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Year: 1874

The flashes of excitement produced by
the stimulants in ordinary use are fol-


lowed by a reaction. that is always more
or less injurious. Just as the darkness,
illuminated for moment by the light
nings glare, becomes apparently darker
than ever after the flash is over, so the
mental gloom and physical debility that
vanish temporarily under the influence
of dram, return with ten-fold intensi-
ty when the first transient effect ceases.
Yet physicians habitually prescribe the
liquors of commerce for patients suffering
from bodily weakness and mental de-
spondency. The true remedy in such
cases is pure stimulant medicated with
the finest tonics and alternatives which
the vegetable kingdom affords, and Hos


letters Stomach Bitters is the only prep
aration at present known which thorough
ly meets the emergency. The effect Of
this popular restorative is continuous.
Each dose taken invigorates the vital
energies and the brain, and its prolonged
use will unquestionably cure any case Of
debility, hypochondria, or mental torpid
ity that does not arise from organic
causes beyond the reach of medicine. 1t
is, in the strictest sense Of the word, an
invigoratiLg and regulating cordial. II
the nerves are tremulous and relaxed, it
braces them if the bowels are constipat-
ed, it relieves them if the liver is torpid,
it promotes activity in that organ if the
mind is gloomy, it clears away the clouds;
il the appetite is poor an; and digestion q
relish for food and enables the stomach to
convert i. into healthful aliment. More
over, it is a specific for large number of
ailments, some of which are particularly
prevalent in the damp and chilly weather
which we so often experience in mid win
ter. Among these may be mentioned
rheumatism, chils and fever and all the
morbid conditions of the digestive and
secretive organs superinduced by sudden
changes of temperature and the inclem-
encics of the season. 4ap
Year: 1874

LOCAL OPTIoN.-The Good Templars
at this place have taken the preliminary
steps toward getting a vote under the
Local Option law, in this township. Pc,
titions are now in circulation and those
having the matter in charge say they can
easily obtain the necessary number of
signers. For the benefit of all interested
Ue nnhlish
Year: 1874

BACK .AGAIN.-Wm. Campsie, who
went to Nevada last Fall, returned this
week, we'll satisfied that there is no better
section on the Pacific Slope than Trinity
county. He tells us that there are a
great many Trinitarians in and about
Virginia City and Gold Hill who would
be glad to get back here.
Year: 1874

UNION HILL.-In this mine they have
lately been taking the old blocks from the
Hume, cleaning it up and putting in new
blocks. In this operation they took out
Ss5O-more than twice as much as they
expected to realize.
Year: 1874

LOWER TRINITY.-James Mullane in
forms us that miners in that part of the
county are all at work and doing we'll
The cattle wintered on Lower Trinity all
survived, which is better than those did
which were driven away. i.
Year: 1874

Au6uSt 4OD 4oiH ]
There Is a lull in the pig IRON market,
but prices are firm at the quotations.
There can be no further reduction Of
prices without slGughteriDg producers,
and they are not inclined TO concessions
in the face Of a general revival oI business,
from which they are already experiencing
relief.


Although large quantities Of pig iron
still remain In first hands, It can not be
denied that large demGnd-which may
come at any tIme-would soon reduce
tho supply, and the ordinary consumption
Of healthy business would be largely In
excess Of the present production.
Year: 1874

am asked by one and another wheth-
er am in favor of third term for Gen
eral Grant. My invariable answer is that
l am in favor Of anything and everything
that will keep the Democratic
party out of power. If his renom-
ination is essential to this end, then by
all means let it come-yes, and come as
often as there shall be the like occasion
for it. Better anything, better every
thing than the ruin that would befall
our country from the ascendency of the
party which sympathised with the rebels
in the late rebellion and with their ma
lignant purpose to perpetuate slavery ;
and which still cherishes its traditional
hatred of the black man. The slaughter
of the innocent still going on at the South
is due to this hatred as we'll as all ku-
Klux-ism, as was the negro numbering
mob of 1868 in New York, and as was
every one of the pro-slavery mobs that
diseraced the North Whether the out
break against our colored brethren be al
the North or at the South the Democrat
ic party is it's inspiration, its soul and sus-
tenance. | do not forget that the
Democratic press, in its pictures OF the
present outrages at the South, presents
the patient and long suffering negro as
the aggressor. Nor do l forget that the
wolf held the innocent lamb to be guilty
of rolling the stream.


In my eye Democracy is all one with
devilism OF course, l mean not that
genuine Democracy, which Thomas JEFF
ferson taught in his lessons for equal hu-
man rights. l mean the Democracy of
these degenerate days-the bastard De-
mocracy-which tramples upon these
holy rights. Ofcourse, too, do not in
/ i r NIN,A
cratic party all who are in it. There are
persons in it and yet not OF it-persons
whose pure principles are at widest con
trast from the base policies of the party.
do not, however, hold that these excep-
tional gentlemen are entirely blameless.
Year: 1874

There is always a sunny side to look
at. All OF US can turn away from the
dark and gloomy passages which we meet
on our way, and walk in Gods sunshine
The brightest natures live longest, live
most, and live truest; their lives round
into fuller perfection and development
than their less fortunate brothers and
sisters who look on matters in shady
light. All life is beautiful, with its va
ried phases and constantly shifting scenes
"a panorama that never is monotonous
or tiresome if rightly viewed Though
the road be sometimes rough, polish
comes by rough treatment. The dia-
mond would be useless unsmoothed and
unpublished.


Our natures require obstacles to give
us tone and strength. Combatiyeness is
blessing when rightly exercised. A
want of it causes many fits of blues and
many defeats in life. We all have a
right of independence, and should main
tain that right-not to the detriment of
others, but for our own selfhood


The sunny side is often obliterated for
awhile by our contact with rough un-
feeling natures, those inharmonious be-
ings who roam through this world and
seem to have no mission but that of
making themselves comfortable at the
expense OF Veryoody else. But let not
your ideal Of humanity be disfgured by
these; remember that the rough and
ragged burr covers the sweetest of nuts,
and the germ of divinity exists in all,
however thick the vail which conceals it.
There is a keynote to every soul, and if
we could find it the judgement passed
upon others would be- less harsh. Per-
haps their lives began amid stony ground,
and their early days were only sad re-
membranes. But they have a sunny
side hidden away somewhere in the tan
gled mesh-it lies waiting to be discov-
cred.


And now l will only say, let no one
come between you and your happiness.
Keep your eyes fixed steadily on the
ideal you have formed, and with justice,
charity, and self-reliance for your guild
choose the sunny path of life, and fus
the destiny waiting for you.
Year: 1874

very nearly fifty years, has hesitated
no expenditure of time or money in the
cause of temperance, do l regret the OF
ganization of political parties for sucl
abolition. And not less do Eregret it be
cause it favors the return of the Demo
cratic party to power-an event which
every man breads inexpressibly, who ha,
spent his life in fighting the devils OF
Democracy and slavery.


The few thousand votes which my
worthy friend Hon. Myron H Clark will
receive will not help the cause of temper
ance-for since he goes for absolute pro
hibition instead of merely against tht
dramshop, he is on a wrong Temperance,
track. Nevertheless though his vote will
be small, yet since eseven-eighths of it will
come from Republicans, it may possibly
be large enough to turn the scale in favor
OF the Democratic candidate Such can
dldate may be very worthy man-and
yet his success, being a Democratic vic
tory, would be a great evil. l know not
who will be the Republican candidate
He may be in himself quite unworthy
the nomination, and yet his success be
important because defeat of the Demo
cratic party. But the Republican candi
date may be the eminent scholar, soldier
and statesman who is our present unsur
passed Governor. 1t was he who sound
ed our kev-note in the late war, when he
ordered the shooting on the spot of who
ever dishonored our country's flag; and
hence his reelection could not fail to
bring joy to every loyal heart. Joy, too.
would it bring to every friend of temper
ance who knows, as know, that Govern
or Dixs heart and habits are both on the
side of temperance.


close with saying that view as alb
surdities all Local Option Laws" and
License Laws" and Civil Damages
Laws" and that would have every in
stance of drunkenness regarded as a vol
untary and responsible insanity, and
therefore to be punished severely.


PETERBoRo, Sept. s, 1874,
Year: 1874

Col. Matt. Mdrtin-SIR-I
cheerfully accede to your prop
osition published in the Demo-
crGt Of week before last, to sub
nit to a vote Of the people at
the approaching county election
in August our respective claims
as candidates for Congress; as
well as those of others who are
or may become candidates.
While | advocate in my circu-
lar convention, it is such only
as l conceive will get nearest
home to the choice Of the peo-
pie in denomination to bemade.
But since there is to be an cleo
ton for county0fficers in all the
counties at which there is likely
to be a pretty full vote, | think
that better plan to get at the
choice OF the people as to who
shall be the nominee OF the
Democratic party than any con-
vention can be. And as that
election takes place prior to the
election for Congress it will be
no Inconvenience or trouble to
the people to express their pref
erence, as to WHO shall be the
candidate Of the Democratic
party or Congress at that cleo
ton, by eacE Democratic voter
placing Oh his ticket the name
Of the aspirant whom he pre-
ters for the nomination.


The only difficulty | appre-
hendin this plan i that the Rad
icals may unduly influence the
selection OF the candidate.-
But l trust The Democrats will
not suffer this done.


II thereisnot thatmuchregard
for the integrity and welfare Of
the party among its members
we had as well give over any
claim OF having a party. And
in that event Heaven provide
for the country.


Our Radical neighbors will
bear in mind that this is a
proposition to Democrats alone,
a family matter they are to take
no hand in.


do not regard this plan as in
any wise weakening to the con-
ventionsystcm. When the peo-
pie can be so conveniently con-
suited as in this case the neces-
sity Of conventions is obviated.
The strength Of conventions
consists in the necessity Of the
case.


Believing the people prefer
this plan | submit my claims,
respectfully requesting the of
ficers Of election to make re-
turn Of the vote in this case as
they do the other elections to
take place on that. day, 1st|
Thursday in August next.


Trusting the press Of the dis
drict will be as kind to me in
publishing this as to youin pub
fishing your card, | remain ever
yours, Col, most respectfully,


WM. Z. TOLLEY.
Year: 1874

CAPTURED.-A few evenings
ago colored preacher and doc
tor in Memphis, Tenn. was ap-
preached by neighbOr. The
fellow asked the doctor to go
with him and he would show
him where he could get a trunk
full of money. The dOctorwent,
and near the Orphan Asylum
his guide halted and explained
that the reverend gentleman
was to take OF his boots and
stockings and 90 barefooted to
the point named, while his new
found friend carried the boots
around to the place by cir
cuitous route. The doctor ha;
given up the search for the trunk
and is looking for his boots.
Year: 1874

The familiarity of the from
tiersman with scenes Of shoot
ing and executions by lynch law,
and his GOODNESS in the average
Western atfray, are proverbial.
The last instance that has come
to our knowledge in which en-
terprise and self-posses ion
were admirably mingled occur
red at the recent execution Of
a criminal in Washington Ter
ritory. just as he was about
to be swung off, and after he had
remarked to the sheriff that he
had nothing further to say, a
real estate agent, whose office
was in his hat, forced himself
to the front and up the steps of
the scaffold, and jointly adj
dressing the criminal and the
sheriff, said, Of the gesatIsn1cgo
aoho occupies the platform
will kindly yield for a tjeaO NAN
qtteS | would like to make a few
remarks upon the cheap home
stead lots at Dobsons Hole l
am now offering for sale" The
polite request was assented to,



and after a brief summary Of
the advantages presented by
that locality the sheriff resumed
his duties, pulled the cap over
the "gentleman's" countenance,
and permitted him to drop.
Year: 1874

Nothing so vexes d physician
as TO be sent for Ill great haste
and fnd little or nothing the mat
ter with the patient. IN emi-
nent English surgeon was once
sent for a gentleman who had re-
ceived slight wound On his
arrival be sent his servant back
in great haste to get a certain
kind Of plaster. The paIient, tur
ming pale, said "Sir, ] hope there
is no danger" "Indeed tn re is,
answered the surgeon, 'for If the
fellow doesn'trun like race horse
the wound will lie Leale q before he
can possibly get back.
Year: 1874

The Mississippi Legislature has
passed al act requiring liquor
dealers to obtain the written con
sent of majority Of the men
and women who are OF age IN the
town where they propose to sell,
before license can be granted.
Year: 1874

