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Year: 1875

ONE thousand five hundred men are now at work on the Southern Pacific Railroad at Tehachape Pass.-[Ex.

 The Central pacific system of railroads on this coast, is now spending about all its sur plus earnings in extending this Southern Pacific connection, so as to bring Arizona, New Mexico and northern States of old Mexico under the commercial and general trade rule of California, yet it is the deter imitation of bevy of political malcontents and disappointed office-seekers and business men to cripple the principal resources of these extensive railroad builders by every possible means in their power. In throwing Arizona open to rapid settlement from the California side, and enlarging our market manifold, the railroad monopoly is doing a very wicked thing, and the voters are asked to revenge themselves at the polls The fact is to be kept from them, that in creating and keeping alive sentiment adverse to capital in this State that they are thereby driving away foreign capital as well. Capital is capital, wherever created, but let it once go abroad that our own monied men are con tinual objects of distrust and persecution, and we say farewell to all financial favors in foreign markets. One thing is certain: : Dolly Vardinism cannot prevent the rapid extension of the Southern Pacific Railroad. The l 800 men in question are but one DOT tion of the force at work in that direction. Far beyond Tehachape the work of grading end track-laying is going on. By way of Los Angeles, the company is enabled to flank the mountains and attack them in the rear. But the devilish stupidity of these political communists in keeping up their at- tack in the Company's rear, will react as we indicated. They cannot prevent the Com pany from extending their roads by means of their own earnings, but they can damage all other enterprises that may depend on outside aid. There is where the trouble comes in. It only remains with the people Co put a quietus to this internal spirit once for all, and it will not raise its head for many day. It is the duty of the truly in dependent voter and well-wisher of Califor- mia, to spot these dogs in the manager, and send them bowling to their holes. Self az grandizement at the expense of the best in- terests of the masses, is the governing prin- ciple of this so-called Independent move ment.-[0akland Tribune.
Year: 1875

Whatever you have to say, my friend, Whether witty, grave, or gay, Condense it as much as ever you can, And say it in the readest way. And whether you write of household affairs, Or particular things in town, Just take word of friendly advice

 Boil it down. When writing an article for the press, Whether prose or verse, just try To utter your thoughts in the fewest words, And let them be crisp and dry; And when it is finished, and you suppose It is done exactly brown, Just look it over again. and then

 Boil it down.
Year: 1875

but he could not. Public opinion would be too
strong for him, and in France there is public
opinion. There are at least two opinions any pos
sible question, and there is something wcrse-an
habltual acquiescence in acts of administrative
tyranny so long kept M that the spirit of individual
liberty seems all hut dead. g. W. s.
Year: 1875

New York, March 30.-An immense
crowd gathered in the vicinity of the
Brooklyn court room this morning,
the exceptionally large number hav-
ing probably been attracted by the
announcement, that late last night,
after long consultation between the
defendants counsel, it was decided to
put Beecher on the stand to-day, a
course made necessary by the absence
of several witnesses whom the counsel
had intended to examine before
Beecher.
Year: 1875

the shore and ran into the Corsica
damaging both considerably. Many
minor casualties are reported.


The trustees OF the Lick fund held
a meeting yesterday, to discuss the
Lick revocation; they will take no
active steps at present, but assert their
determination not to resign their
trust.
Year: 1875

Turned Loose.


Memphis Ledger.


On Saturday afternoon the fire bells rang
out an alarm Of fire, caused by an accident
which happened at the foundry Of E. f.
Risk & Co, OH Court street, east Of the
Charleston railroad depot. An immense
mass Of metal, weighing about
seventeen tons, had been melted
and poured into a reservoir for the purpose
of casting the iron work sUbstructure Of a
cotton compress for Mr.. A. Montgomery.
The mould had been prepared with care
and was surrounded with heavy iron cast
ings, all ready to receive the molten mass
Of metal at givenSigual. The gate or slide
Of the reservoir was worked by lever power,
but ewing TO some inattentiOn was left
without a guard. The tremendous weight
OF the metal within the reservoir forced Ip
the gate or slide, and the red bot mass
rushed out, Kissing and blazing, all over
the mould and into the pit. The flames
and sparks flew i'm every direction, setting
on fire the roof of the building and stair
way leading up and into the pat
tern making room. The IRE
was eNtinguis ed before any mate
rial damage could be done 10 the building,
but seventeen tons Of metal were chilled
and fused into a confused and solid mass
in and around the mould, causing loss Of
$1,000 to the prOprietoss. The casting
was the heaviest ever attempted to
be made in this city, and the
accident is much TO be deplOred,
as every precaULiOn was taken 70 make
the cast a comp etc success. Fortunately
none Of the mOulders or employers were in
jured by the rush Of red hot metal, that re-
sembled an eruption Of lava from Vesuvius.
Our reporter visited the scene Of the acci-
dent yesterday, and even then
smoke and steam came up from
the mould and pit where the i'm
mense mass of metal was hidden from
sight and was slowly chilling. We under
stand that the enterpFising prOprietOrs will
at once 20 90 work and re;Delt the iron and
attempt the casting again, which viii be in
about a week or ten days, it taking that
time to make all the necessary prepara-
tions for so heavy and scientific an unler-
taking.
Year: 1875

A strange and remarkable case was
brought under the attention Of Or. Tate, Of
Augusta county few days since. He was
called to see Mrs. Taylor, wife Of Mr.. Rob
ert Taylor, living about three miles from
Greenville, and found that she had driven
a sixpenny nail into the back Of her head,
which, after much difficulty, he succeeded
in extracting. The nail had been driven
in several days previously, and by her own
hand, 1t was discovered by a daughter Of
hers while eOmbing her hair one day, and
she insisted on keeping the fact secret, but
her daughter sent for DR.. Tate, as above
stated. She told her daughter that she
had driven the nail in several days before,
with the flat side Ofa hatchet; that she had
been suffering with violent pains in her
head, but since driving in the nail she had
been entirely free from them. Some years
ago she had been confined in the Western
Lunatic Asylum, and has for some TINE
been partially deranged. If the uail pene-
trated the skull, as l understand it did, it
is very remarkable case, and one Of much
interest to the medical fraternity.
Year: 1875

"hhOut "oEhs


FALL RIVER, Aug 3.-About $1,000
operatives are idle, and probably will be
thirty days, although rumOTs prevail that
work will be resumed in a week. There
IS great dissatisfaction, and many willing
TO work, including good part of the spin
ners who heretofore acted almost as a unit.
How long the mills will remain closed it
Is impossible to say. Manufactures say
thew do not know themselvs, but one thing
that will influence them very much is, that
thew think it hard that operatives opposed
to the strike and willing 10 work at the re-
ductiou, should be locked out. Many store
keepers have given notice If help can afford
to take vacation for thirty days, they can
afford to pay cash for their goods, and no
credit viii be given until they work.
Every mill has stopped, with the exception
of the Stafford, which will soon close
Year: 1875

We have seen something of the happy
hOme-life of Observation-Disclosures, natural,
yet exquisitely reiged-the cor cOrdiJUa Of
English society, ard We have seen a little
Of fashionable life on one or two gay Oc-
casions. One dancing party, though large
and carrying weight in the shape Of two or
three titles, went of in the most dashing
and blithesOme way. l saw there
toilets on English ladies not TO
be surpassed in Paris, and worn
with a perfect grace. Il is a popular fallacy
that English women Of the upper class do
not know how to dress; and, by the by, the
injurious charge is often made by their eOun-
trymen. There was at that party in GloH
cester Terrace a great deal Of beauty, as a
matter Of course-high-bred and high
cOlored English beauty-and high-spirited
and somewhat low-tOned American
lOveliness. Perhaps our most eff
fectiYe representative was a young
daughter Of Horace Greeley, who
even in London is not only distinguished
by her bloom and the fine classic character
of her head and face, but for the perfect
simplicity and maideuly mOdesty Of her
tOilet-the fitness aud fit of her dress.
Year: 1875

GEORGE WASHINGTON couldn't tell a
lie, and that's what ails the average Vicks-
burg boy. The other day, when one Of
them accidentally broke pane Of glass in
a store window, it was touching to see him
walk brayely into the store and up so the
merchant, and say: 81 broke a pane Of
glass in the window there, and you can
charge it 20 the old mans account Put it
down as abound Of saleratus, and he'll
never know the difIerence.n
Year: 1875

SMITH belongs is a very large one also, and
when SAITH stands up with wide-open mouth
md Redeemed fnce and how1s out Coronation
and Near, he is undoubtedly worshiping
God with enthusiasm and nnction, with
spirit and lungs. To s4uelch him
would be a great injustice: The secret
of success is to draw line between SMITH
and Brown. SMTra must be allowed to sing,
but at the same time he should be taught
how to sing so as not 10 offend BaoWN-
Brown, on the other hand, must be allowed
to have his good music well done, and no OBJ
lection ought to be offered if the music is
really sacred, inspired with religious senti-
ment, and composed for church purposes.
Of this class Of music there is an immense
repertoire which has hardly yet been touched,
so large, in fact, that there is no excuse for
the Introduction Of the music Of the lyric
stage into the church, as is done every Sun
day in almost every church in this city. It
is in reality desecration, and SMITH has
right to protest against it; but so is snrH's
discordant bowling desscration also, and
Brown has the right to protest against it.
Who will draw the line between them?
Year: 1875

With all the pother and circumstance about
it, the six-1rilion-dollar suit against Boss
TWEED has not yet baen pushed to that stage
where he is required to answer as to the
merits. It is now pending in &c Court Of
Appeals on the motion of TwEED's attorneys
to require the People to set forth with par
ticularity each item OF fraud charged against
him, specifying in what the fraud consisted
As TwErD and his Ring carefully destroyed
about ell the documentary evidence, it is
morally impossible to furnish any such speci-
fications and, if he gains his point in the
Court Of Appeals, it will probably make an
end Of all proceedings against him, and he
will walk out Of court to enjoy what is left
Of his plunder after paying lis lawyers. It
is significant commentary upon the absurdi-
ty Of our system Of Judicial procedure that,
despite the efforts Of the best counsel, it has
as yet proved impossible to get the suit
against the boss thief before any court upon
its merits, and that, with all that has been
done, it seems little nearer trial than when
inS!iiute1
Year: 1875

ton likely to lead to it's disruption Finally,
the more intelligent, liberal, and American
portion of the Catholics would oppose it on
patriotic grounds.


IF the question whether or not B:bls-read-
ing should be part Of the regular exercises
Of our public schools were submitted to the
people, there is no doubt it would meet
the same fate as the proposal advocated by
the Catholic extremists. It would occur to
the masses that the enforced listening to the
Bible Of those children whose parents do not
recognize it at all as religious book, or those
who recognize only part Of it, or those who
do not recognize the particular version used,
is unjust, and likely to create dissension
that had better be avoided. The advocates
Of Bible~reading in the schools would be m
tagonized by ~ the entire Catholic vote,
whose sole provocation for opposing the
pubic-school system is that their children do
not receive that form Of religious instruction
which they insist is the only correct one !;
(2) all the liberal minded classes, who are of
the opinion that the schools should be kept
unsectarian (3) all the non-professors Of sec
tartan religion; and (4) all those who desire
that the integrity Of the system shall not be
put in jeopardy. II proposition to enforce
the reading of the Bible in the public schools
were submitted to the people, it would be de-
feated without doubt by much more over
whelming majority than that which defeated
the Sunday ordinance. It is not to be seri-
ously questioned, therefore, that the Board
Of Education in the position ther hare taken
represent the majority sentiment in this COM
munity.


