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Year: 1874

AS the season approaches when the un-
employed, the active and the adventure
Gus will be looking about for new fields Of
enterprise and Investment, it is proper
that they be advised of the many oppor-
tuntics that exist in this section of coun-
try for the profitable employment of la
Dor and capital, that they may not be left
to ignorantly go in search Of such oppor-
tunities in more distant and less advan-
tageous localities. Since dispatching my
last letter from this place to the But{etilt,
| have visited most Of the leading min
ing districts in Trinity county, inquiring
into the mineral resources and acquaint-
ing myself with the history and prospects
of each. The result is thorough con-
victon thas there is not another county
in California that holds out such induce
ments for the Investment Of capital in le
gitimate mining enterprise as this. To
parties desirous Of insuring steady and
permanent income from money eXpend-
ed, with always certain and handsome
margin for profit, rather than anxious
for large gains coupled with auctuation
and hazard, this county commends itself
beyond all others. The mining to be
carried on here is chiefly hydraulic, and
it may be safely affirmed that in no other
portion of the State are water, gravel,
ouf1nt ,,ro,curn and oil tho otbor fnot ,r5
Of a large and profitable production, pres
ent to such an extent as here in this coun-
ty. The soundness of this position will
become manifest if we examine a little
into the past history and present condi-
ton Of things in Trinity.
Year: 1874

OF these deposits consists rs above stated
in their entire freedom from volcanic
flows, ashes, or other igneous matter,
such rs has frequently elsewhere render
ed the working Of the gravel exceedingly
troublesome, and very often wholly i'm
practicable. In the absence here Of pipe
clay and sand, the former a difficult stuff
to get rid of, and both barren Of gold
the mineFis relieved Of another source of
perpleXity and hindrance When it
comes to be run off to a lower level than
has yet been reached it is possible that
the gravel here will occur in moro es-
duratad or ccmcntcd form though as
yet nothing SO impactcd has been cncoun-
tered us to require the aid of powder to
break up. So, also, it may come to pass
when washing has been extended 10 much
greater depths that tho rim-rocb forma-
tiOn will present itself, making the con-
struction Of bed rock tunnels necessity.
A yet these rocky sidcs Of tho old river
channels have nowhere been reached.
Year: 1874

In late number Of the Chicago I'mss APP
pears the following comments upon the negro
Of the South and bis status


$50 far from the negro being the coming
planter Of the South. he is the coming barbar-
ian. Leave this animal to himself take away
from him the civilizing and restraining infiu-
ences of the Caucasian race, and he will re-
lapse; in q generation, to condition like that
of his fetish-worshipping brother in central
Africa. Let the whites withdraw from the
South; place every appliance in the hands Of
the negro to assist their advancement; and
then, II left to themselves, the whole South in
l fifty years would be q jungle from which
would be effaced every vestage OF civilization.
| Under no circumstances save where he has
been guided by, and Is held inferior to the
white, has the negro ever accomplished any
thing. Heis valuable as servant, but use
l less as master" i'd -
This Is one of the leading Independent pa
pers of the great North, West, and reflects, nc
doubt, the honest sentiment of nine-tenthS Of
the intelligent people OF the North and West
whose partisan prejudice and interest do no
lead them to use the negroes OF the South tf
keep in subsection to party tyranny the white
people of this section OF the country. Indeed,
suffrage was first given to the negro by tht
Republican party for the criminal purpose o


Republicanizing this section of the Union
and securing its electerialpower In the govern
meBt; for Otherwise, they would never hay'
Iafflicted the country with such an incurablt
Icurse. No human foresight can determine
when the curse will end or its calamltie
cease.


