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Year: 1875

TRAVEL BY STAGE.-Most persons dread
the journey by stage from this point to the
Overland Railroad, and yet those who have
made the trip seem to regard it in the light
of pleasure jaunt. This is mainly due the
fact that the n. W. Stage Company have
their line thoroughly organized, and with
good teams and easy going coaches, passengers
are surprised to find the trip really pleasant
In evidence of this We have the case of a
young lady who left Walla WalIa for the
Atlantic States several weeks since. She has
reached her destination in safety, and writes
TO the editor as follows: "Our stage journey
from Walla Walla to kelton far surpassed
my expectations. I expected that We would
encounter all sorts of dangers, bat it is net a
dangerous road by any means and found
the trip really pleasant. The only drawback
was the dust and The everlasting sage brush,
but these are Inconvenience that the Traveller
must expect to encounter
Year: 1875

The WHEAT MARKET is greatly affected
by the financial cricis, and hence it is found
difficult TO maintain the high prices that have
ruled OF late Immediately on the crash,
certain Of the largest grain operators in Cal
ifornia telegraphed their correspondents TO
stop making purchases, and as a consequence
there is scarcely any demand for shipment
This lnll must bo of brief duration. The
high prices are based upon an absolute scarcity
of grain, and come bank failures or ealamities
in whatever shape. the people must have bread
to eat. For Il time the demand for grain
will be slack end prices will languish, but
this cannot last long, aud soon purchasers
will be in the market offering high figures
AT this date, our local millers are about the
only buyers in the market For choice
article they ara paying 80 cents, and for
an ordinary grade go cents u bushel. These
figures indicate the present state of the
market, but the sales are light and the de-
mand limited
Year: 1875


THE SHOCK xELr IN wAsH1EaroN-THE ACCOM-


PANYING PHENOMENA.


wAsnIycroS Dec % 1878.
Last night the vicinity OF Washington experienced
nrst class earthquake or rather two OF them the
shocks were distinctly felt by those who live in the
qucter portions Of the city where such
OF nature could be distinguished from the rumbng Of
the horse cars, but down Pennsylvania and
street the phenomenon was not observed except in
some few instances where the jar Of the houses
caused the touching OF the electrical bell wires
and led TO mysterious ringing or door
oels the incident being attributed, however, 70 the
passage OF mice tho wires and the closing
Of the electrical circuit by their bodies warm


GUsH
suused the atmosphere about the time the earthquake
felt and dreadful stiffness seemed fall upon the
city, and those who about retiring TO bed almost
fancied that II time and that the Oft
noted calm before heavy storm The shock most
distinctly ielt at Georgetown Heights, and, in less
marked way in South Washington and in the region
northeast or the Patent once Mr. Jessup Blair, who
was crossing Lafayette square, whore the jackson
equestrian statue stands reports feeling the earthquake
quite perceptiby and Mr. Fnrrar who had just on
duty from the desk at Wizards Hotel, saw


METEoRLIKE DEMONSTRATION
OF great size and brancy in the southern sky not far
from the time. IL the hour when the Signal
once most busiy engaged in transating the weather
reports and making the night probabilities, so that
the shock not noticed but Mr. Jennings, OF
the observers, who his way home at midnight,
reports sudden running down OF the thermometer
and sharp


WIND,
both being in strong contrast TO the heat and Stiffness
noticed at the time OF tho shocks Persons In town
who iet the earthquake describe the rocking
and say that caused momentary sensation OF sick
ness nausea


Mr BLAIR is nephew Of Frank Blair. He said TO-
night in talking OF the earthquake, that the lights
along the street danced up and down and that II he
had been a drinking man he would have thought he
inebriatcd. General Ricketts,, whose crockeryware
ratified loudly from the shock, thought there was
burglar in the house and got out OF bed and made
search for


The thermometer in this city to-day reached seventy
AhrAa dnnran
Year: 1875

The following record will show tho changes in tho
temperature for the past twenty -four hours,
parison with the corresponding date of last year.
dicatcd ov the thermometer at Hudnups pharmacy,
HERALD BUILDING
Year: 1875

