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Year: 1875

feel it. An occasional and
! Warm-hearted visit viii cheer


him, and aid him not q little t.
be useful. And now and then
as you visit him, take with you
some little present-nO matter
for its value-this is of little


consequence; but take it as a


token Of your kind remem-
brance and regard. Such cour-
tesies will bind him to you with
strong affection, and lis affec-
ton is all important for you to
possess.


Z. Ever be attentive to his


teachings. If it is his to teach,
it is yours to hear. Be then in
your place every Sunday-at
every seryice-at every prayer
meeting. Thus you will en-
courage his heart and strengthen
his hands, and thus only can
you appreciate his many labors,
And not only hear, but what
you hear apply to yourself. O.
bey it. He will have "no great
er JOY than to see you walking
in the truth." "


s. Remember these rules
Keep a copy of them. Place
it where you can refer to it dali
ly. Read them at least every
week, and often ask whether
you have sinned against them.
If you are prone to break them,
then read them every day, as
you go to your closet, and pray
God by His spirit to enable you
to keep them.


DO all this-even attempt to
do it-and in ninety-nine cases
out OF a hundred You will have
a good minister. Observe these
rules, and though by nature
your minister may be far from
what you would have him, still
grace and kindness will make
him a good one. Violate them
= degrade them-and in ninety
nine cases ont of Il hundred you
will have a peer minister in
deed. Disregard them, and
though in fact you have a most
excellent minister it will, to an
absolute certainty, make him Il
poor one to you!
Year: 1875

In speaking of persons faults,


Pray don't forget your own;
Remember, those with homes of glass


Should seldom throw stone.
If we have nothing else TO do


But talk of those who sin,
'Tis better we commence at home,


And from that point begin.
We have no right to judge a man


Until he's fairly tried;
Should we not like his company,


We know the world is wide
Some may have faults-and who have not
The old as well as young;
Perhaps we may, for aught we know,


Have fifty TO their one.
I'll tell you of better plan,


And one that works full well;
| try my own defects to cure,


Before Of others tell;
And though | sometimes hope to be
No worse than some | know,
My own shortcomings bid me let


The faults of others go.
Then let rs all when we commence


To SANDER friend or foe,
7 hink Of the harm one word may do
TO those we little know.
Remember curses, sometimes, like


Our chickens, ''rOOst at hOme;''
Don't speak of others faults until


We have none of our own.
Year: 1875

And now it is that the most
gifted liar Of a hamlet Of the
wide, wide West, entertains a
ost-oflicc assembly with tales
Of cold winters in Kansas, where
whisky was sawed off by the
drink, being frozen solid; and
feeling encouraged, tells about
being stabbed in a fight and ow-
ing to the extreme frigidity of


the atmosphere the wound did
not bleed until the spring thaw.
Year: 1875

In the office of one of the hotels
recently gentleman snapped bis
finger to j boot-black, and as he
put his foot on the box be said:
"You look like good, smart boy"
See here, mister!" replied the
boy as he rose up, a brush in Ell
ther hand; ''l've had that game
played on me dozen times, and
now | want to know whether
this a cash shine or whether
you're going to pat me on the
head when | get through end tell
me that I'll be Governor of Mich
igRn some day?"- Detroit Free
Press.
Year: 1875

eff l had leisure, would re-
pair that weak place in my fence,
said a farmer. lie had none, and
while drinking with a neighbor,
the COWS broke in and injured a
prime piece of corn. lie had leis-
ure then to repair his fence, but it
did not bring tack his corn.
Year: 1875

The wise legislators of Indi-
ana know how to settle the
question Of people being over
run by street cars in PoPuIous
cities. A bill has been intro
duced ipto the House making it
unlawful to cross the street In
front of a street car in motion
within less distance than ten
feet Of the animal drawing it.
If that law only passes, and
people supply themselves with
proper measuring tools, we shall
have no more accidents by street
cars running folks down. Wis
doml
Year: 1875

The paper manufacturers re-
port the rather peculiar fact that
the rags received at the mills
this winter, are noticeably more
ragged and thread bare than usu-
al, which is supposed to be the re-
suit of the bard times; every body
wearing out old clothes.
Year: 1875

If weakness Of the stomach is allowed
to become chronic, the following evils su-
pervene-Digestion is permanently inn
paired, the system is imperfectly nourish-
ed, the blood becomes thin and watery,
the bile being unemployed for digestive
and evacuative purposes, enters the circu-
lation through the thoracic duct, and
injects itself into the superficial vessels,
giving to the skin and whites of the eyes
the saffron tinge indicative of biliousness.
Headache, nausea, constipation, pains in
the side, palpitations, heartburn, dizziness
and many other harrassing symptoms
which accompany the arrangement
above described, which if unchecked is as
sure to be followed by serious disease, as
the rising Of the sun by its setting. 1t is
manifest, therefore, that an inability of
the stomach to act upon the food should
be overcome without delay. The invigor-
ating influence upon that organ of Hostel
ter's Stomach BtterS is speedily felt in the
disappearance Of all the dsagreeable
symptoms alluded to. The prescribed
mineral remedies for general debility
usually fail to achieve any lasting result,
because they do not invigorate the stom
ach Hostetter's Btters always succeed,
because that is their primal effect. The
very fact that they are such an excellent
stomachic constitutes them one of the
best general tonics in existence. To re-
store digestion is the final step toward the
recovery Of health, when impaired by any
of the mutiiarious complaints which
spring from dyspepsia, and that step will
be found to have been taken by the inval-
id who has availed himself of this famous
anti-dyspeptic remedy.
Year: 1875

VERY QUIET. = Thanksgiving Day
passed off moro quietly than usual this
year. Business houses were closed and
but few people about town. Flags were
displayed ut half mast in honor of the
memory Of Vice. President Wilson.
Year: 1875

MAN KILLED.-About two weeks ago
two young men-one white, aged 2l, and
the other black, aged about 18-passed


through Weaverville, being put-up by
those who saw them, as suspicious char
actcrs. They started from here for Hum
boldt and their reputation travelled ahead
of them. Along down the river, for two
or three days before they appeared, warn
ing was given, "There is a niger and
white man coming this way; look out
for them; they are suspicious-looking
customers" This reputation they were
not entitled to, 50 far as we could learn
at least they committed no depredations
but perhaps this was owing to the fact
that every body with whom they came in
contact watched them closely. This
week news reached here that the white
man was killed and several contradictory
accounts of the affair were given. From
the Humboldt mailman, who arrived on


Wednesday, we learned the following
particulars The tramps" reached Ce-
dar Flat, where the white man was found
dead with several bullet holes in him


the negro having departed down the river.


McWhorter saddled horse, overlook


and brought him to Willow Greek where


he was turned over to Constable Boyce.
According to the negro's story, the pair


lost the trail near Cedar Flat on Monday,
and darkness coming on, concluded to
camp for the night. In starting fire,
the wood did not burn freely and in order
to help it the white man poured some
powder from his horn on the sparks. The
powder ignited, communicated with that
in the horn, which it exploded, and thence
to the mans revolver, every cham Der of
which went off, the bullets passing into
the mans body. One went into his
mouth and out at the top of his head,
another through his heart, while a third
entered his breast, of course killing him
instantly. The mailman tells us that
parties who visited the scene of the kill
!Lg say that the surroundings and appear
ance of the spot go to corroborate the
negro's story, the only suspicious circum-
stance being the negro's running away.
1t is not improbable that he, knowing
himself already watched and fearing the
mans death would be placed to his charge
followed the first impulse of self preser-
walton and sought safety in flight.
Year: 1875

THANKSGIVING ENTERTAINMENT. -
The Concert and Variety Exhibition
given by the Weavervile Musical Union
on Thanksgiving evening, was a success
In every particular. The Theater was
crowded with people, who frequently ex


pressed their approval of the entertain
meht by loud and continued applause.
where all did so well, it is impossible to
partlcularize suffice it to say that every
part OF the long programme was well
rendered. Financially, the exhibition
was barely successful. The dance after the
entertainment was we'll attended and en-
!oyed by all who remained. The lateness
IN The week prevents us from giving a
more extended review of the exhibition.
Year: 1875

INSANE FEMALE.--A Chinawoman,
ABOUT as crazy as women ever get to be,
Is at present the sole occupant of the
county jail. She was arrested few days
ago. and has since been perfectly Wild
Kicking, scratching and fighting at fear
iul rate. Everything with which she
might injure herself has been removed
from the cell. There being a probability
mat her madness is from the effect OF
opium and may wear off, the officers have
concluded to delay the Investigation for
awhile, and await developments.
Year: 1875

REFORM NEEDED.-The Legislature
about to convene in Sacramento, being
Democratic and pledged to reform, will
please make note of the fact that hogs
dirty black hogs-are running at large in
the town of Weaverville, county Of Trim
ity, and State of California, and that the
said hogs break through and destroy our
fence and thereby cause us much annoy
ance and make us swear-a thing which
we are decidedly averse to doing where
upon we ask said Honorable body to pass
a law preventing hogs from running at
large in our public streets and further
more that the owners of cows possessed
of intelligence which makes them capable
of opening gates, no matter how securely
fastened, be required to keep said cows at
home. We can think of nothing more
annoying than to find six or eight hogs
and one or more cows in a garden, day
after day, and as the Weaverville quad
rupeds of these varieties won't be kept
out, their owners should keep them off
the public streets. 1t is probable that,
unless some measures are taken to prevent
their breaking into peoples yards, some
OF them will be found to have died from
the epizootic, lead poison or some other
speedy destroyer.
Year: 1875

PETRIFIED HUMAN REMAINS.-We are in
formed that on Friday last the graves of Mr..
aud Mrs. Kidder, at Eddington Pond, were
opened for the purpose of disinterring and
removing their remains to another locality.
Mrs. Kidder has been dead for eighteen years,
while the body of the husband was committed
to the earth forty three years ago. Owing to
the length of time which has elapsed, it was
not anticipated that anything more than dust,
or few bones at most, would be found.


Greatly to the surprise of those present, on
opening the grave of Mrs. Kidder, who was
over eighty years of age at the time Of her
decease. her body was found as perfectly pre-
served and the features as natural as on the
day of her burial. Her hair had grown to a
considerable length but the last vestige Of her
graye-clothes had disappeared, leaving solid
petrfaction, not unlike marble, of a grayish
tint Proceeding next TO the grave of MI.
Kidder, the side of the other, it was found
that, although nearly half century has
passed since he was numbered among the
living, his body had also turned to stone, of q
deep, rich brown color; but, more singular
still, while all the clothing had disappeared
from the body of his wife in eighteen years,
his body still retained portions of the cloth in
which he was dres sed for the last time, forty
three years since. In digging for this body, no
trace Of the box or coffin was found, and the
petrified remains, of which only the upper
part of the skull and portions of the feet had
disappeared, lay IN several inches OF water.
When first reached, the workmen supposed
they had struck a stone of so ne kind, and the
weight of the body-so remarkably showing
Natures intervention to prevent the ordinary
processes of decay-was so great that three
men were required to lift it.-BdRgor Wing.
Year: 1875

THE centennial of the battle of Bunker
Hill was observed in Boston yesterday in
manner entirely worthy of that great city.
The New England metropolis spared no pains
and no expense to make the occasion the
most striking memorial celebration ever held
in this country. There was probably never
so large number of people before gathered
together in one city for a similar purpose.
Visitors were present from The remotest sec
tions of the country. One of the pleasantest
features of the celebration was the large rep
resentaton from the states lately in rebellion.
The cordial feeling with which the Southern
ers were received shows that the animosities
engendered by the war are fast dying out in
Northern hearts at least, and leads to the
hope that long before the close Of the centen-
nial epoch the people of this country will be
at one again in tAer desire for the perpetuity
of the Union.
Year: 1875

an earnest desire to justify your generous conf
dence, and strong regard for the honor and arel-
fare of State inspire Nth the firm resoJue to
spare effort and to consider other consequences
in the endearor to faith discharge the duties that
aoiU be incumbent on me if your choice shall prove
to be the choice of the people also pledge you and
thousands for Dhom you act in that event, honest
purpose and red determination to make the public
good my single aim and constant care.


