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Year: 1875

From the Hinton Herald.


Only ten days of the adjourned session
remain, and vet little of Importance has
been done. A multitude of unlmportant
measures have been introduced, coDsum-
ing precious time that should have been
bestowed upon ether matters of vital I'M
nortance to the interests OF the whole
State.


There seems to be no man in the lower
House who has the capacity to assume
the leadership, and direct the energies of
the inexperienced members. Every
man is going it on his own hook,
so to speak, all anxious and willing to do
something, but the trouble is they don't
know how. The Senate gets along with
its business with ease and dis
patch, and will likely have DIS
posed of the most important bills
when the thirty days terminate. The
trouble seems TO be altogether in the
Hous., where everything is apparently
in confusion. The Radical members
are generally men of capacity, and are
doing all in sheir power to hinder and
DELAY legislation, with view of bring
ing the Democrat c party into disre-
putc. The whole impeachment busi-
WAS Radical trick to divide and
distract the dominant party; and
strange to say, the leaders Of our par
" So far have failed to see through this
gauzy device, and have irittered away n
good part of the session in listening to
long-windcd speeches from the managers
of the impeachment, the ruling spirits of
which are Radicals Of the deepest dye. So
far 1t is evident that the Radicals have
out.rcncralcd the Democrats oftne House
of Delegates. That is very plain. 1t Is
true. no great wrong has been done by
this legislature, but we have right to
expect something else from it than this
massive virtue of doing nothing wrong;
i ought to do a great deal of good. In
action alone is not what is needed; some
vigorous action is called for.
Year: 1875

The annual session of the State Grange
Of Kentucky, commenced yesterday,
with an attendance of two hundred and
forty members. The assets show a sur
plus over the liabilities of 81 400 since
the last meeting.
Year: 1875

Hereafter 70 Legal Advertise
mcnts will be inserted in the TINE
unless payment is made when hand.
ed IN. Il requires money to carry
an our business and We are com.
PEELED 10 adopt the cash principle
This rule will not be dcviated from
in any case.
Year: 1875

The FAMILY NEXT DooR.-There is
family moving INTO the house next door;
we can hear through our blinds the car
rier of the furniture move along the
walk. All the talking we hear is done
by one voice. 1t is the man of the
house, and he has got little son. We
need not look out of the window for con-
firmation OF this impression. His words
establish it as clearly as the eye could
witness, and we know just what is being
done out there as well as if we stood in
the very midst Of it. Every time he
speaks we dot it down on an extra sheet
of paper, and so far he has made the
following utterances


ssPut that whip down.


stGet out of the way"


s'Don't climb up there


"'Take your shoes off that bedstead. :"


''Shall I speak to you again ?''


s'Do you want to break those things?"


s'Come out of that"


''Go away from the horse do you
want to get your head kicked off ?"


"Do you hear me, or shall speak
again ?"


"Hey, there what did I tell you
about that horse p


s'Now, you sit still there, and don't
you dare to move an inch, or I'll break
every bone il your body"
Ne1Us
Year: 1875

Mention was made the other day of
the accident at Big Bend Tunnel, on the
Chesapeake and Ohio railroad by which
the engineer, Mr.. John Quincy Adams
Wilkins formerly of this city, was injur-
ed. The "Big Bend is what is known
in railroad parlance as "dirt tunnel, %
being very liable to cave in, and there
fore the engineers are more careful to
look out for ''danger ahead in passing
through them. It was the exercise of
this care that probably saved an i'm
mense loss of life. as the train had been
brought down to q very slow rate of
speed on approaching the tunnel 1t
seems that an end Of one of the large
timbers supporting the roof had become
detached and fallen to the track a few
feet within the tunnel, and, the pilot of
the engine striking it, the jar loosened
the other timbers and large quantity
of earth and stones, and the whole mass
came tumbling down upon the locomo-
tive, breaking it to pieces. The fireman,
who was standing close to Mr.. Wilkins,
was mashed to jelly and could not
have lived moment, while Mr. Wilkins,
was thrown toward IN standing posi-
ton with his throat across the reverse
bar, O large timber fell across the back
of his neck, rendering it impossible to
move. He had quid OF tobacco in his
mouth at the time, and SO tightly was
he caught that he could not, expectorate
and could only swallow with difficulty !;
indeed, h could scarcely raise his voice
above whisper. There he remained
for six hours in the pitchy darkness,
while every second or two small pieces
of dirt and gravel from the roof would
fall down by his side, conveying the i'm
preston momentarily that another mass
was about to fall and crush him COM
pletely. All the time the shouts of
those outside could be heard, as with
shovel and axe they forced their way
to his rescue, which, however seemed to
him beyond all hope. When they finally
reached him he was more dead than
alive, and, being completely exhausted,
lost consciousness in swoon which last
ed several hours.
Year: 1875

THE English Channel tunnel is in
fair way of taking definite shape. The
British House of Commons has already
passed the bill with reference to this
great undertaking, and cable dispatch
announces that the measure has passed
its second reading in the House of Lords
without opposition. A similar bill is
now before the French Assembly.
Year: 1875

To thy heart take Faith,
Soft beacOn-light upon stormy sea;
A mantle for the pure in heart, to pass
Throug dim world, untouched by living death;
A cheerful watcher through the spirits night,
Soothing the grief FROM which she fI;ty not Hee
A herald of glad news; seraph bright,
Pointing to Sheltering heavens yet to be-


Lucy Hooper.
Year: 1875

mass meeting Of the members Of the cast side
churches and temperance societies is to be held to-
morrow night in the Church Of the Sea and Land, al
the corner Of Henry and Market streets Tho Rey-
r. I. Cuyler will deliver address, and other reverend
gentlemen will speak briefly. Tnere wiz also DC soma
mate
Year: 1875

FAREWELL SERMON BY REV. DIR. Riley.


The Rev Dr Riley yesterday preached farewell
sermon, at tho conclusion Of pastorato Of seven
years TO his nock the Reformed Dutch church, Thr
ty fourth street. Of which tho following is synopsis
lie said that looking on the many pleasant remcm-
brances Of tho past seven years and recalling tho
kindly intercourse and feeling thah always subsstcd
between his congregation and himself he found II i'm
possible to preach what usually known a. faro
well sermon Hc wished his people to consider that hc
and they were parting only fora short time Hc was
not willing that ho should have the appearance Of
breaking away from them.
Year: 1875

The Pacific Jockey Club is most in genious
| ly defended by the San Francisco Chronicle
| The club created sensation in the sporting


world by offering purse of $4,000 in gold
coin, to be contested for by fast horses on
| the twelfth day of November. 1t brought to
| the Pacific coast such horses as Springbos
Rutherford Wildidle and Revenue but
| from that day 10 this there has been no
| race, and there is no prospect that such a
purse will ever be run for. Postponement
| after postponement was made. First Athe
track was bad, then Thanksgiving day was


selected then Christmas day, and it has
been given out that the horses had the epi-
zooty, and that the owners were perfectly


satisfied that the race should not come off.


1t appears that the club was not governed


by American jockey club rules, else post


ponement on account OF weather would


have been to the FIRST good day and track :"


The pos.pon ement to specified holidays


gives the impression that the race was
to be like prize fight, only for gate money,
and the glory of the Pacific turf suffers
fall at the thought. Now the Chronicle SAYS
the conditions Of the entries have never
been fulfilled; the advertisement specified
that five horses should be entered and it is
stated that only four real entries were
made. Nothing was said of this when the
postponemonts were first made. The na.u-
ber of horses entered was only important
to the club, because the entrance fee was
$4,000; the public would have been satisfied
to see three horses run; but $4,000 taken
as entrance fees for horses, and $4,000
taken at the track as gate money, would
have filled the $4,000 club purse much
easier. Now as the owners do not complain
at the failure Of the great race, there is q
suspicion that no entrance fees have ever
oeen paid, that the pnrse was imaginary,
and that the whole business was a comb.
nation between the jockeys and the club to
draw big gate money gains from the inno-
cent public. For some reason the scheme
failed, and the innocent public should be
as well satisfied as if the wonderful race
had come off
Year: 1875

