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Year: 1875

The people of Santa Barbara have
reached the conclusion that if they ev-
er have railroad communication with
the outside world, 1t will be by means
of the Texas Pacific. We look at it
In different light. If Santa Barba-
ra has q railroad which connects her
with the Southern Pacific or any 9TH
er main trunk line, she will either
build 1t herself or make 1t an object
for railroad company to build it for
her. To wait for the coming of the
Texas Pacific is simply to wait for the
blowing of the last trumpet.
Year: 1875

In the HERALD of this morning will
be found q letter written by Mr..
CHARNoCK which contains a mass of
facts that should set the people of
Southern California to thinking. The
writer is q man of intelligence who
has travelled over the country of
which he writes and has carefully col
lected the information he imparts.
He claims, and produces the facts to
prove, that the Los Angeles and Inde-
pendence Railroad, if extended East
ward until by connection with the
road running West From st. Louis
it becomes grand transcontinental
trunk, will be one of the most busy
and important thoroughfares in the
world. He shows that as it extends
Eastward it will tap and open up one
continuous belt of rich mineral
country and connect us with the
Union Pacific Road by crossing the


roads running South from Salt Lake.


He explains that the broad area
through which the road will run, does
| not produce the necessaries of life and
hence the supplies for the great num-
ber of men and animals employed in
working the mines must be drawn
from other sources and he is confident
that if the road is built the valleys of
which that of Los Angeles is the
| center will furnish those supplies.
The cost of transporting supplies into
that country now, for which he gives


the figures, is simply enormous, while


the statement of the mineral wealth
of that country already developed, for
the correctness of which he vouches,
seems almost incredible. The route of
the road which Mr.. CHARNOCK marks
out, lies from 200 to 800 miles South of
the Central and Union Pacific roads.
1t crosses no high mountains and does


not ascend to freezing attitudes. It's


practicability may be seen at glance
while its Importance is at once recog-
nized by all. st. Louis wants an out
let to the Pacific Coast in order to
compete with Chicago and the more
Northern cities, and there is no doubt
but that she would take an active in
terest in the building of road which
would more than place her on an
equal footing with her great CONNER
cial rival, Chicago.
Year: 1875

A mares nest has been discovered
and the secret opponents of the Los
Angeles and Independence Railroad
are diligently searching for the eggs.
We are informed with good deal of
| flourish that new pass has been
found over the summit of the Cajon
mountains short distance from the
pass, through which Engineer CRAw-
FORD has located the line of our rail-


road to Panamint. This new cleft
through the barrier is, we are told,
some seven hundred and fifty feet
lower than the main pass and will re-
duce the gradient of road running
through it to 116 feet to the mile,
while one running through the main
pass will have gradient of $50 feet to
the mile. This sounds well as it reads,


but there are u few important facts


not stated which are of interest, as
they materially affect and somewhat


initiate against the advantages of the


new discovery made by the engineers


of the Southern Pacific Railroad Com
pany. First, the approaches to this
pass are a great deal more difficult
and the preparation of a road bed on


either side great deal more expensive
than to the main pass. Second, the


new discovery does not run in the di-
rection road running from this city
to Independence should run. Third,


it cannot be cut down or tunneled as


cheap by large sum as the main


pass; and, fourth, the new discovery


is not q new discovery. Engineer


CRAWFORD has been all over the


ground and is familiar with its ad-


vantages and disadvantages. The
announcement that the Southern Pa
Year: 1875

The citizens of San Bernardino have
incorporated a branch railroad to the
nearest point on the Southern Pacific
Railroad. This is step in the right
direction and will save their city.
Now if they will hold out the same
inducement to the Los Angeles and
Independence Railroad that they did
to the Southern Pacific to run as near
their city as possible, without mate
rial damage to the line, and then in
corporate another branch. to this road,
it will increase-the value of property
in that city one hundred per cent. 1t
will make them a terminus of two
roads and place them beyond the
power of oppressive monopolies. The
Southern counties and Southern cities
have been caught in q trap, and the
only way out is to work out. Los An
geles has set the example and our
sister city is following suit. Let them
work together.
Year: 1875

Some months ago Senator STEWART
made his appearance in this city as
one of the owners of the Panamint
mines and the protector of a railroad
inimical to the Southern Pacific Rail-
road Company. The HERALD greeted
him with caustic article, in which
the people were warned that he was
the industrious friend, if not the paid
agent, of the Central and Southern
Pacific Railroad Companies, and that
in all railroad matters he would be
found working i'm their interests. For
making this plain statement of facts
we were denounced and accused of
driving away man who had come
among us forthe purpose Of advancing
our interests. Well, the Senator went
out to Panamint and talked mines for
some time. Congress convened; still
the Senator talked mines at Pana-
mint, and the people began to think
that he had become so engrossed in
mines that he would let the last end
of his Senatorial career go by default.


