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Year: 1875

A PERILoUs ADVENTURE. - On
Friday last m incident occurred
on the Cliff House beach which
resulted in the loss of valuable
horse, and almos. in the loss Of
human life. A few days previous,
Mr.. Edwards, druggist on Jackson
and Kearny streets, purchased a
horse, which he placed in the
hands of trainer. On Friday the
horse attached TO buggy contain
ing the trainer, another man and a
lad was driven through the park
on to the beach. The novelty Of
the roaring surf so frightened the
horse that he dashed at once into
the breakers Needless of the tight
ensd rein, and drawing the buggy
and its human freight with him.
The trainer, perceiving that the
horse was unmanageable, seized
the lad. and bidding the other man
swim ashore, sprang out and with
much difficulty succeeded in reach
ing the beach, where he had been
preceded by his older companion.
The horse and buggy were not
seen afterwards, and the trio, after
disrobing and drying their clothes
on the beach, sought the city,
deeply impressed with their for
tunate escape from death.-lS. I.
Chronicle.
Year: 1875

The window up at the house
looks out upon marvel. True.
tbs only little tree; and not
fruit tree at that, for it never bears
anything but leaves and blossoms
and beauty. 1t has been dressing
itself up of late. and now stands
all feathered with green and tassel-
ed with red, and looking as bravely
as maiden in full rig, and -
somebody coming up the street.
Yet, it's a marvel; and there, in
open daylight. and in view of
everybody, Nature has been engag-
ed in Transformation scene, with
no music bnt that of the mountain
winds and no one looking on save
the sun By day aud the moon and
stars BY night. And yet, from
naked brownness to plumy green
has the transformation been. and
periumed censers are hung and
swing from every branch. A little
while ago it was fret.ed with the
frosts. and in the morning tipped
with jewels which exhaled as the
sun looked through them. Yet,
every morning. ere anybody was
about, the san hung in those liquid
drops of light, the very tints in
emerald and red reproduced to-day
by blossom and leaf.


But mighty finger was on the
pulse of that little tree then. and
that was why il stood so brown
and bare. When that finger was
lifted tha. pulse throbbed with
new life. and the russet wrappings
could no longer hold their wealth.
and leaf and blossoms unfolied
amid the breatbings of the breeze
and the kisses of the suubeams.


How silently ana like childen We
sit amil the mysteries of Nature,
ami how vainly we search for that
unspeakable worl which. while
never on mortal lips. called chaos
into shape and awakens life through
all the world. So we can only sit
and marvel at that little tree. and
wonder what force raised the
levers. thrilled through its little
stem, and fashioned its leaves after
such delicate pattern, and tinted
its buds, and poured such fragrance
in each rlddy cup-but, above all,
at the doings of that underground
laboratory. at the power of selec-
ton in those minute spongioles
which draw balm and beauty from
the black mold around, at. the
force which sends it up and along
both body and branches, and
changes it to cell and tissue, and
sets the glowing red in fringes of
green, and absorbs aud reflects the
light in such exquisite contrast
that power which poises the turn
ing world, yet carves the blade of
grass. the delicate flower or the
forest leaf, and from the springs of
life sends the quickened tide
through Natures veins Terri
torial Enterprise.
Year: 1875

THE ORIGIN OF THE HorsE-FLY.
Flies came in this way: When
God made the bees. the Devil al
ways wanting to initiate the Al
mighty in all his works, thought
he could make bees, too, and tried
it, but failed---his bees all turned
ont to be flies. We have the word
Of the Shooster. and he had it
from his grandmother in Germany
So that it seems TO be pretty well
substantiated.
Year: 1875

THE socalled Independent Press has not
only frightened a certain class of weak
kneed Republicans from the path of loyal
duty to the party, but boasts of its achieve
ment In other words, having succeeded
in injuring the Republican party to some
extent, they pipe their notes of victory in
the highest tune of exultation. For ex-
ample, the Philadelphia Times, probably
the most respectable-if such comparison
is admissible in this connection-of the
whole gang, has this to say in answer to a
recent article in these columns on this sub
ject:


"a Washington journal, in late lecture to
certain large class of Republicans on the sub
ject, as we may state it, Of their lack of cour-
age to meet the requirements and duties of
their political position, attributes their delin-
Quencies and derelictions to their fear Of the
iHdepeHdent press. 1t admits that this fear
had marked effect upon Congress last win
ter, and that it now has upon the action of the
heads of Departments; and 1t attributes the
objections lately raised against assessing the
Government employees for election purposes
to the influence Of the Independents and Lib
erals, whom it literally vilifies and abuses
THE REPUBLICAN is evidently alarmed at
these evidences of the growing power of the
independent press, and the corresponding de-
cadence and foreshadowed doom of the once
potent party organs. We hail its complaints
as 8 cheering proof of what the independent
press has already accomplished, and as a still
more cheering promise Of what it will effect in
the future"


How proud the recreants to whom this
singing paragraph alludes must feel to
read such an indictment of their trucking
and inane fears. But the towards de-
serve it. The true men of the party are
beginning to understand that the only way
TO preserve its integrity is to treat those
who are not for US as against US.
Year: 1875

THE unexpected arrival of the President
yesterday, followed as it was by an extra
ordinary meeting of the Cabinet gave rise
to many sensational speculations. among
the most unfounded of which is statement
that Secretary Delsno's case was under
consideration. There is the best authority
for the assertion that this subject was not
alluded to. Further, that no change in
the administration of the Interior Depart
ment is likely to occur for some time.


The Venezuelan troubles were discussed.
but no new features were revealed. 1t is
safe to assert however, that no decision
has been reached which contemplates the
withdrawal of the United States Minister
to that Government.


The Cuban question was also alluded to,
but nothing authoritative will be made
public at present relative to the conclusions
arrived at.


Otherwise the meeting was without i'm
portant public interest.
Year: 1875

THE Chicago Tribune admits that the
six ''white gentlemen" who drove a col,
ored fellow passenger out of q frst-class
car on Georgia railroad by splitting upon
him and squirting water over him from
their dirty mouths were "simply carrying
out the spirit of Gen. John S. Preston's
recent Grafton. Comparatively harmless
as this rude act was it is nevertheless a
certain indication of the deep-seated an.
tipathy of the better classes of the so-called
intelligent leaders of the South against the
blacks-an antipathy which leads them to
sympathize more or less directly with the
turbulent fanatics" who are guilty of Ku.
Klux and White League murders. In
short, their hatred of the negro as free
'fellow-citizen is so rabid that, while they
may deprecate his assassination, they are
not over jealous in procuring the punish
ment of his assassin.
Year: 1875

held as q prerequisite of social standing.
Coupled with this is the inclination to
tyrannize over those who do labor, and
neglect to provide for their Advancement.
In the Northern States, where the lsboring
masses have long enjoyed the right Of suf-
frage. laws are in vogue for the protection
OF artisans and mechanics and common
lsborers as well In fact, the politicians
and law makers of that section both fear
and respect the working people, and have
consequently made study of thsir needs.
In the South, as we have proven, the
contrary Is the esse. Without fear OF their
ballots or respect for their manhood, the
so-called Intelligent classes" have hereto
fore ruled, and are now attempting to rule,
the lsboring people of their respective To-
calities with sole regard to their own
selfish benefit. Force and violence sup
plies the place of reason and argument.
The courts oftentimes fail to mete out JUS
tce to the poor claimant. Public
education is neglected, and instead of en-
couragement, the poorer and working
classes receive condescending kicks and
curses at the hands of domineering aristo-
Gratis The ballot box Is not sacred from
fraud and the free exercise Of the rights of
citizenship is limited to the self-selected
few. The consequence ef all this is dis
turbed condition of affairs which repells
emigration. It also retards the develop
ment of natural resources, and has kept
the South back half century behind the
more rapidly developing North. 1t has,
in short, fastened upon the Southern people
the Gripping incubus of Democratic here
sizes and serves to foster and keep alive the
exploded fallacies which led them into the
war. Until q radical and almost revolu-
tionarY change takes place, we may expect
to see paragraphs like the foregoing float
ing about as this one is. Until the labor
problem is settled by the utter abandon
ment of old-time customs and Democratic
traditions, the South will continue to cry
"Wait wait |" As soon, however, as this
change is effected, the sedge-felds and briar-
patches will disappear. acres OF bricks
shaped into walls and smoke stacks will
rise up, and manufactures will thrive.
Thrift will take the place of sloth, and true
comfort of egotisticsl and ignorant content.
The whole section will blossom as gar
den, and the people win become worthy of
the enjoyment of the rare advantages with
which nature has endowed the land. But,
above all, political strife will cease, as it is
now known, and election campaigns will
no longer be illustrated with deeds of blood
and rapine. The capitalists and the laborer
will vote side by side, and the color line, or
the line between Incidence and industry,
which is almost the same thing, will be
oblitaratod
Year: 1875

RoDeER LIKELY TO HAVE JUSTICE
DoNE HIM.-A petition is before tho
Massachusetts, Legislature praying for
q formal repeal Of the sentence of pun.
ishment pronounced against Rodger
Williams, by the General Court of
Massachusetts Bay, in the year 1895.
The ground Of the petition is "that
Rodger Williams was banished because
of his advocacy of the separation of
Church and State that principle has
since been recognized as correct and
has since been of great benefit to tho
United States, and therefore that
Rodger Williams, its first advocate,
ought to be set right" If Rodger is
lowering about the ragged edges of
time as a spook, he will be compelled
to admit that posterity is disposed to
do the square thing"
Year: 1875

The young man that spelled the
word buzzard, Observation-Disclosures
buszard," and was consequently re.
tired with a trombone requiem, is now
going around tho country with IN
open volume Of Webster in his arms,
bcseeching the privilege of proving
that his spelling was correct.
Year: 1875

man could exercise over any one OF them
in case he saw Ct to experiment in such
a direction. For him and for them there
was no absolute safety from misunder'
standings and rOprOach save in the most
circumspeCt intercourse, And what Is true
Of Mr.. Beocher and his congregation in
wide sphere Is true in y smaller one Of
many other congregations throughout the
country. Therefore the lesson conveyed
by the disclosures OF the great scandal in
Brooklyn is ono Of general application,
and should bo a warning to all whom 1t
may properly concern in regard to bo-
coming relations between pastors and the
families committed to their CHARGE,


There Il another way in which the
great scandal promises to do good, And
that Is in regard to tho value Of 6ne spun
theories in cOntFadistinctim to old and
well settled precepts touching duty in all
tho relations OF life, The curious mo-
lange Of morals, religion and latitudinsri.
anism that has como to light In tho lot
tors that have been published in conpOc-
tiqn with tho scandal has been read
with disgust BY tho country, Peo.
pie see more clearly than ever that
"pure religion and undeAled" does not
no! admit Of any such alloy, and that
whenever any coteris Of religiOnists, bO
they ever so respectable and intelligent,
sol up ideal standards Of obligation they
are sure to turn out counterieitse- In
other words, there will widespread and
wholesome apprehension entertained Of,
those who teach that social and domestic
life can bO properly regulated by other
than the most scrupulOus sense Of pro-
prioty and purity For this thOro Is no
substitute in tho discharge Of the sacred
obligations Of domestic lie. 1tis tho dis
regard Of this sense Of propriety and puri.
ty that wrought all the chaos and ruin that
has come to light nthe Brooklyn scandal,
Had Mr.. BesCher worn the white flower
Of q blameless lie constantly about him
ho would novpr have been onmeshOd as
ho now Is In a net work Of destruction.
His record In social and domestic way
would have been like that Of Prince
Albert, the husband Of Queen Victoria,
against whom there was never even
breath OF scandal, and simply because he
never made a call upon q lady Of the
Courts save under the most unquestlonable
circumstances. No men or women who
square their lives by such arule will ever
come to griei as Mr., Beecher has, and all
who do not will be sure to find the taint
Of gossip, II not Of open scandal, upon
them, tti.A
Year: 1875