From a lecture by Professor Wise on ballooning we copy the following The impressions of first ascension were very striking. It is like the earth fall ing away from the balloon. There is no vertigo but the earth sinks, becomes fattened in appearonce and finally con , cave. The position of the balloon seemed to be between to concavities. The prismatic effects produced by refraction are very beautiful fairy scenes pre- sent themselves, and the mind becomes aroused to the glorious privileges it en- joys. To look down through the broken clouds was to witness sight surpassing in beauty the magic caves described in the "Arabian Nights Entertainments. !" The profound, solemn, and awful still ness which prevailed above the clouds was also remarkable. Even while nov ing at the rate of mile per minute, the aeronaut seemed so utterly becalmed that @ suspended cobweb moving with the balloon would not be agitated. In speak ing of echo and ozone in the clouds, Professor Wise said the reverberations of sound among clouds were tremendous ; and in explaining the echo which exists among them, he told story of a con- versation which he had with himself, instead of Q person upon the earth, as he at first supposed.
Year: 1875

The rank and file in the Prussian army are poorly fed and poorly paid. In time of peace the only ration which a private receives daily is coarse bread to the weight of one and half pounds. His pay amounts to about $4. 50 per month, subject to slight allowance when on garrison duty, and also to deduction for messing. &
Year: 1875



 Provide ammonia fer cleaning paint and carpets, the water when done with to be poured on house plants or vines :; cold tea for graining window scrub, which is little stiff brush with long handle step-ladder ; carpet-stretch- CT sef-wringing mop, which consists of long handle with stationary ring which moves freely up and down the handle, strips of cloth being sewed to these rings, and the movable ring being pulled up when in use as far as the cloth will permit around the handle till the cloths are wrung dry pumice stone to remove marks from hard finished walls :; plenty of soft clean muslin and linen for cloths, chamois- skin to polish mirrors and plate-glass long enduring, exhaust less patience, and uninterrupted flow of good humor. With these the labor and discomfort of house cleaning will be re- duced to it's minimum.
Year: 1875

An editorial in last weeks TINES on the
subject of grammar as it IS taught in Gin
cinnati, is applicable to this city as we'll as
Cincinnati. The present manner of teach
ing English grammar here is useless. 1t is
wasting the precious time of those who
ought TO be educated in something in which
they would he benefited. There is no branch
of learning Of more use, and in the persuit Of
its study, more interesting than grammar,
rightly taught. But in our city schools, it
is not as much as decently butchered, 20 say
nothing of its being correctly taught. A
routine OF memorizing rules and remarks re-
tards the study of grammar, which should
be taught by analyzing thought as we'll as
sentiments s.-Leauenrort Herald.
Year: 1875

Vests Vegetable Liver Pills are the only
Proprietary Pills we know OF that the
formula is made public. They all claim
some secret in the manufacture Of their
pills that they dare not publish. The rea-
son j. plain. They know that if they let
people know what cheap, common drugs,
and perhaps mercury they make their pills
oil, nobody would buy them. Your drug
gists will show you the formula. Sugar
coated thirty pills in each box. d&w.
Year: 1875

The Cheyenne Leader says Of the
noble reds now on their way to
Washington Professor Marsh may
or may not be as good a "fossil
sharp" as he is q judge Of the ver-
acity of an Indian, but he is making
himself ridiculous in trying to i'm
press upon those who will consent
to be bored by him that Red Cloud
is o truthful, reliable man. We In
Wyoming know this distinguished
Indian to be a treacherous muir
derer and a treaty breaker, and a
harborer of Indian murderers and
thieves. We can instance murders
after murders, since the massacre OF
Colonel Fetterman and his men in
1866, down to the massacre Of Mrs.
Hall and her niece, in Wind river
valley, by his son-in-law, in 1873.
He has violated and encouraged
violations of the treaty of 1868,
right along since he signed it. Why
should Professor Marsh, who has had
little or no experience with indians,
become so favorably impressed with
their reliability? We guess the
professor is "cracked" a little on this
matter, and that it is not from his
previous acquaintance with and
knowledge of Red Cloud that he
considers him truthful. tits merely
an impression that the professor has
received.
Year: 1875

the left. is the clean. open writing of Carnot
and to judge from his signature he must have
been frank and fearless, with will moulded
and tempered with steel.


This is the handwriting of Barras. 1t Is
flung upon the paper with lightning dash
of the pen. This is the letter from the great
EmperOr-short, sharp, and direct to the
point as one of his own musket balls. In
stead of writing his hand in the usual parai-
lei way, he turnes the paper sideways and
writes almost lengthwise the one single
name Napoleon and his signature is as
hard to read as that of the late Horace Greeley,
or that of the absent John W Fornev. The
most interesting communication of the group
is where he announces his marriage with the
Archduchess Marie Louise of Austria. How
hard he bears on the pen, and when he fin
ishes he makes stroke underneath his
name, as though the instrument in his hand
had suddenly become a sword. Now fol-
lows the birth of the king of Rome, after the
form of all such announcements. And here
is one from jerome, otherwise known as the
American Bonaparte. He makes no allusiOn
to the beautiful Miss Patterson of Baltimore,
but says he has ascended the throne of West
phalia, and wants the distant republic to
know il
Year: 1875

A young man walked into an indianapolis
drug store, the other day, and called for 50
cents worth of strychnine- The clerk, sus-
pecting his object, gave him harmless dose
of sugar of milk" the youth swallowed
it at once and sat down to die. To the
surprise of the clerk, he soon showed every
indication of poisoning, and he thinks that,
had he not told him of the harmless nature
of the portion, he would have died from mere
imagination.
Year: 1875

resent space on a hillside. The woods are
heavy and dark. Nature slumbers. You
see the moonlight reflected from particular
stumps in the recesses Of the forest, as if
she selected what to shine on. These small
fractions of her light remind one of the plant
called moon-seet,-as if the moon were
sowing it in such places.-IhOreau.
Year: 1875

An Evansville Qnd.) young man recently
presented set of false teeth to his sweet
heart, but the lovers had falling-out, and
so the youth took the teeth from the
Young lady and gave them to his new fame
who also had an aching void in the rear o
her ruby lips No. is very mad about it
and wants the assistance of the police to re-
cover her masticators.
Year: 1875

There is no ambiguity about the new
police order relating to concealed weapons.
All parties taken to the lockups will here
after be carefully searched" for deadly
instruments, and whenever found the
charge must be made against them on the
records, regardless of personal favorit-
ism or position in society" This has the
right ring.


Now, let the police magistrates promptly
send all culprits Of this class before Judge
Steele, and his method Of punishment
will soon put an end to the dangerous
habit. As list Of all arrests for the Of
tense of carrying concealed weapons,
stating the final disposition of each case,
will be kept by Superintendent Loan, and
open to the press, the public will be able
to give proper credit or blame to those
whose duty it is to enforce the law. We
are convinced, though, that the desire to
crush the evil is SO earnestly participated
in by all of them, that there will be no
cause for censure.
Year: 1875




who sneered at the poor white trash" be-
fore the war, and compelled them to
shoulder the musket and bear the brunt
on Confederate battlefelds, to propose its
disfranchisement now. But such pro-
vision would especially bear upon the col
ored voters of Texas, almost invariably
Republicans. who were deprived in the
prime of life Of the privilege of enrolling
themselves as property holders and direct
taxpayers. They titled the soil and were
robbed of their earnings in the slave era,
and now the men who dwell in castles
built with the proceeds of their unpaid
labor. finding that the overseer can not
dictate the citizens ballot, broach de-
nial Of the inestimable right of franchise.


We do not expect so un-American
doctrine will root itself to any alarming
extent, because the German and Irish i'm
migrant. and the working classes in gen.
eral, will have common cause with the
negro to cry it down; but it is another
illustration of the Democratic sense of
justice, which will weaken other and
similar reform pretensions of the Demo-
cratic party.
Year: 1875

Says the Bulletin, referring to the city
School Board:


When men in any public office of trust
lose for any reason the ability to be of ser
vice to the public whom they are presumed
to serve, it is clearly their duty to with
draw and make room for others, who can
more efficiently and acceptably fill their
places.


