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Year: 1875

ABOUT year ago we were informed that there was man in the Territory who made it business to entice others to go into the mountains with him upon the pretense or showing theni rich mines, and that 1t was seldom that persons so enticed were ever heard from afterward. Our h. formant told US that upon one occasion he himself was allured by this mans stories, and started with him on the Journey of death and was only saved by a message reaching htm from friend warning him of his danger; that upon receipt of this message he administered to his would be murderer a sound thrashing with pick handle and left him to seek other victims. Recently we were informed that this same hend had enticed away and murdered eight victims during the past year, and that he goes by the name oF Sheridan. A communication published in THE CIT ZEN last week from c. A. Franklin, dated at Camp Goodwin, shows that the fend has been operating in that section of the country, and that ne murdered one com

 

 was wounded, and that the surviving com penion nursed and cared for him only to be rewarded with an attempt to murder himself with club, and that afterwards the murderer escaped In the direction of New Mexico. This fiend Is now undoubt- edly in New Mexico or Texas, probably seeking for other victims to satlate his thirst for human blood, and we hope our contemporaries will give timely warning in those parts Of the country to prevent, 1T possible, further slaughter. We are au- thOriZed by Governor Stafford to say that he will pay reward Of $500 for the arrest and conviction Of this man for any one of the murders he has committed in Arizo- na; but we cannot help but believe that there is a shorter and surer way of deal Ing with him wherever he is arrested and fully identified.
Year: 1875

GRAND OPENING LORD 6 WILLIAMS TWILL DISPLAY FOR PUBLIC IN W spection one of the Largest and Most Attractive Stock eff Goods ever before Brought

 to this Market. The Great Eastern shsw sf New

 Goods. They have arranged to have srrive Month ly, a complete assortment Of such goods as the people Of Arizona want, and they Can Sell them at wholesale and Re- tail Cheaper than they can be Afforded from any other

 Market, Not excepting the much extolled Quay

 mas route. We have taken especial pains to import fine goods, such as we can warrant, and in the line of

 Nice things to Eat. We have endeavored to cater To the tastes Of all.

 We have Complete Stock of DRESS GOODS, CENTS FURNISHING GOODS,

 HATS,

 CLOTHING. HARDWARE and CUTLERY.
Year: 1875

The Governor of Ohio, whom a great
many people irreverently call "Old Bill
Allen in his younger days had not only
voice closely allied to seven-fold thun-
de-, but was a shrewd practical lawyer,
His rude demolition of sentiment once
gained him case, General Murphy. IL
member of the Chilicothe bar, thirty
years ago vas one of the most noted ad-
vocates that rode the circuits of Ohio.
lie could weep profuscly over the most
hardened criminals and shed quarts of
real tears whenever the occasion required
it. The result was that he usually carried
the jury with him. On one occasion Cen
eral Murphy was engaged to defend a
noted horse-thief in Ross County while
the State secured the services OF Governor
Allen. The usual routine was gone
through with, and the prisoners guilt was
pretty clearly demonstrated, but General
Murphy relied upon working up the sym
pathles of the jury. His effort was UNI
usually brilliant, and toward the close of
his appeal, tears rolled down his cheeks in
torrents. while the jurors rubbed their
eyes with their cuffs. All this time Allen
sat still and upright, glaring with dry eyes
upon Murphy. When the latter wound up
with final burst of eoquence and tears
which left the whole audience snifiing,





Strengthened himself TO his fullest height,
and pointing his long, bony finger at the
jury, said : ''Gentlemen, there is such
thing As botting out justice with tears and
contounding judgment with weeping.
General Murphy understands this better
than any living man. But before his tears
work an absolution OF the sins Of the hard
ened criminal at the bar, and cheat the
State Prison of Its dues, wish to show
you the fountain from whence these tears
How so CopiouSly." With one swoop of
his long right arm he was down in Gener-
al Murphy's coat pocket and withdrew an
immense red onion, denuded of its outer
covering. and holding it aott before the
eyes OF the astoniShed jurors he continued
The ancient Egyptians worshIpped the
onion because it was typical of the cees
tial spheres. Here in Ohio we have good
reason TO curse, because in General Muir
phys pocket it had so often cheated the
gallows and the prison of their dues" The
prisoner was convicted, and General
Murphy never rubbed his handkerchief on
peeled onion again when Old Bill Allen
had the other side OF the case.
Year: 1875

