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Year: 1876

WE entered the village, which was once
a city containing over million of inhab-
itants, and put up at native hotel keptin
native style. Again obeying the custom
of undressing the feet, we passed many
guests sitting upon mats and making their
chopsticks fly in a way that would make
Yankee envious even in a railroad eating
house. Up stairs we went, and were
shown into a room whose walls consisted
merely of paper, partitioning one room
from another, but which were scrupulous-
ly clean. Ordering supper and some
native wine, we were quickly served by a
rather good looking maid. Wnile await
ing the result OF our order we were served
with g tidbit pastry and with some sack
together %,,.w Dvwl containing live Goals,
us time for smoke, tie tie courses began
with fish, not cooked enough for our taste,
then eggs, chicken, sweet potatoes, rice
and tea. No bread was served us, nor
butter, but as the tea was remarkably fine
and the eggs, though small, were duly
seasoned with rock salt, we made u good
meal, rendered awkward by lack of eX-
perience in using the chop sticks, which
were pencil-shaped and used by holding
or pressing the food between the
ends, the guests meanwhile peeping
through the partitions and gig
Cling at our frantic efforts to
eat gracefully. While eating supper
the Governor of the place sent constable
TO obtain our names and residence, that we
might be under police protection, we be-
ing the first white men that ever spent
night in the place. Supper being
over, we took short walk through the
town. and as there were many pilgrims in
the place who had never seen Caucasian
haf Ia GGNl af oil oh


servers" especially our friend, an En-
glishman, who is six feet two inches in his
stocking feet, making him giant among
them. Going back to the hotel, our friend
asked us if we wished bath and sham
poo; answering in the affirmative he gave
the order, and, hearing long, low and
somewhat sad whistle, which we have
heard both by day and by night in Yoko-
hama-and which, though it had excited
our curiosity, we had failed to enquire the
reason of-he went into the street and
brought in a blind man, whom he said
was to do the shampooing. The bath be-
ing ready we went down stairs and were
shown into room whose wet floor proved
it to be in constant use.


After finishing our bath we dOnned our
gown and returned to our room, where
the blind man. took us in charge


Commencing with our feet he knuckled
us all over, prying in between every joint
and muscle of our back and limbs, except
ing the region of the chest, and which,
after he was through, made us feel as linn
ber as an acrobat. These shampooers, it
is said, are made blind in their childhood
that they may ply their vocation without
injuring the susceptbilities of anyone.
The sun rose unclouded ON the following
morning, and after a Breakfast served on
the floor, similar in quality to the supper
of the evening before. we paid our bill,
which amounted to $1.75-this for both of
US, including our wine-Kdnld Rura
Cor San Fra ancisc0 Chronicle.
Year: 1876

Those who are likely to have a def
cheney of hay or fodder, caused by floods,
or any other cause, can now SOW corn on
any idle land, and raise a profitable crop.
There are plenty of such places in the
lately flooded regions.
Year: 1876

BRUCE YOUNGER, who was recently ar
rested in Missouri on suspicion of having
been connected with the Otterville train
robbery, has been released on a writ of
habeas corpus, it being satisfactorily shown
that he was not one of the gang perpetrat-
ing the crime
Year: 1876

NOTICE Is hereby given that the annual meeting
iso1 the stock holders of the Ball and Socket Self
Car Coupling Company will be held al the Harper
House IN this city, on Wednesday, August 18th, at
twelve o'clock noon.


15d1m JOHN r WHITEHEAD Secretary
Year: 1876

The time is near at hand when the
gap in the railroad between this city
and San Francisco, will be SO insig-
nificent that the stages will traverse
it in few hours. One year ago the
company fixed on the Fourth of next
July as the day on which they would
give us continuous rail to the me-
tropolis, and the indications now are
that they will redeem their promise.
Within the next ten days tunnel No.
5, in Tehachape Pass, will be compile
ted. This tunnel has been the bar to
progress in track laying for some time.
The other tunnels and the road bed
through the pass are ready..for the ties
and iron, and in fortnight the work


of track laying will go forward at the
rate of two or three miles per day.
Once through the pass, the country
for long distance is level, and but
little work is necessary to prepare the
bed for the ties and rails. In Solidad
Pass every available grader is at work
and before the track reaches that pass
the grading will be completed. 1t is
safe to say that by the middle of May
the road will be completed to the
Northeastern end of San Fernando
tunnel. 1t is now being operated
from this city to the Southwestern
end. Thus it will be seen that before
two months have elapsed the gap be-
tween the two ends of the road will
not exceed two or three miles. The
Superintendent of the San Fernando
tunnel is confident he will have it
completed by the first of July. The
company have now at Caliente, and
enroute to that place, rails and ties
sufficient to build one hundred and
twenty-five miles of road-the num-
ber of miles to build to close the gap
is one hundred and twenty-four.


Meanwhile the Southern Pacific track
East of this city is stretching toward
the Colorado. The cars are running to
Whitewater station in the desert
one hundred and fifteen miles from


this city, and soon another section of
twenty miles will be completed be-
yond that point. 1t is the purpose of
the company to have the road finished


and in operation to the Colorado river
by Fall. They will not stop there, but
will push on Eastward until a connec-
tion is made with some road running
Westward. This is favorable show.
ing for Southern California. TIE
Southern Pacific Railroad Company
Year: 1876

sing, cashier of the bank, and accused
him of the crime and gave him their
reasons. Every incident connected
with it pointed directly towards him.
They talked to him for three hours and
told him he had not been robbed, but
was the culprit himself. He listened
to all they had to say during the three
hours without making any reply than
said, "Oh, my motherv' and confessed
having taken the money and conceal
ed the gold in the walls of his room in
the bank building, and the gold notes
and currency in the wood house in the
rear of the bank. He says he struck
himself repeatedly in the face and on
the head with his clenched fist, which
produced the marks that were reported
as have been made with q sand-bag.
The money was all found with the ex-
ception of $40. He said he had no ac


complice in the affair He was arrest
ed and gave bond in the sum of SIS 900.
Year: 1876

AS might have been expected, the
Erp1 eSs is endeavoring to escape the
self stultifying position in which it
has placed itself on the fraudulent IT,
tie question, by initiating the peculiar
movement of the crawfish when it ad-
vances backward with its tail ahead.
1t now attempts to dodge the issue by
writing long homilies on the injury
which will be worked on innocent pur-
chasers through setting aside of the
patents issued by the Government to
such grants as the Lomos de Santiago


To those who have read the opinion of
Secretary CHANDLER, the transpar-
ency of this position is so apparent as
| to need neither comment or explana-
tion. The Secretary explicitly says
| that the evidence is conclusive that
| the present owners OF the land were
aware of the fraudulent means by
which the grant had been increased in
area when they became its purchasers.
He then proceeds to advise that in the
setting aside of patents known to have
been obtained by fraud, care should be
taken not to trespass on the rights Of
innocent purchasers. This disposesof
the rodomontade in Senator JONES
elephant, on those who have purchased
parts of the grants in good faith and
without knowledge that the
patents had been obtained through
representations not sustained by the
facts. In the opinion of the Secretary
no man who is an innocent purchaser
of farm in the Lomos de Santiago,
or any other grant, should be dis
| turbed. The innocent purchasers
plea is perhaps made in the interest of
Senator JONES, but the fact that at
the opening of the lot sale in Santa
Monica the agent of the company an
nounced that they would not give pur-
chasers q warrant and defend deed,
is indicative that Mr.. JONES became
part owner of Santa Monica and San
| Vicente ranches with the full knowl-
edge that the titles were clouded and
that, sooner or later, they would come
up for settlement. We will also re-
mind our cotemporary that in IS spe-
cial pleadings it has overlooked the
fact that the dispute about the title to
| Io,J. ;. . ,.hi,b ifo Yoocfor ic iptaract


ed is not one in which the government
is concerned. 1t is question in which
only private parties are contestants,
and is as dissimilar from tie case of
the Lomas de Santiago as the Express
is unlike an intelligent and respecta-
BILE newspaper. When we get down
to the substratum of the question we
find that it is only those who are hold
ing land to which they know their
title is not good who are crying out
against investigation. The argument
of the JONES founding that though a
grant may have been originally void,
and the boundaries extended from
four to eleven leagues, it should not
now be disturbed, is similar to that of
a Police Court shyster who, after hav


ing received the stolen goods as a fee,
sets up plea of not guilty and main
tains the innocence of his client. 1t


is an exhibition of moral turpitude
that disgusts all right.minded men.
Year: 1876

BABcocK goes free. The jury says
he is not guilty We said when he
was arrested that he would go free
unless he could be sacrificed without
an opportunity to tell what he knew.
BABcooK is as guilty as JOYCE and
others who have not escaped, but he
was on the inside aud had n friend at
Court. TO have let him suffer would
have been to loose his tongue and he
could tell too much. BAR. isail right
What an immaculate Government
ours has got to be.
Year: 1876

WITH the.exception of the few who
expect to hold office under it, we
have yet to find a man who favors the


passage of what is known as MCCoN-


NELL's Irrigation Bill. All concede
that it is unjust in its provisions and


imposes heavy tax on the farmer
without giving him anything like an
adequate return therefor. A number
Of remonstrances against the passage
of this bill have already been sent to
the delegation, and we advise the
farming community to continue in the
good work. To pass the bill as it now
reads will be to create an onerous law
from which only those who enforce Its
provisions will reap benefit. We
need legislation on irrigation, but it
is legislation that will benefit the cul-
tivators of the soil, not oppress them.
Year: 1876

are building more railroad than any
other three companies in the United
States, and every mile of track they
build aids in the development of this
part of the State, and adds thousands
of dollars to our permanent wealth.
Let the good work go on. With the
completion of a Southern overland
road Southern California becomes n
rich and prosperous country, and Los
Angeles its metropolis.
Year: 1876

THE Bakersfield people are more
fortunate than the people of Los An
geles. When their bank is robbed
they find the culprit and compel him


to return the funds. The Los Angeles
people lose their money and cannot
Year: 1876

Wednesday evening blast was let
off at the tunnel in shaft No. 8, and
Mr.. Sullivan, the foreman of the blast
ing corps, was instantly killed by it..
1t seems that according to custom,
many holes were drilled and filled with
giant powder, and all were supposed
to be exploded at once. Unfortunate
ly one charge failed to go off at the
right time, and Mr.. Sullivan went in
and took up a pick when the tardy
charge exploded, blowing the pick
through his breast. His body was
brought to this city yesterday for in
terment.
Year: 1876

A mortgage of 1872, 100000 on the New
York central and Hudson river railroads, in
favor of Cornelius Vanderbilt jun, and
VIM. II. Vanderbilt was recently recorded
in the county clerks office at Albany, New
York.


New York is suffering from an attack
of bad water. A greensh-white scum has
settled upon the surface of CrotoR lake, inn
parting TO the water horrible smell and
taste; and New York is driven to whisky
for consolation.


The New York Tribune, in an article
on the general reduction of wages in that
city, states that any builder can employ as
many first-class carpenters as he wants at
SIS per week, and find them grateful for the
chance. The sane may be said of most OF
the other trades connected with building.
II adds that there has been no time in the
past fifteen years when building could be
done in New York at SO cheap rate, and
scarcely time in that interval when there
has been so little Of it doing.


When New York railroad company
does not place drinking water in its ears, II
is liable to fine of $50, half of which sum
goes TO the informer and the other half 10
the overseers Of the poor.


Frank Walworth is thought to be re-
covering from his insanity. His friends, II
is said, hope that he will be p'rdoned
Should he be set at liberty he is to leave the
country.
Year: 1876

SuLKY labor and the labor Of force
are little worth. Whatever a man does
with a guilty feeling he is apt to do
wrong; and whatever he does with a
melancholy feeling he is likely to do by
halves. If you could only shed tran
guilty over the conscience. and infuse
Joy into the soul, you would do more to
make a man tn rough worker than Il
you could lend him the force Of Her
culcs, or the hundred arms Of BriaFeus,
- Wslberfcce,
Year: 1876

that seems now to be the strongest weapon
against the gross materialism and avaric-
iousness that is permesting the civilized
globe While our city, SO far, has done
nothing to mark its existence in the CEN
tennial epoch, the time has come to show
that public spirit, though dormant, is not
dead. Let that test be applied now, and we
predict that the result will indicate that
many of the hard things often said about
our want of enterprise will be proven
untrue.


The Anslostan Boat Club has already
taken an initiatory step in the matter, and
while rendering all facilities that lie within
their power, yet they need the aid OF our
business men to assist in defraying the ne
cessarlly large expense attendant upon the
project. Great exhibitions Of skill benefit
q city by the crowds that are attracted
thereby. and add more to its reputation
than even extensive public improvements.
The amusements of large towns have more
to do with their popularity than dozen
other matters of interest combined, and
they serve to prevent citizens from spend
ing their time and money elsewhere. 1t is
to be regretted that so little attention is
given in our country to physical exercises
as means OF recreation. The Eaglish peo-
pie are notably superior to us in physique
and development of muscle, and it is alto
gether owing to their love of athletic sports.
We therefore say, in conclusion, that in
every point of view in which the subject
can be examined, it is proper that our citi-
zens should lend all the assistance in their
power to further the plan of those who
have the matter in charge to extend tie
hospitalities of this city to the foreign anna
teIlr oarsmen
Year: 1876

The following frank words are of the right
sort:


"You let Congress be filed with rebel gen.
erals, and what would happen, with Tllden at
the head Of the Government Would the dog
wag the tail or the tail wag the dogi Then
there was the firing on Senator of Louisiana
who was crossing river on skif, and the
breaking of both his arms; not because he had
done anything, except, forsooth, his vote had
changed q vote in the State Senate. And for
all this nobody is punished. The foregoing
was an actual and not an overcharged de-
scription of what is being done under our flag
and under our institutions, and the nation Is
powerless to avenge these wrongs. If these
things had happened in Turkey, skip-of-war
would have gone and bombarded the town
where these wrongs had been perpetrated, un-
less the wrong-doers were given up. Had they
been done in Spain, the Virginius affair would
have been re-enacted and an apology forced
from that country. If Great Britain had in
jured hair of Captain Hathsway's hesd, we
should have had speedy revenge. But the
modern doctrine is that the Government shall
not interfere with State to correct its mis-
deeds.


'Iwant to go to Congress again. have
no hesitation in saying so. am no maiden.
know what l want. Laughter and ap-
plause.1 / am Let afraid to ask for It. ITO
the reporters, Put that down. l think it
time somebody should be in Congress who
knows when and where and how to speak of
those Southern outrages. If the Democrats
should be so fortunate as to elect their candi-
dates they would support the doctrine of
State rights-the doctrine Of secession. If
Hayes and Wheeler are entrusted with the
reins of government the rights of every citi-
zen will be guaranteed by the Government.
That is the issue, the great issue of the day,
which oYershadows all others. But they say that
in my letter, which addressed a short time
ago to some of my fellow citizens, I did not
say anything about civil service reform.
Neither did say anything about last years
almanac. am in favor of all possible re-
form in the civil service. If any one can make
the ciyn service any better, let him make it,"
Year: 1876

We learn that systematic effort is being
made to bring to this city, at some time
during next September, the foreign anna
teur oarsmen that are now rowing in Phila.
delphia, so that our own noble river may
be the scene of friendly strife and chance
afforded us of seeing the much talked of
English stroke. Our citizens ought to
tender welcome TO these manly fellows,
who, at great expense and inconvenience,
have come so far to try their trusty oars,
without hope Of reward save the encourag-
ing cheers of their countrymen and urged
on by the inherent love of sport and sdven-
ture that characterizes their race; and
when we know that refusing many offers
to row elsewhere they have signifed will
ingness to come here, our people ought to
extend them cordial reception befitting
the spirit of the present year and the capi-
tai of a great nation. These gentlemen in
their own country are famous throughout
the length and breadth of the land. They
are men of culture and refinement, and
among them are scions of noble families,
representing fully the inherited chiyalry
Year: 1876

From the Jersey City Evening Journal.l


"They want a change" This is the remark
which is oftenest in the mouths of those who
hope for and predict the success of the Demo
cratic party. They allude to "the people,"
and assume, because there have been faults
and shortcomings in the Republican admins
tration of the last few years, that the people
are prepared franticslly to rush into the arms
of Tilden and his supporters in search of
"change." These parties also assume that,
because the times are hard and business is de-
pressed, the people are universally convinced
that this is the fault of the Republican party,
and will therefore elect Tilden and Hendricks,
in order 10 bring about "good times" But
what prospect Of any improvement in "the
times" is to be expected from the return of the
Democratic party to power! five are suffer
ing from an irredeemable currency of paper
money, are we likely to get relief at the hands
of party that proposes to postpone specie
resumption indefinitely and to depreciate aud
destroy our national credit! If we are suffer-
ing from the depression of industry in the
Southern States, are we to be helped by put
ting i'll power the party that proposes to re-
store practically the old order of things in
those States, to draw q color and prejudice
line in them, politically and socially, that
will drive away all capital, and put stigma
and a ban on free labors If we are suffering
from official peculation and extravaganza are
We likely to secure any improvement by putting
into office hungry horde of Democrats, whose
whole party record shows that when in Office
they invariably waste and steal ten times as
much as Republicans do. We might, indeed,
get "a change" by electing Tilden, but it
would be such change as man would make
who, in freezing weather, should throw of his
scanty clothing because it did not keep him
warm enough, and should go stark naked. Be-
sides, sensible people know quite well that the
Republican administration is no more RESPONSE
BILE for the "hard times" than 1t is for the raw
ages ofthe grasshopper and potato bug. "Hard
times" are born of the general extravaganza
of the people, of over production, Of glutted
labor market, of death of great business en-
terprises, and of general want of confidence
in business and commercial circles, and these
things are not to be cured by making political
changes, nor by acts of Congress. The times
are quite as hard in England as here. Is the
Republican administration Of the United States
responsible for thats Men who pause and re-
feet on this subject will see that whatever
change is needed or desired, none for the bet
ter is to be expected from the re-adyent of the
party to power that is led and controlled by
ex-rebels and repudiators. Reform and change
for the better can be best hastened by electing
honest, pure, able men like Hayes and
Wheeler, and that, we are confident, will be
the verdict of the people in November.