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Year: 1875

THE famous submarine tunnel OF the
English channel will soon be begun The
members of the French commission, COM
posed for the most part of practical men
and engineers, declare that an under
ground communication between France
and England is only question OF eX-
pcnsc, and their report leads to the
belief that the project can be carried out
with less expense than was at first
imagined, and that the danger of leakage
and infiltration will not be so great as
was at first supposed. A shaft will short
ly be sunk on the French side of the
channel near Calais, to depth of $50
feet for the purpose of hauling up the
earth and rock from the excavation.
Year: 1875

Notwithstanding the reports dur
ing the entire week to tho effect
that the rivers above were falling, it
has been steadily rising at this
point, causing teverish anxiety
among all classes. Levee gangs
have been engaged IN throwing up
lcvecs in the low places; but in
spite of all their efforts the wa
ters have been steadily cncroach-
ing, and hundreds OF acres Of both
corn and cotton are submerged.
The latest reports say that the wa
tors are falling as low down as Cal
TO in the Ohio, and our people are
assuming Il more cheerful look.


Since the above was in type,
news by the Grand Tower reaches
us to the effect that another fresh
rise was coming out of the upper
Mississippi; the river having risen
six inches at Cairo in twenty four
hours, ending six O'Clock Thursday
evening. But then we have been
so often unsettled in our opinion,
in regard to the probable rise,
based upon reports from the steam
ers that we have concluded to trust
to luck, and going 1t blind; for
while one boats crew will report
the river falling at all points above
another, perhaps, in an hour or two
after, will report rise ct all points;
so we go, tossed by conflicting
emotions; and the farmers are not
happy.
Year: 1875

WE are sometimes asked why we
don't enlarge our paper, and have
moro reading matter? Tho only
reason we can assign, is, that it is
impossible to run an eight column
paper in six column town.
Year: 1875

THE GREAT MEDICINAL FOOD.
This Justly celebrated DIETETIC Preparation is
in composition, principally the GLUTEN derived
from the White Winter Flint Wheat Cereal, a solid
extract, the invention Of an eminent chemist.
1t has not only been highly recommended, but
certified to by a large number OF CHEMISTS and
HYsICIANS-representing q very high degree Of
medical sclence-as the
Safest, Most Acceptable and Reliable Food
for the growth of Infants and Children, and for
Mothers lacking sufficient nourishment for their
offspring


Unlike those preparations made from animal or
vinous matter, which are liable to stimulate the
brain and irritate the digestive organs it embraces
in Its elementary composition
THAT WHICH MAKES STRONG BONE AND MUSCLE,


That which makes good Flesh and Blood.


That which is easy Of Digestion-never


constipatiug,


That which is kind and friendly to
W the brain,


And that which acts as preventive of those Intes
final disorders incidental to childhood.
Aud while it would be difficult to conceive Of
anything in Food or Dessert more creamy or deli
cious, or more nourishing and strengthening as al
aliment in


Fepers, Pulmonary Complaints, Dyspepsia,


PRosTRATIoNs OF THE SYSTEM,


OR GENERAL DEBILITY,
Is rare medicinal excellence In all Intestinal Dis
eases especially in Dysentery, Chronic Diarrhpa
and Cholera Infantum, has been incontestibly pro
ven See circulars for testimonials. Sold by drug
gists generally and at the wholesale dsR9t R, 6y


15S Water street, New York.
Year: 1875

Salisbury had her Fair last week WbieI,
was as usual grand success. We regret
our inability to Be present.


Petersburg had hers too which passed Of
brilliantly, though on the first days the
weather wac unpropitious.
Year: 1875

There may be greater bore than the
man who rushes into an EDITORS sanctum,
plumps himself down in the easiest
chair, puts his feet ON the desk, uses the
scissors to cut his nails, tosses the ex-
changes about promiscuously, borrows
your toothpick and handkerchief, looks
over the proofs and copy, reads your
private correspondence, and whistles
through it all, eff ever I cease to love .
but we have yet to meet him. Having
been born at very early period of our
existence, we can stand everything but
the whistling, for there is no other thing
on the face of the globe, in the heavens
above, or the waters beneath it, that is
SO much out of place as a whistler in a
printing Office. Scat
Year: 1875

The people Of Egypt, correspondent
says, do not take any more kindly to the
taxes than to the conscription. At Asso-
wan saw several men in irons in prison
whose offense was that their brothershad
been conscripted and run away; these
were to be held till the deserters return
ed. saw at the same Jail over forty
men confined for not paying the taxes.
The taxes are enormous, and down in
Soudan hear they are more onerous
than in Egypt. The collectors make
raids upon the villages, and sometimes
parents sell their children for money to
pay the tax. Land is taxed in Egypt at
from one pound and half to three
pounds per acre. In the Delta, say the
friends of the Khedive, this is not ex-
cessive, since the canals and improve
ments have increased the productive
power of the land, and an acre, giving
them three crops year, brings to the
owner or lessee five or six pounds. But
the best land in Egypt is in the hands of
the government, and from third to q
half of the whole of it, good and bad.
The governments is indeed rapidly acquir-
ing all the land; the same process is going
on that Joseph ;shrewdly managed for
Pharoah when he squeezed the land out
of the possession of the owners in return
for the grain doled out to them in the
years of famine. Egypt seems to be all
the time undergoing this operation. Up
the river every palm tree is taxed, the
tax having been doubled within few
years, and the same is true of every
sal1iyah, or wheel for raising water. /
saw many fields that were said to be un-
cultivated by reason of the heavy tax.


The Khedive of Egypt is the great
merchant, trader, manufacturer, ana
farmer of the country. He is certainly
doing a great deal for the material de-
velopment of the country. 1t is said on
the one hand that the people are so inert
and stupid that they will not aid him
will not take to new methods of i'm
provements; and on the other, that all
private enterprise is impossible; for it is
bad policy for any one to be known to
make money or to have money. Some
pretext would be found of squeezing it
out of him.


The Khedive has sixteen sugar facto-
ries, some of them very large, and with
all the improved machinery. have
seen those that could not have cost to fiji
up less than 81, 100000. He owns the
rich lands about them; he impresses Ia
borers, men and boys, for them, who are
paid, was told, from seven to ten cents
a day, with an allowance of bread. And
yet these sugar mills, with perhaps one
exception, do not pay; and one reason
for this is the impossibility of finding
natives intelligent enough to carry them
on. Foreigners are employed at i'm
mense wages, and there is loss and waste
in every department.
Year: 1875

For some time sheets of veneer have
been produced so large and thin that
they can be used in place of wall paper,
by simply being glued against the wall
In order to make them, round log, two
or three feet long, is placed in lathe
and slowly revolved, while sharp knife
of the length of the log is so placed and
firmly supported as to act like plane,
cutting thin film from the circumfer-
ence of the log, which film rolls up at
the same time it leaves the knife. In
this way veneers of mahogany, black
walnut, etc, have been made and applied
to walls, giving the rooms an appearance
far superior in solidity to papered walls,
especially when, by the application of
proper machines, large surfaces are sub
divided into divers panels.
Year: 1875

Let every young man whose appetite
for drink is consciously growing, but
whose conscience is not yet scared by
confirmed habit, adopt the plan of max
ing an accurate note of how he feels in
the morning after drinking too much the
night before. Let him analyze as near
ly in detail as he can his thoughts and
reflections when he first wakes up, and
put down in black and white q plain,
truthful description of them. I do not
refer to the sense of physical pain or dis
comfort which always follows debauch,
but to his moral conditions in the early
morning, and in the absence of the facti.
tious excitement of conviviality. Let
this be done conscientiously, and let the
young man read over his own words
carefully, and endeavor to thoroughly
realize what he has described on paper,
every time he thinks of taking a drink,
and believe that most young men con.
trollea by principle, actuated by desire
to do right, and struggle against the in
herent weakness of human nature, would
in short time come to the conclusion
that the "game is not worth the can
de-" and in many cases eventually give
up the desire to indulge in so treach.
erous and delusive relief from eIinui
so dangerous and false means of ex-
cltement.
Year: 1875

A new dodge has been resorted to by
tramps to raise little money. They
stop in village and announce that they
have been exposed to the smallpox, and
expect to come down with II in few
days. The authorities generally act
promptly they collect little purse,
present it to the tramp, and tell him to
move along he accepts, and passes to
the next place to play the same trick.
Year: 1875

The senate, very timely and appropri
ately, on Wednesday, took the first op
portunity, on the opening of the session
to pass resolutions Of thanks to the
United States House Of Representatives
for the very decided manner in which
they sustained the report Of Judge Po-
land. They are as follows:


Senator Sims. from the committee on fede-
raj relations submitted the following rcsou
tion asa substitute for the one introduced thi.
morning 10y Senator Warren and referred to
that committee. which, after a slight amend
ment by Senator Jones, was read a third time
and passed.


Whereas. In the recent contest before the
congress Of the United States to overthrow
the present state governments 1t Is evident
that the true expression of the sentiment OF
the people Of this state was recognized and in
tlorsed IN Congress by the conservative rep
rescntativcs, without regard to party; there
fore. be It


Resolved by the senate of the state of Ar
kansas, the house concurring. That while the
thanks of the people Of this state alc due to
those In congress. who vindicated their rights,
they arc especially due to the republicans of
that body who remained true to our state. and
that they may not be mistaken and have cause
TO regret their action, Arkansas Is hereby
pledged to fair, just and faithful enforce =
inent of the laws, to the end that all people
may still have their rights.and that her course
shall be "charity to all and malice to none"


Resolved further That the governor is
hereby directed to forward a copy of these
resolutions to Hon. James q. Blaine, speak
er of the house of representatives.
Year: 1875

SAD ACCIDENr.-The sudden and unexpect-
ed death of Mr.. Alexander Graham, OF Lees
Creek township on Thursday last is a sad ca
lamity. In his usual health and vigor he
went to his stables just before night to feed
his stock, and in climbing up ladder to the
hay loft, he fell. and striking his head was
suddenly killed Ills family. thinking that HI
was gone unusually long. went to the stable
and found him lying dead. Uncle Sandy
was n kind husband and father, good heart
ed citizen. enjoying the high esteem of hi
neiyhbors and the citizens generally OF tn
County. and his place will be hard to hll
SANDY Graham although foreign born lovc'
the State and country Of his adoption feac
To his ashes,
Year: 1875

Our State Is once more free, and we again a
free people. We are TO live under a constitu-
tion made by our own people, and officers
elected by the free, untramelcd vote of our
whole people. Though we are broken in for
tune, and burdened with debt, yet. with our
vast resources, we can soon recupcratc.


y We start out anew, and with this motto,
"Charity for all. and il-wll towards none'
we can afford to be magnanimous. Let us
show to our late opprcssors that we know
how TO treat fallen enemy. Let by-gones
be by-goncs except to those who have noto-
riously violated nearly every criminal law on
our statute books, and they must answer to
the law only. We invite people from all quar-
ter.. We invite good citizens to stay. The
question, from whence came YOU, or to what
party have you belonged, will not be asked.
Arkansas Is large enough and rich enough in
resources for all who will come. And to the
colored people we propose to show that they
have but to be good citizens, and they will
find no change in their status except in the
way of improvements. This much Is said to
them. because INSCRIPTIONS men are trying
to friglitcn them. We propose to show our
selves worthy of freedom, and after ten years
of slavery, it tCstes sweet. 1t is music in our
ears. All hail, happy day!
Year: 1875

Now, that the Gar land government has
been fully sustained by the powers at
we have every assurance
that the work on this road will be push.
ed speedily to completion. This is what
the papers say of its progress. The fol
lowing is from the Gazette Of Saturday :


1--WE learn from Col George W.
Hughes, chief engineer of the Little
Rock and Fort Smith railway, who came
down Yesterday, that the track is laid to
Spadra, and the grading of the twenty
miles nearly completed - SO that the
track laying will be delayed but little if
at all. There is, also, n party OF engin.
GERS now engaged in locating the line on
westward from that point"


The Ozark Banner, Of Saturday
says:


Railroad is progressing rapidly, The
track laying is going on rapidly as the
weather will permit. The grading OF the
twenty miles west of Clarksville is near.
ly done, and large force OF hands are
at work on the bridge at Spadra and
Horsehcad creek. The track layers ex,
pect to push the bridge ontractors, and
to be there by the time the bridges arc
ready.


