The weekly Butte record., 1867-01-26
Flea Bites.

escape drowning in the mud they have become per-
fectly ravenous and desperate. Gazing from their
prison houses over acres of mud to the dry and
beautiful location of Orove, favored as it is with
rich paying mines, by the production of every va
riety of rich tropical and table fruit. and with a
population of intelligent and healthy men. "who
constitute State lovely and beautiful women
who are not debarred from daily promenades by
the accumulation of the mud and filth that has so
long rendered Marysyille and Chico nuisances to
respectable and intelligent people who desire to
live decently, and robust and healthy youths-these
insects cast their longing eyes in the direction OF
Oroville Unable to escape from the mad fortress
es in which they are housed famshed with hunger
and consumed by envy they advance their infected
setaceous and stinging rostrums towards Oroville
the only Island of safety in California, as follows:
Mrp on THE BRAIS.-Our cotemporary, the editor
of the Butte RECORD, has mud on the brain, super
induced by the liberal of large quantities OF
quininc. lie SAYS our streets are muddy. ana bur
esques them by pla giariSm from tthe Gold H1iI
NeUs-rcproducing machine poetry publShed
about the reamsters Association The country mas
been subject To a fall of forty inches OF water
Every city in the State is mud hole-Some bad
aud Others worse than bad. But the RECORD beasts
of the clean streets of Oroville They are clean
because the town is located on a deposit OF river
turc of the location, not by the enterprise OF the
editor or his clever neighbors. Where there is no
mud there can he no soil. Orovile Is barren
rock.-MarysriHe appeal.
This unkindness called ont by lamb-like
and gently sympathisng article on Marysville
mud. 1t is barren assertion concerning Orc
vile. We have the finest soil and climate. well
as the best streets in the State. The public plaza
Isl forest of shade trees, evergreens aud blooming
chrysanthemums. Every dooryard is filled with roses
and orange blossoms, that are only excelled IN
beauty and lovline>s by angelic women and cheruo
like children that dwell benz ath the rich foliage of
their graceful boughs. Table fruits of every variety
spring spontaneously from our soil that Is gushing
with fatness. For years the gardens of Orovile
have furnished Marysville with early vegetables,
ere the waters had receded from her steaming
sloughs to allow her choice garden spots to bake
and crack IN the summer soIstice. poisoning the
salubrious atmosphere Of California with its nox'
ious efiuvia We acknowledge no plagiarism, for
we turned good honest quotations Tor what We bor-
r,wed. But the -dppeai is wise beyond what Is
written That accounts for so much appearing in
that paper never dreamed Of in the philosophy
of prior to its publication therein, and that en-
counters no subsequent resurrection. Its relecmer
don't live if its daddy does.
Commenting upon the innocent item that called
ont the above from the -ippeai, the North Caiifor
MAN another plant of vigorous growt struggling
for existence in the ranchcria null and baked earth
OF the Yut,a, gets of the following labored effort:
..The above delicious piece of impudence is taken
from the GrTrE REcoIp of this morning. 1t comes
with good grace from 'Boons Burying ground
the great bilious center of the State-a place
where quinine is taken beverage; where den-
lists find constant Employment inserting teeth that
are shaken out by the ague. We admit our streets
are little moist, but then our citizens have Snifl-
cent vitality about them u get through whereas,
an Orovilian. when he comes down here gets
stuck" and is physically unable to eNtricate HIM
sclf-remindng one of 4 fly in A jug OF moaSses
Ouil using qanne for diet. George. go To = Hons
and get a good drink of Philadelphia lager or
Schenssler's grape brandy. wash your face and
hands put clean shirt, and come down here on
Monday next and see the japanese JugslerS; take
little exercise, and work OF your extra bile
Fassh, What care we for your japanese Jug
slers, or your American jug glers tor your johns,
demi.Johus !!
And on the following day this:
SAcH,uE>rn.-This place is breaking in on
the San Francisco wholesale trade with the Interior
10 A great extent lately. and it is well known
fact that many articles of merchandise can he pro-
cured better and cheaper at Sacramen'o-l ffSa
Journal
somer residences prc,iier gardens mere enierprs-
ing men and ovlier women than any interior town
in the State.-SGc. Union.
Go to, 20 To, thou art flushed with VINE, or
srch words weuld never have passed Your lips
You forget that Grass Valley is strong competitor
of Sacramento in everything in the above line.
She produces more gold, and wherever sold Is,
lovely women are bound TO be, also ine pfttue>'
habIes. AMI more of them. and the best trut IN tue
State. Sacramento may lie a big town. sell great
many goods. and do big business, but 'whar
would she lie if the ledges quit paying :-drass
Talcy National.
see that article be would go into bilious spasms
and the price of quinine go up like rocket FOR
Gods sake Ridge, call in your iSsue OF the ISM
Don't let George know of your iemerlty. lhefe Is
no town in the State hut Oroyle. 1t does all the
business has all the pretty women. with CHEEKS
Kept red by constant shaking. raises all the haoeS
has all the ague and all the cobbte stones IN 'he III
ferior and furnished better market Tor coias que
and canine than all the balance Of the state
Orove against the world. orosille forever
ruchly.-Nofth Californian.
The author Of the foregoing was a bright and
promising youth, but unfortunately lacked bal
ancc wheel, and is, in consequence incapable OF
forming correct Judgment of anything, let alone
reasoning from cause 10 effect. He was formerly
employei in the RscoRp ofise, and we admit
looked like reasonable and healthy being for somt
time. But he fell in love with an Oroville Miss, al
panforth's dancing school, and instead of making
him lively and cvia Is it Goes sensible beings, II
changed him into the most melancholy woe be
gone, cadaveroGs specimen of humanity that eSe'
existed. His attcnuated anatomy was irishilai t
behold. The beautiful houri thai this vampire ha'
chosen fer victim As matter of course, sent ain
a.irift. and married sensible good fellow, upoi
whom leveliueSs and beauty had pleasing iaStea'
of horrible and ghostly effect. Then this youth
grecnuesS changed 10 saffron color, and his torn
became still more attenua;ed. His candle mont
lees totally rsfu ed TO sustain his fragile form tina
trssnhled with every pulsatIon of his surcharse'
heart. We procured him stool upon ~h'eh
continue his labor at the case. His proci-Shee'
were filed with the maiden name of his inamor,'
The nuisance became intolerable, and We SleSe
him out of the Office. He dragged his collapse
corpus and blasted hopes and bursting heart to NJ
rysville They wanted a champion. He readil
deceived them into the belief that his self abu'
was the result of oroville Ague, and that ever
body here had il bad He was voted The freedo
of the city. nursed into seeming vitality by large
beer erAers, placed in sanctum and told to wr1
down oroyille. =" How drowning nea do catch
straws.~ and what miserable specimens Of huma