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Year: 1875

For the present, school books are voted a
bore without dissenting voice. but when the vacation
has gone by study must be resumed the demand for
new textbooks Will return. This firm has for many
years done large business in educational works of all
kinds, and is still to be found at No 13s drandst'
Year: 1875

Tho Pittsfeld Eagle says MT. and Mrs. Edward Parsons of Lenox passed through

 experiences with coal gas the other night that none of us would care to be subjected to, and they will not care to repeat

 They retired as usual on Saturday even. ing. and as usual the sleep of the just fell upon them. Towards morning Mrs. Par. sons awoke and found herself almost suffo cated, barely able to draw feeble breath, and suffering from terrible nausea. She was almost speeches. and too nearly dead to raise any alarm or make any demonstraS tions of her agony. She managed howev- CT, after desperate effort, to get out of bed, falling to the floor in the attempt She crept toward shelf where bottle of cam. phor was kept, intending to get the medi- cine if possible and see if it would not re- wye her. Az she made her slow and pain full way through the darkness she found her husband upon the floor suffering like herself. He had awakened with the same feelings of suffocation and sickness, and like her had thought of the camphor, and by actually throwing himself out of bed to the floor, for he was unable to rise up and walk, he had succeeded In getting the med- icine. They bathed their faces and inhaled the camphor, and hoped to get relief, but got little or none. Their distress seemed to increase, and death secrLed near and inev- itable. Coming to this conclusion, they resolved to get back into bed and die to- gether there. MT. Parsons then crept to the front door. reached up and unlocked it, SO that any neighbor who chanced to come to the house would have no difficulty in. getting in. after which the stricken couple with much struggling and pain managed to reach their bed. s-.s s'

 They hardly know how long they law waiting for death to come, and experien- cling the most intense suffering, before morning dawned and footstep was heard outside. It came nearer and then hand opened the door and friend stepped in. To his surprise he found Mir. and Mrs. Par, sons not yet arisen, and 80 started%to go away. Parsons was utterly unable to call out to him, but he succeeded by signs and motions in making thefriend come to him and thus their illness was made known, rel atives were summoned, the necessary resto- ratiyes applied and the lives which had nearly gone out were revived.

 The mystery of their sufferings was known immediately to those who first en- tered the house. They found that in ar ranging their base burning stove for the, night they had made some mistake about the Hampers. and that the gas, instead of being carried off by the fues had been es- caping into the room all night. When they never detected the smell of the gas, and had not the slightest idea what ailed them. An hour or two more of inhaling this gas must have caused their death; as it was, their escape was very narrow one, and will be warning to all who have stoves that can by any possible accident imperil life.S
Year: 1875

HOLIDAY GooDs. Cornell of the firm of Cornell 6 Hoyt of Lakeville is in New York buying holiday goods. He will return Friday of the present week, and ex- poets to have what will please everybody. Just take look in their new store and see if exactly what you want isn't there, and thus save yourself the trouble and expense of looking further, lw23
Year: 1875

bushes of oleanders fifteen to twenty feet high; orange trees covered with flowers {; wild flowers in the grass; 8 beautiful view over the bay and island ducks and peli- cans so near the shore that you know you could hit them if you only had your gun ; boats coming and going and weather just warm enough to render shade delightful, yet bracing enough to make you want to go little fnrther-what can you ask more of nature s..- s F.

 Fish and oysters are plentiful and good at Tampa. The meat market is poor. There is game enough. but not sufficient inducement offered now to bring in much but venlson; and wild turkeys appear of ten. and could they get decent price for them they would be plenty. The fare at the hotes is good, except that the beef is not of the best. Prices are from $8 to $l0 per week; open fire-places in almost every room, and no charge for fires. Invalids may be interested in knowing that there are two good doctors, regular practitioners, in the place, and all the necessary medi cines. The mail comes three times a week overland and once by steamer. Itis seven or eight days from New York My letters come here with more regularity than on the St. Johns. There is no telegraph, or rather it runs through the back country, and has to be forwarded by horseback, making some delay and expense.

 There are boats always at Cedar Keys (so far as my experience goes) ready to carry passengers down, the cost (for several per
Year: 1875

Dress Makers recommend It as being The best
Corset to fit dress over, because it is cut in
such manner that the front and back seams lit
like seams to q dress.


And it is superior to any other Corset now in
use because its peculiar style of cutting gives
sufficient fu lness at the bosom, without folding
at the top; gradually and closely httlng TO- ana
dinary Corsets, and in fact is the only Corset cut
in this form.


In addition to the DOLLAR CORSET will
be found large assortment of other makes at
the following prices-Sl.25, Sl.5O, SLID, S2.60,
So so and So.
Year: 1875

An old gentleman went one day With
his gun to shoot paTtridges, accompanied by
his son. Before they approached the ground
where they expected to find the game the gun
was charged with severe load, and when at
last the old gentleman discovered one Of the
birds. he took rest and blszed away, expect
ing to see the game fall, of course but not
so did IL happen, for the gun kicked with so
much force as TO knock him over. The old
man got up, and while rubbing the sparks OUT
of his eyes, inquired Of his son "Alphy,
did point the right end of the gun at the
birds?"
Year: 1875

DEAD>HEADINa THE PREss.-People who
know very little about it frequently imagine
that dead>heading the press is giving some
thing for nothing, when the fact is you can
not pick up newspaper that is not dead. head
ing somebody or something. There is not
newspaper in the land that would not be
glad to pay as it goes if those who use its
columns would do the same. The press en-
dures the affliOtion of dead. headism from the
stage; from corporations, societies and in
dividuals. The press is expected to yield
its interests; it is required to give strength
to the weak, eyes to the blind, clothes
to the naked, and bread to the hungry
it is asked to cover infrmities, hide weak
ness, wink at quacks, bolster up dull au-
thors and dsster the vain; it is, in short, to
be all things to all men, and If it looks for
pay and reward it is denounced as mean and.
sordid. There is no interest under the whole
heavens that is expected to give so much 10
society, without pay or thanks, as the news
paper press.-EI.
Year: 1875

~ The Supreme Court of PeRusylvania
has decided that railway company is guilty
of gross negligence in causing its trains to be
"driven at a dangerous speed through depsely
populated districts and that it is liable in
damages for any injury caused to citizen
thereby"
Year: 1875

THE undersigned has removed his Shop to the


i building on the corner of Main ar Samuel
streets-thIee doors West of the Presbyterian
Church; The character of the work done bv the
subscriber Is well known aud appreciated by the
hardly necessary to add that he will endeavor to
sustain his reputation as reliable workman and
will execute promptly and at easnnable rates all
orders given him-either for New work or Re
pairing. JOHN AVIS of VIM.
Year: 1875

NICKNAMEs are sometimes worse than
capital punishment. The English major
WHO cheated at the game Of baccarat at
Nice is now called Major Baccarat. When
will he escape the finger Of scOrn held up
in that shape?
Year: 1875

The annihilation of the third party
movement in California was the first
blow given to independent political
action, and the "third partiesn
throughout the country are melting
away like snow beneath the noon
day sun. The contest will henceforth
be between the Republicans and DEM
ocrats. Every voter must range him.
self under the one or the other banner.
There will be no middle course to pur-
sue. The Liberal Republican Party,
that party which under the guidance
Of few short sighted politicians foist-
ed HORACE GREELY upon the Con-
servative people of the country, has
been quietly laid away in the tomb.
Its bones rest at Chappiaqua alongside
those of the great journalist. There is
not nail left to hang the smallest
corner of an Independent party upon,
and after the two great parties have
declared their tenets there will not
be enough material left to make one
plank towards third party platform.
There is no man strong enough to
make an independent personal candi-
date, and no principle to be enunciat-
ed by the middle-men. They will
have to range themselves with one of
the great parties and the great major
ity will unhesitatingly give In their
allegiance to the Democracy.
Year: 1875

We do not suppose that any Fair,
State, District or county, was ever
conducted on purely disinterested
principles, or that the officers of these
associations are SO magnanimous as to
have no irons of their own In the fire.
We are sure the records of the Cali


fornia State Fair will not show that
institution to have been conducted on
the non-remunerative plan. Aside
from the numerous little side interests
it has been greatly warped and infiu-
enced by politics and locality. A few
years ago the State Fair was as much
a Republican organization as the Re-
publican State Central Committee.
Under the management of correspond
ing Secretary HoAG only Republican
journals were selected as advertising
mediums and at pc riod when party
feeling ran high Democratic members
of the Board were few and far between.
These errors have been in part correct
ed of late and tits to be hoped they
will soon be entirely eradicated. Lo-
cality has initiated against the sue
cess of the State Fair, Sacramento, is
not the most desirable place for the as
sembling of people and stock from all
parts of the State. Reasons in su pport
ofthis statement are so many and OBJ
vious that we need not recapitulate.
The whole State is under contribution
to Sacramento and the people of that
goodly city are not contented with the
usual charges for food and room rent.
When the Legislature meets, board is
advanced, room rent is doubled and
those who indulge, tell us that bit
whisky is sold for twenty-five cents a
drink. The same programme is fol-
lowed during the continuance of the
State Fair. Sharks, thieves and gam


blers are permitted to prey on the un-


wary without molestation and when
Year: 1875

Our attention has been called to q
communication IN last evenings En-
press, to which is appended the name
Of our respected and respectable friend
Councilman HUBER, in which the
HERALD is charged with rejecting on
the honesty and integrity of our City
Council, In connection with the Los
Angeles and Independence railroad
depot matter. After reading the let
ter to which Councilman HUBER's s
name is appended, and which of course
he wrote, and rejecting = few mo-
ments, we reached the conclusion that
he has rushed into print little pre-
maturely. We never heard and We
never said that any one had bribed or
attempted to bribe Councilman HU-
BER, and until we do make some such
statement we would suggest to our re-
spected and respectable friend the ad-
visibility of leaving the shoe for those
who fancy it will fit them. 1t is true
that Councilman HUBER was one Of
the committee which selected San Pc
dro street as the site Of the depot, but
because he was one of this committee
is no evidence that certain parties OBJ
tained information from him which
induced them to purchase and bond
all the property they could in the vi
cinity Of the proposed depot site. AS
each member Of the Council seems to
think We mean him when we say
Councilman was offered a bribe, we
will say that it was Councilmen CAR
MONA and SOTELo whom We heard
were offered one thousand each to
vote for the ordinance locating the
depot on San Pedro street. Both gen.
tlemen refused the dishonorable prop
osition. We will give to any one de-
string them the names Of our infor-
mants. We want this matter investi-
gated. It Is due to the members Of
the Council, due to the railroad COM
pany and due to the city that tn ese
charges be sifted to the bottom.
Year: 1875

The publicity given by the HERALD
to the reports that the location of the
Los Angeles and Independence rail-
road depot on San Pedro street was the
result of ring manipulation, has pro-
duced great deal of feeling among
the residents of this city. The admis-
sion by certain members of the Council
that they were offered one thousand
dollars each for their vote in favor of
the ordinance locating the depot at
the point named, issufficient evidence
to satisfy all that influences outside
Of a desire to subserve public interest,
were brought to bear on certain par
ties whose support was necessary to
carry out the scheme of those who pur-
chased and bonded the property on
San Pedro street before the public were
informed that the location of the de-
pot had been selected. Basing our
judgment on information received
from reliable sources, we are satisfied





that the railroad company will be JUS
titled in refusing to accept the location
selected for their depot. We under
stand that both Senator JONES and
his general manager Colonel JACK.
SON have given assurance that if evil
dence of trickery in the depot location
can be obtained, they will refuse to ac-
cept the property and leave the ring to
get rid Of the land they have purchased
and bonded as best they can. We
presume no difficulty will be en-
countered in securing all the evidence
necessary on the point. If it is posi- =
BILE to do so legal proceedings should
be commenced at once to prevent the
consumation of the rings purpose.
1t Is certainly the duty of all lovers of
right and justice to demand an inves-
tigation of the charges that attempts
have been made to bribe Councilmen.
If one half the reports concerning the
depot location are true the transaction
is a shameful affair and q disgrace to
the city. Colonel JACKSON is investi-
eating the railroad side of the matter;
and the people of Los Angeles should
show up the guilty parties If there be
any.
Year: 1875

the officers are appealed to for pro-
lection by the victims of the gamblers
the citizens say "oh let them alone,
they help the town. That the peo-
pie are becoming weary of State Fair
mismanagement and SacramentO's s
selfishness is manifest in the fact that
the receipts of the Fair of this year
are considerably less than of last year.
There is no just reason why State
Fair shou Id be held year after year in
the same place. We have in this
State dozens of localities equally well
adapted for the annual exhibition,
with Sacramento. Los Angeles owns
a finer Agricultural Park and race
track than that at Sacramento, Santa
Rosa, San Jose, Stockton and perhaps
q dozen other places in the State have
accommodations for holding a State
Fair equal If not superior to those of
Sacramento. At each session of the
Legislation large sums are voted from
the peoples money to the State Fair.
Nine-tenths of this money never gets
out of Sacramento. Let us divide the
honor and the profit. Los Angeles
will furnish a better track, better
buildings and bett er weather for the
State Fair than Sacramento and she
will promise further not to put up du-
ring the Fair, the price of board, rent
or whisky.
Year: 1875

At the Methodist Conference during
its late session in San Francisco the
report of the Conference Division
Committee was brought up and car
ried bya large majority. The new
Conference is to be named the South
ern California Conference and has the
following boundaries: Beginning at
the Northwest corner of San Louis
Obispo county runs along that line to
Tulare, thence East to the State line,
thence Southwest along the State line
to the Ocean-including also the is
lands. The report OF the Committee
and the representation of the speakers
were in glowing colors of the present
and prospective of the growing coun-
try embraced in the new division of
the church. Los Angeles being the
central point of Southern California
will doubtless be chosen as the place
Of Conference, and this will also lead
to the establishment of a Methodist
College in our midst.
Year: 1875

THE completion of the Ohio Legislature
is finally settled. The republicans have
majority of five in the senate and nine
teen in the house. The majority for
Hayes in the state is 1901 sam Carey
was beaten for lieutenant-goycrnor by
about 10000.
Year: 1875

panAes.


The verdict of the Coroner's Jury in the
case of the death of the lamented Frederic
Hudson exonerated the railroad company
from blame, since the evidence proved that
the fagman at the crossing where the acci-
dent occurred used every possible effort to
warn Judge Keyes and the deceased of their
danger and to prevent them from attempting
TO drive across the track But they add to
this a finding 'that the dividing of a train
into two or more parts before passing over a
crossing of public street, as was done in
this case, and which is a common practice
on other railroads, renders such crossing
still more dangerous to the public travel and
ought not to be allowed without sufficient
protection by gate or gates. The practice
alluded to of separating train or of discon-
Meeting the locomotive from the cars while
travelling at high rate of speed is
SO full Of peril that it is difficult to under
stand how railroad company can be
held blameless for permitting it in public
street, or indeed at any crossing. The loco
motive, without slackening its speed, is sud-
denly uncoupled, and when released from
the train darts ahead until it branches off at
what is called 'fying switch" The next
minute the train comes laundering along
the main track with but slightly diminished
velocity. 1t can readily be understood that
person either walking or driving, who sees
an engine 60 rushing by, will naturally fix
his eyes upon it, and as soon as it passes will
be apt to hurry across the track without
thinking that train is following closely
behind. 1t was thus, no doubt, that the ac-
cident occurred which cost Mr.. Hudson his
life


We doubt whether this dividing of trains
is q common practice on railroads at street
crossings. 1t should certainly never be al
lowed unless gates are. provided to entirely
exclude vehicles and foot passengers from
the track until the whole train has passed.
Flagmen are of little use in such case, or
at least their services cannot be fully relied
upon to prevent accidents. Many persons
who consider that railroad which is per-
mitted to run through a city or village and
to cross streets should adopt effectual means
of preventing loss of life will not be inclined
to agree with the jury that no blame attaches
to the Middlesex Central Railroad for the
deplorable calamity at Concord.
Year: 1875

pend largely upon what they said tomorrow


to the people of New York. If they come as
the champions of Hackett and Phelps, of an
honest judge and high-minded public
official, if they come to rebuke the attempt to
make democracy an absolute monarchy and
to denounco with fervid eloquence the cor
ruptions Of political organizations, they will
be welcome The true democracy viii honor
their courage. Their glory will be known
throughout the land. OF whatever value
speeches of subservience and vassalage may
be to the fortunes Of the mercenaries who
surround Tammany Hall, and who are
struggling for place and pay, the effect upon
the great national party Of the country will
be instant and conclusive. The country has
long seen that democracy in New York, as
represented by Tammany Hall, is not
healthy indication of its general system, but
a purulent and running sore 1t is not pos
sible that Herman and Seymour will speak
without crying out upon it as earnestly as
Tilden and O'Conor cried out upon the pol
lutions Of Sweeny and Tweed
Year: 1875




We have not paid much attention to the
rumor that tho Crown Prince of Germany
was about to visit the United States. We
feared it was one of those things which
people wished for without there being much
prospect of its accomplishment The Cologne
Gazette, which now confirms the story, is
journal Of so much accuracy of information
that we are apt to believe in it. We can
think of no event of national character that
would be more interesting or more important
in its consequences than visit of the Crown
Prince of Germany to the United States
America and Germany are closely allied in
many ways-by traditional friendship, by
a similarity in race and by the fact that
large and respected element of our people
comes directly from German stock The
Crown Prince would find in Americas
millions of his countrymen who speak
his language, who are proud of the
achievements of himself and his ancestors.
They would welcome him with all the en-
thusiasm and joy with which every patriotic
heart welcomes a representative fits father
land. Those of us who are not German not
only will be glad to do honor to an illustrious
prince, but to show our respect for our Ger
man fellow citizens by due tribute to chief
of their race. More than all, as a nation we
should be glad to remember that friendship
for this Republic which began with Frederick
the Great and which was signally shown in
many ways by the present William. Germany
was our friend when the Great Frederick re-
fused to take part against us in the war for
when her credit came pouring into our Golfers
at time when American bonds were des
spised in the rich capitals of Europe. More
than all, in the interests of peace and cons
mercial harmony, every event that will tend
to bring the people, and especially the
rulers of America and Europe, to better
knowledge of each other will be step in our
civilization. The main cause of modern
wars and international disputes is ignorance
The German hates the Frenchman and the
Frenchman the Englishman only 80 long as
the one does not know the other. The Grown
Prince will see in America q much greater
country in some respects than he had i'm
agined, and we are afraid much smaller
one in others. He will see much to admire,
and something, we fear, to regret. He will
have welcome worthy of his rank and hia
lineage welcome which, we trust, will go
far toward strengthening the ties of friend-
ship that for a century have bound together
the German and the American people.