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Year: 1869

THE WEAVER CREEK FLUME.-The late freshet
afforded satisfactory test of the capacity of the
large aume at Davidsons mill for carrying the
volume of water liable to be in Weaver creek at
its highest stage. Friday and Saturday last it
rained steadily, and, at one time during Saturday
night, the creek rose very high. We are inform
ed that the greatest depth of water in the dume
at any time was about FIVE feet. number of
logs, large and small, were brought down by the
freshet, but passed through without doing any
damage. The success of the enterprise is of the
first Importance to the business interests of Wea-
yerville, and Mr.. Davidson is deserving of the
highest praise for the resolute perseverance
which has led to its inauguration.
Year: 1869

SMALL Pox.-We are happy to be able to state,
upon the authority of DR.. Montague, that there
dreaded complaint. The only cases making their
appearance were those of three young men arrv-
ing from San Francisco. Since their arrival they
have resided by themselves, remote from COM
munication with others, and from the time the
disease manifested itself they have had no
intercourse with any persons save their attend
ant and physician. Two are now convalescent
under the treatment of DR.. Montague, and the
other is a case of the mldest form imaginable.
The Doctor saws there are no other indications
of small pox in this vicinity, and that if any 9th
ers were infected the symptoms would have man
ifested themselves before this time.
Year: 1869

great French Physician says: "More than half fthe
disease in the world from neglect fory the system
against changes Of climate weather and food The great
cret Of health to keep the condition Of the Stomach and
Blood regular and uniform that changes from Heat to
Cold from Dry to Damp etc. cannot upset the machinery Of
the body, and breed diseases"


Now, 1t fact positive and weknown, that there is
such Luwark and assistant for the Stomach as 4.
Year: 1869

But the monster was now dying. She
retained all her courage and will, but
not her strength.


Dick gave her several rapid blows
with his knife. She groaned almost
as human being might have done,
and fell upon her side. But she re
covered in an instant, and striking
Dick she threw him to the earth. But
the father had saved his daughter, and
throwing her little way from him,
she was out of danger. Not so with
himself.


He was now stretched out upon
his back, and both paws of the bear
were upon his breast, and be could
feel the sharp claws entering his flesh.
The two great CLASSY eyes stared into
his own, the terrible growl rang in his
ears, the jaws were extended, the long
whitf teeth glistened, and the red
tongue was ready to lap up his blood.
He ST 'ggled, but could not move.
A mfmee more and all would be over
with him forever, now the death grip
had fixed upon him.


And pow to add to his agony, he
had seer his child spring up and run
toward the edge Of the cliff. 1t would
have been dashed to pieces in falling,
even as bis brother had been.


But would this be a misfortune,
since the father must die? Would
it not be better for her to join her
loved ones in another world, than to
remain In this cold one alone?


just at this instant, however, there
came the report Of a rife. The bear
relaxej-her hold and fell heavily upon
the body of Dick. He rolled the an
imal away, and sprang to his feet. A
friend had arrived in time, and not an
instant too soon. He was holding
Eva in his arms. She was not badly
hurt.


The father could not keep from
shedding tears over his rescued dar.
ling, for never before had she appear
ed hal{ so dear to him. But he re
solved not to expose her to any fur.
ther danger of the kind, and so he
took almost immediate departure foI
the home he had selected for her il
the " Golden State
Year: 1869

The LIE.-It is not calumny nor
treachery that does the largest amount
of mischief in the world they are con-
tinually crushed, and are only felt in
being conquered. But it is the glist-
ening and softly spoken lie, the ami
able fallacy, the patriotic lie of the
historian, the provident lie of the pol
itician, the Jealous lie of the partisan
the merciful lie of the friend, and the
careless lie of each man himself, thai
casts that black mystery over humani
ty, through which any man who pierc
es we thank as we would thank one
who dug well in the desert, happy
in that the thirst for truth still re
mains with US, even when we have
willfully left the fountains of it.-Rus
kin.
Year: 1869

The commissioner of Internal Rev.
enue has recently made a decision to
the effect that cheese factories are
manufactures and liable to pay tax.
Butter and cheese manufactured upon
the farm where the milk is produced
is held to be exempt from taxation.
Year: 1869

for polishing and Can furnish work at prices
that no man can 1--we and pay his help, who does
his work by hand. Now is your time to pur-
chase in winter when we have more time to fin


ish, and we Will set up next summerto to
Year: 1869

Some one sends to the New York


Sun this description of a journeymaD


bakers life:


