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A WELL CULTIVATED EAR.-One of
the most remarkable illustrations of the
power which a telegraphic operator ac-
quires to distinguish individuals by their
touch upon the instrument has just been
afforded by Mr.. Hampstead, one of the
operators in the Western Union Telegraph
Company's Office in this city. About a
fortnight ago, Mike S. Sherman, formerly
an expert and well-known telegraph opera
tor here, escaped from the Middleton In
sane Asylum, where be had been confined,
and though thorough search was made for
him, he successfully eluded the people who
were on his track until Monday night
While Hampstead was at work in the Of
fice here that night, he suddenly recogniz-
ed among the clattcr of score of messages
passing over the wire, sound which he at
once declared was the touch of the missing
Mike. 1t proved to be message from
Willingford, and an investigation showed
that Mr.. Hampstead was quite right in
ascribing it to the insane man, who was
found there yesterday, he having dropped
into the Office in the former place Monday
night, and taken a hand at his old business
The Shasta courier., 1872-11-02
THE CODE TINKEKS.

The more we examine in the batch of
trash foistsd upon the people by the Code
thinkers in the shape of election laws the
more we impressed that the business for
which those law botchers are best suited is
that Of shoveling gravel or rubbing
chimnasel roots
Let us look at few of the provisions of
this absurd law. First, the tickets are to
be four inches in width and twelve inchss
in length. If they vary more than one
eight of an inch either way, from this size,
they are illegal and must be counted out.
Thus tho canvassers will have to provide
themselves with tape measure and care
fully measure every ticket to determine its
Legality. And then ticket a foot long
and four inches wide! The electoral tick
ct will take up space of about two inches
square and here they are required to
vote ticket the size of small circus poster.
Was anything more absurd 3? If voter
wishes to Tx up a ticket to suit himself he
must first send to the Secretary of State for
a sheet of legal paper; for any other paper
not exactly like, in every particular, the
kind of paper prescribed by the Secretary
will not do, and his vote will be ruled out.
Again "No person must on the day of
election, fold any ticket or unfold any bal
lot mark the nice discrimination of the
law it is ticket before it is folded af-
ter folding it becomes 'ballot'-sic \
which he intends to use in voting with one
hundred feet of the polling place" This
will require chalklike circle around the
polls with a diameter of two hundred feet !.
The moment voter crosses the line he
must not show his ticket to any one or ex.
anime it himself, nor swap it off for another,
and the statute might with equal sense
have added, "nor take chew of tobacco,
nor scratch his nose," lest some one might
construe the act as containing some infor-
nation concerning the character of the bal
lot he was about to vote.
The code tinkers seemed to act upon the
presumption that voters did not know their
own minds, and set of ignoramuses and
tools, who needed this sort of legislation to
protect them from the imposition ofelection
sharps. The law virtually deprivss the
elector of the right of choice and personal
independence, and makes him mere voting
machine. 1t might have been we'll to pro-
vide that all ballots should be printed or
written on white paper, and not to exceed a
certain prescribed size-that they should
have no device or popularity whereby the
nature OF the ballot could be definitely de-
termined-that no betting should be al
lowed on the result and no strikers" allow
ed within certain distance from the polls.
This was all the restraint and proteo ton
that was required. What pity the fool
killer didn't happen around about the time
the Code Commissioners were concocting
their nonsense San Jose Mercury
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For Sale.

VTyHE FOLLOWING PROPERTY, SITUATED
two miles below Janesville is offered for sale
to-wit: One hundred and sixty acres of land
with good house and barn, three acres is in a gar
den and well fenced six tons of hay, fifty hogs
four horses, four cows, one buggy, chickens, &c.
also, mining claim and water privilege.
JACOB LESCHINSKY.
July 18th, 1872.
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SHASTA COURIER.
LOST LITTLE ONES.

