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Weekly Trinity journal., 1873-05-17

FACTS AND ODDITIES. Black Friars
-colored cooks.
Joint education-gymnastics.
The yellow fever-Greed for gold.
A smart thing-a mustard plaster.
Three Springs make one leap year.
How was Jonah punished-whalod.
How to mako clean sweep-wash him.
The ready-money system-dun, or be
done.
A little boy defines snoring as lcttng
off sleep.
Both Watermen and Indians feather
their skulls.
An off.hand ielow--one who has lost
both his arms.
"The Bitter End"-the Inst halfinch
of penny cigar.
What man carries everything before
him P-the waiter.
Some one calls the poor gas in their
city burning shame"
With what musical instrument would
you catch n fish ?-Castanct.
An exchange thinks the trough of the
sea is poor place for hungry pig.
An artist painted cannon 80 naturally
that it went off at n very good price.
The man who was 'open to conviction"
has been considerably "shut up" since.
A youth Of Richmond set fire to the
piano expecting to hear melting music.
" Boys will be boys" is nonsence.--
Boys will be men il they live long enough.
The man who "took view impartial
ly" has been had up for picture stealing.
A wit being requested "to say good
thing" laconically responded, "oysters." "
Eight pounds Of sausagcs for one dollar
are advertised in New York. Dog cheap,
An exchange gravoly asks: Was
Rhoderick Din anything like n Scotch
mist ?"
Although fishes have no voice, yet peo-
Pile have been known TO make fish
ba(WNl.
Weekly Trinity journal., 1873-05-17

THAT there is still some honor among
thieves is somewhat verified by an adver-
tisement Of " Pickpocket" in the New
York Tribune, who cautions the public
to be more particular in having their
names and address in their pocket books,
so that the thieves, when they have alb
stracted money and other valuables, may
know where to send tho remaining CON
tents which, in many cases may bo of
great value to tho owner, though Of mono
to any other person. This man talks like
square thief" as he probably Is, and
closes by saying " We want TO 1.-Two and
let live."
Weekly Trinity journal., 1873-05-17

EPITAPHs.-Some genius has boon col
lecting the curious epitaphs he has came
across in his travels. The following is
from tombstone in New Jersey
Reader, pass on don't waste your timc
On bad biography and bitter rhyme;
For what am this crumblng clay insures
And what l was is no concern of yours.
Here is something from loving hus.
band
Here lies my dear wife, sad sattern and
shrow,
If said regretted her l should lie too.
From Manchester, England:
Here lies John Hill,
a man Of skill,
lis age was five times ton.
@ ne'er did good,
Nor over would,
Had he lived as long again.
The following lines are from tomb
stone at Chidwald, England
Here lies me and my three daughters,
Brought here by using soidlitz waters
II we had stuck TO EPSON salts
We wouldn't have been in these bore vaults.
And tombstone in Burlington, Iowa,
has this stanza
Beneath this stone our baby lays,
:, lie neither cries nor hollers
He lived just ono and twenty days
And cost US forty dollars.
Weekly Trinity journal., 1873-05-17

A MARTYR TO GALLANTRY.--Ac clerk
in tho lndipnapolis Post office is now in
the last stages Of drouth, occasioned by
his own gallant-y in volunteering to lick
and adjust postage stamps for the young
ladies who came to his window. lie is
very charning-Indianapolis is full OF
good looking girls who love dearly to SOC
him run out his tongue and moisten n
stamp, and the first thing tho unfortunate
young man knew he had exhausted his
saivary secretions, and was as dry as a
boarding house pie. The doctor says
unles he can start the sap in his system
he is goner.
Weekly Trinity journal., 1873-05-17

RATHER WNDY.-On ono occasion
Crawford, the guide, was ascending the
White Mountains with party of Phila-
delphians. The day was very windy,
and it was with the greatest difficulty that
the gentlemen could keep their hats upon
their heads after they had emerged from
the forest TO the bare rocks. One of the
party asked Crawford if he had ever ex-
perienced moro windy day. eyes"
was the reply. "And did you go to the
summit ?" YES ; and it blew 30 hard
that the first one that stepped thereon had
to get the one behind him TO hold his hair
on for him." "And what did he dc Pr
" Why, he got the one that came next TO
do the same for him. But what did
the last gentleman do when he came be-
side them ?" "Why, gentlemen, he was
bald headed" The gentlemen from Phil
adelphia had no more questions to ask.
Weekly Trinity journal., 1873-05-17
LINES OF TRAVEL AND EXPRESS

Canon city, Junction City and Wea-
verviIIe Express and Passenger Line
J. II. DRIVER, Proprietor. Leaves Weaver
Tuesday, Thursday and Saturday morning
returns on Monday, Wednesday and Friday.
Hay Fork and WeaverviIIe Pass
enger and Express Line, J. S. HOYT,
Proprietor. Weekly. Leaves Hay Fork on
Monday morning Of each week leaves Wea-
yer Tuesday morning of each week.
u. y. Mail and Express Lime, from
WeavervilIe to Arcata, JOHN CLIF-
FORD, Proprietor. Leaves Weaver every
Thursday morning. Leaves Arcata, every
Monday morning.
Weekly Trinity journal., 1873-05-17

WE have often looked for sentence
that would clearly explain it. A West
ern paper kindly supplies the want in
this beautiful simile. " You might as
well try to shampoo an elephant with a
thimble full Of soap and water, as to at
tempt TO do businCsy and ignore adyer-
tising.
Weekly Trinity journal., 1873-05-17

THE Musquakie Indians, in Jasper
county, Iowa, last week punished mur-
derer Of their tribe. He had killed q
squaw, and was tried by the tribe and
sentenced to death. They tied him to q
log, face up, and loft him to starve, which
he did in eight days, Indians guarding
him all the time.
Weekly Trinity journal., 1873-05-17

TIE latest joke at Brigham Young's
expense is perpotratcd by II Pennsylvania
paper, which says : Some chNp thought
he would play a joke on Brigham Young,
so he gnned access to the list of his wives
and added twenty-seyon names thereto
Mary Jano Young, Josephine Ann
Young, Mary Melinda \ Dung and so
forth. The next time Brigham called
the roll twenty-scyen didn't answer 70
their names, so he concluded they had
died since last roll call aud putting few
more inches of Grape on his hat, he look
ed MS sad as possible. But he has not
detected the joke.
Weekly Trinity journal., 1873-05-17

Ak Illinois girl, having $4,000 of her
own, recently refused to marry a clergy
man because she thought herself not good
enough to be clergyman's wife. ie
gave up his sacred calling and proposed
again, and then she refused him because
she thought horself too good TO marry n
man who would abandon his high profess
sion to gain a woman's hand.
Weekly Trinity journal., 1873-05-17

Mrs. MICHEL DRESS, Of Schuylkill
county, Pa, gave birth to seventeen chill
dren in seven years, in the following or
der: First, one child, then twins, then
triplets, then four children at birth, then
again triplets, then twins, then again
twins. All tie children lived TO reach
manhood or womanhood.
Weekly Trinity journal., 1873-05-17

AN Indiana woman is mad because her
husband took her very best sheet to hang
himself, when there was an old clothes.
line in the cellar which was good enough
for the purpose. She says he was always
too extravagant, ana too lazy to go into
the cellar for anything.
Weekly Trinity journal., 1873-05-17

EBONY wood weighs 50 pounds to the
cubic foot lignum vitae the same hick-
ory, 81 pounds birch, 45 pounds beech;
40 (; yellow pine, 3S; white pine, % wa
Ter, 81 and cork, 10.
Weekly Trinity journal., 1873-05-17
TRINITY COUNTY.
OFFICIAL DIRECTORY:
COURT TERMS :

District COurt-Second Monday in April.
August and December.
County COurt-First Monday in Janu-
AIRY, March, May, July, September and No
vember.
Probate COuft-(Same as County Court }
Board OF supervisors--Fir Monday
February, May, August and November.
Weekly Trinity journal., 1873-05-17
CHICO MARBLE WORKS.
l!l!E!lt l!4llEEilEEE!Hlt

JOHN III. LEE, Proprietor,
CHICO, BUTTE COUNTY, CAL.
Monuments, Tablets, Tombs, Head-Stones,
etc.. furnished upon short notice, and at prices
within the reach of all. All work warranted
to give satisfaction or no sale.
JOHN Ii. LEE.
Chico, June !, 1872. If.
Weekly Trinity journal., 1873-05-17
as'ssklg Triaitg 9uaraal.
OUR AGENTS /:

Merchants Exchange Building, San Fran
cisco, is our only authorized agent in that city.
NEW YORK ;-Hudson h Menet, fl Park
Row; Geo. P. Rowell 4 Co., 10 Park Row; S
NJ. Pettingill h Co., 81 Park Row.
Weekly Trinity journal., 1873-05-17
SOCIETY NOTICES.

TrfHtfy Chapter, No. 10, R. Il. M,
Meets on tho Second and Fourth Tuesdays
of each month at Masonic HALL, Weaver
vile, at O'Clock, P. M.
Nj. II. GRIFFIN, Secretary. janl.
Weekly Trinity journal., 1873-05-17

BUFFERS IMpUDENCE.- A Washing
ton dispatch says that since his famous
response to one of his constituents, with
regard to the salary steal, Mr.. Butler hns
been in daily receipt Of letters from others
Of his constituents requesting him to for
ward to them the percentage which he
admits to be due to the tax payer. on his
account. Butler replies promptly in each
instance, but instead Of lrsnking the let
ters, places n postage stamp on them.
The letters are worded thus
APRIL |, 1873.
DEAR SIR-You will Gnd your three
cents on the outside of this letter. Yours
truly, Il. +. BUTLER.
Weekly Trinity journal., 1873-05-17

North Star lodge, No. OF, \. o. %. ~.
Holds its regular meetings at ODD Fellows
HALL, Weaverville, every Thursday evening,
at 8 o'clock. Members of the Order from
abroad are cordially invited to attend.
J. KACZINSKY, N. g.
w. ii. BACHELDER, r. S. jan1.
The Potter journal and news item. [volume] (Coudersport, Pa.) 1872-1874, 1873-07-23

of human slavery. To this speech Mr..
Corwin brought all the powers he pos
sessed and rarely has the Senate cham
Der resounded with nobler and greater
thoughts. The origin of the war and
its utter and shameless violation of the
rights of a weaker nation, were held up
in conspicuous and fearless view, while
| the history of the fate of nations and in
dividuals who had trampled upon the
rights of others was given with such
historic accuracy and emphatic rhetoric
that no man could fail to be startled by
the recital. The closing passages Of this
speech are among the finest specimens
of lofty and splendid eloquence to be
found in the English language and
given with an earnestneSS and power
that makes every one feel how deeply
moved was the speaker and how pro-
foumdly he felt the Importance of his
great mission. But what a3ai1s truth
or philosophy, history or eloguence, or
great personal influence, when thrown
/ into the scale of opposition to one;s
country when engaged IN war? The
people condemned the speech as i'll
timed, unpatriotic and uncalled for and
Mr.. Corwin felt the breath of populari-
ty i'll which he had 50 long floated and
lived depart from him forever. But the
speech will live and long be remembered
as the utterance of one of the truest pa
triots and most gifted men this country
has ever produced. It's massive logic,
{ its pure morality, its rich and varied
learning, its brilliant periods and impas-
stoned eloquence will enable it to hold
its place among the greatest efforts of
American orators.
The Potter journal and news item. [volume] (Coudersport, Pa.) 1872-1874, 1873-07-23

Parsons & Finney employ alout 80
men and pay out about S25O0 per
month.
Bigler & Son pay out the sum of $500
per month to labor alone in their saw
mill and brick yard.
Zimmerman & Kleckner employ about
so men and boys and pay out about $500
for labor alone per month.
Halnilton's brick yard about the same
as Zimmerman & Kleckner.
Muench's brick yard about the same,
and Owens about 20 men and boys and
pays out about $1,000 per month.
d. d. Boas, Trullinger & Brother and
John B. Simmon each employ about 30
men and pay about $4,000 per month at
their planning mills and lumber yards.
Elder s. Brother about 20 men and
pay out about $500 per month.
The Harrisburg Telegraph employs,
on an average, 25 men and 10 boys year
around and pays about $4,000 per month
for labor.
The Patriot pays out about S2500 per
month and employs about IS men and
boys.
On Monday next the Philadelphia and
Reading Railroad Company will enter
into possession of the old line of the
Philadelphia, Wilmington and Balti-
more Railroad, between Gray's Ferry
and Ridley Junction, near Chester, Pa.
The line will be designated as 1.-THE
Philadelphia and Chester Branch" Of
the Philadelphia and Reading Railroad,
and will be worked as part of the main
line.
The Potter journal and news item. [volume] (Coudersport, Pa.) 1872-1874, 1873-07-23

ONE the juiciest, jolliest books we
have ever found is "Bits Of Travel" !"
by III. H."
Much of it was published a year
or two ago, as a series of letters in
the atlantic Monthly and also we
think the Independent. TO those who
read these letters there, the book
will be very desirable as renewing
the old delight. For those who did
not see them we say ''you can do
nothing better than to get it." For
it is a casket of fair and beautiful
things from the lands that most of
us cannot visit and will entertain all
members of the family, from little
child to great-grandpapa."
The Potter journal and news item. [volume] (Coudersport, Pa.) 1872-1874, 1873-07-23
THE HON. TOM CORWIN.

r. c. Parsons, writing to the Cleve-
land Leader of the late Hon. Tom Cor
win, gives the following:
Mr.. Corwin's opposition to the Mexi-
can War, though perhaps the noblest
act Of his public life, brought him into
painfully embarrassing relations with
his constituents and almost the united
opposition of all parties in Ohio.
But the speech itself was a model for
Senator and statesman. In February
1S47, the bill making appropriations for
the further prosecution of the war with
Mexico being under consideration, Mr..
Corwin rose to oppose it. 1t required
no ordinary amount of moral courage to
take that position, but Mr.. Corwin was
a man of deep convictions and unfalter-
ing purpose, when he felt himself as ut
terly opposed to the war and the acqui-
sition Of further territory for the spread
The Potter journal and news item. [volume] (Coudersport, Pa.) 1872-1874, 1873-07-23

ure, claiming to be able to carry a
large local vote with it. The steady
Republicans of Wellsville determined
to make the fight warm for all oppo-
sers and to assist in the work the
Wellsville Times was started under
the management of George Howe.
During the campaign it did good ser
vice and November showed the eff
fects of its work and taught the Free
Press some things it evidently did
not know before.
The Times has now, we believe,
completed the first year of its exist
ence and has proved itself one of the
best local papers of this section of
country. It's publisher announces
that he will very soon enlarge and
otherwise improve it. Ii has practi-
cally taken the position so long occu-
pied by the Free Press as the organ
of the Republican party in that part
of Allegany County. We congratu-
late it on its evident prosperity. We
learn through its columns that an
other effort is to be made by the
Liberals in that section the coming
fall, and by late editorial in the
Free Press charging the Republican
party ofAllegany county with being
ruled by ring who parcel out the
officers and pack the caucuses, we
Judge that there are some who have
not wholly got the Liberal slang out
of their heads yet, else even the Free
Press would not serve up rehash of
such stale dish. Such stuff has
been used too often and is too gene
rally understood in these parts to be
longer effective, however it may be
in Allegany county. We might re-
mark here, by the way, that we have
watched carefully for some signs of
life among the Liberals of this County
for long time past, but as yet none
are visible. The disgust that wrapped
itself like a mantle around them after
the elections last fall seems still to
hold them silent. Perhaps they are
practicing a mastery inactivity, per-
haps they are mining the Republi-
can party and by and by we shall
see it disintegrated and scattered
loosely around by an explosion big
as the bursting of forty fire-crackers
and perhaps We might write of them,
non est.
The Potter journal and news item. [volume] (Coudersport, Pa.) 1872-1874, 1873-07-23

albeit the trade is only in its inception.
Within fortnight past the Cameron
Coal Company, at Emporium, have re-
sumed mining operations on a greatly
enlarged scale, and already their coal is
finding market in this city. The Buff
falo Gas Company, for example, took
the other day hundred tons by way of
experiment as to its gas-making quail
ties, and the result, we learn, is a favor
able one. A road from the best bitumi-
nous regions of Clearfield county, Pa,
will also shortly be opened to Emporium
and will pour practically unlimited
supply over the b., n. Y. & p, demand
ing means of transportation not within
the power of the company to furnish.
We say nothing of other projected coal
connections into Elk and Mexican coun-
ties, which are certain to be speedily
built, but speak only of business now
actually demanding accommodations.
The passenger traffic of this railway
promises to equal that of any other, and
the advantages offered will secure the
patronage of all who seek to gain their
destination from the south and south
east in the shortest time. Washington
or Cape May can be reached by this
route with only one change of cars. BY
an arrangement with the Erie Railway
a person can go from Philadelphia to
Niagara Falls, or rice uersd, without
change of cars, and save about three
houlS and a half time over that of any
other road.
The Pennsylvania Central has effect
ed an arrangement with the Red Star
Line of steamers so that passengers and
freight leaving here by way of the B.,
n. Y. Il p. r. w. will be conveyed di-
rect to the steamers landing, and per-
son bound for Europe will have to take
but few steps from the cars to get on
board the boat.
: From these facts our readers can cas-
lily see what splendid results are being
achieved through the construction OF
this railway, and how much can yet be
expected.
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rfonance Committees.

' Igftu7lCS COItHttttScS.
Aboott-Chas Meisner, Jos Schwartzenbach and
Chas Henschel
AHegany-David L Raymond, A G PreSho and
w R Gardner
Bin1hanl-I B Carpenter, Theodore Cobb and
III Thompson
CIdrd--J L Allen, VIM Graves and w A Cole
Coudersport-S Hamilton, w X Jones and j
Davidson
Etlldlid--Lewis Glace, G Stearns and ID Earl
GeneSee-J Cavanaugh, VIM Baker and Josiah
Webster
HarriSon-J L Haynes, A A SHETLAND and W
w Lawrence
Rector-D w Havens, John Skutt and Cyrus
Sunderlin
He5ron-wm GreeAman, L NJ Coy and Geo w
StillnTan
Homer-Levi Quimby, Jacob Peet and W H
Crosby
Eeating-G Lewis, Henry Harris and Hiram
LerisrflIe-C Baker, Henry C Hosley and R
Bassett
OssCdyo-A Lyman, J V Brown and VIM Fes-
senden
Pike-M Prouty, s II Martin and Sam1 Brown
Pleasant VaIley-Ernest Wright, Lewis Lyman
and J X Judkins
Portoqe-Chas Young, Chas Austin and Danl
Everett
Roulet-M V Larrabee, Vim Hazen and ChaS
Barr
Shdron-N Parmenter, A A Newton and S
PearsOll
iSterdrdSon-H Andersen, James Barton and Ed
J9rg
Sun,mn-Alvin Rennells, James Reed and !.
Peirce
Stceden-R L White, Edwin Lyman and Joseph
Butler
STANDARDIZATION Stiles A r Jordan and c
Rees
LlySess-A F Raymond, J NJ Benton and Jay
Cushing
West Brdnch-E Crippen, S w Conable and o
Wetnore
Fharton-J L Barclay, A r Burlingame and
Shafer Logue
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NEW BOOKS.

Among the new books that have
appeared is "a Thanksgiving Story
-Betsey and are Out" which most
unexpectedly turns out to be very
good.
The fiashy title would have led me
to pass it by, but friend brought it
to my notice and it is with real pleas
ure that l give it a word of praise.
1t is story in verse. comprising
great many smaller stories which
the members Of large New England
family tell to each other on Christ
mas eve. Several of these have been
in the papers and several more are
but versifcations of old anecdotes,
but the natural way they are brought
in and told, the pleasant family in
terest that weaves them together and
their appropriateness, make one feel
that they belong just here.
The plan is something like that of
Bitter Sweet but the interest is deep
er, the people more likeable and the
poetry quite as good; for though
there is good deal of rough, uneven
measure and some awkward e&pres-
sion, there is much that is pleasing
and some that is beautiful. Here is
a morsel from the first page.
eve gather round,
While yet the candles stand unlighted
near,
Like white-robed maidens, dainty, shy
and prim,
Until their crown of glory comes to bring
Life, usefulness, and martyrdom and
DEATH
And here a little poem toward the
latter end of the book:
The Might-llave-been.
Oh, wonderful path is the might-have-
been.
Leading up from the worlds's highway
Through wales Of verdure and bowers
of bloom
Through faintest breathings of sweet
perfume
To realms of brighter day.
The worlds highway is weary and lone.
But the '-1iigllt-have-bcen" path is fair
Fair and pleasant and cool and wide
With lilies leaning on either side
And whisper of hope in the air.
Up that mystical, magical path see
4 dainty white cottage, home
Where a brown-haired, happy eyed
woman stands
My wife, dear public, with outstretched
hands
Half beckOning me to come.
And why should I mourn that l have
not dragged
Her down to the worlds highway.
To bear and share through the dust and
heat
With aching brOws and faltering feet
The burden and toll of my day.
1t is better so My attic nest
May be cold and my larder lean.
Rut my wife, ''our children''-each
precious word,
With loving echo is family heard
From the heights of the "Might-have-
BEEN
So | walk and work on the world S
highway,
Content that in Gods good time
shall know why the radiant Might
haye-been,"
That came so near to my eager ken,
Was not and is not mine.