The engineer corps were at work this
week on the extension to this
place-only about five miles, with the
energy now shown in pushing the work
we will soon hear all aboard" at ON
station in Ozark. We hope it will soon
happen. aad we will then take ride il
we can raise the stamps.
Year: 1875

fI The Gazette reports the arrival
OF one hundred and twenty. five carloads
Of iron for the Little Rock and TT. Smith
railway. We have every reason to be-
licvc that the road will be pushed through
to Van Buren, at an early day, and then
our little town will CONT ;" tearing out OF
the Wilderness
Year: 1875

MEMPHIS, December 23.-The Com
mittee of General Council in the
case of the charges against Mayor
Loaguc, by his late clerk and Alderman
Davis, made a lengthy report to Coun-
Gil tonight, acquitting the Mayor of Chi
cago of stealing the Nicholson
pavement scrip and forgery, and
mutilating books, but guilty of the
charge of failing to report to Council the
embezzlcmcnt of about $3.50 in that
scrip, taken as alleged by his son, who
was then his clerk, and in having knowl-
edge of the same failing to have prose.
cuIed. In answer the Mayor submitted
a statement setting forth that when the
detalcation was first discovered he had
called the Council together and laid the
whole matter before them and left it with
Council and the city attorney whose
business it was, TO prosecute the matter.
Year: 1875

LOUISVILLE, November PA num-
ber of persons confined in the city jail
made an attempt to escape this morning.
Several negroes who were confined IN the
rear part ot the building had been conf
mitting depredstions by breaking window
glass &C., and behaving badly in gen
eral way yesterday afternoon. SeveraI
of them were placed in a cell by them
selves and all went quietly till four q clock
this morning, when loud howl was
raised. Upon repairing to the scene, the
turnkey discovered that the rascals had
set fire to the mattresses on which they
had slept with the evident purpose of
making their escape by overpowcTing the
isil official when he showed open the
door to let them out The bedding burn
ed rapidly, and in few seconds the cell
was dense with smoke and flames almos t
sufrorating those within. The attendant
obtained assistance rs soon rs possible
and rescued the negroes from their peril
Gus position, but not till some of them al
most strangled 10 death with the smoke.
Some of the men were strangled when
rescued. and few minutes more would
nave settled their deaths. The prisoners
when taken from the fire, were very viii
ling to be locked up anywhere, and made
no effort 10 escape.
Year: 1875

LEWIS BRos.-Folks about town will
Dear in mind that Friday and Saturday
evenings of this week they will have an
opportunity of patronizing the entertain
ment of the Lewis Bros, at Thomas
lheater. This is said to be the best
th'ng in the show line that ever Travelled
on this Coast, and will undoubtedly be
greeted with full house.
Year: 1875

FITTING Up.- Intending to "make
things warm" the coming Winter, the
JOURNAL establishment is being fixed up
In comfortable shape. The carpenters
having taken possession, the work of get
ting out a newspaper is carried on with
difficulty, and we think we have accom-
plished a great deal in getting out pa
per at all under the circumstances.
Year: 1875

READ Your TIcKETs.-We are reli-
ably informed that large number Of
spurious Republican tickets have been
printed to order outside the county, and
will be circulated in every precinct on
election day. These Spurious Tickets
have on them the names of all the Re
publican candidates except one. Look
ont for them Don't vote until you are
satisfied that your ticket contains the
name of every person you intend voting
for, and none other. The spurious tickets
have place for one Justice of the Peace
only, while both the Regular Democratic C
and Republican tickets have places for two


DRY GOODS AND CLoTHING.- Our
merchants, in the above lines Of goods,
have certainly taken advantage Of the low
prices now ruling in San Francisco
Heavier stocks have been purchased this
Fall ;han ever before and the prices asked
are great deal lower than the same
character of goods were ever sold for
here. Karsky 81 Abrahms, Pincus, and
Balch all have well-assorted stocks, and
are anxious to dispose OF them.
Year: 1875

There is many rest on the road of life,
If we only would stop to take it.;
And many tone from the better land, b.
If the querulous heart would wake it.
To the sunny soul that Is full of hope,
And whose beautiful trust ne'er faileth,
The grass is green and the flowers are bright.
Though the wintry storm prevalent.
Better to hope, though the clouds hang low,
And to keep the eyes still lifted;
For the sweet blue sky will soon peep


through


When the ominous clouds are lifted.
There was never night without day,
Nor an evening without morning;
And the darkest hour. the proverb goes,
Is the hour before the dawning.
There is many gem in the path OF life.
Which we pass In our idle pleasure,
That is richer far than the jeweled crown
Or the miser's boarded treasure;
1t may be the love of a little child,