A great mistake. The Texas Pacific
subsidy proposition came up; the
Southern Pacific wanted some OF the
pie, and being refused, they determin-
ed that no one should have any. Sem
ator STEWART was suddenly called to
Washington, and we next hear him
mentioned as the chief opponent of
the Texas Pacific bill. But of course
he is the friend of Los Angeles and
the Central Pacific people have no
control over him! 1t would be all
wrong to suppose that they sent him
to Washington to defeat SCoTT's bill.
This is what the Cal has to say about
Year: 1875

cific Company will soon commence a
road branching from the main road
near Cucamonga and running through
the newly discovered pass to the mines
must be taken with many grains of
salt and should not, as it is intended,
dampen the ardor of those interesting
themselves in the building of the Los
Angeles and Independence Railroad.
Year: 1875

The interest in behalf OF the Los
Angeles and Independence Road is
increasing in San. Bernardino county
We should have been sadly disap-
pointed if it had been otherwise. The
business men in that county are too
wide awake to permit their interests
to suffer for want of attention. Our
Railroad Committee ought to visit
that county in body and talk over
matters with them. That they will
show commendable liberality in for
warding this enterprise, we have no
doubt.
Year: 1875

~. The tide deofimmigration is steadily set
ting in, and the first thing eastern people dc
Is to throw away their New York Hats and buy
a new one Of DESMOND, They say there is NO
comparison between the two. $40
Year: 1875

TuE depreciation Of real estate does
not appear to be peculiar to the United
States. A Paris correspondent Of a
London journal, speaking Of the pro-
posed foreclosure Of first mortgage on
real estate, at Marseilles, valued at about
100000 francs, says the property prob
ably would not produce afourth Of that
amount "if sold during the present de-
probation Of real estate" This throws
some light on the commercial condition
Of France, SO commonly represented Us
comparatively exempt from the effects Of
the late war.
Year: 1875

The small number Of Caribs who set
tied on the island of Cuba the Span
iards found more difficult to destroy
than they did the native Indians, who
have been nearly extripated. A peo-
pie tough enough to feast ON their own
progeny, a letter writer says, or to en-
gage in a swimming contest with a
shark, or to play hide and seek with
it, must be quite formidable piece de
resistance.


This shark story is told by Father
Label. A Carib made VOW to slay
the shark that had swallowed child.
He took two bayonets, drank two
glasses of brandy, and jumped into
the sea right before the jaws of the
monster. The moment the shark snap
ped for him the Carib dived, and en-
pGssant pricked the animals belly with
his two bayonets. The movements of
the shark hereupon became somewhat
animated, but the Carib liked the ex,
citement, and gave the finishing thrust
only after having tormented the shark
by going through the same maneuver
seven or eight times, and turning the
sea red with its blood, The shark
was found to measure twenty feet.
Year: 1875

Early pasturing is a mistake. The
stock is made dissatisfied, and lose
their appetite for dry food. Tramp
ling is very injurious to the soft soil,
which does not recover from it for sew
eral years. The injury to the grass is
serious. Wait until the ground is
dry. and there is a full bite upon the
pastures. Never pasture meadow in
the spring. All farmers understand
the above, but there are many who
neglect to act upon it.


There is but one proper way to part
your hair in the middle, young man.
Purchase a crowbar and hire some
to do it for you.


