smithclay/nortonstories huggingface dataset:
Year: 1876

line, first paragraph of his finding, but consider the whole question to be, are they or are they not lawful charges against the County of Yuma, and wouldslike to have this question settled authorita- lively.

 Seventh - With reference to Wm. P. Miller's finding in the last paragraph, we consider it has no bearing on the question and is a simple impertinence towards the Grand Jury, inasmuch as we have not been able to find that he examined one witness on the subject, without it be on the side of the accused.

 Eighth-We think the asser- tion of Wm. P. Miller, that the County was then without an at torney, at least ansopen question, (see accompanying afidavit.) and we still think that the question of these bills and the action of the Board thereon, needs inves- tigation, and will be sorry to find that it be not done without ad- ding more cost to the County, al- ready heavily taxed and deeply in debt.

 TSIGNED BY SEVEN MEMBERs OF THE GRAND JURY
Year: 1876

A full line of Musical Merchandise kept in stock
We guarantee to suit the purchaser of our
goods In regard TO price.


Repairing and Plating neatly done and all
work warranted. 1006


CHARLES MELCHoR, 81 co.
Year: 1876

The Lives Insured by the Society are carefully
selected in different parts of North America and
Europe, furnishing, by this broad field of opera.
tions an additional and exceptional safety to the
Policy y-bolders The assurances are made only on
the Mutual Principle. The Surplus Premiums are
returned annually to the Insured.
Year: 1876

CAPT. ROWLAND, the commander of the
Mohawk, which recently capsized in New
York harbor, has been arrested ON a charge
of perjury. At the inquest he swore that he
let go the main sheet when the squall struck
but an examination of the vessel showed tie
main sheet secured hard and fast.
Year: 1876

We do not read anonymous letters and communl-
cations. The name and address of the writer In
all cases Indispensable not necessarily for publication
but as guaranty Of good faith.


We cannot undertake to return or reserve commu-
uicatons that are not used.
Year: 1876

In ancient times threshlng was a
primitive process. A circular plot Of
ground was beaten hard and firm, in
closed by slight barricade, the grain
in sheaves thrown on the earth, horses
or oxen led in and driven round and
round for hours, until the grain and
straw were trodden into an almost in
distinguishable mass. Then, by pro-
cess Of tossing and blowing or tanning
the chaff is separated from the grain,
the latter being afterwards washed to
free it from the dirt, which could not
fail to adhere to it. It was a great i'm
provement, and he was a grand invent
or who introduced the fail. Some of
the unpleasant circumstances which at
tended the use of animals were then
avoided. The farmers threshed their
grain on a plank floor, instead of the
bare ground the grain was not so much
injured as before; more of it was saved !;
the straw was more useful after thresh-
ing was done, and general advance
was considered to be made. The East
ern countries, unchanged through all
the rolling ages, still adhere to the
horse or OK threshing, and many ma
tions still use the fail.


Among the queerest anomalies, how
ever, to be found in this country is the
recorded fact that in district in Mas
sachusetts the farmers reject the use of
machinery for threshing out their
wheat, rye and oats, and keep pound
ing away with their ffty-year-old fails
as industriously as did their grand
fathers. The world has gone on; Mas
sachusetts has become the great inven-
tive State, has sent out vast quantities
of machinery to every part OF this
and foreign lands; but the farm
er of that State does not appear
to have moved peg. Sill he is failing.
There are very few places anywhere else
in this country where the fail is used.
The Department of Agriculture says
that few Marylanders thresh in this
manner, and there may be isolated
cases over the country where small
farmers raise but few bushels and do
their own threshing, but machinery is
almost universally in use. Horse and
steam threshers now do the work hui
man muscle formerly performed, and
where bushel was formerly laborious-
ly gathered up from the plank floor or
the bare ground, a hundred now pour
from the iron throat of the machine.


In Maine and most of the Middle
States horse machines are used which
turn out from one to three hundred
bushels per day. The thresher furnish
es portion of the horses and part OF
the gang, the farmer provides the re-
mainder and pays for the work, either
in money or toll ON the grain. The
cost Of threshing is least when the most
perfect machinery is employed. In
California steam threshers are used ,
and the cost is little over five cents
in South Carolina steam machinery is
almost unknown, and the threshing
costs about twenty cents per bushel.
The Western States Ohio, Indiana,
Illinois, Michigan, Wisconsin, Nebras-
ka and Iowa--use steam threshers to a
very considerable extent, and the cost
is comparatively small. Many farmers
in these States own steam machines,
and do not only their own work, but
that of large circle Of their neighbors
st. Louis Globe Democrat.
Year: 1876

Senator JONES Los Angeles paper
affects to regard the Senate's refusal
to accept the Assembly amendment to
the O'CoNNoR, Railroad Commissions
er's bill as manifestation of the deter
mination of the Central and Southern
Railway Corporations, not to recognize
the right of the State to interfere with
the management and control of their
roads. 1t very probable that the San
ia Monica organ has been instructed to
attack and detract these railroad COM
panies on any reasonable or unreason-
able preteXt, but in holding them re-
sponsible for the acts of the Senate,
we fear it has permitted its zeal to
outrun it's judgment and place itself
in position of antagonism with at
least twenty-five of of the forty Sena-
tors. But aside from this view of the
matter the charge is false as any one
will see who reads the synopsis of the
OCoNNoR bill printed in the HERALD
of Tuesday morning. That bill
specifically and distinctly claims
the right of the State to exer-
else authority over the railroads
within its borders. 1t not only
claims the right but it provides for
the appointment of commissioners
who shall as servants of the people
exercise this right. Yet we have the
assurance of the owners and manag-
ers of the Central Pacific, the Southern
Pacific and the North Pacific Rail-
roads that they offer no objections to
the passage of the O'CoNNER or any.
other bill that proposes to deal fairly
and equitably between the people and
the railroads. The refusal of the Sell
ate to accede to the demand of the
Assembly was probably intended as
rebuke to the fanatics and extremists
of the Lower House. That the rebuke
was felt and bore good fruit in evident
in the fact that at the last test vote
between the distructionists and the
sensible, practical members the once
large majority of the first named class
dwindled to one lone vote.
Year: 1876

From the Los Angeles Republican,


The Herald of this city commenced
its sixth volume this morning, and
the self congratulaton of the editor is
perhaps pardonable. AS an outspo-
ken Democratic paper the Herald
gives forth no uncertain sound, being
in marked contrast with the good
lord, good devil papers of this section.
On railroad matters we can not agree
with the Herald, but must cordially
endorse such efforts as the last two
annual pamphlets, which have done
so much to make the prosperity of
this section. AS Democratic paper
the Herald is a success and as an ad-
vertising medium for Southern Cali
fornia it has done great good. We
hope its sixth volume may endas aus
piciously as it has begun.
Year: 1876

AND robson too. The committee
have discovered that the Secretary of
the Navy drew black walnut, cherry
and other valuable lumber from the
Navy yard with which to build his
Washington residence. He also paid
for the frescoing and painting of his
house out of the government funds
and forgot to charge himself with the
amount. Already twelve thousand
dollars worth of work and lumber has
been discovered. Still RoBEsoN has
always been counted among the faith
ful. A. A. COHEN forced MEIGs &
GAwLEY to give him lumber to build
a mansion, but this member of the
cabinet and shining light of the Re-


publican party, out CoHEN's COHEN.
He st eals the lumber from the Navy
yard and pays for the building and
ornamenting of his house out of the
Government Treasury.
Year: 1876

Mr.. Potts writes as follows to the
Republican:


