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Year: 1875

Col. Thomas A. Scott, the chief Of the
most extensive railroad corporation on this
Continent, if not in the world, was born
in Loudon, Franklin county, Pennsylva-
mia, in 1922, and is two years the junior
of his rival, Mr.. Garrett. After receiving
a good plain school education, he studied
the art of civil engineering. In the prac-
tice of this profession, an early success is
said to have discovered his wonderful
ability to his employers and shaped his
career as railway manager-the avoca-
ton of his busy and so far eyentfal life


When the Pennsylvania railroad was
laid out west of Huntingdon, Col. Scott
was the leading spirit in the practical part
of the enterprise, and proved to the friends
of tic great highway that their pet scheme
was feasible. By his skill he carried the
road over the Alleghanies and beyond;
and as a recognition of his valuable SER
vices he was appointed superintendent of
the western division of the railway. A
few years later Col Scott was made super
intendent for the whole line, and when the
late civil war broke out he was the man
chosen to superintend the transportation
Of troops and supplies to and from the va
rious theatres of strife. To this end Mr..
Scott was appointed Assistant Secretary of
War, and, although clothed with almost
regal power and paer6gatives, this excel
lent officer and patriot never exceeded the
bounds of propriety in single instance,
while he was always ahead of the most
sanguine expectations Of all in the execu-
tion of his Office.


Leaving the war Office as soon as the
great railway needs Of the country had
been supplied, Mr.. Scott turned his at
tention to the construction of the Union
and Pacific railroad, of which he was
elected president, and as soon as that great
enterprise was sure Of success, he left it
to put on its feet the Texas Pacific rail-
road, in the success of which, with his
friend, Col. Forney, he is still largely in
terested, although most of his attention is
paid to the management of the Pennsyl-
vania railroad, to which he makes all
other lines feeders,
Year: 1875

some of the lines of metropolitan tramways
in London; for which indeed, the arrange
ments are now nearly complete, so that the
practical working ofthe system will speedily
receive a thorough public demonstration.


We have ourselves had opportunities of
seeing the potentialities of the principle,
both in the model and full working size;
and even in view of the sweeping change
in the tramway system which is involved
in its complete success and adoption, we
cannot withhold the conviction that all the
important practical difficulties have been
eiiectually surmoanted, reducing its prac-
tical realization to mere matters of detail.
The working of the springs is entirely free
from noise, perfectly smooth, easy, and
effective, and completely under control, for
application, cessation, and reversal Iron.
Year: 1875

from humanitarian pursuits, and he is a
well-read, cultivated, high toned gentle
man. His literary ability is of marked
order. In person he is large and portly,
of affable and polished manner, determined
and curt of business speech, but withal a
pleasant and agreeable gentleman.
Year: 1875

An amateur medical authority .ent to a
Boston paper the following simple method
Of curing rheumatism. He says ;-adrive
it from the legs to the arms, down the
arms to the hands. thence crowd it into
one finger, and then have that finger out
off.
Year: 1875

A doctor Of France has invented n
machine by which an oyer-anxious
mother may assure herself from day to
day. or even from hour to hour, that
the baby is doing satisfactorily as re-
CARDS its increase Of weight. 1t consists
Of an ordinary cradle, to suit the taste.
fitted with balance underneath which
will tell the exact weight Of the cradle
and its contents, without any need of
disturbing the child. II il said that after
Year: 1875

WE CAN ACCOMMODATES TWO GENTLEMEN WITH


w back Parlor second story front Room with Board IN
private family 124th street. between Madison and
Fourth avenues Address LIVINGSTON, Herald Uptown
Branch
Year: 1875

90 WEST TWENTY SEVENTH STREET NEAL
% Broadway Handsomely furnished second Floor will
Board in FIRST class private house. with all modern improve
mcns at moderate prices desirable parties reference
exchanged.
Year: 1875

WEsT SIXTY. FIRST STREET, CONVENIENT TO RAPID
w TranSt-Four story brown House furnished
plee private family for board Of owner and wife


opportunity for wishing elegant and pensve
Office.
Year: 1875

in regard to the wisdom and expediency of
holding II are heard. Ex-miiitarv men.
generally, are opposed to it. and one promi,
nent broker, formerly an officer, considered
it as entirely unealled for. The conduct of
Sheridan he considered entirely iustifyable
as subordinate officer of the War Depart
ment, and he should be sustained so far as
he acted in the military capacity, whether
his opinions on civil affairs were correct or
not. He would not support a call for an.
expression of Indignation, as hd did not
think they were 1actis on which to base
such a call.


The opinions of severel bankers were
solicited, large majority Of whom were in
favor OF an earnest and general expression
OF d1sapprOval of the course of the admins
tratiOn in the treatment of the Louisiana
difficulties. The desire to sign the call for
mass meeting, though generally felt, was
thought to be inadequately met by those
having the call in hand. Inquiries were
made where the subject was mentioned, as
to the places where the lists of signatures
could be seen, and the readiness to sign it
was generally expressed. Fifty signatures
OF prominent men SO far have been obtained,
but a complete list of their names has not
yet been obtained.
Year: 1875

The message of Governor Kellogg to the
Louisiana Legislature was delivered yester-
day. 1t will probably remove many preiu-
dices and correct some misconceptions of
him, which have gradually arisen at the
North, more in consequence of vague asper-
siODs and innuendOes than by strictly logical
deductions from the proved facts Of Louis
iaua politics. The Governor shows very
clearly that his financial administration has
been not only honest Out intelligent, and
that the good effects of it win extend beyond
his term of office, through the operation
of constitutional amendments recently
adopted. Governor Kellogg advised and
assisted in the preparation of these amend.
ments, and large share of the credit
which they reflect upon the government of
Louisiana belongs to him. The financial
exhibit of the State for the past year is very
gratifying. The Governor says that not
one dollar has been added to the debt
during the year; that the receipts have
been nearly equal 30 the expenditures; and
that there has also been . great reduction
in the rate Of taxtiOn. de gives figures to
subsJantiate his statements. Certainly
such results could not have been reached
without prudent and wise MANAGEMENT,
even in prosperous times; and especially
must these have been needed to accomplish
so much when the State was suffering from
the overflow of the Mississippi, the disturb
anees OF the White Leagues. and the finRn-
oiAl panic OF lS13-Chieago Tribune.
Year: 1875

THE GOLDEN RULE AND THE RULE OF
GoLD.-A few days ago a gentleman of
this city received by mail check for $500.
He deposited it in his bank and went down
into the street, there to be met by rumor
that sent him back in haste. Just twenty
five minutes had elapsed. The teller's lit
tie door was shut. The money was gone.
Had It been stolen? Was the banker a
swndler? No, he had failed.


About the same time merchant receiv-
ed large quantity OF goods one day near
the close OF business hours. He made
some commonplace excuse for not making
immediate payment, and promised TO send
a check the next morning. The first an
nouncement of the morning was that he
had failed. He had the goods but the real
owner was without his check. Was the
merchant a thief? Ought he to have gone
to Jail 4? Not at all. He had merely sus-
pended. He was unable TO meet his obll-
cations.


Two young men were recently brought
into one of our police courts on a charge of
stealing shoes from a Third avenue store.
They were decent in appearance, and 1t
was thought by some that they had been
driven to crime by want. Had they failed
or had they suspended Or was 1t because
they were unable TO meet their obliga-
tlonsH Not at all. They we're thieves
common thieves-very common thieves.
They were sent to the Penilentlary for two
months.-NeD York Tribune.
Year: 1875

CoMMoN-SENsE VENTILATIoN.-Col G..
f. Waring, Jr., writes in the October At
lantic as follows:


The best practical statement have met
about ventilation was contained in the re-
mark OF a mining engineer in Pennsylva-
mia: "Air is like rope; you can pull it
better than you can push it," All mechan-
ical appliances for pushing air into room
or into house are disappointing. What
we need to do is TO pull out the vitiated air
already in the room; the fresh supply will
take care of itself If means for lis admiss-
ion are provided.


1t has been usual to withdraw the air
through openings near the ceiling, that is,
to carry OFF the warmer and therefore light
er portions, leaving the colder strata at the
bottom of the loom, with their gradual ac-
cumulation of cooled carbonic acid undls-
turbed. Much the better plan would be to
draw this lower air out from point near
the floor, allowing the upper aud warmer
portions 10 descend and lake its place.


