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Year: 1875

THE prospect of volcanic eruptions
in the west seems to be good, if the,
opinion of the geologists of Wheelers
expedition is correct. In the past they
have occurred so recently that it is in.
deed surprising that there is no human
record of them, and cruptions may
take place at any time in the future.
In Southern Utah, they ascertained
that there are connected floods of lava
covering an area Of five thousand
square miles, while in Arizona and
New Mexico there is an area of not
less than twenty thousand square
miles, and never before recognized as.
connected belt.
Year: 1875

about half after 4 in the afternoon OF


Thanksgiving day It was now more
than fourteen hours since they had
left the ranch on the timber line. Du-
ring this time they had ascended over
5000 feet to the summit, and then de-
Year: 1875

WASHINGTON, Dec %, 1875


report from Chicago that the government had pre-
pared plan under which all the indicted whskey men
were promised immunity from criminal prosecution If
they would States evidence pronounced untrue
by Secretary Brstow, who says explicitly that
arrangement has been made nor will II be made but
that the work of prosecution will be carried at
Chicago by the District Attorney and his associates
who are able and trustworthy men, according to
their plans All reports that any one
here is going to interfere to protect any indicted
in ST. Louis Chicago false, and probably put
forward by friends Of the guilty persons TO encourage
these In holding out There Is doubt that the
prosecuting officers in both cities have been embar
rassed by such reports which prevented persons
from communicating what they knew To the law officers
and strengthened the resistance Of the members OF the
ring. These hold tenacously to hope that help may
to them yet and that they will be able TO break
down the force OF the governments efforts against
them; but this hope is fallacious
Year: 1875

ganization is known to be political and secret
in its character. q Its members use their army
record for selfish political purposes. Tho
true soldiers of the North and South have
forgotten everything of the past except its
glory, and they think only of their opponents
as chivalrous and brave men. We never
hear of this Grand Army of the Republic ex-
cept when it makes the mischief that is talk
ing place in Illinois The business of its
leaders seems to be to fan the expiring flame
of civil wrath and diligently seek offices. An
act like this in Illinois, this rejection of the
kindness and courtesy of Mr.. Davis, will do
more toward exasperating the South and in
tensfying the bitterness of feeling which it
has long been the aim of patriotic men, with
out distinction of section or party, to extin-
guish than anything that has occurred for a
long time There is not true Southern man
who took part in the Confederacy who will
not feel that he cannot be welcome in any
community which renounces the President
of his Confederacy as an ''archtraitor and
coward.
Year: 1875

the Middle Ages have nothing so pa
thetic as the captivity of Thusnelda.
| No Roman matron, not even Calpurnia or
! Octavia, could have brought greater honor to


her husband than this captive German wife
/ conferred on Armin after her fathers treach-


cry compelled her to grace the triumph of
Germanicus. In poetry as well as in patriot
ism the story of hero and heroine is alike
satisfactory. Any nation situated as Ger
many is to-day would have seized upon it
with avidity and held it up to the world in
all the prisnatic colors of national vanity
and exultation. This is what Germany did on
the Grotenburg yesterday, and of all peoples
in the world we at this moment can best un-
derstand the feelings of pride and gladness
which entered into this German celebration.
No nation could have taken q wilder delight
in great opportunity than we took in Con-
cord and Lexington and Mecklenburg and
Bunker Hill; and so we can almost join in
tho song of thanksgiving which echoed
through the Teutoburger- Wald yesterday as
it was heard eighteen hundred and sixty-six
years ago. The cable brings us full report
this morning of the ceremonies and rejoic-
ings, and we read the story as one full of
gladness and delight. A whole people took
part in the pageantry. 1t was grand and
imposing spectacle, fully warranted by the
time and the occasion. The best soldiery
in Europe contributed to do honor to
the first German victory, and these
soldiers, like the auxiliaries of Arminius,
were also Germans. 1t was the homage of
the present to the past and the future-a
great nation bowing reverently to the ideal
of its own greatness. The Hermann monu-
ment is testimony to an event in German
history as marked as anything in the story of
any modern nation but the procession of
princes and peasants which gathered round
it is full of deeper meaning than the ideal
statue, which has significance only because it
represents the one great fact of German
unity. In view of the importance of the
event ITSELF and the greater importance ofits
tendencies, we have surrendered much of our
space both yesterday and to-day to the ac-
count of the festivities near that out of the
way German town, brought near to us by the
telegraph and the common instincts and aspi-
rations of humanity. If personal liberty and
universal toleration come with unity, all the
world will share in its blessings, and the cele-
bration of yesterday cannot fail to he great
impulse toward the love of freedom as well
as the love of country.
Year: 1875