Smallpox, speaking non-medicalIy,
takes fourteen days to incubate. Its
symptoms commence with severe weak
ness and pain in the small of the back,
which the uhsUspecting victim attrib-
utes in some way to the kidneys The
system becomes feverish and the spirits
unusually depressed. Before the dis
ease really manifests itself, and at a
point where no physician can diagnose
1.-THE symptoms being so similar to
scarlet fever, measles and other dis
eases-the sufferer complains of feverish
symptoms, severe headache, insupport-
able lassitude, loss of appetite-in
short, the unmistakable signs of an ap-
preaching malady which is to shake the
system to its base, and test the powers
of vitality and strength TO their utmost
tension. Then breaks out the unmis
taxable eruption which marks the fell
destroyer, and it is then that the friends
of the patient should either have him
removed, or at least guard the sick
room that the contagion may be kept
within the closest limits. If there is no
hospital near, flag should at once be
hoisted to indicate to passers by that
the lintels of that door have been
brushed by the destroying angel.


Every man is liable to small l-pox,
even a second time-some more than
others; and it is a well authenticated
fact that the mind has an immense deal
to do not only with the liability to con-
troll infection, but with the power to
Withstand the shock. Fear may be
called the greatest friend, next to a GER
tain habit of body, which the smallpox
has. A man has been known to catch
it b, simply seeing a case upon the other
side of road, which had been dis
missed from a hospital cured and he
has felt that peculiar shudder, which
veterans will tell you they remember to
have experienced at the moment from
poison into their system.
Year: 1874

NJ. Teller, one of the most acute of
French observers, adopts the theory of
the propagation of cholera by invisible
germs conveyed in the air or in water
He places no great reliance upon the ef
feet of antiseptics upon the air itself,
their action being, to say the least,
doubtful and, moreover, he considers
the action of the germs unavOidably
taken in respiration as comparatively IN
nocuous, because those taken into the
lungs do not reach the intestines, and
because such as are thus swallowed, be-
ing taken as it were in small quantity
at a time, the vitality of the system is
able to resist their action, IN like man
ner as It overcomes the action of poison
taken in insignificant doses. NJ. Teller
thi5ks that it is by introduction of the
germ into the alimentary canal, where
they find conditions altogether favora-
bic for their rapid multiplication and
development, that the disease is most
frequently and most fatally c0mmuni-
Gated. He cites fruit as being especi-
ally calculated, some by their downy
covering, as the apricot or the peach,
others by the gUmmy or glutinous coat
ing which most of them possess, 20 ar
rest and retain the germs carried by the
air. Fruit should therefore be carefully
washed, or the skins removed IN the
time OF epidemic cholera
Year: 1874

ABsoLUTELY pure iron is said to have
been prepared by Russian chemist bv
means Of the galvanic battery. During
The process a large quantity Of hydrogen
vas disengaged from the ordinary iron
used. The pure iron is n silver white
metal, very mallOable and ductile, and
~ - soft as to be readily cut with a pai1
.. scissors. It oxidizes rapidly, and
ra'er Is decomposed by it with a rapid
'osorphon Of oxygen.
Year: 1874

TIE most appalling case Of deafness
that we ever came across outside OF an
asylum was an old lady who lives Just
across the street from thenavyy yard. Ihe
other day they fred salute of twenty
one guns. The old lady was observed
70 start and listen as the last gun was
fred, and then exclaim, "Come iR'
Year: 1874

Its contents in metallic iron are Al 25.
In comparing tho ores Of Kcating with
the Scottish ores, from the best of
which the above analysis was made,
we find that we can produce at least
as good, and doubtless better, an arti-
clio of iron In its crude state as can be
found in Europe, and in incalculablo
quantities. Hence it will clearly be
perceived that Keating township is
immensely wealthy in ores that will
some day employ hundreds Of work
men and millions of capital in its de-
velopment and manufacture into iron.


One seam Of iron ore in the Keating
Goa! basin will yield from 80 to As per
cent, and lays on the top of vein Of
coal. 1t can frequently be taken
down after tho coal has been mined
from under it, in which case the cost
Of mining would bc greatly reduced.
There are also immense bodies of kid
ney ore that will yield at least so per
cent. through the furnace.


In writing on this subject, DR.. Ure
says: "The profusion Of excellent coal
and its association in this and other
localities with iron stone, have pro-
cured hitherto for our country a
marked superiority over all others in
the iron trade" The facilities for
making iron where all the materials
are on the same ground cannot
be over estimated. Here coal, iron
ore and lime for fuxing are found
in abundance in close proximity. No
transportation will be required to get
the raw material to tho furnace, while
there are good facilities for shipping
the manufactured iron. The Danvillc
iron masters are obliged to bring some
Of their ores from the Lake Superior
mines, at cost of from $40 TO sl2
per ton, but in Keating township there
would be no such necessity, as all tho
different grades and qualities of ore
required are found together in one
vast field. This section of our county
will somo day bo a thickly populated
district, tho inhabitants of which will
bo engaged in or dependent on the
iron business. The sooner tho mines
are opened and the work begun, the
sooner will this result be brought
about.


Having given pretty thorough
showing Of the minerals contained on
the Karthaus property, ] will now
take up several other tracts lying on
the line of the Philadelphia and Erie
railroad in this township. The Wis
tar Coal Company have a very valua-
bic tract of land containing at tho least
calculation ono hundred and twenty
five million tons of the best bitumin-
GUS coal, suitable for tho manufacture
ofiron, either in its raw state or cokcd.
Tho iron stone on this tract will
amount to about three hundred and
seventy-fve million tons. Limestone
also Is fonnd in abundance, as on the
Karthaus property. Adjoining are the
lands Of d. Satterloe 4 Bro, tho three
valuable veins of coal and iron stone
extending through IL, which yield In
both the samo proportion as other
tracts described. The tract Of O. @.
McClelland lies in close proximity, un-
derlaid with the same rich veins. All
of these tracts afford excellent sites
for the location Of works Of oil kinds
necessary 70 carry on the manufacturs
Of iron.
Year: 1874

The DeldCdreom thinks the TINES and the
Milford Ne,cs are already distracted over the
loss of patronage they expect to experience


in the establishment of the new paper at
Dover There is grimness about this
sedate looking sentence that makes it sound
funny. The idea of US being distracted over
the loss of patronage that our Dover friends
have never had the power to bestow is one
that could originate only in distracted brain.
That there is distraction we cannot doubt, but
it is rot located at the extremes of the county
Year: 1874

THE LIQUOR LICENSEs.-Out of fourteen
applications for license to sell whisky, present
ed TO the court at Dover last week, for this
county, only one was granted, and that to an
applicant Of this town against whom the re-
monstrants had petitioned most largely. The
application was granted by the court on
the plea that the proprietor of the restaurant
kept an ''inn or tavern" peculiarly adapted to
the wants of the German-speaking public.
This confines the legitimate liquor traffic of
the town to four places-the two hotels and
two restaurants. The thirteen reiusals by the
court were mainly upon the plea set forth Dy
the temperance party, viz: that the sale Of
liquor by such applicants served no public
necessity.


1t has been urged by many, with considerable
force, that the taste fer strong drink is
materially increased by increasing the facilities
for getting the drink that it is an unnatural
appetite, which can be cultivated to any i'm.
moderate extent, and the more cultivation il
receives the more it demands As many
grocery stores may be established as the tOwr
can hold, but consumption will not be increased
in the least by the increase in the number O.
ssores. The inevitable law of supply and de
manG regulates the trade But in the whisk,
trade it is question of appetite appetite dis
eased by the article it Graves until it knows n,
limit-and when once the appetite is started it i
sharpened by every beer sign with which
comes in contact. There seems considerabl
force in the idea.


Now that the sale has been brought down t
this narrow limit it remains to be seen how tn
restriction will work We feel pretty safe i
the prediction, however, that the four author
lied establishments Of the town will not Sc
as much now as the ten or fifteen OF one yea
ago did.


The influence upon the peace and good ord,
of the town may also be watched with refe
enee to the restriction in the groggerie
1t has been repeatedly stated by the tempe
ance men, who are promised to keep an e,
over the matter, that the aim was to con6l
the sales to such dealers as have decent I
spect for their own regulations and the .eput
tions Of their houses-particularl first ella
hotels. They do not feel that they attain
complete success in this particular, yet tn
feel degree of satisfaction 10 their partial 81
cess. That most of the licensed parties n,
in the county will keep to the letter of the la
and refuse to sell to minors and drunken me
they confidently believe. That violations "
be carefully looked after they positively asse