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The Placer herald., 1872-03-09

HASH Hash is made of cast-off vtties,
and has done more to advance the human
race thln any other kind of mixed food. For
breakfast, small tepderline stake, some
ham and eggs, four baked potatoes, plate
of buttered toast, some slapacks, a No. |
mackerel, two cups of coffee, and some hash
is good. worship hash this way better'n
any other. have seen hash myself that
/ had my doubts about, but eat it-and
still live. ! love hash--from princpe-and
this is my rule: watch the landlady, and
if she eats it, take "some more hash "
This is what makes me so popular at all
boarding houses where live. .--JoSh Billings
The Placer herald., 1872-03-09
SOMETHING TO Touch THE HEART

SOMETHING TO Touch THE HEARr.-Col-
eridge tells story to this effect:
Alexander, during his march into Africa,
came to people dwelling in peaceful huts,
who knew neither war nor conquest. Gold
being offered to him, he refused it, saying
that his sole object was to learn the manners
and customs of the inhabitants. Stay
with u.s. says the Chief, "as long as it
pleaseth thee.'
During this interview with the African
Chief two Of bis subjects brought cause
before him for judgment. The dispute was
this: The one had bought of the other a
piece of ground, which, after the purchase,
was found to contain treasure, for which he
felt himself bound to pay. The other re-
fused to receive anything, stating that when
he sold the ground he sold it with all the
advantages, apparent or concealed, which it
might be found to afford.
Said the Chief, looking at the one, Fl" You
have a son, and to the other, "You have a
daughter; let them be married, and the
treasure be given them as a dowry."
Alexander was astonished.
"And what" said the Chief, "would
have been the decision in your country
"We should have dismissed the parties, !"
said Alexander, 'and seized the treasure for
the kings use.
"And does the sun shine on your coun-
try ?" said the Chief; "does the rain fall
there ? are there any cattle there which feed
upon herbs and green grass ID"
"Certainly," said Alexander.
"Ab," said the Chief, " it is for the sake
of those innocent cattle that the Great Being
permits the sun to shine, the rain to fall, and
the grass to grow in your country"
The Placer herald., 1872-03-09
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The Placer herald., 1872-03-09

Harry" said young lady on a seat be-
fore us at the thcater the other evening
chow l should love to be an actress! " "An
actress, Henrietta! why "Oh, it must
be SO nice to be made love to in such pretty
words every EVENING""
The Placer herald., 1872-03-09

A LADY schoolteacher in Omaha, having
an inordinate dread Of smallpox, sent home
little girl because she said hey mother was
sick and had marks on her face. The next
day the girl presented herself at the school
house, with her finger in her mouth and her
little bonnet swinging by the strings, and
said to the teacher: ''Miss -, we've got
little baby at our house; but mother told
me to tell you that it isn't catChin'." The
teacher said she was very glad, and told her
pupil to take her seat.
The Placer herald., 1872-03-09

A LINEAI descendant of Martin Luther is
living in New York city. He possesses Il
silver medal presented on the centennial Of
Martin Luther's birthday by the King of
Prussia to one Of his ancestors, who was
known by the then King to be genuine
Luther.
The Placer herald., 1872-03-09

INTERESTING ASTRONOMICAL FACT.-Two
persons were born at the same place, at the
same moment of time. After an age of so
years they both died, also at the same place
and at the same instant, yet one had lived
one hundred days more than the other. How
was this possible? Not to keep our friends
in suspense, the solution turns on curious,
but with little reflection, very obvious
point in circumnavigation. A person going
around the world toward the west, loses a
day, and toward the east, he gains one. Sup
posing, then, two persons born together at
the Cape of Good Hope, whence voyage
round the world may be performed in a
year; if one performs this constantly to-
wards the west, in fifty years he will be
fifty days behind the stationary inhab-
tants; and if the other sail equally to-
ward the east, he will be fifty days in ad-
vance Of them. One, therefore, will have
seen one hundred days more than the other,
though they were born and died in the same
place and at the same moment, and even
lived continually in the same latitude, and
reconed by the same calendar.
The Placer herald., 1872-03-09

A LADY whose family Was very much in
the habit of making conundrums was one
evening asked by her husband in an excited
tone:
"Why are all these doors left open?"
81 give it up," instantly replied the lady.
The Placer herald., 1872-03-09

A LITTLE girl wanted to say that she had
fan. but had forgotten the name, SO she
described it as "a thing to brush the warm
of WITH"
Wilmington daily commercial., 1872-12-17

Father Gavazzi has arrived in Rome.

