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Year: 1876

CUTTING THROUGH THE FLOOR OF A BROAD


WAY LACE STORE AND ABANDONING THEIR


PLUNDER.


bold but fruitless attempt al burglary a Bread
way store was discovered yesterday morning At
o'clock Joseph Prato, boy employed in the barber
shop OF Lorenzo Thomaselh in the basement OF No SIG
Broadway, OF Twelfth street. there to open
the place for business. He noticed that the paddock
unlocked and broken key in the keyhoe.
The door, however, was locked as usual there being
second lock on IL On entering he saw heaped up on
the floor quantity OF laces, and glancing upward he
noticed that large hole had been cut in the ceiling
leading to the lace store OF Richard Brown the floor
above. 0ncer Clark, OF the Fifteenth precinct being
called found the noor OF the barber shop lying in
corner, kit OF burglars TOOLS consisting OF Jimmies,
bits and braces Captain Van Dusen and Detective Slevin
subsequently arriving, q further examination
made The burglars had entered the barber shop in
the basement by OF false keys, locking the door
after them, thus securing safe place in which to carry
their designs the officer post seeing the door
securely fastened could suspect nothing wrong They
next bored through the ceiling and cut hole through
the floor i'm Immediately behind one OF the counters A
bright light burning in the store all night but the
robbers screened by the counters An Of
stock taken by the 6rm aer the robbery discov-
cred showed that nothing had been stolen. The aces
found In the barber shop valued at 81. 0O0 Why
the burglars abandon their booty the edge Of
is not PLAN, but is supposed they were fright
nod oN
Year: 1876

r9-NoTICE TO CAPTAINS OF VESSELS ENTERING
THE PORT OF NEW YORK AT NIGHT-The NEW York
HERALD has adopted distinguishing Coston night signal Tor
board the HERALD yacht, showing while burn
ing the coors green changing from to the other
succession and be several miles distant Cap
ains of vessels upon seeing this signal will obge us by
preparing marine news they may have for the Ship
News Department OF the HERALD


R-Persons desirous Of communicating with vessels arrv-
ing New York addressing such vessels,
care Of HERALD news yacht pier River New York.
Letters received from all parts of the world and promptly de-
livered, Duplicates are required,
Year: 1876

The reception given by the Seventyhrst regiment at
its armory corner of Broadway and Thirtyfth street
last evening in every respect The large
double drill room, which had been beautifully deco
rated with flags and bunting, filled with merry
throng whose members, after listening TO a by
the regimenta band. enjoyed themselves dancing for
some hours


Among those present were Colonel Underhill, OF the
Twenty seventh; General Duryee, Captain Baker OF
the Washington Grays and wife, Lieutenant Decker
also OF tho Washington Grays, and wife; Adjutant
Thomas, Captain Peck and Lieutenant Colonel Scott,
all of the Twenty seventh regiment
Year: 1876

for 1874 less than So 600 were paid, amount not
exceeding what the owners OF few lots on Broadway
pay annually The question OF paying personal taxes
is answered by the statement that these bonds rep
resent the debt OF the road and therefore not tax
able and capital stock represents of the road
Year: 1876

Rumor has 1t that Democratic pa
per is soon to be started in San Fran
cisco on q cash capital sufficiently
large to insure permanent success. We
are not informed who are the finan-
cial hackers of the enterprise, nor has
the old dame who blows through a
thousand pipes, favored us with the
names of the editors and managers of
the proposed new journal. The news
paper field of San Francisco is pretty
well filled, but there is ample space
for an independent Democratic paper,


yet unoccupied. A paper of this char
acter conducted by me we'll informed
on political issues of the day and net
30 welded to the Democratic party
that they cannot maintain right how
ever weak, and condemn wrong, no
matter by whoever committed, will
succeed in San Francisco. The peo-
plo of that city are Democratic in
feeling and principle, but they want
their Democratic newspaper to be
Democratic from a convict ton of right
and not through party subserviency.
They want paper that will maintain
Democratic principles rather than up
hold Democratic leaders and support
Democratic office seekers. They


want Democratic paper that will
stand by the interests of the masses
and not become the servant of money
rings, political cliques and oppressive
corporations. They want Demo-
cratic paper that has the moral cour-
age to denounce fraud, corfu ption and
peculation, without regard to on what
party or individual falls the response


bility. They want Democratic pa
per that is too Independent and too
honest to become appologist for
weak minded and direlect Democratic
officials and too fair minded to attack
without cause honorable and faithful
officials Of opposing politics. In short
they want Democratic paper that
will nothing extenuate nor set down
ought In malice-that will hew to the
line let the chips fall where they
may. If the new paper will adopt
this course at the outset and maintain
it through good and evil report,


swerving neither to the right nor the
left, it will soon secure self sustain
ing patronage and win for itself rep
utation not now possessed by single
Journal Of San Francisco-that of o
Year: 1876

In sending a delegation of her lead
ing citizens to Washington for the
purpose of protesting before Congress
against the tide of Chinese emigration
now pouring into our State, and for
appealing for an repeal of the law
which permits the unrestrained COM
ing of these pagans, San Francisco is
taking an important step in the right
direction. 1t is wise provision, too,
that this delegation is to be composed
in equal proportion of men of oppos-
ing political faith. Up to this time
our protests, both in the public jour-
nails and from the stump, against
Chinese immigration have assumed
rather the shape of political capital,
than of an earnest appeal for relief
from pest infested people, and have
been therefore wanting in the force
and earnestness that carries sincerity
of desire and determination of pur-
pose. Senators and congressman
have read the inveighing of the press
and stump speaker in the light of
campaign buncomb and political clap
trap, and, per consequence, Congress
but imperfectly comprehending the
magnitude of the question, has
up to this time treated it as of little
consequence. A committee of citizens
of all political creeds will divest the
issue of its campaign glamour and
present it to Congress in its real hid
eousness. They will exhibit it as it is
"a growing curse, which, if not re-
moved, will ultimately blight and
turn to ashes our commercial, manu-
featuring, agricultural and mining in
terests, check the immigration of those
of our own color and religion, drive
from the store, workshop, field and
mine the laboring white men and wo-
men now here, and turn the temples
dedicated to the living God into joss
houses, in which the pagan will bow
down to idols of wood and stone. They
will do much in the way of allaying
the jealousy felt by the Federal Gov
ernment against the right of State
to legislate for itself, and will con-
vince those Senators and representa-
tives that the question is not one of
political significance, but of great So
cial Importance, and that the future
prosperity and greatness of the Pacific
Coast, and perhaps Of the whole
United States, depends on prompt and
decisive action against the pouring of
Chinese horjes on our shores.
Year: 1876

OUR dispatches inform US that an
other Federal defalcation has been
unearthed. Another BABCoCK is held
up to the public gaze as a defaulter.


This time the theft is committed in
the San Francisco Mint. 1t is strange
that Superintendent LAGRANGE
should lend himself to an effort to
keep hidden crime of such magni.
tude. The construction of the Mint
building was fraud and a swindle
and almost before the paint was dry
on the outside of the structure de-
falcation Of $4,000 is discovered on
the inside. More cargo for the i'm
maculats Republican party to unload.
Year: 1876

Officer McFadden rushes into print
in last evenings Express in card in
which he denies that str"ng case
was made out against him as Il dis
turber of the peace in the matter of
the arrest of Mr.. Rutger. How weak
or how strong the case was, parties de-
sirous of knowing will be more likely
to learn from the records of the May


Or's Court than from officer McFad-
denis card. The Republican of last
evening gives the following account
of the matter:


Mayor Beaudry this morning dis
charged Joseph Rutger who had been
arrested by officer McFadden for keep
ing a disorderly house. He was also
acquitted on the charge of resisting an
officer. The testimony was that the
greatest disorder was created by the
officer making the arrest ana this
habit Of putting pistols to mems heads
must be stopped. 1t is about time for
the Marshal and Council to take some
action on these police outrages.


