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Year: 1872

The Stadt Theater has been occupied since
Sunday with exhibition OF magic. The magician ID a
Professor Yanek. He claims TO have astonshed the ma
tives Of the East and especially to have aroused the
wondering surprise OF the Emperor Of China the Tycoon
OF Japan the Sultan Of Turkey, and the Khedlye OF
Egypt. HIS ambitions crown will now be to thrill the
Bowery. Prof. Vanek gave Of his characteristic
entertainments last evening before medium sized but
delighted audience After borrowing the watches Of
number Of his auditors he beat them In sort OF mortar
until they invisible, ana then fred them against
small frame, whence they were taken and restored
TO their His next operation was 70 draw MI
dollars from a closed box, covered with hand
kercnief with the aid OF his magic wand causing them
his hand and appear in small goblet ten feet
distant. magic shawl adyantage0usly used to
bring forth a wcll-drcssed but happily mute baby
Having borrowed what apparently an
empty hat from gentleman in the au-
dience, the Professor Proceeded to draw therefrom
a large assortment Of nfantile clothing dozen
OF ladies' rctcules and confectionery for the audience
The grand feat the evening. however the decap
tatiOn O his assistant full of the audience, after
which the severed head passed around on dish by
the Professor, Who fcehngly requested his hOrrned
auditors 10 feel OF II and assure themselves that there
was deception The entertainment closed with lne
dissolyug views. IL is announced that the last three
performances viii occur tomorrow, Saturday ana sun
day evenings.
Year: 1872

over again, until 1 could do it quite
we'll without your help"


1 turned quickly round but she was
gazing intently at the fire, and did
not perceive the startled look gave
her.


"Well." she continued, "the night
before last, when you were away, l
could not sleep for long time after
l went to bed; and when did sleep
drcamed-such a horrible dream!
l thought that was in your office
again; and / had fed there because I
was chased by come Terrible Thing.
1 did not know what it was, but it
was close behind me, and 1 thought
nobody could save me but you.
But YOU were not there, and so
seized the handle and signed the
words, Come home-come homev
as you have taught me, thinking that
would be sure to bring you. Then
when you did not come, felt it's hot
breath on my cheek, rs if it were just
/ going to clutch me in its dreadful
arms, and I screamed SO loud that
awoke. The room was all dark, and
/ filled with smoke SO thick that wlIel
jumped up, | tainted for want o
air. And. o. Willie, if YOU had moi
come just when you did, might


"There, Maggie don't let us thinl
of what might have been, but rather
let us be thankful that we are spared
| to each other still"
Year: 1872

A girl of sharp wits in a western
city discovered recently that her lover
was about to take another CIR to ball
She thercupon bribed his hackmau to
permit her to take the reins at the proper
moment, and instead Of driving the pair
10 the ball room, sho took them several
miles out of town to dense wood, where
she left them exposed to a pelting rain.
storm-the young lady in low necked
muslin dress, and kid slippers, and her
escort in full party toggery and thin
boots. Their situation was not comfort.
able, and they found shelter in a neigh.
boring farm house, where there happened
to be an accommodating minister, and
the two, being lovingly disposed by
reason of their misadventures, were mar.
ried. The other young woman now sits
IN sackcloth and ashes, brooding over her
misad adventures.
Year: 1872

A negro preacher at Georgia camp.
meeting told his hearers that they could
never onter heaven with whisky bottles iu
their pockets, aud urged them to "bring
'em right up to the pulpit, and he would
sffsr em o sacrifice to do Lord" The
consequence was that the good shepherd
Was in the evening so overcome by the
spirit as to be unable to preach.
Year: 1872

Oliver Wendell Holmes has an article in
the atlantic for April on women, from
which we extract this paragraph:


A woman, notwithstanding she is the
best of listeners, knows her business, and
it is a woman's business to please. / don't
say that it is not her business to vote, but
/ do say that the woman who does not
DIease, is a false note in the harmontes of
nature. She may not have youth or beau
ty. or even manner; but she must have
something in her voice or expression, or
both. which makes you feel better dis
posed toward your race 70 look ator to lis
ten to. She knows that as well as we do;
and her first question after you have been
talking your soul into her consciousness is,
"did / please?n A woman never 1oTgets
her sex. She would rather talk Win
man than an angel, any day."
Year: 1872

The company before that famous q Back
Log f" of Warmers, discourse as follows IN
the forthcoming number Of Scribf1eT'S:


THE FIRE-TENDER-Doubt to go
back to what we were talking of, the world
has a fonduess for some authOrsand thinks
of them with an affectiOnate and half-pIty-
ing familiarity; and it may be that this
grows out Of something in their lives quite
as much as anything in their writings.
There seems to be more disposition OF per-
sonal liking to Thackary than to Dickens,
now both are dead-a result that would
hardly have been predicted when the world
was crying over Little Nell, or agreeing to
hate Becky Sharpe.


THE YOUNG LADY-What was that you
were telling about Charles Lamb, the 9TH
er day, Vaudeville? Is not the popular
liking for him somewhat independent of
his writings?


MANDEVILLE-He is a striking example
of an author who is loved. Very likely
the remembrance of his tribulatiOns has
still something to do with the tenderness
felt for him. He supported no dignity,
and permitted familiarity which indica-
ted no self appreciation of his real rank in
the world of letters. l have heard that
his acuuaintances Familiarity called him
Charley"


OUR NExT-DooR-It' relief to know
that! Do you happen to know what Soc
rates was called?


MANDEvILLE-I have seen people who
knew Lamb very well. One of them told
me, as an illustration of his want of digni-
ty, that as he was going home late one
night through the nearly empty streets he
was met by a registering party who were
making a night of it from tavern to tav-
ern, They fell upon Lamb, attracted by
his odd figure and hesitating manner, and
hosting him OH their shoulders, carried
him off, singing as they went. Lamb en-
loved the lark, and did not tell them who
he was. When they were tired of Juggling
him they lifted him, with much effort and
difficulty, to the top of a high wall, and
left him there amid the broken bottles, ut
terly unable to get down. Lamb remained
there philosophically in the enjoyment of
his novel adventure, until passing
watchman rescued him from his ridicu-
lous situation.


THE EFIRE-TENDER-HOw did the story
get out?


MANDEvILLE-Oh Lamb told all about
it next morning; and when asked after
wards why he did So he replied that ther e
was no fun in it unless he told it,
Year: 1872

As men continue to shave and to be
shaved "a practice which some regard as
unnatural and undesirable we transfer 20
our columns the following brief essay upon
shaving, which is from the pen of SO cele-
brated an authority as Mr.. Mechl.


Never fail to wash your beard with
soap and water, and to rub it dry, imme-
diately before you apply the lather, of
which the more you use, and the thicker
it is, the easier you will shave.


Never use warm water, which makes q
tender face. In cold weather place your
closed razor in your pocket or under your
arm to warm it. The moment you leave
your bed (or BATH is the best time to
shave. always wipe your razor clean
and strop it before putting it away; and al
ways put your shaving-brush away with
the lather on it.


"The razor (being only very fine saw
should be moved in sloping or saving
direction, and held nearly fiat to your face,
care being taken to draw the skin as tight
as possible with the left hand, so as to pre-
sent an even surface, and to throw out the
beard. 1.-THE practice of pressing on the
edge of razor in stropping it soon rounds
it; the pressure should be directed to the
back, which should never be raised from
the strop. If you shave from heel to point
of the razor, strop it from point to heel, but
if you begin with the point in shaving,
then strop it heel to point. g-a


"If you only once put away your razor
without stropping it, or otherwise perfect
ly cleaning the edge, you must no longer
expect to shave well and easy, the soap
and damp so soon rust the fine teeth and
edge. "a piece of soft plate-leather should
always be kept with razors to wipe them
| with.O r.TRA
Year: 1872

Whittier has poem in the April AtIare
tic under the above title. The New York
Post says: at is intended to discourage
faith in the divine quality of any intoxica
ton of the soul, this maddening Soma
being the type of all the self-eXalting
spells by which men have striven to in
tensify their spiritual emotions :"
"And yet the past comes round again,


And new doth old fulfil;
In sensual transports wild as vain
We brew in many Christian fain


The heathen Soma still


Dear Lord and Father of mankind,


Forgive our foolish ways
Reclothe us in our rightful mind
Inquirer lives Thy service find,


In deeper reverence praise.





6 Drop thy still dews of quietness,


Till all our strivings cease;
Take from our souls the strain stress,
And let our ordered lives confess


The beauty of Thy Peace"
Year: 1872

There was pretty full market yesterday. .


Awnings are being put up the full length OF
Temple Block on Market Place


ThOs Campbell, who was shot the other even
ing, was still alive yesterday. DR.. Campbell IS
attending him.


Singleton was fined in two cases Yesterday by
the Recorder, but managed to get off without
disbursing any cash.


The sidewalk question is being brought to an
issue. A fine was imposed yesterday by the
Recorder for refusing or neglecting to comply
with the law.


The Knoxville Weekly Chronicle is the bes
Advertising Medium in East Tennessee.
Year: 1872

We gave some days ago an account of an
attempt of Miss Couch to blackmail
Rev. DR.. Carter, of New York. He pros
ecuted her at once, and now her friends
admit her prostitute and beg for mercy.
The report says:


Mr.. Elbridge t. Gerry, counsel for the
prosecution, refused to consent to dis
missal of the case. 1t was not brought
through a spirit of revenge; not brought
by a dissolute man to rid himself of his
mistress, but by all aged minister of the
Gospel, man fifty-two years of age, who
stands as he has ever stood, prominent III
the highest ecclesiastical and social circles
his honor and purity have never been
questioned Whatever of mercy or pity
there may be urging him to dismiss the
complaint, law was inexOrable; and must
hold sway.
Year: 1872

In the Probate Court of the xCounty of Shasta,
State of California.


In the matter Of the Estate of Joshua Dixon,
Deceased. Order to show cause why order of sale
of Real Estate should not be made.


1T APPEARING TO THE SAID COURT BY
Il the petition this sday presented and filed by
Andrew J. Curtiss the Administrator of the Estate
of Joshua Dixon deceased, praying for an order
of sale of Real Estate that it is necessary to sell
the whole of the Real Estate to pay the debts
against said deceased, and the expenses and
charges of Administration 1t is therefore ordered
by the said Court that all persons interested in
the Estate of said deceased appear before the said
Probate Court Saturday, the eight day of June
A. d. 1872. at O'Clock in the after noon of said
day at the Court room ofsaid Probate Court House
in the town and county of Shasta, to show cause
why order should not be granted to the said
Administrator to sell so much of the Real Estate of
the said deceased as will be necessary, and that
copy of this order be published at least four sue
cessive weeks in the SHASTA COURIER newspaper
printed and published in said county.


W. E. HOPPING, Probate Judge.
Shasta, May 7th, 1872.


Office of the County Clerk of the comfy of Shasta.
W. H. Bickford County Clerk of the county of
Shasta. State of California ank Ex-ofclo Clerk Of
the Probate Court in and for said County do here
by certify the foregoing to be true full and cor
rect copy of an order duly made and entered upon
the minutes of said Probate Court


Witness my hand over the Seal of said Pro-
bate Court this 7th day of May, A D. 1872.


W. H. BICKF0RD, Clerk.


By J. E. Cook, Deputy.
Year: 1872

To the Honorable County Court of the
county Of Shasta:


We, the Grand Jury empauneled for the
May Term 1872 Of this court, most Re-
spectfnlly report That we have made dill
igent inquiry into, and carefully examined
all the cases which have been presented to
us, or that have come to our knowledge.
We have found five true bills of indict-
ment, which are herewith presented, as
| follows:


One for burglary; three for grand larceny;
one for assault with a deadly weapon with
intent to commit murder.


The committee appointed by us to examine
the County Hospital, report that they have
found everything in as good condition az
could be expected under the circumstances,
but would recommend that some of the
windows he furnished with glass, as there
is some wanting


The committee appointed to examine the
| County Jail, and treatment and condition
of the spriscners therein, report that they
| find the Jail wants some repairs in the place
where the Indian Tom made his escape
some two years since that the balance of
the Jail is in good condition that the
cells are kept clean, and that the prisoners
are well satisfied with their treatment
The committee appointed to examine the
County records, report that so far as they
were able to examine the books of the diff
ferent Officers, they find them kept in a
neat and proper manner.


Wo uould .lco St.to tLot no Loro -
amined into the matter of County licenses,
and from such information as We have been
able to obtain, we have ascertained that
there are a number in the county doing
business of different kinds, without having
procured the necessary license therefor;
that there are many persons carrying oD a
merchantile business, having obtained the
proper license for that business, and who
at the same time retail liquors without
having procured the license required for
the retail liquor business, and also that
there are many who have been paying the
proper licenses that are now delinquent,


We hereby recommend that Ex Sheriff
Thos Greene and Ex Under Sheriff " H.
Jackson report to'the present SheriffS. Hull
and the District Attorney list of names
Of persons who are delinquent for licenses
and the amount of their delinquency at the
expiration of their term of office


And we would recommend that the
Sheriff and District Attorney upon receiv-
ingssuch report proceed at once to collect
the amount delinquent-And to the next
Grand Jury that they inquire into the sub
ject of licenses and ascertain how the mat
ter stands when they meet.


Ard we further respectfully recommend
the Hon. Court to bring the above matter
to the notice Of the next Grand Jury


The thanks of the Grand Jury are hereby
rendered to the District Attorney, Clay W.
Taylor, for the clear and business lik e
manner in which he has assisted us in all
cases brought before US for consideration.
All of which is respectfully submitted.


A. G. CHAUNCY, Foreman.
Year: 1872

FoURTH.-The anniversary of our ma
tional Independence approaches. Shall
we celebrate? A town of Shasta's size and
pretensions should do something in the way
of honoring the anniversary of the immor-
tai day on which the foundation of our
glourious Republic was laid. Let us out
wardly demonstrate that we continue to
revere the great day, and in our hearts
renew the national resolve that no matter
what may be the mutations of parties or the
designs of our enemies. the Union shall be
preserved, the famed Flag of Stars respect
ed, and the Republic upheld in all its match
less splendor and power 80
Year: 1872

James Munday, a native of Washington
county, Missouri, who was readmitted with
Pneumonia, on the Oath of April. died on
the 2Sth of the same month, aged 81 years.
l5 persons have been treated as out-patients
not included in the above tables.


On the End day of April last, at about
o'clock in the morning, a fire broke out up
on the roof of the main Hospital building
which in few minutes was burned to the
ground. The fire doubtless caught by a
spark from the stove pipe which passed
through the roof in the imm ediate vicinity
in which the confagation was first seen.-
By the energetic exertions of the St t,wart,
Cook and such patients as were able to assist,
nearly all the furniture, bedding, cooking
utensils medicine etc. were saved. While
the building was old, diapidated and of but
little intrinsic value, its loss has put the
patients to great inconvenience which should
be promptly removed by erecting new
building suitable to their wants. The wood
house which was built last Summer at cost
of some $50, was also burned. l have had a
small holse IL feet by Is built for the con-
venence of the Cook About one half of the
patients occupy the store house while the
rest are quartered in the pest house which
fortunately had never been occupied for the
purpose for which it was built.


Bills have been contracted for the benefit
Of tho IJncpital ac follorS
Year: 1872

Two men having arranged to fight duel
in Rhode Island, the Governor issued a
proclamation forbidding it, whereupon one
of the parties wrote him note saying that
one of them would stand in Connecticut
and the other in Massachusetts,, and shoot
over his miserable little State
Year: 1872

RAILRoAD-The cars now run through
Hooker Greek cut, point four miles from
Cottonwood bridge, and about next We'd
nesday the locomotive will snort on the
banks of Cottonwood. A pile driver has
been sent up to drive the piles for the
foundation of the railroad bridge across
Cottonwood
Year: 1872

A New York farmer laughed when his
prudent wife advised him not to smoke on
a load of hay. He footed it home that
night, with his hair singed, most of his
garments a prey to the devouring element,
and then his wife laughed.
Year: 1872

Boss Tweed and gang ought to emigrate
to Colorado, where there is fine chance
for sealings. The Territory is not only
free from debt, but has sung little sum
living in her treasury.
Year: 1872

TRADE-C. G. Bush & Co. this week
sold Salmon River trader enough goods
to load pack train and large mountain
schooner. We also noticed Robert Pitt of
Portuguese Flat in town for the purpose of
buying stock of goods for his store.
Year: 1872

Dr. O. W. Holmes, in the February Atlantic, thus discourses about children The Old Master, who is bachelor, has a kindly feeling for this little monkey, and those of his kind.

