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Year: 1869

Last week the Register, a dimiutive
sheet published in this place, devoted
about one-half its space to the subject Of
Therapeutics and Malpractice. The
Register evidently likes Doctors. 1t
likes their medicines It swallows any
kind of dose administered by q man
that smells of old fashioned saddle bags


Furthermore it is deeply devoted to
quackery-whether from habit or in
stinct we are unable to say, but true 1t
is that anything or anybody gotten up
upon the principle Of deception receives
from it full endorsement. This dis
sertation on malpractice seems to have
been spontaneous, and why should it not
be, coming from a journal that has never
adopted any other practice. But there
was an obj cct in printing this particular
article at this pa rticuar time. A thick
headed, conceited pseudo disciple of
Esculapeus has been sued for making
a poor man life cripple as the result
Of asimple pistol shot entering the leg
below the knee. An artery bad been
severed and the brainless imposter did
not know enoug h to take it up, in fact
did not know it ought to be taken up
Instead of taking out the ball he let it
rot out. This quack is to be tried by a
jury ofhis peers from the county. He
don't dare to meet the case squarely, SO
he hires the little crumb-picking county
paper to try to prejudice people in his
favor by publishing an old case picked
up in the British Provinces. American
cases did not suit his purposes. The
case is this A sickly old lady, &C
years of age broke her thigh. The doc
tor set it three days after it was broken


She was then taken suddenly i'll with
cholera morbus, and entreated the sur


geon to let the limb go and save her Life
He did so and when she got up found
the broken leg shorter than the other
She then got mad and sued the Dr., ant
Year: 1869

the court very properly said she was
not entitled to recover any thing. This
was very different case from the one
the Register is hired to gloss over
Hero we'll, midle,aged man was shot
with small pistol. The shot entered
below the knee, and the man should have
been we'll in month or less, and would
have been ifproperly treated. Try again
little crumb-picker, your quackery is
too transparent. ,G;..
Year: 1869

The Grand Jury of this county have
reported to the District Court that nine.
tenths of all the crime committed il
caused by Intoxicating liquors. They
should recommend that the Commission.
ers refuse to grant licenses in the future
Year: 1869

In all the notices of the great Senator we


have seen nothing higher or better, nothing


more discriminating and justly appreciative


than the following from Washington cores
monde ut of the N Y Irih1la1e.
Year: 1869

The Cincinnati Times, Radical, gets
off the following conundrum


If Government saves five millions
per month when Grant and his Cabinet
are iunketing at water-places, how long
would ii take to pay the National debt
if they never went near Washington at
all
Year: 1869

nEA. On last Friday there was great
excitement among the Bears and Bulls
of New York, Gold was run up to 1862
in the space of few minutes and, in
equally as short a time, it fell to lS9.-
As a consequence of this, it is said that
there has been some heavy failures,
and that general crash may be ex-
nactpd
Year: 1869

thy hardness of heart leaving the bur-
den of thy wrong acts to me. Mothers
have borne burdens, mothers can bear
them again. Dying they have loved
their children though their sins were
manifested. am My mother, and rath-
er would have seen thy form laid be-
meath the sod than thus disgraced. Thou
didst live to make this old heart mourn; ;
thou didst survive to make this head
lower. Though thy fathers name was
beyond reproach and thy family held in
high esteem will not censure thee.-
Thy sins have overtalsen thee and the
last member of our happy family must
bear the shame. Thou canst never see
me more, but go, go with all thy sins,
knowing thou art Fastening to reiri-
button. He has gone leaving the bur-
den to me-"


How many have borne burdens that
did not belong to them? how many have
suffered in part for the sins of their fell
low mortals and died with scarce word
of reproach towards the instigator OF
their suffering2 "Come unto me, all
ye that labor and are heavy laden, and
will give you rest" Leave the burden
to Ne.
Year: 1869

WEAK.-The Sacramento Reporter assumes
to correct our statements in regard to the
criminal record of Tehama county, and its
article upon the subject is about the weakest
and silliest composition we have ever beheld
in print. The writer attempts to justify
Lacy in shooting Swain by saying that the
former did not walk up behind the latter, but
boldly stepped up in front of him and shot
him dead, in the presence of several wit
nesses. This brave act of course challenges
the admiration of the chivalrous Reporter
man, and in his estimation exculpates Lacy
from the odium which most men attach to a
deliberate murder. The writer boasts of his
'friends' in Tehama county, and from the
manner in which he rushes to the defense of
those who have committed crimes, we can
readily determine what class constitutes his
friends
Year: 1869

WALTHAM WATCHEs.-We desire to direct
the attention of our readers to the advertise
ment of the American Watch Company, in
another column. This Company is the pio-
neer of watch making in the United States.
and has grown in the short space of fifteen
years to the largest watch manufacturing
establishment in the world. This fact, in
connection with another important fact
that their watches are now selling at less
prices in greenbacks than the gold prices
asked before the war-illustrates the great
success of the Company.
Year: 1869

TiMBER.-We are informed that parties
who have been engaged in cutting timber on
the public lands on the east side of the river,
IN this county, have been notified to cease
their operations, under threats of prosecution
IN case of failure to comply. The persons
giving this notice are suppored to represent a
railroad incorporation.
Year: 1869

CALIFORNIA AND OREGON RAILRoAD.-The
Yreka Journal thinks that if Congress refuses
TO pass the Mallory bill, the California and
Oregon Railroad Company will then be COM
PEELED to build its road on the line of the
old Elliot survey. We cannot see why it
will be compelled to do so. The charter
granted to the company by Congress merely
stipulates that the road shall be built from a
given point in the Sacramento Valley to the
Oregon liue. The company is not restricted
to the Elliot survey, but is at liberty to run
to the Oregon line by any route it may see
proper to adopt. The company bas already
located its lands to point about SIX miles
west Of this place, rendering it certain that
when the road is built it will at least come
in the neighborhood of this place, if not di-
rectly to the town. 1t is yet to be determin-
ed whether the Elliot survey will be followed,
up the Sacramento and through Shasta Val
ley, or the road turn off and run up Pitt
River Valley. and reach the Oregon line
through the Goose Lake country. Time will
tell
Year: 1869

TrRRIBLE--Last week we alluded to the
treatment received by a Portuguese family,
in which case Of email pox had appeared,
at Hawkinsville, Siskiyon county. When
the disease made its appearance on the per-
son of the child, that has since died, the in
habitants of Yreka refused to allow any
members of the family to leave the infected
house for place of safety, but compelled
them to remain imprisoned with the victim


The sick child being afforded no medical
assistance, soon died, and the balance of the
family were compelled to remain IN the house
where the corpse lay until the father could
carry it away for burial. A stronger guard
was then placed around the infected house,
at safe distance, and the inmates were cut
off from all communication, except through a
physician. As a matter Of course the dis
ease reappeared in the family, and we learn
that the father, mother, brother and the
five remaining children are now down
with the disease, and the chances are that
they will all die. The inbuman barbarity
shown this family is disgraceful, and shame
to the people by whom it is pcrpetrated.
Year: 1869

Go WHERE you will in all this land, you
will llud the members OF the MANNED Bri-
gudt, The blue has faded from their
dress, and the brass letters have dropped
rom their caps, but there is 10 mistaking
that they have been soldiers. They have
no need 90 refer TO muster rolls or to ex.
hibit parchment discharges, % prove they
were in the armv Fifty thousand strong
is the Manned Brigade They march in
our streets, not with the precision ofyore;
but as undaunted still Brave men Their
limbs are scattered over dozen States


They moulder and whiten all the same
fields with the bodies of the patriotic slain
and the hands of the dead may grasp the
dead hands Of the living, though the lat
ter be thousand miles from the throb-
hing hearts that once warmed them with
their blood Fifty thousand men who
have laid some Of their limbs upon their
couutry's alter as sacrifices of liberty move
daily among us Were they to pass
through the city in regiments, for whole
day from any given point could our eyes
rest upon the columns of the Manned
Brigade, a thousand tattered battle flags
would wave above them, held by one
armed heroes, and many thousand footess
legs would be keeping step TO the music
of the Union Let us not forget the one.
armed and ouc-legged soldiers, who form
an army four times rs large ne the old army
ofthe United States, and fully rs large as
the present. They need not be gathered
together and passed in review before the
people ih whose behalf they have suffered
and suffer still, to assert the fact OF their
being. ... ....s


The Government has recognized them,
and given them, as far as they have made
application, pensions and artificial limbs.
But let the people be careful that they do
not forget them. The battle these poor
fellows are now fighting is harder to win
and traught with more danger than many
battles Of the rebellion. Thousands of
stalwart men, lion hearted and steel
nerved, who stormed Mission Ridge, or
bore down upon the columns OF Lee with.
out fear, to- day stand appalled, before the
dread squadrons of Winters cavalry A
pension is but meagre--a very meagre
support, and an artificial limb poor-A
very poor substitute. Let an able-bodied
man, with a family to take care of, ask
himself for what annuity he would sws y
an arm or leg. This Is the Wy " test
the validity Of the claim the Manned Bri.
gade has upon our consideration.


There are many places these heroic men
can iill MS well as anybody. Those who
have but one arm can make good book
keepers; those who have but one leg can
make good salcsmen; while neither can
| plow, nor sow, nor reap to advantage,
Away TO the fields and the workshops, you
lily fingered pale faced, dawdling dandy
behind the dry goods counter and give
your place tO u disabled defender of your
country in exchange for more robust
frame and more certain future compe-
tenCy. All ye non producers who have
perfect limbs and who took good care all
through the war to keep them so, who are
now occupying paying positions which the
lame soldier can ill as well, prepare to
vacate in his favor. Make way, say we,
for the Manned Brigade. Chicago Post.
Year: 1869

There are few families, we may imagine,
anywhere, in which love is not abused as
furnishing the license for impoliteness. A
husband, father or brother, will speak harsh
words to those he loves best, and those who
love him best, simply because the security
Of love and family pride keeps him from get
ting lis head broken. 1t is shameful that a
man will speak more impoiitely. at times, to
his wife or sister, than he would to any other
female except low and vicious one. 1t is
thus that the honest affections of n mans ma
ture proves to be weaker protection to u
woman in the family than the restraints of SO
ciety, and that a woman is usually indebted
for the kindest politeness of life to those not
belonging to her own household. Things
ought not so to be. The man who because it
will not be resented, inficis his spleen and bad
temper upon those of his hearth-stone. is a
small coward and a very mean man. Kind
words are circulating mediums between true
gentlemen in society; and nothing can atone
for the harsh language and disrespectfuI treat
ment too often INDUCED between thsse bound
together by Gods own ties of blood, and the
still more sacred bonds Of conjugal love.


GLDe Illustrated.
Year: 1869

The Londou Daily Ne.cs says: "If anv
of US look forward to being eaten by eannibaI.
he may wish to be informed how he is likely
to be cooked, Il is i comfort to know that
the savages who may devour him are by no
means devoid of refinement in their culinary
disposition. Some French soldiers were lately
taken prisoners by the Kauaks. and one of
them was killed and eaten His comrades
describe the process. The KGuaks first de-
capitate their victim; Il matter of no small
difficulty, considering the bluntness of their
hatchets. Ten to fifteen blows are necessary.
The body is then hung up to tree by tho
feet, and the blood allowed to run out for an
hour. Meanwhile hole a yard aud half
deep and yard wide is dug in the ground.
The hole is lined with stoues, aud theu in the
midst oftheun gjaat fire is iitsS When stho
wood is burned down little and grows with
heat, 1t ia covered with more stones. The
man is then cleaned out aud divided in pieces
about foot loug and the hands and feet being
thrown away Us worthless The pieces of the
man are placed on the leaves of n large rose
tree peculiar to the tropics Tue meat is
surrounded with cocoa nuts, banana, and somo
other plant noted for their delicate flavor
The whole is then tied together firmly, tho
fire is removed from the pit the meat is
placed in among the hot stones and carefully
covered, is left to cook for an hour


Women do not par;ake of this warriors
feast. Men alone are permitted TO enjoy SO
great an honor aud so rare delicacy."
Year: 1869

The most contemplate weakness in our
world is the disposition to despise labor as
inconsistent with genteel and rsfned cultiva-
tioo. No person Is truly independent who is
not possessed Of knowledge of some trade,
or business. in which he could earn a support
in case Of need
Year: 1869

