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Year: 1878

Guns should always be carried at
half-cock, as then neither blow on
the striker nor pull on the trigger
will bring the former into action.
There is no necessity whatever far a
gun to be otherwise than at half
cocK, unless game is Immediately in
front and, further, it may not be
out OF place to add, that it is danger
Gus when shooting in company for the
gun to be swung round in taking aim
with the finger on the trigger. The
eye should follow the line ef the
flight, and the gun be raised at the
proper moment. Accidents from
guns bursting are rare hut caution
is very necessary in getting over
fences to see that no earth gets lodg-
ed in the muzzle, or in winter time
that the latter does not get blocked
up by snow dropping from the BUSH
es or otherwise. These obstacles,
although they may be easily remov-
ed, are quite sufficient if they re-
main; to burst the strongest barrels
when the piece is fired. This is
caused by the wonderful velocity of
the expanding gasses. This expan-
sion, is said to be at about the rate
of 1000 feet per second, is the same
in all directions, and the least check
at the muzzle of the gun causes such
sudden increased pressure on all
sides that the latter are unable to re-
sist its effects, and are burst open.
No one is more cautious or scrupu-
lous in the use of his gun than an old
sportsman, and no one more readily
than be detects and condemns care
lessness in the manipulation of their
guns in others.
Year: 1878

Farmers are slow to learn the val
ue of carrots for horses. They are
so nutritious that livery stable men
feed out large quantities of them to
their horses, instead of grain. -Four
quarts Of oats and the same of car
rots are considered as good for a
horse as eigh. quarts of oats; and
horses that are not worked much
will keep in good condition on hay
and carrots only. A few small po-
tatoes are also very good for horse,
especially to give smooth, glossy
coat The farmer who has no car
rots, beets or turrips for his stock
when winter approaches has made a
serious mistake. In England where
land is dear, the farmers grow i'm
mense crops of beets to feed out in
the winter; and if profitable there,
why not here? Probably the most
easily raised, most productive, and
most profitable root crop in this coun-
try is some of the varieties OF beets,
some of which grow eighteen to
twenty-four inches long and yield a
thousand bushels to the acre, if the
land is highly manured; butthe best
way to grow them is to grow a crop
of potatoes the previous year on the
land, with heavy application Of
manure, and with no manure the
year the beets are grown, and there
will be but few weeds, if the land
was kept clean the year before.
Year: 1878

Pipe lines are growing in favor as
a medium of transportation. Down
in Louisiana some syrup dealers pro-
Pose to lay pipes through which syr-
up can be pumped any distance from
the sugar house to the great factory
on the Teche.
Year: 1878

Fashion kills more women thar
toll and sorrow. Obedience to fash
ion is greater transgression Of the
laws Of woman's nature-a greater
injury to her physical and mental
situation-than poverty and neglect
The slave woman at her task will
live and grow old, and will see two
or three generations of her mistresses
fade and pass away The washer.
woman, with scarce a ray of hope to
cheer her In her toll, will live to see
her fashionable sisters die all around
her. The kitchen maiden is hearty
and strong, while her lady has to be
nursed like a sick baby.


1t is a sad truth that the fashion
tampered women are almost worth
less for oil the ends of human life.
They have hut little force OF charac-
ter. They have still less power of
moral will, and quite as little of ply
sical energy. They live for no great
purpose in life; they accomplish no
worthy ends. They are only doll
forms in the hands of milliners and
servants, to be dressed and fed to
order. They dress nobody and they
5 ave nobody. They write no books;
they set no rich example OF virtue
and of womanly life. If they rear
children, servants and nurses do all,
save to conceive and give them birth.
Aud when reared what are they
What do they ever amount to but
weak scions of the old stockl Who
ever heard of a fashionable woman's
child exhibiting any virtue or power
Of mind for which it became eminent?
Read the biographies of our great
and good men and women. Not one
Of them had a fashionable mother.
They nearly all sprung from strong
minded women, who had about as
little to do with fashion as with the
changing clouds.
Year: 1878

The revolutionary movements of the con-
spirators against the Presidential title are
not without their legitimate effects upon the
business interests OF the country. Under
the beneficent influences of slowly but
gradually returning confidence in business
circles, by which hope began to revive and
business was fast putting on new energies;
when gold and grecnbacks were rapidly
assimiating in value, and every department
of trade commerce and manufactures was
taking on fresh vigor and improved prospects,
and an air OF cheertulness was settling down
upon business prospects and hopes every
where, the mutterings of an approaching
political storm arrested public attention, and
clouds settled rapidly upon the business
affairs of the country.