Gen. Connor's Acceptance.
Year: 1875

THE full report given elsewhere III these
columns conveys good idea of the magni-
tude of the display in Boston yesterday, and
of the spirit in which the anniversary OF the
opening battle of the revolution was OBJ
served. The celebration was certainly wor-
thy of The occasion which called it forth.
Year: 1875

We do not read anonymous letters and cemmuni-
cations. The name and address of the writer in
all Indispensable, not necessarily for publication
but as a guaranty of good faith.


We cannot undertake to return or reserve commu-
nications that are not used.
Year: 1875

IT is too fanny for anything to see Major
Shorey and the Kennebec Journal get on
their feet to declare that the Argus has been
drawing upon its vivid imagination to extend
its report of the Republican Convention.
Year: 1875

AND now the Providence Journal comes
in and claims for little sister ''Rhody'' the
honor of the first naval battle of the Revolu-
ton which occurred about the fifteenth of
June 1775 near Newport by order of the
Assembly of that province. They say that the
affair at Machas was 'private enterprise ,
you know, and not entitled to recognition as
public victory The Committee of safety'
however, accepted the Margaretta and
thanked the people OF Machias who in a sort
of out-ofdoor town meeting took vote on
the question by polling the house by crossing
a brook-a sort of a Rubicon.
Year: 1875

Water is obtained by sinking wells
in all parts of Los Angeles valley, but
in many localities flowing wells are
struck at depths ranging from fifty to
three hundred feet. These artesian
wells are never-changing fountains,
and are both beautiful and useful. One
of them will irrigate small farm, and
when in the hands of an industrious
man converts every inch of it into
productive land. "The Los Angeles
Immigration and Land Cooperative
Associa tionn have secured three
thousand five hundred acres of fine
land in one of these localities where
artesian wells may be dug on every
tract, and divided it into small farms
and homesteads, which they propose
to dispose of to settlers on terms SO
liberal that persons of the smallest
means may provide themselves with
homes. The plan of payment is in
yearly instalments, in amounts so
small that common laborers may save
the sum out of their wages. The soil
of the entire tract is rich and exhaust
less and the trifing expense at which
wells may be obtained renders this
land desirable to all who wish to se-
cure few acres on which they may
grow everything that is Indigenous to
semi-tropical climate. Artesia lies
adjacent to Norwalk Station, OH the
Anaheim Railroad, and may be
reached within one hour by rail from
this city. The company have laid out
town on the tract and named it Ar
tesla. They will also erect a fine
school-house on two-acre lot reserved
for the purpose. For particulars see
advertisement in the HERALD or en-
quire at the office of the company at
u Spring street, in this city.
Year: 1875

Who is he? Santa Barbara is af-
fiicted with the presence of writer
from New York-a verbose cores
pondent of the New York Herald.
The atmosphere, water, fruit, or some
thing else in that lovely city, has
soured on the poor fellows stomach,
and we judge from the language he uses
in the Herald of the 18th ult. that his
condition is critical. He is treating
his own disease, which makes the case
still more serious. Invalids in his
condition should not be permitted to
prescribe for themselves, and the good
citizens of Santa Barbara should pay
more attention to their invalid guests.
This demented man was permitted to
go alone to druggist and buy bottle
of medicine, for which he was charged
four bits. The effect Of that bottle of
medicine, or the enormous price of it,
so inflamed the poor mans stomach
| that he belched out stream as long
as two and half columns of the Her.
aid of the most detestably bitter look
| ing stuff we ever saw. We hope it
relieved him, but we seriously doubt
If any human being can survive whose
| system once contained that amount of
poison. If we knew his name we
would advise his friends to come and
take him home. People afflicted as
this correspondent is should never
come to the Pacific Coast. There is
something in this climate or the fruits
of the country that increases the ma
| lignity of the disease, and very few
such invalids ever live to return to
their anxious friends in the East.
Since writing the above, it has been
more than intimated to us that the
New York Herald correspondent
wanted some of the people of Santa
Barbara to "see him. and he would
write up their country. The Barba-
rians couldn't see it; hence that bitter
article in the Herald. If this be true,
it accounts for many of the worst
symptoms in his case.
Year: 1875

No man embarks on an enterprise
now without asking the all important
question, will it pay? Life is too ac-
tive and too short to waste time on
anything that will not pay. Besides
the world is exceedingly selfish, and
cannot afford to contribute largely,
even to benevolent objects. We are
all in the boat together, and there are
but few exceptions to the above rule.
we are not disposed to blame anybody
for it; the world has gradually drifted
into this condition of things, and no
one is responsible. All we can do is to
keep in the current and float with the
multitude. Perhaps a millenlal day
will dawn upon the world by and by,
and then-well! What then? We
don't know, and as we do not expect
to be here we are not much concerned
about it. We are now hunting some
thing that will pay, and if figures
do not lie, we know we have found 1T
in the Los Angeles and Independence
Railroad. There is not road on the
continent that ever had half the pros
poets before it that this one has. The
whole mineral wealth of the richest
mineral territory on the globe is
tributary to it, and will be for all time
to come. 1t is low estimate to say
that from the day of its completion it
will have one thousand tons of freight
per day. If it should not increase,
this alone is the grandest business
ever presented to road. Look at it,.
At least two million five hundred
thousand per annum, for freight alone.
The passenger traffic and mails will
more than pay the running expenses
of the road. But the freight will
double in a short time, when that road
furnishes facilities to develop the
mineral wealth of that vast territory.
AS cheap freight is what we all want,
we will put the price to half our esti-
mate, and we have million and a
quarter per annum on freight alone.
Four millions will build the road.
The freight will pay twenty-five pei
cent on the investment, and give a
quarter of a million extra. Here is
the best permanent investment we
ever saw. 1t will pay. These esti-
mates are from the figures of an old
railroad man who has carefully studi-
ed the situation and has made his es-
mates on safe grounds. There is still
another important matter to be con-
sidered, and that is the certain and al
most immediate extension of the road
from the Point of Rocks ON to con-
Meeting point with the Union Pacific
near Salt Lake, by which we shall be
placed five hundred miles nearer New
York city than San Francisco is to
that city. We hope our people will
see the Importance of pushing the
road ahead. 1t is the greatest enter
prise in which we can engage for the
early and rapid development of South
ern California.
Year: 1875

THE San Francisco Post says the
Los Angeles Grange has been exhibit
ing it's stupidity by passing series of
resolutions denouncing those members
of the State Board of Education who
voted for change of school books. If
the Post were worth the powder a still
stronger series of resolution might be
passed denouncing its cupidity in
advancing what it knows to be a
swindle on the people.
Year: 1875

SAN JOSE, CAL, February 6th.-A
fire started early this morning in the
rear of the engine house next to the
City Hall. The fire made considera-
BILE headway before the streams were
turned oil, burning sheds and stables
and leaving only the skeletons. The
farmers Home Hotel and the City
Hall were badly scorched. The origin
of the fire is unknown.
Year: 1875

ANOTHER Indian doctor has been
transported to the happy hunting
ground. He was of the Hot Spring
tribe, and his patient died. There is
a sort of rude justice among the abo-
ripines.
Year: 1875

The Wilmington papers of lnte
date describe an exhibition given by
Prof. William Field, of that city, OF
"a new process of converting cast
iron into steel by chemical process.
The process is probably secret, but
the manipulation is described. Some
hundreds of pounds of ordinary cast
iron were first made, we suppose for
kpurposes of comparison, and then
the9molten iron was taken in pots
and ladies' containing from twenty to
twenty-five pounds, and "the ANAL


gram put into each. The metal
after being stoved was ready to be
cast into moulds and in less than five
minutes after the amalgam was put
in the iron was converted to steel.
A number Of articles were cast from
the metal--a bar of railroad steel,
horse shoes, q razor and plowsharo.
The tools were said to be of the best
quality. The newspapers report
that the steel may be nude malleable
by the process or as hard as is de-
sired. If a part of the carbon which
cast iron contains Gun be removed by
chemical means as described above,
the process will prove as valuable in
opposition to the Bessomer, as the
latter WAS superior in most respects
to the process of concentration.