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The Shasta courier., 1871-02-25
IN S q r A N C E.

HvHE IMPRESSION OBTAINS AMONG many
il persons that the value of Accident Insurance
can be appreciated sonly by travellers, or those
whose avocations necessarily of a hazardous
nature. Still statistics show that one in every
ten of the entire population meets with an
Accident every year. Every prudent and careful
will act with reference to future contingencies
Bodily injury by accident is one of the most fire.
quent of distress of distress to man family
If fatal to him and to himself also, if only dis
abling him from business,
In either case this mode of insurance comes to
you with certain relief. gsa ~
Erery is liable to accident, " Good Luck
cannot always be depended upon. tsFsf
The question to be settled precisely the same
as in fire insurance. Is it not cheaper to let a
responsible company take the risk than it is to
carry it yourself? Is not the protection offered
ioorth than it costs.
What Accidents Have to be Paid For.
The record of an English Accident Co., giving
list of indemnity losses paid in April May and
June of last year, makes the following exhibit /:
horse accidents, 95; business accidents, 56 home
accidents, II; street accidents, 81 carriage acci-
dents, 24 railroad accidents, only IA. Persons
who don't travel much please take notice.
The Shasta courier., 1871-02-25
LOW CHARGES AND QUICK CURES.

Ladies suffering from any complaint incidental
to their sex can consult the Doctor with the
ance of relief.
Worcester daily spy. [volume] (Worcester [Mass.]) 1850-1888, 1871-06-19
The Pike.

Mr. Nordhoh, of the New York Evening Post,
now travelling in California, in a letter to that
paper thus sketches one of the characteristic
figures of California society:
OF course it will be understood that the back
woOdsman is not unknown in the state. In
deed, il has a peculiar class of settlers, in some
parasitic Pike, a rough of the first class, as
you will know when tell you that pike" is short
for MisSourian, and Missouri backwocdsman at
that. | suppose the Pike came here when the
Yankee made Missouri uncomfortable for him.
He is an uncouth creature, who owns hundreds
of cows, but does without milk; whose wife
still spins and weaves, and who lives thorough
ly shiltless and happy life, and manfully resists
civilization and its comforts.
al was telling Pike who came to see me-"
said a friend we met on the way, that he ought
to live further north" This particular Pike
lived on the Keno river in southern California
81 described to him how in the north we had
clothing stores; how we had our houses well
furnished with chairs and sofas and beds well
made; how his children might there go to
school and his wife dress well. When had
done, my friend, the Pike, remarked that it
stood him in hand to keep out of such a coun
try, which, said he, is fit only for rich men TO
live in Why he exclaimed, you have to
buy everything there, and it must cost an awful
sight of money to live there. | should be very
quickly ruined" And so this good Pike, who
you will see, is a protecu0nlst OF the most adj
mirable kind, who would be joy to Mr.. Gree
ley, remains on the Keno river, where, to be
sure, he does not have to buy anything but
whiskey and tobacco.
| The Pike is found also in Colusa county,
where he is the hero of numerous droll stories.
| As for instance: 81 was determined" said cit
! izen, "to keep the fourth of July; but these
| Pixies don't understand anything about it. So
| last year two or three of us took an old anvil
down to the river, loaded it up, and began 10
blaze away. By and by | saw lot of black OBJ
jectS bobbing up and down on the river, always
up stream. | thought they were ducks at first,
but presently discovered them to be lot of
Pixies swimming the river, with their rifles held
out of the water. Soon they cane along to us,
and the head man, gaunt siX-footer in butter
nut, sung out to me, Stranger, whar's the
warp"
ri couldn't get their whiskey strong enough
for them" said a droll fellow, "Nick, who had
kept "saloon," which is Californian for bar
ROOM in Colusa; $50 after trying every way,
at last made mixture of poison oak and butter
nut. That fetched 'em. | called it the sheep
herder's delight; and it was a popular drink.
The first Pike tried it on yelled with delight
the next one took two drinks, and turned a
double summerset in the road before the house.
A peddler came along, and after he took several
drinks Of my sheep-herder's delight he went off
and stole his own pack, and hid it in the woods.
When he came to himself he made complaint
of the theft; but guessed how it was, and helped
him to find the pOOds'
Worcester daily spy. [volume] (Worcester [Mass.]) 1850-1888, 1871-06-19

The correspondent in Rome of New York
paper writes:
"a most atrocious circumstance occurred last
week, showing the hatred Of certain of the ultra
montana party here to the present tolerance of
Protestant worship, and the barbarity they are
capable of showing in their attempts to prevent
the Romans from frequenting Protestant assem-
blies For the last month an Italian Methodist
clergyman has been preaching at No. 20 Via del
Barbieri, near the Argentina theater. His name
is Francisco Sciareli. He was formerly Fran
ciscan monk, and this is probably the reason of
the particular hatred he inspires. At any rate,
on account of the communion service, Just as
the little congregation was singing a hymn,
the clergyman saw bright light and instantly
an explosion took place, which shook the room
violently, put out all the lights, and shattered
every pane of glass in the windows FOR n mo-
ment the scene was terrific. Mrs. nclareln
thought that her husband had been shot sew
eral were wounded by the broken glass, ana
supposed that they had received gunshot
wounds. The women and children were Shrek
inc Everybody was calling for his or her friends,
and grooming in the darkness for the means of
exit. Lights were at last got, and the tumult APP
peased when it was discovered that bomb had
been placed between the two doors leading to the
room in which the congregation was assem-
bled Ii had been doubtless supposed that the
dabolical machine would explode at the mo-
ment of the dismissal of the assembly. This
would have been the case but for the admins
tration of the communion. In any event the
loss of life would have been terrible, had not
the bomb been unskillfully made up. One half
of il was filled with powder, and the other with
cruel bits of iron, stones and glasS-an internal
machine on a small scale. Happily, the upper
part in which the powder was placed was blown
off before it reached the lower portion. have
taken great pains to inform myself Of the exact
truth with regard to this outrage have seen
Mr.. and Mrs. Sciareli, and have the written ac-
count of the occurrence from an American who
was present. The bomb was taken TO the
questure, but 1 saw one of the pieces of iron. 1t
was about as long and broad as a lady's
middle finger, but not quite as wide. Ii was
bent at one end, and was, as were most of the
pieces of iron, made from an old horseshoe.
The matter has been laid before the general
government, as well as that of the city. There
is no doubt that if it be found necessary, Pro-
testants will be protected by a regular guard
during their services. Religious liberty is one
of the privileges that the Goth of September in
augurated, and CONVENIENT and people will
unite to preserve it intact.
Worcester daily spy. [volume] (Worcester [Mass.]) 1850-1888, 1871-06-19

M. Octave Pavy, of the French and American
geographical societies, will sail from San Fran
cisco, July 18th, in search of the north pole. He
will 90 to the arctic region by way of Behring's
Strait, which is more promising than the route
proposed by Captain Hall, because it has not
been tried sufficiently TO show what can be done
in that direction; but he does not expect TO
reach the pole without sledge travel across in
tervening ice. He may be able to report some
discoveries, for not much is known of the arctic
sea in the northwestern direction from Behring'
Strait, which he proposes to explore; but we
need not expect to hear that he has
reached the pole. NJ. Pavy states very
clearly the reasons why Captain Halls
route, by way of Jones Sound, can
not lead him to the pole; and when the two
voyages shall be finished and fully reported, it
will doubtless appear then as it appears now, that
all that can be done on either route, was done
by DR.. Kane and his companions, who went
across the ice from Rensselaer, Bay to the open
polar sea. The time may come when some ex-
plorer will sail 10 the north pole; but we may
safely predict that whoever does this will follow
the gulf stream,
Worcester daily spy. [volume] (Worcester [Mass.]) 1850-1888, 1871-06-19

When the Oneida was run down and sunk in
the bay of Yokohama, nobody there rendered
more prompt and efficient aid in the long search
for the drowned officers and men, than the of
ficers of the Russian corvette Vsadnick. This
corvette, commanded by captain Mikhaylotf,
was then at Yokohama; and nothing the Rus
slams could do to aid our men was omitted
The Vsadnck is now at New York, where she
arrived on the sth instant, and her officers have
received the most cordial welcome from the of
ficials at the navy yard. Several of our naval
officers now stationed at Brooklyn, were at
Yokohama when the disaster occurred, and they
propose to give their Russian friends pubic
reception which shall express their appreciation
of the service rendered. The Ysadnick came
here from the Cape of Good Hope under orders
TO wait for the feet that would bring the Grand
Duke Alexis to the United States. But his
coming has been postponed until the cool
weather of autumn shall begin; and, after being
repaired and reftted, the Vsadnick will sail for
Cronstadt
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XnlIandiRhaIll.

The accident to Mr.. Vallandigham, men,
toned in our telegraphic dispatches on Satur-
day, caused his death that morning. The
wound was necessarily fatal and no care or
skill could have averted the result. His death
comes Just at the time when he was again ap-
parently becoming prominent and influential in
political life. Mr.. Yallandigham, in all his per-
sonal relations, was courteous and honorable,
and his political addresses, though their SUBJ
stance, during the critical times of our civil
war, was extremely offensive to the loyal senti-
ment 1.-THE country, had nothing rude or coarse il
their manner. He was man of marked ability
in his profession and in politics, and, if sincere
in his support of new policy for the democrat
ic party, had before him prospect of increased
distinction, and perhaps of usefulness. His
peryerse political theories made him, during the
rebellion, an enemy to his country, but he was
at least an open enemy, who did not shrink
from avowing his convictions and acting upon
them, and he was on that account less danger
GUS than many who agreed with him in senti-
ment, but pretended loyalty, while secretly
sympathizing with and favoring traitors.
Mr.. Vallandigham was born in New Lisbon,
Ohio, in 1922, was educated at Jefferson college.
He studied law and was admitted to the bar in
Ohio in 1912. From 1s47 he edited for two
years democratic journal-the Dayton EN-
pire. In 1915 he first entered public life as
member of the Ohio legislature. He was first
elected to congress in 1885, and in the thirty
fifth and thirty-sixth congresses served on the
committee on territories. In the thirty-seyenth
congress he made himself conspicuous by his
defiant opposition to all measures for the ma
tional defence, and his open aIowals of sympa-
thy for the rebels. His disoyalty was too
much for his constituents, and he failed to be
elected TO the next congress. In 1863 he was
arrested and tried by court-martial for making
an extremely seditious and violent speech, coun-
selling resistance to the draft. The sentence OF
the court that he should be imprisoned during
the war, was approved by General Burnside
commander of the military department, but Presi
dent Lincoln modified it to sending him beyond
the lines of the army. He was accordingly sen
to the advance posts Of our army and passed
over to the care of the rebels. During his ban.
ishment he was nominated for governor by the
democrats of Ohio, and asked of the president
permission to return and conduct the canvass,
hut of this request no notice was taken. The
people of Ohio gave their condemnatioao of his
dislOyalty by electing the opposing candidate by
more than one hundred thousand majority. He
returned to Ohio before the war ended, by way
of the West Indies and Canada, and since then
has quietly practiced his profession, making nc
figure in politics until his late appearance as the
apostle of the "new departure"
Worcester daily spy. [volume] (Worcester [Mass.]) 1850-1888, 1871-06-19

beg leave to call the attention of the reader to tes
monias in favor Of the Schnapps:
feel bound to say that regard your Scnapps as being
in every respect pre- eminenty pure and deserving Of
medical patronage. At all it is the purest posi-
BILE article Of Holland GIN heretofore unobtainabe and
such may be safely prescribed by physicians
DAVID L. MOTT, NJ. D.,
Pharmaceutical Chemist, New York.
LOUISVILLE, KY, Sept III feel that we have now an
article of gin suitable for such that remedy is
adapted to. DIR. j. W. BRIGHT.
"Schnapps" Is a remedy in chronic catarrhal com
take great pleasure IN bearing highly creditabIe est-
mony to Its efficacy remedial agent in the diseases
to surfaces, with slight degree of stmula
ton, regard it of the most important remedies
genito-urnary apparatus With much respect your
obedient servant, CHAS. A. LEAS, M D., New York.
&c PINE ST., NEW YORK, Nov. 81, Is6T-UDoLPHo
WOLFE. ESQ., Present. Dear Sir: have made chem
ical examination of sample your Schiedam Schnapps
with the intent of determining any foreign injurious
substances had been added to the simple distilled spirits
the sample contained no poisonous or harmful admx
ture. have been unable to discover any trace of the
SUBSTANCES winch are sometimes employed IN
the adgteration OF liquors. would not hesitate to use
myself nor to recommend to Others for medicinal pur
poses the "Schiedam Sehnapps" as an excellent and
unobectonable variety Of GIN Very respectfully yours,
(Signed) CHAS. A. SEELY, Chemist.
CHEMICAL AND TECHNICAL LABORATORY, IS EXCHANGE
PLACE, NEW YoRK, Nov. 49, ls67-UDoLPHo WOLFE,
Esq Dear Sir: The undersigned have carefully and
dam schnapps" selected BY ourselves, and have found
the same free from all organic inorganic substances
less injurious to health From the result of our
examination we consider the article of superior
quality, healthful as beverage and efeetual In It's
medicinal qualities. Respectfully yours,
(Sgned) ALEX TRIPPEL, Chemist
FRANCIS E. ENGLEHARD, NJ. d.
For sale by all respectable Grocers and Druggists.
UDoLPHO WoLFE'S EST,
mills dSw3m % Beaver ST., NY
Worcester daily spy. [volume] (Worcester [Mass.]) 1850-1888, 1871-06-19