But two weeks have transpircd since the
ng-thrcatencd revolution began to take
shape in the House Of Representatives and
the cOnsprators to develop their nelhriOus
plans and purposes to the public and yet
rfhe delctcrious consequences of these move
mcnts are everywhere discoverable in bust
ness circles. Money has suddenly become
timid and gold is again crawling up in the
scale of values Confidence has encountered
n severe frost and is checked in its growth
and expansion. Hope droops and business
energies begin to flag, until the paralysis
that had 80 long hung upon the business
enterprise of the people, and which seemed
to be giving way, is apparently returning
with its stagnating power to discourage and
deprcss.


If the business men of the country dis
cover that the relief they have been so long
and so ardently looking for is under sus-
pension, they have no difficulty in discover
remedial measures in Congress TO give place
either to farce or tragedy. The delay in
providing the ways and means for moving
the wheels of Government, and the turning
of the legislative machine into the ways OF
political malice and sectional hate, to tho
exclusion or delay Of legitimate business.
The assault made upon the Presidential Title
under menace of revolution. The revival
of sectional animosites and the tanning of
the slumbcrny embcrs Of rebellion into
flame again. The air of insolencc with
which the skeleton OF rebellion sud-
denly clothes itself and stalks through
the halls of Congress and the corridors of
the Government with offensive tread. The
words of defiance and hate that hang upon
ex-rebel lips, and flow from ex-Coniederate
pens through the public press, all conspire
to create doubt, hesitation, and alarm, and
To throw the country back into inaction and
dependency. These are the fruits of a
Democratic conspiracy which is fast budding
into revolution, and spreading far and:wide
the most serious consequences to the peace,
prosperity, and happiness of a long-sufiering
people.


If this movement shall prove mere fan.
faronade, and terminate as farce, it's ef-
tects are none the less TO be deplored, for
Year: 1878

TIE Baltimore Gazette and its twin
brother in this city are greatly perplexed
for the reason that they cannot comprehend
a plain piece of humoi or simple problem
OF common sense, This is not surprising
1t is said that two heads are better than
lone, il one is sleeps head :" but this
will not justify the opinion that au aggre-
CATION OF stupidity by coupling two block
heads increases the advantages of intclli-
gence.
Year: 1878

the widespread alarm, lest II may prove
a tragedy, that is cast upon the public mind,
is working infinite mischief to the material
interests Of the country. But should II de-
velope into fearful tragedy, bringing war
to every door, and spreading carnage broad
cast over the face Of this nation, then the
vengeance Of Heaven should cast its bolts
upon the heads Of the architects Of this mis-
chief, and sweep every conspirator into po-
litical oblivion, as a just penalty for the
enormity Of their crimes. The wave of
trouble, embarrassment and desolation
that is now rolling over the business
welfare Of the country, is raised by the hand
of partisan hate and the spirit Of revolu-
tion, and the people must hold that party,
and those men responsible for 1t who are
the fomcnters of sedition and the architects
Of scheme Of mischief which unsettles
everything and afllicts everybody. In the
adjustment Of this fearful account let nc
guilty man escape from the just condemna-
nation of an injured people. They must
and will defend the integrity Of their Gov
ernment and their own material welfare
This can be reached only by overwhelming
the mischief-makeH.
Year: 1878

ANDERSON is bound to get place in "a
warm climate" Failing to get it from the
Administration, he is now engaged in max
ing certainty of it by commencing himself
to the attention of his Satanic majesty on
passports of perjury.
Year: 1878

IT seems to be impossible for WAITER
son, of the Louisville CoUncr-JomaaI, to
prevent the flow Of muddy Mississippi River
water in upon his brain. The Government
sIould construct lcvees for that purpose,
and afford him an opportunity to clean up
his intellect 1t is by far too muddy and
unseemly to be either pleasant or profitable
1t casts up too much alluvial
Year: 1878

GLovER's victims have united In tho fol-
lowing pathetic appeal to that distinguished
Investigator:


oh! GLOVER! Oh GLOVER elongato your vest,
Wipe of your chin, and give us rest
BE quiet be quiet Stay that wild dance
RecOyer your breath-let the cheese have q chance.
Year: 1878

We may live without poetry, music and


art;
We may live without conscience. and


live without heart;
We may live without friends, we may


live without books,
But civilized man cannot live without


cooks.
lie may live without books; what Is


knowledge but grievlng?
He may live without hope; what is hope


but deceiving?
He may live without love; what is pas


SION but pining?
But where Il the man that can live with


out dining?


And in order to dine well you
must buy your groceries and wines
at the L store, where you can get
better goods at lower prices than
any store in the city. Remember
the number--4S and so Spring st.
Year: 1878

No money is better spent than
that which Is laid out for domestic
satisfaction. A good meal, accom-
panied by good glass of wine, will
put a man into the best possible
humor, as every wife knows; so
buy those nice groceries they have
ut the "T" store, anu make your
home happy. No. 4S and SO Spring
street
Year: 1878

The most difficult province of
friendship is giving advice. 1t
should, if possible, be SO contiived
that our friend may perceive our
advice is given him, not so much
to please ourselves as to his own
advantage. Therefore we find no
difficulty in advising our friends to
go to the T store to buy their gro
ceries and wines as we are sure 1t
will be to their advantage. 4S and
so Spring street.
Year: 1878

says: General Crook received a telegram yes
terday from Fort Hall, stating that the
friendly Bannocks, with passes from General
Crook. sent to the hOStles for information.
were met by volunteers and sent back. 1t is
impossible for the military to learn the state
OF affairs. Great trouble is anticipated. Gen.
Crook says that the report of concerted action
on the part of the various tribes is probably
false. Each tribe is acting independently and
on its own reasons. He thinks Sitting Bull not
likely to come down till late. A general In
dian war is feared by officers here who have
been stationed in the Indian country. ami
know the disposition and character of the red
Year: 1878

IHE MCGARRAHAN CLAIM. The Senate
committee on public lands yesterday adopted
a resolution requesting the Secretary of the
interior TO take no action affecting the title TO
the New ldria quicksilver mines i'm California
untii the committee shall have acted upon the
SUBJECT OF the McGarrahan claim at the next
sesSlon.of Congress.
Year: 1878

The roads leading over the hill of
life are numerous; somc people take the
road which is bright and gay--on
which flowers of the richest hues are
bloomiug-but they find, that before
they arc half way, the flowers have ia.
ded, all Is bleak, they are wearied, and
arc glad to lie down and die; others
strive to go over the steep banks which
loads to fortune and to fame, but the
paths on which they walk are weak
and rugged; some stop at deep prcci-
pice over which they are unable to pass,
the foothold Of others give way, and
they are hurled to the bottom; while
only few reach the coveted goal; but
the wise man chooses the road which
goes over the hill with . gradual slope,
on which here and there, are sweet
flowers which cheer him on the way
until he arrives at his journeys end,
where dwell Peace, Happiness and Cou-
tentment. .NI
Year: 1878

4 long box was shipped on the
Truckce Railroad in Nevada, and at
the Virginia City station it was rudely
thrown about while..a change of cars was
made. A moan inside the box led the
baggagemen to open it. They found a
young Chinese woman, inseusiblc though
standing on her head. She lad been
brought to the United States BY one
of the. Chinese companies, whose price
for her was three hundred dollars. Ah
Kim and she fell in love, and, as hs
could not buy her, he boxed ncr in
order to get her away from her cap
tors
Year: 1878

An exchange says there is a man out
West so dirty that the assessors put
him down as real estate. This reminds
us of the soldier who, while home on a
furlough during the war, called on the
wife of brother soldier to tell her the
latest news "Ah," said she, perhaps
by this time poor Jimmy's under the
soil of Virginia. perhaps 50. re-
piled the visitor; "he was an inch un-
der it when saw him last"
Year: 1878

A verdict Of $3.50 damages has been
given in favor Of a lady, who was wrong
fully accused of taking purse from a
New York store, and was forcibly de-
taincd and searched.iu consequence OF
that accusation.
Year: 1878

You understood, You say, with sccrn,


While listening to my story?
You know which rose one Summer morr


You robbed of all its glory.
All, man, the heart you cast away


When so it served your pleasure,
My ownfor many and many day
Had worshsrped without measure.
She knew it not. was not worth


The love you held SO lightly
But could lift her from the earth,


The flower once blooming brightly
The rose you threw away--ah, yes


Again to toy with-never!
But mine to worship and to bless,


To keep and held forever.
Year: 1878

In the absence of our chief we copy from
the Central City Telegraph Herald an ar
ticlc on the delegate question which is
exceed ingly complimentary to Col. Lonns-
berry and would seem to indicate that his
worth is appreciated by the people he has
labOrcd so hard to serve.
Year: 1878

The TRIBUNE has ever been careful to
deaf justly and fairly with individuals and
the public, and has always rcfrained from
that style of newspaperism thought by
some to he so essential to newspaporial
fame, which inspires them to pitch into
everything and everybody. 1t believes IN
holding every mans rights sacred and as
a natural consequence Of that belief holds


its own privileges just as sacred; and when
1t becomes necessary to differ with other
people in opinion it aims to do it in gen
tlemanly way. 1t is not an organ for the
purpose of aiding any man or set, of men
in carrying out any reprehcnsible, scheme,
but is devoted to the interests of the whole
people of Bismarck and surrounding coun-
try, and there are occasions when it must
speak of things which may perhaps be un-
pleasant to some individual; but iii doing
this has always aimed to do so in mild
and gentlemanly manner This has been
the course of the TRIBUNE, and in the alb
scncc of Col. Lounsberry no new depart
urc will be made, or any attempt to VIC:
late that spirit of fairness which we con
slider due to the public and which has al
ways animated him in his management Of
the TRIBUNE. Mems private business is
their own; their public. or official acts are
public property, and whenever compelled
to differ in opinion from officials or any.
body else, we shall continue to differ until
satisfied we are wrong; and we claim the
right to have an opinion of, our own rs to
what constitutes the epublic good, and w hen
powers are sought to be exercised by any
party prcdjudicial to the public welfare,
and wespeak of it In proper terms, no in
timations of any exercise Of modern Jetfry-
ism will tune ourvoice topraise that which
should be most cmphatically condemned.
Year: 1878

The same correspondent says: THE Porte
appears to have yielded to the Russian de
mandS for the surrender of Shumla but ha :
not for the surrender of Earna. From good
sources learn that not Russia only but Ger
many likewise limited to the Porte unless the
ff0rtleSaeS were surrendered an invitation to
Turkey to attend the congress would be with


held. Hence, probably the present comprO-
mise resulting in the iSSue of the invitation "
Year: 1878

THE EMPEROR WILLIAM is improving in
doubt that he will recover from the effects Of
the injuries inflicted by the assassin. The
right arm, so terrible torn by the shot, no
longer causes pain, and there re no symptoms
Offever. The Ministry is considering measures
for immediate adoption in the interest of order
and security to be submitted to the Federal
Council, and in the present state OF the public
no matter how severe if Unconstitutional. Prince
Bismarck has proposed a dissolution of the
Reichstag on the ground that the Govern
ments responsibility for the maintenance of
with having merely introduced an abortiye
an,l.Soclallst biz, and they cannot count upon


asecond bill meeting with better success. The
SocialStlc congress that was to meet at
Year: 1878

entire Democratic ticket, then if |
want any honorable measure passed
latthe coming session Of the Eegisla-
lture, I intend going down TO Dover
like man, feeling that have q right
% he heard but | never could have
the effrontery to ask men to pass Law
to please me whom | had recently
spoken harshly against and tried to
defeat.


| Let the ftemperancei men adopt I
broad and generous policy, and have
for their motto; Charity to aH and
Malice toward none 7 and if those
who are desirous Of being recognized
as leading temperance men woulc
cease debating and act in . more rea
sonable manner toward the great party
Of the State (the Democratic party
they would accomplish much more, il
my opinion, than by the policy they
are now pursuing. Very sincerely,


RICHARD TOWNSEND.
Fro,,,,.o,1 Can+ O5+h 1873
Year: 1878

Health is an inestimable jewel. The cough
that deprives you Of it may take your life too.
One bottle of Hale's Honey Of Horehound ana
Tar will avert the evil and save you from
consumption. win you weigh Life against Q
half-dollar I Sold BY all Druggists. Pixies
Tonthacha Drops cure in minute.
Year: 1878

Before another issue of the JOURNAL,
the year 1878 will have passed away and
be mum bered with the many that have
gone before. Its joys and pleasures, its
cares and sorrUws, its successes and its fail
ures, are beyond the control of human
power, and most of them in short time
will even have passed from out our recol-
lection. We should lese no time in vain
regrets over what has passed beyond
recall, but rather look ahead and
hopefully view the yet unwritten page OF
1879. What shall its record be All
who can tell That it may be one OF
unsloyed happiness to the readers of the
JOURNAL is our sincere hope, and to one
and all we wish A HAPPY AND Pros
Porous NEW YEAR.
Year: 1878

NEWSPAPER LYING.-Some people
have an idea that newspapers will lie
Others are so wise that they will only be-
lieve a newspaper report when they think
it would be easier for the paper to tell the
truth than to tell lie. Others think it
the evidence of flashing wit to reject with
a derisivs laugh any evidence OF authority
which comes from ''the papers," To
such an extent has this thoughtless judg-
ment Of the press been carried that much
of its sphere of usefulness has been cir
cumscribed. II is true there must be
some occasion for this wide spread i'm
pression-"thers must be som fire where
there is so much smoke"-yet how many
men can show record for correctness
accuracy and truthfulness, that will at
once compare with the average newspa-
per.


The editor gathers his news from a
/ thousand sources, frem acquaintance and
strangers, from letters and papers. lie
sifts and culls, hunts and details, and en-
dsavors to get the straight" Of every
story he publishes, for it goes to the world
over his own name, and he knows that in
a great measure he will be held response
BILE. The private individual hears piece
of gossip, listening carelessly tells it to
another with equal earelessness, and il
called upon for details, in nine cases out
of ten cannot give enough Of them to
make an intelligent item for paper
Writing makes an exact man." says
Lord Bacon the newspaper verifes the
truth of the statement.


Let anyone who doubts this, sit down
and put on paper some pieco Of gossip,
with the purpose of having it printed over
his own name, and he will see in mo
ment how little he knows about matter
he thought himself familiar with. And
he will wonder, not that the newspaper
should contain occasional inaccuracie,
and nisstatements, but that it contains SC
few. And his wonder will wonderfully
increase when he remembers that the ed
itor has to depend for much of what he
publishes on the ccmmon run of man
kind.
Year: 1878

New DEPoT.-The plans and specif-
cations Of new railroad depot for Sac
ramento have been prepared, and already
negotiations are instituted between the
Company and the Board of City Trustees
of Sacramento for the purchase Of the old
city hall property at Front and / streets.
An appraiser will be selected in short
time to represent the railroad company in
the matter and fix upon price which the
company will pay for the old structure.
AS soon as this has been done the work
of tearing down the old hall will be
commenced and the ground will oe filed
in to correspond with Front street and the
lerge open space in the rear of the build.
ing. In the Spring, MS soon as the weather
has settled, work will be commenced upon
the new depot and by the middle of Sum
mer handsome, new and substantial
depot will ornament the present vacant
lot in rear of the city hall and on the site
of that building. The new structure is
to be Of granite, iron and brick, two
stories in hight. The offices of the Divis
ion Superintendent, train dlspatchers and
telegraph operators are to be in the sec
ond story, and on the ground floor a fine
restaurant and sitting room for ladies will
have a place. The building will be well
supplied with all modern improvements


and will be great ornament to the city,
us well as a convenience to railroad off.
cials aad the travelling public Bee.
Year: 1878

TELEGRAPH LINE We learn that
parties are on their way from Reading
making arrra gements for building tele-
graph line from Reading into this county.
Enough money has already been obtained
to insure its being built 10 Fall City, and
the citizens of Adm promise to contribute
enough to extend it to their town, and we
doubt not the people OF Alturas will do
nate sufficiently to bring it TO this place ;
thence we hope to see it extended to Sur
prise Valley and Lal1eview .-Modoc IN
dependent.