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Year: 1875

rJ-HE CITY OF Los ANGELES PROPOSES


to make the following improvement
along New High, Turner and Main streets, at
the expense Of the property-holde liable to
be assessed therefor:


1t proposes to constructs q sewer and branch
sewer, the description and specifications OF
which are hereafte or given, to-wit: The sewer
TO commence at che point where the center
line of New High street cuts the south line OF
Short, and running thence along New High
street to It's junction with Turner street;
thence along Turner street TO Its junction
with Main street; tn ence Al feet to the north
ern terminus of the Main and Arcadia street
sewer, distant 80 feet from the intersection of
the South line of Turner and West line of
Main street. Said sewer shall be made of q
inch redwood, and shall be IA in. square on
the inside, the top TO be cross-laid and placed
two feet below the surface of the street.


The branch sewer shall commence at a
point on center line of New High street dis
tant 327 feet South of the point where II is met
by the center line of Turner street, and shall
run thence along said center line of New
High street to connect with the sewer above
described ut the junction of New High and
Turner streets. Said branch sewer shall be
made OF redwood, inches thick, and shall be
10 Inches square on the inside and the top
shall be cross-laid and placed 2 feet below the
surface Of the street. mrs l0t
Year: 1875

The public school in this thriving
young city is furnished with $500
piano. There should be piano or an
organ in every public school. The adj
vantages of such investments will APP
pear in the cultivated tastes of the
pupils instructed under the genial in
fluence of the sweet sounds produced
by them.
Year: 1875

The Board Of Education will soon
present to this community practical
plan for raising $4,000 or $4,000 with
which to purchase lots and erect five
new school-houses. Let all be ready
and willing to sustain the Board.
Year: 1875

Has been laid out OH the township line three
miles South and three-quartes OF . mile West
of Norwalk Station. A quarter-section Of land
IL included within the town plat. It is the in
tention to make this town the center of one Of
the richest farming communities in los An
geies county. At the last sale, town lots sold
for from $50 TO $l6l each, and many have since
changed hands at adyanc~ d figures.


Arrangements are now being made for the
establishment Of a Methodist Episcopal
ship.


A lot will be given to any Church or Society
that will erect thereon buildiag for public
use.
Year: 1875

and runs directly along the southern portion
of our tract. We will offer lands within from
one to three miles of Downey City as well
adapted for corn as any now under cnltiva-
ton. and there are none better In the world.
Year: 1875

A Public School building, to cost over $1,000
is now being erected and will be completed
before the second sale. The percentage ofthe
last sale devoted to the erection of this build
percentage no per cent. on Town property and
2n per cent. on farm property will be given
for the same purpose from the proceeds of the
next sale.
Year: 1875

From the pathetic and intermin-
fble howl that goes up from the
sand hills about the dog tax, an


outsider would imagine that we


raised nothing in this state but
dogs. The state owes interest on


her contracted debt and money
TO carry on the government. This
money has 10 be raised and we
cannot sec why those who prefer
10 enjoy the luxury ofdog owner
ship should object to levy of two
dollars. A dog that is not worth
that much year 10 tho owner is
not worth having. If nothing is
taxed bat lands, people will prefer
TO own o.htr property, such as
bonds for Instance, that are non
taxable How much revenue does
Il dog preface in year? What is
the dog crop worth 10 the State,
anyhow? We know OF no way in
which they effect tho products Of
the state except in the sheep folds,
and that is by no means on the
credi side OF the ledger. The
dog tax may bctolcrably Sc
we're upon hunters of Gle
CANT leisure who keep packs Of
hounds-but how much do the
hunters, packs and all produce in II
year? You cant plow with dog,
and You can't eat him, and there is
40 convcn cnt glove market for his
skin. And yet, if one is sentimen-
tai aheut his dog-he ought to be
sentimental about his old mother,
the siaie--and dividing The cost OF
the sentiment hotl, ways there Is a
dollar for the dog and dollar for
the State Nashville Banner.
Year: 1875

year, and this year many thousands
of acres arc sown in Prairie coun-
ty. Prairie land, which at the close
OF the war could not be sold for the
taxes, is now the only land sought
for, and is rapidly being taken up.
Year: 1875




W A Rhode Island woman says that
she'd rather have the nightmare seven
straight nights than tell her husband
that the flour barrel is empty.


u When Chicago man gets rich,
be writes to an Eastern publishing
house and tells them to send "half a
ton Of books with gilt on


70 Miss Eastman, in her woman
suffrage argument up at the State House
used the smile: Eyes as bright as
buttons on angels coats She's get
ting brassy.


EE When the postmaster of vicks.
burg was on his dying bed the other
day, twenty -eight men hurried past the
house with petitions praying that they
might be apr ointed postmaster.


~ The saddest thing in life is the
spectacle afforded by a young person
who has burnt all her hair off her fore
head with hot slate pencil and cannot
afford to buy row Of curls.
Year: 1875

RUNAwAY.-At about half past seven
this morning team attached to light
market-wagon. belonging to Messrs.
Phelps & Wadleigh, took spin around
the block on their own hook. Not lik-
ing the street tEey took to the sidewalk
in front of the DIsPATcH Buildings, from
which they fell into that unsightly ditch
the Council ought to have had filed
long ago. After considerable work the
horses were extricated from their un-
comfortable position without. much
damage to themselves, but tho wagon
was badly used mp.
Year: 1875

A CAPPER CAPPED. A capper for gam
blers met with young man who had
Just landed here, and volunteered to
show him where he could get work as a
blacksmith. After leading the stranger
round into another street, he asked him
to wait minute while he went into q
saloon where the stranger refused to ac-
company him. After waiting for some
time the stranger returned TO his hotel,
when he discovered that several dollars
in change which he had carelessiy drop
ped into his overcoat pocket. was miss
ing. Next day he met the capper on the
street, presented revolver at his head
and told him he would blow the top of
his head off If he did not return the
money he stole from him, in one min
ute. The thief at first denied taking
the money. but seeing the determination
of his assailant in his eye, handed over
five dollars, upon which he WIS permit
ted to depart to ply his vocation upon
less resolu:e customers. Our city po-
lice takes no cognizance of such little
affairs, but leaves strangers in the city
TO look out for themselves.
Year: 1875

The CONCERT. evening we at
tended the rehearsal of the Concert
which is to take place this evening"
The rehearsal passed off exceedingly
we'll and no pains will be spared to make
the entertainment a perfect success =
The object Of the Concert. raising funds
foI the Congregational Church, is a
worthy one and every one should att
tend.
Year: 1875

n A young lady of Michigan ave
nue. dismissed her lover because he kept
her so long on the steps to say good-by
one night that she took cold. Love
that might outliye fever will Otter
succumb to a cold in the head.
Year: 1875

sition-it is life. Their teachers and
preachers are of the people-not re-
moved from them by the elevation of
learning, not bringing instruction to
them from the students closet, but lust
from among themselves, with a mes
sage that finds at once response in
their own hearts. 1t is not strange
that a church, rigid in It's organization.
sometimes called despotic in its Govern
ment, yet everywhere touching the
sympathies and hearts of men, should
have growth and strength far exceed
ing that of other religious denomina-
tions and it is not, perhaps, too much
to say that as a church organization, it
IS now the most efectual barrier in this
country against the advance of the
Church of Rome, and yet, unless it be
Quakers, there is scarcely any religious
sect more unlike the Catholics, either
in the simplicity of its form of worship,
or in its freedom from the despotism
of dogma


Notwithstanding the progress of science
which, to some, seem now to threaten
the foundation of our religious faith, a
church like the Methodist is not likely
soon to lose it's force in this country.
1t is said of the Great Master that
common people heard Him gladly !"
and the disciples of John Wesley have
proved, since the preaching of the first
Methodist was heard "among the bleak
moors of Northumberland, in the dens
of London, and in the long galleries
where the Cornish miner hears, Iii the
pauses of his labor, the sobbing of the
sea-" that their gospel is one to which
the ears and the hearts of the common
people are always open. Such church
cannot but be an immense power in the
future of this country
Year: 1875

cover the outer coat Of plum and
apricot, there grows a bloom more
beautiful than the fruit itself--a soft.
delicate powder that overspreads It's rich
colors. Now if you strike your hand over
that, and it is once gone, it is gone for
ever-it only appears once. The flow
er that hangs in the morning impearled
with dew--arrayed with jewels--once
shake it so that the heads roll off, and
and you may sprinkle water over it as
long as you please, yet it can never be
made again what it was when the dew
fell gently ON it from heaven.


On frosty morning you may see
the panes of glass covered with land
scapes, mountains, lakes and trees,
blended into beautiful fantastic pict-
ure. Now lay your hand upon the
glass, and by the warmth of the palm,
all the delicate tracery will be obliter-
ated


So there is in youth beauty and
purity of chara cter, which, when once
touched and defiled. can never be re-
stored-a fringe more delicate than
frost work, which, when torn and brok-
en-, will never be repaired. When a
young lad or girl leaves the parent S
house, with the blessings of mother S
tears still wet upon the cheek, if early
purity Of character be once lost, it is a
loss that can never be made up again
Such is the consequence of crime"
Year: 1875

"Bless God for rain !'' the good man said,
And wiped away grateful tear;
That we may have our daily bread,


He drops shower upon us here,
Our Father thou who dwel'st in Heaven,
We thank shee for the pearly shower!
The blessed present thou has given


10 man, and beast. and bird, and flower.
The dusty earth, with lips apart,


Looked up where ro lied an orb of flame
AS though prayer came from it's heart
For rain to come; and 10 it came!
The Indian corn with silken plume,


And tiny pitchers with flowers filled,
Send up their praise of sweet perfume
For precious drops the clouos distilled.
The modest grass is fresh and green:


The brooklet swells its song again;
Methlnks an angels wing is seen


IN every cloud that brings US rain,
There is rainbow in the sky,


Upon the arch where tempests trod
God wrote 1T ere the world was dry


1t is the autograph of God.
Up where the heavy thunders rolled,


And clouds Of fire were swept along,
The sun rides In car of gold,


And soaring larks dissolve in song,
The rills that gush from mountains rude,
Flow Crickling to the verdant base
Just like the tears of gratitude


That often stain good mans face,
Great e ing of Peace, deign now to bless;
The windows Of the sky unbar;
Shower down the rain of Righteousness,
AND wash away the stain of War;
And let the radiant bow Of Love


In beauty mark the moral sky,
Like that fair sign unroiIed above.


But not like it to fade and die
Year: 1875

DR.. McCloskey is no more danger
Gus as cardinal than he was as arch
bishop, nor as archbishop than when
he was simple priest. These offices
in this great and venerable sect were
not invented for the sake of plaguing
Americans and Protestants. They
have been for ages part Of the ma
chinery of church organization. Tho
Roman Catholic Church is to receive
Christian courtesy and toleration, not
because it has not yet developed all it's
polity among rs, but on the broad
ground of the liberty of men to wor
ship God after their own reason and
conscience. This church is no more
aggressive with an American cardinal
at its head than it was before. It is a
matter with which Christians of other
sects have nothing to do. It is the do
mestic business of this great mother
sect, with which sister sects have no
right to meddle.


In one respect, certainly, all gener-
ons Christians should be thankful.
that for the first cardinal in American
there should have been selected a
Christian gentleman Of great personal
worth, of simplicity of life, unostenta-
tious fidelity. and most devout Chris
tian disposition. If any man could
win the sympathy and confidence OF
Christians Of other sects, the first car
dinal will. That the Roman Catholic
Church of America has developed one
stage further in its organic form is
matter chiefly concerning its own mem
bers; bat that the man selected TO rep
resent this great church should be a
man of universal sympathies, of gen.
tie heart, good citizen, a friendly neigh
Dor, In short, a coed man, is benefit
to our common Christianity.


For ourselves. We have no fears of
the undue predominance of the Roman
Year: 1875

From The New York Times.


