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Weekly Trinity journal., 1873-11-01

ORIGIN OF SERIcULTuRE.--W Whence
came this insect? What is its country
and that of the mulberry-for the tree and
the animal seemed to have always tray
eled side by side? Everything appears
to indicate that China-Northern China
is its point Of departure. Chinese an
nails establish the existence of indus
tries connected with it from those remote
ard semi-iabulous times when the Empe-
rors of the Celestial Empire had, it said,
the head Of a tiger, the body of dragon,
and the horns of cattle They attribute
to the Emperor Fo-hi, 3,400 years before
our era, the merit of employing silk in
musical instrument of his own invention.
This date carries us back 5,273 years.
They are said to have employed the silk
Of wild catterpillars, and to have spun
sort Of floss. AT that time they knew
nothing Of raising the worm or Of wind
ing the cocoons into slleins. This double
industry appears to have arisen 1850
years before our era, or 1923 years ago,
through the efforts Of an empress named
Si-ling- Chi. To her is attributed the in
vention Of silk stuffs. You will not be
surprised to see that the fabrication of
silks should have had woman for its
inventor. Sizing Chi, in creating this
industry, which was to be so immensely
developed, enriched her country. Her
countrymen seemed to have understood
the extent Of the benefit, and to have
been not ungrateful. They placed her
among their deities, under the name of
Sein- -Thsan, two words according to NJ.
Stanislaus Julien, that signify the first
who raised the silk-worm. And still, in
our time, the empresses Of China, with
their maids of honor, on an appointed
day, offer solemn sacrifices to Sien-Thsan.
They lay aside their brilliant dress, re-
nounce their sewing, their embroidery,
and their habitual work, and devote
themselves to the raising the silk-worm.
In their sphere they initiate the Empe-
ror of China, who on his part descends
once year from his high throne to trace
furrow with plow.-Poptar Science
Montiy.
Weekly Trinity journal., 1873-11-01
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u. =. LAND OFFICE.
SHASTA, CALIFORNIA.
NOTICE OF APPLICATION FOR
PATENT TO MINING
CLAIM.
SEPTEMBER 3Oth. 1873.

SEPTEMBER 30th, 1873.
NOTICE IS HEREBY GIVEN that
~ A. Rumfelt, A. ?. Haskins, and p.
n. Tinkham, whose Post Office address
is Trinity Center, Trinity County, Cali
fornia, have made application for a Pat
ent for the following described Gold bear
ing Placer Mining Claim, situated in
the Trinity Center Mining District,
County and State above mentioned, and
known as the Hatchet Creek Placer
Mine, and more particularly described in
the plat and field notes now on file in this
office, as follows, to wit
Lot No. 81, beginning at a post in q
mound Of rock marked II, from thence
West 1000 chains, variation lSo 30' + to
a post marked III in a mound of earth
for corner; thence North go w % 90
chains to post in mound of rock for
corner thence N 800 30 w 1900 chains
to post marked Ii in mound of earth
for North West corner Of the claim !;
thence n $50 4 26.30 chains to a post in
a mound Of earth marked Ii for North
East corner Of the claim thence South
230 E 23.64 chains to Il post in mound
Of rocks marked Ii thence East 1859
chains to a spruce tree a inches in diam.
eter marked ii thence South 27o E 4. 90
chains crossing Hatchet Creek to
Spruce tree "a inches in diameter marked
II thence North 750 w. 40 chains
crossing the Trinity Valley Wagon Road
to and closing on the starting corner
Containing So 32-100 acres. The South
East corner Of Section 32 and the South
West corner Of Section 33, T 36 North,
Range W., NJ. d. NJ. bears South from
said place Of beginning %, 4, %" East,
466.02 chains distant. The above survey
locates said claim in Township SO N, Il.
7 W., M. ID. M. and is bounded on the
South by mining land claimed by Hall
and Williams on the West, North and
East by public lands.
All persons holding any adverse claim
thereto are required to present the
same before the Register and Receiver of
the United States for Shasta Land District
at Shasta, California, within sixty days
from the first day OF publishing and post
ing hereof.
JOHN S. FOLLANSBEE,
oct4-6Od. Register.
Weekly Trinity journal., 1873-11-01

ONE OF MAX ADELER's SToRIEs.-A
friend ours who was stopping at an inte-
rior town few days ago. went with q
companion into small tavern near TO
the railroad station. Sitting behind the
bar in rocking chair was the landlady.
reading a book and crying over it,
When customer would come in she
would turn the volume down on the table,
wipe her eyes, and dispense the liquid
poison, and perhaps abuse some one of
the drinkers for not paying his score.
Then she would return to the book, and
open the fountain Of her tears afresh.
Presently gentleman with a vermilion
nose and tattered garments came in, and
after obtaining a sip OF gin attempted to
walk out without paying for it. Then
that lsndlady slammed her book down on
the counter, climbed over the bar. and
engaged in single combat with the party
of the glowing nose. She came off the
conqu eror, but while the conflict ragged,
our man walked over and took look at
the title of the book. IL was Mr.. Arthur's
affecting story, Ten Nights in a Bar
Room" This is fact.-Bigdro.
Weekly Trinity journal., 1873-11-01

I FORTY years ago once seemed long
and weary pilgrimage to tread, it now
seems but a step. And yet along the
way, are broken shrines where thousand
hopes have been wasted into ashes, foot
prints sacred under the drifting dust /;
green mounds whose grass is fresh with
moistcning tears; shadows we cannot for
get. Garner the sunshine of those van.
ished years, and with chastened steps and
reasonable hopes, push on toward the
evening whose signal lights will soon be
seen swinging where the waters are still
and storms never beat"
Weekly Trinity journal., 1873-11-01

A BLUNDERING foreman said "not
guilty." in a New York Court the other
day, when as it afterward appeared, ten
Of the jury were for conviction. The
Court was amazed at the verdict, for the
guilt of the prisoner mad been clearly
proved. As for the prisoner, he sit out"
as soon as he heard the verdict, and was
not TO be found when the informaity had
been discovered
Weekly Trinity journal., 1873-11-01

LATELY, an English plow was intro
duced into one of the provinces of India,
and the natives were taught its superiori-
t. over their own clumsy machinery
At first they were astonished and delight
ed at its effects, and as soon as the
agents back was was turned, they took
it, painted it red, and setting it on one
end worshiped it.
Weekly Trinity journal., 1873-11-01

Examine the stamp upon tho cloth plate II
should read w heeler II W ilson Mfg Co
Every Sewing Machine should be sold on its
own merits. Parties endeavoring to puIm off
other sewing machines under the great reputa-
tion of this machine will be dealt with accord
ing to Law. Buy no family sewing machine of
travelling agents, unless they can show YOU a
letteL signed, W. M. ST0DDARD, Agent for
the Pacific Coast for said machines.
n. BAH who have purchased sewing ma
chimes upon the reputation Of the WHEELER Il
WILSON, and have found thom to be of another
kind, viii! please apply at my Office f27 Mont
gomery street. w. VI. .SEODDARD,
Agent for the Pacific Coast.
No. Az, Montgomery st., San Francisco
The silent adjustable Tuck markcr-ono Of
the most useful attachments to Sewing Ma
chine ever invented Applicable to the
Wheeler " Wilson. Sold wholesale and retail
in every town on the Pacific Coast, the A gem
cics Of the WHEELER ~ WILSON SEWING MI
CHIMES. W. NJ. STODDARD,
Jan2O Agent for the Pacific Coast.
Weekly Trinity journal., 1873-11-01
These Machines are Adapted to
Every Variety of Sewing.

From the lightest muslins to tho heaviest
cloths. They work equally well upon silk
LINEN, WOODEN or Cotton goods. with Silk
Ga herring llemming, Felling, Cording, TncE,,
ing, Braldlng, Embroidering and making Bit
ton Holes with the greatest facility. "'
If i be inconvenient for the purchaser to
Vlsit w the saiesroom, the order may be forward
hlled as if the selection had been made per-
Full instructions, recently compiled, and
detail, accompany each Machine, and enabla
difficulty. "i'nou'
Our interest in the successful working of the
Machines is not second to that of the purchas-
respondence or otherwise, any person who nav
require it. nv A'4'S
Weekly Trinity journal., 1873-11-01

Stella Encampnlent, No. 12, L. o. o. n.
Meets on the evenings of the irst and Third
Tuesdays of each month, at ODD FELLOWS
HALL, Weayerville, at s o'clock. Patriarchs
from abroad are invited to visit us.
Il, 7. L0VEJ0Y, c. p.
w. ii. BACHELDER, Scribe. janl
Weekly Trinity journal., 1873-11-01
SOCIETY NOTICES.

Trinity Lodge, No. 81, +. y II. W.,
Hold their regular communications at MA
SONIC HALL, Weaverville, on the last Saturday
of each month. Hour Of meeting, O'Clock,
P. NJ. W. j. TlNNlN, w. NJ.
M. L. GRIFFIN Secretary. janl.
Weekly Trinity journal., 1873-11-01
THE EYES ! THE EYES !
DIR. E. II. PARDEE,
OculiSt and Aurist.

a FTER A PROTRACTED BLIND.
L A ness of more than five years. Dr. Pardee
has made himself thoroughly and scienti6caI-
ly acquainted with all Diseases of the Eye,
and Is now practicing with success not sur
passed in the United States
All operations performed, such as Strabis-
mus, or cross-eye, Cataract by linear extrac-
ton, Depression or A Absorption, Pterygium, or
heshy membrane growing over the eye, Reduc-
ton OF StaphylOmA, or bulging out of the eve,
Artificial Pupil, Fistula, Lachrymalis or clos
ing OF the tear passage, and all deiormities of
the Lids, etc
Artificial Eyes inserted without the least
pam, and possessing all the movements and
constantly ON hand and for salo ut reasonable
prices. The Doctors Eye Bath for the treat
ment and cure of all nervous diseases is used
all over this coast.
Thankful to those physicians who have sent
him cases for operation, he hopes that his uni
yersal success will warrant continuation of
their confidence. Ills celebrity as an operator
Is oo-extensive with his success, as patients
are presenting themsellyes, for treatment and
operations from New York and Boston, almost
monthly. Many patients can be seen at the
cOvery.
,0FFIoE-7s7 Clay Street, Opposite the
Plaza, San Francisco.
TAKE NOTICE. II Liar ss not to
be bsffeDsd though hs speaks the frmth.,,
Reports are in circulation through the upper
country that have retired from business that
! have gone to the Atlantic States, that | am
in Europe, &c, &c. 10 those interested | will
say that the report has been gotten in circula-
tion for the furtherance of other parties, who
are trying to obtain, illegitimately, an eve
practice The report has been started by nm
itinerant mountebank, and without the least
truth, as am at my Office daily, and attending
to about sixty daily patients.
n. III. PARDEE, OcuIist.
1877 Clay Street,
my25-ly. SAN FRANCISCO
Weekly Trinity journal., 1873-11-01

Trinity Chapter, No. 10, ~. II. M,
NJ Meets on the Second and Fourth Tuesdays
of each month, at Masonic HALL, Weaver
vile, at O'Clock, P. NJ.
w. j. TINNIN, II. p.
NJ. +. GRIFFIN, Secretary. janl.
Weekly Trinity journal., 1873-11-01
WHEELER & WILSON.
THE GREAT TRIAL OF SEWING MACHINES.
THE GRANDEST In THE WORLD.
The Judges, the a0hoIe World; ana the
Trial, Fifteen Years duration.
Practical Use the Test.
THE UNIVERSAL VERDICT:
" The Wheeler S& Wilson Sewing. MA.
chine the Champion r'

These nnequalled Machines do all the differ
ent e Kinds Of work required to be done in a
Stitches, without the complications of tba
other Machines. 'no
All persons will please examine the WHEF1rp
& WILSON SEWING MACHINES before purchas-
ing any other mug
The WHEELER & WILSON, as is well known.
mas won, at nearly every trial in which it has
of other machines, ever conf.
dent, have, entered the lists, time and again.
only to be defeated and finding it impossible
the value of Premiums. They are NOT sIo1vs
however, to boast of the few they have reeeived'
!! t.t - al ;l tne grand t:;a, daily use throughout
the world, whore only true merit finds favor.
and superiority wins the race, the WHEELER &
WILSON SEWING MACnIyE stands triumphantly
the Champion by the verdict Of tho people,
Weekly Trinity journal., 1873-11-01

Worth Star lodge, No. 61, L. o. O. r..
Holds its regular meetings at ODD Fellows
HALL, Weayerville, every Thursday evening,
at O'Clock. Members of the Order from
abroad are cordially invited to attend.
f. ?. LOVEJOY, N. G..
w. ii. BACIIELDER, X. S. janl.
Weekly Trinity journal., 1873-11-01

IT o is S6l 1856 per year to maintain
the California State militia.
Weekly Trinity journal., 1873-11-01

&UBSCREBE FOR THE
- "TRINITY JOURNAL.
Weekly Trinity journal., 1873-11-01

An assortment of Clocks, Watches, and
j Jewelry of the best manufacture, always on
hand. All kinds of Repairing, in my line,
done on short notice and at reasonable rates
A share of public patronage respectfully
solicited.
janl-tk E. T. McCAUSLAND.
Fayetteville observer. [volume] (Fayetteville, Tenn.) 1850-1966, 1873-02-06
Public Schools.

some legislators, says the
Knoxville Chronicle, in discussing
the policy of establishing public
schools, shrink from the measure
because of the cost of it. II they
prefer to wait until there is mon.
ey in the Treasury they will wait
some time. But it ought not to
-be expected that Tennessee will
launch out at once with superi.
or system complete and satiefac-
tory. We do not expect this
Ohio spends every year twelve
millions of dollars on her free
schools. New York expends nine
teen millions. This magnificent
fund is raised annually by direct
taxation, and the people pay it
willingly. They look upon it as
their children's money-as that
part of their taxes that pays them
back ten fold for the expenditure.
But Tennessee can not, of course,
for years endure such a tax. Let
us not, however, for this reason
refuse to spend smaller sum
We must make beginning, and
the sooner the better. On this
subject the Memphis Ledger says Z:
"If Tennessee wants to be a.
BILE, with money in the Treasury,
to establish public school system,
it will never be done, at least in
the nineteeth century. We must
make some sacrifice for SO i'm
portant cause, and that at once,
or we sink still deeper in the mire
OF ignorance, crime and degrt da-
ton. A good school system in
operation would bring sufficient
capital and productive skill and
labor to our State to pay for the
investment in few years. But
so long as Tennessee is the third
on the list in the Union for illite.
racy, and has no prospect of i'm
proved educational facilities, SO
long will a Chinese wall shut in
our ignorant, contented masses
and shut out the enterprising spir-
it and progressive ideas of the
world" ]
Fayetteville observer. [volume] (Fayetteville, Tenn.) 1850-1966, 1873-02-06
A Liberal Offer!
Good Farmers Monthly
GiUeas .4scGyy!

We desire to largely increase
the cash subscriptions to the OBJ
SERVER, and to aid in so doing
make the following very liberal
offer: To every old subscriber to
this paper who pays all arrearages
and one year in advance, we will
cause to be sent, for one year, free
of cost, the american Farmers Al
rocate, (the subscription Of whichis
81 a year, large Southern quar-.
to monthly. It is one of the best
agricultural publications of tie
country. To every new subscri;
be- of the OBSERVER, who pays in
advance for one year, we will also
send the Adrocate free of cost for
the same length of time. Now is
the opportunity to get good home
and foreign reading-a weekly
and mon,hly--at the cost Of only
one. The terms, it must be re-
membered, are cash. Such a lib
eral offer does not admit of credit,
Our proposition gives a larger a
mount Of reading matter than was
ever before offered for the same
price.
Fayetteville observer. [volume] (Fayetteville, Tenn.) 1850-1966, 1873-02-06
Stubborn Facts.
Every Boy and Father in our
Land Should Read Them.

From the report Of the Super.
intendent of the Penitentiary It
appears that the total number of
convicts is 744. OF all trades
there are only IS convicts. But
it is a most melancholy fact that
there are CSC persons there, con-
fined for various crimes, who have
no lawful occupation.
Whereupon the Paris Intelli-
gencer remarks: "What a power
full argument is this for parents to
learn their children some honest
avocation; by which they may
earn creditable and honest liv-
ing, and thus escape conyict's
doom in the State prison.
"These 656 gentlemen would
not work; perhaps they thought
it was not genteel to work. But
would it not have been better for
them to have worked for an hon.
est living, than to serve out long
periods in the penitentiary? We
appeal to fathers and and mothers
in behalf Of their children-learn
them some honest way to live by
labor. 1t is Gods law that we
must work, and he who does not
do so lives in constant violation
of one of Gods laws-it is law of
our being.
"Little boys, read it, and petit
ton your parents to learn you
some honest occupation, by " hich
you may be an honorable man
and keep out Of the penitentiary.
I Another remarkable fact is
that there is a much smaller mum
Der of farmers in the institution
than of any other class vi persons
represented.
Fayetteville observer. [volume] (Fayetteville, Tenn.) 1850-1966, 1873-02-06
FAYETTEVILLE, TENNESSEE
Legislative.

La the Senate new bills were
introduced, among them being one
10 prevent unjust discriminat on
by railroad companies in carrying
ireights, and one furnishing any
person guilty of willfully and ma
liciously killing or manning the
be st of another, of any value
Senate bill repeating the act al
lowing agricultural societies to dis
tribute prizes, after being discussed
at length, passed third reading by
a vote of 81 to 3. Senate reso.
luton to postpone the sale Of the
McMinnville and Manchester
railroad until May, 1878, was a.
dopted by ayes l6, noes 4.
In the House, several petitions
asking stringent tipping laws,
were read. Mr.. Mcleod intro.
duced a bill empowering mining
corporations to subscribe stock in
any railroad by vote of the corpo.
ration, and Mr.. Motif offered one
to prevent frauds in elections and
secure the purity of the ballot.
box. 1t provides for the punish,
Inent of those who give one who
can't read a vote different from
his real choice. The members
returned from their holiday full
of new bills, among them one by
Mr.. Hughes, providing against the
marriage of males under 81 years
and females under Is years, IN
less there is evidence of no oppo'
sltlon; one by MI. doucK, amenoa
tory of an act approved March 20
1872, entitled an act to amend ar
act to provide for the sale of lands
which have been sold for take!
due the State, and bought by the
Revenue Collectors, passed De
cember 6, 1861; by MIR. Martin
to prevent unjust discrimination
and extortions by railroads; by
Mr.. Lindsey, to amend the me
chanics' lien law; by MIR. Patter
SOD, providing for the election OF
a County Assessor every fouI
years. A bill to repeal the &C
allowing agricultural societies tc
have lotteries passed third read
ing, as did a bill giving boarding
house keepers lien on baggage.
Fayetteville observer. [volume] (Fayetteville, Tenn.) 1850-1966, 1873-02-06

EESThe ranking privilege
has at last been abolished. This
will relieve the mails of a vast a.
mount of dead head matter.
When it is necessary in order to
transmit documents and to carry
on correspondence to pay usual
rates demanded by Government,
Congressman will be careful to
commit nothing to the mails but
what is Of Importance aud neces-
sary. The law now, as we 'un-
derstand it, is universal. What.
ever is transmitted through the
mails, whether of a public or a
private character, written or prin-
ted matter, must he paid for at
the usual postal rates.
Fayetteville observer. [volume] (Fayetteville, Tenn.) 1850-1966, 1873-02-06


Agentleman from Blue Earth
county, Mimi, tells offs instance
where, in driving along after the
great storm, team of horses was
noticed a little off the beatentrack,
and on examination, the horses
were found frozen stiff, standing
on their feet, and looking perfect
ly lHe-like Sitting on the seat
in an erect position, with the reins
in his hand, was the driver, dead,
and in the bottom of the sleigh,
covered up with blankets and
straw, were the bodies of seven
persons, alldead.
Fayetteville observer. [volume] (Fayetteville, Tenn.) 1850-1966, 1873-02-06
Credit MObilier.

The Cincinnati Eisquirer gives
the following definition Of that
cesspool of corruption, the Credit
Mobilier:
The long and short Of the Cred
it Mobilier business is that some
members of Congress, honorable
men, and some other gentlemen in
duced the Government to build
the Union Pacific Railroad and to
give them large amount CT val.
liable land. These honorable
men then went to work and formed
stock company iii Pennsylva-
MIA whose business it was to re.
ceive presents and to steal from
the Union Pacific Railroad Com
pany nominally but really from
the Government. Cakes and his
friends in their capacity as mana
gers Of the raj road, gave the prop
erty of the Government to, them
selves in their capacity as stock
holders in the Credit Mobilier.-
They induced the Government to
swap its first mortgage for a sec
ond mortgages good one for a
worthless one-and appropriated
that. They stole money from the
Treasury of the United States
with which to declare dividends
of 100 per cent. on the Credit
Mobilier stock. AS railroad man.
ayers they gave themselves as
Credit MobiIiers contracts for
building road at twice the sum
/ for which the road should and
could have been built, and, to make
a sure thing of it, Cakes Ames
took S3,000,000 for building two
hundred and thirty.eight miles
of road which had already been
built and paid for, distributed it as
a dividend to himself and his
friends. They saddled debt up
on the railroad of many millions
OF dollars more than the entire
cost of building and equipping the
road should have been. They
borrowed S27,000,000 OF the
Government, and cheated the
: Government out of the loan. Si1
or seven hundred shares of ths
Credit Mobilier stock were dis
tributed among members of Con
gress where they would do thu
} most good; and members of Con
gress drawing stolen dividends OF
80, 60 and 100 per cent, and get
ting stock at par which was worth
800 or 400 per, cent, never sus
pected that there was any thin!
wrong in men who were begging
and stealing money from the coun
try on behalf of ore Compan,
whose stock was worth four time
! its face. And but for, the fac
) that there was a lack of homo
: among the thieves the country
might never have learned of tn
pretty little story. And yet the.
: are all honorable men. We ar
sure of this, for "Hon." is prefxe
: to tLeir names.
Fayetteville observer. [volume] (Fayetteville, Tenn.) 1850-1966, 1873-02-06
IkRA heavy snow storm |

IEA heavy snow storm be-
gan early last Thursday NOR
ming throughout the West. The
snow fell to the depth of foot
or more at several points, and
was badly drifted by a northwest
wind. Reports from Wisconsin
aud Illinois indicate a general
suspension of trains, while travel
is much delayed in Indiana, Mich
igaD, and other States.
Fayetteville observer. [volume] (Fayetteville, Tenn.) 1850-1966, 1873-02-06

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