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Year: 1877

SIsKIYoU ITEMs.-We gather the fol-
lowing from the Yreka Union:


Seven indictments were found by the
Grand Jury at the last term of the
County Court. Three of them were
for murder.


Green peas have made their appear
ance in the Yreka market.


A miner named Dan Sullivan was
caved on while working in his claim on
Coffee Creek. On being got out it was
found tina: one of his legs was broken,
but the full extent of his injuries was not
known at the time the item was written.


An emigrant wagon capsized over the
grade just above Mrs. Masterson's place
on Scott Mountain. One of the children
a little girl, struck her head against q
rock, inhicting injuries which it was
feared will prove fatal.
Year: 1877

Nor CoRRECT.-Th Colusa Sun says
that "the Southern CdlJornfan and
Weaverville Journal are both pro-
nounced for Boruck as Senator to sue
ceed Sargent. The Sun is mistaken The
JOURNAL is not pronounced for any of
the candidates named for the position.
We do not propose to extol the merits of
any one man in preference TO another,
nor to complicate the election OF legisla-
tors by requiring candidates for the SEN
ate and Assembly to pledge themselves
in advance. The policy which we hope
will govern the Republican side in the
coming campaign will look to the nomi-
nation OF good men for the Legislature in
whose hands the Senatorial succession
can be safely left. We have no fears but
the State will be worthy and fttingly
represented if the Republicans carry the
Legislature, and that is as far as our
wishes on the Senatorial question go.
Year: 1877

CAPsIzED.-F the Yreka Union
Of last week we learn that a teamster
hauling freight to Oregon started up
Scott Mountain with his load one day
last week on his up trip. One Of his lead
horses got to bucking and cutting up and
as a result the team and wagon rolled off
the grade. No damage was done to the
team or freight, but the wagon was so
badly used up that it had to be taken
back to Shasta for repairs.
Year: 1877

BORING FOR GRAVEL. - Something
which strikes us as being rather new in
the mining line is mentioned in the Dow
melville Messenger. The Pliocene Min
ing Company will introduce machinery
on their claims to bore for gravel. The
diameter of the bore Will be eight inches,
and the Messenger says that in earth or
soft rock they expect to sinl at the rate
of sevcnty-tye feet day. The idea, it
seems to us is good one, when applied
to the prospecting Of places where there
have been mountain slides. Sinking
shafts or running tunnels is a slow and
expensive way of prospecting.
Year: 1877

HoSTETTER'S STOMACH BITTERS may be
truly characterized as the only preparation
which can be implicitly relied on as combin-
ing the properties of a stomachlc, an altera-
tive and an aperient in such proportions as
TO produce simultaneously the desired effect
upon the disorded stomach, liver and intes-
tines. This conclusion is warranted by the
celerity and certainty with which the Bitters
AFFORD relief In chronic cases OF dyspepsia,
torpidity of the liver and constipatlon
Year: 1877

THE CAPITAL NEWSPAPER COMPANY
CAsE-IesteTday, the case of the motion OF
George Hill % place the Capital Newspaper
company in bankruptcy came up before
Judge Humphreys, holding the District
Court, but was postponed for one week in
consequence OF the Illness OF counsel.
Year: 1877

AT the close Of the "serious Family" !"
a! the Opera House last night BrOugham
was called before the curtain and enthu.
siasticallY cheered. he said that he had
noticed all through the plSy that his
large audience had shown a generous
appreciation Of It's dslineatlOn, and be
would go away feeling that he had two
evidences that the playing was good, viz:
the opinion Of hia audience and bis own
opinion, and that was endorsement enough
for modest man.


