enthusiast worthy to be regarded as
such, aroused a considerable excitement
and furnished fruitful theme of conversa-
ton at the theater last evening. The
orchestra were Just taking Their
seats at the Museum when a man, appar-
emily about forty years Of age, well ll-dressed
and of intelligent appearance, arose in the
center of the balcony and said in a clear
voice: "Ladies and gentlemen: Before
the entertainment commences this even
ing, l should like to tell you all that
unless you change your way of living
and follow in the footsteps Of Jesus
Christ instead of wasting your lives in
theaters, you will all certainly 20 % nell !"
The audience was at first so astOnished
that there was a mOmentaTy silence, which
was followed by mingled applause and
Kisses, and the man was put out by the
ushers without a show of resistance and
apparently any desire to stay. He then
went directly TO the Boston Theater, and
the curtain had just risen when be
arose again in the center Of
the balcony and said: aLadiet
and gentlemen, ] am sent here to inteuup.
this performance by the Lord Jesus Christs
1 warn you Of your danger" And again
he was usheTed out and down stairs. The
only remark he made as the ushers took
him was, "DOnt hurt me- Officer Nc
Cabe took him TO the station, and as he
did so he was asked why he did it, and he
replied that be stood up as he did be-
cause it was his duty, and whns he was
told that he had no business TO interrupt
the performance be replied, Il do not wish
this to be made matter Of ridicule." a
gentleman at the Boston Theater said that
the same person interrupted a performance
at the Wall Street Theater in Philadelphia
a year ago in a similar way.


When taken to Station 2 by the officer he
gave the name of Andrew Leslie, formerly
of st. Louis, Mo-, and lately a member of
the divinity school at Cambridge. As he
seemed to be labOring under q temporary
insanity, DR.. FOye was summoned, and de-
cided that the temporary illness was caused
by Oyer-wOTk. He was accordingly cared
for and locked up for the night, for his own
safety merely, as lie was harmless.
Year: 1875

The people Of Xenia are just low in a
state of excitement over the mysterious in
cendia'y attempts to burn the dwelling of
Mrs. Boyd. The lady, who is a widow
with several children, lives in a handsome
two-s,ory brick near the residence Of Mrs.
d. Harbine. The demonstrations began
on last Monday week, when fifty dollars
were spirited away in a very mysterious
manner. On last Sunday al noon a fire
was blazing on the floor in the middle
Of one Of the rooms. The inCendiary pile
was we'll supplied with kindling, and might
have been a success but for the timely dis
cOvery Of the flame it made. On last SatUr-
day a bed was set on fire, a blazing candle
being found inside Of a pillow-case on the
bed. On Monday, about ten o'clock in the
morning, 4 closet was discovered to be on
fire; a burning candle was found on the
door strip. At the time it was not known
that any body except Mrs. Boyd and her
servant girl were in the house.


Every effort has been made to discover
the originator of these fiery demonstrations,
but as vet without success. The candle
appears to supply the torch which is used
in these attempts to burn the house, and
the night as well as the DAY furnishes Op-
pOrtunities which are considered apprO-
pirate.


1t is said that one mode Of determining
whether the inUendisry is an inmate Of the
house is the marking Of the candles and
the matches which make up the supply
laid in for home consumption. So far
none of these marked articles have been
recognized as connected with the kindl;ng
Of the fires. This marking Of candles and
matches does not appear to be a very sat is
factory way Of reaching a conclusion, but
that is none Of our business.


Mrs. Boyd appears to be greatly exercised
over these attempts to burn her dwelling,
and is exceedingly anxious to discover the
incendiary. In the meantime the mysteri-
Gus fires are the talk Of the town, and many
people, Of course, have plans for detecting
the fire-bug in the very act Of applying the
candle or the match. Everybody is ex-
pecting TO hear at any hour Of another at
tempt to light a fire in some closet or bed,
and so the excitement continues to in
crease without any probability Of abate-
ment till the mystery is cleared up.
Year: 1875

WE are happy to learn from the
hnosUiLJe Press and Herald of Thurs.
day, that immediate danger of a fatal
termination to the illness of Mrs.
Andrew johnson mas passed, and the
afflicted lady is now slowly recovering
from the great shock of Ter husbands
sudden illness and death.
Year: 1875

SAM BARD announces in a double
loaded article in the Montgomery (Ala.)
State Journal tBst he is IN favor Of
third term. Still he Will support any
candidate when the Republicans may
select,
Year: 1875

A CORRESPONDENT Of the Memphis
AUaLanche suggests that Gov. Porter
appoint to the vacant Senatorship come
man who viii not want Office at theend
Of his term, if such a one can be found
IN the State.
Year: 1875

A FLASH Of Virginia lightning last week
stu,tifed electricians by striking feather
bed. The only way they can explain the
pbenom anon is that the bed was the prop
erty of a railway conductor.
Year: 1875

OPENING OF THE WORCESTER ROAD TO STOCKTON
oHINooTEAoUE OYSTERS ON THE WAY.


A correspondent of the COMMERCIAL writing
from Stockton, Worcester county,) Nd, on the
18th says We are about opening the Worcester
road to this placenine miles below Snow Hill, ,and
near Chincoteague Bay. The track is laid to
this point, and we have been carrying freight to
and from here for several days.


1t is not late enough in the season to have
many of tho fine oysters for which Chincoteague
Bay is famous but some small shipments have
been made. One party from Wilmington, (neal
9TH and Walnut think has just been here and
contracted for q quantity to be sent to him each
Irnal
Year: 1875

The Wilmingtonians who went down to the
Breakwater on the Franoid Elena returned yes
terday. They left the steamer waiting for pro-
pitious weather in which to venture outside.
The Pacific Mail steamer Nep York, built by
John Roach, sails from Chester tomorrow. She
will make trial trip Of three hundred miles at
sea.


Allen Ruth, the new Water Engineer, has
bonded and took charge, this morning. Mr..
nature of the work Of the Department


The present expectation is that the next ses-
sion of Council will be held in the old chamber.
Year: 1875

About eighteen miles from Port
Gibson and one mile from Brandy
wine Springs, on the place of Mr.. o.
Quin, the existence of great number
of blocks of cut stone has been known
for an indefinate time, and the people
of the nelghborhood have used them
for props for their houses. James
Gage Jr. went out there few days
ago to explore, and had specimen
stone brought into town. 1t is about
three feet long by about twenty inch
es square, resembling in shape bar
of soap. 1t is probably native sand
stone. Mr.. Gage took this block him.
self from beneath the roots of a large
pine tree. 1t formed portion of a
wall about twenty feet broad on the
top, which Mr.. Gage traced for a dis
tance of two hundred and fifty yards.
The inference that one would natural
ly draw from this superficial view is
that this must have been city wall,
but deep exploration might show it to
be portion OF fort, temple or 9TH
er building. Any way its antiquity
is probably immense, antedating the
history of the red men.-Port Gibson
Standard.
Year: 1875

The Council will meet this evening,
and we are requested by number of
citizens to remind that body that some
arrangement should be made by which
the city would realize something from
the use of her money. We are informed
that for the next six months the city
funds ought to earn for the taxpayers
at least five hundred dollars per month.
Three thousand dollars is quite alarge
sum to throw away these hard times.
The people expect the Council to COM
ply with the law regarding the city's
funds, and we trust the members will
this evening take some action in the
premises. There is general scarcity
of money, our people are heavily
taxed and not few find it difficult to
meet the demand Of the tax collector.
This unsatisfactory condition of affairs
creates a universal desire that the
Council will practice economy in not
only the disbursement of the city's
money, but also in realizing every
dollar that can be legitimately earned
from her resources. We allude to this
subject at the request of many tax
payers, who feel that their burden
would be somewhat lightened by a
saving of five hundred dollars per
month.
Year: 1875

IF the President and zAcK CHAM
DLER supposed that the storm of in
dignation raised by the appointment
of the latter to place in the Cabinet
would soon spend its fury and leave
clear sky and all serene, they were
mistaken in the temper of the press,
and the people. The columns of our
Eastern exchanges are filled with ed
itorials and communications condemn
ing the act of the President in appoint
ing ZACK and denouncing ZACK him.
self as man morally and socially un-
fit for the position. Asa mere express
sion of the will of the people these
articles are we'll enough but it is ex-
pected they will induce the President
to revoke the appointment or compel
CHANDLER to resign the object will
not be attained. GRANT is not in the
habit of reconsidering his acts and
CHANDLER will stick to the place
with the tenacity that death is said to
cling to an emaciated American citi-
zen of African descent.
Year: 1875

