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Year: 1875

The sale of lots in the "Comlng City
OF Jonesville" has not come up to our
expectations. There has been a deal
of money spent in subsidiz ing news
papers to blow up the scheme to the
highest possible point, without danger
of explosion and collapse. Editors
and scribblers were employed to write


1orid accounts of the new Arcadia,
and finally steamers were chartered to
convey all who wished to purchase
lots to the locality free of charge; yet,
after all this labor and expense, the
first days sale only reached the sum
of twenty-five thousand dollars. We
do not know that many of the lots
sold on Thursday were bid Off by straw
men who will ne yer pay a cent, but q
glance at the list of names impresses
us with the notion that of the sum to-
tai not more than two-thirds, perhaps
not more than one-half, will ever be
paid. This is bad showing, and we
are afraid the net receipts will not
meet the single item of expense for
advertising the scheme. The refusal
of the company to give purchasers but
bargain and sale deed to their lots,
has added strength to tine belief that
the future may develop other claim
ants to the land, whose claims it may
be both difficult and expensive to set
aside. The deed which Mr.. FITCH
proposes to give purchases is but
simple quit-claim deed, and leaves the
new owner to fight any contest that
may come up. The title to this prop
erty is either good or it is not. fit is
good, or the company think it so, peo-
pie naturally wonder why they do not
warrant and defend. In reference to
this title question, the HERALD has
merely placed before the people such
information as it received, without
vouching for its correctness. But in
refusing TO warrant and defend, the
company have done more to shake the
confidence of the public in the valid
ity of their title to the property than
all that has been or could be said by
other parties.
Year: 1875

CAREFULLY kept st atistics show
that the average increase in the popu-
lation of California by immigration
alone is one hundred and fifty per day.
This gives us an increase In the number
of our residents of something over 5O,-
900 per annum. These people are
scattering over the agricultural Sec
tions of the State and as they have no
specific knowledge of tho advantages
or disadvantages Of our farming To-
calities and their knowledge on these
points is confined to what they have
heard and read prior to their depart
ure from their old homes, they are of
course guided almost solely by that
information. 1t is for the purpose Of
furnishing the immigrant with more
reliable information that bureaus have
been formed in San Francisco, Sacra-
mento and other portions of the State.
These bureaus are sending out docu-
ments filed with statistical aud other
information relative to the sections
they represent, and of course this in
formation attracts immigration to the
locality desert bed. Los Angeles val
ley has been well writtenup. Her To-
cal papers have described her advan-
tages of soil, climate, &c. Yet much
more can and should be done in this
direction, and the best and most
efficient method for attaining this end,
is the establishment of an immigra-
ton bureau i'm our midst. There is an
abundant means at hand which could
be appropriated for the purpose. There
are dozens of men in this city and
county who have signified their will
lingness to contribute literally, and
the only difficulty seems to be the or
ganization of the bureau. This may
be easily overcome. The selection
and appointment of a competent gen.
tleman to so dispense the funds, as in
his judgement will do most toward
the purpose in view, is the main OBJ
ject to be attained. This appointment
is the province of the gen tlemen who
fur nish the sinews of war; Let them
meet, put down their subscriptions
and sci ect their agent and the work is
done. We need an immigration bu-
reau and we may have it in half an
hour if half u dozen of our leading cit
izens will meet together and desig.
nate an agent.
Year: 1875

SAN Francisco, July 15.-The San
Francisco State Central Committee of
the Temperance Reform party met
last evening. A grand temperance
ratification meeting is being arranged
to take place in this city in about two
weeks. A movement is on foot to
start daily newspaper in the interest
of the Party. The County Committee
in this city is to be recognized.


In I. G. Phelps address to the Re-
publican mass meeting at Oakland
last night, in the campaign tent, a
large portion was devoted to statistics
and a comparison Of public expenses
under the rule of different parties.
Year: 1875

EDITOR HERALD: After having read
your paper in my former distant home
l,U00 miles north of here, on Puget
Sound, l concluded to move my fami-
ly and effects to this place with view
Of making my future home in the city
of Los Angeles or at some place in the
county. l am not one of the number
that claim the papers of this place
have overdrawn the picture, or exag-
gerated the advantages ofthis county
in any way. Los Angeles is the busi-
est little city l ever saw, and in trav-
cling through the county find thrift
and happiness every where. ] have
friends and old neighbors in almost
every precinct in the county and all
are doing well and are happy and con-
tented. Myself and family have all
bern sick since coming here (which
has been but two months) but do
not attribute any part of our sickness
to the climate or location. I intend
when l shalt have regained my
stretgth sufficient, to write up this
county in leading news papers in New
York, Boston, Philadelphia and Chi
cago, to which have been SUBJ
scriber for many years, as well as
several leading papers in Washington
Territory and Oregon with whose edi-
tors l am intimately acquainted. /


should have spoken through your pa
per sooner but desire to see more of
the county, as well as sickness has
prevented. Permit me to say that not
one of the beauties and advantages of
the county had ever been conveyed
to me. Yours, JOSEPH Casio.
Year: 1875

1t was mistake on the part of those
who managed the Santa Monica lot
business, hardly excusable in business
men, to announce and bribe newspa-
pers to reiterate that a great CONNER
clal city would spring up as If by magic
at that point. 1t was mistake TO at
tempt to extol Santa Monica as land
ing place by disparaging Wilmington
Year: 1875

THE Express intimates that the
HERALD might yet get something out
of Santa Monica if it would only stop
telling the truth about the scheme.
No, thank you; the HERALD does not
want land or money obtained in that
way; and, besides, we are satisfied
the orange is pretty we'll sucked when
the Express expresses willingness to
let us in for share.
Year: 1875

THE following paragraph, clipped
from an editorial in the HERALD by a
local cotemporary which purposely
distorted our meaning, has been going
the rounds:


The selection of congressional candidate
for this district by the Democratic Conveu-
ton Is decidedly unpopular in this portion of
the State, and will, no doubt to certain ex-
tent, affect the vote ON the whole ticket.


The article went on to say that the
nomination was unpopular because
the candidate was unknown here, and
that he could remove the prejudice
against him by visiting our people and
studying the wants of this portion of
his district. He has since been here,
and will return in short time and
address the people of Los Angeles, San
Bernardino and San Diego counties.
We have no fears for Mr.. WIGGING-
TONS success. He will poll more votes
in the District than both HoUGHToN
and THOMPSON.
Year: 1875

Now is your time! No such chance again In
one hundred years! The Bazaar is selling out
their entire stock of Dry Goods Is per cent.
goods business and keep only Gents Furnish
Ing Goods. This is no bogus sale, but q genu-
inc selling out OF our entire stock of Dry
Cry Golds, as you will find out by calling at
the Bazaar, corner of Main and Requena
streets, opposite the U. s. Hotel. jel7
Year: 1875

The Express thinks the HERALD's
mention of a lady with whom it has
no acquaintance for County School
Superintendent ought to be recon-
mendation to her. In judging the
HERALD by itself, the Express has hit
the nail on the head in this case, at
least
Year: 1875

SAN LUIS OBIsPo, July l5.-Sheriff
Norcross and posse started this eve
ming in pursuit of the robbers who
stopped the Southern bound stage this
morning and took from it the express
box.
Year: 1875

wean this woman from her home and
children. Instead of admonishing that
woman as priest should do, of the in
delicacy Of her affections, he writes to
her these letters expressive of his feelings
to her.


A Juror Expresses DisaaprObation.


The sixth juror, George Hall, expressed
disapprobation at the manner
in which the counsel had
made undue reflections OH the jury and
said the jury had several times to sit and
hear these reflections and complained 1t
was too bad besides being kept away from
their homes for six months TO have to
listen to the insinuations Of counsel.
The fact was thesjury had not been APP
preached except by means OF envelopes
enclosing cuttings from the New York
Sun.


Judge Nelson said the juror misun-
derstood counscl's remarks III the heat OF
the debate.


o Mr.. Beach remarked that he had good
reason to believe that members Of the
jury had been approached, which he
would present 10 the court at another
time. He made no imputation against
any of the jury, but he could prove they
had been approached.


Mr.. Abbott protested against
the unprofessional mode IN which
these statements had been put
forward. Mr.. Shcarman also challenged
the gentleman to produce his proofs then
and there. lSome Kisses by the audience
Mr.. Beach replied that Shearman spoke
without knowledge, iuasmuch as the
parties in sympathy with the defendant,
could easily use moneys for purpose, not
known to him. He replied that he had
not charged any Of the jury until
he was called out by that APP
peal OF the juryman's. He would
be sorry if he had said anything offensive
to the juryman, or done anything to
iniurc the cause of his client, for that he
would have no right to do, but rs they
challenged, he would now ask His Honor
to name the time and place for the pro-
duction of his proofs.


Judge Nelson suggested that the pro-
per time would be at the close OF the case,
when somebody would have to be pun
ished


Shearmnn Makes au Explanation.


During the scene ut the close Of Beach's
address Mr. Shrarmau remarked that
there was not one dollar of the money
which had been expended in the case
which had come from any source except
the pockets of Henry Ward Beecher and
himself He was ready, for his own part,
to take the responsibility as to how the
money had been expended.


The matter was then dropped and the
court adjourned.
Year: 1875

BosToN, April 9TH The Herald,
after reviewing Governor Booths
creditable career, says: 1t is evident
now that no third party will be formed
Interpretations in 1875, except, in the
event of President Grants renomina-
ton. Should that occur leader would
be wanted and Booth would stand a
fair CHANGE TO be~the man. He has
not yet exhibited his powers to the
Senate where he took his seat last
month, and it is evident he must
gain his position there by real work
rather than by striking address orper-
sonal magnetism. His intellect may
lack something Of warmth but, it is
logical and tenacious. 1t is certain
the railroad interests of the Pacific
Coast found hima vigilant, active and
undaunted opponent, and he gained
confidence, if he didn't excite the en-
thusiasm of his associates and fol-
lowers.


The Citizen says of the Connecti-
cut election, that the patent lesson of
the result is that the Republican party
cannot successfully undertake to APP
prove and defend the errors of its ma
tiOnaf administration, and the name
of the President is not potent rally
ing cry East or West; and If there ever
was design on the part of anybody
to make him Republican candidate
for third term, the Connecticut cleo
tion is a significant warning that it
will lot do to try it.
Year: 1875

CHICAGO, April 9th.--A Washing
ton special says the Union Pacific
Railroad Company is likely to soon
have another serious subject to con-
slider, as there is little doubt but that
the Acknowledgement is examining
the law TO ascertain whether the gov
ernment can enjoin payment of the
dividend by the company to stock
holders, as has been announced they
will soon do. 1t is maintained that
that the first duty of the Union Paci-
fic Company, after payment of the in
terest on its first mortgage, is to look
after the second mortgage. The Soil
citor of the Treasury is understood to
have so advised. aae tnus
Year: 1875

A restraining order was granted by the
District Court on Monday, in the matter OF
shutting off the connection al oitheCommercial
street sewer with zanja No.3. The argument
on the question of granting perpetual in
junction will be heard in a few days


This is q matter of the utmost i'm
portance to large portion ofIthe pop
ulation in the lower or Southern por-
,tion of this city, and now is the time
to settle this question definitely and
finally. That the sewage matter from
the. city must be carried off by main
sesoer, made for that purpose, is a ne
/. cessity acknowledged by all. Then
why delay it? The health of the city
demands it, and the good sense of the
authorities should not allow it to be
delayed one day. We know it is a
difficult and. expensive work, but 1t
will cost no more now than it will q
year hence. Our credit is good, and
ten year bonds can be readily sold at
full prices to meet the expense. Many
of our citizens below town are COM
PEELED to use zanja water for domestic
purposes.
Year: 1875

1t is astonishing how rents keep up.
Notwithstanding the unprecedented
number of buildings that have been
put up in this city during the lust six
months, rents are still rising. 1t
speaks we'll for the prospects of the
city, but it isawful on poor tenants.
We rejoice at the prosperity of our
property holders and hope they may
always realize a fair percentage on
their investment, but they must re-
member that there is such a thing as
over-shooting the mark. 1t is the
working, industrious class of people
that make the prosperity Of a city,
and so long as the expense of. living
falls below the income, they will con-
tinue to pour into the city. But when
the expense of living consumes all
they can earn, leaving nothing to lay
up for rainy day, immigration stops.
The property owners are always more
directly interested in the growth of a
city than any other class; therefore,
they should be careful to so adjust
their rents as to encourage immigra-
ton. Many cities have received a
terrible backset by acting upon the
plan of the old adage, " killing the
goose that laid the golden egg" There
Is no better investment in California
than that of putting up buildings in
Los Angeles. There has never been !.
time when a fair rent could not be OBJ
tanned for comfortable buildings, and
now it is simply task and receive"
Year: 1875

