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Smyrna times., 1874-03-04
Mr.. Beeoher as a Mimic.

Mr. Beecher preached Sunday evening upon
the difficulty Of acquiring correct religious
habits, and the comparative case Of maintain
ing them when once they have become second
nature. Many look upon religion, he said,
las an insurance policy against final loss by
fire." He described that religion so iunnily
that the congregation laughed outright. They
go to church every Sunday" he said, pulling
his coat close around him, drawing his face
down dolorously and rolling up his eyes.
1.-The hymns are dOled out to them, a good,
sound, dry. sermon is preached to them, and
the nost eloquent passage OF all is their going
out They attend prayer meetings, toe most
dismal prayer meetings" Here his lower jaw
dropped, more of the whites of his eyes
showed and his hands were clsspsd before him.
"There are some cOmfoIL, le things in Green
wood, but none in one or these prayer meet
ings They go through the exercises solemnly
and the brethren try to say sOmething-thsy
do say the same things they have been saying
twenty years. Then the services are msr-
cifuy cut short, and they go gloomlly
home"
After describing true religion as something
independent Of forms and catechisms, Mr.
Beecher illustrated the process of its practical
requirement. He held an invisible fiddle,
lingering the strings with one hand, drawing
the bow with the other, and adjusting the i'm
aginary instrument under his chin, while he
said "Havs you ever seen boy trying tC
learn to fddleP don't wonder they call those
strings catgut. l should say the spirits of al
the dead old cats wore in them. But when the
boy masters it" stopping short, he commen
csd to fiddle gracefully like good vionist
Then he showed how a man learns to set type
the desk furnishing the case, from which he
slowly and awkwardly carried the letters to .
suppostious stick spelling out audibly s-h a-d
When the congregation had stopped laughing,
he gave the rapid motions of the same man aftoi
his trade had been learned. '' was taught elo
cution," he said, although you might no
think it. | was drilled in all tho gestures.
He made the prescribed gestures aud strucI
the attitudes in awkward But rapid succession
and then did them gracefully, in the style of 1
speaker to whom they had become habitua
and unstrained. "When we try to be grace
full" he said we can't be. All those thing
come by long and persistent usage, and theI
without thought. In ths country where I
board six inches wide is laid in the mud, I
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WHOLE NO. 993

WHAT A PREACHER SAW AT DENTON
The following story, vOuched for as a fact by
the gentleman who tells it to US, is so ludicrous
that the ZINES feels constrained to fix it uD
for print:
A number of years ago. a Methodist preach.
er, whilst delivering most impressive sermon
IN the NJ. +. Church at Denton, Md, one
Dalmy Summer morning, stopped short in his
discourse and commenced most vehement fit
OF laughter, which he was unable to restrain.
Every effort to regain his gravity and renew
his remarks would only stir up his risiblity the
more, until disgusted with himself he finally
dismissed his even more disgusted congrepa-
tlon. After the audience had retired he ex-
planned the cause Of his and their modification
to some gentlemen, whom he took aside for
the purpose, to wit:
When about half through his discourse
boy, tull to the very top of his neck with green
apples, hurried from the church with two leaves
OF Sunday School book, and retired from view
to an adjacent clover lot, which, though hid from
the congregation by dense thorn hedge, was
In tull view Of the minister, owing to his ele-
waited position. Shortly after the lad S retire
ment, the preacher, in summoning the beau
ties of nature to his aid, happened to cast his
eye out the window, over the clover blossoms.
lust as he did so the hot end of honey bee
come in contact with the exposed end of that
boy. The preacher took in the situation at a
glance and had to brake square down. To vii:
ness the antics of that youth, as he smaoked
and tried to " dust, with pair of stout liner
pants down around his heels, was beyond the
gravity of any man who had the least bit o.
smile in him.
Smyrna times., 1874-03-04

A Missouri woman turned her husband up
side down in the milk churn the other day
because he swors at her mother. He respects
his mother-in-law now.
A Detroit female of just twenty five was
married to her fifth husband lately. All the
gentlemen are alive, and the fist four are
doing well.
A superannuated minister says, II have
been euilty of doing one thing for which the
church will not forgive me: l have grown
old"
Adam had one consolation when he fell:
Fifteen or twenty acquaintances DIDN'T stand
on the opposite corner and laugh it Lis wishap.
A Western paper is dead: In its last gasp
II family whispered. 1.-Two hundred sub
scribers, aud only thirty one of them paid up. "
Smyrna times., 1874-03-04

who are under this cruel tate. Marriage is
only part of the life of man like Byron or
DlckenS-but to the true wife marriage en-
closes her life like horizon, with nothing
more beyond. Let US once pardon to insanity.
or unhapplness, or uncOngenialty of temper
ament an act as wanton and publicly avowed
as Dickens dismissal of his wife, and society
no longer gives woman any protection, and we
drift into Mahometan ways, in which woman
becomes the slave and the caprice of man and
no longer the blessing of virtuous home, and
the crown and felicity of the most perfect form
of civilization.
And our criticism upon Dickens still rests,
that having made himself a teacher of morals
and domestic virtue, having done more than
any man of his time to inculcate duty and
love to every man and woman, to show that
lite ripest and most honorable relation is in
marriage, to recognize as sacred beyond all
others the bond of the altar, he deliberately
dlshODored his own gospels by an act of selfish
ness aud impulse. The world asked why he
did this, why he publicly violated every one OF
the principles which he had preached for
twenty-five years with so much genius and
humor and passion, so moving the hearts Of
his race that his name had become almost an
idol in the temple of domestic love. We can
not believe it was insanity. Or, if we accept the
excuse as regarding him, who shall be blamed
for dismssing from his home in the evening Of
her days the wife Of his youth and fame, and
the mother of many children2 If she was
worthy to accept the most sacred Office thai
womaRs can give to religion and her marrirgt
vows; If she was worthy to be the mother o
his children, she was entitled on his part to
| performance of the VOW that he would protec
and cherish her until death did them part
| ". T. Herald
Smyrna times., 1874-03-04
OF course London is ringing with stories of

OF course London is ringing with stories of
the adventures which happened during the fog,
one of which is worth quoting An old gentle
man who had some business at Charing Cress
made his way as far as the Strand, but there
and on, without the least idea of where he was
going, until he found himself descending some
steps On these steps he pumped against a
man who was coming up them. Halo,
said the old gentleman. Halo" said the
man. Can you tell me-" said the old
gentleman, where am going to?" " Yes, +"
said the man; 'if you go straight on you will
walk into the river for I've just come out Of
- ~
Smyrna times., 1874-03-04

One OF our contemporaries states that a
much rufied young lady of his acquaintance,
with four button kid gloves, refused to go out
and take her music lesson last Saturday, be.
cause her mother had neglected to darn hole
in her stecken just where it peeped over the
edge Of her boot. Some mothers are so care
less and lazy.
Smyrna times., 1874-03-04

A veteran observer says that 'Old friends
are like old boots. We never realize how
perfectly they were fitted to US till they ara
cast aside, and others, finer and more stylish
perhaps, but crampng and pinching in every
corner, are substituted"
Smyrna times., 1874-03-04

THE CUMMlNs CHURCH MovEMENT.-The
Reformed Episcopal Church has received
another accession in the person of the Rev.
Edmond Neill, president of the Macallister
College, Minneapolis. The new proselyte is
a Presbyterian minister, and he has applied to
his Presbytery to be transferred to the new
Church.
Smyrna times., 1874-03-04

you got blenty dime, und: dond got no posi-.
blity of doud aboud id, vereabouds a man
ifS here vot mott away, vot keeps a Dutch
grocery store; und he ruhd away nit mine wife
und mine umbrella, und don't like dot, kos
dot makes me aggravation. Veil! | don'd
kare me so much aboud de old vomans; but
wants de umbrella back nit an ifry hautle unit
tro rips prok Amt id?
Smyrna times., 1874-03-04

A Boston man was cursing an editor the
other day when he fell dead. Several similar
ins' ances have been lately reported. Men
should be careful in speaking of anything
STANDARDIZATION Post.
Smyrna times., 1874-03-04

The Democratic journals of Missouri are
dissatisfied with the action of their party lead
ers, and are uttering loud complaints The
St. Louis Republican says the old fondDess for
the party is disappearing, and that nearly all
Of the leading organs are expressing their
diseontsnt
Smyrna times., 1874-03-04

When Andover Theological Seminary called
Moses Stuart from the paStorate at New Haven,
the loud cry OF the church was, He cannot be
spared" DR.. Porter replied, "a man who
can be spared we don't want.
Smyrna times., 1874-03-04

A Keokuk, Iowa, dandy rubbed his hands
with glycerine to make his New Years gloves 90
on. When be had concluded bis calls he was
delighted to discover that be had mistaken
liquid glue for the glycerine, and all that night
and the next day he sat rehectively holding
his hands in a washbowl of warm water.
Smyrna times., 1874-03-04

The company raised for the conquest of
Cuba at Augusta, Ga, was very strongly
oficered 1t consisted of thirteen generals,
seven colonies, four captains, nineteen pay
masters, twenty seven quartsrmasterS and one
nriYate
Smyrna times., 1874-03-04

An embryo poet, who was certainly a close
observer of human nature, remarks Timo
marches on with the slow, measured tread Of
man working BY the day.
Smyrna times., 1874-03-04

"If this jury convicts nay client" said
Missouri lawyer, rolling up his sleeves and dis
playing his ponderous fists, & shall feel conf
PEELED to meet each one and hammer justice
into his soul through his head"
Smyrna times., 1874-03-04

La California obituary it is stated that the
deceased was person of romantic nature. He
placed the breech of his gun in the fire, and.
looking down the muzze, departed hence
instantoneously,"
Smyrna times., 1874-03-04

A good brother in. Deckertown, n. j., adver-
tises in the local paper that he didn't set out
his trees for hitching- posts for those who
attend the Methodist meeting house.
Smyrna times., 1874-03-04

A sophomore says he cannot understand how
any one possessing what is generally known as
a conscience can counterfeit fve-cent piece,
and put on the back of it " In God We trust.
Smyrna times., 1874-03-04

The Boston Transcript says: "If the gates
of Heaven were suddenly to swing open and
all mankind be asked on equal terms to enter
into the kingdom, don't you know there is
some people who would pause to see what
some other people were going to do about it,
and some, who would draw back for fear the
celestial city was getting vulgar, and some,
who would refuse altogether if they saw the
so-and SOS about to snter2"
Smyrna times., 1874-03-04

Andrew Jackson was accused of bad spelling,
but John Randolph defended him by declaring
that "a man must be fool who could not spe II
words more ways than one"
Smyrna times., 1874-03-04

l slept in an editor bed last night.
When no editor chancsd to be nigh;
And thought as tumbed that editors nest,
How easily editors lie.
Smyrna times., 1874-03-04

A quarrelsome couple were discussing the
subject of epitaphs and tombstonss, and the
husband said: My dear, what kind of stone
do you suppose they will give me when die?"
" Birthstone, my love" was the affsctionats
renlY
Smyrna times., 1874-03-04

When a bit Of ostrich feather is found by q
wife in her husbands beard no one can blame
her for being down on him.
Smyrna times., 1874-03-04

There are over 4,0OU idiots i'll this country,
who are acknowledged as such.
Weekly Trinity journal., 1874-11-28
The Season of Intermittents.

All miasmatic complaints, in other
words all disorders generated by unwhole-
some exhalations from the earth or water,
are prevalent at this season. In every
section subject to the visitation Of fever
and ague or other forms of intermittent
disease, the causes which produce these
maladies are now actively at work. This,
therefore, is period Of the year when
the inhabitants of such districts should
prepare their systems to meet the un-
wholesome condition Of the atmosphere
by course of tonic and Alternative treat
ment. Foremost among the invigorants,
recommended by time and experience, as
a means of fortifying the system against
all endemic and epidemic maladies, stands
Hostetter's Stomach Bitters. Whoever
has Travelled in the West OF South knows
full well the esteem in which this incom-
parable preventative and restorative is
held throughout those regions. 1t is lit
orally domestic staple in the swampy
and mephitic localities which lie on the
borders of many of our large rivers and
in the ighborhood of our southern ba-
yous and lagoons. Now is the time when
the inhabitants of all malarious districts
should put their systems and constitutions
in good defensive trim by course of this
powerful vegetable antidote. By this
means the feeblest resident of an un.
healthy soil may escape the sickness which
without the aid of this potent ally of ma
ture will be apt to overtake the strongest.
Chills and fevers, bilious remittents, con-
stipation, rheumatism, dyspepsia, and
many other complaints are frequently
brought on by the caprices of temperature
and alterations of dry, cold and excessive
moisture common in the commencement
of Spring. Let all who desire TO avoid
these distressing ailments take the Bitters
as safeguard. 1lnov
Weekly Trinity journal., 1874-11-28
Fifth and Last
GIFT CONCERT
IN AID OF THE
PUBLIC LlARARY OF KENTUCKY.
A CARD TO THE PUBLIC.

Tho management have determined to
have the drawing of tho Fifth and Last
Gift Concert Of the Public Library of
Kentucky, on the Both day of November
next. We believe now that all the tick
cts will be sold and that the drawing will
be full one, but whether all are sold or
not tho drawing will nevertheless certain
ly come off on the day appointed.
The special object Of this card is to call
meeting Of the ticket-holders Mt Public
L ibrary Hall, on the Goth of November,
TO make arrangements in connection with
the Committee appointed by the Trustees
to superntend the counting Of the tags
representing the numbers of tickets sold.
While there is no actual necessity for tho
presence Of ticket-holders, as under our
arrangements the interests of all arc
equally cared for, yet at the same time /
would greatly prefer that as many OF
those Interested as can, would attend this
meeting and sec each for himself how
perfectly fair and impartial the distribu-
ton nIust be.
Every arrangement has been made for
the drawing, but little moro than a month
remains for the sale of the remainder OF
the tickets, and whatever is done must be
done promptly.
THos. f. BRAMLETTE,
Agent and Manager.
Louisville, KY, Oct. 22, 1874.
Weekly Trinity journal., 1874-11-28
LAND NOTICES.
U. s. LAND OFFICE,
SHASTA. CALIFORNIA.
NOTICE OF APPLICATION FOR
PATENT TO A PLACER
MINING CLAIM,
OcrnRrR oOth 1871
SHASTA. CALIFORNIA.

OCTOBER 10th, 1874.
NOTICE Is HEREBY GIVEN, that
~ NJ. +. Griffin, whose Post Oihco ad-
dress is Weaverville, Trinity County,
State OF California, has made application
for a Patent for the following described
Gold Bearing Placer Mine, situated in
the Eastman Mining District, in the
9ooye-named County, and known as the
HATES u VAN MATER PLACER
NINE, and more particularly described
in the plat and iield-notes now on file in
this office, as Lot No. 3S, IN Township S4
NJ, X. s W., Mount Diablo Meridian,
containing 20 l6-l00 acres.
=. beginning at pine tree, II inches in
diameter, marked f. b., for the South
corner of the claim, from which the
quarter section corner of Section 4, II ~
n, Il s w, Nj. ID. NJ, bears Sl5037'3S"W
$3.50 chains distant thence, for first
course, N35'W 23.S3 chains to blazeG
pine, 2S inches in diameter, for the NV
corner of the claim, marked b II V;
thence, for second course, NS5oE Gas
chains to n blazed black oak, marked b
y V; thence, for third course, S77oE sos
chains to black oak tree, 10 inches in
diameter, marked b ~ VI thence for
fourth course, S27o30'E 1910 chains to n
blazed pine, Ii inches in diameter, mark
~ V; thence, for fifth course, S44o45'W
I0.l5 chains to the place of beginning.
Bounded on the lst 6.75 chains OF the 5th
course By mining lands claimed by Smith
ana Baker; on the ID, Sd, Ith and $40
chains OF the 9Th course 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 Land Office, ut Shasta,
California, within sixty days from the first
day of publication of this notice.
AARON BELL,
octZ4-ood Register.
Weekly Trinity journal., 1874-11-28
Notice Of SheriT'S Sale
OF REAL ESTATE.

SHERIFF'S SALE.-By virtue of an
~ Execution, issued out of the County
Court of Alameda County of the State Of
California, IN the suit of d. w. George
against Nj. ID. Butler duly attested the
3lst day of October, 1874, have levied
upon all the right, title and interest of the
said Nj. ID. Butler in and to that certain
Mining Claim, Lode or Vein, known rs
tho Boston Mine," situated in the Gin
nabar District, Trinity County, bounded
and described as follows: Commencing
at stake on the North East corner OF
j. f. Dolliiie Il Co. claim, running thence
North-East l,500 feet; thence North
West 5000 feet; thence South West
l,50O feet to the North West corner of
Dolllile ~ Go. claim ; thence 1900 feet
to The place OF beginning together with
all the right, title and interest of said M.
ID. Butler in ard to all improvements ON
the said Boston Mine being the samo
premises described in deed from Austin
Lawrence to Nj. ID. Butler, ct. al, dated
June lst, 1874, and recorded in the OHico
of the County Recorder of Trinity Coun-
ty, June 10th, 1874, in Book Y of Records
pages 40l2 Il 3, the title whereof appears
by the records to be in said NJ. ID. Butler,
c. X. Worland and G. G. Palmer.
NOTICE Is HEREBY GIVEN, That on
MONDAY, the 18th day Of December.
A. ID. 1874,
at IL o'clock, noon, in front of tho
Court House, in tho Town of Weaver
vile, County Of Trinity, | will sell all
tho right, title and interest of the said
NJ. ID. Butler in and to the said above
described property, to the highest bidder,
for CASH.
JOHN w. PIIILBROOK,
Sheriff.
Weaveryillo, Nov. Is, 1874. 4w.
Weekly Trinity journal., 1874-11-28

To THE PUBLIc.-Dr. Dodge, Dentist,
has now permanently located in Weaver
vile, where he will attend to all work
entrusted to his care. Gold and silver
filling put in at living prices, and special
attention paid to plate work. The Doctor
has an experience of six years and feels
confident of giving satisfaction in all cases.
Office, over Thomas Theater. Give him
n call
Weekly Trinity journal., 1874-11-28

RUNAwAY.-A four-horse team, be-
longing to John W. Smith, became ex-
cited and started down Main street in
a hurry last Friday. Mr.. Smith stopped
them at Martins Livery Stable, but not,
however, until one of the wheel-borses
had fallen and dislocated its right hind
leg. The leg was set by means of a block
and-tsckle and splints put on, but they
proved of no avail and the animal was
shot on Thursday morning.
Weekly Trinity journal., 1874-11-28

MAIL CHANCES. this week, the
mail from Humboldt county will arrive
at Weaverville Tuesday evening and
leave Wednesday morning. Hereafter
the Trinity Center and Weaverville mail
will leave Trinity Center Saturday morn
ing and return Sunday.
Weekly Trinity journal., 1874-11-28

PREPAYMENT OF POSTAGE. - Under
the new Postal Law which goes into eff
iect January LIST, 1875, publishers are re-
quired to prepay the postage on all papers
gong outside of the county where pub
lished. For this reason many papers
have given notice that their rates will be
raised to an amount which will cover pos
tage. The price of the TRINITY JOUR-
NAL will remain as heretofore.
Weekly Trinity journal., 1874-11-28
CHURCH DIRECTORY.

REV. r. GRAVES will preach as follows
until further notice:
lsr SUNDAY, in each month, at WeayeryilIe
at lOH a. m., and at Lewiston, at ~ p. IN.
IND SUNDAY, at Weaverville, at 1917 a. m.
and at Junction City, at p. M, and at North
Fork at N p. m.
3RD SUNDAY, at Hay Fork.
4rH SUNDAY, at Weaverville, at 1917 a. M,
and atJunction City, at 8 p. M, and at Canon
City, at 815 p. m.
Weekly Trinity journal., 1874-11-28

CHARLEY CAss and Dick Brown will
have their new claim, on West Weaver,
in working order by the time water
comes. They are rigging up with iron
pipe, Little Giant and other modern i'm
proYements.
Weekly Trinity journal., 1874-11-28

REMEMBER.-Ever since it was discov-
cred that the authorship of the celebrated
"Junius Letters was unknown, it has
been the custom of newspaper publishers
to require the real names of persons send
ing them communication for publication,
and from the fact that writers do not
heed this rule many scintillations of geni-
us have found their way to the waste bas-
ket instead of having been hurled at the
head OF an unapprecative world through
the medium Of the local press. We are
led to these remarks, because we have
lately received several "pieces" for the
columns of the JOURNAL, but could not
publish them because we knew not whence
they sprung.
Weekly Trinity journal., 1874-11-28

BONES UNEARTHED.-Some Cinnamon
mining in a sand-bank above high-water
mark, on Taylor's Flat, recently dug out
n human skeleton. The Celestials, we
are informed, were terribly alarmed.
Weekly Trinity journal., 1874-11-28

SUCCESSFUL HUNTINa.-Ou old friend
o. M. Loveridgo spent last week in the
mountains at the head of Black Gulch
and during that time killed six deer and
and bear. Thanks for sample roasts
which were excellent.
Weekly Trinity journal., 1874-11-28

JUNCTION CITY.-Charley Kuper says
the late rain made plenty of water for
the miners in that section to commence
work with, but that they were not ready
for it. The high water carried off the
foot-1og at that place.
Weekly Trinity journal., 1874-11-28

RoUGH TRIP.-I. Zeigler, Humboldt
mailman, had hard time coming up this
week. The river was SO high that he
could not cross below and was obliged to
follow up the other side and cross on the
McGillivray bridge.
Weekly Trinity journal., 1874-11-28

WRITE TO Us.-As the mining season
is about to commence we would be thank
ful to our friends in outside camps" il
they will furnish us with the current news
in their localities.
Weekly Trinity journal., 1874-11-28

THANKSGIVING DAY was observed in
Weaverville by closing of stores at noon
and discussing the merits of Thanksgiving
turkeys thereafter. No public services
of any kind.
Weekly Trinity journal., 1874-11-28

w. B. LovErT, late teacher of the
Grammar Department of the Weaverville
Public School, has gone below and, we
learn, will not return.
Weekly Trinity journal., 1874-11-28

MISS SHURTLEFF's Private School
opens next Monday at the Grammar
School House.
Weekly Trinity journal., 1874-11-28

FRESH SEEDs.-Lang has just received
large supply of fresh Alfalfa, Timothy
and clover seed. See advertisement else
where.
Weekly Trinity journal., 1874-11-28

X. L. THOMAS has been appointed Post
Master for Burnt Ranch, vice David
Gray, resigned.
Weekly Trinity journal., 1874-11-28

Ar fWoRK.-zBilly Waldorf informed
us, on Monday last, that the miners on
Indian Creek had commenced sluicing
with plenty of water at that time.
Weekly Trinity journal., 1874-11-28

BROKE DowN.-The Shasta stage was
late Monday evening on account of hav-
ing broken tire.
Weekly Trinity journal., 1874-11-28

HEAVY RAIN.-From noon on Sunday
to o'clock Monday morning-2O hours
Noonan's rain-gauge showed fall of 1903
inches,