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The Placer herald., 1872-03-16
Written for the HERALD.
CROAKING PROPHETS.
THE AUTHOR OF "MY EARLY SCHOOL DAYS. u

BY THE AUTHOR OF "MY EARLY SCHOOL DAYS"
Some wondrous men have late appeared on earth,
Pregnant with vain delusions from their birth,
Forebodng to the world final stroke,
Who, like the raven, daily croak and croak;
The times and seasons with curious eye
Through floating mists and vapors they descry,
Or into far futurity would reach.
But Shakespear says, die, Prophet, in thy
speech"
How from the false shall we detect the true?
When God sends Prophets He nstructs them,
too,
And lifts the curtain that is drawn between
The world beyond and this sublunary scene,
Condemns pretenders either soon or late,
Disproves their words and leaves them to their
fate.
The gypsy -sybil who upon your palm
Your fortune reads, is not greater sham;
She from hypocrisy at least exempt
Receives the silver coin and smiles contempt;
But they, disdaining such inglorious things,
Predict the fall of Empires and of Kings,
And with anathemas in thunder hurl'd
Like Doctor Cumming, finish up the world.
One talks of comets, earthquakes, fire and blood,
Another browns US kindly in a food.
In calculation profound, the hour
Is fix'd and settled for the fame or shower.
Some Saints there are who, not content to kneel,
Sell their mahogany and purchase deal;
For which the only reason l can state
Is that the loss would not be quite so great;
Like chivalry of which we've seen the last,
Methinks the age Of prophecy is past.
There have been prophets, sterling, truthful,
sound,
But only in the Scriptures to be found;
Inspired by Him, the One Supreme on high,
Sole source of truth, the One who cannot lie.
Such was the son of Amos when he poured
His spirit out on Judah from the Lord
His gifted spirit that in light awoke
And made her children tremble as he spoke.
And such was he Goods messenger, deem)
Who in Chaldea stood by Chebar's stream,
And saw displayed before his mental eyes
A bright cherubic vision from the skies.
Such he, who when Belshazzar in his hall
Quail 4 at the mystic writing on the wall,
That gave his kingdom to the warke Mede,
Explained and solved what none beside could
read.
These their credentials had-I wish to know
If modern Prophets have the like to show?
As well expect miser to display
His purse in friendship, and persist to pay;
Or in the desert find table spread
With viands rich, that pilgrims may be fed;
The blind to clearly see, the deaf to hear,
Or meet a lawyer with conscience clear.
As we'll expect what yet has never come,
An angry woman struck by reason dumb.
When croaking prophets visit us in troops
They're followed by at least ten thousand dupes;
OF ueraa'a gulls in man behold the chief,
The greater lie, the frmer the belief.
All history tells us that he has preferr'd
To common sense the monstrous and absurd
Ignorance and imbecility combined
Degrade his nature and enslave his mind,
And make and leave him while he dreams or
raves
The fool of fiction and the prey of knaves.
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ANEcDoTE OF BURNs.-The following story
about Burns is too good to be overlooked: =
"An English commercial traveller, named
Turner, met him once in the Kings Arms
Hotel, Dumfres. Understanding thnt his
new acquaintance was poet, he professed
attachment to the fraternity and offered to
treat him with bottle of wine. But his
conversation was chiefly about himself and
his own merits. AS Burns rose to leave,
the traveller asked him for specimen of his
versifyng. Procuring a slip of paper, the
poet, disgusted at being thus called upon to
pay for his fare, wrote the following stanza,
which he handed to his friend, and at once
RETIRED
In seventeen hundred and forty-nine,
Satan took stuff to make swine,
And cast it in a corner;
But willy he changed his plan,
Aud shaped it sonnet hing ike a man,
And cad it Andrew Turner.
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A CHINA CoLFAx-When Colfax and
party made their last visit to the Pacific
coast they stopped at Truckce, and during
their stay a Chinese wedding took place at
Campbell's Hotel, Judge Sykes performing
the ceremony, and Vice President Colfax
giving away the bride. Since that time the
Celestial couple have lived together happily,
and what is more, boy has been born unto
them, and they have named him Colax.
His name was so given by the mother and
duly entered upon the return by the Census
Marshal. .-Neuada Transcript.
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The New CAMPAIGN DOCUMENT. The
new mine which has been sprung under
the throne of the President by Senators
Sumner and Schurz promises to be very dam
aging in its results. 1t is simply that the
United States government supplied France
with arms and fixed ammunition with which
to fight Prussia. That Remington Il Son,
the accredited agents of the French Govern
ment, having procured as many as they could
in their own name, obtained other supplies OF
war material from the War Department,
through Mr. Richardson, their agent, and
that the War Department must have known
and did know, when it was selling to Rich
ardson, lawyer, that it was, in fact, furn-
ishing France the means to fight Germany
the people of which latter country form, in a
naturalzed state, an important and numerous
body of citizens of the United States. An
other feature is, that the records Of the French
Government show larger amount of money
paid to this country for such supplies Of arms
and ammunition, by some two millions or SO,
than is credited on the books of the War De-
partment This, however, is a minor mat
ter. The two millions, Which is mere triile
by way of knock down on big trade,
doubtless went into the bank accounts of
some of the middle men.
The great point which Senators Sumner
and Schurz intend to make in this new cam
paign, is to draw from General Grant the
support Of the Germans, and with that disas-
trous force against the President this can be
leveled by the powerful nvective of Senator
Schurz, we who have appreciated the persua-
sive eloquence Of the man SO often can well
imagine. 1t is decidedly the most terrible
blow which has yet been struck at the
administration. - Wayrenton Missouri Ban
lltr.
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O, MEMORY, thou art a jewel! To possess
thee in thy greatest attainable strength, is to
possess a prize, the value Of which is inesti-
mable. Thou art susceptible of an increase
of strength and enlargement of power by
cultivation; how important, then, that we i'm
prove every opportunity to cultivate our MEM
ory, that it may be ours in strength and vigor
to serve US in times of need,
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A WHOLE seminary full of Kalamazoo girls
are travelling in the Old World, and recently
one Of them wrote an account Of their ascent
of the pyramids with the Emperor of Brazil,
and remarked that the young ladies were as
sisted by rude natives. The letter was pub
lishcd in Michigan paper, and was meta
morphosed thus: "We were assisted in our
ascent ty nude natives"
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HOW MUCH THEY GOT.

The county of Placer has commenced
suit against the Central Pacific Railroad
Company for fair divide. Placer coun-
ty, at the beginning, subscribed for $3.50,
coo of the stock of the Central Pacific
Railroad, and in 1870 the Supervisors Of
that county sold back again to the COM
pany. 1t is now claimed that this sale was
merely ly a conveyance of the stock, and did
not include any rights to dividends or other
profits accruing prior to the date of the sale,
and it is for these profits, which the manag-
ing Ring divide among themselves, that the
suit is brought. The complaint states that
dividend of $50, 100000 ought to have
been divided among the stakeholder six
months before the Placer stock was sold !,
and gives the following estimate of the prop
erty received from various sources by the
company:
Value in gold coin-Lands granted by the
United States, $50, POS, 900; lands granted
and donated by various corporations and in
dividuals situate within the State of Nevada,
50, ,0OO, 600; lands granted and donated by
various corporations and individuals within
the Territory of Utah, 81 600, ,00O donation
by the State of California, 81 500, 900;
bonds on which the State of California guar
antecd the interest, $4,000, 900; bonds of
Placer county, $3.50 600; bonds of the city
and county of San Francisco, $400 600;
bonds of the city and county of Sacramento
100000. Currency-Bonds of the United
States Government, $27 1888, ,120; first
mortgage bonds of Central Pacific Railroad,
$27 1888, 120; second mortgages bonds of said
company, delivered to defendants l.. Stan
ford, Charles and f. b. Crocker, Hunting
ton. Hopkins and Miller, SIS ,501 IA So;
second mortgage bonds issued and sold,
S1l ,7S7 ,37G.17. Total, $156, 1925 800.
IL the suit ever comes to trial some most
interesting developments will be made; but
if money will prevent it, Stanford Il Co.
will never permit it to come to rial.-San
Francisco Post.
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LEAVES.

What is life, and what are we?
Only leaves upon a tree,
Green to-day, tomorrow scar,
Then we are no longer here!
Others fair and brave as we,
Grew, of old, upon a tree;
Now they crumble in the mould,
With their histories untold.
So shall we; it is our lot
Thus to die and be forgot;
BY and by the tree will fall,
One oblivion waits for all.
The Placer herald., 1872-03-16

The City Council of Dayton has rejected
the whole reception expenses of President
Grants reception last October-Sl64 So
and returned the bills to the Citizens Com
mittee. The council is Republican. The
hotel bill for rooms and meals amounted to
SEQ; wines and cigars $40; band, carriages,
powder, etc., $64.5O.
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AN English. writer advises young women
to look favorably upon those engaged in agri-
cultural pursuits, assigning as one reason
that their "Mother Eve married gardener.
He forgot to add that in consequence of the
match the gardner lost his situation.
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BREAKFAST FOR Sx.-The Elk,

BREAKFAST FOR Sx.-The Elko hide
pendent is responsible for this: "a SNOW
blockader,' who had subsisted on air and
water for thirty days, ,telegraphed from Ogden
to an acquaintance here to order breakfast
for six. The order was given as directed
ana the party awaited for; but great was the
surprise of his friend, on the arrival of the
cars, to find that no one accompanied Yacob
that he proposed to eat the breakfast solo.
GLOW bees dis?" asked the man that receiv-
ed the telegram; "you orders breakfast for
six" "Dat bees right; eat nothing for three
weeks; hungry as one d-n, and must ketch
up with mine pelly! Mynheer, trot out your
grub!" Good judges say Yacob done am
pie justice to the savory viands, and settled +,
as per telegram, for six.
The Placer herald., 1872-03-16