Brougham uSed to be, and no doubt
sill ia, a great success before the curtain.
When he played with Burton in New
York it was always part Of the perform.
anca to call the both before the curtain
and get somothing impromptu und rscy
Year: 1877

1t is not easy to understand just what OBJ
ject the Tammany members Of the Board of
Aldermen have in view in their proposed
investigation Of the old Tammany Ring
frauds at this time They have remained
Indifferent to these matters for so long q
period that their appearance on tho scene
just as tho singular proceedings connected
with the so-called Tweed confession are
being exposed is calculated to give rise to
oil sorts OF rumors and conjectures. If they
can induce or compel the publication of the
Tweed story entire, without alteration OF
emasculation, they will certainly do some
good But their power and authority are
doubtful, and an Aldermanic committee with
a majority of Tammany members on it is
not likely to obtain the public confidence.
But whatever their object in proposing the
investigation may have been they have sue
ceodcd in arousing the Independent democ-
racy to action. These opponents OF Tammany
declare that Twecd's old friends and CO.
workers are members of the present Board
of Aldermen, and that Tnmmany never yet
made IN honest investigation of frauds, and
they therefore appoint committee of three
of their own organization to investigate the
business, political faith and antecedents of
the Aldermen and to report at an early date.
The subject of the inquiry will not be in
teresting to the city, and probably may not
be creditable to the investigated; but the
report will be very curious reading, new
crtheless, and will form an appropriate ad-
dendum to the history of the negotiations
attending the great Tweed confession.
Year: 1877

CAPTAIN cooMBE's REPORT OF THE COLLISION.


lIY TELEGRAPH TO THE HERALD


NEWPORT, r. l., July %, 1871


II appears that IL was steamer that LETT here for
New YORK last night which ran into a schooner, and
therefore II was the Providence and the Bristol
steamer. The schooner proved to be tho Minnesota,
Captain Coombc, OF Providence, bound from George.
town, d. c., for New Bedford, with a cargo of coal
The captain makes the following report


"At about eleven O'Clock last night, while running
for Newport ana when noar Brenton's Reef Lghtship
We heard a steamers whistle The steamer was bear
ing then almost length ahead. In less than a hall
minute later we coidcd with tho steamer Providence
The steamer carried away our jlbboom aud bowsprt
breaking our anchor stock and staving In part OF the
bow She also carried away port shrouds and
sprung our foremast In the deck, starting tho wood
ends and causing leak about Eve thousand strokea
DOR hour The then slid along. taking or the
other corner OF the house and rolling It down the
tafra,l and starting the port side of tho stern We
have on the deck part Of tho steamers noting and tho
stancheons OF tho promenade deck. After the COLI.
sion tho captain OF tho steamer kindly sent boat
alongside, and oGorcd all assistance possible. Wa
drfted near Kettle Bottom Rock and anchored, wher0
VIC until this afternoon when the Old Colony
Steamboat Company sent the steamer Albatross to
our assistance. The steamer took US In tow and
brought this port tor repairs II Is impossible to
estimate tho damage sustained.
Year: 1877

The unhappy death of more than score
of innocent lookers-on at the riotous demon
strations in Baltimore and Pittsburg should
serve as warning to outsiders against I'M
prudent curiosity. A mob is always COM
posed of nucleus Of wiliul lawbreakeis,
moderate tail of thieves, ready to join III
if the operation seems likely to succeed and
take advantage of the confusion to grab
what they can; and besides these large
crowd OF people drawn by curiosity and
with no evil intentions. The history OF
most riots shows that it is these innocent
but by no means harmless third parties
who usually suffer when collision takes
place. They get in the way, and they are
not quick to get out Of the way; they are
apt to remain on the ground out OF con-
scious innocence, and when they are shot
their friends think it great hardship.


Now it ought to be understood that who
ever gets hurt in riot-almost without
exception-deserves his fate. He had no
business there. A mob is formidable, in
general, only because of the crowds which
rush in to look on, and if the actual rioters
were left face to face with the police
and the troops they would hardly ever
be able to make stand, but would
be quickly dispersed and crushed. Wher-
ever riot breaks out in these times
we advise honest and peaceable people
to go carefully about their business. If
they rush into the streets and make crowd
they really help the lawbreakers, no matter
how innocent their own intentions may be
and they run far moro risk than the rioters
themselves, who know how to find shelter
among the outside crowd and escape, while
lookers-on are shot down. Therefore we
say to people curious to "see the row. (" 'Go
home as quickly as you can and stay there"
That is not only the sensible way, for if
you look on you become to all intents part
Of the mob.
Year: 1877

The State Senate has started well in its
trial of the charges made against the Super
intendent of the Bank Department. In the
opening proceedings the counsel for the
accused made effort after effort to cripple
the prosecution objecting to the introduce
ton Of new testimony in addition to that
taken before the committee of investigation
legislative session, and striving to have the
charges mutilated by striking out portion
OF them. The proposition that the Senate
could not receive new testimony was ab-
jured Oh its face, since to simply 60 over
the former evidence would have been only
reviewing the work OF the investigating
committee and not trying the case. The
Senate voted in favor OF receiving all mate
rial evidence offered by either party, and
refused to strike out any Of the charges


II this spirit is carried out to the
close of the trial the result cannot be
doubtful The republican majority will be
very closely watched in this matter, and
Senator Woodin has done wisely in making
known at the start his opposition to any
technical distractions to the investigation,
because he is credited with being the near
est political friend of the accused and the
most interested in his retention Of his office.
What the people demand is TINT the conduct
of the Bank superintendent shall be fairly
and fully investigated. Some of the most
cruel and barefaced frauds ever perpetrated
have been committed by some OF the broken
savings banks. The Industrious and thrifty
poor have been literally robbed by rich and
hcartless rascals acting as trustees and officers
of these institutions. II these crimes have
been successfully committed through the
official neglect or incapacity OF the Bank
Superintendent he should bo instantly
removed. II he has allowed insolvent
Year: 1877

We are SO we'll satisfied that the city gar
bage and refuse can be disposed Of by cre-
nation that we again call the attention Of
the street cleaning officials to the PROPOSE
tion. One of the chief causes of complaint
against these gentlemen is the unmanly
manner in which they strive to explain away
their own neglect Of duty. We believe that
they are firmly convinced that the HERALD
is right in claiming that cremation is the
true solution of the garbage problem. But
they have not ventured to utter word in favor
Of the plan throughout the whole discus
sion. If the Police Commissioners would
only hunt up information as to the cheapest
mode Of constructing furnaces get esti-
mates from reliable contractors on plans
carefully prepared by experts and publish
o statement of the results of their investiga-
tions, the citizens of New York would be
light But instead Of this they evade oil
expression of opinion, ignore every sugges-
ton and pursue their course OF extravasant
outlay without regard to public opinion. We
repeat that these officials have no initia-
tive. They are worse than useless machines
that move only for mischief and are in
capable Of intelligent action. We know as
we'll as they do that cremation furnaces
must be built at public expense. But have
they taken one step toward informing us of
the cost of such structures? We have
blatherskite Health Board that is as helpless
and inactive as q mud scow. We have
Police Board in charge of street cleaning
that is as useless as q suggestion from
Professor Chandler. We have Mayor
who is as powerless as a rag baby in deal
ing with city abuses. What then, shall wo
do to rescue New York from the dangers
that threaten her through these officials
This is question for every citizen and one
that may present itself in terrible form
during the coming summer months. It
would be better for the community that
every legal trammel was broken hun
dred times over than that the city should
be depopulated by an epidemic. Let tho
Street Cleaning Bureau boldly ask for what
is necessary. Let us know the remedy for
existing evils, no matter what it costs, but
let there be no jobbery about it. II we had
one capable man in the city government he
could solve tho problem in twenty -four
hours
Year: 1877

Every great national movement, such as
Russia now has in hand, is characterized by
the formation of parties divided as to the
object to be kept in view There is
Thorough" party, one resolute to push the
national policy to an extreme point and to
leave no ground for future reopening Of
the same quarrel and there is q party
whose policy is moderate, if not timid, that
wisely sees in every extreme policy only
provocation to inevitable reaction that
eventually forfeits some portion of even the
most solid successes. In Russian politics
these parties are distinctly formed ut the
present moment. On one side is the Car,
supported by Prince Gortschakof and by
all those elements in the State that appre-
ciate the wisdom of u safe policy and en-
deavor to exclude from diplomacy the
element of adventurous speculation. On
tho other side is the Czarewitch and
General Ignatieff-a sort Of Russian
manifest destiny" party inspired by the
ardor Of spirit characteristic of those whose
aspirations are great and pursuing with pas
sionate energy schemes with which passion
should have no relation whatever. Prince
GortschaAoff's policy assumes that it is not
merely England that is behind the objection
to Russia's absolute supremacy in Eastern
Europe, but that such supremacy must
necessarily divide the Continent by the line
of the Russian frontier and constitute all
that is not Russia the enemy of Russian
progress; consequently he wishes to secure
simply the legitimate objects Of the present
campaign and stop there, and would regard
any further use Of victory as challenge to
the world, and, therefore, the necessary
source of future misfortunes. Inspired by
less extensive view of the possibilities Of
the case, and with confidence in his own
judgment that is a consequence of his great
successes, General Ignatief would take ad-
vantage of the fact that Russia's only &c
knowledged enemy in Western Europe is.
helpless just now, and would plant the
standard of the Gar at Constantinople and
defy the future. In this division the more
moderate policy is destined to prevail, and
the terms of peace that are now under con-
sideration in the Cabinets will still leave
Constantinople So. that the world shall
regret that Russia is not there rather than
wonder why she is. aao,
Year: 1877

banks to remain open and swindle new de-
positors after their insolvency was known
to him he has committed q misdemeanor for
which he should be punished. The Senate
has the fullest latitude in the trial. Its
duty is to ascertain whether the Superin-
tendent is person fit to be at the head OF
the Bank Department, and if he is not to
remove him. No rules of evidence can re-
strict them in the investigation. They are
to find out the truth. and they can do that
in any way that offers. 1t is to be hoped
that the spirit in which they have opened
their proceedings will be maintained until
thew close
Year: 1877

It may be of some Importance that certain
subordinates of the Board of Health formally
report the extent to which the infant NOR
taity of the city is due to the tenement
houses, although the public, accustomed to
read the newspapers and to reason on the
facts in its possession, knew all this before.
Still, there is a part of every community that
only accepts as real that which is cer-
tilted by some official board. II the
health authorities can deepen or ex-
tend the conviction on this subject
their exertions will be useful to that
extent for the only hope OF n remedy
Year: 1877

THE WEArnER.-The distribution of pressure
yesterday over the United States was very uni
form. Only in the extreme Northwest and in
the Central Gulf did the barometer indica ate be-
low the mean during the greater part OF the day.
The areas of highest pressure were marked by
irregular outlines and distributed along the zone
between the thirty-ifth and fifticth parallels.
The depression moving slowly In the Northwest
from the Rocky Mountains toward the lakes is
attended by a decidedly high temperature, but
is AS yet n rainlcss disturbance. This will, how
ever not prove constant condition, because, rs
the depression advances eastward toward the
Mississippi Valley, we may look for the usual
rains that attend such disturbances in that
gion. The temperature III other districts shows
uniformity, except in the lake region and the
Northeastern British provinces, where decided
variations occur, and where wind storms, with
lightning and bail, may DC looked for. Light
rains have fallen the Atlantic coast from
Florida to Nova Scotia. Except the eastern
margin Of the northwestern depression the
winds have been very moderate throughout the
country. but they have been variable through
out tho lake region and the Middle and Eastern
States. The weather in New York to-day will
be moderately warm and fair.
Year: 1877

The RIGHT sE.-Representatives of the
different trade unions in this city have sensby
determined to throw their influence the side
Of law and order and TO guard against the intro
dnction of inccndiary councils into their dclib-
eratons. The honest hard working artisans of
this city altogether different class of people
from those who have committed so many cxcesses
in Baltimore and Pittsburg, and arc almost the
last persons in the world to countcnance or en-
courage such unlawful proceedings. They know
that strike is one thing and rebellion against
the government another
Year: 1877

against these evils is in the creation Of q
right public opinion ON the subject. In
all great cities houses inhabited by large
numbers of persons are necessity; but
they are constructed under public super
vision so as to reduce to minimum the
evils inseparable from their existence. But
in this city owners are Stree" to build their
houses as they please and to clean them
when they choose, because the Board Of
Health dare not enforce the laws against
them, and the consequence is that they are
actual pest houses eight times in ten.
Year: 1877

LIoUoR LICESsEs.-Thcrc ought to be de-
cision in the case of the liquor men as soon as
possible. 1t is only simple matter of justice,
and they arc entitled to justice much rs any
other class of the community. Arrests are
made from day to day, and there is the greatest
uncertainty in regard to the whole question.
Let us know what the law is and then let it be
eufnrc ed
Year: 1877

BARBARIsM.-Last week young man on an
excursion of so-called social club was drowned.
The clothes were taken from the body by po-
lice officer, leaving it naked near the beach.
The Coroner held an inquest apparently for the
sole purpose of getting his fees, and paid no fur
thcr attention to it. No friends claimed the re-
mains, and two days afterward they were buried
in III open lot in common box. This occurred
within short distance of New York. Who is
responsible I
Year: 1877

does not see tit to labor with the Temperance
Union in this city that is no reason why they
should abuse him. 1t is not creditable and
hardly Christian. Murphy has done great
deal of good, and the best thing the union can do
is to emulate his example
Year: 1877

THE CHURCHES dulness Of midsummer
has fallen upon the churches Nearly all the
leading cergymen of the city are enjoying the
vacation they so much need and their pulpits are
temporarily filled by strangers. At the Ameri-
can Free Church the unusual spectacle was pre-
sentcd of Presbyterian clergyman preaching
in q Universaist church
Year: 1877

A PECULIAR ANNOUNCEMENT in regard to
neutrality between the Russians and Turks has
been made by the Canadian authorities. 1t does
not rise to the dignity of proclamation, but is
q document suitable to the brevet character of
her government.
Year: 1877

The POLICE HAVE DONE WELI.--In Balti-
more, at Pittsburg and elsewhere, where the
civil authorities have taken part in crushing
the mobs, we notice that the police force
has behaved with conspicuous frmness and
courage. They deserve honorable mention,
and will receive the credit which is their
due for steady and good conduct when order
is restored
Year: 1877

The witness had served in one of
the Indiana regiments and come
home from the wars with both arms
shot off He lost one at Fort Dom
aldson and the other at Lookout
Mountain. When he came forward
to testify the clerk commenced to adj
minister the oath.


"You solemnly swear"


"stopl stopl interrupted the Judge
(newly installcd) with ovorpoworing
dignity. The witness will hold up
his right hand when he is sworn"


"Your Honor, replied the clerk
meekly, the man has no right hand"


"Then let him hold up his left
hand"


"If your Honor will remember, the
witness has no left hand either. He
had the misfortune to lose them both
in battle"


Perhaps the clerk thought by this
last bit of information to bring the
Judge down from his height of dis
pleasure, but he reokoned without
his host,


"Then tell him to hold up hisrigh
leg. A witness cannot be sworn in
this court without holding up some-
thing, Silonccl all of youl This
court will maintain it,"


The witness was sworn on one leg.


While We are wondering over the
telephone, the French are examining
an invention by which photographs
Gun be sent by telegraph. The pro-
coss is not yetexplained, butthe Par
is and Lyons police have been sue
ccsofully using 1t for the detection Of
criminals.
Year: 1877

LOUISIANA CRoPS.-From all por


tions of the State the reports are
cheering; corn has been and is being
planted to a much increased extent,
and although the acreage in cotton
NAV not be much reduced, the raising
of corn and the consequent hogs will
aid greatly in enabling the plante: to
grow his cotton at less cost than if
he had to purchase all his supplies !;
the only drawback SO far, to general
satisfaction at our agricultural pros
poets is that in some cases the rattOons
are reported to be rotten, not promls-
ing u stand the plant cane and stub
BILE, however. are said to promise fair,
and as the acreage of new planting
this spring is considerably ahead of
last year, there is every probability
that with good season there will be
a full crop made. The rice planters
also have been busy, and although
there may be a reduced acreage
planted, with Il favorable growing aud
harvesting season the yield may not
be much curtailed. Lastly, the orange
crop, though undoubtedly affected By
the severe cold of the past winter,
promises to be a fair average; as in the
localities where the bulk of the croI
is raised, the trees have only been re
tarded but not otherwise injured.


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