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Year: 1874

1t may be convenient to know a ready
method of closing up cracks, which are
not uncommon in cast-iron stoves, and
we are assured that the following receipt
is n reliable one. Good wood ashes are
to be sifted through n fine sieve, to
which is to be added the same quantity
of clay finely pulverized together with
little salt. The mixture is to be nlois-
tened with water enough to make paste,
and the crack Of the stove filled with it.
The cement does not peel off or break
away, and assumes an extreme degree of
hardness after being heated. The stove
must be cool when the application is
being made. The same substance may
be used in setting in the plates of stove,
or in fitting stove-pipes, serving to rem
der all the joints perfectly tight.
Year: 1874

During the last three nights the engin-
eers and mdchinists at the rOund-honse
at the Virginia and Truckee Railroad
Company, in this city, have been in
state of lively excitement about some
strange electrical disturbances which
have occurred there every night. For
three nights all hands have been engaged
in trying to solve the mystery, but have
only partially succeeded. A compa-
nv erected large smoke stack, which ri
ses to a considerable height above the
roof of the round house. At the base
this smoke stack Is spread ont in the
shape of funnel. 1t was built in order
that the locomotives may stand under it
and cool off when they come in off
the road, and also while being fred up
in the morning. Into the side of this
smoke stack, three or four days ago, was
run stove-pipe, from stove standing
in a room about forty feet distant. 1t is
about this stove that the electrical dis
turbances take place. The first that
was observed of these was about eleven
o'clock, four nights since, when q. Pip
bingham, Il we'll known machinist, APP
preached the stove for the purpose Of
putting a stick of wood into it. As the
stick neared the stove, he received such
shock that it fell from his hand and
his arm was benumbed. He at first
thought he had taken a sudden eramp
in his arm. In trying again to put the
wood into the stove he received a second
shock. This time he perceived flash
and heard sharp snap, which he at
once recognized, as discharge of cleo
tricity. They tried all manner of exper-
| iments, and found that the stove was


fully and heavily charged with electric
ity. it giving out sparks and flashes when
a piece of iron, steel, wood, or the ma
ked hand approached it. After an hour
or two the phenomenon ceased. The
next day nothing was seen of it; but the


next night, about II o'clock, shortly af-


ter locomotive came in and stopped un-
der the tunnel of the smokestack, the


stove was again charged and began snap


ping and cracking, sending ont sparks


and flashes on all sides. So it has been


every night since. They now know that


the heated locomotive causes this cleo


trical display, but in just what way is


that which is still puzzling them.-Vir-


ginia (Nevada) Enterprise.
Year: 1874

When you see a man going home at
2 o'clock in the morning, and knows his
wife is waiting for him, it is likely to
be stormy.


When a man receives a bill for goods
his wife has bought unknown to him,
look out for thunder and lightning.


When man goes home and finds no
supper ready, the fire out, and his wife
visiting the saloons with the rest of the
boys" it is likely to be cloudy.


When man promises to take his wife
to q party, and changes his mind after
she is dressed yon can expect shower.


When a man saves his cigar money
to buy his wife new bonnet and the
children new shoes, it indicates a spell
of sunshine.


When a man dies and leaves a nice
young lady with plenty of money, and
you see her walking out with the execu-
tor on Sunday afternoon, change is
imminent
Year: 1874

Young gentlemen, when they take
their "duxies" buggy riding, should pay
every attention possible to their safety
and welfare. We noticed young man
last Sunday that seemed to understand
the art of protecting his lady love TO
perfection. Asrthey passed down Fifth
street, she was asrdoing the driving, while
he had both arms around her, and We
could tell by the wild look in his eye
that he was determined she should u
fall out.-St Paul Press.
Year: 1874

Mrs Ames seems to have discovered
that the Ohioan is as lovely as he is in
dispensable yhen an important office is
to be filled. She writes from Washing
ton. No matter where he went to college
or how long he served in the army, his
aspect is still suggestive of bnttermilk,
cream, clover, fallow soil and luxurious
growth. If he has not lain in the lilliesI
he has surely fed on the fat things OF
l;fa
Year: 1874

An exchange truly says, than it
cost less than cent day to take
our weekly paper, less than a diligent
hen wou Id earn in a year at the mar
ket price of eggs; less than one cigar
u week, and a very cheap one at that
less than a barber wonld charge by
the year to keep ones hair trimmed !;
than good Thanksgiving turkey !;
lcss than All energetic kitchen girl
will waste in Seek. A penny day
can be saved in many a way better
than stopping family paper.
Year: 1874

The gallant secretary of a life in
surance company, being in command
of a platoon during the late unpleas-
antness, struck up the gun of one of
his men about to fire on a staff officer
with the exclamation, Don't shoot
at him, we've got policy on him! "


N. O. Republican.
Year: 1874




A iudicious classic poet once said that it
was right to learn even from our enemies.
But Gen. Grant declines to be taught even by
his friends. Already the intimations come
thickly from Washington, from our own CORE
spondents and from other sources, that the
President peremptOrily declines to regard him.
self as in the least responsible for the late
disaster to the party or to consider that he
was however remotely alluded to in the SWELL
ing admOnitiOns recently addressed to the Ad-
ministration from the Atlantic to the Pacific.
He advertS with characteristic DaIvete to the
defeat of Gov. Dix and of Mr.. Roberts, as
significant of the fate of all those who declare
themselves in opposition to third term. The
people like courage, he thinks. and have justly
punished these statesmen for not daring to
come out in his favor. He stands firmly by
his Cincinnati letter and is as ready to
sacrifice himself for the public good as
ever. He sees no change as yet in the
condition of affairs that should discourage him.
He is not at all surprised at the rout of Butler
and Talbot and Halsey and Parsons and the
rest. Butler ought to have expected it, The
increase of the Presidents salary was very
well, but he should have stopped there and
not committed the indelcacy of increasing his
own. AS to Talbot the man is a teetOtaler,
and appears to believe in it; no wonder he
could not be elected. Halsey had ideas
about reform and Civil Service, and the
people detest such sentimental puritanism
and Parsons--as the household organ de-
clares-deserved to be beaten, probably
for having taken so many fees out of
III 4, t1n
centage of Gen. Babcock the national meas
uring worm. But beating these men, the
President argues, is very different matter
from voting against him. Depend upon it,"
said the old French noble, " the Almighty will
"thnk twice before damning q man of my
equality" The President has equally con-
s0atory views as to the intentions of the SOW
ereigns in whose hands rests his own political
fate.


1t wOuld be a waste of time to expect from
Gen. Grant any very enlarged or intelligent
ideas in regard to past or future events. If
he had had any comprehension of the history
or theory of our government, he would not
for moment have given shelter to the fancy
he now finds it so hard to relinqush, of per-
petuating himself in office. He merely felt
that he had "won" the place, as Judge BAR
nard once frankly said of himself, and that
anybody who objected to bis keeping it as long
as he pleased was a malignant and wanton
enemy. He has seen, it appears, no reason to
change this manner of looking at the case. AS
TO the probabilities of success that is a
question which can better be determined
after the present Congress has taken itself
out of the way and left him free to
survey the situation created by the
organization of the next. Even this Winter a
demonstration might be made which would
show the triumphant Democracy how desira-
BILE or how dangerous candidate he would
be. The Civil Rights bill is a subject to which
the President has given as much attention as
to any other. We do not mean, of course,
Year: 1874

that he has exhausted his intellect in c0nsid-
ering the legal or constitutional questions in
volved, or the probable effects of the bill
upon the material and moral well-being Of
the Southern States. The President Is too
practical q man for such studies. He leaves
them to priggish people like Mr. Sumner and
MIR. Trumbull, who were always boring the
Senate with long talks about law and morals
which good sound men like himself and
Chandler and Flanagan cared nothing about.
One died and the other lost his seat IN conse-
quence, and the President does not propose 10
do either. But though he does not waste
time over these questions OF ethics, ne sees
that there is a good deal of political capital
involved in a project which interests popular
preiudices to so great an extent, and he does
not see why he should not gain something
from it. 1t is now reported, with some appear
ance of probability, that he has resolved to
take decided ground against the passage OF
the bill, as soon as Congress opens.


There is one thing which must have con-
vinced the President that this bill afforded
him redoubtable opportunity 1t is now well
known that he resolved during the last session
to veto the Civil Rights bill, if it was passed.





resentatives were fully aware of this DISPOSE
ton, and it was for this reason that the bill
was never allowed to come to decisive vote.
The men who like Mr.. Phelps OF New-Jersey
had the courage of their opinions and opposed
it without regard to certain consequences,
were, as they always are, few. Most of the
members of the majority who feared if they
voted against it the wrath OF their
cOlOred constituents. and who knew that If it
were passed the President would make great
party scandal by vetoing it, prudently went
off to the lunch-rOom whenever the calendar
showed that the bill was impending, and abode
there repairing the waste of tissue until the
crisis was past. This cowardice must natu-
rally have convinced man of such narrow
perceptions and sluggish conscience as the
President that question which so unnerved
the party was one Of great force and value.
He does not appear to have perceived that
the market for vctoes has lost its buoyancy.
deluge has come AMI gone, and the arks
which were worth their weight in gold few
months ago are now good for nothing but
kindling wood. Even the dim prospect OF the
veto set Gov. Kemper Of Virginia into
violent third term fever. But the
elections have restored him to his Democratic
mind, and we find him among the first to tele-
graph his restored allegiance to the Manhattan
Club celebration. The President is reported
as being in high glee over the election of Mr..
Stephens in Georgia and Mr. Chamberlain in
South Carolina, both on the third term plat
form. But we doubt il any one ever appeared
in public life in this country of an ignorance
so chid-like as to suppose that the white con-
stituents of Stephens and the black constitu-
ents of Chamberlain could be kept together in
canvass in which the President appealed to
the country to sustain him in a veto Of the
Civil Rights bill.
Year: 1874

Nobody need patronize fair Erin; she is really an
excellent little country Here is DR.. Hancocks Re-
port on the Criminal Statistics of the Isle, and a
very encouraging thing it is. The number of ndict
able offenses in that country of much police and
thorough public prosecution is growing from year
to year wonderfully less. Last year there were TIA
fewer of such ofenses than during tho preceding
year-3923 fewer than the number ten years ago.
The percentage of crime is 16 below the average for
Great Britain during five years. Reasonable
otfenses are almost unknown.
Year: 1874

cannot do the party modicum Of good, and
they will take from it the last hope OF ever
recovering its lost position. The best advice
to both sides at such time as this is to
kaan cooI
Year: 1874

Judge Hogan intends to contest the election
of Mr.. Meade as Congressman from the Vth
District. Precisely on what evidence does not
appear. The contest was close and bitter, but
DO far as we have seen, it was fairly conducted.
Year: 1874

The secret of her career, said Miss Cushman in
her graceful speech on Saturday night, has been
that she was always in earnest 1t is noble lesson
which the great actress leaves to the members of
her profession, and TO the members of all profes-
sons And out of all the brilliant display last Sat
urday night-the graceful poetry, the eloquent
pliments, and the generous and affectionate enthu
siasm of the great mutitude-it is the thing best
worth preserving.
Year: 1874

Open war seems TO be declared upon Senator
Conkiing in his own home. The defeat of the
Editor OF The Utica Herald by the Senator's
law partner, who was the Democratic can
ddate, has been the last straw to break the
cameliS hack
Year: 1874

There is a general stir among business men over
the belief that the elections promise revival Of
business. The decline IN Governments with which
the Administration orators threatened us in of
Democratic successes seems to have been postponed
and the majority of business men now appear TO
believe that the end of uncertainty and the hope of
a change for the better in financial legislation
should lead to a general revival. The belief in
such a thing is likely to be at least half the battle
Year: 1874

Can the Board of Health do nothing to prevent or
mitigate the stencil which comes up from the East
River with such frequency of late. and makes
Murray III reek with fculness WHICH Water-st
could harhlw rL.rrL..
Year: 1874

l do not know single plant that will
stand so much hard usage as ivy. The
only point on which cultivators err. is not
keeping the leaves clean. If it be we'll
washed two or three times a week, and
the soil we'll watered, il will grow for
weeks, and even years. without danger
from change of temperature. A vase, not
necessarily costly, will answer well for
ivy and this reminds me Of an excellent
plan for growing it in vases. Long shoots
OF the ivy were procured. with the young
and tender aerial roots very abundant.
The lower ends were wrapped in moss,
and then some five or six of these were
lightly tied together at the bottom, and
placed in the vase. The latter was filled
within few inches of the top with water.
and the ball of moss suspended therein.
Thus managed, the roots soon commence
to grow; afterwards the moss need not
quite reach the water. as the roots will ex-
tend down into il. and prove allsuficient.


So many very beautiful varieties of ivy
are now in cultivation, that by selecting
kinds that will form decided contrast in
shape and color, the effort may be mate
rally heightened. The center OF the vase
may be filled with cut flowers or grasses,
or, indeed, nothing would look better than
ferns. The ivy may be allowed to hang
down over the sides CT tbs vase in grace
ful festoons, or else trained over and
around the window thus making q room
appear cheerful and pleasant all winter
through 1t is not necessary, and in fact.
| do not believe that ivy will grow as well
in strong light as when it is in par
TALLY shaded position. as it likes shade
and an even cool temperature. have
known instances where ivy has been
grown in large tubs and trained up stair
case. thus forming mass of green foil
age from the hall below to the floor above.
Planted in a box and run over low trel-
lis. 1t makes lovely window screen
even in towns; used in any way, as fancy
directs. it is unexcelled as a house plant
The Garden.
Year: 1874

If in this liberal age there are persons
to be found who are so blinded by preju-
dice as not to believe that medicated
stimulant is an item OF immense import
ance in the catalogue of human remedies,
we should like them to witness the Won
derful effects which Hostetter's Stomach
Btters are now producing all over the
country in cases Of Intermittent fever,
rheumatism, bilious disorders, dyspepsia,
nervous complaints, constitutional debii-
ty, mental depression and premature de-
cay. To be sure these effects are nothing
new. The great vegetable invigorant and


its cures have been before the people for
moro than twenty-five years, and in every
year Of the twenty-five its popularity has
increased and its sale has become larger.
Yet there are no doubt many thousands
of intelligent citizens who have never had
an opportunity of observing for them
selves the surprising changes which this
unequalled tonic and Alternative produces
in systems which seem to be hopelessly
broken and in cases Of disease which are
not amenable to ordinary remedes.-
Probably many Of these regard the state
ments made in relation to the sanitary
properties Of the Bittcrs with some degree
of incredulity. Would that all such
skeptcs could see with their own eyes
what the medicine is doing for the sick
and feeble everywhere, what a staff of
life it is proving to the aged and infirm,
what help in time of trouble to feeble
women suffering from the complaints and
protection to health and lite in malarious
districts, what panacca for languor and
depression, what specific for all diseases
in which the system requires to be vital
lied and sustained. OF all stimulants it
is the purest and safest, of all tonics the
most genial, effective and agreeable, Of
all Alternatives the least violent and most
certain in its beneficial results. Gle.
Year: 1874

ATTENTION, PEOPLE OF TRINITY !
There is a work about to be undertaken
that interests you all. Dir. Henry Degroot
arrived in this place by stage on We'd
nesday evening. He comes to Trinity
for the purpose Of consulting with you rs
to the expediency of preparing and pub
fishing book on the history, resources and
future prospects of our county. To this
end he will call on such of you as will be
most likely to aid an undertaking of this
kind, and, if sufficiently encouraged, will
proceed at once to collect material for the
proposed work which, if issued, it is in
tended shall be ready for delivery in the
course Of four or five weeks from this
time.


DIR. Degroot made short visit to these
parts last Winter, on which occasion he
rendered our county valuable service
through the publication Of several letters
in the San Francisco BulletiA, which
were afterwards extensively copied both
here and abroad. He is an experienced
Mining Engineer, Expert and writer,
having been constantly engaged in these
pursuits since February 40, when he first
arrived in California. lie has assisted
Commissioners Browne and Raymond on
each Of the seven volumes of Mining
Statistics issued under patronage Of Con-
gress, and has been employed by the
General Government in various capacities
connected with the mining interest. OF
his capacity, therefore, TO get out book
that would greatly promote our leading
industry, there can be no question.


This gentleman, should he determine
to go on with the proposed work, will pay
an early visit to the leading mining camps
and towns in the county. In the event of
his doing SO we bespeall for him such
cordial treatment and liberal support as
he is entitled to receive and as will be n
credit to the citizens Of Old Trinity.
Year: 1874

The Union Hill claim is getting off
dirt at a lively rate. They are out of the
" big bone" streak and into strata Of
coal-or what would likely be coal if al
lowed to remain undisturbed 4 few centu-
ries longer.
Year: 1874

RUNAWAY. = A team attached to a
heavy wagon, steered by Chinaman,
became excited and rushed furiously up
Main street, last Saturday afternoon
A locust tree and an awning-post in front
of the Post Office were up set, but no
other damage done.
Year: 1874

A PLEASANT Er1soDE.-Twenty-fvo
years ago the ship Henry Lee arrived in
San Francisco. She was owned by a
joint stock company, Of which f. Bates,
our present Supervisor, and p. Mcclure,
formerly Of this place were members,
while man named Leonard IL. Bacon
was President. Soon after reaching the
Bay City tho members of the company
started for their various destinations.
Bates went to New York, in Contra Cos
Ia county, and there found Bacon sick
and short of money. He loaned him $25
receiving Bacon's note therefor, and kept
on his journey. And for nearly twenty
five years Bates heard nothing of his old
fellow passenger whom he thought prob
ably dead. Consequently our worthy
Supervisor was not little surprised this
Spring to receive q letter from Bacon,
telling him he had only then discovered
his whereabouts through their mutual
friend Mcclure, recalling to his mind the
fact of the loaned money which he now
expressed desire to repay. BY the
merest accident in the world, Bates had
kept the note, which he at once forwarded
to Bacon, telling him to leave the amount
with firm with whom he was dealing.
A couple of weeks afterwards he received
n letter in reply, containing the receipt of
Dodge & Co., for $3.50 so, the amount Of
She debt with 10 per cent. interest per
snnGm for the time for which he had had
the money. 1t is very rare that such an
instance of honorable remembrance of
favors received comes under our observa-
ton, and we think it an incident worthy
Of publication.
Year: 1874

A FALSE ALARM.-A few days ago it
was currently reported that case OF
small pox existed in Chinatown. On
hearing the rumor, DR.. Montague at once
visited the suspected premises and made
a searching examination, but failed to
discover even a trace of the disease
Our people can rest assured that the re-
port was without foundation.
Year: 1874

FOURTH OF JULY.-Those who want
to dance on the 4th Of July will have to
go to Junction City. Stone advertises a
Grand Ball for the night of the Sd, and
extends a general invitation. Go, all
who can.
Year: 1874

According to the San Francisco press, agents of railway operators ought to now be in Sonora examining into the country with view of constructing a road from Guaymas to connect with the Texas and Pacific in Arizona. There Is no doubt but such a connection will be made about as soon as the southern overland is built Guaymas is less than 800 miles from Tue son, and any other seaport is about 700. It may be, however, that the advantages of shipping to and from port wholly within the United States, will more than compensate for the difference in distance, and our transportation, as now, be nearly all confined to our own country. But in the rapid growth of Arizona under the influence of railways there will neces sarily be much business with Sonora and the harbor of Guaymas.

 There is no doubt, however, but the men who are at the back of this Sonora and Arizona railway, are expecting the United States will in some way acquire Sonora by the time their enterprise shall be completed, and while working up and constructing It, they will use their power to bring about the acquisition. With a liberal subsidy from Sonora, the building of the road could be made profitable, and as the public men of that State arc favor able to aid, it will doubtless be given and the road be constructed at least as soon as the Texas and Pacific shall reach this part of Arizona. This Guaymas road will be of immense benefit to Tucson, for the Santa Cruz valley is the only natural route for, it.
Year: 1874

TAXPAYERS now can figure out just how much they will have to hand over to the county and Territory. The Board of Su- pervis' IS have fixed the rates which amount to just S2.4 on each SI00 of taxa ble propeft>s This is exactly the same as