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Weekly Calaveras chronicle., 1867-02-23

CANDIDATES for State offices are becoming
as thick as "toads after shower" Every
petty politician who thinks he has influence
enough to carry his own precinct at the pri-
mary election, imagines that he is entitled to
prominent position on the State ticket.
At least half dozen new candidates for gu
bernatorial honors have sprung up like mush-
rooms during the past week. If pretentious
aspirations and soaring smbition are the only
requisites for good public officers, the people
will have no lack of numbers to choose from
at the next election. Caleb T. Fay, a toler-
ably respectable gentleman residing in San
Francisco. has received the nomination for
Governor from Front street of that civ
Whether this endorsement insures him The
party nomination or not. we do not know :.
but we are inclined to think tha, Mr.. Fax
will Fay-l Ito connect" A little country
paper, published in one of the COW counties
the Contra Costa Gazette, nominates three or
four more candidates for the same Office. Ex.
ercise your Governor-making propensities
while you have chance. gentlemen, for the
people will take the job off your hands next
Fall.
Weekly Calaveras chronicle., 1867-02-23
DIED.
PRoSPECToR.

At Independence, on Tuesday. February
18th, 1867. ANDREW MCGLINS, aged 4S
years.
On the Sth instant, at Middle Bar, RoBERr
JAMES, only son of VIM. and Sophia Geb
hardt aged IL years.
Weekly Calaveras chronicle., 1867-02-23
CALAvERAS.

PAssED.-The bill for the increase Of pay
to officers and men ih the service of the Uni
ted States, has passed the Senate.
Weekly Calaveras chronicle., 1867-02-23
CHANCE FOR
CERISTMAS!
GOODS TWENTYPER CENT BELOW COST

GOODS TWENTY PER CENT BELOW COST
ITO CLOSE OUT MY STOCK OF GOODS
4 By February, offer my entire well Sc
lected Stock of Goods 20 per cent below cost
price, consisting of
Cigars:
A large Assortment Of Havana and Do
mestic Cigars, at all prices
Tobacco:
Natural Leaf and Sweet Tobacco, Smokinr
Tobacco in one and five pound bales. Snutis.
Matches:
German and California Matches.
Pipes:
Meerschaum. wooden, and other pipes
Cherry Stems.
School Books of all kinds Miscellaneous
Books
English, French, German and Spanish
Novels.
Stationery:
All sorts of Letter. Note, Legal. Foolscap.
and Bill Paper and fancy French Paper.
ENVELOPES. all sizes and colors,
BLANKBOOKS,
Memorandum
PORTFOLIOS,
Passbooks,
Steel Pens
Gold Pens,
PLAYING CARDS,
Inks. ETC..
Fancy Goods:
Perfuneries Hair, Clothes, and Tooth
Brushes, Combs, Purses, Spectacles, etc.
Musical Instruments:
Flutinas. Accordeons, and Violins. Bows,
Strings, etc.
Cutlery:
Wostenholm's, X L, and other Cutlery.
hazors, Bowie knives, Scissors, etc.
Pistols, Powder, Shot and CAPS.
Christmas Goods
Special attention is called to nv large
st ock of FANCY GOODS, TOYS, and many
other things suitable for Christmas Gifts.
NOTICE TO BUSINESS MEN!
To any one desiring to purchase good
business, will dispose of my stock on terms
which cannot tail to give satisfaction. The
stand is favorably located and is one of the
Oldest and Best Known
Fstallisf mtnis iMokeumne Hill, having
been opened in 1851, and is still doing good
gold dust and cigar business. This is one of
the most favorable opportunities for invest
ment ever offered.
w. MISCH,
Centre street, opposite the Post Office,
Mex Hill. HeY. fNth, 1855. ns4sm.
Weekly Calaveras chronicle., 1867-02-23

GEORGE BAHcSoFr, the historian, has been
appointed Cnllector of the port of Boston,
He occupied the same position thirty years
sRo.
Weekly Calaveras chronicle., 1867-02-23

RowNa "A purse of four thousand dollars
is offered by the Commissioners of the Paris
ErhiAfHou for regatta.
Weekly Calaveras chronicle., 1867-02-23
NEW ADVERTISEMENTS.
NOTICE..

TTIIERE WILL BE A MEETING OF THE
Farmers League of Calaveras County.
in San Andreas. on the second day of March.
A. d., 1867, at 10 O'Clock AM. at which time
WI. Gatewood will deliver an address. All
interested are specially requested to be pres
ent Z. T. LAKE, Secretary.
Mok. Hill, Feb. 18th, 1867.
Weekly Calaveras chronicle., 1867-02-23

AN Oregon paper says the New England
women who came out on the Mercer
expedition" have all been located-with
husbands.
We are glad of it. They deserve husbands
and good ones, too. When women become
SO intent on matrimony that they are willing
to make trip around Cape Horn, in the
dead of Winter. and then journey on to the
inhospitable regions of Washington Terrific
ry, all for the purpose of getting married, as
these impatient virgins did, their desires for
annexation should be grati6ed, and we are
happy to hear that they have been. They
preferred risking their lives to the mercy of
the tempestuous waves of ocean, to taking
the chances Of being stranded on the bleak
shores of old maidism, and they are at last
safely and peacefully moored in the pleasant
haven of matrimony. We glory in their
spunk.
Weekly Calaveras chronicle., 1867-02-23

SECOND CONGRESSIONAL D1sTRIcT.-The
hackneyed political pot boileth, says the
Grass Valley Union, yea, verify, it boileth
early. Never even in California where the
number of persons ready to sacrifice them
selves for the people has always been large,
have we had as many candidates for promi-
nent positions as are now offering themselves.
We have already six Congressional candi-
dates for this (the Second) District: William
Highly, of Calaveras; J. G. McCallum, of
Ell Dorado ; John Yule. of Placer; Lauren
UPson, of Sacramento; E. H. Heacock and
J. E. Benton. of Sacramento. We were not
aware that the last named, Rev. J. E. Ben
ton. had Congressional aspirations until we
saw his name among the list of candidates as
published in the Sacramento Bee. of which
paper he is editor. As text-swinger Broth
er Benton is clever, and as an editor he is in
dustrious. scholarly and vigorous, but as
Consressman-oh we cannot entertain the
idea for a moment. Just think of the clerical
Benton being forced into contact with such
Congressional bruisers as Morrissey and But
Ter; and then only think of the hopelessness
of Brother Benton elevating an American
Congress to his purely religious standard.
How absurd the idea No, Brother B.. it
will never do. Your spotless robes must
never be soiled by the mire of Washington
City politics. you must never be forced into
the temptations of our modern Sodom. Hig-
by is the man he is of the world worldly
he has nothing to learn of Washington City
mysteries; besides. his name heads the slate.
Weekly Calaveras chronicle., 1867-02-23

THE Folsom Telegraph is in favor of the
reaominstioa of Governor Low for lha, po-
s,ttcr. =. .,.
Weekly Calaveras chronicle., 1867-02-23

ITO CLOSE OUT MY STOCK OF GOODS
4 By February, l offer my entire we'll Sc
lected Stock of Goods 20 per cent below cost
price, consisting of
Weekly Calaveras chronicle., 1867-02-23

MoKELUMNE HILL, February 10th, 1867.
The Highland weekly news. [volume] (Hillsborough [Hillsboro], Highland County, Ohio) 1853-1886, 1867-06-27
E5uncfuatfon POfnfs.

The points now used in pUntuatiOn,
were introduced in writing gradually,
some time after the invention of print
mig. The Greeks had none, and there
was no space between their words.
The Romans put a kind Of division
between their words, thus, Publico.
Scipio. .Africanus. Up to the end of
the fifteenth century, only the period.
colon, and comma had been introduced,
The latter came into use latest, and
was only a perpendicular figure or line
prOPortiOnate to the size Of the letter.
To Aldus Manutius, an eminent
printer, in 1890, we are indebted for
the semi-cOlOn, and also for the pres
ent form Of the comma. He also laid
down rules now observed in regard to
their use. The notes of interrogation
and exclamation were not added till
some years later, and it is not known
by whom.
Inverted commas (') were first used
by Monsieur Gillement, a French
printer, and were intended by him
to supercede the use of Halic letters ;
and the French printers now call them
by that name. But they have lately
been used by English printers to de-
note quoted matter. In a London
book (''The Art of English Poetry''), },
printed, in 1907 it appears that the
present mode Of denOting quoted mat
ter is therein denoted by being set in
ItdyiC. 1t is not known by whom the
apOstrophe and dash were invented.
The question, "Yhy printers do not
succeed as well as brewers ?" was thus
answered "Because printers work for
the head and brewers for the stomach ;
and where twenty men have stomachs,
but one has brains"
The Highland weekly news. [volume] (Hillsborough [Hillsboro], Highland County, Ohio) 1853-1886, 1867-06-27

A man in Montgomery, Vermont,
lost his wife by death on the 18th Of
March, and on 1st of April married
again. After the notice of the mar
riage in the local paper, be had the
suggestive saying appended, "Pro-
crastinatiOn is the thief Of time. -
Exchange.
This reminds US of a singular case
that once occurred in Marietta.
John Brough, Esq, father of the
late Governor BFough, lost his second
wife, Mrs. Jane Brough, who died Oct.
20, 1921. She was the mother of the
Governor. In five months and one
day, March 81, 1922, he married his
third wife, Mrs. Bridget Cross. In
four weeks and one day, April 10, 1922,
she died. And in three days less than
six months thereafter, Oct. Is, 1922,
Mr.. Brough himself died, at the
"Cleona Farm, mouth of Duck Creek,
aged about Is. So he buried two.
wives and was buried himself, in less
than a year. He was a native Of Eng
land, and was Sheriff of this county
in 1911, when Governor Brough was
born Marietta Reg.
The Highland weekly news. [volume] (Hillsborough [Hillsboro], Highland County, Ohio) 1853-1886, 1867-06-27
Home Correspondence.
From FTanler Tn.

Mr.. EDITOR: Please insert the fol
lowing, and oblige the undersigned
Board Of Education.
General Rules for the Government
of the Schools Of Hamer Township,
juno 8, 1867.
Pupils are required,
1. To enter and leave the School
room in an orderly manner.
?. To take the seats and study the
lessons assigned them by the Teacher
8. To observe neatness and order
about their desks and persons.
4. To treat each other and all per-
sons politely.
Pupils are prohibited,
5. From idleness and play during
School hours.
6. From the use Of nicknamcs, Of
fensive epithets, profano and obscene
language.
Z. From injuring the School House
grounds, or furniture.
8. From whispering in school, ex-
cept by permission of the Teacher.
8. From unnecessary noise and
rough and dangerous exercise.
The following Text Books were
adopted: McGufey's Spelling Book
and New Series of Readers, Rays
Arithmetic, with Stoddard's Mental,
Camps Biographies, and Greene's
Grammars.
The Highland weekly news. [volume] (Hillsborough [Hillsboro], Highland County, Ohio) 1853-1886, 1867-06-27

FoRwARD.-The Cincinnati Com
merciars recent attempt to create dis
satisfaction with the skedaddling
clause of the Suffrage Amendment re-
suited in a complete failure. The
people don't scare worth q cent. 1t is
ascertained that it will not affect one
hundred votes in the State. We are
informed that there may be two econ
victed" in this District. The truth is,
some people don't like the principle Of
Manhood Suffrage and are swift to
suggest reasons why it should not car
ry in Ohio. 1t a0W carry and our
faint-hearted Republicans should not
allow themselves to be frightened by
assumed leaders who have no hearts
in the cause. Have courage. For
ward = Athens Messenger.
The Highland weekly news. [volume] (Hillsborough [Hillsboro], Highland County, Ohio) 1853-1886, 1867-06-27
$5,IG5,OO0

The London Daily News says that
NIaximilian's misfOrtunes "wilI be a
standing warning to European adven-
turers that no personal rank, however
exalted, no blessing Of pOpes, or pat
ronage and assistance Of emperOrs, or
support of capitalists, or recognition
by established governments, can make
filibhstering anything but filibustering.
Europe does not hold a man outside of
its prisons more to be pitied than this
Austrian prince, who, himself not
without amiable qualities, has brought
thousands Of brave meh, his friends or
foes, to. destruction, and aggravated
immensely the woes of the country
with the affairs Of which, in the face
of abundant warnings, he SO rashly
and incOmpetently meddJed."
The Highland weekly news. [volume] (Hillsborough [Hillsboro], Highland County, Ohio) 1853-1886, 1867-06-27
Miscellaneous.
APron1ise FuIfIIed.


