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Year: 1869

PUMPKIN SAUCE Pare the pumpkin
and cut it in large squares set it 10 cook
with very little water stir and bruise it un-
til it forms paste, rather firm, and let the
mass evaporate until it ceases to have
watery consistency. Melt some butter in
saucepan turn the pumpkin into it; salt it
a little and add plenty of sugar let it sims
mer some time, aud put it into a dish, cover
with powdered sugar, and with red.hot
shovel make crust over the surface The
pumpkin diminishing great deal in cook
ing, considerable quantity is needed to make
a presentable plate.
Year: 1869

VEHY Moe RICE PUDDINe.-One tea
eupful of rice one teacupful of raisins; one
teacupful of sugar two quarts OF milk use
cinnamon or nutmeg to taste bake two
hours stir occasionally while baking
Year: 1869




MoRMoNIsM ILIUsTRATED.-This phase
of Mormon life is described by the Salt Lake
Reporter of January 9th: About dusk las
evening we heard loud talking aud crying il
the street, in front of the Boise stage Office
and, fastening to the spot, found a police
man taking a woman and little boy, as he
said, to the lookup. From the woman:
words, and from others, we learned that he'
name was Suter. She came here last Sum.
mer with her husband, who Joined the Nor
nous, and soon proposed to take another wife,
and took one, the woman said, who had been
the concubine of negro, whereupon his first
wife left him, and went to washing for a
living She was soon released by the police
man, aud returned to Suters house, where
she began to upbraid him, demanding a
maintenance for herself and child or to have
her passage paid back to the States. The
man accused her of loose conduct, and her
cries and the screams of the child, drew
another crowd. The policeman dragged her
out of the house, while enc held the child,
whose cries we're enough to chill the blood.
With what we thought unnecessary harsh
ness, two policemen dragged the halt crazy
and shrieking woman to jail. Some few OF
the bystandefs had SO little humanity as to
jeer at the poor woman, while another pol
iceman shouted, Slap your hand over her
mouth Stop her d-d yelling! She
was taken to Jail, shrieking at every step.
The woman was evidently not drunk-is it
to be wondered at if she was crazy! Her
husband stated 10 justification that she was
a bad woman--hsd always led him just
such life,' etc. But surely no error OF
woman can justify such treatment. The
fact that such things can be, and in this age,
and under our flag, needs no comment; The
mind turns from such system with loath'
ing and horror.
Year: 1869

WATERING HORSES. Horses should new
er be kept SO long without water that they


will drink largely when given it. Give it to
them often, and they will never injure them.
selves with it. Nothing.is more common
than to hitch team to the plough, and
make them work half day without drop.
What man would submit to such treatment!
If the plough is started at seven in the
morning, water should be given again before
ten, and again in the afternoon by four
o'clock Even if half an hour is thus con.
sumed, more work will be done in a day.
The objection that horses on the road should
not be loaded with water, is not valid. A
horse weighing 1900 pounds will not be
much incumbered additionally by twenty
pounds of water, while the distension will
give him additional strength. Every farmer
knows that when lie himself undertakes to
lift large log or heavy stone, he can do
more by first initiating himself with air, and
not unfrequently be loses button or two
from his pantaloons in the operation. Some
degree of initiating by water will add to a
horses strength in a similar manner. In
driving horse on the road at natural gait
of nine or ten miles an hour, have frequent
had occasion to observe that he was laboring
with perSpiration until l let him drink freely,
when be ceased to sweat and evidently traV'
eled more freely. Don't be afraid to give
your horse water the danger is in making
them abstain too long, in which case care is
needed.-Acer in Country Gentleman.
Year: 1869

DEsERTIoN AND ATTEMPTED SUICIDE
A woman, whose name is withheld from the
public, attempted to commit suicide few
days ago, whose sad history is told as follows:
She was the accomplished daughter Of
vealthy citizen. A few years ago she was
led astray by rattle>brained minstrel per-
former, with whom she left the parternal
roof, never TO return. She lived with him
several mouths, when he deserted her aud
left for other parts probably 10 seek for
new victims. The girl, who was but seven
teen years Of age, would not return to her
home, but chose rather life Of degradation
In q noted house Of iIl-fame in this city.
She was found 10 this house by a speculator,
who persuaded her to accompany him. He
purchased house on C-street and after
furnishing it in the most elegant style, the
two lived there about year as man and wife.
She then went to Germany and, after re>
naming there several months, she returned,
arriving here but a few weeks ago. The
broker went up to Sacramento last week,
telling her that urgent business called him
to that city. The uext day after his departs
ure she received letter from him informing
her that be was tired Of her, aud that she
need never expect to see him again. He
inclosed in the letter draft on the Bank of
California for 81 900, payable to her order.
The grief of the poor woman, who found
herself abandoned for the second time,
caused her to attempt the rash act of self,
destruction. She took large quantity of
laudauum, but was caught in the act by some
of her friends, who summoned physician
10 time to prevent fatal result
Year: 1869

THINK of twelve innocent looking
gentlemen in a box in Smith county
Texas, listening with wide-open eyes tc
the following charge: "If the jury be
lieve in the evidence, that the plaintiff
and the defendant were partners in the
grocery business, and that the plaintiff
bought out the defendant, and gave his
note for the interest, and the defendant
paid for the note by delivering to the
plaintiff a COW, which he warranted not
breachy. and the warrant was broken by
reason of the breachiness of the cow,
and he drove her back and rendered her
to the defendant, but he refused to re-
ceive her, and the plaintiff took her
home again and put a heavy yoke on her
to toprevent her from jumping fences, and
by means of the yoke she broke her neck
and died; and if the jury further believe
that the defendants interest i'm the
grocery was worth anything, the plain
tiff's note was worthless, and the COW
good for nothing, either for beef or milk,
then the jury must find out themselves
how they will decide the case, for the
Court, if she understands herself and
she thinks she does-don't know how
such case should be decided" The
verdict was "yes," and both parties ap-
pealed.
Year: 1869

A Southern journalist thus writes con-
cerning the good points secured TO South,
| ern society by the elevation OF General
Grant to the Presidency:


But what change has the last few


months witnessed General Grants s
election buried the "lost cause" beyond
hope of resurrection and established re-
construction on a firm and lasting basis;
and now that the madness of the hour
is passing away, we do not believe that
there are a dozen men in the South


outside of disappointed political aspir
ants-who would have it otherwise
The traveller who stops at the st.


Charles Hotel, New Orleans, must now


look in vain for the pictures of Lee and


Jackson which but recently hung in the
office. The New Orleans Republican is


on the newsboy's stand in the rotunda
every morning, and fully half of the


guests at the hotel are from the North (;


maEy of them are capitalists in search
of investments. We are to have new
steamboat on the lower Mississippi this
fall; not named in honor of some Gen
eral of the "lost cause" but fifty named


after the beautiful city, ''Natchez."


The newspapers have dropped the $50
called" in speaking of the public officials
of our State, and no longer lard their
leaders with "Radical tyranny" and we


have articles encouraging immigration,
developing railroad projects, compliment
tary of grain movements via New Or
leans, urging the planter to become self
supporting, and SO on; while that sterl-
ing newspaper. the New Orleans Re
publican, is being literally .patronized
by business men of all classes, and the
newsboys are no longer threatened with
discharge by rival papers if they hawk
it on the street; and Republican news
papers are springing up all over the
South, and there is no one to "molest or
make them afraid" i.F


God speed the day when the last ves-
tige of the old INTERCHANGEABLE have dis
appeared from the South, and in its
stead let us have the intolerance which
industry, honesty and thrift have for
idleness, thieving and shift1essness.
Year: 1869

LAZY Boys.-An exchange says, a
lazy boy makes lazy man as sure as a
crooked sapling makes a crooked tree
Who ever saw boy grow up in idIeness
that did not make shiftless. vagabond
when he became man, unless he had
a fortune to keep up appearances? The
great mass of thieves, criminals and
paupers have come to what they are by
being brought up in idleness. Those
who constitute the business part of the
community-those who make our great
and useful men-were taught in their
boyhood to be industrious. Boy, take
that pipe out of your mouth and think
of this. ~. ....-.....
Year: 1869

| The pin machine is one of the closest
approaches that the mechanics have


made to the deXterity of the human


hand. A small machine, about the
height and size of lady's sewing ma


chine, only much stronger, stands be-
fore you. On the back side a light belt


descends from the long shaft at the cell.


ing that drives all the machines, ranged


in rows Oh the floor. On the left side


our machine hangs, on a peg, a small


reel OF wire, that has been straighted by


running throguh compound system OF
small rollers. The wire descends and


the end of it enters the machine. This


is the food consumed by this snappish,


voracious little dwarf. He pulls it in
and bites 1t oil by inches incessantly,
one hundred and forty bites to the min


ute. Just as he seizes each bite, saucy
little hammer with concave face. hits
the end of the wire three taps and 'sup-
sets" it to "a head, while he grips it in
counter-sunk hole between his teeth


With an outward thrust of his tongue
he then lays the pin sidewise in a little
groove across the rim of small wheel
that slowly revolves just under his nose


BY the external pressure of a stationary


hoop these pins rolls in their places, as
they are carried under two series Of
small files, three in each. These files
grow finer toward the end of the series.
They lie at slight inclination on the
pins, and by series of cams, levers and
springs, are made to play like light
ming. Thus the pins are dropped in
little shower in a box. Twenty-eight
pounds are days work for one of these


little automatons. Forty machines on


this floor make five hundred and sixty


pounds of pins daily. These are then


polished. Two very intelligent ma
chimes reject every crooked pin, even


the slightest irregularity of form being
detected. Another automaton assert


half dozen lengths in as many boxes,


all at once, and unerringly, when a
careless operator has mixed the contents
of d box from various machines. LASTLY,


perfect genius of a machine hangs the
pins by the head in an inclined platform


through as many slots as there are pins
in row on the papers. These slots
converge into the exact space spanning
the length of row. Under them runs
the strip of paper. A barb-like part of
the machine catches one pin from each
of the slots as it falls, and by one move
ment; sticks them all through the cor
rugated ridges in the paper, from which
they are to be picked by taper fingers
in boudoirs AID all sorts of human cir
cumstances.
Year: 1869

PUNGENT REToRT.-Said a purse
proud man just getting into his carriage,
with his wife and daughter, Haunting
in velvet and furs, to poor laborer,
who was shoveling coal into his vault:


Joe, if you had not drunk rum, you
might now have been riding in my car
riage-for nothing else could have pre-
vented man of your talents and educa-
tlon from making money"


True enough ~ was the reply of the
poor man, land if you had not sold rum
and induced me and others to become
drunkards, you might have been my
driver, for rum-selhng was the only
business by which you ever made a dol
lar in YOUR life"
Year: 1869

All cutting and piercing edge tools op-
crate on the principle of the weged. A
brad awl furnishes an example which
all can readily understand. The cut
ting edge of the awl covers the fibres OF
wood as the instrument enters, and the
particles are compressed into a smaller
compass, in the same manner as when
piece of wood is separated by a wedge.
A chisel is wedge in one sense; and
an axe, drawing knife, or jaek-knife is
also wedge. When keen-edged razor
is made to clip hair or to remove a
mans beard, it operateson the principle
of wedge.
Every intelligent mechanic understands
thatwhen wedge is dressed out smooth
ly, it may be driven in with much less
force than if the surface was left Jagged
and rough. The same idea hold. good
with respect to edge. tools. If the cut
ting edge be ground and whet to as fine
an edge as may be practicable with a
fine-gritted whet stone, and if the sur
face back of the cutting edge be ground
smooth and true, and polished neatly,
SO that one can discern the color of his
eyes by means of the polished surface,
the TOOL will enter whatever is to be cut
by the application of much less force
than If the surface were left as rough as
they usually are when the tools leave
the grindstone. All edged tools, such


as axes, chisels and planes, that
are operated with a crushing instead OF
a drawing stroke, should be polished
neatly clear to the cutting edge, to Ia
cllitate their entrance into the substance
to be cut Manufacturer and Builder.
Year: 1869

A GENTLEMAN travelling ON n steamer,
one day at dinner was making way with
a large pudding close by, when he was
told by servant that it was desert
ut matters not to me, said he, "I would
eat it If it was q wilderness"
Year: 1869

Of An existence without pain or sorrow, and whose
Joys are real and eternal


The reverend gentleman then pointed out how by
pley this great boon may be ours Although the Bible
says that no wicked man can enter into the
the Kingdom OF heaven, by the grace OF God eternity
is only terrible reality TO the unrepentant and
glorious one 70 the penitent righteous man. One
may say the conditions too hard. We have lost,
IL s true, by sin much OF what we inherited but God
comes to US In the person OF the Saviour and holds
out TO us the priceless boon, eternity, to those who
believe In Hima life that never dies, glory that
fades not away. This Is eternal life, free gift ike
any other OF those enjoy, a. free as the light OF
day. the rivers rolling TO the ocean around this
city.


God has urged us TO accept His gft or eternal life,
and who would spurn such an offer ~ this-whO
would refuse itf God made this gift by giving up
HIS Son, and we cannot understand, and never
shall what 1t was for Him TO give him up; but we
only know that II was an awful sacrifice. What was
purchased such an immense price Is freely offered
and freely bestowed-a free gift from God. 10 re-
ject this GIFT II to be lost.


At the conclusion Of the sermon the congregation.
who had listened very attentyeiy 10 II, were 0is-
missed with q benedlction.
Year: 1869

The lowering weather which prevailed in this city
yesterday also to have been manifest in other
cies and 10 have, slightly at least, interfered with
the numerical attendance at many OF the places OF
Divine worship, here al elsewhere as will be seen
frOm the reports subjoined The day, SO far as the
metropolis was concerned, was pleasant and enjoy
able, and the evening services at nearly all the
churches we're listened to by large and seemingly
de wont congregations.
Year: 1869

salt Lake paper gives the following
history of a rufiian now awaiting trial
for murder, which ccrtai .ly comes a
near being case of total depravity a.
any we have met:


He tells the story Of the murder, and
an unsuccessful attempt on man nam
ed Mayiield with great circumstantiali-
ty Of detail, and adding, in conclu-
sion:


"Well. Mayfield needn't be afraid of
being killed by pistol, for it can't be
done. His life is insured. shot at
him four times, fair as evcra man did
and with good aim, and never hurt
him." After the killing he fled across
the ridge, and the next day hired to a
Bishop there to herd sheep. As he re-
lates the story, the Bishop spoke of his
intention to buy beef, on which the
man said:


"Have you got money enough to buy
a beef?"


"No,' said the Bishop, "but | think |
can trade for it,


The prisoner adds very complaccntly:
II think he was little scared, but if he
had money enough to buy beef, I
thought l would pop him over, take
what he had, and light OUT When
arrested he only said, ~ suppose you'll
string me up to the first good limb You
come to, but I'll take nap first" Up
on which he lay down in the wagon
and snored quite Justify for four hours
On awakening he expressed some sur
prise at not being hanged at once, and
was told that in this country every man
could have u trial and a choice between
being hanged or shot. TO which he
made reply:


That's bully: I'll take shooting all
the time He first gave his name as
Year: 1869

Too many people sleep with their
windows down; such people are thus
excellent subjects to take cold. Now as
a very largo part Of our time is spent in
slumber, it becomes US to give AS much
fresh air to that period as possible. Our
rule Is this: Let each window i'm the
bed room be opened both at the top and
the bottom and let the fire be shut Off
or steam or heat, from furnace or stove.
then let all the winds Of heaven blow,
No matter if the thermometer marks
zero; fyou would have q robust consti-
tuition, you must let the wind blow upon
you. DO not, by any means, avoid a
draft, though Halls Journal and all the
doctors in Christendom say nay. Let
the winds blow. This world is Il world
o. winds, and show me man who
shuns drafts and ] will show you q man
who pays u good DOCTORS bill regularly.
The arm is made rugged and strong by
exercise; the constitution is never injur-
ed by watchful exposure. Some men 90
too far, and women often show no care
for dangerous and damp currents of air.
No person who bathes regularly, is in
the sunlight much, aud does not avoid
fresh currents Of air, even to accustom-
ing ones self to all varieties of weather
will he in danger from sleeping in the
open air. Indeed we believe it would
bear the test Of all ages and climes, were
the house-top always to become the place
for rest. We know man who takes a
bath in the ocean surf every day, sum
mer and winter. When the thermome-
ter is at zero and when at ninety, yet he
is at his station for plunge. 1t seems
almost incredible. He lives in Boston
and for years he has kept up exposure
of this kind freely. Now all men need
not initiate the Boston hydropathist,
but it shows us to what tough uses this
nature OF ours can be subjected. Rough
winds make rugged the cheeks of men.
The winter winds that blew the snow
all through the log cabin where We were
born were winds that rocked the cradle
of race that shall give liberty to the
world. Winds give sturdy, oak-like
character; do not shut out the winds, if
you would not call the doctor soon. The
lungs are the life OF man; then let us
have all the air We can find. Get out of
the city as fast as ever you can, and be
sure you get good breathing spot. Poi
son once fastened upon the lungs can
Year: 1869




Reports published Of the discovery Of placer
diggings and gold quartz in the coast range near
San Diego and San Bernardino, California. The
prospects said to be very favorable for wages
for limited number. There have been frequent
discoveries Of gold and silver in the coast range
Says the Bulletin from the neighborhsod Of san
Francisco, midway of the State, to points on the
lower coast three hundred miles south. As early
1912 lot Of twenty ounces of gold was forwarded
to the Philadelphia Mint from the placers of san
Francsquto, about thirty-fve miles northwest from
Los Angeles These dggings were worked until
is46 yielding 10000 or $1,000 year to the labor of
few MeXicans. In 1876, before the discovery OF
gold and silver were reported. some of which
located near Oakland and San jose Frequently
during the twenty years since then small quantities
of gold have been found in the coast range but the
deposits, chiefly on the southern coast, have been
limited, and were worked 10y few men for only
short time The geology of the range Is not favor
able to the existence of extensive gold deposits.


Forest Fires.


The great forests are periodically burned over
The sections which escape one year, according to
the San Francisco Bulletin, are pretty sure to be
swept with fire the next Most OF these 1res are
wholly unnecessary. Some of them result from
Carelessness ana more from design. The damages
are immense. All the underground is destroyed;
into the standing timber wherever there
is decayeE spot or pitch knot, and these
the country Very often the forests are set on ire
by hunters to drive out the deer into the open
country and valleys below. A fire has been raging
ia Santa Cruz county for some days. which is re-
ported to have had its origin in this way. Camp
fires are left burning, and the fire once getting into





is met wide enough to arrest its progress A fire
started by the discharge of shotgun has been
known to extend forty miles, most OF the way
through heavy timber, consuming, of course, all
fences, and even houses aud saw-mls, in its march


Business of san Francisco.


The business of the city of San Francisco has
maintained healthy condition, and has even made
substantial gains this year. The imports have been
the heaviest on record The marine arrivals aygre-
gated larger tonnage, and the California bound
fleet now on the way Is larger than for pre-
viUus years. except the last, and show net gain of
twenty-five thousand in population. The combined
exports of merchandise and treasure show in
crease. The treasury receipts have been larger than
for the same period last year, and merchants are
forwarding the largest wheat crop raised in the
State, and to export the surplus there have been
heavier engagements of tonnage the last quarter
than were ever known i'm the same period Mining
stocks have shrunk In value by nearly S0 but
this is a gain to commerce and manufactures.
Year: 1869

This body is doing better than we mad reason to
expect of il from the accounts Immediately succeed
ing the election Not only has the new Legislature
passed resolution that the State debt must be re-
garded as invoable but all the prophecies of DIN
johnson would be chosen Senator have been put To
nauQht Furthermore, we are now assured by one
who has mingled freely with the members thar
they, with scarce an exception, fepudiate the idea
Of repudiating the State debt It is now reported
that there are only tIee OF I9ur persons in both
Rebellion,