Nebraska's population has doubled
within two years.
Year: 1875

We publish an article from the New York


World concerning certain pending insurance


legislation in Illinois. We understand the


facts to be-: That in this State there are one


or more ife-insurance companies organized


and doing business on move, or, as the


World styles it, the cooperative" plan.
This plan Of insurance is peculiar, and un-
known aud unrecognized by the laws Of
the Eastern States. Owing to this
fact, and not to any objection on the
ground of being q "foreign" or ILL.,
nois company, it is not authorized to do any
business in New York, and perhaps in several
other States. To meet this, bill has been
proposed in the Illinois Legislature which in
substance provides: That if any State shall
prohibit amy life-insurance company charter
ed by the Stats Of Illinois from doing business
in such State, then no life-insurance
company chartered BY such State shall do
my business in nlinoisl We are further in
formed that this bill is represented in the
Legislature by the attorney for the single
corporation in whose interest it is proposed,
and that the attorney Of the Company is not
only member Of the Legislature, but Speak
er Of the House Of Representatives! We
submit to the Legislature that, apart from the
ridiculous and unjust principle of the bill
itself, the Introduction and urging Of such
bill is, under the circumstances. special legis-
lation Of the most scandalous character. Be-
cause the State of New York, or any other
State, refuses to recognize the mode Of doing
business Of single ife-insurance company
in Illinois, therefore oil the life
insurance companies Of such States sha1l be
excluded from this State, is most prepos-
ferrous proposition, which needs only to be
understood to be rejected
Year: 1875

find through this swale and the Ogden
Ditch, and thereby assisting in the destruc"
ton OF the ice-gorge, and forcing the waters
of the Aux PLANES back into their natural
channel # these things are done, the Chi
cago River can easily carry of, below and
above the ice now formed in it, any unusual
amount Of water that comes into it from the
low land or the canal, and from its own
watershed.


The prospects now are for considerable
amount OF rain in the spring, and also for a
rapid thaw but there is also prospect at
this writing for southwest wind, which
would materially aid in the breaking-up OF
the ice-gorge at the mouth Of the Chicago
River. Altogether, the danger is by no means
remote, and it is well that it has been suf6-
ciently canvassed to enable the public author
tiles and private citizens to take every precau~
tion against it that lies in their power.
Year: 1875

It is not wholly unlikely that the Washing
ton rumor that 3lr. J. D. WARD Is to succeed
Mr. GLOVER as United States District Attorney
in this city may prove to be true. The re-
tirement Of Alr. GLOVER, who has been an
industrious and excellent officer If he does
retire), will be owing to his chronic health;
and the appointment of Mr. WARD may be
due in part to his agreement with the Presi-
dent on the Arkansas question, which Was
certainly exceptional enough to call for some
reward The appointment, nevertheless, will
not ba an unpopular one in West Chicago,
where Mr.. Wand has many friends, as the
defeat Of Mr.: HARRISON two years ago, when
WARD left him out Of sight, and last fell,
when lie run a couple Of Thousand ahead Of
his ticket and almost beat him again, amply
demonstrated
Year: 1875

nearly three-fourths Of the whole. Their ma
jority on joint-ballot should be 81 It is 73*


If Missouri had had minority representation,
different Legislature might have had enough
fair-minded Democrats in it to send CAnI
ScHuRz back to the Senate, instead of dis
gracing the State by substituting for him an
unknown piece Of ex-Rebel mediocrity labeled
Francis NJ CocKRE11- It is not likely that
Bourbon Missouri will follow the example
which has made Republican Illinois famous.
Still, Constitutional Convention is soon to
assemble, and may prove unable to resist the
spirit Of the age sufficiently to keep on dis
franchising minority Of 800 and letting
majority Of 1,oo1 gag and keep them powerless
to influence what purports to be the action Of
the whole people.
Year: 1875

light and Coke Company in view, that this


large loan has been negotiated? The Com


pany has works capable of supplying twice


the amount of gas it now furnishes, without


any additional outlay. So the loan cannot be


for the purpose Of enlarging those works.


The prospectus states that these bonds


have been created to replace drst-mortgage


bohds paid of, and for OTHER pu1.p0seS :"