Mr.. B. w. GOrham writes the fol
lowing to lions Herald:
"Mrs, Burnside has just been reIat.
ing to me a little incident which ]
must give you: In the winter of 1860,
her father and JEFF. Davis were con.
veTsing at one time of national affairs
and Of the coming rupture between
North and South. Davis said: "Ii
South Carolina goes, the other States
will follow, and if the North makes
war, the war will be in the North,
mainly in Pennsylvania and, General
Cameron, I shall go with the South,
and I give you notice that I'II make
your house in Harrisburg my head
quarters" Gen. Cameron replied /:
"If South Carolina secedes I shall GUe
TO plant corn il8 the streets Of Charles
tO7t."
oAfter the war had closed, General
Cameron visited Charleston, and in
walking about its desolate streets, sud
denly bethOught himself of the prom
Use or prophecy he had uttered. He
procured some grains of corn and a
hoe, and with his own hand planted
corn in one of the streets of Charleston.
The little plot he planted was care
fully guarded by the officer then in
charge, and in the fall he sent to Gen
eraI Cameron a portion Of the harvest.
All the ears but one have been begged
away, but from this one Mrs. Cameron
has kindly allowed me to take the
kernels 1 send you enclosed herewith.
Let a portion of them be planted on
Bunker Hill but remember they are
hot 6JoOds, and will require to be start
ed under glass nearly as soon as you
receive them"
The Highland weekly news. [volume] (Hillsborough [Hillsboro], Highland County, Ohio) 1853-1886, 1867-06-27

Condensed BY HER Own CONFESSION.
There are thousands of people who be-
Heve that the execution of Mrs. Surrstt
was entirely a willful murder ofinnoceucei
that she was not in any manner a party
to, OF. .cOgnizant Of Booths and his assO-
Ciate villains intention to assassinate the
President, and a great many tears have
been shed and flowers wasted over her
grave, by rebels both North and South
General Baker, who acted as head detec-
tive for the War Department during the
rebellion, has recently published a state
ment that Mrs. Surratt confessed to him
that she was guilty; but that she yielded
to the plan of assassination only after
good deal of urging and many threats made
by Booth. The reluctance exhibited by
this lady, instead of being an extenuation
in her behalf really aggravates the enorm-
ity of her crime, as it plainly shows she
WIS fendish enough to stitie her own stings
Of conscience at the command of the arch
ossasein
The Highland weekly news. [volume] (Hillsborough [Hillsboro], Highland County, Ohio) 1853-1886, 1867-06-27

SAME HERE.-The Oberlin News
announces its platform and makes the
following fair proposition in its last
issue:
PLEASE TO DoN'T.-An occasional
editorial notice Of the business of an
advertiser whose bills amount to one
or two hundred dollars q year we are
not disposed to complain Of But we
wish delicately and confdentially to
hint to those who send in dollar ad-
vertisement and want us to 'notice"
it gratis to the amount Of two or three
dollars more, that that isn't just the
thing Wen do it just as soon as
merchants adopt the pratice Of throw
ing in the dress pattern when the Gus
toner pays for the trimmings, OF live
ry keepers give the use Of a team
when the patron pays for harHessing.
The Highland weekly news. [volume] (Hillsborough [Hillsboro], Highland County, Ohio) 1853-1886, 1867-06-27
FriendIr RestRaint.

