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Year: 1875

ACCIDENT TO THE FAvoRITE.-The Fa-
vorite in be- up trip on Saturday, ran
on rock near Gamble and carried away
large piece of her keel. She was put
on the gridiron at this place on Mon
day morning and will soon be ready to
resume duty. Her place is temporarily
supplied by the tug Mastic.


We understand that as soon as she
resumes, Capt. Waite will take COM
nand Of her. A better or more popular
commander, it would be hard to find on
the sound.
Year: 1875

ACCIDENTALLY sHoT.-John Hopkins, Of Cam
bridge, accidentally shot himnelf with revolver,
last week. He had been examining it and was
carelessly placing it in his back pocket when the
pistol was discharged the ball passing down the
heshy part OF the hip and burying itself in the
large muscles. The doctors were unable to find
fha hall
Year: 1875

SUPREME COURT WIDOWS S LEqkL Diff


GUILTY.


Before Judge Gilbert.


Yesterday the case or the People ex rel. Eleanor
Hodges et al. vs. Mrs. \. J. Christie came on
motion TO issue an order OF commitment against
the defendant. Mrs. Christie Is the widow OF the
late State senator Christie. The suit is in refer
ence to the assignment Of claim for SER
vices as counsel made by the Senator named dur
ing lifetime, An order was issued some time
ago by the Court for the widow 10 surrender GER
tain papers bearing upon the issue. She refused
to comply with the order OF the Court on the
ground that she had a lien upon them. Judge
Gilbert said ne would give Mrs Christie three
days 10 comply with the order before executing
the commitment


NATIONAL STEAMSHIP COMPANY CASE.


The case Of Charles FL. Tugman VS.. The Ma
tional Steamship Company came up yesterday in
the Supreme Court on motion Of the counsel for
the company, TO show cause why the suit should
not be removed to the United states District
Court. The action is for conversion OF $40, 600
Tue Court granted the desired order.
Year: 1875

A Philadelphia paper says: It seems strange, but nevertheless it is a fact, that there are many young ladies in this city who earn their livelihood by acting or poising as live lay figures for the art academies. At first glance it seems dreadfully shocking and vulgar that ladies should appear before party of young men perfectly nude. Itis queer mode of making money, but were it not for these ladies there would not be any of the fine figures which are christened Dlanas and Venuses, but are only such so far as the shape and comeliness of form of the subject goes.

 In conversation with a prominent member of the Pennsylvania Academy of Fine Arts, reporter,of the Sunday Press learned most strange things con cerning the world of art. He said it was extremely difficult to obtain young ladies who would adopt this business, and only upon the most sacred promises that their individuality would not be revealed do they consent to take the position. 1" Indeed" said the gentle man, "this rule is so we'll enforced that there was one lady who appeared before our class at the old academy for four years before knew who she was." .i.

 These nude. live figures only appear before the life class of the academy for sketching. Formerly they came before. the gentlemen alone, but in the new building, both ladies and gentleman will study together. No one except the member of the class are ever admitted to the room where they are studying from figure, and only the best artists are taken into membership in this mysteri, ous body. The method of studying pur- sued is something like the following: The lady proceeds to a room adjoining the classroom, especially adapted for her, At Q given signal she appears be- for the assembled guests, upon 8 plat form, masked and shrouded in drapery. She is then placed in the proper position required II for the study, and soon the delft handlers of the brush proceed to depict her form. She is never allowed to- be spoken to by any of the members of the class, and should any of the bold ones break this rule they are immediate ly and forever expelled.

