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Year: 1876

ONE morning during the recent cold
weather Miss Lily refused to get up and
be washed. Her aunt, who follows the
modern mode of dealing with children,
and considers that they should always
be argued with, but never made to do as
they are bid, in vain exhausted her elo-
quence in describing the excellencies of
publication, for the infant logician fairly
confuted her by this ingenious antithesis:
"Aunt Mary, you do as you like, and let
me do as / like. You like to be clean
and cold, I like TO be warm and dirty"
Year: 1876

THE roads in some parts of Germany
are lined through the entire distance by
rows of appietrees, the branches OF
which latter bend beneath the weight of
the fruit. A fine of three shillings Is
the penalty for picking the fruit, conse-
quently it is permitted to ripen, and the
owners or the community reap the bene-
fit of their foresight in making shade
trees at once beautiful and profitable.
Year: 1876

He was telling her of Belknap's dis
grace, and casually remarked that there
was a woman at the bottom of it, as
there always was in the troubles of men.
der the bed and apologised, he gathered
the children around him and told them
that woman was holy and beautiful
thing.
Year: 1876

We were shown yesterday by Mr..
LESLIE F. GAY the underground
trunk of small China lemon tree,
which bore on its surface abundant
proof of the cause of decay, recently
manifested by many lemon trees in
this vicinity. With the naked eye
the devastating insect could be plainly
seen, and by the aid of powerful
glass, both the grub and its work were
visible in number of places on the
root There appears to be two kinds
of insect, or one in two different stag
es of existence. Both are transpare mt,
but one is beetle shaped, while the
other is long thin worm, much re-
sembliug in appearance a very small
angle worm. The beetle eats its way
into the bark, while the worm per-
forms its work by boring, gimblet
fashion, directly into the tree. In do
ing this it wriggles its body back and
forth, thereby indicating that it cuts
its way with leverage obtained
from the weight of its body. On the
root shown US, the bark for about the
space of six inches had been entirely
removed by the insects, leaving the
wood bare and dry. This enemy tc
the lemon, lime, and in some instan
ces, the orange, is doing much dam
age, and means for its destruction
must be devised. Mr.. GAY is giving
the subject his undivided attention
and we trust he will soon be able tt
announce the discovery of cheap an6
effective method for the removal O
an enemy which now threatens tn,
destruction of many of our semi-trop
ical fruit trees.
Year: 1876

Messrs Johannsen q Co. have removed
their large furniture warehouse from Ducom-
NUNS building to the building on Main ST.,
near First, formerly occupied by L. Roeder.
The public are invited to call at the new es-
tablishment and inspect the elegant lot of
goods on display which comprises everything
in the line of furniture and upholstery, from
pine table and bedroom suit to an elegantly
carved parlor set With largely increased
Messrs. Johannsen & Co. hope to keep pace
with fhe growth OF their business and give
their customers the best establishment of the
kind in the city
Year: 1876