In Mississippi there is a Press As
sociatiOn which holds regular meetings.
At the last gathering the members
adopted a resolution, pledging them
selves to refrain from personal dis
cussions through the medium of their
Journals ;" but also agreed that in the
event Of departure from this rule, "hos-
tilities shall not be resOrted to by either
party until after q reasonable effort Is
made to adjust the matters in dispute
by committee to be appointed by the
president or acting president Of the as
sociatiOn."
This is a beautiful exhibition Of fra
ternal love. The editor Of the Battle
Axe will refrain from reviling his con-
temporary Of the TOmahawk as long
as he can; and when "that vile and
filthy sheet" becomes too personal in
its illusions to the s'degraded being"
on the other side of the village street,
the Battle Axe man Will not shoot till
he has taken counsel Of the president.
Civilization advances.-[N. Y. Post.
The Highland weekly news. [volume] (Hillsborough [Hillsboro], Highland County, Ohio) 1853-1886, 1867-06-27

A jumping m,Itch for the champion
ship of America, and a purse of .$2,-
600, came off recently at Allegheny
City, between Norman p. BOrtle, Of
New York, champion jumper Of
America, and Bob Way of Pittsburg.
Way carried off the purse and the
championship, jumping twelve feet
five and half inches. BOrtle's great
est jump was twelve feet three inches.
After the contest was over, Way made
a trial jump. One hundred feet was
marked on the ground, for ten jumps.
Way then at a stand still commenced
jumping, and made the ten jumpsfn
succession. The last jump covered q
distance of sixteen feet.
The Highland weekly news. [volume] (Hillsborough [Hillsboro], Highland County, Ohio) 1853-1886, 1867-06-27

The population of the territory re-
Gently acquired from Russia by the
United States is fixed by Sumner as
follows: Russians and Creoles, $500 ;
aborigines under the government of
the fur company, $500 Esquimaux,
$4,000; AIeutians, 5000; Kennians,
$4,000; Kalashians, 5000; total, 59,-
500. Trees are the principal vegeta-
BILE production. Barley grows oats
partially; wheat and rye and corn very
slightly. Coal is chief of the mineral
products but gold and copper have
been found in small quantities, and
iron and lead are reported.
The Highland weekly news. [volume] (Hillsborough [Hillsboro], Highland County, Ohio) 1853-1886, 1867-06-27
America Takes the First Premf-
um on Locomotives.


The Paris Exposition is being now
written down as a success. George
Alfred Townsend says it is three times
vaster, more cheerful and wonderful
than the London Exhibition in 1862.
Ofth many American productions
on exhibition, six command universal
attention, and one of them has already
taken the gold medal. They are A
Locomotive,a "a Street Car, a Sewing Ma
chine, Platform Scales and Reapers
and Mowers.
The Premium Locomotive was built
by the Grant Company of Patterson,
N. J., is named "America," and costs
S35, 600. It's engine house is Of Amer
lean woods; its mounting brass; and its
tender emblazoned with the national
arms. Crowds of artisans constantly
surround it and comment on its points,
lightness, symmetry and protection
for Engineer and Fireman. LocOmO-
motives in England and France have
no Engine Houses.
This Locomotive had a large num-
Der OF competltorS. England sent
several, France about a dozen, Austria
and Russia three or four each. The
committee objected to it because it was
light in some of its parts and too much
polished. A clear headed English
man who was on the committee, and
fortunately well posted on American
railways, explained how that our
roads are new, eheaply built, ties liza
BILE to displacement by frost, &C., and
that machinery to last on these roads
must be elastic, &c.
His intelligence and his sense of JUS
tice, which made him set these facts be-
fore the committee, gave us the gold
medal on Locomotives. Let our ar
tisans see to it that it is worthily Won
and retained.
The Highland weekly news. [volume] (Hillsborough [Hillsboro], Highland County, Ohio) 1853-1886, 1867-06-27
Republican Journals in the
South.

