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Year: 1875

IT seems to be almost certain now
that the Southern Pacific Railroad
Company have resolved to close the
gap between Bakersfield and San Fer
nando as soon as men and money will
do the work. 1t is authOritatively
stated that corps of engineers are
now EN- route to definitely locate the
line of the tunnel through the San
Fernando mountain. This tunnel is
work of some magnitude, being, as we
understand, nearly or quite one mile
in length. To finish it within the
time named-eighteen months-will
require all the force that can be used
to advantage at either end, day and
night. Of course the character of the
hill to be tunneled is not definitely
known, but the examinations made
indicate that the rock is of a nature
admitting of rapid and comparatively
easy work. The track will be COM
pleted up to the base of the hill on
either side long before the tunnel is
completed On this side little more
than mile will reach the hill, and the
hundred miles or so of track between
Tehachape Pass and the tunnel will
be pushed forward with all the haste
possible under the circumstances. 1t
is gratifying to the people of this val
ley to see this manifestation of energy
and dispatch on the part of the COM
pany. The little speck of ill feeling
growing out of the attempt to change
the route of the main line and delay
for long period the opening of rail-
road communication between this city
and San Francisco, will be forgotten
and forgiven and good faith and har-
monious feeling soon be re-established
between the people and the company
if the managers will redeem the prom
ises indicated by the energy now dis
played.
Year: 1875

THE New York Herald desires that
President GRANT shall vacate the
White House, and enquiries, viii his
Excellency resign? The question
might be invested with more royal
significance by putting it thus: Will
his Majesty abdicate?
Year: 1875

According to the Oroville Mercury,
Surveyor Edmunds has been at work
for some time making a survey of q
route by which the waters of Feather
river can be brought to the bluff above
Oroville. Commencing at a point
some seven miles up the river, at the
confluence of the North and Middle
forks, it was found that canal or
large ditch could be made without
encountering any serious obstacles,
that would have fall of some seventy
feet.
Year: 1875

Moore's Restaurant, on Commercial street,
is the proper place to go for good meal, with
a good cup of coffee or tea to drink with it,
There is probably no restaurant on the Pacific
coast where so many of the substantials and
so many of the luxuries may be had for % cs.
Don't forget the place-Moore's Restaurant,
Commercial street. Private eating rooms have
been neatly fitted up for the accommodation
of ladies. i5-tf
Year: 1875

na- The tide of immigration is steadily set
ting in, and the first thing eastern people do
Is to throwaway their New York Hats and buy
a new one of DESMOND. They say there is no
comparison between the two. 2Lo
Year: 1875

Los Angeles, situated in the county of that
name in Southern California, is said 10 be the
most beautiful small city in the world 1t is
back twelve miles from the Pacific Coast, and
the land between is owned by the Centinela
Land Company, and said to be very fertile.
And here we will make a suggestion TO the
Los Angeles HERALD: A grand boulevard
extending straight from the city to the sea-
board and wide enough to admit of two rows
of shade trees on each side, would, in time, il
kept under improvement, become one of the
most delightful drives in the world. If such a
project is practicable, the lands on either side
OF the boulevard, for genteel and attractive
farm residences, ought to become very valu-
able.-W Winfield Kansas Ploao and A1atH.


If our Kansas friend could glance at
the map of the Centinela Company he
would see that his suggestion is not
new. The day is not distant when not
one but several tree shaded avenues will
extend from this city to the sea. They
will be traversed by hourly trains of
passenger cars and lined on either side
with orange groves, garden homes and
palatial residences. We are only Just
beginning the beautiful improvements
that are to make this valley the Italy
of the Pacific Coast.
Year: 1875

In view of the fact that the South
ern coast counties have long been ig-
nored by many of the leading papers
of the middle portion of the State, and
that their great wealth and import
ance cannot now obtain recognition
through those columns, the following
editorial paragraph from the Cali is
Year: 1875

HOLIDAY PREsENTs. If you wish to
make handsome present to friend
during the holidays, go to the SO cent
store, Eighth and Market streets, where
you will find large assortment of
beautiful ard useful articles, from
which to make a selection. All are
invited to call and examine the large
display of goods, many of which were
made expressly for holiday presents,
now on exhibition at this store.
Year: 1875

