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Year: 1875

EATING BEFORE SLEEPING.-It is COM
mon mistake to suppose that eating before
sleeping is injurious. Not at all unfrequently
does it happen that people are sleepless for
want of food, and little taken either when
they first go to bed, or when they thus wake
sleepless, will generally be found more efica-
cious and of course infinitely less injurious
than any drug in the chemists pharmacopeoia.
These are the physical remedies for sleepless-
ness which have the best recommendation.
AS for the moral ones, there is certainly
good deal more to be said. Perhaps the most
Stringent of all rules are: "Avoid anxiety"
and "Don't 90 to bed owing anybody a
grudger Chewing the bitter end of quar-
rel is thousand fold more injurious to repose
than swallowing whole teapotful of the very
greenest of green tea.


n1~ Ofall the love affairs in the world, none
can surpass the true love Of big boy for his
mother. 1t is love pure and noble, honora-
BILE in the highest degree to both. 1 do not
mean merely dutiful affection. ! mean a
love which makes boy gallant and courteous
to his mother, saying to everybody plainly
that he is fairly in love with her. Next to
the love of her husband, nothing so crowns a
woman's life with honor as this second love,
this devotion of the son to her. l never yet
knew boy to turn out bad who began by
falling in love with his mother.
Year: 1875

sure of personal friendship, to demand of him
an appointment which can only result in dis
grace to his administration and disaster to the
best interests of the whole people.


If the men in power will but act faithfully
in this regard, the reform we have talked so
much of will be an accomplished fact instead
of promise, and this, too, without registra-
tion act, or additional padlocks on the treasu'
Union. Herald.
Year: 1875

we're the names it bore. And their places
were vacant forever; for no other son or
daughter ever smiled in their parents arms
again.


Estelle was their all now How did she
repay their love and care? Time will show.
Year: 1875

THERE is serious apprehension that
our new Council will earn the reputa-
tion of the Council of ten million
speeches. The Counciimen are all
serious, earnest workers, but two or
three of them appear to be afflicted
with q disease called diarrhga of
words and a constipation Of ideas-a
little wheat and a mountain of chaff-
all talk and no cider. Welike to hear
a Councilman express his views on a
measure or proposition ten or fifteen
times, and our patience is generally
proof against the fiftieth repetition,
but. when he insists on travelling
around the little circle thousand
times during one session, we begin to
regret that the audience does not like.
to hear the gentleman talk as we'll as
he likes to hear himself. The fact is,
a man of one idea cannot make him.
self interesting rs speaker after he
fails to present that idea in a new
dress. Some of our Councilmen will
have to hunt up o new idea or read up
in the dictionary if they wish to sus-
tain their reputation as eloquent
speakers.
Year: 1875

The failure of a man of such great
learning and eloquence as HEPwoRTH
DIXON to obtain an appreciative audi
ence to hear him lecture in San Fran
cisco, is a subject for more serious
consideration than it will receive from
many of our people. The lecturer
ought to be, and, when deserving Of
the name, is, one of the most inter-
esting of teachers. Yet we are daily
furnished with the most positive evil
dence that our people do not take to
lectures. In the interior towns, where
the population is small, some excuse
may be offered for the thinness of the
house to which man who has spent
the best part of lifetime in collecting
and classifying Information is called
upon to speak; but San Francisco is a
city at least 100000 people reside
within her limits - and it seems
strange almost disgraceful = that
there, a learned man and a polished
speaker should be forced to dismiss
his audience because it was so small
that he could not speak to it. Yet
after delivering two of his course of
five lectures, Mr.. HEPwoRTH DIXON
was compelled to do this. Why does
this fault exist? 1t is not because
San Francisco's people are not suffi-
ciently we'll informed or educated to
appreciate learned lecture. No city


in the world will rate higher in intel
ligence than the metropolis of the
Pacific. The reason must be found
somewhere else, and we know of no


more probable or potent cause than the
want of time. Californians have all
the time there is, yet they have none
for rest, recreation, or even obtaining
information, except the moment at
the breakfast table devoted to scam
ming the morning paper. Especially
is this true of the people Of San Fran
sisco. They live in an atmosphere of
feverish excitement, which is as de-
Year: 1875

THE JIM FISK estate has been set
tied up, and there is nothing in it.
Where millions were expected nothing
was found. In life FISK stole = the
popular term is financiered-himself
rich. But he lived for the day. Had
his life been prolonged until he was
eighty years Of age he would have
lived rich as he did live and died poor
as he did die. He was an animal, with
only the instincts of an animal. His
financial genius was but the servant
Of his passions. He knew nothing Of
the future, thought nothing of it and
provided nothing for it. The bullet of
STOKES was the time stroke which
closed a career that began in the world
and ended in it.
Year: 1875

THE city public schools will reopen
tomorrow morning, in accordance
with the directions of the Board of
Education. The Common Council
suggested, or rather demanded, that the
vacation should be eextendedone month
longer, but the Board decided not to
act upon the suggestion, and the
HERALD endorses the action of the
Board. The dismissal of the schools
for one or three months will do moth
ing toward eradicating the scarlet
fever, which, by the way, does not
exist to a serious extent in the city.
The argument of correspondent
whose communication appears in an
othor column, is correct and covers the
whole ground.
Year: 1875

THAT "bill of particulars which
TILToN was to file and which we We're
all so anxious to see, we shall not see
after all. One court said he should file
it and the court above said he should
not. Their the court below said he
should and the court above said he
should not. This game of battledore
went on for some weeks, and finally
the thing collapsed and we are done
out of that bill of particulars.
Year: 1875

WASHINGTON, January Sth. = The
President will send Congress all the
information in his. possession regard
ing affairs in the South, and will prob
ably accompany it with special
message. He says his sole purpose is
to preserve peace until Congress can
declare its policy.
Year: 1875

The side track at Pomona will be
laid next week, when building opera
tions will be commenced and pushed
vigorously at the new town.


The grape crop of this vicinity will
come in towards the last of July and
will be immense.
Year: 1875

The democrats in majority of tho Assembly districts
held primaries last evening elect three delegates in
each election district to the district conventions
which arc TO elect three delegates each to the
Democratic State Convention, to be held at
Syracuse on tho 10th inst. AS this year the
Tammany democrats determined to have all tho
prcmnares carried out strictly in accordance with the
rulc laid down in the Convention Of 1871 IL is probable
that tho ant-Tammany democrats will soon fol-
low suit with their primaries. Under tho Con-
vcntion rule strictly adhered to, the dele
gates from this oty will not 60 to the Convention
as heretofore, as body as the rule virtually
pcls delegates go separate and distinct delegations
Of three from each Assembly district. Thus IL may
happen that OF the delegations opposed to Tam
many may be admitted to the Convention II they can
provo their regularity


There has been good deal OF talk for time past
about the likelihood of John Morrisscy being run lOr
senator In tho Fourth Senatorial district opposition
to John Fox, and inquiries were made IN the principal
polling places in that district last night TO ascertain
any such movement was intended Most OF the poli-
ticians snokcn tu on the subject admitted that
they werc favorable TO Morrisscy but doubted
II he would be candidate, and limited that they cond
not sneak more openly for fear of falling under the dis
pleasure of the Tammany Committee on Discipline, OF
which they all appeared TO entertain wholesome
dread was only y,o IN e,,0 ono OF district sne ece ,So,
inc poltcans present positively stated John Morrssey
was 10 run and would be on the winning card. Even
there opposition party held that Ed Hogan would
bc the Tammany nominee, oven though he ran against
Tammauy last election The majority spoken TO were
very favorable Morssey, but It is plain that
ganzcd movement has been set on foot so far 10 put
him forward for Senator.


SECOND ASSEMBLY DISTRICT


The democrats and liberal republicans OF the Second
Assembly district met last evening at No ~ City Hall
place for the purpose OF elcctng three delegates rep
resent the district at the Democratic State Convention
~ Syracuse. Tho following are the names Of those
Year: 1875

About eight O'Clock last evening Boiler Inspector John
Doan OF the Eastern District about to get on tho
step Of an open car on the Broadway lnc near Myrtle
avenue when he slipped and the wheel passed over his
left foot crushing it in a shocking manner.
The unfortunate man was removed to the
Sixth sub b-prccinc and the ambulanc, was tcerrapbed
for The ambulance from the Eastern District Hospital
with Surgeon Hcssc, of the Health Bureau was
speedily en route for the station house but
the horse took fright and ran away throw
ing out the surgeon at the corner of South Fourth
and Twelfth streets, and severely njurng him about
the legs The doctor was taken back to the hospital
hr Dolan was removed to his home, No 90 North Sec
ond street. H. d., By his friendS
Year: 1875

In the First Congressional district, which includes
considerable orton OF the city of San Francisco there
several candidates IN the field besides those named
above. Frank Soulc, formerly Collector of Internal
Revenue dissatisfied with the action of the republicans
will receive many votes and Sam Brannan, at time
closely connected with the Mormons, has plenty OF
money, which he will spend to make good showing on
the day OF election.


The total vote poed for Supreme Court Judge in 1873
was 6S So out of which the republican candidate
ccivcd less than H. 0oO about oneh of the entire
vote of the State.
Year: 1875

STATISTICS OF THE POLICE DEPARTMENT.


In view OF the statement that crime has been on the
increase in New York of late Superintendent Walling
Yesterday compiled from the archives of tho Police
cuartmcnt the following statistics, showing the total
pccuniary losses by bualarics grand hrccnies &c,
during the past four years.
Year: 1875

Mr.. Rainey is trying a cover for
his new brick business house, which
has never been used in Pulaski, as
we learn. First he covered with
close-fitting sheeting, then on this a
canvas of cloth, overspread this
with a coating of tar, distributed
with a brush, and upon this sprinkled
sand. He tested the roof last week
by making a circular embankment
of sand on the roof, so as to confine
a bucket of water poured into it,
and there was no leak. He thinks
it will not cost aone-half as much as
a tin roof, and will last, perhaps,
twenty years.
Year: 1875

The following is recommended as
q successful cure for this disease
It is simply one part Of saltpeter to
two of salt, placed close to the body
of the tree destroy any fungoid
growth or yermin which may be IN
Testing the roots, and acts as IA ex-
cellent fertilizer.
Year: 1875

Passing through the carriage fac
tory of Graham & Sons the other
day, we were shown in their ware
room handsome specimen job of
the handicraftsmen of that estab-
lisbment, in the shape of a Paris
Pheton. This elegant two seated
vehicle has the Sarven wheel, with
hub of silver tip, bright with bands
of goldleaf, silver mounted body and
top, and fancy, quilted trimming.
All of the material is of the best,
and built by skilled mechanics.
The whole concern is of most elab
Orate finish, and, as was recently
said of similar vehicular contriv-
anee from the same shop, so may
we say of this neat ''turn out" Its
lucky purchaser will have no diff
ficulty in marrying, right away.
Gentlemen will look well to their
interests.
Year: 1875

Give a boy a basket of grocer;
les to carry home and he will swing
IL across his spine, bend half way
to the ground and groan with agony,
but give him that weight of base
ball bats and he will skip along as
merry as a potato bug in a ten-aere
lot
Year: 1875

calm face as infant cherubs gazing at the
Madonna's loveliness the grown folks say,
half apologetically, to fashionable callers
eve are all so fond of Aunt Mary, she has
lived with us so many years'--and then,
dropping the voice as though speaking of
fault or tOible-" unmarried, you know"
Yet of the many whom she has watched
and tended there be those who revere her
for her noble worth, and in after years,
when she is gone away from them all, will
speak her name as devotees tell their bead
ed saints, owning to her gentle influence is
due the sweetness of their life's fruition.
She always has word of sympathy for
them all, those noisy youth coming
up so rudely about her. When
romping viii breaks pitcher Aunt
Mary" bears the brunt of the disaster !;
when romantic Cornelia decides to elope
with the grocer "Aunt Mary" counsels
wisely, and the idea is abandoned She
may scOld now and then, her voice may
grow shrill and her temper variable as
the years go by, but what of that? Doesn't
mother do the same2 And was there ever
greater shrew than married Aunt Au-
reliaY She distresses our more modern
sense of propriety with thousand oud
ways, but eccentricity is but the homely
IlHu Wlt1lH lies Jllb BOluCu lTult. LlkO u
battery without the force of electric power
perhaps she passes days in our midst
grim, unresponsive, but let disaster over
take us, or sickness lay us aside, whose
hand so soft, whose sympathy so ready
as hers2


