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The weekly Shasta courier., 1873-02-15

BALL.-We understand that the Trus.
tees of Shasta District propose giving a
grand ball for the benefit of the School fund
on the evening Of May 1st.
The weekly Shasta courier., 1873-02-15
HOSPITAL REPORT.

To the Honorable Bonrd Of Supervisors of
Shasta cnun'y: Herewith submit report
Of the County Hospital for the quarter ending
Feb. lst 1873.
Patients treated during the quarte-......3 ..3S
Discharged, cured or improved. d.......-...... s
Remaining under treatment. %
Total number of days of treatment for
quarter commence. 1858
The following diseases and CASUALTIES
were treated Abse,s 3 !; Brights disease Of
Kidney l; bronchitis Intermittant Fever
10; Dyspepsia 9; Neuralgia 2; Burns l !;
Conjunctivitis !; Wound of foot L: Rheuma-
tism 5; Ulcer Acute Gastritis Disease
of Aorta L; Valvular ossi6cation of heartl !;
Consumption4; Typhoid Pneumonia |; Spi-
nal Menengitis l; Paralysis 8; Mercurial
Salvation |.
Below is list of names and the number
Of days each patient has been treated:
Patients discharged. Days treated.
N II.
The weekly Shasta courier., 1873-02-15

Most of the scrip redeemed was interest
bearing. With the increased revenue to be
derived from the assessment of 1868, and
without any large appropriations 10y the Su-
pervisors, there is reason tn believe that
county warrants viii bring from so to IS
cents on the dollar in the redemption fund
one year hence.
The weekly Shasta courier., 1873-02-15
"A Grand st. Patrick
Sheet and Pillow
Case Party!
WILL BE GIVEN AT THE

REDDING HOTEL.
None will be admitted unloss en- costume. A
committee will wait all that attend the party so
that none but gentlemen and ladies will be admit
led. cordial invitation is given to all the fun
loving public.
COMMITTEE INVITATIONS.
REDDING.-Hon. C. C. Bush Col. Tom. Butler,
M'jor Emmet Cook. Capt. VIM. Thompson Capt.
Chas Leroy. Major Conroy, Joe Mullen, Major
Ed Reid. Rube GARNER.
SHASTA.--IIon. VIM. Hopping. Col. John
Scot, Capt J. We'll, Hon. VIM. II Bickford, Geo
Hatch. Torrance Garrecht, Jos. Isaacs, Col Saml.
Cooper, viii Prior.
C0TT0NW00D.-Col. J. Forster.
MILLVILLE.-Col. Tom. J Simpson.
FLOOR MANAGERS.
Capt. J. A. Turner, DR.. Geo. Thornton, Col. j.
]. Bell. Thos. Kennedy, Col D. Breslaurer.
COMMITTEE ON COSTUME.
Capt. Samuel Javnes, Hon. ]. N. Chappell Col.
Frank Miller. Jerry Culverhouse. Geo. Anderson.
Tickets including fine lunch. SO 90.
By order of COMMITTEE.
The weekly Shasta courier., 1873-02-15

RAINFALL.-Total rainfall in Shasta for
February up to the l4rh, 6 81 inches. Total
for the season 1856 inches. Total for the
corresponding time last year 1858 inches.
The McArthur enquirer. (M'arthur, Vinton County, Ohio) 1873-1884, 1873-07-23
AdulteratiOn Of food.