The Memphis Post speaks as follows
of Republican journals published in
the South: "NeW Orleans has two
Radical dailies, the Republican and
Tribune, and one weekly, the Advo-
cate. Mobile has a weekly, the Ma
tiODalist, edited by Albert Griffin.
The Weekly Republican has just been
established at Selma, and the Daily
Sentinel at Montgomery. A weekly
Republican paper is about to be pub
Iished at TalIadega. The Advocate
at Huntsville is doing good service in
the Northern part Of the State. Ar
kansas has a valuable central organ,
the Republican, at Little Rock. There
are several local papers in Louisiana
outside Of New Orleans. Georgia has
a number Of papers ardently devoted
to the work of reconstruction among
others the Atlanta Opinion and the
New Era. The Vicksburg Weekly
has been resuscitated after
a temporary suspension of a week or.
two. The COrinth Union is outspok-
enly Radical. The Meridian Chonicle,
a new Radical paper, is scattering
light in dark places"
The Highland weekly news. [volume] (Hillsborough [Hillsboro], Highland County, Ohio) 1853-1886, 1867-06-27

The Universalist State Convention
was in session week before last at Mt.
Giead. A resolution sanctioning the
establishment Of a general agency OF
Universalist churches and Sunday
Schools was discussed. It was stated
that an endowment fund of one hun
dred thousand dollars has been raised
for the support of the University at
Galesburg, Ill. Eight hundred and
twenty-five dollars were subscribed at
the convention, for the education of
young men for the Uniyersalist min
istry.
The Highland weekly news. [volume] (Hillsborough [Hillsboro], Highland County, Ohio) 1853-1886, 1867-06-27

One of the editorial brethren, hav-
ing expressed some doubt as to wheth-
er Howells, of the Ashtabula Sentinel,
would "stump the State" i'll case of
his nomination for Governor, Howells
replies that if his nomination would
not stump tho State he don't know how
it could be accomplished.
The Highland weekly news. [volume] (Hillsborough [Hillsboro], Highland County, Ohio) 1853-1886, 1867-06-27

PAPER.-The quantity Of paper us
ed every year in England, represents a
weight of two hundred and twenty
millions Of pounds. France used one
hundred and ninety-five millions of
pounds; while the United States of
America, with a much smaller pOpula-
ton, consumes more paper than Eng
land and France put together-name-
ly, four hundred and forty millions of
pounds.
The Highland weekly news. [volume] (Hillsborough [Hillsboro], Highland County, Ohio) 1853-1886, 1867-06-27
Poetry.
THE OTHER WORLD.

BY 1rRs. HARR1ET BEEcHER STOWE.
It lies around us ike cloud,
world we do not see
Yet the sweet closing OF al eye
May bring US there to be.
Its gentle breezes fan our cheek
Amid our worldly cares,
It's gentle voices whisper love,
And mingle with our prayers.
Sweet hearts around us throb and beat,
Sweet helping hands are stirred
And palpitasss the veil between
With breathiBgs almost heard.
The sIlsnos. awful, sweet, and calm,
They have no power 20 break
Tor mortal words are not for them
To utter or partake:
So thin, so SOfts 30 sweet they glide,
So near to press they seem,
They luli Us gently to our rest,
They melt into our dream.
And in the hush Ofrest they bring,
'Tis easy nov to see
How lovely and how sweet apau
The hour Of death may be-
To close the eye and close the ear
Wrapped IN q trance Of bliss
And, gently drawn in loving arms,
To swoon to that-from this
Scarce knowing n we wake or sleep,
Scarce eBklng who're We arep
To feel al sVll sink away,
An sorrow and an care.
Sweet souls around Us watch uS still,
Press nearer 70 our side
Into our thoughts, into our PrayeuS
With gentle helPings glide.
Let death between US be Is naught,
A dried and vanished stream
Our Joy be the reality, -..
Our suffering life the dream.
The Highland weekly news. [volume] (Hillsborough [Hillsboro], Highland County, Ohio) 1853-1886, 1867-06-27
Andy and the Philadelphia
Council
PHILADELPHIA, June Il

PHILADELPHIA, June II.
The Select Council met this after
noon to consider the resolution passed
by the Common Council for weIcem-
ing the President on his passage
through the city. A warm debate
eHsued, and the passage Of the TesOlu-
ton was strenuOusly opposed. When
the main question was put no quorum
voted, the Republicans having retired,
and the President declared the session
adjourned.