More than seventy horses are reported to have
died on Thursday from the effects of the mystic
rious horse plague which is raging in several of
the large stables in this CITY, The symptoms of
the disease closely resemble those of cerebrO-
spinal meningitis, although the majority of the
veterinary doctors say that the present plague
has no connection with that disorder. The ami
NAL is first attacked with q species of paralysis
in the headquarters, which gradually creeps up
the spinal cord towards the brain, when the use
of the limbs is almost entirely lost. The appe.
tite is not affected, but the natural functions are
completely suspended Horses when first af
fected frequently lie down and refuse to rise un
til death comes to their relief. To obviate this
difficulty the sick animals are suspended in
sings, and While in that position mustard is APP
piled externally to the spinal column.
The disease first appeared in the stables Of the
Second avenue railroad, and it was quickly dis
covered that the only chance to save the lives of
the stricken horses was to relieve them from
work on the appearance of the first symptoms.
One hundred and thirty horses belonging TO this
company were attacked. Many died, but some
of the animals, which were sent up to Westches-
ter county and treated with aconite and bella
donna, have recovered.
The disease next appeared in the stables of
the Third avenue railroad company, where three
hundred and fifty horses were incapacitated from
work, thirty of them dying. The superintend-
ent of this line has expressed an opinion that
the plague is simply Inflammation of the bowels,
caused by unwhoesome food. The remedies
used by him have been nux UoDlicG and tar
balls.
The disease has appeared in several other
stables, but not to the same extent as in the two
instances alluded to above. The best veterinary
surgeons are puzzled as TO its true character,
and are unable to decide whether or not it is con-
tagious. 1t certainly is not confined to this city,
for complaints are beginning to come in from
the country concerning the spread of the malady
among the horses of the farmers. Brooklyn
has, however, thus far escaped the faint, and the
Fourth avenue, Avenue B, Dry Dock and
Blocker street lines in this city also report their
horses in healthy condition.-E0ening Post,
1Tth
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THINNING FRUIT.-0ne of the greatest Sc
crets in successful fruit-growing, or perhaps the
greatest, is the thinning of the fruit upon the
tree while young. Many people cultivate their
fruits in the best manner, and yet often fail of
success. Those who meet with the best results
are those who combine both careful tillage with
a rigid practice of thinning.
A young tree taken from the nursery, where
it has received good cultivation, is in very
vigorous condition, and in transplanting is una
voidably checked, giving it tendency, which we
often notice in young trees, to produce fruit Ii
seems TO be a law in pant-life that when the
Vigor of plant is impaired nature provides for
an increase of the species by the formation of
| seed. In the effort TO perpetuate its kind the
| plant is generally still further weakened. In
| this natural tendency may be found one reason
for the theory of root-pruning, pinching in, and
seeding down orchards to grass, in order to pro-
duce fruitfulness Young trees in few years,
if left to themselves, will so oyerbear as to be-
come stunted and worthless.
In order to remedy this, it is necessary to re-
move all fruit from young trees until they at
tain sufficient Yigor to support a crop without
injury In the well known example of the odd
year Baldwin apple the tree bears so heavily
one year as to exhaust it, and it is unable to
support another crop until it has recovered.
The year Of bearing may be changed by remov-
ing the blossoms the bearing year, and the next
season will be the fruitful one.
Few people have the moral courage to remove
the surplus fruit that sets upon a tree but if
they realized the benefits that would arise from
it they would not hesitate for a moment to do
it. Looking at it in any light whatever, we see
great advantage from its practice. Ifquan-
tity is the object, we get the same quantity in
the increased size of the remaining fruit. II
| fine Duality is desired, the advantage is very
much in favor OF thinning. The production of
seed Is far more exhaustive 10 the plant th an
that OF any other part, and, upon tree left
nnthinned, one-haf or two-thirds more seeds
are rpened, while, where the fruit has
Oeeh thlhned, the material that would have
gone 10 nonrish the large number of seeds goes
to the remaining fruit, and to the strenethenin Q
carrying a crop the next season.
The removing of the surplus fruit should he
done as soon as possible after it has attained size
enough TO enable the grower to determine whai
| will make the best specimens; this will he from
FIVE to six weeks from the time of blossomino
and care should be taken to have it Distribute
evenly oyerthe tree. Small scissors are the mos
convenient tools for removing it, as they can b.
inserted among the fruit without injury to wha
is TO remain.
The pear, peach, nectariDe, plum and CRAP
viii be greatly benefited by severe thinning
the trees are heavily loaded with fruit, one-ha
or two-thirds should be removed; and one wi
be asionished at the increase in size, beauty an
Worcester daily spy. [volume] (Worcester [Mass.]) 1850-1888, 1871-06-19

In this age Of skepticism, venerable beliefs in
religion, history and science, are subjected to
relentless criticism. If they endure the test, it
is not because Of their age or general accept
ance Truth alone can bear the searching in
designations 10 which the modern methods of
inquiry challenge every pr OPPOSITION which
claims belief physician in a western city
has lately declared his disbelief in the exist
ence Of the disease, popularity supposed to be
not very uncommon under the name of hydro
phobia. He says that in practice of twenty
five years he has never seen case, and has
never heard of one that he considered well
authenticated. Deaths from this cause
are every year reported in the news
papers, and in almost every community
cases of the disease, with its distressing symp-
toms and invariably fatal termination, are re-
membered. Other physicians, we believe, have
expressed their doubts of the reality of this dis
ease, attributing the peculiar symptoms said to
attend it to the effects ofthe disordered imagina.
fion of the sufferer or the attendants If the de-
nial of its existence would prevent the recur-
renee of this malady, which, in the form given
it by the popular belief, is more fearful than al
most any other, too much publicity cannot BIZ
given to the statement.
Another very common belief is that chlorO
form is often used by robbers to effect their pur
poses without violence their victims being made
insensible by the administration of the drug to
them when asleep or awake. One very often
reads accounts of robberies committed in this
way, but there is generally some improbability
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flavor. This will apply to all kinds of fruit in
measure.
No one who wishes to grow nice fruit for the
market and be sure of sale for it, can afford
to neglect this most important matter: The rep
utation of the most suceessiul lrult growers
has been made more by this one thing than by
anything else. 1t makes all the difference be-
tween success and failule.-Anlherst Record.
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Let Common sense Decide.

What is the rational mode of procedure in of gen
era debility and nervous prostratiOn2 Does reason
tell us that judicous stimulation is required To resort
to violent purgatiOn in such absurd as 1t
would be to bleed starving Yet 1t Is done every
day. Yes this stupid and unphilosophical practice is
continued in the teeth of the great fact that physical
weakness with all the disturbances that
pany it, is more certainly and rapidly relieved by Hos
letters Stomach Bitters than by any other medicine
present known 1t is true that general debility is often
attended with tOrpidty rregularity of The bowels
and that this symptom must not be overlooked. But
while the discharge of the waste matter of the system is
expedited regulated Its vigor be recruited The
Bitters do both They combine aperient and anti bilious
properties with extraordinary tonic power Even
while removing distractions from the bowels they
tone and nvgorae those organs Through the stomach
upon which the great vegetable specific acts directly
gives healthy and permanent impetus to every en-
feeblea function. Digestion is facilitated the ALTERING
circulation regulated, the blood reinforced with new
accession of the amentary principle the nerves brace
and all the dormant powers of the system reused into
healthy action; not spasmOdealy would be the case
if mere stimulant administered, hut for contin
uance. II is in this way that such extraordinary
changes are wrought in the condition OF the feeble
emaciaed and nervous nvas by the use of this won.
derful corrective Alternative and tonic Let common
sense decide between such preparation and prostrat-
ing cathartic, supplemented by poisonous asringent
like strychnine qunia. d&wlw ieI5