The Empire County argus., 1855-08-04
JOLOMA Ell DORADO COUNTY, CAL, SATURDAY, AUGUST 1885,

his contract charging them with violation of the
same and other misdeeds.
Dispatches from Illinois report that the Liquor
Law has been defeated by the people by $4,000
majority.
The Grand Jury is engaged in examining wit
to ascertain who destroyed the stone presen-
ted by the Government of Rome to the Washing
ton Monument.
A good deal of interest has been manifested says
the Boston Journal, in the proceedings in the Mu-
nicipal Court during the past fortnight before
which the appealed liquor cases of Paran Stevens,
Harvey d. Parker George Young, and others, came
up In every case but one, that of Lewis Rice, of
the American House, the jury returned verdict of
not guilty; the ground being want of evidence.
Mr.. Rce's case was not tried. Witnesses sum-
moned on behalf of the government were afflicted
with a singular want of memory, as to whether
they ever purchased any liquor Of the defendants
This result was what a majority of the people an
ticipated. Since the trials, no new complaints
have been made against these parties; though they
are daily and hourly violating the law The
working of the law is showing it to be, what many
of the warmest friends of temperance have ever
believed it to be- impractcable
Washington, July During the month of June,
about twenty clerks, messengers and watchmen
have been removed from the Department for politi-
cal reasons. Mr.. Waldo, Commissioner of Pen
sions, has not yet decided as to the acceptance Of
Judgeship to which he was appointed.
The Pension Office commences issuing eighty
acre bounty land warrants next Tuesday The to.
tai number of applications received for land war
rants up to the present time is $4,000. The total
number of adjudications IL OS4 and the total num-
ber of warrants issued 1850. The net amount in
the Treasury subject to draft is SIS, ,43S, 712.
Chicago June 30 The special mail agent MIR
Pinkerton, this morning arrested Theodore P Den
niston, clerk in the Post Office for robbDg the
mails. Four Thousand dollars in bank notes was
found in his room. 1t is the general belief that
ten to fifteen thousand dollars have been lost from
the mails in this manner. The brother of Dennis
ton arrested in April last for the same offense
Denniston is now in Jail.
EUanSUWe, Ind, July 2. The steamer Lexng-
ton, running between Louisville and ST. Louis, was
blown to atoms near Stephons' Fort, Kentucky, on
the up trip The packet Baltimore has arrived
from the of disaster with twenty officers and
passengers of the Lexington, including the Cap
tain, Throop, and the first Clerk, VIM. Davidson
were not more than 35 wounded out 100 who were
on board The ladies were all saved unhar1ned
The accident occurred at o'clock on Sunday NOR
ming. The boat and cargo are total loss
The first nineteen miles of the Pennsylvania
Railroad, from Philadelphia to Gwynnod, were
opened on the I'd July.
young man named Horatio N. Gustin and
on the morning of the 9th June, in the house o
T. B. Gustn on Carlton Avenue, Brooklyn The,
were together on a sofa and it is supposed, poison
ed themselves with Prussic acid Illicit love wa
the cause.
The Richmond Wig, which co-operated will
the Knownothings in Virginia, bears its defeat yer,
good humoredly. 1t says:
We speak from experience, when we say tina
there is no more pleasant and delightful stream il
the world than Salt River. We have lived upor
its banks all our days, and nearly all the bes
friends we have in the world live there with us
and we are utterly astonished at ourselves that W.
should ever have felt expressed wish to leave i
for less inviting regions To be sure there are nj
spiles' there, to gladden. the heart of worldly anc
selfish natures; but we have never been accustom
ed to spiles,' and indeed we feel entirely too spr
tual ever to care about things so gross and so fa
beneath the aspirations of immortals We are ex
ceedingly gratifed that we are thus happily consti
tuted
If this election should result in continuing us a
sOourners at this attractive retreat, it will do n,
more than all preceding elections have done, ane
we shall bow to the popular will with the profound
est reverence and with the best possible temper
We shall occasionally drop a line or two to tn
Examiner Enquirer, South-Side Democrat Lynch
burgh Republican, and such other Democratic
presses as may require our services
To each and every Knownothing in the State
we tender our sincere coincidence and sympathy
remarking merely that they deserved success, fo
they worked like beavers, and did some immensel
tall Dragging. We are not advised that the Viii!
party was in the contest at all-thogh we all CAV
what aid we could to our friends of the American
party, and shall cheerfully do so again wheneve
the conflict recurs between them and our ancen
enemies.
To the world at large and the rest of mankind
we will merely state that we mean to battle agains
Juntoism, and Locofocoism, and the yfurin powe
in this country as long as wag tongue c
WELD pen. Defeat hath no terrors for our soul
BEAUTY. Beauty in itself and of itself has,
believe, less power in determining matrimonial
choice than at first sight it might seem natura
that it should have. The charm of mere physica
and corporeal beauty is, perhaps, too open and i'm
mediate to involve consequences; its first effect
too strong in proportion to its farther effects fo
the imagination of man wishes to feel that it ha
something to come to; and there is a charm NOR
nsidiously winning in that which turns to beaut