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Year: 1867




4 case now before the Court Of Appeals
has developed some curious facts in regard
to what the public suppose to be coffee.
The dispute arises from the failure of a
certain machine to do what the inventor
claimed for it. The beauty of this ma
chine was peculiar and miraculous power
of restoring, when properly applied to
damaged coffee, much ofits original fresh
ness and flavor" The machine, when
properly used, would, it is alleged, turn
out 2O9 bags Of coffee day. Itwould be
interesting to know precisely what raw
material was used in this ambiguous sort
of mill, but nothing is mentioned beyond
the black lead, sand and soapstono. These
are nice ingredients for the breakfast table,
but they only assist in giving weight and
color to the wretched compounds which
such machines "turn out" under the name
aud disguise of coffee. If the public knew
one-half the trash that enters into the
composition Of what is commonly sold rs
ground coffee, they would be struck with
astonishmeHt and disgust. Among the
most innocent and refreshing Of these is
old coffee grounds. which constitute val
liable vehicle for the reception of ''origin-
al freshness" by the combined influence of
chemistry and machinery.


Beyond these the pnblic had better not
prosecute their inquiries, ut least until
they have resolved to give up the use of
all such coffee. An analysis Of the vile
compounds called coffee would bring some
strange facts to light. The ingredients
for such mixtures may be divided into two
classes-the innocent and the poisonous
The former are for the most part disgust
ing alike to the fancy and the palate, such
as the secondhand refuse of other people s
coffee pots, and various roots and grains.
The latter, or smaller class is smaller in
bulk, but the materials are selected from
the drug store with reference solely to fra
GRANGE, flavor, color and weight, and with
out the least regard to their unwholesOme
qualities. Many OF them are absolutely
poisonous, and we are assured by physi-
clan much sickness and distress are caused
10y the daily use of cheap substitutes for
coffee. The same is true Of three -fourths
of what is sold as tea. The consumption
Of tea and coffee is so enormous that i'm
mense fortunes are realized by this
class of adulterations. For tea, great
variety Of native leaves are so ingensously
substituted as almost to defy detection.
Year: 1867

love the old-to lean beside


The antique, easy chair,
And pass my fingers softly Ger


A wreath of silvered hair;
To press my glowing lips upon
The furrowed brow, and gaze
Within the sunken eye, where dwells
The eight of other days"
To fold the pale and feeble hands
That on my youthful head
Have laid so tenderly, the while
The evening prayer was said;
To nestle down close to the heart.
And marvel how it held ..,
Such tones Of legendary lore,


The chronicles Of Ed.
OH youth, thou hast so much of Joy,
So much of life and love, ...
So many hopes Age has but one
The hope of bliss above. ......
Then turn awhile from these away
To cheer the old, and bless
The wasted heart-spring with stream
Ofgushing tenderness.
Thou treadest now path of bloom,
And thine exulting soul
Springs proudly on, as tho it meeked
At times unfelt cnnirol.
But they have marched weary way,
Upon a thorny road li-
Then soothe the toll worn spirit ere
They pass away to God.
Yes, love the aged-bow before


The venerable form
So soon to seek beyond the sky


A shelter from the storm.
Aye, love them; let thy silent heart,
With reverence untold,
AS pilgrims reyl nsar TO Hedven,


Regard and love the old. lttf
Year: 1867

let him find you here. Juanna and
Twill tell him."


He was right; | could do no
good by staying, and might 90
harm. Telling the boy to say to
his master that / would call upon
him on the following day and ex-
plain my connection with her
death, l looked for the last time
upon the lifeless form and slowly
left the place. Ga


The remainder of my story is
soon told. Her uncle never knew
by whose hand she had died, but
the disappearance of. his son led
him to suspect Benito. The lat
ter left the city Immediately after
the procession. He was observed
to talk a moment with Mexican,
and then disappearing down q
street near by, he was seen no
more. Yet his own hand had
not done the deed, for he was in
the procession at the time and
throughout the mass. The ex-
PLANTATION l suppose to lie in the
fact, that he had got information
in some way of the appointment;
probably by finding the note which
had dropped; and having hired
two assassins, purposely showed
himself in the procession, in order
to escape the suspicion of having
murdered me, for whom the shot
was intended. All efforts to ar
rest him were unsuccessful, proba-
bly, because they were discouraged
by his friends, .
We stayed in the city long
enough to witness the magnificent
funeral service of the Catholic
Church, with what feelings, will
not stop to say. called to see
her uncle, but am now not sur
prised that he refused to see me.
On the following day, we went to
Sisal Here I took shipping for
LaHabana; and have not been in
Merida since.
Year: 1867

A writer who says his cow gives
all the milk that is wanted in a
family of eight persons, and from
which was made two hundred and
sixty pounds of butter during the
year, gives the following as his
mode of treatment-it is cheap,
and worth at least trial:


"If you desire to get a large
yield of rich milk, give your cows
three times a day water slightly
warm, slightly salted, in which
bran has been stirred at the rate
of one quart to two gallons of wa
ter. You will find, if you have
not tried this daily practice, that
your cow will give twenty-five per
cent. more milk Immediately un-
der the effect of it, and she will be-
come so attached to the diet as to
refuse to drink clear water unless
very thirsty, but the mess she will
drink almost at any time and ask
for more. The amount of this
drink necessary is an ordinary wa.
ter pail full each time, morning,
noon, and night. Your animal
will then do her best at discoun,
ting the. lacteal. Four hundred
pounds of tutter are often obtained
from good stock, and instances are
mentioned where the yield is even
at higher figure" = I..ar
Year: 1867

A gentleman visiting in the
family of a worthy deacon, had
been showing the children a beau
tifpl music box, after which he
wound it up and pnt the instru-
ment away in his pocket. At the
hour of, retiring for the pight, the
visitor was called upon for a pray
er, and having got upon his knees,
was in the midst Of what promis-
ed to be a somewhat prolonged
petition, when suddenly, in con-
sequence Of a change of petition
on the part of the supplicant, the
musical box started gayly off with
the tune-''Take your time, Miss
Lucy!" To say that the prayer
was brought to rather abrupt
termination, and that even the
worthy deacon rose from his knees
all but convulsed with laughter, is
drawing the effect Of the incident
quite mildly.
Year: 1867

FALL CoLTs.-The Mime Farmer
thinks fall colts more desirable than
spring colts. The mares can usu-
ally be allowed to rest during the
winter, and if well fed can keep
the colts in fine condition, so that
in spring they will be ready to
have the full benefit of the grass,
without the risk of being injured


by being fed grain while young.
Year: 1867

To TAKE GREASE Our OF SILK
OR SATIN.-Split a visiting card;
rub the soft, internal part on the
grease spot, and it will disappear
without taking the gloss off the
silk. o' .e aga i.a6 '
Year: 1867

A New York poet says "the
Atlantic Telegraph Cable makes
a bed of the ocean, and pillows OF
the two continents" AS there are
two cables lying side by side, he
ought to tell whether they spoon
or not.oe ~
Year: 1867

The Grand Jury, convened for the Septem-
Der term of the County Court, having con-
cluded the business before them, beg leave
to submit the following as their final report
We have had under consideration three
bills, as follows:


One for malicious mischief; one for for
gerry; one for assault with a deadly weapon,
and have found true bills. as follows;


One for malicious mischief; one for for
gerry, and have ignored one for assault with
deadly weapon.


This Grand Jury recommend the Board of
Supervisors to advertise to let by contract
the taking and keeping of the INDECENT sick
of this county, to the lowest responsible bid
der.


We further report: We deemed we would
be direlict to our duty should we fail to ex-
anime and inquire into the condition of the
prisoners and jail in which they are at this
time kept, as also the care of the Indigent
sick of this county. And we cannot fall
from our investigation to speak in the high
est praise of those departments of our county
organization.


Under the wise and discreet management
of those faithful public servants who have
the charge of the county prisoners, we say.
that we find cleanliness, kind treatment and
health. which merits our approval.


In that humane department for our Indi-
gent sick, the hospital of DR.. H9rchner, the
greatest comfort and strictest attention to
their health, is ever bestowed upon all who
are placed in his charge, and that in all those
general blessings that should be bestowed
upon the needy amidst humane people, the
Hospital of DIR. Herchner can claim par
allel with any like institutions in the State.


N. b. JENKS,


Foreman of Grand Jury.
Year: 1867

Next Monday is the last day to enroll for
the Judicial election. A great many people
have an idea that if their names were placed
on the poll list previous to the general cleo
ton, that they will be entitled to vote in
October. Such is not the case, however. A
new enrolment has to he made. and voters
must make application thirty days previous
to election. Recollect that Monday next is
the last day of grace. Union men, you have
suffered one election to go by default; do
not let apathy, carelessness and neglect de-
feat you again. Be sure that your names are
placed on the poll list of the precinct where
you wish to vote, and on the 10th of Octo-
Der next, we will make the Democrats "sing
out of the other corner Of their mouths
Year: 1867

THE Democrats, notwithstanding all their
hilarity. have not much to brag of in the coun


ty. The night of election. when the returns be-
gan to come in, one would have thought by
their actions that they had carried every
State in the Union. The greater portion of
the Union County ticket is elected. The
Democrats have only one State Senator,
Sheriff. one Assemblyman and Coroner. We
have Clerk, Treasurer. District Attorney.
Superintendent of Schools, Administrator,
Surveyor. and two Members of Assembly,
Messrs. Bever and Aver. When we come to
add the County Judge to our list, as we
surely will, old Calaveras has not done so
bad after all. Between the two candidates
for the Iudseship, there is no comparison.
The best thing the Union party can do is to
give Weir mercy enough to travel around
the county. Anyone who would vote for
such a nondescript. in opposition to gen.
tleman like Judge Barclay. ought to be in the
lunatic asylum. and undoubtedly will be be-
fore long. The Salt Spring Valley sage will
not be called from the quietude of private life.
Year: 1867

QUEER.-The Shasta Courier, a Union
paper, is an exception to what we supposed
to be an invariable rule. In its first issue
after the election there is not single word
in relation to the result. How in the world
an editor can have such control over his feel
ings as not to hurrah or curse, as the case
may be, over the result of such an exciting
contest, is to us incomprehensible. Perhaps.
however, he thought he "could not do the
sub ject justice" conmy. what is the matter
Year: 1867

-'E'Eh cio" uAti you get oul VI tile
woods" is advice which, if literally constrn-
ed, could only have reference to male bipeds
of the gallinaceous species; but metaphoric-
ally considered, and when the idea meant to
be conveyed is separated from its complex
subject and viewed abstractly, the precept
contained in tfe sentence quoted above can
safely be followed by the descendants of
Adam. "Never crow until you get out Of
the woods" Plain, simple, homely language
yet how sound the doctrine. We do rot
know the exact chapter and verse in the
bible where this maxim can be found, or
whether it S considered strictly orthodox or
not; but it is certainly rule which if OBJ
served would prevent great many bitter
disappointments and sickening reflections
Especially is 1t applicable in love, war and
politics. For instance: Don't allow your
self to be transported to the seventh heaven
of exstatic bliss and imagine you have laid
your rival out simply because Melinda Jane
took your arm in preference to that of Au-
gustus. Supposing she does give you kiss
and slight pressure of the hand when you
else may be the favored one next time. How
do you knows Can you tell which way the
wind will blow tomorrow: Make the most
of your opportunities, but keep mum. Go
slow. "Never crow until you get out of the
woods" Should you ever be so unfortunate
as to become engaged in muscular discus
sion. don't throw up your hat and hurrah
because you succeed in knocking your ad-
versary down. Maybe he will "scratch."
Don't waste your breath in vain boasting
until the victory is secure; you may need it.
Ify you whip your man. why, Crow but
be modest about it. "Let those laugh who
win "Never crow until you get out of the
woods" Should you ever happen to be a
candidate before the people for any official
position, do Your prettiest to win, up to the
day of election, and then patiently await the
result. Don't be too anxious; there is plen-
ty of time. "Rome was not built in day."
Don't invite your friends to partake of oyster
suppers, and champagne, and things of that
sort, until your election is a certainty. Nei-
ther is it wise to telegraph to your friends
abroad that you have been successful. and
in return receive their congratulations upon
the happy event, before the returns are all
in; and even if they are, there may have
been mistake in adding up the figures
Don't rejoice until you have got your cer-
tifcate in your pocket. A defeat, after you
have had a jubilee over your supposed cleo
ton, operates good deal like dose of ipe-
cac on a stomach full of oysters. Recollect
''there is many slip 'twixt the cup and the
lip" "Never crow until you get out of the
woods"
Year: 1867

Too BAD.-The San Francisco Examiner
is getting jealous of the Union and Bulletin.
Speaking of the influence which those journ-
ais exerted in behalf of the Democratic ticket,
it discourses thus sagely:


Whilst there is undoubtedly much credit
due to the Independent Journals for their
course in the late canvass, yet the glorious
result is by no means attributable to them
aone. We unhesitatingly conccde them
great acumen in shutting afar off the breeze
that was coming over our State-the keen
discernment of the threatened revolution in
public sentiment and the smartness to shape
their course so as to be found on the side of
the strong and popular. But when the pre-
sumptuous Bulletin claims that it and the
Sacramento Unaon did it all, etc. The
Bulletin and the Union undoubtedly desired
the defeat of portion of the Radical ticket,
but they distinctly based their opposition on
moral and personal grounds, whilst they ad-
vocated the principles embodied in the plat
form upon which the candidates whose defeat
they labored for. stood. The Bulletin
particularly appealed to the people to elect
the Radical candidates for Congress and for
the Legislature, laying great stress upon the
importance OF securing the pending Con-
stitutional Amendment and of endorsing the
Congressional reconstruction policy. All
have gone down together, and in the very
face of the Bulletins desperate efforts to
WELD an influence to the contrary.


Now it is cruel for the Examiner to talk
in that manner about journals which did
more for the. success of the Democratic
party than it did itself. Does not the Union
say it has been indorsed by the people by the
election of Haight : of course it does
Year: 1867

The Union says "there is no surplus OF
bralnage connected with the interior journ-
ais" Probably not. An overdose of brains
is disease with which but few people die
The editors of the Union are perfectly safe.
The man who wrote the article in Saturday
Union from which we take the above extract,
is an ass whose stupidity is only equaled by
his egotism, ignorance and impudence.
Year: 1867

The weather nowadays is splendid, just
cool enough to be pleasant. Such weather
as this adapts itself to everybody's wardrobe
and condition. If fellow hasn't got
duster thick coat is not at all out of
character ;sand If his shirt happens to be
little dirty, why he can put on a clean
dickey and button his vest up to the throat
without being uncomfortable. If his ex-
chequer happens to be in an unhealthy con-
dition and his credit rather shaky with hotel
keepers why fruit is plenty. cheap, and a
very good diet. And then, another thing,
vegetarians seldom have the gout. These
beautiful evenings are too delightful for one
to sleep. in doors. any way. What better
covering does a man want than the blue
canopy of heavens None, if he has any
poetry in his soul. Another thing, sleeping
out affords a fellow such an excellent op-
portunity to study astronomy. A haystack
now for instance. No bedbugs. Verify,
"God tempers the wind to the shorn lamb
Year: 1867

THE -NIc.-The Pic-Ne, got
ten up 5y the ladies of Mcaley's Neck,
came off on Thursday last in a grove near
the church in that section Though invi-
ted, our engagements prevented us from
being present, but we have been gratlhcd
to learn that the affair was decided sue
cess and passed off in the most agreeable
and gratifying manner. The occasion was
ealivencd, we learn, by the dance and
other innocent diversions, and the good
things of life abounded, the best being the
ladies, an unusually large collection Of
whom honored the entertainment with
their presence
Year: 1867

81 SAY. Harry, were you a. the battle of
Bunker Hin?" 'Not ezaety, Tom, but
then my daddy says be knew man that
told him that he saw an old friend of his
that had an uncle who often affirmed that a
great-grandfather, by the mothers side, be-
longed to regiment of foot, in which
there was a man who said that daddy OF
his told him that a mercantile uncle met a
man one day Wig said he had soen General
Washington about those diggings one day
after breakfast 20 "Were you ever any
closer ?" "Not quite as near gunshot as
that, 1 thank you -
Year: 1867

A FAMILY PoIsosED.--Last Monday
noon the family of L. K. Quimby, in
Lyndon, partook of starch pudding,
and an hour afterwards began to be sick.
Some eight or ten workmen engaged on
his new building took dinner with him,
and eight of the family and workmen
ate of the pudding, and were soon seized
with stomach sickness and vomiting.
Several OF the men were carried home,
supposing they had sudden attack Of
summer complaint. The next day, they
were all as well as usual, with the ex-
ception OF lame stomachs. The doctor
thinks there must have been a drop Of
tartar emetic in the starch OF which the
pudding was made, which possibly got
in by some mistake when it was put up.
The family has before used starch from
the same lot without any serious effects.
Year: 1867

ACCIDENTAL boy named Duane Bald.
win was severely injured on Madison
street in this place yesterday forenoon,
by having . cart loaded with brick fall
upon him. 1t seems that he was play
ing about the cart, the horse attached to
which was standing still, when, just IS
he was crawling under the hind end Of
the vehicle, the horse started with such
force as to cause the cart to tip back
wards and strike him, knocking him to
the ground and dragging him some dis
tance. He sustained severe injuries
about his face and head, and fracture
Of the right leg. He was picked up in
an insensible condition and conveyed to
his homo, where medical aid was rem.
dered him, and is doing well as could
be expected under the circumstances,
though not yet out of danger.
Year: 1867

sB~ The plan adopted by the Washington
Library Company for the raising Of funds for
the Riverside IBstitute-sn asylum for the gra-
tuitous education Of Soldiers and Sailors Or
phans-is meeting with great approval. Sub
scriptions to the stock are coming in rapidly.
The handsome steel-plate engravings given to
those who purchase stock are acknowledged by
competent judges to be frstc class productions.
Besides receiving handsome engraving OF this
character, worth more at retail than the price
Of the stock. every purchaser viii in addition
receive present of some kind. Full guarantees
is given that every share Of stock must beAe.
companied by present besides the engraving.
See advertisement
Year: 1867

THERE are many cases on record where the
hair Of individuals has from menta, anxiety
and great fright or distress changed in n
few hours from its natural color to an al
most perfect white This was said to be the
case with the unfortunate Marie Antoinette.
one of the most beautiful Of women, in the
dreadful night preceding her execution
But there are other more natural causes
than these that are daily procuring a like
effect upon the hair, by slow but sure sp-
proaches. and certain preventative Of this
unsightly misfortune is public beneiaction.
This has been found in the discovery of the
famous "Barretts Vegetable Hair Restora>
tive" which uniformly prevents badness
and greyness, and is most delightful arti.
Gle of tho toilet. No lazy or gentlemen
should be without it.
Year: 1867

TIE New York World scolds Its DEM
ocratic brethren in Connecticut for put
ting the eight hour law into their plat
form OF course they do not mean
anything by it; it is only an attempt to
add a little to the fictitious capital of
the party-a sin which, in its embarras


sed circumstances, the World should
not be too hard upon. There is another
dodge in the Connecticut platform a
good deal more open to rebuke, and
that is the attempt to cajole the "mean
whites" by promising to abolish the
poll tax. But they Will lose more than
they will gain by it. It will offend
eyery man who owns anything more
than the shirt on his back, and there
| are very few men who Will vote them
| selves on the pauper list for the sake OF
shirking small contribution to the
support of the government. The pau
| per ticket is the true name for the dem


ocratic state ticket of Connecticut.
Year: 1867

THE PACIFIC RAILROAD The Senatorial
party to tho Pacific Railroad give their tssti-
mony that the road is not inferior in its Ar
rangements, in the comforts of its cars or ths
speed with which they travel, to any road over
which they had ever passed. The system, reg
ularity and rapidity with which the track is
laid, struck them with amazement, as in the
most elegant and comfortable cars they passed
over three miles of track before night on which
not tie was laid in the morning. So much
railroad track was never laid down before in
this country in so short time.
Year: 1867

CORRECTION. our Saturdays issue We
stased tha; Elder Challen Of the Christian
Chapel would yesterday preach his farewell
sermon. This statement WAS made in &C.
ccrdance with the fact that on the 18th Of
March last Elder ChAllsn sent to his church
IN unconditional resignation, asking to b
relieved st the end .. the year for which be
bad contracted u stay. This was accepted
and . committee appointed to obtain snoth>
e pastor. Knowing that his gear would
end sbsus The frst Of Nay: and bsins is>
formed that nothing had bsen done BY The
church reseinding the previous action, ws
tsok the liberty Of making the statement re.
fcrred to. We learn this morning that On
effort has been made by part Of the church
to retain Elder Cha!len smother year,
and that he has consented TO stay.
We cheerfully make the correction and
beg to be excused for the misstatemsnt. -
Nothing is further from our wishes than to
hear Elder Chalen preach farewell SER
mon. We promise not to offend again sl'
Though there is not much danger 40 Eide,
Chalien in reading the DsxocRAr from biz
pulpit promised to send us notice Of the
tine when he will preach = farewell dis
course. In leaving this subject We can only
say that to us eutsid srs church quarrels are
not ct oil pleasantao look upon, and we shal


persistently back out Of all Of them.