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Year: 1876




AIlis. confusion and CONSERVATION.
In that dread moment, of what
avail or account is earthly distine-
ton One common and awful fate
was the lot of those on board.
Capt. Titus was as cool and cour-
ageOus as it was possible for a man
to be in such trying mo nent.
One boat was lowered in the confu-
sion, filled and headed for the shore,
ten miles distant; the remainder left
to their fate. The light of the burn
ing boat was seen by another boat
twelve miles ahead. They put about
aud made for the scene with all pos
sibIe speed. When they arrived at
the fatal spot, the boat had burned
to the waters edge. The lurid light
of the smouIderng hulk east its
dirn shadow on the bosom of the
water, beneath whose smooth sur
face some three hundred human be-
ings slept the sleep of death. They
made fast to the burning mass, in
tending to tow it to Dunkirk, but it
sank before reaching port. l give
this imperfect account of this terri
ble disaster ent;rAy from memory
of 35 years ago.


The next disaster of the kind was
the burning of the J. p. Griffith,
burnt below the mouth of Chagrin
river, iii Willoughby. The particu-
lars of his heart-rending disaster, l
believe, have been given to the pub
lie recently. We will only give an
incident connected Herewith. 1t
was the circumstance of a boy who
was found clinging to the tiIler-
chain of the Inflated boat, more dead
than alive. His father, mother,
brothers and sisters were all among
the lost, and he was alone, among
strangers. But He who hears the
orphans cry provided for him
friend in that forlorn and desolate
condition. The kind and sympa-
thetic heart of Samuel Miller, of
Willoughby, (God bless his memo
ryD had compassion on the little
stranger, and adopted him as his
ow1, and instructed him in the WAYS
of truth and respectability. He
grew to be a manly youth, beloved
by all. The cloud of war darkens
cur land; the flower and pride of
the nation are summoned to put
down treason and defend the flag of
our Union. This noble youth of
foreign birth, rescued from the
wreck of the Griffith, responds to
the call of his country in her hour of
peril, and is sacrificed on the altar
of liberty in the cause of humanity.


Mnnson. MAJ u. 1876. Al.
Year: 1876

where Mrs E. and the girl were
with faces very red and moist, and
dirty, and their black hair stream
ing down their shoulders. He saw
it at glance, and going to the front
window he shouted out to the fire.
men, "You needn't wait. There'll
never be no more lunch in this house
Shnt off the water and go away"


Just then Mrs. Elderblow stopped
a moment to catch breath and say:


eyes, talk about lunch at such a
moment as this, when everything
we have in the world is about to be
destroyed. It's just like you men
never at home when you're wanted,
and always thinking of lunches. Is
it over?''


"Yes," replied Elderblow, with
much bitterness, ''it is over. Mary,
go and pick out your trunk from the
mud and wreck in the back yard if
you can, and go and hunt some other
place. Your mistress is going to
Dixmont and l am going TO board.
This housekeeping in the rural dis
tricts is played out, and a--nice
play it has been too!" And he took
Mrs. Elderblow by the ear and led
her to look upon the ruin she had
wrought because a few fremen
wanted to try new hose.


Pittsburgh Leader.
Year: 1876

legitimate shakers of human nerves,
two of the three who were gatherep
there sat through the meal without
the least Consciousness of what
viands had composed it. Impressive
ness depends as much upon propin-
.quitY as upon magnitude; and to
have honored unawares the daught-
er of the Yilest Antipodean miscreant
and murderer would have been less
discomfting to Mrs. Doncastle than
it was to make the same blunder
with the daughter of respectable
servant who happened to live in her
own house. To Neigh the announce
ment was as the catastrophe of a
story already begun, rather than as
an isolated wonder. Ethelberta's
words had prepared him for some
thing, though the mature of that
thing was u known.


ChickereI ought not to have kept
us i'll ignorance of this-of course
he ought notl said Mrs. Domestic,
as soon as they were left alone.


don't see why not, replied Mr..
Doncastle, who took the matter very
eoolly, as was his custom.


Then she herself should have let
1t be known.


Nor does that fellow. You didn't
tell Mrs. PetherwIn that your grand
father narrowly escaped hanging for
shooting his rival in duel.


Of course not. There was no
reason why | should give extraneous
information.