Work has been suspended on the
Los Angeles and Independence road,
and there are various rumors on the
streets as to the cause. One story is
current that the shrinkage in stock
consequent upon the financial depres-
sion has so reduced Mr.. JONES ready
money that lie finds il necessary Z to cur
tail his expenditures. Another rumor
which, by the way, is not true, is
that the road has passed into the hands
of the Southern Pacific Railroad COM
pany. From still another source we
hear that all the money expended by
the company has been furnished by
certain parties in this city and the re-
fusal of those parties to put up more
coin has brought everything to
stand still. There is some truth but
not great deal in each of these sto-
ries. By specials over the grapevine
telegraph, to the HERALD, we are en-
abled to throw some light on the SUBJ
ject which will in great measure dis
pei the mist of doubt which now sur
rounds il. The management and con-
troll and possibly the ownership of the
road has passed from JOHN P. JONES
to Colonel JACKSON, capitalist of
San Francisco and there is to be a
change of programme and change of
plans and men all around. Colonel
JACKSON is man who looks after his
own business and knows what becomes
of every dollar he invests. He built,
and for some time operated the Cali
fornia Pacific road running from VAL
lejo to Sacramento and he built the
Stockton and Copperopolis road. Both
of these roads passed into the hands of
the Central Pacific Railroad company.
We are confident the Colonel will
soon assume control of the road, but
whether he will do so as owner or
agent is point on which we are not
yet informed.
Year: 1875

Before the era of Railroads mari
time cities controlled the commerce Of
the world. The great marts were To-
Gated on the seaboard at the mouths of
large streams. Traffic followed the
navigable streams and the hills which
loaned their tribute of waters to float
the wealth of the INTERIOR carried OPP
ulence to the cities beside the sea. The
laundering freight train climbing
mountains and piercing the hearts of
continents has changed all this,
though the science of rail transporta-
tion is but in its infancy. Commerce
now moves to the click of the electric
battery and the thunder of the loco
motive; it moves in straight lines, and
always takes the Eypothenuse instead
of the two sides of the triangle. The
contrast between the steamboat and
the railroad is already decided in favor
of the later, even on the banks of the
Father of waters. Baltimore and Phil
adelphia are successfully competing
with New York for the Western trade,
and Norfolk has become great cotton
market. The Baltimore and Ohio
Railway now carries almost as much
freight as is transported on the Missis-
sippi River. This maritime in the
commercial world has shorn the sea-
board cities of much of their wealth.
Trade is being transferred to the coun-
tries where wealth and enterprise di-
rect it, The pork packer of Chicago
contracts directly with the merchant of
England or Germany for the delivery
of cut meats and the railroad gives
him through bill of lading. The
large houses of st. Louis and Cincin-
natti purchase directly from Manches-
ter and Sheffield and have the goods
laid down at their own doors before
the duty is paid.


The plain lesson of the day in the
commercial world is that commerce
goes where there is enterprise and cap
ital to handle'it. To obtain CONNER
cial pre-eminence city need not look
out upon the ocean wave. All that
she needs is communication with the
great highway of nations and pros
porous surrounding or interior coun-
try favorable to traffic. The coming
great cities of the world need not be
Year: 1875