sometimes look beyond the gateways golden
When sleep comes silently,
And there within the Saviour's arm enfolden
The little ones I see
The little ones that in the glad time oIden
Were kissed by you and me- 80
I see no longing in their tender faces
Upon their dimpled cheeks
No touch of care has left its fearful traces,
No pain tor pity speaks:
The. laugh and sing in happiest of places,
Through all the Sabbath weeks.
I wonder if amid their gleeful singing
Perchance they ever miss
mothers soft caress around hem clinging.
Her frequent, longing kiss;
Or II they wait her coming for the bringing
Of yet q sweeter bliss.
And then, when sleep has fed and with it dreaming
lie with open eyes,
And weep to find so real thing was seeming,
In sorrowful surprise,
Till thro' the darkness there does come cleaning
From out of the smiling skies.
And softly then a voice saith to my weeping,
"Twas not dream you had,
Your little ones are safe within my keeping,
So wherefore, then, be sad?"
And Ger my heart holy joy comes creeping,
Tha. makes me strangely glad.
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Send to 4. p Hall & Co., Nashua, N. H.,
Proprietors of Halls Vegetable Sicilian Hair
Renewer, for a copy of their Treatise on the
Hair Renewer.
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EMPIRE HOTEL !
Hill MAIN STREET, SHASTA, aii
JOHN v. SCOTT, Proprietor.

YVHE PROPRIETOR OF THIS FAVORITE
Il Hotel takes pleasure in announcing to his
friends and the public generally that he has re-
fitted and re-furnished the establishment through
out, and is now prepared to entertain guests in a
style equal to any other house in Northern Cal
ifornia. The PARLOR and ROOMS are large
and commodious, and the BEDS and sleeping ac-
comodations unsurpassed.
THE ABL E
will always be supplied with everything the mar
kets of this locality afford, and every possible at
tenton will be paid to the wants of guests, and
pains spared to render them comfortable.
At the BAR none but the best brands of Wine,
Liquor and Cigars will be dispensed to customers.
The Oregon Cal. Stages arrive at and leave
this Hotel daily.
CORRAL g. STABLE.
Attached to this establishment is good COR
RAJ and STABLE where Teamsters and others
can always find abundant supply of HAY and
BARLEY at reasonable prices.
JOHN ". SCOTT.
Shasta, June 10th, 1869. je19
The Shasta courier., 1872-11-02

A MATRIMONIAL MANIAC.-In Will
mington, Delaware, there is gentleman
ninety eight years of age, who has to be
closely watched toprevent him from getting
married. He has made about fifty attempts,
and always finds woman to share them.
Last week his friends rushed in and forbid
the banns just in time to prevent magis-
trate from uniting the old gentleman to a
spinster of thirty He is said to be emo.
nomaniac" on the subject of marriage,
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A STRANGE DIsEAsE.-Intense radia-
tion of heat in the great desert of Sahara
produces extraordinary effects on insects as
well as animals and men. When caravan
starts out to traverse that wide waste of
desolation, flies follow on in prodigious mul.
titudes, attracted, no doubt, by odor from
the camels, but they soon drop dead by the
intense heat. Fleas burrowing in hair;
straw or sacks, are killed off rapidly. But
the most singular Of all is the malady to
which meu are incident after being exposed
short time to burning sands and a verti-
cal sun on that arid and life.forsaken re-
gion. 1t is called ragle-a kind of brain
fever. The striken traveller is delighted;
amused, and made happy by visions Of fan
tastic forms He sees mirages, palm-trees,
groups of tents, shady mountains, sparkling
cascades, and misty forms dancing delight:
fully before his entranced vision. From
all that can be gathered upon the subject
it appears that certain condition of atmos-
phere wholly free of moisture, with intense
solar heat, produces effects on the brain
very similar to hasheesh. Both exalt the
nervous system and speedily destroy all de-
sire to exist, deprived of that natural excl.
tation Of the brain.
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CORRAL g. STABLE.
I'll N S H 0 P.

NNHE UNDERSIGNED, HAVING LOCATED
Il at the town of Millville, Shasta county, and
opened a shop for the manufacture and sale of all
kinds of Tinware and such other articles as are
usually to be found in such establishments, respect
fully requests the support and liberal patronage of
the people of the surrounding country, and begs
leave to assure all, that his prices will be most
reasonable.
Repairing done on short notice.
Stoves and Stove Pipe supplied on demand.
Old Pewter, Brass, Copper and Greenbacks
taken in trade. Highest price paid for Wool.
BENJAMIN SNOW.
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Orleans wedding, we read that the bride
wore silk-smbroidered stockings.
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