Some curiosity is manifested by
thinking men of the community as to
the character of the Board of Railroad
Commissioners the Governor will APP
point on or before the fifteenth proxi-
mo. We apprehend that no uneasi-
ness need be felt on the subject by
either the people or the railroad cor
porations. 1t will be remembered by
those who read Governor IRwIN's
message, that in that able and COM
prehensiye document the Governor
earnestly urged the passage of bill
similar to that drafted by Senator
O'CoNNoR, and which is now law of
the land. In recommending the en-
actment of such law, Governor IR-
WIN was actuated bv sincere desire
for the adoption of measure which
would effectually and finally remove
all causes at antagonism between the
people and railroad corporations. He
felt that such a law administered by
men of practical minds and general
information would bring about so per-
feet an understanding between the
shipper and carrier that no conflict
could arise and community of inter-
erests be established which would re-
suit beneficially to all. Entertaining
these views and having his sugges-
tions carried out by the Legislature to
point which leaves the completion
of the work in his own hands, it is
reflection on his judgment and an i'm
pugnment of his honesty to suppose
that the Governor will mar all by the
appointment of an incompetent Com
mission. He fully understands the
duties which will devolve upon the
Board, and he will use the utmost
care in selecting Commissioners who
will faithfully and impartially dis
charge those duties. He will select
neither the partizans of railroad cor
porations, nor those anti-railroad ia
natics who would render imperative
those railroads we now have and for
ever prevent the building of others.
He will endeavor to, and, we believe,
will succeed in finding Board of
Commissioners who understand the
wants of the country and the necessi-
ties of the public; who will study the
problem until they have found its So
luton; who will neither ignore the
people nor refuse justice to railroads;
who will seek to conciiate rather than
exasperate, and become the mutual
friend of both the people and the rail-
road corporations. He will appoint a
Board that will hear understandings,
act without prejudice and decide with
out malice. A Board of Commission
ers familiar with the people, the coun-
try, its resources and its wants, and
possessing a general knowledge of
railroads and their operation, will, if
free from prejudice or preference, ac-
complish great good and be enabled
to report to the next Legislature that
feeling of perfect harmony prevails
throughout the State between the peo-
pie and the railroad companies. We
are confident the Governor hopes to
bring about such result as this, and
we have no fear but that he will ap-
point Commissioners in whose ability
to remove all grounds for complaint,
smooth down all asperities and estab-
lsh feeling of good will and mutual
confidence, he has an abiding faith.
Year: 1876

In another column of this mornings 8
HERALD will be found document
relative to the estate of TEMPLE &
WORKMAN which will astenish the
people of Los Angeles. 1t is remark


able that though this document was
filed in the Clerks office yesterday
morning, not a world relative TO it
could be found in last evenings Er-
Year: 1876

AS a healthful climate this Is superior-the
valley being along the foot of the mountains
which, from san Gabriel to Cucamongo, Is
admitted to furnish the best climate on tho
Pacific slope. 'a5sfs rfnH
Year: 1876

On the East, South and West sides OF the
town and one-quarter of mile form the ave-
nues are boulevards, each one hundred feet
in width, which Will be improved In the same
style as the avenues-making over thirteen
miles of a drive within a mile OF tho hotel.
Year: 1876

An instructive commentary on our
diotic Indian policy is furnished in the
departure of SOD Cheyennes from the
r ID Cloud Agency to join the forces of
Sitting Bull. They have been fed and
clothed all winter by the Indian Bureau
and swindled by its agents, and now that
here is good chance to fight us they
st ,rt off on the.war path to direct against
the whites the guns we have furnished
them. This is a specimen of Grants
peace policy.
Year: 1876

About this time one year ago, when
Jewell was seeking to have Judge Fisher
removed, mutual friend, we are told,
went to him to convince him that he had
no foundation for any complaint ngains:
Fisher; but to all the arguments ad-
dressed to him he simply replied with n
staggering air of triumph In less
than week will have Judge Fishers S
scalp dangling at my belt" And so it
was and his works was as mean and
wicked as that of Sitting Bull or Cap
tain Jack. "-Dorer Sentinel.


George Francis Train. so asserts Jen-
ME June in the Baltimore Ameri can
"is now generally considered luna
tic" She says that he sits ten hours
every day ou shaded bench in Madi-
son park, petting children who play
there He will shake hands with no
adult for fear it might take strength
out OF him; and he says that he is de-
veloping will>power that will in time
enable him to kill anybody by mere
exertion of his mind.
Year: 1876

am aware that am dwelling up
on this subject too long for your in
terest; wish to apologize to the
ladies who honor me with their pres
ence, for while money is interest
ing to handle, it is dull subject to
talk about. / am addressing that
sentiment which seems to believe
there is some potency in legislation
which can oxygenize the very air
with energy and credit; some magic
wand in finance which can create
prosperity by a touch; that the fields
of industry only await shower of
greenbacks, to make them blosso m
with riches; and that a hateful ogre
called the money power, sits at the
doors of Congress, keeps the fairy
with the magic wand in prison, and
restralns the greenback cloud from
rising.


Practically there but five methods
by which the government can initiate
the currency.


lst.-Engaging in war.


2d.-Commencing system of in
ternal Improvements.


