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Year: 1876

Women are slowly but surely getting full
control of the schools of the country. Wo-
men may now serve as school officers in
many of the States. In Pennsylvania there
are several women serving as directors and
one as superintendent, In Iowa and Illi-
hois there are twenty Of them serving as
county superintendents. In the former
State local court having decided women
ineligible to any school Office, before night
of the next day the Legislature of the State
passed an act giving them undoubted right
to serve in that capacity.
Year: 1876

and cattle must be sustained with what
will pay to feed them. Stall feeding
also increases the productiyeness OF the
land an thus increases the production
of wheat.


1t is therefore estimated that by low
ering the price of American corn ten
cents bushel OH laying il down at
Liverpool, the fifty million OF bushels
now annually consumed in Great Brit.
ain, of which 0ne-half is supplied
direct from the United States, will
rapidly increase until the export Of this
staple becomes one Of the standard ele-
ments in our foreign trade. We have
seen the computation that if American
wheat could be delivered in Liverpool,
at the average price Of 81 40, which is the
the average price Of Russian wheat In
that market from 1860 TO 1872, and II
American corn could be delivered in the
same market-at the average price OF ~
cents bushel, the export trade in both
these staples from this country would
speedily mount up to seyenty-tive million
bushels annually OF wheat, and two
hundred million bushels annually of
Indian corn. This would bring up our
cereal exports to level with that oi
cotton, where they should be. What we
need first is a sound currency and
duties that encourage an export trade
Year: 1876

CONCERT OF THE MILLARD CLUB was
resolved at meeting of the members OF
the Millard Club, on Tuesday, that they
would give a grand concert on the evening
of January 18Th next, in the Opera House.
1t is to be held in lieu of their regular an
nual concert, and for the special benefit Of
the Young Ladies' Relief Society.
Year: 1876

THE CONCERT THIS EVENING. THE North
Carolina Jubilee Singers, who appear at
the Opera House, on this and tomorrow
evenings, performed at Chester last night,
and delighted the audience that heard
them. We are assured that they are very
good troupe
Year: 1876

Quite a number of our citizens have
been interested in the oil wells of this
county for a considerable time. They
have worked and snant money for five.
ten and fifteen years in keeping up the
assessments on their claims. Some
have spent thousands of dollars and
years of labor in developing that dis
trict. Their faith was so strong in the
exceeding richness of their claims that
they have kept themselves and fami-
lies poor for years, by spending time
and money, BELIEVING they would make
a strike that would set them up
in life. Now just as the mines begin
to yield oil and bid fair to reimburse
the poor fellows. party of strangers
come In and jumps their claims, or
have settled down on them and claim
it all as timber or agricultural land.
Tins the poor miners are to be ousted
out of all their labor and hopes, by
party of shrewd wood choppers-pro-
vided they can make Colonel WHIT
ING see it, which we don't think they
will be able to do. The case is now
before Colonel WHITING and will be
continued from day to day until n de-
cision is reached.
Year: 1876

THE telegraph informs us tnat Con-
gresham LUTTRELL will soon intro
duce in the House bill containing
the following conditions:


To allow the Sou hern Pac fic Railway
Company, of California, TO build its road
Eastward till 1t meets Scott's Texas Pacific
That the said California Pacific Company
shall enjoy the land grant, mile for mile OF
the road they shall so construct equally with
Scott and his company to the point where
the road OF oftheirconstructon shall meet that
to be CONSTRUCTED by the Scott company.
That any combination between these compa-
nies and any other company of transconti-
mental road shall be prohibited under heavy
penalties. That discrimination in fares and
freights shall be prohibited; and that the
Governor of California, the Governor OF Mis-
souri, and the Governor of New York shall
each have the power to appoint one Com
missioner, and that this Board of three Com
missioners shall fix the rates of trnnsporta-
tion, limiting them to q reasonable per cent.
on the ssactual cost and operating expenses
of the entire line"