THE COLLISION ON THE BAY.--Is there no
law that forbids racing Of steamboats, on the
Bay, or is there NO authority to enforce such
law2 On Sunday the pilot of tho North
field, boat engaged on the Staten Island
ferry, went mile out of his proper course to
race with another steamer, and his reckless
ness and contempt for authority resulted in
q collision which injured one man and has
probably caused tho death Of another. Re
suits, however, can do more than nggravate
the original crime. The pilot who was
guilty Of this outrage on the public should
DE dismissed by the company and then pun
ished by the law. Let the Staten Island
Ferry Company remember the Indignation
which the explosion of the boiler of the
westGeld created, and trlGe no longer with
the safety of the public.
Year: 1875

The second and third reports Of the Canal
Commission are presented to the public to-
day, and the facts which Messrs. Bigelow,
Magone, Orr and Van Buren affirm fully
justify all that Governor Tilden has lately
said of the corruptions in the canal admin.
istration and the necessity of reform. Tho
Denison contract is the special subject of tho
second report, and is based upon the testi-
mony of Mr.. Horatio Seymour DR.,
who examined the work and found
that it was worthless, and upon the
admissions of Mr. Scott, which prove that
the charges made by the contractor were
fraudulent. False estimates, false measure
ments, false charges for material, seem to
have been the rule under the contract with
Denison. This person. against whom tho
Attoriey General is instructed to bring an
action, has applied to the Canal Board to
cancel his contract, on the ground that
there is no available appropriation
to pay him, and that the remaining
work can only be done as extra work.
Yet the report shows that his bill
against the State amounts to fifty thousand
seven hundred dollars, under a contract
which only provided for an expenditure of
ten thousand six hundred and seventeen
dollars. When the character Of his work is
considered the Commissioners may well refer
to the effrontery of his application, and add
that the reasons he assigns for requesting the
cancellation of his contract are, if possible,
more fictitious than his estimates. The
true reason, they say, is that he is at last
required to give the State an equivalent
for what he has received from it,
and that further depredations have been
made impossible. The third report refers to
the contracts of John Brown, and shows an
equally bad condition of affairs. The Com
missioners are right when they affirm that
''it is difficult to regard this pretended i'm
provement from any point of view as other
than profigate waste of the public. money
in the interest of knot of land spectators
and lawless canal officers and contractors"
and the public will support Governor Tilden
in his effort to punish the robbers of the
State treasury and enforce reform, irrespec-
tive of persons or parties.
Year: 1875

The YACHT RACE YESTERDAY. was
too much rain and too little wind yesterday to
make the race of the New York Yacht squadron
q perfect success, but the club made the most
of its opportunity. The prizes offered were
won by the shooners Rambler and Restless
and the sloops Vision and Genia. The Idler
was unfortunately becalmed at a critical
point, and thus lost all the advantages she
had gained in position.
Year: 1875

THE FLOODS August this year is remark
eble for the rainfall in this part of the coun-
try, which already exceeds by far the usual
average for the whole month. The storms of
last week caused floods in New York and
New Jersey, the damages to which are de-
scribed in our letter from Piermont The
destruction to property has been great.
Year: 1875

factory OF his executions. They we're
both heavy men, and each fell without a
muscle quivering. The best Manila
hemp, he said, formed the rope he used,
and in one end of it he had inserted an


iron ring, so that the moose might slip
freely when the body fell His sole OBJ
ject YVES dispatch, and it was always his
aim to snap the spinal cord. By the
improved system which he haG intro
duced, all from the pointing to the final
cast of, could be accomplished in less
than three minutes. he never spoke to
the condemned, nor did he ever shake
hands with them, unless they wished,
because he considered shaking hands
brought on weakness. He did every
thing manly. straight and firm; stir
about it." 1t was a good fall" he con-
sidered, when the moose was drawn so
tight that the neck was compressed
three or four inches. Death was thep
instantaneous.
Year: 1875