3d.-Collecting less revenue than
is necessary for the current expenses
and making up the deficit by issuing
greenbacks.


4th.-Issuing greenbacks to lend.


5th.-Giving them away.
There is one other method, ,-rcpu-
diation-but l will not insult any one
here by the suggestion of it's moral
possibility.


Can any one suggest any other
means by which the government can
initiate the currency? Will any one
argue that either of these methods
would be justified by a wise policy?


My Independent Greenback friends
you believe that the government can
supply the whole currency of the
country directly, equitably than by
lending its credit to the banks and
sharing the privilege with them. So
do /.


You believe that this can be ac-
complished by an intcr-convertible
bond. So do l. l believe that this
system, more than any other, re-
quires for its success the discharge of
every national obligation according to
its letter and spirit, and the mainte
nance of the country's credit to the
highest standard Of the public con-
science. I trust you agree with me.
But you are doomed to certain disap-
pointments if you believe that mon
ey would be more abundant under
the inter-convertible system than un-
der the banking, or that any magical
change will be wrought by it in the
business, the industries, and general
prosperity of the country. l confess
with candor that | believe the plan
has excited suspicion by the great ex-
pectations and visionary promises
of many of the advocates. l think
it will grow in public favor by can
did examination and intelligent dis
cussion. 1t is quite certain that this
and other questions OF fiscal policy
and general administration will not
receive the candid and intelligent
consideration their importance de-
mands, while the Democratic party,
as a distinct political organization,
claims the right to administer the
government by virtue of its past
character and services and present
professions. Therefore the Demo
cratic party ought to be destroyed
know that party contains many
good men, sincere, ability and patri-
otism, whose highest aspirations and
sincerest patriotism are held in check
by the strong thraldom Of party dis
cipline. Therefore the Democratic
party ought to be destroyed.
Year: 1876

Sedaa Democrat


Felix Burke is white man who
has tastes low enough to have mar
ried negro wench, and he makes
himself generally disgusting to white
people by his open and notorious as
sociation with the lowest class of ne
grocs. Burke is the same individual
who came near losing his life back of
Georgetown about four weeks ago.
His house was surrounded by a party
of white men, and several shots were
fired at him, one of which shot off
part of the thumb of his right hand.
1t was, no doubt, done for the pur-
pose Of compelling him to leave the
neighborhood. Since then he and
his negro wife have been living in
the north part of Sedalia, adjoining
Darkeytown. Two months ago, when
they returned from TT. Scott, they
brought with them a mulatto boy,
small child about eighteen months
old. Burke said colored woman
gave them the child when they left
Ft. Scott, to keep and raise.


Since living in Sedalia the child
has had summer complaint, and the
british foster mother became very
much angered when the child need
ed attention, aud would take it out of
the house and whip the naked child
with the hard stems Of iron weeds.
Burke would also take his turn at
beating and kicking the poor little
wait, and it has been continually
whipped during the past week or so
in most brutal manner. The child
has suffered thousand deaths during
this time from the bruises and wounds
inflicted by the heather couple.
Yesterday morning about six
o'clock the negro neighbors OF Burke
heard the screams of the child and
the fall of the whip on its body
Atterward Burke was seen kicking
the little child to death on the out
side Of the house.


The proper authorities were at
once notified, and Felix Burke and
his wife Belle Burke, were arrested,
and are now in the county jail
Their preliminary examination was
continued until next Monday morn
ing at 8 o'clock.


In the absence OF Coroner Evans,
Squire Clark and Constable Connors
about 10 o'clock yesterday proceeded
with the jury to the house, to hold
an inquest over the remains OF the
dead child.


The body of the child was literal
ly covered with bruises. Its back
was one mass of bloody-looklng
stripes; it's legs were spotted with
bruises; its face was hacked up with
switch. The left side of the face
and Immediately over the right tenn
pie on the side of the head, were
large bruises rs if caused by kicks,
any one of which would probably
have caused the death Of the child


1t was a horrible sight, and caused
the blood OF the law abiding citizens
to flow fast; in fact, muttered curses
could be heard on every side against
| the brutal and heathenlsh parents.
Year: 1876

Clean, pure milk, Is one of earth's
choicest luxuries-one which the
peasant may share with the crown.


The COW, of all anamals made for
the service of civilized man, if least
liable to disease and sickness, and the
product of her udder is best adapted
to his wants and needs. Milk, as it
comes from the uddcr of the COW, is
comparatively pure, if the animal is
kept on wholesome, clean food; but
a large per centage Of filth and i'm
purities get into the milk through
the carelessness of the mixer, and
because the cows are kept in place
eff filth and untidiness.


If milk was translucent it would
reveal the carelessness OF mixers and
the indifference OF housekeepers in
regard to keeping it clean and pure
as it comes from the COW. 1t usual
ly contains an amount of dirt and
filth for which there is not the least
reason or excuse; but being opaque
Year: 1876

attract attention; and this is urged
by the less noisy and more intelligent
leaders down there. They hold that
the United States Supreme Court has
decided that slaves are property;that
a contract made with regard to them
is as binding as with regard to any
other property; that the Constitution
declares that no law shall be passed
by Congress or any of the states inn
pairing the obligation of a contract,
and also that private property shall
not be taken without just compensa-
ton. If this is so, they say, section
of article IA, which says slaves
shall not be paid for, is in conflict
with other sections Of the Constitu-
ton. They go on to argue that, un-
der all decisions of the courts, and
the rule OF construction of statutes,
where there is conflict Of laws, the
new must give way to the old; there
fore, this section 4 of article IA is
void. Now, they believe this; and
late speech made by Gov. Vance in
North Carolina proves what say is
true; for he asserted it on the stump.
When you say to them that it was
war measure, and that, before it was
adopted, they had forfeited all rights
under the Constitution, they reply that
a large number Of Shareholders were
not in the army, and had nothing to
do with the war, and the government
had no right to take such persons
property any more than it had the
property Of person in the North
They have determined to get ma
iority in the government, and then
they propose to get change in the
Supreme Court. 1t will not be long,
they say, before some of the present
judges must die or retire from the
Bench; and when theirplaces are fill
ed with Southern men, it will be
very easy thing for the Supreme
Court to make such decisions as they
claim will be Just to them.


That (said the GeneraD is the
scheme they are preparing to carry
out; and, startling as it may appear,
it is not bit more so than the asser-
ton made q few years ago that they
would have a hundred Rebel Gener-
ais in Congress before Grants sue
cessor was elected, and that the
Democratic party of the North
would stand at their back; yet this
has come to be true, and they conf
IDENTIFY expect to carry out these
other plans, one or the other-they
don't care which. AS to those whelps
who are making charges against me
in the St. Louis Republican and
Ttnaes,-I know them, at least l
think I do. / have seen them before
and they know where and how. One
of them was kicked out of the army
by Gen. Sherman and myself as
thief, a robbcr, and a smuggler of
contraband goods to rebels"
Year: 1876

the dirt is invisible until the bottom


of the pail or pan is reached. No


people in the world are SO neat in all


dairying operations as the peasant
farmers of Holland. The stables are


kept scrupulously neat and clean,
and the udders of the cows are wash
ed before the milk is drawn. In this
country our cows are yarded at night
usually in the barn-yard with no re-
gard to cleanliness. The milking is
done by hired men and boys who
carry with them neither brush nor
cloth with which to remove dust,
dirt and filth. Of course some, more
or less, goes into the milk pail and
favors the milk to a certain degree
and renders it impure and unclean.
Fine, sweet butter is never made
from such milk, 1t would seem that
reform in the matter of keeping
cows at night might be brought
about without much ado. Then let
housekeepers require that the men
and boys provide themselves with
some means of removing all dust and
dirt before bringing their pals near
the COWS to milk.-Detron Tribune.
Year: 1876

PROSPECT OF GENERAL UPRISING IN THAT


TERRITORY.


from the Helena (MdntanaJ Independent, June %


The reliable reports from all directions indicate
that the wild Indians have nearly all congregated
In the Bad Lands and their numbers every day
sweled by the young bucks from the Missouri River
agencies and those the southeast TAR the
borders OF Nebraska 1t is estimated that there
fully 10 200 Indians with sitting Bull Against these
there can be brought, with the united commands OF
Crook Gibbon and Terry scarcely 1000 soldiers
force utterly inadequate to make any headway against
them.