To such an extent is the
adulteration Of food carried in
Great Britain that Parliament
has been compelled to make
stringent amendment to the act
for the prevention of adultera-
tions, one OF these amendments
providing for the publication OF
the offenders name and place
of business, in addition to fine
and Imprisonment. The extent
to which adulteration is prac-
ticed in the tight little island,
is positively frightfuI. Bread is
increased in bulk and weight by
the addition to alum, potatoes
and plaster of Paris, Milk is
compounded of gum, starch,
chalk, animal brains and wa
ter. Butter is expanded by the
addition of lard and other ami
nal fats. Dublin whisky is
composed almost entirely Of
naptha spirit, with the addition
Of some llavoring extract
Even the poor mans beer is
adulterated cocculus,- indicus,
salt, coperas, opium, idIndia u
hemp, logwood, salts Of alum,
etc. Sugar is sanded and mix
ed with white earth. Willow
leaves and a peculiar colored
earth are mixed with tea. In
the United States, where food
is much plentier and cheaper
than in England, there is prab-
ably less adulteration,; griev-
ance with us, however, is short
weights. If any houNeholder
will buy a pair of scales and
take the trouble to weigh each
parole as it is delivered, he will
be astonished to find the extent
to which pretty thieying is car
ried on by the grocers and
butchers. A detective associI q
ton for the exposure Of dishon-
est tradesmen would be a good
'thinr.
The McArthur enquirer. (M'arthur, Vinton County, Ohio) 1873-1884, 1873-07-23
JeffersOn's Official DelicacY,


JEFFERSON was clear in his
great office, and he lived up to
his great principles. Being
asked by a neighbor to write
something that should help him
into Congress, Jefferson said,
From a very early moment Of
my life, | determined never to
lntermeddle with elections by
the people, and have invariably
adhered to this determination
Much as he loved his old friend
and secretary, WILLIAM SHORT,
he would not assist him to sell
the little public stock which he
possessed, saying, ''I would do
anything my duty would per-
NIT; but were | to advise your
agent (who is himself a stock
dealer) to sell out yours at this
or that moment, it would be
used as q signal to guide spec
ulatioD." Invited to share in a
promising speculation, he de-
clined, on the ground that a
public man should preserve bis
mind free from all possible bias
or interest. When the fugitives
from the San Domingo massa-
ere arrived in 1893, destitute
and miserable, he wrote to Mon
ROE: "Never was SO deep a
tragedy presented to the feel
ings of man. | deny The pow
er of the General Government
to apply money TO such a pur-
pose, but | deny it with a bleed
ing heart. 1t belongs to the
State Governments. Pray, urge
ours to be liberal" In his
French package came one day
a letter from the wife ola groom
in the stables Of the Duke Of
Orleans in Paris addressed to
her sister, a poor woman who
lived fifteen miles from Month
cello. He was careful to en-
join ittupon his daughter, not
merely to forward the letter,
but to send it to the woman's
house byra'special messenger-
lanes Pdrton an ApH1GAtlantic.
sA7taaf fai~
The McArthur enquirer. (M'arthur, Vinton County, Ohio) 1873-1884, 1873-07-23

ECLIPSE AT THE TINE OF THE
CRUcIFIxIoN,-It is a curious CO.
Incidence that the moon was
eclipsed on the generally re-
ceived date of our Saviour's
crucifixion, A. D. 33, April 3.
The phenomenon, however,
could have had no influence on
the miraculous darkness which
overshadowed Jerusalem, "from
thes'sixth to astheaninth hour
when "the sun was darkened."
Mr.. Hind has found that the
moon Shads emerged from the
earth's dark shadow a quarter
Of an hour before she rose at
Jerusalem (6:30 ?. N.Y. but the
penulnbra visible during a lunar
eclipse is exceedingly faint, be-
ing only a shadow of the earth's
dark shadow, and itcan scarce
ly be recognized lby the naked
eye, It certainly could have
added nothing to the awful So
lemnity Of the scene which had
just taken place. -.''''-'--''''-''''
The McArthur enquirer. (M'arthur, Vinton County, Ohio) 1873-1884, 1873-07-23
A French Sensation.

