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Alpena weekly argus. [volume] (Alpena, Mich.) 1871-1893, 1877-10-10
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Stanley is to be Congratulated.
Free Press.
The joker's land-All jeers.-
Eek.
Domestic pets--matrimoniai suiks
-Ex.
Waul fiowers--cats.-Boston
Post.
An apple woman says her bust
ness is at stand-still.-Ex.
We think Egg Harbor would bt
a safe port for shells.-Philadel'
phia Bulletin.
A clean sheet of water is usually
spread over the bed OF river
Whitehall Times.
The New York Commercial Ad
vertiser man has noticed that law
yers have q "sue thing way abou
them"
"Every cloud has silver lining,
and monv n man wishes his pocket
book was a good-sized, health,
cloud.-Ex.
A man fooled into buying pinch
beck watch called it Faith, because
it was without works, and there
fore dead.-Ex.
If you do not want to be robbed
of your good name, do not have i
painted on your umbrella.-Turn
er's Falls Reporter.
"when l die" said a married
man, want to go where there
no snow to shovel" His wife SAT-
she presumed he would.
The "Coming Struggle is tn
name of q weekly journal to b
started in Philadelphia next month
A very appropriate title.-Ex.
The Oil City Call ventures fort
the statement that "an expires
train is faster than day laborel
but it can't stop as sudden"
A Hartford (Connecticut) yav
boat bears the name "Not to Lend
No "Loan Fisherman" need appl,
of course.-Boston Globe.
And now we hear still sma
voice saying: "The nasty moth
have just ruined my furs,' An
sensible man will know what is e,
pected of him.-Ex.
A Philadelphia dancing mast'
is said to be about introducing
new dance expressly for fat peopl
All the performers have to do is
sit and kick.-Ex.
"White lies" says the New Yoi
Herald, "roll themselves mp in
cocoons, and next year they con
out handsome, full-fedged, wins
old whoppers."
An English magazine havir
written exhaustingly upon NV
ter as a Beverage" an Albany P
DER thinks the scheme is feasit
and might at least have trial.
at takes hours to get over a
sudden rising" says health writ
Yes, we are aware of it. We ho
sat down OH Bonded pins here
fore.-Towanda Enterprise.
Science says it took millions
years to evolve man from the ella
observation shows that it takes
than a minute to transfer the cl
into a man.-Rome Sentinel.
A Southern book-keeper visit
the North on his vacation, wal
to the top of Bunker Hill Mo
ment. He said that it was
hardest column to foot mp he
seen since he left home.-Ex.
A model wife-She never was
a solitary thing. Let cat
around our house, and the
thing you knew Mary Jane d !
amuff and a set of fnrs. and
begin to find mince pies on the
ble.-Max Adeler.
A party were enjoying the e
ing breezes on board a yacf
"The wind has made my moust'
taste quite SALT" remarked aye
e.
Litchfield enquirer., 1877-02-08

now lying at Hampton Roads. I had a1- ways supposed that salute consisted of the firing of one gun, and when heard peal after peal from each ship for seven teen successive times thought they must bs having frst-class fight instead of merely exchanging salutes.
 The Svetiand is commanded by the Grand DukeAlexis, son of the Czar ,and has also on board the Grand Duke Constan- tine. IS years old, cousin of Grand Duke Alexis and brother-in-law of the King of Greece. The Svetland is now at Norfolk, waiting the arrival of the squadron.
 The school had visit this noon from about 90 of the naval students, with the officers and band from the Hartford. They gave us some very fine music, and had drees-parade in front of Virginia Hall. They were treated to dinner and seemed to enjoy being on terra-frma, and left in good spirits at o'clock.
 The blue bird, fly catcher and oriole were singing one day last week, but their voices are now ahushsd, as the weather has turned over new leaf-which it does about every day. G. c. R.
Litchfield enquirer., 1877-02-08
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Litchfield enquirer., 1877-02-08
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6 The Russian frigats ''Svetland." flag ship of the Russian fleet, arrived in Hampton Roads on Saturday, Jan. 18th. and exchanged salutes with the American lag and school-ship. " Hartford, which is
Litchfield enquirer., 1877-02-08

no accessible port Such discourage ments attend all inland Improvements, and, in Florida, patience is certainly 2 cardinal virtue. NJ. L. ".
Litchfield enquirer., 1877-02-08
FOR SALE.