Whatever debt the Company previously


owed was merely nominal, so the loan is
substantially for "other purposes" What
are these purposes ? The Peoples Gaslight
and Coke Company can engage in no other
business than the manufacture and sale Of
gas and coke. For this purpose it does not
want any money in its present business, and
the irresistible conclusion would seem to be
that the Peoples Gaslight and Coke Com
pany and the Chicago Gaslight and Coke
Company are to be united, the West Side
Company to swallow the other. It may be,
however, that, as the charter of the Peoples
Gnslight and Coke Company covers the whole
reaof the City Of Chicago, andas they are even
now capable OF making and delivering twice
the amount OF gas tney 90 deliver, taey pro-
pose to cross the South Branch and deliver
their gas to the people of South Chicago
in competition with the old Company at
lower rates. The negotiation Of this loan is
N evident Indication Of developments in the
gas business Of Chicago Of startling charac-
ter, and the success of the Peoples Company
IN negotiating the loan shows that it has a
;oidity Of capital and a financial credit that
will make it a giant in the grand fight Of the
7as Companies. The people will hail with
hearty approval any action that will result in
:heaper and better gas.
Year: 1875

In his moral tillage, God cultiyates
many flowers seeminglyonly for their
exquisite beauty and fragrance. Fol-
when bathed in soft sunshine they
have burst into blossom, then the di-
vine hand gathers them from the
earthly fields to be kept in tile crystal
vases of the deathless masions above.
Thus little children die-some in the
sweet bud, some in the fuller blossom
but never to early to make heaven
fairer and sweeterwith their Immortal
bloom. o.5s


Verily,to the eye of faith, nothing is
fairer than the death of young chill
dren. Sight and sence, indeed, recoil
from it. The flower that, like q
breathing rose, filed heart and air
with an exquisite delight, alas! we are
stricken with sore anguish to find its
stem broken and the, blossom gone,
But unto faith, eagle-eyed beyond
mental vision, and winged to mount
like singing lark, over the fading
rainbow unto the blue heaven, even
this is touchingly lovely.


The child's earthly ministry was
we'll done, for the rose does its work as
gradually in blossom as the vine with
its fruit. And having helped to sane
tify and lift heavenward the very
hearts that broke at its farewell, 1t b; 8
gone from this troublesome sphere
ere the winds chilled or the rains
stained it, leaving the world it blessed
and the skies through which it passed
still sweet with its lingering fra
.grance-to its glory as an ever-unfold.
ing flower in the blessed garden Of
God. Surely, prolonged life on earth


hath no boone like this! For such
mortal loveliness to put on immortal
ity-tO rise from the carnal with so
little memory of earth that the moth
er's cradle seemed to have been
rocked in the house of many man.
sions-to have no experience of a
wearied mind and chilled affections,
but from u child's joyous heart grow
ing up in the power of an archangelic
intellect-to be raptured as blessed
babe through the gates of Paradise
ah! this is better than to watch as an
old prophet for the car of fire in the
Valley Of Jordon. = From q Sermon by
Rev. Charles WadswortA, d. u. ia.as.-e
Year: 1875

A good minister of the gospel was
visiting among the poor, one Winters
day in large city in Scotland. He
climbed up into a garret at the top of a
very high house. He had been told
that there was poor old woman there
that nobody seemed to know about.
He went on climbing up tillhe found
his way into that garret room. AS he
entered the room he looked round;
there was the bed, anda a chair, andsa
table with candle burning dimly on
it: very little fire on the hearth and
an old woman sitting by it, with a
large Testament on her lap. The min
lister asked her what she was doing
there. She said she was reading.
"Don't you feel lonely here?' he
asked. INA, na,''a was her reply.
"What do you do here all these long
Winter nights?"@ "O,p she said, II
just set here, wiz me light and VII me
New Testament on me knees, talking
aop Jesus r'-Occident.
Year: 1875

W. The tide ofi.nmigrati0n Is steadily set
Ting in, and the first Thing eastern people do
liz TO throw away their New York Hats and buy
"a new one OF DESMOND. They say there Is no
comparison between the two. 2Lo
Year: 1875

OMAHA, July 26.-A young man named
John Obey, claiming to be from Boston,
shot himself to-day intending to commit
suicide on account of domestic troubles
and pecuniary losses. lie is still alive
though one ball is supposed to be in his
head over the left eye He is now at the
hOspital
Year: 1875

The New Hampshire Republicans are now
confident that the Democrats will not under
take TO obtain control of the lower branch CT
the Legislature of that state in the manner
proposed by some of the desperate men of
that party. The Republicans have no notion
of quietly permitting themselves to be robbed
of their rights, and many of tie more respec-
table Democrats of New Hampshire will de-
cline TO take part in or be responsible for
such a robbery. The plan to steal the con-
troll of the Senate is not yet abandoned; but
this does not look so hopeful to the Demo-
cratic leaders as it did few days ago, and
even this may be abandoned as accompanied
with too great risks.