The object of Senator JONES in run
ming the Santa Monica wharf out to
water of sufficient depth to accommo-
date the largest class of steamers was
probably more comprehensive than
anticipated by many of our citizens at
the time the order was made. 1t is
presumed that much of the richest ore
that will hereafter be taken from the
Panamint, Coso and other mines in
Inyo county can be more protitably
and advantageously reduced by send
ing it to England than by crushing it
at the mills in the vicinity of the
mines. The most direct route over
which this ore can be shipped to Swan
sea is down the coast from this city to
Panama, over the Panama Railroad to
Aspinwall, and thence by way of st.
Thomas to England. Senator JONES
seems to be preparing the route for the
shipment of this ore. He is building
a railroad from the mines to Santa
Monica; at that point he is building a
wharf to water deep enough to float
the Panama steamers, and he has be-
come part owner and President of the
Panama Railroad. Thus he controls
all the railroad over which the ore
from his mines will travel on its way
to the reduction works at Swansea. If
he finds it necessary to his plans to
place his own steamers on the water
portion of the route, he has the means
and nerve to do so. Another and pri-
mary advantage which his control of
the Panama road will give him, is the
rapid transportation of his own SUP
plies and material. While JONES
holds control of the Panama railroad
he is able to WELD powerful influ-
ence against the monopoly of the
freighting business by the overland
railroad and the steamship company,
and he may use his power in the es-
tablishment of an opposition steam
ship line between New York and San
Francisco, which will prove a fortu-
nate turn of the wheel for the people
of the Pacific Coast. One thing is
quite certain-the Senator is expand
ing his plans and giving evidence of
possessing much longer head than
he has been credited with.
Year: 1875

the history of the country, and as un-
accountable as unequaled. Why the
rush commenced is mystery. How
everybody expected to live after they
reached the gold slope, is "a problem
that no one has ever been able to
solve. And yet in the month of March
$500 persons passed Kearney Junction
bound for San Francisco, and of this
number over seven thousand were
persons who had in all probability ex-
pended their last dollar to pay railroad
fare.


Gentlemen who have just returned
from San Francisco Inform us that
the prospect of making a living there
is little less than any other place
they have ever. seen. Hundreds OF
able-bodied men, who had spent their
last dollar for transportation, are beg
ging bread in the streets and sleeping
in barns and out houses. The picture
drawn is distressing in the extreme
and affords an excellent illustration Of
the old saying, All that glitters is not
gold.p


We are informed, also, that numbers
who have tried the golden experiment
daily pass Kearney Junction on their
way East. Most of them are dead
broke" and are aiming to dead beat'
their way home. They say they have
been bitterly deceived, and if they can
reach the " old stamping ground "
again, they won't be very easily in
duced to leave it. a


The golden bubble has about
bursted. s


We can excuse the inelegant pero-
ration, "the golden bubble has about
bursted," but we cannot pass without
comment the infamous lies contained
in the editorial. The editor cannot
account for the rush to California, and
yet he has published day after day
notices of California's contributions
to feed the starving Kansans. Why
the rush commenced is a mystery C)
and it is equally mystery why rats
leave sinking ship, why people leave
tottering houses in an earthquake.
Kansas is starving and California
is feeding her, so it is just as natural
for her people to emigrate as for old
Jacob to send his sons to Egypt for
corn. People go where they can get
money and food, and where they can
live in comfort. Industrious men can
get work anywhere in California. Our
farmers need hands, our contractors
need mechanics and improvements
need capital Capital is welcome,
skilled labor is needed and common la
Dor is well paid. We have room for
all the inhabitants of Kansas in Los
Angeles county, and then we can lay
Kansas across the ends of Los Angeles
and San Diego counties, without
crowding the people. Perhaps the ed
itor of the Monitor can see it in this
light.
Year: 1875

We may in California draw the long
bow occasionally, but still the truth
seems almost incredible. When we
compare our gigantic products with
the pigmy products of the East, their
surprise at our large stories is excusa-
BILE. When they hear of our conquer
ing nature and chaining the noun
tain torrent, so that it becomes the
peaceful irrigating ditch, a smile of
incredulity overspreads the face of the
Eastern tourist. In view of these
facts it may be well to give him the
whole story by degrees. Don't tell him
that an orange orchard in this county
has l00,00 trees, but break it gently
to him that the owner OF small or
chard receives for his annual crop
princely income, without touching it.
Don't mention your grapes by the ton
or your wine by the thousand gallons,
but commence quietly by telling him
that grapes sell at seventy five cents
to one dollar per hundred pounds, and
he will have a realizing sense of their
abundance. The following from the
San Diego World is apropos:


We have heard gentlemen complain
of these things-so much fulsome bra
gadocio, as they called it. There may
be some Justice in the complaints. We
hope not. Still people viii think SO.
Among strangers it has proven to be a
proverd, almost, that Californians
overdraw their statements, and there
are two ways in which we may ex-
plain that matter, In the first place,
it is not good policy to tell the whole
story at once to new corners. Ifyou
say you have pumpkins that will
weigh thirty or forty pounds, that is
as much as their weak stomachs can
stand at time. If you tell them your
pumpkins will weigh seventy or
hundred pounds, they conclude you
are blowing, or have no pumpkins. If
you write back home that team will
move 10000 pounds, they will believe
you have unwittingly added a nought
too much, because they do not do busi-
ness that way back East, and so on ad
intiaitatna. Better go little slow with
them. Give them such doses as
they can take, and, withal, be little
modest even with that. There is too
much "blown in our newspapers, and
occasionally in some of the people.
The State can be better presented by
less of it, and more real facts. But the
thing works both ways like a two
edged sword
Year: 1875

One of the finest improvem ments in
the city will be the rebuilding of the
Lafayette Hotel. The whole of the
back of the house is already being
torn down, and the front will shortly
be built up. The stores will be just
half as large as they are now, and, as
the Important has very large stock
on hand, they will not have half room
enough for their goods and in order to
prevent them from being damaged by
dirt and dust, they have decided to
sell all their Spring goods at less than
cost, and others, such as cottons, table,
linen, etc., at exact cost. We advise
all to call at the Important and con-
vince themselves Of the great bar
gains. Such bargains they can never
get again, and in order to prevent q
great rush, we advise all to call early
and take advantage of.the building of
the Lafayette Hotel. al6
Year: 1875

SANTA BARBARA is promised a
harvest of newspapers. She now has
one daily and two weeklies, and two
more dailies are soon to be started.
One of the new ventures is to be sort
of female organ, and the other an out
and out advocate of Republican prin-
ciples and nominees. The money in.
vested in these two daily papers is
just so much cash thrown away.
Santa Barbara now has two weeklies
and one daily paper. They occupy
the field fully and completely, and


the attempt to make room for more is
simply to import lot of new type
and presses which will ultimately
pass into the hands of JOHNSON, of
the Press, at the price of old material.
Year: 1875

CROP reports from the different
parts of the county are very favorable.
In the vicinity of Anaheim, Orange
and Tustin the grain presents fine
appearance and the crop will be good.
The same report comes from Los Nj
etos and surroundings. In San Jose
valley the wheat and barley has come
out splendidly within the last two
weeks and the prospect for a fair crop
is very good. From San Fernando
valley, where two weeks ago it was
feared nothing would be grown, we
have reports that considerable grain
will he harvested. The cool, cloudy
weather and heavy fogs of the last
fortnight have done wonders for the
San Fernando grain fields. Alto
gether the reports from the farmers OF
this county are good and assure US
that while in other portions of the
State nothing will be harvested, here
the husbandman will reap fair re-
ward for his labor
Year: 1875

THEY do things in manner pecu-
liarly their own up in San Francisco.
For instance, former grand jury
called a number of teachers in the
public schools before it, and from them
learned that the position of teacher
was being sold to the highest bidder
for cash. The grand jury hauled the
Board of Education over the GOALS,
and the Board of Education investi-
gated the matter to the extent of dis
charging the teachers who had given
the information to the grand jury,
thus offering premium to those hav-
ing knowledge of an irregularity to
keep it to themselves. Now comes
another grand jury, and after censur-
ing the action of the Board of Educa-
ton, urges the reinstatement of the
dismissed teachers. Curious people,
those Yerba Buena settlers.
Year: 1875




MARYsvILLE, May 1st.-This after
noon, as a teamster named Thomas
Miller was driving a six-horse team,
loaded with goods for Eureka, Nevada
county, when about three miles from
town, fell from his wagon and was run
over, the wheels passing over the lower
part of his head, killing him instantly.
The team went about a quarter of a
mile further on and was stopped by
running into telegraph pole. An
inquest was held and a verdict of acci-
dental death by being run over was
rendered. Deceased, who was ma
tive of Ireland, aged As years, and an
old resident of this city, leaves a wife
and four children.