Il becomes each and every citizen TO stoT
and carefully consider his duty in he pres.
eut emergency as 70 'he building Of the rail
road from tle river to this city. No man
doubts that by the building Of this road the
value Of LIs property will lie increased at
least - per cent both in city and county.
Freish.s may then be shipped hence to the
sea at n low rates as from the States west OF
the Mississippi River. and our farmers be
thus placed upon an equality as TO transPor-
tatjou with those Ut Central Missouri and
Iowa This bains the cass our whole people
would Of necessity be made prosperous With
this road, We have an outlet 10 the sea. With
out It, all IL gloom. 1t IS the duty OF each
OF our citizens to aid i'll every manner in his
power any PROJECT that will IN any way tc2d
to the benefit OF the city in which he reside
He should identify himself with the city anI
It's interests Now the fact Of q railroll be-
Ing built ilom the river here all mus. admit
Will be of much benefit to the town. That
We caa raise the necessary sum TO secure i,
il every one does his duty, there cen b; no
doubt. W. must then reach the conclusion
that if We can secure this road and fail to do
it, that It is on account OF neglect of duty
Un our part. Many Of our citiz.us have a.
ready subscribed mos; literally il AID of the
road but there are MANY, PRISONS with u.
and doing business IA the city, who are not
only aJIe 70 assist IN this matter, but have
real estate here which viii be advanced in
value By reason of the construction ot this
road, HhO refuse 10 con 'rioG'e 10 aid thereof
Men who TINS act plica themselves in an-ag-
oni-m with our city and It's Interests aud can
scarcely eialm The patronage Of oar people.
II may well Or sad of all such" y knew
YOUR duty, bat ye dId 1t not. -
Year: 1875

General Hawley made 8 speech the
other night at Hartford, which will
probably be fully approved by all the
intelligent men OF his district. He
touched upon nearly all the questions
of the day in a brief but frank and
straightforward manner, and, among
other things, be did not hesitate 20
approach the 'thIrd-term" bug-bear.
What he said on that subject Is worth
the attention of cur readers


'fThe third term suppose it Is ex-
peeted I shall say something about. l
regard it as q sensation originally got
% by the New YORK Herald to bother
the Republican party. Grant and the
Cabinet probably looked upon it in
that way. Considering that it WAS
only an effort to tease him, the
President shut his mouth-and
be is an obstinate man. III he
has finally, however, by injudi-
cious advice, been led to indulge the
hope OF a nomination-why, it is one
of the most hopeless OF all things, il
for no other reason than that he
would assuredly be defeated. It IS as
fully mbedded in the minds of the
people as If it were written in the
Constitution that no man shall serve
more than two terms. Applause.
II is useless TO talk sbOutit. Icertain-
IL should be opposed to the nomina'
ton of any candidate for q third term
under any circumstances. Applause.
Even in q case of q war it would bt
better for Grant to be in the field than
in the Presidency
Year: 1875




The Chicago Tribune exchanges
with nearly every Republican paper
in the United States of any note, and,
with the exception Of q small organ
of cheap Office-holders and beggars
around Washington, there il not one
Republican paper which favors
third term. Even those papers
which are edited and controlled by
Fostmasters dare not offend the uni
versal sentiment among Republicans
by advocating, even Indirectly a
third term.


Under these circumstances OF the
origin Of the'story, its use by the DEM
ocrats to prejudice the country
against the President and the Repub-
liean party, the signal failure of all
those who have attempted third
term party, Is it not time that the
whole nonsensieal business was
buried, and the Republican party re-
lieved Of all thought Of any further
discussion on the question |? As well
attempt to repel an accusation of a
purpose to establish q monarchy, as
to deny the shsdowy imputatiOn OF
favoring a third term the one propO-
sitiOn has about as much foundation
in truth as the Chicago 1rib-
uHe.
Year: 1875

Hyou have ever passed the desert-
ed graveyard on Russell street, near
the House OF Correction you know
that there Is not . more lonely spot
in DstrOit- 1t Is = score OF years since
any one wss buried there. The fences
lean in or out; the few trees are rag
I ged 10 iimb and trunk; the weather.
beaten headstonss lean this way or
thst, or have fallen down. The rich
and the poor who sleep under the rag
sed so-i have been dust for yesrs, and
u any Of them left friends behind they
are scattered now, and are not here to
tili ~ tue sunken graves and plant q
flower to take the gloom away.


The other day people saw an old
womsn wandering through the grave
yard, brushing the moss from some
of the headstones to look at the letters
and Studying long over the quaint
characters carved into others. By and
by she crossed the street, sat down on
the steps Of q cottage, and when peo-
pie saw how old and feeble she was,
aud that her eyes were full OF tears,
they pitied her. She could not an
swer at 1rst, but by and by she told
them that she had come hundreds of
miles TO take last look at a grave
which she could not find. Halt q GEN.
tury ago she buried child there, and
all through the uong years, though
moving here and there, her mothers
heart had not forgotten the dead.
Old now, her steps feeble and her
locks gray, and feeling that she had
but little longer 70 remain on earth,
she had come clear across the State
alone to nave q last look at the little
grave. Years had gone Oy, bat she
thought she could walk right to the
spot, and there was half hope In her
heart that straugers' hsnds might
have kept the head-stous white and
the grave as when she last saw it.
She fOucd the old yard cut up by
streets, the city all around and bayond,
and OF the hundreds OF mounds and
headst0nes which she once saw bat q
score or 50 were left. She sought
among the leaning headstones, and
she stood under the dying willows and
searched the field for the small stone
which bore the words lads


"Our WillIe,p but the fight Of time
and the hand Of progress were more
powerful than mothers love Fifty
years since the little dead body was
lowered into its grave Half = CEN
tury since the headstone was placed
to mark the spot And yet her
mothers heart brought her back In her
cid age, with the hope that her tears
might fail npOn the little grave, OBJ
liberated and passed from sight for
ever. "


1t was sad enough to see tears fall
ling down her wrlnkied cheeks, and
to know that her old heart was aching
with disappointment, and men spoke
kline words to her, and women wiped
their eyes in sympathy. LOOAing
through her tears at the bleak and
lonely field, its loneliness relieved and
yet made more lonely by the time
worn headstOne and the elumrs Of
briars, no wonder that the poor old
woman felt in her heart, and bad to
sob out :


''I'm afraid I can't find him IN
Heaven-Heaven's so large % De
troH Free Press. .'I 10 =,
Year: 1875

MEMPHIS, December T.- Early last
Friday morning the steamboat Mary
Miller, from New Orleans for Cincinnati,
when about forty miles below NepOleon
was struck bYa sQuall in trying 10 land
and was driven against the bank breaking
her stem and causing her to ship about
three feet Of water. Some bales OF rags
were thrown over board, and the pumps
set to work, and tarpaulin slipped under
the bow, and the boat was saved with
only couple Of hogsheads Of sugar and
u few barrels OF rice In the hold damaged.
The steamboat Illinois in passing was
hailed and took off the deck load.


On the arrival Of the steamer Mary
Miller here she was attached on n claim
Of $50, 1000 for salvage, made by the OIL
GERS Of the Illinois, but this attachment
was withdrawn this afternoon and the
matter will doubtless be compromised. A
protest was entered here by the conf
mander Of the Miller.


RECOVERING.


Wiley Galloway, who was injured on
Saturday by the explosion OF toy can
non, Is In fair way to recover


STRUCK ny LIGHTNING.


During severe thunder storm yester-
day the house Of Joe Vincent, ColOrcd,
on South street, was struck by lightning,
and both he and his wife are still In n
critical condition.
Year: 1875

The New York Herald ssys.--The object
Of this extraordinary measure is not TO correct
an existing condition Of disorder, but 0sten-
sihly to provide for disorders which may hap
pen hereafter. II is intended to give the
President supreme power during the vacation
Of Congress, and virtually to place at his feet
the Legislatures and the Governors Of all the
States. In other words, it is created for
POLITICAL purposes, and not to meet any prac
tical necessities Of the country. We have
said that the country will not forgive the men
who have eoncocted II in caucus, and we may
now add that It will not forgive the man who
inspired that caucus There is good reason
70 believe that this scheme for establishing
martial law throughout the country in time OF
peace was proposed to the Republicans by the
President himself, and that his influence will
be exertcd 70 carry il through Congress. This
IL made probable BY the fact that he alone is
10 possess and exercise the unconstitutional
authority the bill proposes to confer II this
belief be true, then the people will be forced
to receive the attempt as new step in the
intrigue for third term.


The World says The men who have
sprung such proposition as this upon the
country at such . time, with so plain pur-
pose Of invoking forcs BY means of fraud in
orderto retain the power they have forfeited,
are 4 hAl1VEko u Inv HOfu tfaitofa mas any
meaning. Are all these men mad +? Whatdo
they suppose the American people are made
of that they think TO convert Republic into
a monarchy ut one swoop like this2 Butler
all men know for a man without faith and
without shame. Nobody need waste any
astonishment on him. Morton we know for q
desperate political gambler, who has staked
his all upon this east, and who viii stand the
hazard Of the die. But there are men among
the majority reputable at their homes and in
their lives men trained in the tradition of
freedom, men learned in the law. To say, as
was said in Washington last night, that there
isachance this bill may pass, is to say thereis
a chance the majority Of the Representatives
Of the United States may vote Republic into
q monarchy. Weshall see. But voting is not
all; It is TREASON to American liberty
which Is plotting at the Whits House and the
Capitol. But Il is not liberty that win perish
from the earth. Let these cutprrses Of the
empire and the rule be well assured Of that.


The Tflbuae says:--Little comment is
needed upon such bill. When il Is remem-
bered that the only serious difficulty about
Southern elections now is to keep the Repub-
lican State officials quiet enough to allow q
fair vote and q fair count, the monstrous
character Of the eaucns proposal is sufficiently
clear
Year: 1875

RELiaIoUs ExcIrEMENT.-Th Ceeii


Wing recently INDUCED in some reflections
on this subject, for which correspondent,
over the signature of "A Methodist, takes
its editor to task, though mainly approx
ing the article. The words excepted to
are as follows


..It is plain to everybody that more than
half the so called conversions and sgetting
through which result from these periodic
movements, are purely animal or nervous
excitement


It would be as well, perhaps, for the
secular press to leave the subject of relig-
ion, and all that pertains to it, to the care
Of the pulpit The religious world is too
firmly fixed In It's notions upon such sub
jects, to receive with eomplacency or toll
eration, any adverse criticism, however
well meant, or however eonsonant with
propriety. Denominational peculiarities
are common TO al sects and creeds, and
each is satisfied with its own, whether jew
or Gentle. The silent and meditative
Quaker, the staid and quiet Presbyterian
and Lutheran, the shouting Methodist and
Baptist, the ceremonial Catholic, the
stately and formal Episcopalian, Cenobite
or Anchorite, all have their peculiarities
So that each denomination is doing all the
good it can, there is nothing left but for
every one to go forward in its own way,
and agree to disagree.
Year: 1875

The THIRD TERM.--On Monday week
in the House, Mr.. Speer, Of Pa, offered a
resolution in opposition to third term for
President, which was defeated by the vote
of every Republican present save one.
Grant is opening the way to a third term
with the bayonet, and servile House in
its last declining hours dares not iuterpose
a simple resolution in the path of his un-
scrupulous ambition.
Year: 1875

A YOUNG Man MISSING.
Schuengel, son of Alderman Paul Schu-
engel, has turned up missing" He Is
a young man about nineteen years old,
and is deeply enamOred of certain
female, whom his father very properly
objects to. Edward grew melancholy I'm
der his fathers refusal to allow hIm TO
marry the female, and seootsd OF some
where, leaving note saying that he
would commit suicide before he goo
through with it. It Is probable that the
young man won't do any such thing, bat
will live to see that his father knows
considerably more of the world than ne
does. The boy is still absent. t.-Nst-
sDaukee Wisconsin.
Year: 1875