The conditions embodied in the first
two propositions are substantially the
same as those proposed and advocated
by the HERALD nearly or quite one
year ago. They offer all that the
Southern Pacific ask, and it will at
once accept the terms. Had Congress
passed this or similar bill at its last
session, and the Texas Pacific as read
lily accepted the offer as the Southern
Pacific expressed its willingness to do,
the great work would now be far to-
ward completion. But Mr.. SCOTT
wanted a monopoly of the whole
route, and he wanted the nations
credit for sum more than sufficient
to build two such roads. He was un-
willing to accept terms which would
have secured the early building of the
Southern transcontinental road, and
his determination to have oil or moth
ing defeated all bills and postponed
the work for a considerable period.
Should Mr.. LUTTRELL's bill become a
law, it is not probable that Mr. SCOTT
will avail himself of its provisions,
and the building of the Southern over
land road will, as we always predicted
Year: 1876

One of the railroad extensions We
expect to hear of in the near future is
the continuance of the road now rum
ming from this city to Anaheim, on to
San Diego. Such road will be of val
ue to the company and of immense
benefit to this city and San Diego. 1t
will give the latter place the railroad
outlet it so much needs.
Year: 1876

The Ventura daily Free Press has
discontinued publication on account
of insufficient patronage. 1t was an
enterprising little sheet, but Ventura
is as yet too small to support a daily
paper. The Weekly Free Press will
he continued
Year: 1876

THE DAILY and WEEKLY HER
AID has more 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
8 Francisco.
Year: 1876

The most interesting valuable periodical In the united
States and the successful scieThc magazine IN tne
world Contributions appear in IL from the leading tnkrS
Of all countries most Important questions OF the ne
Year: 1876

The address Of cN-Govcmor Dix is m inn
prts3ve warning from man who has filed
great place in the politics of t'c country, and
enjoys at n ripe age degree - 1nhlic respect
which few politicians earn. = warning ia
impressive not because it paints the condition
Of the time IN lurid colorr. but because il
comes from one who has made n long and close
study of public aflars, and has commended
himself to tho popular regard by his good
sense M well as his upright life. He
only points ont, with special emphasis
and clcaincss, tho dangers which hnnd-
red prophets have indicated before him, and
which nearly all Of us are ready to achnowl-
edge. The dcmOraz ton of the public ser
vice by the abuse of patronage, the inevitable
dcbascmont Of partisan Judiciary, the cor
ruption of society by the lOoienlng oi family
ties. the prevalence Of financial dishonesty, the
Indifference Of the better class of citizens to
the exercise Of the franchise-these are scIi-
ons symptoms which have many time ar
rested attention. and will demand it again and
again until we find cure.


Gen. Dix does not point out tho evil without
suggesting tho remedy. To check tho shock
ing system Of public appointments which dis
tributes Offices among the adhercns OF the
Administration /" like prize money among pl1-
"yatccrsmen after successful cruise" he pro-
noses that the President should be elected for
six wears, and bo made ineligible for y second
term. If To this the General had only added
n proyision for retiring the President. at the
end of his term as United States Senator mt
Large for life. We believe he would have
made tho best possible disposition of the
case TO raise the character of the Bench
he would submit again 10 the people an
amendment to the State Constitution giving
the appointment of judges to the Governor.
The overwhelming majority under which this
proposition was buried when last submitted
we believe to have been delusive. Many poll
ticians expected the Constitutional Amend
ments to bo defeated by nn equal vote year
ago. whereas active exertion, through non


partisan sources, secured their triumph by a
majority ~ great as that which defeated
judicial reform. Similar exertlons would
doubtless secure for the latter similar sue
cess. To call ont the "brOwn-stOne voter"
the General would enact that every man
who neglects to exercise the right Of voting
for two years shall lose 1t. The rest of the
work of reform he would have done
by tho gradual diffusion OF education and
religion. Gen. Dix does not believe our school
system to be IN danger. but he would neglect
no reasonable meahe to secure 1t, and he inti-
mates that he thinks the demands OF the
Catholics ought to be reaisre,.. not only
because sectarian teaching is incOnslsUopt
Year: 1876

Mayor Wickham has good reason to congTat-
ulate the Common Council that the wholesale
robbery which was once the beginning and the
end of our municipal administration goes on
no longer. Whatever abuses there may be in
the management of the affairs of the metrOp


oils, there are no gross scandals connected
with ii to Which a remedy has not already
been applied. Possibly the Mayor is a little
premature in boasting of tho success of his
efforts to establish tho city government upon
a business basis; but there can be no
question that the year just closed showed
a great improvement over its predecessor,
and that the prospect for the coming year is
better yet. Some of the worst faults Of the
past have been corrected. We have at last a
Police Board, apparently non partisan, organ
lied upon principles of common sense. We
have removed from the Law Department the
last relic of the Ring conspiracy, and the Mayor
assures us that great reform has been made
in the manner OF doing business in that office.
a g1eat SAVING effected in its expenditures, and
-,airabHe dictu AN agreement arrived at
between the Corporation Counsel and the Con-
troller, whereby the city may be spared much
useless and costly litigation. The case OF the
Fire Commissioners is still before the Governor |;
but whatever may be thought of the Commits
sOners, the men of the force are efficient and
well disciplined. Indeed, In his tour through
the various Departments and Bureaus his
Honor has seen everything in the color of the
rose. He strongly commends the action Of
Gen. Porter in reducing the wages of his la
borers TO the market rate. and thinks the kind
of service which the city obtains on the pub


lio works. though by no means what 1t
ought to be. Is steadily improving. Hc recon-
Year: 1876

officers, and wrought general confusion in the
party ranks. We fear this action was less the
result of genuinely independent revolt
against caucus dictatiOn than of n bargain and
intrigue for the oivision of the spoils. But as
the immediate consequence was the election OF
ouo Of the best Republicans as President and
an experienced Democrat as Clerk, the break
ing of the slate is not without some benefit to
the general public.
Year: 1876

The first action of the new Boar Of Alder
men gives no very exalted MOTTO of .ther the
honesty of principle or the intcllI 5encc OF the
incoming members. Fifteen of Z m actually
voted in favor OF a resolution to confirm no
head of department who would not as nominee
pledge himself, ii confirmed, TO restore la
borers' wages to the sum of 81 pr day. The
absurdity of requiring such pledge does not
seem to have suggested itself TO any of tho
majority, but when one of the more export
enced members indicated that the resolution was
unconstitutional and highly improper, and limited
further that it might look dangerously like
bribery, the fifteen hastily rescinded the OBJ
noxious measure. But the incident served to
show the dangerous tendency Of the mon who
have to legislate ON this delicate subject. 1t
is not encouraging TO reflect that on Thursday
this very same body will be called to decide


upon nominations for most important city
Offices, and that they are likely to be unWise-
ly influenced by the prejudices thus betrayed.
Year: 1876

1t has be- II found necessary to enter q noHe
proscgu in the case of the men Loader and
Price, who according to the latters confession
periured themselves in the Beechcr matter, on
the singular technical ground that the aiidayitS
against Mr. Beechcr were made to be used In
the newspapers and not in the courts. The
law. we believe, holds that false swearing is to
be construed as perjury only when the false
affidavit pertains to some cause of action. and
is used in court. Ii is fine distinction with
out much difference to the mini Of the ordl-
nary layman. But the latter, weary of the
nce constructions of their legal brethren in
this nasty case, will be glad to be rid 5f this
feature of it even on this pretcXt.
Year: 1876

At the outset, the Senate has done one
piece of work at Albany for which it deserves
hearty thanks. 1t has admonished one OF tho
Tweed Senators, who sought to preside over
it, to step back, and has chosen Judge Robert
son of WeStchester. The Judge deserves wen
of his party and of the State. The selection
Is the best that could have been made, ana
we congratulate our readers that their ana our
earnest protests against the effort TO set asido
the faithful Senator from WestchesteT, III
order to elevate Mr.. WOodin, have not been
Intellectual.


I'm the Tweed snt much OF the argument
and the evidence yesterday had to do with the
mode by which the list of names is obtained
from which the juries of our courts are Sc
lected. The number of men exempt from jury
duty appears large; the number from which
iuries are taken, small. There seems to be
some ground for the general belief among our
citizens that if man is once put on jury he
is far more likely than before to have that
experience freqIently. Statistics OF the num-
bers of men serving once, twice and 0ftener
Oh our juries in period OF two or three years,
would throw light on this point and Indicate
whether we get all That 1t is capable OF out OF
..pf Nsf4
Year: 1876

Still another is to be added to ne list Of
crimes of violence of this Winter, if the story
OF the victim is to be believed An attempt ut
murder for the purpose of robbery, occurring
In the streets of Brooklyn. will. if the tale is
verified, give moro occasion for alarm as to
the desperation of our criminal classes than
anything preceding it. The theory that the
story is false, and that the case is one of at
tempted suicide, offers relief from such fear,
and it is to be hoped may prove correct.
Year: 1876

This evening an event Of intense interest
to coIlegians will take places the contest
for oratory organized by the Intercollegiate
Literary Association. We give in other
columns very complete account of
the preparations made by the competing
colleges. The decisions of the judges ON tho
essays which were some weeks ago presented
viii be marked feature of the meeting. and
the audience will include our most distin-
guished representatives of literature and edu-
cation
Year: 1876

think, refute in the mind of every
fair minded man the charge that we
oppose subsidy for no other reason
than that it is asked for Senator
JONES. Now Of subsidy itself: We
are opposed to it on principle. 1t is
process for taxing the public for the
benefit of private individuals. 1t alb
serbs much and returns little; it takes
from the many and gives to the few;
it imposes a sore tax and promises
but an inadequate reward; 1t oppresses
the living and is stumbling block in
the pathway of those that come here
after. 1t is species of wealth GEN.
tralization which, if INDUCED in to a
too great extent, creates slaves of the
many and makes masters of the few;
it is almost an immediate outlay for a
far distant and long coming return; it
is system of taxation that has be-
come odious and will no longer be en-
dured. If the demand of the Express
was submitted to our people it would
receive an emphatic refusal from
ninety-nine out of every one hundred
voters who own one thousand dollars
worth of property. The stock bait
held out by the Express will not Sc
cure a nibble. The people are not
gudgeons. They do not need to be
told that a million dollars worth of
stock would give them no control in
the management or disposition of the
road. They would be stockholders
until they were sold out, but at no
time would they be controllers. This
is the matter in a nutshell, and we un-
hesitatingly assert that a journal
that asks community as well pro-
vided with railroads as ours now is,
to burden itself with million dollar
subsidy debt, is inimical to the coun-
try, an enemy to the people and a dam
gerous and deadly foe to our present
and prospective prosperity.
Year: 1876

Our unamia BILE cotemporary, the
Evening ExpreSs, concludes that be-
cause the HERALD is opposed to inn
posing subsidy debt of nearly mill
lion dollars on the taxpayers of Los
Angeles and San Bernardino coun-
ties, it is therefore inimical to the de-
velopment and prosperity of Southern
California, and what is still more abb
surd, it pretends to think that our
opposition to the subsidy scheme
arises from the fact that Senator
JONES is to be the recipient. The lat
ter assumption is fallacious in every
repect it is possible to present it.


We shall permit no one, not even the
Senator's Los Angeles paper, to evince
greater dispatch and earnestness in
rendering unto JONES, all things that
are JONES'. The Senator has built
some sixteen miles of railroad in our
county. Los Angeles lies at one end
of this road, and the Senator's thirty
five thousand acres of land at the
other. There are people uncharitable
enough to hold to the opinion that it
was to enhance the value of this land
rather than in obedience to the
promptings of noble impulse to ben
eft the people of Los Angeles valley,
that the Senator built his road, but we
have no disposition to give publicity
to this ill-natured opinion nor to
discuss the matter from a fa-
vorablefnor an unfavorable stand
point. The Senator has built this
much road, and as no county ever
had too much railroad we are thank
full for the favor conferred. In COM
mon with the entire community we
shall labor diligently in the task of
enabling the Senator to build one
hundred miles of road for each mile of
track he has built, provided he con-
tinues the policy on which he has
acted up to this time, to wit !:
private speculation for his
private gain in which only his private
means are invested. While the Sem
ator builds railroads in this part OF
the State on this plan We pledge him
the earnest support of the HERALD
and the hearty cooperation Of every
citizen. This assurance will, we
Year: 1876

they be sincere christians and well in
formed they must know that the thir-
ty-three years spent by our Saviour
on earth were devoted TO rob the Sab
bath of that gloom and harshness
given to it by Moses, if not to destroy
it all together. At what particular
conjuncture Sunday was substituted
for Saturday is not explained, but
evidently the first legislation We have
an account of, was during the reign Of
Constantine, fixing Sunday as day
of rest as regarded cities, but was dis
tinctly understood not to apply to
citizens living in the country where
grain, vintage. fruit and fiocks requir-
ed attention. These hypocrites will yet
give us a State Church if we do not
look to it in time. There is nothing
truer. Little by little these things are
done. The patriot must look out and
not be satisfied with their cry of No
Popery, when they mean the same
priestly intolerance and interference
in civil affairs.


Los ANGELES.
Year: 1876

THE small pox has made its appear
ance in Sacramento. This should be
an additional warning to the authori-
ties of our city to make every prepa-
tion for meeting the loathsome dis
ease. We have escaped so far, but it
is liable to make its appearance at any
moment.
Year: 1876

ADMINISTRATION journals insist
that in the case of Secretary Don
CAMERON the scriptural assurance
that the sins of the father shall de-
scend to the son is not true, and the
Don is therefore thing never before
known in the CAMERON family-an
honest man
Year: 1876

THE DAILY and WEEKLY HER
AID has more 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

Professor Terrier, of Kings col
lege, London, who has made the
phenomena of sleep a special study,


recently said in a lecture thereon
that anything which has tendency
to abstract blood from the brain
favors sleep. Exercise does this,
because the moment the weary
muscles are at rest the blood rushes
to them to repair their loss, and is
absorbed by them. Digestion and
hot drink produce the same result
by drawing the blood supply from
the brain to the stomach. Con-
versely, anything that stimulates
the brain, such as sights, sounds


thought or anxiety, will keepa man
awake. If we, therefore, wish fol
a refreshing slumber we mus
begin to avoid care and anxiety
and take sufficient bodily exercise
to induce the necessary musolal
exhaustion. With regard to thu
length Of sleep, DR.. Terrier hold


that the heart is not in o state o
Year: 1876

constant, but ofrhythmical activity,
a term of action being followed by
a pause of rest, during which the
heart is to all intents and purposes
asleep. In fact, if the pauses of
the heart are all summed up it will
be found that it rests or sleeps eight
hours out of twenty -four, the sleep
being in the proportion of one
third as compared with the hours
of action or work. Eighthours are
consequently sufficient for the
adult.
Year: 1876

Holy Land is the fact that one meets every
where in daily life the things that illustrate
the word of the Lord. The streets of Jeruss-
lem are very narrow, and no one is allowed to
go out without light. Throw open your lat
tice in the evening, and look out; you will see
what seem to be little stars twink1ing on the
pavement. You will hear the olstter of san
dals as the late traveller hastens along. As
the party approaches, you will see that he has
q little lamp fastened to his foot to make his
step safe one. In an instant the voice comes
TO your memory, written in that same city
lamp to my feet and light to my path"
Year: 1876

p gath July at Peiskretcham, Silesia, there


an assembly of the parishioners for the
pose of hold an election for a parish priest
ording to the May Laws. The assembly


beeu oonvoked by the provincial authori-


at the request of ten @ Catholics" who
dissatisaed at finding themselves without
lnlnlstrations of parish priest, although
y there was one they do not appear to have
aVailed themselves of his services. The
question put to the meeting was, whether


would proceed to the election of a parish
at. There were $50 noes, and only ayes
other four pious men did not appear at all.
mere are no clergy in the place this ia
~ an expression of lay opinion, and as


ought to Centent the national Liberal
Year: 1876

Two Sisters of this Academy will remain in the city
until the 1eth receive and take under their charge
those pupils whose parents will be unable to any
them at thu stated time


They will return to the Bay by the first train the
18th of Sc pt.mber. Ee3tE
Year: 1876

The reopeninG OF tho Scholastic Session will take
place the 18th OF September


Parents who have sincere desire for the Of
their children earnestly solicited to send tom ct
the fixed tine.
Year: 1876

The House yesterday considered the
South Carolina contested election case and
decided that neither Mackey, the sitting
member, nor the contestant were entitled
to the seat.


The conference report on the Army Ap-
preparation bill was presented and agreed
to.


The House then went into a Committee
of the Whole on the bill to protect the
Texan frontier. The committee soon arose
and without taking action on the bill the
House adjourned