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NEW EYE REMEDY.

rTHIS is to inform all persons afflicted with Sore
l. Eyes from acute OF chronic inflammation; opa-
city of the cornea, &c. that we are now prepared
to treat cases of that character with .Neic Rem
edy which is perfectly safe and eftcacious.
TO those persons SO afflicted we would say come
and see us. Our motto will ever be mo CURE
NO PAY.v Office at Volcano, Amador County.
DRS. SMITH d KELLY.
augl Is 43u
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Fosters Livery stable,
CLINTON.

T,HE undersigned respectfully informs the public
L that he has permanently established, at the
nourishng village of Clinton, Amador county, a
Livery Stable where he will at all times be happy
to accommodate those who may favor him with their
patronage.
First Rate saddle Horses, swift, easy
and safe-may always be obtained.
HoRsEs AND BuGGIEs--As good turnouts as can
be had in mountain stables generally.
HORSES BOARDED, by the Day, Week, or
Month-well fed, and carefully groomed
The patronage of those who may have occasion
to visit Clinton or vicinity is respectfully solicited.
@. FOSTER.
Clinton June l3, ls57-Sitf
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CALIFORNIA is a great country for horse ra-
cling The papers are filled with notices and
accounts of fall meetings of jockey clubs.
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A FIRST CLASS HOTEL
In every particular.
INTERNATIONAL HOTEL CoACH,n

IRON and after the 1st January next, Mr.. WIN.
Il ARLINGTON will become a partner in our
house. The business will then be conducted under
the firm of GOODWIN d co. IL ARLINGTON.
sen lg-lm GOODWIN ~ co.
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The business will be continued by A. r. Kelly
at the old stand where the best of everything will
be at all times served 10 the weary and hnngry
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American Hotel.

Main Street, Butte City, Amador CO., Cal
ID THE above named hotel is re-opened by
Ill the undersigned, and will be furnished in the
very best style, and no trouble expense spared
which will conduce 10 the comfort and pleasure of
his many friends and the public generally. The
TABLE wall be spread with the best of everything
in the market. The BAR will contain the best
brands of Wines, Liquors. and Cigars. The house
will be kept open at all hours for the accommodation
of the traveller and the public generally.
A share of the public patronage is respectfully
solicited which the proprietor hopes to merit
T. MURPHY.
Butte City, June 27, 1857.
27 36-3m
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some PuMPKlNs -Squashes measuring be-
tween seven and eight feet in circumference
we're exhibited at the Fair One mammoth
pumpkin weighs 264 pounds.
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international Hotel,

SAN FRANCISCO, CALIFORNIA.
T'HE undersigned requests the attention of the
L. travelling public, and strangers in particular
to the merits of this House.
Although but lately established under the super
vision Of its present managers yet discrimina
ting public have discovered in it well managed
and superior hotel. The present proprietress and
managers, A. s. HALEY, JOHN J. HALEY and
E. r. ROBINSON, with an honorable delicacy, not
wishing to encroach upon the merits Of other
houses, have successfully endeavored to establish
for it name of
A FIRST CLASS HOTEL
In every particular.
We would here state that the comparative sue
of this House since January last has exceeded
that of any other on the Pacific coast, with a con-
stantly increasing patronage. conveyance,
marked
INTERNATIONAL HOTEL COACH"
Under the personal superintendent of p d. Smith.
formerly Stage Agent at Sacramento, is in atten-
dance at all hours to convey passengers to and from
the hotel, for one dollar each, including baggage.
A. S. HALEY.
Assisted by John ]. Haley and E. r. Robinson,
late of the Railroad House.
sep 10 ASSN
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Aqueduct city Saw Min.

AqTCuUCI OFty F5ttF IFIhEAs
rTNHE undersigned would respectfully remind the
l. public that they have constantly on hand, at
their Saw Mill in Aqueduct City,
Every Variety OF Lumber!
Which they will dispose Of at as low rates as the
same quality can be procured at any other mill in
the county. The attention Of those requiring lum-
ber for Building, Fencing, Fluming, other pur-
poses, is respectfully solicited.
Orders for any description of Lumber will be
promptly and faithfully filed. H5- Lumber in ex-
change for CASH, Barley, Hay, Horses, Cattle OF
Mules.
J. r. JOHNSON & co.
NAV l6 30-6m
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Notice.

II 'HE persons elected as Justices of the Peace in
l. the several townships in Amador county, at the
general election held in said county on the I'd day
of September. A. d. 1857 will meet at the Court
House in Jackson, in said county, the 5th day
of October, A. D. 1851 at 10 o'clock A. NJ. of said
day. and elect by ballot two of their number As
sociate Justices of the Court of Sessions of said
county, MARION w. GORDON,
County Judge of Amador County.
jackson, Sept. 18th, 1857.
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SOME PUMPKINS -Squashes measuring be.
tween seven and eight feet in circumference
we're exhibited at the Fair One mammoth
pumpkin weighs 264 pounds.
THERE was to be a school meeting last
night, to transact business connected with the
proposed new School house. Let the enter
prize be pushed forward with energy.
A PARTY of Chinese suice robbers, at Horse
town, were very severely punished-hogged
by hired Indians, and their ears cropped cf
by a white man.
A SUNDAY newspaper called The Rereille
is published at Oroville by :" Don't U. See
&Co." Its motto is, "If you don't like our
blowing, blow yourself"
In S1Ew.-The County Officers elect in
FL Dorado county are required to give 81,
I6O, 600 bonds, and there is not 81 100000
of unincumbered property in the county.
They have sewing machines in the East
for ten dollars
The Mechanics Fair at San Francisco
yielded near $4,000.
A yellow BEAR.-A curiosity Of this de-
scription has been captured in Wisconsin.
IRON ore of great richnes has been dlscov-
cred in Placer county.
PEARLS have been found in creek near
New Lisbon, Ohio.
The daily consumption of water in Boston
is IA ,OO9, 900 gallons.
Col. Whitesides, of Marysville, and some
others have been spoken of for the Speaker
ship of the Assembly. Have we no candid
ate in this part of the State !
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A, O, BROWN.
!. w. ARMSTRONG.
Brown & Armstrong,

A TTORNEYS and Counselors at Law; Office up
4 a stairs, opposite the Union Hotel, Main street.
Jackson. 49-tf
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LEVINSkY BROTHERS,
Fire-proof Brick Building, Main street. Jackson,
Dealers in
DRY e. 90 ID s,


ID ESPECTFULLY invite their old customers and
IN the citizens of Amador county at large to call
and examine their present extensive assortment,
which has been selected with the greatest care.
staple and Fancy Goods
In great varety-among which may be enumera-
ted Ladies' Dress Goods consisting of Silks. Sat
ings, Bareges Lawns. &c, &c.
Cloths, Cassimers, Gents Furnishing Goods Of
the finest quality.
Variefy GoodS--Such as Parasols and Shades,
Artificial Flowers, Head Dresses Wreathes, Roses,
Gloves. Mits, Scarfs, Cravats Shirts, Handkerchefs
Hosiery, and in fact, a variety without end"
Also-the best Ready Made Clothing in the
market; Boots, Shoes, Hats, Caps and BonnetS of
the latest and most fashionable styles
Particular Notice.
We are in receipt of New Goods, direct from n.
York and Europe by erery Ocean Steamer. One
of the firm resides in San Francisco, so that our
facilities for keeping up constant supply of fresh
and fashionable goods are unsurpassed.
Prices LOtcer than EUer. Give us call, and
we will make it your interest to buy your Dry
Goods at our establishment.
mayl6 30-3m
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THERE was to be school meeting last
night, to transact business connected with the
proposed new School house. Let the enter
prize be pushed forward with energy.
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iHE AGE says the State Treasury now con-
tsin' $a6, ,4os, 25.
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FIRST rate leather (equal to French calf,)
DaS oeen manufactured from the skin of the
white porpoise.
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A PARTY of Chinese suice robbers, at Horse
town, were very severely punished-hogged
by hired Indians, and their ears cropped Of
NV n white man
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lHE advertisement Of the n. York Ranch
VIII oe found in our columns. Under the su-
perior management of its former proprietor,
'lr, ohas Y. Hammond, this excellent hotel
VIII De found one of the most comfortable and
agreeable stopping places in the country.
The Kanzas news., 1857-06-20
Scraps of HumOr.
A Yankees Autobiography,

A Yankees Autobiography.
Sir, was born and raised in Connecticut;
Bolted to sea, and was wrecked in Japan;
Quite respectable figure 1 'spect cut,
When coming back, to keep school began.
Guess at the saw-mill proved top-sawyer,
And as a minister made small splurge;
Reckon felt more at home lawyer,
Err, as doctor, learned how to purge.
But the long words in the medical lexicon
Soon l forgot from couple of years;
Spent in campaigning against the darn'd Mexican
When 1 commanded the Bragg volunteers.
just for change, then, a paper l edited,
Scorched politicians and pitched into books;
That was before was envoy accredited,
Austrian plenipo-General Snooks.
'Tis slow life that of minister-resident,
Posting dispatches to kings and what not;
But as they propose to run me for President,
Hanged if l care to rep;ne at my lot.
The Kanzas news., 1857-06-20
PIowsi Plowsl Plows!

NI eau especial attention to the following ad-
w yertseznent, from which it viii be seen that
we are the eay agents in Kanzas for the sale OF the
sCelebFated Moline Center Draft PIoW.
We have sold several hundred of them this season,
and all give perfect satisfaction
ALLEN 4 GILMORE.
John Deere's Moline Plows in Kanzas!
fnN the opening of navigation In the spring.
" shall send to Messrs. Allen 4 Gilmore, Law
renee L. T., large assortment of Breakers of all
sizes, especially of my extra Two-E2srse Mould
Board Breakers, which has received the highest
eommendations from ali who have used them; al
great variety of Stirring, old Ground Piows.
among which would mention the Improved CIip-
per, the No. or Eng. cast steel Ploy and the
Michigan Double or Subsoii Plow which sIouId
receive the especial attention of those Who wish TO
raise crop the first year. have made some i'm
provements this plow from last year .3z[d be-
ileye it Is now peffset to be used on Western soil
Also, Corn Plows, Cultiyators, double and single
Shovel Plows, Rolling Cutters and Clasps, Gauge
" heels, Truck Wheels and other Plow fixtures.
The quality OF the stock used in my paows Is not
equaiIed by any establishment In the West and
the plevs are finished in very superior style
Having been engaged for eighteen years IN the
manufacture of plo%s for In the Western States
entirely. can confidently say to emigraats from
the Eastern States, that these plovs 5eu and
work perfectly IN any soil in the Mississippi Val-
lev.
All orders addressed to ALIKs GIlxesE, Law
renee, Z. t. CT to me st Moline, Rock Island Co.,
III, VIII receive prsnpt attention.
june6-ly JOHN DEERE.
The Kanzas news., 1857-06-20
Agriculture.
Bread Out West.

If our Western friends can In any way
teach their wives, daughters, or cooks okeep
the pearlash out of their bread-all the vel
low people-especialIy the yellow children,
who are supposed to be turned yellow by fe-
yer and ague, bilious feTers,. dc. &c.-will
soon be returned white. 1t is a mistake to
suppose that the yellow countenances of the
West come from the bile, when it is only the
enormous quantities of pearlash eaten-the
bread that is reflected through the skin.
Bread is the staff of life-it is said-and
so it is, but it is the staff of death, too, in this
country. Bad bread kills as many people
here as bad rum. So many people eat poi
sonous pearlash for bread, that they die of
it by inches. Dyspepsia-that great mon
ster disease of our country, that deranges
the Gver-brings on costiveness, and thus
finally. what kills the human victim is, half
the time, ''Pearlash.'
Here in the East-out of New England
we have nearly driven off the pearlash salera-
tus cooks, but not altogether. Pearlash lives
here yet in bread-but in cities and towns
we have whipped out the murderers. In the
distant Western towns, however, beyond the
good hotels of the Lakes, and on the Rivers,
Pearlash, albeit, under the name of salera-
tus, is King. 1t is pearlash for breakfast,
pearlash for dinner, and pearlash for sup
per. 1t is not any wonder, then, that white
people East, turn yellow West, and sicken
NOT of fever and ague, bilious and CON
gestive fevers, but of Pearlash three times
per day.-PhiladeLphia Paper.
The Kanzas news., 1857-06-20
Statistical Facts in Agriculture.

The Indian Corn crop of the year 1855
was six hundred millions of bushels, which
at sixty cents, gives US the sum of three
hundred and sixty millions of dollars, ex-
ceeding by more than one hundred millions
the value of the wheat, and by about two
hundred millions the cotton crop.
The Indian Corn crop is of the highes
worth in 3 domestic point of view, while In
foreign aspect the cotton, although less in
actual value, Is the most beneficial
We learn from statement made by Mr.
Mechi, that one horse consumes as much
food as would sustain eight men. In cur
country we find that the value of the oats
hay. fodder, and pssturage for the year
1855, was about three hundred and seven
ty-ene millious of dollars
What a vast amount devoted to the sup
port of the brute creation, and what an Inn
mense number of domestic animals we have
dependent upon usl
They are turning great deal of attention
IN England to the use of steam In farming.
and 1t is to be hoped that the time is at
hand when success may be attained, and
our heavy farm work be performed by ma
chlnery to relieve us from large part OF
this devouring army of horses and oxen.
The day viii come, We doubt not, though
It may be deferred, when the forces of ma
ture now unemployed, viii exert their high
est energies for mans welfare
That man must earn his bread by the
sweat of his brow, we know; yet we believe
that Providence has SO constituted him. that
the elements shall be his servants, and that
the intellect viii be so strengthened as to
enable him more comp}etely TO bring them
under subjection. One of our greatest
wants IN this country, is that of farm labor
ers; men are scarce-when we want them
the most, they cannot be had, bat when not
needed. they seem abundant Machinery
viii produce an equilibrium, and thus By
its certainty of action give us greater GER
tzinty In results. Working Fornssr.
The Kanzas news., 1857-06-20
First Paper hfill IN America.

The first paper mill in America was loca-
ted at Wissahickon, Pa; the mill was erec-
ted by Claus and William Rittinghousen,
who were of Dutch ancestry, and went to
Pennsylvania from New Amsterdam. VIII
liam Bradford was also part owner, but he
rented his share to the Rittinghousens, now
spelled Rittenhouse. The original lease, da-
TED September 1, 1897, is stih In existence,
and the rent reserved by Bradford was sew
en- reams of printing paper, two reams OF
good writing paper, and two reams OF
blue paper This mill, then so celebrated,
was swept away by flood between 1899 and
1701, and so important was its reconstruc-
ton that William Penn wrote certificate,
recommending the citizens to give the suffer
ers relief
The Kanzas news., 1857-06-20
Not His Name.

In one of the American regiments In
Mexico there was corporal, who. when
the roll was called, refused to answer to the
name of stEbenezer Mead The officer
repeated the call No answer.
Is Ebenezer Mead on the ground2',
..Eben Mead is here, quoth the corporal.
The "Ebenezer' was repeated again, In
a tone ike a north -wester.
Captain" quoth the rampant corporal,
your name is Peter Reed: would you re-
spond If you were called Petersnezer Reede''
He was taken to the guard house, tried for
contempt, and reduced to the ranks.
The Kanzas news., 1857-06-20
For the Kanzas Ne.ss.
A Voice for Kanzas.

ARsLkTED FROM TIE GERMAN or -. v. .LEexHARI
Harkl hear the trumpets sounding
Harki It's Freedoms dying call
And feel my pulse bounding,
As my burning tear-drops fall;
Dare I surely,
Or securely,
Speak my protest to this time,
Where the children Of one mother,
North and South oppose each other,
Each in Freedoms name sublime.
Ali they haste with vain endeayor
To that blood-stained western plain,
Where so many fall forever
Fall, alasl returning never,
To their Northern homes again.
Ali a yearning,
Bitter burning,
Kindles up fire unknown
North and South will strive together
One at least viii crush the other,
Under Freedoms sacred throne.
What the future may afford US,
Waiteth trembling every breast;
IF when passed these woes that awe US,
Peace shall bloom within our borders,
With the future still must rest.
Tears of yearning,
Life-biood burning,
Still shall flow like summer rain,
Till men, brotherly united,
Raise poor Kanzas, crushed and blighted,
To her throne of peace again.
The Kanzas news., 1857-06-20

LAND SALES AND TRANSFER RDRAFTs-Instruetio1s
were on Saturday transmitted from the general
land Office to the land offices at Doniphan and Le-
compton, Kanzas Territory, respecting the receipt
at the sale of Indian trnst lands in June and July
next of the transfer drafts on New York. These
drafts have been supplied by the treasury depart
ment to the assistant treasurer at st. Louis, No.,
and are in sums of 81 900, s., 900, $4,000, and
SD 900 each Persons desirous of depositipg their
moneys at St Louis can obtain those drafts, to be
used in the purchase of the lands in question
The premium on the drafts is not less than one
eighth per cent-Mo Democrat.
The Kanzas news., 1857-06-20

~ Becky Birchbud thinks It provoking
for woman, who has been working all day
mending her husbands old coat, to find a
love letter from another woman in the
pocket-Ezchange.
Perfect nonsense. There is no woman
under heaven but would find the letter be-
fore she began to mend the coat-then it
would not be mended at all.-Boston Post.
The Kanzas news., 1857-06-20

R The Richmond Ezominer goes for a
statute expelling all Yankee pedlars from the
State of Virginia 1t ..says the safety of
each family demands this: the well-being
and happiness of the Slave demands it; the
highest good of all classes in the Southern
States requires it, We fear that the editor
has purchased leaky tin pan- We recon-
mend him. at any rate, to read the Vicar of
Wakefield attentiyely on the subjecto green
spectacles.
The Kanzas news., 1857-06-20


What hol there brothersI can il be
That almost ere the battie-eries -
Which shook your hearts so stormfully.
Have died into the distant skies,
Ye have 50 utterly forgot
Your high Apostleship of old,
That, like abhorred Iscariot,
Ye barter our dear Christ for golds
OF have ye less of manhood now,
Than when, in blaekest solitude,
Gods signet-seal on every brow
Erect and calm, and unsubdued,
Ye stood UP underneath the riffs
OF dark and doom and deepest ire,
And sang the burning song that drifts
Across the land like sweeps of 6re7
Think ye the coins that cram your purse
Your chartered titles to your lands
Can wipe away the damning curse
That clings unto your unclean hands?
What win We sell, fore Gods own face,
The birth-rghtof the highest born7
And sink your knightly thrones of grace
Into the mire of abieet scornf
10us keepers OF our s1cfeO uustI
You, guardians of the ancient Right2
You, with your petty lucre-lust,
Fit watchers of the pregnant night?
o, only on the reverent ear
The great prophetic voices fall
o, only when our eyes are clear,
Is all our life Apoehryphall
Whatl- viii ye lick the feet of Power,
Because its hands are red and strong?
Or, thirsty for a vantage hour,
Make bargains with triumphant wrong?
faithless brothersl feel ye not
Your tingling blood stand still with shame
And your false lips grow blistering hot.
At whisper of our Freedoms name?
Alasl even while the teeming Earth
Is thrilling to your olden speech,
The grandeur of heroic worth
Is moving up beyond your reach;
And close beside you in your path
Are Heavens avenging silences.
To crash upon you like the wrath
Of Christ upon the Phariseesl
Kanzas, June 10, 1857.
The Kanzas news., 1857-06-20

DoN'T LIKE THE NAME-A man named
Aaron Bedbug, Montgomery county, Ky,
is about to petition the Legislature TO change
his name He says that his sweetheart,
Olivia, is unwilling that he should be called
A Bedbug, she, o. Bedbug. and the little
ones Little Bedbuos
The Kanzas news., 1857-06-20

To PREVENT Cows FROM HOLDING Up
THEIR MILK.-One of the best methods to
prevent cows from holding up their milk, is
to feed them at the time of milking. Iftbis
is done they will give down their milk free
ly. But if you neglect to feed them they
will hold it up so that it is almost impossi-
bic to get any from them. Try the exper-
iment of feeding them at milking pailey
Farmer.
The Kanzas news., 1857-06-20
ROCKS, sTATIoEERY, &C.
d. VII NJ ARTH.

LAWRENCE, KANZAS.
"OULD inform his friends and thepublie gem
w eraily, that he keeps on hand as good an as
in the Territory, consisting of School, Childrens'
and Miscellaneous Books; also, Blank and Memo
randum Books; Writing Books, States, Pencils,
Musical instruments, Musical Merchandise, de-
{ BIS CIRCULATING LIBRARY is supplied
with some of the most popular works published.
aiis instantly receiving additions from the East
iune6-tf
The Kanzas news., 1857-06-20

EE What does that incorrigible old bach
elor, Buchanan, mean when he speaks in his
Inaugural of 'sour children, and our child
ren's children?''
The Kanzas news., 1857-06-20

Re- Philosophers say that shutting the
eyes makes the sense of hearing more acute
This may account for the many closed eyes
that are seen in our churches.
The Kanzas news., 1857-06-20

The author of the "miseries of human
life,' is responsible for the following: why
should every housekeeping outfit contain
a hat brush? Because, by turning it round
you can make brat hash.
The Kanzas news., 1857-06-20

A certain British Barrister wrote three
hands-all different. He wrote one hand
which he could read and his clerk couldn't;
another which his clerk could read and he
couldn't; and a third which neither he, his
clerk nor anybody else could read.
The Kanzas news., 1857-06-20
HOW TO cooK POTATOES.

Eg John Hanes. man I34 years old
IS now living in Murry Co.. Georgia. He
migrated to South Carolina from lis home
IN Virginia over q hundred years ago-was
1sEith Gates IN Camden, and with Morgan at
Cowpens.
The Kanzas news., 1857-06-20

An Irishman who had been fined several
weeks in succession for getting drunk, coolly
proposed to the Judge that he should take
him by the year at a reduced ratei
The Kanzas news., 1857-06-20

~ What poor world this would be
without women and newspapers! How
would news get about? It scares us just to
think of it.
The Kanzas news., 1857-06-20
Tin, Sheet Iron and Copper Manufactory

CofHeT MdSsdctu5e1ts WiHLfTOD DIs.,
LAWRENCE, KAEZAS.
II AVING enlarged our manufactory and en-
IL ployed large force of skillfui workmen we
are ready to execute with dispatch any kind of Job
Work. Our facilities are unsurpassed by any es-
tablishment in Kanzas, for Tin Roofing and the
manufacture of Fave Trougis
june6-Iy allen q GILMORE.
The Kanzas news., 1857-06-20
DAVID A. POWELL.
team Enoiue and RoiIar Rui1der

Butler ST., bet. Congress and Front, Cincinnati, o.
All sizes of Portable Circular Saw Mills, Cast
Iron Water Wheels, for Saw and Grist Mills, Saw
and Grist Mill Irons, Paners, Lathes, Boring Mills,
Upright Drills, Screw Cutters, DC, made to order.
Second handed Engines and Boilers for sale.
iune6-ly*
The Kanzas news., 1857-06-20

H The Southern Standard saws that
''South Carolina is the very seat of moral
and political chivalry." We can well i'm
agine, that, if moral and political chivalry
were personJfed, South Carolina would be
its seot.-LouisUiIe Journal
The Kanzas news., 1857-06-20

@ A man, hearing raven would live
two hundred years, bought one to test the
truth of the assertion.
The Kanzas news., 1857-06-20

@A wife full of truth, innocencnce and
love is the prettiest flower man can wear
next to his heart.