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Year: 1876

Some JndesirabIe Acres in Orange


and Ulster "A Disappointed


Prospector.'


From the Kingston On. y Freeman.


Some party in New York


city, whose name VIC will not


mention, is the owner of about


six hundred acres OF land that


lies partly in the town Of Den


ming and partly in TIE town of


MlddletOWn. On this land .
mortgage has been recorded i'm


Ulster county for $1,000, pur-
porting to have been given to
secure a part of the purchase


price. On the record the title


is all straight and clear. This
iowner Of Ulster county lands,
ut seems, has beentryingto make
a trade for other property with
persons living i'll New York
city at different times within
the last year or two, and every
little while up comes a New
York man to search the record
and see what kind Of property
| it is. They all have an idea it
lies only five miles from King
stOn, and when they find they
have been sold, they thank their
stars they didn't trade without
coming to Ulster County, and
so back home very we'll salts
fled. 4 couple of days ago a
young lawyer came up from
New York to look at this same
property. lie had an idea it
was farm lying along the T.
sOpus Creek, a few miles from
Kingston, and after the title
had been carefully looked up
heaccidcntally came across Gen.
Van Buren, and asked him the
shortest road to get there, as D.
wanted to look at it and go
back to New York again that
night. Van Burer said .ho
would have to hurry if he wall
ted to see it and get back to
New York, so he would tell him
the best route to reach it. right
away. IIo took the young
man down to North Frontstreei,
and pointing to High Point, in
the town Of Olive, he said:


DO you see that mountain?"
- Yes" said the New Yorker.
as it this side of that?"


No" answered Van Buren,,
"but Il little ways on the other
side. To go there in a straight
line you VIII be forced to go
over six just such mountains as
that


''Why, said the young law
yer, 'tberc IS snow up there"


chats so" replied the Gen
cral, "but you can go up the
to Deans Corners, then
ride over mountain OH horse
back five miles, and after that
walk twelve miles, and you viii
reach it by the best known route
in existence. That is about
fifty miles from here, taking
that road" ~


The lawyer said he guessed
he had better go home, and he
did so home.


This lawyer was looking at
ter the interests Of a client who
had a strong idea TO trade off a
large number of acres of rand
in KOckland county, which was
good land, and came near do
ing it without finding out the
exact location. The property
that has a mortgage on it of &c.
900 is not worth, it is said, one
cent. There is no wood of anv
account upon it, and it would
ruin man to try and protect
what little there is, and the
owner would rather trade for
other property because q sale
wash.
Year: 1876




a Santa Clara county (Cal)
Justice decides that 4 man car
rying an umbrella is bound to
keep out Of the way of people
who haven't any, and awards
$299 damages to man who had
his eye pretty nearly ruined by
another man sticking the end
Of his umbrella into it as they
were trying to pass each other,
the sumbrella-bearer having
helped to bring about the col
lision by turning cat to the
left.
Year: 1876

Ruskins observes as a rule wo


men have no eye for color. This
explains why a woman is obliged
to spend three quarters of day
in getting the exact shade of rib
bon to trim a dress, while when it
comes to mending her husbands s
pantaloons she seems to think a
yellow patch just the thing to
match black broadcloth. .isrs7
Year: 1876

Young man, never trille with
the heart of q pure and innocent
girl. A gentleman in town, after
visiting a tashtul young lady for
two years, was asked his inten-
tions and when he gave an eva
sive answer, she hit him on the
head with a potato masher, and it
cost him 81 to get his best silk
hat altered to fit the strange shape
his head assumed.
Year: 1876

An Eastern paper having had
considerable to say about raising
chickens by hand" the Galveston
Nelys responds: "Such infOrma-
ton is not needed at the South
The whole colored population
know how to d. t,and an eatcrpri
sing freedman can raise more pul.
let's in a single night, on lis way
home from prayer meeting, than
that Eastern editor could raise in a
year with all bis science"
Year: 1876

The BelleviIlc Hotel, East ST.
Louis, built on piles driven in
to quicksand, began to sink at
night, after most of the guests
had gone to bed. It went down
so fast that there was barely
time to get everybody ont be-
fore its roof alone was left in
sight. The proprietor hitched
ropes to his building, but in
spite of that it was out Of sight
! before morning. hu
Year: 1876

The Utica On. W Herald talks
hard newspaper sense when it
says that the law of newspaper
growth ia toward Capitalization !;
that the poor newspaper gets lit
tie support for its mere opinion !;
that no one takes a paper out of
charity; and that people always
buy The most and best for their
money
Year: 1876

The concluding installment OF the
story Of Grants shame, as told by Blu
ford Wilson, is published. The showing
against the President is a very bad one,
and must cause everybody to be thank
full that there Is no prospect Of his get
ting q third term. It transpires that
"Sylph" was woman Of very bad char
acter; that the President OF the United
States was on terms OF intimacy with
her, and that she gave MIN great deal
Of trouble.
Year: 1876

Samuel j. Tilden undertook the work
Of reform in the government Of the city
OF New York, as a private citizen, and
broke down the Tweed ring he then
undertook the work Of reform In the
government Of the State OF New York,
as its Governor, and broke down the
is next TO undertake the work Of reform
in the Government at Washington, and
break down Grantism.
Year: 1876

There is one view of this question which is
gaining ground, and that is that railroads are
rapidly taking the place everywhere OF the
old county roads; and as these were improy-
ed and kept up from taxation "a county which
desires railroad has the right to apply the
same principles that governed the construc-
ton and maintenance OF county roads to the
securing OF local misunderstanding Express


We have expected this. A few days
ago our evening cotemporary filled its
columns with appeals more earnest
than logical in favor OF subscrip-
tion to road which somebody would
like to have the people pay for, from
this city to the Mojave river, and
now it partially shows its true colors.
If we understand the above extract it
is meant as preparatory step to the
advocacy of subsidy to Senator
JONES' proposed road. We do not
know Just what is the limit to which
this county could now go in the SUBJ
sidy business, but it isprobable con-
siderable sum could be legally thrown
away. But fortunately this subsidy
load cannot be heaped on the people
without their consent. They have to
be consulted and their approval must
be obtained through the ballot box.
The people of Los Angeles county
will vote no more railroad subsidy,
and we would advise our neighbor
over the way to fall back on his first
proposition. A few individuals may
be frightened into taking stock, but
subsidy is not to be thought of.
Year: 1876

In q conversation with Mr.. CHAs.
CRocKER. President of the Southern
Pacific Railroad Company, few days
ago, we learned some facts which will
be Of interest to the readers of the
HERALD. The work OF grading and
tunneling. in Tehachape Pass is rapid
ly approaching completion. Track
laying has commenced at Calicnte,
and already the road is completed
some six miles up the Pass. By the
first of April the road will be in opera
tion to the Southern end of the Pass,
twenty-four miles from Caliente.
From that point to, the San Fernando
mountains the country iscomparative-
ly level and track laying can be pushed
forward rapidly. The San Fernando
tunnel is more than half completed
and will, it is expected, be ready for
the ties and rails by the middle of
June. The company are making ev-
cry effort to give US continuous
road to San Francisco on the fourth
of next July and there is every pros
pect of their succeeding. Within the
next four days the Southern Pacific
road will be completed to Whitewater
one hundred and fifteen miles South
east Of Los Angeles, and the track
will be pushed forward to the Colora-
do river. one hundred and fifty miles
from Its present terminus as rapidly
as possible.
Year: 1876

Railroad Companies have thorough
ly tested the qualities of the steel rail
and its enduring powers are found to
be such that it is coming into general
use on all first-class railroads. The
cost of the steel rail is aboat twenty
per ,nt. over that of the iron rail, but
the steel rail will last about eight
times longer than the iron rail. There
is also . saving in weight. The COM
mon-sized steel rail weighs fifty


pounds per yard, while the ordinary


ron rail weighs from fifty-six to sixty
pounds per yard. On roads with


heavy grades and sharp curves the
steel rail is found to be much more re-
liable than the iron. The Central
Pacific and Southern Pacific Railroad
Companies are now using only the
steel rail. The Southern Pacific road
from Caliente south to San Fernando
Tunnel, and from San Gorgonio Pass
Eastward, will be laid with steel rail.
Year: 1876

