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Ohio Waisenfreund. [volume] (Pomeroy, O. [Ohio]) 1874-1953, 1874-11-11

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Ohio Waisenfreund. [volume] (Pomeroy, O. [Ohio]) 1874-1953, 1874-11-11

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gang frieoiam Sll. SIT perri0ttte gerne
'nlcine 4Fi6t alif oenl gon1ptoir : i1
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The Placer herald., 1874-03-07
AUBURN. PLACER COUNTY CALIFORNIA MARCH T. 1874.

foot, pursued, overlook and seized him by
his horizontal coat-tails and danced the
beautiful, blue Danube" as she applied
the brakes. 1t was nip and tuck. First he
got away with her yard or two; then she
stuck her high heels into the ground and he
wilted-was dragged back little. But
which would have won is doubtful. Two
equestrians passed They heard eleven
separate screeches in the kitchen-they saw
a wretch struggling In the grasp of woman
and heard her scream, "he'll drown him
self-he'll drown himself" They spurred
their steeds and flew to towu-swore out a
warrent for Dink's arrest as all insane man,
and got Constable and doctor and Il
stomach-pump and then hurried back.
Dinks was splashing and howlng in the
creek-his wife ianting or the bank-eleven
yels second in the Kitchen. Dinks was
dragged GU, by the Constable and his
posse-the Doctor ran the stomach-pamp
down him till it struck the soles of his boots
and pumped him dry as gun-cotton. He
was tied on horse back, carried off to town,
and just as they were applying the shears to
his ebon locks, his wife and eleven daugh-
'ers rushed up and explained the entire
hullabaloo. Dinks then deliverd an grafton.
The sentences were short but forcible, and
wouldn't stay set up in type. He went
home and comforted himself with diachalum
and opodeldoc, but swears he'll never sit
down again without looking behind him.
The Placer herald., 1874-03-07
CHAPTER On CONSISTENCY.


The following article, which will be found
interesting, in view of the historical remin-
iscenses it contains, is from Pomeroy's
Democrat:
"Mr. Attorney General Williams having
been compelled to abandon his ambition to
be Chief Justice, because his wife bought too
many carriages and things at public expense,
Mr. Grant has nominated Caleb Cushin
for the place made vacant by the death of
Mr.. Chase. Now the Republican Senators
are mad, and fighting the nomination. 1t
is not charged that Mr. Gushing is untitled
for the place, but the awful crime is brought
against him Of having presided at the Dem
ocratic Convention at Charlston, in 1860!
Because he did that he is not the man for
Chief Justice in the eyes of the pure and
guitless men who call themselves Republi-
cans, and vote back pay and deal in Credit
Mobilier stock. This is the best country
the sun ever shone upon Mr.. Grant could
offer his services to the Confederate States
and afterward become President by the
Republicans; John A. Logan could raise re-
cruis for the South, and tie Republicans
afterwards elect him Congressman and
United States Senator; Ben Butler could
vote sixty-seven times for Jefferson Davis
for President, and then become the leader of
"A Republican majority in the House of Rep
resentatives. JOIN 5. Mosby could fight all
through the war on the side of the South
and then have more influence at the v hte
House than any other man in Virginia; Bob
II ,ghes of Virginia. could clamor loudly for
secession, and do anything but fight against
The North, and Bob Hughes is good enough
to be Republican candidate for Govern OF
Virginia and Federal District Judge; Bill
Holden, of North Carolina, as Governor
during the confederacy, could offer a reward
Tor the murder of Abraham Lincoln, and be
rewarded by a postoflice under Grant;
Amos T. Ackerman, of Georgia, could fight
in the Confederate army and be made a
member of Grants Cabinet. Old Parson
Brownlow could howl and fight against the
abolilionists, and then be supported by the
Republicans, and become leading Republ-
can Senator, and Dr. Mudd, who patched
" likes Booths leg after killing of Lincoln
md sent 10 the Dry Tortugas for it, can
afterwards become Republican member of
the Maryland Legislature, but Caleb Cush-
ing cannot become Che f Justice, because, he
presided over the Democratic Convention
1860! Gushing is not our choice for Chief
Justice, hut we rather like to see how PER-
fecliy consistent some folks can be.
The Placer herald., 1874-03-07
IRIBUIATlO.NS.