 Indeed, the whole proceeding so soon assumes an ar of business that the art ists, according to their own statements, forget that the lady who Is exposing her charms to their gaze is alive. Of course, there is a shock experienced by the new conner in the class the first time he is present at the meeting, but it soon wears off. #e tis

 The ladies who follow this strange mode of procuring living are in every instance respectable. They are gener- ally led to it by the tempting offers of the large pay which is given for their work. Oltentimes ladies of wealth, who are proud of their charms, and whose vanity exceeds their prudence, act in this capacity for some skiilful artist. In the celebrated picture of the "'Nine Muses," which created such furore a few years since, the figures there repre- sented were of living subjects from diff ferent parts of the globe, ono being re- ported to be the wife of wealthy resi- dent of New York, and another of large merchant of Chicago.
Year: 1875

His Fidelity to his Wounded Young Master

 He Carries him u Loaf of Bread, and Lends to his Rescue. ! On Thursday Eddie Gerrold, aged

 nine years, of Newtonville, small ham

 let in the interior of Wateryliet, N. r.,

 went into the woods in the rear of his

 fathers house to gather some nuts. He

 obtained a little bag from his mother at

 his urgent request to put the nuts in,

 and started off for the woods in high

 glee. As evening advanced he did not

 return, and his parents became anxious,

 and went ill search of him, but failed to

 find him. They continued their search

 all day Friday, and on the evening of

 that day returned home tired and foot

 sore, and almost gave the child up as

 lost. About nine o'clock on Saturday

 morning, as most of the residents of the

 hamlet were in Mir. .Gerrold's house

 sympathizing with the family in the loss

 of their child, "Jack," large New

 foundland dog, that has been an attache

 of the Gerrold family since he was a

 month old, entered and seemed uneasy,

 and dkept winning and barking at inter

 vals. He was put outside the door for

 disturbing the family, and after remain ing sthere for some time, he ran into q

 Mrs. Scovill's house next door, and

 grasped a loaf of bread that the lady of the house had put under the stove,9 and ran off with.it in his mouth in the direc- tion of the wood. n r.

 When MT. Scovill returned, his wife. related the incident to him and he felt surprised, as Jack had always maintained character for strict honesty. He, in turn related the incident to Mir. Gerrold, and that gentleman felt pretty certain that the dog had some idea of where the child was and new hope was in- spired in the family and they waited i'm patiently for the dogs return. Finally he did return in about an hour, and ex- hibited the same uneasiness that was marked before. After trying various ruses to attract the family to follow him to the wood. he finally started in that direction with more than half of the residents of the hamlet after him. He led them through many winding paths,~ until at last they reached a chestnut grove, and there they. found the boy ly- ing unoer tree with his left leg broken. The boy himself told the facts of the case to our reporter substantially as fol- lows: He was upon the tree, and shak-l ing it with all his might to shake off the nuts, and lost his hold and tumbled down, his leg striking the ground with force. He tainted, and the first thing that met his gaze when he became con scious, was the dog standing over him. This was on Friday evening, and the dog never left his side, but kept barking with all his might until Saturday morn ing. The bangs of hunger the boy felt l. 4

 an attempt to reach some nuts that lay on the ground short distance from him. When the dog observed this he started off and returned in short time with the loaf in his mouth, which he de- posted in the boys lap. He ate of it with relish, and then became lonesome and began to cry. The dog started off again and this time returned with his friends to him. z>s The boy was removed home and a doctor summoned, who set l the wounded limb.
Year: 1875

Persons visiting New York or leaving by the cars from Grand Central Depot, will save an noyance and expense of carrlage hire and bag gage expressage by stopping at Grand Union Hotel, opposite Grand Central Depot. Over $50 elegantly furnished rooms and fitted up at B cost of $9a0,000. European plan. Guests Grand Union that at any other first-class house in New York. Stages and street cars pass the doors for all parts of the city Sec that the hotel you enter is the Grand Union HoteL- Nc7n
Year: 1875

No man can make money of poor land. As you travel you have usually observed, other things being equal, that good land makes thriving farmers. while families brought up on hard, poor land are generally poor. Many mon have spent their lives in blowing around stones and died poor, who on good land might, with the same labor, have been independent. With us, no land which does not produce large crop is worth cultiyating. Small or even middling crops will not pay for the labor and the manure.
Year: 1875

