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The Shasta courier., 1871-01-07

SHEEP LAw.-Much complaint is made
by the owners Of sheep in certain counties
on account of the discrimination made
against their herds by the State laws, and
it said that many sheep have been driven
into Oregon to avoid vexatious law suits,
thus depriving this State Of revenue which
it would otherwise have had. The statute
says:
In the counties of Meudocino, Calaveras,
Yuba, Merced. Shasta;7 Siskiyou, Fresno
and Tulare, it shall not be lawful for any
person or persons owning, or having charge,
Of any sheep, 20 herd the same on any of
the unoccupied lands Of this State, or of
the United States. where such herding
may cause injury or inconvience to actual
settlers residing contiguous to such lands
who have horses or sattIe ranging on such
unoccupied lands.
1t is a notorious fact that the sheep have
increased more rapidly for the last fifteen
years, and have paid better profit, than
the neat cattle and it it were proper for
the State to make any discrimination as
between them and sheep, the latter should
have the greater encouragement 1t was
the Assemblyman from Shasta who intro
duced the bill into the Legislature-Alta.
The Shasta courier., 1871-01-07
A POLICE COURT GRAFTON.

james Forbes was recently find Sc, in
Troy, N. T., for drunkenness, and then
delivered the following grafton in the Po-
lice Court: 49,
Ladies and gentlemen here assembled:
1t has never before fallen to my lot to
speak to SO numerous and diversified an
audience. Here l behold all classes re-
presented, and here look upon faces that
beam with intelligence | see around me
representatives of the bar, of that great
fulcrum, the press, and look upon the
gasrdians Of the law, to whom am in
debted for the safety of my SlO0 bill.
Before you, Mr.. Justice Donohue, am
brought to answer charge of having
violated the laws of my country. / ac.
knowledge my crime and regret it. Over
and above all else respect the laws of
my country. To me she is the personifi-
cation of liberty and justice. | am thank
full she has such fine servants as took
charge of me when my mind was besotted
and saved my 500 bill. Here is that
precious treasure. Take out what YOU
want for keeping me all night, return the
change and use me like man. / am
glad this morning to find my own dear
self in such good condition. And YOU.
gentlemen of the police force, have my
thanks. Another time I will Iberally
llquidate your services. My name is.
James Forbes. | live in North Broad
glbln, Fulton county, the county seat
whereofis at Johnstown. am not asham-
ed Of my name, nor of my parents, though
they are dead and gone this quarter of
century. You have used me ike man,
and l guarantee to do the same to you.
Charge what is right and let me go and
get my overcoat, umbrella, pair of boots,
and red handkerchief, with lot Of cram
berries done up IN it. 81
The Shasta courier., 1871-01-07
Defense Of New England stock.

Horace Greely, in his latest Ct spter on
"What l Know About Farming" has this
of the New England Puritan stock:
"All this is shallow and absurd. There
never before we're so many people who
proudly traced their origin to a New Eng
land ancestry as now. What is true in the
premises is this: The New England stock
is becominy very widely diffused, and is
giving place, to considerable extent, to
other elements in its original home
Forty years ago at least seven-eighths of
the inhabitants of Boston were of New Eng
land birth and lineage; now hardly half
are so. The descendants of the Pilgrims
are scattered Ill over our wide country !;
while huadreds OF thousands have flowed
in from ireland, from Germany, from Can
ada, to gil the places thus relinquished I;
and since most of the immigrants, whether
into or out of hew England, seek their
future homes 10 the spring-time Of life,
thei- children are mainly born to them
after rather than before their migration.
The Yankees have no fewer children
than formerly; but they are now born in
Minnesota, in Illinois, in Kansas, while
those born in New England are, for iden-
tical reasons, in large propotion of Irish or
of Canadian parentage. There are New
England townships whereof most of the
heads Of families are long past the prime Of
life, their children having left them for
more attractive localities, and the work on
their farms being now done mainly by
for ign born employees. As general rule,
the boys first wandered off, leaving the
girls only the alte rnative of following, or
dying in old maidenhood. Marked diver
sites of race, of creed, of education, have
thus far prevented any considerable inter-
raingling of the Yankee with the foreign
element by marriage. And what is true
of New England is measurably true of our
own State.
| have not intended by these observa-
tions to combat the assumption that our
people too generally prefer other employ
ments to farming"
The Shasta courier., 1871-01-07

A"SLATE."-The San Francisco CORES
pondeut of the Petaluma Journal and Ar
gus thus discourses on the subject Of polit-
ical strategy: ~
You recollect the letter of Hon. VIM.
Watt declining to allow his name to be
presented to the next Democratic State
Convention as a candidate for Governor.
That letter created considerable excite
ment and comment, and numerous commu-
nications were addressed to him by his po-
ltical and personal friends in regard there
to. Mr.. Watt refused to reconsider his
determination to not become candidate,
but from the evident complaceDcy Of his
intimate friends it appeared to casual OBJ
server that satisfaction for his sacrifice of
prospective honors had been fully guaran-
teed, in future advancement Last week,
my informant, who is good authority,
learned the slate made up by these would
be controllers Of the State to be as follows
H. H. Haight, Governor; VIM. Watt,
Lieutenant Governor, with the balance of
the ticket sandwiched between old line
Democrats and reconstructed Republicans,
SO as to please, if possible, all shades of the
party. Such ticket would appear very
fair to those who look no farther than
party nominations, but the gist of the whole
matter, If | am cor. ectly informed is, that
particular care will be taken in the nom
iraticn Of candidates for the Senate and
Assembly, insuring that only the friends Of
the present Governor will be placed on the
ticket. If the State is carried by the
Democrats, and majority obtained in the
nest Legislature, then the programme is
that Governor Haight will be the next U.
8: Senator in place Of Mr. G. ls. and Mr.
watt necessarily steps into the Guberpa-
'ss!4 eoo z.ss .xsS 49, :
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The Shasta courier., 1871-01-07
The "Bee'' ON Temperance.

The Rescue accuses the Bee of aiding
the "delirium tremens business By advo-
eating wine-growing, advertising saloons"
etc.
There is no reason in this. We might
as well say that the Rescue aids the suicide
business BY advertising drug stores, or
sanctions dissipation and immortality by ad-
vertising buehu, or favors intemperance by
advocating the raising of wheat Wheat
is made into Intoxicating liquors as well
as grapes-and the injury from drinking
vine is not one-6ftieth part as great as from
drinking whisky. We do advocate the
raising Of grapes, and the cultivation of
other blessings-and if some men abuse
that which they ought to use only, that is
no reason why others should be deprived
of either the necessaries or comforts Of life
Why not cease to grow willows, or mine
for sulphur and saltperer, because powder
is made therefrom, and people kill them
selves and others in consequence? Why
not stop making pies and cakes, because
giuttons destroy their digestive organs by
devouring them. and in consequence die
Why not abolish your mills for making
Hour, and sweep away your sauces and your
gravies, because by devouring these things
people become dyspeptic, and after short,
burdensome lite are pushed off into eter-
nifty? Yet we do firmly believe that there
are mcre people brought to early graves
in America by eating dne -four, pies, cakes.
candies and such stuff-and by eating to
excess. than there is by drinking whisky
or other strong drinks. Yet for all that
We would not stop wheat growing, nor sugar
making, nor would we taint the Iastry-
mans occupation nor guil,otine our local
Soyers.
And as for wine drinking there is not in
the United States one man or woman who
dies because Of drinking it for one thou
sand that die from over-eating at improper
times. Not one dies of wine drinking for
five hundred killed by the use of tobacco
To day, in America, overeating is greater
curse than overwhelming. Devoaring i'll
cooked, iudisestible, improper food is worse
in its effects upon the human system. both
in the present and coming generations,
than drinking bad liquors.
And as for grapes, we hold that the more
Of them we can raise the better it will be
for the health, wealth and morality Of the
State. What We cannot sell or eat let us
make into wine, and give to those who will
have stimulants of some kind this pure
and generous beverage, and thus wean
them from the strong, maddening drinks.
Drunkenness is great evil, but eating
food as many of our people do, and using
tobacco as they do is worse. We do not
advocate or defend drunkenness, but on the
contrary ,ontemn it; but we would not
stop the extension of our vineyards, or the
enlargement of our wheat fields because
these delicions fruits and healthy grains can
be turned into alcoholic substances and
humans will get druak on them, any more
than we would stop the pillow because men
kill themselves by over-eating.
The Shasta courier., 1871-01-07
SHASTA COURIER.
Mrs. Yelvert0n.

