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Year: 1874

Caloric potentate! Thy rise is opportune-
A sentimental mammal claws his Tyre;
He will, in haste, fife high his adolescent
Nor Stop Stop for decency or hire.
Unchallenged Sun of myriad suns-arch-boss
The warmth of thy fierce gaze this world
Doth even shame the feryor of the manly love
bear my mothers only son.
Thou art not versatile; yet this Machine hath
Since gassy times that ri not try to spell,
And thou has proved to all that thou canst be


the Sun


By simply doing one thing well.
Thou Chairman of Committee on Celestial
Compared with thee our brag lamps seem a


mess:


E'ea with our stock tsSt Of "bra's" cOncOct we
We've not the recipe, guess.
We don't, cut up such shines. with our poor
Or we portion Of thy disk would fix
High in the fasts of our notwithstanding


Night
To teach the moon and stars some tricks.
Alack! Black cloud-hulks coast the sullen


West, and Morn


An all-day Wetness hatcheth out, l ween,
To dank this facile air, and spur each drowsy


corn,
And make my trusty togs feel mean;
Therefore, 1 will no longer thrash my howhng
muse, -
It's sweetest dogg rels clutching greedily;
To Imply linger here would my nice sense
abuse
I'll steer me homeward speedily;

For if man don't quickly seek the inside
dry
When outside dampness is a certainty,
Then should impassiOned kick with hot repeat
reply,
And telescope his vertebr@.
Year: 1874

GAOlh wv NASNH %~NS ~@N~'~~~NN'l


A good little boy out West undertook
to come the G.. Washington on his moth.
er in this way; He cut off the cats head
with the traditional hatchet, and then
hid the defunct feline in the meal barrel.
When the old lady went for meal to
make the 'hoe cake" for the frugal
morning repast, she discovered the cat
and interviewed her little son. He said:
Il did it, mother, with my little hatchet,
but I'll be swizzled if | can tell the whole
truth about this little affair" Now,
most mothers would have kissed that
brave, truthful lad on his noble brow,
and kept fight on using the meal out OF
the barrel just the same, but this one
didn't. She said; Come across my
lap, my son; come across my lap" he
came, and for while there arose a cloud
from the seat of his trousers that effect
ually hid the son from view; and the old
woman now sports goggles and is lavish
in the use Of Petit's eye-salve. The
good little boy had peppered the seat OF
his pants.
Year: 1874

THE Parkersburg Journa! Is of the
opinion that It Is about time something in
theway Of movement was being made
by the Republicans and Reform Demo.
crats. II intimates that the Bourbon De.
mocracy are already in the field with
men and money. Since the subject has
been mentioned by the Journal. 1t may be
proper to say that it has been understood
for some time back that the Jacob Demo.
Gratis contemplated a meeting Of some
kind at Clarksburg on the Oath OF this
month, during tho sitting Of the Federal
Court II our information is correct, 1t is
probable that they will soon be heard
from in the way Of a programme Tor the
campaign.
Year: 1874

THR Moundsville Rolling Mill Com.
pany have contracted with the Wegee
Coal Works ior the delivery oI coal in
hsts at the Moundsville wharf for 5tcta
per bushel. The Mill started up a few
days ago and made couple of tons OF bar
iron, but inasmuch as the quality was not
such as the company desire to put on the
market operations were suspended Tor
the present.
Year: 1874

One of our citizens, To illustrate how Kansas
pulls"thrOugh difficulties to the stars" says that
at Newton the other day u walking
into town in his shirt sleeves with his coat on his
arm, aud entering store said be wanted some
seed wheat. He added that he had nothing to
pay with, except his coat, which was n good one,
aud he offered that in exchange for the wheat.
farmer IN the store, after thorough look at
the settler who was determined stick to
his claim, said to him: "See here, stranger, you
keep your coat and come with me out to my
place. I've got wheat enough and will let you
have what you need aud walt on you until the
next crop comes ill.," And they went OH toscth-
er.


We have no doubt that the man who proposed
TO go without u coat to get seed wheat To plant,
is very poor now, but in ten years, if life and
health spared him, he will be independent
and comfortable, with valuable farm aud
good herd of cattle. That kind of pluck is sure
To win in Kansas, and We comlnend 1t to new
settlers whose garden SASS has been gUbbled up
by the vOracious drouthbughoppers.- -EmpOria
Ledger.
Year: 1874

II We can say, in reply to the Lesvenworth
appeal, that we did not originate the charge that
J. c. Watson was drunkard. We saw it assert
ed in an exchange, and supposed it was at least as
correct as similar charges against some of the
Republican candidates
Year: 1874

II One of the objections made to Lappin for
Treasurer is, that he is banker. 1t seems to us
that it requires one pretty thoroughly expert
eneed in the banking business, to properly man
age the affairs of the State Treasury
Year: 1874

The Parsons San says many of the leading
and ablest supporters ofthe Liberal ticket two
years ago, in Labette County, are now back in
the Republican party and doing good work in its
behalf
Year: 1874

The Humboldt Union says that little six-year-
old boy belonging to the family ofSimeon Watson,
living twelve miles south of that place. fell into
the fire one day last week, aud was burned to
death before he was discovered
Year: 1874

LAVE PROVED, FROM THE MOST AMPLE
experience, an entire success. Simple, prompt,
efficient and reliable. They are the only medicines
perfectly adapted to popular use-so simple that
mistakes cannot be made in using them; so harm
less as TO be Tree from danger; and efficient
TO be always reliable. They have the highest com
mendation from ALL and will always render salts
faction
Year: 1874

The residents Of Fifth avenue and side streets
adjoining have Of late been bitterly complaining
IN consequence OF the number OF petty thefts that
are constantly being perpetrated by a certain
sneak thief. The way In which he usually operates


to ring the hall door bell and hand the servant
u note, saying that it Is for the gentleman OF
lady OF the house rom some near relative, anG
that he Will wait for an answer, as II contains
matter OF vital Importance. The girl generally
runs to deliver the note. The recipient opens to
read It, out tuen discovers that Is Is not addressed
10 MIN or her. TAKE TINS back 10 the man." says
the gentleman or lady. as the case may be, "there
is some mistake Tnis note Is not Tor me.n The
Qir descends the staircase, but to her astonish-
ment the messenger has gone aud has taken with
MIN q cloak hat, pinno cover. clock or any.
thlna else WITHIN reach. Within the last two
weeks nearly every house on an uptown block
near Murray Hill has been visited by this scamp,
but as yet the police have not interfered with
Year: 1874




One OF the most remarkable qualities OF His
Honor, Mayor Havemeyer, Is his secrecy. He 10
not silent a the famed william Of
Orange On The contrary, he loves tn chat with
the reporters and everg one who comes III his way.
And yet he knows how TO keep a secret iOcked
securely ia his capaciOus bosom The great secret
which he is watching over now with the jealousy
OF dragon or mOther-in-law is his reply TO Tam
many. Now That the Governor has publicly de-
cared that he would not object to the Mayor fur
nishing copy OF his reply to the press 1t was
thoughs that His Honor would graciously deign to
allow the reporters to secure the glst OF that long
and elaborate document. With this expectation u
representative OF the HERALD called upon the
Mayor bright and earlv. The reception was en-.
couraging:-


.'Well. SIR said His Honor brlskly.


''Mr Mayor" said the reporter "nOw that the
Governor does NOT object to the publication OF your
reply, VIII you -


"No, WON'T the Mayor replied. with the derer-
miuation Tor winch lie Is truly famous. II have
made mp my mind not to give my reply to tie press
until nave received the Governors judgment.
When tnat arrives shall lurnsn 1t with the great
est pleasure 10 the HERALD anu the other papers,
The terrible nat had thus gone forth. and II was
TOO late to chanGe the Mayors determination. In
vain did the reporter protest tnat the pubic from
Maine to California were leverish with anxiety TO
read his wonderful composition. ana could not
possibly bear the strain any longer. In vain did
he darkiy nlnt that every rising statesman OF the
country was looking eagerly Tor tins model OF all
replies OF this character. HIS Honor was adanlant.
Not even the assurance that President Grant and
the m0st prominent members OF Congress were
perfectly unhappy over the delay In the publtca-
ton OF his reply could induce him TO retract his
fp
Year: 1874

We sit by the window, my baby and I,
In the fading summer light,
Watching tho darkness creep over the sky,
Out OF tho eastern night.
We see tho stars como trembling out
In the track OF the fallen sun,
And We ieel the quiet. within and without,
Which comes when the day il done.
Whist have We been doing all day, all day,
Since the rosy morning smiled?
Playing at work and working At play,
God help us, mother and child.
But much fear that those little hands
Have put me to shame to-day;
For God, who II earnest, understands
Truly our work aud play.
think of kindnes ses left undone,
Which might have frightened the day;
OF duties dreamed OF, but dcver begun,
Scattered along my way.
You lie. With peace IN your bright blue eyes-
You have not learned regret,
For the sorrowful years that make us wise
Have not come to my baby yet.
And still, as 1 sit At this twilight hour,
After weary day,


To keep blessing away.
A blessing that falls like the dew from hesvel
On the parched and thirsty ground
And in loving much, because much forgiven,
My deeper peace found.


v.
Your life, my baby, is just begun,
And mine ia growing old;
But We are children both, in the eyes OF One
Whose years are all untold.
he holds Us both in His loving hand,
He pardons Us al our sin,
And bye and bye to the same sweet land
He will gently let US in.
Year: 1874

Written for the Enquirer Southerner


TO CLARENCE.
Alas too true her boy il dead,
His spirit is on high,
Yet in his dying agony.


His mother was not by
She knew not Deaths cold s!>nel.
Upon his brow was pressed,
That never more his little head,


Would pillow on her breast.
Kind loving friends stood round his couch,
They caught each look and tone.
For in their hearts he was beloved
As If he were their own
They prayed that in his distant home,
God would their hearts prepare,
And soften with his gracious Love.
The woe they'd carry there.
That prayer was heard-Ie sent 2 dream.
And when the morning broke.
Tha, mother in trembling, listening dread
Awaited the sorrowtul stroke.
1t fell! the solemn pageant came.
At the lonely sunset hour,
Bringing to that stricken home.
Their crushed and wilhered Howcr.
Now lying beneath tie pines, lie Sleeps,
They sigh his mouufui lay.
Help them TO say Thy will be Goae
For him lis Eternal day.
Year: 1874

We find the following item in an
Illinois paper: ''Mr.-,who has
been in retirement for weeks after
marrying and bury ing three sisters
came up smilingly to the alter again
yesterday, having begun on new
family
Year: 1874

What is the greatest feat IN eat
ing way ever known? That recorded
Of a man who commenced by boIting
the door, after which he threw up a
window, and then sat down and
swallowed a whole story.
Year: 1874

A FAVORED REGION 1t is becoming
more and more apparent that the people
of California are especially favored by
nature, and that this region is, of all 9th
er portions of the habitable globe, the
most inviting. We are now favored
with cloudless skies and genial temper
ature, while in other portions of the coun-
try furious storms prevailed, causing
great destruction of life and property
More lives have been destroyed by tor
nadoes and thunder storms in the East
ern States during the present summer
than have been lost by earthquakes in
California since the State was first set
tied, yet earthquakes have been made a
bugbear to frighten the timorsome from
settling in this State. 1t will eventually
be understood that California is far less
subject to those convulsions of nature,
which are destructive to life and property
than many of the other States of the I'm
ion. When our people themse yes fully
understand the real advantages they pos
sess, and will make united effort to
utilize and make available the latent re-
sources of the State, California will be
generally conceded as the most favored
region on the Stockton Hade-
pendent.
Year: 1874

Don't Fool WITH THE ELEPHANT.-
At the performance given by the circus
company and menagerie, in Virginia
City, at 10 o'clock on Saturday morning,
for the accommodation Of miners who
work in the afternoon, an officious indi-
vidual gave the elephant chew OF to-
baccc. The infuriated animal made a
pass at the fellow with his trunk, and
tore off one sleeve and the whole side of
his coat. Had he been foot nearer, he
would undoubtedly have been killed.
Several showmen attracted by the up
roar, put the man out, warning him that
if he ever showed his face within the
canvass again the elephant would kill
him if he found an opportunity.
Year: 1874

CONFLICT OF INTEREsTs.-Th farm
ers Of Linda township, Yuba county,
whose lands touched on the Yu5a river,
have called a meeting for August 8th,
for the purpose of considering what &C
ton is necessary to be taken in reference
to the rapid filling up Of the Yuba river
bottom by the sand from hydraulic mines
in Yuba and Nevada counties. They
find the water and sand encroaching from


year to year upon them, and that one OF
two things seem to be imperative-min-
ing must cease or the farms be abandoned.
Year: 1874

ANOTHER OCEAN CATAsTROPHE.-I
is no longer a matter of doubt that the
ocean steamship city Of Boston has gone
down with all on board. A few days ago
sad relic of the wreck il the shape of
sealed bottle, was picked up near the
coast Of Florida in which it was stated,
that the ship was about to founder, at
four o'clock in the morning and near the
place whore the bottle was found board
was picked up marked " CUy Of Boston,


We have taken TO the boats as the last
resort" What tale of horror is told
by the trophies of disaster, the rapacious
sea swallowing up great ship at night
with hundreds OF souls on board. The
relentless tempest, the dreadful darkness,
ard the sweeping pillows, all combined
against a device of man to destroy it..
We think of the final lurch, the last
shrieks Of agony from the passengers and
then, what we might almost call float
ing city is gone in an instant, and now
that the sad truth is known, what misery
and suffering will go into hundreds Of
happy homes. This is but one of the
several terrible ocean disasters, which
have taken place within the last year.
Year: 1874

A WILMISoToS Del.) paper tells this
story: "On the morning of the drown
ing Of officer Writ his wife tried to per
suade him from going a fishing, when he
took from his finger gold ring and
placing it upon hers, told her to wear it
until his return, and that he would not
be gone long. When he was leaving the
house his dog, fine animal, caught him
by the plnts leg IAN act be was never
known "a do before, when be drove him
off; and as he started off the dog seized
him by the leg again, and could not be
driven off, seemingly trying to prevent
his master from leaving his home, when
Witt, to get clear OF him, took his re-
Yolyer from his pocket and shot him.n
Year: 1874

A FEW days ago man fell in para
lytic fit on the track Of the Central Pa
cifc Railroad, near Winnemuca. He
was unable to move, and in great agony
and perfectly helpless, saw train com
ing down toward him at full speed. He
was saved just in time, and his almost
inanimate form lifted into a car. The
incident was a thrilling one for the pas
sengers as we'll as for the man who so
narrowly escaped an awful death.
Year: 1874

HAS TIE RATTLEsNAKE A FRIEND?-
An scquaintane related to us the follow
ing incident that came under his obser-
walton sometime since in the mountains.
In riding along his attention was cali
Cd TO the chatteiing Of small striped
squirrel, that seemed to be in great dis
:ress; on looking around he discovered
the squirrel in close proximity Of a large
rattlesnake. The snake was moving
slowly along, while the squirrel would
run a short distance in front and then re-
turn, touch the snakes head and again
run ahead, the snake cautiously follow
ing. Our informant had heard Of snake
charming, and thought this an opport1-
nifty Of testing its truth, as the squirrel
seemed 10 be strongly affected. There
fore our informant watched the actions
of the two with no small degree Of curl
osity. Whilst watching, the squirrel
kept up its action of running a short dis
tance in advance and returning TO touch
the nose Of the snake, the latter showing
ing no disposition to injure the former,
but followed in the direction indicated
by the noise made by its guide. The
squirrel all the while it was thus run
mining back and forth, kept up an in
cossant chatteriLg. BY and by the squir-
rel led the snake 10 the foot of a large
bowlder where both disappeared down a
hole. From the actions Of the snake our
informant thinks it was blind, being at
that season when the serpent tribe cast
their skins, and that the squirrel was act
ing as its friend and pilot in its helpless
condition. Be this as it may, the sub
ject is worthy tho attention Of natural
lists. Amddor Ledger.
Year: 1874

A TEMPERANCE lecture of great power
was delivered in Boston the other oven
ing. There was not a large audience, as
it was delivered in the night, but the lee
ture was very emphatic. the lecturer
was a young woman of only q years of
age, recently married. Sho drank until
intoxication ensued, and then in her de-
lirium threw herself from the fourth sto
ry of boarding house, striking on glass
roof three stories down, and crashing to
the ground disGgured corpse.
Year: 1874

THE representative press, we are glad
to note, is generally taking ground a
gainst the examining Of school children's
heads with special studies. This is an
evil of greater magnitude than is popu-
ularly supposed. These studies are forced
into the minds Of pupils at an age when
the reasoning powers are undeveloped
and the memory in its highest state OF
receptivity.
Year: 1874

THE hoodlums of San Francisco have
at last raised a cloud burst of Indignation


by killing a white man. They have been
killing Cinnamon for some years and not
a moderate shower was caused. Hood
lums who will abuse Chinese are only
restrained from maltreating white men
by fear of the law.-Marysrule Appeal.
Year: 1874

THE heat in the lower levels of the
Consolidated Virginia mine is so great
that many of the men faint upon reach
ing the surface, and an attendant is often
sent up with them to prevent accidents.
The same is the case with the Becher
rninn
Year: 1874

EARTH is the scene of many sad dis
appointments, but what could be imag-
ined more excrciatingly pathetic than the
experience of tho Illinois burglars who
drilled safe all night. only to find on
getting it open that it was empty and had
been unlocked all the whle2
Year: 1874

THE Solano Republican says the young
ladies of that place are suffering terribly
of late from toothache. The recent nd
vent of young and handsome dentist is
regarded as the predisposing cause of the
affliction.
Year: 1874

RAILROAD men report that on the line
of the California and Oregon Railroad,
above Nord, drunken men lying on the
the track are so frequent that the train
has to stop at least once trip in order
that men may go ahead and remove the
Year: 1874

A PHILADELPHIA clergyman hopes
the Lord will forgive him when he an
nounces, Let us continue our worship
this morning by listening to a piece of
sheet music which the hired quartette will
please execute.n
Year: 1874

Col. r. NJ. WILLIAMS has returned
from the Castac mines, where he went
last week with force of hands and
supply of tools and provisions for the
purpose of digging ditch from Eliz-
abeth Lake. He reports the road up
the caflon much easier to make than
he expected. The hands at work on
it will make it a good wagon road to
the head of the ditch in few days.
There are no hills and very little grad
ing on the banks. The camp is in a
beautiful grove. with a fine stream of
water running by it, The old mining
engineer had made a preliminary
survey of the ditch before Colonel
WILLIAMS left, and to the great de-
light Of the company he found the
ditch could be shortened nearly two
miles by crossing a ridge that the
company had thought was too high for
the fountain-head. 1t turns out that
they will have one hundred and forty
feet fall above the ridge. There is no
fear of failure now. This company
have the means and the energy to put
this enterprise through, and from all
accounts when the water is on these
rich mines it will be the best mining
interest south of San Francisco.
There are thousands of acres of low
foot hills upon which you cannot get
pan of dirt that does not yield from
two to sixty cents to the pan. When
the water is brought to these placers,
there will be thousands of miners set
at work. For thirty years the natives
have been packing earth from these
mines on donkeys several miles to
water. Hundreds of excavations re-
main to show the ancient sign. An
acquaintance with the customs and
habits of the old Southern Californi-
ans is necessary to explain the reason
this rich treasure has lain idle so long.
Another feature of some moment in
regard to these mines is: the Southern
Pacific Railroad can find better
crossing and shorten their route to
San Francisco over thirty miles by
running their road up this caflon to
Elizabeth Lake.