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The Placer herald., 1871-02-04

LOCALS IN BRIEF.-lne Auburn Brass band
has received its new instruments and music.
They cost 1878 The skating rink is not yet
opened,-th parties having to send to Chicago
for skates M Private letters from Michigan
Bluff inform us that the miners are beginning to
have some water, and that their countenances
wear a pleasant smile .... Mr.. J. NJ Jacobs,
the artist, is going to completely re-ft the Au-
burn Drug building as a splendid Art gallery,
and open in the Spring. Jacobs can just do it
to perfection. 49, Philip Smith, brother-in-law
of NJ Hoffman, has purchased Henry Stones
interest, and connected himself with ]. NJ. White
in the blacksmithing business, a few doors south
of this Office . Frank Gubbay and Stephen
Dwyer have formed partnership in the mer-
camille business at Dryers old stand Geo
A. Keehner has sold and given possession of
his Empire Livery Stable to J. Fl. Netf.
The Placer herald., 1871-02-04
AN APPEAL TO DEBTORS

HNIIE UNDERSIGNED HAVING HAD THE
i misfortune to lose his entire store, building
and stock of merchandise, by fire, and after pay
ing my debts out of the Insurance money, find
nothing left to start business again. This mis-
fortune and emergency compels me to ASK ALL
who are INDEBTED TO ME to come forward
and make
Payment Immediately.
| wish to rebuild and resume business at the
old stand without delay. if those who owe me
do not pay, l cannot start again. My books
were also burned, but honest men will not take
advantage of that misfortune, but should and
will even borrow money to pay me. DEBTORS,
if you cannot pay all now, pay part and the re-
mainder at the earliest possible day, as | am in
need of money. f-t1a JOHN MCBRIDE.
Rattlesnake Bar, January 9th, 1S71.-tf.
The Placer herald., 1871-02-04
MEALS AT ALL HOURS.

vINEE PROPRIETOR HAVING RECENTLY
i purchased and fitted up a portion of the
6re-proof brick block, adjoining his well known
stand, is prepared to extend additional accom-
modations to boarders and travellers Neatly
furnished apartments and good beds can always
be found at this House-an excellent table set
and the best of LIQUORS and CIGARS kept at
the Bar.
Oysters and Pigs Feet served up at all hours.
iao1 6S 4 AnEFA\
The Placer herald., 1871-02-04
THE NEW FOOD.

For a few cents you can buy
of your Grocer or Druggist .
package of SEA MOSS FARINK
made from pure Irish Moss or
Carrageen, which will make
sixteen quarts Ct Ilanc Mango,
and g like quaint y ef Puddings
Custards, Creams, Charlotte
Russo, &c. It is tie cheapest,
healthiest and most delicious
food in the world. It makes 4
splendid Dessert, and has no
equal as a light and delicate
food for Invalids and Children.
The Placer herald., 1871-02-04

THIEVES CAuGHr.-A gang OF Spanish thieves
have been plying their vocation between Marys-
vile, and the mountains through Sutter, Placer,
Nevada and Ell Dorado counties, ha ling rendez-
vous in Yubl Placer and Ell Dorado, and per-
haps other counties. Sheriff Dunnam, of this
county and his deputies have been working the
matter up and on the track of this gang since in
September last, and in communication with Off
GERS Of the adjoining counties On Monday las;
they nabbed two Of the gang Manuel - and
Zanteeze, the only names they would give, at
the house OF John Phoenix, in the Chinese quar-
ter Of Auburn. On Wednesday last the officers
traced another of the gang to house i'll Doty's
Flat, three miles west of here and caught him,
after good race and some shooting. 1t seems
that this hombre had suspicious, and had placed
. woman on the watch for the officers. On the
approach of the officers the woman gave the
alarm, and the prisoner jumped out of back
window and broke for the chapparal and the
officers after him. The officers called to him to
halt, but he ran the faster and they commenced
shooting at distance of SO or 60 yards he
lodged through the brush When overtaken
he drew large knife some Is inches long,
fight, bat on being covered by two revolvers he
surrendered. On the three prisoners arrested
here two splendid S-inch six-shooter colts re-
volvers and three monster knives were found
This is three of the gang. On Monday, Portu-
Ruese Joe, well known here and another of the
gang were caught by the officers OF Ell Dorado
county at Placervlle One of these men after
fsinp arrested told Sheriff Dunnam that there
w,re six more in the gang, but refused any other
information. All these five Mexican Spanish
prisoners taken to Marysviile on Thursday
last, and lodged in Jail, where it is believed there
is evidence sufficient to convict them This
haul will probably break up the gang or at least
force it to shift its quarters and depredations to
spme other portion of the country, 50 that even
if no more of them are caught at present good
job has already been accomplished for this sec
ton of country
The Marietta journal. [volume] (Marietta, Ga.) 1866-1909, 1871-09-08