Father Gavazzi has arrived in Rome.
Vanderbilt denies that work has been stop
ped on his underground railroad,
No well regulated California family is now
without slop bowl scooped out Of a $3.50, 900 ru-
by.
Next year the present Parliament Of Great
Br itain ceases to be- and general election fol-
lows.
Que half OF the false hair worn by our Ameri-
can women comes from prisons and lunatic asy-
lums.
king Oscar H. of Sweden and Norway will
be formally crowned at Stockholm on the 18th Of
May next
The house in which the poet Pope was born
in Plough Court, Lombard street, London, ia beii
pu led down.
-Bismark's son is reported engaged to an
American lady at present residing with her par
ents in Berlin.
Peter SAKE, Brother Of John G. SAKE, the
humorist is driving cattle across the plains to
San Franssco
The house in which Joan of Arc was born is
falling into ruins. The officials of the Depart
ment of the Yosges have decided to repair it,
ST. Domingo is so peaceable and President
Baez finds himself secure in his official position
that he proposes making trip to the United
| States
Dean Swift SAYS: sit is with narrow-souled
4
they have in them the more noise they make in
pouring out.
The trial of Jesse Uppercue, for the muir
der Of his aunt, at Baltimore, terminated yes
terday In the disagreement Of the jury. The
jury were out since Saturday.
"A fellow in Ohio lately tried to hang himself
by throwing a rope over beam and trying to
pull himself up with it, He was surprised to
ind he could not raise his own weight
A London tailor advertises garments cut
not only to fit and in the latest style. but reg
ulating any disproportions that may exist and en-
hancing the correct contour OF the proportion
ate."
1t is said that the Prince Royal of Han
over, son Of the ex-King George, will soon mar
Princess Alexandra, the future Queen Of Eng
land, and of Princess Dsgmar, the prospective
Empress of Russia.
"A woman has sued Leavenworth, Kansas,
for $40, 900, because crazy man, some months
city calaboose Two thousand dollars have been
| offered her as compromise, but the PROPOSE
tion was not accepted.
The N Y Herdlds Washington oorTespon-
dent asserts that Mr.. Colfax has informed his
frendsthat it is not certain whether he shall va
cate the chair OF President of the Senate for the
editorial chair of the Tribune, but ii is the gem
eral opinion that he will.
-"Never before was such sight witnessed, y
says the Boston Transcript. " as was seen at the
| Revere House on Friday afternoon, when zoo
| merchants, who had been burned out at one fire,
| ate dinner together, and had social family con-
verse about the past, present and future OF their
| trade"
Wilmington daily commercial., 1872-12-17

To G.e Editor Of he Commercial;
see many suggestions of reform in the COM
MERoIAL, which the Legislature will be called
upon to consider. Certainly there is much need
of speedy reform, or the people will be bank
rupt. The first reform of a necessitous charac-
ter. after the Constitutional Convention shall
have been called, is the passage OF law pro-
yiding for stay of execution on mortgages and
bonds, the foreclosure Of which oftimes forces a
sale OF land at value less than one-haf OF that
at which it is assessed. A case in point, and not
an isolated one either, for they are OF almost
every day occurrence: A farm, sold under a
mortgage, the other day, brought only $53 pei
acre, when its assessed value was Sl25 per acre
Why is this Because the owner could not pay
the per centage demanded.
Taxes, percentage and succession OF pad
crops have become intolerable and something
must be bone. Give us good, wholesome Stay
Law, for two years, and there will be new life in
stilled into nine-tenths Of the producers and
consumers, and land, instead Of being forced
into the market, at one fourth its value, will b
sought after as an investment. Give men some
show from the things that are pulling out thel
vitals leaving themselves and families destitute
That would be legislation for the general goo'
and not for party purposes. AN OBSERVER
Wilmington daily commercial., 1872-12-17
1t is understood that Pinchbeck will be cleo
Cd United States Senator from Louisiana.

