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Year: 1875

The police had little to do here but strive to keep
warm, and the keen wind appeared to cool any latent
begerency that existed the bosoms OF the free and
independent voters OF the Ninth There not even


noticeable number of drunken TO be seen and at
the polling places all orderly could be wished
Year: 1875

In the Twenty first Assembly district everything
passed OF quietly There were disturbances OF any
kind about the polls The various station houses in
the district report arrests for illegal voting, and only
few for drunkenness disorderly conduct
Year: 1875

In tho Fourteenth Assembly district the day was
marked by disturbance Of any Importance and no
made for illegal voting Tho residents of
the district who for the most part Germans, cast
their ballots peacefully, and, general thing, re-
paired TO their homes immediately The ballot dstrb-
utors seemed TO rejoice when the polls closed,
count of the cold
Year: 1875

Even the four-handed contest for Assemblyman did
not appear TO arouse any undue excitement although
some STIR was caused by the arrest OF colored
for attempting to vote upon illegal registration They
were taken before Judge kilbreth the Washington
Place Police Court, and held for examination.
Year: 1875

WASHINGTON, Sept. 21.-Ex-Assistant
District Attorney Fisher waived an exami-
nation in the police court to-day and gave
bail in the sum of $4,000 for his appearance
at the criminal court in the case Of his In
dictmeRt by the grand jury.
Year: 1875

NEW YBRK, Sept. 21.-A report was cur
rent this afternoon that the Pacific Mail
Steamship San Francisco, was ashore at
South West Spit, but it was descrenited at
the office of the Company.
Year: 1875

A SITUATION AS CoACHMAN WANTED-BY A FIRST
IN class single man Is sober, honest and obging willing
make himself generally has the best city refer
not much object permanent situation
Branch Office
Year: 1875

A DIPLOMATIC SHoEMAKER.-You can't
get an old shoemaker to make blunder.
The other day when a weighty woman sailed
into a Detroit shoe store and selected pair
of No. As, and sat down to have them tried
on, the shoeman saw that she wanted sevens.
But he didn't tell her so, and start her out
of the shop on gallop. He smiled, and
softly said:


"Madam, all the aristoeratic ladies are
now wearing shoes three sizes too large for
their feet in order to have cool extremities,
and of course you want to follow the style. Z"


She smiled like duck in reply to his
smile, and replied:


"You are in position to know best, and
l leave every thing to your judgment"
When she went out she said she never had
such an easy fitting shoe on in her whole
| life.-DctrOit Free Press.
Year: 1875

have seen young man sell good farm,
turn merchant, and die in an insane asylum.


| have seen a farmer travel about so much
that there was nothing at home worth look
ing after,


| have seen man spend more money in
folly than would support his family in conf
fort and independence


l have seen young girl marry man of
dis.oute habits, and repent it as 2long as
she lived.


l have seen aman depart from truth where
canior and voracity would have served him
to much better purpose.


| have seen extravaganza and folly of chill
dren bring their parents topoyerty and want,
and themselves to disgrace


have seen aprudent and industrious wife
retrieve the fortunes of family when her
husband pulled at the other end of the rope.


i have seen young man who despised
the couu-els of the wIse and advice of the
good, and his car, cr ended in poverty and
wretchedno,,,
Year: 1875

When FIJI Islander marries, the first
thing he does upon beginning to keep house
is to eat his mother-in-law. As conserva-
tor of peace the process perhaps is efiectual,
and it is also valuable as a measure of econ
omy when marketing is dear.
Year: 1875

New York, Dec. AT meeting OF
the Chamber of Commerce to-day, n
committee of five was appointed to
consider what effect longer contin-
uance of the struggle in Cuba would
have on thecommerce of this country,
and whether the Chamber should
memorable Congress in relation to the
matter.


