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Year: 1868

EN THE JUSTICES COURT OF FIRST TOWNSHIP,
Il in the County of Tuolumne State of California
Tupper j. P.-John Wolhing, Plaintiff, against Samuel
Harper Defendant t.-Summons.


The People of the State OF California, send
greeting 10 Samuel Harper, Defendant fon are
hereby REQUIRED 10 appear before at my office in the
First Township In the County of Tuolumne in an action
brought against by the above named pian ana an
the complaint in said action on he IN my saa once,
within fifteen days after the service yen ct TINS sum
nous The said action is brought to recover the sum OF
$500 0S-100 Dollars account of meat bought by you
of John Woling will fully appear 10y reference
to said account file in my office. And you are
hereby notified that if you fail to appear and answer the
said complaint above required said plan VIII take
Judgment against you Tor the said amount OF S-o oo1oo
together with costs aud damages.


To the Sheriff any Constable of said County, greet
ing: Make legal service and due return hereof


Given under hy hand this 2lst day of September A d.
1865. CHAS TUPPEh
sep264w Justice OF the Peace OF said township.
Year: 1868

A correspondent writes that. If we desire
il, he will "send US something to I'LL up
with" That's just what we want. Sup
pose you commence now with good roasting
niece of beef and barrel of flour.
Year: 1868

Are two of the most common aud virulent disorders
prevalent ON this continent to these the Ointment eSp
ciav antagonistic 'moius operand is first erad
icats the venom and then complete the cure.
Year: 1868

Whether in the young or old married single Mt tn
dawn of womanhood, the of life these tonic med
icines display decided influence that marked I'M
provemSnt 10 percepbe in the health oft patient
Being purely vegetable preparation. they safe
reliable remedy for all classes Of females in every cond
lion of health and station of life.
Year: 1868

The New York World thus compliments
the action of the Southern delegates to the
Democratic National Convention


The Southern delegations deserve great
praise for the dignity, good sense. and pro-
priety with which they have borne them
selves in the Convention. When the roll of
States was called for naming candidates, the
Southern delegations announced, one after
another, that they had no candidate to pre-
sent. They seemed to have no desire to die
tate, but to be willing to accept whatever
candidate should be deemed most available
by the Democracy of the North. In the
early ballotings they distributed, scattered
and shifted their votes in such way as to
show that they were merely waiting and
watching developments, with view to CO.
operate at last with the majority of the North
ern delegates When Mr.. Pendleton seemed
to be the strongest they began to concentrate
upon him, as if to tell the North that they
would cheerfully accept him if the North
Judged his nomination. advisable. When it
became evident that Pendleton could not be
nominated, and Hancock grew strong, they
again indicated by changing their votes their
willingness to cooperate in the nomination
of any candidate who possessed the confidence
of the party.
Year: 1868

"My best friend would be he would take
pistol and blow out my brains, and thus re-
lieve me of my misery"


So said Edgar Allen Poe His lips curled
bitterly. These were his dying words.


Such was the unhappy state of one whom
dissipation had robbed of the pure enjoyments
of life, and brought to hopeless ruin. He
had been reared in the most elegant society,
and educated in the most polished schools
He possessed poetic gifts of unwonted beau
ty and brilliancy The productions of his
muse were few and ragmentary-melancho
prophecies of what might have been-but
they made him marked man among the
lovers of poesy throughout the world He
lacked symmetry of character, and with all of
these advantages he possessed over others, he
was Wayward as youth, passionate in ma
turer years, and always unnamed at the
sparkle OF the intoxicating cup. He blazed
awhile in the literary armament s'the comet
of season" but he left behind him an un-
worthy influence, reproachful memory, and
the admonition of fearful end.


He was making journey when his death
occurred, and he was occupied with the pre-
paration for his wedding day. Better inn
pulses warmed his heart and Modified his pas
siUns at the thought of his nuptials, and the
sunlight of the future gladdened again the
vision of his mind. Golden days filled his
fancy-days of the tenderness of coniugal
love and the sweet habitude of domestic bliss.


He stopped at the city of Baltimore He
met old companions, jolly fellows with whom
he had passed convivial hours The intoxi-
eating cup glittered before him. The temp
tation was too great. He would spend one
more revel ere he entered that purer sphere
depicted in his Dreams


That cheerless November night he was
found lying in the street stupifed with drink
ing, covered with dirt, and his face distorted
with horror. His jovial companions had de-
serted him. He was taken to hospital. A
fearful dream rose upon him, and fred his
brain. Delirium, with her thousand demons,
darkened his intellect, once beautiful with
airy..thought and poetic fancies. Mania a
Potu ensues. A clergyman is sent for
''Shall send for your friends ?'' asked the
pious man, "Friends?' said the dying man,
as though the word was mockery, "my best
friend would be he who would take a pistol,
and blow out my brains, and thus relieve me
of my misery r'


We hear men cavil at religion. What
treasure, beyond all estimate, early piety
would have been to the soul of poor Edgar
Allen Poe
Year: 1868

A GOLDEN THouGHT.-We know not the
author of the following, but it is one of the
most beautiful productions of the human
mind we have ever read: "Nature will be
reported. All things are engaged in writing
their own history. The plant and the peb>
BILE 90 attended By their own shadows. The
rock leaves its scratches on the mountain
side, the river its bed in the soil the.ani-
NAL leaves its bones in the stratum, the fern
and the leaf their modest epitaph in the coal
The falling drop makes its sepulchre in the
sand or stone not a footstep in the snow or
along the ground, but prints in characters
more or less lasting, map of its march ev-
cry act of man inscribes its memories on its
fellows and his own face. The air is full of
sound, the sky of tokens; the ground is all
memoranda, signatures, and every object is
covered over with hints which speak to the
intelligent
Year: 1868

DIR. Hall, in his excellent periodical the
Journal of Health, gives us the following ad-
vice on the treatment of scalds and burns:


"On the instant of the accident, plunge
the parts under cold water. This relieves
the pain in second, and allows all hands to
become composed. IF the part cannot be
kept under water, cover it over with dry -four
an inch deep or more. In both cases pain
ceases, because the air is excluded. In many
instances nothing more will be needed after
the -four; simply let it remain until it falls
off, when a new skin will be found under
In severer cases while the part injured is un-
der water, simmer leek or two in an earth
en- vessel, with half their bulk of hogs lard,
until the leeks are soft, then strain through
muslin rag This makes greenish- colored
ointment which when cool, spread thickly on
linen cloth and apply it to the injured part.
If there are blisters, let out the water When
the part becomes feverish and uncomfortable,
renew the ointment, and rapid, painless cure
will be the result, if the patient, in the mean
while, lives exclusively on fruits coarse bread
and other light, loosening fruit"
Year: 1868

Truth IN BR1EF.-Anybody can soil the
reputation of any individual, however pure
and ehaste. by uttering a suspicion which his
enemies will believe and his frinds never hear
of. a puff Of idle wind can take up million
of the seeds of the thistle, and do work of
mischief which the husbapdman must labor
long and hard to undo, the floating PARTICLES
being too trifing to be seen and too light to
be stopped. Such are the seeds of slander,
SO easily sown, SO difficult to be gathered up,
and yet SO pernicious are its fruits. They
know that many wind will catch up the
plague and become poisoned by their insinua-
tions without ever finding or seeking the
antidote. No refutation can refute sneer,
nor any human skill prevent its mischief.
Year: 1868

Tw1LIGHT.-Oh, how love twilight hours!
When the last rays CT the setting sun have
disappeared behind the far off western hills,
and all nature is hushed to rest, then will our
minds wander back to our happy childhood,
when our hearts were as the evening dews-
when we knew no sorrow, and all was joy,
with no thought for the future. Again in
fancy. we tread the well known paths OF our
Youthful homes; its old halls ring again with
our childish mirth, and We ask where are the
fond friends of our youth The answer is
borne upon the passing breeze Scattered %


Beloved parents, brothers, sisters-all the
golden chain that bound the family circle is
broken. Death has entered and claimed for
its own, while others dwell in a strange land;
and thus it is. Change is the pass word from
the morning of youth to the twilight of old
age.
Year: 1868

THE MARRIAGE OF Cousins AND ITS
CoNsEoUENCEs.-The can be no mistake
at all fabont the fact that the tendency to
have detective offspring is greater where pa
rents are defective than with others. But
here is d point that leads people into. Its
error does not follow because person is de
fective in his hearing the defect will take
that form in his offspring; it may strike
somewhere else The child may be deiec-
tive in physical strength or mental capacity


But there is the defective germ and 1T will
manifest itself 1t may skip one gener-
;.tion and manifest in the next. | know OF
thirteen blind children in a neighboring
county, the descendants of one blind man
who married his cousin In the first gen
Grafton there were no blind children You
would look round and see these children
all happy, all enjoying the blessings of
sight, and say, it is all moonshine, this
idea about defective people marrying" In
the second and third generation came thir-
teen blind children from the inter marriage
of blind man with his cousin.) | think
six Of these have been in our institution
Year: 1868

Established expressly to afford tho afflicted
sound and scientific Medical Aid, in the treatment
and cure of all Private and Chronic Diseases, Cases
of Secrecy and all Sexual Disorders.
Year: 1868




In our miscellaneous reading, we
stumbled upon the following sentence
in an address by Catholic priest Of
France to masonic lodge:


"The Temple Of Masonry is the
emblem of wisdom discretion is its
base charity its entablature liberty
its device; and equality its support
the spirit of domination finds no ad'
mission here"


This is description of Masonry
as it existed ninety odd years ago. Ii
it the same to-day? If SO, and iti
members are counted by the hun
dreds of thousands, how happens i
that the boasted wisdom, charity, love
of liberty and equality and hatred Of
tyranny, lay dormant through a Ions
and barbarous war, and are not ye
aroused, though "the spirit of domi
nation" has access to the Temple
We are not one Of the initiated, bu
have reason to believe that tens o
thousands of the oppressors of tn
South are members Of the order, an,
think it strange that so wido-sprea'
and powerful an association coul
not temper the savage spirit o
the war, and does nothing to aver
the ruin brought upon the govern
ment in the midst of peace. Thes
suggestions originate in the high es
innate we have been taught to plac
upon the power and lofty aims of Ma
sonry as an instrument Of good I
the human race.


1t is unfair, however, to censur


Masonry for failing where the Chris


tan religion was powerless. Th
, depravity Of Radicalism is controlabl
t by no known moral agency.
Year: 1868

A philosophic statesman, inqui
ring into the adaptation Of the insti
tutions Of a country to the dsvelope'
ment of the prosperity, virtue and
happiness of the people, will instict
lively look to the homes of mechanics
small farmers and laborers generally
Their condition is an unerring meas
ure of the wisdom of the laws BY
which they are governed. Ignorance
squalid poverty and countless pen
sioners upon soup-houses and othel
institutions Of cheap charity, are thu
most infallible signs, either of gov
ernment intrinsically bad, or Of laws
good in themselves, but most corrupt
ly administered.


Nor is the reverse of this picture
less indicative of want of wisdom il
the structure of the government, o,
in the makers, or administrators O
the laws. The gilded vanities Of
sudden wealth and the more refined
luxuries Of a pampered aristocracy
are proofs of concentration Of cap.
ital in the hands of few, and cor
responding poverty Of the laboring
classes and whether it be true OF
not, that extremes meet, it is true tha
the many are not more demoralizet
by poverty than the few are by wealth
The vices engendered by idleness ant
luxuious Indulgence are more dana
ging to the body polite than thos'
which spring from poverty, because
wealth and high social position gilc
the former and throw around them ;
charm that adds greatly to the force o
their pernicious example.


These evidences of criminal mis-
rnle are everywhere manifest. Every
department of the government stink'
with corruption; crime and vice are
the manifestations of society for each
succeeding day, honesty, SO far from
being appreciated as virtue, is ridi
culed as mark of simplicity and
greenness. Good men are pitied as the
ready made victims of knavery and
the man of mark is he that has grown
rich by robbing the government
swinddling his neighbors, embezzling
the money of his employers or down
right thieving. This is the state Of
morals induced by the most corrupt
party that ever disgraced any age ol
country. And this depravity has
been cunningly increased that it may
serve as a fitting foundation for the
despotism that can stand on no Other
base.
Year: 1868

GF The following account of a con-
versatlon between General Grant and
Governor Curtin is in circulation:


"Why do you like the Methodists,
General e finally asked Curtin.


because their religion is one Of hard
knocks They take hold of man and
never let him drop until they have either
converted him or scared him so he will
say his prayers some time in his life, and
thus thu, be saved" said Grant, with smile.
Then, - too, it is an American religion.
Inc Methodists are entirely democratic,
yet no church appreciates the value Of
union, Rehabilitation, or Capitalization in
government more than the Methodists
l wish that our national Government had
the liberty and the strength that it ought
to have from proper exercise Of these
principles"


These are sound Democratic opinions,
worthy of a true Democrat such as Grant
has always been.
Year: 1868

E "We shall know what are the
necessities of life" said country grocer
during severe storm, "as no one will
venture forth to-day except to procure
them" In the evening he found that
most of his sales we're yellow snuff and
rum.
Year: 1868

sas- Among the visitors to General
Grant on late occasion, was a crippled
soldier, who extended his only hand, say
ing: II have one hand left to shake with
and vote for General Grant.
Year: 1868

tience and perseverance to prosecute =? We
unhesitatingly answer, none; yet there are
persons who, because it is impossible for an
editor to please every one, throw themselves
back upon their dignity and say. ''well I
won't take his paper any way" thinking
that by their dropping of, the paper must
stop. There are SCORES of just such per-
sons single subscriber dropping of does
not, usually, stop the publication of the
paper.
Year: 1868

A correspondent Of the County Gentle
man says:


''I have found after several years expe-
rience that the best way TO preserve hams
from flies is, as soon as they are smoked,
to wrap them in two old newspapers, first
with one and again with another, and tie
the ends of the paper or paste them down.
Let the string to hang them up By come
through the paper, being careful that the
hole shall only be large enough to let the
string through. No insect can get through
the paper. Woolens and furs can be kept
perfectly in the same way, being careful
that the egg of the moth is net previously
deposited"
Year: 1868

Sentimental young lady to perfumer Il
don't think you forwarded the scent I
meant it seems entirely different TO that
ordered Perlumer, who is fond Of pun
ming "Madam, am sure that what you
meant I sent the scent sent was the
scent you meant, consequently We are both
Of one sentiment
Year: 1868

"My son, would you suppose that the
Lords Prayer could be engraved in a
space no larger than the area Of nickel
cent % "Well, yes, father; if cent is
as big in everybOdy's eyes as it is in yours
think there would be no difficulty ip put
ting it on about fours times"
Year: 1868

Mr.. GREELEY was the Republican
candidate for Register of New York city,
and may congratulate himself on the
fact that he made a better run than any
other Republican, candidate, The ma
iority against him was 59, ,4s3, while
against the rest of the state and city
ticket 1t was about 6s 900.
Year: 1868

The CENTRAL PACIFIC RAHRoAD.-Ihe most val
liable and vital part of the National Pacific Railroad
Line, now being constructed with the aid and super-
vision of the acknowledgements the greater part
of the actual settlement along tie entire route be-
tween the Missouri and the Pacific, and IS exempt
from all competition of parallel lines or nayigable
waters The 200 miles now open include by far the
most costly and difficult rs well the most productive
portions of the whole The road is substantially and
durabg built and is being extended as rapidly as Is
consistent with the stability and future value OF the
property.


We offer for sale the FIRST MORTGAGE SIX PER
CENT BONDS, having thirty years to run, of which
both principal and interest are explicitly made pay
able IN gold coinp These securities of powerful
and responsible Company, are satisfied, are
among the most perfect and reliable corporate obi
cations ever offered in the country, and for combined
stability sateiy and profit hare no superiors whatcrT
The Bonds 600 each) can be had, for the present
at IO3 and accrued interest in currency Pamphlets
and information furnished. FISK Il HATCH,


Bankers and dealers in Government Securities.
No. Nassau-st., NewYork.
Year: 1868

There was a sharp demand for Tennessee " cents
by the bears to cover shorts and the bonds of both
classes advanced The ex-coupous selling at Gs closing
at ca and the new bonds at ca. closing at GGs The
Legislature of tho State meet on Monday, and it's
friends confidently expect that immediate steps will
be taken to pay the overdue coupons and place the
State finances IN sound condition, and the railroads
who haze defaulted in their interest to the State,
and whose officers have been the primo movers in
causing the dishonor of the State credit will be sum
marily dealt with.


For the benefit Of such of our readers rs are nnin-
formed respecting the condition of the State We give
the following statement from sources entitled to
credit:
Year: 1868




The Supreme Court Of Missouri
has done a good thing. The Court
decided yesterday that the shares of
National Banks are taxable, the
same as other monied corporations.
This is a step in tho right direction,
and is a practical recognition Of the
true Democratic doctrine, tor ad-
vancing and defending which We
have been 80 vehemently denounc-
ed by the bondholders and their al
lies. It may be hoped that with
the progress Of general enlightment,
and with q gradual return to homes
ty and fair dealing, the holders Of
the wealth Of tho country will be
compelled to bear an equal share Of
the burdens Of the government.
Year: 1868

HDQ'Ps FIRST MILITARY DISTRICT, e


RIcHMoND, VA, May %, 1868.


GeneraJ q. s. Grant, Washington d. c.


DEAR GENERAL: l hope you will not think it
out OF place for me TO tender you my most hearty
congratulations upon The action Of the Chicago Con-
vention. The perfect unanimity and great enthu-
siasm Of your nomination were certainly highly
gratifying being formal ratification Of the pop
ular endorsements Of your public record, which
have heretofore been made throughout the country.
But your unanimous nomination was long prede-
terpined, and was but the fulfilment of universal
expo tation On the other hand, when the Conven-
ton met, there YVES ground for apprehension that
its action in other respects might not be so wise
But that apprehension has at least in great degree
been dispelled The judcious selection of Mr.. Col
fax sccond the ticket and the general practi-
cal wisdom displayed in framing the patform-that
is, in laying down practical rules Of action, bssed
upon the necessities of the country instead of alb
stract political theores-have greatly increased the
probabilities of success, and at the same time made
that success the more TO bo desired. have always
believed that the Union could be fully restored only
by the men who put down the rebellion, while l
have not been without serious apprehensons that,
By forcing upon the country extreme Radical theo
ries the stability Of the Government might be en-
dangered. Great reforms require time for their full
development in which the theories may be
analysed, and that which is sound and Of practical
utility separated from the unsound and chimerical
Wisdom and moderation in Congress will now give
the country restoration and peace Your election
10 the Presidency will be the end Of political
Of the army was Che end Of the Souther rebellion.
Very respectfully, your obedient servant,
j, NJ ScHoFIELD,
/ Breyet Majors General.
Year: 1868

In a case of alleged child murder, recent
ly tried in the Atlantic county IN j.
courts, revelations are made of state Of
civilization existing in the neighborhood Of
the crime Egg HaEbor township at which
the blood runs cold The following is the
testimony Of the chief witness in this afro
eious case


Mr.. Steelman came after me; | went up
into the chamber and saw a baby living on
the bed; the baby was alive when j went
in; David Steelman was there and Mary
and Marys mother Mary said, "Come up,
the young one is here;p David asked Mary
what she was fooling about: she said, ''Da-
vid, you come and do it, and he said, /
shan't she said, I" you promised me you
would do it, and he said again, /" / shant
do it, and she went at Il herself-killing
the baby asked her what she was at, and
she said she was trying to kill her young
one; saw her choke it she put one hand
(the right on its throat / asked her again
what she was doing, and she said she was
killing her young one; / asked her how
she was doing it and she showed me; Da-
vid said he didn't care d-n about this
young one because it wasn't his; he said
the child belonged to Elias Smith, and he
was not going TO take care of it; think
her mother asked her if she thought the
child was dead David had then taken il
off TO bury it when the question was asked !;
Mary Steelmans mother was present almost
all the time; l was present little bit be-
fore and little bit after when she ehoked
the child she was sitting on her knees in
the bed the child was on the outside-on
the bed clothes; there was something set
upon the bed, and Mary took hold of the
child and doubled it up and put it in it l
don't know whether anything else was in
it or not David took it and flung cloth
over it, and he went down stairs with il,
and that's all can tell you; / heard the
child cry | didn't see notion was scar
ed was as close to the bed as am to you ;
heard it once after went up stairs she
said to her mother she never saw anything
so long a dying as this baby was, and she
said it beat anything; l was up there per
haps three quarters Of an hour it was be
tween and o'clock in the morning


The Bridgeton Patriot says the jury re-
tIrned o verdict of not guilty after being
out three hours, but upon what grounds it
is not stated. ...---.