A large fire has been raging in a
SouthwesterIy direction from here for
more than an hour, but it is impossi-
bic to tell where or what it is this
evening.
Year: 1875

An important change is about to be made in
the Peoples Palace. The proprietors have
concluded to run it as clothing establish
nnent only, and will therefore sell all dry
goods on hand at cost. They offer Ii yards of
calico for 81; Lonsdale and white rock at u
cents per yard, and all other dry goods in the
same proportion. This is no humbug. All
dry goods must be closed out in 30 days.


apes 2w
Year: 1875

are appearing plentifully and prices are COM
Ing down within the reach OF all.


The wine and liquor trade Is quite prosper
Gus. The prospect of an immense grape crop
and wine product in France l. perhaps not
encouraging to our vinicultnrisis. but The bus
mess of the year will, no doubt, be profitable.
The following are the latest quotations:
Year: 1875

The general trade OF the city has been only mod
crate during tho present week, and prices of some
staples moro especially breaGjuls aud provisions,
arc slightly heavier. S,ill, Intelligent business men
continue to all sides indications Of returning
commercial prosperity. They look hopefully upon
the continued exportation Of American cotton goods


pTintS to England; upon the continued active
movement Of the abundant products of the soil
TO the seaboard. though it is to DO regretted
that the expectation of breadstuils cotton.


&C.. has been somewhat loss active than during last
week. They a healthy hardening in tho rates
for money which they interpret rs indicating re-
turn of business activity and they anticipate greatly
increased railway receipts as the result of tho more
active movement of tho crops and Of recent alleged
agreements among railway magnates to put up tho
tariffs the trunk lines to remunerativo rates
for freight and passengers. which is expected to
show its results more especially after the
close Of water navigation. No doubt the
community have sufficient sense Of JUS
tico aud fairness to be quite willing that
railroad companies should receive for transportation
such rates will afford fair returns for the actual
outlay on the part Of the corporations; but it would
DO a mistake ON the part Of our trunk railways
70 put up rates unreasonaby after the public can no
longer use the water courses for their traffic. And
We Judge by the schedule JUS ad ,pssd freight to
Year: 1875

The recent revelations concerning
deed forgeries at criminal trial at
Chicago, remind me of an incident that
occurred few years ago. in the vicin-
ity of St. Louis, which seems to me to
be worth relating. &


Clara and Mary Merwin, sisters and
orphans, were in the sitting room Of
their pleasant home on The edge Of q
village near. the Missouri. Their
mother had been dead several years
their father had lately died, leaving
them an estate. as they supposed, of the
value Of some forty thousand dollars,
but they had learned quite recently that
the property was encountered to such
an extent that they we're likely to be
deprived Of it all. This discovery, as
it may be supposed, filed them with
sadness and anxiety, and they were
seated in silence, unable to read, to
converse. to work, to Go anything but
brood over their great misfortune.
e While they we're thus occupied, with
sombre thoughts, buggy drove up in
front Of the house, man alighted, and
the buggy drove away.


The man must have been on the
shady side Of fifty to judge from his
grey hairs, although his face was fresh
and unwrinkled. he was dressed With
remarkable neatness and his manners
indicated briskness as well as precision.
In one hand be carried small valise,
and in the .other an umbrella, as be
stepped quickly to the door and rang
the bell. In a few minutes he was
ushered into the presence of the young
ladies.


I'm obliged to introduce myself he
said, smiling and bowing in country
manner-'Abner Pierce. Here is my
card-professional card. You will per-
ceive I am lawyer in St. Louis, and
presumably a respectable man. Don't
be afraid l am not here to hurt you,
but to help you. | have the honor to
call myself friend Of your family
that is to say, although it is many
years since I have seen any member Of
said family. ! always had the highest
possible regard for your now sainted
mother, and nothing would please me
better than to be of some service to her
children


We are happy to meet you,' mur-
INJURED Clara.


Thank you. l happened to hear
no matter how-that you are in trou-
BILE, and have come up here in the be-
lief that I can assist you. I hope you
will feel that you can trust me. I am
actually an honest man. although q
lawyer. and I mean well, although I
may express myself clumsily.'


I am free to admit. said Clara, that
we need assistance and advice, and that
we have not known to whom to look for
it,


Very we'll. It is a good thing, no
doubt. that / have come. Now, sit
down. and tell me all about it,


Clara Merwin, who was the elder Of
Year: 1875

Over the choicest portion OF their table lands
and purchasers will have the right 70 water
without charge. Such an opportunity to ss-
cure land admirably situated and watered
and perfectly adapted to semi-tropical fruit
culture, will not occur again.
Year: 1875

GERMAN GY1INAsTIC DRILL.-In pri-
vate letter TO a gentleman in New York,
the contents of which are furnished TO the
Cincinnati Gazette by a correspondent, the
secret of the success attending the German
arms in recent struggles is partially unfold
ed by a description Of the drill under
which the soldiers have TO pass. The writ
er witnessed some portions of it while
strolling near the barracks outside of
Madgeburg. For raw recruits lot Of gun
boxes were piled up to a height of four or
five feet, and over these the men were re-
quired to make handsprings, each one on
failure being required to try it again and
again until successful. Another squad was
practicing a leap over a four foot high pile,
touching only with the right hand. 9th
ers were springing with the help of the len
hand only, and others still without touch
ing either hand. At one side of the drill
ground were horizontal bars, aud other ap-
pliances of the gymnasium, at all of which
squads were at exercise, every squad be-
ing under the supervision of an officer.
In another place was a wall breast high,
over which soldiers in full marching order
with muskets aud knapsaeks were leaping,
with only the assistance of their left hands.
With bayonets fixed they marched to the
front of the wall, and halted at the word of
command. Then, at another order, each
man rested his left hand ON the wall, and
at another be leaped over, without tonch-
ing feet or hitting the butt of his musket
against the stone. Several times they did
thus, and then from a distance of twelve or
fifteen yards went over it at run in the
same way, by the use of only the leit hand.
Such exercise as this gives a man must
necessarily make him in measure insens-
ible to the ordinary fatigue of an active
campaign, and has also the double effect
Of keeping the man under strict discipline
while improving their physique.
Year: 1875

CoUaHINd.-The best method Of easing
a cough is to resist 1t with all the force OF
will possible, until the accumulation OF
phlegm becomes greater; then there is
something to cough against, and II comes
up very much easier and with half the
coughing. A great deal of hacking, and
hemming, and coughing in invalids is
purely nervous, or the result Of mere hab-
it, as shown by the frequency with which
1t occurs while thepatient isthiAking about
it, and its comparative rarity when he is so
much engaged that there is no time to
think, or when the attention is impelled in
another direction.
Year: 1875

Have HHOPe.
The following lines are respectfully inscribed
Mrs. Dana Warren on the death Of her husband
which occurred March IS, 1875:
You are not far from him you love;
Death is a narrow river;
One signal from the land above,
And We are DER forever.
And soon the living and the dead
Across the stream shall meet;
For life goes on with hurried tread,
And time has no retreat
But you are not alone dear friend;
Your husbaLd gone before
Is waiting in that better land
Till you shall leave the shore.
Then with a steady eye look up,
Nor from the prospect start;
Let courage, trust and lively hore
Live in your lonely heart
For those across me swelling stream
No look Of sadness wear;
No cloudy day, no troubling dream,
No lonely parting there.
Then for your dead let smiles, not tears,
And words Of faith be giveu
Far from your soul let doubts and fears
And vain regrets be driven.
Oh strive to bear this chastening rod,
with heart and hope above,
Until your summons comes from God
To meet the one you love. H.