There is no paper to periorate, no
" click of the srmature, no armature
TO click" The message is read by
means of a. moving fash Of light upon
a polished scale produced by the "dehec-
ton" of very small mirror, which is
placed within a mirror galyanometer, y
which is small brass cylinder two or
three inches in diameter, shaped like q
spool or hdhhin, composed Of several
hundred turns OF small wire wound with
silk. to prevent the metal from coming in
contact. IL is wound or coiled exactly
like a coil Of new rope, a small hole
being left in the middle about the size oil
a common wooden pencil In the center
OF this is suspended a very thin, delicate
mirror, about as large as kernel OF
corn, with corresponding small magnet
rigidly attached to the back of it,


The whole weighs but little more than a
grain, and is suspended by a single FIBER
Of silk, much smaller than q human hair
and almost invisible A narrow hori.
zontsl scala is placed within dsrkened
box two or three feet in front Of the mil.
ror, narrow slit being cut in the center
Of the scale to allow ray Of light to
Year: 1875

shine upon the mirror from lamp placed
behind said scale, the little mirror in
turn rejecting the light back upon the
scale. This spot Of light upon the scale
is the index by which all messages are
read. The angle through which the ray
moves is double that trayersed by the
mirror itself; and it is, therefore, really
equivalent to an index four to six feet in
length without weight.


To the casual observer there is nothing
but a thin ray OF light, darling to the
right and left with Irregular rapidity;
but to tho trained eye OF the operator
every flash is replete with intelligence.
Thus the word boy" would be read in
this way: One fash to the right and
three to the left is B. Three flashes to
the right is 0. One to the right, one TO
the left, and two more TO the right is Y,
and SO on. Long and constant practice
makes the operators wonderfully expert
in their profession, and enables them to
read from the mirror as readily and as
accurately as from newspaper.
Year: 1875

A RESPECTABLE MAN AND WIFE WISH sITUA-
n tons in the country the man coachman and veget
able gardener the vile cook wash and iron woud
take OF gentemans place for the winter good refer
Call. for two days at l35 Cedar ST.
Year: 1875

@~S A4FAVAAVH At REGlHeEn0Aeu'


The tenor Of our dispatches this morn
ing indicates that the explosion Of dyna-
mite which occurred on the quay at
Bremerhofen, causing the death Of fifty or
sixty persons and the mangling Of some
forty others, besides doing considerable
damage to the ship Mosel, was the pre-
mature development Of plot which none
but a liend could entertain. 1t Is
thought the terrible explosive was being
taken on board the ship with the deliber-
ate design Of blowing the vessel with It's
freigh tOf human life to atoms in mid
ocean. What cOntrivanCe may have
been arranged in the box in which
the terrible explosive was conceal
ed for the accomplishment of the
horrid design, will probably never
be known, Had what is thought to have
been plot, which makes one shudder to
contemplate, been successfully carried
out, one more ship would have been
added to the long list Of those that have
gone down in the mighty waters, leaving
not even a wreck to indicate the manner
Of their fate, He'll haS no fend with
which the author Of such a plot could Re
compared, and the ingenuity OF man has
never invented u cruelty adequate to the
punishment Of such crime. 1t ia to be
hoped that, II the theory entertained Is
we'll founded, the German authorities
will leave nothing undone to ferret out
the author Of the plot.
Year: 1875

ANOTHER Smith In the Interior De.
pattmentl Secretary Chandler hunted
hiSh and low for an Indian Commissioner
but had no success until he struck the
Smith family. There we're three Smiths
engaged In The noble work Of elevating
the red man 10 the delights Of civilization
before this new member Of the family
was discovered. What would become ol
The Indians we're there no Smiths From
The time Of that little affair between Pc.
cahontaS and Captain John, the inhumer.
able descendants Of those two immortals
have stood by each other like brothers,
NJ Y Tribune.
Year: 1875

man and his wife, seeking to break
themselves Of habit of fretsipg and scold-
ing, entered into an agreement of this ma
ture; the one who first lost temper with
the other or with the childrenj ~as to be
published by the other as ''scold" The
medium through which this humiliating in
telligence was to be communicated to the
world was not specified in the Contract, but
the husband understood that i. was to be
through the Brtms,..icker. The wife near.
y bit the end Of her tongue off in the first
days trial, swapping up the harsh words
which tried to escape her lips. But both
were dismally peaceful until the afternoon
of the second day; when the husband flew
into passion simply because one of the
children polished his stocking foot with a
Hacking brush while. he was taking his
usual nap. AT the first burst Of anger his
wife quickly arose and PUT on her bonner.