A singular discovery, says
the London Globe, has beef?
made, the old Conciergerie, III
Paris. AT the Court of Cassa-
ton, fire had destroyed two ont
of three towers, and a few days
since the workmen engaged In
repairing that named after St.
Louis came suddenly upon q
mysterious deep well. This
was contriyed curiously in the
wall facing the quay, and PROV
ed to be, nothing less than the
fatal dungeon of the old palace,
of st. Louis. Yet none of the
historians of the Conciergerie Z
mention it, and chance and
mischance only have made It
known. An opening Of two
square yards in one ofathe, ,tnr- !
rels reveals a horrid tunnel
reaching the level of the Seine
There it forms a gallery slopingI
downward to the bed Of the
river; The attempt to penetrate
this fearful dungeon was fruit
less, as the interior is lined
with SHARP iron spears and
points, which cross each other
in every direction. When the
tower Of st. Louis was used oc-
casionally as the dwelling Of
the kings Of France, captiyes Of
note were confined III its Under
ground prisons, and when the
powers that were became anx-,
ious to get rid Of any one Of
them, they lead him through a;
passage formed in the interior,
Of the wall towards this newly
discovered dungeon. "A secret
door was opened, and he was
precipitated into the yawn-
ing chasm, and there trans-
fixed by spikes, he perish-
ed in slow torture. OF course
itmay be easily imagined that
il was onlyportionsof skeletons
thateyer reached the bed of the
seA.aIn VI. l.lnl.l1a LNn m Anl \.
The McArthur enquirer. (M'arthur, Vinton County, Ohio) 1873-1884, 1873-07-23
80. !, !,


death enters a house
there is moments silence;
tlenscomes the silent tumult
that follows death. Everybody
scaredland bustling to the door
.acquaintances leave their own
names on bits Of pasteboard
friends write notes, relations
encarpb in lthe dining-room, the
the pale faces of, the living oome
and look at the place of which
a life.hasc ascpasseds away. Ser.
wants come and go, busy with
fussy paraphernelia. 1t means
kindness and honor to the deed
but it seems all contrived ia
make sorrow dead, but it seems
all contrived to make sorrow
grotesque and horrible ipsteac
of only sorrowful. '!i.i iss'ls
The McArthur enquirer. (M'arthur, Vinton County, Ohio) 1873-1884, 1873-07-23
A Pickpocket'S Discontinue.

A woman who was riding in
a Broadway omnibus, not long
since, became aware that the
gentleman" on her right was
feeling for her pocket under her
cloak For a moment a cold
shiver passed through her, but
as it was broad daylight, and
and as there were evidently
many persons in the omnibus to
whom she might apply for pro-
lection, she took courage, and
recollecting that in the dress
she Wore her pocket, had, much
to her previous annoyance, been
sewed on the wrong side of the
skirt, concluded to sit still and
await the course of events
After having been sufficiently
entertained by the vain efforts
of her neighbor to find the
pocket, she turned to him, and
said quietly, sMy pocket is on
the other side, sir. The man
Immediately jumped up, pulled
the strap, and disappeared with
most amusing rapidity, the
GOODNESS Of the lady having
been too much for his artistic
nerves.
The McArthur enquirer. (M'arthur, Vinton County, Ohio) 1873-1884, 1873-07-23

Oar MEAL AS FooD.-An ex-
change says: " II mothers would
have their children grow up
clear eyed and lcomely, with
frames of bone and not of carti-
lage, with transparent complex
ionsinstead of muddy ones with
full and well rounded limbs in
stead ofscrawny ones, then do
not always set before them
bread of fine flour and highly
seasoned meats, but give them
four or fiyetimes a week abreak-
fast of oatmeal mush. oyou
say they don't tike it? Perhaps
you don't know how to prepare
it properly. The Scotch method
of preparing oatmeal or'rath-
or one of the methods) is ( to
make a thin mush, a little thick
er than cruel, and the boiling
should continue three or five
minutes (not more) after the
thickening is Finished This,
eaten with sugar or milk alone,
or with syrup, is highly palat-
able, andis generally liked by
chilrlren whose tastes are not
yitiated." ssaseaA'l> asaa's 4
The McArthur enquirer. (M'arthur, Vinton County, Ohio) 1873-1884, 1873-07-23
Washington's Piety.
BY REV. THOMAS CARTER.

II ~ fNtt - NHl-h. I.
n On the third of July, ITS,
under the elm tree on the Bos-
ton Common, GEORGE WASHING
TON assumed command of the
American forces. Soon after,
TRUNBULL, the Governor of Con-
necticut wrote him: "Now be
strong and very courageous.
May the God of the armies of
Israel give you wisdom and for
titude!" WASHINGTON replied,
I" Divine Providence, which
wisely orders the affairs ofmen,
will enable us to discharge
it (our duty with fidelity and
success" e"
Now look at this illustrious
man, as he stands at the head
of tho armies of this young and
struggling nation. Many ofhis
officers we're freethinkers. He
established family prayers at
his headquarters, morning and
evening, where his voice went
up to Gdd, amid the panoply of
war around him, that the Gov
ernor of all things may be his
Guide andShield. Besides this
public prayer was heard every
morning in the Army. LEE,
who was a brilliant officer, and
who dazzled and led captive
the hearts ofthe soldiers by his
attraction of manner, but who
was afterward noted for ineffi-
cheney, insubordination, an d
treasonable conduct, was pro-
fame; WASHINGTON ordered that
there should beno profane Ian
guage used throughout the
whole encampment. Office
seekers were grasping with ra-
pacity every emolument to be
obtained in the army; WASH
NGToN, during the whole term
of the war, refused to receive a
single dollar for his services,
though his salary was fixed by
Congress. Suffering increased,
became scarce and de-
preciated, provisions scant in
consequence of the ravages of
the war, yet WASHINGTON wrote
his agent in Virginia, ''Let the
hospitality of the house with
to the poor be kept up.
Let no one go away empty. If
the poor are in want OF corn,
give it. Give money where you
think it well bestowed"
IRVING, who relates these
facts, leaves no doubt of the
deep, ever-active piety ofWAsH-
TNGToN. He trusted in God, and
He gave him success in the
great enterprise Of founding a
nation-a republic-the like of
the world never before
witnessed.
'Thou much-lovcd chief / Thy name has
been lr. .f .E'
A name, since then, our hearts to win:
True TO thy work, since that stern hour
When struggling hearts first gave thee pow
er: I.U.f Bonn It..
Trae to thy work, when friends and foes
We're one thy counsels to oppose,
When shadows dark, so thickly met.
To all but thee, our star had set
True to Thy work, If others failed,
The souls once bold, In danger quailed,
0rlosing hope, their standard fed.
Defining the cause of Freedom dead. I"
The McArthur enquirer. (M'arthur, Vinton County, Ohio) 1873-1884, 1873-07-23
Waiting Until the Last Moment.


The habit of putting off and
deferring until the last moment
things which must be ready at
a certain time causes much poor
and mediocre work, many un-
finished jobs, broken promises,
and is in fact one ofthe means by
which the world is kept in con-
fusion. ait
"Ycu shall have your boots
one week from to-day" says a
shoemaker, four or five times
over to a customer who has
called as many times to be dis
appointed and hear the false
hood repeated. But who ever
knew a pair of boots to be ready
when promised? If there lives
such a fortunate being his shoe
maker should receive national
patronage. Not but that shoe
men mend to have Their work
ready on time and desire to
please their customers; but
while many of them promise
much more than they can pos.
slbly finish, a large class wait
until the day a job is promised
before beginning the work.
Then if all the particulars are
not minutely written down,
half the little details of the or
der are forgotten, the boots are
rushed through with long stitch
es, and are not ready when
called for. ShOemakers are
not alone in this practice of
procrastination. Dressmakers,
milliners and tailors avail them
selves of its disadvantages, both
to patrons and themselves.
The workman, or woman in
any department of labor, who is
always prompt and punctual in
having work ready when promis-
ed, stands the best kind of a
chance to make money and
friends.
When q customer has to work
a day or two on a dress, after
it is sent home from the dress
maker, she is not apt TO be
pleased with the job, or to call
again, or recommend her friends
to do so. .
Good dressmakers are called
bad ones by putting off work,
until haste makes a botch of the
garment.
Nothing SO builds up the rep
utation, and brings friends and
patronage to any business as
beginning in time to have work
ready when promised, and to
have it well done. Housekeep-
ers who act upon the same
principle, have contented fami-
lies, orderly homes and pleas
ant, when deferring until the
last minute would keep things
in a jumble of late dinners,
scorched meats, hot pastry, and
cross Lusbands.-Elm OHou.
The McArthur enquirer. (M'arthur, Vinton County, Ohio) 1873-1884, 1873-07-23
A Gothic Church.