The Charlie Ross case has now been
q prime topic of public interest SO long
aa to rise to the level of one Of the most
celebrated police cases on record. One
of Pinkerton's detectives states that at
the Office in Third street they have o
collection of several hundred photo
graphs of different children of unknown
parents, not only from al parts of the
United States and Canada, but even
from Europe. These were either chill
dren who had got lost, orwho had been
stolen, or followed strolliDg bands, or
been taken in charge as being without
homes. Many cases exist of children
being abandoned by cruel or shiftless
parents or guardians. In reply to o
question as to whether he thought the
child dead, the detective said he thought
il might be SO without his being muir.
dered, as he had been subject to q
painful complaint OF the bladder, and
had several times been operated on sur
gically before he was stolen. Had this
attack come on again after he was
stolen, the wretches would have been
afraid to call in a physician, and the
child might have died. There is no
doubt that the two men killedton Long
Island were really the abductors. From
all that can be learned, there is no pros
pect of any further developments or
discoveries in the case. But lost chll-
dren supposed to be Charlie Ross will
probably continue to turn up for year
to come,
Year: 1875

the ground by merely a rope i'll the
hand OF an assistant. From too care
less grasp this rope escaped, and IN an
instant the gigantic bubble shot upward,
carrying the acronaut on his frail support.


The balloon rose rapidly, but unstead-
ly, swaying and pitching i'll the evening
wind. AS long as it remained i'll sight
the form of the aeronaut could be dis
tinguished, swinging beneath it. Aid
as he was known to be man of uncom-
mon nerve and presence of mind, it was
hoped that even from his dizzy perch he
might manage to operate on the valve,
or at least to puncture n small hole in
the balloon, and thus effect a descent


But such efforts, if he made any, were
vain, as for many days and nights there
was anxious inquiry and patient search
over wide extent of country, with no
result. We gave him up. Only wifely
love hoped on, and looked and waited.
At last in wild spot, the wreck of the
balloon was found, and that was all.
Still, wifely love hoped on, until, n
month or two later, some children nutting
in a wood, many miles away from where
the balloon was found, discovered half
buried in the ground, n strange dark
mass that looked like a heap of old
CiOlllCS, DuI tuuI tllSlc WIS IL SDHlcililhS,
shapeless and fearless, holding it to-
gether.


1t was thought the aeronaut parted
company with his balloon by loosening
his hold on the cords above him, i'll des
perate eflolts to open the valve; but he
may, after whirling in swift vorteXes, or
plunging and mounting, through cloudy
abysses of air, have become unnerved
by the awful silence of the upper night,
by the comets fearful companionship,
by whelming immensity and intinity, and
wearily let go his hold, to drop earth
ward
Year: 1875

Charles Williams, of Westchester, Pa, +,
was found guilty of libeling the pastor
and officers of the First Presbyterian
church. The article charged the pastor
with gross immortality, and that he was be-
ing tried before Il committee of the
church, and that although the testimony
elected was SO damaging rs to create
fears that the reverend gentleman would
be lynched, there was no doubt but that
he would be acquitted. Williams took
the stand after the testimony had been
elected for the prosecution, and ad-
mittcd that he had written the article,
and sent it to n New York paper, in
which paper it was published. He also
stated that he knew there was not word
of truth i'll his statement, but that he
had written it for fun, and to create a
sensation.
Year: 1875

Her mother had told her not to marry
until she was able to support hus-
band; but she needed not her gentle
mothers warming; she went and got
civil-contracted to man who was q fine,


ong-winded talker, and who could sit
around and keep a stove warm better
than any one she ever saw in her life.
And then how proficient he was in lying
in bed and snoring, on q December
morning, while she got up and split the
wood, made the fire, fed the horses,
swept the floor, boiled the coffee, blacked
his boots, mended that hole in his coat,
sewed on that shirt button, and laid a
a pipeful of tobacco and the matches
alongside his pillow. And how loving
she must have felt toward him. when
he got up Mt last at about ten o'clock,
cursing her for making noise, and
wanted to know why there was no beaf-
steak and eggs on the table, and why
she hadn't pawned her watch-it was a
dying mothers gift-in order to give
him whisky money. And when, after
three years of this, she left him, and
went to work as sewing girl, people
spoke of the depravity of the woman who
left her husband.
Year: 1875

A recent writer notices the striking
similarity of the monkeys fondness for
cruelty to that of man, and says that
every one does not know how much
trouble an average monkey will put him
self to in order that he may enjoy the
sufferings of other creatures. The mon
keys of India feign sleep for hours when
they want to catch and torture crow,
and exhibit intense delight in plucking
it alive. The tiger i'll man is, perhaps,
more money than tiger. Our cruel man
is simply a monkey in human shape, and
not a noble beast at all.