Up to yesterday morning twelve and
eleven one hundredths inches of rain
had fallen in this valley for the sea-
son. The rains have extended over
such considerable era and the fall
has been so gentle that the greatest
possible amount of good has been done.
The entire fall has been absorbed by
the soil which is moist to greater
depth than it would have been had
the twelve inches fallen heavily and
within a few days. 1t is probable
that we shall have fall of five or six
Year: 1876

inches more during the Spring, but
should there be no more rain this sea-
son, the farmers assure us they will
make good crops. A glance at the
prospect gives guarantee of an unusu-
ally prosperous season. The good
crops together with the great increase
of acreage seeded, indicate that the
products of our valley this season
will be so largely in excess of any for
mer year as to astonishth the most SAN
guine citizen. Owing to the consider
able increase in the number of bearing
trees the fruit crop will be much larg-
er than ever before. Altogether the
prospect is very encouraging and we
may safely congratulate ourselves
that we are entering on an era of pros
perity for which all have cause to re-
joice.
Year: 1876

If we can secure this railroad from this city
to Salt Lake, by honorable means, 1t is our
duty to do SO; and paper that declares we
have no right to do so, commits an act OF
treason against the interests of Los Angeles
-Brpress.


So say we. What paper says we
have no right to do so? Let us have
all the railroads we can get-..'by hon.
orable means" But let us not try to
deceive the people into investing their
means in road which they have no
guarantee will be built, or if built will
not compete with those already built.
The paper that seeks to induce people
to invest in the stock of road that
Z willsnot give such guarantee, is a trail
tor to the community in which it is
published, is unworthy of public conf
dence, and its motives are more than
questionable.
Year: 1876

1T is unkind of Mr.. and Mrs. HAY
WARD to settle their domestic affairs
so quietly. These two people have
lived together as man and wife for
thirty years during which time they
have accumulated property valued at
ten million dollars. They now elect
to separate and divide their wealth
and because the divorce and details are
being quietly and satisfactorily car
ried out the sensation press is furious.
Year: 1876

He who has struck his colors to the
power of an evil habit has surrendered
himself to an enemy bound by no ar
ticles of faith, and from whom he can
expect only the vllest treatment.
Year: 1876

DR.. T. c.. Gale, who graduated in the Ohio
Medical College in 1912, after practicing his
profession in Southern Indiana tor nearly
and respectfully tenders his professional SER
vices to those who .ray choose to consult him.
Believing as he does that Southern California
is one of the best placss on the continent to
test the durability of tubercular consumption,
he will in conjunction with his general prac
tice, give that disease special. l.attention. His
diploma will be cheerfully shown to any
gentleman who may honor him by calling TO
see the same. Office in Ducommun Building
with DR.. Burgess. dec8tf
Year: 1876

THE drunkard not only Injuries and
enfeebles his own nervous system, but
entails mental disease upon his own
family. His children are likely TO DO
nervous, weak, eccentric, and to become
insane under the pressure or agency OF
the ordinary calls of duty
Year: 1876

When young man watts in the crowd before church at the close of the evening service. and strains his eyes nearly out of his head to catch glimpse of his girl, and then misses her, it is a dreadful thing on taking his aching heart home to have his mother charge him with bilious ness, and get ont the tub to soak his feet.
Year: 1876

of the bank-sneak gang, but one which requires far greater personal braveiy, though far less skill and tact, is to be- come cognizant of parties making heavy deposits at late hour, when everything Is rushing about the bank and the check desk is crowded. The ''sneak"' with 8 bank-book in his hand and business like air about him. taps gentleman with q flush deposit in his hand lightly on the shoulder and politely calls his attention to the fact that he has dropped some money. Looking upon the floor he sees a genuine ten dollar bill. and he stoops to pick it up, leaving his bank book upon the check desk. In an instant the polite gentleman has the swag and is upon the street, while, as the robbed and astound- ded depositer recovers himself and gives chase, he IS apparently accidently imped-
Year: 1876

merely for an opportunity to jump through the window of the cars saloon, so that Pinkerton was obliged to watch both men night and day; and after he had finally housed him at the office of the agency hera and William Pink artnn zras ra antar
Year: 1876

The victory of Republicans seems
to be overwhelming. They have
good majority in. the house; prob
ably 20 or %, and claim TO have out
of ~ senators, and out of council
men. Full returns of the state have
not yet been received, but they are
enough seemingly to justify this
claim.
Year: 1876

A BULLDOG PREVENTS A WoMAN's
REsCUE.-A monstrous thing happened
in Raleigh, North Carolina, recently, in
which bulldog fought people who tried
to rescue an idiotic woman from q 6 lie
which was consuming the house in which
she had been placed for safe keeping.
Mary Ann Dolan was the daughter of
Pat. Dolan, proprietor Of the College
Hotel. She was an idiot, and was kept
in sort Of coop in an clubhouse used as
a kitchen. She was twenty five years of
age. The cook had gone out, leaving
the door fastened and the idiot in her
coop. In some way or other fire broke
out, but the woman might have been
saved had not big and ferocious bulldog
stationed himself before the door and
fought the fremen like fiend, as if
really possessed of the devil. 1t was in
vain that the men attempted to enter the
place it was impossible to do SO. The
dog would not bulge, except to snap and
fly at the fremel. The idiot woman
seemed exalted or frenzied by the fire,
and darced and sang "The Prettiest
Girl in the Country" at the top of her
voice, and as gaily as possible. Aftor
the flames were extinguished it was found
that both her legs were burned off, and
nothing remained Of her head save the
brains.
Year: 1876

A BoNANZA.-The testimony before
the Chinese Commission is developing
some things which should make us blush
for our people. Chinese have some jus
tifcation for being nation of thieves if
they are robbed by every body with whom
they are brought in contact, and such
would appear to be the case in San
Francisco. The special police officers
for the Chinese quarter, who are paid by
the Chinese themselves, make from one
hundred to two hundred and fifty dollars
week and it is no longer matter of
wonderment that this position is eager
ly sought after-somewhat after the
fashion in which politicians sought the
office of sheriff in the balmy days of the
Foreign Miners License. No police of.
ticer could have such fat picking as that
unless he was conveniently blind to vice,
crime and immortality when it was prac-
ticed by those from whom he drew his
salary. 1t is time these bonanza situa
tions were done away with.
Year: 1876

A LONG SENTENCE.-In San Fran
cisco Judge Dwinelle has sentenced
Louis Losse to the State Prison for the
period Of forty-fve years. Losse is the
German who beat and kicked his wife to
death in that city. Terrible as was his
crime, the punishment, if he lives to re-
ceivs it (Which we think doubtful as he
is now a man of middle age is surely
equal to the offence. We may say 1t is
imprisonment for life for there are but
few of the multitude who arrive at the
age Of manhood who can hope to add
forty-fve years to it. OF the generation
of middle-aged men who are living to-
day not one in twenty will live to see the
hour when this sentence expires. The
world has no use for wife-murderers, and
the walls of a prison are the safest place
for them.
Year: 1876

A PLACER COUNTY MYsTERY.-Re.
Gently, in Placer county, some miners
sluiced away the ground in which many
years ago prospecting shaft had been
sunk. AT the bottom, covered with the
dirt which had caved down from the
sides were found the bones of a man with
the remains of what had been bundle
of blankets and pair of boots. Whose
remains these were could not be conJect-
tured. Perhaps the item mentioning this
d'seovery may meet in its travels the eye
of one who, weary with long waiting has
sought the aid of the press and sought
the Information Wanted" in one OF
those notices peculiar to the papers of
California. But to her it will be no in
teligence of the lost one for ''hope springs
eternal in the human breast" and the
belief will cling to her heart that though
Others may have passed over the dark
river he will yet return.
Year: 1876

A PRESIDENTIAL VETO. - President
Grant has vetoed the bill reducing the
salary OF his successor in office to $25, 900
q year. The veto will meet with hearty
and general approval. The bill was got
up solely as piece of Democratic bum
combe, knowing we'll that Ms Grant had
signed the bill increasing the salary he
could not consistently put his name in
approval of one to reduce it again. Evi-
IDENTIFY whatever hope the Democrats may
at one time have entertained OF electing
their Presidential candidate has been in
continently "squelched," or they would
not have limited ut diminuton of his
pay, but the opportunity to make little
cheap political capital was too good to be
let slip. The idea Of great nation OF
forty millions of people paying its head
the pitiful allowance which was made
for one-twefth that number eighty years
ago is ridiculous, and we are surprised
that the bill passed the Senate.
Year: 1876

BURNING IN EFFIGY.-The people
of Tuolumne are incensed at Governor
Irwin for the reason that he "pocketed"
the bill 10 aid in the construction of a
branch railroad into that county. We
do not admire that course Of procedure
il savors too much of the mob spirit
And, after all, who are the parties to
blame? We say not Governor Irwin,
but the Legislature itself. 1t has fallen


into a practice which would be more
honored in the breach than in the OBJ
servance, for the Legislature TO pass
scores of bills, some of which are not
read except by title in the closing days of
the session, and throw the responsibility
of bad laws upon the Executive. If the
Legislature had done its duty instead of
dallying along ".putting in time" all
needful laws could have been presented
TO the Governor for his signature in am
pie time for him to give them an exam
iDation when, if they proved objection
able he could bave made that fact known
to the Legislators. But when as in the
present case, an important measure is
kept back until almost the last minute
and then rushed through with scores OF
others, giving no time Tor the necessary
examination, if that bill is pocketed
those members interested have no one
but themselves to blame. Important To-
cal bills should be introduced early in
the session. then there is fair opportuni-
ty for fair scr rutiny by each branch of the
law-making power. We rather admire
the Governor for the act, though it it had
been presented TO him in season we should
have held it as his duty to sign the bill


And the method adopted by the Tuolum-
ne people to show their disapprobatior
does not help their case in our estimation
Year: 1876

HER LAST WALTZ.-Near the close OF
a recent ball in Paris, a young lady who
was passionately fond of dancing was
asked by her mother to prepare for the
carriage. "Only this last waltz" en-
treated the girl, and she glided away with
her partner. Suddenly he cried out in
horror. The girl had died in his arms.
Year: 1876

FRED. WYMAN was caught in the rap
idly revolving shaft Of quartz mill at
Forbestown the other day, and owes his
escape from instant death to rare pres
ence of mind. He hugged the shaft close
ly and saved his head, but his feet struck
the floor with such force as to completely
whip them to pieces, rendering him a
cripple for life.
Year: 1876

A REMARKABLE duel is reported from
the neighborhood of Toulouse. The COM
bAtsnts were two journalists, and both
good shots. When the signal to fire was
given both duslists fell dead on the spot,
each having received a ball in the region


of the heart. Wa presume that wounded
honor" is satisfied and they rest happy.
Year: 1876

A PROFITABLE GRAvEYARD.-The
Celestial cemetery in San Francisco is a
good investment. The authorities charge
SO for a permit to bury one and 50 more
for permit to dig him up again, SO as
the heather is bound to be resurrected
some time or other it does not take a
very big piece of land to bring in good
rnuanna
Year: 1876

A CONNECTICUT bootmaker who came
TO employ Cinnamon to work in his man
ufactory declines to do so, saying that he
does not like the looks of them and that
the Chinese question as we have it in this
State, is not understood at the East.
Year: 1876

THE stringency of the times was strik-
ingly illustrated at Boston last week,
where fashionable young man had his
bridal supper attached bya heartless tail
or, and had to invoke the assistance Of
his father law so as to avoid sending
the guests away hungry.
Year: 1876

A PENNSYLVANIA man has invented a
little instrument by which . man can
snore in church without being heard
This is an invention which promises to
increase the attendance upon religious SER
vice, and Yankee invention must yield
the palm to Pennsylvania.
Year: 1876

The consideration Of the ordinance
assessing and levying a special water
rent Tor the year 1876 occupied the great:
e. part Of the session Of the Second
Branch Of Council last night.
Year: 1876

When was a. little5 5girf neighbor
gave me aslittle 1gray and white kitten,
and shortly after another neighbor had
the misfortune to lose in oneenight an
old hen and her entire brood, save one
poor little chick; that one she gave to
me. TIE pets were soon on Che best OF
terms. When chick got Old enough to
use her wings q little the two would
have great sport. I Chick would go
round and round the house as fest as
her legs, aided by her outstretched
wings, could carry, her. with kitty close
to her heels. When LIE caught her they
would have a.rough and tumble play for
awhile, and then another race. When
tired of outdoor sports, Kitty would get
on his bed and chick would fly up and
nestle down close to him kitty would
wash her feathers, cat fashion, and
when she -wass cleaned up nicely they
would Sleep, kitty's paw encircling
chicks neck. Kitty would never hurt
her, though he often pretended he was
going to bite her. Chick, when she had
grown to be- hen, never forgot sleep
ing with kit, for, as long as she lived,
she delighted to steal into the house and
make nest in some corner on lot OF
rags, nor would she scruple to get upon
the bed if allowed. .. t,..,,........