 The following is the testimony of Dr. Loring respecting Hungarian grass :: I believe can make more milk with this grass, cut and mixed with corn meal and shorts, than can with the best timothy hay, cut and mixed in the same manner. And when you remember that you can raise on ordipary land. by sowing the seed of Hungarian grass late in June, from two and one-half to three and one- half tons of good fodder to the acre, and that this crop can be sown after we have ascertained whether we are to have good crop of hay or not, you will see the value of this grass. have such high opinion of 1t that on my own farm 1 have this year and last year raised from sey- enty-five to one hundred tons of it for the purpose of feeding my milch COWS during the winter s.. #.f
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
n31.l Il Seen and Felt.


The Great Blood Purifier.
Year: 1875

Urinary and Womb Diseases, Gravel. Diabetes,
Dropsy, stoppage Of water, incontinence OF urine,
where there are brick dust eposts or the water Is
thick cloudy, mixed with substances like the white
of an egg or threads like white silk, there Is
morbid dark, bilious appearance, and white bone
dust deposits, and when there is pricking, burn
ing sensation when passing water, and pain In the
small of the back and along the loins.
Year: 1875

Any one desiring to obtain some
idea of the stupendous accomplish
ments of railroad engineering, should
spend few days in Tehachape Pass,
investigating the operations of the
Southern Pacific Railroad Company.
About twenty miles of that road is a
succession of cuts, fills and tunnels.


Within this distance there are thir-
teen tunnels, ranging from eleven


hundred feet to few yards in length.


For the greater portion of the way the


road bed is cut through solid granite.


The elevation is so great from the
present terminus of the road at CAL
iente to Tehachape valley that the
first mile and half out of Caliente is
attained by laying down eight miles
of track. Higher up in the Pass the
road runs through tunnel, encircles
the hill and passes few feet above
the tunnel. After completely encir-
cling the hill and going half around
again, the track doubles on itself like
a closely pursued hare, and after run
ming several miles in the opposite di-
rection, strikes off up the cafIon.
This circling and doubling is for grade.
Once the track crosses the Pass, and
this involves the building of long
and very high bridge. We doubt if a
more difficult and expensive piece of
Year: 1875

California, a mineral State, with
seams of gold, veins of silver, beds of
coal, deposits of lead and almost every
other mineral known to the kingdom,
in vast quantities extending over her
length and breadth, has never had an
industrious and thoroughly practical
State Geologist. The researches of
such scientist would be of incalcula-
BILE value in aiding the development
of our mineral wealth, and it is to be
regretted that the services of such
man were not secured years ago. But
as they were not we can only regret
the deficiency and hope that the great
want may be met in the near future.
Thousands and thousands of dollars
have been spent in State geological
research, and except the vouchers to
show that the money was promptly
drawn, we have nothing in return.
DIR. TRAsK accomplished nothing tan
gible or practical, and Professor
WHITNEY was an ornamental append
age to the State expenditures of about
the same utility as a fifth wheel to q
wagon or an additional tail to a pup
py. He was a fancy geologist, who
did not know slate from granite or
quartz from feldspar. He drew vast
sums from the State Treasury and
spent it in searching for the particular
peak which should bear his name
down to future generations. He said
there was no coal in the Diablo range,
though vast beds have since been
found there, and if in 1850 he had
carefully examined the formation
about Mount Davidson he would have
sworn there was no silver in all Ne
vada. We have had sufficiency of
this class of State Biologists, and we
hope no more such will be foisted on
the people. 1t appears to us that we
might obtain much valuable geologi-
cal information through having COM
petent Professor of Geology in the
State University. He might spend
his Summers among our hills and
mountains, and in order to create a
desire for the study of geology it would
perhaps be well that he be empowered
to select from among the students at
the University party of ten or twelve
who should accompany him on his
tours of investigation at the States
expense. Those who developed an in
terest in this branch of science would
of course. be selected for other trips.
If this plan was carried on from year
to year young and enthusiastic geo.
logical students would be found and
educated, while the State would be
obtaining valuable information con-
cerning her innumerable mineral Sec
tions.
Year: 1875

GRANGE, who killed MADDEN near
ly a year ago, has been found guilty of
murder in the first degree and sem
fenced to Imprisonment for life. The
difference between the two young men
grew out of newspaper personalities.
Coarse charges against the mother of
GRANGE, which appeared in MAD
DEN's newspaper, brought about the
collision. Though there was much
provocation. yet the assassin like
manner in which GRANGE attacked
and killed MADDEN, is without the
slightest justification, and it is hardly
possible that his sentence will be
lightened.
Year: 1875

While the author of the "Coming
City, advertisements and the editors
of the subsidized press contine them
selves to literal facts and practical OBJ
servations, we have no disposition to
quarrel with or ridicule their PROPOSE


tions. It is only when they resort to
language such as was used by the an
clients in appeals to their mythical


gods that we enter our protest and re-


fuse to credit the existence of fancy


pictures, conjured by the magic pen of
the eloquent FITCH and dressed in
sentences appropriate to the highest
flights Of poetic imagery. The safe,
commodious aud, withal, beautiful


bay, looks we'll OH paper; but, alas!


for FITcH's Typographical knowledge,


he omitted to define its boundaries and
state that it extended from the beach
at Jonesville to the harbor at Yoko-
hama. That second Eden, which so
far surpassed the first that in place of
the willy serpent there are only few
harmless horned toads, is graphically,
even pathetically described; but the
slight mistake occurs of failing to
state that on the site of Jonesville no
tree or shrub has ever yet dared peep
above the surface of the ground, on
penalty OF being caught up by the
blast and swept miles inland. Those
shaded avenues and fragrant bowers
are fancy sketches that may become
reality when the wind ceases to blow.
Santa Monica is what it is, and what
it may become depends not on the
number of lots which, through florid
and untruthful advertisements, the
people may be induced to purchase,


but upon the advantages or disadvan-
tages it may develop as an embarca.
dero and watering place. No sensible
man who visits the locality will for a
moment entertain the story so dill
gently circulated that great city
must soon grow up there. It is prob
able Los Angeles would be- bepe-
flied could ten thousand people
be induced to purchase lots
at fabulous prices in Jonesville. The
money would be used in building
wharf and railroad from which we
should realize pecuniary profit. But


we do not want wharf and railroad


built on the blighted hopes Of thous-
ands of poor men. The prospects of
Los Angeles are not so Strengthened
that she must stoop to deception and
fraud in order to better her condition.
She does not wish to obtain money
under false pretenses, and she will not
absorb the hard earnings and careful
hoardings of the laboring masses
through the glamour of speculation
which could only attain its rosy hue
by the judicious distribution of thous-
ands of dollars among venal newspaper
publishers. Santa Monica will become
a landing place of note and value, and
her beach is now a place ofresort for sea
bathers, but the fine harbor in which
ships may ride in safety in all weather
and the coming city of 10000 inhabit-
ants are myths which do not and never
will exist. They are frauds intended
to dupe people out of their money.
Year: 1875

engineering was encountered in the
building of the Central Pacific over
the Slerras, than that with which the
Southern Pacific is now struggling in
Tehachape Pass. Another tremendous
piece of work is the San Fernando
tunnel, which, when completed, will
be over one and one half miles in
length and, in places over one thous-
and feet beneath the surface. Yet the
company will accomplish this great
work and run ears through from San
Francisco to Los Angeles by the first
of next July. All the force that can
be used is kept at work on the San
Fernando tunnel. In the Tehachape
Pass five thousand men are employed
and the force is being increased at the
rate of one thousand Cinnamon per
week.
Year: 1875

THE Call and Chronicle, both advo-
eating the Independent ticket, are
fighting like the Kilkenny cats. The
Call denounces the Chronicle as rail-
road organ, and the Chronicle retorts
that the Call sits on the fence and
shouts first for the Democrats and
then for the Independents. The real
truth is that in proportion to their edi-
torial ability both of these papers are
Dolly Warden in sentiment. The Call
has been in that camp since its organ
ization by BOOTH. The Chronicle but
recently came over from the Republi-
can camp, but being more vigorous
and much more ably edited paper than
the Call, 1t at once took front rank as
an Independent expounder. This has
excited the wrath of the older though
weaker leader, and war of crimina-
tion and re-crimination is inaugurated
in which good many ugly words are
used and good deal of dirty linen ex-
hibited. The cause of the Independ-
ent party is not materially advanced
by this mud singing.
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 25 per cent
below cost, as they intend giving up their dry
goods business and keep only Gents Furnish
Ing Goods. This is no bogus sale, but genu-
Inc selling out Of our entire stock of Dry
Cry Goods, as you will find out by calling at
the Bazaar, corner of Main and Requena
streets, opposite the U. s. Hotel. jei7
Year: 1875

A pretty young lady lawyer of Chi
cago always declines divorce cases
Her argument on that score is short
and sweet, viz: every woman who
accepts a husband should forever
thereafter during life be compelled to
live with him.. whether ugly, shabby,
good, bad or Indifferent.
Year: 1875

s4ASH 80 AS@Sf s@N. : - : -.


Here they are, sir said theRired
man, ten minutes afterward.


Very well. Nowcsrry them down
toWidow Sloan, and give her my
compliments, and say to her that if
she wishes to pare and dry lot for
winter she can have as many as she
wants.


Thomas opened his eyes = little
wider than ever, and with Thank
zee. SIR as if he were the one who'd
received e favor, swung the basket to
his shoulder and went off with a
springy step, in marked contrast with
his ordinary slow, heavy movement.


The unexpected promptness and
cheerfulness with which his hired
man seconded this thoughtful kind
ness toward the widow was another
element Of satisfaction. Thomas was
apt to be a little cross at times, and
especially when called upon for some
unusual service and Mr.. Brill had
looked for a cloudy face and a sullen
manner VIXEN he gave his sorder. He
gazed after the man as he went hur-
rying away, wondering at his chang
ed demeanor. He was still sittiagin
the porch when Thomas returned.


well, Thomas, and what did Mrs.
Sloan say?'


'oh, sir, l can't tell you how STIR
prised and happy she was; and she
told me to thank you thousand
times


win she pare and dry them for
winter?'


Indeed ard she gils s;r,a.shs, sat i.
right down and went to work whileI
was there, and says she'll have have
'em all out on the shed drying to-
morrow morning. 1t was real kird
and thoughtful in YOU, sir. 1t'ssu j,
a pity to have things 50 to vast,
when so many would be glad to get
them.


Master and man were buster than
usual in the summer and autumn
days that followed, not alone in gath
ering and storingof their abundance,
but in gathering and dispensing as
well. Nothing was permitted, as in
other years, to go to waste. The bush
els and bushels of apples which had
once rotted under the trees; the oye-
supply of fturnips andotherroot crops
which had lain unused in the cellar
or storehouse, were all distributed to
the poor and there. was plenty
through the winter in many an hum
bic home where in former seasons
pinching need had bees felt.


There was heartiness about him
never seen before. His old srudges
against some of his neighbors died
out. He would stop men in the road
for pleasant chat whom for years he
had passed with a distant nod. The
farmer had found new pleasure, the
Joy of which was pervading his
whole being and its sunshine warm
ing and softening the cold, hardexte-
rior of his life and making it attrac-
tive and beautiful.


And he never lost the glow of this
pleasure in all the years that were
added to his life; ard when st last his
work was done and he lay in that
deep sleep which has no waking in
time, there we.c hundreds to- bless his
name and to look their last look on
his peaceful face with eyes that ran
over with fears.