Nor was there any reason why
she should. As for Chickerel he
doubtless felt how unbecoming it
would be to make personal remarks
upon one of your guests-ha-ha-ha!
Well, well-ha ha-ha-ha!


know this Mrs. Domestic in
great anger, that if my father had
been in the room I should not have
let the fact passed unnoticed and
treated him like stranger.


Would you have had her intro
duce Chickerel to us all round? My
dear Margaret, it was a complicated
position for a woman.


Then she ought not to have come.


There may be something in that,
though she was dining out at other
houses as good as ours. Well, |
should have done just as she did,
for the joke of the thing. Ha-ha-ha!
it is very gooi-very. 1t was
case in which the appetite for a Jest
would overpower the sting of con
science in any well-constituted being
that, my dear, must maintain.


say she should not have come!
answered Mrs. Domestic firmly. Of
course l shall dismiss Chickerel!


OF course you will do no such a
thing. l have never had butler in
the house before who suited me so
well. 1t is a great credit to the man
to have such daughter, and l am
not sure that we do not derive some
lustre of humble kind from his
presence in the house. But, serious
ly, l wonder at your short-sighted-
ness, when you know the troubles
we have had through getting new
men from nobody knows where.
Year: 1876

They obtained new kind of hose
out in the Thirty-eighth ward re-
Gently, and after the fremen had set
up with it two or three days and
nights, making each other highly
patriotic and neatly complimentary
speeches about it, they quietly con-
cluded to give it public trial yes
terdOy afternoon. The hose is only
two squares away from the nearest
hydrant, which sets Immediately be-
fore Tr Elderblow's residence. Mrs.
Elderblow had whitewashers prom
ise and promise to do the kitchen
till she got tired waiting on them,
so she went at it herself yesterday.
She picked up an old worn out brush
by the fence in the back yard, and
went at it vigorously. She had
finished the walls of the kitchen, and
was was standing on soap box on a
chair that had been placed on top Of
the pine table so as to enable her to
reach the ceiling, when the men
started out with the hose. They
told the one-legged man who loafa
around the hose to time them from
leaving the door till he saw them
stop at the plug, and then they start
ed out'pufing and painting to the
plug, soaring the entire neighbor-
hood pale. As they stopped sud
denly and began to screw the hose
on to the plug, the hired girl. who
had been scrubbing the front steps,
went tearing through the hall to the
kitchen, where she shrieked:


"Missus, the houses air."


Mrs. Elderblow could not believe
her ears, so she expanded her eyes
and said:


"Wha-at?''


'The hus-a-fire! the hus- -a-fire!" re-
peated the hired girl, dancing with
excitement, when Mrs. Elderblow
said with calm determination, Gear
ry all the things out the back ways"
and then turning around to step
down the box, chair, brush, bucket
of wihtewash and herself came down
in heap together-but that was
nothing. She and the hired girl
rushed up stairs and began throwing
the trunks, beds, looking-glasses and
washstand out of the back windows
into the garden, being stimulated
thereto by an encouraging stream of
water which the hose was sending
over the house from the street. The
hose worked beautifully, and these
two noble women worked like he
roes at the furniture till they got
out everything on the second floor
except the carpets, and were Just
tearing that in the front bedroom
up when Mr.. Elderblow appeared on
the scene. He bed gone out in town
and after talking while to the hose
men, and expressing his opinions on
hose generally, invited them to wait
a while and he would go in and
have the women folks set up could
lunch and few bottles of beer for
them, because Eldeblow maintains it
is every mans duty to keep on the
good side of the firemen, for no man
knows at what hour of the night
his house is going to take fire. When
he didn't find his wife nor the hired
girl in the kitchen, he went up the
back stairs, and looking out of the
window saw the beds and bedding.
furniture, baggage and mirrors in
confused and disabled condition, the
one class of goods thoroughly soak
ed with mud and water, and the
other banged and smashed to pieces.
Then, as he heard ripping, tearing
/ sound, as the women were pulling
up the carpet by force, he went aud
looked into the front bed room
Year: 1876

Use OF CoBwEBs.- eobwebs
of any use? You might not think
so, but see what is said about them
in Appleton's American Cyclop@dia:


