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Weekly Calaveras chronicle., 1867-10-12
NEWELL'S
Pulmonary Syrup
REDNGTON & co. Agents, San Francisco.

Tell me not In mouinful Numbers
Life is sinking to decay
Should there come in frightful numbers,
Ger your heads the slvery gray.
Life is real, life is earnest,
Why should any one despair
Dust thou art, to dust returnest,"
Was not spoken of the hair
NOT the marks of age or sorrow.
On your tresses long should stay
You can live that each tomorrow
Finds them darker than to-day.
Time is long, but age shall find you,
Though your hair with iustre wave
Soon when fading twill remind you
You are marching to the crave.
In the worlds sublimer calling,
Where we each our race must run,
If your hair be falling, falling.
Use the Martha Washington
Trust no othe howe'er pleasant
None can d what this has done;
Try it-a "a keep it present
Use the IA tina Washington"
Twenty thousand heads remind us
What a noble test it's stood
Millions more shall come behind us
With their tresses all renewed.
Weekly Calaveras chronicle., 1867-10-12

New Business New Business
THE UNDERSIGNED HAVING THIS
day purchased the business of w. Misch
would respectfully solicit a continuance of
patronage at the well known establishment.
The best
Tobacco and Cigars
Can always be found at the old stand on Cen
tire street, opposite the Post Office. A good
stock of
BOOKS.
STATIONERY,
YANKEE NOTIONS,
CUTLERY,
nEERSCH4U.NP PIPES,
POWDER md SHOT, ETC.,
Will at all times be kept. The highest
price will be paid FOR
GOLD DUST.
Having resided here for many years, he
feels confident of giving satisfaction to all
who may favor him with their patronage.
F. NEWBERGER.
Mok. Hill. March 20, 1867. m23:tf
GRAND OPEnJING!
Spring & Summer Goods
BLUM s. GRADWOHL'S.
DRY GOODS AND CLOTHING
B ASA q R
MAIN STREET, HEAD OFLAFAYETTE.
"AVING, JUST RETURNED FROM
4 San Francisco with new and extern
sive assortment of Dry Goods and clothing,
we are now prepared to furnish articles to all
who may wish, as cheap as the cheapest. We
offer
Great inducements
To those who will favor us with call.
Ladies ard Gentlemen
Come and see us Don't stand back! We
charge you nothing for examination!
LOOk.a This!
8 Yards of Calico for One Dollar!
Together with hooks, eyes and spool thread
French NEerin0s,
S7t cents and $l-the very best quality.
Fiamncis and ShectingS,
At the same prices as before the war
Clothing,
Boots and Shoes,
Mating,
Carpets,
DriIlings,
Duck, etc, etc
DRESS PATTERNS.
SILKS. MERINOS.
WORSTEDS. DELAINES.
FRENCH, ENGLISH ani
American Prints,
Gentlemens suits of all kinds, linen coats
pants and busters.
Hats of all Descriptions
Straw, Chip, Panama, Pam leaf, Resorte
Nutina, and steel trimmed linen
Cotton goods of all qualities and prices
bleached and unbleached. Heavy
and light drilling, besides
| other goods
Too Numerous to Mention.
We invite all to call and see our new stock
of goods, as we warrant them we will sell a
as low prices as any other house in the noun
tains. Don't forget the
CLOTHING BAZAAR
OF
BLUM & GRADWOHL,
Main street. head of LAFAYETTE.
Mokelumne Hill. April 10th, '67.
| j1'67:3m.
Weekly Calaveras chronicle., 1867-10-12
STOP THAT COUGHING

COME OF YOU CAN'T, AND WE PITY
y YOU You have tried every remedy but the ONE
destined, by its intrinsic merit to supersede all sim
liar preparations. Eis not surprising you should be
perimeuts YOU have made of trashy compounds
foisted on the public as a certain cure; but
Weekly Calaveras chronicle., 1867-10-12

IN the District Court of the 18th Judicial
District in and for the County of Gala
averas, State of California.
~. S. Internal Revenue Stamp. Fifty Cents,
duly canceled.]
Weekly Calaveras chronicle., 1867-10-12
Too Numerous to Mention.

We invite all to call and see our new stock
of goods, as we warrant them we will sell at
as low prices as any other house in the noun
tains. Don't forget the
CLOTHING BAZAAR
Green-Mountain freeman. [volume] (Montpelier, Vt.) 1844-1884, 1867-08-14
Prize Fighting.

We clip from Harper's Easy Chair
for August some thoughts on prize fighting
that should have wide currency They
are embraced III the two paragraphs fol-
lowing
The cant Of muscle is the most disgust
ing of all cant OF what conceivable ad-
vantage to anybody in any way was Blon-
dons walking over the Niagara river upon
a tight-rope trundling a whee-barrow 1t
was precisely of the same benefit to man
kind the jumping Of Sam Patch at the
Genesee Falls; it was as noble spectacle
as that of man eating a whole sheep at a
sitting for a wager. Do We need the Be-
nicia Boy to prove to us that sound physi-
cal training is desirable? Do we wish
our sons to be Tom Cribs? Such men
are as exceptional as the Belgian giant
1t is good thing to move gracefully ;
shall we, therefore, applaud the poor girl
who devotes herself day and night to poi
soning herself upon the point of her great
toe? The Bencia Boy could deal blow
like a trip hammer but he was not strong
in the true sense-that of endurance So,
a little fellow acquires the peculiar agility
of % All Right by the sacrifice of every
thing most desirable in a boy. A taste
for exhibition of such wasted strength and
address is just as morbid as a taste for
monsters in China, or for stimulating drugs
1t shows what the human frame is capa-
BILE of; yes, but there are many capabili-
ties of that frame which it is better for us
not to see.
1t is painful that the newspapers still
insult the better part of the public with
the revolving details of prize fight. The
whole business has no trace of anything
generous, heroic, noble, or humane 1t is
more humiliating than cock fight 1t is
more disgusting than the shambles. 1t is
more degrading and demoralizing than
public hanging. The principals are brut-
ish; the spectators are mostly of the crimi-
nal classes. No honorable or intelligent
man has or can have any real interest in
such a scene; yet it is carefully report
ed as if it were of some service to society
Such reports directly panders to the mean
est and worst passions nor is it an excuse
that they are news. There are many
events which fall under that head which
no honorable man will reproduce. There
are filthy details in many matters, even of
necessary publicity for printing which
there is no excuse. A man does not lose
his moral sense nor his moral responsible
ty by becoming publisher, nor has he any
more right to connive at the corruption of
public sentiment because he is an editor
than because he is private citizen
Green-Mountain freeman. [volume] (Montpelier, Vt.) 1844-1884, 1867-08-14
Clipped English.

Nothing is more striking to an Ameri-
can when he first visits London than the mis-
use of the French A pronounced aao by
the high school of cockneys. The lower
classes of her Majesty's subjects use the
plain old-fashioned English "A as an ex-
pletive, as well as An offset to the other "a
fashion, by-the-way, derived from the
Greeks, for their language is full of exple-
tives), in this manner; l was 'a-going,' or
was a-thinking,' or l was 'a-oping,' or 1
was 'a-hironing,' and so on through the
whole family of verbs. Now this misuse
of the vowel is SO common to the COM
mon people, that to hear it from the lips of
any person is sufficient to suggest that his
education has been quite imperfect. This
being so, it is quite fair that we should ac-
quit Lord Brobdignag of a similar charge,
when we hear him read from master of
style, thus They saw aw that it was a,c-
Liston's firm belief that he-aw was aw-
great and neglected tragic actaw. They
say-aw that ev-aw-ry one of US believes, in
his heart, or would like-aw to have others
believe, that he-aw is something which he
is aw-not
at is well known that in the
glorious old English tongue every word
carries meaning with it; little history
in its womb, such as those beautiful phrases
'belly-timber,' as applied to food, and
sbread-basket,' as applied to ias recepta.
Green-Mountain freeman. [volume] (Montpelier, Vt.) 1844-1884, 1867-08-14

A NATURAL WoNDER-A MovING Mass
OF Rocks A writer in the Memphis
(Tenn) iralanche describes great natur-
al wonder, said to have been discovered by
two English noblemen in Arkansas, near
the St Francis river, and the boundary
which separates Missouri and Arkansas.
1t is called moving mass of rock" In
that section is strip of limestone, or green
stone, ranging from between one to two
miles in width. 1t is interspersed here
and there with plots of land, in many cases
over an acre in length, peculiarly rich in
soil, and making the strange and perhaps
hitherto unknown conformation of
swampy and rocky soil. The water from
the St. Francis pours in, especially in the
spring and fall seasons, in a heavy volume.
beyond parallel, takes zigzag course
through the rocks, being particularly swift
at the above mentioned extremity, and
again empties into the St. Francis.
At this extremity is solid mass of rug
ged and picturesque rock, almost oval In
shape, washed on all sides by rapid cur
rent, and moves directly and regularly
back and forward always in motion and
creating deep and heavy sound which can
be heard for miles. At first its motion is
hardly perceptible to the ordinary vision,
but as the sound increases and the strange
eye rests more directly and minutely, the
object becomes palpable. On either side
of the immense movable substance, which,
as We have said before, is surrounded by a
swift current, are here and there eddies
threatening instant destruction to every
thing coming within its yawning and awful
reach. The mass of rock is covered with
wild vegetation which grows up thickly
and spontaneously.
A portion of the rock lies directly under
the base of the mountains, and it is al
ways moving, is washing the sides gradu-
ally away What has produced such an
unparalleled wonder demands investigation
from the scientific world. IF gases can
cause earthquakes-if currents of water
can cause whirlpools and mammoth mael-
stroms, why not certain currents of electri-
cal character cause ponderous masses of
rock to revolve? The proposition is, can
science explain this wonderful freak OF
nature? What causes the rock to revolve ?
Is it peculiar combination of gases, or
what is it?
Green-Mountain freeman. [volume] (Montpelier, Vt.) 1844-1884, 1867-08-14

4 RELIC OF PAGANINI-The Paris Fly
1ro announces the sale of violin of Pa
ganini's which on first sight merely pre-
sents the appearance of amisshapen wooden
shoe. The story of this instrument is
curious. During the winter of 1888 Paga-
nini was living in a n,diSon de Sa,tte, called
Les Neothermes, Rue de la Nictoire, As
\ large box was brought to him by the
Normandy diligence, on opening which he
found enclosed two inner boxes, and care
fully wrapped in several folds of tissue
paper a wooden shoe, and letter stating
that the writer, having heard much of his
genius, begged. as proof, thereof he would
perform in public on an instrument made
out of this sabst Paganini felt this to
De an impertinent satire, and mentioned the
story with some annoyance to his friend the
Chevalier de Baride. The latter took the
sabot to a violin maker, who with great in
yenuity converted it into musical instru-
ment The Chevalier insisted on Paganini
trying the sabot He not only did so, but
performed on it some of his most exquisite
fantasias which fact, in his own handwrit-
ing, is recorded on a slip of paper now to
be seen pasted on the sabot-violin in the
Rue Nivienne in Paris.
Green-Mountain freeman. [volume] (Montpelier, Vt.) 1844-1884, 1867-08-14
Reporters Blunders.

The Pal Mall Gazette has the follow,
ing
Mr. Bright yesterday afternoon, in his
speech on Lord Amberley's Sunday Lee
lures Bill, quoted couplet from Herbert:
poem on " Sunday" and out of seven In
dependent reports in this mornings paper
there are four different versions, and not
one of them correct The one nearest tc
the original is:
The week We're dark without thy light,
Thy torch doth point the way.
Then we have variation number one:
The week were dark without thy light,
Thy torch to point the way.
The third version is:
The weeks were dark without thy light
Thy torch TO point the way.
Variation number four
The week dark without thy light,
Thy light doth point the way
What George Herbert really wrote was:
The week dark but for thy light;
Thy torch doth show the way.
Two Of the reports attribute the lines tt
Heber, and one makes Mr.. Bright talk O
their author as a poet who wrote very
beautifully, particularly on religious sub
jects.
Green-Mountain freeman. [volume] (Montpelier, Vt.) 1844-1884, 1867-08-14

WONDERFUL If TRUE The extraordi-
nary announcement is made of the exhuma-
ton, below the Falls of the Potomac, Just
above Washington, of the body of an Ice
landic Christian woman who was buried in
the year 1061-or SIC years ago. The
place was revealed by an old Latin manu-
script which was dug up in 1868 under the
ruins of the ancient college at Skalholt.
built by Bishop Islief in 1857, and which
gives an account of voyages of the North
men to this country, and the burial of this
woman at a spot near waterfall which,
rom its description, led Mr.. Thomas c.
Raf6nson (who writes this account) to be-
iieve what is now known as the Great
Falls of the Potomac and from the de-
scription of the position, we went to the
spot and set men to work digging. The
result was the finding of the body with a
buried stone containing remarkable ru-
nic inscription. He also says he found
certain beads and coins identical with those
found in the tumuli of the ancient Britons,
and which led him to the belief that Ameri-
ca was discovered by the ancient Irish.
Green-Mountain freeman. [volume] (Montpelier, Vt.) 1844-1884, 1867-08-14
The Diamond Dickens.