= Be neither lavish nor niggardly of the
two avoid the latter a mean man is uni
yersalIy despised. but public fame is step
ping stone to preferment; therefore generous
feelings should be cultivated
Year: 1869

IF we would have powerful minds. we
must think if we would have faithful hearts,
we n,ust love; if we w"uld have strong mus
cles. we must labor These include all that
is valuable in life.
Year: 1869

SALT FOR THE TuROAT.-An exchange says:


In these days when diseases OF the throat pre-
vail, and particularly a dry. hacking couSn,
which is not only distressing to ourselves oG'
to those with whom we are brought INTO pus''
6,tc6 by irving the following remedy Last fall
ye were induced to try what virtue there was IN
common salt We commenced by using 1t
three times day-morniug, noon and night.
We dissolved large tablespoonful OF Spmmon
salt in about half tumblerful of cod water
and with this we garged the throat most ei
fectually, Just before meal time. The result
has been that during the winter We were net
only free from the usual coughs and colds 10
which as TAR as our memory extends, we have
always been subject, bat the dry, hacking
cough has entirely disappeared. We attribute
it entirely TO the salt gargle, aud do most oor


ilally recommend it to those of our readers
who ore subject to diseases OF the throat
Year: 1869

Hand-picking should be practised in prefer
ehce TO any other mode Of gathering them, ii to
pt kept Tor spring and summer use. For winter
use this is OF less important and still less
for fall apples.


When picked, lay those designed for long
keeping carefully in The basket, srith ia hand,
instead OF throwing them in. The least bruise
tausts fermentation, and fermentation is al
ways, sooner or later, followed by rot, sooner in
acondition of moisture, later in one of dryness.
lake them carefully from the basket with the
hano and lay them on the hOor, where they are
10 be kept till winter. The room should be the
ryest and coolest you can seiect-one on
Which the sun does not strike; and the windows
Should be open for fresh air in dry days, but
Closed against dampness, nights and rainy days.
10 secure them against retaining moisture on
'le skin, let the opening OF the windows in dry
states OF the atmosphere only, be particularly
attended TO, as the circulation of dry air soon
ahsorbs and carries of the natural moisture
Wnlle moist AR only adds to II.


The conditions for the largest and best preser-
Nat1On OF apples and potatoes differ in several
respects, and in particular are in direct con-
trast. Apples require to be kept as dry posi-
bic; potatoes to be kept moist. Their condition,
Immediately after being taken from the ground,
should be made as much as possible like that i'm
which they had been before being harvested; that
IL, II packed in moist earth a. soon as dry, with
out being summed or in any " ay warmed and dried
either at the bottom OF potato hole OF in bin
Tor the purpose in the cellar, they will retain their
desirable qualities for the table till into June;
ana II, with little extra pains-taking, they be





the shady side of building, and then heavily
mulched over with leaves, with a little straw
over the leaves, to prevent their being blown Oil
they will not lose an iota of their gooi fall
qualities till the middle of July, when all have,
or should have, new potatoes. All this is known
to the writer and many OF his friends, by actual
trial. many years repeated, OF it would not be
so positively stated here.


Eut to return from DEPRESSION to the subject
above annOunced when winter approaches, and
il Is no longer safe 10 leave apples in dry room
though frost will not irjure them if the temper
ature be not below the freezing point OF water,
81 degrees OF Fahrenheit, they may be put into
clean dry barrels, and the barrels be stored for
winter in the dryest and the coolest place on the
premises. provided the temperature will not bc
likely to fall at any time below 81 degrees.


Will not fruit growers and farmers gain more
by storing their best and longest keeping apples
with considerable expense and extra care, rather
than hurry them all OFF i'll autumn? The effect
is to glut the market and reduce the price at tn
very time they would raise money on them. A
secondary effect is, TO cause waste of them in
fall and eerly winter and thus to deprive the
country OF this valuable fruit for the following
spring and summer.-V Working Farmer.
Year: 1869

How TO JOIS THE ENDS or LEAD PIPE
Procure an octangular iron coupling at an iron
pipe manfactOry, which has a left-hanled thread
cut in one end, and a right handed thread in the
cher end. AS such couplings are made OF nu-
meT0us sizes they can be obtained to fit lead pine
Of almost any given size. Let the two ends OF a
lead pipe be cut on square, and If the pipe is
round it must be made so. Then screw one end
of the iron coupling on one end Of the pipe
Say half an inch. Remove it, and screw the other
end TIE other piece of pipe. Cnscrew the
coupling, ill the thread OH both ends of both
coupling and pipe with red or white lead min
gled with boiled oil, to be of the cOnsistence
Of thick paint. Now screw the coupling on both
ends Of the pipe Mt once. If the coupling were
just large enough to screw on the pipe the Joint
will he water-tight, even under pressure The
writer joined cOld-water supply-pipc in thu.
cellar with an inch iron coupling. in I;rooklyn.
where the water is under a heavy pressure and
the Joint does not leak.


This manner of uniting the ends OF a lead pine
are several joints to be made, rs the couplings
will cost only few cents each. And any me
chanic who could not solder n joint can screw
on q coupling i'm few minutes. Before the
coupling Is screwed on, a steel tap should he
turned around n few times in each end of the
coupling. to remove all rough points in the
thread that would tear off the thread of lead on
the end of the pipe. When a tinker or plumber
cannot he obtained readily, when LAYING lead
pipe in the country, this manner of uniting the
ends may be adopted with cOntidence.-Hearth
and Home.
Year: 1869

As Grant evidently makes appointments
and nominations without consulting anybody
at all, it may be well for Republicans Of me.
dunn abilities and but little notoriety who do
not wish cabinet nominations, to send in TO
Gen. Grant at once notification of their
unwillingness to receive prize from his
lottery; otherwise any of them may have
their regular pursuits interrupted any day
by telegrephic order to repair q: once to
Washington to sit in the Presidents cabinet.
Year: 1869

Gable dispatches announce that English
and French journals warmly eulogise Gen.
Grants inaugural address, and agree that
the paragraph on his foreign policy indicates
peace, which may be taken as an indication
that the aforesaid journals are thoroughly
favorable to peace themselves; for the para
graph in Gen. Grants inaugural in itself
means just nothing, but was probably in
tended TO be taken favorably by all shades
of public sentiment on questions of foreign
policy. 1t neither suggests distinct policy
nor does it combat any.
Year: 1869

The Springfield correspondent Of the
Chicago Journal states that the Illinois
legislature ratified the 18th amendment
within two hours after its transmission to it
by the Governor. Another State is reported
to have adopted the amendment on trust
before it had been laid before the legislature
and before it had been received by its Gov
ernor. These facts only show the reckless
haste in which the form of our government
is being changed. Radicals now boast Of
this indecent haste, and will probably re
pent it, when their reason returns and the
amendment begins to bear fruit.
Year: 1869

General Grant is reported to have said
that as a general rule, in making local ap.
pointments, he should consult members from
the districts interested, but where he was
personally acquainted with man, knew him,
from service in the army or othrwise, to be
capable and worthy, he should appoint with
out consulting any one.
Year: 1869

MADRID, March 8.-In the cortez yester'
day, q strong debate occurred Oh the future
form of government The Republicans de,
manded the removal of Marshal Montpen sier,
and accused the government OF trying to
smugple him into the country as King
Prim defended Montpensier as King to a
Republic. Serrano defended the course Of
the government Choosing a ruler had been
left to the cortez, but this Republican pres
sure upon the chamber ia wrong.
Year: 1869

Anna Dickinson is making struggle
for Life" in the leading towns of Iowa. We
hope our oyer.the.river friends will see to it
that Anna will struggle successfully against
those who are seeking her life.
Year: 1869

Two MORE LOOKING GLASS STORIES.
Talking about looking glasses, reminds
us of good old lady who sat down in the
store of a friend, one day, close to large
and very clear mirror, which went FROM
the ceiling to the floor. She saw herself
in the glass, but thought it was somebody
else, and in a few moments went to the
young lady clerk and said to her: "Whd
is that old lady who was sitting alon gside
of me 2"


But that was no worse than gentle
man who came down the stairway of one
of the New York hotels, and, seeing his
image reflected in large look ing glass in
the hall, near the foot Of the stairs, he
thought it was his brother, and smiled and
nodded his head. His 'brother" did the
same He did not find out his mistake
until he went up to the glass to shake
hands. Butthat will do for looking-glasses: