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Year: 1874

RocKL1N.-This, at present, is doubtless the
lveliest town in the county. The quarries are
working one hundred men, all told, and the
Round House about forty, making about one
hundred and forty daily laborers in those two
branches alone. These men, mostly skilled me-
chanics, receive liberal salaries, and are accord
ngly liberal in return. AS result all branches
of business is brisk, but more especially is this
the case with the hotels which seem crowded to
overAowing. Every shanty that will afford shade,
or turn rain, is occupied, and still the demand
for houses is not satisfied and some of the busi-
ness places seem almost overrun. In the way of
partially satisfying this demand, some buildings
are now in course Of erection, and some have
just been completed most notably among the
latter is the large addition to Trott's Hotel, and
among the former, is the fine granite store being
erected by T. Bates and the palatial residence
Of w. F. Schuetze which is nearly finished
The cause of this more than usual run of bust
ness ut Rocklin, is due to the extraordinary de-
mand for granite. Besides, having more than
usual demands on account Of extensive building
in San Francisco, they have a contract, which
will last for years, aud in the aggregate amount
to millions of dollars, to supply the granite for
the Government Dry Dock, Mt Mare Island. The
almost inexhaustible granite quarries in Placer
county, the demand on which is nearly doubled
annually. is destined to become q source of
wealth, the extent of which can now scarcely be
conceived.
Year: 1874

IMMENSE GRowTH.-In a garden at Rocklin,
we were shown some peach trees, that when set
out, last February. averaged about one foot high
which are now all of seven feet high and other
wise large in proportion. Assuming that it took
them one month to get started, the growth since
would average one foot month. In the same
garden were fine large volunteer watermelons
cucumbers, enough on few vines to supply the
town; as fine tomatoes as grows anywhere and
gourds as large as water-bucket Think of
this, and then say what you think of the fertility
of the foothills? s~@
Year: 1874

GoNE-Dr T. M. Todd left Auburn, last Sat
urday, for Stockton, where he expects to locate
permanently. The Doctor has been in Auburn
about four years, during which time he built un
very wide practice, considering the population
and healthfulness of the locality and had Sc
cured the warm friendship of large circle of
acquaintances. None could be taken from the
social circles of this town, whose absence would
be felt so much rs his, and his friends and pa
irons only console themselves with the hope
that the change, which they regard as loss
may prove to his advantage.
Year: 1874

AT the Crater Mine they are doing nothing in
the main shaft. From shaft No. two they are
raising some rock. which, we learn, turns out a
fair percentage of gold, but is hard to mine.
At the bottom of shaft No. three the foreman
tells us they have some splendid rock, ard that
they expect to turn large force into that shaft
as soon rs arrangements can be made. The
works op the Crater are very fine, and are run
in good shape, but business does not seem as
lively there, as it did some time since.
Year: 1874

HE Booth mine is looking very we'll in the
drifts AS fine specimen as we ever saw out
side of show window was taken from the East
drift last week. The drift East and West is
in about IT'S feet. and a force Of men are at work
at each end, driving it further. In the face of
the West drift the ledge is about five feet thick
and every inch of the rock pays on an average of
say S22 per tsn In the face of the East drift
the ledge is not quite so wide, but as yet tie
rock is richer. Since the mine became incor-
porated the working force has been increased.
Besides drifting, as we said above, both ways,
they are at the same time sinking. For new
mine the work is carried on very systematically
AS far as the mine is now opened. thousands of
tons OF good ore could be taken out in short
time, did the owners feel so disposed.
Year: 1874

BITING Docs. - Whether hydrophobia has
broken out in Auburn or not, we cannot say,
but that the dogs have shown q greater dispo-
stion to devour their best friends, for week or
two past, than usual, is certain. A little more
than week ago, a large Newfoundland dog,
kept by Capt. John Sawyer, and supposed to be
perfectly kind, bit Mrs s. severely, in one or
two places, and was endeavoring to get at her
throat, when Mr.. S. ran up and pulled him off
The dog was SO enraged that he flew at his mas
ter and inflicted on him bad cut near the e.
bow. The result, was dead dog Mr. and
Mrs. Sawyer are nearly recovered from their
wounds.


Last week, fine, large Newfoundland dog,
which Judge Fitch had bought and raised on
purpose for playmate for his little boy jumped
upon the child, and bit him on the head in two
places, once cutting into the corner of the eye
so close as to Craze the ball. The result was
another dead dog. The child is fast recovering.
Year: 1874

These subscribers were all obtained in about
an hour, and nearly within q stone-th.ow of one
another. 1t is by many, quite confidently be-
lieved, that there will be no difficulty in obtain
ing responsible subscribers to the rest of the
stock. All those who have taken the pains to
figure on the amount Of business this road will
do are convinced that it will pay handsomely
on the investment. 1t therefore offers splendid
opportunity to any one who has few hundred
dollars to spare, to invest it in an enterprise
which will be profitable to himself, and an ad
vantage to the town. If there be any.who have
not subscribed for some of the stock when they
read this, let them go at once and do SO, before
it shall all be taken.
Year: 1874

RocKLN ROUND HOUSE. Through the polite
ness of Mr.. Smith, foreman of the railroad works
Mt Rocklin we were shown through this entire
building. and received explanations and descrip-
tons Of many valuable Improvements which has
recently been added to the same. The building,
as reconstructed since the fire. is fire proof
there being scarcely piece OF combustible ma
terial in its composition. The walls granite,
the roof is corrogated iron, braced and stayed by
iron rods, in the most artistic and substantial
manner. The floor is, of course, wood but it is
kept so wet from the constant washing of en-
gines that it might be considered non-combusti-
BILE. withstandng all this precaution in con-
struction, there is a steam fire engine in the
building to which is attached hose enough to
reach from one side to the other, which is sup
piled from tank seventeen feet deep, and
twenty four feet in diameter, that is kept con-
stantly full of water Another improvement
worth mentioning is large iron pipe, suspended
from the roof by iron rods, Which extends
clear around the building, conveying water from
the large tank, above mentioned, to all the loco
motives in the building; thus when engine is
about to start out, her boiler can be filled, ready
for without moving her, saving the time and
trouble of running out to the tank and back
again, as was the custom. This is now the
foreman tells us, decidedly the most secure and
most convenient Round House in the State, and
second in these particulars to none in the United
States.
Year: 1874

The Winnobaso Indians, who 9b-
ject to going west are up to real
estate dodge to avoid that unpleasant
resul. Indians, who are freeholders


are allowed to remain, and in Sank
and Columbia counties great numbers
are acquiring title TO worthless patch
es of land, probably through the conni-
vance Of their legal counsel, under the
protection Of which they can remain,
so long as they stay in the vicinity Of
their real estate. Away from it they
are liable to arrest and transportation
Year: 1874

WE saw the other day at the large wagon and blacksmith shop of those excellent mechanics, Horner & Donaldson, cart which they had just finished, which is certainly the best piece of work in that line that we ever saw in any country. This vehicle was painted and vanished by that accomplished artist c. W. Mas sey, in style that makes it look nice enough for pleasure riding. This cart it intended for the builders own use until the elec- tion, after which it will be char tered to carry Bean, Smith liar dy & Co.,, to the bank ot Salt River, where they will embark for the head waters of that stream on the steamer CdStG00y, Capt. Damphool.
Year: 1874

vorable than he expected to find them, and hence goes to San Fran. cisco full of hope, and with de- termination to prepare for the preliminary work of development. He will be absent something over a month.
Year: 1874

LOCAL news is very scarce this week, simply because there is none. Not even man or a dog fight; not a marriage, divorce, death or elopement. Not even @ case of crim con or murder to re- cord. All is quiet and serene and the devil is chained for a short ur1e, to De let I00ss, ve fear, a0out the unae of the election We wisE he wasaI ways chained. We nope to live to see the time when death hell and the devil will be est in. to the lake Of fire and birthstone anu ail Durueu up together. Then we will be willing to pass in our checks, and will say with David of old, "now Lord. let thy servant depart in peace"
Year: 1874

THE summer is past and the glorious autumn of this climate has come. The nights are cool and very pleasant and blanket is desirable now. We are ex- periencing an unusually early and beautiful fall. for which let us thank the Lord.
Year: 1874

PRINTERS PROVERBS Never send an ar
ticle for publication without giving the editor
thy name, for thy name ottentimes secures pub
lcation to worthless articles


Thou shoudst not rap at the door OF print
ing Office, for he that answereth the rap soeer-
eth in his sleeve and loseth time.


Never do thou loaf about, nor knock down
the type, or the boys will love you as they do
the shade trees-wben thou leavest.


Thou shoudst never read the copy on the
printers case, or be may koock the down.


Never inquire of the editor for news, tor
behold it is his business to give it thee at the
appointed time without asking for it.


1t is not right that thou sbouldst ask him who
is the author of an article, for it is his duty to
keep such things unto himself


When thou dost enter his Office, take heed
unto thyself that thou dost not lock at what
may not concern thee, for that is not meet IN
the sight of good breeding.


Neither examine thou the proof sheet, tor 1t
is not ready to meet .thiue eye, that thou may
est understand. ;,


Pay for the Gazette iu advance, and it shall
be we'll with thee and thine.
Year: 1874

4 number of the most eminent clergymen in
the city have extended al invitation to Miss
Anna Dickinson to deliver lecture On the
Social Evil. We understand that this lecture
is directed mainly to tho end of exciting efforts
to reach and reform the abandoned women who
are the chief sufferers from the Evil. The lecture
may therefore have T. good tendency. Never
theiess, wo think that the invitation is
not to bo commended. Miss Dickinson
is a young, unmarried woman,-tne last
person in the world to nave any knowledge of the
social evil, unless she has mnde it. @ special
study, aud this is the last study in the world
which young, unmarried woman should mako
specialty,-at all events for public entertain
ment. The clergymen who have signed the in
vitation have given countenance to public dis
cussion Of the Social Evil by well-informed
young lady. We presume that most Of them,
upon reflection, will conclude that this is not the
sort Of thing that the approval OF the church
should be accorded to.
Year: 1874

The record Of tho astronomical snd meteoro-
logical observations made during :ha year 1871,
st the United States Nsva, Observatory at Wash
inEton is just issued in attractiTe form from the
Government Printing Office. It is accompanied
by handsome engraving Of the new Telescope
which has recently been placed in position there
and is the best refractor in the world, bearing
away the palm even from Chicago. The work
itself is only OF interest to ASTRONOMERS !; and
they know it's scope without the nesd Of special
description
Year: 1874

The suffering in lows continues to demand
the kindly aid Of the public. So great has been
the destituuon, that, besides food, fuel and
clothing, these unfortunate people arc in want
Of corn, wheat, cats, and other grain for seed
for the present year. By the want Of these they
are threatened With famine for the next year.
Let those who are willing 10 relieve really des-
titute community continue their contributions,
and, II possible, aid these people by sending
them seed that they may cultivate their crops
for the coming season, and provide for them
selves heIeafEer
Year: 1874

:co-religlous situation In Germany are not unlike
those already expressed in The TRIBUNE. and lie
agrees with us. too, that there is but one solu-
ton to the religious question-in the present
age-the recognition By religious organizations
Of the fact that their kingdom is not OF this
Year: 1874

The reading public OF this country will receive
with great satisfaction the announcement that
the venerable William Cullen Bryant, OF New
York, assisted by Mr. Sydney Howard Gay, vet
eran journalist and scholar, have now in prep
aration Popular History Of the United States.
In no branch Of literature is there such want Rs
this book is intended to supply. We have no pop
u1ar history Of America. and We can imagine no
pzouder climax to the literary fame OF Mr. Bry-
ant than this Invaluable and long-needed his
tory Tho work will include the early history Of
the continent. down to the union and independ-
enco of the Colonies. It will then give
the history Of the first century of the
United Republic. The work is intend
cd for popular use and information,
and will be written with that ability and fairness
for With Mr. Bryant aud Mr, Gay ara alike dis
tinguished. We have had numerous American
histories, but never complete nor q popular
Que. Our history has been written in sections,
and without connection. We have bad oiogra-
ply in profusion have had ablo works covering
particular periods Of titne and particular ereots
but general history Of the United States, COM
ing down to contemporary events, such aa the
ordinary citizen or family desires, has never been
produced. Bryauts history will in all probability
be the standard history for the next half cen-
tury- Such book is doubly appropriate, coming.
az 1t does at the close of the first century OF the
United States, and at the restoration OF the
Union in all it's strength after the terrible ordeal
OF civil war.
Year: 1874

Courageous as a soldier he was timid in
resolution. A sincere enthusiast Tor re.
publican institutions, be shrauk from their
realization. A man Of energy aud genius,
at the head Of that vast citizen army Of
which he was the creator, would have de-
termined the revolution iL its earliest
days; but when the moment for decisive
action came, opposing fears and scruples
paralyzed his will to impotency. In SO
excitable country as France, he was a
dangerous citizen more dangerous in his
weakness than he would have been had
he been gifted with daring and mental
power; for, while especially adapted to
destroy government, he had not the recon-
structive genius of Cromwcll''or Napoleon,
to give something in their place. In
fine, "hc had every great quality, yet
something was wanting 10 EACH Yet,
beneath all the weakness and vanity of
the head, there beat noble heart, in
which love Of liberty and hatred of despo-
tism were enshrined in its highest place.
The devotion of his person and fortune to
the cause of American freedom is one of
the most generous actions on record. The
fortitudc with which he endured his lsng
and terrible imprisonment, and the ardor
with which, in the gloom of his loathsome
durgeon, he still fostered those dreams Of
liberty to which he owed all his sufferings,
are traits of constancy and greatness Of
soul to which could be found but few par.
allels. To the poor he was the most gen.
ercus Of fricnds-to the alienation Of their
suffcrngs he devoted much of his income,
and, during the terrible cholera-time in
Paris, he himself bore from house to house
food and wine, and medicine, and worked
increasingly to mitigate the horrors of sick
ness and death that ragged around him
Above all, be was generous to fallen op.
ponents.--Iempls Bar.
Year: 1874

Other nations could live, it has been
said, CD what Americans waste. The
abundance Of our naturally resources, the
vast extent of our unoccppied lands, the
comparative ease of obtaining living ir
this country, are the occasion, no doubt


Of our reckless habits Of expense, and Of
the prevalent superfciality and Ignorance
of our mechanical and artistic workman


ship. To say that person is an Ameri


can is almost as much as to say that he
has mechanical ingenuity so little devel


opcd by science or SO slightly guided by
patient and thorough training? The loss
Of money and of life which We incur ev.
cry year from our neglect of practical


education can only be compared to the
havoc Of desolating war. Thus, in one Of
our principal cities are engines erected al
enormous expense for the spply of water
but through sheer ignorance in the build.
er these engines are so constructed as to
be worthless, and all the money they cos,
might as well been sunk in the sea. Mil.
lions on millions of money are lost every
year through the incompetence of oul
civil engineers, The seventy thousand
miles Of railways in this country have
been built at une cessary cost because we
had not the men who could place the lines
in right positions, make correct grades
and curves, and point out where. tunnels
needed not to be cut and bridges to be
built. Hardly a community" says a
recent authority on this subject, (which
has not the story to tell Of great losses
ontaled by bad engineering in other di.
rectious. Here it is the traffis of great
city interrupted for year because no
engineer can be tonnd able to make the
calculations for skew arch bridge, a
thing which any graduate ofa well-equir-
ped department of engineering can do ;
there is city subjected to enormous loss
by the failure of its water supply system
because the engineer employed made no
calculation for the friction of water in the
pipes. in another Instance it is a whole
district sickcned by miasma, because a
half-taught engineer wasintrusted in its
drainage" And if, according TO Mr..
Latham ard DR.. Beale, hundred thou.
sand lives are lost every year in England
through an ignorant and blundcrisg APP
plication of engineering to sewerage, how
many people are brought to their death
by the same cause in America, where ig-
norance and laundering in such matters
are not only greater than in England, but
are complicated with official rascality?
Year: 1874

The New Episcopal Church Movement


at Aurora


Special Dispatch to The Chicago Tribune.