Cobwebs have been applied to
various uses. The delicate cross
hairs in the telescopes Of surveying
instruments are fine webs taken
from spiders of species that are
specially selected for their produe-
tion of ah excellent quality of this
material. About a century ago, Boa
of Languedoc succeeded in making
a pair of gloves and pair of stock
ings from the thread of the spider.
They were very strong, and of a
beautiful gray color. Other attempts
of the same kind have been madei
but Reaumur, who was appointed
by the Royal Academy to report on
the subject, stated that the web Of
the spider was not equal to that Of
the silkworm, either in strength or
luster. The cocoons Of the latter
weigh from three to four grains, so
that 1884 worms produce a pound
of silk; but the bags of the spider,
when cleaned, do not weigh above
the third part of a grain, so that a
single silkworra can accomplish the
work of twelve spider.
Year: 1876

A correspondent of the American Ag
you a method of making fruit trees
bear, that blundered on. Some fifteen
years ago had a small apple tree that
leaned considerably. | drove a stake by
it, tied string to limb and fastened
it to the stake. The next year that limb
blossomed full while not another bios
Bunker said, at sot me TO thinking" !"
and / came to the conclusion that the
string was so tight that it prevented the
sap returning to the roots, consequently
it formed fruit buds. Having couple
of pear trees that were large enough to
bear, but had never blossomed, took a
coarse twine and bonnd it several times
ronnd the trees above the lower limbs,
and tied it as tight as / could. The
next spring all the top above the cord
blossomed as white as sheet and there
was not blossom below the place the
cord was tied. A neighhor seeing my
trees loaded with pears used the -ame
il is a much better wav than cutting of
the roots. In early simmer. say june or
July, wind strong twine several times
around the tree, or single limb. and
tie it. the tighter the better. and you will
he pleased with the result
Year: 1876

How terrific must be the molecular
action in the brain of man who comes
homes at one o'clock in the morning
singing TOO raj, CORAL Oddly" and mis-.
takes his wife's patent hustle, standing
pale and rigid in the corner, for the
spirit of his deceased mother in law
| 1Globe- Democrnt.
Year: 1876

A gentleman in this city has n pair Of
pantaloonp which were worn by one of
his ancestors a hundred years ago. They
are made of home spun cloth, except
the seat, which is of thick leather. 1t il
inferred from this that the original own
er was a book AGENT Norwich Bullet
Year: 1876

To the citizens Of Perry county Ohio,
in adjourned convention assembled for
the purpose Of efiecting permanent or
ganization and appointment Of necessary
committees to make due and full pre-
paration for a general county Observance
and celebration of the Tooth AnniveF-
aary of Our National Independence:
Your committee on committees having
attended TO their duty to the best of
their Judgment and ability present the
following report, and recommend the
creation of the committees named and
the appointment thereon Of the persons
named, with such additions ns the meet
ing may deem wise and necessary.
Year: 1876

Under the Code insane persons cam
not be committed and sent to the In
sane Asylum unless some one will
swear that they are violent or danger
Gus. This defect should be remedied.
There are cases of insanity in which the
unfortunate persons are harmless and
inoffensive, yet theirvery inoffensive-
ness prevents their admission into the
asylum and debars the care and med
ical attendance which might secure u
permanent cure. Here is case in
point: Every day for month past a
Mexican woman with two little chill
dren has presented herself in the la.
dies sitting room at the Southern Pa
cific railroad depot. She has no aim
in view except, as she says, to look af-
ter her property, part of which is
the depot, railroad and rolling stock,
which she asserts belongs to her and
is being used by other people without
her consent. The poor woman has
probably read ARCHER'S freights and
fares bill and believes that no matter
who builds railroads, they belong to
whoever will claim them. Her insan-
ity is of a mild type, and could she be
committed to the asylum might re-
cover her mind. There is also in this
county another Casa man-who
cannot be committed because he is
neither violent nor dangerous, yet his
friends have spent hundreds of dollars
to have him cared for. A few months
treatment in the asylum would no
doubt effect permanent cure of both
these unfortunates. The Legislature
should so amend the law that where
The friends of the parties desire, cases
II insanity such as we have cited
could be admitted to the asylum and
receive medical treatment.
Year: 1876

Tie Republican of day a. two
since had an article on banl. and
bankers, in which deserved tribute
is paid 10 the managers of the Farm
ers and Me.ch .its' Bank of this city, to
gethPr with some commendatory re-
marks on the conduct and status of
the bank itself, that will be read
with pleasure by the friends and pat
rons of the establishment, which we
believe includes our entire commu-
nifty. The basis on which the Farm
ers' and Merchants Bank is conducted
guarantees it one Of the most substan-
tial banking institutions in the State,
and renders it deservedly popular
with depositors and borrowers. It's
stockholders are our own citizens and
reside among these with whom they
do business. Each shareholder is
worth more in his individual name
than the capital stock of the bank.
The business of the Farmers and Mer-
chants Bank is conducted by men of
acknowledged financial ability and of
great banking experience. From the
day on which the bank opened its
doors down to the present time it has
sustained no considerable loss, and
never, except to prevent the outlaw
ing of account, has it had occasion to
go into the Courts. The history of
this bank presents only gratifying
pages to both stockholders and depos-
itors. With an unexceptional record
and under such careful and judicious
management it We're almost superiu-
Gus to add that it has fast hold on
public confidence, with a rapidly in
creasing and consequently profitable
business. The people of this city, and
in fact of all Southern California, have
long regarded the Farmers and Mer-
chants as the bank of Los Angeles,
and there is every reason to believe it
will long continue to merit their con-
fidence and patronage.
Year: 1876

The Legislative reporter of paper
published In this city that denounces
the Southern Pacific Railroad Compa-
ny in season and out of season, tele.
graphs that one of our Assemblym
General MCCoNNELL-will oppose
the passage of ARCHER's freights and
fares bill, and wonders that he should
do so. We should wonder if he and
all other members of the Legislature
from Southern California did not op-
pose this bill. We should wonder if
the members of the Northern end of
the State did not oppose this bill. In
fact we wonder that any member of
the Legislature can support and advo-
cate the passage of this bill. If, as all
the railroad owners of the State affirm,
the passage of this bill will cause q
cessation of operations on many of
the roads, especially those running
through sparsely settled portions of
the country, it ought not to be sup
ported by any Legislator who desires
the prosperity of the people. If, as
we are informed, the passage of this
bill will necessitate discontinuance
of railroad building in both the North
ern and Southern ends of the State,
the representatives from those Sec
tions cannot support it and do justice
to their constituents. Los Angeles is
becoming a railroad centre, and to
this fact she is indebted for o rapid
advance in the value of real estate.
Railroads are doing more for this part
of the State than anything else could
do. There is more railroad building
going on around us than in any other
part of the State, and every citizen
Year: 1876

/. THE Outlook regards the HERALD's
remarks relative to the building of an
other railroad from this city to the


water, as an indication that the Santa
Monica road is hurting the Southern
Pacific. Evidently the Outlook begins
to understand what the HERALD has
known all along-that there is good


harbor all along the Pacific coast for
fifty miles up or down the beach from
Los Angeles. The intimation that the


Santa Monica road is hurting the
Southern Pacific, reminds us of the
gnat that alighted on the ox's horn
and asked permission to remain few
minutes and rest itself. The OK re-
piled that it was at liberty to stay as
long as 1t liked, as he did not know
when it took up the position and
should not know when it vacated it. p
Year: 1876

SACRAMENTO, Feb. 25th.-The SEN
ate was called to order at 10 o'clock,
the President in the chair.


Shirley introduced bill amending
the Code providing that the owner OF
any vessel residing at another county
than that in which the vessels are re-
quired by law to be registered, and the
vessel so owned habitually run to and
from any other port or landing in an
other county, that such vessel must be
assessed and taxes thereon paid only
in the county where the owner or
owners reside.


The Senate then took up the general
file and considered the bill reducing
salaries of the State officers which
was on its final passage.


Mr.. Hayward offered substitute to
bill, and in an eloquent speech de-
nounced the measure as shame econo-
my and uncalled for by the people.
He moved the recommittal of the bill
to the Committee of the Whole SEN
Year: 1876

ATLANTA, GA, February 15.-The
following resolution was unanimously
agreed to by the House OF Representa-
tives:


WHEREAS, 1t has been charged on the
floor of the United States Senate and by
a portion Of the public press Of the
Northern States that it is the design OF
the legislature of Georgia to abrogste or
abridge the privileges or rights now en-
ioyed equally by the citizens of the State
under the Constitution of the United
States; therefore be 1t


Resolred, In the sense of this General
Assembly, that the equal political rights
of all the citizens of this State, regardless
of race or previous condition, are per-
manently fixed and secured by the Consti-
tuition of the United States, which is rec
ognized by this body as the supreme law
of laws; and that no abridgment or in
reference with these rights is proposed or
contemplated or desired IN the action of
the General Assembly, or by the people
whom we represent, and any and all leg
islation in contravention thereof, either
by legislation or by convention OF the
people, be null end void.


ResoLred, That the political relations OF
all classes in the States have been har-
moniously adjusted upon the basis of the
present provision of the Constitution of
the United States; that peace and good
feeling between the races prevail, and
that it is neither the desire nor to the in
terest of the people to reopen the:e ques-
tions. which have been thus harmonious
ly settled.
Year: 1876

the court said to the jury there Is no
evidence before you as to who sent it or
in whose handwriting It Is.


Col Dyer then said if the court Plea'e
in reference TO the dispatches tina. your
honor hold them which have rot been
admitted in evidence dated December 3
and 5 1874. The government is not
prepared now with the testimony 10
prove the handwriting Of the msn who
received them or recelpted for them
in Washington, but will to-mor-
row or certainly by next day.
and the government and the other
side kindly consent that the witness,
when be arrives, may be introduced dur
ing the hearing of their side ofthe cause.
think with the examination Of shat Wit
ness, the government will rest lis case
with the understanding that tie gentle
man will allow all evidence necessary 20
establish the receipt OF those two dis
patches to te introduced hereafter.


The Court then adjourned to give Gen.
Williams. " ho will open the case for the
defense tomorrow, time TO look over the
evidence and prepare his speech.
Year: 1876

THE result of the Texas election yes
torday was decided Democratic victo-
~. But nothing else was to have been
expected. The people of that State have
been afforded ample opportunity to test
tho difference between Radical and DEM
Ocratic rule.
Year: 1876

glad to see and entertain at any time. but
especially so now, as she was being so con-
stantIy harrass sd by Wright and his myr-
midons with threstenings of law suits
that might dispossess her of all the prop
erty she owned. She testified that Mr..
Orth drank most heartily of the butter
milk, and, sitting it down and smscking
his lips, he remarked, "Ah, Mrs. Peter,
that is good, il is the same kind OF butter
milk my good old mother used to churn
away down in old Pennsylvania" Just
now Wright drove up to the door In the
buggy, aud the way be and 9th were as
tonished st the singular coincidence
of meeting each other there ct that
particular time was quite entertaining
to the widow Peter. But inasmuch IS
they had thus accidentally met, they
might as we'll talk over the matter of
Wright's prop Osed negotiations for Mrs.
Peters farm. The matter was therefore
fully discussed, resulting in the advice Of
Mr.. Orth to Mrs. Peter, as her attorney,
that to save all danger OF litigation here
after that might result in stripping her OF
all her possessions, she had best accept
the proposition CT Wright and make him
title to the land.


SHE THEREFORE, MADE THE DEED,


which Orth had already prepared in his
pocket, was taken into Clinton county to
acknowledge II, and the grand swindle was
completed, as they supposed. But it was
glorious thing that we had Supreme
Court with intelligence and integrity
enough to put its ban of condemnation
upon such a fraudulent and swindling
transaction, and the whole thing was
finally declared void on account of fraud.
The Indianapolis Journal thinks there is
nothing oishonorsble in case
like this. Ex-Supreme Court Judge
r. c. Gregory didn't appsar to think so,
for notwithstanding he had received
some money as a retaining fee on the Orth
and Wright's side, he p aid the money back
aud threw up the case in loathing and
disgust, and would have nothing to do
with it when he came to learn the whole
circumstances. Nothing disreputable,
hey? would like to see the young law
yer of fair reputation and intelligence who
would consent to shoulder the amount of
odium that such a transaction would en-
tail, and to get his price for carrying such
load through all his after life. UBET.


LAFAYETTE, Feb. 26, 1876,