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The Shasta courier., 1870-03-19
The Public Baby.

As to disposition, the Pubic Baby is
ugller than convention OF rattlesnakes !;
more venOmous than caucus of centipedes;
sharper than select circle of scorpions.
1t does not intend to be suited or pacifed !;
1t is madder than ever when it wakes up
and finds that it has been joshed and trot-
ted into brief slumbeI. 1t feels that it
has been cheated ard lost time
The Public Baby seems to have full
head of uginess on the whole time | ex-
amined one the other day while coming up
here on the cars. When we started, from
Oakland Point | felt strange sense of
missing presence. wondered at the
cause. All was soon explained At San
Antonio the Public Baby came on board
| had forgotten that this little tiend never
missed trip nor paid cent Then felt
at home.
At first this Public Baby cried and howl
ed on general principles. 1t hadn't, as
yet, discovered any special cause of griev
ance. 1t cried because it hadn't. Its lit
tie hands were sticky with something its
little face was sticky it rubbed its little
face with its little sticky hands the stick
ness on its little face was thus ann igamated
with the sickness on its hands, and vce
Uersa. Then, when it had prepared this
mixture, it wanted to rub it all over us who
sat near by 1t ciutched at ladys hat,
or bonnet ribbons (what do you call them
noW!) On the forward seat; it did transfer
an irregular spot Of molasses coored brown
to the bright blue of the broad silk ribbon
the lady turned she looked for the moment
as if she might be Mr.. Herod's wife or
sister; the pare is Withdrew their sticky
offspring; the offspring cried because it
couldn't have that lady to paw re
They gave it colored candy. BY this,
the little " well-spring Of pleasure work
ed itself still more into an uneasy lump Of
saccharine and mucilaginous nastlness the
place where the candy went inside Of it
was soon filed up, it cried because it
couldn't hold any more; it wanted to go to
its father; it went; it cried to go back to
mother; it went; then it howled to 90
back to its father; he went into the smok-
ing car. That mother held the Public
Baby high up She held it low down il
cried. She held it sideways; it cried. She
held it topside down then it did cry a
trife less. The rush of blood 10 its head
stopped it a little Unfortunately, the
mother too soon discovered this The
child was saved-saved to howl for years
Il Prentice Mulford.
The Shasta courier., 1870-03-19

AT very successful seance in Cincin-
natl the other night, man burst into tears
when the medium described very aecu-
rately tall, blue-eyed spirit standing by
him, with light side whiskers and his hair
parted in the middle do you know
him p inquired man at his side, in a
sympathetic whisper. know him?
guess | do" repE d the unhappy man,
wiping his eyes "He was engaged to my
wife. Ifhe hadn't died he would have
been her husband instead of me. Oh,
George, George he murmared, ina voice
choked with emotion, "why, why did you
peg out?
The Shasta courier., 1870-03-19

A correspondent of the Alta writing
from Gilroy, March 9th, says;
Money matters are tighter in this valley
than ever known before. sFhere are so
many ablebodied men, with blankets strap
ped to their backs. vainly seeking for work, !,
that even an old Californian is astonished.
1t is really mystery why many of our
prominent citizens will still persist in en-
couraging more laborers to come hither
from the States and elsewhere, when the
roads throughout the country are almost
lined with strapped hombres, who, in
one breath will ask for "work and some
thing to eat" Rain is very much needed
in this valley. The roads are dusty
With abundant spring showers, the crops
may be pretty fair.
The Shasta courier., 1870-03-19

THE Gypsies in the Hop Garden in Pesth
have curious way of booking after the
honesty of their money ce lector The per-
son entrusted with the mission of taking
the hat round among the crowd has liv-
ing fly put in his left hand, while he holds
the hat with his right. When lie returns.
with the funds he must bring the fly back
alive, as "a sign that he has not taken any
money from the common property, but if
the fly be wanting, or even dead, he does
not get his share of the money.
The Shasta courier., 1870-03-19

Is it possible that women of professed
respectabllity, and apparently earnest to
have woman invested with the ballot, can
take pleasure in s. enting out some flaw,
some weakness, some defect in the antece-
dents OF their sisters, who are superior to
them in all that goes to make up the true
woman. and then whisper those supposed
defects to multitudes of listening ears p
San Francisco Pioneer
The Shasta courier., 1870-03-19
NUMBER So.