WONDERFUL. SIGNAL LIGHT.-A signal
light that will live in the water is one OF the
latest discoveries. When thrown into the
sea it will Immediately ignite, md will burn
for forty minutes. Contact with water is
the only means of producing the illumination.
1t will ignite in no other way. When
once lighted, wind or storm does not affect it.
Experiments have been made by num-
Der of scientific gentlemen, to determine its
brilliancy. On one occasion, a lamp was
plunged into bucket of water on the top of
hill, which produced light SO brilliant that
after burning twenty minutes, a newspaper
was read by the light at seventy yards dis
tance from it. "The weather was dark, thick
and foggy." They are said to be easily
made, cheap and safe.
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LONGEVITY OF PRESIDENTS. Ts.-The following
table shows the ages of the United States
Presidents when they died. Fillmore, John
son and Grant are the only survivors, and
their ares are given:
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OMciayP0pcr OF Placer County
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Liberal deductions made to monthly or yearly
The number of insertions must be marked on
the advertisement, otherwise it will be continued
until forbidden, and charged for accordingly.
II is hereby expressly agreed and stipulated
between the proprietor and those having work
or Advertising done, or being subscribers, that
al nav,nents at the above rates are to be made
in current United States gold or silver coin
OFFICIAL ADVERTISING.
The following rates, AS FIXED BY LAW, will be
charged for all legal advertisements and notices.
For the first insertion, one dollar and fifty
cents per square of two hundred and fifty ems
and one dollar per square for each additional in
sertion, up to four, and thirty-fve cents per
souare for each subsequent insertion.
~ All legal advertisements must be plainly
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DO Ieyee skies, IS q So; 90. Fights, IS 50;
DO echts 1875 IS q ST; do. Penitentlary sevens, go
a 70 do railroad Fights, 70 80; Alabama fves, 90
az do eirhts So 90; do. de-, Montgomery and Eu-
aula Railroad, IS 90; South Carolina sixes so q So;
do, new, January and July, s3,l "a; do. do.
April and October, 81 SO; Arkansas skies, funded,
STOCKS LESS ACTIVE AND LOWER.
A duer feeling pervaded the stock market, and
the business OF the day was chiefly concerned with
Pacific Mail and Erie. The wrangle In Pacific Mail
occasions so many and so wide fluctuations that
the professional class Of spectators are quite
chanted with the numerous opportunities offered
for rapid and profitable terms Afforded by II II
only rightly "struck." To-day the "bus' had
the best OF the contest-thanks to their early
intelligence from Washington that the President
had signed the Postal Appropriation bill-thereby
making full law and putting beyond peradyenture
the increased subsidy for the Pacific Ocean mail
service. Per contra, and az II to console the
clears" in Pacific, strange and active weakness
took possession OF Erie and lowered 1t nom 6s to
6374. The London market was credited with be-
ginning the 'break," but the lowest point reached
at the close on the other side was hardly below the
equivalent OF 86, so that the further decline
here was an extra performance on the
part OF the American actors OF the Erie
drama. II was doubtless, o concentrated ope-
ration to achieve the general purposes Of
the formidable 'bear" combination now working
against the market, although one rumor had It
that the decline to be attributed to reported
singular offer from the controlling parties in Eng
land to sell the election for million and half OF
dollars to any party here wishing the administra-
ton Of the road. What with the rise In Pacific and
the fall in Erie the rest OF the market unsettled
and divided in its sympathetic tendencies, now
falling the one and anon the other, the
general result being, however, rather against
the bulls" particularly near the close,
when Northwest declined to 49, Central to
OF, Columbus, Chicago and Indiana Central to
3sM and Union Pacific to 80. The inunctions against
Pacific Mail occasioned little discussion, and were
dlsregarded far as they Influenced speculation In
the stock. An upward turn to IS in Quicksilver
and q temporary drop to for Boston, Hartford and
Erie were incidents In an otherwise tame move
ment. The sudden death of Mr.. Dimock, President
of the Atlantic Mail Steamship Company, involved
no evil consequences to the stock, which was only
quoted once during the day, viz, at 81.
HIGHEST AND LOWEST PRICES
The following table shows the highest and lowest
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rye rye straw s. o. short do DOC 81 05 for oa
nors-rhere has been little more call from brewers
scarcity desirable stocf Foreign hops We're mostly
Sewna ,ney oeag considered better than domestic for
lots comprising both foreign ana domestic Prices re-
NAMED nrm, especially for domestic
tnaed quiet 1m The O sales ' We're eS 70 ar
was a aemuna and IN as Spot f. S s sSa
81 w bpis common rosn at S. so; 100 bbls No 81
strained s. At 4sr w ss % fs p aa r.
held g former gures sales 50 6bls Washington S. 80
un Swo nsseS the market remained steady
s %ss a. s,S sc n casks and Spls Crude
7e ~ que rIa 7oo a2c and natural winter do
S 81 ss' at Ct & 50 B sDs IL
Menhadsn quiet steady at &c. Soc for re choice
hgh1 Gruae eS,tom seed quoted AZ ssc $50
s ssy q T Isma%%s9
DS or eaTv june mere Se IsPG'sa
w y Nh oa was about steady but quet held
sS' ssRSitss %s SSs
at s. rs 1is oh the marns
lower road The Philadelphia was easy bat nom.
snisa ST N Ts% YnSs
q May ant sols 49, each last last half
e S rs sa. m %ss
81 Ssi. !GSpsss al
slS 50 and $50 bbs Qast evening" sellers june S3
The 1obbing trade was confined to about go bbis, at
$lS CD for selected heavy and SIS for old
Bacon-There was better demand Tor city icecurcd,
clear, and &C. for stretford. Dressed hogs a
shade better quoted at 5ssc. 6ac. for the range.
Beef was in moderate demand with sales in lots OF 200
Dds at prices within the range OF So $ll Tor $40
$i2 for extra mess SIS $l3 for prime erces; and
Sls w or india mess tierces Beef hams remained
sales 81 packages smoked hams at lli4c We quote =
Smoked hams, loo. l2c. do shoulders &C. 6c ;pckcd
hams, &c. lOc. do. shoulders sac 5sEc; do. bel
lies &C. &C. dry sailed shoulders, b1c. CSC. LAID
me market for western was easier but spot lard was
ncglected quoted at 9l6c. 9sc for good to choice
july offered Mt yhc, without buyers City lard dull
but steady atS5sc.; sales rs tierccs.
kicE-lhe market still remained quiet but prices rm
We note sales OF ~ terces of Carolina at 8c 9c, 100
fac - '|a0' : ''4'' ~" -'O '"s' """soo" ~ 0>''
suGAR:-The market for has been trife more ac-
tive today but in order to sell TO any slight con
cesson had TO be made, and call the market Lice per
ID easier although we make no change In former
range OF quotations The sales to-day aggregate OF
Rco which realized 9ac, the balance ranged from sac
sc also go boxes part at sac Refined quiet and
scarcely so firm The market was weak at &C. Ike
for A, and i24c. for hards.
TOBACCO continued in fair demand at steady prices
Sales since last $50 old crop Connecticut on pr
crop State 9]sc. losc $40 cases do Pennsylvania, loo
ale 300 cases do. Ohio, lGac. usc. 600 cases do
Wisconsin, SIC 94c. 225 hhds Kentucky &c. l41ac.
and oO0 bales of Havana at 95c. Il 81 10
TALLow continued in good demand With prices slightly
favoring buyers Sales 10000 lbs. from &c 0sSc.
wHsKEy.-Reccipts 956 bbls The market was duh nd
easier Sales 100 bbls at Ole 9, closing at the inside
price.
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TIE REAL ESTATE MARKET.

The market opened for the week yesterday with
out features Of special interest. The auction sales
were few and unimportant, and only fairly at
tended. The following are the PARTICULARS
NEw YORK PRorERTY-BY JAMES M MILLER.
lot 25xiooi r. Kurzmann $500
Il. IL LUDLOW
av lot 2oxiOss, W G. Wetmore 1900
MILLER, WILKINS AND co.
j. j Philips 1900
lot Goth st., and lot, q. 9sth St, 100 It. c. of
9TH av each 25xioOll T. W. Powers. .......e.. 500
wEsTCHEsTER COUNTY PRoPERTY-DY MULLER WILKINS
Frame house, stable and about 2T acres of ground
the village Of Rye, A. T. Rand 1900
BRooRLYN pEorRRTy-By II. N CAMP.
lot 2oxi00 s. H. Clapp. .' 400
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The following table shows the highest and lowest
prices Of the principal stocks during the day.
DEATH OF MIR. A, v. pIMOCK,

DEATH OF MR.. A. v. DIMOCK.
An active Wall street spirit has disappeared in
the death OF Mr.. A. " Dimock, President OF the
Atlantic Mail Steamship Company, and chief men,
Der of the stock brokerage firm Of Dimock, Myers 4
Co. Mr.. Dimock left New York at the usual hour
after business on Monday and died suddenly, nay,
instantly, as the train was journeying with him to
his home at Elizabeth. His comrades in the car
were for time under the belief that his sudden
hamilton was simply a faintlng 1T and applied
the usual restoratives for such a contin-
gency, but were ineXpressibly shocked
soon after to discover that death was real
and not counterfeited. The deceased, though a
young man, only thirty-seven years-his DEATH by
q singular coincidence, occurring his birthday,
had been concerned to a gigantic extent in real
estate and stock investments, and was the leading
capitalist in building tho city Of Elizabeth, his
speculation in the lands to which that city has Of
late years expanded returning him enormous pro-
fits. His dealings in the stock of Atlantic Mail
were less fortuitous, but his steady income from
his real estate at Elizabeth kept him rich man
throughout and provides handsomely for his wife
and family now that he has gone.
ckTrs AT TIE NrW ynRK 1T0rK rycU Nnr
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FIRE IN wILLIAMsBURa-Loss $4,000.

At about two O'Clock yesterday morning fire
broke out In the lower part Of the two story frame
building PAL Grand street. Williamsburg, and soon
spread to the adjoining building AK. No. 2i1 was
occupied as on Ice cream and candy saloon 10y afr.
p. Kuhn. ana his family occupied the second story
"a residence. This family was saved from
suGocation by the nremen and police
with some difficulty. The loss sustained by
the occupants ana owners Of the buildings are esti-
mated ms foows:--Danie Foley, S1,400; Insured for
81. 900 In the Williamsburg City Company. Mr.
Kuhn, on stock and furniture, sJ,0o0 insured Tor
$1,000 In the Lyconac Company. Loss on the build
ing owned by william Jordan, $4,000; No. 2i3,
owned BIZ Mrs. w. Skidmore and occupied by Mrs
Clifford as fancy goods store, damaged to the
amount Of several hundred dollars, and Mrs. Chf
ford estimates her loss on stock at $4,000.