On the Sunday following his capture of Tt
conderoga, Allen attended divine worship in
the little meeting house at Bennington. The
clergyman, who was as devout as he was 10y.
al, took occasion, during the long prayer that
preceded the sermon, to give all the glory Of
the exploit to the God OF Battles. Aliens
notion of the share which Providence had in
the matter did not exactly agree with his pas
tors. He held his peace for some time, but
finally, overcome by a passing impulse. aiost
in his seat and called out 'Parson Dewey
Please mention the fact that Ethan Alle,
,uas Merer'


The Boston Advertiser says in connection
with the discovery of the whiskey frauds:
s'The President, too, without whose unre
served support nothing could have been done
has been in counsel with the Secretary of the
Treasury at every step of the investigation


His constant sympathy strengthened the OH
GERS in the performance of their delicate du
ties. and contributed not little to their mos
gratifying success. One and all who had
hand in the business will receive the congrat
ulations OF public that desires nothing more


at the present time than an assurance o
vigor, honesty and efficiency in the admin
] isiration OF public affairs"
Year: 1875

The hospitalities and honors accorded to
Vice President Wilson at the South are noted
with much qualification by his friends at the
North. What would have been said, fifteen
years ago, if it had been predicted that one of
the leaders of the old abolition party would
live to receive the most complimentary atten-
tons wherever he might go in the southern
states, and, moreover, that he would only
meet with freemen in his whole journey !?
Such are times changes, and we trust That
we all change with them.-B0StOn Journal


The Republican party could send into the
South no representative keener in sagacity,or
more strongly entrenched in the confidence OF
the northern people. For accurately ascer-
tanning the drifs of sentiment in sections and
states it is generally conceded that there are
few politicians in the country superior to him.
We look to Vice President Wilson for an ac'
curate delineation of the South as it is.-Bos-
ton Herald.


The present state of feelings of Gov. Allen
and Senator Thurman toward each other
docking to the next presidency may, VIC
understand, be described as in the nature of
a mild form of mutual surprise. Cincinnati
Commercial.


Prominent Indiana Republicans are said to
have telegraphed Washington officials about
Tuesdays elections in that state, that "the
reaction has set in and Senator Morton is
happy
Year: 1875

CALIFORNIA is actually afraid that she will
have too many people, and her papers are
seeking the best means ofputting limit to SO
great an influx of population. Since January
people heve been travelling to her borders
over the Pacific Railway at the rate of from
five hundred to thousand day. What to
do with so many she does not know. She
certainly cannot give work for them all.
Year: 1875

THE meeting of the Russian Gar and Ger.
man Kaiser is fraught with momentous con.
sequences. Should Germany consent to aid
the long cherished designs of Russia or Con-
stantinople, there is no telling to what lengths
the compliance of the Muscovite would reach.
These two great empires have it in theiI
power to entirely alter the political map ol
Europe. The result of the conference will be
awaited with great interest on both sides Of
the water
Year: 1875

THERE is probably no place in the United
States which has felt the pressure of hard
times so severely as Pittsburg, the centre of
the iron trade. In Allegheny City, the resi-
dence suburb of Pittsburg, more than twelve
hundred houses are vacant. The strike has
added greatly to the depression, and it is
thought that it will be year or two before
the place will recover its accustomed activity.
Year: 1875

SENATOR GORDON of Georgia. seems to
have spoken for himself alone in his declara-
ton that the Southern conservatives ought
as matter of policy, to declare in favor of
preserving the political and civil equality of
the colored men. A writer in one of the
Atlanta papers, who is strongly endorsed by
the editor, has these nice things to say:


''The truth has got 10 come; and the soon
er it comes the better. The position the
negro now occupies in our midst is shame
and disgrace to American freedom. 1t is
damnable outrage upon the pure blood that
courses its way through the veins of the high
minded Teuton. 1t is an infamy as black as
hell ITSELF 1t is baneful curse that should
never be solemnly sanctioned by freeborn
Anglo-Saxon race. And when Gen. Gordon
pretends to represent the true southern SEN
timent by proclaiming a willingness to pledge
himself to maintain negro sovereignty in this
land, he is sadly mistaken"