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Year: 1867

IL The son Of the Emperor of France,
though only twelve years old. is an expert COM
positor and printer. The sons Of the royal
family of England are all taught trades, and
some of the princes understand enough about
carpenters work to disgrace a young man in
New York. Many noblemen's sons are taught
some trade, that they may be, in a measure,
Independent of the freaks of fortune.
Year: 1867

book, the Treasurer's account, with
school fund interest and the apportiVn-
ment added to the excesses, allof which
should agree.


But encouragement soon followed
any attempt TO make use of the school
fund loan book MS 1t has been kept In
such a manner as to have tendency
more to Govern mistake than to illus
trate and explain.


We made several comparisons be-
tween the school fund loan book and
the Clerks and Treasurer's account of
the same transactions which should
agree to Rpenny, but instead of this in
q great many instances, there is much
disparagement and In some cases this
was too great as to be but very little, IL
any similarity between these accounts.


We give below an example of COM
parison Indifference between the school
fund loan book kept by the Clerk and
his own cash book for the year 1885,
These accounts of course should agree
in name, date and amount.


This table Is entered to illustrate the
difference in the entries of the same
transaction and the order which the
dates occur.
Year: 1867




COUNTY OF CALAvERAs.


In Probate Court tn and for the County


and State aforesaid.


Ia the matter of the estate of Jacob Frank,
deceased.


TT APPEARING TO THE JUDGE OF
i said Court by the petition filed and pre-
sented herein by James c. Kelly, Admins
traitor of the estate of Jacob Frank, deceased
praying for an order to sell the real estate
and personal property, that it is necessary
and for the best interests of said estate and
all persons interested therein that the whole
Of said real estate and personal property
should be sold, and it further appearing that
such sale is necessary in order to pay the
debts outstanding against the deceased, the
debts, expenses and charges of administra-
tion, and it further appearing that it is for
the best interests of said estate that such sale
should be private. now, therefore. it is hereby
ordered by the judge of the said Court that all
persons interested in said estate appear before
said Probate Court on Monday, the first day
of April, A. D.. 1867, at IL o'clock A M of
that day at the court room of said Probate
Court in the county of Calaveras, then and
there to show cause, if any they have, why an
order should not be granted to the said Ad-
ministrator to sell the whole of said real es-
tate and personal property, or SO much there
of as nay be necessary, and that copy OF
this order be published at least four success
sive weeks in the CALAvERAs CHRONICLE. a
weekly newspaper printed and published in
said county. JAMES BARCLAY,
County Judge, and ex-officio Probate Judge
Calayeras Co. Cal
Year: 1867

We are under obligations to Senator Con-
ness for copy of the circular of the Com
missioner of the General Land Office in
relation to mining claims. 1t will be remem-
bered says the Placerville Courier, that an
act of Congress was approved in July, 1866,
granting the right of way to ditch and canal
owners over the public land, and for other
purposes. We understand the object of the
law to be the settlement of the vexed aues-
ton of title to the mineral lands, and to
enable any person or persons to secure the
absolute fee simple of any claim or claims he
or they shall desire to locate and hold under
this law.


The act makes the mineral lands of the
public domain open and free to the explora-
alton and occupation of all who are now or
who may have declared their intentions to
become citizens of the United States. Local
rules and customs of miners in the several
mining districts must be observed in the
location, and the same will govern in SO far
as they do not conflict with the laws of the
United States. The second section of the
law provides: That quartz claim, or any
rock bearing the precious metals, may be
located, and a patent granted therefor, giving
with it the right to follow the vein or lode,
with its dips, angles and variations, to any
depth, although it may enter the land ad-
Joining, which land shall be sold subject to
this right. But it imposes as conditions
LIST. If the claim has been previously occu-
pied and worked according to the rules of
the district wherein it is situated, an expen-
diture either in actual labor and improve
ments to an amount not less than one
thousand dollars. I'd. That there must be
no controversy about, or opposing claim to
the possession. Sd. That o diagram of the
claim must be filed in the local land office,
the extent of the claim laterally or otherwise
being regulated by the rules of the mining
district where the claim is situated. In this
connection wequote the instructions of Com
missioner Wilson:


Mining claims may be entered at any dis
trict land office in the United States, under
this law, by any person or association of
persons, corporate or incorporate. In max
ing the entry however, such a description of
the tract must be filed as will indicate the
vein, or lode, or part or portion thereof
claimed, together with diagram represent
ing by reference to some natural or artificial
monument, the position and location of the
claim and the boundary thereof, SO far as
such boundaries can be ascertained.


Section three provides that on filing the
diagram, diagram and a notice of intention
to apply for patent must be posted iE a
conspicuous place on the claim. It is then
the duty of the register of the land Office to
publish the notice of the same in the nearest
newspaper, and to post such notice in his
office for period of ninety days. Then no
opposing claim having been made, the Sur
Year: 1867

SHOOTING AFFRAY.-Two men by the
names OF Murray and McDade, got into a
difficulty near the Junction, in Chill Gulch.
on Sunday last, in which McDade received a
serious wound from pistol shot. The men
had had some words the evening previous,
and knife was drawn by one of the parties.
the other being unarmed at the time. We
nave not learned the particulars sufficiently to
be able to state which was most at fault in
the matter. We understand that both were
considerably intoxicated at the time. and lin
uor, In this case, as in most Others of a simi.
lar nature, was probably the cause which led
to the difficulty. The ball was extracted on
Wednesday last by Drs. Herchner and Rob.
ertson, and the wounded man is reported to
be likely to recover.
Year: 1867

veyor General, upon application ofthe party,
surveys the same. and upon the payment to
the proper officer of five dollars per acre.
and compliance with all the previously
expressed requirements, patent shall issue
therefor, but the patent will include only one
vein or lode.


Section four provides for the location of a
mine upon unsurveyed lands, and the manner
OF adjusting the same when the public survey
shall be made. No location shall exceed in
length more than 200 feet along the vein for
each locator with 200 feet additional to the dis
coverer. Nor can any person make more
than one location on the same lode, nor more
than 5000 feet be allowed to a claim.
Year: 1867

THE innocent, unsophisticated "youth :"
who weekly enlightens the good people of
Calaveras through the columns of the Req
lister, says she cannot believe that the .legal
protectors would sell themselves for a
glass or two of champagne Neither do
we. But the editor of the Register is not
qualified to judge of such matters, for he
knows nothing about the potency of glass
of brandy. He never indulges. Garry told
Year: 1867

whom she will ere long despise and hate: On
a certain evening not long since the husband
in question repaired to his dwelling to re-
ceive the embraces and fond devotion for him
Cor any other man, as the sequel showed),
when 10, and behold ! upon opening the door
he found his pretended loving wife had fed
and removed the entire household furniture.
Imagine his astonishment, the pain, the
trouble, the Affections of a deserted husband.
The grief must have been intense, as up to
that time no suspicion had been aroused in
his bosom of anything of the kind being
about to come to pass. He raved, he con-
jectured, he paused, he almost became ma
MAC. 1t was not to be wondered at after
all for months and months he had provided
all that heart could desire to make his house
hold one of s'sweet home." He shortly as


certained her whereabouts, and sought and
obtained an interview. All that she could
say in defense or justification of the step she
had taken, was, that she had become tired of
married life and wished a change; that a
Mr.. - had offered to do this that and the
other for her, and she had accepted his offers
and believed she would try it on ga SPELL"
If she liked the change she would remain
with her new liege lord; if not, she would
return, perhaps, to her legitimate husband.
The once afectionate husband, but now much
mortified man, saw that she had fallen into
the current of vice and lasciviousness, (which
regret to say prevails to great extent here)
resolved to give her up and let her run to
her hearts content. For a time she will be
the recipient of 6ue feathers and such like,
Year: 1867

A New York correspondence of Mobile
paper thus speaks of the temptations of
the course: "One of the habitues of a
certain Broadway sporting house was
worth nearly half million dollars ten
years ago. He was engaged in busi-
ness that paid him thirty thousand year,
and had the entree of the best society :
His wife was the daughter of one of our
wealthiest bankers, and all his family
relations were of the first reSpectability.
Accompanying friend to the race course
one day, he was sized with passion for
owning fast horses and dashed into the
sports of the turf In short time he
had stable stocked with the best horses
to be had, and his bets were the wonder
aud envy of those less fortunate in pock-
ct. Luck was against him. He lost
heavily his business went down one af-
ter another of his horses died on dis hands;
his stable was sold his house next his
old friends dropped off his wife died
and his children became scattered and
now he spends his nights in lettering
about bar-rooms and listening to the horse
talk of jockeys aud gamblers. This man
would have probably been worth a mil
lion of dollars to-day if he had kept clear
Of the race course"
Year: 1867

The Germantown Telegraph, an inde-
pendent journal Of wide influence and es-
tablishcd character, in an article of mark
ed ability, has come out for Judge Will
liams, and strongly against Sharswood.-
We quote the concluding par agraph:


"ln the times now upon US it is essen
tial that every man should define his posi-
tion. Internal peace and unity can only
be perfected by the success of the nation
al cause and the defeat of all opponents
1t is high time that We set the seal of con-
demnation upon those who, like the re-
creant in the White House, can see moth
ing but uuconstitutionality ia the acts of
Congess or in whatever tends to consolidate
aud render permanent the triumph of the
national cause over the worst treason
known to history"
Year: 1867

In Maryland the Republican Union
party are organizing for vigorous effort
to defeat the new Constitution framed by
the late Conservative Convention, which
essentially turns the State over, bound
hand and foot, to the rebel element The
Republicans viii have a hard battle to
fight, with the chances against them. In
State where the rebel soldiers are pet
ted and freely accorded the right to vote
and control the State, and the co!orcd
man who bravely fought and bled for the
flag, is down trodden, there can be little
hope that Union principles will prevail
yet awhile.
Year: 1867

move as you have seen and can sec men
do on our streets every day. am free TO
confess that do not like the looks Of his
countenance. Grants was open and bright,
and Johnson's was dark and sullen. Rash
Cor. " H. Journal.
Year: 1867

Collapse OF the Montgomery County (N. Y.)
TROY, Dec. II, 1851.


have to communicate the failure Of the State Bank
OF Montgomery county, which event has been occa-
stoned, is alleged, by the disastrous specuations OF
It's President Mr.. Edward Wells, whose family name
and connections have been identified with the bank for
than thirty years Of Its hitherto unbroKsn and
checked prosperity The Montgomery County Bank WAS
established in 1881 BY tho late Nathan Wells and less
than Of other capitalists bearing charter under
the old safety fund system which it held for .
period Of twenty-five The present presidcnt
ceeded his father and is said TO have been for many
years past engaged somewhat limited extent in stock
operations the financial disease constantly growing
upon him. be operating for most OF the time successfully
Becoming more and more absorbed in this line Of out
ship in tho hands OF his son. to take the presidency Of
the institution the bank the expiration OF charter
going operation under the general banking law.
Upon the Inauguration Of the system Of national
ing invented BY Mr. Chase the Montgomery County Bank
refused 10 adopt the plan and thenceforward Is was
only bank Of deposit and discount Some two years
ago Mr. Wells began to lose money In his operations
becoming involved in heavy losses Western railroad
socka He, however, kept these losses wholly 10 him.
self, and his widespread reputation . OF wealth
enabled him 10 pursue his financial madness until ruin
has overtaken his bank his family and portion OF
his relatives II Ia stated that Mr. Wells in consequence
OF these msfortunes has partly lost his reason.


learn as this despatch leaves here that IL Ia under
stood that the bank will pay ITS depostors full
that ts capital will be almost total ioss
Year: 1867

A RUSSIAN engineer exhibits a rail
way invention which attracts consld-
crablo curiosity, The object is to save
the power gained in decent, now
lost in the friction of the brakes, with
wear and tear, and use it in and ascent
To do this the engineer has attached
TO the locomotive two very heavy fly
wheels. Going down hill they act as
IA brake, and the force they gather will
carry the train up an equal rise, less
the friction. Here a model train load
ed with water runs down sharp in
cline, the water runs off, and the force
ofthe tly. wneel carries the train back
to the place ofstarting. In this way
a short railway, taking coal down an
incline, from the pit mouth for example
cuuld be worked without any power
bus that gsined by esoh dcee~nt OF the
trait
Year: 1867

Gov. Geary of Pennsylvania, who
has filled many difficult and response
BILE stations in civil and military life,
having been in the Mexican war, and
early mayor of San Francisco, COVER
nor Of Kansas during stormy times,
and a general during the rebellion,
gave the following testimony at the
State Temperance Convention at Har-
risburg, of which he was president:
'Duriug my military service in Mex
leo and through the rebellion, and
while on the shores of the Pacific and
in Kansas, I never found it necessary
to use liquor. I was nominated for
the highest Office in the gift of the
people of Pennsylvania, have gone
through the long canvass, and have
been elected without it. At the time
of my Inauguration there was no whis-
key used, and will give a pledge to
this Convention that my official du-
ties shall be performed throughout my
term Of Office without a single drop
being used" Would that all our he
rOes and statesmen were equally free
from this debasing and ruinous vice.
Year: 1867

While the attention of Americans is di-
rected toward the great project of uniting
the Atlantic and Pacific Oceans by railroad
communication, it may not be uninterest-
ing to glance at the progress made in the
Old World toward the union by water COM
munication of the Atlantic and Indian
Oceans. The projected ship canal across
the isthmus Of Suez connecting the Medi-
terranean with the Red Sea and through
these uniting two Oceans and forming a
direct passage to India, after seven years
Of labor is not half completed. The COM
pany formed for the work was organized
with capital of $40 OOO,O 900. The canal is
to be nearly one hundred miles in length,
two hundred and sixty feet wide and
twenty-six feet deep.


The proposed route passes through high
drift sands which when once excavated, it
would seem, must continue an endless
source of trouble and expense, the action
of the winds and the corrosion of the banks
by passing vessels, demanding constant
and repairs.


For the first nine miles north Of Ismaileh
the canal is only dug to halfits future COM
plete width. Beyond this, for the remain
ing distance to Port Said, there are two
each of one-third the complete
width, the center portion being left so that
traffic may be carried on in the one channel
while work is progressing in the other
The average depth throughout is only sew
en- feet.
Year: 1867

STOPPING NEWsPAPERs.-A GER
tain man hit his toe against a pebble,
and fell headlOng to the ground. He
was vexed, and under the influence Of
anger and seIfsuffciency he kicked
mother earth right sauciIy. With
perfect gravity he looked to see the
earth itself dissolve and come to
naught.-But the earth remained, and
only his poor foot was hurt in the en-
counter. This is the way Of man.
An article in the newspaper touches
him in a weak spot, and straightway
he sends to stop his paper. With
great cOmplacency he looks to see the
crash, when the object of his spleen
shall cease to be. Poor fool! he has
only hit his own toe against a world
that does not perceptibly feel the
shock, and Injuries, to that extent,
none but himself.
Year: 1867

1t Is a fact, perhaps not generally
known that the word "white'' was re-
tained in the Constitution of 1902, of
this State, only By the casting Uots of
the President of the C0nUeatio1
Thus early in the history Of our State
we find the "Negro Suffrage ques-
tion within one Vots Of being the law
of our State. This feeling was only
in accordance with that which pre-
vailed to a great extent throughout
most Of the States at the time of the
adoption of the Constitution of the
United States. ColOred soldiers fought
side by side with white soldiers in the
war for our independence, and were
considered by our patriotic fathers
good enough to vote. The measure
then was Democrat.cl It is the same
to-day (NOt copperhead, however }
Neither property or intelligence is the
standard of qualification for voting
applied to white men. Why, in reas-
on or justice, should not the same rule
apply to cOlored men? We trust
some one will give US a good reason
(if there be such a thing) for the diff
ference In the rule Ripley Bee.
Year: 1867

A member of a fashionable
church in New York electrified a mu-
sic seller some time since by inquiring
for "SOlOmon's Song" saying his min-
lister had spoken of it as a production
of great genius and beauty, and he
wanted his daughter to sing it.
Year: 1867

A Utica man thinks he has found
out a sure and speedy way to disperse
a mob better, he says, than reading
the riot act, or regiment Of militia.
Announce that a collection will be ta-
ken, and the crowd Immediately be.
come incOherent.
Year: 1867

ConundruL16.
When Is q storm like a fish after hooki When It is
going to abats.


When is q lawyer like donkeyi When he's draw
ing conveyance.
When is a tombstone like rushlights When 1t is
set up for = late husband.
Why people who stutter not to be relied ont Be
cause they always breaking their words.
Year: 1867

A New island in the Pacific.


It is reported that new island has
been discovered in the North Pacific
ocean, between so deg. west longitude,
and 40 deg. 80 min. north latitude,
twenty miles long. It is exactly in
the track of vessels bound to this port
from China and Japan. Fogs and
misty weather prevail in that section
of the Pacific. 1t is supposed that
many missing vessels have been
wrecked there. The discovery is con-
sidered of sufficient importance to JUS
tify the Government in dispatching a
vessel to locate the exact position of
the island. A company has been or.
ganized in San Francisco to survey the.
island, and they will send vessels this
week to examine and take possession
of it.
Year: 1867

THE STATE OF OHIO. HIGHLAND COUNTY, S.
DURSUANT to the command Of an order for sale
u issued from the Court Of CummoB Pleas within
and for the county Of Highland and State f Ohio t.


me directed will offer public sale the door OF the
Court Mouse in HsbOro,
Year: 1867

THE FOREIGN.BoRN residents OF New York
amount to 3l3.2Ol out Of a total population Of
726,3e6. This is nearly one half, and it is es.
timated that the foreign born residents with
their children constitute fully two.third O I
the present population of that city. New
York contains 3S, 900 more women than men
and Brooklyn 1900. The New York Times
says there has been positive decrease Of $1,000
in the population of New York city during the
last Ave years. and IL attributes this loss of
population to the great numbers of people that
have been driven away by the municipal cor
ruption, heavy taxation, high cost Of living
filth and discomforts of various kinds for
which New York is proverbial
Year: 1867

A DIVORCE CASE IN YE OLDEN TINE
The recent case of a young wife in Michigan,
who, after honeymoon of only twenty-four
hours, obtained a divorce on the ground that
" her man was not rich as she thought he
was" reminds the Hartford Times of
divorce case which occurred in that city
some fifty years ago. 1t is related as fol-
lows Roberts & Burt had book and
job printing Office on State street. They
employed an old pressman named Barker
He was sixty five years of age, but still
good at beating the forms with the old fash
ioned 'balls." He got drunk every night,
but was steady during the day, except on
Sunday, when he initiated the old speckled
hen, and layed to it, three times. He ex-
pressed desire to get married and at the
boarding house of one of the printers was a
widow Of about Barker's age, who was
troubled with the same desire. With the
aid of another pressman he brought about a
meeting and for week there was sharp
courting in the kitchen. One of the printers,
in his desire to see the old couple make love,
climbed on top of hogshead at the corner of
the shed and peeped into the window. He
heard the widow excaim, We agree exact.
ly in everything as the old pressman gave
her smack, when the board upon which he
IL
into hogshead of water This cooled off
his curiosity. The next Saturday night was
appointed for the wedding. The widow had
some means. and she procured a comfortable
tenement and furnished it. At dark ON Sat-
urday, the bride was attired for the altar,
but Barker did not appear in the parlor of
his new home. The two pressmen started
out and found him drunk at Sears tavern.
By pumninp cold water on his head and
walking him up and down in the open air
they got him ready for the bymenial altar at
p. NJ, and be stood up straight enough
during the service. In the morning. the
widow kicked him out Of the house and for.
bid his entrance from that time henceforth
and forever The two pressmen called upon
her to enquire what she meant by such treat
ment oh, he's poor stick said she, and
the bride kept on knitting. In twelve
hours time she divorced herself. Barker
left town the next day"