AURORA, Ill, Jan. 3l.-A parish meeting WAS
held to.dny in the basement Of Trinity
Church, at which some Of the members we're
present, and q very stormy time WIS had. The
matter of sympathy with the Reformed Church
was put to vote. Nine persons voted, the result
being five against four. OF course this is NO
evidence Of the true feeling


full apology was made to Dr.. Hawley for
the plugging Of the gas-metre, and an invitation
extended him TO deliver his lecture in the church
on Wednesday evening It is not known whether
the Bishop (Whitehouse) will permit this or not
It is rumored that he has ordered the
discontinuance Of the lay services, at least. Tbs
rector announces that they will not be held until
further notice.


At the parish meeting one individual was inju-
dicious and unchristian enough to call Bishop
Cheney scoundrel and rascal, which has
thorough reused the indignation Of his sympa-
thise1s hare.
Year: 1874

81 don't want il for summer, intend wear
ing it in winter" shouted [, So loud that the
proprietor became alarmed and overturned his
soup>dish.


The woman told me to have it dyed. Her
husband suggested the propriety of keeping
il until next summer. SOloman said that
could wear it under an overcoat.


told them that they were all right in their
opinions. yielded BY asking the price.


$1,000. and scbeap as dirt" spoke the
woman.


'.I1l give you s1.75," said I, as I walked
towards the door.


She comprehended and gave me to UNDER
stand that could have it at my price, but
that not living soul could buy it for that
price save myself


felt fiattered, so gave her the money
when she proposed to buy the coat of me for
so cents. let her have it.


She obliged me TO promise that I would al.
ways buy at her store and send my friends
there. That promise was given without re-
Election and am positive that l shall incur
no censure in breaking it


had not taken many steps from the scene
ofmy agony when another woman with brawny
arms barred to the elbows, obstructed my
passage and insisted in the most peremptory
tones on my descending into dingy basement
where her husband would sell me pair of
secondhand shoes.


felt the Southern blood course my veins
In fact was courageous. She wasfonly d
woman. l could call on the police or have
recourse to my heels which have always stood
by me in time of danger Striking an atti-
tude-nOt the woman-which would quell
the angery Semiramis, explained my seuti-
ments in language something like the follow
ing: "Woman, beware. Tn an unprotected
male travelling through Baxter street for good
of my health. bat I'll protect my Liberty
with the sacrifice of my life. You take ad-
vantage of sex's weakness to in''-


didn't finish the sentence for red headed
potato-devouriug policeman, who came up
said to me,


''Smother yer wit ye spalpeen, or I'll break
me stick 10 smithereens over your jaw


didn't even enquire what ship he came
over in,-because 1 didn't care cent.


am going to study the art of self. defence,
and if a woman or child-not a man-ever
insults me Ill prove what Harper's Ferrian
can do when he's "cornered in."


Yours desperately,


GALE PARTINGToN.
Year: 1874

= An old lady in Lancaster county, Pa.
recently refused the gift Of a load Of wood
from tree struck by lightning, through fear
that some of the "huid" might remain in tho
wood and cause disaster to her stove"
Year: 1874

INOR SALE-TwO FIRST CLASS WORK HORSES
suitable for truck cart; they young also
very stylish road Horse can be driven by lady he is
widow to be sold for half their value they are ali
warranted sound and kind. single or double Apply at
asr Ninth
Year: 1874

A DEFINITE AIM.-Do not sow
the world broadcast. but as the Scotch
would say, "Dibble it inn Make a
hole in the ground with your sharp
ened stick, and push the seed into
the earth with your heel. Let eve
ry sentence tell. Shoot with an aim.
Take your arrow from your quiver,
put il on the bow with your eye on
the throne, then let it go home. DO
not pull il out. Let il be distinct
and felt impression. Do not talk to
human beings who are asleep. l have
no faith in somnambulism in the
Church. Let every eye be engaged
as though he would look you through.
Give tho children something worth
receiving, and send the truth home.
Dr. O9,sistO'l