EDITOR REPUBLICAN In your
paper of the 2Sth inst, in local arti
Gle, you refer to the tract advertised
for sale by Mr.. J. w. Potts as being
fine tract, that will soon be surround
ed by pleasant residences and public
buildings. But | would just say to
you that do not advertise a tract of


land for sale, | only offer few scat
tered lots for sale that are already sur
rounded by pleasant residences. There
is not a lot in my advertisement that
is more than 400 yards from pleas
ant residence, and most of them are
less than 400 feet from buildings al
ready erected, and the furthest that
any lot on my list is away from Tenn
pie and Downey Blocks is 960 yards.
In other directions and not half so de-
sirable in position lots 1900 feet off are
selling for from $500 to $500 per lot,
and recognizing the fact that the
strangers in our midst are sensible men
who know the value of lot when
they see it and knowing the opinions
of the older inhabitants of Los Ange-
les in reference to the lots offered for
sale, we are not afraid to offer those
lots to the highest bider and intend to
go on the lots to sell them and give
purchasers a chance to see what they
are buying, as we have no desire to
deceive any one and shall not pay
any one either to puff our lots in the
papers or to bid for us, feeling conf
dent that the lots offered will recon-
mend themselves, and that we can
still live if they don't bring very
high price. All we ask the papors to
do is to let the people know that the
sale is going to take place and where
and when it will occur, and we have
no fears of the result. J. w. PORTS.
Year: 1876

A report was brought to this city
yesterday that a sheep-herder, name
unknown, had been foulIy murdered
on the road about three miles this
side of San Gabriel. He was found
about o'clock Tuesday afternoon,
with his throat cut and his bowels
ripped open. The body was conveyed
to Ell Monte, where it was identified
as the person of sheep-herder who
had been in that place few days be-
fore. He had at that time quarrel
with some MeXicans and when he
left was thoroughly armed. The de-
ceased looked to be about 80 years of
age. There is no clue to his name or
identity.
Year: 1876

The San Diego Union of the 25th
has the following Our Bay seems to
be swarming at present with sharks.
A good sized one was caught on Thurs
day, by a lady at the Horton House,
while on fishing excursion in the
yacht Restless. How she managed to
haul him In seems almost incredible
it is one Of the largest that has yet
been taken in the Bay.
Year: 1876

By private dispatch to the editor
of the HERALD, received late last eve-
ming, we learn that man had just
reached Tehachipe Station in search
of doctor who said that Tunnel No.
7 in the Tehachipe Pass had caved
and buried the whole shift of work.
men. Ten or twelve men are sup
posed to be killed. We have no fur
ther particulars.
Year: 1876

REPUBLICAN journals claim that
BELKNAP did not become a Republi-
can until he was appointed Secretary
of War, but they forget to add that he
was an honest man until he left the
Democratic party.
Year: 1876

A statue of Christopher o Columbus was unveiled at Philade delphia. The proceed ings were simple and becoming as fitted the occasion. It is late for America to honor the discoverer of the new world. And even now the monument which is to perpetuate the name of the daring Genoeseis thewprk of an Italian master, the giftaof Italians. Even this tardy tribute to the genius and achievements of Columbus is thoroughly in keeping with the somewhat somber experience of the man who has furnished one of the most pathetic figures in all modern his tory. The monument rises long after the family of the great navigator has ceased to survive in single representa- tive the honors came too late to glorify career already made illustrious by the greatest discovery which. the world has known. Nevertheless, every American citizen will be glad that statue worthy of the heroic voyager stands at last in the city in which we are now celebra- ting our national birth.

 To the day of his death Columbus be- lieved that what he had discovered vas the eastern shore of Asia. The widest dream of his imagination would never | have pictured to him what he had done and was instrumental in bringing about that he gave to the worlda new conti ne1lt toward which a vast tide of 'immi- grafton would flow which, in less than four centuries, would be filled with 80,- GOO, 900 of the descendants of Europe, ,and that the dweller upon the western eex- tremity of that new world would look out upon great ocean, on the far west ern shores of which lies the land he was in pursuit of, and supposed he had found. ... .
Year: 1876

When the costume is made of two ma terials of the same shade this winters the sleeves are made of the same goods as the skirt; but, where two different col: ors are used, the sleeves are made of the same as the overdress.a i3

 70 At an auction in Thomasto B, Conn, seven hundred bushals1of: potatoes were sold for SIS, or 8 little more than two and half cents per busheL
Year: 1876

Merchants Gargling Oil has become one of the most popular liniments that is now prepared. It is, beyond doubt, the best liniment in the world for the diseases advertised. Its use has not only become general in every State in the Union, but large quantities of this valuable preparation are annually sent
Year: 1876

BINGHAM HOUSE PHILADELPHIA [
February "a, 1876. !
Editors OF the Register


Strange things happen under the sun,
and strange it is am here, but this Is
the how OF 1t: Meeting friend in Park
ersburg with a cancer of the lip, who was
coming here to have it removed by the
eminent surgeon DR.. Pencost, l was
asked to accompany him, and so l am
here in the capacity OF nurse. And by
the-way think nursing is my forte, not
withstanding my charge thinks l am
little crusty and dry sometimes. Well,
l am not aspiring TO be net nurse: and
don't propose putting out shingle bid
ding for baby charges.


But now these surgical profcients do
delight in cutting people to pieces, any
how. To see them singing their glitter
ing tools around loose, makes ones hair
feel porcupinish.


To slash a big letter V cut of my
friends lip, extending to the chin, was
only a moments work, and the hateful
piece containing the fungus intruder was
flung to the floor, like we farmers toss
aside the cross and underbits from pigs
ears wien we'er marking them. And
then to see the big-whiskered doctor
with his needle and thread, sewing up
the cash, chatting and joking with that
same assurance and self-complacency our
grandmothers exhibit when they used to
throw us across their laps, and whip
up rent in the seat OF
our breeches! Well | suppose n
man must enjoy his work to do
it well-but it ISM. bit funny
for the subject, and I've been wondering
what these surgeons and dentists will do
IN the next world, where they have no
tumors to cut out, broken legs to ampu-
tate, aching teeth to gouge, and the like.
| do wonder if they will insist on taking
their tools with them.


We met with three items'of news on
our journey. First, an acquaintance
of ours, business man from your city,
come on the train ut Petroleum, with the
news that young doctor had just i'm
mortalized himself by successfully re-
morsing tapeworm from lady's
stomach thirty four feet long-he meant
of course the tapeworm thlrty-tour feet
long Second woman came
aboard at Piedmont, suffering
intensely with a broken jaw,
One of these selfame dental grub
bers we have referred to, had been slash
ing around in her mouth with his picks,
torceps and crowbars, trying to clear the
ground of Objectionable snags, and done
the mischief, so we were intormed-"My
tooth has quit aching"


NY last and most Objectionable item Of
rews was the "news boy himself He
came around just 7S0 times by the watch
with the latest news, novels, ivory what
nots and patent candy, and every time
told an old lady next to US, who had an
inquiring mind all about every item
he had in his kit. Now, what | want
to know is this: Is there any law against
killing these train beys? And if there
is. it's blessed thing for them them they
never leave the cars, for if they ever
venturcd out among honest farmers,
there would be frequent occasions for
coroners juries.


The Centennial is hopelessly epidemic
here, and when | can leave my charge,
III 20 out and see who's got it.


SALATHIEL.
Year: 1876

A YOUNG man by the name of Hugh
Gallaher had one OF his legs droken on
Saturday morning by falling from an
empty freight car and Leing run over
about one-half mile west Of this city. He
was taken home, whore he received the
proper medical attention.


A POUR horse team became frightened
q. something near the Glass Works on
Saturday forenoon and ran away. They
made u very strong run. but not very
fast one and were caught after running
about eight squares. But little damage,
wai done.


TIE Benwood nail factory will re-
sumo operations to-day.


The watchman OF the railroad cut q
little west of this city, was struck on the
head by some hummer on passing
freight train, Friday night, and quite
badly hurt, but i. doing very well under
the circumstances.


1T is proposed to have meeting a
City Hall this evening, for two purposes
both Of which are important to Bellaire
and related TO each other First, the
qaoto of railroad stock Tor Bel!aire is not
vet made up before the meeting of the
Board on W ednesday next. The second
purpose of the meeting Is, to
give expression OF public
opinion on the passage OF a bill for the
establishment of an inspection OF tobacco
and the building of tobacco warehouse
at Bellsire, against which it is believed
al effort is about to be made by adverse
Interests. This meeting will be of the
very greatest importonce to the citizens,
and should be attended by all.


TURN out to the meeting 81 City Hall
to night.


But few persons were seen upon our
streets yesterday, except when going to
and returning from church.


II you see this, drop US n line.


THE price of eggs in this market seem
Year: 1876

Even in the terrific outbursts Of Meg
Merrilles," the agonized madness of
Blanca or the remOrse of Lady Macbeth,
she never ranted nor Overstepped the


modesty of nature. Passion is like ire
"a good servant but n dangerous master,


and with her it was kept within the


bounds of the purest art. This gave TO


her acting the charm of reserved power;


il did not convey the impression of labor


and effort, but one of natural inspiration


and ease. Her reading was the finest on


the stage, especially in its justness. Its


accuracy was wonderful, and the aston


ishing power Of emphasis which she


would sometimes concentrate upon a


single word was contrasted with the


most delicate determinations of meaning.


1t is not strange that she was almost ~


popular as a reader as an actress, for in


the noblest dramas the thought is more


important than the action. and produces


greater effects fact, which Edwin For


rest illustrated during the last ten years
of his life-when he simply read Lear
and "Othello," and Hamlet" on the
stage, being physically unable to act
them. Miss Cushman, however, did not
depend upon her readings of the tex
entirely, but expressed the character sh
played bin varied attitude and gesture.
Her stately figure enabled her to dare
successfully what in other women would
have seemed exaggeration. The attitude
which "Meg Merrilles" assumes on her
first entrance lives in the memory of
Thousands as picture Of fearful beauty.
1t was more than picturesque-it was
moral, for it told the story of undying
love for Harry Bertram. All through
her great round Of characters are scat
tered pictures of similar fascination and
power. There is "Queen Katherine"
with extended arms, appealing TO her
royal husband, or with Outstretchcd
hand and averted head pointing TO VOL
sey: "Lord Cardinal, to you I speak"
There is Wolscy himself, shuddering at
the taunts of his enemies. There is
Romeo stretched upon the ground taking
the measure of an unmade grave. No
other actor could fill the stage as she
did. She had not only this vast variety
of attitude and gesture, but also raTidity
Of motion, which was applied OCCASION
ally with splendid effect, particularly in
the Gypsy Queen Cor. Scribner's.
Year: 1876

CoURTEsY is a word of fine import,


second only to honor in the idea OF a


thorough gentleman. It is animated by


a gentle and kindly spirit, which as 1t


comes from the heart, so it always goes to


the heart. 1t is the outward form OF


such spirit-the flower and aroma that


spring from those twin roots. When
! these are united there is complete
courtesy-one of the most gracious and
winning things that delight human eyes


and charm human hearts.


LITTLE words are the sweetest to hear;
little charities fly furthest and stay long
est on the wing; little lakes are the still
est. little hearts are the fondest little
farms the best titled; little books the
most read, and little songs are the dear
est loved. And when nature would
make ANYTHING especially rare and beauti-
ful, she makes it little-little pearls, little
diamonds, little dew. Agar's is a mode
PRAYER, vet it is but Il little one, and the
burden of the petition is but for little.
The sermon on the mount was little.
Life is made up of Titles; death il what
remains of them all. Day is made up OF
little beams, and night is glorious with
little stars


SEE, says the Burlington Hawkeyc,
ISM tnls ABOUT the season OF the year 10
start the original and veracious item
about the woman whose child fell into
the well, and while she was fishing il out
the screams of her baby called her to the
house, where she found it had pulled a
tub of water over on itself, which was
writhing in the agony OF death, the child
was, not the tub, and then when she ran
to call her husband from the field, met
the hired man bringing in all they could
find of him after n short but vigorous
Greco Roman wrestle with reaping ma
chine, and then as she turned in despair
to run into the house again, stepped on
the teeth of hay rake, causing the han
die to fly up ard hit her in the back of
the head with such violence that il broke
a brand-new comb that she gave three
dollars for only the week before2 IL ap
pears to us that this is about the right
time. Start it out, and ir we have omit
ted any little details, the angel who
hovers over the paragraphs of the Chi
cago Times will please supply them.