There is no doubt of The truth OF what ou


Petersburg contemporary says. The Radical
lhave used the negro as seurge to aiiiict tn
lSouth and help to rob the Southern peopit


But they have gone so far as to reduce til
south SO much that it is no longer able to bea
its pu oportinate share of the burden of govern
ment, and the consequence.is that nearly a
the taxation will have to be paid by I'll


Nothern States. Plantations that were form


|erly worth fifty thousand dollars are nc
worth FIVE thousand with the government


the States in the hands of the negroes.
Year: 1874

ADVANCE Was principally devoted to
the Order of the P. of H., and how
our correspondent should have supposed
it was devoted to the cause of temper
ance, we cannot conceive. Ut course
we are in favor of " temperance in all
things" and would rejoice if the great
tide of woe that flows from the intem-
pcrate use Of spirituous and malt liquors
would flow no more But we are de-
voted to the correction Of other evils,
and can only touch the temperance
question incidentally. We confess.
however, that it seems to US useless to
make any further law, if the people are
afraid to execute the law they now
have. If temperance men will not
COMPLAIN Of violaters of the law, it does
not speak highly for their zeal in the
cause The writer hereof remembers
having attempted to work for temper.
ance candidate for governor, a few
years ago, but he soon found that there
lay great gulf between the professions
and the actions Of many of our temper
ance friends.
Year: 1874

Editor Of The Grange Advance


DEAR SIR Surprising your paper
to be devoted to the cause of temper
ance, I wish to ask why the sale Of
liquor i not stopped throughout this
County? There is a law prohibiting
the sale Of liquor without license, yet
the law is not regarded, and people
feel afraid to complain. Some one
should be appointed to look up the vio-
lators Of law, and have them fined. A
thirsty man calls at drug store, asks
for pint of alcohol, the proprietor says,
"don't sell it clear; it is against the
law; I'll have to put something in it.
Customer says, put a little sugar in it
then.' Proprietor says, that's too
thin; III have to put some medicine in
it; here's some ginger, I'll fix it. "All
right" says customer, and off he goes
with bottle of whisky, enough to last
him to the next P. 0. We are not en-
vious of the wealth this traffic brings
our neighbors. for curse may follow
the money so gained. We would not
use our pen because the vile stuff has
ruined some man, but when help
less women have to suffer, we cannot
refrain from raising our voice to con-
denim the evil.


Last week man Of our town drove
his wife out Of the house at night, and
threw his little boy through the win
dow to keep her company, and she has
had the outside Of the house for her
portion many night. Oh p! helpless
woman, soon may the time come when
thy vote combined with the votes Of
men who earn their bread by the sweat
Of their brow, will help to right thy
wrongs, and put temperance men in the
right place to benefit you. ~: I'm.


i've had supposed TIE GRANGE
Year: 1874

1t is more than probable that great many
readers of the Sentinel, dismsyed by the
solid face Of figures passed by Colonel Rays
masterful exhibit as. reproduced in yes
terday's Sentinel. To those who study
them, however, the figures tell wonderful
story-a story more pathetic than all the art
of the novelist can conjure. They will fasten
the minds OF political students to the pro-
portions to which crime may reach superin-
duced by the apparently trivial sale of
liquor. The presentation of the results of
the Colonel's labors in the Sentinel places
the liquor question in strictly business light.
1t submits to the citizen taxpayer to con-
slider how far he will tolerate the invasion of
his fortune to indulge a certain class of
people in their appetites for liquor, and to
enrich another class by the large profits of
the traffic. To manufacturers and deal
ers of all grades, the liquor business
is more lucrative than most other pursuits,
otherwise it would not be very gen.
orally pursued. Unlike most productive
and mercantile industries, the supply creates
the demand. There would be no demand
If the supply were cut off until generation
should grow up without a knowledge of
whisky and its common use. But the bus
mess is self perpetuating for its own sake
and not from any need or benefit of society.


No one will go so far as to presume that the


welfare ofsociety would be impaired by the
elimination of whisky and the entire dis
continuance of its use as a drink. Is it prob


able that the tax payers would submit to
such an imposition from any other cause?


By the showing of Mr.. Ray this state pays


from the means raised by taxation nearly


q, 900 every day of the year as direct damages


caused by alcohol. Suppose, now, that in
stead of the honest and faithful state govern


ment which Indiana believes she now


has, she had set of corrupt spendthrifts,


who were squsndering and stealing from her


people 81 900 every day. How long would
such proceedings be tolerated? In what
Year: 1874

The facts and figures concerning the cause,


effect and final tendency of intempersnce,


prepared by Colonel Ray and presented on


the third page this morning, Will be apt 10


do a signal work in this and other states.


The labor involved in the collection, compi-
lation and revision of these exhibits was
simply herculean, and Colonel Ray is
entitled to the hearty gratitude and


admiration of every upright, God fearing


man in this and every other christian com


munity. You are not going TO appreciate
the Significance OF these closely packed col


umns Of figures without reading. Cut the
tables out and compare day by day with
the things coming under your own obser-


walton and the singular cogency Of the
statistics will be apparent. 1t is a
bomb shell in the camp of the sleeping and
Indifferent. The facts, as collsted. will be
very apt to surprise the friends as well as
foes of unlimited liquor. They present an
argument vivid, appealing and unanswer-
able, and will tend to still more deeply in
tensify the growing aversion to the latitude
following the unrestrained use of liquor.
Vigorous and relentless as has been his
blows at the evil OF intemperance, Colonel
Ray never sttes.ed his zeal and devotion
80 Enthusiastically rs in this perfectly
labor, and who is there that
does not hope for an, exceeding great re-
ward, in a renewal of hope and effort on the
part of the desponding, and an awakening
on the part of the indifferent? I'd ,lDe r
Year: 1874

It is the Terre Haute Express which Is
good enough TO remark:


The indianapolis Sentinel is an Independent
newspaper, but it has not yet summoned inde-
nendepce enongh to say what IL will do il the
FARMERS or reform, convention adopts a plat
form opposed to contraction, and In favor OF an
increase of the currency.


The Sentinel doesn't like to contemplate
such probability, as the adoption of infia-
ton measures by the forthcoming inde-
pendent convention. But if such course
is carried by the majority, the Sentinel viii
think none the less of the general reform
on that score. The question may be COM
promised, by relegating it to the con-
pressional districts, as Mr.. Greeley did the
protection heresy, and if it is successful
then, of course, the Sentinel, as an exponent
of the popular sentiment, will make no op-
positiOn-as it has not during the discussion
of the last two months, in which the popular
tide seemed in favor of initiating. This an
swers the question of the Express
but the query suggests aword concerning
the willful misconstructions that are put on
newspapers because of fancied cowardice,
or double dealing. 1t is not necessary for
the Sentinel or any other newspaper to de-
clare its faith in the principles of democratic
government from day 10 day,to convince
people that there is no secret leaning toward
Year: 1874

Careful readers of the Sentinel don't need
to be told that the independent movement
has assumed the proportions of a vast
stampede. The presses which at first doubted
and hesitated are now under the inspiration
of its vigorous growth, pressing the reforms
with alacrity and enthusiasm, and the signs
are that the tenth of June will bring
about a revolution as permanent in
it's results in the politics of this state, as it
cannot but be wholesome. It must be re-
membered that every development of this
astonishing outbreak, has come of it's own
accord. There are no party managers to
give it form and shape. All that's doing
has been done by the unswayed impulse of
the people, longing 10 escape from party
trammels. From all sources of information
Was apparent that the people have gone
to work in their own way and that they
mean to make an earnest attempt to rid
themselves of the corrupting anu degrading
practices of the parties. The evidences pre-
sented from day to day in the Sentinel's news
columns do not, by any means, contain the
entire drift of expression throughout the
state. Conventions and calls are going on
in many of the counties, and others are in
preparation. The tone OF public sentiment
is in hearty unison with the pur-
pose, and everything leads to the
conviction that the farmers have finally
struck the talisman with which to coDjure
reform. The readiness of the public to
seize the chance is best shown in the efforts
of the wards to rid themselves of the tyran-
ny of PARTISAN forms and caucus dictation.
They have not always succeeded, 1t is true,
in obtaining good men, but the very fact
that they have tried and failed will incite
them to renewed exertion in future.
Year: 1874




On the 18th inst, the new Potter law regu-
latinr the rates of local freights throughout
the state OF Wisconsin went into effect. On
the day previous, however. the Milwaukee q
St. Paul railroad company introduced on
their road new tariff table of freight rates.
These latter, although not in conformity
with the rates established by the Potter law,
yet show quite important reductions in grain
and -four the two leading items of traffic in
that state. The company are supposed to
introduce this change primarily as a test ex'
ample of the validity and constitu-
tionality Of the Potter law; but they also
assert that they cannot go below their rates
without serious losses, that they may as well
carry for nothing as to adopt any lower
figure. The officers say that they know that
if "worst comes to worst" all that can be
done before virtually confscating their
property, will be to make an in, estigation,
which will prove, as they expoct, the Potter
rates to be an impossibility, and that their
new tariff rates are fair and reasonable. The
law officers of the various roads are said to
be fully prepared for any suits. having had
statistics collected and accounts and esti-
mates printed, and they are confident of
successfully establishing their claims. The
best legal talent of the country is engaged,
and what shall be the end of all this it is not
easy to see. Its Development, however, will
be regarded with great interest, as it will,
undoubtedly. be the first case that shall de-
termine the practicsbility of establishing by
law rates of railroad tariff on the business of
each road within certain state limits.
Year: 1874

Gas DULL AS A HoE."-This is an old
favorite comparison, ami it seems cruel to rob
it of its poetry But free use Of the file or
grindstone is as rough on the comparison as
the keen hoe is on the weeds. Certainly 1t Is
poor economy TO save the wear OF the hoe, of
necessity only half killing the weeds and MAX
ing heavy toll of otherwise light work. A file
even an old one, cleaned with diluted ac'd,
will answer every purpose, or grindstone, If
one has no file. Never mind If stones or
gravel do dull, sharp hoe, carefully u.ed,
will accomplish moIe than the noisy grubbng
of dull one. 1t Is a pleasure to see tho hoe
daily narrow up and the corners gradually
round of. for honorable age and instant SER
ner and smaller. Sharpen the h,e, then (;
first, to save the hard labor, second, 10 do
neater work; third to keep 1t bright; fnally,
to have the pleasure of see it grow old in the
service.-Southern Farmer.
Year: 1874

What right has any person, endowed with
an ordinary share of intellect, and blessed
with respectable share of good health, to
despond? What is the cause of desponden-
cy? What is the meaning of itP The cause
Is weak mind.
Year: 1874

Marriage is like flaming candle-light,
Placed In the window ON a summer night,
Inviting all the insects Of the air


To come and SINCE their pretty winglets there.
Those that are out butt heads against the pane;
Those that are in butt to get out againI
Year: 1874

It is well known that the yearly layers
or rings by which the age of a tree il
determined do not diminish in relative
thickness by a constant law. A pape,
was recently read before the French
Academy Of Sciences in which the
causes of this irregularity were dis
cussed. The writer concluded that the
data of meteorological phenomena, when
known and tabu1ated, might be com.
pared year by year with the annual
layers formed in different varieties of
trees. From such comparison some
ideas as to the laws of development of
trees may be obtained, and these laws
being established, trees might become
collections of meteorological evidence
where observations can not be made.
An exchange suggests q rather striking
example of what might be learned from
ancient trees:


"Suppose that there should be found
in Egypt q very old though living tree,
the origin of which dated back to the
time of Joseph. If on cutting the trunk
the rings corresponding TO that period
showed seven thick and seven thin lay
ers, there would be tangible evidence Of
the Scriptural tradition of the seven
years of plenty and seven years of fam
inc, besides of the immediate causes of
humidity, temperature, etc., to which
such phenomena might be DUE"


Viewing trees in this light, they may
indeed become historians Of the past.
Year: 1874

A lady has been reduced to abiect
poverty at New Haven, and has been
obliged to apply to the city for relief,
who few years ago was the happy
wife of man worth 800, 900. He died
soon after the loss Of nearly the whole
amount by a financial revulsion in
Europe, where they then resided, and
che came to this country in the hope
of her being able to earn q support for
herself and her children. Her oldest
son having been TO: some time out of
work, his mothers valuable pieces of
jewelry have been sold, one by one, TO
keep the family from starvation. The
woman's appearance and conversation
are those of q lady Of the highest cul-
ture and refinement, and the case seems
to be an extraordinary illustration of
the caprice Of "6ckle fortune"
Year: 1874

When the world no solace gives,


Whom in deep distress groan;
When my lover and my friend
Leave me with my grief alone;
When weary land I tread,


Painting for the rocks and springs,
Overshadow me, o Lord,


With the comfort Of thy wing!
When my heart and flesh shall fail,
When I yield my mortal breath,
Whom / gather up my feet stei
Icy with the chill of death;
Strengthen and sustain me, Lord,


With thine all-sufficient grace;
Ovorlean my dying bed


With the sweetness Of thy face.
When the pang, the strife is past,
When my spirit mounts on high,
Catch me up in thine embrace,


In thy bosom let me lie!
Freed from sin, and freed from death,
Hid with thee, in heaven above,
Oversplendor mo, o God,


With the glory Of thy love.
Year: 1874

land, in December, 1888 To prove this
an extract from the register of the
House of Refuge was put in evidence,
showing that child named Mary Ann
Chapel was born there in December,
1888 A number of physicians certified
that Madame d Yoon had never been a
mother, and that she was not so formed
as to be able to have children.


The Appellate Court, however, af-
6rmed the judgment of the lower court,
and decided that Frederika is the daugh-
ter of the Countess d Yoon, and that the
annual allowance demanded must be
paid. Its decision is based upon the
failure of proof of the identity of the
workhouse child with Frederika, and
upon the fact that until she was twenty
two years Of age Frederika had been
always introduced and treated as the
daughter of Madame d'Yoon. The
court does not deem the certificates of
the physicians strong evidence, on ac-
count OF the age of the Countess.
Year: 1874

lures Perhaps she waves" slowly in


walking dance, moving the lower part
of her body forward more and more with
vigorous quivstiDg, and oLce in ten
seconds starting with co nvulsion which
gradually becomes more frequent, until
/, she apparently yields and expires.


The girl at Girgeh performed very
pretty dance, which was quite a poem.
Placing cup, symbolic of temptation,
on the ground, she danced around it in
style which was perfectly Spanish,
turning the body and sinking low with
great grace aud exquisite art. The cup
appeared to exercise a terrible fascina-
ton, and she seemed afraid to drain it.
The fear was perfectly acted. Five
times without aid from her arms she al
most lsy on the ground; with her thirsty
lips just dallying with the edge, and then
rising swept 10 dance, and thrilled and
shivered, and turned and sank again.
The sixth time she had completed cir
Gle, and no longer able to resist, she ap-
preached the cup with ihrobs aud pauses,
and then without using her hand, lifted
it from the ground with her lips alone,
draining it as she rose, and the tragedy
of temptation being over merrily danced
about the room in quick step, with her
head thrown back, holding the cup all
the time in her mouth.


Then the elder girl placed a cup on
her head, and danced for long time a
great variety of movements without let
ting it fall, the same being done in turn
by the younger did not see, however,
as my fellow travellers did on another
occasion, dancing girls who while dane
ing made cups run from the head down
the side of the face, along the arms and
back; as a skilled Hercules in a circus
makes cannon balls travel around him.
This is, however, rather juggling than
dancing Sometimes a stick is used in
these performances. Sometimes the two
girls dance duo; and | have seen this
made quite as improper, though not so
sickly sentimental, as in any opera house
in Europe, when the balerina falls back
in the male objects arms, eyeing him
with leering smile, while she lifts one
leg to the gallery.


There are 'Awalim and Awalim, and
Gbawazi and Ghawazi. Some are mere
peasant girls who work by day and
dance by night; and others are low caste
and dance coarsely, with a male jester
occasionally taking part in the perform.
ance, as | saw at Luxor am told that
the best are to be seen at Cairo, in the
grand larams on grand festival occs-
sions. Their style of dancing is the
same that prevails with variation all
over the East and the great difference
between it and that of the West is sim
ply that the one consists principally Of
expressive movements and pantomime
Of the body, while the latter is chiefly
jumping with the legs. There is just
the same difference in their dancing and
ours that there is in the music; and the
Oriental is physically quite as difficult
as the other.


When | was on the Nile, | gave the
Ghawazi the name Of Waivers" as
expressive of their movements. Long
NAV they wave