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Year: 1875

Paul Morphy, the famous chess play
er, is in New Orleans asylum, hope
lessly insane. He was born in that
city in 1910 Of wealthy Creole parent
age, and his adoption of the game of
chess as business not only offended
bis relatives. but occupied the years in
which be might have achieved success
in some other career He returned to
his home just before the rebellion, sud-
denly and thoroughly disgusted with
chess-so prejudiced against it that he
has since never played He has subse-
quently led an idle, morose life. His
daily routine Of existence, says the New
Orleans Picayune, involved walk on
Canal street every morning, where bis
dapper little fgure-always scrupulous.
ly dressed became as we'll known and
as regularly looked for as the MONDAY
bell. After his daily promenade he re-
tired from public gaze until evening,
when he appeared in his box at the
opera, where, it is said, he never missed
night 1t is further related that dur
ing these years b permitted no friendly
acquaintance; he was never known to
associate with anybody but his mother.
and persistently repelled advances from
those who, having been friends of his
early youth, desired to renew their as
sociations. He lived strange life.
strange, moody and peculiarly mournful
man. About year ago be began to
lose his mental control, and several
months ago was put in private asylum.
Some of his friends hold the theory that
his malady had its start in the strain
upon his mind in playing many and diff
icult games Of chess.
Year: 1875

parts of the Continent. so that side by
side the visitor may see the full variety
Of the forest products and fruits of the
country, from the frs Of the extreme
north, to the oranges and bananas Of
and the wondrous grapes and
other fruits Of California. In this great
work it is important that the most per-
feet success should be achieved, SO that
the vastness Of territory. variety Of pro-.
duct. and perfection of species, which
constitute the marvel and the might Of
America, may be displayed in such
way as to be realized at glance. 1t
is subject upon which even little
spread-eagle enthusiasm would be more
than allowable, and the horticulturists
and agriculturists-p professional and
the nation. will be afforded
IN opportunity Of displaying their ac-
i've sympathy and practical assistance
IN the great Celebration.
Year: 1875

Prof. Wise in a recent lecture says !:
The impressions of first ascension were
very striking. 1t is like the earth fall
ing away from the balloon. There is
no vertigo; but the earth sinks. becomes
flattened in appearance and finally con-
cave. The position Of the balloon SEEM
ed to be between two concavities. The
prismatic effects produced by refraction
arc very beautiful; fairy scenes present
Year: 1875

Life is book in which We every day
read a page. We ought to note down
every instructive incident that passes


A crowd Of useful thoughts cannot but
flow from self-converse. Hold every
day a solitary conversation with your
self. This is the way in which to at
tain the highest relish Of existence. and
if | may SO say, to cast anchor in the
river of life. +.
Year: 1875

Should you ask us why this dunniug


Why these sad complaints and murmurs,


Murmurs loud about delinquents


Who have read the paper weekly,


Read what they had never paid for,
Read with pleasure and with profit,


Read of church affairs and prospects,


Read of news both home and foreign,


Read the essays and the poems,


Full Of wisdom and instruction;


Read the table of the markets,
Carefully corrected weekly


Should you ask us why this dunning?


We would answer, We should tell you -


From the printer, from the mailer,
From the kind old paper-maker,


From the landlord, from the 'sdevil,'
From the man who taxes letters


With stamp Of Uncle Samuel
Uncle Sam the rowdies call him;
From them all there comes message
Message kind, but ftly spoken,
'iPlease to pay the bill you owe u.s.


Sad it is to bear such message
When our funds are all exhausted,
When the last greenback has left us,
When the nickels all have vanished
Gone TO pay the paper-maker,
Gone to pay the toiling printer,
Gone to pay the landlord tribute,
Gone to pay the clerk and devil,
Gone to pay the faithful mailer,
Gone to pay old Uncle Samuel
Uncle Sam the rowdies call him
Gone TO pay for beef and Bridget.
Gone to pay our faithful parson.


Sad it is TO turn our ledger,
Turn the leaves of this old ledger,
Turn and see what sums are due us,
Due for volumes long since ended,
Due for years Of pleasant reading,
Due for years of anxious labor,
Due despite our patient waiting,
Due despite our constant dunning,
Due in sums from three to twenty.


Would you lift burden from rs?
Would you drive spectre from you?
Noild you taste pleasant slumber?
Would you have quiet conscience?
Would you read paper paid for?
lend US money-send us money.
lend us uoney-send US money;
;END THE MONEY THAT you OWE Us!
Year: 1875

Only good farming pays. He who
sows or plants without reasonable as
surance of good crops. annually, might
better earn wages Of some capable
neighbor than work for SO poor pay
master as he is certain to prove him
self.
Year: 1875

The head truly enlightened will pres
emily have a wonderful influence in
purifying the heart, and the heart really
affected with goodness will much con-
duce to the directing Of the head.
Year: 1875




The second well put down by the
Land Association at Artesia, has re-
suited in one of the largest, If not the
largest, flow of water In the valley.
The flow is reported as being nearly
five inches. Heretofore two and three
inch wells have been considered very
strong-sufiicient to irrigate a farm of
eighty acres. The well was piped up
six feet yesterday, and still the water
flowed over a strong two-inch well.
There are now in the neighborho0d
about thirty flowing wells and four
sets of hands are at work sinking new
ones. In all of these operations there
has been no failure water-fiowing
water-has been obtained in every
instance.


This additional certainty of getting
a good supply of water for irrigating
purposes has strengthened the faith of
the people i'm the Artesia settlement,
and has turned the attention of the
public strongly in that direction.


The association has fulfilled every
promise made and more, too. They
agreed to give ten per cent. of the re-
ceipts from the sale of all outside lands
sold at the first sale for the erection of
fine school house. This school house
fund thus far amounts to but about
$4,000, and yet the association have in
process of erection fine school house
edifice, which. will cost over $4, 600 and
have also donated two town lots,
which are worth $500 more. They put
down q fine artesian well on the public
plaza aud have donated it and the
plaza to the public. They have car
Angeles to Artesia and back free of
They have done a good work for Los
Angeles county by bringing into no.
tice one OF the finest tracts of land In
the entire valley and selling it to ac-
tual settlers ....s..s...s.,..


The result of this movement will be
very rich settlement Of Industrious
farmers and good village with a
school house second to none in the
county and consequently a good
school. eesfa to8 yaatf


One more chance will be given the
public to secure homes in Artesia. No
lands are being sold by the association
at private sale, although daily appli-
cations are being made.s &c.


When we take inte consideration
the fact that farming lands in the
Eastern States are worth from $50 to
$500 per acre and even more, and that
one acre at Artesia will produce more
than two or even three acres in the
State of New York, people need not
be afraid of paying too high prices for
good irrigable lands here in Los Ange-
les at the prices now in vogue.
Year: 1875

The BElKING YEAR OF APPLE TREEs.-The


Nelc Englaud Far1ler adveris to the fact tha,
apple trees, As rule, produce the largest
crops in even years, and few or none in the
intermediate years, and remarks that the
problem Of controlling the bearing year Of
his trees is the most important matter for
the apple grower to consider. The fact that
apple trees do bear most abundantly in the
even years is generally known among orch
ardists, though no very good explanation of
it can be offered. 10 1873, for example, the
crop amounted to nothing; in 1874 it was
so enormous as to be hardly worth harvest
ing, while this year it is very small. When
there is large crop of fappler the vital forces
OF the tree are drawn upon so heavily that
little is left for Ieriecting the fruit buds for
succeeding crop, for these fruit buds are all
made the year previous to the bearing year
There are exceptional orchards which bear
most heavily in the odd years. One New
York apple grower has acres of trees whose
habits have been entirely changed BY pick
ing the fruit as soon as it was set, thus losing
of course one crop. Other orchards have
been changed in their bearing year by the
depredations of insects and by frosts. Con-
cernlng the Importance OF studying the mat
ter with view to bringing about change,
if practicable, the Ncio Engiand Farmer
says:


"The lesson to be learned from the last
years's apple crop is al important one, for
unless We can, in measure, control the ex-
tent of the harvest, We mightaS we'll, 80 far
as raising apples at a profit is concerned,
give them up entirely. For home use it may
pay to grow trees, even if they bear only
every other year. We have all been lnxu-
rating on apples the past year, both raw
and cooked in every conceivable form, and
many Of these who bad them TO buy used
them very freely, paying listle more for them
than the cost Of picking and marketing, but
all parties would be better suited if they
could be grown more uniformly in quantity
every year. We believe this can be done
with better knowledge of the habits and
requirements OF the trees. Let US give the
subject our attention during the next few
years, and if we cannot work reform in
this matter We may as well Acknowledge
ourselves the victims Of chance
Year: 1875

goods there was bottle of hair refrigera.
tor there was nightgown with hole il
the back I; there was a."


A this moment the baggage-naster camt
up and informed her that the lost satche
had been found under pile Of trunks, and
she arose and remarked


"Well. that's all right. Looks to me q:
if there was little suspicion here, but this
railroad wants to understand that can stick
up for my rights with anybody. was
bound to have that satchel or put the hull
caboodle ofye where you coaldn't break
out !"


And parading up and down the depot with
the big satchel under her arm, her eyes wore
a look Of proud triumph.-Free Press.
Year: 1875

TRoTIEas : PREsENT.-Dan De Qdille, OF
the Virginia (Nevada) Enterprise, who has
been visiting the Atlantic coast. went down
to Newport with Marx Twain in August,
| and devotes letter to its beauties and pleas
ures. Incidentally he tells the following
story


"About fifty visitors were at Bateman 5
during my stay there, among them hand
some miss of sixteen, from Toronto--if she
amt there yet, | don't know where she's
gone to-whioh is a rhyme. A young man
stopping at another house was in love with
the young lady from Toronto. One night,
about 10 o'clock, in the midst of rain and
storm, he drove up to the porch OF our house
in hack and asked for his cnslayer She
was long time in making her appearance
the whole lower part OF the house, appar-
emily, being deserted Meantime the young
man, who had alighted, promenaded the
porch in an oilskin suit and distressed state
of mind, seemingly. At last he showed
such signs Of impatience that expected
every minute to hear him say:


Tell that young lady from Toronto,


She need'nl come If she don't want TO-


But he didn't say it, and finally she came.
When she came and stood on the porch in
the wind and rain and the light of the big
lamp at the door, the young man went to the
side of the hack and drew out sea bass
about four feet in length, and clapping it
down on the porch at the young lady's feet,
said :'Will YOU please accept this ? | though,
he was going to add, AS slight token of
my affection, but he didn't She said 30,
Mr.. Trotter, how kind you are The fsh
was about as big as the girl, and Trotter was
very happy. Did you catch it yourself,
Mr.. Trotterp Trotter said he did, and then
volunteered the information that it weighed
forty-two pounds. why Mr.. Tro,ter, what
fisherman you are!' Trotter smiled from
ear to ear, as much IS to say that she had
got him put up about right. The whole
house then came down to see the big fish,
and one ofthe youngsters got bis hand into
its mouth. and found out that it was still
alive. This amused Trotter, but when the
mother Of the youngster took the bleeding
hand of her boy in both hers and began TO
TO talk about the horrors of the lockjaw,
Trotter took reef in the corners of his
mouth and looked serious-so did tho young
lady from Toronto, for it was her fish that
had begun to chaw up the small boar1ers
After being thanked again and again, Trot-
ter drove away in the storm and darkness,
happy man. Then the other young
ladies said to the young lady from Toronto
How delighted you must be to get such a
present Aud at such an hour y The young
lady from Toronto replied by calling color
ed man TO take the fish and carry 1t round 10
the kitchen. The next morning the whole
hoase toasted on the fish. When lett, Trot-
ter was getting harpoon made, and expect
ed shortly to be able to lay whale at the
feet Of his love from Toronto
Year: 1875

Cry COUNCIL The regular monthly meet.
ing of the Common Council will be held on
Monday evening at O'Clock. Previous to
the meeting OF the Common Council there
will be joint session of the Council and
Board of Aldermen for the purpose OF elect
ing proxies to represent The city at the meet
ing of the stockholders of the James River
and KanaWba Canal Company.
Year: 1875

Such Church weuld be the SOON OF the orthodox
and the enigma or the liberal Until men get this
advanced religion they vii remaip outside OF the
Church ana worship as they mAy-some In the
nelds others In the busy places OF the city blend
Ing with their life the divine worship, serving
their God, the na'ien and their families with !
virtue that Is sustained by an inward rectitude
ana plety There are always Innumerable streams
OF Plety that run TO the rivers OF good mems
Souls Tnere are always people who will 60 to
hear the highest and tie best in order to receive
announcement and nourisnment, ana make their
souls larger and nobler more womanly and
manly. There are always such streams rushing
on to such oceans, there are always
5uoh congregations 10 listen to such men,
me Church Will become popular, an
instrument great noble. progressive only
when ltlearns the simple truth That mankind is
one; that truth Is large and mighty thai the
spirls OF Justice and rgnteousness s heterogeneous
TO the race; that depravlty is not an Inheritance
but an acquisition; when they shall be told that
they love righteousness truth, purify and all the
qualities that make the man manly and, there
fore, the Christian, and when that sentiment is
sustained By the preacher and membership, then
the Church Will be rest % the body and rep0ae to
the soul and .he city where Goo Is
Year: 1875

A farmer, attending fair, with hundred
pounds in his pocket, took the precaution of
depositing it in the hands of the landlord of
the public house at which he stopped. Hav-
ing occasion for it shortly afterwards, he re-
sorted to mine host for payment. But the
landlord, too deep for the countryman, Won
dered what he meant and was quite sure no
such sum had ever been lodged in his hands
by the astonished rustic. After Intellectual
appeals to the recollection, and finally to the
honor of Bardolph, the farmer applied to
Year: 1875

One word 10 the unconverted sinner who
may read this. DO not allege the imPerfec-
tions of believers as hindrance in the way
cf your coming to Christ for you have
to do, first of all and at once, with the Per
feet One, Christ Himself Ii you perish, il
will be because you fabricate and excuse
which the Judge will at once detect and dis
allow. Only think of your folly the sins OF
other men made reason for your resolving
to perish We who have come to Christ
aud our friends, and millions who went be
fore us, all met with the same stumbling
block, but it did not turn us aside. Oh
that we could show you the Perfect One in
all the fullness and riches of His salvation


And make haste; for otherwise you will soor
find yourself perfect sinners-complete sin
ners in every sense-and the voice of the
Judge shall bid the heralds cease TO SOUND
the silver trumpet, and shall command tn.
gates of the City of Refuge to be closed
q lie that is unjust, let him be unjust still


and he that is filthy, let him be filthy STILL
Rev. xxi 11.-Reu. Andrep 4. Bonar. d. d
Year: 1875

What II thou feel many things wrong in
thyself Thou art sometimes low In spirits
thou canst not be pleased with thy conup-
tions, and thou art not pleased with thy du-
ties; thy graces are weak, thy love not as it
should be, thy best services improbable
yet these very things rightly understood, and
improved by the teaching Of the Holy Spirit,
will be the means Of establishing thy con-
science in the peace of God. They will lead
thee every day to greater dependence upon
sovereign grace, for they will leave thee
nothing to trust in but the Righteousness and
the atonement Of lmmanuel-nothing to keep
thee but His faithfulness to His word and
work, and nothing to bless thee but His
free covenant mercy. Thus they will work
together for thy good. Trials will settle
thee. Enemies viii confirm thee in peace.
Troubles will bring thee nearer to Cod
ROUdiue
Year: 1875

OVT OF THE FlELD.-Chief Justice
Waite, Of the Uuited States Supreme
Court. gives no encouragement to
those Of his friends who have sugges-
ted him as a candidate for the Presi-
dency. He reminds them that to
place a Supreme Judge il that posi-.
ton night tend to warp his judicial
impartiality. But he goes further,
and expresses the belief that it would
be highly proper so to amend the
Constitution as to render a Judge of
the Supreme Court ineligible to the
Presidency.
Year: 1875

T A correspondent asks how to dye
hair switches dark brown. Perhaps
others of our household readers will be
glad to learn that they can do it easily
themselves, without the use Of any
chemicals. Take, say, the eighth of a
pound of poor black tea and boil. using
soft water. in rusty iron kettle. or If
yon have none that is rusty, put in an


ola ron of some kind. boil an hour or


two. adding water as needed to keep up
quantity sufficient to cover your bair
we'll. then strain, put in the hair to be


dyed, and simmer gently. stirring and


airing often, until it is of the desired
shade. dry. rinse out, apd dress with an
oil.-Fa,m Journal.
Year: 1875

VERY FRENCtiT SToRIEs.--A capillary
correspondence was recently attempted
between q notorious Partisan thief in
durance vile and his comrades outside.
The prisoner was sent a letter from his
fance, containing merely lock of hair
wrapped in the leaf of book. The
taller did not consider the souvenir inn
portant enough to be delivered, but a
few days after came similar enclosure
and yet another This aroused suspic-
ion, and the Governor took the matter
in hand. He examined the leaf of the
book; it was only that of common
novel twenty-six lines on page. Then
be studied the hair and noticed the
small quantity of the gift. Counting
the hairs he found them of unequal
length, and twenty SIX in number, the
same as the lines of the page. Struck
with the coincidence, he laid the hairs
along the lines Of the page which they
respectively reached, beginning at the
top with the smallest BAR. After some
trouble, be found that the end Of each
hair pointed, to different letter, and
that thee letters combined formed q
slang sentence, which informed the
prisoner that his friends were OF tie
watch and that the next time he left the
PRISON an attempt would be made to
rescue him. The Governor laid his
plans accordingly, the attempt at rescue
was made, but the rescuers fell into
their .oN n trap. -.-----.-------.---.
Year: 1875




Oh. CLOTH MADE FROM CAapET.-
Daisy Eyebrisht says Nail the old
Brussels carpet loosely.to the floor in n
large attic or wood house or chamber
not IN use. Then pai.t it over with a
thick coat OF linseed oil and burnt um-
ber. Let it day in thoroughly: add a
coat of good varnish. Let that dry for
a week or two, and it can be scrubbed
and washed with milk and water, like
any oil-cloth. Paint it on the wrong
side and nail it down closely, for 1T need
not be taken up for many years. As
the varnish and paint wear off renew
them thus it will last four times as
long as common oil>cloth. f'a
Year: 1875

"a Jay Gould is the smartest man
in the United States. He has this win
ter beaten all the other spectators of
Wall street, Broad street aud every other
street, and their scalps hang in his belt
He has broken down the market price
of Western Union shares. and on Tue
day he finally took possession of the
Pacific Mail. On Western Union his
profits are believed to be between mil
hon and half and two millions; and on
Pacific Mail his net gains are variously.
estimated from half million upward.
Year: 1875

A LITTLE HEHo.-- Two chi dren still
and stark on snowy. slope-the girl
wrapped round in the coat of the boy.
and both young faces fixed by frost in
the calm repose of death--was the pic
-turs represented to the eyes Of wearied
seaichers near Mount Ayr. Iowa. the
other day. The Winter cold has taken
many life. but none Of the unfortu-
mates were found in so touching an at
titude as this. 1t was not in the heat
Of conflict that the boy died; there was
nc shrieking fife nor rafting drum TO
stir his thiekening blood, nor comrades
eyes to mark his heroic fall nothing to
rouse his Young enthusiasm. But the
little cost folded carefully about the
girlish form, and lis own naked breast,
told Of the quiet courage and self sacri-
fee with which he had met the pitless
blast that blew as cold on him as her.
Year: 1875

A pet wolf in this place several days ago
caught and killed a large tarantula. The
manner in which the wolf went at ii
strongly suggests the theory that wolves
are the natural enemies and destr0yers Of
this venomous insect. sThe wolf. which i
small coyote. only about six weeks old.
was I'm the habit Of staying in the house.
AT the time IN question he suddenly COM
mencs-d growing and barking and run
ming about the floor as IL there was some
thing under IL which he did not like. So
frantic did he finally become that he was
allowed 10 20 under the house. No sooner
did he 20 under the house than he be-
came eDgagsd In a scuifie with something.
and coming out again IN few moments.
brought in his mouth a taraniula. which
was still struggling. He soon dispatched
it.-Rcekdaie (Tsrrsl Messenger.
Year: 1875

The full facts Of the experiment. failure
were given in yesterdays HERALD. nthat
statement the date fl r the disappearance of
t ice was given as the 29th of August. 1t
seems that the stipulated amount of ice was
forty tons, and that a much smaller q,lanti-
ty was stored by the Steamship company.
such is the case, there can be little doubt
that the loss of fruit will be made good by
them, on the grounds that their par. of the
contract was not fulfilled. The speculatons
OF some growers about the failure has led to
one very unreasonable conclusion, viz the
assertion that the peaches were purposely
allowed to perish so that the mass Of ship
pers might be mslcd and few mono police
the subsequent trade. This supposition Us
not at all plausible. The cause of the fail
ure was evidently miscalculation on the
part of the Steamship company as to the
'amot n of ice necessary. There is scare .ly
Delawarean who ia not anxious to see tie
experiment repeated in the Steamship Penn
sy]vi MIA, which goes out on the 18th of this
month. The time is short, however, and es
there is considerable risk and our peach
growers have lost enough money already in
the home markets, 1t is not likely to be st.
tempted.