WHAT WE HAVE Done FOR OrHERs.-
The words which Walter Scott puts in the
mouth of Jeanie Deans, in her memorable
address to the Queen, are as true as they
are beautiful: when the hour of trouble
comes-and seldom may it visit your leddy-
ship-and when the hour of death comes,
that comes to high and low-lang and late
may it be yours, O my Teddy lit is nj
what we have dine for oursels, but what
we have done for others, that We think on
most pleasantly,
The Shasta courier., 1870-03-19

The Rev W. T. Luckey, once chaplain
of the Penitertiary, being invited few
days since to open the Senate with prayer,
spoke thus:
Il oh, Lerd, We pray thee that thy mercies
may be extended to these poor men. who
have been sent here from al; parts of the
State convicted of various crimes and mis-
demeanors; have mercy upon them we
beseech thee while they are here serving
out their times for which they were sent /;
and when they have served and are dis
missed from these walls, may they return
to their homes better men, and in time
may they become useful and right citi-
zens and honorable members of society.
We ask in the name and through the
merits of Christ our Redeemer. Amen
Whereupon the Member from Yolo
arose and said "Mr President, | move
to strike out Yolo county" The scene
which followed can be better imagined
than described.
The Shasta courier., 1870-03-19

Mono LAKE-This lake is one of the
greatesl curiosities in the State of Califor
MIA, if not in the world The lake is eight
teen miles in length, by thirteen
In width. Its color in the center is dark
bottle-green; near the shore of an alkali
color. On the western shore numerous
streams empty into it. On the northern
and northeastern shores innumerable
springs boil up from the bottom. One Of
these springs is % feet in diameter and
comes to the surface with such force that
it is imnossible to keep boat on the top
of it. 1t is one half of mile from the
shore and in % feet of water. On the
shore of the lake, numerous columns of
rock resembling coral, rise from the water.
They are from five to fifty feet in highth,
and suppose to have been formed by the
fresh water springs. which, in almost every
instance, burst from beneath them. They
are of different diameters, and have been
worn by the wind and woven into the most
fantastic shapes, then encru.ted by the
calcerous deposits of the water, which gives
them the appearance of marble columns
or the ruins of some magnificent temple
Two or three miles back from the shore,
the same rock exists, proving that the lake
has been at least l,0OO feet higher than al
present.
The Shasta courier., 1870-03-19

CHINESE TESTIMONY BILL-Workinc
men! Again we entreat you to reflect up
on the base and hireling conduct of those
Democratic Senators who have sacrificed
your Interests to those who voted for that
obnoxious measure,-the Chinese bill
We shall ever remember their perfdy, but
for the future there shall be black list
especially prepared for the names of Beech,
Burnett, Comfy, Green, Gwin, Hager, Kin
caid, McClay, Vaudeville, Morrel, Murch,
Orr, Perkins, Tompkins, Turner, Wilson
and Wing When the time comes remem-
Der the manner in which they have treated
you, and do not vote for them, but above
all do net forget the name of j. w. Mande-
vile candidate for the Governorship at the
next fail election. Black. ball him every
time you get chance.-[San francisco
Workingman's Journal.
The Shasta courier., 1870-03-19

AN exchange says: Save all your
newspapers, and when you get enough for
the purpose, make a paste as for putting on
the wall, and lay them down one by one,
pastlng them till your floor is covered, then
let it dry; then lay another in the same
way. When again dry get some wall
peper of suitable color, and paste it all over
1t. When dry 90 over it again with coat
of varnish, and you have nice covering
for your floor, which will wear as long as
carpet, and look as well as OF cloth. This
is a cheap method of covering bedrooms
which are not much used"
The Shasta courier., 1870-03-19

Three American Generals have entered
the service Of Ismael Pasha-Generals
Mott, Loring and Sibley They all three
have nominally equal commands as Gen.
erals OF division: one taking the artillery,
another the infantry, and the third the
cavalry 1t is probable that Ratheb P;,sha
will retain the nominal chief command of
the Egyptian army.
The Shasta courier., 1870-03-19

THE BIBLE IN ScHooLs.-The Super
ior Court of Cincinnati have decided that
under the Constitution of Ohio, the Bible
cannot be thrown out of the schools, and
the School Boards are perpetually enioined.
The Shasta courier., 1870-03-19

CALIFORNIA BLANKETs.-Th San
Francisco Bulletin of the I'd inst says :
The Mission Woolen Mills Company has
just been awai ded contract, by the Uni
ted States Quartermaster's Department in
this city, for supplying blankets for troops,
IN this Coast The California blankets are
found superior in quality and cheaper in
pr'ce, all things considered, then imported
ones
The Shasta courier., 1870-03-19

The OLDEST MAN ALIvE.-The Fran.
kiln, New Hampshire, Union says there is
living at Osipec, in that State, man
named Joshua Kennod, who, according to
the best information. is l60 years old He
served in the old French war. and also in
the Revolutionary war, and his recollections
of that event are very distinct He has
used tobacco all his life, thinks it has
injured him. and that its use will shorten
his lite several years.
The Shasta courier., 1870-03-19

CUcUMBERs.-In March procure some
sods about eight inches square and four
inches thick. Turn them over and cut
the soil so the seed can be stuck in an
inch or SO deep. Plant only the EARLY
Fame" Set the sod in pit or hot bed,
if you have them if not, set them on a
shelf in room where there is fire; water
with milk warm water occasionally as the
sod gets dry and when warmer weather
comes, remove them to the garden aud
place small boxes foot square. having
neither bottoms nor tops over them. At
night until the young plants get sharden-
ed" lace pare Of glass over them.
Remove the boxes as the ground and the
air gets warmed up, and you will have
fine early cucumbers.
The Shasta courier., 1870-03-19

A blatant church deacon by the name
OF George w. Sherwood. of Brooklyn, New
York, has been proved, before Court Of
justice, as the senior member Of firm, of
which Miss Jane Brennan was junior, to
carry on the business Of wholesale prostitu.
ton. An unequaled division Of the profits
OF the business caused the expose.
The Shasta courier., 1870-03-19

There is only one thing worse than ig-
norance, and that is conceit. OF all in
tractable tools an over-wise man is the
worst. You may cause fool to philoso-
phise, you may coax donkeys to forego
thistles, but don't ever think of driving
sense into the head of conceite6 person.
The Shasta courier., 1870-03-19

THE Proclamation of the fifteenth
Amendment is delayed by the several
States that have ratified it-having failed
to give prompt official notice of their action.
The Shasta courier., 1870-03-19

TWENTY thousand Cinnamon are on
their way from China to this country. and
at least $4,000 more will be imported be-
fore summer opens. So says the Secretary
of the Interior.
The Shasta courier., 1870-03-19

l.. p. FISHER, go e. FL New Mer-
cnant Exchange. is our only authorized Agent in
san Francisco. For Eastern Advertising, Mr.
Fisher is represented by s. M Pettsngill Co.
Of New York and Boston.
The Shasta courier., 1870-03-19

TELEGRAM from Los Angeles says:
Seed coffe has been received here from the
Sandwich Islands. and experiments in coffee
culture will be made this season.
The Shasta courier., 1870-03-19