Bat who is to judge of their inability
from any cause? The Bulletin contends that
mass meeting, which may be called at
any time, by good or Indifferent leaders,
with or without proper motives, shall, by
simple resolutions, cut and dried, advo-
Gated by truthful or false appeals, issue a
peremptory mandate for the abdication of
officials, which they should obey. We
contend that for any and all crimes or
misdemeanors every citizen has the right,
guaranteed by the common law and the
statutes, to have preliminary exnmina-
ton, due notice of the charge, an oppor-
tunity for defense, and jury to give the
verdict. This is the practice of the entire
country, and is only questioned in
localities where mob is assumed to be the
"higher" law. The fact of the School
Board being Republican appears to be in
the eyes Of the Bulletin warrant of the
White Line denial of their rights as citi-
zens. Let the board be censured if it
deserves it, and charges formally pre-
ferred, and brought to an issue in the
civilized manner. There need be no
childs play, but the lawful wishes of the
people will be respected and cbeyed.
Year: 1875

wishes of the party authorities they
would be soon so ostracised, socially and
politically, that Louisiana would, be no
place for them. They would change their
politics and their location.


The Enquirer is perhaps mistaken in
claiming the Southern Democracy as the
friends of imitation. Celia depend, as we
say in the French part Of the city. The
Louisiana Democracy have declared
through some of their organs that they
have no choice as between Allen and
Tilden, but that they will support which
ever wins upon this trial strain, Us the
racers call it. The Southern Democrats
are like the highwayman in Hogarth. He
watches two gamesters intent only to
see which will carry off the money that he
may not run the risk of robbing the wrong
man.
Year: 1875

made applicable y its legitimate func-
ton it b indispensable to give effect to
the principles of party. Left to in
discreet, reckless or selfish hands it be-
comes an agent of irreparable destruc-
ton. We can not more properly express
our appreciation of its value and its
danger than by repeating that patronage
should be held in trust for the benefit of
the party which has obtained it, and not
employed as personal perquisite for the
advantage of those to whom its applica-
ton may have been entrusted.
Year: 1875

The most persecuted man in the
world lives at Oakland, CAL He is
paying teller at the Union Savings
Bank. A young man deposited $3.50
at the bank about a month ago. Ev-
cry day since he made that deposit he
has presented himself like clock work
with his deposit book, and drawn out
six bits or a dollar. He generally
goes an hour before the bank opens, so
as to be on hand. The teller has used
up three books making entries, and
has offered to give the young man $40
TO draw out the balance. His offer
was probably rejected, as the young
man was seen the other morning At the
usual hour waiting for the bank to
open.


The will of an old man who died
recently in Brussels tells how he once
found valuable diamond 10 Asia,
which he concealed in cut in the calf
of his leg, where he bad made an in
territorial wound. The apparent mis-
fortune procured his release from the
mine, and be was made immensely
rich by the sale of the gem, which is
now one of Russia's crown diamonds,


OF course woman doesn't want
her plants to freeze, but still one can't
blame a man for raising row when
he hops out of bed in the morning
and finds gerRnlum plant in each
trowsers leg,
Year: 1875

NOTICE is HEREBY GIVEN THAT
the city OF Los Angeles intends making
the following improvements on Spring street
from and including its intersection with
Fourth street to its intersection with Fifth
street:


The street shall be graded in the following
manner; The road-bed shall be prepared by
cutting down or filling up the street to a SUBJ
grade eight inches below the established grade
along the center line of the street, and in such
manner as TO give 1t slope of one foot in thir-
been prepared along the whole of the block
and having been accepted by the City Sur
veyor, it shall then be surfaced with cement
gravel to the depth of eight inches.


The curb shall be of redwood, 3xl2 inches,
spiked to posts of redwood AKA inches and
three feet long set in the ground on the inside
OF and two feet below the bottom of the curb.
and in addition thereto there shall be a simi-
lar post set in the same manner at each and
every joint of the curb, to which both ends OF
stake of Sx4 redwood and two feet long set in
the ground opposite to aud four feet inside of
each post. There shall be a key of lx4 red
wood and four feet long nailed with. not less
connecting the stake to the post; said key to
be placed tour inches below the top of the
curb The top Of the curb shall be placed two
inches below the established grade.


The sidewalks shall be ten feet wide and
shall be filled in or cut down 1T the curb to
within ssx inches of the established grade (as
may be necessary with a slope of two inches
from the inside of the sidewalk towards the
gutter. It shall then be filled in with four
inches Of gravel and properly leveled.


Two box-culyerts shall be placed across the
be made of three.nch redwood They shall
be three feet wide by0ne foot deep on the in-
side, and so placed as to serve as crossings.
The bottom and sides to be laid longitudin-
ally; the top crOssways.


NJ. KREMER,


ap13 lot Clerk of Com. Council.