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Year: 1875

Some one who has taken the trouble to
post himself on the laws governing rail-
road passenger travel says that extra char
ges for failure to buy tickets are univers-
ally sustained by the courts, but there
must be a full opportunity to buy afforded
by the ticket seller. Passengers must
show tickets when asked for. As TO
stopping off, there is only one decision,
which is that a passenger cannot "stop
OFF, and resume his journey without the
previous assent of the company. As to
the obligation of the road to furnish seat
to passenger, decision says: "A pas
senger who exhibits his ticket need not
surrender it until he has been furnished
with a seat. A railroad is not liable for
things stolen out of the passengers seat,
there being no previous delivery to the
company's servants; for the same reason
the company is not liable for bag
gage on arrivals at their destination
travellers cannot recover it if it is lost
without fault of the carrier. Bag
gage left in station houses for the pas
sengers convenience, after it has reached
its destination, comes under new class
of rights and duties, the baggage master
assuming the position Of "gratuitous
balec," who only becomes liable in cases
of gross negligence. The obligation of
the railroad as carrier ceases when it has
delivered to its owner at the place Of des.
tina,ion. or when he has had reasonable
opportunity OF receiving and removing 1t.


1t will interest sportsmen to know that
they may recover for the value Of dogs
when they entrust them to baggage mas
ters for hire, because of their exclusion
from the passenger cars.
Year: 1875

vacancy, l took the pay from the
date Of Harlan's resignation in May,
1865, until / was elected. because
the law gave it to me. voted once
for the increase of salary of Congress
men, and took the pay, and would do
it again under the same Circumstances,
as at that time the rates of living had
advanced so that the salary would
not pay the cost of living. But the
increase of pay to $500 | did not
vote for, and thought that was too
much. 1t was the bsck-p pay salary
grab under that law of which the
people Justly complained. The
wrong was not in taking what the
law allowed, but in public officers
taking what the law never intended
they should have. If anybody sees
fit not TO vote for me on account Of
my taking pay under the circum-
stances | did, have no objection.


That Ispeculated in army clothing.
The charge is false and the records
will show il.
Year: 1875

The Iowa State Journal thinks il
General Banks goes into the Presi-
dental race he will run well in the
Red River country in Louisiana.
where he did such splendid running
during the war. The Iowa regiments
who trained with Smiths Guerillas'
in that promenade will remember
how difficult it was to keep in sigh,
Of Banks advance guard ON that re.
treat.
Year: 1875

81 want you to understand that
you are no better than your mother!'
said an Usage woman the other eve
ming, as she boxed her boys ears for
refusing to drink out of the wash
dish when she couldn't find the Dip
per,
Year: 1875

A PROFESSOR at Lafayette College, Penn
sylvania, has discovered that Hamlet is an
immature play, the product of Shakespeare s
boyhood, and that the poet outgrew the play
before he died. The professors chief ground
for this opinion is that the sagacious Polo
MUS is represented as a superannuated bore,
such as sagacious old men appear to COD.
ceited youth. Hamlet himself is lively
youth with no depth of experience, who talks
just for the fun of talking. The ghost too is
immature. being the 'siuple supernatural
ghost' of child stories, and not sage spirit,
given to philosophzing, such as we have a
right to expect from the shadowy land.
Year: 1875

DIR. HALL is certainly sensible physician.
He says children ought not to jump out Of
bed the instant they wake. All their in
stincts shrink from it. They should, up to
the age of eighteen years, wake leisurely,
and rest IN bed until they feel as if they
would rather get up than not. But why
does he limit the happy time to eighteen
years? What is the use of being man il
one is to lose this sweetest of privileges
Don't mans instincts shrink from getting
up early, and doesn't he want to yawn, and
stretch, and kick the bed-clothes for half an
hour just as much as boy does?
Year: 1875

WHEN the national representatives of the
Sons Of Temperance vote, two to one, not to
receive colored men and women into the
Order, and then in an adnress declare that
their "held is the world" they must depend
upon a great amount of poetic license to
make their practice and professions har-
monize. BY ranging itself on the side of
caste and vulgar prejudice, the Order has not
gained the respect of intelligent people, That
sort OF thing answered twelve years since,
but things have changed, aud the first to
learn that fact should be those organizations
whose object is to elevate mankind.
Year: 1875

The argus of yesterday copies from the
Cincinnati Commercial sensational item as
to the manner in which Speaker Blaine
gave the casting vote on the Goat Island bill
in which the Central Pacific Railroad was
Interested. As there never was tie vote on
the question and as Speaker Blaine never
gave casting vote on it or any other kind of
vote, the story slightly lacks the element of
truth. But this small deficiency of that essen
tial quality does not bother the argus. Since
that paper has taken to circulating DR..
Jordan's lies, small tbs come very easy. In
deed at this season of the year our neighbrJr
turns eagerly to pure fiction.
Year: 1875

The Bangor Commercial has ceased to be
interesting the past few days. What's the
matter? Has the exposure of DR.. Jordan's
Agricultural College scrip lie been so crush
ing as to paralyze the pen of that hitherto
ready writer of fiction. If the Doctor had
lived In the days of Ananias, entirely another
person would have sustained that odious re-
lation to history and stood as the awful
example for all time.
Year: 1875

LosT.--A FASHIONABLE WoMAN's BABY
A New York correspondendent of a Western
payer tells this story: One year ago to fash
ionable mother was born baby boy. She got
wet nurse, who remained with her six
months, and then, as the child liked the bottle
best, was discharged. When the baby was
born the grandmother was there from her dis
tant Western home, and shortly after returned
to come no more till this summer. In the
meantime the young mother has seen her
child sometimes once day, sometimes once a
week, as the case might be. The first thing on
grandma's arrival was a loud call for TOMMY.
and Tommy was forthcoming. He was kissed
and hugged and praised and petted, and
grandma just lugged him about till finally, old
lady like, she stripped him to see how much
he had grown. Then came shriek 'sWhere
was Tommy's extra toe?' Tommy was born
with six toes; grandma knew it. The family
doctor was sent for, and when an examination
OF Tommy was made the NJ. d. unhesitatingly
pronounced it not the simon pure Tommy by
sny means There had been malformation
OF the original Toms feet that time would not
have reme1ied. Then all sorts of speculatons
were IN order But one servant had anything
to do with the baby, and she bad been six
months away, no one knows in what direction.
Thomas sits up in dubious position. IL he
amt Tommy. who is he?
Year: 1875

An earnest desire to justify your generous conf
dence and strong regard for the honor and acet-
fare of our State inspire Nth the firm resotve to
spare no effort and to consider other consequences
IN the endeauor to lty discharge the duties that
ao'" be incumbent on NE if your choice shall pyore
TO De the choice Of the people also. pledge you and
thousands for chom you act in that event. honest
purpose and fred determination to make the public
good my single aim and constant care


Gen. Connor's Acceptance.
Year: 1875

We do not read anonymous letters and communi-
cations. The and address of the writer are in
all cases Indispensable not necessarily for publication
but as guaranty Of good faith.


We cannot undertake to return or reserve commu-
nications that are not used.
Year: 1875

Thomas Carlyle recently closed an interview
with London correspondent of the San Fran
cisco Chronicle with this characteristic growl at
California: ''You are doing no good there; you
are barming the world. Cover over your mines,
leave your gold in the EARTH and go to planting
potatoes. Every man who gives potato to the
world is benefactor of his race; but you with
your gold are overturning society, making the
ignoble prominent, increasing everywhere the
expenses of living and confusing all things"
Year: 1875

y Chicago, Nov. lS.-The Tribune
this morning publishes in full the re-
report OF the commission appointed to
negotiate with the Sioux nation, for
tile acquisition OF the Black Hills.
The document is of a highly interest
ing and important character, not only
giving a history Of the futile attempt
to lease or purchase the gold region,
but presenting for the consideration of
Congress n comprehensive scheme for
the advancement of the Sioux, by
making education of the youth COM
dians to perform labor rs a condition
oftheir subsistence. Congress is asked
to fix and appropriate fair equivalent
for the value of the Black Hills, which
amount shall constitute a portion of
the fund required TO carry out the sug-
gestion of the commission. A further
recommendation is that every Indian
be encouraged in the acquisition, and
protected in the possession of private
property. The Indians now in the
northwestern part of Nebraska, are to
be removed to the reservation estab-
lished by the treaty OF 1865, where
land suitable for agriculture can be
found and supplies furnished. Sup
plies hereafter shall be furnished un-
der the supervision of officers of the
army. A wise recommendation is,
that present agencies be abolished and
the whole system be. .reorganized so far
as relates TO the Sioux Indians, and
that such compensation to officers and
agents be provided as will command
honesty and competency. The Indians
TO be notified that such force rs may
be necessary will be used to enforce
compliance with the policy of the Gov
ernment, to the end that the Indians
may become civilized and self-sup-
porting. The Government is TO take
upon itself the duty of paying the In
dians fair equivalent for the Hills,
taking into consideration all tie cir
cumstances, and such sum to be paid
TO become part of the fund required in
the general plan to educate and civil
ize the Sioux.
Year: 1875

The old Duchess Of Marlborough used
to boast that she was born before nerves
were invented, and it is certain that
modern modes of life have done much
to produce the conditions Of which over
sensitiveness is one of the most promi-
uent results. The moment the nervous
currents begin to run too fast, there is
no knowing where they may land their
victim, who will be lucky if be stops
short Of lunatic hospital or a pauper' $
grave. Sidney Smith well illustrated the
common sense view which be always
took Of human nature when be said, on
some one asking him how the sensitive
Macintosh would take the pension
which the Government had conferred on
him, Why, quarterly, Of course" And
what more admirable way Of at once
delicately satirizing and quietihg an un-
due sensitiveness was that clerical wit y
reply TO the yould.bs contributor to the
Edinburgh Review on the North Pole,
who complained to him that Lord Jeffrey,
the editor, had said in answer to one OF
his inquiries about the publication of the
article, Damn the North Pole "Now,
said the witty Dean, don't be excited
about JsGreys damning the North Pole;
why have heard him speak dsrespect
fully even OF the equator.
Year: 1875

Many stories about Messrs, Moody
and Sankey are running through the
London papers. Here is one of them.
Mr.. Moody was waited upon by the
agent of the life insurance Office, was
desired to effect policy on his life,
Mr.. Moody, in very sanctimoEious
manner, assured the agent, that he
never took thought about such world
ly affairs, but that if the agent could
insure his soul he would be very much
pleased, ~ am afraid there would be
a little difficulty.p said the agent


blandly, las ours is not q fire oflce.p
Year: 1875

GALVESTON, June 9. Judge Morrill,,
OF the United States District Court, on
the demurrer made by the attorney for
the proprietors OF the Galveston Ne'os,
this morning dismissed the contempt
case against them.


The following is the conclusion Of
Judge Moorll's opinion in the contempt
case, to-day: A. no act is criminal whose
intent is not such, therefore, unless the
intent in this case was the obstruction OF
Justice on the part of the pub
fishers of the laws OF the United States,
they were not thereby violated, the
pu6lishcrsihavc the unrestricted liberty to
apply any cpithets to the Judge Of the
Court without being in contempt for so
doing. and no further or other proceedings
connected herewith, will be had in this
Year: 1875

HAST week Capt. N. G. Gay informed us that he had sold his Tucson house and lot to District Attorney Goodrich for S6GO cash, and at once moved on his ranch south of Tucson. In the disbursement of his funds, the Captain, as has been his annual GUS tom, remem bered THE CITIZEN office, for which he has our paper weekly and thanks. He says he must have THE CITI- ZEN, notwithstanding he has small grudge against the elder proprietor, and not without good cause, provided the Cap tain'S judgment is correct He says but for acting upon our advice not 10 run Tor Congress, he is now rancher instead of an honorable member of the FOrty-fOurth Congress of the United States. In our

 view the Captain is still better of and more independent, but men will differ in this regard. The Captain says the worst of the case is that he fears he will never

 have another opportunity for election, which of course is rough on man who feels that he was coaXed out Of a sure thing" for the position. It is nothing to the purpose that we have some faith that

 his chances are just as usplclous hereaf- ter as heretofore, for the Captain swears he religiously believes that had it not been for our advice, he would have run last year and just then struck the tide that would lead him to worldly renOwn If not fortune. He does us justice in saying that our advice was sincere and intended for his benefit, and the more IS he convinced l of it from the fact that at tine time we gave | it., he insisted on our doing near $50 worth of job work as a starter. He proposed to

 at once retire from the stock business by

 selling of his cattle, and goats if neces-

 sary, using the proceeds to make the can l vass success and pay us for printing. Time seems to have strengthened the Cap

 tain in his belef that our advice was

 against his interests then, and 1t is use-

 less To continue tue dispute further. There | fore, from this time forward, we will never

 advise a man to not run for an office he

 believes he can secure, especially if that

 office be Delegate to Congress. And, now, | to have done with the matter, we acknowl-

 edge thus publicly that we were in error in

 not doing the Captains printing and let

 and declare also, as the opportunity is

 past to prove the correctness of his or our

 view, admit that he was right. He thinks | it might have cleaned him out of cattle

 and possibly goats, but that success would have been his. Still the Captain harbors

 no bitterness against us, and we will do

 what we can to make him feel that he ought not to.
Year: 1875

pulling up the stakes of the official survey of Tucson, and burning the same. The same thing being done to a very great extent with those of the United States sur veys, and in the latter case, the ;act is n crime. If there IS no village ordinance making the destruction of the surveying posts of the village an offence, then there should be one made without delay.
Year: 1875

Tho Secretary of State will take possession OF
the new marble building of his Department, in
proximity to the War and Navy Departments, on
Monday next. Tho removal of the furniture
and archives to the new building will be COM
pleted by that time.
Year: 1875

BREAKFAST SUBsrIrUrE.-On the morning of
the Excursion to Atlantic City there will be on
the boat coffee. tea, and sandwiches in quantity
sufficient for all that may wish to partake.
Year: 1875

The fact is apparant to all observers


that the struggle of the Independents.
so called, is mere scramble for office
and in their anxiety to secure place
they are throwing off ON each other
with a shamefacedness that ought to


bring the blush to the cheek of the
most unscrupulous politician. With
a few honorable exceptions these Re-
publican-Independent candidates are
electioneering each for himself with
out regard to the success of the other
nominees. Wehave reports of this
character from all parts OF the county
and so openly is this game of go.for-
me-and-never-mind -the-rest carried
on that voters are becoming dissatis-
fled with the selfish beggars and free
ly avow their determination not to
vote for any of them. The election
eerers of Mr.. TEMPLE are notoriously
conspicuous in their efforts to secure
votes for him even though to do so
they trade off the remainder of the
ticket. 1t is hinted that there is a
strong metallic argument used to OBJ
tain votes for Mr.. TEMPLE and Mr..
HoUGHToN. The Republican mana
gers of the Independent ticket prefer
to elect these two men even though
success is only obtainable at the sacra-
flee of every other candidate on the
ticket. Their reasons for this are
plain. The election of HoUaToN will
be heralded as an Administration vic
tory and Will aid the campaign next
year. Mr.. TEMPLES success is desired
because he is man of wealth and his
money is needed to aid in defraying the
expense of the approaching Presiden-
tial campaign. The sell out game is
one of great danger for the reason that
whensit is discovered it turns the
friends Of the other candidates against
the selfish schemers and loses them
more votes than they gain by the trad
ing off their associates on the ticket.
Year: 1875

People at distance who chance to
read copy of the Los Angeles En-
press and believe what they read, can
not avoid the conclusion that this
county is in miserable blecondition; that
her people have been robbed by office
holders; that they are at the mercy of
rings and cliques and that the county
is on the verge of bankruptcy. Away
from home people do not understand
that the cry for retrenchment and re-
form is but the campaign wall of doz-
en- chronic Office seekers and their sub
sidized journals, and not a true state
ment of the case. The fact is and it
will be testified to by every resident of
this valley that Los Angeles county is
to-day the most rapidly improving
county in the State. Within the past
eighteen mont this her population has
almost doubled and her taxable prop
erty has doubled within that period.
Wealthy men are investing their mon
ey here by the hundreds of thousands
of dollars, something never done in a
county whose public affairs are extrav-
agantly conducted. If our public Off
GERS were the thieves and robbers
which the Express would have its
readers believe, in place of our present
prosperity We should be groveling in
debt; we could not note the rapid in
crease of population and we could not
record the acquisition of men of wealth
and influence. Such statements as the


Federal office holders organ is daily
sending forth cannot but work serious
injury to our county abroad. They
are false it is true-false in word, spirit
and inception-but they may be read
by people who have not opportunities
for learning the truth. Allthese false
hoods and ISLANDERS are sent forth for
the sole purpose of maligning worthy
men in order that untried and perhaps
unworthy office seekers may be MAIN
tanned at the expense of the people.
Year: 1875

JUDGE THOMPSON is credited with
saying in his speech at San Jose that
the average price of a vote in Los An
geles county is two dollars and half.
The Judge is resident of this county
and a candidate for office and there
fore ought to know whereof he speaks.
We are however inclined to the opin-
ion that he has understated the market
value of the commodity and we base
our conclusion on the fact that Mr..
TEMPLES canvassers spent money
enough two years ago to have pur-
chased two thirds of the votes of the
county at the Judges quotation, yet
he was not elected. If however, the
price of votes has fallen to the Judges
figures we think it probable that both
Mr.. TEMPLE and Mr.. HOUGHToN will
carry the county, for the Federal ring
is spending large amount of money
to secure their election.
Year: 1875

ces with which these ''retrenchment
and REFORM candidates. are now buy
ing up the worthless purchasable vote
ofthe county must be recovered from
the hard earnings of the laboring clas-
ses-men who are not for sale and
whose votes cannot he purchased. 1t
does not speak well for the good faith
and honesty of purpose, of retrench-
ment and reform to see their hired can
vassers paying out money for votes to
secure their election.
Year: 1875

THERE is no doubt but that the in
dustrious classes-the men who make
the county and own it-are almost to
man, the advocates and supporters
Of the Democratic county ticket. 1t
would be q wonder if sober thinking
men were not the endorsers of the
Democratic-nominees. They are by far
the best in the field. They come up
to the Jeffersonian test Of honesty and
capability and they stand on a plat
form of clearly defined principles.
They are Democrats and assuch advo-
cate the sound old Democratic doctrine
that the people are the sovereigns; the
officers public servants. And, above
all, these candidates go before the peo-
pie on their own merit and the princi-
pies of their party. There is no equiv
ocation, no Misrepresentation, no
sailing under false colors; no attempt
to foist party ticket on the people
under the guise ofindependents. of
Year: 1875

A one mule power sheet called the
Daily Independent, published at the
expense of Mr.. TEMPLE and Judge
THOMPSON, says Mr.. TEMPLE owns
stock in the HERALD. We can assure
the little concern that Mr.. TEMPLE
does not own a share of stock in the
HERALD nor does the HERALD owe
him dollar. More than this Mr..
TEMPLE never advanced or loaned the
HERALD publishing company one
dollar on which he did not receive one
and one half per cent per month in
terest. This is his ''liberalty in giving
timely aid to the HERALD" and we
presume he has been equally "liberar'
in aiding other enterprises.
Year: 1875

WE are told by the eTEMPLE-JoNEs-
HoUGHToN organ that nearly all the
new comers into this county will vote
the Republican-Independenttic ticket be-
cause they desire ietrenchment and re-
form. We cannot see where the weight
of this argument come in. 1t is well
known that the Repuhlican-Indepen-
dents are spending thousands of dollars
to secure the county officers. If they
succeed this money must come back
and there is no way of getting it back
except by drawing it out of the pockets
oithe people. The twenty dollar pie
Year: 1875

THE Independent speaks of BRIER-
LY as "United States Granger" This
is good joke on the grange. BRIER-
LY can gauge barrel of whiskey or
stock an Independent convention but
he cannot tell to which end of a cart
the horse should be hitched.
Year: 1875

STORES. Perhaps no better
proof Of the rapid growth which
our City is making now could be
cduced than the fact that every
business location in town is oc-
cupied and there are no less than
five large two-story stores be-
ing put up, some Of them. now
almost ready for the occupant,
nearly all Of which were en-
gagged by tenants before the first
lumber was hauled. This is cx-
elusive Of the two banks.
Year: 1875

SALVADOR. notwithstanding
the frequent reports to the con
trary, the steamship Salvador
will come to Seattle this trip and
may be expected here this even
ing. The Company here express
no intention of drawing their
steamers off this route, and in
fact advertise to land passengers
here every trip. The Salvador
will coal here from the Talbot
bunkers.