ABOUT Roes.---No animal raised upon
farm varies so much in actual value as
the hog. A long legged, long -nosed, loose
Jointed. slab sided, course haired, gaunt,
uncomfortable rooter is an absolute lose, as
we'll as perpetual annoyance to any farmer
who has any pride in his business, or taste
about the locks of his stock. On the other
hand, money invested in stub nosed, short
cared, short-limbed, round-bodied, thin
skinned, quiec ana c,ean animal, is better
than in fancy railroad stock, not to mention
the comforts of having models of the beau
tifui hard by your door.
The best and most profitable breed for
ordinary farm purposes-when little is fed
during the summer but the refuse from
the family table and the sour milk or whey,
as the case may be-is a hog of about
medium size, and of thrifty family. If
gross and scrawny" there will be too
large frame in the fall to cover proftably
with fat; if small ooned, and of course
small every way, you will feed food that
will not yield a return, for the reason that
growth in such an animal is unnatural.
The Shasta courier., 1870-03-19
JOHN v. SCOTT, Proprietor.

TIME PROPRIETOR OF THIS FAvORITE
Il Hotel takes pleasure in announcing to his
friends and the public generally that be has re-
fitted and re re-urnished the establishment through
out, and is now prepared to entertain guests in a
style equal to any other house in Northern Cal
ifornia. The PARLOR and ROOMS are large
and commodious, and the BEDS and sleeping ac-
comodatons unsurpassed
THE TABLE
will always be supplied with everything the mar
kets of this locality afford. and every possible at
tention will be paid to the wants of guests, and no
pains spared to render them comfortable
At the BAR none but the best brands of Wine
Liquor and Cigars will be dispensed to customers.
The Oregon & Cal. Stages arrive at and leave
this Hotel daily.
CORRAL g. STABLE.
Attached to this es tabltsh nent is good COR
RAL and STABLE where Transfers and others
can always find abundant supply of HAY and
BARLEY at reasonable prices.
JOHN V. SCOTT.
Shasta June l9th, 1869. jel9
The Shasta courier., 1870-03-19
OFFICIAL DIRECTORY.

OFFICIAL DIRECTORY.
DISTRICT COURT.
A. NJ RosEBoRoUGH, Judge.
TERNs-Second Monday in March June and
November.
COUNTY COURT.
C. c. Bush, Judge.
TERMs-First Monday in January, May and
September
PROBATE COURT.
c. c. Bush, Judge.
TERMs-Frst Monday in February, April June
August, October and December,
BOARD OF SUPERVISORS.
Henry Jones, Lorin Scott and J. N Logan.
TERNs--First Monday in February, May August
November
COUNTY OFFICERS
Sheriff Thomas Greene
Under Sheriff f......... VIM. Jackson
Deputy Sheriff H. Gillooly
Clerk and Recorder er-................. G.. l. Tagpart
District C. W. Taylor
lreasuret-.....-.... Samuel Cooper
hssessor............. ...........-Chas. W. Taylor
Supt. Public Schools.................W.L L. Carter
Administrator aud Coroner. ohm Schuer
Surveyor. N. Adkins
The Fremont weekly journal. [volume] (Fremont, Sandusky County, Ohio) 1867-1877, 1870-04-22
The Chinese Mind.

Lord Elgiu SAYS the distinguishing
Characteristic of the Chinese mind is
this-thst at all points of the circle
described by mans intelligence, it
seems occasionally to have caught
glimpses Of a heaven far beyond the
range Of its ordinary ken and vision.
It caught a glimpse Of the path which
leads to military supremacy when il
invented gunpowder some centuries
before the discovery was made by
any other nation. 1t caught a glimpse
Of the path which leads to maritime
supremacy when it made, at a pc
Rod equally remote, the discovery
Of the mariner 5 compass. 1t caught
q glimpse Of the psth which leads to
literary supremacy when, in the
t9Ltl century, it invented the print.
ing press. 1t has caught, from time
glimpses Of the beautiful in color
and design. But, in the hands oil
the Chinese themselves, the inven.
tion Of gunp0wder has exploded ir
crackers and harmless works
The mariners compass has produced
nothing betterthan the coasting junk
The art Of printing has stag
mated into stereotyed editions
of Confucius, and the most Gym
cynical representations of the gro
tesque have been the principal pro
ducts Of Chinese conceptions of the
sublime and beautiful.
The Fremont weekly journal. [volume] (Fremont, Sandusky County, Ohio) 1867-1877, 1870-04-22
Last years Immigration.

During the past year the number
Of alien immigrants who arrived in
New York was greater than any year
since 1854. The total number of
passengers landed was 307,454 of
whom As, ,465 were citizens and $685.
$50 were aliens. The latter number
was an excess of 45.303 over that of
1868, and of 1880 over the average
previous years. 97,G05 of the immi-
grants were natives ofGermany; &C,
204 of Ireland; 1000 of England,
and $1,000 from all other countries
combined. The German emigration
has fallen of slightly, aud the Eng
lish and Irish has increased, while
the health of all arriving immigrants
has improved. The principal points
of fdestination we're: Illinois 3S,213;
New York, $3.50; Pennylyania 80,
135; Wisconsin, 1908. Two thous-
and three hundred and twenty-seven
Mormons arrived there during he
year. The New York Labor Ex-
change has, during the past year,
procured employment for "a, 1856 i'm
migrants, nearly four thousand more
than the previous year, Of whom s.
594 were mechanics. 1880 agri-
cultural and unskilled laborers, 438
skilled female labornrs, and I1,673
house servants. Of these. 27,8l6
could read and write, while 7,136
could not.
The Fremont weekly journal. [volume] (Fremont, Sandusky County, Ohio) 1867-1877, 1870-04-22
The Best Time TO Sow Clover

The Best Time to Sow Clover
A correspondent of one of our ex-
changes writes: During the eighteen
years [ have kept up the practice of
sowing cloverseed in April, and new
er lost a crop. I have sown from
fifteen to fifty acres per year. 1 SOW
in as dry a time as l can ges, and
and when the ground is as much
cracked as possible. The seeds
then fall into the craks, and are in a
measure prevented from being wash
ed away. In sowing twelve pounds
to the acre of your wheat field is a
fair supply; but soma farmers decid-
edly prefer mixing it with orchard
seed grass, two bushels of the latter
to twelve pounds of the clover seed,
sowing the clover seed first by itself,
afterwards the orchard grass seed.
The latter should be mixed with
twice its bulk of sand or ashes, the
more easily to SOW it. The mixture
of two kinds makes a much better
nay than clover alone, produces more
grass at first cutting, while the after
III IN Is greater, and the autumn
pasture more lnxuriant and enduring,
and it is believed exemnf from hov.
ening of cattle.
The Fremont weekly journal. [volume] (Fremont, Sandusky County, Ohio) 1867-1877, 1870-04-22

From an article under this head
IN the Rural New Yorker, Jonathan
Talcott, We extract the following
points:
Having experimental the past two
years with few of the different var
ieties Of cabbage, I will send you
the result, which may be Of some
benefit to a new beginner. In the
spring Of 1868 / ordered the early
Winningstadt, the Premium Flat
Dutch, the Drumhead Savoy, Stone
Mason, and from a member of Con
gress received a package ofthe Bat,
tersea Cabbage. The seed was al
sown in adjoining plots in the seed
bed early IN April, and the plants
were ready for setting early in June;
the ground selected for setting, wss
sandy gravel; had been cultivated IN
potatoes the year previous; was mel
low but rather inclining to be weedy,
had good coat Of fresh barn-yard
plowed in. The cabbage were set
about two feet apart each way for
the Winning ldt; the others two, and
half apart: we're cultivated twice,
hoad three times-once after they
we're tc large to admit of cultivating.
The Winningstadt, nearly or quite
all. formed good heads, not large, as
the season was quite dry in this Vi
cintv; the Premium Flat Dutch and
the Stone Mason, about two-thirds OF
them, were fit for market, although
many heads we're not large but very
few of the Savoys were Of marketa-
bic size: the heads soft, as rule,
but fine for cooking; the Battersea
formed but few heads fit for usei
in fact, they and the Savoys were a
failure for marketing purposes, but
produced quite well for feeding
stock.
The past season / got Tie Ear
w Winningstadt, Flat Dutch, Stone
Mason. Marblehead Mammoth, and
Fotler's Brunswick, wIic'I last two
costs five times as much per ounce
for seed as the Flat Dutch; and, for
all purposes, so far as a single eX-
pertinent proves, are not worth as
mutch as the Flat Dutch. The seed
was sown as in 1868 in April and
the plants set in June and July,
mostly in June; but this year the
plot selected was green sward, which
had been in meadow for the past
four or FIVE years, was well msnured
with fresh barnysrd manure, then
plowed six inches deep about the
| 1st of May; after corn planting drew
hog manure, and spread on The sur
face Of one half the piece, and the
scrapings of the bsFnyard on the
other half; then narrowed thorough
| ly and set the plants as in 1868
the Winnigstadt the closest, as they
are not as spreading Us the Other
sorts in their growth. Their after
culture was two hoeings by hand
! The ground was free Of weeds, and
| it did not cost half as much for till
age for the half acre as in 1868
The crop was fully twice as large
as the plants set were mostly Of the
Winningstadt Flat Dutch, and Stone
Mason: the Fotler's Brunswick and
Marblehesd Mammoth did not get
as forward, and we did not set as
many Of those in consequence, but
they were, both sorts, failures with
me,
The Fremont weekly journal. [volume] (Fremont, Sandusky County, Ohio) 1867-1877, 1870-04-22
THE JOURNAL.
BAsTs 8KLL SONG.
Ar q Tie oI8 oaksn BusAse"

Ar q The Old oaksn Bveket'
How dear to the heart is the gresn-OoveF'a
baTl-feld,
Where good rival captains their men r'sn'''
place,
Ths pitcher, ths, catcher, the right field and
the left field,
The good men, the true rsen' who guard well
each base
The short stop 50 lively, the centre field handy
The ball and the striker who aims to send
high
But asarar than all to the hearts of good
feldors,
Il the leatheF-clad base ball we catch on tn,
The jolly old base ball, tho weIl-oovored bas'
bsll,
The leathcr-clsd base ball we catch on the fy
The Fremont weekly journal. [volume] (Fremont, Sandusky County, Ohio) 1867-1877, 1870-04-22

ON the 26th day of April, 1870, at
Oll O'Clock A. IL, I will sell at the door
of the Court House. in Fremont, sandusky
county, Ohio, the one-half interest belonging to
the estate Of George W. Bsshaw, in the following
real estate in Townsend township, Sandusky
county. Ohio, to wit: The undivided one-half Of
the south half of the east half Of the southeast
quarter of section four ~, township five I5l, range
seventeen III, containing forty acres; also the
divided one half of five acres in the northwest
corner Of thewest half of the northwest quarter Of
section nine 9l,-of the township and range afore'
i2-I6 oRLIN sELvEY, Administrator.
The Fremont weekly journal. [volume] (Fremont, Sandusky County, Ohio) 1867-1877, 1870-04-22
OAK WOOD CEMETERY.

DOR SALE.-100O Lots more or less
l. in Oak Wood Cemetery, ranging in prices from
t5 to 600. Every resident Of Prem INT, Should
make selection Of lot, and beautify The same, for
sooner or later all 90 to that place. map Of Che
grounds can be seen at my ofiee.
IBlAc M. KELLER,
E2-ig Fremont Ohio,
The Fremont weekly journal. [volume] (Fremont, Sandusky County, Ohio) 1867-1877, 1870-04-22
ma NEM ARTICLE 0E E0nD.
plantation BitterSD
6 7 1880


This wonderful vegetable restora-
tive is the sheet-anchor Of the feeble
and debilitated AS tonic and cor
dial for the aged and languid, it has
no equal among stomachics. As a
remedy for the nervous weakness to
which woman are especially subject,
it is superceding every other stimu-
liant. In all climates, tropical, tenn
perate or frigid, it acts as a specific
in every species of disorder which
undermines the bodily strength and
breaks down the animal spirits. For
sale by all druggists. 1O-6m.