The eighth volume of this popular edition
of Dickens writings is just issued by Tick
nor and Fields 1t contains % Little Dorrit,
and is in all respects equal to its predecessors.
1t is difficult to imagine anything neater in
its compact beauty than this edition, and it
takes the most excellent place on the book
shelves because it is in all respects salts
factory.
The illustrations in this number are, Little
Dorrit and her Father Rigaud and Caval-
letto Mrs. Clennam and Arthur Clennam
Flora and Mrs. F's Aunt Little Dorrit and
Maggie; Mr. and Mrs Flintwinch /; Young
John Chivery; Frederick Dorrit Mr.. and
Mrs. Meagles Mr.. and Mrs. Henry Gowan
Prunes and Prism The Merdle Party; Mr..
and Mrs. Plornish and John Edward Mandy !;
Mrs. Merdle, Mr.. Sparkler, and Fanny ;
Miss Wade and Tattycoram Casby and
Panks.
Green-Mountain freeman. [volume] (Montpelier, Vt.) 1844-1884, 1867-08-14
Gle. So the lord of thousands Of broad
acres in Merrie England 't -a -.

acres In Merrle Elnglanu-
"'Lovely in Englnd's Jadeless green -Halteck-
was called the Earl of Beau-chomps, from
the Norman French, as in Scotland the
name of Campbell is derived from an Ital-
ian origin meaning the same thing as Beau
champs, Campo-bello. just as the con-
stellation in the Southern Hemisphere, cal
led Charles's Oak, recalls the history of
that royal and ragged refugee, in Bosco-
bell, SO vast number of words in English
once represented ideas They were words
with poetry and history locked up within
them, like flies in perpetual amber. The
river 'Alne' in Cumberland, the stream
celebrated in many border foray, has up
on its banks the ancient town of Alneces-
ter, and the home of the Percy's high-born
race Alnwick Castle. Should you inquire
for either place, there is not a man in Eng
land who would understand you. But just
ask for Anster and Annick, and there is
not relocated, boot-brushing boy in the
neighborhood of Temple Bar, that cannot
tell you where to find the train that will
carry YOU to the residence of the Lords of
Northumberland.
| remember once that l hired post and
pair to go down to Stratford-upon-Avon.
A jaunty postillion in spotless white dim
ity knee-breeches, white top-boots, silver
trimmed hat band, and whole carlton of
bell-buttons on his jacket, touched his hat
as l stepped into the shay Drive me
round, said |, by the way of Charlecote
Hall > for | wished to see the place where
Shakespeare was tried for Devastating.
That was puzzler. The friendly land
lord of the Warwick Arms the aged
pensioner of the Bear and Ragged Staff !;
the obsequious water; the radical tailor,
who made red riding coats for fox hunting
squires and id them in the bitterness
of his sartorial soul; the small boy that
follows cheese; the parochial beadle with
his bell; the blue eyes of the chamber
maid, from an upper story Of the Warwick
Arms all, in dire suspense, in that dewy
morning, waited to hear the reply of the
post-boy. There was no reply. Presently
an underhostler, who had been lowering
around the horses like spiritual gad-hy.
whose wings were horse-brush and curry
comb, spoke out in foggy voice: P'raps
the gemmon means Chawcut ? Shade of
Shakespeare And Chavcm it was, as
everybody understood it there. So it is
that in this puckered-up English-War
wick, itself a splendidly significant name
becomes Waric The Beauchamp Chapel
is Beecham Charlesbury has lost its an
cent significance in Chawbree Cholmond-
ely is Chumlee Berwick, of old renown,
ROYAL Berwick's beach of sand is now
Berrie Candlewick street in London, is
Cannick. Gloucester is Gloster, Smithfield
is Smiffld, and Worcester-Wooster. So,
too, that word, dear TO every domestic tie,
housewife is husif,' subtle is 'sattle,'
and High Holburn, I-o5urn.
Can anybody doubt that the corruption
of these good old expressive English words
into bastard French Is not undermining the
Queens English .
Green-Mountain freeman. [volume] (Montpelier, Vt.) 1844-1884, 1867-08-14

and wife, we'll on towards seventy, another
woman and ma n, all strangers to each 9th
er, all grandfathers and grandmothers nice
honest people, who never quarrelled with the
existing order of things. They while away
the time with great deal of interesting
commonplace conversation, showing a re
markable unanimity of opinion. There is
also young man with an infant in his arms.
He leaves the train at way-station, and one
of the company tells the other what he has
gathered of the young mans story. His wife
has died within few weeks, and this baby
is the youngest of four children. He has
given it away to some one in this village
where wa iting. They all pity the
poor child. One tender-hearted old woman
has great deal of feelin' for it. She knows
how to sympathize. Her own daughter
died. leaving little child. They hope this
child will be taken good care of. Probably
it will, for it is going to live with a relative
of its mother. 1t seems not to occur to any
of them that there can be wrong in the faith
er's giving away his child. 1 long to say to
them Good, kind people, fartherly men,
motherly women, unseared cOnsciences, what
right has this man to give away this child :?
Whose child is it? His own. Held by no
other title than that which makes his horse
or house his? VIII God receive from him
quitclaim deed as valid evidence of transfer :?
When God asks him at his judgment-day,
-" Where is the child gave into thy hands,"
will it be enough to answer, ' | gave it away
to my wife's cousin - Can a man wash his
hands of his child's blood so easily?
/ know what they would say % Why. the
child will be great deal better off than If
he had kept it himself So the child would
be great deal better off in heaven than
earth, but that would not justify him in
drowning it. He has just good right to
give it to the angels he has to give it to
men and women He ought to retain his
power over it, and his love and care for it.
That its mother is dead is the worst possible
reason why it should lose its father too.
When a man is deprived of his right arm,
does he cut off his left? When the mother
dies, the fathers duty is, as far as possible,
to be both father and mother to the children.
If he fails then, he fails honorably, but he
need not fail. Men have tried it and have
succeeded. To fail without trying is shame
full. A man can no more rlghtfully give
away his child than he can give away his
own soul. Recklessly we assume and reck
lessly relinquish the most solemn trusts, but
God maketh inquisition. Poverty or disease
NAV force the child from it's fathers arms,
hat this young man bore no marks Of either.
He was well-dressed and well-looking, and,
as far appearances go, perfectly able to
take care of all four of his children if he had
been willing to devote himself to them.
Good people, you have so much pity for the
young man | have very little. L am
hard hearted, evil-minded traveller, and it
looks to me full as likely as anything else
that he is merely clearing the decks for an
other engagement
Green-Mountain freeman. [volume] (Montpelier, Vt.) 1844-1884, 1867-08-14
The Ostrich.

The ostrich, though spread over all At
rica, is especially a bird of the desert, and
has from the earliest ages been associated
with the camel, being like that animal pc
culiarly formed for subsisting amid the
arid sands of Arabia. 1t is the largest
bird known to exist, being generally from
six to eight feet in heigth, and weighing
from seventy to eighty pounds. 1t cannot
fly, as its wings are incapable of supporting
such an enormous bulk in the air ; indeed
it was never intended to rise above the
earth, and seems to be constructed more
like a quadruped than any of the feathered
race.
But ifit cannot fly, it can run with great
swiftness, since its legs are not only of
great length, but very strong and powerful,
furnished with muscles of extraordinary
size; besides which in running it increases
it's speed by tapping its wings, enabling it
70 outstrip In swiftness the fleetest Arabian
courser. The head Of the ostrich is short
and small, and bald in front; the ears ma
ked without and hairy within and the
eyes which are large and brilliant, are fur
nished with upper lids like those of the hu-
man eve. The bill is short and straight,
broad at the base and rounded at the point
it is very strong, and opens with wide
cape. The neck is long and covered on its
upper part with a thin down; on the low
er with small feathers of various colors.
Instead of feathers, the wings are adorned
with waving plumes, and have on the end
of each two long shafts, somewhat similar
to the porcupine The tail, also, like the
wings, is formed of beautiful plumes both
exquisitely white and of great value. In.
deed they often command enormous prices
as they form elegant ornaments for ladies
bonnets, and military caps, besides being
used for other purposes, which cause them
to be held in high esteem.
The ostrich is very mild peaceable bird
and if attacked, Notwithstanding its great
strength, seldom defends itself, but seek:
its safety in flight, which it seldom fails te
secure, owing to its uncommon speed
The chase of this bird is very exciting
exercise both to the Arab and his horse
as it requires no little skill and grea'