Our purpose is now to call attention


to the great strength Of the Methodist


Church in the United States. It has
a membership almost as large as, and a
ministry more numerous than, that of
all other churches, the Catholics ex-
cepted. It is the chosen form of wor-
ship of at least one-fourth of the peo-
pie of the country. While its church
government is not democratic, like that
of Congregationalisn, there is no
church that, in the ery-day thoughts
and life of it's members, is more thor
oughly in sympathy with the most
democratic Interpretation of our insti-
tutions. 1t. is emphatically, the
church of the people. In its origin, in
the preaching Of Whittford and the
Wesleys, it came as new gospel to
the poor and lowly Then it was a
great religious awakening, and it is not
too much to say that it not only brought
multitudes Of sinners to repentance, but
it quickened with a new life the Estab-
lisbed Church itself. It has not lost
that characteristic yet; and its great
strength in this country is evidence
that, in its methods and in its teachings,
it lies nearer the heart of the people
than any other church. It's clergy
never found any human sympathy
foreig to them or their work. They
have not been aloot from or above poll
tics; whatever interested their congre-
cations Interested them. To .hem re-
llgion is life more than a creed an
everyday work rather than theologi-
cal dogma and it has thus recommend
ed itself to those who have found in
it a gospel they could understand; ad-
dressed itself to their emotions rather
than to their intellect an appeal to
faith rather than a persuasion Of the
reason.


Archdeacon Hare says. in one of his
sermons on the victory of faith; Every
truth of reason, if it is TO exercise any
practical influence, must also become a
truth by faith must be recognized |
and substantiate1 by the will. must be
cut off from the tree Of knowledge, |
and grated into the tree of life; and |
in this understanding Of faith the
Methodist Church in the beginning, |
and to this day. addresses itself TO the
hearts and consciences Of men. The
truth to them is not all abstract propo-
Year: 1875

---Respectability is all very we'll for
folks who can have it for ready mon
ey but to be obliged to run in debt


for it is enough to break the heart Of
an angel.-Jerrold.


If we read the Bible histories, one


after another, in the same order which


God has put them In the Bible, we


shall see that they are all regular steps


in line. that each fresh story depends


upon the story which went before it
and yet. in each fresh history we shall


find God telling men something new
something which they did not know be-
fore. And so the whole Bible, from


beginning to end, is one glorious,


methodlc, and organic tree of life, eve
ry part growing out of the others from
the root-than foundation other than


which no man can lay, which is Christ,
revealing himself, though not by name,
in that wonderful first chapter of Gene
sis, up to the fruit which is the king
dom of Christ and gospel of Christ and
the salvation in which we here now
stand.


Many say they have no peace nor
rest, but SO many crosses and trials af-
fictions and sorrows that they know
not how they shall ever get through
them. Now he who in truth will per-
ceive and take note perceiveth clearly
that true peace and rest lie not in out
ward things; for if it were so, the evil
spirit would also have peace when
things go according to his will, which
is nowise the case. Therefore we must
consider and see what is that peace
which Christ left to his disciples when
he said, "My peace [ have left with
you, my peace give unto you" Christ
meant that inward peace which can
break through all assaults and crosses
of oppression, suffering, misery, humil
iation and what more there may be Of
the like, so that man may be joyful
and patient therein; and what was bit
ter to him before shall become sweet.
and his heart shall remain unmoved un-
der all changes at all times.


1t takes time and effort to make
man, but he is worth ail it costs. He
is the noblest work Of creation and
shall live after buildings, and monu-
ments, and earth itself have passed
away. A flaw in the foundation of
building may cause the whole structure
to fall I once saw the entire front of
a college building taken down to cor
rect mistake IF the workmen. You
can't take back your life In after years
to mend the errors Of youth. In SO
great matter, how important that ev-
erything be well done. A man was
once hotly pursued by his enemies
while they were in full sight upon the
descent OF a mountain in the rear, the
5lrt OF his saddle broke, he coolly dis
mounted and repaired the breach, then
n an instant throwing himself into the
saddle he shot across the plain and es-
'aped his pursuers. Had heattempted
20 push on with the broken girt, for
want Of time to mend it, he would
doubtless have been thrown from his
horse and captured.


Remember, then this rule: Tue
more thorough, the greater speed!
Year: 1875

There is an element of interest in the


often-repeateI story of Daguerre's first


invention, that makes DIR. Vogel's ac-


count of it an attractive passage-es-


pecially that part of it where he de-


scribes the chemists accidental discov-


cry of the means of making new power
available for Notwithstanding
which his first plates did not permit,
their preparation requiring a long ex-


pOsure to light, so that one desiring his
likeness upon them "would have been
obliged to remain motionless for hours
to obtain it. "


zone day Daguerre placed aside as
useless, in a closet in which were some
chemical substances, several plates that
had been exposed too short time to
the light, and therefore as yet showed
no image. After some time he looked
by accident at the plates, and was not
little astOnished to see an image upon
them. He Immediately OWNED that
this must have arisen through the oper-
alton on the plates of some chemical sub
stance which was lyingin the closet. He
therefore proceeded to take one chemi-
cal out of the closet after the other,
placed in it plates recently exposed to
the light, when, after remaining there
some hours, images were again produced
upon them. At length he had removed
in succession all the chemical substances
from the closet, and still images
were produced upon the plates that had
been exposed to the light. He was now
on the point of believing the closet to be
Dewitched, when he discovered on the
floor a shell containing quicksilver,
which he had hitherto overlooked. He
conceived the notion that the vaper from
this substance-for mercury gives off
Vapor even at an ordinary temperature
must have been the magic power which
produced the image. To test the accu-
,acy of this suppOsition, he again took a
plate that had been exposed to light for
l short time in the camera Ob8curG, and
IN which no image was yet visible. He
exposed this plate to the vapor of quick
silver, and, to his intense delight, an
mage appeared, and the world was again
by one of its most beautiful
discoveries.
Year: 1875

It las generally been believed that
the common house fly was nuisance
and oI no EARLY use. Prof. Emerson,
a not, d English chemist, found that
flies were not so useless as they are
supposed to be, but that as scavengers
of the air they are indispensable. Did
you ever watch a fly who has Just
alighted after soaring about the room
for some little time? He goes through
a series of operations which remind you
of cat licking herself after meal, or
of a bird plumipg its feathers. First,
the hind leg is passed over a wing, then
the fore legs undergo a like treatment;
and lastly, if you look sharp, you will
see the insect carry his proboscis over
his legs and body as far as he can reach.
The minute trunk is perfectly retrac-
tile. and it terminates in two large lobes,
which you can see spread out when the
insect begins a meal on a lump of
sugar. Now the rubbing together of
legs and wings may be a smoothing op-
Grafton but for what purpose is this
carefully going over the pody with the
trunk, especially when that organ is not
fitted for licking, but simply for grasp
ing and sucking of food.


IL.
that the action of the hies was to gather
animalculee, which had attached to them
in flying about the room. He took
sheet of white paper into the kitchen
and waved it around, taking care that
no flies touched it, went back to the
microscope and there found animal
cules, the same as on flies. He had
now arrived at something definite; they
were not the progeny of the fly, but an
imalcules floating in the air; and the
quick motions of the flies gathered
them on their bodies, and the flies then
went into some quiet corner to have
their dainty meal.


The investigator goes on to describe
how he continued the experiment in q
variety of localities, and how, in dirty
and bad smelling quarters, he found the
myriads of flies which existed there lit
orally covered with animalcules, while
other flies, captured in bed rooms or
well ventilated, clean apartments, were
miserably lean and entirely free from
their prey. Wherever filth existed,
evolving germs which might generate
disease, there were the flies, covering
themselves with the minute organisms
and greedily devouring the'same.


Mr.. Emerson, while thus proving the
utility of the fly, has added another and
lower link to that curious and necessary
chain of destruction which exists in ami
mated nature These infnitesimal ami
malcules from food for the flies, the
flies for the spiders, the spiders for the
birds, the birds for the quadrupeds, and
so on up to the last of the series, serv-
ing the same purpose to man. He GER
tainly deserves credit for an interesting
and novel investigation, and for an
discernment which might
even attack the difficult task of teach
ing us the uses-forsnature makes moth
ing without some beneficial end-of the
themselves.