Since Crook went down the valley Of tho Powder
river, reliable report has been received from hi
command What has become OF him nobody seems to
know. The reported conflict OF Terry with
Indians lacks confirmation, although there
are grounds for believing II true. BY
letter received from the Secretary Of War by Governor
Potts. II appears that the government IS adverse TO
arming the militia, and steps Will be taken with the
the War Department toward putting tho settle
ments condition OF defence. Under these
the people the exposed frontier will
look out Tor themselves and the sooner they do IL the
better Nobody can tell whether tho danger OF raid
into Eastern Montana threatening remote IL may
at any me and II is best 10 be prepared for It
when II does


Tho latest news indicates that there will be general
Indian war; and nearly all The young men Of the differ
ent tribes on the war path


II the troops defeated on the Yellowstone the
condition or the frontier settlements Will, OF course,
invite attack
Year: 1876

The impurity of the Croton water is
simply horrible, and demands the prompt
attention of the city authorities. The evils
which have created this alarming condition
OF our water supply have been steadily in
creasing under the eyes of the city govern
ment for many years. and yet 40 intelligent
effort hes been made to abate them. Addi-
tional lands have been secured for new reser-
voirs, dams and weirs have been constructed
with considerable elaboration and at enor-
nous cost, but the system IN its extension
over the Croton watershed represents only q
cumulative evil rendered irreparable by the
magnihcence of the scale on which it is de-
veloped It would appear that the plan Of
lessening the dangers from the reservoir filth
by dilutng it is the leading feature of our
Croton system, and each new reservoir
is in its turn intended to supply
the necessary volume of pure water
for this purpose. But no sooner is
it completed and filled than it becomes
rival Ill nastiness of its neighbor next be-
low, and the necessity soon arises for an
other extension of the scheme Of purifcation.


But this progressive system of reservoir
building must have a limit, and when we
exhaust our sites and all the supply lakes
become cesspools, what then is to be done?


Clearly we must begin the costly undertake
ing OF cutting off the flow of the surface
drainage into the reservoirs or of purchasing
up and demolishing every dwelling, farm


house. factory and slaughter house within
the area of the Crdon watershed.
The lakes must be fenced, to prevent the
hogs from wallowing IN the water intended
for drinking purposes in the city of New
York. There are new reservoirs in contcm-
plation. we understand, but we fear that
nothing will be done to preserve them from
pollution. Settlements will spring up
Year: 1876

The WEATHER Rains prevailed yesterday
on the Atlantic coast northward of Cape
Hatteras during the passage of the area of
low barometer northeastward toward Nova
Scotia. At New York the rainfall was slight.
and occurred in the early morning. Following
close behind the low area one Of high pressure
now traverses the upper lake region and
Canada, whence. we received the strong
currents of cool air that swept over the
city yesterday afternoon and last night.
lowering the temperature to pleasant degree
compared with that experienced last week
In the Northwest another depression has
manifested itself with rains and fog on its
voutherly rim. We have, therefore, in the
belt of latitude between the fortieth and
ifty-fith parallels two areas of low bar
ometer with an intermediate area of high pres
sure These are rather unusual conditions,
and, considering the rapidity of the move
ments of these areas, we may look for a
change to cloudiness and rain on Wednes-
day next During to-day and Tuesday the
weather will be clear and cool.
Year: 1876

Crook AND TERRY have joined their
forces. but Sitting Bull and his warriors
cannot be found. The willy savage WILL if
possible, avoid q battle unless he is COM
PEELED either to fight or to starve. Our de-
spatches this morning, giving us the informa-
ton of the meeting of the two commands.
also inform of the retreat of the savages
and the signs of their starving condition.
We can only hope that Sitting Bulls escape
will be prevented and that the two COM
manders will be able to avenge the massacre
of Custer and his men and teach the Sioux
the lesson which is SO much needed by
them