At last, one day, we gather round her
dying bed Faded and careworn, devoid
of comeliness. she lies before us. Feebly
her fingers grope for the touch of our hand.
The lips that have been unkissed by earth
ly love thrill to the embrace of the "Heav-
enly bridegroom" The eyes that have
never mirrored themselves in the affection
of fany but others children kindle with a
toy we never imagined i'll their gentle
depths. With prayer on her pale lips for
our welfare, with backward glance ofabid-
ing love for us, who so often have snubbed
and abused her, she slips from us into the
gloom, and the shadows veil her from our
sight forever. What shining bands come
down to greet her, what radiant crown is
given, and what sweet surprise of peace is
hers we cannot tell But this we know
that dear, queer, unselfish "Old Maid''
Aunt Mary shall take precedence there over
many who scorned her here.


For God is no respecter of persons, and
they who know My will and do it, shall
shine yonder, when the fair and the witty
and the honored are forgotten .-Mdtti6 B.
Holden, an Christian Union.
Year: 1875

The yelow-hammer came TO build his nest
High in the elm-tree's ever-nodding crest;
All the long day upon his task intent
Backward and forward busily he went,
Gathering from far and near the tiny shreds
That brides weave for little brides beds;
Now bits of grass, now bits Of vagrant string,
And now some queerer, dearer sort Of thing.
For on the lawn where he was wont TO come
In search of stuff to build his pretty home,
We dropped one day lock Of golden hair
Which our wee darling easily could spare;
And close beside 1t tenderly we placed
A lock that had the STOPPING shoulders


graced


OF her old grandsire; it was white as snow,
Orcherry-trees when they are all ablow.
Then throve the yellow-hammer's work


apace;


Hundreds of times he sought the lucky place
Where sure, he thought, in his bird-fashion


dim,


wondrous provision had been made for him
Both locks, the white and golden, disap.


peared;


The nest was finished and the brood was


reared;


And then there came pleasant summers


day


When the last yellow hammer flew away.
Ere long, in triumph, from its leafy height,
We bore the nest so wonderfully dight,
And saw how prettily the white and gold
Made warp and woof of many cleaning


fold.


Bat when again the yellow hammers came,
Cleaving the orchards with their pallid flame,
Grandsire's white locks and baby's golden


head


Were lying low, both in one grassy bed.
And so more dear than ever is the nest
Taken from the elm-tree's ever-nodding crest,
Little the yellow hammer thought how rare
A thing he wrought of white and golden hair
j. W. Chadwick, in Harper'S Magazine.
Year: 1875

THE trial of John d. Lee, the Mormon,
for participation in the Mountain Meadows
massacre of 1857 has ended in a disagree
ment of the jury. The result was 10 have
been anticipated in view of the fact that
the trial took place in Mormon commu-
nifty and that number (nearly all, we be-
lieve) of the jurymen were themselves
Mormons, But the evidence in the case
was sufficient not only to demonstrate
Lees guilt, but also to fasten the responsi-
bility of this cowardly, treacherous and
horrible crime upon dignitaries high in
the Mormon Church. 1t has not been
proved that Brigham Young knew of the
proposed massacre before it was perpetrat-
ed, but it is hardly conceivable that step
of such importance and so deliberately
planned should have been taken without
consulting him. 1t is in evidence that he
knew of the massacre Immediately after
its occurrence, and, instead of endeavoring
to bring the offenders TO justice, as ii was
his duty as Governor of the Territory to
do, he not only used every effort
to suppress all investigation of the
crime and TO screen its perpetra-
tors, but also directed that-the goods plum
dered from the emigrant train should be
turned over TO the church. This makes
him an accompllce in the massacre after
the fact, with fair presumption that
he had guilty knowledge of it before il
was executed. The testimony further inn
plicates Dame, Haight, Highly, and num-


Der of other leading Mormons in active
participation in the conspiracy. The re-
suit of the trial, therefore, is TO crystalline
into definite form and support by sworn
testimony the story of the Mountain
Meadows massacre, which has hitherto
been disclosed by newspaper correspond


ents, upon uncertain testimony These
stories have been more than confirmed 10y
the evidence of Mormon witnesses. The
ineilaceable stigma of completely in thii
wholesale murder is fixed upon the lead
ers of the Mormon Church. In view o
this, the fact that the jury stood nine t
three in Lees favor will not be regarded
as q ''vindicationn by any but Mormon


themselves Detroit Tribune. 81 40 ~ 4
Year: 1875

This date was the Tooth anniversa-
ry of the ''Pennsylvania Society fo..
Promoting the Abolition of Slavery.
and it was duly celebrated Among
taose present, was Vice Presiden
Wilson, from whose address we take
the following notice of it, which we
fiud in the Philadelphia Times of the
21st: rfF