THE RUINs.-In the city of New York
on Fulton Street, near Broadway,
stands, or did stand, as our eyes can
testify. grog shop, having over the
door the significant sign "The Ruins -
the truest inscription we have ever seen
over snch doorway to death as the Ii
quor shop is. We would that such la
bel was hung over every one of the null
titudes that curse the land


One has but to stand where We have
stood, in front Of that grcg shop, to learn
the truthfulness OF that inscription. See
that bloated, red-eyed creature as he
comes reeling forth. having stamped on
his every feature and his whole person
the fearful word RUIN. His clothes are
in ruins, his pocket is ruined, his health
is ruined, and with ruined soul he
goes to meet a ruined family, in ruin
ed home: and yet with such ruins s:ar-
ing them in the face, and meeting them
at the door, we have seen other young
men laughingly enter that man-trap, to
be themselves in turn driven out ruined
men. o, the madness of ruins victims.
j Christian Statesmen.
Year: 1875

PREPARING ron THE GREAT FUNERAI-MUR-
MURs OF THE FANATIcAL RIoTERs-PRE-
L1MINARY GRowIs-THE PRINCE OF WALES
REGIMENT GETTING READY FOR THE MOVE
MENr-sIzE OF THE sARcoPHAGUs.


MONTREAL, Oct. 20, 1875.
The excitement in the Guibord matter is commencing
to reawaken, and increases day by day as the time
draws near the burial the precise date OF which is
however, still unknown, though time at the end
of next week will probably decide it,


The huge sarcophagus. which has been in course of
construction in the marble works OF Mr. Robert Read
sculptor and marble worker has been for some time
the centre Of attraction and curious have been the
popuiace as to the work going on that the workmen
have been impeded TO a most annoying extent by
epithets and other often more forcbe interruptions
put upon them. This sarcophagus weighs twelve
tons, and is designed TO prevent the body
from being removed by force. OF the body
will BIO buried even if the police and military have
70 wade through of blood but buried
in the possession of the clergy the fear that the latter
will wink at the mob, who intend to exhume the body
and burn it to ashes.


EVIDENCE OF OPPOSITION.


The majority of those who interfered with the work
of the principally from the ranks Of those
who took part in the dsgraceul scenes Of September 2





of lime stone, in each of which has been cut
a hollow shaped cavity How the apparatus will be
conveyed to the cemetery is matter of conjecture
II is feared there will be blood shed it it's transporta-
tion to the cemetery Is attempted An evidence of this
feeling is the fact that the heavy stone used for
making the floors for the City Hall mis-
taken for the sarcophagus In passing through
the French quarter of the city, and, not
withstanding that the drivers in charge French
Canadians and Catholics the mfuriated mob attacked
them and drove them away, stoning them down the
street. and it several hours before they could be
made to believe their mistake This may serve TO show
what may be expected when the real sarcophagus
makes its appearance.


MEASURES SECURITY


The means adopted by the institute for the security
OF the much disputed remains certainly effective
enough in appearance. No unorganzed power could
drag except by violent skifuly carried out
the remains from the stone coffin which has been
prepared and If the interment is carried out
remains 10 be whether the fnbriqe will permit
the employment Of the sarcophagus the erection of
the appliances necessary its adjustment in the grave
Opposition to the Inflammation in the Cote des Neges
Cemetery of the remains must for all practicable pur-
poses of the enemies OF the institute who in favor
of high handed measures close for the stone will be
harder to roll away than the hearse the I'd of
SeDtember last
Year: 1875

A cable despatch from Paris announces the death in
that city of Professor Charles Whcatestoue The de-
ceased was born at Gloucester in 1902 He gained a
worldwide reputation by the publication OF numerous
scientific works. but in especial manner by the i'm
pulse he gave to the study OF electricity The inven
ton of electric telegraphy is sometimes attributed to
him. and he certainly contributed to practical appli-
cation He Is also said be the inventor OF tho screo
scope At the close of the Paris Exhibition Of 1856
where he Of the judges appointed for the de-
parment OF light heat and electricity he decorated
with the legion OF honor. In 1868 he appointed
professor of physics in the Royal College OF London
Professor Wheatestone had been i'll for me and
his death was expected
Year: 1875

hcclntock and Young during their sledge journeys
In 1859 for, on visiting that island
large heap o. orcarn was discovered by them
and under il record, carefully secured in a bottle
which told, in few brief words the story the world
was 50 long in search Of And this story was to tho
eject that Franklin had, after wintering on Boechy
Island ana trying g reach Behrng Straits in the direc-
'on o. the Pole where the open sea was supposed to


lie gone south toward the American coast in the hope
offollowing its toward the Pacific Ocean when
'he shps were unfortunately beset Il further states
that Sir John Franklin himself died long before the
final catastrophe


L. 4 tha.
Year: 1875

The Of the Prince OF Wales Rifles have been
ordered to hold themselves in readiness for Friday
night, and imperative instructions have been issued
that every be present The object of this sudden
call is not fully known, but it is generally surmsed
that it has connection with the Guibord burial
Year: 1875

The following record will show the changes in the
temperature for the past twentylour hours in compar
son with the corresponding date Of last year. ind
Gated by the thermometer at Hudnut's pharmacy,
HERALD Building
Year: 1875

A man about two-thirds drunk was rid
ing on street car, and he hadn't yet un-
bosomed himself when nice looking young
man, highly scented, entered the car and
took a seat opposite the inebriate. The per-
fume fioated over, and the man snuffed and
turned his head this way and that. He finally
got. his eyes on the young man, and point
ing his finger at him inquired, "Y young
man-d-do your fleet smell-smell that
way all the time ?' There was dead silence
in the car.
Year: 1875

A Westeren paper tells of man who
earned barrel of -four by carrying it a
mile on his back, taking only one rest Of
ten minutes on the way" How many
longer rests he took it does not say.
Year: 1875

Some one who has taken the trouble
to post himself on the law governing
railroad passenger travel, says sha. ex
ira charges for failure to buy tickets
are universally sustained by the courts
but there must be a full opportunity TO
buy afforded by the ticket seller. Pa
sengers must show tickets when asked
ior. As to stopping off, there is only
one decision, which is that passen-
ger cannot stop of, and resume his
journey, without the previous assent
Of the company. As to the obligation
OF the road to furnish a seat to pas
senger who exhibits his ticket peed
not surrender it until he has been fur
nished with a seat A. railroad is
not liable for things stolen out Of u
passengers seat, there being no prevl-
Gus delivery to the company's servants,
for the same reason the company is
not liable for baggage in the passen.
gers own care. Passengers who neg
lect to look after their own baggage
on arrival at their destination cannot
recover it it it is lost without fault of
carrier Baggage left in station houses
for the passengers convenience, after
it has reached its destination, come
under a new class Of rights and duties,
the baggage master assuming the posi-


tion OF gratuitious bai:ee, who only
becomes liable in cases Of gross neyli-
gence. The obligation Of the railroad
as carries Ceases when it has delivered
it to its owner at the place of destina-
tion, or when he has reasonable oppor-
tunity of receiving and removing it.


1t will interest sportsmen to know that
they may recover for the value Of dogs
when they entrust them to the baggage
master for hire, because of their exciu-
sion from the passenger cars.
Year: 1875

cinity is all that could he desired by
even the most delicate Invalid. The
bright, balmy weather in mid winter
gives one from the other side of the
continent strange, bewildered feel
ing, almost indiscribable. December,
usually rough month i'm the East,
here is mild as spring. Scarcely a
day in that month but the sun shines
in all its splendor. The most delicate
flowers, such as the geranium, helio-
trope, tube rose and japonica grow out
OF doors i'm mid-winter, which makes
one think of having slept through the
proper season of storm and SHOWS and
bitter biting winds, and of coming
out on the world on brilliant May
morning to look at the soft
blue skies. January and February
follow in like manner, save an
occasional rain storm which lasts
not longer than three ora four
days. The grand California flower
show is now at its height. Anything
more gorgeous or beautiful is not to be
found anywhere. The hills, plains
and valleys are covered with wild
flowers which mingle an infinite va
riety of colors. The most conspicuous
of all flowers is the poppy; acre after
acre and even for many miles they lift
their golden heads to the radiant SUM-
shine and at eve 60 to sleep with the
departing sun. Cool, dewy moOnshine
is not to their taste. The inhabitants
of Los Angeles number twelve thous-
and, with the tide of emigration now
drifting in from all parts OF the conti-
nent and with the numerous places of
surrounding country tributary to her,
she is destined to he a large city, and
at present is growing more rapidly
than any other i'm the State. Over
four hundred buildings have been
erected within the last year and at
present the hammer and saw is heard
In all directions, which mark the line
of Improvements. The surrounding
country is an agricultural and fruit
growing one. The valley extends
sixty miles East, opening into Ari.
zOna through the San Gorgonio Pass,
with an average width of fifteen miles.
On the North the Sierra Nevadas'
deep, dark caffons and .craggy peaks
of stupendOus size loom up to heights
from four to eight thousand feet. Some
of the peaks are covered with snow
during Winter, the valley beneath
green with all kinds of vegetation,
birds singing, the atmosphere fragrant
with orange blossoms and all the semi
tropical flowers, forming bridal veil
reaching from the snow line to the
soft, genial cline of the semi-tropics.
Fruits of all kinds grow in this valley.
The orange, lemon, lime, fig and al
mOnd are cultivated to a great extent.
All of the smaller fruits are grown
also. California is truly the land of
gold. Specie is the only currency used
and greenbacks are bought and sold
like wheat by bankers and brokers. 1t
seems strange to Eastern people to
handle the hard money at first, but
they gradually get accustomed to it.
More anon. J. L. M.
Year: 1875

the whole population are travelling on
ice. If they see the face of the earth
by the lst of May, they are in luck.
Talk abont Los Angeles weather be-
ing "ekal to Shakawgow Dry up!
This is truly uncommon weather for
Los Angeles, but when we compare it


with anything on the other side of
the continent, it looks like paradise.
Not to mention that part of the coun-
try which is ice bound half the year,
we will draw the comparison between
this and the best they have over there
we begin with Texas. In that
State the Summers are intensely
hot, followed by u score OF
" Northers during the Winter,
that drives even the buffalo into the
swamps for protection, compared with
which the wind we had here the other
day is but a light Summer breeze. In
Louisiana and Florida they are ex-
empt from these severe NOrthers in
the Winter, but the thunder storms of
Summer and miasmatic and infectious
diseases that infest the low lands and
sea shore, together with the sweltering
heat of Summer, is far more disagree
able than little frost. In passing
higher up the country, through Ala
bama, Georgia, Kentucky, Missouri,
Pennsylvania and New York, in addi-.
ton to frost and snow we encounter
storms, tornadoes, lightning, sun
stroke, freshets and ice gorges. There
is no sense in growing about such
things. The best philosophy and
purest religion is manifested by max
ing the best of what we have. There
is no country OH this old sin-scathed
earth that is perfectly congenial to the
wants of man. This is as near 1t as
any OH the globe, Notwithstanding we
have little cold snap now and then.
Suppose it had been great deal worse
and our crops had all been cut of. 1t
is just what happens in all countries
occasionally. and those who are most
dissatisfied with such things and try
most to avoid them generally fare the
worst. We know several gentlemen
who became disgusted because of one
dry season in the State they lived in.
They sold out and moved to the ad-
joining State; and the following year
there was drought in the State they
moved to, and a fine season in the one
they left. If you are satisfied with the
country generally, cease your growl-
ing about these little eccentricities of
weather
Year: 1875

NO. 5.