Grumblers and GROWERS, from
whom the good Lord deliver us
Why is it that some people are sc
hard to please? Surely not because
they are ever ready to do right
themselves, and certainly not be-
cause the said G and G are perfect,
Why then in the name OF
common sense, and some charity,
can not these inveterate cases ac-
cept human nature as they find it,
and not go about hunting for the
worst side, and most Objectionable
features of every day life ? If there
is anything that despises us thor
oughly, it is to hear deaf people OBJ
iecting to the present style of music,
or the blind Directing to the fashion
able colors. If a man is so consti-
tuted that cheese does not agree
with him, let him not eat it; and at
the same time as he values his char
acter for Iveracity, let him not de-
clare it a poison, for the whole hui
man race. We are net averse TO
lectures aud homiies on the vice
and immortality of the age, but we
do object to that style prevailing to
some extent now, which declares
our neighbor erer in the wrong, and
ourselves, eccr in the right. From
such narrow mindedness, we say
Good Lord deliver us-and COM
mend these few remarks to the con-
sideration of our hearers.
The Marietta journal. [volume] (Marietta, Ga.) 1866-1909, 1871-09-08

No matter how obscure the posi-
ton in life of an individual, if he can
read, he may at will put himself in
the bos: society the world has ever
seen. lie may sit down with the
good and great men OF antiquity.
He may converse with Franklin and
Washington; with all the writers in
prose and poetry. He may learn
how to live, how to avoid the errors
of his predecessors, and to secure
present and future, to HIM
self. He may reside in desert far
away from the habitations of man;
in solitude, where no human eye
looks upon him with affection or inte-
rest: where no human voice cheers
bin with the animating tones, if he
has books to read, he need never be
alone. He may choose his company
and the subject of conversation, and
thus become contented and happy,
intelligent, wise and good. He thus
elevates his rank in the world, and
become independent in the best sense
of the term. Reading, then, stands
among the first in the departments
of school education,
The Marietta journal. [volume] (Marietta, Ga.) 1866-1909, 1871-09-08

WE are perfectly willing that
clergymen should get as large salar-
les as they can; for, generally, they
have a fine talent for everything ex-
cept for making money, and fire.
quently they show great ability in
spending it, But, if, as in San
Francisco, salaries have been fixed
at unreasonable high rates, they will
almost inevitably DO curtailed before
long. We read that one pastor in
the above city "a Presbyterian, who
was settled at $4,000 per annum,
has been cut down 10 $4,000; and
another church, the preacher Of
which had been getting the largest
honorarium over paid to a pastor in
California, has reduced to 81, 900 the
annual wages of its shepherd
Hearers grow critical of the sermons
when such an extraordinary price is
paid for them; and, if after all, the
pews are not promptly filed up, the
poor pulpit-man is regarded as q
hard bargain.
The Marietta journal. [volume] (Marietta, Ga.) 1866-1909, 1871-09-08

. SUNSHINE AND SLEEP.-Sleepless
people-and they are many in
America-should court the SUM-
The very worst soporifc is lauda-
mum, and the very best, sunshine.
Therefore, it is very plain that poor
sleepers should pass as many hours
as possible in sunshine, and as few
as possible in the shade. Many
women are martyrs, and yet they do
not know it. They shut the sun
shine out of their houses and their
hearts, they wear walls, they carry
parasols, they do all possibleto keeE
off the subtlest and yet most poten'
influence which is intended to give
them strength and beauty and cheer
fulness. Is it not time to change al
this, and so get color and roses il
our pale cheeks, strength in GU
weak backs, and courage in on
timid souls 7 The women of Amer
lea are pale and delicate they may
be blooming and strong, and tn,
sunlight will be a potent influence il
this transformation.
The Marietta journal. [volume] (Marietta, Ga.) 1866-1909, 1871-09-08

ANONYMOUS LETTER WRITER'S
Perhaps of all the actions into which
the evil passions of humanity are
led, there is none baser than than
that of writing an anonymous letter.
1t is moral assassination committed
by masked murderer "a lie with,
out an author-the mean-spiritet
act of a disreputable coward, il
whose heart gall has replaced the
wholesome blood, and whose malice
jealousy and revenge vent them.
selves in Islander. ! would as soor
trust my purse with a thief, my
friendship with the hangman, take
a serpent lin my hand, or liar tc
my heart, "a hold communion Of
love, friendship or interest with the
despicable writer Of an anonymous
letter.
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CHE Mlarittta gollrnal.

WOMEN AND MUsIo.--Women are
the great listeners, not only to elo-
quence, but also to music. The
wind has swept away az seo!ian Tyre,
but never such q sensitive harp as
a woman's soul. The woman's tenn
permanent is naturally artistic, not il
a creative, but in respective sense
A woman seldom writes good music
never great music; and strange tC
say, many of the best singers have
been incapable of giving even good
musical reading to the songs in which
they have been most famous. 1t is
rumored that Madame Grisi had to
be taught all her songs, and become
great by her wonderful power of ap,,
propriating suggestions of pathos ana
expression which she was incapabi,e
of originating herself Madame Mil,
ibran had great dash OF original
genius, and seldom sang a song
vice in the same way
The Marietta journal. [volume] (Marietta, Ga.) 1866-1909, 1871-09-08

Forney's "Olivia" has been TAX
ing a look at things to be seen at
Long Branch. She says: "All
gatherings, whether they take place
in the water, on the lawn, in the
large parlors, remind the observer
of a woman suffrage convention
While men are at hume toiling at
their self-appointed tasks, women
are here spending money as though
it were water. A married woman
of the fashionable kind has a suite of
rooms set apart for her exclusive
use. She has servants who have
neither eyes nor ears. She has a
carriage lined with satin as luxu-
rious as elder down. She has pro-
fessional bather to take her into the
briny fluid, who knows how to man
age so that even the Atlantic shall
not visit her cheek too roughly
She has usually very young man
attached to her by invisible ties, af-
ter The manner of Aunt Trotwood
and Mr.. Dick. This innocent
creature fills the measure of her
vanity when nothing better has been
gathered for the slaughter. The
most desperate Airtations are seeth-
ing and bubbling while the husband
is growing bald with hard-thinking
in Wall street Why, Queen Eliza
beth was denied more than half the
luxuries this American princess en-
! lows,
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rREDrRroK AND HIS PAGE

Frederick the Great, King o.
Prussia, one day rang his bell, and
nobody answering, he opened his
door and found his page fast asleep
in an elbow-chair. He advanced
towards him, and was going to
awaken him, when he perceived
part of letter hanging out OF his
pocket. His curiosity prompting
him to know what it was, he took 1T
ont and read it. As he was a very
loving and kind-hearted king, let us
forgive what even he had no right
to do without leave.
1t was a letter from this young
mans mother, in which she thank.
ed him for having sent her a part OF
his wages to relieve her misery, and
finised with telling him that God
would reward him for his dutiful af-
lection.
The King, after reading it, went
back softly into his chamber; took
bag full of ducats, and slipped it
with Fthe letter. into the pages
pocket.
Returning to the chamber, he
rang the bell SO loud that it awaken
ed the page who instantly made his
"You have had
sound sleep" said the king.
The page was at a loss how to ex-
cuse himself, and putting his hand
into his pocket, TO his utter astonish-
ment he there found a purse of
ducats. He took it out, turned pale,
and looking at the king, burst into
tears without being able to utter a
single word.
"What is the matter z"
SAY, SIRE" said the young man,
throwing himself on his knees,
"somebody seeks my ruin; | know
nothing of this money which | have
Just found in my pocket"
"My young friend" said Freder-
lex, "God often does great things
for us even in our sleep; salute her
on my part, and assure her that l
will take care of both her and you.
The Marietta journal. [volume] (Marietta, Ga.) 1866-1909, 1871-09-08

r1sn or THE Mirror ON BEES
had three swarms of bees that LETT
ny apiary. I had hived The first in
the forenoon on The day it swarmed /;
but about four in the afternoon it de-
camped for parts unknown; it got
some distance before | got ready with
my looking-glass, but to my surprise
the third flash of the suns rays with
the looking-glass made the bees fly
round, instead of going straight for
ward as before; and they immedi-
ately settled upon tree. The sec
ond swarm came on in the afternoon.
1t made no halt to settle, but made
for the timber. l followed it, and
brought it down the same way. The
third got nearly half mile away,
flying on the east side of the timber.
The sun being in the west VIC could
not use the glass but as soon as we
got the sun, three flashes settled it
also. have three swarms thus ar
rested, and they are doing WE'LL
Correspondent Bee journal.
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a PROCLAMATION.
G. EORGI
Bv RUFUS B. BULLOCK,