We have not undertaken at this time to
discuss the merits Of the case, as we have
done before and may have occasion to do
again We prefer that, SO far as Chicago is
concerned, the matter shall be regarded Us
definitely settled for some time to come.
There is no dispute as to the authority Of the
Board to take the step Of excluding Bible
reading as one Of the exercises, and the evi-
dence is all in favor of the, belief that the
Board represents fairly the prevailing senti-
ment Of the people Of Chicago. In such
case it is better that the issue should be re-
garded as settled for the time being.
Year: 1875

A case has been brought in the United
Stntes District Court for the Eastern District
of New York, to test the constitutionality Of
she act Of Congress passed at the last session
Increasing the rates of postage on third-class
matter. The point is raised on an applica-
ton for mandamus to compel Postmaster
JONES, Of New York City, to receive for
transmission through the mails package Of
books, stamped according to the old rates of
postage, and it is claimed TINT the act Of last
winter is unconstitutional because it is q
revenue measure, and under the Constitution
rould only properly originate in the House,
while, as pissed, it originated in the Senate,
fs therefore, void. and does not impair the
force Of the former postal ect, which remains
operative as though the amendment had not
been attempted The District Attorney
evinces disposition to evade the issue By
objecting to the application on the ground
that manda.nus is not the proper remedy.
The case has been taken under advisemeut
by the Judge. who will render his decision
u few days. If the constitutional obiec-
lion made be sustained, the effect will be to
restore newspaper postage to the old rates
Year: 1875

The Grand Jury Of the Criminal Court Of
Cook County took testimony, yesterday, in
relation to the conduct Of the election judges
in the First Precinct Of the Fifth Ward
The men who, wilifully or idiotical1y, dis
franchised the voters in that precinct should
be made to rue their course
Year: 1875

4Qe Cu1C1kO bOaIu oI LuucAtlOu, AlLer


due consideration of the communications
submitted to them on the subject, and the
| report Of q committee especially charged


with it, have determined to stand steadfast
to the resolution previously taken to dispense
with reading chapter Of the Bible as part
Two test votes were taken on the issue at the
last meeting Of the Board ut one the ex-


clusion of the Bible was adhered to by q vote


OF 10 to s., and at the other by q vote Of II


to 2, two members Of the Board being ab-


sent. Thus the matter may be regarded as


disposed of for the present, and it should be


permitted to rest where it is by both those


who favor and those who oppose the reading


Of the Bible in the schools. The agitation


of the issue cannot produce any change with


the present Boud in any case, and is likely


to create bad feeling


There are two extremes in this public
school question, and, like other extremes, they
meet on common ground. On the one side
there is the ultra sentiment in the Roman
Catholic Church, the extent Of which is
variously estimated, and which demands either
that the Catholics shall be exempt from taxa
ton for school purposes, or that the school
fund shall be divided between the Protestants
and the Catholics On the other side there is
the ultra sentiment among certnin Protestant
denominations which demands that there
shall be religious exercises in the schools
for the reading of the Bible cannot be de-
nanded upon any other ground when it is
presented to immature minds. The common
ground on which these extremists meet is the
denunciation OF the public schools as god
less schools " the moment the reading Of the
Bible is dispensed with, though this is the
only compromise which can secure the un-
sectarian character Of the schools and leave
them to their Original purpose.


There is no question but both these fac
tions would be defeated if the issue were sub
mitted to popular vote, which is the theory
of our Government upon which such issues
must be decided. To begin with the ultra
Catholic sentiment, it would appear at once
to the great mass of the people that any e1-
emption Of this sect from taxation, or the
donation Of any part of the school-fund to
them for dognnatic schools, would lead to the
disruption Of the entire public-schoo1 system.
As this system is especially boon to the
masses, its preservation would receive the
popular vote. Every unfayored religious sect
would vote so1id1y against granting special
privileges to any one sect. The non-relgous
people would all oppose division Of the
fund without regard to sects. The Protestant
taxpayers would be a unit against such a
The non-tax-payers who derive
the greatest benefit from the school system
would be inclined to vote against q PROPOSE
Year: 1875

The journey Of the Prince of Wales has
been interfered with by the prevalence Of
cholera in the Neligheny District Of Hin
dostan. The future King Of England is
afraid Of the King of TerTors,
Year: 1875

~ - AOA 4IAEaJ %A1t Lu0 fGCdnC3 QCC464UuEu


on the Supreme Court Bench by the retire


ment Of Judge McAL11sTER to accept seat


on the Circuit Bench in this county will at


tract any general attention. The district


from which the Judge is to be elected in


cludes Cook, Lake, VIII, Kanknkee, and Du-


page Counties. The City of Chicago contains


larger population than all the remainder Of


the territory within the district, and sends


several times as many causes for the con-


sideration of the Court. Tt is proper, there


fore, that the vacancy should be filed from


the Chicago Bar. There are many other


reasons for the selection of Chicago lawyer


The city, both in its size, the conglomerate


character Of its population, and the variety


of its commercial interests, requires a sort Of
special representation in the highest judi
cial tribunal in the State. Such O
claim cannot be dismissed as sell
fish and unworthy, because one Judge
out of seven (a1l that Chicago can have in
any case) could not exert any improper infu-
ence, even if he were SO inclined, favorable
to Chicago or Chicago cases but he would
be useful to the Court and helpful to the
cause of justice in explaining the peculiar
circumstances that are apt to figure in any
case that comes from metropolis, as distin-
g11ished from the smaller cities and country
towns It is equally important, therefore,
that Chicago should be represented Oh this
account as because Of the greater population.
We hnve no doubt that the remainder of the
district will willingly concede this claim.


The next consideration should be to find
candidate who is entirely worthy the conf
dence Of the people, the peer of some Of the
able members of the Court from other parts
of the State, and one who will represent the
city creditably and honorably. The hard
work and small pay of the posi-
ton render it peculiarly difficult to
find the proper sort Of man among the law
yers of large city who can always earn more
money at the Bar. But the honor attached
to the position, and the consideration OF serv-
ing the public in the most useful of all Ca
pacities, should count for something. It is
necessary to look among the class who have
already earned q competency at the Bar, and
are willing to retire to the quieter life on the
Bench, more productive Of honors and repu-
tation. The question Of political divisions
should cut no particular figure in the case,
and, if there is more than one candidate, the
best man for the place ought to be chosen.
There is no politics in the Supreme Court,
and there ought to be none. That the Chi
cago Bar, ss q whole, is a worthy branch Of
the legal profession, is evidenced by the high
and admirable character of the Chicago
Bench aud it should be further confirmed
by sending one Of its best lawyers and one Of
its fairest men to the Supreme Bench. As
special election to fill this vacancy will not
call out large popular vote, there ought to
be no difficulty in doing this if the proper
gentlemen interest themselves in the matter.
Year: 1875

Now that we have an assay office in the value of ores found in Pima county. The result agreeably surprises everybody, and none more so than MT. Hughcs-the assayer. Sample after sample is brought that aseays up into the hundreds of gold or silver and sometimes of both. Then copper ore is more abundant and richer than .in any known part of the world. Lead as well as silver is plentiful in the Patagonia mountains The Santa Cata- rina mountain range a few miles north east oI Tucson, until recently supposed 10 be destitute of precious metals, is now known to contain some ot the richest Iold and silver veins. In fact, at this.tine, it,is well established that the mountains in,every direction from Tucson, are ribbed with veins of the precious metals and also Of baser quality but of equal necessity in the commerce of the world.

 All acquainted with our course as edi- {, r, know that we never overestimate the resources of our locality. Any other course would at most effect but tempora- ry advantages, and in the end be ten-fold more damage than all such gain. Devel- opments now justify almost any state ments, however enthusiastic, we could make That we have richer ores than any other Territory or State, we regard as a

 fact, and that they are sufficiently abund- ant to justify capitalists in the erection of reduction works at various points in this county, as another fact. That a com plete estabis hment for the reduction of ores right here in Tucson would pay, we have no doubt-always provided it were conducted by men of undoUbted prOfes- slonal ability. We believe it would be a splendid investment for the business men of Tucson to form a stock company to build one, or extend aid to some man or company to do so.
Year: 1875

THE SPRINGFIELD REPUBLICAN frequent ly hits the nail square on the head, as it does in the following paragraph:

 "If two thirds of the American news papers were forced to cut down their size D to 50 per cent, and get the same mat ter into the reduced space, it would be occasion of rejoicing both for their cred itors and their readers"

 So it would. But it would be hard upon the editors. In journalistic life there is nothing easier than editing big news paper, where everything can be shoveed in at full length without discrimination or condensation,