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Gold Hill daily news. [volume] (Gold Hill, N.T. [Nev.]) 1863-1882, 1870-02-11

$50. ft.Esf
For zach grocery or provision store. dry goods
or clothing store, drug store, Vegetable or fruit
stand, or market, butcher shop or market, mil.
lfnery store, variety store, cigar or tobacco
store or shop, books or stationery store, lumber
ward or store, hardware store or Sin chop. livery
or sale stable, or wagon or hay yard or corral,
grain or feed store, shoe store or shops, black.
smith shop snd wagon shop, saddle or harness
shop, laundry or Chinese. wash house. fnrni.
turc store or shop, jewelryrtorc, and an places
where goods or any article Of valuo 10 cold,
bartercd or traded. per quarter In advance, go.
And oyery person or persons engaged In one
or more kind or kinds OF business enumerated
herein, shall take out and pay q license for each
kind or class, and for each and every place or
stand In which he or she may be 30 engaged,
and 80 do. whether he be principal, agent, faetoi
or employee.
An the above licenses shall be paid in United
States gold coin.
SIC. o. The first quarter for the payment Of
licenses As herein provided for. shall commence
on tho LIST day Of April, A. D. 1859.
SEC. 10. Ordinance no. II, entitled IAN Or.
dinancc to tx and collect 4 license tax" passed
September 9th. A. D. 1857, and all ordinances
and parts OF ordinances. resolutions and bylaws,
or parts thereof, IN conflict with or repugnant 70
the provisions OF this Ordinance, are hereby re.
pealed. Wy, D, g. GIBSON, President.
Smyrna times., 1870-04-27

In an article on the excessive indulgence Of
children. The Queen new paper OF LOndou ob-
s,rvrs: As Tor rhr juvenile balls and partie,,
If W. had to crutraIize the evil management Of
children, we should certainly place it in these
deplorahle gatherings; they take the bloom off
the unripened fruit, make men and women of
little children, and turns out Jirse, used up,
disillutiOnized creatures, ut an aye, when, if
they had been lcf; to the simple amusement
atural TO their condition, they would have en-
tered the world with the keen sense Of enjoy
ment, the faculty for pleasure, and .he deli
ciOu, r0manticiSm which makes halt the charm
OF youth both to itself and others. There is to
be slaughter of the inn0ccntS of yet another
kind, and Of those of older years Of which We
can hardly speak too severely. We mean the
premature knowledges Of evil which it is now
the fashion to allow. The lovely freshness OF
girls Is daily becoming more and more thing
of the past, beauty of tradition, and a gener
alton is rising up more knowing at eighteen
than their grAndmothers at eighty. 1t is un-
doubtedy reaction from m,ssbness, but it
IS in a terribly painful form. p"
Smyrna times., 1870-04-27

The entire assets Of Boston bankrupt were
nine children. The creditors did the handsome
thing and let him keep every one of them.
woman in Chicago recently seized man
and, before be could secure assistance, brutally
married him.
An envious man repines as much at the
manner in which his neighbors live as if he
maintained them.
A "petri6ed SNAKE" which has for some
time been puE7ling the Savants in Indiana, has
been discovered to be tough pine knot
Olive Logan calls her padding" sisters
professors Of symmetry"
A critic says of famous singer that she
sings few airs and puts on a great many"
A jews harp gives notes. A jew sharp
collects them.
If you want cowslips in winter drive your
cattle on ice.
The life preservers oftenest used in the battle
feld-Legs.
A Woman's Will-Wontl
The Bottle Trck-Getting drunk
Flat Falsehood-Lying on your back.
Smyrna times., 1870-04-27
WHOLE NO. 1872

In a railroad car the seats were all full ex-
cept one which was occupied by a pleasant
looking Irishman-and at one the of stations
a couple of evidently well bred and intelligent
young ladies came to procure seats, but seeing
no vacant ones, were about going into back
car, when Patrick rose hastily and offered
them his scat with evident pleasure But
you will have no seat for yourself, responded
one OF the young ladies, with smile hcsitoting
with true politeness, as to accepting it. " New
er ye mine thar, sad he RaIlant liibcrian,
yer welcome TO il! III ride upon the cow
catcher to New York any TIM for a smile from
such jintlemanly l,des, and he reueatcd into
the neAt car amid the cheers OF his ie,!ow-pas-
/
Smyrna times., 1870-04-27

IIpStatf, being sevrnIh son, used to cure
the king S-evil, but his rascally descendants are
50 far from having that healing quality, that
by touch upon The shoulder they give man
such an i'll habit of body that he can never
come abroad atterward." "
But il there happen to be a seventh son of
seventh son, the curative powers are much
none marvellous. Mr.. Carleton, in his story Of
the Black Prophet, says the Irish peasantry
entertain very und0ub'ing faith in the reality
OF these puwrr> In Cunwel the bcliet is in
like manner, entertiIned the ordeal being that
the gifted person should thrice gently stroke
the part affected, thrice blow on it, and repeat
certain words. AT Bristol, some years ago,
tradesnIan was regularly called Dr. So-and-so,
simply because he was the seventh son of
seventh son, and without any relation to his
actual trade. Early IN the present century Il
man perambuated the rural Districts of Hamp.
shire to cure the blind, the sick, and the lame
Numerous cures were ascribed to him, and he
had quite large collection of crutches and
walking sticks, said TO have been left by his
patients who had no longer any need for them
How much was deception, and how much due
to the implicit faith placed in him by the ig-
nnrant, it might have been difficult to decide :
hut he was held in much awe and respect on
account of his claim to be the seventh son of a
seventh son. At Plymouth, on board:
ASHEPHERD.
The third seventh daughter.
DOcreSs
A Yorkshire lad at school was purposely in
tended to study atterward for the medical pro-
fe>sion, because, as he told his schooi-frIlOws
The seventh OF the seventh maks the higg st
o doctors" Another story is told of an Irish
lad who, as an errand-boy, was frequently cen
sured tor being late In his arrival, and dilatory
when on his errands. His excuse on one oc
caSion took the following form I'm sure
wouldn t help it, Sir. Pm sure | wouldn't
We only hin on an act o mercy. Ye see, Sir
lan seventh Of seventh, an | touches fo
sickness, Sir, an I've bin to two chder thi
morn, Sir, a long way" 1t appeared that h
had to touch fasting. in order that his won
derful properties should be developed, and hi
palm was crossed by piece Of silver varying
In value from tour-penny piece to half-a
crown, according to the social condition Of hi
patients.
Smyrna times., 1870-04-27

In a recent letter Florence Nightingale says:
''As far as | have opportunity to judge. the
most valuable retormatory education is missed
at present, Wig: Teaching y man that it is
dearer to steal than to werk (the only lesson
which most thieves are capable Of Ieceivlng)
If thieFS or tOrger'S sentence were that he
had to work his way out Of prison by repaying
the amount, or more than the amount, he had
stolen, aud repayng the State besides for his
>ustenance out Of his earnings, instead of be-
ing provided for and lodged in prison, he
might then, perhaps, learn this lesson, instead
of the one now actually taught him, that it is
dearer to work than to steal.
Smyrna times., 1870-04-27
POet1'Y.
PRO MORTUS.

What should man desire to lesvei
hawless work: noble life:
Some music harmOnized from strife,
Some hn~hd thing, the slack hands at eve
Drop. should be his to leave.
One gem of song, defyIng age;
hard-wOn fight well-work d farm;
law guile twist to harm;
Some tale lost Thackeray's, bright. or sage
As the Just Hallams page.
Or, in life's hOmeliest. meanest spot.
To strike the circle Of his wears
perfect curve through Joys and tears,
Leaving pure name to be known, or not
This is true m an lot.
He dies: he leaves the deed. or name,
gift forever to his land
In trust to friendships guardian hand.
Bound gainst all adverse shocks to keep his fame,
Or to the world proclaim.
But the imperfect thing. or thought
The fervid yeastinpss of youth.
The dubious doubt, the twilight truth.
The work that for the passing lay was wrought,
The schemes that to nought.
The sketch halfway 'twixt verse and prose
That mncks the fnishd picture true,
The splinters whence the statue grew.
The scatfOding meath which the palace rose,
The vague abOrtive throes
And cruelties Of JOY or gloom:
In kind oblivion let them be
Nor has the dead worse foe than he
Who rakes these sweepngs of the artists room,
Aud piles them on his tomb.
All 'tis but little that the best,
Frail children OF a heetIng hour,
Can leave OF perfect fruit or flower,
All. let all else be acknowledgements
When man lies down to rest!
Smyrna times., 1870-04-27
FLORENCE NIuHrINaALE's SHoEs.-A dis

FLORENCE NIGHrINdALE's SH0Es.-A dis.
tlngui med woman who not long siuce returned
from Europe, told friend of ours of an inter
view with Miss Florence Nightingale During
the conversatiOn she could not but notice the
singular shape of that eminent lady's foot.
She had never heard that Miss Nightingale
was lame, or maltormed. but certainly some
thing was the matter. Her curiosity prompt
ed her to inquire of sOme mutual friend, who
at once explained that Miss Nightingale, de-
srising the modern instrument of torture veu
ded by fashionable shu enlakerS, is accustomed
To plant her stocking foot firmly on piece of
leather, draw the outline Of the figure il forms,
and have her shoe made to correspond exactly
with it.-Iersondi Beauty
Smyrna times., 1870-04-27

A man was indicted for felony His inno-
cence was proven; but Notwithstanding this
the jury found him guilty. The Judge was
shocked, and arose aud said: Gentlemen,
she prisoner innocense was clearly proven"
9 Yes, said the foreman, 81 he is innocent of
thu crime now charged against him, but he
stole my gray mare last Christmas"
Smyrna times., 1870-04-27

HowTH DUTcH WASH They do not wash
with a machine. They would scorn the idea.
They use simply refined borax. Dutch women
are well known models of cleanliness, at least
in their own country. They get up linen
whittier and nicer than any others, and they do
i; by using borax as a washing powder instead
of Soda in the proportion of large handful
to about ten gallons of boiling water. Thus
they save half in soap. Cambrics and
laces require an extra quantity OF powder,
while for stiffening crinoline and underskirts
strong solution is necessary.
Smyrna times., 1870-04-27

A young member Of tie Legislature. rose
to deliver hi ntiments on the bill to abol-
in capital punishment with, MIR. Speak
er, the generality of mankind in general are
disposed To exercise oppression on the generali-
ty cf mankind in general" just at this point,
one who sat immediately behind him pulled
him by the coat tail. and cried, Stop, stop, [
say you are coming out Of the same hole you
lust went in at. y
Smyrna times., 1870-04-27

-Court,hip.-
Ca,y. .o,e bur thee alone
q hu~ ,ghel the Icnirr youth;
On, hear M, then. my passion own,
With trembling lip, III earnest tone;
/. Indeed speak the truth.
He paused the blush ersprcad her cheek,
She let him draw her near;
Scarce for emotion could She speak,
W stlil >h.. asked. in accents meek,
How much he had year
Smyrna times., 1870-04-27

s. c. Hall relates the following anecdote at
the dnner-tshe of distinguished poet in
London: "A worldly man was once visited, in
his illness, 10y well-mcaning but dolorous
clergyman who di>fgured his countenxnce and
wore face of perpetual mourning. As his
visagc appeared in he door way, the sick man
started up and exclaimed: Why, what's the
matter? You look as il your religion didn't
agree with you"
Smyrna times., 1870-04-27
tE MO VAL.
J. I'd. COOPER z GRO.

Have removed To tOOPER'S NEW BUILDING,
S. E. Cor Main and Commerce. StS.,
Where they endeavOr To Keep constantly Oh hand a
sIOck OF the Choicest
Sugars, Coifees, Syrups, Teas,
Pulverlzed THYME Sage Majoram. Summer SavOry
soaps UIls IandIes. Specs Meats Cheese Fish. Sail
Lard Engis aud American Bottled Pickles, Sau-
ces CaIsups, Canned fruits, Olive OH, Prepared
Riu>Iards. Chocolate. Cocoa, Corn Starch, Rice.
tarIna. Pearl Starch, Rice Flour. Barley. Ba.
king Powder, Hops, FANNY Crackers FarI.
na Crackers Soda Biscuit. Sugar Biscuit,
Raisins. Curranls CIIron. Figs. Apples,
Lemons, Nuts. PLAIN and FIne-Cut
Chewing Tobacco. Common and Fine
Smoking Tobacco. Cigars Snuff, Pipes.
Snuh Boxes. -Four, Meal BuckwheeI Corn
Oats, ship Stuff, Tubs, Buckets. Caus Kegs
Keelers. BrOOms BrOOm Handles Brushes. Work
Baskets kuue Baskets, Fruit Baskets, Travelling
Baskets ,ncy Baskets and Saichels Seine rwIne
Gill rWInP, Broom fwIne Sail rwIne. ChOku Twine
Seine Rope, Jnle Rope. Manila Rope.
PEACH BASKETS.
FLOOR AND TABLE OIL CLOTHS,
Stand Covers. Fine Window Sha les Paper WInIow
Blinds. Umbrellas Walking Canes. Boys Canes.
GLASS WARE,
Granite Ware Common QnCensware, Toy Glass and
Queenswaro, Stone Ware. POrkeI Cutlery Table Cut.
cry SpOons, ScIssOrs Shears, Cloth Brushes. TonIh
Brushes, Hair Brushes, RaZOrs, Razor SrOps Com hs
Pr&der. Shot, Bullets. Gun Caps, Cartridges Powder
Fasks Shot Pouches.
SCHOOL BOOKS, BLANK BOOKS,
Memorandum Books. Bibles. Hymn Books Prayer
Books, Photograph AIbuns. Diaries Toy Books. Gen
eraI Stationery. Drawing Pencils, Drawing Books, and
all uher ARTICLES embraced any Of The above classes
ofGoods can he had the lowest prices we can afford
to sell Ihen taking Quality always c0nsid
GARDEN AND FIELD SEEDS in season.
RAILROAD TICKETS
For PHILADELPHIA, WILMINGTON, or DO.
YER. going or returning, for sale
1877 J. c. 4 BRO.
Smyrna times., 1870-04-27

Josh Billing gives some advice to young
ladies as to how tGey should receive proposals
of marriage:
lyon oughter take it kinder lOokin' down
hill, with an cxpre>hun about half tickled and
wants TO kiss you, | don't think ! would say
yes or no but jist let the thing kinder take its
own course"
Smyrna times., 1870-04-27

A young gentleman who feels willingness
to sacrifice himself TO the happiness Of some
body eise's family, thus unbosoms himself:
"Wanted-A situation ss son-iu-aw in re-
spectacle family. Blood and breeding no OBJ
ject, being already supplied capital essential.
No objection to go short distance in the
cnuntrv -
Smyrna times., 1870-04-27

pleased on being reproved by his mother Tor
some ui>chieyou> prank, and showed his dis
pleasure in his face, when his mother remark
Ell Why Charlie, | an astoni>hed t. see
you making faces at your mother!' why,
/ calculated to laugh, but, mamma, my face
slinned -
Smyrna times., 1870-04-27

The Evansville journal says that young
lady of that city was licensed to marry two
gentlemen. aud adds that she made only one
happy Which that one was is not stated, but
probably it was the one she lid not marry.
Smyrna times., 1870-04-27

P0LYGAMY SwEErENED -Nashy has met
with success in putting things mildly, by term
ing the rebellion the late onpelsantness !"
but the Mormon elders 0utdo this by suearing
polygamy so as to make it read, The patriar-
chal family relation"
Smyrna times., 1870-04-27

A Chicago court was enlivened the other
afternoon by a fight between an attorney and
constable to decide whether or not the former
told the truth in calling the latter a thief.
Smyrna times., 1870-04-27
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A Hartford man, in telling a police officer
that he had An ocular demonstration of his
wife iu6ltiity, added " | never had any lit
tie thlus make me SO mad in all my life"
Smyrna times., 1870-04-27

Nevada claims to have brook trout over four
feet long. In some places the streams are SO
narrow that these trout have to come ashore to
turn around.-DetrOu Tribune
Smyrna times., 1870-04-27

A Lecturer at Patte son, n. j., asked bis
audience in stentorinn tones, What did Mo-
se> say "Shno fly = was the answer from
dozen boys in the gallery.
Smyrna times., 1870-04-27

A malicious libel is going the rounds that
vegetation il SO scarce at Cape Cod that two
mullen stalks and a whorlebergy bush are
called a grove.
Smyrna times., 1870-04-27

The CLEVELAND Herald thinks the marriage
service should be changed to read WhO dares
take this woman and the groom shall answer,
| dare
Smyrna times., 1870-04-27

Commodore Vanderbilt has ten children
In the event of his dying without will his
young wife would inherit some twenty millions
and his children two or fhree millions each.
Smyrna times., 1870-04-27

Bliss--Plenty of money.
Fayetteville observer. [volume] (Fayetteville, Tenn.) 1850-1966, 1870-03-03

Every person who tolls daily at
any kind Of labor requiring great
physical or mental exertion should
be EXTREMITY careful to practice a
regular system of ablution at the
close OF each days work. Some
times a person may become so
completely exhausted as to render
this anything but an inviting per-
torrance yet by its omiss on a
great deal of refreshment which
the hours of repose are designed to
inipart is lost. To be Clearly is a
strictly religious duty, and is alb
solutely essential to sound and re-
freshing slumber !; hence the labor
Of keeping ones person clean is am
ply repaid by the elasticity which
follows nightly additions before
retiring. Heed this advice, and
the reader will sleep soundly ; dis
regard it-go TO bed unwashed, land
you will rise in the morning un-
refreshed, with feelings of lassi.
tude which the exertions of the
day will hardly be able to move
Exchange.
Fayetteville observer. [volume] (Fayetteville, Tenn.) 1850-1966, 1870-03-03

RISK OF GREAT EATERs,-Dr.
BAH says that great eaters never
live long: A voracions appetite
so far from being a sign of good
health, is a certain indication of
disease. Some dyspeptics are al
ways hungry, and feel better
when eating; but as soon as they
have finished eating, they endure
torments so distressing in their ma
ture as to make the unhappy VIC
tim wish for death. The appetite
of health is that which is inclined
to eat moderately when eating
time comes, and which, when sat
isfied, leaves no unpleasant re:
minders. Multitudes measure
their health by the quantity they
eat; and out of ten persons, nine
are gratifed with an increase of
weight, when in reality it indi-
Gates an increase in disease, show
ing that the absorbents of the sys-
tenn are too weak to discharge their
duty, and the tendency to fairness,
to obesity, increases, until exist
ence becomes a burden, and sud
den death closes the painful histo-
nv.
Fayetteville observer. [volume] (Fayetteville, Tenn.) 1850-1966, 1870-03-03

land, labor and fertilizers altogeth.
err TIE field was now worth far
more than when he bought it, and
be had cleared it within fifteen
months fran the date of its pur.
chase. | consider that a good
operation. Another year, the
crop might have been poor, or
might have sold much lower, SO IS
hardly to pay for the labor; but
there are risks in other pursuits
as well as in farming.
"a fruit-farmer on the Hudson
above NewbGrg showed me, three
years since, field of eight or ten
acres, which he had set with grapes
in rows ten feet apart, with beds
of Strawberries between the rows,
from which he assured me that bis
sales exceeded $500 per annum. |
presume bis outlay for labor, H.
GLIDING picking, was less than $500
per annum (; bat it cost something
to make this field what it then
was. Say that he had spent ST.
900 per acre in understanding,
and enriching and tilling this field,
to bring it to this condition, inclu-
ding the cost OF the plants, and
still there must have been a clear
profit here of at least $500 per
acre.
81 might multiply illustrations;
but let the foregoing suffice. !
readily admit that shiftless farm
ing don't pay--that poor crops
don't pay-that it is hard work to
make money by farming without
some cspital-that frost, or hail, or
drouth, or foods, or insects, may
blast the farmers hopes, after he
mas done his best to deserve or a.
chieve success; but insist that, as
a general proposition, GOOD Farm
ing DOES pay--that few pursuits
afford as good a prospect, as full
an assurance, ofreward for intelli-
gent, energetic, persistent effort,
as this does"
Fayetteville observer. [volume] (Fayetteville, Tenn.) 1850-1966, 1870-03-03

W
Mrs. NJ. A. Miles, Teacher of Music.
The Spring Session of this Institution will
open on Monday, the 31st inst, and
continue for term of five and half scho.
lastic months,
Tuition Fees.
For Primary Glasses per session. d. $l1.00
For intermediate Glasses, embracing
according to usual collegiate divis-
ion, pupils in preparatory and fresh
man departments ... 1850
ForAdvancedC Glasses, including sopho-
more, junior and senior departments 600
Music, including use of instrument. $500
Incidental fee, per pupil. .... LOO
Special RemdTkS.-Tuition fees are pay
able, one-half in advance and the balance at
the close of the session, unless some salts
factory arrangement is otherwise made with
the Principal. Pupils will be charged from
date of entrance to the expiration of the
term. No deduction will be made except in
cases of protracted sickness of the pupil
No fractional part Of month less than one
half will be regarded.
General RemorkS.-This Academy is q
chartered institution, and hence has the right
to confer Diplomas upon students who COM
plete the course prescribed.
The Principal is particularly DESTROYS,
both for his own convenience and the general
good of his pupils, that all who intend to be-
come inmates Of the School do so promptly
at the opening of the session. Board can be
had in respectable families of the town, at
from Sl2 to SIS per month.
Board of Trustees.
J. M. BRIGHT, Prest. C. A. DIEMER.
J. B. LAMB D: d. PERKINS.
Jan. 6, 1870-tf
Fayetteville observer. [volume] (Fayetteville, Tenn.) 1850-1966, 1870-03-03

Good sweet wheaton bran is, in
ninety.nine cases out of a hun
dred, better than physic if it is
given in time. Let any animal
eating sinking mouldy corn stalks
or bitter hay, making it look bad,
have some bran to help its poor
stomach, and it will soon appear
in better plight When a COW in
milk does not do as well as she
should on other food, add some
bran. No matter what ais the
horse, cow, sheep or pig, little
bran will do gOod-but don't feed
bran alone for long.
Fayetteville observer. [volume] (Fayetteville, Tenn.) 1850-1966, 1870-03-03

.CoTTAGE PuDDNG-Warm two
and a half teaspoonfuls Of butter;
stir in teacup of white sugar, and
one we'll beaten egg; put two Tea.
spoanfuls of cream tartar in one pint
Of flour; add tesspoonful Of sods
dissolved ia scup Of milk; favor With
nutmeg or lemon; bake three.qnar,
ters Of an hour 10 a SLOW oven,
and serve With esnee.