Whereas, AT the July Term, A. ID. 1871, Of
the Superior Court, held in and for the County
of Washington, one james Oxford was tried
for and convicted of the crime of murder, and
sentenced by the Judge presiding at said Court
to be executed, by hanging by the neck until
dead, on Friday, the LIST day of September Prox-
imo. and was by order Of said Court committed
to the Jail of the County of Baldwin, for safe
keeping, TO await the fuflment ofsaid sentence,
and.
Whereas, 1t has been officially reported 10
this Department, that on the night of the 22nd
of July 1871, in the City of Milledgeville, Coun
" of Baldwin, a band of lawless and disguised
persons, of about seyenty-five in number, did
by force and intimidation, obtain from the Sher
if of the said County of Baldwin, the keys Of
the iail of said county. and did unlawfully open
the same and release theretrom the said James
Oxford, and set him at liberty and
Whereas, Upon previous occasion. 10 wit
ON the night of the 14th of October. 1869 while
the said James Oxford was confined in The
Jail of the County Of Hancock, under an indict-
ment charging him with the murder Of respec-
table citizen Of said county, band Of disguised
and lawless persons, of about sixty in number
did, by force and intimidation, obtain from the
Sheriff Of said County of Hancock the keys Of
the said Jail, and, having Overpowered the
guard, stationed thereat tor the saiekeeping Of
the prisoners confined therein, did unlawfully
open said Jail and release herefrom the said
James Oxford, and set him at liberty and
Whereas These repeated and fragrant viola.
lions of the law by bands of disguised persons
clearly establish the fact that there is deermi-
nation upon their part to prevent the said Ok
ford from being brought to punishment for the
crime of which he stands convicted, thereby set
ting the laws of this State at open defiance, and
thwarting the ends ofiustice; and
Whereas, 1t is the duty the Executive. and
the interest Of every good citizen of this State,
to see that the laws thereof are rigidly eNecn-
led.
Now. therefore, in order that the majesty OF
the law NAV I've fully indicated and to this
end that the sentence imposed by the Count
upon the said Oxford as aforesaid may be fully
executed. do hereby issue this, my procama-
ton Offering a Reward of Five Thousand Dol
lars for the apprehension and delivery of the
said James Oxford TO the Sheriff Of Fulton
County.
And | do moreover charge all officers, both
civil and military in this State, TO be vigient III
endeavoring to apprehend the said James Ok
ford, in order that he may be brought to pun
ishment tor the crime of which he stands con
victed.
Given underny hand and the Great Seal Of
the State, at the Capitol in Atlanta, this
18th of August in the year of our Lord
Eighteen Hundred aud Seveuty-one, and o.
of the Independence of the United States
ofAmerica the Ninety sixth.
RUFUS b. BULLOCK.
BY the Governor
DAVID G. COTTING, Secretary of State.
aug. 1S-4t
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COURT OF ORDINARY,
CONN COUNTY. AUG. 18th. ISL.

1t is hereby ordered that the tax collector oil
said County proceed to levy and collect as Coun-
ty Tax, for the year 1871 of one hundred per
cent on the general and specific tax assessed by
the State as per tax digest, except when prolib-
tied by law, and fifty per cent upon the specific
tax levied by the State upon the sellers Of
Brandy Gin, Whiskey or Rum in quantities
less than thirty gallons. To be given in and
collected at the same time and in the same
manner as said State Tax. Said Tax to be
used for county purposes, and appropriated as
follows, viz:
Building Jail and Appurtanances 45 pr. q.
Paupers and Poor.house ..-.-.,25
Current Expenses OF Comfy for Juries,
Bridges, Debts due, &c, &c. 80
Also upon taxable property returned as per
Digest 1-50 of one per cent for the payment Of
the Judge and Attorney Of the District Court
the amount of their salaries, payable by said
County.
g. + Shenard Ord'v.
The Marietta journal. [volume] (Marietta, Ga.) 1866-1909, 1871-09-08

STORY OF AN IRISH ADVOCATE
He would go on speaking after the
learned judge had cautioned him to
desist, till at last his irritated Lord
ship cried:
"Sir, it is of no use for you to
speak further; what you say to me
goes in one ear and out of the other"
"My Lord" replied the advocate,
sit is no wonder when there is moth
ing between them to stop it.
The Marietta journal. [volume] (Marietta, Ga.) 1866-1909, 1871-09-08
Z. j. Shepard, Ord'y
Administrators Sale.

BY virtue of an order from the Court of Or
binary of Pauding County Ca. will be sold
before the Court house dooI in the town of Dial
las. on the first Tuesday in October next, lie.
tween the usual hours of sale the following
lots of land, to wit Nos 1879 1850, 1l99 and
thrty-eight acres Of lot No. 1l91, and two
acres of lot No 1877 in 3rd Dist and Bird Sec
ton ofPaulding County, Ga. Sold as the prop
erty of Abraham Smith, deceased. Sold for Dis
tribution Terms Cash. August II, 1871.
Allen Smith, Admir-.
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Administrators Sale.

WILL be sold by virtue of an order Of the
Court of Ordinary of Pauldine County on the
first Tuesday in October next, lot of land No
795 in 3rd Dist Bird Section of said County
Sold as the Property of Hartwell Lee deceased
Terms Cash August 16, 1871.
Elizabeth Lee, Admir-.
Wyatt Lee, Admir-.
w. j. Lee, Admir-.
The Marietta journal. [volume] (Marietta, Ga.) 1866-1909, 1871-09-08

The word dandy is derived from
the French dandlin, or ninny, or
from the Italian dandola, toy
Hence, a dandy means one who
dresses himself like doll, fop, or
coxcomb. There are some speci-
mems of this strange animal still ex-
tant.
The Marietta journal. [volume] (Marietta, Ga.) 1866-1909, 1871-09-08
FEVER AND AGUF
DR. RAILWAYS
SARSAPARILLIAN RESOLVENT'
Has made the most astonishing cures; so
quick, so rapid are the changes the
body mdergoes, under the infn
nncn Of Ills firmly Mnnlnrlul Nledicime

Has made the most astonishing cures; so
quick. so rapid are the changes the
body udergoes, under the nfu-
ence of this truly wonderful Medicine
that Every Day an Increase in Flesh and
Weight is SEEN and FELT THE GREAT
BLOOD PURIFIER Every drop ofthe SAR-
sAPARILLIAN RESoLvFNT communicates throu
the Blood, Sweat, Urine, and other fluids and
juices of the system, the vigor oflife, for ii re-
pairs the wastes Of the body with new and
sound material. Scrofula, Syphilis, Consump-
ton, Glaudular diseases, Ulcers in the Throat
Mouth. Tumors, Nodes in the Glands and other
parts of the system, Sore Eyes Strumorous dis
charges from the Ears; and the worst forms of
Skin diseases, Eruptions, Fever Sores. Scald
Head. Ring Worm, Erysipas. Acne, Black
Spots, Worms in the Flesh, Tumors, Cancers
in the Womb, and all weaknng and painful dis
charges Night Sweats. Loss of Sperm and all
wastes of the life principle, are within the cura-
/ tive range of this wonder of Modern Chemistry,
! and few days use will prove to any person
using il for either of these forms OF disease its
I potent power to cure them.
Not only does the SarsapariliaE Resoyent
excel all known remedial agents in the cure of
( Chronic, Scrofulous. Constitutional and Skin
/ diseases but il is the only positive cure for
/ Kidney and Bladder Complaints, Urinary and
| Womb diseases, Gravel, Diabetes, Dropsy Stop
1 age at Water, meontinence of Urine, Bright
/ Disease, Albumlnuria, and In all cases where
I there are brick. dust deposits or the water is
thick, cloudy, mixed with other substances like
the white of an egg, or threads like white silk,
or there is a morbid, dark, bilious appearance,
and white bone-dust deposits, and when there
is pricking, burning sensation when passing
water, and pain in the small of the back and
along the Loins
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c. J. Shepard, Ord'y.
GEORGIA Cobb County

Whereas, Nancy Scroggins, Executrx and
G. c. Scrogsins, Executor ofthe last Will and
Testament of James F. Scroggins deceased;
represent to the Court by their petition. duly
filed and entered on record, that they have fully
discharged all the duties required of them by
law, as Executrix and Executor of the said Es-
tate This is therefore 10 cite all persons con
cernetl, kindred and creditors. to show cause ii
any they can why the said EXecutrX and Elk
ecutor should not be discharged from the Exec
utorship of the said Estate, and receive letters
OF dismission on the fist Monday in November
1871