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The weekly Shasta courier., 1873-12-20

In Scotch country parish church
officer filled that Office and that of
grave-digger for the long space of fifty
years. Suspicious had long been en-
tertained that he was in the habit of
helping himself out of the collection
plate whenever opportunity permitted.
1t was difficult, of course, to prove this.
At last, however, the sum of one pound
was distracted from a missionary box
which stood in the vestry, and every
thing combined to point out this man
as the culprit The elders told the
minister that something must really be
done. The minister said, Leave him
to me, and I'll see what can be done"
The following Sabbath, after the fore
noon service, the minister was taking
off his gown and bands, and, being
alone in the vestry with the suspected
man, he thought the opportunity was
too good to be lost, so he said, can
drew, have you heard of the money
that is missing from the boxs" "Oh,
ay," said Andrew, 81 was hearing
something about it." Andrew" con-
tinued the other, very gravely, "the
matter lies between you and me. We
are the only two who have access to
the box. Either you or must be the
thief" Deed, sir, "rejoined the i'm
perturbable Andrew, sits just as you
say; we're the only twa that has had
access to the box, and l think the best
way II be for you to pay he tae half
and I pay the tither, and say nae mair
about it."
The weekly Shasta courier., 1873-12-20
ONE OF DAVE BooDEN's STORIES

ONE OF DAVE BooDEN's STORIES
At Fairport, once or twice a year,
lay her two or three ships discharging
salt from Cadiz and peopled with story
telling sailors who had sailed all the
seas over and knew the most delightful
yarns ever spun; of these Dave Booden
was consummate. He had been fore
mast hand in the time of the embar-
Co." when the British fleets blockaded
the entire coast of New England. His
tales were blood and many
is the night when we boys staid so late
listening to the latest version of the
story of his blowing up the Arethusa,
that we were sent supperless to bed.
The Arethusa was British sloop-of
war blockading Casco Bay. Dave,
who, by the way, always spoke of that
period as 1.-The time of dimbargo," was
a prisoner of war on board, having
been captured from fishing -pinkey
and kept as a pilot. By hurrahing for
King George and otherwise pretending
to be a good Tory, he gained the con-
fdence of the crew; and one night.
while laying at anchor off Diamond
Head, he fixed lighted fuse under the
powder magazine, slipped through an
open port-hole to boat that was tow
ing astern and so made off, padding
with his shoes for want of oars.
" When that ere ship blowed up" said
the truthful Dave, Il was nigh unto
ten miles and a-half away But she
shook the air so, that | wuz blowed
clean out o that yawl jest straight.
My cap went up three feet higher nor
did, and l went up about nine feet inter
the air. What air ye staggering att
Dave would angrily demand of one boy
who would never believe this part of
the story. "When l lit agen, l Jest
sot right in the yawl on the very same
thort that was a-sittin' on afore and
my cap was on my head, tew. Fact,
boys, and ye may jest ask yer old gram
ther eff it amt" Gran'ther Perkins,
who commanded the American volun-
teers in the time of the embargo, had
been dead ten years or more. Dawes
storytelling had no fortifying witness
es.-St. Nicholas Magazine
The weekly Shasta courier., 1873-12-20

Never attempt to do anything that is
not right. Just as sure you do, you
will get into trouble. If you even sus-
pect that anything is wrong, do it
not until you are sure your suspicious
are groundless.
The weekly Shasta courier., 1873-12-20

Bring back into the right way him
who has gone astray. Correct the er-
rors of mankind, where you can, and
inspire them with love of virtue. Re-
store the stray sheep to the fold
The weekly Shasta courier., 1873-12-20

1t takes two to make quarrel-just
remember that. 1t takes two to get
quarrel fairly going, SO hold your tongue
the moment storm is brewing, and
you are without the pale of discord.
The weekly Shasta courier., 1873-12-20

LIFE IN DANBuRY by the .' Danbury News
Man." Over twenty thousand sold. Buy it.
Read it. Laugh and grow fat Sent post paid
receipt Of so in currency or postage stamps.
by Pacific Newspaper Publishing Company, 4t9
Washington Street, San Francisco.
The weekly Shasta courier., 1873-12-20

Little things should not be despised,
for many threads will bind an elephant,
and many drops make river.
The weekly Shasta courier., 1873-12-20

A good word is an easy obligation,
but not to speak i'll requires only our ST.
lence, which costs US nothing.
The weekly Shasta courier., 1873-12-20
REAL HAIR PoMPADouR RRAIpS.

THICK, WITHOUT RATS, from S3 to 81 IS; long
switches S5 three long heavy side curls, So 25 long
single cuIs, 81 First quality hair. Tangled hair made
into curls switches side curls steamed for twenty
five cents. All work done cheaper than elsewhere
JOHN d. WILSON, All Sutter Street, opposite the
San Francisco.
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$l0O-SOLDIERS

For travel pay of California and Nevada yolun-
teers discharged more than hundred miles
home, apply to W. H. AIKEN. Attorney at Law "a
Montgomery Block, San Francisco
The weekly Shasta courier., 1873-12-20
A SURE CURE FOR THE PILES.

DIR. WILLIAMS CHEROKEE PILE REMEDY
has cured of the b ind, Bleeding. Itching and
liberated Piles of 25 and 80 years duration An In
dian healing 0intmentl 1t cures when all other RENE
die, fail Price by mail, 81 per box. WILLIAMS
MEDICINE CO, Portersville, Butler County, Pa.
Ask your Druggist for it
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PROPOSALS.
--N>--~~>>~"-~-~~~~~~
COMMONWEALTH OF VIRGINIA,
DEPT OF PUBLIC PRINTING,
RICHMOND, April IT, 1878.
PROPOSALS. FOR PRINTING AND
il BINDING THE NEW CODE OF VIR-

BY Act of the General Assembly at it's recent
session it was provided
''That the Superintendent of Public Printing
Is hereby Puthorzed and empowered to receive
from George w. Munford the edition of the
Code prepared by him. and shall advertise for
the publication of six thouse nd copies thereof,
to be in all respects equal in paper and printing
to the edition of 1860, and to be well bound in
brown calf; and shall contract for the printing
and binding the same upon the best terms to be
he d. requiring bond and security for the faithful
execution of the work, and providing in such
contract that the copyright of said edition shall
be reserved to the Commonwealth. :"
In execution of this act sealed proposals will
be received by the undersigned, at his office in the
Capitol, until THURSDAY, May l, 1873. for the
PRINTING and BINDING Of the NEW CODE
separate proposals for each The volume will
probably be about as large as the Code of 1860
Copy for the printer will be ready some time in
May or early IN June, and the book to be finished
without unnecessary delay.
Parties desiring TO bid for the work will un-
derstand that tire boo. is to be printed on new
type and of the size l. ed In the Code of 1850,
and must be properly and carefully dry-pressed.
All the work-printing, press-work, dry press
work, and bindng-MUsT BE FIRsT-oLAss, and
no bids will be entertained from parties unable
to show their ability to dosuch work The
Superintendent will furnish fine paper to the
printer, and will require the best work that can
possibly be turned out.
The Superintendent reserves the right to re-
iect any bids. r. +. WALKER,
APP l7-eodtMy1 Supt Pub Printing
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THE national convention of producers
and consumers, to be held in New York on
the sixth Of May, promises to be very
important gathering and one that will do
much towards solving the question of
cheap transportation. 1t seems that the
! illinois senate committee on transportation,
of which Senator Windham is chairman,
has been invited to be present and has &C.
cepted the invitation. Thus will the rep-
resentatives of the high law-rnakins power
meet in consultation with the two classes
suffering from railway extortion, and after
mutual interchange of views make an
effort in the direction of reform. Out of
such consultations it is to be hoped will
come measures of relief and eventually
victory. ait+s slt 90 flsaral
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OFFICE CITY COLLECTOR, I
RICHMOND, April 10th, 1873.
lY ORDINANCE CONCERNING THE


ID sale of Land Tor Taxes, passed April 10th,
1872. chapter XIV, sec. 2, the City Collector
-'shall under the diI .ction of the City Council,
cause to be published "A all the daily newspapers
of the city, at least ten days previous to the day
of sale, a notice of the time and place of sale,
of the real estate listed; ard on some day, not
more than twenty nor less than ten days pre-
vious to such sale, he all cause to be published
in one or more of said 6N1y papers, to be desig.
mated by the Commit on Finance, the list pre-
pared as above stated of the several parcels of
real estate SO to be sold.'
Under the above ordinance, and by order of the
Committee on Finance, the list of delinquent
taxes on real estate will be published on We'd
nesday, the Esd instant in the Richmond Wing,
German Anzeiger and Evening News, and ON
Monday, the 9th day of May by the Riohmend
Wing and Anzeige:, and the Evening News on
Saturday the Sd day of May next, that the
property, or SO much thereof as may be neees-
sary to satisfy said delinquency. will be sold in
front of the City Hall on the first day of the
May term of the court of Hastings, viz Monday,
the 9th day of May, at II o'clock, M.
II JNO. F. REGNAULT,
! APP 21-22,26,26 City Collector.
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In is not improbable that the problem q
cheap telegraphy may, after all, be solved
through the process of scientific invention,
if not by the interposition of government.
The number of recent improvements in the
art of telegraphy, clearly points to the adop-
ton, at an early day, of single lines of tele-
graph, where three or four are now usod.
One invent r has lately discovered the art of
making one wire perform the work of three
or more, and scientific gentlemen connected
with the Patent Office are fully of the opin-
ion that in less than two years from this
time only one wire will be necessary be-
tween the principal cities of the country.
There are others, also, who believe that
the peaks of high mountains may be used
as telegraphie signals, and that in sending
messages at long distances wires may be
dispensed with altogether.
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TT is said that an important decision is
about to be rendered by the Supreme
Court of the United States concerning the
question whether railroads have the power
to enforce stipulations made in any case
with their passengers, that in case of in
juries by accidents to them the railroads
shall not be liable therefor. It is usual
with all railroads to print on free passes a
disclaimer against liability for damages to
the person accepting them, but it is now to
be tested whether liability for damages
caused by the carelessness and negligence
ola company can by any means be avoided.
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SOME of our exchanges are complaining
that many of the young men of the South
are not now educated in this country, but
abroad, whence they return with good
manners, a little smattering of Latin and
French, little music, few poor drawings,
and good knowledge of wines. They
also bring back contempt for republic
can Institutions and no religion to
speak " Of, all 'ofwhich is as wrong as
it we'll can be. How much more sensible
itwould be for both parents and guardians,
to send these "nice young men " to
Richmond College, in this city, where they
will get not only solid education, but
be taught in good manners, good Latin,
good principles, etc., and will carry away
with them only a contempt for shams in
religion, in government, in everything.
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RICHMOND AND DANvILLE R. r.

On and after Sunday, December %, ls72 ~
GOING WEST)
Train No. Through Passenger) leaves Rich
mond daily Except Snnday)at 5:le A. M; leaves
at $50 r. M. - ''-l- --.-'--9",1 -
Train No. 8 (Lynchburg Passenger) leaves
Richmond daily at s:26 A. NJ; arrives atLynch-
Train No. 10 tThrough Mail and, Express)
leaves Richmond daily at $50 r. M; leaves
Danville daily at 1904 z. M arrives at Greens.
boro' daily at l:30 A. M.
GOING EAST: 4k
Train No. Through Mail and Expressly
leaves Greensboro daily at lao A. NJ; leaves
Danville daily at 4:32 A. NJ; arrives at Richmond
daily atl246 M: gA sa sag
Greensboro daily Except Sundays) at lilo "A,
M; leaves DanviIle at l:52 p. NJ. arrives at
Richmond at $3.50 p. M. mgA seEztee .sas3tfssi'
Lynchburg daily ate A. M; leaves Burkeyilie
P. M. 80 .a'1' 49, - lAN" a. A'''H4 $40
Trains Nos. 2 and 10 connect at Greensboro,
with trains on North Carolina railroad for ali
points South. q sss-s -
Train No. 10 connects at Greensboro with
Passengers leaving Raleigh at 7:lb p. M con
mond. .skEA& &&MfAsATN
Train No. 6 connects at Burkeville with train
on Atlantic, Mississippi and Ohio railroad fer
all points Southwest and South.
Lynchburg Accommodation leaves Richmond
800 T. M, daily. except Sunday, arriving at
Lynchbnrg in time to connect with morning
Passenger Train on A. M 4 o. r. r. for the
Southwest. Passengers coming East leave
Lynchburg after arrival of A.. M. & o. Passen-
ger Train from Bristol, and arrive at Richmond
THROUGH TICKETS to all points south and
Southwest can be procul ed at the ticket office in
lantic, Mississippi and Ohio railroad No. 1926
Main street. Richmond aAg 5sE ssaS6F'17
Papers that have arrangements to advertise
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large and very efficient negro police force,
and the Conservative papers there have
repeatedly spoken Of their efficiency and the
admirable manner in which they discharged
their duties, saying that they were much
more successful in ferreting out petty
lazcencies, and some other classes of
crimes, then white men would be. This is
more than we have said, or would say
even now. All that we care to say is this:
that when colored policemen can better
serve the public than white ones tas va
believe they might in some portions of o.
city at the present time) we should favor
their appointment, and not otherwise.
And in this we should neither put, nor seek
to put, negro over white man.
Would the appointment of such men as
Mr.. John Oliver, or Samuel B. Clarkson,
doth of whom now serve the public
efficiently and in an acceptable manner
in the Custom-house,) upon the
police force of our city, with special
reference to its efficiency in the Jackson
ward, be putting "negroes over white
men ?'' From standpoint Of mere pre-
JUDGE it might; but in no rational sense
would it be doing anything of the sort.
But we indulge in one further extract
from The Dispatch: $500
Now, if The STATE JOURNAL and Its party will
pledge themselves not to put negroes into any
ls,n. hall k
ready to csncede that the Radical is not negro
party and that its success would not endanger
| the quiet of this community. But no such
| pledge will be given The Radical party is in
Virginia negro party, upheld by negro votes.
The few whites are hardly worth counting.
Now, this is what we call ''coming
down peg" We thought we had been
combating the very formidable PROPOSE
ton that the Republican party sought "to
put the negro over the white man," Now
it comes down to question of mere nick
names. VIII we do so and so to get rid
of being called negro party? Our
answer must be emphatically, "no;''
for nicknanes have no weight but in the
deficiency Of argument. They are like Q
FOOLS jest-go in at one ear and out at the
other. 1t is only in FOOLS head that they
take Judgment. To charge us with an at.
tempt to degrade our own race, by often.
slvely putting another over it, is one thing
to call US an idle nickname is quite another
The position of THE JOURNAL is this
To elect no negro to office because he is ,
negro, and no white man because he is {
white man; but to make qualifi
cation and high personal worth and
character the test in all cases. We would
say to the colored man: Shame better
and more competent person of your ow.
race, or one equally as good and compc.
tent, before you ask us for our counte
nance or support in any convention
of the party, for the nomination Of color
ed candidate in place of white man,
And we would say the same when it cam,
to an election before the people. We shall
never vote for a negro as a negro, no
would we advise the nomination of col
ored man, in view of the present prejudice
of race, except where there are colore,
votes enough to elect him. The question
is one to be viewed from more rationa
standpoint than our people, either colore,
or white, are at present capable of occu
pying.
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EXPERIENCE is the most competent of
all schoolmasters. Remarking on the won
derful development of the metallurgy of the
United States during the last ten or twelve
years, the London. Colliery Guardian
leading organ of the iron interests of Great
Britain-has the following suggestive obser-
vations tUe ~
The present aspect of the iron question In the
United States possesses much interest for the
iron trade of Great Britain. So long as the
Americans could obtain supplies of rails from
this country at reasonable price, they were
content to import them with a certain freedom /;
but in exact proportion British rails have
risen in price, they have applied themselves with
increased energy to the development of their
own metallurgical industry. Never at any pre-
vious period of their history have the Amsri-
cans devoted SO much energy to the working of
American coal and the production of American
iron in 1871 and 1872; and just as coal and
iron have become dearer and dearer in Great
Britain, SO have the working of American co i
and the production of American iron been still
further stimulated. The result of this new or
der of things in the United States is reflected in
a marked diminution in the American consump-
ton of British railway iIon. In the first two
months of 1872 we sent the Americans SO, 430 tons
of our railway iron ; in the corresponding period
of this year, the corresponding exports sank to
as, 90l tons, showing the alarming declension of
1920 tons.
And yet there are people in this coun-
try, claiming to be political economists and
thinkers, who are constantly clamoring for
the overthrow of the wise policy under
which this remarkable development and
expansion of our home resources and in
dustries have been reached. The exceed
ingly wise fool who killed the goose that
laid the golden egg was not more short
sighted than are these free trade devotees
who, for the sake of mere theoretic alb.
straction, would convulse business, de-
range industry and destroy values without
so much as conjunction. So" lurther
says the journal from which we have
quoted:
The Americans had only Great Britain to re-
ly upon as regards their rail supplies, the con-
struction of American railroads would probably
have now to be. in great measure, SUSPENDED;
but American energy has been equal to the occa-
sion, and we now have statiscal evidence of the
fact that two-thrds of the rails required for
American railroads have been made of late in
the United States themselves.
A most clear and forcble statement of
the disastrous results which would inevta-
bly, have followed free trade dependence on
the mother country in the matter of iron
production-a result which would have
been nothing less than the dwarfng of our
power as nation to the conditions of
pigmy republic. Is this what our free
trade agitators are plotting for? 1t looks
like it. 81 ~ rs tit
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u,HIs IS TO GIVE VIZ NorIcE-r EFT .

THIS Is TO GIVE NOTICE-That on
i the 18th day OF April, 1873, warrant in
Court of the United States for tine Eastern
District of Virginia, against the estate OF
L. S. Winstead1 of NORTHUMBERLAND county,
and state Of Virginia, who has been adj
Judged a bankrupt on his own petition I:
that the payment Of any debts. and the deli
very Of any properly belonging to said BANK
rupt, to him or for his use, and the transfer Of
any property by him, are forbidden by law;
that meeting of the creditors Of said bank
rupt, to prove their debts and choose one or
more assignees of his estate, will be held at a
office, at Tappanannock, Va, before John s,
Braxton, Esq, Register, on the sth day Of
May, A. d. 1878, at IL O'Clock M. rs q ,f3a
8eQ DAVID B. PARKER,
ap 18-F2w u. s. Marshal.
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,1,Hrs IS TO GIVE N6 t5gf on the 1T,

Il day. of April, A. d., 1873, warrant in
bankruptcy was issued out of the District Court
of the United States for the Eastern Dis
trict of Virginia, against the estate of
Silas RoOrk, Of Essex county, and
State OF Virginia, who has been adjudged a
bankrupt on his own petitions: That the pay-i
ment of any debts, and the delivery Of any
property belonging to said bankrupt to him or
for his use, and the transfer of any property by
him, are forbidden by law: That q meeting Of
the creditors of said bankrupt, to prove their
debts, and choose one or more assignees of his
estate, will be held at a court of bankruptcy, to
be holden at Tappahannock, Va, before John s.
Braxton, Esq, Register, on the 10th day Of May,
A. D., 1873, at IL O'clock M.
F0i DAVID b. PARKER, sE
al 1S-F2w 9tFty4z{srH u. s. Marshal.
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TN THE DISTRICT COURT OF THE UNl-
TED STATES for the Eastern District of Vir

T. f
TN THE DISTRICT COURT OF THE UNI
u TED STATES for the Eastern District of Vir-
ginia. NJ I
In Che matter Of v. J. Mountcastle, bankrupt
lin bankruptcy. a iaf4ili saiTl
All Richmond, Va, this LIST day Of April, 1873.
TO WHOM 1T MAY CONCERN; -, ~ ~
Please to take notice hereby, that petition has
been, to-wit on the LIST day of April A. d., 1873,
filed inssaid District Court by V.J. Mountcastle,
of Richmond Va. in said district, who has been
heretofore duly declared bankrupt, under the net
of Congress entitled "An act to establish a
uniform system of bankruptcy throughout the
United States" approved March I'd, 1857, for a
discharge and certificate thereof, from all his
debts and other claims provable under said act,
and that the 18th day of April. ls72. at 10 A. NJ,
before W. w. Forbes, one of the Registers OF
of said court in bankruptcy, at his office in Rich
mond, in said District, is the time and place
assigned for the hearing of the same, when and
where you may attend and show cause, If any
you have, why the prayer OF the said petition
should not be granted. Ne-@-+s~i
You are also hereby notified, that the second
and third meetings of the creditors of the
said bankrupt will be held at the same time and
place. w. w. Forbes,
f Register in Bankruptcy for
APP s-Tu2w the Sd Cong'l Dist. of Va. I
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