As this noted lady is now or was recent
" in California, the following item touch
ing her status with her guondam husband,
and what has resulted from it, may not
prove uninteresting. Wilkie Collins, in
his last novel, "Man aud Wife," exposes
the absdrdity Of the marriage laws Of
Scotland, and also the disasters which may
flow from the uncertainty and complications
OF the same laws in Ireland. The case we
quote is in farther illustration thereof; /;
although, 10 this instance, SO far as the
'.jointure" is concerned. the Irish law oper-
ates most justly:
When Major Yelverton discarded Mrs.
YeNerton formerly Theresa Longworth
he was married in due legal form to the
widow of Prof Forbes. The first Mrs
Yelverton then applied, as will be remem-
bered, to the Scotch, English. and Irish
courts in succession, for an affirmation of
her rights as the true and legitimate wife
of the Hon. Mr. Yelverton. The two first
courts refused to affirm her marriage, sup
porting the Honorable Majors view OF the
case; the Irish court however recognized
her as the wife of Yelverton. he case,
therefore, stood thus: In England and
Scotland Yelverton and Mrs. Forbes were
considered man and wife; and the first
wife was denied, According to the decis-
ion of the Irish courts the legitimate wife
of Yelverton was Mrs Theresa Yelverton,
and Mrs. Forbes was anything you please.
Upon the death of his uncle recently,
Yelverton succeeded'to to the title of Lord
Avonmore-an Irish title. By an old
Irish law the wives of Irish lords are en-
titled to an absolute allowance from their
husbands estates; hence, as the Irish
courts have decided Mrs. Theresa Yelver-
ton to be the "lawful' wife OF the new
Lord AvoDmore, she becomes not only
Lady Avonmore, so far as Irish territory is
but (what is probably more
agreeable to herr the law will compel Vel
verton to give her ..jointure." The
queer conjugal puzzle thus presents to
the public attention two La les Avonmore,
and two ladies, neither of whom is Lady
Avonmore Lord Avonmore who is a
bigamist, and who is not bigamist; two
ladies who are wives, and who are not
wives; 'jointure" upon which both
Ladies AvoDmore have claims, and yet
which belongs to neither Of them; a-but
wherefore seek to unravel the enigma
further? 1t is as incomprehensible as a
reading of the Delphian oracle, and as in
scrutable as the lost Sibylline leaves.
But if energy in pursuit of her violated
privileges as wife can avail, the first wife
of Lord Atopmore may yet succeed in
making plain the mystery
The Shasta courier., 1871-01-07

MINING CLAIMs.-Comlnissioner Will
son, of the General Land Office. has issued
further instructions on the subject of en-
tering mining claims. The only new point
in the instructions is that any number Of
miners residing in the same mining district
can make joint application for the pur-
chase of their several claims, whether the
claims adjoin each other or not. Each
claim, however, must be marked on the
diagram, and separately described in the
application and in the advertisements
This will greatly reduce the expenses of
surveying, advertising and in the Land
Office and if the joint applicants car swear
for each other, will also be heavy saving
in the expenses of proving up their claims.
Il -[Placer Herald
Miners should be careful not to make
mistakes in the matter above referred to.
By the law, any number of miners having
contiguous claims an enter their claims
jointly. This is so provided partly to save
expense and partly because the lines Of
claims run so eccentrical y that single
entry cannot perhaps be made to conform
with Government subdivisions; also to en-
able canyon owners in the body Of claims
owned by others to enter with the adjacent
owners, etc. But the claims must touch
each other in such case. Wilson's late
decision was that where one company or
individual owned detached claims in the
same neighborhood there need not be sep
arate application for each. Here The OBJ
ject was simply to avoid expense. There
would be great inconvenience in allowing
different owners, with claims having no
contiguity to each other or other connec-
tion, to apply in one case.--Union.
The Shasta courier., 1871-01-07

Scottish MAsoNs The Prince of
Wales was, on October 18th, installed as
Patron of the Scottish Free Masons, with
appropriate ceremonies A suitable jewel
was presented to the Prince, which con-
sisted Of a gold stars of eleven points,
surmoulted by Prince of Wales feather
10 81 yer studded with small gems, and
hav 6 the quare, compass and segment
attach d delneath. The figure of st.
Andrew, on blue enameled ground, sur
rounded by wreath Of thistles, is placed
in the center of the star. The following
inscription is engraved on the back: "The
Jewel of his Royal Highness Albert Ed
ward, Prince of Wales, Duke Of Rothesay,
Grand Steward of Scotland, aod Patron Of
the Ancient Order of Free and Accepted
Masons of Scotland"
The Shasta courier., 1871-01-07

GARRISON LIFE IN ALAsKA.-The ed
itor of the Alaska Times refers to the con
d,tion of society in that territory in the
following manner: No less than eight
murders have been committed in Sitka in-
side of the last three years, and every mur-
derer has escaped the punishment he de-
served except one, who is in the military
guard house awaiting trial, and unless we
soon get Court be will escape the punish.
meut he 50 richly deserves. We have seen
women and girls Knocked down in the
streets by an army officer aud United
States post agent. We have seen these
two officers, oo the same day, knock down
poor inofensive Russians, and the army
officer hand the postal agent pistol to
kill an American. We have known army
officers to force their way into private
Russian house, and attempt to take liber-
ties with the women inmates, that in any
other country but Alaska would cost them
their lives. We have seen two companies
of soldiers stationed right in the city,
many Of whom we're not ct to run at large
outside the walls of State prison, and
who forced their way into Russian houses
as though it was part of their duty.
And what has been the result of all this
Simply, that all the refined and respectable
portion Of the Russian population have left
our territory, heartily sick Of, and DISCUS
ted with, the very name of an American,
and who can blame them? Who will not
blush when he reads that out of Russian
population Of 500 or 600 people in Sitka,
there are not over three young girls of
the age of thirteen years who are not pro-
stitutes, and in making this assertion we
challenge contradiction. The soldiers be-
ing stationed in the heart of the city, went
around spreading contamination, disease
aud state Of decentralization only surpass-
ed BY that which existed at the time Sodom
and Gomor1ah we're destroyed BY an aveng-
ing God. We regret to say Few of the
army officers acted more like blackguards
ss@s>s S>--~~- =
The Shasta courier., 1871-01-07

Our CREDIT SYsrEM.-We wish to
call attention to the present loose manner
of doing business in our town, we mean the
system of indefnate crdit, which has grown
up among us, and runs through all of our
business transactions, even down to a
China wash bin.
Our merchants hardly know when they
sell an article if they are selling for cash,
on thirty days, or six months. They make
spasmodic effort at collecting the first of
every month. Bills are made out and pre-
sented, if convenient they are paid if not
they run another month and 50 on from
month to month. This is prolific source
OF trouble, losses and MISUNDERSTANDING,
by the time collections are enforced the
creditor is surprised at the amount of his
az count, he thinks that he has been charged
with things he never had, and TOO much
for what be did have.
We are on the wrong track any system
ofloose general credit on goods purchased
for consumption is ruinous to both buyer
and seller and should be discoura ed 1t
tends to extravaganza on one side, and to
high prices and losses upon the other, and
falls with peculiar hardness upon the cash
buyer who has to make good all losses. 1t
is safe to calculate that whoever expends
Fifty dollars for any kind Of merchandise
is compelled to pay from one to five dollars
above the real value of the articles bought
to help cover the losses incurred by bad
debts, this is not confined alone to our
merchants, but is as true of any other bus
iness. Chico Enterprise ar
Shasta can sympathize with Chico; we
must reform-the credit system is played
out
The Shasta courier., 1871-01-07

CRIMINAL STATISTICS The Califor-
mia Prison Commission have addressed cir
culars ts'aH the Sheriffs of fAe State, ask
ing them to forward the total number Of
prisoners tried in their counties, with their
respective crimes; also, desiring them to
send in their returns before the 26th in
slant, as they desi to make an annual re-
port Of the facts.
The Shasta courier., 1871-01-07

The Strasbourg Cathedral is to be restor-
ed. The "North German correspondent"
says that the Governor General "has him
self accepted the Presidentship of the
Building Commission, the object of which
is an intelligent and thorough renovation
Of this architectural bijou, of which Ger
many is SO Justly proud"
The Shasta courier., 1871-01-07

There is on exhibition at A Pearl street,
New York, couple Of cheese. that, with
moderate consumption. would last any mod
crate sized family al! Winter. One Of these
monsters weighs eight hundred pounds net,
and the other five hundred, and were produc-
ed in Oneida county. New York. The quail
ity il fine. and they are valued at about
twenty ccnts per ponnd. II is expected to
sell them to English shippers.
The Shasta courier., 1871-01-07

Conversation between inquiring stranger
and steamboat pilot: That is Black Noun.
tain?' "Yes, sir; highest mountain about
Lake George. ."s-"A Any story or legend con-
nected with that mountain 7" "J.ots of
EN- Two lovers once went up that noun
tain and never came back again" 'Iudeed,
why; what became of them" "Weut
down on the other SIDE"
The Shasta courier., 1871-01-07

"SILENcE in the Courtroom there p
thundered Judge Lake. "This Court has.
already sentenced four persons to the State
Prison without being able to hear word
Of testimony"
The Shasta courier., 1871-01-07

Thomas Winans, the great American
railway builder in Russia, has returned 70
Baltimore and the An erican asks him to
stay At home and spend bis uopey ior the
good Of the g Monumental City" ....
The Shasta courier., 1871-01-07
Wur1.M QAnn.nn

WILLIAM GARRARp, well known
cattle man in San Joaquin county, and a
particular friend Of Governor Bradley, oi
Nevada, win be his private Secretary-not
Frank Tilford. - 81 ~
The Shasta courier., 1871-01-07

IT is Eve years since nitro-glycerine
came into use. The one thousand seven
hundred persons whom it has killed or
MANNED for life, and the millions Of prop
Ierty it has destroyed, may be styled reconl-
mspdatiom efits efficacy. :. s.sz.-. .,ss !
The Shasta courier., 1871-01-07

New EDIToR.-The New Age-Odd
Fellows organ, published in San Francis
co.'s to have new editor. Austin, its
former editor, went to Europe, and has
not returned. and its proprietcrs have pre-
cured q editor p. G.. MoSamusl Yorks
Al Lee, late Of Washington, D O.