At late hour tonight, Charles
O'Connor was still alive, but his con-
dition was stated to he very low.
Year: 1875

OLE OOX XIRO Io0tg
street, Charity street and Olive street. n
They afford grand views of the mountains,
city and the valley through to the ocean.
Already the adjoining lots are being occu-
pied by residences, and their value and de-
STABILITY as homes have been demonstrated.


w A IT e n
or the purest quality and most unlimited
supply can be furnished to these lots.
1t is an acknowledged fact that this portion
is by far the Tx
Year: 1875

much needed fora speedy development.
of our vast resources-the little-great
journals of San Francsco-the self.
styled metropolitan press is begin
ming to discourage immigration by
sending forth editorials expressing
fear that we already have too many
people here. Such articles are libel
on our State and an insult to those
whose labor and industry have made
California what she is. There are
millions of acres of rich soil in this
State yet untouched by the husband
mans plowshare.. The agricultural
products of our valleys are as yetno
ing to what they will be when our
population is three or five times greater
than 1t now is., We want thousands,
millions of people with strong arms
and steady hands and determined
minds-people who believe that labor
is honorable and are willing to labor
for the reward which labor always
bestows upou its votaries. Whe,. the
San Francisco press asserts that there
is no room for such people here, il
manifests degree of ignorance of
which the weakest interior journal
would feel ashamed.
Year: 1875

The Kern county Courier of April
oath says:


1t is gratifying to see that so influential and
leading u journal as the Record Union is ex-
posing the fraudulent colonization schemes
that are gotten up in the Southern part of the
State. Nospecial instance is alluded to. but
the Lompoc and Centineia schemes are clear
ly indicated. We are acquainted with both
these tracts, and when such lands are sold at
high prices to Immigrants on the representa-
ton that they are productive II must in time
create reaction not only against Southern
California but the entire state. II is exasper-
ating and sad as exasperating to see the immi-
grant swindled not only of his purchase
money but all that he subsequently invests in
cultivation and improvement. 1t is the duty
OF the leading papers of the State to ex pose all
schemes of this kind gotten up in localities
where 1t Is known that neither the advantage
OF irrigation. nor the arabic land to apply 1t
exists, ifit did.


We publish this merely to show our
people who their friend are. Nothing
could have astonished us more than
finding this paragraph in that paper;
and we blushed with very shame for
the editor when we read, ave are
acquainted with these tracts, etc."
and the statement that followed. We
are satisfied the editor never put foot
on the Centinela Rancho i'm his life,
and therefore knows nothing under
heavens about it, and is, of course,
guilty of willful Misrepresentation.
This is the most charitable construc-
tion we can put ON the matter. For if
he had ever visited that ranch and
looked over it, he would have known
that his statement in regard to the
quality of the land was false in the
extreme. A more beautiful and fertile
body of land cannot be found on the
Pacific Coast. The purchasers too
have every guarantee that men can
have, that they will receive a perfect
and undisputed title the moment the
land is paid for. If they wish to pay
for their land tomorrow they can get
guaranteed title backed by millions
of dollars. But for the comfort of both
the Courier editor and Sacramento
Union, We will just state that not one
foot of the Centinela was purchased by
the "poor emigrants," but by men
who were well acquainted with the
ranch, having lived here many years.
They knew it was selling below its
real value, and bought it either to sell
again or keep, as they please. We are
informed that the same was the case
at the Lompoc sale. Will this fact
compose those benevolent gentlemen
at Bakersfield and Sacramento? We
may as well state that such slanderous
statements in regard to people and
country as have repeatedly been made
by these journals about tSouthern Cali
fornia and the people, indicates ma
licious treachery that ought to fright
en- not only emigrants but old citizens
out of any country.
Year: 1875

One of the finest improve ments in
the city will be the rebuilding OF the
Lafayette Hotel. The whole of the
back of the house is already being
torn down, and the front will shortly
be built up. The stores will be just
half as large as they are now, and, as
the Important has very large stock
on hand, they will not have half room
enough for their goods and in order to
prevent them from being damaged by
dirt and dust, they have decided to
sell all their Spring goods at less than
cost, and others, such as cottons, table
linen, ETC., at exact cost. We advise
all to call at the Important and con-
vince themselves Of the great bar
gains. Such bargains they can never
get again, and in order to prevent a
great rush, we advise all to call early
and take advantage of the building of
the Lafayette Hotel. a16
Year: 1875




That the ancients used gold and sill
yer occasionally in traffic is correct,
but they used other articles at the
same time. 1t was general system
of barter among them, and changes of
raiment had as fixed value as
gold and silver. Gold and silver was
used more for ornament than for a
medium of exchange. Their persons
and the public buildings were largely
ornamented with these metals, and
when called Oh, the whole nation
would not hesitate to contribute all
they had Of these metals to make a
calf.
Year: 1875

The Sacramento Record Union re-
fers to interior journals as whiffets,"
by which it means to characterize
them as little dogs. Well, when it
comes to considering the newspaper
profession from canine standpoint,
we have no hesitation in saying that
we had rather be free and independ-
ent whiffet" than collared and
chained cur.
Year: 1875

HAMMOND, the revivalist, is filling
a ten days engagement at Stockton.
The San Francisco police say there
has been material decrease in the
number Of persons brought before the
Insanity Commissioners since the
Reverend gentleman left the city.
His madness in locating near the In
sane Asylum appears to have some
method in it.
Year: 1875

1T is probable that Governor Pa
CHECo will he candidate for Con-
gress from the Fourth Congressional
District on the Republican ticket.
'rhe Governor is worthy gentleman
and very popular with the people, but
we doubt if even his great popularity
will carry him through on that ticket.
Year: 1875

Moore's Restaurant, on Commercial street,
is the proper place to go fora good meal, with
good cup OF coffee or tea to drink with it,
There is probably no restaurant on the Pacific
coast where so many Of the substantias and
80 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. i5-tt
Year: 1875

a HUSBAND SEEKS THE LIFE OF HIS WIFE.


RocgLAND, ME-, May l5.
Alfred Spear entered his house last night in
state OF intoxication and shot at his wife with
pistol, the ball taking effect in her face. AS
she rushed from tha room with her infant in her
arms another shot was fred the ball entering
her shoulder.


Spear WIS soon after found in dying condi-
tion, having shot himself through the head. His
wife Will recover
Year: 1875

old piece of linen make it of sufficient
thickness to absorb the greater part of the
spermaceti; lay upon the plate; heat the
fiat-iron moderately hot, and then run it
lightly over the linen saturated with the
spermaceti, and then over the leaf; treat
each leaf separately and in this manner
This gives to them the appearance of hav-
ing been vanished and also " tones" the
coloring. If properly pressed and subse-
quently manipulated as herein stated they
will neither cookie nor fade


Probably those who develop taste in
the selection Of leaves do not need any
suggestion as to their arranging, but, for
the benefit of those who have not this ac-
quiremcnt or may not have had the cXpe-
rience, il might be interesting to state that
there is nothing more beautiful than the
maple cross. This is constructed princi-
pally Of maple leaves, although occasion
ally interspersed Herewith are sprigs Of
fern or rock brake, a leaf of wild indigo,
or there may be admissible few leaves
of wOOdbine. Next to this in beauty is
the crescent formation-a graduating of
maple leaves from center to points, grad
uatiOn both in size of leaf and cOlOring.
This admits of an addition of ferns only.
People may devise many handsome wall
ornaments or decorations, such as wrcaths,
anchors, mOnograms, etc, il they will but
study the effects OF color and, in arrang-
ing, study to display these eftects.-Chtca
m, Tj1uaS
Year: 1875

MAY was getting so tall that it looked
perfectly silly'' for her to be playing
with dolls. So, at least, Jess, Mays sis
ter, said-and Jess was fifteen years old
and ought to have known what was prop
er and what wasn't.


May was such little mother and loved
her dolls so much that don't believe Jess
alone could ever have made her give them
up; but even mamma began to hint
strongly about patchwork quilts and
usefulness" and when at last she came
out with brilliant offer of set of gray
squirrel furs for next winter, if May would
give up the DOH babies and "be awoman, "
May couldn't stand out against so much
and she went up stairs that night with her
mind made up.


She took all the dolls she could find
handily into bed with her, and believe
she cried little as she hugged them up
close and thought it was the last time.


The next morning was bright and sunny
Year: 1875

IN August last great alarm was created
in the village of Incisia, near Florence,
by the disappearance of two childrcn-a
boy nine years old on the morning Of the
21st, and another boy of eight the follow
ing evening, 1t was supposcdthey might
have fallen into the stream, where they
went to fish and bathe, but no traces of
them or their clothes could be found All
kinds of exaggerated ideas got afloat in
the village, more particularly as these
were not the first children who had sud
denly disappeared, and it was asserted
that there were chilI-en-killers in the ad-
joining wood. On the 29tn, while one of
the women of the village was arranging
her hair at the back window of her room,
she heard frightful shrieks, and recognized
them as coming from Amerigo TurChi, a
boy nine years old, and that they pro
ceeded from the workshop Of one Carlo
Grandi, cart carpenter She ran down
into the street and alarmed the neighbors,
who made for the workshop, which they
found closed, the boy crying loudly fer
help from within. After vain attempts to
get Grandi to admit them they burst open
the door and found him struggling to
force the boy into hole He had cut the
child fcarfully about the head, and from
his mouth blood was flowing, caused, as
the boy afterward narrated, by a wedge
Grandi had tried to force into his mouth
TO gag him.


After the man was secured it was OBJ
served that some of the bricks of the floor
| ing were loose, and on these being re-
moved the first thing seen was child's
hand. The place was quickly dug up,
and the mutilated bodies of the two boys
who had disappeared ten days before were
discovered; and on the hole into which
Grandi was trying to force Amerigo
Turchi being examined, a number of
other children's bones were found in the
bottom. No sooner was the thing known
than the village became scene of the
widest excitement, and the authorities
had to send off in hot haste for whatever
military and police there were in the
vicinity, and a sufficient force arrived Just
in time to save the wretch from being torn
to pieces by the populace.


1t seems that the murderer, Grandi, was
a detormed manof diminutive stature,
high rounded shoulders, very large head,
upon which there was not scrap Of hair,
and repulsive features AS is too often
the case in Italy, such unfortunate Great
ures become the subject of open public
ridicule. The boys of Inc1sa had been in
the habit Of teasing and tormenting
Grandi and playing all kinds of practical
jokes ON him, and it was in revenge for
this that he had, as opportunity offered,
enticed now one and then another of the
ringleaders into his workshop, and there
murdered them, burying them under the
floor. Amerigo Turchi said that Grandi
had invited him into his workshop under
the pretext of having some fun with the
other boys; that to accomplish this he
was to hide in the hole Grandi uncovered,
but that Immediately he entered Grandi
attempted to strangle him.-Rome Cor.
London Times
Year: 1875

and May went around the house gathering
up her children.


Her mother had suggested to her that
she might keep one or two of the best
ones and throw aside the others; but
May didn't intend to show any partially.


She gathered up every baby, from Pet
Rosa, with her sweet blue eyes, to the
small, no-headed darky, with his cum
ming little coat and vest.


She piled them all together in large
paper-box and putting on her sun bonnet
went out at the back door when nobody
was looking On-tor the poor little mother
felt so miserable that she didn't want any
body to ask her where she was going.


May went through the lots and crawled
under fences till she came to the big sheep
pasture.


She went behind large stone, and
scooping out hole in the sandy earth
with her hands and stick she put in the
box Of dolls; then covering II up, she sat
down by the little mound and had a good,
hard cry, while her dirty fingers rubbed
streaks all over her face.


She wandered around the pasture while,
talking to herself and feeling very misera.
Bile.


Then she went home. and locking her
self up in the spare chamber waited until
all traces of tears were gone from her face
before she let herself be seen


So the dolls were buried, but that wasn't
the last of them.


| can't tell you exactly how many times
in the next two or three weeks May took
them up.


She didn't play with them-she was too
honest for that-but she just wanted to see
how they looked.


She made cunning little bouquets and
put into their hands and into the darky's
button holes, and once or twice she carried
fresh changes OF clothes for Rosa, but
always she would kiss all around and
bury them up carefully again.


But as the summer wore away Mays
visits became less frequent. Her mother
had got together such quantity of bits of
bright silk that May could hardly lose
moment from her gay patchwork.


The year rolled over, and brought sum-
mcr around again, and one Saturday after
noon May went down to the big rock, and
"just for fun dug up the dolls once
more.


They had been soaked through and
through by the rains, and were now a
mess of dirty, streaked, pitiful-looking
objects.


May did not cry this time-shc only sat
down and laughed. She was SO much
older than she was last summer.


She had an intimate friend now, and
took musiclessons, and wrote notes
what did she care for dolls?


She felt sort of pity for the May Of last
summer, who had buried and cried over
these silly things, and for her sake she
covered them up again out of sight, and
then the May OF this summer went home
and thought no more about the dolls.


Next summer, probably, good many
of this summers little interests will drop
out of her mind, and bigger ones come IN,
and so May will grow to be woman.--
YOUTHS Companion.
Year: 1875

VERY many persons-especlally the
ladies-are interested in Foliage rich
with some autumnal tint" and at this
time of the year are making inquiry as to
how the beautifully -variegated hues shall
be preserved. To accomplish this re-
quires both care and patience. These at
tributes, together with a few pieces of
blotting- paper, some suitable means of
pressing few folds of linen saturated
with spermaceti and small quantity of
glycerine and moderately hot tlat-iron,
are all that are necessary. Select the
leaves with due consideration of the OBJ
ject to be obtained, namely: ornamental
ton. Select such as can be arranged in
shades or graduating colors, that in their
display they may prove themselves to be
not only "a thing of pleasure" but "a
joy forever" Gather them Immediately
after severe frost, as their tints at this
time are the most perfect, decomposition
having but just begun; and it is the ar
rest Of this that really preserves them.
The leaves of plant are to it what the
lungs are to a human-organs of respira-
tion-and in formation, that is, as to their
functional purposes, they differ but slight


ly therefrom. Their variegation of color
depends upon the rapidity of individual
air-cell or vesicle destruction. Having
procured the leaves, place them between
folds of blotting paper separately, and in
single layers; place upon these sufficient
weight to insure constant pressure; permit
them to thus remain for week or ten
days; then remove the weight but do not
disturb the leaves. In six or eight hours
again replace, and at the same time increase,
the weight. Continue such pressure for q
week or ten days longer. The moisture of
the leaves having by this time been removed
they may be subjected to the ironing proc
ess, which should be conducted as follows
Into common tin pie-plate place two
ounces of spermaceti and one tablespoon
full of glycerine; thoroughly incorporate
them together by heat; fold together an
Year: 1875

THE PEOPLE DON'T WANT THEM, BUT DO WANT


REMoNsTRANCEs AdAINsT DIVISION.
The following personal letter was received this
morning =


NEWARK, March IL.
We have received papers to take names in
favor OF division Of New Castle county We
nre opposed to aus such measure, hero. They
are being distributed all over the county, and
those sent here came last night Send us out
the opposition petitions and we will get signers
to them.
Year: 1875

PEAS Ur.-We are informed by gentleman
who was down the Peninsula, few days ago,
that early peas were then coming through the
ground at Salisbury. being the first heard of in
that section.
Year: 1875

THE SAN FRANCISCO EXAMINER threw out some mean slurs about Ne vada, and The Enterprise of Virginia City in reply winds up an article with this language:

 Finally, one word for our State. It has not many people, but it has more square intelligence to the man than any other State in this Union posses ses, and per capita its people are do- ing more good in the world just now than the same number of people oi any other region on earth.