He begins on Sunday morning by
making Yeast, and then gets his


breakfast; he then cleans up the baker
shop and Sits his -four for the nights
work; then takes dinner; then puts
in sponge, cleans out the oven. and
gets his coal and wood ready then he
makes dough and mixes his rolls; by


this time his dough is ready; now he
mas to weigh il off and stir up the fire
and elean out the oven by this time
another dough is ready, which follows
after the first. He weighs it off and


makes the third dough. Now he
draws the first and the damper also,


so as to heat the oven for the next,
cleans out again and runs the second;
now weighs off the third I; now gets
flour sifted for the days work and


puts in sponge; then draws the sec
ond and makes up the third; now the
"jackasses pack their pianos" to start
at daylight to serve the customers.
He now runs the third batch and calls
the boss to open the store. Then the
'ijackassesn carry up the bread and
start to serve the route, and the fore
man will get the pie stuff ready and
draw the third batch and roll out the
pie bottoms. BY this time the lack
assesD arrive home again and make
dough- for the days work. The baker
then goes to breakfast; next he fills out
the pies and covers them and bakes of.


While the pies are baking the under
strappers get ready for making cakes,
which will take until three or four
O'Clock in the afternoon. By this
time the ''jackasses" shoulder the


piano for the afternoon route, and the
( foreman gets the sponge in for the
nights work, and gets the bake shop
/ cleaned up. The 'jackasses" get
/ back, and all hands go to the so-called
supper. which is three rusks and some
hot water for four men. When sup
per is over, then the sponge is ready
( to make dough. The baker repeats
J the operations described above, and
keeps on with this work until the
next Saturday morning. Some ba-


kers do not stop here; for after their


pay, which is from 81 90 to $40 90 a
week, they start for home, if they
have the luck to have one, but which


they do not always reach, fetching up
! instead in a gin mill, which place
holds them until it IS time to go to
work again. While they are in the


gin mill they are not idle, for between
( drinking poison and talking about


their workmanship they are kept


pretty busy. So you see that baker,
/ If not perpetual motion, is as near
one as anything can come to it.
Year: 1869

Colonel Albert Baznitz, who was
desperately wounded in the battle of
the Washita, where Black Kettle was
killed and his band broken up, was
in the city yesterday. He was shot
through the body during the heat of
the fight, by an Indian armed with
a peace commission rifle. He is slow
ly but surely recovering, and in a few
months will be able 70 resume his
duties on the plains. Colonel BaKnitz
has been three times so badly wounded
that his life was despared of, he was
reported dead, and had the pleasure
of reading obituary notices of him
SELF Few men during the war of the
rebellion saw more hard fighting, and
none displayed more admirable per-
sonal herOism than Colonel Barnitz.


He was with the Second Ohio
Cavalry in all its adventurous serv-
ice, from Southern Missouri to the
mountains of Kentucky and East
Tennessee, through the valley of
Virginia and-around Richmond, and
led the last cavalry charge, under the
eye of Custer and Sheridan, before
the surrender of Lee.-CiReinRati
Commercial.
Year: 1869

Some weeks ago we were startled
by an announcement in the military
and naval intelligence of the Times,
that an instrument which could meas
ure the hundred-thousand part of a
second, twas employed by the authori-
ties at Woolwich, in experiments on
gunpowder. At the time one might
have thought that the leading journal
was merely under one of those tits OF
inaceuracy to which We are all occa-
sionally liable, but since had an oppOr-
tunity of examining the instru-
ment in question. / am led to believe
that its powers were not overrated.
This machine is used for measuring
the velocity of q projectile within the
bore OF gun, and, as far as we could
Judge, is quite capable of recording
the time that = shot, travelling at the
rate of one thousand feet q second,
will take to pass over one inch. The
apparatus consists of n system of
to6fhed wheel-work, beautifully made
and driven by means of descending
weight. The velocity with which
each wheel travels is progressive i'm
the proportion of five to one that Is
to say, each wheel travels five times
as fast as the one in rear of it. The
last wheel turns a spindle to which
six drass discs are attached, each disc
being thirty-siX inches in circumfer-
ence. When the machine is travel
ing at full speed these discs move at
rate of about ttwenty-eight revolutions
a second, or in other words, about one
thousand inches a second an inch of
disc, therefore represents the thou
sandth part of a second. The passage
of the projectile is recorded on the
edge of the disc by means of spark
derived from n Rhumkorff's coil:
thus the interval between two sparks
denotes the time taken by the projec


tile in passing over a known distance
in which it ruptures two galvanic cir
cults, and causes q corresponding
number of sparks. Each disc has its
own coil, marker, and galvanic cir
cult by which means the time of pas
sing over five distinct spaces can be
recorded. The actual rate at which
the wheels are moving is ascertained
by means a stop-watch attached to
one of the slowly-moving wheels.
As the thousandth part of second is
represented by an inch on the disc,
we can easily understand that the
hundreeth part Of an ineS, which is
by no means difficult to measure, will
represent the hundredth thousandth
part of q second.-OHce a Ueek.
Year: 1869

The Icelander always takes his cap
off when he salutes any one, and not
content with merely touching the
peak, actually bares his head. have
wondered much at this custom, and
have thought that possibly it might
be the result of the confidential man
ner in which they kiss each other
when they meet, in which operation
of course the peak of the cap or the
brim of the hat would be in the way.
For the Ieelandic kiss of welcome
and farewell is no empty ceremony (;
it is given with warmth and express
sion, and is repeated two or three
times, without the least regard to age,
sex, or other ineompatibiiities between
the parties concerned. But still as
this external politeness appears TO be
only the expression of the feelings. i
have abandoned my theory, and have
arrived at the conclusion that the
Icelanders are naturally polite at least
toward those who are polite to them
in turn. The every day costume Of
the women is extremely simple. 1t
consists of q tight-fitting, wOolen-
knitted bodice of dark color, with
AaAALOh oANCNCoF OaNNOANa 81 NLl hAAoef
without any ornament, and q home
spun skirt. The dark color is set off
by astriped or checked apron, usually
green or red, on the head is a small,
black cap, fastened eoquettishly across
the temples, and with a long silver
tassel, attached by a gold or silver
thread. The Iceland women have
very thick and beautiful hair, which
they arrange in graceful plaitS, hang
ing down from the cap upon their
back. Many a dark brown eye and
curling lock of hair may be seen
peeping forth from beneath the cap,
still, the "eorn-goldenn hair and the
azure-blue eye which the old sages
sing of, is the general type; and thus
pink and white are the prevailing
hues that nature has laid on their
cheeks and foreheads.-[A Summer
in Iceland.
Year: 1869

A BRIDAL Tour ON A HAND-sLED.
An enterprising young man lately took
unto himself a wife at Green Bay,
and wishing to keep up with the
customs of the day, and as he boasted
not of a large amount of filth luere,"
concluded to take a "bridal trip on
his town hook and accordingly
fitted up a hand-sled, and placed
thereon his fair bride and his worldly
goods" and Started on the excursion.


He first went to Menasha, then
crossed the lake to Stock bridge, made
a voyage to Chiffon, and thence back
to StOekbridge again, drawing his fair
burden all the time, up hill and down,
over roads both good and bad, with q
commendable spirit of energy and
perseverance, living upon what they
could "pick up" and lodging where
best they could. When last heard
from they had started for Minnesota,
where they propose to settle on q
homestead. We sincerely hope they
will reach their destination in safety,
and that their s'bridal trip" may
prove happy and prosperous one
Calumet Vs. Reflector.
Year: 1869




WAITING FOR HER HUSBAND-HE


WILL mott BE ON THE CARS TO DAY.
We have lately been made acquaint-
ed with one of the saddest and at the
same time one of the most singular
cases that it has ever been our duty TO
chronicle. When the war COM
menced there lived on Vine street an
honest, industrious German family
who supported themselves by keep
ing a notion store. When Sumpter
was fired on the husband at once
enlisted in the army as q private,
and by his distinguished ability and
bravery was soon promoted to the
command of his company Not once
had he been home since the war
began. At last he wrote to his wife
that he had received a "leave of
absence" and would certainly be
home on the following Thursday,
and he wanted her to meet him at
the train. The next day, instead of
starting for home, the battle Of Get
tysburg was fought, and he was
among the slain. The news of his
death came, and since that time the
devoted wife has been crazy, and still
expects her husband on the train,
and by day and by night-in all kinds
of weather-she stands in the mid
die of the crossing in front of her
house, looking in every direction for
the approach of him who will never
come again. Often she will call on
the Mayor and other city authorities
to have officers detailed to go and
watch "that train,n TO see If her
husband is not coming. This strange
conduct has lasted for almost six
wears, and the grief and troubles Of
the poor woman have been so great
that she has turned prematurely gray,
and, although under 80 years OF age
she has the appearance of very old
person. .-C Cincinnati Times.
Year: 1869

Every farmer ought to have one or
more boxes ready in which he can
raise early plants, such as cabbage to-
matoes, and early salads. By having
a box eighteen inches, (the size Of any
old widOw-sash that can be had for a
small amount, and making. bed of
fresh long manure, eighteen to twenty
inches high, and setting the box on
this manure with one end six inches
higher than the other, and filling six
inches of wood mOULd mixed with
some rich, loamy soil, early cabbage,
tomatoes and other plants will repay
handsomely for a small outlay.
Year: 1869

NOVEL WAGON.-A spring wagon
has been invented by a gentleman in
Mayslick, Kentucky, which he pro
poses to run without any kind Of
animal or steam power. He has
already perfected q small model,
which runs up or down hill very
rapidly. The power is received from
an immense eoiled steel spring, which
will run for half an hour without
being wound up. In going up hill
the spring exhausts itself, but in
going down hill it winds itself up.
The inventor claims that he can
carry very heavy loads over any efdi-
nary road.
Year: 1869

There were symptoms yesterday OF an abate-
ment of the furry in Gold which the gamblers
in National dshonOr have been exciting for
several days past. They have done their worst
without moving Secretary Boutwell, from his
declared purpose of using the suIplusl Public
Money in the Treasury to reduce the National
Debt. lie has thus far bought slOOOOOO Of
Bonds per week, selling $l,OOO0OO Of Gold;
Lext week he will sell Iico Millions of Gold,
and will sell more and buy more Bonds so soon
AS he shall see fit. He will not be hurried
in the premises, since it is not his
policy TO depreciato the market price
Of the only Commodity he has TO sell /;
but he makes no secret Of his purpose to dis
pose of all the surplus Gold in tho Treasury
beyond a fair working balance and invest tho
proceeds in some form of National Dobt
Having fair notice of his intention, every one
can govern himself accordingly; and those who
are caught "long" in Gold when the premium
falls heaviy-as fall it must-may rail at the
Secretary if they choose, but can justly blame
only themselves.


The Times tries to show that we were
" staggered" with regard to the right of the
Secretary to establish Sinking Fund be-





provision of the Public Credit act that it
seemed intended to prohibit the reduction Of
the Public Debt by the use of the surplus
Gold in the Treasury. We made this objcc-
tiOn-just as the clause in question was de-
vised and passed-without thinking of the pro-
vision for a Sinking Fund in the Legal Tender
act Of 1862. Whether Congress wOuId have re-
pealed that provision if it had been thought
of, we cannot say F; we only know that 1t rds
not repealed, and is now in full force. We
have never thought or said aught in contra
vention of this never cherished any doubt OF
it.


The Times objects that the interest on tho
bonds now bought is not saved, because IL rs
still TO be paid into the Sinking Fund! That is
to say: no man has anything that he does not
eat or drink to-day We insist that the in
terest on every bond placed in the Sinking
Fund is absolutely saved from the hour of its
purchase-saved as truly as though it were not
appropriated to the payment of our Debt. IL
it is u reprOach to desire TO reduce steadily the
principal as well as pay punctually tho interest
of the Debt, we claim our full share of il. We
do not support this policy because it involves
the maintenance of Protective Tariff; but
that is certainly in our view no objection.


The Times thinks that, by the Secretary's
policy, "the availability of Government funds
"for export is lessened." We certainly hope it
is. We wish it were impossible erer to export
q U. s. bond in time of peace. We are already
quite deeply enough in debt to Europe, and
ought never to sell her another bond. We
wish we could tomorrow buy back of her
Fifty Millions at current rates, and pay for
them in gold, and thenccforth sell her no more.


OF course, it is natural that Ih0 Tunes
Year: 1869

should wish the Treasury, Gas first duty, to
"acquirc and keep IA strong reserve" OF Cold,
and that it should stigmatize the policy OF pay
ing so fast and so far M we have means as
devised for the benefit of two or three par
ticular classes We do not mind that, since
it is not denied that we would have the Gov
enmcnt do exactly what it promised when, by
the Legal Tender act, it laid basis for the
immense loans that carried us triumphantly
through the War for the Union. We would
do it because Good Faith imperativey
requires it. We would do it because
good policy fully concurs. We would do 1t IN
the spirit of that glorious resolve OF the CHI
cagO Convention which nominated Grant and
COlfax that it is our true interest to treat our
Public Creditors so well that they will seek to
remain such, and that others will compete
with them for the privilege. We would do 1t


in the interest of that reduction of the current
interest ON our National Debt which The Times
deems impossible for years yet, but which we
regard as feasible at an early day and OF the
very first Importance. Last, not least; we
would do it because the law OF the land clearly
rpuuircS IT.
Year: 1869

II is rumorcd that Mr.. Senator Crowley is to
be appointed Counsel to the new Board of Tax
Commissioners. We do not for a moment credit
the rumor. Mr.. Crowley, when it was inti-
mated that he was expecting an appointment
under the Commission Indignantly repudiated
the idea that lie could be induced to accept
any such appointment, and informed the Senate
and the Country that he had no intention OF
leaving his pleasant home in Lockport to take
up his abode in New-YOrk as an Oilice-holder.
Mr. Crowley is n Senator of the State, and a
gentleman whose statements are not to be
lightly questioned We therefore decline TO
believe that he bargaincd for fat appoint
ment as condition of supporting measure
of very doubtful proprety; measure intended
20 remove faithful Republicans from offices
which they were filling TO the satisfaction OF
the public and put Tammany Ring Demo
Gratis in their places; measure which will add
untold thousands TO the taxation of the people
without any reasonable hope of increased etli-
cheney in the service, and a measure which his
party in caucus deliberately and solemnly de-
termued TO oppose as a party measure. Be
SIDES. we do not credit the story that Mr..
Crowley will take the lucrative position OF
Counsel 10 the Board which his vote helped 10
create, for the reason that he voted for the
bill to punish legislative bribery and coHup-
ton, the first section of which would make 1t
a felony for a member OF the Legislature to
vote OF refuse TO vote for a measure because ot
any promise Of pccuniary or personal gain. II
is true that tho Bribery bill was not n law at
the time of the passage of the Tax Commis-
sioners bill. But with high-minded and
honorable citizen an act is right or wrong in
itself, and in the absence OF any law upon the
subject and it is not to be supposed that an
intelligent and upright Senator would do an
act to-day that he would vote TO make fell
ony tomorrow We therefore emphatcally
call in question the accuracy of Madam
Rumor who asserts with much positiycncss
that Mr.. Crowley is to be Counsel TO the Tax
Commission at the handsome salary of $500
Der auuum.
Year: 1869

The Pennsylvania coal miners sought to fix
the price of coal in this city at five dollars per
tun. Thereupon the Free Traders, through
their Evening Post, assailed the tariff. This
charge of five dollars per tun was extOrtion and
the duty should be repealed in order that Nova
Scotia might furnish us cheap coal We showed
that the Nova Scotia coal could not to-day be
bought by the cargo at the dock for less than
nine dollars and that, as the duty was only
dollar and seventy y-fve cents in currency, it was
hard to see how its repeal would bring down
prices and inaugurate general happiness. Now
come Nova Scotia miners and The Post again
with a maze of figures, to try to cipher
themselves ont. We do not care to follow
them. The price of Nova Scotia coal, gentle
men, is nine dollars with the duty Off would
be seven and quarter ;-Peunsylvania coal
was fixed at five dollars lyon demand the re.
peal of the duty that Nova Scotia may deliver
us from the Pennsylvania r"bbers and give US
cheap coal Cipher away You're in very
pretty quaadary, as il stards.