An open fire, with a large chimney
throat, is the best ventilator Tor any room |;
the one half or two thirds OF the heat car
red up the chimney is the price paid for
immunity from disease and large though
this seems from its daily draft on the wood
pile or the coal-bin, it is trifling when com
pared with doctors bills and with the loss
of strength and efficiency that invariably
result from living in unventialed apart
ments.
Year: 1875

Over the choicest portion of theiI table lands
and purchasers will have the right to water
without charge. Such an opportunity to Sc
cure land admirably situated and watered
and perfectly adapted to semi-tropical fruit
culture, will not occur again.
Year: 1875




DOUBT OF HIS ELECTION.
tBr TELEGRAPH IRON A srArF CORRESPONDENT OF THE


TRIBUSE.l


COLUMBUS Midnight. The Democratic head
quarters are nearly deserted, and the few who
remain give up the contest, except the
plucky Chairman, who says that he has
not lost hope, although it looks very
bad for Allen. The City Hall is crowded with ju-
bilant Republicans. The situation is briefly as fol-
lows Hayes is now over 1000 ahead, with large
part Of the Western Reserve to hear from aud GER
tainty of heavy gains in Cincinnati. Allen continues
to gain here and there, especially in the northwest
and in the heavy Democratic counties in the central
part Of the State but every batch of returns
these gains are more than offset, so that when
the balance is struck there is always q net gain
for Hayes.


The manufacturing towns are nearly all in, but
there are n great many benighted back coun-
try precincts to come in yet, and nearly
all of them will give Allen lift.
do not therefore think it safe
to count on over 5000 majority for Hayes. although
many Republicans insist that he will have from
10000 to $4,000. 1t is certain that he is
elected, and the question is only one of majority
Year: 1875

The election in Ohio was eagerly discussed
yesterday afternoon and evening in this city in hotels,
In the places which politicians resort and else
At the Fifth Avenue Hotel IL the prevailing topic of
conversation. No had any idea how the State had
gone for the few which had been received
SO meager they afforded cew TO the result The
general opinion seemed be that the state had gone
Republican, but 1t universally believed that there
would close vote. The betting about 100 to 80
on Hayes The hard money seemed TO be decidedly
In the majority and reasonably confident that the
result IN Ohio would be triumph for their principles


(IOr ether Eeetions see FVth Pues.j
Year: 1875

There is large amount of material
for the WHEELER Expedition, consist
ing of guns, pistols, cartridges, sad
dies, etc., piled up in WELLS, FARGO
& Co.'s express office in this city, and
considerable curiosity is manifested as
to the route and purpose of the expe-
dition. So far as address is concerned,
the material seems to have reached its
destination. as it is all marked for
Los Angeles, and the parties here who
profess to know all about it are ex-
ceedingly reticent and decline to inn
part the information which all are
desirous of obtaining. The following
from the Alta is one version of the
object of the expedition, though 1t
may be far from the true one. 1t says:
'The survey of the desert region of
the Colorado river, under Lieutenant
WHEELER, will begin at bench
mark at Los Angeles, and thence be
carried forward under three parties,
one going northward from San Bernar-
dino on the crest of the Sierra Nevada,
around the region of Death valley and
Panamint mountains, and a third
taking the Basin of the Colorado from
the Needles. to Diamond river on both
sides of the valley.n There are, how
ever, other opinions as to the duty
which Lieut.. WHEELER is sent out to
perform; one of which is that a rail-
road survey is the real object sought
to be attained, and that certain par
ties have used their i-i-uence with the
Government to obtain information at
the public expense which they did not
care to purchase out of their private
means. We await further develop
ments.
Year: 1875

A few days ago the San Francisco
Bulletin contained editorials and COM
munications advising the Independ-
ents of that city not to hold primaries,
which bit of advice all regarded as
tacit admission of weakness on the
part of the party in that city and an
acknowledgement of a fear that should
primary be ordered it would develop
a weakness in numbers which would
prove strong temptation to the Re-
publican leaders and the managers of
corporations to go in and gobble
the whole thing, as Kansas
turkey does the grasshoppers that in
wade his roost. 1t was a subject Of
comment among newspaper readers,
and all agreed that the BuAtt'n's sug-
gestions amounted to nothing more or
less than an avowal of the utter hope
lessness of the Independent cause in
San Francisco. How strangely crook
ed is the career of political journal,
is manifested by the course of the But
tetin in more recent issues. Last
Monday evening, under the head of
" To the Interior, Greeting" it asserts
that the Republican party has dwin-
died to mere fragment of its former
self, and that what remains is owned
and controlled by corporations and
political hacks; that the Democratic
party is shaping its fight to suit the
wishes of moneyed combinations, and
that there is not a shadow of doubt but
that the Independent party, which
comprises all the honest men in the
world, is largely in the majority in the
city. On this assurance, so emphati-
cally contradictory of its former ad-
missions, the Bulletin sends greeting
to the interior, and urges all to keep
their eyes on San Francisco, the spot
which it has purified and where all
the honest men have congregated.
Now, the truth is, that the Bulletin is
only whistling to keep up its courage.
1t feels that it is approaching a grave
yard-the one in which the Independ-
ent party is to be buried--and it is
SCARED There is not county in
Year: 1875

THE Los Nietos section is one which
has heretofore been regarded as not
adapted to the production of fruit.
The surface is low and the soil rich
and deep, and for corn-growing is
equal to the Monte and superior to
any portion of the State outside of Los
Angeles valley To this supericr quail
ification we are now able to Gdd an
other-that of fruit-growing. Yester-
day Governor DowNEY brought to the
HERALD office an orange picked from
a tree on the farm Of Judge M. d.
CRAWFORD, near Downey City, which
will compare favorably with the best
products of San Gabriel Mission. The
orange is large, measuring one foot in
circumference, and is as clear and
bright as the foot-hill orange, and
bears no sign of the scale bug or other
orange-preying vermin. This is a fair
sample of the fruit grown in the Nietos
region wherever the trees have reached
a bearing age, and we have no doubt
that within few years this part of
the valley will produce large amount
of fruit equal in quality to that grown
about this city. The tree from which
the orange on our table was gathered
is fourteen years old.
Year: 1875

the State in which the Independent
party could, ,unaided, elect their ticket;
and no one knows better than the
Bulletin editor that at the next elec-
tion San Francisco will give 5000 to
600 Democratic majority. The ar
raignment by the Bulletin of the Dem
ocratic and Republican parties on
charges of corruption and fraud sounds
strangely like tke cry of "stop thief"
raised by the thief himself to throw
his pursuers off the scent. But the
dodge is too transparent to deceive any
one. The people of this State gave the
Independents fair trial and that fail
ure is only the more conspicuous and
deplorable because SO much was prom
ised and expected, and so little re-
cei we'd. The interior sends greeting to
the Independent special-pleader-they
will none of it.
Year: 1875

THE HEKALD has repeatedly urged
the people of this valley, and espe-
cially those whose trees are yet young
and unproductive, to engage in the
cultivation of small fruit as a means
of subsistence and source of revenue
during the interim between the plant
ing and bearing of their orange groves.
Blackberries, raspberries and currants
will bear the second year from the
slips, and the third year will produce
good crops. This class of fruit is al
ways in demand and commands fair
price. To show what can be done in
this line we instance the garden of Mr..
WILLIAM FERRIS, of Florence. We
have before us twigs cut from the cur
rant bushes of this garden, which are
loaded with large ripe fruit of as fine
a quality as can be grown anywhere.
These bushes are but three years old,
and though Mr.. FERRIS estimates that
owing to the dry winds which pre-
vailed some weeks ago he has raised
but half a crop, he will gather one ton
of currants per acre. These sell read
lily at twenty cents per pound, which
brings return of S400 per acre on
what is termed but half a crop. 1t ap-
pears to us that this is making land
pay very well in three years. time.
Year: 1875

one feature Of the great Labor Reform Move
ment that i agitating the country from one
extreme to the other; but as it represents the
great leading interests of the nation, and the
one that gives tone to the other industrial pur-
suits, it, of right, should exert healthy in
duence in this labor question. 1t has always
been the policy of all classes to shit the burth-
en- of taxation from their own shoulders to that
Of some other class, and as the farmers were
the most patient and less observing and had
less opportunity to organize and work together
and intelligently as class, they have general
ly been made the beast Of buIthen on which
to place the load that no other class would sub
NIT to.
Year: 1875

DELAvAN. Mimi, May Is, 1875.
Editor Anti -Monopolist:


A little information upon the question
Of Grange steam grist mills would be very
thankfully received by the Patrons of
Faribault county. Our Grange warehouse
has been in operation about seven months
and succeeded in completely breaking up
and driving from the market the last one
of one of the boldest, and we feel safe in
saying the most unscrupulous. little ring
of wheat thieves in the State, and now
the Patrons appear determined to 60 a
step further and build grist null.


The question will come up for discus
sion at our next Council, and few sug-
gestions from our brothers familiar with
the operation of Grange grist mills would
perhaps be useful to US in coming to our
conclusions. WV. N. PLYMAr.
Year: 1875

A nics-looking girl who graduated at
Vassar College and now keeps house for
an industrious young man, said the
other day that she'd rather have a good
recipe for making sweet pickles than to
be able to read yard Of Latin. Out
OF thirty.five young ladies who studied
all the branches taught in that popular
Summer resort, twentyse Of them
married poor men, and of course good
recipe for pickles or huckieberry jam
lays way over Greek and mathematics
to keep house with.
Year: 1875

our folks went away. and we had pop corn,
two kinds of sweetened water, milk and cam
phor, drew the dog around in the table cloth,
and the hired girl told Us eight ghost stories. "
Detroit Free Press


Lady Baker, in recent work, gives her
ideal of model boy, as follows " If could
make model boy, I'll tell you what he
should be like He should love cold water
and hate lie He should be frank and un-
suspicious, as becomes noble, trusting na
ture, and yet he should he neither silly nor
soft. He should have plenty of manias. He
should have an appetite like a wolf, for
should wish him to be tall and strong but
he must not be bit greedy He should not
be ashamed of loving and reverencing all
that is good and holy and pure, bat with
nothing of the mollycoddle about him. lie
should have fine, sweet temper, yet he
should be, as the Yankee song says, An
orkered man in row, and he should know
how to take care of himself with his fists. "


The Danviile (Ky.) Advocate relates this
incident San interesting little daughter Of
Prof. c., of this city, last Summer, in
eating watermelon, got one of the seeds
lodged in her windpipe. The effort was
made to remove it, but proved Intellectual,
and it was thought that the child would have
to be taken to one Of the large cities to have
an operation performed by skilful surgeon.
To this she was decidedly opposed, and
pleaded with her mamma to tell her if there
was no other way of relief Finally, in order
to quiet her childish fears, her Christian
mother told her TO ask God 10 help her
The little one went into an adjoining room,
and shortly thereafter came running to her
mamma with the seed in her hand, and her
beautiful and intelligent face lighted up with
joy. In response to the eager inquiry Of the
mother, the little one said that she had asked
God to help her, and while she was praying
she was taken with a severe cough in which
she threw up the seed.
Year: 1875

Aner the regent flood in the Tennessee
river, the people OF Louisville, Tenn, were
greatly astonished to see large area OF land
along the bank covered with human skele-
tons washed out from an ancient burying
place. The steamboat men are now present
ing human skulls and similar trinkets to
their frientls
Year: 1875

A female doctor, practicing in Minnesota,
lost her husband recently, and gave his body
to medical institution for dissection. A
few days afterwards, a brother of the de-
parted arrived from distant city to visit
him, not having heard Of his death and the
sad news was conveyed by the enthusiastic
widow in this style; Poor Tom is dead {;
but didn't he cut up splendidly I've got his
liver in glass jar. Would you like to see
il ?"
Year: 1875

An INTERESTING RENISiscESCE--Mr. Jo-
seph 5 Walton communicates to the Sher-
brooke (Canada) Gazette some interesting
memoranda Of the memorable snow storm
which fell 10 northern Vermont on the 9th
of June, 1916. The depth of Snow was six
or eight inches in Peacham, where Mr. Wal
tn then resided. The best crop raised that
wear was sugar, and be relates that some Of
this was made as late as the tenth Of June.
On the day of the storm an old man and a
boy, who set out through deep forest to
find flock Of sheep, were bewildered IN the
storm, lost their way, and were out IN the
cold two nights The whole town were
alarmed and made rally to find the lost
ones, and finally succeeded. the first OF the
parry who discovered them firing gun To
notify the rest that the lost were found
The old man, referred to in Thompson :
Gazetteer as eighry-tour years DID, found
encamped under cover OF an upturned tree,
So much frozen that he was obliged TO have
one toe removed Doubtless many persons
remember being told of this notable snow
storm. when the young lambs Jared 50 badly
and the young birds were frozen in their
nests.