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Year: 1878

The BALL.-Financiallv and otherwise
the ball at Lowden's last Friday evening
was grand success. Sixty five tickets
were sold and people there from nearly
all parts of the county, with some from
Shasta. The new ball reom was pro
nounced success and vast improve
ment on the old time hall. Dancing was
kept up until after daylight, when the
guests dispersed.
Year: 1878

CHILD DRowNED.-A sal affair hap
pensd at Canon City Wednesday after
noon. A little son of Supervisor Guthrie
while playing near the mill race fell in
and was drowned. The child was last
,een alive after four O'clock and toward
5P. NJ, being missed, search WAS made
and the little fellow was found in tho
ditch drowned. Little Willie was only
about two years old. He was buried in
the Masonic Cemetery OF this place, on
Thursday evening, Mr.. Guthrie being a
member Of that order. The services at
The grave we're sslsmnized in the dark Of
evening, owing to the long distance the
body was brought and the lateness OF The
hour before the cortoge could leave. Tho
Afflicted parents have the sympathy OF the
entire community in their hour ofsorrow.
Year: 1878

HAIN'TIT 'OT I've should feel
that we had been remiss in our edito-
rial duties if we failed to chronicle the
fact that the past week has been ex-
csssively hot. altogether too much so
for comfort. Monday the thermometer
marked as high as 1909 in town and we
hear of il even higher in other places
1t looks as though We were getting a
touch OF the cheat wave " which proved
so fatal to life in the East, but owing to
the dryness of the atmosphere on this
coast, the high degree Of heat is seldom
attended by fatal results. Still, it's 'ot'
Year: 1878

A GRowL. I'VE hate to grswl but
sonstimes a good growl becomes necss-
mry for the health. Our growl now is
about postal arrangements, and partly on
our own behalf, partly on behalf Of the
Esod people of Trinity Center.


Weaverville m all matter does not need
to 20 by way OF Trinity Center. And
rice versa letters and paper for Trinity
Center need not come by way of Wss-
vsrville. But the 'powers that be" do
not seem to understand that, for very
frsqusntly the whole batch of mail for
Trinity Center comes to the office at this
place. Here it must lay sometimes three
Of four days or be sent back. Our postal
chaps below ought to know how to send
mail matter by this time.


Now for our growl. We did not get
our Shasta Courier and had prepared an
item giving Carter "fts." And 10,
Thursday John How brought the missing
Courier down from Trinity Center
Now we want the folks below to know
that We don't want our mail to 60 to
Trinity Center, nor do the Trinity Center
pSopls want their mail to come here.
Year: 1878

tleman who sustained the loss is willing 10
give him an opportunity. The man whose
name was forged, however, but who lost
nothing by the act. inspired by spirit
which the Judge designates as spite"
wants the prisoner prosecuted to the full
extent of the law. This same man had
written letter to the Judge previously in
favor of Waltz.


EX-SHERIFF FERDINAND SPRINGMEIER VIM
thrown out of his buggy last evening ON
Walnut Hills and seriously, if not danger
ously injured about the head. He was re-
moved to his home on Gilbert avenue,
where he is now lying in critical condi-
ton.


JOSEPH NUGENT and Thos Dudley, who
were out on thieving expedition. picked
up valise at Henry Wagner's trunk store,
on Main street and a good coat from J. J.
Mullane, on Central avenue. Each of them
was fined 5000 and sent to the Work-housp
for thirty days.
Year: 1878

Philip Jories a German, laborer,
about thirty years old attempted suicide
about 3 O'Clock this morning by shooting
himself through the forehead.


Jories was boarder at Ebere's saloon,
on Court street. between Vine and Walnut
streets, and being out of work for some time
became respondent. Yesterday he went ON
tremendous spree, which was kept up
until late i'll the evening. He went to his
room, and taking out small-sized seven
shooter, placed the muzzle to his forehead
and pulled the trigger. The ball penetrated
the skull Immediately over the right eye.
He fell to the floor with heavy thud,
which was heard by some of the inmates OF
the house.


Doctors Emery and Miles were summoned
and they rendered all the aid in their
power. They are under the impression
that, although the wound is a bad one, they
can keep the man alive.
Year: 1878

Jake Gardner, well known in this city an
q local Democratic politician and for many
years prominent coal dealer, is lying az
the point of death, at his residence. No. SOB
East Third street.


He was enjoying his usual health yester-
day, and retired last night feeling little
badly, but did not consider himself sick.
At 4 o'clock this morning he was
attacked with paralytic spasm. Medical
aid was at once summoned, but the sudden
attack resulted in paralysis of one side, and
he is quite ill.,
Year: 1878

John B. Cough tells the following:


"A minister of the gospel told me one
of the most thrilling incidents I ever
heard in my life. A member Of his
congregation came home for the first
time in his life intoxicated, and his


boy met him on the doorstep clapping
his hands and exclaiming: Papa has
come homep He seized the boy by


the shoulder, swung him around, stag
gered and fell in the hail. That min
lister said to me: L spent the night
in that house | went out, barred my


brow, that the night air might fall
upon it and cool it; | walked up and
down the hill. There was his child.
deadi there was his wife in strong
convulsions, and he asleep A man
about thirty years of age asleep, with
a dead child in the house having a
blue mark upon the temple where the
corner of tie marble steps came in
contact with the head as he swung
him round, and wife upon the brink
of the grave! Mr. Cough said my
friend, curse the drink. He told me
| should remain until he awoke, and
| did When he awoke he passed his
hand over his face and exclaimed,
What is the matter? Where is my
boy" You cannot see him. Stand
out Of my way | will see my boy
To prevent confusion took him to the
child'S bed, and as | turned down the
sheet and showed him the corpse he
gave a wild shrek, Ah, my childr That
said further to me: 'One year
after that he was brought from a lu-
matte asylum to lie side by side with
his wife in one grave, and attended
his funeral.m
Year: 1878

stone; is still haunted by parents and
pl ogenitors. The creeds into which
we were initiated in childhood and
youth no longer hold their old place
in the minds of thoughtful men, but
they are not nothing to US, and we
hate to have them treated with con-
tempt. There is so much that we do
not know, that we give to these sug-
gestions the benefit Of the doubt.
Year: 1878

A San Francisco photographer las recently
taken series Of instantaneous photographs Of
the fast trotter Occident while at foil speed
Each picture required a separate camera, With
an improved double slide worked by electricity,
so rs TO give brief exposure when the horse
was exactly opposite. 10 less than second
twelve pictures we're taken, each representing
the horse 10 different position-ihe whole
photogrsphing a single stride.
Year: 1878

which has brought about the agitation in this country
for repeal Of the navigation laws: It determined
could be secured cheap and that the proprietor some
Cd s Rs %@s 1 sys


IL Il doubtful whether any steamship staunch fleet and
would BE- allowed anywhere in the world to be pcn "@
OF active trade and tied up IN dock IL would be
But the projectors OF tho Woodruff Expedition having
failed ia New-York. determined 10 try their fortune
abroad.


memorial to Congress was accordingly drawn up.
dated December 1877" and sent In, accompanied by
number of recommendations Of the object Of tho expc
tOn from college professors and Others Il set forth The
objects of the trip around the world and said


In order that these promised arrangements should DO
fully carried out, and that the time OF the departure
should be fixed at an early day ay Is7sI is is neces
sary to provide substantial vessel and to do this
present no steam ships flag available for the
purpose and for this reason Congress asked to author
poses of the expedition an American register to foreign
built steamship"


scientific feature OF the expedition and the large
(rather guarded testimonials received chiefly from
January 90 permitting foreign ship to be registered
for this peculiarly National and American enterprise,
and it has now gone 10 the Senate


reporter OF The TRIBUNE called General Macauley
in reference to this subject The ann OF the bill was
stated by that gentleman to be simply the patriotic ole
colors and the protection OF the United states,
As regards tho vessel, mono has yet been selected
but Ms the bill passes Congress, Dir.
Woodruff will proceed to- f. gland and Northern Germany
and personally conduct investigations with view 70
said considered unfortunate that there happens TO
be no American vessel built answering the purpose ex'
none OF which can be secured at reasonable cost We
might walt year and build ship" said the General
are ready rs soon the ship viii be. Twenty-Five hun
ded applicants OF the best families from all over the
number the ship carry w be selected at once The
public can judge whether these pretences are true or NOT
II would not take year 10 Duliu sutape run snip
anywhere the Delaware.
Year: 1878

lBY TELEGRAPH TO Tit. TIIBUNE.l


WASHINGTON Feb. 2O.The Senate Committee
on Commerce has now upon its calendar bill TO
aid the Woodruff Scientific Expedition Around the
World" Representative Ward and other Pennsyl-
vania members are opposing the bill with good
deal of earnestness. The bill allows al American
register to foreign built vessel, thus making an
exception TO the navigation laws. The advocates
of the proposition assert that no American vessel
can be procured, and that the scientific character OF
the expedition Justies this exception. On the
other hand, Mr. Wari says there is no description OF
vessel which Americans cannot furnish !; that the
expedition has existence. as yet and that there
is no safeguard in the bill 10 prevent the vessel from
being sold as a matter of sDeculatiOn on the Ameri-
can register which is said to he worth 100000.
Year: 1878

The following extract is from let
ter written by the captain of a Maine
brig now loading in Smyrna. Tur-
key: Speaking of Turks makes me
think to tell you that have been
highly honored since | have been
here, having had as visitor q Tur-
kish lady of high rank-something
that never happened before in Smyr-
ma, so my consignee informs me. She
was the most beautiful woman l
have ever seen, and wonderfully
graceful. suppose you are aware
that the Turkish ladies are always
yelled to all except their husbands,
if they have any; but this lady was
unmarried, and came on board ac-
companied by the consignee of my
vessel, with his wife snd sisters, and
small army of assistants. She kept
closely yelled while she remained on
deck, but when resting in the cabin
q photograph of nv little girl was
handed to her. She, in order to OBJ
serve it better, dropped her veil, and
thus remained during the short time
of her visit. She was just like all
handsome women, perfectly aware
of the fact, and evidently willing
that others should be, when on. Of
her own people. She was perfectly
at ease and just before leaving re-
covered her face with her veil, and
assumed that mysterious look and
appearance common to all Turkish
women"
Year: 1878

Carl Schmidt is the name of re-
markable old man, who has been q
resident of st. Louis county for the
last forty-three years, and of Missou-
ri a much longer period. He is now
living with bis grandson, Henry
Berkfelder. When the reporter was
shown into the room occupied by the
centenarian, who was rolled up in q
bundle OF clothes, made bis existence
in the arm chair known by slight
cough, after which he unrolled the
covering from his head. and looked
with a keen and intelligent glance in
the direction of the reporter The
appearance of Mr.. Schmidt showed
that the years had had very little to
begin on, and had left very little OF
what Mr.. Schmidt had been. He is
man below the average hight, has
bumped back, and his limbs are
helpless to him from palsy. Two
fingers of bis right hand are gone, and
while he has to use an ear trumpet to
hear through one side of his head,
the other is entirely closed up, being
permanently deaf


Mr.. Schmidt told bis story in a
very interesting and concise manner.
He was born in Uln, Bavaria, so long
ago tAat it would require a terrible
stretch of memory of an ordinary
man, which Schmidt is not, to recol-
lect even that all-important event of
his life. The time, however, he bad
not forgotten. 1t was the 18th day
of October, 1863, many years before
the American colonies won the right
to govern themselves. He came over
to this country with his parents when
only ten years old, and at q time
when a sailing vessel voyage was an
event in persons life but we could
not learn any of the circumstance of
the trip, only that he bad an indeh-
mite and vague idea that he was on
the ocean for long, long time, and
that, to his own and every body else's
immense satisfaction, be finally man.
aged to strike terra frmG in the VI
cinity Of Boston; he was apprenticed
to a siIversmith named Rodney. He
recollects how his heart glowed and
his brain was kept spinning with an
ambition to wear red coat, gilt but
tons and top boots every time be saw
British trooper in the streets of
Boston, and one very particular event
in his life, and one that has ar bisto-
rical Importance he recalls vividly,
and that is, that he was one of the
boys who called upon General Gage,
Oh that cold and snowy day, to pre-
sent their petition praying for the
Generals interference in the miscon-
duet of his soldiers


Mr.. Schmidt was, of course, in the
revolutionary war. There was new
er any centenarisn yet who had not
had the extreme felicity of holding
forth in how be had shouldered an
Year: 1878

An exchange says that such yege-
tables as beets, turnips, cabbage, etc,
should never be kept in the house eel
lar, as they frequently decay and
cause serious illness. This is true if
they are carelessly thrown in uncoy-
cred heaps on the cellar bottom, but
there is no necessity for such mis-
management A vegetable cellar,
which should always be separate
apartment from the fruit room and
the room where cooked food is kept,
should be clean as q parlor, and all
vegetables should not only be stored
in clean boxes or barrels, but they
should be imbedded in pulverized
moss, which will not only preserve
theirfre shness, but prevent all bad
odors Clean, damp sawdust will do
in plaza Of moss, if the packages are
not arge Potatoes do not need
sue packing, but they should be
placed in clean boxes ventilated at the
bottom and well covered from the
light at the top.
Year: 1878

Speaking about mules, f" remarked
q six-footer in Arkansas, as be crack
ed his whip, at market. "I've got a
mule at home which knows as much
as | do, and want to hear somebody
say I'm half fool" No one said so,
and he went on. "I've stood around
here and heard men blow about kick
ing mules till I've got disgusted.
When you cone down to kicking, j
want the bet on nv mule. A friend
came along and took dinner with me
the other day and as he seemed a
little down hearted, / took him out to
see Thomas jefferson, my companion
mule. | was telling the good man
how that mule would flop his feet
around and he said he would like to
see a little fun. He'd passed his
whole life in the South, but had new
er seen mule lay his whole soul into
g big time at kicking. "Well," he
said, after borrowing some tobacco,
IL took Thomas out Of the stable,
backed him up agin a bill, gin him a
cuff on the ear, and we stood by TO
see the amusement. 1t was a good
place to do his durndest, and what
dye s'pose he did? In ten minutes
by the watch he was out of sight.
In FIVE more we could't feel bim with
a twelve-foot pole, and and"
The crowd began to yell and sneer,
and the narrator looked around and
asked: "Does anybody think I'm
lying? Would | lie for one muleg
Right here under my arm is pound
of tallow candles which are to light
the hole for to 60 in after Thomas
and | got word not an hour ago that
the hind feet of mule were sticking
out of bill thirty nine miles as the
bird flies from where my mule went
in. Pm shaky Oh religion, gentle
men but our family never had liar
in IN -
Year: 1878

Surely profanity is one Of the
glarfng vices of the day, and nowhere
is it exercised more freely than in
country villages. In cities profane
swearing is not common in the
streets. The individual in no such
communities acquires q respect for
the rights of his neighbors, and
among multitudes be has to be eau
tious in regard to the prejudices Of
all Any such act as obtrusive
swearing in the street would soon
arouse the attention of the police.
men as the representative and agent
Year: 1878

inquired my present crop Wheat dressed with
Co.'s Acid Phosphate and after looking about
perfectly crop and believe made
application ofhe Acid Phosphate and that as
D. shall continue O Yours JOSHUA CLA
Year: 1878

They never quite leave us, our friends who
have passed
Through Sthe shadows of death to the
sunlight above;
A thousand sweet memories are holding
them fast
To the places they blessed with their
presence and love-
The work which they left and the books
which they read
Speak mutely, though still with an elo
quence rare,
And the songs that they sung, and dear
words that they said,
Yet linger and sigh on the desoate air.
And oft when alone, and as oft in the
throng,
Or when evil allures us or sin draweth
nigh,
A whisper comes gently, "Nay, do not the
wrong"
And we feel that our weakness is pitied
on high.
In the dew threaded morn and the opaline
eve,
When the children are merry or Grim
soned with sleep,
We are comforted, even as lonely we
grievc,
For the thought of their rapture forbids
us to weep.
We toll at our tasks in the burden and
heat
OF life's passionate noon. They are
folded in peace.
1t is we'll We rejoice that their heaven
is sweet,
And one day for us all the bitter will
cease
We too will go home DER the river of rest,
AS the strong and the lovely before US
have gone;
Our sun will go down in the beautiful
west,
To rise in the glory that circles the
throne.
Until then we are bound by our love and
cur faith
To the saints who are walking in Para
disc fair;
They have passed beyond sight, at the
touching of death,
But they live, like ourselves, in Gods
infinite care.


From tile Methodist.
Year: 1878

am lying on the grass with but
tercup in my mouth, and large sun
bonnet pulled down over my eyes.
l am thinking of a time-just twenty
three years ago-when l was lying on
just the'same spot.


close my eyes, and see myself
again in the summer of 1855. A very
pretty girl, with dark eyes and chest
nut hair; and l wear cheerful but
rather shy expression-which, both
my good old uncle and Guy Runcor-
inc, our wealthy neighbor, say great
ly improve my looks.


do not believe my uncle loves me
more than he does his own handsome
daughter, who only returned from a
finishing school last week.


Now, as my thoughts take his turn,
my face wears an anxious, wlstful
look, for I remember how she dazzled
us all with her brilliant beauty and
accomplishments, and how Guy quite
neglected me for her, when, before her
arrival I knew it was but question
of few days ere he would have been
my accepted lover, and hard unwo-
manly ideas came into my head as |
thought that my cousin was stealing
him from me.


Now, when I look back I wonder at
the strength and depth of my passion.
Such an ordinary sort of fellow, with
quite his share of faults, as we'll as the
virtues common to us poor mortals.


l envied Madge her beauty, while
l hated myself for doing so but I was
a woman, after ala weak, faulty wo-
man, and she was slo WY, but surely
taking the man / loved from me.


So, walking home, 1 wished I had
been to Boulogne finishing school.
But had no right to complain; 1 was
only the Wears poor, dependent niece,
go any "scraped up education was
good enough for me


Sauntering up the gravel walk lead,
ing to the Vicarage it did not I'M,
prove the condition of my mind to see
through the long French windows
my cousin, looking bewilderingly
lovely, with that soft "illusion so pc
culiarly becoming to her dainty com
plexion, round her neck and hands
presiding over the teatable, with Guy
as her. assiduous attendant.


Feeling that my face had flushed
with annoyance, turned down mar
row little path that divided our gar
den from the high road, and, as l went
!. I pulled viciously at the wild rose
that thickly studded our side of tn
hedge.


| $50 Miss Vivian has returne,
Year: 1878

him bit of bread, to see the look Of
hope and hungry joy that leapt into
his eyes.


rushed up stairs into Madge's
room, and tossing the letter into he,
lap, left her.


I heard her go down to Guy, and
the library door shut, and then enter
ing my little room with the oriel win
dow through which the stars blinked
pitifully, l threw myself on the bed
and there sobbed forth my grief and
repentance.
Well, they were married soon after
and they have been, and are still
very happy indeed.


And l am happy, too-at least, sc
far as woman can be who is utterly
alone.


l live very quietly and comforta-
bly,, and have been the recognized old
maid of the little town for longer than
care to remember but there are
many pleasant things even in the life
Of an old maid and so I may truly say
1 am happy.
Year: 1878

In AN ARTICLE ON Music, in
the October atlantic, Richard Grant
White advances the positive judge
ment and statement that musical skill,
culture and taste do not in any way
involve the exercise of the intellectual
or the moral faculties; that they are
Independent of the intellect and the
conscience. There is nothing new in
the statement. Over and over again
has it been urged that music simply
exercises and ministers to sensuous-
ness, and does not depend upon or
strengthen the powers Of the mind or
the functions Of conscience; thus leav.
ing wisdom and virtue to other helps
and guides.
Year: 1878

A FULTON, N. Y, man laid his
finger on the table in front of a buzz
saw to feel the momentum of air.
The saw was going so fast that the
teeth were not to be seen. His finger
was taken off. While he was looking
at it the foreman came up with the
question: "How did you do it?'
"Why, 1 put my finger down so,' an
swered he, placing the other fore
finger, as he thought, we'll away from
the teeth. To his horror, the saw
took took that one, too, clean off at
the second joint.
Year: 1878

Why are fat people always COM
planning? asks aome one who enter
tains the popular though erroneous
notion that health is synonymous with
fat. Fat people complain because
they are diseased. Obesity is an abb
normal condition of the system, in
which the saccharine and oleaginous
elements Of the food are assimilated
to the partial exclusion Of the muscle
forming and brain producing elements
In proof Of this, it is only necessary
to assert the well-known fact that ex-
ceasively fat people are never strong,
and seldom distinguished for mental
pow ers or activity. Besides, they are
the easy prey of acute and epidemic
diseases, and they are the frequent
victims Of gout, heart disease, and
apoplexy. Allan's Anti-Fat is the
only known remedy for this disease.
1t contains no acid, is absolutely
harmless, and is warranted to remedy
the most confirmed case of obesity, or
corpulsncy. .....