IF you want the public men of the
country of all parties to do right, you
must stand behind them and by them.
Much is said of the timidity of public
men, but l believe that the public
men of the country within the last
fifteen years, and indeed now, are i'm
measurably ahead of the average pub
lie sentiment of the people whom
they represent. That slavery went
dswn because the hearts Of this peo-
5it were changed is not true. and his
tory will not SO record it. Men did
certain things because they we're COM
PEELED to do them. Necessity, the
providence Of God, compelled certain
actions" Referring to Lincoln, he
said: L knew Abraham Lincoln well,
and l say from my convictions that
when he took his Office on the 4th o,
March, he was as true an anti-slavery
man as any who sit upon this plat
form. But he believed that he must
save the nation, and carry the people
along with it too. When he issued
the emancipation proclamation. delay
ed because the people we're not ready
for it, New York turned away from
him, Ohio turned away from him, and
only the incidents of the war after
wards took the people with him. Few
public men have live.l in this country
who had committed no mistakes.
Seward, Chase and Greeley did. Our
duty to-day is plain-tO step to the
verge of our ability and of our power
to instruct and elevate the colored
men of this country. Let it be under
stood that we mean it, that the color
ed men Of this country shall have all
the rights that white men have. 35O,-
600 brave and patriotic young men
died for this cause, and We mean to
give it up-never. L did not come
here to talk politics. Everybody
knows that l am Republican, and
expect to live and die one. l wish
that everyone who bears or has borne
that name was now standing shoulder
to shoulder. ready to correct every
abuse and protect every man in his
rights. Let us resolve that no man
shall sin against equal rights and rule
in this country. Let it be understood
that for a statesman to oppose equal
rights in this country is as great sin
as it would be to advocate the estab-
lishment Of monarchy in this coun-
try"
Year: 1875

- a Z ! 4
.Ha l770-lS75.
Looking back hundred years,


And comparing the now and then,
1t seems to nae that in spite of fears
The country has earnest men, ~e-.v,
A8 willing to draw the sword for right, y


Asready to WELD the pen. ssas sE
It seems to me that in faithful hearts
The currents yet ebb and flow,


With a constant motion that still imparts


As steady and clear glow vw mw
or zeal for freedoms s glorious arts,


As a hundred years ago.


1t seems TO me that I'm field and forge,


By river and by rill,
In fertile plain and mountain gorge,


In city and hamlet still mona
They live as they did in the days of King


George - aeEEaaE


OF Concord and Bunker Hill. af
l do not know that the hands are weak,


Or the brain unused to plan;
That the tongue delays the truth to speak,
Or the foot to march In the van;
But know ntii well that we need not. seek
In vain for Minute Man.


There are men to-day who would stand
alone
On the bridge Horatius kept;


There are men who would fight at Mara
thOn,
Who would battle with Stark of Ben
nington,
When flashing from saber and fiint-lock
gun
The fires of freedom lept.
1t is well to look back with pride and boast
1t is better to look ahead;
| The past to all is dream at most,
The future is life instead;
And standing unmoved at your duty's post
Is truthfully praising the dead.
FRANKLIN w. FISH.
Year: 1875

The Cincinnati Enquirer, a Demo-
cratic paper, is far more level-headed
than its party on one question at least
1t says: I'VE are just as much devo-
ted to the greenback doctrine as ever.
We are ready to fight specie resump-
ton aud contraction inside the party
or out. We stand by the Democratic
party because we know that it is a
party ofthe people, and it will not see
them crushed by the money power.
The hard-money gentlemen of the
East haven't captured the Democratic
party yet"
Year: 1875

A French butcher who was on his
death bed said to his wife: IF die.
FRANCHISE, you must marry our shop
boy. He is q good young man, and
the business cannot be carried on
without man to look after it." 81
have been thinking about that my
SELF" said his wife.