Under this head the Fresno Erpositor re-
lates the trials, troubles and iribulations O
one of its best citizens, as follows.
TO the antique observer that accidents vii
happen in the best regulated families, the
domestic history of our esteemed friend
Jedediah Dinks affords no exception.
Dnks is a WOOL plante', the lord and mas
Ter OF about 5000 of the finest French
Merinoes in Fresno County, as well as of a
lo> ely and ccompi+hed betIer-haf and elev-
en Of the most enrap uring rosy-cheeked
troIcsome girls in San Joaquin Valley.
Two d Us ago, Dinks WAS all day in the
bills, with h herds and herdnmen, look ns
fler h is flocks generally and the hourly
increasing lambkins, specially. 1t was cold
gusty, rainy, but Dnks never minds the
weather when his woody dependents need at
tenton. He came home just before dusk
stabbed his steed, huns his overeoat in the
back poarch and his sombrero on the hook
and step ed into the parlor where a genial
tile glowed in the pretty stove. His wife
and daughters were all in the kitchen, hur-
rying up supper. Dinks spread his blue
fingers over The stove-then rubbed them
Iogether-then turned his back and put them
under his parted Goa tails, while the heat
played upon that part of bis system. Mus
mgly, he turned again, facing the stove,
standing with hands in his panls-pockets,
men ally figuring the value of thai day &
Elnb-crop. Absorbed and weary-egged he
sat down to think. The chair beh nj him
was not within sitting distance, and his 22O
pounds of citizenship struck the floor with
d shock that sent his wife and eleven daugh-
tiers up to the ceiling of the kitchen, while
The reco Of his hob-nailed heels against the
stove showed it off its pedestal, and brought
down successvely thirty seven joints of
slove-ppe that reached out of the roof, ckt-
terlng, banging, bouncing and dancing all
about the room, pilling at last in an iron pyr-
amid OIL Dinks' PROSTATE body. The throes
Of their victim were frighlful to behold.
How be kicked, Aoundered yelled and
sprawled about under those sheet-iron COW
erleis the world at large can never know
Smoke, ashes, SCOT and fire filled the room
and poured into his ears, eyes, nose and
mouth, while he fought, rolled and strug-
led, uttering praises all the time, while
his twelve female coadjutors jumped up and
down and screeched like SO many owls in
tile kitchen. AT last he ccnquered-leaped
to his feet and waltzed, half blind, to the
door, his face black as night, his proboscis
streaming blood, his raiment tattered and
burning, his matted hair on end, ten fures
sitting on his brow, and fervd observations
falling from bis tongue. He struck for the
creek With a snort like a hippopotamus
His wife having assembled from the kitchen,
caught sight Of the fugitive, and Aeeter Of
The Placer herald., 1874-03-07
THE LOST SPECTACLES.

"Where are my spectaces?" said Grand
mother Hiligrew. She looked for them in
the Bible, and on the mantle, and in all her
drawers and boxes, but they were not to be
found
Tlen little Emily came peeping in at the
door disguised in her grandpas hat and
coat and boots Beside, she had beard or
her chin made out of piece of an old muff,
and big tow bag, stuffed with newspapers
on her back.
cole clio to sel?" she said, in disguised
voice.
"No, no, said Grandmother Hilligrew
mistaking her for a dwarf that lived down
in the hollow, and whom she had met on
the road with a bag on his back.
''No no; we don't sell our old clothes, we
give them away"
"W 90 dive some to me?" asked Emil
ly, still trying to speak like a man. But
this time her grandmother knew her voice
"Why!" she exclaimed, sit is Emilyl !
couldn't see you without my glasses
"But they re on 90 nose!" laughed Emf
ly. Then Grandmother Hlligrew put UP
her hands, astonished, and found that all
the while she h d been lookin: for her spec
tacles through her spectaces.
$50 had them without knowing it!' she
said and she added, softly: "aud tha. is
often the way in this world with happiness
we keep searching for while all the time it is
ours. How hsppy | WIS when was lit
tie girl like Emily, but didn't know it
then"
"And ant 90 happy now?' asked Emf
", who was listen ny.
"fes, yes" said Grandmother Hligrew
cas- happy as an old woman can he"
"Oh! I'd be happy if ! were an old 'oo-
man. said Emily. Il TODD wear caps and
make cake. wish | was an old 'ooman!
Then size made a courtesy, saying: "No ole
clio? Yen d od-day."
And her grandmother, looking after her
said:
"Ab! little Emily, you are right; the old
woman is happy, or happiness is near to
her hand, like the lost spectacles.' -
The Placer herald., 1874-03-07

"LEI Go THAT RopEl"-The Bay City
Chronicle says of one of its illusrous cit-
zens: Mr.. Whopple was born to command
there is no doubt of it He can no more
help giving orders whenever he sees another
man at work than woman pass mirror
without trying to catch glimpse of her back
hair. Mr.. Whopples WAS coming along the
street the other day where some men wer,
hosting some melted tar to the top Of u
building for the roofers. One man was pull
ng at the hosting rope and another
was holding the bucket away from the wall
by means OF cord The bucket had just
passed the wide cornce when Whoppl =
came upon the scene. He compreLendrd
the situation at glance and saw that the
M who was holding the bucket out from
he building by the cord must atken it, ST.
as to let the bucket swing over on the root
"Let go that rope!" shouted Mr.. Wbop-
pies. The man pulling on the hosting rope
recognized the voice of authority and, with
a dim IMPRESSION that some hing had burst
he dropped his rope and ran 10 the middle
of the street. The bucket came down so
AS just to hit the edge of the cornice, which
upset it and the smoky, sticking contents
descended in black foo upon Whopples
back During the next two weeks Mrs.
Whopples devoted her leisure hours to
scraping the tar off " hoppIes' skin, varying
this amusement by the delivery of free
lectures to Wbopples upon what she calls
his habit of Get rnallv meddn'."
The Placer herald., 1874-03-07
Nor REMARK ,BLE.-A Massachusetts

Nor REMARK BLE.-A Massachusetts
farmer says: "My cattle will follow me
until leave the lot, and on the way up to
the barn-yard in the evening stop and call
for lock of hay" Smithson says there is
nothing remarkable in that He went into
barny yard in the country one day last
week, where he had not the slightest ac-
quaintance with the cattle, and the old bull
not only followed him until he left the lot,
but took the gate off the hinges and raced
him to the house in the most familiar man.
ner possible, Smthson says he has no
doubt that the old fellow would have called
for something if be had waited little while,
but he didn't want to keep the folks waiting
dinner, so he hung one tail of his coat and
piece of his pants on the bulls horns and
went in the house.
The Placer herald., 1874-03-07
PETER BROWN AND DOLLY CROSS.

We make the following extract from a legend
airy ballad, which appeared in the San Francis
co weekly Chronicle of the 10th ult
Come all who We heard great Wadsworth sing
And listen to my lay;
The finest, sweetest, prettiest thing
You've heard for many day:
How cross-eyed man was crossed in love,
BY cross-eyed, cross-grained maid;
Nor conld his cross-eyed glances move
Her pity to his aid.
And if the muse of Down East verse
Will lend the bard her spell;
He'll sing how this consuming curse
Upon his hero fell.
This cross-eyed man, across field,
Was crossing with his nag;
Across the nag bag of meal,
His legs across the bag,
When Cupid. from his cross-bow, shot
The pumpkin through the heart
And all Love anodyne could not
Assuage the fatal smart.
All thrilled, and weak with tender pain,
He stopped, at strangest loss;
For th ere, upon the daisied plain,
Stood dumping Dolly Cross
So bright indeed, as in the skies
Another sun uprisen;
And the transverse axis of her eyes
Shot criss-cross into MSn.
From the employment of such non-Anglican
expressions as ''his'n," gal" "git," and
''eout" in place of their leei innate Saxon equiv.
all nts, it may be conjectured that Peter and
Dolly We're regular Yankees. For elegant spec-
men5 of this dialect, consult Major Jack Down
ing and Sam Slick
By mighty love 'ermastered quite
He tumbled from his hoss
And vainly kneeled, ah! hapless wight,
To dainty Dolly Cross.
He sighed and prayed and swore enough
The coolest breast to warm;
But Dolly Cross was bul ct proof
Through all the tender storm.
The lightning darted from her eyes
In form of letter X
And thus replied to Peters sighs
The tercest of her sex:
Go, Peter Brown; your google eyes
Can't squint no charms for mel
This is the gal that lives and dies
From nuptial handouts free
Free as the Summer brooks that flow
Unclaimed by wntry fetters;
And, furthermore, I'd have you know
I'm sweetheart for your betters
''You humpbacked. snub nosed, cross-eyed
Lest you should longer doubt clown,
My will, l tell you Peter Brown,
Make tracks, cut dirt, git eout!
81 would not have you, Peter, though
Of men you were the single
Fin sample left on earth!' This blow
Caused Peters ears to Jingle.
Homeward he rode, and daily he
Went through a strong convulsion
OF grief, to think he had but the
Attraction of repulsion."
The Placer herald., 1874-03-07