istence of Government secrets. But
the song of "When this cruel war Is
over'' is now heard and Pinchbeck,
under the operation of the Force bill,
is emptying himself in the chorus Of
all his secrets, and while the chant is
going on, do you, Colonel, just keep
time on the anvil with now and then
a well-directed blow at Government
secrets, and the tune will soon change
to the song of the dying brant.


Yours, Conn.
Year: 1875

W TONIC.


This hair wash contains the tonic and invlgo-
rating properties of Quinine, with the softening
and moistening properties of Glycerine 1t is
intended to prevent the Hair from falling out
and to promote its healthy ard rapid growth
AS dressing for ordinary toilet use, it will be
found an elegant preparation Just received at


oct 20 WAKEFIELD & HALLS.
Year: 1875

CHARLESTOWN
The Capital Case Decided at


Last.
Constltutionality Of the Act
Fully and Unanimously


Sustained.
The Circuit Court Declared to
Have Had no Jurisdiction


in the Matter.
Year: 1875

Don't brag about your crops. We
went into Hastings on Satur lay last and
the merchants were all crying out s:an
immense crop Of wheat" eThe truth is
that it is not immense and We have
yet to run the risk Of the grasshoppers,
and of hot parching weather while the
grain is in the milk. We have seen
many splendid wheat prospect spoiled
by ten days Of sultry weather. Moreover
the corn crop is very backward, and if
we do not get warmer whether it will Be
failure. Don't brag, therefore. until
you are out Of the woods and hardly


then. Your Dragging is telegraphed to
Chicago and New York, and helps to de-
preciate the price of wheat on hand. And
many farmer, by over confidence, runs
himself into needless debts at this time.
Year: 1875

Every farmer who can possibly afford
it should build himself this summer
granary near his own house. First, he
will save storage which will more than
pay interest on the cost Of the granary.
Secondly, he avoids the risk Of the failure
Of the warehouseman. In Lake City,
Hastings, and other points, farmers have
lost thousands of dollars from this cause.
In the third place, the warehousemen do
not, as rule. keep the wheat stored with
them en- hand, but ship it in the fall to
the lake ports, thus helping to break down
the price Of wheat by flooding the great
markets of the world; and then take ad-
vantage Of this broken market te replace
the wheat so shipped. In the fourth
place, the spectators send circulars to
the warehousemen and they report mill
lions of bushels as in their bins, which
really are in Milwaukee or Chicago, while
the elevators in those cities report the
same wheat on hand, and then these du-
plicated figures of s'whest in sight, are
published, and thus help to de.
press prices. In the next place,
the warehousemen, generally, require tie
farmers to sell or remove his wheat June
lst, the spectators figure upon this and
down goes the price of wheat at the very
time the bulk of the crop is thrown or
the market.


Keep your wheat at home. Let your
grange negotiate with millers through


the county and ship direct to them. l


you have to borrow on wheat receipts re


member that the St. Paul Elevator Co


will loan you at ten per cent.


In saying this we mean nothing disre


spectfUl to the warehouse men, for many


of them are honest men and fair in thei


dealings with the farmers; but we ar
publishing farmers paper, not ware
housemen's journal, aud where the inter


ests Of the two clashes clash we 60 wit
! our own class.
Year: 1875

Has made the most Astonishing Cures .
so quick, so rapid are the changes the
body undergoes under the Influence of
this truly wonderful medicine, that
Every Day an Increase in Flesh and Weight


is Saan n Falt
Year: 1875

We now enter the field for
the fall and coming Winter
and arc furnishing the bes-
paying AID most easily worked
agency in the world. cur
agents have always heen the
most successful, aud we nave
lately aided n,.w'and exceed


ing y taking induce ments, re


qniring only intelligence and
application for any one, young
or old, Of ei her sex, to MAKE
really hrst-ciass D tying bust
Year: 1875

Do Nor CHEAT YoUR HORSES.
Most domestic animals are as keenly
alive to their own interests as man OF
business. They can make bargains
stick to them. and make you stick Ia
them also. have little mare whu
used to require six men to catch her In
the pasture, but carried corn to hel
for long time without trying to take
her, leaving the corn ON the ground
Next, induced her to eat the corr
whilst held 1t, still leaving her free
Finally | persuaded her to follow me
and now she will come trotting half 4
mile at my whistle, leaping bitches
fording brooks in the darkness and
rain, or an impenetrable fog. She fol
lows me like a dog in the stable and
administer the corn there. But it is /,
bargain.
Year: 1875

In conversation Wednesday Bishop
A. w. Wayman, of the African M. +.
Church, and MIR, Webb, cashier of the
Baltimore branch of the late Freed
mems Savings Bank, both intelligent
men, experienced in the needs of their
race and both exertipg considerable
influence with them, gave their views
freely in reference to the Civil Rights
bill, coinciding with the expressions OF
this paper on the subject Wednesday
which recognized that in Baltimore the
colored people generally take care Of
themselves and mind their own bust
ness. People who do this will always
achieve for themselves independence
and their proper social recognition,
which no laws can legislate them into,
whether framed by Sumner or tinkered
by Butler


Bishop Waymsn said colored people
have numerous churches and schools of
their own in Baltimore, land, said he,


they have their own graveyards too. "
AS to theatres and restaurants, the good
bishop did not care about them at all j.,
but he knows the colOred people are too
well accommodated with drinking
places of their own, and they have very
numerous public entertainments at
scores Of halls all over the city. Houses
OF public entertainment kept by respec-
table colored people are as plenty as
the needs of the population demand,
and no disposition is manifested to in.
terfcre with the white people by re.
spectacle colored people. Neither the
bishop nor Mr.. Webb expressed spy
qualification at the passage of the bill,
nor did they state any objection to it,
Both were of opinion that the colored
people could not be elevated in the So
cial scale by legal statute, but must de-
pend upon their personal worth and en-
deavor. They said that in a week, if
the question was not agitated by the
white people, it would be forgotten in
Baltimore that there was Civil Rights
bill. Ifany overt acts are undertaken by
colored people here they would be by
strangers or by designing politicians
among colored residents of the city
Bait. San.
Year: 1875

Some weeks ago we informed the
readers Of the REGISTER that we had
been for some time past engaged in
gathering facts and statistics with re-
gard to Linn county, of general IN
terest. which we proposed to give to
them through the columns of the pa
per rs soon as we could properly ar-
range and write them up. We have
striven throughout to give a '.plain.
unvarnishetl tale" without exaggera-
tion or tleviating Il hairs breadth from
the truth and while we have claimed
for Linn county the first and highest
place among the agricultural counties,
not only in Oregon, but on the Pacific
coast, we believe the facts viii bear us
oat ia Our claim. A large amount of
partially gathered statistics remain in
=Utir hands until some future day,
when time and Opportunity and means
has efiabled MS to make them fffIf and
complete. We preferred to do this.
rather than to mar the picture by a
lIaIf-told tale. We therefore submit
the subjoilled, feeling that If the mat
tiers treated of have no other merit,
they at least have the stamp OF genn-
inc purpose to write nothing but the
naked truth.
Year: 1875

The Millerites and others who
thought Daniel knew when the end
of the world was to come and had so
predicted, have fixed various dates
since 1910 when this mundane sphere
was to 60 up I'm smoke, but the time
has always been passed without any
remarkable events happening. The
last time fixed upon and the longest
possible time that could be given to
Daniels prophecy, was the 10Th OF
April; then we were to be snufied
out. The day came after a heavy
freeze was very warm, and some
thought the sudden change from
cold to heat had rather miraculous
appearance and began to be careless
about their clothes. Foolish people !!
for here on the 10th Of April we are
writing with hot soap-stone at our
feet and an overcOat buttoned about
our person and anathematizing the
Interpreters Of prophecies for their
fizzle. A cold wave instead of hot
one Is pulsating over the face Of the
earth and no signs Of flames In the
heavens or on the earth. Try those
prophecies of Daniel again, and see
if they cant be made To stretch into
the future once more. We have been
taught to believe that the world was
TO be consumed by fire, and "by
iiupoD we want to see some OF that
Gre. - Marshall Times.