1t is understood that Pinchbeck will be elect
cd United States Senator from Louisiana.
The House Committee on Territories had an
interview with the President yesterday on terri
tnrial affairs.
Peterson's planning mill and Marvins blind
factory. at Jamaica, L. l., were burned on Sun
day. LOSS $40, 600.
Maxwell & Co.'S malt house, at Batavia N. Y,
was destroyed by an incendiary' fire on Sunday
morning. Loss $4,000.
General Hancock will assume command of the
department OF the East in few days at his new
headquarters in New York.
Ten ice houses, containing $4,000 tons OF ice,
IN Woburn, Mass, were destroyed by fire on
Sunday night. Loss 900.
William johnson has been arrested at Man
chester, N H., for passing counterfeit $50 notes
Oh the New York City National Bank.
b. y Lynch, Republican, was installed Judge
OF the Fourth District Court at New Orleans
Yesterday, Bonner, the Fusionist judge, being
iorcibly rejected.
Il; Williams, messenger OF the Tradsmen's Il
Bank OF New York, was assaulted in the stree
last Saturday, and robbed of wallet containing
checes notes, etc to the amount Of $l5,661l
and Sl6S in cash.
!, Jesse D. Reed, for many ye ears an attache O.
aged 6l
Wilmington daily commercial., 1872-12-17
The Foreign Oyster Trade.

We mentioned short time since the arrival
st this port OF two English vessels, the schooner
Jane Hood and the barkentine Queen of the Isle,
which came here for oysters to be replanted in
English waters. The vessels were loaded on
Nansemond Ridge, care being taken to select
small, single oysters, and those from shoal wa
ters being preferred as more likely to live during
long voyage, and being better suited for trans
planting. Mr.. Russell, the agent ofthe hngilsh
cApitalists engaged in this trade, superintended
in person the loading of the vessels, and express
cd himself as confident of the success Of the
scheme. II successful in this venture, he says,
the company will send eight or ten steamers to
Hampton Roads for oysters next season. Un-
usual care was taken III storing the bivalves in
the vessels holds, some being placed on the
bottoms and the rest on false decks. Both OF
the vessels sailed Sunday with fine wind, and
the prospect Of a quick passage, The cargo OF
the Jane Hood consisted of 4,52l bushels, 121 OF
which werein barrels as an experiment, and that
Of the Queen OF the Isle of 4,9l6 bushels-9 S3i
bushels in all. Gradually and almost unnoticed
trade is growing up which is destined to as
aume considerable Importance.
Wilmington daily commercial., 1872-12-17

Mr.. Froude's third lecture was delivered last
evening.
Edwin Forests funeral took place, yester-
day, and WAS attended by many eminent actors
and others. The remains were exposed to
public view from ten to two, and were gazed up
on by many persons.
-Lucca drew full house last evening, this
being her first appearance.
The annual meeting of the Philadelphia So
ciety auxiliary to the National Associ ltion to Sc
cure the religious amendment to the Constitu-
ton of the United st ties, last evening. The re-
ceipts for the past year we're $l33 so. The Off
GERS were reelected
Warming the street cars is being agit4ted
"A number Of big balls will come off in Jan
uary.
1t is not known who struck Bi ly Paterson,
but we know who struck Billy Patterson's wife.
Billy struck her several tunes himself, and was
arrested t-.t.t
Wilmington daily commercial., 1872-12-17

Satisfaction ia sure to be the result OF every
luiy's search for something becoming to her tig-
ure and style OF goods, etc. II seems ~ though
the artists had never before 30 completely esti-
mated the wants OF all. The stout or slight,
the perfect or ill figured are provided for beyond
imagination. Many house-dresses are made
round waist and belt. Wide hounces are the
latest skirt triGAmings, requiring but four or five
to cover the entire skirt often the wide foun ces
are put on the back widths, and marrow ones, or
some other trimming to cover the front. The
Sailor or Garibaldi waist is made in some OF the
finest materials, and usually with low sailor
collar, worn with white underskirt also the
the highly favored plated blouse waist Of the
past seasons finds place among its depart,
lnent 1t is generally made in bright-colored
merino or II in white, it is embroidered with
black or bright colors. The black house-dress
Is cut half low neck in front, and worn with the
chemisette Of either lace or linen.
Wilmington daily commercial., 1872-12-17


Isaac Bullock, OF Lima, Delaware county, Pa,
met with terrible death on the Philadelphia d
baltimore Central X. H. on Saturday night last
Tia was returning to his home from Philadelphia
and was seen to leave the cars at Glen Mills. 1t
is supposed that after the cars had started he
endeayored to jump on and missing his hold
slipped between tho hind end Of the baggage
and the front OF the first passenger car. In
this manner he was dragged about quarter OF
mile from the station. when the wheels caught
him and the three passenger cars passed over
lis body cutting on one arm, leg, crushing
the back part Of his head and otherwise mang-
ling his body. His remains we're found few
minutes after the train had passed by a laborer
who was walking along the track. They were
gathered up and taken to his home in Lima
from where they were buried yesterday.
Bullock was a dissipated man, and was intoxi-
Gated at the time Of the sad occurrence. A bot
tie containing whiskey was found in his pocket.
He had but short time since served . sentence
Of fifteen days imprisonment for attempting to
kill his wife. He was about fifty years OF age,
has been married ten years and leaves seven
children. AS might we'll be supposed, the fami-
y are in the most destitute condition.
Wilmington daily commercial., 1872-12-17


TILL TAPPERs ABoUT.-On Saturday evening,
Dec 7th, the till OF Mrs. Sarah Roach's ice cream
saloon was robbed of some O. or $5, and on FRI
day night last the same, or other, parties re-
turned and took away the drawer and its contents.
They enterd by the front door and held the tap
per OF the bell while 80 doing.
SMITHS FUEERALi-The funeral Of James N.
Smith took place at Christiana on Sunday after
noon, where he was buried by the ceremonies OF
the Brotherhood of the Union. Rev. Geo. Porter
preached a very impressive funeral sermon.
The Brotherhood is under many obligations 10
]. f. williamson for his kndesses during the
sickness of Mr.. Smith.
MoRTUARY.- Mrs. Joseph Hossinger died
Monday morning at 10 o'clock The reported
death Of Harry Motheralls lie untrue.
OoNoERT.-The Concert held in the parlor Of
F. A Curtis, on Friday aud Saturday night was
very successful as regards audience, as well at
In pecuniary point of view. The singing ano
music was excellent and too much praise cannot
be given to those participating in the affair.
The ladies' all acquitted themselves splendidly,
especially Miss Jones, teacher of Music in Mise
Chamberlain's Seminary at Newark, and Miss
Marian Maybin, OF Wilmington.
Wilmington daily commercial., 1872-12-17

The West Reading Opera House will lie fin
ished by March:lst.
-Coatesyille is urging It's claim as an iron CEN
tre.
-Wm Fairbanks left hand was badly mashed
at Coatesville, the other day by bar Of iron
falling uponAit.
The school children of Birchramble gave a
concert recently in behalf Of an old colored man
and wife.
George Curtin, who, once before, escaped
from the Media jail, made a second attempt, a
few days ago, but was unsuccessful.
"A Mr.. Wilcox, of Chester, has invented a
patent folding hen coop, which costs no more
than the ordinary COOP
-Uplanders are trying to light the town with
gas.
The public schools of Chester close for two
weeks at Christmas
Henry son of the murdered Amanda
Spence, has become insane. George Grant said,
before be was hung, that Henry Spence had Of.
fered $4,000 for the murder Of his mother, and
this visitation upon Henry would seem to indi-
cate that he at least knew something OF it.
Wilmington daily commercial., 1872-12-17
The Great w sed Indictment-HeadinR it, Ia
Court.

Before Judge Ingraham, in the Court OF Oyer
and Ternner in New York, yesterday afternoon,
the trial of William NJ. Tweed was again called.
The counsel for the State, then for the fourth
time, demanded that he be compelled to plead
to the indictment. His counsel made various
dilatory motions all Of which the Court overrul-
ed. Upon this in order to compel further DC
Law. the counsel for Tweed insisted that the I'M
mense indictment be read, and the Court order
ed that it must be, as they demanded it.. 1t was
an immense, closely printed book, containing i
$50 pages. CLERK sparks began reading, atnoon.
AT q o'clock, he hau read ninety-oDe pages. Ii
is estimated that he repeated the word ''afore'
said" two thousand times. The counsel for the
defense indulged- in considerable cachlnnatiol
at their point. NJ.
While the indictment was being read. Mr.
Peckham asked that the defendant stand up
and hold up his right hand. On Mr.. Peckhan
pressing his motion, the court compromised the
| matter by allowing the clerk to-sit down Whll'
reading. 90 -,
swallowed his twentieth glass of water, Mr.. Bur
| riil, counsel for the defense, probably out o
pity for the throat of the clerk, suggested
| compromise, and the further reading was dis
| pensed with. Tweed then pleaded mot guilty.
Wilmington daily commercial., 1872-12-17

An item Of local interest is given In Aliens
new history of Kentucky, from which we learn
that, six miles east Of Mumfordvile, in the level
barrens OF kentucky, is a hole in the earth, cir
cuar in form, sixty or seventy feet in diameter
Of funnel shape for twenty-five or thirty feet,
when the diameter is diminished to ten or twelve
feet. Below this partit has never been explored
and sinks to an unknown depth. On throwing
stone into this hole or SINK its ring az it strikes
the sides gradually dies away without being
heard to strike any bottom. 1t is supposed tina
visitors have thrown more than one hundred
c4rt-loads OF rock into it,
Wilmington daily commercial., 1872-12-17

A NOVEL QUESTION GROWING OUT OF THE WEST
CASE.
The killing by West of Cooch Turner, at Do
yer, and the supposed motive for the deed, viz:
the receiving from the Insurance Companies Of
the s25 900 for which West had insured his life fol
the benefit OF his family, has given rise to a
novel and curious question OF life insurance.
II ls this II West is hanged for this murder,
will the companies be compelled TO pay the
amount Of insurance to his family7 II the in
surance holds good, it will be to the interest OF
the companies to see that the murderer gets of
with some lighter penalty, such as imprisonment
for life. The case is strange and unparalleled.
Wilmington daily commercial., 1872-12-17

A New York dispatch, dated yesterday, says ;
Fifty-one shares OF the capital stock Of the
Tribune Association, constituting majority,
were to-day sold to VIM. Orton. or the late
owners Of shares, Whitelaw Reid and John Hay
are the only persons who have sold outright, the
former four shares (840,00O) and the latter two
shares (S20, ,000.)
DR.. Aver sold eight of his fourteen shares. OF
the fifty-one shares purchased it is understood
that eight are reserved for Schuyler Oolfax, who
is to be invited to assume the edtorship. Mr..
Reid has rendered his resignation, and will re-
tire on Saturday
Wilmington daily commercial., 1872-12-17

A FATHER RoAsTs HIS INFANT SON ALIVE.
York, Pa, Dec. 27
A man has been arrested, charged with roast.
ing to death his infant son on red hot stove.
Wilmington daily commercial., 1872-12-17

The Chester Ne1s confirms the rumor that tn Q
Heading Railroad Company has abandoned the
purchase Of the old track OF the p, W. d
o., between Grays Ferry and that city, and
adds
1.-The reason we do not know, but it does not
arise from difference in the value Of the ma
tsrials, as the estimates OF the engineers Of both
companies agreed within fraction. We cannot
say whether other localities are presenting in
d.cements, nor whether the subject will be taken
np at future day. But the fact remains indis-
pltable that negotiations have now ceased, and
L shows that the Reading company is not at all
anxious for the old route nor committed on the
question OF locality"
Wilmington daily commercial., 1872-12-17

In New York, last evening. John Simmons and
Nicholas H. Duryea, lottery dealers. got into
light on the street, and Simmons stabbed Dur
Yer with dirk -knike, causing almost instant
death The murderer was arrested. Duryea was
30 years of age, and leaves wife and two chill
tIren. Both are supposed to have acquired great
Wualtb
Wilmington daily commercial., 1872-12-17
OUR PEACH CROP OF 1872.
Product of the Delaware PENN
suIa, The Past Season.
Full and Carefully Prepared Figures

From day to day, during the crop season, we
printed statement of the quantity of peaches for
warded to market, through this city,J railroad
The greater part of these went to New York.
some to Philadelphia, Others to Interior Pennsyl-
vania. The aggregate of these shipments, at
the close of the season of 1872, was 1910, 400
baskets.
But besides these sent by rail, great guam
tity Is sent to market Tin Philadelphia and Bait
imore,) by water, and other large quantities are
consumed in the canneries, drying establish
ments, &c. We have gone to considerable trou-
BILE to ascertain, with substantial exaetness, how
many there we're OF these several shipments, and
we present to-day, summary statement Of the
entire crop of peaches, produced on the Della
ware Peninsula, in 1872, and sold for consump-
ton, the figures footing up the grand total Of
9.49l $50 baskets. They are as follows: