Grass Valley telegraph., 1854-05-04
NO.. SO.
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The order is represented as being very great
ly on the increase throughout the State.
Wild s.-Extensive arrangements arc
now making in this county to cut large guam
titles of wild oats. This most extraordinary
spontaneous production of California, looks
better this year than usual and is likely to
be very proftable.A- San Diego Herald. IS
An editor in the land Of steady habits,
says There is but one city in Vermont,
and not one soldier. We have no police, and
not murder has been committed in this State
within the last ten years. We have no mu-
! seums nor crystal palaces, but we have homes,
genuine homes, that are the centre of the
world to their inmates, for which the father
works, votes and talks-where the mother
controls, educates, labors and loves-where
she rears men, scholars and patriots.n In9
OVERPRAYED HMsELF- During the preva-
lence of the epidemic in Virginia, in 1849.
the negroes on the different plantations be-
came .dreadfully alarmed, and thought they
would certainly die with it. Among others.
in one Of the upper cospties, was negro boy,
who having heard his father say that the
cholera would soon be along their way, left
his work one day, and betook himself to the
woods. Here he was found by his overseer.
soon after, fast asleep. Being taken to task
by him for leaving his work, he excused him
self on the ground that, not being ssprepared
in mind to die. he had gone to the woods to
"meditate." But" said the overseer. show
was it that you went to sleep?" "Well,
don't know, 'zactly," responded the negro,
"but speck Imust have overprayed myself"
ARAGGED PRESIDENT The last accounts
from Sonora represent, President Walker as
being in most ragged condition. Only think
Of President travelling over rough hills
with only one boot for his tscO feet! Alas,
for fallen greatness, Golden Era,
CONVICTION OF DEL VALLE.-The Jury in
the case of Luis del Vale, the Mexican Con-
sui, brought in verdict of GUILTY on Fri
day last. His Indictment is for violation of
tEg the United States Neutrality Laws enlist
ment, &c. o- t.sI.s5
Many are great because theirassOciatesare
small a-fsy er- s.eFh
MADAM" said John Wilkes to lady to
whom he wished to make himself agreeable
"Iama plain man, Exceedingly plain,
sir, rejoined the lady. Even John Wilkes
was si1enced. ID gsir a1ia fiu ~
NEBRASKA. territory is said to be ten
times as large as Pennsylvania or larger by
some thirty thousand square miles, than all
the existing free States, excluding Califor-
MIA. 49tt 3AJit. t'
Fidelity, good humor and complacency of
temper, outlive all the charms of a fine face.
and make the decays of it invisible. % aga
CoNsCIENTIoUsNEss- 81 shall prevent the
use of ardent spirits, !" as the innkeeper said,
when he watered the liquors. a
PUBLIC Schools. Pennsylvania numbers
5000 public schools, at cost of little more
than one million of dollars a year. IS
MATERIAL AID FOR TuRkEY-The Tribune
says vessel has cleared from New York, for
Constantinople. having as part of her, car
go 675 barrels of rum.
REFINEMENT. the Misses Snobbyn's
Select Establishment for Young Ladies, tut
tion is provided in arithmetic in all its branch
es except Vulgar Fractions.
SPIRITUAL GIFTS.-In Northern Illinois are
two brothers, who officiate, as occasions offer,
in the church as exhorters or something1 of
the kind, and fatter themselves on the pecu-
liar spirit in which they at times enter upon
their humble calling. On one occasion, the
elder brother, in descanting at some length
upon the characteristics of each, gave the
following forcible illustration Of his "spirit-
paF' superiority ssss5.a a a,5
Brother George said he ''can exhort
and sing, but he can't pray. lean pray his
| shirt off!' sa5 amun
EXPERIENCE. Punch says, women dislike
talkative men they knOtO h0sO its done.
The people of Belgium have the manners
Of the Dutch, and speak the French language.
Nearly one half of the iron made in the U.
States, is manufactured in Pennsylvania.
VALLEY OF THE Mississippi to
an estimate in the ST. Louis Advocate, the
total length of the Mississippi river and its
numerous tributaries amounts to 81, 900 miles
Of which o,OO0 miles are navigable waters.
Nearly 1000 copies of Alexander Smiths
poems have been sold, it is said, within few
months.
One can no more Judge of a man by the i'm
preston he makes on the public, than Of the
metal of the seal by which the stamp was
made.