The weekly Butte record. [volume] (Oroville [Calif.]) 1866-1887, 1867-02-16


CorRr in Virginia has decided that wife $
clothing is her husbands property.
IT is believed that about one half of the freedmen
down south are working for their old masters
The negroes in New Orleans are abandoning their
white wives. They getting arstocratic.
Rents in St. Louis are higher than in New York.
Living in houses must be an extravagant luxury.
Snow drifts on the Lake Shore Railroad are ten
feet deep.
TBxxE fourths of the infants in Merdon, Conn,
ere females.
Four bears were recently killed in one den near
klmira, N. Y.
THE Connecticut Valley tobacco raisers have two
crops hand.
BLosDIN, having walked his rope in every city in
Europe, is now in Paris
MADAME Jenny Lind Goldschmidt is vice Presi-
dent OF the London Academy OF Music.
How to make the hours go fast-use the spur Of
the moment.
The ship ow ners are to hold a conyentio in Dos
ton soon.
tened " Northern Lights because it is be roarer
CHEAr.-A well Informed Frenchman recently
sold his young and lie ntiful wife for five francs.
MAppRR colors rcd. This is the reason why the
madder you get, the redder you grow.
Ben PORTER. an old citizen of Siskiyou, died at
Ruby City, Idaho. on the 26th of December last.
Gov. Cox, OF Ohio, declines to be q candidate
for reelection.
THE Eyre Defence Fund already amounts to be-
tween IS 900 and &c 900.
THE whole of the London lunatic asylums in
and near the metropolis, are full.
OXFORD University has conferred Doctorate in
Divinity upon Bishop Whitehouse. of Illinois.
TEE surgeons Of Vienna are using tissue paper
As = substitute for lint. 1t equally as good and
much cheaper.
LOUISVILLE darkey eloped with another Louis
willie darkey's wife, Truly, the negro is an imta
tive animal.
AUNITEp States detective has found SIS 600 in
counterfeit United States notes, in a tin box, in
Warren county. New Jersey.
New Workers say young Mr.. Benefits sailing
his own pacht is id plucky thing Profane,
but enthusiastic.
WITTY member of the Boston Bar. upon being
told that a lady was in half mourning, replied
that "he knew she had some relations half dead"
THE consumption of cheese in England amounts
TO the amazing quantity of 2l,250 900 pounds per
annum.
SEVERAL large firms in London have dismissed
Of their wOrkmpD for TAKING the late
reform demonstration.
WHAT air did the young mouse sing to the old
mouse, when biting his way through the scenery at
die opera Hear me gnaw, ma, (Norma.)
Men are called fools in one age for not knowing
what called fools for asserting in the age
before.
"Come here Johnny said a schoolmaster "do
know your \ C's!" "Ies, sir; know ice
Sees
LADY once remarked that "carelessness was
little better than half way house between accident
and design"
IN Fox county. Missouri, store clerk, after
lighting his pipe, threw the match into an open
key of powder. He won't do it again in this world
SoxE.-Some women take such delight in scold-
ing that it would be cruel not to give them occasion
for it.
IT WATT am afraid You are in settled
melancholy mo, madam, my melancholy won t
settle; it has too mnch grounds
ia patent has been issued for lady's palpi
Eating bosom, which is capable of twentyseven
heaves a minutes.
A Scotch Earl, Lord Fife, gave Madam Vestris a
thousand guiness To allow cast 10 be to he taken
of her leg; the Earl died. and this cherished leg
was sold recently for half crown.
A WORKMAN in \ sausage shop in Chicago, for
whistfng which was against the rules. had his
head split open by large cleaver in the hands Of
the boss.
Costly FOR C.rNoLINE.-A Washington lady.
h. A.asrlr foof h.-a l.