Repeated mention has been made in
the columns of the HERALD of the
condition of the river bed opposite the
city and on several occasions we have
endeavored to impress on the Council
the Importance of removing the OBJ
structions which will impede the pro-
gress of the water as soon as the rainy
season sets in. Bars have been form
ed in different localities and on these
have sprung up rank growths of will
lows which unless removed will form
the nucleus of distractions that will
in flood times turn the water from its
natural channel and cause overfows
of the lower land on either bank OF
the river. Much damage will result
to property in consequence. We are
informed that few hundred dollars
expended in removing these bars now
while there is comparatively but lit
tie water in the channel would secure
a temporary guarantee against over
flow and thus save thousands of dol
lars for the hundreds the improve
ments will cost. Some day when we
have discarded the penny wise and
pound foolish system of doing things as
now practised ana realized the truth
of the adage that what is worth doing
at all is worth doing well, the people
of Los Angeles will levee the river on
each side for three or four miles oppo-
site the city. These levees will be
made high and wide enough to render
property secure against the possibili-
ty of damage by overflow. They may
be made useful in more ways than
one as we'll as an ornament to the city.
Suppose they are made fifteen or
twenty feet wide at the top and rows
of trees planted on either side. In a
short time they will become beauti-
full drives. The trees will secure them
ag ainst the wash and wear of the wa
ter and using them for roads will pack
them solid and keep them always in
repair. We do not suppose that the
authorities can be induced to COM
mence this much needed work now
but it will be und ertaken and carried
out at no distant day, and when it is
done the lower portion of the city will
have guarantee against damage by
overflow which can be secured in no
other way. At present the most that
can be hoped for is removal of the
Instructions in the channel and this
is most earnestly desired by a large
number of citizens and property hold
erS.
Year: 1875

CARL SCHURZ is one of the ablest
speakers and most convincing reason
ers in the United States. At no pc
riod of his public life has he given
more convincing proofs of his orator
ical and argumentative powers than
within the past few weeks. 1t is now
generally conceded that the Republi-
can victory in Ohio is due to the eff
forts of SCHURZ alone, and what is
remarkable he did not make these
efforts so much in behalf of the Re-
publican ticket as in opposition to a
measure incorporated in the Demo-
cratic platform. His strong argu-
ments against imitation turned the
scale and sent ALLEN to the shades of
private life, from which it is more
than probable he will never again
emerge. 1t was SCHURz who drew
from the Democratic ranks thousands
of German votes and enrolled them on
the side of hard money and non-divis-
ion of the public school funds. He
is just the man to make an effectual
campaign in contest such as that
waged in Ohio. A non-party man, he
is the more able to deal with questions
and issues as they are, and not as par
ties present them. Holding no affili-
alton with either of the two great par
ties of the day, he is free from partizan
glamour and approves and denounces
| the good and bad measures of both
political organizations. He is not al
office seeker, and the daze of party
aggrandizement neither clouds mol
warps his mental vision. The opinion
of no man in the nation is entitled to
more weight on the currency question
than that of SCHURZ. He has care.
fully studied the issue and as carefully
studied the temper of the people oil
that issue, and he does not believe the


initiation contest is over yet. The
feeling in its favor is strong in the
West and is confined to no particular
party or locality.
Year: 1875

A romantic couple of Franklin,
Tenn, whose course of true love did
not run smooth, of course, planned a
runa way match which they proceed
ed to carry out early in the morning.
They had got as far as the depot,
waiting for the train, when the young
lover became nervous lest the irate
father should overtake them, but his
betrothed reassured him, thusly: ~
don't see how he can; l really don't.
He lives three miles from here, and if
he comes he will have to walk. He
can't make the distance afoot before
the arrival and departure of the train.
l foresaw the danger of such denoun-
ment last night and made my arrange
ments accordingly. 1 went to the
stables, hid all the brides, locked the
doors, and threw the keys away.
When left home this morning moth
er and father were asleep. I quietly
turned the key on them and threw ii
away too.
Year: 1875

THE returns show that 81, ,374 votes
were cast for the constitutional con-
vention and 24,552 against it. The
San Francisco Ledger and several
other papers claim that the conven-
tion is called. Some days since the
HERALD assumed this position and
maintained that if a majority of all the
votes cast for and against the propo-
sition were found to be in its favor
the convention was called. In re-
sponse correspondent of the Express
cited law which lie held required that
majority of all the votes cast at the
general election must be for the con-
ventien in order to secure the meas
ure. There is sometimesa wide diff
ference between the letter of the law
and the spirit of the law and though
the statute may read as quoted by the
Express correspondent; it is more
than probable that the man VIII o
framed that particular section intend
ed it to mean majority of all the
votes cast on the measure should be
accepted as an expression of the peo-
pie in its favor. A decision on the
point however must come from tri-
bunal that is opposed to convention
and we may rest confident that car
ried or cot carried no convention will
be called.
Year: 1875

THE Alta informs the Sacramento
Record that by long and careful read
ing of its article on Indians it may in
time express an intelligent opinion
thereon. 1t is pleasant to reflect that
the Alta fixed no limit to the period
at which the dilligent student might
carveintelligence from the study of
its columns. Life is, however, too
short to attempt practical solution
of the problem.
Year: 1875

ONE BANCROFT of San Francisco
has caused to be written and printed
1900 pages about the native races of
the Pacific Coast States. For the BEN
eft of turfmen it may be stated that
the race between Goldsmith Maid and
Occident is not included; the Maid
not being considered native.
Year: 1875

The statement cf Mrs. Carl Schurz, as
given in letter 10 the Bulletin, to the effect
that she would not live in ST. Louis. does
not tally with the language used by the
ex-senator at his reception IN ST. Louis on
Friday night last. He said


l must allude to circumstance which
must have struck you as singular. A rumOr
was current through several newspapers of
the country, and it seemed to me somewhat
industriOusly spread by some published in
the State, that | was leaving the State of
Missouri, and had taken my residence in
New York Or Germany, or Heaven knows
where not. Let me take this opportunity OF
assuring my fellow citizens of st. Louis and
my personal friends. that | mean to stay
among you with my wife and children as one
ofyour own, for am bound to the State OF
Missouri and the city of st. Louis otn only
by aterial interests, but also by feelings
and attachments of the heart, and that the
bonds which binds me to this State and
place, and to my friends and neighbors, are
not so easily to be severed. 1t is true, as
Colonel CAN'T said, have had to leave
public life, as far as that public life is of an
official character; but there is public life
which does not appear in the halls of Con,
gress at Washington. But. thank Heaven.
there is public life among the people, which
also has something to do in determining the
destinies OF the country; and in that public
life, after having left the Senate, shall
engage as one of your tellow-citizens l
hope we all may in the future nave reason
to say that we have done some service to
the country.


This is as it should be, for Carl Schurz is
too good man to lose from the growing
republic of the West. The Democrats
made the greatest possible blunder in not
taking him up as their candidate in place of
Cockrell. 1t is possible they may do so yet
when the Confederate fever shall have
abated.
Year: 1875

AS test of nerve, the recent experience
Of IL wayfarcr, travelling a wood road near
Olympia, Washington Territory, was as re-
markabc as any on record. The man was
Il speculator, looking out wild land, and he
trudged through the forest, following the
almost unseen path formed by an old road
made by pioneers in the wilderness His
mind was devoted to one subject-the cri-
tical examination Of the trees upon the
land about him, and of the character of the
soil, and he failed to notice for some time
a 'pit-a-pat" upon the dead leaves near him.
He at first scarcely looked down, when he
felt something rubbing against his legs
and heard slight pairing sound, but
when he did look his heart came up III his
mouth and cold sweat started as sudden
ly as though he were suspended by a weak
rope over Niagara Pressing itself softly
against his legs, twining about him as he
walked, moving its fcxile body swiftly, but
with never sound, turning up fierce eyes
with something almost like Il terrible laugh
in thcm was huge cougar


No chicken was this man in the woods
but his account of the manner in which his
hat was raised by his hair is not be consi
dered as apocryphal at all. Sleek and sup
pic and muscular the beast glied about, and
| at intervals it would come closer again, and
press its body against the legs of the man
the light touch making goosetiesh of every
inch in his form. 1t was "A terrible expert
ence that interview with the cougar in tn,
forest primeval, and it was well for the MAI
that his nerves were of the kind to do hon
or to a frontier adventurer. Steadily pur
suing his course with steps that would tal
ter little occasionally, he kept on, and
with him the beast continued its treacheroui
gauholz=. At times it would glide te"
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