"Where are you going?" he inquired
suspiciously.


"To publish you she replied.


ooh, well, 60 ahead; the boys the
office wont give much of blast"


"But I'm not going to the printing Of
fee"


"Where, ;hen?" he asked in surprise.


"To the sewing society,"


That brought him to terms, and long and
earnestly he begged her not to make bis
weakness known throughout the length and
breadth of the land. Finally, in considera-
ton of new silk dress, by him to be de-
livered, she agreed to let him off. But it
"as a narrow escape.--By1mspicter.
Year: 1875

THE "cheekiest' performance on the
part of tramp yet heard Of is reported
from Hartford, Conn, where three OF
that fraternity called at house the
other day armed with a raw shad, which
they said they had just caught, and beg
ced leave to cook it over the kitchen fire
The lady of the house, glad to encourage
their unusual industry in catching the
fish, let them use the fire, after which
they made hearty meal and departed.
When the lady was about to prepare hen
own dinner and went for shad which
she had laid away in ceol place she
found it not-the tramps had stolen it


and without suspicion she had let then
cook it before her very eyes.
Year: 1875

The Danbury Ners tells o story about
woman in that town who sent to the
grocer's for half a peck of tuhers. The
grocer thought that she must have meant
tuberoses and sent tie boy to the seeds
man, who filed the order, and waxed
savage when the woman explained that
she wanted potatoes. The woman was a
Boston woman who had married Danbury
mans
Year: 1875

this hOrrid complaint can be cured?
At this season of the year, when
people, by undue exposure and the
sudden changes in the weather,
are liable to catch cold, we advise
them to carry in the pocket a box
of
Year: 1875

WE would respectfully call the at
tention of the Board Of Supervisors to
the condition of the Telegraph Stage
road. 1t is in a bad condition in many
places, which could easily be repaired.
The Stage Company are delivering our
mails some eight Or ten hours ahead
ofschedule time, and it seems utjust
that in consideration of this fact, the
county should keep the road in good
travelling condition. In the vicinity
of Elizabeth Lake, the road descends
hill along ridge which is so steep
on either side as to, render it danger
Gus to travellers. At a small outlay of
money, the route could be changed SO
that the road would run down gulch,
rendering it much easier and safer. 1t
would pay the Board of Supervisors
to pass over that portion of the Tele-
graph road, which is in this county.
Year: 1875

= So -,


ONE of the. editors of the Cypress
has interviewed Senator JONES in San
Francisco, and sent the result to his
paper here. 1t was generally supposed
the gentleman went up to the city for
the purpose of seeing the Senator, and
the published interview would seem
to confirm the correctness of the sup
position. According to the combined
effort of the editor and the Senator,
everything is rose colored, and the
coming city',scheme is bound to be-
come a great success. If people can
only be induced to buy lots to which
the title is disputed, and If they will
only plant and then discover a
successful method of growing trees on
land where there is not and probably
never will be drop of water, the
"coming city" will soon become an
arcadia, avalambrosia, an earthl ly
paradise. ~ eaA
Year: 1875

- The discovery that cloud hangs
over the title of the San Vicente or
Santa Monica ranch, will, we appre-
hend, somewhat affect the approach
ing sale of lots In the 'Coming City"
Bona fide purchasers do not, as q gen.
eral thing, care to invest their money
in real estate to which they cannot
obtain clear title. We are reliably
informed that investigationsofSthe old
records shows not only a defective
title to the San Vicente ranch, but also
that the original grant was much
smaller than is now claimed by its
owners. The case will undoubtedly
go into the Courts, and months, and
perhaps years, of litigation will inter-
yene between now and the final settle
ment Of title. Meantime, those who
purchase lots or plots at the sale
which takes place during this month,
will hardly be justified in making per-
manent Improvements on property
which a decision Of the courts may
award to other claimants. We give
this warning in order that those who
contemplate purchasing lots in Santa
Monica may do so advisedly and with
full knowledge OF the litigation an
noyances to which they will undoubt-
edly be subjected In the future. 1t
will also be well to remember tnat the
promise to warrant and defend by
by those who offer the property for
sale can only be valuable in the event
of the present owners CHANGING to be
worth the money when the damage is
sustaineo.sUs 4as siissueH sstasss
Year: 1875

The selection of a Congressional can
didate for this district by the Demo-
cratic Convention isdecidedly unpop-


alar In this porsson of the State, and
will, no doubt, to a certain extent,
affect the vote ON the whole ticket.
We regret that this is SO, and we trust
that between now and tho election
Democratic voters may realize the
Importance of giving to the nominee
of their. Conventiona full and hearty
support. Mr.. WIaGINGToN is tai
ented and energetic young man. His
talking qualities are far above the av-
erage, and he promises to make an
effective campaign. He is lawyer of
large practice and in his home, in
Merced county, commands the respect
ofall who know him. AL that can be
urged against him is that, being q
nonresident of Southern California
and totally unacquainted with our
wants and resources, he will not be
able to secure such legislation as re-
quired. The Southern counties of the
district comprise by far the most i'm
portant part of the State which Mr..
WIaeINGToN, if elected. will repre-
sent at the National Capital; yet he is
stranger to these counties and his
name is unknown to our people. He
may, however, and If he is wise he
will, inform himself as to the require
ments of this part of his district. > He
should spend several weeks of the
campaign in this, San Diego and San
Bernardino counties, talking with the
people and studying the country. We
hope to see him among US at an early
day.
Year: 1875

One of those political contradictions
which come to the surface in almost
every campaign, Is outlined by the
Call and Chronicle. The Call affects
to hate railroads and railroad compa-
niles, as his satanic majesty does holy
water, and it devotes column after
column to denouncing the Chronicle
as a railroad hireling, yet both papers
are supporting the same ticket. Queer,
is it not?
Year: 1875

THE Santa Monica organ in this city
asserts that those who buy lots in the
coming city will make agood invest
ment. How about the titleP The
Devil once took Christ upon hill and
offered to give him all the land in
sight, but he didn't own foot of it.
Year: 1875

The Times OF tomorrow publishes the
following: 4 Times reporter ascer-
tanned tonight, from the most reliable
authority, that the next movement on
the part OF Tilton will be to indict Gen
eral Tracy for perjury on the grounds
that TltOn, MoultOn and Woodruff dis
tinctly said TO him that the charge
reference to improper proposals only.
by counsel who have had nothing to do
proceedings will be taken in this matter
without delay"
Year: 1875

tending norfherly from los Angeles city, and
rs early as the obstacles to be overcome and
,the means and facilities of the company will
allow, but I'm not exceeding five years from
such encouragement.


This contract requires that the road
shall be completed within five years
from its date or within three years
from the present time, yet the COM
pany is now asking Congress to ig-
more this contract and extend the time
Of completing the road to 1SS5-seven
years beyond the time agreed upon
and ten years from this date. The
same contract binds the company to
run the main line of the Southern Pa
cific Road through This city, yet if we
can understand Mr.. HoUGHToN'S bill
it asks Congress to break this. bond
and permit them to run the main line
of the road through Cajon Pass. In
the light of the past and from the in
dications of the presentwe do not think
the Chamber of Commerce have gone
off "half cooked and we do think
the people have cause to suspect the
railroad company Of bad faith,
Year: 1875

WASHINGTON, January 23d. There
seems to be serious doubt about the
admission of Pinchback to the Senate
He is earnestly opposed ON the ground
that the President will consider it y
recognition of the Kellogg Govern
ment.


The caucus propositions are square
recognition of Kellogg or q new elec-
ton. Men from Louisiana desire a
Provisional Government until things
are settled.


HousE.-The Committee on Pacific
Railways have not yet agreed on re-
port concerning the Texas Pacific bill.
Both the Texas Pacific and Southern
Pacific have forces i'm the field manmu-
vering for position. The House sub
Committees delay in acting was
caused mainly by the absence OF Bar
mum of Connecticut, and desire to
see what the Senate will do.