The question to be discussed now is
how to raise the money to carry out
Hansen's system Of reservoirs and to
pipe the water thence to the irrigator.
Mr.. Potts tells us that the land now
worth $25 per acre can be raised in
value to 5000. He is quite reasonable
in that assertion; any acre of land be-
tween the city and the sea with water
piped to it sufficient for irrigation
would be cheap at $500. and without
water the same acre would be dear at
$25. Now take as basis of computa-
ton that each additional acre we SUBJ
ject to irrigation increases thereby in
value 500, and that we by our piping
extend our area to 10000 acres and see
what we gain-an even million; and
if we can make the Los Angeles river
by the same process irrigate 100000
additional acres, and there is no doubt
about it, we get an increased valua-
ton in land of $4,000, ,OOO-simply
enormous, but nevertheless real. Now
where is that capital to come from?
That is the question. I doubt if the
prOperty-owner, the merchant or the
manufacturer in the city will consent
to be taxed for that purpose. The land
owner and irrigator within the city
would certainly refuse to be taxed for
the same, for the reason that his land
is already irrigated under the present
wretched system. But II the owners
of those thousands of acres of worth
less land beyond the city limits so
often referred to, that are to be bene-
flied by the new system proposed,
would come to the front and give one
half, If necessary, of their dry plains
to have the other half irrigated, they
would solve this question and enrich
themselves. And 1 believe this to be
the only practical solution of the great
question of how to develop the irrigat-
ing capacity of our river.


One year ago l wrote under nom
de plume an article, which was pub
lished in the Express, embodying the
above views, and was much gratified
ar the suggestions being favorably re-
ceived by the city press and by many
intellig.n and enterprising men.
They may or N v not be practical, but
that sometlL z ought to be done to
get rid of the rtI,ie wasteful, misera-
BILE, disgraceful, qnarrelsome, fighting
system now in use, who will deny?


H. B.


Los Angeles, April 6, 1875.
Year: 1875

The rev railroad is completed at Anaheim
and runs directly along the southern portion
OF our tract. We will offer lands within from
one TO three miles OF Downey City as we'll
adapted for corn as any now under cnltiva-
tion. and there are none better In the world.
Year: 1875

EOR SAlE.-An undivided half interest
in Fifty Acres of land, bordering on the
Pacific Ocean and Joining the new Railroad
and Wharf at santa Monica. No inner ioca-
ton for a town in the country.
Year: 1875

Desmoines, Iowa, Aug. AT half
past twelve this morning the lumber
yard of Getshell & Sons was set on
fire in half a dozen places, and at the
present time, one O'Clock n. M, one
whole square is one broad sheet Of
flames, and over thirty thousand dol
lars worth of lumber is on fire. 1t is
thought to have been fired by thieves
and cracksmen of the advance guard
of ruffians going with Barnum's S
show, which exhibits here to-day,
the evident object being to rob the
town. The fire department is work
ing with great energy to subdue the
flames and it is thought they will be
able to keep it confined to one square
where it.now is. There is no wind
or else the destruction would be i'm
mense.
Year: 1875

AS the moon has no atmosphere it is perfectly clear
that the smoke of volcano could not rise but would
flow down the mountain side just as carbonc acid gas
does in ordinary air The study Of all these things
brought the Professor TO the consideration OF the time
Of the death of the EARTH day OF which he spoke


Dies irae dies lila.


Solvet saecum in faviila,


saying that the subject painful one. but that
death might occur TO the earth just as TO tho
individual II might be by the slow process
OF natural decay 1t might be sudden. And,
lest any Of his hearers might be sceptical with
regard TO the latter supposition he would inform them
that last summer star in the constellation OF tha
Crown suddenly gave 500 times its
customed heat. Contact with of the enormous
planets might produce the effect upon
the sun, and the result need not be dwet
upon Emerson quoted saying that there
fnality in astronomy and Kirke White the effect
that what consider death may only be another form
of life. The possibility of the transfer Of life from
planet to planet and system to system very eo-
queny dwet upon and the remarks upon this subiect
brought this very entertaining and instructive lecture
TO a Close


Professor Proctor's power OF arrestng and enchain.
ing the attention of his audience becomes evident
He commits the sin of being dictatoral makes
the mistake of being ddactic The most diffcult
parts OF the subject treated In any easy, 6ownga
conversational manner which makes the audience feel
as though listening to good rdconteur, instead OF
being engaged in the consideration OF the proioundest
problems of cosmc science