THE subscriber offers his place in Meadow Street, 4 consisting of two story house in Rood repair and two acres of good meadow land. The housa is sur rounded with plenty of fruit and shade tre ss and pleasantly located. Price $3sOO good proportion Of sion given 1st of April. WILLIS J. BEACH.
 Litchnsid, January 9sth, ls7e. . AsR
Litchfield enquirer., 1877-02-08
ADJUSTMENTS,

There are two debating societies-the "Old Dominion" and the Normal school which are of great advantage to the students in teaching them to think quick ly, and in giving them confidence before an audience. There are some good speak CTS in both societies; but the committees, instead of deciding in favor of the men who make the best and most points, de- eide generally in favor of those who make the most noise, point or no point.
 The Old Dominion society gave an ex- hibition debate in Virginia Hall,- about two weeks since. Subject, "Resolued, That Democratic President would be beneficial to the United States, :" in which the affirmative was completely routed. Hayden, negative, made a very able speech, every word of which carried weight. He was applauded long and loud. Dialogues and singing prefaced and followed the debate, and, taken as a whole, it was quite an enjoyable enter tainment. . The Humorous Club comes next and is very good. They gave an entertainment on Saturday evening last which was large ly attended, and which gave perfect satis- faction. The acting was remarkably good -rivaling the Washington tCt.) Dramatic Association, and having this advantage instead of having to buy an excursion ticket down the Shepaug for ffty-fiye cents. and then paying fifty cents more for seat. these entertainments are free to all.
 The Students have very good cornei band, under the direction of Mr. Fuller cf' Boston, Mass, which furnishes good music for the entertainments, and parades. We also have tenn. perance society, not secret, which meets once month; prayer meeting every Friday night. which is largely attended and which is instrumental of much good It is cheering to see so many striving to qualify themselses to go forth and en tighten the thousands of our people who are in igr orance. Ignorance costs; intel igeace pays. and, for the time they have had. the colored people have made good progress in the right dixection. They have more to contend with, in theil efforts for education, than the people O the North suspect, and, when we take ;n to consideration the poverty. prejudice and disadvantages they have to .conteni with, 1t seems strange-yes, almost mir acle-that they have accomplished al much as they have.
Weekly Trinity journal., 1877-04-07

A SINGULAR RAILROAD ACCIDENT
For many years we have been hearing
about locomotives "bucking the bull off
d BRIDGE" but the case was lately revers-
ed. At Danvlle, Virginia, as a freight
train was approaching a bridge across a
creek, an infurated bull sprang upon
the track. The engineer put on the
breaks and blew the whistle, bu. the bul
stood firm. The cowcatcher struck the
bull just at the entrance of the bridge,
the engine was thrown from the track
and struck with great force on the tr estle
work which at once gave way, and en-
gine, tender and six cars went through
with terrible crash. The engineer was
terrible crushed aud will die. The boil
er Of the engine exploded and cars and
bridge were soon wrapped in fsmes.-
The bridge, which was I20 feet long was
totally consumed, the engine rendered
worthless, aud the damage in cars and
freight is very heavy. Hereafter the
adnge will have to be changed, for bull
on railroad track is evidently some
thing not to be fooled with.
Weekly Trinity journal., 1877-04-07

SOUTH CAROLISA.-President Hayes
has given orders that the troops stationed
in the Capitol at Columbia, South Caro-
lima be withdrawn. This order settles
the gubernatorial question in that State,
as there is 10 doubt but when Federal in
tervention ceases the government Of
Cham nberlain viii at once become power
less. Chamberlain in fact gives up the
contest. We are not disposed to grum-
bic at this decision OF Mr.. Hayes, for we
must recognize the fact that the Southern
question is one Of the most delicate and
difficult ones to deal with which will
come before his administration, and that
whatever decision the President arrived
at must be unacceptable and dists>teful
to the great body Of the party against
which he felt compelled to decide. We
do not question but he has acted con-
scientiously, upon his understanding OF
the facts OF the case. 1t now remains to
be seen if Governor Hampton had the
power, AS he processes to have the VIII,
to protect ir their rights all classes of the
citizens of that Commonwealth. We do
not think he will have-but that ostra-
cism both social and political, will follow
any man in South Carolina, white or col
ored, who has the courage to profess Re-
publican principles. If the State could
be so effectually overawed by the Rife
Clubs when both State and Nationnl ad-
ministrations were Republican,, as to elect
Hampton Governor, and throw for time
a doubt as to which party had carried
the Electors, we may reasonably expect
South Carolina to now fall into the rank
Of Democratic States and make up that
"Solid South" which Democracy boast
ed Itself so sure of. We hope for better
things but erpect nothing.
Weekly Trinity journal., 1877-04-07
EAsrrRN OrINtoNs or rnr CnINrsr

EASTERN OPINIONS OF Tue CHINESE
QUEsTIoN.-The Wortd editorialIy says:
The massacre OF six Chinamen at Chico
is used to influence public opinion on the
Chinese question just MS massacres at the
South were used TO delay public opinion
on the reconstruction question. Yet it is
not easy to see how the killing of these
six men settles the wisdom or unwisdom
of continuing the importation Of Coolies.
The murderer should be regarded simply
as the murderer of white men, and pun
i>hed in the same way. The political
question as to whether any barriers should
b" opposed to the further immigration of
Chiuamen has nothing to do with the
Chico massacre, and should be decided
without reference to it. There is nothing
to dread from Chinese immigration so
long a. it is voluntary. If there are men
New World, and have courage and en-
Ierprise enough 10 prompt them TO emf
grafton, they should be welcomed rs en-
igrants from Europe arc welcomed. II,
however, Chinese emigrants are men
gathered together by avaricious specula-
tors and imported into the country under
contract and set to work by their owners
in compctition with American mechanics,
ihon their coming must sooner or later
lring strife or ruin. Such importation is
only the old slave trade in new form,
snA the very virtues Of the Chinese make
it III" more vile. The great point to be
settled in this Chinese question is the
status of the immigrants. That the wo-
men imported are virtually slaves admits
Of little doubt that many of the men arc
not free, is matter of shrewd suspicion.
The Tribune says the presence of Chi
ne'e in California may be highly distaste-
ful to large clnss, but these foreigners
are entitled to the full protection Of the
law and will receive it. II the State can =
not protect them the United States must,
for they are here in accordance with
treaty stipulations and must stay here un-
less they see fit to return to their native
land. True there is every reason to be-
lieve that in alaying these difficulties the
good sense, intelligence, and humanity of
the citizens Of California will prevail over
idle prcjudices and race hatred. En-
couraging Chinese emigration is one
thing protecting Chinese already here is
another
Weekly Trinity journal., 1877-04-07

DIsBANDED.-Th The Chico Laborers'
Union has disbandcd, after meeting Of
the most respectable members had been
held To consider the situation. The acts
of The Council OF Nine" by whom the
various arsons and murders were believ-
cd tu have been set on foot, were repudi-
ntcd and denounced. We do not ques-
tion but some good men have Joined the
society, but their groundwork of action
is such as to invite the co operation OF,
and give encouragement to, men of no
character and less principle. hence the
nets of the Chico ruffinns which would
never have been committed had not the
perpetrators felt ass ured that they were
IN some measure sustained by the opin-
ln Of u portion Of the community. A
secret organization founded on race pre-.
jndices, will draw to itself low characters
who failing to accomplish their object by
lawful means will not hesitate to resort to
unlawful ones. Whether the Laborers'
Union, as body was really responsible
for the wholesale massacre at Chico or
not, public opinion will hold it so, and it
took a wise course in disbanding,
Weekly Trinity journal., 1877-04-07

CHINESE COUSINS AND THEIR OBLI-
CATIONS In the cOurse of the evidence
ofs Chinese interpreter in the All Moon
murder trial, the witness was asked what
WIS the application of the term cousin, !"
rs used by the Chinese, or, in other words,
what wns the relationship existing be-
tween Chinese calling each other cousins.
lie replied that all Chinese having the
same surname were cousins under the So
cial laws of China that it made no diff
ference from what State or part of China
they hailed from, they called each other
cousins, aud that this applied to the Chi
nese all over the world. The witness
WAS asked the question : IF these cous-
ins did not consider it not only their priv
ilege but their dnty to sustain each other
right or wrong" He answered that they
did. Suppose" said the counsel, "a
member OF the cousin family by the name
of Wing was killed by member of n
cousin family named Sung, would not all
the members Of the Wing family be oblig-
ed TO Tnirsuc the Sung family until they
obtained revenge on one or tho other of
its members ?" "Yes, SIR" replied tho
witness Bu'ietiA.
Weekly Trinity journal., 1877-04-07
GRAND JURIES,