- - OSNupI "a 0Cdb IN tHufcI
which is an admirable one fol
reflection, but 1 cannot see OF
hear much that is going on in
what we like to call the apse.
There is a splendid stone pillar
clustered column, right in
front of me, and | am as much
protected from the minister as
old Puts troops were from the
British behind the stone wall at
Bunker Hill. l can hear his
voice occasionally wandering
round in the arches overhead,
and | recognize the tones be-
cause he is a friend of mine,
and an excellent man, but what
he is saying | can very seldom
make out. If there was any in
cense burning / could smell it,
and that would be something.
| rather like the smell of in
cense, and it has its holy asso-
Citations. But there is no smell
in our church, except of bad air
for there is no provision for
ventilation in the splendid and
costly edifice. The reproduce
ton Of the old Gothic is so COM
plete, that the builders even
seem to have brought over the
ancient air from one Of the
churches of the Middle Ages /;
you would declare that it had
not been changed for,centuries.
q ! am expected 10 fix my at
tention during the service upon
one man., who stands in. the
centre of the apse, and has a
soundingboard behind him in
order to throw his voice out Of
the semi-circular space (where
the alter used to stand, but now
the soundingboard takes the
place of the alter), and scatter
it over the congregation at large
and send it echoing up in the
.groined roof. | always like to
hear a minister who is unfamil-
lar with the house, and who has
a loud voice, try to fill the edi-
flee. The more he roars and
gives himself with yehemence
to the effort, the more the
building roars, in indistinguish-
able noise and hpbbub. By
the time he has said Ito suppose
a case), "The Lord is in his
holy temple" and has passed
on to say, ''let all the earth
keep silence" the building is
repeating, "The Lord is in his
holy temple" from half a dozen
different angles and attitudes,
rolling it, and is not keeping ST.
lence at all. A man who un-
derstands it waits until the
house has had its say, and has
digested one passage, before he
launches another into the vast,
echoing spaces. Backlog Stu
dies.
The McArthur enquirer. (M'arthur, Vinton County, Ohio) 1873-1884, 1873-07-23


A SPORTSMAN was seated with
his servant on a bank consoline
himself under the fatigue and
disappointment of unsuccessful
pursuit. ~"Well, Pat" said he,
''this is expensive work. I've
been calculating that every one
of these birds has cost me above
fifty pounds" 'Faith, yer hon.
Or" said Pat, throwing a dash
Of humor into the sympathizinq
simplicity Of his reply, "I'm
sorry for that, but it's lucky
there's no more Of them"
The McArthur enquirer. (M'arthur, Vinton County, Ohio) 1873-1884, 1873-07-23
NUMBER 2S
AaNobIe Girl.

| Notwithstanding the fact that
men receive higher wages for
labor than do women, there are
more girls laying up handsome
sums of money than there are
young men who save a cent.
Not long since, a delicate
looking girl sent home to Ire
land money to pay the passage
to America Of another member
Iof the family, who desired to-
come here to work and earn q
home. Said a lady to the girl: (
"Why does not your brother
send the money! He has been
in this country longer than You,
and ought to have saved quite
an amount" "Oh, ma'am, my
brother would never send it, he
spends as fast as he earns, and
most always foolishly, in drink !
ling and uniting himself for
work. | am willing to deny
myself clothing for the sake of
the dear ones at home" ~
"Do YOU share your WAGES
with them all the timer"
eyes, ma'am, | send money
home everythree months-more
than half [ earn" Pm
"Does your brother send any2''
'ENot much. Once or twice
since | came to America, four y
years ago, he has sent ten dol
lars"
care you not afraid if anOthL.
er brother comes to this coun-
try, he will follow the example
of his older brother, and become %
improvident and addicted to
drinking?" s@oir.
"Sometimes that fear troubles
me, but | believe he will do
better, for he was always a wis
er boy" gas ao.. \, y.
That girl is brave and noble.
Quietly she pursues her duties,
and denies herself adornment
and pleasures, although she is
pretty, and may be supposed to i.
delight in gratifying the yanities
which possess almost all comely
women. ,lorir.
0 The helpless ones athome are
first in her heart, and for their
sakes she tolls from yearto year
perhaps thinking that sometime
the right man will come along
who will marry and take hertO
his home. p hssaio
AS the habits of young men
now are, there is not one among
a thousand worthy Of becoming
her husband, and the wisest
thing she can do is to remain
single, unless she meets one
who has had the manhood to
resist the temptations that beset
the hof these times, tosteal
away their senses with rum,
and rifle their pockets of their
wages.-EVm OrlOa soi3a3s 30
The McArthur enquirer. (M'arthur, Vinton County, Ohio) 1873-1884, 1873-07-23

y. Congress would not /. have
passed the salary grab bill if It
b had not been assured, in ad-
vance Of Grants approval.
He is more responsible for that
steal than anybody else, n,
The McArthur enquirer. (M'arthur, Vinton County, Ohio) 1873-1884, 1873-07-23
Selected Poetry.
Grandma's Darling.


BY n. A. @. fil
Through blinds lialfclosed, W t
The Autumn air, y
Swept with its chilling BREATH -
The form so still,
The white robed bier, D M
All told the tale OF death. va
Tho tread of feet, iss. s.i..s.. l
So soft and low,
Came through the open door,
"Since Angels took
Grandma away, G.,. m
Pze can'tplay any more"
The child crouched low
With baby means, lili 1F
Beside that icy beir, oe. far ~
The mothers chide,
With fond caress, "'
"My baby can't stay here"
Go, darling, 20,
Where lights burn bright;
Out Of this deepning gloom"
"Oh! no! mama, l 4s tlia
l'ze not afraid,
Angels are in Us ROOM"
The McArthur enquirer. (M'arthur, Vinton County, Ohio) 1873-1884, 1873-07-23

z The Fourth Cincinnati In
'dustrial exposition will open to
tbe'public on Wednesday, Sep
tember 3rd, and continue until
Saturday, October 4, 1878. 91HI |
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TuE records atlWqshiugtop
sh ow that somebody has grab
bed. $4,000 Of. Freedmen's
bounty funds.iodsA8ao sglssa
rl fsllfg rgita ,siD tetsDsl o5soh
.all W .oldQ snll ,.ala
The McArthur enquirer. (M'arthur, Vinton County, Ohio) 1873-1884, 1873-07-23
selected Poetry.
Things that. Never Die.

The pure, the bright, the beautiful, d
That stirred our hearts in youth; q '.A
The impulse of q woriless prayer
Tho dieam OF love and truth: wv i.U'
me longings after something lost;
The spirits yeafning cry; h'l. st.
The striving after betterhopes- fttG
Tlese things shall never dle iYfiHe
'Hf ~. hhi 10 fI NA.N. naeII 0f EIII.
The timid hand stretched forth TO aid =
A brother In his need;
The kindly word in grief's dark hour,
That proves the friend indeed;
lilo lleal for mercy softly breathod, Z rir
laW Justice threatens nigh, iatai,sg B b
The sorrows OF u contrite heard iip i
lThose things shall never die. -,aii h
The memory Of a clasping hand, ipaa D
The pressure Of a kiss, ~ ahflB'' =
The kindly word In griePs dark hour, ni
That makes up loves first bliss; "
! III with q ilrnl unchanging faith, 'ft l9
u A holy trust on high. NV .A9i
ThesSe liands have claspcd, these lips hav,
/ These things shall never die. = 3 .Iq'e q ~
The crueland Che bitter worl III. -S ~, ~ pr =.
That wounded as itfell, fttT5i r..
Inc me- chilling want ofsympathy,
( Th9bard rcpplsethat elilbs theheark =
j .sMh0sc hope hre bo1gaSa aGiET W1IH
IN IN unlading record Kept,
These things shall ncFcriie. 4
Let nothing pass, for every hand
Must find it's work to do;
Lose not q chance to waken love-
BE firm and just and true;
SO shall light that cannot fade
Beam ON thee from on high;
And angels voices say to thee,
W These things shall never die.