If the Bulletin and Call had infor-
nation which led them to doubt the
solvency of the Bank of California 1t
was theirduty as honest journals to lay
such information before the public.
That they ever had such information
or that their attacks on the Bank were
prompted by honest motives is an open
question. Neither of those sheets
have been remarkable for their purity
of purpose or the sincerity of theirpro
fessions of good faith in the support of
the people. 1t is more than probable
that their attacks on the Bank were
the promptings of selfish motives and
made without the slightest knowl-
edge that their guesses approached
the truth. However this may have
been, there is no excuse for their per-
sistent attempts to blacken the name
and fame of RALSTON after he was
dead. There is so much of the Jackal
instincts in the paragraphs these pa
pers printed about RALsToN between
his deaf h and the verdict of the Coro-
ner's jury that while we condemn the
ill timed exhibition of such bitter
hatred we cannot repress the thought
that there was more malice toward Mr..
RALsToN than desire to serve the
public at the bottom of the Bulletin
and Call articles on the Bank of Cal
ifornia. The hatred of the honorable
man dies with the object of that ha-
tired. Only the man who is more the
brute than the man, and more the
coward than his enemy, cherishes ha-
tired beyond the grave. Bitter indeed
must be the feeling, and intinitesimally
small the soul of the journalist who
could insinuate without the slightest
grounds for such insinuation that a
man had died by his own hands during
the progress of the investigation as to
the cause of his death.
Year: 1875

One of two conclusions are deducible
from the vote of the people of Los An
geles county cast on Wednesday of
last week. Either they have discov-
cred that railroads are good thing
for the country, no matter who builds
them, or they do not believe the terri
BILE stories which have been told
them about that s'odious monopoly"


the Southern Pacific Railroad compa-
ny. From the opening of the cam
paign by Tom FITCH down to the final
moan on the night previous to elec-
ton by JIM EASTMAN and Colonel
PEEL, no Independent or Republican
speaker took the stump in this coun-
ty that did not inveigh by the hour
against the railroad company and
wind up with the solemn assurance
that Mr.. WIGGINToN was their crea-
ture. These arguments were potent;
They were unanswerable. The people
Year: 1875

The opinion prevails in San Fran
cisco that the purpose of the Bulletin
and Call and the Associated Press in
attempting to destroy the commercial
interests of California was to advance
the cause of the Independent party.
The following from the Post will be
read with interest:


We called attention week ago to the man
ner in which the Associated Press, the San
Francisco agency Of which is under the con
troll of the proprletors OF the Bulletin and Call
was being used to disseminate through the
East state ements injurious to the financial
credit of this city, and calculated to cause
the bankers OF the East and of Europe to
Withhold the accommodation which might
stay panic. There is further proof OF the
deliberate purpose to accomplish this end.
Chicago papers which have come to hand
publish Associated Press kilograms putting
the liabilities ofthe Bank OF California; $780,
900, 900; and the Alta publishes the following
dispatches received by the agent OF the AM
erican Press Association here, which explain
themselves:


NEW YORK, Aug. 3O.-Give us the true state
of feeling in san Francisco as to thefcourse OF
the Bulletin and Call. Associated Press for
warding dispatches lauding these papers for
their action. VS..
Year: 1875

listened to them night after night and
so convinced were they of the truth of
what these patriotic Independents
said that they went to the polls and
gave Mr.. WIGGINToN twelve hundred
majority. The mistake of Mr.. HoUaH-
TONS hackers in this county, is that
they spoke to the people as though
they were babes without understand
ing and ready to suck anything pre-
sented to their lips. No more fatal er-
ror could be committed. The people
are not fools, nor will they accept as
fact the bare assertion of the political
stumper. The railroads operated in
this county are owned by the corpor-
alton which the Independent politi-
clans tell us is "grasping monopoly"


blighting and running the country.
Yet there is not man in this valley
so wanting in intelligence as not to
know that the operations of this same
"grasping monopoly" have within the
last two years almost If not quite
doubled the value of the taxable prop
erty of the county. We had the ma
tural advantages ofsoil and climate,
but it is to our railroads we owe the
rapid strides we are making in the
high road to permanent prosperity.
The people of Los Angeles county
are not blind to the advantages they
have reaped from the railroads they
now have and so far from wishing to
crush out and drive from among them
the company that built these roads,
they are desirous that it shall contin-
uc the work of track laying. The
Southern Pacific has done much in
the way of developing Southern Cal


ifornia. When Tom SCOTT or any 9TH
er railroad manager gets beyond talk
ing about doing and really does some
thing in the direction we shall accord
them equal praise with those whose
actions have equalled their promises.