 "I like children" he said to me one day at table. "I like 'em, and I respect 'em. Pretty much all the honest truth telling there is in the world is done by them. Do you know they play the part in the household which the kings jester, who very often had a mighty long head under his cap and bells, used to play for monarch ? There's no radical club like nest of little folks in nursery. Did you ever watch baby's fingers {? l have, often enough, though I never knew what it was to own one." The master paused half Q minute or so, sigh ed perhaps at thinking what he had missed in life,-looking up at me @ little vacantly. 1 saw what was the matter {: he had lost the thread of his talk.

 "Baby's fingers" I interpoIated.

 " Yes, yes did you ever see how they will poke those wonderful little finger of theirs into every fold and crack and crevice they can get at That is their first education, feeling their way into the solid facts of the material world. When they begin to talk, it is the same thing over and over again in another shape. If there is crack or flaw in your an swer to their confounded shoulder-hit- ting questions, they will poke and poke until they have got it gaping, just as the baby's fingers have made a rent out of that atom of hole in his pinafore that your old eyes never took notice of Then they make such fools of us by copying on small scale what we do in the grand manner.
Year: 1872

THE PARTR1DeE.-Ata a meeting of hor- ticulturists in Illinois strong ground was taken against the destruction of these birds. To show how useful this bird is it was stated that flock of partridges were seen running along the rows of corn just sprouting, and seeing them engaged Tn something which was believed to be pulling up the young plants, one of them was killed and its 'crop" exam ined, which was found to contain one cutworm, twenty-one striped bugs, and over one hundred chinch bugs. Another member related that he had adopted measures to protect the bird, and that they had become so numerous and so tame that hundreds of them, after snow falls, could be seen in his barnyard with the fowls where they were fed. As 8 result of their presence upon his prem ises his wheat crops were unusually abundant, while in many other places not far off the chinch bug and other insects had destroyed half the crop.
Year: 1872

A NOVEL IN ONE CHAPTER. One day there was great feast in great house. A wealthy young merchant was giving a dinner-party one winter evening. The guests had just entered the dining-room, when suddenly carriage drove up to the door, and the portals once more opened at reverberating knock. A tall, ele- gant girl presently entered the dining room. Perhaps if she had been able to glance carefully at the faces of some of those who were assembled, she would have seen some slight marks of surprise. None was expressed she was greeted with favor by the lady who did the hon. ors of the house, and had a seat next the host. Every body was charmed with the beauty and grace of the fair apparation. The dinner was hardly finished when the visitant discovered that she had made mistake. She had come to the wrong house. The right dinner-party was the very next door. The young merchant had already fallen in love with his guest, and he wooed and won her. I am not quite certain about the details of the story-how she was alone aud without any friends but, for all that, the story is true, and trust may be excused the telling of it.
Year: 1872

John G. Saxe is responsible for the following paraphrase from Martial Your nose and your eyes your father gave, you

 say Your mouth your grandsire, and your mother

 meek Your fine expression; tell me now, pray, Where, in the name of heaven, you got your
Year: 1872

THE CosT.-We have heard it stated, says New York paper, that a much larger sum is spent daily in New York for liquor than for bread. but the official returns are not at hand to verify the statement. But we do know, from daily observation, that drunkenness is alarm ingly on the increase, and that moder- ate drinking is becoming almost as com mon as in the early days of this nation, before the custom was for a time over come by the temperance movement. It behooves the people to do something, and that quickly, to stay the tide which threatens to overwbelm the land,
Year: 1872

The five lovers of Springfield Mass. } girl, each of whom she had tau ght to think was the favored one, discovering that their love was a joint stock concern, recently met at the house of the fair one, and with one accord dropping on their knees, offered her their hearts and hands. The tableau was an effective one, but the young lady refused them one and all.
Year: 1872

The assaults and murders by rowdies in New York are the subject of burlesque, as we'll as horror. One man says the other night he had occasion to go half a block to get two cents worth of milk. He has some influence, so he ordered out guard, and proceeded in the fol- lowing order
Year: 1872

Preparations are making for The Inter
national Exposition to be held during the
next year at Vienna. on Il scale of very
great magnitude. The tendency OF the
Exposition is in tho direction of advanced