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Year: 1876

as gentleman of thorough business
qualifications and public spirit. He is
largely interested in Los Angeles real
estate, and by his individual exertions
has opened up for settlement one of
the most promising portions of our
city which was barren tract of land
two years ago. He is identified in
every way with the material interests
Of the commonwealth; our prosperity
is his prosperity, and an unjust burden
imposed upon the community would
bear equally heavy upon himself as
upon any other citizen. He has re-
sided in Los Angeles for the pastsix-
teen years. WALLACE WooDwoRrH,
the third appointee of the. Board, is a
member of the firm of Perry, Wood
worth & Co., probably the most ex-
tensive lumber dealers in Southern
California. He is a gentleman of large
individual m means and alike interested
in our public prosperity, having been
a citizen of Los Angeles for twenty
five years. In l86S.71 Mr.. WooDwoRTH
was member of the Board of Super
visors, being chosen to that position
for two succeeding terms, and Offici-
ating as President of the Board the
entire time. When he entered upon
his public duties the bonds Of the
county sold in the market at 80 cents
on the dollar; when he delivered over
to his successor in office the charge
which the people had invested him
with, the same bonds sold at par. His
integrity as a public officer and bust
ness man is without spot or blemish
None of the members of the Board are
now or have ever been politicians Of
professional office-seekers. They are
simply well-to-do citizens, who hav,
minded their own business and main


tanned good repute in our midst TO


many years past. They realize ou


public necessities, know how to sup


ply them land altogether will make al


honest and efficient Board of Publi


Works.
Year: 1876

IT is said that the City Council pro-
pose to dispute the legality of the
newly appointed Board of Public
Works, and will wage war to the
knife and knife to the hilt. They
have already retained BRUNsoN &
EASTMAN as their special attorneys,
and another attorney or two may be
enlisted in the case should additional
help be required. Meanwhile the tax
payers are asking, "Who isuto pay tor
all this litigation of the City VS.. the
City? Will the Council foot the bill
of costs from their own pockets?"
Year: 1876

EDITOR HERALD.-The Express ed.
itors are mistaken in reporting the
conversation with me in regard to my
vacating the editorial chair of the
HERALD when articles for publication
were sent to me by prominent men of
the city requesting me to publish
them as editorials. The option
was not given me by any of
the proprietors of the paper. On the
contrary requested to be relieved, as
was occupying false position.


b. l.. PEEL.
Year: 1876

The Supreme Court of florida seems
minded to emulate the extraordinary con-
duct of the Supreme Court of South Carolina;
but it certainly has not hastened to seize its
opportunity. Six weeks after election and
two weeks after the meeting of the electoral
college it commands recount of the votes.
II bases its order upon the theory that the
returning board has only by right admins
trative functions, while it exercised Judicial
authority in its canvass. The charge is not
sustained By the evidence. In Florida no
votes were thrown out because of intimida-
ton. The board exercised a privilege which
all similar bodies in the country exercise and
refused to count certain returns because of
their obvious irregularity. In the greater
portion OF these cases of irregularity the DEM
ocratic member of the board, Attorney Cen
eral Cooke, concurred in the rulings of the
majority. The cases in which he dissented
could, had they been decided otherwise, have
scarcely affected the result. After the ad-
journment of the board the party friends of
Mr.. Cooke brought such a pressure to bear
upon him that he felt himself compelled to
tardily object to measures which he had once
approved.


The action of the Florida returning board
will probably be similar to that of the South
Carolina body. IT will hold that, its business
finished and its adjournment final, there is no
authority TO call it together again, and it will
deny the jurisdiction of the Court. Its case
is strong one and its position difficult to
break down. If however it is overruled and
compelled to canvass the votes without any
reference to irregularities the result will
probably be the declared election of Drew
and the rest of the Democratic State ticket.
This will not affect the electoral vote. The
electoral college of Florida has met, tran
sacted its business, and adjourned, and its
verdict is now in the hands of the proper
custodians at Washington. Having discharg-
ed the duty for which it was constituted it
has ceased to exist, and there is no power to
resuscitate it. Nor would its revival affect
the result of the Presidential election, as it is
generally conceded that Hayes has majority
on the face of the returns in Florida. The
recount might reduce the declared majority
or him, but could not obliterate it.
Year: 1876

SOME idiots now in Washington purpose
to hold a public meeting in that city Thurs
day to petition Congress to pass constitutional
amendments abolishing the Presidency. 1t
is proposed to abolish the Presidency and
substitute an Executive Council therefor, to
be composed of seven Secretaries, or heads Of
departments, four to be elected by the House
of Representatives and three by the Senate,
from members of their respective houses, for
two years, one or all to be removed at any
time by the House electing them, and each
to have the rights of a member in both
houses
Year: 1876

During this Christmas season the papers
are rather unnecessarily dragging the Puri-
tans to the front. We are indebted to the
Prrtans for many things, but they regarded
the observance of Christmas as Popish
atomination, and would have felt insulted to
have their names associated with it. They
have no business with the merry festival, and
we in our turn should not insult it by inviting
their shades to join in the celebration.
Year: 1876

AN important order will soon be issued by
the Secretary of the Navy, directing the Off
GERS in command of naval stations and vessels
of war, wherever they may be cruising, to
take meteorological observations correspond
ing in character to those taken at the signal
service stations already established in many
portions OF the United States and other coun.
tries. The hope is entertained that, by COM
plance with this order, useful additions will
eventually be made to the existing stock of
knowledge in regard to the atmospheric cur
rents on which the predictions of Old Prob
abilities are based; and it may finally become
possible to foretell wet or dry, and warm or
cold seasons with considerable degree of
accuracy. -
Year: 1876

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


We cannot undertake to return or reserve eommu-
nications that are not used
Year: 1876

EVERY regular attache of the PRESS is furnished
with Card certificate countersigned by Stanley L.
Pullen, Editor. All railway, steamboat and hotel
managers will confer favor upon us by demanding
credentials of every person claiming to represent
Year: 1876

THE new Territory of Huron is to be
made out of the Northern portion of .he
Territory OF Dakota, extending from Min
nesota to Montana, and from the British line
two hundred miles South, and contains
about seventy thousand square miles. The
population is about ten thousand. The
country, along the Red Rive. of the North,
is said to be one of the best farming regions
in the United States.
Year: 1876

Bottlebury will never drive into creek to
save another woman from drowning. He
saw red-haired girl named Sparks tumble
in the other day off boat, and he instantly
plunged in after her, caught her by her dress
and swan to the shore with her. AS soon as
they were on dry land Miss Sparkle gave a
hysterical scream, flung her arms around
Bottleburys neck and tainted. Just then the
father came up, with the rest of the family,
and perceiving the situation, he dashed up to
Bottlebury, grasped his hand and said, ''Take
her, my boy; take her! 1t is hard to give
her up; it wrenches her Old fathers heart;
but she is yours. Bless you, my children
bless you!" Then Mrs. Sparks cried, and
said she hoped Harriet would be happy. The
little Sparks manifested their emotion by
climbing up his legs and pulling at his coat
tails. Then Harriet came to, and laying her
head on his shoulder, whispered, ''Kiss me,
darling!" Bottlebury, amazed and indignant,
tore himself away and flew. He was arrested
that afternoon on charge of breach of prom
ise, and on the trial the jury gave the broken
hearted Miss Sparks two hundred dollars
damages. Bottlebury has intimatcd to his
confidential friends that if any other warm
haired woman intends to fall overheard near
him she will find it to her advantage to learn
to swim.
Year: 1876

SAYS the Cincinnati Times: $50 the lively
Mlnnesotians have caught the Younger broth
ers. If the brothers Younger ever get any
older, Minnesota is not the kind of a State
we take her to be-" Unfortunately Minnesota
is bound hand and foot by her laws She
cannot prevent the brothers Younger from
getting older, because her statutes permit
murderers confessing their guilt to escape the
gallows, and the most internal cutthroat liv-
ing has only to comply with this requisition
to escape the just punishment of his crimes.
The law that provides for imprisonment for
life in such cases, is likely to be repealed at
the next session of her Legislature.
Year: 1876

full dress military and civic reception is to be
given by the Seventh regiment, at the Academy OF
Music, February g. 1875 the proceeds to be devoted
TO c. 8. Gratulla as a testimonial OF appreciation
Year: 1876

Hill, of Georgia, in answer to
Blaino's bitter and malignant on
slaught on the Southern people in
the House of Representatives last


Wednesday, closed his speech in the
following glowing sentences:


The South has never wronged the


Union The South has been an un-


mixed blessing to every section, every


State, every man of every color i'll
America. We charge all our wrongs


to that higher w--fanaticism, which


never kept pledge or law. We


sought to leave the association of


those who would not keep fidelity to


the covenant, and sought to go by


ourselves, but so far from having


lost fidelity to the Constitution we


hugged it to our bosom, carried 1t


with us, and the brave Union men


North, followers of Webster and


Fillmore, Cass and Douglas; you


who fought for the Union for the


sake of union; you who ceased to
fight when the battle ended and the


sword was sheathed, with you we
have no quarrel. We ltyour heavy


arm in the midst of the struggle, but


above the roar of canon we heard


your voice of kindness calling,


Brothers, come back" We are


here to cooperate with you, to do
whatever we can in spite of all our


sorrows, to rebuild the Union, to


restore TO peace, to be a blessing to
the country, to make American union
what our fathers intended it should
be-the glory of America and
blessing to humanity. But you,


gentlemen, who persecuted us by


your fanaticism until you drove us
out of the Union; you who then
claimed to be the only friends of the
e Union, which you had before de-


nounced as league with death and


a covenant with hell; you who follow
up the war when the soldiers who
, fought it have made peace and gone
+ to their homes, to you we have no
/ concessions to make. Martyrs owe
p no apology to tyrants, and while we


are ready to make every sacrifice for
the Union, We have but one ambi-
l ton to add to our political power
and to the patriotic Union men of
! order, in order to compel fanaticism


to obey laws and live in the Union


according to the Constitution. We
I do not propose to hold you by oaths,


for you never keep them. We


wronged the Union grievously
o when we left to be seceders, but it
/, was rent and torn by men who had
@ denounced it as leagne with death
and a covenant with hell. We ask
- you of the Republican party to rise
C above all your animosities, to forget
n your old sin, let us unite to repair
e the wrongs that distract and oppresf
! our country. Let us turn our backs
:. on the past; let it be in the future
~ that he shall be greatest, truesti
n ablest and patriotic who shall dc
d most to repair past wrongs and pro
mote the glories of the future.
Year: 1876

The present attitude of the Repub-
licans in Congress must be indeed
humiliating. In precipitating upon
the House the discussion Of the am
nesty bill the other day, their evident
design was to arouse feeling Of bit
terness in the minds of the e1-Con-
federate members and got them to
utter some hasty disloyal sentiments
which would create the old war pref
udices in the North and thus make
capital for the coming campaign.
But in what deep contrast was the
cool, dispassionaIe, eloquent and pa
triotic speeches of Hill and Other
Southern members with the wild
sweeping, malignant speech Of
Blaine, the Radical Nothing could
have boen in greater fitness than the
brave but conquered Southron's pa
triotic sentiments in vindicadon OF
his people, and the whole country,
North and South, will applaud him
for it. Blaine has committed hari-
kari, and may as well retire from the
Presidential arena.
Year: 1876

Things have lately gone rather
hard with Brick Pomeroy, and al
though he is busted out in New York
he has moved his democrat to Chica-
go and gone to work again. The
world can't keep such a man as Brick
Pomeroy down, no matter how hard
it may bear on him. Go in Brick
abusl We'll hold your hat
Year: 1876

A PATHETIC AppEAL.-The Chicago
Tribune, very decided Grant organ,
says Gen. Grant will certainly retire
TO private life after the present term;
but intimates that four years hence
he may be induced to run again. In
fine General Grant is, through the
Tribune, appealed to most patheti-
cally to let go for a little while-;hat
if he will just give up his grip for
four years then he may take hold
again. That bait is entirely too thin
the General won't bite. He knows
that if he is once shaken of he can
never faston upon us again. 1t is
now or never that he must get his
hrd term.
Year: 1876

A BoRs CoQuETrE There Is pretty
little siSyear old miss living on Ferry
street, that Is born coqueiie Week be.
fore last she tried her wIlcs on small
youth living next door, and after she had
captured The susceptible ye,ls.ee,-.er, she dis
carded him for a small boy across the
street and for onc week was very sweet on
him and the little fellow was in clover.
But now she has gone after the small lad
around the corner, and the FIRST two young,
siers are discsnsolaie, while her present
beau Is temporarily the "happicsi Of the
happy"
Year: 1876

A FEW friends will go and bury US;
affection will rear tombstone and
plant few flowers over our grave;
in a brief period tho little hillock
will be smoothed down, and the
stone will fall, and neither friend
nor stranger will bo concerned to ask
which ono Of the forgotten milliens
of tho earth was buried there.
Every ,o5tigo that we ever lived up
on the earth will haye / :, ,7,'vr;asJ
All the little memorials of our re-
membrance- the lock of hair encased
in gold, or the portrait that hung in
our dwelling, will cease to have the
slightest interest for any living being.
Year: 1876

CLOSED uP.--Marshal r NJ. Westfall
on Saturday officially notified the pro-
prletors Of the various saloons in the
city thtt he should prosecute those
gentlemen or any Of them who should
hereafter violate the Sunday law by
selling inspiring beverages on that day.
The result. as far as we were able
to discern with the naked eye, every
saloon In the city yesterday was her
metically sealed. We ara informed
that il is the intention Of certain par,
ties TO have this law enforced hereafter
worshlpers Of Bachus will take notIce
and like the wise virgins get "OiP
enough Saturday night to run them
through the Sabbath day.
Year: 1876

That fellow, we have written at the top
Of this article, We generally find in our
daily rounds seated on a barrel or couHtcr
drumming his heels Sgains, the side, loung-
ing on the counter half asleep idliug in
the doorway or playing checkers In the
back room 10 Will. the time away, Oh,
how sad he looks whcs you meaiion bust
ness Somciimes he stands up, and what
a figure ll,. head looks like the buEhy
end Of New l0undlaAd pups tail His
jaws resemble two elab boards filled with
spikes His neck, unwnshed, looks like a
twOyenrold stoye.pipe, and his legs are
like unto ramrod in gunny sack Ne
business No hopes There is no money
in the couHiry Ny friends have desert''d
me and ain almost discouraged Then
he will spur up and talk finance and tell
all about whaI be saw in the paper he Dor
rowod from his neighbOr until we have
hopes Of his sanity. But when we say nd
vertise, he loses every vestige Of manhood
and Is a living skeleton again. Now, while
this ia only pea picture, it is drawn from
actual fact US may be seen IN this and every
other business community. You may ask
the merchantile traveller or the wholesale
dealer, and they will both tell the same
story--no business with those firms that
don't advertise On the contrary, enter
the store Of him vino lets the people know
of his existence and what he is doing in
the world through the press, and you al
ways see a wcll.dressed, cheerful and sue
cessful man, OF course he experiences
the natural rise and decline Of the business
season, but you always hear him say 81
have no reason 10 complain" or cuisines,
Is brisk" Take peep at the business
houses of even this small city and see how
near we have come 10 the truth.
Year: 1876

SENSIBLE. a great many towns
like Portland and Salem, ladies are too
prone to risk their health for the sake OF
looks, and rather than show an ugly
pair Of shoes, when by accident (0
their shoes may be seen, they will walk
the muddiest streets with thin soled
gaiters on, If they have to sneeze a
week thereafter for the folly. Not 50
with the ladies of Albany, They know
that health is of the first importance
and that ruddy cheek is more to be
admired than close fitting gaiter and
when they so out in sloppy weather
they encaSe their feet in comfortable
overshoes This is sensible and shows
that they are wise.
Year: 1876

SENT TO THE GRAND JURY FOR lEDIcT-
AEST.-Reuben Wagner and Mollie White
were before the Police Court yesterday
charged with misdemeanor, and were sent
on to the grand jury of the Hastings Court
for indictment.


Tn the case OF Rebecca Hickman ana
James Coleman, charged with the same Oh
fence, the examination was waived ana the
case was sent on.
Year: 1876

MEETING OF THE PRINCIPALS AND TEACH
ERs YESTERDAY FOR REORGANIZATION
ADDRESS OF SUPERINTENDENT PEAY-
TRIBUTE OF RESPECT TO THE MEMORY
OF THE LATE MR.. .BINFoRD-A MONUMENT
TO BE ERECTED-APPOIN OF
TEACHERS FOR THE YEAR.
Year: 1876

THE RELIGIOUS HERALD, Of this city, Is the OF
gan Of the Baptists Of the South, whose membership
includes more than q million Of communicants.
The Herald goes Into every section or the country
and is read by thousands Of good people who rarely
see any other paper. II Is Of the best medium:
for reaching the public eye that the country affords
Its charges for advertising very low considering
the immense circulation Of the paper. ONCE on
Main street nearly opposite Dispatch Office.
Year: 1876

TABLEAUx PosTPoNED.-T The tableauX
which were to have been given at Assembly
Hall tonight for the Lee Monument Fund
have been postponed until next Friday
night on account Of the sickness OF some
of the young ladies taking part.
Year: 1876

Last night from early evening until mid
night Exposition Hall was again crowded
with visitors at the entertainment for the
benefit Of the Protestant Episcopal Home.
The managers can congratulate themselves
on financial success as the result of their
efforts, and the evenings at the hall have
been greatly enjoyed by old and young.


The ladies in charge of Trinity table have
the thanks of the REPUBLICAN for neat
lunch sent to this office yesterday n oon.
Year: 1876

cause OF the intolerable smells which come from
the south when it agreed in the conclusion that
The south fork vas responsible for the nause-
gus odors ve complain Of when the south winds
Year: 1876

GUNPOWDER PROPAGAND1SM.


An amusing story, which dates from the era
OF the Commune, is just now in circulation in
Paris. A soldier Of the Versailles army was
badly wounded in . skirmish before Fort Van
YES. 4 fragment Of shell, however, was ex
tracted from his body, and it mas thought he
would soon be we'll To the surpsise Of the
surgeon he continued to suffer an unusual
length Of time, aud seemed I'd grow worse
rather than better. A large tumor began to
form on his breast, and it was at length decided
that the soldier must submit to another opera
ton IN search Of the foreign substance which
was presumed to be still inhedded in his flesh.
And, sure enough, piece Of paper, tightly
rolled up, was found. buried deep beneath the
surface Of the skin Having been Withdrawn,
it was unfolded, aad proved to be brief ex-
oortation, to this effect: s.so1diers OF the
army OF Versailles, do not forget that We arc
your brothers!''


Whether the gentleman who devised this sing
ular method Of propagandism thought that there
Vas no better way OF driving arguments homo
than to push them straight into the people ha
wanted to convince Is question difficult Of So
luton after this lapse OF time.
Year: 1876

ecutive Committee Of the Fifth Avenue Conference
Of which he is chairman, after the adjournment OF
the st. Louis Convention.


There is good reason to believe that the position
held by ex-senator SchuIz is similar to that occu-
pied by many other leading Germans Of this State.
They would willingly support Tilden should he be
nominated by the st. Louis Convention on reform
hard-money platform, and providing the candidate
for the Presidency is an equally acceptable
man; but the Germans, although bound to
parties by ties that are very weak will more natu-
rally tend toward the Republican party unless such


state of affairs as has been indicated were to exist
Their traditions generally Republican and their
sympathies are likely to bo with the Republic
can party, other things being equal. Mr. Schurz is
to deliver an address in English to the German soc-
etes of ST. Louis the Sd of july but it is not be-


eved that he will that occasion discuss the pres
ent political situation.


S. S. Cox since his arrival in ST. Louis, has re-
ceiyed telegram from Washington announcing that
the efforts which have been making for several days
to bring about a compromise between the House and
Senate on the appropriation bills have failed and
that it will be desirable for all Democratic members
Of Congress in attendance that Convention to re-
turn to Washington as soon as convenient.