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Year: 1859

MINING ACcIDENT.-A serious accident oc-
eurred at the Nebraska Shaft last Saturday
morning. AT seven O'Clock, the time for shift
ing hands, six men got into car to go down
the inclined shaft into the drift. and started
the car down before the engineer had time to
connect the couplings Of the drum and shaft,
and the car started down the incline at light
ming speed. The engineer, seeing the danger
caught hold Of strap which was hung around
the drum to check the car when running with
out load. As the car was checked, Samuel
Dayton who was standing in the front was
thrown out, and the car run over him and was
thrown from the track. About this time four
Of the men jumped out, but Thomas Godfrey
remained in the car which continued to run at
. rapid rate to the bottom; he was considerably
injured, but will recover in week or two.
Dayton was seriously injured; his back was
broken. one knee put out of joint, and he was
otherwise badly bruised aud cut. lie is not ex-
Pce:ed to recover. The four who jumped from
the car were not injured. The track is four
hundred and forty feet in length, and inclines
at an angle Of forty-ive degrees. The accident
was occasioned by the carelessness of the men
who got into the car, as they had frequently
been cautioned not to start it until the engi-
neer was ready.
Year: 1859

AxKnICAx HILL QUARTZ MILI--The proprle-
tors of this mill have recently procured a large
tubular or locomotive boiler to run their en-
gine. The boiler was hauled from Sacramento
on trucks, and passed through town yesterday
Il is one of the largest ever brought into the
mountains. 1t is the intention TO put the boiler
in and have the mill running again in the
course of week. We learn that company
from San Francisco have purchased the tailings
from the owners of this mill, and are now put
ting in machinery to extract the gold from the
sulphuretG.
Year: 1859

The terrible mortality caused by bron-
chltls, pneumonia and consumption which
together, KILN England and Wales on
iy-a hundred thousand people every year,
being one fourth of the entire mortality
from more than hundred other causes in
addition to themselves, should make us
think little seriously of the freaks Of fash
ION which set climate at defiance. WHY
do we send children abroad in cold and
damp weather with their legs bare, submit
ted, tender as their bodies are to risks that
even strong adults could not brave with
impunity.


Custom has made this appear familiar
and trifling; but it is not out of place to
say, at the beginning of another winter, that
the denial to young children of proper
skirts to their clothes, and warm coverings
to their legs, has sown the seeds of con-
sumption in thousands and thousands, and
is, of many dangerous things, done in ODE
dicncc to. the law of fashion, the one that is
the most thoughtless and cruel.


1t is in the child that consumption can
most readily be planted the child, that
when the tendency exists it can be con
qucrcd, if at all. 1t is to be fought against
by protecting the baby with sufficient cloth
ing against chill and damp, by securing it
plenty of wholesome sleep among feathers
and curtains, plenty of free ablution with
out prejudiccs on behalf of water icy cold,
plenty OF cheerful exercise short of fatigue,
plenty of meat, bread and wholesome pud-
ding. These, indeed are the things wan
ted by all children


Many child pincsin health upon diet
stinted with the best intentions. But the
truth is, that it is,not possible to over feed
u child with wholesome victuals. 1t can
be stimulated to excess i'll the demolshing
of sickly dainties; and, with a stomach
once fairly depraved, may be made incom-
pctent to say when it has too little or too
much But child fed only upon whole
some things truly knows better than any.
mamma can tell when it wants more il
can eat great deal /; has not only to main
tain life, but to add height and breadth to
stature.


Fortify it, then, against variations of eli
body; give it fnll animal vigor to resist
uuwhocsone impressions. Especially let
the good housewife, who has good family
to feed, learn to be utterly reckless as to
the extent Of her milk score. Somebody
has declared pint of milk to contain M
much Dourishment as half pound of meat.
BE that as it may, it is the right food to
thrive upon, and may save much srbse-
qucmt expenditure for cod-livcr OIL


- -


AFTER FoRTY.A celebrated physician
said to Lord Eldon's brother, Sir William
Scott, rather more hirpantly than bccamc
the gravity Of his profession. Z" You know
after forty, a man is always either fool or
q physician" The buronet archly replied,
in an insinpating voice, " Perhaps Lo may
Year: 1859

