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Year: 1876

Experienced capitalists and business men
give it as their mature opinion that there is DC
kind of property as profitable as money loaned
at ten per cent which is tantamount to saying
that the average yield of industries, enterprises
and speculation is less than ten per cent. on
the amount invested, or in other words, that
money is not really worth ten per cent. There
are several considerations that strengthen this
conclusion. Money loaned at 10 per cent.
Will double itself in seven and half years; ten
thousand dollars will grow into twenty thous-
and in that time, and twenty thousand will
grow into forty thousand That the average
investments in business ventures and indus
tries will not do this is too well known to need
a demonstration. While hundred men who
loan money at 10 per cent compounded,
will with prudent management, double their
fortunes III seven and half years, one hum
dred men who borrw money at that rate will
fail, i'll spite Of all the prudence and foresight
they may exercise, to doubl6 theirs. So far
from it, fifty Of them. if not more, will break
There Is nothing more clearly established by
the experience of business than the fact that a
capital-whose only resources are the products
IT bills drawn on his shipments, will, in four
cases out of five, come to bankruptcy.


If this is true of money borrowed at
ten per cent. how much stronger must
be the argument in the case Of money
borrowed at twelve, eighteen, twenty
four and thirty six per cent?


We have been trying to get bill
through the senate to prevent usury, by
declaring the contract null and.void and
the principal sum and interest forfeited
to the school fund. But up to this writ
ing we have failed. The senate seems
willing to adopt MIR. Williston's amend
ment. to forfeit the interest to the school
fund. This may be slight imgrove-
ment on the present law. but we need
heroic remedies to correct this gigantic
evil Of usury.
Year: 1876

There having been large demand for pos
tage stamps during January, it is suggested
from Washington that the fact indicates a rap
id revival of business throughout the country.
Just an unusual amount of duns by mail,
that's ell-St. Paul Dispatch


Very true. There will be no revival
Of business until it becomes evident
that the process of contraction is to
stop.
Year: 1876

IT is evident to all that we need and
must have greater school room facili-
ties or leave large number of chill
dren unprovded with opportunities
for obtaining education. Our schools
are crowded to excess, and the Board
of Education have in hand number
of petitions for the establishment of
new schools. The Board is without
funds to build and fit up school houses,
and the great point to be considered is
the best method for raising the amount
required. There are two ways sug-
gested-special tax and the issuance of
bonds. Our Legislative delegation
are ready and anxious to introduce
and support the measure which shall
most fully meet the approval of the
nDeople, but they are unnformed as to


he desire of the taxpayers ard ask


formation. Some action should be


ID at once and the delegation noti-
fled as to the will of the majority.
Year: 1876

IN another column we publish the
Cashiers statement of the financial
condition of the Farmers and Mer-
chants Bank, which we think will
more than verify the announcement
made in these columns some days ago,
that this bank is OH as firm a basis as
any bank In the State. Its money on
hand, loans, ETC., speak for them
selves, and we have only to add that
no banking establishment is more
carefully conducted, and. certainly
none is differed by more experienced
or more thorough business men. The
Farmers and Merchants Bank has
long possessed the confidence of our
business community, and the exhibit
we this morning lay before our read
ers will, If possible, add to the conf
dence already felt in its strength and
stability.
Year: 1876

Anevening paper published in this
city which is regarded as the property
of the owners of the Santa Monica
railroad and which could not exist a
week OH its legitimate resouces, first
charges that the Central and Southern
Pacific Railroad Corporations own or
control number of newspapers in
this state and then holds up its mena-
cled hands in affected holy horror over
its self-assumed fact that such is the
case. For our part we do not believe
that these corporations own or control
single newspaper in the state. There
does not exist single reason why
they should. They are engaged in a
legitimate business which does not re-
quire journalistic advocacy or support.
They are not seeking for donation or
subsidy. They have no friends to re-
ward or enemies to punish. Their in
terests are identified and are Identical
with those of the people. A measure
or movement that adversely affects
them is blow at the prosperity of the
entire community and therefore so far
from finding themselves called upon
to purchase newspaper support they
obtain it without money and without
price from every journal that mas for
its object the advancement of the best
interests of the whole people. The
ARCHER freights and fares bill is
malicious stab at the railroad compa-
MES, intended to render useless many
of the roads now built and to prevent
the building of others. To carry out
Year: 1876

the purpose of this bill is to injure
the farmer, merchant, capitalist and
laborer. AS soon as the intent of the
bill was understood, every newspaper
of influence and respectability in the
State opposed Its passage. They re-
fleet the will of the people. Was
there the slightest occasion for the
railroad companies to hire the infiu-
ence of newspapers against the AR
CHER bill Certainly not, for through
the people they received the influence
or the peoples journals. But how is
it with the sheet that prefers its un-
reasonable charges against the Central
and Pacific Railroad Companies: Is
it not in the pay of the Santa Monica
railroad? Does not the owner of that
road control if he does not own it? It's
own course seems to warrant the an
swering of these questions in the affir-
native. We do not find the journals
it insinuates are influenced by the
"great corporations" begging the peo-
pie to burden themselves with debt in
the shape of subsidy to those corpora
tions, yet this paper that is SO ready
to charge other journals with acting
under railroad influence has for
months lmplored the people of this
city and county to donate six hundred
thousand dollars to Senator JONES
or to the road he talks of building. 1t
is the individual or corporation that
seeks the peoples substance in the
shape of subsidy we find purchasing
newspaper influence. In proclaiming
It's contemporaries the creatures of the
Central and Southern Pacific Railway
Companies is not the Express raising
the cry of "stop thief" with view of
,liverting attention from itself as the
paid tool of gentleman who thinks
of going into the railroad business
himself provided his hired newspaper
succeeds in inducing the people to give
him good round subsidy
Year: 1876

A few lots in the Washington Tract. West
Side OF Figueroa street, between Third and
Sixth streets, 500 feet from the Spring and
Sixth street railroad


Water pipes are laid on every street in this
tract
Year: 1876

A few lots in the Park View Tract, between
Temple and Canal and Reservoir streets, and
Pearl and Philadelphia streets. These lots
are beautifully located, and are in the heart
OF the residence portion Of the city, only four
minutes walk from Temple Block.
Year: 1876

rooms, situated on Center street; lot 5Oxl0O
feet Water is supplied to this house by the
City Water Company. The location is close
to the business part of the city. Here is
grand chance for a bargain.
Year: 1876

GONE BEFoRE.-Dcath is no respecter


npcrsons. All in turn must yield to


his stern mandate. We mourn when


hi, arrows fall and some loved one is


b,rne TO that common home where soon


or or later all must so. Where that


loved one WAS stricken in years and only
mid down life after career Ofuseiulness,
though we might weep alter the depart
ed spirit, there was the thought that it
was an event that could not be long de-
hycd in the wise ordinance Of Nature, to
bring resignation, if not cOntcntmcnt to
tho heart. But when one is borne over
the dark river to whom the world was
Just opening its beauties, one who bat
brief hour ago seemed destined to life
Omc of happiness, it is hard to resign
ourselves to the will of God. On Satur.
day last Margaret Ewing passed fro.n
earth in the full hope Of a blessed immor-
tality. Old citizens will recollcct little
" Maggie the pioneer baby" of Weav
trvllc il not of Trinity county, who was
born in 1851 ald has resided here
continuously to the day of her Death
She grew to womanhood in Hay Fork
Valley and none could have had falrer
promise of a life of happiness. Bat con
sumption claimed her for its victim and
she has passed away. Her remains were
buried under the auspices of Western
Star Lodge No 303, L. o. G. r. Of which
lhe was member.
Year: 1876

WHICH IS WnICH.-It happened in
Iii. way. He bought FIST bottle of
whi,ky, part of which he used in com
Founding certain drugs and lett the re-
msinder in the bottle. Then he bought
bottle OF Lucne oil and u hand lamp
to see how he would like them. Then he
filed the lamp and set the bottles away
together. When he wanted to replenish
the lamp again he poured some of the
oil into tin cup, used what be wanted
and turned the rest into the bottle. And
when he went to take a swig from the
hrst bottle, one swallow convinced him
he had got the lucine. And he tried a
swallow from the other bottle to wash


the taste from his mouth and still found
he had the lucine. And now the Only
hing that bothers him is which bottle to
urn out Of when that lucine lamp needs
oil again.
Year: 1876

WILL RUsn THINGS. Returning from
San Francisco, on Sunday last, we had
The pleasure of meeting Mr.. NJ. Zollcr-
bach and riding in company with him
As far as Sacramento. Mr.. Zellcrbach is
the principal owner in the Altoona and
Boston Cinnabar mines in this county
and will he here in few days TO inaug-
urate work in earnest. He proposes the
erection of vt least two furnaces for the
reduction Of ore and if feasible may erect
larger number. He has an abiding
faith in the richness and extent of the
Trinity Cinnabar District and can see no
reason why the mines there will not pay
handsomely to be worked on an exten-
ave scale. Mr.. Zcllerbach has the means
with which to work the mines and dis
plays that energy and enterprise so
much needed in the management Of gi


gantic mining affairs. From what we
could learn, it is proposed to produce at
least 200 TASKS of quicksilver from the
Altoona and Boston Mines this Summer
Year: 1876

MINERsvILLE.-Pete Van Matre in
forms Us that water is plenty in the above
section and that miners in general are
happy at the prospects of a rich gold
harvest In the Dutch GuIch mine Il ia
nous for nuggets-the boys picked up
several chunks last week, the largest of
which weighed over seven ounces, or
about $l25 Work on the wagon road is
fast progressing and in few days the
road will be open for through travel
Year: 1876

WILL PRosECUTE.- Doc. Croucher
managed TO place himself outside of
enough of the crooked" " ON Thursday
Of make himself nuisance to passcrs-by, =,
and was ii nally escorted 10y Deputy Sheriff
Rniner to the county hotel which keeps
furnished rooms Tor that class ofcustomers
when they become obstrcperous. 1t is
against the law to sell or give away liquor
To any of his class, and Rainer says that
the first proof he can get of any one
doing it he will prosecute him to the
full extent of the law. And the whole
community will say, Amen.
Year: 1876

READY FOR MARKET.-Our Yreka ex-
changes say the teamSters at Fort Jones
and Scott Valley are getting impatient
over the long snow blockade. They are
anxious to get over to Cinnabar and this
place in luIhIment OF the contracts made
Year: 1876

A WELL.-The Odl Fellows Lodge
Of this place contemplate having well
dug at some place near their cemetery.
In the Summer water is difficult to be
got there for the irrigation OF the flowers
and shrubbery.
Year: 1876

ROADS IN THE NoRTH.-A note from
Sam W. Smith, dated at the foot of
Scott Mountain, on the 10th inst, was
received too late for publication last
week. Sam informs us that the snow is
all Oft on the road between this place and
Trinity Center, and that the roud over
Scott Mountain would probably be clear
Tor teams in about two weeks. Green
man, Superintendent. of tie Altoona had
rode out and back to the Quicksilver
mines and reported the road in good con
dilion, and would be made passabIe for
freight teams next week. Sam adds
that.lhe streams are about as high as
warm weather and big snow-banll TO
work on can make them.
Year: 1876

a SPLENDID SToCK.-Persons desiring


to purchase anything in the way OF Cloth


ing, Dry Goods or Fancy Articles. should


avail themselves of the excellent disnlav


OF goods in that line now to be seen NJ the


store Of karsl,y and Abrahms. Their es-
tabIiShment is entirely full of new goods
purchased expressly for the Summer trade
and the proprietors arc determined to dis
pose of the entire stock at the earliest dov
possible. Their goods were bought very
low and will be disposed of at correspond
ingly low rates. For further particulars
read their new mammoth advertisement
which appears in our columns this week
then 90 and see for yourselves.


TRINITY FoLKs.-During our recent
visit to Sun Francisco we met n ercot
many old-time Trinity peoplo-too many
to mention in these columns. Generally
speaking they are ptospcring, but not.
wlIhstanding their long absence from
tins section they manifest lively inter-
est IN Trinity and its affairs, and always
seem glad to meet friend from here
and welcome him to their homes and
their tiresides. There is certainly a
warm iraternal feeling existing among
the old residents Of this place which wo
hope may ever be kept alive.





READING HOTEL. our recent trim
we OF course called to see Barney Conroy,
the genial and pleasant proprietor of the
Depot Hotel at Reading, and found him
as usual in good spirits, jovial and accom-
modailng. Barney lately visited San
francisco, and while there purchased an
extensive lot of new furniture, bedding,
etc., for his hotel, which will now COM
pare with any in the northern part OF the
State. Trinity people passing that way
should give Barney call.
Year: 1876

Down in the deep, up in the sky,
see them always, far or nigh.
And l shall see them till die


The old familiar faces.
They may have long forgotten mine
But remember, every line,


The old familiar faces.


Ali nothing e'r replaces


The old familiar faces.
And all day long, so close and near,
As In a mystic dream hear
Their gentle accents kind and dear


The old familiar voices.
They have no sound that l can reach
But silence swceter is than speech;


The old familiar voicesl


Nothing my heart rejoices


Like the old familiar voices.
Year: 1876

YOUNG AND OLD.
when we arc young our boys arc sweet,
They climb our knees and lie at our feet;
when we are old thoy are hard to please,
Cold as the rock and wild az the broeze;
They kiss us kindly and speak us fair,
But we know their hearts are otherwhere.


Oh, my sons my son till he gets him wife,
But my daughters my daughter oil her life.
when we are young our days are bright,
And full Of hope from morn till night;
when we are old we sit alone,
And think Of pleasant days long gone,
when the house was full Of the children's noise,
The wllful girls and the naughty boys.


Oh, my sons my son TIL he gets him wife.


But my daughters my daughter all my life.
Year: 1876

Might there not be something there?


Brandon went back into the cabin snd
stood looking at the open doorway Of that
other room.


He hesitatsd. Why ? Perhaps it was the
thought That here was his last chance, that
here his exploration must end, and if moth.
ing came of it then all this adventure would
be in vain. Then the fantastic hopes and
fears which by turns had agitated him
would prove TO have been absurd, and he,
instead Of being sent by Fate as the minis
ter OF vengeance, would be only the com.
nonplace victim of an everyday accident.


Perhaps it was some instict within him
that made known to his mind what awaited
him there. For now as he stosd that old
horror came upon him full and strong
Weakness and excitement made his heart
beat and his ears ring. Now bis fancy be.
came wild, and he recalled with painful
vividness his fathers words:


"In the crisis of your fate l will be
near"


The horrors of the past night recurred.
The air of the cabin was close and sufo-
eating. There seemed in that dark room
before him some dread Presence, he knew
not what; some Being who had uncovered
this his abode and enticed him here.


He found himself rapidly falling into
that state in which he would not have been
able either to advance or retreat. One
overmastering horror seized him. Twice
bis spirit fought to overcome the taintness
and weakness of the flesh. Twice he step.
ped resolutely forward; but each time he
faltered and recoiled.


Here was no place for him to summon up
his strength. He could bear it no longer
He turned around abruptly and rushed ou'
from the damp, gloomy place into the
warm, bright sunshine and the free air Of
heaven.


The air was bright, the wind blew fresh.
He drank in great draughts Of that deli
cious breeze, and the salt sea seemed to be
inhaled at each breath.


The sun shone brilliantly. The sea
rolled afar and all around, and sparkled
before him under the SUMS rays with that
infinite laughter, of which Eschylus spoke
in his deep love Of the salt sea. Speaking
parenthetically, it may be said that the
only ones from among articulate speaking
men who have found fitting epithets for the
sea are the old Greek, the Scandinavian,
and the Englishman.


Brandon drew in new strength and life
with every breath, till at last he began to
think once more OF returning.


TO BE CONTINUED.
Year: 1876

Rumors are rife on the streets concern
ing a most remarkable discovery of silver
in Wasco county. The stories floating
about tell of nothing less than acres OF
boiling springs which, instead Of water,
flow streams Of chloride Of silver. Ship
loads of precious metal are represented to
be in sight, in the shape of soapy gray snb-
stance, somewhat resembling quicksilver.
The molten masses bubble and boil with
escaping gases. The substance is so heavy
that a stone will not sink in it, but stick
or crowbar may be forced down into the
pools of wealth several feet, when the i'm
mense gravity Of the mass will throw 1t
hack into the air like an arrow shot from
an Indians bow. At least a hundred and
sixty acres are covered with these springs,
ranging from few feet to hundred
wards across. Each one is surrounded with
a rim Of crystal silver. The depth has not
VET been imagined, but the vast wealth in
ssight is enough to make every man in
Oregon a bonanza king All you have to
do is to back cart up to the edge OF your
spring and load it with money. Some peo-
pie may tlink We olo ul""S
imagination for these statements, out sucn
Is not the case. We merely tell what we
hear. Some Of the silver amalgam, said to
be from these fabulous springs, has posi-
lively been assayed by gentleman in this
city, and pronounced to be precipitative
chloride Of silver, worth $4,000 per ton.
If this should be true, the Comstock lode
would not be worth working. Nevada
would be deserted, and the silver springs
Of Oregon would become the wonder of the
world. The original discoverers are said
to be in the city purchasing supplies, ana
to have departed by the Dallas boat this
morning, while rival party has been
fttey out by others, who claim to know the
whereabouts of the "6nd," who go by pony
express by way of Albany and the Mimic
Pass, to get in ahead Of the others
Year: 1876

Piper, who was hanged in Boston foi
the murder of the little girl Mabe.


Young, made a final statement before his
death, showing conclusively that his con-
fession of the different murders OF Mabel
Young and the domestic Bridget Lam
drepan and the assault on Mary Tyner


was altogether true. He says he com
mitted the assault OH the Tyner girl with
a plumbers hammer, which he had got
from the Warren avenue church, OF
which he was sexton, and that after the
deed he washed it and scraped the blood
spots with q penknife, and that he
buried it in the cellar of the church. be
made diagram of the place where ne
buried it, and officers went to the spot
and found the hammer with blood spots
on it and the marks of the penknife. He
saws that he had spent the night with the
girl, and, to get back the money he paid
her. he beat her with the hammer as she
was sleeping, stole the money, and
jumped out of the window. Mabel
Young, he says, he enticed into the bel
fry tower for foul purpose, and, the
child struggling and crying out, ne
struck her on the head with the bat and
left her as he previously described in his
confession. The woman Landregan he
murdered that she might not tell on
him. Piper didn't make confession OF
additional crimes on the night before his
execution to his spiritual adviser, as bad
been rumored. BE, however, had q
long conference with this friend, Rev.
DR.. Eddy, and in this declared that ne
had told the whole truth. His remains
were buried privately from his parents
residence, in Mount Hope cemetery.
Year: 1876

British baronets have frequently
proved that they do not hold to the an
cient theory of the dishonor of work.
Baronets in these days are bankers and
butter merchants; they 60 upon the
stage, and they write plays, But they
have lately begun to extend their labors
to other fields. Only the other day, in
the parish of Essex, in England, a
baronet offered himself as a candidate
for the two-fold Office Of clerk and sex.
ton, which was then vacant. The object
of his action was an exemplary one.
The Office mentioned is what is called
a freehold, and, once elected, clerk or
sexton cannot be removed from Office
during his Lifetime. So the baronet
thought it as we'll to keep the place in
good hands. It is to lie regretted, how
ever, as an English journal remarks.
that the new incumbent has thought it
proper to appoint deputy sexton; for
it would, indeed, in the case of some
persons, deprive death of much of its
sting to be able to anticipate the burial
of their bodies under the supervision OF
a real baronet.
Year: 1876

ALor OF INTEREST the decisions
of the United States supreme court there
is one of interet from its antiquity and
appropriateness to the centennial year.
II Is favorable to the payment Of claim
for the cost of an expedition fitted out
during the war Of the Revolution, and
the court decides that the claimant is
also entitled to interest upon it, prob
ably for about one hundred years.
Year: 1876

and priests, everywhere incuIcate the same doctrine on this subject, viz: There can be no real educa- tiOn without religious training. Catholic schools for Catholics. No Catholic convention is possible, authorized to give voice to the opinion of Catholic laymen upon this matter. The Church en- ployes other mouth pieces to give ''a reason of the faith that is in her" and these have already spoken with no uncertain voice To those who frequent Catholic churches, or render themselves familiar with the pastOrsls of the American Bishops, which appear from time to time, the teachings of the Church on the subject O. education need be no novelty.
Year: 1876

The following were the receipts and shipments
OF the leading articles of produce in this city
during the twenty-four hours ending at o'clock
on Saturday morning, and for the corresponding
time last year: