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Weekly Trinity journal., 1875-08-14
THE MAN WITH AN ITEM.

1t wasn't right, and future generations
will say that it wasn't. He came tramp
ing up stairs, tossed his hat on a table,
and as he carelessly remarked:
Suppose you'd like big item ?"
"Yes, of course" replied the lone re-
porter.
Il haven't been to any other paper
with It." he continued, as he leaned for
ward; ave taken the Free Press for
twenty years and I've walked four miles
TO give you this item"
"Well, I'm very much obliged, indeed.
What is this item ?"
"Well, you know the Grand Trunk
Junction ?''
"Yes, out here about three miles from
the City Hall"
"Well, it was about mile beyond
that. Me an another fellow was coming
in on the track. He was a stranger and
seemed downhearted and gloomy; said
he didn't care two cents whether he lived
or died."
Poor fellow! Can you describe him?"
"Yes, he was about five feet six; had
red hair, big feet, coarse clothes, blue
eyes and no whiskers."
"Well, go on"
"We'd got within mile Of the juno
tion, when the express train from the
East came laundering along,
"Yes."
"And Of course we stepped off the
track"
"Yes..
II wasn't looking ornor expecting any
such thing, you know, for the man didn't
let on nor betray himself by word MOI
look. If 1 only suspected it, why, l could
have grabbed him."
Yes, see."
"Well, we stood facing the train. /
was a leete ahead of him, and what did
he do when the train got within three
hundred feet Of US %
Rushed on the track ?''
mo, not that. He made jump for
the rail, kneeled Gown and"
"Great blazes, but it was awful !" in
terrupted the reporter.
lawful? guess it was! l was never
so weak in my life. He deliberately laid
his neck on the rail, shut his eyes. and"
"And the locomotive took his head
clean off I" shouted the reporter, spring
ing up.
"No. AS was saying, he deliberately
laid his neck on the rail held it there
"And was mashed ~
mo sir-held it there for moment,
and then"
"And was then struck by the pilot"
mo, strand he deliberately took il
off again, and is now in saloon around
the corner, looking for job"
The reporter leaned back and looked al
him for long time.
The stranger leaned back and looked
at the reporter.
Nothing disturbed tie deep silence but
the ticking of the clock.
BY and by the man with the item looked
up at the skylight, and down at the floor
and was gone. Detroit Free Press.
Weekly Trinity journal., 1875-08-14

How TRUFFLEs DID IT. returned
TO Ashville after an absence of three
years, and found my friend Truflles
grown fat and jovial, with face the very
mirror of peace and self-satisfaction.- -
Truflles was the village baker, and he
certainly had not been like this when
went away.
"Truflles," said /, how is it? "You
have improved"
"Improved-how ?"
"Why, in every way. What have
you been doing?"
Just then little girl came in with q
tattered shawl, and almost barefooted, to
whom Trufiies gave a loaf of bread.
"Oh. dear Mr.. Trutlles," the child said
with bimming eyes, as she took the
bread, "mamma is getting better and she
owes so much to you. She blesses you,
indeed she does"
That's one of the things I've been do
ing," said Trutiies, after she had gone.
"You are giving the suffering family
bread ?" | queried.
Eyes"
Have you any more cases like that ?'
"Yes, three or four of 'em. give 'em
loaf day, enough to feed them"
And you take no pay ?"
"Not ON Them"
"Ah, from the town ?"
"No, here" said Turtles, laying his
hand on his breast. II tell you," he
added, smiling. lone day, over a year
ago, a poor woman came TO me, and asked
me for loaf Of bread for which she could
not pay, she wanted it for her suffering
children. AT first hesitated, but finally
l gave it to her, and as her blessing rang
in my ears after she was gone, l felt my
heart grow warm. Times were hard and
there was a good deal of suffering, and
found myself by and by wishing that
could afford to give away more bread
At length an idea struck me. I'd stop
my beer, and give away that amount OF
expense in bread, adding one or two
loaves on my own account. did it and
it has been blessing to me. My heart
has grown bigger every way. My sleep
is sound and sweet, and my dreams are
pleasant. And that's what you see,
suppose"
Glorious old Trufiles! He had certainly
found the key to happiness and sweet
contcntment.
Weekly Trinity journal., 1875-08-14

Has been widely used duilr'
the last twenty-five years NV
treatment of these dlslreSl'
diseases, and with Such un', u
ry;ng success that it has sA'ay' Wv
the reputation Of being lDIa
Weekly Trinity journal., 1875-08-14
LOCATION.

The Gerke Ranch is situated in Teha,,
ma and Butte Counties. The California and
oregon Railroad traverses the Eastern bound
ary Tor a distance of five miles, the Sacramen-
TO River bounding the West side. On the
North flows Deer Creek, which contains sutil-
cient water to iriigate 5000 acres, and the
water-right will be secured to every purchaser.
The River is navigable to the farm at all sea-
sons Of the year.
Weekly Trinity journal., 1875-08-14
u. S. LAND OFFICE,
SHASTA, CALIFORNIA,
NOTICE OF APPLICATION FOR
PATENT TO A
QUICKSILVER MINE.

JULY ZOth, 1870.
NOTICE IS HEREBY GIVEN that
~ James +. Carr, whose Post Office
address is Trinity Centre, Trinity County,
State Of California, has made application
for Patent for the CARR QUICKSIL-
YER MINE, situated in Cinnabar Min
ing District in the ubove-named County
and State, and more particularly known
and described in the plat and field notes
now on file in this office. as follows, to-
wit Lot No. 40, in Township 80 n,
r 6 w, NJ. d. NJ, containing 20 GGl00
acres.
The survey Of the exterior boundary
lines Of said claim begin at serpentinc
rock at the South West corner, from
which the South East corner of Sec. 32,
Township 36 n, r 7 w, Nj. d. NJ, bears
South 27044' w, l309.74 chains distant
from said corner ; and running thence
East with Va. l60l5'E) 900 chains to a
granite rock, marked G, for the South
East corner; thence North 22.73 chains
to Il serpentine rock, marked G, for the
North East corner: thence West 9.09
chains to granite rock, marked c, for
the North West corner; thence South
22.73 chains to the place of beginning.
This claim is bounded on the South by
the Central Quicksilver Mine; on the
East by Watlles Tunnel Right Claim /;
on the North by Williams Tunnel Right
Claim on the West by Taggart, Trinity
and Altoona Quicksilver Mine.
All persons holding any adverse claim
thereto are hereby required to present the
same before the Register and Receiver
of the United States Land Office, at
Shasta, California, within sixty days from
the first day Of publication of this notice.
AARON BELL,
jy24-6Od Register.
Weekly Trinity journal., 1875-08-14

A KANSAS girl says that nothing makes
her so mad as TO have a grasshopper
crawl up and down her back just after her
lover has como TO the proposing point.
Weekly Trinity journal., 1875-08-14
Ayers Ague Cure,

FOR THE SPEEDY RELIEF Of
Fever and Ague, Intermittent tevehh
Chill Fever, kemittcnt Fever nar Du%'
Ague, Periodical or Bilious f.,., ,"a,
&c, and indeed all the anee.lvJh,
which arise from InaiariOus, ni"'''
or ma iasmatic DOisOns,
Weekly Trinity journal., 1875-08-14
HOMES.

unusual attractions Of Soil, Climate and LOca-
tion. The frost and drought which have been
almost universally disastrous ;ho present year
have not injured the crops or vineyards in
the least.
One Hundred and Fifty Families can make
themselves comfortable homes here.
The daily gazette., 1875-12-27
From the New York Dav-Book.
"His War Record"

The friends of certain Democratic
statesmen (?) who have their Presiden-
tial axes in hand, ready for grind
when first class man like Tom Bayard
is named as likely nominee by the
coming Democratic National Conven-
tion yell out, "what is his war record?"
1t seems to be held very potent howl
che amt clear on his war record. "
The New York Sun is quite apt to lug
in, on all possible occasions, the "war
record" of supposable candidates for
the White House in 1877. This "war
record business had better be allow
ed to subside, and we trust the whole
South, to man, will "spot" any Dem,
ocratic candidate whose hackers un-
dertake to build up his chances as a
Presidential candidate, by dragging in
the "war record" Of any opposing can
didatc on the Democratic side. We
hold any maa of the Democratic party
let him stand high or low in its .rks,
in utter contempt, who lent his SER
vices or his influence to the war-mak-
ing cahal of 1860. We hope that any
Democrat who seeks to make his "war
record" clean, will be defeated in the
Convention; or, if candidate, de-
feated in the elestion. Any Democrat
who stood negatively in that national
disgrace, we will forgive; but we hold
in utter contempt any Democratic
statesmen @ who endorsed that polit-
ical outrage upon the South, and we
know the true men of the South stand
with us. Tie ST. Louis Times says
''Thc friends of Hendricks stuck n hin
through Bayard's war record in the
columns Of the New York SIM" If
Gov. Hendricks thinks his chances for
the Presidential nomination by the
National Democratic Convention, arc
made stronger by his friends iabbing
pins in the "wsr record of his com
petitors tor that honor, he was never
more mistaken in his life. Logically,
the "clean war records should be
held by the Republican party. Any
Democrat, prominent or otherwise, in
public life, who desire to show him
self loyal in that disgracefsl epoch, is
unworthy of the support of his patty
in the coming conflict. Leave the
war record" pretentions to the other
side. The truest patriot to-day, is he
who most hated that war making party
and its cause. We believe no South
crn delegate to the National Demo
cratic Convention will, for a moment,
countenance the claims of any aspirant
to the candidacy for the Presidential
chair, if he parades his loyal war
record" as proof OF his fitness for the
honor.
The daily gazette., 1875-12-27
BivaiNe Invasion OF England.

1t is now an established fact thai the
expectation of American oysters to
England, as an article of commerce,
has become an ordinary transaction
In the Liverpool papers snch an an
nouncement as follows constantly ap.
pears during the eight months which
have II in them:
Conway Oyster Co. (limited). Di
rect Importers of American Oysters :
Established 1871. The best American
oysters are equal to any natives, and
less than one-third the price. Any
one eating them once will never wish
to eat any other kind. They are sold
at S.. per 120, or Is, per dozen"
AS the above company has been four
years in operation it IS evident that
the oysters arrive in good condition
aud that the price is remunerative
seeing that traders do not usually car
ry on an uuremunerativc business,
The price, about 81 for i20 oysters, is
less than two cents each, whereas, fer
the small "nativeS,' obtained on the
English coast, the retail price in Lon
don IS from five to six cents each. The
price Of these natives which have a
slight coppery taste not much relisted
by the American palate, was twelve
pounds sterling per bushel about the
close of the oyster season in April lasr
The beds are nearly exhausted, aud
the supply is very far from equalling
the demand. Five, or even six cents
in Pins or any other London fish
shop, for single oyster, small and
copper favored, is simply a price that
nobody bat gourmand with money
to throw away, would willingly pay;
not that the amount can re great, for
even the power to swallow oysters is
limited, but that if such high prices
extended to other articles of food n
mans means would have to be trebled
or quadrupled to support his house.
hold. Just when the oyster famine
set in in England the importation of
American oysters-large, we'll favored
and dsucculent-commenced as branch
of trade. AT two cents per oyster, the
retail price in London and Liverpool,
the American oyster must drive the
small six cent English bivalve ont of
the market. In Paris the French oys.
tiers are retailed at from two to two
and half francs dozen. The Amer
lean oyster would.bc acceptable there
also.
The daily gazette., 1875-12-27
TOE most Remarkable Remedy ever dis
covered.
Benson's Capcine Porous Plaster

At no time in the history OF true medicine
has an article appeared which has met with
greater approval and success than Benson's
Capcine PLASTER. Why they are preferred to
all other porous plasters, is owing to their
improved composition; they act instantan-
eously cure speedily and eflectually
Physicians and the general public who
acknowledge the great benefits derived from
ever, maintain that heir action is not sufllci-
emily prompt, requiring time. patience and
continuous wear to effect q cure. Benson's
Capclne Plaster overcomes this difficulty by
accomplishing in few hours, that which it
takes any other Plaster as many days
Although recent discovery-Capclne
has been thoroughly tested by physicians,
and IN each instance has been pronounced
the most remarkable. safe, certain and thoro-
ughly eMcat1ons remedy ever discovered.
Incorporating Capcine in an improved
Porous Plaster has been accomplished after
repeated solicitations from the medical fra
ternity and is now prescribed by them with
Unprecedented success; especially IN Rheu-
matlm,. P.eurisy, stubborn Colds, Kidney
y complaints. ard all diseases for which a
Porous Plaster has been used.
Its marvellous influence over the clrcula-
tlon, and general effect on the system Is al
IN st incredible; from the moment of its ap-
pllcation TO the affected part, it operates with
astonishing vigor-brlngs reliet and cures
more effectualy than any known Plaster,
Linimcnt or Compound.
Il is n genuine pharmaceutical prepara
ton of the highest order OF merit; its ingre-
dients are entirely vegetable and free from
Mineral or Metal Posons. One trial will
convince the most skeptical OF its superiority
over the ordinary Porous Plastcrs. When
you desire prompt and immediate relief, ask
your Druggist for Benson's Capcine Plaster.
Price, - cents.
SEABURY & JOHNSON,
Pharmaceutical Chemists and Wholesale
Agents, n. Y.
sSr For sale in Wilmington by f. Brlng
hurst * Co., 9Th and Market, and f.. Mclnall.
I'd and Market. decls-lm
The daily gazette., 1875-12-27

DLACk CASHMERES.-Dire from the
ID importer. full line of Black CASH
meres at IS. s7I.. 81. 90. sl.l2Is. $l25. s,37ti.
$l.50. These desirable fabrics are at lower
prices than we have offered for years, and we
recommend them for color and durability.
W b. SHARP,
oct26 Fourth and Market st-oes
The daily gazette., 1875-12-27
Sketch of south Caroiina's NeY,
Judges.

The Philadelphia Times thus sketch
es some of the men who have been
elevated to judicial positions by the
Legislature Of South Carolina, accom-.
panying the sketch with the remark
that "it is now surprising that the
election of such men arouscs the peo-
pie of the Palmetto State in the verge
of rebellion"
Justice Wright an illustrate negro
from Pennsylvania, is re elected TO
the Supreme bench, where Chief Jus
tice Moses presides. Moses was the
secession commissioner from South
Carolina to Virginia to force the Old
Dominion into suicide, and when the
fortune of war was against his rebel
lious friends he crawled into the camp
of the carpet baggers and received the
chief justiceship as his price. Whipper
full blooded Michigan negro, scarce
iy able to wriTe his name, is chosen as
Judge for the Charleston district. He
was publicly denounced by Governor
Chamberlain as reeklns with corrup-
ton, and now he is charged with the
administration of justice in the first
city of the State. Ex Governor Moses,
son of the chief justice, was the enthu-
siastic rebel who hoisted the Palmetto
flag over Fort Sumter, and yelled for
armed rebellion until it ceased to pay,
when he tumbled into the arms of the
adventures who had come to spsead
desolation and lawlessness among his
people He was first Speaker of the
House, then Governor, and then
well, next door to prison for shameless
villany, and now he is appointed to
mock the very temple of justice with
his infamy.n
1t is clear that Governor Chamber
lain does not intend that Moses and
Whiprer shall be imposed as judges
upon the people withouta struggle. He
refuses commissions to these men on
constitutional grounds. 1t is to be hoped
that he will be able to hold his own.
in the interests of the people against
birds of prey which are seeking TO
fatten upon what is left of the life
blood OF South Carolina.
The daily gazette., 1875-12-27
JOyce Striking Back.
THE Entire White House VIII be
Scorched."

Scorched."
a special dispatch to the Cincinnati
Enquirer from St. Louis says mes.
sage was received there from President
Grant in which he characterized as
wholly malicious and false the rumor
that he had expressed willingness to
consider an application for Joyce's
pardon; that he mad no friends to favo-
in the whiskey ring prosecutions, and
the law shall have its course. joyce
said to an interviewer that the evi.
dence against Babcock would be
startling and more damning that in
either his or McDonald's case, and
that if the government attorneys
pressed the matter properly exposures
of other and important members of the
Presidents household would be made,
or. to use Joyce's expression, "the
entire White House will be badly
scorched, the President not eAcep,
ted"
The daily gazette., 1875-12-27

President Grant has been offered $751;
300 for his Missouri farm, and will pro-
baLly accept. We had supposed the
President impecunious, with his con-
tamptible salary of $50, 900, with presents
thrown in. but We were mistaken, and
accordingly acknowledge the corn.
Smyrna times., 1875-11-24
PROGRAMMES FOR EXUIRIT1ovs

TICKETS. RITTUr,
LETTERHEADS. sr,rp,,r,-.,,
Smyrna times., 1875-11-24
Too MuchLand.

oays correspondent Of the Germantown
Telegraph:
hold to that principal that one sbouId
cultivate just as much land as he has can;.
TAI and ability to cultivate well, and not an
acre more. 1t is far better to get two tons
OF nay from one acre than from two. Better
10 harvest sixty bushels of corn from ono
acre. than to 60 over three after that
amount, as too many do. So with grair
and potatoes. So with every thing raised
we nave farmers who will plant ten acres
oipotatoes and get five hundred bushels. and
others that will harvest the same from t,vo
acres. Here is an evidence of a vast amount
OF labor entirely thrown away. TO saw moth
ing OF the seed wasted, all on account Of
tnis unsuitable thirst of accommodating and
running over so much land
oh vel" says one, q my land is moor
ana l must plant over great deal of pronnd
TO get much of a crop That is precisely
"hat has made your land poor, my dear sir.
and 1t will continue to grow pooror and
poorer with such treatment. Rv goinc
over SO much you don't half cuItivata =
GU have no time to collect weeds and
leaves and muck for the manure bean
GU are running too many different WAYS
a. tne same time. Running over too much
,and Tor the yield to pay you for your trou
Die. You had better run away from vonr
iarm and give some one else a chance -
run 1t IN different way. Afewweekssinco
"nile IN a pasture with the owner. T 20,
marked the grass and weeds and brako,
winch burdened the ground would he
valuable if cut and used for bedding under
the COWS and horses, and to work into
manure. "WOrth twenty dollars he
rephed' but it is impossible for me to emf
IL; am so pressed with other work
This Is but an example of the tbousands
Oh farmers in this State-havinp too mnoh
ana under cultivation that thev cannot
ma time to cultivate it otherwise than
n slipshod way. '''"'
Smyrna times., 1875-11-24

CURE FOR TOOrHAcHE.-Dr Dvce Dro,,
"cr'n contributes short memorandum on
'nis subject. He was called on to treat q
case oi very severe toothache. and n..i
various ordinary remedies, including chloro.
iOfm and carbolic acid, without anv bopcft
70 the patient. He then remc,.f..
,g naV,ng read that the pain might be relieved
Dy holding in the mouth a solution of
sOda. lie at once gave the patient half =
a1.., a'%onm IN an ounce of water, and to his
A''oiishment, the pain ceased immediately
ana complete relief was secured Ho
.aihks that, as the remedy is so simple and
tae disease so distressing and often introct
Aoie' this treatment may be worthy of
notice and imitation. -
Smyrna times., 1875-11-24

- ". -, ID; Peck, of Plainfeld, N. j., writes
= ..,. sue new York San: son October 7 a
,-aas ~l "l'n team of horses drove into the
SO0as' where he left his team. Hewas mn.
80, 'ae influence of liquor. The horses
tbav e y 'he woods until October %, when
80 G were found. For sixteen days tbev
:. aaa Oeen harnessed to a cart without @ foo1
borsel 49, ~. ana when found one "a blind
was s1;' was qead' the other IA sorrel marel
she @s. ~ we took her to the barn and
sLe 49, uesoured her food. On The 24tb ',,,, wa
look unon .,s; ay,ne' she being quite lively. 1.
c,,,,. a upon 2. TINS as wonderful-that a horse
dy;,a ,'a ,ise sixteen days without food or
Smyrna times., 1875-11-24
How to Preserve Eggs.

The Farmers AdvOcate, London, Ontario
onered prize for the best method of keep
ing eggs over winter. The first recent
given below, took the prize:
Whatever excludes the air prevents the
decay OF the egg. What l have found to
De the most successful method of doing SO
is to place a small quantity of salt butter in
the palm of the left hand and turn the GOO
round in it, so that every pore of the she'll
Is closed; then dry sufficient quantity of
bran in an oven, (be sure you have the bran
Wen dried, or it will rust.) Then pack
them with the small ends down, layer of
bran and another of eggs, until your box is
1ulI; then place in a cool, dry place IF
done when new laid, they will retain the
sweet milk and curd of new laid egg for
at least eight or ten months. ANY oil will
do, but salt butter never becomes rancid.
ana very small quantity of butter will do
very large quantity of eggs. To insure
freshness, l rub them when gathered in
from the nests; then pack when there is q
sufhclent quantity" ."-E. ALerander.
j. b. Strathnairn says: ~ take a tub Of
any size and put a layer of common salt
about an inch deep in the bottom. Then
grease the eggs with butter, and place them
In the salt with the small end down. so that
they Will not touch the wood of the tub nor
each other; then fill the vacancies with
sait and cover them again about an inch
deeP' as before; then place another LAYER
oi eggs as before; then salt alternately till |
the tub Is filled; then cover the ton with
salt, and put them where they will NOT
freeze. l have kept eggs in this manner
rom september 7, April sstboyl as fresh
essS' grease on the she'll keeps the
'ait from penetrating, thereby keeping the
Eggs fresh' while the saving qualities of the
all alt keep them from becoming putrid. 5
MS receipt is both cheap and good, as the
ait can be fed to cattle afterwards.
Emily Andinwood, Stanstead Plains p
3p says; Il have tried several experiments.
ut md none to answer so well as the fol.
'Wing: | have kept eggs for two wears and
'und them perfectly good when used-two
ounds coarse salt boiled ten minutes in
ne gallon rain water; pour off into an
arthen Jar; when nearly cold stir in FIVE
'blespoonfuls of quickline: let if stand
IL next day; then put in the eggs and
eep them tightly covered until wanted for n.
Sc" y '0' II
Smyrna times., 1875-11-24

milss ''a : Dickinson has travelled 5000
wink - y lall' a and never even had man
veil up all the ti,sa Sae must n have kept her
Smyrna times., 1875-11-24

Rents have risen," was the iocose re.
marx OF the astute small boy when a nail
caught in the previously small tear in his
coat tail and ripped the garment up to his
neck. subsequently, after an interview
with his parents, he moaned to himself in
the woodshed that leather had fallen"
Smyrna times., 1875-11-24
Established in 1850.

"icS Ill 'he past year over FIVE ToNs PER AoxTrr in
packages of l2ounces each. |'' -'ioNi' u III
Retails for 25 Cts: ) Packs fo, q
Smyrna times., 1875-11-24
LEGAL AND OTHER R1,vrs

Constantly on hand