What asses most parents are. From
some unaccountable cause, they all wish
their boys to become Patrick IIenrys or
Blackstones, orators or lawyers--an yet,
Of all drugs eloquenee and law are prob
ably the most Improbable. Out OF the
thousand attorneys ground ont annually.
scarcely dozen reach any eminencc what
ever--while the remaining 9S9 scare ely
even make their board hills. In this city
for instance out of the five or six hundred
lawyers that hang ut their shingles, only
some eight or ten are even heard of out
side of their offices And yet the profess
sion is so genteeL that foolish old fathers
and pride stuffed mammas would actually
prefer having their sons statve and mould
in this business than become rich in any
other.


The idea that these "sticking Ciccros"
should ever descend or rather ascend, "to
toll and hard hands, is so perfectly pre-
posterous that one would run some risk of
tasting leather, if he should even think Of
limiting it, Labor is considered vulgar
to work is more gentcel than the lawyers
green bag-the handle of the pillow less
digni6ed than the yard stick. Unfortun-
ate infatuationl Not dignifed2 There is
no calling under heaven halfso ehnoblinG
as that of the farmers, The patriarch of
the field, as he sits besidethe cottage door
when his daily toll is over, feels an inward
calm never known in the halls of pride or
the Courts of Appeals. Where else can
we look but to the products Of the soil for
safety of investment and for an ample re-
turn? In commercial speculations, all is
chance and uncertainty, change and Auc-
tation, rise and fall. In mercantile life
scarcely one in ten can avoid even bank
ruptcy.-But with the tiller of the soil how
different. As long as God is good and
Nature punctual. so long is he insured of
a life of plenty, happiness and health
Albany KatckerbOcker. ~
Year: 1859

The light at home how bright il beams


When evening shades around Us fall;
And from the lattice far it CLEANS


To love, and rest, and comfort all.
When wearied with the tolls Of day,


And strife for glory, gold, or fame
How sweet to seek the quiet way,


Where loving lips will lisp our name,
When through the dark and stormy night
The wayward wanderer homeward hies,
How cheering is the twinkling light


Which through the forest gloom he spies
1t is the light of home, he feels


That loving hearts will greet him there
And softly through his bosom steals


The joy and love that Danish care.
The light at home How still and sweet
1t peeps from yonder cottage door
The weary laborer to greet


When the rough tolls of day are o'erl
Sad is the soul that does not know


The blessings that its beams impart,
The cheerful hopes and joys that flow,


And tighten up the heaviest heart.
Year: 1859

WRITING FOR THE PEEss.-There is no
class Of people more frequently sneered
at than editors. 1t is the easiest thing in
the world to charge them with being
mercenary; to say that such and such an
article was paid for; that anybody can
have anything praised or abused in a
paper, if he will pay Tor it and, says
wiseacre, every now and then, "If had a
newspaper here, wouldn't pitch into this
or that, and wouldn't l show the people
what an independent paper sY Well,
my friend and pitcher, why not establish
T. paper and pitch into everything and
every body 2" Nobody can object to your
doing so, The papers that are in the
habit Of pitching into everything are the
easiest edited in the world 1t is only
well -practiced and mntured editors that
wisdom and true independence which con-
sist in refusing to pitch in''-that manli-
ness which can withstand public clamor


that can scorn persona tiles, and that
can treat public questions with the dignity
and soberness that can alone secure re-
spect for the press,
Year: 1859

The New York Express thus comments on the
experienced owned bya 'tip-top fashionable wife,"


Happy, indeed, are the husbands who are not
owned by "tp-top fashionable wife !" but if they
are thus owned, and inclined to rebel or act out
revolution, they must retreat and diplomatic with
all the skill and craft Of Tacyrand or Chester
field. If you don't believe your wife owns you, Just
try it. Even her weakness is her strength; and a
man who would fight man like hero, at a score
of Solfernos leading forlorn hope, jumping ditch
es, scaling high walls, with death certain before him
will come down ike bird shot on the wing even
when woman but weeps! There is more power
IN such weapons than in any army with banners
own yourselfmdeed A man may fancy he does (;
but fancy isn't fact and the truth is his wife owns
him. How is it with you readers? If for the first
tirle made aware ofyour seryitude and owner, don
make fuss about it, but submit gracefully, aud


thank your stars that you have wise, discreet and
tolerant master
Year: 1859

Gear FOR DIvoRcE.-Michelet in his remarkable
book LAmour, mentions the following novel me-
thod of curing the disposition in married couples to
become separated


In Zurich, in the olden time when qua~relsome
couple applied for divorce, the magistrate never
listened to them Before deciding the case he lock-
ed them up for three days in the same room, with
one bed one table, one plate and tumbler. Their
food was passed them by attendants who neither
saw nor spoke to them. When they came out at
the end Of three days neither of them wanted to be
divorced.
Year: 1859

An tfishihaf was testifying in Court the
other day, in regard to an assault with d
gun, and delivered himself in this manner
Place your honor, he stroke heavy blow
with the goon dnd broke il in three halves
Year: 1859

A SPECIFIC RrMEDY.-The, evidence in fRa6f Of
Hurleys Sarsaparilla, Is Of the most overwhelming
and convincing character. in every quarter of our
country it is regarded as blessing and has done
more for the removal of disease than any one
medicine record Its potent agency in the cure
of Scrofula Liver disease Chronic ulcers, Dyspep-
sia Kidney affections, obstinate cutaneous erup-
tons, are already too familiar with the community
to require comment
Year: 1859

been formed among young men, and that
some of the very best catches among


them have signed a pledge not to marry
any girl who is not willing to commence
matrimonial life with two rooms and


kitchen, and vho doesn't know how to
bake, cook, and sew, and to wash and iron
into the barganl / am the President.


'f'reposterous 7 exclaimed Lizzie.


You'll cry some other words when you
get on the old maids list, and see your
place filled in the house Of some man, by
some woman who is not ashamed of use.
ful employment when she was a girl L
can tell you what my dainty little sister,
there's reform at work, and men worth
having are beginning to choose between
marriage and no marriage, with palmer
notions and more useful accomplishments
than possessed by the butterflies who
lounge on sofas all day, knitting zephyrs
or reading novels. So make up your mind
for comfort TO old maidism. And now as
in all probability you understand that l
am in earnest about marrying Harriet
Parker, I hope you will reconsider your
hasty resolution about not speaking TO
your sister in law; the loss, let Inc tell
you will be on your side t


Brother Tom understood his own pro-
position entirely. lie was not man to
stoop below himself in marrying. He
could not unite himself with one who was
ignorant and uDrefned against that his
cultivated soul would have re
voltcd But he wanted a real, not an
artificial woman-one that could take her
place beside him, as he said, on the lowest
round Of fortunes ladder. and keep step
with him upward Such one he had
found in Harriet Parke, and he was in
dependent enough to have her for wife.
Lizzie was not long in discovering, after
brother Tom had actually married and
with his modest cheerful and earnest /!
minded wife, that sensibly won the love,
commanded the respect, and almost ex-
torted the admiration of all who were SO
fortunate as to make her acquaintance,


Marriage, they say, makes or mars
man, the brother overheard Lizzie say
ing in an undertone to lady friend, 'but
it will not mar the fortunes of brother
Tom. He's got just the wife to help him
along in the world and one that will
grace any position to which they may as
pire.' ufH'r rrl


My own sentiments exactly, pretty,
spoke ont brother Tom She's a jewel,
and worth thousand of your paste and
tinsel women, Didn't tell you SOP But
you couldn't believe me. Now if you will
20 and apprentice yourself to dress
maker or miliner, or learn any useful
work, not ornaments, will introduce you
to the new president of the society told
you about. had to resign when got
married. He is specimen, and will make
a husband worthy Of a queen. 3&
Year: 1859

At the recent session of the State Temper,
ance Convention, held IN Wilmington, commit
tees were appointed, after much care IN their
selection, to organize local societies IN every
district of the State. The convention did this,
hoplng that the gentlemen to whom this duty
was assigned, would engage IN the work with
some little zeal the success of the plan, with
the designs Of the meeting faithfully carried
out, all we're fully assured of. The idea con-
celved was good one, and the only means at
present feasible for arrestIng IN some measure,
the evils of intemperance. The influence of
such local organizations was presumed 10 be
quite strong and prevailing. 1t was supposed
that this influence would reach nearly every
man in the community, and SO 1t would If the
committees could be induced to go TO work with
will, and determined to establish a temper
ance society in each district. The persons
comprising thus Committee were chosen with
much discrimination, and are strong temper
ance men, all of them, and feeling great in
terest in seeing the good cause promoted as
much as possible.


In our county, says the Sussex Messenger,
we have as yet to hear Of the formation OF so.
cety since the meeting; not one, We believe,
has been organized. We regret that so much
indifference has been manifested, but hope that
the committees for each Hundred will see the
necessity for action. Let us hear of great in
crease 10 the number of such organizations III
old Sussex.
Year: 1859

have been prevented by the sacrifice 1t is we
believe, established that coal is cheaper for rail-
road purposes than wood there would, there
fore, be 10 injustice in compelling each railroad
to adopt at least certain number of coal burn
ing ocomotves.-Hdrper'S Weekly.
Year: 1859

Among the strangers at the Italian OPP
era, who attract the most gazers, Nine.
Won c. numbers the most opera 6 as
ses directed towards her. She is not
much more than twenty, and was quite
poor, but she was very beautiful, although
at Vienna, where money plays as impor-
tant a part as at Paris, her parents could
not hope that this would prove Of much
advantage to her, when very unexpected
ly man Of fortune asked her in marriage
The parents, Of course, were much delight
ed at the offer they as most parents,saw
only the mans money bags The girl be-
ing less experienced in the world, looked
upon him with different cycs and refused
20 marry him. Her parents forced her
TO receive his attentions, which she rccciv-
ed with great coldness. One day they
left them alone together that he might
formally address her. She opened the
conversation the instant they were left by
themselves, saying


Monsieur | feel that my duty is to
anticipate tho demand you are about to
make of me, and tell you that will never
marry you unless am forced to do it."


know that"


Il must add, that l shall never be
able to love you"


Love is not necessary in marriage


l assure you that this marriage I de.
tost, hate and loathe, and will contract it
with the bitterest despair"


Pm much obliged to you for your
frankness.'


Do you persist in marrying me-"


Yes, do"


Il had heard that your delicacy and
nobility of character were very great, and
| supposed you were the last man in the
world to take advantage of girls unpro-
tected position"


The world is full Of usurped reputa.
TONS"


Your cold raisry shows me that |
have nothing to hope from your heart;
perhaps your head may be better than
your heart, and mark me, as I do warn
you. I'll make the marriage chain as
heavy to you as I shall find it myself and
and I'll make all your life unhappy"


/ defy you to execute your threat !"


The poor girl sobbed and wept all night
long. The next day they were married
After the wedding dinner, NJ. Won. c.
- rose from the table, went into the yard
and blew out his brains. It was said after
his death that he had long been tired Of
life, and desired by marriage with tho
poor girl. to make some atonement for his
suicide and to disinherit his relations, with
whom he bad quarrellsd. Mmo. Won
G---,his young widow. has an income
of ten thousand dollars per annum.
Year: 1859

A TnREE YEAR On. rhe Rome Ssntinsl re-
lates that little three year Old girl accompaG
led her father upon visit to her grand parents
in the country, where blessing is invoked by
the white haired patriarch before each meal. -.
The custom was one with which our httlo friend
had not been made familiar at home, and of
course on the first excursion she was silent and
curious with WatchmlneSS. But when the fam
lily gathered around tho board the second time
after the commencement Of her visit she Yves
prepared for he preliminary religious ceremony.
al / Observing that her iaIh-r did not seem duly
Conscious OF the approaching solcmnl,y, she
called him to order BY saving with stern gravi-
ty: BE still papa = Grandpa's going 10 ,lk ID
his plate pretty soon"
Year: 1859

a WASHINGTON correspondent OF the New
York News speaks of Miss Lans, the lady Of
the White House, and her accomplished
s.maids of honor" We shall next have
court circular to tell us when the President
takes walk, and the exact time his charming
niece devotcs to her morning airipgs; but all
these things are melancholy departures from
the republican simplicity which distinguished
the receptions during the Madison era.
Year: 1859

The Homestead bill would add tens Of
thousands to the population and hun
dreds Of thousands to the wealth Of Iowa
within year Of the date Of its passage
and would harm no one. The Cuba bid
would add one hundred millions. to the
debt Of the country, and the purchase
and protection Of the Island would cause
an immense drain upon the National
Treasury, which would absorb the pro
ceeds Of tho public land for many years
to come. The Democratic party, under
the lead Of shareholders and Of dough
faces like Douglas and Dodge, arc
enthusiastic in favor Of the acquisition
Of Cuba, and give the Homestead the
cold shoulder. Yet the people Of Iowa
are urged to support the Democrlic par
ty.- Tolley Wing.
Year: 1859

@ Whenever man gets desperate
and rails against his hard luck, you can
safely place him in the category with the
fellow who made bear trap and put his
foot in it to sec how it worked. He lost
his foot and fell to "cussin" the trap
Your railer against the hard luck makes
his own trap, is the first to fall into it,
and condemns the hacdiwork Of his own
invention.
Year: 1859

u" Persons afflicted with the Fever and Ague
should not spare either time trouble or expense to
procure DIR. nOstetters Celebrated Bitters,
whose beneficent effects upon the human system has
been clearly proved to those who have been stricken
down in short space Of time by this dreadful curse
whose cheeks are wan ana meagre, and whose nights
are sleep!ess and restless, and whose eyes are dim
and sunken. with death staring them in the face
this compound must prove blessins snstching
them as it were from the very mouth OF the grave
None can know Its true ya'ue unti they have tested
It. When all others haze failed, these Btters have
restored the sufferers To pristine health. Their pop
uarity In ell the Western AMI Southetn parts Should
introduce them to all families.


Sold By druggists and dealers generally. every-
where.


See advertisement IN another column
Year: 1859

other products wholly the growth and Inanufac.
ture of the United States.


@. That the reckless and PREDICATE cxtrava-
gnnce of the national administration, causing a
necessity for continued loans, without any means
provided for their payment, give evidence of a
want of that ability and integrity which should
characterize the government of free people,
and unless checked will lead to n dishonor Of
the national credit


z. That the passage of joint homestead bill,
giving one hundred and sixty acres of land to
every CitizGn who will settle upon and improve
the same, would be "a measure fair in principle,
to the people Of the mation. Aud that we regret
the defeat of Mr.. Grows bill in the Senate of the
United States, by the party in power, as direct
blow at the la6oring classes of the country, and
aS unworthy of the liberty OF great govern
ment And that kindred to this was the defeat,
by the same party, of the presumption bill,
which gave preference to actual settlers over
land spectators.


8. That the purity and safety of the ballot
box must be preserved, and that all frauds up
on the naturalization laws, which have been so
much resortcd to, to promote the success of the
party we oppose, ought to be counteracted by
wholesome and proper Legislation.


.. Tint We approve Of the enactment of proper
laws to protect US from the introduction of for
eigu criminals in our midst, by returning them
at once TO the places from whence they have been
shipped to our shores.


10. We cordially invite all men of all parties
to join us, in earnest cndcavOrs to restore the
serve the proud heritage Of American inStitu
tions, transmitted to us by our fathers, complete
and unimpaired, to those who may come after
Year: 1859



 Deor .Sir:: I herewith write you a few lines from this part of "Old Saline." fully anticipating that YOU have interest suffi- cient in her and her citizens, to give them publication in your widely circulated and praisworthy paper; although they may be roughly gotten up in the superlative degree. And speaking about praisworthy papers, will say just here, that the True Democrat IS the only political paper published in the State that tahes in this part of the country. It IS very true that such an animal as the " Otd Line Democrat'' has been heard of, but 1t has never made its appearance in this vicinity. A few in this county and other portions of the State, have suffered them selves beguiled into its toils by the soft and insinuating manner in which 1t has pre- sented itself to them, but they are few and far between," while the great mass of the democracy remain steadily as ever at their post But I did not intend 10 write so much, and will close by saving that we are all right in this part of Saline, and as a majority will certainly remain so.

 Respectfully. etc,

 SOUTH SALINE.