SEARCH FOR HAppIN. IS A wealthy epi-
cure applied to an Arabian doctor for pre-
scription that would restore his body TO
health and give happiness to hs mind.
lbe physician advised him to exchange
shirts with a man who was perfectly con-
tented with bis lot, whereupon the patient
set out on a journey in pursuit of such q
person After many months spent without
accomplishing his object, he was told Of
certain cobbler of whom every one had
spoken as model Of contentment and hap
pness. Pursuing the direction given, the
traveller was at length rewarded by the
sight of the co5bler enjoying comfortable
nap on board Without ceremony he was
aruosed from his slumbers, and the imI ort-
ant interrogatory, whether he was co ltented
with his lot, was answered in the affirma-
tive
"Then," said the seeker of happiness,
81 have one small boon to ask at your
hands. 1t is that you exchange shirts with
me, that by this means also may become
contented and happy
"Most gladly would l accede to your
request" replied the cobbler, "but-"
"Nay, refuse not, interrupted the man
of wealth. "any sum that thou mayest
name shall te thine.
Il seek not thy wealth." said the cobbler
"bul-but-"
"But what?"
"Ihe truth isl have no shirt"
The Placer herald., 1874-03-07

A Nebraska journal invtingly says:
who says farmers cannot get rich in this
State Fifteen years ago young man
came to the State. without dollar in the
world. Last week he went out of the
State, carrying with him the sum of one
dollar and thirty eight Gems, the savings Of
fifteen years of frugal life. Come West.
young man, come West"
The Placer herald., 1874-03-07


GooD.-A German paper contains reply
from clergyman who was travelling and
who stopped at a hotel much frequented by
wags and jokers. The host, not being used
to having clergymen at his table, looked at
him with surprise; the clerks used all their
artillery of wit upon him without elicitng a
remark in selfdefense. The worthy clergy
man ate his dinner quietly, apparently
without observing the gibes and sneers Of
his companions. One of them, at last, in
despair at his forbearance, said to him
&C" ell, ] wonder at your patience! Have
you not heard all that has been said against
you?" ''Oh, yes; but am used to it,.
Do you know who am ?" "No, sir. "
"Well, | will inform you. am chaplain
of lunatic asylum; such remarks have no
effect on ne."
The Placer herald., 1874-03-07

GAMBLING MoNEY.-lhe Young Mems
Christian Association of Baltimore had
special meeting on the evening Of February
5'h to decide whether money donated by
Colonel Sim, well known gambler, should
be returned to him. One member said the
money came accompanied by the tears of
women who were worse than widows, and
of children who were worse than orphans.
Another thought that taking money from
gamblers was bringing them step nearer
Christ! Mr.. j. ID. johnson argued that
gambling was not forbidden in the Bible!
The Assertion voted, after lengthy dis.
cussion, to return the money to Sim.
The Placer herald., 1874-03-07
NUMBER 20
MIR. BEECHER'S LOVE STORY.

Tom was a strappng, healthy boy. with
a great appetite. He lived up in the noun
tains among the charcoal burners until he
was nineteen. Then he went down into tho
valley and hired out to farmer. Tom was
a scullion and drudge, and first along the
farmer hes tated to trust even the hogs to
his care But there was gimmering OF
something in him that showed just little
through lis uncout' ness. After year or
two he became full farm hborer-a troad-
shoudered, deep-chested, powerful fellow.
who made himself clumsily useful. Well,
about that time the farmers daughter came
home from school. What revelation she
was to Tom. He never knew Until then
what it was to worship anything, nor how
awkward and coarse he was. lie would
have given all he had, which wasn't much.
TO learn how to get into room without hit
ting the door, or what to do with his hands,
or how to sit down right. e
He began to change his clothes for better
ones when he came in from the days work,
and there was about him the dawning Of
Improvement. Finally the great day came.
He stood trembling before the farmers
daughter, ii hard word was spoken, and
she didn't repulse him. think there is
nothing in the life of man which so rouses
and stirs him as love. Tom went to the
wrestling matches, and what vim there
was in him. He read he went to church,
he wanted to see how people acted. And
when after a good life he grew to he an old
man, and talked in trembling voice to bis
grand- children, he used to say: 20, what q
wife she was to me. Whatever | became
she made me- The world is full Of just
sucb instances of blessed influence.