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Weekly Trinity journal., 1871-06-17
Written for the Journal.
a GLIMPSE OF THE OCEAN.


| stand on the shore of the ocean
And list to the breakers roar,
AS they gather in countless thousands
And break on the endless shore.
| watch as they slowly marshal
Far out in the fathomess deep
They rise with a drowsy motion
Like giants awaking from sleep
Till, nearing the shallow waters,
They speed with head-long haste,
And white as the Wiutry mountains
They roll DER the sandy waste
Look now, DER the waves as they gather
And come with their ceaseless roll,
And whisper the tancies awakened
In the innermost deeps of the soul
To-day, as in ages forgotten,
They speak with their voices sublime,
As they spoke in the ages uanumbered
Ere man had took record of Time.
Forever, and ay and forever
They gather like armies of Life,
And hurry like warriors determined
To be first in the battles strife,
Ere thy bosom by navies was traverSed
Or cities were built by thy waves
When man roamed in forests primeval,
And dwelt in earth-caverns and caves
Nor eer on Life's mysteries pondered,
With reason unlighted his brow
Thou, Ocean, thy pillows rolled onward,
And broke DER these deserts as now
Ere Life had conscious existence,
With pulses of pleasure and pain,
That winged DER thy desert of waters,
Or trod on the mountain or plain
Ere Earth had been covered with verdure
OF grasses, of flowers, or of trees
Thou, Ocean, with heart-bea:s unceasing,
Thy anthems rolled forth to the breeze |
And back DER Creations enshroudcd
Archives of Eternity past
Oblvian's dimiy-lit chambers,
In which Life's first changes were cast ;
Not leaving its records revealing
Its birth-throes for eyes to behold
Like the steps of its after-creations,
That the mountains and valleys enfold.
Thou, Ocean, | see thee expanding,
Thy waters to vapors are curled,
As ye circle Eternity's cycles
The breath of a primeval world
'Tis vain In the soul is awakened
Dim gimpses uniformed to its thought,
OF the Infinite Lfe-the Eternal-
No language of earth ever taught.
Ie billows of measureless waters
From the dawn of Eternitys roll,
| claim ye as Kindred and brothers,
When we blent with the Infinite Soul.
Thou rollest, unknowing the millions
Soul-born of the earth and of thee,
AS when in the universe blending
We circled Eternity's Sea.
Unconscious, in grandure and freedom,
Untiring Of motion and strife,
As when through the boundless abysses
We blent with the Infinite Lifo,
Old Ocean ! Why should | so call thee2
My age is coeval with thine,
And ye, tho from me far assundered,
Endued with Life's impulse Divine.
Tho cycles eternal have vanished
Since the time when our changes begun,
We only have compassed three changes,
And |, all Life's changes save one.
But ye weary me now with your trumpets
And I'll HE to the mountain land,
And leave to thy wave-born children
Thy billows, and clouds, and sand.
For my home is the airy highlands,
Where the mountain pheasants drum,
Where the lilies of Life are farest,
And thy bllows may never more come.
Where the earth is nearer Heaven,
Aud thy mists cannot arise,
To darken the glowing splendor
OF the deep blue Summer skies
Eureka, Cal, July lG, 1870, JULIAN.
Weekly Trinity journal., 1871-06-17

WALKING PIN-CUsHIoN. New Lisbon Ohio,
The latest and perhaps most remarkable is the
following, which is from the New Lisbon Journal
of a recent date " There is family living in
the east end Of st. Clair Township, this county,
near the State line, whose name has escaped our
recollection, well-known in the community as
respectable people, wherein was a girl OF some
sixteen or seventeen years Of age, apparently i'll
with chills and fever but who kept growing
worse until the doctor pronounced it typhoid fe-
yer, but failed to cure. She lay all last Winter
with various symptoms of disease, such as dys-
pepsia, liver complaint and tape worm Finally
early this Spring, she took to bleeding at the
lungs, with pain in her stomach, side and one
leg and foot-which foot gathered at the heel,
and formed some matter, which the doctor open
ed, and took therefrom about one dozen pieces
of needles, and from which at different times
other pieces of needles, making in all twenty
four or twenty-five pieces out of her heel, and
about four weeks ago one Of her breasts became
swollen, and upon examination, was opened,
and several pieces of needles taken out, and four
pins taken from her breas: and heel. The nee
dies appear to have been of various sizes, and
generally broken in three pieces, except some OF
the smaller ones which are in two pieces The
pins are all bent as though there had been an eff
fort to break them into three pieces and all the
needles appear or less corroded from being
in contact with brass pins There seems to be
no doubt but what she swallowed them. No one
knows how many are yet to come out of her sys-
TEN. 1t is remarkable case. The girls name
must have certainly been Emery
Weekly Trinity journal., 1871-06-17

SIGNIFICANT NoTloE.-In cigar shop on Par
Lament street, London, the following notice is
posted "Credit is given to gentlemen, but
cash expected from members of Parliament"
Weekly Trinity journal., 1871-06-17

cash expected from members of Parliament"
DURlSe an exhibition medical student being
asked the question, When does modification
set in ?" replied, "when you pop the question,
and are answered No. )"
Weekly Trinity journal., 1871-06-17
A Check on Thieves.
BY HON. NEAL DOW.

year or more ago, an English friend visiting
at my house was writing at my table letter
home, in which he was to enclose draft for
considerable sum. Before he enclosed the bill
| saw that he drew his pen across the face
oblquely, downward, from left to right
"Ah why do you do that2" asked.
That is to secure it, said he, "against the
possibility of loss, even if it should fall into
wrong hands capable of forging Endorsement as
perfect even, as the genuine signature"
"And how is that2"
"Why that is sign everywhere understood
in England, that payment is to be made only to
person known to the party upon whom the
bill is drawn. Checks, drafts, bills of exchange,
postoficc orders, notes of hand, indeed, papers
of all kinds, requiring or authorizing the pay
ment of money, if crossed in that way are abso-
lutely safe from the danger of being paid to any
person not properly authorized to receive the
money. The crossing of papers in this manner
is daily practice In England among business
men, and in all commercial affairs. Any paper
so marked, however valuable is worthless in
the hands of one who finds or steals it, A bank
]
marked, if lost, need not be advertised nor Is
it necessary to notify the bank. 1t is by that
cblique line cancelled unless presented by some
one known personally to the bank to be the
proper party to receive payment"
| thought no more of this until within day or
two, when l received a paper with a notice
pasted in it by the publisher which read as fol.
lows:
ON. B. When obtaining postonice orders,
subscribers will oblge by requesting the clerk
to cross them, as checks crossed, Crossed
postolice orders cannot by any accident be
cashed by unauthorized persons and being alb
solutely secure do not need any acknowledge
ment. The writing and posting of several hund-
red letters of receipt will so be rendered unneces-
sary."
Bank of England notes sent by mail are often
crossed in the same manner. Why should not
that practice be adopted in this country 1t
seems to me it would be attended by many ad-
vantages, and with little or no Inconvenience.
Bonds of the nation, State, city, railroad crossed
in that way-coupons and all-woud be worth
| less in the hands of thieves without the COM
pnclty OF some banker or broker, yet unsuspeeted
of conventional rascality knew man, not
long ago, who retired from business, after
busy life with fortune not large, but sufficient
| for all his modest wants. This he converted
into government bonds, all Of which were stolen
from his safe not long after, and the loss affected
him so much that he faded away and died within
three years. With this safeguard introduced
among us, the diagonal lines would have Sc
cured him perfectly against this loss.
Weekly Trinity journal., 1871-06-17

A Coop TAKE-OFF.-'fhe absurd cock-and-bull
stories which appear from time to time in the
columns of our agricultural exchanges, of the
wonderful doings and qualities of remarkable
dogs, horses and cattle, etc, are all eclpsed by
the following, which we venture to say is as
true as most of the cattle stories that appear in
the rural journals GA gentleman of our
quantance had Durham COW that gave birth,
all at one time, to two-year-old heifer that
had no legs at all. Mr.. IKE took five-quarter
auger and bored holes where the legs ought to
be, and then drove in the legs of an old United
Brethren mourner's bench. He then applied DR..
Stratford Celebrated Indian Hair Tonic to the
leg which haired them over in one night, and
brought out the hoofs most beautifully. The
animal has since trotted her mile in 10, and
took the first premium at the last Illinois State
Fair. During the month of July, she sucked
six calves and gave ten gallons of milk every
day"
Weekly Trinity journal., 1871-06-17

A MAN was recently informed just before his
marriage, that his bride had fallen heir to $780,
900, but he let the ceremony go on just the same
The Shasta courier., 1871-02-18
SHASTA COURIER.
THE FUNDED DEBT-HAICHT
GETS PAY FOR TWO OFFaCEs-AND
IS REMINDED OF THE FACT BY A
DISGUSTED DEMOCRAT.

Governor Haight has exercised his pre-
rogative by appointing Tyler Curtis one Of
the Commissioners of the Funded Debt, to
fill the vacancy occassioned by the. death
of VIM. Hooper. The Board is now CON-
posed of the following gentlemen: John
Middleton, VIM. NJ. Lent. G. L. Low, DR.
G. NJ. Hitchcock and Tyler Curtis. AT
meeting Of the Board, held yesterday
DR.. Hitchcock Was elected Secretary.
The usefulness of the Board is now past.
There is a sufficient an cunt of money in
the Sinking Fund to pay off all the bonds
and Indebtedness for which it was establish
ed, and there is now on deposit at the
Bank of California to the credit of the
Commissioners S450,000 of the public
money which is not drawing interest and
of which the bank has the use. Mean
time the Board continues its existence at
cost to the people of $4,000 per month,
including 5000 per month paid an attorney,
H 81. Haight, for doing nothing.
A difference of opinion between one of
the Commissioners, William NJ. Lent, and
Governor Haight, was the cause of a wordy
passage-at- arms between these two gentle
men last evening, which it was the good
Cor ill) fortune ofour reporter to hear. 1t
took place Immediately after the exercises
of the Protestant Orphan Asylum at the
Pavilion. Governor Haight approached
Mr.. Lent and said, $50 you had an cleo
tion in the Board to-day.
Lent-Yes, and | am thoroughly dis
gusted at your method of appointing NJ.
Curtis to the vacancy | have more than
half mind to resign and give you an op-
portunity to appoint Jim Reynolds in my
place.
Haight-If you class Curtis and Rey-
nolds together, Mr.. Lent, you do Mr.. Cur
tis great injustice.
Lent do not intend any disrespect to
Mr.. Curtis, sir; my remarks to you have
a purely personal appreciation.
The Governor turned TO go away, but
was detained by Mr. Lent, who continued:
IL think you have treated the Board dis
courtcously in making this appointment, to
fill a vacancy, without deigning to consult
it. As you have held the office of attor-
ney for the Board for six or seven years
ut $500 mounth-a perfect sinecure-and
have been drawing that amount every
month since you have occupied the Cub
ernatorlal chair, thus holding two offices
in violation of law, l think you could have
shown more consideration and courtesy"
The Governor not feeling equal to the
task of reply left Mr.. Lent, and the con-
versation necessarily closed.-[San Fran
cisco Chronicle.
The Shasta courier., 1871-02-18
The ExiIed renians.

The following is list Of the exiles re-
Gently liberated, with the term Ct sentence
awarded to each: w rss sss
Thomas F. Burke, sentence-death
commuted to penal servitude for life. Fl ?
John McCaferty, death commuted to
penal servitude for life.
John Mcclure, death; committed to
penal servitude for life.
Edward O'Meager Condor, alias Ashore
death committed to penal servitude for
life. -
Patrick Melody, death; committed to
penal servitude for life.
jeremiah O'Donovan, death; penal SER
vitude for life.
Thomas Clarke Luby, twenty years Pc
aal servitude.
John OLeary, twenty years penal ser
vitude.
Michael Shelley, twenty years penal
servitude.
John Dewey, fifteen years penal servi-
tude
William G. Halpin, fifteen years penal
servitude.
Edware Power, fifteen years penal SER
vitude. 5a1
Patrick Walsh, fifteen years penal ser
vitude.
Patrick Lennon, fifteen years penal ser
vitude.
Richard O'S Burke, fifteen years penal
servitude.
William Mackey, (LomasDey), twelve
years penal servitude.
Bryan Dillon, ten years penal servitude.
Charles Underwood O'Connell, ten years
penal servitude.
Dennis bowling Mulcahy, ten years
penal servitude.
VIM. F. Roantree, ten years penal SER
vitude.
George Browne, ten years penal servi-
tude.
Edmond St. Clair, ten years penal servi-
tude.
Mortimer Moriarty ten years penal ser
vitude.
Peter Mohan, ten years penal servitude.
John Murphy, ("Pagan OLeary"),
seven years penal servitude.
Patrick Doran, seven years penal SER
vitude.
Henry Shaw, seven years penal servitude.
Martin Hanley Carey, five years penal SER
vitude.
John Brannon, five years penal servi-
tude
Thomas scantley, five years penal SER
vitude.
Timothy Featherstone, five years penal
servitude.
William Murphy, five years penal servi-
tude
Charles Moorhouse, FIVE years penal
servitude.
John Carroll, five years penal servitude.
Daniel Redden, five years penal servi-
tude.
James Anderson I.ane), five years Pc
nal seryitude.
Patrick Ryan, five years.
All these have arrived at New York.
The Shasta courier., 1871-02-18

DANGERS OF LAGOON WHALE FISH
ING.-When a whale is "stuck" at sea,
there is generally but little difficulty in
keeping clear, when it is first irritated by
the harpoon. 1t iudeavors to escape by
'running," or descends to the depths below,
taking out more or less line, the direction
of which, and the movements of the beat,
indicate the animals whereabout. But in
lagoon, the object of.pursuit is in mar
row passages, where frequently there is a
swift tide, and the turbid water prevents
the whaler from seeing far beneath the
boat. Should the chase be made with the
current, the fugitive sometimes stops sud
denly, and the speed of the boat, together
with the influence Of the running water,
shoots it upon the worried animal, when
it is dashing the water in every direction.
The whales that are chased have with them
their young cubs, and the mother, in her
efforts to avoid the pursuit of herself and
offspring, may momentarily lose sight Of
her little one. Instantly she will stop AID
sweep around in search, and if the boat
comes in contact with ber, it is quite sure
to be stove. Another danger is, that in
darting the lance at the mother the young
one, In Its gambols, will get in the way Of
the weapon, and receive the wound, instead
of the intended victim. 10 such instan
ces the parent animal, in her frenzy, vii
chase the boat, and, overtaking them viii
overturn them with her head, or dash then
in pieces with stroke of her ponderous
hukes
The testimony of many whaling-master'
furnishes abundant proof that this species
of whale is possessed of unusual sagacity
and their strong affection for their young
is unquest;onable. Numerous contests with
them have proved that, after the loss O
their cherished offspring, the enragec
animal has given chase to the boats
which only found security BY fleeing .
shoal water or to shore.-From .Coas
Whaling," in the Overland Monthly to-
February.
The Shasta courier., 1871-02-18
LOCAL ADVERTISERS.

D. WE'LL BROTHER, Dealers in Dry Goods
3 Clothing, Main Street
JOSEPH ISAACS. Dealer in Dry Goods
Clothing, Main Street.
C. C. BUSH Il co, Dealer in Groceries 4
Provisions, Main Street.
DANIEL LYNCH, Dealer in Groceries 4
Provisions, Main Street.
THOMAS GREENE, Shasta, proprietor Patent
Clothes w asher.
SCAMMON TIFFIN, Wagon making 4
Blacksmithing, Main Street.
SAMUEL ISAACKS, Blacksmithing Main
SAMUEL RICHARDS, Blacksmithing and
Wagon-making, Main street.
JOHN v. SCOTT, Empire Hotel, Main steet.
D. H. DUNN, Boarding House.
MRS. H. L. GREENE, Hotel, Main rect.
A. COLEMAN, Dealer in Hardware, Fuse, &C.,
Main Street.
J. M. MANAssE, Books and Stationery, ETC.,
Main Street.
VIM. HARTMANN, Bathing 4 Shaving Saloon,
L. WELLEND0RFF. Dealer in Drugs, Med
icines, Etc, Main street.
VIM H. DUNN. Livery Stable and Coral,
Main Street.
O. &C. STAGE CO.. Jno. Craddock, Agent.
Office Empire Hotel.
GRANT l TAGGART, Shasta and Weaverville
Express Line Office Empire Hotel. Also, Livery
and Feed Stable, Main Street.
JOHN FLEMING. Proprietor of the Brandy
Creek Saw Mill.
CHARLES MCDONALD, Saloon and Reading
Ro6m, opposite the Court House. Main Street.
HENRY F. JOHNSON, Commission Mer-
chant, Red Bluff
RANTZAU SHAW, Commission Merchants.
Red Bluff.
SAM JAYNEs. Agent California Steam Naviga-
ton Company, Red Bluff
G. C. SCEROTER, Saddle 4 Harness Maker,
Charter Oak, Main Street.
PETER HOFF, City Meat Market, Main
Street.
j. E. PELHAM, Physician, Office up stairs in
Wells Fargo Co., building, Main Street.
JOHN S. F0LLANSBEE Attorney-at-Law,
Shasta.
SAMUEL COOPER, Agent for PhGuix and
Home Insurance Companies, Office Main Street,
Shasta
HENRY HABICH, Dealer in Books 4 Station
cry, Main Street.
E. LEVIN 4 Co., Matchmaker & Jewellers,
Main Street.
E. DOBROwSKY, Gunsmith 4 Machinist,
Main Street.
A. DOBROWSKY, Matchmaker and Jeweler,
Main Street.
W. A. SCOTT, Bootmaker. Main Street.
A. w. BAKER, Exprcssman.
G. R. KNOX, Saloon Greene's Hotel building.
The Shasta courier., 1871-02-18
GOVERNOR HA1cHr is put forward as a

GOVERNOR HAIGHT is put forward as a
violent enemy Of monopolies. Sacramento
has long been groaning under an oppres-
sive gas monopoly. The last Legislature
passed bill to break up this monopoly by
allowing another gas company to come into
competition with the old company, under
guarantee to supply gas about So per
thousand cheaper than it is now furnished
by the monopoly. The Governor was SO
much in favor of the gas monopoly which
now exists here that he promptly vetoed
the bill-[Reporter.
That is So The people of Sacramento
asked for such bill-the Legislature pas
sed it and we think that the Governor
pocketed 1t at the end Of the Session, fear
ing that if he had vetoed it the Legislature
might have passed it over his head bee
The Shasta courier., 1871-02-18
CUTTING OFF THE WRoNa HEAp.-Au

CUTTING OFF THE WRoNG HEAD.-An
old farmer of Summer was out one fine day
looking over his broad acres, with an az on
his shoulder and small dog at his heels.
They espied woodchuck. The dog gave
chase and drove him into stone wall,
where action Immediately commenced.-
The dog would draw the woodchuck part
ly out from the wall and the woodchuck
would take the dog back. The old gentle
mans sympathy getting high on the side
of the dog thought he must help him. So
putting himself in position above the dog,
waited for the extraction of the woodchuck,
when he would cut him down. Soon the
opportunity offered and the old man struck,
but the woodchuck gathered up at the
same time and took the dog far enough to
receive the blow, and killed it on the spot.
For years after, the old gentleman 10 re-
lating the story would add: "And the dog
don't know to this day but what the wood
chuck killed him."
The Shasta courier., 1871-02-18

"THE CARSON DOLLAR" Upon our
return from Sacramento last Spring, in
passing through Carson, we procured q
few of the new dollars fresh from the Mint,
and about the first issued from the new
Mint. They were bright and handsome,
and possessor of one would be 10th to
part with it. So we thought, and there
lore concluded to give them awayas "pest
eggs" We gave them to several children
with the injunction that it was always to
be kept as nest egg; and that when five
dollars had accumulated the FIVE must be
deposited in savings bank. The result
is that the Sacramento Savings Bank has
a number of depositors, residents Of Alpine
county, whose ages range from eight to
fourteen years. At the rate Of one per
cent. per month, the present rate, 500
would amount to S400 in about dozen
years-a nice sum for child to draw on
upoD becoming of age. Who will give q
'Carson Dollar" for "nest egg ?"-GAL
pine Chronicle.
The Shasta courier., 1871-02-18

The United States Government bas ap
pointed as members ofthe Commission on
Alabama Claims and Fishery Question,
about to meet at Washington, Secretary
Fish, Judge Nelson. of the Supreme
Court, Hoar, Scbenck, and Senator VII
liams. Great B,itian appoints on her
side Earl De Grey, Sir Edward Thornton,
Sir John A. Mcdonald, and Sir John Rose
Il is said that the English Commission
win be accompanied by Professor Bernard
Oxford Professor Of international Law,
and Lord Tenterdsn.
The Shasta courier., 1871-02-18

1t is announced that the first section of
the Northern Pacific Railroad, 240 miles
west from Duluth, is already graded, aud
that the rails are being laid down at tbe
rate of mile a day. This part Of the
road will be in operation the coming Sum-
mer, and can hardly fail to make Duluth
lively place. The company have I'LL the
4th Of July, 1877 to conplsts the lins
from Lake Superior 70 Puest SouDd, but
the probability ie that it viii be finished
two years sooner.
The Shasta courier., 1871-02-18
SURVEYOR GENERAL HARDENBuRaH

SURVEYOR GENERAL HARDENBURGH.
There appears to be considerable COM
plaint in the California papers, gowing
out of this gentleman's appointment. The
Press of California are evidently not posted
on the matter at all. By the Bill that
has passed the Senate and will probably
pass the House of Representatives this ses-
sion, the final survey and settlement of
land boundaries is determined hereafter
by the u S. Courts. The Surveyor Gen.
eral is simply supervising or overseeing
the mechanical part of the work. Mr..
Hardenburgh is not practical surveyor
like Mr. Day, but he is an educated gentle
man of clear, quick perception, and could
pass on the correctness of labor perform
ed under order of the Court ss we'll as
his preqecessor. Complaint is not made
against Mr.. Days competency or honesty,
but rather his indecision and hesitancy.
Some parties even go SO far as to iinplore
him to decide against them that they
might get their surveys out of his hands
through the medium of an appeal to the
Land Office, SO it has been represented
here.-Washington correspondent of the
Vallejo Chronicle.
The Shasta courier., 1871-02-18

Western Star Lodge. No. 2, f. & A. M.
II L. wellendorH, W. M.;John v. Scott.
~S. W.; &C. Bush, J. W; Benz. Shurt
~ lef, Treas; A. Dobro~sky, Sec.; G. G.
\schroter, S. D.; j. Ashfeld, J. D.; Chas.
Anderson, s.; W. P. Hartman, S.;J. Isaacs, NJ;
J. F. Scammon, T.
The Shasta courier., 1871-02-18
A&e nta.

L. p. FISHER, 20 & FL New Mer-
chants Exchange, is our only authorised Agent in
San Francisco.
HUDSON 4 MENET, No. Al Park Row. n. Y.
authorized to solicit and collect for sdverts-
ing in sw York and other eastern cities.
The Shasta courier., 1871-02-18
Northern Light Lodge. No. 100. r. 4 a.
M. MillviIIe

II. F. Ross, W.. M. up, Webb. s. "
\HQ Henry johnson, J. w.; Dr. GuptilI. See
M D c. Stevenson. S. D.; johnson Fonde
J. D.; Robt. Boyce, Marshal; A. VIII
liams and Gsorge Willismson, Stewards; r. p.
Martin, Tyler.
The Shasta courier., 1871-02-18
Shasta CouncIi. NO. q. F &A nj.

A J. Isaacs, T. I. M. A. Dobroxshv nI
Ia NJ; D. P. Bystel, G. G. W.; John Y Scott.
Treas /. Wellendorf, Recorder. J. N. Chan.
peli, G of g.; Chas. Anderson, Conductor.
g. c. Schroeder, Steward. Grant 1. Taepart Ma
shall J. Scammon, Sent.