There is and has been for some time. a
disposition shown by the press, to give
the start to a movement which will cul-
inmate by doing away with the Grand
Jury system. To do this will require
very thorough revision of our criminal
law and practice, and it should be freely
discussed before such radical change is
made.
Under the present workings of the jury
system in county like ours, grand and
trial jurors are requiie ed to possess tho
same qualifications, and are drawn and
summoned in the same manner. The
names ofthose who are to net as regular
jurors are selected from each township
according to population and placed in a
box, and when a jury is needed, the
Judge before whose court the jury is to
appear, makes an order tha. a jury be
drawn. Ii it be grand jury, not less
than twenty-five nor more than thirty
must be drawn. Thus, the first name
might be from Cinnabar precinct, the
second from Hay Fork, the third from
Lower Trinity, and so on until every pre-
cinct in the county would be represented,
thereby putting citizens to great trouble
and the county to great expense. And
after all is said and done, the work Of the
body summoned at such expenso and in
convenience may be worse than useless.
The testimony is generally of an er pdrte
character, which often results in the find
ing of indictments which, if both sides
were heard as in trial by petit jury,
would have been ignored al once.
/ There will have of course to be some
legal machinery between the exam ming
magistrate and the trial jury. In what
manner this will be formed-what should
take the place now occupied by the
Grand Jury we are not prepared to say.
But the Grand Jury system is falling into
disrepute and it is to be hoped tnat the
power to decide what cases are and what
are not, cases to be brought to trial,
should be vested in some manner more
/ simple.
Weekly Trinity journal., 1877-04-07

THE CHICo AFFAIR AID THE CITI-
zENs.-Last Saturday night the citizens
of Chico held meeting to which only
those who were neither members of the
Caucasians nor Labor Union were admit
ted. 1t was a gathering of the farmers
from all over the valley, to take steps
looking to the protection of their property
during the coming Summer. They are
determined to rid that pnrt of the State
OF the class now in Jail. Not one of them
will give employment to II single person
known to belong to either Order.
1t is reported on good authority that
DR.. Glenn called together his men and
discharged all who were members Of the
Order Of C"nca,ians, telling them to burn
him out if they dared to.
Weekly Trinity journal., 1877-04-07

A TERRIBLE EXPLosGoN.-At Santa
Cruz on Tuesday one of the powder mills
two miles from The city, WAS blown up,
the mill containing nine tons of powder
at the time. A man named Brown was
blown to atoms, another named Murry
was severely wounded but had miracu-
lous escape, being only fifty feet distant
from the mill when it exploded. Pieces
of the building were blown mile from
the mill and the shock was so great that
brick buildings in the city were shook
and cracked and large amount Of glass
broken.
Weekly Trinity journal., 1877-04-07

A BANK book was presented at the
Springfield, (Mass). Institutions for Saw
Ings few weeks ago, which had not been
seen by the bank officials since the origi-
nal deposit was made thirty-two Gears
ago. The amountof the deposit was 5000
while the interest alone has amounted to
Sl,6l9. During all this time the owner
of the book bad never entered the bank
or asked question as to her property,
which she now comes to claim.
Weekly Trinity journal., 1877-04-07
LAND NOTICES.
United States Land Oficp
SHASTA. CALIFORNIA
NJ ARCH 10Th 1S

MARCH 10th, 1877
NOTICE IS HEREBY GIVEN
~ w. /. Hupp, John McMarrv .,aI ani
b. Essec, whose Post Office adGress" "a
Weaverville, Trinity County, Califarn;H
have made application for Patent e',,
Gold bearing Placer Mine situated
Wenvervilc Mining District, Trinim.
County, California, and known Ne nv
FIVE CENT GULCH PLACER Nno' Nu'
aud more particularly known and descTE
ed as follows, 10 wit:
Lot No. 80, in Township No. 83N
8 West, and Lot No. 81, ia Townsbin \"
"a n, r No. 9 West, containing 81 5S.I@
acres.
The survey of the exterior loundorr
lines of said claim begins at a Roci.
Mound, marked A, bearing S67A 0ES%
chains from the established a S4ctio"
corner Sections and 7 OF Town,hip n
North, Range 8 West, Mount Dali,
Base and Meridian ; running thence tos
Rock Mound with Quartz Rock in, mari
ed B. Nl015o w ) "a chns thence NorS
to Rock in Rock Mound, marked G.. 10 "a
chains thence to Rock in Rock Mound
marked d, NGoW w 1880 chains thenrr
To Rock in Rock Mound, marked n
S750E 500 chains thence to Rock in
Rock Mound, marked +, N70E, 2OM
chains /; thence ton Rock in Rock Mound
marked &, NlGXoE s 90 chains thence
to Rock in Rock Mound. marked II,
N2934 L 10 chains; thence to a Rocl, n
Rock Mound, marked l, North 1888
chains 4; thence toa Rock in Rock Mound
marked j, N740E 3.74 chains thence to
II rock marked X, South 27.60 chains;
thence to Post in Rock Mound, marked
WV, MOO w 2.33 chains thence To \
Rock in Rock Mound, marked NJ. S2OoW
1854 chains thence to Rock in Rock
Mound. marked N, Sow Pip chains;
thence to u Rock in Rock Mound, mark
ed O, S534 L l7.5S chains thence to y
Rock in Rock Mound, marked p, S32o W
959 chains ; thence to n rock in Rock
Mound, marked @, S46o w 20.09 chains;
thence to u Rock in Rock Mound. marked
r, N5oW 4 90 chains thence to the place
Of beginning, N5l}40E 1915 chains.
This claim is bounded as follows: On
the lSt and 18th courses, by the Bartlett
Placer Mine ON the % and Sd courses.
by mining land claimed by jackson ct al
on the 4th, 5th, 9th and 7th and 1880
chains Of the Sih courses, 10y the Harvey
Brothers new mining claim on the re-
mander of the Sth and 9th and 7.55
chains of the 10Th courses, bv mining
land clnined by o. NJ. Loveridge & Co.
All persons holding AIRY adverse claim
thereto are required to present the same
to the Register and Receiver Of the Uni
ted States Land Office at Shasta, within
sixty DAYS from the first day of publica-
ton of this notice.
AARON BELL,
mch24.G0d Register.
Weekly Trinity journal., 1877-04-07

TWENTY THREE thousand pages Of re-
ports of Congressional investigations
made last session, have already been
printed at The Government Printing Of
fee, and the work is not yet finished
No practical good has resulted from
scarcely any of the investigations made
and therefore the immense expenditures
of the public funds were without any
ompensating result.
Weekly Trinity journal., 1877-04-07

ANoTHER Pro - The Democrats
have hunted up another peg to hang their
hopes upon. 1t is now asserted that it
has been recently discovered that th eight
Electoral votes of Louisiana belong to
Tiden, and that evidence of this will be
furnished Governor Tilden for his suit in
the nature Of quo acdrYdnto. Time was
that wher the brains were out, the man
would die" but now?
Weekly Trinity journal., 1877-04-07

NEWSPAPER CHANGE The Peoples
Cause, Of Red Bluff has changed hands,
L. ID. Clark retiring from the business
and transferring his interest therein to
j. II. Pryor and Edward Sweeney. Both
the new proprietors are Shasta boys and
We shall look for good paper under their
management. The politics of the paper
will be Republican as heretofore.
Weekly Trinity journal., 1877-04-07

Is 1T So.-The Humboldt papers say
that it is reported that Chinaman are per-
mitted TO work within the limits of the
Indian Reservation on Lower Trinity,
hut the same privilege is refused to whites.
The Times says .hat twenty Cinnamon
nre so working, but when couple of
white men started in they are at once no
tilted to quit. II such is the case the
matter should be shown up. This thing
at making pets of Chinese in II matter of
this kind is not done without some reason,
md if il is done as intimated somebody
besides the Chinese is undoubtedly bene
fted BY it.
Weekly Trinity journal., 1877-04-07

AT the recent election, license and an
ti-license being the issue, license carried
the day in Shenandoah, Iowa. And then
the powers that be, empowered by ex-
iSting laws, gently but firmly placed H.
censes at the moderate sum of $l3 GOO per
annum, and the licensers smile grimly
and say that five or six more snch victo-
iies would be very discouraging indeed.