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Year: 1877

CoNvENTIoNs.-Thc Republican Coun-
ty Convention of Shasta County met
Thursday, but we have no particulars in
regard to its action. The Democrats
meet to-day. As Shasta is joined with
Trinity in the Senatorial and Assembly
District, we are interested to know what
action hns been taken place in reference
to legislative nominations. While both
parties concedc that Trinity is entitled to
the Assembly nomination, we hear Of no
Trnitaran named rs an aspirant for the
We have many good men in this county,
that would do honor to the position, but
50 far as We are advised there are none who
can accept it. |. is pretty we'll under
stood that the acceptance OF II legislative
position is just about equivalent to throw
lng AWAY Il winter, for the honor Of repre-
senting the county, and that is thing
none OF our party is very anxious to do.
Perhaps thcro is some qualified Republi-
can who can so arrange his business chat
he can afford to spend winter in Sacra-
mcnto, but if so he has not let it be
known. The district is slightly Demo-
crate Trinity having given twenty, and
Shasta twelve majority for that ticket at
the Presidential election, but that is n
majority easily overcome if the right man
takes the field.
Year: 1877

Go-A-BEGGING.-That is what the 10.
cal offices of this county will have to do
IN order to get occupants. There are no
candidates thus far announced, except
one, and neither party has done anything
toward holding Primaries or Conven-
tlons. The real reasons for this state of
affairs are simple enough: Trinity is a
large county in area and an expensive
one in which to make canvass parties
are so nearly equal that there is no GER
talnty OF an election on either side; sal
aries are so low as to scarcely pay for the
work done, and outside of Clerk and
Sheriff (and these doubtfuI there is not
an office to be filed that pays enough
to keep a man during the term.
Year: 1877

In TowN.-Rev. Father Wallrath re-
turned on Monday for brief visit, to set
lie up the business connected with the re-
pairing of the church and building the
parsonage. prior to settling down perma-
nenty to his new pastorate at Cousa.-
Father Wallrath likes his new location
very well though the heated term -
with which he was greeted on his first ar
rival in the valley was not well calcula-
led to commend the climate.
Year: 1877

Not MovING.-Tne political waters Of
this county have scarcely a ripple upon
their placid surface; it looks very much
this year AS though the old maxim Of the
Know Nothing3 that the office should
seek the man." is to be put in practice.
Perhaps it is because parties here are too
unplcasantly close in point Of strength to
be healthy.
Year: 1877

RICH QUARTz.-The prospects obtain
ed from the quartz lodges recently found
on Deadwood Creek is of very graft
flying character. Trotter and Fred Dein-
er were in town Tuesday, and by way Of
a test pounded up two ounces of rock ta-
ken from the "Monte Cristo " vein. We
saw the prospect after it had been panned
as low as possible and if the rock in the
ledge will average as much to the pound
as that two ounces gave, the yield per
ton will be simply enormous. They have
now a well defined ledge three feet thick
all Of which is good milling rock. The
boys were feeling in good spirits over their
chances and they certainly have right
to feel so.
Year: 1877

Not SO very long ago there arriv-
cd at San Antonio, Texas, n gentle.
man from G large town on tho rail-
road between there and Galveston.
He put up at one of the hotels, and
displayed q tremendous appetite.
At the end OF the week he expected
to be presented with his bill, but no
bill was presented, although he had
no luggage at oil. Time went on
and still no bill. The landlord treat,
cd him with lofty courtesy, as did
the walters. One night, however,
he did nd return TO tho hotel, and
next morning the landlord hired a
detective, who hunted and found
him. The stranger thought the
landlord was going to have him put
in jail for swindling, or something
else, and he felt very much alarmed
abq1t it. But no. The landlord
was as pleasant as ever. He asked
the stranger what he had done that
he should desert his hotol in that
way, inquired whether tho walters
had offended him, and finally begg
ed him to return to his hotel once
more, promising to furnish b m
with oysters or anything else he
might wish.


The stranger was astonished. He
told the landlod that no couldn't pay
his board. The landlord replied he
did not want any board, and finally
extorted from tho stranger the
promise to return to the hotel.


After u few days, tho stranger
took tho landlord aside, thanked
him with tears in his eyes, and ask
ed him why he was SO anxious for
him to eat at that hotel FREQ oil
charge.


"I'll tell you" was the reply ~
don't care o cuss for you personally,
but since you have been eating here
I have had forty more guests to din.
nor than i ever had before. They
como here for no other purpose than
to look at you eat-you eat 80 hear
ty. But tho trouble is, I had 90,
600 bet you would choak to death
within o specified time. To-day il
the last day, and f'havs lost. Git T.
And he kicked him nineteen feet
| ten inches into the street
Year: 1877

We have had q great deal to say to
our young friends about ten ptalion,
because in youth PERSONS suscepti-
bilities are greater than at any other
time in life.-There is much to be
said besides telling a person what
should be avoided, or admonishing
him to shun this or that. The best
way to avoid thing is to cultivate
something autagonistic to it in fact,
II one does not do this, his chances OF
successfully carrying on his resolves
are only half what they might bo,
II person can acquire a relish for
good, wholesome, improving society,
he will be 10 less danger than if he
simply shunned bad company, and
the same may be said Of a good ma
ny other things. Among tho great
est protecting agencies is q taste for
reading. One seldom sees a person
OF such tastes in the ranks of the
fast young men who are gotting 10
their crop of wild oats. There is
nothing much cheaper than such a
taste /: indeed 1t is wonderful how
cheap are all kinds of culture COM
pared with the different sorts Of dis
sipation. A young man who has
his business to study and whose
livelihood and hope of advancement
in the world depends altogether on
his own exertions, will have brief
time to devote to other things, but
such time may be we'll filed up, and
by cultivating o taste for that which
is improving aud elevating, in what.
ever department 1t may be, any in


clination in IN opposite direction is
effectually destroyed. A taste fol
such food as Eli Perkins furnishes,
at once shows o low state Of moral
ity--and his popularity is only q


moug tho low, or thod5 who have


havo not had proper training -Ex.
Year: 1877

THE STOCK SHOW of the Cedar Go.
Fine Stock Breeders Association was
set for Suesday, April 10th. II does
seem as if the weather could not
smile upon any undertaking of this
kind hereabouts. The roads were in
a terrible condition, and more rain
threatening, but notwithstanding
there were quite a number OF fine
stations, as well as some other animals
on the grounds.


The object of this show has been
fully stated in these columns several
times. Most of the practical stock
men think they may be made ofgreat
bencfit--niore, even, IL any thing,
than the fall exhibition-and they do
not mean to give it up with one trial.


We shall be able, next week, to give
q full list of the animals shown on
Tuesday, a. well as Of the general pro.
csedings on the grounds.
Year: 1877

AN UPPER SET or TEETH FOR S.
70 those desiring such, we can furnish
full upper set of artificial teeth fol
eight dollars, accurately adapted to
the palate, and equal i'm appearance,
quality and finish to any set of cheap
teeth made in or west of New York
city.


We regret to aid in supplying
low priced teeth--and hitherto have
not dealt in them--regarding it to be
detrimental to ourselves as well as tc
those desiring dental services. But a
there seems to be an urgent demand
for that class of dentistry, in order to
be obliging, we accept the situation,
and await the censure that will in
evitably follow.


CARRIER Bros, Dentists,


If City Hall Building.
Year: 1877

The largest business that has been


Hone in the boot and shoe line i'm the


past few years has been ut the City


Hall Shoe Store within the last year.
PThe reason il they have kept the kind
|Df goods to suit all and have sold them
|At prices which defy competition.
|They propose to keep such goods in
the future and sell them at such low
prices that they will not fail to suit
|any one who comes in.
Year: 1877

At the City Hall Shoe store is the
largest and best stock of boots and
shoes in the county. Their large trade
them to sell goods cheaper than any
house in town. They will not sell you
d split-leather boot for kip boot, but
will tell You first what kind of goods
you are buying. Call and see them
end you will find them square men to


leal with.
Year: 1877

Step into the City Hall Shoe Store
and see how cheap they are selling
boots and shoes. They don't ask you
to buy until you are satisfied you can't
do better in the same quality Of goods.
If you give them one trial we are sat
isfied that in the future you will do all
your trading in the boot and shoe line
with them. Ii is, without any doubt,
the cheapest boot and shoe store in
Upton.
Year: 1877

$50 is our price for an entire upper
set Of the very best quality Of teeth,
guaranteed strictly first class in every
particular. A liberal reduction made
where teeth are already extracted.


If CARRIER BROS, Dentists.
Year: 1877

Again they have cut down prices on
boots and shoes ut City Hall Shoe
Store and are selling them cheap
Ter than ever to make room for new
goods which will be coming in soon.
Now il the time to buy boots and
shoes. Don't fail to give II. l.. Dean
q call while these goods are going of
so cheap.
Year: 1877

New GOODS. new goods! The first
siavoice of new spring goods just ariy
ed at the City Hall Shoe Store and


lots more coming; now is the time to


buy boots and shoes cheap to make


room for the new goods.
Year: 1877

The announcement of public oral
examination in our city schools was a
few weeks since made in these coll
umns, together with full statement
of the committees appointed by the
Board of Directors TO visit each room
and the points to which particularly it
directed. The following reports of
such visits and observance will there
fore be understood without further
preface:
Year: 1877

News is so scarce and reporters so plen. ty hereabouts that some complain that they cannot visit their neighbors without having it reported in the papers.

 Another dance is in prospect at the Dancing Halls.

 Religious meetings are now held at the school house every Sunday; prayer meetings in the forenoon, and preaching by the Rev. Mir. Perkins in the after noon.

 Our gardeners who consider the pea brush growing by the river. side as com- mon property should remove it immedi. ately after cutting, and not leave it there as one man did, and then lay hands on the wrong person because somebody threw it over the bank into the river.

 One of our young men, becoming lonesome, and convinced that cit is not good for man to be alone," has put an end CD to his misery by uniting with one of the fair CD sex in matrimony. May peace, happiness and prosperity attend them. 'Still there's more to follow"

 No MATTER WHO.
Year: 1877

We are having splendid weather now, and every one is busy getting in their crops or getting ready to put them in.

 The maple sugar business is nearly done with for this season. A considerable amount, both of sugar and molasses have been made.

 The frogs commenced to sing their same old songs again. fortnight ago.

 Rev. Mir. Stevenson came home again on the evening of the 10th he has been gone from here about month.

 A child of Mir. Conner is quite sick and its recovery is somewhat doubtful.

 There are no more tramps around as far as I can hear. Probably the weather is getting too warm for them.

 -Silas Marshall and family moved away few days ago. They went to Amer ica Union to live. OTIS.
Year: 1877

always in his place. and one of the few individuals who never get out of place, He was eminently man of prayer. His place in the prayer meeting was rarely vacant, and it is believed that during the last sixty years he has attended more prayer meetings, than any other member of the church. The prayers.of Nathaniel, the son of Benjamin, are ended. G.
Year: 1877

WASHINGTON. Oct l, 1871
EX-GOVERNOR KELLOGG AND JUDGE sPoFFoRD


AT TIE NATIONAL cAPITAL-rHE LATTER ON


THE PRESIDENTS POLICY.


Ex-Governor Kellogg and Judge spofYord, OF Louisi-
ana the rival claimants for the long of tho ned
states senaorship OF that State called upon tho Prcs-
dent to-day, the latter visiting him for the first tmo
and paying his respects Governor kellogg went on
10 New York tonight while Judge SpoIord will re-
main here to try TO divine the probable
temper or the Senate In the matter OF
bis admission 1t will be remembered that
ho was chosen Senator by the Nichols Legislature
receiving tho support OF many such republicans az
Michael Hahn. He belongs to tho conservative wing
Of toe democratic party an clement made up largely
pf tho old line whigs who were welded into union
with the democrats by tho heat OF the rebellion.


For this reason the question was put to the Judge
tonight whether, In the event Of division In tho
party in tho South and In the Senate. no would not
take SIDES with supporters the President as against
tho lattcrs antagonists His reply that the wholo
South was supporting the President and that u
would ba time enough to talk Of meeting issues when
they arose. Tho politics OF the past wore buried
in very deep grave AS TO his position IN the Senate
he should represent the people Of his State without
regard to parties, but II at any future time there
should como such a division OF parties rs had oeen
conjectured might bo the effect IN tho South OF tho
Presidents policy, he should seek tho benefit OF all
the light be could get determine which side was tho
right one, and put himself in harmony with 1t.


In saying that the whole South was now supporting g
tho President he wished to have II understood that
the indictment OF tho Returning Board in Louisiana
had been wrongly used as argument in tho North
prove that thcrc unfrcndly feeling 70 tho Pres
ident, whereas tho fact that the indictment had
been used upon the alteration Of return OF only $50
votcs In ono parish, that OF Vernon. This return,
whatever ITS honest character, inadc neither Mr..
Hayes title TO the Presidency less valid nor Mr. TIL
denis election the probable, or vice versa Tho
object the indictment to punish crmc and deter
It's repetition II wasnovcr lcvclcd At tho President
Year: 1877

FRosTBURG, Aug. l, 1877.


1fr. Editor The author of the let
ter in the Baltimore Sun never de-
signed to appeal for aid to the people
in Baltimore. The letter was only
intended to awaken an Interest in the
people of this community in behalf of
those who were in need. That there
Is distress among many none can deny.
When the letter was written no freight
was permitted to pass over the rail
loads, all operations in that connection
being cut off The miners appeared
willing to work, bat now that feature
is somewhat changed in efforts to cor
rect either real or imaginary wrongs.
We profess not to be a Judge in these
matters, and leave all issues to be set
tied by those Interested There is no
need to appeal for help to any city or
town outside Of Frostburg; the citi-
zens are amply able to provide for
the wants of all that are in need.
The author Of the letter therefore is
sorry that the remarks were 2onstru-
ed to apply to the charitable in any
place other than the one intended,
and states once for all that no appeal
to Baltimore or Cumberland will ever
be made by Elk.
Year: 1877

THE great source of calamity lies in
regret or anticipation. He, therefore,
is most wise who thinks of the present
alone, regardless of the past or future.
This is impossible to man of pleas
ure; it is difficult to the man of bust
ness, and is, in some degree, attain
able by the philosopher. Happy
were all born philosophers-all born
with talent of thus dissipating our
own cares by spreading them upon
all mankind.-GoLdsmith.
Year: 1877

Selected with great care at the recent
wholesale Fall Openings, respectfully in
yites the inspection and patronage of the
public Her new stOrerOom is elegantly
fitted, light and comfortable, and, with her
ripe experience in the trade, she believes
she can still accommodate the wishes Of all.


Sent %
Year: 1877

We take the following exciting episode
from work called "a Years House
keeping in South Africa 80.


HARDLY this camp keen sportsman
was lately pursuing buck. He had no
dogs except q pet Skye terrier to help in
the chase, nothing but his pony and rife
and a trusty Kafir yet the hard-pressed
buck had to dash into small solitary
patch of the thorny scrub for shelter and
a moments rest. In an instant the
hunter was off his pony, and had sent
the Kafir into the bush to drive out the
buck, that he might have shot the
moment it emerged from the cover. In
stead of the expected buck, however,
I must tell you the story never states
what became of him-came loud cries In
Kafir from the scrub of "Oh, my
mother oh, my father oh, my friends
and relations! I die, I die!" The master,
much astonished, peeped as well as ne
could into The little patch of tangled
briers and bushes, and there he saw his
Kaffir STOPPING motionless beneath low
branch around which was coiled large
and venomous snake.


Tho creature bad struck at the mans
head as he crept beneath, and it's forked
tongue had got firmly embedded in the
Kafir's woolly pate. The wretched
beater dared not stir an inch, he dared
not even put out his hands to free him
self, but there he remained, motionless
and despairing, uttering these loud
shrieks. His master bade him stay per-
fectly still, and taking close aim at the
snakes body fired and blew itin two. He
then, with dexterous jerk, disentangled
the barbed tongue, and flung the qulver-
ing head and neck outside the bushes:
Here comes the only marvellous part OF
the story. "How did he know it was
poisonous snake?" I asked. ooh,
well; !; the little dog ron up to play with
the head, and the snake, Or rather the
half snake, struck out at it, bit it in the
paw and it died in ten minutes.
Year: 1877

A speedy return Of the good times of
five years ago is predicted by the Toledo
(O.) Blade, which bases its belief on
the immense crop of the year, and the
well known effects of prosperity among
farmers on general business. It appears
that the crops being harvested are the
largest the country ever had. The acre
age of wheat is largely in excess of any
since the settlement of the country, and
the yield per acre is infinitely greater.
Hay is magnificent, and has been secured
in the very best condition. Corn is now
certainty. Never was the eye glad
dened with the sight of such fields. The
stalks tower gloriously, and the color is
superb. Oats, which have been failure
since 1874, will this year yield very much
more than they did then. The Blade
continues: "We prophesy an imme-
diate and decided revival of business.
There have been tight times for three
years. The farmers have not had money,
nor have they had any way to make it.


This enormous crop, coming
in just at the nick of time, when the
calamities of other nations makes good
price for it, is the let-up we have been
looking for SO anxiously. and waiting for
so patiently. The farmer will in few
weeks from this have money enough to
pay his debts out of his wheat alone, and
he has his enormous corn, oats and hay
crop for future needs. He will pay the
debts that have been accrmulating for
three years, and he will have plenty
with which to get those supplies he has
been compelled to do without SO long. !"
Year: 1877

An English farmer has recently been
compelled to pay the costs Of practical


Joke. He was sitting in the barroom OF
the GREYHOUND inn one night and taking
his usual tankard of ale, when his eye
Glanced to fall on the sleeping form OF
man with long beard. He went to the
fire, and, Lighting q piece OF paper,
deliberately applied it to the sleeping
mans beard. There was bright, rush
ing fame for a second or two; the man
sprang to his feet in agony; the Joke
was complete, andthe farmer roared IN
ecstacy. The unfortunate sufferer, who
happened to be the village tailor, knew
that the farmer was a man OF substan-
tial means, and acted accordingly. He
brought an action for $3.50 damages in
the Malmesbury county court in due
course. According to the plalntltt S
evidence, his beard was eighteen inches
long when he laid down, after having
some ale. The next thing he remember
ed was his face being on fire, while
man helped to put out the flame. Inc
defendant sat in his seat roaring WIN
laughter, and did not offer any assist
ance nor did he tender any apology for
what he had done. His lips were burned
severely, bis face was blistered, his
beard, eyebrows, and eyelashes were
burned to the skin, and one eye and one
ear we're scorched. The magistrate
awarded him $3.50 and costs.
Year: 1877

Some years ago the French Govern
ment directed the Academy of Medicine
to inquire into the influences of tobacco
on the human system. The report Of
the commission appointed by the
academy states that large number of
the diseases of the nervous system and
of the heart, noted in the cases of those
affected with paralysis or insanity,
were to be regarded as the sequence of
excessive indulgence i'm the Use of the
articles; and it is remarked that to-
bacco seems preliminarily to act upon
the organic nervous system, depressing
the faculties and influencing the nu-
triton of the body, the circulation of
the blood and the number of red cor
puscles in the blood. Attention is also
called to the bad digestion, benumbed
intelligence and clouded memory of
those who use tobacco TO excess.
Year: 1877

600 acres of Internal Improvement land
to pay the debt. Properly mana aged,
those lands will pay the interest for
thirty years, and then the State will be
SO rich and prosperous that the debt will
be mere bagatelle. If we do not ac-
cept the pending proposition we run the
risk Of having some future legislature
settle the debt on worse basis for tho
State and without referring it to 1.-The
people; for the Supreme Court OF the
United States has decided that any such
reference to the people is null and void.
If we can avoid these risks in the future
and get clear of the stain OF reputation,
Is 1t no. better to do it? It is not ques>
ton as to whether the original issue of
the bonds was or was not fraudulent, but
how can we honorably get out Of the
scrape we are now in ?-EDIroR ANTI.
MoNOPOLIsT1