Mr.. Rutger informs the HERALD
that officer Carpenter, who was pres
ent at the time he was arrested, re-
monstrated with McFadden and told
him he should not conduct himself in
such manner. We did not hear, nor
have we read the testimony in the
case, but the fact that Mr.. Rutger
was discharged on every charge is
pretty good evidence that his offense
was not of a character to warrant the
placing of "a pistol to his head accom-
panied by the threat that if he did not
do thus and SO the top of his head
would be blown off. This is the testi-
mony of six or eight witnesses. The
HERALD has not misrepresented Off
Ger McFadden. In his capacity ofpo
liceman he is in the employ of the peo-
pie of this city, and we shall speak of
police officers and other officials as we
find them, without stopping to consid-
er whether they like it or not. The
matter in which officer McFadden and
his pistol played so conspicuous part
will be duly Investigated by the Com
mon Council, when we presume the
same strong case will be made out
against him that the Mayors record
now shows.
Year: 1876

journal that praises no man for his
gold nor denounces no man because of
his poverty that advocates no un-
worthy candidate because of his party
and opposes no capable and honest cit
izen on account of his political opin-
ions that is honest in its expressions
and determined to maintain what it
believes to be for the best interests of
the whole people.
Year: 1876

THE President wants to make ex-
Congressman COGHLAN of this State
Chief Justice of Utah. If the appoint
ment is good one it don't require a
very smart man to be Chief Justice in
Utah.
Year: 1876

THE DAILY and WEEKLY HER
AID has moro than double the cir
culation of any other paper published
In Southern California. Business men
recognize it accordingly as the best
advertising medium South of San
Francisco.
Year: 1876

breed; while even a little observation would
teach them the error of this conclusion. and
that each grain produces its own like, and
that really no hybridization takes place at
all, and that the mixture Of seeds produces
the unmitigated evil of mixing wheats which
perhaps ripen at different periods Or perhaps
require different treatment when reduced to
flour. Z.


A little study of the nature of plants
would seem to be necessary to a knowledge
OF their proper treatment during their
growth. Of the flowers of plants some are
male and some female. In some the stami-
nate and pistillate flowers occupy different
parts Of the same plant, as in Indian corn.
In the larger number of plants, the male and
female organs mature at the same time in
the same flower and Of these some are
subject to Standardization and others to
cross-fertilization Such plants as pease,
beans, wheat and barley have the male and
female organs in themselves, and are not
subject to cross-fertilization; and therefore
it is that wheat do not mix their qualities at
all by being planted together; and as it is
Objectionable for other reasons, it should
never be done. The leaf or flower which
protrudes from the glume Of wheat is neither
an anther, a pistil, nor a stamen, and neither
emits nor receives the fertilizing pollen
Hon. Frederick Watts IN The Factory and
Farm.
Year: 1876

ing half our population, will ever be felt?
Must those who make our laws and who
hold our highest offices of honor and trust,
always come from what are termed the
learned professions? Because man hap
pens to follow the ploW, is it to be taken as.
proof positive that he is an ignoramus and
untitled for the duties of legislator and
statesman? The R,ual lFor3d is laboring
zealously to bring about change in these
matters, to qualify farmers to be their own
representatives, and to present in Congress
and elsewhere their own views and interests,
and to put a stop to such class legislation as
has disgraced the country for the past few
years and made of us nation Of bankrupts.


What commentary! Six millions Of in
telligent men have less influence in making
cur laws, than one hundred men! This
must tbring the blush to the check of every
intelligent farmer. And shall such state
ments always remain true? Will the farm
ers always be so lacking in representative
men to attend to their dearest interests? Let
us hope not.-Rural World.
Year: 1876

In this age Of enterprise and thought,
when science is casting so much light upon
the operations of men, and when the study
of the best and most profitable modes of per-
forming the work of the world is becoming
more essentially necessary to the production
of successful results, the farmer is especially
called upon to bestow Industrious thought
as well as Iaborous labor upon the work
which he is daily called upon to perform. 1t
is not enough that he should know that
seeds cast upon the earth will germinate,
grow, ripen, and produce fruit, but that his
hand which guides, aids and stimulates this
natural process, should itself be guided by
the knowledge OF the nature Of the seed it.
self, how it germlnates, how it grows, how
it ripens, and how and why it produces
fruit. This knowledge will enable him to
give a right direction to the effort and labor
which he bUsto>va upon #, in order to obtain
the most profitable results. The thought
and conviction that frequent blowing ana
stirring of the soil is important to its
fertility, because the earth itself is set Of
mouths and lungs which feed upon the nat
ural elements Of the air, and iInbibe its
moisture, light and heat, induces him to the
performance Of the work in the promotion
of his own interest. That seeds are charac-
terized by good and bad is thought that
should always lead to a careful selection, for
as like will, throughout all nature, produce
like, SO will the hopes and fears OF the farm
er be realized by the character OF the seeds
he sows or the tree he plants. small and
shriyeled grain OF wheat, when sown, will
produce weak and unhealthy stock, and a
corresponding failure of product, while a
plump, bright grain will exhibit its healthy
and vigorous growth and abundant product.
1t is certainly true that many of the maxims
of farmers, upon which they thoughtlessly
base their action, have no foundation in
sound reasoning. That to change seed from
one kind of soil to another wilr produce 8
profitable result is maxim Of almost uni
yersal acceptation, nor does the farmer stoI
to reason with himself as to its soundness OF
fallacy. eFg SIS


4 Here is a point at which farmers fail tx
bring into requisition their own powers o
reflection, or even to use the evidence Q
their own practical experience. They Ok
not stop to inquire as to the effect of remov
ing seed from a soil and climate to which j
has been naturalzed and adapted to that t
which it is not natural and to which it ha
not been accustomed; and they fail to re
member that when they go abroad for seed
and pay a higher price for it, it is to obtai


quality better than their own and com
mansurate with the price thev nav for Il
and that herein lies its superiority; that


amounts to nothing more than an imperfeo
mode of selection.


Another maxim which farmers general


accept as an axiom is, that by sowin


wheats of different qualities together, the


will SO hybridize as to produce mike
Year: 1876

Loper's Hoaus.-An ounce and a half of
sweet almonds, an ounce and a halfof bitter
almonds beaten up into paste, with a little
brandy to prevent it oiling; one pound ffof
lump sugar, the rind of one lemon, and a
little Of the juice also, the whites OF two
eggs. Bake in pieces the size of a walnut,
on white paper. When baked they will be
hollow. s6. # 4sf 81.
4 Pot-pie.-Take new milk, two spoons of
sweet cream, and yeast enough to raise. Be
Gin to make them at seven o'clock in the
morning, cut into biscuits, and let them
raise. Cut them apart, and not have the
kettle crowded; and If any are left, steam
them (some think these are the best). Put
in a few potatoes to stop the boiling, and
cook half an hour. ] never have soggy
ones. Be sure and always mix them hard
enough.


Wedding Cake.-Take three pounds of but
ter, four and half pounds of flour, three
pounds of sugar, six pounds of cnrrants,
one and half pounds of candied lemon,
half pound of almonds, halfa pound of
citron, thirty eggs, q pint of brandy, and q
pint of milk. Beat the butter and sugar in
pan until it is like thick cream, but be sure
not to make it too hot; then add the eggs
by degrees, till they are quite light. Next
beat in half the flour; then put the milk and
brandy in. Crate the rinds of six lemons,
and then put in the rest of the flour, cur
rants, candied lemon-peel, almonds and half
an ounce of mixed spices, such as cloves,
mace, cinnamon, nutmeg, and allspice, beat
en- and sifted through fine sieve. If you
bake the whole in one cake it will take three
hours and half; it must not be baked too
quickly.


son for drying sweet corn, send my pro-
cess: Pick the corn the night beforehand; ;


husk it in the morning, in order to give it


the benefit of the fire while the mornings


work is being done up. Cut the corn from


the cob. It dries quicker not to scrape the


cob with the knife afterwards. Put it into
pans and set it in the oven, with the doors
open, if the fire is brisk. Stir it often until
| it is thoroughly dried Spread it in the


sun. When sufficiently dry, put up in pa


per bags and hang up near the fire some
time, as it Is apt to gather dampness. Some


complete the process by the fire entirely,


but it requires more attention. The object
in scalding it and hurrying the drying is to


prevent the corn souring. In good weather
a batch can be finished in twenty-fonr


hours. Many housekeepers do not know


the luxury Of having dried sweet corn for 4
winter dish. TO cook it, soak over night in
cold water, then simmer on the stove until


tender, then season like succotash, wits
J cream and butter. The Minnesota sweet
corn is the best and earliest variety we have
ever tried.
Year: 1876

Editors of the Register:


Can you inform me where and from
what source the County Committee de-
rives the authority to impose upon DEM
ocrsts the "test oath" as condition pre-.
cedent to their voting at the primary
election. / am Democrat, but do not
propose at this time 10 sell out my right
as a freeman to vote, to any body OF men,
no matter how or when chosen. The NJ
suit is that If this rule is inserted 1 can
not honorsbly vote at the primary. 1
intend at the October election to vote 81
q freeman, as please, and do not pre-
pose to mortgage myself three months in
advance. flnd many others Of the same
mind, and think with them that the con .
mittee have exceeded their power, and
are proposing to do that which can only
result in harm TO our party. L.
Year: 1876

ArrER being defeated twice for Con-
press in the First District, the least Dem
ocrslic in the State, District Attorney
Corr ia made the standard bearer OF the
Republican party in this State. Wha:
hope have they for his election? None
Whatever, but the Ohio county delega-
ton expect his money to elect another
Republican Sheriff of this county.
Year: 1876

A FELLOW in the East says that a
baked clam Is as juicy and plump and
tender rs the "Swsn Song" in Lohen-
grin. That's the way with those fellows
who live by the sad sea waves. They
think there's nothing in the world as
good as an old baked pair of boots, eI.
cept it be q clam or n tender chunk OF
indIa-ruhher
Year: 1876

Oar good city is alive with political ami
nation and exertion. We can hardly be-
lieve that any previous election ever saw
half the number of clubs formed that are
now in full blast. And hard as are the
times, their expenses are incurred on a
scale not at all niggardly. Handsome uni
forms, torch lights and good music are met
at every turn of an evening. 1t would
seem as though every young man in the
city considered himself bound to enroll him
self in some such organization under pen
atty of being nobody.


Some of our friends have been kind
enough to communicate to US interesting 6
items in relation to certain of these clubs,
including the roll of their officers, and we
were greatly tempted to make items OF
them, but on reelection we found that it
would not do. To select few for notice
would be disrespectful to the others and to
do Justice to all would require a force OF
reporters aud an expansion of space not at
our control.


AS much tempted, therefore, as we are, to
speak of the vim and earnestness of psrti
cular organizations that have attracted our
admiration, we can approach the subject. in
general terms only. That we do with the
greatest pleasure and with heartfelt salts
faction at the universal interest so plainly
indicated. 1t is manifest that the need o
self government is duly appreciated ant
gallsntly worked for by our people. Ruir
and decay have 80 plainly stalked in the
track of irresDonsible government tha
every man, capitalist or laborer, tax paye
or tax free, white or black, can see the ne
cessity for a change. They see 1t 60 plainly
Year: 1876

that they are earnest in seeking it, they are
enthusiastic, even.


Decidedly the best move of the season is
that of inviting colored Democrats to join
the white clubs, instead of having them
form auxiliary clubs. There is an i'm
meuse pressure of social nature brought
to bear on colored voters, against any
Democratic afaliation. They arc tabooed
in their churches and meetings, threatened
by negro builies and scorned by feminine
Republcanism. Many of our colored men
are able to look beyond the dictation of
hypocritical preachers, who are really
nothing but political pimps. There are
clear headed blacks, who despise these
Reverend politicians and who judge for
themselves and their race, that it is time
for honesty to rule instead of theft. These
men are not to be deferred by church de-
nuuciation or social exclusion, but they
are not all men of muscular youth and VIC.
lent natures. They are not willing to en-
gage in actual war with armed rutians
white and black. Membership in white
clubs obviates all that, and whatever pro
gress it may make in the city, it will pro
badly carry the State Democratic by thirty
| thousand majority.