Or a mothers prayer to heaven,
Or only beggars grateful thanks


For a cup of water given.
Better to weave in the web of life


A bright and golden filling,
And to do Gods will with q ready heart,
And hands that are swift and willing,
Than to snap the delicate silver threads
OF our curious lives asunder,
And then blame heaven for the tangled


ends,


And sit to grieve and wonder.
Year: 1875

The "PRIvnEaE TAX.
Ames of Mississippi, and the miscellan-
eous crowd of negro rascals and white
carpet -baggers and scalawags who are
in authority in that unfortunate State,
are evidently determined to use their
power to the utmost for the oppression
Of the people so long as they can main
tain themselves in Office. Some time
ago the New York Sun published tax
bills and other evidences of the extor-
tionate taxation which the property
owners in Mississippi are obliged to en-
dure under the rule of the black and
white plunderers who have been fas-
tened upon them, and now it seems that
Ames and his crew have invented new
process for wringing more money from
the impoverished people. It is called
q privilege tax land imposes an annual
contribution to the tax collector of sums
varying from few dollars to few
thousand for the privilege of pursuing q
reputable occupation. Almost every
imaginable mode of gaining liveli-
hood, except farming and preaching. is
included in the list of occupations which
render person liable to the payment
of the privilege tax; aud in order to
make its victims pay up promptly, it is
provided that any person exercising
any of the privileges enumerated in the
bill without first paying the tax shall be
fined, or imprisoned, or both, at the
discretion of the court. The law also
provides that the suit shall be main
tanned in any Court in the State TO en-
force the payment of any claim that
may accrue to any person on account of
any business subject to the privilege
tax if the person bringing the suit has
failed to pay this extortionate imposi-
ton. If Ames only lives long enough,
he will doubtless become as unpopular in
Mississippi as his iaihsr-in-iaw, Ben
Butler became in Louisiana. - Eran,i-
ner.
Year: 1875

.SSE- Even fastidiousness has its draw
backs. Publishers who do not insert
patent medicine advertisements are now
unable to supply their readers With cor
rect ikenesses Of Bessie Turner, and
those who have heretofore declined to
take lots in fabulously popular city ad-
ditions in payment for advertising arc
striving in vain to produce exact maps
of the battle Of Lexington.
Year: 1875

S- There is man in Paris with o
great project. He proposes to light
that city with one lamp. He wants o
big lamp, and wants to suspend it at q
proper height by means of balloon.
His argument is that oil Paris can be
lighted on that plan as well as an
opera-house. The authorities have a
prejudice against this plan, because he
boards in q lunetic asylum.
Year: 1875

@ A contemporary asks: "What
are the street lamps for?" The man
who doesn't know what street lamps
are for is hardly fit to sit in an editorial
chair and mold public opinion. Street
lamps are for weary young men to re-
cline against at midnight when they
forget the way home.
Year: 1875

sW A little four year old woke up
very early one morning, and seeing the
full moon from the window, he inno-
Gently remarked: ST should think it
was about time for Dod to take that
moon in"
Year: 1875

!; EE When couple of young folks
get 90 that they want to waltz all the
time at q ball and have no quadrilles,
that is sign that they are never going
to stop until some furniture man is
made happy. aa
Year: 1875

=
Streets, In the C1ty Of Los Angeles.
DE IT RESOLVED, BY THE COMMON
ID Council of the City of Los Angeles as fol-
lows: ~ 4#fF ra M
SECTION L. That the assessments herenaf-
ter set forth are hereby declared to be the as


sessments properly chargeable to and collect
able from the several owners of the property
respectively hereinafter described for and on
account of the construction of u sewer from
Short street to New High street, to Turner
street, and thence along Turner street to the
intersection of said sewer with the Main and


Arcadia street sewer on Main street, and for


the branch of the proposed sewer commenc-
/ Ing on New High street in front of the prop
erty Of DR.. Bush and running thence along
New High street Northerly to the intersection
of Turner and New High streets.


SEC 2. The Clerk of the Common Council
Is hereby directed to enter a statemt mt of this
assessment in the Docket of City Liens, ac-


cording to law and give notice Of the levy OF


said assessments by publication of the same


for ten days In English in the Los Angeles
Daily HERALD and for ten days in Spanish in
La Cronicd.


SEC 8. The folIowingis the list of the as


sessments hereinbef0re referred to; that Is to


Or F.